Herbert von Karajan recorded for Decca in the 1960s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Crooner Photo of Frank Sinatra, American singer, (circa 1947, Liederkranz Hall, NYC). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
DSC_0180 (Photo credit: Discloner)
Sinatra, pictured here with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960, was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party until 1968. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)JFK50 - Frank Sinatra
Suddenly (1954) from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Assuming a role that clearly strays far from his acting comfort zone, Ole'
Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra portrays a pint-sized low-level mob
hoodlum hired to carry out a paid hit.
The assassination of the President of the United States by rifle fire from
an upstairs window using a high-velocity rifle with mounted scope on the
presidential motorcade during a hastily arranged whisltestop tour.
This was produced in *1954*, by the way.
*Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal American (26th February, 1956)*
"Success has not changed Frank Sin... more »
Sunday Classics TV Watch: "White Collar" 's Neal Caffrey's Mozart is Leporello's little list
*On last week's White Collar episode, "Out of the Frying Pan," Mozzie
(Willie Garson) and Neal (Matt Bomer) planned a caper.*
*LEPORELLO*: My dear lady, this is a catalog
of the beauties my master has loved,
a list which I have compiled.
Observe, read along with me.
(1) *Gabriel Bacquier (b), Leporello; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir
Georg Solti, cond. Decca, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1978*
(2) *Ferruccio Furlanetto (bs), Leporello; Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von
Karajan, cond. DG, recorded Jan. 1985*
*by Ken*
I thought I was going to be really topical tonight, pouncing on Neal
Caf... more »
Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents
There is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking
its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics
software that utilizes both windows and code. Armed with such knowledge,
yesterday I spent six hours combing the Louisiana Department of Education
(LDOE) website searching for useful information “hidden in plain sight,” so
to […]
How in heaven's name could I have missed this?...
*today was*
Head over to the official *Fountain Pen Day site *to see all the
outstanding companies sponsoring Fountain Pen Day. They have a list of a
gazillion contests relating to pens and inks. Yay!
I love fountain pens!
*Two of my fountain pens. The smaller one on the bottom is an old Sheaffer
that my Mom received for a graduation gift from high school. The other one
is a mismatched (body and cap) vintage Sheaffer that has an awesome nib. *
*I have a wonderful Cross for everyday use. My next pen? See video below.
*
Property Tax Cost of Living Comparison
A
quick discussion on Twitter about relative property tax rates between
Edmonton AB, London ON and Cambridge ON started me wondering, what do
these various property tax rates mean to a homeowner's bottom line?
Property taxes are a tax calculated using a rate and the assessed value
of a home. What determines their affordability is your income. Ideally
you want to live in an area where your
NEW BANKING DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF 1 November 2013
On Nov 1, 2013, at 5:17 PM, ciinc group wrote:
In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency:
Okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!!
Attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the
concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor
the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can
choose the pieces that resonate with them....
If an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all lawfully and legally
foreclosed)....then they can take the following in to any bank teller and
the bank HAS to accept them a... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Sun City, Arizonastan, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”
* *
*“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier*
* And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”*
By Steven Rosenfeld
“The old cliché is true. The rich are getting richer. And there’s a new
name for the upward transfer of wealth and richest people in America and
worldwide—now called the “point-seven percent”—according to The Wall Street
Journal, which, in its typical cheerleading way, boasts that Americans rule
the top of the wealth pyramid.
“Forget the 1 percent—the statistic that 1 percent of people in the U.S.
hold 40 percent of the wealth” brags Jason Bellini on a WSJ video report.
“It b... more »
"Alas..."
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.”
- Thomas Gray
Declaration of Deposit, Receipt, Conversion, & Account: Banking Documents
Are you ready to Rock & Roll? Now it's TIME!!!! The following are the
banking documents that many people have been waiting for.
The email I just received from Heather:
In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency:
okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!!
attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the
concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor
the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can
choose the pieces that resonate with them....
if an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all l... more »
I thought that Stephen Harper said he had personally reviewed Pam Wallin's expenses .. and they were ok??
*“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any
parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over
that period of time,”*
*Stephen Harper*
*Prime Minister of Canada*
--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
*
**RCMP allege that Senator Wallin defrauded Canadians with her Senate
expenditure claims! *
Longest Walk 4 arrives in Utah!
The
Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz walked out of Grand Junction,
Colorado, and across the Colorado River, walking and running, the walk
arrived at the Utah border late Friday!
Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Bad Bear Samspon
Spain based Fagor ( Europe 5th largest appliance maker ) going down.... bankruptcy seems likely after its parent firm Mondragon has declined pouring good money after bad....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/spain-based-fagor-europes-fifth-largest-appliance-maker-verge-bankruptcy
Spain-Based Fagor, Europe's Fifth Largest Appliance Maker, On Verge Of
Bankruptcy
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2013 17:46 -0400
- China
- Creditors
- France
- Gross Domestic Product
- Market Share
- Poland
- recovery
- Unemployment
inShare
There has been much media insinuation in recent months that just because
Spain's economy has virtually shuttered, and imports have slid to
unprecedented lo... more »
Are "good Christians" really incapable of understanding why this is so offensive -- not to mention (one hopes) illegal?
*There's audio on the DNAinfo website.*
*by Ken*
One of the favorite lies of the Christian Right is that the U.S. is a
"Christian country." There is, of course, no basis in fact for this
assertion, either historical or documentary. And since one of the favorite
habits of right-wingers of every stripe is telling lies about our revered
Founding Fathers, naturally they love to tell the bare-faced lie about them
being good Christians. On the contrary. As one of my favorite New York City
walking-tour leaders, Justin Ferate, likes to point out whenever the
subject comes up (or he can *m... more »
An open letter to #AERA. No thank you.
Dearest American Education Research Association (AERA): This week, I
received yet another solicitation to renew my membership to AERA. And once
again, I will ignore this email and decline membership renewal. But this is
the first time I’ve chosen to respond. In this message, AERA is being
touted as the following: Your membership helps make a difference […]
Republicans Fret As GOP Brand Continues To Disintegrate In California
Santa Clarita Assemblyman Scott Wilk is the kind of commonsense, mainstream
Republican from the old days-- not hopeless... and still worth reasoning
with. Today he's the co-chair of elections for the Assembly GOP Caucus and
he's worried that some of his sleazy colleagues, particularly the ones in
Washington, are spoiling his party's brand even more than it has already
been. He was optimistic about holding three Republican seats against strong
Democratic attacks next year. And now he's worried. "Unfortunately," he
wrote yesterday for the *FlashReport*, "some people place their perso... more »
Friday Night, Sunday Morning
Radio 4's obituary programme *Last Word *gave its closing spot today to Lou
Reed. [You can hear this edition here, for the foreseeable future.]
