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All good things must come to an end!
*TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013*
*So too with our fund-raising drive:* All good things must come to an end.
So too with our fourth or fifth non-annual fund-raising drive.
As you may have discerned, this is our way of telling you this:
You still have this one final chance!
We’re working with the analysts on their letter-writing skills. They’ll be
getting in touch with all the kind persons who chose to take part in this
drive.
For ourselves, our non-annual drive did serve one peculiar purpose.
In our fifteen years at this post, we’ve done a lot of accurate work.
Examples:
In the early ye... more »
Will George Zimmerman receive a fair trial?...
*I'm not holding my breath.*
Wild Bill wants this video passed on to as many people as possible.
Fires, floods, and heavy snow: An extreme May weather situation in North America
[image: Wind map for North America, 2 May 2013 at 18 GMT. The jet stream
pattern for Winter Storm Achilles showed a very high-amplitude trough over
the Midwest U.S., which allowed record-breaking cold air to flow southwards
out of Canada. Graphic: wunderground.com]
By Dr. Jeff Masters
3 May 2013
(wunderground.com) – A highly unusual jet stream pattern is bringing a
bizarre combination of heavy May snows, flooding, extreme fire danger, and
well below average severe thunderstorm activity to the U.S. A strong "blocking"
high pressure system has set up over Greenland, blocking the n... more »
F22 Raptor...Unusable
The Headline
An F-22 Raptor malfunctioned in mid-flight, leading to a crash that killed
its pilot, the Air Force went into damage-control mode. Gen. Norton
Schwartz, the chief of staff, insisted there was no way that the oxygen
generator on his prized stealth jet — a system widely suspected of being
dangerously flawed — caused the crash. And even now that an internal
inquiry seems to contradict Schwartz, the Air Force is still blaming Capt.
Jeffrey Haney for the crash that cost Haney his life.
*Commentary*
*What some in the military think is a top secret technology is actually
... more »
Teamsters - Speak Out on ALEC
*James P. Hoffa*
* *
*General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters*
* *
*ALEC's War on Workers *
*PLEASE read the whole thing*
* *
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
SNIPS
Corporations are upping the ante in their attempt to take control of the
political process. Under the guise of the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC), the nation's most powerful are drafting legislation that is
appearing in statehouses across the country. And the target is not just
union members, but the entire middle class.
ALEC's goal is clear. It wants less regulation and fewer worker protections
in ord... more »
Liberal Hack Economists Remain MIA (ACA Edition)
To return to an oldie but goody: it's still striking to me that no one has
jumped up to fill what appears to be a market opening for hack economists
on the liberal side. This comes to mind this time from the reaction of
economists, including liberal economists, to the sudden decrease in health
care inflation over the last few years. As Annie Lowrey reports:
Major new studies from researchers at Harvard University, the Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation and elsewhere have concurred that at least some of
the slowdown is unrelated to the recession, and might persist as the
economy recov... more »
A Spot of bother
I might as well mention the edition of HardTalk featuring Lord Patten,
Chairman of the BBC Trust. His interrogator was Stephen Sackur. This
programme sets out, per se, to give the interviewee a hard time so no use
complaining when the going gets tough. In any case, Chris Patten could do
with a good grilling because of his failure to wisely guide the BBC
through its recent tribulations; oh yes, and a couple of his biases.
The issue here is not that Sackur did his browbeating too well, or too
badly. It’s about the fact that amongst BBC types it’s a given that being
pro-Israel is a ... more »
Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists – ‘Even we the Mayangna don't touch these forests, that's where the animals we hunt reproduce. If they destroy that, they will destroy our people.’
[image: Cattle in Nicaragua's Bosawás Biosphere Reserve. Invading land
speculators and peasants have destroyed 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres) of
rainforest in the reserve, according to the Mayangna and Miskito indigenous
peoples who call this forest home. Photo: Independent Mayangna Nation of
Nicaragua]
By Jeremy Hance
6 May 2013
(mongabay.com) – In the last four years, invading land speculators and
peasants have destroyed 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres) of rainforest in
Nicaragua's Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, according to the Mayangna and
Miskito indigenous peoples who call t... more »
Annie Lowrey enacts Goldberg’s Law!
*TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013*
*Reports that Medicaid is no good and that it’s highly effective:* We’ve
often cited a famous old joke allegedly known as Goldberg’s Law:
“The man with one watch always knows the time. The man with two watches is
never quite sure.”
We often think of that joke when we read different reports about some event
in our nation’s newspapers. You always think you know what occurred—until
you read the second newspaper.
Last Thursday, Annie Lowrey managed to enact Goldberg’s Law all by herself!
She did so in the third and fourth paragraphs of an important news report
i... more »
Reasons need not be elaborate in a brief trial
*R. v. P.S*. 2013 ONCA 297 is a useful source for the proposition that, in
brief trials, a trial judge's reasons need not be elaborate to be
sufficient:
[3] Second, the appellant argues that the trial judge failed to assess the
reliability of the testimony of Cormier and Joamie before accepting their
evidence. We do not agree with this argument. This was a short trial and,
in the circumstances of this case, it was unnecessary for the trial judge
to expressly analyze the reliability of the evidence of these two witnesses
before accepting it.
A Quiz To See How Badly Your Brain Is Infected By Zionism!
I have been indeed watching the events unfolding in Syria over the last few
days with deep disgust... I am truly shocked that the American government
and its Jewish controlled media continues to propagate the outright LIE
that this unjustifiable attack by the criminal and terrorist state of
Israel against the innocent nation of Syria was due to the need to "stop
weapons transfers into Lebanon"... Nothing could be further from the truth,
and the lack of anger in the American public to their own government's
total subservience to that criminal entity fills me with deep disgust!
I came... more »
Protest against Gendercide: The Perfect Opportunity to Inculcate Misogyny in Children
The annual March for Lies is scheduled for this Thursday, May 9. It is
always held on a weekday so that hundreds of Catholic schoolchildren can be
bussed in for an educational day of indoctrination in misogyny.
Read what Amanda Watson, former Catholic student and participant, has to
say about the event.
A year ago, when a young girl, no more than 16 years old, extended a sign
to block my path that read, “Maybe if you kept your legs shut you wouldn’t
need an abortion,” I decided to take myself home.
Awww, isn't that sweet? Encouraging witless young women to attack other
women on a s... more »
“I Would Prefer Not To”: A Call for Non-Cooperation
Writing about a call for a moratorium on implementing and testing Common
Core State Standards (CCSS) from union leadership, Anthony Cody ends his
blog post with three questions: What do you think? Should we join Randi
Weingarten in pushing for one year’s delay in the harsh consequences
attached to Common Core assessments? Will this year put the [...]
FLUSH THE TPP
Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership say it's an attempt to impose an
American system on Japan and would threaten Japanese public healthcare
system.
Nevada: Native Americans walk to protest water theft scheme
Native
Americans begin 272 mile walk/run to protest water theft scheme
By Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation
http://dgrnewsservice.org/2013/05/06/native-americans-begin-272-mile-walkrun-to-protest-water-theft-scheme/
On
Saturday, May 4, 2013 approximately 70 Native Americans representing
the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Wells Colony,
Elko/TeMoke Tribe,
Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk H. Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics
The recent government crackdown upon demonstrators in the town of Hawija,
and the ensuing violence has highlighted Iraq’s protest movement. People
began taking to the streets in Anbar province after Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki’s government issued an arrest warrant for former Finance Minister
Rafi Issawi’s bodyguards for terrorism. Activism quickly spread to northern
Iraq. Rather than being a monolithic group with a central leadership
however, these protests have involved a variety of tribes, political
parties, and insurgent groups across many different cities and towns. They
ha... more »
Article On Current Violence In Iraq for Tom Rick's Best Defense Blog
I wrote an article analyzing the current security situation in Iraq for Tom
Rick’s Best Defense Blog “The real problem in Iraq is the stalemate behind
the current surge in violence there.”
Included In Al Jazeera's Listening Post Report On Iraq's Media
I submitted a short video to this report by Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on
the state of Iraq’s media and its coverage of the country’s politics.
THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: Reinhart and Rogoff pretend to explain!
*TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013*
*Part 4—The New York Times lets them pretend:* In early 2010, two
highly-regarded Harvard professors authored a bungled study.
Their paper proved to be quite influential, in some destructive ways. But
the paper included some gruesome mistakes—and for reasons no one has yet
explained, it took three years for the world to find out.
On April 19, Paul Krugman described “the story so far” in his New York
Times column. Near the start of his piece, he described the paper’s key
finding. He also described the acclaim the paper received:
KRUGMAN (4/19/13): At the beg... more »
An important graphic on comparing apples to apples #poverty #capeducation
This is an issue of social class, pure and simple. Of course poor kids can
learn, no question. But let’s give them what they need to succeed and the
sky’s the limit. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged:
data, pisa, poverty, testing
Some links....
