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Republican Civil War Devastates One Party Politics In Red, Red Idaho-- Bad News For Labrador
Earlier today we poked around a little in the silliness around the House Republicans quest for an Eric Cantor replacement, a very key job in their obstructionist m.o. We thought the absurdity of Idaho libertarian Raúl Labrador would be the best palate cleanser after Cantor… but not one with even the vaguest of chances to beat the Kevin McCarthy wind-up doll. And whatever chance he may have had-- say one in ten thousand-- was further reduced as reports are an eruption of full scale civil war in Moscow leaked out today. Moscow, Idaho-- the site of this year's Idaho Republican Party ... more »
The Other Fighting Force That Took Mosul - Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
“We were betrayed by our own captains and commanders. When we realised they had all left, we changed our uniforms for plains clothes and followed suit,” the 35-year-old told IPS while he queued in Erbil for a flight ticket to Baghdad. Salem had served in Mosul for over three years and, as most of the soldiers deployed in Iraq´s predominantly Sunni west, he is also Shiite. He said he could not figure out whether the attackers were ISIS fighters or local Sunni militants. “Why should I bother to defend a community that hates us?” added the former soldier from Samawa – 260 km southea... more »
Ukraine natural gas talks end without resolutions ( June 15 - 16 , 2014 ) -- Russia getting ready for whatever comes next after the 2 AM deadline passes ! As the 2amET gas-cut-off deadline looms, it appears Putin is mobilizing a significant force ahead of what will likely mean retaliatory actions by either Ukraine military forces or Ukraine militants. As InfoResist reports, up to 200 units are moving towards Ukraine from Kaluga and in the Rostov region, Russia
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-15/convoys-russian-tanks-heading-ukraine-border-ahead-2amet-deadline Convoys Of Russian Tanks Heading For Ukraine Border Ahead Of 2amET Deadline [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2014 21:52 -0400 - Ukraine inShare1 As the 'negotiations' between Europe, Ukraine, and Russia were taking place this afternoon, technically unconfirmed reports of convoys of Russian military vehicles moving towards the Ukraine border were growing. As the *2amET gas-cut-off deadline looms*, it appears Putin is mobilizing a significa... more »
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Land of Make-Believe”
Moody Blues, “Land of Make-Believe” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32Nvlb8p98
Chet Raymo, “Stretching The Imagination”
*“Stretching The Imagination”* by Chet Raymo *“Professor, that stuff you spoke of in class this morning- about the beginning of the universe..."* Yes? *"Well, you know how you said that the universe began 14 billion years ago as an infinitely small point...?"* Yes, that appears to be the case. An explosion from a point of infinite energy. Space and time expanding from nothing. Matter coalescing from cooling radiation. Stars, galaxies... *"To tell the truth, I'm having a hard time believing it. I mean, the idea that everything that exists today, the billions and billions of galaxi... more »
"For This Is What We do..."
“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.” - Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
The Poet: William Stafford"You Reading This, Be Ready"
*"You Reading This, Be Ready"* by William Stafford "Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts? When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day. This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life. Wha... more »
"Who Are You? How Do You Know?"
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character." - Henry Rollins
Syria Update June 13 , 2014 ( and also the regional implications touching upon Jordan , Lebanon , Turkey , Israel and Iraq ) ...... The height of irony is that the Western sponsored war against Assad has morphed into the rise of ISIS / ISIL - at risk is not just targeted Syria , but Iraq , Jordan , Lebanon and note Israel getting worried also !
Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://syriadirect.org/rss/1435-syria-direct-news-update-6-12-2014 SYRIA DIRECT: NEWS UPDATE 6-12-2014 inShare *ISIS poised to take Deir e-Zor* The Syrian army shelled the opposition-held neighborhood in Deir e-Zor city on Thursday, as the three-front battle between Jabhat a-Nusra-led rebels, the Syrian regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and a-Sham (ISIS) for the eastern, oil-rich province drags into its third month. Pro-opposition news site Zaman al-Wasl cited rebel fears the group would be empowered inside Syria amidst the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Sham’s (ISIS) Tuesday capture... more »
NYT Finally Gets another Education Reporter who Gets It
Common Core, in 9-Year-Old Eyes By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZJUNE 14, 2014 *On that April day, Chrispin was determined. As one of the smallest children in the fourth grade, he had grown accustomed to being underestimated. With the right luck, he thought, he would earn high marks when test scores came back in August. “If I don’t pass the test,” he said, “I will feel miserable and never come out of my room.”* This is our education policy. It finally made it to the front page of the Sunday *New York Times. *Even my daughter who works on health care policy in Washington, DC noticed that Common... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Convention For Those Wounded In Love”
*“Convention For Those Wounded In Love”* by Paulo Coelho *“General Provisions:* *A* – Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct; *B* – Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battlefield, but until now no convention has been signed concerning those wounded in love, who are far greater in number; It is hereby decreed that: *Article 1* – All lovers, of any sex, are alerted that love, besides being a blessing, is also something extremely dangerous, unpredictable and capable of ca... more »
Bob Feldman : People’s History of Egypt, Epilogue/Update, Section 1, February-October 2013
Millions of Egyptians take to the streets and military deposes Morsi; El-Sisi initiates brutal counterrevolution. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | June 15, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog "people's history" series, … finish reading Bob Feldman : People’s History of Egypt, Epilogue/Update, Section 1, February-October 2013
Middle East Peace Envoy Tony Blair
*These people don't go away. Ever.* *Middle East Peace Enoy Tony Blair takes stock in Gaza. * *They appear to be running low.* *ANDREW MARR: * "Nevertheless, reading your essay a lot of people will conclude that you believe that Britain, as well as America, ought in effect to go to war in Syria to help topple Assad as a question of urgency. Is that what you’re saying? *MIDDLE EAST PEACE ENVOY TONY BLAIR: * "*We* don’t need to go back to war in the way that *we were**(1)* in Iraq or in Afghanistan, and I think we’ve got to in a way stop believing that the only alternatives are ... more »
Mass Executions of Iraqi Soldiers And Moderate Sunni Clerics By ISIL
* Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's quote about the war in Syria (date unknown): "I wish Syria unrest won't impact security in Iraq." If wishes were horses. . .* Maliki is an easy figure to hate, especially in these new circumstances. He has not been a good leader. He is a petty, small-minded man who keeps files on his political enemies. He does not deserve to rule Iraq. He should be out of office. But he is right about one thing, and that is the irresponsible support for what are genocidal Jihadist terrorists by the regimes in Saudi Arabia and Qatar must end. Obviously, behind-the-sc... more »
Piss Off, Grant.
