Wednesday, June 26, 2013

26 June - Blogs I'm Following III

10:27pm MDST

UHC 15: On DOH Plan to Recentralize Healthcare

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 22 minutes ago
The quest for government-initiated and centralized universal health care (UHC) can be dizzying for all sectors -- patients/public, private healthcare professionals and providers, government health agencies, the legislature and everyone else. This is because when government centralizes or almost monopolize healthcare, competition, price differentiation, market segmentation and service innovation is often sacrificed or killed. A famous physician, expert and consultant on , also a friend, Dr. Tony Leachon, posted this story from GMA News the other day, in his fb wall, *PNoy to push f... more »

Your Supreme Court at work and play -- as same-sex marriage slips through the portals of privilege

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
*-- from NYTimes.com's "Afternoon Update"* "Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory for all Americans, and brings our nation one step closer to the promise of equality and justice for all. The DOMA decision ensures that married gay and lesbian couples are recognized by the federal government, and that their families receive equal treatment in the eyes of the law. There should be no more discrimination based on where you're from, what you look like, or who you love. Today's DOMA decision is a historic step in the fight for equality. The federal government must ensure that no one... more »

Leviticus 20:13 Revisited

2old2care at Because I Can - 35 minutes ago
12/6/2012 Marijuana possession became legal in Washington state Thursday, as did same-sex marriage. And then there was this:

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Barkerville, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.

Issa - Punk'd the US with the IRS Audit

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
We are all grunts. We do what our boss tells us what to do – our boss does what their boss(es) tell them to do. Sometimes they tell us to pull what they need, sometimes they tell us do to busy work. But if we want to keep them off our backs and keep our job – we normally do exactly what they tell us to do. And that’s what happened here. From *The Hill* SNIPS (my emphasis throughout) *IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request* By Bernie Becker - 06/25/13 08:11 PM ET The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controver... more »

Genetics: "World Populated By Single African Tribe"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*"World Populated By Single African Tribe" * by The Telegraph "Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on to colonise the rest of the world. Genetic analysis of modern day human populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America have revealed that they are all descended from these common ancestors. Click for larger sized chart. It is thought that changes in the climate between 9... more »

RIch get richer, the poor get screwed

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
Another in long series of reminders that the wealth created by financial markets only raises the luxury yachts, leaving everyone else underwater in their wake. The biggest gains in wealth are going to wealthy households that tend to save a big chunk of their incomes and spend a smaller proportion on basics such as food and clothing. "Those guys don't spend much," says economist Edward Wolff of New York University. So Wolff looked at the net worth of the median U.S. household — those smack in the middle, where half of households earn more and half less. The median family's net wor... more »

Republican SuperPACs Aren't Bringing In The Cash The Way They Used To

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
No more checks from Idaho fascist Frank VanderSloot unless candidates can * prove* their anti-American extremism Saturday night I was driving home after dinner and I was hearing some pretty racist talk coming out of my radio. Had someone changed the preset? No, I had a local PBS affiliate on and it was the *Tavis Smiley Show*. He had some crackpot ant-immigrant kook on from a hate group, the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. And he interviewed her as though she were an expert and never questioned any of her racist assumptions. When she was done, he had a law professor from ... more »

"Somewhere..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Blaise Pascal

SURVEILLANCE STATE: Why has the media ignored the message?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
The Auckland Banner airs a reasonable question about events further afield: Why is it that [the media are] following every single detail about Snowden, but not really talking about the substance of this huge privacy scandal? Fair question. RT Journalist Anastasia Churkina has a crack at answering it with Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson. As Hrafnsson says, “this is a test of proper journalism.” Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Bond market slaughterhouse claims prominent victims - such as Bridgewater ( Ray Dalio ) and Pimco ( Bill Gross ) ..... And we won't even talk about what might be going on with John Paulson these days......

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=24328 Bond Market Losses – A Potential Crisis Trigger? June 26, 2013 | Author Pater Tenebrarum *Prominent Victims* Hegde fund legend Ray Dalio among other things runs a big fund that is called the 'All Weather Fund'. Its appeal is based on the idea that by holding different investments that will either profit from rising or falling inflation, it will deliver positive returns no matter what happens. What the fund's managers obviously didn't expect was the scenario that has actually unfolded lately: inflation expectations are collapsing, and bond yields... more »

The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand (Video)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler* (Available in September 2013). An excerpt from a description of the book (Source: Harvard University Press): To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler’s ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany’s persecution of Jews. *Ben Urwand* reveals this bargain for the first time—a “collaboration” (*Zusammenarbeit*) that drew in a cast of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer. Read a revie... more »

40 tons of GMO crops torched - nothing heard but crickets !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Though the controlled corporate media apparatus is suppressing the story, 40 tons of GMO crops were torched, prompting an FBI investigation. There has been a COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT, outside of local circles has dared to mention it, perhaps because government fears that if the public learns that other people are getting fighting mad (literally), they might join in, and become an actual revolution. It was only reported locally live on KXL Radio and echoed by the Oregonian, where the ONLY web mention exists, hard to find because the headline wording is carefully avoids the most likel... more »

Russia evacuates Tartus - as well as military and diplomatic personnel from Syria ... Is the next kinetic action about to pop off ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/23073/Russia-evacuates-Tartus-also-military-diplomatic-personnel-from-Syria-High-war-alert-in-Israel * * Shortly after the DEBKA aired a special video on the Syrian war’s widening circle, Moscow announced Wednesday June 26, that the evacuation which had begun Friday of all military and diplomatic personnel from Syria was now complete, including the Russian naval base at Tartus. “Russia decided to withdraw its personnel because of the risks from the conflict in Syria, as well as the fear of an incident involving the Russian military that could have l... more »

What do David Bain and Kevin Rudd have in common?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
So, a lot happened overnight, while I was otherwise engaged. The wildest day ever ended at Wimbledon with favourites knocked out, honest journeymen injured on slippery grass and a spate of retirements right in the midst of games. Events never seen before in London SW17. One of the wildest days in recent memory ended in Canberra with the ALP shooting itself in the foot while stabbing itself in the back.1 And Gillard went, bewailing her fate as a woman (“infamy, infamy, every misogynist had it in for me”) but gratifyingly just in time for everyone to switch over to Origin—a game wh... more »

Compromised: How the National Security State Blackmails the Government

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*Blackmail exists in every political system, in every time period, in every country.* "If you sign up for the government, you’re going to give your life for the country. The National Security Act suspends all your civil rights, you get it? After you’ve given your life for the country, since they didn’t need you to survive, they’re going to use anything you’ve got – your body parts, your mind, your soul, anything. That’s the way the game is played. *Most of the victims of mind control are government related.*" - Walter Bowart, *"The Secret History of Mind Control."* Walter Bowa... more »

Auckland Quote of the Day:

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
“98% of Aucklanders surveyed think that *other* people should take public transport.” Discuss. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

When Jeanne Allen Comes Out Against the CREDO Study, the News Can’t Be Good for Charters

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 5 hours ago
Apparently, world champion charter industry promoter, Jeanne Allen, did not get the memo from the corporate ed offices that all corporate education welfare recipients should pretend that the new CREDO study was full of good news for the corrupt charter school industry. Jeanne, who otherwise is a lifelong member of the Test and Punish Society […]

