Ohhh la belle verte ! (Photo credit: docteur_chris)
The Daily Telegraph's new offices and printing premises in Fleet Street, London. Illustrated London News, 1882. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Obamacare Protest at Supreme Court (Photo credit: southerntabitha)Obamacare versus the Faculty
I don't know how widespread this phenomenon is, but I thought I would share this email I received this morning: I have been teaching multiple sections of economics for four years now at several Colleges and Universities in the State of Indiana. I have also been a frequent user of your texts in the classes that I teach. With the implementation of the ACA (Affordable Care Act) these institutions are giving notification to their part-time faulty that their individual teaching schedules will now be limited to three sections. At the college this will likely result in the cancellation of ... more »
Oh, they don't mention me, I'm part of the union
I had to smile on reading this in the *Spectator*. Noting the Tories' recruitment of top Obama strategist Jim Messina (a scoop from the BBC's Allegra Stratton and the lead story on last night's * Newsnight*), David Blackburn adds: Meanwhile, this morning’s papers are full of ‘Unite run the Labour Party’ stories after yesterday’s MEP selection. Indeed they were. From *The Times *(behind its paywall) - *Unite lines up Euro candidates to tighten its grip on Labour* - to *The Daily Telegraph *- *Labour accused of union stitch-up over MEPs *- and the *Daily Mail* - *Miliband's union ... more »
La Belle Verte
This French film from 1996, *The Green Beautiful*, is a preposterous goof of a vaguely science fiction bent. But if you hang in past the slow beginning, it offers a trenchant critique of social values, some tender observations of human foibles, and some hilariously irreverent comedic moments. You won't find anything like the glamour of Lady Gaga, or any of the explosions or gunfire Hollywood does so well - but it has some inspired acrobatics, a droll sly wit...and psithurism, in Paris.
Just a quick thought on teaching as a “calling.”
It isn’t. Well, not exactly. It shouldn’t, at least, be framed entirely that way. A “calling” to me implies religious or spiritual significance. For teachers, are they expected to walk through hot coals, endure a thousand lashes, for the sake of the children? After all, they are flesh and blood human beings with needs, desires, […]
STONE ON JEJU
*Leading the march with Father Moon* *Stone talks with Catholic Bishop Kang who is a huge supporter of the village struggle**Stone in Gangjeong village watching cements trucks roll into base construction site* *Admiring Father Moon's T-shirt while International team coordinator Sung-Hee Choi looks on* *Having just watched priests and nuns be removed from blocking cement trucks Stone must be feeling the emotion that pervades this movement. In his speech at the end of the peace march Stone told the people that "Jeju naval base is a global issue".**Stone joins the daily 100 bows in fro... more »
It's Caturday...
*what's going on.* Blue's Blog: *Stuck...* That Mr G Guy: *The Language of the Gun Grabbers* The Daley Gator: * Useless, Leftist Fishwrapper Sells Other Useless, Leftist Fishwrapper For Pennies On The Dollar * Bunkerville: *Obama: ‘Al Qaeda is most definitely on the run’ as Obama puts his tail under his butt * The Lonely Conservative: *The Language Police Hit Seattle * White House Dossier: *Obama Begins Birthday Weekend with Golf Bash * Liberty's Torch: *Short course on Marxism. * Camp of the Saints: *Leftist Demons, Right Wing Fools * A MUST read from Fuzzy Logic: *Just... more »
Cyprus allows new bank accounts to be opened - 5 thousand minimum deposit , you can't close the account for three months and monies deposited must be used to pay off loans at cyprus banks ! Gosh , folks will just run to sign up for this deal ......
*Cyprus eases restrictions on new bank accounts* Cyprus’s Finance Ministry is allowing new accounts to be opened at the country’s banks for the first time since the country was bailed out in March. However, there are a number of conditions for the new accounts. The ministry said in a statement on Friday that fixed-term accounts must be opened with at least 5,000 euros cash and can’t be closed for three months. Also, the new current accounts can only be used to pay off loans at any Cypriot bank. Authorities have been gradually lifting restrictions that were imposed in March to prevent ... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Afghanistan: reports are that civilian and Afghan army deaths are up, while coalition deaths are way down. Coalition deaths over the last five Julys, starting with 2009: 76, 88, 53, 46, 14. Theory: the backlash on NSA and other such issues this year has less to do with any specific revelations, and more to do with a turn towards peacetime. Not there yet, but it's easier to see now than it used to be. I'd like PPP or someone to do a poll, by the way -- I'd love to know how many people know the was in Afghanistan is going on...and how many know that the US is no longer at war in Iraq. ... more »
The Grand Old Party and the Grand Old Bargain
After a while (and these days, hiring managers will say that interregnum is about three nanoseconds after you're terminated), your unemployed status will turn against you. More and more, we're hearing stories about how the unemployed are turned away or silently have their resumes thrown in the circular file because, well, the unemployed are just so *icky*! But the plain fact is, these eugenics-enabling psychopaths who would love nothing more than for us to starve to death and go away are really the problem or at least perpetuating and exacerbating a pre-existing problem a... more »
Congress Screws Students-- By An Overwhelming Margin
Wednesday the House overwhelmingly passed the patently unfair student loan amendment the Senate cobbled together. The Senate version sailed through the House 392-31, the only opposition coming from 25 progressive Democrats who wanted to see students get a fair break and 6 crackpot Republicans who oppose education on principle-- lunatic fringe characters Paul Broun (R-John Birch Society), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Mark Sanford (R-SC), Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA). Although the YES vote side was wrong-- since it trades immediate amelioration for... more »
US lapdogs the UK , Germany and France go along with Embassy closing charade ! Interestingly , only their Embassies in Yemen will close for up to several days - which is logical for a so called Yemen sourced Al Qaeda threat.... Makes you wonder why the US is closing Embassies in not just Yemen , but also Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates
http://rt.com/news/uk-embassy-terror-threat-971/ UK, Germany and France close embassies in Yemen over possible terror threat Published time: August 02, 2013 20:26 Edited time: August 03, 2013 15:50 Get short URL [image: A general view of the British embassy in Sanaa (Reuters / Ahmed Jadallah)] A general view of the British embassy in Sanaa (Reuters / Ahmed Jadallah) Share on tumblr Tags Middle East, Security, Terrorism, UK,USA, Violence The British, German and French embassies in Yemen will be closed over 'increased security concerns', the European countries have announced. They blamed... more »
Oh, Dorothy! If Wishing Only Made Things True (The Latest Hoax To Hide Economic Depression, Hiring Drops As Unemployment Rate Lowered, Death of Truth, and Blowback Droning Along) Wall Street Destruction Comes Home
U.S. Hiring Slows in July but Jobless Rate Falls to Four-Year Low As usual, ex-Reagan era Treasury official, Paul Craig Roberts (hidden away in outer Nongolia), enlightens us about the real numbers and why they are (and continue to be) cleverly obscured in official government reports from those depending on them for data (which they used to rely on) about how to live their lives as
