Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. Español: Instalaciones generales de la NSA en Fort Meade, Maryland. Русский: Штаб-квартира АНБ, Форт-Мид, Мэриленд, США (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Outside the fence, Menwith Hill Spy Base This photo was taken on the 'Foil the Base' demonstration in March 2003. Founded in the 1950s (RAF) Menwith Hill has been operated since 1966 by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA), and has grown to become the world's largest intelligence-gathering ground station outside the US. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Official portrait of United States Attorney General Eric Holder Español: Retrato oficial de Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos Eric Holder (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Obama is the Best Actor Alive, A Shill in an Empty Suit
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Tap It: The NSA Slow Jam
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Vernon Hershberger Sentence and Fines Are Decided
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 12 minutes ago
Heather Callaghan
Vernon Hershberger and Family
Vernon Hershberger's recent verdict was mostly victorious on the three
counts held against him for distributing fresh food to members without
licensing. A jury found him guilty on the last count for breaking a holding
order which held the maximum punishment. For the last three years, he's had
a threat of 2 years prison and $10,000 in fines looming over until that
fateful fifth night of trial.
Vernon said after the verdict:
Praise the Lord! Now I can feed my community again.
Just days after, Wisconsin's Department of Justice went a... more »
Eric Holder: info leaked about NSA surveillance program is ‘extremely damaging’ to national security
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 23 minutes ago
Madison Ruppert
Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that the information leaked about the massive
surveillance program run by the National Security Agency (NSA) is
“extremely damaging” to U.S. national security without explaining how it is
actually damaging.
Holder also vowed to hold the individual who leaked the information about the
NSA program accountable, though he did not identify admitted NSA leaker
Edward Snowden by name.
“The national security of the United States has been damaged as a result of
those leaks,” Holder claimed at a United States-European Union ministerial
... more »
Stand for Sovereignty
Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 24 minutes ago
*Shared recently on Face Book, the following inspiring words are not my
own. Thank you Tom, for voicing what so many of us are feeling. America
once brought in a revolutionary spirit. It is time to bring it in, again.**
*
*"Here’s the question everyone is asking:
“Is Edward Snowden a hero or a criminal, a whistleblower or a traitor?”
But here’s the question they really should be asking:
“Does America still have its original revolutionary backbone, or are we a
nation of sheep?”
There is the possibility that Snowden’s courageous action has triggered,
something much more ... more »
Gold Buying Panic In China: 10,000 People Wait In Line For Their Chance to Own Precious Metals
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 26 minutes ago
image source Mac Slavo
One day in the near future Americans will finally realize that their money
is being devalued at a rapid pace. For the time being the price increases
are somewhat muted by official announcements of inflation being under
control at around 2% and purported economic recovery on the horizon. The
Federal Reserve and the US government are doing everything in their power
to maintain a perception of stability.
But what happens when all the machinations are proven to be fruitless during
the next stock market crash and currency crisis?
That’s when people panic. That’s... more »
Unholy Alliance: The Federal Reserve and the Treasury
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 28 minutes ago
Dees Illustration Cassandra Anderson
The Federal Reserve and the Treasury are running a scam that funnels
freshly-printed money from the Fed into the Treasury, using Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae as the pipeline. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were taken over by
the government and put into conservatorship in the 2008 bailout. Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae are companies that bundle mortgages and then sell them
to investors. At the end of 2012, the Federal Reserve committed to spending
$40 billion per month on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage backed
securities, creating an artificial marke... more »
Learning to Render Fat
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 28 minutes ago
Gaye Levy
Old habits die slowly. For years we have been told that animal fat is bad
and to be honest, I personally subscribe to a diet plan that is primarily
plant based. That said, there is a place in my diet and my kitchen for
organic meat and meat products, including the fat that is typically
discarded after the fact.
For the longest time, something I absolutely tossed out was cooking grease.
Healthcare experts, government and public health agencies and even the
editors of popular cooking magazines all jumped on the fat is bad
bandwagon. Low fat was good, no fat was better an... more »
Turnkey Tyranny
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 28 minutes ago
Anthony Freda Art Joe Giambrone
“I know everything that is said and done. And thought!” - Emperor Tiberius,
*Caligula *(1979)
"...they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior
in the world known to them." - Edward Snowden (2013)
The genius of the American political system is that each administration is
significantly worse than the one that preceded it. The effect is historical
revisionism in the public mind. Nixon looks downright cuddly next to the
abuses of Cheney/Rummy/Bush and company. Now Bush Jr. is starting to look
like a civil libertarian when com... more »
Greek Prime Minister Samaras tries to find face saving solution for ERT closure mess - fig offered to Coalition partners rejected . Can the Ccalition survive ERT debacle ? Spain debt surges to record high and the pace accelerating - more green shoots of poison ivy .....
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 41 minutes ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/15/greek-pm-climbdown-over-ert-broadcaster
Greek prime minister backtracks on decision to close public broadcaster
Antonis Samaras tries to calm political crisis by offering partial
reinstatement so transmissions can resume 'immediately'
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Protesters gather in front of the ERT headquarters on Friday. Photograph:
Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images
Greece's prime m... more »
Tenure Denial, Public Relations, and Asymmetric Voice
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 48 minutes ago
I’ll admit that this is a rather anodyne title, but the alternatives
involved language not suited for above-the-fold content. The tenure process
involves power asymmetries that make very unpleasant for assistant
professors. They have to worry about alienating their colleagues and their
administration. They interact daily with people — who are too often petty,
fickle,
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It's Only a Rumour, But It's a Dandy
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 49 minutes ago
Did Tony Blair break up the marriage between 82-year old Rupert Murdoch and
his 44-year old wife, Wendi Deng?
*BBC financial correspondent Robert Peston, who is close friends with many
of Mr Murdoch's key lieutenants, including News Corp CEO Robert Thomson,
kicked the rumour frenzy off when he tweeted yesterday: "Am also told that
undisclosed reasons for Murdoch divorcing Deng are jaw-dropping - & hate
myself for wanting to know what they are." *
* *
*Murdoch's biographer, Michael Wolff, added on his Twitter account: "I'm
hearing the WHY, the big reveal, the scandal details, could co... more »
Daddy-O Speaks
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 58 minutes ago
It's time once again for that annual Fathers Day dose of paternalistic
presidential pablum.
*Hi, everybody. This Sunday is Father’s Day, and so I wanted to take a
moment to talk about the most important job many of us will ever have – and
that’s being a dad.*
*Today we’re blessed to live in a world where technology allows us to
connect instantly with just about anyone on the planet. But no matter how
advanced we get, there will never be a substitute for the love and support
and, most importantly, the presence of a parent in a child’s life. And in
many ways, that’s uniquely true f... more »
Knell Keeps the Ball Rolling During Lull in Israel-Related Activities
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
Nothing much happening in Israel/Gaza at the minute, apart from a momentary
flurry of interest when it looked as though the action in Syria was about
to overflow into the Golan. Of course Syria isn’t Israel, therefore of
relatively minor interest to the BBC, but lest the Israel-bashing audience
gets bored and drifts away, in the noble spirit of the keepy uppie, Yolande
Knell ferrets out some human interest stories about Gaza. She’s only making
sure the plight of the Palestinians stays fresh in our minds, and that
Israel’s bogey-man image doesn’t fade.
Introducing Knell’s upcoming ... more »
Some Bollywood music for you
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
Laila - Full Song (Uncensored Version) - Shootout At Wadala
Open Thread
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago
God damn you people for voting for that piece of shit.
War watch - June 15, 2013 .. Focus on Syria and Afghanistan .....
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://www.debka.com/article/23047/Hizballah-units-near-Golan-Some-receive-%E2%80%9Climited-use%E2%80%9D-chemical-arms
( Haze of chemical weapon claims bubbling up ....)
