English: This is a picture of Syncrude's base mine. The yellow structures are the bases of pyramids made of sulphur - it is not economical for Syncrude to sell the sulphur so it stockpiles it instead. Behind that is the tailings pond, held in by what is recognized as the largest dam in the world. The extraction plant is just to the right of this photograph and most of the mine is to the left. Deutsch: Tagebau der Syncrude Canada Ltd. zur Verarbeitung der Athabasca-Ölsande in Alberta (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
'Ellis' (Photo credit: Peter G Trimming)
English: Congressman Justin Amash (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal in Ecuador this week
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR THE EMERGENT “RIGHTS OF NATURE” MOVEMENT
TO HOLD ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT
FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC TRIBUNAL OF ACTUAL CASES OTAVALO & QUITO, ECUADOR: JANUARY 13‐17, 2014
By Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
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Tantoo Cardinal and Margot Kidder at the White House Keystone Tarsands Protest Before Being Arrested Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj
Key leaders
Justin Amash Knows That The Most Extreme Right Members Of Congress Only Drink Cherry Coke
Above you see a new 6-figure Club for Growth ad for one of their threatened
incumbents, Michigan Ayn Rand fanatic Justin Amish. They are attacking his
Establishment opponent Brian Ellis who is backed by Karl Rove and "business
interests" openly-- and by Boehner and Cantor surreptitiously.
Ellis is Amash’s business-backed challenger and he is opting for a
horseshoes strategy against the incumbent; he wants to hit Amash from both
the left and the right. When it comes to defunding Obamacare and shutting
down the government, Ellis will portray Amash as an uncompromising
ideologue. O... more »
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Mohawk Nation News '1st False Flag'
1ST
FALSE FLAG
Posted on January 16, 2014
MNN. Jan. 16, 2014. The American Revolutionary War was sold to the
British colonial settlers on Great Turtle Island as an effort to break
away from England so they could become free of indebted slavery.
Washington: “What! None of us an swim?”
Cornwallis and Washington would meet every Thursday night in the Masonic
Lodge to prearrange all the
This Is My Hiroshima
Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do this but spurred on by fellow blogger
Theresa, and also because I haven't posted anything in forever and a day, I
decided to take the plunge. If you are at all familiar with the latest
ramblings of Neil Young you have a pretty good idea as to the motivation
behind this post. Theresa raises an excellent point (which I don't think
is emphasized enough) that often those critical of the oil sands fail to
distinguish between the industry and the surrounding community. To lump
Fort McMurray in with the oil patch is not only dishonest but unfair. An... more »
NEWSLETTER DONE
We wrapped up the Global Network newsletter today and it is off to the
print shop. You can see it online *here*. Our wonderful web master Dave
Webb in England got it up on the web site in record time. Dave also chairs
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and serves as board convener of
the Global Network. He is one busy guy but now that he has retired from
teaching he somehow finds the time to fit it all together. I can't imagine
how he did it all before he retired.
There is extensive reporting in this issue about the US "pivot" into the
Asia-Pacific and anti-drone campa... more »
Free Speech, Fetus Fetishist Style
A lot is at stake today in the US as its Supreme Court considers buffer
zones around abortion clinics.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a challenge to a
law that protects women seeking reproductive-health care in Massachusetts -
including checkups, birth control, and abortion care - from enduring
violence, and harassment by anti-choice protesters outside of
reproductive-health clinics.
Massachusetts has a 35-foot buffer zone (the distance of two parking
spaces) that blocks anti-choice protesters from approaching women accessing
health care. But anti-choice fo... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Enigmatic spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45
million light-years away in the chemical constellation Fornax. Its blue
spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this colorful
galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small companion galaxy
below and left of center, about 40,000 light-years from the spiral's
luminous core.
*Click image for larger size.*
That's not NGC 1097's most peculiar feature, though. The very deep exposure
hints of faint, mysterious jets, most easily seen to extend well beyond the
bluish arms toward the lower r... more »
The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae: A lecture by Bernard McGinn
Related: *Bernard McGinn on Meister Eckhart (1260 -- 1327, C.E.)* and *Professor
Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism*.
Video Title: The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae: A lecture by
Bernard McGinn May 23rd, 2012. Source: Lumen Christi. Date Published:
February 20, 2013. Description:
The Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas stands among the finest expressions
of the Catholic "understanding of faith" (intellectus fidei). Over a
thousand commentaries have been written on it. A leading historian of
Medieval Christian thought, Bernard McGinn will explore Thomas's reason for ... more »
The Sandy Hook Hoax: Just Released Newtown Evidence Shows Shooting Was A FAKE!
As I have said before, I will bring forward to this blog any new evidence
that shows that the Sandy Hook "shooting" of December 14th, 2012 was an
operation where NOBODY died.....To me it is still shocking that over a year
after this "operation" there are those out there that still believe this to
have been a real "shooting"!
Just the other day, I was sent the following video for my own
assessment.... After watching it, I knew it belonged here at this blog for
everyone to view for themselves.... It is entitled: "Just Released Newtown
Evidence Shows Shooting Was Fake! Special Edition"... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Isleworth, Hounslow, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
Why on earth would anyone pay any attention to Village hack Bob Gates? (Just 'cause he wrote some crummy book?)
