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Take your savings acounts out of the "too big to fail banks" before they confiscate them. It's perfectly legal ...and inevitable, given the precarious conditions of the big banks due to their derivative speculations and the fact that futher taxpayer bailouts are now against the law. It's called a "bail-in." The FDIC can't save you, it's already broke. And don't let your stock broker keep your cash in money market funds, because these are mostly run by TBTF banks.
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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Time for Some Publicly-Owned Banks
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Ellen Brown
“[W]ith Cyprus . . . the game itself changed. By raiding the depositors’
accounts, a major central bank has gone where they would not previously
have dared. The Rubicon has been crossed.”
—Eric Sprott, Shree Kargutkar, “Caveat Depositor”
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was
not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in”
policies are now appearing in multiple countries. (See my ear... more »
Stop Imperialism – Episode 64
*Lots of good info, if you have the time to listen entirely. If not it is
possible to pick that which interests you for listening.**1. United States
* [image: us]
Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say
Martial law in Boston: American democracy in shambles
Canadian government unveils “terror plot” as it adopts draconian new law
New report on torture, extraordinary rendition
The money helping CISPA through Congress
CISPA’s immunity provision would allow corporate hacking
Segment Start: 00 h 11 min 08 secSegment End: 00 h 48 min 22 sec*2. Syria
* [image: syria_80... more »
Korean Toddler gets new Trachea at OSF-CHOI...OSF's Haitian Patients Refused Care
Toddler youngest in world to get lab-made windpipe in Peoria operation
shar.es/lpMUZ via @sharethis
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) April 30, 2013
Talking with GOD
If the only thing that comes forth from these episodes of lucid at death
experiences, happens be be a simple willingness to go through death's door
in expectation of bliss, than much has been gained. We do see also that all
those so affected returned completely settled in themselves, often for the
first time in their lives.
I will go further. The near death experience is extremely good for the
individual. That is an objective reality beyond denial.
What this describes is an actual communion with GOD and an instruction to
share the experience. I am seeing this instruction ... more »
Resuscitation Medicine
A lot of what we know about death is changing drastically. It is also
becoming clearer. I also think that CPR is additionally important in that
it keeps disturbing the oxygen rich blood and postpones real cell death.
That is not suggested here. It is noteworthy that the brain goes almost
immediately into a dormant state and stays there until it is safe to come
back.
What we do learn here is that if death is merely postponed, the
consciousness will recall activity even without the direct use of sight and
experience a common connection with an apparent entity that welcome... more »
Fertility Needs in High-Yielding Corn Production
The fertility needs of modern corn culture will not be resolved until we
master the biochar protocol which allows sequestering of all nutrients on a
continuing basis from either chemical treatment or natural decay based
release.
In the meantime, corn happens to be our most hungry crop. Thus fertility
is a challenge at best.
We need to perhaps find a way to engineer corn to somehow be a better
citizen as we are completely set up to work with it in particular.
*Fertility needs in high-yielding corn production*
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by Staff Writers*
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Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 22, 2013*
... more »
Large Earthquakes can Trigger Another Far Away
I am sorry chaps, but if rock is cracking and breaking, then it is pretty
obvious that stress is moving through the system and not obviously settling
down however gentle it might appear. Put another way, when a real collapse
takes place, you have lost control of your assumptions and must wait until
it truly settles down before you begin testing your ideas again. Of course,
no one wants to do this.
This also naturally implies that stress release in one locale sets up
stress elsewhere especially in a quake environment. For that reason, we
observe long faults taking turns r... more »
Electric Cars Will Be Great
A number of things are somewhat overstated in this story, but that is not
particularly relevant. What is relevant is that we still do not have a
meaningful deliverable as far as the battery is concerned. We do have
several ways to get there now that are completely creditable but are still
grinding through the design realization stage. This always takes time even
when you know that you will touchdown.
What we have instead is a body of rapidly improving technology that is
simply waiting for the battery deliverable. Everyone knows now that we are
going to get there.
Also... more »
Never a dull moment
Almost May! Frost this morning, expecting 80s later in the week.
View from kitchen window. Fence has been set back up to regulate doggy's
bathroom activities (it's usually there in winter for when the poultry are
cleaning up the garden). Also at upper left, extension of poultry moat has
returned. Now the ducks and chickens get a ringside seat as things grow --
and get to help interrupt even more slugs migrating toward the goodies.
In middle ground, center, Lacinato kale going to seed. Foreground,
potatoes, knocked back by a freeze but recovering. Upper right, compost
drum and the... more »
Crazy Huge Mother's Day Giveaway!
Today I am thinking about my Mother. Every year I spend hours trying to
come up with the perfect gift for my mom. To try and show just a little bit
about what she means to me. I have come to the conclusion that even with a
million dollars I wouldn't be able to show my mom half of what she means to
me.
My mom went without year after year, so my siblings and I could play
sports, take music and dance lessons and just have money to see summer
movies and go to the pool. My mom is the most selfless person I know, she
serves everyone around her and blesses everyone that meets her. She i... more »
CCA Private Prison Stealing Tax $$ - Not Once, But Twice
Fool me once - shame on you
Fool me twice - Shame on Me
CCA - Stealing US taxdollars - not once - but TWICE
Shame on US.
*From Alternet*
*The Corrections Corporation of America's Latest Shady Business?Tax Evasion*
To save millions in money they would have to pay to taxes, the CCA is now
claiming to be a "Real Estate Investment Trust."
April 26, 2013 |
Earlier this year, the Corrections Corporation of America offered to take
over state-run prisons, provided that they remain 90% stocked full of
inmates ready for cheap labor. Now, the CCA -- which runs 44 private
prisons and deten... more »
Obama is having some sort of news conference...
*allow me to sum it up for you.*
Ahhhhhh, I, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, er, er, bbbbbbbbbbb, I,
I, I, ah, ah, ah, annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, I, um, ah, ah,
ah , ah. Ahhhhhh, um, um, I. um, um, um, um, um, um, I, um, um, er, er,
bbbbbbbbbbb, ah, ah, ah, *annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd*, *thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat,* um,
ah, ah, ah , ah. Ahhhhhhhh, ah, ah I...
Oh, yes - he took time at the end to praise Jason Collins for having weird
sex and the progress we peons have made in our acceptance of the
aforementioned weird sex.
And we as Americans should be proud!!
We judge ... more »
You're Not the Chamber of Commerce, You're the Government.
Canada's business community has the understandable view that the Harper
government is the handmaiden of commerce. And so, when the conservative
government was caught out over abuses of the temporary guest worker
programme and had to enact modest reforms, that set the business types to howling
in indignation.
Doesn't this government understand that filling jobs with cheap foreign
labour pads the bottom line? The Chamber of Commerce (corporate sector)
had a warning for the Chamber of Commerce (Harper sector) and the Canadian
public - stand up to us and these businesses will leave... more »
New Israeli Math and the Return of the Holocaust Analogy:Steinitz: Iran "Equal to 30 Nuclear North Koreas."
Yuval
Steinitz and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in 2011
( Jack Guez / AFP / Getty Images)
At the second annual Jerusalem Post Conference, held in New York City on
Sunday April 28, a number of former and current Israeli officials
offered new estimates about Iran's nuclear progress, issued threats of
war and pretended Israel is more powerful and militarily capable than it
really is
Climate Change News Round-Up
European Union nations have been warned to renew climate change adaptation
programmes. The European Environment Agency has released a report that
concludes cities around Europe may have to install flood barriers similar
to those that protect London.
