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| English: Pāhoehoe Lava and ʻAʻā flows at The Big Island of Hawaii. The picture was taken from a helicopter. Français : Coulées de lave Pahoehoe et aa sur l'île d'Hawaii. Photo prise depuis un hélicoptère. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
EMILY's List Teams Up With Christian Coalition In Hawaii
*Three of the four Hawaii state senators who voted against marriage
equality last year: Mike Gabbard, Donna Kim, Sam Slom*
Last Thursday night, backward and reactionary congressional candidate Donna
Kim told PBS Hawaii viewers she opposes marriage equality based on her
Catholic faith. The very next morning she was endorsed by EMILY's List, a
nominally pro-choice organization.
When Stephanie Schriock described Kim as “pro-choice” in the group’s
endorsement statement, it was more than a desperate stretch; many in Hawaii
were shocked. That term has rarely, if ever, been used to describ... more »
The unfathomable and the unconscionable
After episode two I thought the plot of The Honourable Woman was
unfathomable so I’m unable to comment on its political message at the
moment, but I agree with Alan at Biased-BBC that Hugo Blick’s cinematic
devices were derivative, pretentious and boring.
Reviewers kept praising Maggie Gyllenhaal’s convincing English accent. Why
make life unnecessarily difficult? Get a British actress, and while you’re
at it, get one that looks like a Stein. Same goes for the brother.
It’s typical that a production like this gets shedloads of praise from the
lefty press. As for “Albaman’s” contra... more »
Kiev "claims" plane shot down by Russia- Spin, spin, spin
All kinds of contradictory news about this incident. *I tend to think the
shot that downed the plane was fired from anti-fascist held territory. That
fact won't stop Kiev's fascist from suggesting otherwise*
*NYT's Europe*
*Separatists in Ukraine used a shoulder-fired missile to shoot down a large
Ukrainian military transport jet as it was trying to land at an airport *in
this eastern city on Saturday, killing all 49 people on board, the military
said. The attack was the deadliest episode for the Ukrainian military since
the unrest began in the country’s east.
“On approach to the L... more »
Non-Academic Job Searches in DC – What to Know
Many graduate students are expanding their job searches outside the
academy. As an advisor, I’m horribly underprepared at offering job advice
outside of the academic job market – besides work you can get off of
Craigslist, I’ve never held a real job. Recently, I had a student come to
me with questions about finding a job in
Continue reading
What a piece of work is Man
By Capt. Fogg
Lovely meal, nice restaurant, best company, but the people at the next
table were telling each other just what the* Universe* thought about this
or that and how the *Universe* had solved some problem one of them had had.
You don't get this at the Taco truck or the Wendy's drive through.
Perhaps they were Northerners. The locals would simply have substituted
the word God with no embarrassment, or perhaps they were the last holdouts
of Deism, the folks who seek God in nature and not in churches or
scriptures. Who knows? But I hear this a lot. I'm even wondering wheth... more »
Former United Federation of Teachers VP Leo Casey Tries to Twitter-slam Me
I have been asked numerous times to join Twitter. The response I offer to
this request: I haven’t the time to keep up with Twitter. That doesn’t mean
that I do not occasionally become the topic of a Twitter exchange, however.
Apparently such an exchange began on July 10, 2014, between New York City
teacher Arthur […]
“No Palestinian will believe that”
If the global, Islam-fuelled turbulence surrounding us hasn’t opened the
eyes of the BBC’s reporters, particularly the one recently billeted in
Baghdad, what hope is there that the average liberal, multicultural TV
viewer residing in the UK will ever open theirs?
How will the paying public get a balanced picture of the current
Hamas/Israel crisis, while the BBC’s reporting remains hobbled within the
limiting editorship of Jeremy Bowen? The longer the violence continues the
more the Bowen-approved reportage deteriorates into a bottomless pit of
injured Palestinian civilians, context... more »
Always look on the bright side of life
Are we more threatened or
just more self aware
does it do us any good
to look longer in the mirror
with our death stare
The news has become
a commercial for someone
selling antidepressants
that is not life
life no matter what the hardship
is effervescing
Bad times, bad times
do not make me laugh
the black plague, the inquisition
world war two
and so many other
things
we could not see live on the internet
makes me wonder funny things
What is someone knew
bad news would
line up people
like sheep on a show?
DANGEROUS GROUND
*Russians inspect a house hit my shells from Kiev's military after they
fired into Russia on Sunday*
- The operative question is can and will the regime in Kiev be able to
draw Russia into war? On Sunday the US-NATO backed regime fired artillery
shells over the border into Russia killing one person and injuring a couple
other people. Here is a report from Associated Press:
Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday that a Ukrainian shell hit a Russian
border town, killing one person and seriously injuring two others. Ukraine
denied firing a shell into Russian territory.
P... more »
Internet Friendship is not all nebulous!
Image selected because I think its a better one than the actual.(NTTIAWT)
My friend Allen
who I don't know him at all
our relationship is like a skit from
Kids in the hall crossed with the trailer park boys
because the biggest thing we got in common
is we are Canadiens who are not afraid
to do some shine
I know something about him
from his writing
it reveals his soul
and he has a great one
according to the ancient scrolls
Lets call him a mensch
and I can not spell check
that word at all
In today's currency that buys
you nothing on the street
but the street is where
the mobs live
and wh... more »
Republican Party Doctrine: "You Don't Need Facts To Impeach A President"
I'm not sure when Rick Perlstein started writing his new book, The
Invisible Bridge-- The Fall Of Reagan And The Rise Of Reagan, but I'll
guess it was at least a year or two before Boehner came up with his lame-brained
idea to sue President Obama. In it, though, is a pretty powerful reminder
of just what an imperial presidency was, replete with the kind of
overstepping of boundaries of which Boehner is accusing Obama. He quoted a
contemporaneous issue of *Time* summarizing the still unfolding Republican
Party Watergate scandal: that the June 1972 burglary "has been revealed as
cl... more »
Having a difficult time defeating terrorists in foreign countries, the Pentagon is now hiring think tanks to rationalize designating some classes of non-violent American demonstrators as "terrorists." Watch it here or read about it in the re-post below this one.
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http://youtu.be/0zb1u_ySWQc
How the Pentagon is Bracing for Societal Collapse | Interview with Nafeez
Ahmed
breakingtheset
*Published on Jul 1, 2014*
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Abby Martin interviews Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, journalist for The Guardian, about
a recent article he wrote concerning the Pentagon's multimillion dollar
project to study peaceful protest movements and prepare for the collapse of
industrial society due to factors ranging from income inequality to cl... more »
Francis Pryor - Channel 4 - Britain B.C.
I realise this short Channel 4 series by Time Team's ex-sheep farmer,
pre-historian and archaeologist Francis Pryor titled Britain B.C. might be
presented in a populist fashion but I like Francis, he's easy on the ear
and I like his personality, his enthusiasm and zeal.
Plus, he disses the Roman Empire, and I'm always gonna support 'dissing
Empires'. All Empires fail, and are only about making your slave-life Hell
in the name of Economy, Prosperity and Cities.
Echoing my own Free Planet thoughts, Tim Shadla-Hall explains in the first
part that ancient Britons were, *"...people ado... more »
Tidbits of a caring mind
the worlds finest obit
was around our SUN
I do not think we know
the politicians who
decided this was the final one
So much green energy
being expelled
so much hydrogen
that would blow
up conservative cells
Yeah we gotta Sun
]Yeah it gives to everyone
and if you think your
going to rape this earth
look the sunrise
because it will give
you and yours
a horrible sunscreen
vision of dearth
Local First! (People Think They Are Clever Shopping Online As They Sink Their Local Economies? And Enable Tax Cheats?) Citicorp Pays Trivial $7 Billion In Fine
BREAKING: Who'd a thunk it? (Or that the "B" has become only the letter
after "A"?) Obviously it's merely a drop in its solid-gold bucket.
