Saturday, July 20, 2013

20 July - Blogs I'm Following

10:55am MDST

Trouble Brewing.

Paul Coker at News Spike - 4 minutes ago

Krugman Warns of China's Unstable Economy. Will Ottawa Listen?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 minutes ago
Maybe Steve Harper picked a bad moment to bind Canada's economic future to China's. The way Paul Krugman sees it, China has a structural time bombwithin its economy and it's ready to blow: *China ...seems to invest only to expand its future ability to invest even more. America, admittedly on the high side, devotes 70 percent of its gross domestic product to consumption; for China, the number is only half that high, while almost half of G.D.P. is invested. * *How is that even possible? What keeps consumption so low, and how have the Chinese been able to invest so much without (unti... more »

Angry bear

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 27 minutes ago

Legendary White House Correspondent, Helen Thomas, Dead at 92

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 54 minutes ago
She covered every administration from Kennedy to Obama and ruffled a few feathers along the way. *Helen Thomas, whose bottomless curiosity and unquenchable drive made her a prominent White House reporter at a time when men dominated the profession, died Saturday at her apartment in Washington. She was 92. * *Her blunt questions and sharp tone made her a familiar personality not only in the sometimes parochial universe inside the Beltway but also to nationwide television audiences. * *Presidents grew to respect, even to like, Ms. Thomas for her forthrightness and energy, which sus... more »

The End of Growth

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
It's not the custom of people my age to go back and re-educate themselves on economics and I know why - ugh! I thought I understood economics from three or four Econ courses I did in undergrad (psst, I did really, really well on them too). Here's the thing. In universities around the developed world they're still teaching the same orthodoxy they taught me - and it's wrong. We didn't see it in my student days but you have to work hard *not* to see the contradictions, omissions and outright fallacies in classical economics in the context of today's reality. Traditional econ... more »

Vindication: A Requirement, Not an Option

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour ago
*I know that Eric Holder is reviewing what happened down there, but* *I think it's* *important for people to have some clear expectations here. Traditionally, these are issues of state and local government, the criminal code. And law enforcement is traditionally done at the state and local levels, not at the federal levels. That doesn't mean, though, that as a nation we can't do some things that I think would be productive. So let me just give a couple of specifics that I'm still bouncing around with my staff, so we're not rolling out some five-point plan, but some areas where I t... more »

Dubai sentences Norwegian woman who reported rape

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
A woman is raped and yet found found guilty under sharia law. Yet the BBC don't condemn Dubai except for being 'conservative'. 'Dubai has undergone a rapid transformation in recent years, emerging as a five-star trade and tourism destination with its tax-free salaries and year-round sunshine. It is now one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities with foreign workers and visitors greatly outnumbering the local population. But it remains a deeply conservative region, and its strict laws have caught out foreigners in the past. Public displays of affection and drunkenness are frowne... more »

GASLAND 2

The original purpose of fracking was to bury radioactive waste. It was developed by the United States Department of Energy.

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour ago
*Player Focus: Saints Keenan Lewis – Part 1 “On The Field” ~Saints Tailgate* *New Orleans Saints camp is finally 'just about football' ~NFL.com* *National Latino advocacy group kicks off conference ~Jaquetta White, New Orleans Advocate* *LSU loses appeal in public records lawsuit* *Work begins on new Mississippi hurricane evacuation route ~WVUE*

Colorado Educators Alert: TURNcoat, Kerrie Dalman, Promotes InBloom Student Data Mining and Storage

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
Kerrie Dalman is President of the Colorado Education Association, the state affiliate of the NEA. She’s also head honcho of Southwest TURN, a branch of the metastasizing cancer eating away at the NEA and AFT. Yesterday, Kerrie had a guest commentary in the Denver Post, pumping the virtues of CorpEd’s commercial surveillance and storage of student […]

Explosion hits Beijing International Airport - bomber injured , no other announced injuries.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-07/20/c_132558616.htm Explosion hits Beijing International Airport English.news.cn 2013-07-20 20:08:59 A man watches the closed-circuit television system broadcasting an explosion in T3 terminal at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, July 20, 2013. The explosion occurred around 6:24 p.m. on Saturday near the B exit of the terminal. According to eyewitnesses, a disabled person ignited bombs on himself. The casualty is unknown yet. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli) *In pictures >> Explosive sound heard... more »

Worldwide Unemployment Crisis: There Are 93 Million Unemployed Workers In G20 Nations

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Did you know that the total number of unemployed workers in G20 counties is now up to 93 million and that it is increasing with each passing day? You see, the truth is that the United States is not the only one dealing with a systemic unemployment crisis. This is literally happening all over the planet. So what is causing this crisis? Is there any hope that it will be turned around? Well, unfortunately there are several long-term trends that have been developing for decades that have played a major role in b... more »

Botwatch

Paul Coker at News Spike - 2 hours ago

Bill Whittle: Sums up the Zimmerman case...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
*beautifully - and we thank him.*

US Courts Approve Indefinite Detention and Torture

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Stephen Lendman America's a police state. It's ruthless. Iron fist authority rules. International law's quaint and out-of-date. US statute protections aren't worth the paper they're written on. Constitutional rights don't matter. They never did for most people. It's truer now than ever. They're null and void. Executive diktat power rules. Congress and federal courts go along. They're complicit. They support sweeping lawlessness. It's unprecedented. It affects domestic and geopolitical issues. No one's safe anywhere. Obama h... more »

Did Vaccine Industry-Backed Researchers Hide SV40 Tainted Vaccine Links to Cancer?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *The truth never sleeps.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton That’s why it’s 5 a.m. here at TSM headquarters and we’re still up researching something that we were originally only going to mention in passing. The Organic Prepper.com's Daisy Luther wrote an article about how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly admitted that SV40 — a simian virus — had tainted polio vaccines which the CDC estimates were administered to between 10 to 30 million Americans between 1955 to 1963. Luther reported about how thi... more »

War watch - July 20 , 2013 .... Focus on Syria , Egypt , Iraq and Afghanistan ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Syria ...... Amid War Threats, US Troops Prepare for Seizing Syria’s Chemical ArmsTraining Continues With an Eye on Invasion by Jason Ditz, July 19, 2013 Print This | Share This Military training missions are rarely newsworthy. Confirmations yesterday that the Obama Administration is considering attacking Syria, however, makes the mission focusing on seizing Syria’s chemical arsenal particularly important. The 82nd Airborne is training in North Carolina this week with an explicit eye on capturing Syrian chemical weapons, and if the US does invade Syria, that’s going to be a major mi... more »