Satire: "Scalia Arrested Trying to Burn Down Supreme Court"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
* * *"Scalia Arrested Trying to Burn Down Supreme Court"* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "In a shocking end to an illustrious legal career, police arrested Justice Antonin Scalia today as he attempted to set the Supreme Court building ablaze. Justice Scalia, who had seemed calm and composed during the announcement of two major rulings this morning, was spotted by police minutes later outside the building, carrying a book of matches and a gallon of kerosene. After police nabbed Justice Scalia and placed him in handcuffs, the Juror appeared “at peace and resign... more »

Chinese economist Li Zuojun opines on what the new government in China may do rising housing prices ( guide them lower 20 percent ) , how China might deal with its own financial crisis centered on - a bursting real estate bubble , local debt troubles , hot money ( tough love doled out meticulously and vigilantly seems to be the plan. ) Meanwhile , the focus in Europe remains southern Europe in particular Italy , but keep your eyes on France as joblessness increases there !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475738 What Does China's Dr. Doom Foresee? [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 17:20 -0400 - China - Google - Housing Prices - Meltdown - Real estate - recovery Chinese investors are holding their collective breaths to see if the banking crisis predicted two years ago by renowned Chinese economist Li Zuojun will come to fruition in the next couple of months. Li's astounding accuracy in predicting China's economy has led to him earning the nickname *"China's most successful doomsayer."* Tho... more »

Cascada Geroldsau - Waterfall

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 5 hours ago
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"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago

Río que cruza el bosque

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago
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Osborne's Zombified Spending Review

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
When his pallid figure rose to address the House just after lunch time, there was no sign of the urbane, erotic charm characteristic of the intelligent, blood-sucking undead. Instead, what we got was a cadaverous chancellor devoid of all thought, save that of the decaying dogma that animates his being. This spending review, this budget by another name marked a moment in this government's zombified shuffle toward ever greater political decrepitude. This government is: * *Dysfunctional* because there was nothing in there that would heat up the economy *now*. Instead, all of the me... more »

"The Bear Market in Bonds"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* * *"The Bear Market in Bonds"* by Bill Bonner "We know it has to happen. And when it does, we'll get out." One of the speakers at a conference we attended in London last week, a professional money manager, talking about the most important bit of investment information you are likely to get in your lifetime. He was probably speaking for thousands of his colleagues. All confident that they would be able to spot the turn in the bond market when it happens... and all leave the party in good order. We're still in the wee hours of a bear market in bonds that will probably last *unti... more »

Happy Birthday!

Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours ago
Today Teen Daughter turns fourteen! Southern Man slipped by the Ancestral Manor that morning to leave a cake and a Vera Bradley gift bag full of goodies. Teen Daughter about to blow out the candles. Photo by one of the Southern Grandparents as Southern Man was at work. Shopping with Southern Man (who picked her up after voice lessons mid-afternoon) - Vera Bradley and the candy store. Southern Man's little girl is growing up; two years from today she'll be driving.

Extrañas rocas en el mar

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago
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The Economy: “The Button Has Been Pushed… Ready Or Not”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* * *“The Button Has Been Pushed… Ready Or Not”* by Bill Holter “This week has started off miserably. China had problems within their banking system last night as bank transfers, ATMs, online banking and wires did not work. Europe announced that their E500 billion bailout fund for banks is no longer the case; they now say that 60 billion Euros will be the limit…retroactively. To put this in perspective, Spain had already been promised 100 billion Euros for their banking system; I guess the money is not coming? Our stock market has started the day down 230 points and the 10 yr. T... more »

Gerald Celente: “We’re Going into the Greatest Depression”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*Gerald Celente: “We’re Going into the Greatest Depression”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente says NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a non-event. Celente charges, “What did Snowden say that we didn’t write about over a year ago.” Celente says the real stories are the imploding economy and coming war. Another crash is coming, and Celente predicts, “It will be worse than the panic of ’08. It will be deeper. It will be more painful because they will not be able to pull off the stimulus game again.” Celente goes on to say, “We are going into the Great... more »

HELP!

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
Mayday! Mayday! SOS! The idiots have taken over!

Women beat down GOP on Texas abortion bill

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
It's a very good day to be a liberal. The days long people's filibuster at the Texas statehouse culminated in an epic 11 hour filibuster on the Senate floor delivered by Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis. Senator Davis was shooting for 13 hours but fell short when the Republicans successfully challenged her on procedural grounds, at which point the people in the gallery took over again and created enough noise to delay the vote until just past the mandated close of the special session. Apparently hoping to take advantage of the confusion, Republicans tried to pull a fast bit of tricker... more »

RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Peruvian Scholar/Activist Cristina Herencia, UN Observer on Indigenous Issues

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours ago
Peruvian social psychologist Cristina Herencia in the studios of KOOP Radio, Austin, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2013. Photos by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast: Social psychologist Cristina Herencia, UN observer on Indigenous Issues Sponsored by the United Tribal Nations of North America, Herencia has been an observer at the UN's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues yearly since

Barbara Buono's Lesbian Daughter Is In A Very Different Situation Than Louie Gohmert's Lesbian Daughter

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Digby, Jacquie and Amato met with Barbara Buono at Netroots Nation last week-- so now we can all vouch for what an incredible governor she would make. All she has to do is get around a gigantic roadblock, media darling (they're masochists) Chris Christie. But, as far as Blue America is concerned, it's now official: we endorse Barbara Buono for governor of the Garden State! Early Monday morning I found an e-mail from someone named Tessa Bitterman. I never heard of her and almost deleted it. But something made me open it and read it. I'm glad I did. Tessa is Barbara Buono's younges... more »

UN Report: Access to Justice and Indigenous Peoples 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
UN Report Access to Justice Indigenous Peoples 2013 Read and download: http://www.scribd.com/doc/150214088/UN-Report-Access-to-Justice-Indigenous-Peoples-2013

Statements of intent can be hearsay where intent is a fact

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago
R. v. McDonald, 2013 ONCA 442 holds: [58] The Crown's purpose in introducing Ms. Lewis's evidence of the statement was to help establish that the common intent of the members of the appellants' group was to assault Bruer. For the Crown's purposes, it would have been no different had the declarant said, "We are going to Bridges to assault Bruer." The Crown sought to prove both the statement itself, and the intention of the declarant to assault Bruer, which the Crown sought to have the jury impute to the group. [59] This is not a case where the statement was adduced for... more »

Obama creates Native American Affairs Council, places non-Indian as chair

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago
Obama creates Native American Affairs Council, places non-Indian as head By Brenda Norrell Censored News President Obama created the White House Council on Native American Affairs today. However, in an act of typical US paternalism, the US Secretary of Interior was placed as the chair of the new council to 'honor treaties.' The non-Indian, British born Sec. of Interior Sally Jewell worked

Wednesday Linkage

PM at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Yesterday was an exciting day in American politics, featuring legislative time-traveling, a Supreme Court turning back the clock on voting rights, and of course the invalidation of DOMA and the death-by-default of California’s Prop 8. But I assume you have Facebook and that you already knew all that. Here’s some items you might have missed: Continue reading

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 8 hours ago
*www.LesVisible.com* On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by the one and only *Les Visible*. Les writes and maintains a number of very popular blogs, and is also an excellent poet, musician, and philosopher. Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past episodes.