Citigroup To Pay $7B in Subprime Mortgages Probe Of course we all love the
one-click shopping. But at what price? Just our ability to continue as a
coherent civilization? Don't like paying taxes? Turns out that billionaires
don't even more (especially
Supplemental: Dowd at war!
*MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014*
*Maureen Dowd and our post-journalistic culture:* Maureen Dowd can’t figure
out why anyone would pay Chelsea Clinton all that filthy money.
But first, a bit of background:
Way back on July 1, we noted a peculiar fact. The Washington Post was
waging a jihad concerning Hillary Clinton’s deeply troubling speaking fees.
At the same time, the New York Times had barely mentioned the topic.
Last Thursday, we thought we noted a policy change at the nation’s greatest
newspaper. For whatever reason, the Times had decided to use Chelsea
Clinton’s speaking fees as a way... more »
Nueva Extraña Presencia Humanoide en las Playas de Necochea, Argentina
*NUEVA EXTRAÑA PRESENCIA HUMANOIDE EN LAS PLAYAS DE NECOCHEA, ARGENTINA*
*Una investigación de:*
*Guillermo D. Giménez*
Una vez más tenemos información directa de extrañas presencias durante el
pasado mes de Mayo de 2014 en las costas bonaerenses de Necochea, en
Argentina.
Allí hemos localizado cuatro (4) testigos que nos hablan de la
visualización de extrañas luces en horas de la noche, en la costa misma
necochense, en la playa, como así también la observación de un extraño ser
tipo humanoide, hechos acaecidos el día Domingo 18 de Mayo y el Martes 20
de Mayo en horas de la noche.
... more »
UFO Photographed over Belén de Escobar (Argentina)
UFO Researcher *Fernando Távara*, National Director of MUFON-Perú, shared a
series of photographs and videos with *Planeta UFO* regarding a case in the
city of Belén de Escobar in northeastern Buenos Aires Province (Argentina).
The event occurred on June 28, 2014 in the early hours of the morning (6:30
am) and the images were captured by eyewitness Ricardo Pérez using a
Motorola Moto G cellphone. "It was visible for over 1 hour," says the
witness. "During that tim period I watched it while still in bed, as well
as while standing by the window. I was unable to capture its strange
mo... more »
They Say He's A Smart Guy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Chris Hedges writes that there is a deep irony to what is currently
happening in Gaza. It mirrors what happened to European Jews eighty years
ago:
Raul Hilberg in his monumental work “The Destruction of the European Jews” chronicled
a process of repression that at first was “relatively mild” but led, step
by step, to the Holocaust. It started with legal discrimination and ended
with mass murder. “The destructive process was a development that was begun
with caution and ended wi... more »
Three pigeonholes in six physicists' brains
RAF has told us about a new quant-ph preprint
The quantum pigeonhole principle and the nature of quantum correlations
by Yakir Aharonov and five less famous co-authors. Their paper claims to
disprove the apparently trivial proposition
If you put 3 pigeons in 2 pigeonholes, at least one pair of pigeons
(12/23/31) ends up in the same pigeonhole.
It should be true because the number of pigeonholes is lower than the
number of pigeons so they can't be hosted in accordance with the Pauli
exclusion principle.
But is that statement right quantum mechanically? The authors claim that
the ... more »
ARISTOTLE’S ERROR: Philosopher fails!
*MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014*
*Prologue—The Pew pop quiz:* Arrayed on Olympus, Homer’s gods were the
first anthropologists.
Several years later, Aristotle came along.
In retrospect, the gods pretty much got it right. They laughed and laughed,
then rolled their eyes, at the follies of us, the humans.
In their view, life among the early Greeks constituted an early version of
the Springer show.
Aristotle was more upbeat. “Man [sic] is the rational animal,” he’s often
said to have said.
In one way, you can’t blame Aristotle for making this notorious error. To
cite just one example:
Acco... more »
Guest Post: M.D. Creekmore: If You Don’t Put Together Your 72 Hour Survival Kit Now You’ll Hate Yourself Later!...
*M.D. Creekmore, of the very popular "The Survivalist Blog",* has gifted
us with one of his most popular posts on being prepared - and we thank him.
*If You Don’t Put Together Your 72 Hour Survival Kit Now You’ll Hate
Yourself Later!*
This short modified excerpt is from my book 31 Days to Survival - this
would also make a good bug out bag packing list, with a few modifications…
As with any “prepping shopping list” you’ll need to tailor the suggestions
listed below to meet your specific needs, skills, location and
circumstances – no such shopping list can cover the needs of everyon... more »
Match Your Diaper Genie To Your Nursery
This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with
Pollinate Media Group® and Playtex, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia
#RefreshYourNursery http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV
One of my favorite things about decorating the nursery for a new baby is
all of the little details. My daughter's nursery is paper crane themed
complete with paper crane mobile and hand embroidered paper crane baby
quilt. While we absolutely love our Diaper Genie, but I wanted it to match
the decor of the room. All it took was some washi tape and tulle to combine
cute and function. This is... more »
Insider tarsands astroturf - Power of Canada
A month ago, former MP and Liberal leadership contender Martha Hall Findlay
had a piece in the G&M : *Northern Gateway : You don't build a nation by
saying 'No" *in which she echoed Tarsands Minister Joe Oliver in invoking
pipelines as "nation-building" projects similar to building the "national
railway and the St. Lawrence Seaway".
Nation-building is apparently no longer about bringing people together in
economic resilience but now consists of petrocorps getting their toxic
unrefined bitumen to China as quickly and easily as possible.
What you may not have known *because the G&M ... more »
WHY ISNT AFT AND NEW YORK MORE ENRAGED ABOUT ENGAGENY?
WHY ISNT AFT AND NEW YORK MORE ENRAGED ABOUT ENGAGENY?.Filed under: SHAUN
JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: common core, corporate
education reform, education reform, privatization
Chicago City of Murder (CCOM)
As violence in poor Chicago neighborhoods reaches epidemic proportions,
with 84 people shot in an 82 hour window in July, Mayor Rahm has a new
initiative to encourage young people to spend more time coding. Perhaps
Microsoft will provide bullet-free bunkers for children to work in as they
come up with new ideas to make Silicon Valley whales even fatter.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the Chicago City of Learning (CCOL) Month of
Code Challenge to all Cities of Learning today to encourage young people to
explore the science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM)
fields. Throug... more »
"Minerva is a prime example of the deeply narrow-minded and self-defeating nature of military ideology. Worse still, the unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is symptomatic of a simple fact – in their unswerving mission to defend an increasingly unpopular global system serving the interests of a tiny minority, security agencies have no qualms about painting the rest of us as potential terrorists." -- Nafeez Ahmed
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Posted by
Nafeez Ahmed
Thursday
12 June 2014
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown
Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to
target peaceful activists and protest movements
The Pentagon is funding social science research to model risks of "social
contagions" that could damage US strategic interests. Photograph: Jason
Reed/REUTERS
A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities
to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil
unrest across the world, under the super... more »
Sderot Cinema- Israeli's enjoying the mass killings of Palestinians
People gathering to watch live bombing of Gaza – should make us all
uncomfortableSpeaking for myself, I cannot view violence on tell-a-vision
or in movies. To sit and watch people being killed in real life, as if it
is entertainment, is beyond my moral comprehension
*What does this tell us about the mindset of Israelis, engaging in such
egregious behaviour? *
"However, a closer inspection of the image reveals that the group is
witnessing what could possibly be explosions and gunfire in the distance.