How bad of a deal was the purchase of the Boston Globe for more than a Billion Benjy bucks in 1993 ? Well , the headline number of selling out for 70 million cash ( a 93 percent haircut ) , masks the fact that the sale doesn't include a ongoing pension liability of 100 million ! 1 So , the NY Times essentially loses at least thirty million on this deal ( not even factoring any losses over the years at the Boston Globe ) ...... What is the NY Times worth and how much would they have to pay a buyer to complete the sale ?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/08/03/New-york-times-sell-boston-globe-at-93-percent-loss NEW YORK TIMES SELLS BOSTON GLOBE AT 93% LOSS 2277 20 758 ------------------------------ Email Article Print ArticleSend a Tip by JOHN NOLTE 3 Aug 2013, 5:21 AM PDT 1102POST A COMMENT After purchasing the *Boston Globe* in 1993 for a then-record $1.1 billion, the financially troubled *New York Times* just announced it sold the 141 year-old paper to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for a mere $70 million. That's a straight 93% loss. Figuring in two decades of inflation would only ... more »
Kerry Supports Egypt's Coup
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source Stephen Lendman When is a coup not one? When John Kerry claims otherwise. When he says it restores democracy. It can't reinistate what doesn't exist. It can't do it by military takeover. Perhaps Kerry doesn't understand. America never had democracy. It has none now. Coup d'etat power rules. Elections are a useful fiction. People have no say. Monied interests run things. According to Paul Craig Roberts: The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal authority. Americans are ruled by usurp... more »
The Harmful Effects of Cell Phones and How to Reduce It
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Mark DeNicola We all know it by now, cell phones emit radio-frequency energy. The one thing still up for debate is whether or not this radio-frequency energy is harmful to the human body, and if it is to what extent. Here is what we do know, radio-frequency is a form of electromagnetic radiation (EMR). EMR is a wave-like energy that is emitted and absorbed by charged particles. In the case of a cell phone, the phone emits the EMR (in the form of radio-frequency) and the human operating it absorbs it. EMR can be classified in... more »
US seems determined to wrestle the Russian Bear ( understand the Bear will fight back and has nukes too ) - just be careful what you seek out - you just might find it !
http://www.infowars.com/john-mccain-wants-a-new-cold-war-with-russia-over-snowden/ John McCain Wants a New Cold War With Russia Over Snowden - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com August 3, 2013 [image: Mikhail Khodorkovsky.] Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On Thursday, Arizona Senator John McCain released a statement criticizing Russia for granting whistleblower Edward Snowden a one-year asylum and preven... more »
Right-Wing "Democracy"
I miss Canadian Cynic's blog. It really exposed the average right-winger for the imbeciles that they are. Here's two related posts: Rob Ford's supporters. (As I ask there; how are we supposed to respond to people who will continue to support a guy guilty of "hugging" the same "thugs" he built a great deal of his career as bashing? Are these voters we're obligated to respect when we present our case?) Authoritarian populism in Eastern Europe. Leninist "socialism" failed. Neo-liberal exploitation "failed." Perhaps fascism is the answer!!!
Geriatric Pipelines?
An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here's the thing. The pipe that failed was 70-years old. Who knows, maybe your great-grandfather had a hand in its construction? But this geriatric pipeline was just a fluke, right? No, not at all. *Citing an ongoing investigation, both Exxon and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) waited nearly a month after receiving the report before releasing the details to Arkansas newspaper Log Ca... more »
CIA & Mossad Tell Us Through Their Mainstream Media That They Might Do False Flag Terrorism And Blame Their "Al Qaeda Muslims"...& Larry Silverstein's HUGE 911 Jewish Zionist BALLS
*AL QAEDA = CIA/MOSSAD/MAINSTREAM MEDIA* The CIA & Mossad's propaganda outlets, the mainstream media, reports this story: *State Dept. issues worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens* Since there's no such thing as "Al Qaeda", at least the definition "officials" tell us, let me interpret the above for you, this should be the headline: The CIA & Mossad, on behalf of the global 1%, might do terrorism and blame their creation they control called "Al Qaeda". Even though NSA spying knows every single thing going on with worldwide spying on everything, NSA will pretend they didn't catc... more »
Sen. Ted Cruz on How to Defeat Obamacare (video)
"The fight we are engaged in in the next 60 days, I think, is the most important fight this Congress will deal with."
Utopian 'Harvest Your Own' Groceries Coming Up
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Heather Callaghan Places like Wal-mart brag that they eliminate the middle man; but they haven't seen the likes of The Farmery. What if your food was grown at your store - and it's not even picked yet until you come by to cut the plants. You're not a shopper, you're a harvester. Better yet, what if Farmeries come to urban neighborhoods - both high and low end? Meet the Willy Wonka of agriculture... Farmery Vimeo from Gary Breece on Vimeo. Founder Ben Greene (for real?) wanted to "tighten the gap" more than any retailer a... more »
Reversing The Edward Bernays Effect
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *How to end a century of lies and mass mind manipulation ushered in by one man* Bernie Suarez America has been plagued by a powerful mind control tactic which was suggested, experimented with, and fully implemented over a century ago by a man named Edward Bernays. The time has come for Americans to come to grips with the content and theories that Bernays used to influence American history. It’s time to call out the legacy of deceit and manipulation that this man brought to American history; by doing this, only then can Ameri...more »
He's Crazy About the Schnitzel
In Colorado Springs, a bear loves the leftovers from the Edelweiss restaurant so much that he makes off with the entire dumpster.
Could "America's Quiet Environmental Revolution" Sound Last Call for Athabasca Bitumen?
A *PostMedia* article discusses what it calls America's "quiet environmental revolution," a nationwide, broadbased movement away from fossil fuels toward non-carbon alternatives. *Even the most unlikely Americans are taking up the carbon-free challenge, often viewing it as a path to energy independence. Kentucky Republican congressman Thomas Massie, for instance, built himself a solar home and lives off the grid. He also drives an electric car. Yet at the same time he opposes government attempts to impose environmental regulations.* *In the greater scope of America’s gluttonous foss... more »
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*In Memoriam: Greg Peters, ‘Suspect Device’ Artist and Blogger, Father, Friend ~Levees Not War*
2045 Technocrat Robot Avatar Project Posts Truthstream Article
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Transhumanists pursuing eternal life at the expense of the natural world and the existing human population. Someone’s robot apparently got confused … Derp. 2045: Strategic Social Iniative Melissa Melton’s research on DARPA’s 47th chromosome project circulated to surprisingly wide corners. Should Truthstream Media be honored or creeped out to appear on the 2045 Initiative website, where Ray Kurzweil and top Russian scientists are attempting to upload humanistic brains into avatars? After all, w... more »
Introducing "Drone Patrol" Website and Apps
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Activist Post* There’s a new trend in surveillance and that trend involves drones in our skies. Many have seen them, but most don’t report them. Why not? It’s because until recently, there has been nowhere to report these sightings. The FBI recently admitted to using drones to spy on US citizens. Are you one of them? *Have a drone sighting?* The Sleuth Journal, in association with Staticwave Studio has just launched a new site called *Drone Patrol* where you can report drone sightings and read others’ encounters of their s... more »
Deconstructing the latest Al Qaeda " threats " Embassy closing drama and worldwide travel warning for Sunday ....... Distraction , False Flag Warning - we shall see - but keep your eyes on the prize , which is what they hell was going on in Benghazi and what is still being covered up ?
