12:10pm MDST
Syria: Turkeys' military escapades; Israeli jeep enters Syrian territory & more
Yes, it's going to be a long one. But worth reading. I have had much
catching up to do
May as well get started...................
Let’s take a gander at Turkey and it’s involvement as NATO’s ninny in
destroying Syria
The Turkish people aren’t to pleased: Protesters oppose Turkey's support
for Syrian rebels in the civil war
*Three cheers for the Turkish people!!*
*Brief rant:*
Time to end that belief in government.... Government serves no one but
itself and it’s masters..It is a self perpetuating, leech on society.
Government is part of the illusion of choice and freedom.
Pop the illu... more »
Against Democratic Certainty That Republicans Will Go Nuclear Next Time
Paul Waldman makes a claim that I see all the time:
Let's be realistic here. Unless there's some kind of major upheaval within
the Republican party that moves it back to the center, when the day comes
that there's a Republican president and a Republican senate, the filibuster
will be gone. It won't take a Democratic minority using it with the
profligacy Republicans have, either. All it will take is one filibuster on
something Republicans care about. Today's Republicans don't care about the
institution's traditions, or about what kind of precedent they might set.
They care about gett... more »
While you were sleeping...
Two words. They are crawling, jumping, whispering and shouting into my
consciousness. “Do something.”
Urgently and absolutely, this is a call to act. Last year, the *Light
Worker Series* ended with *December22nd, First Day on the Job. *Since
then, there’s been a recovery and perhaps a bit of mourning going on from
12/21/12. Enough already, it’s been 5 months and there is much to do.
The One People’s Trust broke the bonds of slavery for us. Now, with the
I/UV in our pocket, it is up to us to shake them off completely and get to
work. For the “owners” are still around... more »
The tenacity of hope
Spending every Sunday for more than a year now with a ragtag group of kids
from deprived, troubled childhoods has turned out to be a surprisingly
heartening experience.
The kids at Angelitos Felices foster home were like little cyphers to me
when I first started volunteering there last April. Their squeaky little
voices were impossible for me to understand in those early days of learning
Spanish, and I also found it hard to see past the overwhelming grimness of
where they were living to even consider getting to know them as individuals
and not just tragic cases of societal neglect.
... more »
President Obama, cool, calm, collected
Some insights from former speechwriter Jon Favreau, on how President Obama
deals with media driven scandals. Worth a read in full, but here's the
standout grafs:
In the case of the AP phone records, Obama the former constitutional-law
professor cares deeply about the balance between freedom and security. This
is the president who began the foreign-policy section of his inaugural with
the words “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our
ideals.” And he wants Congress to debate and finally pass a media-shield
law. But can you imagine if the president of the United Stat... more »
Validity of information
R. v. Ladouceur, 2013 ONCA 328 holds non-compliance with s. 508 of the *Criminal
Code** *has no effect on the validity of an information:
[19] So, if an information survives a defect in the time limit
imposed by s. 505, the crucial issue raised in this appeal is whether there
is any reason, based in logic or policy, why a deficiency in the
confirmation process set forth in s. 508 ought to operate differently so as
to nullify a valid information. I am of the view that a defect in the
confirmation process does not affect the validity of an information. The
legal consequence of... more »
Millions March Against Monsanto
Brad Jordan
*[Editor's note: This article is an excellent rundown of what Monsanto is
in regards to food rights, safety, monopoly, patents, cronyism, and why
millions are marching in peaceful protest. Please read and especially share
with friends and family who are hearing about it and may not be aware of
Monsanto and genetically modified foods. -HC ]*
*Fight for your right to eat food*
Tired of not being able to trust your food? Tired of all the food deserts
in this country, where there’s no choice other than which nasty fast-food
place to drive-thru? Tired of federal regulator... more »
Election Day In L.A.: Eric Garcetti Is The Better Candidate... By A Mile
I don't recall any L.A. Mayor going on to be President of the United
States. Eric Garcetti could be the first. Today's the day that will be
decided. His opponent, "former" (technically-speaking) Republican Wendy
Greuel, a shill for the DWP (Department of Water and Power), is a dead end
hack with a lot of endorsements from a lot of people who instinctively pick
a corrupt conservative Democrat over a progressive reformer. Bill Clinton
is backing Greuel of course. He never backs progressives over ConservaDems
and EMILY's List... well, they can always be counted on to play the filthy
... more »
Joe Rogan & The Pharmaceutical Industry: Prescribing Happiness
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The IRS War on Medical Marijuana Providers
Freda Art Clarence Walker
*Stop The Drug War*
Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a
number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government.
SWAT-style raids by the DEA and finger-wagging press conferences by
grim-faced federal prosecutors may garner greater attention, but the
assault on medical marijuana providers extends to other branches of the
government as well, and moves by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to
eliminate dispensaries' ability to take standard business deduction are
another very painful arrow in the federal q... more »
Pesticide Content in Food Less Regulated by Codex Than Vitamins and Minerals
image source Brandon Turbeville
In the past, I have written numerous articles dealing with Codex
Alimentarius and its guidelines regarding vitamin and mineral food
supplements, food irradiation, and genetically modified (GM) food. I have
also written about the unfolding agenda to implement Codex standards on a
global scale to the detriment of all those who value clean, healthy food
and the ability to make their own choices regarding what they do or do not
eat.
In keeping with the theme of these previous reports, it is important to
note the official Codex position on pesticide con... more »
Sent by Jon Lubar, a few words on chronic absenteeism
I invited a guest speaker to come into one of my classes who teaches at one
of worst high schools in the country–literally, it’s on a list. In any
event, this teacher stated that of the 120 students or so on record, he’ll
see in a good day about half of them. And since he’s […]
7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They Do Not Want You To Know
Michael Snyder
Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media? In America
today, we are more "connected" than ever. The average American watches 153
hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching
movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing
the Internet. If someone could control the production of all of that
media, that would make them immensely powerful. They would literally be in
a position to tell people what to think. Well, what if I told you that
there are just six enormous media conglomerates that combine ... more »
Disturbing irregularites regarding the 9/11 phone calls: CNBC reporting
*CNBC:*
Why is this corporate newsworthy now?
I mean, it is nice to see mainstream, sure.
But is it acceptable, presently, all these years later, for the media to
bring forward just one of the many, many 9-11 "inconsistencies" ?
It only reinforces the fact that the media, are nothing but the *great
regurgitators..*.
Then as now. Like Iraq. Like Syria. Like Libya. You get the idea?
