Photograph of the tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery, London (Photo credit: Wikipedia)SKYPE SESSIONS GAINING POPULARITY
*I have been increasingly doing Skype sessions with my clients particularly
since my recent move to Contra Costa County ~ because of my heart centered
transformational counseling with veterans with PTSD.*
I really enjoy these sessions and have had several non-veteran SKYPE
clients from New Jersey, to the mid-west and most recently Los Angeles.
*Here's a recent testimonial from John in Los Angeles as to the
effectiveness of these Skype sessions*;
*" The Skype sessions I recently had with Allen Roland have been very
rewarding. THANK YOU ALLEN! I feel an incredi... more »
You can't yell fire in a crowded theater
Well we have a brand new brouhaha about surveillance on a journalist. Today
it's James Rosen of Fox News over a story he published in 2009 about North
Korea, based on an insider leak. To be clear, it's important to protect
journalists. It's equally important to protect leakers when they're
exposing government wrongdoing. But once again, this is not really the case
here.
I'll spare you my thoughts on how ineptly they covered their tracks. Hell
they were practically asking to get caught, but here's my big problem with
James Rosen's reporting. His motive appears to more about career
... more »
Bob Feldman : Texas Governors Bush and Perry, and Their Network of the Ultra-Rich
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry with then President (and former Texas Governor) George
W. Bush at a 2002 campaign event in Dallas. On the left is Texas Sen.
John Cornyn. Photo by Larry Downing / Reuters.
The hidden history of Texas
Conclusion: 1996-2011/1 -- Bush, Perry, and their network of Texas
ultra-rich
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2013
[This is the first section of the conclusion to
Karl Marx schools Russel Norman and David Shearer
It’s often forgotten that Karl Marx was an economist. He got the wrong end
of the stick on most occasions, but sometimes hit the nail right dead
centre on the head.
For example, he said in the *Communist Manifesto* that:
“The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which [
the profit system]…compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the
[ profit]… mode of production.”
Russel Norman and David Shearer evidently missed that passage of their
bedtime reading when they claimed in their attempt to spike the Mighty
River Power share float that the go... more »
Why Am I Wasting My Time?
I heard this on Democracy Now this morning (a repeat) – and all I could
think – was
I heard this before – I've written about it before
Same message - different speaker - different radio show.
I’m hearing it again.
Fool me once
Fool me twice
This is exactly what is happening with the move against ALEC.
TIM DECHRISTOPHER: I don’t think it’s the way to go, but I think it has to
be part of social movement strategy. I think we need to be building power
as a social movement. And, you know, I think one of the weaknesses for the
climate movement, even though we’ve made a huge amount of... more »
Dynasty Semi-Update
Is there a new wave of dynastic politicians coming to Congress?
National Journal's Sarah Mimms has the story... or, at least, the
beginnings of the story, highlighting a bunch of dynastic candidates (Mike
Collins, son of Mac; Michelle Nunn, daughter of Sam; Gwen Graham, daughter
of Bob, and more) running or considering running in the 2016 cycle.
Regular readers will know this is a story I follow. So I'm interested. At
the same time, I'd urge caution about concluding that there's a trend here.
The way this works is that national reporters are more likely to notice the
candidates from... more »
Moon rise over Wellington
You can almost feel the earth move…
*Full Moon Silhouettes** from **Mark Gee** on **Vimeo**.*
Photographer Mark Gee tried two years for the evening his opportunity
finally came. Here’s how the fellow who sent it to me introduced it:
It was shot in January on a calm summer evening, as people gathered on the
Mt. Victoria Lookout point to watch the moon rise.
This stunning video is one single real-time shot, with no manipulation
whatsoever. The camera was placed on a hillside over 2 kilometres from the
Lookout point, and was shot with the equivalent of a 1300mm lens…
I hone... more »
Whitewashing Sex Gangs III
Mary Hockaday
This week's *Newswatch* with Samira Ahmed discussed the BBC's coverage of
the Oxford street grooming case. In the course of the programme Samira
interviewed the head of the BBC newsroom, Mary Hockaday.
The section began with an extract from last Tuesday's *Six O'Clock News* on
BBC One:
*Newsreader*: The court heard how the girls were plied with alcohol and
drugs before being abused. The men will be sentenced next month. Just to
warn you, Tom Symond's report contains disturbing details of the gang's
activities.
*Reporter*: The men behind one of the most serious cases ... more »
PLAN AHEAD - OCTOBER DRONE WALK IN MAINE
We had a meeting here yesterday at the Addams-Melman House of our Maine
Campaign to Bring Our War *$$ *Home. We decided to work on the drone
issue
for the coming period of time.
One key decision was to organize a drone walk through parts of Maine
next
October 10-19. Some of that period is during the Global Network's
annual
Keep Space for Peace Week of local actions around the world.
Japanese Buddhist nun Jun-san Yasuda from the order Nipponzan Myohoji
hasoffered to lead a peace walk in Maine in October if we were
interested.
For several months some of us have been working with t... more »
Wayne Au: Coring Social Studies within Corporate Education Reform
“Teachers could stop #CommonCore tomorrow—if they joined hands and said
‘Hell, No!’ The alternative is loss of profession—and soul.” — Susan
Ohanian A local university professor I’m friends with through The
Association of Raza Educators (ARE) wrote me yesterday with the following
message: Hi Robert, I hope you are well… You might be familiar with […]
Untitled
*New Orleans Saints and Pelicans have announced today the hiring of Doug
Tatum as the Executive Director of Digital Media*
For a Real Jobs Guarantee
Unemployment is caused by a lack of jobs. Obvious one would think, but yet
this is a contested and controversial for many of our honourable members
down in Westminsterland. Received mainstream political wisdom has it that
if you're unfortunate enough to be out of work, it's down to some quirk of
your character. You're too lazy, too indisciplined, too enamoured with a
life on social security. Or, for those who subscribe to a more bleeding
heart view of unemployment, combinations of circumstance, lack of education
or training, and poor/absent role models means one just isn't cut out f... more »
GORDON RIDEOUT; PEDOPHILE RING
*Gordon Rideout, **from Polegate, East Sussex, in the UK.*
*
*Canon Gordon Rideout was chaplain on a military base in Middle Wallop,
Hampshire, in the UK.
*
*
In the 1970s Canon Gordon Rideout was taken to a military court on child
sex-abuse charges.
He was cleared by the military hearing.
*Rideout was cleared of three indecent assaults by a court martial in 1972. One
of Rideout's victims, June Potter said: "We went out of our way to write
statements and everything. I gave them names."*
Canon Gordon Rideout went on to sexually abuse young girls and boys across
the south of Englan... more »
"Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust"
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*"Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust"*
by Michael Wines
HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — "Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather
sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck
an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the
surface every minute. Last year, Mr. Yost was coaxing just 300 gallons from
the earth, and pumping up sand in order to do it. By harvest time, the grit
had robbed him of $20,000 worth of pumps and any hope of returning to the
bumper harvests of years past. “That’s prime land,” he said not long ago,
g... more »
Government Surveillance of Occupy Movement: Year long investigation
Breaking
News from Censored News
Tohono O'odham Police, Tucson Police and
Homeland Security spied on Tohono O'odham and Navajo activists in
Phoenix and Tucson. Native activists were spied on at the protest at
Salt River Project and in the Occupy Movements in Phoenix and Tucson
(see page 20.)
The undercover agent was Brenda Dowhan, a police analyst in Phoenix, who
was placed in as an
Zapatistas Conference May 22-23, 2013
Adherentes a la Sexta invitan a Jornadas zapatistas en la UPN, 22 y 23 de mayo
Posted at Enlace Zapatista:
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2013/05/19/adherentes-a-la-sexta-invitan-a-jornadas-zapatistas-en-la-upn-22-y-23-de-mayo/
Computer translation:
Adherents to the Sixth Conference invites Zapatistas:
The Faceless Collective adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon
RED - the best film in ages!
R.E.D. means Retired, Extremely Dangerous
you know, Red... it's that little film about CIA death squads and the Vice
Presidential incident in Guatemala, oh and the gun running, oh and the
Russians and a machine-gun toting sniper-rifle wielding Helen Mirren, you
know that film you thought might be rubbish so you never went to see it.
