Boxing Day Tsunami: First wave on Karon Beach, in Phuket, Thailand (Photo credit: Taekwonweirdo)
English: Royal mail bicycle messenger in Ilminster, UK (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Britain - spy nation (Photo credit: Clive Power)
Cover of Bonnie TylerEurovision 2013 Preview
I am virtually certain the 2013 Eurovision crown will be lifted by an
Englishwoman. But it won't be Bonnie Tyler.
It's the same old story almost every year. The UK's warbling ambassadors
take to the stage and, invariably, come home with next to no points. In the
first part of the last decade our sub-par performance was blamed on the
fall out from the Iraq War. And as the decade wore on, the UK progressively
fell foul of Gazprom-orchestrated block voting. Hmmm. Lack of success is
laid at the feet of others who refuse to play fair - a typically British
response you might say.
But it'... more »
Guest Post from Peggy Robertson: The greatest fight of our lives
From Peg with Pen. Show Peggy your support by commenting how much you want
her to write for us on a regular basis. The admissions of error, the
requests for moratoriums, the recognition that perhaps testing has gone too
far, are running like wildfire in the last few weeks. We have Randi calling
for a moratorium. […]
Is Trauma Counselling Actually Harmful?
It seems standard these days that survivors of traumatic incidents of
man-made or natural disaster are quickly whisked into trauma counselling.
It seems pretty intuitive - people are traumatized, people get counselling.
A report from *The Observer* claims new studies show counselling can
actually worsen mental health outcomes for trauma victims.
*One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The
resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of the Indian Ocean coastline and
left an estimated quarter of a million people dead across Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, India an... more »
Irritated Bellow Syndrome: Taiwan fisherman killed by Philippine Coast Guard, Media Feeding Frenzy Ensues
*A couple of herons contemplate eastern Taichung, and are not impressed.*
Unless you've been living in a cave or a foreign country, it's been
impossible to miss the unseemly mess over the death of a Taiwanese
fisherman at the hands of Philippines Coast Guard sailors. Let's roll that
news:
(A Taipei Times report)
A total of 52 bullet holes were found on the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, Liu
Chia-kai (劉嘉凱) from the Pingtung District Prosecutors’ Office, said after
examining the 15-tonne vessel that is registered in Liouciou Township (琉球),
Pingtung County.
Investigators found 10 holes on t... more »
But Would It Still be "Royal"?
This is what can happen when Conservatives become too full of themselves.
Britain's Conservative government is openly talking about privatizing the
Royal Mail, a crown corporation, and not just going private with it but
selling it to offshore buyers.
*[Britain's business minister, Michael] Fallon said the government would
sell Royal Mail to sovereign wealth funds or other foreign buyers if postal
workers' campaign against a flotation in London makes an initial public
offering (IPO) on the stock market difficult. *
*He said numerous overseas buyers had already expressed "significan... more »
Your moment of Zen
Happy mother's day to the moms. Orchids in Spain. [Xema Romero photo]
thwapstradomus
US and European elites will intensify their efforts to destroy their fellow
citizens' living conditions in the hopes of becoming even more insanely
wealthy and powerful. They will succeed because the deluded, brainwashed
voters in these countries will waste their time on contests between
pea-brained right-wing nutbar parties and mewling, milquetoast "liberals"
or "social democratic" stoops.
The elites don't worry about the debts of their governments because they
own that debt and that debt is used to justify the austerity needed to
wring it out of the chump majority's pockets.
Bu... more »
SARS - Like Virus spreads to Saudi Arabia and now France.....mortality rate is staggering so far , worry that morbidity data is victim of government censorship....
Two People Dead From SARS-Like Virus In Saudi Arabia, Two More Infected In
France
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- China
- Don't Panic
- Dubai
- France
- Germany
- Middle East
- Reuters
- Saudi Arabia
- Twitter
While the H7N9 birdflu epidemic is still raging in China, with 4 news
deaths bringing the total confirmed death toll to 31 (and who knows how
many unconfirmed) on 129 infections leading to a mortality rate that is
simply staggering, even if the mordibity rate is largely a functio... more »
Untitled
*Workshops to give New Orleans solutions for water woes ~Kari Dequine Harden
*
~Beginning Wednesday, community leaders will take an in-depth look at how
other cities across the nation have been able to turn water challenges into
assets in a series of summer workshops. New Orleans’ situation is
significant and unique, acknowledged Marco Cocito-Monoc, director of
regional initiatives at the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the
organization hosting the five-part series in partnership with the Urban
Institute and more than 30 community organizations. Along with launching a
citywide conve... more »
Climate Sensitivity in a Nutshell
There's a very useful, and usefully concise, primer on climate sensitivityin
*The Guardian.* It runs through the major ambiguities, probabilities and
mere possibilities and deserves a quick read.
To pique your interest, here are the final three paragraphs.
*So far we're about 40% of the way to doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide
compared to levels before the Industrial Revolution, and rising fast. If we
continue on our current track, we'll reach the doubled carbon dioxide mark
around mid-century; even sooner when the warming from other human
greenhouse gas emissions like methane i... more »
On the Cusp of Mankind's Century of Mass Migration
There's nothing magical in reaching a record 400 ppm concentration of
atmospheric CO2 but it's not symbolic either. It's a benchmark of how far
we've come and where we're headed. It allows us to examine the changes in
our environment, to our biosphere, for example that have occurred since we
hit the 350 mark or the 300 mark that existed in our pre-industrial days.
It also allows us to get a reasonably good idea of what is coming in the
near future as greenhouse gas accumulations rapidly increase.
The near future is what occupies the minds at the London School of
Economics' Gra... more »
Greece scrambles to obtain latest tranche of Eurogroup welfare ( 4.2 billion euros tranche needed to repay greek bond maturing on May 20th in the amount of 5.6 billion euros ...after paying the May bond , Greece would have about 2 billion euros of cash on hand for everything else the government does other than repay debt to the ECB ) , Prime Minister Samaras scrambles to take greek begging bowl to China...Pasok Party symbolically as broke as Greece itself - rest assured New Democracy is in similar straits....86,000 Civil Mobilization orders to be issued for teachers before their strike - unprecedented step !
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_11/05/2013_498304
*Stournaras eyes loans at Eurogroup as Samaras prepares for China*
As Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras prepares to meet with his eurozone
counterparts again in Brussels on Monday for the anticipated approval of
further rescue funding, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is busy preparing
for a much-awaited visit to China where he hopes to prospect for
investments and promote Greece as a “bridge” to Western Europe for the
booming Asian economy.
Athens is hopeful that Monday’s Eurogroup summit will give the green ... more »
The World’s Greatest Teacher
I’m going to take a short break from my activism to honor the world’s best
teacher. Seriously! THE best teacher. In. The. World. When I was 18, I
went to a huge graduation commencement ceremony at New Mexico State
University’s Pan American Arena to watch the graduating class of 1993 (or
was is 1992? I’m […]
Joseph Menn opines US might be the world's biggest cyber hacker ! Ironic in light of Congress's push for the " Deter Cyber Theft Act " .... Stuxnet and its progeny support that views - and the fact is many nations engage in industrial sabotage , cyber and other spying against both enemies and their friends !
http://rt.com/usa/us-hacking-exploits-millions-104/
The US government might be the biggest hacker in the world
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The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each
year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in
the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports.
According to an in-depth article published Friday by journa... more »
When Former Guatemala President Efrain Ríos Montt Gets Out Of Prison, He'll Be 166 Years Old
Reagan supplied the weapons, Rios Montt used them
We've mentioned Ríos Montt before-- first in 2007, when crooked Illinois
Republican Congressman Jerry Weller (now retired) married the former
dictator's daughter and absconded to Guatemala with all his loot. More
recently we looked at Reactionary Mind author Corey Robin's review of a
book by Greg Granlin, *Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War*.
How, I wondered, could any serious examination of the reactionary mind--
particularly the American reactionary mind-- not deal with the enormity of
what was visited (by reactionary ... more »
Compliance: A little consistency please.
So I come across this Buffalo News article discussing the dirty little
secret that most schools in New York State (and the nation?) are not
meeting the minimum requirements of Physical Education for our children.
The lack of compliance would not surprise most educators, but are parents
aware? What stuck me as I read this […]
Pt2: False Flag to Frame Syria. NATO intervention?
