Sunday, June 09, 2013

9 June - Blogs I'm Following

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Will Obamacare Mandate RFID Implants?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 minutes ago
Aaron Dykes Authorization and submission to the Beast system will be required for all transactions in the future envisioned by our would-be enslavers. We saw this creepy scrawl on the sidewalk recently, warning that “Obamacare has a microchip for all Americans.” Is it true? It’s a scary and perhaps plausible scenario that would drastically concentrate further power into the hands of government, so I would in no way put it past the Washington crowd. But in this case, for once in a very long while, I’m with the debunkers in calling the claim a myth, though ObamaCare establishes ma... more »

When Prepping Just Isn't Enough

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 20 minutes ago
Daisy Luther There’s a sense of urgency in the prepping community lately that is at an all-time high. Between the global elite warmongers, the impending financial collapse as the government makes plans to attach pension funds, the new viruses, Monsanto’s GMO seeds running amok and threatening the world’s food supply, and Big Food’s toxic food-like substances in the grocery stores with no regard for actual nutrition, it is clear that we are going downhill fast. The soothing ”everything-is-just-fine” propaganda is so blatant that even the most die-hard zombie is beginning to see tha... more »

NSA, the secret AT&T spy room, 2 Israeli companies, and loss of American privacy

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 25 minutes ago
image source Jon Rappoport Boom. Explosive revelations. The NSA is using telecom giants to spy on anybody and everybody, in a program called PRISM. But the information is not new. Three books have been written about the super-secret NSA, and James Bamford has written them all. In 2008, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed Bamford as his latest book, *The Shadow Factory*, was being released. Bamford explained that, in the 1990s, everything changed for NSA. Previously, they’d been able to intercept electronic communications by using big dishes to capture what was coming down t... more »

Are You a Transgenic Organism? (Mini-Documentary)

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 29 minutes ago
*Youtube* You are what you eat. If GMOs weren't harmful, why would Monsanto oppose labeling them? Subscribe to AMTV Visit AMTVMedia.com Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

“How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 32 minutes ago
*“How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly”* By James Risen and Eric Lichtblau WASHINGTON — “When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails and other data piling up as digital communications exploded over the past decade, they turned to Silicon Valley computer experts who had developed complex equations to thwart Russian mobsters intent on credit card fraud. The partnership between the intelligence community and Palantir Technologies, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by a group of inventors f... more »

CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 33 minutes ago
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Sunday Question for Everyone

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 52 minutes ago
Sorry, on the run, so I'm going to do just one question today and I suspect it's one that I've asked before. But it's newly relevant now, and so: during the 2016 election, are civil liberties/surveillance issues important in the nomination battles? In one party, the other, or both? Are they important in the general election? By "important" I'm just talking about what the candidates talk about and what the press talks about. No matter what, these types of issues are extremely unlikely to move votes, but there's more to elections than what moves votes.

“Financial Insider: ‘We Are Moving Into the Last Stages Before An All Out Collapse’”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“Financial Insider: * *‘We Are Moving Into the Last Stages Before An All Out Collapse’”* by Mac Slavo “With the United States having reached unprecedented levels of debt and no end in sight, Europe close to widespread destabilization, and Japan now having lost control of their bond market, it should be quite apparent that there is no turning back. Governments around the world are doing everything in their power to maintain the perception that all is well. Despite their best efforts, however, the coming catastrophe cannot be stopped. The following video and accompanying excerpt r... more »

Urban 'environmentalists' raising urban house prices

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
It's often said that an 'environmentalist' (being someone who defines themselves by their opposition to new development) is usually someone who already has their own bush cabin. A new report by the New Zealand Initiative suggests that high housing prices in our cities are the product of similarly place 'urban environmentalists'--rich and old greenies opposing new developments who already have their own spread, and several rental properties besides. Report authors Michael Bassett and Luke Malpass argue that 'richer and older property owners with green agendas' who have managed to c... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
Sunday again, and it is indeed time for my usual insane rant...... Yes, yesterday was the 46th anniversary of Israel's horrific and murderous attack on the USS Liberty. That attack cost the lives of some 34 innocent sailors, and even now 46 years later, there is no justice at all for the victims and the survivors of this blatant act of war against the United States... I am troubled by the fact that the majority of people have never heard of the USS Liberty attack of June 8th, 1967. As I stated yesterday, when you tell people about this horrendous attack by the United States' suppo... more »

Floridians Alarmed As Industry Signals Desire To 'Frack' and Drill Populated Areas

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
*Collier-Owned Company Leases Populated Area In Collier County for Exploratory Drilling* Sayer Ji In what is shaping up to be a move as potentially disastrous for the Collier family name as the Collier county environment, a May 2013 drilling permit application by Dan A. Hughes company describes their intent to drill a 13,900 foot deep exploratory well in close proximity to a relatively densely populated residential area known as Golden Gate. In an official statement made in April, Dan A. Hughes announced they had "recently entered into a mineral exploration leasing agreement with ... more »

Monsanto Still Testing GM Wheat

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
*At this point, we’ve all got to wonder — did biotech giant Monsanto truly ever cease testing the company’s genetically modified (GM) wheat?* Melissa Melton Beginning in 1998, Monsanto ran field trials in 16 states across the nation on a strain of wheat engineered to resist the company’s signature Roundup glyphosate herbicide. Top wheat importing nations around the world, not to mention many wheat farmers, came forward en masse to publicly oppose any GM wheat — sold then or ever. Seeing little profit in a product that obviously no one wanted to buy, Monsanto supposedly ceased its wh... more »

Freedom in America: Rest in Peace

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
Dees Illustration Stephen Lendman Political philosopher Montesquieu (1989 - 1755) once said: There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. International, constitutional and US statute laws no longer matter. Obama declared them null and void. He does so by disregarding them. He consigned them to the dustbin of history. They've been heading there for years. Post-9/11, state terror accelerated. Bush administration rogues enacted numerous police state laws. Previous articles discussed them. Constitutionality was ignore... more »

Another experiment: #edreform news briefs as WW2 propaganda reels

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 hour ago
As if I don’t have other things to think about, I wanted to experiment with providing perhaps bi-monthly news reels sort of summarizing what’s been happening. And I wanted to try a different format. Let’s see where this one goes until I’m tired of it. Or, if folks like it, it’ll stay. So, enjoy the […]

