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FUCK YOU STEVE HARPER
The Globe and Mail likes to think its Canada's Grey Lady. Well its never been that and now the Grey Lady is obviously as mixed up with strange fruit as any tree rooted in journalism. Dear Leader Harper prints a heroic message. Oh how I struggle to withhold the volcanic puke because I love this country too much to damage it further with my bile. Waging a finger at Russia, and Palestine may buy you some votes from the stupid Jews and ignorant Ukrainians, but they will not save you from the avalanche of Canadian who are seeking relief from your misguided missiles. If only to stop the o... more »
Love the Sunday Papers
Print media is buggy whipped. The page will not survive this decade. The news will devolve into enformiamment. New York to nite for those who find Hollywood tonite so star centered. I will struggle without reading pretentious or ancient to describe the joy of reading a great newspaper. It was only about twenty years ago you could find one everywhere in the civilized world you might go. Today I found that Carbon Fiber bikes are not all they are cracked up to be. That fighting the Taliban is hopeless. A great bratwurst is not to be trifled with. Many Bond girls stand close to two m... more »
CBC-Ottawa's biased reporting of a pro-Palestine rally -- Not good
By Denis G. Rancourt On July 26, 2014, I was there. I took more than 250 pictures and 8 videos. I followed the demo from start to finish. It was the most vibrant, humanistic, family-oriented demo that I have ever seen in Ottawa. There were more than 2000 participants, possibly as many as 5000 or more, counting those who did not stay the whole time and did not walk to the end-destination. Then
Begin's Devils
*"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."* If I asked you what group of people embrace a set of doctrines like this, what would your answer be? Most of you would probably answer, "The Naz... more »
NSA Partners With Saudis in Classic Deal With the Devil
In another astounding piece of evidence of the insane levels of corruption that have metastasized throughout the US government a new story reveals that the NSA Stasi has entered into a partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the debauched land of the brutal monarchy from which fifteen of the nineteen September 11, 2001 hijackers hailed from. In the latest story by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald based on documents that were obtained by former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA has entered into a cooperative relationship wi... more »
Zapatistas 'Just so you know' July 26, 2014
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO. July 2014 http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/07/26/just-so-you-know/ By Subcomandante Moises Trucking to La Realidad photo by Brenda Norrell Indigenous Resistance To the compañer@s of the Sixth in Mexico and in the world: To all those who supported us in the reconstruction of the school and the clinic that belong to thecompañeros
FOOT ON WAR PEDDLE
· I am sick at heart about what Israel (with full US backing) is doing to the people in Gaza. It is more than cruel and shameful beyond imagination. The souls of Israel and the USA are showing to be hollow. There have been many determined protests across this nation in support of the Palestinians. Corporate dominated media though covers all the bases and ensures that the whores in Washington remain submissive and supine. None of us are doing enough to help. · Ukraine is another great travesty, so well scripted that Kiev and Tel Aviv march in lockstep. NATO's Gladio must ... more »
Grey Lady ok with getting high
The New York Times. The paper of record in the world yesterday and arguably still today. If your works are published by the New York Times they are tacitly legitimized. Little story here, I once advocated hard on for my writing to be an op ed. This went on for years. One day I got an email from Paul Krugman saying we looked but did not receive. Thats one of my life's proudest moments to be refused by Paul Krugman. Old media dies hard. Media and propaganda are universally not exclusive. The New York times would never publish something absurd. So I alleged they coached the nuclear t... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, July 27th, 2014
It is Sunday… I am back from a much needed vacation… And it is time to get back to my weekly rants… First of course, I do again want to thank my great friend, Whitewraithe, for her efforts in putting up rants for me over the last two weeks… I did read them and I found them to be both outstanding and in many ways better than some of my own!!! The lady does know how to write beautifully, and she is a brilliant thinker…. It is just too bad that right now she is in financial dire straits living in Tennessee where she has been unable to obtain full time work for years…. My vacation… I ... more »
Ghost of Sunday Classics: Yes, it's more Donald Adams!
*Princess Ida's three "hulking brothers" are bested by Prince Hilarion and his friends Cyril and Florian in Act III of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Princess Ida.* Politics we bar, they are not our bent! On the whole we are not intelligent! *-- Ida's brother Arac, in Act I of Princess Ida* *by Ken* So far in this series we've heard our Donald as the army-besotted landlord Sergeant Bouncer in Burnand and Sullivan's *Cox and Box* and as the Usher in *Trial by Jury*, and most recently as the specter of the late Sir Roderic Murgatroyd in *Ruddigore*. And I thought we shoul... more »
Is the Common Spent Fuel Pool the Source of Emissions?
Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
I'm not sure whether the recent Fukushima Daiichi emissions are primarily coming from the common spent fuel area or from somewhere else, off screen of the TEPCO cams. If you look at my screenshots below and here: http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/fukushima-emissions.html you will notice that the emissions seem to be coming up from the common spent fuel pool building or an offscreen building in that vicinity. This morning the emissions are full of red and purple blotching: <img alt="" height="277" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAeEAAAFOCAIAAAA+YjJiAAAgAElEQV... more »
THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY
...let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart, be acceptable in Thy sight... LJ
Now That Education Has Been the "Civil Rights Issue of Our Generation" for a Generation . . .
