Crowds relaxing at Bestival 2007, held on the Isle of Wight. The headline of The Guardian newspaper at the time can also be read. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Eight Arnold-like objects photographed over Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 12, 1947 (from Tulsa Daily World). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Dunes in San Clemente del Tuyú (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Is the School “Reform” Drought Breaking?
Wasn’t Sir Ken Robinson’s Education TED talk wonderful? His PBS TED
presentation followed some outstanding students, teachers, and scholars who
stressed the power of relationship-building and fostering students’
creativity. He also followed “reformers” like Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada,
and host John Legend. Perhaps because they were on public television,
these accountability hawks were on their [...]
Giant swamp rats are literally eating Louisiana – ‘I just don’t know how these people who love their home so much are going to go on living here’
[image: A litter of young nutria. Nutria are an invasive species in
Louisiana. Photo: John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk / National Geographic]
By Joanna M. Foster
7 May 2013
(Takepart.com) – On the southern edge of Louisiana, there is almost as much
water as land. You can't drive to anyone's house, you have to travel by
boat, and sometimes there are hours of water between neighbors. It takes a
special breed to make a home here, in the swamp, amongst the mosquitos and almost
annual hurricanes. But those who do call it home, love it. They see a
magical space of strange stillness and s... more »
A third year of drought threatens southwestern Oklahoma – ‘You either adapt or you sell out and move on’
[image: Members of a drought committee at a farm near Guymon, Oklahoma in
1936, during the extended drought that caused the 'Dust Bowl'. Photo:
Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress]By Joe Wertz
6 May 2013
(NPR) – “Extreme” and “exceptional” drought persists throughout much of
the state, especially in southwestern Oklahoma. Low reservoir levels have
forced city officials in Altus to issue emergency water restrictions, and
Oklahomans throughout the region are worried about the future.
Associated Press reporter Sharon Cohen interviewed Kent Walker, a farmer
and rancher who lives ... more »
Chile: Startling Photos of a UFO over Mining Operation
*Source: Panorama Diario (Chile)
Date: 8 May 2013*
Startling photos of an alleged UFO over a mining operation in Copiapó were
published recently. These are photos taken last Tuesday afternoon (30 April
2013) by heavy equipment operators. The workers were carrying out
dismantling operations in the Cerro Negro works of the CAP company, only a
few kilometers distant from the Atacama Region, when they noticed the
unidentified flying object.
When interviewed by Radio Nostálgica FM, which made the visual material
property of Juan Avalos Fajardo available on its website (*PHOTOS AT:
htt... more »
Argentina: Impressive UFO Sighting in San Clemente
*Source: Diario Popular
http://www.diariopopular.com.ar/notas/155823-impresionante-avistaje-ovni-san-clemente
Date: 05/08/2013*
*Argentina: Impressive UFO Sighting in San Clemente*
Photos were taken fortuitously by a couple enjoying a day out in the resort
city in Buenos Aires.
A tourist couple, enjoying a variety show in Mundo Marino , took several
photos with their camera that show the outline of a UFO flying over the
city fo San Clemente del Tuyú, Province of Buenos Aires.
The chance photos could show what is popularly known as a "flying saucer",
which thoroughly startled the ... more »
Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Facts to Vindicate Failed Iran Sanctions Policy
Tehran
Research Reactor
(Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Iranian Presidency)
“Comment is free, but facts are sacred.”
- C.P. Scott, editor of the Guardian, 1921
Israeli commentator Meir Javedanfar has made a very successful career of
trafficking conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives about Iran’s
nuclear program.
In a recent op-ed for the Guardian newspaper he has insisted – as he has
Attitudes
Photo by Maria King Carroll
"Attitudes are more important than abilities. Motives are more important
than methods. Character is more important than cleverness. And the heart
takes precedence over the head."
