A bridge is collapsed in the aftermath of Allied bombing attacks during Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: An abandoned Iraqi Type 69 main battle tank sits on the side on the road into Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Some 16 McDonnell Douglas A-4KU Skyhawk aircraft of the Kuwaiti Air Force are serviced on a flight line in preparation for a mission during Operation Desert Storm on 13 Feb 1991. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A column of M-113 armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles of the Royal Saudi Land Force travels along a channel cleared of mines during Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A British Challenger main battle tank moves into a base camp along with other Allied armor during Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: An Iraqi T-54A or Type 59 tank lies in ruins in the aftermath of an Allied bombing attack during Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : 'Cruel Harvest' in Afghanistan
Drugs,
war and occupation:
'Cruel Harvest' in Afghanistan
Cruel Harvest does not claim that the U.S. is in Afghanistan because of
the drug trade, either to end it or to profit from it. The text does
explain that Washington has used drug profits to fund its covert and
not-so-covert military and intelligence operations.
By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / February 26, 2013
Cruel Harvest: U.S.
Andrew's Letter to Wolfie on the 10th Anniversary of the Conquest of Iraq
Career U.S. Army commander turned academic, Andrew J. Bacevich, has ties to
Iraq. He commanded an American unit in *Operation Desert Storm* to
liberate Kuwait on the orders of George H.W. Bush. Years later his son, a
U.S. Army lieutenant, would die in Iraq in a war ordered by George w. Bush.
In the years between his Iraq war and his son's, Bacevich had retired from
the U.S. Army and had gone from an unquestioning belief in his country and
its military to become a fierce critic of what he came to see as a deeply
flawed government and its military philosophy and institutions. B... more »
David Macaray : Twelve Questions for Satirical Icon Paul Krassner
Paul
Krassner in the day. Photo by Robert Altman.
Twelve Questions for
satirical icon Paul Krassner
"I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in
mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane
hypocrisy." -- Paul Krassner
By David Macaray / The Rag Blog / February 27, 2013
To say Paul Krassner has lived an eventful life is an understatement. He
In search of “dumb” as a standard of judgment!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013*
*More on the Oscar show mess:* In this morning’s New York Times, Cieply and
Barnes report the reaction to Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar turn.
In the hard-copy Times, their report sits atop the first page of the Arts
section. Early on, we were struck by the reaction we highlight below:
CIEPLY AND BARNES (2/26/13): Post-Oscar Monday found the movie capital
coming to grips with a 3-hour-35- minute ceremony that climbed in the
ratings but at its best seemed to hide a great year for film behind a
flurry of musical numbers, TV memories and Michelle Obama. At its wo... more »
It's that time of year
Everywhere I go in London at the moment I am confronted by roadworks, I
suppose it's that time of year when local councils highways departments
work extra hard to spend all of their budget before the end of the
financial year. That's one of the differences between the public and the
private sector. In the private sector, departments try to cut expenditure
and waste in order to increase profitability. In the public sector
departments have to spend their whole budget so as to justify no reduction
in budget next year.
Promises and Paradoxes of Scientific Authority
Earlier this month I participated in an excellent symposium on the global
politics of scientific advice organized by the Steps Centre at the
University of Sussex. They have now put videos from all of the sessions
online. Above is my lecture.
You can see the rest (highly recommended), here.
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club Lite
There’s a lot going on in the world, but there’s also a lot going on in my
world, so here’s your abbreviated linkage: Jay Ulfelder explains why big
data won’t kill theory (or as Dan would write, I can haz quant theory?)
[Dart-Throwing Chimp] Seth Masket >yearns for a Neil DeGrasse Tyson of
political science
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New Jersey teachers speaks out about gun control...
good for her!
Carole Lokan-Moore, an 18-year substitute teacher in Burlington County
spoke to the New Jersey Assembly Law and Safety Committee on February 13,
2013.
H/T Freedom's Lighthouse
WHITE ROSE
*Hans Scholl (left), Sophie Scholl (center), and Christoph Probst (right),
leaders of the White Rose resistance organization*
On Feb. 22, 1943, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were
executed for their role in urging students to rise up and overthrow the
Nazi government. They were members of a group called the White Rose, who
organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing
and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
See trailer for film about the life of Sophie Scholl: http://bit.ly/ZwGVHQ
Here is one of the leaflets they were handing out:
* The Fi... more »
Talking about the Hagel Filibuster
The Senate is taking up cloture on the Chuck Hagel nomination today, and
this time it's expected to pass, most likely easily -- I haven't seen any
estimates, but I'm guessing it will be around 70 votes (maybe more; again,
I haven't seen anything about what Republicans will do). Some time after
that, we'll get a final vote on Hagel; he'll probably fall short of 60 yes
votes.
So it turns out we had not only had one or more "yes/no" votes, who were
yes on cloture but no on the nomination, but quite a few no/yes/no votes:
against cloture the first time, for it the second time, while eve... more »
So What Does LG know that the rest of us don’t?
Remember Palm and their operating system WebOS?
It was bought by HP in 2011 for $1.2bn. At the time HP gave it 100%
backing, but much like the football Chairman who gets the backs his manager
during a bad losing streak, they have decide to change. HP did launch
products such as their TouchPad which ran on WebOS, but the result was poor
sales.
Palm developed WebOS to run smartphones, Tablets and mobile devices but was
swept aside by Apple IOS, Google’s Android and even fell far short of
players such as Blackberry.
HP will retain the underlying WebOS patents and technology but will
... more »
Global warming study maps coral reef vulnerability – Reducing carbon emissions would delay annual bleaching events by more than two decades in 23 percent of the world’s reefs
[image: Percentage of coral reef cells projected to experience bleaching
per year. Projected years reef cells experience bleaching conditions
annually for three RCP scenarios, using model ensembles that are
un-adjusted (mean alone) and adjusted (for the annual cycle and mean).
Without significant reductions in emissions, most coral reefs are at risk.
Reducing carbon emissions would delay annual bleaching events more than two
decades in 23 percent of the world's reef areas. Photo: van Hooidonk, et
al., 2013]
By Bob Berwyn
26 February 2013
FRISCO (Summit Voice) – Using the latest... more »
At the edge of Moridor: Second Tree Sit
At the edge of Mordor. 2ND TREE SIT! Old Eastern Hemlock 150 ft up the
ridge from Cummins Hill Rd, and 30 feet from the last stump cut yesterday.
Local resident Alex Lotorto has freeclimbed tree to stop felling.
Alex when asked for statement said, "Before she passed, my mother sold
homes on top of cummins hill. These homes were valued for their scenic
views and proximity to recreation in the forest. Her job in realty put food
on the table for me and my family. I am sitting in this tree to defend the
livelihoods of the people in this community."
Excellent Article on Hanford
At the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble by Eric
Nusbaum Feb 24 2012
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/24/at-the-hanford-nuclear-reservation-a-steady-drip-of-toxic-trouble.html
*[Excerpted]*Hanford is the worst kind of mess: the kind that humanity is
capable of making, but not capable of cleaning up. It was the home of the
world’s first full-scale plutonium reactor and the epicenter of American
nuclear production during the Cold War. Now the 586-square-mile campus is
the subject of the largest environmental cleanup operation the United
States go... more »
Bill Gates & Vaccine Programs - Vulnerable Vaccine Injured Sick Kids Dumped Out of Sight to Die Reported
Mr. Final Solution has spoken.Bill Gates & Vaccine Programmes – Dump The
“Mistakes” – Vulnerable Vaccine Injured Sick Kids Dumped Out of Sight to Die
Child Health safety, 26 February 2013
The following is from an extensive article by journalist Christina England
which you can read in full here: *Bill* *Gates Continues ‘God’s Work’,
Third World Vaccine Workers Shot Dead*
Feb 26th, 2013 | By Christina England
It appears that Mr. Gates will go to any lengths to vaccinate the world,
even if the world makes it very clear that they do not want his vaccines.
Rather than vaccinating m... more »
Iraq’s Sadrists and Prime Minister Maliki Reconcile Over Accountability & Justice Commission
At the beginning of February 2013, the Accountability and Justice
Commission, which replaced the deBaathification Commission, announced the
removal of Chief Justice Medhat Mahmoud from office for his ties to Saddam
Hussein’s regime. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki immediately retaliated by
firing the head of the Commission Falah Hassan Shanshal. Since Shanshal is
from the Sadr Trend, various commentators argued that the move against
Judge Mahmoud must have been orchestrated by that list. Sadr’s followers
didn’t have the votes on the Commission to act alone however, so other
politic... more »
MAN AND MANDARIN: McArdle’s new framework!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013*
*Part 1—Exploring a new elite:* Especially for liberals, reading Megan
McArdle may involve paying a price.