*Local train on the coast line.*
When will the busy days pass? Enjoy some links... so much I want to blog
about, can't find the time....
- Gov't mulling underground water storage
- Yoho Bike Hotel, often featured in news reports, is unapproved
structure. Businessman simply blew off regulations and built WTF he
wanted. Imagine that happening in Taiwan. Hard to believe, eh?
- J Michael Cole on why the youth movement matters
- Religion in the Matsu Islands: Bradt Travel Guide
- China's three-pronged Taiwan strategy
- Taiwan's land reform museum
- Taiwanese arre... more »
Douglas County, CO, we’re worried about you.
We have many friends in Colorado. Douglas County, a very conservative part
of the state, keeps coming up in terms of propagating the worst
corporatized education reforms have to offer. We have a document here from
the District that discusses Reinventing American Education based on the
CCSS and something called the ATCS2. Any help out [...]
Will Immigration Reform Go The Same Way As Gun Safety Reform?
Have you noticed that Congress isn't going along with some of the broad
preferences of the American people lately. Something between 86 and 91% of
Americans-- depending on which poll you prefer-- support background checks
on arms purchases in order to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists,
criminals, wife beaters and the mentally ill. Perhaps because most
Republican legislators are terrorists, criminals, wife beaters and/or the
mentally ill, they were able to filibuster the law to death. The House was
able to duck voting on it altogether but 46 NRA shills were able to use a
pro... more »
Disgusting habits! Have any?
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/5c5t9kP04dw
... only those ones? Do you have any not in this clip?
John
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*Happy 295th Birthday New Orleans!*
~Plan of New Orleans the Capital of Louisiana; With the Disposition of Its
Quarters and Canals as They Have Been Traced by Mr. de la Tour in the Year
1720.
Native Sun News: Tough editorials on hijacking the voice
Native
Sun News Editor Brandon Ecoffey exposes columnists hijacking the
conversation, and reporters plagiarizing the hard work of others
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
In these days of collapsed journalism, Native Sun News Editor Brandon
Ecoffey in South Dakota exposes what is happening in the world of Indian
country, national and non-Indian media.
Ecoffey, Lakota, writes of those
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Pete Domenici, 81. A good reminder that the Republican
Party wasn't always a post-policy mess.
Good stuff:
1. Nice one on networks, discrimination, and job markets from Jonathan
Capehart.
2. What about the ACA and full-time vs. part-time workers? Sarah Kliff has
a pretty good explainer.
3. Ike and Obama, from Andrew Sprung.
4. Jonathan Chait is as dismayed as everyone by the Virginia Governor race,
but is looking on the bright side.
5. And I suppose I'm obliged to link to this one. Without comment, if only
because I haven't played the game.
ACTION: March Against Monsanto (ALEC) May 25th
*March against Monsanto taking place everywhere May 25*
Lance Devon
Natural News
May 6, 2013
With President Obama’s recent signing of the Monsanto Protection Act, food
safety advocates are up in arms. As GMOs fill grocery store shelves at an
alarming rate, more people are growing aware of the health risks associated
with genetically altered organisms. People are growing tired of this
disease-promoting, genetically manipulated food. They are sick of
controlling multinational corporations like Monsanto dictating their food
supply. That’s why on May 25th 2013, rallies across the worl... more »
Canadian Class Warfare
Linda McQuaig writes that, until the temporary foreign workers program blew
up in its face, the Harper government was able to keep one of its key
initiatives -- class warfare -- under the radar:
Apart from this clumsy fiasco, the Harperites have been adroit at keeping
their anti-worker bias under the radar. Instead, they’ve directed their
attacks against unions, portraying them as undemocratic organizations run
by “union bosses” who ignore the interests of ordinary workers.
It’s revealing that this harsh critique of unions largely comes from
business think-tanks and conserva... more »
"Resisting Tyranny", Domestic Terrorism or Treason?
As Ed Kilgore puts it in a piece this morning:
As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association’s new
president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the
importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people
will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e., shoot and kill law enforcement
officers, members of the U.S. armed services, and presumably anyone else
(you know, like their neighbors) who might disagree with their definition
of their essential “liberties”—at some undefined point in the future.
Am I perhaps being unfair to the... more »
Morning news front - Europe , Asia and what's on the table for the US - global markets overview !
http://beyond.blogs.france24.com/article/2013/05/06/hollande-france-glasses-dupont-aignan-anniversary-mystery-present-0
Mon, 05/06/2013 - 09:35
Hollande handed spectacles in anniversary prank
One of France’s most outspoken politicians delivered François Hollande a
pair of spectacles on Monday “in order for him to see the suffering of the
French people,” as the beleaguered presidentcelebrated his first
anniversary in power.
“I’ll be at the Elysée Palace on Monday at 10 am to present the president
with a gift and a formal letter,” Nicolas Dupont-Aignantweeted late on
Sunday, not menti... more »
How Imagination Shapes Your Reality
*--by Gabriel Cohen, Original Story, May 07, 2013*
Do you have a lemon in your kitchen? Put this magazine down for a moment,
go cut the fruit in half, and squeeze some juice into your mouth. Notice
how you react.
Don’t have a lemon? Try this little thought experiment: Imagine that you
have one. Picture yourself slicing through the bright yellow rind, exposing
the translucent fruit inside. See yourself holding it up, squeezing it, and
letting a stream of tart juice splash onto your tongue. Can you feel
yourself puckering and salivating—not in your mind’s eye, but in “real
life”?
... more »
First 3D-Printed Handgun Successfully Test Fired; Ready to Hit the Web
Updates and Downloads *HERE* *Activist Post*
*This is an update to Defense Distributed's ongoing progress with 3D
printed weapons. *
The eyes of the world are on the innovation of 3D printing. Naturally,
whenever a new technology is created that offers open source DIY
opportunities to the average individual, it is going to make governments
and their protected corporate interests very nervous.
Such is the case with 3D weapons manufacturing. Defense Distributed has
been offering sets of computer files for free through their DEFCAD online
library. Their progress has been documented o... more »
Disclosure is on - dying whistle blower says, "UFOs exist," should we believe him?
*Stargate SG1's THOR Asgard - *
*this is how the Roswell aliens look -
TV's not a mind game, right?*Allegedly 'anonymous' (I'm sure his
family/friends/colleagues know him) whistle blower claims Dwight D.
Eisenhower was going to INVADE Area 51 with the First Army (out of
Colorado, at the time).
This whistle blower's dying, so should we believe him where other whistle
blowers like Bob Lazar are pilloried in the mainstream/alternative press?
He could have seen 'the Roswell UFO' or he could have just witnessed
whatever the Americans 'borrowed' from the Nazi space race.
Sure, ALL THI... more »
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*America's 10 Worst Prisons: NOLA ~Mother Jones*
*Louisiana has dozens of missing kids, some for decades*
*Commander's Palace chef Tony McPhail wins James Beard award for Best Chef:
South*
*Transportation nonprofit warns of ‘major’ impacts if Algiers ferry service
is lost*
*Mississippi River flooding north Louisiana farmland*
*Far From Home in Louisiana’s Crawfish Fields – An Immigrant Worker’s Story*
*Press Release From Save Markey Park*
*Al Jazeera America to open New Orleans bureau*
*George Clinton Day in New Orleans*
*Jazz Fest clean up, sobering up begins*
Remind me which is the 'apartheid state'?
Israel
or Saudi Arabia
And which one the screaming idiots of the left complain about and which
they don't.
GMO Pesticide Resistence
Let us make it simple. GMO pesticide protocols are failing however it is
jigged and in jig time. We have seen this play out now with pesticide
strategies for close on seventy years and it is not getting better. The
only real escape is into the organic protocol and that is coming anyway.
The Monsanto model is facing steadily increasing resistance from both its
financial model but also the attempts to create GMO protocols. These
protocols do have merit, but demand a far more costly scientific workup
than ever imagined and a slow introduction. Yet even that may not be good
eno... more »
European Commission latest control / power grab - their attempt to criminalize basically all seeds and plants not registered with the EU ! Government mantra - register everyone , everything - and of course tax the heck out of folks to support the latest bureaucratic onslaught of civil servants as the EU plots to completely dominate and control all aspects of life and living in Europe !
http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html
BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants
not registered with government
Monday, May 06, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
18K**159
(NaturalNews) A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it
illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not
been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU
Plant Variety Agency."
It's called the *Plant Reproductive Material Law*, and... more »
All Change At Tools of Change
Often knowing when to stop and move on is harder than continuing to plough
the same old furrow.
Last week Tim O’Reilly decide to call it a day on his well respected ‘Tools
of Change’ adventure.
Many applauded him for the work he had done in moving the digital agenda
forward, whilst others said he should continue and owed it to his follows
to keep up the work. We are not able to say what tipped his thinking to
flip his attention elsewhere, but will say that we should never expect any
party to go on forever.