Denis Parsons Burkitt, 1911-1993
(Dr. Burkitt was an Irishman who drove across sub-Saharan Africa in his
beat up Ford pick up truck. He found many African kids between the ages of
5 and 8 years who had deadly facial tumors. He biopsied the tumor and it
was found to be caused by a virus. Who would have thought that a virus
could cause a cancer now called Burkitt's lymphoma?)
THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: Proposing the theme of Malick’s next film!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013*
*Part 5—The absence of the professors:* Did Professors Reinhart and Rogoff
do what Krugman says they did?
According to Krugman, the famous professors made an unfortunate claim in
early 2010, in a paper which became influential on a world-wide basis.
According to Krugman, the professors “purported to identify a critical
‘threshold,’ a tipping point, for government indebtedness. Once debt
exceeds 90 percent of gross domestic product, they claimed, economic growth
drops off sharply.” For more detail, see yesterday’s report.
Did the famous Harvard professors ... more »
Rampant Rape in the Military: Who Knew?
He is shocked, shocked that raping is going on in this establishment.
Commander in Chief Obama, along with the Congress, Army, Navy, Air Force
and Marines and all the ships at sea are floundering. How in the name of
almighty empire could this be happening to the greatest military force the
world has ever known?
Let the annual bromides begin.
He wants it rooted out, pronto. Same as he wanted it rooted out last year,
and the year before that. And just to show how much he cares, he's punted
the scandal of a 37% increase in military sexual assaults in one year over
to yet another wishy... more »
Syrian troops push down strategic highway towards Jordan
Following up on the previous Syrian Internet has gone down again
Came across this: Syria’s Internet goes dark as troops push into strategic
town on highway to Jordan
BEIRUT—Syrian troops pushed Wednesday into a strategic town along the
highway leading to the Jordanian border as a massive Internet outage
engulfed most of the country for a second day.
The regime’s advance into Khirbet Ghazaleh, a town south of Damascus along
a key artery to the border, came after weeks of fighting and government
attempts to secure the highway.
Also looks to be fighting in the north near the Turk... more »
Graph of the Day: Snow water content in Southern Sierras of California, 2 May 2013
[image: The water content of the snowpack in the Southern Sierra Mountains
of California, from San Joaquin through Kern and Owens, was 9% of average
for the date on 2 May 2013 (and 7% of the average for April 1.) The
snowpack is usually not this thin until early July. Statewide, the snowpack
was 17% of average for the date. Graphic: California Department of Water
Resources]
By Dr. Jeff Masters
3 May 2013
(wunderground.com) – The water content of the snowpack in the Southern
Sierra Mountains of California, from San Joaquin through Kern and Owens,
was 9% of average for the date on ... more »
Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker In England Changes Nothing On The Ground In Iraq
British businessman Jim McCormick was recently sentenced to ten years in
prison for selling fake bomb detectors around the world. The ADE 651
devices were said to be able to find anything from explosives to people to
ivory several hundred meters away. Those bold claims along with the
instructions on how to use them should have warned any country or
organization about their effectiveness, but Iraq ended up being the largest
purchaser of the devices in the world. Several groups in Iraq had been
investigating the detectors since 2009, and a general in the Interior
Ministry was eventu... more »
Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept
Loyal DAMMIT JANET! readers, I have an assignment for you today.
I want you to send these two links to your cranky Uncle Bob and your
tax-hating Cousin Laura and ask them if they are OK with this spending by
the CONtempt Party government.
Item 1: Secret spending on consultants.
A Star investigation has found 90 per cent of the $2.4 billion paid out in
the past decade comes with no description of the work done — and more than
a dozen departments refuse to provide details when pressed.
Item 2: Economic Action Scam.
Those TV ads are still airing more than six weeks after the budge... more »
Why Reading Scott Sagan Scares Me.