Be sure to check back because I will be updating when possible..
A BBC article with some pertinent points I wish to get out before they are
get altered to fit an officially sanctioned theory of conspiracy...
*Syria denies Turkey Reyhanli car bombs role*
- Turkish police say that nine people have been arrested in connection with
Saturday's attacks in Reyhanli. -All nine of those arrested in connection
with the attacks were* Turkish citizens, *officials said.
*Nine Turkish citizens...*
*-Turkey,* a Nato member,* is a strong supporter of the opposition in
Syria's civil war *and a vocal... more »
The PFA Team of the Year
In case you, like me, missed the team of the year announcement:
David de Gea (Manchester United)
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Everton)
Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
Juan Mata (Chelsea)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)
Hard to disagree with many of these apart from De Gea as goalkeeper, what
about Reina?
It'd be hard to come up with a better Premiership team or even one that
could be competitive, have a go and I'll post my sugg... more »
Comments Change
Louis Vuitton handbags. Bread. Credit cards. "Male enhancement" pills. The
American College of Angiology. These are a sliver of examples of the
ridiculous quantities of comments spam this blog receives. Comments have
long been under moderation to keep the spam from filling up the boxes, but
as the audience has grown to a steady 1,600-2,000 page views a day the
amount circumventing the filters and getting into the approvals box has
skyrocketed. As I don't have the time to spend clearing it out, I've
re-engaged the incredibly annoying 'guess the word' game. So many
apologies. And reme... more »
DILBIT : Propaganda
More money for government ads in budget supplement
More DILBIT.
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MAKING SENSE OF THE MAYHEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
No one could be blamed for being confused about what’s happening in the
Middle East these days. The affairs of the Middle East are as complex today
as they ever have been. On the one hand we see Sunni Muslims fighting
Shiite Muslims and on the other we see both Sunnis and Shiites wanting to
get at Israel. And now, so it seems, we see Israel playing one side off
against the other in a civil war in Syria while at the same time preparing
to take on both.
The problem as far as Israel is concerned is that the lands that the
Zionists want to occupy in order to realise their ultimate endga... more »
"SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE BY THE POLICE IN IRELAND"
*Cynthia Owen.*
Cynthia Owen (born Cynthia Murphy) claims that she and her siblings was
subjected to Satanic ritual abuse - by her parents and at least nine other
people.
Her account has been supported by her psychologist.
Alleged Abusers 'still risk'
*Bono in Dalkey*
*
*The Cynthia Owen case involves the Dalkey "house of horrors" near Dublin,
in Ireland.
"Owen attempted to bring the case against her parents to the prosecuting
authorities seven times, but each time it came back citing lack of
evidence."
Cynthia Owen: 'My mother was evil' | The Guardian
*The late Peter Murphy ... more »
Plastic Series - Vow Of Silence - Rebecca Puebla
I've featured the VERY DETAILED and VERY DISTURBING work of Madrid-based 3D
character artist Rebecca Puebla before i.e. Mistress Lili.
This new piece (from her Plastic Series) is sorta the twisted antithesis of
that controversial image, enjoy.
Warner Brothers - Tom Cruise - All You Need Is Kill
yes, this is Tom Cruise in a poster for Warner Brothers' June 6th 2014
release directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) and based on the novel
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka *ALL YOU NEED IS KILL*: it's a sorta thematic and
stylistic mish-mash that reminds us that films such as Groundhog Day and
Elysium and Starship Troopers and Source Code have been made already.
*Tom Cruise stars as Lt. Col. Bill Cage, an officer who is killed within
minutes of a doomed combat mission to take down a hive-like alien race. He
wakes up and is forced to relive the day (and the death) over and over
becaus... more »
Fox News - Geraldo Rivera - Sources Tell Me Benghazi Was About Running Missiles to Syrian Rebels
Well, well, well, what on earth is Mainstream Media or Cabal Propaganda
Services up to now ... journalistic leg-work?
Unlikely, but here's the goss'
*Geraldo Rivera said Friday that his sources tell him the U.S. was involved
in a secret mission in Libya to arm the Syrian rebels, which was the reason
for the initial secrecy about the attack in Benghazi.
Rivera said on “Fox & Friends” that Republican presidential nominee Mitt
Romney may have been briefed by then-CIA Director David Petraeus “to
suggest that there was a secret mission going on there, that we can’t go
there, we can’t ta... more »
dream - president obama shoots a giant rabbit in the snow
just to prove (once and for all) to you dear reader that I have NO IDEA
'what dreams mean', 'what they do for us' or 'where the actual characters
in the dream are when they're having them' here's a very strange one from
(again) about 5 a.m.
President Obama Shoots A Rabbit In The Snow
it was a kind of hunting party we were all a part of, it was like a Royal
Hunt, president Obama had a long rifle that shot a very slow wide soft
bullet. We were on this snow-strewn path and some 'tracking technician'
came running up towards up 'imploring' with us that we 'do something' or
'get out o... more »
IRS was used to intimidate political opposition in the U.S.
During my decade in the U.S., my tax returns got audited at least twice –
both of them had to be fixed when I was already back in Europe and Obama
was in charge (2009, for 2007); one was federal and the other one was a
Massachusetts tax audit under Deval Patrick (related to 2006, done in
2010). The number seems high to everyone and I view it as rather strong
evidence that it's no coincidence.
A scandal in the U.S. strengthens the case:
IRS official knew in 2011 of 'Tea Party' targeting: watchdog report
In 2011, the tax-collecting organization was specifically harassing
tax-exempt s... more »
Election 7: My Candidates for Senators
My main criteria for supporting or voting candidates is who among them will
be the least populist and welfarist, least interventionist and tax hungry,
compared to other candidates. Almost all politicians have shades of
populism and welfarism and hence, for expanding government. They just vary
in the degree of populism. Thus, choosing who among them will go against
the populism tide seems a difficult task.
Nonetheless, here is my short list, the Senatorial candidates that I will
vote tomorrow.
1. Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. Clear and explicit in calling for reducing the size
of the bureauc... more »
Adrian Dix, Big Orange Star
Big Orange Star II
*Written by Grant G*
The beautiful Sun, orange life giving Star that melts the winter`s ice and
warms my wintered soul...
Recently I have written about British Columbia moving left and today a
confluence of polls have confirmed just that, perhaps the terms left or
right are incorrect, British Columbia has finally emerged from its media
cocoon and embraced a new path forward, black widow web politics of hatred
being spun by Christy Clark, Stephen Harper are failing to ensnare the
usual victims, what has emerged from the decades long embryotic slumber are
b... more »
Friedrich Hölderlin - Vulcan
Related:
*Friedrich Hölderlin - Love*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - Ganymede*.
Source: *Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine
Chernoff and Paul Hoover.* 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California.
Pg. 167.
Come now, friendly spirit of fire,
And veil the tender minds of women in clouds,
In golden dreams, and keep safe
The blossoming calm of the always good.
Let man be content with his thoughts, and his work,
... more »
The Post-1979 ‘Asian Peace’ & Economic Miracle are Probably Connected
Newsweek Japan asked me to write an introductory essay for a special issue
on tension in Northeast Asia. Basically I plea not to throw out all the
remarkable growth of the last 35 years in an orgy of nationalism. It’s
almost certain that the post-79 Asian peace was a necessary condition for
simultaneous economic growth.
Continue reading
IBM gets atomic: the making of the smallest movie and memory on Earth
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 10 hours ago
Link:
http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA - what does this mean? Link:
http://youtu.be/Q4ihOCocaVw
All movies made on Earth in your cellphone? IBM says 'yes'. Many
questionsarise though. For example: isn't such a cellphone 'somewhat'
cold when
against your ear? So far this only works at about the 'absolute minimum
temperature' (remember the old but no longer good schoolbooks?) of minus
459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius) when atoms stop
moving. The interesting point now is, that today this 'absolute Zero' no
longer is as absolute and certain anymore! That is what makes ... more »
Remember How Much We Hated Bush's Job-Destroying "Free" Trade Agenda? Now It's Obama's Agenda
A couple days ago, progressive champion Alan Grayson (D-FL) brought up one
of Obama's weakest points: his administration's determination to continue
the corporatist trade policies of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the two
Bushes. The agenda has been devastating for the American manufacturing
sector and for the economy in general. Obama ran for office loudly opposing
NAFTA and CAFTA as harmful to U.S. (and foreign) workers and to the U.S.
