Tuesday, May 13, 2014

13 May - Blogs I'm Following II

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May 13: You say tomahto and I say tomayto....

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 40 minutes ago
When the current government came to power in Ukraine, it was by an act of violence that is properly called a coup. But that word was rarely used in North American reporting of the affair. Why? Because coup raises unpleasant images in our minds. Without even realizing, most people automatically think of violence, of attack on a legitimate government, of a cunning and illegal assault on law and order. Which it what it was. But most of the papers called it an overthrow, a gentler word that suggests people fighting for freedom. That choice of word was one of the first indications that ... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 52 minutes ago
*Tammany residents turn out once again to oppose fracking well, company again no-show ~Faimon A. Roberts III, The Advocate* *Helis Oil Co. agrees to drill vertically in St. Tammany, study results before fracking ~Robert Rhoden * *A State Tax Holiday For Buying Emergency Supplies ~AP, via WWNO*

Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 54 minutes ago
Interesting way to think about it, isn’t it. Deirdre McCloskey explains: Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The “Evitability” Of Killer Robots

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
A common refrain from critics of the campaign to ban autonomous weapons is that these weapons are “inevitable.” If that’s true, then efforts to mitigate or pre-empt their use are not just a waste of time but a dangerous distraction from the real issue: staying ahead in an impending robot arms race or, at least, Continue reading

Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, “The Way of the World”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Justin Hayward, “The Way of the World” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
“How did we get here? Click play, sit back, and watch. A new computer simulation of the evolution of the universe - the largest and most sophisticated yet produced - provides new insight into how galaxies formed and new perspectives into humanity's place in the universe. The Illustris project - the largest of its type yet - exhausted 20 million CPU hours following 12 billion resolution elements spanning a cube 35 million light years on a side as it evolved over 13 billion years. The simulation is the first to track matter into the formation of a wide variety of galaxy types. As the... more »

"Live A Good Life"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." - Marcus Aurelius

"We Are Here..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W. H. Auden

College Dropout Bill Gates, Who Spends Millions on Harvard, Gets Honorary Doctorate

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
In 2007, Bill Gates spoke at Harvard University’s graduation. Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft. In 2007, Harvard awarded Gates an honorary doctorate. Gates has never had to follow a predetermined program of study in order to earn a college degree via traditional coursework. Moreover, since 1996, Gates has donated $262 million to Harvard in […]

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Good News

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 hour 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 »

Normal People Are Horrified At The Boko Haram Kidnapping Of 276 Girls While Right Wing Sociopaths Claim It's An Obama Benghazi Plot

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
Everyone in the world knows the tragic story by now. Primitive, anti-education, mysogynist religious fanatics in the failed oil plutocracy of Nigeria kidnapped 276 young girls from their school and are threatening to sell them into slavery. On Mothers Day, both Pope Francis and Michelle Obama helped publicize the "Bring Back Our Girls" movement. "Like millions of people across the globe," said the American First Lady, "my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken at the kidnapping of the more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night." As you... more »

"On A Long Enough Timeline..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - "Tyler Durden", "Fight Club"

Psychology: "We Remember What Is Meaningful To Us"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*"We Remember What Is Meaningful To Us"* by the Association for Psychological Science "We hold many beliefs about memory - for instance, if you study more, you learn more. We are also constantly making judgments about particular instances of learning and remembering - I'll never forget this party! That was easy to understand. I'll ace it on the test. But do beliefs influence judgments, and how do judgments affect memory performance? "There's a disconnect among beliefs, judgments, and actual memory," says Williams College psychologist Nate Kornell. Ask people to predict how or what t... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Timberon, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

The Poet: Anne Sexton, "Courage"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*"Courage"* "It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or poor or fatty or crazy and made you into an alien, you drank their acid and concealed it. Later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets you did not do it with a banner, you did it with only a hat to cover your heart. You did not fondle the weakness inside you though it was there. Your courage was a small coal that you kept swallo... more »

"The Web Gallery of Art"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Welcome to the Gallery! The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. Encouraged by the feedback from the visitors, recently ... more »

Chet Raymo, “Nature Loves To Hide”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“Nature Loves To Hide”* by Chet Raymo "A rainbow. Pretty to look at. But what do you see? The arc of a perfect circle. Pure geometry. Think about how seldom we see pure geometric forms in nature. Rivers never run straight and true. Nature draws straight lines reluctantly. Circles? The sun and moon. I look out my window at a broad panorama or earth, sea and sky, and I see not a single shape or line that might be found in a geometry book. In the "Timaeus", Plato suggested that behind the manifestly ungeometrical higgledy-piggledy of nature there lay a hidden world of geometrical at... more »

The White House's Nazis

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
From Hitler's Germany in the 1930's to Kiev Today, the United States' Disturbing Partnerships with Nazis. *May 7, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Among Washington's most unsavory allies could be counted the unelected hereditary regime of Saudi Arabia, the homophobic, violent mobs of Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand, and of course Al Qaeda who has been serving America's geopolitical agenda since the 1980's when it first gathered the sectarian extremists together as a mercenary army to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Today the global terror enterprise is fighting on NATO's beha... more »

Brown is Dying, and Friedman Lives On

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 hours ago
In 1954 SCOTUS declared in a 9-0 decision that separate schools are inherently unequal. And thus began the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. But Old Jim has proven to be very resilient, and even today his grandson, James Crow, Jr. Esq. continues the racist work of his grandfather. Old Jim has had many allies between the segregated schools of the 1950s and the segregated schools of the 2010s. One year after the Brown Decision of 1954, faux libertarian economist Milton Friedman published a book chapter that attempted to rationalize publicly funded vouchers for anyone to choose a ... more »

Fort McMurray-Athabasca By-election

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 2 hours ago
If the paucity of election signs up around my little neck of Fort McMurray is any indication, the campaign for the June 30 by-election is off to a slow start. On my way over to Timberlea to run some errands, I only recall seeing 4 signs, and three of them were from the same candidate. Not that I was especially looking for them but they didn't exactly scream out at me either. I'm sure things will pick up as time goes on. I'm not one to read too much into by-elections but it is nice to a little more media exposure on our region, its challenges and needs. I like to think of a by-e... more »

Terror In The Name of Anti-Terror: East Ukrainians Are Palestinians Now

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
*Photo: People in east Ukraine stopping the progression of invading tanks sent by the criminals and usurpers in Kiev.* Informed commentators are drawing parallels between Kiev's recent aggression in eastern Ukraine and Tel Aviv's periodic acts of aggression in Gaza. Although the circumstances and the history of the conflicts are drastically different the aggressor's narrative in both cases is the same. The victims of military aggression are described as terrorists, and resistance fighters are blamed for the murder of civilians by the army. Also, *the presence of Israeli soldiers an... more »

