Appeal at the 2007 FA Cup Final (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This is the lowest government satisfaction rating in Gallup's history. Why am I not surprised?
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October 10, 2013
Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Gov't Drops to New LowDemocrats remain
most likely to be satisfied, but much less so than in September
by Joy Wilke
*This article is part of an* *ongoing series* *analyzing how the government
shutdown and the debate over raising the debt ceiling are affecting
Americans' views of government, government leaders, political parties, the
economy, and the country in general.*
PRINCETON, NJ -- Eighteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the way
the nation is being gover... more »
It's on again... in Eloy. El hielo se derrite
It's not an exaggeration... we are in a state of insurrection:
It's on again... in Eloy. El hielo se derrite: http://
www.notonemoredeportation.com/2013/10/14/eloy/
MADELEINE McCANN, DUTROUX AND LELIEVRE
*In prison - The man said to be Marc Dutroux. Could it be a body double?*
How might a top member of the Dutroux child kidnapping gang have been able
to be in Portugal when Madeleine McCann disappeared?
Dutroux and Lelievre were sent to jail in 2004.
Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.
*The original Marc Dutroux*
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*Could Marc Dutroux have a body double?*
* 'Dutroux' arrested.
*'Dutroux' in court. *
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*Could the Doutroux in court be the real Dutroux?*
** Police photo of the suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance.*
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*Could the man above be the kidnapper of Madeleine McCann?
*... more »
Sock puppet Obama to meet with Reid and Boehner today to continue the charade of "negotiating"...
*the picture below says it all. Aren't those items in reverse order?*
This is all nothing more than a bunch of political theater - on both sides
of the aisle. I'm sure they'll drag it out until the 17th, which is the
date chosen for government default. There's plenty of tax revenue to pay
the interest, but we are constantly threatened with Social Security
payments not being made.
Really?
I haven't heard one politician mention cutting welfare or food stamps. And
it they did do that, consider what just happened in Louisiana when WalMart
decided to allow people to purchase with... more »
How Many House Republicans Are Up For Cruzification?
Over the weekend, the *Wall Street Journal* was celebrating a shady, little
know right-wing ideologue and GOP operative for the glory the Republicans
have heaped on themselves in recent weeks with the government shut down and
impending default debacle. As you probably guessed this whole calamity for
the nation has more authors than just Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and a bunch of
fringy Michele Bachmann/Louie Gohmert loons in the House. Michael Needham
is the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, DeMint's attack machine.
"I really believe we are in a great position right now," he told th... more »
Debt ceiling collision risk is being underestimated
Two weeks ago, I discussed the partial government shutdown that was coming
and it indeed came and turned out to be the non-event I expected.
However, we were also aware of another threat which is related but much
larger, perhaps by a factor of 100-1,000: a collision with the debt
ceiling, a legally imposed upper limit on the amount of the U.S. public
debt. We're now just 3 days away from the expected D Day even though the
U.S. debt clock tells us that the threshold at $16.699 teradollars has
already been breached. ;-) There is no deal so far, tensions are running
high in the U.S. ca... more »
Elsewhere: Democracy, Republicans, Shutdown links
No links post this morning with the holiday, such as it is. I'm not sure
what I'll be writing here today...I will be over at Greg's place and PP.
And new columns. At TAP, I argue for Madisonian democracy against the wave
of hits its taken during the shutdown (and in particular, from Dylan
Matthews).
Over at Salon over the weekend, I push back against predictions of
long-term doom for the GOP. As I've said before, I do think that if
Republicans win the presidency in the near future that there's a good
chance they'll have difficulty governing, and they're obviously having
difficulty ... more »
Reading Ripley: Ripley appears with Anderson Cooper!
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013*
*Expresses new top concern:* Here at THE HOWLER, we rarely find ourselves
inclined to dislike individuals.
How ecumenical is our spirit? Last week, we even acknowledged that Joan
Walsh may have been a good person once too! If *that* doesn’t prove that
God is love, we don’t know what does.
We can’t help it! That generosity of spirit just seems to be the way we
are! That’s why we were surprised last week when we watched Amanda Ripley
with a CNN panel.
Last Wednesday night, Anderson Cooper dragged Ripley out to discuss a new
OECD study. In Tuesday morning’s... more »
Mirror, Mirror on the wall
This is, now and always, precisely what you expect. You are a creator
being; not sometimes, not after “ascension”, not with practice – right now.
There is beauty, simplicity and honesty in immersion. You are surrounded
with your own reflections. Your world can’t help but be a mirror. You are
the one who made it.
This point in the process, quantum physics points to what is happening. It
tells us that intention and observation determine results. You see what it
is you expect to see. Today we are dealing with our core. This lifetime
may be about shifting the world yet th... more »
The Bleat Before the Croak
Let's see.... we now live in a representative democracy where about 95 out
of every hundred citizens have lost faith in Congress and just want them
gone. But they won't leave! They are some of the most loathed people in
America, yet there they still are, being treated with all due deference and
respect by the six corporate media conglomerates bringing you 90% of all
the news you're fit to hear. Any subliminal messages that may be coming
through your TVs and newspapers are your problem.
In other news, the *New York Times* has a retrospective of Dolly the Sheep.
Dolly, you may remembe... more »
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem with his genes. :)
He made an off-hand comment that if Iranians were free and had a democratic
government then Iranian people will be free to wear jeans and listen to
Western music. That remark backfired on Natenyahoo.
"creative sales techniques to 'move' students to higher levels of achievement"
Somewhere down the road we will look back on this era of efficiency
fixation in the same way we now view the eliminators of waste of the early
20th Century schools, who took principles of "scientific management" and
tried to map them onto schools, thus elaborating a system of education
based on the efficient transmittal of info bits.
Today's example for the future history books on education reform: Daniel
Pink, who is offering educators an appetizing kind of laxative webinar
through corporate reform's unofficial organ, Ed Week:
For many, the quintessential image of a salesperson is ... more »
Thanks for the Memri
The Telegraph is almost as obsessed with BBC bashing as the Daily Mail, but
I regard neither of them as a friend, as in my enemy’s enemy. For a start,
Peter Oborne is a prominent Telegraph columnist with an irrational hatred
for the dastardly Israel (Jewish) lobby, but on the other hand the
Telegraph does ferret out a lot of gossip about the Beeb, as does the Daily
Mail.
However, the Mail no longer boasts Melanie Phillips as a regular columnist,
and rumour has it that she was given the heave-ho after her controversial
performance on Question Time, where she famously ‘lost it,’ h... more »
Columbus Day
*In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue...*
...and then went back to Europe and held press conferences, thus
establishing his everlasting fame as "discoverer" of the New World.
Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519.
There are no known authentic portraits of Columbus.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailer and navigator. He was largely
self-taught, mastering Latin, Portuguese, and Castilian, and well read in
astronomy, geography, and history, including the works of Claudius Ptolemy, Cardinal
Pierre d'Ailly's *Ima... more »
Gorgeous Taitung
Seven minutes of pure heaven.
