A gun recovered from the USS Maine, which was sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba February 15, 1898. The gun is now located at Fort Allen Park on the Eastern Promenade of Portland, Maine. Image made 2005 by Robert Swanson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Gloria Swanson (Photo credit: hto2008)
Ralph Nader signing books at Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
David Swanson and Cindy Sheehan at White House gates (Photo credit: Cheryl.Biren)While the prior bout of global financial distress which started in 2008 and has resulted in major financial markets of the West ( and Japan ) being essentially captured by Central Banks of the Federal Reserve , ECB , BOE and BOJ -- We are seeing clear signs that things are globally unraveling once again and this time it would appear things actually could be different ! Michael Snyder offers " 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown "
Catharsis Ours - 12 minutes ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/20-early-warning-signs-we-are-approaching-global-economic-meltdown
20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2014 20:53 -0500
- Art Cashin
- Baltic Dry
- Bank Run
- Brazil
- China
- Debt Ceiling
- France
- Global Economy
- Italy
- Meltdown
- Sears
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Unemployment
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*Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,*
Have you been paying attenti... more »
Sunday Classics: Finally we get to the Final Scene of "Carmen"
*Teresa Berganza and Plácido Domingo sing the final scene of Carmen.*
*by Ken*
One loose thread we're going to not so much tie up as pull all the way out
before we close up shop here is the Final Scedne of Bizet's *Carmen*, which
we were headed toward ever so gradually in a series of posts that stretched
out quite awhile and got us *into* the scene. But I had it in mind to
continue through it, trying to explain, or describe, or just *show* the
point at which the fates of Carmen and Don José intersect so tragically.
Well, now that I'm past trying to explain or describe or even just ... more »
SWANSON COMING TO MAINE
*David Swanson in Brunswick, Maine*
Feb. 15, 2014 Saturday
3 - 5 p.m. Curtis Memorial Library
Sign up on Facebook.
Flyer: PDF.
*David Swanson in Portland, Maine*
Feb. 15, 2014 Saturday
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Lee Hall, Wishcamper Center, USM, 34 Bedford Street
Parking in garage next to Wishcamper
Flyer: PDF.
Talks & Book signings. Free and open to the public.
David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his new book, *War No More:
The Case for Abolition*.
Swanson's books include *When the World Outlawed War,* named by Ralph Nader
as one of the six books everyone should read; the best-sel... more »
Honduras: The new president gets a lavish swearing-in
There’s a certain over-the-top, bread and circuses aspect to tomorrow’s
ceremonies for the swearing in of the new president of Honduras.
Especially for a country that is, effectively, broke, with desperate unmet
needs.
The government has given all employees a half day off, in case they want to
attend the ceremony or watch it on TV. A fleet of 450 buses has also been
lined up to bring people from around the country.
The national stadium in Tegicugalpa, the venue for the big event, is being
repainted, and beginning Sunday night the roads in a wide area around the
stadium will be closed... more »
Flashback: Canada/G20 peaceful protest crushed. Ukraine violent protest elavated
I want, at this time, to remind readers here of the G20 protests in
Toronto, Canada.
I want to remind readers how our government in Canada really supports the
rights of peaceful protestors.
I want to ask Canadians and Americans why it is our governments always put
down peaceful protests with such violence? And why our police forces
resort to using provocateurs in amongst the crowds to justify the heavy
handed, ultra violent responses.
*Recall? I had this video up in 2010?*
In the post titled- Report from a G20 protest attendee. Video footage.Where
was JTF2 ?
Queen & Spadina Protes... more »
Corporate Education Losers Dust Off Antiquarian "Reforms," Again
Op-Ed published January 25 in *The Tennessean*:
Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman continues a series of
victory laps that began in the fall, when results from the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed improvement in reading and
math scores for Tennessee’s fourth- and eighth-graders. Tennessee,
however, remains far from the finish line in the federal Race to the Top
that Tennessee entered in 2010.
In 2013 Tennessee and the District of Columbia were the only two (out of
19) Race to the Top grant recipients to show performance gains over 2011
NAEP score... more »
ALEC Incompetency - Membership Lying to Board?
ALEC's member department is evidently giving out propaganda - even to the
ALEC Board.
When things get really bad - do a bad job of lying,
must be the new motto at ALEC.
Really folks
- with the ALEC home office lying in docs and letters, multiple ALECers
plagiarizing using a copy/paste of ALEC headquarters PR in editorials in
the newspapers this past week and ALECers lying to their constituents about
their membership - - -
When is the general public going to finally wake up to the political menace
known as the American Legislative Exchange Council?
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Michaels Stores Is Investigating Data Breach .... The U.S. Secret Service confirmed that it is investigating a potential data breach at Michaels. Also, Michaels has just issued a statement stating that it “recently learned of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S. payment cards that had been used at Michaels, suggesting that the Company may have experienced a data security attack.”
