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An Umbrella That Protects You From Rain With Just Air, But Only Lasts 30 Minutes
The umbrella market is ripe for innovation, and regular ones just don’t cut it anymore. So one Kickstarter project wants to bring you an umbrella powered by air. The aptly-named Air Umbrella is a rod-shaped device with a motor, rechargeable lithium battery and fan blade. The device takes in air below the fan blade and forces it out in such a manner that falling rain gets redirected See also: 10 S
Mark Zuckerberg Drops $100 Million on Hawaiian Property
Taking a page out of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," Mark Zuckerberg spent $100 million on a chunk of land in Hawaii. The 30-year-old Facebook founder recently purchased 700 acres of property on the North Shore of the island of Kauai, according to a Forbes report. See also: Mark Zuckerberg vs. an Average 30-Year-Old Man The purchase is among his first high-profile investments. Despi
New battery can recharge within two minutes
Researchers in Singapore have come up with a battery that can recharge within the space of a few minutes. Waiting hours for your mobile phone to recha...
The Amish Farmers Reinventing Organic Agriculture
Via: The Atlantic: “In the Second World War,” Samuel Zook began, “my ancestors were conscientious objectors because we don’t believe in combat.” The Amish farmer paused a moment to inspect a mottled leaf on one of his tomato plants before continuing. “If you really stop and think about it, though, when we go out spraying […]
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Weekend Open Thread – October 11, 2014
by James Corbett corbettreport.com October 11, 2014 As the media hype over Ebola in America continues to grow, New York’s Kennedy International Airport became the first of five major airports across the country to begin “extensive screening” of passengers arriving from West Africa. Under the program, passengers from the affected countries with fevers or other Ebola symptoms will be isolated and ex
Interview 953 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Venezuelans Turn to Bitcoins to Bypass Socialist Currency Controls http://ur1.ca/ibtwm NWNW Flashback: Bitcoin Stories Since 2011 http://ur1.ca/ibtwp Andreas M. Antonopoulos educates Senate of Canada abo
Interview 952 – Financial Survival: 3D Chess on the Grand Chessboard
Every week, James joins Alfred Adask on the Financial Survival program to discuss the latest geopolitical and economic news from around the globe. This week they tackle the protests in Hong Kong and how they fit into the bigger picture of the “New Cold War” in the Asia-Pacific and the bigger bigger picture of US complicity in building up China as a model for the New World Order. We also cover the
Interview 951 – Inverting the Federal Reserve Pyramid
We all know the bad news: the Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress in 1913 as the capstone to the banksters’ financial pyramid. Now fewer and fewer cronies own a greater and greater share of the economic pie. But here’s the good news: we are the ones holding that pyramid up, and we can start removing ourselves from the base of this structure. Join James Corbett and We Are Change Fresno for t
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Nature Needs Half
Conservation group promoting an ambitious new proposal for wilderness protection
Experts Look to Lithium Extraction in the Race to Save California’s Salton Sea
Geothermal brine in the region may contain North America’s largest deposit of the element that’s key to the electronics industry
Obama Declares Part of San Gabriel Mountains a National Monument
The wild Is where you find It, and it is always worth protecting
Carbon in the Tank
The price of gasoline in the US reflects not actual costs but the reflected glare of the margins necessary for oil companies to sustain hefty profits.
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Ebola Has a COUSIN
If you are not scared yet, don't read below...The EBOLA Virus is ready to mutate It already has a cousin in Africa, 80% mortality rate. But that is not all, If ENTERO Virus and EBOLA meet EBOLA will become Airborne...The Mayans were right the KATUN OF CHANGE has started with full force and effectEBOLA'S CousinKampala, Uganda -- (CNN) -- Three days after a fatal case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever w
Cancer cure, cura del Cancer
Cancer is cured by sending chemical signal telling cancer to stop spreading...They have found a "Stop spreading molecule"Cancer before and after the "Stop spreading molecule"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140924145016.htmSeed Newsvine
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Sex workers and victims alike betrayed by Canadian government
      As much as I like to gripe about Canada's government, there are only a handful of decisions over the years that have really stood out in my mind as betrayals of what I think it means to be Canadian.    One was free trade, which followed the U.S. into a downward spiral of lower wages, part-time work and a dwindling list of goods that could be honestly considered to be "made in Canada.&qu
Justin Trudeau's stand on decriminalizing still a work in progress
    While I keep my distance from politics, I've somehow ended up on the federal Liberal email list and have been receiving messages urging me to donate to Justin Trudeau and seeking my thoughts. With the heartbreak of Bill C-36 and the further criminalizing of sex work hanging over me, I seized the opportunity to respond to one of the messages to feel out Trudeau's position on decriminalization.
