SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (1960) ...item 2.. FSU News - Swinging away students' stresses (10:02 PM, Jan. 13, 2013) ...item 3.. Let's just hope they used protection! (15 January 2013) ... (Photo credit: marsmet522)
Today is world aids day (Photo credit: Renee Fowler)
English: Wellington downtown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Great Depression Food Line (Photo credit: Kevin Burkett)
A Paypal Security Key card, with personal barcodes identifying the card removed and blocked out. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)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.
This post contains a lot of great information and I encourage you to read
through it at your leisure ... however, if you are short on time, 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 tried to live on $1.50 per person per day for food. What an
"eye-opener". I somehow thought th... more »
Will Syria Be Obama's Iraq?
McCain and Lindsey Graham aren't the only obsessive war-mongers urging
Obama to attack Syria. There are plenty-- and on both sides of the aisle.
So far the President has been urging caution and insisting on getting to
the bottom of the rumors being pushed out by practiced liars like McCain
and Graham as though they were gospel. Like the "proof" that nerve gas was
used. Perhaps it was... but who, exactly used it? Do we even know who the
"good guys" and who the "bad guys" are in this conflict? It would be
probably most prudent to assume that everyone involved wishes America ill.
An... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Dr. Kaasem
Khaleel, better known as Dr. K. Dr. K has done extensive research on media
fakery and PSYOPS perpetuated against the American public, including the
Sandy Hook "shooting" hoax, the recent Boston "bombing", and even 9/11. Be
sure to visit his website *NODISINFO.COM* where you can find many of his
research relating to media fakery and PSYOPS. Dr. K is also a prolific
author, and published *Wrongly Blamed: The Real Facts Behind 9/11 and the
London Bombings* back in 2006, in which he makes the case that
internationa... more »
Must have got lost
Day slipped away from me. All I got at this hour is a Joel Pett cartoon.
[click to embiggen]
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Great Myths of the Great Depression
[image: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic...]
Tomorrow night the Auckland University Economics Group meets again. Here’s
their note about what they’ll be discussing:
Six years on and we’re still mired in the Greatest Economic Depression
since the one still known as THE Great Depression.
Last week we looked at the ongoing Euro-Crisis. This week we talk about
this most famous, but in may respects the least known, of all economic
disasters.
Everyone knows about the *first *Great Depression—but is everything they
know correct?
There are many lessons from the Grea... more »
Maybe you can beat Wellington on a good day?
In pointing out the obvious, that Wellington is losing businesses as they
depart for places elsewhere, John Key has stirred up a Hurricane’s nest.
Aggrieved Wellingtonians are springing up all over to argue Wellington is
not dying.
Mind you, their refutations are not exactly strong—mayor Celia Wade-Brown,
for example, in mentioning that only the other day she had met some Chinese
students in her office was not really offering strong opposition.
Having visited recently to sample AFL and a fair proportion of hostelries
along with my research team, I can say Wellington’s a fine city... more »
A Bunni Donation Button...
*has been added to my sidebar on the top, thanks to the wizardry of Odie,
AKA Woodsterman. Thanks, Odie. *
This PayPal account is not associated with me, but goes directly to Bunni's
funeral and cemetery fund.
Any amount you can help with would much appreciated.
Thank you
*
**The Catholic Funeral Mass for Carol Mackie (Amusing Bunni) has been
scheduled.*
Viewing will be at 9am on Wednesday May 8, 2013 at
Lakeview Funeral Home
1458 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
Funeral Mass will be at 11am the same day at:
Transfiguration Catholic Church
2609 W. Carmen Ave.
Chicago, IL 6062... more »
Gary Witherspoon 'Water and Energy: Survival in the American Southwest'
Water
and Energy:
Survival in the American Southwest
By Gary Witherspoon
Censored News
In 1519, Cortez and his army of mercenaries invaded the Triple Alliance
formed by the great city states of central Mexico. His conquest of the
Mexica took several years and finally succeeded as a result of an
horrendous small pox epidemic that Cortez and his soldiers brought to
the Indigenous
Christy Clark, BC Rail Questions, We Need To Talk To Your Brother Bruce Clark
There are many unanswered questions surrounding BC Rail and a public
inquiry is definitely required..The Gerrand conflict of interest case that
was conducted only looked at a very thin slice of the BC Rail corruption
scandal, and despite Gerrand`s ruling, too many questions remain
unresolved..
