Iraq map karbala (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Millions of Shia Muslims gather around the Husayn Mosque in Karbala after making the Pilgrimage on foot during Arba'een. Arba'een is a forty day period that commemorates the martyrdom of Husayn bin Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and seventy-two of his followers at the Battle of Karbala in the year 680AD. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)My Best Books in 2013
This year I am joining The Perpetual Page Turner in an end of year book
survey. If you want see all 110 books I read this year, I would love for
you to friend me on Goodreads.
1.Best Book You Read In 2013 by genre?
- Contemporary YA – The Fault in Our Stars, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
- Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic – The Testing
- Historical Fiction – Dark Triumph and Grave Mercy
- Paranormal – Clockwork Princess and the Vampire Academy Series
- Science Fiction – Parallel
- Fantasy – Siege and Storm
- Fairy Tale – Entwined
2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought ... more »
Crackdown On Protest Site In Iraq’s Anbar Province Seemingly Averted
After several attempts at reconciliation between Anbar’s provincial
government and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the on-going protests
there events turned for the worse in December 2013. The premier claimed
that the demonstration sites were a base for Al Qaeda and demanded that
they be ended, and hinted at a crackdown. Just before that Sheikh Hamid
al-Hayes accused the death of his nephew upon the Ramadi protests as well,
and threatened to use violence unless the perpetrators were turned over to
him. It seemed like either the government or Hayes’ tribe was about to
storm ... more »
Interview With Global Politics On Iraq In 2014
Here’s a recent interview I did with Bob Tollast for Global Politics
entitled “Who can bring unity to Iraq in 2014?”
Celebrating Arbaeen In Iraq's Karbala Dec. 22-23, 2013
In the middle of December 2013 thousands of Shiites from around the world
celebrated Arbaeen by making a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala where
the Shrine of Imam Abbas resides. These pictures are from Agence France
Presse's Mohammed Sawaf showing pilgrims in Karbala on Dec. 22 and 23, 2013.
"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"
*"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"*
by Bill Bonner
"It's been "Bureaucrat Appreciation Week. Just when we had lost all respect
for them, we notice a countertrend. It's time for us to get in step. So,
today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank
the people who rule us... To the TSA agents at airports... to the IRS
agents who audit our tax returns... to the NSA agents who read our
emails... and to zombies everywhere... To all of you, we'd like to say a
heartfelt "Go f***k yourself."
No... no... no... We meant to say THANK YOU!
Yes, dear reader, we'v... more »
World's BIGGEST blog - day 4
Lake Superior - the world's BIGGEST lake
Trifecta: How to Make Obamacare "Cool"...
*hear the latest bad healthcare idea.*
"Embrace the suck young Americans"
Young people are not interested in enrolling in Obamacare. Some have
suggested making Obamacare cool. Is this even possible, and will Obamacare
"cool" encourage the young and uninsured to sign-up for Obama's signature
health care plan? Find out.
EPIDEMIC RADIATION EXPOSURES AND DEATHS IN JAPAN DUE TO THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR MELT-DOWN HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. ALSO COVERED UP HAVE BEEN LOWER BUT UNRELENTING QUANTIES OF WIND-CARRIED RADIONUCLIDES REACHING NORTH AMERICA. THIS RADIOACTIVE FALL-OUT IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT LEAST TO 2020. SO EDUCATE YOURSELFS AND YOUR LOVED ONES OF THIS THREAT AND LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY!
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Gundersen: All of Japan is contaminated, gov’t covering up enormous
exposures to public; Epidemic is just beginning — Evacuee: We are in fact
dying in Fukushima; What happened to us will soon affect all Japanese
people (VIDEOS)
Published: December 16th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
ET
Original Here
By ENENews
Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds, Dec. 16, 2013: The Japanese
parliament has just passed the state secrets law. It’s really an
information ‘iron curtain’ that’s preve... more »
Our Politics And The Loss Of Community
*The Tyee* has dusted off a piece which Murray Dobbin wrote four years ago.
It's worth a read. Dobbin maintains that progressives have been infected by
the same consumer culture that is destroying our politics and our planet:
We have known for years that our consumer culture is out of control and our
obsession with having more and more stuff has reached the status of a
virus. Our consumer-driven global economy is a lethal threat to the planet
and every one of its ecosystems.
