11 August - Blogs I'm Following

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English: Diagram of how microtubules disintegrate with Alzheimer's disease Français : La protéine Tau dans un neurone sain et dans un neurone malade Español: Esquema que muestra cómo se desintegran los microtúbulos en la enfermedad de Alzheimer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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An example of the standing-up presentation discontinued from 2009 - Geraint Vincent presenting an edition of the ITV Evening News in late 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Breaking news

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 47 minutes ago

I really don't understand why this keeps happening. If you've been reading the news online today you'll know that a radical Muslim cleric, Sheikh Issa Ponda, has been on the run after being shot by police on Zanzibar - and, according to the *Daily Mirror*, has now been caught and is under armed guard in hospital. The Islamist is suspected of involvement in the cruel acid attack on two British girls last week. I won't quote them all but Sheikh Issa Ponda's flight from the police has been reported right across the media today - in the *Mirror, *on Sky News, ITV News, Channel 4 News... more »

Creative Kiwis . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour ago

DESIGNER DRUGS ARE BIG in New Zealand, according to a post on The Economist, “A New Prescription”, and the Kiwi government has had to come to terms with the situation. Unlike Stevie and the CONs, for whom prisons are perfection, the Kiwis have decided that regulation and taxation is the only sustainable policy. Sick of trying to keep up with drugmakers, the government is trying a new tack.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour ago

*Kicking you off the internet ~Library Chronicles* *The Advocate Story on Wisner ~American Zombie*

The Struggle For Democracy

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago

One of our most annoying conceits is our glee at dissecting and critiquing democracy in other lands. To these critics I say, 1215. Remember that for 1215 is the date our Anglo-Saxon drive for democracy began with King John signing the *Magna Carta*. Barely seven centuries later we became so enlightened that "we" actually "gave" women the right to vote. You're welcome, ladies. I only wish these armchair critics could be made to watch Patrick Watson's 1989 documentary series, "*The Struggle for Democracy.*" They would learn that democracy is, at best, a very loosely defined conce... more »

Health warnings and independent think tanks

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago

A study for the Centre for Policy Studies, a right-of-centre think tank with links to the Conservative Party, has found that the BBC is "biased toward the left" - according to a report in the *Telegraph*. Its research has found that "the BBC is twice as likely to cover left-wing policy proposals than those that are right-wing" and "to hail them as “independent” while giving right-wing research a “health warning” by pointing out its ideological position". The CPS has quantified this statement. The CPS has also compared the corporations coverage through the prism of the *Guardian *... more »

Retaining Author Relationships In A Transparent World

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 2 hours ago

Technology and communications are changing not only our culture but also our relationships with others. It is not just about how and what we communicate but also about the transparency and openness of the communication. Where once we could not see, we now can and this can start to question and even undermine the trust and inter-dependency in relationships we once took for granted. We can all now see our financial transactions and business is now viewable in real time 24x7. Even our location, what we are doing, what we like and dislike can be tracked and visible to many. There i... more »

BRAIN FOOD; PETER LANZA

Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours ago

"A daily supplement with 800 micrograms of *folic acid*, 20 milligrams of vitamin* B6*, and 500 micrograms of vitamin *B12* can slow and possibly reverse the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms along with cognitive impairment." *B Vitamins Slow Alzheimer's and Grey Matter Loss* *Peter Lanza Photo Album; Sandy Hook Manufactured ... - Aangirfan* KeywordPercent of Search Traffic 1. aangirfan 17.67% 2. peter lanza 9.34% 9.34% of people who search for 'peter lanza' find aangirfan? 17.67% of people who search for 'aangirfan' find aangirfan? *Aangirfan Global T... more »

Eddie Shah's Conceit

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 2 hours ago

Given Eddie Shah's anti-union history, I'm quite pleased to see him drag his own name through the mud. But his comments that basically amount to "sometimes, underage girls are gagging for it" still, unfortunately, has wide currency. Let's get some things out the way. Since Freud, if not before, childhood sexuality has been acknowledged in medicine and psychology as a fact. Ask anyone and most people will have had a good idea about what their sexuality was from a young age. Ask again and a good proportion will have had some form of sexual experience prior to the age of consent - usu... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago

A forest cottage in Efteling, Holland. [photo via The Oakwheel]

Arms Race Update - There Goes the Neighbourhood

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours ago

*Singapore's RSS Swordsman* When Obama announced America's military "pivot" out of the Middle East and into Asia-Pacific, it was bound to shake up the neighbourhood - that plus China's rapid military expansion that the pivot is intended to counter. When China and the U.S. get testy it's bound to stir up the neighbourhood and so it has. *Aviation Week* reports that America's "partners" - Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand - are unlocking their treasuries and going on an armaments buying spree. For the five-year period... more »

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Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago

Following on from the last post, the test of BBC bias here is, obviously, to test how they reported the story - and the best test case is usually the *Today *programme. The 8.10 spot on *Today *on Monday began with Evan Davis interviewing Rochelle Monte, a lady who works on a zero-hours contract. Evan left the question open at the start of the interview as to whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but Rochelle was downbeat about it and would have left listeners with the feeling that zero-hours contracts bring far more negatives for the employee than positives. Evan then ta... more »

Virtually The Entire House Financial Services Committee Should Be Indicted For Bribery

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

For much of the year we've been talking about the corruption that, to a great extent, defines the New Dems in Congress and pointing specifically to the bad apples among them that managed to get onto the House Financial Services Committee, one of the principal conduits of bribery cash from the Wall Street banksters to Congress. Of the seven Democratic freshmen who were "lucky" enough to be rewarded with the plumb assignment-- Bill Foster (New Dem-IL), Dan Kildee (MI), Patrick Murphy (New Dem-FL), John Delaney (New Dem-MD), Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ), Joyce Beatty (OH) and Denny He... more »

Reality is relative . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours ago

REAL Women vs. Real Women, as seen by Sonya Bell & Jessie Willms on iPOLITICS. Love it.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago

*"I'll have the Roasted Falcon" ~Sean Payton*

Bilderberg Jr: U.S. House Taking Their Bi-Annual Odd-Year Secret All-Expses-Paid Including Family Members Trip To Israel With No Mainstream Media Coverage

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 5 hours ago

*What list is even harder to get than the Bilderberg attendee list? The list of U.S. House reps that go on the Israel "junket".* Did you read in your local paper about the U.S. House bi-annual odd-year all-expenses paid for their families, too, "junket" to Israel? Of course you didn't. They're busy distracting you with the *WORLDWIDE FAKE MUSLIM TERROR ALERT* so you didn't realize there's a WORLDWIDE JEW TERROR ALERT that our U.S. House members are pledging allegiance to Israel: *Florida Reps. Frankel, Murphy, Garcia join trip to Israel that raises questions of influence* Forgive... more »

Zero further coverage

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago

BBC News Commenters *Bob Nelson* and *1327 *on the *Biased BBC* open thread noted that *"The BBC’s crusade against zero hours contracts a few days ago appears to have come to an abrupt halt (as has the opposition’s outrage)"*and speculated that this might be because *"The Guardian, The Co-operative Bank and several Labour councils use them"*- something that only emerged as the story snow-balled. I must admit that I saw, heard and read the initial onslaught of BBC coverage, but failed to notice that the story had gone away again...until I saw their comments. Much of the BBC's coverage... more »

First NCTQ and now CAEP: Nightmares for Teacher Education.

Timothy D. Slekar at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago

I have posted about NCATE and the CAEP a few times. But here it is: The new standards, finalized by the CAEP Commission on Standards and Performance Reporting in June after a public comment period, contain controversial new requirements such as minimum program-entry standards and consideration of graduates’ performance in the classroom, including value-added data and any […]

god is not religion

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 6 hours ago

religion divides us but spirituality brings us together.