Timesman mourns the decline in English majors!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013* *Fails to review their past efforts:* This Sunday, we were struck by Verlyn Klinkenborg’s lament for the English major. Klinkenborg teaches non-fiction writing. He seems like a good, genial person. Despite these facts, he has been part of the New York Times editorial board since 1997. In a way, that affiliation was the source of our puzzlement. In this weekend’s Sunday Review, Klinkenborg offered a well-written lament for the dwindling English major. As it turns out, the English major is going the way of all flesh: KLINKENBORG (6/23/13): *The teaching o... more »

Rule books

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
The head of the BBC's newsroom Mary Hockaday recently told *Newswatch*'s Samira Ahmed, *"We don't tell our reporters. We don't give them a sort of rule book for language"*. She said that in the wake of the Oxford grooming trial, when the BBC News at Six had been criticised by viewers for failing to use the word 'Muslim'. As Sue pointed out a couple of days ago, however, the BBC certainly *does*have rule books for its reporters vis-à-vis language - such as its suggested language guide for coverage of Israel and the Palestinians. Mary Hockaday's comment came back to me again as I ... more »

Duncan: Pay no attention to who is behind the #CCSS curtain

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quite busy lately making the rounds defending the Common Core. Yesterday Duncan gave a speech to the American Society of Newspaper editors which Valerie Strauss titled “Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on the Common Core.“ Duncan stated that opponents of the Common Core were “spreading […]

SCOTUS deals big blow to DOMA

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Good day to be a liberal. I''m not one to drink the bitter tears of my opponents, but admit I'm enjoying the moment and wallowing in the joy exploding all over my internets. SCOTUS delivered two big victories for gay rights this morning. The two cases, both decided on 5-4 votes, concerned the constitutionality of a key part of a federal law, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that denied benefits to same-sex married couples, and a voter-approved California state law enacted in 2008, called Proposition 8, that banned gay marriage. The Court struck down the use of the theocr... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Happy Buddha via HoneyBearKelly. [photographer unknown]

Ultra badass student activists in Chicago giving it to CPS #stuvoice

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
I am quoting, via Facebook: Just spoke out against the Board of Education with students from the CSOSOS! Most bad ass thing in the world! Security had no idea what was going on as students across the room stood up and spoke against the Board. It was pure chaos! My thirty second stand up speech: […]

Duncan: Pay no attention to who is behind the #CCSS curtain.

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 9 hours ago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quite busy lately making the rounds defending the Common Core. Yesterday Duncan gave a speech to the American Society of Newspaper editors which Valerie Strauss titled “Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on the Common Core.“ Duncan stated that opponents of the Common Core were “spreading […]

OBAMA AND THE CIA; FROM HAWAII TO INDONESIA

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
Obama statue... *1.* *A large number of the world's leaders work for the CIA.* Ron Rewald, a banker, was recruited by the CIA's chief officer in Chicago in 1976. *Rajiv Gandhi* Ron Rewald reported that "millions of dollars in CIA funds ... such as those maintained in the Bank of Hawaii... were used to launder money for *the Sultan of Brunei... President Ferdinand Marcos, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Gandhi's son and future Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and President Suharto of Indonesia*." *The Story of Obama: All in the Company by Wayne Madsen* - www.lewrockwell.com ... more »

Who is the horrible Prachi Gupta?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013* *Bearing a family resemblance to an earlier unpleasant group:* Prachi Gupta graduated from college (Pitt) in 2009. For two years, she worked for Deloitte Consulting. After a year as a freelance writer, she hired on at Salon last August as an “entertainment news blogger.” Along the way, she seems to have given birth to the world, judging from the high self-regard at several spots over which she holds sway. Today, this surprisingly worthless young person spends her time degrading the world, typing up manifest bullshit like the excerpt offered below. In oth... more »

Back to the "Live" Filibuster

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago
Everyone loves a live, or talking, filibuster. They make for terrific drama! No question about it -- hey, say what you will about Frank Capra, but he certainly knew from compelling drama. So when there is one -- such as yesterday's marathon filibuster of abortion legislation by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis -- everyone wants more, and gets all upset that in the US Senate most filibusters are "silent" and not dramatic at all. First, a bit of fun. Me, responding to why Democrats didn't demand a talking filibuster against the ACA in 2009: In the old days, Senators engaged in a filibu... more »

Failed States Index

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
*Foreign Policy* magazine and *The Fund for Peace* have released their 2013 *Failed State Index.* Nations are rated by five categories, Critical, In Danger, Borderline, Stable and Most Stable. Not many countries achieve the Most Stable rating - Canada, the Scandinavian countries including Iceland, plus Australia and New Zealand, that's it. The United States, Japan and Britain, are among the second-tier or Stable countries. Most of Africa; the Middle East; South, South East and East Asia, together with Russia fall into the In Danger or Critical categories. Disturbingly, the emer... more »

I'm gone...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
*not forever, but for awhile (at least until Monday.)* I'll be popping in to some of my favorite blogs and may even be commenting, but for now I have nothing to say except the following. * * Guess what? I don't really care what the Supreme Court said today. If the libtards want to live in a world of their own making, I say, "Let them." It doesn't change one iota of how I plan on living my life, nor should it change how you live your life. The consequences of their immorality will be theirs alone to "enjoy." Kill babies by the million up to and after birth? Just dandy. Practi... more »

Lippa application dismissed - Paralegals can be directed to sit in body of court and be called after lawyers.

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
R v Lippa 2013 ONSC 4424 I can forward a PDF to anyone who needs it

BBC Complaints and Clarifications

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
For fans of the BBC's labyrinthine complaints procedure, here are a selection of this month's *Corrections and Clarifications *from the BBC Complaints website. *1. Guide: Why are Israel and the Palestinians fighting over Gaza?, Newsround website, bbc.co.uk: Finding by the Editorial Complaints Unit* *Complaint* A visitor to the site complained that the item was misleading in three respects. The reference to Israel having been *“carved out of land populated by Palestinian Arabs”* gave the impression that there had previously been no Jewish inhabitants of the area, the reference to... more »

More reasons to be cheerless

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 10 hours ago
John Harris on why Generation Y is steadfast right-wing libertarian. It is only one piece, admittedly based on long-term sample poll. Politics is carefully balanced between two seemingly opposite processes. On the one hand we have a generation of Thatcher and now Major’s Children, now young adults, who have imbibed a lifetime of neoliberal propaganda and turned it into (Gramscian) common sense. On the other hand we have an ongoing breakdown in the Conservative Party voter base/hegemonic bloc which dominated politics for most of the 20th century. While this might make electoral polit... more »

Let’s Unite in Opposition to Criminalization of Absenteeism in Texas

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 10 hours ago
A couple of weeks ago, I tackled the daunting task of posting constructive criticism of the UCLA Civil Rights Project’s support for data-driven efforts to end some types of school suspensions. Now, I get to issue full-throated praise to a federal civil rights lawsuit against criminal prosecutions of Texas students for truancy (while acknowledging the […]