Hey , I was wondering what happened to the press flack from Saddam's Iraq ! Lol [image: carneydeny] Guess Jay was separated at birth from the former infamous Iraq press specialist..... The Treasury of Deathless Quotes Jay , take notes .... here are some classics , feel free to sample template , reframe as necessary as needed moving forward.... "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" "My feelings - as usual - we... more »
Scotland, the monarchy and the BBC
Following on from a comment on an earlier post about *Newsnight Scotland*, the programme began the week with a full-length debate on the monarchy, hosted by the BBC's *Glenn Campbell*. The programme duly focused on the issue of monarchy itself rather than on Scottish independence but, given that the programme forms part of a series of specials in the run-up to next year's referendum, it's probably right and proper to include it in my review of *Newsnight Scotland'*s coverage. Did this edition display any bias - whether that bias be for or against the monarchy, or for or against Sc... more »
How Education Reform Works Today in Four Simple Steps. By John Stoffel
How Education Reform Works Today in Four Simple Steps 1. Fund research (often with taxpayer support). • Tell researcher your hypothesis. • Have researcher gather data. • Have researcher compare data to your hypothesis. • Have researcher change data to match your hypothesis. 2. Fund three groups with imposing names • 1st group warns nation […]
Alan Grayson: NSA Violates the Constitution, Excuses are Irrelevant
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Benghazi Insiders Fear CIA: “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Lily Dane A few days ago, President Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney, and several Democratic members of Congress referred to the Benghazi attack as a “phony scandal.” CNN is now reporting that “dozens of CIA operatives were on the ground during the Benghazi attack.” The fact that the CIA was in Benghazi is not new information; the second part of the Benghazi attack was on the CIA annex there (of course, that part of the tragedy was not well publicized). The bigger – and more telling – part of the CNN report is t... more »
A video on loop quantum gravity
Sabine Hossenfelder watched a 43-minute video on loop quantum gravity that was posted two days ago. She wasn't too impressed. Well, I am always impressed by low-budget or no-budget teams that manage to shoot a semiprofessional video of this size but it's hard to avoid some criticisms. Most of them are really criticisms of the topic they chose to cover, loop quantum gravity, so they shouldn't be used against the creators of the video. And I will avoid detailed criticisms of the imperfect sound quality (noise filters were used too much at some places), the subtitles (and whether it ma... more »
An EMP Missing By TWO WEEKS Is NOT a Near Miss
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Chris Carrington As some of you will know I report on the space weather regularly when there is something going on…or something*might *be going on in the hours following the article. I was shocked yesterday to see reports of a ‘Carrington-class event’ that occurred two weeks ago. I trawled the NASA and NOAA sites looking for what I had missed. I had missed nothing, there was no such event. A report on spaceweather.com this morning says: Many readers are asking about a report in the Washington Examiner, which states that a ... more »
Is Egypt On The Verge Of Engineered Civil War?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Brandon Smith For thousands of years, Egypt has been one of the primary pillars of the Eastern world. When Egypt falls into turmoil, a shockwave is felt by all other nations that heralds great change and perhaps even great catastrophe. The West's longtime interest in maintaining a solid foothold in Egypt is based on this reality; even in our modern age, when Egypt is in your corner riches can be accumulated, and power can be gathered. Our government along with European governments have gone to incredible lengths in the regio... more »
Amazon.com Creates 5,000 Jobs, Destroys 25,000 in the Process?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image: Wikimedia Commons Alex Daley, *Chief Technology Investment Strategist * *Casey Research* *The Technology Jobs Conundrum* The past few weeks have seen the tech and business media abuzz about a not-so-little warehouse in Tennessee. That's because this distribution center, opening its doors with a burst of fanfare and even a few visits from nearby politicians, isn't a jumping-off point for Macy's or Target. Instead, the warehouse is the latest in a series of new locations being opened by retail technology giant Amazon.c... more »
The Little Blue Engine that shouldn’t. Take a seat.
I want you to read the following poem by Shel Silverstein, one that is the inspiration for a new “reformy” organization called Blue Engine. The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was shrill. He was tired and small, and the hill was tall, And his face blushed […]
Trapped in a Killing Field: MIT study suggests travel restrictions in the event of an epidemic
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Janet Phelan A study published in The Royal Society Interface by researchers at MIT may influence policy as to potential travel restrictions in an epidemic. The study suggests that such restrictions will slow the progress of a pandemic. What is implicit in the paper's recommendations is that people may be confined—quarantined in fact—to a heavily affected area, thus reducing their individual chances to survive but also mitigating the spread of the contagion. As reported in Bioprepwatch, the study “compared contagion rates in... more »
NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Content on Every Domestic Communication
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130 Years of a Warming Planet
NASA has produced a short animation showing how our world has warmed since 1880. This is based on weather data gathered from 1,000 stations around the world. Blue is cold, red is hot. Notice the parts of Canada that are red.
GMOs: What Do the Stars Say Astrologically?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source Catherine J. Frompovich With all that’s going on regarding genetically modified organisms, especially food crops, this writer became intrigued while standing in line at a Whole Foods checkout counter by a magazine’s cover story “Inside Monsanto,” which appears on the Aug./Sept. 2013 issue of *The Mountain Astrologer*. Online access to the magazine is www.mountainastrologer.com. Even though being somewhat esoterically inclined, the feature article by Eric Francis Coppolino was a little more than this writer expec... more »
HAVE A LAUGH (And get a 2nd job)
And do I have to say....boycott McDonald's?!!!
Secret Genetic Experiments Human-Animal Hybrids
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kenny Valenzuela *Research Links Below...* National Geographic Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy Science Daily Hybrid Human-Animal Embryo Research Approved in the UK The Telegraph Animal and human hybrid research study under way Genetically Modified Soldiers DARPA: The Mutant Wars LifeSiteNews Uk scientists warn about secret human-animal hybrid research Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 The Human Avatar Programs by NASA & DARPA Genetically Modified Drinkable Goat Milk Vaccines! Human Fetal Cells Make Pep...more »
Waziristan on the Potomac
*Congressional Republicans hold Loya Jirga* What happens when the world's most powerful nation becomes ungovernable? Often when authority becomes ineffective it gives rise to power vacuums that invite other actors, oligarchs or armed oligarchs, warlords, to intercede. Such is the fate of Waziristan and, to a much more subtle degree, Washington. Paul Krugman laments that the United States has become ungovernable largely due to a mass mental disorder that has infested the ranks of the GOP. *Republican leaders are about to reap the whirlwind, because they haven’t had the courage t... more »
Ec 10 Bleg
As part of our "marketing" effort to get freshmen into ec 10, Harvard's introductory economics course, the ec 10 staff and I are trying to construct a list of famous alums of the course. Here is the list we have put together so far: Steve Ballmer Ben Bernanke Lloyd Blankfein Ryan Fitzpatrick Jeremy Lin Sheryl Sandberg Eduardo Saverin Chuck Schumer Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss Mark Zuckerberg If you attended Harvard and have a famous classmate who you are sure took ec 10 (or its predecessor ec 1), please email me the information.
