Wednesday, March 19, 2014

19 Mar - Blogs I'm Following

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Deek Jackson - New History of Humanity - civilisation millions of years earlier

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 2 minutes ago
Deek Jackson makes some bold claims about Human Evolution in his documentary New History of Humanity. TOOL USE: one million years earlier TOOL MAKING: three hundred and fifty thousand years earlier HUNTING: a million years earlier FIRE USE/COOKING: three hundred thousand years earlier *Until recently the oldest, unchallenged evidence of human hunting came from a 400,000-year-old site in Germany the evidence came from marks left by spears on horse bones - horses were clearly being speared and their flesh eaten. but new Evidence from ancient butchery site in Tanzania shows early man... more »

RT > Sophie & Co > How Coup'd You?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 40 minutes ago
Sophie Shevardnadze (host of Sophie & Co) talks to *former US intelligence officer* Scott Rickard to find out how one funds a foreign revolution. *Scott Rickard, never heard of him, like what does he gain from doing seemingly destructive interviews like this? I mean, I like his data, his 'alternative history lessons' but am unsure of his motivation. Is Scott Rickards a KNOWN WHISTLEBLOWER that I didn't get the memo about? (ed)* "Sanctions are an act of War," boasts Scott Rickard.

Join The TPP Facebook Blitz Today

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 hour ago
[image: Foto: JOIN US TONIGHT for our first TPP Media March FACEBOOK BLITZ. Post on these mainstream media FB pages and tell them to cover this toxic trade agreement. The public NEEDS TO KNOW about the TPP. Starting at 6pm PST/8pm CST/9pm EST. If you need help with what to post, find suggestions here: http://bit.ly/1ak6pyF POST HERE: www.facebook.com/cnn www.facebook.com/nbc www.facebook.com/abcnews www.facebook.com/foxnews While it looks like we and a spectrum of other organizations have helped to stall Fast Track and the TPP, it has not gone away. There is still much work to be do... more »

After Gardasil: Will I Ever Get My Normal Life Back? by Helena Overgaard Andersen

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours ago
Helena After Gardasil: Will I ever get my normal life back? By Helena Overgaard Andersen Helsingør, Denmark Sane Vax, Inc. 18 March 2014 *As I am now in touch with many other girls who have been vaccinated with Gardasil and who also have been suffering many health issues, many similar to mine, I am determined to do the best I can to investigate ways of improving my Health.* I am a 15-year-old girl from Denmark, who unfortunately has been harmed by the HPV vaccine like thousands of other girls worldwide. I had no idea that this vaccine could change my life so much and take aw... more »

In Syria, God Is No Longer Great

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
An excerpt from, *"War turns Syrian society upside down"* by Suhaib Anjarini, Al Akhbar English, March 18, 2014: The word “takbir,” which is the Arabic term for the phrase “God is great” is now used all the time and has become a way to jest and joke. *The use of the phrase “God is great” is no longer welcomed within certain circles because of it association with fighters.* Fouad tells *Al-Akhbar*: “I received my passport after waiting five months. In the meantime, I checked with the immigration and passport department about 10 times until I lost hope of ever getting it. Finally, whe... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Paper Towels

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 3 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet. Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »

White Man March - the beginning of something much bigger?

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 3 hours ago
Kyle Hunt, host of *The Blitzkrieg Broadcast* on *Renegade Broadcasting*, is one of the leading organizers of the *White Man March* which took place this past Saturday, March 15th. What follows is a transcript of the questions I asked Kyle for a review of the White Man March I am currently writing for *American Free Press* (America's last *real* newspaper!), followed by his responses. I also *interviewed Kyle* on my radio program, *The Realist Report*, earlier this morning (mp3 is *here*). *JF:* Could you please provide a brief explanation of the purpose and goal(s) of the March? *... more »

Suddenly MI-11 Is In Serious Play For The Democrats-- Nancy Skinner Is Running

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
One of the most bitter and brutal Republican mini-civil wars is raging in MI-11, west and northwest of Detroit and we took a brief look at it last week. Incumbent teabagger Kerry Bentivolio is up against a fatally flawed eviction and foreclosurer specialist, Dave Trott, who is being financed by the corrupt Republican Establishment. The teabaggers are currently running this *very* effective ad against Trott: Steve Israel, sensing an opportunity to elect one of his vile mystery meat candidates, recruited an ex-CIA agent, Bobby MacKenzie, who refuses to talk issues and is hoping t... more »

Big success with the big bang!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
To give you some context, after thirty-five years scientist Andrei Linde had his hypothesis about the birth of the universe confirmed this week. Wonder no longer that must have felt like, as “Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic inflation theory. The discovery, made by Kuo and his colleagues at the BICEP2 experiment, represents the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the ‘first tremors of the Big Bang.’” This is what it looks like to see your life’s work vi... more »

US Expels Syrian Diplomats - Dangerous Desperation in the Air

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours ago
[image: 453453]*March 19, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - New Eastern Outlook) - In Al Jazeera's report, "US suspends diplomatic relations with Syria," it states: The United States has officially told the Syrian government to immediately suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the country, and ordered its diplomats to leave the country if they are not US citizens. "We have determined it is unacceptable for individuals appointed by that regime to conduct diplomatic or consular operations in the United States," US special envoy for Syria, Daniel Rubinstein, said in a statement issue... more »

QUOTE OF THE DAY: On the cause of cronyism

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
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my birth

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 6 hours ago

Update

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 6 hours ago
Wow! My last post was about not drinking caffeine, and I have not drank it since. It was not a hard process at all. I still crave it sometimes when I am tired, but I have avoided it. Yay! So, we have so much going on. Tomorrow morning, we are heading out early to Ohio to buy our vehicle for Costa Rica. We are buying a Nissan Xterra. It is the best choice for us for Costa Rica. Cannot wait to have that. We are then going to renew our passports in Detroit at this place that does expedited passport renewal. Kurt is planning on leaving April 24. He has two friends going with m... more »

BREAKING: Students Take Legislature UPDATE WITH LIVESTREAM

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours ago
BREAKING: Students occupy legislature to protest illegal trade pact moves. The KMT ignored procedure to bring the pact to a vote, and has ignored the public's expressed wish for a line by line review. - Buzzfeed with good explanation - LiveStream *[NEW]* - Ketagalen media - CNN iReport. - Slideshare.net: problems with the trade pact (in Chinese) - FocusTaiwan: gov't media view, love the comical stuff from Ma about respecting the legislature -- remember the MaWangMess when he went after its speaker? _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below!... more »

Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Eye of the Wolf”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
Medwyn Goodall, “Eye of the Wolf” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuSKPD2jY0

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The bubble of expanding gas pictured below is the planetary nebula PK 164 +31.1, the remnants of the atmosphere of a Sun-like star expelled as its supply of fusion-able core hydrogen became depleted. Visible near the center of the nebula is what remains of the core itself- a blue-hot white dwarf star. This particularly photogenic planetary nebula shows intricate shells of gas likely expelled at different times toward the end the star's demise, and whose structure is not fully understood. *Click image for larger size.* This deep i... more »

"The Essential Thing..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." - Pierre de Courbertin

"Lifting Pain's Veil: Bitterness"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*"Lifting Pain's Veil: Bitterness"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Bitter feelings allow us to become perfect victims in that we no longer feel obliged to work toward healing. It is natural to feel resentment or anger when life does not unfold as expected. We consciously or unconsciously anticipated one experience, and we grieve for the loss of it when the universe puts something else in our path. Most of the time, we work through these feelings and they pass. Occasionally, our anger and resentment do not fade and are instead transformed into bitterness. Bitter feelings allow us t... more »

Health: “What is a ‘Cytokine Storm?’"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“What is a ‘Cytokine Storm?’" * by Wisegeek "We think of external microbes as our worst enemy during an outbreak of influenza or bronchitis but our own immune system is potentially more lethal. When our body detects foreign microorganisms indicating an infection, our body might respond by over-protecting the site of infection. The body may race so many antibodies to the infection site that they collect in a cytokine storm. When the infection is in the lungs, for example, a cytokine storm can potentially block airways and result in suffocation. Medical researchers have identified th... more »

Clarissa Dickson Wright (1947-2014)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
*in this Two Fat Ladies "Afternoon Tea" clip, that's Jennifer Paterson (1928-1999) who cooks first. Clarissa gets her turn at 2:36.* *by Ken* I'm kind of surprised to see that in all there were only 24 episodes of *Two Fat Ladies*, produced in four series from 1996 to 1999, when Jennifer Paterson (born 1928) died, within a month of being diagnosed with lung cancer. The younger lady, Clarissa Dickson Wright (born 1947), died Saturday. Separately or together, the two were about the least probable TV stars you could imagine. But together, they were something else, and theirs was a co... more »

Alan Watts,“Chivalry”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Chivalry”* by Alan Watts “It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For to "love your enemies" is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a clever device for winning them over to your side.... more »

The Poet: Mary Oliver, “The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”* by Mary Oliver "The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest, at night in the black branches, in the morning in the blue branches of the world. ․ It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter. Airy and shapeless thing, it needs the metaphor of the body, lime and appetite, the oceanic fluids; it needs the body's world, instinct and imagination, and the dark hug of time, sweetness and tangibility, to be understood, to be more than pure light that burns where no ... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
Talca, Maule, Chile. Thanks for stopping by.

Sam Smith,"Never Despair"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"Never Despair" by Sam Smith "Empires and cultures are not permanent and while thinking about the possibility that ours is collapsing may seem a dismal exercise it is far less so than enduring the frustrations, failures, damage and human casualties involved in constantly butting up against reality like a boozer who insists he is not drunk attempting to drive home. Peter Ustinov in 'Romanoff and Juliet' says at one point: "I'm an optimist: I know how bad the world is. You're a pessimist: you're always finding out." Or as GK Chesterton put it, "We must learn to love life without ever... more »

"Who Are You? What Do You Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character." - Henry Rollins

Chet Raymo,"Six Things"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*"Six Things"* by Chet Raymo "My mother was part of the last generation of Americans who were welded into a national cohesiveness by the classroom memorization of poems by English language poets - Longfellow, Whittier, Riley, Lowell, Field, and all the rest. All her life, lines of verse were on her lips... "All at once, and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst." Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The One Hoss Shay" "Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose." Longfellow, "The Village Black... more »

Another Escalation: US Freezes Diplomatic Relations With Syria, Orders Non-US Personnel To Leave Country ..... Is this like the man who kicks the dog after a bad day at work ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Another Escalation: US Freezes Diplomatic Relations With Syria, Orders Non-US Personnel To Leave Country [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2014 11:28 -0400 - Michigan - Reuters - Ukraine inShare2 Putin 2 - Obama 0, which means it is time to go back to the one place where it all started last year, and where Putin had his most resounding victory over the US foreign policy apparatus (at least until the Ukraine, where we trampled not only over Obama's red line... again... but where nobody quite explained the "costs" to the ex-KGB leade... more »

Pond Inlet

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago
Pond Inlet is considered to be one of Canada's 'jewels of the north.' It is ringed by scenic mountain ranges, with many glaciers and fiords. There are ice caves to explore, hoodoos to marvel at and abundant species of wild animals to watch, including narwhals. There are also beluga and orca whales, ringed and harp seals, caribou, arctic foxes and wolves, seabirds, geese, gyrfalcons, ptarmigans, gulls and ravens to encounter, plus the occasional polar bear to be viewed from a safe distance. Indeed, a safe distance!

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago

Nice Job Neocons: Now What?

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 9 hours ago
Nothing can be more exceptionally American than the shock and arrogance expressed by the US political class in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. They are outraged, I tell you, outraged that the loathed Russian President Vladimir Putin would call their bluff and refuse to sniff the glove after they had pissed on his prized showcase of the Sochi Winter Olympics and then with assistance of fascists, neo-Nazis and assorted other anti-Semitic miscreants toppled the democratically elected government that sits on his borders. The nerve of Putin to not submit to having yet mor... more »

Hand-wringing

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
Sue has already neatly knocked the stuffing out of Owen Jones's shouty-but-featherweight piece on BBC bias... [Anyway, any man who begins his article with the words, *"There are three certainties about British life: it rains on bank holidays...,"*automatically disqualifies himself from being taken seriously, in my ever so 'umble opinion. [The Morecambe Marketing Board (slogan: "Sunshine guaranteed, with a friendly smile and a few Morecambe Bay shrimps chucked in (at a price). And don't forget to photograph yourselves with the Eric Morecambe statue whilst you're here") will have... more »

Ron Jacobs : The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours ago
After years of watching Washington and its NATO alliance entice and cajole traditionally Russian allies to join the western capitalist sphere, Moscow has recently begun fighting back. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 18, 2014 Recent events … finish reading Ron Jacobs : The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea

Bad Chinese tattoos

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
And you think Chinglish on signs and T-shirts is hilarious. What about having “chicken soup” tattooed on your chest in Chinese? Or worse? [image: buzz-tatto-fails.jpg] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Going Scottish