(and foreign) environment. As a Senator he voted against CAFTA in 2005.
Since becoming President he twisted arms to pass equally awful free trade... more »
Israhell Is Not Afraid To Attack Syria Because It Has Nukes
Many people around the world are shocked at Israel's outrageous behaviour
towards its neighbours. They are asking the question, why is Israel bombing
Syria and provoking a wider war?
The answer to this question is really simple, but it is often overlooked.
Israel's criminal leaders know that Israel does not face an existential
threat from any of its neighbours because of its large stockpile of nuclear
weapons. It can be aggressive towards Muslim states because it can afford
to be. It has many nukes and bought-and-paid-for US power waiting in the
wings.
If Israel feels at all threa... more »
The Real Truth About The Situation In Syria... Western Backed Al Qaeda (CIA-Mossad) "Opposition Rebels" Decimated By Syrian Government Forces: SANA
We have all been watching the so called "civil war" over the last few
months in Syria, where the popular Syrian government forces have been
fighting against US-Israeli armed murderous mercenaries (so called
"rebels") for control over their country... For the longest time it
appeared that Syria,and its popular President Assad, may go the way of
Libya where these evil criminal governments destroyed that nation, and
killed the popular leader Muhammar Gaddafi in the process....But evidence
has been coming forward recently that definitely shows this is not the
case......
Now I have some... more »
Unspoken Code: 'You Can't Say That' How the media fuels dirty coal
The
unspoken code of the newsrooms keeps dirty secrets
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
"You can't say that."
This is the unspoken code of the newsrooms. It is the power that
silences the grassroots voices. It is the unspoken code that prevents
the truth from appearing in Indian country, and mainstream news.
"You can't say that" is the unspoken code that kept dirty coal
flourishing on
leaving paris / barcelona, day one
After our little breakfast at our local bistro, I decided I'd take a stab
at the Rodin Museum. Allan was happier not to go, so he stayed in the room
to pack up. The weather was beautiful and I set out with high hopes... but
quickly found myself further away from the museum than when I started. I
usually have a good sense of direction, but I found our map didn't always
correspond with reality. And then I looked up, and there was a beautiful,
full-on view of the Eiffel Tower, and I thought, Allan should see this on
his last day here.
So I walked back to the room, collected Allan and t... more »
Memo to my fellow Democrats: The enemy is not “the Republicans,” rather it is the Republicans AND Democrats “elected” to Congress and the White House. (I put “elected” in quotes because the elections are systematically rigged.) Here Paul Craig Roberts, a highly educated old-school Republican with on-the-job credentials in both Reagan’s cabinet and Wall Street, relates the work of other educated out-side-the-box thinkers who see the U.S. media for what it is: a propaganda machine that would make Goebbels jealous. Roberts finishes with a critic of Obama’s recent speech to the graduating class of The Ohio State University: “Outdoing George Orwell’s Big Brother, Obama said in public to a graduating class of a great university without shame: ‘You have grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as . . . some sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems; some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.’” Well, tyranny is already here my friends. But thanks to the “presstitute” media, the majority of Americans are unaware that the U.S. Constitution has long since been shredded.
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*How Elites and Media Minimize Dissent and Bury Truth — Paul Craig Roberts*
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Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new
intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American
Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to
reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was
incorrect.
On... more »
James Wyckoff - "The Madness of Civilizations And Cultures"
*The madness of the Joker is nothing compared to the madness of Israel or
the Barack Hussein Obama administration. *
Related:
*James Wyckoff - There Are Two Realities*.
*The Madness of Western Civilization*.
*Madness Has No Boundaries: The Irrationality of The West, Israel, and Islam
*.
*Below is an excerpt from, "Franz Anton Mesmer: Between God and Devil," by
James Wyckoff. 1975. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Pg.
118-119.*
But what is madness? And who is sane? When is a sane person mad, and when a
madman sane? And what of the madness of civilizations and culture... more »
TV Watch: "Maron" -- So why not watch? I mean, it couldn't hurt you, could it?
*"There's no such thing as a career in comedy,"* *Marc informs his mother
(Sally Kellerman), who has mastered the technique of talking to her son
without actually listening, in Episode 2 of Maron, "Dead Possum." No, this
isn't an actual embedded clip, but you can view the clip here. I'm sorry I
couldn't embed the clip for you, but when I did, I lost all my paragraphing
in the whole post. (I'd like to see some manager or software nitwit at our
bloghost killed for this. If nothing else, it would teach him/her -- though
I'm guessing it's a him -- a lesson. But does anybody care what I'... more »
Truer Words - Governments Hide in Silence
Today's *Times Colonist* editorial goes straight to the heart of the
darkness that lurks within the Harper government.
*A group of professors at the University of Victoria has asked the federal
information commissioner to investigate the muzzling of government
scientists. The university’s Environmental Law Centre is concerned that
experts employed by the federal government have been prevented from
speaking about their work.*
***A brief filed by the centre notes that media calls to federal agencies
are routinely diverted to a central communications office. Scientists
themselves are ... more »
Dine' Hada' Asidi 'Democracy Hijacked'
NGS/SRP LEASE: ROUND TWO
WHO TODAY IS WATCHING OUT FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, LAWS, LANDS, WATERS, REVENUES, HUMAN RIGHTS, & SOVEREIGNTY?
.
(Treaty leaders Barboncito, Manuelito, and Ganado Mucho--by Jack Ahasteen. Used with education permission.)
By Diné Hada’ Asídí
Navajo Vigilant Ones, A Navajo People’s Public Interest Organization
c/o Milton Bluehouse, Sr., P.O. Box 629, Ganado,
Jamie Dimon threatens to walk from JP Morgan if stripped of Chairman post - call the bluff shareholders !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/10787913
Dimon might leave JPMorgan if stripped of chairmanship - WSJ
- Reuters, Saturday May 11 2013
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said he may
consider leaving the bank where he has held the top post since 2005, if
shareholders vote to split his duties, the Wall Street Journal reported on
Saturday.
Shareholders will vote later this month at an annual meeting in Tampa,
Florida, on a non-binding proposal to separate the chairman and chief
executive roles after a more than $6 billion trading loss l... more »
Rand Paul fires the first shot at 2016
I want to shoot myself for even saying the words Election 2016, but it's
clear the battle flags are being planted already. In the race to be first
out on the field, Rand Paul issues a call to arms to rally round the
paranoid gun hoarders.
In a blast email Rand tells the true believers there's an “anti-American
globalist plot against our Constitution," led by none other than President
Barack Obama in league with the UN. They're coming to take yer guns and
destroy Murika. But have no fear. Rand Paul is willing to lead the troops
to glory. He has a battle plan ready to go.
Direct ... more »
Was Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon Soused When He Signed Off On The State Takeover Of Detroit ? Just when convinced Detroit couldn't surprise , you see something like this !
Was Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon Soused When He Signed Off On The State
Takeover Of Detroit?
By *Steve Dibert*05.9.13 **
Detroit’s Emergency Financial Manager’s Employment Contract May Be Invalid
If Dillon Was Drunk When He Signed It
[image: Bar patron at Cinco De Mayo's in Redford Township trying to out
drink State Treasurer Andy Dillon]
Bar patron in Redford Township trying to out drink State Treasurer Andy
Dillon
Steve Neavling at the Motor City Muckraker reported yesterday that Michigan
Treasurer and former Speaker of the Michigan House, Andy Dillon had checked
into a treatmen... more »
Debt Ceiling jibber jabber - as total debt outstanding heads toward 17 trillion as delay is the name of the game - as far as addressing the debt debacle !
Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-09/house-narrowly-passes-avoid-default-bill-221-207-us-cds-ticks
House Narrowly Passes "Avoid Default" Bill - 221-207; US CDS Ticks Up
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IRS heads should roll over political witch hunts.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-11/irs-conservative-witchhunt-started-2011-high-level-officials-involved
IRS Conservative Witchhunt Started In 2011 With High-Level Officials
Involved
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- Barack Obama
- Glenn Beck
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Obama Administration
- Testimony
- Tim Geithner
- White House
The IRS conservative targeting scandal is going from bad to worse.