NSA Head Gen. Keith Alexander Heckled by Hackers
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *In the background, a secret war is underway, apparently purging a circle of hackers, whistleblowers and investigative reporters connected to investigating NSA surveillance programs.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton On the heels of ‘an easy hearing’ in Congressional testimony to explain away NSA surveillance activities in the wake of Edward Snowden’s PRISM leaks, Gen. Keith Alexander, head of both the NSA and US CYBERCOM, attended the Black Hat hacker conference where he was heckled by privacy advocates in the crowd who state... more »
Will The New Dems Get As Decimated Next Year As Their Ideological Brethren The Blue Dogs Were in 2010 And 2012?
Steve Israel has ZERO interest in races like these that pit progressives against powerful senior Republicans With the political demise of the Blue Dogs after the 2010 midterms, DCCC Chair-- and "ex"-Blue Dog-- Steve Israel made his top priority not winning back the House in 2012 but restocking the Republican wing of the Democratic Party with corrupt conservatives. His vehicle, the resuscitated New Dems, corporate Democrats without the KKK sheets, homophobia and misogyny of the Blue Dogs. But every bit as eager to blow Wall Street and punish working families. Israel didn't come close ... more »
FBI employs hackers, has software that can remotely activate cell phone, laptop microphones and more
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: powtac/Flickr Madison Ruppert A new report reveals that the FBI directly employs multiple hackers who create custom surveillance software for the bureau, some of which is capable of remotely activating the microphones on cell phones and laptops, among other features. The FBI is known for using technology shrouded in secrecy, some of which is based on legal grounds which have been questioned by critics with some maintaining that the FBI deceived judges in deploying it. Malicious software, or malware, aimed at e... more »
If You Think The Employment Numbers Are Good, Then You Really Need To Read This Article
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dees Illustration Michael Snyder Do you actually believe that the employment numbers are getting better? Do you actually believe that there is a bright future ahead for American workers? If so, then you really need to read this article. The truth is that we are in the midst of the worst employment crisis since the Great Depression, and there has been absolutely no employment recovery. In fact, the percentage of working age Americans that are employed is just about exactly where it was during the darkest days of the last ... more »
The Camera in Your TV is Watching You
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22 fotografías lindas para disfrutar este fin de semana
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*Questions remain in FBI shooting case ~New Orleans Advocate* *State sues company over expanding sinkhole ~WDSU* *Port of N.O. could spend $450M to prepare for wider Panama Canal ~Rob Masson, WVUE* *Oystermen claim state regulations violate their privacy ~Joe Gyan Jr.* *The What Cheer? Brigade Brings A Different Kind Of Brass To New Orleans ~Lane Kaplan-Levenson, WWNO* *Satchmo Scorcher: Louis Armstrong Fans Brave the Heat for Satchmo Summerfest, Give Tips on Staying Cool ~NOLA DEFENDER*
Colossal Protest in Taipei
Apparently around 100,000 have turned out for the protest over the death of conscript Hung. This pic is making the rounds.... From one of my students _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
The Beginning of the Lie.... oh my!
.... You know.... if today gets any more fun, I might just laugh myself into a coma. Yet another example of asking "What do I know?".... and there is the answer. Further to the article I posted this morning from AK about the USA being a "non-profit religious corporation", here is the background. Our History lesson for this morning starts in 1066 is jolly ol' England..... enjoy! And remember: these articles are just a quantum jumping pad to doing your own research.... on you go! http://www.truthcontrol.com/articles/treaty-1213-beginning-lie Treaty of 1213 - The Beginning of the... more »
ALL of Your Debt is PRE-PAID
Too much info to put out in a single article, so I'll continue over here, lol. ..... And then there is this article that again explains how YOU are the VALUE and that all debts are pre-paid! There is NO DEBT!!!!! None! Zip! Zilch! You OWE NOTHING!!! Thanx Brian!! Proof ALL of Your Debt is PRE-PAID! *Your debt is PRE-PAID!* August 2, 2013 I had a discussion with a friend the other day when I asked the question on Facebook, "If you found out your mortgage, car loan, student loan, credit card was fraudulent debt, would you keep paying it?" I included a link to the post I... more »
Not only is the USA a Corporation- it's a religious corporation.... *thud*
Oh baby!!!.... this is getting sooooo good now! Sooooo much fun!!! More and more absolute data coming out- more and more dots are being connected. Here is a couple of HUGE dots that a lot of people were asking about- in black and white. Why did the Papal decree matter in Washington? Why are people fleeing the scene? How about the fact that the United States of America "Government" is listed as a non-profit Religious Corporation? I mean, the fact that they had the balls to list themselves as "Non-profit" is laughable enough.... but the "Religious Corporation" should be shak... more »
'Why a Robert Mugabe victory would be good for Zimbabwe'
Roy Agyemang The Guardian *President has proved critics at home and abroad wrong with bold policies now yielding economic freedom* Robert Mugabe belongs to a dying breed of politicians on the African continent. Molded in the crucible of politics of nationalism, he emerges as the surviving face of African nationalism radicalised through armed resistance to settler colonialism. It is this dimension of his generational politics, this trait of his character, which Britain and the western world has not been able to comprehend. Mugabe is more than just a politician, he leads a cause, or... more »
It Got Them Killed / October Surprise: The Assassination of Vice-President Nelson Rockerfeller
*1979* “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going.” That was one quip following the news that Nelson Rockefeller—New York’s four-term governor, former vice-president of the United States, and the most prominent scion of America’s most famous wealthy family—had succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 70, while in his midtown townhouse with his 25-year-old assistant, Megan Marshack. *Preferred joke*: *Q: *How did Nelson Rockefeller die? *A:* Low blood pressure: 70 over 25. Before there was Warren Buffett and his secretary, there was Rockefeller and his. *Autres temps, ... more »
A Beginner's Guide to Freemasonry by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge
Mirrored from: http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/freemasonry/freemasonry.html *A Beginner's Guide to Freemasonry* by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge. While there is general consensus that Freemasonry originated in the British Isles, the exact line of descent (direct or indirect) from the Operative stone masons remains an oft posed question. Although the "Direct" argument has the most supporting evidence, the problem of a final resolution of this question remains complicated by the dearth of primary material. The occupation of "stone mason" began in the Briti... more »
"Be quiet then while I speak"
The ever delightful Sion Simon *Thanks to Guido Fawkes for reminding me quite how vile Sion Simon is.*
Video: Another Night of Unrest in Egypt - Protesters And Security Forces Clash
Politically and historically speaking, Morsi is Bin Laden. Gone. History. Finished. A bad nightmare that is over for Egyptians. His brand of Islam was rejected by the people of Egypt, just as Bin Laden's brand of Islam was rejected by the people of Afghanistan and the Muslim world. Trying to raise Morsi from the political dead is idiocy. The Islamist protesters who have been battling in the streets against the military and police for the past month would have a greater claim if they abandoned Morsi altogether and flipped the script on the generals moving forward. But that isn't happ... more »