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
[image: image]What’s on at this week’s Auckland Uni Econ Group? Thanks for asking: In this week’s seminar we’ll be looking at an economic idea developed by an eighteenth-century Scotsman that changed course of history. An uncomplicated idea presented through a simple story with history-making implications. What was the story? And what can this sixteenth-century Scotsman teach both modern-day Peruvian hill tribes and today’s economists? We’ll see that this idea provides the foundation for the whole field of economics and can be used to help us answer almost all questions related ... more »

Sniper attack in Crimea- Two dead- Maidan take two?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago
* Did a sniper manage to slip through the security checks?* 2 Incidents? One pro-Russian militiaman was killed and two other wounded on Tuesday in a sniper attack on the streets of the Crimean capital, Simferopol, *local media reported.* *A unit of pro-Russian self-defense forces came under sniper fire *w*hile searching for a group of unidentified gunmen on a tip from local residents*, the Kryminform news agency said citing a *Crimean police source.* “As a result, one member of self-defense forces was killed and two were wounded,” the source said, adding that the incident could hav... more »

Why Marx Was Right

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
I'm currently reading Terry Eagleton's *Why Marx Was Right*, a little book that came out in 2011. And, I have to say, it is possibly the best short introductory work to Marx and Marxism I've read. And I've read *a lot*. Taking a set of common charges made against Marx (Marx was a determinist, Marx hated individualism, Marx is outdated, Marx foreshadowed Stalin, etc.) Eagleton patiently but clearly explains why those objections are mistaken and in so doing sets out Marx's stall for him. The Marx that springs from the page is a profoundly positive thinker and comrade sceptical of gran... more »

Dahlan: Mahmoud Abbas is a Catastrophe; Negotiations Are "One Big Lie"

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
"Mahmoud Abbas no longer represents Fatah. He represents the negotiations, the destruction of the PA (Palestinian Authority), the plundering of the PA, and all that is evil in the lives of the Palestinians." - Mohammed Dahlan, "the former leader of Fatah in Gaza...In 2007, Dahlan assisted in a U.S. plan to overthrow the elected Hamas government in Gaza, but the coup failed when Hamas carried out a counter-coup, and routed Fatah forces in Gaza instead" (*Wikipedia*). Video Title: Dahlan: Mahmoud Abbas is a Catastrophe; Negotiations Are "One Big Lie." Source: MEMRIReports. Date Publ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*Let The Freak Show Begin ~Adrastos, First Draft** ~I really didn't think that 4 term former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards (hereinafter EWE or just plain Edwin) would run for Congress. I even predicted a non-candidacy on social media. In the immortal words of Graham Parker "I thought I was right, I was wrong."* *After EWE's announcement there was a lot of back and forth on NOLA twitter between the moralists who were outraged and horrified and those of us who view politics as entertainment with higher than average stakes. The moralists are concerned that EWE's candidacy will "hurt ... more »

The New Zealand Left Needs To Reinvent Itself [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 hours ago
*Guest post by Hugh Pavletich* [image: image] This week’s big local political news is NZ Labour’s Travails. A fairly balanced *Otago Daily Times* editorial summarises, asking rhetorically: Can it get any worse for Labour leader David Cunliffe … six months out from the September 20 general election? The results of the *Herald* DigiPoll survey released this week put Labour's support down to 29.5%, the lowest it has been since Mr Cunliffe took over the leadership from David Shearer in September last year, and Mr Cunliffe's individual support down to 11.1%, lower than the worst D... more »

GOP Plutocrat Ken Langone And New Dem Wall Street Shill Jim Himes Are Waging Class War Against American Families

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Although he occasionally writes a check to Democratic corporate whores who serve Wall Street and fight for the plutocracy-- like Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Andrew Cuomo, Steve Israel and Cory Booker-- in the last few election cycles Ken Langone has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars-- at least $800,000-- to the Republican Party, to right-wing Republican candidates and to GOP committees (like $25,000 to Rove's American Crossroads). Forbes estimates his net worth at around $2.1 billion, so his contributions of around $800,000, would be like a normal person giving ... more »

Light Guacamole made with Greek Yogurt

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago
There a few things that I love more than guacamole. I love it on my tacos or just with a package of tortilla chips. The one thing I don't love about guacamole is the calories. If I am not careful, I can eat an entire bowl of guacamole in one sitting. Three avocados is enough to kill anybody's calories for the day. When I am looking for a lighter, delicious option, I will make this Light Guacamole. It is easy to pull together, and made with Greek Yogurt, for added protein. You will need: 1 Large Avocado, mashed 1 Container Plain Greek Yogurt The juice of one lime, to taste 1/2 tsp. ... more »

Why I Don't Want My Daughter to Work in Silicon Valley

As someone who worked in the tech world for over 30 years, my heart goes out to this gentleman who is concerned for his daughter's well being there. I hired women in the 70's and 80's in an effort to make the engineering/tech world smarter and more beneficial a place in which women could make a living, support their families and learn skills useful for their future work lives. As the articles

NAZI PROVOCATEURS 'KILL TWO IN CRIMEA'.

Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
On 18 March 2014, an unknown sniper' killed a 'self-defense member' (presumably pro-Russia) and a Ukrainian soldier near a military research centre in Crimea. *2 killed in shooting near Crimea military research center, sniper suspected* The 'suspected sniper' opened fire in two directions from a partially inhabited building near the military research centre in Simferopol. The Kryminform news agency, citing an unnamed local police source, reports shooting came from a house under construction opposite the centre and targeted Crimean self-defense units as well the military centre i... more »

Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood : Working for a realistic left politics in Texas

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
To our friends outside Texas, we ask: Is it really so much better where you live? Where in mainstream politics in the United States is there much sanity? By Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood | The Rag Blog | February … finish reading Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood : Working for a realistic left politics in Texas

Governor Christie Starving Public Education for a Fifth Year

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
Governor Chris Christie is still bullying public schools and public school teachers who do not work for his bosses in New Jersey. You know, the ones who are being paid off with favors and punished for not bowing down to him. The governor who is under investigation for closing bridges and playing games with Hurricane Sandy funds, is once again putting children and families in harms way by not adequately funding public schools. He knows how to keep a promise when it comes to not raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires in his state. After all, why would a governor want to gener... more »