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- America first learned of the 9/11
hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported two calls from
his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson.
Good th... more »
Being Jeb...a pretend interview.
Reblogged from Blue Hat Movement: Hi, my name is Charlie and I want to
present to you a scenario. For the sake of explaining a portion of what is
happening to our public schools, I am going to perform a little magic and
transport you to a world where I am Jeb Bush. But first, […]
Uncle Sam SUCKS!
Uncle Sam sucks American blood and liberty!! At Least 274 American Soldiers
Remains Discarded In Trash Dump!! Doesn't that make you want to declare
independence once more! This time from Uncle Sam!
The Love revolution is one of the greatest cultural shifts in the history
of mankind. It is a global political awakening! We will soon reach the
tipping point, as more of us refuse to remain neutral in these times of
great moral conflict and work for positive change!
Perhaps you thought Uncle Sam was a benevolent spirit but harassing
disabled, sick and dying citizens over their medicina... more »
Graph of the Day: Observed and modeled September Arctic sea ice extent, 1900-2100
[image: September Arctic sea ice extent based on 89 ensemble members from
36 CMIP5 models under the RCP8.5 (high) emissions scenario. Each thin
colored line represents one ensemble member from the model. The thick
yellow line is the arithmetic mean of all ensemble members and the blue
line is their median value. The thick black line represents observations
based on adjusted HadleyISST_ice analysis for the period 1953-1978, and
NSIDC from 1979-2012. Observation data were provided by Meier, NSIDC. The
horizontal black dashed line marks the 1.0 M km2 value, which indicates
nearly sea... more »
Justice for All?
Residents just outside Fukushima seek damages in nuclear crisis (2013, May
21), The Asahi Shimbun,
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305210101
[Excerpted] Nearly 700 residents from the Hippo district of Miyagi
prefecture, just north of Fukushima, are demanding equal compensation to
the residents of Fukushima prefecture where the accident occurred. [end]
Majia here: Apparently the residents in Miyagi are being denied full
compensation despite findings of high radiation in their area.
Radiation fallout is always patchy, but by drawing arbitrary boundaries
Te... more »
--Harper Completely Sidesteps PMO / Senate Scandal - Today marks the beginning of the end of his government ...
*Stephen Harper's speech to his Caucus isn't going to work out very well
for the Conservatives in the long run.*
*
**Here's how the emergency Conservative Caucus meeting went this morning:*
*
**1) Harper invited the Parliamentary Press Gallery into the Caucus room
for the first part of the meeting. *
*2) He started the meeting by making a statement. He didn't let Caucus
members have a chance to do or say anything on the issue in front of the
press.*
*
**3) He had his stern face on and lectured the Caucus, threatening anyone
who falsely files expense claims from here on.*
*4) The ... more »
You Are Not the PROBLEM, I Am Not the PROBLEM; the PROBLEM Is the PROBLEM
At Bridging Differences, veteran educator Deborah Meier and reformer Mike
Petrilli are debating who is the problem. And, that is a step up from their
previous disagreement over who was a part of the disease. While I side with
Meier, I would like to make a couple of suggestions for the further
bridging of differences. […]
Barton Paul Levenson: No warming for 15 years!
[image: Regression of Hadley CRUTEMP3 annual land-sea temperature anomalies
for the years 1982-2011. Graphic: Barton Paul Levenson]By Barton Paul
Levenson
10 April 2013
"There's been no global warming for fifteen years!" This is the latest cry
of the global warming deniers. It's totally spurious, of course, because
you need 30 years to show a climate trend, not 15. But just to prove my
point, I'll show in detail how sample size affects the conclusions you can
come to on temperature trends.
[Using] the Hadley CRUTEMP3 annual land-sea temperature anomalies for the
past 30 years, le... more »
A Foolish Little Hobgoblin
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has a little mind. He's also a fool.
He's a grotesque hobgoblin who doesn't even have the decency to wait
until scores of constituent bodies have been dug out of the
wreckage before announcing that aid to his state must first be offset by
cuts.
From the *Huffington Post*:
Coburn spokesman John Hart on Monday evening confirmed that the senator
will seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief
i... more »
Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
Greetings all. PM and I are switching linkage duty. Omar Ali looks at the
2013 Pakistani election at 3QD. Tom Nichols argues against US ambiguity on
Iran and North Korea. Via Alana Tiemessen:
international justice infographics from the Leitner Center (pdf). North
Korean piracy and maritime disputes in Northeast Asia. Juan Cole on
mounting sectarian violence in Iraq. The
Continue reading
UPDATED: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Remember When This Scandal Was All About Mike Duffy?
This began with a scandal about Mike Duffy and a cottage on Friendly Lane
in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Suddenly that seems like so long ago,
an eon.
Duffy, Duffy who?
Now the scandal has shot straight up the food chain, ricocheting around the
Senate and on into the PMO. And the path is littered with the bodies -
Duffy, Pam Wallin, Nigel Wright and now, seemingly, Benjamin Perrin, Harper
legal counsel. Now the scandal has kept on going, right into Mr. Harper's
private office, right to his very throne.
Thanks to some dissident, insurgent if you will, probably from the rank... more »
Cynicism - Too Little Too Late
The BBC has produced a comparatively even-handed piece on the latest
chapter in the Al Durah saga.
From the extreme anti-Israel website Mondoweiss, which quotes a typically
‘self-hating’ article in Haaretz that describes the latest Israeli report
on the incident as “surreal”, to Honest Reporting’s article, which
reproduces the report in full, the BBC emerges somewhere in the middle.
Apart, perhaps, from the misleading first paragraph which says “*An Israeli
investigation has said a French news report in 2000 which blamed Israeli
troops for shooting dead a Palestinian child **was ba... more »
Just 4 U - Courtesy of Koch & Keystone
Coming to your backyard - - - - soon.
Courtesy of Koch
If you need another reason for fear and loathing of Keystone, there's this:
Towering over the Detroit River is a *three-story, block-long pile* of
petroleum coke, the toxic, high-sulfur, high-carbon and ever-increasing -
Canada has 79.8 million tons stockpiled - *waste byproduct* of refining tar
sands oil.
