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ZEROHEDGE: Violence Erupts As Hong Kong's Leader Threatens To Use "All Necessary Measures To Restore Social Order"
Violence Erupts As Hong Kong's Leader Threatens To Use "All Necessary
Measures To Restore Social Order"
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/04/2014 17:00 -0400
Having tried (unsuccessfully) to break up the pro-democracy protesters in
the heart of Hong Kong using *local triad gangs* (as opposed to the optics
of actual police), it appears the Chinese government is rolling back from
its "wait-and-see" approach and becoming more aggressive once again. Hong
Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, as DPA reports, *demanded
protesters end their blockade of majo... more »
Eye of Horus now on the National Mall in Washington....
*Perhaps there's some creative artists out there will give this a black
eye? How'd that be for symbolism? -AK*
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=927
*Must See- 'ALL SEEING EYE' Engraved into the land on the National Mall,
D.C. (6 Acres) *
Posted By: Susoni
Date: Saturday, 4-Oct-2014 20:46:04
How much more blatant can you get?? Think of all the one eyed stances
singers use on album covers etc..
6-acre face looks out from National Mall
October 3rd, 2014
(Illuminati All Seeing Eye)
WASHINGTON — A new face has appeared on the National Mall.
Renowned Cuban-Americ... more »
Ghost of Sunday Classics preview: We said it wasn't over till we heard Bruckner 9
*by Ken*
It's going to be pretty much a quick in and out tonight -- an actual, you
know, *preview*. Sunday, as you may have guessed, we finally tackle the
Bruckner Ninth Symphony. I still haven't decided whether we're going to do
the whole thing in one fell swoop, which is going to make for an extremely
large and unwieldy post, because there are any number of issues that come
up, or we're going to work our way through the piece in pieces. Either way,
here's a preview of what we're going to hear.
*IN A NUTSHELL -- THE BRUCKNERNINTH IN UNDER 2½ MINUTES*
*BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 ... more »
Sweden Just Recognized Palestine, So Will There Be A Mossad "Lone Nut Gunman" False Flag Soon In Sweden?
Sweden just became the first major European country that is going to
recognize the state of Palestine:
*Huffington Post: Sweden To Recognize State Of Palestine*
Let me refresh your memory on what happened the last time a Scandinavian
country began getting vocal about being pro-Palestinian:
*CAMP IN NORWAY WHERE SHOOTING OCCURRED HAD JUST CONCLUDED PRO-PALESTINIAN
RALLY THE DAY BEFORE*
*Massacre In Norway: Mossad Strikes Again Under ‘Lone Gunman’ Cover*
*BIG DAN'S BIG BLOG July 23, 2011 - The Norway "terror" attack: another
FALSE FLAG? Analyzing a current "terror" story in the "... more »
Rumors Persist That North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Been Deposed In A Coup
North Korea has agreed to high-level talks with its southern neighbor. ©
REUTERS/ KCNA
*Top North Korean Officials Meet With South Korean Officials Amid Reports
of Internal Coup In The North -- HNGN*
In light of Kim Jong-un's month-long reclusiveness and rumors of
governmental infighting, three top North Korean leaders made a last-minute
visit South Korea on Saturday.
It's the highest level face-to-face talks the rival countries have held in
five years and, though no major breakthroughs seem to have come out of the
meeting which occurred in the South Korean port city of Incheon - ... more »
Three Top North Korean Leaders Pay A Snap Visit To South Korea
*With Kim Out Of Sight, North Korean Top Brass Pay Snap Visit To South --
CNN*
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- With Kim Jong Un out of sight for a month,
three North Korean officials popped down to South Korea for a last-minute
visit Saturday.
And they delivered a diplomatic bonbon.
The three officials told South Korea that Pyongyang is willing to hold a
new round of high-level meetings between late October and early November,
South Korea's Unification Ministry said in a statement Saturday.
"Within my memory ... there was never ever such a high-level visit. Never,"
said North Korea ... more »
Expert Doctor: CDC Is Asleep At The Wheel Or Lying
*Expert Doctor: CDC Is Asleep At The Wheel Or Lying. Source:
TheAlexJonesChannel. Date Published: October 3, 2014. Description: *
Paul Joseph Watson and David Knight take the studio for Alex Jones and talk
with Dr. Gil Mobley about the continued failures of the CDC.
"A Look to the Heavens"
“In this crowded starfield covering over 2 degrees within the high flying
constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. A compact star
forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long trail of obscuring
interstellar dust clouds. Cataloged as IC 5146, the nebula is nearly 15
light-years wide, located some 4,000 light years away.
*Click image for larger size.*
Like other star forming regions, it stands out in red, glowing, hydrogen
gas excited by the young, hot stars and blue, dust-reflected starlight at
the edge of an otherwise invisible molecular cloud. In fact, th... more »
"Only This Moment..."
"Begin doing what you want to do now.
We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand- and melting like a snowflake..."
- Marie Beyon Ray
"Being Human: The Todd Huston Story"
"Amazing Story! Todd Huston broke the world record for climbing the highest
points in all 50 United States. At 14 years old his legs were severely
mangled in a boating accident and Todd died twice on the operating table.
At 21 he had his right leg amputated. He is the only leg-amputee to hold an
able-bodied world record and this is his inspiring story of how he overcame
adversity to set the world record, and he is a really big fan of the Moody
Blues. We hope you are inspired! If you want to learn more about Todd
Huston, check out his website, www.toddhuston.com." -YouTube.
Song: “T... more »
Buzz, Buzz
October 4, 2014 After reading the blog post, “The Buffalo Wind”, over at
the Archdruid Report http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ last Wednesday
evening, I reread it over at Resilience.org, while I was there on Thursday,
and again (twice) on Friday. No, I have … Continue reading →
Are Russian President Putin's Days Limited?
'I promised you we would win. We have won. Glory to Russia,” Vladimir Putin
said Sunday after a landslide victory in the Russia's presidential
election. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / KREMLIN POOL / DMITRY ASTAKHOV
*Russian Tycoon: We Must Prepare For Putin’s Inevitable Downfall -- Josh
Rogin, Daily Beast*
The man who spent 10 years in prison for crossing Putin says the Russian
regime will fall, one way or the other, and those who want a democracy to
replace it need to get organized now.
In December 2013, when Vladimir Putin released Mikhail Khodorkovsky from
prison after 10 years, the... more »
A Metaphor is not a hoe you met before
Just finished watching Catching Fire. Very subversive. The movie of my
youth that most informed me was Billy Jack. Catching fire was way better in
every way. I got hope for the UTES of today.
