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Consider This Dispatch a WAR-WARNING
"The current threat level from international terrorism for the UK is assessed as SEVERE" - If an attack should occur before, during or after the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales, DON'T think ISIS, Don't think Putin, Don't think Syria: think NATO Intelligence. #warwarning #nato
I am afraid of Carbon Fiber as a mission critical resouce
It blows up at failure and give you little warning watch the NHL for evidence no way I am riding a bike made of carbon fiber.
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*Environmental businesses as a New Orleans economic asset: See the data points ~Mark Waller*
Oh no, the evil ISIS terrorists are waterboarding! How dare those dastards . . . oops!
*Kids, don't try this at home! But I've got some suggestions of blowhards who deserve to undergo a lovely round of waterboarding -- at the hands of professional CIA torturers technicians. (Artwork by Simon Scarr/Reuters Graphic.)* *"Critics of waterboarding have said for years that the practice endangered Americans, putting them at risk of being subjected to the same brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy."* *-- from "Captives held by Islamic State werewaterboarded" on washingtonpost.com* *by Ken* Let's try not to make *too big* a deal of it, but since the Lying LIars of the... more »
Hey Hackers: Join the NSA, It's like a Rave Party
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Singapore Singapore Singapore
Austria Austria Austria, Denmark Denmark Denmark, Germany Germany Germany. Of all the treys only Germany is a significant country but man they can move like a little one and treat the citizens to a good life despite the troubled seas that surround them and the lack of natural resources that enrich the stupid ones. But I say to you all, Singapore is the place that has been playing civilization since 1964 and winning every round. Take a look folks, no wires our mirrors just good, not good great goverment. Social housing is the foundation and good goverment over all is the salvation ... more »
Crushed [updated]
Gutless, and gone? *UPDATE*: Good riddance. A shame she wasn’t sacked for all her real offences . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Breaking News: greencrow's option "None of the Above" pondered by Federal Liberal caucus
GREENCROW'S SUGGESTION FOR BALLOT REFORM - *'NONE OF THE ABOVE' ADDED TO BALLOT* - IS BEING CONSIDERED BY LIBERAL CAUCUS Greencrow proposed this option to Minister for Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre and MP James Moore back last February, 2014. Neither of them bothered to respond to my e-mail....but it looks like the Liberals have accepted my suggestion for a change to the ballot. The Liberals have, however, framed it as a "mandatory vote"...which I don't think will fly and is a totally unnecessary march down the path to totalitarianism. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Feder... more »
Kissinger Defines His View Of What Is Necessary For A New World Order
*The Assembly Of A New World Order -- Henry Kissinger, Wall Street Journal* The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. The search for world order has long b... more »
SELLING MISSILE OFFENSE
*Zoom in Korea* *South Korea Missile Defense: U.S. Presses Interoperability * U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work says he wants South Korea’s missile defense (MD) system to be ‘extremely interoperable’ with the U.S. system. “We want the Korean Air Missile and Defense (KAMD) to be independent and strong,” he told a news conference at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek on August 21, “What we hope is to have an extremely interoperable system between the United States’ theater missile defense and the KAMD.“ *‘Extremely Interoperable’ – What does it mean?* The US government has... more »
"Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide... and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast"
*"Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide... * *and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast"* by George Washington "We noted 2 days after the Japanese earthquake that radiation from Fukushima could end up on the West Coast of North America. And see this. We started tracking the radioactive cesium released by Fukushima within weeks of the accident. In fact, U.S. nuclear authorities were extremely worried about the West Coast getting hit by Fukushima radiation but publicly said nothing. We reported that Fukushima radiation had spread worldwide, and ... more »
Corrupt UK Government Exports Islamist Terrorists To The Middle East And Then Uses Them To Put Fear In Its Ignorant Population
"The United Kingdom raised its terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe” Friday, at a time when Britons have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside the Islamist militant group wreaking havoc there." - Alex Rogers, *"U.K. Raises Terror Threat Level to ‘Severe’"* Time, August 29, 2014. The corrupt, cynical, and criminal U.K. government says that Islamist terrorists that have taken over substantial territory in Iraq, and whom it previously falsely labeled as "rebels" when they were busy fighting Assad in Syria, pose a severe threat to the security of the U.K. Insane ... more »
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 29, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the all-Russian youth forum Seliger, held in Tver region August 29, 2014. (Reuters / RIA Novosti / Mikhail Klimentyev) *Putin Mocks The West, Puts His Own Prestige On The Line -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast* By proclaiming his support for Novorossiya, the old imperial name for eastern and southern Ukraine, Putin signals he won’t back away from the fight. MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin ratcheted up his rhetorical-historical claims on eastern Ukraine Friday, even as pro-Russian rebels and their allies among the separatist rebels pu... more »
Venezuela debt watch ( August 29 , 2014 ) - Venezuela has 15 billion in foreign reserves - 6 billion due to be paid in October - December 2014 ! If 2015 debt is similar to 2014 ( USD 9.6 billion to be paid in 2014 ) , it's not clear how Venezuela meets its debt obligations - while paying the rest of its bills .....
http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140823/foreign-debt-maturity-puts-pressure-on-venezuelan-public-accounts Foreign debt maturity puts pressure on Venezuelan public accountsUSD 6 billion is expected to be paid in October-December The figures of the central bank show Venezuelan repaid USD 7 billion in foreign debt in 2013 (Vicente Correale) EL UNIVERSAL Saturday August 23, 2014 12:00 AM In order to raise expenditure above oil revenues and tax collection, the Venezuelan government took on debt by selling bonds now nearing their maturity date, which forces authorities to allocate signif... more »
Rob Ford
How I despise this man and the system that put such a reprobate in.
KISSINGER ADMITS PLAN FOR NEW WORLD ORDER
Former Secretary of State releases globalist plan for world government *by* HENRY KISSINGER | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor’s note: this is an article written by wanted war criminal and the elites gopher, Henry Kissinger. The article is titled: ‘Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order‘ and appeared in the Wall Street Journal 29th Aug, 2014. Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan’s young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are add... more »
FIRE TIME
- I started bringing in some wood today because the temperatures are cooling off and I wanted to fill up the wood holders in the house. Tonight I am going to sit out in the back yard with a fire going and I called MB and asked her to bring some beer on her way home from work. Might as well start thinking and acting like I am on vacation. - The summer this year has gone by fast and has been much cooler than the past couple of years. This summer felt more like the Maine summers we experienced after moving here in 2003. - I had a 90-minute massage to... more »
Masters out of control spells KAOS
I have no idea how you became competent to comment. But believe me girl and I would say the same thing to you if you were a man. The end of civil discussion in near, Rob Ford over thirty and thats when the mission blows and the other entertains increase the suck and blow and we get a mayor whose lungs can survive a blow out at 35.000 feet due to tequila. The world is so crazy these days and I thought I would love it watching the wooden animals rot so fast But thats a pleasure I have put into the past We need these rotten decks of humanity to move us into a concrete future Tabernac... more »
The Indefatigable Lithuanians
*NATO : The Organisation so Satanic, they back-mask their own name.* Zbig - The Ukraine Crisis and the Brezezinki's Plan for a Greater Poland from Spike EP on Vimeo. "The Young Poland of Lelewel and Worcell demands the re-creation of the Polish state and rollback of the 1772-95 partitions of Poland. But they go much further, laying claim to Poland in its old Jagiellonian borders, stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea. *This includes an explicit denial that any Ukrainian nation exists. * In the orbit of Young Poland is the poe... more »
World News Briefs -- August 29, 2014 (Evening Edition)
*NATO To Russia: Stop 'Illegal' Military Operations in Ukraine -- Voice of America* NATO has called on Russia to cease its "illegal military operations" in eastern Ukraine, which it says are aimed at destabilizing the country. The comments by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday followed an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the worsening crisis. Rasmussen, referencing satellite images released by his organization Thursday, said it is now clear that Russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into eastern Ukraine. He said this is not an isolated inc... more »
Prayer for the Day
That forensic review of BBC Radio 4's output on Tuesday 26 August, which I envisioned in the previous post, would have to have begun somewhere and, as the yearning Christian atheist in me would want me to begin the day with a prayer, I would surely have had to have started it with *Prayer for the Day - *Radio 4's daily religious offering at 5.43am. Thinking about it, *Prayer for the Day* is an intriguing BBC Radio 4 institution - as is *Thought for the Day *on the *Today *programme, the *Daily Service *(longwave only), *Sunday Worship*, and the ever-delightful *Bells on Sunday*. ... more »
How to solve all our problems
The earth is a very big place and its hard to hurt humans have done this repeatedly since our birth now it has come to a crises one the humans should curse because of the extinction event animals we are well above the curve First and foremost cut back the CO2 Ban coal burning that will give us a decade or two Then just modernize or lifestyles Climate house our domiciles and hydroginize our transport systems man is the great architect of living so lets listen to the best build Manhattan projects that are forgiving not death dealing atomic blasts. Every technology we need to day has b...more »
Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Wants To Be A Citizen Of The Islamic State
*'It Would Be An Honor To Join ISIS And Become A Citizen Of The Caliphate,' Says Former US Army Psychiatrist Who Killed 13 In Shooting Spree At Fort Hood -- Daily Mail* * Nidal Hasan claimed it would be 'an honor' to join ISIS caliphate in letter * Hasan killed 13 and injured 30 in 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas * Earlier this year FBI chief testified that he believed the shooting carried out by Hasan at Fort Hood in Texas was inspired by al-Qaeda The former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in the 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood has said it would be 'an honor' to joi... more »
Supplemental: The endless desire to see lives destroyed!
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014* *Rachel Maddow in eastern Ukraine:* On last evening’s TV show, Rachel Maddow really seemed to be flying. To our taste, she wasted a lot of time with a lot of piffle-fed topics. She wasted time discussing herself, as she constantly does. At one point, she turned to her favorite topic. Early on, she made an odd remark: MADDOW (8/28/14): The defense rests! Today was the last day of testimony in the federal corruption trial of Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Today, the judge in the case rejected a request by the defense counsel for an acquittal.... more »
Rob Ford-- Four More Years?
When Richard Nixon was narrowly elected president in 1968-- beating war-tainted Herbert Humphrey by seven tenths of a percentage point, 43.4 to 42.7%-- I decided to move to another country. I travelled around the world and finally settled down in Amsterdam. By the summer of 1972 it was obvious to me that Nixon couldn't possibly win another term and I started thinking about moving back to America. When the votes were counted on November, Nixon-- who we later found out stole the election through a criminal fraud that later forced him to resign in disgrace-- had 47,168,710 votes (60.... more »
Its anxiety rising true
Every one has cancer and there will never be a cure Its a war like weeding your garden keep the bad plants away but your never going to eliminate any biological function without killing the patient.
U.S. - Iraq Military Operations Are Cost $7.5 Million Per Day
A still image captured from U.S. Navy cockpit video shows an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Black Lions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 after launching from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Gulf on Aug. 10, 2014 in this video released on Aug. 11, 2014. A series of U.S. airstrikes since last week has slowed the operational tempo of the Islamic State, the militant group that has seized large parts of northern Iraq, but is unlikely to substantially weaken the group, the Pentagon said on Monday. Reuters/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters *Pentago... more »
More Jo Grant pictures - NSFW - Doctor Who related - Friday Night Rule 5
A while ago I posted some 'arty' photos of Katy Manning, Jo Grant from the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who era, and very nice they were too - a Dalek and a naked Jo Grant. Here's Jo Grant as I remember her. Here's Jo Grant as we all too occasionally saw her on Doctor Who back in the early 1970s Now, partially thanks to Emma Peel's Pants, I have some more Katy Manning/Jo Grant gratuitious nudity photos. And here are those Jo Grant with Dalek photos, because you can never see them too many times. Ah happy days - 'something for the dads' they used to say, but also for this randy... more »
Excuses, excuses
What with having a full-time job, a family, and friends who persist in asking you to do things with them, it's a hard life being a blogger. It really is, and, to be honest, I don't envy myself being one. In fact, it's so bad that I *demand* violins. (Are Hilary Hahn and Nicola Benedetti available?) As a blogger, you keep intending to post important pieces - pieces bound to resound around the blogosphere and beyond - and to conduct scorchingly incisive in-depth surveys into the BBC's output which, in some sort of other world to this one, might very well shake that wicked corporati... more »
Rest In Peace Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park. He was the older brother of Sir David Attenborough, a naturalist and broa... more »
A Cure for Climate Change
originally published on CounterPunch As Easter Sunday melds into Easter Monday, and as technophiles and other overly zealous techno-fetishists prattle on about their market-based (that is, their faith-based) and tech-based fixes for climate change, a foolproof, low-tech and (dare I say) “shovel ready” solution is already at hand: the time-honored institution of the vacation. Recognized as vital at least since biblical times (when the sabbath – a word derived from the verb ‘to rest’ – was introduced) the vacation not only enables people and other animals to rejuvenate, the planet it... more »
Beyond Reparations - Ferguson and Actual Justice
originally published on CounterPunch Killed at noon, just down the road from the grave of the slave Dred Scott, Michael Brown has now joined a perennially growing group of dead men and women (a group that only recently added Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, Renisha McBride, and others) killed by a combination of institutional racism and systemic poverty. Poverty and race, of course (like race and wealth), cannot be easily disentangled. Not only has the man-made construct of race been used to justify seizures of material resources (gold, timber, land, etc.) from ... more »
Is The Islamic State Plotting To Kill Pope Francis?
*Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope -- Barbie Latza Nadeau, Daily Beast* Vatican scoffs at threats that Pope Francis is “in the crosshairs” of ISIS as Italy issues a terrorist threat and tightens security. VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis continues to straddle the fine line between calling for the end of persecution of Christians in Iraq and blessing American airstrikes against the Islamic State (also known as the “Caliphate,” ISIS, or ISIL), there is increasing concern for the pontiff’s—and the public’s—safety. Earlier this week, the Roman newspaper I... more »
What Can The West Do To Prevent A Ukraine Defeat?
*What Can The US And NATO Do To Prevent Putin From Defeating Ukraine? -- Quartz* The new incursion into Ukrainian territory by Russian forces has led some veteran US foreign policy hands to call for a quick and highly visible Western airlift of military equipment to Kyiv. The aim: to prevent a Russian rout of Ukraine. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former US secretary of state George Shultz and ex-defense secretary William Perry urged the US and NATO to deploy forces in the Baltics, and equipment in Ukraine. The prospects a swift victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin’... more »
Truth Is Always A Casualty Of War
Pro-Russian separatists walk at a destroyed war memorial on Savur-Mohyla, a hill east of the city of Donetsk, August 28, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov *On Russian Troops In Ukraine, Honesty Is Not Everyone's Best Policy -- Christian Lowe, Reuters* (Reuters) - The Ukraine conflict has evoked many memories of the Cold War, including a footloose attitude to the truth. But even as Russia’s denials of involvement stretch credibility to breaking point, for some they remain a convenient fiction. Russian President Vladimir Putin is chief among them; denying a Russian role will kee... more »
Why Clacton Matters for Labour
*A very quick something bashed out for LabourList this morning and published here. In case you missed it ...* Make yourself a cuppa, pull up a comfy chair, and watch. Since Douglas Carswell’s surprise/no-surprise defection to UKIP yesterday and the forcing of a by-election in Clacton, there will be some in the party tempted to adopt this attitude. And not without good reason. Consider the previous by-election outings over the last year or so. In Eastleigh, a Liberal Democrat/Tory marginal, from nowhere, became a LD/UKIP marginal. The Conservatives were dumped into third place and o... more »
Ukraine Civil War News Updates -- August 29, 2014
BBC *Death Toll In Ukraine Fighting Hits 2,593: U.N. Human Rights Official -- Reuters* (Reuters) - A total of 2,593 people, including civilians as well as Ukrainian and separatist combatants, have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since it erupted in mid-April, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday. "The trend is clear and alarming. There is a significant increase in the death toll in the east," Ivan Simonovic, U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, told journalists. "The current number of killed is 2,593 - close to 3,000 if we include the 298 v... more »
NATO Condemns Russia For It's Invasion Of Ukraine
*NATO to Russia: Stop 'Illegal' Military Operations in Ukraine -- Voice of America* NATO has called on Russia to cease its "illegal military operations" in eastern Ukraine, which it says are aimed at destabilizing the country. The comments by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday followed an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the worsening crisis. Rasmussen, referencing satellite images released by his organization Thursday, said it is now clear that Russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into eastern Ukraine. He said this is not an isolated inc... more »
Grand Chess Master provokes "Kennedy Solution" from Ex CIA agent
Grand Chess Master Putin *What took them so long to start talking about the "Kennedy solution"?* Ex CIA agent and former Reagan advisor Herbert E. Meyer has proposed that Putin be assassinated by his own Russian oligarchs. *"Herbert E. Meyer, who served as a Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence under the Reagan administration, said the goal of U.S. sanctions against Russia “should be to get the Russians who’ve been keeping Putin in power, or tolerating Putin in power, **to throw that knockout punch**.”* We all know the evil doers are *basically one or two ... more »
Why Did Russian President Putin Use The Term 'Novorossiya' In Yesterday's Statement
The area of 'New Russia' which Putin now refers to in Ukraine.(WikiCommons) *The Very Scary Word In Putin's New Statement On The Ukraine Crisis -- Max Fisher, VOX* Russian President Vladimir Putin just dropped the biggest, scariest dogwhistle of the Ukraine crisis: "Novorossiya." The word literally means "new Russia" — it was an old, imperial-era term for southern Ukraine, when it was part of the Russian Empire, and is now a term used by Russia ultra-nationalists who want to re-conquer the area. Putin has used the word twice during the crisis. First, he used it in April, about a m... more »
The Environment Has Many Enemies In Congress-- And Fred Upton Is The Most Dangerous Of All
There may be more than one reason so many voters in southwest Michigan want this to be Fred Upton's last term. First elected in 1986 (when Ronald Reagan was president), there's a general feeling that Upton's been in Congress too long and that he's now "one of them," not "one of us." He's become a creature of the Beltway and he pushes policies for K Street lobbyists and big special interests rather than for working families back in Kalamazoo, Portage, Niles, Benton Harbor/St. Joseph or Paw Paw. Or maybe it's because 69% of MI-06 residents say they opposed shutting down the governm... more »
Supplemental: A script became official today!
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014The frameworks of Journalist County:* Today, the script became official. It started in an innocent fashion, with Amy Chozick reporting Hillary Clinton’s comments about Ferguson. Basically, Clinton said next to nothing, but people had been demanding to hear it. In this morning’s New York Times, Chozick started her nothingburger news report like this: CHOZICK (8/29/14): Nearly three weeks after the shooting of Michael Brown prompted widespread protests in a St. Louis suburb and a national examination of race and police tactics, *Hillary Rodham Clinton on Th... more »
Putin Issues A Warning To The West: 'Don't Mess With Nuclear Russia'
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus August 27, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool *Don't Mess With Nuclear Russia, Putin Says -- Reuters* (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia's armed forces, backed by its nuclear arsenal, were ready to meet any aggression, declaring at a pro-Kremlin youth camp that foreign states should understand: "It's best not to mess with us." Putin told the assembly, on the banks of a lake near Moscow, the Russian takeover of Crimea ... more »
Henry Kissinger- The Assembly of a New World Order
*Just published today by WSJ* *The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis* * Henry Kissinger* Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. *Our world as a rubiks cube? How very arrogant of the powers t... more »
FBI national domestic threat assessment omits Islamist terrorism | Fox News
' The FBI's most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year's Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans. Instead, the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to U.S. internal security from extremists is limited to attacks and activities by eight types of domestic extremist movements—none motivated by radical Islam. They include anti-government militia groups and white supremacy extre... more »
World News Briefs -- August 29, 2014
*Ukraine Fighting Surges As Russian-Backed Forces Gain -- Bloomberg* Separatists in eastern Ukraine are battling government forces on two fronts near the Sea of Azov and south of Donetsk after NATO reported a surge of Russian troops and advanced equipment into the war-zone. The U.S. and the European Union threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with further sanctions, even as the EU began talks in Moscow today aimed at a temporary deal with Ukraine to allow natural-gas flows to resume. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today dismissed satellite photos that NATO said show ... more »
METAPHORS AND FACTS: He’s looked at life from one side now!
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014* *Part 5—Touré gets it (exactly half) right:* At one time, the American press corps was Walter and David. People, that was it! The press corps today is more varied. The range of voices from which we hear is being greatly expanded. Examples: Major newspapers and major web sites are hiring an amazing number of 20-somethings. Youth is being widely served. Often, this produces very poor journalistic results. A wider array of progressive voices are being featured at some news orgs, MSNBC being one major example. And a wider array of blacks and Hispanics appe... more »
Local Council By-Elections August 2014
Party Number of Candidates Total Vote % +/- July Average/ contest +/- July +/- Seats Conservative 9 2,528 27.1% -2.2% 281 -160 +1 Labour 8 2,551 27.4% +1.7% 319 -89 0 LibDem 7 1,732 18.6% +7.5% 247 -11 0 UKIP 7 1,685 18.1% +2.8% 241 -30 +1 SNP* 0 -1.0% -595 0 Plaid Cymru** 0 -0.4% -228 0 Green 5 687 7.4% +3.5% 137 +25 0 BNP 0 -0.1% -58 0 TUSC 1 16 0.2% +0.1% 16 +2 0 Independent*** 2 127 1.4% -5.9% ... more »
The Covert Origins of ISIS
*Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done.* The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that mission is to wipe out anyone and everyone, from any religion or belief system and to impose Shari'ah law. The mass executions, beheadings and even crucifixions that they are committing as they work towards this goal are flaunted like badges of pride, video taped and uploaded for the whole world to see. This ... more »
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 29, 2014
*Nato Accuses Russia Of Violating Ukraine Sovereignty -- BBC* *Nato has accused Russia of a "blatant violation" of Ukraine's sovereignty and engaging in direct military operations to support pro-Russian rebels.* Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that "despite hollow denials", it was now clear that Russia had illegally crossed Ukraine's border. He said Nato would respect any Ukrainian decision on security, after its PM said he was putting the country on course for Nato membership. Russia denies sending troops and arms. Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the Ukrainia... more »
Important Health News: 3 Vaccines That Should Be Banned And NEVER Administered To Any Child
It does appear that the newest "ceasefire" in Gaza is holding.. The impoverished and brutalized people of the Gaza Strip can now return to their "homes" which thanks to the psychotic Israelis are nothing more than piles of rubble. This slaughter and genocide of these innocent people by the pschos in the Israeli military has turned Gaza into a wasteland which will take decades to rebuild, if it is allowed to be rebuilt at all. Such a waste and senseless killing by monsters driven by an unending selfish lust to have that land to themselves, and the rightful people that call that a... more »
Mysterious Orange/Red Glow Seen Under Pacific Ocean
http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/08/29/mysterious-orangered-glow-seen-under-pacific-ocean-august-24-2014/#more-228814 Mysterious Orange/Red Glow Seen Under Pacific Ocean *August 24, 2014* *Posted by Stephen Cook on August 29, 2014 * Copyright JPC van Heist Copyright JPC van Heist *Stephen: This is an actual pilot, JPC van Heist, nicknamed Flying Dutchman’s, original story and photography of his experience while flying over the Pacific Ocean this week. His story is also being picked up by some mainstream news outlets (see separate link at end). Whatever this is, it’s both magnificent... more »
In Exile at Home: Impressions from Europe
I have been able to avoid this fate for almost 12 years now, but they finally got me. Being a citizen of Germany, I have been studying in the U.S. on student visas for the last decade and even though it has always been a bureaucratic nightmare, associated with significant financial costs, I usually managed Continue reading
Bill Whittle: Early Check Out: The World Gets Crazier and Obama Goes Golfing...
*is anyone surprised?*
PBS Higher Ed Series Reeks of Gates and Lumina
from Pando DailyIt's easy to understand how PBS and NPR can remain commercial free, once you accept the fact that they are heavily sponsored by billionaires and their foundations who get their commercials worked into the news stories, themselves. Call it the latest in product placement. Over the past 8 years, NPR has received millions from the Gates Foundation to “to expand NPR education coverage and broaden its audience’s engagement on the issue,” as the scroll read in 2013, when NPR landed $1.8 million. In June 2014 it was revealed that "Teaching Channel Presents" for PBS was r... more »
Why Can't You Think of Anything?