This, allegedly, is the Sderot cinema: a gathering of Israeli locals in
Sderot cit... more »
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
These are the crimes that the US-NATO are now support in Ukraine. It is
sick.
Events+ John Garnaut on the PRC, White Wolf, Triads, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
*The road up to Xitou, on the west side of the gorge.*
John Garnaut has a trio on triads, the White Wolf, and PRC expansionism,
annexation, and nationalism. From this one:
"White Wolf?" snaps one of Chang An-lo's assistants, a man with a huge
forehead and pockmarked face, who eyes me suspiciously. "What White Wolf?
"Whoever calls him that? You mean you are looking for President Chang!"
It's only after I name-drop members of the Chinese Communist Party
aristocracy that he ushers me into an inner office space, where he jots
down my details and gives me an undertaking that my name wil... more »
Who Is Responsible For Drowning South Florida?
The map of a truncated Florida, above, is famous already. People who are
alive today will have beachfront property in Orlando. It isn't just the
Florida Keys that will disappear under the ways. So will every inch-- or in
a few cases, almost ever inch-- of the congressional districts currently
represented by-- in order of who prioritizes Global Warming most:
*•* Frederica Wilson (94.87)
*•* Alcee Hastings (94.44)
*•* Ted Deutch (91.89)
[the 3 above care a lot. The 3 below care as long as it doesn't get in the
way of business as usual]
*•* Debbie Wasserman Schultz (88.14)
*•* Kathy... more »
Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Tenn Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter
There are more and more signs pointing towards the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) declaring independence from Iraq sometime in the future.
This has been a long term goal based upon recent events in Iraq and
historical imagining. To help explain the roots of Kurdish nationalism is
Prof. Michael Gunter of Tennessee Tech. Univ. He has written extensively
about the Kurds and has authored *Historical Dictionary of the Kurds*, *The
A to Z of the Kurds*, *The Kurds of Iraq: Tragedy and Hope*, *The Kurds
Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey*,
*T... more »
Happy Bastille Day!
Here's a little something to help get those head-upon-pike visions dancing
in your heads:
The Obama administration has given yet another sloppy, wet, incestuous kiss
to the criminal financial enterprise of which it is an integral part. And
taking a cue from Republicans, they're even scapegoating Bengha-a-a-a-zi
for their delay in announcing their settlement with Citigroup. You read
that right. This is a settlement between partners. There will be no
prosecution. The guy the administration is actually prosecuting is one of
those CIA assets terrorism fellows they flew in from Libya... more »
Ku Doubles Down and other stuff
*Hoping Island, Keelung. If you haven't been here, it's much better than
Yehliu.*
Julian Ku's awful piece at The Diplomat got spanked by J Michael Cole
yesterday and by Michal Thim today. Thim's is excellent and very polite,
don't miss.
I ripped Ku two posts below this one yesterday. Incredibly, as if he had no
access to Google in the intervening hours, today he doubled down on his
errors:
I get that this is a complicated issue, but I don’t think I am “misreading”
historical documents when I write that i) the US recognizes the PRC as the
government of China and that the US accept... more »
Untitled
*Do credentials scandals support the signaling model?*
Every now and then, the world suddenly learns that a perfectly competent
worker faked his credentials. Consider the case of MIT's former head of
admissions:
"Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology... admitted that she had fabricated her own educational
credentials and resigned after nearly three decades at MIT. Officials of
the institute said she did not have even an undergraduate degree.
"I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to MIT 28
years ago and did ... more »
Cylons and Dragons and Norms, Oh My
Rob Farley and I talk on BloggingheadsTV about new books (his and mine);
the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots; how political scientists might study
the circulation of science fiction and fantasy in real-world politics; and
the meaning of Game of Thrones‘ fourth season.
Irritant Policy in the South China Sea
*BREAKING*: Minister of Education Chiang finally throws in the towel, quits
over papers scandal (KMT news organ). Maddog had the last laugh on Twitter: *how
bout that "clean and capable" Ma Ying-jeou!*
In the light of the US request that development of structures by claimants
in the South China Sea be frozen at its 2002 level, the ROC reiterated its
claims to the South China Sea. The KMT news organ reports:
In a reply to a press query, the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of China
(ROC) yesterday reiterated that judging from perspectives of history,
geography, and international law... more »
Bill Joslin: “Meditation: Deconstructing Nonsense”
*Thanks to Jan @ Gnostic Media for providing us with this very, very
informative and thought provoking interview. *
The explanation of how we conceive of reality.. how the brain interprets
the world, through more then just the 5 senses was quite, quite
enlightening. Enjoyable, thought provoking & informative. Certainly got me
thinking!
*Bill Joslin* at an early age developed a fascination with mind and
awareness. Subsequently he spent 16 years studying Bonpo, Nyingma Buddhist
and Taoist practices. He spent a year in Asia interviewing Buddhist monks
in Laos, Cambodia, Nepal; Taoist ... more »
A Backyard Gardeners Crop Guide
A Backyard Gardener's Crop By Crop Guide to Organic Growing. With summer
gardens in full swing, this guide will help you get the most out of your
garden. You find solutions that will help you deal with pests and disease
naturally and a ton ...of useful information. Thank you, Mother Earth News
Magazine! Let's take back control of our food!
*Find the Guide here:*
*http://bit.ly/1cCIKqo*
#Organic #BackyardGardening #pestcontrol #garden #labelgmos #needtoknowgmo
#freedom2chooz #GMOFreeCanada #GMOFreeUSA
*Source:*
*GMO Free USA*
Iraq Updates ( July 14 , 2014 ) -- State of play , whole spectrum of political and civil war matters of note .....
Tweets .....
*Al Arabiya English* @AlArabiya_Eng · 4m
Opinion: Al Arabiya's @FaisalJAbbas on dubious media claims of #SaudiArabia
#ISIS links http://ara.tv/nza98 pic.twitter.com/UqFqNMMCmf
[image: Embedded image permalink]
Retweeted by Wladimir
*Daniele Raineri* @DanieleRaineri · 4h
Any Americans assigned to advise Baghdad’s forces face risks to their
safety because Iraqi units are infiltrated
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Retweeted by Wladimir
*W.G. Dunlop* @wgdunlop · 5h
ICYMI: Iraq MPs again fail to make progress toward new govt; militants gain
ground; attacks kill 12 people http://yhoo.it/1jov... more »
Companies to avoid: STOP FUNDING ISRAEL
(These are the companies assisting the funding of the Palestinian genocide
by the Israeli Defense Force)
AOL
APAX partners + Co.
ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB
COCA COLA
DANONE
DELTA GALIL
DISNEY
ESTEE’ LAUDER
HOME DEPOT
IBM
INTEL
JOHNSON + JOHNSON
KIMBERLY-CLARK
LEWIS TRUST GROUP LTD
L’OREAL
MARKS + SPENCERS
MCDONALDS
NESTLE
NEWS CORPORATION
NOKIA
REVLON
SARA LEE
SELFRIDGES
STARBUCKS
THE LIMITED INC.
TIMBERLAND
These are the major influential financial SUPPORTERS of the Baby Killing
Forces of the Rogue Zionist collective of murderers known as Israel.