American sources claimed Saturday, June 15, that the “military support”
the Obama administration promised the Syrian opposition Friday consisted of
automatic weapons, mortars and recoilless rocket grenades (RPGs) for
delivery within three weeks through Turkey.
Those items, say DEBKAfile’s military sources, are no more than a mockery
of the rebels’ needs. Any Middle East arms trafficker can quickly lay hands
on ad... more »
Joint US/Israeli 'contingency' plan aka Strike Plan to attack Syria
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
*YNET *
While the US prepares to arm rebels and after its confirmation that the
Syrian army has used chemical weapons and crossed the much debated "red
line", Time Magazine published a detailed account of how and when the US
and Israel plan to destroy President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons
stockpile.
*The plan to destroy alleged chems is cover for airstrikes on Syria*
Hagel, Ya'alon meet in Pentagon (Photo: AP)
According to the report, the two countries have formed a number of
contingency plans in case Assad's regime falls or rebels near the weapon
caches, mandating a ... more »
Light posting
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
Visiting friends. Internet access is spotty. So posting will be sporadic at
best for the next few days.
Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 12 , 2013 .... note Comex gold continues to migrate away - yesterday was JP Morgan , today it's Brinks .. GLD inventory flatline extends to day three !
Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/06/another-price-fixing-scandal-on-foreign.html
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Another price fixing scandal on foreign exchange/Comex gold inventories
fall on both dealer and customer accounts/JPMorgan's account remains
constant/
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed up by $14.80 to $1391.80 (comex closing time). Silver rose by
15 cents to $21.79 (comex closing time)
In the access market at 5:00 pm, gold and silver finished trading at the
following prices :
gold: 1388.20.
silver: $21.78
At the Comex, the open interest in silver fell by... more »
Don't Blame the Shlubs. Blame the Left Leadership
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 hours ago
My view on ordinary apolitical Canadians is that I don't blame them for not
having taken to the streets to take down the fraudulently empowered stephen
harper. How was that supposed to have happened? At 3pm, June 2012, each
individual apolitical ordinary Canadian is simultaneously struck by
visceral disgust with the harpercons' systematic dismantling of their
democracy and they all go out into the streets, in Toronto, in Montreal, in
Timmins, in Saskatoon, etc., ... and then what?
No. I blame the politically active progressives and their institutions and
leaders. If those millions o... more »
Do Not Shake Hands with #commoncore
peggyrobertson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
Some days it is terribly overwhelming to read the comments of despair and
desperation from parents who are trying to figure out how to help their
children who are suffering from severe anxiety after being told they will
be retained due to failing the state test. Many of these children must take
the test multiple […]
Criminal Code sections relevant to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
*Criminal Code*
*The subject areas that were identified as being dealt with, directly or
indirectly, in the Code are: (1) pain control and sedation practices (2)
withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, (3) assisted
suicide, and (4) euthanasia. Furthermore, although certain portions of the
provisions may not appear to relate directly to the conduct described, the
sections have not, for the most part, been abridged in light of the fact
that each provision should be read in its entirety in order to better
appreciate its purpose.*
*Consent to Death*
14. No person is... more »
Will Glenn Greenwald Run For Congress Against Peter King?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Terrorist supporter Peter King and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald
Long Island as a geographical entity includes all of 4 counties: from east
to west, Suffolk, Nassau, Queens and Kings (Brooklyn). Long Island as a
state of mind is Nassau and Suffolk. When someone in NYC says they're going
to "the Island," no one thinks they mean Brooklyn or Queens. There are 3
Long Island congressional districts, NY-01, NY-02 and NY-03 (although
NY-03, represented by Steve Israel has a significant slice of Queens in it
now). Although NY-01 and NY-03 are represented by Democrats, Obama did best
last... more »
Chief Justice McLachlin on mental illness and the law
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
Skirting carefully around a contentious federal government policy, she says
that the legal regime used to decide the fate of violent, mentally ill
offenders has worked smoothly and “served us well.”
Under reforms proposed by the federal government, it would become
substantially more difficult for those designated as high-risk offenders to
be reviewed and potentially released.
While the Chief Justice expresses reluctance to inject herself into a
raging debate about a proposal to make the law more strict, she says she is
unaware of any particular deficiencies in the current law. ... more »
BoA - We enjoy screwing our customers
2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
*From HuffPo*
Whenever people think about corporations and government working together -
they always forget that with corporations - the goal is to make profits.
Their 1% shareholders want them to make profits. To hell with the people.
The government is there to serve the people.
Over the years - while working on ALEC - I have found that
The lesson when you have the government partnering with corporations
is
- the people will get screwed so the stockholders can be rewarded, because
of increased corporate profits.
This story is kinda a mix of those - the kind of stuff members o... more »
Not A Big Speaker From A Big Country
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
When Stephen Harper steps out on the world stage, he never fails to offend.
Last week, he spoke before the Mother of all Parliaments. He praised David
Cameron and Margaret Thatcher:
In his speech, Harper told Cameron how much he has admired the prime
minister’s “determined efforts and your wise and principled leadership
during these last few years as we have dealt with the difficult and
critical issues facing our countries and the world issues which require the
best of what has always made Britain unique and strong, and which you have
plainly demonstrated.”
Of Thatcher, Harper n... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*The Advocate's Secret Weapon: A Speedy Press ~Amy Jeffries, WWNO*
*IG’s report confirms Hoslim Mendoza broke NOPD rules ~Andrew Vanacore,
The Advocate* *Summer Festivals & Fun - Updated ~WWOZ*
Fish Farming Tops Beef Production
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours ago
Essentially fish farming has surpassed the wild catch and the meat output
of the beef industry. Most of this has gone by unnoticed by most of us and
is a continuing global expansion. Aspects of the process are not
sustainable, but these are solvable problems which are been solved. In
time, and this is not too far away, fish farming will generally eliminate
the bulk of the wild fishery in favor of managed stocks at the least.
Most likely fish feed will be drawn generally from krill with some grain
augmentation perhaps as well as the recycling of fish waste. All this can
be au... more »
Ancient Primate Skeleton Hints at Monkey and Human Origins
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours ago
It appears that our earliest lineage really did operate in the trees. Of
course, it is way back then when it was a bare beginning and the primate
linage could be barely imagined from the evidence at hand.
We are also now reconstructing a full image using x-rays and computers to
avoid actually damaging the rock. This is great news as there is plenty of
potential data there easily lost on exposure. From now on, I would expect
bone beds to be readily processed in this manner to produce the maximum
possible data.
This particular 'ancestor' was about the size of a mouse.
*An... more »
Siberian Shamans
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours ago
Curiosity has been rising in the shamanic traditions of tribesmen who
lived a life free of urban development which promotes organized religion.
This item outlines the history of the extensive Siberian culture which is
really our best extant window into that world of the mind.
It turns out that there were several areas of practice available and it
clearly acted as a repository of folk knowledge. In this day, we can at
least catalog that knowledge and investigate it.
This provides a solid framework at least rather than what has been a
smattering of oblique references.
... more »
Environmentalists are Celebrating Rising CO2 Levels
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours ago
It took seven years for geologic reality to set in. More CO2 is welcome to
begin with and it is clearly not linked to global temperatures. In
practice, global temperatures are linked to the geometry of the continental
plates. This was deliberately changed 12800 years ago in order to usher in
the Holocene. Again a thirty degree crustal shift is a direct change in
geometry.
A minimum effort at research displays the reality of an unwelcome decline
over geological time. The work here also shows us that the ocean is the
dominant player and that limits us in terms of offset... more »
Merrow Is a Jolly Fellow (Not)
plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 4 hours ago
I hate even to acknowledge John Merrow’s most recent venture into not
having a clue, but his attempt at humor is yet more evidence that the
evidence doesn’t matter: The Common Core and the End of the World In
Merrow’s evidence-free world, all who question the Mighty Common Core are
nothing more than end-of-the-world loonies. […]
America And Israel Will Use Nukes To Force Submission of Muslims
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago
*Darkness in their eyes, hatred in their hearts, death on their tongues:
Obama and Netanyahu are not humans, but monsters. *
A healthy and sane society looks inward and fixes its problems rationally,
peacefully, and democratically, rather than violently lash out at invented
monsters in distant and exotic lands. Sadly, the Obama administration has
taken the latter course.