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[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its
sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores
of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky's Prof. Juan Romero
In 1920 the League of Nations created the British Mandate in Iraq, and the
next year the English established a monarchy led by King Faisal I from
Syria. By 1932 Iraq officially gained independence, while the British
maintained control over its security and foreign affairs. Growing class
divisions and clashes between the ruling elite and the opposition and
military eventually led to the 1958 coup by the Free Officers and General
Abdul Karim Qasim. The new government attempted a dramatic transformation
of the economy, class structure, and international relations. Supporters
claimed... more »
Self-embellished Prophecies from Amory Lovins, By Alex DeVolpi
*Dr. Alex DeVolpi is a retired Argonne National Laboratory scientist.
During the Cold War, Dr. DeVolpi participated in talks with Soviet
scientists about nuclear weapons control issues. These talks were in
support of nuclear arms control negotiations between the United States and
the Soviet Union.*
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**Dr DeVolpi has written about numerous topics since his retirement.*
*
**The March/April/ issue of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists contained an
anti-nuclear essay *
*“The economics of a US civilian nuclear phase-out,” by the notorious
Harvard Physics drop out, Amory Lovins. Dr. De... more »
A Detox Recipe For Those Who Like To Make Their Own Juices
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**Note: * I have yet to try this recipe. I just found it today and plan to
give it a go in the future. I just thought that I would share this with
those who have juicers and like to try different recipes.
Luis Burgos: The First Humanoids in Argentina
*Source: CIENCIA OVNI
http://humanoides-1.blogspot.com.ar/p/blog-page.html*
*The First Humanoids in the Country*
*By Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía*
Tres Arroyos, located over 600 km south of Buenos Aires, shall henceforth
not only be known as the “national wheat capital”, as many of you will
remember it as being the location in the province of Buenos Aires where the
“first humanoid encounter in the country” took place.
In early 1971, in the full bloom of summer, I had the chance to spend the
season in Orense, a lovely beach community which, along with Reta and
Cla... more »
WE THE (WALKING) DEAD: Steuver’s complaint!
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013*
*Prologue—When HAL shut down:* We’ve never watched The Walking Dead, the
AMC zombie drama now in its fourth season.
On the other hand, we did watch yesterday’s panel discussion on Meet the
Press.
Was *that* not a form of the walking dead—that obviously faux discussion
between those panelists and that moderator? (We’ll excuse Chuck Todd, who
tried to create real discussion.)
Meet the Press is hardly alone, of course. Last Wednesday, we watched the
pundit panel which interviewed author Amanda Ripley on CNN’s Anderson
Cooper.
Were *they* not part of the w... more »
The Radical Christian Right
Chris Hedges writes that, if you want to understand what is presently
playing out in Washington, you have to understand the Radical Christian
Right. They know what they want -- and what they want is frightening:
There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a
diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the
intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish
the role of government to create a theocratic state based on “biblical
law,” and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and
“Chris... more »
Weekend Fun
A few cell phone snaps from an evening out with The Gang for Fright Fest at
the local amusement park...
Taken by a kind stranger on Jonathan's cell phone camera.
Back: Southern Man, Mark; Front: Adam, Amber, Jonathan.
Selfie by Amber.
We rode rides and ate overpriced amusement park food and paid $5 extra to
go to the front of the line at the haunted house. Great fun!
Blue America Endorses Paul Clements For The Michigan Seat Held By Fred Upton
Last week, MoveOn and PPP polled some of the swing districts where the DCCC
protects Republican incumbents. The results were breathtaking, especially
for media folks who only get their information from Cook and the DCCC. Blue
America candidates are on target to beat long-time Republican incumbents
and one of the strongest showings was from first-time candidate, Paul
Clements, who's running against Fred Upton in western Michigan. Upton is
underwater in terms of his constituents' approval. Only 34% approve of his
job performance. 53% disapprove. And if the election were held today, ... more »
US backed Rebels fighters unity continues to crumble as more groups pull out of the SNC and refusal to attend Geneva 2 sidelines alleged moderate group further , Iraq Kurdistan prepares to strike Syrian Rebel fighters in Syrian Kurdistan - which would bring Iraq further into the Syria War ! Iran and P5 + 1 meeting set for later this week as apparent pathway to an Agreement seems more possible than in quite a few years ! .....
http://rt.com/news/opposition-west-incapable-talks-166/
West can’t get Syrian opp to peace talks, blames Russia - Lavrov
Published time: October 14, 2013 09:20
Edited time: October 14, 2013 11:43
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[image: Free Syrian Army fighters take positions behind a damaged car as
they fire their weapons during an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood, October 9,
2013. (Reuters/Malek Alshemali)]
Free Syrian Army fighters take positions behind a damaged car as they fire
their weapons during an offensive against forces... more »
Should Diane Ravitch Be More Careful to Not Hurt Reformers' Feelings?
By now, I’m about the only slowpoke who hasn’t taken a stand on Diane
Ravitch’s *Reign of Error.* Those who object to her indictment of
“corporate reform” have had time to catch any possible error of fact or
logic. If there is a rebuttal to Ravitch’s statement that “it is difficult
to find education organizations that have not been funded by the Gates
Foundation,” surely it would have been made by now.
I never expected *Reign of Error *to convert true believers in
accountability-driven reform, but it is a shame that they have not engaged
in a debate over Ravitch’s evidence or argume... more »
Imágenes fantásticas de hadas en el bosque de los sueños
*Haz click aquí para regalarnos un "Me Gusta" en Facebook. ¡Gracias!*
October Surprise 2012 - Benghazi
October Surprise 2012: Innocence of Muslims from unpersonal on Vimeo.
It's an Israeli-Koch Brothers-Saudi-backed PsyOp to sabotage Obama's
historic US-Iranian Détente.
As I have been saying all along.
All the protests were in Sunni Countries, where the House of Saud and the
Gulf States have considerable influence, power bases and agents of
influence; none of the protests were in Shi'ite countries, like Iran, Iraq
and Syria, or in any Kurdish regions North of the Euphrates Shi'ia corridor
- they never heard anything about this.
Pajama Media / PJ Media are a privatised Intelli... more »
Chicken-Hawk Scum-Bags
A good survey of the harpercon's dismal record of hypocrisy and deceit. I
can't believe that we didn't force these ugly fuckers from power years ago.
Canadian apathy.
Monday morning linkage
The shutdown continues to dominate the day’s news.Resolution still
seems distant. Last week, US Treasury Department Secretary Jack Lew
reminded the Senate that extraordinary measures used to cope with our
current debt limit run out on Thursday. This weekend, IMF head Christine
Lagarde says that a default could tip the world economy into recession. The
African Union
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Having an e-fit
*“The e-fits are clear, and I’ve asked the public to look very carefully at
them and if they know who this person is, please come forward.”*
(If I were you I’d ask the plastic surgery community if they’ve performed
any suspicious chin-ectomies recently.)
John Boehner, Speaker of the House, is unhappy!