Temporary Workers are a Fix, One That Keeps Us from Finding Solutions

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
*Minister of Quick Fixes* When employers can't find workers at a time of high unemployment, we've got a problem. Filling those vacant spots with guest workers is a low-cost fix, one that does nothing to solve our problem, perhaps even rendering it more intractable. *Currently, more than 330,000 workers live and work in Canada as part of the federal temporary foreign worker program — a number that has nearly tripled over the last 10 years, with the bulk of those job-seekers going west in search of work.* *****The program was originally designed to attract skilled employees, agricul... more »

Turk Pipkin : Remembering James Gandolfini

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano from season six of The Sopranos. Sleep well, Jimmy: Remembering James Gandolfini Though I'd worked a long while in film and television, I never dreamed that a tall drink of water from Texas would end up acting alongside Gandolfini in the show that I loved... By Turk Pipkin / The Huffington Post / June 26, 2013 From the premiere episode forward, I was a huge

ALEC Continues on Taxpayers’ Dollar

2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours ago
This morning there was a RepubliCON ranting about *Moyers' updated expose’ on ALEC* entitled: *Moyers Continues Rant Against ALEC on Taxpayers’ Dollar* By Mike Ciandella | June 26, 2013 | 11:30 And included the following paragraph: Besides attacking ALEC, Moyers has also used his taxpayer-funded show to promote theAmerican Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) as a liberal alternative to ALEC. He has also used his platform to promote other liberal groups like Color of Change. And included the following sentence: The American Legislative Exchange Council is a non-pr... more »

Democratic Senators Who Voted To Confirm Fascists To The Supreme Court

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Justice Ginsburg, who, like Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, went to my high school, James Madison in Brooklyn, knows what she's talking about when she says the decision by the 5 right-wing Republican activists on the Supreme Court, each of whom is also a corporate whore, produced an anti-democratic ruling stinking of "hubris." She pointed out how illogical their nakedly partisan arguments were: In the Court’s view, the very success of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act demands its dormancy. If the statute was working, there would be less evidence of discrimination, so opponents... more »

Lack of Workers’ Rights In Iraq

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
Iraq is a country full of contradictions. It has one of the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world, yet that wealth has failed to trickle down to the general public. The state of its workforce is a perfect example. Many of Iraq’s laborers are unskilled and uneducated. To make matters worse, the country lacks legislation to protect their rights. That means it is hard for them to organize and improve their lot. Iraq has a large and growing workforce, but it is not very skilled. The country has one of the largest, youngest, and fastest growing populationsin the Middle Eas... more »

Here is precisely why I get the news that matters from reliable internet sources and not the prestitute US "mainstream" media.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago
------------------------------ Top Ten Ways US TV News are Screwing us Again on NSA Surveillance Story (Iraq Redux) ------------------------------ Posted on 06/24/2013 by Juan Cole Welcome to Informed Comment, where I do my best to provide an independent and informed perspective on Middle Eastern and American politics.US television news is a danger to the security of the United States. First, it is so oriented to ratings that it cannot afford to do unpopular reports (thus, it ignored al-Qaeda and the Taliban for the most part before 9/11). Second, it is so oriented toward the hall... more »

Tanner Colby wins the prize!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013* *There is no end to this process:* Make no mistake! Tanner Colby had it rough back in the day. At Slate, the ugly fellow helps us picture life in Houston with Grandma: COLBY (6/15/13): There was this Thanksgiving dinner once, at my aunt’s house in Houston. That morning we’d read an op-ed in the local paper about a school that still used corporal punishment. A white teacher had paddled a black student. People were up in arms about the obvious racial overtones, and *my grandmother, my sweet little 70-year-old Nanny, offered that she, too, didn’t think the w... more »

This Week in Assclownery

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
It's been a helluva week on the political front and it's only Hump Day. Let's see what's going on in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. First off, Gabriel Gomez, aka Lurch, got his uptight ass handed back to him by losing to Rep. Ed Markey in the Massachusetts special Senate election. Apparently, not as many white Independent male voters went for him as expected. Maybe it was the fact he called Ed Markey "pond scum" over something he didn't do (compare him to bin Laden) or maybe it was the fact his termagant of a wife decided to pile on Markey like a half-crazed harpy... more »

Propaganda, Plagiarism, and Public Misleading on CREDO

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 12 hours ago
The corporate charter industry is working every angle to put the best makeup on the CREDO charter study of 2013. And “news coverage” in Tennessee shows their efforts paying off. Two examples of Tennessee media “coverage” of the 2013 CREDO charter school study are provided below, and as you can see, they are both lifted from […]

Banned in Britain

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
I read that the UK Home Secretary, Teresa May, has banned Pamela Geller from entering the UK as it would not be conducive to the public good. More here http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/banned-in-britian-uk-caves-to-jihad.html Meanwhile Islamic preacher Muhammad al-Arifi who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating, and jihad violence was recently admitted to the UK with no difficulty. Why the disparity in treatment? Are Islamist preachers, and there have been several on recent years, who preach hatred, conducive to the public good? Is promoting hatred of Jew... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago
*The Advocate, WWL-TV announce partnership* *New Orleans newspaper war: Now with TV partnerships! ~Andrew Beaujon, Poynter.* *Schemed to Death: Rob Ryan's Defense ~Uptown Murf, Canal Street Chronicles*

Wanna laugh? See this: how 'Europe' works... or so it seems!

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/VTpkdtzncT0 -- you may need to put SUBTITLES ON ! *As often said: politicians are a reflection of a society*, not an example for society. We live in decadent times, meaning: overruling with loss of values, proportions and ethics, in particular on the side of those who govern. *Tom Staal*, a Dutch TV-maker and journalist, made headlines these days with his sensational report about cheating and money-embezzling "parliamentarians" at the Strasbourg and Brussels "EU"-headquarters. This part with English subtitles (put them manually on!) comes from his Brussels' ex... more »

INVENTING THE OTHER: Serena's all wrong!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013* *Part 3—Our Own Salem Village:* At one time, we Americans really knew how to invent The Other. Back in Salem Village, we’d simply dunk those presumed to be witches. We’d let nature take over from there. Today, we no longer do that. As a bit of a replacement procedure, we have the pronouncements of Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon. Williams was busy last week, inventing The Other in two major cases. On Friday, she gave celebrity chef Paula Deen a good sound dunking for her racial errors. First, Williams misstated the contents of Deen’s deposition, as has... more »

CHEMTRAILS

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago

Just a Little Bit of Global Warming Goes a Long, Long Way

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago
*Chain of Fools**A little warming goes a long way*. That might be the real message from the floods that have wracked Alberta over the past week. It's a message much of the Third World has known, and endured, for quite a while but we really never much listened to them. Most Canadians thought global warming, for Canada, mainly meant a little less cold - yippee! Oh sure, the Innu have been warning about climate change impacts in the far north but we really haven't paid them much mind either. But Calgary? Well that's another matter altogether. Now we're coming to realize that the l... more »

DOMA Open Thread

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
I didn't do this yesterday for VRA, but I did it for the ACA case, so why not: here's an open thread for discussing the Supreme Court's marriage decisions. If you want to also talk about the Texas abortion law filibuster, be my guest! I know I'll be writing about filibusters, and I'll probably write about the SCOTUS stuff too, but for now, I'll just leave this one.

Are We Not Men?