My secret crush: Vince Ready
Cartoon in the Ubyssey by Indiana Joel     Earlier this week, somebody with a sense of humour and an obvious knowledge of B.C. labour history swapped a photo of  mediator Vince Ready for the saintly image of God in the Wikipedia entry on God. Vince Ready - our homegrown Holy One.    Once bickering parties in a labour dispute learn that Ready has been called in to help them reach a settlement, you
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Response to Tim Moen's response on the nature of politics
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD This blogpost is a response to Libertarian Party of Canada leader Tim Moen's October 8, 2014 blogpost entitled "Response to Activist Teacher", which was a response to my blogpost of October 7, 2014, entitled "On what libertarian leader Tim Moen has learned", which was a critique of Tim Mohen's August 26, 2014 blogpost "10 Lessons I Learned Running
On what libertarian leader Tim Moen has learned
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD Tim Moen is a unique political party leader. He actually blogs about his thought process, and expressly considers saying what he actually thinks. Moen is also somewhat unique in that he convincingly appears to be honest, both in the things he says and in his body language. Elizabeth May also has that rare quality but audio evidence has shown that she, like the
Rogue Courts in Canada Trample Self-Represented Litigants
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD  [1] There is a crisis of access to justice in Canada. It is a crisis of systemic judicial partiality against ordinary citizens who cannot afford brand-name “justice”. PURPOSE AND METHODS FOR THIS ARTICLE In this article I describe the phenomenon in Canada of systemic and often-egregious judicial and legal-system bias against self-represented litigants. In a
Has the Israel Lobby lost ground in its perpetual war against US academia?
By Denis G. Rancourt The US Israel Lobby is dedicated inter alia to suffocating academic freedom and to intimidating all scholars away from any educational, research, or political stance against Israeli war crimes. The Lobby does win victories, such when it blocked the tenure and all academic appointments of the outstanding scholar Norman Finkelstein, and too many others. It wins, also,
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Fort Itaipu and Footnotes
I’ve been working on my new book, which is sort of a follow up to Government UFO Secrets (notice that I’ve slipped the name of my last book into this) and I have been doing something that I don’t think is being done very much. I’ve been chasing footnotes again. This means as I research a case, looking for all the information available on it, I attempt to return to the original source as much as po
Roswell, Nathan Twining and the Mini-EOTS
There is a misunderstanding about the Twining letter and it is about what caused it to be written. To understand it in the context of the time, it is necessary to understand why the letter was written.In July 1947, an officer who worked for Brigadier General George Schulgen put together an Estimate of the Situation, which is not to be confused with the big one that was written later. This mini-EOT
Colonel Howard McCoy and MJ-12
There is another aspect to this MJ-12 nonsense that hasn’t been mentioned and that is Colonel Howard McCoy. Here’s the situation we find ourselves in. In the early 1940s, McCoy was involved in the investigation of the Foo Fighters. In 1946, McCoy was pulling records and observing the Ghost Rockets in Scandinavia and in late 1946, he was tasked with setting up an unofficial investigation into these
SETI and UFOs
Just the other day I was reading a book about SETI and the author committed the error of appealing to an authority… which means he didn’t have a good argument other than to say that these prestigious people and organizations have weighed in and they say UFO phenomenon is all hogwash.Sure, I know you’re confused so I’ll expand. He was writing about UFOs, which, if you’re going to discuss SETI you n
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New Ebola patient is responsible for getting Ebola...
