12:45pm MDST
Obama Misfires, On And Off The Court
This video is a perfect metaphor for Obama's presidency.
Whether it comes to the economy or foreign policy Obama keeps missing the
target. The only time he got a basket as President was when the
announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death in Pakistan was made almost two
years ago, and we all know that was fake, so that didn't even count. That
was a clear violation. The scriptwriters at the CIA got the assist and the
basket on that one.
Throughout his presidency Obama has made only two shots: the elections of
2008 and 2012. And those were easy baskets because no one was guarding him,
no... more »
California: 'Death of Delta' coffin being delivered
http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/peripheral-tunnel-opponents-will-hold-death-of-delta-funeral/
Stop
Governor Jerry Brown, Natural Resources Secretary John Laird and Deputy
Secretary Jerry Meral from overseeing the Death of the Delta. Attend
the news conference outside the Bay Delta Conservation Plan meeting on
Thursday, April 4, at noon in Sacramento at the Red Lion Woodlake
Carrying us back to old Virginny!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013*
*Rachel Maddow runs us rubes about those very long lines:* In fairness,
Rachel Maddow covers some perfectly decent topics.
Her play list is limited for our taste, and her political sense is quite
weak. But worst of all, she just isn’t overwhelmingly honest.
As part of that problem, she sometimes peddles big piles of bogus facts.
Consider what happened on Monday night, which was, after all, April 1.
The state of Virginia had passed a new law requiring more documentation to
vote. That was a perfectly worthwhile topic, but Rachel just couldn’t help
it.
The... more »
Define 'illegal'
http://cifwatch.com/2013/04/03/will-the-guardian-be-inspired-by-a-major-news-agency-and-stop-referring-to-jews-as-illegal/
Fox News' Greatest Fuckups of All Time.
Fox News Greatest Fuckups by Robert Crawford
It's one thing to hear evidence of Fox "News'" fuckups but another
entirely to see the evidence in a barrage of images. Like pixels on
television, these screengrabs proving Fox's misinformation, stupidity, lies
and sheer ignorance paint a picture of Roger Ailes' network of being merely
the propaganda arm of the GOP, Wall Street and the US Chamber of Commerce.
What follows are over 80 of the most outrageous Fox "News' screengrabs I've
been collecting over the past 6 years.
"Why Can't It?"
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
- Will Rogers
More on Talk and Action and Agenda Setting and Climate
I wrote one over at Plum Line yesterday about a Media Matters push to get
people to lobby the broadcast networks to run more stories about climate.
My argument was that it's unlikely that such an effort would be successful,
and that if the goal was more attention to climate, the more likely way to
get results would be for activists to target politicians, and especially
the president. Basically, the path going activists to parties to
politicians to news coverage works better than the more direct activists to
news coverage path.
After some pushback, I'm thinking that it wasn't the sma... more »
Satire: Crisis Hits N.R.A.: “N.R.A. Defends Purchase of Former Congressman”
*“N.R.A. Defends Purchase of Former Congressman”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “The National Rifle Association leader
Wayne LaPierre today defended his decision to purchase the former
congressman Asa Hutchinson, after an outspoken N.R.A. member complained
that the organization should be using its funds to buy current congressmen
only.
Shortly after Mr. Hutchinson appeared at a press conference in Washington
to present the N.R.A.’s plan to arm teachers and other school personnel,
N.R.A. dissident Tracy Klugian blasted the purchase of the former Arkansas... more »
"You Have To Be Kidding Me"
*"You Have To Be Kidding Me"*
by Karl Denninger
"Speechless, I am, speechless...
Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are
currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly worse over a
successful April Fools' Day prank. They told their listeners that
"dihydrogen monoxide" was coming out of the taps throughout the Fort Myers
area. Dihydrogen monoxide is water.
The popular deejays are mainly in all this trouble (potentially of a
felony level) because their listeners panicked so much — about the
molecular makeup of their drinking water, h... more »
Pro smack-down of M408
One of the MASSIVE irritants that swims in the eddy churned up by CON MP
Mark Warawa's misogynistic M408 is the twitter spamming campaign in which
the antiChoice lobby engages.
The shrieeeking, the lack of finesse, the crude lies, the pitiful attempts
at logical thinking.
My co-blogger fern hill has done a brilliant job of addressing, challenging
and smacking down the most odious of those tweets. And she has blogged
frequently at DJ! in response to the obfuscation and sheer stoopidity of
M408.
And yet, some in the media appear content to parrot Warawa's and
Woodworth's twisty pre... more »
"World Class" Oil Spill Recovery is Another Harper Scam
Two officials of British Columbia's *Raincoast Conservation Society* have
gutted Joe Oliver's assurances and exposed Sideshow Steve Harper's "world
class" oil spill mechanisms as an utter sham.
Misty MacDuffee and Chris Genovali, writing in the *Toronto Star*, shred
Oliver and Harper's empty promises.
*The reality is that human nature and physical nature are the forces that
produce tragedies at sea. Unforeseen events that inevitably occur in narrow
channels, high-traffic corridors and bad weather increase the risk of oil
tanker accidents on B.C.’s coast. Major oil spills show that d... more »
A CONFLICT INSPIRED FROM ABROAD
North Korea has suspended South Korean access to a joint industrial zone -
the latest move in the ongoing conflict with Washington and Seoul.
Pyongyang also says it will restart a nuclear reactor to beef up its
arsenal - after Washington moved its military closer to the Korean
peninsula during recent US-South Korea war excercises.
North Korea earlier claimed its missile units are combat-ready and warned
of a possible pre-emptive strike on the U.S. and Seoul. Tim Shorrock has
written extensively about US foreign policy and East Asian politics - and
believes both sides should know t... more »
Gwen Graham Running For Congress In Florida
Bob Graham was a wildly popular Florida governor from 1979- 1987 when he
was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 2005. Previously he
had been a state rep and a state senator-- and he never lost an election in
his life. He was an environmental champion in a state where real estate
developers had ruled the roost. In his last Senate campaign he kicked
Republican Charlie Crist's ass 63-37%. Socially liberal and one of the few
Senate Democrats to oppose Bush's war against Iraq, he was pretty
conservative on economic justice issues and was a founder of the Big
Business-or... more »
With so much Love & Light, to our Loie
Lois Tucci, Mom to all of us working with the OPPT...
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/04/with-so-much-love-light-to-our-loie.html
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
*With so much Love & Light, to our Loie*
Posted by D.
A little while ago the lovely and amazing Lois (Loie) left the confines of
this reality to continue her incredible work- without limits or borders.
I have such a huge amount of love for our lovely and amazing Loie - We love
you Loie!! The ground crew are ready! :>)
[10:53:10 AM] HEATHER: Loie is now working absent limits (heart)- time to
grow the wings, fly and ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Demilitarize McGill' University
DEMILITARIZE MCGILL
Posted on April 2, 2013
MNN. Apr. 2, 2013. Last fall the Student Society of
McGill University started a campaign for a campus free from weapons
development. McGill has been asked to “divest its holdings in private
militias, private military contractors, weapons manufacturers and arms
dealers, and to create and enforce a policy of allowing no future
A complainant is not more credible because of who is complained of
R. v. M.C.J., 2013 ONCA 205 holds:
[5] In our view, the appeal turns primarily on the emphasized
portion of the following extract from the trial judge's reasons. This
extract appears at the outset of the trial judge's analysis of the charges
involving the complainant, L.J., which were the first set of charges he
analyzed:
The defence called [J.G.] as a witness, and it was her opinion that the
complaints by [L.J.] and [L.H.] stemmed from their desire to seek
attention. Implicit in this evidence is that the allegations are untrue.