From Common Dreams
New Research on VAM from Carnegie Center for the Advancement of Teaching
As the evidence mounts, we see that corporate education’s hastily-planned
war on teachers and public schools was based on bad intel intentionally
warped to shape public buy-in. Now the assault finds itself discredited by
the facts on the ground and bogged down by an indigenous resistance that
has just sensed its advantage. Highlights below are […]
10 of My Favorite Book Covers
Today I am talking about book covers. A book cover doesn't necessarily say
whether or not I am going to read a book, but if a book has a beautiful
cover I am more likely to delve into it quicker. Here are some of my
favorite. Linking up with The Broke and the Bookish.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth- My favorite part of this cover is the train in
the bottom part of it. It just fits the story. On a side note, have you
seen the cover for Allegiant? LOVE!
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo- I absolutely love this cover. The colors
of it fit the story
Crossed by Ally Condie- I love the ima... more »
Government bureaucrat said to be sharp!
*TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013*
*You rarely see statements like this:* In this morning’s New York Times,
three major figures—two from the GOP—defend the administration’s conduct
with respect to the AP.
We aren’t saying they’re right or wrong. We simply want to call attention
to one of their statements.
We were struck by the highlighted statement. In our world, you rarely see
statements like this:
BARR, GORELICK AND WAINSTEIN (5/21/13): At the time the [AP] article was
published, there were strong bipartisan calls for the Justice Department to
find the leaker. *Attorney General Eric H. Hol... more »
Need to crowdsource an issue: can you all help us with ESEA law?
I was sent a link to some language in the ESEA from the DOE’s website. It
largely covers the establishment of the NAEP and how it should be
administered. But then, there’s this: EC. 6301. PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL
MANDATES, DIRECTION, OR CONTROL. Nothing in this title shall be construed
to authorize an officer or employee […]
THE REFUSAL TO FIGHT: What, our TV stars worry?
*TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013*
*Part 2—Why doesn’t Hayes want to fight:* Liberals and Democrats ought to
be angry about the Benghazi pseudo-scandal.
As part of that anger, they ought to be angry at the way their TV stars
keep refusing to fight.
Right from the start, the attacks against Ambassador Susan Rice have
illustrated a familiar theme of modern politics: It’s easy to generate
bogus attacks against major Democrats.
The attacks on Rice are a perfect example of this familiar problem. Last
September 16, she discussed the killing attack in Benghazi on four of the
major Sunday programs.... more »
Monsanto Planting New GM Soybeans in 20 Locations Despite Recent Activism
Alex Pietrowski
The imperative nature of marching this Saturday, May 25th, in the March
Against Monsanto couldn’t ever be more stressed than now, with recent news
that Monsanto keeps forging ahead with its repugnant plans to poison us all
by planting more altered seeds – yet again. Monsanto and other
mega-pharmaceutical companies, with the USDA's complicit agreement to keep
them afloat with both tax dollars and federal court shenanigans, are
already targeting a crop called the ‘Xtend’ soybean to be planted in more
than 20 farms across the United States.
This particular strain of ... more »
Fallout In Iraq From Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker
In May 2013, Jim McCormick the owner of the company that sold 7,000 fake
bomb detectors to Iraq was sentenced to ten years in prison by a British
court on three counts of fraud. The fallout in Baghdad is just beginning to
be felt. The government is trying to act like nothing happened, while two
anti-corruption groups are pushing for new investigations, and implicating
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other top officials. Unfortunately,
while committees can look into these matters there is little likelihood
that anything substantive will happen.
A fake bomb detector still bein... more »
Minnesota Republican on climate change: ‘It’s just a complete United Nations fraud’
[image: Minnesota Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, claims there's been no
warming trend over the last 16 years (according to CPAC), therefore climate
change is 'just a complete United Nations fraud and lie'. Photo: The Uptake]
By Aaron Rupar
16 May 2013
(City Pages) – Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, is anti-gay and gets his
"facts" from materials distributed at the Conservative Political Action
Conference. Other than that, we're sure he's exactly the sort of elected
leader Minnesota needs.
During a recent rant on the House floor, Gruenhagen characterized climate
change as "ju... more »
Civil Rights Lawyers Sign Open Letter to Stop Chicago Schools Closure and Privatization Scheme
Meanwhile, dozens of protestors were arrested yesterday as hundreds marched
and tried to deliver the letter excerpted below to Rahm’s office. Video
from CBS Chicago here. A clip from the letter (ht to PURE) signed by 128
Chicago lawyers: “[If carried out, these actions] will dramatically alter
the school environment for vulnerable elementary students. More than 47,500
[…]
China ‘will not accept’ EU measures on emissions
[image: Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Eight Chinese airlines are
facing possible fines for not paying for their emissions during flights
within countries of the European Union. Yan Daming / China Daily]
By Wang Wen and Zheng Xin
18 May 2013
(China Daily) – A senior official from the Civil Aviation Administration of
China said on Friday that the country disapproved and "will not accept any
unilateral and compulsory market measures", after the European Union
threatened Chinese carriers with fines for non-compliance with its
Emissions Trading System, or ETS.
Speaking at ... more »
Another example of 'apartheid Israel'
'Israeli Arab judge to chair elections committeeSalim Joubran will preside
over local council votes in October'
Will the discrimination against non Jews in Israel never stop?
More here
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-arab-judge-to-chair-elections-committee/
Alaska Tribal Coalition fights chemical dispersant oil spill response enforcement
“We Watched Our Friends Die”
Alaska Tribal Coalition Vows to Fight Chemical Dispersant
Oil Spill Response Enforcement
Press statement
The words of an Alaskan tribal elder, “We watched our
family and friends die,” represent the feelings of many about the use of
chemical dispersants in their waters. Thirty plus years after Exxon Valdez and three years after the
BP Gulf oil spill, numerous
Displaced by disasters: 32 million people uprooted in both rich and poor countries in 2012
[image: Disaster-induced displacement worldwide in 2012 from the
International Displacement Monitoring Centre and Norwegian Refugee Council.
More than 32 million people fled their homes last year because of disasters
such as floods, storms and earthquakes – 98% of displacement related to
climate change. Asia and west and central Africa bore the brunt. Some 1.3
million people were displaced in rich countries, with the US particularly
affected. Floods in India and Nigeria accounted for 41% of displacement.
Graphic: IDMC / NRC]
GENEVA, 13 MAY 2013 (IDMC) – A new report released today... more »
Phils/Taiwan Mess Round Up: Links-n-stuff
*Bike gear on display*
No time to write.... odds and ends from around the web world. Hopefully
I'll have more time to post tomorrow.
The VDR data from the boats has now been released. Liberty Times and ETToday
Decide for yourself: whose side makes more sense?
