Friday, July 04, 2014

4 July - Blogs I'm Following

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Cape Dorset

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 minutes ago

Independence Day 2014

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 54 minutes ago
Happy Independence Day! I tend to rerun a mix of videos every year, and these remain two of my favorites: Meanwhile, The New York Times has an intriguing piece about the possibility that a period was mistakenly added to the official transcript of the Declaration of Independence, significantly shaping its interpretation.

JP Morgan skates again ! ( July 4 , 2014 ) A tale of two banks ( one US that pays 88 million fine and one French that pays 8.9 billion fine ) , US banks not violating any french laws , none at all ? The US Bank That Made BNP's Epic Money-Laundering Possible Is...

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
The US Bank That Made BNP's Epic Money-Laundering Possible Is... [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/04/2014 12:55 -0400 - Cleary Gottlieb - Department of Justice - France - Iran - New Normal - None - Treasury Department inShare6 Today's undisputed winner of the prestigious award for best use of the word *"unwittingly" *in the headline of an article about money-laundering goes to Bloomberg, for their brilliant... Because when you help a foreign bank violate U.S. sanctions as French bank BNP did when it hid billions of dolla... more »

Erste Group woes surface ( July 4 , 2013 ) -- Largest Austrian Bank Crashes After "Revealing" 40% Surge In Bad Debt Provisions, Record Loss ...... And if this has happened to the third largest bank in Eastern Europe , why won't the two largest banks ( UniCredit and Raifeisen ) suffer the same fate ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-04/stock-largest-austrian-bank-crashes-after-revealing-40-surge-bad-debt-provisions-rec Largest Austrian Bank Crashes After "Revealing" 40% Surge In Bad Debt Provisions, Record Loss [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 07/04/2014 11:04 -0400 - Central Banks - Eastern Europe - Erste - Hungary - Meltdown - Moral Hazard - Raiffeisen - Romania - Sovereigns - Stress Test inShare14 *Update: *just as expected, the confidence-preservation brigade is quick on the scene: - *HUNGARY LO... more »

Has Israel Blown Palestine

liberalandlovingit at liberalandlovingit! - 1 hour ago
to smithereens, yet? (I only turn it on at night, so the NEWS doesn't mess with my days.) Should only be about 50 hundred more dead civillians, to equal three- in Israeli math.

The F35 Fiasco Continues.... Some Of The Best Damning Proof That It Is Indeed A Lemon And A Detriment To EVERY Air Force Buying This POS

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
I have received some very interesting comments from known trolls and of course misfits in the Hasbara/JIDF community about my stance on the POS aircraft that the US Government and other governments around the world have been suckered in by Lougheed Martin into purchasing... I mean of course the horrible and outrageously expensive "Joint Strike Fighter" (JSF) known as the F35 "Lightning II".... These comments have been absolutely laughable and shows that I have touched a nerve in my previous articles exposing this aircraft as possibly the WORSE aircraft ever designed and built.... As... more »

Return of the Day of the Flag Suckers

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 2 hours ago
*“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”* *-H.L. Mencken* There is perhaps no national holiday that has been more debauched and bastardized in the era of the flag-sucker that began on September 12, 2001 than The Fourth of July. Independence Day used to be a celebration of rebellion from tyranny when the Declarat... more »

Rhianna Supports Isis (And vice-versa)

Spike EP at News Spike - 2 hours ago
*It's all done in the best passable taste...!* (Sorry..) *Mother Isis, * *Goddess of K'met.* *Grant Morrison's Isis,* *Bride of Black Adam.* *The Origin of Teth-Adam,* *Husband to fair and mighty Isis* *According to Shazam! #28, Black Adam gets his powers from:Shu (stamina), Hershef (strength), Amon (power), Zehuti (Thoth) (wisdom), Anpu (speed), and Menthu (courage). !* Mighty mother, daughter of the Nile, we rejoice as you join us with the rays of the sun. Sacred sister, mother of magic, we honor you, Lover of Osiris, she who is mother of the universe itself. Isis, who was and... more »

Independence Day...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
or as Karl Denninger calls it: Happy Dependence Day Sad to say, but he's correct. I know there's little we can do about most of the craziness we see going on. None of us are likely to line up at the border with shotguns to keep illegals out of our country. There is not much you can say to people who think the Hobby Lobby decision is a "war on women." They are the manifestation of years and years of the dumbing down of the "citizens" of this country. *Here's what you can do.* Take personal responsibilty for yourselves. Pay off your debts. Store some water and food. Pray. And, ... more »

Feminism: This Is How It's Done Now

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours ago
We old farts remember the Abortion Caravan, Canada's first national feminist protest in 19fucking70. It seems we haven't come a whole helluva long way since. In New Brunswick, women *still* need the permission of TWO doctors to obtain a medicare-paid abortion. For years, the Morgentaler Clinic provided a pressure release valve, enabling at least those women who could pay to get the same medical care that most Canadians (except in poor PEI too) had fully funded. After running at a loss since its opening, the clinic is closing this month. The Government of New Brunswick -- which, ... more »

Steve Israel-- The Schmaltz Of The Democratic Party

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Because I travel a lot-- and not just to Paris and London-- I've eaten in some pretty dicey restaurants over the years. But few that I remember being as revolting as one my dear departed friend Susan schlepped me to several decades ago: Sammy's Roumanian on Chrystie Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. You know how a normal restaurant might have ketchup and mustard on the table as condiments? Sammy's has schmaltz. Lard is what Jews carefully avoid in Mexican food, right? Schmaltz is Jewish lard-- specifically, rendered chicken (or goose) fat. It stinks. Someone once told me that ... more »

Don't let Exxon Cover Up Fair Criticism of Their Practice's

Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 hours ago
BREAKING NEWS Our ad taking aim at Exxon was scheduled to air - but some of the largest media companies in America changed their minds, and decided to muzzle us instead. That's right: Our groundbreaking PSA was kept off the air this July 4th because Exxon, the richest company in the history of the world, couldn't be subjected to 30 seconds of on-air criticism. This is a mirror of the ad on Youtube...from youtube user...other98 Other98 Action started the campaign Share [image: Other98 Action] Our new ad, Exxon Hates America, is a satirical ad ... more »

Friday beaver - patriotic edition it is the 4th

Demeur at Demeur - 3 hours ago
(The beaver raises its' tale to slap the water warning others of danger.) So the DOW is up over 17,000. There's no reason in the world it should be that high because it's supposed to be based on the perceived value of a company's worth or at the very least an expectation of what it will do in the near future, normally 6 months. However mathematicians and ultra-fast computers have taken away any sense of perception or even realistic forecasts. Tiny glitches present a golden opportunity to pounce and scrape fractions of a percentage in profits and on the grand scale that's a lot of c... more »

Mike's Story Part 69- Follow the Leader

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 3 hours ago
By Jenna Orkin *The following email was sent by Mike to an accomplished Peak Oilist, cc'ing me. The ellipses are placed to erase any trace of the recipient's identity.* *Reread Matt Simmons's email again. McCain is "brain dead" on the issue [of Peak Oil] and Obama's camp is jumping into it. McCain ain't brain dead. He's the devil. And what do you want to bet Obama's answers are going to be half (or more) wrong? Who in the Peak Oil movement will even be prepared to comment, let alone offer something real? It doesn't have to be perfect, just honest and devoid of fantasy. (Fanatasie... more »

Fukushima Updates - July 4 , 2014 ----- Between Fukushima Diary and Energy News , you get the full picture of the horrors unfolding in Japan ( E. N gives a good " Macro " 30, 000 foot view / overview . Fukushima Diary provides more of an observation of " A Day In The Death Of Japan " perspective.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Fukushima Diary..... Decontamination soil bags are already starting to be torn in Fukushima[image: Decontamination soil bags are already starting to be torn in Fukushima] 28 17 0 3 July 4, 2014 *↑ From a Twitter post of a Fukushima citizen. He said, “The authorities came to check the radiation levels every few days for 3 times in total, but the readings went up every time they measured. They removed the soil again from where the radiation level significantly rose up. Some people are complaining because some of the soil bags are torn in residential district. Decontamination is j... more »

We like life / you like death

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
Mohammed Abu Khdair Most of the world, the media, and in particular the Telegraph have decided that the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdair was a ‘revenge killing’. The remaining uncertainty over the motive and perpetrators of this murder is represented by a pair of scare quotes. I must say Robert Tait looks tired and unkempt by the way. “Video obtained by the Telegraph” says the Telegraph. “Dramatic new footage” it says. Slight exaggeration there all round. Not a scoop, not dramatic, not revealing, not conclusive, not convincing. The Guardian is a little more cautious. Their article stat... more »

Is the Tea Party a new Know Nothing Party?