. . . it's worth asking how's that working out for those duplicitous policy elites who pretend to believe such nonsense. Apparently, much more grit is going to required to grind poor and brown children down into that magical stuff that high test scores are made from. From Kids Count 2014:
Kauilapele's Blog: Let Me Say This about That…
* I like this post, I am tired of people giving reasons to judge other people based on trivial choices in their own private lives... and the burdens of expectations they try to instill in others. -AK* *Let Me Say This about That… * Posted on 2014/07/26 by kauilapele As I feel it right now, at this moment (0130 HST), there are certain things that rankle from time to time, and that means I’m to pay attention to what “the rankling” is all about. First off, we all have our own backgrounds, our own views, and all this and all that. My deal is that I BE and DO my ... more »
As $15 Trillion Slated To Be Dumped in Laps of Wealthy Offspring, You Need To Make Your Plans On How You'll Live (The Children of the Porn?)
So, after all the lights, action(!), and frenzied shouting, it's agreed that Thomas Piketty was just publishing another dull recitation of what everyone respectfully accepts as the current (and likely to continue indefinitely) economic conditions, which we at the bottom of such must deal with to our vast financial delegitimization. What’s so interesting about this Kabuki dance is just how few
"Washington now has in motion the wheels of war. Once the wheels of war begin to turn, momentum carries them forward. The foolish, indeed utterly stupid, governments and media in Europe seem unaware of Washington’s orchestration of their future or lack thereof, or they are indifferent to it. They are dooming themselves and all of humanity by their insouciance." "The only possibility of avoiding war is that Putin take his case to the UN. If Washington can send Colin Powell to the UN unarmed with any truth to make Washington’s case for war against Iraq, Putin should be able to take his case to the UN against Washington’s war against Russia." -- Paul Craig Roberts
------------------------------ *The World Is Doomed By Western Insouciance — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ July 26, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *The World Is Doomed By Western Insouciance* *don’t expect to live much longer* Paul Craig Roberts European governments and the Western media have put the world at risk by enabling Washington’s propaganda and aggression against Russia. Washington has succeeded in using transparent lies to demonize Russia as a dangerous a... more »
"Peace in the Middle East"
Peace in the Middle East: http://youtu.be/sNNhG0zDtA8
If the U.S. and its vassals truly wanted to know what dastardly deeds Russia is pulling against "innocent" Ukraine, they would either send observers ...or take advantage of unbiased observers such as Human Rights Watch. Here below Human Rights Watch members on the spot have not only found no Russian troops in the Russian-speaking province of Donetsk, or firing across the Russia-Donetsk border at these innocent civilians (as the U.S. alleges), but they have painstakingly determined that rockets that have been destroying buildings and murdering inhabitants of Donetsk have been fired from areas under the control of the neocon/neo-Nazi Ukrainian government (which the U.S. supports). Clearly Russia is innocent of what the U.S. and its vassals allege justifies nuclear war against Russia. Is all human life on earth to be eradicated due to the lies of Washington as promulgated by the despicable "mainstream media" and blindly accepted by the gullible American people?
------------------------------ Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians Stop Use of Grads in Populated Areas *JULY 24, 2014 Original Here* (Donetsk) – Unguided Grad rockets launched apparently by Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias have killed at least 16 civilians and wounded many more in insurgent-controlled areas of Donetsk and its suburbs in at least four attacks between July 12 and 21, 2014, Human Rights Watch said today. The use of indiscriminate rockets in... more »
BRIDGES
Remember, kids.... We can burn them; build them; or *blow* the mofo's up; but we cannot win the war- without them. LJ
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*Can K-Rob Be the “Alpha-Dog” in a Pack of Saints RB’s? ~Barry Hirstius, WhoDat Dish*
He Must Be Laughing
An op-ed appeared in yesterday's *Globe and Mail* under Stephen Harper's name. Whoever wrote the piece claims that,"Our duty is to stand firm in the face of Russian aggression." On the same day, in *The Tyee*, Tom Henheffer also wrote an op-ed, on the subject of the CRA's audits of Canadian non-profits, like PEN: In effect, our government is censoring an anti-censorship organization. It makes me wonder, is this really Canada? If so, it’s a country I'm having a hard time recognizing. So what is the justification for creating this clear chill on free speech? Well, no one really... more »
Haslam Continues Ed Policy Based on Secrecy, Favoritism, and Dupliicty
[image: Core concerns: Legislators, educators gather as Haslam meets with county school staff] Washington County School Board member Jack Leonard speaks Friday outside the district's central office as state Reps. Matthew Hill, Micah Van Huss and Tony Shipley listen. (Nathan Baker/Johnson City Press) Bill Haslam is up for re-election this year, and if Tennesseans can see beyond the ends of the Obama-hating noses, they will send this anti-democratic oligarch back to the corporate offices of Pilot Oil. His ongoing efforts to go around the public to implement CorpEd's privatization sc... more »
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*Wave-control devices being tried near Shark Island ~Amy Wold* *Bubba Watson visits New Orleans Saints training camp ~Kyle Porter* *West Nile death reported in Caddo Parish ~WDSU* *Dozens march through St. Roch to curb violence ~Jessica Shaw, WVUE* *Cut glass exhibit honors convention’s return to Louisiana ~Robin Miller*
Boehner Still Afraid To Whip His Obstructionist Caucus Into Line On Fixing The V.A.