The story of the Taiwan fisherman
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-20/taiwan-fishing-crew-hid-to-escape-hail-of-philippine-bullets
The story of the Phils Coast Guard
http://www.mb.com.ph/article.php?aid=12367
ROC and Phils gov'ts agree on joint probe
J Michael in The Diplomat identifies where Taiwan went wrong and could... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Mr. T., 61.
And the good stuff:
1. More from Sarah Binder on going nuclear.
2. Seth Masket on the Obama scandals and public opinion.
3. And James Fallows on Barack Obama.
Keystone XL Pipeline Gets It's Big House Vote Tomorrow
John Barrow (GA), one of the shadiest and most cowardly fake-Dems in the
House, is a co-chair of the reactionary Blue Dogs and a member of the
corrupt, corportaely-owned New Dems. In 2012 the top 38 recipients of
legalistic bribes from Big Oil & Gas were all Republicans. The 39th biggest
bribe taker was John Barrow, who got $106,900. The lobbyists who are in
charge of bribing Members of Congress got more than just the tweet above
from Barrow.
Tomorrow, when the House Republicans, vote to take approval for the
Keystone XL pipeline out of President Obama's hands-- in the bill
co-s... more »
Gold and Silver held hostage not just on May 20 , 2013 but held hostage generally .... - another day of manipulations for gold and silver ( although today , we saw a massive reversal from Sunday night lows for silver close to 20 and gold at around 1338 before crossing 23 and 1400 respectively ! What will the GLD ETF , SLV ETF and Comex gold and silver physical inventories look like on Tuesday ? Harvey Organ gold and silver report for May 20 , 2013 , Data , News and views of the day !
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://silverdoctors.com/gold-silver-being-held-hostage-in-the-ultimate-banking-crisis/#more-26800
GOLD & SILVER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN THE ULTIMATE BANKING CRISIS
MAY 20, 2013 BY THE DOC 4 COMMENTS
*[image: bullion hostage]This is all about a banking crises! Gold and
silver are being held as hostages.*
*The central bankers have their overly-rehypothecated teat caught in the
wringer of world-wide demand for physical gold, and they cannot get it out. Their
only recourse has been to drive down, crush would be a better description,
the fiat [paper] prices of gold and silver so they can ... more »
Untitled
*Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twisters*
*
*New Orleans Inspector General appointed to new term*
*Bob's Battle: Breck finds out the effect of his cancer treatments ~Nancy
Parker*
*Creationism and revisionist history threaten to invade our classrooms ~Zack
Kopplin, The Guardian*
*Free-king Awesome! ~The Green Project*
*Floodgates give Terrebonne new protection for hurricanes ~Nikki Buskey*
Adam Kokesh is a Political Prisoner
Daisy Luther
The establishment has made no secret of the fact that they are not very
impressed with Adam Kokesh’s planned Open Carry March on Washington DC this
coming July 4.
But yesterday the situation devolved to a new low when Kokesh was arrested
for….doing nothing.
The controversial talk-radio host of Adam Vs. the Man has been made a
political prisoner.
A “political prisoner” is defined as:
A person who has been imprisoned for holding or advocating dissenting
political views. source
Regardless of your personal beliefs on whether marijuana should be
legalized, if you belie... more »
In America, taxes are voluntary but if you choose to not pay, you’ll be forced to ‘voluntarily’ comply
Dees Illustration Madison Ruppert
Hidden amongst the reams of reports about the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) scandal is one little gem: the outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller
said that America’s tax system is “voluntary” in his testimony.
Now, whatever you do, don’t take that to mean that it is actually voluntary
in the way that the word *voluntary *is normally used.
While you might think that voluntary means something which is “done without
compulsion or obligation” or “done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc.,
of one’s own accord or by free choice,” when it comes to Ame... more »
5 Lessons From the AP Spying Case and Other Leak Investigations
Cindy Cohn & Trevor Timm
*EFF*
The journalism world has been rightly outraged by theJustice Department
dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of its
sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call
records of twenty AP phone lines, “the Justice Department has struck a
terrible blow against the freedom of the press and the ability of reporters
to investigate and report the news."
But there are several other important lessons that this scandal can teach
us besides how important free and uninhibited newsgathering is to the
p... more »
Who They Are
Beginning with his caucus meeting today, Stephen Harper will try to wash
his hands of The Duffy Matter. But, Andrew Coyne writes in *The National
Post, *this stain will not wash away. To begin with, Nigel Wright's claim
that his personal cheque was charity to a friend in need simply does not
wash:
It is impossible to believe that Nigel Wright, a man with two law degrees
and substantial experience of both politics and business, could have been
unaware of the dangers — political and legal, to his party and to himself —
involved in such a transaction. Whether in fact it broke any la... more »
Obamabots: Lessons For Canada
Let's all remember that it was the Liberal Party of Canada, under Jean
Chretien and then Paul Martin, who helped bring us to our present sorry
state. Chretien and Martin began the process of tax cuts (ostensibly to
"spur growth" and we all know how well that's worked out) and austerity (in
the *name* of "deficit reduction" but actually in the *cause* of class
warfare). In this, they were similar to the other North American "liberal"
who dominated the 1990s: President Clinton.
It was under the lovely Liberal Party of Canada that our disgrace in
Afghanistan began. It was under them th... more »
Tuesday in Banana Land - will the Dow extend it's 2013 streak to 19 consecutive Tuesday advances ? Will Jamie Dimon keep his crown and throne at JP Morgan ? Will there be a POMO today ? Will the Japan Econ Minister admit he previously was the Iraq Information Minister ( 'We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back." - as US Tanks rolled passed in the background ... )
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/greece-still-searching-for-glimmers-of-hope-in-a-hopeless-situation/
GREECE: Still searching for glimmers of hope in a hopeless situation.
*The good news is, some people think the bad news is good news*
[image: drownwarm]*“We may be drowning, but the water’s lovely and warm”*
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is now so deluded on the subject of a
Greek recovery, there is a kind of developing *sangfroid* humour in the
media coverage of his descent into what is either madness or carefully
choreographed, slow-motion can-kicking. In this sort of at... more »
Senate Panel Approves Even More Stringent Biometric Measures
*Permission = Freedom?*
Eric Blair
"The secret in propaganda is that when you demonize, you dehumanize," says James
Forsher, a film historian. "When you dehumanize, it allows you to kill your
enemy and no longer feel guilty about it."
Apparently illegal immigrants have been sufficiently dehumanized to force
them into biometric tracking. There's no way the government would use
biometrics to track the superior law-abiding natives, right? More on this
later.