First off, I believe taking anything to any conflict commissioner in Canada
is a waste of time, these positions are patronage, their rulings and
opinions are always soft, tempered tsk tsk milktoast fare, scathing rebukes
and critical thought will not be found in any conflict commissi... more »
Michael James : Heading to the Finish Line
Sportsman's
Park, Cicero, Illinois, 1986. Photo by Michael James from his
forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Heading to the finish line at
Sportsman's Park in Cicero
Straight up: horses were my first love -- before cowboys and Indians,
Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wally Parks and the National
Hot Rod Association... more »
Penny-wise . . .
Got
an appeal for money from the Oakville Ontario
PC's this week, on behalf of the latest chooch to give it a try.
What was interesting about it was the stamps on the
envelope, two "A" postage and a surprise, a 1937 3¢ Coronation stamp. I
guess two "A"s and 3¢ are what Canada Post charges these days. I mailed a
#10 five or six months ago, for around 60 cents or so, as I recall.
Don't do
Deep Green Resistance Camp at White Clay May 2013
DEEP
GREEN RESISTANCE: Camp at White Clay, Nebraska, bordering Pine Ridge,
S.D. , where liquor stores profiteer
The camp on the White KKKlay border is still going strong. They do need
help with supplies if anyone can help. They need wood, food, and water.
They also need more warriors to stand with them in this fight. If you
would like to help please email DGR Great Plains Coordinator T.R.
Virginia scientist finds East Coast sea levels rising at accelerating rate
[image: John Boon, a Virginia Institute of Marine Science oceanographer,
stands near the breakwaters at Virginia Institute of Marine Science in
Gloucester on 22 April 2013. Boon's 2012 study showed that the rate of
rising seas is increasing along much of the East Coast. Photo: AP]
GLOUCESTER POINT, 5 May 2013 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) – For years,
computer simulations have predicted that climate change will cause East
Coast sea levels to rise at an increasingly rapid rate.
In a 2010 study, Virginia Institute of Marine Science oceanographer John
Boon looked at decades of tide-gauge... more »
"Justice O'Connor regrets"
*"There is no more eloquent testimony to the evolution of the Republican
Party than the ideological fate of the last three Justices to leave the
Supreme Court: O'Connor, Souter, and Stevens. In this way, O'Connor's
apostasy on Bush v. Gore is a surprise -- but perhaps only because it took
so long."*
*-- Jeffrey Toobin, in a newyorker.com
post,* "Justice O'Connor Regrets"
*by Ken*
I expect you noticed that retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
recently expressed strong second thoughts about about the dreadful 2000
Bush v. Gore decision, for which she wrote the 5-4 major... more »
Getting rich off global warming – ‘I predict there will be thirty to fifty-thousand climate and adaptation professionals in next decade or so’
[image: Cover of 'Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science
and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World', Edited by Susanne Moser and
Maxwell Boykoff. Graphic: Routledge]By Alexander Zaitchik
5 May 2013
(Salon) – On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation
Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall
when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my
pile of conference literature, a mess of pamphlets and reports with titles
like
*Getting Climate Smart: A Water Preparedness Guide for State Action*, and ... more »
Alan Waldman : ‘Fawlty Towers’ is a Dozen Classic Comic Gems
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Former Monty Python star John Cleese and wife Connie Booth carefully
crafted 12 unforgettable, hilarious episodes.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England,
Friday Nerd Blogging Way Early
Despite the geekiness of my previous post today, I had to double dip with
this: H/T Jeff Emanuel
Game of Thrones Over-Thinking: Applications from Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
What do Arend Lijphart, John McGarry and Tywin Lannister have in common?
Power-sharing! Since we are halfway through the third season, and we got a
nice dialogue about the interplay between nation, nationalism and anarchy
between Varys and Littlefinger (not in the book), it is time for us to
ponder how these basic concepts play
Continue reading
An ALEC Protest Sign
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Knowledge-Movement/473608799319088
Three major terror ( WMD - nuclear in the case of DC ) drills in three different cities , set for some time between May 7 and May 29 ...... and right before these drills the Coast Guard is told to stand down and stay in Port ? ?
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/coast-guard-ordered-to-stay-in-port-and-allow-infiltration-2640320.html
( Almost as if they want someone to slip in....... )
Coast Guard Ordered To Stay In Port And Allow Infiltration
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 13:09
(Before It's News)
[image: OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA]
MIAMI, FL – Drugs, weapons, illegal aliens all are welcome under a new
directive. There is an ongoing, emergency situation with the U.S. Coast
Guard, which is now an agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
.