Almost every Senate Republican-- even extremist obstructionists like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Richard Burr-- followed Bernie Sanders' lead last month to pass a bill to address the sordid situation at the V.A. It passed 93-3 with the only dissections from mentally unstable right-wingers Ron Johnson (R-WI), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-KKK) and Bob Corker (R-TN). The House Republicans can't quite get their shit together on the whole V.A. mess they've been desperately trying to turn into a talking point. Talking points are a lot easier for them than actually *doin... more »
Hillel Neuer schools PLO's Diana Buttu & a HRW representative
http://youtu.be/WcNdwLmGNSQ
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*Affirmative Action = Discrimination Against Asians, NYC Schools Edition* New York City politicians—including Mayor Bill de Blasio—want to change the admissions system for the city's nine highly-selective premiere public high schools, including nationally-renowned Stuyvesant High School. The schools currently use a single exam, the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, to determine admittance. Less than three percent of applicants are admitted to Stuyvesant. The problem, in the eyes of some, is that black and Latino students are increasingly underrepresented at the elite school...more »
HRW's definition of "human shields" changes when Israel is involved
Human Rights Watch seem to have a very fluid definition of 'human shields' depending on Israel's involvement... 'HRW, instead of condemning what are clearly cases of human shielding under international law and under their own definitions, is going out of its way to excuse Hamas, downplay their war crimes - and endanger Gazans. In this case we see that twice HRW changed their definition deliberately to excuse first Hezbollah and then Hamas - moving the goalposts as each terror group gets more depraved. What kind of a "human rights" group tries so hard to excuse violations of huma... more »
Harpers “Democracy”
With the Harper Regime loosing a series of rulings in the Supreme Court of Canada from their plans for the senate to prostitution laws to his nomination to the court it should be no surprise that as well as Harpers direct attack upon Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin he now has set his minions out to attack the Supreme Court in general. It would seem that the Court making rulings that follow the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is now a “problem” and that groups using the Charter to defend their rights when a new attack upon our democracy issues from the Con Oligarchy is someh... more »
When Burying a Terrorist, You Might Want to Remove the Suicide Vest First...
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/when-burying-a-terrorist-you-might-want-to-remove-the-suicide-vest-first
Our Colonial Administration
*A spider protects its hatchlings.* A while back I wrote on how the north of Taiwan is the center of a colonial state, whose periphery is essentially everything south of Hsinchu. The reflexive nature of this state is apparent even in the small stuff. Let us recall that "independence" is in part a regional response to the way the north parasitizes the rest of the nation, sucking up its development money, exploiting its resources, impoverishing its governments, and eating up its promising young people. What people in the south want independence from is the colonial government in Taip... more »
Lauren Goodger: Against Revenge Porn
Another Sunday, another case of celebrity revenge porn. This time Lauren Goodger from *The Only Way is Essex* is the victim and the piece itself is said to be a six second clip of her performing "a sex act". You don't need a particularly filthy imagination to work out what that might be. The alleged culprit is apparently an ex-partner, Goodger's "co-star". As I've argued before, 'revenge porn' is something of a misnomer. Porn, regardless of content, is performed by willing participants who also consent to its dissemination. Performers might be professional and do it for payment, or... more »
"#Gaza politicians have no soul as they can be bought & sold by u know who.”
Well, we didn't have to wait told for another BBC journalist to open his big mouth on Twitter. This one looks particularly bad. According to the *Sunday Times*: A BBC journalist has been reprimanded after appearing to suggest that western politicians had failed to intervene in the Middle East crisis because they had been “bought” by the Jews. David Ward, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, was forced to apologise last week after saying he would “probably” fire rockets at Israel if he lived in Gaza. The row prompted a Muslim producer at the BBC to leap to Ward’s defence on... more »
Catholic child abuse, Christians in Iraq, Sikhs in WW1, Roman Britain, black participation, Gaza, and Twitter
This morning's *Sunday *was presented by Edward Stourton and pursued the subjects listed in the title of this post. Here's how it went, complete with quotes from the *Sunday *website (by way of introduction): *1. We review of the latest statistics from the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission and ask why there has been an increase in the number of parishes without a representative in place to monitor child safety.* This took the form of an interview with Danny Sullivan of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission. According to their statistics, 52 Catholic priests in Eng... more »
MiG-29 fighter crashes in Astrakhan region, killing pilot
[image: MiG-29 Fulcrum]A MiG-29 fighter of the Russian Air Force crashed near Astrakhan on Sunday. The fighter’s pilot was killed in the crash, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev told reporters. “A pilot has been killed in a fighter crash,” the commander said. “We are investigating this incident and, according to preliminary data, the crash was caused by air equipment failure,” General Bondarev added. There has been no destruction on the ground as a result of Sunday morning crash of a MiG-29 fighter near Astrakhan, spokesman for the Russian Defence Minis... more »
China Announces Live Fire Drills in the East China Sea