China playing hardball with Vietnam ( Philippines too ) ? With the additional deployment of a submarine and a missile ship, there are now 86 Chinese vessels accompanying the oil rig's installation in Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Local news reports that 3 Chinese military ships are surrounding a Vietnamese marine police vessel this morning and water cannon use continues against Vietnamese ships ..... While Russia engages the US and EU with Ukraine , China pretty much doing what it wants in Vietnamese waters !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/china-deploys-submarine-near-vietnam-oil-rig-86-vessels-now-present China Deploys Submarine Near Vietnam Oil Rig, 86 Vessels Now Present [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/13/2014 21:48 -0400 - Barack Obama - China - Japan - New York Times - Ukraine inShare With the additional deployment of a submarine and a missile ship, there are *now 86 Chinese vessels accompanying the oil rig's installation in Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)*. Local news reports that 3 Chinese military ships are... more »

giverny to rouen

laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago
I have a lot to write tonight, and only two fingers to write with, so I may have to post this in two parts. Yesterday, after we dried off, we rested for the afternoon. I remembered that our host needed payment in cash, so we asked about an ATM... and learned there is none in Giverny. Sandrine, our host, very nicely (and of necessity) offered to drive us into Vernon to use a machine there. On the way there, she asked about our last name. I suspected I knew why, and when she asked, "You are Jewish, no?" I knew I was right. She is also Jewish, the only Jewish person in the town of Give... more »

giverny, plus tablet and ptsd updates

laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago
*Keyboard* I love my Nexus 7. I hate the Minisuit keyboard, although the problem might be Bluetooth. To blog, I need a keyboard, and I need to use Blogger via the website, as the Android app is too limited. (That seems silly, since Blogger is a Google product.) Using Blogger online with the onscreen keyboard is very inconvenient. I can't select, can't easily make links, and can barely see where I'm typing. I've adjusted to the tiny Minisuit keyboard. I dislike typing with two fingers, but I can do it. But I will never adjust to the cursor suddenly moving into a different paragrap... more »

Dine' Medicine Peoples: Right to consult to halt Navajo horse slaughter

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Participation of Medicine People and Elders in Navajo Horse NegotiationsBy Dine' Hataalii Association and Nohooka' Dine' Censored News Dear Governor, Bill Richardson, Navajo Nation Legal Counsel, Heather L. Clah and Nation Navajo President Ben Shelly The Dine' Hataalii Association and Nohooka' Dine' are comprised of Dine' (Navajo) Elders and Medicine people working to maintain harmony and

Libya Updates May 10 , 2014 - Militia rule by the gun extending beyond domestic politics into foreign policy of Libya ? Note -- The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan which is seen as a prelude to the exchange of a Libyan convicted of terrorism in Amman for the kidnapped Jordanian Ambassador to Libya ....... Additional timely articles , focus on security related concerns and the Oil Industry !

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.libyaherald.com/2014/05/10/agreement-struck-with-jordan-in-hopes-of-kidnapped-ambassadors-release/#axzz31Mcco0vp Agreement struck with Jordan in hopes of kidnapped ambassador’s release *By Libya Herald staff.* *Tripoli, 9 May 2014:* The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan which is seen as a prelude to the exchange of a Libyan convicted of terrorism in Amman for the kidnapped Jordanian Ambassador to Libya. The government said in a statement following Thursday’s cabinet meeting that it had ratified an agreement between the Jordanian and Libyan ... more »

Russel Norman had a bank, e-i-e-i-o [update 2]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
[image: image] *Russel Norman had a bank, e-i-e-i-o And in that bank he put our cash, e-i-e-i-o He stuck in his thumb, and pulled out a turkey …* Apologies for the bastardised nursery rhyme, but it operates on the same sort of childish absurdity as Russel Norman’s inept idea of a “Green Investment Bank” that takes money from (profitable) miners and fossil fuel producers to gift to (unprofitable) “green energy” producers. The idea of course is based – as all government “industry policies” do – on government picking winners who turn out to be losers. Norman’s scheme suffers at ro... more »

John Kane, Mohawk 'Education and Conscience Versus Institutionalized Racism'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Education and Conscience Versus Institutionalized Racism By John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk Censored News Well, now that everyone can feel better about their battle and stance on unacceptable racism in the wake of giving the old "what's for" to Donald Sterling, the racist owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, we can all go back to settling in with the institutional racism that keeps

At least the Secret Service is aiming to become more media-savvy

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"The Media Relations course prepares executives for television and radio interviews, and encounters with the media on routine matters as well as during crisis situations. . . ."* *-- from the Secret Service's posted brief for media consultants* *by Ken* As we all know, the U.S. Secret Service has of late had more than its share, or at least way more than it would like, of media attention to its boys-will-be-boys agents. Now we don't know for sure that no effort has been made to explore and remediate the behavior of its boys, but we do know that another apparently crucial aspect ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago

For TX to Go Blue - ALECers Must Go Too!

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
Well the Texas primaries are over. America is hoping Texas will turn from Red to Blue this year. One way to make that happen is to get rid of the ALECers in Texas. It would be a very fitting gift to them since they are having the ALEC annual meeting in Dallas starting on July 30. Kinda a for "hosting an ALEC lobbying party " - you get kicked out of office. Now ,,, this list is a partial. ALECers hide their membership - because they are ashamed - as they should be - cause they know their actions in ALEC are wrong for America. You probably won't find any of these folks bragging about... more »

first contact

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours ago

Gold and Silver News and views May 10 , 2014 .... Ed Steer's missive for May 10 , 2014 - Review of Friday's price action for the precious metals plus a review of the pertinent data for the week ( CME / ETFs / US Mint / Commitment of Traders reports / Chart from Nick Laird ) ....... Articles of interest added after " The Wrap "

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/john-hathaway-if-oil-doesnt-get-fixed-why-should-gold ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER The price action in gold on Friday was almost a carbon copy of the price action on Thursday, including the timing of the high and low ticks. And, once again, the highs and lows aren't worth looking up. Gold closed the Friday session at $1,290.10 spot, up 30 cents from Thursday's close. Net volume was extremely light at only 71,000 contracts. Ditto for silver. It closed at $19.155 spot, up a whole half penny from its prior closed. Volume, net of May and June,... more »

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery ( notice how the news is drying up ) - May 13 , 2014 -- FAST LOSING CREDIBILITY, MH370 searchers admit signals may NOT be from plane ......... Australia budgets RM272mil towards MH370 search over 2 years .......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Malaysia Chronicle ..... Tuesday, 13 May 2014 06:56FAST LOSING CREDIBILITY, MH370 searchers admit signals may NOT be from plane - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Print - E-mail - Comments (5) Rate this item - - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 (0 votes) [image: FAST LOSING CREDIBILITY, MH370 searchers admit signals may NOT be from plane] Searchers preparing to resume the underwater hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 increasingly suspect that some of the electronic signals detected last month didn't come from the jetliner's... more »

Jonah Raskin : BOOKS | Gordon Young’s ‘Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City’