Another Retailer comes clean regarding data breach
Sources: Card Breach at Michaels Stores
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Multiple sources in the banking industry say they are tracking a pattern of
fraud on cards that were all recently used at *Michaels Stores Inc.*, an
Irving, Texas-based arts-and-crafts retailer that maintains more than 1,250
stores across the United States.
[image: michaels]On Friday morning, I put a call in to *SPM Communications*,
the public relations company listed as the pr... more »
The Same One Hour 10,000 Times Is Not 10,000 Hours: Behaviorism, Math, and Utter Failure
Speaking against testing isn’t an uphill battle; it is an upmountain
battle—something like Pike’s Peak. But one of the most powerful and
disturbing examples of just why traditional testing is such a failure to
real learning is found in math classes—where behaviorism is both embraced
and misused on a daily basis. We’ve all had this […]
Bitcoin news and views - January 25 , 2014 -- Nick Colas of ConvergEx offers his perspective on what challenges lie ahead for Bitcoin in 2014 ( The Three Critical Factors ) ..... And a look at Nick's critical three factors , with a focus on adoption of Bitcoin , implications and regulation .....
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/bitcoin-2014-3-critical-factors
Bitcoin In 2014 - The 3 Critical Factors
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2014 21:24 -0500
- Bitcoin
- Federal Reserve
- headlines
- Madison Avenue
- New York City
- New York State
- None
- Turkey
- Volatility
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In the last year Bitcoin has gone 'viral'. As ConvergEx's Nick Colas notes,
a lot has happened in 2013: Price appreciation, yes, from $20 to +$800 –
the result of this online “Currency” going from science project to
m... more »
Ukraine, Noah's Ark, the first Anglican woman priest, politics and religion, a radical nun and anti-clergy abuse
This morning's *Sunday *began by looking at the role being played by the
main churches during the current unrest in *Ukraine*. William Crawley
discussed it with the BBC's man there, David Stern. Apparently, the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (formed in 1992 after schism
from the Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church) is strongly backing the
protests. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (a branch of
the Russian Orthodox Church which became autonomous in 1990), on the other
hand, is remaining cautious, initially ordering its priests not to back the
protest... more »
54 Dead in an Egypt Polarized between pro-Military, anti-Coup on Revolution Anniversary
Dozens killed in Egypt on anniversary of uprising
January 25, 2014 2:45PM ET
Three years after the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak, violence
surged in the polarized country
Topics: International Egypt Egypt in Turmoil
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Security forces use teargas to disperse rallies held by opponents of
Egypt's military coup to mark the third anniversary of the start of Egypt
2011 revolution in Cairo on Saturday.Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Twenty-nine people were killed during anti-government marches in Egypt on
Saturday according to the country's health ministry... more »
NSA updates , revelations and news regarding potential NSA changes - January 26 , 2014 ....NSA is after industrial spying – Snowden to German TV ..... Microsoft May Thwart US Spying On Foreign Customers With A Radical Move [Report]
NSA is after industrial spying – Snowden to German TV
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'Opposition' says NO to power share in Ukraine- Coup in process
The protestors were never peaceful.... The protestors only made demands.
The protestors do not want compromise. They want their way. Like petulant
children.
Does this look to be peaceful protests?
Protesters lit tires aflame during clashes with riot police in Kiev.
Clashing with riot police? I don't see any clashing? I don't see any riot
police? I just see people setting fires and damaging property. Is that
protesting?
* Opposition Says No to Ukraine on Power Share*
* In a striking concession* ( huge concession) aimed at defusing Ukraine’s
civil uprising and preserving his own gr... more »
Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that Blind
Richard Sherman\’s GPA and \”Thug\” Label: The Codes that Blind. via
Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that Blind.Filed under:
PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Canada's Herbert Hoover
Some people rejoiced last week, when Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz
announced that interest rates would remain where they are. But Scott Clark
and Peter Devries write:
Reading between the lines suggests that the Bank does not expect a
strengthening in employment growth and any significant reduction in the
unemployment rate over the next eighteen months — before the 2015 election,
in other words. And there is very little the Bank can do about it, short of
lowering the overnight rate further.
The simple fact is that there is a need for more aggregate demand in the
economy. T... more »
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*Oil & Gas beneficiary and hatchet-man, Governorcost Bobly Jindal,
politicking again to oust president of area levee board ~Jeff Adelson, New
Orleans Advocate*
*Recent attacks have French Quarter employees, residents on edge ~WWLTV *
*Marques Colston: 2013 season in review*
*New Orleans to Host NADA Convention & Expo for 10th Time Since 1973 ~The
Auto Channel*
*Heart of Louisiana: Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile Store ~Dave
McNamara, WVUE*
*Good Eggs: Web-Based Aggregator Expands Its Brick & Mortar Operation
~Poppy Tooker, WWNO*
*New Orleans and Louisiana artists set to grab ... more »
Despite conflicting reports , it would appear ICBC will NOT bailout investors in Gold Credit Trust Product after all .... Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has been holding firm against calls to compensate about 700 investors who bought the three-year trust product at its branches in Shanxi. The product, which raised funds for a coal miner in the province, was issued by China Credit Trust and distributed by the lender.... Investors of the Trust Product vow that ICBC will make them whole from any losses on the product ICBC pushed - "ICBC and China Credit Trust dug a hole, covered it with a straw mat and told us to jump in," said Gao Yiyang, an investor who spent almost $500,000 of his family's money on the product. "It now appears our money was not used for any of the company's actual operations. It was purely fraud to get our money to fill a huge deficit hole," he told AFP. !