China today announced that it will conduct a series of live fire training drills next week in the contested waters of the East China Sea, where it is locked in a bitter maritime dispute with Japan. The five-day exercise from July 29-August 2 comes even as air traffic at various Chinese airports went haywire due to the ongoing air-exercises, the Maritime Safety Administration said. It warned ships to stay away from the region and asked authorities to ensure safety during the training, which is scheduled to last from midnight to 6 pm each day, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. R... more »
Russia’s Sevmash shipyard lays down 5th Borei-class nuclear sub
[image: Borei class SSBN]Russia’s major defence shipyard Sevmash on Navy Day has laid down another Borei class strategic nuclear-powered submarine - Knyaz Oleg, shipyard sources told Itar-Tass on Sunday. This strategic underwater missile cruiser is the fifth submarine to be built under the Borei project and the first series sub of the modernised 955A project. Modernised Borei-class submarines have state-of-the-art equipment and considerably improved stealth and other characteristics. Source
Retiring frigates may leave some missions unfilled
[image: USS Taylor]The Navy may be shedding all its frigates by the end of next year, but the ships are still busy and in high demand — creating a dilemma for the Navy over which ships will pick up their missions. Defense experts say that it’s an open question of when the littoral combat ships joining the fleet will be ready to take on challenging missions like counterdrug operations and sub-hunting — frigate mainstays that have pushed their deployment pace. Some anticipate that Military Sealift Command ships and other auxiliaries may pick up some of the slack. “There is a big unkno... more »
More Russian naval ships observed near Latvian waters
[image: RFS Soobrazitelny]Russian naval ships observed near Latvian waters recently is an attempt to test Latvia's reaction capabilities, The Latvian Defense Ministry has said. A Russian naval ship was observed near Latvian territorial waters earlier this week, LETA reports. Defense Ministry spokesman Kaspars Galkins explained that Russia had been regularly attempting to show its military might' over the past several months with flights of military aircraft near Latvian borders, and obviously wants to show its naval might as well. Read more
The Propaganda and Politics of MH17
*July 27, 2014* (Eric Draitser - NEO) - The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 (MH17) is a tragedy that will be remembered for years to come. However, the way in which the West has distorted the facts about what happened is no mere accident. Rather, it is a clear attempt by Washington and its allies and proxies to capitalize on the incident, using it as a weapon in their continued belligerent and aggressive policies toward Russia. Recent days have seen a deluge of propaganda from both the US Government and the western media (especially US media) which, despite being short on f... more »
Stephen Moore (Heritage, of course) can't even get his cherry-picked data right
If you have had the stomach to read the malarkey that the Heritage Foundation puts out, you have no doubt noticed that many of their publications are, well, fact-challenged. Just looking back at this blog, there are stories on how Heritage wants us to think poverty is swell, and multiple versions of how Heritage did not pioneer the ideas underlying the Affordable Care Act. Today, I turn from Obamacare godfather Stuart Butler to the new Heritage chief economist, Stephen Moore. In a great diary at Daily Kos, SantaFeMarie sums up the sordid story of Moore's July 7 column in the *Kansas... more »
Fun and games with transfer pricing
ProGrowthLiberal in his comments on my last post and in his own post at EconoSpeak highlights the fact that drug-maker AbbVie already makes most of its profits outside the United States, about 87% in fact over 2011-2013 by his calculation. For PGL, then, AbbVie is not the best example of an inversion because the horse is already out of the barn in terms of escaped profits. I see things a little differently on this, but the case is also highly illustrative of a principle we have discussed before, transfer pricing. Let's take a look at AbbVie's Form 10-K Annual Report, downloadable her... more »
Musings On Iraq In The News
I was interviewed for this Al Arabiya article “Iraq’s crisis of confidence, what can the U.S. do about it?”
Sony DSC RX100 Mk 2 is in the house!
*Our dog is totally excited to be going on a walk with the new Sony DSC RX100 II. He scratched a huge hole in the skin on his head so we have to make him wear that til it heals. Annoying for all parties.* A couple of years ago I bought a Canon Powershot SX260 (post). I ended up scratching the lens and rendering it useless, so I returned to using my venerable old Canon Powershot S95, which is a fantastic camera that I still love. Perfect in conception, easy to use, that camera is a dream. But unfortunately it is old.... Last year I started reading about the Sony DSC RX100. In Jan I... more »
Libya's Destruction a Warning to Egypt, Syria, & Ukraine
*July 27, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - RT's article, "90% of aircraft destroyed at Tripoli airport, Libya may seek international assistance," reported that: *Libya is considering a deployment of international force to re-establish security amid a flare-up of violence in Tripoli which saw dozens of rockets destroy most of the civilian aircraft fleet at its international airport.* *“The government is looking into the possibility of making an appeal for international forces on the ground to re-establish security and help the government impose its authority,” a government spokesman,... more »
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*Half of Britain to be opened up to fracking* Ministers are this week expected to offer up vast swathes of Britain for fracking in an attempt to lure energy companies to explore shale oil and gas reserves. The Department for Energy and Climate Change is expected to launch the so-called “14th onshore licensing round”, which will invite companies to bid for the rights to explore in as-yet untouched parts of the country. The move is expected to be hugely controversial because it could potentially result in fracking taking place across more than half of Britain. Industry sources said t... more »
Be At Peace This Sunday, 27 July 2014
*Take a break *
Liberal Fascism?
This is old, but still relevant. If anyone of the usual suspects gives you any trouble, just make 'em read this.