It is intent on escalating the war in Syria by all means at its disposal: a
renewed and massive propaganda campaign aimed at the peace-minded public,
godlike air power, deploying elite U.S. special forces on Syri... more »
Greek Public Service Broadcasting Close-down: Told You So!
noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 6 hours ago
The week's second I told you so (the first one is here), this time with
regard to my analysis of the Greek government's shocking close-down,
effective immediately, of its public service broadcasting agency, ERT
earlier this week.
Friday and today, reports are now coming in that the Greek PM Samaras has
been taken aback by the mass and force of protests and civil disobedience,
and is offering "to hire a small number of workers to resume public
broadcasts".
You don't say??!! A small number? Carefully selected, I presume? With a
carefully selected brief, I presume even more? Exactly ... more »
Alex Jones - We Are Overrun by Global Criminals
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
*National Security Paranoia Agency.*
This is one of Alex's most powerful speeches. The recent scandals,
especially the NSA revelations, have validated everything Alex has said in
the past decade and a half about the collusion between global corporate
criminals and power-mad government agencies.
It is impossible nowadays to accuse government critics of paranoia and
"conspiracy theorizing" in the face of mountains of evidence that shows
they are right about the dangers of government overreach. People's worst
suspicions about the abuse of power and the betrayal of public trust in
W... more »
An article by Charles Moore
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
Here's a little Saturday morning reading related to the theme of this blog
- an extract from a thought-provoking piece by Charles Moore in the *Daily
Telegraph, *which deserves reading in full:
It is less than a month since Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered in Woolwich,
yet already the incident feels half-forgotten. In terms of the legal
process, all is well. Two men have been charged. There will be a trial. No
doubt justice will be done. But I have a sense that the horror felt at the
crime is slipping away.
The media, notably the BBC, quickly changed the subject. After a day or two
... more »
Defending the One Percent
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 7 hours ago
Click here to read my new essay "Defending the One Percent," which is
forthcoming in the *Journal of Economic Perspectives*.
'Today' today
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
This looks promising.
Following on from our last-but-one post about *Today*'s failure to label
Professor Prem Sikka of the Tax Justice Network as a campaigner by merely
introducing him as academic, this morning's *Today* live page provides us
with the following infomation:
"Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research UK, a campaigner for tax reform
and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander analyse the
government's plan for more disclosure on the tax payments of companies and
wealthy individuals."
Evan Davis repeated this formulation whilst introducing Mr Murphy at 8.10,
an... more »
Northrop Frye on An Approach to the Bible
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago
*"The Great Code: The Bible and Literature"* by Northrop Frye.
Title: Northrop Frye on An Approach to the Bible. Date Published: October
5, 2012. Source: TVOBigIdeas. Description:
Professor Frye explains the origins of his course on The Bible and
Literature and his approach to the Bible, namely exploring its narrative
and imagery.
There is no classical world
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago
*...even Sean Carroll may say true things about the foundations of
physics...*
How is it possible? Well, quantum mechanics implies that if a process isn't
prohibited by some absolute laws such as symmetries and conservation laws,
it may happen even though the probability may be very tiny (like in quantum
tunneling; or in Carroll's authorship of valid sentences about quantum or
statistical physics).
Sean Carroll decided to promote an animated cartoon film on quantum
mechanics, previously embedded in John Preskill's blog – it's nicely done
but you may ultimately think that it's missi... more »
Report Back from the Trigger Happy Parent Revolution’s “Meet and Greet” with teachers and social justice organizers
rdsathene * Robert D. Skeels at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
What troubles me is what you are doing with the millions you raise. You use
it to sow dissension, to set parents against parents, parents against
teachers, parents against principals. I don’t see this as productive or
helpful. Schools function best when there is collaboration among teachers,
parents, administrators, and students. Schools have a better […]
KEN CLARKE AND SYRIA; BILDERBERG AND McCAIN SABOTAGED SYRIA PEACE? MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BACKS MOSSAD; BLAIRS AFFAIRS? IRAN
Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Ken Clarke*
Ken Clarke, who is a member of Bilderberg, opposed the Iraq War and now
opposes intervention in Syria.
Ken Clarke has recently been 'got at' by a former child actor called Ben
Fellows.
*Syria*
Accordingt to *Dr. Webster G. Tarpley*, *Britain and France are prodding
Obama into attacking Syria*
*1.* *On 5 June 2013*, the rebels in Syria lost a major base.
The UK and France demanded that Obama bomb Syria, to help the rebels.
Obama refused.
The Guardian (which is run by MI6 reportedly) then revealed that 'Obama
taps your phones!'
*2. On 6 June*, The Guardian (which ... more »
The Aussie Military Redefinig Masculinity Amidst Another Scandal?
Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
The Australian Defense Force (ADF- and they spell it with an ‘s’) finds
themselves in yet another sex scandal this week. The force has barely
recovered from last year’s ‘skype scandal,’ which involved members of a
defense force academy videotaping sex without permission and streaming it
to other members of the academy. This time it
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"Glenn Beck Delivers Moving, Tearful Monologue — Without Saying a Single Word"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
"Glenn Beck Delivers Moving, Tearful Monologue — Without Saying a Single
Word"
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlugRym4Rbo&feature=player_embedded
•
Hat tip to Julie Mitchell for this material.
Drug Price Control 33: Debate with a Cat
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
When some people’s ego is bruised, they tend to take revenge. And if that
requires abandoning a previous advocacy, say from anti-statist
interventionism and move to the opposite, statist and socialist, they will
do it.
My blog post, Drug Price Control 32: Policeman of Pharma Companies, about
my reply to a demand for another round of price control by the head of the
Cancer Warriors Foundation (CWF) here in Manila, was posted yesterday in
the facebook group, Imperium et Populi (Philippines), to be countered and
debated by the fb group owner, *Kensi Blye-Two*.
Until last week, this... more »
Sunday Classics preview: Father's Day special -- meet the sea captain Daland
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
*In Act II of Wagner's Flying Dutchman, the sea captain Daland has just
walked into his home on the rugged Norwegian coast following a harrowing
voyage with a near-fatal landing, as we witnessed in Act I. Here bass Karl
Ridderbusch as Daland exhorts his daughter, Senta, to welcome the guest
he's brought home with him (from a Rome Radio broadcast performance
conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, February 15, 1969).*
*DALAND*: Would you, my child, bid this stranger welcome?
A sailor is he, like me; he asks our hospitality.
Long without homeland, always on far, long journeys,
in foreign la... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, "Remember Now"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
2002, "Remember Now"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bq4qjI8VVzg#!
"The Road"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
"The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Road goes ever on and on,
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Classics Mashup
Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
I thought Charli’s return meant I was off this beat, but what the hey. What
if Shakespeare wrote Star Wars? Check it out here. Come to think of it, the
whole brother and sister not knowing each other and almost falling in love
seems like a Shakespeare comedy, does it not? Oh really? Never mind.
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
“Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some
200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away
toward the chemical constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a dominant member of
the well-studied Fornax galaxy cluster. This sharp color image shows
intense star forming regions at the ends of the bar and along the spiral
arms, and details of dust lanes cutting across the galaxy's bright core. At
the core lies a supermassive black hole.
*Click image for larger size.*
Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the
gal... more »
"If We're Lucky..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
“Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that
reality is better. We convince ourselves it’s better that we never dream at
all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the
dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We
wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we’re
lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true
dream is being able to dream at all.”