http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1412077/china-trust-products-fate-hangs-balance-amid-talk-bailout
http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1412873/icbc-bailout-trust-product-unlikely
ICBC bailout of trust product unlikely
A default may spook the financial system since a large number of trust
products mature this year
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 25 January, 2014, 5:29am
UPDATED : Saturday, 25 January, 2014, 5:29am
Jane Cal in Beijing
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ICBC chairman Jiang Jianqing said the bank would not "rigidly" pay... more »
The Far Right Continues To Work To Defeat Mitch McConnell
Almost all the Koch-funded far right extremist groups have now joined the
battle to nominate teabagger Matt Bevin over McConnell in the May 20th
Kentucky primary. The latest, this weekend, was the Republican Liberty
Caucus. The group, which has been around since 1991, has also endorsed
Milton Wolf over Pat Roberts in Kansas, Lee Bright over Lindsey Graham in
South Carolina, Pat McGeehan in West Virginia instead of the Establishment
corporate shill (Shelley Moore Capito), and Owen Hill in Colorado (instead
of Ken Buck, the other extremist lunatic in the race). They claim the
endors... more »
Ukraine protests updates January 26 , 2014 -- Ukrainian opposition urges snap elections, continues protests despite Prime Minister post offering to opposition and review of the Constitution promised .... position offer
http://rt.com/news/opposition-ukraine-rejects-proposal-203/
Opposition leaders called for an early presidential election following a
Saturday meeting with the government, where top government posts were
offered to protest leaders and a review of the constitution was promised.
Read RT's timeline of the Ukrainian clashes.
The proposal to offer positions within the Ukrainian government to
opposition leaders will be considered by all three parties and discussed
with the people, Batkivschina leader Arseny Yatsenyuk said.
*“We are not rejecting the offer, nor are we accepting it. We are in ... more »
Indiana HB1320: The ALEC, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch Plan for Student Data
By Doug Martin
You would think with many more Hoosiers finding out each and every day
about the complete scam known as Indiana school reform, the legislators in
Indianapolis would be smart enough to give it a rest. But no, instead of
doing damage control on the eve of the release of my book *Hoosier School
Heist*—which spills the beans on the out-of-state money, the handing over
of charter schools to campaign donors and friends, the plagiarism at the
State Board of Education, school vouchers and torture, felonies, the
breaking of Open Door Laws, and other scandals and outright cor... more »
Doge Duncan, without comment.
Much reforms!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
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Taiwan Offshoring
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No time for blogging for a couple more days...
Commonwealth strikes again with two great pieces on offshoring Taiwan's
wealth here and here.
Oh, and J Michael Cole on the truck driver who crashed into the
presidential office
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War Watch January 24 , 2014 - Syria : Syrian Officials, Opposition to Meet at Geneva Talks ; Recent rebel in fighting kill nearly 1,400 ; major newspapers push bomb Syria agenda ..... Iran nuclear talks updates ...... Obama " disaagrees " with Oversight Report finding NSA telephone metadata program illegal , unconstitutional and totally unnecessary ; Snowden rules out return to US even as a purported plea deal is being trial ballooned ........ Obama's Drone Wars detailed..... Af- Pak news of the day - foreign workers shun restuarants in Kabul as the militants strike fear and instability raises its head , Pakistan faces rising tide of political instability from drone wars and resurgent fighting from militants..... Turkey lira continues to weaken as corruption scandal continues unabated....
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
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For the 50p Tax Rate
Did Ed Balls announce the nationalisation of the top 100 monopolies or
something at yesterday's Fabian conference? I was there, and he assuredly
did not. To make sure the dangerous radicalism of putting 5p on the top
rate of tax was boxed in, he even ruled out renationalising energy
companies and the rail. And yet, according to Lord Myners in today's
*Telegraph* restoring the 50p tax rate for earners in receipt of an income
on excess of £150,000 is "old Labour" and the "politics of envy". As the
good lord is on the boards of several successful firms, I think he has an
interest to d... more »
'BBC EXECUTIVE ABUSED BOYS IN AMSTERDAM'
Like Lord McAlpine, Wifred De'ath is presumably innocent.
BBC News - No charges against ex-BBC producer Wilfred De'Ath
However, someone else is in trouble.