This court had the opportunity to see firs... more »
Your future is being played out in Canada...
*we've been warned.*
Think homosexual "marriage" is just about two people "loving" each other
(because we all know that nothing says love like unnatural sex)?
*Blazing Cat Fur reports* on *The Day of Pink* in the Peel District** of
Canada and it's not pretty. Supposedly everyone is to wear pink and
declare bullying to be bad. Except, the school district up there is
bullying the parents.
A highlight (emphasis mine)
- As teachers, we do not condone children being removed from classes
when we teach about Aboriginal People, people of colour, people with
disabilities o... more »
GATEKEEPERS DOWN: Specialists try to discuss public schools!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013*
*Part 3—Brown grad flunks the NAEP:* Eventually, we will return to
Childress and Childress, whose vast incompetence was invisible to
gatekeepers at the Washington Post.
The vast incompetence displayed by the Post helps us ponder our lack of
competent gatekeepers. That said, this has been a week that was when it
comes to the matter of public schools.
In this morning’s New York Times, a trio of journalistic gatekeepers
attempt to discuss an array of education issues. For today, let’s skip
Thomas Friedman, who isn’t an education specialist. For today, we’ll... more »
New Documents: US spying on Occupy Movement April 2013
Denver police brutalized peaceful Occupiers
New OWS Spying Documents Reveal that
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Monitors Peaceful Demonstrations and
Activists as a Matter of Policy
PCJF Releases Newly Obtained Government
Documents
By Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
Censored News
DHS surveillance of
protests in Asheville, NC; Tampa; Ft. Lauderdale; Jacksonville; Lansing, MI;
Once again this cartoon is most accurate results BBC anti Israel bias
http://twitter.com/docnatecohen/status/319472540378619904/photo/1
Americans and Their Conspiracy Theories - Alive and Well
13% of Americans are sure Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. A similar
percentage isn't sure but think that's definitely possible.
Despite everything their country has endured over the past five years and,
especially, during 2012, 37% of Americans still claim global warming is a
hoax.
*The survey, which was conducted by Public Policy Polling, asked a sample
of American voters about a number of conspiracy theories, phrasing the
questions in eye-catching language that will have the country's educators
banging their heads on their desks. *
*The survey also showed that 37% of Ame... more »
CIA BACKS TURKEY VERSUS GREEK CYPRUS
Cypriot protesters burn EU flags over bailout deal
The CIA loves Islamist Turkey and hates Christian Cyprus.
"Sibel Edmonds says there are two sides to Cyprus banks, a Greek side and
Turkish side.
"Russia and NATO are both using Cyprus, she believes Russia is probably
using the Greek side as US/NATO is using the Turkish side."
*Synopsizing Sibel Edmonds: The Evolution of Operat...*
*List Released With 132 Names Who Pulled Cyprus Deposits Ahead of Bailout*
*Gold spot - $1,568*
Is This the Poison Pill for ALEC Privatization of Education Schemes?
Across the web – and here on my site – you will find thousands of articles/
tweets/ blog entries – about ALEC’s legislation to privatize public
education.
Stealing tax dollars to give to private educational corporations.
The intent of ALEC privatization of education legislation –
>>>>to put more money in the pockets of ALEC Educational Private Sector
members.
That was the intent – but – maybe ALEC didn’t really think this through.
I think ALEC legislation may have hit a snag that I don't think there is a
work-around for.
I think the ultraconservatives - themselves, may have dealt... more »
Will a common law peace bond delay a pardon application?
The consensus is yes - probably by one full year.
Paranoia Runs Deep
I can hardly wait to see what the official Map of the Brain will look like.
Because judging from the results of the most recent Public Policy Poll, the
cartography of many a mind will reveal that the synapses are flashing with
shreds of tinfoil along with the usual microbursts of electricity.
The Truthers, Birthers, Preppers, Sovereign Citizens, Michele Bachmanns and
Rick Santorums of the world are not so fringe-y as you might think. (Either
that, or the poll is fatally flawed because a fifth of the respondents
coincidentally reside in Gooberville, Florida. Or that the people who
d... more »
Review Of The American Reconstruction Of Iraq, An Interview With Former Deputy Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Ginger Cruz
Ginger Cruz is currently the CEO of Mantid International, and most recently
completed several evaluation reports for the United Nations in Iraq. From
2004-2012 she was the deputy Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
That gave her great insight into the rebuilding of Iraq. The Special
Inspector General’s office (SIGIR) just issued its final report, which
makes it an apt time to review how the largest reconstruction effort in
U.S. history went.
*1. The American attempt to rebuild Iraq went through several stages. The
first was under Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional A... more »
There are places I remember
So I have this little secret blog. It was my first one. It's evolved over
the years. Currently revisiting my youth after I fell in a rabbit hole and
found a treasure trove of old photos.
So far I have My Easter tradition. The Lake. The neighborhood playground. Main
Street. View from my mother's hat store.
Not done yet.
Ungentle Ministrations
Last weekend winter still clung to the northwest corner of High Point State
Park, where the Appalachian Trail veers recklessly into the famously toxic
wasteland that is New Jersey. It's a long trip from Wit's End, but I
enjoyed it, because I can avoid traffic almost the entire journey taking
isolated back country roads. A favorite distraction in these days of
pre-ecopocalyptic dread, for me, is trespassing on abandoned farms, and in
this rural area there is no lack of them. It serves no purpose to archive
their deterioration in photographs, but it's satisfying nonetheless.
Beside... more »
Al Qaeda In Iraq Fighters Involved In Syrian War
These photos from a militant website and reprinted by the Associated Press
purport to show Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) fighters in Anbar who are involved
in fighting in Syria. It has been widely reported that Islamists like AQI
have been flocking to take part in the Syrian conflict. Al Nusra Front for
example, is said to be a front group for Al Qaeda. There has recently been
blowback in Iraq as well when a group of over 40 Syrian soldiers who had
sought refuge in Iraq were ambushed and massacred in Anbar in March 2013.
Shiite militias and the Kurdistan Regional Government have either se... more »
I Hate You All
Not really. That's just a character I play in *The Misanthrope's Manual
*, a satirical dictionary I'd pieced together back in the 90's. I'd
mentioned it late last month when the Kindle version went live. Well, the
proofs I'd ordered came in the mail yesterday and, barring a few typos, it
looks pretty good. In a day or two, I'll upload the corrected proof to
Create Space and, a day or two after that, the print version will go live.