It’s starting to look as if Grant Dalton is well-named, because he’s after another one. A grant. A handout. A reach-around from taxpayer to pocket -- the pocket being his and his colleagues, the lever to extract the dosh being the fear “we” may not have another America’s Cup challenge. Without an immediate cash injection the syndicate are, in the words of boss Grant Dalton, "gone by the end of the month." And if Mr Dalton is looking nowhere else than the dwindling resources of the taxpayer for that injection (and the statement is made in the context of approaching the government y... more »
Know Your Enemies - They have names and faces and can be confronted
The whole of Europe is under attack; not just the European homeland, but overseas Europe too. We are faced with such a concerted attack that it can become demoralising. However, what we need to remember is that our enemies are just people; people with names, faces, places of work; people who can - and must - be confronted. We often think of our enemies as the heads of financial and political institutions; people who are protected day-and-night from the grim reality they have created for the rest of us. There are bankers in their gated communities and MPs, MEPs etc who pontificate... more »
Crisis in Iraq
The Iraqi society is in a very chaotic situation politically, socially, and economically. This havoc is the result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Furthermore, the type of democracy, which emerged with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, led to the rise of sectarianism under the leadership of Prime Minister Al-Maliki, who is a tool in the hands of Iranian politicians. Prime minister Al-Maliki turned out to be an authoritarian dictator targeting senior Sunni politicians by jailing some and killing others. Furthermore, he directed his Shia militia groups t... more »
What would John M. Keynes say about John N. Key?
*“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist…”* -John Maynard Keynes If you’ve ever wondered what ails your Prime Minister economically – extreme economic micro-management; picking winners losers; borrow-and-spend; emissions trading scams; the institutionalisation of cronyism; the idea that a na... more »
Should I buy a 4K TV?
The clear answer is no. The problem is 4K content is only available as a 50GB download or streaming at 20MPS. Therefore unless you can crack those nuts stay on the sidelines until things get sorted out. From 10 feet away very few can tell 4K from 1080p, from 15 feet from 720p. You can buy two fantastic 1080p sets for the price of most 4K at the same screen size. Buy a normal TV and build up your Blu Ray collection. Also be sure to buy an Oppo Blu Ray player with Darbee
The Iraq Debacle
It's been a week of political mistakes, but the horrendous crisis now unfolding in Iraq is less *faux pas* and more unmitigated catastrophe. The only thing that surprises about the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militia pouring from fractured Syria into the north of the country is that it has take so long. Having been fought to a stand still by Assad's forces, why not take the road of least resistance and invade the weak, unstable neighbour? Depressingly, yet predictably, this Islamist incursion is getting read as confirmation of one's stance on Iraq. Stop the War says ... more »
Negative Campaigns Can Hurt-- The Perpetrators
Leave it to EMILY's List to find the most negative candidates anywhere You know what Democratic primary voters don't like? They don't like negativity against other Democrats. No one minds going negative on Republicans, but sizable numbers of Democrats recoil when Democrats attack other Democrats, especially when they attack women. This has been a career-killing problem for former Republican Wendy Greuel, who seems to have picked up a Rovian strategy of sliming her opponents during her 13 or 14 years as a registered Republican. If her vicious attacks on the well-liked Jan Perry and Er... more »
COPD - Man Uses Cannabis Oil to Successfully Treat Another Incurable Disease
*NATURAL SOCIETY* *by* Paul Fassa *June 15th, 2014* COPD, or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, ranks third in disease death rates, behind only heart disease and cancer. COPD creates constricted airways in one’s lungs or renders small lung sacks within inelastic and unable to fully accommodate breathing cycles, thus the lungs are obstructed. *The pharmaceuticals prescribed for treating symptoms often have side effects that cause more problems, so maybe it’s time to shed light on alternative solutions – marijuana.* Maybe It’s Medical Marijuana Time?The treatment situation is so b... more »
Catching up, falling behind
As you may have noticed, this hasn't been a particularly busy week of blogging here at *Is the BBC biased?*. It's not that there's been nothing to write about, rather the reverse: There's been far too much to write about. For starters, there's the news from Iraq, where a small band of medieval-minded Muslim fanatics have attempted to seize control of the Iraqi Midlands, and there's the news from England, where a small band of medieval-minded Muslim fanatics have attempted to seize control of the country's second city. On the Iraq story, I'm not going to be disingenuous here. I ... more »
The Secret City. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) History, Facts and Pictures, Including First Nuclear Reactor Ever.