Rent the DVD/bluray or download it to your preferred viewing platform.
Do it tonight, RED is brilliant. The actors are literally THE BEST THERE
IS, the script is funny, violent, romantic. Yeah, ROMANTIC... this film is
loaded with romantic gallows humour... more »
"How It Really Is"
Always remember the real "Golden Rule": whoever has the gold, makes the
rules...
- CP
“Operation Vigilant Eagle: Is This Really How We Honor Our Nation’s Veterans?”
* *
*“Operation Vigilant Eagle:*
* Is This Really How We Honor Our Nation’s Veterans?”*
By John W. Whitehead
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for
this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”— James A.
Baldwin
“Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re being treated to a generous serving
of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations and others with
similarly self-serving motives eager to go on record as being pro-military.
Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of
caring for her vete... more »
The clearest young scribe at the Washington Post!
*MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013*
*Even she gets fooled by one of the press corps’ scams:* This weekend’s
clearest, cleanest writer was a college freshman.
We refer to Sharon Liao, who wrote this very clear, sincere op-ed column in
Saturday’s Washington Post.
Liao is finishing her freshman year at Columbia. She wants to go into K-12
teaching, though people keep telling her not to.
Did we mention how sincere, how clear Liao’s writing is? When you read a
piece like this, you know it came from outside. But even there, we have to
report that Liao got fooled by one the press corps’ scams:
LIAO... more »
Photo: Solidarity Walk against Keystone XL in Rosebud, SD
Over
60 Rosebud Sioux Tribal citizens walked in solidarity in Rosebud to
protest the Keystone XL Pipeline. Photo Rosebud Sioux Nation.
E.S. Posthumus - Isfahan . More than just music...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/5FaWvDaMRxo
The history of *E*(xperimental).*S*(ound) *Posthumus* is somewhat obscure.
"E.S. Posthumus was an independent music group that produced film trailer
style music", tell several websites. Their own website is just as short:
"ES Posthumus was formed in 2000 by brothers, Helmut & Franz Vonlichten."
At YouTube we find: "The group was formed in 2000 by brothers Helmut and
Franz Vonlichten. Helmut and Franz studied piano with their mother. After
graduating from high school, Franz worked in recording studios while Helmut
attended and graduated from UCLA, w... more »
They Never Figured On stephen harper
Should the Governor General dissolve Parliament and call a new election
based on the blatant criminality of the harper regime? Technically it's
possible. But the exercise of such raw power would be considered
monarchical and the story of the Westminster Parliamentary System is of the
gradual diminution of the monarch's power before the rising power of the
people's representatives.
But to tolerate a cabal of fraudsters, installed by fraud and contemptuous
of the entire system they base their authority on, it actually makes people
willing to resuscitate the monarchy's power. harper h... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Dirty Traitors'
DIRTY TRAITORS
Posted on May 20, 2013
MNN. May 20, 2013. Corporatism depends on the dirty
traitors, the lowest of the low. Our sell-outs receive financial
security, law enforcement and judicial protection from us, the
“troublesome Indians”. German author, Gurdjieff, said, “My way is to
develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature
and against
Gay Marriage 'Equality' for Idiots (That's Us, Folks)
So the people who have siphoned wealth into the pockets of the rich at an
unprecedented rate now want to force the 'Gay Marriage Bill' on us in the
name of 'equality'?
Only a fool can believe that M.P.'s, as a class, have the tiniest interest
in establishing any kind of true equality in the UK.
When David Cameron, Nick Clegg, David Milliband or any of the other
globalists use this word they exhibit moral 'principles' for the camera,
but the shallowest analysis exposes the lie.
*Protocol 2 states: *
*The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with
strict regar... more »
Who Would Jesus Starve?
Meet two-term Teabagger Congressman Stephen Fincher, easily the most
insane one from Tennessee next to abortion advocate Scott Desjarlais.
Today, on the floor of the US House of Representatives, Fincher stood up on
his hind legs and quoted a Bible verse from Thessalonians that he'd offered
as support that we should let poor people starve. Fincher, you see, was
responding to Juan Vargas (D-CA) who'd quoted his own Bible verse from
Matthew that essentially said Jesus was committed to feeding the poor (Both
quotes from the Bible are egregious sins against the mandate separating
C... more »
'One Thing Leads To Another' - How Stephen Harper Single Handedly Created The Current Senate Scandal ..
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to
Canada's unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of
events that has ultimately become an ugly, nasty political scandal.
For starters, neither Duffy nor Wallin qualified for senate appointment as
representatives of their respective native provinces.
While Ms. Wallin is originally from Saskatchewan, she has lived away for
most of her adult life and Saskatchewan was no longer her principle
residence. ** Saskatchewan's right leaning corporate MSM came running to
Har... more »
The Real News - New Film Exposes the Israeli Weapon and Security Industry
Below: a video about Israel's military-industrial complex. Also, read the
article, *"How the EU subsidises Israel’s military-industrial complex,"* by
Ben Hayes.
Title: New Film Exposes the Israeli Weapon and Security Industry. Source:
The Real News. Description:
Yotam Feldman: the Israeli economy has become dependent on the massive
security market. Governments act in hypocrisy when they purchase Israeli
arms used against Palestinians, but criticize Israeli violence.
Daiichi Glows Today, Clarity is Much Better
Majia's Blog - 5 hours ago
The plant looks less steamy today, although it continues to glow
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Anticipating Nuclear Fallout
Sarah Binder wrote last night about the new threats that Harry Reid is
making to go nuclear. The first thing you need to know is that if you're at
all interested in the filibuster, you need to read everything that Sarah
writes. Especially if you read me on it -- if we differ, remember that I'm
just a consumer of Congress research: she produces it.
To begin with, she emphasizes that the mechanism for majority-imposed
reform is far more blunt and uncertain than I (and some others) tend to
describe it. That's important.
Sarah also argues, also on something that I didn't take into consi... more »
Football quiz time - the answer
The answer to my question as to the 5 Premiership players who played ever
minute of every Premiership game this 2012/2013 season is this:
Goalkeepers Jussi Jaaskelainen, Amir Begovic, Joe Hart & Simon Mignolet and
the only outfield player Leighton Baines.
To boldly go...
...and get the stuffing beat out of it. That seems to be the usual fate of
the movie version of the good ship *Enterprise*.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - minor damage by the initial attack by
V'Ger.
The *Enterprise* about to get smacked in the nose by a V'Ger torpedo.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - pulverized by the *USS Reliant* in a truly
epic example of good old fashioned space opera. *Kaaaaaahn!*
*Enterprise* takes a hard hit to the port side...
...and gets in a little return fire.
Star Trek: The Search For Spock - further pulverized by a Klingon Bird of
Prey.
Self-de... more »
Daylin Leach Has Been An Asset For Pennsylvania And He Can Be An Asset For The Whole Country
Daylin Leach-- the Pennsylvania state Senate's "liberal lion"-- is running
for the open congressional seat in Northeast Philadelphia/Montgomery County
(PA-13) that Allyson Schwartz is giving up so she can run for governor.
Blue America has already endorsed Daylin. Kutztown blogger, Sean Kitchen, interviewed
Daylin a few days ago and I've highlighted a few points as a way of
reminding you that EMILY's List has found a much more conservative
candidate-- as they always do-- to try to push into this deep blue
district... and is planning to pump a fortune into the race. Obama beat
Rom... more »
Robert Reich on Bringing MultiNationals to Heel
Robert Reich argues there's just one way remaining to wrest domination from
global capitalism. We need multinational tax policy to halt the excesses
of multinational corporatism.
*As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are
holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and
tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness”
— while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can
find. *
*Major advanced countries — and their citizens — need a comprehensive tax
agreement that won’t allow globa... more »
Pox perspective . . .
OUR
WELTANSCHAUUNG: how much of it has been shaped because somebody
creative had a dose? You know, the gift-that-keeps-on-giving, aka
syphilis, aka "The French Disease"? Creative types, like Schubert,
Schumann, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Flaubert, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Wilde
and Joyce and their crotch critters?
