Monday, August 12, 2013

12 August - Blogs I'm Following

English: Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing, Chi...English: Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing, China Español: Mausoleo de Mao Zedong, Pekín, China (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Mao Zedong's calligraphy of his poem ...English: Mao Zedong's calligraphy of his poem "Qingyuanchun Changsha", Juzizhou, Changsha. 中文: 毛泽东手书《沁园春·长沙》,摄于长沙橘子洲 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret FamineHungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Long Walk 4 in Richmond, Indiana

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 45 seconds ago
Day 28: Long Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz Censored News Photos by Aki Zaagi, thank you for sharing with Censored News! "Day 28 - interesting day on Richmond, Indiana. Had a Pipe Ceremony by the Courthouse and a few people walked with us from there. Having a feast at the Townsend Center in a bit. We are hoping to go to the place where St. Clair, leading the first standing US army in

Pigging-- In The U.K. And The USA

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 minutes ago
Thursday, *The Guardian* reported that David Cameron was pushing for fracking in the U.K. again, this time using shop-woen conservative talking points from the U.S. that "ruling out fracking on environmental grounds would cost Britain in jobs and cheaper energy bills." Environmentalists in Britain are warning that fracking will "pollute drinking water and scar the landscape." Hundreds of protesters are gathering to disrupt work at a potential fracking site in Sussex this summer. But addressing staff at Crown Paint, in Darwen, Lancashire, the prime minister suggested that there ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 minutes ago
Another butterfly in Maeve's magic garden.

Handbags at dawn

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 33 minutes ago
It was only yesterday that I was complaining again about the BBC's tendency to binge on a story for a day and then move on, forgetting to follow it up - even when a dramatic new development occurs in that story. There's another example of this today - though it concerns a more trivial story. You can hardly fail to have heard about Oprah Winfrey's alleged racist treatment at the hands of a shop assistant in Switzerland. The papers and the BBC website were full of the story on Friday (9th August), and I remembering hearing it discussed on both *The World at One *and on *PM* on Radi... more »

MARCHING IN MADISON

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 36 minutes ago
The Forward Marching Band from Regis Tremblay on Vimeo. During the recent national Veterans For Peace convention in Madison, Wisconsin a march was held through the center of the city. Mainer Regis Tremblay put together this video from the march which ended at the state capitol building.

Old Fort Mac . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 39 minutes ago
AS SEEN BY Corin Raymond, the Stevie Paradise, where any job is a good job — just ask the hookers.

On the economic upturn...

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 51 minutes ago
The Tories ratings for economic competency has taken a huge boost, 28% to 40%. First things first the depression could not simply last forever, even if it felt like that a few years ago. That said this current upturn could well crash quickly. The current fundamentals are not great. The current boom is based on inflating house prices, the same method that drove the economy to the wall in the first place. Labour were never in a strong position to fight the Tories on economic competency having not fought for an interpretation of the 2008 crash, largely because they were heavily impli... more »

CHILD ABUSE IN CHINA

Anon at aangirfan - 58 minutes ago
In 1994, Mao Zedong's personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui, published The Private Life of Chairman Mao. According to Li Zhisui, *young virgin peasant girls were brought to Mao for sex, often group sex.* Book Review - Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Mau like young girls. *The Chinese Boy Kept as Slave by Uncle* According to The Economist, *'Mao lived like an emperor, carried on litters by peasants, surrounded by concubines and placated by everyone.'* Staying at the top Mao and the art of management Economist.com Mao liked sex with the 'handsome young men in his guard who ... more »

Let their freak flag fly high

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 59 minutes ago
I don't suppose the baby Jebus loves me enough to let this happen. Responding to a birther's question at a town hall a Texas Congressman confides they have the votes in the House to impeach Obama, but the crackpot cons should not be getting the hopes up. “You tie into a question I get a lot: ‘If everyone’s so unhappy with the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?’” [Rep. Blake] Farenthold continued. “I’ll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it wou... more »

Cushing, Okla: Undercover agents infiltrated Tarsands Resistance Camp

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Photos by Laura Borealis/Tar Sand BlockadeAccording to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, investigators from the Bryan CountySherriff's Department had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training campthat took place from March 18 to March 22 and which brought together local landowners,Indigenous communities, and environmental groups opposed to the pipeline.

South Park.... 911 truth, lol

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 hour ago
Well this isn't something I would normally post but Nick just showed it to me and I literally was floored. Typical South Park, potty language warning, lol. Season 10 episode 9- Kyle and Stan end up in the White House and President Bush completely outlines how he pulled off 911. .... my jaw seriously hit the floor!! Sorry it's not the best quality, but......

The court should not lightly interfere with a testator’s choice of the person to act as estate trustee

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago
Chambers Estate v. Chambers, 2013 ONCA 511: [95] The applications judge was fully alive to the legal principle that the court should not lightly interfere with a testator's choice of the person to act as his or her estate trustee: *Re Weil*, [1961] O.R. 888 (C.A.), at p. 889. Just as a court should remove an estate trustee only on the "clearest of evidence", so too they should be reluctant to pass over a named executor unless "there is no other course to follow":*Windsor*, at para. 41, citing *Crawford v. Jardine* (1997), 20 E.T.R. (2d) 182 (Ont. C.J. (Gen. Div.)), at para.... more »

Did Senator Pam Try to Cook Her Expenses Records?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
Nothing says "guilty" more than getting caught tampering with the evidence. Will the defendant please rise? Yes, Ms. Wallin, that'll be you. Apparently, Senate expense-scandal auditors, Deloittes, believe the senator from Wadena tried to doctor some of her spending records. The auditors' report is expected to be made public tomorrow.

A Few Facts about Project Mogul

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 hour ago
There are some facts about Project Mogul that seem to get lost in the minutia of the debate so that the same errors are frequently repeated. These are facts that should not be in dispute but somehow they keep getting missed, or misused, so I thought, in an effort to annoy everyone, I would publish these truths and see how far that went. 1. Mogul Flight No. 4 was cancelled. It did not fly, there is no record of it anywhere and that number is skipped in the accounting. Contrary to what Charles Moore claimed, it did not perform as well or better than Flight No. 5 because, had it flown... more »

Was that a smart thing for Chris Hayes to do?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013* *We’re going to say that it wasn’t:* Two weeks back, Chris Hayes did a segment on All In that carried a written warning: “The following is a satirization of recent news analysis.” Dating back to Jon Stewart’s hour of advice to Rachel Maddow in 2010, we’re largely opposed to actual journalists performing satirizations. We stand with Stewart’s apparent message to Maddow that night—her job as an actual journalist is more important than that. That said, the New York Times’ David Carr wrote an interesting column last week about Hayes’ satirization segment. But... more »

"Likely" to Die in Prison

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Let's do the math. You're 83. You just stood trial on 32-charges and were convicted of 31 of them, including eleven murders. Even if you were given just one year for each of those murders you would have to reach 94 before you were released. According to Boston.com, Whitey Bulger is "likely" to spend the rest of his life behind bars. That's a pretty safe bet. But, it could have been worse. The jury chose not to convict Bulger of another eight murders.