Oct. 5: Canada's outstanding photo of war...
....hangs in the War Museum in Ottawa. It never fails to move me. It
appeared yesterday in Toronto's Globe - and in the National Post and the
Star because it's being memorialized this weekend in British Columbia.
(Google 'Famous New Westminister war photo to be memorialized' to see it.)
It's early in the war, and a long column of Canadian soldiers is marching
to training camp. A mother and her five year old son watch them pass, and
the boy breaks away to reach a hand out to his father, who shifts his rifle
to his left hand so he can reach back with his right hand to his son. You
rea... more »
Corporate Bailout for Ohio’s Weakest Incumbent, Dave Joyce
Despite recent ratings changes to the contrary, Congressman Dave Joyce is
in trouble in Ohio’s 14th District. Defending Main Street Super PAC, a
corporate backed special interest group funded by former 14th District
Congressman turned lobbyist, Steve LaTourette, just swooped in with a
$67,000 TV buy to bail out Joyce.
It’s no surprise that Joyce is in trouble, given that OH-14 is a true swing
district, voting for Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown 48-47% in 2012, and
polling shows Congressman Joyce is vulnerable to defeat from a Democratic
challenger.
Joyce has built virtually... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
"Imprisoned..."
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life,
like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
- Anna Freud
"A Moment With Nature"
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of
others only a green thing that stands in the way.
Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scarce see nature at
all.
But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake
"Imprisoned..."
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life,
like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
- Anna Freud
Derrick Jensen, "Playing for Keeps"
*"Playing for Keeps"*
Would we listen to nature if our lives depended on it?
By Derrick Jensen
"People who read my work often say, 'Okay, so it’s clear you don’t like
this culture, but what do you want to replace it?' The answer is that I
don’t want any one culture to replace this culture. I want ten thousand
cultures to replace this culture, each one arising organically from its own
place. That’s how humans inhabited the planet (or, more precisely, their
landbases, since each group inhabited a place, and not the whole world,
which is precisely the point), before this culture set ab... more »
"How It Really Is"
"Again?" It never stopped. They will, and it'll happen...
"A Superb Meteor..."
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should
burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would
rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a
sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to
exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my
time."
- Jack London
“Boots Are On The Ground”
*“Boots Are On The Ground”*
by Terri Barnes
"When the President of the United States promises America will have "no
boots on the ground" in Iraq or Syria, military members and their families
don't take that phrase literally. He can't be saying that no American soles
will touch the soil of either nation, because they already do. Do most
Americans know this statement is about mission, not actual footwear
location? Do they know he means "no combat mission"? Military families do.
They know plenty of boots- combat or otherwise- belonging to people they
know and love are on the ground ri... more »
"A Superb Meteor..."
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should
burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would
rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a
sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to
exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my
time."
- Jack London
"Barbarians..."
"Why all of a sudden this unrest and confusion.
(How solemn the faces have become).
Why are the streets and squares clearing quickly,
and all return to their homes, so deep in thought?
Because night is here but the barbarians have not come.
And some people arrived from the borders,
and said that there are no longer any barbarians.
And now what shall become of us without any barbarians?
Those people were some kind of solution."
- Constantine P. Cavafy, (1904)
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed- and
hence clamorous to be led to safety- by menacing it with ... more »
Kristen Buras on the Troubling Charter Plans for Nashville Metro
from the Tennessean:
The proposal to create an all-choice zone in East Nashville is concerning.
For the past decade, I have studied New Orleans, the nation's first
all-charter school district. The attempt to turn around neighborhood
schools by closing them and opening charters caused greater harm than
Hurricane Katrina. I fear the same destructive "reforms" will strike
Nashville.
In 2005, Louisiana's state-run Recovery School District (RSD) assumed
control of most public schools in New Orleans and handed them over for private
management and profit making by "nonprofit" charter scho... more »
Georgia Drug Task Force Raids Retiree Over Okra Plants
There must be something strange about the water these days in the great
state of Georgia. Right on the heels of the the woman who was thrown into
jail over dried SpaghettiOs , news has come out about an overzealous drug
task force raid against a retired man over his okra plants. When it comes
to strange tales Georgia ranks right up there with the much larger
California, Florida and Texas as national leaders and in the “Peach State”
it *always* seems to involve the cops.
According to the website of Atlanta’s WSB-TV in a story entitled “Okra
mistaken for pot in man’s garden”:
*A Ca... more »
Eye of Horus in 1920s Era Bible
My cousin posted this to Facebook, its my a page from my grandparents
family Bible from the Montana homestead, its a temperance (obstaining from
alcohol) pledge (unsigned) which has the Eye of Horus as plain as day at
the top... Illuminati have been around a long time....
JP MORGAN HACKED - 83 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS AFFECTED
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/hackers-attack-cracked-10-banks-in-major-assault/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
*Hackers’
Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault*
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER
OCTOBER 3, 2014 9:39 PM
The huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million
households and businesses was one of the most serious computer
intrusions
into an American corporation. But it could have been much worse.
Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack
concern
government and ... more »
"Mundus Vult Decipi, Ergo Decipiatur..."
"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur," a Latin phrase, means "The world
wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived." The saying is ascribed to
Petronius, a Roman satirist from the first century, CE.
"The pontifex maximus Scævola thought it expedient that the people should
be deceived in religion; and the learned Varro said plainly, that "there
are many truths, which it is useless for the vulgar to know; and many
falsities which it is fit the people should not suppose are falsities."
Hence comes the adage "Mundus vult decipi, decipiatur ergo."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundus_vul... more »
Neuroscience: "What Is the 'Uncanny Valley?'"
*"What Is the 'Uncanny Valley?'"*
by National Science Foundation Staff
"Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the
mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny
valley." The scientists have found that monkeys sense it too. The uncanny
valley, a phrase coined by a Japanese researcher nearly three decades ago,
describes that disquieting feeling that occurs when viewers look at
representations designed to be as human-like as possible—whether computer
animations or androids—but somehow fall short.
Movie-goers may not be familiar wit... more »
Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Crystal Healing”
Medwyn Goodall, “Crystal Healing”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr97g73mFS4
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day”
Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBSsyowtVc
More evidence that the U.S. goverment is bribing (or threatening) journalists and newscasters to report government lies as the god's truth. Gullible Americans believe them. So if they report that there are very bad guys in country x, the public is 100% behind to call to send in our troops. Get into a nuclear war with Russia that would kill off the entire human race? They'll be cheering for that too...