Even Europe's vineyards may have to switch the types of grapes cultivated
or move entirely. EEA studies have found climate change impacts in all
regions of Europe with rainfall diminishing in the south and increasing in
the north and extreme fluctuations in temperatures.
In Washington, Congressional Democrats are focusing on the way... more »
BOSTON BOMBER LINKS
Oleg Tsarnaev (also translated as Tsarev) former Russian spy.
Misha Pozhininsky, former Russian soldier.
Tamerlan's mentor is Misha.
*Tamerlan Tsarnaev (also translated as Tsarev) in Lowell, Massachusetts.*
According to Before It's News , the 'Boston Bombers' have connections to
the Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department.
*Connecting Boston Bombers To Lowell, MA Police Dept.*
Jeff Bauman, 'the man with his legs blown off in the Boston explosion', has
connections to Joe Mac.
Reportedly Joe Mac was with Jeff Bauman at the finish line just 7-8 minutes
before the first explosio... more »
Spray Painted Doily Canvas
The other day I was out an about scouring thrift stores for some
interesting pieces of art to decorate an upcoming event. I came home empty
handed and frustrated. Thrifting is like that. Sometimes I hit jackpot and
other times I waste a whole day. The deadline was approaching and I needed
to pull something together quickly and so I did what I usually do when I
need a project fast, pulled out the spray paint. . I began playing around
with spray paint, canvases and random objects. I ended up with some funny
looking canvases to paint over later and a few that I loved. This was one
o... more »
Extending our themes for the coming year!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013*
*Your chance to impoverish yourself:* Last week, we cited two themes we
would continue to pursue in the coming year. As our fourth non-annual
fund-raising drive continues, we thought we would mention one or two more.
As we mentioned last week, we plan to continue examining the development of
the new liberal news organs, such as MSNBC. After all those years of
liberal silence, this continues to be the most interesting development in
American political media.
We also plan to keep exploring basic themes involving the public schools.
We liberals quit on this t... more »
Consumed by Advocacy in the Marketplace of Mendacity
Big Daddy and Brick confront the power of mendacity in a key scene from
Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, swept into popular culture by
the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor (Maggie), Paul Newman (Brick), and
Burl Ives (Big Daddy). In the play, Big Daddy replies to Brick’s question,
“Have you ever heard [...]
Canada as Seen from Sri Lanka: It Ain't Pretty
Those not on Twitter may have missed this absolutely fabulous thrashing of
John Baird and Stephen Harper by Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe writing in the
Daily News, 'Sri Lanka's National Newspaper since 1918'.
Titled 'Harper and Baird should clean their own backyard before coming to
CHOGM', it will warm the cockles of your heart while demonstrating how
bloody low Canada has sunk in the world's opinion.
You should read the whole thing, but I'll excerpt some good bits.
The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Foreign Minister John
Baird are leading the charge against Sri Lanka as... more »
David Brooks, describing Paul Krugman!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013*
*One phrase gives the Brookster away:* In this morning’s New York Times,
David Brooks writes as interesting if limited column about two kinds of
policy writers.
One type of writer is “engaged;” the other type is “detached.” As he
started, Brooks offered a description of writers he calls “engaged:”
BROOKS (4/30/13): *Engaged or Detached?*
Let’s say you are a young person beginning to write about politics and
policy. You probably have some idea of what you believe, but have you
thought about how you believe it? That is to say, *have you thought about
where ... more »
What Do Those One Percenters Want, Anyway?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that rich people have an outsized
influence on politics. The wealthiest Americans and corporate persons just
financed a two billion dollar presidential campaign, after all. That their
weighted votes have borne fruit is most recently evidenced by the
Congressional stampede to liberate the plutocrats who were mistakenly and
outrageously caught up in the sequestration dragnet with meal-deprived old
people and evicted preschoolers and ousted chemo patients.
On Friday, our legislators restored FAA funding to air traffic control
towers. By Monday, f... more »
Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God
Related:
*Friedrich Hölderlin - Love*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates*.
Source: *Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine
Chernoff and Paul Hoover.* 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California.
Pg. 71.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God*
Where are you? Drunk, my soul grows dim
From all your delight; for only now
I watched how, exhausted by his travels,
The enchanting young god
Bathed his hair in golden clouds,
And now my eyes fill with the sight of him;
Th... more »
PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: No one checked Reinhart and Rogoff’s work!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013*
*Part 2—The tale of the graduate student:* We can think of two obvious
questions about the latest giant bungle by the nation’s high-ranking
professors.
Here’s the first question, and others have asked it: How did Carmen
Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff manage to bungle so badly?
People do make mistakes, of course, especially Harvard professors. But some
of the errors by Reinhart and Rogoff do seem just a bit strange.
If you’re averaging data from twenty countries, how do you manage to leave
out five countries? (Answer: You make an Excel coding error.) Once yo... more »
ACTION: PA - Support Clean Energy
*Stop ALEC by passing groundbreaking clean energy standards in Pennsylvania*
* *
*To: The Pennsylvania General Assembly*
Stop ALEC by passing groundbreaking clean energy standards in Pennsylvania
We call on Pennsylvania’s legislature to move to pass a Renewable Energy
Standard of 100% of the state’s electric supply to come from clean sources
by 2021.
Why is this important?
In the face of catastrophic climate change, we need solutions which speed
our shift to clean, renewable energy sources. Unfortunately, most states
have moved only incrementally towards increasing the amount of el... more »
Maher (SD-ALEC) - ALEC Corporations "You Learn from Them"
Oh my. more ALEC friendly crap in the papers today.
This time in New Mexico - a reporter that is jumping forward to defend
South Dakota's decision to force ALL legislators to belong to ALEC.
*Group membership fees divide SD lawmakers*
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Democrats and Republicans are at odds over
using taxpayer money to pay for state lawmakers' memberships in an
organization that describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to
free markets and limited government.
ALEC can describe itself as anything it wants – that does not mean what
they are telling the pu... more »
Economic Wisdom
Just want to point out something quickly. This Glob n' Mall article about
PBO's Page vs. Dimbulb-Jimbo Flaherty's jobs forecasts says the following:
The PBO does not comment on whether the finance minister’s approach is
appropriately balanced. Governments and citizens around the world are
debating whether an economy is better served by boosting market confidence
with a quick return to balanced books or a stronger focus on spending and
employment will pay off in terms of stronger government revenue.
That's kinda weak sauce don't you think? Reading it you wouldn't think that
30 years... more »
Stevenson-Wolfers on Reinhart-Rogoff
They write:
In the end, all the corrections advocated by the critics shift the average
GDP growth for very-high-debt nations to 2.2 percent, from a negative 0.1
percent in Reinhart and Rogoff’s original work. The finding remains that
economic growth is lower in very-high-debt countries (see chart). It has
been disappointing to watch those on the left seize on the embarrassing
Excel errors but ignore this bigger picture.
Click on graphic to enlarge.
Koch Stink Tank Concludes: Rich = Happy
*Research Confirms You Can’t Be Too Rich*
By Brenda Cronin
The Duchess of Windsor, who quipped, “You can never be too rich or too
thin,” appears to have had it at least half right. New research by
University of Michigan economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers found
that for rich and poor alike, as income climbs, so does one’s sense of
well-being.