The lock that consumerism has on Western so-called civilization is
formidable -- a virtual death-grip on o... more »
Untitled
*We thought the LSU football story was a joke; now we learn Koch &
smart-ALEC is buying entire university departments ~Louisiana Voice*
*Washington Post: U.S. Loss of Ecologically-Sensitive Wetlands Staggering
~Gulf Seafood Institute*
*Wood product said rotting in 'green'-built homes ~Richard Thompson, New
Orleans Advocate*
Predictions 2014
God Reveals. This is the year all the teasers of this cycle of civilization
are revealed. Men now have the power of Gods at their fingertips. The
wisdom gap remains huge.
Stephen Harper. He drops out. Well not quite he gets a seven figure job.
Jim Prentice is the new leader of the PC.
USA Congress goes back to democrats. Americans will no longer pay to eat a
shit sandwich.
Afghanistan goes back to normal. A medivels society where pedophilia is not
only part of the culture, it defines the problem. After defending
pedophilia for a decade, the west says, so hard to turn around a perve... more »
Christmas Was Yesterday-- But It's Never Too Late For These Words Of Warning From The AFL-CIO
The New York State AFL-CIO did the above video in regard to their own
state. But there isn't a state in the Union that it doesn't apply to. Where
is this not relevant: "We need to start looking at things from the
perspective of the workers who call our state home, not the corporations
who call Ne York their tax break layover." And they offer solutions that
aren't in the forefront of politicians who cater to the 1%-- the entire
Republican Party and the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party--
Blue Dogs, New Dems, Third Wayers, et al. "We need to develop industries
that crea... more »
Pointless Sacrifice
Thinking Aboot Edward Snowden. Will his sacrifice make any difference?
Thinking Aboot the fate of the Chinese Tank Commander. And IO9 reminds me
how Superman Man of Steel went off the rails. Movies cost millions to make,
is there no one left who can say, thats just stupid, cut it out? BTW I do
not Think Aboot the video as gospel. I was in Hong Kong that day, it was
fantastic, and millions in the streets protested. It changed nothing.
Cadillac a metaphor for America
When I was growing up, a very common expression was it was the Cadillac of
something. Thats the Cadillac of hockey sticks. Thats the Cadillac of
steaks. etc etc. I think this idea ended the day they brought the Cinarom
to market. Today Cadillac is fighting its way back to the top. Sadly it can
no longer carry America in its trunk.
Local shop
So. The M & S thing turned out to be a molehill, not the mountain it was
cracked up to be. The current ‘truth’ appears to be (at the time of
writing) that one solitary devout Muslim checkout assistant refused to
handle pork’n’booze, whereupon the management okayed their fundamental
right to practice quaint cultural practices.
So. Not, as was recklessly disseminated in the media, M & S management
dictating a policy of appeasement with all the unforeseen ramifications and
counter-productivity entailed. It seems that the group who most objected
to this impracticable proposal were M... more »
"[T]he only [U.S.] data from 2011 that we had was on newborns with hypothyroidism. Every baby in this country, every newborn baby is tested for certain diseases, one of which is hypothyroidism. And we looked at California ... and we looked at the changes in the rates of hypothyroidism for the nine months after Fukushima compared to the previous year, and we found a 26 percent increase in the rate of hypothyroidism." "[T]he doses in Japan are hundreds, thousands of times higher than they were on the West Coast. Unfortunately, there have really been no studies in Japan except for one, and that is one that's being done by the Fukushima Medical University. They haven't looked at hypothyroidism, but what they've done is this: they have taken 200,000 children under age 18 who live relatively close to Fukushima, and they tested for two things ... [one of which] was thyroid cancer. And they have found up to 59 children have thyroid cancer. In a normal population, it's very rare in children. In a normal [case] we would expect one or two. They have 59." "Second thing that they found is they through ultrasound look at the child's thyroid gland for precancerous lumps, you know, what they call cysts and nodules. And so far, 56 percent of children near Fukushima do in fact have a precancerous cyst or a nodule. And every year it gets higher--two years ago, 35 percent, last year 45 percent, this year 56 percent. Pretty soon we're going to find that almost every child in the area has a precancerous growth on their thyroid gland."
