Sunday, March 24, 2013

24 March - Blogs I'm Following

British Iraq War ProtestBritish Iraq War Protest (Photo credit: DJOtaku)
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How to Tame a Zombie

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 18 minutes ago
New zombie show *In the Flesh* (BBC Three, Sundays, 10pm) is an interesting take on a well-trodden genre. Taking place in a contemporary setting, cadavers have crawled out their graves and, with a nod toward the spoof *Return of the Living Dead*, roam Britain to satisfy their hunger for brains. UKIP folk can chillax, then. But, in an interesting twist, science rides to the rescue. Zombies desire the contents of your cranium because they have lost the ability to reproduce a certain set of brain cells necessary to keep them animated. Scientists are able to synthesis these cells and ap... more »

Dewey Cheatham & Howe: Cyprus Edition

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 30 minutes ago
Do the outrages never end? While Cypriot working stiffs are at least temporary spared from having their bank accounts seized by the Eurozone Austerity Brigade, and nobody really cares whether the murderous Russian oligarchy has to take a haircut, stuck right in the middle are the countless innocent victims in the international tax-evading business community. The world's off-shorers have been swept up in the massive financial tsunami hitting this island Club Med of Sheltered Wealth. Poor expatriates. They thought they came to Cyprus for the waters. But like Rick in *Casablanca*, they... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 35 minutes ago
I'll stick with Iraq, but try to find something a bit different...we've heard plenty from Democrats who supported the Iraq War in 2002/2003 and are now apologizing for it; we've also heard a fair amount from Democrats who opposed the war then and are pointing out now that they were correct to do so. So putting all that aside: for liberals those who opposed the war then, were there any lessons that they should have learned from what happened, either in the run-up to the war or after it began?

Channeling the Free Planet?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 1 hour ago
"Creativity, passion and kinship are the key to custodian liberation," Mike what does that even mean? It's like this stream of consciousness, *that maybe all professional writers experience as cynical as they might think their commercial three-act wares are*, poured out of me and entry after entry in the Free Planet section of this blog scrawled forth, lifted from the ether. I came to a conclusion tonight, solely based on the fact that "I don't believe in that stuff", that I seriously might be Channeling the whole Free Planet message. And I don't like the idea that my thoughts are... more »

A Family Budget Is Not Comparable To A Government Budget-- Unless Your Goal Is To Mislead Your Listener

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
Over the course of the last year, we've spent a lot of time going over Joshua Holland's wonderful book, The Fifteen Biggest Lies About The Economyand you may have noticed that we often use the above graphic to introduce the discussion. A graphic like that could work just as well to introduce Michael Tomasky's column for the *Daily Beast* Saturday, The GOP's Three Fiscal Lies. I've been waiting-- and waiting and waiting-- for Professor Obama to come out one day and explain, precisely, why the GOP obsession with budget deficits is utter bullshit designed to trick the American people.... more »

Pop Popular Understandings of Game of Thrones and Nerd Blogging Friday Two Days Late

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
My post at e-ir on how folks understand IR and its manifestations in Game of Thrones is eclipsed by this series of videos. For the conclusion with heaps of paens to teen movies:

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour ago
I suppose I'm a few days late for this, but: what lessons, if any, do you think the Republican Party has learned from the Iraq War? What lessons should the party have learned?

Alone

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 hour ago
So, Kurt had to take a business trip to Tampa/Orlando this weekend. He left Thursday after morning court and will be back shortly. He had to drive (long story). So, I am anxiously waiting for him to get home. It's kinda pathetic how at a loss I am without him here for one short weekend. But, I guess it's good I still like him this much after 16 plus years! :). I had a pretty chill weekend. I stayed home for most of it, and relaxed. I worked part of the day on Saturday (it was my and Kurt's Saturday to work, so he got out of that, bastard!), and today, I went over to Jessica... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
Sunday and yes, I am on vacation, but as promised I would do my weekly rant.... I will also be doing the rant for Sunday March 31st, after a much needed break. I have been under so much stress the last while that I decided to take a break for a week....Work has been atrociously busy, and with all the troubles with personal issues especially with the recent illness of my mother, I decided to take a break to avoid burn out. I am still under fire for my stance that the Jews are absolutely NOT a distinctive race. There has been nothing that I have seen over the last few weeks that h... more »