Thought I'd make today's post about the barren desert that is the Land of Left-wing Alternative visions. To be fair though, some of my readers actually imagine that voting Liberal or NDP or Green or some socialist fringe party IS their alternative. THAT'S the extent of their analysis and activism. At least in that, they've got it all over bullshit poseur "anarchists" who show up at protests carrying signs that say "No Matter Who They Vote For, We Are Ungovernable!" and who then go home, back to their jobs or their student loans and their paying taxes and rent or whatever. But still... more »
CSTO ready to take over Ukraine
I've spent lots of hours by following the events in Ukraine and worrying about them, too. The Western propagandist outlets have informed their undemanding audiences that Russia has finally invaded Ukraine. Well, it wasn't the first time when we heard such a thing. What strategy did Russia choose to invade Ukraine yesterday? It has sent about 10 soldiers above. They must have supernatural powers if they're supposed to conquer a country with 40+ million people. Perhaps, it wasn't just the ten folks. There may be a thousand of Russian citizens fighting over there. Soldiers on vacatio... more »
The Austerity Diaries: Making Hay While the Sun Shines
Daisy Luther Over the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been around my computer much. That’s because we are working hard to live a more agrarian lifestyle. And to do that, you have to “make hay while the sun shines.” That little proverb was first recorded in 1546, in John Heywood’s “*A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue”* (This is the updated version) Heywood wrote: Whan the sunne shinth make hay. Whiche is to say. Take time whan time cometh, lest time steale away. Back when Heywood wrote down that little pearl of wisdom, every Med... more »
Wall Street Admits That A Cyberattack Could Crash Our Banking System At Any Time
Michael Snyder Wall Street banks are getting hit by cyberattacks every single minute of every single day. It is a massive onslaught that is not highly publicized because the bankers do not want to alarm the public. But as you will see below, one big Wall Street bank is spending 250 million dollars a year just by themselves to combat this growing problem. The truth is that our financial system is not nearly as stable as most Americans think that it is. We have become more dependent on technology than ever before, and that comes with a potentially huge downside. An electromagnet... more »
Canada Slips From Most Developed Nation In The World To 11th Place Because Of Stephen Harper And The Conservatives .. Shame!!
*Canada has slipped out of the top 10 countries listed in the annual United Nation's human development index — a far cry from the 1990s when it held the first place for most of the decade.* *The 2013 report, which reviews a country's performance in health, education and income, places Canada in 11th place versus 10th last year.* *A closer look at the trends shows Canada actually did better than last year, but other countries such as Japan and Australia improved at a greater rate.* *When the numbers are adjusted for gender inequality, Canada slumps to 18th place. The United States fa... more »
10 Amazing Recipes Using Biscoff
There are few things I love more than Biscoff spread. It's like peanut butter, but made with cookies. How does the world get any better than that? Here are some of my favorite recipes made with this amazing spread. I think I need to make them all this weekend! Biscoff Hot Chocolate by Miss in the Kitchen. Crepes and Homemade Biscoff Syrup. Biscoff Banana Bread by Crazy for Crust. Biscoff Cupcakes with Biscoff Buttercream by Baked Bree. Biscoff Filled Donut Holes by Kirbie's Cravings. Biscoff Milkshakes by The Little Kitchen. Baked Biscoff Donuts by Inside BruCrew Life Chocolat... more »
NO EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN INVASION
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday addressed eastern Ukrainian “self-defense” forces, urging them to open a humanitarian corridor that allows surrounded Ukrainian soldiers to withdraw safely. The plea came the day after President Petro Poroshenko accused Moscow of invading his country, and only hours after US President Barack Obama placed the responsibility for the crisis squarely on Russia. RT’s Manila Chan and Paula Slier have the latest on the quickly moving situation.
Practical Guide to Protesting in a Police State
*How to stay safe when exercising your rights.* Dees Illustration Stefan Verstappen If you’re planning on participating in a peaceful demonstration or protest, keep one thing in mind: at any time it could turn into a bloody riot. In the past it has been a common practice for governments to send provocateurs to mingle among the demonstrators until a given time or signal, and then to begin instigating violence as both a way to demonize the peaceful protesters in the media, and as an excuse to send in the riot troops to bust heads. As demonstrations around the world can attest to,... more »
Bob Beamon's World Record Long Jump - 1968 Olympics
Bob Beamon's World Record Long Jump - 1968 Olympics http://youtu.be/DEt_Xgg8dzc Bob Beamon's is 68 today, his world record from 1968 deserves to be remembered.
What Do They Do Now?
http://www.pinterest.com/ Justin Trudeau said recently that the biggest threat to global security is "the kind of violence and misunderstandings and wars that come out of resource depletion—concerns of lack of hope for generations growing up in a world that is getting smaller and seemingly less and less fair.” Alberta MP Michelle Rempel took to her Facebook page, writing that Trudeau's statement sent her into a "blind-rage." Justin has that effect on Harperites. Paul Wells writes that there are at least a couple of reas... more »
ACLU sues feds to ensure illegal aliens receive legal services
The ACLU, one of the leading organizations working to erode and ultimately end American sovereignty in the United States today, recently sued the federal government on behalf of several illegal alien invaders in order to force the Border Patrol and Customs officials to provide special treatment to these criminals. Unsurprisingly, they won the case. Rather than simply immediately deporting any and all individuals - be they children or adults - caught illegally entering the United States, the feds are now essentially being *forced* to provide legal services and other state benefits to... more »
Is There A Democrat In Congress More Corrupt Than Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
This morning I got my daily "give me your money" e-mail from one of America's most corrupt politicians, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The subject line was "Petition: Clean Up Campaign Finance" and instead of deleting it unopened like I do with 90% of her spam, I opened it to examine the latest hypocrisy from the sleazy New Dem trying to accumulate as much money as she can in a push to bribe fellow Democratic House members to make her party leader when Pelosi retires or when Pelosi and Hoyer retire. "Dear Friend," she began with every bit of the ugly insincerity that defines her... more »
Papers Please? St. Paul Cop Harassed Black Man Waiting For His Kids for ID, Caught on Tape
*by Ed Krayewski* While voter identification laws are a hot button issue in national politics, those laws aren't usually discussed in the broader context of identification requirements in various aspects of everyday life. For starters, border patrol agents dozens of miles away from an international border ask for identification purportedly to root out illegal immigrants. Identification is required at the doctor's office, for increasing amount of medication, at the airport, on trains and now even for some interstate bus trips, for renting a car, getting into most government build... more »
North Korean Banker In Charge Of Kim Jong-un's Slush Funds Has Defected (With $5 Million)
A man, who managed money for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, is believed to have defected in Russia and is seeking asylum in a third country. (KCNA/Reuters) *North Korean Money Manager For Kim Jong-un Defects In Russia -- CBC/Reuters* Yun Tae Hyong was a senior representative of North Korea's Korea Daesong Bank A senior North Korean banking official who managed money for leader Kim Jong-un has defected in Russia and was seeking asylum in a third country, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday, citing an unidentified source. Yun Tae Hyong, a senior representative of ... more »
Harper discovers Northwest Passage
*Harper joins Arctic search for lost ships of Franklin expedition * "One day we're just going to come around the bend and there's going to be the ship and Franklin's skeleton slumped over the helm and we're going to find it." "I've never been that close to a big chunk of ice. It's huge," he said. "That was great. Really exciting." Boris from the Beav has uncovered two of Steve the Explorer's earlier compositions on the subject ... The Arctic by Stephen Harper In the Arctic the ice cube is really big. Franklin died one day in the Arctic. His ship got lost. I will f... more »
States With Pro-Employee Laws: No At-Will Employment Equals Fewer Employee Suits
(Or, States That Don't Suck For Employees, Part II)I was doing some research for this series on pro-employee state laws and ran across a piece by that bastion of liberalism, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rating states either Good, Fair or Poor for employers. It's been a fantastic source of information for my upcoming pieces in this series, since all I have to do is look for the "Poor" rated states to find a rant about their pro-employee laws. What I found most interesting, though, was what they wrote about Montana. Montana is notable as the only state in the nation that requires just... more »
Half Of The Syrian Population Has Been Displaced Because Of War
*Syrian Refugees Top 3 Million, Half Of All Syrians Displaced: U.N. -- Reuters* (Reuters) - Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighboring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nations said. The record figure is one million refugees more than a year ago, while a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that "almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives", it said. "The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our ... more »
Ukraine Updates ( August 29 , 2014 ) - Civilians and Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army trapped in South East Ukraine , Putin compares action of Kiev's military to Nazis..........Humanitarian efforts by Russia to continue ....... Natural gas situation - Ukraine debt now up to 11 billion euros ( per take or pay clause ) they cannot pay and Europe getting nervous .......
Russia Today..... UN: Ukraine conflict death toll hits 2,600, civilians ‘trapped inside conflict zones’ Published time: August 29, 2014 08:36 Edited time: August 29, 2014 10:27 Get short URL [image: A woman and the body of a person killed in an artillery attack on Lugansk. (RIA Novosti / Valeriy Melnikov)] A woman and the body of a person killed in an artillery attack on Lugansk. (RIA Novosti / Valeriy Melnikov) 5341591 At least 2,593 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the start of the Kiev’s military operation against anti-government forces there started in mid-April, ... more »
China Is Making It Very Clear That They Do Not Want U.S. Spy Planes Near Their Newest Submarine Base
A Chinese J-11 fighter jet is seen flying near a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon about 215 km (135 miles) east of China's Hainan Island in this U.S. Department of Defense handout photo taken August 19, 2014. Credit: Reuters/U.S. Navy/Handout *Chinese Interceptions Of U.S. Military Planes Could Intensify Due To Submarine Base -- Reuters* (Reuters) - One Chinese naval officer has advice for fighter pilots intercepting U.S. surveillance planes in the wake of an incident over the South China Sea last week that Washington condemned as dangerous - fly even closer. The comments by Rear Admiral Z... more »
Iceland Volcano Update ( August 29 , 2014 ) -- Fissure Eruption Begins In Iceland As Bardarbunga Magma Breaches The Surface ........
*BBC News (World)* @BBCWorld 3m Rapid rate of tremors detected near Icelandic volcano http://bbc.in/XY4Mld #bbcgofigure pic.twitter.com/bQrZyUd2Em [image: Embedded image permalink] Retweeted by BBC News (World) *BBC News Graphics* @BBCNewsGraphics 5m Fire and ice - Iceland's #Bardarbunga volcano and its fissure eruption http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28977773 … pic.twitter.com/7aGFjPQDeE [image: Embedded image permalink] http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/08/29/white-steam-comes-eruption White Steam Comes up from EruptionBY BENEDIKT JÓHANNESSON August 29, ... more »
Iraq / Syria Regional War Updates ( August 29 , 2014 ) -- President Obama admits US doesn't have a strategy for ISIS ( as we bomb away at ISIS in Iraq but appear loath to do so in Syria - why did we ask Syria moderates to beg for US bombing in Syria ? ) ........ As we see ISIS using drones , read that they use waterboarding and enhanced torture interrogation tactics , see their advanced weapon ( US ) stolen or otherwise obtained and then used on the battlefield - more questions are going to be raised as to just who is behind ISIS ?
Anti War..... Syrian Islamist Rivals Back US Attacks on ISISAccuse ISIS of 'Stealing' Rebellion by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2014 Print This | Share This Rebels from the Islamic Front, a Syrian faction which has ties to al-Qaeda leadership, are expressing support for US airstrikes against ISIS, which they consider a rival in the ongoing civil war in northern Syria. “I hope they bomb them and not a single one is left. Those people are not Muslims, they are infidels,” declared one of the rebels. The Islamic Front includes factions which the US began arming after the Free Syrian Army (FSA)... more »
Is ISIS Spreading To Egypt?