It featured extracts from some of Lou's legendarily prickly interviews,
where he made the interviewer's life less than easy - to say the least;
though given the tedious predictability of the questions asked, I found
myself rather rooting for Lou.
I liked his answer to this question, from a later, mellower interview:
Q: What's 'The Last Shot' about? The line in it which says, "I shot a vein
in my neck". Have you ever done that?
A: Steve, t... more »
Today manchurian candidate killer at the LAX - not a TSA worker , allegedly Paul anthony Ciancia held strong anti- government views ( aka a domestic terrorist ) ....looks like someone needed to change the subject after a week's long NSA / ObamaCare / Benghazi screw ups " tommy hammering " .....
LAX shooting - not a TSA worker after all......maybe dead , maybe alive
http://www.infowars.com/lax-shooter-identified-as-off-duty-tsa-worker/
UPDATE: Flip-Flop: LAX Shooter Was Not a TSA Worker, May Have Had ‘Strong
Anti-Government Views’
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Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones'
Facebook][image: Infowars store]
*Infowars.com*
November 1, 2013
UPDATE: UPI reports that the suspect, 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia who
is reportedly not a TSA officer as previously reported, h... more »
Pakistan attempts to open talks with Pakistani Taliban - hard to see this leading anywhere if Drone strikes have killed the Head of the Pakistani Taliban and other key Taliban members !
We have heard his death reported many times before, this time it may be
accurate - we shall see....
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/1/drone-strike-killsheadofpakistanitaliban.html
US drone strike kills head of Pakistani Taliban
November 1, 2013 2:12PM ET
Al Jazeera sources confirm Hakimullah Mehsud, most wanted man in Pakistan,
dies in US attack
Topics: Pakistan Taliban Drones
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[image: Pakistani Taliban]
Mehsud (left), who had been reported dead several times before, had been
the leader of the Pakistani Taliban since 2009.Ishtiaq Mehsud/AP
A U.S. drone strik... more »
Bott on earth?
One blog I always look forward to reading is that by Damian Thompson at the
*Telegraph. *
Though neither I nor Sue share his Roman Catholicism, we still tend to like
what he writes on many issues.
His latest blogpost includes a section that, I suspect, matters more to me
than to Sue.
It concerns BBC Radio 3, and I agree with it either 97.26% or 102.372% [I
can't make up my mind which]:
*National treasure jumps ship*
Radio 3 under Roger Wright has, miraculously for the Beeb, preserved most
of its authentic ethos; presenters such as Petroc Trelawny are the
apostolic successors to... more »
Beautiful Day
During the work week Southern Man is on the road before dawn and doesn't
get home 'till well after dark so beautiful days often slip right by but
this morning he stepped out of The Trailer into a gorgeous fall morning.
Sure, it's a raw red-earth blue-sky kind of beauty but Southern Man loves
it. The cool air, the fall colors (such as they are), the sound of wind and
water...*Lord, I am so blessed to live here. Thank you for the beautiful
world you've made for us. Amen.*
"Do we not count?"
Blogs about BBC bias tend to focus on the big political issues, but it's
the lesser issues that seem to rile up the people I know - the people who
don't read blogs about BBC bias.
Take, for example, this week's storms.
We up in't North, especially here in't North West, barely saw a leaf blown
off a single tree, whilst some of you Southerners saw your wheelie bins
blown over and four people killed.
My 80+ dad was fuming at something James Naughtie said on *Today *- or
something someone said to James Naughtie on *Today,* he's not quite sure
which - about how we in't North were ge... more »
Halloween Party
A kitchen full of characters.
Scary Food! Photo by Joanna, our lovely hostess; well, photo cribbed from
her Facebook page.
Party theme: Zombie Apocalypse. Photo by Joanna.
Another Zombie Hunter. Photo by Joanna or Jeri or Patricia, who knows.
The Mummy apparently didn't get the memo about the party theme. Photo by
Joanna, maybe.
Toilet Terror! Photo cribbed from Jeri's Facebook.
Avast, surrender ye candy or prepare to be boarded!
Saucy wenches.
Storm and Captain America! But in these modern times even Storm carries a
corporate ID badge on her belt.
Get Ready to Rumble….. NSA vs. State
OK, so it’s not exactly Ali vs. Frazier, but NSA and the State Department
are not happy with each other. From this morning’s Cable at Foreign Policy,
Yochi Dreazen reports: Secretary of State John Kerry touched off the furor
when he said some of the NSA’s overseas surveillance efforts — which also
included tapping into
Continue reading
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps
*I had a man with military connections tell me there are 3G wireless
transmitters in the chipsets of mother boards with Intel i5 and i7 CPU
chips (the latest chips). The motherboards can be accessed remotely (I am
told) by cell towers. The wireless attennas for this are said to be
embedded in the circuit traces of the printed circuit boards which means
complete cooperation with the security agencies by motherboard designers
and the plants in China. Not surprising I suppose since the USA
Corporation is just a Chinese owned corporation. I have not been able to
confirm that rumo... more »
Eight years
This blog has been going for eight years. In that time we have seen
politics and public opinion shift relentlessly to the right (especiallyamong the young).
From 1990 (approximately) to 2005 the public moved and largely remained to
the left. There was nothing that collected and organised this opinion, save
for the period when Stop the War was a membership organisation and not a
brand name, the salad days of the anti-war movement 2001-2003.
With hindsight the 7/7 bombings was the point when the ruling class started
to get ahead of the game again. Another possible turning point, also ... more »
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving
extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing
universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a
blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s
leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented
efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
None of this is really possible without global military disarmament. We
can't afford militarism and poverty eradication. We have a choice to make.
Tweet, and be damned?
Oh, good grief!
As a teenager, I made it my weekly mission to tune in, of a Saturday
afternoon, to Paul Gambaccini's American chart show on BBC Radio 1. Paul G
counting down the latest hits stateside [as DJs would say back then] was an
unmissable part of my youth, back in the early-to-mid '80s.
Now, Paul Gambaccini has been arrested under Operation Yewtree.
He strongly denies the allegations.