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
‘Teardown’ has the kind of heart that once made Flint, Michigan, a center of trade union and labor activism. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 13, 2014 [Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young (June … finish reading Jonah Raskin : *BOOKS* | Gordon Young’s ‘Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City’

QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY: On Taxes and Deficits and the Annihilation of Capital

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
“Taxes which are levied on a country … for for the ordinary expenses of the State, and which are chiefly devoted to the support of unproductive labourers, are taken from the productive industry of the country; and every saving which can be made from such expenses will be generally added to the income, if not to the capital of the contributors. When … twenty millions are raised by means of a loan, it is the twenty millions which are withdrawn from the productive capital of the nation… “It is by the profuse expenditure of Government, and of individuals, and by loans, that the cou... more »

Russia Retaliation against US gets rolling May 13 , 2014 --Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting": China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade ....... Russia Retaliates: Blocks GPS, Bans US Use Of Its Rocket Engines

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/russia-holds-de-dollarization-meeting-china-iran-willing-drop-usd-bilateral-trade Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting": China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/13/2014 17:47 -0400 - Bond - Central Banks - China - Greenlight - Hyperinflation - India - Iran - None - Reserve Currency - Ukraine - Vladimir Putin - Yuan inShare4 That Russia has been pushing for trade arrangements that minimize the participation... more »

No Oversight for Pennsylvania's Billion Dollar a Year Charter Industry

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago
*While the profiteers and privatizers threaten, demean, and berate students and teachers for more accountability, the Vampire Squid unleashed by billionaires has its blood funnel deep into the public jugular of Philadelphia. * *As public schools re-use copy paper and shutter libraries and fire counselors, the billionaires and hedge funders walk away with state government and handsome profits. When will the fascist Governor Corbett fire this auditor, who has the audacity to report on the rape and pillage going on in Pennsylvania at the expense of our most vulnerable children?* *MA... more »

Late retraction of KGB statement does not justify adverse inference

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago
R. v. Kelly, 2014 ONCA 380: [11] Ordinarily accuseds have no obligation to disclose their defence. This principle has exceptions that would justify the drawing of an adverse inference for late disclosure. The requirement for the timely disclosure of an alibi defence is one such exception. However, no exception applies to this case, and thus the trial judge erred in law in drawing an adverse inference.

Syria: Lakhdar Brahimini resigns. Chemical weapons reporting spreads

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago
I know everyone is caught up with Ukraine... it’s understandable, yet the situation in Syria is still in flux. In play, so to speak and I simply can’t forget about Syria. More news surrounding the continuing NATO destabilization of Syria It should not come as a surprise that UN Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has resigned! Brahimi is due to brief the United Nations Security Council later on Tuesday. "It's not very pleasant for me. It's very sad that I leave this position and leave Syria behind in such a bad state," Brahimi told reporters after Ban made the announcement. Ban said he... more »

Syria mediator Lakdar Brahimi resigns

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
Lakhdar Brahimi's resignation from his post as UN Special Envoy to Syria will be effective on May 31st. Syria will hold a *"presidential election"*on June 3rd. Video Title: Syria mediator Lakdar Brahimi resigns. Source: Reuters. Date Published: May 13, 2014. Description: Lakhdar Brahimi says it is "very sad" to be leaving "Syria behind in such a bad state" as he announces he is stepping down from his position as International Syria mediator. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

MAINE JOINS ARCTIC ARMS RACE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
I was recently sent an email alerting me to a conference at the University of Maine that appears to be about dragging us into another one of the oil-i-garchy's latest chaos zones. I inquired about attending but was told it was "sold out". Here is a bit from the invite: The University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs and the Maine Army National Guard will co-host a conference May 20 to 21 to explore challenges and emerging opportunities in the Arctic. The free conference, "Leadership in the High North: A Political, Military, Economic and Environmental Symposi... more »

Deep Breath...

Southern Man at Southern Man - 7 hours ago
Southern Man needs to take a deep, deep breath, because a lot is about to happen... This is the last week of school: lots of final exams and viewing of projects and grading and ending with graduation Friday night in a large convention center downtown. We'll have 1700 or so march across the stage... Then Saturday morning Southern Man parks at the airport and heads for Spain for two weeks of geocaching. Well, the group he's with has an agenda as well but who cares about what *they* want. He already has a bag full of "travel bugs" given to him at Saturday's geocaching luncheon to tak... more »

The Cost of Regulation

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
*Guest post by John H. Cochrane* Gordon Crovitz has a nice piece in the *Wall Street Journal*, Monday May 5, titled “The end of the permissionless web” which sparks several thoughts. What has made the Internet revolutionary is that it’s permissionless. No one had to get approval from Washington or city hall to offer Google searches, Facebook profiles or Apple apps, as Adam Thierer of George Mason University notes in his new book, *Permissionless Innovation*. [Available free and ungated here. - JC] The central fault line in technology policy debates today can be thought of a... more »

A Pall of Shame on America as Neocon Cookie Crumbles in Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 8 hours ago
You just had to know that the neocons weren't going to go quietly into the good night after Sunday's overwhelming vote in East Ukraine. Anti-fascist, anti-austerity citizens turned out in droves to send a message to the illegitimately installed puppet regime in Kiev that rule by foreign backed fascist and neo-Nazi goons is unacceptable. What was truly remarkable as well as being the utmost of irony is that the professional *regime changers* - whose enduring presence within the domestic corridors of power have eaten away at the very foundations of American democracy like a colony of... more »

Will Compton, Carson Voters Send A Progressive Reformer To Sacramento-- Or Another Transactional Political Entrepreneur?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
If you've been following the narrative here at *DWT*, you're aware that Blue America has endorsed our old friend, Compton School Board president Micah Ali for the open 64th Assembly district that covers Compton, Carson and Willowbrook. [You can contribute to his campaign here on our page for state legislative candidates we think have the potential to become national leaders.] Micah has a tough primary on June 3, less than a month away, and he's up against 3 opponents. Micah has a coherent vision for his community, one he's been working on for many years. His opponents' visions are... more »

Thorne Dreyer : A tribute to Maggie, my mother

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours ago
‘Maggie’s absolute freedom, her hospitality, big floppy hats and committed heart put the art scene in Houston on the side of human rights and general soul.’ — Mimi Crossley, Houston Post By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | May … finish reading Thorne Dreyer : A tribute to Maggie, my mother

Labour's Poll Setback

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 8 hours ago
Political people are a fragile lot. It doesn't take much for herds of us to start quaffing at the Last Chance Saloon. Two polls - admittedly "gold standard" polls - place Labour two points behind the Conservatives. Not ideal at all, far from it. Then one of the them, the ICM poll for the *Graun*, puts Labour trailing UKIP AND the Tories in next week's European elections. Not the music of an election victory party echoing from the future to the present. Naturally, two swallows don't a summer make but the excellent reputations ICM and Lord Ashcroft have, *and* these results' congruen... more »

Facebook Meet

Southern Man at Southern Man - 8 hours ago
One of Southern Man's "Facebook Friends" - someone he had never met but was a mutual friend of several of Southern Man's groupies - arranged a meet-up in a local park... for her Facebook friends. Many of us had never met face-to-face. The deeply reserved Southern Man struggles with social situations at the best of times and one where he knew *no one at all* was a challenge, to say the least. These people sure know how to party! I was told there would be no photographs... Relaxing in the shade. Serve's up! I got it, I got it!