Their findings, to be published in the May 2013 American Economic Review,
Papers and Proceedings, counter the idea that once certain basic needs are
met, a rising income doesn’t translate into commensurate surges in
happiness
... more »
Colbert's Sister-- Next Tuesday
I'm rooting for Colbert's sister-- and not just because she's Colbert's
sister. And not just because Mark Sanford is likely to be one of the worst
members of Congress-- far worse, in fact, than he was when he was in
Congress the first time. Colbert's sister, thoroughly embraced as she is by
the DCCC, doesn't need any help from Blue America and there's nothing to
make me think she would qualify for a Blue America endorsement any way-- the
way these guys have-- but... I'm still rooting for her because there's a
lot of room between someone as good as Alan Grayson, Keith Ellison and
... more »
Arab Leagues makes 'concessions' on Palestinian land to Israel's benefit
Looks to me as if the traitorous nations doing the deals are largely the
US/Israel subordinates in the GCC.
Israel is the big winner and the Palestinians are getting railroaded..* :To
rush or push (something) through quickly in order to prevent careful
consideration and possible criticism or obstruction*
*Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan on Monday when a top
Qatari official said Israel and the Palestinians could trade land rather
than conform exactly to their 1967 borders.*
John Kerry: Making deals to
appease Israel
... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Kirsten Dunst, 31.
No shortage of good stuff:
1. Marc Ambinder notes that we've learned a bit more about the hunt for bin
Laden, and it points again to a key point: "Based on what we know SO FAR,
torture did not PRODUCE the intelligence leads that led to bin Laden's
killing." Of course, the case for and against torture does not turn on this
-- but it's still worth knowing which way the evidence points.
2. Elizabeth Drew on "arm-twisting."
3. The president's position on political science -- and the likely effects,
from Seth Masket.
4. Ed Kilgore has a good point ... more »
ALEC Charter School Policies - High Fraud Risk
FRAUD = Stealing
Charter School Fraud = STEALING TAX DOLLARS for corporate profit.
Corporate profit - the middle name of the American Legislative Exchange
Council. ALEC even wrote a whole report on "Designing School Choice", that
they distributed to EVERY ALEC member.
*When was the last time you saw a news article about a "real" public school
official engaged in fraud? (As a for-profit corporatist stealing tax
dollars)*
*WHEN?*
BUT - when you put taxpayer dollars in the hands of for-profit companies -
you are asking for trouble.
For profit companies don't give a damn about taxpay... more »
Not Here. Not Now
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released its report on last month's
Federal Budget. Kevin Page should be proud of the work his office has done.
As was the case with its reports on the War in Afghanistan and the the
purchase of the F35 fighter jets, the report excoriates the government's
numbers:
The federal government's most recent "jobs and growth" budget will wind up
costing Canada both jobs and economic growth over the next few years, the
Parliamentary Budget Officer says in a new report.
The PBO's latest estimates on the impact of the 2013 budget handed down in
March sho... more »
New self-defence provisions apply to cases from before amendments
*R. v. Parker*, 2013 ONCJ 195 deals with recent amendments to the law of
self-defence in Canada. It asks does the new law apply to assist an accused
where the crime alleged took place before the change in the law? The Court
holds the new law (and the earlier law also) applies:
[5] With respect, I have reservations about this outcome. Parliament has
declared, through the passage of section 34, what level of force
contemporary Canadian society now considers justifiable. A justification,
such as self-defence, "challenges the wrongfulness of an action which
technically constitutes a cr... more »
The Blizzard is Over
The blizzard is over, at least for Repulse Bay. It will linger on in
Rankin Inlet for the rest of today.
It was a real storm -- a typical spring blizzard north of the Arctic
Circle.
About 5:00 pm I had to travel from the green building you see on the left
of the photograph to my hotel -- a distance of perhaps 300 yards. But I
was carrying a command box of documents and as soon as I was out the door I
realized I could not see more than a few feet in any direction -- indeed,
my hands were hard to see. The wind was a great howling and disorientation
easy. The Community Centre ... more »
Okla. Teamsters mobilizing to stop ALEC takeover
Friday, April 26, 2013
Okla. Teamsters mobilizing to stop ALEC's corporate takeover of state
capitols
Our brothers and sisters at Local 886 in Oklahoma City are mobilizing
hundreds of Teamsters to march FOR the middle class and AGAINST ALEC in
early May.
ALEC, the billionaire-backed escort service for corporations and state
lawmakers, will hold its annual meeting on May 2-3 in the Oklahoma state
capitol. Behind closed doors they will plan ways to eradicate the middle
class by weakening workers' rights, eliminating consumer and environmental
protections, empowering corporations and ... more »
thank you, jason collins!
It has finally happened. A professional male athlete in one of the big US
team sports has come out as gay. Someone had to be first, and that person
is Jason Collins of the NBA. Thank you, Mr. Collins, for your courage and
your honesty!
From the Sports Illustrated cover story:
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major
American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I
wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm
different." If I had my way, someone ... more »
war resister and peace activist kim rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison
From the War Resisters Support Campaign:
Iraq War Resister Kimberly Rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison
after deportation by Harper government
On Monday afternoon, during a court-martial hearing at Fort Carson,
Colorado, Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 14 months in military prison and
a dishonourable discharge after publicly expressing her conscientious
objection to the Iraq War while in Canada.
A pre-trial agreement capped the sentence at 10 months of confinement and a
bad conduct discharge.
Kimberly Rivera with her husband MarioPrivate First Class Kimberly Rivera
d... more »
kimberly rivera to be sentenced today
We expect Kimberly Rivera to be sentenced today. War resister, prisoner of
conscience, peace activist, artist, mother, friend, Kim Rivera is in the
hearts of all who know her, all her supporters who stand by her in this
time of need.
Kim is being punished for choosing peace over war, light over darkness,
love over hate.
She is being punished by the US military, but that punishment was made
possible by Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, and their so-called majority
government.
Shame on them. Shame, shame, shame.
Ed Miliband finally admits Labour WOULD borrow billions more | Mail Online
No great surprise but at least Ed Miliband has lined up alongside Ed Balls
on favouring more borrowing in the attempt to boost economy
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316998/Ed-Miliband-finally-admits-Labour-WOULD-borrow-billions-more.html
Labour governments always end up borrowing to pay for the expansions of
state and benefits, any future Labour government would be no different.
Ret. Army Intel Officer: FBI Lied When Publicizing They Didn't Know ...
FORMER ARMY LT.COLONEL- SAYS "BLACK OPS" OPERATION IN
BOSTON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEoDHXfyEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZIKLfRph_o0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Uw5yBn2EuBI
A
hero or part of the gang? You will lose money if you follow the MSM.
Details to follow.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=516208401773100&set=a.128510663876211.20575.100001518344620&type=3&theater
To
those who doubt the accuracy of telling time using the sun's
azimuth and
the shadow angle of a vertical object.......this is one of the ... more »
Untitled
*Bloomberg:
New Orleans area is one of the nation's biggest boomtowns*
~The area is growing as it rebuilds from Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita.Tourism is booming, and the New Orleans area gained more residents
than any
other in the U.S. from 2007 to 2011. The population rose to 1.2 million
in
2012, and there’s plenty of job growth in heavy construction and even
the
television and motion picture industry, according to New Orleans
demographer Allison Plyer. The unemployment rate, at 5.9 percent, is
below
the national average. One worry: Governor Bobby Jindal’s tax plan could
change the sta... more »
If Gideon Levy wills it, it is a nightmare | Lyn Julius | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-gideon-levy-wills-it-it-is-a-nightmare/
And Jesus' Eyes and Ears Bled Like the Stigmata
We'll never know from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John if Jesus prized
intelligence in others or if it meant anything to him at all. My guess is
that he may have appreciated it in others but still not disparage the
feeble-minded just being feeble-minded. God knows we cannot all be Albert
Einstein or, if you're too feeble-minded to understand even the rudiments
of his Theory of Relativity and would prefer *The Coneheads* to trying to
understand the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or Schrödinger's cat, Dan
Aykroyd.