The Twittersphere has been abuzz today, putting two and two together, after
the story broke. The clue given - on which they fed so frenziedly - was
that the BBC DJ in question was aged 64.... more »
By-Election Results October 2013
Party
Number of Candidates
Total Vote
%
+/- Sept
Average/
contest
+/-
Sept
+/-
Seats
Conservative
29
11,749
22.1%
-10.5%
405
+34
-2
Labour
27
19,317
36.3%
+7.9%
715
+328
+4
LibDem
21
7,077
13.3%
+3.9%
337
+159
+1
UKIP
24
5,596
10.5%
-10.8%
233
-26
0
SNP*
4
4,960
9.3%
+9.3%
1,240
+1,240
-2
Plaid Cymru**
2
236
0.4%
+0.4%
118
+236
0
Green
12
1,234
2.3%
-1.0%
103
-11
0
BNP
3
115
0.2%
-0.2%
38
-82
0
TUSC
1
21
0%
+0.0%
... more »
Snowman Kids Ornament
It is the time of year when I start breaking out my Holiday crafts and
ideas, so you can be well done with your crafting by the time Christmas
rolls around. I have some fun Thanksgiving ideas too, but I thought we
would kick of the holiday crafting season with a kids craft. This craft is
perfect for those younger kid and elementary school students. It is easy to
pull together and really open to individuality.
You will need:
Large Popsicle sticks, the tongue depressor type
Felt or foam in a few colors, we used purple for the scarf and black for
the hat
google eyes
a black m... more »
Is Obama finished?...
William Gensert, who wrote "Stick a Fork in Obama", over at American
Thinker seems to think so.
He's already received over 400 comments - some agree with him and some
don't.
Pop over and read the article and let me know what you think. I'll reserve
my opinion until I ponder it a bit.
*Stick a Fork in Obama*
I thought the chicken breast was particularily appropriate given that my
demo today is Chicken Cordon Bleu. I do plan on cooking mine, though...
*There. That's better.*
Our final World Series in Boston post!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013*
*Stood up by the old Boston Braves:* Fenway Park certainly makes a
fantastic TV set.
When the camera peers in from center field, the fans behind home plate are
so close that they seem to be handing you hot dogs. And then, good lord,
those glorious walls!
From right center field all the way over, Fenway's walls are 17 or 37 feet
high. With all those potential bounces!
With that in mind:
The best seat in baseball must be the one directly along the left field
line, halfway up in the section. You’re maybe fifteen feet off the field,
looking in at home pla... more »
TOURING THE JEJU MESSAGE
Catholic nuns continue blocking Navy base construction gate in Gangjeong
village on Jeju Island in South Korea. Priests and nuns have become
increasingly determined in their actions in recent months.During the last
couple of weeks Maine filmmaker Regis Tremblay has been touring the new
documentary The Ghosts of Jeju. Starting in Massachusetts he then went on
to the San Francisco Bay area for a couple showings and then up to Santa
Rosa before heading to Seattle. He's now dipping back down to Oregon for a
couple more showings of the film and then moving on to Minneapolis,
Minneso... more »
FUKUSHIMA - DON'T PANIC
A number of websites WRONGLY stated that the above diagram shows
radiation
from Fukushima.
In reality, this diagram was produced in 2011.
It was made by the *National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)*to show the tsunami of 11 March 2011, based on data recorded in
the
Pacific.
*NOAA website*
This is explained by Audrey Garric at *le monde* on 29 Oct 2013 (also
*Le
blog de Wendy*)
In a study published this month in the journal *Deep-Sea Research*,
scientists have studied the path in the ocean of cesium-137.
"The plume of cesium-137 resulting from the disaster is ex... more »
Hedge Fund Operative Gordon Hendry Joins Indiana State Board of Education
by Doug Martin
*Jennifer Wagner** : "I've heard it's (Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error) a
lovely piece of fiction."*
When Mind Trust board member and Bill Bennett operative David Shane (wife
of former Eli Lilly Endowment’s education consultant) recently stepped down
from the Indiana State Board of Education, I was not shocked when Mike
Pence quickly picked Democrat Gordon Hendry to join the state board.
Hendry is married to Jennifer Wagner, the former spokesperson for the
Indiana Democratic Party. Wagner has been in bed with the rightwing in
Indiana for some time. Her company Ma... more »
Catch of the Day
I missed this for some reason earlier in the week, but Brendan Nyhan had a
point I agree with completely with regard to this week's sudden obsession
with Barack Obama's old claim that everyone would be able to keep their
current insurance under ACA:
Another possible explanation for the lack of scrutiny given to Obama’s
promises is that the press often takes its cues about the flaws in a policy
from the opposition party, which is part of a pattern of indexing coverage
to the range of debate among political elites. In this case, conservative
politicians and pundits often emphasized ba... more »
Limning Minnesota: Ripley bungled these topics too!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013*
*In the U.S., the improvement was general:* Was Minnesota number two in the
teaching of math around the year 2007?
That’s what Amanda Ripley seems to say in her egregious but ballyhooed
book, The Smartest Kids in the World. But alas! This and several other
claims about Minnesota are either wrong or grossly misleading.
Once again, we present Ripley’s basic text on this topic:
RIPLEY (*page 72*): Of the three American students I followed, Eric was the
only one who did not loathe math. Coincidence or not, Eric’s home state of
Minnesota was one of only two st... more »
Contour Crafting: 3D Printing of Homes
Posted at: Blacklisted News
The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours.
October 31, 2013
Source: Industry Tap
We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized
wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an
entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours.
...
In this video, we see a prototype of a machine called ‘Contour Crafting’
Alabama Reactionaries Bobby Bright And Parker Griffith Reemerging From Their Holes?
Unless you're from Montgomery, Alabama, I wouldn't blame you if you can't
remember who Bobby Bright was. As Mayor of Montgomery, Bright never had to
say if he was a Democrat or a Republican. But when Republican Terry Everett
announced he would not run for reelection in AL-02, a seat that had been in
GOP hands for over 4 decades, Bright avoided the crowded GOP primary by
running as a Democrat, albeit as gay-hating, anti-Choice NRA Blue Dog. He
won the general election by 1,776 votes (just over a half of one percent).