Source: http://ww... more »
Organic Food Higher in Antioxidants and Lower in Toxic Metals and Pesticides by Colin Todhunter
Organic Food Higher in Antioxidants and Lower in Toxic Metals and PesticidesOverwhelming
Evidence
by Colin Todhunter
*Consumer demand for organic foods is partially driven by perceptions that
they are more nutritious. Now a peer-reviewed study just published in the
British Journal of Nutrition [1], a leading international journal of
nutritional science, has shown that organic crops and crop-based foods are
between 18 to 69 percent higher in a number of key antioxidants such as
polyphenolics than conventionally-grown crops.*
Numerous studies have linked antioxidants to a redu... more »
Art or the Future of the Printed Book?
This weekend in a quiet small local market in Bath we came across two
stalls which caught our eye. One was selling lampshades at £75 each and the
other origami objects. The thing that was interesting was that both were
using printed books as their base material and draw.
The lampshades used a pile of books as their base which had a hole drilled
through them in order to support the shade and fitment. The stallholder
commented that several people had objected to her wares and that she was
finding it difficult to get the books as charity shops wanted to sell them
or they were destin... more »
Homemade Mini Powdered Donuts
In my husband's family, the donut is sacred. It is something he has passed
down to our 5-year-old, at least once a week I will wake up to find both my
husband and daughter gone having woken up early to sneak out and try a new
donut shop. They have tried almost all of the ones in are area and are
slowly moving farther and farther away in search of the perfect donut. When
they aren't questing for the perfect donut, I like to appease them by
making this fun and delicious powdered donut recipe. They love it and it is
fairly easy to make.
You will need:
- 1.5 cups lukewarm water
... more »
A history lesson on Israel and the 'Palestinians'
The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Myths and Facts:
http://youtu.be/XILOXhQLiKw
This should be compulsory viewing for all the anti Israel brigade that
infest Twitter, such as @wotsit4 @suspendedgreg @lynnejones_exMP BBC
'journalists' such as Jeremy Bowen aka @BowenBBC and others whose
independence of thought over Israel is so sorely lacking.
art - Craig Davison - childhood heroes
Craig Davison was born in Sheffield in 1965 and has enjoyed drawing for as
long as he can remember. Art was his favourite subject at school but he
took it no further. In the late 80’s he managed to get a job as a
cartoonist, working on pre-school comics. He drew comic strips of a variety
of characters including The Shoe People, The Wombles, Huxley Pig and
Bangers and Mash.
This guy's a real artist.
Forget illness - Forget wars - PROFIT is the real Cancer
at the start of 2013 I deleted all the Free Planet posts thus far. They
were mostly but not exclusively "*someone else's conspiracy news"*, so
sources were debatable at the very least, this being a classical NTK or
Need To Know intelligence game waged against You The People i.e. You The
Worker i.e. You The Profit Slave.
Most of my own Free Planet thoughts made their way into The Research Notes
of Miss Asalah Al Faghori, in preparation of the publication of the Custodian
(free planet #1) novel, a fictional owl character in that book about
Custodian Liberation.
But this *profit is t... more »
General Sisi Wants To Broker Peace In Iraq But Not In Gaza
*Sisi and Netanyahu see eye to eye about Gaza but not about Iraq.*
An excerpt from, *"Al-Sisi is in no rush to broker ceasefire"*
ynetnews.com, July 14:
*Even after US President Barack Obama telephoned him and personally asked
him to mediate between Israel and Hamas, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi is doing it "unenthusiastically," as an advisor at the presidential
palace defined it. *
Al-Sisi sees it as only an "initiative" for a ceasefire in Gaza, and he is
simmering it slowly. As far as he is concerned, Israel can continue
crushing Hamas.
.
.
Cairo officials explain ... more »
Test marks first dual AMRAAM shots from any F-35 variant
A U.S. Air Force pilot successfully fired two Raytheon Company AIM 120
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles from an F-35B fighter aircraft.
The missiles tracked and engaged two aerial targets during a Weapon
Delivery Accuracy mission in Southern California.
The test marked the first dual AMRAAM shot from any F-35 variant, and the
first live AMRAAM shot from the F-35B.
Read more
The $10B Next Generation Jammer Is ‘On Track, On Schedule’
[image: EA-18G Growler]Farnborough is an air show, but many of the
briefings scheduled by American companies this year focus on electronic
warfare and missiles — not airplanes.
Raytheon, winner of the Next Generation Jammer competition, and the other
four defense giants know that much of the money to be made in the next
decade will come from upgrades and add-ons, not new platforms.
And much of the new money is destined for just the sort of technology the
NGJ is sure to bring: the area where cyber and classic electronic warfare
now merge thanks to digital technologies such as the A... more »
Everlasting Resilience and Triumph Assured
*Image credit: Palestine flag-face, artist unknown from
occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com*The hearts of the awakened and just world
go out to your long-suffering struggle against an intractable and hosted
evil. Palestine, one day soon you will realise true freedom and nation
amongst the true bearers of humanity and justice. No matter the lies, the
vicious, callow propaganda and vitriol, the righteous eyes of the world can
truly see what is transpiring and whom the demonic, murderous parties
responsible are. For we all bear witness to one of the most horrific
catalogue of war crimes an... more »
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*PBS focusing NOVA’s lens on Bayou Corne sinkhole ~David J. Mitchell, The
Advocate*
Blackjack Production Nod On Hold
[image: RQ-21A Blackjack]Completion of initial operational test and
evaluation and the subsequent full-rate production decision for the U.S.
Navy’s RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft is on hold due to ship
availability.
A tranche of sea-trails were set for this month but cut short as the USS
New York, a San Antonio class amphibious dock ship, was called away for
duty, says Mike Kurth, who oversees Boeing’s unmanned systems business.
The second IOT&E trail was set to ensure the system was suitable for
shipboard operations. Only roughly a week more is needed for testing on the
ship a... more »
PM to announce details of £1.1bn defence spending
[image: Sentinel R1 / Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR)]It is due to include
cash for drones, UK special forces and intelligence gathering to tackle
global terrorism.
David Cameron is due to make the announcement at the Farnborough
International Air Show.
He is expected to say funds for "vital" Ministry of Defence programmes have
been found as a result of austerity measures.
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Boeing sees F/A-18 fighter line continuing through 2017
[image: EA-18G Growler]Boeing Co said on Sunday it was optimistic it could
maintain production of its F/A-18 and EA-18G fighter jets in St. Louis
through the end of 2017 - a year longer than expected - if Congress
approved additional orders of a dozen more planes.
But the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, told reporters that
slowing production to extend the line was likely to increase costs at a
time when budgets were already tight.
"I don’t see how we can do that without it costing money and we just don't
have money to spend on things that aren’t core requirements righ... more »
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*Six bucks a gallon? Where gas prices might be without the U.S. energy boom*
If you think the price of gas is high, imagine paying up to $6 a gallon.
That’s what energy expert Dan Steffens thinks the price could be if not for
the domestic oil boom.
“With what’s going on the Middle East, I think it would five or six bucks
(a gallon),” said Steffens, president of the Energy Prospectus Group out of
Houston. “If it wasn’t for the shale revolution, you’d be in big trouble.”
Technological breakthroughs in recent years have led to an explosion in the
energy industry in the United States.... more »
Farnborough Will Kick Off Without Any F-35s
[image: F-35 Lightning II engine fire]The F-35 will miss the first day of
this year’s Farnborough air show, the third and final event at which the
Pentagon’s newest fighter jet was scheduled to appear as part of its
international debut this month in the United Kingdom.
The fifth-generation, stealth fighter made by Lockheed Martin Corp. is
still expected to show up at the event outside London later this week,
organizers said in a statement to news media. It wasn’t immediately clear
whether the jet will fly at the one of the world’s largest air shows.