David Greene at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
Is the Tea Party a new Know Nothing Party?.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face

Twilight Zone's Last Gleaming

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours ago
Welcome to our annual day of forced patriotic revelry, mattress sales, and Founding Fathers in bad makeup peddling crappy cars on TV. And, of course, the roar of the flag-waving crowds: That was the scene this week in Murrieta, California. It once was a nice, quiet, All-American little farming town, founded a scant hundred or so years ago by a (ahem) Spanish immigrant who later turned his land over to a sheep-herding brother. And like most victims of the Wall Street Greed Machine-fueled housing bubble, Murrieta experienced a radical population surge of more than 200% in the ... more »

Compromised Vaccine Study Reveals Crux of Real Vaccine Debate

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours ago
*July 4, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - In the report, "Big-Pharma Vaccines Deemed "Safe" by Big-Pharma Funded "Study,"" the compromised nature of a recent "Pediatrics" journal study regarding the alleged safety of vaccines was exposed showing the immense and obvious conflicts of interest involved. Though the report was funded by the US government, the authors of the report were drawn from the RAND Corporation - which is funded by and regularly produces reports and studies for the very manufacturers of the vaccines covered in the study. In particular, RAND is funded by and wo... more »

Habeas Corpus

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
Boone v. Ontario (Community Safety andCorrectional Services), 2014 ONCA 515: [42] To be successful, an applicant for habeas corpus must show (a) a deprivation of liberty and (b) that the deprivation of liberty was unlawful: May v. Ferndale Institution, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 809, at para. 74; and Mission Institute v. Khela, 2014 SCC 24, at para. 30. Between these points, there are other considerations in play, however. [43] First, once a deprivation of liberty has been shown, and the applicant has raised a legitimate ground on which to question its validity, the onus shifts ... more »

Cape Dorset, Nunavut

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago

Ancient Egyptians discovered and covered Up in America?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
This is the kind of story I would just love to personally investigate. What can not be denied is that it was a front page story April 5, 1909

My Independence Day Post Featuring Kate Smith and God Bless America

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago
For my July Fourth post, I would like to feature what is now a well-known American anthem as performed by the iconic Kate Smith, God Bless America. Written by Irvin Berlin and made famous by Smith, the song premiered in 1938. As noted in Parade magazine in August 2013: …When Irving Berlin rediscovered his old song[originally written in 1918 yet unused] […]

Clean Your Whole House With Only 6 Inexpensive Items and NO Nasty Chemicals by Christina Sarich

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours ago
[image: cleaning natural crops 263x162 Clean Your Whole House With Only 6 Inexpensive Items and NO Nasty Chemicals] Clean Your Whole House With Only 6 Inexpensive Items and NO Nasty Chemicals by Christina Sarich Natural Society, 3 July 2014 With all the talk of eating organic lately, you’d still be missing an important step to good health if you continued to use toxic chemicals to clean your house. Chemicals used to clean our windows, floors, furniture, carpets, and clothing are tampering with our bodies. Even our babies’ bottles can be full of chemicals that are known carcinoge... more »

Save the Bees Knees

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 5 hours ago
Sign the petition. The time for study is over. Europe banned the chemicals two years ago. H/T Stranger is a Strange Land

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Schools Matter - 5 hours ago

BRICS Summit in Brazil may be a ground breaking Meeting ! ( July 4 , 2014 ) - BRICS planning to sign documents on development bank, currency reserve pool - Kremlin ......... The BRICs Are Morphing Into An Anti-Dollar Alliance

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Itar Tass...... BRICS planning to sign documents on development bank, currency reserve pool, Kremlin Russia July 04, 16:42 UTC+4 The BRICS summit will be held in Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Brasilia on July 15-16 © ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel Russia notes progress in cooperation within BRICS — official MOSCOW, July 04./ITAR-TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will have talks with leaders of China, India, the Republic of South Africa and several Latin American countries during his visit in Brazil for a summit of the BRICS developing-nation assembly of Brazil, Russia, India, ... more »

I hate the BBC's One Show but love the works of CassetteBoy

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
"We have some bad news, I'm afraid to report, we're here every day..." Quite true.

Ukraine situation Updates ( July 4 , 2014 ) - Different voices -- Ukraine, the country no one cared about ....... In Banderastan insanity, denial and lies are the norm, not the exception .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Russia Today ..... Ukraine, the country no one cared about Bryan MacDonald is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and teacher. He wrote for Irish Independent and Daily Mail. He has also frequently appeared on RTE and Newstalk in Ireland as well as RT. Get short URL Published time: July 04, 2014 11:37 [image: Aftermath of an artillery attack by the Ukrainian army on the Artyom district in Slavyansk. (RIA Novosti/Andrey Stenin)] Aftermath of an artillery attack by the Ukrainian army on the Artyom district in Slavyansk. (RIA Novosti/Andrey Stenin) Trends Ukraine turmoil Tags Culture, Educa... more »

Orio Palmer

Spike EP at News Spike - 6 hours ago
*The name of Orio Palmer is seen among those of other first responders inscribed on bronze panel S-17 of the South Pool of the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan, on December 6, 2001.* *Oreo* *ˈɔːrɪəʊ/* *noun* UStrademark 1. *a chocolate biscuit with a white cream filling.* - informalderogatory *a black American who is seen, especially by other black people, as wishing to be part of the white establishment.* *palm2* *pɑːm/* *verb* gerund or present participle: *palming* 1. *1*. conceal (a small object) in the hand, especially as part of... more »

Expect a regular series on saving a school

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
As some of you may know, I walked away from a position in higher education to return to the elementary classroom. With roughly 13 years of experience in education, and two advanced degrees, even rather late in the hiring cycle, I had my pick of teaching positions in Washington, DC. I immediately chose, without hesitation, […]

Before It Stops

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 6 hours ago
http://www.reliance-trust.com/ The ground is shifting. Jeffrey Simpson writes that the Conservatives still have "yellow dog" ridings -- where they could run a yellow dog on the Conservative ticket and it would win. But across the country, momentum is shifting to the Liberals: Apart from these kind of yellow dog seats, predominantly rural ridings, things are bordering on precarious for the Conservatives, to judge by recent by-elections. Yes, by-elections are uncertain weather vanes, since winds do change. R... more »

The Velocitarian Church

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Some may see the Hobby Lobby decision as a mortal wound to separation of Church and State -- and rightly so in my opinion. Others see it as an opportunity. I notice that this morning's newspaper contains a full page spread by the Hobby guys insisting that Christianity is the only true teacher of morality and provider of law and that the founding fathers agreed. But an opportunity for would be religious tyrants is an opportunity for all and I think it's time for me to assert my own religious freedom by filing suit with the country so that I don't have to pay that part of my taxes ... more »

Paul Craig Roberts: "Will Washington Go Down In History As the Worst Mass Murderer In History?" "Turn your backs and walk away from the militarist poison that will be spewed in July 4th speeches. Do you really want to support the Washington Nazis in their campaign to become known as the worst mass murderers in world history?"

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
------------------------------ *Washington Murders Countries, the US Constitution, and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ July 3, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *Washington Murders Countries, the US Constitution, and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit* Paul Craig Roberts Having Murdered Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the US Constitution, Washington is now Murdering Ukraine. Thanks to Op-Ed News contrib... more »

This #TFA village is hilariously, sadly NOT a joke

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
Holy hell, I could have sworn this was a joke. It isn’t. A mixed residential/commercial real estate venture in Philly called “Oxford Mills” just opened that caters to the “education community.” Read this article to believe it. Paul Kihn, deputy superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, told the guests, “Oxford will be a great […]

IVISON of CBC's Power & Politics

liberalandlovingit at liberalandlovingit! - 6 hours ago
...while I'm here, and before I take my leave.... Could you study some, I don't know- Weston? Patriquin? JIM TRAVERS??- reportage. 'cause the last thing this world needs, is another spin-job, by the Wiggle-Room Con-Crew, who, (as you never miss a chance to) ALWAYS (are paid to) come up with some POS 'explanation' for your conservative party's 'foilbles'. You win, John. You're #1.