He then went on to accrue the worst voting record of any Blue Dog... more »
The Caligula Caucus
The politically correct are calling it a class war, or even a war
against the poor. But that's putting it too mildly. Because the assault of
the plutocrats on the body politic is now actually reaching the level of
extermination -- or, if you prefer, culling the herd, slow starvation, and
legalized homicide. Here are a few of my recent *New York Times* comments
addressing this largely ignored crisis*. First, in response to Charles
Blow's piece on the partisan hammering that the neoliberal health insurance
reform known as Obamacare is now receiving:
Lost in the circular blame game med... more »
It's not the crack, it's the character flaws
I for one will be very glad when this Rob Ford business is over. He has
been an embarrassing and poorly considered choice for Toronto mayor on all
kinds of fronts, and whether he did or didn't smoke crack on video is
really just one small detail in the long Ford story.
What to do with morally errant politicians? We're all over the map on
that one, but for me it mostly comes down to putting the various specifics
in context and deciding if the picture of the person who emerges is the
kind of person you want running your town, province or country.
For instance, politicians c... more »
Your moment of Zen
Dia De Los Muertos Familiars. [graphic via La Hermosa Bruja]
Well at least now we know ...
... why there are so many photos of Rob Ford squinting up at the sky :
Ford himself has been the target of a police investigation that witnessed
and photographed him in months of on-the-ground and airplane surveillance
...
.
I have lost interest in politics
The following cowboy has succeeded to turn me off of politics - Senate
scandal and now his buddy Rob Ford is in the news again. This time the
video, Ford smoking grass, has become available to police. Too much
depressing stuff.
"It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"
Valerie Strauss’s *The Answer Sheet* has a discussion of Common Core and
text complexity that you must read:
Common Core: How are books judged?
Strauss ends with:
Appendix A of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards has a
long and complicated explanation of “text complexity,” which you can read
here, that reviews research said to show that the complexity of today’s
reading demands for adults have held steady or risen over the past half
century at the same time that the material students have read has gotten
easier.
Another document, titled “Supplemental Information... more »
Two Key Dates In The Duffy / Wright / Harper Scandal ...
*CBC's Peter Mansbridge examines what went on behind closed doors on two
key dates that led up to the current Senate scandal. If you are following
the Senate Scandal ... this is 'must see' viewing!*
*
**
*
How Big Business Turned Welfare For The Poor Into Corporate Welfare
*By MARC McDONALD*
America has been gutting its already-threadbare social safety net for three
decades. The recent cuts to food stamps are the latest evidence of that.
Does this mean that we will eventually see the realization of the GOP's
dream of ending all welfare for low-income people?
Not if corporate America has a say in the matter. And make no mistake,
nothing gets done in Washington, D.C. without corporate America's blessing.
The fact is, corporate America loves welfare. (No, I'm not just talking
about the billions of dollars big corporations pocket in corporate welfare
eve... more »
Support The UK Magazine, "What Doctors Don't Tell You"
**
*And here is why:*
**
*The Times* vs. *WDDTY*
On 1st October, *The Times* newspaper of London published an article that
could well have precipitated the death knell of WDDTY magazine. If *The
Times* piece had stopped the public buying the magazine, it would
undoubtedly have struggled to survive. Fortunately, this hasn’t happened;
in fact, subscription rates have increased, not declined, as a result of
the publicity. That's how keen the public is to get information they can’t
readily get from their doctors!
Nonetheless, there are valuable lessons to be learned by all, especially ... more »
MALALA, MATTHEWS AND MADDOW: Rachel Maddow’s transfusion from Fox!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013*
*Part 4—Satya shortfalls:* Our broken intellectual culture is badly in need
of transfusions.
In part for that reason, we were thrilled when we watched the tape of the
United Nations address Malala Yousafzai offered last July.
“I’m not *against* anyone,” this very unusual person said, and the emphasis
was hers. She went on to define her spiritual/political lineage.
We were pleased and impressed by what we saw. Malala had just turned 16 as
she defined this heritage:
MALALA (7/12/13): *Dear sisters and brothers! I am not against anyone.*
Neither am I here... more »
Common Core and Text Complexity: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”
Valerie Strauss’s The Answer Sheet has a discussion of Common Core and text
complexity that you must read: Common Core: How are books judged? Strauss
ends with: Appendix A of the English Language Arts Common Core State
Standards has a long and complicated explanation of “text complexity,”
which you can read here, that reviews research said […]
Passing-on not a defence to claims by indirect purchasers
*Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. v. Microsoft Corporation,* 2013 SCC 57 holds that
indirect purchasers have a cause of action against the party who has
effectuated the overcharge at the top of the distribution chain that has
allegedly injured the indirect purchasers as a result of the overcharge
being "passed on" to them through the chain of distribution. The argument
that indirect purchasers should have no cause of action because passing on
has been rejected as a defence in Canada should fail. The Court holds:
[18] The passing-on defence was typical... more »
What is an Information to Obtain?
In order for a search warrant to be issued the police must have more than a
mere suspicion a crime has happened. They must good reason to believe that
a crime has happened and then have probable cause (as much as that's an
American term it's accurate) to believe the place they want to search has
evidence relevant to that crime.
The police then put their information in a document called an Information
to Obtain (ITO). The ITO can be enormous – it can amount to several bound
volumes if the matter is very complex. In the ITO the police outline the
information they have – and they ... more »
Benghazi and NSA items November 1 , 2013... CIA operatives in Benghazi finally to give testimony to congress on november 11 , 2013 ... More NSA whistleblowers came forward after Edward Snowden..... NSA fiasco - china slams US spying and the loss of trust factor ..........
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/01/cia-operatives-in-benghazi-to-appear-in-closed-congressional-hearing/
CIA operatives in Benghazi to appear in closed Congressional hearing
POSTED AT 8:01 AM ON NOVEMBER 1, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY
Congress has tried for more than a year to gain access to those who
survived the terrorist attack on two American outposts in Benghazi, with
little success — until now. Just days afteran extensive report by *60
Minutes* on the run-up to the attack and the lack of US response during the
attack itself, the CIA will make witnesses available to the House
Int... more »
Well airport security can be trying
The rigmarole at British airports of removing your laptop and/or tablet
from your carry-on bag, but not your pda (why the distinction? when does a
pda become a tablet? 4", 5", 7", 9"?), then removing your coat or jacket
but not always a cardigan or windcheater, removing your belt and sometimes
your shoes can be rather trying.