GMO Rice backlash ....Filipino farmers destroy GMO " Golden Rice " , South Korea and Japan still stand by their bans of US wheat , France continues ban on GMO corn despite sell out by European Commission and sell out by France Council of State - Frankencorn spurned in France !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago

Filipino farmers destroy genetically modified ‘Golden Rice’ cropsAugust 10, 2013 Print Version *Source:* Raw Story [image: GMO protester via Shutterstock]  A group of activist farmers in the Philippines stormed a government research facility and destroyed an area of genetically modified rice crops the size of 10 football fields. According to New Scientist, the farmers say that genetically modified organism (GMO) foods have not been established to be safe for consumption and that the real solution to world hunger isn’t biologically engineered plants, but a reduction in worldwide rat... more »

I Had a Dream

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 7 hours ago

Part of it was that I was in the lobby of a mental hospital and this woman who was in a very agitated state was being told by the nurses at the front desk that they didn't have any room for her. The woman was short, late middle-aged, with a cheap printed knee-length dress on. She was depressed and frantic. The nurses/bureaucrats were all very simpering in their "I'm terribly sorry" routine. Dejected, the woman walked away. She held out her hand to take her sister's "hand." Her sister was, if anything, in worse state than she was. She was about a little over a meter tall. She had a s... more »

The Slog hammers EU Bail In Law - rushed through but premeditated .....Which Banks are so at risk as to warrant the legalization of deposit thefts in the EU ? Can Germany win the race to have Merkel re-elected before the proverbial SHTF in europe ? Europe funding shortfall now at 4 trillion - an increase of 500 billion in about one year ! News of the day from Zombie Landa aka Greece - next bailout looms , talks may start in November.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/global-looting-the-new-eu-bailin-law-was-hurried-through-alright-but-the-template-was-premeditated/ GLOBAL LOOTING: The new EU bailin law was hurried through alright…but the template was premeditated How imminent bank collapse fears forced the Eunatics to act [image: deutsche]*Deutsche Bank…..two left feet* *It’s becoming clearer with each day that passes why the EC rushed its new bailin law through the European Parliament at the beginning of this month. When the US returns from vacations after September 2nd – and even more so once the German ele... more »

Monsanto can sue farmers when GMO contamination goes over one percent of their crop

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Rady Ananda At the Justice Begins with Seeds biosafety conference held in Seattle August 2-3, it was announced that a recent court decision prevented Monsanto from suing farmers for patent infringement when their crops become genetically contaminated with lab-engineered patented seeds. But the ruling is insufficient to protect farmers in the real world, where contamination events are often much higher than only one percent of a field, as specifically prescribed in the ruling. The June 2013 decision dismissing *OSGATA v. Mons... more »

Bloomberg's at it Again: Electronic Cigarettes in the Crosshairs

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Nanny Mike Wikimedia Commons Paul Lawrance Newly drafted tobacco bills leaked by the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) reveal NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to wage war on electronic cigarettes. If the ordinances were to be executed, the display of smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes would be prohibited in retail stores and would require 21 years of age to acquire. The bills, which were drafted by the Health Department at the request of Mayor Bloomberg, define electronic cigarettes, their... more »

JP Morgan - the Bad Boy Of Wall Street - no shortage of civil suits - now a criminal probe related to mbs , investigations around the globe over alleged misconduct at JP Morgan , in the middle of physical concerns at COMEX --- Will JP Morgan put TBTF to the test ? Gold and silver data , news and views - August 8 , 2013 !

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/08/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_8.html 08 AUGUST 2013 Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - GLD May Be In the Eye of the Gathering Storm I spent some time rereading the prospectus and some recent filings of the SPDR Gold ETF today. A reader had asked me a question this morning about a statement I made yesterday about the squeeze on physical bullion and how it may intensify if gold rallies. I said that GLD has to start adding back some of the bullion it has disgorged at some point, and many of those 400 oz. bars may likely have ... more »

This is What a Police State Looks Like

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

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Obama's Lies Becoming Comical

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

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Obama Lied 'Repeatedly' During NSA Presser

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

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Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours ago

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago

*City Hall battles Wisner heirs over valuable real estate ~Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate* *Sunday Coastal B’s: Bay Tech, Bentz and Bay St Louis broke? ~Slabbed* *Sheriff Gusmans latest claim, scorpion infestation, raises eyebrows ~John Simerman* *Beyond dinner: Tiger shrimp mounted for display* Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/08/10/4654351/beyond-dinner-invasive-shrimp.html#storylink=cpy

New Day Dawning In War-Ravaged Mali Today? I'd Wait Before Buying A Ticket To Timbuktu

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

A Muslim Keita dynasty ruled Mali from 1235 until the Empire collapsed with the death of Mahmud IV in 1610. As a stamp collector in my teenage days I recall a Keita ruling Mali when it first gained independence in 1960. That was Modibo Keita and I don't think he was part of the royal lineage. In fact, he was a socialist. In 1968 he was overthrown in a military coup and imprisoned, where he died 9 years later. And that brings us to Ibrahim Boubacar Keita-- IBK-- who is about to become the new Malian president. He was Prime Minister from 1994-2000 and and President of the National ... more »

Another Risk From Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking): Dust Inhaled By Workers Linked To Deadly Lung Disease

Barbara Ann Levy at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 7 hours ago

Another Risk From Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking): Dust Inhaled By Workers Linked To Deadly Lung Disease

Did a Whistleblower Stop a Terror Attack in Austin?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *A memo warning law enforcement of a possible terror attack at specific locales was officially sent out – but without authorization.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton KXAN reported that the threat advisory warning law enforcement of a possible terror attack in Austin was ‘sent out by mistake,’ claiming that “someone released an official memo that they shouldn’t have, and that has caused fresh worries.” Yeah, “worries” that only lend credibility to the suspicion that an inside-system terrorist attack may have been planned for A... more »

On The Margins No More

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 8 hours ago

John Ralston Saul writes that scientific experiments to starve our aboriginal peoples should come as no surprise: When Canadians learn that malnourished aboriginal children were used for nutritional experiments, they cannot really be surprised. Shock is a more plausible reaction. We should never be beyond shock. But not surprised. That would be to feign innocence, when we all know that for more than a century, Canadian authorities of all sorts continually acted badly when it came to indigenous peoples. Many Canadians knew this when it was happening. The standard public discourse ... more »

9/11 in the Academic Community

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination. Through a powerful reflection on intellectual courage and the purpose of academia, the film aims at changing intellectual discourse on 9/11 and the War on Terror. Support the film at 911inAcademia.com Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered b... more »

There is a "They"

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 9 hours ago

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Apparently there's a new Independence Day film coming in 2015

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago

Remember the first one?

They need a mirror

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago

Talking of the BBC's Australian election coverage, a search of the BBC News website brings up the first tranche of articles. The coverage began with two articles on 4 August, when Kevin Rudd called the election: *'Australian PM Kevin Rudd calls election for 7 September' * and *'Australian election call: Voters react'*. The following day saw four articles - *'Australia election campaign kicks off'* and a video report, plus two profiles - one of Tony Abbott and one of Kevin Rudd. That's as you would expect. Then the BBC's biases begin to creep in. The next article came on 8 August a... more »

Hatred is terribly important to a certain kind of Leftie – Telegraph Blogs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago

Daniel Hannan is right on the money... 'Look at how many people happily declare 'hates Tories', 'hates capitalism' and the like. Sure, you can find one or two 'hates socialism', but it's much, much rarer. ' Read it all here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100229359/now-right-wingers-are-supposed-to-hate-the-entire-planet/

Jon Don goes down under

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago

Jon Donnison's departure from his BBC Middle East brief was something of a relief. We weren't exactly fans of his reporting. He's been reassigned to Australia, where he'll doubtless bring his brand of BBC impartiality to bear on the present general election (*/sarc, *as we say on the internet). His arrival piece for *From Our Own Correspondent *though*, From little Gaza to chunky Australia, *has given him one last chance (hopefully) to have a go at Israel: With its wall, fences and watchtowers, Gaza is not a place for the claustrophobic. There are neighbourhoods with some of the h... more »

Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “Balance (Galaxies)”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago

Liquid Mind, “Balance (Galaxies)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKzFk-FiZM&html5=1

Church of England 'hijacked' for pro-EU cathedral service featuring prayers for Britain to stay in Europe | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago

' Prayers for Britain to stay in the EU forming part of a Brussels-backed event to mark the 40th anniversary of the UK joining the Common Market are to be said in a service at Salisbury Cathedral. The event next month is being held in Salisbury because it was the home of the late Sir Edward Heath, the Prime Minister who took the UK into what is now the EU in 1973. Leading pro-Europeans will attend.' More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389140/Church-England-hijacked-pro-EU-cathedral-service-featuring-prayers-Britain-stay-Europe.html

Business 360 10: Foreign Aid as Band Aid Solution

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago

* This is my article for the August 2013 issue of Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal. The two figures below, ADB and WB lending to Nepal respectively, were not included in the published article due to space limitations. ----------- Official Development Assistance (ODA) or simply Foreign Aid, is a government to government transfer of resources, meant to hasten the development of a poor country. If one or both governments, the donor and recipient governments, is/are corrupt, then waste is huge. The money would only fatten the pockets and personal bank accounts of politicians,... more »

Fat-Free Econ 45: Newton's Laws of Motion and Traffic Congestion

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago

* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com. --------- British physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was known for his contributions to classical mechanics and physics. His famous theory, which I remember from high school, is the so-called “Newton’s Laws of Motion.” Having done research on various social and economic issues for many years, it dawned upon me that Newton’s three laws can be applied to society as well, especially on how the government attempts to solve the daily traffic congestion in Metro Manila and other big cities in the country. Below are... more »

In the footsteps of William Crawley

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago

Much of this morning's *Sunday *with William Crawley followed the agenda outlined on their website - and in the previous post. Two items got dropped though - David Willey's report on corruption at the Vatican (which may have been the same one broadcast on yesterday morning's *Today*), and the feature on Betty Maxwell's ecumenical work. The late Mrs Maxwell made way for a discussion on Northern Ireland. Here's an outline of today's programme. 7.10 *Introduction* by William Crawley 7.11 *Should politicians 'do God'?* In the wake of someone asking David Cameron, "What would your res... more »

Some weekend looking

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 12 hours ago

It's been a while since we've bunged up a Satellite Eye... link. Here's Planet Earth in July. Here's my favourite picture, an Egyptian sand storm wafting across the Red Sea; the Nile is in the distance.

The 'apartheid state of Israel'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago

See how the Jews live separately from Muslims. See the Jews only beach... See why calling Israel 'an apartheid state' is lying.

Denying Israel's existence is worth money on a Palestinian tv quiz. The Palestinian TV show the BBC will not tell you about

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago

BBC Watch has the details that the anti Israel BBC will not ever report - http://bbcwatch.org/2013/08/11/the-palestinian-tv-show-the-bbc-will-not-tell-you-about/

UK AID MONEY GOES TO AL QAEDA

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago

*Somalia* There is a theory that the US and UK governments use part of their 'foreign aid' money to finance their militia groups such as al Qaeda. *Between November 2011 and February 2012, al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia managed to get control of £480,000 worth of British aid.* The 'theft' of the aid and equipment 'was hidden in a recent set of UK government accounts.' *DailyMail.* You might wonder why the UK government has increased spending on foreign aid while reducing spending in other areas. *Is the aid money being used to bribe friendly dictators, finance terrorist groups... more »

Will ALEC Diss a Sitting US Senator?

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago

It all started here two weeks ago: *Dick Durbin to holdhearing on ‘stand your ground’ laws* *Durbin’s hearing will probe the NRA and the ALECl. | * By BURGESS EVERETT | 7/19/13 12:34 PM EDT The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat will hold a hearing on “stand your ground” laws this Fall. Dick Durbin of Illinois announced on Friday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hear testimony on state laws that give citizens the right of lethal force to defend themselves in situations where they feel their life is threatened, measures which are on the books in some form in dozens of states. Durbin... more »

Egyptian Jihadists brag that they were targeting Jews

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago

'The statement said, "We mourn... the Mujahideen in the name of Allah, the martyrdom of a group of the finest fighters in the Sinai, four of the best of the group Ansar Jerusalem...whilecarrying out their jihad duty against the Jews, the process of firing rockets at Jewish settlements near the borders of the occupied territories." The spokesman added, "What triggers grief in our hearts is the emergence of cooperation andcomplicity of the Egyptian army with the Jews in their crime... Is there any betrayal of the public larger than that? The Egyptian army allowing Zionist drone air... more »

Chet Raymo, "The Ring of Truth"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago

* "The Ring of Truth"* by Chet Raymo "In Salley Vickers' novel, 'Where Three Roads Meet,' the shade of Tiresias, the blind seer of the Oedipus myth, visits Sigmund Freud in London during the psychoanalyst's final terrible illness. In a series of conversations, Tiresias retells the story of Oedipus - he who was fated to kill his father and sleep with his mother - a story at the heart of Freud's own theory of the human psyche. At one point in the conversations, as Tiresias and Freud discuss the extent to which our lives are fated, the question of immortality arises. Freud says of ... more »

The Daily "Near you?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago

Stadtallendorf, Hessen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.

Did 6 million Jews really die in the Holocaust or was it actually more? Exposing a hidden Shoah, one mass grave at a time | The Times of Israel

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago

'Yahad-In Unum's research so far indicates that 1 million Jews "from Poland to Ossetia" were shot dead and laid in mass graves, many of whom were unaccounted for in previous Holocaust research. "A whole part of the genocide has not been declared," Desbois told The Times of Israel. "The challenge is to collect the maximum amount of evidence about the killing of the Jews in these countries and find out about the mass graves. Tomorrow the witnesses will disappear and the deniers will overreact, saying that the Jews falsified the story."' More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/expos... more »

Henry Geiger - Men and Gods (1973)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago

*Related: * * Henry Geiger - Symbol And Myth (1974).* *Henry Geiger - The Present And The Long View (1979)*. *Henry Geiger - Moonshine And Sunlight (1984).* * * * Henry Geiger - The Uses of Make Believe (1983).* *Henry Geiger - Signs of A New Civilization (1980).* * * *Henry Geiger - We See What We Are (1980).* * * * ** Henry Geiger - An Ancient Question (1986).* * Henry Geiger - The Chains Of Prometheus (1959).* *Wikipedia:* Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief writer of MANAS Journal which published from 1948-1988. Abraham Maslow called... more »

Dakota Unity Riders meet US Calvary

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago

Photo: Historic meeting in Newtown, Conn., with the last remaining Calvary connected with the Battle of Little Big Horn, the 7th Calvary. At the same time the Governor of Conn. deputized the Dakota Unity riders, and returned the flag ! “The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples” Grand Chief Murray Clearsky Southern Chiefs Organization Censored News I wish to extend

Vaginal Searches; Fake Protesters; Mind Control; Dodgy Nuclear Arms Deal

Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago

*Mind Control* *Warrantless Vaginal Searches Conducted By Texas Police* *New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters*

Shortcake and Pesto- Creative Showcase Linkup

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago

I have been painting like crazy this week. Some projects are small and others large, like finishing my daughter's bed....finally. She has only slept on a mattress on the floor for a year. I can't wait to get some of these great projects up on the blog. Until then, what have you been up to. Feel free to link up anything you have been creating, baking, reading or anything else to the link party. Here are some great links from last week. While not a tutorial, I really like, Making a Kitchen, Part 2: A Day in the Life, from The Pursuit of Craft. It shows what it is like to build your o... more »

Obama Snubs Putin-- McCain And Graham Smell A Chance To Spill Young Blood

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

In their report on the snub, *Time* doesn't even make a passing reference to Russian homophobia or the Olympics. Ed Snowden and international power politics is why, they say, Obama is traveling to St. Petersburg for aG-20 Summit and skipping Moscow and a planned visit with Putin. (And in his press conference yesterday, Obama suggested Snowden turn himself over to the American gulag system he's allowed his administration to become identified with; as for boycotting the Olympics over Russia's treatment of LGBT people... Russia's gays can suck wind for all Obama cares. The games must ... more »

a kiss on the wrist: the absence of same-sex love on star trek as a measure of how far we've come