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Original Here
*Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster*
Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in
connecting the increase of hypothyroidism in newborns on the West coast to
the Fukushima nuclear disaster - *December 23, 2013*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive Director of
the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP). The group is the only one
in the U.S. with a specific mission of producing research on health hazards
of nuclear ... more »
War Watch December 26 , 2013 - US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’ , meanwhile Baghdad Christians targeted during Christmas holiday ......Iran MPs Push Enrichment Bill to Retaliate for US Sanctions .....Truce Set to End Siege on Town Outside Damascus - The rebel-held town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, on the outskirts of Damascus, is set to disarm as a condition for the military ending its siege against the town.
Iraq.......
US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’Experts Doubt Move
Will Halt Soaring Violence
by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2013
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Eight months of worsening violence in Iraq have many concerned, and the
Obama Administration is rush shipping large numbers of drones and missiles to
the Maliki government to “confront al-Qaeda” with.
Sectarian violence has been soaring in Iraq throughout the summer and into
the winter, with spillover from Syria and internal resentment over Maliki’s
reneging on power-sharing agreements combining to start a bloody civil... more »
The Etymology of "Miracle": On the Politics of Lies
My doctoral work was a trifecta of marginalized scholarship since I
attained an EdD (shunned second cousin to the PhD) by preparing a
qualitative dissertation (closeted step-cousin of the sainted quantitative
paradigm)—an educational biography (a mish-mash of a non-academic field,
education, with a popular but lowly literary genre, biography) of Lou
LaBrant (Thomas, 2001).
My scholarship on biography helped me understand the roots of why academia
shuns the biography: Biography began as hagiography, fabrications spun to
praise manufactured heroes instead of scholarly tomes crafted to... more »
Jaws in 30 seconds, performed by cartoon bunnies
Sheer genius!
wmtc winter break goes low-tech
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season:
I'm not busy. I always hear how "everyone is so busy this time of year" and
"this is such a crazy time of year, you can't get anything done," but that
never reflects my experience.
We don't travel to see family, we have no extra social events, and we don't
do Christmas shopping. Many years ago, we used to send a huge pile of
winter-holiday cards, but we've gone digital with that, and we don't do it
every year.
So Christmas is an extra day off, and here in the Commonwealth, we have
Boxing Day, too. Two days o... more »
Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle
*Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase
of Gaia Ascension Vehicle*
by ÉirePort
Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase
of Gaia Ascension Vehicle.
Planetary Energetic Healing streams are purposed to hu-being energetic
correction as well as Hue-Being energetic upgrading.
Birthing of what has been called "Nova Gaia" is now in process, and likely
completes within the so-named "2014" period.
Mastery classes are ongoing for all Hue-Beings, at Higher Levels of
awareness.
ÉirePort | December 25, 2013 at 19:47
URL: h... more »
Johnny Depp - Transcendance - full trailer
We've all seen The Lawnmower Man...
...actually, we haven't. Only I saw it, with a few of my pervy chrome-sex
friends; one night at a teenage video+beer party. It looks like Johnny Depp
has now remade that film, sorta ... calling it TRANSCENDANCE.
Filed under: NUCLEAR WEAPONS because this is where the future lies,
irradiated.
JFK, THE MAN IN THE MASK, SATANISM, STEPHEN WARD
*Stella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny. "Mariella was part Jewish, she was
actually quiet proud of that and spoke Hebrew." *(NightHawk: The Czech
Night Hawk)
*Mariella Novotny* played a sex game, called 'nurse and patient', with
*JFK.*
She was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia and of being a
tool of the British security services.
She may have been used by some shadowy elite that involved agents of
Mossad, the KGB, the CIA and MI6.
According to fellow prostitute Christeen Keeler, Mariella was originally
Stella Capes, but she changed her name to Mariella Novotny beca... more »
Edward Snowden's Christmas Message Video 2013
*December 25, 2013 *
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his 'Alternative Christmas
Message' via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to
mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have "no
conception of privacy."
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vkc7ab
Don't Be Foolish By Those In Authority In 2014
Washingtons Blog, 24 December 2013
Don’t Be Foolish
Albert Einstein said:
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.
Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to *absurd lengths *- and
engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what
those in authority have said.
Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority
is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites
are just like us.
In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely
*running* D.C. and on ... more »
Edward Snowden - Christmas Message - Asking is Always Cheaper than Spying.
So, it's 'all very nice' that whistleblowers like Edward Snowden have taken
it up themselves to unsheet the spectre of surveillance that was haunting
all our movements, transactions, ways of life.