I'm Celebrating Independence Day by Watching INDEPENDENCE DAY

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 7 hours ago
(By Cyril Blubberpuss, Esq.) Just today I was telling one of my junior vice presidents as we opened the office (Oh, quit your liberal bellyaching- we only work eight hours on July 4th) that this is one great country. Now, granted, I'll admit my patriotism usually peaks on July 4th by watching *Independence Day* with Will Smith and wishing that Bill Pullman was our president before stuffing pieces of roasted animal carcasses in my mouth. Because, let's face it, that and killing irreplaceable brain cells by swilling alcohol perfectly defines what it means to be an American. ... more »

The NSA War on Privacy Rages On as Tor Project Users Targeted

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 7 hours ago
With Glenn Greenwald's spectacular fireworks show having been quashed by the US government mere hours prior to publication on the increasingly suspect website *The Intercept*, we have been deprived - at least for now - of really big and shocking revelations but that doesn't mean that stories of the rampage of the NSA aren't getting out through other forums. In the most recent non-shocking disclosure of the war on privacy by the American Stasi anyone who attempts to use encryption and privacy tools in order to circumvent their prying eyes is on the ever-growing list of suspects. In ... more »

Repost: LEON BRITTAN - THE BIGGER PICTURE

Spike EP at News Spike - 7 hours ago
*Rolf Harris, MBE, OBE, CBE.* Peter Suttcliffe (Not the Yorkshire Ripper), Sir Jimmy Savile OBE, Frank Bruno MBE "I meet Mark Regev, chief spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu, at a little restaurant in Tel Aviv. We discuss Leon Brittan and the alleged pedophile rings that are accused of being used by Israel and its friends to control much of the world. Mark says: "It is all being taken care of...." " LEON BRITTAN - THE BIGGER PICTURE *Michael Jackson, David Blaine, Paul Boateng and Yuri Geller.* The leaders of the UK, USA and Europe appear to be controlled, in part,through child... more »

Oklahoma Republicans Penalize Solar Energy As Fracking Mania Causes Earthquake Swarms To Rock The State

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Last February we asked a simple question: Would Republicans String Up The Koch Brothers If Oklahoma Disappears Into A Giant Sink Hole? We never got a clear answer and the Koch brothers still roam the world creating havoc and misery for ordinary humans and Oklahomans. It is, however-- being Independence Day and all-- a good time for an update, particularly if you live in Oklahoma or have friends or family who do. Before I get a bunch of wisecracks, let me point out that although Oklahoma voters have been, for various reasons, been less than interested in Democratic candidates of ... more »

Social media updates ( July 4 , 2014 - ironic items for Independence Day ) -- Facebook's contempt for its customers revealed -- Facebook’s Experiment and its CIA Roots......Google Has Received 250,000 Article Removal Requests as Internet Censorship Takes Off in Europe.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/facebook%E2%80%99s-experiment-and-its-cia-roots/ Facebook’s Experiment and its CIA Roots *By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: July 3, 2014* Let us see if we have this straight: Facebook is a company that has been publicly traded for just slightly more than two years. It pays no dividend so its key attraction for its shareholders is that it knows how to run and grow its business. Its initial public offering launch was one of the biggest fiascos in modern finance. Its core asset from which its revenues flow is based on the loyalty and growth of its ... more »

Happy 4th Of July To My American Friends And Readers... And A Reminder That America Is NO LONGER The Greatest Nation On Earth!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 7 hours ago
Yes today is the 4th of July in the once great United States of America.... It is called "Independence Day" but the truth be known is that the USA has never truly been independent or free... The Declaration Of Independence is to me still one of the greatest documents ever written, and Thomas Jefferson truly did want his new nation to be free of all tyranny and to be the true beacon of freedom for the entire planet... But we all know by now that the US has since that time in 1776 fallen under tyranny and is presently no longer a free nation at all......It is a truly sad statement to ... more »

NOT PAID, NOT FED TO FIGHT FOR US-NATO

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
Despite President Poroshenko's promises to financially support the army, Ukrainian forces are still fed with empty promises and raise alarm over lack of basic supplies, food, and weaponry. RT's Maria Finoshina reports.

Syria Update ( July 4 , 2014 ) ...... Islamic State 'seizes main Syria oil fields' . overview of state of play on the ground in syria conflict , recent tweets to consider .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Al Jazeera..... Islamic State 'seizes main Syria oil fields' Al-Omar and Tanak oil fields on Iraq border falls to the Islamic State after rival fighters withdraw, activists say. Last updated: 04 Jul 2014 12:01 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Video shows armed men outside what they said was the entrance to al-Omar oil field [YouTube] Fighters from the Islamic State group have seized all of Syria's main oil and gas fields, which are located in Deir Az Zor province next to Ir... more »

WALKING FOR GANGJEONG VILLAGE PEACE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago

JUXTAPOSE, IF YOU WILL

liberalandlovingit at liberalandlovingit! - 7 hours ago
Here's a fun, Friday, WTF, thing to do... Juxtapose PMACK's- Justice?Minister-P.MacKay's- Mother/Father's Day public messages... and mine, here, at liberalandlovingit! Fun-ny, eh? So revealing, as well. THANKS go, once again, to the one and only- C.C. of twitter, formerly of blog-fame!!

Undocumented Migrants are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, aka Criminal Invaders

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 8 hours ago
The mainstream media is a distorter of reality, which uses the manipulation of language to push propaganda lies. The UK Daily Mail has reported an encouraging story about US citizens blockading buses carrying criminal invaders of all ages, demanding that these parasites are not allowed to cross into the USA. The Daily Mail has twisted the facts, to reclassify the illegal immigrant vermin as 'undocumented migrants', which implies that they are merely people migrating to another country, who simply don't yet have the necessary paperwork! This is a lie: the reason that they don't hav... more »

TGIF

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago

Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in Rocamora, Entre Rios

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago
*Source: Planeta UFODate: July 3, 2014* *Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in Rocamora, Entre Rios* *By Daniel Ubaldo Padilla* A new avenue of research in the mutilation field opened in 2013, beyond what could have been predicted, and in regard to the information emerging from my research. The fact that an attack of such striking characteristics should have been made public – on account of the number, and on a single property in February 2013 – represents an exclamation mark in our line of investigation. This is the first time it has happened beyond the time period evinced since I emba... more »

F-35 fire

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago
Seriously, it's like the plane is begging people not to buy it. The U.S. military said it had grounded the entire fleet of 97 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets until completion of additional inspections of the warplane's single engine built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp. I wonder if the Royal Navy has a Plan B? Might say as much about the Monarchy as the

South African Airways pilot arrested after stripping in protest over airport security | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
' A South African Airways pilot stripped to his underwear in front of crew and passengers in protest over rigorous airport searches. Captain W Van Ginkel, who was about to board the airline's Flight SA 025 jet to fly to Johannesburg, reportedly removed all his clothes except his pants at Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe ' I know how he feels... More here, with some poor spelling here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2679008/South-African-Airways-pilot-arrested-incident-exposure-stripping-pants-passengers-protest-airport-security.html

Brazilian Navy Signs Contract for Lynx Mk21A Upgrade

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: Lynx Mk21A]AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the Brazilian Navy’s Naval Aviation has signed a contract for a major midlife upgrade of eight Lynx Mk21A helicopters. The contract, valued in excess of US$160 million (€117 million), includes replacement of the aircraft’s engines with the CTS800-4N product from LHTEC, navigation, displays suite and mission avionics. A comprehensive support and training package that includes a Flight Training Device is also included in the contract. Read more

Raytheon awarded $163 million AMRAAM contract

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: AIM-120 AMRAAM]Raytheon Company was awarded a $163,223,113 fixed-price/fixed-price-incentive/cost-plus-incentive contract for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) Program Support and Sustainment (PSAS). The PSAS contract provides sustaining engineering, program management, contractor logistics support and accomplishes the diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortage tasks of extending the life of the AMRAAM Central Processing Unit, improving the AMRAAM guidance section within the current performance envelope and developing applicable test equipment. ... more »

Still no word on CF-18 replacement

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: CF-18 Hornet]Defence Minister Rob Nicholson continues to refuse to say when the government will announce which fighter jet will replace the aging fleet of CF-18s. Despite a delay of almost two years, Nicholson on Thursday remained as evasive as ever during a ceremony at CFB Petawawa. "There has been a process put in place as you know, that has a lot of criteria," he said. "And those criteria have been looked at and they'll continue to be looked at but the government has made no decision as of yet." Read more

New RAF Reaper drones armed with laser-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles start operations in Afghanistan