As you can expect, since many of these definitions were written over
20 years ago when I was still in the autumn of my youth, this vicious
little... more »
Obama's EU Trade Deal Would Include New Political Powers For Corporations
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a media conference at an EU-US
summit in Lisbon on Saturday Nov. 20, 2010. EU and US leaders will look at
ways
in which they can work together on a growing range of security issues
that affect
citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, such as cyber attacks and cyber
crime,
as well as violent extremism and terrorism. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
*
* *
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/eu-trade-deal_n_2994410.html
*Obama's EU Trade Deal Would Include New Political Powers For Corporations*
Posted: 04/03/2013 7:30 am EDT | Updated: 04/03... more »
REMEMBERING APRIL 3 MASSACRE ON JEJU ISLAND
Uni Park writes from South Korea:
Collective amnesia. Collective trauma. On picturesque Jeju Island, its
quite easy to forget that Jeju was one big mass grave. So many deaths and
unknown remains. I imagine the numerous golf courses and sprawling hillside
resorts built above the dead. Today, April 3rd, marks the 65th anniversary
of the 1948 civilian uprising and massacre where it is estimated 1/5 [up to
80,000] of the population on Jeju Island were brutally killed for
associating or participating in people's committees or had refused to vote
in a puppet election recognizing a divid... more »
The Gang Who Can't Shoot Straight
Canadian bitumen befouled the Kalamazoo River back in 2010. Now it slurps
down the streets of Mayflower, Arkansas. And the Harper government keeps
telling Americans that the Keystone XL Pipeline will be a godsend.
That sales pitch rings hollow. After all, it comes from the country which
withdrew from the Kyoto Accord and is now the only country to withdraw from
the UN Anti-Drought Convention. Tasha Kheiriddin writes that the Harper
government has managed to sabotage its path to power:
The pipeline represents not just an economic, but a political lynchpin of
their long-term nationa... more »
Homosexual paedophiles Run the UK - and boast about it.
The following video should make any decent person's blood boil. Jonathan
King meant every word he sang in this 'charming' little ditty. Just like
the Royal Family, the Government, many people in Social Services, and of
course the media, King was a sick degenerate child rapist who got away with
raping the innocent for many years. There are many, many more like him who
are still actively destroying our people.
I despair for the UK. Why aren't we out on the streets dealing with this
vermin in the only way that they deserve? Mind you, they are so protected
by their private army of ... more »
Do teachers work too hard?
David Vance at http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=41234 makes a good point.
'TEACHERS were accused of wanting an "easy life" last night after calling
for no more than 20 hours a week in the classroom. Delegates at the
National Union of Teachers' conference, said some members were left with
little time to eat, talk, think or even go to the toilet. Christopher
Denson told the conference that many teachers were saying their workload
was now "totally unsustainable".
I would like to ask local teachers for their opinion on this issue but they
currently are on their Easter break, following ... more »
Power Plant Facing Legal Action for Contamination
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 5 hours ago
By: Nathan Lamb
A North Carolina power plant accused of leaking waterborne pollutants is
facing legal action from environmental officials, according to this story
from the Citizens-Times newspaper.
A recently filed lawsuit from the N.C. Division of Water Quality alleges
that the Progress Energy plant in Asheville is leaking toxic chemicals into
groundwater and the nearby French Broad River.
Officials termed the contamination a threat to public health and water
resources, and asked the courts to require the company to assess the cause
and extent of the problem within 120 days. T... more »
Politicians On Both Sides Of The Aisle Sell Out To Pollution Lobbyists
Yesterday we were wondering how it is possible that our political elites
can evade their environmental responsibilities so blatantly even in the
face of a public that is uneasy that politicians aren't doing enough to
protect society from greedy, selfish polluters. I suppose politicians take
the gamble that voters may grumble and tell pollsters they're unhappy but
that they won't use environmental concerns to determine how they vote. For
example, even if short-sighted, corrupt and irresponsible politicians don't
care about sea levels rising, most Americans do... a lot. A survey rele... more »
Untitled
*LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal
researcher Ivor van Heerden ~Mark Schleifstein*~Louisiana State University
spent close to $1 million to wage its battle against former research
geologist Ivor van Heerden over his claims that senior university officials
destroyed his career after he criticized the Army Corps of Engineers for
its role in the failure of levees during Hurricane Katrina, according to
new documents released Tuesday by Levees.org activist group. Van Heerden,
who also served as assistant director of the LSU Hurricane Center, chaired
a pane... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jamie Bamber, 40.
Right to the good stuff...yeah, last night was the first west coast night
game of the season, and so there goes my sleep schedule for a while. Not
that I'm complaining about staying up to watch Bumgarner shut out the
Dodgers, mind you. Uh...yeah, the good stuff:
1. David Roberts on fracking and renewables. Interesting.
2. Good Stu Rothenberg item on House 2014. I think I agree down the line
with him on this one.
3. The next Fed Chair? Neil Irwin handicaps the race and establishes Janet
Yellen as the solid favorite. I'm just looking forward to he... more »
Untitled
*3 years later, BP Oil Spill effects still unfolding*
*Contracting Academy completes four-week course for Corps of Engineers in
New Orleans*
*Alternatives to Jindal’s tax reform begin surfacing ~Louisiana Weekly*
*Video casts uncertainty on sheriff's future*
*New Orleans Saints, Pelicans Owner Tom Benson Steps Down From League
Committees*
*Houma Navigation Canal floodgate to be ready for hurricane season*
~Hat Tweet~@swalshee vanity plate
*Mark LaFlaur: Elysian Fields reading April 7th at Garden District Book Shop
*
Rice Lake WI - Home 'o Phobes?
Applebee’s employee gay-bashed by husband of co-worker says he was told not
to return to work due to bad publicity
Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer
Mar 31, 2013
A gay employee of Applebee’s in Rice Lake was brutally bashed by the
husband of a co-worker, then told by the restaurant’s manager he could not
return to his job due to publicity surrounding the incident, he said
Timothy Phares subsequently did return to his job as a server after Greg
Flynn, CEO of Apple American Group franchise, intervened on his behalf.
According to Phares and his sister Krista Kathrine, they were ... more »
Ernst Chladni: an anniversary
Ernst Chladni, the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics,
passed away in Wrocław (German: Breslau, Czech: Vratislav) on April 3rd,
1827.
He was born 70 years earlier, in 1756, in Lutherstadt Edward Wittenberg.
However, his family came from Kremnica, a mining/minting town in Central
Slovakia (a part of the Kingdom of Hungary). The name "Chladni" plus minus
small variations means "cold" in Slavic languages.
Because Wittenberg is a Lutheran town, it shouldn't be shocking that his
paternal ancestors and uncles were achieved Lutherans – deans, clergymen,
historians, theol... more »
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Orang Pendak Sighting
This is an interesting report from Dale Drinnon’s Blog. We have not seen
too many reports on small primates out there although they do exist. As
this one, it is a case of actually encountering them in their operational
range and that turns out to be a tall order. To start with they do not
have to do much to hide, unlike a nine foot primate like Sasquatch.
In addition this evidence tells us they operate in hunting bands and
certainly avoid contact. Even here they are going after a great food
supply and the amount likely to be harvested is so small as to make it
beneath... more »
Ocean Carbon Absorption Doubled
It is rather bad news when a long accepted core piece of data turns out to
not just be in error but also to be profoundly wrong. It means that all
the models depending on the original dispensation are in dire need of major
revision. This typically takes years to work its way through.