The Indiscriminate Lover

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
We were wrong about love. We know what it feels like; yet just a few of us know what it looks like. We’ve tagged it with promises, dressed it up with rings, burdened it with contracts and misidentified it with more words – words like loyal, moral and only. Love is not any of these – love is what you are. Without the baggage, love is remarkable. It shoots out at everyone indiscriminately; there are no loyalties or labels. There is no hesitation. Those of us reading this blog have learned the rules of love and either successfully or not, live within those definitions. The... more »

Creampie Asshole of the Day

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago
(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to faithful reader CC) In the interests of context, in case you haven't read the lead story on Yahoo: Tim Armstrong, All-American Boy and corporate sociopath CEO of AOL, announced to Wall Street (before telling his own people) that he was shrinking AOL/Patch from 900 to 600 websites. When this filtered down to the troops, morale, understandably, drooped like Bob Dole's cock before a naked Elizabeth Dole because that means a loss of jobs. So in some Hannibal Lecteresque simulacrum of empathy, Armstrong arranges a conference call to rally them. ... more »

Stiglitz Casts the Bones and Reads the Entrails of Detroit,

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz argues that it's vital not to get misled about the real significance of the bankruptcy of Detroit. *Detroit’s most serious problems are confined to the city limits. Elsewhere in the metropolitan area, there is ample economic activity. In suburbs like Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the median household income is more than $125,000. A 45-minute drive from Detroit is Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan, one of the world’s pre-eminent hubs of research and knowledge production.* *Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of Amer... more »

Send in the creepy clowns

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago
I usually ignore these sort of lame-ass stupid crackpot shots at Obama but this show of disrespect to our POTUS at a Missouri rodeo wasn't just an obscure and brief reference in some movie. This was a sustained charade at a family event with lots of children in attendance. "The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a bull," the posting said. "The crowd went wild. He asked it again and again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather." Another clown then apparently joined the performance. "One of the clowns ran up and started bobbling... more »

The Fort Hood Shooter: Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
"At Ft. Hood, an army psychiatrist, Dr. Hasan, killed thirteen and wounded 29, using a 5.4mm Fn Herstal pistol, specially designed for defeating Level III body armor. Hasan is said to have ties to a San Diego cleric of Yemeni background. However, while working at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, Hasan was the chosen representative of the Bush Administration, coordinating with Homeland Security. " http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=233612 The assault on the Benghazi compound was led by a Yemeni national and member of "Al-Qaeda" in the Arabian Peninsular - a false flag brigade ... more »

...the finder cannot unsee once it has been seen. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 3 hours ago
I quite like this comparison of Shanghai over a period of 27 years of unbridled growth which was published in the Atlantic. To me it sums up quite neatly humanity's voracious consumption of the natural world, turning it by increments into a monstrous, hellacious death trap. It's especially compelling since Shanghai has been setting new records for hot temperatures on a daily basis. [image: Bdp2aF on Make A Gif, Animated Gifs] make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif One of the most difficult things about becoming aware of the converging catastrophes that are lurching inexorably ... more »

I'm I..P..P..P..R/I'm I..P..P..P..R/I know I am/I'm sure I am/I'm B..B..B..B..C

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
In light of that Centre for Policy Studies report into BBC bias.... By searching the articles on the BBC News (from 1st January 2012 to today), we find the following mentions of some of the leading right-leaning and left-leaning think tanks, which seems to give some credence to the CPS's findings. Here are the results of my own forays into this area, each quoting how the BBC describes the respective think tanks and then apportioning a score for each think tank (representing the number of articles which label the think tank politically followed by the percentage that do so in rela... more »

Roy Cohn

Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
Mae Brussell - Update on the Presidio Child Molestation Case - And Death Threats from Spike1138 on Vimeo. This is a show that Mae Brussell did on March 21, 1988. Citizen Roy Cohn, Norieaga's Drug Running Friends, And Butler Silent Brotherhood. Also, Oliver North at the Supreme Court, Ross Perot's employees (and money) used by North and FBI Executive Assistant Buck Revell (Chief Investigator of Pan-Am 103) to set up Libya for the La Belle Discoteque Bombing in Berlin and Operation Eldorado. Buck Revell was also personally responsible for dirty tricks pulled by the FBI against Ross... more »

Tony, Meet Steve

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
They're both rabid rightwingers so you would have thought the man hoping to become Australia's next prime minister, Tony Abbott, would know a thing or two about his Canadian counterpart, Sideshow Steve Harper. Abbott seemed to ignore Steve entirely when, on the campaign trail, he dropped this bomb: “*You don’t get good decisions from government if all the decisions are simply made by one person. No one, however smart, however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom *.” Tony, meet Steve, the walking, talking suppository of all wisdom. And now, Tony,... more »

GETTING THE NEWSLETTER OUT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
- I've got most of our Global Network newsletter *Space Alert* ready to go to our layout person. I had to edit the articles submitted by various folks, write some of my own, and then go through pages and pages of good related space news articles to pick out gems to put in our two-page spread we call Odds & Ends. I worked for 12-hours straight the other day on the newsletter copy, once I get on a roll it is hard to stop. I also tried to include some good action reports and photos from protests in order to make sure that the newsletter was not just filled ... more »

Wrong On Virtually Everything Else, California Crackpot Dana Rohrabacher Gets It Right On Ed Snowden

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Chairman Rohrabacher of the Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee (r) plays dress-up with terrorists in Afghanistan Generally speaking, southern California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is a dickhead. In the last few days, he again insisted that Climate Change is a "total fraud" and happily backed Obama's drone policies. “I don’t have anything against drone strikes, and I think that the administration has not been doing a bad job when it comes to using drones to single out and kill the terrorists who would harm our own people. We should use every technology that we can to... more »

Volume, Volume, Volume!