Last week, McArdle wrote a very worthwhile piece for the Daily Beast. She
discussed the new class of journalists, scholars and bureaucrats who
increasingly define the way we all think.
McArdle compared this new elite to the imperial bureaucracy, the mandarins,
who once governed imperial China. At one point, she said she was talking
about “the Mandarinization of America.”
We think her piece was quite worthwhile, though you do have to fight your ... more »
CONNECT THE DOTS
Hope Festival in Orono, Maine on April 27 inside the UMO recreation center.
Southern Man Shivers In The Dark
Well, the "winter storm" was a complete bust; a light dusting of snow and
lots of howling cold north wind but the next morning hardly any was to be
seen. The ground wasn't even frozen and Southern Man had to contend with
mud yet again as he forged his way up to The Hyundai. But, in typical Rural
Southern State fashion the power went off at about 9:00 PM and hadn't come
back on when Southern Man left for work. This was a fine lesson in
"disaster" preparedness. Southern Man has already purchased a rechargeable
lantern and replacements for the (several) dead flashlights in the
flashlig... more »
Investors demand climate-risk disclosure in 2013 proxies – ‘We’re now beginning to see renewed interest in the actual financial risks from climate change’
[image: Cleared land designated for a palm oil plantation in Pelalawan,
Indonesia in 2010. A big topic in 2013 is sourcing sustainable palm oil, as
much of the tropical deforestation that contributes to climate change is
driven by palm oil production, according to Kron. Photo: Dimas Ardian /
Bloomberg]
By Avery Fellow
25 February 2013
(Bloomberg BNA) – Shareholders are filing resolutions asking companies to
disclose physical risks posed by climate change for the first time this
proxy season, according to representatives of sustainable investor groups.
Shareholders also are conti... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Fats Domino, 85.
Good stuff, good stuff:
1. That "clearing the field" idea is back; Ed Kilgore has a good take on
it.
2. Jonathan Chait on Bob Woodward.
3. Michelle Cottle on what Rove's up to.
4. And the Academy Awards? Here's Shani O. Hilton; here's Alyssa Rosenberg;
and one more here.
Learning to Ski at Wolf Mountain Resort and a Ski Pass Giveaway
My dad took me skiing a couple of times as a kid, and even though it is
something I enjoy, I haven't been on skis since I was a kid. When Wolf
Mountain offered me the chance to bring my little girl for a ski lesson, I
jumped at the chance.
Wolf Mountain Resort is located in Eden, Utah. They have classes for
children as young as three. Wolf Mountain has trails for all skill levels
and they light up the entire mountain at night for night skiing.
My four year old is a stubborn one. She either wants to do something or
there is no way to get her to do it. I kept crossing my fingers... more »
Today Is Election Day In IL-02
The top ad was the original ad Bloomberg put out against Halvorson and then
someone got them to alter it in a way that forced Toi Hutchinson out of the
race. This is it:
Technically, it's just a primary to pick the Democratic nominee to replace
Jesse Jackson, Jr. But in a district where Jackson won reelection-- without
even campaigning-- with 181,067 votes (63%) against a Republican opponent
who got 67,396 votes (23%) and where Obama took 80.7% of the vote in
November, the primary is the real contest. Whomever wins today will be the
next Member of Congress for this Southland di... more »
DRONE INDUSTRY STEPPING UP LOBBYING CAMPAIGN
This guy calls himself a representative from an aerospace "trade
organization". In truth they are a lobby group that promotes expanded use
of drones all over the country and around the world.
18 states and many local governments are now considering banning drone
flights. The city of Charlottesville, Virginia recently passed a two-year
moratorium on drones.
There are numerous health and safety questions that must be answered.
Airspace over Maine is already quite busy. Drones have proven to
frequently crash. Civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan report severe
depression from ... more »
GREAT SPIRIT - Sung by Nahko
Director/Edit- Grototote
"like" at *http://www.facebook.com/Grototote*
Cinematography- Mikography
(www.mikography.com)
Dancer- Lea Black
Vagabond- Piotr Walczuk
Bird- Dominik Walczuk
Special Thanks to:
Renata Walczuk
Maria Karin
Lee Michael Walczuk
Todd Hornbaker
David McMahon
Jennie Berghuis
*www.grototote.com*
*www.medicine4thepeople.org*
Portraits of Cholera
Appalling Portraits of Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic slate.com/articles/news_…
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) February 26, 2013
Untitled
Katrina cottages more expensive than similar housing, plus program took too
long, audit says ~ Jeff Adelson
Report: Levees prevented $234 billion in damages in 2011 flood
Lobbyist Named Chair of ALEC Private Sector Board
As an example of how secretive people are about their membership or
involvement in the American Legislative Exchange Council – if you Google
"Steve Seale" "American Legislative Exchange Council"
You get twelve hits – eight unique hits.
– if you Google
"C. Stevens Seale" "American Legislative Exchange Council"
You get four hits
YET –
"Steve Seale" "American Legislative Exchange Council"
Has been active in ALEC for at least 30 years.
*From Steve Seale’s LinkedIn page:*
Steve Seale
Current
Shareholder at Wise Carter Child & Caraway, PA
Past
Partner at Akin Gump St... more »
No Sam Pollack
Stephen Harper, we're told, is writing a book on hockey. It will be
interesting to see if he has anything to say about the legendary Sam
Pollack. The Montreal Canadiens were a power house for two decades because
Pollack -- the team's general manager -- had an unfailing eye for talent,
on the ice and behind the bench.
If there's one skill that Stephen Harper does not possess, it's knowing how
to spot excellence. Micheal Harris writes that, again and again, Harper has
displayed a talent for picking duds:
Consider the case of [Patrick] Brazeau. At the time of his appointment to
t... more »
California: State Wide Action to Stop Foreclosures
California State Wide Action to Stop Foreclosures
From Quanah Parker Brightman
Censored News
State Wide Action to Stop Foreclosures
https://www.facebook.com/events/429076063847515/429093223845799/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
Wells Fargo: 1# in Destroying Communities and Stealing Homes
Quanah Parker Brightman with his father Lehman Brightman, Lakota, and
founder of United Native Americans.
So What Does Nook Want To be When It Grows Up?
The news that Barnes & Noble’s losses in its Nook Media division will be
higher than the previous year and that revenue projections for 2013 will
come in significantly below forecast, raises the question of whether it is
positioned to slug it out with the technology giants, expand
internationally, or whether at some time soon it will have to exit the
device market and focus on its content?
Only last year it secured an attractive partner and cash from Microsoft and
later Pearson bought a 5% stake in Nook Media. So is this a blip, or a
serious issue?
This dilemma was covered by the ... more »
Learning physics is futile without practicing
After a break, I answered a package of questions at the Physics Stack
Exchange. It's sometimes fun and some of the questions are even interesting
but there are also some omnipresent sources of frustration.
Let me mention some of them.
Pretty much every day, there is a question or two that tries to announce
the discovery that quantum mechanics has been overthrown and/or may be
employed to send faster-than-light signals, and so on. See e.g. user1247yesterday. Or another
question by the same user that tries to overthrow the postulates of quantum
mechanics within quantum field theory "o... more »
"Modern Family"
So ephemeral and I were casting about for a television series to waste our
time with so as to be somewhat in the pop culture loop and I'd heard good
things about "Modern Family" (it being a gay-friendly show with two
married, adoptive gay parents).
I have to admit that in that respect it's mostly okay. (Although the gay
couple do more bickering and fighting than the other two families.) But I
notice that, once again, American television networks have made a
television series populated by individuals who earn something like salaries
in the top 15% of earners. (Plus the super-rich fat... more »
Untitled
Katrina levee investigator, Bob Bea, to testify in oil spill trial ~*WWL**~BP
trying to change rules on business loss claims it's already agreed to pay *
Labour's Youth Jobs Taskforce
Under 25? If so, the Labour Party wants to hear from you.
As readers are aware, despite the growing number of people in work youth
unemployment not only remains stubbornly high, but is actually increasing
and nearing one million.
To raise awareness of this issue, Labour have put together a Youth Jobs
Taskforce. It is currently researching for a report based on young people's
experiences in the job market in recent years and their attitudes to
government policy in this area. So regardless of whether you're a Labour
supporter or not and if you have five minutes to spare, you can fill ... more »
Going buggy
I often have the feeling these days that small ants are crawling on my
face. Unfortunately, that’s because they are.
You have to forge a whole new relationship with insects if you live in a
tropical country. There are just so many of them, and so many loosely fit
doors and windows for little creatures to squeeze past.