A new one from @mornamcdermott, is it the blue or the red pill? #highered

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 hour ago
Once again, a well-researched and detailed piece from Educational Alchemy. Quick question, and this is for higher ed: why the hell would college syllabi need to be aligned to common core? I thought being college and career ready meant you were, you know, ready for college and we could move on? Whose ridiculous idea is […]

Bilderberg PR diversions concealed massive police build-up in advance of event

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
*This year’s Bilderberg 2013 meeting has witnessed an extraordinary culture of secrecy surrounding the event’s large security operation, at a time when the public are told that austerity is meant to be the order of the day. But that’s not all...* Patrick Henningsen Police officials are maintaining that the reason for such secrecy in advance of the event, and the extraordinary security measures has all been done in order ‘to combat the threat of terrorism’. Some might feel otherwise – that this hugely expensive exercise has been hidden in order to limit the public’s knowledge and a... more »

Obama's war on whistleblowers – The trial of Bradley Manning

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Dylan Murphy If you had free reign over classified networks… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC … what would you do? God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms… I want people to see the truth … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public. - Quotes from an online chat attributed to Bradley Manning On 3 June the trial of PFC Bradley Manning finally began. He will have spent over three years in priso... more »

NSA Whistle blower and The Guardian source for NSA secret programs , Edward Snowden comes forward and explains why he took the steps he did to pull back the covers on the NSA secret surveillance programs ....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Ask and you shall receive ..... You may recall my speculation as to who was leaking the treasure trove of intel to Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian regarding NSA secrets ........ http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/06/obama-orders-by-way-of-formerly-secret.html http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/06/boundless-informant-latest-nsa-formerly.html http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/06/turns-out-google-microsoft-facebook-aol.html Well , we now have the answer......Edward Snowden..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblowe... more »

ALEC's "Right to Work" - Dishonest Words

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
A good read over on *Alternet *on “Right to Work for Less’ The only fault I can find with this historically heavy article – is that the write does not recognize or acknowledge the huge influence that ALEC legislators have had on getting this legislation distributed, introduced and passed throughout the US> *The Most Dishonest Words in American Politics: 'Right to Work'* June 7, 2013 | “Right to work” is the most dishonest phrase in American political discourse. It sounds like it’s defending people’s right to earn a living. But as used by its supporters, it means making it... more »

Next Chapter Begins Tomorrow.

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
In 1985 I went to a state University and majored in elementary education. In 1989 I taught 32 second graders in Virginia In 1991 I moved to Pennsylvania and taught fifth graders In 1995 I finished my Master’s Degree and began work on my PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park. From 1996-1999 […]

AARONOVITCH, GATEKEEPER; NEIL, FORMER PAL OF PAMELA; ALEX JONES, TRUTHSEEKER

Anon at aangirfan - 3 hours ago
Alex Jones has been on the BBC with the Zionist 'gatekeeper' David Aaronovitch. And with the 'discredited' Andrew Neil, former friend of the prostitute Pamela Bordes. *Aaronovich, a discredited journalist.* "Documents in the Belgium child rape and murder case pointed at the involvement of both Belgium AND Dutch politicians, judiciary and police - all taking part in the Mark Dutroux child abuse scandal, but writers like * Aaronovitch* will tell you that it’s just another 'conspiracy theory'... "*Aaronovitch* has a history of making some rather ridiculous statements. "Whether def... more »

NATO's mercs attack Russian journalists in Golan. Emboldoned by Israel, of course

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago
*A Russian TV crew came under fire in Syria when a mainly civilian convoy taking the journalists to the Golan Heights was shelled by Syrian rebels* The shelling started when the cars were about 5 kilometers away from their destination – ‘Checkpoint Charlie’ – the only crossing between Syria and the Golan Heights, disputed territory claimed by both Syria and Israel. “The Syrian troops started to fight the rebels back,* *but the insurgents* targeted the civilian cars,”* said Evgeny Poddubny, the head of the Russian TV crew and special correspondent for Rossiya TV channel. Thro... more »

Anarchists Call for Noise, Non Violence at ALEC August Rally

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
Good news on the Chicago ALEC protest: *First* MAY BE participating In the past week - if you Google" "Watch the *ALEC* Is Not OK Rally" *480 union webpages are carrying this video.* This is the video from the May ALEC protest rally in Oklahoma City. I'm hoping this suggests at least one or two union sponsored rallies against ALEC during their 40th Annivesary Annual meeting in Chicago August 7 - 9. *Second* First Notice of anything definitely happening at the ALEC 40th Annual Meeting in Chicago - August 7 -9 Noise Demo at the Palmer House Hilton. Overthrow ALEC! Sun, 06/09/2013 ... more »

SUNDAY SONG BONUS TRACK

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
From the Turkish resistance.......

Iain Banks on Life after Capitalism

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
Let me state here a personal conviction that appears, right now, to be profoundly unfashionable; which is that a planned economy can be more productive - and more morally desirable - than one left to market forces. The market is a good example of evolution in action; the try-everything-and-see-what- -works approach. This might provide a perfectly morally satisfactory resource-management system so long as there was absolutely no question of any sentient creature ever being treated purely as one of those resources. The market, for all its (profoundly inelegant) complexities, remains ... more »

Think About It - What if ALEC Never Existed

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
*Think about it –* How different would our political environment be if ALEC had never existed? Think about it. *Think about it –* How different would out political environment be if ALEC had not existed , had not had access to top policy leaders and had not provided a venue for multi-national companies to interfere with our government for the past 40 years? *Think about it –* The ALEC Business Policy Board met on July 7,1983- Following the meeting, Business Policy Board members joined the ALEC Board of Directors for a dinner cruise down the Potomac on the IS.S.S. Sequoia, the Presid... more »

Secession In Northern Colorado Being Fueled By Big Oil?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
Cory Gardner is a very right-wing backbencher from eastern Colorado. He found himself in Congress after the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse of 2010 swept away a confused and worthless Blue Dog, Betsy Markey, her Democratic base refusing to come out to vote for her after she ignored them and voted with the Republicans over and over again. A Tancredo-disciple, Gardner is probably best known in his state as an anti-immigrant fanatic and a virulent racist and bigot. He was reelected last November 59-37%. Now there is a movement in 8 of the counties in his district trying to secede from Col... more »