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
If America is top at one thing, it's mass incarceration. With but 5% of the global population, the U.S. has 25% of the global prison population. Its *prison-industrial complex* is second to none but, like all successful ideas, sometimes it can be too successful. America has been so successful at banging up little people for minor drug possession charges that it has accumulated more little people behind bars than it can stuff into even its generous supply of prison cells. What to do, what to do? Do you stop tossing little people in prison for minor drug offences? No, no, not t... more »

The Ripper

Paul Coker at News Spike - 4 hours ago
Peter Suttcliffe is not the Yorkshire Ripper. Five women have been killed. An East Anglian town has been forced to cope with a murderer in its midst, who takes the lives of young street prostitutes. But this is not Ipswich, where the relatives of five victims had their pain eased just a little on Friday by the full life sentence given to the killer, Steve Wright. This is Norwich, 45 miles to the north, where the police show no sign of solving the long-standing cases of Natalie Pearman, Mandy Duncan, Kellie Pratt, Michelle Bettles and Vicky Hall. Here, five families remain distr... more »

Clarice Feldman trashes Diane West's book "American Betrayal"...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago
*which she hasn't read.* Really? But, it's okay since much of her article at American Thinker was based on a review done by Ron Radosh, a self-described ex-Marxist, who also *hasn't read the book.* There were quotes from some other elitist historians - none of whom read the book. Feldman praises David Horowitz, head of Freedom Center which publishes Frontpage Magazine, for removing a favorable review of the book and replacing with the scathing one whipped up by Radosh, who, to remind you, *has not read the book. * Now Mr. Radosh has doubled down and spewed even more vitriol on D... more »

Ethnosectarian Politics In Iraq, Its Future And Repercussions, An Interview With Univ of Miami Prof. Adeed Dawisha

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 4 hours ago
Sectarian politics has ruled Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Although the Americans are widely blamed for institutionalizing this style of government, the Iraqi opposition was already organizing themselves by sect and ethnicity in the 1990s. Since the U.S. invasion, every Iraqi government has been a national unity one where all the winning lists have been given a seat, and top positions are divided up using ethnosectarian quotas. Washington and others have argued that this system was necessary to include all of Iraq’s diverse population, so that they could work toget... more »

AP VIDEO: Iraq Eid

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 5 hours ago

Judge in judge alone trial has jurisdiction to reverse a finding of guilt suo sponte

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
R. v. Griffith, 2013 ONCA 510 holds: [12] On the basis of this court's decision in *R. v. Lessard* (1977), 30 C.C.C. (2d) 70, it cannot be doubted that the trial judge was not * functus* until he imposed sentence. In *Lessard,* Martin J.A., speaking for the court, held that a judge sitting without a jury is not *functus officio* until he has imposed sentence or otherwise finally disposed of the case. Therefore, a judge who has made a finding of guilt, either as a result of a guilty plea or on disputed facts, is empowered to vacate the adjudication of guilt at any time before ... more »

Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Meta Heroes

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago
I am on vacation so I am a bit late with the FNB. This 2014 film looks like a heap of fun–when superhero impersonators stop impersonating and start hero-ing:

New York Mayoral Candidates: Fly Me to Cincinnati

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago
When New York mayoral candidates lead reporters and editors of the New York Times on a field trip expedition to the hinterlands of Cincinnati schools, you have to know there is something awful at home they would rather everyone forget. The awful something in this case, of course, is the test-bombed remains of New York’s […]

Watermarking DRM Could Offer New Opportunities

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 5 hours ago
Many see DRM as a glass half empty and also a barrier to interoperability, others see it as a means of restricting abuse, copyright infringement and piracy. The solution may not be as black and white as many believe. Only a few years ago we would have advocated the wholesale dropping of DRM and a position similar to that adopted by MP3 music. Today however, there is potential for a softer approach to DRM to offer great opportunities for the marketplace. First we must accept that the current prevailing ‘unsocial’ or encrypted DRM serves few and in fact in many cases can be broken... more »

The One Percent

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours ago
The *JEP* Symposium on The Top One Percent is now available online.

Times readers just keep pummeling Dowd!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago
*MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013* *Something is happening here:* Yesterday, a very encouraging trend continued. Readers continued to pummel Maureen Dowd for her fatuous work, which is quite paralytic. Dowd has been a study in the fatuous since taking a richly deserved "vaca" in late June. Returning after the Fourth of July, she did four fatuous columns from Paris, then two columns from Boston about the ways Whitey Bulger’s accomplices used to murder their girl friends, then pull out their teeth. After that, she authored two columns concerning her thoughts about weiner, plus a third column... more »

Running scared . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
FROM THOSE CONCERNED FOLKS at 350.ORG. 

Egyptian Military Kills its own while collaborating with Israel & NATO ???

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
* Tough question!* *If* you are one of those persons, who supported the coup psy-op in Egypt, using the reasoning that the coup was undertaken to achieve democratic restoration in Egypt, this post is not going to make you happy. * If *you were one of those individuals who equated the Syrian Army to the Egyptian Army and the actions ongoing in their respective nations as the same, this post is not for you. * It* will challenge your cherished beliefs. And for whatever reason people don’t want their beliefs challenged. You have been warned. The proposition is the same as the one origi... more »

SOURCES OF PARALYSIS: Skill-less in Cincinnati!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago
*MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013* *Epilogue—“An analysis by the New York Times” of Queen City public schools:*What does intellectual paralysis look like, in its purest form? Put it another way: How deeply pre-human are the elites who drive our intellectual culture? How deeply pre-human are this nation’s “journalistic” elites? Consider the lengthy news report which appears in today’s New York Times. The piece runs more than 1500 words. Its headline announces this: “Candidates for Mayor See Cincinnati as a Model for Schools in New York” Reports like this have appeared in the upper-end press ... more »

Messiah is Back - He's Here, He's There, Over There Too

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours ago
Only in Tennessee - or Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia maybe. A magistrate dealt with the case of a baby boy whose parents could not agree on the child's last name. Child support judge, Lu Ann Ballew decided she was none too pleased with the 7-month old's first name either and so she changed that to Martin from - wait for it - Messiah. Judge Lu Ann ruled Messiah was a religious name earned by only one person and, "*that one person is Jesus Christ.*" But here's the kicker. It looks as though Judge Lu Ann's reasoning is wrong, big time: *"Messiah was the fourth fastest-rising baby ... more »

Two Small Steps for Man Amidst the Giant Leap Backward

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 6 hours ago
In an unsurprising ruling, a federal court judge has just ordered an end to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign of racially profiling black and brown men on the streets of his fair city. From the *New York Times*: In a decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, ruled that police officers have for years been systematically stopping innocent people in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing. Officers often frisked these people, usually young minority men, for weapons or searched their pockets for contraband, like drugs, before lett... more »

Read Stuff...I Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago
If it wasn't in the Racing Form, I probably missed it this weekend -- so here's an open thread for Monday, and also a chance to let me know what I should catch up on. Good stuff, especially, but if there's something that would make me cranky, I suppose that's okay too. Thanks! Back to normal tomorrow.