“By directive, starting last Monday, 29 April 2013 (barring em... more »
For GOP - Workplace Ignorance is Bliss.
Saw this on Think Progress
A big worry of opponents of the bill is that employers will have the power
to coerce employees into taking comp time instead of having to pay them
overtime wages. When confronted with this possibility, the bill’s sponsor,
Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), told the Sirius radio show The Morning Briefing
with Tim Farley that employees will be able to turn to existing worker
protections against coercion
It is evident
SHE has never worked as a grunt in private industry.
It is evident that she has never worked as a grunt - with no union
protection – in private ind... more »
Decoboards Unlimited- Finally A Cute Whiteboard
Last summer, my parents redid their house. New carpet, new tile in the
bathrooms and kitchen, paint and even new pictures and wall hangings for
each room. My parents are pretty much out of their kid phase and my dad
wanted the house to reflect that they weren't worried about marker on the
sofa anymore. The one snag came when my mom wanted to hang a whiteboard in
the kitchen.
A whiteboard has hung in my parents kitchen for as long as I can remember,
it is a place for the shopping list, notes saying we are at friends houses
and other important information. All my mom could find was a ... more »
Guess who's back?...
Angel
at
*
Woman Honor ThySelf*
* *
Bob Feldman : The Influence of Texas' 'Big Rich,' 1974-1995
Texas oil patriarch H. L. Hunt. The Hunt family was reputed to be the world's wealthiest. Image from The Famous People.
The hidden history of Texas
Part 14: 1974-1995/2 --The influence of Texas' 'big rich'
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2013
[This is the second section of Part 14 of Bob Feldman's Rag Blog series on the hidden history of Texas.]
During the 1970s and early 1980s the
CATO Institute to Spread Right-Wing Propoganda in Appleton
http://www.tecmidwest.com/cm/pdfs/TEC-Event-may2013.pdf
Mohawk Nation News 'Guns, Guns, Guns'
GUNS,
GUNS, GUNS
May 7, 2013
MNN. May 7, 2013. The gun owners have not fallen into Obama’s trap. The
National Rifle Association NRA meeting in Texas is a good example of
their great fears. TV star Glenn Beck said, “Guns should only be in the
hands of good people”! Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said, “The men
and women who secured this country have the answers”. They are
beginning to
Harvey Organ and Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Reports - May 4 , 2013 ! Data and plenty of news and views !
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/05/gold-and-silver-holdgold-declines-again.html
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Gold and silver hold/Gold declines again at GLD and Comex/Gold deliveries
are now 5.97 tonnes for April/Silver at 16.29 million oz
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed down $3.40 to $1464.30 (comex closing time). Silver rose by 19
cents to $23.98 (comex closing time).
In the access market at 5 pm gold and silver are the following :
gold: $1470.70.
silver: $24.13
At the comex, the open interest in silver fell by 850 contracts to 144,886
contracts as we had s... more »
@michelemcneil and #edweek: #optout supression!
Sometimes you just can’t beat a dead horse enough. I know Shaun already
mentioned Michele McNeil and her inability to understand the depth of the
Occupy the DOE event. However, Shaun was too nice. In her latest post, Ms.
McNeil wastes reader’s time, complicates the issue, and intentionally down
plays the power behind the revolt. What appears to [...]
Christy Clark, She`s Come Undone(reposted)
*Written by grant G*
The entire BC Liberal Government and party are in disarray, words and
phrases are being tossed around like *final death throes, end of a dynasty,
thunderstruck, dying days, point of no return *and they are all fitting
though I prefer to use phrases and words like *crime family gunned down, corruption
rooted out, zombies exposed to sunlight melt *and my favorite, *ding dong
the wicked witch is dead..*
Scandal and organized crime, it`s as simple as that, I still remember the
headlines after our BC Legislature was raided by police *"Organized crime
has infiltr... more »
Bill English discovers bureaucratic management doesn’t pay
Interesting to hear this morning Bill English saying the Government won’t
continue to prop up failing State-Owned Enterprises.
Finance Minister Bill English has questioned the viability of Solid Energy
as he considers a host of State-owned companies facing financial
difficulties.
