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Man founds his own new European country
Vit Jedlicka has declared the creation of Liberland, a new independent
state between Serbia and Croatia. The Czech Republic politician is now
claiming...
ISS astronaut takes the most epic 'Star Trek' selfie ever
International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti may have
just out-nerded all astronauts before her with the most epic sci-fi
selfie ever
The Italian European Space Agency astronaut shared a selfie from the ISS
on Friday, while dressed in a Star Trek: Voyager uniform
See also: I'm an Astronaut. Here's the World as I See It
Pointing over her shoulder at the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, wh
Haunted doll causes nausea and chest pains
Videos and photographs of the doll are said to have caused a range of
symptoms in people viewing them. Known as Peggy, the allegedly possessed
child's...
Snuffing out our own progress
I just left this comment at Tony Tepedino’s blog in response to his
statement that we have to stop pretending that academic rigor can only
occur in a traditional classroom setting:
I have seen innovative, project-based learning environments killed – by
OTHER TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL!!!! – because kids liked those learning
spaces better than what their more traditional teachers were offering.
Rathe
The Corbett Report
Episode 304 – Political Pedophilia
[audio
mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode304-lq.mp3"][/audio]As
more and more information surfaces on both sides of the Atlantic about
the pedophilia rings operating in the highest echelons of political,
business and entertainment circles, even the establishment press is
being forced to cover the story. But is the very same establishment that
covered up these horrors for deca
The EnvironmentaList
Weeds – They’re What’s for Dinner
Urban foraging could help boost nutrition in food deserts, researchers say
The Island Fox Returns
This tiny fox’s recovery is probably the fastest rebound of any land mammal in the history of the Endangered Species Act
Want Babies? Eat Organic Produce
Pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables linked to poor semen quality, says study
Audubon Society Responds to Jonathan Franzen’s Half Baked New Yorker Essay
“Bird lover” Jonathan Franzen commits an act of extreme intellectual dishonesty, Audubon says
Is the BBC biased?
'Not people of faith'
Sky News is leading with the arrest of five teenagers in Australia over
an alleged Islamic State terrorist plot to attack next week's First
World War commemorations in Melbourne. The BBC News website also
features the story prominently. The BBC's choice of sub-headline,
however, is typical of the corporation:'Not people of faith' Yes, the
thing the BBC chooses to spotlight here is something said b
Some good news?
Separated at birth? #lionel #roo pic.twitter.com/FcQ3ouMhOt— Jon
Donnison (@jondonnisonbbc) April 5, 2015 Has the BBC's Sydney
correspondent Jon Donnison been warned by his bosses about his biased
tweeting?Over the past few weeks he's stopped his relentless,
controversy-seeking anti-Israel tweeting and is now largely sticking
with innocuous photos of spring and tweets about cycling, Doctor Who and
Pro-EU bias Shocker on BBC Radio 4!
Radio 4's The World Tonight gave over yesterday's edition to one of its
periodic specials where the great and the good are gathered for a
Chatham House debate at the "agenda-setting" think tank RUSI. On
yesterday's edition they were discussing the foreign policy challenges
facing the next UK government, beginning with Europe.Even though we're
in the midst of a general election, The World
ICM, UKIP and the BBC
Nigel Farage is still sticking to his guns following last night
leaders' debate and that audience, going after both the BBC and opinion
pollsters ICM:Sometimes these things go wrong, sometimes you get groups
who apply to be on programmes who perhaps aren't as truthful on their
applications as they could be.In this case, the BBC gave the job to a
polling company called ICM who are famous for gettin
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
The Cashew Girls of Guasaule
I crossed back into Nicaragua from Honduras yesterday at
dusty, dry Guasaule, on my way back home to Leon after a work trip.
Crossing by bus is a mysterious, confusing process that involves
everyone getting out of the bus in a big herd and wandering to and from
various unmarked buildings, so it was kind of nice to see the familiar
face of Carmen the Cashew Girl as I descended the Tica Bus
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A Different Perspective
The Roswell Slides ARE NOT the Roswell Slides
So now we’re told that the Roswell Slides might not be linked to
Roswell and that the name, Roswell Slides was invented by the debunkers
and is not a term used by anyone on the inside. For the latest
interviews with Don Schmitt and Tom Carey, see The Conspiracy Show
hosted by Richard Syrett which can be found here:
https://youtu.be/fQyAVrFnTos?t=1h3m59sThe segment with Carey and Schmitt
starts at
Colonel Thomas Ferebee and the Roswell Crash
Terry Lee Arbegust has posted an interview with a Colonel Thomas
Ferebee who has said he was assigned to the base at Roswell in 1947. You
can listen to the interview
here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcy0Fdt7IV0&feature=shareIn
keeping with tradition, the first thing I did was look to see if he was
in the Roswell Yearbook, but he is not. I do remember that Walter Haut
told me that ten to tw
The Original Roswell Slides will not be In Mexico City
Well, there is a new development in the saga of the Roswell Slides. It
seems that the originals will not put in an appearance in Mexico City.