America's Surveillance Society

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Image Stephen Lendman It's not new. It's longstanding. State-of-the-art technology makes it easy. It's more intrusive than ever. It's lawlessly out-of-control. On July 6, The New York Times Times headlined "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of NSA," saying: More than a dozen Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) 'classified rulings created a secret body of law giving the (NSA) power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while (allegedly) pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly... more »

Who Killed Detroit City and Why?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dave Hodges Cities don’t die because of happenstance. The city of Detroit has been murdered by the same forces that are slowly killing cities all across the United States. *Detroit Becomes the Largest US City to Declare Bankruptcy* On July 18, 2013, Detroit declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy to squelch most of their $18 billion in debts. The Chapter 9 filing occurred only four months after the appointment of an emergency financial manager. ‘Let me be blunt: Detroit’s broke,’ says Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder. Snyder went on t... more »

Feliz Día del Amigo (20 de Julio) Postales Gratis

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 3 hours ago
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CDC 'Disappears’ Page Linking Polio Vaccines To Cancer-Causing Viruses

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Sayer Ji The alternative media is justifiably abuzz with a story about the CDC deleting a page on their website admitting that as many as 98 million Americans received polio vaccine contaminated with the cancer-linked monkey virus SV40, with the added twist that although they removed the page sometime after July 11th, a cached version is still available to view online . *Some of the details of the 'disappeared' page read as follows:* *Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet* - SV40 is a virus found in... more »

The overcriminalization problem: Congressional Research Service can’t even list all federal crimes

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: spaceyjessie/Flickr Madison Ruppert Have you ever thought about the number of acts which the federal government has defined as criminal? Even if you have, the number is probably larger than you think. The federal government’s approach to criminalizing just about everything reminds me of how that same entity contends that just about everything is an indicator of potential terrorist activity. Similarly, public schools have turned typical childhood behavior into a punishable offense. The problem of overcriminaliz... more »

WE MUST FORCE POWER TO RESPOND

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago
Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He has written nine books, including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2009), "I Don't Believe in Atheists" (2008) and the best-selling "American Fascists: ... more »

Literal Smart Dust Opens Brain-Computer Pathway to "Spy on Your Brain"

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source - click to enlarge Nicholas West Some might have heard about Smart Dust; nanoparticles that can be employed as sensor networks for a range of security and environmental applications. Now, however, literal Smart Dust for the brain is being proposed as the next step toward establishing a brain-computer interface. The system is officially called "neural dust" and works to "monitor the brain from the inside." Inventors are attempting to overcome the hurdle of how to best implant sensors that can remain over the cour... more »

Barrett Brown Prosecution Threatens Right to Link, Could Criminalize Routine Journalism Practices

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm *EFF* Twitter was abuzz yesterday when an unknown person published what were alleged to be a group of passwords for the email accounts of Congressional staffers. Multiple journalists, including reporters from the Daily Beast and Buzzfeed, commented on the list while linking to it. While one would assume linking to the list is a First Amendment-protected activity—given the journalists had nothing to do with stealing the passwords—Barrett Brown is currently under indictment, in part,... more »

The Rise Of The Spectacularly Incompetent

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
Amid all the talk this week of Stephen Harper's enemies list, a lot of us missed what is surely another example of how corrupt the Harper government has become -- the appointment of Harper's former bodyguard as the Canadian ambassador to Jordan. Gerald Caplan writes that, as ambassador, Bruno Saccomani is also responsible for relations with Iraq. Mr. Soccomani has no background in foreign affairs: Because Mr. Saccomani, a middle-level Mountie, was in charge of the PM’s personal security, the government brazenly peddles him as an expert in security, ready to be an ambassador. What ... more »

ACT: Support the Taiwan Policy Act

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
A reminder: Americans, write your representatives and have them support the Taiwan Policy Act _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

Saturday Math Facts (that Neocons Ignore)

plthomasedd at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago
Born rich + no college > born poor + college = inequity Bad educational reform policies + billions of $$$ > credible education policies + no $$$ = accountability era in US education Tagged: education, education reform, inequity

RUDD CAVES IN TO RACISTS FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY

With an election looming, Kevin Rudd has caved in to Australia’s Labor voters who, like their Liberal counterparts, dream up every conceivable excuse as to why boatpeople shouldn’t be allowed access to Australia while trying desperately to avoid being labelled ‘racists’, a characterisation which they emphatically deny. Most of those who were dead-set against allowing boatpeople into Australia seem to now applaud Rudds latest plan – at least from the point of view of no more boatpeople coming to Australia. But now, one has to ask, where are the excuses that the racists used to argue... more »

PARIS JACKSON, URI GELLER AND MIND CONTROL

Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago
*Paris Jackson (right) in 'Satanic' red and black.* *Paris Jackson*, who is now aged 15, would appear to be the victim of CIA-Mossad mind-control. *Uri Geller*, who is close to the Jackson family, *has now admitted that he worked with NASA and was a spy for the CIA* *One of Paris Jackson's recent drawings, with mind control imagery.* *Michael Jackson.* *"A hexagram with all-seeing eyes and a bloody knife. 666 in the pool of blood."* NASA ran a mind control program involving gifted children called 'Space Kids.' Uri Geller was reportedly involved with a group of NASA Space Kids cal... more »

Senior Taiwan-related Teaching post at SOAS

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago
*That's one way to dry peanuts.* Dr. Fell of SOAS sent this around: *++++++++++++++* Applications are now open for the Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies at SOAS. I've attached the details, pasted the ad below and this is the link to the SOAS Vacancies page: http://jobs.soas.ac.uk/fe/tpl_soasnet01.asp?newms=srs Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies Vacancy Number 000550 Location London Campus Russell Square Post Class Teaching and Scholarship Department / Centre Centre of Taiwan Studies Contract Type Fixed Term Closing date for applications 15 August 2013 One Year Fixe... more »