Following the Friday revelations that despite all prior appeals to the
contrary, the ... more »
Veritas
"By the power of truth,
I while living
have conquered the universe".
"Vi veri veniversum vivus vici"
Has Bloomberg News engaged in criminal conduct by spying on Federal Reserve Head Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geither ? This is in addition to Bloomberg being caught spying on Goldman and JP Morgan personnel - and probably additional Bloomberg subscribers !
http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-used-private-data-to-spy-on-ben-bernanke-and-tim-geithner-2013-5
Bloomberg News Used Private Client Data To Spy On Ben Bernanke And Tim
Geithner
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Shoshone Poo-Ha-Bah: Legacy of Corbin Harney lives in healing waters
Who We Are
Poo-Ha-Bah is Newe (Shoshone) words meaning Doctor Water. Poo-Ha-Bah
is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization located at exceptionally healing
hot springs in Tecopa, California. It was founded in
1998 by Newe Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney (1920-2007), and is now under
the leadership of Darlene Graham, and an all woman Native Board
57 Million Plan to replace Sandy Hook School ? You have to be kidding ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/newtown-sandy-hook-elementary-school-shootings?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position9
Newtown
panel votes for Sandy Hook school to be torn down and rebuilt
School Building Task Force endorses $57m plan to replace school where 20
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Matthew Heimbach at Route 40 Republican Club
Below is a video of Matthew Heimbach, founder of the *White Student Union
at Towson University*, speaking at a Republican gathering. This guy is
really good.
Fukushima updates... May 11 , 2013... Updates on the rolling clusterfuck known as Fukushima !
Terror Drill at Fukushima ....
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/05/radioactive-japan-with-nothing-better.html
SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013
#Radioactive Japan with Nothing Better to Do: Police and Japan Coast Guard
Held Joint Anti-Terrorism Exercise to Protect #Fukushima I Nuke Plant from
Terrorists
Jiji Tsushin's article has no information as to who the Police or the Coast
Guard think would be the supposed "terrorists" who would attack Fukushima I
Nuclear Power Plant.
Jiji Tsushin (5/11/2013):
原発テロ想定、合同訓練＝警察と海保、福島第２で－特殊部隊も参加し「銃撃戦」
Police and Coast Guard held joint exercise against terror... more »
What Mattered This Week?
I don't know yet whether the IRS scandal will turn out to matter, but it
certainly could. I wrote about it yesterday...we're certainly going to get
investigations and Congressional hearings, at the very least, so I'll go
ahead and say it mattered.
And, yeah, I don't really think that this week's Benghazi fuss will turn
out to have mattered.
What am I missing? What do you think mattered this week?
Native American Music Awards Winners 2013
Artist of the Year Tony Duncan
WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT THE
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
NIAGARA FALLS, NY - The Winners for the 14th Annual Native American Music
Awards were announced live on Friday, May 10th in the Events Center of
the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, NY.
Winners were selected by the combined votes of the Native American Music
Awards (
Mohawk Nation News 'Perfect Reality'
PERFECT REALITY
Posted on May 11, 2013
MNN. May 11, 2013. Why should we speak our
Indigenous languages? To protect ourselves. Destruction of our languages
was meant to strip us of our voice, to discriminate against us, to deny
us our freedom, self-determination and empowerment. It was to separate
us from our intellect and instinct which comes from our connection to
US Nuclear Industry foibles ...... While Fukushima is Japan's debacle , what about the potential debacles here in the US ?
http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/05/calvert-cliffs-nuke-plant-shuts-down-mysteriously-2587496.html
Calvert Cliffs Nuke Plant Shuts Down Mysteriously
Thursday, May 9, 2013 19:12
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(Before It's News)
The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power plant inMaryland mysteriously shut down
late Wednesday night and authorities still have no idea what caused one of
two reactors there to shut down. The automatic safety system kicked into
action after turbine #2 shut down and as of this moment, the reactor is off
and is said to be in ‘stable’ condition. One of two reactors at the Calvert ... more »
Flagstaff Protest: Defending South Mountain from Highway Expansion
Great
protest at ADOT (Arizona Department of Transportation) meeting in
Flagstaff. Take action against proposed freeway expansion. No
desecration of South Mountain!
Photos by Indigenous Action Media!
http://www.indigenousaction.org
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Christy Clark And Mark Marissen Use Hamish To Knock On Doors In Point Grey
Christy Clark has really stooped to desperate measures in her Point Grey
riding.
Christy Clark has asked her ex husband, the limp one, that being Mark
Marissen to knock on doors in Point Grey with Christy Clark`s 11 year old
son Hamish in tow!
___________
Followed by Andrew MacLeod and Keith Baldrey.
[image: Mark Marissen] *Mark Marissen* @*marissenmark* 26m
Knocking on doors in Vancouver Point Grey with Hamish. Lots of great
response! #*bcpoli* #*cdnpoli* http://campl.us/oV1C
* Details*
*__________*
For shame on both of you adults, dragging an 11 year old child into the
pol... more »
From the Annals of Subtle Character Development
At some point during the 90s, I watched a lot of *Star Trek: The Next
Generation* and never once did I notice anything untoward about how
Jonathan Frakes, who played Commander Riker (AKA Number One), took a seat.
As this montage shows, something quite insidious was in play (H/T websitethat posts mysterious links).
We're Still In Afghanistan To Save The Ladies?
And what happens if we stay?
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the same week the CIA reassured Hamid
Karzai that nothing-- including the Sequester here-- would slow down the cascade
of bribes for him and his circle, he assured the Pentagon they could keep 9
bases in Afghanistan after the occupation officially "ends."
The C.I.A.’s station chief here met with President Hamid Karzai on
Saturday, and the Afghan leader said he had been assured that the agency
would continue dropping off stacks of cash at his office despite a storm of
criticism that has erupted since the payments were... more »
Today's Dog Whistle to the Plutocratic Pitbulls
We have come to expect that President Obama's weekly addresses to
the "Nation" will always be cloying exercises in sticky-sweetness. The
latest edition, however, takes the cake for being an exercise in pure
unadulterated chutzpah and noxious mendacity. The alarm bells at fact-check
sites should be ringing hysterically. But since official campaign season is
over, those who are safely esconced in office can now campaign and lie with
impunity.
If Rip Van Winkle had just awoken from a long coma and tuned in to the
weekly blather, he would have gotten the impression that happy days are
... more »
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
By
Capt. Fogg
There's a lesson to be learned from the trial of Guatemala's former
dictatorEfrian Rios Montt;
*‘a man of great personal integrity . . . totally dedicated to
democracy’*said Ronald Reagan, surprised upon visiting him in Honduras
that Central
America was composed of several countries. But few Americans will care
or
will even be aware that at long last he's been found guilty of genocide
and
war crimes.
The things that went on in Guatemala were gruesome, horrifying and
heart-breaking but I don't have the stomach to relate even part of it.
You
can read about it here and... more »
More Pearson Errors in Another NYC Friday News Dump
Three Friday afternoons ago, Bloomberg testocrats belatedly reported that
parents had discovered new examples of Pearson’s shoddy test scoring that
affected thousands of kids trying get through the racist and classist tests
that the City uses to choose the “gifted.” And yesterday, Chancellor
Walcott announced another batch of errors by Pearson. ”Deeply embarrassing
disturbing,” Walcott […]
It keeps going around and around
So, the accountability is that teachers use it all as they are told to? So,
a new, better package comes the next year if the numbers are not right?
Kris, this is a clear article. You are always informative. I respect your
knowledge of how all this chicanery works. However, I grow increasingly
narcoleptic hearing […]
We CAN’T Have It All Anymore
May 11, 2013 Worldwide levels of carbon dioxide crossed 400 ppm this week,
a level not seen in at least 2 million years – certainly not seen in the
time we humans have been around. It took 7,000 years after … Continue
reading →
Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell, Still In Bed Together With Patrick Kinsella
*Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell, Patrick Kinsella, Grand Theft Province*
*Written by Grant G *
Common denominators, Patrick Kinsella was Gordon Campbell`s 2001 election
campaign manager, Patrick Kinsella was Gordon Campbell`s 2005 election
campaign manager...