Geocaching Luncheon

Southern Man at Southern Man - 9 hours ago
Some of the local geocachers meet for lunch and games and good times once a month. Today's lunch was in the "Bricktown" area of Southern City. A merry gathering. Cachers "Gilo" and "Prairie Gypsy" (our hostess). Let's eat! These two cache as the "Elk Street Angels." The "Gators," a much loved couple in the local caching community. We love caching! The younger members of teams "Fun2BLost" and "Prairie Gypsies." They once cached as "Mustaing Jen" and "Team Tendy" but are now engaged and are now "The Cache Shoes." Yes, we're a little silly about our caching names. The Queens ... more »

Putting "the government" in the frame

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
I see tonight that both the *Guardian* ("ICC to examine claims of British war crimes in Iraq") and the BBC News website ("Court to probe UK Iraq abuse claims") are leading with the news that a group of left-wing lawyers has persuaded the International Criminal Court to begin preliminary investigation into claims that UK forces abused Iraqi detainees between 2003 and 2008. In contrast to the BBC-*Guardian*'s sense of new priorities, however, the Sky News website places that particular story way down its running order (I count it as being in 15th place), the ITV News website is lead... more »

Dispatches from Neonazistan and Everybody’s Got Afghanistan Wrong

As a change of pace (at a time when friends like Darkblack, Plutocrap, Shouting Into the Abyss and Barking Rabbits have gone totally black), I would like to point your attention to Dissident Voice, with my buddy Rehctaw up first (Watcher, backwards). We are living a rare combo platter of unfettered greed, unhinged thinking, untethered policy and a guidance structure that is exceedingly

Encounter in Rendlesham Forest - A Review

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 9 hours ago
In December 1980, there were a series of sightings of lights in the Rendlesham Forest near two USAF airbases located in England. American personnel assigned to those bases, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge sighted strange lights and requested permission to investigate. Now Nick Pope, with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston have written a book, *Encounter in Rendlesham* *Forest*, dealing with their inside knowledge of the workings of the British UFO desk in the Ministry of Defence and their service with the Air Force during those sightings. We get the perspective of the sightings fro... more »

Did Susan Rice say something wrong?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014* *The work of the three blind mice:* Did Susan Rice say something wrong when she did those Sunday shows and discussed the attack on Benghazi? We would say that she did not, and we’d say it loudly. Good luck getting major career journalists to state such an unapproved point! Rice did make one factual error that day. After saying, about three hundred times, that her information was provisional, she said a demonstration had been occurring in Benghazi before “extremists armed with heavy weapons” arrived at the scene and “hijacked events.” By now, everyone agrees ... more »

With Limbaugh and Coulter, who needs Satan?

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg Think the insanity in America isn't getting worse: angrier, more obtuse, more vicious and increasingly bought and paid for by people who admire Vladimir Putin and wish, like Fox News has so often said, we could have a leader like him? Think again. There is no bottom. There is no fact so irrefutable, no cause so decent that the Republicans can't defame it or deny it. I'm not going to waste any more time pointing out the lies about science and history and law that drown out the very processes of justice and government -- that inflame unstable people to violence, that... more »

A silly contest involving a TBBT video

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
This is a video from an episode of The Big Bang Theory, one about the visit to the Large Hadron Collider on the Valentine's Day. One may see a real-world famous physicist in a big chunk of this video. When I say "famous", I mean "famous" from the media as well as having over 20,000 citations according to SPIRES. Your task is to find out the name of the physicist. But you're not allowed to write the name in the comments. Instead, go to Google Scholar and write down the query "firstname lastname" [including the quotes] of the physicist you determined. You will get a list of pa... more »

One-Pot Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Katelyn from Ambroisa & Nectar

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours ago
*Today I have Katelyn from Ambrosia &Nectar sharing her One-Pot Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup. Check out Katelyn's blog where you can find her Chocolate Orange Truffle Cake and Creamy White Chili and lots of fantastic recipes. Make sure to leave her some comment love! * Hi, hello! I'm Katelyn Heiner, over at Ambrosia & Nectar, where I blog about my cooking exploits in the kitchen. Well, the successful ones anyway... The failures I just keep to myself. :) By way of a quick introduction, I currently live in northern Utah, in a teeny little apartment that my husband affectionately calls ... more »

Solving Tuscaloosa: Hannah-Jones speaks!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014* *About her trip to the South:* This morning, we motored over to Morgan State to do The Marc Steiner Show. Long ago, we sat around watching Colts’ games with Marc. (We refer to the *Baltimore* Colts.) Today, he runs the nation’s Most Valuable Radio Program, according to The Nation. After the program, we discussed the racial balance, or lack of same, in the nine public high schools of Tuscaloosa City and County. (Tuscaloosa City runs three of the nine high schools. For enrollment figures, see our earlier post.) Baltimore City and County’s racial balance is w... more »

Full Gospel Christian Jihadis

Paul Coker at News Spike - 11 hours ago
June 24, 2009 Hon. Dr. Robert M. Gates Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Secretary Gates, It has recently come to the attention of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) that an ecclesiastical endorsing agency authorized by the DoD to approve chaplains for military service has continually been in flagrant violation of a number of DoD regulations, the U.S. Code, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the United States Constitution for well over a decade. 1. The Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches (CFGC), headed by retired Army Col... more »

In a better country, we would have had the torches and pitchforks out a long time ago

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 11 hours ago
Saskboy hepped me to the existence of this Analysis of Mr. Yves Cote's cover-up of stephen harper's election fraud, by Steven Shrybman. (Shrybman was the lawyer for the Council of Canadians' effort to overturn six election results due to electoral irregularities.) Now, it's pretty clear that the harpercon scum violated our election laws thousands of times, and drove a stake through the integrity of our entire political system. This analysis makes that very clear. Would I be able to stand in front of the Supreme Court and argue this 100%? No. I can't anticipate every crazy, desperate... more »

No Child Left Behind Documentary

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 11 hours ago
This film was produced by Lerone Wilson on a shoestring budget - too bad, it's taken more than 10 years for the rest of the nation to catch on. So much damage has been done because of high stakes standardized testing. Only two students this week at my school threatened to commit suicide. Could it be related to the NJ Ask Test? Perhaps someone should "ask" those students.