“Unfortunately the F-35B Lightnin... more »
News Flash: China's Third Aircraft Carrier Could Be Nuclear
[image: Liaoning (PLAN CV-16)]China has an aircraft carrier. In fact,
multiple media sources confirm that China has already begun work on its
second aircraft carrier, a sister ship to the Liaoning (PLAN CV-16), and
likely to be designated CV-17.
What's more, People's Liberation Army Major General Luo Yuan has publicly
stated that China's People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) needs three
aircraft carriers at a minimum, just to maintain parity with its neighbors.
As the general explained: "India will have three aircraft carriers by 2014
and Japan will have three carriers by 2014, so I... more »
Indian Navy gets first indigenous anti-submarine warfare corvette
[image: INS Kamorta]Indian Navy has received INS Kamorta, the country's
first indigenous anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, built by
Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE).
The warship was formally handed over by GRSE chairman and managing director
Rear Admiral (Retd) A K Verma to the Navy at a brief ceremony held at
Kolkata on July 12.
INS Kamorta, the first in its class of four ASW corvettes being built by
GRSE under Project-28 for the Navy, is the first warship ever built in the
country with almost 90 per cent of indigenous content.
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Department of Zionist Security
*Fighting terrorism is always a growing industry in Israel for one very
simple reason: the Israeli government and its US and Gulf allies finance
terrorists and give them their most famous propaganda victories. 9/11 is
the perfect example.*
An excerpt from, *"Men Detained After Clash at Pro-Israel Rally"* by Gadi
Schwartz and Kelly Goff, NBC LA, July 13:
Several men were detained at a pro-Israel peace rally in front of the
Federal Building in Westwood Sunday after pro-Palestinian protesters also
turned up and the two sides clashed.
Witnesses said there was a scuffle between severa... more »
Another warship accident hits the Navy
[image: INS Khutar]In yet another warship accident, missile corvette INS
Khutar was damaged after it recently ran aground at the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
The Navy has ordered a board of inquiry (BoI) into the accident, which is
the 15th such incident after submarine INS Sindhurakshak sank in August 14
last year.
The 1,350-tonne Khutar, which was commissioned in 1990, was entering the
harbour to dock at one of the two jetties at Port Blair when it ran aground
in "rough weather" towards end-June.
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Photos: Disposal of nuclear waste of retired PLA submarine
[image: Long March No 1]Decommissioning a nuclear submarine is a challenge.
China’s navy has conducted research on that since 2000. Scientists have
worked out detailed plans for dismantling facilities, the disposal of
nuclear waste and other key issues.
China is now the second country in the world to have disposed retired
nuclear submarines safely.
China's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Long March No 1, was launched
in 1970 and was commissioned to the PLA navy in 1974.
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Move to fast-track two submarine projects gathers steam
[image: INS Arihant]There is finally some urgency being shown to rescue
India's ageing and depleting underwater combat arm. The approval for two
long-pending projects, one for construction of six advanced diesel-electric
submarines and the other for six nuclear-powered ones, is well on the cards
now.
Sources said the finance ministry has asked the defence ministry to "club"
the separate projects to "draft a single note" for the requisite nod from
Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).
"The two projects have been languishing for long in the files being
exchanged between the two minis... more »
UPDATED: Whitewraithe's RANT for Sunday - July 13, 2014
*First, my apologies for not being able to post the RANT much earlier. *
*For someone still unemployed, I lead a very busy, controversial family
life where there always is a crisis occurring. Mainly, due in part to my
daughter who is very close to my mother and I. She is my only child and
will be 32 in October. I also have two very active, precocious grandsons
who will be 6 and 4 in a few short weeks. Along with my son-in-law who is
a Firefighter, they live two minutes away, which is sometimes way too
convenient because they are at our house several times a week and my
grand... more »
Toward a Europe Whole and Free (To Loot)
*July 10, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - When the special interests who
created and direct the agenda of the European Union disagree with member
states, the true nature of this supranational enterprise becomes painfully
apparent - one of dictatorial special interests pursing regional policy
that benefits none of its individual member states. No example of this can
be clearer than the dispute that has emerged over the construction of
Russia's South Stream natural gas pipeline set to run through Bulgaria,
Serbia, Hungary, and Italy.
The pipeline produces a large number of benefits f... more »
Food in Costa
One thing Kurt and I are really enjoying in Costa Rica compared to the US
is the food.
I also have a lot more time here to concentrate on healthy eating and
cooking, so that helps with this love as well.
Almost everything we buy now is not processed or in a box. In MI, almost
everything I bought, with the exception of fresh fish, was processed.
This is how our eating/shopping habits here have worked thus far.
Every Friday, we go to the veggie and fruit market in Jaco and stock up for
the week. I am getting pretty good at knowing exactly what we need to make
it through the week.... more »
It’s Bastille Day!
*It might be Germany’s day on the sports field, but it’s France’s day in
history…*
Eugene Delacroix: *Liberty Leading the People*, 1830
*The French Revolution and the Marseillaise should not be symbols of
Liberty. The *Art* about the French Revolution should definitely be . . .*
- Sandrine Lonchampt
*“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”* With those words,
and a litany of hope and despair to follow, Charles Dickens began his novel
of the French Revolution – the Revolution celebrated today on the
anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille.
*It was the best of ... more »
METRO | Beverly Baker Moore : Old and in the way in Austin
This article is a casual investigation of available cheap digs for seniors
in Austin. By Beverly Baker Moore | The Rag Blog | July 13, 2014 AUSTIN —
As the saying goes, getting old ain’t for sissies, especially in a …
finish reading *METRO* | Beverly Baker Moore : Old and in the way in Austin
Northern San Diego County-- Will They Ever Have Good Representation In Congress?
Though many of the most salient questions about his corruption have never
been addressed, Republican former-congressman/*DWT* star Duke Cunningham is
out of prison. Apparently, we will never find out what happened to the
$400,000 Thomas "Gus" Kontogiannis gave Cunningham to pay off George W.
Bush for a pardon. (Be sure to read the comments at the link; some of these
folks have very inside information they're sharing.) Anyway, now that the
Dukester is out, the media isn't asking him about the bribes, especially
not the big Bush bribe, just about what it was like to be in a Club Fed.... more »
Meet & Greet (#MtaGt) - July - EcoFriendlyLink
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I’m wondering what of substance was accomplished thus far at the American
Federation of Teachers (AFT) national convention in Los Angeles July 11-14,
2014. On July 13, 2014, AFT was supposed to consider asking for U.S.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s resignation. The National Education
Association (NEA) passed a resolution on July 4, 2014, asking Duncan […]
Do you dance when you come to work every morning?
Why not.
Tim does.
Isn’t capitalism wonderful?
[Hat tip Barbara Clarihew]
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RANT in process.....
*Just wanted to let everyone know that, yes, Sunday's "RANT" is a bit late,
obviously.*
*I guess I'm just a little intimidated taking over for NTS these next few
weeks because I know what his readers have come to expect and I hope to
meet just a few of those expectations. *
*NTS told me to just write from the heart, which is difficult for me. I'm
too much of a planner and more calculated, so I guess he meant I need to
loosen up and let the words flow. Some can do that with no hesitation and
NTS is no doubt brilliant on that point. His mind works in tandem with the
coordination... more »
Entre vista de Robert Kiyosaki
Si quieres tener Esperanza, reconpensa por tu trabajo, y rescatatar tu
familia applica lo que dice este señor, Kiyosaki en tu vida
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Thomas Piketty and ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’
*Guest post by Andrew Wilson*
Ludwig Von Mises’ treatise on why capitalism sits in the dock, falsely
accused of various crimes against humanity, is a classic: his book *The
Anti-Capitalistic Mentality *bravely saying what still needs to be said. It
offers a robust rebuttal to the jaundiced view of capitalism found (most
recently and conspicuously) in Thomas Piketty’s *Capital in the
Twenty-First Century*.