Instead, those who shell out their cash, and any media who show up, will
be treated to copies. I’m sure that they’ll be high quality copies,
much better than the screen grabs that we’ve been saddled with for the
last several weeks but they will still be copi
The Roswell Slides and Stan Friedman
While many seem to be tired of the Roswell Slides nonsense, there has
been one additional announcement. Stan Friedman, who now labels himself
as the “first civilian investigator of Roswell,” was invited to
participant in the Mexico City extravaganza by Jaime Maussan and then
Don Schmitt.Friedman, who had remained somewhat silent as the
controversy swirled finally chimed in. In a well-publicized st
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A Very Public Sociologist
On the Star Wars Episode VII Trailer
Behold.Okay, so it's not mahoosively spectacular or anything, but when
casting my cynical eye over the trailer earlier I was not expecting the
kind of gut reaction that came at me. It was a strange tingly blast of
nostalgia, something last felt had when I played an old game for the
first time in 20 years or have caught an earful of a song that hasn't
troubled me for a long time. There was none of
The Trial of Greville Janner
Is it possible to not be surprised yet be shocked at the same time? If
it is, that's what I felt this morning when the news came through that
Lord Janner, the former Labour MP for Leicester West would not be
charged. Shocked because the testimony and evidence is compelling, not
surprised because of the crippled, senile old man Janner has become. The
Crown Prosecution Service concluded that it woul
The Banality of Internet Death Threats
So I was going to write something about this when after Oisin Tymon,
the producer attacked by man-child Jeremy Clarkson received death
threats on social media for, um, having the temerity to be attacked by
man-child Jeremy Clarkson. Fitting then that Top Gear should be at the
centre of the latest crop of threats. This time there was a rumour that
Clarkson was to be replaced by Sue Perkins. In case
On the Far Left's General Election Campaign
As well as being a pretty weird general election, 2015's will see a
record number of far left candidates standing. As if to underline the
peculiarity of the campaign, even anarchists are standing. So let's have
a bit of a burrow into the lists and see what it says about the far
left party family. No one in a revolutionary socialist or anarchist
outfit now would say women's rights and the question
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A Way to Live
Not all about you
There was this table of onion sets at the Youth Farm plant sale
fundraiser, and they appeared to all be marked "Walla Walla," so I took
one. But now that it's home I see I managed to find the only Red Globe
hidden among them. Oh, well. As I'm alone in the family in my antipathy
to Reds, these should make a nice offering to -- everyone else. Even
your tiniest farm is not all about you.A c
They are taking a chance
Winter arrived in April after being conspicuously missing November to
March, and the "cool weather" plants are shell-shocked. There's been
maybe two inches growth on most things, if that. And two freezes have
set back the potatoes.Of the lettuces, Red Sails is doing best. There
are broadbeans down the middle of the greens beds, to provide a little
nitrogen and, later, partial shade. Not
Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb
Beloved is in charge of the rhubarb; we have seven plants, six of which
are descended from the first, which is over fifteen years old. One digs
in the fall or winter to expose the root mass, split it in two, then
dig out one of the halves as best one can. It's a muddy job usually, but
one is rewarded by the sight of the exposed interior of the taproot, a
very unwintry bright orange. We make a poin
One must continue one's practice
Finally, on April Fools, after a winterless winter, I saw my breath as I
went the barnyard rounds, and inches -- actual inches -- of snow fell
on the mountains to my east. I confined myself to the potting house and
doggedly planted seeds in flats that may find soil too cool when they're
ready to plant out. But I'm almost past caring. Who knows what weather
will do any more? It might be so hot in m
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A.E.Brain
What they really think....
However, if they and you think you can intimidate the human race into
bowing down to your perverse agenda, you had better guess again. You
cannot hide the reality of your condition and motives forever. WE are
the human race and you are tolerated only to a point., -- Steven Mark
Pilling, Chair of the Harris County TX GOP, on Intersex kids. Source
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Activist Teacher
But is it true? (Catalyzed by CBC's interview of Gideon Levy)
By Denis G. Rancourt
Well-meaning humanists often make broad pronouncements of alleged
universal principles that they advance as absolute truth in the face of
the most horrendous problems facing humanity. But are these
pronouncements true?