- Dr. Meredith Grey, "Grey's Anatomy"
THE MILITARIZATION OF BASEBALL
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
I love baseball and the Baltimore Orioles are my favorite team. Because I
grew up in a military family we moved every 2-3 years. I lived all over
the US and in England and Germany (twice). I never really had a home town
to speak of. The Orioles were my roots.
It's become harder and harder for me to remain a fan but I keep trying in
spite of the big $$$ takeover of sports. But the worst part for me is the
increasing militarization of baseball. Just tonight, after being at a
meeting in Portland to hear a peace movement speaker, I came home to check
to see how my O's did. They... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
Atascadero, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Tony Blair assures that he is not " currently " sleeping with Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendy - glad that's cleared up ! Now we may have the answer to the dynamite affair that was rocking the UK recently
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
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The private life of independent woman Wendi Deng became the source of much
speculation and gossiping immediately after news broke that her 82-year-old
mogul husband Rupert Murdoch had filed for divorce. "Am also told that
undisclosed reasons for Murdoch divorcing Deng are jaw-dropping,"wrote the
business editor of the BBC. "I'm hearing the WHY, the big reveal, the
scandal details, could come tomorrow," teas... more »
Svalbard Blogging
Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
Why, yes that is the Indian Foreign Minister, Salman Khurshid, and Norway’s
Foreign Affairs Minister and Political Scientist, Espen Barthe Eide, in
Svalbard. Are they trying to tell Duck fans something? [Discuss]
Bank of America allegedly caught red handed committing systemic organized fraud in HAMP Program ...... Where is the DOJ and / or State Attorney Generals ? These continuous flagrant violations of laws by the banksters are going to lead to a breakdown in society as folks reach their own line in the sand about institutionalized corruption and control frauds......
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=221772
F The DOJ, F The Government, F The Banks
Read this:
"Using the Bank of America computer systems I saw that *hundreds of
customers had made their required trial payments, sent the documents
requested of them, but had not received permanent modifications.* I also
saw records showing that *Bank of America employees have told people that
documents had not been received when, in fact, the computer system showed
that Bank of America had received the documents.* This was consistent with
the instructions my colleagues and I were given. *We we... more »
Turkey protests updates - June 12 - 13 , 2013 ... Turkey pushes back against media coverage of protests both at home and abroad .....quiet start to 16th day of protests !
Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
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and
supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party at ... more »
Music and stuff
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 14 hours ago
More proof, if it were needed, that Radiohead are a soul group trapped in
the body of a rock band.
Chinese demand - low price = skyrocketing demand ! Commitment of Traders - very interesting silver picture in Commercials - net short position quite low......
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/4779/considering-chinese-demand
Considering Chinese Demand
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 1:36 pm
It's one of those things. You hear about it every day but never stop to *
really*think about it.
This began as an email discussion with my friend, Ned, yesterday. All of us
in Turdville are aware that the Shanghai Gold Exchange has physically
delivered something like 1200 metric tonnes of gold, year to date. That's a
staggering number and it far exceeds the amount delivered through London
and dwarfs the level delivered through the Comex. Prior to yesterday,... more »
Musical Interlude: John Denver, “The Eagle and the Hawk”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
“I am the eagle, I live in high country,
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky.
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers,
But time is still turning, they soon will be dry.
And all those who see me, and all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly...
Come dance with the west wind, and touch on the mountain tops
Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars.
And reach for the heavens, and hope for the future,
And all that we can be, and not what we are...”
John Denver, “The Eagle and the Hawk”
Who was who in the Iranian presidential election?
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Was Saeed Jalili, described in a February Reuters head as "rigid ideologue
close to Khamenei," the Supreme Leader's guy in today's Iranian
presidential election? Nobody seems to know.*
*"Where the Supreme Leader is concerned, [Mohammad Baqer] Qalibaf and
[Hassan] Rowhani have got to be the two least attractive candidates.
Neither has the profile of an ideological true believer or an
unquestioningly faithful lieutenant. Khamenei has had enough of Presidents
who challenge him from bases of power of their own. But to sideline these
two relatively popular figures in favor of a dour fo... more »
"The Pathetic Truth..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
"The pathetic truth is that most people fear genuine independence more
than they fear death itself. So desperate are they for "acceptance" and so
fearful of being thought "peculiar," they will deny the evidence of their
own eyes and mindlessly repeat the lies and ignorance of others. When it
comes to a subject like economics or foreign policy, they think: "Oh,
that's so hard! I can't understand that. I'll just listen to what the
'experts' say. They know best."
- Arthur Silber,
- http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
* *
*"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"*
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"For I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be
beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not
and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is
just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing
it? I have seen the truth- it is not as though I had invented it with my
mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my
soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe
that it is... more »
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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Acadian Ambulance responding to explosion at nitrogen plant in
Donaldsonville*
100 Million extended trip to Africa - in this time of austerity ? Bang for the buck but for whom ? And considering the possibility of a terror attack around the Forth of July holiday - seems like a lot of resources ( hundreds of secret service agents ) pulled away at not the best time .
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/14/308901/obama-africa-trip-to-cost-up-to-100m/
Obama’s extended trip to Africa to cost taxpayers up to $100m, report says
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The first extended trip by US President Barack Obama to sub-Saharan Africa
will take place at a time of China’s growing influence in Africa and severe
economic distress in the United States with across-the-board spending cuts.
The first extended trip by US President Barack Obama to sub-Saharan Africa
later in June is expected to ... more »
Rumi, "You Were Born With..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
"You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings,
Learn to use them, and fly.
What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself in the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?"
- Rumi (1207 - 1273)
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"Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th century Afghan poet and philosopher
who heavily influenced both eastern... more »
"I Am Human. I Am Here..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
Across 30,000 years of time the message is clear: "I am human. I am here."
"Lascaux is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave
paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in
the Dordogne departement. They contain some of the earliest known art,
dating back to somewhere between 13,000 and 15,000 BCE, or as far back as
25,000 BCE. The Upper Paleolithic cave paintings consist mostly of
realistic images of large animals procreating, including aurochs, most of
which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the tim... more »
ARMING THE SYRIAN REBELS: A NEW CHAPTER IN THE WEST’S MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY
Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 15 hours ago
If it demonstrates nothing else, America’s decision to support the rebels
against Syrian President Bashir al-Assad indicates that the US has arrived
at a long term endgame plan for the future of both Syria and the region –
and it won’t be just the removal of al-Assad from office.
The opposition in Syria is now dominated by pan-Islamic Sunni jihadists. In
the event of al-Assad’s downfall the last thing the Israelis and the US
want is a new Syrian government made up of Islamists who despise Israel
more than they do the pro-Assad Shia foe they’re fighting now. Indeed, if
there is anyth... more »
The Poet: William Stafford, "You Reading This, Be Ready"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*"You Reading This, Be Ready"*
"Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life.
What can anyone give... more »
VIDEO: Arrests at Sacred Fire in New Brunswick
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Published on Jun 14, 2013
12 People arrested at Anti Shale Protest on Route 126 in Kent County
APTN: Arrests made at sacred fire in New Brunswick
Twelve people were arrested Friday morning by the RCMP at the site of a
sacred fire as part of an on-going protest in New Brunswick over seismic
testing in the area.
APTN article, with more video:
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/
America Is Fighting To The Last Arab In Syria
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
"Those to whom fate has loaned force perish through their over-reliance on
it." - Simone Weil, from her classic essay, "The Iliad or the Poem of
Force."
The U.S./NWO objective in Syria is to cause as much misery, chaos, and
death as possible. The Grim Reaper doesn't care what types of personalities
and groups seize Damascus. Washington wants the most ruthless and sectarian
groups to come out on top. In a Syria with a weak central state, the
foreign-backed Jihadist terrorist groups will be free to massacre as many
religious and ethnic minorities as they want. And if this happens, ... more »
The Real News - Why the United States Must Come to Terms with Iran
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
Why the United States Must Come to Terms with Iran. Source: The Real News.