In *The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality*, Mises asks: Why do so many people
“loathe” capitalism? He gives a threefold answer.
The first factor is simple ignorance. Few people cred... more »
GAZA AND THE NEOCON LIES
Neoconservative master propagandist Jonathan Tobin writing in *Commentary*
today says about the current crisis that “Hamas set events in motion last
month when some of its operatives kidnapped and murdered three Israeli
teenagers and then escalated the conflict by shooting several hundred
rockets into the Jewish state from its Gaza stronghold”.
Rubbish.
It was Israel that set events in motion when IDF snipers shot dead Gazan
civilians during the months preceding the current crisis. A number of those
randomly murdered were farmers tending fields close to the border with
Israel. One ... more »
Book Watch: In the course of a 6000-mile trans-Eurasian horseback journey, a technological time warp changes lives
*Central Mongolia is where Tim began his 6000-mile westward horseback
journey across the steppe to the Danube. With both Russia to the north and
the Chinese "autonomous" province of Xinjiang to the south closed to a
foreigner in 2004, he continued into giant Kazakhstan, the second-largest
of the former Soviet republics (after Russia). There he met Bakhetbek, a
Kazakh born near the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi who had fled back to
ancestral Kazakhstan because of anti-Kazakh violence (the murder of his
brothers) tolerated, if not actually encouraged, by the Chinese regime.
Bakhetbek's ... more »
Apologies
Apologies for not tending the blog too well recently.
To those who asked: nothing was wrong -- I was just up to my eyes getting
out work while preparing for and attending a conference. Evidence of the
very blurry variety below.
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SUBHUMANS?
The US-NATO are pushing for war with Russia. By actively supporting the
neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, Ukraine with money, weapons, and military advisers
the plan is that Russia will eventually come to the aid of Russian ethnic
people in the eastern portion of the country thus giving the US-NATO the
pretext to fully enter into war with Russia via Ukraine.
This video about the growing reality of genocide against Russian speakers
inside Ukraine is a must watch and a must share. Ukraine is the trigger
for war with Russia. Any war with Russia is a suicide pact with the devil
for sure.
... more »
Sacramento Journalist Seth Sandronsky Reviews A Chronicle of Echoes
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky Education Reformers’ Playbook Want names of
and motives for public school reformers? Read A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s
Who in the Implosion of American Public Education by Mercedes K. Schneider.
The author has skin in this game. She is a public school teacher against
the corporate conquest of community-based public education. Schneider opens
[…]
Neocons Hedge Bets in Backing Flaky Rick Perry
The very definition of a fixed horserace is when the same interests own
both horses in that race. Such is the growing neocon push behind Texas
Governor Rick Perry who has been cleaned up after his 2012 GOP primary
season embarrassment to emerge as the Mexican bashing, American
exceptionist promoting ringer in the upcoming race against neocon
Democratic party candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. They even gave him Barry
Goldwater style horn-rimmed glasses for his coming out party.
The neocon central transmission beacon The Washington Post prominently
featured an op ed allegedly penned... more »
German spy scandal spreads ( July 13 , 2014 ) - Did the CIA recruit a dozen spies among various German Ministries ?
Over a dozen CIA-recruited spies work in German ministries – report
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US secret services have recruited more than a dozen officials in various
German government ministries to work as spies, with some of them working
for the CIA for many years, a German tabloid reported on S... more »
The Poet: Langston Hughes, “I Dream A World”
*“I Dream A World”*
by Langston Hughes
“I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!”
“'The A**hole Effect': What Wealth Does to the Brain”
*“'The A**hole Effect': What Wealth Does to the Brain”*
By Anne Manne
"Call it the a**hole effect. That is the term coined by US psychologist
Paul Piff* after he did some stunning new research into the effects of
wealth and inequality on people’s attitudes. As we ponder [Australian
politician] Joe Hockey’s budget and his division of the world into
"leaners" and "lifters", as we learn from Oxfam that the richest 1% of
Australians now own the same wealth as the bottom 60%, we would do well to
consider the implications of Piff’s studies. He found that as people grow
wealthier, they ar... more »
Lies and More Lies
In an earlier posting I purposely and deliberately said that the Air Force
lied about sighting solutions in the Project Blue Book files. I said this
because they knew, based on their own files, that the satellite solution
for one aspect of the Portage County Chase did not work. They, which is to
say Hector Quintanilla, knew the truth. As the man in charge, he owns the
ultimate responsibility here and he had, naturally, complete access to the
Project Blue Book files.
Let’s look at something that I have found in the Air Force file on the Las
Vegas UFO crash of April 1962. A New York ... more »
I am posting this for those of you who either read my 4th of July post without linking to the original work of Eric Zuesse or missed it entirely. This is what our government is doing to Russian speaking in Ukraine while claming falsely the Russia is the villain.
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The U.S. Elite Run a Ukrainian Genocide While American Public Are Ignorant
of It
Posted on July 3, 2014 by Eric Zuesse.
Eric Zuesse
On Wednesday, July 2nd, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko resumed
unlimited war against the residents of southeastern Ukraine, whom he calls
“terrorists” for their wanting not to be killed by his troops. European
leaders (especially Merkel of Germany, Hollande of France, and Putin of
Russia) urged him not to resume his bombing campaign against the southeast,
but the U.S. (specifically President Obama) supports the bom... more »
Goooooaaaaalllllllll!!!!!!!
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Diego Maradona, Che Guevara,
gauchos, General Galtieri, tango dancers, Nazi war criminals, Jorge Luis
Borges, Pope Francis (and, therefore, Ed Stourton), Juan Peron and
Evita...Can you hear me President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner!...
Your boys took one hell of a beating!
"And Never, Never, To Forget..."
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never
get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life
around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its
lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and
understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
- Arundhati Roy
"Remember..."
“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of
chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown
beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your
differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more
easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To
give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than
for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will
have peace.”
- Kent Nerburn
Satire: “Sight of Rick Perry at Border Convinces Immigrants That Anyone Can Succeed in America”
*“Sight of Rick Perry at Border Convinces Immigrants *
*That Anyone Can Succeed in America”*
by Andy Borowitz
RIO GRANDE (The Borowitz Report)— “A recent tour of the United
States-Mexico border by Texas Governor Rick Perry has had the unintended
consequence of convincing thousands of immigrants that anyone can succeed
in America.
After Gov. Perry and the Fox News host Sean Hannity toured the Rio Grande
on Thursday, news quickly spread that the two men were actually among the
most powerful in America, fueling the immigrants’ impression that the U.S.
is a place where anyone can make ... more »
Edwin Edwards-- In Louisiana He's Not Just The Punchline To A Joke
Last February we looked at the possibility-- which seemed remote-- that
former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards would run for Congress. And here we
are, 5 months later, and he's in the middle of a free-for-all contesting
the open seat-- incumbent Bill Cassidy is running against Mary Landrieu for
Senate-- in LA-06 (a blatantly ethnically-cleansed Baton Rouge plus
Thibodaux). A gerrymandered mess, LA-06 has a PVI of R+21 (and, without the
Afican-American neighborhoods of north Baton Rouge is 22.1% Black) while
LA-02 was designed to contain as many African-Americans as possible in bo... more »
MESSAGE FROM UKRAINE
Here is a message from Irina Timofeeva where she gives evidence of genocide
in Slavyansk made by so-called "National Guards" and troops of Ukrainian
army.