Common Resistance to Common Core

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 5 hours ago
Common Resistance to Common Core Jim Horn The New York Times has an opinion piece today that suggests that opposition to Common Core State [sic] Standards is mostly from the Far Right. That’s simply wrong. Long before the Tea Party noticed that opposition to CCSS could be another cudgel to use on Team Obama, and […]

A map of Stevie Crime . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
THE ELECTION FRAUD ATLAS of Canada: a site that proclaims itself to be A comprehensive public source for materials pertaining to the electoral fraud that dominated the 2011 Federal Election, created through crowdsourced funds and data. Each phone icon represents a riding-specific report of fraud, pulled from publicly available court documents, blog posts or newspaper articles, signifying

Louisiana Sinkhole updates - June 9 , 2013 .... Flyover Number 8 - Wings of Care , photos and video for Lake Fubar since berm collapse .... Oxy 3 floor collapse hits 61 feet in just the past two weeks !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://onwingsofcare.org/index.php/protection-a-preservation/humanitarian/404-20130608-bayou-corne-flyover8.html 20130608-Bayou Corne Flyover #8 *2013 June 08, Saturday Bayou Corne Sinkhole, Louisiana *Weaving our way through clouds and some feisty winds, we made a quick trip over to the Bayou Corne sinkhole again today. We were eager to see it, since learning a few days ago that the berm (built since the sinkhole started expanding significantly last August) on the west and south side of the sinkhole had collapsed. Indeed, as our video and photos from today attest, whatever false s... more »

Obama orders by way of a formerly secret directive - a target list for overseas cyber attacks - And we're complaining about China , Russia and Iran ? Additional follow ups on the Prism Program and who's zooming who ?

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas ( Who is dishing the goods to Glenn ? ) Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks *Exclusive:* Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to 'advance US objectives around the world' • Read the secret presidential directive here - Share****1882 - Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill - guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 15.06 EDT - Jump to comments (438) [image: A cyber-security centre in the US] Obama's move to establish a cyber warfare doctrine will ... more »

Mayhem reigns supreme - Libya , Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iraq updates for June 9 , 2013.....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Libya news..... http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/09/308059/libya-army-chief-of-staff-resigns/ Libya army chief of staff resigns after violent clashes [image: Armed militias conduct a search operation in an area of Benghazi. (file photo)] [image: Armed militias conduct a search operation in an area of Benghazi. (file photo)][image: Libyan army chief Yussef al-Mangush (file photo)] Armed militias conduct a search operation in an area of Benghazi. (file photo) Sun Jun 9, 2013 6:9PM GMT 1 1 1 Libyan army chief of staff Youssef al-Mangoush has tendered his resignation after deadl... more »

Syria Government forces after victory over the rebel soldiers at Qusayr , Qunaytirah and Daba'a launch operation in the Syria heartland - Aleppo ..... Meanwhile , alleged Al Qaeda Chief al- Zawaahir allegedly annuls Syrian - Iraqi jihad merger - desperation reigning supreme ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/09/307972/syrian-army-launches-aleppo-operation/ After Qusayr victory, Syrian army launches Aleppo operation [image: Syrian troops are seen in the western town of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border on June 5, 2013.] Syrian troops are seen in the western town of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border on June 5, 2013. Sun Jun 9, 2013 10:13AM GMT 23 83 106 The Syrian army has clinched victories against foreign-sponsored militants in recent days, liberating the strategic towns of Qusayr, Qunaytirah and Daba’a in the west. Related Interviews: - 'Qusayr vi... more »

Where Now For Music?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 6 hours ago
When we all look into the same house through different windows it should not be a surprise that we may all see different things. It’s the same house just different perspectives. Pricewaterhouse Coopers have just issued a report predicting a 1% annual growth for the US-based music industry through to 2017. That may put a smile back on the music executives, who are ready to slit their wrist and could only see terminal decline. It may disappoint those optimists who believe that music has turned the corner and would have expected a significant upturn. However, for many it confirms th... more »

That apartheid state of Israel again

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
Andreas Fagerbakke (@afagerbakke) tweeted at 4:28 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2013: Share the truth! http://t.co/noRFgpLY3q (https://twitter.com/afagerbakke/status/343751411718307840)

现代日蒸汽机视频

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago
现代日蒸汽机视频 *一个现代天蒸气引擎* *它产生的蒸汽,几乎瞬间无明火,并采取从冷启动30秒即可达到最大功率。他们的第三架原型机,EZEE03,是三缸单位的意思,以适应在斯柯达法比亚汽车被描述为具有EZEE03 “二冲程”(即单作用)发动机为1000毫升(61立方米)的位移,产生高达220马力(164千瓦)(500 N·m或369英尺·磅)。说是废气排放远远低于SULEV标准。它有一个“无油”的发动机,陶瓷汽缸衬里,用蒸汽代替油作为润滑剂。* 我们发现引擎,我们希望你能看到在角落里的小手机单位的集团公司出售的实际steamcell的图片...这是摆在那里给我们一个规模多么小的现代蒸汽机是。 Seed Newsvine

The New Ottawa CFL Team Maybe Should Be Named The 'Ottawa Scandals' Instead Of the 'RedBlacks' ....

leftdog at Buckdog - 6 hours ago
[image: Progressive Bloggers]* * *Considering what's been going on lately in the nation's capital with the 'Senate Scandal' and various other Conservative Party of Canada misdeeds ... perhaps there is a more fitting name for the new Ottawa CFL franchise .... * *"The worst-kept secret in Canadian football doesn't need to be kept any more, as the Ottawa expansion franchise set to start play in 2014officially announced that they'd chosen "RedBlacks" (and "Rouge et Noir" in French) as their name at an unveiling ceremony Saturday. RedBlacks had been the leading candidate for the new te... more »

Six Turkish policemen have committed suicide during the ongoing Gezi protests ( a response to the excessive use of force they may have observed or committed against their own people ? ) While PM Erdogan continues to spew denial spin that the protests represent widespread dicontent with his authoritarian dictates , note the fact that protests continue for the tenth day !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/09/308004/turkish-pm-slams-opponents-as-looters/ *Gezi Park protesters don’t represent all the people: Turkish PM at second airport rally ANKARA Send to friend » Share on linkedin [image: Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wait at Esenboğa Airport for his arrival in Ankara on June 9. AFP photo] Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wait at Esenboğa Airport for his arrival in Ankara on June 9. AFP photo Patience has its limits, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in a defiant speech duri... more »