Date Published: June 13, 2013. Description:
Gareth Porter interviews veteran US officials about why US policy towards
Iran needs to change.
Read: *"Iran’s Presidential Election and the Real Dynamics of Iranian
Politics"* by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett.
Women in space . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours ago
FIFTY
YEARS NOW, women have been in space, starting with Valentina
Tereshkova, who went to orbit on June 16, 1963. You can find out all
about it at io9. And there are places on the planet where women aren't
allowed to drive?
How architecture helped music evolve - David Byrne [updated]
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago
Talking Heads’s David Byrne delivers a great TED talk on architecture and
music.
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He
asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian
operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
Unfortunately, he’s got Wagner’s *Festspielhaus* in Bayreuth, Germany—which
was truly revolutionary—confused for the *other *music theatre in Bayreuth,
which wasn’t. (It would have been interesting to hear his take on Wagner’s
*actual *theatre, which was, for example, the place ... more »
Snowden's possible gambit so far - exposing the domestic spying while holding the global spying - for now......Nice sum up by Glenn Greenwald on the NSA issues that have been presented to date......Note much more on the way !
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1803
Snowden’s Gambit:Expose NSA Domestic Spying Operation, Hold Global Spying
Program in Reserve
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 13:37
by:
Dave Lindorff
It’s a pretty sad spectacle watching the US Congress toading up to the
National Security Agency. With the exception of a few stalwarts like Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and to a lesser extent Ron Wyden (D-OR), most of the
talk in the halls of Congress is about how to keep the army of Washington
private contractors from accessing too many of the government’s secrets
(which need to be protected by governmen... more »
Japan readies Bail - In regulations already ? This follows overseas ATM withdrawal gates already being imposed at Shinsei Bank and Mizuho Bank ....
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/biggest-japanese-ipo-year-plunges-stocks-and-jgbs-fading-fast
Biggest Japanese IPO Of The Year Plunges; Stocks And JGBs Fading Fast
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2013 21:38 -0400
- Bond
- Nomura
A smorgasbord of secondary Japanese data missed expectations this evening
and while all appears relatively calm if you just look at USDJPY, it is
anything but in the stock and bond markets which have both lost significant
ground already. *Nomura launched the largest IPO of the year (Nomura REIT)
and it i... more »
France deflates No Fly Zone story - not likely without UN ( Russia and China ) approval......As the Rebels flounder and Obama flounder , clearly there was a need to spin the news cycle - just to get the public's short term memory focused off IRS - Gate , Spy - Gate , NSA / Prism / Snowden train wrecks ....... Of course , when the Dictator at issue is seen as a Western approved ( at the time ) stooge , note how chemical warfare by Iraq was ignored against both Iran ( where many thousands where killed ) and as to the Kurds ( thousands killed there as well . )
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
About that No Fly Zone the US Military is recommending - there's one small
catch !
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/14/308970/nofly-zone-over-syria-unlikely-france/
No-fly zone over Syria unlikely without UN approval: France
[image: Foreign-sponsored militants load a mortar in a suburb of Damascus.
(File photo)]
Foreign-sponsored militants load a mortar in a suburb of Damascus. (File
photo)
Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:58PM
LAST UPDATE
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on June 13 that at
least 93,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of the
foreign-sponsored... more »
Happy Bloomsday! Are North Carolinians Ready To Drag Governor McClory from Mayor's Mansion Yet? No? Billy Bob Tells Obie Bob To Cock Up? Yep?
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 18 hours ago
"Yes I said yes I will yes." Seamus Sweeney's short story "Bloomsday 3004"
is a description of a future in which Bloomsday continues to be celebrated,
however its origins are completely forgotten and it is now a
quasi-religious folk ritual. Pat Conroy's 2009 novel South of Broad has
numerous references to Bloomsday. Leopold Bloom King is the narrator. The
book's first chapter describes the
Why it's bad when ministerial assistants are transformed into chiefs of staff
paul at Paying attention - 18 hours ago
Useful editorial in the Times Colonist today on the big increases in salary
scales for political staffers in the Christy Clark government.
Noteworthy, for example, that salaries for ministerial assistants - sorry,
deputy chiefs of staff, as they are now called - have increased 53 per cent
since 2003, while the average British Columbian has seen a 28-per-cent wage
increase. (The premier’s pay is up 60 per cent.) The top pay for minister's
aides is now $102,000.
The grandiose new job title is alarming in itself. Ministerial assistants -
usually one or two per minister - are support sta... more »
RC Pro-Am for the Nintendo Entertainment System
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 18 hours ago
I wonder what the celebrated Frankfurt School theorist, Theodor Adorno
would have made of the video game industry? I think I have an idea, but to
explore the point I'm going to ignore this week's big news about
Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's Playstation 4 (which are, looking at a
couple of games, appearing rather swish). Instead, I want to take you back
25 years to one of the most technically accomplished titles in the NES
library; *RC Pro-Am*.
Unlike virtually every other racer from the time, *RC Pro-Am* adopted a peculiar
isometric perspective, which was something of a signature... more »
"A Bad Moon On The Rise..."; "Waiting for the Revolution"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today
pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering
sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it
is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind,
and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the
conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must
be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes
... more »
Woolwich outrage: we are too weak to face up to the extremism in our midst - Telegraph
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours ago
A must read article...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10120706/Woolwich-outrage-we-are-too-weak-to-face-up-to-the-extremism-in-our-midst.html
"F The DOJ, F The Government, F The Banks"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* *
*"F The DOJ, F The Government, F The Banks"*
by Karl Denninger
"Read this: "Using the Bank of America computer systems I saw that hundreds
of customers had made their required trial payments, sent the documents
requested of them, but had not received permanent modifications. I also saw
records showing that Bank of America employees have told people that
documents had not been received when, in fact, the computer system showed
that Bank of America had received the documents. This was consistent with
the instructions my colleagues and I were given. We were told to lie to
cust... more »
"Get Ready for Rising Interest Rates"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* *
*"Get Ready for Rising Interest Rates"*
by Bill Bonner
"Up, down. Down, up. Yesterday, the Dow reversed recent declines. It rose
180 points. Gold, too, seems undecided as to what direction to take. It
fell $14 an ounce. We'll carry on... trying to figure out what is really
going on.
The typical post-war boomer has lived with just one complete interest rate
cycle. Rates hit a low after the war... as the US faced the biggest fiscal
cliff in its history. The biggest stimulus program of all time – World War
II – had come to an end. Millions of soldiers and defense industry
emplo... more »
Detroit begins moratorium on ALL debt service for unsecured debt ( 90 percent haircut looming ? ) , Detroit to default on Certificates of Participation due today - to the tune of 39 million worth on such notes today .... Looming modifications to health and pension benefits for workers / retirees , big time bail - in type solutions loom for unsecured creditors such as the City's pension funds
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
June 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Detroit's EM unveils restructure planOrr says bankruptcy decision could
come within 30 days: 'We are tapped out'
- Robert Snell, Darren A. Nichols and Christine Ferretti
- | The Detroit News
- 52 Comments
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*Romulus* — Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr hopes to know within 30 days
whether his restructuring plan pitched to
creditors Friday is enough to keep Detroit from filing the biggest
municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Orr spoke with reporters after a 2.5-hour closed-door meeting with about
150 representatives from banks, bondholders, unions a... more »
Steve Israel And The Gatsby Curve-- If The Music Industry Is A Microcosm Of What's Happening In The U.S. Economy, Move To Another Country... Fast
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Last weekend, when I started drawing the connection between Steve Israel
and his constituents, The Princesses: Long Island, a number of people
suggested I should have taken a more highbrow approach and drawn the
comparison to another, somewhat less culturally repulsive fictional figure,
The Great Gatsby. West Egg, a fictional North Shore town invented by F.