Dear All,
You may have heard that self-defense forces have taken the militiamen
families, armaments, and escaped from the besieged town, so long as they
were hoping Ukrainian army would stop bombing the town and civilians,
besides, DPR Commander Igor Strelkov is after winning the war and not
losing the battle as some had hoped. This is what happened thereafter.
Urgent! The truth from Slavyansk about what is happening in the to... more »
“Keeping Things in Perspective: Mountains”
*“Keeping Things in Perspective: Mountains”*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
“From the top of a mountain, we are able to witness life from a different
perspective bringing us a new awareness. Mountains have always captured our
imaginations, calling us to scale their heights, to circle and worship at
their feet, and to pay homage to their greatness. Mountains can be seen
from thousands of miles away, and if we are lucky enough to be on top of
one, we can see great stretches of the surrounding earth. As a result,
mountains symbolize vision, the ability to rise above the adjacent lowlan... more »
A Tale of Two Reports
The BBC's coverage of the present Gaza conflict hasn't been monolithic.
Take the following pair of reports from tonight's 6 O'Clock News on Radio
4.
The first comes from Jeremy Bowen:
For much of the night the wounded and the dead were brought into Shifa,
Gaza's main hospital. It was the most sustained bombing so far. For Israel,
with American support, it's self defence but, as more Palestinian civilians
die, the pressure for a ceasefire is growing. At the mortuary blood covered
the floor as staff prepared 17 members of the al-Batsh family for burial,
including five children. ... more »
1963
*ARM’D year! year of the struggle! *
*No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! *
*Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano; *
*But as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, *
*carrying a rifle on your shoulder...*
1963 : Prologue - The Washington Bullets from Spike EP on Vimeo.
*"For the very first time ever, When they had a revolution in Nicaragua,*
*There was no interference from America - Human rights in America*
*Well the people fought the leader, And up he flew...*
*With no Washington bullets, what else ... more »
World Cup Live Tweeting
OK, so I'm sure everyone knows it's Argentina vs Germany in the World
Cup Final (In Red Sox Nation, that means the *other *game besides the Red
Sox/Houston matchup). A few quick peeks into the Pope's Twitter account
shows Francis and Benedict are watching the game together at Frankie's
place and the two aren't getting along so well.
Benedict & Francis made a #WorldCup bet- The loser has to wash the
Popemobile with Biden in St. Peter's Sq. stripped to the waist. #p2 #p21
— Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) July 13, 2014
@Pontifex: "I really hope Benedict doesn't make a Nazi sal... more »
Rail-guns and Lasers for sure
We will need them to fight the space lizards. This is the proper use of
taxpayers for security purposes.
Seriously you have to love the new attitude, the Navy promoting the fact
these weapons are less of an environmental hazard.
The mag lev catapult being installed on the George HW Bush aircraft
carriers should be installed at every airport in the world to launch
passenger jets.
Help Hamas Help Itself
Hamas has about the same amount of popular support in Gaza as Steve Harper
does in Canada. That is a core of fanatics topping out around 30%. The
repeated missile attacks on Israel are like Harper's repeated attacks on
non reported crime.
Every time an innocent Palestinian dies Hamas wins. The world should follow
Harper's lead on this and say, sorry Gaza, there is nothing else the world
can do, blame Hamas. If this futile policy is seen as futile, they may
decide to face reality and pay attention to the desires of the majority.
Seen on the internet and mostly true. I do not think L... more »
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*Gusman wants $4 million from city of New Orleans in next year to house
mentally ill inmates ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens*
*Legal battle pits law against church ~Heidi R. Kinchen, The Advocate*
*Business owner loses everything in Bywater fire ~Jaclyn Kelly, WWL*
*Hattiesburg woman is Saintsational ~Emily Ham Price, Hattiesburg American*
Breaking news- Putin & Merkel "constructive talks" regarding Ukraine
*Interesting tidbit- *
*Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have
agreed that the situation in Ukraine, where Kiev is continuing an offensive
against pro-Russian separatists in the east, is "deteriorating", the
Kremlin says.*
*"Putin and Merkel had a constructive, very thorough dialogue during which
they discussed in detail possible options for resolving the situation in
Ukraine," *Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the Russian news agency Ria
Novosti.
*"The two leaders agreed that unfortunately the situation is
deteriorating."*
They als*o "stres... more »
Sunday Morning McCain: Fortress America Edition
This Sunday's all star lineup of war criminals, liars, charlatans, recycled
political hacks and deranged fiends featured more than the usual gaggle
trotted out to spew lies and engage in demagoguery but the one constant
remains that mangy, deranged old bastard Senator John McCain. McCain - this
week sans his little butt buddy Lindsey Graham, the Palmetto State princess
- was in his usual dyspeptic and cranky form in pushing for increased US
involvement in Iraq. The target of McCain's ire during his appearance on
State of the Union with that annoying sow Candy Crowley was Senator Ra... more »
PILGER ON PALESTINE & UKRAINE
*The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War On Palestine, Ukraine
and the Truth*
by John Pilger
The other night, I saw George Orwells’s 1984 performed on the London stage.
Although crying out for a contemporary interpretation, Orwell’s warning
about the future was presented as a period piece: remote, unthreatening,
almost reassuring. It was as if Edward Snowden had revealed nothing, Big
Brother was not now a digital eavesdropper and Orwell himself had never
said, “To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a
totalitarian country.”
Acclaimed by critic... more »
Compelling evidence
Sent to the Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2014
In "Test scores may move, learning doesn't" (July 12), Jo Craven McGinty
says that there is "compelling evidence" that the US education system is
inadequate, because American students "score below average in math and
average in reading and science" when compared to other countries on
international tests.
Not mentioned is the finding that when researchers control for the effect
of poverty, American scores on international tests are at the top of the
world.
Our overall scores are unspectacular because of our high rate of child
pove... more »
The Comment Awards 2014: Vote Solid
Since Twitter killed the comments box star, a lot of fine blogging
traditions have been forgotten. Memes like this one used to circulate
around blogs, driving traffic through tagging and plentiful linky-love.
There used to be lovely blog carnivals showcasing writing from your
compadres and comrades. These were excellent for community-building and
discovering smart bloggers you may otherwise have missed. And yes, one
much-missed tradition was the annual battle of the blogs. Each year,
roughly coinciding with the onset of silly season Iain Dale/*Total Politics*
would run their top 10... more »
Recent Israeli Attack on Gaza
The recent violent attacks that took place between the Israeli government
and Hamas in Gaza during the past week led to the followings:
1. The launching of more than1, 300 air strikes by the Israelis since the
offense began. A of 7/12/2014 more than 165 Palestinians died and over 1000
were injured. In addition the Israelis destroyed 200 homes and some public
buildings, including mosques and hospitals.
2. The launching by 800 rockets by Hamas. However, there were no
fatalities reported by the Israeli government.
The Israelis forces destructive attacks are not the first and will n... more »
Pay more tribute?
The Harper goverment saw no defense system it did not want. Canadian jobs
were not secondary, they were no wary. The F35, C17 Galaxy, and new trucks
were all to be made in the USA, and in the case of the planes the
lucrative maintenance would be/is outsourced there as well. The military
case for buying these systems critics consider weak to foolish. In
diplomatic circles this is called bending over. Caesar called it tribute.