He was even kind enough to deliver a Christmas Day Message from his new
home in Russia:
But what is THE SECRET SERVICE really for?
It's definitely NOT for 'our safety at home and abroad'.
The Secret Service exists to maintain 'the security of corporate ownership'
via patents pending where profit is won or lost on the random revelations
behind some corporate non-disclosure agreement. Th... more »
Your moment of Zen
Frosted bluebonnets in Texas. [RC McKee photo]
Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing, Documentary on Origins of Trance Music, Ecstasy As A Treatment For PTSD, And Sufi Whirling Dervishes
*I. Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing.*
*Wikipedia: *
Count Arnold Alexander Keyserling (February 9, 1922 – September 7, 2005)
was a German philosopher and theologian. He is the son of Hermann Graf
Keyserling and great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck.
Quote from the video below:
*"One thing is common to all transformation rites, the so-called rites of
passage. These assume that man has two levels of consciousness. The normal,
everyday consciousness, and that of joy or ecstasy. Whilst, for Western
psychiatry, trance is an extra-ordinary experience, religion views... more »
Thursday Morning Post X-Mas Linkage
Well, I hope you survived the crush of end of term and then the crush of
family and holiday stuff, if you are in to that kind of thing. In the
meantime, if you stepped away from the media, what did you miss? Well,
South Sudan is on the brink while the Central African Republic
Continue reading
"The Wolf Of Wall Street" Opened Today
It's another Scorsese-DiCaprio project-- there have been 5 so far-- so
there has been plenty of fanfare. Based on the true story of Wall Street
swindler Jordan Belfort, anyone who had hoped the movie-- or the discussion
around it-- would serve as an opportunity to take a serious look at Wall
Street corruption will be sorely disappointed. It's as if Scorsese made a
conscious effort to avoid it, and left out-- like 100% left out-- the ties
between the Republican Party and the breathtaking Belfort scandals. There
was no Senator Alfonse D'Amato character in the movie taking bribes. An... more »
Thailand: Regime Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Protesters' Heads
Regime violence will only increase number, resolve of protesters - sham
elections being disrupted.
*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Several protesters have been sent
to the hospital as police began firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and using
chemical laden water fired from water canons at the Thai-Japanese Stadium
in Din Daeng, Bangkok. Reports and images from the clashes indicate that
police have been firing rubber bullets at the heads of protesters, an
illegal method that will only escalate tensions and attract more protesters
- as was seen early December when protesters b... more »
2012: The Year That "Idiocracy" Moments Broke the Scale, Part 1
*As our friend Bil pointed out in a comment on our colleague Noah's Sunday
evening post "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?," Noah has not
done one of his traditional blockbuster multipart end-of-year holiday
series. I'm afraid plates have been rather full in the Noah household this
holiday season, but I thought what we might do is to repeat last year's
enormously popular series based on one of Noah's favorite films, Mike
Judge's Idiocracy.* -- Ken
*2012 was the year of the memorable "Idiocracy moment" when a Republican
presidential candidate couldn't count to 3.*
*b... more »
Christmas Eve in Holten, Netherlands
At 4:30pm on Christmas Eve, hundreds of Dutch schoolchildren set a candle
before each of 1,394 burial plots marking the graves of Canadian soldiers
who died liberating their town a few days before the end of the Second
World War over 60 years ago.
An unofficial remembrance ceremony marked every year by the people of
Holten, Netherlands.
I reckon if Steve were to attend, he would likely spontaneously burst into
flames.
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South Sudan
*Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first President of South Sudan. *
*His trademark hat was a gift from United States President George W. Bush.*
"The oilfields in the South have kept the region's economy alive since
1999. South Sudan has the third-largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The economy of South Sudan is one of the world's most underdeveloped with
South Sudan having little existing infrastructure and the highest maternal
mortality and female illiteracy rates in the world as of 2011.
South Sudan exports timber to the international market. The region also
contains many ... more »
Merry Merry
DJ! has been kinda sleepy lately, for which we apologize.
But we'd like to wish all our readers a safe and serene holiday, if you
get/celebrate one.
And to our Toronto friends and others hit by the ice storm and power
outage, here's hoping you get through crap this as well as you can.