Extremely important bail decision

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
R v Beck 2014 NWTTC 07 is an extremely important bail decision. It is, as far as I can tell, the first decision to consider the impact of TIS on the decision to seek bail and find the 1 for 1 provision unconstitutional for that reason. The Court holds: [140] For the reasons stated above, I find that: (a) The impugned portion of s. 719(3.1) of the Criminal Code (i.e., the words "unless the reason for detaining the person in custody was stated in the record under subsection 515(9.1)" violates sections 11(e), 11(h) and 7 of the Charter and is not saved by s. 1 of the Charter; (b) Th... more »

Quick update...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
Heather has published some new legal papers and banking tools in English and Italian for those interested. You can find them on her web site at http://heatheranntuccijarraf.info Heather is quite enjoying her entre into web pages and blogging and is catching on to it very fast. A big thank you to all those that helped out in the last month with donations, its greatly appreciated! You cannot know how much its appreciated. A friend is bringing my ATM cards from states in a few days. I will be able to withdraw my money directly without funneling it via Paypal through Caleb and his ... more »

The Realist Report - Kyle Hunt: White Man March

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Kyle Hunt of *Renegade Broadcasting*. Kyle and I will be discussing the recent White Man March and his latest article *Destroying The Anti-White Arguments*published on the *Renegade Tribune*. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *What is the White Man March? (MUST READ article)* - *This is the White Man March (MUST WATCH vid)* - *Destroying The Anti-Wh... more »

“Wells Fargo ‘Too Big to Fail’ Bank Is Going Down”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*“Wells Fargo ‘Too Big to Fail’ Bank Is Going Down”* by Shah Gilani “Last week I told you about “The Coming Curse of Zombie Foreclosures.” I described how folks – who thought they were foreclosed on – are suddenly finding out they are actually still on the hook for mortgage payments, taxes, and all kinds of maintenance on abandoned homes. What I didn’t tell you is that the nation’s largest mortgage-issuing bank – and the most profitable bank in 2013 – may have been bitten itself by the very zombie foreclosures it breeds. And now it could be a dead bank walking. The bank I’m talking... more »

Hemingwee. (the pee formed when journalistic integrity is crushed by rocks)

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
Just trying to coin a phrase or a word

Grand Inquisitor keeps pouring it on!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014* *Most simply put, not honest:* Rachel Maddow’s handling of the Fort Lee matter continues to warrant attention. Last night, Maddow continued to frame events in highly prejudicial ways. By now, we would simply have to say that she is being dishonest. Maddow ended her program with a short segment about the release of some new emails and texts. To watch the full segment, click this. This is the way Our Own Lynch Mob began: MADDOW (3/17/14): *“At least we have explained the counter-narrative.”* *That’s a newly released text message from former Port Authority e... more »

Russian Assertiveness Vs NATO Transgressions: Who Is Right In Crimea?

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
Objectivity is missing in the mainstream coverage of the ongoing developments in Ukraine and Crimea. So is history. So are basic facts. Fantasy is at the base of the media's portrayal of what has been termed *"Europe's biggest crisis"* in the 21st century by British Foreign Secretary William Hague. Neil Clark *writes*, "it‘s not the first time leading western politicians have talked in such alarmist terms in recent years." What is essentially a democratic, peaceful, and spontaneous response by the people of Crimea to the unexpected and frightening coup by war-hungry radicals in U... more »

The Economy: “Planet Debt”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*“Planet Debt”* by Bill Bonner “Well, there's the bounce. The Dow up 181 points yesterday. Gold off $3 an ounce. The end will come – sooner or later – for the big bull market in US stocks... and for the debt bubble. But it didn't come yesterday. Will it come today or tomorrow? We don't know. All we know is you want to be prepared. (Unlike bonds, gold has no counterparty risk.) Today, we explore the time that land forgot. That phrase doesn't really make any sense, but we wanted to try it out anyway. We're talking about the space on the calendar filled by "eventually" and "sooner or... more »

Not focused on you hair not even thinkingaboot your feet

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
Hair comes and goes it is some kind of good camouflage feet are a different matter no man looks that low so who are you buying all those silly shoes for

US closes Syrian embassy, expels diplomats & appoints an Ambassdor...

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
*The ambassador is a 'Jewish/American' not my wording. And the UN is busily being NATO's shiny happy face* * All of a sudden*-* The U.S. closes Syrian Embassy in Washington, orders diplomats out* The Obama administration on Tuesday closed the U.S. Embassy in Syria and pulled all American diplomats out of the country. The Syrian Embassy in Washington and its consulates in Texas and Michigan have also suspended operations, and diplomats who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents have been told to leave the country, Reuters reported. “We have determined it is unacceptable for i... more »

Play MYSTIC For Me

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 14 hours ago
"Nobody is listening to your phone calls." -- Barack Obama, June 7. 2013. "NSA program 'reaches into the past' to retrieve, replay phone calls." -- *Washington Post*, March 18, 2014. Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report on the latest Edward Snowden bombshell: The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former ... more »

Pepe Escobar: "The Obama administration's "strategic" gambit to subcontract the State Department's [plan] to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence -- and ultimately annex it to NATO -- by instrumentalizing a coalition of willing neo-nazis and fascists with a central bank veneer (prime minister "Yats"), is in utter shambles."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago
------------------------------ *OpEdNews Op Eds 3/17/2014 at 19:33:09* Russia 1, Regime Changers 0 *By Pepe Escobar (about the author)* Permalink opednews.com *Headlined to H2 3/17/14* Source: Asia Times John Kerry: War and Sanctions for Russia over Ukraine (image by YouTube) Let's cut to the chase -- short and sweet. 1. The Obama administration's "strategic" gambit to subcontract the State Department's "Khaganate of Nulands" to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence -- and ultimately ann... more »

Sequels to Airplane and Network emerge!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014* *Crazy new films write themselves:* Let’s give credit where credit is due! Last night, Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg produced an impressive segment. It concerned the inanity of much of the cable coverage of the missing Malaysian airplane. Bernie described the sweep of the cant. Mr. O said he won’t go there: GOLDBERG (3/17/14): *Well, first, let's acknowledge that this is a legitimate news story,* that it's just a tremendous mystery, and that in the beginning, a certain amount of speculation was legitimate because, since we didn't know what happened to... more »

Jim Crow In South Dakota? Conservatives Have Plans

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Phil Jensen, vicious Kansas GOP racist, brings the hate to South Dakota South Dakota Republican Phil Jensen is proud to be widely considered the furthest right member of the state legislature and never tires of calling other Republicans in the state Senate RINOs. If you think Paul Ryan is a racist, Phil Jensen makes him look like Al Sharpton! This session, Jensen sponsored Senate Bill 128, which would have allowed businesses to deny service to people based on their sexual orientation and not fear a lawsuit. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates, and even some Republicans... more »