Poor John Boehner. He wants to compromise on Government shutdown but
Tea-bagger Repugs don't agree with him. He is in a great dilemma.
Silly Comments from Academic make headlines
The Taipei Times gave this fellow front page headlines:
President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) statement that cross-strait relations are
“not international relations” during his Double Ten National Day speech has
further weakened Taiwan’s sovereignty and was meant as a hint for the US
and Japan not to interfere in cross-strait issues, a local academic said.
“If by including such words in the National Day address Ma intends to make
the cross-strait issue an internal matter and not open to international
interference, it would cause serious repercussions in the days to come,”
said Wong Ming-hs... more »
Joint Letter on the Wiretapping, Ma-Wang Mess
The Taipei Times printed the text:
As international SCHOLARS and writers who applauded the transition to
democracy, that began in the late 1980s, we are deeply concerned about the
backsliding of freedom, democracy and human rights under the current
administration in Taiwan.
While an erosion of democracy and justice has been ongoing since this
administration assumed office in 2008, recent events constitute a
fundamental breach of the basic principles of separation of powers and
checks and balances in a democracy.
We refer in particular to President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) use of the S... more »
Nunavut literacy
This is an ongoing problem. If you cannot read, and read well, you cannot
compete for jobs. I'm involved in a project to bring more free books to
Nunavut but that's hardly enough. Better teaching with more resources at
the primary level is needed.
From CBC this week:
"A survey released Tuesday morning shows adults in the Northwest
Territories and Nunavut have fallen behind Yukon and other provinces in
terms of literacy and numeracy.
The Northwest Territories ranked 12th out of the 13 Canadian provinces and
territories on an international survey compiled by the Organization for
Ec... more »
GOOD MEDIA COVERAGE
We walked along the Kennebec River yesterday as we approached Skowhegan.
The colorful fall leaves on trees overhanging the narrow road made for a
picturesque moment. We took a break at a beautiful park on the river and
as we were preparing to leave a reporter from the Waterville newspaper
stopped to interview us. The same story ran in three papers (Portland,
Augusta, Waterville) across the state this morning. You can find it *here*
The Bangor Daily News also has an article today. See it *here*
We've been doing better than one could expect with the media so far on the
walk. ... more »
The Nobel
Congratulations to Eugene Fama, Lars Hansen, and Robert Shiller. A very
well-deserved prize. All three have long been among the most highly cited
economists.
Open Thread: RIP Jamie Hubley
This is probably the last video uploaded by the late Jamie Hubley, a
gay teenager who'd committed suicide two years ago today after being
mercilessly bullied by homophobes in Kanata, Canada. Here, he's covering
"Rehab" by another self-doomed soul, Amy Winehouse. Jamie would be 17
today, 18 next month. I wrote about him in a disjointed, rambling post two
years ago when I first heard the news of his suicide on Facebook and, if
anything, his death bothers me at least as much now as it did two years
ago. In case you've never heard his story before, Jamie was the only openly
gay bo... more »
Happy Thanksgiving
On January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest
with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in
October."
Happy 88th Birthday, Margaret Thatcher
Yesterday was Margaret Thatcher's 88th birthday. Happy birthday, Iron Lady.
RIP.
"Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of
money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to
spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you
more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that 'someone
else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only
taxpayers' money" -- Margaret Thatcher, October 1983
"As Ron once put it: the nine most dangerous words in the English language
are 'I'm from the... more »
Monday Morning Linkage- it’s all about balance
Women missing…online? The Huffington Post has reported that the gender gap
exists online- with 200 million fewer women using the internet than men.
Scholars, students, and the general public are set to sit in for a 6-hour
editing party at Brown University to try to remedy the gender imbalance on
wikipedia (NYT suggests that only
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“They Are Coming: IMF Proposes A 10% Supertax On All Eurozone Household Savings- for YOUR Savings!”
*“They Are Coming: IMF Proposes A 10% Supertax On *
*All Eurozone Household Savings- for YOUR Savings!”*
by John Rubino
.
“They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the
gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums… drums in the
deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out…
they are coming.” - Gandalf
.
"Another of history’s many lessons is that governments under pressure
become thieves. And today’s governments are under a lot of pressure. Before
we look at the coming wave of asset confiscations, let’s stroll ... more »
VIDEO: Media Camouflage – How Monsanto Silences The Media
VIDEO: Media Camouflage – Monsanto’s Alleged Cancer-Causing Additives to
MilkHow Monsanto kills the news
Global Research Canada, 11 October 2013
When it comes to food, it would be in your best interest to realize that
you are being lied to on a daily basis.
If a big company grows it, processes it and sells it, then it’s probably
garbage that you’d be better off not consuming.
In some cases, this problem goes far beyond “garbage” into another realm
entirely.
This video is a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of how news is really “made”
in America and why corporate and “public” broa... more »
3 Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula by Christina Sarich
3 Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula
by Christina Sarich
Natural Society, 13 October 2013
It seems with the many reports of birth defects, organ failure, cancer, and
other unsavory health conditions associated with GMO consumption,* we
should limit the use of GMO in baby products.* After all, babies are very
sensitive to the foods they consume, and we already know that pesticides
found in mother’s milk can be damaging. *Below you will learn of three
companies which represent more than 90% of baby formula sales in the US
that won’t consider removing GMOs from your baby’s food.... more »
MADELEINE E-FITS; COVER-UP BY POLICE?
*Valetta, 11 July 2013*
On 17 August 2013, a barrister (lawyer), at a party in Manchester in the
UK, had a conversation with a man who told him he had met Madeleine McCann
on a Mediterranean island in the summer of 2013.
The barrister contacted his local police force the next day then gave a
formal statement.
The barrister was then arrested.
This was to shut him up?
*Above are e-fits issued by the UK police in October 2013.*
In October 2013, the UK police issued two e-fits of a man they suspect may
have been involved in the abduction of Madeleine McCann.
The images, based on st... more »
The hidden Egyptian blocakade of Gaza
The
BBC finally manage to acknowledge that Egypt is blockading Gaza as well
as Israel. Admittedly you to have to read to the very end of this
pieceabout the discovery of a Hamas terror tunnel before you find:
'Egypt, which has its own blockade of Gaza, has recently attempted to
close
off the network of tunnels used to smuggle goods beneath the border.'
What the BBC manage not to directly report is that per the Jerusalem
Post:
'The tunnel was constructed using approximately 24,000 Israeli concrete
slabs which the IDF had permitted into Gaza to ease the crisis in the
civilian construc... more »
“US Credit an Unfaithful Hussy”
* “US Credit an Unfaithful Hussy”*
by Prr Lzkdrqxcwm
"A tragedy is brewing in the United States. Within a decade, the country
that has gone from the second freest in the world to the 17th. And the
threat is much worse than the federal government’s current 20% shutdown. If
Congress does not increase the debt ceiling (as it has done more than 100
times since 1917), the government may default on its debt later this month.