There are many examples of this phenomenon in the legal decisions of our
highest courts, where, if it were taken into account, sociological
evidence would
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Adrienne's Corner
Hacking for hacking’s sake...
guilty.Just a quickie before moving on with the painting of my office.I
read Stop Hacking Your Life over at the Art of Manliness and it really
struck a nerve.I can't seem to boil an egg anymore without looking up
the bestest way to boil an egg. No never mind that I end up doing it
the way I always do. I feel compelled to read up on the boiling of
eggs.It doesn't help that I've always been the ty
Are you willing to spend the next 570 days agonizing over the election?...
I'm not.So Rand Paul has announced he's running for president. And
we're surprised, why?Already, the Rand Paul foes and fans are blah
blahing over this development. Here's what I can predict with complete
certainty: Things will change so fast that your head will spin off it's
axis before November, 2016.I'm not willing to play that game. Are
you?Meantime, we have to endure the small minority of
Iran deal, libtards attacking Christians, and Holy Week: Let's connect the dots...
dot, by dot, by dot.Be patient, dear readers, for this will be lengthy,
but necessary reading. It breaks a basic rule of blogging by being
long. People have been so dumbed down that anything that takes longer
than mere minutes to get through is considered verboten. I happen to
believe my readers are smarter than the average kitchen sponge, and will
have no problem getting through this material.
An open letter to homosexual activists...
Dear Homosexual Activist,Due to the latest shiny object attack on Mike
Pence of Indiana over signing the state's Freedom of Religion
Restoration Act, one I might mention, exists in many other states, I
felt the urge to send a message to you. I'm sending this letter only to
you activists, and not to the millions of homosexuals who lead rather
mundane and normal lives. They go to work and school,
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Adventures with Kurt and Lori
Can't believe it's been two months since my last post. A lot has happened, but a lot of the same things happen daily so...
Can't believe it's been two months since my last post. A lot has
happened, but a lot of the same things happen daily so I feel like I
don't have anything worth blogging about! :)Dry season has been, well
dry. And hot. It's nice with the scooter not having to worry about
rain though! I think it only has rained a couple times this entire dry
season and for short times. We finally got our car b
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AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
Iraqi Christians race to save artefacts
Thousands of Christianity's oldest artefacts and manuscripts under threat from ISIL's advance.
Deaths reported in fighting near Libya's capital
Rival sides confirm reports of clashes near Tripoli between forces of UN-recognised government and Libya Dawn alliance.
Zuma faces pressure to end violence in South Africa
A crowd of displaced foreign nationals heckle South African president as he vows to end deadly attacks.
Tracking Syria's deadly toxic chemical attacks
Expert talks to Al Jazeera about his fact-finding missions to track down evidence of chemical-weapon attacks.
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Allen L Roland's Weblog
Why Lincoln Still Matters Today
On the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, 150
years ago, I pause to reflect on this giant of a man and 16th President
who represents all the moral qualities we would hope our current
Presidents embody ~ and yet we remain so bitterly disappointed when few
if any of these Presidential pretenders can approach the moral timbre of
our greatest president: Allen L Roland, Ph.D“Amer
Hillary Jumps In With All Her Baggage
The coronation of the imperious Hillary Clinton is now officially
underway with Hillary's declaration today but she brings with her
candidacy much baggage ~ which includes her chief advisor and former
president Bill Clinton. Hillary's announced low key campaign cannot hide
the fact that she is already a high risk lightening rod, obviously in
bed with the global elite and Wall Street and seemin
Last Mission Of A Fighter Pilot
Kaname Harada, 98 years old, holding a photo of himself as a Japanese
fighter pilot in World War II. His final mission, he said, was to warn
Japan to never go to war again / Credit Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
I can identify with Kaname Harada, a Japanese fighter pilot in World
War II, who excelled as a fighter interceptor protecting the Japanese
fleet but now feels his last mission is to prot
Finding The Real Jesus Within Ourselves
To discover the real authentic Jesus, we must look within ~ for there
he is beneath the trappings of the institutional church who replaced him
with Christ and used him to preserve their empire; for there he is
within ourselves fully experienced in our capacity to fully love and
empower others and ourselves in the process; for there he is within our
minds fully revealed in our ability to fully unde
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AMERICAN KABUKI
ZEROHEDGE: Conspiracy Theorists, Bloggers Compared To ISIS During Congressional Hearing
Conspiracy Theorists, Bloggers Compared To ISIS During Congressional
HearingSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015 23:00 -0400Submitted by
Paul Joseph Watson via PrisonPlanet.com,Bloggers, conspiracy theorists
and people who challenge establishment narratives on the Internet were
all likened to ISIS terrorists during a chilling Congressional hearing
which took place yesterday.The hearing, hosted
ZEROHEDGE: Global Futures Slide After Worldwide Bloomberg Outage, China Tumbles On Short Selling Boost
Global Futures Slide After Worldwide Bloomberg Outage, China Tumbles On
Short Selling BoostSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/17/2015 06:44
-0400Just as China was closing for trade and Europe was opening,
something previously unseen happened: no, not another another GPIF or
Virtu inspired marketwide stop squeeze, those are quite recurring these
days. It was virtually every Bloomberg terminal around t
Unstick and Inspire
Source image from The Art of Life and WritingThought I'd share this
amazing channeling... its not new but I just encountered it tonight...