The Problem with Apollo Analogies

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 6 hours ago
Last week I had a letter in the FT, commenting on the latest call for a new Apollo project, this time for solar energy. I explained that Apollo is a poor analogy for difficult challenges: *Going to the moon was easy by comparison* From Prof Roger Pielke, Jr. Sir, David King and Richard Layard (“We need a new Apollo mission to harness the sun’s power,” Comment, August 2) call for new spending on solar energy technology of the magnitude that was spent on the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 1970s: “To match the spending on the Apollo project would require only 0.05 per cent o... more »

Kiss The Earth - A Poem by Thich Naht Hahn

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
* Kiss The Earth *** *Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a flower bloom. Kiss the Earth with your feet. Bring the Earth your love and happiness. The Earth will be safe When we feel safe in ourselves. *** *Thich Naht Hahn * From " Call Me By My True Names" ** *Thích Nhất Hạnh (born October 11, 1926)* is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He lives in the Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne region in the South of France. His poems reflect his version of ... more »

Massive Document dump from @unitedoptout. How about it? #optout

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 hours ago
The good folks at UOO are working very, very hard to give you all the information you need to take a stand. You won’t be going into this blindly. So, check out their Truth and Justice campaign, which for this phase includes a slew of new documents, toolkits, brochures, and flyers for you to […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago
*A New Core ~Saints Win * *Sean Payton Harder On Himself For Play Calls Than We Were ~Saints Tailgate* *The Times-Picayune Fiasco: Newhouse says he's 'pleased.' Huh? ~Errol Laborde* *Marullo leading dispenser of not-guilty verdicts ~John Simerman * *As one year anniversary of Hurricane Isaac approaches, some victims feel forgotten ~WVUE* *Swift Departure ~Stephanie Riegel* *New Orleans entrepreneur gets serious about sunglasses ~Renee Peck, NolaVie * *Free dance lessons in New Orleans (almost) every day of the week ~Megan Braden-Perry, Gambit* *Oyster hatchery ‘dream building’ so... more »

TV: Your Mind. Controlled.

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 7 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Are large segments of the American public literally walking around in a hypnotic trance?* * *Melissa Melton Michael Snyder, of The American Dream, wrote this almost two years ago: Our society is rapidly coming apart at the seams and people are seriously starting to lose it… Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what is right and what is wrong. Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what it means to treat others with dignity and respect… It is almost as if some sort of mental illness is spreadin... more »

Why Are Millions Of Fish Suddenly Dying In Mass Death Events All Over The Planet?

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 7 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Millions upon millions of fish are suddenly dying in mass death events all over the world, and nobody seems to know why it is happening. In many of the news reports that are linked to below, locals are quoted as saying that they have never seen anything like this before. So is there a connection between all of the fish deaths that are now occurring all over the planet? If there is a connection, is there anything that we can do to stop the fish die-off? Sadly, because the big mainstream news networks in the U... more »

The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. But the mainstream media weren't there to record it. They were waiting for the verdict so that they could condemn him for crimes he did not commit.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago
------------------------------ AUGUST 08, 2013 Original here *Will Bradley Manning's Courage Inspire Other Whistleblowers?* *Truth in the Crosshairs* by JOHN PILGER The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. This was not deemed mainstream ne... more »

The Nuremberg Charter was the first time in history that individuals in the country losing a war could be prosecuted for war crimes. One of the provisions of the Charter asserts that indivduals ordered to commit what he/she recognizes to be an immoral act but commits it anyway is gulity of a war crime. Those (like Bradley Manning) who refuse such orders are innocent.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* *Bradley Manning, the Nuremberg Charter and Refusing to Collaborate with War Crimes* Pt 3 of 4. In this segment of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the Bradley Manning case in light of the 68th anniversary of signing the Nuremberg Charter which states it is illegal to follow orders to commit a war crime - * August 11, 13* More at The Real News *Bio* Vijay Prashad is a professor of international studies at Trinity Colleg... more »

Late breakfast

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Trudeau The Elder

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 8 hours ago
For the Canadian Right, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is the bogeyman. Stephen Harper, who used to admire Trudeau, came to believe the standard Conservative line, best expressed by Bob Plamondon in his book, *The Truth About Trudeau*: “Far from being one of the best of our prime ministers, he was one of the worst. [He] left deep divisions and scars that remain to be healed. … It took successive leaders many decades to clean up the disorder.” Somewhere between the time he left Toronto and started to refer to Calgary as his "home town," Harper dedicated himself to undoing what Trudeau had... more »

Are Establishment Republicans About To Dump A Michigan Santa Claus Impersonator For A Foreclosure Lawyer?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) is one freshman who has not been embraced by the GOP House Establishment. The very strange Tea Party activist is very much an accidental congressman, who slipped into office when long-time GOP incumbent, Thaddeus McCotter, resigned as part of a deal to keep him out of prison for election fraud. Bentivolio has a typical GOP voting record (a ProgressivePunch score of 6.73) and hasn't done anything to distinguish himself since being elected last year. The former reindeer rancher and professional Santa Claus impersonator was involved in a long drawn out bankrup... more »

Ford Follies: Monday Morning Round-up

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
Your Monday morning round-up on the bizarreness that is the Chief Magistrate of Toronto. First from the Globe and Mail, Rob Fucking Ford goes to jail. An after-hours appearance by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a west-end jail in March was deemed unusual by correctional officials and prompted an e-mail describing the incident for the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, multiple sources have told The Globe and Mail. Mr. Ford went to the jail that night to speak with a then-inmate named Bruno Bellissimo, The Globe has learned. Mr. Bellissimo, 43, is not named in th... more »

NY Regulator issued subpoenas to all of the popular BitCoin Companies...... In other money news , gold shorts running for the hills now that JP Morgan has cornered gold futures at Comex and is seeking physical gold aggressively - August delivery angst or a sign of bigger things coming our way ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/regulator-subpoenas-bitcoin-companies-2013-8 REPORT: NY Regulator Issued Subpoenas To All Of The Popular Bitcoin Companies **ROB WILE AUG. 12, 2013, 8:13 AM 17 - - inShare2 - - - ** EMAIL - ** MORE [image: bitcoin accepted here sign] flickr/Adam Crowe The Wall Street Journal's Robin Sidel says New York Department of Financial Services has subpoenaed about two dozen Bitcoin merchants as part of an inquiry into their compliance with the state's finance statutes. Sidel says firms run by Marc Andreessen and the Winklevoss Twins receive... more »