Tea Party turns on Fox News

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
If your March Madness bracket is broken or you just didn't care about basketball in any case, here's some amusing reading for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Loving this one. Tea Party types are boycotting Fox because it's too liberal now. Funniest sentence in the whole piece: “We have seen FOX suddenly get very loud about Benghazi after the 1st boycott, but conservatives are conservative because they are not stupid,” the website reads. And actually, I guess they're not entirely imbeciles. Another guy had this to say: “The more I research into Fox—I saw that they donate more to Democr... more »

ROTHSCHILD; PHILBY; ANGLETON

Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
*Victor Rothschild* * * It's not Zionists versus fascists. It's the feudal elite and their mafias versus the rest. "Lord Victor Rothschild ... made Churchill's decisions, including the bombing of the food trains into the concentration camps, and the continued strafing of the inmates. "Rothschild is on record as saying; *"'There will be no room in the new country for shnorrers' (poor Jews) * "He only wanted the rich powerful and influential for the new land, the rest were to be sacrificed." *The Truth Seeker - The Biggest Secret of World War II* *Blade on the Feather* (1980)... more »

Kerry Demands Iraq Stop "Arms Flow" to Syria even as US Arms/Funds Al Qaeda

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - Absurd demands were put forth by US Secretary of State John Kerry, regarding Iraqi airspace and alleged aircraft passing through it with arms and cash supposedly destined for the Syrian government. The Washington Post reported in its article, "Kerry: Iraq helping Syria’s Assad by allowing arms flow," that: Iraq is helping to shore up the besieged regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by allowing Iranian arms and fighters to cross into Syria from Iraq, Secretary of State John F. Kerry charged Sunday. During an unannounced trip to Baghdad, Kerry lobbie... more »

"For This Is What We Do..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on." - Gregory David Roberts, “Sha... more »

Fuck Them! (Or Not) It's Only Fair

Well, considering their past actions, you can't say they don't know what they want. And are not shy about letting US know. You'd wouldn't be surprised if they actually took up arms and led the new Crusade against their own countrymen, er, -women. Except, of course, this is the antiwar (chicken hawk) group. They are always against wars they have to fight in personally. (Credit: AP/Christian

Another example of Israeli apartheid policy

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
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alternatives to google reader at replacereader.com

laura k at wmtc - 2 hours ago
Since blog comments are not a very useful way of sharing information, I'll post this again here. A list of alternatives to Google Reader can be found at ReplaceReader. I'm very interested in this, even though I stopped using Google Reader a long time ago. I tried several times, and each time found that using any feed service hugely exacerbated that feeling of drowning in too much information. Worse, using a feed reader triggered my anxiety about not having enough time, just about the last thing I need. Thus my own internet reading continues to be the only thing in my life that is p... more »

Weekend Update

Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours ago
Well, really more of a week update. Monday was the Spring Birthday Celebration at Outback. Which is in part all about Southern Man. Southern Brother Southern Children and Nephews. Heads, from left to right: nephew, son, nephew, nephew, nephew, daughter. Youngest Southern Niece with her mother and grandmother. Also, new glasses! A good time was had by all. The rest of the week was actually fairly relaxed as Teen Daughter was (mostly) content to hang at the Ancestral Manor with her grandparents. Southern Man had dinner there 'most every night and many games were played afterward... more »

Michigan's Primer on Destroying Democracy

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
*from the bottom up.* *Kill local democratically elected government first. * From Common Dreams Democracy Betrayed in a Bloodless Coup in Detroit by Greg Bowens A bloodless coup of the largest democratically elected government in our state has occurred. Detroit has an emergency financial manager. As Americans, we should be ashamed. Those charged with defending the principals of our republic betray it instead. … as the power of the executive and legislative branch is placed in the hands of one person. No invading army of communists is at the door. No terrorist insurrection has oc... more »

JRE #331 - Dr. Steven Greer

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
*Sirius Documentary.* YouTube Video Description - [Channel: PowerfulJRE. Uploaded on March 4, 2013]: JRE #331 - Dr. Steven Greer, Brian Redban

Bill Burr on Prepping for Disaster

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Anthro podcastic]: 11/12/2012 Clip from Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast. Listen on iTunes http://billburr.com http://allthingscomedy.com

Will you still need me, when I'm 54

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
This piece was written by a woman of relative privilege. She's not worried about where her next meal is coming from, or how to keep a roof over her head. But these grafs could apply to anyone who lost good paying jobs after the crash of 08. Thing is, with unemployment still too high and advancing technology allowing big employers to wring greater productivity out of fewer workers, "leaning in" is a cruel joke on 50something women: Leaning in isn’t really an option for women like Marie and me, because frankly, it’s not even that easy to get someone to take our calls. In a world wher... more »