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago

Earlier this year, I re-watched the original "Star Trek" series end-to-end on Netflix - a thoroughly entertaining experience - then decided to watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for the first time. It wasn't long before I was completely hooked. The show has a lot to recommend it: compelling story lines, mostly good writing, progressive politics, and the brilliant acting of Patrick Stewart meshed with the commanding character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I especially appreciate how Star Trek TNG improved on the worldview of Star Trek TOS. I remember reading about this when the sho... more »

more roku joy: post your pbs and nfb recommendations here

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago

Roku has added an app for PBS! This means we watch music clips from Austin City Limits, and in the winter we'll binge on American Experience history documentaries and American Masters biographies. These documentaries are consistently worth watching, and often truly excellent. On American Masters, we've recently seen "There But For Fortune," about Phil Ochs, and will eventually see bios of Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Rosetta Tharpe, and James Baldwin. American Experience has a spate of docs we haven't seen, including "The Abolitionists," and films on the b... more »

This Is Insane: The US Department Of Homeland (In-)Security Says It Is Now Illegal To Freely Play Music In The USSA!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours ago

I have been watching all of the news reports that I can over the last few years about the criminal actions taking place against the American people by both the criminals in the so called "Department Of Homeland Security" (DHS) as well as the NSA and other US Government groups. It has become increasingly clear that America truly is now a Police State that rivals the former USSR for brutality against its citizens. I have always been a music lover, and I have always enjoyed celebrations, parties, and get-togethers, where music is played in the background by a band for everyone's enjoy... more »

Dine' Leland Grass: Wild Horse Slaughter: Navajo Leaders Lost the Horse Song

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago

Leland Grass: Betatkin wild cow chase Why would the Navajo government support the slaughter of the sacred wild horse?  "The horseback riders should understand the prayer and song as to why there is such a horse." -- Leland Grass By Leland Grass, Dine' Censored News I don't understand why our own Navajo Nation government President Ben Shelly, Speaker of the Council Johnny Naize and  Dine

GOP jokesters

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours ago

I'm sure Maine's crackpot Gov. Paul LePage's expressed desire to blow up the local newspapers was meant to be taken as a joke, but it's not funny. While he was at photo op, manning a fighter jet simulator in the local Pratt & Whitney factory, he told the crowd, "I want to find the Portland Press Herald building and blow it up." And if it was meant as an offhand remark, one wonders why he repeated it twice: Later in the event, a television reporter from WMTW asked LePage again if he had any targets. The governor answered: "The Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News." This was aft... more »

Moscow Rejects Saudi Offer To Drop Assad For Huge Arms Deal!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours ago

President Bashar Al-Assad is now at the point of total victory against the criminal bought and paid for mercenary "rebels" for control over Syria. The good guys, the Syrian government forces have these so called "rebels", who have proven to be nothing more than murderous maniacs, on the run, and the proud people of Syria are now almost free of these US/Israeli invaders of their nation. The result has seen the US Government at the point of pure desperation and looking for anything to get an invasion of Syria going.... The real thorn in the American side when it comes to Syria has ... more »

H. L. Mencken Interview (1948)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago

H. L. Mencken Interview. Posted by YouTube channel Gottfried Leibniz on August 1. H. L. Mencken was interviewed by Donald H. Kirkley at the Library of Congress on June 30, 1948.

‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago

Former French employee of HSBC Private Bank Herve Falciani collected data on at least 24,000 customers of HSBC's Swiss subsidiaries from 2006 to 2008, while he worked in the bank's information technology development unit in Geneva, which he then passed on to French authorities. The data is at the centre of a row between France and Switzerland over suspicions of tax evasion by French citizens using Swiss bank accounts. * * * * *‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts* The New York Times | 13/08/08 | Last Updated: 13/08... more »

Rothschild's get into the Weather Forecasting Business...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago

Email from a #TFA school admin requesting a grade change. For.No.Reason.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago

I have the email embedded for you below. The interesting item is the whole inspirational quote thing in the email signature. I blocked most of it out, but I wanted to leave the end, “No Excuses.” Indeed. Tagged: admin, grade change, TFA

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago

*Video: Hunt for BP disaster oil continues on La. coast ~Amy Wold, The Advocate*

GUEST POST from Robert Rendo on #commoncore.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago

Common Core or no Common Core, standards for what children should know by a certain age (skills or content) have always been in flux and controverted. The CCSS is, I think, on an extreme part of that spectrum of flux. The consensus reality and research that more or less corroborates what, for example, a fifth […]

Po'pay, A True American Hero

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago

A promotional short for the documentary film, 'In the Spirit of Po'pay'. Native American hero, Po'pay was the leader of what is being called, "the First American Revolution", The Pueblo Revolt of 1680.  Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette, thank you! http://www.bloggen.be/natam/archief.php?ID=2291525 PO’PAY, EEN WARE AMERIKAANSE HELD Bron: Censored News  Een korte

Get outrageous with it!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago

* * * * *Get outrageous with it! * – channeled by Ron Head August 8, 2013 Michael This Lion’s Gate portal is now open to its greatest extent, and the energies pouring into your world, and therefore into your bodies, physical, emotional mental and spiritual, are greater than any you have experienced so far. The resulting changes to yourselves, and therefore your societies and your planet will become more evident and greater, as well. This is how it works, you see. Watch ever more closely now for evidence, for trends, which will at last be obvious enough to encourage you, to bring... more »

Zapatistas Marcos: 'Votan IV. D-Day Minus 7'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago

Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Revelations of what the Zapatista heart admires in others, announcement of some exemptions to the Zapatista Little School, and some pointless advice that no one is going to follow.   August of 2013. Okay so, there’s not much left now. I mean that there are not many days left until the Little School starts, not that we don’t have much more

South Dakota: 'Hot Water' exposes uranium mining contamination in water

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago

Filmmakers Liz Rogers and Kevin Flint go to South Dakota following a story about Uranium contamination only to discover that the problem flows much farther, and runs deeper than they could have imagined. Three years and thousands of miles later, "Hot Water" tells of those impacted by Uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the contamination that runs through our air, soil and even

Paulo Coelho, "The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

"The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions" by Paulo Coelho A] Considering that it’s absolutely correct the saying that states that “all is fair in love and war”; B] Considering that in war we have the Geneva Convention, adopted in August 22nd of 1864, that determines the fate of the wounded in battlefields whereas there is no agreement that was promulgated until this day that deals with the wounded of love, who are much more populous; It is hereby declared that: Art. 1 – All lovers, male or female, are now being notified that love, besides being a blessing, is also s... more »

The Poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "My Purpose"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars...” ~ from “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It Comes Then, To This..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

"It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For to "love your enemies" is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a clever device for winning them over to your side. The lion lies down with ... more »

"The Human Trouble..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life." - James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”

TV Watch preview: Larry David on apologies, plus (finally!) the final episodes of "Breaking Bad" begin

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago

*A trailer for HBO's Clear History* *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: I'm really sorry. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: It doesn't matter if you apologize if it's not sincere. *WIDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER* [*exasperated*]: Apologies don't have to be *sincere*. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: That is literally the *only* thing an apology has to be. I'm sorry it had to be like this. *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: You see? You *apologized*, but *you didn't mean it!* *by Ken* I don't know much about this HBO film *Clear History* (written by David Mandel, Alec Berg, and ... more »

The Syriaization of Egypt: Washington Eyes Endless Arab Civil War, Puts Diplomatic Weight Behind Global Jihadism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago

*John Kerry as Bin Laden: The Universe Has Come Full Circle. *(From A Sign In An Anti-Morsi Protest In Egypt).* **Photo Source*. "Where Ford goes, there the death squads go also. Ford is notorious as a disciple of John Negroponte, and it was said originally of Negroponte starting in Salvador in the 1980s that where Negroponte goes there the death squads also appear quite quickly. . . This is what passes for State Department Arabists. State Department Arabists used to be people who actually had some sympathy for the Arab nations and the Arab peoples, but now you can see we've go... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

• "Special scrutiny?" Nope, not a bit... *Click image for larger size. *

"A Ticket To The Freak Show..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin That being said, and freely admitting that, yes, this country *really is*the biggest insane asylum in the history of the world, all I can do is completely agree with the words of James Baldwin when he says, “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." And so I will, and you should too. It could be *so* much better... - CP

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours ago

Since I'm on vacation, I'm just going to leave it open. What do you think mattered this week?

Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago

* * *Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress* by ÉirePort Verification of renewed and amplified energetic structures for Gaia Ascension is now in progress. This final phase of Gaia preparation for Ascension occurs at this time as sufficient former paradigm structures have been removed and/or reset. Such verification requires no effort on the part of Hue-Beings at this time, as Gaia has complete administrative care of and responsibility for this phase. Hue-Beings will continue efforts at local levels as Guidance suggests. ... more »

Chicago: Police attack ALEC protesters!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago

  Arrests happening now in Chicago as protesters gather at the posh hotel of ALEC's event. The right-wing infrastructure source of ALEC is a profit-driven agenda which includes "K-12 Inc" a private company seeking to legislatively take over public schools, and aligned with the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. Privatization of schools is a $500B industry,

“America the Mesmerized”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

* * *“America the Mesmerized”* by William C. Lewis “Welcome to America, where we have such lovely things as police brutality, arms factories, gigantic prisons, racism, liar politicians, propaganda news and pornography. Bomb-making is a favorite American past-time as little worker bees who sit in factories all day work a nice 9-5 job making spare parts that are assembled to blow off the limbs of other children in far-away distant lands. When not doing this, Americans love such leisures such as recreational dope smoking, prostitution, snitching off neighbors and cutting each other... more »

"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

* * *"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"* by Karl Denninger "One simple question: Why? Why do you submit to mental control over your life, over your future, over you? You're afraid of dying. But death comes to all of us; it is inevitable. All that is alive will die. The question is whether you live well as you determine it and whether, when the time comes, you die well, not whether you will die. It is this fear that leads you to permit the irretrievably-screwed medical system we have in this country to exist. It is why you allow a hospital to charge $165,000 to replace a battery in... more »

Superintendent Rella: “If it sounds too bad to be true, it’s not!”

plthomasedd at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 22 hours ago

Test scores in New York being released is having unintended consequences, such as the entire testing regime of the recent 30-year accountability era being systematically unmasked. I invite you to read the letter from Superintendent Joseph V. Rella to Senator Kenneth P. LaVelle, which offers near the end: If you believe that any of this […]

The Light Cometh...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago

Sunrise at Isis Beach, Australia 8/11/2013 Photo by Muxi

So, What Would Change?

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 22 hours ago

August 10, 2013 Tom Whipple, a retired CIA analyst who writes a good deal about peak oil and other energy issues for various publications, had an article on LENR (low energy nuclear reactions) again, this week, over at the Falls … Continue reading →

Iraq sectarian death dealing rocks Iraqi cities - up to 80 killed today . An ominous note is that the Urds from Iraq may intervene in Syria to protects Syrian Kurds from Islamist fighters......What will Turkey do under those circumstances if Iraqi Kurds fight in Syria - August 10 , 2013....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago

Deadly car bombs rock Iraqi cities At least 67 dead in string of explosions in Baghdad and other cities during Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Last Modified: 10 Aug 2013 20:10 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Bomb damage in the city of Nasiriyah, where four people were killed [Reuters] At least 67 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of car bombs that rocked Baghdad and other Iraqi cities amid Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from the... more »

"That Lawless Crowd..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago

"I can't run no more with that lawless crowd, While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud, And they're going to hear from me..." - Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

Teabaggers, Their Tiny Brains Filled With Hate Talk Radio Nonsense, Are Now Coming After Republican Congressmen

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago

From the beginning of the Republic, the kind of conservative assholes who now call themselves Tea Partiers-- but were originally known as Loyalists or Tories and took up arms against the Patriots who fought the Revolutionary War-- were not just willing, but eager to see democratic government die. And they still are today. In the video above between mainstream conservative Aaron Schock and his constituents, including more than a few brainless teabaggers, the 'baggers demand that Schock commit to voting against any bill that includes funding for the Affordable Care Act. They insist... more »

CIA special delivery, Afghanistan

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 23 hours ago

Now this is what you call, !!!Having a few strings, let me make a call!! What do you think the cost for copter fuel alone is? "I'll ask the general a favor he owes me one." Seed Newsvine

Maybe What Vancouver Island Needs Isn't Provincehood but Sovereignty Association

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

There's been some talk lately about why Vancouver Island isn't a Canadian province in its own right. The argument is that, if you look at the maritime provinces, we're bigger, more populous, even more affluent so why not? It's the sort of discussion that flares up and then simmers along for ten or twelve years sort of like a coal seam fire. I read something in today's *Times Colonist* that got me thinking maybe my island should forget about winning province status and instead look at sovereignty association. Now here's the deal. We know that Canadians generally support reform ... more »

It's First Nations, Surfers & Loggers Versus Those Damned Dirty Hippies

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

A confrontation is brewing on the north island where remote Raft Cove Provincial Park is bracing for a flash mob of 2,000 hippies planning to stay there for up to a month. It's called the "World Rainbow Gathering", an annual event that's been going on since 1972 at different spots around the world. This year's gathering was planned for the Kootenays but had to be relocated due to a jet fuel spill. Unfortunately they didn't bother telling anybody much less seek permission. The Quatsino First Nation is pissed. Loggers working in that vicinity are pissed. Surfers who frequent... more »

DISINFORMATION - PACEPA

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago

Former *Romanian spy chief* General Ion Mihai Pacepa, and University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak, have written *'Disinformation'. * * * *Supposedly, "the book reveals secret strategies for attacking religion, undermining freedom and promoting terrorism."* * http://www.ncregister.com/* The book is CIA disinformation. Pacepa blames the KGB for plotting the assassination of President Kennedy and for organising the rise of Islamic extremism. General Ion Mihai Pacepa (right) months before he defected to the U.S. in 1978. In 2007, General Pacepa described how he helped... more »

Fukushima contaminated water and " hundreds of tons per day " Ocean pollution - by way of heavily contaminated ground water has finally snapped free of TEPCO Lies and BS ! And note their latest desperate proposal would make things even worse ! Kamikaze time for Japan ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Radioactive Water Spills Over Fukushima Barrier, Freely Leaking Into Surroundings [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2013 14:37 -0400 - Japan - LBO - Nuclear Power It was only last week that yet another conspiracy theory became fact when we learned, for the first time after nearly three years of lies, that Tepco had been deceitful and wrong with its "all clear" message about Fukushima, and that instead some 300 tons of contaminated, irradiated water had been flowing into the Pacific ocean every day. So now that the opportunity cost o... more »

Is the White House and Administration Orwellian , inept , bold face liars , idiots thinking we're idiots , cracking up around the edges under the pressure .... ...... All of the above ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Is the pressure of recent mishaps , geopolitical stress fractures throughout the Middle East , the global NSA ongoing clusterfuck causing folks in the Administration and in particular , the white house to lose it , to be kind ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2013/08/09/obama-putins-a-sloucher/ During Friday’s news conference, President Obama described Russian President Vladmir Putin as having a “slouch…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.” Perhaps the president was trying to infer something about Putin’s intentions or public p... more »

The DNA Nanobots Have Arrived

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Columbia University creates DNA robots that find and target cells for medication.* Nicholas West The Human Body Version 2.0 project features none other than arch-Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil as its main proponent. The goals have been openly stated for some time: In the coming decades, a radical upgrading of our body’s physical and mental systems, already underway, will use nanobots to augment and ultimately replace our organs. We already know how to prevent most degenerative disease through nutrition and supplementation; thi... more »

The War On Americans' Rights, Privacy, Dignity, & Due Process

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

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Privatized Spying DOMINATES the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

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The Turner Diaries

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

If you're not a reader of the *Hollywood Reporter* you probably missed Thursday's brilliant OpEd by actress and activist Kathleen Turner: I've Had Enough. I serve with Kathleen on the board of People For the American Way and have found her to be an inspiration for many years. Her passion for equality is infectious and uplifting. Oh, please. I would have thought by now that I wouldn’t be reading news stories about a "who’s who of the next generation of Republican Party leaders"-- all men-- running around trying to enact a national ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. I ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago

A hand drawn goodbye card for a departing employee at Persephone Books with a charming backstory.