*Putting everything back into place whilst not holding up the queue too
much is also extremely irritating but we'll leave that for the moment.*
Many is the time that I've joked to Mrs NotaSheep and other nearby
passengers that before long they'll require us to ... more »
Finding Humanity, Not Stereotypes, #InsideIran
Nastaran
Ghaffari, 22, is one of the many subjects of ABC News correspondent
Muhammad Lila’s #FacesOfIran photo series during his current trip to
Iran.
(Photo Credit: Muhammad Lila / Twitter)
It is no surprise that our media environment is saturated with reports
of efforts by hawkish lobbying groups, former administration officials,
Congress members, and even foreign governments to disrupt
Untitled
*Work halted at Assumption Sinkhole after containment berm cracks ~Katie
Moore, WWLTV*
*Gusman ends controversial flat-rate contract with firm ~Clair Galofaro*
*Proposal for recycling Charity Hospital emphasizes mental health services ~Janet
Hayes, The Lens*
*Animal control, law enforcement officers learn to rescue animals from
floods ~AP, The Republic*
*'Cajun Flamingo' comes roaring back from brink of extinction ~John Snell,
WVUE*
*Dithyrambalina: New Orleans Music Box Village Expands, Goes Mobile ~Jocelyne
Ninnerman, offBeat*
Like NSA spying lies , Obama Care lies piling up - Obama Knew Most Americans Would Not Be Able To Keep Their Existing Insurance Under Obama Care As Early As 2010
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Twitchy....
Yesterday evening, NBC News reported that the Obama Administration has
known for years that millions of Americans would lose their insurance
plans, contrary to President Obama’s infamous promise. The Drudge Report featured
NBC’s article in a banner headline. Late last night or early this morning,
after several mendacious White House officials tried to claim that people
aren’t being forced out of their health plans, NBC’s article inexplicably
disappeared from its website:
Josh Jordan @*NumbersMuncher*
The NBC story on Obama lying now comes up with a "Error 404" message... more »
The Quaint Notion Of Responsibility
While Rob Ford insists that he has no reason to resign, and the prime
minister's story changes every day, Andrew Coyne writes that the concept of
responsibility has become a quaint notion -- a relic of the past:
There was a time when public office holders were expected to take
responsibility for these things, as a matter of personal honour if nothing
else. But conventions last only as long as they are observed. Today, the
prime minister clings to his position — I was the victim of a conspiracy
involving everyone around me — as tightly as Senator Duffy clings to his
paycheque.
I... more »
What About In Deep Red Districts? Was The GOP Government Shutdown A Step Too Far Even In Some Of Them?
Boehner and Cantor-- who allowed the GOP's racist wing shut down the
government because of their pathological fury over an African-American in
the White House-- have been whining that Obama wants to "kill the
Republican Party." Unfortunately, he isn't… and even if he wanted to,
suicide seems a far more likely cause of the once-credible party's demise.
MoveOn's district polling has shown vulnerable Republicans in districts the
DCCC has never contested-- districts they always considered too far out of
reach. But a competent DCCC (even more a fantasy than an Obama wanting to
kill the... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Natalia Tena, 29.
A new month, and more good stuff:
1. New evidence that how open a primary is doesn't have anything to do with
polarization.
2. I'm pro-pork, but skeptical that more available pork within the system
would have changed anything with regard to the shutdown. Still, John Hudak
is right that pork is a good thing.
3. And the Monkey Cage's election reports continue to be one of the great
resources out there -- here's a post-election report on Argentina from
Julia Pomares.
Burmese Pythons: A Kinmen endemic species
*When I was on Kinmen in August I didn't see any Burmese Pythons. How
depressing.*
Taiwan Today ran a piece on the discovery that the Burmese Python of
Kinmen, long thought to be invasive, is actually an endemic species of
Kinmen Island. The piece on the DNA work that showed that was recently
published in Zoological Studies. You et al (2013) note:
The python once occurred on the islands in the early twentieth century,
when the natural environment was less damaged (Hu 1976). However, those
records were neglected by biologists until 2009, when Shiang et al. (2009)
first included th... more »
“The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: The Greatest Short-term Threat To Humanity”
* “The Fuel Pools of Fukushima:
The Greatest Short-term Threat To Humanity”*
by Washington's Blog
"Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent
fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all in pools.
They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of long-lived
radioactivity. About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times
the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the
U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP). The total spent
reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site ... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: When Life Imitates Art
Happy Day After Halloween, folks. Resist the urge to steal your kid’s
candy. Once again, the internet is a magical place:
“10 Jaw-dropping Absurdities Brought to You By the Right Wing”
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*“10 Jaw-dropping Absurdities Brought to You By the Right Wing”*
By Janet Allon
*“1. Kevin Swanson is begging you not to buy those lesbian Girl Scout
cookies:* How, you might ask, can a cookie be lesbian? And which one is the
most lesbian? Is it the famous chocolate covered Thin Mints, or those
scrumptious Do-si-dos Peanut Butter Sandwiches? Right-wing pastor Kevin
Swanson is not buying sweets from his local Girl Scouts. And he doesn’t
want you to, either. Because if you do, you are helping them to promote
this oh-so-harmless-seeming, but secretly dastardly organization’s le... more »
"Obama Administration Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance"
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*"Obama Administration Knew Millions *
*Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance"*
By Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye
"President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable
Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able
to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get
cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say
experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three
years.
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC News that
50 to 75 percent of the 14... more »
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 11.1.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 11.1.13"*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"My top story this week is Israel and the warning it issued late last week
about Iran’s nuclear program. A report says Iran may have enough nuclear
material to produce a bomb in as little as a month. Iran has repeatedly
said its program is for the peaceful production of energy, but many
countries in the West, including Israel, don’t buy it. Israel’s deputy
defense minister said, “Israel will not stand by and watch Iran develop
weaponry.” That is a not-so-veiled threat of possible future military
action. In another ... more »
Why Wouldn't One War Criminal Welcome Another War Criminal?
So, the blood-soaked war criminal, anti-democratic, complete and utter
shit-head, Dick Cheney was in Toronto yesterday. Speaking to a bunch of
brain-dead sheeple about some stupid thing or other.
Disappointing.
Canada puts out the welcome mat for a mass-murdering, corrupt scumbag like
Dick Cheney.
But it's no surprise. What with our illegally installed regime of the war
criminal stephen harper. These blood-soaked cowards like each others'
company.