Tools of Change arrived at the right time. It fed the appetite of many t... more »
Random, Double-Blind Study Affirms Ginger’s Cancer-Fighting Benefits by Elizabeth Renter
Random, Double-Blind Study Affirms Ginger’s Cancer-Fighting Benefits
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society 7 May 2013
In the scientific world, nothing is truly fact until it has undergone
significant testing with rigorous standards. Try and tell a scientist that
results in rats are “good enough” and you’ll be laughed at.
Really, randomized, double-blind placebo studies are considered solid. They
are done on humans and done in such a way as to reduce the chances of
results being nothing more than an anomaly. I say all of this to introduce
a new study *showcasing how ginger truly ... more »
Election Watch 5: Sin Tax Law, Hospital Over-regulation and Senatoriables
The Senatorial and local elections are just six days away. Yesterday and
today, two groups in the health sector released their own separate
statements endorsing certain Senatorial candidates with their respective
reasons.
I got this today from the President of the Private Hospitals Association of
the Philippines, Inc. (PHAPI) and a friend, Dr. Rustico "Rusty"Jimenez.
This is a joint statement of PHAPI and the mostly government hospitals
association, the PHA.
They also endorsed four party list (PL) groups, but am skipping those. Am
not interested in any of those groups, I am boycot... more »
Happiness. A Zen Interpretation.
*I found this on my wanderings in cyberspace and thought that I would share
this Zen like cartoon with all whom find their way to my blog. *
**
*Certainly makes sense, or shall I say,* "c*ommon sense".*
**
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Source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Rm4Cg
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From the BBC :
'Eight people - four Saudi nationals and four Tanzanians - have been
arrested in connection with the bombing of a new Roman Catholic church in
the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha on Sunday.'
More Islamist terrorism against Christians and the culprits include more
Saudi Arabian nationals, does anybody not realise what's going on in the
world?
Hilarion May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013
Beloved Ones,
Throughout the cosmos, alignments are taking place which have been
anticipated for several thousands of years. These are opening up greater
access to the knowledge held within each soul, for each of you hold a vast
store of knowledge through many ages that have come and gone. It is a time
for spending in stillness and a state of listening within as your world is
reconnected to the rest of the galaxy - an event which heralds the
understanding that humanity is not alone in the endless sea of other stars,
planets and worlds. This means that the Earth is ... more »
Serena Ryder: Stompa
*Love this tune. The triangle symbols behind the targets are: Earth, Air,
Fire, Water. *
*Still researching the symbol on her neck. -AK*
Stompa lyrics by Serena Ryder.
People, working every night and day
Never give yourself no time
Got too many bills to pay
Slow down, nothing’s gonna disappear
If you give yourself some room
To move to the music you hear
Gotta get up, listen to me
Clappa your hands, stompa your feet
People, looking for the great escape
Looking for the greener side
Trying to find a better way
Slow down; open up your big brown eyes
Feel the rhythm ... more »
Fukushima debacle updates - May 6 , 2013..... Focus - Reactor Number 3
02:05 PM EST on May 6th, 2013 | 13 comments
Ex-Fukushima Nuclear Worker: Concern about land subsidence at plant due to
pumping up groundwater — “I think Tepco knows”
11:09 AM EST on May 6th, 2013 | 24 comments
Study: Vast area of 60 million people contaminated from Fukushima disaster
(PHOTO)
08:23 PM EST on May 5th, 2013 | 5 comments
‘Happy’ Fukushima nuclear plant worker interviewed: “It’s like a war zone”
03:52 PM EST on May 5th, 2013 | 28 comments
Gundersen: Extremely radioactive rubble on Fukushima Reactor No. 3 has to
be nuclear fuel… from either spent fuel pool or reactor! — Can’t... more »
Freedom to Heal
http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/05/06/freedom-to-heal/
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* *Freedom to Heal*
May 6, 2013
Posted by 1Akabal
I had a beautiful and inspiring experience today that I wanted to share.
Perhaps it will simply be a reminder that there are lovely people out there
BEing and DOing that have been humbly and heartfully helping human beings
to heal the soul – not because it is a job, but because it is their
passion. I imagine this is not a typical program that is funded and/or
recommended by the system, so it warmed my heart that this program,
“Freedom to Heal” is real, highly successful, and... more »
Short questions often require long answers and proofs
Several debaters as well as complexity theorist Boaz Barak religiously
worship their belief that it must be that \(P\neq NP\) and that the
question whether the proposition holds is extremely deep because \(P=NP\)
would revolutionize the whole world.
Most of their would-be arguments are examples irrational hype, fabricated
justifications of the limited progress in a field, and group think. I will
primarily focus on a single major wrong thesis they promote, namely the
idea that a mechanical or polynomially fast or efficient algorithm to solve
a problem specified by a short prescriptio... more »
Arctic Ocean 'Acidifying Rapidly'
This is one effect that is measuring up well. Our atmospheric bench mark
is about to cross the 400 point and the anthropomorphic linkage appears
unassailable. Thus the steady measurable rise in Arctic ocean acidity when
it is a natural trap and natural sink at the same time conforms powerfully.
That it may also have coincided also with a modest rise in Ocean
temperatures needs to be kept in mind but not as securely as these two
linkages.
The anthropomorphic effect of CO2 production will naturally peak over the
next generation and then enter a precipitous decline. The ge... more »
Clenching Fists to Improve Memory
The unexpected result is that the brain is hugely affected by essentially
external effects way more than seems likely. A big one for me is to know
that merely walking through a door can erase short term data.
So adding a physical activity to a memory training activity is potentially
useful. Part of that could be simply be that the body hates been idle while
the brain is working.
Thus I find that pondering a target problem goes best while the body is
engaged in merely walking. Trying the same thing while the body is idle
merely produces jitters.
There is a lot to lea... more »
The Real Problem with GMO Food with Thierry Vrain
What is becoming clear is that the GMO fad is on the way to been one of
our greatest mistakes. Let me spell it out. All out knowledge has been
based on a simple paradigm in which we have assumed that adding one genetic
protein will modify one key protein that is beneficial to our needs. So far
so good.
Yet it turns out that the modifier also affects other proteins and
generates rogue proteins that we often do not know even exist. These are
capable of biting us and the following story of a corn rash conforms
perfectly.
With the paradigm wrong we are obviously not even ... more »
PRETEENS NEED LOVE
Dominic is age seven.
"Dominic is a lovely boy, but last year he started getting agitated and
aggressive. He was doing badly at school and then he got into a fight,"
says Dominic's mother.
*dailymail.*
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*"Boston Bomb victim."*
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"More than 145,000 New York City kids between the ages of 6 and 12 - about
20 percent of the population - struggle with mental health conditions."
*Twenty percent of New York pre-teens have mental issues — RT USA*
*In the USA a survey has found that, in children under six years of age,
the rate of mental disabilities has nearly doubled over the la... more »
Motorola mistreated place in Apple patent dispute
*According to EU officials, Google-owned Motorola Mobility abused its
position in Germany's mobile marketplace when it filed a patent injunction
against Apple.* Motorola won an injunction over Apple products that used
patents connecting to data communication technology in February 2012.
Motorola's innovation is deemed crucial to the GPRS data broadcast standard
used by GSM cellular networks across the world.
Apple offered to pay Motorola a license fee for with the patents; however
the two companies could not agree on a price. Several models of the
Smartphone, and the iPad, were ... more »
An investigative reporter with 40 years experience discovers that despite the presence of "rent-a-soldiers" at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the lamestream media made no attempt to investigate who they were hired by and for what purpose. Instead the media repeatedly played movies of the Tsarnaev brothers (recorded by whom?) and regurgitated the official government position that they were solely responsible for the bombing. Read below to see some of the many puzzling things the media ignored or failed to question.
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*Craft International Services hired guns at the Boston Marathon:*
Why Such Secrecy about Private Military Contractor’s Men Working the Event?
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:09
by: Dave Lindorff
Speaking as an investigative reporter with almost 40 years’s experience, I
can say that when government officials won’t talk, they’re generally hiding
something embarrassing or worse.
I tried, and nobody will talk about those Craft International Services
private security personnel who were widely observed and photographed near
the finish line of the Boston Marath... more »
Top 10 Books I Read When I Need Something Light and Fun
Have you entered the giveaway for a 1-hour free massage in Utah AND the
Giveaway for a Cricut Expression and DSLR camera or KitchenAid?
Sometimes when I read a book, I just want something easy that I don't have
to think too much about. A book that is perfect for a lazy day at the pool.
These 10 books are some of my favorite light reads, a lot of them are
middle school reads, some of which read as a child, but most of which I
found as an adult. Linking up with The Broke and the Bookish.