Sarah Dunant, at The Guardian, has a fascinating look at the historical
effects of '
Chris Hedges Call for Revolt
Writer, war correspondent, religious scholar, Chris Hedges has become
increasingly radicalized over the past dozen or so years although he would
argue it's society that has truly changed, particularly through the
influence of religious fundamentalism and the capture of political power by
the forces of corporatism. Whatever the balance of changes and forces,
he's calling for revolution as the last hope.
*Corporations write our legislation. They control our systems of
information. They manage the political theater of electoral politics and
impose our educational curriculum. They ha... more »
Some special episodes coming up quickly, LOOK OUT!! @slekar #cpsclosings
We have some good stuff to bring you that’s too timely to miss. First,
today at 5PM EST, we’re going to be joined again by Chicago teacher and
activist Josh Marburger live from the Chicago marches and rallies today.
Second, we have some urgent business regarding the Common Core. So, for
that, we’re going to […]
What If? A Lovely Song Sung by Dina Garipova
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*This was one of by favorite songs from the Eurovison Song Contest hosted
by Sweden over the weekend.*
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*Thank you Dina and thank you Russia.*
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*Yes, what if?*
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*Enjoy.*
Dina Garipova
The State of Political Science
It may, however, be appropriate to point out that the persisting bipolar
conflict in the field between humanists and behavioralists conceals a
lively polemic within both camps and perhaps particularly among the
so-called behavioralists. Among the modernists neologisms burst like roman
candles in the sky, and wars of epistemological legitimacy are fought. The
devotees of
Continue reading
All Is Love - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
All Is Love
*Love*
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*This is what you asked for and this is what you will receive.*
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*The love of Self.*
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*The Love of God.*
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*The love of others.*
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*All are the same.*
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*All manifestations from the same Source.*
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*Balanced and shared by all in the continuum.*
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*It is Love that fuels the fire of the human heart.*
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*It is love that creates your reality.*
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*It is Love that functions and rules over all.*
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*It is Love and only Love that is the beiginning and the end.*
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*The Alpha and the Omega and all inbetween.*
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*Love is Enough.*
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*To love is enough.*
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*For to... more »
Your moment of Zen
Swamp azalea in Belmont. [source unknown]
Corporate psychopaths . . .
MONSANTO
CAN BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. So contends GMO, a site devoted to
"Raising awareness about the risks of genetically modified food (GMOs)",
with an article, "Monsanto’s Dirty Dozen". Monsanto has been dangerous
for a long, long time, since 1901. The company moved into the food area
with the production of Saccharin for Coca-Cola, but Monsanto produced
all sorts of toxic stuff, like
When the Loudest Government Ever Falls Silent
Steve Harper's namesake nemesis, the *Toronto Star's* Tim Harper, writes
of a government known for its "in your face" bombast that has abruptly
fallen silent.
*...our governing party has collectively lost its voice.*
*The “accountability” government gave us the news that Pamela Wallin, the
senator so loudly backed by Harper over alleged expense account abuses,had
resigned from the Conservative caucus by news release as the long weekend
was beginning.*
**
*Then it pulled all its scheduled spokespersons off the Friday political
talk shows.*
**
*The night before, Duffy announced hi... more »
Rising Tensions In Iraq’s Anbar Province, Raids, Kidnapped Soldiers, Collapse of Talks Offer
Iraq’s Anbar province is seeing increasing tension. Since December there
have been two large protests going on in Ramadi and Fallujah. After the
government raid upon the Hawija demonstration site in Tamim governorate in
April 2013 there has been an uptick in attacks as well. In May, things
picked up with raids upon the residences of two leaders of the protests, as
well as the kidnapping of several dozen soldiers and police, and the
collapse of an offer to talk with Baghdad. With the way things are going
this could be leading up to a security crackdown in the governorate aimed
at n... more »
The United States Government vs.The People of the United States
This just in, from the same government watchdog group (Center for Media and
Democracy) which exposed the nefarious machinations of the corporate
state's American Legislative Exchange Council:
On May 20, 2013, DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy released
the results of a year-long investigation: "Dissent or Terror: How the
Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate
America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.” The report, a distillation of
thousands of pages of records obtained from counter terrorism/law
enforcement agencies, details how state/regiona... more »
ALEC in Wisconsin - Why not sell the Capitol Building?
Two of the on-going experimental legislative projects that ALEC has pushed
for several decades includes
Privatization of governmental goods and services
* **“government cannot provide goods or services as cheaply as the
private sector can.”*
and
Turn Capital Assets into Financial Assets: Sell or Lease Government
Assets and Enterprises
* **“states own over $226 billion in infrastructure assets that could be
sold to the private sector.” *
Once it's all in private hands - what do the citizens have left.
Nothing.
The citizens paid for it - they built it -
and then ALEC legis... more »
There's Good News and Bad News on the Climate Change Front
New research suggests mankind may avoid the very worst predicted impacts of
climate change. That same research concludes what is actually in store is
devastating anyway.
*"...the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double
that regarded as safe.*
*"The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above
pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account.
*
*"That would still lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth,
causing droughts, storms, floods and heatwaves and with drastic effects on
agricultural pro... more »
What Karen Lewis’s Reelection Could Mean for the New York Mayor’s Race
Even with all of Rahm’s horses and all of the Chicago Tribune’s men in
support of her opponent for the job of Chicago Teachers’ Union President,
Karen Lewis was reelected on May 17 with an 80% share of the vote among
Chicago educators. This is from George Schmidt’s article at Substance News:
In a press […]
Politicians Promote Bullshit 'Equality'
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*Willi Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation
thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.'*
So the people who have siphoned wealth into the pockets of the rich at an
unprecedented rate now want to force the 'Gay Marriage Bill' on us in the
name of 'equality'?
Only a fool can believe that M.P.'s, as a class, have the tiniest interest
in establishing any kind of true equality in the UK.
When David Cameron, Nick Clegg, David Milliband or any of the other
globalists use this word they exhibit moral 'principles' for the camera,
but the shallowest... more »
About that declining array of viewers!
*MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013*
*As pseudolibs run from a fight:* In this morning’s first post, we referred
to Rachel Maddow’s declining array of viewers.
When one team fights and the other team won’t, viewers may tend to notice!
Just so you’ll know, here are the numbers of people who were watching as
Rachel made her ridiculous claims about Benghazi last week:
Last Wednesday night, at 8 PM Eastern, 689,000 people watched Maddow make
her ridiculous claims about the Benghazi scandal having fallen apart. To
review all these data, click here.
Over on Fox, Sean Hannity was driving the Benghazi ... more »
Pro-ALEC Tampa Op-Ed Written by Heartland Staffer
It is amazing to me why this people hide their identity.
Embarrassed about their association with extremist right wing organizations
- is the only conclusion I can make.
*Bruce Edward Walker*
* *
*Bruce Edward Walker was managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News from
2010 to 2012. Prior to joining Heartland in 2010, Bruce worked at the
Mackinac Center for Public Policy as science editor of the quarterly
magazine MichiganScience and communications manager for the center’s
Property Rights Network*
This yahoo - is acting as if the corporations have no speech at all - when
in fact ... more »
Vast stretches of Texas and Kansas farmland over the High Plains Aquifer no longer support irrigation – Refilling the aquifer would require hundreds, if not thousands, of years of rains
[image: Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep
into Section 35, a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an
artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the
surface every minute. 'That's prime land,' he said not long ago. 'I've
raised 294 bushels of corn per acre there before, with water and the Lord’s
help.' Now, he said, 'it's over.' Photo: Matthew Staver / The New York
Times]
By MICHAEL WINES
19 May 2013
HASKELL COUNTY, Kansas (The New York Times) – Forty-nine years ago, Ashley
Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep int... more »
Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research – Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached
[image: A human shadow is seen on a dried out field after drought in
Germany. Photo: Patrick Pleul / EPA]
By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
19 May 2013
(The Guardian) – Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are
unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the
world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that
regarded as safe.
The researchers said warming was most likely to reach about 4C above
pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account.
That would still lead to catastrophe across... more »
THE REFUSAL TO FIGHT: Our most pitiful child!
*MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013*
*Part 1— Rachel does it again:* Last Wednesday night, at 8 PM Eastern,
Rachel did it again.
The darling child was starting her eponymous TV program. As she did, she
shared the latest good news with a declining array of liberal viewers:
MADDOW (5/15/13): Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.