ALEC Allegedly "Vilified" - Right Counterfarts

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
But the one thing the vast left-wing media do want you to forget is that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy supporting it. That was the closing sentence in an op-ed yesterday – but NOWHERE in the entire op-ed did the writer display anything remotely tied to the preponderance of “vast left wing media” Wake up this morning and turn on the TV - and all I see on the Sunday talk shows is a gaggle of righties - telling me what they think I should believe. Would someone PLEASE point out the “vast left wing media" to me? I sure as hell can’t find it in Minneapolis/ St Paul or on the crap... more »

Watch the World Come Alive - A Vision

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
A vision from Dream Hopper: There is your higher self and there is you; separated into this image projected into 3D. You have forgotten how to access everything BUT the image (you) projected into the dream (3D world). There will be a release of this incredible amount of energy that will alter your understanding of your 3D projection in this dream. It is as if you had a huge cylinder of water with a spicket at the bottom. The only thing you are conscious of is the spicket. The water has always been there, you just weren’t aware of it. This “moment” is like a rel... more »

Ellen Brown Explains Basel Recommendation to Tax Depositors in Bank Failures

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
Majia here: Ellen Brown explains a Basel proposal to reduce 'moral hazard' by the banks by eliminating free bailouts and forcing all banking participants to bear the costs, including bank depositors. In principle, this approach is seen as a strategy for enforcing market disciplines upon financial players. In reality this approach will cause victims of bank malfeasance to pay for the costs of that malfeasance: *Ellen Brown *The Cyprus Bank Battle: The Long-planned Deposit Confiscation Scheme: A Safe and a Shotgun or Public Sector Banks? http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cyprus-bank... more »

Graph of the Day: New Zealand soil moisture deficit, January 2013

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago
[image: New Zealand soil moisture deficit compared with historical average, January 2013. End of month water balance in the pasture root zone for an average soil type where the available water capacity is taken to be 150 mm. Graphic: NIWA] 4 March 2013 (NIWA) – February rainfall totalled less than 15 mm (and also less than 15 percent of February normal) in parts of Northland, Auckland, and the Bay of Plenty. It was the driest February on record for Leigh (north Auckland), and Milford Sound. In the case of Leigh, it was also the driest month (of any month) in records which began in... more »

Sunday Classics: Remembering Risë Stevens

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
*Risë Stevens sings the "*Habañera*" from Act I of Bizet's Carmen -- I gather from a 1951 TV performance.* *by Ken* As I mentioned in Friday night's preview, since Risë Stevens was an important exponenet of a number of roles that have commanded attention here at Sunday Classics that we've already heard a fair amount of her. For the most part, then, today's musical remembrance will involve literal remembrances, with the addition of a couple of items we haven't heard before. The plan couldn't be much simpler: We're just going to revisit each of these classic roles from Stevens's r... more »

Creative Showcase Linky Party

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 5 hours ago
This has been a crazy week for us. It started out with lots of projects and new recipes and ended with our 4-year-old in the hospital. She is still very sick, but finally home. She is napping right now so I thought I would sit down and look at all my favorite's from last week's link-up. Want to be featured on Creative Showcase? Link up your projects, reviews, recipes and any other creative post in the linky below.Here are some of my favorites from last week's linkup. I love fudge. Doesn't this No Bake Malted Milk Fudge from Lemon Tree Dwelling look amazing? You can never go wrong... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Oh that smell. Intoxicating.

Summer in the Sydney carries on into autumn in once-in-a-decade event

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago
[image: Swimmers in Sydney watch the sun rise over the south Curl Curl rock pool. March 2013 overall was hotter than February, something that has happened only 17 times in the past 100 years. Photo: James Brickwood] 25 March 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Sydney is on target for its hottest week since January and hottest March week in a decade, with an average maximum temperature of about 29 degrees. The city has already begun its unusually warm week. On Friday, the mercury rose to 31.8, 6 degrees above the long-term monthly average and the first 30-degree day since January. Betw... more »

Poll question phrasing shifts public views on global warming – ‘Belief that global warming is happening has been mostly stable and increasing for the last thirty years’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago
[image: U.S. belief that global warming is occurring weighed over all polls since 1986 to 2012. How you ask the question skews the results when it comes to public opinion on global warming, finds an analysis of hundreds of polls by The Strategy Team. The public mostly agrees on global warming's reality, it says. Graphic: The Strategy Team] By Dan Vergano 23 March 2013 (USA TODAY) – How you ask the question skews the results when it comes to public opinion on global warming, finds an analysis of hundreds of polls. The public mostly agrees on global warming's reality, it says. The ... more »