Connecting the dots paints a picture of great decay

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
Humans are inherently bi polar, smart enough and armed with self actualization skills to accept there is a dichotomy between reason and faith. Faith is marketing reason is product. Every person with the least bit of critical thinking ability will ask themselves why I am a here. Those who ask themselves the question instead of accepting being told they are here to serve some kind of sky god have to move on to harder and more personal questions. First one is why am I not rich and powerful. Thats when the critical thought becomes hacked by the sky god faith. You were not worthy is ... more »

Hundreds of Natives join California rally opposing fracking

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, opens the rally with a ceremony and prayer. Photo by Dan Bacher. 800_caleen_sisk.jpg original image ( 5184x3456) Hundreds of Tribal representatives join huge rally to oppose fracking by Dan Bacher  Censored News SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Hundreds of members of California Indian Nations and Tribes from throughout

MICK JAGGER, SATANISM AND THE CIA

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
Reportedly, the CIA and its friends have taken a strong interest in Mick Jagger (seen above with Obama). The CIA plan is to control the minds of the musicians and then use the musicians to control the minds of the populace. The CIA uses drugs and Satanism when it mind-controls the stars. The Rolling Stones and The Occult - Global Truth In his book, *The Ultimate Evil*, Maury Terry wrote that between 1966 and 1967, the (CIA-linked) Satanic cult called the Process Church, "sought to recruit the Rolling Stones." *'Kenneth Anger' (right)* Jagger has been influenced by Kenneth Ang... more »

Musings On Iraq Security Report Feb. 15-21, 2014

MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 16 hours ago
The third week of February was the deadliest of the month. February 15-21, 2014 saw not only the most reported attacks, but the most casualties as well. This was due to a combination of on going fighting in Anbar, increased violence in Babil and Salahaddin, plus continued bombings in Baghdad. While most of the focus has been on Anbar and the regular explosions in the capital, the insurgents have been able to pick up their operations in other provinces as well. The third week of February was the worst of the month. The press reported a total of 264 security incidents. That was mo... more »

When Will Ravitch Stop Enabling Weingarten's Corporate Addiction?

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
From PsychCentral: Enabling is a term often used in the context of a relationship with an addict. It might be a drug addict or alcoholic, a gambler, or a compulsive overeater. Enablers, rather than addicts, suffer the effects of the addict’s behavior. Enabling is “removing the natural consequences to the addict of his or her behavior.” Professionals warn against enabling because evidence has shown that an addict experiencing the damaging consequences of his addiction on his life has the most powerful incentive to change. Often this is when the addict “hits bottom” – a term commonl... more »

Rightwing fairytale

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Since many of us have been flabbergasted and rendered speechless by a CIF article entitled: *“It's the BBC's rightwing bias that is the threat to democracy and journalism” *I feel obliged to mention it here. Owen Jones has many enthusiastic fans, who agree with him; at the time of writing there are 1671 comments to prove it. Well, not every single one of them is from a fan, but this is, after all, the Guardian. A great deal of obfuscation has been caused by the general lack of any robust definition of the terms left and right wing. Many participants in the debate seem to be at ... more »

'Independent investigator' of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News The firm Dentons that the Three Affiliated Tribes hired to do an "independent investigation" of Chairman Tex Hall and the alleged oilfield corruption is actually a lobbyist for the Bakken oil and gas industry. The push for the probe comes as a murder investigation continues into one of Hall's business partners in the oil and gas industry. A second partner is

“8 Shocking Instances of Moronic Right-Wing Malevolence This Week”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*“8 Shocking Instances of Moronic Right-Wing Malevolence This Week”* By Janet Allon “The far-right assemblage called CPAC may have ended, but the wingnuts carried on undaunted this week. *1. Paul Ryan: When I said 'inner city' men are too lazy to work; that's their 'culture,' I didn't mean it racially. *It seems that now that poverty is spreading to white people, the topic has piqued the interest of a handful of Republican leaders. Notably, Republican bullshit artist par excellence, Paul Ryan, who has lately been trying to convince the public that he really cares and is earnestly ... more »

They don't want you to know

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 17 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg I'm probably repeating myself by warning you that a sales pitch insisting that the item or idea or information you're selling is something someone doesn't want you to have or to learn about is a marker for hokum and perhaps outright fraud. Similar marketing techniques include warnings that you must get this or read that or go to the website "before *they* ban it" or that scientists, or historians or doctors or liberals are hiding the real truth from you about things like magic beans or some dietary trick that will block the effects of eating ten thousand calories a d... more »

TALKING TO OURSELVES: Jonathan Capehart, straight outta Crimea!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 18 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014* *Part 2—Five panelists, one point of view:* In this morning’s New York Times, Jochen Bittner describes the role which has always been played, around the world, by the clan, the “race,” the tribe. Bittner is a political editor for Die Zeit, a German weekly. In an opinion column, he reports a conversation he recently had in Crimea with a checkpoint guard, “a warlord from central casting,” who was “Serbian and a member of the Chetniks, a nationalist paramilitary.” As it turned out, this guard had a good sense of humor. According to Bittner, here’s how the Che... more »

Breaking News: New Study Shows Glyphosate Residues In Animals & Humans

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
BREAKING NEWS: NEW STUDY: Detection of Glyphosate Residues in Animals and Humans. CHRONICALLY ILL HUMANS HAD SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER GLYPHOSATE RESIDUES IN URINE THAN HEALTHY HUMANS. The presence of glyphosate residues in both humans and anima...ls could haul the entire population towards numerous health hazards. Presence of glyphosate in urine and its accumulation in animal tissues is alarming even at low concentrations. Studying the impact of glyphosate residues on health is warranted and the global regulations for the use of glyphosate may have to be re-evaluated. LINK TO STUDY: ... more »

A bear called Chopstix

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago

De Jaeger - no cross on character

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
R. v. De Jaeger, 2014 NUCJ 07 is a very strong decision refusing a Crown application to exam on prior criminal offenses. In giving its reasons the court held: An accused does not put his or her character into issue in circumstances where he or she is tricked into doing so by inappropriate questions raised by the Crown in cross-examination. See R v Beecham, (1921) 16 Cr App R 26 (CCA); R v Bricker, (1994) 90 CCC (3d) 268 at p.19 (ONCA), leave to appeal to the SCC refused; R v Turpin, 2005 BCSC 490.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 hours ago
*Edwin Edwards running for Congress ~Mike Hasten, Daily Advertiser* *St. Joseph’s Altar has deep ties for Uptown family ~Stephanie Bruno, New Orleans Advocate* *Corps awards $8 million levee contract in Plaquemines Parish ~AP, via The Republic* *For New Orleans' new maker movement, a Mini Maker Faire ~Jed Lipinski* *Odd Words: Best of the Tennessee Williams Fest* *Preview: BUKU Music + Art Project ~Alex Woodward, Gambit *