Illegal immigration is a hot-button issue that genuinely affects many
communities and the motivation to do something abo... more »
A Problem like Sharia.
The following is a belated review, which I mothballed for some reason, but
in the light of today’s news *“**The police watchdog the Independent Police
Complaints Commission (IPCC) has published a second highly critical report
on the failures by Essex police to protect Ms Stubbings and her son”* I’m
resurrecting it.
By the time Jane Corbin’s Panorama programme about Sharia was aired we’d
already seen the most sensational snippet of footage in the programme
because it had been trailed, several times, during the preceding week. In
it, an aged bearded Muslim elder, a sort of Islamic m... more »
Ayahuasca and Cancer
We already know that cancer can be suppressed by protocols that make the
blood alkaline. This sometimes leads directly to a cure. The most direct
is the maple syrup; baking soda combination and less direct but also highly
beneficial is the vegan diet. Faced with such a diagnosis, that would be
my first clear choice simply because I can do it directly without any
special assistance.
A vegan diet is highly beneficial in the event and should be at least be
used as our dietary standard as a matter of course, however often we stray.
That leads me back to Ayahuasca.
I w... more »
Cottage Cheese and Flax Seed Oil Cures Cancer?
I am surprised that I have not come across this particular protocol
before. I have not actually seen the supporting data claimed here and it
would be informative. Adding this to a neo vegan diet and doses of the
maple sryup and baking soda concoction appears to be a sound idea.
This is all hopeful and certainly will not harm the user. The user must
still convert to a life of disciplined eating often after just the
opposite. The chaps already doing that typically have no trouble to start
with.
At least we have plenty of hopeful information for victims here and a
course ... more »
Human Impacts on Natural World underestimated
How they may be underestimated escapes me. It is all about farming which
by its very nature manages the land resource and sometimes unwisely.
Farming naturally wants everything out there to come to account. Thus
forage is cropped carefully rather that naturally for optimal results.
Unsurprisingly this encourages different behavior among herbivores.
No longer are we hunting out carnivores to extinction either and they are
recovering.
The real changes that took place with the first century of agricultural
humanity in North America were horrific. Now those same lands h... more »
Syria updates for May 21 , 2013 - Israel covert forces in Rebel Ranks ? Israeli vehicle seized in al Qusair ! Syrian government has been winning the trench warfare lately as well trained and battle tested Hizbollah fighters and Iran trainers up the ante for the GCC / Western / Israel supported Rebels ....
http://www.infowars.com/covert-israeli-forces-inside-syria-within-rebel-ranks-israeli-military-vehicle-seized/
Covert Israeli Forces Inside Syria Within Rebel Ranks? Israeli Military
Vehicle Seized
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Seizure of Israeli Vehicle in al-Qasayr
*Global Research News*
May 20, 2013
*Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al
Qseir inside Syrian territory.*
*The vehicle’s licence plate ... more »
Oklahoma disaster: tornado 2 mile wide... Many dead.
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 7 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/xTpceWd8UE4
Link: http://youtu.be/ChqzjZIuqGk
Did I read on a piece of debris: "With God all is possible?" I am
speechless about this disaster that killed so many people. A tornado that
spreads to 2 miles wide at certain moments is rare...
John
Louisiana sinkhole news - focus on cavern inventories of LPG , methane in well water ......
Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/timebomb/
h/t Louisiana sinkhole Bugle.....
Explosive TIMEBOMB in Assumption Parish
MAY 19, 2013 BY FLYINGCUTTLEFISH
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*No wonder they try and hide their cavern inventories from the public!*There
is only a state directive to *Crosstex* to get rid of product near the
expanding out-of-control salt dome collapse below Lake FUBAR. That means
these figures from last Sept. on this map are pretty much the same as all
oil and gas companies report ‘business as usual” in Assumption Parish.
As of Sept. 2012 there were *OVER 120 MILLION BARRELSof LPG*... more »
Mining 21: Chile Policies
Chile also belongs to the "Pacific Rim of Fire" where some 80 percent of
all volcanic activities and earthquakes in the planet occur. The Chilean
Ambassador, Roberto Mayorga, gave a good presentation during the Mining
2011 Conference. See the 34-slides presentation here.
At $40 billion a year of mining exports, the sector comprising 19 percent
of GDP, it is indeed a major part of the Chilean economy. It is something
that the Philippines can hope to replicate.
The northern part of the country is the mining region, especially Iquique
region. This Chuquicamata, I saw this in facebook... more »
Bipartisanship at work - the new " Fairness Doctrine snares Apple here in the US , Google in the UK ( Amazon and Facebook , you are next in the queue ) , Bitcoin worldwide..... ..... Fairness Doctrine will ensnare reporters and anyone else who follows the law right up until the point where they find out its not fair because an undesired outcome has occurred !
Unleashing the fairness doctrine - when following the law by letter isn't
good enough as the outcome is deemed unfair by those who decide which
outcomes are fair or unfair....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/apple-meets-fairness-doctrine-set-pay-whole-lot-more-tax
Apple Meets The "Fairness Doctrine", Is Set To Pay A Whole Lot More In Taxes
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- Apple
- GOOG
- Ireland
- John McCain
- Michigan
- None
- Steve Jobs
- Testimony
Last September, when we exposed... more »
Eddie Braben R.I.P
Eddie Braben, the man whose writing made Morecambe and Wise what they were,
has died aged 82.
The complete Andrew Preview sketch! Andre Previn plays his part so well in
this sketch.
The breakfast routine, I don't know if Eddie Braben had any input into this
routine but it's sheer brilliance.
I grew up on Morecambe and Wise, and will happily watch repeats to this
day.
random notes from madrid
If I get a decent sleep one night, I'm not allowed to have one the next.
Apparently it's a new law: no sleeping two nights in a row. So since I'm
awake at 5:00 a.m. *again*, here is the latest round of notes I've been
collecting in my notebook.
* * * *
When you drive on the highways in Spain, you see these giant billboards of
a black bull. There are no words on them, just a huge shape of a bull.
There's one on the cover of our Lonely Planet guidebook: here. I thought
there was only one of these and it was famous. Turns out they are many of
them.
Googling "giant bull billboards in... more »
Have you heard of Husby?
If you rely upon the BBC for your news then you won't have. The BBC show
seven articles with mentions of Husby, none more recent than June 2012 and
all seven relating to people with the surname Husby in the Breivik story.