This debt is made up of government bonds held by investors both in America
and in other countries. “Investors” include ordinary citizens through their
pension fun... more »
The Economy: “Thought For The Day...”
* *
*“Thought For The Day...”*
by Karl Denninger
“What would you say to someone who had $27,000 in family income a year,
spent $37,000, and had run up $170,000 on their credit card – and now was
demanding that you let them add even more to their balance? You’d call them
insane, right? And you’d also call those who lent them the $170,000 insane.
What would you do if they then pulled a gun on you and demanded more credit
on that card, and worse, demanded that YOU cover it with more unemployment,
less purchasing power, more people dependent on food stamps and more
offshoring of jobs... more »
all your Presidents are WORSHIPPING SATAN???
the real funny thing about all this 'satanic hand gesture' is Free Planet
dismisses satanism, catholicism, islam, judaism, sikhism etc. as
childish/bullying 'ways to control the subscribing Corporate War masses',
so treat what I'm about to show you with a massive pinch of salt, if you're
easily offended by The Debate. There are those who'll say, "Gah, this is
just Presidents trying to appeal to the yoof by their adoption of Heavy
Metal hand signs," but is it? Is it all just a joke? Or a 'bit of pally
hand banter'?
This doesn't mean The Church of Satansim should be dismissed as havi... more »
Today in History for October 14th
*Today we remember and honour the achievements of two great Americans.
One excelled in the air, the other in the realm of the spirit: Captain
Chuck Yeager and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. *
Today in History for October 14th. Source: AssociatedPress.
We Speak Your Name (A3 Newsletter about Herman Wallace's Memorial Service)
*HONORING HERMAN:* *Tribute made to by US Congressmen Conyers, Richmond,
and Scott* *II* *Mural and Banner in North Carolina* II *Mumia
Abu-Jamal's Message for Herman's Memorial** (in Spanish)*
* *
*(A3 Coalition Newsletter, Oct. 13, 2013)*
Yesterday, Herman Wallace was laid to rest after a memorial service
befitting his liberation roots. New Orleans supporters, friends and family
came together to create a magnificent send off for Herman, just the way he
wanted it.
As a proud black man who struggled for justice for himself, his comrades,
his people and all people, Herman wan... more »
Random Airport Guy, Walmart Line Ups....and My Secret Truck Identification Deficiency
Earlier this summer my cousin Douglas got in touch with me about escaping
the disaster of Ontario (thanks Premier Wynne for wrecking my home
province, by the way) and pursuing a fresh start here in Fort McMurray. I
was keen to help him out, knowing that despite all the lofty rhetoric out
there, it can be a bit of a challenge to get settled in here and get
working if you just come out cold turkey. Yes, I've heard the stories too
about guys getting off the plane and landing a job within hours of their
arrival but for someone starting out here there can be a few challenges
(finding a... more »
The Common Core Public License: Guess Who Wins?
On October 10, 2013, I published a post, The Fight to Save Common Core:
Count Me Out, in which I briefly discuss the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS) public license. In this post, I more closely examine the
CCSS license in order to offer a more detailed account of both its contents
and the implications of those […]
"A Look to the Heavens"
“What's going on in the center of this spiral galaxy? Named the Sombrero
Galaxy for its hat-like resemblance, M104 features a prominent dust lane
and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. Reasons for the
Sombrero's hat-like appearance include an unusually large and extended
central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk
that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of
the extended central bulge.
*Click image for larger size.*
Close inspection of the bulge in the above photograph shows many points of
light that ar... more »
"No, We Can't Have It All"
* *
*"No, We Can't Have It All"*
by Derrick Jensen
"We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have
automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon. We can have irrigated
wine from Mendocino and Sonoma counties, or we can have the Russian and Eel
Rivers. We can have oil from beneath the oceans, or we can have whales. We
can have cardboard boxes or we can have living forests. We can have
computers and cancer clusters from the manufacture of those computers, or
we can have neither. We can have electricity and a world devastated by
mining, or we can ha... more »
Boehner Has Decided Keeping The Anthony Weiner Memorial House Gym Open Is "Essential"
Aside from Progressive Caucus leaders Alan Grayson, Raul Grijalva and Keith
Ellison, who are all relatively safe for reelection, Blue AMerica has only endorsed
2 House incumbents so far this cycle. One is the progressive Member of the
New Hampshire congressional delegation, Carol Shea-Porter and a press
release she sent out of the weekend helps explain why.
The government has been shut down for eleven days, but Members of Congress
who have paid membership continue to have access to their gym and spa while
workers face furloughs.
“It is absolutely outrageous that John Boehner refu... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Go Green Academy
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
[image: A link-up for green blogs on Reduce Footprints Blog]
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*"You Think You Knew Crazy? Think Again. *
*10 Shockers from the Increasingly Unhinged Right Wing"*
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*by Janet Allon*
*1. Michele Bachmann: 'Obama is part of Al Qaeda and end times are
near.'*To the extent that she is capable of rational decision-making,
Minn. Rep.
Michele Bachmann decided this week might be a fitting time to remind the
public that she is batshit crazy. During a radio interview, she spun out
her theory that, A) President Obama is arming terrorists, generally, and
Al
Qaeda, specifically. And B) This is cause for rejoicing because it is a
sign that the end t... more »
Kan, Jaczko, Gundersen, Bradford and Nader -- Nuclear Power Through the Fukukshima Perspective | Enformable
by Karl Grossman - - It started this June in California. Speaking about the
problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear plants through the perspective
of the Fukushima nuclear complex catastrophe was a panel of Naoto Kan,
prime minister of Japan when the disaster began; Gregory Jaczko, chairman
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) at the time; Peter
Bradford, an NRC member when the Three Mile Island accident happened; and
nuclear engineer and former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen.
This week the same panel of experts on nuclear technology—joined by
long-ti... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Gordon, Alabama, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
A Cherokee Proverb
"One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on
inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us
all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,
superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, generosity, empathy, truth,
compassion and faith.”
The grandson thought about this for a minute and then asked the
grandfather, “Which wolf wins?”
The old Cherokee simply repli... more »
Chet Raymo, "What Does It All Mean?"
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*"What Does It All Mean?"*
by Chet Raymo
"A good friend tells me via e-mail that she is reading Leo Tolstoy's "Anna
Karenina." I read the book for a second time two years ago, in the new
translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It's one of those
novels I had to read twice - once in middle age (I would not have had the
patience in youth) and once in settled maturity. In middle age, it was all
about Anna, and passion, and doubt. In old age - for me at least - it's
about Levin, settled, happily married, enjoying as much intellectual peace
as might be possible in th... more »
When cocaine is all there is
Drugs are on my mind, as they often are these days. South American
cocaine, to be more specific, 800 tons of which are reportedly moved north
every year to eager markets in the U.S. and Canada. And the majority of it
passes right through this region where I’m working at the moment - the
Moskitia.
Just before I left Copan Ruinas to come down here, I was telling an
American friend about how I loved coming to this gorgeous place but at the
same time always felt a bit on edge because of the enormous presence of The
Business, as I've come to think of it. She was astounded that suc... more »
You say want a negotiation
Well, this is encouraging. It appears our Democrats learned how to negotiate.