1. Artemis Fowl - Underneath the the world of humans lies a whole secret
world of Faeries, a w... more »
dream - Andrew Lundwall and the town of Lund
*inside Lund Cathedral, SE*I have NO IDEA what this dream was about ...
well, these two very vivid dreams.
i) was on the *local bus* trying to remember which town to tell the *bus
conductor* I was getting off at ... both seemed very normal ... eventually,
I remembered LUND, the town of Lund.
ii) a cat is stolen (carried off by the tail) by a pair of ruffians, one is
cross-eyed and has on a blue tracksuit, all the village turn against this
pair: Andrew Lundwall is mentioned as a hero.
I guess I need to look up who or what these two Lund-based relevancies are:
i) the town of Lund ... more »
Monitoring Training This Saturday!
*Pipeline Watch Training*
* Sat, May 11, 2013 ** 10:00AM to 12:30PM*
*RSVP for location to:*
Faith Zerbe
Monitoring Director
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
610-291-1403 (cell)
faith@delawareriverkeeper.org
DRN’s Pollution Hotline –
1-800-8-DELAWARE
Is Tennessee Gas Pipeline taking over your neighborhood building a fracked
gas pipeline? Join Delaware Riverkeeper Network for a pipeline watch
training for local volunteer monitors this Saturday in Milford PA.
Learn more and register here:
http://delawareriverkeeper2.givezooks.com/events/pipeline-watchdog-training
Delaware Riverkeeper N... more »
The Tweet Is On!
This
little tweet of mine, from a couple days ago, was mentioned by both
Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan today in their respective posts
about the recent Israeli airstrikes in Damascus.
If Syrian planes bombed Israel's Ramat David Airbase because it houses
US-supplied weaponry, what would the appropriate Israeli reaction be?
— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) May 4, 2013
Click below to
Your moment of Zen
You can keep your hat on. Kentucky Derby. Lots more hats here.
[click to embiggen.]
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Colin Flaherty,
author of *"White Girl Bleed A Lot": The Return of Racial Violence and How
the Media Ignore It*. Colin Flaherty is an award winning author who has
written extensively about the reality of racial violence in America, and
the epidemic of brutal and truly barbaric Black on White violent crime.
Tune in for what will surely be a controversial, yet powerful, conversation!
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
Guest Post - How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint When You Travel
Flying, driving and cruises are known for being bad for the environment but
are also the most common and popular ways of travelling. Most of us want to
travel at some point in our lives - whether it’s an annual two-week summer
holiday, a teenage gap year, or a round-the-world trip when we retire; and
it’s easy to see why - meeting new people, seeing world-famous sites,
understanding and experiencing different cultures - there are numerous
benefits to travelling.
But as the impacts of climate change are starting to be felt, many of us
are looking for ways to reduce our carbon footpr... more »
Tomorrow South Carolina Voters Decide Between Colbert's Sister And The Obsessive Sex Fiend
Actually, it's not all of South Carolina. We're talking about SC-01, along
the coast, a district that's not as crazy and extremist as the up-country
congressional districts where talk of secession is still a hot topic. It's
next door to SC-06, into which the legislature managed to gerrymander every
conceivable African American in the area. SC-06 gave Obama 70.9% of its
vote in November and reelected Jim Clyburn without opposition. Of South
Carolina's 6 other--basically all white-- districts Obama went above 40% in
only two-- SC-05 (with African-American-majority Fairfield and Lee ... more »
Australia's Headless Chickens
This made me laugh, shades of America's Jib Jab political cartoons...
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Is that a spaceship or a cloud? Although it may seem like an alien
mothership, it's actually a impressive thunderstorm cloud called a
supercell. Such colossal storm systems center on mesocyclones- rotating
updrafts that can span several kilometers and deliver torrential rain and
high winds including tornadoes.
*Click image for larger size.*
Jagged sculptured clouds adorn the supercell's edge, while wind swept dust
and rain dominate the center. A tree waits patiently in the foreground. The
above supercell cloud was photographed in July west of Glasgow, Montana,
USA, caused minor... more »
Fukushima, National Disasters, and Militarized Civil Defense
Great find by Emmerson Hakim Yusuf Biggins posted in Banned by IAEA
He suggests we see page 9 in this 2013 US Department of Defense report
about "Homeland Security" about the possibility of Fukushima-type disaster
in the US:
US Department of Defense (2013) "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Defense
Support of Civil Authorities,"
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/policy/dod/homeland-defense-dsca-2013.pdf
[Excerpted from page 9] Hazards: The 2011 Great Eastern Japan earthquake,
tsunami, and nuclear reactor disaster created a complex catastrophe of
immense scope. A si... more »
Looking at Democracy via Zencomix
Blogger
Zencomix/Dave Dugan writes:
I've entered a contest sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council and
The MacArthur Foundation called Looking At Democracy. There's $100,000
worth of prize money, and $5000 of that money is a "People's Choice"
Award. Voting is open to the public, and you can help me win the $5000
by voting for my submission.
You can vote for his entry (pictured above), "
New Websites: Absolute Data Exchange & Free Speech Australia
*New Websites: Absolute Data Exchange & Free Speech Australia*
May 6, 2013
Here is the direct link to the site:
http://www.absolute-data-exchange.com/
*About*
The Absolute-Data-Exchange is a site where you can source documentation,
contact addresses, and guidance, to help you make a clear statement to the
Powers-that-Were, telling them that their day is over, and we – the people
– are taking back our freedom, our value, and our sanity.
Our CRM is a highly advanced database driven portal giving you the
opportunity to select OPPT documentation and send it directly to
organisat... more »
With carbon dioxide approaching a new high, scientists sound the alarm
[image: Students members of 350.org in Minneapolis, seeking steps to cut
atmospheric carbon levels to 350 parts per million, thought by some to be
the safe level. Photo: Stephen Maturen / The New York Times]
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
6 May 2013
THE HAGUE (The New York Times) – If uncertainty runs rampant in the
global-warming debate, it is in part because scientific data is often too
complex to be well understood by anyone but climate scientists.
This month, however, the world is likely to reach a scientific milestone
that appears impressively scary even to those with only a curs... more »
SPORT / Dave Zirin : RGIII Is Trending with Muhammad Ali
Robert
Griffin III. Photo courtesy of Muhammad Ali Center. Image from The
Nation.
What did RGIII learn at
the Muhammad Ali Center?
The social-media-savvy RGIII tweeted, 'What Ali stood for and the way he
expressed it from the boxing ring to the streets of everyday life would
have him trending for weeks.'
By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / May 6, 2013
See Thorne Dreyer's articles about
ISRAELI CHUTZPAH OVER THE SYRIAN RAID
According to a report in the *Washington Post* an Israeli official has said
“that their fight was not against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or the
rebels fighting his regime but against the Lebanese political and militant
organization Hezbollah…”
So I guess the US would have no problems then if the Syrians blew up a
munitions storage facility inside the US in order to prevent them being
transferred to Israel.
Arrogance and hypocrisy; the values that ‘they’ hate about ‘us’.
*UPDATE*
For an interesting article on this very subject, have a read of this.
Reality v deniers
While small minds manufacture “consensus” on global warming by counting up
the number of warmist journal articles, it seems reality continues to defy
these deniers’ best wishes…
*Click to enlarge**.*
HT Joe Bastardi]
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
North Korea climbs down off missile launching ledge - I'm sure China slamming shut their pursue strings had a lot to do with North Korea losing face but quietly slinking away .....
http://ransquawk.com/headlines/bank-of-china-3988-hk-closes-account-of-north-korea-s-foreign-trade-bank-ceases-fund-transfer-for-north-korea-trade-bank-account-and-no-date-was-given-for-the-closure-07-05-2013
Bank
of China (3988 HK) closes account of North Korea's foreign trade bank,
ceases fund transfer for North Korea trade bank account and no date was
given for the closure
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/05/07/68/0301000000AEN20130507003651315F.HTML
(LEAD)
N. Korea lifts highest combat alert: Seoul gov't source
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to have lift... more »
Video: Bee dieoff accelerates in U.S., threatens farmland – ‘This year it seemed like it got the whole nation’
By Anne Thompson
6 May 2013
(NBC Nightly News) – Brian Williams: This is just the time of year when
gardens across so much of our country should be buzzing with activity.
beehives of activity, in fact. But those same bees that scared us to death
as kids, we came to appreciate as adults for the work they do. The problem
is those bees are scarce these days. something is killing the honey bees.
it's having a huge ripple effect. Our report tonight from our chief
environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson.
Denise Qualls: Hey, Gary. Denise Qualls, how are you?