Crisis In Ukraine: Bashing Real Democracy!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours ago
I stated clearly in my rant last weekend exactly what I saw was going on in Ukraine... I have seen no evidence at all that shows anything on the contrary, therefore I am sticking to my assertions.... The facts are clear that the Ukraine was illegally seized in a US led coup, and since that coup of March, the country has become an unmitigated disaster... In fact things are so bad for the Ukrainian people that many have legally and rightfully sought referendums to get the hell out of that failing nation and join the Russian Federation. Just this last weekend in fact, two more regions ... more »

How Did The Russian Workers' Paradise Suddenly Wind Up With So Many Billionaires?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
A few days ago, the History Channel, debuted a much-anticipated episode in it's *Book of Secrets* series, "The Billionaire Agenda." I wish I could share it with you but History 2 isn't into sharing, as you can see above. Early in the program, though, there was a chart showing that the U.S. has the most billionaires, followed by China and then Russia. They reported that there are 111 Russian billionaires, although other sources have the number as high as 133. That was fast! If I remember correctly, Gorbachev ushered in *perestroika* in 1987, less than 39 years ago, making it possi... more »

Mike's Story Part 20 - Snafu

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 12 hours ago
*By **Jenna** Orkin* To Mike 10-20-2006: * ...be careful of email trails. a few days ago a sequence got forwarded to X in one email of which u said he was 'full of excuses...' * *[And, since Mike was no longer sure whom he could trust among the FTW staff]...remember that it's possible to set up a blog in the name of mike ruppert2 any time for free.* Email to Mike 10-22-2006: *after the conference call, it occurred to me that even if [the webmaster] were fired, xxx could replace him with, say, her best friend's niece and you'd have the same problem of sabotage again. so the ... more »

Ruling Class Racketeers

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
This is rich: (*Reuters*:) U.S. Health Secretary-nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell sought to allay a major Republican worry about Obamacare on Thursday, telling lawmakers that President Barack Obama's reforms would not lead to a government-run single-payer healthcare system on her watch. Her assurance against an approach reviled by Republicans and industry leaders came during a two-hour Senate confirmation hearing at which Burwell received an important endorsement from Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Burr sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide wheth... more »

Responding to Joanne Jacobs on Her KIPP "Character" Defense

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
Joanne Jacobs applies her own distinct brand of mild mommish corporate apologia to defend against the insightful essay last week by Jeff Snyder on KIPP's "value-free" character indoctrination program developed by Dr. Martin Seligman and Dave Levin. In fact, Joanne would be entirely on board if Dave and Marty would add "citizenship" to grit, zest, self-control, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity. I post this response at Joanne's blog: I wish I could be as sanguine as Joanne about the behavioral brutality inside the KIPPs and the segregated knock-offs they have... more »

Terrorizando el publico

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 13 hours ago
Una justificación principal para la vigilancia - que es en beneficio de la población - se basa en la proyección de una visión del mundo que divide a los ciudadanos en categorías de gente buena y gente mala . En ese punto de vista , las autoridades usar sus poderes de vigilancia sólo contra los malos , los que están " haciendo algo mal " , y sólo ellos tienen algo que temer de la invasión de su privacidad. Esta es una vieja táctica . En un artículo de 1969 de la revista Time acerca de la creciente preocupación de los estadounidenses sobre los poderes de vigilancia del gobierno de EE... more »

WHERE DID PRIVILEGE COME FROM: Advantages and pitfalls!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014* *Part 2—Genesis of a term:* In its entry on “White privilege,” the world’s leading authority on the topic offers an interesting account of the concept, and a history of the term’s origins. In a section called “History of the concept,” the authority seems to trace the term “white skin privilege” to the work of Theodore W. Allen, starting in 1965. We can’t tell you if this account is correct, but here you see the quick thumbnail sketch: *In 1965, ...inspired by the Civil Rights movement, Theodore W. Allen began a forty-year analysis of “white skin privilege,”... more »

THE LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War continues to cast a dark shadow over both American veterans and the Vietnamese.

Saab launches five new radars for total air domain awareness

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 14 hours ago
[image: Sea Giraffe 3D radar]Defence and security company Saab extends its surface radar portfolio, with the introduction of five all-new complementary Giraffe radars for land and sea. This strengthens the current product offering but also takes the Giraffe firmly into the long-range air surveillance domain and puts an entirely new capability onto the market. Saab’s combat-proven and highly-regarded surface radar portfolio, including the renowned Giraffe AMB and Arthur radars, has been improved and expanded through the addition of new technologies and designs. Read more

MOURNING IN AMERICA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
*Mourning Time* It's mourning time in America the sun is up hotter life imperiled Indians said white man is blinded by his love for the green frog skin, dollar bill, can't see his connection to nature to all life watch out for the white man he is crazy Once years ago I saw a bank named Freedom and finally realized what the oligarchy meant when they used the word Much of the world understands this about America the myth about democracy really means we bring freedom for Mr. Big to dominate the rest of the planet I'm mourning here in America for our lost souls and for those we bring... more »

More Reports Of Insurgent In-Fighting

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 15 hours ago
April and May 2014 have brought forth more reports of fighting between insurgent groups in Iraq. The main armed factions involved are the Islamist Ansar al-Sunna and the Baathist Naqshibandi against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). According to the press these clashes have taken place in Diyala and Kirkuk where there have been similar incidents over the last year. The main points of dispute appear to be over ideology, tactics, and the attempt by ISIS to dominate other armed factions. Kirkuk province has seen armed clashes between Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS in recent... more »

Zbigniew Brzezinski-Between Two Ages- America's Role in the Technotronic Era

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
**Between Two Ages:America's role in the Technotronic Age- Book** If you haven't read it, you may want to. Published around 1970. So, more then 40 years ago? And yet so timely. Besides the pdf , you may find this piece from 2004 very appropriate for this present day. Thinking of the US moves on Ukraine, of course. The outrageous strategy to destroy Russia- Excerpted from quite a large article In 1970, Brzezinski also proposed new ideas in his new book Between two Ages *(pdf link above)* where he explained that the moment to balance world power had arrived and it had to be in th... more »

Syria: Israel should punish Assad & HRW is pushing the chemical weapon meme

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
First news: Israel should punish Assad for killing civilians- Can you believe that headline? Israel as a moral authority? Hilarious? Absolutely! Yet that is what they are suggesting. Of course punishing Assad is an absurdity- You know that this is really spin for a mass bombing campaign to punish Syrians for resisting the NATO rebels and continuing to live their lives as best they can. Coincidentally or not- HRW is suggesting or implying that the Syrian gov used chemical weapons.. *First: Israel as a moral authority* Moral considerations for military intervention should be weighed ... more »

Bill Whittle: Whatever happened to a loyal opposition?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 15 hours ago
* McConnell and Boehner must go.*

Yes, There's A Democratic Primary In Georgia… And There's An Actual Democrat Running Against Nunn's Daughter