The ants that get on your face - and in your computer keyboard, your
e-reader, the cracks in your kitchen table, the cereal that you forgot to
put in an air-tight plastic container - are teeny little guys drawn to food
crumbs and electronic things (Warm for sleeping? ... more »
Beast on the Move: The Chupacabras Returns
*Beast on the Move: The Chupacabras Returns*
*By Scott Corrales*
The Puerto Rican media approached the subject of the paranormal predator
again in 2012, when reporter Yaritza Santiago wrote an article for El Nuevo
Dia about the entity’s return to the scene, this time in the island
municipality of Vieques. “A strange wild animal prowls the verdant fields
and communities of this island municipality. This is the only way to
explain the discovery of dead horses, hens and rabbits in situations that
terrified Viequenses have ascribed to a panther that allegedly escaped from
an American... more »
Untitled
*Charter military academy reports $31,000 missing through fraudulent checks
~The Lens*
*Solution sought for ‘epicenter of land loss'*
*Residents angry as Assumption sinkhole continues collapsing*
*Kill Zone: Cleaning up oil junk, killing tens of thousands of fish*
*Newsroom Ink Expands Boundaries of Annual Reporting – Making a Splash for
Louisiana Seafood*
*Louisiana’s Next Generation of Fishermen: Savanna Nacio - Experienced
Fisherman at Ripe Old Age of 13*
AP on the WantWant Media Monster
AP's Peter Enav in Taiwan occasionally finds the time to produce longer
review articles; last week he came out with a really good piece on the
WantWant media monopoly campaign. A taste:
*The controversy over Tsai and his expansive Taiwanese media holdings goes
right to the heart of the dominant issue in Taiwanese politics:* Whether
the island should attempt to maintain the separate political identity from
the mainland it has maintained since splitting apart from it amid civil war
in 1949, or whether it should bow to China's increasing political and
economic might and accept its sove... more »
GWU to launch Confucius Institute
GW brags: The George Washington University will soon be home to the GW
Confucius Institute, an entity that will promote the study of Chinese
language and culture, support Chinese teaching through instructional
training and certification, and encourage increased research in the area of
China studies.
*Speaking to an audience of police, military and intelligence personnel at
the Royal Canadian Military Institute in March, Fadden said the institutes
are controlled by Chinese embassies and consulates. He lumped them together
with some of Bejing’s other efforts to steer Canadian China po... more »
How revealing
Overnight a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit the Israeli town of Ashkelon.
This has broken the ceasefire but what I found revealing is this tweet from
AlQassam
Remember when such as Alquassam say 'occupied' they mean the whole of
Israel. They don't want Israel to return to the 1967 'borders', they want
no Israel.
Iran's Press TV also report the story and the definition of occupied is
obviously the same
'Two explosions have taken place near the city of Ashkelon in the south of
the Occupied Palestinian Territories amid confrontations between Israeli
forces and Palestinians over the d... more »
SAVILE'S FRIENDS
Cardinal O'Brien.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien was friends with sex predator Jimmy Savile
Cardinal O'Brien had expressed his belief that the next pope should be an
outsider from Africa or Asia, "a suggestion that could be seen as
threatening to the influential lobby of Italian bishops and to the Curia,
the powerful Vatican bureaucracy".
Cardinal's resignation raises Vatican conspiracy theories
Bible John.
Bible John is the nickname of a serial killer who murdered three young
women after meeting them at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotlandbetween 1968 and 1969.
Sir Jimmy S... more »
I Lost a Buddy Last Night
Neighbours. His wife called close to 10. He didn't have the strength to
get himself off the toilet and she didn't have the strength to get him up
either. I said I'd be right over.
I went in my old Harley tee-shirt and sweat pants, a real "come as you are"
party, figuring I'd have my pal safely into bed and be home in no time.
I hesitated as I neared their bathroom to make some sort of smart-ass
remark to let my buddy know I was there and was coming in to help him. No
guy, even if he is 78, wants to deal with that. He quipped something I
vaguely remember as suitably sarcastic... more »
Saturday's March: A Success Among Losses
*February 25, 2013*
*
*
*100 People March Against the Tennessee Pipeline*
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*Contact:*
Alex Lotorto, Pike County, PA Resident 570-269-9589 / alotorto@gmail.com
www.NoTennesseePipeline.blogspot.com
photos attached
*
*
*Milford, PA, February 25 2013* – This past Saturday, February 23, 2013,
100 residents and friends marched against the Tennessee Pipeline across the
Milford Bridge, from Milford, PA to Montague, NJ over the Delaware River.
The march, Milford's first, was organized by the Stop the Tennessee
Pipeline! campaign to show opposition to the Tennessee Gas P... more »
A reminder of why the Coalition government is in the problems it is
I am no Conservative supporter but Labour should be reminded of this every
time they or their BBC allies try to push the narrative that the
Conservatives are to blame for the UK's economic performance.
Catholic Church Internal Peace?
This has the usual list of received truths regarding the problems facing
the Catholic Church. The Church is an organization tasked solely with
introducing the holy spirit and the teachings of Jesus to all humanity. It
is led by trained priests who manage themselves in a traditional way that
naturally has its failings. They need to apply the rule of twelve that
Jesus did not have time to implement well enough to avoid its been cast
aside. Present forms have worked well enough to at least conserve. They
have not worked well to readily confront the modern era although in time
... more »
Financial Transactions Tax
It is my personal opinion that the only workable tax regime is some form
of flat transaction tax with natural offsetting to prevent double paying.
It needs to be applied to interest as well as fees but never to capital.
The same method also needs to be applied to incomes and goods. With the
same constraints thought out well. Importantly this allows the income tax
to be vacated.
In this manner, increasing money velocity means a sharp increase in tax
revenue and a natural damper to inflation and bubble building.
However I do not understand how these measures do anything... more »
Rosseta Stone for ProtoLanguages
This is an excellent effort that essentially computerizes the entire
language data base and its internal linkages. It should ultimately be
inclusive and make translation far easier as a task. We do have ancient
texts whose translations are very problematic. A good example of just that
is the four thousand year old texts for Chinese medicine.
It really helps to know what was intended as particular words emerged,
even as they also evolved.
Language is sometimes a poor media to transmit ideas, yet it is the main
tool we all use. The mind actually absorbs meaning visually f... more »
US State Department-Funded BBC World Service "Jammed" in China
West feigns indignation as China allegedly shuts down US State Dept-funded
BBC propaganda.
*February 26, 2013* (AltThaiNews-Tony Cartalucci) - Headlines across the
Western corporate-media read, "BBC says 'extensive, coordinated efforts' to
jam world service frequencies in China" (Fox News), "BBC blocked in China
just days after reporting on Chinese hackers" (Washington Post), and "BBC
"strongly condemns" China's attempts to jam World Service broadcasts"
(Radio Times), before weaving a lofty narrative of a "repressive regime"
trying to gag freedom of the press.
In reality, BBC's ... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Rodney Martin
of *World View Foundations* to discuss his organization and its purpose,
mission, and activities. We will also address aspects of WWII history,
National Socialist philosophy, White Nationalism, and related matters. Be
sure to read Rodney's excellent essay *WHAT WHITE NATIONALISM MUST TO DO
"BREAK OUT"*. Calls will be taken throughout the conversation.
You can download the entire show *here*, or subscribe to Truth Militia
Radio *here*. Thanks for tuning in!
Mauritia: microcontinents must have been around for eons
*And pairs of opposing large continents may have been more typical than a
single unified one*
Tons of articles including one at NPR have been written about a new
finding.
Lava sands with zircon xenocrysts found on the beaches of Mauritius (island
which is East from Madagascar) support the idea of a microcontinent dubbed
Mauritia that existed between the continents (...) of Madagascar and India
for tens of millions of years sometime 70 million years ago. I don't want
to be excessively accurate because I don't think that their reconstructed
layout may be trusted this accurately.
... more »
The Syrian Conflict: to Internationalize or not to Internationalize
Earlier this month, The Guardian reported that the Obama administration
blocked a Pentagon supported plan to provide arms to Syrian opposition
forces. For civilians in Syria hoping for meaningful intervention to stop
the conflict, this must have been difficult news to absorb. I was reminded
of this story yesterday while attending an informative workshop in
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Who is "Kinder" and "Morgan"?
The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade is a project of Tennessee Gas
Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of El Paso, which was acquired in 2012 by Kinder
Morgan, America's third largest energy firm. We're talking big bucks and
deep pockets. Richard Kinder is the Texan "pipeline baron" behind the dirty
and destructive Tennessee Pipeline and is a huge advocate for exporting
shale gas to foreign countries through his pipelines and LNG terminals.