PTV Looking for Touching Foreign Tales

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago
PTV sent this to me, so I am sharing it with you. Positive stories strongly welcomed. *+++++++++++++++++* Seek touching stories of foreigners in Taiwan! -Where I can watch? Now is paper work, will shooting from September 2014 The first season will show on PTV in 2015 http://eng.pts.org.tw/ -Is this a talk show or variety program? No, this is a series feature stories, kind of documentary, each episode is 30 mins and only explore one protagonist's story [click on READ MORE for the rest] -Explore? Story? What you wanna know? Our documentary wanna explore foreigners' life in Taiwan. ... more »

Storm-Delayed Friday Nerd Blogging

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
Friday nerd blogging was delayed due to a powerful thunderstorm that disrupted power in the SW part of Ottawa. Anyhow, most of us nerdish folks would prefer to be at Comic-Con this week. Alas, most of us have day jobs. So, here is a video presented at Comic-Con that marks the death toll of the Continue reading

Friday Baseball Post

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Did you all happen to read Abby Rapoport's essay on fantasy sports over at the Prospect this week? It was about the differences between being a regular sports fan -- a fan of a team -- and a fantasy player. And mostly, it was very nice. In particular, I think she's great on the differences between a team fan and a fantasy fan. Still... For one thing, I think she doesn't sufficiently appreciate how much roto and fantasy sports has brought baseball fans. Bill James, and the success of the Abstracts, basically preceded roto, but basically the explosion of information, as much as it wa... more »

Obama's Finest Moment

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
This is the face of leadership. Barack Obama delivers an unscheduled address on Trayvon Martin to the White House press corps.

BOY RAISED BY CHILD ABUSERS

Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
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Land taxes and Dapu Demolitions

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours ago
*Awesome cyclist Nathan Miller rides the side roads of the side roads up Yangmingshan.* At the Far Eastern Sweet Potato, J Michael provides an excellent description of the police protests and the Dapu Demolition protests: We all knew it was going to happen eventually, that efforts over three years by residents and their supporters, lawyers, journalists and academics to prevent a local government thug from destroying their homes would likely fail, but when the outrage was actually perpetrated on Thursday, the cold, hard reality hit home. On that day, as hundreds of people protested ... more »

12 fotos de animales by National Geographic I

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Photo Long Walk 4 in Pennsylvania!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Photo courtesy of Damaris. At Lois and Dan’s retreat. Shipensberg, PA Back row: Kyle, Emilio, Mereana, Michael Lane, Ty Front Row: Darrin, Craig, Mark, Supa (dog), Damaris, Lisa. Longest Walk 4 Needs Help! Message: "The Longest Walk 4: Return to Alcatraz is in need of your help. If you are able to donate something please either go to our website for paypal and credit cards or

Cashing in on Kids Report Exposes ALEC

freetoteach at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
The Center for Media and Democracy has a new report out on ALEC (Good beach reading) Despite widespread public opposition to the education privatization agenda, at least 139 bills or state budget provisions reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) education bills have been introduced in 43 states and the District of Columbia in just the […]

ALEC's First Agenda Item - "Hide the Legislation's Author"

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
*We will start tonight's festivities with* *The Legislator Auction* Pick a legislator - any legislator Pick the legislator to introduce your corporate legislation. *You don't have to know them.* *You don't even have to like them.* *Pick short* *Pick tall* *Their expertise in the matter* *Doesn't matter at all* *Just tell them what they should do and need to know* *And our ALEC legislators will put on a "really good show".* * **They will introduce your legislation to the task force for you* *They've been doing it for years in their statehouses, so this is not new. * *We, here at ALEC, ... more »

Emperor Schauble and Queen Merkel visit the Greek colony ...... After the Germans leave , the plebes get back to the work of destroying their country....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
0 Schäuble’s high security visit provokes Greek anger Greeks should stop lobbying for more debt relief, Wolfgang Schäuble said on his visit to Athens yesterday that forced a lockdown of the city centre and a ban on protests,Reuters reports. "I would like to ask all of you not to continue at this time this discussion on a new haircut,” he said at an event with the Greek Chamber of Commerce. "It is not in your interest." Official lenders like the euro zone and IMF now hold more than 90% of Greece's debt. That means the burden of any further debt relief - which Athens hopes will ensue... more »

So the Common Core created top-notch lessons?

Chris Cerrone at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I see today AFT president Randi Weingarten was promoting the Common Core via an interview with an Ohio NPR station back in May. Once again the Common Core cheerleaders falsely imply that these new standards have invented critical thinking and in-depth lessons. I would expect this type of propaganda from the corporate reformers not from […]

Beck ( OH-ALEC) - Indicted on 16 Felony Charges

2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
H/T to Dkos Diary *Ohio Rep. Peter Beck of Mason indicted in investment fraudcase* Posted: 07/19/2013 By: Kareem Elgazzar, WCPO Digital CINCINNATI - Ohio Rep. Peter Beck (R-Mason) was indicted on 16 felony charges in an investment fraud case Friday afternoon and faces a maximum 102 years in prison if convicted. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced the indictments at a news conference Friday afternoon. “John Fussner and Peter Beck knew CTech was insolvent and yet they did not disclose this to investors," DeWine said. "They knew the tr... more »

Sourcebook: Org Charts

Paul Coker at News Spike - 14 hours ago

Zapatistas: New Little School Dates, Information, a few other things July 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
New Little School Dates, Information about the Videoconferences and a few other things New Little School Dates, Information about the Videoconferences and a few other things. July 2013  http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2013/07/19/new-little-school-dates-information-about-the-videoconferences-and-a-few-other-things/ For: The compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth and the Zapatista

OUR CHOICE: EXPAND WAR MACHINE OR DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago
Denis Doherty (Australia) and I were on a commercial station TV show last night for a 45 minute interview about the Obama "pivot" into Asia-Pacific. The award-winning show reaches a regional audience in the Luzon area. We had to drive about an hour to reach the studio through city traffic and then the major highway connecting Manila and the Subic Bay region. Along the way we passed miles of rice fields. There is great poverty in many parts of Manila as people live in make shift cardboard shacks with tin roofs. Just across the street from one such place was a golf course surrou... more »

Arctic flowers

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago

Michael Hasting death - a witness challenges the official story - body not burned beyond recognition ( and you have to wonder why Hastings body was cremated without family permission ? )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Eye Witness to Michael Hastings Murder Says Body Not Charred Beyond Recognition - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com July 19, 2013 Description of accident scene at odds with story provided by officialdom. A witness to the aftermath of the Michael Hastings accident on June 18 in Hancock Park in Los Angeles, California told Infowars Nightly News that the journalist’s body was not badly charred as reported by the Los ... more »