Jeff Nichols on Mud Interview

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago

Jeff Nichols on Mud Interview. Source: FSinterviews. (April 2013). DP/30: Mud, writer/director Jeff Nichols. Source: TheHotButton. (April 2013).

FRY, SPIES AND GAY RUSSIA

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago

*Mysterious Stephen Fry.* Stephen Fry, the famous Jewish TV personality and author, wants a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Russia because of Russia's alleged homophobia. Fry knows a lot about the security services and has written a novel on the subject - *The Stars' Tennis Balls.* Was Fry recruited by the spooks while he was in prison for fraud? *Russia has always been pretty gay. Diaghilev, 1872-1929, (right) and lover Serge Lifar (1905 – 1986)* * * *Fry is wrong about Russia.* * * "The age of consent in Russia is 16 years of age, regardless of sexual orientation." *In Russia... more »

things to do

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Documents Aug 10, 2013: Navajo Shadow Government by Non-Navajos

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

Navajo Generating Station poisoning Navajoland and Grand Canyon Documents reveal theft of Navajo water rights and secret government by non-Navajos in key Navajo Nation positions -- working in collusion with dirty coal "This is all evidence of the 'shadow government' at work. The non-Navajo controlled 'secret government' that ultimately rules us." Ed Becenti, grassroots Dine' By Ed

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago

*What the levee authority really wants for Louisiana's coast: John M. Barry* ~The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East -- the levee board responsible for protecting metropolitan New Orleans east of the Mississippi River -- filed suit July 24 against Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell and 94 other oil, gas and pipeline companies for destroying the land and marsh buffer that once provided natural protection to New Orleans from hurricanes. As most readers know, approximately 1,900 square miles of Louisiana's coastal lands have disappeared in the past 80 years. This land loss is contin... more »

News from the Jews

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago

*Hypocritical Jewish identity politics, anti-Iranian hysteria, the futility of "peace talks" & Jewish ownership of the media revealed* One of the most noteworthy characteristics of the organized Jewish community is its outrageous double standards and hypocrisy, particularly as it relates to identity politics. The vast majority of Jews strongly identify as Jews, work in the interests of the organized Jewish community and the Jewish state of Israel, network with other Jews to advance economically, politically, and socially, and concern themselves with the well-being and future prosper... more »

"The Greatest Water Grab in History"

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

Across south and east Asia, water is power. If you want to know why China invaded and seized Tibet, it was the water. *New academic research shows that India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan are engaged in a huge "water grab" in the Himalayas, as they seek new sources of electricity to power their economies. Taken together, the countries have plans for more than 400 hydro dams which, if built, could together provide more than 160,000MW of electricity – three times more than the UK uses.* *In addition, China has plans for around 100 dams to generate a similar amount of power from majo... more »

Is that a politician in your pocket?

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago

So, Jabba the Mayor got wasted last night and wandered around Taste of the Danforth, where he was caught on video. NOW has the story with links to videos here. I may blog on this later, but for now I want to focus on another story about Ford that broke yesterday. First, though, consider this photo that Edward Keenan wrote about last week under the title, 'The photo that gets more incriminating all the time'. Anyhow, forget the video for at least a moment. Think about the photograph. In the picture above, there are four men. One is dead, two are under arrest, and one is the mayor... more »

Gun, Check. Point at Head, Check. Squeeze the Trigger?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

Think we're on the cusp of a "clean energy revolution" that will sweep the world and rescue our grandkids from environmental catastrophe? Think again. A report from the Our World 2.0 project of the United Nations University warns that coal, that accounts for almost half of energy-sector greenhouse gas emissions and was thought to be on the way out, is actually staging a comeback and faces a bright future. *the world is using coal for energy generation like never before, and projections are for consumption to grow by at least a third by 2040, possibly by a half if the worst case sce... more »

New NY Scores Prompt Increased Interest in Opting Out of Next State Tests

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: Long Island's Newsday has a story about growing interest by parents in opting out of state testing. It says that the terrible scores will increase the number of parents who don't let the schools test their children. William Johnson, the superintendent of Rockville Center district, says the scores are essentially […]

Philadelphia School District crisis continues - approximately 30 days before schools open and not certainty that they will..... The State , The City of Philadelphia , City Council and the Teachers Union are miles apart as compared with where they need to be and brinksmanship seems to be the order of the day !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

http://articles.philly.com/2013-08-09/news/41242049_1_philly-schools-deputy-superintendent-paul-kihn-new-funding With schools on the brink, Nutter and Clarke diverge Ads by Google BY SEAN COLLINS WALSH, JAN RANSOM & REGINA MEDINA, Daily News Staff Writers walshSE@phillynews.com, 215-854-4172POSTED: August 09, 2013 IF YOU'RE CONFUSED about what's going on with Philadelphia's school-funding crisis, look no further than the news conferences and posturing yesterday that provided a microcosm for why Philly's schools are on the brink only 31 days before school begins. It began with Superin... more »

I recommend you all take this #TFA internal survey and give ‘em your thoughts

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Here’s the link to a Google survey. Let the record reflect! Tagged: survey, testing, TFA

Letter from a NY Superintendent to Sen. Lavalle on #commoncore testing

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Embedded for your reading pleasure, followed by the empty condolences of Mr. King. Tagged: ccss, common core, king, letter, new york, superintendent

My Father and the LFTR

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 day ago

A number of years ago I wrote several posts about my father's ORNL career, including his contributions to Molten Salt Reactor chemistry. My father, Dr. C.J. Barton, Sr., worked at ORNL from 1950 until his retirement in 1977. He also worked at Y-12 where he made an important contribution to nuclear technology, namely the development of an industrial process for separating Zirconium from Hafnium. Zirconium plays a major role in all conventional reactors. My study of my father's career lead me to an appreciation of his skills as a scientist. This in turn has helped me have a better ... more »

Shut Up, He Explained

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago

 "Lucy, I don't like that tone. You're thinking again." (*graphic by Kat Garcia*) President Obama attempted one last desperate time yesterday to pull another fast one on the American people. But his combination of wheedling, bullying, cynical mendacity, fear-mongering, and 50s sitcom-style drollery all failed. They failed dismally, completely and irrevocably. He used all the propaganda tools in his oratorical toolbox, trying to sell people on the rationale for the massive surveillance apparatus targeting every man, woman and child not only in the United States, but throu... more »

How blacks view weiner, plus alleged drops in scores!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago

*SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2013* *The end to a very poor week:* In our view, the New York Times had a very poor week. Two final observations: Apparently, fifteen op-ed columns about Anthony Weiner weren’t quite enough. On Friday, the Times published this front-page news report about the man who won’t be mayor. Subject: How do *black* voters feel about weiner? Kate Taylor was called in to thrash this question, on the paper's front page. The inanity of this coverage ought to be obvious. Have any actual issues emerged from the mayoral race? Not that we’re aware of! But then, we read the T... more »

Into Paradise

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

PRAYING FOR GILCHUN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

The wonderful Jeju Island artist Koh Gilchun has fallen down with a cerebral hemorrhage on the last day of the March for Life and Peace on August 3. I was shocked to learn this news and my heart is heavy. We all should pray for him. I briefly met Gilchun while on Jeju but really had the chance to get to know him better last year at the end of my month long west coast trip that ended in Seattle. On my last day there Leonard Eiger organized a protest at the South Korean consulate in downtown Seattle and Gilchun was there. He had been doing an art show at a gallery in Seattle. A... more »

Pork Barrel 3: The Silent Idealists, the GFO-NGOs

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago

The pork barrel scam and robbery continues, we should keep the pressure until a big investigation will yield some of those corrupt legislators in jail. Asking for the abolition of pork barrel I think is next to impossible now. But asking for the heads of those who have been implicated so far, past and present, is not impossible, so long as political pressure from the public is sustained. Also, when many NGOs have become government-funded organizations (GFOs), this is one indicator that corruption has become pervasive. So-called non-governments have become part of government, pasimpl... more »