Egypt's most dangerous militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has released a shocking new video in which four men, accused of being Israeli Mossad spies, are beheaded *Influence Of ISIS Spreads To Egypt Where Militants Decapitate Four 'Israeli Mossad Spies' In Video That Echoes Recent Islamist Beheadings -- Daily Mail* * WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis release video of brutal beheading of four Egyptians * Militant group claim the men had been spying for Israel's Mossad spy agency * Security source said headless corpses found in Sinai earlier t... more »
The Islamic State Sends A 'Message In Blood' To The Kurds
ISIS claimed it beheaded a Peshmerga fighter in graphic video and threatened 14 others. Youtube /محلل لظاهرة داعش *ISIS Says It Beheaded Kurdish Peshmerga Fighter In Graphic Video -- International Business Times* The Islamic State released another graphic video Thursday, this one claiming to show the beheading of a Kurdish peshmerga fighter in Mosul, Iraq. The video is disturbingly similar – down to the color of the victim’s clothing - to the militants' “Message To America” video in which they claim to behead American journalist James Foley. The video was posted on YouTube and is... more »
Sir Bernard Lovell and the Mind War
*"They tried to remove from my memory the fact that they had taken me to their own defence nucleus on the Black Sea coast, because they did not want news of what they had brought back to this country."* *"The pictures from Luna 9 were not released immediately by the Soviet authorities. * *Instead, the Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, which was monitoring the craft, noticed that the signal format used was identical to the internationally agreed system used by newspapers for transmitting pictures. * *The Daily Express rushed a suitable receiver to the Observatory and the picture... more »
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh in surgery after automobile wreck
*Hmmm... another single car accident? One of the reasons that automakers were given special government incentives in the early 2000's was to encourage people to trade in working 1990s era cars (that had simpler electronic systems) was so that people would purchase cars with electronics that enabled them to be remotely controlled. **Wonder what the FBI will find? No alcohol, no skid marks, very strange... -AK* http://goo.gl/gI4NPe Louis Freeh in surgery Tuesday after wreckMike Donoghue, Free Press Staff Writer 5:56 p.m. EDT August 26, 2014 (Photo: Rick Russell / Vermont Standard)... more »
Links for Easing Back into Blogging
*Lanyu again. Just because.* Up in Taipei writing papers all week (last one accepted without revision!). Now trying to ease back into blogging. Enjoy some links. ________________ *Daily Links*: - Sex toy with Lin Fei-fan, sunflower leader, emblazoned on it. - Overreliance on China will doom Taiwan - Taiwan banks are heavily overexposed in China, and are cutting loans to reduce risks. I sense a taxpayer bailout in the works... - Anti-corruption agency raids home of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. Another way in which Hong Kong is getting to be like Taiwan. - The thin edge ... more »
Musical Interlude: Kevin Kern, "To Sleep on Angel's Wings"
Kevin Kern, "To Sleep on Angel's Wings" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF5rWpaYDAw#t=19
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"
*Antifaschistischer Schutzwall.*
Raytheon AI3 missile intercepts first cruise missile target
[image: AI3 missile]Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army achieved the first intercept of a cruise missile by the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative missile. An AI3 missile also destroyed an unmanned aerial system (UAS). Both intercepts occurred during the recent Black Dart demonstration – a U.S. military exercise held July 29 - August 11. Fired from the Avenger launcher, AI3 missiles intercepted both targets at low altitude over water and in a high-clutter marine environment – capabilities made possible by upgrades to the missile's semi-active seeker and radar. Read more
Iran test-fires indigenous missile system
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[image: Talaash missile defence system]The Islamic Republic has successfully test-fired indigenously designed and manufactured Talaash 3 (endeavor) missile defense system, a senior Iranian commander says. Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili announced on Thursday that Talaash 3, which has a range of more than 200 kilometers, had successfully been put to test and would be unveiled on September 22. The country’s air defense range will be expanded from 3,600 spots to 5,000 in the near future, added the top Iranian military commander. R... more »
Sweden and Finland Forge Closer Ties With NATO
[image: AN-72 Coaler]Sweden and Finland have tightened their ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, saying that they intend to sign an agreement making it easier for troops from the western defense alliance to operate on the territory of the two Nordic states. The move comes as the Finnish Air Force claimed that it had intercepted a Russian government aircraft that had violated Finland's airspace—the third such incursion in a week. Sweden's government said on Thursday that it would sign a Host Nation Support memorandum of understanding with NATO on the grounds that it wou... more »
Fighter Pilot Was Killed in Virginia Jet Crash, Military Says
The pilot of an F-15C Eagle fighter jet that crashed into a mountainous region of Virginia Wednesday morning was unable to eject and died in the crash, the Air National Guard said Thursday. The pilot's name was not immediately released. Col. James Keefe, commander of the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Mass., said teams were only able to safely reach the remote crash site Thursday afternoon and discovered the pilot's body in the wreckage. "This is a devastating day for the family of our deceased pilot and the members of the 104th Fighter Wing and ... more »
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.29.14”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.29.14”* by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “It’s official–Russia invades Ukraine. Now you know why I have led every Wrap-Up with Ukraine. I have been predicting wider war in Ukraine, and now we have one. The President said in a press conference that there is not going to be a military response to this escalation, but my sources say the U.S. has been covertly helping the Ukrainians. How do you think they have been able to overtake the pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine? Looks like Vladimir Putin has had enough and is now directly involved with his milit... more »
When One Has The Vision Of The Heart - The Wisdom Of Sri Aurobindo
*"When one has the vison of the heart, everything, Nature and Thought and Action, ideas and occuputions and tastes and objects become the Beloved and are a source of ecstasy"* Sri Aurobindo
Your Vision Will Become Clear - Carl Jung
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Your Vision Will Become Clear - A Quote from Carl Jung
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FOB Konya provides home for NATO AWACS
[image: E-3A at FOB Konya]Forward Operating Base (FOB) Konya is excited and honored to host fellow members of the E-3A Component during the Runway Restoration Project at NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen. On May 9, 2014, the E-3As left the main operating base (MOB) in Germany for a temporary duty location, so they could perform their operational and training sorties until the end of project. Three of those E-3As found a home in Turkey and have been operating out of FOB Konya. As seen in the picture, on the very first day of the mission, the FOB welcomed them with a rainbow, one that was... more »
A challenge not taken up
Over on Biased BBC there are some pro-BBC types, who may or not be paid by the BBC in some way, who love to attack the other commenters on the blog but rarely produce much in the way of evidence. There's one particular one who goes by the handle 'Scott' who gets a lot of stick for picking on low-hanging fruit in discussions in an attempt to derail the discussion. Almost a month ago there was a Biased-BBC about the BBC 'comedian' Marcus Brigstock and how his 'humour' was of the easy targets left-wing variety. In the comments I challenged Scott to a game: Let’s play a game: I’ll name ... more »
HMS Illustrious decommissioned in Portsmouth
The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious stood down today after thirty-two years as a flagship in the Royal Navy. The Portsmouth-based helicopter and commando carrier has clocked up nine hundred thousand miles on operations across the world. HMS Illustrious, based in Portsmsouth, was built on the Tyne and launched by Princess Margaret in December 1978. Read more
Lineup of 36 aircraft on China's Liaoning carrier revealed
[image: Z-18F ASW Helicopter]China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, can carry four Z-18J airborne early warning (AEW) helicopters, six Z-18F anti-submarine helicopters, two Z-9C rescue helicopters, and 24 J-15 shipborne fighter jets, the Chinese-language Shanghai Morning Post reported on Aug. 28. Cao Dongwei, senior colonel and researcher at the People's Liberation Army Naval Research Institute, said the aircraft carrier could gain the upper hand in any potential battle for air or sea supremacy. The lineup may differ for various missions, however. The full lineup of 36 airc... more »
Taiwan to study possibility of purchasing arms from Japan
Taiwan could study the feasibility of purchasing arms from Japan if Tokyo is willing to sell defense equipment to the self-ruling island, the No. 2 man of the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) said on Thursday. KMT Vice Chairman Tseng Yung-chuan said while Taiwan purchases most of its defensive weapons from the United States, it has in the past procured defense equipment from other countries, including buying submarines from the Netherland and Mirage fighter jets and La Fayette-class frigates from France. "If any foreign country other than the United States, including Japan, is willin... more »
Black Sea Fleet to Receive 11 New Vessels by End of Year – Russian Navy
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[image: Project 21980 (Grachonok) class PB]The Russian Black Sea Fleet is to receive 11 new ships and service vessels, including two anti-sabotage boats, six service vessels, two diesel-electric submarines and two frigates, Navy Commander Adm. Viktor Chirkov said Thursday. “By the end of the year the Black Sea Fleet will receive two Grachonok-class anti-sabotage boats and six service vessels of different classes. Two Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarines, the ‘Novorossiysk’ and the ‘Rostov-on-Don,’ will join the Black Sea Fleet this year,” Chirkov said. Read more
Fear And Loathing At The Watergate: Mr. Nixon Has Cashed His Check - by Dr. Hunter S.Thompson
*Hunter S. Thompson*: …You know, I was actually in the Watergate the night the bastards broke in. Of course, I missed the whole thing, but I was there. It still haunts me. Playboy: What part of the Watergate were you in? *H.S.T.*: I was in the bar. Playboy: What kind of a reporter are you, anyway, in the bar? *H.S.T.:* I’m not a reporter, I’m a writer. Fear And Loathing At The Watergate: Mr. Nixon Has Cashed His CheckPart I: The Worm Turns in Swamptown ... Violent Talk at the National Affairs Desk ... A Narrow Escape for Tex Colson... Heavy Duty in The Bunker...No Room for Gonzo... more »
Fletcher Prouty and the Origin of Oil
Letter of the Month - July 1999 ------------------------------ The Origins of Oil and Petroleum -- -- -- -- -- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:54:57 PDT From: "Daniel E. Reynolds" Subject: Oil - A REWEWABLE and ABIOTIC FUEL? On June 20th, 1996 Col. Prouty stated... "Oil is often called a 'fossil' fuel; the idea being that it comes from formerly living organisms. This may have been plausible back when oil wells were drilled into the fossil layers of the earth's crust; but today, great quantities of oil are found in deeper wells that are found below the level of any fossils. How ... more »
US plane 'interfered' with Chinese sub before intercept: Global Times
[image: P-8A Poseidon]A Chinese fighter jet that made a controversial intercept of an American reconnaissance aircraft earlier this month may have been forced to do so because the US plane had been "seriously interfering" with a Chinese submarine, says the Chinese-language version of the Global Times, a nationalistic tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. In yet another staunch defense of the intercept by the Chinese J-11 fighter from the People's Liberation Army on the US Navy's P-8A reconnaissance plane on Aug. 19, the Global Times questioned ... more »
Development Squadron 5 Receives First Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
[image: Large Training Vehicle 38]Commander, Submarine Development Squadron Five (CSDS 5), Detachment UUV, took delivery of Large Training Vehicle 38 (LTV 38), an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) on Aug. 22. The delivery makes LTV 38 the first UUV to join the vehicle inventory used by Detachment UUV. Once a few final operational preparations are completed over the next few weeks, it will be ready to hit the water for both capabilities tests and proficiency training. "This is certainly a key milestone for Detachment UUV in that we will have a baseline training vehicle for the future o... more »
Ted Lieu To The Rescue... x 2
A few weeks ago a some people alerted me to an issue they knew I would be concerned about-- a tendency for doctors to over-medicate foster kids with dangerous drugs. I knew exactly what to do. The good thing about having a candidate like state Senator Ted Lieu running for Congress, is that you don't have to make up your mind about him based on campaign promises. He has a long, sterling record of achievement and leadership in the Assembly and the state Senate. And I knew he would care about this isa as much as I do. This is what I sent him as soon as I heard about it and before all ... more »
Some Parents Need a Slap Upside the Head
When I first heard of the tragic shooting of a firearms instructor in Arizona, it was difficult to even begin to wrap my head around it. Several thoughts went through my mind. Nothing good ever comes out of the end of a barrel of a gun so I'm stunned that parents would even consider allowing their child to handle an Uzi sub machine gun. I should say that I am no anti-gun nut. I believe strongly in the responsible use of firearms.....the operative word here being "responsible". Clearly, giving a military-style weapon to a child is not being responsible, regardless of circumstanc... more »
A Map Of The Military Flashpoints In Ukraine
*NDTV* *(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Hat Tip:* Business Insider *Update:* The bottom video is a map (from the Ukrainian rebel side) that shows the progress of the war from their perspective in the past month. Hat Tip to contributor Anddroidman Bluestaccks
Clarke does for the Canadian National Firearms Association...