Questions questions and more questions, all still remain unanswered, when
the BC Rail stink started to permeate through the floorboards of our
Victoria legislature, after the police raided the people`s house and
carried out box after box of papers and computers and shortly thereafter
Dave Basi and Bobby Virk were charged... more »
Excerpts from "Death & Transformation" A Conversation with Huston Smith
Title: Excerpts from "Death & Transformation", a conversation with Huston
Smith. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: FonsVitaePublishing. Uploaded
on August 25, 2009]:
Excerpts from "Death & Transformation", a conversation with Huston Smith,
produced by Fons Vitae Publishing.
For Tuesday I Walk to the Village
Election Day here in San Antonio. It's been a long time since we've had an
opportunity to vote -- a full six months.
In my part of town only two items on the ballot -- mayor, where Julian
Casto is going to be easily re-elected against a handful of obscure
candidates, and an open city counsel seat. That's been a fascinating race:
the two major candidates (there's also an obscure one) have been spending
lots of money and throwing a lot of mud. Fun! What's really been
interesting, however, is that the local newspaper has had a major vendetta
against one of them -- must have been a doze... more »
Who Cut Duffy Slack and Why?
A more than curious omission in just one of the Senate standing committee
reports on Senators Mac Harb, Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy and their
housing expense claims.
What distinguishes these three? Well, Harb and Brazeau claimed expenses
for residences that were actually within the provinces they were appointed
to represent, Ontario and Quebec respectively.
Duffy, by contrast, claimed living expenses for a "secondary residence" in
the Ottawa area while purportedly being resident in and representing Prince
Edward Island. Duffy's living allowance claims, if he was truly residen... more »
Corporate Colonizers, Behavioral Sterilization, and Charter Schools: The Final Solution for Urban Public Schools
In 2014 it will be 60 years since Brown vs Board of Education, the landmark
case whereby SCOTUS decided by a margin of 9-0 that “separate schools are
inherently unequal.” When we look today at urban schooling in America,
what changes do we see over this 59 years and counting? Well, first we may
note […]
Libya updates - May 10 - 11 , 2013....
BP pulls out international staff
*By Tom Westcott*.
*Tripoli, 12 May 2013*:
Acting on advice given by the British government, BP are the latest
organisation to withdraw foreign staff from the country.
“Following FCO advice given to us by the British Embassy in Tripoli, and
purely as a precautionary measure, we have brought non-essential staff out
of Libya for the time being, in a phased reduction of numbers,” BP Press
Officer Robert Wine told the *Libya Herald*. He said the move affects fewer
than a dozen people.
Not all international staff have left, jut non-essential employees who... more »
Benghazi Hearing - May 8 , 2013.... What did we learn from Hicks , Thompson and Nordstrom ? Who is the fourth whistleblower whose testimony is being blocked and what might he / she add ? Is this Obama's Watergate and Hillary's Waterloo ?
Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/white-house-holds-benghazi-briefing-with-reporters-off-the-record/
White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters — *off the record*; Update:
More whistleblowers coming? Update: “Deep background”
POSTED AT 2:41 PM ON MAY 10, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
If there’s one thing you want to do when accusations are flying about an
attempted cover up and a disinterested, collusive media, it’s holding an
off-the-record briefing.
Time for the team to huddle.
The White House held an off-the-record briefing with reporters on Friday
afternoon to discuss recent... more »
WE MUST RISE IN NON-VIOLENT REVOLT
There have been various periods of capital accumulation during US history.
The Robber Barons of the industrial age wrung everything they could from
the working class. The tactics they used then are very similar to those
used today by their descendants on Wall Street.
During the late 1800's to early 1900's in the US there was much movement
building in response to the greedy capitalists than ran the nation. Labor,
women's suffrage, farmers, Socialist, Communist, and other movements
created the national pressures that led to Social Security, unemployment
insurance, the eight-hour ... more »
NAZI AMERICA IMPRISONS CHRISTIANS
*Sister Megan Rice*
On 8 May 2013, "an 83-year-old nun, Sister Megan Rice, who broke into a
Tennessee depleted uranium storage facility in 2012 .... exposing a massive
security hole at the nation's only facility used to store radioactive
conventional munitions, was convicted and sentenced to a term of up to 20
years in prison."
83-year-old-nun-gets-20-year-sentence-for-symbolic-nuclear-facility-break-in
Victim of the US government's depleted uranium.
Victim of the US government's depleted uranium.
Victim of the US government's depleted uranium.
Victim of the US government'... more »
Can The Democrats Take A Senate Seat In Georgia? With Barrow Out, It's A Real Possibility
If you thought the Dems got lucky with Akin & Mourdock, wait 'til you meet
Paul Broun
Teabaggers decided right-wing senator Saxby Chambliss wasn't pure enough--
after all, with a 1.95 lifetime ProgressivePunch score (and a ZERO for
2013), look how much more conservative he could be voting-- so they
threatened him with a primary and he decided to retire. That leaves a
Senate seat in a very Republican state up for grabs. Chambliss won in 2008
with 57.5% and in November Romney beat Obama 53-46%. Very Republican-- but
not very, *very* Republican. Chambliss probably wouldn't have had to b... more »
False Flag to frame Syria: An attack on one NATO nation is an attack on all NATO nations?
Car bomb or multiple bombs have exploded in a Turkish/Syrian border town.
And the spinning has begun....
3 hours ago:* 40 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria*
*People gather at the site of a blast which killed and injured a number of
people in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11,
2013. Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria
on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring 22 others, officials
and media reports said.*
Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria on
Saturday, killing around 40 peop... more »
Open Thread: Popeye Caturday edition
*Minez.*
All right, you sons of bitches. You know how I feel. Now give me
something. Anything. And get me something while I'm waiting.
It's coming up on four years since the bipedaled occupying force has
encroached on my universe that's been shrunk to four rooms in a podunk town
in central Massachusetts with three Dunkin Donuts and not a single fucking
book store.
48 months of staring out the window looking at those tender birds who
taunt me daily knowing I can't reach them because the male and female
occupiers are afraid I'll get hit by a car. Please.
Nearly 50 m... more »
Untitled
*Retiring New Orleans S&WB head says replacement will cost more ~Charles
Maldonado*
*In 2013 Revenge is a Dish Best Served in Black and Gold ~Saints Tailgate*
*St. Bernard agrees to $2.5M settlement of housing racial discrimination
suits ~WVUE*
*Ascension: Digging prohibited within 1,500 feet of Mississippi River levee
until further notice!*
*Media attorney wants judge to find LSU in contempt of court ~Faimon A.
Roberts III *
*PYOW! 93-5 vote, Louisiana House backs $25 billion budget compromise ~WDSU*
*Help conserve marsh habitat ~Daily Comet*
~Owners of land along the Mississippi... more »
Report From "Texas-Israel Day" Protest On May 8th, 2013 In Austin Texas
I had promised everyone who reads this blog that I would have the report
from the Texas-Israel day protest in Austin Texas that happened last
Wednesday, May 8th 2013, the moment that report became available... It is
indeed worth the wait....
I want to present that report, from my friend in Texas, Lisa Webb, that was
just sent to me this morning via email for everyone to see for
themselves.... I have my own thoughts and comments to follow:
*Report from Occupied Terrority...Texas-Israel*
Ryan, Lisa, and Trevor, in front of Texas Legislature, Austin Texas, May
8th , 2013
As the o... more »
Orangutans are victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil as rainforest is razed – ‘All of the animals on the plantation are threatened. The company must therefore stop clearing the rainforest immediately.’
[image: Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an orangutan looks
helplessly on what was until recently the forest he was living in but is
now only ruins. Armed with chainsaws and bulldozers, workers of Bumitama
Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the
rainforest for miles. This photo was taken in March 2013 during an
International Animal Rescue Indonesia (IAR) rescue of four orangutans on
the BGA palm oil plantation concession in West Kalimantan. Photo: IAR]
(Rainforest Rescue) – Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an
orangutan looks helpl... more »
Isn't it disgusting how Israel dominates the Middle East
The map that the BBC won't show.