RUMOURS OF A COUP IN INDONESIA; KIDNAPPED KIDS

Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago
*Hercules* *On 9 March 2013*, a 'gangster' called Rozario '*Hercules*' Marshal was arrested in Jakarta. Gerindra Speaks Out Against Arrest of Hercules *Hercules* may have been subjected to mind control by US-trained elements of the Indonesian military. *Hercules* runs a private army, reportedly on behalf of former general *Prabowo *Subianto. In 1998, *Prabowo* reportedly toppled Suharto on behalf of the CIA. Indonesia is the world's biggest Moslem nation and it is booming. So, it may be wrecked, just like Tunisia? Indonesia's spy chief, Lt.Gen.Marciano Norman, has said that on... more »

West Drops Syria WMD Narrative As Evidence Points to Western-Armed Terrorists

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours ago
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - For the US, UK, France, and its regional partners including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, nothing would have suited their interests more than if the recent chemical attack reported in Aleppo Syria turned out to be (or could have been portrayed as being) the work of the Syrian government, or even "loose" weapons that had fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda terrorists the West both arms and condemns simultaneously. However, a strange silence has fallen across the Western media regarding the chemical attack which Israel had even claimed to have "confirme... more »

Beautiful, Poignant Editorial

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours ago
Edward Hoagland: Opinion Pity Earth’s Creatures The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/pity-earths-creatures.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130324&_r=0 Majia here: We are self-destructing as a species and most of us cannot even recognize it. Our leaders hope to deceive us about our imminent collapse, thereby escalating our collective suicide.

Beekeepers and activists sue EPA, saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago
[image: Neonicotinoids may affect bees' ability to navigate. Photo: John Walker / Corbis]By Michael Marshall 22 March 2013 The lawyers will be as busy as bees. The long-running row over insecticides linked to declines in bee numbers is going to court. Beekeepers and activists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Neonicotinoids are relatively new chemicals but have already become widely used in recent years because they are taken up by all parts of a plant, giving comprehensive protection against crop pe... more »

Territorial Entrepreneur Wins

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 5 hours ago
We remember speaking as part of a team on Supply Chain opportunities at the UK BA conference back in Dublin in 1998. We knew the statement that would provoke a response was going to be when the final speaker of our team, Mike Shatzkin, would suggest that UK retailers should buy their books from the likes of Ingram in the US. The outrage from some on the day was expected and somewhat overshadowed all else and although the case was somewhat different to the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley recent case, the issue of territorial restrictions and pricing wasn’t. Last week, the US Supreme Court’s rul... more »

If We Only Had a Free Press in Canada

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago
Imagine if Canada had journalists like BBC's Eddie Mair here seen grilling London mayor Boris Johnson. Imagine if someone in Canada had the courage to sit down with Sideshow Steve Harper and take him through his own lies and manipulations. It would be hard to get through that in a half hour but it would be delightful.

LET'S TALK ABOUT JOBS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
- I'm always talking about conversion of the military industrial complex to peaceful production. And when I do that I always mention the definitive jobs study by UMASS-Amherst Economics Department Professor Robert Pollin. And now you can hear from the man himself. - I got lucky this week by having two Op-Eds published in the two biggest newspapers in Maine. The other day my piece was in the Bangor Daily News and this morning the Portland Press Herald ran a similar piece in their Sunday Maine Telegram. You can read it *here*

The losers in the latest U.S. budget deal: the rural poor, EPA, NASA

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago
[image: Press release on Continuing Appropriations Act to Fund Government through September 30, 2013, and to Prevent a Shutdown. Photo: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations] By Suzy Khimm 22 March 2013 (Washington Post) – Both Democrats and Republican leaders celebrated the passage of a short-term budget that averted a government shutdown while blunting some of the worst effects of sequestration. “I am so proud the Senate bill protects national security while meeting compelling human needs. It makes investments in human infrastructure like early childhood education,” Sen. Bar... more »

33 years ago today - the guidestones

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 5 hours ago
The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages' scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge." The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all. One slab stands in the center, with four arrange... more »