If you click on the 'Elsewhere on the web' link though you get some rather
more up to date stories. For there has been some major rioting going on in
Husby, a suburb of Stockholm, for a few days now. The BBC's top link is to
the Huffington Post which manages to avoid the elephant in the room with a
story just talking of 'youths' and 'immigrants' although they did dr... more »
Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Vision Quest”
Medwyn Goodall, “Vision Quest”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIUuyoRfbvw
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Above this boreal landscape, the arc of the Milky Way and shimmering
aurorae flow through the night. Like an echo, below them lies Iceland's
spectacular Godafoss, the Waterfall of the Gods. Shining just below the
Milky Way, bright Jupiter is included in the panoramic nightscape recorded
on March 9.
*Click image for larger sizes. *
Faint and diffuse, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) appears immersed in the
auroral glow. The digital stitch of four frames is a first place winner in
the 2013 International Earth and Sky Photo Contest on Dark Skies Importance
organized by The World at N... more »
EFN Asia 19: Chatib Basri as New Finance Minister of Indonesia
A friend whom I met during the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia
conference in Hong Kong in 2004, Chatib "Dede" Basri, has been appointed
yesterday as the Finance Minister by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono.
Photo from: Jakarta Globe
In his presentation nine years ago in HK, I remember that two of his slides
showed a quote from Adam Smith,
*[The rich] consume little more than the poor… They are led by an invisible
hand … and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the
interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the
species.*
A... more »
Chet Raymo“When The Morning Stars Sing Together”
* *
*“When The Morning Stars Sing Together”*
by Chet Raymo
"A Chinese proverb: A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It
sings because it has a song. Which might be an acceptable epigraph for this
blog. I can't imagine anyone coming here looking for answers. Certainly,
providing answers is the last thing on my mind. I would like to think you
come for song.
We are, I think, by and large, a community who distrusts answers, at least
answers that are vehemently held. We are made uncomfortable by stridency.
By dogma. By the desire to proselytize. We wear our truths lightly, ga... more »
Tommaso Dorigo impressed by a cold fusion paper
*...but the paper is 100% crackpottery...*
In his text "Is Cold Fusion For Real?", Tommaso Dorigo seems highly
impressed by the following new Italian-Swedish preprint about cold fusion:
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
They claim that an Andrea-Rossi-style tube with nickel and hydrogen
produced 10+ times more energy per liter of fuel than any known chemical
reaction, as measured by thermal imaging cameras during 96- and 116-hour
experimental runs.
Dorigo says that "the conclusions of the tests are at the very least
startling". He "continue[s] to... more »
Heart Youthfulness Restoration
This is a stunner. It effectively reverses aging effects in the heart
muscle. Most likely though, the diastolic effect is unique to the heart and
is an effect of a developing age related deficiency that this protein
resolves. The sure promise here is that we can restore youthfulness to the
heart itself. It may not end heart disease but it certainly will also
strengthen a damaged heart at least. This is very good news.
Obviously restoration of heart function and strength will also restore
blood flow and eliminate illness brought on by such limitations.
Again this is plea... more »
Ray Manzarek R.I.P
The keyboardist with The Doors, Ray Manzarek, has passed away aged 74. Yet
another victim of cancer. I loved the music of the Doors from my mid teens,
here's a few of their best tracks.
'Light My Fire'
'Riders On The Storm' - the last song recorded by The Doors before Jim
Morrison's death
'The End'- Because for Ray Manzarek it is.
VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE, UNLESS YOU ARE STUPID
On 18 September 2014, the Scots, in a referendum, will answer the question:
"Should Scotland be an independent country?"
The stupid part of the Scottish population will vote 'No'.
*UK governments 'hold back Scotland'*
We recently visited a Scottish town which should be rich; it has produced a
number of clever scientists; it has a whisky distillery; it is near to oil
fields; it has rich forests on all sides; it has rivers full of salmon.
*James Clerk Maxwell, a Scot, was one of the world's top scientists. He
identified and wrote the equations of the electromagnetic field. That mad... more »
Foaming Pig Manure A New Threat in The Pig Industry
Pig manure foaming up through vent on outside of barn. Photo courtesy: Iowa
Pork Producers Association.
I'm no expert on hog farming; but, I am an expert about the things I feel
are safe; and, things I feel are not safe. This blog deals with an issue I
think everyone who eats meat should be aware of. It is one of those things
that for some reason - paranoia probably - convinces me (yet, again) that
the food industry goes out of its way to hide the issues from the public.
Ever heard of exploding pig poop? Not many people have; but, it is an issue
in approx. 25% of factory-farmed pi... more »
There Is No Civil War In Syria
There were no WMDs in Iraq and there is no civil war in Syria. To say that
there is a popular revolution taking place against Assad is to turn reality
upside down.
Obama and Erdogan both want Assad to step down, but it doesn't matter what
they want for Syria's future because political and social reality is going
against their wishes.
Obama is not God. The White House can't shape and manipulate the reality in
Syria. Saying Assad is a butcher doesn't make it so. Washington has lived
in a fantasy world for so long that it doesn't know how to adjust to
reality. It is foreign to them. T... more »
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such as:
Using the FEED URL
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Recent comments using blog feed
Recent comments widget can be added to a Blogger blog using the feed URL as
a work around for the lack of a recent comments widget by Blogger. The way
to add is is to go your your Dashboard, click LAYOUT, then ADD A GADGET in
the place you want it such as the sidebar. Then type in your blog feed URL
such as http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com making sure to replace YOURBLOG with
the actual URL of your own blog as shown in the screenshot... more »
Harper Can't Talk His Way Out of This One - And He Won't, Not This Time
In February, when the Wright-Duffy cheque scheme was hatched, two of
Harper's closest aides were Nigel Wright, Chief of Staff, and Benjamin
Perrin, Special Counsel and personal legal advisor to the prime minister.
*At First, Two*
Lawyer Nigel Wright, holder of two law degrees, one from Harvard, somehow
decides to cut Duffy a $90,000 cheque on a "spur of the moment" brain fart
and completely overlooks the Rules of the Senate, the Parliament of Canada
Act and the Criminal Code, all of which the deal seems to violate.
*And Then There Were Three*Lawyer Wright then goes to lawyer Perrin, ... more »
Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013)
It
was inevitable; after a wonderful run, the great Ray Harryhausen has
died, at the ripe old age of 92. His influence on visual effects cannot
be overstated. (As one of my brothers observed, without Ray
Harryhausen, there'd be no "full-motion" dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Yep.) Harryhausen's stop-action animation technique, which he called
"Dynamation," required meticulous planning,
Virgin Anteater Birth?