What I learned and saw during my Secret City tours. Oak Ridge Tennessee has the 'Secret City' Festival every year that is a Friday and Saturday. On the Friday is the one day a year that the public can view and tour the Y12 Facilities, X10 now called ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratories and the K25 areas. You have to be a U.S. citizen and it is only a one day event of tours. My
Glasgow School of Art -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art of (designed 1906-7; completed 1909) was one of the twentieth Century's first true architectural masterpieces. Mackintosh designed it at the age of just twenty-eight. That's a model (above) of the completed building, and a glimpse of the West facade (below). I was devastated to discover over the weekend that the masterpiece by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his Glasgow School of Art, was destroyed by fire last week. [image: Restoration is Definite for Glasgow School of Art] The shell remains, but rooms are ravaged – and t... more »
12 Types of Procrastinators
There are many kinds of procrastinator. Which one are you? Me, I’m a bunch of these: a Panicker, a Perpetuator, a Gamer and (mostly) a Sidetracker. But not a cleaner. The windows are always safe around me when I’m working. [Hat tip Noodle Food] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
WHOA!! Happy Father's Day!
P.S.... Thwap? It's a jungle out here. Miss me? I miss you. All. lali.
Beaver weekend
This beaver hasn't died yet but he sure is busy. Life seems to be getting in the way of fun things like posting snarky articles and comments around the innerwebs. Now where was I.... Don't you just love it when the government causes a problem then tries to blame somebody else? Such is the case with Iraq. Roll back through history a bit and we find that the U.S. helped Saddam gain power. We even supplied him with weapons to fight Iran in the 80s. Ah yes Iran another of our success stories where we forced out a democratically elected leader and installed the Shah a brutal dictator n... more »
Senator Lindsey Graham Plays the 9/11 Card on Sunday Morning TV
The neocons wasted no time in exploiting the escalating violence in Iraq (no mention that they are responsible for the whole fiasco in the first place) in rolling out the big guns on the Sunday morning propaganda shows. Senator Lindsey Graham, fresh off of his primary win in the Palmetto State slithered out on CBS's Face the Nation to engage in the very fearmongering and lies that keep the war machine permanently set on kill and the machinery of the national surveillance state humming along. Graham is a disgrace to America and a loose cannon with the type of ideas that get people k... more »
Republican Civil War Turning To Cannibalism?
*DWT* is for Raul Labrador Angry right-wing populists struck out blindly against Eric Cantor last week-- and scored a knockout. But to the victors do not go the spoils, not Inside-the-Beltway. David Brat will become a largely ignored, probably short-term, backbencher; he will *not* become Majority Leader. Nor will any teabagger who celebrated Cantor's political demise. They won't even have a say in who replaces Cantor. Next in line in Boehnerland is the #3-ranking Republican, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). A couple of ambitious standrad-issue GOP politicians-- Jeff Sessions, Jim Jordan, Jeb ... more »
THE EUROPE DEBATE
Critical comments inside the German Bundestag by Dr. Sahra Wagenknecht from Die Linke (Left Party). She speaks passionately about the growing economic disparity across Europe and the unraveling situation in Ukraine. Wagenknecht denounces the German-US policy that supports fascists and oligarchs there. She calls on German Chancellor Merkel to "free herself" from the US program of endless war.
Michael James : Gifts from the Great Spirit, tripping in NOLA, leaping forward & following a rainbow, 1975-’77
As the rain poured down and we cradled ourselves in the palm of a giant southern oak, Katy and I shook hands and committed to giving this restaurant thing a try. By Michael James | The Rag Blog | June … finish reading Michael James : Gifts from the Great Spirit, tripping in NOLA, leaping forward & following a rainbow, 1975-’77
How America Was Lost: A Chronicle of Our Decline
*“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”* *-George Orwell* I just picked up a copy of the new book by Paul Craig Roberts “How America Was Lost” and must say that it is an impressive chronicle of the decline of what was once at least theoretically a free country into a sucking black hole of fascism, corruption and the moral abrogation that has made it all possible. Dr. Roberts, a former assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan administration, associate Editor at the pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal and a prolific columnist calls it as he... more »
walk - Bath skyline - six miles
yesterday, we went for a walk. Got on a train. Got off at Didcot. Got on a second train. Got off at Bath. Walked the Bath skyline route. Picnic'd. Meandered. Chatted. Lovely warm day. Nice locals. Couple hours out in the countryside. Came home. Here are some other images from our route (non animated).
Hal Yang Dilarang Pada ketika Persiapan Kehamilan
ada beberapa hal yang enggak boleh dilakukan selama struktur persiapan kehamilan , karena hal ini bisa berakibat fatal jika dilakukan imbas orang yang sedang hamil ini jauh lebih rawan dari pada orang biasa ,dan dampak itu kami disini ingin memberikan informasi mengenai beberapa hal yang sebaiknya engkau memerlukan hindari dan juga bahkan tidak boleh sederajat sekali dilakukan semala
We chose to Be here surrounded by Darkness to Find the Light.