Germany's Constitutional Court set to hold two days of Hearings on the legality of the European Stability Mechanism and whether the ECB 's Outright Monetary Transaction scheme constitutes ultra vires actions ....Will the Verfassungsgericht issue a declaratory ultimatum and thereby force the Bundesbank from taking part in the OMT scheme of the ECB ? While Hearings are this week , no decision is expected until after German Elections in September ...Ahead of these Hearings , the ECB has engages in spin directed at both the Court and the Markets - unfortunately the messages are in contradiction of each other ! As the IMF has conceded it blow it with Greece , isn't it time the EU and ECB did the same ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-09/ecbs-unlimited-open-ended-bond-purchase-program-gets-%E2%82%AC524-billion-limit The ECB's "Unlimited, Open-Ended" Bond Purchase Program Gets A €524 Billion Limit [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/09/2013 10:25 -0400 - Bond - Carry Trade - European Central Bank - Japan - Monetization - Reuters - Term Sheet One year ago, the ECB faced with an imminent collapse of the house of peripheral cards literally made up a bazooka: one so big and loud the market had no choice but to assume D... more »

SPIES IN POLITICS; MURDERS; BRAINWASHING

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*Margot MacDonald* Margo MacDonald is a former deputy leader of the Scottish National Party. *She says that there are MI5 agents operating inside the Scottish National Party.* *MI5 spies told : stay out of referendum* *Spy and politician, George H W Bush* Our own guess is that a very large number of members of parliament, in the UK, USA and elsewhere, are assets of the CIA, Mossad, MI6 etc. aangirfan: *OBAMA* / aangirfan: *TONY BLAIR* / Angela *Merkel* Margo MacDonald has written to the boss of MI5, Andrew Parker. Margot MacDonald has asked for an assurance that MI5 spies will n... more »

On the Art of Ignorance and Other Stories

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
In Kurt Vonnegut‘s Cat’s Cradle, The Book of Bokonon appears to be prescient about David Coleman, Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, or Arne Duncan: “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are […]

Democracy and Efficiency

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours ago
Corruption is always rooted in human character. But these days -- at least in Canada -- Robert Sibley suggests that it might also have something to do with the cult of efficiency: Indeed, our culture of expediency is in some ways the consequence of a technologically-minded attitude that regards efficiency and effectiveness as the central purpose and goal of governance. The essence of technology, as the philosophers teach, is efficiency. The whole point of technology is to close as best as possible the gap between means and ends. The fondness of Trudeau and his successors for “cent... more »

And now for a lighter moment: Greater Taichung Named Intelligent Community of 2013

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours ago
*Digging for the fuel of Taiwan's domestic political economy: gravel.* After a long day of riding in the hills of eastern Miaoli -- the bike gods gave us lovely weekend weather this week -- I cracked open the Taipei Times to find this tale: Greater Taichung Named Intelligent Community of 2013. As a longtime Taichung resident, at first I thought someone had spiked my wine with something stronger, but then gradually I realized I wasn't hallucinating. The article said... It said Taichung, boasting a sound infrastructure, represented a good combination of technology and cultural develo... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago
구럼비에서 춤추다 from cho sung bong on Vimeo.

Alex of Zion Plays a Blinder at the BBC

NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 9 hours ago
. A wretched mornings viewing this Sunday on BBC1. On 'The Daily Politics' there was, for the first time, an item on the Bilderberger Conference, held this year at 'The Grove' in Watford, UK. There were large crowds of protesters outside, if somewhat distant from, the hotel itself. BBC coverage managed to make it look like a handful of fruitcakes carrying ventriloquist's dummies, wearing clown suits and carrying deranged-looking ( to the disinterested observer) placards about paedophilia and the like. Cut to the studio where Andrew Neil interviewed David Aaronovitch and (Blimey ... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*Gusman’s budget under scrutiny at OPP consent decree hearing ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens* *Gulf birds scour vanishing land spits for rearing young ~Amy Wold, The Advocate* ~A Roseate Spoonbill lifts off from Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle Sunday, May 26, 2013. Advocate staff photo by John McCusker. *White Castle and Edgard-Reserve ferries close* *Louisiana levee plan's effects on Mississippi mostly unknown, state urges modeling, forecast data on possible flooding ~Sun Herald* *Twenty years after the Great Flood, we dread the next deluge ~Dave Helling, Kansas City Star* *NOLA... more »

In 1848, Workers Could Barely Feed Their Families And There Was No Hope For Change

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
No one had Twitter in 1848, the first Spring of Nations. That was probably lucky for the plutocrats and kings of the day, who crushed the pan-continental revolutionaries, barely breaking a sweat. Erdogan is having a tougher time in Turkey these days-- and he's blaming Twitter. (They used to always blame "the Jews" for these things.) In 1848 there were almost three separate revolutions going on (in several dozen countries) simultaneously-- students and some in the middle class who wanted democracy, nationalists who wanted their own countries, and workers and peasants who wanted a ... more »

RIP Argeo Paul Cellucci

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 9 hours ago
I knew Paul Cellucci. He was the acting Governor at the time back in the late 90's when I pumped gas at a service station which was owned by a guy who got his start working for Cellucci's father Junior, the longtime Hudson Chamber of Commerce president, who'd founded Washington Street Motors. If you spoke to Cellucci, you immediately were faced with this stultifying sense of dullness of personality, with an indistinct voice that, like Gerald Ford, would and could not be easily emulated by political impressionists. And yet, despite being uncharismatic even as far as Republicans... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Comet moth, also known as Moon moth from Madagascar. [photographer unknown]

Forbidden Photos: Secret Shots of Hitler's Bunker - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
Inside Hitler's bunker... Fascinating ' Starting in 1987, Robert Conrad risked his freedom to secretly photograph Adolf Hitler's decaying bunker in what was then East Berlin. Disguised as a construction worker, he snuck inside some 30 times, and has now finally revealed his work. Robert Conrad knew things could get uncomfortable. There were the guards, the explosions, the dark tunnels. He could easily stumble across a detonation in progress, run into a policeman or even land himself in jail.' More here http://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-903750.html#spRedirectedFrom=www... more »

Fracking The Government-USA

“When you can no longer frack the media and you can no longer frack the community, what the gas industry is trying to do is go in there and frack the government,” Fox said. “And they’re doing a really good job of it. And people have to be outraged by this and people have to go in and take back our democracy because right now, it’s wholly under the thumb of oil and gas. And this sounds like I’m saying things that are a little bit outrageous, but it’s not.” Josh Fox