Enrico Betti: an anniversary

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago

Enrico Betti was an Italian mathematician and politician who was born in October 1823, i.e. 190 years ago, and died on August 11th, 1892 – we will have an anniversary tomorrow. He is most famous for a 1871 paper on topology that explained the Betti numbers – a term that was later coined by Henri Poincaré – which I used in my fairy-tale about the Euler characteristic. While Betti was a one-hit wonder of a sort, his life was pretty interesting. He was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, in 1823 and his father died when he was a baby. His mother may really be credited for all of his early edu... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago

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Judge Napolitano:The 4th Amendment Was Written Specifically to Prevent NSA Spying

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

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Update: Austin Terror Threat Confirmed, Why Weren’t We Warned?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Things that make you go “hmm”.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton In a follow up to our previous report on the law enforcement terror advisory for Austin, Texas, we have confirmed both that the terrorism threat is real and that there is a simultaneous multi-agency terror drill going down in Austin right now. We want to know why the press release on the Homeland Security drill wasn’t sent to the media until August 7th — the day before the actual terror threat — and why press coverage about the threat advisory – appearing on l... more »

Jim DeMint: Defund Obamacare Now - what should you do?...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago

*“It’s going to be no joke when ObamaCare fully takes effect, and Americans begin to experience its disastrous results."* via *Freedom's Lighthouse *- and we thank them. *Defund Obamacare Town Hall Tour*

Legal loophole allows NSA to conduct warrantless searches for Americans’ emails and phone calls

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: EFF/Flickr Madison Ruppert Thanks to a legal loophole, the National Security Agency (NSA) has a secret backdoor allowing the agency to search their massive databases for American citizens’ emails and phone calls without a warrant, according to a secret document released today. While some officials anonymously admitted that the NSA collects communications sent or related to overseas targets, the latest document leaked by Edward Snowden reveals that the surveillance of Americans goes far beyond what was previous... more »

Andy Burnham on the Westminster Bubble

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago

This about sums it up for me: We're the professional politician generation, aren't we? I was schooled in this, kind of, how do we make a press release today that embarrasses the opposition? That's the kind of politics that everyone was doing, and the kind of culture developed where you're scrabbling over a bit of the centre ground with micro-policies that are designed to just create a little couple of days' headlines and create a feeling, but not change much else. I think Andy has come the furthest and has grown increasingly in stature since the Labour leadership election three year... more »

Top 5 GMO Myths Debunked

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Heather Callaghan What do you say to your friends and family who want to know why you are passionate about growing your own, buying local organic, and refusing genetically modified ingredients? What do you say to the increasing amount of pro-GMO activists who call anti-GMOers dumb, heartless, and lacking real information? Author Chris Kanthan of San Francisco has covered the five most common myths surrounding the propagation of GMO foods. This interesting video brings up some arguments we never thought of: read more about th... more »

A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth? Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars. It is an amount of money that is larger than the "the economies of Germany, France and the U.K. combined". It is such an astounding amount of debt that it is hard to even get your mind around it. The government debt to GDP ratio in Japan will reach 247 percent this year, and the Japanese currently spend about 50 percent of all central government tax revenue on debt service. Realistically, ther... more »

WE ARE BULLIES......

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

In Japan Oliver Stone lays the truth down.....half way through the video he talks about Jeju Island Navy base as well.

What could make the Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish look like a mud puddle ? That would be a collapse of natural gas storage caverns at Lake Peigner.....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

http://www.katc.com/news/sheriff-ackal-says-lake-peigneur-could-be-worse-than-assumption-sinkhole/#_ Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole Posted: Mar 19, 2013 6:13 PM by *Chris Welty* *Updated: Mar 19, 2013 6:22 PM* [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] - [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] - [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] [image: Bookmark and Share] Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 4.0 (3 votes) "If we have a... more »

Russia takes the US ( and UN Security Council ) to school on Kurd massacre , Putin's spokesman degloves Obama and White House for two-faced reaction on denial of Snowden extradition request ( as a basis for shunting an Obama and Putin meeting at September's G- 20 , while pretending that wasn't the reason) - when the US has dodged entering into an extradition treaty with Russia , as well having " invariably refused " Russia's past extradition requests ..... Who is the grown up here - US or Russia ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/russias-responds-obama-snub-we-are-disappointed-snowden-situation-wasnt-created-us ( Eating our lunch - that would be Russia , lunched served by US.. ) Russia Responds To Obama Snub: "We Are Disappointed... But The Snowden Situation Wasn't Created By Us" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2013 22:09 -0400 - China Earlier we reported that in an act of embarassing political ineptitude not to mention detente reminiscent of the Cold War's worst days, the US president did his best Freudian transferrance a... more »

Is Buck McKeon A Racist Pig... Even When He Tries Not To Be?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Simi Valley makes up almost a third of Buck McKeon's congressional district (CA-25) but it was added to the district in the last cycle and McKeon-- the former mayor of Santa Clarita who has long since become a creature of Washington-- virtually never bothers going there. Preparing for a possible reelection challenge-- he's told the media he's running again and confided to local Republican politicians he's going to retire-- he ventured in Republican-friendly Simi Valley this week. Speaking on immigration reform at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10049 Wednesday, he asserted that terr... more »

The harpercon spirit can NEVER be vanquished!

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago

Never say die! That's what keeps these "conservatives" going you know. Too insane and stupid to know they're beat. They're like the resourceful heroes in an implausible Hollywood adventure. Except that they're assholes who most audiences would hate. If your average North American was watching these puss-balls on the silver screen, they'd groan with dismay at the resourcefulness of these criminal scum. They're more like a virus. Changing themselves or their environment to continue to spread and grow. Case-in-point: The recent CRTC ruling denying the loathsome SUN News channel the ... more »

If Obama REALLY wanted to take a stance on either the Snowden issues with Russia or the Russia law that pillories gay rights , he should pull the Olympic plug...... the fact that he won't , means he's just puffing. money talks , BS walks and not wanting ( or being allowed to harm the commercial interests of the Corporations who stand to make Billions from the Winter Olympics tells all you need to know about Obama's " outrage " over anything Russia !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Editorial cartoons lambast the President....... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/barack-obama-us-putin-russia ( When Obama tells whoopers , he has a shameful child's liar look written all over his face ! ) [image: President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the White House] President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the White House. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters President Barack Obama said on Friday it was appropriate for the US to pause and reassess its relationship with Russia, in the face of anti-America rheto... more »

Juan Cole clinically dissects Obama press conference and his arrogant false reassurances , blatant lies and failures to totally address the numerous revelations brought forth from Edward Snowden's whistle blowing breakthroughs ...... With Obama , the questions are : is it so meek that he doesn't seek the truth as to what the hell is going on around him ; is he completely complicit and just the best paid liar the PTBs could plug in after George W Bush ; has he been black mailed by NSA snooping ( with his background and other issues which could make Obama vulnerable to blackmail ) and thereafter a virtual organ grinder side kick , dancing to whatever tune is played by the organ grinder ? Regardless , lesson learned by NSA : don't trust humans , trust robots and computers ; press faster to get those emails and calls and keep the lies going full blast - the more ridiculous the better !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Obama’s Reassurances about Domestic Surveillance are not Reassuring Posted on 08/10/2013 by Juan Cole President Obama gave a news conference on Friday in which he addressed the controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding NSA spying on the American people. This issue is a very difficult one for Mr. Obama, given that he came to it from civil libertarian position as a senator, but now is president. When you are president, you are president of the nearly one million NSA employees and contractors, who become your constituency– not to mention the CIA, the Defense Intelligence A... more »

Brain Injured Immigration Policy

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago

The Harper government is presently "consulting" Canadians on what kind of immigration policy Canada should promote. Debbie Douglas and Avvy Yao-Yao Go write that the government looks at immigration -- as it looks at all things -- through an economic lens. However, there is more to immigration than economics: For a national consultation on immigration planning to be meaningful, Canadians need to know all the relevant facts and consider the multi-purpose roles of immigration policy — a notion captured by the concept of nation-building. Immigration planning must not simply be under... more »

Putin's War with NATO

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

During 1990, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbochev was only persuaded to allow German Reunification on the strict proviso that no further NATO expansion, not *"one inch to the East"*, into the former Warsaw Pact nations be undertaken or attempted. The New World Order did not honour this commitment. On *12th March 1999*, *Hungary*, *Poland* and the *Czech Republic* Ascended to full NATO Membership. On *23rd March 1999*, NATO launched the first war in it's history. To "initiate air operations in the *Federal Republic of Yugoslavia*" The Kosovo War, 1999 from Spike1138 on Vimeo. *"... more »

'The worst batman ever'?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago

A little old and it wasn't 'the franchise killer' but it was seriously dire.