Immigrants and Ignorance

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
Another Sunday, another immigrant-bashing headline. Responding to "concerns" (and looking to get favourable headlines, for a change), Dave will announce measures tomorrow to keep immigrants out of social housing. Apparently, no one can get a look-in as Afghans, Iraqis, Somalis and Eritreans have jumped the housing queue. Things are so bad even single mums are getting pushed aside! Never mind this is all a load of rubbish, it's an opportunity for the PM to show how tough he is by attacking yet another group of powerless people. Back when I was a tweenaged Tory, there were a couple o... more »

Scientists plan to save Australia mountain pygmy possum as global warming melts snowy habitat

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago
[image: An Australian mountain pygmy possum is fitted with a tiny radio tracking collar. The rapidly warming climate has contracted the Snowy Mountains' blanket of winter snow that serves as a possum refuge from freezing temperatures when the possums hibernate for six months. Photo: Nick Moir] By Nicky Phillips, Science Reporter 24 March 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Endangered species experts plan to save the mountain pygmy possum from becoming the continent's first climate-change victim. A rapidly warming globe has contracted the Snowy Mountains' blanket of winter snow that ... more »

of god and gods

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 6 hours ago

Waging Class War is One Thing, Winning It Before the Other Side Knows About It is Everything

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours ago
Bad news for working class America, white and blue collar - the class war they never really understood had been waged against them for the past three decades is over and they lost. A team of researchers from the U.S. government and Brookings Institute pored over 350,000 tax returns from 1987 to 2009. The exercise led them to conclude that income inequality is not merely vast but, far worse, permanent . *"For total house-hold income, the large increase in inequality over our sample period was predominantly,though not entirely, permanent. For this broader income category, both the pe... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago
*La. National Guard practices storm response* *Letter to the Editor: ABO Hearing on St. Roch Tavern ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Local landowners can get help restoring private wetlands** * *Film industry workers nervous about proposed changes to tax credits* *Wardell Quezergue Mass 4 pm Today ~WWOZ*

Storyful - Niche Propagandists Work Full-Time Distorting Syria Conflict

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - The Western media monopolies, the same media houses that willfully and repeatedly told lies regarding "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq to help sell the corporate-financier engineered invasion and occupation of the Middle Eastern nation for a decade, have been very busy since. They helped sell NATO and its corporate-financier backers' war of aggression and subjugation against Libya, and has been attempting to sell a repeat of the atrocities committed in North Africa, this time in Syria. They certainly have their hands full. With the emergence of social me... more »

Palm Sunday

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago

Employment Insurance In The Maritimes

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 8 hours ago
Ralph Surette has been around a long time. He has seen politicians come and go. And, for him, Stephen Harper cannot go fast enough: Environmental and fishery laws, our international reputation, the integrity of Parliament, relations with the provinces, and more, have been junked; scientists have been gagged, information snuffed under a pall of non-transparency, and so forth. Virtually every week, for years now, there’s been a new outrage; they have become so routine that they’re hardly reported. And, from the perspective of a Maritimer, Harper's "reform" of EI really means the d... more »

PEACE OF JEJU IS THE PEACE OF ASIA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago
** Professor Yang Yoon-Mo has ended his 52-day fast against the Navy base on Jeju Island. He remains in prison and issued this statement yesterday: As I think that many people suffer from my fast, I don’t want to transfer them suffering any more. I have taken fast to urge people concern with Gangjeong, to inform them on disappointing National Assembly, thoughtless Ministry of National Defense, and innocent villagers and activists oppressed by the judicature. I consider those have become enough informed. And I accepted the earnest request by Fr. Mun Jeong-Hyon, Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun... more »

Putting American Seniors In Chains With Chained CPI

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
Enjoy the fantasy; Richard Burr will never be arrested for his crimes against America Few Republicans-- other than the machete-wielding lunatic fringe, the Gohmerts, Stockmans, Brouns, Pompeos and, in the Senate, the 18 who voted outright to end Social Security [Randy Paul (R-KY),John Barrasso (R-WY), Tom Coburn (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Miss McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), James Risch (R-ID), Tim Scott (R-SC), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (... more »

Happiness Cave: A thoroughly minor historical site

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 9 hours ago
Riding along in Shihgang east of Fengyan the other day, I followed a recently created bike path and zoomed past this cave. I'd noticed it before, but always ignored it. The sign said DO NOT ENTER. Normally I regard that as an invitation but in this case the stink of urine was so powerful I declined to practice fine American art of trespass. The sign said that the cave had been used to store aircraft parts during the Japanese period. I queried the awesome Wei-bin over at the Taiwan Airpower blog, who opined that the cave and the road serving it were too small for that purpose. The... more »