Helluva a counter offer to the GOP's inane demands:
Washington Post: "Rather than making concessions that would undermine
Obama's signature health-care initiative, as Republicans first demanded,
Democrats are now on the offensive and seeking to undo what has become a
cherished prize for the GOP: deep agency spending cuts known as the
sequester."
Much more at Taegan's link.
Solidarity to the Parents
This morning I sat in front of my computer determined – determined to
answer every opt out question in my inbox – this is hard to accomplish
because they just keep coming. But today I did it. At least until tomorrow
morning or until I check my email again. I answered questions from
distraught parents, […]
This Oughta Mean Something ...
International cover-up of genotoxic environmental catastrophe? I'm one of
those limp-wristed "pwogwessive" types whooz against things like the death
penalty. But maybe an uprising, followed by executions of those who
launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003 would teach these scumbags some
fucking lessons?
Do you think rumsfeld, Condi, Cheney or bush II would die as well as Saddam
Hussein? No fucking way. Of all of them, I think Condi would die the
proudest. She was, I think, the most deluded. Cheney would have had a
pathetic heart attack long before the sentence was carried out. rumsfe... more »
The Right Wing Comes Out Of The Closet - They Really Like: DIRTY HIPPIE UNEMPLOYED BIKERS, UNIONIZED TRUCKERS, NATIONAL PARKS, & SINGLE-PAYER GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE FOR VETERANS
(The entire time leading up to the truckers' rally in DC there was not ONE
story that Sarah Palin & Ted Cruz would be speaking there! Who is the
person(s) or group who got Sarah Palin & Ted Cruz to speak and didn't tell
anyone? Isn't Ted Cruz IN the government the truckers are protesting?
Classic co-opting of a grassroots event. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, & FOX
"news" will continue the co-opting this week with coverage of Sarah Palin &
Ted Cruz at the truckers' rally...and more "national park shutdown"
stories. These stories stem from rightwing media, just like "GROUND ZERO
MOSQUE... more »
TV Watch: Could the barren wasteland of this TV season be somehow connected to the barren wasteland of our social and political reality?
*Bright lights in the void*: *I haven't watched this official trailer for
Season 3 of Homeland, but you may want to. If the season turned out to be
good, I didn't want it spoiled by the preview, and if it didn't, well, I
didn't want to waste my time. So far, I'm happier than I could have
imagined. It's less of a surprise the The Good Wife is off to a great
season start -- less of a surprise, but still an enormous relief.*
*by Ken*
Let's just throw this out as an off-the-cuff thought rather than a closely
argued sociocultural treatise, but do you suppose there could be a
connection... more »
Great Moments in Republican Rebranding
Jesus fucking Christ on a foam rubber crutch, Fat Jack Leonard and the
Three Stooges had more gravitas than this bald-headed white separatist.
U.S. foreign Aid to Egypt
Recently, the Arab press in particular and the western press in general
have focused on President Barack Obama’s decision to stop U.S. aid to
Egypt. The rationale he used is based on the Egyptian military coup that
removed the freely and democratically elected ex-president Morsi.
President Obama’s rationale is totally wrong. Whoever briefed him was not
in touch with reality. His foreign policies regarding the Middle East in
general and the Arab world in particular has been wrong. The Arab
population was optimistic after his 2008 election, but is now totally
disappointed in the pre... more »
Untitled
*James Gill: Big shot steps in on behalf of oil and gas ~New Orleans
Advocate*
Game changer!
So the Tea Party faithful held a protest in DC today which was duly
addressed by the leading Crackpot Cons who build their own personal reality
for them. It was billed as a Million Man March but looking at the photos
I'd say 2-3 thousand max at its height and I'm probably being over generous.
And a dozen big trucks that showed up for the Ten Thousand Angry Truckers
Convoy circled the park while a few dozen true conservatives tore down the
gates around the War Memorial. But according to conservative math (real
numbers are skewed!) close enough to live up to the billing. Besides, loo... more »
Sharing pears
Reblogged from Talking Math with Your Kids: I took the kids camping this
weekend. Jay Cooke State Park is lovely. I recommend a visit if you have
never been. We had the following conversation at the campsite on Saturday
evening. Me: Griff, we have two pears and three people. What should we do
about that? […]
Dutchsinse, OPPT, and the mystery of the missing facts
So it all started last night (in my time zone) when a friend on skype sent
me a link to Dutchsinse's latest video and told me that "He's saying OPPT
is following Aleister Crowley!!".... well I just HAD to go listen to the
report..... especially since I'm pretty sure Heather doesn't even know who
Crowley is, lol.
I listened to the whole video (and for those who were/are following the
comments on the video, I wrote the first 3 comments I made as I was
listening to the report).
Dutch's video went viral all over the place and the skype chats rooms
exploded with comments and responses... more »
So, maybe you had no-one to vote for?
By the way: if you didn’t bother voting for mayors or councillors this
election—even though you know that virtually all mayors and councillors
both old and new regard your property as their business, and your pocket as
their personal ATM machine—then maybe you should have done something about
it?
You know, like standing yourself? Or supporting those who did, so more folk
could hear what they had to say?
There were a few candidates across the country standing against that
premise, and some of them polled well, and some few of them got elected.
And I hope some of you do let me know... more »
NO TO DRONES IN MAINE
We arrived at the Skowhegan Community Center around 4:00 pm today after a
13 mile walk. We left Bangor with 30 folks and walked 6.3 miles out of the
city. Ten folks from Bangor then bid us goodbye and we shuttled 40 miles
ahead on Hwy 2 heading west and had lunch along the road. Then we walked
another six-plus miles into Skowhegan.
Yesterday when we were walking thru Orono a Native American man named
Gkisedtanamoogk heard us drumming as he was washing dishes. He teaches
peace studies and Native American history at the University of
Maine-Orono. He came running after us and d... more »
Chinese relentless quest for gold underlines their call ( by way of their official press agency ) for a new reserve currency and replacement of the Dollar ( due to US fiscal failure and irresponsibility ) and New World Order - meaning China wants to be in Charge folks !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/chinas-official-press-agency-calls-new-reserve-currency
China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World
Order
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2013 14:32 -0400
- Budget Deficit
- China
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We assume it is a coincidence that on the day in which we demonstrate
China's relentless appetite for g... more »
Secession Victories: Want To Know Why So Few Are Happy? (Just 11 Percent of the U.S. Population Has Enough Senate Representation To Stop Anything That the Other 89 Percent May Want) And They Completely Control the House of Representatives
(If throwing a contribution Pottersville2's way won't break your budget in
these difficult financial times, I really need it, and would wholeheartedly
appreciate it. Anything you can afford will make a huge difference in this
blog's lifetime.) With as much unalloyed confusion and as little
satisfaction (not to mention real happiness) as there is in the U.S. today
(no, I'm not talking about
I'm Willing To Bet That Kyrsten Sinema And Sean Patrick Maloney Will Never Be On A Postage Stamp
I have credits on a lot of films and albums but none thrill me as much as
when the end credits on the 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk roll
and I see my name. I wasn't in the movie and I was shocked to see my name
in the credits. It was there because the filmmaker had used some stills I
had taken of Harvey over the years. I had been unable to bring myself to
watch it-- too distraught-- for over a decade and had no idea my name was
attached to it.