Five Most Popular Posts for October
The five most read posts of the month were:
1. Russell Brand and Revolution
2. Socialism for a Sceptical Age
3. A Farewell to Liberal Conspiracy
4. The State Blogging's In
5. Why the Left Hates the *Daily Mail*
It was always going to be the boy Brand ruling the roost, just edging out
my look at Ralph Miliband's "evil legacy". But, as is always the case, what
drives audiences are the issues that percolate strongly around the media's
hall of mirrors. I noted last month that "straight" pieces of political
commentary were finally getting some traction, and this gratifying trend
has cont... more »
Congress Disgraces United States - Fails To Show For Drone Hearing
*(many want to continue believing that WHEN drone strikes occur here,
killing innocents, maybe a member of our own family, that someone in
CONgress will care . . . ) *
*By PopularResistance.org*
* Above: Nabila Rehman, left, 9, watches as her brother Zubair reads a
statement about the day their grandmother was killed by a U.S. drone strike
in Pakistan, at a hearing in Washington, Tuesday.Jason Reed/Reuters*
Alan Grayson (D-FL) organized an historic hearing on US drone strikes. It
was the first time that drone strike victims told their stories to U.S.
elected officials at a hear... more »
Open Thread: Fly Specks of the Brain edition
Seems to me that if these evangelical bozos could actually do what
they profess to do and that their magic jazz hands can heal the sick,
they'd take their fucking act on the road and really pull in the pelf. Plus
it would take some of the load off the Obamacare website. Or am I too
cynical for saying that?
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Dick Cheney is that rarest of animals: The Vietnam draft-dodger who
actually refuses to go to Canada.
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Thanks to the GOP cutting SNAP benefits, last night I had kids showing
up at my door begging me for me... more »
KIDNAPPED OR RESCUED BY 'GANG'?
Larisa Moskalenko, from the Ukraine, was a Russian Olympic athlete in 1988
and was a special forces soldier.
She has been arrested for being part of an 'international child kidnapping
ring'.
On one occasion, 'children from Tunisia were taken through Sicily to Norway
by boat'
*http://www.dailymail*
*Larisa, who runs a boat rental firm in Palermo, Sicily*
The Italian police have named Luigi Cannistraro, Antonio Barazza and
Sebastiano Calabrese as being among seven suspects.
*A suspect in Larisa's kidnap gang.*
Two Norwegians and a Swede are also being held in Tunisia.
They hav... more »
MaWangMess: Blowback edition II: Prosecutor Huang indicted
*Caught in mid-flight, early morning dew on its back.*
The MaWangMess continues to blow back on the President, as Taipei District
prosecutors went after Prosecutor Huang for leaking information to Ma.
*State Prosecutor-General Huang Shyh-ming was indicted Friday *on charges
of leaking classified information in violation of the Criminal Code and the
Communication Security and Surveillance Act.
The indictment said Huang broke the law when he briefed President Ma
Ying-jeou Aug. 31 on tapped phone conversations indicating that Legislative
Speaker Wang Jin-pyng lobbied the justice minis... more »
The BBC's Middle East Desk don't like being questioned
Further to this story, the BBC have sent me a rather supercilious reply:
Dear Mr MaybeaGoat
This is not an issue which deserves apologies or admissions of right or
wrong - in other words, point-scoring. We were happy to add the label of
Egypt to the map, but as we said in our previous reply, it was not out of
necessity.
Kind regards
Middle East desk
BBC News website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle-complaint/
Do you think they're not happy being questioned?
I have responded by email, but since this particular desk seem incapable of... more »
I Walk With Giants
October was the busiest I have ever been; swept away on an avalanche of
work. My most abject apologies for the light blogging the last three weeks.
But November 1 brought some sweet news: my first SF short story, in Analog.
I can't resist a shout of joy here even though this is a Taiwan blog.
_______________________
[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!
Formula One quiz
When was the last time that three drivers of the same nationality finished
first, second and third in a Formula One Grand Prix and so shared the
podium at the end of the race?
Answer tomorrow...
Spies Lie (And Why, When They Tell the Truth, No One Can Believe Them) Today, We Are Seeing a Repeat of Professional Voyeurism by Our Nation's Spies On An Unprecedented and Pervasive Scale. ALERT! Dick Cheney Calls for Iranian War (Again!)
(Please consider making a contribution to Welcome to the Pottersville2
Quarterly Fundraiser happening now or sending a link to your friends if you
think the subjects discussed here are worth publicizing. Thank you for your
support. We really appreciate it. Anything you can do will make a huge
difference in this blog's ability to operate.) Millions facing food stamp
cuts on November 1 After
Some former European politicians want an EU KGB
Some readers suggested that Europe should have its own "unified"
surveillance agency – probably for Europe to resemble the U.S. with its NSA
etc. I was terrified by the idea. Unfortunately, you are going to be shown
an example of the reasons why I was so terrified.
The Gatestone Institute and LifeSiteNews inform about a new initiative that
has made recommendations to the EU Parliament:
Former heads of state call on EU to set up state surveillance of
‘intolerant’ citizens
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Former heads of state call on EU to set up state surveillance of
‘intolerant’ citi... more »
MYSTERIOUS GESTAPO CHIEF MUELLER
Genuine or a forgery?
Heinrich Müller was chief of Hitler's Gestapo secret police, he was Adolf
Eichmann's commanding officer, he organized the famous "conference of
Wannsee" and he was one of the chief architects of the Holocaust.
Müller organized the bloody false flag incidents on the Polish frontier,
which "justified" Hitler's invasion of Poland.
In 1949, the post-war German intelligence service reported a sighting of
Muller in Czechoslovakia.
*Now the mainstream media is claiming that Muller, officially a Catholic,
was secretly buried in a Jewish cemetery in Berlin in 1945.*
... more »
Michael Tellinger - The Secret History of the Anunnaki - Their Mission on Earth
Brand new interview with author, scientist and explorer Michael Tellinger
produces stunning new evidence that may force us to rethink our origins and
rewrite our history books.
Scholars say that the first *Civilization* on Earth emerged in a land
called Sumer some 6000 years ago.
New research by Michael Tellinger, Johan Heine and a team of leading
scientists, suggest that the Sumerians and even the Egyptians inherited all
their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived in Africa more than
200,000 years ago... mining gold.
*GOLD always believe in your soul:*
ScienceMag: Medieval Warm Period global, 0.65 °C warmer than present
*The largest ocean was 2 °C warmer than today when ancient civilizations
exploded*
Some fun events and articles related to the climate were recently posted.