Reportedly, a *BBC executive* *sexually abused boys at his home in
Amsterdam.*
*BBC embroiled in further scandal as executive 'filmed Dutch child abuse
movies'* 26 January 2014, Express.co.uk
*According to the Sunday Express, in the 1980s, the BBC executive
reportedly -*
*1. Had a known British child abuser staying at his home.*
*2. Made child porn films at his home.*
*3. Had boys from British care homes brought to his home ... more »
More or Less, or a lot less
You may (or may not) recall that biased Radio 4 immigration debate from the
start of this year, *Immigration: Good for Whom? *
Well, Radio 4's excellent *More or Less *[h/t *hefyd *in the
comments] returned to it this week after a listener queried the stats used
by two of the contributors - the confident assertion by mass immigration
advocate Susie Symes that immigrants contribute £70 billion a year to this
country, and the confident but contradictory assertion by the more
sceptical David Goodhart that their fiscal contribution was actually either
neutral, or slightly negative. Th... more »
500 % Radiation Increase of "No Concern": Experts to Unveil Radiation Levels in California From Fukushima Fallout by Mike Barret
In California
500% Radiation Increase of ‘No Concern’: Experts to Unveil Radiation Levels
in CA from Fukushima Fallout
by Mike Barret
Natural Society, 26 January 2014
An Assembly member from California wants more transparency for citizens
concerning the Fukushima fallout hitting their shores. Bob Wieckowski is
asking for the Department of Public Health to post updated information
about the true radiation levels on California coastlines, requesting that
they be put in ‘layman’s’ terms to mitigate any concerns about the true
radiation exposure that many citizens and the marine anim... more »
Church of England still 'Tory Party at prayer' but it's the difference between Jews and Muslims that helps to explain BBC attitude to both
'... in the 2010 election, Muslims favoured Labour, while the Jewish vote
went to the Conservatives.'
No wonder the BBC so clearly favour Muslims over Jews, to think I thought
it was just about Israel and the Palestinians...
More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25889828
Theos - Voting and Values in Britain - Does religion count?
I always go out of my way to call the usually-abbreviated LSE, The London
School of Economic and Political Science. Because it's important how close
the ties are between Finance and Politics, and Science. They're 'like
that', *intertwines fingers to show closeness*. Economics and Politics
(Science of) are joined at the hip.
So too, it seems, are Politics and Voting reinforced by research put
forward by Theos* (a think tank which believes *"you can’t understand the
modern world without understanding religion"*) suggesting that, wait for
this stunner, "Specific religious denominations... more »
Thirded! (apparently)
Being, as you may know, something of a follower of Radio 4's *Sunday*, I
like to keep an eye on its Twitter feed.
It usually tells listeners what's coming up or what a guest on the
programme has just said. It also occasionally retweets comments sent to it
via Twitter.
Its latest retweet, however, is something it just happened to pick up on
Twitter about the findings of a Theos report on UK religious affiliations
and voting patterns (which the programme had discussed). It's a rather
partisan thing to retweet, isn't it?
Retweeted by BBC Radio 4 Sunday
*Stuart* @Stuey_James 58m
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For Sunday...God Whispers...
*remain calm.*
*from my dear friend ** Biene Vallee - and we thank her. *
The never-ending common core boondoggle
Sent to USA Today, January 25, 2014.
I was happy to read that "Some states get cold feet as Common Core testing
draws near," (Jan. 24). As Theodor Rebarber noted, estimates of costs
should include technology. All common core tests must be delivered online,
on up-to-date computers, which many schools do not have. This will cost
billions, and we can be sure that as soon as the system is functioning,
most of the technology will be obsolete, which means a never-ending
boondoggle for computer and testing companies at taxpayers' expense.
If the brave new tests fail to produce improvement,... more »
Gold
If you blog about bias it's surely inevitable that you'll end up throwing
more brickbats than bouquets at the BBC; in fact, it tends to be pretty
much brickbats all the way. Here, however, are a couple of bouquets for the
BBC.
One goes to whoever decided to choose Gold: The Race for the World's Most
Seductive Metal by Matthew Hart as last week's Radio 4 Book of the Week.
Another goes to whoever abridged it (Peter Nichols, that's you!).
The first episode recounted the author's descent into South Africa's
Mponeng mine, the deepest man-made hole on Earth (2.5 miles deep) - an
inte... more »
Good Points, Bad Analysis and Unread Links
If
you constantly call yourself an expert, you should probably do your
best to know what you're talking about. Or at least read the content of
links you provide to try and support your analysis.
This seemingly obvious concept has again proven itself beyond the
capacity of one of the Western media's most favored bearer of
conventional wisdom and hackneyed talking points.
In a short blog post
Sunday morning reading
A little light reading to accompanying your bacon, eggs and sausages this
morning...