Scott Fitzgerald, is certainly part of Israel's district, albeit in a
pre-Israel era. Fitzgerald's novel, set in the 1920s, explores themes like
resistance to social change on the one hand and social upheaval on the
other-- no... more »
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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago
*Army Corps, public officials break ground on permanent canal closure
project at 17th Street Canal ~Mark Schleifstein*
*“Of course, while it was borne by a natural disaster, we also need to
remember so it never happens again that 70 percent of the catastrophic
flooding was a man-made disaster, breaches due to design flaws and other
flaws here at the 17th, and other outfall canals and some of the other
protection systems,” Vitter said. “I don’t say that to dwell on the
negative or to dwell on all of the miseries that folks have been through,
but again to refocus us on the importance ... more »
Omen Trees
gail zawacki at Wit's End - 19 hours ago
Between the storms earlier this week and yesterday's derecho-that-wasn't, I
thought as it has been a while (since Sandy, a whole seven months!) it's
time to take a cruise around the web and find downed trees. Almost as soon
as I realized they were all in trouble from tropospheric ozone back in
2008, they began falling down at astonishing rates and often spectacularly
onto cars, like this incident in Boston, from 2010:
Reader Amanda left a link in comments about a branch that fell in New
York's Central Park, leaving an Indiana tourist critically injured with a
broken arm and teeth. ... more »
"The Sword Drops on Food Stamps"; A Comment
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
* *
*"The Sword Drops on Food Stamps"*
by George Zornick
"It’s official: Congress will slash food stamp funding in the midst of a
deep economic recession, when more people rely on food stamps than ever
before. Monday night, the Senate passed a five-year farm bill that
contained $4.1 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) over ten years. This ensures that the only debate now will
be about how much to cut—and it’s likely to result in cuts much deeper than
$4.1 billion.
The House Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill last month that cut
$20.5 bi... more »
Those who oppose the proposition that student loans should be granted the same low interest rate as the criminal banks that wrecked our economy are either hopelessly uninformed or sociopaths.
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours ago
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Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or
Economic Breakthrough?
Posted on June 14, 2013 by Ellen Brown
On July 1, interest rates will double for millions of students – from 3.4%
to 6.8% – unless Congress acts; and the legislative fixes on the table are
largely just compromises. Only one proposal promises real relief – Sen.
Elizabeth Warren’s “Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act.” This bill has been
dismissed out of hand as “shameless populist demagoguery” and “a cheap
political gimmick,” but is it? Or could Warren’s outside-the... more »
APSA & African Politics
Adrienne LeBas at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
For those of you who don’t monitor the front page of the APSA website on a
daily basis, you may have missed the online petition for the recognition of
a new African Politics section of APSA. I urge all of you — including
those who don’t work in Africa — to take a look at
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Capturing Alert
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
Sit back, go "full screen" and enjoy a preview of Charles Stankievech's
photographic odyssey filmed at CFS Alert, the world's northernmost
permanently inhabited outpost. The images are truly astonishing.
Actor Autonomy in Choice-Theoretic Accounts
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 20 hours ago
Note: this post was co-written with PTJ. Apologies for the comparative lack
of structure and the fact that it is a bit repetitive. Note also that it
contains a link to a temporarily un-gated copy of Jackson and Nexon (1999).
Thanks, SAGE! In yesterday morning’s post, Phil writes: One manifestation
of this misunderstanding is that
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More meeting title tombola
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 20 hours ago
Chartism after gay marriage
Was the American Dream deflected in 1984?
Is food falling in queer theory?
Is the 21st panther falling?
Does the 21st panther benefit from the rank and file?
Can arm movements stop Trotsky’s alienation?
Is Trotsky reviving?
Who was Che Guevara reviving?
Is falling reviving fracking?
Is there a future for history?
Is the rate of arm movement falling?
Can the spirit of ‘45 boycott what socialists say?
Is the fall of Stalinism falling?
Can Althusser become all powerful?
Is opium the motor of study circles?
Do circles of oil read Das Kapital?
Is Islamophobia the Key... more »
The Anti-Quagmire President (So Far)
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours ago
On Obama and Syria: the one area of national security and foreign policy in
which Barack Obama really has earned the benefit of the doubt is about
slippery slopes, quagmires, and otherwise getting trapped into military
adventurism that expands despite everyone's best intentions.
His record on this is really quite impressive. He got out of Iraq (yes, he
was only following George W. Bush's policy and a signed agreement with the
Iraqis, but it wouldn't have been the first time a president managed to
keep troops where they weren't really wanted). His intervention in Libya
was limited a... more »
Will Robotic Killing's Real Victim be Democracy?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
Science fiction writer and futurist Daniel Suarez explains the danger, to
us and to our very democracy, from the rise of autonomous lethality, killer
drones. Get your weekend paranoia fix here.
Ethiopian PM Brushes Off Morsi's Threatening Rhetoric
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
Related: * *
*Morsi Defends Position In Looming Fight Over The Nile.* *
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*War Over Water? Dispute Between Egypt and Ethiopia Over Nile Grows After
Violent Threats Made On Egyptian TV*.
*For Egyptians, The Nile Is Sacred - But What Is Sacred In War?*
An excerpt from, *"Ethiopia will not accept any proposal to delay
construction of Renaissance Dam: Foreign ministry"* (Reuters, June 13):
Ethiopia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday the country has no intention
of suspending construction of what would be the biggest hydro electric
plant on the continent, a project Egypt says coul... more »
By Arming Al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama Has Crossed Another Red Line
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
When President Obama *declared two years ago* that he "killed" Al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden by ordering a strike steam to invade his hideout in
Pakistan, who knew that he would take his place and lead the terrorist
organization to victory in Syria?
That is what Obama is doing by falsely accusing the Syrian government of
using chemical weapons against its own people and promising to arm the
Jihadist terrorist rebels *whose latest crime was the execution of a
fourteen year-old boy for insulting the prophet*.
Why is Obama supporting religious madmen against young secular kids? Does ... more »
Free Planet¹ CUSTODIAN - published - available in Amazon Kindle, ebook and paperback formats
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 20 hours ago
today, Friday the 14th June 2013, Free Planet¹ CUSTODIAN has been published
on Amazon Kindle (buy now), various other ebook formats (buy now) and
paperback format (live soon). Many thanks to (my editor, format guru and
BFGS co-writer) Alex Severin who ensured that this 82,000 words novel was
the best it could be.
*BONUS MATERIAL:* at the end of Custodian there's the opening chapter of
Free Planet² LIBERATOR, and it's a series shocker!
What's Free Planet¹ CUSTODIAN about?
*Short description*
A group of Oxford University's finest minds, the eponymous Custodians,
offer mankind a te... more »
Stephen Harper's Speech To UK Parliament Called 'Not-Prime Ministerial' ... more suitable for “a meeting of the parliamentary Conservative party.”
leftdog at Buckdog - 21 hours ago
**
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*Harper speech to UK Parliament ‘not prime ministerial’...*
*"Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a stop in London to speak to both
Houses of Parliament Thursday, one shadow cabinet minister was annoyed by
Harper’s partisan tone. John Spellar, the Labour party’s shadow minister
for foreign and commonwealth affairs, told iPolitics Friday he found
Harper’s address to the members “distinctly partisan,” saying parts of the
speech would have been more appropriate for “a meeting of the parliamentary
Conservative party.”*
*iPolitics.ca*
I did reply to the BBC
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
Nota Sheep
19:28 to Trust
Thanks for the information although I must say that it's hardly an
impressive performance by the BBC Trust. The matter was discussed on 11
April and over two months later the minutes of that meeting have apparently
yet to be ratified.
I assume that there have now been two Trust meetings since the 11 April
one: May and June.
Surely the first item on the agenda of each meeting is the ratification of
the previous meeting's minutes.
Is this really any way to run an organisation?