We chose to come to the most Dark Place of the Universe to find the Light. We chose to be here. As hard as it is to be here right now, we all have to realize we chose this right now. It is ruled by darkness, we have to climb up and see the LIGHT! I found the following video in IN5D and the article about Free Will. When you are ready to Rise Up, You will. Wayseer Manifesto (I love
The BBC and fundamentalist Christians
As found on Biased-bbc comments: 'loony fundamentalist Christians want to quote verses of the Bible at you while loony fundamentalist Muslims want to murder you. Only socialists and the bBBC think they are equivalent.' Pretty unarguable.
Galeri Foto Terbaru Modifikasi Motor Yamaha Mio Soul
Galeri Foto Terbaru Modifikasi Motor Yamaha Mio Soul - sekarang itu kite-kite akan membahas tulisan seputar modifikasi motor yang pada kans yang sebelumnya kami juga membahas artikel mobil, yang akan kami kupas kali ini diantaranya Model Modifikasi Yamaha Mio Soul Terupdate 2014. bagi sobat jenis yang ingin menonton informasinya silahkan ikuti artikel di bawah ini. Yamaha Mio Soul merupakan
Foto dan Gambar Mobil Toyota Corona Modifikasi Terbaru 2014
Foto dan Gambar Mobil Toyota Corona Modifikasi Terbaru 2014 - Toyota corona merupakan mobil kelas menengah yang dibuat oleh layanan otomotif toyota, dengan tahun produksi antara tahun 1957 hingga 2001. Mobil toyota corona yang sangat populer adalah dengan bentuk mobdy sedan, yang memiliki empat buah pintu. Untuk sebagian kalangan mobil ini mencakup mobil yang cukup sering dicari, karena mobil
Resep Minuman Es Campur Buka Puasa Ramadhan Menyegarkan
Resep Minuman Es Campur Buka Puasa Ramadhan Menyegarkan - Satu lagi minuman asal republik indonesia yang pastinya amat top di nikmati ketika cuaca hangat yaitu minuman dingin es campur, dimana minuman ini terdiri dari campuran berbagai karakteristik bahan, kemudian disiram menggunakan sirup yang indah. Adapun bahan yang biasa dipergunakan untuk membuat minuman ini diantaranya ialah roti, dawet,
Charles Darwin, Science and Society
Four and a half years ago, I attended this forum in UP Diliman. I was invited by a good friend, mathematician Fidel Nemenzo, who was then the Director I think, of the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program in UP, aside from being a Math Professor. Fidel rediscovered the Closing Remarks he gave that afternoon from his old files and sent it to me. Posting it below. It was a big audience. And... Ahaa! I also found this from my old files of photos. That day, I was seated next to my former boss, Prof. Randy David. In front of us were Dr. Raul Fabella (left) and Dr. Perry Ong (rig... more »
Iraq Updates June 13 , 2014 -- As ISIS continues its relentless push to Baghdad and the Iraq Army continues its pitiful cutting and running from battles ( Saadiyah and Jalawia fall to ISIS in the province of Diyala as security forces lay down weapons and leave their posts again ) , has Iraq turned into " Saving Prime Minister Maliki ( and Iran with its Qods forces and the US with a few drone strikes try to salvage what's left of the Maliki Government ( one without a functional Parliament ) ......... Kurds now have Kirkuk ( a long desired goal ) while Turkey has a mess on its hands with 80 hostages still held by ISIS ....
Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/obama-iraq-ultimatum-us-military-action ( Obama pours cold water on Iraqi hopes of quick US military actions..... ) President Barack Obama issued a stark ultimatum to Iraq’s leaders on Friday, making it clear that any US military action against advancing Islamic extremists was contingent upon Baghdad's commitment to resolving sectarian differences. The US president said he would decided "in the days ahead" whether to launch military strikes in Iraq to help halt the progress of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), which has swe... more »
Professor Stephen Cohen, prominent US scholar of Russian studies and author who advised George H.W. Bush in the late 1980s, speaks to RT about the mistakes of consecutive American administrations in their Russia policies, leading to the worst crisis in decades and the deterioration of political discourse in America, which prevents things from changing in Washington.
------------------------------ Cohen on Ukraine civil war: ‘Lincoln didn’t call Confederates terrorists’ Published time: June 14, 2014 13:08 Historical analogies may be inaccurate, but Americans may need to look at their own civil war and compare it to what is happening in Ukraine now. Today the US supports a murderous criminal adventure that has little to do with unifying the country. This assessment came from Professor Stephen Cohen, prominent US scholar of Russian studies and author, who advised George H.W. Bush in the late 1980s. He spoke to RT about the mistakes of the consec... more »
Mike's Story Part 51 - The Enemy In My Bed
*By **Jenna** Orkin* * Mike to his psychiatrist, 2-27-07* * For several days now I have had less and less energy. Each day I have spent as much as an hour vibrating and shaking with rage on the bed as Jenna comforts me. I have been afraid to shower or shave. I did both after 2 PM today. I don't want to go out. We went out to shop a while ago and Jenna had a number of options (DVD, new sweater, health food, see a movie). I nixed the local movies and felt so weak I just came home after we bought some liqueur for Jenna and Scotch for me. [No, that wasn't what I'd meant by he... more »
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*Analysis: In minicamp, Saints were clicking on offense and defense ~Ramon Antonio Vargas, New Orleans Advocate* *I began to broach the issue with my father of my last wishes etc.* It took a second, since Pop was still under the impression that "this can't be happening in America".. that people wearing a uniform meant something and I just needed to go find them and get out of there.. that our country, his country.. well whateva... About that moment a NOPD car drove by full of BlackWater Mercenaries, all the windows gone with their little rifles sticking out, ball caps on jar heads...... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, June 15th, 2014
[image: rant-jpeg-b] Sunday, and of course it is time for my weekly rant... As I have said before, there has been so much happening around our planet over the last week, and I will try to touch on several key issues here.... First, today is of course Fathers Day, and I do want to say Happy Fathers Day to all those hard working dads out there. I for one miss my own father who passed away years ago from the ravages of Alzheimer's Disease. It was tough watching him disintegrate and all I could do at the time was to watch helplessly as his mind was slipping away.... I can never say... more »
Well, that's a little awkward
Harpergov does a poll (snicker) on Canadian political icons in the lead-up the 150th birthday (geez, didn't we just have Canada 125?), and well, the results really don't do the Cons any favours. Folks like Layton, Suzuki, topped by Trudeau the Elder. It must be so hard to be a Con in Canada.