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Democrat Steen Miles on the left; Sam Nunn's daughter on the right, of course Professional Democrats are very excited. Sam Nunn's daughter-- who is running for the open Georgia Senate seat on the Democratic Party line-- is doing well in the polls. Not only does she absolutely thrash each of the far right-wing extremist congressmen in the race-- GOP sociopaths Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston-- she also beats anti-Choice fanatic Karen Handel and the guy with the familiar name no one knows, David Perdue, who is leading the Republican primary pack. Time to celebrate? Not so fa... more »

They Were -- And Are -- Expendable

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Last week's Day Of Honour, we were told, was about Canada's veterans.The vets know better. The day was about Stephen Harper. Michael Harris writes: If you want the quintessential Stephen Harper, look no further than last week’s National Day of Honour. Everyone knew it was the Governor General’s job to accept the last Canadian flag that flew in Afghanistan, but hey, why give up the money shot to a mere functionary? So the PM snagged the flag — and then handed it off to the hapless David Johnston, former Commander-in-Chief of Canada. Mr. Harper suffers from what Harris calls PRD -... more »

Untitled

jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 16 hours ago
*How Far School Choice Policies Have Come in Two Decades* It’s amazing how far school choice options have come in a little more than two decades. From Milwaukee’s first-in-the-nation school voucher option in 1990 and the first charter school opening its doors in Minnesota in 1992, parental choice in education has advanced considerably, and innovation in school choice policy has taken shape in ways that were inconceivable in those early years. Today, 39 private school choice programs operate in 18 states and Washington, D.C. The past three years in particular have produced some of t... more »

Smear Machine to Be Unleashed on Greenwald

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 16 hours ago
Tuesday marks the release date of the long-awaited book by Polk Award winning journalist Glenn Greenwald on the NSA and the Edward Snowden leaks. No Place to Hide officially came out today and contains additional revelations on the unconstitutional exploits of the American Stasi at Ft. Meade as well as the suffocating surveillance state that we all must live under in *The Homeland* of the 21st Century. While I have yet to read the book - I have it on order - early accounts report that in addition to the Snowden story that there will also be material included on the NSA intercepting... more »

Agri Econ 12: Presentation at WASWAC-BSWM Seminar

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours ago
Part-time agro-forestry farming has been my hobby since 1992 (22 years ago) when I started visiting the farm owned by the family of my deceased friend, Mil Millora. Here's my farming blog, http://sustaindevelopment.blogspot.com/ I believe that private property rights recognition and protection is a key program to encourage the dual goal of nature conservation and resource production. The "tragedy of the commons" is too glaring and too visible in many parts of public forest land in the country. Which explains why many public or government "forest lands" are devoid of meaningful forest... more »

Ukraine Situation May 13 , 2014 -- Examining the after action ( post - referendum ) and what happens next - items from Russia Today , Itar Tass and Anti War .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Anti - War.... US Won’t Recognize Sunday Ukraine ReferendumInsists Vote Was 'Illegal' as Interim Govt Vows to Arrest Organizers by Jason Ditz, May 12, 2014 Print This | Share This The White House has announced today that it will never recognize the results of yesterday’s referendum in eastern Ukraine, which endorsed the People’s Republic of Donetsk protest movement. They insist they consider the vote “illegal” and that the US is “disappointed” that Russia did not forcibly stop the vote after the organizers rejected calls to delay it indefinitely The Ukraine interim government, which ... more »

March Against Monsanto - 24 May 2014 In A City Near You

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago
 Source: *Occupy Monsanto Homepage* On Saturday, May 24, 2014, March Against Monsanto in your community! Below is a spreadsheet export made on April 24, 2014 that lists all of the upcoming marches with Facebook Event invites. For the latest spreadsheet of planned marches, check out the official listing on the March Against Monsanto website.. *Country**State/Province**City**Facebook Event; RSVP* Australia New South Wales Newcastle http://on.fb.me/R2DDtXAustraliaNew South WalesSydneyhttp://on.fb.me/1aqxcp8 AustraliaQueenslandBrisbanehttp://on.fb.me/MJOrugAustraliaSouth Australia Adelai... more »

War Watch May 13 , 2014 -- Taliban starts their annual Spring Offensive ( Presidents may come and go but the Taliban remains. ) ....... Iraq death dealing continues unabated as Iraq attempts to maintain the appearance of control even as jihadists turn parts of Anbar Province of Iraq and adjoining Syria into a ISIS no man's land ...... Iran nuclear talks continue ( can the US decide what it actually wants to accomplish - a resolution or war with Iran too ? Syria updates on the war with insurgetns / freedom fighters / mercenaries /jihadists rolls on , the in- fighting between various opposition groups displacing the fighting against Syria's Government it appears at times !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Afghanistan.... Taliban Attacks Hit Afghanistan Is ‘Spring Offensive’ Begins10 Killed in Jalalabad Attack by Jason Ditz, May 12, 2014 Print This | Share This The Taliban announced the beginning of their “Spring offensive” last week, and it began in earnest today, with a major attack in the city of Jalalabad leaving at least 10 people dead, and other attacks reportedly on the outskirts of Kabul. The Taliban statement said this year’s offensive would focus on foreigners in the country as well as the Afghan government and its employees. The Jalalabad attack targeted a Justice Ministry ... more »

Mohammed Ibn Laith, "What Will We Talk About Today, You and I?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*A Comment: *Long time readers know there is zero tolerance for racism and bigotry here. This article contains the vile "N" word, which you will never see here again, expressed repeatedly by the articles author. In their book "Cobra II," Michael R. Gordon and Gen. Bernard E. Trainor offer this ugly comment from a senior officer of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division: "The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I'm about to introduce them to it." While not admitted publicly, that term is widely used within the American military, along with "ragheads", "jihadis" and oth... more »

Free Download: Orison Swett Marden, "An Iron Will"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
"An Iron Will" by Orison Swett Marden "Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner. Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters in the care of their father, a farmer, hunter, and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the wood, and the children were shuttled from one guardian to anoth... more »

"Life Is The Hyphen..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
"Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit." ~A.W. and J.C. Hare, "Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers," 1827

"Twilight of the Psychopaths"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*"Twilight of the Psychopaths"* by Dr. Kevin Barrett "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John Lennon When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said it would be a good idea. But that oft-cited quote is misleading, assuming as it does that civilization is an unmitigated blessing. Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively with their fellows, sharing the necessary la... more »

The Poet: David Whyte, “The Sea”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*“The Sea”* “The pull is so strong we will not believe the drawing tide is meant for us, I mean the gift, the sea, the place where all the rivers meet. Easy to forget, how the great receiving depth untamed by what we need needs only what will flow its way. Easy to feel so far away and the body so old it might not even stand the touch. But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside toward the place to which we go washing over our worries of money, the illusion of being ahead, the grief of being behind, our limbs young rising from such a depth? What would t... more »