A good comparable was the Carbon 14 adjustment brought about by tree
rings. It turned archeology on its head and most texts prior to the mid
sixties ended up been grossly wrong. We are still adjusting. That is why
I beat 1159BC and 1179BC to death. They are independently confirmed.
This... more »
State Banking Gathering Steam
It is not socialism of course, although there are obviously those who
would like you to think so. What it is is independence from the King. A
free country must send power down stream. A tyranny must centralize all
power for the benefit of its overweening lackeys. State banking is the
first major fix for the USA economy. As shown here, it works to deliver
local prosperity even without obvious targeted expenditure programs like
the New Deal.
That other states are now considering just this move is essentially
unstoppable because of the obvious predatory nature of big capi... more »
Cyclic Heating Doubles Thermoelectric Efficiency
Waste heat in particular has been a source of available energy that has
been poorly utilized. This is because it is almost never built in and it
is usually a heavy capital outlay with a poor internal rate of return.
Now we discover pulsing heat opens the door to high efficiency
thermoelectric conversion. Thus more capital effective heat conversion
appears possible and plausible. This is good news.
The pay off not mentioned here is that in combination with a battery, we
have a system able to strip waste heat produced in the home as a matter of
course. Certainly a fuel b... more »
BBC missing something out?
The BBC have a class calculator on their website and it's a rich source of
lefty thought.
Here's two examples; there are seven UP classes, the bottom one being
described thus:
'*Precariat*
-
Percentage of population 15%
Average age 50
This is the poorest and most deprived class group. People in this group
score low for economic, social and cultural factors:
- They tend to mix socially with people like them
- Jobs in this group include cleaner, van driver and care worker
- They tend not to have a broad range of cultural interests
- People in ... more »
Italy seizes $1.7 billion from Sicilian counterpart of Al Gore
Fox News and all the other media are full of the breaking news that the
Italian police have seized €1.3 billion from Vito Nicastri.
This guy with unsurprisingly close ties to the Mafia (including Matteo
Messina Denaro, the widely believed Sicilian Mafia godfather) – which has
an intertwined history with "renewable energy" – is accused of being the
"Lord of the Wind" and the "King of Alternative Energy". The confiscated
assets include 43 wind and solar companies, 98 real estate properties, and
66 banking accounts (it must be handy to have this many).
The assets were originally f... more »
Attitude Problem
The BBC’s Jerusalem Bureau is woefully understaffed. (It must be the cuts.)
Obviously Jeremy Bowen, Jon Donnison, Paul Danahar, Wyre Davis, Yolande
Knell and Kevin Connolly couldn’t be expected to know this all by themselves,
but it* wasn’t* Israel that broke the truce.
Oh
Dear
Poor
BBC
Send in reinforcements! (Otherwise people might get the wrong impression)
H/T Harry's Place
*UPDATE*
Don't bother to click on the first link. They've changed it!
As predicted the BBC now feel able to report
Over the last few days Hamas terrorists fired some rockets into Israel.
There was no discernible BBC coverage of this news. Israel responded by
attacking terrorist targets in Gaza and, as I predicted, the BBC managed to report
the news.
Here's the headline: '*Israel launches first air strike on Gaza since truce*'
and here's the first two paragraphs:
'Israel has carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip for the first time
since an eight-day war ended in a truce last November.
Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza, says aircraft bombed fields near
the border and no-one was injur... more »
A Vile Product
Could this be the most disgusting headline to have hit news stands since *The
Sun's* coverage of Hillsborough? The dehumanising of the children ("bred 17
babies"), the welfare-baiting headline, the sideswipe at social workers;
seldom has a tragedy been exploited so brazenly and cynically to score
political points. And for the judgement to land at the very moment the
government are actively impoverishing hundreds of thousands of low paid
workers, unemployed people, and the disabled, it's enough to give those of
us who *aren't* of a conspiratorial turn of mind pause.
There is no meri... more »
CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC FASCISM
The US military and their friends act like Nazis.
*'I saw one man having his prosthetic leg being pulled off him, and being
beaten about the head with it before he was thrown onto the truck.'*
*dailymail *(revealing acts of torture by the US military in Iraq)
*Tortured by the CIA's Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.*
In Egypt, the CIA's fascist Muslim Brotherhood carry out the torture.
The following is from* "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood"* by Alaa al-Aswany, 30
March 2013
*Source *
*1.* In Egypt, "Kamal Khalil ... saw a number of demonstrators ... brutally
flogged in the mosque, to th... more »
Education, education, education
Another inconvenient fact for the institutionally anti Israel BB.
Trans Pacific Partnership Bad for the Middle Class: Just How Bad is the Question
What you don't know can hurt you. I think that's a clear lesson of some
so-called trade agreements the United States has signed over the last 20
years, and illustrated further by the few that have been defeated, most
notably the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, negotiated by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from1995 to 1998, but
then abandoned in the face of ever growing protests.
Haven't heard of the Trans Pacific Partnership? That's no surprise: while
the negotiations are not really being conducted in secret (the Office of
the US Trade Representative ... more »
April 2, 1973
John Dean is doing his job by day, and at night he meets with his lawyer
and continues to lay out the facts of what actually happened.
And the scheming and plotting is reaching a new level, with everyone now
worried about getting sold out. John Mitchell speaks to Dean, and then
calls Bob Haldeman -- remember, the White House Chief of Staff -- saying
that he is worried about Dean; if Dean "does what he suggests" when he
testifies to the grand jury, "he will unravel the whole thing." Then
Haldeman talks to Dean. From Haldeman's diary:
--
[Dean] says his lawyer has told him that he mu... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we took a look at our water footprint, specifically our indirect
water use. What a fascinating and ... more »
Will The Democrats Win Back The House In November? With Steve Israel Calling The Shots?
I'm always Mr. Optimism. I was thinking that the DCCC might have learned
something from the dismal back-to-back failures of the Great Blue Dog
Apocalypse of 2010 (a stunning 63 seats lost, overwhelmingly by incumbents
following DCCC directives to vote with the Republicans whenever possible)
and then their pathetic failure to even come close to taking back the House
last November, as they tried stocking up the caucus with the kind of
right-wing corporate whores (Blue Dogs and New Dems) grassroots
progressives don't want to support. Funny how the Tories in the U.K. seem more
open t... more »
CNN Exposed: Former CNN Reporter, Amber Lyon, Comes Forward Showing How Network Is Totally Biased And Untrustworthy!
I and others in the so called real truth movement have said for over a
decade now that every major media outlet on this planet is totally
controlled by criminal (usually Jewish) interests, and has absolutely no
interest of ever getting any truthful information out to the
public....Instead, they continue to put up pure garbage, lies, and
completely biased reports, that they try to pass off as "news".