A Father's Day Post ! June 15 , 2014 ..... Wishes for a happy and safe celebration !
- - - - http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/fathers-day FATHER’S DAY [image: Father's Day Tie] On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States. Advertisement - Facebook - Twitter - Google MOTHER’S DAY: INSPIRATION FOR FATHER’S DAY The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation cam... more »
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From Maggie's Notebook: To Readers, Friends and Bloggers
The Politics Of Resentment
Doug Saunders writes, in the *Globe and Mail*, that the politics of resentment is tearing modern conservatism asunder. The argument is about immigration; and it was apparent last week in Washington with the fall of Eric Cantor. There are now two distinct camps: One group: argues that immigrants tend to be natural conservatives: They’re more likely than other voters to be small businesspeople (so are fiscal conservatives), and to be religious (so are social conservatives). Canada’s Stephen Harper, Britain’s David Cameron and Germany’s Angela Merkel have all recently tried to make... more »
Happy Fathers' Day
After females lay a single precious egg, Emperor penguin fathers take over the responsibility of incubating it by balancing it precariously on their feet and keeping it warm under their feathers in the frigid Antarctic weather while mothers go off to feed. Dads can go for about two months without eating until the egg hatches, at which point he will feed it before mother's return to give them a break from baby-duty.
To those focusing on tenure, you’re doing it wrong
If my social media accounts are any indication, I’m probably one of the last 1% of teachers with a week’s worth of school days remaining. It will take me a little more time, once graduations and all of these other special events are over this week, to fully digest and comment on the CA tenure […]
Change the Culture
Progressives got to get out and put it out there. People have to take a side: Democracy or Inverted Totalitarianism? Food and shelter for all or super-mansions for the super-rich and starvation for the majority? Dignity or consumerism? Artists, musicians, business owners, ... we have to make a culture and an economy that is ours and put it before the majority and reject the corporate system and sustain ourselves. Ah, who am I kidding?
MORE ON THE GLADIO STORY
More on Gladio, the secret US-NATO program to control the world on behalf of corporate capital. The links between Nazi's and the US-NATO are well documented and sadly a virtual secret inside the US.
Grimmer and Grimmer In Staten Island As A Desperate Mikey Suits Unfurls The GOP Racism Banner
Last week, the biggest, baddest news in the NY-11 election campaign was about how the indicted Mafioso incumbent, Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm, had seen his campaign funding dry up-- a big problem since he's been using his campaign donations to finance his legal case and his fight for a plea bargain that will include only minimal prison time. The *Daily News* Grimm lead: "From April 1 to June 4 he raised $44,000 and spent $214,397, including a $40,000 payment to attorneys. He also has $420,000 in legal debts related to the investigation that preceded the indictment." What;'s worse,... more »
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*Australia: Public school exodus starts as early as year 2* *Australian parents are keen to escape the disrupted classes that are a frequent feature of State schools. So 40% of Australian teenagers go to private High Schools* The stampede from public primary schools to private high schools when a child finishes year 6 is a tradition in parts of Sydney, but principals say the exodus now starts as early as year 2 as parents panic they will miss out on their school of choice. Census data shows that in some of Sydney's most affluent suburbs, especially the eastern suburbs, as few as... more »
'Sunday' - Forced Marriage
Longstanding readers of *Is the BBC biased? *may recall an old regular feature - the citing of an unchanging 'set menu' for the Radio 4 *Sunday * programme, suggesting that the programme usually consisted of the following standard fare: "the usual diet of breaking news from the Arab world, Christian-related abuse stories, bad news about the Catholic Church, something about human rights, the usual airing of Muslim grievances, a call for something or other by a left-wing campaign group, an Anglican row over something, that sort of thing" Well, here's today's running order, It quotes... more »
Raytheon conducts first live fire test of Excalibur S
[image: Excalibur ammo]In a company-funded R&D initiative, Raytheon Company successfully fired the dual-mode GPS- and laser-guided Excalibur S for the first time. Although the Excalibur S was initialized with a GPS target location, it scored a direct hit on a different, or offset, target after being terminally guided with a laser designator. The new variant incorporates a laser spot tracker (LST) into the combat-proven Excalibur Ib projectile, the world's most precise GPS guided 155mm artillery projectile now in production for the U.S. Army and several international customers. "The... more »
Latest Lonely Planet Guide for Taiwan out
Robert Kelly and Chong Wah Chow have turned in another gem with the latest edition of the Lonely Planet Guide to Taiwan (Amazon). Kelly, a net-acquaintance who sent a copy to me for review, is one of the three or four most knowledgeable people about things Taiwan. I often consult him when I am going somewhere on the island. So it was with great anticipation that I cracked open this latest version of the Guide. This Guide is a thick description of Taiwan, containing not only detailed reviews of places to go and things to do, but also several meaty chapters on history, religion, and o... more »
Bloodiest day in Ukraine conflict as rebel missiles bring down military jet