Feeding the College-to-Poorhouse Pipeline

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 9 hours ago
Bill Gates and his plutocratic pals of the Billionaire Boys Club have successfully planted and nurtured the self-serving myth there is a huge talent shortage among American workers. This myth has been fed, of course, by corporations looking to drive down wages by creating an oversupply of college graduates, and it has been promulgated by the college industry, both for profit and non-profit. With an oversupply of applicants at brick and mortar schools, those fine institutions can cherry pick the high scoring middle class students and dump the rest into the for-profit non-profit onli... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago

...oh yeah..........

Mother Sharon Damnable at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
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Western Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours ago
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - Even as mobs loyal to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hacked to death scores of Rohingya refugees in a racist, genocidal orgy of violence, the West has been of late, showcasing what it calls a newly "open," "independent," and "free" Myanmar. The Los Angeles Times wrote a particularly absurd piece titled, "Myanmar pivots uneasily away from China," where it states: Myanmar's recent pivot from China toward the West, and a more open government, came as a surprise to many outsiders. In rapid succession, President Thein Sein's government suspended the $3.6-billio... more »

I'll Find My Way Home

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
❤ I'll find my way home ❤ You ask me where to begin Am I so lost in my sin You ask me where did I fall I'll say I can't tell you when But if my spirit is lost How will I find what is near Don't question I'm not alone Somehow I'll find my way home My sun shall rise in the east So shall my heart be at peace And if you're asking me when I'll say it starts at the end You know your will to be free Is matched with love secretly And talk will alter your prayer Somehow you'll find you are there Your friend is close by your side And speaks in far ancient tongue A seaso... more »

CHILD ABUSE; EARLS SCHOOL; KINCORA; SPOOKS

Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago
* £39,000-a-year Earls School in Hampshire which specialises in teaching pupils with learning difficulties* Stanbridge Earls School is an independent boarding school where UK Ministry of Defence families send their children. It is at the ­centre of a child sex abuse investigation, the Sunday People has revealed. *School of scandal: "Sexual Abuse" at UK school where soldiers send their kids* *Kincora boys home in Belfast in Northern Ireland. Kincora was home to 168 boys aged 15 to 18, between 1963 and 1968.* *Police are to re-open the child sex abuse investigation at the Kincora ... more »

Reagan's Star Wars: 30 years ago

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
Ronald Reagan gave the following 30-minute talk on March 23rd, 1983, i.e. 30 years ago: *Most of the talk is about the motivation and the situation. The very SDI comments begin at 25:00 or so.* The visionary SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) speech was arguably the most consequential presidential speech in the modern U.S. history. I am somewhat impressed by the depth of the technical arguments that Reagan offered. In July 1979, Reagan would visit some defense folks in Colorado and they showed him that the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine was the only possible conclusion. Ro... more »

Real Wages Decline; Literally No One Notices

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 14 hours ago
Your read it here first: Real wages fell 0.2% in 2012, down from $295.49 (1982-84 dollars) to $294.83 per week, according to the 2013 *Economic Report of the President*. Thus, a 1.9% increase in nominal wages was more than wiped out by inflation, marking the 40th consecutive year that real wages have remained below their 1972 peak. Yet no one in the media noticed, or at least none thought it newsworthy. I searched the web and the subscription-only Nexis news database, and there are literally 0 stories on this. So I meant it when I said you read it here first. In fact, there was lit... more »

PROFIT is the real CANCER blinding you to this Free Planet

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 14 hours ago
look at it this way, fellow Custodians, fellow Free Planeters, if you (or one of your loved ones) got *cancer*, you'd try everything within your means to eliminate it. After that, you'd try to eradicate THE SOURCE of this cancer so that your body doesn't get 'reinfected' by it. You'd want to avoid remission. You'd want to stay healthy. Live longer, happier, classier. Right? Life is precious and we should relish every living moment of it. So, apply that same logic to PROFIT. I know for a fact that, for the last few thousand years under Empire-then-Corporate Rule, you've been educat... more »

Ivan & Alyosha – "Running For Cover"

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 15 hours ago
There's also a good live version from their KCRW session (but the backing vocals are mixed too low for my tastes). As some folks might have guessed, the band takes its name from characters in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

Lynn Picknett - Lucifer Revised [Red Ice Radio]