Anne Thompson: D... more »
Tucson: Protest CCA private prison, profiteering from migrant misery
Tucson
Rally, Press Conference Marking 30th Anniversary of Corrections
Corporation of America
By Caroline Isaacs
cisaacs@afsc.org
Censored News
Tucson- A Quaker group that has been advocating against prison
privatization in Arizona is organizing a demonstration and press
conference for CCA's 30th anniversary. The American Friends Service
Committee (AFSC) and other organizations and
Deep Undergound Military bases ! Yes , they exist and have been built continuously for decades ! How many - as of 1995 , there were 131 known deep underground bases - which means that as of 2013 , there are more such bases ! Discussion of the base allegedly underneath the Denver Airport - and the weird artwork inside the Airport itself............
http://intellihub.com/2013/05/06/deep-underground-military-base-intelligence-briefing/
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[image: Denver’s International Airport]
Denver’s International Airport
Completed in 2004, the massive, 1,200- by 240-foot facility features a
striking “mountain range” canopy that utilizes Birdair’s innovative steel
cable systems and durable PTFE Teflon-coated fabric membrane.
By *Avalon & Shepa... more »
Too much Money being spent on Education: Not! by John Stoffel
To every person who comments on an Indiana online newspaper article with,
“We continue to throw more money at education and we aren’t getting any
better results…” I say, “I couldn’t disagree with you more.” Millions of
dollars to McGraw-Hill for an online ISTEP test is not money spent on
education. Millions more dollars for [...]
Mexico's New Blood Money: Tolls for Migrants
HUMANITARIAN
TRAGEDY LIVED BY HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS on May 1,
IN VERACRUZ
By Lety Gutierrez
Censored News
Mexico City
May 5, 2013
TO THE MEXICAN STATE.
TO THE MEXICAN COMMUNITY.
TO THE MEDIA, FOR ITS RELEASE
“We are afraid, very afraid (...) this is why we don’t want to file a
complaint, we are traumatized by what we saw and experienced in
Veracruz; there was gunfire, machetes, people
Lamar W. Hankins : Talking Guns with Wayne
Cartoon
by Steve Breen / San Diego Union Tribune. Image from The English Blog.
The liberty to live:
Talking guns with Wayne
Wayne seemed to be growing frustrated with our discussion. 'I don’t want
kids killed,' he said, 'but I don’t want anyone taking away my right to
own an AR-15 semi-automatic.'
By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / May 6, 2013
I had a talk with my old friend Wayne the
Mississippi Prepares New Push on Miseducation
Report just in from ABC: Improvements are toughest in areas such as
Clarksdale, where per capita income is about 78 percent of the national
average and the unemployment rate was 13 percent in March. Half of all
county children live in poverty, and 90 percent of Clarksdale’s 3,200
students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. [...]
Chet Raymo, “Men And Their Guns”
* “Men And Their Guns”*
by Chet Raymo
“The morning of July 1, 1916, was the beginning of the Battle of the
Somme. Thousands of British, French and Belgian troops went over the top of
their own trenches and assaulted the German lines. As instructed by their
officers, they walked steadily across no-man's-land as German machine guns
mowed them down like wheat. On that first day alone, the British suffered
more than 50,000 casualties. Before the battle dragged to its sorry
conclusion in November, more than 1 million men on both sides were killed
or wounded, all for a few kilometers ... more »
Chris Ware shares the thinking behind his lovely "two moms" Mothers' Day cover for this week's "New Yorker"
*"[L]aughing at [Archie Bunker] allowed one to take the first step towards
changing one's own biases, whether one knew it or not. . . . Fortunately,
we humans are incessant editors, never happy with the first draft of
anything."*
*-- Chris Ware, writing about his "two moms" New Yorker cover*
*by Ken*
This exceedingly cool Mothers' Day cover is the work of graphic novelist
and longtime *New Yorker* cartoonist-artist Chris Ware. Evidently Chris has
been thinking about the way we humans "edit" the stuff we think, as he
notes in the "Cover Story" he posted on the magazine's "Culture D... more »
Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave – ‘Six months later, we're still feeding people’
[image: A cat explores the rubble of a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy in
October in the New Dorp area of Staten Island, 1 February 2013. A volunteer
aid center has been told to leave a park, but many victims living in
temporary housing say they still need its help. Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles
Times]
By Tina Susman
6 May 2013
NEW YORK (Los Angeles Times) – It has been six months since Donna Graziano
packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to
Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by
Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman e... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Bay Springs, Mississippi, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Only If The U.S. Press Was Completely Controlled By Israel, Could There Be A Headline Like This (Harry Whittington Redux)
*SYRIA: WE'RE SORRY FOR GETTING BOMBED BY ISRAEL*
(I made up the above headline, but it may as well BE the headline, because
the REAL headline is below, and it's just as ridiculous!)
Just to set the record straight...ISRAEL attacks SYRIA over the past two
days. But today's headline, syndicated probably throughout the country but
this is the headline in my local Wilkes-Barre Times Leader:
*"ISRAEL BRACES FOR ATTACKS"*
unFUCKINGbelievable!!!
Could you IMAGINE if ANY country (we'll call them "COUNTRY X") attacked
Israel, what the headline would be? I know what it WOULDN'T be: "COUNT... more »
Louisiana sinkhole updates - h/t Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle , Freedomrox and The Advocate !
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
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Call it treason dammit
There's no other definition for what's going on among the crackpot con
crowd. The same people who held mass burnings of Dixie Chick albums because
they had the audacity to say out loud they were embarrassed by George W
Bush (former wingnut hero, now disowned) and demanded we not criticize the
Commander in Chief because, respect for the office, are now openly calling
for armed rebellion against the US government. There's an huge industry
making millions, if not billions, on anti-Obama paraphenalia and that's
okay because, that blackity black guy in *their* White House is not the
POTU... more »
Europe Financial and Political News wrap for May 6 , 2013 - Greece , Spain , Europe's Shadow Economy , The Sovereign Bond Market ( with Japan closed , yields move wider on the day ) ....... Third Anniversary of Flash Crash Numero Uno !
Europe wrap - items of note for the day.....
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/05/senior-eurozone-official-as-spain-goes.html
( Of course the Euroland Technocratic Dictators actually desire and
require additional chaos to steal more powers and controls over the
Eurozone... )
Monday, May 06, 2013 2:37 PM
Senior Eurozone Official: "As Spain Goes, So Goes Slovenia"
The spotlight is once again on Slovenia. Olli Rehn, the European
commission’s economic chief is unhappy with economic progress in Slovenia
and is threatening to put the country into an "excessive imbalances... more »
In defence of Aaron Gilmore
Aaron Gilmore is in good company. The last time we saw a feeding frenzy
like this it was about something Paul Henry said, and before that something
John Banks said, and before that something Alasdair Thompson said, and
before that something Paul Holmes said, and between and before that…
In the economics twitterverse there’s a feeding frenzy going on at the
moment about something historian Niall Ferguson said. In Arizona there’s
outrage about a school holding a “Redneck Day.” In Europe there’s outrage
that a Turkish airline has banned its trolly dollies from wearing red
lipstick.... more »
Protests mount on use of BP Gulf spill funds
May 6, 2013 6:50 pm
Protests mount on use of BP Gulf spill funds
By Ed Crooks in New York
A plan to build a convention centre in Alabama using money given by BP to
restore the coast of the Gulf of Mexico has angered environmentalists,
raising concerns over how funds to improve the environment are spent.
The plan is part of projects worth $594m announced last week by BP and the
five coastal states affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, funded
out of the $1bn that the company promised in 2011 for early restoration of
the Gulf.
Groups including the National Wildlife Federatio... more »
Bitcoin has caught the attention of the CFTC ! Yeah , the same CFTC that has been investigating silver manipulation for 5 years and has yet to act...... But with Bitcoin , expect swift action !
Following the bouncing bitcoin ball...... Last week we saw the Coinlab
lawsuit against Mt Gox and began to wonder when the hammer on Bitcoin might
fall..... From my prior post .....
http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/05/coinlab-sues-mt-gox-for-75-million.html
Friday, May 3, 2013
CoinLab sues Mt Gox for 75 million dollars - various acts / non actions ,
malfeasance / misfeasance claims for breach of contract to transition Mt
Gox's US and Canadian customers to Coinlab's systems appears to be the
major cause of action (dollars not bitcoins sought by the way ) , 75
million , ... more »
Syria and Iran in focus - Israel heats up activities against Syria - while the Us ponders what to do with Syria . Meanwhile , Iran attack placed on US agenda after Iran's Elections in June !
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Israel jets fly over E. Lebanon, head north over Beirut, after striking
targets in Syria
DEBKAfile Special Report May 4, 2013, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Iran, Syria, Hizballah, IDF, bunker-busters, Lebanon,
[image: Israeli troops in combat gear on Golan border]
Israeli troops in combat gear on Golan border
Israeli military activity is reported in Lebanon Saturday, May 4 and not
just over Syria.
US sources said earlier Israeli warplanes had struck targets in Syria
including a chemical weapons depot outside Damascus, firing missiles
remotely from Lebanese air space and the Golan s... more »
Israel: Strikes in occupied Golan or a play for pity?
* Israel does play the pity card regularly.* And appears to playing it
again today with the arrest of some 93 year old alleged guard.