*The thing to remember, looking at this portion of Wikipedia's table of
U.S. SecDefs (click on it to enlarge), is whom Bob Gates replaced -- as if
anyone could replace Donald Rumsfeld.*
*by Ken*
Like most of our readers, we spend a lot of time here at *DWT* criticizing
President Obama. Goodness knows, there's plenty to criticize. What's so
frustrating, though, is that nearly all the time the criticism that gains
media traction comes from the ranks of professional liars and crackpots --
though a hat tip is certainly in order for the amateurs in both fields, who
have worked tireless... more »
We’re (not so) free
The United States continues to plunge down the Heritage Institute’s World
Index of Economic Freedom, out today, while ironically New Zealand
continues to ride high at number five.
The 20th anniversary edition of the *Index of Economic Freedom* reveals
that the United States has dropped out of the top 10 freest economies in
the world.
When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is
12th…
Over the 20-year history of the Index, the U.S.’s economic freedom has
fluctuated significantly. During the first 10 years, its score rose
gradually, and it joined th... more »
"Fukushima Update, 1/15/14"
*"Fukushima Update, 1/15/14"*
by ENE
*“Dr. Michael Parenti, Ph.D*.(Yale University) political scientist,
historian, author, Jan. 13, 2014: President Obama has been as mute about
the calamity looming at Fukushima as the Japanese government itself- and
for the same reasons. First, the potential danger is stupendous and it is
in the manner of leaders, when facing something that might develop into a
super catastrophe, to keep the public’s mind off it. The last thing they
want is to put the public into a fright and fury about their own survival.
Should Obama broach the subject of Fukush... more »
Budget Just Passed Has Cuts For Everyone But Military (Surprised? Elated? Impoverished? Enriched?) We Have to Destroy Our Constitution to Save It!
If you were surprised at what today's budget deal contains, that just
indicates that you've been asleep for the last six years. And in a coma for
the eight years before then. With one relatively insignificant clause
buried on Page 364 of a massive budget bill that will get voted on today,
Congress told us everything we need to know about federal spending
priorities, the empty rhetoric of “
WESTERN DELUSIONS AND ISRAELI DREAMS
This is a re-posting of a piece written in 2010. In light of the current
‘peace talks’ between Israel and the Palestinians, the negotiations going
on between the P5+1 and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program, and the push for
a bill in the US Senate that allows for Israel to trigger war against Iran
that automatically pulls in the US, the article is as appropriate today as
it was when first written in 2010 – if not more so.
14 April 2010
There are two things about the Middle East that the world should be
absolutely clear about. First, Israel has no intention of ever allowing any
kind ... more »
Gold news January 15 , 2014 - China remains the dominant force in physical gold demand while JP Morgan still holding the whip hand at Comex ( paper market )....
Gata.....
Another Chinese analyst says gold is crucial to his country's economic
security
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2014-01-15 21:03. Section: Daily Dispatches
4p ET Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen reports today on another
leading personage in China's financial markets, Zhang Bingnan, market
analyst for China Central Television and vice president of the China Gold
Association, who told a financial conference in Beijing last year that gold
is essential to China's economic security:
http://www.ingoldwetrust.c... more »
French First Girlfriend Hospitalized After Francois Hollande Affair With Actress Exposed ....... More troubles in paradise ?
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/french-first-girlfriend-hospitalized-after-francois-hollande-affair-actress-exposed
French
First Girlfriend Hospitalized After Francois Hollande Affair With
Actress Exposed
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- Eliot Spitzer
- France
- Reuters
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Lunch Surprise
So this is the week of meetings and meetings and more meetings but after
one of the meetings most of the CS faculty decided to go out to lunch. And
lo and behold one of our number (the redhead two girls to the right of
Southern Man), who is retiring, paid for everyone.
Thanks, Mary!
Assange and MK-Ultra
*"When Assange was eight, Claire left her husband and began seeing a
musician, with whom she had another child, a boy. The relationship was
tempestuous; the musician became abusive, she says, and they separated. A
fight ensued over the custody of Assange’s half brother, and Claire felt
threatened, fearing that the musician would take away her son. Assange
recalled her saying, “Now we need to disappear,” and he lived on the run
with her from the age of eleven to sixteen. *
*When I asked him about the experience, he told me that there was evidence
that the man belonged to a powerfu... more »
Bitcoin news January 12 , 2014 .....Wells Fargo, America's Largest Bank By Market Cap, Pushing To Offer Bitcoin Services ...... Overstock's First Day Of Bitcoin: $130,000 Sales, 840 Transactions, CEO "Stunned" ...... Colorado Marijuana Dispensary Uses Bitcoin to Evade Federal Laws ..... New York State Department of Financial Services Announces Bitcoin Hearings ...... ‘Deep cold storage’ vault created for virtual currency bitcoin ..... Singapore is providing some clear guidance on how merchants can manage taxation on Bitcoin transactions.
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-14/wells-fargo-americas-largest-bank-market-cap-pushing-offer-bitcoin-services
Wells Fargo, America's Largest Bank By Market Cap, Pushing To Offer Bitcoin
Services
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- Bitcoin
- John Stumpf
- Wells Fargo
inShare
Earlier we pointed out that mortgage origination at Wells Fargo - the
bank's bread and butter - is crashing at an unprecedented pace, and as per
the conference call, Q1 isn't looking any better. Naturally, it stood to
reason that the b... more »
Kim DotCon takes another scalp
It seems Kim DotCon is political kryptonite to anyone he touches: starting
court cases, ending careers, embarrassing them in front of their friends.
He may not be accident prone himself, but he is certainly prone to causing
them to his erstwhile friends.