To show how one of the major "News" networks, CNN, is in itself nothing
more than a totally biased, controlled, and untrustworthy news reporting
network, I want to present the following ... more »
Musical Interlude: Mike & The Mechanics, “The Living Years”
Mike & The Mechanics, “The Living Years”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
Excellent Review of the Challenges of Treating and Managing Contaminated Waste Water From Fracking
*Estimating Wastewater Impacts from Fracking*
*Charles W. Schmidt** Environ Health Perspect* 121:a117-a117 (2013).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.121-a117 [online 01 April 2013]
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a117/
[Excerpted] Wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for
natural gas in the Marcellus Shale is already overwhelming disposal options
and will continue to do so as gas development increases, according to newly
published research.1
The investigation did not evaluate environmental consequences of the
wastewater. But lead author Brian Lutz, an assistant prof... more »
Lego retrograde
From here:
Are we really living in 2013? The Lego ads from the 1980s seem more modern
to me.
Now it's a gendered, bubblegum-pink sexist campaign geared to girly-girls -
and most certainly NOT girly-boys!
Indeed. My physician daughter, who in many ways (clothin choices, for one)
resembled the child in the advertisement above, had her own Lego sets in
the 1980s, as well as the full collection of the daring and exciting
adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese
ancestry. That's not the only reason she pursued a career in science;
strong female rol... more »
Lollapalooza or Just Legacy Tour? People Are Finally Catching On To Who The Neolibs Actually Are (And What They Intend To Do To the Rest of US)
Outside my door. Karen Garcia at Sardonicky has an erudite, insightful
essay on what she has designated as Obama's Lollapalooza Legacy (about
which many of us (his past and current supporters) are starting to see much
more clearly and are deeply worried about our leadership for the long
term). Read it and see whether you agree with me about her perspicacity. At
the end of her essay is a
End Of An Era: My Dear Friend, Whitewraithe, Is Ending Her Fabulous Work At Pragmatic Witness
I have been in many long discussions over the last few months with my
closest ally and a real true friend in this fight against the evils of this
world, Whitewraithe, who writes Pragmatic Witness at
www.pragmaticwitness.com. Sadly, I must inform everyone that she has
decided to quit posting articles at Pragmatic Witness, and she will instead
concentrate on getting her personal life back in order, and then possibly
start a new blog under a different format, possibly focusing on
entertainment..... It was a very tough decision, and she asked me many
times if it would be the correct ... more »
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: ‘Daily Telegraph’ openly promoting Libz Party policy
*[image: _McGrath001]This week, **Libertarianz** leader Dr Richard McGrath
is coming back a week early just to boast.*
See, I promised I'd be back within a week!
Why so soon? Because, as per the headline, a leading British newspaper has taken
on board a Libertarianz policy--that the poor shouldn't be paying any tax—and
we're proud of the *Telegraph* for doing so.
Oddly, it seems the only Britons against the idea of tax cuts for the poor
are ... yes, you guessed it: *The Guardian* and their left-wing readers.
For pity's sake. Who would have thought it? The champagne socialist
le... more »
What's in a name
Biggest
buzz on my interwebs today was about the super colossal revision of
acceptable Big Media syntax. The AP Stylebook banished "illegal
immigrant"from its lexicon. Meanwhile, the world breathlessly awaits to
see if the
NYT will follow suit. No. Seriously. Everybody is talking about it. I
expect we'll have days of deep analysis on why it's good, bad or doesn't
matter at all.
Haven't read a word beyond the headlines myself. All I have to say is,
it's
about damn time. Most of civil society stopped using it years ago. It's
the
contemporary version of wetback, mostly used to deperson... more »
Bulletin from civil-war-torn Damascus: Syria leads the way signing on to the BTAP
*Who would have thought Syria would lead the world on BTAP?*
*by Ken*
I know that last night I promised a "for instance" of the abuse of basic
rights of an LGBT citizen so outrageous that, as I wrote, it "had me
punching the walls." You may recall that AZ GOP Rep. Matt Salmon, whose gay
son Matt's "It Gets Better" video we looked at last night, doesn't believe
that LGBT rights are a "legal issue," and so -- as much as he professes to
love his son -- apparently doesn't believe that young Matt is entitled to
any of these rights so absolutely fundamental that most straight people
nev... more »
So why’s everyone so interested in someone else’s marriage?
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Bigger pipelines breed bigger disasters
The tar sands oil spill cleanup in Arkansas is ongoing, not that you're
going to see it happen. There's apparently a media blackout in place so the
only video is being surreptitiously captured by locals. But here's
something new. It's quite possible taxpayers would end up paying for a
major tar sands oil spill, say if the KXL pipeline was built and
subsequently ruptured. And this is why:
Companies that transport oil are required to pay into the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund, giving the government a pot of money for immediate
spill responses. The Enbridge pipeline in Michigan and t... more »
Untitled
*LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal
researcher Ivor van Heerden ~Mark Schleifstein*
What philosophers (and everyone else) can learn from economics. And vice versa
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Here’s the note about this week’s meeting from our friends at the Auckland
University Economics Group:
Hi All,
This week, we discuss the greatest lesson economics has to teach
everyone else—yet one that few economists even know.
In addition, we will look at what everyone else has to teach
economists—if only economists were able to listen.
We’ll examine:
- one of the great and fundamentally benevolent conclusions of economic
thinking, and the great economist who promoted it; and
- the “axiomatic concepts” that most e... more »
War on Women: Separate and Unequal Law for Pregnant Women
*You have to watch this video*
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*>>>>>>HERE<<<<<<<*
Snips from the - - - - incomplete - - - - Truthout transcript, please
watch the video:
By Laura Flanders, Truthout | Interview
A case in point is Bei Bei Shuai, *who has been incarcerated for more than
a year facing charges of murder *and attempted feticide in Indiana after
she attempted to take her own life while she was in her third trimester of
pregnancy.
"This is really is a national issue," Paltrow told GRITtv. "Will Indiana
become a first state to declare a system of separate and unequal law for
pregnant wome... more »
Showing you the Money - How to Access Your Absolute Value
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* *Showing you the Money - How to Access Your Absolute Value*
An Essay by Justin Deschamps
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 10:29am
With the new lawful landscape we all have a great deal of adjusting to do.
What is this new landscape? Who is in control of it? How do we get
things done like paying our bills and making sure our families are fed?
These questions we all have and we all are seeking to answer but often
what is, and what we consciously see are two different things; especially
as we are all products of the control matrix where money and society are
the only tools of... more »
Dr. Jacob Needleman - "The Difference Between A Cult And A Genuine Spiritual Path"
Source: YouTube Channel BarakaBee.
Tom Friedman Signals New Education Rhetoric and the Same Old Crap
I have been dismissing Tom Friedman for a long time, but occasionally I do
find something of interest in his column that someone else said. His
latest column follows that pattern, in that it is based largely on quotes
from Tony Wagner, a Harvard prof who has made a career of trying to do in
education what Tom Friedman has done in politics, i. e., represent an
abstract middle-brow version of progressivism that wraps neo-liberal social
engineering plans in gauzy, good-smelling paper. When you look closely,
however, you will still find a turd inside.
Friedman begins by citing with ... more »
Kansas - Deceased: Cause of Death, Extremism
*An obituary as printed in the Hutchinson News*
*Kansas 1861-2013*
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*By Jason Probst*
TOPEKA - The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a
long and difficult battle with extremism that became markedly more
aggressive in 2010. The struggle left the state so weakened it could no
longer fight against the relentless attacks by the fatal disease.