A couple of weeks ago, ITV accused the BBC of using licence-payers money to
rip off TV programmes from its commercially-funded rivals in an
“aggressive” pursuit of higher ratings in a submission to the Commons
Culture Media and Sport Committee:
The BBC’s pursuit of audience share regardless of distinctiveness or
innovation has been evident where the BBC has rushed to commission or
produce almost identical programmes to those by ITV, and then has scheduled
them against ITV’s planned transmissions.... more »
the alien agenda
I have researched and studied the alien presence for 46 years. The early
contactees of the 50's such as Adamski, Van Tassel, Menger, and Meier were
contacted by alien groups who were here to offer us help. Their offer was
rejected by our government and the military because they denied our
requests for technology and required us to end war and destroy our atomic
weapons. Other alien groups were then quick to offer the enticement of
technology in exchange for certain privileges and a treaty emerged. In
exchange for technology they would be granted secrecy and be allowed to
abduct peo... more »
Al Haig, The NSC and the White House Spy Ring: The Nixon Story You Never Heard
*"...However, authors Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin were highly critical
of much of Haig's behind-the-scenes work as Nixon's chief of staff in their
1991 book Silent Coup: The Removal of a President. *
*They described several episodes where Haig misled the president and
others, particularly those surrounding the court battles over Nixon's White
House tape recordings, and Ford's eventual pardon of Nixon in September
1974. *
*Having conducted dozens of interviews of key participants, including
Gerald Ford, Robert Hartmann, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John
Mitchell, John Dean,... more »
FL-13-- A Special Election All About Hypocrisy
The DCCC and NRCC have already spent over half a million dollars in FL-13
smearing, respectively, NRCC candidate David Jolly and DCCC candidate Alex
Sink. The DCCC spent $288,151 last week and the NRCC put in , $220,049 last
week (bringing their total to $353,419). Two other especially sleazy
outfits have jumped in, one on behalf of Jolly, (the Allen West Guardian
Fund- $36,930) and one on behalf of Sink (EMILY's List- $15,264). As of
last month, Sink reported having $1,054,488 on hand and Jolly, who just
finished a bruising and expensive primary, reported $141,891 cash on hand.
... more »
Jack and Kwame
*President John F. Kennedy Attends Arrival Ceremonies for Osagyefo Dr.
Kwame Nkrumah, President of the Republic of Ghana*
*8 March 1961*
Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Student Convocation, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California, February 12, 1960
"Perhaps no area of the world deserves more of our knowledge and attention
while getting so little as the great, throbbing continent of Africa. If we
were to ask a group of politicians or college students in Africa about the
United States, we would for the most part receive such stereotyped replies
as: "America is rich," "... more »
The US Has Failed (For The Moment) To Sucker The American Public Into Going To War Against Syria - MIT Study Finds Syrian Government NOT Behind Rocket Attacks!
We all remember last August when the US/NATO/Israel, and the trained
monkeys in the Jewish controlled media were screaming to high heaven that
Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria, had committed an atrocity by launching
a chemical weapon rocket attack on his own civilians in Damascus, Syria….
But luckily people were NOT fooled, and many automatically saw through the
deception and knew from the beginning that this "rocket attack" was
actually committed by the American/Israeli bought and paid for murderous
"rebels"…. The sole purpose of the attack was indeed to try to sway and
sucker t... more »
Wild Bill: Dr. Ben Carson for President?...
*what do you think?*
Time To Put The "Global Warming" Fraud Out Of Its Misery: Sun Scientists Are Now Debating Whether Solar Lull Could Trigger Another "Little Ice Age"
I have put up countless articles in this blog exposing the absolute LIES
perpetrated by the hucksters behind the "Global Warming" fraud…. I figure
that now with everyone waking up to the reality that it is indeed a massive
hoax and swindle, it is time to focus on the present situation, where we
see a steep downfall in solar radiation generated from our Yellow Dwarf
Star, Sol, or commonly called "The Sun", and the consequences of that
decline…
There have been some recent alarming reports about how our Sun has gone
"quiet"…. That quietness is actually the amount of solar activity in t... more »
Taxes, The Beatles and Adam Smith
A friend, Dr. Amado “Bong” Mendoza of the UP Political Science Department,
posted his poem in his fb wall today….
*Taxing to death*
*A septon on political economyTaxation is the purest of political gamesThe
process determinesWho gets what, where, and whenSmith (Adam, that is)
warnedIf taxes were onerousMobile capital can frustrate the avaricious
princeTaxes are as sure as deathLennon and McCartney croonedDead men should
declare the pennies in their eyes.*
*© 2014 All rights reserved*
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I like it, so I added a stanza from The Beatles’ song, “Taxman”,
*Let... more »
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*Jindal the Koch Sucker tries again to oust president of area levee board
~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*
Should a parent go to jail for This?
Today, I learned about two “education theft” cases where a parent, Kelley
Williams Bollar, served nine days in jail, and a set of parents, Hamlet and
Olesia Garcia are facing up to seven years in prison. I’m ashamed I wasn’t
aware of this problem before today – January 25th. However, now that I’m
aware this practice exists, I’m […]
The Order of DeMolay
"Founded by Frank S. Land, a Freemason, DeMolay is modeled after
Freemasonry. With the sponsorship of a Masonic body, a DeMolay chapter
often meets in a lodge room or, if not in a lodge room, in some other
appropriate room within the same building. Although none of the youth
groups are "masonic organizations" as such, DeMolay is considered to be
part of the general "family" of Masonic and associated organizations, along
with other youth groups such as Job's Daughters and Rainbow. As with
Rainbow, a family connection to Masonry is not a prerequisite for
membership into DeMolay.