Alistair Thompson, until yesterday the lynchpin of Scoop, was the latest to
fall under his sway and have the inevitable happen -- resigning yesterday
from the baby he began because Cameron Slater was able to reveal that, far
from being an independent press gallery journalist reporting for an
independent site, he had already assu... more »
Puerto Rico seen as likely to default on its debt ! With the Treasury Department on record as saying there would not be a US bailout for Puerto Rico , bond insurers MBIA , Assured , Ambac , Syncora and Financial Guarantee Insurance Co appear exposed at this time due to the amount of debt they've wrapped ( 15.7 out of the 70 billion in Puerto Rico debt .. )
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-15/puerto-rico-default-likely-ft-reports
Puerto Rico Default "Likely", FT Reports
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/15/2014 14:36 -0500
- Bond
- Creditors
- default
- Detroit
- Illinois
- Puerto Rico
- Unemployment
inShare3
The market just hit a fresh all time high today which means another major
default must be just around the horizon. Sure enough, the FT reported
moments ago that a Puerto Rico default "*appears increasingly likely*" and
is why creditors are meeting with lawyers ... more »
Why Are Kids Shooting Each Other in School?
Yesterday, another child, who was way too young to be in possession of a
firearm, shot two classmates, who were way too young to be harmed by one.
It was at Berrendo Middle School, in Roswell, New Mexico. Although every
shooting shocks me and the rest of the country, this one was too close to
[…]
ACLU: US Border Patrol checkpoints in Arizona violate rights of residents
Border
Patrol checkpoints in southern Arizona violate the constitutional
rights of border residents, ACLU of Arizona demands investigation
Formal complaint to DHS officials describes abusive and unlawful
behavior by U.S. Border Patrol officials at checkpoints
By Steve Kilar, ACLU of Arizona
(602) 492-8540 or skilar@acluaz.org
Censored News
TUCSON –U.S. Border Patrol agents at southern
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “Evidence”
*“Evidence”*
“Where do I live? If I had no address, as many people
do not, I could nevertheless say that I lived in the
same town as the lilies of the field,
and the still waters.
Spring, and all through the neighborhood now there are
strong men tending flowers.
Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But
all beautiful things, inherently, have this function -
to excite the viewers toward sublime thought.
Glory to the world, that good teacher.
Among the swans there is none called the least,
or the greatest.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.
Also in singing,
especia... more »
Musical Interlude: George Harrison, “What Is Life?”
George Harrison, “What Is Life?”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFfUt7HQWM
"How It Really Is"
LOL, of course not, don't be naive... - CP
Extreme Laughter Warning: Wanna Gummy bear?
I am working on a research piece at the moment and when I took a break Nick
and I found this on 9gag.....I had to post it.
Everyone needs a giggle now and then....
WARNING: Go pee NOW before reading. If you have issues with incontinence,
you may want to not sit on the couch.
THIS is WHY you should NOT order Candy, online, with ingredients you cannot
pronounce and you have never heard of before!!!! I mean.... it's not
funny! Seriously, people could be terribly sickened from this stuff.....
But..... well..... Just read the comments and you'll understand.
..... Anyone want a g... more »
Be Careful When You Give Political Contributions-- You May Be Making Some Crooks Very, Very Wealthy
Early this morning, Anonymous Operative posted about the corruption
inherent in our electoral system. It's no better on either side of the
aisle and it has a tendency to keep quality people out of politics so that
we wind out with criminal sociopaths like Steve Israel, Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, Michael Grimm, John Boehner, Rahm Emanuel, Tom DeLay, Steve
Stockman, Eric Cantor and Joe Crowley.
But its key to remember that to Beltway operatives winning or losing isn't
always what's uppermost in minds fixed on self-enrichment, This morning *Roll
Call* san a story about how people runn... more »
Bill & Emma: What Lies Beneath Them
*New York Times* columnist Bill Keller and his lovely wife Emma are being
rightly castigated for their twin columns castigating a woman suffering
from Stage 4 breast cancer. You can read all about it here, here, here and
here.... or wherever good journalism is sold without a paywall.
The gist is this: Bill and Emma, as members of the elite ruling class, are
miffed that a mere blogger named Lisa Adams is horning in on the cancer
discourse. When Angelina Jolie underwent a bilateral mastectomy and
reconstructive surgery (as did Emma Gilbey-Keller) it was golden fodder for
a *New York ... more »
Why Do People Buy Twitter Followers?
Why do some people buy Twitter followers? Readers may recall one Oliver
James, an unknown sometime blogger who crashed into the top 100 tweeting
bloggers' list of 2013. His peculiar distinction was to have more Twitter
followers than obvious household names like James Delingpole and Ellie Mae
O'Hagan. Something smelled fishy and as I'd recently cleaned out the
fridge, it couldn't be that. Ex-blogger Matt Wardman did a bit of digging
and found the following. Brother James went from 13,294 followers on 8th
September to 19,139 four days later. After they had fallen back to 15,129 a
mo... more »
Boxcar Willie meets Maureen Dowd!
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014*
*A day in the life of the Times:* It’s very hard for people to see the New
York Times as it is.
A very strange culture exists at the Times. From today’s editions, we offer
three more examples:
*A correction concerning Fort Lee:* On Monday, the Times ran a 2800-word
front page report which summarized, or pretended to summarize, the Fort Lee
matter to date.