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*Top German Editor: CIA Bribing Journalists*
RI Staff
Original Here
*This is Germany's largest, most serious newsweekly.*
*The headline reads "Stop Putin Now",*
*and shows pictures of the victims of MH17.*
*Their coverage of Russia over the years*
*has read like a US state department memo.*Members of the German media are
paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that support US
interests, and some German outlets are nothing more than PR appendage... more »
The Million Man March - Esoteric Washington
"Now, where are we gathered? We're standing at the steps of the United
States Capitol. I'm looking at the Washington Monument and beyond it to the
Lincoln Memorial and beyond that, to the left, to your right, the Jefferson
Memorial. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of these United States,
and he was the man who allegedly freed us. Abraham Lincoln saw in his day
what President Clinton sees in this day. He saw the great divide between
black and white. Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton see what the Kerner
Commission saw 30 years ago when they said that this nation was moving
tow... more »
The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose - Always assume nothing is safe and understand security is a fiction for the average individual....
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/
Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken
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Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards. Although
we know they often carry malware infections, we depend on antivirus scans
and the occasional reformatting to keep our thumbdrives from becoming the
carrier for the next digita... more »
Singing Your Own Praises for Your Supper
Here's the latest from the Bizarro World of the Massachusetts
Department of Transitional Assistance:
While I still haven't been able to reach anyone or get my messages
answered by this bloated and glacially slow bureaucracy, we got a sheaf of
paperwork in the mail today. Apparently, the reason why they'd cut us off
with two days' notice was because when we'd re-certified last month, they
never sent us paperwork to fill out to enroll in a mandatory job
search/training program.
Now, theoretically, I was also supposed to do this when I was on UI
until April 2011. And tha... more »
Secret Service chief Pierson resigns amid security breach scandal
http://news.yahoo.com/secret-service-chief-pierson-resigns-amid-security-breach-scandal-193210189.html
*Secret Service chief Pierson resigns amid security breach scandal*
*DHS secretary says independent panel will review Sept. 19 fence-jumping
incident*
By Olivier Knox
October 1, 2014 3:32 PMYahoo News
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U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, appointed to fix the embattled
agency in the wake of a scandal in which agents consorted with prostitutes
in Colombia, has resigned, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
announced on Wednesday.
Pierson “offered her resignation, and I a... more »
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Updates ( October 4 - 5 , 2014 ) Fukushima To Be Hit By Typhoon Phanfone , Causing Ocean Contamination: Tepco ..... Stated another way ---- Fukushima No. 1 at risk of 26-meter tsunami: Tepco ....... Items of note from Energy News.....
Typhoon going to hit Fukushima nuclear site......
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/national/fukushima-no-1-at-risk-of-26-meter-tsunami-tepco/#.VDAu6CldWI0
An aerial photo taken by the land ministry shortly after the March 11,
2011, earthquake shows tsunami reaching the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
land ministry/kyodo
NATIONALFukushima No. 1 at risk of 26-meter tsunami: Tepco
JIJI
- OCT 4, 2014
ARTICLE HISTORY
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meter... more »
Gold News and Views ( October 4- 5 , 2014 ) Things to read over the weekend from GATA , Ed Steer and Jesse !
GATA ......
Koos Jansen: 39 tonnes of gold left New York Fed in July and August
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2014-10-03 14:29. Section: Daily Dispatches
10:30a ET Friday, October 3, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and gold:
Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen reports today that 24
tonnes of gold have been listed as withdrawn from the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York in July and another 15 tonnes in August, presumably part of the
German Bundesbank's repatriation program. Jansen's commentary is posted at
Bullion Star here:
https://www.bullionstar.com/article/new%20york%20fed%20gold... more »
Hong Kong Strikes Back - West Attempts to Spin Growing Anti-Occupy Movement
*October 4, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - The tides are turning against
US-funded mobs in the streets of Hong Kong amid the so-called "Occupy
Central" protests, as increasingly impatient residents and business owners
come out into the streets to confront protesters. At times outnumbering and
overwhelming the "Occupy Central" protesters, the movement represents
residents, business owners, and by-standers attempting to restore normality
to Hong Kong's streets after the government and police have so far been
unable to do so.
*Image: Within articles claiming an ongoing and growing ba... more »
Florida Fall
By Capt. Fogg
Florida falls into autumn
with a sense of change you
may not see in the weather
or the falling of leaves
or ripening fruit,
but feel in an easing of pressure
a thinning of the still hot air,
The odor of this morning is different.
Something is coming soon.
Black vultures in a tree wait.
Osprey on white wings
screams a warning.
'Today' on Alan Henning's murder
I was rather taken aback by Mishal Husain on this morning's *Today. *
Given that another British hostage has been murdered by Islamic State, and
that the first British hostage was murdered before Britain decided to join
in the airstrikes on IS, it was surprising to hear her so strongly pushing
the jihadists' own line of reasoning in both her interview with Frank
Gardner (7.10) and John Simpson (8.10)
- Is there a reference in the video to British involvement in the
airstrikes?
- There is a reference, John, in this latest video to airstrikes, to
British involvement. Do you think t... more »
No, Lindsey Graham Would NOT Be The First Gay President
Yesterday Lindsey Graham said— with a straight face— that after he beats
the hapless conservative Democrat running against him in November, Brad
Hutto, he would start seriously exploring a run for the presidency.
Although he went out of his way to declare Marco Rubio too young,
inexperienced and unqualified for the job, what most people walked away
talking about was “Oh, the first gay president.” But even if Lindsey were
to win the Republican nomination, which is inconceivable, and then go on to
beat Hillary, even less likely, he still wouldn’t be the first gay
president.
Forget ... more »
Supplemental: The New York Times profiles an outstanding teacher!
*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014Plus, North Carolina third grade:* In yesterday’s
New York Times, columnist Jim Dwyer profiled Deb Fisher, an outstanding
public school teacher.
More precisely, Fisher is an occupational therapist at Public School 333,
the Manhattan School for Children. Dwyer profiled Fisher because she’s now
serving a 30-day suspension without pay, thanks to what Dwyer calls “a
story of an almost unfathomably mindless school bureaucracy at work.”
If you’re interested in that particular bungling, you can read Dwyer’s full
column. We thought we’d highlight one parent’s ass... more »
Obama: It's your fault if your health care costs have gone up...
*is it possible to speak for 5 minutes and say absolutely nothing (except
for some dissembling lies?)*
Obama tells the general manager at Millennium Steel that his company's
health costs are rising because he's not "shopping correctly."