I predicted this.I flippantly said over breakfast, that when the new patient, a nurse who tended to the now deceased "Patient Zero" was diagnosed with Ebola, that the CDC would try and blame her.Right on schedule:The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that the infection in the health care worker, who was not on the organization’s watch list for people
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman: Geniuses of comedy...
remember when humor was funny?
Conservative blogger, Mandy Nagy (aka Liberty Chick) needs our help...
please donate.On September 6th, Mandy Nagy also known as Liberty Chick, had a very serious stroke.  She has had surgery and as of today's update is headed to rehab.She was to start as editor of Legal Insurrection on September 8th.  William Jacobson has been keeping us updated as to her condition via Mandy's mom.  From Legal Insurrection:On September 6, Mandy suffered a serious stroke, and has been
Goldman Sachs: Something to think about...
you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.And you say, “No.  How is that possible?  How can that be?  How can Goldman Sachs be running at 545 times leverage relative to its assets?”  And the answer is, because Goldman Sachs and the United States government are, for all intents and purposes, the SAME. FISCAL. ENTITY.  And if anybody has any explanation other than that, I would love to h
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Our friends, Antoinette and Doug, asked if we wanted to meet up for sushi last Friday.  Of course we did!  I found out t...
Our friends, Antoinette and Doug, asked if we wanted to meet up for sushi last Friday.  Of course we did!  I found out the morning before they got here that it was also Antoinette's birthday, which she had failed to tell me!  Facebook knows all..........Anyway, luckily, no rain.  We recommended I Love Sushi because they were bringing their puppies and we needed outdoor seating.  Met there, we pull
Cooking in Costa Rica and Sushi Wednesdays!
I have been cooking a lot in Costa Rica and eating a lot at home.  Trying out a lot new recipes.  Some good, some not.One of my most recent favorites is falafel burgers.  SO good. The recipe makes exactly enough for Kurt and I for dinner.  I make them and put them over rice, and add some fresh guac and hot sauce to the top.  The first time I added some black beans to the rice as well, so it was ki
Scooters and Pharmacies
So, I posted before about the scooters we got, which we are loving.  This is a good thing, since we have been without a car since August 2.  While our friend was visiting the States, we borrowed his, but since he got back, we have been solely using the scooters.  Basically, when you move to Costa Rica and drive a car here, you have 90 days to pay the taxes on it.  This is not simple though.  You h
Wow, time flies in Paradise!  No postings since August 17?We had our first visitors over the last weekend in August.  Li...
Wow, time flies in Paradise!  No postings since August 17?We had our first visitors over the last weekend in August.  Lisa and Brian, two of our friends from Michigan, came to Costa Rica.  Lisa found some insanely low price via Delta to fly out and booked it.  Lisa is a friend of mine from high school in Manistee, and Brian is her husband.  Lisa is also an attorney, like I formerly was in my past
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Intersex Surgery in the 18th Century | New Republic
Sex-Change Surgery in the 18th Century | New Republic">According to Brand's report, published in 1787, he noticed an “irregularity” in the patient’s “external parts.” After further examination, he concluded that the child’s “part, which had the appearance of the labia pudenda, was in fact the scrotum,” and suggested an “operation to free the penis from its confinement.” He went ahead and made
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Ebola outbreak killing 70 percent of victims
WHO official says infection rate could reach to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, up from a current 1,000.
Egypt sentences Al Jazeera journalist
Network denounces 15-year jail sentence in absentia against Ahmed Mansour for "torturing lawyer in Tahrir Square".
Turkey bombs Kurdish PKK targets in south
Military statements say the attacks in Hakkari were a response to an attack on Monday by PKK fighters.
Palestinian worshippers barred from Al-Aqsa
Palestinians under the age of 60 refused access to holy site in East Jerusalem, a day after clashes with Israeli police.