Pierre Gosselin pointed out that a well-known German daily, TAZ, told its
readers that the German environmental psychologists determined that climate
alarmists need a psychiatric treatment. The TRF readers who have also read
Alexander Ač's essays must have made this "discovery" long before the
German colleagues.
Also, Nature published an essay arguing that the IPCC is ripe for
(criminal, psychiatric) examination; see a review ... more »
Gray State - global crystal nacht - movie trailer
* Gray State was conceived in November of 2010 by David Crowley and Danny
Mason. The scale and nature of the material indicated that not only did
they have an obligation to craft a human story out of the morass, but they
had an obligation to tell it properly, far from the typical financial
hangups that have become the convention for independent film.* [source GRAY
STATE]
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION ... MAY NOT BE REMEMBERED
* It is a time of transition, of shifting alliance, of mass awakening and
mass execution. It is an impending storm, an iron-gray morning that puts
into ef... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“NGC 7841 is probably known as the Smoke Nebula, found in the modern
constellation of Frustriaus, the frustrated astrophotographer. Only a few
light-nanoseconds from planet Earth, The Smoke Nebula is not an expanding
supernova remnant along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, though it does
look a lot like one. Instead it was created by flash photography of rising
smoke.
* Click image for larger size.*
The apparently rich starfield is actually composed of water droplets
sprayed from a plant mister by an astrophotographer grown restless during a
recent stretch of cloudy weather... more »
Surprise! I Try Again To Propose Some Sanity in the War Against the Core.
The Author Working at Home Over on one of the “secret” Facebook groups I’m
on (I’d mention the name but then of course I would have to have my cats
bury you in hairballs – and believe me, they could do it), there was some
mild confusion today about whether we opposed the Common Core […]
The Obamacare health care mash...
*we laugh to keep from crying.*
via Angry White Dude *(who has much more)*
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Wellstone vs. The New World Order
Paul Wellstone vs. The New World Order from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"What kind of a peace I mean, and what kind of a peace do we seek...?"
"What kind of Victory will it be...?
*Senator Paul Wellstone - July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002*
More Polling In The Inland Empire-- More Good News For Eloise Reyes
Ros-Lehtinen (FL) and Denham (CA), 2 Republicans in favor of immigration
reform... unlike Gary Miller
Gary Miller, a multimillionaire, crooked Confederate Civil War reenactor
from Arkansas was always an odd pick for the new Inland Empire district
carved 2 years ago out of the districts of retiring congressmen David
Dreier and Jerry Lewis and defeated Blue Dog, Joe Baca. The only reason
Miller won is because DCCC Chairman Steve Israel insisted on backing a
pathetic empty suit, the appointed mayor of Redlands, Peter Aguilar.
Aguilar was rejected by Democratic voters and lost to *two* R... more »
7 Easy Ways To Add Meatless Meals To Your Table
Welcome to the first Friday of the month. Usually I share a delicious
recipe with you, but this month I decided to do something a bit different.
We've talked about the many reasons to eat meatless meals and we've
explored some wonderful dishes from people all over the world. But once
we've made the decision to incorporate more vegan foods into our lives, how
do we get started? I'm glad you asked!
Here are some proven ways to easily add meatless meals to your table:
1. Simply remove the meat.Many dishes work well without the addition of
beef, pork, etc. For example, spaghetti m... more »
Why I will not be speaking at Southeast TESOL next week
I will not be speaking at the Southeast TESOL Association Meeting to be
held in Myrtle Beach next week, because of a disagreement about my keynote
topic. I learned only recently that the conference theme was supporting
the common core, that it was "dedicated entirely to providing teachers
with strategies for working with common core and all of the states in
attendance have adopted it."
I therefore changed my topic to "The case against the common core." This
was rejected by the SETESOL Executive Committee. I was told that "this topic
cannot be presented to this group of attendee... more »
Slow start for Obamacare?...(video)
*would be an understatement.*
*And this administration just keeps lying and lying. *
*“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve
learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders
one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s
master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that
person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the
world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the
blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― A... more »
Longest Walk 4 Grand Junction Halloween
Big
Night for the Little Long Walkers. Photos by Western Shoshone long
walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, on the Longest Walk 4 in Grand Junction,
Colorado, Oct. 31, 2013. Thanks for sharing with Censored.
The Long Walkers really need warm sleeping bags. Would be great if folks
could buy those new for the walkers, rated 0 or 10 degrees. Here's the
walkers who
ObamaCare: What You're Not Being Told
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Chet Raymo, “Out Of Eden”
* “Out Of Eden”*
by Chet Raymo
“The Maori of New Zealand imagined the original man with his head planted
firmly in the earth, an ocean issuing from his mouth, in his groin a gum
tree, clouds on his feet. What are we to make of this upside-down Adam? No
head-in-the-clouds this fellow. His tattooed noggin is fixed in the soil
like a tuber. Arms spread like an ocean-going outrigger canoe. Heart and
lungs smoldering in the hearth of his chest. Only the soles of his feet
keeping the sky from crushing him out.
Looks good to me. Humankind as integral to nature. Earth, water, fire, air.... more »
Greece updates - October 31 , 2013 .... Troika and Greece Government at loggerheads regarding additional austerity demands made by Troika ? NPLs at Greek Banks continue to swell - now 65 billion euros worth of NPLs or 30 percent of all loans issued ......ATE Bank having "troubles " - lines outside ATE branches , checks not being cashed by bank due to " computer glitches " ? Greece fire about to flare up again ?
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/10/31/eu-sourcetroika-wont-go-to-greece-because-no-one-wants-them-via-reuters-sigh/
[image: EU source:Troika won’t go to Greece “because no one wants them”
(via Reuters) *sigh*] tagged: eurozone sources, Greece, put on hold, Reuters
, Troika, visit
EU source:Troika won’t go to Greece “because no one wants them” (via
Reuters) *sigh*
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
Do the Troika inspectors boycott Greece? Have they put their visit to
Athens on hold? Reuters reported so on Thursday afternoon citing two
“eurozone sources”. According to Reuters... more »
NYSED: Cherry picking data.