Learning Media, which produces educational material, is the latest to
join the list of struggling SOEs. It says a range of challenges is
affecting the sustainability of its business…
Solid Energy has debts of $400 million or more. New Zealand Post also
faces challenges…
Bear in mind that “profit... more »
It's time to throw your arms up
You are at the point on this journey where you cannot see around the bend.
For most of the trip you’ve had those who went before you, telling you what
to expect. No one has travelled this road yet – you are the first. Your
elders, teachers and parents are right here with you.
They cannot tell you what is coming, but they can tell you this: You are
fully equipped for this and no one is more so. There is nothing wrong with
you – everything is right with you. You have come for just this moment.
Until now, it may have seemed you were wrong – you did not fit in one of
soci... more »
ALEC School Voucher Scheme - Ruled Unconstitutional in LA
Louisiana Supreme Court Rules Jindal’s School Voucher Program
Unconstitutional
Igor Bobic 12:55 PM EDT, Tuesday May 7, 2013
Louisiana's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision ruling
Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) private school tuition voucher program
unconstitutional, the Associated Press reports.
In a 6-1 vote, the court ruled that Louisiana's constitution forbids using
money earmarked for public schools to pay for private school tuition.
The Myth of U.S. Economic Recovery, Social Crisis in America
Got five minutes for some much-desired words of solace and hope for the
future from our treasured Uncle Noam? A fairly concise depiction of our
current predicament, the nature of what we're really up against, and the
incredible difficulty of overcoming it (for those who haven't quite
absorbed the truism that when you reduce taxes greatly (or completely) on
those at the top of the wealth
68 Years Ago Today - VE Day (Victory in Europe) - May 7, 1945 ... Regina, Saskatchewan ..
*George Baker displays The Regina Leader-Post headline declaring
“Victory,” May 7, 1945 in front of old Regina City Hall on corner of 11th
Avenue & Rose Street.*
*Street celebration on corner of 11th Avenue & Albert St. (looking East
down 11th Ave - May 7, 1945 *
* * [image: Progressive Bloggers]
James Wyckoff - There Are Two Realities
Below is an excerpt from, *"Franz Anton Mesmer: Between God and Devil,"* by
James Wyckoff. 1975. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Pg.
20-21; and 70-71.
"We propose that there is not one, but that there are two cultures, two
realities, two "histories" that reveal the story of man. One is the
orthodox, visible tale seen through subjective eyes, a linear, sequential
story, gleaned through mere "information." The other, not so clearly
visible, is simply what took place, seen not with, but through, a different
set of eyes, a different "instrument" as it were, and reached t... more »
Coffee recovery plan's got just one little catch...
Coffee beans drying on a cement patio in CopanJust when the smallest of
bright lights appeared on the horizon for Honduras's coffee growers, a new
problem has emerged - one that the government will understandably have
little sympathy for.
Losses have been devastating this year for the country's small coffee
producers, whose crops have been hit hard by a coffee fungus that reduced
this year's yields by as much as 70 per cent in some regions. Those losses
are expected to worsen in the coming two years, as the affected coffee
plants have had to be cut back hard or even pulled out entire... more »
It Tolls For Thee
By happenstance I crossed the North Branch of the Raritan River yesterday,
just as the Virginia Bluebells were reflecting a cerulean sky from the
forest floor.
In the unfolding of this fecund spring, the dichotomy between the awakening
flora and fauna and the ongoing demise of the ecosystem has been more
apparent than ever before.
As if the air pollution weren't bad enough for plants, we've had scarcely
any rain and so the river is shockingly low when it should be surging at
this time of year.
Gone are the days when a rapid melt from snowpack would swell the banks and
brave souls wo... more »
I, Pencil
Have you ever considered that, common as it is, no-one actually knows how
to make a pencil—just one of the many miracles of the division of labour we
all take so much for granted, and have forgotten to notice.