Yet I think even the famous patience of the son o' God would've... more »
(Most) Everything IS Rigged!
Hat Tip: Thanks Craig
Majia here: Remember when US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that
the big banks were simply too big to prosecute:
Lennard, A. (2013 Mar 7) Holder: Banks too big to prosecute The A.G.'s
comment to the Senate Judiciary Committee points to structural problem with
big banks. Salon,
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/holder_banks_too_big_to_prosecute/
Majia here: Now Taibbi announces that EVERYTHING IS RIGGED and the banks
are too big to prosecute:
Matt Taibbi (2013, April 25) Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing
Scandal Ever
The Illuminati were a... more »
Adrian Dix`s Proposed Ten Million Dollar Judicial Inquiry Into The BC Rail Scandal
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*Adrian Dix`s Proposed Ten Million Dollar Judicial Inquiry Into The BC Rail
Scandal*
*Written by Robin Mathews *
rmathews@telus.net
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The B.C. election draws near..*..*
The Mainstream Press and Media are hard at work ... campaigning for the
re-election of the Christy Clark neo-Liberals. Refusing throughout the four
years of the (BC Rail Scandal) Basi, Virk, and Basi case to report the most
important revelations (and covering up where possib... more »
Proof, at last: The more money we earn, the happier we are | City A.M. - NO shit Sherlock
'Happiness and life satisfaction are almost perfectly correlated with
income. The results are one of those truly rare things in empirical
economics: unambiguous, hugely powerful and awe-inspiring, with vast
political and cultural implications.'
http://www.cityam.com/article/proof-last-more-money-we-earn-happier-we-are
A Shepard Ambellas and Jason Bermas Film - Unbound Productions Presents - Shade the Motion Picture
SHADE (the motion picture) from Shepard Ambellas & Jason Bermas is a
glimpse into the Globalist's Domain.
*For hundreds of years an elite group of oligarchs have ruled the land,
fueled by a legacy of sex, money, power and greed. In the last 60 years
their power has become more consolidated as they have become more
organized. Their own documents and white papers show the diabolic plans
they have in store for the population.*
"Nothing in your world works the way you think it does." UNQUOTE.
SHADE the Motion Picture Trailer 3 (Official Version) from Unbound
Productions on Vimeo.
K... more »
BOSTON BOMBER'S MEETINGS WITH CIA
*Tamerlan Tsarnaev's CIA friends. *Страница 207 - KavkazChat
*
*
*Tamerlan. alleged Boston Bomber.*
In Dagestan, the Russian military has killed *Shakrudin Askhabov* a member
of the CIA-linked 'Abu Dujan' jihad group.
Reportedly, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the CIA-linked 'Boston Bomber', has met
Shakrudin Askhabov.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with *Shakrudin Askhabov* during his visit to Russia
*
**Boston Bombings* (Before It's News)
According to Russian intelligence, *Shakrudin Askhabov* recruited people to
help the CIA to destabilise Russia.
*William Plotnikov *
Reportedly Tamerlan Tsarnaev w... more »
April 29, 1973
The newspapers are demanding resignations; Haldeman, when he reads them,
realizes that the fight for leaves is probably over. And in fact, Nixon
calls from Camp David to summon him and Ehrlichman for early afternoon
meetings, with Ziegler calling back to let Haldeman know that the decision
has been made: both of them would resign, and Dean would be fired. On top
of that, Nixon is having Attorney General Kleindienst resign, and replacing
him with Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson.
Meanwhile, Nixon is busy that morning. Kissinger calls him, and Nixon moves
the subject to the "Ki... more »
PROPAGANDISING THE WAR DEAD: COMPARING SYRIAN CASUALTIES WITH IRAQ WAR CASUALTIES
Neocons and conservatives throughout the West have made much of the numbers
of dead in the Syrian civil war as they tell us loudly and often that
figures are rising rapidly as a result of al-Assad’s brutal war against his
own people; some 70,000 dead after two years of fighting is about the
latest number being quoted with more than three-quarters of that number
having been killed in the last year alone as the war escalated. That’s more
than 50,000 killed in one year alone. These are terrible numbers indeed.
One can only imagine how many died in the even more vicious conflict that
wa... more »
Your moment of Zen
"The Mittens" in Monument Valley, AZ.
NRA Shills In The Senate In Trouble-- At Least On Paper
Mark Begich will probably only win reelection if Alaska Republicans
nominate Joe MillerThe Republican case for why the unpopular vote against
background checks-- basically no one agrees with their position except
hard-core Republican primary voters-- won't hurt them in 2014 is twofold:
the House didn't vote on it at all, and in the Senate the GOP has only two
vulnerable incumbents (the two closet cases, Lindsey Graham in South
Carolina and Miss McConnell in Kentucky) and taking the NRA position won't
hurt either of them in those states. So, yes, senators who voted no on
Manchin-Too... more »
IRONY: The official champagne of #AERA13 #highered
I don’t always drink champagne. But when I do, it’s after a discussion of
poverty in education. IRONY. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News &
Commentary Tagged: aera 2013, education, poverty, research
Adrian Dix Wins Debate, Christy Clark Snickers(Updated 9:00 p.m.)
Adrian Dix was the clear winner tonight, Christy Clark did too much
giggling at inappropriate times..
_________
*UPDATED 9:00 p.m.....*According to Kyle Braid of Ipsos Reid.. ..At 9:00
p.m...He conducted a quick post election debate poll, and according to
Ipsos Reid,...The question was, Who won the debate?...The winner was...
Adrian Dix..35%....Christy Clark..30%
A second question, Who has the best policies...the winner was..
Adrian Dix..37%...Christy Clark..24%
Forget Alise Mills, all spin, no substance..Forget Baldrey, he was having
hair issues.....
This pundit called it sec... more »
Cut Down Testing, new student group, check them out
Cut Down Testing, new student group, check them out Self explanatory. Filed
under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: cut down testing,
student group, testing
Cut Down Testing, new student group, check them out
Cut Down Testing, new student group, check them out Self explanatory. Filed
under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: cut down testing,
student group, testing
Chet Raymo, “Asperges Me, Domine”
*“Asperges Me, Domine” **
by Chet Raymo
“Greystone Books publishes a series of "Literary Companions" to natural
environments- mountains, rivers and lakes, deserts, gardens, and the sea,
so far. Now they come to my environment- night- and have been kind enough
to include a chapter from “The Soul of the Night”, the chapter called "The
Shape of Night." I am in lovely company, admired companions of several
generations- Diane Ackerman, Timothy Ferris, Annie Dillard, Henry Beston,
Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich, Pico Iyer, and Gretel Ehrlich, to name but a
few- all connoisseurs of da... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Thanks for stopping by.
"Fear..."
“I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with
the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be
classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies.
Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does
with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of
was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be
aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.”
- Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light”
Two Weeks Update
I really have issues getting on here to update!
***Angie and I, in dressing rooms at the Loft, we both took in clothing,
and both ended up trying on the same dress at the same time, not knowing
the other one even had the dress in their room. Hilarious. We both bought
it, by the way*.
Anyway, last weekend, Angie and I headed to Niagara Falls, Canada, for a
girls weekend. We met three of my friends there, one from Philly (kelli),
one from Buffalo (Charlene) and one from London, Ontario (Lisa). we stayed
at the Sheraton Four Points for free with Starwoods Points I had. So, free ... more »
Kodi the kitteh teaches us how to walk a human...
and we thank her.