Most weirdly, the front-page report failed to note a rather significant
fact. In its opening paragraphs, the report quoted Mayor Sokolich changing
his story as to whether he was asked to endorse Gove... more »
“No Escape from the IRS Audit Machine”
*“No Escape from the IRS Audit Machine”*
by James Bovard
“The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy one’s political
opponents. When the latest IRS politicization scandal erupted in May, many
commentators talked as if the abuses were a novelty in American history.
But, as David Burnham noted in his masterful 1990 book, "A Law Unto Itself:
The IRS and the Abuse of Power", “In almost every administration since the
IRS’s inception the information and power of the tax agency have been
mobilized for explicitly political purposes.”
The IRS has a long history of trying to ru... more »
High turnover rates in high-poverty schools? Here’s the proof.
For the life of me, I don’t know why education “experts” ignore the role of
working conditions at high-poverty DC public schools. According to
the data, high-poverty DC public schools lose almost one-third of its
teaching staff. How’s that a sustainable model? As a teacher who works
within such a DC public school, I’ve offered four […]
FAILING ELITES?
nesaranews.blogspot.com.
*The elites claim to be worried about the people's rage.*
In the *Financial Times*, on 15 January 2014, *Martin Wolf *writes that *failing
elites threaten our future*.
*According to Martin Wolf:*
*1.* The *elites* got us into the disastrous *World War I.*
"This calamity launched three decades of savagery and stupidity, destroying
most of what was good in the European civilisation of the beginning of the
20th century."
2. The elites in 1914 were ignorant and prejudiced because they wrongly
believed that empires are good and that war is glorious.
3. As a r... more »
Australia FM: Don't call settlements illegal under international law
Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has more balls than William
Hague.
More here
http://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-fm-dont-call-settlements-illegal-under-international-law/
ALECs Existence Depends on Lack of Transparency
Well,. well, well.
Been waiting to see how this one came out in the wash before reporting it
to you - and needless to say it's a doozy.
*In December the Guardian* released documents from the *ALEC August 2013
Board meeting* and on page 29 of that leaked document was a listing showing
how many members of each state legislature were ALEC members. The document
showed that 100% of legislators from Iowa and South Dakota were members.
Well - about South Dakota - *I have a previous entry *where one specific
member of the South Dakota legislature stated that he was not a member - so
eithe... more »
Conservative Party: Is the end near?
Stephen Harper and Rob Anders
*……….as Tories take a dive in the polls and the chances of re-election in
2015 — especially with another majority — grow dimmer, the cracks are
beginning to show. The latest comes in the form of a nomination challenge
to Calgary MP Rob Anders by a group of more centrist Conservatives.*
Read more here.
The Realist Report - Thomas Goodrich: German Genocide
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by
Thomas Goodrich, author of *Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947*.
Tom and I will be discussing the systematic genocide of the German nation
during and after WWII.
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:
- *Hellstorm* *(book review) - The West's Darkest Hour*
- *Operation Keelhaul*
Wilful blindness requires subjective suspicions
R. v. Stanton, 2014 ONCA 29:
[10] The authorities are clear that wilful blindness requires
subjective suspicions. The trial judge seems to have adopted a statement
from defence counsel's closing submissions to the effect that the
respondent "was not wilfully blind because he did not know, *or ought he to
have known *that he struck a cyclist" (emphasis added). However, given her
acquittal of the respondent, any error of law in this respect did not
affect the result: see *R. v. Rudge*, 2011 ONCA 791, 108 O.R. (3d) 161,
leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused, [2012] S.C.C.A. No. 64, a... more »
So you think you can teach middle school?
Do you want to become a public middle school teacher? Do you think you have
what it takes to educate the future minds of America? Do you think you can
handle thirty rambunctious teenagers in a classroom? Before you sign up for
this assignment, let me explain why each grade is very, very different.
Let’s […]
Destroying National Services. Canada Post And The Grand Plan.
Fascism and Contemporary Canada. Locating The Present Conservative
Government Led By Stephen Harper.
Part XI
*Destroying National Services. Canada Post And The Grand Plan.*
*Written by Robin Mathews*
To begin, as the Canada Post union has pointed out, Canada Post has
seriously misrepresented its present financial condition to suggest it is
in much worse shape than it is ... in order to spark violent changes in
operation. For the first time – in addition – Canada Post tried to levy a
special $5.00 surcharge … on all parcels going to Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Canada... more »
16 Democrats Ready To Join Republicans In Selling Out American National Interests
Who's afraid of AIPAC? Apparently a shitload of craven Democrats in the
U.S. Senate. So far 59 senators have signed on as co-sponsors of
legislation that was ostensibly written by 2 non-Jewish AIPAC shills, Bob
Menendez (D-NJ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) but initiated by Joe Lieberman and
Israel's far right Likud Party and clearly meant to torpedo the peace
process. Senators of questionable loyalty to America in matters regarding
Israel-- including 16 AIPAC-owned Democrats, particularly Menendez, Chuck
Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Ben Cardin, Michael Bennet, Bob
Casey, Mark... more »
Turkey- IHH, terror and tables being turned? Part 1
This news caught my eye yesterday. In a very big way! It’s the kind of news
that doesn’t register as significant to most, but, is important because of
all the people and places that connect to the IHH.