Photo courtesy: CC BY 2.0 Tambako the Jaguar
As if ripped from the pages of some poorly written anteater-themed soap
opera, the mystery surrounding a recent birth at a conservation facility in
Connecticut is leading some to summon the phrase 'immaculate conception'.
(Dun, dun, duuun.)
However, my die-hard reader will remember that back in 2008, I did a blog
about Tidbit the shark who passed on with a fully-developed pup in her
womb. The staff at the aquarium who did the autopsy were amazed because
Tidbit had not been exposed to a male shark - this was a virgin birth.
Officials at ... more »
Light Dirac RH sneutrinos seen by CDMS and others?
What is dark matter made of?
We almost know that its mass should be dominated by a new light particle
species that is heavy enough so that it moves rather slowly relatively to
the speed of light ("cold" dark matter). Because dark matter isn't gone
yet, such a particle must be stable or almost exactly stable – lifetime in
billions of years, to say the least.
The lightest particle carrying a "new type of charge" is the best
explanation why it's stable. By far the most popular clarification what
this new charge is is the R-parity, a new "sign" introduced by SUSY. All
the known parti... more »
Nigel Wright's Spur of the Moment Problem
Nigel Wright continues to be Stephen Harper's moat and drawbridge in the
Duffy affair.
Steve says he knew nothing about the $90,000 gift via a personal cheque
from Wright to the Cavendish Cottager and Wright backs him up. Even
though Wright has resigned and his story about Harper being in the dark
is,
well, more than implausible, Wright's word still carries some weight.
Maybe not so much after all. Wright has some major credibility
problemswith the dodgy story he's spun so far. In particular, Wright's
story of
how he came to write the cheque is full of holes. According to Ha... more »
Is America The Healthiest Country? Not By A Long Shot
I've changed the way I travel pretty drastically. My first big
international sojourn was primarily in a VW van I bought in Germany and
drove to North Africa and then through Europe and Asia as far as
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal... and back to Europe. It
was a hectic time in my life, but I was a kid and my system handled the
shocks pretty well. I'm not a kid any more-- but I still love to travel
abroad and I still love going to off-the-beaten-track kind of places. In
the last couple of years I went on extended vacations to Mali, Kerala,
Nepal, Myanmar, Bali an... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Mike King of the
very informative website *www.tomatobubble.com* which focuses on the hidden
or little known truths about economics and history. Mike and I will be
discussing the real history of WWII, his thoughts on Adolf Hitler and
National Socialism, issues relating to White Nationalism and European
history, and related matters. Calls will be taken throughout the
conversation. Tune in for what will surely be an informative program!
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Netwo... more »
False Flag / " Other Event " Watch - June 26 - July 3 , 2013.......With scandals galore and growing daily , Syria a tinderbox and Gold standing for the June contract threatening to breach the defense of the Gold Cartel , just note President Obama will be out of country June 26th - July 3rd
So , we see ( just as all heck is breaking loose ) , Obama is bolting the
country to visit Senegal , South Africa and Tanzania - time for the trip is
June 26 - July 3 , 2013 ..... So if something jumps off in this timeframe ,
we know it won't be in Africa , if something jumps off here , Obama will be
out of the Country !
http://www.voanews.com/content/president-obama-to-visit-senegal-south-africa-tanzania/1664885.html
The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Africa this
summer, visiting three countries.
In a statement Monday, the White House says President ... more »
Marine who dumped carcinogenic chemical trichloroethylene felt illness was payback – ‘We used to go through 55 gallons in less than a month’
[image: This undated image provided by Capt. Bobby Rice shows Ron Poirier
fishing for tuna. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune
in the mid-1970s, Poirier figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic
solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he
had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in
the country's history - and, perhaps, to his own premature death. 'It's
just a terrible thing,' the 58-year-old veteran said shortly before
succumbing to esophageal cancer at a Cape Cod nursing facility on 3 May
2013.... more »
The Missing Word, By John Kaminski
For years I was guilty of not associating the crimes against humanity with
the real name of the perpetrators responsible... The JEWS.... It is
especially sad to see others still stuck in the false premise of calling
them "Zionists", or "Globalists", or still sticking to the false "New World
Order" premise.... It is terrible to see that many have not reached the
point of full enlightenment yet.....
For this article, I want to present a great new article by none other than
John Kaminski, who writes articles for The Rebel online news service at
www.therebel.org. It is entitled: "The ... more »
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Aftermath in Moore, Oklahoma
My sense of empathy is so strong, when these tragedies strike it literally
hurts me. At the moment I'm feeling as stunned as the victims must be. I'm
too overwhelmed for words. So all I got are these photos.
A teacher hugs child at Briarwood Elementary school after the tornado. [photo
via The Oklahoman]
And another survivor amidst the rubble. [photo via]
Meanwhile as reported first at CQ:
The tornado damage near Oklahoma City is still being assessed and the death
toll is expected to rise, but already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he
will insist that any federal disaster aid ... more »
Michigan district fires all teachers, closes every school
[image: Each school in the Buena Vista School District has closed due to a
lack of funding. The district's future is still uncertain. Photo: The
Washington Post / Getty Images]
By Suzi Parker
13 May 2013
(Take Part) – Summer break has started very early for kids in one Michigan
school district.
Buena Vista schools have been closed for five days already, and on Monday,
the district's website stated that the school would be closed until further
notice. For good reason, this decision has parents, and the community, up
in arms.
The problem in Buena Vista is that the school district,... more »
Oliver Hartwich, the Euro, and the “dangerous naivety” of floating exchange rates
*We’re famous!*
I’m very happy to see that a debate on the Euro crisis hosted by our
Auckland University Economics Group earlier in the month has now slipped
into Australia’s wide read *Business Spectator*.
Oliver Hartwich from the NZ Initiative talked to our Group a few weeks back
on The Never-Ending Euro Crisis - the Anatomy of an Economic Policy Disaster,
in which he
covered the history and pre-history of European monetary union, Europe’s
fiscal and monetary problems, the eurozone’s governance issues and their
political implications.
But in the ensuing discussion, one of... more »
Musical Interlude: Inka-Vision, “My Music, My Passion”
Inka-Vision, “My Music, My Passion”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CqsbLeCYE
The Daily "Near You?"
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Rudolf Steiner On Ancient Indian Vedanta Wisdom
Related: *Rudolf Steiner On Cultivating The Higher Organs*.