So today happened! Today, the president of the United States fired the head
of the IRS, or announced that his resignation had been accepted.
*Also, the whole Benghazi scandal, the months-long scandal, kind of went
away today.*
Interesting! The Benghazi scandal ... more »
Giveaway: Petite Lemon Alphabet Poster, Perfect for Your Nursery
A little while ago, I needed a baby shower present. I had looked
everywhere, but I was stumped. I wanted to give something that was cute and
the baby wouldn't grow out of immediately. That is when I discovered Petite
Lemon.
Petite Lemon offers cute big brother or sister shirts for maybe
announcing a new arrival and they offer my absolute favorite product, the personalized
growth charts and alphabet posters. The growth charts are a darling,
portable way to keep track of your little one's height and the alphabet
posters are current favorite nursery decor. They offer girl and boy... more »
MUST READ - Before the Chicago ALEC Protests
This morning - PRWatch dropped an article that should put all Chicago ALEC
protestors on alert.
The PRWatch article is an executive summary of a full report that can be
found
>>>>Full Report if HERE<<<<<
*It is a tale of intrigue - based on fact.*
Infiltration of protest planning groups
Reports back to the PD about the protest planning meetings
Involvement of Homeland Security
ALEC corporate member security departments working with the police
The use of facial recognition technology
Off-duty cops being hired as ALEC security
Distribution of "Most Wanted" face sheets
It's about pro... more »
LaRoque (NC-ALEC) - Loved Taxpayer Handouts
Rep. Stephen A. LaRoque (R-10), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic
Development Task Force Member, attended ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting[4] (lost
the GOP primary election May 8, 2012)
And I imagine that was not a one time occurrence.
LaRoque, 48, first joined the House in 2003 and served four years. He then
returned to the House in 2011, serving a district that included Greene
County
Remember that ALEC meetings provide state legislators
an opportunity for state legislators “to discuss issues and
develop policy"
Hah!
Guess he got a hell of an education learning ho... more »
New temperature norms under climate change will increase heat-related deaths in metropolitan areas – Heatwave deaths in New York city could rise by up to 22 percent
[image: A man tries to cool himself with a bottle of water during the a
heatwave in New York City. Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty Images]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
19 May 2013
(The Guardian) – New York city could experience up to 22% more deaths from
extreme summertime heat in the coming decade under global warming,
according to a study of the impact of climate trends.
The higher deaths will be partially offset by a reduction in deaths due to
the milder winters predicted in Manhattan.
Overall, however, the net effect of the new temperature norms under clim... more »
Untitled
*Tornadoes Slam 5-State Area, Killing One; Outbreak Continues Today ~Jeff
Masters *
*Hurricane tax free shopping event happens this weekend ~WAFB*
*Second-Line Parades Continue In Defiance Of Last Week's Violence ~Maureen
McMurray, WWNO*
*Family wants to expand search for missing teacher ~WDSU*
*Poverty up in N.O.’s suburbs ~Timothy Boone*
*Bayou Saint John Wetland Creation Project*
*Louisiana's Bayou Is Sinking: Can $50 Billion Save It? ~Tim Folger,
National Geographic*
*How local can you go? ~Ian McNulty, Gambit*
*Clybourne Bridge: Cripple Creek's Clybourne Park, Reviewed ~Phi... more »
Nixonian
In an attempt to put Nigel Wright's resignation in perspective, Paul Wells returns
to a passage he and John Geddes wrote two years ago:
*Someone who was there paraphrased Harper’s message to his ministers at his
first cabinet meeting in 2006: “I am the kingpin. So whatever you do around
me, you have to know that I am sacrosanct.” Harper was telling his
ministers that they were expendable but that he wasn’t. If they had to go
so that his credibility and his ability to get things done were protected,
so be it.*
*It wasn’t personal,” this source said. “It was his office.”*
If you w... more »
ronda to cordoba / cordoba / zuheros
We left Ronda *very* early: we had to ring a bell at the desk and get the
hotel manager out of bed to settle our bill. Poor guy shuffled out in his
slippers, completely confused. We had to remind him we needed our parking
validated, then remind him we needed to pay! Funny.
I had been up late blogging the night before, then woke up crazy early - a
theme on this trip. I spent the wee hours of the morning getting directions
and booking a hotel in Madrid, before it was even a halfway decent hour to
wake up Allan.
As you might imagine, as we left Ronda, our main goal was to go *around*t... more »
Virginia Has A Sociopath Pushing Its Reactionary Agenda-- Meet Bishop E.W. Jackson
Saturday Ken Cuccinelli got a Lt. Gov. nominee just as extreme and out of
step with Virginia as he is. Bishop Earl Walker "E.W." Jackson is,
basically, a slick-talking religionist crackpot and well-practiced far
right ideologue. He gained a national audience on the right-wing fringes
after year old video above in which he rages against marriage equality,
released as he launched his failed campaign for the Republican Senate
nomination.
Obviously deranged and warped by too many hours of conspiratorial Hate Talk
radio, he accuses Planned Parenthood of “killing unborn black babies by... more »
PROTEST ACTION: Condoleezza Rice in Mpls this Thursday, 5/23
*Thursday, May 23.**
5:00 p.m. Reception; 6:30 p.m. Dinner and Program.
At the Minneapolis Hilton.*
1001 Marquette Ave, Minneapolis, 55403
· This year’s keynote speaker is Condoleezza Rice. Dr. Rice served
as the 66th Secretary of State and also as President George W. Bush’s
National Security Advisor.
· Legal Aid staff will be honored for their commitment to justice.
· Introductory remarks will be made by Senator Amy Klobuchar.
* *
*Thursday, May 23.*
*4pm - PROTEST*
*at the Hilton*
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Hilton, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, Minneapolis... more »
Daily Links, Monday, May 19, 2013
*I didn't shoot until I saw the whites of his eyes.*
*PHILS/TAIWAN MESS*:
- The ROC embassies and representative offices are sending around this
massively silly item. When you look at how stupid and bellicose their
handling is, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Ma Administration
really wants to permanently harm its relations with Manila.
- The mainstream media has been pretty good on this, but that had to
end. The Guardian left a small turd on its readers' doorsteps, praising
the Ma Administration for expanding Taiwan's influence, getting everything
... more »
Yahoo : Buy Tumblr for $1.1bn
Yahoo has agreed a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for
$1.1bn in cash. In spite of the breadth and diversity of life online, there
are relatively few opportunities to make the kind of acquisitions that make
the industry stop and take stock. Yahoo's $1.1bn deal to buy Tumbler is one
of those moments: a bold gaining that says chief executive Marissa Meyer
means business.
Tumblr would be operated as a separate business. Yahoo's chief executive
Marissa Mayer promised "not to screw it up". David Karp, will go on as
chief executive officer of Tumblr. The deal is the... more »
ISRAELI PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
Israeli teenager Natan Blanc was sentenced to a tenth prison term of 28
days for refusing to serve in the Israeli army last week. With the latest
sentencing, he has been sent to prison more times than any previous
conscientious objector in Israel. Earlier this year, supporters and
activists held one of many regular support vigils on a hilltop overlooking
the IDF’s Prison 6, where he is currently being held.
Michelle Rhee in the poor house?
I hate it when I do this. I hate when I write about Queen Rhee. She get’s
more time than any reform charlatan deserves but she opened her mouth (for
how much $) at the Center for Leadership Development and Research at
Stanford’s graduate business school and then decided to write about her
profound insights into […]
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Tahmoh Penikett, 38.
And for some good stuff:
1. James Fallows on presidents and leaks. Exactly right. As I said last
week: don't worry about leaks; listen to them.
2. Wonderful piece from Sarah Kliff looking at the rollout of Medicare.
3. Brendan Nyhan has advice for reporters on covering scandal. Good.
4. Ed Kilgore dissents in part from my take on Harry Reid.
5. Philip Klein on what might happen to the ACA.
6. And Elizabeth Drew on Nixon. I don't agree with everything she says, but
it's still a good quick summary of what Watergate was from someone who
remembe... more »
The BBC ignoring one source of opposition to gay marriage
The BBC report here that there is opposition to gay marriage from 'Several
Cabinet ministers' & '34 current and former local (Conservative) party
chairmen'. This report details the debate in the Church of Scotland and
appears as a headline article on the BBC news website.