what Levant does for Tar Sands extraction corporations. We suspect both of them do it for money, as mercenaries and paid lobbyists. Perhaps also out of love for the *cause* they promote. Each one brings to advocacy endeavours a wide range of knowledge, skills and experience. Ericka, however, is able to harness some persuasive arguments that Ezra cannot. My co-blogger fern hill wrote a blogpost which features a photograph of Clarke with the Minister of Justice for the Harper government and Kurtis Gaucher, that Press Progress published. When that photograph went viral, Petey MacKa... more »
No Compromise MacKay
Press Progress published this photo today. Yes, indeed, friends of Peace, Order, and Good Government, that is Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General pandering his foul ass off. It apparently comes from a tweet by Ericka Clarke, who identifies herself as "NFA Field Officer." Peter Mackay (Attorney General of Canada) rocked a #nocompromise shirt with me today! #nfa #cdnpoli #change #politics pic.twitter.com/lGEhHbzBDJ — Ericka Clarke (@ericka_clarke) August 23, 2014 That would be the National Firearms Association. As Clarke points out, the corrupted Canadian maple lea... more »
Russia Is Exploiting The Ukraine Army's Growing Desertion Problem
Protesters in Kiev demand Ukrainian troops surrounded in the south-east of the country should be saved (RIA Novosti / Evgeny Kotenko) *Putin Calls On Ukraine Militia To Let Blocked Kiev Troops To Cross Into Russia -- RT* President Putin has called on the self-defense militias in Ukraine to provide Kiev's military units blocked in the east of the country with a safe humanitarian corridor to cross into Russia. *“It is clear the militia has achieved a major success in intercepting Kiev’s military operation, which represents a grave danger to the population of Donbass and which has al... more »
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbles //// “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.” -- Thomas Jefferson
------------------------------ *Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie — Paul Craig Roberts * ------------------------------ August 28, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie Paul Craig Roberts The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. How do we know that this is a lie? Is it because we have heard nothing but lies about Russia from NATO, from US ambassador to the UN Samantha Powe... more »
Russia's Ukraine Strategy Is Starting To Become Clearer
Pro-Russia separatists patrol near a destroyed war memorial east of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Thursday. Ukraine says Russia has opened a new military front to the south. Reuters *Putin Keeps Pushing West Over Ukraine -- Wall Street Journal* Russia Seems Certain It Is More Determined In Its Goals Than U.S., Europe MOSCOW—Steadily ratcheting up Moscow's intervention in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin seems to be betting that keeping that former Soviet republic in Russia's sphere of influence is much more important to Moscow than pulling Kiev westward is to the U.S. and its European al... more »
U.S. Intelligence: ‘Significant Increase’ In Terror Chatter Ahead Of 9/11 Anniversary
*U.S. Officials Say ‘Significant Increase’ in Jihadi Chatter Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary -- The Blaze* U.S. intelligence has picked up increased chatter among Islamist terror networks approaching the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and amid the continuing battle for supremacy between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, current and former U.S. officials told TheBlaze. “We’ve noticed a significant increase in chatter among Islamic terrorist organizations overseas both on the Internet and phone lines,” said a U.S. government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was ... more »
Poll Finds That One In Six French Citizens Support The Islamic State
This image posted on a pro-Isis Twitter account depicts members of the group holding the distinctive banners. BBC *16% Of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds -- Madeline Grant, Newsweek* One in six French citizens sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, also known as Islamic State, a poll released this week found. The poll of European attitudes towards the group, carried out by ICM for Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, revealed that 16% of French citizens have a positive opinion of ISIS. This percentage increases among younger respondents, spiking at 27% for th... more »
White House Rushes To Clarify President Obama's Remarks When He Said 'We Don't Have A Strategy Yet' For ISIS
In his remarks today, POTUS was explicit - as he has been in the past - about the comprehensive strategy we'll use to confront ISIL threat. — Josh Earnest (@PressSec) August 28, 2014 *White House Rushes To Clarify After Obama Said 'We Don't Have A Strategy Yet' For ISIS -- Business Insider* The White House is pushing back after President Barack Obama's stated his administration currently doesn't have "a strategy" for dealing with the jihadist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and drew headlines across the country. "I don't want to put the cart before the horse," Ob... more »
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*Will there be a global famine in 2050? Crops will be overwhelmed by pests in the next 30 years, scientists warn* *Another of the "coming shortage" scares that Greenies often resort to, none of which have ever come true. The scare below is sheer speculation. To prove spread they needed similar population counts at two different dates. But they did not have that. All they had was "historical observation dates" for a minority of their species. Anyway, genetic engineering techniques are already reducing pest loads and should continue to do so. That is why Greenies are trying to... more »
ISIS Post Pictures Of The Arsenal That They Siezed After The Capture Of The Raqqa Airbase In Syria This Week
The terror group also collected several SA-16 Manpads. This missile feattures a new seeker and modified launcher nose cover. *ISIS ADDS MiG-21B FIGHTER JETS & Sidewinder Missiles to SCUD MISSILE Arsenal -- Gateway Pundit* The ISIS terror group captured *SA-16 Manpads*, *AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles* and *MiG-21B jets* to their arsenal after the capture of the Raqqa airbase in Syria this week. *Read more* .... *My Comment*: The jets are old but the missiles look like they are functional. Either way .... more weapons for their arsenal.
Israel Wants ISIS On Its Border; ISIS Competency Is Evidence of High-Level U.S. Military Training; Lack of Strategy By The White House For ISIS Is Not Its Main Problem
*1. Israel Wants ISIS On Its Border.* *An excerpt from, "Northern Israelis Evacuated as Fighting Nears Golan Border; ISIS Said to be Close (VIDEO)" algemeiner, August 27, 2014:* In the Golan, fierce battles between pro-and anti-Syrian government forces close to the border with Israel on Wednesday prompted the army to evacuate residents and tourists from certain areas close to the northern and southern ends of the frontier, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. ISIS reinforces every negative stereotype about Arabs and Muslims, so Israel may publicly convey nervousness about ISIS posting u... more »
Friday Afternoon Ramble
[image: image] Mencken called elections “an advance auction of stolen goods” -- in which politicians bribe you with your own money. At least the Taxpayers’ Union is keeping track of the bribes. *BRIBE-O-METER* – TAXPAYERS’ UNION Everybody’s favourite anti-semite, in the House? *Poll puts Minto into Parliament* – Audrey Young, HERALD International experts stating the obvious. *International expert says land supply is the reason for house inflation* – KIWIBLOG He just can’t keep his hand out of our wallets. 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent rises will be his *minimum*. *Len Brown de... more »
Disarray In The White House Is The Reason Why President Obama Backed Off From Ordering Military Strikes Against ISIS In Syria
President Barack Obama talks with staff during a meeting in the Oval Office, Aug. 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) *Why Obama Backed Off More ISIS Strikes: His Own Team Couldn’t Agree On A Syria Strategy -- Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, Daily Beast* After lots of bluster about striking ISIS on Syria, President Obama threw cold water on the idea Thursday, disappointing those who wanted him to take the fight to ISIS in Syria. After a week of talk of eliminating the "cancer" of ISIS, President Obama said Thursday that he was not planning to significantly expand the war ... more »
U.S. Is Seeking To Establish A Military Coalition Against The Islamic State
Militant Islamist fighters on a tank take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Stringer *U.S. Seeks Coalition Against Islamic State, But Military Partners No Sure Bet -- Reuters* (Reuters) - The United States is intensifying its push to build an international campaign against Islamic State jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, including recruiting partners for potential joint military action, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday. Britain and Australia are potential candidates, U.S. officials said. Germany... more »
An Analysis On Why The Islamic State Is Winning It's Wars In The Middle East
*Military Skill And Terrorist Technique Fuel Success Of ISIS -- New York Times* BAGHDAD — As fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria continue to seize territory, the group has quietly built an effective management structure of mostly middle-aged Iraqis overseeing departments of finance, arms, local governance, military operations and recruitment. At the top the organization is the self-declared leader of all Muslims, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a radical chief executive officer of sorts, who handpicked many of his deputies from among the men he met while a prisoner in American... more »
Russians Are Starting To Demand Answers On Why Are Russian Soldiers Fighting In Ukraine
Russian soldiers are pictured next to a tank in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the border with Ukraine, August 23, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk *Russia Lies About Invading Ukraine as It Invades Ukraine -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast* As Russia troops and tanks make an apparent bid to open the land route to annexed Crimea, discontent is growing in the motherland about the obvious but oft-denied war in Ukraine. MOSCOW, Russia – Where U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have failed to make Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledg... more »
Is What President Obama Wearing More Important Than What He Says?
Twitter is literally exploding with delight over President Obama’s tan suit. pic.twitter.com/4OQu6QvO0L — MashableLIVE (@MashableLive) August 28, 2014 *That Time Obama Wore A Tan Suit And Twitter Freaked Out -- CNN* (CNN) – President Barack Obama on Thursday took some questions in the White House press briefing room about serious subject matters - ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Russia. But the reaction on Twitter was largely focused on his rarely worn tan suit. Within seconds of stepping into the room, tweets were already firing off about Obama's pre-Labor Day attire. And by the end of the n... more »
Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, “Blue World”
The Moody Blues, “Blue World” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBK3fXWnH50
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies, IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. *Click image for larger size.* Even though IC 342's light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds, this remarkably sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink s... more »
Chet Raymo, "Dust"
*"Dust"* by Chet Raymo "In Chekhov's play "The Three Sisters" sister Masha refuses "to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why the stars are in the sky. Either you know and you're alive or its all nonsense, all dust in the wind." Why? Why? The striving to know is what frees us from the bonds of self, said Einstein. It's the striving, rather than our knowledge - which is always tentative and partial - that is important. I've been living with grandchildren for the past few weeks. They seem to me to spend an inordinate amount of time with smart phones, iPads, ... more »
"One Hope At A Time..."
"You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time." - Gregory David Roberts
"Ten Rules For Being Human"
"Ten Rules For Being Human" Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. Rule Two: You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called 'life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum. Rule Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiment... more »
The Poet: Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
*"The Peace of Wild Things"* "When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free..." - Wendell Berry
The Daily "Near You?"
Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.