"Morgan" is his now retired business partner.
From the December issue of Forbes Magazine:
Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom“I think that for any of our... more »
Why is Alberta’s medical queue-jumping inquiry uninterested in dramatic 1990s case?
Dr. Ron Bridges of the Helios Wellness Clinic testifying yesterday in a
screen grab from CBC’s broadcast. Below, Dr. Ciaran McNamee, who hasn’t
been called to testify. What are we to make of the fact Alberta’s
preferential health care access inquiry has failed to call a witness who
was at the centre of one of ... more »
Monday Movies Post
Ever heard of a movie called "Men Must Fight"? It's an MGM film from 1933,
directed by Edgar Selwyn (from a play by Reginald Lawrence and S. K.
Lauren). Here's the original NYT review. The main person you're likely to
recognize is Lewis Stone, who plays the Secretary of State; also in it is
Robert Young, in a brief part, and Hedda Hopper, three years before she
transitioned from actor to gossip columnist. You may also recognize Robert
Greig, a large man who is, as usual, cast as a butler (he's in The Lady Eve
and other Preston Sturges movies); also, May Robson, who plays Stone's
mot... more »
OPPT-IN February 11, 2013 with Lisa Harrison and Scott and Ken Bartle
What the FUQ (Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government
Business 360 4: Brownouts and Power Deregulation
* This is my article for Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal, early
this month.
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*A**ddressing power shedding and rationing*
Power outages of 12 hours a day or more is one formula for slow economic
growth if not economic contraction. Almost all aspects of modern life,
industrialization and agricultural modernization require stable and
affordable electricity.
When Charu Chadha informed me that Kathmandu suffers from 14 hours a day of
power outages in early January and is projected to rise to 18 hours a day
in the coming weeks, I was greatly surprised. It is sim... more »
CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE FOR 9 11 TRUTHER TONY ROOKE; DAILY MAIL REPORT
*Tony Rooke*
On 25 February 2013, in a court in the UK, Tony Rooke related that the 'BBC
has covered up the facts about 9/11'.
The judge made Rooke pay £200 costs and gave him a conditional discharge.
*dailymail.*
"Conditional discharges are often used in political cases to indicate that
the accused, though technically guilty, occupies the moral high ground."
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/content/court-victory-protestor
*Outside the court.*
*Professor Michel Chossudovsky, at Global Research, relates:*
*
*Historic 911 Court Case: Through Media Disinformation, BBC Supports “The
... more »
"Saskatchewan NDP Leadership - Part 3 - Taking Stock" - Guest Post By Dan Tan
Saskatchewan NDP Leadership - Part 3 - Taking Stock
*Before reading, see Part 1 & Part 2*
*There are no "losers" here. Those not familiar with the NDP or its values
will interpret that as some annoying & misguided insistence on political
correctness. In fact, it is merely a utilitarian observation.
Our opponents leadership contests are correctly described as "exciting" &
"dramatic". This is to be expected, when a party's declared values consist
of nothing but broad platitudes in service of the obvious or
inconsequential (ie. the rejection of "discrimination" or the promotion of
... more »
US State Department's "Syriasly" Campaign Reaches New Level of Absurdity
*February 26, 2013* (LD) - While the West and its Arab partners, the
brutally autocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are now admittedly
funneling heavy weapons to Al Qaeda's stronghold in Daraa, southern Syria,
the US State Department and its extensive network of faux NGO's funded by
the same corporate-financier interests that write its policy, have
rolled-out a front organization they call "Syriasly."
*Image: This fuax-human rights organization already screams biased,
pro-Western propaganda with its Al Qaeda/French colonial green, red, and
black logo, aping the so-called "Fr... more »
The ancestors of the living native Americans took thousands of years to develop the many types of corn that the world now thrives on. But now, to improve its profit, Monsanto is getting set to plant their genetically modified corn in Mexico irrespective of the likelihood that all of the original varieties may be destroyed. Fortunately, the Mexicans are protesting.
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*Go to Original here.*
February 25, 2013
*Mexican Farmers Protest the Entrance of GMO Corn*
Thousands across Mexico demand their government reject permits for GMO Corn
while Monsanto defends their patent on life in U.S. Supreme Court
More at The Real News
Cherchez la Verite
Day 6 - Tree Update
Full moon last night or so it appeared through the clouds. I slept with the
tarp open so i could see it all night. at some point i would wake up and
think someone was shining a spotlight on me, and then I'd remember "Oh,
it's just the moon." A surveyor or logger, couldn't tell which, came to see
me, said he had to check to see if i was still here. Asked if i was cold, i
shook my head no (it's actually quite warm inside two sleeping bags). I
wanted to ask if he was cold or wanted some food, but i thought it best to
remain silent. My beef isn't with the workers, it's with the companie... more »
Guest Post - Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM)
*What is an Energy Efficient Mortgage?*
Energy efficient mortgages (EEMs, sometimes known as “green mortgages”) are
loans that allow homeowners to finance energy-efficient upgrades for their
current home or in a new home purchase. The cost of the upgrades is rolled
into the mortgage so that multiple loans are not needed.
An EEM allows lenders to extend borrowers’ debt-to-income qualifying ratio,
which means that they may be able to take out a larger home loan than would
be allowed with a traditional mortgage. With an EEM, upfront costs may be
higher than with a typical home loan. T... more »
Start the countdown: A year from today, I stand to take possession of a "complimentary sweet treat"
*I finally got up the courage to check to see whether Jahn's still exists.
Not in Brooklyn, it doesn't, or most anyplace else in New York and Florida
where this fondly remembered ice-cream parlor once existed. But apparently
there's still this one outlet in Jackson Heights, Queens.*
*by Ken*
How can you write off as a hellish waste of 24 hours a day that draws to a
close with arrangements very likely in place whereby next year on this date
I stand to take possession of a "complimentary sweet treat" at a mediocre
chain restaurant?
Somehow the prospects had seemed a little brighter ... more »
This Is Revolting: Daytona 500 Race Has Car #26 Labeled: "Sandy Hook School Support Fund"
Yesterday was the "Great American Race", also known as NASCAR's Daytona 500
Motor Speedway race. Much hype was supposedly focused in on the fact that
the race itself has a prominent female driver, Danika Patrick, in the race
in the "Go Daddy" #10 Chevrolet car, and even though I did not watch the
race itself, much of the media focus was on her taking 8th place in that
race....
But there is something equally startling about this stock car race that I
was not even aware of, until I found it in an article, from a friend,
Sherrie, who writes the great blog: "Sherrie Questioning All" ... more »
Napoleon On The "Courage of 2 A.M."
* *
*Related:*
*Napoleon On Men of Destiny*.
*Napoleon On Speculators And Profiteers*.
*Napoleon On An Age of Transition & The Dangers of A Militarist Government
*.
*Napoleon On Alexander The Great*.
*Napoleon On Public Debts*.
*Napoleon On Public Opinion*.
*Napoleon On Homer*.
From, *"The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken
Words,"* edited and translated by J. Christopher Herold. Columbia
University Press: New York. 1955. Pg. 220.
[Conversation, December 1815, related by Las Cases] As for moral courage,
Napoleon said, he had rarely encountered the... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Questions Ted Cruz Won't Answer
Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz, the inquisitor. Photo by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty
Images.
Questions that Rafael Edward
'Ted' Cruz won’t answer
Cruz’s performance has been described by various commentators and
reporters as disgraceful, appalling, embarrassing, slanderous,
impertinent, uncivil, moralistic, swaggering, belligerent, nasty,
disrespectful, and demagoguing.
By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog /
"The Web Gallery of Art"
"Welcome to the Gallery! The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and
searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It
was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in
the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries
in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as
comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended
to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo
via Mannerism. Encouraged by the feedback from the visitors, recentl... more »
Tuesday Events, Upriver and Downriver!
*MILFORD, PA*
*7AM - *Meet at the bottom of Cummins Hill Road, just after the I-84
overpass on the right. We will park on the shoulder where Tennessee Gas Has
been parking their work trucks every morning after dangerously dropping
their workers off on a blind turn up the mountain. It is legal for us to
park on the shoulder there. Join us tomorrow as we park our vehicles in
that area and make a statement to Tennessee Gas! Contact # 570-269-9589
*PHILADELPHIA, PA*
*12PM - *Press Conference and Vigil at the Army Corps of Engineers Office
* *
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* *
Spell of the Tiger
The Sundarbans is a region of mangrove forests spread across many islands. It
straddles the border between India and Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal. In
earlier times, it was a civilized place, a flourishing port region. Archaeologists
recently discovered a walled city, built in the fourth century, that
covered two and a half square miles (6.47 sq. km). Ruins are scattered
throughout the jungle, including temples and monasteries. In 1586, a
European visitor reported seeing fertile land and sturdy, storm-resistant
houses.