Meanwhile this BBC page tells about views of gay marriage amongst:
someone in a civil partnership
Reverend Malcolm Brown, director of mission and public affairs for
Archbishops' Council, Church of England
Paul Parker, Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain
Ed Costelloe, former chairman of Somerton and Frome Conservat... more »
India Closes Funding Door for Grassroots Organizations Aimed at Protecting the Environment and Human Rights
Rama Lakshmi Activists bristle as India cracks down on foreign funding
of
NGOs. The Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/activists-bristle-as-india-cracks-down-on-foreign-funding-of-ngos/2013/05/19/a647ff80-bcaf-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
[Excerpted] The government stepped up its campaign this month,
suspending
the permission that Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), a network of
more
than 700 NGOs across India, had to receive foreign funds. Groups in the
network campaign for indigenous peoples’ rights over their mineral-rich
... more »
Troxell House, by Richard Neutra
Emulating “mid-century modern” may be the latest fashion in
architecture—but if the emulators were to learn from original mid-century
moderns like Richard Neutra that could become a very good fashion indeed.
His “Troxell House” was built in 1956 for Sidney and Arilla Troxell and his
family, sold in 2003 to architect Charles Scott Hughes who renovated and
expanded it in 2005.
The house features a reflecting pool, glass walls, birch doors,
radiant-heat pipes under the concrete floors, recessed lighting (and a
catwalk outside the master bedroom to make it easier to clean the windows.... more »
Global equities continue to be meaningless barometers as credit markets struggle to remain meaningful - despite ham handed Central Bank manipulations.... silver liquidation , a rumor of a silver liquidation , rumors of questionable PM trading in Barrons - PM struggle to be meaningful despite ongoing manipulations.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/most-dangerous-country-europe
The Most Dangerous Country In Europe
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2013 08:25 -0400
- Bond
- Central Banks
- Equity Markets
- European Central Bank
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- International Monetary Fund
- non-performing loans
- Portugal
- Recession
- Sovereign Debt
- Sovereigns
*Submitted by Mark Grant, author of Out of the Box,*
One of the primary focuses of "Out of the Box" is on where you might get
hurt and, mo... more »
What is Going on Here?
Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago
I've
been very busy and have not been able to watch the cams for the last 2
days, but I know odd and worrisome phenomena are being noted. Last night
I
watched a disturbing video of the plant here.
The view on the TBS cam this morning is strange. Is this fog or smoke or
what? It is moving very rapidly:
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src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAT0AAAC7CAIAAACYZ967AAAgAElEQVR4nOy6V89jydmeq23Znk+aTtNvYFipcs5VKzO9udOMNJKcgP3/f8c+6J6RrA/7zIAhey4UwAK5+OQb5GLxd7vdrvnfSt00+/9Fq/r/91JVFed8WZbpN37jX5/fee/T/x2UUsZxHH7jN/71+d3Xaf6/gWEY+t/4jf8j+F0IIf/Gb/zGvxS/wxiz3/iN3/iX4n... more »
Great ALEC Description
Now this one made me laugh
Think Mary Poppins
Super-callous-Fracking-ALEC-expedites-atrocious.
*Read the rest of the article*
*>>>>>HERE<<<<<< *
It's a pretty good read - have to read it carefully and put the emphasis
on different syllables.* *
Steve Cohen's SAC may face criminal charges - are they finally about to break up the SAC Band ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/sacked-cohen-considers-closing
SACked: Cohen Considers Closing
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2013 16:40 -0400
- Cohen
- Insider Trading
- Steve Cohen
It appears that the noose is tightening and the wobbly-chair that Steve
Cohen is standing on is getting wobblier... As Bloomberg reports, after
five years under investigation for insider trading Steve Cohen is
considering a 'deal' with prosecutors that would shut his $15 billion fund
to outside investors and (as we noted this morning) shift a ... more »
Mercedes Schneider Reviews Dr. Steve Perry
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: Dr. Mercedes Schneider decided to
review Dr. Steve Perry's dissertation. Dr. Perry, until recently, was CNN's
education expert. She was not impressed. Read more… 10 more words This is
an amazing takedown, I absolutely love it. Love IT!! Dr. this, Dr. that,
the emperor has NO clothes.
Gallery of paintings I haven't painted yet ... guided tour of my future?
*ce n'est pas un Dali?*dreams, they're stupid.
Sometimes they're a regurgitation device, where worries or concerns repeat
themselves like we're being given a message.
Recurrent themes in my dreams:
- Alien invasion.
- Flooded streams.
- Voyage preparation, airports.
- 37 Elizabeth Road.
- Art galleries where I have an exhibition.
Yes, recently I've been given guided tours of galleries, sometimes
containing paintings I've done, but often containing retrospectives of
paintings I've yet to do.
And they're not bad, as I can recall without remembering the details of the ... more »
More on the Palestinian links to Nazis in World War 2 and now
The truth hurts and that's why Islamists, their supporters and apologists
try to hide the truth and prevent others from learning the truth. This is
true in the Middle East, the rest of the Muslim world and much of the West.
'Among the facts Ms. Ebéné didn't want the visitors of her center to learn
is that the Palestinian wartime leader "was one of the worst and fanatical
fascists and anti-Semites," as Mr. Rössel put it to me.
...
The mufti orchestrated the 1920/1921 anti-Jewish riots in Palestine and the
1929 Arab pogroms that destroyed the ancient Jewish community of Hebron. An
ea... more »
Investigation of the largest Czech credit union: assaulting the victims
*...including your humble correspondent...*
Another annoying event occurred to me on Friday – and it's still happening
and will be happening for quite some time.
I learned that the Czech National Bank, the supervisor of our financial
markets, began to audit MSD (imsd.cz) or Metropolitan Credit Union (the
largest Czech credit union) where I sent a very large amount of money on
Tuesday. The transaction wasn't completed (which is why I started to be
interested in the situation on Friday) and the money should have been
returned but they remained in the air, invisible at both places. To... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good mornin’. Here’s your linkage… Paolo Sorbello critiques the elegantly
fixed steps and rhythms of the last Waltz. Roger Mac Ginty at Plato’s Cave
discusses the construction of “greatness” in IR and the cult of
followership. Thomas Meaney tries to explain why a passionate history of
global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
Continue reading
Major 30% reduction in modelers estimates of Climate Sensitivity (Skeptics were right) « JoNova
'Effectively the power of CO2 to warm just got 30% less, according to a
team of researchers, many of whom have in the past have published more
alarming papers. Remember "there is no debate" and "global warming is a
fact" a lot "like gravity". (And that gravitational constant g could be
revised by a third soon, right?)'
Read the whole article here at Jo Nova
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/05/major-30-reduction-in-modelers-estimates-of-climate-sensitivity-skeptics-were-right/
Don't expect any reporting of this on the warmist BBC.
Lifestyle Diseases 21: NCDs Alarmism vs. Rising Lifespan
From the WHO website, this update on NCDs is shown:
*Noncommunicable diseases*
*Fact sheet
Updated March 2013*
*Key facts*
- * Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill more than 36 million people
each year.*
- * Nearly 80% of NCD deaths - 29 million - occur in low- and
middle-income countries.*
- * More than nine million of all deaths attributed to NCDs occur before
the age of 60; 90% of these "premature" deaths occurred in low- and
middle-income countries.*
- * Cardiovascular diseases account for most NCD deaths, or 17.3 million
people annually, followed by c... more »
“Too Big to Jail - Enough to Make Your Blood Boil”
* *
*“Too Big to Jail - Enough to Make Your Blood Boil”*
By MoneyMorning
“Shah Gilani writes: Here are two items that will upset you... First, back
in February, Attorney General Eric Holder christened the unofficial
official doctrine of "Too Big to Jail." He told Congress, "The size of some
of these institutions [TBTF banks] becomes so large that it does become
difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if
we do prosecute - if we do bring a criminal charge - it will have a
negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy."
Of co... more »
“The IRS and the Real Scandal”
* “The IRS and the Real Scandal”*
by Robert Reich
“This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two,”
said David Camp, the Republican chairman of the House tax-writing
committee, at an oversight hearing Friday morning dealing with the IRS.