DeMo... more »
The NYT Editorial Board takes on the Koch Bros' political money machine
*"The clandestine influence of the Kochs and their Palm Springs friends
would be much reduced if they were forced to play in the sunshine."*
*-- from an editorial in tomorrow's NYT,* "The Koch Party"
*by Ken*
I've noted that the Koch Brothers have turned up in any number of posts
from Howie and Noah, and worry that I haven't been wielding my wee cudgel
often enough. That's the thing about Big Money, backed up by its
all-but-invariable alter-ego, Deep Pockets: It rolls on and on, tending in
the end to outlast and overwhelm contrary voices fueled by mere spunk.
It's hardly an origin... more »
AIPAC Senator may face jail for helping gangsters
*Stew Webb Whistleblower-Activist*
AIPAC Senator may face jail for helping gangsters[image: 347457_Sen. Robert
Menendez]
Senator Menendez under investigation for ties to fugitive bankers
… by Press TV, Tehran
[image: AIPAC has been busy little bees lately]
AIPAC has been busy little bees lately
*[ Editors Note: Surprise, surprise...up pops the annoucement of what has
had to be a long running investigation, and a sensitive one with a
Democratic White house having a criminal investigation of an well known
senator.*
*Are we finally seeing some pay back by Obama for those working wi... more »
Princess Diana was an Anti-Zionist Jew - The Smoking Gun
*Born :James Michael Goldsmith*
*26 February 1933*
*Paris, France*
*Died : 18 July 1997 (aged 64)*
*Benahavís, Spain*
*Cause of Death : Pancreatic cancer*
*"Sir James, who was 64, started his career as a hotel cook and became one
of the world's wealthiest men. He died on Friday night in Spain, apparently
from a heart attack linked to cancer of the pancreas diagnosed in 1993."*
No evidence of this WHATSOEVER.
He was diabetic; there is no evidence he had pancreatic cancer.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
*February 12, 1996*
*Vol. 45*
*No. 6*
*Diana Draws Blood*
By Michelle Green
*Lashing Out at Tiggy Brings a Legal Warning and Enrages the Queen *
Reports that became public last week suggest that Diana, 34, has recently
played into the hands of those who may not wish her well. On Jan. 24,
British papers pegged her as the source of a false rumor that Charles's
aide Alexandra "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, companion to Princes William, 13, and
Harry, 11, when they are with their father, had become pregnant by Charles
last year and had an abortion.
According to witnesses who gave thei... more »
Would I Lie to You?
Reblogged from An Antique
Teacher:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9zF8OsR_8&w=660&h=495]
This week, a very personable "professional developer" from BOCES came to my
school to "guide" the K-6 teachers in the use of the Tri-State Quality
Rubric - a rubric that is to help us all align our lessons to the CCSS and
is to be used as a "learning tool". […]
Untitled
*State has explored illegally obtaining drug for upcoming execution ~Della
Hasselle, The Lens*
Jew-loving mayor of NYC: my job is to defend Israel
The headline from the Israeli daily *Haaretz* says it all:
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a heartfelt speech praising Israel at a
private gala event hosted by AIPAC at the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan
Thursday night, the local website Capital New York reported.
According to an edited audio recording obtained by the site (below), *de
Blasio said that "part of his job description is to defend Israel"* and
that it is *"elemental to being an American, because there is no greater
ally on earth, and that's something we can say proudly."*
The Israel lobby's event was closed to jou... more »
Is increasing reading instruction a good idea?
Sent to Education Week, January 25, 2014
We need to take a much closer look at claims that increased time spent in
reading instruction results in improvement in reading achievement ("Fla.
Pushes Longer School Day, More Reading in Some Schools," Jan. 22).
According the Ed Week article, scores were higher than comparison schools
in only 20 of the 100 schools observed. In other words, in 80 out of the
100 schools, there comparison schools did as well (or worse?). In addition,
we are told that teachers in the program were known to "effective in
teaching reading," in other words, in incr... more »
Greece updates January 25 , 2014 - Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras is expected to face a barrage of questions from his eurozone counterparts at a summit in Brussels on Monday amid the slow implementation of reforms which has led troika officials to delay their scheduled return to Athens ....... Losing on cuts to to pensioners lump sums on retirement ( armed forces and emergency services for now ) will make the existing 500 million gap wider for the Greek Coalition Government...... Troika - slaves proposal , punitive fines ( scrambling for euros from wherever ) , banks issue ultimatum to fishing farming companies ( just kill another line of business , why don't you ? )
*Council of State weighing appeals over cuts to pensioners' lump sums*
In the wake of a leaked decision by the Council of State deeming wage cuts
imposed on members of the armed forces and emergency services to be
unconstitutional, the court is considering appeals by other groups of civil
servants against reductions to the lump sums they receive on retirement,
Kathimerini understands.
The appeals being weighed by the country’s highest administrative court
have been lodged by civil servants but also by social security funds,
according to sources.