Over the last 600 years, the land has experienced big... more »
Ted Cruz, Like Most Texas Republicans, Understands The Danger Of Thinking
I think it was Texas, but it may have been Kansas, but one of the
primitive, anti-education states was looking into officially banning
"critical thinking" from schools. [UPDATE: Sorry, Kansas; it was in the official
2012 platform of the Texas Republican Party, which advocated eliminating
the minimum wage and the prevailing wage, doing away with the Department of
Education and Department of Energy, and “reducing taxpayer funding to all
levels of education” and opposed multicultural education and “critical
thinking skills" because they “focus on behavior modification and have the
pu... more »
Bob Feldman : Texas Civil Rights Movement Wins Big Victories, 1954-1973
White
and African American students from Austin area colleges sit in at a
segregated lunch counter on Congress Avenue in Austin, April 1960 as
part of a concerted effort to integrate lunch counters. Image from
Austin History Center.
The hidden history of Texas
Part 13: 1954-1973/1 -- Civil rights efforts to desegregate schools,
public facilities, have wide success.
By Bob Feldman / The Rag
"Be Kind..."
"Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato
Musical Interlude: “Greensleeves”
“Greensleeves”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOAM
"A Video Moment With Nature"
Algerian Desert, Ahaggar National Park by Deborha Patten
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4xsRZ2zHX4&list=PL22D299EAF12B5BCE
Fatima Bhutto: "I've Never Been Asked To Talk In Pakistan. We Have A Culture of Silence."
Fatima Bhutto is a vocal critic of Pakistan's government and its political
culture. This interview with her was done in 2011 on Italian television. In
it she is asked why she hasn't appeared on Pakistani media to talk about
her 2010 memoir called, *"Songs of Blood and Sword."* She answered: "I've
never been asked to talk in Pakistan. We have a culture of silence." [6:35
- 6:40].
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting
cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most
recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the above
stunning mosaic.
* Click image for larger size.*
The familiar Horsehead nebula appears as a dark cloud, a small silhouette
notched against the long red glow at the lower left. Alnitak is the
easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star to the
left of the Horsehead. Below Alnitak is the Flame Nebula, with clouds of
bright emission and drama... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Beauty Exists Not In Sameness”
*“Beauty Exists Not In Sameness”*
by Paulo Coelho
“Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference. Who could imagine a
giraffe without its long neck or a cactus without its spines? The
irregularity of the mountain peaks that surround us is what makes them so
imposing. If we tried to make them all the same, they would no longer
command our respect.
It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.
When we look at a cedar tree, we don’t think: ‘The branches should be all
the same length.’ We think: ‘How strong it is.’
When we see a snake, we never say: ‘He is crawling along t... more »
Chet Raymo, “Immortality”
*“Immortality”*
by Chet Raymo
“A second life? I can barely cope with this one. I'm referring to the
increasingly popular virtual world Second Life, available to online gamers.
One enters Second LIfe by creating a three-dimensional, animated avatar
that is one's virtual self. Then one can do just about anything in the
Second Life world that is possible to do in real life, including, one
presumes, things one would not do in real life. By all accounts, the Second
Life universe is booming, to the extent that real-world businesses are
setting up virtual franchises in a place that exi... more »
ALEC's IFA Introduces and Passes it's Own Legislation
From 2011
The ALEC lies don't get much better than this.
Corporations and Corporate Associations writing ALEC legislation.
*IFA-Backed Franchise Relationship Policy Adopted by American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC)*
SNIP:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31- The International Franchise Association today
applauded the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for adopting as
official policy a *Resolution on the Misapplication of Employee
Classification Laws*, recognizing that business format franchising is a
major contributor to the United States economy and that franchising is a
contra... more »
Cantor (ALEC-ALUM) Wants to Eliminate Overtime Pay
Strongly Recommend that you read this diary over at Daily Kos – another hit
against workers in the private sector.
Great coverage of a current issue – with excellent history.
*Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly
workers*
Snips:
In Eric Cantor's February 2013 speech, he said he wanted to propose Federal
Law that would end overtime pay for hourly workers.
… and met privately with House Republicans to discuss one of the policies
he had emphasized: a policy that would allow workers to convert overtime
compensation into time off.
Eric Cantor wants ... more »
The Poet: Anne Sexton, "Courage"
*"Courage"*
"It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor or fatty or crazy
and made you into an alien,
you drank their acid
and concealed it.
Later,
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
cover your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swal... more »
Recreational Abortion
A new one to me.
From Iowa, recreational abortion.
Sen. Jack Hatch, a Des Moines Democrat, said he doesn't expect the
legislation to advance. But he said GOP lawmakers will likely again try to
block the use of state Medicaid funds for a small number of abortions
performed in cases of incest, rape or when the life of the mother is at
risk.
“These are not recreational abortions, they are medically needed,” said
Hatch said, who said he thought that any such effort would ultimately fail.
Hatch is prochoice. Clearly, the discourse on abortion is totally fucked up
in Iowa when even proc... more »
"What's the Malthusian Premise?"
*"What's the Malthusian Premise?"*
by William Harris
"For many natural scientists, 1859 marks the beginning of the modern era of
biology. That's the year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species,"
the book that spelled out the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Darwin is such a cultural icon and so closely identified with evolution
that it's easy to think that he arrived at his theories in a vacuum. In
reality, the father of modern biology was influenced by Thomas Malthus, who
published "An Essay on the Principle of Population" in 1798. In fact, it
might be said th... more »
EMHN 7: Free Trade Improves Public Health
Our regional and global health alliance, the Emerging Markets Health
Network (EMHN), has republished a paper that was released February 2012 by
the Free Market Foundation (FMF) of South Africa. MG Thinkers was a
co-publisher of that paper. See here, Free Trade 24: Trade and Improving
Health Outcome (February 15, 2012).
EMHN Executive Director, Philip Stevens, partnered with two young
economists from South Africa, Urbach and Wills, in producing this
econometric paper.
Here is the paper's Abstract::
*A recurrent theme of the academic literature and wider public discourse is
that ... more »
Slow Saturday Special: WWIII War Games
*And we lost, Americans.... *
"Plymouth native emulates enemy in Air Force war games" by Bryan Bender |
Globe Staff, February 23, 2013
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — At supersonic speed, the 32-year-old Plymouth
native climbed high over the Nevada desert on a mission for the fictitious
enemy nation of Coyote. Often on such occasions, Air Force Major Scott
Snider’s comrades fire up the *Russian national anthem* beforehand as a *rallying
cry against the United States*.
But Snider is no enemy of America. Quite the opposite.
His job is to train fellow pilots to prevail in mortal *comb... more »
As the Sequester Festers
Denying Republican claims that she is out to frighten people with scare
tactics, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today warned that we are
at horrible risk of a terror attack unless we continue pouring money into
the voracious maw of the Orwellian surveillance state (a/k/a the tax-immune
defense/spy industry.)
And almost as if reinforce that salient point, her published remarks on *The
Hill* blog were accompanied by this cookie-generated advertisement from
Boeing -- showing a menacing predator drone about to swoop down at you at
the stroke of twilight:
You may or may not see thi... more »
Sunday Globe Special: China Maps Out WWIII
*Just taking a look at one and you can see the front lines.*
"China wages quiet war of maps over disputed islands; Picking up the pace
of research to bolster claims" by William Wan | Washington Post, February
24, 2013
BEIJING — Bitter maritime disputes between China and its neighbors have
recently sent fighter jets scrambling, ignited violent protests, and seen
angry fishermen thrown in jail. But beneath all the *bellicose rhetoric and
threatening posture*, China also has been waging a quiet campaign — using
ancient documents, academic research, maps, and technical data — to bolst... more »
UN Staff at Golan Missing- The story changes
* Check the update at the bottom*
* The Austrian has now become a Canadian...... this sets off many warning
bells*
*
*
*Carl Kampo, Austria-born legal advisor to force monitoring ceasefire
abducted on February 7.*
*Why is the story being reported on at this time?*
An advisor to the commander of the United Nations force monitoring the
ceasefire in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) was kidnapped on February 7.
According to reports, *Carl Kampo is a legal advisor from Austria*. No
further details were immediately available and the report has not been
officially confirmed.