Over the years I’ve taught Scott Sagan and Charles Perrow for a range of
different courses. Based on those two books, I’m pretty sure that I’d
rather not read these two terms in the same sentence: “nuclear weapons” and
“rot.” From this morning’s Washington Post: The Air Force stripped an
unprecedented 17 officers of their
Continue reading
Midweek Mélange
I don’t know whether to feel horribly manipulated, simply appreciate the
nerd-fest humor, or both. Andrew Philips on the new Australian Defense
White Paper. Dan Trombly on the efficacy of US intervention in Syria. Jay
Ulfelder wants to restrict our use of the term “state” to, as best as I can
tell, sovereign-territorial entities. His
Continue reading
ALEC Ramps Up the Secrecy Quotient
This article is truer today – than it was last Wednesday – before the ALEC
meeting.
*This "Partnership" is the Gun Pointed at the Heart of Democracy*
By Greg Madison, Associate Editor --- May 8, 2013
*There's a gun pointed at the heart of representative democracy, and your
Congressperson has their finger on the trigger*.
It's called the American Legislative Exchange Council- or ALEC for short.
And while its name may sound perfectly harmless, it's the single reason why
your vote no longer matters.
You see, due to the influence wielded by this mysterious group, elected
officials ... more »
Cons : "Well you didn't ask us."
In response to NDP questions on Monday regarding the missing $3.1 billion
in public security and anti-terrorism spending and why even the words "public
security and anti-terrorism" hadn't shown up in nine years of public
accounts, Tony Gazebo of the Treasury Board blamed the opposition for not
guessing the right question :
“If NDP caucus members from the years from 2001 to 2009 did not ask the
right questions then that is their problem, not the problem on this side of
the House.”
In February, Public SafetyMin Vic Toews used the same tactic. When
questioned as to how the Cons manage... more »
The Way Forward on Guantánamo-- Guest Post By Michelle Ringuette Of Amnesty International
President Obama and prominent members of Congress, including House Armed
Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), have rather
conveniently started blaming each other for the lack of progress toward
closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. But their arguments are
self-serving and political: Congress has done little to help, and President
Obama doesn’t need their help anyway.
The *Fresno Bee*, in a May 4 editorial, saw McKeon’s words for what they
were, noting that Congress was continuing to put up roadblocks to
transferring detainees out of the facility and... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Philip Bailey, 62.
Fortunately, there's good stuff:
1. With the caveat that I haven't read it, I suspect this new paper, "Preventing
Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment," is something
people should know about. Sara Heller, Harold Pollack, Roseanna Ander, Jens
Ludwig.
2. Ezra Klein on the Senate.
3. Greg Koger, cranky about third-rate think tank research. Not about the
Senate, although Greg is mentioned in the previous linked item.
4. And Noah Smith praises getting a Ph.D. in economics.
IOWA ACTION: Petition for ALEC Transparency
I am assuming it is meant for Iowans - but it does not say only Iowans can
sign the petition on the webpage.
PLEASE consider signing this.
*Sign it*
*>>>HERE<<<*
Part of the petition from Progress Iowa:
Please release the following information to the public:
1. Any "35-Day Mailing" from the American Legislative Exchange Council that
you have received
2. The roster of ALEC members in Iowa
3. The roster of your Task Force's Membership
4. Financial records detailing payments from the State of Iowa to the
American Legislative Council for the payment of membership dues, and any
oth... more »
"We Don't Make Mistakes. Bureaucrats Do."
When Marc Garneau -- Canada's first astronaut -- was not invited to a
ceremony celebrating the Canadarm's contribution to space exploration, the
Harper government blamed that oversight on the officials at the air museum
and space agency, who issued the invitations.
Hard to believe, writes Michael Harris:
And is the Harper government actually claiming that it never occurred to
them to glance over the guest list or to invite our first Space Man to the
Canadarm ceremony?
Bottom line? The crunchy cons chose to punish the rival politician rather
than honour the astronaut.