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
*The Secret History of Lucifer by Lynn Picknett.* Video Title: Lynn Picknett - Lucifer Revised. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: RedIceRadio. Uploaded on February 23, 2013]: Lynn Picknett is a writer, researcher, and lecturer on the paranormal, the occult, and historical and religious mysteries. Lynn and Clive Prince authored The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ inspired the New York Times bestsellers The Da Vinci Code and The Secret Supper. Lynn joins us to discuss, The Secret History of Lucifer, the sequel to Mary Magdalene: Christianity'... more »

March 23, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours ago
Judge John Sirica began the proceedings by saying he had a preliminary matter to attend to first. He had the clerk unseal the letter, pass it to him, and the judge read (original available at the link): -- TO: JUDGE SIRICA March 19, 1973 Certain questions have been posed to me from your honor through the probation officer, dealing with details of the case, motivations, intent and mitigating circumstances. In endeavoring to respond to these questions, I am whipsawed in a variety of legalities. First, I may be called before a Senate Committee investigating this matter. Secondly, I m... more »

Tunisian Jihadist: FSA Is A Den Of Thieves And Money-Hungry Assassins

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
Video below: A Tunisian Jihadist talks about the FSA (Jihadist terrorists). The realistic picture he paints of the FSA is not surprising to people who have been paying attention and who have not been brainwashed. For example, he says that many FSA fighters enter the homes of ordinary Syrians to loot at will, and then make up excuses to justify their crimes. It is clear that the FSA is, both in spirit and in action, a destructive and criminal force. They are not liberators but trespassers and terrorists who come mostly from countries outside of Syria and who have no business being in... more »

Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Corruption of The Catholic Church

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
*New World Pope, Same Old Bullshit. * The image and style of Pope Francis has surprised many people. But image isn't everything. It is important to always be cautious of following leaders, whether political or religious, who go down to the level of the poor to gain their trust and consent. Pope Francis has done very symbolical acts that have gotten him positive press coverage. He knows the gullible people will eat it up and view him and the Church favourably, but he would be more truthful if he acted as his status and position demands. A Church full of pomp and pageantry is mo... more »

Book Note: "The House That Herring Built" -- an amazing evening with Mark Russ Federman

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
*"As far as I know, I am the only Jewish father who was disappointed that his kid became a doctor. I was thinking sturgeon, not surgeon."* *-- from Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from The House That Herring Built* *by Ken* The son in question is Noah, the older of Mark Russ Federman's two children, Noah. He tells us in his new memoir that he had fantasies of working side by side with his son in the family business, To Mark's considerable surprise, his daughter Niki came back into the family business, Russ & Daughters, the legendary appetizing store on Houston Street in... more »

Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Fields of Coral”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
Vangelis, “Fields of Coral” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1wFWdmZUs

GAIA PORTAL: Movements Within and Without Called For with Light Station Stewards

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago
* * * * *Movements Within and Without Called For with Light Station Stewards* by ÉirePort Movements both within and without are called for with Light Station stewards. Such Stations are manifested in harmony with energy signatures of each steward and the location and intention for each Light Station. Releasing of engraved patterns in such stewards and all Hue-manity is essential for next steps in the energetic upgrade of Gaia. These pathways have yet to be traversed, and require full flexibility of those involved. Prior "standards of performance" for all Light Craft and Light Stewa... more »

According to Ellen Brown, who knows as much about banking as anyone in the world, what is now facing to the Cypriots can, and one day certainly will happen to Americans. The facts are that today's monster banks can loan much more money than their depositors deposit. However, in the event of a run on the banks, neither the banks nor those owning bank stocks will be liable. All losses will be borne by the depositors!!! You can look this up on Wikipedia. Advice: Move your savings account to a reliable credit union, STAT!

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours ago
------------------------------ A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus Posted on March 21, 2013 by Ellen Brown If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on deposits in Cyprus banks *The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. US depositors could be next . . . .* On Tuesday, March 19, the national legislature of Cyprus overwhelmingly rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

"Fortune’s Fools"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*"Fortune’s Fools"* by Phil Rockstroh “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” — Miles Davis "As a general rule, musicians, artists, and writers, as well as those possessed of an ardor for self-awareness and a commitment to political activism have been advised to avoid a habitual retreat to comfort zones…to take note of the criteria that causes one’s pulse to quicken, brings flop sweat to the brow, causes sphincters to seize up, and delivers mortification to the mind. In order to quicken imagination and avoid banality, it is imperative t... more »

Definite Model Potential

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 20 hours ago
In case you're not privy to my Facebook page, here is a re-post of one of my favorite photos of Gabriel. Okay, so every photo is my favorite, but I especially like this one. Gotta love those eyes.