“This is not a personnel problem. This is a problem of the IRS being too
large, too intrusive, too abusive.”
David Camp has it wrong. There has been a “systematic” abuse of power, but
it’s not what Camp has in mind. The real scandal is that: The IRS has
interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy indiv... more »
Football quiz time
Only 5 Premiership players played every minute of every Premiership game
this 2012/2013 season... Who are they?
“Oh Look, It's Nixon!”
* *
*“Oh Look, It's Nixon!”*
by Karl Denninger
“Oh boy, here we go. "President Barack Obama will not cooperate in a
“partisan fishing expedition” over who knew what and when about revelations
that groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra Internal
Revenue Service scrutiny. “We are going to work with Congress, as the
president said, in legitimate oversight,” Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to
Obama, said today on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” program.
“What we’re not going to participate in is a partisan fishing expedition
designed to distract from the ... more »
DERA DIED
*Lisa sought treatment for one-week old Dera all across Jakarta over a
four-day period. The 10 hospitals were either too crowded or lacked the
equipment to treat Dera. Dera later died from respiratory complications.*
Indonesia is to introduce free medical care for the poor.
The government will pay for the health insurance of those poor people who
are not currently covered.
Currently only 52% of Indonesians have health insurance.
Indonesia has a booming economy.
*Child in Jakarta with leprosy.*
But, there are problems.
*1.* The World Bank estimates the health insurance scheme cou... more »
True the Vote Founder: DOJ Scrutinized Us After IRS Filing
This is what happens if you dare to oppose the Obamamessiah on USA. Do you
believe couldn't happen in UK? What proportion of HMRC, police etc. are
Labour supporters? Activists?
More here
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/True-the-Vote-Founder-DOJ-Also-Investigated-Us-After-IRS-Filing
Breaking up the Banks
That is the issue is it not? The US government has had a full century of
effective experience in the art of breaking up large risky corporations as
any sane government must. Instead we actually got a consolidation instead.
Quit bluntly all the too large to fail banks should have been instantly
nationalized and sold of piecemeal with financing to the myriad smaller
domestic banks.
The lesson would never have been forgotten because all the perps would
have lost all their capital.
Instead we have the present nonsense in which recovery is achieved by
embarking on the same ... more »
Justinian Plague Cause Confirmed
That at least puts that question to rest. The plague likely remained in
the background between eruptions that were possibly triggered by mutation.
It is noteworthy that what historical writings that I have come across
often appear to be describing a somewhat different disease in different
eras yet unmistakably still the plague.
Modernism will ultimately crush this problem as we steadily squeeze the
rat into the edges of our world. The process will now be well underway in
both India and China.
We are recently rather nervous about bird flues, yet these have been
propaga... more »
Cellular Garbage Disposal Delays Aging
This is very promising and somehow it seems plausible to manipulate the
expression of this particular gene or even introduce it to assist. It is at
least a significant tool to improve health and implied longevity.
As posted before, longevity research is hitting its stride and appears to
be responding very well.
We are so used to long research cycles that rapid progress in biological
discovery seems impossible. However even researchers here are seriously
motivated to take real chances and that can really speed the process.
*Boosting 'cellular garbage disposal' can de... more »
How Ontario Plans to Become the World’s Top Technology Hub
First, there is critical mass and a convinced political environment
supporting this activity. Secondly, it is already holding the number two
slot and simply has to try harder. Third is the steady flood of talent
already living there. The wins will naturally follow.
Even better, the Securities market is local and big and thoroughly
connected to London, Frankfurt and New York. In the USA, New York and the
SEC actually acts as much a choke point as an effective conduit to
distribution.
My point is that this ambition is not impossible and plausible for two
reasons. The first ... more »
India to Israel thanks to Islamist terrorists Elder of Ziyon: These religious Jewish girls can kick some serious a**
'Sarah wasn’t available for an interview, but she also has quite an amazing
story.* Born into a Hindu family in Mumbai, India, her father was a friend
of Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivka*, who were both murdered when
terrorists attacked the Chabad House (Jewish community centre) in Mumbai in
November 2008. *Out of solidarity with the Jewish people, Sarah’s entire
family converted to Judaism and migrated to Israel in 2009*. Sarah took up
Muay Thai while studying in a religious school.'
More here
Video From German Documentary: Americans Teaching Iraqis How To Torture
Below is a clip from what looks like a German documentary about the U.S.
invasion of Iraq. It shows American soldiers teaching Iraqi officers the
dark art of torture.
Remember what Obama said soon after he became president: *"We need to look
forward as opposed to looking backwards."* Imagine an American president
saying that at Nuremberg.
My god, how low America has fallen. It went from liberating Europe to
teaching Arabs how to torture other Arabs.
Why post this video now? Because we must look backward. Even in the middle
of the night.
Obama is wrong. Torture is wrong. America h... more »
Election 8: Growth, Debt and the 2013 Polls
* This is my article last Saturday in thelobbyist.biz.
--------
The Senatorial and local elections last Monday, May 13, 2013, was fought by
candidates and political parties on various issues and battle grounds,
foremost of which was the economy. While the administration trumpeted the
fast GDP growth in 2012 and the recent ratings upgrade to investment status
by Fitch and then by S&P, the opposition contended that such growth remains
elitist and many poor people remain wondering where the growth and the jobs
are.
From a cursory review of certain macroeconomic figures taken from The ... more »
5 Poems by Edward Dorn
Title: 5 Poems by Edward Dorn. YouTube Video Description - [Channel:
PoemsBeingRead. Uploaded on June 27, 2010]:
Ed Dorn (1929-1999)
Edward Dorn told Effie Mihopoulos in a 1991 interview that "[Poetry is]
obsolete...But so what? There are lots of great things that are obsolete.
Kerosene lamps are obsolete, but there's no light like it in a cabin in
Northern Wisconsin...." (1)
Edward Dorn was born April 2, 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois. Attending a
one-room school house until eighth grade, he was raised during the
Depression in a family of itinerant farmers. In 1964 he included ... more »
"Global War on Terror" is officially permanent
Recently, the Senate Armed Services Committee *held a hearing* regarding
the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, the extremely dubious
and un-Constitutional legislation that gave the United States government
"legal authority" to use military force against “those who planned,
authorized, committed or aided” the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Rather than
arresting and executing the dual Israeli-American citizens and other
traitors who planned, facilitated, executed, and covered up 9/11, using
military force against the criminal terrorist state of Israel, whose agents
and ass... more »
Google in tax scandal in Uk ? Adam Kokesh arrested in Philadelphia for no apparent reason....New Jersey Senate Committee on gun control hearing suffers breakdown as crowd ignores Pols....
http://www.infowars.com/google-insider-exposes-immoral-tax-scam/
Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam
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*Simon Duke and Jon Ungoed-Thomas*
The Sunday Times
May 18, 2013
A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral”
tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds
of millions of pounds over the past decade.
Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the inter... more »
Syria and Israel up ante...... Who is bluffing , we shall see soon !
« Breaking News »Syria prepares missiles to strike Tel Aviv – report
DEBKA*file* May 19, 2013, 4:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Sunday Times reports that Syria is deploying advanced Tishreen
surface-to-surface missiles to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches
another attack. The paper cites “information obtained by reconnaissance
satellites tracking Syrian forces,” without any other source.
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad said in a broadcast Thursday,
May 16, that if Israel again attacked Syria, it would face an immediate and
painful response. Asked if he realized that his word... more »
Water supply contamination / poisoning - The Next Terror Attack or False Flag Action ? recent events concerning NYC and perhaps Boston again highlight this could be an area of legitimate concern ....
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/70924886/112995913.html
Afternoon Show → Tunisian national wanted to poison NYC water supply,
indictment says
Tags: vasili sushko, Tunisia , News, ahmed abassi, terror plot, Culture,
legal, US, terrorism
Rob Sachs
May 10, 2013 16:08
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Bubble finance brings Australasia a new world-historical moment
You might have noticed that the mantle of Australasia’s most highly valued
company has been passed from one that produces resources from out of the
ground, i.e., BHP, to one that creates credit out of thin air, i.e., the
Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Close on the CBA’s heels is fellow
credit-creator Westpac, said to be “within a good trading session of
knocking BHP out of second position.”