It is bred... more »
Mail Organizer from a Cereal Box
Mail has the tendency to get scattered all over our house. It has never
been a problem before, until we got slapped with a late fee because I never
noticed that a certain letter was actually a bill. After that, my husband
insisted we have a central location for the mail. I wanted something
simple, something that I could change easily as my decor changed. After
thinking about it for awhile, this is what I came up with.
You will need:
a cereal box
a piece of sand paper
scissors
paint and scrapbook paper in coordinating colors
Mod Podge
Chalkboard Labels
Poster Strips (to hang the... more »
Big Brother Using Sophisticated Cameras to Mark Targets
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Ed Steer's May 8 , 2013 Morning Report on gold & Silver
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China Produces 90 Tonnes, Consumes 320 Tonnes in Q1 of 2013
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The gold price opened quietly in early Far East trading on their
Tuesday...and then began to chop lower shortly before 10:00 a.m. in Tokyo.
It gained a bit of that back once London began to trade, but had the rug
pulled out from under it... more »
White House delays release of secret torture report
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*Head of Army Corps Responds to Levees.org’s Demand for Locations of Faulty
Levees*
*Parish leaders fighting FEMA flood maps from sending rates skyrocketing ~Dennis
Woltering*
*Hurricane center chief focusing on water hazards*
*Pulitzer winners leave Times-Picayune for Advocate *
*John Georges, New Owner of The Advocate: 'New Orleans Wants a Daily Paper'
~WWNO*
*Saints punter Thomas Morstead to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer*
*Marigny gun-grabber says he's not a hero for April 27 act of courage ~Casey
Ferrand*
*Coastal advocates question spill fine spending ~Nikki Buskey*
... more »
Shrinking Discretionary Spending
We are increasingly moving toward a subscription lifestyle which bodes well
for some and could give others a few sleepless nights as consumers’
discretionary spending effectively shrinks.
Only last week we were discussing subscription models with a financial
industry expert, who informed us that it is being predicted that some 10%
of spending could be subscription based in the near future. That may sound
a small percentage but when we remove the must buys on rent, utilities,
food, clothing etc. it leaves little discretionary spending and that 10%
suddenly becomes a much larger thre... more »
Syrian Internet has gone down again
This article shows the drop off in internet traffic
Syria’s access to the Internet was cut on Tuesday. *The most likely
culprit, security researchers said, was the Syrian government.*
Syrian Internet traffic came to a halt just before 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Google reported a drop in Internet traffic around that time, as did the
Local Coordinating Committees, an antigovernment activist group in Syria.
Four physical cables connect Syria to the Internet — three under the sea,
and the fourth over land through Turkey. For outsiders to cause Tuesday’s
outage, security experts say, they ... more »
Syria updates - May 8 , 2013..... US Military intervention within the next several months ( clear the Al Qaeda rebels cannot get the job done against the Syrian Government troops at this point )
« Breaking News »Syrian army recaptures strategic southern town
DEBKA*file* May 8, 2013, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
After a two-month bombardment, the Syrian army Wednesday recaptured from
rebel fighters the Horan region’s Kirbet Ghazaleh which sits athwart an
important transit route to Jordan and is key to the town of Deraa where the
anti-Assad uprising erupted in March 2011. Syrian opposition forces accused
the Jordanian-backed rebel military council of failing to supply the town’s
defenders with the weapons needed for repulsing Assad’s forces.
« Breaking News »Russia and US agree only o... more »
Overnight data from China ( exports and imports ) better than expected , German Industrial Production data better than expected ...... Swiss consumer prices continue slump , Netherlands Industrial Production fell much more than expected..... ECB allegedly looking at ways to revive ABS market even buying ABS ( except Buba is opposed so how far can this go ? ) ....... Macro news and views for May 8 , 2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/chinese-trade-data-manipulation-innocent-excel-glitch-or-something-far-more-sinister
( Glitch in The Matrix from China ? )
Chinese Trade Data Manipulation: Innocent "Excel Glitch" Or Something Far
More Sinister?