Dzhokar Tsarnaev did NOT have a throat wound as alleged when captured alive - so , how did he get such a wound or is this another government falsehood ? No wonder the Boston Police Force went apeshitte at the PD photographer who unwittingly released proof of the false claims regarding the so called throat wound ! So , what else is wrong or just flat out lies folks ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
So , just how long before the media notices the fact that there was no throat would on the Tsarnaev brother that didn't die ? As note last night , my view of the Boston Magazine photos critically failed to reveal a throat wound on the surrendering youth..... http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/07/boston-police-photographer-releases-new.html Now another blog has picked on this...... http://www.infowars.com/dzhokar-tsarnaevs-throat-wound-another-government-lie-bites-the-dust/ Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s Throat Wound: Another Government Lie Bites the Dust - [image: The Alex Jon... more »

President Obama's bad week.......Detroit gone bust ( so much for saving Detroit and what was that about the economy ) ......Affordable Healthcare weekly debacles...... Zimmerman case opens scabs on racial wounds always festering somewhere , with someone.......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Obama under pressure ..... apart from Detroit going bust , here are other political headaches ! Affordable Healthcare unilateral delay of Employer Mandate issue by President Obama ..... http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-the-health-care-mandate-obama-reaches-beyond-the-law/2013/07/18/d442aefc-efb4-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html *Ronald D. Rotunda is a professor of jurisprudence at Chapman University and co-author of a six-volume treatise on constitutional law. He was assistant majority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee from April 1973 to July 1974.* Old-time mon... more »

know your rights, rental edition

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
After a week of looking at houses for rent, we found something we love and put down a deposit. My dread of moving has been mostly replaced with a mixture of resignation and excitement, as this will be a definite upgrade in our standard of living. Life is full of the unexpected. We're very fortunate in many ways - it could be way worse - and I don't want to lose that perspective. This experience continues to be educational! In addition to the rental scams I saw on Craigslist, the basement disaster and our impending move have provided a refresher course (as if I needed one!) in knowin... more »

Checks & Balances are DEAD; What Other Agencies are the Administration Abusing?

Scott Ryan Anderson at Table Of Wisdom.com - 16 hours ago
"Failure to Supervise" is the charge in the civil action being leveled by the SEC against legendary hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. This story has been running ad nauseum on CNBC since Friday afternoon. There is little information to go on but my conjecture is that this is another agency being directly used and abused by the Obama Administration to accomplish greater control over anything financial. Based up the well established pattern, his finger prints can be found anywhere intimidation is being exerted by government agencies. The default assumption with this President should ... more »

OKC / 2/26 : Terry the Farmer

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
Oklahoma City & "al-Qaeda": Terry Nichols & Ramsey Yousef (Summer 2001)from Paul Coker on Vimeo. Terry Nichols Wants To Reveal FBI Informant Role In The Oklahoma City Bombing from Spike1138 on Vimeo. *Late 1992-Early 1993 and Late 1994: Future Oklahoma City Bomber Said to Meet with Ramzi Yousef in Philippines* Terry Nichols makes a number of trips to the Phillippines, apparently to meet with al-Qaeda bomber Ramzi Yousef and other radical Islamists. Nichols will later help plan and execute the Oklahoma City bombing Nichols’s wife is a mail-order bride from Cebu City; Nichols... more »

Edward Snowden ayslum sage - thinking through how US - Russia relations move forward , how serious is the US in taking any serious actions against Russia , does Putin give a hot damn about what Obama says anyway ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-190713.html *Snowden: Moment of truth for Russia, US* By M K Bhadrakumar When the Group of Eight summit took place in Northern Ireland last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the diplomatic grapevine, wanted to use the gym at the Enniskillen resort, but his American counterpart Barack Obama had already booked it. Neither would want to share the facility and Putin settled for a swim in the frigid Lough Erne, which was beyond Obama's physical stamina. All this might be idle gossip, but it helps capture the awkward nat... more »

Michigan Judge halts Detroit bankruptcy as violative of Michigan and US Constitution - looks like Judge Aquilina is hoping President Obama bails out Detroit like he did GM and Chrysler ! Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's Eulogy on Detroit..... President Obama's Eulogy on Detroit ( you're on your own folks ! )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/19/michigan-judge-halts-detroit-bankruptcy-because-it-dishonors-obama/ Michigan judge halts Detroit bankruptcy because it dishonors Obama POSTED AT 5:11 PM ON JULY 19, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT Angela Corey should have tried this argument with Judge Nelson. 50/50 shot, no? Alternate headline: “Government in Detroit somehow worse than thought.” Aquilina, who granted the restraining order, clearly was irked. Prior to her ruling on Friday, she criticized the Snyder administration and Attorney General’s Office for what appeared to be hasty action to outflan... more »

Louisiana sinkhole updates - July 19 , 2013 ( h/t Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle and Energy News blogs for reliably following this story ! )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Lake FUBAR Feeling Nauseated + New Vid JULY 19, 2013 5 From David H. - *And the beat goes on…* *We have positive movement commencing just prior to 05:00 am CDT registering on…* *LA 10 bottom* *LA 12* *LA 14* *LA 17 185m* http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_temp/ *It looks like Lake Fubar is getting ready to dance again, and this time I think she really means business.* LINK - http://youtu.be/73QZ7oL37ls 03:25 PM EST on July 19th, 2013 | 10 comments Hydrogeologist: I’m not kidding, we honestly don’t know what’s going on in cavern below giant sinkhole — “Nobody’s ever encountered an... more »

Harumph! Kids These Days! On Changing Our Tone About Young People

Scholastic Chaos at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela A lot has been said in the media lately about the degeneration of our youth and their seeming lack of moral character, their resulting destructive behavior, and their defiance. I, personally, was involved […]

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 18 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Clint Richardson of *REALITY BLOG*. Clint and I will be discussing his documentary *The Corporation Nation* and American law. Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past episodes. Below are links to some of Clint's videos: - *The Corporation Nation* - *The Corporation Nation 3: Ron Paul and The Federal Reserve* - *CAFR SCHOOL: School Districts And The Lottery * - *CAFR School: What Is Wall Street?*