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg *Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?* -H.G. Wells, *The Island of Dr. Moreau*- I'd hate to make anyone think I'm an optimist. I'm not even sure I care too much about the human race aside from a few individuals, but that's what pessimism is about -- a cosmic frame of reference that sees no permanence; that sees everything that is on the way up as inevitably on the way down. Perhaps not caring gives a clearer vision. If it doesn't matter in the end that voting rights are in peril, or at least under continuing assault, then the failure of the Texas... more »

Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can’t Handle the Evidence

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 14 hours ago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears now to be assuming the mantle of self-righteous indignation—a tenuous perch for someone who is leading a field in which he has no experience or expertise. As Valerie Strauss has reported, Duncan has lambasted news editors, berating them for failing to demand evidence for claims against the precious Common […]

The Calgary Herald Discovers the Polar Jet Stream

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
It's a newspaper so far right that, to steal a line from Lawrence Martin, it should be delivered in a holster. A couple of weeks ago the *Calgary Herald *scribes treated climate change as the delusions of the loonie left. That was then, this is now. *The Herald* is now running a feature all about the polar jet stream, how it's been fueled by the vanishing Arctic sea ice, even how "*it's been wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, causing havoc as it goes."* *"There's been a lot interest in the jet stream in the last two or three years," said Dave Phillips, an Environment Ca... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Jose Barrios, 56. No, you don't remember him -- just a very short cup of coffee, in 1982 -- but I do: three years with the Phoenix Giants. Good stuff: 1. If you've read my various defenses of John Boehner (and for those who haven't: I think he's a pretty good Speaker in a very difficult situation), you should probably read Stan Collender, who has a very different point of view on Boehner. 2. Here's David Roberts on the Obama climate initiative. 3. And Scott Lemieux on Chief Justice Roberts and the Voting Rights case.

Fakers

Alison at Creekside - 14 hours ago
Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 stealth fighters in 2010. Tony Gazebo and Rona Ambrose attending. Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new Canadians on Sun News Network Fake lake, the $57,000 part of a $1.9 million display for the 2010 G8/20 summit, concerning which I asked some more questions earlier today. Fake G8 border infrastructure slush fund that splashed $50M around Tony Gazeb... more »

FDA Punishes Daniel Smith of Project Greenlife for Selling A Product (MMS) That Actually Works

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
Daniel Smith—who operated Project Green Life until the FDA came-a-calling in 2010 with guns—and his wife Karis have been arrested and taken into custody by U.S. Marshalls. They were charged with one count of conspiracy, four counts of interstate sales of mis-branded drugs, and one count of smuggling.** *FDA Attacks Daniel Smith of Project Greenlife and MMS* ** MMS Newsletter, 21 February 2013 *The FDA asks the justice department to send both Daniel Smith ( Project Greenlife ) and his wife to prison for 36 years for selling MMS, and his secretary as well*. This is in the face of the... more »

WotW: Boosting Your Blog's Reach Through Social Media, Pt 2

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
Last week I explained how to use Facebook to increase your blog's reach. This week, I want to focus on another social media platform, one that has potential to be your greatest ally, if you use it correctly. I'm talking about Twitter. Twitter is huge. It's popular. And yet, it can be very overwhelming. I know I was overwhelmed by it at first. After all, it has its own language of sorts (all the @ and # signs every other word). Everything has to fit into essentially one sentence, and a seemingly cryptic one at that. And yet, Twitter keeps on growing. And there's a reason for that. W... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*BP mounts aggressive ad, letter campaigns to intimidate recipients in spill settlement dispute* Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/25/3470132/bp-mounts-ad-campaign-in-spill.html#storylink=cpy *French Market Corp. sends disputed parking contract back out to bid ~Andrew Vanacore, The Advocate N.O.* *Quatrevaux serves subpoena on Orleans Parish School Board ~WDSU* *Has LSU lost its soul? ~Robert Mann* * So that was quite a day ~Library Chronicles* ** *Then Sometimes You Win ~Athenae, First Draft* *Food Vendor Application - Blues & BBQ Fest* *Today in New Orleans ~NOL... more »

A Hero for Our Time

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 15 hours ago

The Turkefication of Egypt- June 30/13 "democratic" protests to what end?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
Protests creating an impression of democracy at work? Reality being a reordering out of chaos? A distraction of the masses while the elites aided by sycophants* *do their dirty work? The protests continue in Turkey. *And, Obama continues relations with Erdogan in Turkey*. Not a surprise. The push for war in Syria was the main topic, though Obama found time to pay lip service to non violent free-expression. blah, blah, blah...... [image: http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/theOval/2013/06/25/1372162017000-AP-Obama-US-Turkey-003-1306250808_4_3_rx404_c534x401.jpg?87cc7ae5b5e3d133be9... more »

Ed Markey Won The Senate Seat-- Now Let's Make Sure Carl Sciortino Wins Ed's Old House Seat

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Carl and Ed, Massachusetts progressives Only weak minded and self-deluded Republicans were surprised by Ed Markey's healthy win yesterday in the Massachusetts special election to fill John Kerry's old Senate seat. Markey has been the foremost champion of climate change amelioration of any elected official in the entire federal government. And the Republicans put up some wealthy, crooked, right wing businessman to oppose him. Gomez spent his last days of the campaign blaming his defeat on the Republican Party. "They're wrong on too many issues. I mean, you know, you gotta realize, the... more »

Feliz Miércoles para todos ustedes

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 15 hours ago
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Palestine for the Palestinians, unless Palestine is occupied by someone other Israel

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
Take a look at the first Palestine National Charter of 1964, this explicitly denies any claim to the West Bank and Gaza which were then “occupied” by Jordan and Egypt: Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area As I have said before the 'Palestinians' claim on Israel is nothing to do with the 'Palestinian' people. But don't listen to me, listen to Palestine Liberation Organisation executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said in 1977: "... more »

Final Q1 GDP comes in as a huge miss , personal consumption hits the floor , infinite QE can't create more than 1.77 percent GDP ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Final Q1 GDP Is A Huge Miss, Personal Consumption Craters [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 08:44 -0400 - fixed - Gross Domestic Product - Personal Consumption Remember the key component of the Fed's baffle with BS strategy: namely "*baffle with BS*." Sure enough, following yesterday's epic trifecta of economic growth when durables, housing and confidence data all slammed expectations, it was up to GDP to be the bad cop. Sure enough, following the already disappointing first Q1 GDP revision which revised the preliminary 2.5% numbe... more »

Ranita verde en la jungla

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 15 hours ago
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Learn to Love Worms with Vermicomposting

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Gaye Levy Three years ago, if someone had mentioned that they were purchasing some worms, I would have grabbed my pole and said “let’s go fishing”. Later, as I became interested in organic gardening, I started reading about worm bins and worm compost. A light bulb went off in my head: folks were purchasing certain types of worms so that could use them to create compost. The technical term for this is “vermicomposting” which is, logically enough, the process of composting using worms. Now before you go “yuck,” hear me out. Vermicomposting is clean, takes up very little space and, ... more »

A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
*Image* Paul Craig Roberts It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are making over Edward Snowden. We have known for a long time that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without warrants on the communications of Americans and people throughout the world. Photographs of the massive NSA building in Utah built for the purpose of storing the intercepted communications of the world have been published many times. It is not clear to an ordinary person what Snowden has revealed that William Binney and other whistleblowers have not a... more »