"What Can We Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We All Stumble..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” - Emily Kimbrough

Nigel Farage and Enoch Powell

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours ago
There's an interesting part of the following video when Raymond Bennett joint national Secretary of Unite Against Fascism (sic) says (6:25) that 'Nigel Farage says that Enoch Powell is his hero'. Incidentally just before that (6:05) watch Raymond Bennett's reaction when he's asked about the non-white members of UKIP. I think it might be his floundering over that question that makes him make his claim re Nigel Farage and Enoch Powell. Here's the full Daily Politics interview. Has Nigel Farage ever said that Enoch Powell is his hero? I can't find such a comment, all I did find was... more »

Swiss artist - creator of Alien xenomorph - Hans Rudi Giger R.I.P.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
according to SWISS INFO, Hans Rudi Giger, the fantastic and haunted Swiss artist responsible for the the Derelict spaceship, Egg Chamber, Xenomorph, Egg, Facehugger, Space Jockey (in Ridley Scott's Alien) and hundreds of other works of projects, paintings and scupture, has died, aged 74, from injuries sustained in a fall. *The renowned Swiss artist H.R. Giger has died at the age of 74, as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. Giger, who passed away in a Zurich hospital, was most famous for the alien monster he created for the movie of the same name.* The news item goes on to e... more »

Health Cares Biggest Myths

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
[image: Foto: Does health come from vaccine needles and pharmaceutical pills?] Source: *Living With Common Sense Facebook*

The Wolfowitz Doctrine

Paul Coker at News Spike - 19 hours ago
*"...a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept."* * - Senator Ted Kennedy, 1992* *"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate glo... more »

Beware: The #1 Cause of Acute Liver Damage Is In Common Cold Remedies by Paul Fassa

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago
Beware: The #1 Cause of Acute Liver Damage is in Common Cold Remedies by Paul Fassa Natural Society, 13 May 2014 The number one cause of acute liver failure in America is a common fever and cold relief ingredient. Acute liver failure is a one way ticket to the great beyond, while liver damage or stress among those who don’t suffer acute liver failure is the source of much of our poor health and chronic disease. Over-the-counter pharmaceuticals Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil, Theraflu, and prescription painkillers Vicoden and Percocet all contain *acetaminophen*. This ingredient has... more »

US says French warships to Russia 'unhelpful'

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: RS Vladivostok]The US has criticised France for planning to deliver two warships to Russia despite its actions in Ukraine. State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told press in Washington on Monday (12 May) "we have expressed our concerns to the French government over the sale. We'll continue to do so". "Obviously, as you know, there are sanctions that have been put in place. I'd have to specifically check here to see if there's a legal question or if this is just a question of whether we find this to be unhelpful." Read more

Venezuela Tests Russian Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Grad MRLS]Venezuela has conducted successful tests of Russian Grad and Smerch multiple rocket launchers, Operational Strategic Commander in Chief, General Vladimir Padrino Lopez said Tuesday. Venezuelan TV channel Globovision reported that the tests were carried out at a facility in the country’s southwestern state of Apure. “These are high technologies weapons systems,” Lopez said, adding that the tested weapons are capable of destroying any target. Igor Korotchenko, a leading Russian military expert, earlier told RIA Novosti Venezuela would become Russia’s second-largest a... more »

The multi-talented Boris Johnson

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
Coolness personified shooting a basket... A redoubtable rugby tackler The fact that it was on a football pitch is irrelevant! A good humorous speech maker An expert in whiff whaff And willing to say what he thinks about hecklers...

9/11 and Global Thermonuclear Escalation

Paul Coker at News Spike - 21 hours ago
Of the *46* (known) Drills of 9/11, *5* of them were *directly* concerned with *thermonuclear war-fighting *(against Russia), and/or *Continuity of Government in the event of nuclear war.* Scowcroft, Warren Buffet and others were all flown (in a pre-arranged exercise) to the Strategic nuclear command bunker at Olfutt AFB, where Bush went later in the day, after Barksdale, to take physical posession of the nuclear arsenal.

KDB Daruttaqwa joins RBN fleet

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: KDB Daruttaqwa]The Royal Brunei Navy (RBN) has received the latest addition to its growing fleet, the fourth Darussalam Class Patrol Vessel Daruttaqwa in Germany. A statement issued by the Ministry of Defence (MinDef) yesterday noted that a ceremony was held at the Leurssen Wharf in Lemwerder, Germany, last Friday which saw the signing of the ship’s delivery and acceptance certificate. The certificate was inked by the Managing Director of Fr Luerssen Werft (FLW), Peter Luerssen, and the Permanent Secretary of Administration and Finance at MinDef, Datin Paduka Hjh Suriyah Hj... more »

IRGC Displays New Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Hormuz 1 missile]In an exhibition held on Sunday and attended by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the IRGC put on display the most recent defensive achievements, including two types of Hormuz anti-ship ballistic missiles. The Hormuz is said to be the upgraded version of a domestically-made anti-ship missile the IRGC had manufactured earlier, dubbed the Persian Gulf. According to the IRGC lieutenant commander, the Hormuz 1 and 2 are among the “most important and most unique” missiles manufactured by the Iranian local experts. Read more

Ukraine Dilemma: U.S. Can't Prevent Russian Expansion Without Better Missile Defenses

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: SS-27 Topol M]Vladimir Putin has called Washington’s bluff, and as a result the U.S. is headed for a major loss of influence in Europe. Having watched the Obama Administration carefully avoid new involvement in overseas military contingencies for six years, Putin has figured out that he is a lot more willing to fight for the territories on his borders than NATO is, so he is going to keep up the pressure on former Soviet territories where sizable Russian minorities exist. These are not the acts of a madman; he has accurately assessed Western resolve, and knows he can prevai... more »

Exelis to provide special-purpose radio frequency (RF) technology for fighter aircraft

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: F-16 Fighting Falcon]Exelis recently received a follow-on contract valued at $8.4 million from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, Texas, to supply Continuous Wave Illuminator (CWI) subsystems for F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The Exelis CWI subsystem is a special-purpose transmitter that works with the F-16’s fire control radar and mission computer to provide guidance for semi-active missiles. Using radio frequency energy, the system illuminates airborne targets to increase accuracy and ensure the missile finds its intended target. Read more

Air Force Mirage jet crashes in French countryside

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Mirage 2000C]Fortunately no one was hurt when a Mirage 2000 jet belonging to the French Air Force crashed in a field in northeastern France Monday. The pilot apparently managed to parachute to safety. It is still not clear what caused the fighter jet to crash near the small village of Baroches (Meurthe-et-Moselle). Read more