Phil Space

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 18 hours ago
My tuppence for the debate going on over at the IS about employing someone to do some temporary admin work. It wasn't added to the main body of documents to save space... that's what I was told anyway. Maybe I'm being oppressed by a bureaucrat, who knows? Anyway, no sense in letting it go to waste when there's space to fill: The first thing to say is I am surprised at the vehemence of this argument. Perhaps I should not be. We have, after all, just come out of the SWP. Full-time, employed members (even the part-time ones) were seen as a fundamental driver to the SWP’s current predica... more »

August 8th 1969: Motive #2,776 - Sharon Tate, Enemy of the State

Paul Coker at News Spike - 19 hours ago
* * ** *Maoism vs. Manson* * * ** *Who killed Sharon Tate, and why?* * * ** I can't begin to imagine... I

Open Letter to Congress on ESEA Reauthorization

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
Updated 7:50 a.m . July 20 To Members of the 113th Congress: I write to express my concerns regarding the various versions of the new ESEA now circulating in Washington, all of which appear to have enough in common to be combined, perhaps, under a more fitting title–something like The Corporate Foundation and Education Industry […]

The Economy: “Larry Summers' Bad Bet”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
* * *“Larry Summers' Bad Bet”* by Bill Bonner “We interrupt our regular programming to speak out in favor of Larry Summers; he is the perfect candidate to replace Ben Bernanke. Poor Larry… The critics are on his case. One called him a “high IQ moron.” No one likes to kick a man when he’s down. Unless the man on the ground is Larry Summers… More on that in a minute… First, a quick look at the markets. As expected, the Fed is fully, squarely, 1,000% committed to EZ money. Why? Because huge public policy disasters do not stop until they’ve gone all the way to the end. Like a real b... more »

In Forest They Smiled

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 20 hours ago
"A human population approaching 7 billion can be maintained only by desolating the Earth. If wild habitat is given over to human cultivation and habitation, if rainforests can be turned into green deserts, if genetic engineering enables ever-higher yields to be extorted from the thinning soils—then humans will have created for themselves a new geological era, the Eremozoic, the Era of Solitude, in which little remains on the Earth but themselves and the prosthetic environment that keeps them alive." ~ John Gray SourceSometimes it seems like just about everyone in the world has gone ... more »

Obama's Identity Crisis

Scott Ryan Anderson at Table Of Wisdom.com - 20 hours ago
It seems that Barry is getting jealous of Trayvon Martin. Sick though it is, it is typical dictators with messianic complexes to become envious when someone steals the headlines from them. Obama couldn't resist and had to take back the attention apparently by saying that "Trayvon could have been me 35 years ago." I don't know about that but he certainly is a dead-ringer for Frank Marshall Davis.

Emmy's snub the Walking Dead

CM at LILITH NEWS - 20 hours ago
Some people call it genre elitism. It seems pretty accurate when you consider the #1 TV on television is The Walking Dead - which is technically a drama, and not so much an action show as some people might think - has been snubbed by the Emmy's again. Emmy nominations this year gave more attention to Netflix and a lot of female dramas - but it has completely ignored the AMC's smash drama hit The Walking Dead which hasn't received a single nomination despite being the best show on television in the key 18 to 49-year-old demographic. Less quality programs like Scandal and Nashville ... more »

It's That Time of the Month Again

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours ago
Or what passes for it at our age. It's currently 98 degrees in Massachusetts, about 10 degrees higher than Mrs. JP's old stomping grounds of Vero Beach, Florida, if you can believe that. Cheapskate that I am, yours truly couldn't hold out any longer and recently set up the trusty little 3700 BTU AC in the bedroom window. But even that's going to drive up our electric bill since we have to run it at least 12 hours a day. And that's not going to help with the rent due in less than two weeks. So any assistance you guys can offer between now and then will be greatly appre... more »

Obama shoots off his mouth...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 21 hours ago
*again!* He's probably upset there's not more rioting so he had to interject himself into the stalking of Zimmerman and managed to make it all about himself.* * *President Obama: 'Trayvon Martin Could've Been Me 35 Years Ago'* I'm usually more interested in the comments on a story so I also took a peek at the one on Yahoo and popped into Huff and Puff. Nearly 100% of the comments are negative (even at Huff and Puff.) How's that working out for you, Odumbo?

Federal government at fault for Lac-Megantic train wreck

CM at LILITH NEWS - 21 hours ago
July 19th 2013 - According to investigators a complete lax of safety protocols in recent years is at fault for the Lac-Megantic train wreck in Quebec. At which point investigators looked to see who is at fault for the lowering of safety standards. Turns out it is the Federal Ministry of Transport, aka Transport Canada. Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has recommended federal regulators urgently review railway safety procedures in the wake of the runaway train that killed 50 people in Lac-Mégantic, Que., earlier this month. The TSB announced today that it has issued two urge... more »

Teenager madness!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *In search of what made Dzhokhar tick:* Why did Dzhokhar Tsarnaev do the things he apparently did? We can’t tell you that. But we were surprised by the lack of imagination from Digby. She posted a set of speculations by Michael Shaw. The list of speculations strikes us as weirdly limited: SHAW (7/18/13): Rather than write off these people as evil and “other,” what distinguishes us as a civilized society is the attempt to understand who and why...*I mean, why did someone as personable as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev go over to the dark side?* Is it such an act of humani... more »

Dr David Kelly - 7/7 bombings - patsy syndicate culture

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 22 hours ago
THIS JUST IN, FROM DAVID ICKE on the Isle of Wight: Crime syndicates can only function by employing criminals and others who are terrified of the consequences of defying the orders of the criminals. The State is just the same. Crime syndicates survive by destroying the opposition and killing anyone with the knowledge and inclination to bring them down. The State is just the same. The great advantage that State organised crime has over the other variety is that while crime syndicates can have insiders on the payroll within the police here and there the State owns the police, the mi... more »

Navajo Council votes to continue dirty coal power plant

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Navajo Council vote for Navajo Generating Station July 18, 2013  