So think of the IHH as an octopus and let’s look what emanates/entangles or
connects with that central body
[image:
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/celtic-octopus-bill-flowers.jpg]*The
IHH Octopus and it's tangled tentacles*
*Very briefly, the IHH is an NGO, alleged to be very tight with the Erdogan
government. *
*Reports of raids on the IHH office.*
*1-* Turki... more »
Nixon was Right
“The guys from the best family are most likely to develop that arrogance
that puts them above the law,” Nixon said. “They all are that way. All
these Harvard people.”
Later, he added, “Remember that any intellectual is tempted to put himself
above the law. That’s the rule that I’ve known all my life. Any
intellectual, particularly—watch what schools they’re from. If they’re from
any Eastern schools or Berkeley, those are particularly the potential bad
ones.”
Ellsberg, Halperin and Gelb were all think tank intellectuals with Ivy
League degrees, and Nixon privately referred... more »
Sovereignty 101:Installment 10 - Weapons of Mass Illusion
In order for the system to change without the display of power and weaponry
typically used, a complete alteration of power is necessary. Today the
majority understands power as force, as might, as guns and the ability to
use them. What is on our “side”, the “side” of peaceful revolution, is
that *what is also held deeply as a universal principle is magic*.
Magic is merely the manipulation of matter in atypical ways. This can be
accomplished with a being who understands the art of the dream. It is
intention and expectation. It demands clarity and purity – the very things... more »
Being 100% behind
USA USA USA, you can rule, but you refuse to command. In today's world we
must command. Today I speak of windows but you can extrapolate this to so
many subjects. IMHO the people of this earth have had many cycles of
technical supremacists. Obviously led by childish opportunists.
They as our current Gods tread, just fucked it up so badly barely a trace
remains of their wisdom. In our own recent history we can not fault the
NAZI for making progress. Do not get me wrong, the British Empire and its
American child have made this world we live in. Gratitude must be expressed
no matter ... more »
Scientific theories need to be falsifiable
*...but the adjective automatically includes "in principle"...*
I have discussed several answers to the annual (and problematic) Edge.org
question Which scientific ideas should be retired? but Sean Carroll's
answer wasn't among them.
Falsifiability needs to be retired (Carroll's answer at Edge.org)
------------------------------
What Scientific Ideas Are Ready for Retirement? (Carroll's blog)
Sean Carroll mentioned his answer on his blog, *The Preposterous Universe*,
and he got largely criticized, especially by commenters like Doc C, Bruce
Caithness, Dan, John Duffield, Andy Odell, a... more »
Hockey Today
Do you realize that to the majority of the population sport is as
interesting as a noisy neighbor? Sport is the first past the post
entertainment winner in a crowded field of candidates. How much land mass
of the planet does the USA occupy? Less than 2%. Sport numbers I do not
know. However logically they are somewhere in the thirties at best. Yet
sport dominates the message from our media. The reason is obvious its as
close a direct interface to our lizard brain we can get without actual
mortal combat. Even pansy sports fire up the lizard transmitters and make
us think about c... more »
Full Interview with Former Charter Teacher at Brooklyn Ascend, Part I
In the following interview, a teacher shares her story about working at
Brooklyn Ascend, one of the total compliance, "no excuses" charter schools
in Brooklyn. Emily Talmage (formerly Emily Kennedy), who now happily
teaches third grade in a Lewiston, Maine public school, has given
permission to post her entire interview, which was originally conducted
with an assurance of her anonymity. Some of her emails regarding her
experience at Brooklyn Ascend have been previously posted here, here, and
here.
This is the first of three posts based on Emily's interview. I will save my
comment... more »
Bill Pascrell says the most accurate things!
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014*
*Denounces New Jersey’s weak Dems:* Yesterday afternoon, Rep. Bill Pascrell
guested on the Ed Show.
Pascrell, a New Jersey Dem, has served in the House since 1997. Before
that, he was mayor of Paterson.
At one point, Big Ed floated a big ball of fluff at Pascrell. Instead of
reciting the memorized script, Pascrell told the truth about his state’s
spineless party:
SCHULTZ (1/14/14): Governor Christie said that he hasn’t spoken to David
Wildstein “in a long time.” This picture from the Wall Street Journal that
was published today really gives an impress... more »
Homemade Oreos
There are few things in this world that I love more than Oreos, slathered
in peanut butter, but these Homemade Oreos might be one of them. They are
delicious, soft and totally addicting. I know better than to keep them
around the house unless I am OK with eating the entire plate. They are easy
to make, and the homemade frosting for the middle is absolutely perfect.
You will need for the cookies:
2 Devil Food cake mixes
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup shortening
You will need for the frosting:
1 8oz package of cream cheese
2 tsp. vanilla
4 c. powdered sugar
1/2 stick butter
Mix the cookie dough tog... more »
Hey Apple take a bite of what I am Thinking Aboot
First of all forgive my ignorance. I know less about I tunes than you have
forgotten.
What I would like to see.
1) Easy ways to burn my content to disc/copy to USB in a universal format,
especially for Hi Resolution Audio tracks. I always save Apple loseless. I
have made MP3 discs to play in my car but it was a nightmare.
2) Support for Hi Res Audio on the I phone. How about a DAC headphone
amplifier you can attach to any IPhone?
3) Let me print my play list or copy it to a file.
Thanks, jobs for you from Steve.
WATCHING STORY GROW: The darnedest things!
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014*
*Part 3—Maddow’s sleight of hand:* Journalists say the darnedest things
when story starts to grow.