The Slog reveals how EU Regulations can become law with MEP involvement - and how the Bail In Law will impact and apply not just in the Eurozone but the wider EU itself ! Stated bluntly - if you live within the EU , a mechanism is already in place to loot your bank accounts !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/global-looting-how-an-eu-regulation-can-become-a-law-without-mep-involvement/ GLOBAL LOOTING: How an EU regulation can become a law without MEP involvement EC process and Brussels Mole confirm that a legal mechanism exists to fleece all of us in the event of a euro bank collapse [image: rehnexcept]*The exceptionally unexceptional Olli Rehn* *In this follow-up to the weekend’s bailin process adoption posts, The Slog fills in the remaining pieces of the jigsaw. You may think you are a member of a Democratic European Union. You are not. There are m... more »

Gold and silver news of the day - August 9 , 2013 ! Gold Collateral situation - very complicated indeed....Jesse's crossroad cafe blogspot breaks the current conditions down..... updates from GATA - focus on imaginary gold , banks trying to block gold withdrawals , COMEX and Gold ETF physical gold heading to China , Bank of England covering up gold custody questions ....Ted Butler blows whistle on JP Morgan cornering gold......This week's COT Report - note the shifts for futures for Large Speculators and Commercials.......

Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
August 10th Update ..... Ed Steer's Gold and silver Report .... http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/ted-butler-cornering-the-gold-market Ted Butler: Cornering the Gold Market Aug *10* - Yesterday in Gold and Silver - Critical Reads - The Funnies - The Wrap RetweetShare "But behind the apparent calm in gold and silver prices, there are huge forces in play. " ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER The gold price 'action' on Friday, if you wish to dignify it with that description, was nonexistent, and the highs and lows aren't worth posting, as the gold price traded in a ... more »

Media silence as Hamas cracks down on opposition | Trending Central

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Hamas have arrested and may have tortured opposition politicians in Gaza not that you'd know if you rely on the BBC for your Middle East news. As usual the BBC are doing their best to protect Hamas from any negative news coverage. ' When some buildings are built, the BBC is there, high-definition cameras at the ready, to capture what it frames as great injustices. But when terrorists are holding an entire body of people hostage, imprisoning and executing opposition activists, the organisation falls silent. In two, three, five years, or a decade, when the Palestinians in Gaza fina... more »

Revealed: Obama admin’s nonsensical legal justification for bulk collection of Americans’ phone records

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: WeMeantDemocracy/Flickr Madison Ruppert The Obama administration recently released a white paper which summarizes the supposed legal justification for the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. Contained therein are some thoroughly nonsensical and leave the door open for massive invasions of privacy. Meanwhile, it was revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) can conduct warrantless searches for the phone calls and emails of Americans and that the collection of data expands far beyond what was prev... more »

Snowden's Representatives are Formidable

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's father, Lon Snowden, and civil liberties attorney Bruce Fein appeared on ABC's *This Week* to discuss the NSA spying scandal and the fate of Edward Snowden. They are clearly a formidable match for the spymaster liars in the U.S. government. Subscribe to LeakSourceNews Channel Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

BBC News - Labour amends foreign workers speech

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
'"But when agencies bring such a large number of workers of a specific nationality at a time when there are one million young unemployed in Britain, it is right to ask why that is happening."' So speaks Labour immigration spokesman Chris Bryant. Doesn't he know that increased immigration was the last Labour government's policy, designed as Andrew Nether told us to 'rub the right's noses in diversity' and as I believe to increase the Labour vote. For Chris Bryant to make such a speech now reeks of the sort of vile hypocrisy that Tony Blair was such an exponent of. More from the ... more »

What This Judge Did, Happens Every Day...

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] DeviantArt w/ added Star Heather Callaghan *Ooops, sorry if I offended anyone ... *is basically the response Judge Amy Salerno of Franklin County, Ohio gave after getting called out for scolding the jury for their verdict. She then went further by threatening them that she would keep having a trial until the *right verdict* came in. She is a rare one that got pulled out into the limelight. But judges everywhere use the jury as their personal Magic 8 ball, shaking it till they get the response they want - a response which alm... more »

Off to protests...er, pastures...new

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Vis-à-vis *Newsnight*'s departing economics editor, I had to smile at this (courtesy of Guest Who at *Biased BBC*): Paul Mason, *Newsnight*'s economics editor, announced he was following colleagues Michael Crick, Shaminder Nahal and Jackie Long and crossing over to the rival team... For [Ian] Katz [the incoming *Newsnight* editor] it will have been a bitter blow, although the decision is not a reflection on *Newsnight*'s new regime but due to concerns the BBC's strict rules might inhibit Mason's future ambitions in writing and innovative story telling. Books he has previously writ... more »

Philippines Protesters Trample, Uproot GM Golden Rice Trial

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Image 1, Image 2 Heather Callaghan A new genetically modified crop of 'Golden rice' was weeks away from harvest in the Philippines. It was reportedly going to be submitted to authorities for evaluation. This was an important milestone as other countries like Bangladesh, India, and Indonesia were considering going for the crops in Philippines' wake. Growing GM rice with vitamin A to help the blind is one of the biggest philanthropic harbingers for GM crops. Extra genes are inserted to better produce beta-carotene. As discuss... more »

This is the Absolute Opposite of a Free Society

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
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Workers at Fukushima plant now contaminated by body cooling mist - this latest revelation as to how bad contamination is involving water subsequently forced the shutting off of water ( toilets , etc. ) to the Seismic Isolation Building ( or Anti - Seismic building ) - headquarters for all the work done at the plant , as well as Reactor Buildings 5 and 6 - as these Buildings share the same water source as the body misting system ..... is the drinking water contaminated as well ? Naturally Tepco has no clue as to the source of contamination.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
[Contaminated groundwater penetration ?] 10Bq/cm2 on face of workers / A part of the plant tap water turned off Posted by *Mochizuki* on August 12th, 2013 · 1 Comment Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Following up this article..*Dust monitoring alarm went off / Body cooling mist possibly contaminated Fukushima workers* [URL] Tepco measured 10Bq/cm2 of contamination on the face and head of the 10 workers at maximum. At 13:40 of 8/12/2013, they turned off all the water (toilet etc..) in the seismic isolation building and reactor5 and 6 *b... more »

Forget REAL ID -- The Global Smart-ID is coming!