The United Nations... more »
A Retabulation of Tables Already Tabulated
Excerpted from an essay in *The New Age* in 1917. (Unabridged audio
recordings of the parts of the essay at the links.)
Part I (sound file, 12:21)
Now, apart from intensive national propaganda, quite apart from German
national propaganda, the 'university system' of Germany is evil. It is
evil wherever in penetrates. Its 'universal pervasiveness' is a poisonous
and most pestilent sort of pervasiveness. The drug is insidious and
attractive.
It is...the only system whereby every local nobody is able to imagine
himself a somebody. It is in essence a provincialism....
Its action i... more »
Sunday Globe Special: WWIII Will Begin in Syria
*I think we are already in it; however, this will be the official
demarcation line of history, much like Sarajevo in 1914 and Poland in 1939.
*
"Tehran declares attack on Syria would be attack on Iran; Rebel tunnels
used to smuggle weapons found" by Bassem Mroue and Ali Akbar Dareini |
Associated Press, January 27, 2013
BEIRUT — Issuing Tehran’s strongest warning to date, a top Iranian official
said Saturday that any attack on Syria would be deemed an attack on Iran, a
sign that it will do all it can to protect embattled Syrian President
Bashar Assad.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide... more »
Elsewhere: Budget
Well, I found out today that the phone lines here at Plain Blog World
Headquarters can't withstand a mild breeze, and so blogging was slower than
expected (it was a bit windy; I wound up getting disconnected and having to
reboot four times so far. Not fun).
But I do have new posts out, both about sequestration, elsewhere. At Greg's
place, I hit the GOP for pretending that the 2012 elections never happened.
Truth is that the GOP rhetoric surrounding the budget has gone from weak to
weaker...there's just no way that anyone is going to be convinced by what
they are saying. Not, of cou... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Timberon, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Stranger Than Fiction..."
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as
used to it.”
- H. L. Mencken
SUMMER SNIPPETS: ‘The Mystery of Capital’
*More snippets from some of my summer reading, this time from Peruvian
economist Hernando de Soto’s 2003 classic* The Mystery of Capital*, the
work that brought home to all those who read it that what the have-nots
have not is at root* property rights*, without which they will forever
remain without.*
“The major stumbling block that keeps the rest of the world from benefiting
from capitalism is its inability to produce capital. Capital is the force
that raises the productivity of labour and creates the wealth of nations.
It is the lifeblood of the capitalist system, the foundation... more »
Untitled
4 years in prison for New Orleans corruption figure with Nova Scotia ties
~South Coast Today
Untitled
*Why the New Orleans Saints should draft Tyrann Mathieu ~BlackandGold.com*
"America's Spiritual Death: It's Time to Learn the Dark History
*"America's Spiritual Death: It's Time to Learn the Dark History *
*of the U.S. You Were Robbed of*... *and Oliver Stone Will Help"*
By Fred Branfman
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
-Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam” speech, April 4, 1967
"I recently watched all 10 episodes of Oliver Stone's "Untold History of
the United States" (on Showtime). I strongly recommend it to everyone, but
particularly to America's young people who have been robbed of a most
preci... more »
Sunday Globe Specials: Splitting Up Syria
*Even though "the sects have coexisted for decades (if not longer).*
*
**You know, I recall seeing a balkanized map of the Middle East long ago, a
purview of the neo-con globe-kickers, and it contained a split-up Syria.*
"Assad loyalists could try to form new state in port city" New York
Times, December 23, 2012
TARTUS, Syria — Loyalists who support the government of President Bashar
Assad are *flocking to the Mediterranean port of Tartus, creating an
overflowing boomtown far removed* from the tangled, *scorched rubble that
now mars most* Syrian cities.
There are no shellings or air... more »
The Six Million lie dissected.
*Six Million My Ass, by RyDawson, with comments by Mothman7777*
3,500,000 Jews lived in all of wartime German-occupied Europe.
2,200,000 left to live in Russia before the outbreak of serious wartime
hostilities.
Before the outbreak of war the world population of Jews was 15,000,000, in
1951 there were 15,450,000 Jews. That is despite the huge number whom had
left German occupied Europe either before, or during the war. Several
censuses exist to confirm those facts, some of them compiled by Jewish
organizations themselves.
250,000 Jews were never deported from France.
50,000 Zionis... more »
Slow Saturday Special: The Pied Piper of New York City
"Plenty
of rat stories, and plenty of doubt, in wake of Sandy in NYC" by
David B. Caruso | Associated Press, February 23, 2013
NEW YORK — At the height of Hurricane Sandy, city residents watching
seawater pour into the subway system couldn’t help but wonder: What will
become of all the rats?
Four months later, that’s still a mystery.
And experts aren’t so sure about stories of *hordes of displaced
rodents*fleeing the flood zone and taking up residence in buildings that
were
previously rat-free.
TV stations and newspapers have been rife with reports about rats
infesting
parked car... more »
Thats the way you do it
Refreshing to see somebody on the teevee challenging the GOP claptrap. In
contrast to the dozens of stenographic posts carefully transcribing Bobby
Jindal's word salad, delivered moments after the White House governor's
confab, CNN business correspondent Ali Velshi calls out Gov. Bobby Jindal's
nonsense:
*VELSHI*: It’s 3% of a small part of the federal budget which makes it a
very big part of some major agencies. It’s misleading stuff Bobby Jindal is
saying, number one. Number two when he says families understand they have
to live within their budget. I don’t know a lot of families... more »
Confirmed, spyware in ALL cell phones.
*This co Carrier IQ has offices world wide what they do is provide
operational analysis (so they say) What it actually does is they record
every key stroke, every web page visited, every text message is stored and
then sent to Carrier IQ computer. They say to trust them. If there was ever
a real target for anonymous hive, this one is it...How ever this may just
be a front Co for the American secret agency. We already know that
CHOICEPOINT* is owned by ex NSA employees. Besides false identities and
biographies are very easy to create especially by the people who make the
passports.... more »
A Real Crash As Fake Movies Honored (Argo and Zero Dark Thirty - Honored?) Positively Surreal!
Yes, this was written before the Oscar was trashed, but the reviews are
dead on. Don't miss the comments! They tell even more of the tale.
Saturday, February 23, 2013 Oscar Prints the Legend: Argo's Upcoming
Academy Award and the Failure of Truth One year ago, after his
breathtakingly beautiful Iranian drama, "A Separation," won the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Film, writer/director
Time to Redefine the Term “soft power”?
The broad goal of this blog, to the credit of its founders, is to bridge
the gap between foreign policy practitioners and foreign policy scholars.
Prior to joining it recently, I have known its reputation for doing just
that. While in government I kept a mental note every time I came across a
policymaker who
Continue reading
We Warned You Eliot Engel Isn't Fit To Lead House Democrats On The Foreign Relations Committee
Eliot Engel represents AIPAC in Congress, which means he puts Israel's
interests above America's. He shouldn't be in Congress to begin with but he
certainly should not be the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Back in 2002 when Bush was looking for backing for his plans for unprovoked
war against Iraq, he knew he couldn't do it without bipartisan support. He *
literally* couldn't do it in the House, where he didn't have enough
Republican votes. But he found 81 Democrats to rubber stamp his decision.
Most Democrats-- 126 + Independent Bernie Sanders-- voted ag... more »
Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colonial-shame-slaveowners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition-8508358.html
*Britain's
colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition*
*David Cameron's ancestors were among the wealthy families who received
generous reparation payments that would be worth millions of pounds in
today's money*
SANCHEZ MANNING SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2013
The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid
bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families
received
the modern equivalent of billion... more »
Nathan Rothschild Loses Libel Suit
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-loses-libel-case-and-reveals-secret-world-of-money-and-politics-6720015.html
*
*
*Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and
politics*
*Thanks to billionaire's legal battle, we now know a lot more about how
the
super-rich work*
TOM PECK SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2012
With his long limbs and delicate gait, Lord Mandelson could no doubt
manage
a quite convincing turn in Thunderbirds.
He'd find Jeff Tracy most convivial: a billionaire astronaut with his
own
Pacific island, and now, it seems, he even has hi... more »
"How It Really Is"
And if you believe any of these clowns... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
REM, "Man on the Moon"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5ojx_ldHs5M&feature=endscreen
Google Glass
Well if you don't find it annoying to have something permanently hanging in
your peripheral vision, I guess Google's new glasses look pretty cool.
Seems to be the general reaction on my social nets. Me, I'm creeped out by
it. Feels like one step away from assimilation into the Borg. Very Three of
Five. Call me Hugh...