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: RAF MQ-9 Reaper]Fitted with laser-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles, these are the RAF's newest Reaper Drones which are being used in Afghanistan. Their main role is to gather intelligence and carry out surveillance for forces on the ground, but they can also be armed with deadly weapons. Pictures released today show the unmanned aircraft being assembled and flying from Kandahar airfield on missions which will help Afghan, UK and ISAF forces. Read more

Scorpion Jet Makes International Debut

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: Scorpion tactical jet]Textron AirLand's new military jet prototype, the twin-engine Scorpion, is breezing through the development phase and is now ready to make its international debut. With more than 105 hours of flight-testing on its prototype, the Wichita, Kansas-based company plans to send the Scorpion on its way on a multi-day, 4,700-nm flight from Wichita to RAF Fairford-Gloucestershire today. The prototype will be shown off to potential customers attending the Farnborough International Airshow and The Royal International Air Tattoo, both set to take place in the Uni... more »

Saab opens maritime systems center in Australia

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: HMAS Perth]Saab's Australian subsidiary has opened an Advanced Maritime Systems Center as part of the parent company's naval systems integration program. The center opened this week is located in Adelaide in a ceremony officiated by Australian Defense Minister David Johnston. "I am very pleased to officially open the Advanced Maritime Systems Center," he said. Read more

Happy July 4

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 13 hours ago
*The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Hoax* A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could mean bad news for environmental doomsayers. Forget all those warnings about the million tons of plastic debris floating in the ocean. Ignore the photos that you think show the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Andres Cozar of the University of Cadiz in Spain is the man who once extrapolated the 1 million-ton estimate. Since then, however, he has led research that collected samples at 141 ocean sites. Cozar's new estimate: Between 7,000 and 35,000 tons of plastic are floa... more »

Canada's 12 frigates to get new radar systems from Saab Microwave

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 13 hours ago
[image: HMCS Toronto]The federal government is spending $18.5 million to upgrade the radar systems used aboard the Royal Canadian Navy's 12 frigates. Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay, the regional minister for Nova Scotia, made the announcement today at Canadian Forces Base Halifax, where some of the warships are based. The contract has been awarded to Saab Microwave Canada Ltd., which will overhaul the weapons-control radars. Read more

Mitsubishi Electric eyes F-35 missile deal with Europe's MBDA-sources

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 13 hours ago
[image: F-35 AMRAAM Launch]Japan's Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to take the first step towards a partnership with European missile maker MBDA to develop a medium-range air-to-air missile for the F-35 stealth fighter, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The preliminary deal marks an extension of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid to launch Japan's military suppliers into the global arms market through international tie-ups, and thereby bring down costs for Japan's defence procurement. If successful, it would represent the first time Japanese-built components had been used o... more »

This Underwater Drone Is The Future Of Navy Surveillance

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 13 hours ago
[image: Robo-Tuna UUV]The Navy is testing a stealthy, 4 foot-long fish-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle designed to blend in with undersea life and perform combat sensor functions, service officials explained. The so-called “bio-memetic” undersea vehicle is currently being developed as part of the Chief of Naval Operations Rapid Innovation Cell, or CRIC – a special unit set up by CNO Adm. Jonathan Greenert in 2012 to explore the feasibility of rapidly turning around commercially available technologies for Naval military use. “It mimics a fish. It looks like a fish. We call it r... more »

Ocean Plastic Pollution on Decline

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours ago
[image: Global concentration of plastic pollutuion] This is actually very good news. the material is not permanently impacting the surface waters which we rely on much more than obvious. I suspect that it is slowly working its may down through the water column to the sea bed were it can the steadily blended into the the mud. This returns it to geological process which will eventually handle all of it. We still need to solve our dumping problem but at least there is a process in place that is handling it. Of course we still have a poor understanding of the exact sources ... more »

Russia's Popigai Meteor Crash Linked to Eocene Mass Extinction

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours ago
[image: illustration of asteroid slamming into earth] We should no longer be too surprised. In fact, it is way more reasonable to start with a major impact as causation. It provides the immediate energy and after effects that any other process simply cannot. Life itself is amazingly capable of working around even a real disaster. After all, the Pleistocene Nonconformity ended the Ice Age over twelve thousand years ago. We have plenty of evidence that the menagerie itself though clearly decimated did manage to hang out in spots all over for thousands of years. We have Ma... more »

Recent Wormhole Work

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours ago
I also suspect that we will produce worm holes spontaneously and develop them from there. Theoretical work is helpful in establishing validity but there is way too much here to count on a simple theory to fall out. I have posted a lot on wormholes and it is worth while googling this blog for comment. I also think that the time aspect can be managed sufficiently to produce useful systems capable of continuous transport. This would massivelycut the costs built into our civilization while making interstellar trtansport possible. *Could wormholes allow TIME TRAVEL? Collapsing ... more »

Cleansing Industrial Waste Water

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours ago

This represents an incremental development that has now achieved critical mass able to tackle the whole problem of cleansing industrial water. Since the alternative has not been there in far too many cases beyond the sewage system, this is a welcome development. Unto now, companies have wanted to repair these problems and there was no solution. This can now change. There are plenty of additional problems but this one may be most accessible. The knowledge and will are typically both there. Polished effluent is worth something as well. As indicated, it is not a simple solution bu... more »

ASC has fixed Collins submarine problems, says Minister

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 13 hours ago
[image: Collins class SSK]Shipbuilder ASC has fixed the problems associated with its Collins submarine maintenance program, according to Defence Minister David Johnston. The Adelaide Advertiser reports that Mr Johnston praised the efforts of ASC to improve productivity levels following the Coles Review into the progam. “(John Coles) said to me that the transformation he has observed over the past two and a half years has been remarkable,” Senator Johnston told the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Read more

DRT News - Jesus Christ says - All the physical real estate of Faith must come down.

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 13 hours ago
*the light of Free Planet shining upon the Awakened**The physical real estate of faith*, meaning all the temples to worship God at. Faith is not a Game of Football with a Stadium and Rival fans to combat. Faith is a state of mind, based on Education by one's nearest and dearest, or the State, or conglomerate Industry. Those who cause us the most joy and the most pain with their adherence to DRT or Dogma Regurgitation Therapy. I'll quote substantially from fellow Oxford writer Philip Pullman's IT'S A STORY i.e. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, which I'm close to finishing... more »

Happy Fourth Of July 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago

Another of Christy Clark's sparkle ponies dies

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours ago
Let's see ... how should we word this? You may not like fucking BC Ferries, but BC Ferries likes fucking you! BC Ferries, A CORPORATION IN WHICH THE ONLY SHAREHOLDER IS THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA which is wholly funded by the taxpayers of British Columbia, which makes it a citizen owned entity, has announced that it is building its next three ships in Poland.  Isn't that just about the

Sheldon Cooper roots for a non-Czech Wimbledon finalist

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
This isn't supposed to be a serious blog post so readers insisting on deep science and ideas are recommended to ignore it. *Quantum computing news:* a paper in Science argues that the D-Wave would-be quantum computer doesn't seem to speed up even several of the tasks where it could have had a chance. In April, the writers of the otherwise excellent The Big Bang Theory sitcom turned Sheldon into a retarded guy when they made him claim that he only began to study string theory because some bullies used to beat him with a string theory textbook. It isn't really possible to learn string... more »

Sean McMeekin | July 1914: Countdown to War

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
*"July 1914: Countdown to War" by Sean McMeekin. * Video Title: Sean McMeekin | July 1914: Countdown to War - January 29, 2014. Source: The Kansas City Public Library. Date Published: January 29, 2014. Description: In a discussion of his new book, historian Sean McMeekin reveals how a small cabal of European statesmen used the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to initiate a long-awaited showdown among the Continent's powers, ultimately leading to the start of World War I.