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/08/2013 08:05 -0400
- Bank of England
- BLS
- BOE
- Bond
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Carry Trade
- China
- Equity Markets
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Market Sentiment
- Monetary Policy
- Money Supply
- People... more »
Roosevelt as saviour?
President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" has long been credited with
rescuing the US from the Great Depression of the 1930s. While digging up
material for tonight’s discussion on the Great Depression, I uncovered this
presentation by economics scholar Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at
UCLA, who challenges the conventional wisdom in a provocative examination
of FDR's economic policies.
It recalls to mind Steven Kates’s argument “There is no such thing as an
independent force that can be described as aggregate demand.”
If you want to get to the essence of Say’s Law you must... more »
Don't Cry For Him, Argentina
South Carolina: Proudly embarrassing the United States abroad since 1861.
#Sanford
— Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) May 8, 2013
So, this is what passes for "family values" in South Carolina's 1st
district:
They decided to elect over a smart lady and successful businesswoman a
guy who politically was three years ago like Eva Perón: Still in the public
eye but deader than a doornail.
The man, for want of a better word, they elected to warm his old seat:
Lied to staff and his constituents that he was hiking the Appalachian
trail when in reality he was fucking his... more »
Opposing Theocracy
This is an ideological struggle not of our choosing that attempts to
establish its writ using the putative support of its adherents to impose
their ideas. Of course we object. What has not happened yet is outright
confrontation and the establishment of powerful boundaries. This has only
because we have preferred denial to the cost of establishing a new paradigm.
From my perspective, they cannot win through. In fact the weight of
secularism is grinding away at their world and the demands of education is
forcibly broadening their perspectives. This has not prevented atrocity ... more »
Beet Juice Lowers High Blood Pressure
Specific experiments have pretty well spelled it out. Raw vegetable
release nitrates directly into the bloodstream causing a strong downward
adjustment in blood pressure. Beet juice appears to be particularly strong
in terms of this effect.
Obviously many other factors are also brought to bear here that matter
also that remain often unidentified. Yet the nitrate cycle is well known
and fundamental.
We already know that a vegan diet is wonderfully successful. What should
also be clear is that the vegan portion of your diet needs to be there even
if the rest is not. I am... more »
Ancient Earth Crust Stored in Deep Mantle
It may be possible to map this effect in other recycled volcanic rocks
worldwide and give us an indirect way to see the ancient past. At least we
now know that it is possible.
Slowly but surely we are advancing our knowledge of geological history and
piecing together an awesome history.
At the same time, we can look across at Venus and see another prospective
planet to terraform also. The surface rock temperature remains at over 600C
and will remain there until we cause the planet to be bombarded with comets
that pack plenty of of water and carbon.
That would cause t... more »
Lightening Modeling
Does anyone really think that we have lightening figured out? Besides
gamma rays and errant electrons we also have stripped atoms accumulating
and moving around to form ball lightening also. In fact a channel may well
be formed by stripped ions. The ball lightening was only recently properly
described.
A good explanation may be that we are actually seeing a heat effect
penetrating the air mass as the surplus electrons drill toward the ground.
Once the ions are hot enough the electrons are able to cascade easily
through the mass of ions.
Once the potential becomes larg... more »
Satire: “Sanford’s Comeback Gives Hope To Liars”
*“Sanford’s Comeback Gives Hope To Liars”*
by Andy Borowitz
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Borowitz Report)— “Former South Carolina Governor
Mark Sanford’s stunning upset in a special congressional election on
Tuesday served as an inspiration to liars across the state and beyond,
prominent members of the lying community said tonight. “In America, liars
are always made to feel bad about ourselves, as if what we’re doing is
wrong,” said Harland Dorrinson, fifty-seven, a liar from suburban
Charleston. “Mark Sanford’s victory tonight is a victory for the lying
lifestyle.” Carol Foyler, thi... more »
The one hundred and forty ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award
This week's award is awarded in the full knowledge that the recipient knew
that the answer was obvious before they undertook the research. So the
award is less about the recipient than publicising the report.