The Finance Ministry is already scramb... more »
Iranian Officials Respond to John Kerry's "Military Option" Threat
United
States Secretary of State John Kerry
In response to recent comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
regarding a potential military strike on Iran, Brigadier General Seyyed
Masoud Jazayeri - Iran's deputy chief of staff - said in an interview
that, in the event of an attack, American interests in the region would
be "completely destroyed."
Speaking to Al Arabiya this week, Kerry
“Bill Maher: The Right-Wing's Pathetic Fake ‘Manliness’"
*“Bill Maher: *
*The Right-Wing's Pathetic Fake ‘Manliness’"*
By Alyssa Figueroa
"Conservatives were outraged this week after President Obama said that if
he had a son, he would not allow him to play football — commenting on the
violent culture of the game. From Rush Limbaugh saying Obama's comment was
"irresponsible," to Glenn Beck saying Obama should "stop being a chick,"
conservatives whined about the importance of manliness, continuing their
narrative about masculinity that attempts to veil their cowardly actions.
Watch Bill Maher take them on here:"
- http://www.alternet.org/
“Inside the Obscene Lifestyles of the New Global Super-Rich”
*“Inside the Obscene Lifestyles of the New Global Super-Rich”*
By Lynn Stuart Parramore
“A new crop of global super-rich is pouring into the United States,
changing the economic landscape from Manhattan to Los Angeles. They’re
driving up the price of real estate, pushing out the middle class and going
on buying binges that would make Gilded Age robber barons blush.
First they want the hotel room — perhaps the storied, $15,000-a-night
penthouse at the Fairmont San Francisco, where guests receive honey made by
the Fairmont’s own honeybees. JFK was rumored to tryst there with Marilyn
... more »
Eichmann
In 1937, Labor Zionist *Feivel Polkes* invited Eichmann to Palestine. On 2
October 1937, the Nazi visited a kibbutz. Realizing he was a German agent,
the British deported him to Egypt, where he eventually met *Polkes*, who
offered to spy for Germany in return for loosened currency restrictions for
Zionists. In 1944, Labor Zionist *Reszo Kasztner (a.k.a. Rudolph Kastner*)
negotiated with Eichmann, *offering silence on Nazi plans to deport 750,000
Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in return for Eichmann's promise to send
prominent Jews to Switzerland.*
*In 1946, Kasztner reported his acti... more »
Imagine Replacing Bachmann With An Actual Progressive!
When right-wing sociopath Michele Bachmann announced her retirement from
Congress last year, followed by Jim Graves' withdrawal from the MN-06
congressional race, we kind of stopped watching this district. For one
thing, the district has a PVI of R+10, pretty prohibitive territory for a
Democrat and just right for a right-wing lobbyist like Tom Emmer, the
probably GOP nominee. For another, a horrible DCCC-type fake Democrat,
Sartell mayor Joe Perske looked like he would be the nominee.
Emmer, who was defeated in his run for governor last year, is as extremist
in his politics as B... more »
One hour and thirty minutes with Ziggy Stardust
CBC rules
H/T to Gizmodo
Bank Of America Caught Frontrunning Clients ? Zero Hedge lays out its case as to why this appears to be the situation... And which other Banks are doing the same to achieve almost perfect trading quarters - quarter after quarter ( is the answer all of the big Banks ) ? Well , to sum up our free market capital system .. " So while HFTs frontrun all equity retail trades in open markets, major banks frontrun all institutional block equity orders in their own dark pools, we find out that bankers also just happen to frontrun clients in "you name it" over the counter product, where the only reason to be involved is to take advantage of the low margin - something JPM's CIO did quite aggressively and quite well until it blew up of course. " Don't even ask whether a single banker will go to jail for any of this........
Bank Of America Caught Frontrunning Clients
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/25/2014 15:37 -0500
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- CDS
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Counterparties
- Dark Pools
- dark pools
- Department of Justice
- Fannie Mae
- FBI
- FINRA
- Freddie Mac
- Front Running
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Insider Trading
- Market Manipulation
- None
- OTC
- Reuters
- Volatility
inShare
Every time a TBTF bank releases its 10-Q, we... more »
LISTEN Lenny Foster describes Anaya's meeting with Peltier
KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech Radio web site. Listen at this link:
La Onda Bajita - January 24, 2014 at 8:00pm
Lenny Foster's interview begins at 8:30 pm
Audio by Tony Gonzales, AIM West
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Article and photo by Brenda Norrell
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"They haven't broken his will or broken his spirit. He remains very positive and very strong. Today's
"20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown"
*"20 Early Warning Signs That We Are *
*Approaching **A Global Economic Meltdown"*
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog
"Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina,
Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China? If you are like most
Americans, you have not been. Most Americans don't seem to really care too
much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should. In
major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence,
shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks. We are not at a
"global crisis" stage yet, ... more »
Palmerston's Irregulars
Prime Minister Palmerston conducted, the opium business behind a screen of
respectability, in full public view.