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Julie Beal The grand plan for Global ID is to give each person on the planet a way to identify themselves online. One ID number for each person, to signify all that they are. This is the full personal profile containing anything relevant for identification purposes. It means all our private details being managed by a corporation, in the cloud. If you want to sign up to the online identity ecosystem, you can already do so through Google or Yahoo!, or by registering with the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG).[1] And... more »

Possible Nerve Agent Shuts Down JFK Airport Post Office; Turns Out To Be Beauty Supplies

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source *Activist Post* As a plethora of scandals continue to erupt in U.S. government, many are suspecting that an increase in terror drills (including one for chemical agents in the NY subway) and fake terror threats could be the harbinger of a real event -- false flag or otherwise. Austin, TX recently became the site for a leaked memo that highlighted a Homeland Security warning which seemed to show a legitimate specific threat that was hidden from the public. New York law enforcement reported earlier that a let... more »

HE WAS WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago
구럼비-바람이 분다 from cho sung bong on Vimeo.

The U.S. Government Does Not Want Americans To Travel Abroad

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Freda Art Digby Jones No other government on the face of this Earth wants to make it’s citizens more ill-at-ease, deathly afraid, or made to feel so guilty for stepping outside of it’s national boundaries as the United States of America. Rather than encouraging Americans to embrace overseas travel as one of the most educational, enjoyable, and emotionally and spiritually satisfying endeavors that people can undertake in the course of our painfully short lives, U.S. government departments and institutions are notorious for w... more »

NEW YORK PEDOPHILE RING LINKED TO CIA?

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland *John Mulholland* taught industrial arts at the Horace Mann School. *The very same day that Allen Dulles approved the CIA's Project MKULTRA brainwashing operation, Sidney Gottlieb went to see John Mulholland.* John Mulholland went to work for the CIA and MK ULTRA. (The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland) *Johannes Somary, former music teacher at Horace Mann School in New York. Somary is named in abuse claims, including allegations by Joseph Cumming. 'Little attention has been paid to the fact... more »

London in 1926

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo. Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Friese-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with. It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving. Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen. The lovely people at the BFI have got in touch and it turns out the film was made in 1926. They have lots of other footage from his film, The Open Road on their YouTube channel up here bi... more »

Faust

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 10 hours ago
Here's the classic silent movie ... And another ... I don't believe I have a soul to sell. But I still recall thinking these films were groovy when I was a teenager.

CIA 'Free Baluchistan' op to carve Pakistan under China's nose

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours ago
William Engdahl Russia Today Developing Pakistan-China ties which can drastically change the economic map of the region are threatened by Pakistani separatism, which might suddenly transform into another ‘terror ground.’ As Washington continues sending its development assistance aid in the form of drones to bomb civilians illegally inside Pakistan’s borders, allegedly to go after Taliban fighters, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently completed a trip to Beijing where he met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, his first foreign visit after the May elections. The Pakistani Federal ... more »

Both neutralino, sbottom may weigh less than \(20\GeV\)

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
*Dark matter searches and LHC rumors may converge in a light sbottom-photino point* I decided that the most exciting hep-ph preprint today is Supersymmetry with Light Dark Matter confronting the recent CDMS and LHC Results by Alexandre Arbey, Marco Battaglia, and Farvah Mahmoudi. An interesting detail about the list of the authors is that all of them are partially affiliated with the CERN theory division. Why is it interesting? Because the LHC top squark rumor from February 2012 was later rumored to have arrived from the CERN theory division so these three physicists might know mu... more »

Monday Morning Linkage

Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
Hey, y’all… Here’s your linkage… Enjoy. Kapil Patel argues that a growing awareness of India’s declining conventional deterrence vis-a-vis China has led it to create a new mountain strike corps of 40,000 men. Alec Metz at Registan reviews this year’s Eid message from the sub-literate but charismatic Mullah Muhammad Omar. Ajit Sahi argues that despite the Continue reading

“Alcohol or Not Vote as Nebraska Town, Population 10, Sells 13,000 Cans of Beer Daily to Oglala Sioux”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
* * *“Alcohol or Not Vote as Nebraska Town, Population 10, * *Sells 13,000 Cans of Beer Daily to Oglala Sioux”* By Evelyn Nieves ․ "Nebraska calls this a village: two blocks, one dusty road and six or so buildings, squat and cheap, like the set of a spaghetti western. Just over the South Dakota border, the Oglala Lakota Sioux call this place something else. They call it the root of all the pain, suffering and damnation endured on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They call White Clay hell. Plopped a minute away from Pine Ridge, where alcohol is banned, White Clay provides tribal... more »

On-demand Media and Sensory Devices will Change Culture

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 12 hours ago
Our dependency on electronic devices has grown over the last decade. We now appear to be entering yet another cycle of the technology escalation and it resulting cultural change. It will like those before it change how we consume media and how we communicate with others. The ‘I’ era was one of the Pod, Phone and Pad. It enabled mobility and communication but also created the ‘I’ society who often resembled zombies, switch on, tuned out and transfixed through those white earpieces. What it finally gave us was the platform environment which enabled media to be enjoyed across multip... more »

Burkas and Bikinis

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
' The fact of the matter is that only in Israel do both the girl in the bikini AND the woman in the Burka not fear any repercussions for being seen next to each other. The fact of the matter is that the woman in the Burka feels safer in Tel Aviv than she would in her own village/town. She knows that she can walk unhindered down a beach, smell the sea air, enjoy the sound of the crashing waves – and other cliches – without anyone posing any moral authority over her. The fact of the matter is the woman in the bikini also feels safe to walk down the beach unmolested by men that think ... more »

SUPPOSITORY BOMB

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago
Ibrahim Asiri has been attempting to design bombs to be implanted inside a bomber's body. Asiri reportedly invented the 'suppository bomb'. One US official told Newsweek about a bomb to be inserted in the terrorist's 'love handle'. *Yemen's hunt for master bomber* *Asiri of the CIA* Asiri reportedly equipped his 23-year-old brother, Abdullah, with a 'suppository bomb'. Abdullah then attempted to kill Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, a senior Saudi interior minister who has led a programme in Saudi Arabia to encourage CIA-terrorists to reform. *Abdullah al-Asiri * "Abdullah gaine... more »

In defense of five standard deviations

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
Five standard deviations are cute. However, Tommaso Dorigo wrote the first part of his two-part "tirade against the five sigma", Demistifying The Five-Sigma Criterion I mostly disagree with his views. The disagreement begins with the first word of the title ;-) that I would personally write as "demystifying" because what we're removing is mystery rather than mist (although the two are related words for "fog"). He "regrets" that the popular science writers tried to explain the five-sigma criterion to the public – I think they should be praised for this particular thing because th... more »

$200 Toys R Us Gift Card Giveaway!