He claims Obamacare has signed up 10 million people - a figure pulled out
of thin air. Ask yourself how many of those people are on Medicaid. Then
ask yourself who is paying subsidies for the others. If you're having
trouble coming up with an answer (not that I think my above average readers
will have a problem with the questions), allow me to help... more »
Musings On Iraq In The News
I was mentioned in the Long War Journal’s “Islamic State assaults Baiji oil
refinery” by Caleb Weiss. I was cited in "Why UK warplanes are struggling
to find targets in Iraq" by Shashank Joshi in the BBC.
Untitled
*New Orleans area hurricane levees to be armored with reinforced turf mat,
grass ~Mark Schleifstein*
Revisiting " forgotten news " October 4 , 2014 ( Malaysian Airline Flight 370 , Malaysia Airline Flight 17 , Newtown Shootings , Boston Bombings ) ....... Just the News and Views that might have passed by without being noted !
Into the worm hole.....
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance .....
*bassbaby* @sthjbass 5m5 minutes ago
Why has no one bothered to raise the airliner wreckage in the Bay of
Bengal? http://news.yahoo.com/huge-search-ar
ea-mapped-mh370-hunt-resuming-055544313.html …. Isn't this news that should
be checked?
Yahoo News
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With huge search area mapped, MH370 hunt resuming
SYDNEY (AP) — After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines
Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean,
with searchers l... more »
Hong Kong Democracy Protests -October 1 , 2014 / September 30 , 2014 - Protesters stand their ground for another day ! Top tweets !
Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
October 1 , 2014.....
*SCMP News* @SCMP_News 2m2 minutes ago
Beijing ordered CY Leung to halt #OccupyHongKong protests in a "peaceful
way", report says http://f.sc.mp/DA1Wl7w
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*SCMP News* @SCMP_News 3m3 minutes ago
Hong Kong students vow to occupy government buildings if CY Leung does not
resign by Thursday http://f.sc.mp/IpteTnC
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*Al Jazeera EnglishVerified account*@AJEnglish
Activists promise that today's rallies in #HongKong will be the biggest so
far | Follow our live blog for updates: h... more »
Ravitch and Cody Host Another Talkfest As Wall Street Charter Organizers Put Thousands in the Streets
In the wake of the hedge funders' loud pro-charter demonstration last week
in New York, the unending talkathon that is the Network for Public
Education will host another, what else, information session in Brooklyn on
October 11. Will Randi be Ravitch's surprise guest to whip up the crowd
for Common Core?
Does anyone believe that the education genocide will end without
non-violent resistance and civil disobedience? If you do, I suggest you
send Anthony Cody a check to put your beliefs into non-action.
Headlines
As the latest horrific news sinks in, here are the headlines across the
British media at 3.30 pm on Saturday 4 October 2014:
*The Sun*: Brit hostage Alan Henning beheaded
*Daily Telegraph*: Government 'could have done more' to save Alan, says
brother-in-law
*Daily Express*: I don't think they did enough' Relative of Alan Henning
slams UK government over death
*Guardian*: UK failed Alan Henning, says brother-in-law
BBC News: UK 'should've done more' for Henning
*Daily Mail*: 'I hope the scum get what's coming to them': Family of Alan
Henning speak of fury at Jihadi John after he ... more »
Ebola On The Backs of ISIS
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ORIOLES TAKE FIRST TWO PLAYOFF GAMES
Post by Baltimore Orioles.
JP Morgan Cyber Attack Updates ( October 4 , 2014 ) July - mid August 2014 attack timeframe ........ Allegedly Linked to Russians - what does this mean considering US policy endorsing preemptive rather reactive response to perceived cyber terror attacks ?
*Mashable* @mashable 14h14 hours ago
What you need to know about the *JPMorgan* Chase *cyberattack* http://
on.mash.to/ZD8eCO
Mashable
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What You Need to Know About the JPMorgan Chase Cyberattack
By Mashable @mashable
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*Sky News* @SkyNews Oct 3
*JPMorgan* *Cyber*-*Attack* Hits 83m Bank Accounts http://
news.sky.com/story/1346762/jpmorgan-cyber-attack-hits-83m-bank-accounts …
*Huffington Post* @HuffingtonPost Oct 2
*JPMorgan* data breach hit more than half of all households in America
http://huff.to/1rQRxOW
HuffPostBiz
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Florida Preparing Thousands of New Tests
Will students, parents, school boards, and teachers finally say ENOUGH?
Florida school district officials are writing thousands of new exams to
administer to students this school year. The effort to create end-of-course
tests in subjects not evaluated at the state level, is causing more
parents, and local education officials to call for a time out on testing.
Tallahassee mom Elizabeth Overholt is fed up.
“It’s a complete mess to start with," she says about the current state of
Florida's school accountability system.
Overholt is part of a growing movement of parents across the stat... more »
First Ever Live Birth After Live-donor Uterus Transplantation in Gothenburg, and Six More Chances Awaiting
So, perhaps some of you remember reporting and commenting somewhat a few
years back (here and here) on the Gothenburg Live-donor Uterus Transplant
Project at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy at
my university, lead by Mats Brännström, and since then successful
transplant-procedures have been reported (here and here), to be followed by
attempts to establish pregnancies. Late yesterday night, the embargo was
lifted on the *Lancet* article reporting the first live birth within this
project, which is also the first such case ever. The child and the mother
a... more »
EPIC DISPLAY of Underground Gas-Line Markers: Huh?
I dithered over whether to give this lame-ass demonstration any attention,
then my early-Saturday-morning craving for snark kicked in.
First, the only MSM coverage of this EPIC DISPLAY I could find is here
(this is the entire story; emphasis mine).
Volunteers set up 100,000 blue and pink flags on Parliament Hill Thursday
morning.
Pro-life group "WeNeedALaw" says they represent the number of abortions in
Canada each year.
They say they want to pressure the Canadian government to introduce a
national abortion law, as the country hasn't had one since 1988.
Mike Schouten, director of... more »
War: The Ultimate Wedge
http://www.ipolitics.ca/
Stephen Harper planned to win the next election on the economy and tax
cuts. But his numbers have tanked for a year. And the latest EKOS poll
reveals that the Liberals are where his was when he won his coveted
majority. So a change of plan is in order. Ever the opportunist, Harper has
found his issue: War. It's the ultimate wedge. Michael Harris writes:
But think about it for a moment. Does the U.S. really need the help of
military gnats like Estonia to deal with insurgents without an air force?
Does it r... more »
Editor's Note
Last night this entire blog was deleted by Google. It was an error .... but
for those who may have gone online last night and noticed that this blog no
longer existed .... rest assure .... that is not the case.