Milton Friedman reckoned
Leonard Read's delightful story, "I, Pencil," has become a classic, and
deservedly so. I know of no other piece of literature that so succinctly,
persuasively, and effectively illustrates the meaning of both Adam Smith's
invisible hand—the possibility of cooperation without coercion—and
Friedrich Hayek's emphasis on the importance of dispersed knowl... more »
Penny For Your Thoughts
Over the weekend, we took a look at Obama's most vile nominee to date,
shady billionairess Penny Pritzker. It's hard to imagine an already
obstructionist Republican caucus in the Senate is going to let this one
through, but who knows... maybe their admiration for his record of criminal
endeavor will outweigh their loathing for Obama! Yesterday, Chicago-based
historian, Rick Perlstein, took to the pages of *The Nation* to explain what's
so wrong with Pritzker... and Obama's decision to give her a Cabinet
position. Like all progressives, Perlstein is fed up with Obama's
corporatist... more »
Doom, glorious doom
Capitalism will leave a legacy to socialism. It’s likely then that if
workers power comes to pass it will be an emergency regime. Here’s is
another thing to consider, a report by the Chartered Institute of
Environmental Health, discussing likely future health emergencies resulting
from climate change. If Britain becomes warmer and wetter it will become
more prone to previously tropical diseases.
They are already heading our way. Dengue was detected in France in 2010.
Malaria was reported in Greece in 2011. The West Nile Virus first emerged
in New York in 1999 and is now found acros... more »
US/Russia meeting. Israel bombings & FSA goes to US meets Hagel & AIPAC
Israel bombs Syria with depleted uranium bombs, which would be a war crime
if it was anyone else..
Unless something changes..it appears we are looking at an expansion of war.
So it begins.....going long read to the end!
Hoping everyone noticed that immediately after Israel struck Damascus,
aiding the NATO Islamic army of terrorists, the news fell off the
proverbial front page?
Strike anyone as odd? Israel didn’t gloat, which they usually do.
*In fact Israel went to lengths to downplay what had happened?? *-* Israel
tries to tamp down Syrian Anger after killing dozens of it's elite sold... more »
“The Real Threat to America (Is Not What You Think)”
*“The Real Threat to America (Is Not What You Think)”*
by Bill Bonner
“An extraordinary thing has happened... Thanks to the courage of severely
depressed Americans, neither chance nor intention... neither the gods nor
"towel head" terrorists... pose a bigger threat to them than they pose to
themselves.
The New York Times has the story: “Suicide rates among middle-aged
Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a
generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy
access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulner... more »
Why are these people so cross with Nigel Lawson? – Telegraph Blogs
It's important to know what's behind some of the attacks on Lord Lawson's
call for the UK to leave the EU.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100215596/why-are-these-people-so-cross-with-nigel-lawson/
Don't forget the EU pensions and requirements... See previous blogposts.
The fuse is lit
*
*
*
*
*The Fuse is lit*
by American Kabuki
The fuse is lit
The old ways no longer fit
Sparks fly down human cordite
Eternal Essence is not finite
Dreams fuse with waking
and my soul is not quaking
Somewhere ancient memories collide
and I'm shifting
All roles played
not one piece of knowledge delayed
No up or down
No ownership of man by some banker clown
Not one piece or person missing
Turn and look and see them kissing
No nanotech disease
No more egos to appease
A bow and turn
the roles played we all learn
Stage props leaving
Knowing repla... more »
For those intrigued by the Oregon Medicaid study!
*TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013*
*As all progressives should be:* Yesterday, in our day of travel, we missed
Kevin Drum’s post from late Sunday night about the Oregon Medicaid study.
If you’re trying to figure out that study, you should take a look at that
post.
We’ll note that Drum was annoyed, as we were, by a claim which got its
start in Annie Lowrey’s hapless news report in the New York Times. Late in
his post, he says this:
DRUM (5/5/13): You can't honestly say that the study shows that Medicaid
"seemed to have little or no impact on common medical conditions like
hypertension and dia... more »
Crown may not refuse stipulations to gain tactical advantage
R v. Procter (1991), 11 C.R. (4th) 200, 69 C.C.C. (3d) 436 (Man. C.A.) is a
useful source for the proposition that the Crown may not refuse
stipulations for the purpose of gaining a tactical advantage:
The Criminal Code contains provision enabling an accused person to admit
facts for the purpose of dispensing with proof of them. Whilst it is true
that such admissions must first be accepted by the Crown (Castellani v. The
Queen, [1970] S.C.R. 310), I do not think the Crown is entitled to refuse
acceptance where its purpose in doing so is to keep an issue alive
artificially. In my o... more »
Autism and the Environment
The Wall Street Journal is finally reporting in its front section:
“Autism Linked To Environmental Factors: New Studies of Air Pollution,
Pesticides, and Iron Bolster Evidence Typing Developmental Disorder to
Influences in the Womb.” (S.S. Wang, May 4-5 2013, A3).
Majia here: This is not news.