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 14 hours ago
Today I am thrilled to be teaming up with a fun author and other bloggers to bring you this huge giveaway! Welcome to the $200 Toys R Us Gift Card Giveaway! Award winning author Carole P. Roman is a former teacher turned businesswoman. She has successfully run a family business with her husband that employs close to five hundred people. Her most favorite job is being grandmother to her many grandchildren. Roman has two wonderful sons and hit the jackpot in the daughter-in-law department. She currently lives on Long Island with her husband. Her first book, Captain No Beard - A... more »

Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - EcoFriendly Baby Products

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 16 hours ago
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This is Auckland’s future: Mansion or crack shack?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago
Auckland Mayor Len Brown reckons his “liveable Auckland” should follow the model of Vancouver, Canada—which he describes as "best practice urban planning." [image: Crack Shack or Mansion]You can see why it’s a model for Lying Len: Vancouver is a city whose average house prices are a whopping nine times average income, making it amongst the most unaffordable city in the English-speaking world—and making it damned hard to tell the difference between a mansion and a crack shack. See. Play the game and post your score. (I got 8 out of 16.) And wonder as you play whether this is Au... more »

Why The National Organization For Women Endorsed Rush Holt

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
Tuesday is election day in New Jersey-- not the general election, which is in November, but the special election primary for the open Senate seat. Wall Street has been successful in creating the conventional wisdom that their puppet, Cory Booker, can't be stopped. But a late summer special election primary is really about turning out voters more than anything else. Cory Booker may be a TV celebrity but he has a putrid record of failure and a sleazy relationship with Big Business special interests. That's why I was so buoyed to see the National Organization for Women endorse Rush ... more »

Stephen Plant - Simone Weil

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
*"Waiting For God" by Simone Weil.* *Wikipedia: * Simone Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist. Weil's life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others; at the age of six, for instance, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting in World War I had to go without. She died from tuberculosis during World War II, possibly exacerbated by malnutrition after refusing to eat more than the minimal rations that she believed were available to soldiers at the time. *Stephen P... more »

John Friend on Truth Militia Radio

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 17 hours ago
Earlier this evening I co-hosted *Truth Militia Radio* with my good friend Keith. We discussed a variety of subjects, including the myth of the good Jew and my recent *News from the Jews* column. Also, if anyone in the Southern California area is interested in participating in a 9/11 protest with myself, Keith, and a few other like-minded individuals, please contact me via *email*. We are hoping to organize a demonstration or rally highlighting the fact Israel and an international network of Jewish criminals largely controlling the United States federal government and media orga... more »

Costa Rica--Business Trip?

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 17 hours ago
Who takes business trips to Costa Rica? Us! Not related to the law firm, but related to our moving there. Kurt & I want to become permanent residents of the country for various reasons. Mostly, because of the benefits we can get from that. Becoming residents is not easy on your own, so we hired a lawyer to help us. We had a lawyer who helped us with our house transaction, so we ended up using another lawyer at the same firm for the residency stuff as well. We had a huge list of things we had to get ready before taking a trip to the country, and then we had to apply in person... more »

The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* "One Day"* "One day I will say the gift I once had has been taken. The place I have made for myself belongs to another. The words I have sung are being sung by the ones I would want. Then I will be ready for that voice and the still silence in which it arrives. And if my faith is good then we'll meet again on the road, and we'll be thirsty, and stop and laugh and drink together again from the deep well of things as they are." - David Whyte "Where Many Rivers Meet" "The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see- ... more »

Untitled

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
“People Are Awesome 2013” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6WRZ8iBQzQ&html5=1 All that we can be, could be... * John Denver, "The Eagle and the Hawk" * “Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops, Sail o’er the canyons and up to the stars, And reach for the heavens and hope for the future, And all that we can be and not what we are...” - http://www.youtube.com/

"The Consequences of Fear"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* * *"The Consequences of Fear" * by May’s Closet "* *Worry* is a mechanism of our psyche that prompts us to do something. The prompting energy is fear – usually fear of some consequence. Because it is fear, the person tends to avoid thinking about it. Thus worry tends to perpetuate itself in a circular way – the fear causes non-action, and non-action further causes worry. * *Anxiety* is a fear whose object is nonspecific or vague, whereas worry is about something specific and identified. Anxiety is the result of repeated unprocessed fears that have accumulated in one’s subconsc... more »

"I Rescued A Human Today"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
* * *"I Rescued A Human Today" * by Rescue Me Dog "Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn’t be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn’t want her to know that I hadn’t been walked today. Sometimes the overworked shelter keepers get too busy and I didn’t want her to think poorly of them. As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn’t feel sa... more »

The Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What If?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
"What if you slept? And what if, In your sleep You dreamed? And what if, In your dream, You went to heaven And there plucked A strange and Beautiful flower? And what if, When you awoke, You had the flower In your hand? ... Ah, what then?" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The ZAP Report - 8/11/2013

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago
* * * * *Comments in red are mine alone -AK (BILL)* * * *Greetings and Salutations,* * * *The Global Reset is under way, nothing can stop it now! The reset is a process not just the flip of a switch. The RV is a part of it just as Basel III is a part along with the announcements and other pieces which make up the whole. Right now everyone is on pins and needles waiting for the 5 elders to swipe their cards in Reno. This is expected to happen at any moment now. When the card swipe happens we will see the RV kick in along with Basel III without delay. Then expect to see F&P anytime af... more »

Urban Gadabout: Plans come together as I look out over the upper East River esplanade and later walk across 72nd Street

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
*From the esplanade (more properly John H. Finley Walk) of Carl Schurz Park (lower left) we could look out at the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, which I visited last week on an MAS walking tour, and, farther off, Astoria on the Queens shore, with the bird sanctuary of Mill Rock Park on the left and Wards Island farther off.* *by Ken* It didn't quite rise to the level of the way the A Team's Col. Hannibal Smith always used to love it when a plan came together, but that's sort of how I felt last week during a Municipal Art Society walking tour on Manhattan's Upp... more »

There Was No Financial Fraud By Banks If You Are Incapable of Recognizing It (Or How It's All Been Put Into Place To Happen Again) You Wonder What Happened To The DOJ After The S&L Frauds? GWOT

Newsflash! NSA, CIA Share Data on Americans With DEA John Kiriakou: "Dissenters' Punishment Not Limited to Jail Time" Blow Out - Charles Pierce, EsquireTh(is) blog has been following closely those place(s) in the country - West, Texas, Geismar, Louisiana, etc. - that have taken to blowing up recently and it has discovered that, in many cases, the blowing up occurs because the local "

"The Cost Of Knowing It..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
"There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to yo... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
What liberal politician(s) from the past should Democrats emulate more than they do?