Pro-Russian rebels have shot down a military transport plane in Luhansk in the bloodiest single day of fighting in eastern Ukraine since the conflict began in April, setting back Kiev's efforts to end the crisis and establish control of the region. The Ukrainian government had appeared to finally be making progress this week after new president Petro Poroshenko spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday and Kiev's forces retook the port city of Mariupol on Friday. Rebels shot down an Il-76 transport plane in Luhansk, killing all 40 paratroopers and nine crew members w... more »
AFM welcomes its first brand new helicopter
[image: AW139]The Armed Forces of Malta this afternoon welcomed an Augusta Bell twin-engined helicopter, the first helicopter to be bought new in the history of the Maltese service. It is also the first helicopter to be delivered to the AFM since the 1980s. The grey-painted helicopter flew in from Milan and landed at the AFM Air Wing base shortly after 6 p.m. Prior to landing it performed a low-level flypast escorted by a King Air patrol aircraft. Read more
New Navy destroyer made for gamer generation
[image: USS Zumwalt]The Navy's new super stealthy destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, has a lot in common with Hollywood's starship Enterprise, according to folks who've seen it in person. Much has been written about the Zumwalt's appropriately named commander, Capt. James Kirk. But aside from that coincidence, the ship's operations center utilizes advanced technology that takes multitasking to a deadly new level on the high seas. First launched last year, this is a massive $3 billion warship -- the largest type of destroyer in the modern Navy by about 65 percent. One thing that sets it ap... more »
US Navy Moves from Defensive to Offensive
[image: E-2D Advanced Hawkeye]Captain Jim Kilby started laying out our vision for the future direction of surface warfare with “Surface Warfare: Lynchpin of Naval Integrated Air/Missile Defense”, and Captain Charlie Williams followed up with “Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) – The Heart of Surface Warfare” and “Increasing Lethality in Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW)”. Both of these officers were recently selected for flag rank, and the Surface Force could not be more fortunate. Their years of fleet experience in these mission areas uniquely qualify them to lead our force in the future. T... more »
Greek navy to fast-track long-delayed submarine order
[image: U214 class SSK]Greece's navy on Friday said it would complete a long-delayed submarine order that has sparked multi-billion-euro litigation between Athens and leading German and Arab shipyards in the next two years. The dispute, spanning over a decade, concerns the building of three 214-class submarines at Hellenic Shipyards, Greece's main shipbuilding facility where hundreds of jobs are at stake. A navy source said the three submarines named Pipinos, Matrozos and Katsonis are "absolutely vital to the navy and a huge effort will be made to complete them". Read more
The Developmentalist State is Cannibalizing Taiwan
*Goodies at a small shop near Jiufen.* *It's a wondrous transmutation, where the blood of one man is turned into the money of another. Lead into gold is nothing to it. * Several good pieces in Taipei Times this week on the developmentist state that runs the domestic political economy and its negative effects on local lives and the island's environment. Commentator Lai Min-huang observes that Chiayi floods are man-made: On June 3, Changhua, Yunlin and Chiayi counties and Greater Tainan were hit by a series of thunderstorms. Most streets in Chiayi City are supplied by the high-lyin... more »
Grand Sunni Mufti in Iraq: ISIS Must be Stopped (English Subs)
This statement by the Grand Sunni Mufti of Iraq puts to bed the notion that what is happening in Iraq and throughout the region is a Sunni-Shiite war. Nothing could be further from the truth. Iraq's Grand Sunni Mufti is following in the footsteps of *Syria's Grand Sunni Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun*, who also made public statements when the war in Syria started that discouraged popular Sunni support for extremist groups such as ISIL, Al-Qaeda, and other, less famous ones. In retaliation for his anti-sectarian stance his son was targeted and murdered by the leaders of these ... more »
Gardasil: Cervical Cancer or Politicians Cancer? by Dr. Philippe de Chazournes
[image: Dirty Politics] Gardasil: Cervical Cancer or Politicians Cancer? by Dr. Philippe de Chazournes Sane Vax, Inc. 11 June 2014 Your opinion, please, Madam Health Minister! We certainly live in ‘remarkable’ times! These are times when one has to fight on a daily basis for common sense to prevail and for the stretching or bending of reality to be stopped. Unfortunately, the world of medicine is not protected from this current weighty trend. Today, certain treatments really beg the question as to what purpose they serve. The release of a new curative or preventative medi... more »
Future KMT Candidates Positioning for the Presidency
*East coast above Tawu* One reason that Ma Ying-jeou was able to get elected is that almost alone among the politicians of his generation he was able to clench his teeth for a short period before each election and spit out the words "I am Taiwanese." This was purely an election tactic, dispensed with as soon as he was safely in office. So it was with great interest that I watched three leading contenders for the KMT's presidential candidacy this week aver that the citizens of Taiwan (ROC) could decide their own fate (Taipei Times), along with Ma Ying-jeou hisownself. The Affair o... more »
Malaysia Airline Flight 370 news June 12 , 2014 -- Sifting through the paucity of media reports ( it's as if the missing plan has disappeared from the radar of the major media as well ! ) MH370 SEARCH: Malaysia told the most lies, spent the least money ? M'sian govt vows MH370 transparency all over the world EXCEPT in its own Parliament ........ MH370: Australia appoints Fugro for bathymetric survey of search area ......