Faking austerity in the Eurozone
Friend Keith Weiner points out that all the mainstream pundits say
"austerity does not work." What they don't admit it is that it hasn't been
tried yet:
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911 Explained in Under 5 Minutes
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory Everything you ever
wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
The Corbett Report
(Watch French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew or Portuguesetranslations of this video.)
TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with
boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around
the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most
sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the
world, overpowering the passengers and the military com... more »
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: The Real Terror Is The Law - Now You Can Be Executed For Merely Being A Suspect!
I am truly appalled by the actions shown by the American public, especially
the citizens of Boston and Watertown, in the aftermath of the Boston
Marathon drill and operation.... It was disgusting to watch these people
cheer on their police forces with shouts of "USA! USA!" while their cities
were placed under martial law, and two very innocent patsies were hunted
down ruthlessly to the point that one was killed, while the other had his
throat slit to make sure he can never state his true innocence, and will
most probably be killed as well before he can ever take a stand in a "fair
t... more »
Drug Innovation 11: They Create Cures or Customers?
The pharmaceutical industry -- mainly grouped between the innovators and
the generic producers, but often associated with the former -- always
evokes lots of emotive comments, factual or not. Like this image below,
posted by "Juicing Vegetables" page in facebook last Sunday.
As of this writing (9:20am, Manila time), it has attracted 6,667 likes,
7,117 shares, and 212 comments.
I am posting below some of those comments. They offer a wide variety of
perspectives and opinions. Should be useful to both the pharma industry and
its detractors/haters. You may see 212 comments in facebook ... more »
Untitled
Pathway to Apartheid & the Codification of Indian Removal II Monday, 29
April 2013
By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, SpeakOut | Op-Ed
The Senate’s Immigration proposal is titled: Border Security, Economic
Opportunity and Immigration Modernity Act. While being touted by the “gang
of 8” senators and the media as a compromise, it should have been filed
simply as a “pathway to apartheid” and also a “pathway toward Indian
Removal II.”
It is a border enforcement and national security piece of legislation –
which continues to rely heavily on racial profiling – and is anything, but
“comp... more »
Still-active NBA center Jason Collins comes out -- is this the "breakthrough" we've been waiting for?
*by Ken*
Okay, in connection with the coming out of Jason Collins (about which Howie
wrote earlier today), it's fair to note that the 12-year NBA veterans, who
split the past season between the Boston Celtics and the Washington
Wizards, is 34 and a free agent -- i.e., a player without a contract, and
at this stage of his career at best a "fill-in"-type player. So maybe it's
not exactly the scenario some of us have fantasized about, of a star player
in one of the "big four" sports leagues (Major League Baseball, the
National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and... more »
Make them laugh
Echoing some rumblings I've seen among our DC insider media on the twitter,
Ezra declares Obama wasn't really joking at their celebrity bash.
Obama’s speech at the White House correspondents’ dinner was well received,
and for good reason — it was very funny. But there were a lot of moments
when Obama seemed to be subverting the rules of the evening in order to get
away with telling harsh truths that he could later claim were just jokes.
“Some folks still don’t think I spend enough time with Congress,” the
president said. “‘Why don’t you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?’ they
ask.... more »
Dophin's Mike Wallace doesn't understand homosexuality...
*and the degenerative elitists are going to make him pay, and pay, and pay.*
This is what he tweeted:
*The above tweets have been removed and he tweeted this:*
@MikeWallace: Never said anything was right or wrong I just said I don't
understand!! Deeply sorry for anyone that I offended
Got that? You are not allowed to even hint that something might be
wrong. How dare you!
*From TMZ:* emphasis mine
Mike Wallace needs to learn how to RESPECT gay people ... so says the Miami
Dolphins organization, which says it strongly condemns the comments made by
their star receiver.
A re... more »
The fatal flaw of “Three Strikes”
Opponents of the Three Strikes Law are up in arms that
When National passed its “three strikes” legislation in 2010, they promised
that it would not be like California’s, and target shoplifters, drug
dealers, and other petty criminals. Instead, it would be used on “the worst
of the worst.” Throughout the debates (which are linked to from here), they
repeatedly referred to “the worst murderers”, the “worst serious violent
offenders” and the “worst” sexual offenders. So who are actually they using
it on? Dumbarse muggers … like Elijah Akeem Whaanga, 21, [on] his second
strike; Judge... more »
Fat Free Econ 42: NSCB vs SWS Data on Poverty
* This is my article today in interaksyon.com, TV5's news portal.
---------
Last week, the country was bombarded with stories that carried descriptions
such as “high poverty”, “poverty unchanged”, “more than half of Filipinos
poor,” among other variations. Two institutions triggered these stories.
Last Tuesday, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) released
its*2012 First Semester Provincial Poverty Statistics, *reporting that
poverty incidence at 28 percent of the population in the first half of last
year was unchanged from the same period in 2006. The subsistence inc... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Richard Edmondson
of *LEFTWING-CHRISTIAN.NET* and author of *The Memoirs of Saint John: No
Greater Love*. Richard and I will be discussing his background and website,
his thoughts on Christianity, the current problems facing America, and his
article *Swindler's List: A Brief Look at the Holocaust Reparations Racket*.
Calls will be taken throughout the conversation. Tune in for what will be a
very interesting discussion!
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Network via iTunes *... more »
Cut the CODELs
Our useless Congresscreatures are busy slashing funding for vital social
services for the poors and the olds because they claim government spending
is out of control, but they don't have any problem spending millions on
pleasure trips abroad under the thin aegis of CODELs. This one is
especially egregious because she had to jet over to join only part of the
trip.
The House Judiciary Committee reported Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas,
traveled around the world on an official trip in February that cost
$23,646. The Feb. 16-22 trip on commercial flights was to Korea, Vietnam
and Cam... more »
Mark Twain, "Congress"
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself."
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots,
and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
"...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts
that God makes."
"The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes
a
thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-
Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been
there."
"It could probably be sho... more »
On Being "College Ready"
Reblogged from An Antique Teacher: My son has taken his parents for quite a
"ride" over the last few months as he waited and waited to make a decision
about which of the three colleges where he was accepted he would attend. As
May 1 seemed to be looming, his father and I kept at [...]
Student asked to take NY state test from hospital bed
Here’s the story. Question. Who is the educator, with a college degree,
likely a graduate degree, that complied with this order? Or, they took
their own initiative to walk into a hospital room and administer a test? I
wonder about their fitness to serve young people in any professional
capacity. To a certain extent, we [...]
New Anti-Recreational Wolf Hunting Ad in Minnesota
Great new ad about the recreational hunting of wolves in Minnesota.
*Just click on the wolf picture.*
this could be easily reproduced.
Just [INSERT STATE GOVERNORS NAME]
just like ALEC does.
@dianeravitch wonders about a letter sent from @dfer_news and others to USDE
So do we. Actually, aside from the very banal and uninspired content of the
letter itself, which weakly advocates for the persistence of statewide
accountability in CA despite the state’s desire for a waiver, the letter
itself is extremely easy to replicate and satirize. I respect some of these
organizations for the work they do. [...]
The (First) Hooey From Helengrad
*Since this government, at the invitation of its coalition partner, has
opened the door to a “constitutional conversation” that is rapidly
emerging as a Treatyist monologue, I thought it might be interesting to
post my on-the-post report from the last time a government set out to have
the Treaty of Waitangi incorporated in a written constitution—back in early
2000, in the first months of the new Helen Clark Government.