Frankly, this is Rich again!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *Fake facts never die:* In mid-March 2012, the story of Trayvon Martin’s death went national. A large array of fake facts were quickly invented and spread. And, as we’ve often told you, false facts never die! Yesterday, Frank Rich proved this point in his weekly Q-and-A at New York magazine. Even by Rich’s ridiculous standards, this is a towering howler: QUESTION (7/18/13): George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin enraged more than it surprised, prompting a lot of commentary on racial profiling and the elusiveness of equality in America... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
I like this Dave Weigel post on how entirely ineffective Ted Cruz has been in the Senate. OK, I would have liked it better if he had linked to my Post item on how Cruz got Cordray confirmed, but I like it anyway.* One point to add. Cruz is campaigning in Iowa and, as Robert Costa reports (via Weigel), saying that his price for getting a CR (and therefore not shutting down the government) is fully defunding the ACA. Which is, you know, charming. I mean -- never mind either the ethics or the efficacy of holding the normal functioning of the government hostage to one's preferences, but... more »

A hot day for democracy

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 23 hours ago
The Honduran *Congreso Nacional* came to town yesterday, part of a mobile-meeting plan for the legislative branch of government that gets the politicians out of the capital once in a while to hear from "the people." Apparently President Porfirio Lobo was here, too, but all I know of that is I heard a helicopter coming in for a landing around 2 p.m., such a rare event in Copan Ruinas that it had to mean something big. Congress met in the municipal hall near Parque Central, so I wandered down to the park yesterday morning to see what I could see. Not much, as it turns out. The... more »

Why NCTQ Wants to Get Rid of Schools of Education

freetoteach at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
A social studies lesson on the business of education from Alan Singer, Hofstra Uniersity: They think they found the solution to fix American schools and it is really very simple: get rid of schools of education because they fail to adequately train teachers. The NCTQ posted a list of the advisory committee for its study on […]

Harper's Auto-Generated Enemies Lists

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
If you're Stephen Harper you can assume that what you consider "enemies" would include pretty much the entire membership of organizations such as the Council of Canadians. So why would you waste time amassing enemies lists when you can force these organizations to do it for you? This e-mail I received from the CoC neatly explains the situation: *A new federal Not-for-Profit Corporation Act (NFP Act) came into effect in 2009. Every federally incorporated not-for-profit, including the Council and all other social justice and environmental organizations, must amend their by-laws to c... more »

Kent Hawkins Comments on Nuclear Power

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 day ago
MasterResource, in general, and Kent Hawkins, in particular, have not given a great deal of attention to nuclear power in the past. MasterResource has its' origin in the fossil fuel industry and indeed from within one of the more notorious fossil fuel businesses, ENRON. Hawkins is by no means anti-nuke. He recognizes that in the near future global society faces major changes in energy technology, but until quite recently has not focused on nuclear power as offering a potential for energy change, however in a recent post http://www.masterresource.org/2013/01/sound-energy-policy-ii/Haw... more »

Agenda 21 Chapter 8 – The Final Coup

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Julie Beal If you think the economy is simply going to collapse, think again. The bankers, the corporations, and the United Nations have got *ecosystem accounting* ready to rock and roll, and it’s set to change everything…. … the plan is brilliant. You reduce the number from 7+ billion by at least 33% without firing one shot. You simply privatize all natural resources and then price access so that the bottom third of the globe’s population cannot afford it. And so, they die; it will be the biggest die-off of the Anthropocene epoch. From Papua New Guinea to Croatia, from Bolivia to ... more »

Who better to comment on Detroit than Dewey From Detroit...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*and we thank him.* *The Motor City: Broken and Out of Warranty* I'm predicting a federal bailout in 3,2,1... more »

Revenge of the Blackfish

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
A documentary, *Blackfish*, opening today at the Toronto International Film Festival focuses on what marine "parks" around the world, like the GTA's *MarineLand, *are inflicting on their captive orcas and how, after years of basically being left in a bathtub, some orcas take their revenge. Sorry but I'm with the orca on this one. Leave them in the ocean with their pods where they belong. It's disgraceful that the people and government of Ontario allow these creatures to be incarcerated for an abbreviated life in horrible conditions.

Not So "Incompetent" After All, Eh Rupe?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
*Some pictures are worth a thousand words* Now that recordings have emerged trashing Rupert Murdoch's claims that he knew nothing of his newspapers' phone hacking and police corruption, Ol' Rupe is backpeddling. At first he denounced the police investigation as "totally incompetent." Now that the recording has surfaced, Murdoch has written to say that he had "*used the wrong adjectives*". *Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz wrote to Murdoch asking him to comment on the secret recording.* * **In a reply released on Thursday, Murdoch said: "I accept that I used the w... more »

Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Stephen Lendman Swedish Sociology Professor Stefan Svallfors nominated him. He praised his "heroic effort at great personal cost." He revealed NSA's lawless global spying. He told millions worldwide what they need to know. He did so at great risk. He deserves high praise, not persecution. He showed "individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms," said Svallfors. His nominating letter states: "Best committee members! I suggest that the 2013 Peace Prize (be) awarded to the American citizen Edward Snowden. ... more »

39 Fantastic Prepping Tips

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Gaye Levy People often ask where my ideas and where my knowledge comes from. When that happens, I chuckle a bit to myself because just like the person asking, my knowledge comes from a variety of sources: first hand experience, books, online forums and of course, Backdoor Survival readers. So you see, it is not that I am smarter or more clever than everyone else but rather that I have taken my passion for preparedness and made it an active part of my life. That leads me to the topic for today’s article. Following my own art... more »

The Dismal Plight of Bradley Manning

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
*The Guardian's *Steve Bell captures what America's military justice system holds in store for Bradley Manning: *In a preliminary ruling on the multiple charges Mr Manning faces, military judge Colonel Denise Lind threw out a defence motion that the prosecution had failed to produce evidence to sustain a charge that Manning had 'aided the enemy.'* *...But in insisting on the 'aiding' charge and 11 others, the Obama administration is holding out for another 154 years jail time – with no parole option.* *Claiming to be 'extraordinarily disappointed' by the decision, Colonel Morris... more »

Cooper’s abject refusal to speak!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *Flatly false, also ugly:* Does Anderson Cooper like his job? His job as a national *journalist?* On Tuesday night’s show, he failed to challenge a guest when he plainly should have. The guest in question made a false statement—a statement he knew was false. Elsewhere, Cooper has corrected this misstatement. Tuesday night, with high feeling all around, he simply gave it a pass. The guest in question was Barbara Arnwine, president of The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Arnwine made this statement about the juror Cooper interviewed one night be... more »