Kansas was born on Jan. 29, 1861.
The state is preceded in death by fair taxation, good highways, strong
education, family farms, a good public parks and wildlife system, open
government, neighborliness and belief in ... more »
Bad week for tarsands astroturf
*"British Columbians for International Prosperity* is an independent group *of
concerned citizens *looking to promote practical resource development,
international trade expansion, manufacturing development, and other
initiatives bringing prosperity to British Columbia, Canada, and our Global
partners."
Dear retired oil execs*: Don't run astroturf ads under the rubric
"independent group of concerned citizens" unless you feel like disclosing
who those other concerned citizens are and who made and paid for the glitzy
ad you just shot in my back yard.
Also, about your claim that Ca... more »
Interior Department Allows Death and Destruction Near Grand Canyon
B. Loomis (2013, April 1) Canyon Uranium Mine Draws Ire: Environmentalists,
Tribe Sue After Feds Allow Company to Proceed Despite Ban on New Mining
Near Grand Canyon. The Arizona Republic
[Excerpted] Energy Fuels Resources intends to reopen its [Grand] Canyon
Mine despite a 20-year federal ban on new uranium mining, imposed early
last year by the Interior Department, that covers 1 million acres near the
Canyon.
The company says the ban doesn’t apply because its rights are
grandfathered, and the federal government agrees.
Environmentalists and the Havasupai Tribe counter that... more »
The Time of Remembering
We have known this always. We have put it in our books and movies, our
legends and sacred texts. We are not just these rock hard abs and pearly
whites! We are eternal essence, embodied. We have entered the Time of
Remembering.
Yoda said it simply – “Do or do not. There is no try.” Watch this clip
until the end:
Believe it. We’ve done fear, disbelief, doubt and excuses until we are
tired of our own story - Time for something new.
If I was Source, I’d want to get every possible ounce of juice out of it
all before I was done. I’d want *absolute knowledge*... more »
David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History
Obama Ben Bernanke is to America what Osama bin Laden was to Islam: poison.
The Federal Reserve has exhausted its legitimacy. It is a morally, legally,
and politically bankrupt entity.
"What I do know is that this market lives and dies by the last word of the
Fed and the people at the Fed have no clue what they're doing. Bernanke is
the most dangerous man ever to hold high financial office in the history of
the United States." - David Stockman, former Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (1981–1985).
Video Title - David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In ... more »
Another hockey stick that never existed
It’s like the anatomy of a whole scam in microcosm.
After the first famous “scary” reconstruction of historic
temperatures—widely touted by the IPCC and warmists everywhere as
“proving” modern temperatures are historically unprecedented, before being
exposed as fraudulent by Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre—comes another
“scary” historic reconstruction purporting to show the same thing:
historically unprecedented modern temperatures that are frighteningly,
catastrophically, taking off. See:
Trouble is, despite this latest “hockey stick” being touted by the likes of
the *New Yor... more »
BBC yet again promotes the notion of Israel as a racist society | BBC Watch
Brilliantly observed post at BBCWatch
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/04/02/bbc-yet-again-promotes-the-notion-of-israel-as-a-racist-society/
Oy, Reich
I'm not gong to get full-on cranky at Robert Reich's column today...only
somewhat cranky.
Reich's complaint is that politicians are happy to follow public opinion
when it comes to marriage equality, guns, and immigration...but on raising
taxes for rich people politicians ignore public opinion. To his credit, he
cites real research, from Page and Bartels, on the question of politicians
ignoring the poor and even the middle-class. So I won't get too cranky.
But really...well, I'll give you some context before I complain:
Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politi... more »
Michael Sona Charged By Elections Canada In Connection To Robocall Scandal
*Lawyers for Mr. Sona released the following today:*
*Neither Mr. Sona or I will be making any public statements beyond the
following statement at this time.*
*Although the charge is disappointing, it represents an opportunity for Mr.
Sona to finally address the allegations in a court as oppose to in the
media and resolve it permanently. I cannot help but comment, that if the
government was interested in the public being fully informed and the issue
of robocalls being properly addressed, a Full Public Inquiry would be
called, rather than a charge laid against a single individual who... more »
Rich Coleman, The Bald-Faced Liar, Continues To Tell Whopper Lies, Exposed
Why does Rich Coleman continue to be an habitual liar, below is some cut n
paste from a Black Press Daily, The Chilliwack Times..
Rich Coleman made an outrageous lie, the Chilliwack Times allowed the
whopper lie to be printed and distributed, Rich Coleman needs to retract
his bald-faced lie and the Chilliwack Times needs to correct the public
record.
The Chilliwack Times interviewed Rich Coleman and Laurie Throness, the
interview came in the form of Questions asked and Answers given..I`m only
going to concentrate on one question that was asked and one big fat lie
response by Rich... more »
OK, The GOP Wants To Rape And Plunder The Environment-- What About The Democrats?
The wonders of tar sands oil comes to beautiful Michigan
I was uneasy about Obama right from the start. I did vote for him in 2008,
despite my fears that he was a corporate shill masquerading as a
progressive. When his first term proved me right, I had no problem at all
voting for a third party candidate in 2012. But I must say, there was one
policy area where I actually did trust Obama and believed everything he
said: the environment, especially in regard to global warming. His
administration hasn't lived up. They're obviously not a bunch of rapacious
plunderers like any garden vari... more »
Wrestling with a pig—debating intellectual property
For the last three or four years, an oaf called Stephen Kinsella has
poisoned the libertarian world on the subject of intellectual property,
persuading naive libertarians and Austrians about the supposed “virtues” of intellectual
communism, i.e., that it is okay to steal someone else’s ideas, work,
writing, inventions, software, trademarks, films, designs, logos … in
short, everything that constitutes intellectual property.
Unwilling to wrestle with a pig on the basis they’ll get muddy themselves,
most saner folk have demurred debating the oaf.
But on April 1st, economist Robert W... more »
Tipping the balance part 2
*Complaints.*
This is an example of a complaint from the PSC which in my opinion has
little substance.
It concerned Martha Kearney’s interview with Mark Regev, which took place
around the time of the death of Rachel Corrie.
Rachel Corrie was allegedly mown down by an IDF bulldozer as she was
protecting a Palestinian home. That’s their story and they’re sticking to
it.
Much doubt has been cast on the veracity of that tale, but suffice it to
say that the late Rachel Corrie’s so-called heroism is legendary in the
world of anti-Israel activism. A play has been written about her, and ... more »
AMS-02 seems to overcautiously censor solid evidence for dark matter
At 5 pm CERN Summer Time, I was watching a CERN talk by Sam Ting of MIT, a
Nobel prize winner for J/*ψ* and the boss of the AMS Collaboration, via
webcast.cern.ch. I was impressed by the complexity of the problem to do
such an experiment in space, by the professional attitude by Ting and lots
and lots of collaborators, and by the number of subtleties and tests they
had to be careful about.