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Official Story Exposed Thanks to the Proliferation of Trolls on Youtube
Dispatch from Geezerville In spite of the MSN "main stream media" the official story has been exposed in so many places that it's getting a lot of unwanted attention. The proliferation of trolls on the growing amount of truth channels are now recognized for what they are, why they are here, and who they represent. Youtube has become the forefront of controversy over the so called "war on terror", with all of the globalists now showing up with Youtube channels...Very telling indeed...Among these are DARPA, AIPAC, IDF, Chamber of Commerce, AmCham, Boeing, General Electr... more »
Expose The TPP In Vancouver on July 3, 2014
[image: Foto: As the TPP flounders, chief negotiators are set to meet in Vancouver starting July 3. “A meeting at the ministerial level, which usually convenes after a chief negotiators' gathering, will only take place if major progress is seen during the 10-day working-level talks, the sources said.” “Japan and the United States have continued bilateral negotiations to follow up on the Singapore meeting, including ones on auto trade issues held in Washington earlier this week. Officials from both sides are expected to resume talks in late June or at the beginning of July.” “During... more »
Ghost of Sunday Classics: How would you describe the atmosphere? Austere? Melancholy? Solitary? Foreboding?
*Rome Opera Orchestra, Tullio Serafin, cond. RCA-BMG, recorded July-Aug. 1960* *Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond. Decca, recorded live, April 1991* *by Ken* This week again I found myself in the grip of music, specifically the music we hear above, and even though we've in fact actually heard this music, it was in the context of remembering a fondly remembered singer, and so we didn't really deal properly with the music or the scene, which suggested a post, if I were up to it and there seemed any point. *OF COURSE THE MUSIC IS . . .* . . . the brief orchestral ... more »
TONY BLAIR ATTEMPTS TO AVOID BLAME FOR IRAQ CRISIS
Former British Prime Minister and war criminal Tony Blair has written an essay attempting to deflect blame for the current crisis in both Iraq and Syria on the actions he and his fellow war criminals, former US president George W. Bush and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, committed themselves to when they lied their way to war against Iraq in March 2003. In his essay Blair says: “We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that ‘we’ caused this crisis. We didn't.” The fact is; ‘we’ did – or, at least, Blair, Bush and Howard and their neoconservative supporters around ... more »
Who Will Save Iraq Now-- Obama? Rouhani? The Anunnaki? A Negotiated Rational Partition?
The Fertile Crescent-- the Tigris and Euphrates River valley-- has a history that predates the Nile Valley's. Even if you don't give much credence to the History Channel's whacky *Ancient Aliens* series that insists that the Mesopotanians' Anunnaki were extraterrestrials, this Cradle of Civilization was, over time, dominated by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Turkmen and, between 1533 and 1918, the Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans had three provinces-- Mosul (kurdish), Baghdad (Sunni) and Basra (... more »
Weekend Fun 55: Sic O'Clock News, Again
It's "Father's Day" today, our day, cool. And two friends, Jimmy Fabregas and Ces Quesada, the wacky anchor news guys of the old *Sic O'Clock News*, have a photo of the gang in their facebook walls, so I thought of producing Part 2 of the Sic gang Part 1 which I wrote three years ago. There is one youtube clip of Sic O'Clock. It should have been shown sometime in 1990, when the Senate was debating whether to renew the stay of American military forces in Subic Naval Base. The Americans voluntarily left and abandoned Clark Air Base after a very strong Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption. T... more »
Musical Interlude: Nickelback, “If Everyone Cared”
Nickelback, “If Everyone Cared” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY&ob=av3e
"I'd Pick More Daisies"
*"I'd Pick More Daisies"* by Don Herold (1953) "Of course, you can't unfry an egg, but there is no law against thinking about it. If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less bran. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles. You see, I have been one of those fellows who live prudently and sa... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Big beautiful spiral galaxy M66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. About 100 thousand light-years across, the gorgeous island universe is well known to astronomers as a member of the Leo Triplet of galaxies. In M66, pronounced dust lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with the tell-tale glow of pink star forming regions. *Click image for larger size.* This colorful and deep view also reveals faint extensions beyond the brighter galactic disk. Of course, the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground, within our own Milky Way Galaxy, but many, smal... more »
Crowfoot, "What Is Life?"