What remained hidden — until the report of the Military Commission that
heard evidence on the Lincoln Assassination — was the importance of
Palmerston's secret life, as Patriarch of the *Scottish Rite* of
Freemasonry.
It does not surprise the modern student that the perpetrators of the
narcotics traffic show up in every element of the dirty side of 19th
century politics, including presidential assassinations.
But the extent of the web of criminal networks put in plac... more »
GMO Free Canada needs your Help
So Help yourself by reading this blog by Stranger in a Strange Land. Wonder
if he is a Heinlein fan, a citizen of the galaxy who has a space suit and
will travel like myself.
We are all three missed meals from anarchy, so never forget national
security starts with food security.
Canada's Foreign Aid Container
I was just adding up the hundreds of millions of dollars in Aid Dollars
Harper has promised in the past week alone. How much of this will get to
the people that need it? How much of it will prop up governments that
are illegitimate. How much is part of making a neo con world?
Canada spends roughly Six Billion a year of foreign aid. IMHO we are not
seeing much for it, maybe Switzerland could give us a better picture.
Therefore I would switch all of our aid to something concrete.
Shipping container housing is my idea of making life better for the
downtrodden world, and that include... more »
DUTROUX, SAVILE, CHENEY, MADELEINE McCANN...
*Dutroux. **Was Dutroux working for the security services?*
Marc Dutroux has recently written a letter to the father of one of the four
children whose death was blamed on Marc Dutroux.
Dutroux writes of a massive conspiracy and he denies being responsible for
the deaths of the four children.
* La Dernière Heure*
The Dutroux affair was about a child abuse network that provided children
to top people in Belgium and beyond - people linked to the CIA's Operation
Gladio, Bilderberg and Mossad.
There is a belief that most of the organisers and top people got away with
it.
*Regina Lo... more »
Falling Skies
I have been thinking aboot the relative decline of the human condition
since 911. Everything wrong in todays world can be traced back to the
idelogical incompetence of the Bush Administration. Yes they
ruthlessly accomplished the Conservative Mission, thus proving
how suicidal the plan really was. Now nihilism has replaced our former
optimism. We desperately need to switch our culture from a Market Driven
Economy to a Performance Based Society. The answers and examples of what
works are right on every travel website. Northern Europe, especially
Germany, and Singapore are the citie... more »
Pablum Preview
From SuperPacs to Super Storms to Super-Soakers, we can now move on to
Super-Speech: a/k/a the annual State of the Union (SOTU) harangue next
week. You might call it the Superbowl of Presidential Addresses, delivered
as it is to a joint session of Congress, some Supreme Court members, the
First Lady in her royal box with a carefully selected entourage of human
props, every last one of them dressed to kill, jockeying for prime TV
camera position.
Although Barack Obama is designated the star quarterback for this
particular political game, this year's edition will feature not one, but ... more »
Security situation at Sochi Olympics, Russia, does not look good
The security at Sochi Olympic seems to be serious problem. We live in a
very troubled world.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Reshaping the World
The elite of the planet met in Davos, this week, for the World Economic
Forum, as they have for over forty years. The theme of this year’s get
together was, “Reshaping the World”, with global inequality one of the
“hot” … Continue reading →
'Dateline': Business as usual
Today's *Dateline London* demonstrated that however much pressure the
programme comes under from outside sources - usually bloggers - to be a bit
more inclusive and less of a a left-liberal talking shop, it will keep
reverting to type. Hence my reluctance to even talk about it any more.
Today's castlist was classic *Dateline. *It consisted of (a) strongly
pro-EU, anti-Anglo-Saxon-model-of-capitalism French left-winger Marc Roche
of *Le Monde *(France's answer to *The Guardian*); (b) left-wing,
environmentalist, *Guardian/Observer *writer Isabel Hilton of
China.dialogue; (c) Abdul... more »
A Bitter, Self-Pitying Boehner Blames His Republican House Colleagues For "A Very Predictable Disaster"
Boehner told Jay Leno on Thursday that he's learned that "a leader without
followers is simply a man taking a walk." His problem, an inability to
exercise the kind of skills needed to actually *be* a leader, never dawned
on him when he led his caucus over the cliff last year, despite
understanding what a disaster it would be. When Leno then brought up the
idea of rooting for America to fail for narrow partisan advantage and
mentioned his Congress' 8% approval rating (as the audience cheered),
Boehner tried deflecting the blame away from himself: "The Congress has
been America's f... more »
The Times’ reporting has been Wildsteinesque!
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014*
*So too with Maddow’s performance:* Kevin Drum says there’s no chance that
David Wildstein was conducting a “legitimate” traffic study when he closed
two traffic lanes leading out of Fort Lee. Click here for the analysts'
favorite.
We don’t completely agree with Drum’s post, for reasons we’ll offer below.
It wouldn’t be our first bet that Wildstein was acting in good faith. But
on a *journalistic* basis, we would say that possibility hasn’t yet been
disproved.
That, of course, doesn’t speak to the question of the New York Times’
reporting of the Fort ... more »
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