“The Dangerous World of Logical Fallacies”
*“The Dangerous World of Logical Fallacies” * by Mario Livio “Thinkers in disciplines ranging from mathematics to economics, and from science to philosophy, attempt to construct theorems, theories, or scenarios, that have at least a fighting chance of being correct. Since in many cases one of the chief guides is logical reasoning, the ability to spot fallacies is an essential skill. In this piece I will briefly discuss a few such potential traps, and I hope to describe a few more in a future blog entry. One fairly common fallacy is known as the "post-hoc" (Latin for "after this") ... more »
Free Download: Ayn Rand, "Anthem"
*"Anthem: Ayn Rand’s Dystopian Masterpiece"* by Roderick Long "In a Leningrad university classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between dialectical materialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat; they are notes for a play to be called Ego, about the rediscovery of individuality in a totalitarian society based on the worship of the collective. Over... more »
Psychology: “The Illusion of Transparency”
*“The Illusion of Transparency”* Other people can't read your mental state as well as you think. by PsyBlog "Most people hate public speaking. The very idea starts the palms sweating and the stomach churning. It makes sense: with everyone's eyes on you, the potential for embarrassment is huge. Crowds, we are told, can sense our nerves. Or can they? We may feel terribly nervous here on the inside, but what can other people read from our facial expressions, speech patterns and general demeanour? When this is tested experimentally we find an interesting thing. In one study in which p... more »
Naoto Kan: Japan's Ethical Responsibility
TITLE: Japan's former PM tells of Tokyo evacuation risk after Fukushima August 28, 2014 Naoto Kan was Japan's prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 and he is in Brisbane on Thursday to warn Queenslanders about nuclear power and nuclear exports. ….Mr Kan said there remained an "ethical responsibility." "Japan is at the moment looking to export nuclear power plants to India," he said. "But from my position, I believe that if nuclear power is something we should not be using within Japan, we should not be selling this technology overseas to other ... more »
Pay no attention to the Lying Liars of the Right -- inequality of economic opportunity was NOT always the law of the land
*The sainted Ronald Reagan bequeathed Americans the right to revel in their ignorance, bigotry, and savagery even as they were being so carefully lined up in the bent-over position.* *"What [William Lazonick] has uncovered is a shift in corporate conduct that transformed the U.S. economy -- for the worse. From the end of World War II through the late 1970s, he writes, major U.S. corporations retained most of their earnings and reinvested them in business expansions, new or improved technologies, worker training and pay increases. Beginning in the early '80s, however, they have dev... more »
The West Does Not Know How To Respond To The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool *Russia Advances Into Ukraine, West Wonders What To Do Now -- Howard Lafranchi, CSM* *Instead of pulling back from the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia appears to be escalating its involvement. More sanctions seem unlikely to bend Russian President Vladimir Putin.* WASHINGTON — The toughened economic sanctions the United States and the European Union imposed on Russia a month ago over its actions in U... more »
President Obama Comments On The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
*Obama Vows Russia Penalties, But Avoids Calling Ukraine Advance An Invasion -- New York Times* WASHINGTON — President Obama condemned the latest Russian military advance into Ukraine on Thursday and said the United States and its allies would take further actions to punish Moscow for violating its neighbor’s sovereignty, but he stopped short of calling it an invasion. “My expectation is we will take additional steps primarily because we have not seen any meaningful action on the part of Russia to try to resolve this in a diplomatic fashion,” he told reporters in a news conference... more »
This Discovery Makes Bee Die-Off Problem That Much Worse
Heather Callaghan Many arrows point to the bee decline. A Harvard professor recently warned that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is only the beginning for us. The ripple effect from new classes of pesticides is just getting started. But there's more... The problems they face can be compared to a kaleidoscope, where the shapes are layered, interconnected, many and morphing. It's not *only* pesticides that lead to pollinator death - it's more. It's other things, the combination of things, thought to be harmless to bees and to humans. Quartz reported last year: Scientists had strug... more »
Stephen Harper's Deranged Thought Process Is Based On Highly Flawed Right Wing Ideology
* By: Jakeet Singh * *Tue Aug 26 2014* Stephen Harper really seems to have it out for sociology. In 2013, in response to an alleged plot against a VIA train, Harper remarked that we should not “commit sociology,” but pursue an anti-crime approach. And last week, in response to the death of Tina Fontaine, Harper argued that an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women is not needed, because this is not a “ sociological phenomenon ” but simply a series of individual crimes. Of course, not only is all crime a sociological phenomenon , but also without a broader sociolog... more »
Why Humans ‘Need Not Apply’ For the Future…
Aaron Dykes What happened when we went from nearly everyone producing food to only a few mega-corporations? That’s just part of the problem in the wake of self-driving autos, software replacements to human jobs, robotic factory workers and beyond. It is the road to a future where human labor is not needed – just as transhumanist Ray Kurzweil and others predicted (or planned for). *Check out this eerie video*; how relevant is this becoming to your life? Don’t get over this one, let it sink in deep and figure out how to stop feeding the rise of the machine regime – at least when... more »
Pentagon Has 'Everything Must Go' Sale
*ReasonTV* After protesters in Ferguson, Missouri were met with a militarized police force, new attention was brought to the Pentagon's 1033 program, a program that supplies military-grade equipment to local police departments, often for free. Check out a commercial Reason TV has unearthed advertising the program to law enforcement. Visit Reason.com *Get truth delivered to your inbox every week.* Subscribe to GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING by Email
Robots Could Learn How to Herd Humans Like Sheep: Study
*Activist Post * Information from a new study into the lives of sheepdogs could be used to model robots after their techniques. This takes on a sinister possibility when we understand that researchers are opening up the Internet to robots for autonomous learning. Robo Brain is being funded by the military-surveillance-industrial complex. The press release below specifically mentions crowd control as a prime application. What could possibly go wrong? *Sheepdogs use just two simple rules to round up large herds of sheep, scientists have discovered.* The findings could lead to the d...more »
Video: My Six-minute WWL-TV Appearance Against Common Core
On Saturday, August 23, 2014, I participated in a six-minute WWL-TV Eyewitness Morning News segment on the controversy surrounding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Louisiana. The link to the segment can be found at the end of this post. The segment was scheduled to precede the Tuesday’s pro-CCSS “forum.” I was the only individual […]
President Obama: 'U.S. Does Not Have A Broad Strategy Yet To Confront The Islamic State'
*US Has 'No Strategy' To Confront IS In Syria -- Al Jazeera* President says military options considered but "we don't have a strategy yet", as new evidence emerges of IS atrocities. Barack Obama has said the US has "no strategy" against the Islamic State in Syria but said officials had been asked to prepare a range of military options for confronting the group. The US president's comments on Thursday cautioned against speculation that he was close to a decision to expand his air campaign against the Islamic State beyond Iraq. "I don't want to put the cart before the horse," Obama... more »
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 28, 2014
*Ukraine: Vladimir Putin's Military Action Reveals A Wider Plan -- Keir Giles, BBC* Alarm is growing in Kiev and the West over Russia's role in eastern Ukraine. But what is Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to achieve? The indications are clear that Russia is being more confident and less discreet about the presence of its troops and equipment in eastern Ukraine. As well as sightings of Russian tanks, and reports of Russian paratroopers not only captured by Ukraine but also killed "while carrying out their duties", statements by separatist leaders have changed too. After mo... more »
I want to tosay
Anyone that wants to hijack my message of peace should be live in Arazonieith an UZI up their (I tried and tried to get Arazonia or whatever in pint., just saying) as though a simple steel implantation could keep visitors from posting on Facebook just how fine was that ass Bullets are fine tuned things they make music play in chords that do not give a goddamned thing
Montessori Education & the Development of the Self
*Now, this is something to get to, a fascinating event organised by Auckland’s Maria Montessori Education Foundation …* Don’t miss out – come and hear world leading paediatric neuropsychologist, Dr Steven Hughes present ‘ *Igniting the Flame Within – * *Montessori Education & **the Development of the Self’* on *Thursday September 11th *7.00p.m. (doors open @ 6.30p.m.) Auckland University of Technology (A.U.T.) Northcote campus *[image: image]* *Proudly sponsored by **MMEF** & AUT* Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (orga... more »
World News Briefs -- August 28, 2014
*Ukraine: Emergency UN, Nato, EU Meetings After Russian Invasion Claim -- The Guardian* *Nato says 1,000 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine as Kiev accuses Moscow of de facto invasion and opening second front* World powers have called a succession of emergency meetings to step up the international response to Russia after Kiev accused Moscow of a de facto invasion and of opening up a second front in the conflict in eastern Europe. The UN security council was meeting in emergency session, and Nato and EU leaders will consider a response on Friday, amid signs that hundreds of Russi... more »
The Economy: “But There's No Inflation!”
*“But There's No Inflation!”* by Karl Denninger “Trust me, they say, the CPI is essentially zero, so there's no inflation. Uh huh. As Labor Day approaches and the usual ritual of grill use approaches, is that true? No, say people actually going to the store: "We've always done burgers in the past. They used to cost around $2 per person, but now it's up to $3.75," says Ms. Powers-Mattioli, a clothing-store and dog-spa owner who lives in Hamburg, N.Y. The couple spends a lot on drinks and music, and this year they want to keep the food budget under control, she says. "I thought ham... more »
How The Pacific Storms Of 2013-2014 Were Trashed - Rense.com
*Western drought causes Earth's surface to rise as water levels drop* By Rong-Gong Lin II 9:47 p.m. EDT, August 21, 2014 A year and a half of drought has depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across the Western United States, according to a new study that documents how the parched conditions are altering the landscape. The loss of groundwater, as well as surface water such as reservoirs, has been so extreme that it lifted the West an average of one-sixth of an inch since 2013, according to researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological... more »
Groomed
Yes its groomed and so many children have been taken from behind some silly message and stern authority First off I got to say how demented are you to interfere in childhood anyway not alone to do the vile things Jesus have mercy I would flame you with a oxy and acetylene thing When the flame are spent and we are looking at your skeleton we got to ask why? I do not believe in evil its just an excuse we give ourselves as animals without any infrastructure to support why Next time a person of interest makes a great case on your cellphone do not reply cause they are surely recruiting y... more »
Why I’m Not At APSA This Labor Day
Every year at this time I receive several queries a day from colleagues, would-be colleagues and students asking me if I’ll be “at APSA” – the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association – and when we could meet up for a coffee. Every year I reply several times a day: “Sadly, I won’t be Continue reading
Debate
The whole setup was ridiculous. In a proper debate – in a *properly moderated* debate – the moderator sets the topic, the first fellow then gets a minute or two to address it, the second fellow gets the same time to address it and to respond, and then the first fellow gets a very short time to respond. If they want to challenge their opponent’s facts, then they do it in their appointed time, integrating it with their planned response. Contestants alternate with each topic, giving it at least the appearance of fairness That’s a debate. It’s not a debate when contestants are simp... more »
Satire: "Nation Debates Extremely Complex Issue of Children Firing Military Weapons"
*"Nation Debates Extremely Complex Issue* * of Children Firing Military Weapons"* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "Across the United States on Wednesday, a heated national debate began on the extremely complex issue of children firing military weapons. “Every now and then, the nation debates an issue that is so complicated and tricky it defies easy answers,” says pollster Davis Logsdon. “Letting small children fire automatic weapons is such an issue.” Logsdon says that the thorny controversy is reminiscent of another ongoing national debate, about whether it is a... more »
The Economy: "The United States of France"
*"The United States of France" * by Bill Bonner Ouzilly, France - "It is another cool, cloudy day in Poitou. The whole summer has been like this – like a winter in Georgia, with hardly a single warm day. Vacationers head back to Paris with the same white skin they came with. Beach resorts empty out... embarrassed at the way they treated their loyal customers. But the roofers have liked it. No hot sun has beat down on them. We are redoing the roof of one of the barns. Alas, it is a slate roof, which costs a fortune. But at least you only have to replace it once a generation. Slat... more »
Obama Pussyfooting with ISIS
It brings back to me the Bay of Pigs. JFK saw reality and would not move and now this is Obama's moment. No need to take him out with a hard hit these days. Soft power media and the internet can persuade. Like are they the worst people in the world or not? If there are kill them all Kill everyone Are we going to now be squeamish about collateral data We wiped out Nagasaki motherfuckers and no one apologized after the fact that war Sandinista that's taking lives and making sure they have no idea how to strike back. The pressure today on Obama is extreme but the difference between Oba... more »
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 28, 2014
*Footage Emerges Claiming To Show Russian Tanks In Ukraine After NATO Say Putin Has Sent More Than 1,000 Troops Over The Border To Fight Separatists -- Daily Mail* * Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko demands UN action over incursions * Rebel leader admits Russian soldiers are fighting inside Ukraine * US official claims Russians are using state-of-the-art air defence systems * Tensions rise in south-east of country as forces take up key sites * Ukraine calls on EU for assistance as battle for port of Mariupol looms * 'An invasion is an invasion is an invasion!' says UN ambassador... more »
Jennifer Garrison Finally Found An Issue To Campaign On That Won't Offend Democrats: Franking
Steny Hoyer-- one of the biggest financial backers of anti-Choice/anti-gay fanatic Jemmifer Garrison Yesterday, Steve Israel Blue Dog Jennifer Garrison made the case for why voters in OH-06 should replace sad-sack Republican backbencher, Bill Johnson, with her in an OpEd for the *Ironton Tribune*. Gone were the usual Garrison barrages against women's Choice, against equality for LGBT families and against environmental restrictions on fracking (her business). And there wasn't even any bragging about dislike of President Obama and for the Affordable Care Act from the failing candidate.... more »
Supplemental: New York Times triggers blasphemy rampage!
*THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014* *How to read newspaper profiles:* At the start of the week, the New York Times managed to start an Internet blasphemy rampage. It did so with a rumination on the existence of angels. Here’s how the rampage was triggered: On Monday morning, the Times ran profiles of Michael Brown and Darren Wilson side-by-side on the paper’s front page. Front-page profiles of this type tend to be soft and unhelpful. Routinely, they include second-hand information and musings which may be, in the famous phrase, “more prejudicial than probative.” The 1400-word profile of ... more »
The Secret Message
Its work real hard and do not complain. We got tips to help you work better and lose fat. There are so many big things happening you might not be able to fully evaluate. The Web is full on nonsense, and most of it on what one would consider the go to sites. If you turned off your TV its a smart move. However on the web the specialists can slice you and dice you and make you move with greater focus. If you like some thing, think again. If you love some thing you have never experienced except on the Web your paying rent.