Consumers Discover Self-Publishing

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 11 hours ago
All Media sectors are having to adapt to changing and often disruptive markets. The once predictable economies of scale and scope that kept order are being challenged by the lack economic rules, where anyone and everyone can reach for their 15 minutes of fame. Creators are becoming increasingly independent of the big studio and production model and consumers are increasingly accepting rough cuts alongside the traditional polished diamonds. These changes are feeding each other. We find ourselves moving from the polished and expensive MTV video to the amateur and cheap YouTube self... more »

Barack Obama without a teleprompter

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
Imagine George W. Bush had been this incoherent at a press conference, how much coverage would the BBC have given to reporting such an incident? Imagine the mockery on Have I Got News For You and The News Quiz. But as it's the great Obamamessiah himself, there will be no reporting on the BBC, nothing. The BBC's bias disgusts me. It's not like this is a one-off, I've posted similar videos of Barack Obama floundering when without his teleprompter before but the BBC just don't care; they've an agenda to push, a narrative to spread, Democrats to get elected. Here's some previou... more »

British Muslims Laughing At The Murder Of Lee Rigby

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
http://i.mobypicture.com/user/XxPLWxX/view/15429554 Words all but fail me...

Barack Obama - 'The Great Pretender'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago

End the unjustified Jewish occupation of Muslim land...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
Thanks to this on Twitter for the spot: Unrepentant Jacobin (@jacobinism) tweeted at 4:26 PM on Sat, Jun 08, 2013: Is it? Then Jews must really suck at expansionist aggression Imperialism: @MotsDeColere @markylott http://t.co/nRUoH8vp0k (https://twitter.com/jacobinism/status/343388689273090048)

What the Labour/BBC alliance don't tell you

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
'Much highlighted by the BBC and others last week was the centrepiece of what Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, called his "tough" plans to reduce our public-spending deficit: his promise to scrap the £200 winter-fuel allowance to higher tax-rate pensioners. This, he proudly claimed, would save £100 million a year. What was not explained – by him or the BBC – was that, since our borrowing is running at £120 billion a year, this saving would only cover seven hours of the year. That leaves a mere 8,753 hours in the year for which Mr Balls has to come up with another "tough" plan.' F... more »

MPs want to turn your lights off. A shame no one told you - Telegraph

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
' By 2020, it said, Britain must reduce its electricity use by "103 terawatt hours", rising by 2030 to "154 terawatt hours". This could have been understood only by someone aware that we currently use each year some 378 "terawatt hours". So what was being proposed was that this must be cut down in six years by 27 per cent – more than a quarter – rising 10 years later to a cut of more than 40 per cent, or two fifths.' The climate change obsession that will destroy our economy and lives, more here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10107478/MPs-want-to-turn-your-ligh... more »

REAPER: Earth is a prison - everything is encoded.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 14 hours ago
'super soldier' RACHEL (not her real name) talks about the Black Goo and Human Abduction that will be the core concept of the third of my free planet novels REAPER. I was like, "What?" she's seen that 'fictional world' already? I kinda like her assertion that the Archons can only inhabit a 'highly acidic' body... it's all good honest living testimony, whichever Federal Mental Authority claims her as one of their missing patients. *FURTHER READING: *the 2012 Free Planet post X-Files, Prometheus, Avatar, The Thing - black oil, Marconi, blue aliens and the Falklands War

David Icke's SPEECH TO THE MULTITUDE at UK Bilderberg 2013 meeting

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 14 hours ago
Divide and Rule. Problem, reaction, solution. Slavery via Debt-based FOR-PROFIT game. Yes, it's all a GAME, and it's time for the FREE PLANET game to begin. "Free Planet!" *AFTERNOON UPDATE:* BBC's Sunday Politics does the whole cynical, "Ooh, the Bilderberg is all spooky and scary!" and even have on Ed Balls saying "I've attended," and Ken Clarke saying "I'm a steering committee member," and THEN they let Alex Jones rant and rave like a total madman. Great televisional distraction from THE DEEDS OF THE BILDERBERG GROUP. FIRST BALLS "ANNUNAKI IS VERY OLD": THEN BALLS "I IS NO... more »

Muslim hate monitor to lose backing - Telegraph

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
'Mr Mughal was giving data on attacks to DCLG which wasn't stacking up when it was cross-referenced with other reports by Acpo [the Association of Chief Police Officers]," said one source closely involved in counter-extremism.' More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/journalists/andrew-gilligan/10108098/Muslim-hate-monitor-to-lose-backing.html

THE SCIENCE DELUSION - RUPERT SHELDRAKE

Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago
*Via: hirundine* * *Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness Via *hirundine*

My Son is VERY Talented

Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 15 hours ago
I might go so far as to say this talent is unique. Worldwide.

POST UNAVAILABLE; Santa Monica; Paris Jackson...

Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago
*Ben Fellows*SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 Post Unavailable *In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed this post. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.* * * ** *Scotland's stand over CIA torture flights must be seen through* *Santa Monica Shooting: Another False Fla**g?* *America's 50 worst charities rake in nearly $1 billion for corporate fundraisers* *Paris Jackson's Illuminati Tweets: Is The Illuminati Trying To 'Silence her?* *The CIA Man Behind The Turkish Throne* *CHILDHOOD NEGLECT LEADS TO IMPAIRED CLOSE-RELATIONSHIP CAPA... more »

Reflections on the One Voice Rally in Albany

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 17 hours ago
If you’ve ever wondered where you can find the biggest collection of superheroes, find a place where there are lots and lots of public school teachers. Find a place that looks like Albany’s Empire State Plaza on June 8, 2013. This is the day when almost 20,000 educators, parents, and citizens showed up to tell […]

Bohr model: 100 years ago

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours ago
One hundred years ago, in July 1913, when the author was 28 years old, *Philosophical Magazine* received Niels Bohr's manuscript on his model of the atom. Happy birthday. Both 25-page papers are available in English here: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules I On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules II Bohr's model was wrong in details – and he should have been able to see it – but the papers clarified many aspects of nuclear and atomic physics. Bohr referred to Rutherford, Thomson, and others. But only after Bohr's paper, nuclear physics started to be carefully distinguishe... more »