Curiously, back then, all the usual Treatyist suspects were agin’
incorporation since, they said, it would “confine” the Treaty. I invite you
to consider what’s c... more »
“The Incredibly Uneven Recovery"
* “The Incredibly Uneven Recovery: *
Net worth of bottom 93 percent declines by $0.6 trillion
while top 7 percent net worth increases by $5.6 trillion.”
by mybudget360
"One unique signature of this economic recovery is how narrow it is. When
we look at actual wealth, the net worth figures of Americans, we see some
dismal numbers. In fact, what we find really isn’t a recovery at all if we
look at 93 percent of the country. Then again, with most of Congress being
millionaires they are so far removed from the real lives of the public that
reality has become encapsulated in a ver... more »
Former costs grid of no relevance to solicitor client assessments with proper retainers
Bales Beall LLP v. Fingrut, 2013 ONCA 266 provides:
[8] Second, the motion judge held that the assessment officer
erred by treating the former costs grid as the benchmark for setting the
appropriate hourly rates for the lawyers and support staff involved in the
management of the appellant's case, notwithstanding the existence of a
written retainer agreement that specified the applicable rates and terms of
the fee agreement between the parties.
[9] We agree. The assessment officer paid scant attention to the
terms of the retainer agreement. The agreement and the... more »
Coalition confronts Peabody Coal at shareholders meeting
NAVAJO AND APPALACHIANS JOIN ST. LOUIS RESIDENTS IN CONFRONTING PEABODY COAL CORPORATE EXECUTIVES
Coalition Indicts Peabody with Habitual Exploitation at Annual Shareholders' Meeting
Groups from Wyoming, Black Mesa, St. Louis and Colorado Join Together to Confront World's Largest Coal Company
GILLETTE, WY-- Peabody Energy shareholders affiliated with Powder River Basin Resource Council,
Obama asks for God's blessing on the largest abortion provider in the country and Mooch applauds Jason Collins...
*we are truly living in demented times.*
The first woman thinks Jason Collins telling us he engages in weird sex
with people who share his physical characteristics is "a huge step forward
for our country." Maybe she should quit telling us what we should eat to
stay healthy and instead spend some time on telling homosexuals the dangers
of weird sex.
She may also want to rethink saying she's "got his back."
H/T Weasel Zippers for the screen shot
Legality and Legitimacy - Lessons from Weimar?
Lecture By Dr. Edward Kanterian: Legality and Legitimacy - Lessons from
Weimar? YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Edward Kanterian. Uploaded on
April 6, 2013]:
Talk given at the workshop 'Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to
Bucharest 2012?', University of Kent, Brussels, BSIS, 6 April 2013
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe/2927
Legality and Legitimacy - Lessons from Weimar? Part 1: Weimar's Weakness
and Crisis
Legality and Legitimacy - Lessons from Weimar? Part 2: Carl Schmitt, Hans
Kelsen, Hermann Heller
Tsarnaev beat: Mainstream journalists love writing novels!
*MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013*
*In this case, the facts didn’t fit:* Mainstream journalists love to create
novelistic frameworks.
On the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post, Marc Fisher constructed a
familiar novelized framework, this time concerning the Tsarnaev family. But
his novelistic framework pretty much didn’t make sense, given the facts of
the case:
FISHER (4/28/13): America, the golden door, had already welcomed two of his
brothers when Anzor Tsarnaev crossed the ocean with his family in 2002. *Anzor's
brother Ruslan, who had immigrated just a few years earlier, already had ... more »
An honest look at the Census Bureau's wealth data proves that since the supposed end of the recession only the top 7% got richer, much richer, while the bottom 93% have lost 4% of their assets.
------------------------------
*Recovery for the 7 Percent — Paul Craig Roberts*
------------------------------
April 28, 2013 | Original here
*“From the end of the recession in 2009 through 2011 (the last year for
which Census Bureau wealth data are available), the 8 million households in
the U.S. with a net worth above $836,033 saw their aggregate wealth rise by
an estimated $5.6 trillion, while the 111 million households with a net
worth at or below that level saw their aggregate wealth decline by an
estimated $600 billion.” Pew Research, “An Uneven Recovery, by Richard Fry
and... more »
9 Imágenes de vegetales frescos - verduras
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I: UV IXCHANGE PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT
*Note: The UV IXCHANGE at its very core is designed to safeguard your
value and data and give you control of it all. Any use you decide to share
your data, requires an accommodation agreement with those you share it, so
they legally cannot "OWN" your data or being without bearing the
consequences of doing so. This inverts the pyramid of control that has
existed on this planet for eons. *
*
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*Caleb's Project XIII will have features that enable the use of this value
in a format similar to Facebook without the pervasive invasion of privacy,
contacts, network, personal data... more »
Is The GOP Still In Thrall To The Lavender Scare?
Rep. Aaron Schock's lavender belt
It was historical for Jason Collins to write in *Sports Illustrated* today
that "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." I bet it will
inspire and fortify thousands of young men and women all over the world. I
recall, vividly, sitting with Harvey Milk in the backroom office of his
Castro Street camera shop right after a flurry of national media coverage
of his successful election as a San Francisco Supervisor. He pulled out a
mailbag filled with letters from people. There's one he read to me that
still makes my eyes well up with tears.... more »
Wild Bill: Making fun of liberals...
*makes me smile.*
It will make you smile, too.
Satire: “Republicans: Obama Must Take Action in Syria So We Can Criticize Action He Took in Syria”
*“Republicans: Obama Must Take Action in Syria So *
*We Can Criticize Action He Took in Syria”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "A growing chorus of Republican
lawmakers are demanding that President Obama take some action in Syria so
that they can attack whatever action he took in Syria. Appearing on CBS’s
“Face the Nation” on Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) laid
out the situation in stark terms: “The time for President Obama to do
something in Syria that we can eviscerate him for is long overdue.” Arguing
that there are a variety of options a... more »
Why Russia Does Not Believe Syria Used Chemical Weapons
After you have read..Israel: Extreme claims for geopolitical gains read
below
Notice that Russia, Syria & Iran, in unison, have been reminding
us all of*the lies employed by the US and others that led up to the
illegitimate,
immoral attack on Iraq.*
[image:
http://www.al-monitor.com/files/live/sites/almonitor/files/contributed/jnt_news_russia-chemical-weapons-use-syria/Syria%20chemical%20weapons.jpg?t=thumbnail_578]
*A
general view shows Khan al-Assal area near the northern city of Aleppo,
near the site where forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar
al-Assad say
was a... more »
“Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever”
*“Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever”*
*The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the
year *
*reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks
can't fix.*
by Matt Taibbi
"Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the
Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an
apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your
basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in
recent months, when a series of related corrup... more »
Graph of the Day: All-time daily rainfall records on Australia east coast, January 2013
[image: All-time daily rainfall records on Australia east coast, January
2013. Between 22 and 29 January 2013 extreme rainfall occurred over the
east coast of Queensland and the New South Wales coast north of the
Illawarra, resulting in severe flooding. Many areas received daily
rainfalls greater than 400 mm, with many breaking daily rainfall records.
Graphic: Climate Commission]
(Climate Commission) – Between 22 and 29 January 2013 extreme rainfall
occurred over the east coast of Queensland and the New South Wales coast
north of the Illawarra, resulting in severe flooding (BoM, 2... more »
Austerity kills
Austerity doesn't just kill economies, austerity is literally killing people:
Detailing a decade of research, Oxford University political economist David
Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine and an
epidemiologist at Stanford University, said their findings show austerity
is seriously bad for health.
In a book to be published this week, the researchers say more than 10,000
suicides and up to a million cases of depression have been diagnosed during
what they call the "Great Recession" and its accompanying austerity across
Europe and North America.