What Does It Say About The 25 Democrats Who Crossed The Aisle To Vote With The GOP To Amend The Internal Revenue Code Of 1986
The whole purpose of the vote Friday afternoon was, euphemistically called the Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014-- and sponsored by 4 corporate shills, Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Devin Nunes of California and Tom Reed of New York-- was to expand tax credits for wealthy families while leaving kids from poor families behind, standard operating procedure for Republicans, of course. But 5 Republicans opposed the grotesquely unfair bill and 25 of the worst conservatives from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party in the House voted for it. Let me pr... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Over 400,000 light years across NGC 6872 is an enormous spiral galaxy, at least 4 times the size of our own very large Milky Way. About 200 million light-years distant, toward the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock, the remarkable galaxy's stretched out shape is due to its ongoing gravitational interaction, likely leading to an eventual merger, with the nearby smaller galaxy IC 4970. IC 4970 is seen just below and right of the giant galaxy's core in this cosmic color portrait from the 8 meter Gemini South telescope in Chile. *Click image for larger size.* The idea to image th... more »
"The Solitary Mind And Soul..."
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." - M. Scott Peck
Chet Raymo, "Cultivating Amazement"
*"Cultivating Amazement"* by Chet Raymo "There is only one question, says the poet Mary Oliver: "How to love this world." So here I am scanning a recent copy of the journal "Nature," with articles titled "Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance" and "F-box protein FBX031 mediates cyclin D1 degradation to induce G1 arrest after DNA damage." What is this stuff to me, and how does it help me love the world? In her poetry, Oliver brilliantly evokes the sensate stimuli of love: the "lapped light" of pond lilies in the black pond, the goldfinch hatchlin... more »
The Poet: Linda Pastan, "What We Want"
*"What We Want"* "What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there even in full sun." - Linda Pastan
"The Consequences You Sow: Action and Effect"
*"The Consequences You Sow: * *Action and Effect"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "We should strive always to speak, think, and behave with great thoughtfulness and compassion. All motive and action affects the cosmos in some way. The principle of cause and effect is the truth that allows us to change ourselves and the world around us for the better. However, this same universal law is also at work when change is not at the forefront of our minds. Our intentions flow forever outward in the form of energy, affecting both the people closest to us and billions of individuals we will li... more »
KIEV'S TROOPS RUNNING FOR RUSSIA
Hundreds of Kiev's soldiers have streamed across the border into Russia - abandoning their US-NATO backed army that is killing its own citizens in eastern Ukraine. Does this mean that the US-NATO will have to send in troops to Ukraine to rescue the Kiev regime? Already there are many rumors that Polish soldiers could be fighting in the east on behalf of Kiev.
Genital Mutilation: Facts, Fictions, Faux-Feminism and Fortitude
Although I’m technically off the grid, the news that ISIS proclaimed women and girls in Mosul should submit to genital mutilation (FGM), and the report’s subsequent debunking, compel me to emerge from hiatus. Leaving aside why a fake report on FGM should be viewed as needed to discredit a group who is executing civilian, forcibly displacing minotiries and destroying Continue reading
TV Watch: There's something going on in "Jennifer Falls," which makes it something of a miracle in today's TV world
*"Here it comes -- blame the mother!"* *Jennifer's psychiatrist (Kurt Fuller) tries to conduct a repeat session with his patient, Jennifer (Jaime Pressly), and her family -- psychologist mom Maggie (Jessica Walters), brother Wayne (Ethan Suplee), sister-in-law Stephanie (Nora Kirkpatrick), and, ever so briefly, daughter Gretchen (Dylan Gelula), in last week's episode of Jennifer Falls, "Three Dates With My Mother."* *by Ken* The problem with trying to write a regular "TV Watch" feature is that the powers that be seem determined to make sure they're dishing out next to nothing wort... more »
REMEMBERING OUR HISTORY
This is an ugly piece of American history that has been swept under the rug. Very few people know about this shameful event where the US Army, led by some of the most revered heroes of WWII, were turned on the veterans of WWI in the streets of Washington, DC. So all the talk about "support our troops" is actually a crock of bullshit.
Israel's Weapons of Mass Deception
Three days ago, the *United Nations **Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs* replaced their usual map of the Gaza Strip with one featuring a Christo-like pink skirt inside Gaza. The printing inside the accompanying tiny info box reads : "The Israeli military has declared an area 3 kms from the fence separating Israel and Gaza as a "no go" zone, sending evacuation warnings to many communities located there. This area covers 162 km sq. (44% of the Gaza Strip) Around 250,000 people were residing in this area prior to its declaration." *44% of the Gaza Strip and a quart... more »
Anti-American Commie losers support illegal invasion of America
Earlier today, I drove to Ramona, California to attend the *Ramona TEA'd* monthly Saturday event, which featured Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. The event was held at Ramona Mainstage, on Main Street in the heart of downtown Ramona, a small town in northeast San Diego County. Sheriff Arpaio is a well-known and respected figure in the American patriot community. The venue was overflowing, and by the time I arrived at 11:30 this morning, I wasn't even allowed to enter. Sheriff Arpaio was going to be addressing the illegal invasion of America, sponsored and facilitated b... more »
The Israeli Genocide Of Gaza Continues: Insane Israeli Prime Minister States That Hamas Is Using Rising Death Toll To Make Israel Look Bad (The Man Is A Lunatic!)