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
Since I complained about the influence of Nixon and Newt this weekend... What politician(s) from the past should Republicans be emulating more than they do?

No Judgement, Just Love

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
Sunday, 11 August 2013 No Judgement, Just Love *Did you feel it? The surge of energy? WE are SOOOOOOO There Darlins!!!! * http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/08/no-judgement-just-love.html *The beautiful words that Bill wrote on American Kabuki:* * * *To Team Contrast* * * *We felt your moment of despair today.* *Your services are no longer required. * *The experiment has concluded. * *You excelled at 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 ... more »

Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
*"All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age"* by Hubert Dreyfus Sean Dorrance Kelly. (2011). *Video Title: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age. Source: University of California Television (UCTV). Date Published: May 12, 2011. Description:* Host Harry Kreisler welcomes philosophy professors Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly to discuss their book, "All Things Shining." Drawing on their reading of Western classics, Dreyfus and Kelly analyze how different epochs offered unique answers to the question of what is sacred and what can provide meanin... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours ago
Another Sunday, and time again for my weekly rant... First, I have received several comments from some fellow truth seekers that state that the subject of my last article, pertaining to the Department Of Homeland Insecurity now imposing their will on live music is a hoax... I have yet to see anything that shows it to be a hoax or a fraud... But if it does prove to be false, I will pull the article, of course, and put up an apology to everyone.... So far, I have found nothing yet to show it is a fraud, and therefore I am leaving it as is... The one subject that I have been covering a... more »

ALECer Misleads Public About ALEC.

2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago
Found this tweet exchange yesterday: After the conversation - Sara Marie blocked Superguts. For a "internet marketing guru" - she evidently lacks the ability to defend her stance on things. She is wife of Ohio State Rep. Andrew Brenner - an ALEC Member And she is own little tornado of controversy. *She is on the City Council of Powell, OH* - with some controversy about past tax liens against the business held by her and her husband. And it got nasty. And it got even nastier when people were asking her to resign from the City council over this. She is currently embroiled in an i... more »

September G-20 - harbinger for a new Bretton Woods Agreement and the end of King Dollar as the World Reserve currency ? Are the moves of China and Russia partly responsible for the mad rush to obtain and secure physical gold by China and other nations - including the huge transfers of gold out of London that have been observed , the move by JP Morgan to corner the Comex future market ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
G20 Showdown on Dollar HedgemonyAugust 11, 2013 Print Version *By RUSS WINTER of Winters Actionables* Obama canceled his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Although Obama didn’t give his reason for the cancellation, the media stoogery speculated it was because of Russia’s protection of whistleblower-patriot Edward Snowden. What is not being reported is that Russia has been warning its citizens and institutions since last March’s Cyprus bail-in to divest assets out of western banks. Additionally, last week Yao Yudong of the PBoC’s monetary policy committ... more »

Fear not, young home-buyers!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 23 hours ago
The National Party seems to reserve its party conferences for announcements of the feel-good but ineffective. Yesterday their leader, John Key, announced changes to NZ housing policies. If they have any effect at all, it will be negative. The “big idea”—virtually the only idea in a conference billed by Bill English and Steven Joyce as “the conference of good ideas”—is to raise the house values under which buyers may attract a Kiwisaver or “Welcome Home” subsidy; and to raise this subsidy from bugger all to not much. Even his audience of party faithful yawned—perhaps because it wa... more »

The British Isles: A Family of Nations

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 23 hours ago
The following is an interesting piece about the British Isles by the controversial American writer, David Lane. I reproduce this piece as it shines an outsider's light upon a very real problem in the British Isles. I can attest to the truth that the peoples of the isles are thoroughly mixed. I myself have Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Celtic 'English' origins, with presumably some Anglo-Saxon thrown in. Considering that my bloodline is also heavily infused with that of my ancestors from Baltic Russia, the mixture of most of the indigenous nations of the British Isles in my own fami... more »

No Judgement, Just Love

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
Did you feel it? The surge of energy? WE are SOOOOOOO There Darlins!!!! The beautiful words that Bill wrote on American Kabuki: *To Team Contrast We felt your moment of despair today. Your services are no longer required. The experiment has concluded. You excelled at 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 choos... more »

Sunday Classics: Gilbert and Sullivan's gondoliers try to temper monarchy with republican equality

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The Duke of Plaza-Toro and suite make their entrance in the Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society's 2011 Gondoliers.* *Flourish. A gondola arrives at the Piazzetta steps, from which enter the*DUKE OF PLAZA-TORO *, the *DUCHESS*, their daughter *CASILDA*, and their attendant *LUIZ*, who carries a drum. All are dressed in pompous but old and faded clothes.* *DUKE*: From the sunny Spanish shore, the Duke of Plaza-Tor' -- *DUCHESS*: And His Grace's Duchess true -- *CASILDA*: And His Grace's daughter, too -- *LUIZ*: And His Grace's private drum to Venetia's shores have come: *ALL*: If ever, ev... more »

No nerve gas found at New York JFK Airport - despite the initial concerns and breathless NY Post story from earlier today ! Substance at issue believed to be organophosphate- used in soda pop ( makes you think twice about sodas though.... )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/no-there-was-no-nerve-gas-found-jfk/68209/ No, There Was No Nerve Gas Found at JFK AP - - - - [image: Share] Share - Print article - Email article - [image: Comments] Comment CONNOR SIMPSON4:41 PM ET There was a brief scare Sunday afternoon after two workers became sick after opening a package in a mailroom at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Initial reports said the two men were exposed to a dangerous nerve gas, but thankfully that wasn't actually the case. Two Customs agents were forced to ... more »

Breaking news

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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? - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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% *Aangirfan Global Traffic Rank 1 month* *274,266* * **Aangirfan Global Rank *3 months average [image: Global rank icon]*304,061* 157,527 ... more »

Eddie Shah's Conceit

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 guaranteed 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 ... more »

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Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
*"I'll have the Roasted Falcon" ~Sean Payton*

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

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day 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? - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 »
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