"Folly..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
“Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.” - Bertrand Russell

Is Ann Kuster Selling Out Already? Just A Late Night Question

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
Looks like they may have been right about her-- though for the wrong reasons It didn't surprise me when lifelong Republican/spoiled brat Patrick Murphy of Florida turned out to be one of the worst "Democratic" freshmen in the class of 2013. We warned about him all during the 2012 cycle. Of course he's not some kind of insane crackpot war criminal like Allen West, who he replaced... but Allen West wasn't able to get inside the Democratic caucus and woo naive freshmen Democrats away from progressive ideals towards a Republican agenda that Murphy has always supported. That's exactly what... more »

"Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*"Bye, Bye American Dream! * *U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds"* By Steven Rosenfeld "A new study by a team of economists in academia and the government has concluded that economic inequality is a permanent—not temporary—feature in the United States, based on an analysis of 350,000 federal income tax returns between 1987 and 2009. “For household income, both before and after taxes, the increase in inequality over this period was predominantly, although not entirely, permanent,” the highly technical report concluded. “We also find evidence that the U.S. federa... more »

Math, Number Theory and Philippine Media

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours ago
I have a good friend, a true blue academic scientist currently teaching at UP Diliman. He got his BS Math also from UP Diliman in the 80s, he did not graduate on time though because he was an activist. One time, he was shot by the police in one of the anti-Marcos rallies. If he was not athletic – he was a marathoner too, finished several 42K runs then – he should have died that day as the bullet pierced a number of his vital internal organs. His name is Dr. Fidel R. Nemenzo. Fidel toned down his involvement in student activism and pursued his real love – Math. He got his PhD Math fr... more »

China Quarterly with Two on Taiwan

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago
*Filming a commercial at Taipei Station* From the latest *China Quarterly*: Impact of Candidate Selection Systems on Election Results: Evidence from Taiwan before and after the Change in Electoral Systems Dafydd Fell The China Quarterly, Volume 213, March 2013, pp 152 - 171 doi:10.1017/S0305741012001282 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Jan 2013 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305741012001282 ____________________________________ Electronic Resources in the Study of Elite Political Behaviour in Taiwan Jonathan Sullivan The China Quarterly, Volu... more »

Northerntruthseeker On A Much Needed Vacation

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours ago
I will be taking all of next week off for a much needed vacation break... I will still post up tomorrow's Weekly Rant... But I will most probably not be putting up any new articles at all for the entire week.... In my absence, I do recommend that everyone take the time to look at all the fine articles put up by those who I believe are some of the best real truth seekers around. They are listed in the left hand column of this blog.... Thanks to everyone for supporting my work, and I will be back by March 31st to post up my weekly rant on that date as well... And as usual.. More to... more »

Exiled Oligarch Boris Berezovsky dead at 67- Suicide

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 23 hours ago
This is breaking and the timing of this is most curious. I will move this over to the suspicious deaths blog at some point in time. As this is being reported right now- Suicide. *Expect this to change. Expect fingers to be pointed at Putin.* *But, I don't think so. * Mr. Berezovsky’s death was first reported in a post on Facebook by his son-in-law Egor Schuppe, and confirmed by Alexander Dobrovinsky, a lawyer who had represented him. Mr. Dobrovinsky, who runs a law firm with offices in Moscow and London, wrote in Russian on his own Facebook page:* “Just got a call from London. B... more »

Hatonn Wake up Call: March 22, 2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013 Hatonn Wake up Call: March 22, 2013 by Nancy Tate Hatonn Good day dear ones! I am Hatonn, and I am here to tell you that so much is happening within the framework of what will be in place when the mess is cleaning up. There is so much that has been readied and will be set into place when all of the rubble is cleared away and the ones who created it have either seen their folly, or have been taken to their own holographic planet. They don’t even recognize their power of creativity to the utmost, for this holographic planet is of their creation. They are... more »

Bill Burr on Listening to Music

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*Bill Burr on Listening to Music. YouTube Video Description - [Source: activeobjectx. Uploaded on March 22, 2013]:* So, I totally do this. Do you guys and gals do it too? I listen to Bill Burr's Monday Monday Morning Podcast and thought I'd try animating it. You can listen to the podcast here, for FREE, at http://billburr.com/podcast

 

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