Douglas Carswell's Defection: High Stakes
I know it was wrong, but when Douglas Carswell announced his defection to UKIP *and* the forcing of a by-election in his Clacton constituency, I couldn't help but think "brilliant!". I imagine the prime minister was somewhat less chuffed. His terrible summer has taken a distinct turn for the worst. And as for UKIP it needed something to command the headlines again, and they have successfully captured them with style. Carswell, however, is not and won't be your archetypal 'kipper. Yes, he agrees with the party's europhobia and wants to see a little Britain paddle out into the mid-At... more »
This Rant about wage slavery is not Racist
Hongkong is an Ayn Rand dream and nightmare for the majority who live there. Land has been used by the oligarchy and politically connected to bled the masses. It is estimated in some studies that 80% of Hong Kong's six million residents pay more than 50% of their income in rent. Worse still owning something not even in the clouds. These fuckers have taken over Vancouver and are moving in on Toronto. Steve Harper stop the milquetoast defense of the Arctic and give us some Singapore in Toronto and Vancouver!
How Many Russian Soldiers Are Fighting In Ukraine?
*Over 1,000 Russian Soldiers Join Fight, NATO Says -- New York Times* WASHINGTON — NATO released photographs on Thursday that it said shows Russian artillery units operating in Ukraine, and asserted that more than 1,000 Russian soldiers had now joined the separatists fighting there against the Ukrainian armed forces. “Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine,” said Brig. Gen. Nico Tak of the Netherlands, a senior officer in NATO’s military command. “The satellite images release... more »
Updates On Iraq [8:28.14] Washington Tries To Rally Same Allies That Propped Up ISIS To Defeat ISIS; Iran Puts Its Weight Behind Western-Backed Al-Abadi; EU Changes Its Policy
*Photo Source: AFP/GETTY.* *1. An excerpt from, "Islamic State: Arab leaders reluctant to heed US call for 'allies against Isis': Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan know dangers of Isis but tribal ties and fears of boosting Syria's Assad are prompting caution" by Ian Black, The Guardian, August 27, 2014:* *No one is falling over themselves to respond to Barack Obama's quest for a new "coalition of the willing" to attack the jihadis of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – least of all, it seems, the Arab governments that are most immediately threatened by its brutal, border-demolishing a... more »
2009 $134 billion US Bond Mystery - solved
By GrandeLander Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:48 PM http://grandelander.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/10/10100691-134-billion-us-bond-mystery-solved As an investigator investigating frauds for the last 20 years, this is really no mystery. Since June 8, 2009 when 2 Japanese were caught at the border between Italy and Switzerland with $134 billion worth of US bonds, there have been numerous speculations of all sorts but no logical answers. Any whistleblower would face imminent death threats as Ben Fulford and David Wilcock would tell you. “Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) h... more »
Wild Bill asks: Did the feds pay the rioters in Ferguson, defends Michelle Malkin, and dumps on Alex Jones...
*asking questions that need answers.* Disclaimer: I'm not a huge fan of Michelle Malkin, who, through the lucky founding of Hot Air, has been thrust onto the national scene. I find her to be shrill and, well, call me silly, but somewhat unladylike. I gravitate more toward the Phyllis Schlafly and Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt types to inform me. Both of these women are intelligent, well-educated, and able to present their views without screeching and flapping their hands about. This is not to say that Michelle Malkin is not a good person or not smart. She's, no doubt, both. I ju... more »
Russia moves into the Ukranie
I really hopes it never came to that. Nevertheless we got no business in that business Good guys are hard to find and in this struggle nothing has changed.
CO2-Correlated Global Warming Only Occurred 1976 - 1989/90
As a non-climate scientist (a general physicist), I try to show only the most obvious examples of incompetence and/or fraud in the consensus climate science underlying the "global warming" scare stories touted by all of our trusted, supposedly authoritative institutions. I disproved the "greenhouse effect" with a simple Venus/Earth temperatures comparison; I showed that US temperatures have been falsely adjusted according to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (which fraudulently FORCES the dependence of those temperatures upon carbon dioxide). I also long ago realized tha... more »
U.S. Accuses Russia Of "Outright Lying" On Its Military Activity In Ukraine
*U.S. Says Russia Has 'Outright Lied' About Ukraine -- USA Today* The U.S. told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Thursday that Russia has "outright lied" over its military activity in Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian armed forces. "Russian soldiers, tanks and air defense have supported and fight alongside separatists as they open a new front in a crisis manufactured and fueled by Russia," Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. told the council. Power noted that it was not the first time that Russia has been called to ... more »
SD Chargers broadcaster suspended over "anti-Semitic" joke
Former San Diego Chargers football player and current Charger radio analyst and broadcaster Hank Bauer has been "suspended from announcing the team’s final preseason game for invoking a Jewish stereotype in an exchange with his on-air colleague," the *Jewish Telegraph Agency* reported today. In the waning moments of Aug. 24th’s Chargers-49ers preseason football game, play-by-play man Josh Lewin said if he were paying to attend he would not have left early, as many fans did, because of the high price of the tickets. Bauer responded, “You know how copper wire was invented? Somebody dr... more »
Iraq Officials Are Reporting That An Israeli Drone Has Crashed Near Baghdad Airport
Israeli Drone (illustrative) Photo: REUTERS *Iraqis Say Israeli Drone Crashes Near Baghdad Airport -- Times of Israel* UAV reported to be a Hermes 450, the same kind of craft Iranians claim to have shot down earlier in the week An Israeli drone reportedly crashed in Iraq Wednesday near Baghdad airport and was quickly recovered by US personnel on the ground, according to a story on the Lebanese-based Al-Mayadeen satellite news channel. Citing unnamed Iraqi sources, the TV station alleged that the US embassy in Iraq sent a team to gather up the drone’s remains. Iraqi police and secu... more »
Hold Your Booing--Michelle Rhee Has Left the Stadium
One of the employees from Michelle First sent out an email to subscribers that included this observation: "In the end, Michelle’s critics weren’t demonizing her because they were horrible people." How true. The real reason is that *Michelle* is a horrible person! A farewell from Salon, with an assessment of Rhee's legacy.
World Health Organization: West Africa Ebola Outbreak Could Infect 20,000 People
*Ebola Virus Could Infect 20,000 Before Outbreak Is Over, World Health Organization Says -- Washington Post* The worst Ebola outbreak in history is only getting worse. The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the outbreak that has ravaged West Africa could infect 20,000 people before it is over. With 1,552 deaths recorded so far, the virus is certain to claim more lives than all of the previous Ebola outbreaks combined. At least 3,069 people are believed to have been infected in the current outbreak, but WHO officials believe that the real tally is far higher. “[I]n ma... more »
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IMO
You could be doing anything else right now, any wonderful, fun, mind expanding thing. Yet you are not, you are reading these words. So they better be worth it. We find ourselves in such an incredible moment of history, there are words everywhere talking about it, competing for your attention. Which ones you choose will flavor your day and color your picture of our global story. Try as I might NOT to bias these words with any particular slant, it happens. Regardless of what name I call it, you are reading only my opinion. Now if you agree on some level, you may look this blog...more »
Al Qaeda Linked Syrian Rebels Have Detained 43 U.N. Peacekeepers On The Golan Heights
*BBC* *UN Peacekeepers Detained in Syria -- Voice of America* The United Nations said Thursday 43 of its peacekeepers had been captured by an armed group on the border with Syria and Israel, and another 81 are unable to leave their positions near the border crossing. Militants with the Islamist al-Nusra front on Wednesday stormed the border post. It was unclear who was holding the U.N. personnel. In a statement, the U.N. said it was making every effort to secure the release of its peacekeepers and restore freedom of movement for the others. *Read more* .... *More News On Reports ... more »
New Video Shows ISIS Forcing 250 Captured Syrian Soldiers To Be Stripped To Their Underwear And Led Into The Desert For A Mass Execution
*ISIS Slaughter Continues As 250 Soldiers Captured At Syrian Airbase Are Stripped Then Led To The Desert For Mass Execution -- Daily Mail* * WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT * Startling footage of vast pile of bodies circulated today on social media * Men in only their underwear form a long line stretching across the desert * Islamic State fighter said men were from Tabqa air base, captured this week * Human Rights Watch described shocking video as 'another ISIS war crime' Sickening footage appears to show Islamic State militants parading around 250 captured soldiers through the desert in t... more »
Watch "Dr. Husam Zomlot: Israel 'fabricated' beheading and Holocaust
Dr. Husam Zomlot is not your average Palestinian, he's a senior Fatah official, a Scholar in Residence at Harvard, a Middle East Consultant to the Oxford Research Group and a former Palestinian representative to UK. This is Holocaust denial from the top of Fatah PLO and thus something that will never see the light of day on the institutionally anti-Israel and pro-Palestinians BBC. Here is how the BBC treat Dr Zomlot, with kid-gloves compared to how they treat Israeli interviewees.
Joan Rivers, 81, is in 'critical condition after she stopped breathing during throat surgery'
I hear that Joan Rivers is in a critical condition at a New York hospital after she stopped breathing during surgery on her throat. This is according to NYPD sources via TMZ. The 81-year-old was having surgery on her vocal chords at a clinic in Manhattan when she apparently suddenly stopped breathing during the procedure. She was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital, where doctors are believed to be trying to save her life. A funny lady and great supporter of Israel. Be strong Ms Rivers.
How to Assemble an Egg Roll
Since we have started our egg roll obsession in our house, one of the questions I get asked the most is how we assemble the egg rolls. Use the infographic below to help in assembling any of our egg rolls including the Eggtastic Egg Rolls, Chicken and Kale Egg Rolls, BBQ Taquito Egg Rolls or yesterday's Steak and Mushroom Egg Rolls. Now get cookin'. [image: post signature]
$1,000 Back to School Cash Giveaway
Today I am partnering with some awesome bloggers and iMyne, a site that allows you to donate your cash back incentives to charitable organizations, to bring you a chance to win $1,000. Read below for more information in iMyne and your chance to win! [image: iMyne-Logo] Did you know you can shop, earn, and donate all at once? You are already shopping online or on your mobile devices, so why not donate to a good cause while doing so. iMyne allows you to do just that. Many of the retailers you already know and love actually offer money back as an incentive to shop their sites, but these... more »
ISIS = Smoke & Mirrors. Giving cover now for strikes on Syria
*Finally, the post I have been wanting to get to!* *We have to realize that ISIS is the smoke and mirrors to the ME reshape.* *ISIS is the deception. The distraction. While we are spoon fed the ISIS soma, NATO headed by the US, in cahoots with Israel and the GCC nations reorder the globe to suit their agenda * * If you don't understand the metaphor- This definition will do* *Smoke and mirrors* is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation or description. The source of the name is based on magicians' illusions, where magicians make objects appear or disappear ... more »
Thursday APSA Linkage
Many of your Ducks are descending upon DC for the annual APSA conference which is appropriately timed at the beginning of the academic year and the school year. I know I have been looking forward to starting the semester completely shattered from slogging through revisions on papers. It’s all the more pleasing when my two panels Continue reading
What Does Fate Have In Store For Marco Rubio?
2016 is probably not going to be a good year for former Tea Party darling Marco Rubio. He's never faced a well-armed Democrat before and slipped into the Senate with less than half the votes cast. In 2010, the Democrats had put up a token candidate-- Kendrick Meek-- to help turn out African-American voters in their failed attempt to win the gubernatorial race with another weak candidate, Alex Sink and Meek, a puppet of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, came in a distant third, behind "Independent-Republican" Charlie Crist. In 2016, Rubio will probably face the most politically astute and ... more »
August 28: TandT misses story of the year! August 27 was my birthday.
Otherwise, it was a very ordinary day for the Irving press. Section A had nothing in it. Typical was a front page story that Moncton returning offices are ready for early-bird voters. Well, yeah. They're supposed to be. It they aren't, then that's a story. But if they are ready, what's the story? World news amounted to two and a half pages.- and half of it Canadian. But at least the world seemed to be headed for better times with peace initiatives in the Middle East and in Ukraine. (More on that later.) The only jarring note came on C10, when Harper blustered about dealing with any...more »
Are You Brushing Your Teeth with a Carcinogenic Endocrine Disruptor?