Just so we’re clear, this is not normal. This is historically, a very
important turnaround—a new world-historical moment. The turnaround has
puzzled many people, but it shouldn’t have.
Well,... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - CelloMom on Cars
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
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Grab our banner for your site:
*The
rules:*
1. Use the "linky" below to share your green-living blog or collection
of
environmental posts.
2. V... more »
*The
rules:*
1. Use the "linky" below to share your green-living blog or collection
of
environmental posts.
2. V... more » Who Does Wall Street Own In Congress?
The Grayson Takano No Cuts letter is the gold standard
The House doesn't usually stay in sessions Fridays, let alone take serious
votes, but this past Friday, as we mentioned yesterday, Boehner and Cantor
kept the Members in town to repay a promise they had made to their Wall
Street masters to further weaken the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. A
bill Wall Street lobbyists wrote with one of their most pathetic
congressional shills, Scott Garrett (R-NJ)-- and co-sponsored by 23 other
bankster asswipes (20 of them members of the House Financial Services
Committee who brazenly take lar... more »
Mizuho Bank to terminate overseas ATM service - ability to withdraw ( " It's owing to a variety of circumstances . " ) ........ Latest crazy town talk from the Japan Econ Minister..... When will the talk turn to financial solvency or lack thereof of their Banks ?
Mizuho Bank to terminate service to withdraw cash from ATMs overseas,”owing
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On 4/14/2013, Fukushima Diary reported “[Bank withdrawal regulation ?] JP
6th largest bank Shinsei to ban withdrawal from ATM outside of JP [URL]”
One of the three Japanese Mega banks, Mizuho Bank is also going to
terminate the international cash card service to withdraw cash and check
the account balance from ATMs outside of Japan.
The terminat... more »
Harvey Organ Gold and Silver Report for May 15 , 2013 - data , news and views on the PMs !
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/gold-drops-again/
GOLD PRICE: Another caning for the shiny metal, only 1,394 theories as
to why.
[image: gold15513]
In case you haven’t been following it, gold fell off a cliff when the FTSE
opened this morning, from $1427 to $1409. It then flatlined at that price,
until the NYSE opened….at which point it dropped another $17. Not that I’m
suggesting any conspiracy here – but then the time zones* are* implicated.
And The Slog *did* say last week that Friday falls in the past had been
followed by further attacks the following week.
Who knows what... more »
Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal
"The anti-humanitarian tenor of Western policies towards the Kurds are well
rooted in history. *Indeed, they are based on long-standing strategic
interests in the region. “The Kurds are in several countries and that was
planned by Britain”, observes former President of the American Kurdish
Society in Boston, Hussein Aktas.* “If you have a problem with Iraq, you
can use them against Iraq, same for Iran and Turkey.” Thanks to this
disasterous condition, historically established by the West, there are
“millions of Kurds who have been displaced from their homes since 1993 in
Turkey”, ... more »
The Failed President
The recent kidnapping of 17 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai by terrorist Islamic
criminals was an act of insult to the Egyptian government, the army and
society at large. The kidnappers are demanding the release of 24 criminals
who are in an Egyptian jail for crimes that they have committed.
The kidnapping of soldiers or civilians should be taken seriously and no
negotiations should take place with those thugs that kidnapped them. This
terrorist act was the third one within a year. The first was the kidnapping
of four police officers in al-Arish, No information has been made available
... more »
What are Boehner and his people doing about this "acute shortage" of luxury housing?
*The interior of the seven-story townhouse at 80 Washington Place, priced
to move at $28.9 mil, making it "the highest-priced single-family townhouse
in all of Greenwich Village"*
*"Village brokers and buyers alike have reported an acute shortage of
luxury homes, and fierce bidding wars for fine homes."*
*-- from Andrea Swalec's DNAinfo.com report,* "Most
Expensive Village Townhouse Hits Market for $28.9 Million"
*by Ken*
I read this report a couple of days ago, and I don't mind telling you that
I've been losing sleep since, worrying about this "acute shortage of luxury
homes" in ... more »
Does Aspirin Prevent Liver Cancer, and, Does Ginkgo Extract Cause It?
Aspirin (acetylsalicyclic acid) is one of those drugs that blurs the
distinction between the natural world and the products of human ingenuity,
being a barely-tweaked analogue of salicylic acid. Salicylic acid is not
only prevalent in the diet, it appears to be synthesised endogenously in
fasting states.
(music: Seven Fishes by Jigsaw)
Aspirin has long been regarded ambivalently in medicine. On the one hand it
kills pain and reduces fever, on the other hand excess can make the gut
bleed and damage the kidneys, and even cause hepatitis. Low-dose, buffered
aspirin is commonly used a... more »
What's That Between Steve's Shoulder Blades? Oh, That's a Knife.
The Tories have a rich history of backstabbing. Dalton Camp did in John
Diefenbaker and was never forgiven. Brian Mulroney shoved Joe Clark out
of the way and into a ditch. Could it be possible that the knives are
coming out for Steve Harper in the finest Conservative tradition?
Trying to make sense of what's been happening this week isn't easy. On the
surface, nothing seems to add up. It has the confused improbability of
palace intrigue.
Someone or some group on the inside is playing a high stakes game in which
Stephen Harper may be the intended target. Sure they're going... more »
This is life in a 400 ppm world
[image: Reconstruction of a Pliocene swamp near Perpignan, from Agusti and
Anton (2002), 'Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids', Columbia University
Press. That era, which took place from 5.8 to 2.6 million years ago, was
the last time there was so much CO2 blanketing the planet. Graphic:
Mauricio Anton]
By Brian Merchant
16 May 2013
(Motherboard) – It already ranks as one of the grimmest measurements ever
taken.
Climate scientists found that for the first time in approximately three
million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached
400 parts per million. ... more »
Image of the Day: Satellite view of dust plumes off Argentina
[image: Dust plumes blew out of southern Argentina and over the Atlantic
Ocean in early May 2013. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on 12
May 2013. The dust blew out of the Patagonian Desert, and many of the
plumes arose from sediments around a shallow lake. Photo: Jeff Schmaltz /
NASA GSFC]
By Michon Scott
12 May 2013
(NASA) – Dust plumes blew out of southern Argentina and over the Atlantic
Ocean in early May 2013. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite... more »
The Best Congress FIRE Sector Money Can Buy (And You Thought They Just Didn't Care - Or Were Inept) and Teflon Diamond Don/Liars Run Amuck But Not Ever Jailed In Smartest People Anywhere Crowd (Just Ask Them)
You know how much I distrust the Wall Street Journal and most so-called
reporting vehicles that originate on or from the regions (even
metaphysical) around Wall Street, but I've gotta admit that the situation
has now gotten so dire that it seems even the really bad guys are telling
on each other (or the worse(r) guys) and it's getting tougher and tougher
to tell what the really bad behavior is
Hey, World Vision, leave my kids alone
*Schoolchildren have been doing the 40 Hour Famine since what seems
forever. Guest poster Jonathan Livingstone reckons they should stop.*
*Going Hard Out for the Hungry?*
If ever there were a reason to apply the Eternal Vigilance principle to
voluntary charity, World Vision would be it.
For World Vision has cooked up the kookiest of fund-raising schemes, one
where kids get to go hungry to raise money for charity. Forget the old war
veteran sitting alone and forgotten in his miserable rest home, there’ll be
no visit for him from these kids. Nor a helping hand for an old crippled
... more »
Tepco's Plan to Divert Ground Water By Dumping Into Ocean
Tepco cannot manage the volume of contaminated water being produced at the
Daiichi site. It appears that between water injections and fresh water
seepage, 800 tons of radioactive water are being produced in the Daiichi
buildings every single day.
Tepco wants to divert ground water into the ocean to limit the build-up of
water in the reactor buildings.
Japan's Fukushima fisheries associations are very wary about Tepco's plant
to prevent ground water from entering the reactor buildings by diverting it
into the ocean. The Asahi Shimbun has reported recently on their concerns
that the... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Oh, why not: we're six months away from 2012 Election Day now, and the
first 100 days of Barack Obama's second term are long gone. How does
everything so far compare to your expectations? Disappointed? About what
you expected? Worse? If worse: who do you blame?