[via TPM]
Mass Extinction...a Burgeoning Meme
*Death Comes to the Banquet Table* ~ Giovanni Martinelli, 1635
Inspired by art, literature, music, drama and ancient legends in every
culture going back as far as time takes us, humans have been admonished to
remember the inevitability of our individual deaths. Periodically there
have even been cautionary figures who claimed to confront the foreknowledge
of the total end of, if not our species, our civilization. Lately it seems
such a cacophony is swelling, and reaching a crescendo. Those who, however
inadvisedly, attempt to warn people of converging catastrophes, are
compelled t... more »
are we really all connected? who is it too dangerous for?
this section is called LETHAL REALITY, and for good reason
THIS REASON
we are not supposed to realise we're all connected
INSTEAD
we waste our time protecting what we 'have been told' is ours; *OUR
PROPERTY, OUR SAVINGS, OUR PROFIT*
without realising that *the real lethal reality* is this, "We're all and
the same entity, sharing multiple timespaces," and somebody has been trying
real hard FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS to make you forget this one truth.
:)
BEFORE SANDY HOOK - SHOOTING AT JEWISH CENTRE IN LA 1999
*Joshua Stepakoff, one of the victims of the shootings at the North Valley
Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles on 10 October1999.*
*
*
"News of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was all the more
poignant for survivors of the 1999 shooting at the North Valley Jewish
Community Center...
"Survivor *Ben Kadish *was only six years old when white supremacist *Buford
Furrow, Jr*. walked into the community center and shot 70 bullets into the
lobby.
"The barrage hit him in his leg and his abdomen."
*dailymail*
*Ben Kadish*
No Jewish people were killed in the shootings.
*... more »
3rd illegal refueling operation by whale poachers blocked – Japan sends military ice breaker into Australia waters to intervene; Canberra remains silent
[image: A 'flash bang' concussion grenade from the Nisshin Maru explodes on
the fuel tanker Sun Laurel, a vessel so combustible that smoking is not
permitted on the ship, 25 February 2013. Also visible on the Bob Barker's
deck are barrels of unleaded petrol and aviation turbine fuel (ATF), which
is highly combustible. The Nisshin Maru is ramming the Bob Barker, with the
intent of sandwiching the Bob against the Sun Laurel. Photo: Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society]
25 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – Sea Shepherd Australia has
successfully blocked a third attempt to refuel ... more »
Egyptian Nubian Leader Hints at Armed Operations against Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian Nubian Leader Hints at Armed Operations against Muslim
Brotherhood. Source: MEMRI TV.
"Sequestration: Washington's Stupid, Destructive Game"
*"Sequestration:*
* Washington's Stupid, Destructive Game" *
by Richard Eskow
"It's Monday morning in America. That means we're about to endure another
week of pointless debate over the precise methods by which our federal
government will impose more needless misery on the hapless population,
instead of addressing its eminently fixable economic problems. Readers of
our nation's newspapers might be forgiven for believing that the citizens
of our nation have been condemned to some sort of quotidian hell as
punishment for our collective crimes, where we must suffer the pangs of
de... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Papal Politics
*Web Globe cut the printed sermon short!*
"Rumors of scandal point to rocky path for papal conclave; Leaks meant to
hurt candidates, observers say" by Rachel Donadio | New York
Times, February 24, 2013
VATICAN CITY — In recent days, often speculative reports — some even
alleging *gay sex scandals in the Vatican*, others focusing on particular
cardinals stung by the child sex abuse crisis — have dominated headlines in
Italian news media, suggesting fierce internal struggles as prelates
scramble to consolidate power and attack enemies in the dying days of a
troubled papacy.
The re... more »
Pumas descansando sobre los árboles
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Fiduciaries do not always act qua fiduciary
Simkeslak Investments Limited v. Kolter Yonge LP Limited, 2013 ONCA 116
holds:
[16] Not all actions taken by a person in a *per se* fiduciary
relationship – that is, in a category of relationship in which a fiduciary
relationship has been traditionally recognized – attract a fiduciary
obligation. The presumption that in a*per se* fiduciary relationship one
party has a duty to act in the best interests of the other is rebuttable: *Hodgkinson
v. Simms*, [1994] 3 S.C.R. 377, paras. 31 and 124. That presumption was
rebutted in this case. We do not give effect to the appellants' ... more »
Bella playa con palmeras y un cielo espectacular
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Slow motion disaster
The only sensible thing to do at this late hour would be to just cancel the
stupid sequester. But this is D.C. so it's going to happen because,
crackpot cons need a Potemkin victory to please the angry rubes back home.
GOPers are betting they can pin it on Obama, but the polling says
otherwise. A vast majority, even among unengaged voters, know who to blame
for the sequester. It won't be Obama.
The problem is, though it's being spun as a world shattering disaster, the
effects won't be immediately apparent to regular people who don't depend on
government paychecks. But if it's allow... more »
Increible campo de flores rojas y árboles
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Slow Saturday Special: Grilloing the Italian Electorate
*How
do you like your rigged elections?*
"Comic’s protest movement shakes up Italy election" by Colleen Barry |
Associated Press, February 23, 2013
MILAN — The burly man with a shock of silver curls and a scruffy beard
gesticulates wildly on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, unleashing a sprawling
*diatribe
against the political establishment*.
‘‘Send them home, send them home!’’ Beppe Grillo cries as *tens of
thousands of supporters* send up a deafening cheer.
Crisis-hit Italians are fed up. And no one is *tapping that vein of
outrage*better than comic-turned-political agitator Grillo an... more »
Frutas frescas recién cortadas para un rico postre
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The Hard Truth About Unconventional Fossil Fuel
When it comes to unconventional fossil fuels, the majority of Canadian
politicians, federal and provincial, fall into two categories - idiots or
featherbedders.
*The Tyee* has this eye-opener from geologist David Hughes, a gas and oil
specialist for Natural Resources Canada for 32-years.
*Unconventional fossil fuels all share a host of cruel and limiting traitssays Hughes. They
offer dramatically fewer energy returns; they consume extreme and endless
flows of capital; they provide difficult or volatile rates of supply
overtime and have "large environmental impacts in their extract... more »
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families ...and a video
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*ESSAY OF THE WEEK*
Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
Their names are Carol, Steve & Jackie, Susan, Marilyn & Robert, and
Christine. They share a bond. Two bonds, actually: They all own, or owned,
farms. And those farms, along with their own health and the health of their
farm animals, have all been ruined by fracking.
More than 600,000 fracking wells and waste injection sites have popped up
all over the country, according to ProPublica. The oil and gas industry,
a... more »
The Economy: “Leaders? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Leaders”
*“Leaders? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Leaders” *
by Bill Bonner
“Leaders – you're better off without them!
The problem with the Fed-fueled stock market rally is that you can't trust
it. It's not based on anything solid. Investors are not really investing in
solid companies that are expected to produce solid growth and profits in
the years ahead. They're speculating that the Fed's EZ money will boost
share prices. Maybe it will. And maybe it won't. It seems likely, to us at
least, that money printing by the Fed will push up the stock market. But it
also seems likely that people wi... more »
Pit River protecting Medicine Lake Highlands from industrial development
PIT RIVER TRIBE OF CALIFORNIA UNANIMOUSLY
RESOLVES TO PROTECT MEDICINE LAKE HIGHLANDS
FROM INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
By Morning Star Gali
Pit River Tribe
Censored News
BURNEY, Calif. – On February 15, 2013, The Pit River Tribe unanimously affirmed a
resolution opposing geothermal and other industrial developments in the sacred
Medicine Lake Highlands.
The resolution affirms
2012 and GOP Candidates
Dave Weigel on Friday argued that there's been too much emphasis on
disastrous GOP Senate candidates, especially the Tea Party ones; Ramesh
Ponnuru follows up on that today by pointing out (again) that Mitt Romney
ran ahead of most GOP Senate candidates. I think I agree with the main
point each of them makes...but there's a lot going on here. I'll go
bullet-point style:
* As I've said many times, the out-party candidate challenging an incumbent
president just isn't very important.
* The big thing that the out-party candidate can get wrong is being
perceived as an ideological outlie... more »
A Message from Heather: Almost Every Loan, If Not Every Loan is Fraud...No Loan Was Made
*Almost Every Loan, If Not Every Loan is Fraud...No Loan Was Made*
Heather shared this message in a Skype chat, and I thought it was well
worth sharing. I asked for permission (just like we did with the Poof
interview lol) and here was her response:
Heather: Sure...go for it...just post also with data that loan and debt
are two different concepts, legally, lawfully, factually and as a matter of
public policy.