To say that I was surprised last night when I noticed that I no longer
exist is an understatement. Fortunately .... there is a happy ending ....
and everything has just been restored.
There are over 60,000 posts in the blog. Over the years it has had over
4,000,000 visitors and 10,000,000 plus page views .... and it is still
growing. The visitors to this blog includes everyon... more »
Mikey Suits Grimm Goes There... Speculates On What Happens When He Goes To Prison Next Year
NY-11 should be the kind of district the DCCC should be able to target with
a good recruit, make sure he’s well-financed and move on to more difficult
districts. NY-11 has a PVI of R+2, although the calculations are off and
it’s actually a PVI of zero now. In 2008 McCain beat Obama 118,112 (51%) to
112,044 (48%) but there have been big changes in the district— and in a
good way. More immigrants and young people have registered to vote and in
2012 Obama was up big; he beat Romney 110,088 (52%) to 100,811 947%).
Republican performance was down by 17,301 voters, a signal of trouble to... more »
Pot Calling the Kettle Black
US running for cover as their 'war on ISIS' not going well so they blame
their allies. The truth is that the US has been training, funding, arming,
and directing the so-called "Syrian rebels" for the past couple of years.
This kind of hypocrisy is typical in Washington - start wars and blame
others.
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*6 Steps to Subtract 2 Numbers: Common Core Homework in 1 Photo*
For third-graders learning Common Core math in Georgia, there are four ways
to subtract—and only four ways allowed. The picture above is just one of
the methods for subtraction under Common Core straight from RedState editor
in chief Erick Erickson’s third-grade daughter’s math book.
Missing from the four methods: borrowing and carrying numbers. You know,
the
old-fashioned-taught-the-same-way-for-decades-granny-method-not-approved-by-bureaucrats
subtraction.
According to this third-grade textbook, students must ta... more »
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*RFK Jr. has a new target for his boiling hate*
*And see below how it boils! Now he wants companies banned. Even if
someone took up his idea, they would be unlikely to succeed before the
courts. Meanwhile his accusation that skeptical groups are "snake pits for
sociopaths" sounds actionable to me. A big damages award against a Kennedy
would be fun. The Koch Bros. would have standing to sue*
Hysterics at the right-wing think tanks and their acolytes at The
Washington Times, talk radio and the blogosphere, are foaming in apoplexy
because I supposedly suggested that "all climate de... more »
AmCham Taichung Walkathon
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sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores
of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
KMT cranks up the heat on Ko in Taipei
*A gun position above Keelung.*
Non-aligned candidate for mayor Ko Wen-je, who is supported by the
pan-Green side, is feeling the heat from the KMT. It was totally
predictable that the KMT would create some corruption charge against Ko, a
constant tactic in their major campaigns. Remember the ridiculous
accusations against Tsai Ing-wen in the 2012 election? That one featured
the same one-two punch of accusations originating with the KMT being investigated
by the government investigation apparatus. In Ko's case first came
accusations about accounts from his hospital days, and then g... more »
Iraq / Syria Updates ( October 4- 5 , 2014 ) -- Biden Accuses Saudis, Turkey of Starting Syria Proxy War Allies the 'Biggest Problem' for US in Syria ( Biden offers up some revisionist history ) ...... US Long War against ISIS just getting cranked up , even as ISIS adapts to airstrikes and changes tactics .......
Anti War.....
Biden Accuses Saudis, Turkey of Starting Syria Proxy WarAllies the 'Biggest
Problem' for US in Syria
by Jason Ditz, October 03, 2014
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In comments yesterday at the Kennedy School, Vice President Joe Biden said
the United States’ biggest problem in the Syria war has been their allies,
singling out Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Biden said those nations had “poured hundreds of millions of dollars” into
trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad and in the process had created
a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” in the region.
“The Turks, we... more »
Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret in the World. This can change your life. Understand The Truth.
Understand the Strangest Secret. Why one man does well and another does
not, yet they come from the same circumstances in the beginning. I am going
to continue putting what the real truth is on the blog. I am doing this so
people can understand the Truth, and to change not just our own lives, but
to change the world. All it takes is a small percentage of people,
vibrating the Truth... more
GAIA PORTAL: Procurements of consciousness upgrades continues at this moment throughout the Gaia planetary councils
*Procurements of consciousness upgrades continues at this moment throughout
the Gaia planetary councils*
by ÉirePort
Procurements of consciousness upgrades continues at this moment throughout
the Gaia planetary councils.
Established formulas for advancements (so-called) are failing at increasing
velocities and will not be continued.
All consciousness levels on all dimensions are elevating at this moment, in
spite of visible-to-eyes appearances.
Chaotic nodes appear in exponentially increasing numbers throughout the
cosmos, and in particular, the Gaia consciousness sphere.
Such ... more »
Space Week Message from Sweden
October 4, 2014
On behalf of the Swedish Peace Committee I extend our support for Keep
Space for Peace Week. We hope it will be a success in spreading awareness
and lead to strengthened mobilization for peace.
Today is Global Action Day Against Drones. There will be activities in
Stockholm and Kiruna today and during the coming week. It is inspiring to
see the myriad of activities in other countries which are listed on the Space4Peace
site.
Even if we are not flying kites this week some of us will be meeting in
Gothenburg to formulate and launch activities to resist parliamenta... more »
Comedy from the Media: "It could only happen at a Hong Kong protest"
*Crowds in the Kaohsiung HSR station.*
Taiwan, ignored as always by the international media. Lots of Taiwan
watchers laughing at the international media this week....
BBC, clearly in some deep black hole of editorial and institutional
amnesia, makes a list of all things you'd only see in a Hong Kong protest.
*Doing your homework*
Perhaps it isn't actually anarchic but it is definitely one of the biggest
protests in Hong Kong for years. And yet students - some of whom were at
the vanguard of this movement - find time to sit down and do their
homework. Richard Frost for Bloomberg Ne... more »
Xi and the Politics of Resentment
*A ladybug poses for me.*
A post highlighting the resentment of Chinese toward Hong Kong made the
rounds of the intertubes and was even mentioned in Foreign Policy mag
online... It translated a portion of a post in Chinese that noted:
Part One – Let’s take a look at what the mother country has done for Hong
Kong:
1. With respect to politics, China has strictly implemented the ‘one
country, two systems’ policy, and resolutely stuck to it. Also China has
not implemented any of its national law in Hong Kong, meaning Hong Kong has
enjoyed high autonomy, an independent judiciary system... more »
Beijing Blows up US' Taiwan Policy in Hong Kong
*A hearty east coast greeting at a mantou shop.*
A couple of commentators are out in front advocating that US Taiwan policy
needs to change. Denny Roy in The Diplomat observes that Taiwan: a status
upgrade is now available:
Such an upgrade of U.S.-Taiwan relations is overdue. Now is a good time to
implement it. Not only is the usual worry about hurting U.S.-China
relations dormant, but additionally an improvement in U.S.-Taiwan
relations, one of Beijing’s biggest fears, would signal to the Chinese
government that outlaw behavior will not serve China’s interests.