Harper's Mephistopheles

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 19 hours ago
Politics has always been a nasty profession. But Stephen Harper has brought a new viciousness to the way it is practiced in Canada. That viciousness, Michael Harris writes, has been orchestrated by a merchant of venom -- Arthur Finkelstein: Three U.S. Republican presidents, countless senators and other right-wing world leaders like Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu owe their success to Arthur J. Finkelstein’s brilliance as a communications mastermind. Finkelstein bases his approach to politics on three axioms: “Finkel-think” is an approach to new-age techno-politics ba... more »

Beltway Democrats' Failure-- Focus: Wisconsin

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Over the weekend, E.J. Dionne suggested in the *Washington Post* that Democratic Party strategists are blowing the 2014 midterm cycle. "Listlessness is bad politics. Defensiveness is poor strategy. And resignation is never inspiring." Obama and his party are in danger of allowing the Republicans to set the terms of the 2014 elections, just as they did four years ago. The fog of nasty and depressing advertising threatens to reduce the electorate to a hard core of older, conservative voters eager to hand the president a blistering defeat. American politics has been shaken by two r... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 19 hours ago
*Fatness and health among diabetics* The interpretation of weight among diabetics is greatly distorted by the "war" on obesity. Because diabetes is a nasty condition, researchers are determined to find that obesity causes diabetes, whereas the evidence is at least as good the other way around: Diabetes causes obesity. That most fatties don't have diabetes should be sufficient to ignite skepticism in the matter. The fact that diet can control diabetes does not show that gluttonly causes diabetes. Just because I put bandaids on scratches, does that mean that bandaids cause scrat... more »

Overnight review from Monday and weekend aftermath on Ukraine situation ... Lok ahead as Russia and Ukraine figure to be front and center ( Putin speech ) , China financial tremblors ( second corporate bond default , but another bail-out could be in the works ) , Fed meeting starts today ( two day meeting , first chaired by Janet Yellin ) , data and from Europe ( ZEW survey collapse , ESM rescue scheme upheld by German Constitution Court ) , US data coming up this morning ( CPI , housing starts and permits are highlights ) , Argentina debt cut by moody's to Caa1 - severe crash in reserves noted ,

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
Risk On Mood Tapers Ahead Of Putin Speech [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2014 06:55 -0400 - Bank of England - BOE - Bond - Borrowing Costs - China - Copper - CPI - Crude - default - Equity Markets - European Central Bank - Eurozone - Fed Speak - Fisher - Fitch - France - Germany - headlines - Housing Starts - Iran - Italy - Monetary Policy - Morgan Stanley - Nikkei - Nomura - Obamacare - Paul Fisher - POMO - POMO ... more »

Musical Interlude: David Nevue, “Greensleeves”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
David Nevue, “Greensleeves” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wVIr8b6MA

BICEP2: some winners and losers

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
*While some theories and theorists got even bangier, others were banged in their heads* In this blog post, I will assume that the observation of BICEP2 suggesting \(r\approx 0.20\pm 0.05\) and \(n_s\approx 0.96\pm 0.01\) is right and will eventually be confirmed by independent experiments. If the result turns out to be wrong, the blog post below will become irrelevant and misleading, but so will many other, more important texts and papers. This new discovery is groundbreaking and has a huge impact on the health of virtually all detailed models of inflation and its audaciously propos... more »

Youtube suspends Russia Today's channel - blamed on technical glitch @ Youtube Russia.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 23 hours ago
Well, that came as quite a surprise, this morning ... imagine all the video data on there that'll need restoring if/when this suspension is revoked. Will the soviet media station Russia Today ever again have a youtube channel? RUSSIA TODAY'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL *This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, gaming, misleading content or other Terms of Service violations.* Okay, RT is state (soviet) run, but at least their 'read between the lines' propaganda held various tasty morsels for the discerning to winkle out. Is RT's obvi... more »

BUDI

Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago
As the weeks went by I made lots of weekend trips to the countryside. One sunny October day I discovered a particularly magical realm on the outskirts of Bogor. Along a bosky country lane I found myself taking photographs of buffalo, fields of tapioca, dark wooden shacks among tall trees, and smiling children carrying huge baskets of mangoes and bananas. There was an aroma of burning wood and goat manure. Some of the houses along the lane were simply grubby slums, full of naked babies and toddlers, but some had decent brick walls, concrete floors, peach-coloured tile roofs and glas... more »

Breaking News: Sri Lanka First Country to Ban Monsanto’s Glyphosate Due to Study on Chronic Kidney Disease By Christina Sarich

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
Breaking: Sri Lanka First Country to Ban Monsanto’s Glyphosate Due to Study on Chronic Kidney Disease by Christina Sarich Natural Society, 18 March 2014 Forget the tit-for-tat tactics in the EU and the U.S. causing the political steamrollering of anti-GMO activists. Behold the light at the end of the tunnel: Sri Lanka has become the first country to ban Monsanto’s toxic RoundUp Ready chemical, glyphosate, in light of recent studies linking it to chronic kidney failure. The Minister of Special Projects S.M. Chandrasena decided to ban Monsanto’s glyphosate for good, old-fashion... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*How the Global Warming Scare Began* Heartland friend John Coleman is among the many courageous meteorologists who are speaking out against the fake science of man-caused global warming. He’s brave, influential, and has the backing of his TV station in San Diego, KUSI, to produce videos such as the one at left titled “How the Global Warming Scare Began.” Coleman is the founder of The Weather Channel, was the first weatherman on “Good Morning America,” and was named “Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year” by the American Meteorological Society. (NOTE: Coleman quit the AMS when, he sa... more »

Food Matters TV Free Online Event - March 20 to 31, 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
[image: Foto: Food Matters TV presents, a FREE WORLDWIDE ONLINE PARTY! Starting, March 20, 2014! - Free Movie Nights - Expert Interviews - Recipe Videos - Film Previews TO REGISTER FOR FREE AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK ON THE LINK HERE: http://www.fmtv.com/invite #FoodMattersTV #FoodMatters #FMTV #HungryForChange #GMOs #SecondOpinion #EMotionFilm #JamesColquhoun #LaurentinetenBosch #gmofreeusa #gmofreecanada] Food Matters TV presents, a FREE WORLDWIDE ONLINE PARTY! Starting, March 20, 2014! - Free Movie Nights - Expert Interviews - Recipe Videos - Film Previews... TO REG... more »