What *is* news is that the mainstream media are finally reporting on the
growing linkages being made scientifically between human engineered
environmental insults and neurological diseases, ranging from Parkinsons to
autism.
Links between autistic behaviors and prenatal chemical chemical ... more »
Protest Against Texas-Israel Day Tomorrow, May 8th 2013 At 930AM, In Front Of The State Legislature In Austin Texas!
I recently put up a very interesting article that comes from the Liberty
Fight website, at www.libertyfight.com, showing my absolute disgust in the
idea that the Texas State Legislature in Austin Texas is going ahead and
proclaiming tomorrow, May 8th, 2013, as Texas-Israel Day! It is indeed a
sad day for the proud people of Texas when these traitors in their own
government show their true allegiance... NOT to the United States, but to
the criminal and psychotic state of Israel....
Well... It seems that not everyone in Texas is taking this horrible
situation lying down.. For accordi... more »
JAY PARKER: 10% OF AMERICANS MIND CONTROLLED; DELAWARE; SANDY HOOK
*Jay Parker*
According to Jay Parker, 10% of the US population are Satanic child
abusers, linked to CIA mind control.
Reportedly, for the first seven years of his life, Jay was subjected to
Satanic Ritual Abuse.
*Bohemian Grove.*
Bohemian Grove, in California, is where members of the World's elite
reportedly come to worship Moloch and to carry out human sacrifice.
*Bohemian Grove*
Jay Parker refers to the elite's involvement with Moloch, the pagan god of
the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children.
Jay Parker reportedly comes from the village of A... more »
What’s wrong with red lines?
So everyone is bashing Obama’s use of red lines on Syria. In Sunday’s New
York Times, Daniel Byman took the concept of red lines to task because
failure to act on them weakens America’s credibility and reputation: …when
deterrence fails, the United States looks weak and indecisive…. Moreover,
not acting after issuing ultimatums harms America’s reputation.
Continue reading
Why punk a test that doesn’t count? Because #YOLO, courtesy @jawshkosh
Behold. Need there be a better reason than YOLO? Filed under: CHALK FACE:
General News & Commentary Tagged: instagram, testing, yolo
Spock vs. Spock
This is quite possibly the greatest car commercial of all time: with Leonard
Nimoy and Zachary Quinto.
Clap...clap...clap...
The History That Gives us Read Petite
The digital era allows us to revisit what once worked but became
inefficient and uneconomical in the physical world. It is not a case of
repeating the old ways but understanding how digital technology and network
connectivity can redefine the process and make what once work , work again.
We are working on a new venture Read Petite which reintroduces and
redefines short form for today’s time poor readers.
Humans love short-form reading. The recorded history of the short story
goes back to the likes of Homer and collections such as *Aesop’s Fables*.
Much later came Chaucer, Boccac... more »
Kauilapele's Blog: OPPT-IN Show 5-6-13… MP3s (and Notes from Ginger)
http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/oppt-in-show-5-6-13-mp3s-and-notes-from-ginger/#more-20117
*OPPT-IN Show 5-6-13… MP3s (and Notes from Ginger)*
Posted on 2013/05/06 by kauilapele
Radio show link
MP3s were volume leveled and boosted a bit. Music was removed (-4 minutes).
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MP3s (minus music, volume leveled and boosted) (30 min., 7 MB per Part)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Complete show (1:55, 26 MB)
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Ginger’s notes (many thanks to Ginger)
OPT Show Notes – May 6th US / 7th Australia
This was a very informative important sh... more »
Bolivia expels USAID
Bolivian President Evo Morales expels USAID
[image: Evo Morales on 1 May 2013] Evo Morales accused USAID of meddling in
the affairs of the Bolivian people
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he will expel the US Agency for
International Development (USAID).
Mr Morales accused the agency of seeking to "conspire against" the Bolivian
people and his government.
US state department spokesman Patrick Ventrell rejected the allegations as
"basele... more »
Charles Ramsey: Cleveland's real life hero
It's like an TV crime show episode playing out in real life but I'm not
going to recap the escape of the three abducted women after 10 years in
Cleveland. This will be a big story for days and the details will be well
covered. But huzzah for Charles Ramsey who chose to intervene in what he
assumed was an ordinary domestic dispute. These days most people would have
ignored the cries of Amanda Berry, not wanting to get involved. So I do
want to preserve his epic interview for the archives.
And a transcript of his 911 call is here.