((((hugz))))
A Christmas Message from Edward Snowden
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RuTube
Edward Snowden’s alternative Christmas message demanding an end to mass
surveillance was broadcast at 4:15 p.m. GMT. Original post follows below
the video.
British television’s Channel 4, known for broadcasting “unusual but
relevant” figures’ holiday messages as opposed to the Queen of England’s
annual speech, has chosen whistle-blower Edward Snowden to convey this
year’s address.
Snowden, who is responsible for opening our eyes to the omnipresence of
the National Security Agency’s surveillance, was recorded by ... more »
Un invented App Un App sin Inventar
Every a single person alive and dead has said the following words, "Remind
me"
Every one has said it and will say it....
The App that would be the most useful to the Mrs. and me would be a voice
activated run in background just waiting for you to say those words...This
app would then Via voice prompt ask you a few questions, such as, "Remind
you what?" It would then take notes and say, "When?
More, Mas
Seed Newsvine
Leaving This Town
I followed Sam Youngman for only a short while on the twitter. I found him
to be pretty much a pompous ass promoting bad policy. As the kids say,
ain't nobody got time for that. So guess I missed his metamorphosis because
I was surprised his longish goodbye note to DC was so self-aware. It's
Politico, so be warned, but it's worth reading in full.
Not even going to excerpt it, except this one line which captures the
theme:
In Washington, a divided America is good for business.
And good for the insiders who run the place. Rare to find a insider that
would say that out loud, but the... more »
The world's BIGGEST blog - day 3
Big Time Sensuality
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Yellow Taxi
Rockerfeller's Bane - The Biggest Boondoggle of Them All
*"...Machiavelli notes '..there is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take
the lead in the introduction of a new order of things...' "*
"Following the attacks, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the
maximum amount of the policy (*$7B*), based on the two -- in Silverstein's
view -- separate attacks. The insurance company, *Swiss Re, paid Mr.
Silverstein $4.6 Billion — a princely return on a relatively paltry
investment of $124 million.*
There’s more. You see, the World Trade Towers were not the re... more »
It's a Wonderful Life... : COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
*To: The Director*
*D.M. Ladd*
*COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY*
*(RUNNING MEMORANDUM)*
There is submitted herewith the running memorandum concerning Communist
infiltration of the motion picture industry which has been brought up to
date as of May 26, 1947....
With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in
substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit
bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "scrooge-type" so that he would be
the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a
commo... more »
Vito Rizzuto, Canadian mobster, dies age 67
Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto has died. He suffered heart failure yesterday
at the age of 67.
Rizzuto was the head of Canada's biggest crime syndicate.
More info to come.
"A Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton...
A Hallelujah Christmas by Cloverton.
www.clovertonmusic.com
"Hallelujah" originally written by Leonard Cohen
Video by Wooten Media Productions
LYRICS
I've heard about this baby boy
Who's come to earth to bring us joy
And I just want to sing this song to you
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A couple came to Bethlehem
Expecting child, they searched the inn
To find a place for You were coming soon
There was no room for them to stay
So in a manger filled with hay
God's only Son was born, oh Halleluj... more »
Kaliningrad
Sweden's former prime minister Goran Person once described Kaliningrad this
way: "It is heavily polluted. There are illnesses there like AIDS and
tuberculosis. There is atomic waste. You find almost every imaginable
problem in Kaliningrad."
Micah Ali: "How Can Children Learn If Their Parents Are Unemployed?"
Micah Ali talks with a father at drop-off time outside McKinley
Elementary's preschool classroom
Micah Ali is an old friend of mine who I met through People For the
American Way's Young Elected Officials Network. Blue America has endorsed
him in an election next year for a seat in the California state Assembly.
But right now he's still the head of the Compton School Board. This week
Deepa Fernandes of KPCC hailed him as Compton's foot soldier for universal
pre-K.
Born and raised in Compton, Ali has spent six years on the school board-- a
job that pays $0-- because he says he wants ... more »
A Christmas Wish
*ancient's BIBLE*
It is my Christmas Wish for people to recognize, understand and share the
Spiritual TRUTH that religions and corruption have distorted. The GOLDEN
RULE, by which ALL others shall fall into place.
It is NOT; "Do unto others..." It IS; "LOVE Thy Neighbor as you LOVE GOD
and LOVE thyself."