The *Simon Wiesenthal* Center listed Lipschis as one of its most wanted *...
(Number 4)*
So asking if the arrest along with the reports of shelling are pity plays
is fair questioning?
Someone should tell Simon Wiesenthal Center that most of the NAZI's went
to the US.
Via Operation PaperClip
*After all where would NASA/USA have been without the NAZI Rocket Man??*
*Hits in Golan?*
*Rockets?*
Rockets fired from Syria strike Golan Heights
May ... more »
Education Week publishes an “apology” for Duncan at #AERA13
The horror. Our Secretary of Education, who is the CEO of disaster as far
as many of us are concerned, got a few boos during a speech at AERA. Pearl
clutching ensued. I’m sure folks are very, very sorry. Filed under: CHALK
FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: AERA, boos, Duncan, education week
Fantasy Economics from Fauxed Foxes Ferreted OUT (Don't Miss the Comments!)
Want a free top-notch political history/economics lesson in less than 10
minutes? If you do, are you ever in luck! And don't miss the comments below
the essay which are from some of the best educated readers in the world.
May 5, 2013 The Chutzpah Caucus By Paul Krugman At this point the economic
case for austerity — for slashing government spending even in the face of a
weak economy —
HOLD THE INVASION!
US government officials have claimed that Bashar al-Assad's government used
chemical weapons against the citizens of Syria, but according to the UN
Independent International Commission of Inquiry that may not be the case.
According to the findings of the commission, there is evidence that
suggests the anti-government rebels in the country are guilty of these
allegations. Israel has launched air strikes against the worn torn country
in an attempt to stop the movement of weapons allegedly coming in from
Iran, but what is really going on the ground?
See more on this story by Reuters ... more »
Now a Palestinian rock thrower has been killed by a thrown rock, will BBC & other anti Israel bodies stop reporting rock throwers as if a joke?
'A Palestinian Authority Arab who stoned cars in Samaria was killed by one
of his own rocks, police have concluded. A Jewish man held in connection
with the death has been released.
The Arab teenager hurled heavy stones at Israeli-owned vehicles along a
Samaria highway last Tuesday evening. He managed to hit one car, which was
driven by a resident of the nearby town of Emmanuel.
...
A final forensic report, released over the weekend, showed that the
attacker was killed when a stone he threw hit the car driven by the man
from Emmanuel. The stone hit the car's tire and bounced back... more »
Claude Megson: McMurray Rd townhouse
At present you have three opportunities to buy a home designed by the late
Claude Megson, whose homes sometimes didn’t look much from the outside, but
at their best created a world for those within that almost seemed to
encompass the whole universe.
[image: 264738548]
As British architectural critic Geoffrey Broadbent said of Claude’s work
some years ago,
This is work of a very high international standard indeed. ...One is
constantly struck by the surprise around the corner, the bright shaft of
light penetrating from above into the softer glow of the main living spaces
-- espec... more »
Things Never Ever Ever Ever To Debate
Thomas Roberts tweets: "From Monday's show -- Is Obama a lame duck?"
Apparently in an effort to scare off anyone who might otherwise be tempted
to watch his MSNBC show.
Just cut it out, everyone, right now. It's not an interesting question.
It's not a question that's worth debating. It's not a question that's going
to shed any light on anything that we really want to know.
It is useful, in my view, to speculate or to analyze a president's current
reputation with people in Washington, and to assess how that might affect a
battle in Congress or in the bureaucracy. Sure. Regular reader... more »
Claude Megson: McMurray Rd townhouse
At present you have three opportunities to buy a home designed by the late
Claude Megson, whose homes sometimes didn’t look much from the outside, but
at their best created a world for those within that almost seemed to
encompass the whole universe.
[image: 264738548]
As British architectural critic Geoffrey Broadbent said of Claude’s work
some years ago,
This is work of a very high international standard indeed. ...One is
constantly struck by the surprise around the corner, the bright shaft of
light penetrating from above into the softer glow of the main living spaces
-- espec... more »
The Holographic Universe 5 Part Documentary Series
Is our reality just a hologram? The Holographic universe suggests that
the physical world we believe to be real is in fact an illusion. Energy
fields are decoded by our brains into a 3D picture to give the illusion of
a physical world.
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"Desperate Courage..."
“Desperate courage makes One a majority.”
- Andrew Jackson
Sunbelt State Republicans In A Bind Over Solar Power
As we saw yesterday, the American conservative movement is a captive of--
and virtually inextricable from-- the self-sustaining, cash-soaked universe
of Big Oil and Gas. Conservative politicians' careers have been financed by
Big Oil and they will fight to the death for their corporate masters.
Unfortunately, the death their fighting for is our death, our country's and
our planet's death. As Bill McKibben mentioned in his sermon, tiny Bavaria
in southern Germany (27,239 square miles-- smaller than South Carolina) now
more solar panels functioning to create cheap, clean electricity ... more »
“Andrew Jackson And The War Against the Bank”
*“Andrew Jackson And The War Against the Bank”*
by U.S. History
"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of
the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am
convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the
breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst
you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I
take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten
thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin!
Should I let ... more »
Call for Nominations: ISA Theory Section Book Award
The International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award The
International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award recognizes the
best book or edited volume published over the past two years that
contributes to the theorization of world politics. The award is open to all
forms and styles of theorization. Criteria include such considerations as
innovativeness, quality of argumentation,
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Search Delayed for New Memphis Superintendent Until Dirty Work Wrapped Up
All the pieces were in place for the installation of Eli Broad’s choice for
the new Shelby County/Memphis superintendent when suddenly someone in the
office of the search firm, PROACT, called a time out. Over the next few
months, there is plenty of dirty work to be done, and no one at PROACT
wants their [...]
Freedom is in the gunsights of the holder
Save us from 25 year old glibertarians with big brains and little vision.
Defense Distributed successfully test-fired their 3D printed, nearly all
plastic gun this week.
It took some amount of nerve to actually fire it by hand since an earlier
string pulled test with a higher caliber bullet exploded the whole damn
gun. We should qualify that the gun does have one non-plastic component, "a
common hardware store nail used as its firing pin." It also incorporates a
strip of non-functional metal somewhere in the body in order to render it
detectable to security gates.
The owner of ... more »
Post # 22,200: "The Greatest Lie the Fed Ever Told"
*"The Greatest Lie the Fed Ever Told"*
by Bill Bonner
"Public life bumbles along under a combination of false pretenses and
self-imposed delusions. At the start of last week, it was widely reported
that US central bankers had gone as far as they were willing to go. There
were voices in the Fed, said the news, urging caution. There would be no
further monetary stimulus measures, said the commentators. Investors grew
cautious. But by the end of the week, they were rolling the dice again. The
Fed was working hard to fight the impression that it had either lost its
nerve or recov... more »
Tillis (NC-ALEC) : "A Moderate" Give Me a Break!
Did ALEC suggest ALEC state legislators who attended the Oklahoma City
spring meeting - that they try to act like moderates - that they claim more
moderate stances.
Would make sense to me that they would - considering that the word
extremist is appearing in the press more and more in relation to ALEC and
ALEC legislators.
But - we'll never know, cause ALEC meetings are held in the strictest
secrecy.
Hypothetically, why would ALEC tell their members to lie to the public?
Because ALEC wants more of their members in Congress
(and Tillis is running for Congress in 2014)
It's harder... more »
Fulford: Netanyahu Summoned to China, Cabal Purge Begins in UK
Reposted from: Benjamin Fulford.
One of the world’s leading terrorists, the Satan worshipping mass murderer
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has been summoned to China where he will be
confronted with evidence of his involvement in the March 11, 2011 nuclear
and tsunami terror attack against Japan, according to Chinese government
sources. The evidence is a tape recorded phone call to then Japanese Prime
Minister Naoto Kan in which Netanyahu threatened to destroy all of Japan’s
nuclear reactors if Kan did not order the Japanese government to write off
its holdings of US government debt,... more »
这似乎是最简单的解释，适合所有可用的事实：奥巴马需要一个宣传噱头。
*American Scofflaw*
**
*
*因此，这里是我认为这是怎么回事。
在9月的民意调查显示，总统竞选的脖子和颈部。许多媒体公开预测罗姆尼的胜利
奥巴马迫切需要一个宣传噱头。
“盖达”恐怖分子，或者是有人会进入一个小团队领事馆和绑架大使和他的工作人员。奥巴马将让戏剧构建了几天，让媒体炒作的故事，然后发送海豹突击队“救市”人质。
我们知道中情局操作工附件可以听到枪声从领事馆。寻找在领事馆通过谷歌地球，看到人口稠密的居民区不到半英里（0.8公里）到东部和西南部，毫无疑问听到枪声来自领事馆。同情抗议在整个中东爆发在这个事件中，很明显，该地区的反美火药桶等待火花。此特技的火花！
在地面上，至少有200人参加暴动，失控，从而导致到大使和他人的死亡。
奥巴马精心准备好，为了让自己看起来像一个英雄瞬间成为一个史诗般的失败。
这似乎是最简单的解释所有可用的事实。
哦，是啊..不要忘记你的奶奶
SOME TOP JEWS
*Netanyahu family.*
*1.* *Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu *
50 most influential Jews in the world - Jerusalem Post
Reportedly, the US Secret Service guarded Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin
Netanyahu during his attendance at a 'homosexual sexual
bondage performance' in New York in November 2010.