Mysticism & Religion - Ralph M. Lewis

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
*Wikipedia:* Ralph Maxwell Lewis (February 14, 1904 - January 12, 1987), the son of Harvey Spencer Lewis, was the Imperator of Rosicrucian organisation Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) from 1939 to 1987. In Fédération Universelle des Ordres et Sociétés Initiatiques, FUDOSI, he was known with the nomen mysticum Sar Validivar. He received his initiation in Martinism during the second convention of FUDOSI in September 1936. He is the author of a number of books regarding mysticism, most of them are available from the AMORC. Ralph Maxwell Lewis was born in New York City ... more »

TV Watch: Please, please, don't watch "Million Dollar Listing" on account of anything I'm about to say

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
*MDL's Boys of NY: "I Feel Pretty" Ryan, "I Hate Schnitzel" Fredrik, and "My Hair! My Hair!" Luis* *by Ken* I let slip last week that I have been known to watch Bravo's *Million Dollar Listing*. I'm not proud of this. Still, maybe it's something we ought to talk about. It started with the original version of *MDL*, which is to say the version that's now called *Million Dollar Listing L.A.* or something like that, now that there's a *Million Dollar Listing New York*. But, significantly, my habit didn't start at the start of *MDL*. From the Wikipedia entry, I see it took the produce... more »

Diary of Ascension

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago

Get the Message Clear re: #commoncore #highstakestesting

peggyrobertson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 19 hours ago
The common core and high stakes testing must both go down. It cannot be one or the other. Very concerned that the message I hear today is asking for more time to implement the core, more time to make better tests, more time for teachers to get accustomed to the common core. This is not […]

Europe Is Unleashing Its Bloodthirsty Jihadists On Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
European right-wingers have been screaming ever since the false flag 9/11 attacks that Muslims would invade Europe and impose Sharia, behead people, and generally make life hell for everyone. But the reverse is happening. Brainwashed "Muslims" in European countries are invading Syria to impose Sharia, behead people, and generally make life hell for everyone except their own kind. Ironic, isn't it? There have hardly been any terrorists coming over from Muslim countries to the West to wreak havoc, but Europe can't control its small pool of bloodthirsty Jihadists. It is unleashing the... more »

Drones Are Dehumanizing

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
*You don't blame the brainwashed operators; you blame the dishonest leaders who give the orders.* Source: NBC - *"Former drone operator says he's haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths." *Excerpt: A former Air Force drone operator who says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people remembers watching one of the first victims bleed to death. Brandon Bryant says he was sitting in a chair at a Nevada Air Force base operating the camera when his team fired two missiles from their drone at three men walking down a road halfway around the world in Afghanist... more »

You know who's really reading your email?

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours ago
Hackers and thieves. Finding the assumption that the government is really reading all our email somewhat amusing. Atrios says there's 25K or maybe up to 50K NSA employees. He's wondering what they do. Willing to guess lots of them are inventing new algorithms to extrapolate patterns from metadata. Lots more on the legal team figuring how to get warrants based on the data no one is allowed to talk about. Not saying that's not a problem but I doubt they have thousands of people reading millions of emails about your upcoming big event or what your kids are doing or trash talking your mu... more »

8 Fun Things on Our Summer Bucket List + Link Up Your Projects

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours ago
*Have you entered the Summer Reading Giveaway or the Giveaway for a Massage Gift Card?* Our summer has started off with a bang, including trips to the zoo and the splash pad. There is so much we want to do before snow descends upon us once again. I have been pinning ideas like crazy, make sure we don't miss anything. Here are some of the things on our Summer Bucket List. Make Orange Boats Jello Snacks. Tie Dye with Sharpie Markers from The Art Girl. A Ball Maze from Happy Wanderer. Make this Kiddie Car Wash from Mom Endeavors. Grow a bean in a paper towel. ... more »

Is The Republican Party Really Committing Suicide?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
Calhounism & the Republican Party The GOP is barely a national party any longer anyway and would be better described as a creepy and reactionary revanchist movement in the former slave-holding states with support in backward, socially-primitive Mormon parts of the country. Friday Jamelle Bouie posted about the revival of Calhounism as a hallmark of the modern Republican Party. South Carolina right-winger, John C. Calhoun, an anti-American slave fanatic, helped ignite the Civil War with his attempts to insist that states could nullify any federal laws they didn't agree with. His doctr... more »

Alex Jones Speaks to thousands at Bilderberg 2013

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
Alex Jones Speaks to thousands at Bilderberg 2013. Source: We Are Change.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago
*Terrilyn Monette's Car Found in Bayou St. John ~NOLA DEFENDER*

Greece updates - June 8 , 2013 - PM Samaras faces tough talk with both Troika and his Coalition.....Labor Ministry discloses Greek pension data ......Greek GDP drops to Year 2000 levels .....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
Greece updates - June 8 , 2013..... First my last post on Greece ..... http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/06/greece-slides-into-fourth-world-zero.html Items of the day....... http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_08/06/2013_503433 *PM faces tough talks on two fronts as troika returns* Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces tough negotiations on two fronts this week as troika mission chiefs return to Athens on Tuesday for a new audit as his coalition partners press for changes within the shaky administration. Ahead of Tuesday's scheduled arrival of the tr... more »

UK: UKIP's Farage says UN and Hague hungry for war in Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
UK: UKIP's Farage says UN and Hague hungry for war in Syria. Source: RuptlyTV.

Why photojournalists are important

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours ago
Also historians. Abraham Lincoln in the White House, 1864, upon having won his second nomination for POTUS. [via hudsonette]

Today is a great day to...

Sandra Guzman at Sandra Guzman - 22 hours ago
...to someone you love, used to love, want to love, the planet or fill in your blank... Adventurous: I added something new to my routine yesterday and got a little adventurous. I walked into a gallery near my home and got a personal tour of a recently opened show "Critical Condition," now showing at the Jim Kempner Gallery. The image is Robert Attanasio's piece, "Be Thoughtful." He curated the show which includes three other artists, gilf!, Bob Seng, and Adam Taye. This one particular piece is called, "Be Thoughtful" and its formerly a Gatorade ad that originally had the word "Be... more »

Israel threatened to attack Syrian Forces during clashes at Queneitra

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 23 hours ago
This information is largely making the rounds in the Israeli media. *Haaretz * &*Ynet * Though it can be found at the Hindu, also. *During the clashes at Quneitra crossing Israel threatened to attack Syrian Forces.* Not a surprise in the least. Israel would, of course, be fulfilling it's role as protector, transporter and enabler to NATO's armed terrorist forces in Syria. A role they have embraced, wholeheartedly for quite some time now. *For what it is worth:* * **If Israel doesn't want Syrian Army present in the area. Israel should stop aiding and abetting the terrorizing and desta... more »

Boundless Informant - the latest NSA formerly secret tool to track global surveillance data . With almost daily revelations of secret or formerly secret spying tools , no wonder talk of criminal probes has started , as well as the expected spin from the spymasters !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in-data-from-50-companies Analysts at the National Security Agency can now secretly access real-time user data provided by as many as 50 American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers, two government officials familiar with the arrangements said. Several of the companies have provided records continuously since 2006, while others have given the agency sporadic access, these officials said. These officials disclosed the number of participating companies in order to provide context for a s... more »

Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan demands an immediate end to protests ...... European Parliament and US Senator McCain offer helpful suggestions to Turkey regarding Democracy ....

Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/turkish-prime-minister-recep-erdogan-demands-protests-end-immediately-2013-6 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan Demands Protests Unrest End Immediately — Protestors Ignore Him Humeyra Pamuk and Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters | Jun. 7, 2013, 6:28 AM | 82 | - - in<span id="li_ui_li_gen_1370606164757_0-title-text" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; ba

"The Last Of The Human Freedoms..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"The experiences of camp life show that a man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress. We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from ... more »

"The Middle Class Faces Extinction— So Does the American Dream"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"The Middle Class Faces Extinction-* * So Does the American Dream"* By Stewart Lansley "Inequality is now one of the biggest political and economic challenges facing the United States. Not that long ago, the gap between rich and poor barely registered on the political Richter scale. Now the growing income divide, an issue that dominated the presidential election debate, has turned into one of the hottest topics of the age. Postwar American history divides into two halves. For the first three decades, those on middle and low incomes did well out of rising prosperity and ine... more »

"Some Things Never Change"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

"A Parliament Of Whores..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.” - P. J. O'Rourke

“Government Secrecy and the Nation's Security”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* “Government Secrecy and the Nation's Security”* by Geoffrey R. Stone “In recent weeks, a series of disclosures has raised important issues about how the Obama administration deals with the inherent tension between government secrecy and government accountability. Revelations about the government's secret investigation of the phone records of the Associated Press and of Fox News reporter James Rosen, its secret access to private phone records held by Verizon, and its secret PRISM initiative that gives the government access to the records of international Internet providers all ... more »

Anonymous Releases NSA Docs Related to Global Spy Network

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Published on Friday, June 7, 2013 by Common Dreams Anonymous Releases NSA Docs Related to Global Spy Network - Common Dreams staff Amid the explosive back-to-back revelations made by the Guardian and Washington Post regarding a pair of National Security Agency surveillence programs this week, the hacktivist group Anonymous on

“DHS insider: It’s About To Get Very Ugly”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“DHS insider: It’s About To Get Very Ugly”* By Doug Hagmann *Note:* Normally I wouldn't post something like this since it can't be verified or sourced beyond the writer. In these times, with what we already know, it's posted as is for your own consideration. - CP Washington, D.C.— “Something quite unexpected happened just hours ago, in the dark of night, during a two-day layover in Washington, DC. My son and I are scheduled to take part in a seminar outside of Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend, so we combined our travels to include a side-trip to DC for a business ... more »

Labour and Rebuilding Social Security

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Look, I get it. No one needs to tell me that the antipathy towards the unemployed, the disabled, and anyone else forced to subsist on social security payments has been carefully but repeatedly orchestrated for over 30 years. Labour have historically not just gone along with the collective hounding of benefit recipients; during its time in government the party led from the front. We also know the demonisation that has poured uninterrupted from our establishment like a waterfall of filth from a stinking effluent pipe have consistently talked up recipients as scroungers who shamelessly... more »

Many People Think Georgia Will Elect A Democratic Senator Long Before Texas Does

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Future Senator Michelle Nunn and ex-Pres. George H.W. Bush Zac McCrary and Brian Stryker from the Blue Dog polling firm, Anzalone Research, see Georgia turning into a purple state as soon as 2010. Demographics really are destiny, they assert. Florida, Virginia, Nevada, and Colorado have trended Democrat and now Texas is moving in that direction. Texas is no doubt becoming more Democratic by the day, and groups like Battleground Texas are already hard at work smartly building the infrastructure to help make Texas competitive. However, demographic and election data indicate the same ... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Follow the Money'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Follow the MoneyMohawk Nation News www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. JUNE 8, 2013. More than 370,000 international corporations of the bloodline bankers and 31 off-shore banks are registered in Panama. Dirty or stolen money, like the ever-growing Indian Trust Fund, can be deposited, cleaned and redistributed from here. Close confidante of Canadian Prime Minister Harper, Dr. Arthur

The CIA Man Behind The Turkish Throne

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*Many people believe that Fethullah Gülen, an influential Muslim scholar based in **Pennsylvania and leader of the transnational Gülen movement, is working for the CIA's interests in Turkey and Central Asia. * There are *rumours* that Gülen wants Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan out of power. To learn more about him and his influence over Turkey, read the articles below. Here is an excerpt from the article, *"Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says,"* by Jeff Stein (Washington Post, January 2011): A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that... more »

SOLVING THE PROBLEM

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*We should not make the mistake of thinking that we can solve the world's problems by getting rid of the neocons, or the Bilderburgers, or any other such group.* Before the Zionist neoconservatives, we had Cesar Borgia. *Cesar Borgia* Cardinal Cesar Borgia was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Cesar Borgia ordered Ramiro d'Orco to subdue a certain province, with great cruelty. Borgia then had Ramiro d'Orco executed, with extreme cruelty. (Laurent Guyénot "The machiavelian neoconservatives"*)* *Leo Strauss.* The neoconservatives are followers of Leo Stauss, who was a f... more »

Haruki Murakami's new novel is selling ONE MILLION COPIES PER WEEK in Japan since its launch last month

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 1 day ago
FOLLOWING CONTENT (C) NEW STATESMAN 2013 *The famously taciturn novelist Haruki Murakami has made his first appearance in Japan since 1995. Murakami’s new novel – Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi (the English reads Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage, though this title may change) – has been selling over a million copies each week since the Japanese edition went on sale last month, according to the Associated Press. * *The new book's plot - closely guarded until publication - focuses on Tsukuru Tazaki: a 36-year-old railway station a... more »