LOVE
your humble servant,
Pope Vincent
North Korea: Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Anti-aircraft Machine Guns: Report
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un
*Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Antiaircraft Machine Guns: Report*
The Huffington Post | By Alana Horowitz
Posted: 12/24/2013 2:30 pm EST
http://goo.gl/tlPznT
Shocking new details have been revealed about the execution of Jang
Song-thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle.
The New York Times reports that the Jang's death was the end result of a
brutal gun battle between Jang supporters and those of the regime over who
controlled key land.
As the Times tells it, Kim's forces were ordered to take back control over
important fishing grounds that Jang had prev... more »
The Winds of North Africa
Thought you might find this satellite image interesting. The bands of wind
and rain coming out of Africa heading for Rome.... The weather forecasts
say the winds are only 35mph here but we know that to be false, trees are
down all over here, and winds are gusting up to 80mph and more....
*CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE...*
Happy holidays
If it's in keeping with your celebration...
Iraq Christians Celebrate Mass In Baghdad's Karrada
The following pictures are from Agence France Presse's Sabah Arar showing
Christians in Baghdad's Karrada attending mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean
Church on Dec. 15, 2013.
Your house was paid for when you signed the note.
*We said this a year ago but its good to see the information is getting
more mainstream... I learned something new here in Morocco that I didn't
know before. In Morocco the car title stays with the car even when you rent
one. Its the renter's obligation to carry the title with them at all times
in case the rental car is stolen. I asked Heather why that was a
requirement here but not in the USA. She told me that all USA car titles
are owned by the World Bank, which they monetize, and even when you request
your title after you pay off a loan it says on the back "this is not a car
... more »
How they made Gravity
Warning spoilers do not watch before you have seen the movie
War watch December 25 , 2013 .... Israel Sees Western Jihadists in Syria as a Future Security Nightmare ..... Pentagon Probes its biggest Afghanistan Supplier for Using Iran Supply Route ( possible US Iran sanctions violation ) ...... Appeals Court: Bagram Detainees ‘Beyond the Reach’ of Constitution ....... ‘Thousands Dead’ as UN Sends More Troops to South Sudan
Israel Sees Western Jihadists in Syria as a Future Security Nightmare20
Percent of Foreign Jihadists Are From Western Nations
by Jason Ditz, December 24, 2013
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For a long time, the Israeli government was trying to paint the Syrian
Civil War in the simplest terms, believing anything that weakened Bashar
Assad was a net positive.
That’s undergoing a major rethink now, as Israeli officials are taking
major note of the number of Western jihadists fighting alongside al-Qaeda in
Syria, and the long-term problems they pose.
That’s because Western citizenship means West... more »
Turkey corruption scandal update December 25 , 2013 ... The ongoing corruption scandal claims Turkish Economy , Interior and Environmental Ministers , who have resigned on Christmas Day ! Bitter battle between AKP and followers of Fetullah Gulen explodes as police officers are beng fired or transferred in response to the ongoing corruption investigation slamming AKP ! Prime Minister Erdogan urged to step down as well by former Environment and Urban Planning Minister Bayraktar !
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-economy-interior-environment-ministers-resign-amid-graft-scandal.aspx?pageID=238&nID=60102&NewsCatID=338
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Xmas in Pottersville
This is the first Xmas at my current residence in which we had a
real-honest-to-God tree. I'm still peeling sap off my body.
The stockings were hung over the... uh, gas heater with care...
I spent last Christmas and New Year's totally alone, so having my baby
back for the holidays, while it may sound like something out of a
tears-in-your-beer Christmas song, makes this one especially sweet.
Nothing makes Mrs. JP smile like getting a Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD.
She stood there for two and a half hours reading it before opening her
next present. A true bibliophile.... more »
Syria signs oil exploration deal with Russia
*Can't resist*-* Syria signs oil exploration deal with Russia*
Syria's state news agency says the oil ministry has signed a deal with
Russian oil and gas company Soyuzneftegaz to explore in the Mediterranean
Sea.
SANA's report Wednesday did not say where the deal was signed, though it
said the exploration will take place off the Syrian coast.
Earlier this year, Syrian Oil Minister Suleiman Abbas discussed with the
ambassadors of China and Russia the possibility of exploring for oil and
gas off Syria's Mediterranean coast.
Most of Syria's oil and gas fields in the country's east are u... more »
JEJU GHOST DANCE
Artists gather in Gangjeong village to cast away the evil spirits of
militarism.