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior and Orator
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”
*“The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”* by Mary Oliver "The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest, at night in the black branches, in the morning in the blue branches of the world. ․ It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter. Airy and shapeless thing, it needs the metaphor of the body, lime and appetite, the oceanic fluids; it needs the body's world, instinct and imagination, and the dark hug of time, sweetness and tangibility, to be understood, to be more than pure light that burns where no ... more »
Chet Raymo, “Try To Remember…”
*“Try To Remember…”* by Chet Raymo “In a sleepless hour of the night, I was trying to remember the last name of a person I have known well for more than forty years. When my spouse stirred in her sleep, I asked her. She couldn't remember either. One again I started mentally through the alphabet. "I think it starts with B," I said. Ten minutes later she rolled over and said, "The next letter is R." Bingo! The name popped into my head. Or I should say, "popped out of my head." Because it was in there somewhere, recorded in a tangle of neurons as materially as if it were written on a ... more »
The Iraq Crisis Might Be Used For Air Assaults In Syria: Excellent Report From "X22 Report"
Yes, I laid it out in my last article about what I saw happening right now in Iraq, and everything that I have seen over the last few days has absolutely backed up all of my claims.... I see this present crisis in Iraq as a no-win situation for the United States.... It is also a fact that right now the peaceful nation of Iran has been sending in their special forces into Iraq to help stabilize that nation and put a halt to ISIS (or ISIL or what ever phoney name they like to call themselves) advances on the capital city of Baghdad. Someone recently sent me a link to a Youtube user, ... more »
Questions From Tiger Cubs on Iraq , National Security and does anyone allegedly in charge have the slightest idea as to what they're doing ?
One question ....Now we are considering sending drones to bomb jihadist in Iraq , due to " National Security Concerns " , while financing jihadists in Syria because we don't like President Assad . But that's not really what bugs me..... why are M- 13 gang bangers being caught and released in the US NOT " National Security Concerns " ? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/14/border-agents-lament-mexican-gang-members-entering/ - [image: **FILE** A Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang member. (Associated Press)] Enlarge Photo **FILE** A Mara Salvatru... more »
Blogging from Brazil: Problems of Connectivity
So, at this point, I’ve been all over Brazil, though that’s like saying I’ve toured the United States in five weeks. That said, I’ve been in five or six cities all over the country (I’ll load a better map soon), and the internet speed has invariably been crap, even in pretty expensive hotels. I’m not Continue reading
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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Thanks for stopping by.
Free Download: Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
"How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't." - William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" “Brave New World” is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine to profoundly change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, “Brave New World Revisited” (1958), and with “Island... more »
Is this or is this not a gorgeous photo? Take a gander at Mitch Waxman's beloved Astoria at twilight
*You can click on the photo to enlarge it, but better still is to look at it a photographer Mitch Waxman's intended size and resolution on his Newtown Pentacle blog.* *by Ken* I've written before about my happy tramping around NYC with Mitch Waxman (like this June 2012 piece about a visit to the Dutch Kills tributary of Newtown Creek, at just the time when Mitch was the subject of a big feature piece in the *New York Times*, "Your Guide to a Tour of Decay," including video). I've done walks with Mitch from Staten Island to the urban wilds of the basic surrounding Newtown Creek (Mi... more »
"A Matter of Priorities: Letting Go of the Little Stuff"
*"A Matter of Priorities: Letting Go of the Little Stuff"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "When we stop worrying about unimportant matters, we can devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important. We experience numerous disappointments each and every day. Our expectations go unmet, our plans are blocked by circumstance, our wishes go unfulfilled, and we discover that our lives are subject to a myriad of forces beyond our conscious control. In some cases, our response is powerful because we must invest ourselves and our resources to overcome genuine hardship. In others, ou...more »
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*Mayor Landrieu passes buck: Up to Jindal to hold energy companies accountable for wetlands damage ~Jeff Adelson, The Advocate* *How Bobby Jindal’s Con-Profit and David Vitter’s Super PAC Undermine Democracy ~CenLamar* *Jindal budget relies on nearly $1B in piecemeal funding* *WWNO Announces New Coastal Reporting Team* *Feds renew tariff on frozen Chinese crawfish ~WDSU * *New Orleans Convention Center proposes ambitious 47-acre development ~WWLTV * *New Orleans Bounce Battle Heats Up On Social Media ~Darian Trotter, WGNO*
ATTACK ON RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN KIEV
Hundreds of fascists in Kiev attacked the Russian embassy yesterday in Ukraine's capital city. Molotov cocktails were thrown at the embassy building. Then today Russia took a resolution to the UN Security Council but saw western states block their attempt to condemn the attack. UN, June 15 ITAR-TASS Western countries at the United Nations Organisation’s Security Council have blocked Russia’s draft resolution condemning the attack on the Russian embassy in Kiev, a source at the organisation’s headquarters told Itar-Tass. “Western delegations have blocked the draft statement for... more »
"This Ex-Officer's Haunting, Powerful Words About Suicide Could Save Someone's Life" by TED Talks
*"This Ex-Officer's Haunting, Powerful Words * *About Suicide Could Save Someone's Life"* by TED Talks "If you saw someone on the verge of suicide, would you know what to say? As a patrolman on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Kevin Briggs helped bring many people back from the brink. In this moving talk, he gives a powerful piece of advice to those with loved ones who might be thinking of taking their own lives." - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ ◆ Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
"The Greatest Plague..."
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” - Martin Luther ◆ "U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child killed in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003 file photo. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines." - REUTERS/Damir Sagolj “My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there ... more »
Obama delivered an ULTIMATUM to Maliki via ISIS- Comply or.....
*I have read and reread this article from Washington Post* Main stream media is produced in such a way that it is difficult to discern what is actually being said. Usually I can cut through the bullshit pretty quick, but, this one took several attempts to decipher. -President Obama said that though the U.S. has "enormous interest" in Iraq, it is "ultimately up to the Iraqis" to resolve their conflicts Ultimately up to the Iraqis to resolve their conflict? Reads good, but there is something else contained in this article* that lead me to conclude- It's clear that an ULTIMATUM has be... more »
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