Recommended reading
There's an interesting and rather persuasive article about BBC from Graeme Archer in the *Telegraph*: Of course people at the BBC are biased: why not make a virtue of it? ** *We need the BBC to be more like the newspapers - open about the unavoidably political beliefs of its staff * ** It's the *Today *programme in particular which gets Graeme's goat: It infuriates me, not least for that studied pretence of political neutrality, contradicted by every nuanced phrase, tone of voice or, indeed, official BBC investigation. (The BBC didn’t realise immigration was a political issue until... more »
EFN Asia 26: Past Conferences and Avoiding the Middle Income Trap
The 2013 Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia Conference will be held more than two months from now in Bangkok. The theme this year will be *Asia, the Middle Income Trap and Economic Freedom. * EFN Annual conferences was initiated in Manila, cool. There were no specific topics in earlier years, only a broad discussion about "Economic Freedom in Asia." Succeeding years have themes, which revealed the important economic issues and concerns that affect our continent on those years. Here is the list of past conferences. *1998 EFN Asia International Conference* Manila, November 5-7, 199... more »
DANIEL PELKA; BROTHEL 'RUN BY POLICE OFFICER'
"A police officer with the *West Midlands* Force is to face trial on charges of managing a brothel and conspiring to supply *Class A* drugs and misconduct in a public office." West Midlands Police brothel, May 2013 *Daniel Pelka* is from the *West Midlands.* *Daniel Pelka's mother Magdalena Luczak was a drug addicted prostitute.* Daniel Pelka, aged 4, was murdered. The drug-addict prostitute mother who murdered son, four In the UK, the* Steam And Sun* brothel raked in more than £26million a year. 'Upmarket brothel Steam & Sun club made £26m a year' *Daniel Pelka's mother Magd... more »
Paul Craig Roberts: "Washington, having turned the US into a lawless state, no longer has any conception of legal procedure. Law is whatever serves Washington. As Washington sees it, law is nothing but Washington’s will. Any person or country that interferes with Washington’s will is behaving unlawfully."
------------------------------ *Triple-Feature: “America Discredited,” “Bradley Manning Verdict Convicts Washington,” and “Hiding Economic Depression With Spin” — Paul Craig Roberts * ------------------------------ August 1, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *America Discredited* Paul Craig Roberts As Washington loses its grip on the world, defied by Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and now Russia, the US government resorts to public temper tantrums. The constant demonstration of childis... more »
Global warming? New satellite dataset finds global temperatures decreased from 1982-2006 | Climate Depot
' A new peer-reviewed paper published in Energy & Environment analyzes 24 years of data from the European Meteosat weather satellite and finds global temperatures decreased over the period 1982-2006. According to the authors, "Our observations point to a decrease in planetary temperature over almost the entire hemisphere, most likely due to an increase of cloudiness." ' More here http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/02/new-satellite-dataset-finds-global-temperatures-decreased-from-1982-2006/
24 hours before...
Time for my weekly predictions... Many of this week's widely-reported religious news stories have been a gift for Radio 4's *Sunday *and its very particular outlook on the world. Take the top Catholic stories this week...I think it's safe to predict that Pope Francis's statement about not judging gay clergy for their orientation will come up. I will eat my mitre if it doesn't. Who will the programme discuss the story with? A *Tabletista* who uses the occasion to cast Pope Francis in a more favourable light than Pope Emeritus Benedict? And what about the Pope's warm personal mess... more »
Friday Baseball Post
If it were up to me, Alex Rodriguez would be playing baseball. But since he's almost certainly not going going to be for a while... There's every chance now that he may fall short of Willie Mays after all. It turns out? 660 is hard. Really hard. For a long time after Mays and Aaron, no one really threatened to reach their neighborhood. Mike Schmidt actually had a shot at it...he had 530 after his age 37 season, with a most recent three years of 33, 37, 35. Coming off a 142 OPS+. If he had averaged 25 a year through age 42, that gets him to 645...but in fact, he only had a year plus... more »
WAR ON SEX
* Rosario Dawson (left)* *ANONYMOUS writes:* "Have you seen Danny Boyles' latest pic, Trance? "...Within the MK-themed heist plot is a curious discussion of the role of pubic hair within art which culminates in Rosario Dawson catwalking her Brazilian wizzy... "What if we were to declare sex, like drugs, to have been perverted in order to function as a corruption/control mechanism? "Think 'war on drugs'. "Without drugs were illegal how would criminals make billions of dollars? "The Prohibition of the twenties and the current 'War on Drugs' were the best things that ever happ... more »
Post-Classic Cinema by John David Ebert
*Introduction to the Last Days of Celluloid (An Excerpt from Post-Classic Cinema)*. *Post-Classic Cinema by John David Ebert. Source: The John David Ebert Channel. Date Published: July 28, 2013. Description:* My new book "Post-Classic Cinema" is now out and available on Amazon or at the following link: https://www.createspace.com/4282207
Terrance Nelson: Dakota Unity Riders contacted by Seventh Calvary
First Nation Terrance Nelson: Dakota Unity Riders contacted by Seventh Calvary By Terrance Nelson First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe Censored News August 2nd, 2013 Update Dakota Unity Riders contacted by Seventh Calvary? I spoke to Gus Higheagle this morning and the Dakota Unity Riders are in Woodstock where their ten horses are being well taken care of. Gus tells me
Sunday Classics preview: "And yet they'll say that a jealous husband is a madman" -- meet Verdi's Master Ford
*Bryn Terfel and Anthony Michaels-Moore as Falstaff and Ford in Act II, Scene 1 of Covent Garden's Falstaff, 2003* *Excerpt 1* (three performances) Is it a dream? or reality? Two enormous horns are growing from my head. Is it a dream? Master Ford! Master Ford! Are you sleeping? *Excerpt 2* (three performances) The time is fixed, the trick fullly planned; you're cheated and swindled! And yet they'll say that a jealous husband is a madman! *Excerpt 3* (three performances) I'll explode. I'll avenge the insult! Let it be praised forever from the bottom of my heart: jealousy! *by Ken... more »
Four Ex-EPA Administrators, All Republican, Call for Urgent Action to Arrest Climate Change
You'll probably recognize some of their names - Willam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. Over the past 43 years, each of them served a Republican president as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In an op-ed to the *New York Times*, they say that their message transcends political affiliation, "*the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally."* They were blunt and to the point:* * *There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues ... more »
Sometimes a Simple Graph Says It All - We're Getting More Pessimistic With Each Generation
The Brookings Institute has undertaken a survey of economic values in America. The study also revealed that progressivism is far from extinct in the Land of Free Enterprise Capitalism. * * *Despite these negative views of the economy and financial well-being, most Americans (54%) nonetheless believe that capitalism is working at least somewhat well. They don’t feel the same way about government, however. While more than 6-in-10 Americans agree that government should do more to reduce the gap between rich and poor, and that it is the responsibility of government to take care of thos... more »