Harvey was an important person in my life when I first moved to the West
Coast after having lived in Europe for nearly 7 year... more »
ZEROHEDGE: China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World Order
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/chinas-official-press-agency-calls-new-reserve-currency
China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World
Order
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2013 14:32 -0400
We assume it is a coincidence that on the day in which we demonstrate
China's relentless appetite for gold, driven by what we and many others
believe is the country's desire to have a call option on a gold-backed
reserve currency when the time comes, just posted in China's official press
agency, Xinhua, is an op-... more »
"The Only Time..."
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times,
it's the only time we've got."
~ Art Buchwald
How difficult is to drop a letter in the post?
People are asking this morning: “How difficult is to drop a letter in the
post?” They’re asking, because so few people bothered to vote in the latest
local government elections, the results for which (in case you haven’t
noticed) were announced over the weekend.
Implied in that question is the notion that the *only* thing holding people
back from voting was the alleged difficulty of filling out a paper form and
finding an envelope, a stamp and a postbox. As if fixing low voter turnout
would be “fixed” if folk could fix their choice on their iPad.
But the people asking that questio... more »
‘Captain Phillips’ Is A Hollywood/CIA PsyOp
Source: Columbia Pictures.
'Captain Phillips' belongs in the company of Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, United
93, and other joint Hollywood-CIA productions that take liberties with the
truth, to put it mildly.
The crew members of the ship that was taken hostage in Somalian waters,
captained by what appears to be a moron from hell, say that the movie is a
big lie.
Here is an excerpt from the article, *"Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is
one big lie"* by Maureen Callahan, The New York Post, October 13:
It didn’t go down like that, say several crew members: The pirates just
reneged on... more »
"Sometimes You Do..."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea
that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're
licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no
matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
~ "Harper Lee", "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Sunday Question for Liberals
Gotta get away from shutdown/debt limit for a while. So how about Syria:
how are you feeling now about Barack Obama's actions on Syria?
Jaguar C-X75 just got ugly... damn ugly.
after reporting on the thing for a couple of years, twelve months ago the
(cancelled?) Jaguar C-X75 jet-turbine powered electric-all-wheel driven
concept car looked like this. Glorious, clean ominous. It was powered by
two rear-mounted mini-jet engines and it had an electric motor per wheel.
Expensive, yes, and insane, but imagine how that jet-whistle alone would
have sounded as you floored the pedal.
SEX ON WHEELS, right?
Now, suddenly, it looks, and sounds, like this ... oh, dear: what have they
done?
How can that even claim to be the same car? Ugly spoiler'd backend, uglier ... more »
Paulo Coelho “Dreams: The 12 Steps”
*“Dreams: The 12 Steps”*
by Paulo Coelho
"When Joseph Campbell created the expression “follow your blessing,” he was
reflecting an idea that seems to be very appropriate right now. In “The
Alchemist,” this same idea is called “Personal Legend.” Alan Cohen, a
therapist who lives in Hawaii, is also working on this theme. He says that
in his lectures he asks those who are dissatisfied with their work and
seventy-five percent of the audience raise their hands. Cohen has created a
system of twelve steps to help people to rediscover their “blessing” (he is
a follower of Campbell):
*1... more »
Kennedy and Nixon
*"The Watergate break-in of 1972 (in which, I have always been convinced,
Nixon was not so much a guilty perpetrator as a guilty victim) followed
Nixon's secret negotiations with Hanoi for disengagement from Vietnam,
significantly advanced by his May 1972 visit to Moscow, where he signed the
first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement."*
*
**- Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)*
Kennedy and Nixon from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
The Hegelian Dialectic of 20th Century History.
The National Security State creates it's own Manichean duality, objects of
ego identificat... more »
“60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think”
* “60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think”*
by Marc Chernoff
"In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or
how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that
might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In your quiet moments,
pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing
that needs to shift in order for you to experience more happiness, more
love, and more vitality, is your way of thinking.
Here are 60 thought-provoking quotes gathered from our sister site, Everyday
Life Lessons, and from... more »
My Conversation with Benjamin Fulford Regarding the Dutchsinse Video
By American Kabuki
Sunday October 13, 2013
In the interest of complete transparency regarding the ever increasing
attempt to conflate the OPPT (which is a reconciled trust in any case - HOW
MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO REPEAT THAT?) with the actions of Swissindo.
I am publishing this conversation with Ben Fulford regarding the recent
Dutchsinse video claiming the OPPT asked him to sign an oath in exchange
for huge sums of money. * The OPPT simply isn't doing that. Whomever is
doing that, is not the OPPT.* It could very well be Swissindo (that has
yet to be confirmed) and those in ... more »
Musical Interlude: Afshin, “Prayer of Change”
Afshin, “Prayer of Change”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9oZ5A548Ak
Rep. Gohmert Tells The Truth
“When it comes to the shutdown that’s going on, I heard just before I came
on, some senator from Arizona — *a guy that liked [former Libyan dictator
Moammar] Gadhafi before he wanted to bomb him, a guy that liked [former
Egyptian strongman Hosni] Mubarak before he wanted him out, a guy that’s
been to Syria and supported al Qaeda and the rebels* — but he was saying
today the shutdown has been a fool’s errand, and I agree with him. The
president and [Sen.] Harry Reid [D-Nev.] should not have shut this
government down.” - Rep. Louie Gohmert. Source: *"Rep. Gohmert: McCain
‘supported ... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Oh, I give up: anyone have any ideas for how to fix the Republican Party --
or, more broadly, to rescue conservatives from the radicals, hucksters, and
crazies?
(Yeah, feel free to argue with the premise of the question if you think
that Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are the True Conservatives, but good luck
with that).
Syria updates - October 11 , 2013 - a detailed look at the extremists ravaging Syria ( and inflicting mass killings on Syrian muslims and christians while the West looks the other way ) .....extremists financed by wealthy Gulf donors , trained on using chemical weapons by foreigners - expect more chemical weapon false flag attacks regardless of what happens with Assad's chemical weapons ..... ...
Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/syria-killings-hrw-report-020/
Syria extremists financed by private Gulf donors carried out mass killings
– HRW
Published time: October 11, 2013 11:21
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in Syria's northwestern Latakia province, September 4, 2013 (Reuters /
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Free Syrian Army fighters dig trenches at the Jabal al-Akrad area in
Syria's northwestern Latakia province, September 4, 2013 (Reuters / Khattab
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Templars dispersed on Friday, October 13th, 1307
Seznam.cz and Stream.cz present
*0:15 13th of October, the day when the Order of Templars was dispersed*
0:20 It's Friday, 13th of October, 1307. In all of France, a giant raid
against the members of the Order of Templars is underway. It was one of the
most powerful orders of the medieval Europe.