Friday Morning Linkage

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Is it 1953 or 2013? 2013 Aspen Security Forum is currently meeting in Aspen Meadows, CO. Here’s the list of speakers — scroll through and see if anything strikes you. HT: Tamara Cofman Wittes. An excellent piece by Naunihal Singh that concludes for all the talk of a unique people’s revolution, the Egyptian coup Continue reading

Why Not Just Waterboard Them?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
One of the dirty little tricks American interrogator/torturers adopted during the War on Terror has made it to the homeland. It is subjecting the prisoner to the prolonged stress of intense cold. That, according to lawyers, is a method being used against hunger-striking prisoners by California prison guards. *Prison guards are trying to break a hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners in California by blasting cells with cold air, confiscating legal documents and, in one case, banning lawyers, according to legal representatives and relatives.* *Authorities have taken the... more »

Kent Hawkins Offers Reasonable Doubt About Wind's Carbon Mitigation Effectiveness (updated repost)

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 day ago
Nuclear Green Revolution had its' origin in a debate which I had with GRIST'S David Roberts. Roberts argued that investments in nuclear power would be a mistake. When confronted with the need for post carbon power sources, Roberts claimed that renewables could provide all the power we need at a lower cost than nuclear power. I did not have a source that provided a strong contradiction, so I set out setting up a preliminary source from scratch. My source looked at what renewables cost and what we got for our money and what else it would take a renewable post carbon system to work. M... more »

BBC News - Government borrowing fell in 2012-13, revised figures show

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Can you hear the gritted teeth at the Labour supporting BBC as they have to admit that: 'Nonetheless, three months into the fiscal year, the government remains on course to reduce the budget deficit in line with its forecasts.' Ooh that must have hurt. Just wondering what Ed Balls will have to say? More gritted teeth comments here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23372309

It Worked for Capone, Now Let's Use It on Multi-Nationals

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Tax evasion is a crime. Multi-national corporations are criminals. In fact, the G20 is warning that advanced countries are facing "global tax chaos" as multi-nationals evade taxes by laundering their revenues through low-tax or no-tax havens. The buggers really do think they're above the law, a clear impression they've received from our politicians for thirty years or more. *On Friday, the [British] chancellor, George Osborne, will hail a two-year action plan drawn up by the OECD thinktank to clamp down on questionable international corporate tax practices.* *The long-awaited r... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*State looking into piping problem in cavern near Bayou Corne sinkhole ~David J. Mitchell, Advocate* *Crazy Saints Fans Update: West Nile, The Dirty Bird Killa ~Saints Tailgate*

Criminal Enterprise Operations of the Police

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dave Hodges After moving to the border state of Arizona, I learned quickly that it isn’t prudent to drive a car into Mexico because the Federal Police like to pull over “American-looking” tourists and shake them down for cash (yes, Virginia, the Mexican national police force does profile). The practice of Mexican police harassing traveling Americans for their cash is so prevalent, most insurance companies require a special rider on one’s insurance policy before covering a car trip into Mexico. I used to think that this abus... more »

Jay Inslee (WA) Likes ALEC - According to ALECer

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
ALEC supporters are really drawing at straws right now to justify the extremist policies of the ALEC - making misleading public statements. Twisting the facts, making broad misleading statements to prove that the American Legislative Exchange Council is nonpartisan - lying, really. They are publishing all kinds of crap. Take this case in point Jay Inslee –Governor, State of Washington (the state that passed legalized marijuana and marriage equality into law in December 2012) *From Daily Kos on Jay Inslee* ... he hasn't voted a straight line progressive caucus agen... more »

Complicity in international criminal law

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Ezokola *v.* Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 SCC 40 deals with complicity in a criminal organization for international criminal law purposes: [68] In sum, while the various modes of commission recognized in international criminal law articulate a broad concept of complicity, individuals will not be held liable for crimes committed by a group simply because they are associated with that group, or because they passively acquiesced to the group's criminal purpose. At a minimum, complicity under international criminal law requires an individual to ... more »

SOCIETY DOWN: Is Anderson Cooper a journalist?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *Interlude—Journalistic star fails to perform:* Last night, Anderson Cooper refused to do his job. It would have been painful to do his job, but Cooper is well compensated. He represents himself as a broadcast journalist. There are certain unpleasant tasks such folk are supposed to take on. Last night, through most of an hour-long program, Cooper kept walking away from those journalistic tasks. In particular, he kept refusing to challenge guests who were offering questionable accounts of a high-profile event. What happened in Sanford on the night when Trayvo... more »

Hymenoplasty operations women virgins again increased NHS costs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Because the NHS has a bottomless pit of money to spend! Hymenoplasty and breast enlargement are generally not necessary medical procedures, but are for religious, cultural or personal pride reasons. I don't want to pay for others to have this sort of operation, especially when people are dieing because the NHS won't fund life saving cancer treatment. Priorities, priorities... More here http://www.closeronline.co.uk/2012/06/rise-in-ops-to-make-women-virgins-again

16 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Are you a conspiracy theorist? If not, perhaps you should be. Yes, there have certainly been a lot of “conspiracy theories” over the years that have turned out not to be accurate. However, the truth is that a large number of very prominent conspiracy theories have turned out to actually be true. So the next time that you run into some “tin foil hat wearing lunatics”, you might want to actually listen to what they have to say. They may actually know some things that you do not. In fact, one recent study fo... more »

The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching. You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also "roll over" existing debt that has reached maturity. Of course the government never actually pays off any of that debt. Instead, it essentially takes out new debts to cover the old ones. So the U.S. government is actually borrowing far more money each yea... more »

5 Examples of When You Might Not Know What You Are Eating

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *When we buy food at the grocery store, many of us expect to get what we think we’re paying for.* Melissa Melton But, as it turns out, our food isn’t always what we think it is. From the horse meat scandal that is currently rocking the United Kingdom — to the widespread realization that the ground beef sold in many U.S. markets is actually a mix of bits of meat, fat, sinew, bloody effluvia, and ammonia dubbed “pink slime” — consumers are continually shown just how at the mercy of industrial food conglomerates we truly are wh... more »

European Parliament may call on Snowden, NSA chief and Glenn Greenwald to testify about NSA spying

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: Jon and Mel Kots/Flickr Madison Ruppert With the European Parliament getting prepared to launch an investigation into the massive National Security Agency surveillance programs, whistleblower Edward Snowden, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander and journalist Glenn Greenwald may be called to testify. The series of hearings on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs is slated to begin in September, which was established after the agency’s global spying efforts were revealed in June. The fallout in Europe has ... more »

Soon The Only Person Left In The PMO Will Be The Guy Who SHOULD Have Resigned In The First Place.