Here is another example of education reformers cherry picking data. New
York Education Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents have been
under a tremendous amount of pressure from parents and educators across the
Empire State about the Common Core implementation and the significant
increase in mandated testing, along with the cancellation and rescheduling
[…]
When An Economist Challenges The Conservative's Pro-Big Business Agenda .... He gets called a 'Bolshivek'. Welcome To Harper's Canada
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*In 2011 the Harper Conservatives did some loud back slapping about an an
out-of-court settlement with U.S. Steel. Then Industry Minister, Christian
Paradis said “This settlement demonstrates that the Investment Canada Act
is working”
This was an attempt to distract from the fact that under Harper the Investment
Canada Act was really only working for big corporations that wanted to buy
up Canadian companies. *
*
Turns out even this deal was just another Conservative fabrication. The
company never even bothered to restart its massive Hamilton blast furnace,
shuttered completel... more »
UK: Approved behind closed doors, curbs that END THREE CENTURIES OF PRESS FREEDOM
Secretive meeting: Maria Miller *
* *Late update: video at the Huffington Post:*
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/30/queen-signs-royal-charter_n_4178705.html
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*Approved behind closed doors, curbs that end three centuries of Press
freedom*
By TIM SHIPMAN and GERRI PEEV
PUBLISHED: 18:40 EST, 30 October 2013 | UPDATED: 19:30 EST, 30 October 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480676/Approved-closed-doors-curbs-end-centuries-Press-freedom.html
A secretive committee of four ministers yesterday approved a Royal Charter
to regulate the Press, provoking claims... more »
Humans are simply uncontainable. Get used to it.
Posted by: American Kabuki
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and
censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to
say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the
end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in
this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man,
whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You
can't conquer a free man; the most you can ... more »
Al Qaeda Terrorists Pass US Special Forces, CIA Agents on Way to Syria
*November 1, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - A recent Daily Telegraph article
reveals that armies of Al Qaeda terrorists are using NATO-member Turkey as
a springboard for their invasion of neighboring Syria.
NATO is the chief executor of the so-called "War on Terror," started in
2001 after Al Qaeda terrorists allegedly flew four passenger planes into
various targets on America's east coast, including the World Trade Towers
and the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people died in a single day. The invasion of
Afghanistan promptly followed based on the pretense that it was "harboring"
members of Al Q... more »
Tel Aviv Regime Strikes Syria, Again
Latest Israeli attack part of wider US-Saudi-Israeli strategy.
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*November 1, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Israel and its Western sponsors have
admitted to an unprovoked airstrike in Syrian territory this week. This is
the latest of several assaults Israeli planes have carried out against
neighboring Syria over the past year. CNN, in its report, "Israeli planes
strike Syrian military base, U.S. official says," admits:
Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian port city of
Latakia this week, an Obama administration official told CNN on Thursday.
An explosion at a miss... more »
A DWT holiday ghost story featuring the Spirit of Halloween: "Big Dick" Cheney and his unexplodable heart
*The former veep reveals how he forced his doctors
to protect his (alleged) heart from remote hackers.*
*by Ken*
Halloween is fine for kids. I don't know what the cutoff age is -- 9 or 10
is fine, 10 or 11 is pushing it, and beyond that, well, you might want to
seek professional help. As for adults who indulge, I have to imagine we're
dealing with straight people who want to be more like gay people and gay
people who . . . okay, I haven't worked this part out, but you're going to
have a rough time persuading me it's wired into the schematic of being gay,
like doing tasteful floral ... more »
Nothing About Rob Ford
It looks like the big, incompetent, obnoxious hypocrite is toast. I've got
a swarm of fruit-flies in my kitchen from a week's worth of dirty dishes.
So, I'm busy.
So here's another video (or two) ...
and ...
and ...
Going to Morocco!
Bought a ticket to Morocco!
Thank you my wonderful blog readers for all the help!
I love you all! -Bill
Dance video courtesy:
http://www.edisproduction.de/2013/10/20/man-with-awesome-dance-moves-will-amaze-you/
GAIA PORTAL: Transformation of “Old Paradigm Connectors” Occurs Rapidly at this Time…
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* *Transformation of “Old Paradigm Connectors” Occurs Rapidly at this Time…*
by ÉirePort
Transformation of "old paradigm connectors" occurs rapidly at this time.
Hue-Beings are advised to release the "saving paradigm".
Current energetics (and supporting Higher grids) align only with New
Paradigm connectors.
"Old paradigms" are no longer an option for Gaia residents.
Those attempting to remain at "old paradigm connector" level will be
removed from all "New Paradigm" timelines.
Those open to transformation will be guided to selected rescue paths,
available for a short time.
... more »
It is you.
It is fitting that included with the blog today are some words shared a
few days ago in California. Click here and you’ll hear Bob Wright. He is
speaking to all of us.
Here are a few more words, speaking to some who may just have joined the
program, and are beginning now to understand what it is we have to give.
It is Agape.
*I see you now*
*holding the paper*
*proclaiming my debt*
*to you*
*which lives beyond this life of yours*
*extending debt*
*controlling falsehoods*
*grasping for fairness*
*imagining love can be shown with a price tag*
* *
*The fault is... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by
Clement Pulaski. Clement and I will be discussing his essay *Christian
Virtue and Political Order* and traditional American nationalism, populism.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *Christian Virtue and Political Order* by Clement Pulaski
- *Virtue Ethics* - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- *Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Chapter IX: Plan ... more »
Israel says NO, while Syria beats deadlines. Latakia attack?
*Israel says NO to ratifying Chemical Weapons Convention *
Israel's security cabinet is sticking to its decision* not to ratify the
Chemical Weapons Convention *– even though top defense figures have come
out in favor of the treaty, a senior official said
Although Israel signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, by* not
ratifying the accord it declines to subject itself to the treaty.*
*Israel is not in compliance.* Israel is able to be non compliant with the
Chemical Weapons Treaty because they choose to not ratify the agreement. As
they have just chosen, yet again.
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Friday Morning Ramble: “He hit me with a flower”
It’s the end of the week, and Lou Reed is still dead. But we can still talk
about him.
- *PC on Lou Reed,** *"Like Jenny said, my life was saved by Rock &
Roll" – Peter Cresswell, NOT PC
- Vaclav Havel & Lou Reed: “The True Story Of How Lou Reed Helped
Overthrow Communism In Eastern Europe” – Rob Wile, BUSINESS INSIDER
- *Neil Gaiman on Lou Reed:** *“His songs were the soundtrack to my
life” – GUARDIAN
- *Penn Jillette on Lou Reed:* "...so he just punched me in the face."
[99 min. podcast] – PENN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL
- *“In his two opening sentences, Pete... more »
JFK50: Shortest Verbal Proof of Conspiracy
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