Melissa Melton Some very damning evidence has come forward that the ingredient triclosan, originally registered as a pesticide but used in more modern times in a wide array of hygiene products, is an endocrine disruptor that may also cause other health issues like cancer, thyroid dysfunction, and infertility just to name a few. Now that this has come to light, Colgate still refuses to remove the compound from its number one best-selling toothpaste, Total. After all, the company spent $38 million dollars and ten years getting it approved. In fact, Colgate continues to laud its FDA...more »
Mind Control Scientists Turn Off Emotional Link to Memories
Nicholas West It is becoming increasingly clear that advancements in genetics and neuroscience are leading toward direct methods of mind control. An array of hi-tech methods have been announced - magnetic manipulation via "neural dust," high-powered lasers, and using light beamed from outside the skull. As a result, scientists are making bold claims that they can alter the brain even to the extent of turning off consciousness altogether. But it is memory research that might be among the most troubling. As I've previously stated in other articles, our memories help us form our id... more »
Russia Is Invading Ukraine Right Now
*Let's Be Clear About This: Russia Is Invading Ukraine Right Now -- Max Fisher, VOX* There are two things happening between Ukraine and Russia right now. First, Russian and Ukrainian leaders are meeting in Belarus to negotiate a peace deal in the Ukrainian conflict that Russia insists it has nothing to do with. Second, Russian military forces are crossing the border into Ukraine in what is clearly a hostile invasion and act of war. That includes Russian artillery, Russian tanks, Russian-trained irregular forces, and even uniformed Russian soldiers who have admitted on camera that ... more »
Russia's Ruble Collapsed When News On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Hit The Wires
Charts: Bloomberg *Russian Ruble Tumbles To Record Low Against Dollar -- Zero Hedge* The Russian Ruble has collapsed this morning to its weakest against the USDollar on record. The drop - similar in size to the drop when US and Europe unleashed Sanctions 3.0 - has sent USDRUB to 36.89. Russian stocks are down 2.2% this morning - biggest drop in 3 weeks - and Russian bonds are weaker (10Y +20bps back above 5%). We can't help but think somewhere Shinzo Abe is getting ideas about how to really devalue his nation's currency to competitiveness... *Read more* .... *My Comment*: This is... more »
Is America Becoming a Third World Country?
Anthony Freda Art Ted Baumann I often ask myself: “Is America becoming a Third World country?” I’ve traveled all over the world and seen the ins and outs of developed and undeveloped nations, observing economic and political structures that work and many that don’t. And what I too often see in the Third World — it’s that fair and equal treatment under the law often goes amiss. And it’s what’s lying beneath the surface in American politics — the nefarious deals made between corporations and the politicians that are supposed to keep them in check — that makes me think the Third Wo... more »
Getting Inside the Mind of Mainstream Media
Bernie Suarez Mainstream media's lies, deceit, and propaganda are being dramatically exposed in real-time at an alarming rate. Anyone following alternative media knows what I'm talking about. Is it me or does it seem like the MH17 false flag happened years ago? We can see that false flags which are quickly exposed and blown wide open end up dropping to the bottom of mainstream media news. We're seeing the pattern over and over again, so isn't it time we sharpen our skills and start predicting the mainstream media lies and propaganda before it happens? For those of us fully awaken... more »
The Time Is Ripe For A False-Flag Attack On American Soil
Brandon Smith Government engineered false-flag terrorism is a historically established fact. For centuries, political and financial elites have been sinking ships, setting buildings on fire, assassinating diplomats, overthrowing elected leaders, and blowing people up, then blaming these disasters on convenient scapegoats so that they can induce fear in the public and transfer more power to themselves. Skeptics might argue whether certain calamities have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be false-flag events, but no one can argue that such tactics have not been used by the ... more »
President Obama's Vacation Is Now Over: He Will Be Meeting With His National Security Council In The Situation Room This Afternoon At 16:00 EST
President Barack Obama meets in the Situation Room with his national security advisers, Saturday, August 31, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) *Obama Meeting With National Security Council in Situation Room This Afternoon -- Weekly Standard* After news broke this morning of Russia furthering its invasion of Ukraine, the White House announced that President Obama will meet with the National Security Council later this afternoon in the Situation Room: Later in the afternoon, the President will meet with members of the National Security Council in the Situation Room. Th... more »
New Satellite Pictures Shows Russian Combat Troops Inside Ukraine
*New Satellite Imagery Exposes Russian Combat Troops Inside Ukraine -- The United States Mission To NATO* Mons, BELGIUM – NATO released new satellite images on Thursday, 28 August 2014, that show Russian combat forces engaged in military operations inside the sovereign territory of Ukraine. The images, captured in late August, depict Russian self-propelled artillery units moving in a convoy through the Ukrainian countryside and then preparing for action by establishing firing positions in the area of Krasnodon, Ukraine. Dutch Brigadier General Nico Tak, director of the Comprehens... more »
My Analysis And Commentary On The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
My worst fears are now being realized. Since the beginning of the revolution in Ukraine .... starting with the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych .... I have always stated in this blog that my worst fears was a situation in which Ukrainian nationalists would impose an environment that would make the Russian dominated eastern part of the country rise in a revolt that would culminate into a civil war and a Russian intervention. Sadly .... 6 months later .... this is exactly what is happening today. The situation in eastern Ukraine is now one of anarchy, indisc... more »
A Positive Response
Here's a nice little essay from "Common Dreams" - "It's Time for a Post-Piketty Vision of Shared Wealth." It praises Thomas Piketty for exposing the lie of neo-liberalism, that reduced inequality is a natural result of "free-market" industrial capitalism, and for showing how it is politics that reducing inequality, not markets. Far from creating ‘a rising tide that lifts all boats’, however, Piketty’s update of the Kuznets curve shows that a capitalist economy driven by market forces was not the reason behind the reduction in inequality in the post-war period. Rather, this was due t... more »
Chess Break
I am playing in a strong chess tournament, so no posts until after Labor Day. Have a great holiday weekend!
Understanding Piketty, part 4
We now come to the exciting conclusion of Thomas Piketty's monumental work, *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*. This is not an exaggeration: the final part of the book contains findings that I consider to be simply bombshells in their significance. In Part 4, "Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century," Piketty calls for a new "social state" for the new century, as well as a new way of taxing, a progressive tax on capital. Highlighting the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Sweden as representative, he shows that all followed similar trends in taxation. Until Wor... more »
UN Security Council meeting at Lithuania's request- Separatists take strategic town!
*UPDATED!* The UN Security Council is preparing to meet in emergency session on the growing crisis in Ukraine. Diplomats said Thursday that the council will meet at 2 p.m. at the request of *Lithuania.* *Lithuania, of course, brings to mind F the EU Nuland and her neocon husband Robert Kagan* *Why this sudden concern?* *Strategic town taken by Separatists* was the original headline.... as sent to me This advance connects Crimea to the Eastern separatist region- hence the concern of Lithuania *Novoazovsk, which lies along the road connecting Russia to* the Russia-annexed *Crimea... more »
CNN Publishes Psyops Story Denying Vaccine-Autism Link
Watch the CNN coverup here Sayer Ji CNN just dropped the bomb many of us have been waiting for: pure denial. They have been waiting patiently for the journal -- *Transactional Neurodegeneration* -- which published the historical study on the link between autism and MMR vaccine to retract, redact and otherwise deny the truth of the study. For the record, we contacted the editor-in-chief of Transactional Neurodegeneration, Professor Shengdi Chen tonight, with this communication: Professor Shengdi Chen, Your recent decision to remove Dr. Hooker's article published in your journal*... more »
The Monopoly of the Government Education Cartel
James Hall Learning is a noble pursuit, but the ancient Greek text is one of the few places where the Socratic Method survives. Sanctioned political doctrine of required thinking is the mainstay in today’s august temples of purification. Forget about a classroom, the curriculum core of New Age studies has no room for the classics, much less instructions into the process of thinking itself. Except, of course for the need to electronically check off the loan applications and assign grants to the business office. In the end, university is big business and developing intelligent gradu... more »
NATO SECURITY STATE ADVANCING ON RUSSIA
The President of Ukraine (Poroshenko) has accused Russia of deploying troops in East Ukraine. That's as anti-government self-defense forces launch a counter-offensive and advance on key areas in the southeast. RT is joined by Tony Gosling, an investigative journalist on the unfolding Ukrainian crisis.
Gazonto . . .
Imagine if Stevie hammered the GTA like the Israelis have hammered Gaza? Toronto filmmaker John Greyson's efforts to give us a better and more personalized feel for how the bombing of Gaza would look, feel, and play itself out for all us ordinary citizens if it was happening right here in good old T.O. instead.
Russian Media Is Slowly Starting To Report That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine
The story has been missing from the front pages of Russian papers but is prominent in Ukrainian publications. *Russian Media Report 'Invasion Of Ukraine' -- BBC* Reports that Russian troops are intervening directly in the fighting in south-east Ukraine have started to appear in Russian media, despite repeated denials from the Kremlin. Newspapers and websites are quoting mainly Ukrainian and Western media reports about a Russian invasion, but some have also started to ask whether Moscow is now "fighting a war". Many Russian social media users, however, say they have no doubt that ... more »
POOR, POOR POROSHENKO
Poor poor Poroshenko the chocolate king oligarch from Ukraine made ruler by US-NATO His job? "to do what he's told" Ukraine is an instrument to start war with Russia Reports in recent days *Russia invades* *Ukraine* come as self-defense forces in the east are defeating Kiev's Nazi-backed army US-NATO needs pretext "to protect and defend" their project in Ukraine a NATO base right on the Russian border would be ideal Final solution is balkanization of Russia break it into pieces so fossil fuel extraction corporations can get at their nat gas and the resources in the Arctic Russia ha... more »
Russian Military Forces Are Now Fighting In Ukraine -- News Updates August 28, 2014
*Ukrainian President Accuses Russia Of Military Invasion And Demands Action By The UN Hours After Separatist Leader Says Putin's Troops Are Fighting Alongside Them -- Daily Mail* * Petro Poroshenko cancels trip to Turkey at last minute over incursion * He calls for urgent meeting of UN Security Council to address issue * Adviser calls on president to impose martial law in war-torn country * US official claims Russians are using state-of-the-art air defence systems * Rebel leader admits Russian soldiers are fighting inside Ukraine Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko today accused Russ... more »
METAPHORS AND FACTS: From Nerdland, professor responds to Klein!
*THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014Part 4—The quality of our discourse:* We wouldn’t have written Joe Klein’s piece ourselves. In fact, we *didn’t* write it. That said, it isn’t gigantically hard to see what Klein was saying. For background, see yesterday's post. We’d say that Klein made two different points. Given the way our discourse works, that’s often one too many. We’d say that Klein made these two claims. We’re paraphrasing: *Joe Klein’s two points (paraphrased):* 1) The story of Michael Brown’s death is more complex than it seemed at first. 2) There are cultural problems in black A... more »
A Nice Application of the Coase Theorem
From Josh Barro.
UN Security Council Urges Probe Into Downing of Helicopter in South Sudan
[image: UNMISS Mi-8 AMT]The UN Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to Russia's press statement proposal, urging "a swift, through and transparent investigation" into the downing of a UN helicopter, which killed three Russian crew members and injured one in South Sudan. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest term the downing near Bentiu, Unity State, in South Sudan on August 26, 2014 of an UNMISS Mi-8 AMT helicopter performing a cargo flight to the area with four Russian crew members, three of whom were killed and one severely injured,” said in the ... more »
IAF resumes flying of Dhruv copters after Sitapur crash
[image: Dhruv ALH]The Indian Air Force has resumed flying of the indigenous Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters (ALHs) after completing a fleet inspection following a crash in Uttar Pradesh on July 25. The IAF temporarily suspended ALH operations after manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) recommended certain checks, which were carried out. The entire exercise took almost a month. IAF sources said the ALH fleet was given the go-ahead to resume operations on Friday. An inspection team checked all the 40 Dhruvs flying with the IAF. Read more
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