Video made by Grace Kim.
Is Ted Cruz Leading The GOP Over Another Cliff, This Time On Immigration Reform? What Would Susan Collins Say?
Polling indicates that Ted Cruz would be the easiest Republican for a
Democratic presidential nominee to beat in 2016. That may be because he's
the most extreme and radical right-winger the GOP has ever come close to
nominating, or it might just be because the polls are measuring a lack of
name recognition. But there is no lack of name recognition on the far right
fringes. Out there, especially in the former slave-holding states that
rebelled against the U.S. and tried to set up their own right-wing
paradise, Cruz is the top choice among conservative Republicans to run in
2016. Af... more »
It's a Blunderful Life
(*Editor's note*: When in doubt, bring back the classics, such as this gem
from 2005. Enjoy and Happy Holidays.)
(CAMERA PULLS UP from the Failey ranch and travels up through the sky until
it is above the falling snow and moving slowly toward a firmament full of
stars. As the camera stops we hear the following voices talking, and as
each voice is heard, one of the stars twinkles brightly.)
“I wouldn’t have gotten those six budget-busting tax breaks if it wasn’t
for George Failey.”
“Conservative evangelicals wouldn’t be back on the map but for George
Failey.”
“George Failey made... more »
My Christmas Post
On most mornings, as part of my morning routine, I listen to T.D. Jakes of
the Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas. As my Christmas present to my readers,
I offer one of my favorite Jakes sermons. It is about love. I think it will
surprise most listeners. Merry Christmas.
Which was the 'worst government ever' of Britain? According to Al Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IOO-xQ_Vew&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Pagan Sun Worship - Happy Winter Solstice - Happy Feast of Saturnalia
*here's Unlce Attis in his festive cap*FEAST OF SATURNALIA and the WINTER
SOLSTICE
Merry Christmas to you all, hope Santa brought you all your worthies, you
slaves to the Roman Empire.
What, Mike?
It's been proven (again and again) that *Christ-Mass* is nothing more than
a cynical amalgamation of all sorts of pre-historic, Pagan and
Roman nature-worship all schlammed together so that you'll be a
compliant-if-fractious bunch of goggle-eyed fucking half-wits at this time
of year running round Consumerist Marketplaces or MAUL(sp)s elbowing each
other out of the way to buy, buy, buy t... more »
Blessed Christmas...
*Now may the Godof hope fillyou with all joy and peacein believing, sothat
you will aboundin hope by the powerof the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13*
From when children weren't treated as passive imbeciles by broadcasters - Merry Christmas
An excerpt from "Pinky and the Brain" season 1, episode 48:
'KS: I am honoured by your visit. Let me show you our assembly line.
First, sheets of sheer synthetic sheepskin are slit into several
Kicky-Sack shoe shapes in shapely shoe sizes by six sitting sheet
slitters.
B: I only see five sitting sheet slitters.
KS: The sixth sitting sheet slitter's sick. His son Sammy's subbing
'til the sick sixth sitting sheet slitter's back, sitting pretty.
P: You're not the sheet slitter?
S: No, I'm the sheet slitter's son.
P: Well.... You keep on slitting sheets until the sheet sli... more »
PROJECTION AND LOVE-BOMBING
"Christmas time," explains the psychologist Oliver James, "is a fixed
ritual setting which triggers historic enmities like nothing else...
*"The shit really hits the fan at this time of year...*
To avoid the usual tensions, Oliver James suggests that we identify what
role we occupy in our family, then do the exact opposite.
OLIVER JAMES
Recently I was at a Christmas party, feeling reasonably jolly and
beneficent, when a lady came up to me and said that I looked rather unhappy.
As the lady looked utterly miserable, I assumed that this was an example of
what Sigmund Freud called ... more »
Thailand's Upcoming Sham "Elections"
Like tyrants throughout history, Thaksin will use "elections" to lend
himself legitimacy he otherwise doesn't have.
*December 25, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Elections alone do not make any
given regime legitimate. Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, held regular elections
- of course, Hussein was the only viable candidate running and easily was
returned to power, time and time again (See BBC's "Saddam 'wins 100% of vote'").
He enjoyed immense popularity especially as he stood up against the
unwarranted aggression of the United States, however no one would describe
his government as particul... more »
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