Roy noted that the... more »
Saturday Interview: Eddie Truman
Eddie Truman is a long-stnading activist from Edinburgh who cut his
political teeth in all the major political battles of the 1980s and early
90s. Latterly he was very active in the Yes movement. You can follow Eddie
on Twitter here.
- Do you regularly read blogs? If so, which ones?
I've read Richard Seymour's for years and have learned more from it than
all my formal education put together; yours, and Lallands Peat Worrier's.
- You did used to blog many moons ago. Why did you stop?
Events.
- Have you ever been tempted to give it another try?
Yes.
- Do you find social media usef... more »
Poland ‘Satisfied’ With US Decision to Sell 40 Missiles to Warsaw: Defense Minister
[image: AGM-158 JASSM]Poland is "satisfied" with the United States'
decision to sell 40 US-made AGM-158 joint air-to-ground standoff missiles
to Warsaw, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense
Tomasz Siemoniak said Friday, as quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
"I'm very satisfied with the fact that the American authorities have
decided on all the procedural matters very quickly. We remember the
situation with Finland which has waited for eight years for a decision to
be made," Siemoniak said.
On Thursday, the US embassy in Warsaw said that US authoritie... more »
US Air Force again seeks to upgrade B-52H radars
[image: B-52H Stratofortress]The US Air Force is breathing new life into an
effort to upgrade the radar systems in its fleet of Boeing B-52H bombers
initially announced four years ago.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) on 23 September
announced it was seeking technical, performance and cost information for
radar systems to replace the Northrop Grumman APQ-166 strategic radars
first fielded in the 1950s and most recently upgraded in the 1980s.
The request for information (RFI) will inform a formal analysis of
alternatives (AoA) of radar modernisation options for the... more »
Islamic State Group Downs Iraqi Attack Helicopter
[image: Mi-35 Hind]Islamic State group militants armed with a rocket
launcher shot down an Iraqi military attack helicopter Friday, killing two
pilots and raising new worries about their ability to attack aircraft amid
ongoing U.S.-led airstrikes.
The Mi-35 helicopter crashed outside the town of Beiji, 200 kilometers (130
miles) north of Baghdad and home to Iraq's largest oil refinery,
authorities said. Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari told
state-run Iraqiyya TV that the crash killed the helicopter's two pilots and
that authorities had begun an investigation.
An ... more »
Russian Fighter Jet Flies Within Feet Of Swedish Plane In What Officials Call ‘Provocative’ Act Of Agression
[image: Russian fighter jet]A Russian fighter jet reportedly flew within 50
feet of a Swedish airplane, part of what officials call a pattern of
increasingly aggressive behavior from Russian jets.
This week, Swedish agency FRA released a photo showing a Russian SU27
fighter aircraft flying within just feet of the Swedish plane’s wing. In a
statement, FRA said that Russian jets have been more aggressive in the air
and that the latest incident was “unusually provocative.”
The Swedish agency did not share details about when the Russian fighter jet
incident took place.
Read more
Michael Hastings - CIA Swiss Banks - funding Terror Groups
prior to his death murder, Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was
working on... *you can't even make this shit up any more*. CIA Swiss Banks
funding Terror Groups. Brand new testimony from an industry insider.
*Scott Bennett is a U.S. Army Special Operations Officer (11th
Psychological Operations Battalion, Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations
Command), and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst,
formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.* [source CAMELOT]
Speaking to Kerry Lynn Cassidy of Project Camelot, Scott Bennett discusses
his book SHELL ... more »
These Photos Prove F-117 Stealth Jets Still Fly at Tonopah 6 years After Retirement
[image: F-117 with drogue chute]The images in this post were shot on Sept.
30, at around 11.00AM, from Brainwash Butte. Although much distorted by the
high temperature and distance, they clearly show an F-117 Nighthawk Stealth
Jet operating at the Tonopah Test Range, in Nevada.
The aircraft reportedly flew on both Sept. 29 and 30.
Even though flights of the Black Jets have been documented a few times on
video past its official retirement in 2008, these are the first images that
prove the stealth plane, most probably two of them, since, according to the
contributor who sent us the bl... more »
U.S. Struggles With Networking Issues, Including 5th to 4th Gen
[image: F-15C Talon HATE]While operational commanders try to target an
elusive enemy from the air over Iraq and Syria, senior U.S. commanders and
aerospace academics are wrestling with an associated question: how to take
advantage of tremendous advances in information networking to prosecute
modern air campaigns.
During the recent Air Force Association (AFA) conference, the shortcomings
of current military air systems networking were explored in some frank
comments during a panel session entitled “The Combat Cloud,” and in other
discourse.
“As we speak, the Marines are running aro... more »
To Boost Strike Force, UK Delays Retiring Jets
[image: Tornado GR4]The British government has temporarily reprieved a
Tornado GR4 strike squadron from the scrap heap in order to maintain
sufficient numbers of aircraft for a sustained campaign against the Islamic
State.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced that 2 Squadron, which had been
slated to stand down next March, will remain operational for another 12
months.
Speaking during an Oct. 2 visit to the British base at Akortiri, Cyprus,
Cameron also said that two more Royal Air Force Tornados would join the six
now striking Islamic State targets in Iraq.
Read more
El mundo según Monsanto. En español y completo.
El mundo según Monsanto. En español y completo.
Documental que denuncia los efectos negativos que provocan los productos
agroquímicos y las semillas de soja transgénica que comercializa la empresa
más grande del mundo del sector.
En síntesis, expone la cara más oscura de la lógica económica neoliberal, a
través de la realidad agrícola de América del Norte y del Sur,
especialmente de Argentina.
Hoy Monsanto es el primer semillero de soja, maíz, algodón y productor de
agroquímicos del mundo. Quien dice semilla, dice Monsanto, pero también
dice alimentos.