The slaughter in Gaza continues…. Right now we are approaching the end of a "ceasefire" that will indeed see Israel continue their onslaught on the innocent people of Gaza using US made and US taxpayer bought and paid for weapons of mass destruction…. The death toll so far is well over "1000" including hundreds of innocent women and children, and I have long claimed that due to the population density of the Gaza Strip itself the actual death toll is actually over 20x the reported figure.. It is indeed genocide…. It has been remarkable to watch and read all the lies coming out of the... more »
Panthers in the Hole: French Angola 3 Book Illustrates US Prison Crisis --An interview with Nicolas Krameyer of Amnesty International France
*(You can buy *Panthers in the Hole*, the new graphic novel about the Angola 3 here.)* *Panthers in the Hole: French Angola 3 Book Illustrates US Prison Crisis* *--An interview with Nicolas Krameyer of Amnesty International France* *By Angola 3 News* Amnesty International France and La Boîte à Bulles have published a 128-page French language graphic novel entitled *Panthers in the Hole.* The book's co-authors David Cénou and Bruno Cénou present with visual art what Amnesty France describes as "la tragique histoire des Trois d'Angola" (the tragic story of the Angola 3). Robert H.... more »
#FirstWorldProblems
Taiwan consumer complaints from the Consumer Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan. Number 1 and number 2 [shakes head]. ________________________ *Daily Links*: - Pro-China WantWant on the Taichung mayor election: everyone is tired of Hu. - Bruce Jacob's piece at AEI from last month on China's bogus historical claims to the South China Sea and the Senkakus. - Taiwan-India links continue to grow/Looking at Taiwan from India - China reduces airline activities for three months due to military exercises. *EVENTS*: 2014 The International Conference on Formosan Indig... more »
The Israeli Genocide Of Gaza: Official Israeli "Excuse" For Mass Murder Of Gazans Falls Apart, Israel Finally Admits Hamas Had NOTHING To Do With "Murder Of 3 Israeli Youths" !
Yes, the death toll in the criminal and homicidal Israeli assault on the innocent people of Gaza is now well above "1000" as reported by the Jew spew press… In my last night discussion with Whitewraithe, I laid it out clearly that since Gaza is so heavily packed with people almost wall to wall, I said that the death toll is actually right now in the tens of thousands. It is a slaughter of innocent people and it is so troubling that many of the people are still brainwashed by the lies that Israel is somehow doing this genocide as a means of "self defense". We all know by now the fa... more »
Karen Dover: Movement into SOUL frequency realities
http://truthcodes.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/movement-into-soul-frequency-realities/ *Movement into SOUL frequency realities* Posted: July 21, 2014 Author: Karen Dover The New Earth frequency realities are realities that are created by your SOUL in the dreamtime platform as you exit the old 3D Earth frequencies. As many of you are now experiencing these are now fully accessible at a human conscious waking mind level. As you now release fully the frequencies of the old 3D earth created construct you allow the FLOW of the LOVE that IS naturally. This flow seeks balance at all moments ... more »
New Jersey's Hedge Fund Guru In Indiana
By Doug Martin Even though New Jersey hedge fund guru Sean Fieler likes to fight gay-marriage equality and women’s reproductive rights on the national arena, he spends a good deal of his leisure time buying Indiana politicians. Fielder is a big honcho in the school privatization movement in the Hoosier state, although you will never hear a whisper about him in the papers. Here is the nitty-gritty: On September 21, 2012, hedge fund manager Sean Fieler tossed district 30 Republican Mike Karickhoff $15,000 (page 10)for his campaign. A few days earlier, Fieler dished out another... more »
British MP Stands up for #Gaza 100,000 show up
British MP Stands up for #Gaza 100,000 show up. Source: We Are Change. Date Published: July 26, 2014. Description: In this video Luke Rudkowski talks to British MP Jeremy Corbyn about the current situation in Gaza and how to deal with Israel.
Israel and Gaza
July 26, 2014 Since I am sometimes an opinionated old lady and this is my blog, right off the bat I will tell you that, in my opinion, what is being done in Gaza (and has been done, periodically and … Continue reading →
New Jersey's Arrogant, Tyrannical Slob
If you''ve been following the narrative over the last couple of weeks here at *DWT* you may have figured out that my new favorite book-- after Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance-- has been The Invisible Bridge by historian Rick Perlstein. Maybe I'm so fascinated by it because I was living overseas for so much of the time he was writing about-- having felt living in a Nixon-led America not compatible with my personal sense of dignity or honor. I remember reading about some of the events he describes in the *International Herald Tribune* at the cafe in front of the Ministry of Fi... more »
Irresponsible reporting
The first shot from the BBC was fired on the Today programme, when for no obvious reason we were treated to the staggering information that Mira Bar-Hillel. “Is never going to go back to Israel.” “What a calamity” is what I don’t think many Israelis will be saying. Paul Adams began an episode of From Our Own Correspondent by painting an emotive picture. His impression of leaving Gaza was reminiscent of a mawkish article by the unequivocally pro Palestinian Jon Snow. A piece of sentimental propaganda so flagrant that it prompted Harry’s Place’s excessively tolerant Sarah AB to make... more »
BBC reporter says Gaza is "a giant prison" and Palestinians are subject to "collective punishment" from Israel
Following on from the previous post, there was a *From Our Own Correspondent *report today from Paul Adams, leaving Gaza after a week's reporting there on the present conflict. Though a radio piece, it contained just the kind of imagery that Brendan O'Neill and Hadar Sela were talking about - graphic descriptions of the dead in Gaza - that will have left quite a few listeners Radio 4 listeners gasping (or retching). Now, Paul Adams is a very experienced BBC reporter. He added some careful nods towards the Israeli perspective, but he buried them up to their necks in imagery of d... more »
Helping Hamas?