Last night, near the end of Piers Morgan Live, the CNN import said this:
MORGAN (1/14/14): Well, I suppose the obvious thing that struck me with all
this, and I've always been a big fan of Chris Christie's, interviewed him
several times and find him extremely impressive character in many ways…
*What could be a bigger issue to the governor than to have the busiest
bridge in the world brought to an absolute standstill for a whole week?*And yet in that week,... more »
An Easy, Do It Yourself Non Toxic Bleach Substitute
[image: Make Your Own Non-Toxic Bleach Alternative]
Regular chlorine bleach is no picnic to use in the home. It’s pretty toxic
stuff, and when combined with other common household items (like ammonia,
certain soaps and some organic (natural) materials) it can form highly
toxic (sometimes fatal) gases/substances.
We haven’t used bleach in a long time.
So what do we use for cleaning? How do we keep whites their whitest?
We used to rely on store-bought, natural oxygen bleach, which is pretty
effective but it can be pricey. Plus, it’s packaged in plastic bottles
which aren’t refillab... more »
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In space, the powers of creation and destruction work differently than they
do here on earth. Matter appears, dissolves and reappears just like here
but in a much s l o w e r m a n n e r. Matter that makes up you
and me. On earth we’re refreshed at such high rates of speed that the
particles of matter disappear and reappear in essentially the same place
..making our position more or less predictable from one instant to the
next. In space, however, it’s so cold that things take a little longer
..when measured in nano-seconds. So, instead of the *high-speed collisions*that w... more »
Paul Krassner : Predictions for 2014
The all-seeing and all-knowing one lifts the veil. Just a little. Enough
for a peek. By Paul Krassner | The Rag Blog | January 15, 2014 Steve Jobs,
the late founder and chief designer of the Apple Empire, will be … finish reading Paul
Krassner : Predictions for 2014
Foreign affairs
When I used to write for the Biased-BBC blog between 2009 and 2012, as
David Vance frequently used to point out to his critics, the above the line
contributors were volunteers, unpaid, working in our own time and at our
own pace. Nevertheless, many people seemed to assume that we were sitting
by our radios and televisions monitoring the output all hours of the day,
seven days per week.
In some ways, simply by presuming to write a blog about BBC bias, we were
duty bound to do a certain amount of watching and listening, so there’s no
use getting all indignant about it. These days I w... more »
let them stay week day 5: write a paper letter to chris alexander
Today we go old school. Take out a pen, or turn on your printer, and send
some paper mail to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander.
Tell him to stop deporting US war resisters in Canada, and to enact a
provision to let them stay. Tell him why.
Find an envelope, and send your letter to:
The Honourable Chris Alexander
House of Commons
Justice Building – 306
284 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
If you live in Canada, you don't even need a stamp.
GLADIO - The Kelly Thomas Provocation
This HAS to be a provocation - like Rodney King and Trayvon Martin and Mark
Duggan, but for White America.
No chance in hell they were acting alone.
*"The third scenario for FEMA came with the Los Angeles riots after the
Rodney King brutality verdict. Had the rioting spread to other cities, FEMA
would have been empowered to step in. As it was, major rioting only
occurred in the Los Angeles area, thus preventing a pretext for a FEMA
response.*
*On July 5, 1987, the Miami Herald published reports on FEMA's new goals.
The goal was to suspend the Constitution in the event of a nati... more »
Ed Miliband thinks there's a difference between 250,000 and a quarter of a million...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KCQkIGR_o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If a Conservative politician had made this gaffe, it'd be all over the BBC
but as it's a Labour ally of the BBC, shhh not a word.
Golf Bicycle Trailer
Pictured above is a fantastic idea. Combining Golf and riding a bike on a
well groomed natural trail. For those who have never ridden trails its like
comparing walking in the grass barefoot to wearing shoes. I am sure they
have done their homework but it looks a little compromised to me.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, design a golf bag trailer that can hold
two standard sized golf bags and has a built in cooler. A solar panel would
recharge the phone. Golfers can rent both the bike and the trailer. The
cost of my product would be much less than the $1200 suggested for the
dev... more »
Ethnosectarian Displacement Returns To Iraq
The on going fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province has led to thousands of
families fleeing their homes. The Iraqi Red Crescent claimedthat up to
13,000 families, roughly 78,000 people had left their residences so far.
Once the situation becomes more secure however, many of these people are
likely to return. What is much more worrisome is that ethnosectarian
displacement appears to be returning to Iraq due to threats and attacks in
not only the north and center of the country where the insurgency is based,
but in the south as well. This is another sign that security is
deteriorating ... more »
Fidlar: Trailer Park Boys with a punk Beatles Vibe
H/T Warren Kinsella
Israel joins CERN
For the first time since 1999, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) has accepted a new (21st) full member.
CERN press release, Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Interactions.ORG
Israel culturally belongs to Europe and the work of the Israeli physicists
is actually very important so the expansion seems like a no-brainer even
though Israel is currently the only full member from outside geographic
Europe.
Aside from the slight Asian "accent", Hatikvah sounds more or less "ours",
especially to Czech ears that recognize the theme borrowed from Smetana's
Moldau.
... more »
ZSRDF Commisons Offical Command Vehicle
Its an Audi A8 factory modified armoured car. V12 powered and looking
entirely stock. The head of alien intelligence would never suspect Major
Jones Spaceman and other heroes of the ZSRDF were cruising the boulevards.
A taxi picking up the fares of galactic defense.