Strike Fighter scientists among casualties of deep Defence cuts

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: F-35 Lightning II]Nearly 40 of Australia's top military scientists and engineers are to be thrown on the scrapheap as the Defence Science and Technology Organisation cuts costs. The jobs cull is expected to cut from six scientists to just two the DSTO's technical team for the $24 billion Joint Strike Fighter, the nation's largest ever defence purchase. The Australian Maritime Warfare Centre, based at Sydney's Garden Island, is slashing a third of its staff of civilian engineers and technicians, from 48 public servants to 31. Read more

UK troops working with US military at base for Yemen drone operations

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: MQ-9 Reaper]British liaison staff are embedded with US forces in the Horn of Africa, the Ministry of Defence has revealed, as concern grows about redeployment of the UK squadron of 10 armed Reaper drones. Although three British officers are based at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti – the US base from which unmanned strikes are launched against al-Qaida groups in Yemen – the MoD denies they are involved in co-ordinating such attacks. Both the human rights organisation Reprieve and the Labour former defence minister Tom Watson have expressed anxiety over British involvement in cove... more »

The New King of High-Sea Helicopters Can Hoist 13 Tons

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
The Sikorsky CH-53 line of heavy-lift helicopters have been dutifully serving the US Marine Corps since the mid-1960s and even the most recent iteration of the venerable Stallion line is about ready to be put out to pasture. But Sikorsky has a new powerhouse waiting in the wings. Sikorsky began the Stallion line back in 1966 with the original Sea Stallion. It was joined by the current-gen Super Stallion in 1981, though the OG Sea Stallion was retired in 2012 so right now the Super is all we've got. However, Sikorsky is not resting on its laurels. The company is currently contract... more »

Coast Guard Embarks on Its Costliest Ship Buying Program

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: USCGS Bertholf]The Coast Guard has one piece remaining in its long effort to modernize its aircraft and ships: the offshore patrol cutter. The Coast Guard’s fifth national security cutter left its construction birth in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in early May and is expected to be delivered to the service next year. That came only months after the Obama administration put in its 2015 budget request money to build the final NSC of the eight-ship fleet. Meanwhile, a shipyard in Louisiana continues to turn out several fast response cutters per year. Read more

The US Is Conducting A Massive Nuclear Arms Drill Days After A Russian Nuclear Exercise

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: B-2 Spirit]U.S. Strategic Command will be conducting a massive “deter and detect” nuclear drill from May 12 to May 16, just four days after a similar Russian exercise. The U.S. drill, known as Exercise Global Lightning 14, is set to include ten B-52s and six B-2 bombers in an attempt to demonstrate U.S. military flexibility and responsiveness. The drill, which is meant to simulate a scenario in which the U.S. would have to protect itself and its allies in the event of a “strategic attack,” is being touted as a chance to incorporate modern technology into U.S. drills. Read ... more »

4 military agreements signed with China

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Type 035G Ming-class SSK]China has signed four military agreements with Bangladesh to enhance Dhaka’s defence capabilities. They were signed on Monday in presence of visiting General Xu Qiliang, who is the vice-chairman of the central military commission of the Chinese Communist Party. The agreements were signed with the Bangladesh armed forces and with the Bangladesh University of Professionals run by the armed forces. Read more

Pak submarine joins naval drills in Jubail

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: PNS Hamza]The Pakistani Navy submarine Hamza docked at the Royal Saudi Naval Forces Base in Jubail where both navies conducted joint exercises on May 6 and May 11. Following its arrival, several meetings were held on a number of professional matters including the combat capabilities of the two navies. Commander of the Eastern Fleet of the Saudi Royal Navy Rear Admiral Ibrahim Maghloos also visited submarine Hamza in Jubail. Read more

ICEX 2014: Arctic submarine exercise

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 22 hours ago
Floating on a chunk of ice in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, United States Navy (USN) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel learned that Mother Nature doesn’t always accommodate military schedules. From the waterborne “Camp Nautilus”, about 100 kilometres north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, groups of USN and CAF personnel monitored submarine manoeuvering, surfacing, and logistics exercises from Mar. 17-27 during Submarine Laboratory Ice Exercise 2014 (ICEX14). “It was a very surreal experience working out on a huge piece of ice,” says Lt(N) Kristina Gray of Canadian Submarine Force ... more »

Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 22 hours ago
[image: HSwMS Gotland]The U.S. military is relying on sub-hunting tech that’s decades old. Meanwhile, the targets they’re trying to find are getting quieter and more invisible by the day. Submarines are getting quieter, stealthier, and better armed. And that could mean major trouble for the U.S. Navy and its aging fleet of sub-hunters. The tactical balance between the surface warship and the submarine has strategic impact. The submarine is not made for a show of force. Its principal weapon is designed not to damage a ship, but to sink it—rapidly and probably with much loss of life.... more »

How About We All Just Drink to Have a Good Time

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Auckland Police Superintendent Dickface Wowserbreath is in the paper again this morning arguing “nothing good happens on city streets after 3am,” therefore all drinking after 3am should be banned. By order. Did I say arguing? No, while the word “therefore” is usually expected to accompany, perhaps, just by way of example, a connected series of points intended to establish a position, this bossyboots doesn’t need to bother with argument because he’s the one with the manpower. So simple assertion will do: of his own blowhard opinion that anyone out after 3am must have a problem. Do... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*WEST ANTARCTIC ICE MELT* *Global warming is all that the article below talks about by way of explanation but bringing just a touch of extra evidence to bear alters the picture.If warming is causing the glaciers to melt, how come the sea ice is at a record high? Is the land warming while the sea is cooling? If so we are looking at local effects not global ones.And there IS a local warming effect that could be at work. Also in West Antarctica, an active sub-sea volcano has just been discovered. And the discoverers note: "Numerous volcanoes exist in Marie Byrd Land, a high... more »

Bokoo Haram updates regarding abducted and still missing girls May 13 , 2014 ...... US in aerial search for Nigeria schoolgirls US flying "manned" missions over Nigeria to track down more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram, Pentagon says ....... Boko Haram video claims to show missing girls Video obtained by AFP news agency says girls will not be released until all Boko Haram prisoners in Nigeria are freed ....... Items and views of points of note from Nigeria !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
US in aerial search for Nigeria schoolgirls US flying "manned" missions over Nigeria to track down more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram, Pentagon says. Last updated: 13 May 2014 00:58 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau offered to release the girls in exchange for prisoners [Reuters] The United States has been flying "manned" missions over Nigeria to track down more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, the Pentagon said, as experts pored over a n... more »

Generational War: Indoctrinating Children In Israel And Palestine To Kill

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
An excerpt from, *"Disturbing Photos Show Militarization of Israeli Children"* by Ali Abunimah, Global Research, May 13: Some of these disturbing images of Israeli children being put through military-style training displays at Efrat, an illegal Israeli colony in the occupied West Bank, have been circulating widely online and were published in *Haaretz* and other media. A repeated theme of pro-Israeli, anti-Palestinian propaganda is to circulate images of*Palestinian* children taking part in such militarized displays in order to advance the belief that Palestinian culture is inher... more »
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