*The following dialogue is pulled directly from the Skype conversation:*
Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf:
QUESTION HAS BEEN POPPING UP REGARDING STUD... more »
DRONES DO NOT EXIST
In a rare admission, Robert Gibbs, the former White House Press Secretary
under Obama, told reporters Sunday that he was ordered to act as if there
was no such thing as an active US drone program.
“When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the
first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone
program,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes” this past weekend.
**
Gibbs said that he was told “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.”
Nihilism And The Republican Party Establishment-- What Would McKinley And His Backers Say?
Let me introduce the essential video above with a tweet from Sen. Bernie
Sanders yesterday: "93% of all new income generated between 2009 & 2010
went to the top 1% while the bottom 99% split the remaining 7%. #Sequester
One of the most memorable moments in the History Channel's rabidly
pro-capitalist series, *The Men Who Built America*, came when predatory
titans John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie decided to make
Republican Party hack William McKinley president and destroy the political
career of populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan ("the Great Commoner,"
... more »
Fully Funded, Any Time, Any Reason
Well, this isn't working very well.
Virulent anti-choice Jeff Watson, MP for Essex, Ontario, had an notion for
a poll at his website.
Recently, as parliament debated M-312 to establish a committee to
re-examine Canada's 400 year-old law defining a human being, the founder
and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada called
fully taxpayer-funded abortion, at any time, for any reason - including for
sex-selection or as birth control - a basic woman's right.
Which best describes your position:
3464 total votes
I support fully taxpayer-funded abortion, at any time... more »
Siberia permafrost thaw warning sparked by cave data – ‘Significant thawing could affect vast areas and release billions of tonnes of carbon’
[image: Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature
rise of 1.5C could see permafrost thaw over a large area of Siberia. More
than a trillion tonnes of the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane could be
released into the atmosphere as a result. Photo: Sebastian FM Breitenbach]
22 February 2013 (BBC) – Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a
global temperature rise of 1.5C could see permafrost thaw over a large area
of Siberia.
A study shows that more than a trillion tonnes of the greenhouse gases CO2
and methane could be released into the atmosphere as a result... more »
Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the Vatican and Canada for Genocide
*Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the
Vatican and Canada for Genocide*
**
*Pope, Queen and Canadian Prime Minister found Guilty of Crimes against
Humanity and Sentenced to Twenty Five Year Prison Terms*
**
*Court Orders them to Surrender by March 4 or face Citizens' Arrests*
**
Here's the direct link: http://itccs.org/2013/02/25/guilty/
Brussels: Pope Benedict will go to jail for twenty five years for his role
in Crimes against Humanity, and Vatican wealth and property is to be
seized, according to today's historic verdict of the Interna... more »
Nobody is Safe Anymore. No One, Nowhere.
It's the latest, greatest thing in the Pentagon's toybox - MAVs. Micro Air
Vehicles like those shown in the following video already exist and they
could take your last shreds of privacy. They could even take your life.
And here's the civilian version of the Dragonfly MAV developed for the U.S.
Air Force. You can buy your own, limited performance, civilian version
starting at a hundred bucks. The Dragonfly makers will even sell you your
own "swarm."
What the military is doing is to develop better power, communications and
control systems for their MAVs. The civilian stuf... more »
Heads Up!
Today we begin the final stretch for this month. It is your range of
vision that determines the proximity of the goal. How far are you looking
ahead?
What is known about some humans is that as they age, they tend to trip and
fall. It was assumed for a long time that this was due to physical
deterioration. This is not true. It is because of change of focus. Some
of us will start to limit our options and capabilities, while decreasing
our world view. As we walk, rather than focus on the destination, we look
at our feet. Fear sets in. We watch only each step we take.
... more »
A Warming World Equals Work Loss
Most of us realize that it's a lot harder to work on those really hot,
humid days. Climate change is bringing us more hot, humid days and there
are more to come in the future. Ergo, we're facing a drop in labour
capacity.
Hot and humid has worsened over the past six decades to inflict a 10% drop
in labour capacity on those scorcher days. That's expected to double by
2050.
*To figure out the stress of working in hotter, wetter conditions, experts
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked at military
and industrial guidelines already in place for heat str... more »
HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES?
- Today I am preparing for two events. One is the drone hearing at
Maine's state house tomorrow at 1:30 pm where a bill to ban drones in our
state will be heard. I will try to make a statement if possible. The
second is a seminar I've been invited to in San Francisco this weekend
called *Techno-Utopianism--- Killing the World. *The meeting will "explore
the negative role of recent generations of technological 'advancement.' The
idea is to challenge the fundamental world-views of our society that
celebrate and embrace the inevitable virtues of technologi... more »
Sunday Globe Special: A-Rod Stole Charity Cash
*Globe caught him stealing.... *
*
**"A foundation started by New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez gave
only 1 percent of proceeds to charity during its first year of operation in
2006, then stopped submitting mandatory financial reports to the IRS"*
*I've heard of low batting averages before, but....*
"In nonprofit game, athletes post losing records; Some true benefactors,
but Globe finds others give little of what’s raised" by Callum Borchers |
Globe Staff, February 24, 2013
However low Josh Beckett’s public esteem sank toward the end of his
six-plus seasons in Boston, ... more »
RoboCon : Michael Sona and Sun News Network
Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he
was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear
Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph
robocalls election fraud. Sona :
"I contacted a few people at [Con] headquarters and I just said I wanna
know what's going on. Like why am I being thrown out here because *Sun News
is you know kind of an alternate method of getting press releases and other
stories out from the party, right? I mean everyone knows that, right? It's
just a standard comm's tactic. An... more »
On the road to Tomalá, and the miracle spring
So there I was in Tomalá, having coffee with the mayor, perched on a couch
in a dark living room, bags of newly harvested coffee stacked along the
wall.
I had been minding my own business, sitting outside on the hotel’s plastic
chairs, working on case studies on a couple of interesting women’s projects
being done by OCDIH, the NGO I’m helping. (We love acronyms in development
land.)
Then the mom of the family who owned the hotel brought her son, Edgar, and
pushed him to talk to me. Last year, they sent him and his younger sister
to an English-language collegio - high school - in a to... more »
Austerity ( the FauxConsensus?) Isn't Even Close To the Right Word (It's F A S C I S M!): Plan to Further Enrich the World's Wealthy, Privatize Medicaid in FL, and Take Over Once and For All
Well, it's certainly not Austerity for them (now is it?). I like the way
our American Everyman 'splains it. And if you read to end of this essay you
will understand how extreme wealth has deadened the "carriers." The Opiate
of the Disenfranchised by willyloman by Scott Creighton First things first:
let's stop calling this global neo-liberal class war "austerity". It's not
austerity.
Chris Hadfield - Rockstar
*The Guardian* is singing the praises of Canadian fighter jock, test pilot
and astronaut, the soon-to-be ISS commander, Chris Hadfield. This line
says it all:
*"...he is on the way to becoming a breakthrough star in his own right, the
first internationally recognisable astronaut since the grainy black and
white television images made Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the original
Apollo astronauts into superstars."*
It's a good read. Check it out.* *
If You Talk Like an Activist - You Must Be Drunk or Delirious
Found a little bit of interesting blog reading this morning. And the
entirety of the multiple entries hit a sore spot with me - I had to
publish.
An Indiana activist/voter and teacher – – took the time to write a letter
to their legislators – demanding that they not pass specific pieces of ALEC
education legislation and demanding that pro-corporate/privatization ALEC
legislators be removed from the house education committee.
*READ THE LETTER*
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
Well……………
One of the ALEC-ers that the activist wanted removed from the education
committee was
Sen. James Buck (R - T... more »
On the Edge
Nuclear war is not survivable, but we may not even survive the damaged
caused by our collapsing global nuclear power plant infrastructure.
Nuclear power plants built in the 1960s-1980s are suffering major
structural breakdowns and the utilities and governments don't want to fix
them because of the costs.
So, everyone looks the other way and the nuclear power plants contaminate
their environment with routine emissions and cataclysmic meltdowns.
The public is too ignorant or apathetic (or both) to stop this assault
against the human genome.
But, it seems that the human race wants ... more »
How Finance Avoids Paying the Same Taxes Everyone Else Does
A Costly and Unjust Perk for Financiers By LYNN FORESTER de
ROTHSCHILDPublished: February 24, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/opinion/carried-interest-an-unjust-privilege-for-financiers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130225&_r=0OF
the many injustices that permeate America’s byzantine tax code, few are
as
outrageous as the tax rate on “carried interest” — the profits made by
private equity and hedge fund managers, as well as venture capitalists
and
partners in real estate investment trusts....
While the tax legislation passed on Jan. 1 increased the top
individual-inc... more »
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