If he hadn't acted, those women could still be pri... more »
Sad news: Rosemary Jane Burke-Robertson, B.A., L.L.B, M.St.J., C.St.J. April 11, 1960 – May 4, 2013
Jane passed away at home surrounded by her loving husband, children and
family after an inspirational and determined three year struggle with
cancer. Jane was the third child of Marilyn and Colonel William
Burke-Robertson Q.C. by whom she was predeceased. Jane is survived by her
husband, David Sherriff-Scott, and their four children, Alexander (19),
Iain (15), Katharine (14) and Michael (13) Sherriff-Scott, by Jane's
sister, Sandy (David) Atack and nephew, Chris, and niece, Ally Atack.
Jane was raised in Dunrobin where she grew up an accomplished rider. She
graduated Elmwood'... more »
Factual concerns to be raised with parties to lawsuit
Williston v. Hamilton (Police Service), 2013 ONCA 296 provides:
[6] The appellant submits that the trial judge erred in ruling
that s. 258.6 did not apply because the respondents were not insurers
either as named defendants or by way of subrogation. The ruling was made
without either party having raised the issue. Further, had the issue been
raised, the appellant would have provided ample evidence that s. 258.6(2)
had been engaged in the circumstances of this case. In support of that
submission, the appellant has tendered fresh evidence showing that the
respondents were i... more »
Now This Is Getting Ridiculous: 7 Year Old Boy Suspended From School For Pretending A Pencil Is A Gun!
I have been struggling the last while to understand how our world has slid
down the slippery slope to insanity... This is especially true in our
modern so called "education system" and the absolutely ridiculous policies
of "zero tolerance"... What the hell has happened to having children be
children...
That is why I found this one particular story absolutely ridiculous and
disturbing... According to this article, from the website: News Forage, at
www.newsforage.com, it appears that a 7 year old boy was just recently
suspended from a school for, believe it or not, pretending a pencil... more »
Citizen Hearing and Merrill Cook
When I read that former Congressman Merrill Cook from Utah, one of those
at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, had said, “I do not believe there has
been any strong, credible evidence of [alien visits] at this point but I do
think there has been some credible evidence of things that are unidentified
that had been flying about,” I was disappointed. But then I thought about
what he had said and realized that it was quite fair.
Merrill Cook
Cook, who asked some very convoluted questions, hadn’t dismissed the idea
of alien visitation but had suggested that the strong evidence hadn’t be... more »
The Perfect Benghazi Article
Some of you might be thinking: I'm sure that there's not much to all the
conservative fuss about Benghazi, but I'm open to the possibility of some
Obama Administration malfeasance...I wish there was some way for me to
catch up on what Benghazi is really supposed to be about without having to
dive into the crazy.
Well, if that's you, then there's a Politico article now just for you. It's
from yesterday afternoon, and titled "Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama
from office."
It seems that, the Huck says, "as the information and facts begin to come
out, it will become so obvious that ... more »
Christy Clark`s LNG Fantasy Reality Check
British Columbia`s LNG Corporate Welfare Scheme Exposed
*Wrtten by Grant G*
What is going on with LNG for export development in British Columbia, it
really is an important question?
For several years at least we have been hearing about our financial saviour
in waiting, the LNG industry, in the last year this fledging industry`s
rosy forecast have been front in center in expensive ad campaigns, the
promise of a need for millions of workers, the promises of $trillions of
dollars in revenue, numbers so large, numbers so lucrative that soon our
roads will not only get the... more »
British Anti-Monarchists Challenge BBC Policy That To Be 'Pro-British' You Must Be 'Pro-Monarchy'
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*Anti-monarchy campaigners in Britain are to stage a protest against the
British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) pro-monarchy policies. *
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The demonstration, which is organized by Britain’s anti-monarchy campaign
group, Republic, will be held outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London
on Saturday May 11.
Republic stepped up its campaign against the BBC’s pro-royal coverage
following the corporation’s announcement of a season of programming to mark
the 60th anniversary of the British Queen's coronation.
“Now the BBC is putting together a schedule of programmes that is not... more »
“K-12 blogger extraordinaire” @michelemcneil concern trolls @educationweek
Education journalism and other works of narrative non-fiction love the
pitched battle, the zero-sum game, the us versus them story, a David versus
Goliath. We have once again another example from Education Week. Boring. As
if this highlights some kind of anecdotal trend about the vitality of
educational activism, we have this little slice: As a [...]