Es la empresa norteameric... more »
The World According To Monsanto - Full Length Documentary
[image: Foto: Free movie night! THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (109
Minutes, 2008) is a must-watch documentary. Originally released in French
as Le Monde Selon Monsanto, the film is based on Marie-Monique Robin’s
three-year long investigation into the corporate practices around the world
of the United States agrichemical giant, Monsanto. The World According to
Monsanto is also a book written by Marie-Monique Robin, winner of the
Rachel Carson Prize (a Norwegian prize for female environmentalists), which
has been translated into many languages. Let’s let the world know of the
insid... more »
Admiral gives new helicopter his approval
[image: AW159 Wildcat]The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas has
taken his first flight in the Navy's latest helicopter, in the Somerset
skies.
He was visiting Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, home of the Maritime
version of the Wildcat helicopter, and home of the new Wildcat Training
Centre yesterday.
Sir George joined pilot Lieutenant Simon Wilson and Lieutenant Commander
Mike Wingfield, observer, on a demonstration flight.
Read more
Graphs at a glance: When it comes to the election once again "It's the economy, stupid" that should decide it. Not the national economy, but the economies of individual families.
According
to a report produced by the UK Parliament immediately after the
Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, the strongest
correlation with voting "Yes" to escape the grasp of the United Kingdom
was unemployment. The higher the percentage of people claiming
out-of-work benefits, the higher the "Yes" vote for independence.
As Bill
Clinton realised, when he won the 1992 US
Huge military exercise to begin in Moray
Europe's largest military exercise is gearing up to take place off the
coast of Scotland from this weekend, with aircraft already arriving at RAF
Lossiemouth in preparation.
Joint Warrior is a multi-national exercise, which incorporates the Royal
Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.
The exercise begins tomorrow (Saturday) and will engage more than 22
warships and submarines, 52 fixed wing aircraft, and a total of nearly
3,500 personnel from the various participating nations.
Read more
Mystic arrives at new home
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[image: Mystic (Navy DSRV 1)]Mary Ryan and Jennifer Heinzelman watched for
the arrival of their new artifact with the excitement of art museum
curators waiting for the arrival of a Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
Their latest artifact is indeed a masterpiece — not of art, but of
life-saving technology.
The newest addition to Ryan and Heinzelman’s collection is Mystic, one of
two Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles, or DSRVs, developed by Lockheed for
the U.S. Navy. The 49-foot, 38-ton submarine-shaped vessel was launched in
1970 and retired in 2008, when it was succeeded by the Submarine Rescue... more »
Enlisted women to begin serving on submarines
[image: Senior enlisted female sailors]The Navy plans to begin putting
senior enlisted female sailors on submarines in December, officials
announced on Friday.
The women will first be integrated onto ballistic missile submarines, which
are larger than fast attack submarines, said Navy Cmdr. Renee Squier, head
of the Office of Women's Policy for the Chief of Naval Personnel.
The plan is to first integrate female senior enlisted sailors onto
submarines and then junior enlisted female sailors, she said.
Read more
Sept. 11th 1994
Sept. 11th 1994 White House Airplane Crash Briefing from Spike EP on Vimeo.
*"Remember the guy who in 1994 crashed his plane onto the White House lawn?
That was me trying to get an appointment to see President Clinton." *
*- R.James Woolsey, *
*Director of Central Intelligence, *
*1993 - 1995.*
* "Never once in his two-year tenure did CIA director James Woolsey ever
have a one-on-one meeting with Clinton. Even semi-private meetings were
rare. They only happened twice. Woolsey told me: "It wasn't that I had a
bad relationship with the president. It just didn't exist."*
"A Look to the Heavens"
“One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to
our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. This grand spiral galaxy lies
11.8 million light-years away toward the northern constellation of the
Great Bear (Ursa Major).
*Click image for larger size.*
The deep image of the region reveals details in the bright yellow core, but
at the same time follows fainter features along the galaxy's gorgeous blue
spiral arms and sweeping dust lanes. It also follows the expansive, arcing
feature, known as Arp's loop, that seems to rise from the galaxy's disk at
the upper righ... more »
The New Yorker cartoon dept. takes us behind the scenes, revealing stunning cartoon secrets
*"This island isn't big enough for two clichés."*
*by Ken*
They're a pretty tight fraternity, those *New Yorker* cartoonists. Which
makes it all the more remarkable that this week the cartoon dept. is taking
us behind the scenes and revealing some of their most closely held secrets:
the locations of some of the most heavily used cartoon settings. (It's said
that to be admitted to the guild every cartoonist has to produce a
successful cartoon using at least one of these locations.)
"Yhis week," says cartoon editor Bob Mankoff in his
e-newsletter-slash-blogpost, "The Secrets Behind ... more »
amazing but true: mlb does the right thing and increases fans' access to the postseason
The biggest surprise of the 2014 baseball postseason isn't the absence of
both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. It isn't the Kansas City
Royals, playing baseball in October for the first time since 1985.
The biggest surprise of the 2014 postseason is Major League Baseball's
decision to put fans ahead of corporate contracts.
After years of ensuring that baseball fans could only watch the playoffs
and World Series if they subscribed to certain television providers, MLB
has finally reversed course. The 2014 postseason is available to MLBTV
subscribers through a variety of p... more »
Dear Gallopimg Beaver
thank you for the right to say
thanks
for
Eddie Izzard
and
Amy
Whinehouse...
The Daily "Near You?"
Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “A One-Minute Course In The Philosophy Of Science”
*“A One-Minute Course In The Philosophy Of Science”*
by Chet Raymo
"There was a time in my life, many years ago, when I immersed myself in the
philosophy of science. I wanted to understand what science was and on what
basis it could lay claim to truth. I read everyone from Plato to Popper. I
sat in on classes with Paul Feyerabend at the London School of Economics
and wondered what the hell the great man was saying. I gobbled up Thomas
Kuhn and Jacques Monad like candy. And when it was all over, I didn't know
much more about science than when I started. The history of science is
inf... more »
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"
*"When Death Comes"*
“When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes like the measle-pox;
When death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
And I think of each life as a flower, a... more »
"We All Stumble..."
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”
- Emily Kimbrough
"Show Your Soul..."
"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a
stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like
gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up
flares, builds signal fires... causes proper matters to catch fire. To
display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and
to show mercy toward others - both are acts of immense bravery and greatest
necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit
and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one
... more »
Tonights Movie Is Stalag 17 (1953)
*My Comment*: William Holden is great in this film .... a must see.
Urban Gadabout: It's off to D.C.! ('Cause they're making me go!)