First we saw the SHIBOR spikes , then ICBC and Bank Of China customers had problems using online / ATM and counter services - now china Banks have just stopped lending to individuals and businesses " temporarily " due to liquidity shortages - time for more PBOC jawboning ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-26/chinese-banks-stop-lending-due-liquidity-freeze Chinese Banks Stop Lending Due To Liquidity Freeze [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 08:16 -0400 - Bond - China - Credit Line - Shadow Banking - Shenzhen - Yuan If one thought the schizophrenic lies out of Europe between 2010 and 2013 were bad enough (the bulk of which it now appears were orchestrated by Mario Draghi), here comes China, a country which already has a "credibility" issue so to say, which has no choice but to lie as... more »

Government Employees Are Now Criminals If They Don't Spy on Co-workers

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
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The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter Of The Bonds Has Begun

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Michael Snyder What does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly? What happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven't done in 50 years? If your answer to those questions involves the word "slaughter", you are probably on the right track. Right now, bonds are being absolutely slaughtered, and this is only just the beginning. Over the last several years, reckless bond buying by the Federal Reserve has forced yields down to absolutely ridiculous levels. For example, it simply is not rational to lend the U.S. government money at less than 3 percent when t... more »

Joe's Video Story: Autism Recovery After Using MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
* 20 June 2013* ** Joe's mom walks us through her son's journey to healing from autism and PANDAS to recovery. For more info on the protocol that has helped 93 children recover from autism, visit our website at www.CDAutism.org. Please direct any questions to us through the contact form on our site. ** *Visit this site for more information: * ** *http://cdautism.org* Source: http://cdautism.org

Tempora: The Americans And The British Are Recording All Phone Calls And All Internet Activity

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Michael Snyder What would you do if you knew that the government had tapped all of your phones, was watching everything that you do on the Internet and was keeping a copy of all of your emails? Well, the truth is that this is essentially exactly what is happening right now. Over in the UK, a British intelligence agency known as Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has tapped into the cables that all of our phone calls and all of our Internet activity go through. All of the information that goes through those cables – phone calls, Internet searches, Facebook activity, ema... more »

Economic Obsessions

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Those of us who are appalled by the Harper government have taken some hope for the future as we have watched the PMO implode. But Edward Greenspon warns that, when the next election arrives, it will probably still be fought not on Harperian ethics but on the Harperian economy. Mr. Harper claims that he is obsessed by the economy. It's true that he is obsessed by a manifestly false proposition -- that wealth creates jobs. But Harper's real obsessions are two: The Liberal Party of Canada and pipelines. Harper is particularly obsessed by the Liberals, now that the son has also risen.... more »

Edward Snowden stuck in Russia ? Wikileaks notes he may be forced to stay there unless an intermediary country comes forward - Ecuador backing away from Snowden due to US pressure and treaty concerns ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/snowden-may-be-stuck-in-russia-wikileaks/story-fn3dxix6-1226669898495 Snowden may be stuck in Russia: WikiLeaks - From:AAP - June 26, 2013 8:45PM - Increase Text Size - Decrease Text Size - Print - - [image: US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden] WikiLeaks says Edward Snowden may be forced to stay in Russia permanently because of US "bullying". *Source:* AAP *THE WikiLeaks organisation says intelligence leaker Edward Snowden may be forced to stay in Russia permanently because the United States is "bullying... more »

War watch - Afghanistan , Iraq and Syria in focus... June 26 , 2013

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Karzai would be ‘wise to leave with US forces’ before Taliban retakes Afghanistan Get short URL Published time: June 26, 2013 02:28 [image: Hamid Karzai (AFP Photo / Shah Marai)] Hamid Karzai (AFP Photo / Shah Marai) Share on tumblr Tags Afghanistan, Politics, USA, Violence,War Hamid Karzai is unlikely to remain president of Afghanistan after US troops leave the country, defense consultant Moeen Raoof told RT. The Taliban, a longtime enemy of the US-backed Karzai administration, is expected to regain control after 11 years. *RT:* *The US State Department is hesitating to define the Tal... more »

Market gyros around jawboning of Central Bankers once again - this time ECB Head Draghi ....Though Mr Draghi has his own scandal brewing in Italy , which of course he won't address....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-26/futures-lifted-verbal-cental-banker-exuberance Futures Lifted By Verbal Central Banker Exuberance [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 06:37 -0400 - Bank of England - BOE - Bond - Borrowing Costs - Case-Shiller - CDS - Central Banks - China - Consumer Confidence - European Central Bank - Eurozone - Gilts - Gross Domestic Product - headlines - Jim Reid - LIBOR - Market Sentiment - Mervyn King - Monetary Policy - New Home... more »

GCHQ monitoring - castigated by Germany ! How GCHQ uses fiber optic cables to spy on world communications and then share with NSA !

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Snowden was Right, they’re Reading your Mail: How British Intelligence and the NSA are Tag-Teaming US Posted on 06/22/2013 by Juan Cole When President Barack Obama said ‘no one is listening to your phone calls,’ he was either misinformed or was being disingenuous. The British are at least gathering up the voice signals of your phone calls, and sharing 200 million of them a day with the US National Security Agency via a joint database. According to The Guardian newspaper, the British electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has attached sniffers or packet analyzers to the fiber optic cabl... more »

LA Mid-Century Modern

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours ago
[image: image] More than anywhere else, mid-century modern architecture grew up in Los Angeles, in harmony with Californian industrial base and the Southern Californian climate. Unique domestic forms emerged through the implementation of new fabrication techniques and materials, which had been rigorously tested by industrial research labs during World War II. From the tract houses of Lakewood and the towers of Park La Brea to the Case Study and experimental homes of the Hollywood Hills, designers and developers employed pioneering methods to create communities that sustained L.A.... more »

"You arrive, sign in, collect €300 for expenses you don't have and then you leave. I like that job, I want that job"

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
A great piece of investigative reporting. How our EU masters behave...

Who is to blame for the Palestinian refugee problem?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
I am often told that Israel caused the Palestinian refugee problem by expelling non-Jews from Israel as they re-formed the Israeli state. This is an obvious lie but it was nice to find this proof today... Abu Mazen admitted that the Arab armies caused the Palestinian refugee problem in 1976, has nobody told Jeremy Bowen and the rest of the BBC Middle East department? Or does he & they know and just not care?

MORNING FUNNIES.....

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 17 hours ago
I am off early this morning to Boston to catch my plane to Sweden for the Global Network annual space conference. Hope all my connecting flights work out.....and hope I can get some sleep on the plane. Love this cartoon sent by a friend this morning.

Did Canada spy on journos at the Toronto G8/20 summit?

Alison at Creekside - 17 hours ago
Image from leaked UK Government Communications Headquarters briefing slide featuring the logos of Canadian, US, and UK signals intelligence spying agencies. Ten days ago The Guardian published GCHQ briefing slides, courtesy of former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden, revealing : Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. This included: • Setting up int... more »

Day for a swim?