Global Police States news items .......Lead story and symbolic comment of the day - - NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Is Just The Price We Pay For A 'Free Society'
NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Is Just The Price We Pay
For A 'Free Society'May 11, 2013
Print Version
*Source:* Tech Dirt
We've been dealing with the New York police department lately, thanks to the
mayor and thepolice chief using the recent Boston bombing as an excuse to
increase surveillance efforts and enact other policies to further encroach
on New Yorkers' civil liberties. Whenever something terrorist-related
occurs, it seems as though the NYPD's reps can't keep their opinions to
themselves, even as the department itself drifts further and further away from... more »
State of the Union
To the two or three people who still come here looking for actual
political content, I apologize for not commenting on the latest political
news of late. Time constrictions, getting sucked up in my son's new job and
having to take him to work four or five days a week, my never-ending job
hunt, various and sundry errands and literary matters have sucked up what
little spare time I have. Well, that plus listening to the Red Sox on the
radio five nights a week will drain whatever remaining spare time I have.
I've been phoning it in with little cartoons and the occasional .jpeg... more »
Ongoing rule: Once a demon, always a demon!
*SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013*
*Glenn Kessler nails Susan Rice:* Via Kevin Drum, Glenn Kessler’s new post
is important reading, for several different reasons.
One reason: Kessler’s post includes important new information about
Benghazi.
It is now clear that Benghazi will be a major topic for the next few
months, if not for the next several years. For that reason, people should
be exposed to the information in Kessler’s instructive new post.
Unfortunately, Kessler’s post is important for a second reason. It
illustrates an unfortunate fact about the way our discourse has worked over
the ... more »
House of Numbers (Full Documentary)
YouTube
In House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic, an AIDS film like no other,
the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first film to present
the uncensored point of views of virtually all the major players; in their
own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all
conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could
well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an
epidemic gone awry.
House of Numbers Website
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The Universe Explained in Under 3 Minutes
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UK losing the peace to Germany ? What would Winston Churchill say to all of this ? Meanwhile Argentina's Kirchner pffers her modest proposal - buy bonds or go to jail ( soon to be a template in Europe , Japan and US ? ) Japan told to play nice with the yen by US ......... Meanwhile , Spain is officially insolvent - get your money out now warns Jeremy Warner !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-11/now-its-britains-turn-choose
Now It's Britain's Turn To Choose
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/11/2013 10:51 -0400
- Belgium
- European Union
- France
- Germany
- Greece
*From Mark Grant, author of Out Of The Box*
*Now Britan Will Choose And Hopefully Choose Wisely*
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
-Winston Churchill
Next week the House of Commons is going to vote on whether to stay in the
European Union. It will not be an up and down vote... more »
Danish whistleblowers: interview Høgni and Brian, previously deployed soldiers - English Sub - MUST SEE
this is a no-holds-barred interview with Danish whistleblowers Høgni
Peterson and Brian Nielsen, previously deployed soldiers with the Danish
Army for NATO, who basically seem to be *DISHING THE DIRT* on their
corporate pay-masters.
Yeah, it's in Danish, with English subtitles, *LEARN TO READ*.
If only the USA and UK (and Russian (and Chinese), I guess) soldiers showed
similar dissatisfaction with Wars For Profit, this world'd be a better
place.
Come on, guys, support your fellow whistleblowers, you know it's 'wars for
oil' and 'destabilisation and false flag for political gain'.... more »
Dozens of elephants slaughtered for ivory in Central African Republic – ‘The elephants here face a sure death as criminals obtain ivory’
[image: Elephants in Dzanga Bai: forest elephant displaying rounded ears
and straight trunk in an intimidating gesture towards another elephant in
Dzanga Bai, a forest clearing in Dzanga Sangha Protected Area, CAR. Dozens
of elephants were slaughtered in May 2013 in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage
Site in the Central African Republic just days after conservationists
warned about an impending threat from the movement of 17 heavily armed
poachers. Photo: Carlos Drew / WWF]
10 May 2013 (mongabay.com) – Dozens of elephants have been slaughtered in
the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in t... more »
The Beginning Of The End For The Mainstream Media!
*Press For Truth*
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Boston Bomber's Connections to the CIA
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Put Up or Shut Up, Indeed
Dr. Roy Spencer, another in the Church of The Lukewarm Greenhouse Effect,
tells deniers of that effect to "put up or shut up", to which I have
responded:
*After all this time, everyone still clings to their own pet statement of a
"greenhouse effect", when the only valid statement--promulgated to the
public for over 20 years -- is "an increase in global mean surface
temperature with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide".*
*But a simple comparison of temperatures in the atmospheres of Venus and
Earth, at points of equal pressure over the range of Earth tropospheric
pressures, shows t... more »
South Dakota ALEC Issue - Still Brewing
South Dakota has been in the forefront of ALEC news for the past two weeks
- as the SD legislature made plans to pay ALEC membership dues for *ALL*legislators,
*forcing Dem legislators* to become ALEC members and fund the extremist
right-wing policies of American Legislative Exchange Council..
But South Dakotans have not stopped there.
South Dakotans are keeping ALEC out there in the forefront - good for them.
They are keeping the battle going in the press and social media for over
two weeks and I applaud them!!!
And they are keeping up on the new, dastardly ALEC going-ons, over and ... more »
Media Lauds Scientist Who Bragged About Cancer in Vaccines
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Vaccination continues to be heralded as one of the top achievements in
medicine while all of the evidence to the contrary continues to be ignored.
Earlier this week, The New York Times ran a 1500-word puff piece lauding
the work of top Merck vaccine “pioneer” Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman. Here’s a
quote:
To a remarkable extent, we owe our well-being, and in many cases our lives,
to the work of one man and to events that happened 50 years ago this spring.
The article goes on to say some credit Hilleman with having saved more
people than any other scientis... more »
West Texas Plant Explosion not an industrial accident ? Bryce Reed arrested for possession of pipe bomb as criminal investigation launched into massive killer explosion !
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/new-evidence-bomb-behind-texas-explosion-2643456.html
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/texas-plant-explosion-a-bombing-2/
TEXAS PLANT EXPLOSION A BOMBING?Officials open up criminal investigation
after man found with 'destructive device'Published: 19 hours ago
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Two events happening on the same day – a West, Texas, man arrested for
possession of a “destructive device” and law enforcement officials
launching a criminal investigation into the town’s fatal, April 17
fertilizer-plant explosion... more »
Bill Maher Gets Taken to the Mat on Islamophobia
On Bill Maher's *RealTime* show last night, journalist Glenn Greenwald
stood up to Maher on Muslims, Islam, and American foreign policy.
It's a long clip. Greenwald's retort comes in around the 7-minute mark.
What is particularly irksome about Maher's Islamophobia is the shallowness
of his historical view of Islam and the Middle East's rocky road to
democratic reform. Those of the Anglo-Saxon tradition usually recognize
our own democracy as anchored in the *Magna Carta Libertatum* signed by
King John in 1215.
Within our own culture we have been wrestling, often violently, wit... more »
1903 Pterosaur Event
This is an old report, but it has the particular merit of attracting a
couple of hundred eyeballs to really describe it. We certainly have
additional reports which we have covered. The evidence continues to conform
to a pterosaur. We have a three toed foot print copied, and a beak at
least. In this case we have no sign of feathers and the use of a cave like
space to nest.
The oddity here however is the powerful light horn on the creature's head.
Yet it is repeated and obviously important. We have something we understand
but also something that should not be there. What we u... more »
Precipitation and Temperature with Tim Ball
Climate is about the surface heat engine. That heat is absorbed and held
by water, reflected a little by clouds and desert. Some is held indirectly
through water vapor in the atmosphere. The rest is in the ocean.
All this means is that tracking temperature is tracking a derivative of
heat shifts and terribly misleading. It was this understanding that led me
to infer that we have an increased flow in the Gulf Stream driving our
current warm spell in the Arctic. El Nino is about warmer waters first.
I do not expect the community to come to their senses on this anytime soo... more »
Surprise Hummus Growth
This is welcome news particularly as the plant happens to be a legume. I
have used it for a long time although not so much as a staple. Puréeing
canned chickpeas and throwing in some sesame paste or tahini which is hard
to get generally and the rest of the recipe is easy.
It can be eaten straight although it is usually served with flatbread.
It will now become a major food in our general larder which is good news
to all those trying to rid themselves of wheat products. I like to dip
rice cakes into it.
*Hummus is conquering America*
*By David Kesmodel |*
*htt... more »
Toughening up all Fiber
It is not that the fiber itself became stronger; it is that the knot slows
the take up of tension providing increased toughness. Since that describes
almost all situations including the stopping of a bullet, the discovery is
important and will certainly be applied even to cheap fibers.