Why Boycott Organic Food Distributor Eden Foods?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Michigan right-wing crackpot Michael Potter (left) Do you automatically assume organic and health food companies are hippies? Liberal? Progressive? You shouldn't. Hitler was a vegetarian, remember? And Mormon anti-gay fanatics, the Lassens are still running their health grocery chain in Los Feliz and threatening to open another one in Echo Park. Then there's Eden Foods… as bad as Hobby Lobby. Lisa Hymas, writing for *Grist*, spilled the beans. "Like Hobby Lobby," she wrote, "Eden Foods sued the Obama administration to try to get out of providing contraceptive coverage for its employe... more »

the grateful dead

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 16 hours ago
go johnny go

hate it openly

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 17 hours ago
paradise or oblivion

This One Shows That There Is Still Some Good In Humanity: Algerian Soccer Team To Donate Their World Cup Prize Money To Gaza!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours ago
Many have criticized me for constantly putting up articles at this blog that points to the doom and gloom in our world... But the facts are that we are indeed in a war for all humanity against a very evil force that seeks world domination and wants the eventual enslavement of us all.... I will not sway from my own efforts in getting the message and the truth out about that very criminal and most evil tribe of misfits and scoundrels...... But periodically something does happen that shows that mankind is deep inside very good and that we all do care about the injustices committed agai... more »

Thomas Jefferson vs. Ron Paul's First Episcopal Marital Rape Ministry

Spike EP at News Spike - 18 hours ago
*Religious Freedom ≠ Religious Dictatorship* In actual fact, ≠ DOES NOT* mean "Does Not Equal", or "Is Not The Same As" - *it specifically denotes* "Inequality";* Meaning that Uncle Ron is actually saying " *"Wants" are either inferior or superior to "Rights"* ". By the notation "*Wants ≠ Rights*", what he is actually expressing is that " *Wants*" *he *agrees with, and thinks are virtuous and admirable (such as black people not breeding, being forced to quit work due to medical bills and time off due to unwanted pregnancies, and yet him *still *not having to pay for it) are someti... more »

The Big Question That Everyone Should Be Asking: What Was The Israeli Connection To The 3 Settler Kidnappings? (I Would Say PLENTY!)

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours ago
It does seem that I am always apologizing these days for my absence.. I have had a lot of family and business issues to attend to the last while, and sadly I have had to neglect this blog... I am doing my best in catching up on what has been happening around the world when I can, and will continue to post articles WHEN I do have the time... Patience everyone... Yes, I have been watching what has been happening in Israel since the "bodies" of the three Israeli teens has been found.... We have already seen the criminal Israelis viciously attacking the Palestinians, blaming them for t... more »

The Movie Transcendence

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
The best part was this song. Otherwise Meh!

Ethiopian Famine Relief

Spike EP at News Spike - 18 hours ago
*His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, * *Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, * *King of Kings of Ethiopia, * *Elect of God".* *Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael* *(23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975)* The Emperor sent aid to the British government in 1947 when Britain was affected by heavy flooding. His letter to *Lord Meork, National Distress Fund, London* said, *"even though We are busy of helping our people who didn't recover from the crises of the war, We heard that your fertile and beautiful country is devastated by the unusually heavy rain, and your request for aid. "Therefore, We ... more »

summer, teens, the library, and me

laura k at wmtc - 19 hours ago
Yesterday was my first summer program at the library. Attendance was low, but very keen. An artist and activist (who happens to be a friend of mine from the war resisters movement) led a workshop I called "Comix that Save the World". We explored the use of the comics form to express larger social concerns. It was so much fun, the teens were so into it, that I'm thinking of expanding it to an ongoing series, where kids could really develop something. The summer at Mississauga Central Library will be packed with programs for teens - sometimes as many as three a week - and all are free... more »

Picket, Boycott, Shut Down Weingarten's Common Core Convention

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 19 hours ago
From Inside AFT: The *AFT convention*, set for July 11-14 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, will focus on fighting back and fighting forward on key domestic issues to reclaim the promise of America, including the Common Core State Standards . . .

Book Watch: This cool New York summer reading list might work just as well for non-New Yorkers

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
*by Ken* Especially with a holiday weekend coming up, some of us may have turned our thoughts to getting some reading done. Summer reading lists have become a publishing tradition, based on the apparent assumption that people who don't read many books the rest of the year suddenly turn bookworm in summer, or perhaps that summer readers are looking for a different *kind* of reading. Depending on who's doing the listing, I sometimes give a quick glance. (I always feel like I'm way behind on my reading, so this is likely to make me feel worse, and you can't put a price on that.) Gen... more »

The region is boiling

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
I was staggered to hear the Today programme dealing with the Islam-related stories this morning. No connection was made between any of them by the BBC, yet the main headlines concerned two major back-to-back Islam-related stories. Thursday 3rd July 2014. *1.) “Good morning here are the headlines: Extra security measures are being put in place in British Airports after the US authorities warned of a potential new threat from Islamist extremists.* *2.)Israeli military planes have targeted the Gaza Strip with tensions running high over the murder of Palestinian and Israeli teenagers. W... more »

UK planned to "Extract, Equip, Train" 100,000 Syrians for "shock & awe"

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 hours ago
*By BBC 'Investigations Correspondant" - Wow! That is impressive! Right?* *Problem? I am not getting any sense of investigation?* "The plan was called Extract, Equip, Train... a shock and awe attack that would allow the Syrians themselves to defeat Assad", reports Nick Hopkins The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight can reveal. The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, General Sir David Richards. It was considered by the PM an... more »

Connecting dots ( July 3 , 2014 ) -- With the clamoring for a new great war making the rounds , is the game already afoot ? War in July ??? Some items to consider ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
War in July....... FWIW Cryptome claims all Snowden files will be published in July to avert a war Published time: July 01, 2014 17:13 Edited time: July 03, 2014 18:16 Get short URL [image: Screenshot from cryptome.org] Screenshot from cryptome.org Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tags Internet, Snowden, USA, WikiLeaks ​All of the National Security Agency files accessed by former contractor Edward Snowden could be published in the month of July if vaguely worded predictions tweeted this week from the digital library site Cryptome prove to be correct. A series of micro-messages publishe... more »

Not Hamas- Sinai based 'terror group' claims resposibility for student deaths

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 21 hours ago
Jerusalem Post The al-Qaida affiliated* Sinai-based* Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which reportedly recently pledged allegiance to The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed responsibility for the murder of the three yeshiva students in Judea. The Egyptian-based group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of the three boys on its website, stating that “the kidnapping and killing was a victory for the Islamic Caliphate.” The statement threatened future operations against targets of the Israeli “occupation.” *The claim to ha... more »

Some More *Clarity* on BESE’s “Special Counsel,” Contract Limitations, and PARCC

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 21 hours ago
July 03, 2014, has been quite the day for uplifting information in the Roemer/White vs. Jindal battle over Louisiana public education. In this post, I elaborate on three topics: 1) Roemer’s, White’s, and the BESE majority’s attempts to “retain special counsel” in order to sue the governor; 2) further limits placed upon LDOE and BESE regarding contracts, […]

NSA Spygate ( July 3 , 2014 ) - If you have a phone / TV / Laptop / Desktop / Xbox ... assume you are under surveillance ----- Are You Targeted By The NSA?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/are-you-targeted-nsa Are You Targeted By The NSA? [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2014 16:01 -0400 - Apple - Erste - ETC - FBI - Germany - Google - Newspaper - PrISM - The Onion inShare1 *Meet XKeyscore - "a computer network exploitation system", as described in an NSA presentation, devoted to gathering "nearly everything a user does on the internet."* TheGerman site Das Erste has exposed the shocking truth about the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "targe... more »

Gold news of note ( July 3 , 2014 ) ..... Funny how just as Deutsche Bank and Barclays have quit / been forced out of the gold manipulation business , along comes the Indian Central Bank -- India’s Central Bank To Sell Gold On The Market In Exchange For Gold At The Bank Of England ........ addditional items touching on gold and gold manipulations to consider ( h/t GATA )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/friday-farce-caught-rigging-gold-and-dark-pools-barclays-begs-least-keep-fx-manipula Caught Rigging Gold And Dark Pools, Barclays Begs To At Least Keep FX Manipulation [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2014 15:31 -0400 - Barclays - Dark Pools - dark pools - Goldbugs - Hank Paulson - Hank Paulson - HFT - LIBOR - Market Manipulation - Predatory Algos - The Onion inShare6 2014 has not been kind to Barclays: first, the UK bank proved countless goldbugs right when i... more »

July 3: The exceptionalism of Exceptionalism.