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
** [image: Progressive Bloggers] *-Senior staffer who allegedly knew of Duffy payment leaves PMO (Chris Woodcock) * *-Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, resigns * *-Benjamin Perrin: ‘I was not consulted on, and did not participate in, Nigel Wright’s decision’*

Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 7.19.13"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 7.19.13"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Fed Chief Ben Bernanke testified in front of the House and Senate this week about the economy and money printing. The headline in USA Today says it all, “Fed Help Won’t Fade.” Remember, this is $85 billion in bond buying each and every month. That’s $45 billion in Treasury bonds and $40 billion in sour mortgage debt. I call it the fraud and mistakes of big banks. Why doesn’t anyone in Congress ask which banks are getting $40 billion each and every month? This is a half-trillion bucks a year, and nobody in Congress ... more »

Everything Is Fine, But…

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Everything is going to be just great. Haven't you heard? The stock market is at an all-time high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is incredibly low, and the official unemployment rate has been steadily declining since early in Barack Obama's first term. Of course I am being facetious, but this is the kind of talk about the economy that you will hear if you tune in to the mainstream media. They would have us believe that those running things know exactly what they are doing and that... more »

Anonymous Operation NSA - Exposing Dianne Feinstein

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein has taken over $698,000 in bribes from the surveillance-industrial complex since PRISM has been in place. She votes in favor of them and against your rights. She violates the U.S. Constitution. Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

TSA: Keeping Travelers Safe by Inspecting Cars Left in Valet Parking

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kimberly Paxton Now not only does the TSA thoroughly inspect your person and your carry-on bags – they can order an inspection of the car you left behind also. A New York woman was shocked to return home from a trip to find a notice on her car informing her that it had been searched after her departure from Greater Rochester International Airport. Apparently, only cars that are valet parked are subject to this treatment. Valet attendants are under orders of the TSA to search the vehicles that are left with them. (Valet atten... more »

Bernanke Confirms: “If We Were To Tighten Policy, The Economy Would Tank”

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Mac Slavo Financial analysts have opined that the United States is well on the road to recovery. They cite various data points to make the case that the multi-trillion dollar bailouts and stimulus have brought us back from the brink of a collapse so serious that Congressional leaders had been told that should the bailouts fail, there was a real possibility of martial law being declared. We’re doing so well, in fact, that just a couple of years ago President Obama assured the nation of our progress, claiming that we “reversed... more »

Texans Urged Not To Panic As Army Battles Radiation Leak

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Chris Carrington 30 people are undergoing testing for radiation poisoning after a leak was discovered at Fort Bliss Texas. An above-ground bunker used to store weaponry has been found to contain both alpha and beta particles and there is concern that soldiers using the weapons may have been exposed to low-level radiation. It has also emerged that when the area was controlled by the Air Force, contaminated material was buried around the site. A retired worker raised concerns that a new housing development currently under cons... more »

Social Contract: The Exceptions to the Rule

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *individual rights are sacrificed so an elite "vanguard" can take more power to itself.* ~anon *The Social Contract* Jean-Jacques Rousseau Susan Boskey What do the September 2013 completion of the mega NSA data and surveillance center in Bluffdale Utah, federalized SWAT teams smashing down homeowners' front doors, and the July 2013 acceptance of the Obama Administration’s appeal to retain portions of the NDAA for the indefinite detention of Americans have in common? For those who are not in denial, these three facts alone p... more »

UPDATE: Adam Kokesh From Jail

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Adam Kokesh* As many of you know, Adam Kokesh was arrested on July 9, 2013 at his residence in Herndon, VA. The US Parks Police, aided by the local Herndon police force and a coalition of other agencies raided and ransacked Adam’s home. They provided a warrant only after they had taken Adam into custody and had completed an extensive search. They also detained and harassed all the occupants of the house for an extended period and would not provide reason for the detainment. Raymond Morrogh is the Commonwealth Attorney for ... more »

Feds vs. Raisins: Small Farmers Stand Up to the USDA

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
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Activist Adam Kokesh will run for President in 2020

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
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Euroland news for July 19 , 2013 - Counting down the time until German Election on September 22 , 2013 and the return of reality..... Goldman's take on the ECB collateral shift ...... Spain's Deputy PM Saenz denies she will replace PM Rajoy - so you know the clock is ticking on Rajoy and who is replacement will be !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Two Months Until The German Elections And The Return Of Reality [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/19/2013 08:46 -0400 - default - European Central Bank - France - Germany - Greece - Italy - Portugal - Real estate - Reality - Sovereigns *Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,* *“For what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe.”* * -Stephen Hawking* Europe has denigrated into a strange place where *fantasy replaces reality as necessitated by their go... more »

Detroit has filed for bankruptcy - keep your eyes on Illinois as Chicago School District has a second round of mass Teacher layoffs and pension reform is now part of the discussion there !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-cps-layoffs-20130719,0,4180625.story By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and Kim Geiger, Chicago Tribune reporters 6:34 a.m. CDT, July 19, 2013 Citing a $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Public Schools will lay off more than 2,000 employees, more than 1,000 of them teachers, the district said Thursday night. About half of the 1,036 teachers being let go are tenured. The latest layoffs, which also include 1,077 school staff members, are in addition to 855 employees — including 420 teachers — who were laid off last month as a result of the dist... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Happy Birthday to Rick Ankiel, 34. Enough to make you a baseball fan. The good stuff: 1. Nice one from Nate Silver on patterns and presidential elections. 2. More on ACA implementation from Jonathan Cohn. 3. Sarah Posner on Hobby Lobby. 4. And Steve Benen on the GOP-aligned partisan press.

Jimmy Carter: Snowden's Leak 'Useful', 'America Has No Functioning Democracy'

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Freda Art *Activist Post* In an article appearing in the German-language, Spiegel, former President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for whistleblowers and had sharp criticisms of the Obama Administration. Carter called the disclosure by Edward Snowden "useful" and said "the invasion of privacy" and "government secrecy" has gone too far. Carter said the leaks are "likely to be useful because they inform the public." "America has no functioning democracy," Carter stated. From Spiegel translated by Google Translate: The ... more »

What If A Drone Killed YOUR Grandson?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
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