Me I am flying in my Taxi, taking tips getting stoned
TBS Cam Was Up Today
Majia's Blog - 14 hours ago
The TBS cam was back up today. I don't know if its running an old loop. For
the sake of my sanity I'm going to presume that today's feed was from today.
The good news is the DAIICHI plant does NOT appear to be burning or
steaming any worse than it has in the past.
The bad news is I witnessed quite a few camera glitches that might
possibly have been flashes, followed by significantly increased pixilation.
An hour later the pixilation was mostly gone, although heat waves could
easily be seen coming up from the area of unit 3. Those heat waves are not
new. They've been visible since... more »
It's Wednesday ...
*what's going on - besides me hating that useless little "n" in Wednesday?*
Angry White Dude: *Whither After Us?*
Charles Hugh Smith: *Resolution #1: Let's Call Things What They Really Are
in 2014*
Always on Watch: *Caution: Children At Play*
Diogenes Middle Finger: *Obama Daughters Listed as ‘Senior Staff’ In White
House $424,000 Summer Africa Trip*
The Blaze: *Governors Looking at Constitutional Convention to Reign in
Federal Spending*
The Other McCain: *The ‘Emerging Awareness’ Continues*
*Lonely Conservative: Gee, What A Shock, Another Obamacare Deadline
Delayed *
S... more »
Various and Sundry
Obnoxious
young asswipe Justin Beiber is found to have cocaine in his home(after
police arrived to investigate the stupid spoiled brat's pelting eggs
at a neighbour's house). Seems that homeschooled, Christian Bieber
hasn't
absorbed enuff of the teachings of his Lord n' Saviour, Jeeziz Christ.
Pompous, untalented, hypocritical. lazy fuckwad David Brooks, who is
always
going on about how non-white people have to learn to control their
animalistic impulses, has decided that being a loud, cretinous, obese
slob
of a bully is a-okay if it's a white Republican. Hence his kind and
tolerant ... more »
A Tale Of Two Countries
When it comes to oil, Mitchell Anderson writes, Canada and Norway have
written two different narratives:
A recent news item showed that Norway's massive pot of petroleum of money,
now totaling CA$909.364 billion, has made every citizen a millionaire in
Norwegian kroner. That works out to about $178,000 for every man, woman and
child in the country. By contrast, every Canadian lumbers under an
individual debt of $17,000 as Ottawa is in hock to the tune of $600 billion.
What accounts for the difference? It all comes down to taxes:
Alberta has run consecutive budget deficits since ... more »
Exposé From A Longtime Beltway Operative
I've known him for many years, through many campaigns and he would lose his
job-- and his ability to *get* jobs-- if he were to use his real name. So
this guest post, a message to grassroots candidates, is by "Anonymous
Operative." I didn't change a word, although we've tackled this topic in
the past.
*It’s A Sad, Pathetic RacketBy Anonymous Operative*
It’s a shame that so many Democratic donors are quick to contribute their
hard earned money to the wrong cause. Cycle after cycle I hear donors tell
strong progressive candidates “you sound like a great Democrat, but we just
give ... more »
The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.
The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.. via The Triumph of
Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.. via The Triumph of Conscience, Martin
Luther King Jr..Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
High Arctic Relocation
In August 1953, seven or eight families from Inukjuak, northern Quebec
(then known as Port Harrison) were transported to Grise Fiord on the
southern tip of Ellesmere Island and to Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island.
Grise Fiord
The families were promised better living and hunting opportunities in new
communities in the High Arctic. They were joined by three families
recruited from the more Northern community of Pond Inlet (in the then
Northwest Territories, now part of Nunavut) whose purpose was to teach the
Inukjuak Inuit skills for survival in the High Arctic.
The Inuit reported t... more »
Appointment of Justice Nadon: Tempest in a Teapot
*I just do not see what the fuss is about. *
*Appointments to the Supreme Court are entirely within the power of the PMO
anyway. The real challenge is to bring those appointments in line with
other judicial offices and have proper search committees and
recommendations as elsewhere. *
*The idea that a Federal Court of Appeals judge doesn't qualify as a
legitimate candidate for the Supreme Court strikes me as pettifogging:*
OTTAWA -- A constitutional battle will be engaged today over whether the
government is free to change the rules for the top court in the land.
It didn't star... more »
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*Live blog: Lawyers suing oil & gas industry to appear before Jindal's CPRA
Koch Suckers ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
*~The Lens will live-blog what could be a wetlands’ version of “High Noon”
at Wednesday’s meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Attorneys for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East say
they have accepted an invitation from coastal chief Koch Sucker Garret
Graves to present their client’s case for its controversial lawsuit against
oil and gas companies for coastal land loss – which Graves strongly
opposes.*
*Dear Editilla,*
*Oppos... more »
Canada Park
When Stephen Harper visits Israel this month, he will likely make a stop at
Canada Park, opened by John Diefenbaker in 1975 and completed in 1984.
Twenty-two years ago, CBC's Fifth Estate aired the powerful program above
on the origins of Canada Park, built on top of three Palestinian villages
bulldozed by the Israeli army and paid for by 15 million dollars in
Canadian donations to the Jewish National Fund who continue to maintain
upkeep of the park.