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 22 hours ago
Obama has recently and publicly stated that he believes in American Exceptionalism with "every fibre of his being". In fact, that can be said of almost everyone in the American government - and the Canadian government. It such a strong belief that it's rather remarkable that few in the news media know have explained what it means. In fact, without knowing what it means, a very high proportion of Canadians seem to believe in American Exceptionalism. In brief, it means that the US has the right to do anything it likes to other countries. Laws, whether domestic or international, do not... more »

How Will Pope Francis Handle Bigoted Hypocritical Gay Archbishop John Nienstedt?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
I'm a huge Pope Francis fan. I've never been into religion but I've had a great feeling about this guy as soon as he became Pope. I've always said I wished there would be one truly great president-- instead of all the mediocre crap-- before I die. That's why I pray that Elizabeth Warren actually goes for it at some time. The office seeks the man (or woman), not-- ideally-- the other way round. It worked out well enough in Rome this last time. But now Pope Francis is going to have to confront what too many of his predecessors have hidden behind institutional hypocrisy to avoid: Chu... more »

Mike's Story Part 68 - A Presidential Energy Policy

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 23 hours ago
Jenna Orkin * Mike declined the political offer for sensible reasons boiling down to the likelihood that it would not be worth the risk. He ended his email to the friend who'd made the offer with, "I have a wonderful dog that I'm not willing to abandon to friends or a kennel. I am doing work that I like and I think my novel may well turn out to be the most important contribution of what feels like a very long life."* *June 14, 2008* *I am sending this to the two most powerful and wonderful women I have known in my life. I just wrote this as a note to go in the novel, which ... more »

The New Blitzkrieg

Edward H. Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 23 hours ago
A new version of maneuver warfare is being utilized mainly by Islamic fundamentalist forces to seize territory from government forces trained, equipped and organized along the Western model. This “new blitzkrieg” relies on lightly armed fighters mounted on “technicals” – 4×4 trucks with heavy machine-guns, light cannons, or automatic grenade launchers mounted on the vehicle. Continue reading

Inequality and British Capitalism

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 23 hours ago
As we saw the other day, inequality has become so pathological that capitalism could seize up. When lucrative markets are locked down, when governments bow and scrape to big business, when social mobility is choked off, and the unobtainable opulence of the vanishingly few is crassly paraded in front of the many, capitalism is going out of its way to court an existential crisis. Though, of course, there is no one as such to blame for this state of affairs. And that's the most terrifying thing about the system. Capitalism is blind. Market-driven production for profit means our econom... more »

fukushima vice

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Supplemental: Did Matthews claim to be one of “us?”

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014* *The press corps’ marketing scam:* Let’s give credit where credit is due! On Monday, June 23, the Post’s Philip Rucker authored a lengthy front-page report about Hillary Clinton’s troubling gaffes. Her troubling gaffes concerned her wealth, which is also troubling. The 1800-word poison pen piece ran beneath this headline: “Clinton's rarefied life could be a liability in campaign.” Since then, the cub reporter has been pouring it on, delivering Ole Massa’s narrative. Let’s give credit where credit is due! That very night, Chris Matthews was able to see, and... more »

Experts Challenge Israeli attempt to derail P5+1 Deal

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
So, if I am reading this correctly, Israel looks to be lobbying hard to derail any agreement being made with Iran?* Link* “A handful of non-proliferation experts are taking issue with the Israeli position on a final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, specifically, Israeli demands that the deal model the plan that ridded Syria of its chemical weapons (CW) stockpile and that intrusive inspections won’t prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have argued that the entirety of Iran’s nuclear program — inc... more »

Value-Added Scores Finally Explained by NM Education Department

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
This summer, an ongoing action by New Mexico teachers is to send in Inspection of Public Records requests (IPRAs, for short), asking the Public Education Department (PED) to send evidence that backs up teacher evaluation reports received this year, and the means used to calculate the scores. We’ve waited. We’ve waited some more. Finally, some of those […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Jimmy Graham ruled a tight end by arbitrator ~WWLTV * *Plaquemines argues for state court jurisdiction of suit against oil companies ~Mark Schleifstein* *Jaw-Dropping What Brad Pitt Is Doing To Native American Reservations* *Arthur upgraded to hurricane, expected to soak Myrtle Beach today* *Officials: Coralville Lake could top spillway next week~Josh O'Leary, Iowa City Press-Citizen *

Chile: Aeronautical Agency Confirms UFO Sighting and Disseminates Image

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago
*Source: Planeta UFODate: July 1, 2014* *Chile: Aeronautical Agency Confirms UFO Sighting and Disseminates Image* *Workers at the Collahuasi Mine in the northern region of Tarapacá saw and photographed a silver disk that remained visible for some 2 hours at an altitude of 600 meters.* SANTIAGO DE CHILE (EFE) - Scientists from the Centro de Estudios de Fenomenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), a branch of the General Office of Civil Aeronautics, concluded that a sighting from April 2013 corresponds to an unidentified flying object (UFO) whose image was disseminated on Tuesday. After a y... more »

The Facebook Laboratory: Social Control in the Twenty-First Century

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
The Wall Street Journal today has an article titled “Facebook Lab Had Few Limits.” (July 3, 2014 p. A1). See also Washington Post’s “Cornell’s Ethic Board did Not Approve Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study.” Apparently a Cornell faculty member involved in the study failed to get Institutional Review Board approval for the study before it was conducted, a human subjects requirement in all universities: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/01/facebooks-emotional-manipulation-study-was-even-worse-than-you-thought/ In the study, researchers at Facebook tweak... more »

Court Case - there is no justice - when it's treated like a Game

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 1 day ago
*like a lovely pointless Chess set.* first of all, *CRIMINAL scum*, right... oh, let me temper my tone for the purposes of this missive... these *'innocents until proven guilty'* are often-times *LYING ON THE HOLY BIBLE*. So, what's the point in forcing an Accused to 'swear on it'? I'll caveat this by saying, "If there really was a God, and he really did know everything about you, you'd know whether you were lying under Oath or not." And isn't it just TIME to drag The Lord or God or Any Holy Book out of the court system? I mean, what is the place of a(n ancient) FAITH DEVICE in a s... more »

If We're Not Losers, Why Do Our Own Parties Ignore or Defy Us

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
Why am I not "training my guns" on the real enemies? Because, say I were to write some brilliant condemnation of the capitalist-imperialists, what would happen? The left would go "You tell 'em thwap!" and that'd be it. There's no movement to galvanize. There's no organization. There's no hope of tactics. There's nothing. Better, methinks, that I shame the smug, self-satisfied denizens of the left out of their brain-dead allegiance to failure. Or not. It's what I want to talk about anyhow, so tuff shit to you all. It's pretty simple really. We're so useless and powerless that even ou... more »

Celestial Mechanics

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
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

Mariann G. Wizard : SPECIAL REPORT | The Drug War: ‘Against the Wind,’ Part 1

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Marijuana prohibition is a house of straw. During the past month, the winds of change have started to rip that house apart and now the DEA may be reevaluating cannabis’ status as a ‘dangerous drug.’ By Mariann G. Wizard | … finish reading Mariann G. Wizard : *SPECIAL REPORT* | The Drug War: ‘Against the Wind,’ Part 1

9th ICCC, Las Vegas

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
The 9th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) will be held next week in Las Vegas, USA. It is an annual, sometimes twice a year (2009, NYC and Wash DC; 2010, Chicago and Sydney) conference sponsored by the Chicago-based free market think tank, the Heartland Institute. I was able to attend the 2nd ICCC in March 2009 in NYC, and the 4th ICCC in Chicago in May 2010. In both instances I was given a travel grant by Heartland because MG Thinkers was among the minor NGO co-sponsors of the event, courtesy of our membership at the IPN-initiatied Civil Society Coalition on Climat... more »

Did Steve Israel Send Lox With The Bagels And Cream Cheese To Sean Eldridge's Campaign?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Yesterday there was all kinds of commotion on the right from a hum drum post about Sean Eldridge firing his campaign manager and the quality of assistance his campaign gets from Steve Israel. One person in the campaign seems angry that I mentioned Israel sent widely unappreciated bagels and cream cheese every week and another told me the story lacked credibility because I didn't mention the lox (while another refused to even confirm that there ever even *was* lox). On the other hand, my suspicions about why Eldridge dumped campaign manager Mike Reid were partially confirmed. Ever... more »

Wallace Springs Farm Sausage and Ground Pork

cowboss at WALLACE SPRINGS ECO CENTRE - 1 day ago
Wallace Springs Farm's freezer has just been restocked with fresh frozen sausage and ground pork in time for your summer BBQs. Six varieties of sausage to choose from or buy ground pork and make your own. Buy 20 lbs or more and receive a free 1 litre of Wallace Springs pure old fashioned Maple syrup. Sausage $5.49/lb. and the ground pork $4.99/lb.

HOW THE SPIN SOUNDS IN KIEV

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Post by AntiMaidan l Say NO to fascism. This short video shows just how the US-NATO corrupt regime in Kiev lies to their own people and the rest of the world. You'd think that by now folks would learn not to trust these cats but put some bars and stars on a uniformed soldier and they can get away with just about anything. The first part has the Ukrainian military spokesman saying they take great care not to harm civilians and then the rest of the video shows the truth.