So, these German thinkers walked into a room…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
I know what you’re wondering. You’re wondering what might happen if four of the most well-known German thinkers sat down to play Monopoly… [image: image] Read on here at Existential Comics for the politically-charged ending! [Hat tip Stephen Hicks] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Rocket Men.......(BC NDP Leadership Battle)

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day ago
Well there they be, our 2 contenders for leadership of the NDP....John Horgan and... Mike Farnworth, let me first say that both are excellent candidates and I have the utmost respect for both men, furthermore our province would be better served with either man running the government, all the BC Liberal crimes committed, past, present and future by Gordon Campbell now by the Christy Clark corporate gang.. However, this site is called The Straight Goods for a reason, fact-filled, opinionated and well researched, opinions and positions uttered by me come from listening, learning a... more »

Progressive Music Classics. Killing Joke: "Empire Song"

Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 1 day ago
. . *By MARC McDONALD* Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of working-class people around the world. The great post-punk band *Killing Joke* released their sixth single, *"Empire Song,"* on March 20, 1982. It turned out to be an eerily prescient song when, less than two weeks later, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Thatcher's Britain then sprung into action, gearing up for the subsequent Falklands War. *"The Empire Strikes Back"* was the cover story headline on the April 19, 1982 edi... more »

St. Patrick's Day 2014

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's a tune I've posted elsewhere, Makem and Clancy's rousing rendition of "The Rocky Road to Dublin": (I posted the High Kings' excellent version last year.) For the day, Digby posts a U2 classic. Meanwhile, Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice has posted an open thread (and there are some other posts for occasion). My archives: 2013 (A children's version of the

failure

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." John Steinbeck

The Sick Farce of the Ukraine Crisis

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
So, Putin the Homophobe holds a post-Stalinist referendum and gets over 90% of the vote! The Obama the Betrayer and Kerry the Krustacean say that the referendum is illegal. These two idiots vow to stand by the legally-elected Ukrainian government cabal of kleptocrat and fascist usurpers until there is justice in the Ukraine. Pro-coup/anti-Russian Ukrainians cry out that they who were so long under the heel of the murderous Soviet dictatorship will not submit to Russian tyranny. Very true. Stalin's terror-famine was an abomination on par with the Holocaust. But what's curious is that... more »

Traveling And Living Abroad

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Howie, into the Sahara Desert I don't recall there being any blondes in the part of Brooklyn where I grew up. When I got to college, one of my first girlfriends was blonde-- when her head wasn't shaved. She was from an aristocratic Alabama plantation family… but she had broken free-- got a job as a model, enrolled in a state university and dropped a lot of acid. I never have been able too figure out what she saw in me, but I'll never forget her. My first trip "abroad" was with her. We decided to hitchhike to the North Pole. We got as far as Montreal, which we both loved. The next sum... more »

Is your laundry detergent natural, toxic free, and Eco-friendly? #Review

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
[image: Celadon Road Lavender Laundry Detergent Review] How many ingredients are in your laundry detergent? Go ahead ... go count ... I'll wait! Got it? Okay ... what's the verdict? Mine, Celadon Road's Lavender Laundry Detergent, has six ingredients: sodium bromate, soda ash, coconut oil, clay powder, vinegar, and essential oil. It is made in the USA and was originally created to ease the suffering of a child's eczema which was aggravated by commercial laundry products. It is safe for skin, clothing, and septic systems. It is not tested on animals and comes in a reusable container... more »

Crimea Referendum aftermath -- Tuesday March 18 , 2014 - Examining sanctions , Crimea moving forward as an independent state , while waiting for the next shoe to fall in Ukraine

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/ Tuesday, March 18 02:35 GMT: Tokyo is set to impose sanctions against Russia after it recognized Crimea as an independent state, a top government spokesman said on Tuesday. The “*Japanese government does not recognize the referendum in Crimea*," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. As part of the sanctions Japan will suspend talks on an investment pact and relaxation of visa requirements. "*The recognition of Crimean independence by Russia violates Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is regrettable*," Su... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Sea of Dreams”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
2002, “Sea of Dreams” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllFeTxxZ_Y

“The Limits Of Your Language Are The Limits Of Your World”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“The Limits Of Your Language Are The Limits Of Your World”* by Chet Raymo “Here is a recent APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). The title on the APOD site is "Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula." Something about the incongruity of the prosaic "Why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road?" title and the awesomeness of the image rendered me speechless. Talk about bringing heaven down to earth! The Running Chicken Nebula takes its name from its perceived shape (although I don't see it). The nebula spans dozens of light-years in the Milky Way Galaxy, about 6000 light-years from the Solar S... more »

Ed Felien : Straight talk about Crimea

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Was the referendum on Crimea’s independence legitimate? Does Catalonia have a right to secede from Spain? Scotland from Britain? Texas from Mexico? By Ed Felien | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 Crimea is a dangling appendix to the … finish reading Ed Felien : Straight talk about Crimea

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Findlay, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

PICKING A FIGHT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
- Just landed in Newark after aircraft maintenance problems interrupted my planned flight sequence of Santa Barbara-San Francisco-Chicago-Portland. Now I won’t make it back home tonight as originally scheduled and have to spend the night in Newark… getting home a day late on Tuesday. Had to cancel the taping of my next public access TV show on Tuesday morning. - I’ve been out of world news contact for several days and have not yet caught up with the latest about US-NATO intervention into Ukrainian affairs. I did notice some comments by the recen... more »

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Honoring Water and Horse Nation March 22, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
March 22nd World Water Day Statement by Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE - 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf PipeWelcome Back the Wakiya Oyate (Thunders) Ceremony Honoring the Sunka Wakan Oyate (Horse) NationIn the past the Welcome Back the Wakiya Oyate - Thunder Ceremony has always been done on March 21st, but because there is an International effort to respect the Mini

In the beginning

risa bear at A Way to Live - 1 day ago
We keep our seed packets in a wooden index box in the refrigerator, and it's an exciting moment every year when the box comes out to be gone through for early planting in the potting shed/greenhouse. This year, for perhaps no very good reason other than that I like to, I've put a lot of greens seeds and roots seeds in an herb shaker, swirled them all together, and shaken out seed, as one might in salting one's dinner, over a flat of potting soil, to see what comes up. And again, two weeks later. Things have indeed come up, and while I recognize the lettuce, the kale, collards, c... more »