The effec... more »
Catch of the Day
It goes to Jamelle Bouie, who has a terrific response to the latest
exercise in fantasy party history by the National Review's Kevin
Williamson. As he says, it's based on
a heavily revisionist history of American politics, in which the GOP never
wavered in its commitment to black rights, and the Democratic Party
embraced its role as a haven for segregationists. In this telling of
history, black support for Democrats is a function of liberal demagoguery
and crude identity politics. If African Americans truly understood their
interests, the argument goes, they’d have never left the Re... more »
Getting Beyond Good vs Evil
Getting Beyond Good and Evil (Oneness Consciousness) by American Kabuki
Gay guys can jump
Don't really follow any sports except baseball and by follow baseball I
mean, I check the standings regularly and cheer for my favorite teams. I
don't know from stats and half the time I don't remember the players names.
So I have no idea who this guy is or which team he plays for but the
internets tell me Jason Collins did a brave thing:
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. — I didn't set out to
be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But
since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.
I'm told he's the first major team sport playe... more »
Europe bans neonicotinoid pesticides blamed for destroying bee populations – ‘This is a victory for the precautionary principle, which is supposed to underlie environmental regulation’
[image: A bee pollinates a sunflower. The European Union voted for a ban on
neonicotinoid nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline global
bee populations. Photo: Independent]
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
29 April 2013
Brussels (Independent) – Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees"
today after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent
pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline global bee populations.
Despite fierce lobbying by the chemicals industry and opposition by
countries including Britain, 15 of the 27 member states voted for a
two-year... more »
Vic Toews : To serve and protect the Con agenda
So after the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews tacked a few
additional "terrorism" charges onto Omar Khadr's Canadian file that were not
in his original conviction by the discredited Guantánamo Bay military
tribunal (h/t Cathie from Canada):
Ottawa’s file on Omar Khadr contains faulty information based on a memo
prepared by a senior policy analyst for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews
... Among other things, the government alleges the late terrorist
mastermind Osama bin Laden was an accomplice of a 15-year-old Khadr, and
that the Canadian citizen killed two Afghan militia m... more »
A Bevy of Blossoms
Since Joshua Tree National Park is in the news, I'm linking to an earlier
post (Something Wicked This Way Comes) which has pictures from my visit
there - and some pictures of the trees from years ago for comparison. The
article about the unprecedented flowering this spring is below the video.
Desperate attempts to put inordinate amounts of energy into reproduction
is a survival strategy being employed by conifers, nut and other trees.
Naturally, the "experts" are blaming drought or climate, even though
Joshua Tree is the second most polluted park in the country, which is to
say, ... more »
Arts Festival
Downtown Southern City for the annual Festival of the Arts...
The Gang
Ducks and Koi
Band on the Water Stage
The Big Difference: When You Do It, It's Conspiracy Theory. When We Do It, It's Informed Speculation (Success Through Indirection, Mis-direction, Redirection, and Protection) I Am Not A Pleasure Unit Anymore!
Now you know I'm not a conspiracist, but I have to admit that I haven't had
so much fun wending my way through conspiracy theories since the 1974
Church Committee's JFK Assassination hearings, which were only allowed to
happen due to the double shocks to the establishment owners' hold on the
media, resulting from the unexpected outing of the Watergate
CIA-funded-and-Howard-Hunt-directed
PAUL GINGERICH, MICHAEL JACKSON, CHRISTIAN CHOATE
*Paul Gingerich, from Indiana, in the USA*
Paul Gingerich was jailed for life at the age of 12.
This is very convenient for certain pedophile rings.
Paul is now in Pendleton Juvenile Correction Facility, a sort of boy
brothel.
The first-ever National Survey of Youth in Custody found that 30% of
children in the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana are
abused by staff at the facility.
Shock Study: Children Sexually Abused in Government Custody
*Phillip Danner*
*
*Paul Gingerich's friend Colt Lundy "had been sexually abused by his
stepfather Philip Danner."
two-wa... more »
A potential for an education research boycott? #AERA13 #highered
I actually don’t know if “civilians” understand how academic publication
works, at least for the humdrum, commoner, the everyday “scholar” who
doesn’t have major book deals. Let me explain. So, in order to receive
tenure and promotion as a faculty member, which I think might be over-rated
at this point, a faculty member needs to [...]
ALEC - Big on Bamboozle, Short on Facts
*Love, love, love, this guy.*
Great writeup - one of the best ALEC reads of the weekend.
I give you only snips.
*Please take the time*
*to read the whole thing*
*>>>>HERE<<<** *
The American Legislative Exchange Council has the chutzpah to pick
taxpayers pockets.*
The Tax Analysts Blog*
* *
* *
* *
*Apr. 25, 2013 04:04 PM EDT*
* *
*Taxpayers Subsidize Rich Anti-Taxers*
* *
*by David Cay Johnston*
When it comes to picking taxpayer pockets, few organizations display as
much chutzpah as the American Legislative Exchange Council.
ALEC corrupts lawmakers with free trips, while reportin... more »
Info on #CPS testing schedule sent to me. In a word: INSANE
What you have here from the powers that be is a rather rudimentary and
quantitative understanding of assessment as it relates to pedagogy. A
listener of At the Chalk Face live tweeted during the show information
about Chicago’s insane PreK-2 assessment schedule. Here’s the graphic,
click for a larger version. What at first becomes obvious [...]
Totalitarianism
John Knefel (2013, April 22) Authoritarianism Has Quietly Enveloped Every
Part of American Life -- We Must Fight Back: Privacy, not surveillance, is
what must be justified now. We must make sure not to draw the wrong lessons
from Boston.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/authoritarianism-has-quietly-enveloped-every-part-american-life-we-must-fight-back
[Excerpted] ...That domestic surveillance will continue to increase –
especially with the arrival of drones – was true before Boston. Miranda
rights had already been significantly weakened by the Obama DOJ in 2010. US
officials... more »
Ken Livingstone - the West is always to blame
MEMRI has a clip of a fascinating interview with Ken Livingstone
Here's the transcript and details:
'Following are excerpts from statements made by former mayor of London Ken
Livingstone, which aired on Press TV and were posted on the Internet on
April 26, 2013:
*Voice of Muhammad, a caller from the UK*: How [come the Boston bombers]
enjoyed all these pleasures there, and yet, they ended up blowing
themselves up [sic] like that?
*Ken Livingstone*: Well, I think there is a problem… Very often people get
incredibly angry about injustices that they see. They would have been
reading ... more »
ALEC Action OKC - TWU514/ IAFF Local 176 Help Out
From:
Occupy OKC
*TULSAand NE Oklahomies heading to the March!!! *
If you want to ride the bus down *be sure to register *at this link.
And big THANKS to TWU514 and IAFF Local 176 Tulsa Firefighters for
sponsoring the buses!
TWI514
The Transport Workers Union of America is an industrial union, Local 514
was established in 1946.
*ALEC Protest: May 2, 2013 – Bus Trip!*
April 15, 2013
Corporations benefits- Although ALEC claims to take an ideological stance
of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty,
many of the model bills benefit the corporations whose... more »
Big Brother Never Goes Away-- CISPA Is A Real Danger To American Liberties
If you watched Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on CNN's *State of the
Nation*yesterday, you may recall him warning that the government is
approaching a
"dangerous line" when it comes to violating the Constitutional mandates
on
certain guaranteed liberties, like privacy. Chaffetz, who wasn't one of
only
29 Republicans who joined most Democrats in opposing Mike Rogers' Big
Brother CISPA legislation April 18, seemed to take issue with a dullard
colleague of his, Marsha Blackburn who wants more intrusion, not less.