How about nylon stockings? You get the idea.
I continue to look forward to a real space elevator cable using graphene
and this work advances feasibility.
*Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World’s Toughest Fiber*
*A materials scientist has created the world’s toughest fib... more »
Monbiot - You Can't Win on Climate Change Without First Vanquishing Plutocracy
*Guardian* enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, took the arrival of a record, 400
ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 to deliver a few thoughts on our
losing battle against climate change and what really stands in the way of
our hope for progress.
*"The data go back 800,000 years: that's the age of the oldest fossil air
bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic.
And throughout that time there has been nothing like this. At no point in
the preindustrial record have concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air
risen above 300 parts per million (ppm). 400ppm ... more »
Israel is the cause of all terrorism
I do not watch television. Unfortunately on Wednesday, whilst waiting to
see a midwife in the International Health Service which has replaced our
NHS, I had no choice but to watch the lies of the government as they were
aired live.
Alongside total piffle about 'saving the economy' by allowing the
construction industry to concrete over every last blade of grass and acre
of farm land (thus destroying any chance of self-sufficiency in food and
making the colonised UK permanently reliant of the outside world to
survive), the Prime Minister brought up the issue of Syria. In a display
... more »
How did Barack Obama become Monsanto’s man in Washington?
image source Jon Rappoport
And when are anti-GMO activist groups going to stop saying they’re “shocked
and disappointed” by the president?
Shocked and disappointed is polite-speak and politically correct reaction.
It’s baloney.
Don’t you get it? Obama has never been on your side. He never deserved your
trust.
Disappointment implies he was your buddy and then unaccountably walked away.
The man is a politician. He’s a liar. Different pols have different styles
of lying. Some pretend they’re your friend before they screw you over and
leave you in the dust.
I’ve previously publishe... more »
California dad 'begged for his life' as police beat him to death - witnesses
[image: AFP Photo / Jonathan Alcorn]
AFP Photo / Jonathan Alcorn
A California father of four died Wednesday shortly after a group of
police allegedly beat him with batons as he lay defenseless on the
sidewalk. Cops, before confiscating witness' cameras, also reportedly
unleashed a canine unit on him.
David Sal Silva, 33, allegedly resisted when police approached him to ask
if he was who neighbors called about to complain of an intoxicated man in
the area. The officers called for backup and, witnesses told the
Bakersfield Californian, Silva was soon being beaten in the face... more »
IS LIFE FAIR?
[image: Smiling north korean kids]
*North Korean kids. By Benoit Cappronnier*
*
*Is life fair?
Why does one person apparently 'choose' to be 'good' and another person
apparently 'choose' to be 'bad'?
According to some philosophers, our actions are either determined by
matters such as heredity and environment, or they are a matter of chance.
[image: How can we...]
*Brazil. By carf*
It suits the top criminals to believe that their 'wicked' actions are
purely the result of heredity, environment and chance.
But, we do know that when people believe in some kind of 'free will', they
do t... more »
The Pink Ribbon is About the Message - Not Necessarily the Cure
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a
cure for breast cancer.
For thirty years people have been gathering to "race for the Cure"
This entry is NOT about dissing those helped by Komen.
This entry is NOT about dissing those who feel that Komen has been of
benefit to them.
I understand breast cancer - I have five friends that have had to deal with
the challenges of breast cancer -
I would not do the Komen race - cause it's not about "a cure".
This entry is about education -
Knowing where your money goes when you support a walker -
It is not nece... more »
How the Media Prevents Meaningful Discussion About the Environment
Alex Pietrowski
For a normal human being who understands the value of having clean air and
water to consume, clean soil to grow food in, and of living in a habitat
that can support life, it is frustrating to watch one environmental
calamity occur, after another without ever seeing a mainstream,
non-politicized conversation about the condition of our natural world. It
seems that merely expressing concern over the direction the environment is
going is enough to solicit a number of stigmatized labels, such as hippie,
liberal, terrorist, downer, debbie-downer, slacker, tree-hugger, ... more »
Vaccine Kills 9 Kids: Quinvaxem
Kenny Valenzuela
*Research Links Below:*
ZeeNews Vietnam suspends vaccine after 9 kids die
ChinaDaily Vietnam suspends use of Quinvaxem Vaccine for children
SAANJNews Vietnam suspends vaccine after 9 kids die
Bill Gates Oral Polio Vaccine Cripples 47,500 Children
Quinvaxem manufactures website Crucell
Quinvaxem Novartis Vaccine Insert Information
Clinical Trials Quinvaxem 2 Studies
Vaccine Exemption Forms
Experimental Vaccines
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Wall Street Shill Maria Bartiromo Exposes A "Continued Assault On The Banks" (No, Really)
Watch CNBC's Maria Bartiromo (above) further ingratiating herself with the
banksters on Thursday: "While the banks have done wrong, it is time to ask
the question, 'what more does the public want from the banks and why are we
trying to destroy this vital industry?' Federal Reserve official Dan
Tarullo's recent speech on the banks, creating another alternative to break
up the mega banks, he is proposing linking liquidity and capital, meaning
the more a financial firm relies on wholesale funding, the more capital it
must carry. This is one way to target the big supermarket ban... more »
Taking on Bladder Cancer with Cannabis
Constant Change
Approximately two and a half years ago I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder
cancer after having experienced blood in the urine and slight pain when
urinating. Non-invasive surgery followed using a catheter, this was called
a trans urethral resection.
Two years went by without a problem and then blood appeared again in the
urine followed by another resection in December 2012. This was followed 2
months later (Feb 2013) by another to cauterize excessive bleeding and I
was advised by the Urologist that the tumour was quite invasive.
In the meantime all sorts of sce... more »
Agenda 21 Redistributes Wealth Through Stealth
Julie Beal
I’ve got a very important story to tell, so listen closely. Fed a diet of
‘alternative reactions to the mainstream news’, you probably won’t know
about any of this, because it’s not had much of a public airing. The final
push of Agenda 21 is to unite us all, mainstream and alternative alike – an
end to the current system, and the institution of the ‘fair sounding’ new
world order: green and caring.
There have been several attempts to co-opt the Occupy movement to advance
this agenda, which is neither green nor caring. In fact, it intends to
exploit nature and people ... more »
US Business Owners Can Be Fined and Imprisoned for Supporting Israeli Boycott
*A little known US law has actually criminalized boycotting Israel.*
Daniel Jackson
Would Stephen Hawking be fined or jailed for boycotting Israel if he ran a
business in the United States?
Over the years many prominent activists and organizations have called for
and participated in a boycott on Israel.
This swelling boycott is primarily due to, among other reasons, the
humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the overall Israeli treatment of
Palestinians throughout the region.
Recently famed scientist Stephen Hawking even joined the boycott, opting to
pull out of an upcoming conferen... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Better Late Than Never
It is that time of year when people are getting the official letter
informing them that their tenure/promotion has cleared the final
hurdles–the President, the Board of Regents/Governors/Trustees/Assorted
Rich People. So, congratulations to those that have made it past all of
the various hurdles along the way.
The Nasty Party
Andrew Coyne's opinions tend to fall on the right side of the political
spectrum. That fact, however, does not make him a fan of the Harper
government. In this morning's *National Post* he writes:
We’ve had some thuggish or dishonest governments in the past, even some
corrupt ones, but never one quite so determined to arouse the public’s
hostility, to so little apparent purpose. Their policy legacy may prove
short-lived, but it will be hard to erase the stamp of the Nasty Party.
The Harperites have deliberately chosen to present themselves as the Nasty
Party. Coyne, in fact, agr... more »
Congrats to Miley Cyrus!
As you know, this blog is a huge fan of Miley Cyrus. Anyway, ... some
magazine voted her one of the top-50 sexiest women in the world. I don't
know if ephemeral is on the list. Or those two chicks I saw walking home
yesterday who were checking out a restaurant menu. I'm not going to link to
the magazine awards. I really don't care. I'm not really a Miley Cyrus fan.
I read about the "sexiest women" list in some column in one of the free
dailies yesterday.
I'm just typing shit for the sake of typing shit.
If Bill Gates had no money, who would listen to him about education reform?