Kind regards
NotaSheep MaybeaGoat
Jury rolls must be representative
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago
R. v. Kokopenace, 2013 ONCA 389 is a powerful decision on jury rolls and
the need for them to be inclusive:
[49] In my view, to meet its representativeness obligation, the state
must make reasonable efforts at each step of creating the jury roll. That
includes the state's actions in compiling the lists, but also in sending
the notices, facilitating their delivery and receipt and encouraging the
responses to them. The objective of the state's actions must be to seek to
provide the platform necessary to select an impartial petit jury and to
maintain public confidence in the cri... more »
Selling Global Warming - Local May Be the Key
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
Let's face it, people really don't give a s**t about the devastation
global
warming is bringing to the people of the sub-Saharan Sahel. We don't
readily find the nexus by which we're linked to the troubles in distant
corners of the world when most of us couldn't find these places on a map
if
we tried. Maybe it's time to change the conversation.
There seems to be greater success getting through when global warming is
addressed as a local issue. Sort of like New York mayor Michael
Bloombergdid earlier this week in a speech delivered from a Brooklyn
lighthouse
damaged last fall by... more »
News from the Jews
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 22 hours ago
*U.S. subservience to Israel, "Global War on Terror" as an Israeli racket,
more "Holocaust" and "anti-Semitism" nonsense*
What follows is a small sampling of recent news items from the Jewish-owned
press. Let's see what we can learn or further confirm about the Jewish
agenda, particularly in America.
To start with, two recent news items from the Jewish press demonstrate two
crucial points I often try to make:
1. Every single aspect of the federal government of the United States -
the White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, etc. - is completely
dominated by the p... more »
The many talents of Kate Upton - A Friday night Rule 5 posting - probably NSFW
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Kate Upton is a woman of many talents, including being a wet t-shirt
contest champion; phew!
A brilliant post...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 22 hours ago
from MOTUS - and we thank her.
*If You Like Your Genes You Can Keep Your Genes*
YURI GELLER AND MOSSAD-CIA MIND CONTROL, OBAMA, MICHAEL JACKSON, SAVILE
Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
Uri Geller has seemingly been a spy for Mossad and the CIA.
*Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA
spy*
A new film,* The Secret Life Of Uri Geller - Psychic Spy?*, offers evidence
of Geller's involvement in spying.
Has Uri Geller been involved in mind-control - with Obama, Michael Jackson
and Jimmy Savile?
*Geller with Michael Jackson, who is reported to have been mind-controlled.*
"On camera and in interview, Geller still remains coy about his espionage
activities."
But, Geller admits that his handlers once asked him to use telepathy to
st... more »
Lindsey Graham Wants War-- War Against American Civil Liberties, War In The Middle East
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Lindsey Graham seems to be losing his mind. Thursday he claimed that
American intervention in Syria-- supplying arms, enforcing a no fly zone--
is not to help the rebels but to end war before Syria can use chemical
weapons against... the U.S. He put out an official press release with
fellow warmonger John McCain in the hopes up drumming up some war fever and
seeing Obama blunder into an unpopular and unnecessary war that could
easily escalate into a war involving Israel, Iran, Turkey and Russia.
“The conflict in Syria has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. The United
Nations re... more »
Rios Montt and Arpaio: Where Impunity Reigns
Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 23 hours ago
photo: noblewomensinitiative.com
by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
In Guatemala, former dictator Rios Montt was first found guilty of genocide
and crimes against humanity, and then the Supreme Court overturned the
verdict. His 80-year sentence was also vacated. A few days later, Sheriff
Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona, was slapped down by US District
Court Judge Murray Snow. The federal judge ordered him to halt his racial
profiling practices, particularly his immigration sweeps that target people
of "apparent Mexican ancestry."
Sometimes there are news items that go together... more »
Pythia
Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago
"Pythia" by Anne Russell
The Pythia, commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, was the priestess at
the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus,
beneath the Castalian Spring. The Pythia was widely credited for her
prophecies inspired by Apollo. The Delphic oracle was established in the
8th century BC, although it may have been present in some form in Late
Mycenaean times, from 1,400 BC and was abandoned, and there is evidence
that Apollo took over the shrine from an earlier dedication to Gaia. The
last recorded response was given during 393 A.D., when th... more »
The Roots of Our Slavery
Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
*In the Midwest, USA summer is just days away; gardening season is upon us.
The blossoming has begun and in a few weeks time the green grass will be
merely a backdrop for a vibrant explosion of color. We’ll be surrounded
with flowers.*
*If you’ve done any yard work then you most likely know the most efficient
way to keep weeds at bay. You’ve got to dig deep and pull them out into
the sun, exposing the root. They’ll decompose and nourish the soil, in
turn feeding the flowers and vegetables you’d like to keep. It takes a bit
of effort, yet it’s a permanent fix – at least ... more »
healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: vegetarian chili
laura k at wmtc - 23 hours ago
This has turned out to be one of our favourite slow-cooker meals. It's
delicious, incredibly easy to make, super healthy, and inexpensive. Adapted
from nowhere: it's my own.
Canned beans, properly rinsed and drained, have the same nutritional value
as dried beans. They're much easier to use and work well with the slow
cooker. Combined with brown rice, they make a perfect protein, and give you
lots of fibre. And lots of yumminess.
1 19-ounce can of each:
- corn niblets
- black beans
- white beans
- chick peas
- diced tomatoes
1 large onion, diced or run through food processor
1 red b... more »
Pelosi: "I'm a practicing and respectful Catholic"...(video)
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 23 hours ago
*who happens to think killing babies is okay.*
Abortion is “sacred ground” and it “shouldn’t have anything to do with
politics.”
It is clear in watching this woman that her synapses are not firing
properly. For Pelosi to stand there and defend abortion as "sacred ground"
and waltz up to receive communion on her Sunday treks into church is an
abomination. Exactly when are the weak-kneed bishops of the Catholic
Church going to stand up, act like real men, and put a stop to this?
It seems when it comes to "social justice" (code for Marxism) issues, you
can't shut them up. Backing ... more »
The Real Solution to Agenda 21
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
image source CDay
Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy theory. It is an easily viewable global plan
that can be found executed in your local county. If you live near a metro
area, you just need to look up your local county’s ‘comprehensive growth
plan’ on Google to see the extent of this plan. You will see maps of your
street, future train lines designed to transport workers to designated work
areas, areas allowing mixed use, areas allowing 120 residential dwelling
units per acre in Manhattan-like density, and maps of greenspace unsuitable
for human habitation.
Anything built in the f... more »
Glyphosate and Roundup’s Implications on Modern Diseases
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
*An interview with Stephanie Seneff, PhD: Co-author of "Glyphosate’s
Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the
Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases."*
image source Catherine J. Frompovich
In April 2013, independent scientist Anthony Samsel and MIT scientist
Stephanie Seneff published their mega studies analysis of glyphosate titled
“Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid
Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases” in the
online journal, *Entropy*. With 286 peer-reviewed papers analyzed, Samsel ... more »
Catch of the Day
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Kevin Drum listened to the disgraced former Speaker saying about
anti-terrorism methods that "people will tolerate it as long as it's
genuinely secret." Drum:
Yeah, I guess people will tolerate just about anything as long as they
don't know it's happening. This is why Newt is the philosopher king of the
Republican Party.
The thing is: Tom P. Baxter (as I like to call him) has always been exactly
that same kind of fraud, and it was pretty clear from his presidential
campaign that just about every party actor from the precinct level on up
knew it, but yet they're still perfectly happ... more »
MORE TRUTH ON NSA, CYBER COMMAND AND GOVERNMENT DECEPTION
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
As the U.S. vows to take "all necessary steps" to pursue whistleblower
Edward Snowden, James Bamford joins Democracy Now to discuss the National
Security Agency’s secret expansion of government surveillance and
cyberwarfare.