The AMS Collaboration released a press release. Just to be sure you know
what we're talking about, the 7.5-ton gadget on the board of the
International Space Station measured the number of electro... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by historian and
author Thomas Goodrich. Tom and I will be discussing a variety of subjects
relating to American and European history, in particular the destruction of
Nationalist Socialist Germany during WWII and after, the War of Northern
Aggression commonly known as the American Civil War, and Indian-American
warfare in American history. Tom is the author of *Hellstorm: The Death of
Nazi Germany, 1944-1947*, *The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
*, *The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Trage... more »
Tipping the balance
The BBC insists it receives as many complaints about pro-Israel bias as
anti. I found that claim hard to believe because I couldn’t understand what
the haters of Israel have to complain about.
We have to accept the BBC’s word that someone counts up the tally of
complaints received over time, finds an equal amount from both sides, and
concludes that the BBC must be “getting it right”.
I think I now see what’s happening. Complaints about pro-Israel bias must
come from the kind of people who feel insulted at the mere sight of Mark
Regev on their television screens; folk who pen furi... more »
The United States of FUBAR
Despite everything that has been visited upon them since the "Reagan
Revolution" - the stagnation of their incomes; the deliberate and unearned
transfer of enormous wealth from the blue and white-collar middle class to
the richest of the rich; the offshoring of their manufacturing base and
jobs; the waging of two failed wars in conjunction with tax cuts for the
rich, all financed with borrowed money on the kid's credit; the
transformation of the mightiest economic engine in the world into a hapless
succession of bubbles; all this and so much more - wait for it -
*The results of a ne... more »
April Events!
*April 4 - 1:30PM* *DELIVER OUR RESPONSE *at the Pike County Court House,
Broad St, Milford PA. We will be delivering our response to TGP's complaint
against us in their pursuit of a permanent injunction against civil
disobedience.
*April 5 - POETS ON MAIN *at 620 Main St, Boonton NJ
5PM - Bobby's News & Gifts , Open mic. for poets of all ages and levels
8PM-8:30PM - "Wendie Goetz is performing an exo/performance poetry set. Her
work can be found on iTunes or Reverbnation. Wendie's Words is a poetic
musical experience. Enjoy words your soul feels. Be uplifted by the
incredible, and s... more »
Wild Bill: Message for the lefties...
*"you're not going to get away with it."*
A Train Full of Eternal Hearts
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As we contemplate who we really are, consider this - it only takes one of
us to remember our eternal heart; we cannot keep it to ourselves. All will
join in our remembering! Just watch.
*We are (the) One.**
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~Sophia* *
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Empathy Down, Narcissism Up?
A University of Michigan study of 14,000 university students found empathy
is in serious decline, especially over the past ten years, while narcissism
has soared.
*The research, led by Sara H. Konrath of the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor and published online in August in Personality and Social Psychology
Review, found that college students’ self-reported empathy has declined
since 1980, with an especially steep drop in the past 10 years. To make
matters worse, during this same period students’ self-reported narcissism
has reached new heights, according to research by Jean M.... more »
On the road....again??
Food vendors selling to a second-class bus in La CeibaI've been on a heck
of a lot of buses lately. With a new commitment to visit the more distant
regions of my organization this year, I'm fast becoming an expert on the
good, the bad and the ugly of Honduran bus travel. So here's a little
primer that might serve you well should you ever be down this way, or in
any of the other developing countries that I've been to with remarkably
similar transportation options.
*First-class bus*: If money's no object and you can fit your travel to the
bus company's schedule, this is certainly the ... more »
Israel Matzav: Rockets here, rockets there, rockets, rockets everywhere
Here's some news that you won't find on the institutionally anti Israel
BBC.
'Earlier on Tuesday, two rockets were shot at Israel by terrorists in Gaza.
One landed in the Eshkol region, while the other has not yet been found,
but apparently landed in Gaza. This evening, a rocket was shot into Tel
Fares in the Golan Heights. '
More here
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/rockets-here-rockets-there-rockets.html
Update:
Israel has responded with planes atacking terrorist sites in Gaza, the BBC
will now feel able to report the story but basing it upon Israel's
"disproportiona... more »
Calling All Eternal Hearts
I believe this beautiful message from Jenna to be both timely and spot on.
Anger, hate, fear, hostility, aggression, or any combination thereof, have
no place in where we are going. The bracelet I wear around my wrist 24/7
says it all; on one side it reads "LOVE IS THE WAY," and on the other side,
"BELIEVE." :)
When all Eternal Hearts wake up to this Truth, the world as we know it can
shift in an instant.
In Absolute Gratitude Jenna,
~ Brian
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*Calling All Eternal Hearts*
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http://newworldoflove.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/calling-all-eternal-hearts/
by Jenna Lavo... more »
SAVILE, CANADA, FRANCE, ELM, KINCORA, BRYN ALYN...
In 1984, a severely mutilated woman escaped from a house near *Auxerre*, in
France.
She led police to a cellar where she and two others had been imprisoned and
tortured.
The police discovered a list of 50 people who had paid to torture the women.
Top people were involved, reportedly.
*aangirfan: GIRLS GET KIDNAPPED?*
humorchic.blogspot.com
Between 1999 and 2002, a large paedophile ring operated in the town of *
Angers* in France.
Some of the abused children talked of a group of men who arrived at the
abuser Franck V.'s apartment wearing suits and ties, with their faces
hidden ... more »
This madness has to stop
From the BBC travel website (*my emphasis*)
M25 Greater London, clockwise between A127 [M25 junction 29] and A13
Lakeside [M25 junction 30]
M25 Greater London - *M25 closed*, queueing traffic and long delays
clockwise between J29, A127 (Romford) and J30, A13 (Lakeside), because of
accident investigation work. Diversion in operation - via the hollow
triangle, the A127, A128 and the A13 to rejoin at J30. Congestion to J27
M11.
A406 North Circular Road West London, southbound between Abbey Road and A40
Western Avenue
A406 London - *A406 North Circular Road in West London closed*, se... more »
We keep waiting for Krugman to turn the corner!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013*
*Joan Walsh aping the right:* We keep waiting for Krugman to turn the
corner about who and what we are.
In a new blog post, he starts with a “bonkers op-ed” column by Liz Cheney.
As he proceeds, he notes the lunacy of an argument which has long been made
on the right.
The claim in question makes no sense, but conservatives just keep making
it. We will shorten his argument a tad:
KRUGMAN (4/2/13): The stirring quote from Ronald Reagan [in Cheney’s
column] comes from the recording he made for Operation Coffee Cup, a 1961
project organized by the AMA to mobi... more »
Dwindling AGW and retired Hansen
*Post-retirement Hansen has no reasons for self-glorification*
Juliet Eilperin, an alarmist hired gun at the Washington Post, is among the
reporters who took notice of some results from a new U.S. Pew Research
Center survey.
Two thirds of Americans favor the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline
which is sensible because the project will make the transfer of oil more
efficient and will politically improve the composition of energy sources
that America relies upon.
The number of folks infected by the AGW hysteria dropped by 6 percentage
points since October 2012 but 60% of the ... more »
The nation’s top superintendent gets charged!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013*
*Unless you’re reading the Post:* Does politics affect the way new events
get reported?
Consider what happened when a bunch of teachers, principals and school
administrators got indicted in Atlanta last week.