Standing Up for Paul Bernardo
Yes, he did monstrous things, utterly heinous crimes. Yes he deserves to be imprisoned for the full, 25-year stretch if not for life itself. That said, why is Paul Bernardo still in solitary confinement? *For 18 years, Bernardo has been housed 23 hours a day in a Kingston cell that’s roughly 1.5 metres by 3 metres.* ** *For the other hour, he can watch television or exercise.* ** *Prisoners in solitary confinement cells can talk with prisoners in adjoining cells but they can’t see them.* I had always thought that solitary confinement was an extraordinary measure used where necess... more »
rtod
This Revolutionary Thought of the Day brought to you by my abiding hero, Clarence Darrow. Darrow dismissed many of the remedial bandages that he and the labor movement had battled for: eight-hour-day laws, women's suffrage, child labor legislation. "We are busy patching and tinkering, and doing a poor job patching and tinkering at that." The working class must seize the earth's natural resources and the means of production, he said. "There can never be any proper distribution of wealth in the world while a few own the earth - a few men own the mines, the railroads, the forests, whi... more »
Our man in Moscow
Pepe Escobar Asia Times Online So what is the "extremely disappointed" Obama administration, the Orwellian/Panopticon complex and the discredited US Congress to do? Send a Navy Seal Team 6 to snatch him or to target assassinate him - turning Moscow into Abbottabad 2.0? Drone him? Poison his borscht? Shower his new house with depleted uranium? Install a no-fly zone over Russia? Edward Snowden, under his new legal status in Russia, simply cannot be handed over to Bradley Manning's lynch mob. Legally, Washington is now as powerless as a tribal Pashtun girl facing an incoming Hellfire... more »
Two^H^H^H Ten years before the mast(head)
Yes, today is the 10th anniversary of Left I on the News. Most of what I'm doing now is on Twitter @leftiblog, although I'm still posting longer thoughts here as time and occasion warrant. Ten years ago, this was a lonely left voice in the Blogosphere (and by left I do *not* mean "liberal," I mean *left*). Now there are many more voices (although still not enough!). But I'm still standing. Here's to another ten, at which time I hope to be writing about the wonders of the socialist revolution. No, I don't *expect* to be doing so, but I certainly *hope* to be!
Let's say you're Texas and you've run out of death drugs, how do you keep executing your death-row inmates?
*Is it time to bring back the gas chamber (like San Quentin's old beauty, above), or maybe the electric chair? Death-penalty opponent Richard Dieter doesn't think so. "Those things just raise the spectacle level, and I don't think it's where states want to go."* *by Ken* My friend Jon snagged this HuffPost Crime piece on his Facebook page, "Texas Execution Drug Shortage: State Running Out Of Pentobarbital." The problem facing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is -- that its remaining supply of pentobarbital expires in September and that no alternatives have been found. It w... more »
Biogenesis suspension deals deadline - 6pm Sunday ! We shall see whether A-Rod does or doesn't take whatever deal is on the table from MLB....
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yanks-dismiss-a-rod-conspiracy-theory-article-1.1416746 ( Yanks respond to A- Rod's conspiracy gambit against Yankees Team and MLB as out to get him ) * * * Yankee officials were both saddened and amused at Alex Rodriguez's latest outburst on Friday night following his rehab game with the Trenton Thunder: saddened by his insinuation that the Yankees were conspiring to keep him off the field in order to void his contract; and amused by his claim that "I think we all agree that we want to get rid of PEDs; that's a must." "This is ty... more »
Creative silliness . . .
LOVE THE SLEDGEHAMMER and the TV set, myself. Maybe we could do a reprise, with Duffy et al?
Wagering on War Crimes: The Atlantic’s Latest Anti-Iran Propaganda
(Graham Allison / The Atlantic) With just days until the inauguration of Hassan Rouhani as Iran’s next president and a new round of unilateral sanctions recently passing the House of Representatives – measures drafted and demanded by right-wing, pro-Israeli pressure groups, designed deliberately to destroy any chance for positive diplomatic overtures andset the stage for a war - speculation
Connecting Dots - Detroit template will be necessary to address a 222 Trillion fiscal gap here in the US ..... Wonder why even the treasury market is gamed these days ?
ERIC SPROTT: THE DETROIT TEMPLATE AUGUST 2, 2013 BY THE DOC 2 COMMENTS Economist and Boston University Professor Laurence Kotlikoff calculates that to fully eliminate the shortfall in Social Security funding, the government would need to either cut all present and future social security benefits by 22%, or increase the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA) by 32% (from 12.4% to 16.4%). But this is just to fix Social Security! *For the U.S. Federal Government as a whole, Kotlikoff estimates the fiscal gap to be around $222 trillion!* This is m... more »
Louisiana sinkhole updates - August 2 , 2013... Second sinkhole buzz - contingency planning noticed ......
Contingency Plan for Collapse of 2nd Sinkhole AUGUST 2, 2013 12 We found this item from March but cannot verify it. We will look for found secondary and original sources. “Gov. Jindal warned Monday at a meeting in Baton Rouge with officials that deadly hydrogen sulfide could be released and another sinkhole could form if Texas Brine LLC’s second failing cavern collapses and he warned about increased instability in the Napoleonville Salt Dome, also collapsing. *A Contingency Plan* has been enacted after learning that the company’s second failing cavern is “less than” 200 feet from th... more »
A Tale of Two Bulletins
Many British people get their news from the main evening bulletins on BBC One and ITV. The choice of stories, the way they are ranked and the amount of time spent on each story can differ quite markedly between the BBC's *News at Six *and *ITV News *at 6.30. What follows is a comprehensive review of the past week's bulletin, comparing each day's bulletins at 6.00 on BBC One and 6.30 on ITV. A short introduction is followed by a transcription of each programme's headline and then by a list of new stories covered in the order they were covered - and with timings for how much time wa...more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Sword Brethren of *The Mein Kampf Project *at *Christogenea.org*. We'll be discussing Chapter 11 Nation & Race of *Mein Kampf* along with some of the writings of Thomas Jefferson & George Washington. Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past episodes. Please see my blog posts *Reflecting on the Founding Fathers and the American spirit* and *An overview of the early subversion of America* in addition to the data below. Adolf Hitler writing in *Mein Kampf* regarding the laws of Nature: [al... more »
"Gun-Running In Benghazi: Told You So"
* * *"Gun-Running In Benghazi: Told You So"* by Karl Denninger "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H. L. Mencken "This is what I wrote right after the attack happened: "The predicate to all of this appears to have been the giving of heavy munitions to militants that may have been related to or connected with (or may have actually been!) Al-Qaida, which then "leaked" beyond where the people who gave those munitions intended them to go and be used. Is it acceptable that our government gave heavy weapons to a publicly-sworn enemy of our nation? ... more »
Fukushima Updates - August 2 , 2013 .....groundwater contamination of Tritium finally revealed - 20 - 40 Trillion Bq since May of 2011 .....Strontium data to be revealed soon....Tepco incompetence will soon have Japan swimming in contaminated groundwater and polluted Ocean water .... As a Deputy Prime Minister talks about learning from the Nazis , how badly does Japan want old folks to die ? .