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours ago

Press and terrorists in symbiotic relationship

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
What is also interesting is the last shot, if the press were really scared of being shot at by Israeli troops they wouldn't stand like that. In reality Israel is the only Middle East country where the army wouldn't shoot someone identified as being 'presss' even if they are colluding with terrorists. *Thanks to Israel Matzav for the video spot.*

MIB: colonic prolapse - trip chair - psychotronic dna warfare

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago
obviously, I'm trying as hard as I can to FRONT LOAD as much of this factionist post as possible with RKPs or Relevant Key Phrases like "colonic prolapse", "trip chair" and "psychotronic dna warfare". One can only hope my efforts haven't been in vain. While much of this Bases Series Episode 25 subject 'Ray Collins''s stuttering/timeslurring will be down to Skypelag, I suspect that iff the guy in this video really has been Bourne Legacy'd i.e. chemically rewritten and cerebrally timelooped like that as often as such off-the-reservation activity would entail then that is EXACTLY how s... more »

Michael James : Baseball in Moscow and 'Turf Accountant' in Belfast

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours ago
Turf Accountant, a betting parlor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 7, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: Playing baseball in the USSR and drinking Guinness in Belfast In Belfast we drive to the battlefield called the Falls Road, working class and traditionally socialist. I shoot

Israel Matzav: Mohamed Morsy's new stooge: The US Ambassador to Egypt

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Israel Matzav reports: 'US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson is reportedly *pressuring Christian Copts not to participate* in mass demonstrations against the regime of Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood that are due to take place next week in Cairo. The June 18th edition of *Sadi al-Balad *reports that lawyer Ramses Naggar, the Coptic Church’s legal counsel, said that during Patterson’s June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she “asked him to urge the Copts not to participate” in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood. The Pope politely informed her that his spi... more »

Meditation Saves A Veteran From PTSD and Suicide

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
Related: *PTSD Causing Record Suicides in Vets + Transcendental Meditation helps war veterans with PTSD relief.* *Joseph E. Garland - Unknown Soldiers + Joseph E. Garland and Dr. Jonathan Shay discuss PTSD. * Meditation Saves A Veteran From PTSD and Suicide. Source: DavidLynchFoundation. Date Published: September 26, 2012. Description: Veterans are often loath to acknowledge to themselves or others their inner wounds of war after they return home from combat. Healing those wounds of war requires an approach that directly impacts the neurophysiology underlying post traumatic st... more »

Stephen Walt And Zbigniew Brzezinski On Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
Stephen Walt on Syria. Zbigniew Brzezinski on Syria.

An anomaly-like argument in favor of SUSY

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
*A new Higgs tadpole cancellation condition reformulating the hierarchy problem* The first hep-ph paper today probably got to that exclusive place because the authors were excited and wanted to grab the spot. Andre de Gouvea, Jennifer Kile, and Roberto Vega-Morales of Illinois chose the title \(H\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) as a Triangle Anomaly: Possible Implications for the Hierarchy Problem They point out a curious feature of the diagrams calculating the Higgs boson decay to two photons (yes, it's the process that seemed to have a minor excess at the LHC but this excess went away)... more »

Musical Interlude: Adiemus, “Adiemus”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
Adiemus, “Adiemus” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90&html5=1

James McEnteer : Escape to Ecuador

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Edward Snowden and the flag of Ecuador. Image from Salon.com. Rehanging the crepe paper: Escape to Ecuador Edward Snowden is the latest insider who pulled back the curtain to reveal the wizardry of American Freedom as the diabolical machinations of a surveillance state. By James McEnteer / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2013 QUITO, Ecuador -- The colored crepe paper we hung up has tattered and

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. *Click image for larger size.* Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distan... more »

Chet Raymo, "The Fourth Seal"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* "The Fourth Seal"* by Chet Raymo "Immediately, another horse appeared, deathly pale, and its rider was called Plague, and Hades followed at his heels." It has been nearly 20 years since I read Laurie Garrett's hair-raising "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance," a big book, impressively researched by a first-rate science reporter. It was a book that made you want to wear a mask over your mouth and nose, and avoid airplanes and crowded places. Especially airplanes. Now comes David Quammen with another big book, "Spillover: Animal Infections a... more »

Obama jumps the warmist shark [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: Obama jumps the shark]With most US businesses still struggling to make a profit, the US economy struggles to fire. So Obama has chosen to pour more cold water on the still weak and sporadic flames. With the globe simply failing to do what the global warming models say it will, the global warming “science” has arrived at a failed dead end. So he’s declared the debate over the science “obsolete.” (That’ll do it.) And so called “green jobs” have been costing the US taxpayer up to $2 million per job in subsidies. So he’s elected to “create” many more. He calls it his Climate A... more »

OMG, Anthony Weiner is now the NYC mayoral front runner!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Oh no, he's back! (Sorry, no penis pictures available.)* *by Ken* Howie will have quite a lot to say about the Supreme Court ruling in the morning, and I'm happy to give the subject a pass. I'd probably just fulminate, and probably calumniate -- the Five Supreme Lunks, that is. (Howie's going to have some point-by-point on them too.) Instead I thought I'd retreat into the political weirdosphere. From our local online news emporium DNAinfo.com this evening: *Latest Poll Shows Weiner Leading Democratic Mayoral Pack*By Jeanmarie Evelly on June 25, 2013 7:01pm NEW YORK CITY -- A new... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Reduce Energy A Bit More

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet. Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »

QUOTE OF THE DAY: On ending global poverty

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Economist Jeffrey Sachs dazzled the development world with his plan to end global poverty with aid. Sachs's aid program has not worked. But economic liberty has. “After several decades that saw the largest poverty reduction in history -- with the number of "extremely poor individuals" falling most spectacularly in China, from 683 million in 1990 to 156 million in 2010 …, and not because of foreign aid and well-intentioned foreigners but because of booming economic growth -- some analysts now argue that the best medicine for poverty is reforms to scale back the role of the state in... more »

Ideas For Saving Ourselves From Total Economic Collapse: An 11 Point Program To Stop This Depression And End The War Against Us!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
The World economies are indeed teetering right now on total collapse... It is so sad that nations that have foolishly adopted the criminal Jewish Usury debt system have not learned from history, which clearly shows that any nation that bases its financial system on Usury has always collapsed! What we have right now is history repeating itself... This time on a world wide basis....It does appear again that we have not learned from history and we will be paying dearly for that folly as a result.... I have been in a constant search for any solutions for getting us out of this economi... more »

Some Climates Never Change

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
The graphics couldn't have been better -- or worse, depending on your point of view. There was the normally unflappable, cool president sweating like a pig. When I first saw the photo below, I actually thought he was weeping in remorse over his fateful choice to preside over a spy state, with the resulting loss of all his international friends. No such luck. In the midst of the current climate of authoritarianism and racism and xenophobia, he was simply and belatedly waxing rhapsodic about the actual climate. Suffice it to say that he added volumes to the hot air surrounding him. For... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Paul Topete of the rock band *Poker Face*. Paul and I will be discussing his band, * FREEDOMPALOOZA*, and a variety of other subjects. Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past episodes.