*If you don't see a video above, go here. I don't have the nerves to
reconcile the formatting of the objects with the HTML restrictions of
blogger.com.*
0:33 The accusations are completely shocking using the standards of that
era: heresy, sodomy, homosexuality, denial of Christ, and so o... more »
Reminder: Washington Had A Hand In The Creation of The Islamic Republic
President Ronald Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini were two of the biggest
tyrants in history. Their successors, President Barack Hussein Obama and
Ayatollah Khamenei, are even bigger tyrants. But, of course, neither of
them can hold a candle in the competition for the world's greatest tyranny
to the murderous tyrants in Israel who had a big hand in the September 11
attacks
These truths are important to point out time and time again because no one
should be under the delusion that America, Iran, and Israel are led by
liberators. Demons run these countries.
If it wasn't for ... more »
"Foodstamp Nation In Turmoil: EBT System Goes Dark, "Glitch" Blamed"
* *
*"Foodstamp Nation In Turmoil: *
*EBT System Goes Dark, "Glitch" Blamed" *
by Tyler Durden
"In the past five years it has become apparent that America can survive a
near-fatal financial system collapse, an economy teetering on the edge and
kept ticking only thanks to the Fed's now perpetual QE, a collapsing
standard of living for everyone but the wealthiest 0.1%, declining wages,
zero interest rates, surging food, energy, rent, tuition and welfare costs,
and pretty much everything else, as long as the welfare state keeps humming
along. And by welfare state we mostly mean pro... more »
Sunday Classics: "Ingratitude is always Loge's lot"
*English singing translation by Andrew Porter, used in the Goodall-ENO
performance below:*
*LOGE*: Never one word
of praise or thanks!
For your sake alone,
hoping to help
I restlessly roamed
to the ends of the earth
to find a ransom for Freia,
one that the giants would like more.
In vain sought I,
and now I can see
in this whole wide world,
nothing at all
is of greater
worth to a man
than woman's beauty and love!
I asked every one living,
in water, earth, and sky,
one question, sought for the answer
and all whom I met,
I asked them this question:
"What in the world
means more to you
tha... more »
Crystalline Light Needles Penetrate into Gaia Hiddens at this Moment
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* *Crystalline Light Needles Penetrate into Gaia Hiddens at this Moment*
by ÉirePort
Crystalline Light Needles penetrate into Gaia hiddens at this moment. This
occurs Gaia-wide.
All unilluminateds will be pierced and revealed.
Secondary purpose of the Needle Light is to unveil all energetic soft
points and upgrade (strengthen).
Tertiary purpose is to stimulate both Hue- and humanity to next levels.
Quaternary purpose is dissolution of lower D cultural, societal, and
governmental paradigms, inner and outer.
Current Cosmic energetics and Gaia consciousness levels have initiat... more »
Result
Further to Craig’s post summarizing this morning’s edition of Sunday
Morning Live, allow me once again to go over to Samira Ahmed, who is
usually an excellent host for that Sunday Morning Live scenario, daft as
it is.
There are oh so many reasons why it’s daft, least of all the unreliability
of Skype, and Samira’s inability (partly, but not wholly, through
technical limitations) to get certain contributors to shut the f**k up. Not
that she had to do that this week.
Then there’s the wording of the “question” that was put to the vote. This
week it was loaded in favour of the ‘yes’ v... more »
Sandwich wars
Also on the Marr show, did anyone see David Mellor talking about his battle
with an M&S sandwich? He had difficulty getting at his sandwich, which I
admit can be tricky, but he showed little imagination in complaining about
over-abundant packaging, (perhaps he prefers his sandwiches squashed to a
pulp) and for some reason seemed apologetic that he’d been forced to stop
off at an M & S service station at all because he was “overwhelmed by
hunger”. He said it as though he was excusing some despicable aberration.
Is stopping off at a service station for an M&S sandwich something to be... more »
Taiwan = ROC? Yes, but not the way you might think
*Rare clear night here in Taichung. So happy with this picture.*
TISR published a very interesting poll this week picked up by the Taipei
Times:
The survey, conducted by Taiwan Indicators Survey Research (TISR), showed
that 69.7 percent believe that Taiwan and China are “two countries with
separate development,” 9.6 percent think that both sides belong to “a
divided ROC” and 2.4 percent see the two as belonging to “a divided
People’s Republic of China [PRC].” A further 18.2 percent had no opinion,
the survey showed.
Given a choice of how they would like the international media to ... more »
Watch: Million Man Vet March...(live stream video)
*God bless them.*
Live streaming video by Ustream
"The crucial thing is that yer live and let live, isn't it?"
The aforementioned *Sunday Morning Live *partly followed its usual pattern
of juxtaposing sharply opposed points of view, and hoping that some light
comes out of the inevitable heat. I think some light did come out of the
heat of this edition.
The opening subject (and the subject of the viewers' poll that saw 95%
saying 'yes' to the question), was "Does the English Defence League
represent a view that needs to be heard?", and it pitted the former EDL
leader Tommy Robinson against former Muslim Council of Britain spokesman
Inayat Bunglawala.
Although placed on an end chair, Esthe... more »
Marred
Two injured souls struggling against adversity. Andrew Marr, obviously
paralysed down the left side, and Malala Yousafzai with her slight facial
disfigurement courtesy of the Taliban were rather a sad sight this morning
as they sat facing each other on the Andrew Marr show.
Malala appears unnervingly confident in her public appearances. One has to
admire her eloquence and maturity, but the superficiality of her quest is
still the elephant in my room.
There’s something about being draped with a cloth that confers
righteousness upon the drapee. When a Muslim sweeps into a room or Mala... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, October 13th, 2013
Sunday, and it is Thanksgiving here in Canada.... Time for our annual
turkey dinner and for my weekly rant where I talk turkey.....
I have been watching over the last few weeks as this "Government Shutdown"
continues in the United States, and I have been wondering when the HELL the
American public would finally say enough is enough, and take some sort of
action against their criminal government in Washington.... I was wondering
when the American people would have the balls to finally decide to take
their country back from the brink of oblivion, and it seems that thanks to
the brainw... more »
Teaching Reading and Children: Reading Programs as “Costume Parties”
Teaching Reading and Children: Reading Programs as \”Costume Parties\”. via
Teaching Reading and Children: Reading Programs as “Costume Parties”.
Stevie and Brazil . . .
—
A protest in Vancouver over our mining operations in Tibet —
WHY WOULD STEVIE TARGET BRAZIL? According to Dave Dean at Vice, “75% of
the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada”. Maybe that's why
Stevie wants to know what the Brazilian Ministry of Mines is planning?