Nixon Was Right

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

"Over the past months I had talked about resignation with my family with a few close friends, and with Haig and Ziegler. But the idea was anathema to me. I believed that my resignation under pressure would change our whole form of government. The change might not be apparent for many years; but once the first President had resigned under fire and thereby established a precedent, the opponents of future Presidents would have a formidable new leverage. It was not hard to visualize a situation in which Congress, confronted with a President it did not like could paralyze him by block... more »

Wisdom from Raghu Rajan

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago

"For economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one’s analysis and hedging one’s prescriptions. Better to assert one’s knowledge unequivocally, especially if past academic honors certify one’s claims of expertise. This is not an entirely bad approach if it results in sharper public debate. "The dark side of such certitude, however, is the way it influences how these economists engage contrary opinions. How do you convince your passionate followers if other, equally credentialed, economists take the opposite view? All too often, t... more »

The legacy of US war crimes against Vietnamese civilians

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago

Marjorie Cohn & Jeanne Mirer Global Research Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam, a long time with NO without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the American War against Vietnam, Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals, as well as their offspring. For over 10 years, from 1961 to 1975, in order to deny food and protection to those deemed to be “the enemy,” the United States defoliated the land and forests of Vietnam with the chemicals kno... more »

SMUGGLING OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS - DEATH OF SPY

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago

*Litvinenko, who reportedly had links to the Israel-based Russian mafia and the smuggling of radioactive materials. * * *In 2006, in London, former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed by polonium-210. *Radioactive Russian spy killed by MI6?* - *dailymail/news * * * *Naples* * *It is believed that Litvinenko is linked to a "* Russian-Israeli-Italian-British-US* *private intelligence network of former intelligence agents and billionaire mobsters"* involved in smuggling radioactive materials. * *"The investigators are wise to pursue the links to U.S. security firms and former CI... more »

Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

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

Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA

Beaten to it

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

Lest you were eagerly awaiting them (as if!), there won't be any predictions this week about which stories will or won't feature on tomorrow's *Sunday* (Radio 4, 7.10 am). The reason? The programme's website has already listed them, and I've already read them. So in that light, I confidently predict there'll be: An interview with political commentator Charlie Woolf [do they mean Charlie Wolf?] about whether politicians should 'do God'; an interview with a Coptic newspaper editor about anti-Christian attacks in Egypt; a report over divisions in the Jewish community over the Manch... more »

Detonation of the Sun

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago

A frequent source of links has sent me the coordinates of a page Explosion of Sun introducing a paper by Alexander Bolonkin and Joseph Friedlander urging all the physicists to think about the possibility that a malicious regime will send a thermonuclear weapon into the Sun and speed up the reactions inside the Sun – effectively converting all of our beloved star to a giant H-bomb long before our main source of useful energy is expected to go red giant around the year 7.5 billion AD. *This picture contains just a real-world eruption! Via IO9.* In the authors' opinion, physicists a... more »

Hamas 'to publicly execute two men in Gaza'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago

When even Harriet Sherwood of The Guardian manages to report Hamas's inhumanity but the BBC doesn't then the full extent of the BBC's anti Israel bias is clear. Harriet Sherwood reports that: 'Hamas plans to publicly execute two prisoners in Gaza next week as a "lesson" to others, according to Amnesty International, which has described the move as "deeply disturbing". The human rights organisation said a 23-year-old man had been sentenced to death for "collaboration with an enemy entity". He told his lawyer he had been beaten during interrogation, Amnesty reported. ... The se... more »

To Team Contrast

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

To Team Contrast We felt your moment of despair today. Your services are no longer required. The experiment has concluded. You excelled at [the] role you played. Bravo! Job well done. Time to repurpose your being and doing. Love and protection awaits those who stand down and operate in complete transparency and truth to bring resolution and completion to the experiment on Earth and other realms. Eternal Essence will enforce against the inbodiments who choose otherwise. Choose wisely. We love you! Come home to the love of the Prime Creator Source. You have ... more »

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Can You Imagine?"

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

* * *"Can You Imagine?" * "For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer's night or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now - whenever we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine they don't dance, from the root up, wishing to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly more shade - surely you can't imagine they just stand there loving every minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings of the years slowly and without a sound thickening, and nothing different unless ... more »

Friday Baseball Post

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago

From John Shea, in an item on Bonds/A Rod: Both are despised by a commissioner who believes Hank Aaron's homers are sacred. Yup. The commissioner of baseball not only actively plays favorites, but basically has an active vendetta against anyone who threatens the record (well, now, ex-record) of his favorite. By contrast -- Hank Aaron himself was a class act throughout the Bonds record chase. Despite all kinds of pressure from reporters to be a jerk...well, the reporters didn't see it that way, but the reporters were jerks and wanted Aaron to lead the parade. He didn't. But back t... more »

Romney Proves "He Is Who We Thought He Was" (Conservatives were Right)

Scott Ryan Anderson at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 day ago

The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago

Ellen Brown Web of Debt The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011, which exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally. In Cyprus, the depositors were “bailed in” (stripped of a major portion of their deposits) to re-capitalize the banks. In Detroit, it is the municipal workers who are being bailed in, stripped of a major portion of their pensions to save the banks. Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG have been given priority over other bankruptcy claimants, meani... more »

Sunday Classics preview: G&S's "republican" kings vow, "For everyone who feels inclined, some post we undertake to find"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Pittsburgh Savoyards *MARCO and GIUSEPPE (alternating bars)*: Replying, we sing as one individual. As I find I'm a king, to my kingdom I bid you all. I'm aware you object to pavilions and palaces, but you'll find I'll respect your republican fallacies. You'll find I respect your republican fallacies. *CONTADINE and GONDOLIERI*: They're aware we object to pavilions and palaces. How can they respect our republican fallacies? *MARCO*: For every one who feels inclined, some post we undertake to find congenial with his frame of mind -- and all shall equal be. *GIUSEPPE*: The Chancellor in h... more »

What the left could love about the NSA Presser

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago

Time was when President Obama's forceful style at today's presser would have had "teh left" exploding with approval on the social nets. Those days are over. Opening with the appointment of a blue ribbon commission to study the NSA didn't thrill the spectators. We've seen that movie many times before and it rarely has a satisfactory ending. That's not to say there wasn't a couple of (largely ignored) satisfying moments hidden in the Q & A. The two standout quotes for me came first in answer to Major Garrett's question on appointing a new head for the Federal Reserve. Obama answered ... more »

Long Walk 4 Photos with Irene Bedard

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

Photos at Antioch College, Ohio, by Long walker Aki Zaagi, than you for sharing with Censored News! . Antioch College Photo by Nargees Zinab Jumakhan, thank you! Share the love, with a camping spot, food or cold water for the Long Walkers! Walkers are headed to Indiana, and then Illinois. Upcoming walk schedule: INDIANA August 10 - Brookville to Richmond, IN 25.9 miles

The Daily "Near You?"

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

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.

Night Four: Nez Perce Blockade of the Tarsands Megaload

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

By Brooklyn Baptiste, Nez Perce Censored News Everyone was hungry but still chipper after things died down early this morning near Fish Creek on the Lochsa River. I am so grateful for all the Nez Perce tribal members & non-tribal individuals that showed how courageous they were by continued efforts to protest. No matter what some might say about this past week, we created awareness and

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