Richard Tarnas - City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light
*"Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View"* by Richard Tarnas.
City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light, Richard Tarnas
11-30-2012. Source: Uploaded by ArchetypalView on December 26, 2012.
The City Dark Trailer (2012)
Where were you when we needed you
I'm about done with the pseudoscandals but one last word on the AP records
grab. AP's CEO went on the teevee to wail about their persecution today
claiming the DoJ violated the constitution.
“We don’t question their right to conduct these sort of investigations, we
just think they went about it the wrong way. So sweeping, so secretively,
so abusively and harassingly and overbroad that it is an unconstitutional
act,” Pruitt said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. [...]
“Under their own rules, they are required to narrow this request as
narrowly as possible so as to not tread upon the ... more »
Midnight Train To Georgia-- Tbilisi Not Safe For Tourists
Barbaric, primitive priests spread fear and hatred in Georgia
Yesterday I wrote about how primitive, Bronze Age notions regarding the
subjugation of women in the patriarchal societies of the 3 major Abrahamic
religions, still leads to thousands of brutal murders and barbaric
treatment of women all over the world. Friday saw a demonstration related
to that mentality in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. This time the victims
of the primitive religionists, though, were gay people.
The first thing an international traveler notices on arriving in Tbilisi,
capital of Georgia, is that the ro... more »
Terpsichore Sunday
Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance ~ Jean-Marc Nattier, 1739
I rented the Danish movie "A Royal Affair" (*En kongelig affære) *to watch
online, which I quite liked because it's a terrific example of the genre of
romantic, historical costume docudrama, with the inevitable antique dance
at a fancy-dress ball which follows, ahem, in the footsteps of noble
predecessors like this classic scene:
Another favorite of mine is Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, the magic
of which I've never escaped. Okay...it was 1968, and I was fifteen years
old. This isn't the original music, but it's all... more »
Pearson history text mimics art history textbook in same controversy, with UPDATES
UPDATE: I have some new pictures and information about this text for you.
Thanks Laura for these. Here’s a link on Amazon to the actual text: Global
History and Geography: Prentice Hall Brief Review for the NY Regents
(2013). So, to prepare for the test, you are encouraged to purchase this
handy preparation manual with a […]
Stephen Harper Is Far Too Sleazy, Corrupt And Dishonest To Be Straight With Canadians About The Senate Scandal ....
**
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*-Stephen Harper is never going to be honest with Canadians about the
sleaze that is oozing out of his political administration*.
*-There isn't even any point in the RCMP investigating the Senate scandal because
the leadership of the RCMP is in Harper's hip pocket and will whitewash
whatever the Conservatives have done.*
*-If Stephen Harper prorogues Canada's Parliament this week then things
will get very, very serious in the nation.*
*-Democracy, as we know it in Canada, is not going to survive Stephen
Harper's stranglehold on power without som... more »
“V” is for Victory #commoncore
More “propaganda” Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
Tagged: ccss, common core, Curriculum, propaganda, standards, victory
“V” is for Victory #commoncore
More “propaganda” Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
Tagged: ccss, common core, Curriculum, propaganda, standards, victory
Pieless in Gaza, at the stove with Yolande
Hadar at *CiF Watch* posted a piece about an article from the *Guardian*'s
Harriet Sherwood which plugged a book about gastronomy in Gaza by Laila
el-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt called *The Gaza Kitchen*. Laila el-Haddad, a *CiF
*contributor in the past, is no mere cook book writer; she's also a
Palestinian activist who advocates a 'one-state' solution to the
Israel-Palestinian conflict - i.e. the dissolution of the State of Israel -
and whose book doesn't steer away from a (loaded) take on the political
context.
Inevitably, the BBC also plugged the same book. Monday night's *P.M.*... more »
The Rats in Uncle Steve's Pantry
Stephen Harper knows he's got rats in the Conservative pantry and it must
be giving him fits trying to figure out just who they are.
Somebody is leaking a steady stream of information, documents and e-mails
to Bob Fife of *CTV* about Mike Duffy, Pam Wallin and Nigel Wright and who
knows what or whom might be still to come.
Mike Duffy has taken refuge in his Cavendish cottage in P.E.I. and is quick
to summon the police to clear off nosy journalists. Harper is apparently
in Peru although he's expected back to face down the Tory caucus on Tuesday
morning.
This sounds like a settli... more »
British Columbia`s LNG Facilities To Be Built In South Korea, Each One To Employ A Mere 250 Full-Time Workers(What Happened To Your Promise Of 75,000 Full-Time LNG Jobs Christy Clark?)
Isn`t this what our 2013 election was all about....Streets paved with gold,
prosperity fund for the children, 100,000`s of jobs, BC Hydro, BC Ferries
debt eliminated, Port Mann bridge tolls wiped out, British Columbia`s debt
retired and sales tax removed..
Those were the promises Christy and the BC Liberals made to all voters, I
like to dream too, powerball lottery wins, fountain of youth, finding new
earth-like ready to inhabit planets we can shuttle off to..
It`s time the BC Government and or the energy companies give us the
straight goods, me personally, I already have the answ... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
What do you think of the job that Darrell Issa has done so far, over the
last two plus years, as Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee? How much confidence to you have in him to do a good job going
forward?
Turkish TV Reporter/Propagandist Gets Owned By A Truth-Telling Villager
Somebody wrote in the comment section for the video below, "this needs to
happen all over the planet....correct the mouthpieces live on tv!"
Also, remember this? CNN got caught demonizing the Tea Party movement.
Mohawk Nation News 'Sty Story'
STY STORY
Posted on May 19, 2013
MNN. May 19, 2013. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and
Senator Mike Duffy, together weigh more than 700 pounds and both feed
from the same pig trough. Is pig trough owner, Prime Minister Harper,
fattening them up for the slaughter? Similarities are: both will not bow
down or repent; both want vengeance against those who exposed their
Turkish People Protest Against Their Government's Policy Towards Syria
Now it's about to get interesting.
Cops beat, teargas Turkish protesters angry at govt stance on Syria.
Source: RT.
Anti-government anger in Turkey after Syria border bombings. Source:
Euronews.
'Neo-Ottomanism driven Turkey does NATO's job, adds fuel to Syrian fire.'
Source: RT.
Creative Showcase: Creative Features and Link-Up
If you follow Housewife Eclectic on Instagram, you can see that this week
has been a crazy one. Signings with three different authors, lots of baking
and some dumpster diving for pallets. What can I say? I have now officially
jumped in a dumpster for a craft project. I think that is an important
milestone. ;) On to some great features today!
I am sucker for Biscotti and cinnamon, so putting them together seems like
a perfect solution. These Cinnamon Biscotti Dunkers from Lemon Tree
Dwelling look divine.
Small confession. Pizza is probably my favorite food. Ever. This Dessert
Pizz... more »
Whitewashing Sex Gangs (II)
Following on from Sue's *Whitewashing Sex Gangs* post, the closing section
of Radio 4's *Sunday *dealt (as Sue pointed out) with the same highly
controversial issue of child grooming by Muslim gangs in the wake of the
Oxford abuse trial, where several men with backgrounds in several Muslim
countries (not just Pakistan) used and abused a number of under-aged white
girls in the most degrading and cruel ways imaginable.
For a programme that has exhaustively pursued the Roman Catholic Church
over the particular issue of clerical child abuse in recent years, this is
a subject the progr... more »
TransCanada reps kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux
TransCanada Reps Kicked Out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
'When a rape victim says 'no,' it means 'no'!'
'You can not come back!'
By Tarsands Blockade
http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/cheyenne-river/
“You’re not welcome here… We’ve said no from day one.”
And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked
out of Cheyenne River Sioux
Go Climb A Tree
I couldn't pass up yesterday's great weather to get out for a little
birding foray and my efforts were richly rewarded with 10 additions to my
year list, including 2 for my life list. My intended destination was a
marsh on the end of my subdivision down by Wood Buffalo and Dickinsfield. I
stopped along the way by a storm pond to catch my first Red-winged
Blackbird and Grackle sightings and it was there that I caught my first
glimpse of a Savannah Sparrow in the grass along the marsh edge. From there
I skirted a treeline behind some condos on my way to the marsh. At this
point I deci... more »
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