(She
was out shopping for new platforms with Michele Bachmann at Hu's Shoes's
on ... more »
Israel: Extreme claims for geopolitical gains
*Allegations of Syrian chemical weapons.... *
Following up on the rather sudden and surprising chemical weapons in Syria
meme bomb being dropped and the subsequent fall out. I see mention of
Israel as the ‘joker’ in all of this... Took some time to read up on the
Joker. Jokers are wild. The Joker can be *extremely* beneficial or*extremely
* detrimental, depending on the game being played. *That said, Jokers are
definitely extreme.*
And that extremism defines that state of Israel, perfectly.
*“a tendency or disposition to go to extremes or an instance of going to
extremes”*
* ... more »
Wal Thornhill - Venus' Mysterious South Polar Cyclone - relevance to Earth's 'Climate Change'?
here's Wal Thornhill banging out his Electric Universe message, this time
focussing on the weird south-pole atmospheric anomaly which he calls a
DOUBLE FILAMENT electric current (from an interaction with the Electric
Sun) that's causing the spiral feature. The video (below) goes on to
discuss the strange hot spot at the north pole of Saturn, when both poles
should generally average out to the 'same temperature'.
"There's an Energy Input that's not being factored into Earth's Climate
Change..." Thornhill reminds us that our Sun is Electric, or rather 'the
galactic force that causes o... more »
AERA President Tierney Speech on Poverty Followed by Champagne Reception
AERA Presidential Address: William G. Tierney (#AERAPres) Beyond the Ivory
Tower: The Role of the Intellectual in Eliminating Poverty Time: Mon, Apr
29, 4:35 – 5:50 pm Location: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level –
Continental 4-6 In his presidential address, William Tierney will examine
the twin themes of how educational organizations might improve access and
[...]
Request from Off World
This morning there was this request in my inbox, from our off world
contact:
*“Sophia, can You share this video and website, we want lightworkers to
take this seriously and not ignore it, it is important, the sooner people
will know and acknowledge the ets presence, the sooner the complete change
will follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtE7GTxtLCc*
*
http://www.citizenshearing.org/
*
*We are sharing this as well, some lightworkers still unaware of this
important event.”*
What are you waiting for? You are the One.
~Sophia
*Here is a link to th... more »
Senator Ted Cruz: We're winning...
*I'm cautiously optimistic.*
H/T *Freedom's Lighthouse*
Hidden in Plain Sight - 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing 100% inside job.
Hidden in Plain Sight - the staged drama of the 2013 Boston Marathon
Bombing - 100% Inside Job. The proofs are in the photoshopped composites
beamed around the world. There is no end to this Inside Job Scams (even
before the 1912 Titanic)until we say Enough is Enough! No one can help
us
until we help ourselves. The first step is to see the plain truth
contained
in these pictures.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=519514094775864&set=a.128510663876211.20575.100001518344620&type=1&theater
Thanks
to Robbo Da Yobbo, we found this confirmation on his youtube video.
There was no... more »
Why not support the folk who are right!
*MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013*
*Our fund-raising drive continues:* If you don’t mind our saying so, year
after year we just keep getting it right.
In the last few weeks, the world has heard about the two latest Harvard
professors. We have been telling you, year after year: The professors are *
constantly* failing.
Yesterday morning, the front-page piece in the New York Times Sunday Review
cited a few upbeat facts about the nation’s test scores. (Other basic facts
were withheld.)
We have been telling you, year after year, about the way our “educational
experts” and education reporters ref... more »
ALEC 2012 Policy: Stop the exchange, stop PPACA.
Found this quote from Christie Herrera who at the time this was recorded
was the Health guru at ALEC, before she left ALEC for Florida government
appointment:
The exchanges are key to most other parts of PPACA -- it
subsidizes/enforces the individual mandate and determines who is eligible
for a newly-expanded Medicaid program. Stop the exchange, stop PPACA.
I went looking for it and found a thread from a live blog which is an
eye-opening exchange of the right-wingers.
*The thread is located*
* *
*>>>>HERE<<<*
Here are snips:
*Joining the FreedomWorks "Stop Obamacare at the St... more »
Post-Policy GOP and Sequestration
Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas write:
Republicans wanted entitlement cuts. They’re not getting them. They wanted
to protect defense spending. Instead, the Pentagon is getting gutted while
Medicare and Social Security are left mostly untouched. They had an eye
toward tax reform. Nuh-uh.
That is, keeping sequestration in place is, they write, lose-lose when it
comes to policy.
Which would be absolutely true if Republicans really did want entitlement
cuts, defense spending, tax reform, or, as they go on to discuss, long-term
deficit reduction.
If, however, we take the "post-policy" idea ... more »
History Lessons: Bigfoot, the Viceroyalty and the Natives of Nootka
*History Lessons: Bigfoot, The Viceroyalty and the Natives of Nootka*
*By Scott Corrales (c) 2013 *
During the 18th century, exploration of "la Alta California" (Upper
California) pushed northward beyond the deserts and forests of the San
Francisco Mission and into the virgin forests of the modern states of
Oregon and Washington - lands lacking gold or readily accessible mineral
wealth, but whose waters attracted the otters that stirred the interest of
Russian settlers in Alaska. As they sailed southward in search of their
prize, they came into conflict with the forces of the vic... more »
Breaking: Stanford professor reveals real facts about American test scores!
*MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013*
*When will the New York Times agree to tell the whole truth:* Yesterday, in
the New York Times, the week of the professors continued.
In a front-page piece in the Sunday Review, Stanford professor Sean Reardon
got a whole bunch of things right. At the end of a *very* lengthy piece, he
argued a set of congenial lines.
How can we help low-income kids achieve more in school? Here’s what he said
we should do:
REARDON (4/28/13): So how can we move toward a society in which educational
success is not so strongly linked to family background? *Maybe we should
tak... more »
Daily Links, Monday, April 28, 2013: Protest Version
A friend of mine was down from Taipei to Yuanli Port in Miaoli to protest
the installation of wind machines over the objections of locals. The Taipei
Times covered this earlier in April:
“We are just asking the government and the building contractor to respect
us local residents, include us in the negotiations, and keep a safe
distance between our homes and the wind turbines,” Chen said.
The Germany-based wind energy firm, InfraVest GmbH, plans to build 12 new
wind turbines along the coast of Miaoli County — six in Tongsiao Township
(通霄) and the other six in Yuanli.
Worried about ... more »
Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, An Interview With Prof. Joseph Sassoon
Professor Joseph Sassoon was originally born in Baghdad, and later moved to
England where he received his education. He is currently a Professor at the
Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies at Georgetown University. In 2012,
he published *Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, Inside an Authoritarian Regime*.
Using thousands of Iraqi documents seized by Kurds after the 1991 Gulf War,
and the U.S. led Coalition following the 2003 invasion, along with
interviews of former Iraqi officials Professor Sassoon was able to study
the intricate party apparatus of the Baathist regime under Saddam Hus... more »
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARABIC STUDIES VIDEO: Book Release: Jaseph Sassoon On Saddam Hussein's Baath Party
Book Release: Joseph Sassoon on Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party from Georgetown
CCAS on Vimeo.
ALEC Private National Chair - Misleads Public with Opinion Piece
*An interesting thing happened this morning – I found a total plagiarism of
one of my entries when I was researching this story. There is nothing –
absolutely nothing that pisses me off more than when people claim my stuff
as their own. NOTHING PISSES ME OFF MORE!*
*
*
*I knew I had written about this ALEC slimeball before - so I just Googled
his name - and lo & behold - I found an article that was a complete
plagiarism of one of my entries – with no link back to me, no reference to
me, no credit to me – they just stole my whole article – in fact the
person who posted it had t... more »
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