Lockheed Martin would not be the first arms dealer to use a carrot and a
stick to close a deal. There is no shortage of plain brown envelopes in the closets
... more »
WEST COAST NUMBER #1 IN PRO SPORTS
*LA Kings celebrate their second Stanley Cup in three years*
*The final nail in the coffin of East Coast sports dominance was provided
by the LA Kings winning the coveted Stanley Cup for the second time in
three years with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in June, 2014. As
a native New Englander, I once worshipped the Boston Bruins, Red Sox and
New York Giants but when my beloved Giants moved west in1958 shortly after
my move west as a Naval Aviator ~ my allegiance shifted and I saw the
handwriting on the wall which has now become reality. The West is now
supreme in pro ... more »
Ghost of Sunday Classics: Rataplan!
*How many "Rataplan"s can you count in these 33 seconds?*
*rataplan * *n.* A tattoo, as of a drum, the hoofs of a galloping horse,
or machine-gun fire. [French, of imitative origin.]
*-- The American Heritage Dictionary*
*by Ken*
So this is what I suddenly found going through my head this week. And once
it was lodged in there, it was mighty hard to get out. Then it occurred to
me that we've never listened to this wonderfully goofy moment from the
little one-act farce *Cox and Box*, with a libretto by F. C. Burnand, here
in Sunday Classics. (Regular readers will know that my adm... more »
A new feminist attack on Richard Feynman
PC ideologue and cosmologist Matthew Francis wrote a rant titled
The problem of Richard Feynman
We learn that "Feynman is no hero to us" – he's surely a hero to me – and
that Feynman was a "sexist" in attitudes and especially actions which must
be so bad.
We are told that it's so bad that he was picking girls in bars. Feynman
would pretend he was an undergraduate and had some successes with girls,
including the graduate students' girlfriends.
Well, Feynman could afford to market himself as an undergraduate because he
looked like one – and he was spiritually a lively undergraduate... more »
Hitler on the Roof: Netanyahu's Rampage
Murderous Lunatic Netanyahu's Killing Spree Sanctioned by USA
Sunday morning television in the USA!, USA!, USA! is where the weekly
talking points are trotted out by the political elite and the Washington
war machine. War criminals are feted as statesmen and given the sort of
credibility they are undeserving of, in any decent and civilized society
mass-murderers, psychopaths and fiends are tried for their crimes and
thrown in prison or executed - on our great star-spangled lemming farm they
are given a nationally televised forum.
Making an appearance this week on CBS's Face the Na... more »
Welcome to the Planet of the Frankensteins
It seems these days that the name *Frankenstein* is used to designate not
only the scientist Victor Frankenstein, but also the monster he created in
Mary Shelley's early 19th century novel. Rather than reflecting a mistake
of some sort, however, this may reflect the recognition of a deeper,
underlying truth. For while both creator and creation are monstrous in the
novel, in many respects it is the creator who is the more horrible. As
such, it seems entirely appropriate that his name should come to designate
not merely the monster, but the monstrous.
Among other things, it ... more »
Monsanto and the MAN!
Better living through chemistry. Monsanto has been at the forefront of the
chemical manipulation of our environment. Not all bad for sure, but this
history should slow down any positive catalyst.
H/T to Terra Forming Terra (how Kim Stanley Robinson)
Ludicrous ideas
The way the BBC reports the trouble and strife in the Middle East has its
most pernicious affect on the casual observer. Anyone with more than a
general interest in current affairs will go to their own preferred
specialist websites, newspapers and TV stations for news and views, but
the opinion of the casual observer is a litmus test indicative of the BBC’s
political inclinations.
So although some people have detected a slight shift in the general
atmosphere, starting from a low base of outright hostility to Israel where
the actual word Zionist is a pejorative, through ‘a plague on ... more »
The Diplomat: Julian Ku argues PRC Murder of Taiwanese is Legal, US defense of Taiwan is not
*The wreckage of Ku's arguments.*
*No one seems to know from what deliberations this declaration [Cairo]
issued, it was apparently drafted, at the moment, by Harry Hopkins, after
consultation only with the President and the Chinese visitors. Of all the
acts of American statesman- ship in this unhappy chapter, the issuance of
this declaration, which is so rarely criticized, seems to me to have been
the most unfortunate in its consequences. The other direct results of this
phase of American statesmanship have either been erased by subsequent
events or seem to have produced, at least,... more »
"Fantasy" - Earth, Wind & Fire
Just heard a never ending remix of this classic track and it really pissed
me off. No melody, no variation, just repetitive crap. This however is
brilliant... "Fantasy" - Earth, Wind & Fire: http://youtu.be/VZ5FsOZWC3A
Implanted Microchips are the Next Step Towards a Totalitarian USA
NSA whistleblower William Binney is absolutely correct when speaking of the
mass surveillance and data-mining and storage operations as having "the
ultimate goal is total population control". The next iteration in the
transformation into a totalitarian society will be the inevitable
implanting of tracking chips in humans. The key is getting to the point
where Americans will willingly accept the chip, mandated forced
implantation by the government could be the one thing outside of Dancing
With the Stars being taken off the air that could trigger a revolt. There
is of course that re... more »
Jalapeno Cheese Bread: Puffy vs Free-form...
*and the difference is?*
My demo yesterday was the store's lovingly made-from-scratch by our master
baker jalapeno cheese bread.
*Me to customer: *
"Let me show you the different versions. They both have the same exact
ingredients and are the same weight. Some have been baked in a round pan
producing a puffier bread. Others were baked free-form creating a slightly
flatter, denser bread."
*Customer to me with a puzzled look on her face: *
"Did you say puppy?"
*Me:*
"Huh?"
*Customer with realization dawning on her face:*
"Oh, I though you said *"puppy"* not *"puffy."*
*Me... more »
Are you SERIOUSLY 'Ready for Hillary'?!
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Libya Updates ( July 13 , 2014 ) -- Fierce fighting at Libya's international Airport halts flights as rival Militias battle for control there ( Zintan Militai in control of Airport battling various Islamist Brigades ! Run of gun on full display ........
Al Jazeera.....
Heavy fighting kills five in Libya's Benghazi
Nine wounded after heavy fighting between security forces and rival
militias erupted overnight.
Last updated: 14 Jul 2014 11:55
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Tensions between security forces and independent former rebel groups have
often turned violent [Reuters]
At least five people have been killed and nine wounded in the Libyan city
of Benghazi after heavy fighting between security forces and rival militias.
T... more »
a spontaneous day out in Salisbury - Wessex archaeology museum - Old Sarum neolithic hill fort
couple of hours by train, from Oxford (change at Basingstoke), Salisbury
was our 'spontaneous day out' selection, this weekend. We'd been before,
but only to take the tour bus to Stonehenge and Avebury.
Upon arrival in Salisbury, like consummate tourists (or pilgrims of yore),
the wife and I made our way directly to the Cathedral for a quick shuftie
round. We wandered around the quadrangle and then inside, but it was mostly
cordoned off by a First Communion Ceremony. For those who don't realise
this, a Cathedral is a massive cemetery for the rich/patrons with a roof
over it. Outside... more »
Rank Treachery
Rank Treachery - The Mountbatten Coup and the English May of 1968 from Spike
EP on Vimeo.
To Play the King.
Adam Curtis' Rough cut of the short film "Every Day is Like Sunday"
Remember the Ottawa cop who abused a black woman?
Sgt Steven Desjourdy has a new job. That's him on the right.
Yes Desjourdy - who should NOT even be allowed within 10 metres of any
woman in police custody - now works in the division that investigates human
trafficking.
In April this year - yes in 2014 - Desjourdy was "*found guilty of
discreditable conduct at an internal Ottawa police disciplinary hearing
into a widely reported, controversial cellblock strip search in 2008.**In September 2008, Desjourdy left a female prisoner half naked in pants
soaked with urine; her shirt and bra had been cut off during a strip search
[...]*... more »
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