The Commentator reveals for the second year running that:
'the BBC has been shown to have an inherent Left-leaning bias through its
newspaper procurement policy which has again displayed a tilt towards The
Guardian newspaper.'
The BBC biased towards the left and full of Guardian readers - "No shit,
Sherlock"
Here's some more:
'The news comes despite the continuing decline of... more »
Nine cars buried in Jalan Ampang LANDSLIDE
Editor's note:
Coming so close after BN declared their illegal GE-13 victory, this must be
a Divine Sign of the UNDERLYING ROT of the collapsing BN govt. It is only
a matter of time.
KUALA LUMPUR - Nine cars parked at a private parking lot near the Bukit
Nanas monorail station in Jalan Sultan Ismail here were damaged in a
landslide during a downpour yesterday .
It is understood that the rain at 6.30pm had caused the soil on the slope
to loosen. After 30 minutes, the landslide occurred.
Logeswaran, an engineer who works at a company opposite the parking lot,
said his two-month-ol... more »
The World's End
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The third part of the ice cream and beer themed trilogy is coming... Following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, comes The World's end - complete with obligatory Simon Pegg fence jumping gag!
Christy Clark`s LNG Plans and Job Numbers Turn Into A Mirage
*Written by Grant G*
There is something seriously wrong with Christy Clark and the BC Liberals
LNG superpower plans, as you know I have been skeptical of this scheme,
especially on the scale the BC Liberals have advertised..
The Liberal Government $40 million dollar ad blitz we`ve endured the last
18 months, these ads talked of not $billions in revenue but $trillions, in
the throne speech and in the BC Liberal election platform LNG has been all
they talked about..
There was talk about LNG royalties eliminating the debt, eliminating sales
tax and creating a prosperity fund worth... more »
The MAD World of Film
(MAD's
on-target parody, "Star Blecch, the (Gaack!) Motion Picture." Click for
a larger view. Note the Sergio Aragones margin cartoon as well.)
At Film Comment earlier this year, Grady Hendrix delivered a wonderful
piece, "CAHIERS DU CINÉMAD":
For many of us, the first exposure to classic films wasn’t on film at
all, it was in print. It was in black and white even if the films were
in color
200 games for #StevieJ
Has their been a better all-round player in modern AFL than Geelong’s
mercurial genius Steve Johnson?
Sit back and enjoy … and ponder if Dan Carter could do half of what the
great Stevie J has done in his 200 games.
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CLEVELAND BROTHEL PROTECTED BY POLICE AND CIA?
*Ariel Castro kidnapped kids for the CIA?*
Ariel Castro said he worked for the CIA.
Jow Popow, a childhood friend of Ariel Castro, says:
"Ariel was in my garage probably five or six years ago. ..
"He said he was in the CIA...
"It's the way he said it, how serious he said it."
*Hints of a dark side in Cleveland abduction suspect's life | Reuters*
*General Michael Aquino, of the US military, is said to be linked to the
kidnapping of Johhny Gosch.*
Ariel Castro kidnapped kids for the CIA?
Marc Dutroux is believed to have kidnapped kids for people linked to the
CIA.
*New Leads Impl... more »
IS YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ABOUT TO BLOW...And DELIBERATELY???
........pm from one of our trusted journalist......
posted Mon 16 March 2009 10:51 PM
IS YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ABOUT TO BLOW...And DELIBERATELY???
Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism with a Christian
perspective-
I have previously reported MUCH information about the covert military BLACK
OPS in place in YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (YNP), and reported about
military admissions (which I have gathered from reliable sources, including
911 truthteller retired USAF FIELD MCCONNELL, and at least one Pentagon
source) of huge amounts of powerful military explosives being c... more »
Jo Nesbo - The Redeemer - justice system quotation
The Redeemer is a *Detective Harry Hole* thriller written by Norwegian
writer Jo Nesbo and published in 2005 and it's one of his best books in the
series.