The Murder Machine

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
And, no, it isn't the GOP's new nickname for ObamaCare but the title for my sequel to *Tatterdemalion*. I don't feel like blogging about politics these days because with the way I feel about Obama and PRISM these days, if I write about either I'll no doubt get a visit from a lot of Secret Service agents. So this is all I'm going to put up. Deal. There will be canned funnies going up tomorrow morning. The Murder Machine by Robert Crawford

Schultz (WI-ALEC) Bears Blame for WI GOP Extremism

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
An article on HuffPo - just set me off this afternoon. *Dale Schultz, GOP Wisconsin State Senator, Calls Own Party 'Way Too Extreme'* The Huffington Post | By Danielle Schlanger Posted: 06/07/2013 5:36 pm EDT | Updated: 06/08/2013 11:12 am EDT Share on Google+ Dale Schultz A Republican state senator in Wisconsin slammed his own party as “extreme” and compared its decision-making to that of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent radio interview. Speaking on the "Joy Cardin Show" on Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday, state Sen. Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) criticized ... more »

Underreported Struggles: Tahoe Resources security chief ordered assassination of Indigenous activists

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Underreported Struggles #74 May 2013 By John Ahni Schertow • Jun 3, 2013   Photo by hobgadlng on flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) In this month’s Underreported Struggles: a shocking report on Genocide in Brazil reappears after being ‘lost’ 40 years ago; Tahoe Resources security chief is ‘caught on tape’ ordering the assassination of Indigenous activists; The Gwich’in Nation speaks out against

More or less

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
I do like BBC Radio 4's *More or less*, presented by the *Financial Times *writer Tim Harford. This week's edition touched on the the widely-debated hospital Accident and Emergency statistics and began with a clip from a BBC news bulletin which said that waiting times in A&E have reached a nine-year high. Tim said that most of the reporting he'd heard looked "perfectly reasonable"; however, he clarified what is meant by the term "waiting time", which doesn't mean (as you might expect) the amount of time it takes for a medical professional to see you. No, "The clock starts when y... more »

ACTION ITEM: Bernie Sanders Poll On Surveillance

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
The only senator that is representing the people – Bernie Sanders – has a poll on his webpage that you might want to participate in – why? cause he will actually do something with the results. Here are the four questions on the poll: Do you favor or oppose the National Security Agency's program to monitor online communications in order to protect the nation from terrorist threats? Is it appropriate for the federal government to collect millions of phone records from American citizens, if doing so could potentially disrupt a terror plot? Do you think the president should or should... more »

A PRIMER ON GLOBAL LISTENING

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
*US NSA spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, England* By Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs) When the UK Guardian published direct orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to Verizon on June 5, many readers did not have the slightest idea what they were looking at. The methodology used by the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct domestic surveillance is not new - what was new in the story was the direct proof that presidents from Reagan to Obama have consistently lied about what the NSA does, domestically and internationally. Authors ... more »

The Misuse of History To Morally Justify Military Intervention

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*Susan Rice and Samantha Power, appointed by President Obama to top posts in the U.S. government, believe the U.S. should intervene everywhere except the one place where U.S. military intervention would help the most, Israel/Palestine. * Excerpts from Paul Pillar's article, *"Never Say Never Again"* (The National Interest, June 6, 2013): "A contrast to such careful lesson-drawing is the never-again, I'll-go-down-in-flames way of reacting to a past episode. If we are to take Rice and Power at their word, this approach is not a straw man. And it is a really bad way to apply histo... more »

Random Saturday

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Comet vs. Sun. Letting go of Mandela (via). Putting the DoD civilian workforce in perspective. Chinese grand strategy. Music, social movements, the body, and emotions. Some NSA stuff: Drezner, Levinson-Waldman, Lemieux. And: How economists aren’t physicians. Adversity and affinity in MMORPGs.

What Did We Expect?

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
June 8, 2013 The big kerfuffle this week across the nation, of course, has been the discovery of just how far the Empire’s collecting of information on its own citizens through the NSA has gone in the name of fighting … Continue reading →

NSA collects all e-mails, as United Nations fails humanity

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
NSA collects all e-mails, as United Nations fails humanity By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com As the United Nations fails humanity, it is disturbing to learn of the handful of non-profits who are enriching themselves, and controlling the agenda at the UN, using the real life struggles and sufferings of Indigenous Peoples who actually live on their lands and do

Shit Jobs Numbers Froth Unemployment Rate Up to 7.6, ECB Perfecting Situation-Worsening Approach, Facebook Not Really Secure for Insider Trading Tips (Poop on Chinese Smithfield Foods Buy), and No Help Like Help For Those Who Don't Need Help

Need some further statistics indicating that the economy (not to mention all the other decades-old devastating problems) is not slated to improve until waaaay after our "change" President's moment? (But hey, 30 million more people will get to pay for bad health insurance, so there is that . . . .) The third paragraph in the first item below is almost amusing enough to make us grab our sides

poor min

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
hiroshima documentary

Brown bear waves

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

Glenn Beck tells you why you should be concerned about the government spying on its citizens...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*say what you will about Glenn, 99% of the time he's dead right.* He also makes it way easy to embed his videos - and we thank him. Your browser does not support iframes.

Democratic Party Immigration Hypocrisy

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
The Democratic Party doesn't have much going for it... except that the alternative is the Republican Party. Last November I couldn't-- for the first time since turning 18-- pull the lever for the Democrat running for president (nor for my incumbent [Blue Dog/New Dem] Democratic congressman)... but I already knew a Republican wouldn't beat either. It's more than me not just wanting to be forced to pick between the lesser of two evils though. I can no longer deny that the Democratic Party serves interests, primarily on Wall Street and in the Military Industrial Complex, that are an... more »

Toshiba's Westinghouse claims to be the Czech nuclear frontrunner

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
While the Czech media discuss politicians' opinions on whether we need an expansion of the Temelín nuclear power plant at all – because of the expected drop in coal and gas prices (due to shale oil) – the Japanese investigative journalists claim that they already know that we need it and the Japanese industrial group is likely to win. *Shinzo Abe, center-right Japanese PM* The leading Czech power utility, ČEZ, will decide whether Temelín will be expanded and who will get the $10 billion contract in Fall 2013. The French state-owned Areva was eliminated in a previous round because ... more »

Watering my garden...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*then off to work*
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