Last Friday, 35 people got indicted. They were charged with committing
crimes in a massive cheating scandal in Atlanta’s public schools.
One indictment went to Beverly Hall, Atlanta’s former superintendent of
schools. In 2009, Dr. Hall was named national superintendent of the year by
the American Association of School Administrators. Today, she faces ... more »
What I Would Do, If I Were Kirk Sorensen
Kirk Sorensen has kept his cards very close to his chest since he and a
business partner established Flive Energy. Officially, Kirk is as committed
to the LFTR, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, as much as always. Long term,
I would not expect that to change, but in the short term, if I wanted to
make money, I would not focus much attention on LFTR development.
Before my illness, I focused a good deal of attention on uranium fueled
Molten Salt Reactors with or without added thorium. Such reactors might
require much less research and development than the LFTR. Uranium fueled
Molten Sa... more »
ALEC State Sovereignty Policy - A FAILURE
ALEC policy pushes
limiting the Federal Government
strengthening state government
(so they say - and those are the ALEC legislators that ALEC
corporations control).
so you would eventually end up with
*Fifty States - Fifty Different Sets of Laws*
Ask this woman from Minnesota how
fifty states and fifty different set of laws
is working for her.
*Moorhead mom shocked by her New York gun arrest*
Fargo - Beth Arneson Ferrizzi and her husband will welcome their first
child together in June, but it might seem less laborious after what she
went through delivering his handgun to him l... more »
The unseen victims of austerity addicts
According to the very important punditry, the sequestration spending cuts
are just a big joke because -- ha ha -- the world didn't end and nothing
happened to the well off Villagers, so what's the big deal? Of course they
don't mention the cuts haven't really taken full effect yet. They're only
just now beginning to filter out around our country. Sam Stein and Amanda
Terkel collected 100 instances where the spending cuts have started.
Already social safety programs like Meals on Wheels are being cut,
thousands of jobs are being lost, and those who are lucky enough to keep
their jobs... more »
Spain: The Enigmatic Disappearance of the "Reina Regente"
*Spain: The Enigmatic Disappearance of the “Reina Regente”*
*By Angel Carretero Olmedo – Andalucia Misteriosa*
Both here and at the Andalucia Misteriosa website I’ve spoken of the
“Alborán Triangle” and its mysteries, omitting discussion of certain
subjects in order to keep the articles from becoming excessively lengthy.
Very interesting things have happened between the borders of the aforesaid
“triangle” and Province of Cádiz, specifically. The case we are about to
discuss is celebrating an anniversary, and we must go more than a century
back in time.
The Spanish cruiser “Reina ... more »
James Hansen Leaving NASA to Campaign on Climate Change
The U.S. government's most prominent science voice on climate change, James
Hansen, is leaving NASA.
*In an e-mail Monday, Hansen wrote that he decided to step down “so that I
can spend full time on science, drawing attention to the implications for
young people, and making clear what science says needs to be done.”*
*Climate activist Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, said Hansen, 72,
decided to step down so he could engage in lawsuits and protests full time.
Hansen was arrested in February in Washington in a protest against the
Keystone XL pipeline plan. He participated in th... more »
Jim Rogers: “Taking People’s Bank Accounts Is Going To Happen”
Jim Rogers: “Taking People’s Bank Accounts Is Going To Happen”
- http://beforeitsnews.com/banksters/
James Hansen: Responsible Scientist and Advocate
Via the *New York Times*, James Hansen, long time NASA scientist and
advocate for action on climate change, announced that he was retiring from
the government:
His departure, after a 46-year career at the space agency’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, will deprive federally sponsored
climate research of its best-known public figure.
At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in
court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the
federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions, for
instance, as we... more »
Queens State Senator Malcolm Smith And A Gaggle Of Corrpt Republicans Arrested By The FBI
Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, handcuffs not visible
How does on even explain to a non-New Yorker who and what state Senator
Malcolm Smith is? It's not enough to point out that one of Congress' most
corrupt members, Joe Crowley, is the Capo di tutti capi of the miserably
corrupt Queens Democratic Party Machine, out of which Smith, who represents
Hollis, crawled. Nor is it enough to mention that Smith has been the
ultimate Democrat-Republican opportunist in the contemporary history of New
York politics.
The 56 year old Smith started in politics as a senior aide, a protégé, of
outrageousl... more »
Total SA dumps Canada oil sands project for $1.65 billion loss
[image: A Landsat satellite took this natural-color image of the Athabasca
Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada on 15 May 2011. Photo: Robert Simmon / NASA
Earth Observatory]
[Hopefully, the market will decide against further expansion of this
disaster.]
By Jen Alic, OilPrice.com
31 March 2013
France’s Total SA (NYSE: TOT) will sell its 49% stake in its Canadian oil
sands project to Suncor Energy Inc. for $500 million, netting the French
oil giant a $1.65 billion loss on the beleaguered project.
Total would have had to spend another $5 billion (at least) on the Alberta
oil sands Voyage... more »
Of the Not Normal, We're Really Not Normal
Look, there was a thing going around the blogs yesterday about the
twitters, which started when Nick Beaudrot said something smart. Or at
least, it sounded smart to me. And then Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias and Kevin
Drum all said things about it. Beaudrot has a follow-up today.
I could get into it more, in which case I'd probably take a position about
twitter working differently for different people, and not being for
everyone. But here's the problem: Drum talked about "the verbal,
well-educated, politically conscious social group that most bloggers belong
to," but the truth is tha... more »
A day in the life
After coffee and breakfast, Risa lets the poultry out, checks their food
and water, collects duck eggs, and waters the flats in the "greenhouse"
(potting shed with glass south wall).
Besides the potting bench in the greenhouse, she keeps a "spring bench" on
the north wall of the house, halfway to the garden, for hardening off. Not
only is this easy on the back, it's a far piece for slugs and snails to get
into the pots. Here we have peas, yellow storage onions, and assorted
greens. Below is the garden kneeler, some spuds "chitting," and the
planting-out tray. The flats, tray and ... more »
Record-sized Lake Erie algae bloom of 2011 likely to become regular occurrence, study says – ‘Everything is trending in the direction of conditions conducive to more large blooms’
[image: This sequence of satellite photos of Lake Erie's western basin
shows the progress of the 2011 algae bloom. A: June 1, soon after a surge
of fertilizer-loaded storm runoff from the Maumee River has flowed into the
lake basin; B: July 19, as the bloom begins to grow; C: July 31, about two
weeks after the bloom's start; D: August 11, as the bloom spreads east
toward the central basin; E: Sept. 3, as the bloom reaches the central
basin and a second phase forms on the basin's north shore; F: Oct. 9, as
the bloom begins to decline in the western basin. Photo: University of
Wisco... more »
CUT DOWN BY MANGANESE
International steel magnate Samancor is charged with putting profits before
workers' rights. Former employees at their Johannesburg, South Africa plant
are dying from manganese poisoning.
There is growing concern that many workers at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in
Maine are exposed to manganese poisoning as they cut steel to make Navy
destroyers. The dust created is inhaled and over time destroys the person.
There are stories that many workers have been developing symptoms similar
to those in this video but when they went to the doctors provided by BIW
they were asked if they "wanted t... more »
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