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Sf Giant'S Bochy Heading For Hall Of Fame
    The wily fox and super motivator Bruce Bochy ponders his next move as his SF Giants won their eighth consecutive postseason elimination game over the Washington Nationals and set the stage for perhaps another World Series appearance ~ but most certainly an early and well deserved baseball Hall of Fame selection.In this time of growing wars, conspiracies, epidemics and other uncertainties, ther
Take The Red Pill Before It'S Too Late
          Ingsoc is the ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania and Obama is the President of Oceania. We are all being watched, notes are being taken and dossiers are being completed as we speak. Oceania's nominal leader Obama is also Big Brother, believed by the masses to have been the leader of the revolution and still used as an icon by the party. The Personality Cult is maintained
Isis Is Now Obama'S (Orwell'S) Permanent War
Barack Obama is now the leader of George Orwell's contemporary Oceania. In two 2009 speeches the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security". To the people of Afghanistan, which America had i
Climate Change Is Here / The People March But Will They Act
                 A selection of posters from the People's Climate March. (photo: (L-R) Favianna Rodriguez, Nicolas Lampert, Collin Matthes)Climate Change is here and now and can no longer be ignored as public demand for action has reached the tipping point. The largest climate change action in history takes place today in New York City as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, representing over 1,4
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May 1: How Should We ‘Observe’ Labor Day?
Adil Najam Today is May 1. The 125th international Labor Day. Even before anything has actually happened, newspapers and TV anchors are telling us that the ‘nation’ will ‘observe’ the day in a “befitting manner.” Great predictors of the future that our media is, one is at least thankful that they are not promising that [...]
Mirza Ghalib: Peshawari Turban and Humor
Mast Qalandar We recently had a post on Ghalib by Adnan Ahmad. I believe we can never have enough of Ghalib. Adnan’s post was mostly about Ghalib, the poet. This one is about Ghalib, the person. When we think of Ghalib as a person, invariably the picture that comes to mind is that of an [...]
Who Speaks for the Other Pakistan?
Adil Najam Every time I read one of Shirazi’s wonderful posts I am reminded of the fact that even though Pakistan is still a predominantly rural entity, the voices that speak about it are nearly entirely urban. Not surprisingly, we tend to speak about Pakistan in a mostly urban idiom, with a dominant urban bias, [...]
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Wise words for changing times....
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956“Own only what
ZEROHEDGE: Mortgage Application Pipeline At America's Largest Mortgage Lender Drops To Lowest Since Lehman
Mortgage Application Pipeline At America's Largest Mortgage Lender Drops To Lowest Since LehmanSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 10/14/2014 09:17 -0400So much for the much hyped, if quite negligible, second quarter rebound in mortgage activity. After rates tumbled, and continued to tumble, there was some hope that at least the offset to the bond market screaming contraction and deflation (something eve
Transpicous News: Episode 2 - The Zombie Apocalypse 101
Dani has a new episode of Transpicuous News out, The Zombie Apocalypse, its a good read! The full article that accompanies the video is HERE:  http://transpicuousnews.blogspot.com/2014/10/transpicuous-news-ep-2-zombie.htmlI've included the video below:
Jon Rappoport: Hypnotic data: 4 essential features
Hypnotic data: 4 essential featuresby Jon RappoportOctober 13, 2014NoMoreFakeNews.comTelevision news needs to create a hypnotic effect. Otherwise it would fall apart and shatter into a million nonsensical pieces.One: the presented data must be repeated, of course. This is the time-honored strategy. When the viewer sees and hears the same nugget many times, he accepts it because—“how can they say i
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女超人: 睜大你的眼睛前面和中心,先生
順便說一句,我無法抗拒指出事物的諷刺。如果你工作在經合組織,你會得到一個非常豐厚的薪水,而你在一個精心製作的城堡在巴黎工作。 你猜怎麼著?通過國際條約,你無需繳稅。 因此,我們有這些精心餵養官僚經合組織在漂亮的城堡,有工作自己的私人酒窖,以及他們在世界各地飛行,商務艙有說服力的司法管轄區,低稅率,他們正在做一 些錯誤的,應該被列入黑名單,然而這些官員支付零稅率。
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Oct. 4 Second Line for Herman and Albert
Join us on October 4th for a press conference, followed by a Second Line and gathering with performances and speakers as we commemorate the one-year anniversary of Herman Wallace’s transition and remember the remaining incarcerated member of the Angola 3, Albert Woodfox.The event begins at 1pm, with the press conference & Second Line starting at Tremé Center, 900 N Villere St, New Orleans, LA

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Divergent Trajectories, the Bomb, and Kashmir
President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India during their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, Sept. 30, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The recent trips to the United States by Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi provide ample evidence of India’s and Pakistan’s divergent trajectories. Nawaz arrived with no fanfare, a known commodity in famil
Where is Kim Jong-Un?