feeling kind of stuck today and this was a great help to me... -AKFrom
an article by Eileen Meyer
Time for a Jubilee
As we complete this conversation, keep a few things in your heart.
First, there is nothing wrong about your life or how you’ve chosen to be
inside of it. Regardless of what label you stick to what you do, you
can’t help but love. Loving is what you’ve been doing in each and every
relationship.There are things you have done or things that have been
done to you that on the surface seem abhorrent
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Angola 3 News
(A3 Newsletter) The Waiting Game: 43 Years of Innocence; Still Incarcerated; Still Isolated
(PHOTO: Albert Woodfox in 1998)Today marks 43 years since Albert
Woodfox and Herman Wallace were first placed in solitary confinement for
a crime they didn't commit. We now await a decision from Federal Judge
James Brady regarding Albert's request for bail, expected any
week.Featured below are messages from both Albert and Robert King. New
artwork by longtime A3 supporter Rigo 23 is displayed alon
April 12: Prayer Vigil on Behalf of Albert Woodfox's 43rd year in Solitary
At 2PM on Sunday, April 12, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Reverend Dr.
Patricia T. Bates will be hosting a Prayer Vigil to mark Albert
Woodfox's 43rd year in solitary confinement. Rev. Bates will be joined
by Michael Mable, brother of Albert Woodfox, who will be speaking about
how this type of injustice affects families.Sponsored by the Religious
Coalition Against Torture, Sunday's vigil will be
Mumia Abu-Jamal in Medical Crisis
Below is an urgent press release sent out today by supporters of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, currently hospitalized for a medical emergency:PRESS
RELEASE Attn: News DeskDateline: Intensive Care Unit Schuylkill Medical
Center in Pottsville, PAPRESS CONFERENCE AT 11AM TUESDAY MARCH
31Location: Outside Emergency Room Entrance, Schuylkill Medical Center
in Pottsville, PA 700 E Norwegian St, Pottsville, PAMumia
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ArmsControlWonk
The IAEA’s Conclusion About Turkey
But what are nuclear scientists in Turkey actually doing?
Not for the first time, when Barack Obama declared April 2 that the
greater Middle East has no real alternative to a nuclear accommodation
with Iran, advocates of the “cascade of proliferation” theory warned us
that Turkey’s future would be nuclear-armed.
In fact, kibitzers on both sides of the Iran divide routinely include
Turkey in their
Jofi Joseph on the Iran Deal
Since I’ve already inflicted my thoughts on the Iran deal over at
Foreign Policy.com, I am happy that my friend Jofi Joseph has agreed to
share his here at the blog.
Pleasant Surprises and Grudging Disappointments
Jofi Joseph
Jeffrey has kindly offered his blog as a venue for my thoughts on some
of the specific technical elements of the P5+1 political framework with
Iran announced last week. For
The Framework Nuclear Agreement with Iran
We have a deal! Or, at least, a “framework” agreement between Iran and
the E3/EU+3. Whether the negotiators can hammer out the details by June
30, especially on the timing of sanctions relief, remains to be seen but
the terms of the deal look pretty strong.
Aaron and Jeffrey run through what we know, what we think and what we
wonder about the Iran nuclear deal. Then Max Fisher from Vox joins to ta
The Iran Deal
The framework agreement reached by the United States and its
negotiating partners with Iran is a significant accomplishment, imposing
substantial constraints on Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. If
it is finalized, only one other executive agreement dealing with
nuclear weapons will have been more consequential — the first Strategic
Arms Limitation accord negotiated by President Richard Ni
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BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com
Progressive Music Classics. Fela Kuti: "Shuffering and Shmiling"
..By MARC McDONALDIt's interesting how, for such a supposedly
discredited philosopher, so much of Marx's teachings hold up well today.