Woody's New Wank
SHOCKING NEWS! Pro-choice group refuses to sign on to latest anti-abortion
stalking horse gambit!
Woody's got a brand-new wank. And guess what? It's just like the old wank.
Woodworth said he reached out to Joyce Arthur, the executive director of
the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, for support on the motion. The
group is a prominent national pro-choice organization.
Woodworth said he wrote to the group in January with the specific wording
of the motion: “That the Parliament of Canada declare that the equal worth
and dignity of everyone must be recognized by Canadian law based ... more »
An Open Letter to Secretary Duncan: How Not to Get Booed
Secretary Duncan, How Not to Get Booed: Resign. Refuse appointments for
positions for which you have no experience or expertise. Do not speak at a
gathering of the people you have mis-served, unless you plan to apologize
(or resign). Resign. Avoid saying one eloquent thing while doing quite the
opposite (HINT: Hypocrisy lends itself to [...]
Blue America Welcomes Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach
Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, Northeast Philadelphia and
Montgomery County-- is one of the most liberal districts in the state.
Obama beat McCain 65.4-33.7% in 2008 and did even better last year--
66.2-32.9%. The current congressmember, Allyson Schwartz is giving up the
seat to run for governor. She was reelected in November with 69% of the
vote, 66% in Montgomery County and 74% in the parts of the district within
Philadelphia. She's always been extremely cautious to not get out ahead on
any contentious issues and tends to vote very conservatively for a Democrat
in ... more »
Living Within Our Skin
It's a core tenet of our Western industrial/capitalist/democratic orthodoxy
that something in the range of 3% annual economic growth is the benchmark
of a healthy society. That's 3% *compounded* growth.
Now let's take a span of 50-years, roughly one adult lifetime. Let's say
the economy stood at 100X at the beginning of that period and grew at 3%
over that interval. By the end of that 50-years, what began as 100X would
have grown to 438X.
This is all great stuff if only our world, our planet, our biosphere was as
expansive and elastic that it could grow 4.38X every half century... more »
USA'S JENNY HILL; RITUAL ABUSE; SAVILE
*Twenty Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her
Twenty-two Multiple Personalities* is a new book by retired Saratoga
Springs-based psychiatrist Judy Byington.
As a youngster, Jenny Hill was sexually abused by her father and by others
in her neighbourhood.
On June 21, 1965, in Garden Grove, California, she was tortured on an altar
and forced to watch the murder of a 6-year-old by a satanic coven.
*22 Faces revives ritual sexual abuse controversy* - Salt Lake City Weekly
- 2 May 2013
Jenny Hill was subjected to mind-control experiments by a former German
N... more »
Carol Mackie/Amusing Bunni funeral...
*is tomorrow (Wednesday, May 8) in Chicago, Illinois.*
Opus, at *American Perspective,* is on a plane to attend the funeral.
From Opus:
Update: (5/7/13) I will be on an airplane today flying to Chicago. I look
forward to meeting fellow bloggers and friends of Amusing Bunni, Carol
Mackie in person. Let's give her a good send off. See you there. I have
long blonde hair and will be wearing a black skirt suit and pearls. Any
donations via this paypal button will go toward Bunni's final expenses. Or
if you are going there in person, perhaps seek out the funeral director and
make a donat... more »
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 stating a point:
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 yea... 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*
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*General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters*
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*ALEC's War on Workers *
*PLEASE read the whole thing*
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*>>>>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. Thanks to Christine McCartney. 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 - 15 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.
*4th Annual Tuba Fats Tuesday ~New Orleans Good Good*
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. *
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*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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Untitled
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*
*
* *If anyone knows what this symbol on her neck is let me know...I think
its Galactic Federation... -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
Lo... more »
Fukushima debacle updates - May 6 , 2013..... Focus - Reactor Number 3
Tepco to restart nitrogen gas injection into reactor1
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According to Tepco, they are going to restart the nitrogen gas injection
into the suppression chamber of reactor1 on 5/8/2013.
6~7m3/h will be injected in order to “push out the retained hydrogen gas”
and also “look into the effect of radiolysis of water within suppression
chamber”, which implies Tepco admits hydrogen gas is being produced from
the radiolysis of water.
If the hydrogen gas density g... more »
Freedom to Heal
http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/05/06/freedom-to-heal/
*
* *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]
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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 »
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