Below is an excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's book, *"Theosophy: An
Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the
Cosmos."*1994. Anthroposophic Press: Hudson, New York. Pg. 135-36.
"This is one of the fundamental ideas of ancient Indian Vedanta wisdom.
The
sage acquires during earthly life what other people experience only
after
death, namely the ability to grasp the thought that we ourselves are
related to all things, the thought, "that is you." In earthly life this
is
an ideal that our thinking can aspire... more »
White House trots out Idiot Defense regarding Benghazi....Clearly IRS - Gate warrants an Idiot Defense ...... At some point the Idiot Defense runs out of runway when multiple agencies are used for witch hunts .....
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-19/white-house-damage-control-script-jeopardized-new-disclosures
White House Damage Control Script Jeopardized By New Disclosures
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- Darrell Issa
- First Amendment
- President Obama
- Treasury Department
- Wall Street Journal
- White House
It has been a tough weekend for the President. First, the *CEO of the
Associated Press *states the government's seizure of AP phone records was
"so broad and so secret," among other factors, *"that it... more »
Google plots to take over world as China succeeds in hacking Google - do they then take over world on a de facto basis ? FBI looks into curious night time visit of the Quabbin , Mass Reservoir by trespassing Foreign Chemical Engineers..... ....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-gained-access-to-sensitive-data-us-officials-say/2013/05/20/51330428-be34-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_print.html
Chinese
hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S.
officials sayBy Ellen Nakashima, Monday, May 20, 2:17 PMChinese hackers
who
breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive
database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance
targets,
according to current and former government officials.
The breach appears to have been aimed at ... more »
Reliving the fight to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act and other recent assaults on the open Internet
*by Ken*
From Demand Progress ("Demand Progress mobilizes the public to challenge
entrenched power and promote freedom") comes book-publication news that
includes a "pay what you wish" option for the e-book edition. OR Books has
published Demand Progress's *Hacking Poliltics*, its book "about the SOPA
[the Stop Online Piracy Act, the Hollywood heavy hitters' wish-list bill]
fight and other recent internet freedom organizing" -- documenting how an
improbable coalition of activists spanning the political spectrum from left
to right "teamed up [as the publisher's blurb puts it] to de... more »
Join At the Chalk Face this Thursday at 7PM EST with John Merrow
We need need need to keep pushing to get an Atlanta-style investigation up
in here. Maybe we’ll have some answers for you, this Thursday at 7PM EST.
Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: john merrow,
michelle rhee, pbs, test cheating, Washington dc
War watch - Syria , Pakistan , Iraq and Afghanistan in Focus !
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/17/us-slams-russias-missile-sales-to-syria/
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The New Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act-- Robin Hood To The Rescue?
Andy Hounshell, John Conyers-- fighting for jobs
Jimmy Carter signed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act into law on
October 27, 1978. It had passed the House on March 16... 257-152. 81% of
the House Democrats (233 Members) were joined by 16% of the House
Republicans (24)-- there were still that many mainstream Republicans back
then-- to pass one of the era's most significant pieces of legislation.
It's worth noting that the Democratic Party was so infested with racists
and corporate whores even that recently that 41 Republicans joined with 111
Republicans to oppose it. The Keyn... more »
IRS' Real Scandal So Clear No One Complains (Except Taxpayers), Vets' Treatment Backlogged Over 4 Months, Italian Union Leads Jobs March
The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
The system guarantees the survival of the (bad guys) because it needs them
to survive. Now that everyone understands the reach of the Republican
criminals in all facets of American life, and that the emails quoted as
having been seen by Jonathan Karl of ABC News have been revealed not to
have existed except in some
Important Video - (Shocking) Confessions Of NWO Jewish Zionists
There was a time when even I used to believe that this war was against
"Zionism" and not against Judaism as a whole... Those days are long past
and even I have crossed the so called Rubicon in my own understanding on
how evil and disgusting these monsters truly are...And how they actually
picture the rest of mankind as subhuman and to be nothing more than slaves
when they achieve their sick aim of world domination!
To remind everyone of what we are truly up against, and to show their evil
in THEIR OWN WORDS... I want to present this video entitled "(Shocking)
Confessions of NWO Jewi... more »
zuheros to madrid / madrid, night one
This post has two parts: the clerk and the lost.
The clerk.
I had a good night's sleep and woke up at the leisurely hour of 8:00. We
had breakfast at the hotel and packed up, ready to hit the road to Madrid.
And wouldn't you know it, the desk clerk handed me a bill for one dinner
and *two* nights. I politely explained that I had called to cancel one
night, and was told that was fine. Desk clerk said I called too late, I had
to be charged for two nights. Naturally, I repeated my position.
We went back and forth for a while. He alternated between rapid-fire
Spanish - to which I would... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - May 17 , 2013 ... Data from May 16 , 2013 , news and views .....
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
New normal for gold..... June Gold chart today , dig the moves at 8:30....
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http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/john-rubino-the-golden-bulls-eye
John Rubino: The Golden Bull’s Eye
May
*17*
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"It was another day where "da boyz" went to work in the thinly-traded Far
East market."
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price chopped sideways through most of Far East trading on their
Thursday, but began to develop a negative bias just before London... more »
MN Bible Thumpers - Get the Hell Out of Dodge
From Right-Wing Watch (and this one is not a snark):
Like her fellow Minnesota-based conservative talk show host Bradlee Dean,
End Times broadcaster Jan Markell is warning that Minnesota is about to
experience divine punishment over the state’s new marriage equality law.
MOVE - LEAVE
Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, laments that
The North Star State has become a mecca for many unpleasant things.
MOVE - LEAVE
"We're the occult capital of America," she tells OneNewsNow. "We certainly
have more Islamic influence probably than any other place, other than
D... more »
Harry Targ : The REAL Scandal at the IRS
"Can't
make 'em see the light? Make 'em feel the heat" -- Hugh Fike,
coordinator of the Heritage Society for America's "Sentinel" program.
The IRS 'scandal' is not
what opportunists claim it is
If the Internal Revenue Service is to be criticized, the attacks should
be leveled at the government’s inadequate scrutiny of political lobbying
groups who are granted tax exempt status
By Harry Targ /
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, 1996-2011
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 20, 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"
* *
*"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
Article update, see: Tohono O'odham and Arizona police stalk human rights activists
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/05/tohono-oodham-and-arizona-police-stalk.html
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
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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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.....
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
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 - 1 day 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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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 - 1 day 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 »
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Syria condemns terrorist act in Turkey(latestnewssyria.wordpress.com)
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