"A source within the U.S. Secret Service... informed *Wayne Madsen
Reports*that while on a 'business trip' to New York on November 8, 2010,
Netanyahu
visited a performing arts theater in West Greenwich Village.
"The performance involved extreme sado-masochistic, as well as
homosexual
th... more »
I Did Not Know That
Even after a million hours of World War II documentaries I had somehow
never heard of the Battle of Engineer Hill until today. The event is in
the
news because this month marks the 70th anniversary of the struggle for
the
Alaskan Island of Attu, which represents the last battle between warring
nations to be fought in North America. Not a bad run. The warring
nations
in question were the U.S. and Japan. The *Anchorage Daily News* looks
backat the battle that left over 2,000 Japanese and over 500 Americans
dead.
Here's some old school news reel footage:
The long view
Many neighbors set out tomatoes last week and the destruction wreaked among
those by the unexpectedly heavy freeze is awful to behold. If I had known,
I might have planted far more starts and had some to give away. Might
anyhow.
Tomatoes and a few other things hardening off in pots. The bin is for
watering from the bottom, which helps prevent damping -- mold attacking the
plants at the base of the stem. These are Stupice and Sungolds.
When the chives begin to blossom it cheers us up considerably.
The mint returns. As always it looks for greener pastures and a lot of it
has to be... more »
Arctic Ocean Acidifying Rapidly
Oh well, we probably won't even think about this once the oil spills begin
but it turns out that cold sea water is especially absorptive of CO2. And,
that is why the Arctic Ocean is rapidly acidifying.
Scientists from the *Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme* report
widespread changes in the ocean chemistry. They conclude that even if
emissions stopped today it would take tens of thousands of years for Arctic
waters to return to their pre-industrial state.
*Chemical effects related to acidification have also been encountered in
surface waters of the Bering Strait and the C... more »
Human Rights Treaties are Like Virginity Pledges, Part Deux
A little over a month ago, I wrote about the growing academic literature
concerning human rights treaties and their lack of influence on human
rights practices. Based on my own experiences growing up in parts of the
U.S. where it’s assumed we can “[Rebuild] Our Culture One Purity Ball at
a Time,” I likened human rights
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Revisiting the Nineties: Chupacabras Activity
*The Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)* is reissuing some '90s works that
are no longer in circulation (or were cannibalized for magazine features)
on SCRIBD. It is our hope that this information - while old - will be of
interest to our readers. We are also trying to secure permission to publish
our translations of othher authors' that never found a place at Stateside
publishing houses.
*Nemesis: The Chupacabras* at Large was originally available on the late
Robert Girard's *Arcturus Book Service*, whose encouragement made possible
the distribution of our initial publication, *S... more »
Once Upon A Time...
*Once upon a time
Once when you were mine
I remember skies
Mirrored in your eyes
I wonder where you are
I wonder if you think about me
Once upon a time, in your wildest dreams...
*
Five Books on Marx and Marxism
It was that there Karl Marx's 195th birthday yesterday, and things would be
remiss if this blog didn't mark it in some way. So here are my five
favourite books on Marx and Marxism. What books have you particularly
enjoyed and/or had the biggest impact on you?
*Selections from the Prison Notebooks* by Antonio Gramsci (1971). A long
time ago I wrote a series of posts that aimed to comment on the entirety of
this brick-thick tome, but I only got as far as finishing off the section
of The Modern Prince before life intervened and said no to more blogging. I
digress. Taken as a whole, the... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Spy vs. Spy'
SPY vs. SPY
Posted on May 6, 2013
MNN. May 6, 2013. Prime Minister Harper just
announced at the G20 meeting he is personally dismantling the
non-“sovereignty” of Canada, to be governed by a new world order.
Canadian Security and Intelligence Service CSIS revealed that foreign
governments have taken control of Canadian politicians and bureaucrats,
Harper may be one of
Leave to appeal
*Tomic v. Tough,* 2013 BCCA 212 deals with the criteria for granting leave
to appeal
[22] The criteria for granting leave to appeal were addressed by
Saunders J.A. in*Goldman, Sachs & Co. v. Sessions*, 2000 BCCA 326 (CanLII),
2*000 BCCA 326** *at para. 10 (in Chambers). They include:
(1) whether the point on appeal is of significance to the practice;
(2) whether the point raised is of significance to the action itself;
(3) whether the appeal is prima facie meritorious or, on the other
hand, whether it is frivolous; and
(4) whether the appeal w... more »
Moving Out
It has been an *insanely *busy week. It's not just that Southern Man is
moving on and must clear out his office - that office suite is scheduled
for renovation so he actually has to be out in the middle of the last week
of classes. So on top of his usual duties he has been busily packing and
moving and lugging and hauling his fifteen-year accumulation of books and
papers and various other academic junk out to The Barn. Which as of today
contains *everything he owns*.
Like this, only piled higher and with substantially less organization.
And he has managed to reduce not only all th... more »
GOP - We Screw the Workers - Becausewecan
*From HuffPo*
*Overtime Pay Alternative Sought By Republican Lawmakers*
*We Screw the Workers - Becausewecan*
*Just remember throughout*
*FOR SOME PEOPLE – MONEY **IS MORE IMPORTANT*
WASHINGTON -- It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work
more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of
overtime pay.
FORCING EMPLOYEES TO TAKE TIME OFF INSTEAD OF PAY
The choice already exists in the public sector. Federal and state workers
can save earned time off and use it weeks or even months
THEY HAVE UNION CONTRACTS AND REPS THAT PROTECT THEM
Repu... more »
DCCC Has A Candidate For IL-13, Chief Judge Ann Callis
IL-12 and IL-13 are two of the nine districts in the U.S. with exactly even
PVI scores. They are the ultimate swing districts-- at least by the
numbers. Of the nine, only three have Republican congressmen, NV-03 (Joe
Heck), IA-03 (Tom Latham) and IL-13 (Rodney Davis). And Obama won all those
districts last November except IL-13, which he lost 48.9- 48.6%, one of the
closes races in he country. The congressional race was also one of the
closest in the country, Davis winning 136,596 over progressive Democrat
David Gill 135,309. The two were evenly matched, with Davis raising
$1,400,... more »
Save Marriage
Well, the American Community Survey’s “number of times married” question.
I’m reprinting the following (mass) email from the Minnesota Population
Center about pending changes to the ACS that will dramatically affect our
ability to know how many times Americans have been divorced or married.
Social science solidarity! Dear IPUMS User, I am writing to alert
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It's Still About the Broken GOP
I have to commend Ezra Klein for push, push, pushing everyone to understand
the place of the presidency in the US political system. As he says, that
system "is centered around Congress rather than the White House," and he's
been doing terrific and incredibly valuable work explaining to people what
this means in terms of the limits of what presidents can do. I do hope
everyone reads his latest essay on the topic, from his Wonkblog on Friday.
That said, I continue to dissent from what Klein, Rick Hasen, and others
say about polarization. Oh, there's no question about the levels of
par... more »
Arctic Ocean ‘acidifying rapidly’ – ‘Even if we stop emissions now, acidification will last tens of thousands of years. It is a very big experiment.’
[image: Cover of the AMAP report, 'Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment:
Key Findings', May 2013. Photo: AMAP]By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst
6 May 2013
(BBC) – The Arctic seas are being made rapidly more acidic by
carbon-dioxide emissions, according to a new report.
Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
monitored widespread changes in ocean chemistry in the region.
They say even if CO2 emissions stopped now, it would take tens of thousands
of years for Arctic Ocean chemistry to revert to pre-industrial levels.
Many creatures, including c... more »
and we're off
Today we're packing and giving final instructions to our friend and
dogsitter, the divine Essie Ash, and tonight we fly to London.
In London, we'll see R, who we know from our Brooklyn days, and who we
haven't seen in nearly 15 years, and Mara (of Abortion Support
Networkfame), who I know from my time with the Haven Coalition. By
coincidence (or
not), we all met originally through pro-choice activism, and now R and
Mara
know each other through me. Life is strange and wonderful.
I'm totally psyched for this trip. Except for missing the pups. But I
know
they'll be fine.
The real rea... more »
Hey, ALEC - Ag-Gag Is NOT about PERSONAL Privacy
This quote by ALEC's Poobah of PR has been bothering me ever since I saw it
in print:
In 2002, ALEC introduced a piece of mock legislation titled the Animal and
Ecological Terrorism Act, which labels people who interfere with any animal
operations “terrorists” and made it illegal for anyone to enter “an animal
or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other
means with the intent to commit criminal activities or defame the facility
or its owner.” And ALEC continues to support these bills,
“At the end of the day it’s about personal property rights or... more »
Cinco De Mayo!