MORE JAIL TIME ON JEJU

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
More peace activists in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea take a brave stand in non-violently resisting the building of the naval base on the 'island of peace'! We salute your powerful witness against militarism and pray for peace in the Asia Pacific region! Two more peace activists went to jail today for refusing to pay fines related to protests opposing the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island. Lee Jong-Hwa and Park Seung-Ho took a conscientious stand against militarism and injustice. They said, "We will resolutely resist till the day when the Jeju naval base c... more »

BALKANIZATION OF IRAQ

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Carving up the spoils..... the US-NATO program was always about breaking Iraq into pieces just like was done to Yugoslavia and Libya.....Russia and China are also on the list for carving up.

Transendence

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I am trying to watch it but it transends my abiltiy or hardware or something, it marketing trickery if you ask me. Like humans cataloging big Ape behavior, big data is going to make you want to buy a sex toy for your mother in law. We are stupid humans there should be a twelve step process for that. Native Americans fled ancient China because they did not want to be the next eunech who was intelligent enough to see Now right now we all have to believe. We got to believe in far more constructed senarios than anyone who ever invented a religion could possibly believe. Mankind to it... more »

Dear visitor to my blog, As you may know, most of my recent posts are quasi-replicated re-postings of the work of others. Accordingly, I was getting set to repost the June 30, 2014 lead post of Democracy Now, when I discovered that the embed code would not function ...even though it appeared to be no different in construction from the many Democracy Now embed codes I've used in the past. After many tries with no luck, I finally decided that it must have been censored. Why do I think that? Well, upon watching the video corresponding to the frozen copy below, I've concluded that it is because Edward Snowden comes across in this testimony before the German Parliament as such a sincere individual with true concern for human rights so deep that he regards his having to hide in Russia indefinitely is a small price to pay to get out the story of NSA's spying. Indeed, it is my sense that anyone who has been previously been lied into believing that Snowden is a traitor will immediatly see him as a HERO! So go to the link below the photo, which should take you to the original, and watch at least long enough to take in this close-up segment (about 4 minutes in), and then decide whether or not you agree with my assessment.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ Snowden Asylum in Germany? Support Grows for NSA Whistleblower After Merkel Cancels Verizon Contract http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/30/snowden_asylum_in_germany_support_grows Cherchez la Verite

Of C. David Heymann, lies and truths

Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 1 day ago
I wrote this a while back for the CTKA.net site, but given that a new book from the author has been published, it's worth a reprint here. - - - - - - As a researcher into a controversial subject – the assassinations of the sixties – people often ask me this question: How do you know which sources to believe and which to disbelieve? My answer is this: When you read an author for the first time

I can not complain

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I can not complain though if I could a wood I would grow a tree in my honor and collect all its benefits as a royalty But that's not my fate I was born in a bad way and raised myself with my parents help I can not complain I see the world and I am free of pain Like 80% of the planet I am not a coal fanatic So I feel the pain I know all the simptions and even the cause But the solution its pollution Yeah the world we got can handle an infite amout of pollution or unatrural compounds that in nature would not exist we are taunting God every day with the way we work the earth to what I e... more »

In search of a truly portable cellphone

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
I wouldn't say I rail against all of life’s constraints, but the lack of control for customers of cellphone service in Canada has always made me crazy. This, then, is the story of one woman with minimal knowledge of cellphone technology on an all-consuming mission: To find an affordable phone that could be taken almost anywhere in the world with just the change of a SIM card. The term for this magical thing is an “unlocked world phone,” a phrase I’d never heard when the search got underway in May, but one which I’d become very familiar with in the research-filled weeks... more »

Agri Econ 14: NO to Further Extension of Agrarian Reform

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
Three weeks ago, there was a report that after President Noynoy Aquino met with several farmer leaders, he was persuaded to have another extension of agrarian reform (AR) in the Philippines, from end-June 2014 (last weekend) to another two years, mid-2016. This is wrong. Endless extension of forced land redistribution is wrong. Agrarian reform in Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan took only three years or less, zero extension. Here, it is 42 years now, plus two more years? Then extend again when the next administration comes to power? If one has 10 hectares or more of inherited land from h... more »

Another tough schedule for the president...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
H/T White House Dossier *Obama Schedule || Thursday, July 3, 2014* *10:00 ||* Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing *12:30 pm ||* Lunch with Biden

Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers, Research

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers, Research. via Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers, Research.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Said it before and we’ll say it again: #edreform is cheap @rocketshiped

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Rocketship Education sputters. I guess they didn’t build that play too well as they flew it. An editorial from the WI Journal Sentinel pretty much sums it up. Rocketship relies on inexperienced teachers, almost one-third of whom quit last year. It saves money by having students as young as kindergarten spend one-quarter of their day […]

SOLDIER PROTESTS UKRAINE WAR ON THEIR OWN CITIZENS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Significant protests against the war being waged in eastern Ukraine by the governing regime in Kyiv are taking place by the conscript soldiers of the Ukraine army and their families, friends and supporters. The protests are entirely unreported in mainstream, western media. They take on a renewed urgency as a result of Kyiv's July 1 announcement that it is ending a ten day ceasefire and resuming its military assaults against the towns and cities in the east. *(Click here for many more stories and links about growing resistance to the US-NATO Kiev regime by citizens of Ukraine)* *A... more »

ANTHROPOLOGISTS WITHIN: Despising the Clintons in block-long estates!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014* *Part 4—Anthropologist Leibovich speaks:* In this morning’s Washington Post, the famous newspaper’s jihadic obsession burns on. It’s true that Philip Rucker, the cub reporter, has been exiled to page A3 today. But on that page, he is given 1358 words, and a photograph, to extend his “Ahab watch” concerning those grotesque and obscene speaking fees, the sign of a sick society. Today, Rucker considers the unseemly amounts Hillary Clinton has received, or will receive, for speeches at eight universities. He highlights “outrage” from student leaders about these... more »

Fight Salt and Sugar in our Foods

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
RATS will eat themselves to death if salt and sugar are at unnatural levels in their food, and so will horses. Admit you can not control your lizard brain and be part of a better future.

Reasonable apprehension of bias

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Langstaff v. Marson, 2014 ONCA 510: [24] There is a strong presumption of judicial impartiality and a heavy burden on a party who seeks to rebut this presumption. [25] Judicial impartiality has been called "the key to our judicial process": see*Wewaykum Indian Band v. Canada, **[2003] 2 S.C.R. 259*, at p. 288. Chief Justice Lamer referred to "public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary" as "essential to the effectiveness of the court system": see *R. v. Campbell,* [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, at para 10. The presumption of impartiality anchors public confidence in the... more »

Fight GMO foods

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I just know in my heart they are wrong, wrong like Nuclear power, wrong like Oxycontin, wrong, wrong, wrong as the future. When I see wrong repeated over and over I thinkaboot it must be a Klingon word we have adapted.

Paul Bernardo Getting Married

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I want to throw up. I want to lock up the women in question because she is obviously a danger to the state. I just wonder because the source is the SUN is this all a Harper black ops? I am proud of Canada for not having capital punishment. Its wrong on every level. Bernardo is getting punishment, but this headline is gravy for the Conservatives. No serious journalists should have published this story. Its bullshit news.

Party Poly-ticks

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
Perhaps it's the nature of party politics that eventually causes parties to abdicate themselves of their founding principles. Political parties come into existence with ideological agendas and a set of corresponding positions and policies. It's what makes them political parties. Eventually though, parties lose themselves in politics. The Conservatives, whether Reform or a proper Tory variety,

O Yeah Links

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
Too tired to blog. Enjoy some links. Yeah!!! Taipei Times says obstacle to foreign nationals taking out local citizenship may be removed. - Epoch Times: CCP Using thugs to undermine Occupy movement? - Was the Sunflower movement successful? - Ma meets Kerry in Panama - Tsai Ing-wen presser in English (video) - D Engbarth: Rights experts urge Action on gender equality - FPIF: China's South China Sea move gives it strategic access to the Indian Ocean - China's Dangerous Taiwan Gambit - WantWant: using aboriginal culture to expand Chinese tourism _______________... more »

Who Is Grubbier-- France's Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy Or L.A.'s Ex-Sheriff Lee Baca? How About Mississippi Nutcase Chris McDaniel?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
What's wrong with voters who allow themselves to be suckered by conservative politicians? I was listening to an amazing broadcast on KCRW the other night. It was a discussion between an anchor who didn't know it was amazing and a beat reporter who was just as clueless. The reporter was babbling to the anchor about how 6 officials of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department were convicted of obstructing a federal probe into violence against inmates in county jails. She reported that they could get long prison sentences-- like 15 years or more-- but that no one thought they would because, ... more »

It Takes Imagination

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
http://www.aoga.org When it comes to climate change, Murray Dobbin writes, knowledge isn't the problem. We have plenty of it. And it's growing everyday: We have seen especially alarming predictions in the past few months. Two studies released almost simultaneously claim with a high degree of certainty that the glaciers in the western Antarctic are irreversibly melting. The first, by NASA and the University of California-Irvine, examined a group of large glaciers that collectively contain the eq... more »

Untitled

jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 1 day ago
*“Diversity”: The Idol of Academia* “Diversity” is not just a good in the academic world. It is the supreme good, the one good before which all other considerations must yield. Recently, a colleague expressed a preference for a certain Northeastern city university over a certain Midwestern Christian college because, he said, the former has more “diversity” than the latter. All that this means, though, is that because this big city university in the Northeast is a racial, ethnic, and socio-economic polyglot and its Midwestern Christian counterpart is just too white, the former is p... more »

Can we exchange seats for something else?