A Colloquy with God by Sir Thomas Browne

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Related: *"They Tore Down Paradise To Put Up A Parking Lot."* *Wikipedia:* *Religio Medici* (*The Religion of a Doctor*) is a book by Sir Thomas Browne, which sets out his spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-portrait. In its day, the book was a European best-seller and brought its author fame and respect throughout the continent. It was published in 1643 by the newly qualified physician after an unauthorized version of his writings on the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity had been distributed and reproduced with added text the previous year... more »

Gates Dined on March 13, 2014, with 80 Senators

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Bill Gates has too much power. The following announcement, dated March 13, 2014, is from Politico: DINNER WITH GATES – About 80 senators are expected to attend a dinner discussion at the Capitol tonight with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the NYT’s David Brooks. The 6:45 p.m. dinner, according to an invitation obtained by Huddle, is sponsored by […]

Dine' and Hopi to Peabody Coal: Stop the abuse of Black Mesa remains and artifacts

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Peabody coal removed 250 human remains from Black Mesa, 1.3 million artifacts Today the remains and artifacts are in infested areas, and looted. Scattered at universities, this could be the source of the auctions of sacred items in Paris. Jennafer Waggoner-Yellowhorse Black Mesa Coalition Censored News March 17, 2014 French translation by Christine Prat Black Mesa Archaeology Project was a

For government officials, is anything more important than making the boss(es) look good?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*by Ken* This story is left over from late last week, but I don't think that, in the time it has taken me to get around to it, it has lost its topicality. It got a certain amount of attention, but it needs more. It's one of those periodic stark reminders of how the world so often doesn't run quite the way we naively think it does, or at least should. And it puts me in mind of a plot line last season on *Blue Bloods* involving Police Commissioner Reagan's daughter, Erin (Bridget Moynahan), who's an ADA in the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Erin, coming from a police-satur... more »

The Truth About Diego Garcia: Stealing A Nation

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have been following the recent reports about the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370, and I am beginning to wonder if the reports that the flight was diverted to Diego Garcia, located the Chagos Archipelago in the south Indian Ocean some 1000 nautical miles south of the southern tip of India, are true. There is so much mystery surrounding the flight and why it changed direction and started flying along a southwestern flight path over the Indian Ocean. The direction that the flight took before it mysteriously disappeared off all radar screens put it in a direct course for Di... more »

Kate Braun : Lady Moon brings intense water energy on the Vernal Equinox

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Balance is an important consideration for this celebration: hours of daylight and darkness are equal, hence the term ‘equinox.’ By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 “Pretty colors…everywhere / Mother Nature, she still cares…” Thursday, March … finish reading Kate Braun : Lady Moon brings intense water energy on the Vernal Equinox

BBC Bias and Balance

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Congrats to Duncan Weldon on his appointment as *Newsnight's* economics editor. But not everyone is wishing him well. The Tories have made their displeasure known. The *Daily Mail* aren't happy either. They're carrying on as if Yevgeni Preobrazhensky has been appointed. This is Buggers Broadcasting Communism, after all. Replying, Owen Jones has highlightedsome evidence that shows far from being a hive of socialist counter-hegemony, the BBC is pro-establishment and mainly rightwing. The response from *The Speccie* is "yeah, but the BBC is suffused with liberal bias" - characteristica... more »

“The Genius of Erasmus”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“The Genius of Erasmus”* by David Swanson “Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, who lived from October 27, 1466, to July 12, 1536, faced censorship in his day, and has never been as popular among the rich and powerful as has his contemporary Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli. But at a distance of half a millennium, we ought to be able to judge work on its merit — and we ought to have regular celebrations of Erasmus around the world. Some of his ideas are catching on. His name is familiar in Europe as that of the EU’s student exchange program, named in his honor. We ought perhaps to w... more »

Bitcoin and Crypto-currencies updates March 15, 2014 ......Think Banks were leery of bitcoin before - wait until this sinks in -- Japanese Lender Mizuho Caught in Mt. Gox Scandal ! TigerDirect: Second Online Retailor to Top $1 Million in Bitcoin Sales ....... Mt. Gox kept exchange open despite knowledge of large-scale theft Exchange continued to operate and collect transaction fees despite its troubles, U.S. bankruptcy filing suggests ....... Icelandic government warns against Auroracoin ....... Bitcoin Exchange Doing Security Right: Bitcurex Successfully Blocked A Hacking Attack ...... CFTC is considering Bitcoin regulation ........ Balanced Energy has Been Told by Texas Regulators to Not Take Bitcoin for Exploration Investments ........ Bitcoin Businesses and Canadian Banks: The ‘Catch 22’ Dilemma

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/16/japanese-lender-mizuho-caught-mt-gox-scandal/ Japanese Lender Mizuho Caught in Mt. Gox Scandal Tom Boice 16/03/2014 Bitcoin, Bitcoin Exchanges, Business, News 1 Comment Posted 16 hours ago [image: Mizuho bank connected to Mt. Gox] Mizuho is the latest in a string of organizations facing heat over connection to MT. Gox (Reuters) Connection to the former leading Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has entangled another business partner in the exchange’s highly publicized demise. One of Japan’s largest lenders, Mizuho Bank Ltd., was added as... more »

The Jonestown Banks - by John Judge

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
The assets of Jim Jones' People's Temple have yet to be fully accounted, but early research in the press and by independent investigators put the total between $26 million and $2 billion. Following the money leads down a twisted trail of international banks, dummy fronts, real estate investments and conflicting government reports. Various sources estimate a total of at least $17-$20 million in foreign investments, and property worth $2.5 million that passed through deed, sale and ownership from 1976 to 1979. Some $12 million dollars was deposited in mysterious accounts in Panama. ... more »

Obama Sanctions are All Bark and No Bite

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
With all of the smack-talking about bringing down a biblical plague of economic misery upon Russia unless the hated and demonized president Vladimir Putin stopped the Crimean referendum Barack Obama's sledgehammer of sanctions was as impotent as his five year tenure in office. With the once mighty US establishment and it's pocket media having spent weeks snarling like the hounds of hell themselves over opposition to their ill-advised and ultimately disastrous coup d'etat against the democratically elected leader of Ukraine today's announcement of a tepid targeting of a handful of... more »

“A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See to the Beginning of Time”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See to the Beginning of Time”* by Lawrence Krauss “At rare moments in scientific history, a new window on the universe opens up that changes everything. Today was quite possibly such a day. At a press conference on Monday morning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a team of scientists operating a sensitive microwave telescope at the South Pole announced the discovery of polarization distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which is the observable afterglow of the Big Bang. The distortions appear to be due to the ... more »
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