Fubarshima updates..... FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013 #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Groundwater Contamination: 20 to 40 Trillion Bq of Tritium May Have Been Released Since May 2011 But even that would still be within the annual regulatory target (22 trillion becquerels of tritium) for Fukushima I Nuclear Power plant. The information about the amount of tritium released since the accident came from TEPCO during the August 2 meeting of the NRA working group to deal with contaminated water at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. So far, reports of radioactive materials in water have been focused mostl... more »
Is the BBC biased against Scottish independence?
Here's an arresting thought: Is the BBC biased against Scottish independence? A lot of Scottish nationalists certainly seem to think so. You only need to check out the daily deluge of allegations of '#*BBCbias*' on Twitter, for instance, to get some sense of just how angry many SNP supporters are about the BBC. The website* Newsnet Scotland* publishes countless articles highlighting instances of what it sees as severe pro-union bias on the corporation's part and there's even a Facebook campaign called *Exposing anti-independence bias on the BBC*...and so on. Now, you do (as ever... more »
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.2.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.2.13"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 'The U.S. is temporarily closing embassies in several countries around the Middle East for what is being reported as an al-Qaeda threat. The State Department says these are just “precautionary steps.” Embassies involved are in countries such as Israel, Qatar, Egypt and many others. It must be a pretty widespread threat to close this many at one time. I find it bizarre we are closing embassies because of some sort of al-Qaeda threat and, at the same time, we are arming al-Qaeda backed rebels in Syria. The Russians ha...more »
The Blessing of DIS-ILLUSION-MENT: Seeing the contrast and choosing Joy
I've been talking to AK while he was writing part 1 of this article and I was thrilled to see it's final form. Brilliant Job darlin!! Strangely enough, many of us that have been working together so closely for the past 7 or 8 months have similar backgrounds and upbringings. Bob and I were both brought up in the same church, and our personal lives and stories of self discovery are so similar- in timing and content- that we are like two peas in a pod, lol. Freakishly so in fact. AK's story is also so very similar that it boggles the mind and we have had many many deep conversations... more »
Introduction to the Last Days of Celluloid by John David Ebert (An Excerpt from Post-Classic Cinema)
*Cinema Discourse* *By John David Ebert* *Date Published: July 31, 2013* To order this book, click here: https://www.createspace.com/4282207 *Introduction to the Last Days of Celluloid:* *An Excerpt from Post-Classic Cinema* * * *by John David Ebert* Film, today, now finds itself in exile. But in exile from what? And from where? After the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in the Romano-Jewish Wars of 70 AD and then with the erasure of the Jews from the geopolitical map of Palestine by the emperor Hadrian in 135 AD, the Jews found themselves in exile from their homeland, to... more »
Iran-- A Little Bit Of Perspective From Reese Erlich
You may recall, that we've been looking at the U.S.-backed coup in Egypt as a replay of the tragic U.S. coup against popular Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in 1953. Wednesday Rand Paul brought up an amendment recognizing that the military overthrow of Mohammed Morsi was a coup and that, legally, the U.S. had to stop sending aid until democracy is restored. Outrageously, Paul's amendment failed, overwhelmingly-- 86-13-- no Democrats joining Paul and the dozen Republicans who went along with him just a bunch of obstructionist crackpots who oppose anything that Obama backs... more »
British Freemasonry, Labour and the Deep State
I'm afraid I don't know an awful lot about Merlyn Reese, other than the cabinet positions he held and the times that he held them. In December of 1973, all parties are agreed (with retrospect), peace was at hand in the North of Ireland - Provos, ex-paratroops and ex-Spooks all converge on this point - the war had been won and the IRA were war-weary, broken and beaten - thoroughly infiltrated by informants at every level, it's leaders jailed, flow of arms interdicted and shut off. That was the situation in Feburary of 1974 when Labour was returned to power and Merlyn Rees beca... more »
Who's next?
1. William Hartnell (1963-1966) 2. Patrick Troughton (1966-1969) 3. Jon Pertwee (1970-1974) 4. Tom Baker (1974-1981) 5. Peter Davison - pictured (1982-1984) 6. Colin Baker (1984-1986) 7. Sylvester McCoy (1987-1996) 8. Paul McGann (1996) 9. Christopher Eccleston (2005) 10. David Tennant (2005-2010) 11. Matt Smith (2010 - 2013) 12. Who? Apparently we will find out on Sunday evening in a BBC entertainment program rather than in an episode of Doctor Who, hmmm. Matt Smith has been my favourite of the three new series' Doctors. In fact he's up there with Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker as the best ...more »
Most Influential Blogger Award...
*about dang time I got around to this!!!* My excuse is a raging case of writer's block brought about by the endless stream of horrific crapola streaming out of the cesspool of Washington, DC. However, I have nailed my fingertips to the keyboard until I give honor and thanks to the beautiful Maggie Thornton of *Maggie's Notebook *(have you seen her *new picture??)* and also the wonderful *Mind Numbed Robot *(both of whom nominated me.) *The rules:* 1. Display the award logo on your blog. 2. Link back to the person who nominated you 3. Answer 7 questions decided up by your nominator ... more »
Know your rights!
This is good. This should be made into a leaflet and handed out far and wide.
Hazell: Ever Wonder Why Scousers Never Buy the Sun...?