*by Ken*
Thanks to the miracle of modern blog scheduling technology (which works
more or less like that great space-age technological innovation the alarm
clock), by the time you read this (or don't), I should be back with NYC
limits after my whirlwind descent on Washington, D.C. (*POST-TIME UPDATE*:
A post-time update follows this post, which for reasons I hope will be
obvious was written last night, allowing a few hours' sleep before my alarm
went off at 4:50am.) That's if all went according to plan, which is not one
of those assumptions I like to assume, especially when the fir... more »
British Aid Worker Alan Henning Beheaded By ISIS
*BREAKING NEWS: British Aid Worker Alan Henning Beheaded By ISIS Brute
'Jihadi John'... Who Threatens To Kill US War Veteran Next -- Daily Mail*
* Video claiming to show beheading of aid worker Alan Henning posted online
* Militant appears to be Jihadi John, and has the same thick London accent
* David Cameron brands group 'repulsive' saying killers will be hunted down
* American war veteran Peter Kassig is threatened with execution next
British aid worker Alan Henning has been beheaded by ISIS fighter Jihadi
John in a video posted by the terror group.
Before he is killed, a gaunt a... more »
President Haig
Haig was also Deep Throat.
Haig was fired, June 25th 1982.
Here's how Bob Woodward reported it on the front page of the Washington
Post:
"...unnamed sources had told him that Haig had been 'set up' by White House
rivals. Bob quoted a Haig deputy as saying, 'There was a master plan to get
rid of him.' Bob reported that the Haig associate named George Bush, James
A.Baker, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman as the four White House insiders
responsible for his ouster. The Haig ally, Bob wrote, believed that the
General was ousted as a result of personality and policy differences with... more »
The Proclamation of Baghdad - General Maude, 1917
The following proclamation was issued to the inhabitants of Baghdad on
March 19, 1917, by Lieut. General Sir Stanley Maude, shortly after the
occupation of the city by British forces.
To the People of Baghdad Vilayet:
In the name of my King, and in the name of the peoples over whom he rules,
I address you as follow:-
Our military operations have as their object the defeat of the enemy, and
the driving of him from these territories. In order to complete this task,
I am charged with absolute and supreme control of all regions in which
British troops operate; but our armies do n... more »
Some Further Developments on Brian Leiter and the PGR, following the September Statement and the Advisory Board Letter that Urges his Resignation
This is following up on the events a week or so back, which resulted in two
posts here and here. A string of unprovoked harassments, bullying and
threats towards various academic colleagues online by Brian Leiter, famous
philosophy blogger and coordinator of the *Philosophical Gourmet Report* (a
sort of home-cooked, informal ranking of English-speaking philosophy
departments based on mutual appraisal or lack of such by said
departements), finally led to a storm of protests. These were especially
strong in support of Leiter's latest victim, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins and
documented in ... more »
MY FRIEND EVAN
is a Nazi.
Think about it.
My friend Davey is an Anarchist.
Would you lay your life down for them?
I would.
Sweden to recognise state of Palestine
© Janerik Henriksson, TT/ AFP | Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven after
declaring his government recognise a Palestinian state
http://www.france24.com/en/20141003-sweden-recognise-palestinian-state-says-new-pm/
*Sweden to recognise state of Palestine*
Latest update : 2014-10-03
Sweden’s new prime minister said Friday that his government will recognize
a Palestinian state, a move that drew praise from Palestinian officials.
In a declaration listing his government’s priorities, Social Democratic
leader Stefan Lofven told lawmakers that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
can only be ... more »
Hey Masters, Pay Attention!!!
You've come to understand the world is not as it has always seemed. In a
very 3D way, many things you may have assumed were rock solid and of pure
intent are in fact not solid at all. In many cases they are motivated by
some form of self interest rather than altruistic goal.
By now, these things do not surprise you as it seems there has been
revelation after revelation. No part of your institutional systems has been
left untouched. Your very schools, the places where you dutifully send your
precious offspring, are in more cases than not factories for a very
specific type of mind... more »
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 3, 2014
*Ebola Isn’t The Big One. So What Is? And Are We Ready For It? -- The
Guardian *
*Humanity is locked in a millennia-old battle to the death with diseases.
The current outbreak of Ebola reminds us that as our cities get bigger and
international travel easier, the risks in an outbreak grow even higher.*
The Black Death swept into Europe on boats from the East in the 14th
century and killed as much as half the population of the continent,
somewhere between 75 and 200 million people.
The Spanish flu of 1918, carried around the world by soldiers bound for or
returning from the butcher... more »
LA Times will support John Deasy so long as their customers are corporate advertisers, rather than LAUSD schoolchildren
*I was interested in the fact that the scandal over Deasy's PhD hit the
headlines at the same time he was hired by Gates. His financial connections
with Robert Felner date back to his Santa Monica days — Susan Ohanian*
[image: Plutocratic priest of privatization LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy]Reaching
dizzying heights of comedic apologetics for beleaguered Broad
Superintendent Academy graduate John Deasy, the *Los Angeles Times* has
penned daily editorials and articles pleading the public to pressure our
elected school board into laying down and ignoring Deasy's latest batch of
f... more »
World Conference on Indigenous: Canada and Mexico expose themselves
By
Brenda Norrell
Censored News
To recap, let me know if I missed anything: First, a former CIA employee
tried to take control of the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
planning session near San Diego. Next people flew around the world
planning it. Next, the North American Caucus called for cancellation of
the conference. Next it was made clear that grassroots Indigenous could
not
World News Briefs -- October 2, 2014 (Evening Edition)
*Mob Attacks Hong Kong Protesters; Students Cite 'Triads and Thugs' --
Bloomberg*
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators were attacked by hundreds of men at
two sites in the city, prompting student leaders to shelve talks with the
government aimed at ending weeklong street protests still engulfing the
city.
The city’s embattled leader, Leung Chun-ying, appealed for calm last night
after the baying mobs, which began gathering in the afternoon, tried to
remove barricades, shouted abuse and tussled with students. Student
federation leaders in a Facebook posting accused the governme... more »
Brooklyn coffee shop owner: Jews "function via greed and dominance"
Michael Aliva, the owner of The Bushwick Coffee Shop in Brooklyn, New York,
is under fire after posting a rambling but heartfelt screed criticizing
Jews on his company's social media platforms. *The Algemeiner* reports:
A Brooklyn *coffee shop* proprietor is in a bitter brew over calling Jews
“greedy infiltrators,” who “function via greed and dominance,” apparently
over neighborhood gentrification, on his business’s Instagram and Facebook
pages, a neighborhood website noted on Thursday.The Bushwick Coffee Shop owner, Michael Avila, who, may have missed his
morning double latte caff... more »
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