The story's a good 'un, just gets on with it, is well researched and 'feels
sufficiently authentic' and every now and then Nesbo allows his characters
to THINK on the page. Here's an excerpt from what's technically the
Epilogue; it's a commentary on the Justice System, incipient corruption and
Small Fry vs Big Fish:
*"Some say the reason so many criminals go free is that the legal system is
a net with a large mesh. But that give... more »
WORLD BANK WHISTLE-BLOWER: “PRECIOUS METALS TO SERVE AS AN UNDERPINNING FOR PAPER CURRENCIES”
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http://silverdoctors.com/world-bank-whistle-blower-precious-metals-to-serve-as-an-underpinning-for-paper-currencies/#more-26232
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*WORLD BANK WHISTLE-BLOWER: “PRECIOUS METALS TO SERVE AS AN UNDERPINNING
FOR PAPER CURRENCIES”*
MAY 7, 2013 BY THE DOC
I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with one of the western world’s
most courageous and astute women, Karen Hudes, Former Senior Counsel to the
World Bank—now turned whistle-blower.
It was a powerful conversation, as Karen spent 20 years with the World Bank
as an attorney and economist, before being “let-go” after reporti... more »
Thirty Seconds to Mars: This is War (A song about Peace)
*Here's another interesting video, the surprise is at the end. :) -AK*
Today is V.E. Day
Today is V.E. Day, the day we celebrate the victory of the Allied powers
over Nazi Germany which ended the Second World War. The history of the end
of the Second World War: the fight for Berlin, the last days in Hitler's
bunker and the subsequent chaos make for interesting study but the real
sentiment should be relief that the war ended and sorrow for the millions
of people (Jews and others) murdered by the German National Socialist Party
lead Germany and for the other civilians and armed forces that died to free
Europe from Nazi tyranny.
Unfortunately the end of the Second World W... more »
F-16s: the eternal sunshine of our spotless media
*Always a pretty view above the Liyu Reservoir in Miaoli.*
*Leonard Shelby: If we talk for too long, I'll forget how we started. Next
time I see you, I'm not gonna remember this conversation. I don't even know
if I've met you before.*
According to AFP, we've arrived at a turning point....
Taiwan's Defence Minister Kao Hua-chu said for the first time Monday that
Taipei will not necessarily take the deal even if Washington gives the nod.
"Our demand has changed following the announcement of the upgrade project.
The jet fighters we buy in the future have to outperform the F-16 upgrad... more »
May 7, 1973
It's a new week, and the new White House is getting organized, with Nixon
agreeing on Al Haig as his new chief of staff.
Elliot Richardson is preparing for his confirmation hearings for Attorney
General, scheduled to begin in a couple of days, and today he announces
that he would appoint a special counsel to handle Watergate.
At some point in early May, John Dean -- having failed to get what he
wanted from the Justice Department -- started working another angle. He
approached Senator Lowell Weicker, maverick Republican from Connecticut,
and secretly told him what Dean was prepared... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
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 (replacing businesses with politicians as one
wag said) 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 wi... 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
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 - 17 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 suppression!
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
* With two updates!* *One for the Canadians...............*
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 t... 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.
This Telegraph piece makes some good points, but don't forget the EU
pensions and requirements... See previous blogposts.
Remember that EU pensions are paid on the understanding that the EU can
remove this pension, if in the view of the Commission or the Luxembourg
Court, they "fail to uphold the interests of the European Communities".
Also remember that (per Guido):
'The European Court of Justice has ruled that retired Eurocrats including
the yacht-loving Lord Mandelson will ... more »
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 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 - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/5c5t9kP04dw
... only those ones? Do you have any not in this clip?
John
Untitled
*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 »
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