Harper announced his intention to visit Israel from the Jewish National
Fund's annual Negev fundraiser in Toronto in December, where... more »
We want any car - driving me nuts
We want any car.com have a series of film based advertisements currently
running on TalkSport. One is based upon The Italian Job and features a
poor, but recognisable, impression of Michael Caine. The one that is
driving me nuts is the one based upon James Bond's Aston Martin DB5. This
is a car most famously driven by Sean Connect, although also by Pierce
Brosnan & Daniel Craig, so why is the impression of Roger Moore? It's a
dreadful impression of Roger Moore as well but why not Sean Connery? Do
facts not matter any more?
How to sign your post with graphic signature
1. create your signature with a graphic editor
2. save that graphic signature in your computer
3. write a new post and upload your graphic signature
4. publish the post (you save it as draft later)
5. Edit the post in the Edit HTML mode and get the picture address (URL) as
shown here:
6. copy the picture signature URL (the part highlighted in red below) then
go to
Dashboard > Settings > Posts and Comments
and in the POSTS section and after POST TEMPLATE click ADD as shown in the
screenshot below:
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7. In the box for the post template, type this img tag to d... more »
Plans to redefine 1 ampere
I discussed this topic in April 2012 in
Let's fix the value of Planck's constant.
The SI system of units is based on 1 meter, 1 second, 1 kilogram, 1 kelvin,
1 ampere, 1 candela, and 1 mole. They have some definitions that are not
really optimal yet.
I claim that a theoretical physicist prefers units in which a maximum
possible subset of the universal fundamental constants of Nature such as
\(\hbar,c,\epsilon_0,e,k_B,N_A\) and perhaps even \(G\) have well-known
values. In theory papers, we really want to put them equal to one but that
requires one to use natural (e.g. Planck) uni... more »
JESUS AND JUNG
*Carl Jung and family*
According to Carl Jung: "We all must do what Christ did. We must make our
experiment.
"We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life.
"And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live."
The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance.
According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to
all our personalities.
Think of anger, greed, fear and lust.
This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'.
*The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always
'evil'.*
For example, t... more »
BPEarthWatch - Comet Siding Spring to obliterate Mars' atmosphere in October 20th 2014
Comet 20013 A1 (Siding Spring) to obliterate Mars' atmosphere in October
20th 2014.
Youtuber BPEarthWatch's mission seems to be to pre-empt the End Times i.e.
religious fever for DOOM. This urge motivates BPEarthWatch to look into all
sorts of doomy news, weather and space events and ratchet up the paranoia
and fear for THE END IS NIGH; you know BME or Biblical Magnitude Events.
Plus, I really like his laid-back delivery in the face of his maker's
potential for ultimate horror i.e. the universe we all live in.
"Obliterate Mars' atmosphere, Mike?" yeah, this is an example of a) ho... more »
Five Reasons Why Geneva II Will Not Lead To A Negotiated Peace
Next week, organizers of the Geneva II Middle East peace conference, led by
world powers the United States and Russia, will hope to arrange a
compromise between the Assad regime and the mainstream opposition that will
put an end to the three-year long conflict and lead the country towards a
new transitional government. The conference will be held in Montreux,
Switzerland.
Back in Augut, Lakhdar Brahimi, UN envoy to Syria, *said* that "there is no
military solution." This week, Secretary of State John Kerry *said* there
is a possibility of local ceasefires in Syria.
Although optim... more »
Richard Berman’s Declared Union-bashing Strategy
On January 13, 2014, I published a post about Richard Berman’s Center for
Union Facts (CUF) attack on the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) via
its five-story billboard in Times Square (and its similar, full-page New
York Times ad in December 2013). I believe that this barrage of CUF ads is
the direct result of recently-elected New York City Mayor Bill […]
Bill Meacham : Learning from Zarathustra
Zarathustra is appropriately called the First Prophet. He spoke of themes
later to be found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: a single universal
God, the battle between good and evil, the devil, heaven and hell, and an
eventual end to … finish reading Bill Meacham : Learning from Zarathustra
Government Of, By, and For The Rich? Remember When BlankGoldFein Said Goldman Sachs Had Been Doing God's Work? Still Paying Off Big Time! (Change In Payroll Jobs Vs Change In Employed Differs By Nearly 3 Million Since July)
If you believe that the Congresspeople who make the laws governing the 99%
don't have much idea of how they (we) live, you would be correct. In a
world of six-figure salaries . . . (they) inhabit a world exempt from
parking tickets, where gym membership is free and health care is
second-to-none, where you only have to work two, maybe three days a week,
and get 32 fully-reimbursed road trips
Do You Believe In Extraterrestrials?
If the extraterrestrial agenda calls for the creation of a global
electronic surveillance system meant to hide all true information about
their presence here on earth as they enter into the “final phase” of their
end plan for total assimilation and world rule, why do they allow the
History Channel to keep broadcasting? When *Shahs of Sunset*, *The Amish
Mafia* or *Princesses: Long Island* aren't on TV, I settle for one of the
endlessly repeated History Channel exposés on aliens building the Pyramid,
aliens setting up the Dogon people of Mali, aliens building everything in
Mexico,... more »
Internet Party
Well, if in launching a political party your aim is to get everyone to talk
about you, then the launch of Kim DotCon’s Internet Party has worked a
treat.
Although I imagine the publicity wasn’t supposed to be generated because
Fartin’ Martyn Bradbury was stupid enough to leavea draft paper about the
party’s plans and programme lying around for Cameron Slater to publish, or
for it to be revealed therein that Martyn Bradbury was being paid to
“consult” for Hone Harawira’s Mana Party while being paid $8000 to spruik
DotCon’s Party Party to his friends and associates while also being... more »
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