The Israel-bashing *Independent *columnist Mira Bar-Hillel has been gloating this weekend: ...a YouGov poll this week found that only 15 per cent of Britons support Israel’s actions in Gaza. The credit for that goes to brilliant, brave reporters who have brought graphic images of the Gaza atrocities to our newspapers and television screens. Mira forgets to mention that those those YouGov results show even less support for Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel (with 7% taking the David Ward line) and that more British people blame Hamas than Israel for the civilian casualties in the Gaza... more »
Fact is cheap food transported thousands of miles is an oxymoron.
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The problem with economics is that it is mostly invented nonsense that only servers sellers of bad data. Paul Krugman may not be perfect but he may be a mensch.
The Other Side of Eden
Hugh Brody is an English anthropologist. His parents were Jewish, and a number of their relatives died in the holocaust. Brody spent three decades in Canada hanging out with natives raised in hunter-gatherer societies. He worked for the government, and made documentary films. Brody was raised in a nutjob civilization. He found the hunter-gatherers to be fascinating, because they had many virtues that were missing in modern society. The natives were kind and generous people. They radiated a profound love for the land of their birth, the home of their ancient ancestors. They d... more »
Gaza and The Goons
Written by Mark Taliano Nothing much has changed since 1492, except the weapons are far more devastating, and the hypocrisy is much deeper. Manifest Destiny now extends overseas with the U.S Empire’s on-going embrace of the “might is right” doctrine, and its perpetuation of war crimes to advance imperial conquest. Israel, a strong ally of Empire, is thought to be a spearhead for U.S hegemony in the Middle East, and the rules of international law and peace are being defied on a daily basis as Gaza shakes beneath the terror of daily bombardments. Israel is defying U.N Re... more »
The James Stokes UFO Sighting, November 1957
As should be obvious, I have spent some time looking into the November 1957 UFO sightings, especially those in the desert southwest. I have been through what I can find, including the original reports that appear in *The A.P.R.0. Bulletin*, the NICAP *UFO Investigator*, the Project Blue Book files, and the skeptical end of these cases including *Watch the Skies!* by Curtis Peebles. What I find interesting is how the Project Blue Book investigators seemed to miss basic facts, made allegations that were never corroborated (which is a nice way to suggest they just made up stuff), and ... more »
PLEADING FOR PEACE
Rally of relatives of Kiev soldiers in Ukraine: Poroshenko, stop the war.... Kiev and their US-NATO handlers increasingly have their hands full. Not only is the US-backed Kiev army losing badly to the self-defense forces in eastern Ukraine but the growing peace movement of families in western Ukraine rising up to protest against their government for sending their children to war is complicating things quite a bit. The Ukrainian economy is in tatters and one has to wonder how long the US-EU can continue to pay for the war and the coming economic hardship? The latest word from the ... more »
The Flight of the Dead : Korean Airlines Flight KAL-007
The Flight of the Dead : Korean Airlines Flight KAL-007 from Spike EP on Vimeo. "8. It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner enroute from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight. a. An aircraft at Eglin AFB w... more »
WHY EDITORS SHOULD NEVER PUT THE PHRASE COMMON CORE IN A TITLE:
WHY EDITORS SHOULD NEVER PUT THE PHRASE COMMON CORE IN A TITLE:.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
A Great Country or What? Biden's Son Cashes in On Ukraine Chaos
*"War is a Racket"* *- General Smedley D. Butler* The story broke a few months back that one Hunter Biden, whose father Joseph Biden just happens to be the sitting vice president managed to land a plum position with Ukraine's largest gas company Burisma Holdings. The ghastly announcement came scant weeks after his daddy paid a visit to Obama' and Kerrys neo-Nazi infested coup government in Kiev which was then presided over by the golden boy of the the corrupt US establishment Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk who suddenly resigned this week. One would think that such an appointment, espe... more »
Fighting Without Winning, Winning Without Fighting
published originally on CounterPunch The supreme art of war consists in subduing an enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu As military and paramilitary forces (and the institutions they serve) continue to bombard and maim the people of the world - and as the death tolls in Gaza, Congo, Iraq, and other war zones, continue to rise - one cannot help but wonder whether the relatively voiceless, seemingly dis-empowered, people of the planet are really unable to do anything - beyond offering largely symbolic condemnations and demonstrations of solidarity - to halt these monstrosities. Th... more »
Another Entry Into The Race For The Craziest GOP Candidate-- Meet North Carolina Sociopath Mark Walker
One of the most overlooked races in the country, NC-06, had their Republican primary runoff last Tuesday. The Republican establishment favorite, Phil Berger Jr., was expected to win thanks to his money and his Dad’s connections and high name recognition among Republican voters. Instead local teabaggers powered an even crazier candidate to victory. There are 10 counties in NC-06 but Guilford is the biggest, by far, followed by Rockingham and Alamance. The district was drawn to be safe Republican territory but there is a 6-point Democratic voter registration edge and the beloved in... more »
July 26: Goguen gets a free, political ad....