In his latest reporting for Wired Magazine, Bamford profiles NSA Director
General Keith Alexander and connects the dots on PRISM, phone surveillance,
and the NSA’s massive spy center in Bluffdale, Utah. Says Bamford of
Alexander: "Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come
close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command,... more »
BEN FELLOWS, BUSH, CLINTON, SYRIA
Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Ben Fellows comes out of hiding to speak at Bilderberg fringe*
*Ken Clarke*
Ken Clarke, who is a member of Bilderberg, opposed the Iraq War and now
opposes intervention in Syria.
Ken Clarke has recently been 'got at' by the former child actor called Ben
Fellows.
*
***
*
**Video: Clinton, Bush and the CIA*
*
*
*xymphora* - *Snowden and the war between the CIA and the Pentagon*
*Penny for your thoughts* -* Breaking: US and Allies lie together on claim
that Syria used chemical weapons*
*
*
*Man Behind Syrian 'Chemical Weapons' Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Covered
Up Benghazi*
*Ch... more »
Look What This ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Said in 1984: “A Disgusting Procedure For A Professed Free Society”
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Mac Slavo
Back in 1984, well before most Americans had ever heard of mobile phones or
used a computer, the Federal government was hard at work mining whatever
data they could get their hands on.
President Reagan was in office and given his staunch stance on limited
government no one could possibly have suspected that he, of all people,
would be the Commander in Chief presiding over a fledgling surveillance
state.
Despite the ignorance of our populace and attempts to keep the American
people in the dark, one lone wolf on the floor of the Congress had the
prescient insight to unde... more »
Vaccine Infects 10-Month-Old Baby with Polio in India
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
*According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, eradicating polio is a
top priority.*
Melissa Melton
Sadly, anyone hurt in the process of achieving this goal is just collateral
damage.
Through “targeted vaccination campaigns, community mobilization, and
stronger routine immunization efforts,” the Gates Foundation, our world’s
largest philanthropic foundation, plans to eradicate polio as “an important
milestone for the Decade of Vaccines, a shared commitment by nearly 200
countries to extend the benefits of vaccines to every person by 2020″.
Gates reportedly even hired one of I... more »
Nicaragua Waterway to Happen
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
This project is actually going ahead and it is going ahead fast. They may
talk about private money but that is BS. It allows China to end monopoly
pricing in Panama and to capture a sweetheart rate for their shipping. I
also bet that this canal will be much larger than the Panama Canal. For
those reasons alone, we can count on huge Chinese money been involved.
There are other answers to global shipping but they also take initiative
and huge money. In the meantime, this is a direct alteration of the status
quo that impacts everyone.
I think it may be time to dust of some ... more »
US Supreme Court Rules that Human Genes are not Eligible for Patent Protection
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
It is only twenty years or so that we decided to allow patents in
genetics. Surely it is time to completely revisit the whole practice. The
reason for this is also clear. The cost of entry has dropped hugely and
the risk of reckless behavior is climbing daily.
Now by and large, we can trust our scientists, however under no
circumstance can we trust our corporations. They are in natural conflict.
We are presently conducting a huge mega experiment with GMO foods on a
global basis in the face of evidence of far less stability on a number of
core factors than original... more »
GMO Viral Time Bomb Discovered
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
I am deeply concerned with the whole GMO protocol.
1 It is all new science and it is playing in the one area in which Mother
Nature is most flexible. This article tells us already how specific issues
are slipping through either by design or by simple ignorance.
2 Actual empirical testing protocols are primitive and easily end up been
too little too late and at best a band-aid ahead of the real experiment in
which it is fully introduced to Mother Nature. One of those experiments is
going to go badly wrong and show up as devastating pandemic. We already
have the GMO induced... more »
Ancestral Diet Changed 3.5 Million Years Ago
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
This is extremely curious and since it differs totally from present day
practice and expectation, it begs a working hypothesis.
Grasses on their own are a terrible food source and the Savanna is a
terrible place to acquire other types of plant food. Yet the rhizomes of
elephant grass can cooked and eaten though not in great quantities. It is a
safe bet that other rhizomes would provide some useful food. If one such
rhizome became viable, then we have the explanation for this observation.
What this means, of course is that use of fire or converting to meat are
the two o... more »
These Tricks Are Played to Get You to Vaccinate Your Child
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Parents are often misled to believe
that vaccines are safe and effective Christina England
Countries around the world are coming up with more and more elaborate
tricks to pressure parents into fully vaccinating their children. Recently
we have seen them telling barefaced lies, denying unvaccinated children
access to daycare facilities and excluding students from attending their
graduation ceremony over a chicken pox scare. To learn more, please
continue reading.
*Scare Tactics Used in Australia*
Over the last few weeks, newspapers in Australia have reported that due to
the change... more »
Challenging Unconstitutional Spying
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
image source Stephen Lendman
Edward Joseph Snowden revealed what's vital to know. He exposed
unconstitutional spying. He did so courageously.
The 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act protects federal employees who report
misconduct. Federal agencies are prohibited from retaliating against those
who do so. Don't expect rogue Obama officials to act responsibly.
Whistleblowers may report law or regulatory violations, gross
mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse of authority, and/or acts endangering
public health, welfare or safety.
Unconstitutional spying violates core rule of law princip... more »
Censorship Abounds: The Handful of Companies That Control Your Perceptions
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Christina Sarich
Almost all the media channels you watch are controlling your perception of
reality – namely to get you to value their commodities (goods and services)
instead of yourself and your own morals and values. This affects you at
every level, from the food you eat, the friends you are more likely to
make, the goods your purchase, and even the careers you choose or education
you decide to get. It also affects your self worth, as you believe you are
only as good as the things you can buy or the ‘hot’ woman you can take out,
since sex and money are the primary ways media mo... more »
Bill introduced to declassify opinions of secret court behind ordering all U.S. phone records from Verizon
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) Madison Ruppert
A bipartisan group of senators has proposed a bill that would declassify
the opinions of the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, the same body that ordered Verizon to hand over all U.S. phone
records for a three-month period.
Yet there are major problems, as you will see below.
*Previous efforts to withhold court opinions*
The legislation, which is sponsored by a group of senators led by Sen. Jeff
Merkley (D-Ore.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), is quite noteworthy because
the Obama administration has fought tooth an... more »
Turkey: Epicenter of Police State Violence
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
image source Stephen Lendman
For over two weeks, daily anti-government protests rocked Turkey. Police
attacked peaceful demonstrators intermittently. They've done so brutally.
Turkey's notorious for police state viciousness.
It's a democracy in name only. Prime Minister Erdogan is thuggish,
authoritarian, hardline and despotic.
Turkey's one of 28 NATO countries. Erdogan partners with Washington's
imperial wars. He's unapologetic about neoliberal harshness. More on that
below.
He's been prime minister for over 10 years. Why Turks put up with him
they'll have to explain. Growing ... more »
Congressman Tweets: “I Saw IRS Agents Training With AR-15's” At DHS Facility
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Kimberly Paxton
The IRS has recently been under the microscope for targeting conservative
groups with audits, fines, and other “special attention.” However, a
Congressman from South Carolina observed something the puts a whole new
spin on the word “target” - he witnessed IRS agents training with AR-15s at
the Department of Homeland Security.
Investment Watch Blog broke the story with captures of Rep. Jeff Duncan’s
(R-S.C.) tweets:
Later he added:
And this, for the doubters he ran into on Twitter:
But maybe there’s a reasonable explanation.
That was the opinion of one res... more »
7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Eliot Estep
The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed
that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and
intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular
sites and services including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and more.
This means that all of your data when using these services including Skype,
YouTube, etc has been compromised and can be used against you whenever
strategically necessary.
Always remember, you are being recorded and monitored regardless of whether
you have done anything wrong or not.... more »
Sorry General, War is a Choice
Patrick Porter at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
General David Petraeus advises Americans and their allies to be coldly
realistic about what force can achieve. Oddly, he also advises them to
prepare for a future where small wars are pretty much inevitable, where
America must intervene early to prevent worse things happening later on,
and where ‘stabilisation’ is a core part of war
Continue reading
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