In 2013, again, U.S. political leaders and the public appear disgusted with
a public education system, but this sentiment has been with us since the
Committee of Ten declared education inadequate in the 1890s. We must, then,
come to terms with two facts: (1) We must drop Utopian claims about
education because education is not the sole key to […]
Ed Miliband says an EU referendum is 'wrong' - Telegraph
"Our national interest lies in staying in the European Union and working
for the changes that will make it work better for Britain"
Ed Miliband just doesn't understand what the EU is for and what its aims
are. Odd because they are clearly stated.
More here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10050367/Ed-Miliband-says-an-EU-referendum-is-wrong.html
Huston Smith on Meeting with Thomas Merton
*"Raids on the Unspeakable"* by Thomas Merton.
Title: Huston Smith on Meeting with Thomas Merton. YouTube Video
Description - [Channel: mondaymedia. Published on July 21, 2012]:
This is an interview done by Phil Cousineau with Huston Smith. Phil asks
Huston to tell the story of his meeting in India in 1968 with Thomas
Merton, shortly before Merton's death. The interview was done in 2010 at
the Berkeley Buddhist Monastary.
What really happened in Benghazi and do the State Department memos hold the answers?
If you rely upon the BBC for your news then this sory will mean next to
nothing as the Obama-loving BBC just don't cover this story.
So read this from Fox News and then this link to some MSNBC coverage. When
even MSNBC are asking questions of the Obamamessiah's administration's
story then you know something's up.
Who Would Want To Shorten Paul Krugman (Any More)? (Please Stop Clowning Around! This Is Heavy Seriousity Time)
I know I don't. And it's not really that tough to figure out what's been
going on without trying to damn the Krugman with faint praise. The
gear-grinding dilemma that is driving the U.S.A. to near total ownership by
the richest plutocracy in history and bankruptcy for the rest of us has
been accomplished rather quickly and fairly easily if you don't count
making them wait almost a decade
College students are asked how many buildings collapsed on 9/11
*notice how all the kids say 'two' like this!*
Okay, so all these college kids are DRUNK ... but ... you still should know
your country's history.
*Scranton PA, 2011, Anthony Antonello took to the streets at the St.
Patricks Day Parade to ask college students and the public if they knew how
many buildings collapsed in New York on September 11, 2001.* [source ANTHONY
ANTONELLO]
Stay drunk, America. Eat more burgers. Drink beer. Watch football. Shop.
paris, day two
Our only full day in Paris was mostly wonderful and a bit frustrating.
We started the day with a small breakfast in a cafe, as we like to do in
Europe, as opposed to eating at the hotel. Watching local people come and
go, I remembered how locals always stand at the bar for their little
morning coffee, and how we did that every morning when we were in Italy.
Later in the morning, after breakfast, I do the same, as one little
breakfast coffee is not enough for my caffeine addiction! After breakfast,
we stopped at a local store for water and fruit - another routine we want
to get into... more »
nightmare - tilted Earth holocaust planet - WE MADE THIS!
*time of this nightmare, 0530 hours*
It was a special breed of Human Female who 'designed the world' as we knew
it. The (0530 hours) dream was set in a Digital Design Office and the staff
were PERFECTING their use of the 3D software they used. All such corporate
places are protected by NDA or Non Disclosure Agreement, a legal
understanding between management and staff not to blab about the shit
you're working on.
I went outside onto the roof or terrace of this skyscraper we worked in and
it was like three points of the compass were altered or otherwise *tilted up
* toward us showing... more »
Sigma 17-70mm first pics =UPDATED=
My first non-kit lens was the Tamron 18-200mm aspherical zoom/macro, which
for some strange reason I was never happy with. It performed as advertised
and always took good pics. Yet, my other lenses (Tokina 100mm macro, Canon
50mm F1.8, Tamron 70-300mm) I have always felt are totally enjoyable
lenses, but the Tamron 18-200mm left me cold. Dunno why. So this week I
finally sold it off and picked up a Sigma 17-70mm f2.8 - 4.0 DC HSM OS lens
(Photozone.de review) as my walking around lens.
My first test shots are here -- all done with the optical stabilization and
autofocus on. I resiz... more »
EGYPTIANS WANT MUBARAK BACK; ARABS REJECTING YINON PLAN
The Arab world is slowly wakening up to the fact that it was Israel that
toppled Mubarak.
Iraq, Syria and the death of the modern Middle East ... - Al Jazeera
The Resurrection of Hosni Mubarak.
*Oded Yinon*
Rememeber how the West wrecked Yugoslavia?
The West is now wrecking various Moslem countries, by causing ethnic and
religious conflicts.
Think of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan...
*The plan is an Israeli one.* (A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen
Eighties, by Oded Yinon.)
The West is trying to break up the 'Greater Middle East', according to Knut
Mellenthin.
*3... more »
Feynman, Schwarzschild: anniversaries
Richard Feynman would celebrate his 95th birthday today.
One of the most colorful and ingenious physicists of the 20th century would
deserve much more than a blog entry – so just like in the cases of other
giants, I will abandon all attempts to write a would-be comprehensive
biography.
Instead, you may watch this 37-minute NOVA interview (above) filmed in
1973. You're also invited to remind yourself about the story of Feynman and
feminists (the latter were clearly immensely obnoxious already decades
ago). Interestingly, you may look what I wrote exactly five years ago.
Five ye... more »
@AFTUnion Moratorium Has a Purpose: Thy Name is #PARCC
AFT’s leadership has been on quite the crusade, which is reminiscent of the
crusade pushed forward by the likes of David Coleman, Exxon-Mobil, Bill
Gates, Arne Duncan, and many others. It can be summed up in six words:
Current tests bad; Common Core good. I have 4 problems with AFT’s current
rally cry, which includes […]
The Morning Edition of the NY Times on 9/12/2001 contained the official 911 story
The Official Story Hijacked Jets Destroy
Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Published: September 12, 2001 NY Times
Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of New York's World Trade Center
towers yesterday, toppling both in a hellish storm of ash, glass, smoke and
leaping victims, while a third jetliner crashed into the Pentagon in
Virginia. There was no official count, but President Bush said thousands
had perished, and in the immediate aftermath the calamity was already being
ranked the wor... more »
Japan Hopes to Revive Economy Through Exports
Yen's Fall Trickles Through Japanese Economy By Phred Dvorak | The Wall
Street Journal – Thu, May 9, 2013
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yens-fall-trickles-japanese-economy-021200307.html[Excerpted]
The weaker yen's impact—the dollar has climbed 16% against the currency
this year—is already trickling through the Japanese economy, pushing up
prices of imported food and gas and drawing a flood of tourists whose
currencies now buy more goods in Japan. It is bolstering sales and profit
at exporters whose goods can be produced at lower prices for global
markets...
...More importantly, ... more »
The Real News - Pakistan's Elections More Unpredictable than Ever
For a politician, there is nothing like garnering sympathy before a huge
election, so to see Pakistan's rising political star Imran Khan making an
emotional speech to voters from his hospital bed after he fell from a stage
and injured his head and back is a bit . . . opportunistic?
Hey, whatever works for you. But the dignified thing to do in that
situation would be to rest and recover quietly, and stop the speech-making
for just a little while.
Pakistan's Elections More Unpredictable than Ever. Source: The Real News.
Regretful Jihadists Admit They Were Deceived By Al Jazeera
*Al Jazeera: *
*Spreading Qatari-Backed, Pro-Jihadist Propaganda - $300 Million. *
*Inciting Young Muslims And Radicalizing Arabs Against Each Other - $150
Million.*
*Defending The Official Stories of The U.S. And Israeli Governments - $250
Million.*
*Leading Deceived Muslims To Their Needless Deaths - Priceless. *
Video Title: (Syria War) EX Terrorist in Syria ''We Were Lied to by the
Mainstream Media such as Aljazeera"
The War on 3D Printing Begins
*May 11, 2013* (LocalOrg) - It was inevitable. A technology like 3D
printing that essentially puts cheap labor, manufacturing, and retail all
in the same place - upon one's desktop - spells the absolute, utter and
permanent end to the monopolies and unwarranted power and influence of the
corporate-financier elite who have lorded over humanity since human
civilization began - a permanent end the elite will fight against with the
total summation of their ill-gotten power and influence.
The pretext being used to begin this war, is a 3D printed gun built and
demonstrated by Defense Dis... more »
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