All over the world, companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and
run out of lawyer’s offices on Bay Street or
ObamaCare rollout "glitches " and Saturday's EBT " glitch " - beginning of a pattern of technological epic fails ? When do we see " glitches affecting electrical grids ?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/obamacare-rollout-what-the-log-in-problems-tell-us-about-more-serious-and-harder-problems-to-come.html
SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 13, 2013
ObamaCare Rollout: What All the Log-In Problems Tell Us About More
Serious
(and Harder) Problems to Come
*By Lambert Strether of Corrente.*
Let’s dispose immediately of the administration’s canard that the
Federal
Exchange’s problems were caused a happy excess of visitors all trying to
log in at once; I posted on my encounter with the dreaded security
questions bug 38 minutes after the Exchange launched at midnight,
Octo... more »
Rod Adams offers a correction
My Breakthrough Institute post got picked up; by The Energy Collective and
to date has drawn 19 comments. Among the comments was one by Rod Adams:
@Charles Barton
I have not yet finished your piece, but I needed to take a break and
respond to the following statement:
*The Pebble Bed Reactor is often pointed to as an example of Generation IV
Inherent Safety, but part of that safety requires a very large core. In
fact a core that is larger than the core of commercial Light Water
Reactors. The Pebble Bed core costs as much to build as a LWR and thus no
one seems to be moving forward ... more »
Milibandism: Politics and Expediency
It's a truism of politics that a cabinet or shadow cabinet reshuffle does
not necessarily mean a change in political direction. And that much is true
of the first statements of intent from new appointees Rachel Reeves and
Tristram Hunt. You don't need me to tell you that Rachel's intent to "be
tough" on joblessness, and Tristram's pledge to stick "rocket boosters" on
Gove's free school wheeze have not proven palatable with much of the Labour
faithful. So what's going on?
Well, to be truthful, nothing has changed at all. Rachel's pledge to be
tougher than the Tories is exactly where... more »
Making The Swamp Bigger
When Canada went to war in Afghanistan twelve years ago, self
congratulation was in the air -- and journalism did not serve the country
well. Jeffrey Simpson wrote in yesterday's *Globe and Mail*:
The early coverage was largely ahistorical, gung-ho, a big group hug for
the Canadians – a travesty of journalism, really. What Canadians needed
then was a clear-eyed analysis of the country and its history, an
understanding of its regional antagonisms, an appreciation of the daunting,
even impossible task Canada and its government – to say nothing of the
entire North Atlantic Treaty Org... more »
A drone in your neighbourhood soon.
Americans are going to issue drone driver licence for safety. That is what
NRA says about guns too - that they are safe. Where are we headed?
Riley Morgan, 14, flies a home-built drone AfterDARC on Oct. 11. Morgan
has been working with drones for half a year. This drone took him two
days to build and cost around $1300 in parts.
*"Others are less sure that humans, even trained ones, can be trusted at
all. Drones would need to come with software-based "training wheels," or
"safety bumpers," to protect amateurs and reckless pilots from harming
themselves and others, Cummings said.
Ju... more »
Thanksgiving
The first Thanksgiving celebration by Euro-peoples in North America was not
in New England but in Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher, 42 years before the
Pilgrims.
Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely
returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate
of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin.
Given the fierceness of Arctic winter and the tragedy of these other
expeditions, we can understand why he was grateful to come out alive. But
why a special thanksgiving?
Frobisher sailed under Elizabeth I, whose reign was marked by gr... more »
Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders Fights For Working Families-- Florida Corporate Hack Patrick Murphy Is On The Other Side
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)-- like Ken and I, a graduate of James Madison High
School-- has been trying to explain that “Yesterday, the Republicans were
using the Affordable Care Act as the reason why they had to shut down the
government and not pay our bills. Today, it’s ‘reforming’ Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid. What will it be tomorrow?
“Social Security, which is independently funded through the payroll tax,
has nothing to do with the deficit. The deficit-- which has been cut in
half since 2009-- was significantly caused by the Bush wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the Bush ta... more »
Wild Bill: Obama rats...(video)
good Sunday morning to you all.
first footage of Edward Snowden receiving his Sam Adams award in Moscow
first footage of Edward Snowden receiving his Sam Adams award in Moscow.
Sarah Harrison, WikiLeaks journalist, seated next to Mr Snowden on left of
picture. Also present, whistleblowers from NSA, CIA, FBI, DoJ, Mr.
Snowden's Russian lawyer, and translators.
Grid Ex 2 coming November 11-13 and interestingly , we see National Geographic is featuring a premier movie about a cyber attack knocking out power for ten days - said movie launching about two weeks before Grid Ex 2 ! ! Conditioning ?
http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/10/msm-american-blackout-false-flag-electrical-grid-cyber-attack-foreshadowed-in-new-national-geographic-movie-2643390.html
(
Similar to yesterday's glitch shutdown of EBT systems all day in 17
states , is the coming film 'test " of reactions , training of the
sheeple
for the Grid Ex 2 Test and " glitches " which may occur in the same
timeframe ? )
*Is a forthcoming false flag attack upon our electrical grid
foreshadowed
in a new**NationalGeographic* *premier movie event coming in late
October,
just prior to the electrical grid s... more »
"Sirens of the Lambs"
It's not just factory farming that is causing other species to weep, wail,
scream and sob as we are driving them to extinction. But Banksy's video
makes it viscerally apparent. An explanation of his project in New York
City is here.
"Black Elk's Vision"; "All One Tribe"
"I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about
beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw
more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in
a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of
all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the
sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide
as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering
tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that ... more »
Whoops! (again)
Well, it's happened again.
This morning's *Sunday Morning Live* viewers' poll had as its question:
*Does the English Defence League represent a view that needs to be heard?*
The result was as emphatic as ever:
*95% said 'Yes'*
*
5% said 'No'
*
I really don't know why the studio guests on the losing side always appear
so surprised. These kinds of result are par for the course on *Sunday
Morning Live *these days*. SML *viewers don't seem to follow the BBC line
on anything.
Musical Interlude: Frank Sinatra, “My Way”
Frank Sinatra, “My Way”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0dJXtwwiY
"Why Not Despair?"
* "Why Not Despair?"*
by Sam Smith
"To view our times as decadent and dangerous, to mistrust the government,
to imagine that those in power as not concerned with our best interests is
not paranoid but perceptive; to be depressed, angry or confused about such
things is not delusional but a sign of consciousness. Yet our culture
suggests otherwise.
.
But if all this is true, then why not despair? The simple answer is this: *despair
is the suicide of imagination.* Whatever reality presses upon us, there
still remains the possibility of imagining something better, and in this
dr... more »
Paulo Coelho, "Toads"
* *
*"Toads"*
by Paulo Coelho
“Various biological studies have shown that if a toad is placed in a
container along with water from his own pond, he will remain there, utterly
still, while the water is heated, even when the water reaches boiling
point. The toad does not react to the gradual increase in temperature and
dies when the water boils. Fat and happy. On the other hand, if a toad is
thrown into that container when the water is already boiling, he will jump
straight out again, scalded, but alive!
Sometimes we behave like the boiled toads. We do not notice changes. We
t... more »
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