Check p. A4 of Friday's TandT, "N.B. wharves get funds." The whole story is simply a prepared statement by Robert Goguen. It's a pretty boring statement as in "Our government is pleased to invest in these facilities to ensure that they continue to meet the needs of the commercial fishing industry, and stimulate local economies." It's stiff, formal, trite, obviously written in advance. This was handed to the paper and, obviously, the reporter didn't ask a single question. This is just a free, political ad. Goguen's party is big on free, political ads. The biggie was Harper's flig... more »
GAZA / A LIVING HELL WITH NO ESCAPE
*Sergey Ponomarev for N.Y Times / click on photo to enlarge* *Relatives of a boy killed Thursday in explosions at a UN school sheltering Gaza residents grieving over his body at a hospital.* *With a death toll of over 800 dead and climbing daily, the photos from Gaza are like a Goya painting depicting the desperation and frenzy of Palestinians existing in a living hell with no apparent escape ~ surrounded by solders with their guns pointed ~ while complicit Israeli's watch on hilltops from beyond their Iron Dome and celebrate with their neighbors their barely concealed ethnic clea... more »
Solar Flare Almost Sent Earth Back to the Dark Ages in 2012
*"Two years ago, we were blissfully unaware that our planet almost plunged into a widespread blackout due to a solar flare"* Please watch the video here.
Miami-Dade Court Rules In Favor Of Gay Marriage
As I predicted yesterday in my post about the Key West ruling favoring gay marriage, the other Florida courts that have cases pending on same-sex marriage are starting to rule. Miami-Dade Judge Sarah Zabel ruled yesterday (after my blog post) that denying gay marriage violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Don't rush to Miami yet. The judge stayed her ruling pending appeal. Will any Florida clerks of court have the guts to start issuing licenses because they swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution? The Boulder, Denver and Pueblo Colorado clerks did. Stay tuned.
Supplemental: Is Alexandra Petra a twit?
*SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014 * *Potentially conformist minds don’t seem to want to know:* Yesterday, we mentioned William Deresiewicz’s rumination about the Ivy League. The former Yale professor’s piece appears in The New Republic. By this morning, we were already regretting the fact that we were so snarky about the publication of the piece. Then, we read Alexandra Petri’s treatment of the piece in the Washington Post. We have no way of judging Deresiewicz’s overall portrait of today’s Ivy League students. From our perspective, his portrait did make us think of the lazy, conformist wo... more »
Use what you have
On the principle of Use What You Have, I am eating steamed zucchini, dried zucchini chips, zucchini waffles, and zucchini bread. I grate zucchini into just about everything but the coffee. I slice the zeppelins into thin wedges that go over all the poultry fences, where they soon disappear. Occasionally, I have beans. Tomatoes are still a treat, though. When I collect my empty basket and zuke knife and head out of doors, I stop by the Bonshō to give it a ring. (It's nice to live far enough from the neighbors to have this option.) *Bonshō = Buddhist bell.*In Zen there is a fair amo... more »
The Deviant and the Damned
Ex-CIA Director George Tenet is notorious in the annals of atrocity for being an uncool punk with a cold, black heart. But unlike punk rocker Joan Jett and her Blackhearts band, he apparently does give a damn about his bad reputation. Waterboarding, he has long insisted, was simply a standard deviation, a perk of his exalted station. Like Adolf Eichmann, Tenet was simply following orders and doing his job when he defied the damned Geneva Conventions and ordered as many as 200 of his operatives to torture a whole bunch of people. It was just a terrible time when the elites running... more »
Susan Sontag on love...
... "I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation..." This beautiful artwork with the even more gorgeous musings on love by the extraordinary Susan Sontag is available for purchase. Proceeds benefit a foundation supporting women writers, A Room of Her Own.
Confronting the Putin Doctrine in Full Force
Just as the international community appeared at long last to be taking a stronger stand against Russia, President Putin upped the ante. Unlike its annexation of Crimea, Russia is now in open warfare with Ukraine on its eastern border. There is fresh evidence indicating not only that Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Continue reading
Have you had your daily dose of manipulation today?...
*if you've been to Facebook, you just may have.*
Corrupt Media Largely Ignores Leaked Terrorism Watchlist Rulebook Story
Granted that it's not a breaking update on the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus or more State Department anti-Russian agitprop, but the leak of the US governments secret "rulebook" on how people are placed on "terrorist" watch lists is big news and this is precisely why the corrupt state-corporate media ignored it or mentioned it only briefly prior to relegating it to the memory hole. The document - clocking in at 166 pages - was published at the new online magazine The Intercept in a story written by journalists Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux entitled "Blacklisted: The Secret Governmen... more »
STOP KILLING THE CHILDREN
Jon Snow reports from Gaza, where thousands of children have been caught up in the conflict on one of the heaviest days of shelling so far.
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