Case in point: Marx's famous statement, "Religion is the opium of the
people."The great Nigerian musician Fela Kuti took aim at religion in
his masterful 1978 track, "Shuffering and Shmiling," (sic).Specifically,
Kuti was targeting imported reli
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Big Dan's Big Blog /
Another FALSE FLAG Rigged Court Show Trial Is In The Books For Another FALSE "OFFICIAL STORY"
The PATSIES didn't have the backpacks:...but THESE GUYS did:...but YOU
wouldn't know that, if you listen only to the mainstream media!!!Just
another day in the country that used to be the United States: The Boston
Marathon False Flag rigged court trial is now over. Another false
"Official Story" is in the books. The complicit mainstream media can now
employ the 1967 CIA tactic developed
Why Do Bakers Hate Gays So Much?
DISCLAIMER: THIS CAKE IS HETEROSEXUAL! IT'S NOT GAY! THERE'S A PENIS
AND A VAGINA ARE IN THE CAKE! NOT TWO DICKS!Apparently I missed this,
but there's an epidemic of gay-hating bakers in America. Every time I
hear someone defending Indiana's new "religious freedom" law, they all
bring up the same exact example: a baker doesn't want to bake a cake for
a gay wedding. I heard this example o
Israel Keeps Exposing That They Are Not Our Friend, And The U.S. Congress Keeps Exposing That They Work For Israel
First it started with the Republicans violating The Logan Act by asking
Netanyahu to speak in front of congress without consulting the
president. The only heroes during that were the Democratic Black Caucus
who banned attending it. Don't forget what Netanyahu's speech was about:
dragging us into another war for Israel with U.S. taxpayer money. When
it comes to U.S. taxpayer money for wars for Isra
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Blood & Treasure
Benito & the prods
So, there's a book out on the tendence apocalyptique in US politics.
Those folks got around:
...missionaries Ralph and Edith Norton meet with Mussolini in the early
1930s to interview him for the Sunday School Times. Like a lot of
fundamentalists of that era, the missionary couple believed Mussolini
was a strong candidate for the Antichrist—the dictatorial leader who
would resurrect the Roman Emp
sundae bloody sundae
I'm easing back into blogging with a few cut and paste jobs. Like about
the time that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman ran an ice cream
parlour:
"But where to get enough money for the purpose?...It occurred to us that
an ice-cream parlour might prove the means to our end." They put up $50
of their own, borrowed $150 from their landlord, rented a storefront,
and "succeeded in turn
collapse of stout Party?
I've got an op-ed up about the various discussions following David
Shambaugh's recent prediction of the forthcoming endgame of Communist
Party rule in China. Over here:
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BP Slick
Acy Cooper, Voices From The Gulf
"Voices From The Gulf"There is too much going on in the Gulf region
today to address it with only one post and account from the people's
voices. This is the first installment of a year long expose'. I will be
releasing a series of video interviews from the region over the next
year. During the entire 5th I will try my best to expose first hand
accounts of as many impacts to the fisherie
Brave New World
A 60 Second Battery Fix?
One of today’s biggest mobile problems is that of battery life. When
the battery is fully charge the world is our at out fingertips, but when
it is running low or flat then we are effectively cut off from the
world. Having to recharge the smartphone can be a chore we would rather
live without and the time it often takes to recharge can seem an
eternity. So what if you could charge your battery in
Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity: Part 2
Part 2: The Organisational Impact of Communications in Today’s World?A
company may have the best product or service and the smartest
technology, but these alone no longer guarantee success. They may have a
significant marketing budget, but billboards, page adverts, glossy
catalogues and call centres now longer guarantee sustainable success.
The supply chain may be well oiled and automated, but red
Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity. Part 1
Part 1: How did we arrive to where we are today?It now seems a lifetime
away when we started our technology journey which we w all take for
granted today. Back in ’68 there were only 32 computers in the whole of
Sheffield and we can even remember the companies, the computers and what
they were capable of. The explosion of computing that followed was
first aimed at companies and institutions and au
EU Approach to eBooks Is Nonsense
This week four cultural ministers from four powerhouses; Italy, Poland,
France and Germany jointly requested that the EU Commission should
think again about the rate of tax for ebooks. This comes only weeks
after the EU High Court ruled against France and Luxemburg and stated
that ebooks are different from physical books. They want the same rate
applied as physical books so countries such as the U
Buckdog
"We're Number 11 ... We're Number 11" ... (Canada slips to 11th place of developed nations in the world under Harper)
Canada drops out of top 10 most developed countries listThe United
Nations human development index now ranks Canada as 11thCanada 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, pl
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