Lured by the promise of Mexican food, unlimited margaritas, and "hot,
beautiful women" (yes, that's a quote, sort of) Southern Man wandered Down
South for a Cinco De Mayo party.
Of course he did a little sightseeing and nabbed a couple of geocaches on
the way...
Texans are particularly good at honoring our veterans.
Another was by this train siding. Southern Man likes trains.
The dogs got lots of loving. Photo by T.
Southern Man holds court. Photo by T.
Two of the many lovely ladies present.
"The name is Bond...Stacey Bond..."
Good folks, good food, good drink, good conve... more »
Syria is Escalating into Chaos Because of Outside Influences
Reuters. (2013, May 5). UN. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin
gas: investigator Sun May 5, 2013 6:13pm
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/05/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE94409Z20130505
[Excerpted] - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from
casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel
forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said
on Sunday.
The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet
seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are
banned un... more »
Fletcher (CA - DEM, Again) ALEC Snake in the Grass
ALEC’s 37th Annual Meeting -2010
“I am honored to be a member of ALEC; it’s a wonderful organization that
helps us draw on your ideas and strengths, on successes in other states and
it’s also a great gathering of collaborative thinking.”
– Nathan Fletcher, State Assemblyman, CA 75th District
Member of ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force
2010
*In 2012 he blatantly LIED about his affiliation with the American
Legislative Exchange Council.*
In an interview with CityBeat, however, Fletcher claimed no affiliation
with the conservative group. He said, "I was never a membe... more »
Friend David Green’s #TFA commentary @nytimes comes at a good time
I’m starting to feel as if the TFA brand is getting a tad tarnished. It’s
not fooling a lot of people anymore, as is apparent from many of the
responses Mr. Greene received. When I spoke at the 92Y last month, I was
right after Wendy Kopp. She left immediately after her talk, the prima
donna [...]
Will OSF Follow Through With Hannah?
Forum: Will OSF follow through with Hannah? shar.es/lwL3N via @sharethis
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 6, 2013
PBS NEWSHOUR VIDEO: As Tensions Boil Over, How Might Iraq Prevent Return To Chronic Violence?
Watch How Might Iraq Prevent Return to Chronic Violence? on PBS. See more
from PBS NewsHour.
Obama's Sugar Mama
What do James Bond and Barack Obama have in common besides
suaveness, subterfuge, stealth, and secrecy?
Moneypenny!
While Ian Fleming named his fictional character ironically, she being a
mere secretary, Barack wouldn't know irony if it bit him in the tush.
(example: his standard "This is not who we are" verbal vs. defacto
policies for drone strikes, Gitmo, a record number of whistleblowing
prosecutions, a record number of deportations, a record amount of campaign
contributions, a slew of unregistered lobbyists in his White House,
restriction of Plan B contraceptives only ho... more »
RETURN TO SYRACUSE
- I have to make the eight-hour return trip to Syracuse, New York for my
second appearance before the Dewitt Court on May 7. Mary Beth is taking a
couple days off work and coming with me so we will leave this morning and
drive half-way there and stay with a friend in Massachusetts and then make
the second-half of the journey Tuesday morning. I don't really know what to
expect from this trip but doubt that it will be much of anything. Likely
just a decision by the court that I don't qualify for a court appointed
attorney because our combined income puts me... more »
Mekong region has lost a third of its forests in 30 years, may lose another third by 2030
[image: Forest area has been reduced from approximately 140 million
hectares (73% of land area) in 1973 to under 100 million hectares (51%) in
2009 (green color), a 31% decrease (in red). Graphic: WWF-Greater Mekong
Programme based on multiple datasets]
3 May 2013 (mongabay.com) – The Greater Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam will lose a third of its remaining
forest cover by 2030 unless regional governments improve management of
natural resources and transition toward a greener growth model, warns a new
report issued by WWF.
The report lays ... more »
UK energy secretary urges education secretary to reinstate climate change on curriculum
[image: Ed Davey, the UK Liberal Democrat energy secretary, says the role
of teachers in helping children understand climate change should be
safeguarded. Photograph: Richard Saker / The Observer]
By Patrick Wintour
2 May 2013
(The Guardian) – Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has written a private
letter to Michael Gove, the education secretary, urging him to rethink his
plans to downgrade climate change in the new national curriculum.
Amid protests from environmentalists and some students, Gove has removed
debate about climate change from the draft geography curriculum.
Davey, a... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Intensities of Gaia Transform Energies is Maximizing…
*Intensities of Gaia Transform Energies is Maximizing…*
by ÉirePort
The intensity of all energies, solar, galactic, cosmic, on all Higher D
levels is increasing, and will soon maximize. The purpose of this
"maximization" is to first, burn off all lower dross that has infected Gaia
for millenia, and second, to peak the energetics of each individual Hue-man
upon Gaia at this time.
This is to be followed by a lessening (rather, a stabilization) of the
intensities to allow for integration. No further intense energy increases
are anticipated for the following week [or] next several da... more »
Appellate intervention is warranted where a material inference of fact is not supported by evidence
1250264Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc., 2013 ONCA 279 holds:
[69] Appellate intervention is warranted where an inference of fact
is not supported by any evidence and where an improper inference has a
material effect on the outcome: see *Housen v. Nikolaisen*, 2002 SCC 33,
[2002] 2 S.C.R. 235, at paras. 22-23. The conclusion reached by the motion
judge, at para. 75, that there is "a reasonable probability" that many
franchisees decided to opt out due to "unfair pressure amounting to
intimidation" is based on the inferences he drew. In my view, these
inferences lack a val... more »
Plans to harness Chinese river’s power threaten a region – ‘Why can’t China have just one river that isn’t destroyed by humans?’
[image: Ke Shouyi, 47, a farmer in the Lisu ethnic group, prods his cow to
plow the remote rural area near the Nu River in China’s Yunnan Province.
The Nu’s days as one of the region’s last free-flowing rivers are
dwindling. The Chinese government stunned environmentalists in 2013 by
reviving plans to build a series of hydropower dams on the upper reaches of
the Nu Photo: Sim Chi Yin / The New York Times]
By ANDREW JACOBS
4 May 2013
BINGZHONGLUO, China (The New York Times) – From its crystalline beginnings
as a rivulet seeping from a glacier on the Tibetan Himalayas to its broad,... more »
This Monster Duck is Coming to Eat You. And Your Family Too.
Many, many people have emailed or tweeted this image to me. But the best
version, by far, is the one above. It has been making the rounds on
Facebook and comes from “OP.”
Why Are Americans Fat And Getting Fatter? Ronald Reagan
NJ Gov. Chris Christie wants to be removed from this picture-- but without
changing his eating habits
I fast every Sunday. It's a habit I picked up in the '70s when I worked at
de Kosmos in Amsterdam, a meditation center. I was there for around 4 years
and when I came back to the States, that Sunday fast was something I
brought with me. In Amsterdam, I also used to do a 10 day fast-- just
water-- once a year. I don't do that anymore, though I kind of wish I
could. This weekend I decided I had eaten one too many restaurant meals
lately and I had a nice salad Friday evening and began ... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to John Flansburgh, 53.
Here's a little of the good stuff:
1. I sort of think that I should leave that Oregon study alone unless I'm
willing to read it myself. Still, I'll link to Kevin Drum's latest try at
what to make of the empirical findings.
2. And since I complain a lot about the post-policy GOP, I also should link
to Ross Douthat's distillation of the emerging conservative position on
health care.
3. And worth reading: John Harwood interviews David Axelrod.
The primal ooze...
Yesterday I went to see _2001: A Space Odyssey_ with a friend.
I had forgotten how tedious the first act is, as the primates - most likely
nasty chimpanzees and not collaborative Bonobos - become weaponized and
discover how to dominate the rival clan by killing their leader.
My companion found that bit quite entertaining; it reminded him of recent
carnage - more specifically, the take-over of the Conservatives by the
Reform Party, when Peter MacKay morphed from an insipid PC into a
weaponized, yet still insignificant, greedy opportunist.
Do you recognize any of the scoundrels?
T... more »
An Ad in Kinmen local newspaper advocates putting nuke waste dump there.
This ad appeared in yesterday's 金門日報 (Kinmen Daily News), which appears to
be a government news organ. The ad first describe how the Koreans approved
a waste dump with a 70% turnout and 90% support in a referendum. It then
advocates that the people of Kinmen do no less than the South Koreans did,
follow gov't policy, and approve via referendum a low-level nuke waste
dump, apparently on Kinmen. The bottom line says it comes from Taipower.
The paper and ad are online here.
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[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its
sidebars for event... more »
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