* * *The standards of service for all witnesses of crime are set out in the Witness Charter. * * * *It has been developed to tell you how you can expect to be treated by the police if you are a witness to a crime or incident. * * * *It also covers standards of care for other criminal justice agencies and lawyers if you are required to give evidence in court.* * * *The standards of care include:* - *You will be treated fairly and with respect according to your needs irrespective of race, religion and belief, background, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation... more »
Brian Jones interviewed by Reclaiming the Conversation on Education
“The students, the learners themselves have to have power.” Brian P. Jones Saw this on Tumblr this morning and wanted to disseminate it. Last spring I participated in a conference at Barnard College called Reclaiming the Conversation on Education. At one point, someone pulled me into a classroom to do an interview about the landscape […]
Catch of the Day
Nice, from Sarah Kliff: Why do Republicans keep voting to repeal Obamacare? For one thing, us journalists keep writing about it. And she runs the numbers and finds that three repeal votes in particular seem to have generated decent publicity. I don't think that's the whole answer, but it's not a bad one at all. Even if only one in twenty repeal votes catch the press's attention, as long as there's little opportunity cost -- and there isn't -- why not? Not the whole answer? Well, first of all not all of these votes are exactly the same. Some are clean repeals, but some are partial d... more »
Interjurisdictional immunity of highly limited application
*Marine Services International Ltd. v. Ryan Estate*, 2013 SCC 44 effectively eliminates the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity: Interjurisdictional immunity exists to protect the "basic, minimum and unassailable content" or the core of the "exclusive classes of subject" created by ss. 91 and 92 of the*Constitution Act, 1867*: *Bell Canada*, at p. 839. This Court discussed interjurisdictional immunity in *Canadian Western Bank* and later in *Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canadian Owners and Pilots Association*, 2010 SCC 39, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 536 ("*COPA*"). The doctrine has a ... more »
war support betrays humanity
That's what I googled to find the following. A very well written piece entitled *War Is Betrayal*, by Chris Hedges, from July 01, 2012, on the *Boston Review* website. Link to the whole article is HERE. Excerpt from the article, quoting Jessica Goodell in her 2011 book, *Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq*: "In a poignant passage, she talks about what it was like for her and a fellow Marine named Miguel to come home and see all those yellow ribbons: We’d frequently pass vehicles displaying the yellow ribbon ‘support-our-troops decal,’ but we never once mentioned it. We probably ... more »
Arms Race Update - Chinese Prepare for "Peoples' War" in Cyberspace
It doesn't take bullets, bombs and rockets to kill people and cripple nations. Our almost insane dependence on computers today creates all the vulnerability a determined, sophisticated enemy needs to take us down. Enter China. *China’s military is preparing for war in cyberspace involving space attacks on satellites and the use of both military and civilian personnel for a digital “people’s war,” according to an internal Chinese defense report. * *“As cyber technology continues to develop, cyber warfare has quietly begun,” the report concludes, noting that the ability to wage c... more »
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*"Suspect Device" cartoonist Greg Peters dies *
Friday Nerd Blogging: The Chosen One
If there is one bit of recent pop culture that will have enduring value as a common reference in the classroom, it is almost certainly Harry Potter.* Since his fictional 33rd birthday was this week, here’s this week’s FNB: * Not to mention that our Father Duck co-edited a volume on HP and IR.
Against neoliberalism
Neoliberalism reproduces itself on all three fronts, economic, political and ideological, despite failing consistently to deliver what it promises. The interesting thing about the neoliberal project is it was marginal to mainstream politics for forty years. The first critique of the post-war settlement came from the New Left that emerged between 1956 and 1968. At the beginning of the 1970s the neoliberals were a minority even in the parties where they had a hearing. By the end of the decade they were leading (and remaking) numerous states. The neoliberals gained ground by creating a... more »
Sure, the Iron Curtain Fell, But What's Going Up In Its Place?
When the Berlin Wall came down it quickly led to the liberation of eastern Europe and the demise of the Soviet Union. Western European leaders, egged on by the United States, pulled out all the stops to sign up eastern Europe into the E.U. and NATO. America sought to drive the North Atlantic alliance right up to Russia's borders. It was a moment of triumphalism in Washington as Reagan and Bush Sr. were crowned with laurel wreaths for winning the Cold War. Eastern Europe had been liberated, saved for democracy, or so we were told. Maybe not. Now there's a new form of authoritari... more »
Bill Whittle: Which prominent Democrat just admitted Sarah Palin was right about "death panels?"...
I know libtards on the public dole (SSI) because they're "too nervous to work" who still call Sarah Palin an "idiot." No - really...
Less Than Two Weeks To Go Before The New Jersey Primary-- Don't Give Wall Street Banksters Another Senate Seat
This week Blue America and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) sent a joint letter to all our members asking them to support Rush Holt for the open New Jersey Senate seat. The August 13 primary has 4 Democrats vying for the nomination-- Rush Holt and Frank Pallone, both progressive congressmen, General Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, a kind of boss-affiliated garden variety Democrat, and the Wall Street candidate, Newark Mayor Cory Booker. The special election itself will be held October 16. Digby penned the letter: Last April, just three months before he passed away, the ail... more »
Zapatistas: Support Caravan for Yaqui Highway Blockade in Defense of Water Rights
Yaqui Highway Blockade in Defense of Water Rights 2013 Zapatistas: Support Caravan for Yaqui Highway Blockade in Sonora, Mexico By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Yaqui Water Forum, Vicam Pueblo/Photo Brenda Norrell VICAM PUEBLO, Sonora, Mexico -- The Zapatistas are calling for support of Yaquis maintaining a highway blockade in Vicam Pueblo. Yaqui are defending
Let the Excuses Begin: Defending the Status Quo!
Smells like a lot of excuses coming from the “no excuses” crowd—and a heaping serving of status quo gravy on top: The most embarrassing posting on Education Week ever (and that’s saying a lot): Rick and Tony If any doubt about the fabrications, see HERE. Tagged: education week, tony bennett
Nominations Update
Good news #1: The Senate processed a large batch of nominations before they left town for the month. Some ambassadors, some miscellaneous board members, but also a bunch of assistant secretaries. Fewer empty desks is good. Good news #2: Barack Obama has cranked up the judicial nominations. Last week he sent up six; yesterday he nominated six district court judges and three circuit court picks. Good news #3: Along with the judicial nominations, Obama also this week sent up a slew of executive branch nominees. Fewer empty desks is good! Bad news #1: There are still far too many vacan... more »
Krugman - Sexism and the Federal Reserve
Misogyny in the U.S. goes straight to the top, even right into the Federal Reserve. Paul Krugman shines a light on the sexist campaign going on to undermine the eminently qualified Janet Yellen's shot at taking over the Federal Reserve when Ben Bernanke steps down as chairman. *Last week, The New York Sun published an editorial attacking Ms. Yellen titled “The Female Dollar.” The editorial took it for granted that the Fed has been following disastrously inflationary monetary policies for years, even though actual inflation is at a 50-year low. And it warned that things would get ev... more »
Ten Atrocities That Would Not Exist Without (Jewish) Usury!
The world is indeed at the point now of total economic collapse, and I and others have long said that the major culprit responsible for this mess is criminal Jewish Usury that has caused nothing but grief and despair in most major nations.....It is a fact that throughout history, any nation that has adopted Jewish Usury as its financial system has collapsed, and what we are seeing today is nothing more than history repeating itself... Sadly, most governments have not studied their history and are helpless now as they watch the entire world go through this debacle, which is basically ... more »
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