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
It has started to rub me the wrong way when media outlets refer to increasing school enrollment as “seats.” From the NY Daily News: The city will offer 53,000 pre-K seats in the fall, up from about 20,000 this year. Many of the new seats will be in public schools, but the majority will be […]

Big-Pharma Vaccines Deemed "Safe" by Big-Pharma Funded "Study"

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*July 3, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - RT's article, "​Vaccines don’t cause autism, complications extremely rare – study," states that: *There is no evidence that immunizing vaccinations cause autism while any complications arising from their administration to children are extremely rare, new analysis comprised of 67 research studies has discovered.* *“There is strong evidence that MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine is not associated with autism,”the study’s results said.* RT cites a "Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics" study titled, "Safety... more »

Nuclear Green all time hits

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 day ago
EntryPageviews United States 294048 United Kingdom 48501 Canada 30824 Germany 24553 France 19324 India 17928 Norway 16920 Australia 15489 Netherlands 14541 China 12844

sometimes knowing your rights is all it takes: in which we win our landlord battle

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
We won! And we won so easily, we're left scratching our heads and asking, "What just happened?" As you'll recall, our landlord asked for an illegal rent increase - 10.5% when the legal allowable is 0.8%! - and implied that he would resort to dirty tricks if we didn't pay. We did our homework, checked and double-checked that this home does not fall through a serious loophole in Ontario rent laws. We crafted an email with just the right tone - straightforward and firm, but with nothing that could be considered belligerent. When he received our email, he asked when he could come over ... more »

Glenn Greenwald's Big NSA Story Gets Squashed

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
On Monday, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald let the news slip via Twitterthat his long-awaited NSA story was to be published on The Intercept at midnight. By Tuesday morning, much to the dismay of myself and many others it appeared that the site - which since its rollout has been disappointly devoid of new material - has caved to government pressure tactics did not post the story. According to a rather cryptic Tweet by Greenwald later on Monday, *"After 3 months working on our story, USG today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investig... more »

Iraq Sectarian Civil War and Jihadist Battles Updates ( July 3 , 2014 ) ..... As if battling the Kurds and Sunnis wasn't enough on his plate , PM Maliki opens a third front by battling a Shi'a rival in southern Iraq - and somehow Maliki sees a new Iraqi Government by next week ( with Maliki still at the helm ? ) ..... Ever notice Maliki listens to no one but wants everyone to help him ( Maliki Urges Neighbors to Join in Iraq’s War Against ISIS Says Caliphate Is a Problem for the Whole Region ) ? Biggest problem for any Unity government is neither of the three major factions and combatants ( Shi'a / Sunni or Kurd trust each other and no one trusts Maliki )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Anti War...... Maliki Cracks Down on Shi’ite Rival: 45 Killed In Karbala ClashTroops Tried to Arrest Cleric Critical of 'Call to Arms' by Jason Ditz, July 02, 2014 Print This | Share This After a bloody crackdown on Sunni Arabs, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki saw violence soar for months, and most of the Sunni portion of the nation now taken over by ISIS. Kurdistan, likewise, is one foot out the door to secession. The lesson apparently unlearned, Maliki’s forces attacked the offices of a popular cleric in the Shi’ite holy city of Karbala today, aiming to arrest him for public ... more »

The Middle East conflict summed up - 'One side wants the other side dead'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
'The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most Palestinians do not want Israel to exist. As Dennis Prager explains, this is really all you need to know. In 5 minutes, understand how Israel was founded, and how, since that auspicious day in 1948, its neighbors have tried to destroy it, again and again. '

U.S. plans sale of 4,000 more Hellfire missiles to Iraq

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: AGM-114 Hellfire]The State Department has told lawmakers informally that the Obama administration wants to sell Iraq more than 4,000 additional Hellfire missiles made by Lockheed Martin for the government’s fight against Islamic insurgents, according to people familiar with the plan. Sale of the laser-guided missiles would be in addition to 500 previously purchased, of which about 400 have been delivered. The U.S. has pledged military aid to Iraq in its fight against the militants, an extremist Sunni group that’s seized a swath of territory north and west of Baghdad. Iraq’s ... more »

D's Update: Computers, Communications and Cats

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
*Edited July 3 at 9:54 am: Well folks.... it's taken me 6 DAYS to get this article to post! I was literally about to go over to Bill's place and retype it all out on his computer and get him to post it on American Kabuki instead!! Well.... I'm about to press publish- everyone cross your fingers!!!* June 27th, 2014, Good morning everyone! I'm back..... again. lol. Since my last post, I've run into a litany of communications issues. It's almost as if someone is telling me to stay off the computer- which really doesn't work well with my schedule, lol. This is just a short upd... more »

The Best of Russell Brand: The awakening of humanity and our revolution ...

noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 1 day ago

NSA Can Spy on 98 Percent of the World

noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 1 day ago

the Paddington bear film - the REAL CONSPIRACY - who is this imposter?

Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's free planet blog - 1 day ago
*Creepy Paddington image c/o Irish Times* I realise you're going, "Free Planet blog generally deals with serious *satanic* anti-Illuminati or *conglomerate* anti-Profit issues that are ruining modern life and making us wage-slaves, oh, and sometimes some art. But this rough and scruffy cunning and 'attitude crippled' life-like naked brown bear cub with flesh-ripping canines is NOT Paddington bear... ...because Paddington bear is a *talking toy* in a planar world. Not a real i.e. voiceless, bear cub in a 3D world. This is the real Paddington bear, notice his plump proportions and... more »

No wonder Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls made such a mess of the UK economy, they can't do simple maths

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Guido Fawkes has the details http://order-order.com/2014/07/02/eds-pmqs-figures-out-by-134/

Xi Arrival in South Korea Marked by N. Korea Missiles

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with South Korean President Park Geun Hye today with a series of North Korean missile launches lending urgency to their pledge to rein in Kim Jong Un’s nuclear ambitions. North Korea has conducted three rounds of missile firings in the past week, including two overseen by Kim, that heightened tensions on the peninsula before Xi’s arrival. As one of Kim’s few allies and his country’s biggest trading partner, China has leverage over North Korea, which has detonated three nuclear devices and threatened to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. Re... more »

Boeing signs contract to produce Super Hornets and Growlers

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: EA-18G Growler]Boeing has been awarded a contract by the F/A-18 and EA-18G Programme Office (PMA-265) to produce and deliver 44 F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft over the next two years. The latest contract will allow the US Navy to acquire the remaining aircraft included in the programme of record by the end of the fiscal year 2016, as well as 12 EA-18Gs for the Royal Australian Air Force, which were requested in July 2013. PMA-265 programme manager captain Frank Morley said that F/A-18 and EA-18G jets are the predominant tactical force for both the US Navy an... more »

The Mogambo Guru, “A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”* by The Mogambo Guru “I can hear the family gathered outside, banging on the walls of the Mogambo Bunker Of Paranoid Hysteria (MBOPH), demanding that I unlock the door, come outside immediately, stop acting like a crazy person, and at least pick up the empty pizza boxes that I threw out into the yard, because the neighbors are complaining, and it looks so tacky, and blah blah blah.Well, the neighbors may be complaining to each other about a few colorful cardboard boxes festively strewn randomly about, decorating the yard, but it is never... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Suddenly Yours”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
2002, “Suddenly Yours” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQn4U-IxDL8

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