Mono alimentando a un tigre

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY&html5=1

SURVEILLANCE STATE: Let’s recap [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: image]Take your eye off the flight of Edward Snowden, advises * Forbes* writer Andy Greenberg, and put it back where it belongs. The world has become so caught up in the suspense and intrigue of the Snowden Affair–practically a ready-made Robert Ludlum title–that it seems to have almost forgotten the massive National Security Agency surveillance controversy that he’s risked his future to bring to light… is as good a time as any to take an intermission from the drama and recall the real story: the biggest global privacy scandal of the decade. Here’s a recap of Snowden’s ... more »

Support Egypt #Tamarod #June30 2013

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*One year after coming to power, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has send Jihadist terrorists to Syria to kill Syrians who are resisting the foreign invasion and occupation of their country. * Title: Support Egypt #Tamarod #June30 2013. Source: EgVibes. Date Published: June 23, 2013. Description: Egyptians call the free people of the world to support the huge movement taking place on June the 30th 2013. We need your support on social media. Main stream media is expected to ignore the event. The peaceful protesters are expected to be defamed with no basis. Your help is needed.

John Lennon auditions on The Voice

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Yes, true story (well, sort of). PS: Wonder how Bob Dylan would do? [Hat tip Skills and RocKwiz] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

REVIEWING THE SNOWDEN CHASE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Washington has revoked Edward Snowden's passport and said that he should be prevented from traveling any further. That's as officials demand that he be returned to the jurisdiction of the United States. Some lawmakers are urging Washington to spare no effort to put him on trial in the US, even going so far as to threaten Russia over its involvement. RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports.

Taiwan and Renewables at JapanFocus

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
JapanFocus has an excellent piece on Taiwan's energy situation in int'l comparison.... and some good points about the silliness of objections to renewables: To illustrate our proposition, let us suppose that the Taiwan government said today that the entire nuclear power fleet would be phased out over five years, and would be replaced by a series of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, rooftop solar PV, and wind power. The scare stories are that this would cover Taiwan in photovoltaic cells and wind turbines; that it would be prohibitively expensive; and that it would be unreliable... more »

Another Manifestation Of The GOP Civil War: Utah's 2 Republicans Parted Ways On Immigration Reform

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Mike Lee & Orrin Hatch What's a Republicano to do? The racist, hate-filled base they've nurtured equates comprehensive immigration reform with national suicide but the party elders and, more important, the corporate financial financiers, absolutely insist on it-- and assert it would be political suicide for the GOP to derail it. The conservative rank-and-file have a loud and clear message for Republican officials: Support citizenship for illegal immigrants at your own peril. A sizable plurality of registered GOP voters say they will be less likely to support their incumbent lawmake... more »

A fun graduation song

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
A music educator gives a nice presentation via song at the graduation ceremony for Williamsville East High School in suburban Western New York. Please bear with the video, the first part is a little blurry. Song starts around one minute mark. Lyrics: Is it an A, or a B, or a C, or a D? […]

Tiwesdæg: the Left-arm of Non-linkage

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Collection and promulgation of links today was interrupted by my daughter’s minor sports injury. For all ten of you who care: my apologies. Go read Cherly Rofer’s Edward Snowden timeline. Or about a nearby star “crowded with super-Earths.” Or focus on today’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Or about the game that’s stolen my Continue reading

CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
On March 2nd, 2013, warriors across 14 Pacific island nations answered a call, brought on by the threat of climate change. The warrior spirit of the Pacific Islands rose to show the world "We are not drowning. We are fighting." The Warrior Spirit of the Pacific Islands has now awoken to fight climate change. We're not giving up. We're going to fight for what is ours - our island homes and cultures.

O'odham 'Zombies' March Against Loop 202

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
O’odham Zombies March Against the 202 Marching down 51st Ave Posted on June 24, 2013   by Akimel O'odham Youth Collective http://aoycblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/oodham-zombies-march-against-the-202/ June 24, 2013 Contact: Akimel O’odham Youth Collective akimeloodhamyc@gmail.com (520) 510-3407 http://www.AOYCBlog.wordpress.com On the morning of June 22nd, 2013 a group of about 20

MOHAWK NATION NEWS 'LSIPOGTOG RESISTING FRACKING'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
LSIPOGTOG RESISTING FRACKING Posted on June 25, 2013 MNN. June 26, 2013. Tensions are rising at the Highway 126 anti-fracking camp near Elsipogtog First Nation in Kent County, New Brunswick (Wabanakik). By June 23, on National Aboriginal Day, twenty-nine had been arrested. One is in hospital.  Warrior Chief John Levi is calling supporters to help resist seismic testing by US

Bonds see a Lehman Brothers repeat - apart from rising US government yields , there is a festering pus in high yield and even investment grade bonds .... China watch continues as their government tries to jawbone stability amid a roll of more than 1.5 Trillion (yuan ) in very dubious wealth management products by the end of June ! And as we wait for the looming Detroit bankruptcy , note the muni deals being pulled ! And that's before muni buyers learn how reckless these government borrowers have truly been !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-25/bonds-its-lehman-repeat For Bonds, It's A Lehman Repeat [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/25/2013 16:43 -0400 - Advance-Decline - Bond - CDS - High Yield - Investment Grade - Lehman - Recession There is plenty of discussion of outflows but we though the following chart was perhaps the most insightful at why this drop is different from the last few year's BTFD corrections. As we noted here, corporate bond managers have desperately avoided selling down their cash holdings (since t... more »

Detroit - Canary in the coal mine for the Municipal Bond Market ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-17/detroit-recovery-plan-threatens-muni-market-underpinnings.html Detroit Recovery Plan Threatens Muni-Market Underpinnings By Brian Chappatta & Martin Z. Braun - Jun 17, 2013 12:01 AM ET - Facebook Share - Tweet - LinkedIn - Google +1 - 137 COMMENTS - <li class="print right icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-w... more »

"The Optimism of Uncertainty"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"The Optimism of Uncertainty" * by Howard Zinn "In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world. There is a tendency to think that what we see ... more »

W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and Dramatic Muse

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Title: W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and Dramatic Muse. Source: UCD - University College Dublin. Date Published: June 14, 2013. Description: William Butler Yeats was inspired by several extraordinary women to write some of the greatest poetry in the English language. University College Dublin, Professor Tony Roche discusses WB Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and dramatic muse. WB Yeats defined the business of the poet as 'to articulate sweet sounds'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expr... more »

Inflation: Robbing You Since the 10th Century

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Monetary inflation has always been with us. Dan Steinhart from The Casey Report shares a couple of the stories.* Watching from afar as inflation in Argentina grows worse – officially 11%, realistically around 25% – it's tempting to think of the scourge of fiat money as a modern phenomenon; tempting to think that if only US President Franklin Roosevelt hadn't confiscated US citizens' gold to usher in the beginning of the current era of paper money—or if only Richard Nixon hadn’t abandoned the last link with gold—we could be living in a precious metals paradise, as all our ancestor... more »

"Supreme Court Frees Americans from Burden of Voting"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* "Supreme Court Frees Americans from Burden of Voting"* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — "By a five-to-four vote, the Supreme Court today acted, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, “to relieve millions of Americans from the onerous burden of having to vote.”Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated, “Since 1965, citizens across the nation have lived under the tyranny of being forced to elect people to represent them. This is an important step to free them from that unfair and heinous obligation.” Justice Scalia added that the Voting Rights Act had “... more »

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