Where is Kim Jong-Un? Is he sick? Has there been a coup? Or is North Korea simply trolling DPRK watchers? Today, Jeffrey and Aaron speak with Andrea Berger, a Research Fellow at RUSI, about North Korea, Kim Jong-Un’s whereabouts, the DPRK’s nuclear doctrine, and whether or not North Korea wants to be seen as a responsible nuclear state. Sponsor: Scrivener – A powerful content-generation tool for
Concerns about Iran’s Nuclear Program in the Gulf
What are the regional perceptions of Iran’s nuclear program? Are the Gulf States obsessed with breakout times and the Arak reactor, or are their concerns more political in nature? Is the United States doing enough to reassure its Gulf Allies about the nuclear negotiations with Iran? Do the Gulfees actually have an Iran nuclear strategy? Today, Aaron and Jeffrey speak with Dina Esfandiary, a resear
Interview with CTBTO’s Zerbo
Last week, Dr. Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBO), paid a visit to us at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Dr. Jeffrey Lewis took advantage of Dr. Zerbo’s visit to stop by the Digital Learning Commons and record a special podcast. Drs. Lewis and Zerbo discuss the CTBTO’s monitoring system and the prospects of
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Labour's Whipped Palestine Vote
Picking a fight with one of your party's most powerful lobbies is a risky affair. When so doing having a clear objective in mind helps, as well as a strategy that shows off your leadership virtues. Think Tony Blair and the unions. Think - yes - Dave and equal marriage. Which brings us to the curious case of the vote for Palestinian recognition due to come before the Commons tomorrow afternoon.Orig
Saturday Interview: Harry Paterson
Harry Paterson is a socialist activist from Nottingham where he has spent his political life. His first book, an excellent history of the 1984-5 miners' strike in Nottinghamshire, Look Back In Anger was published this summer. You can follow Harry on Twitter here- Do you regularly read blogs? If so, which ones?I do. Yes. Your own, of course. Richard Seymour’s, too. I dip in and out of the hilarious
How to Eradicate UKIP
There's a toxic purple blot on the electoral landscape. Even Madagascan lemurs knew Douglas Carswell would vault his by-election. Marrying a generally well-liked, rooted MP to an anti-politics insurgency was always going to be a rocket from the Clacton crypt. And so the kippers have their first elected member, but what a strange fish he is. UKIP's odour of prejudice and small mindedness does not a
Ebola, Complacency and Crisis
Health emergency in West Africa? Who gives a shit. Until the last month or so, that pretty much summed up the attitude in Western newsrooms and policy-making circles. After all, when is there not some kind of health crisis blighting the people of Sub-Saharan, central and southern Africa? HIV/AIDS is an ugly shadow cast over the fate of entire nations. According to the UN 1-in-20 live with the dise
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Mucking about in the print shop
New rollers arrived, necessary because the old ones were thirty years old and past saving. I remember what those cost, and I can tell you they've gone up about two hundred percent. They also arrived without roller trucks.Trucks are the rubber-tired wheels at the ends of the rollers, whose job is to roll on tracks on either side of the bed of the press. I could see that the ones I had might fit the
Into the woods
I don't know if we can make it an annual event; I'm 65 and seem to be fading on schedule. But my mom and dad's ashes are interred in a secret location and Emily and I went to pay our respects before the weather changes, which should be about in a week. Last year we were there in July. Good thing -- in October on this date there was snow -- a foot deep. Very different year.
A pressing matter
Way back in time I was a letterpress printer, linotypist and bindery operator, and such people tend to acquire a "hobby" shop somewhere along the way. I have had a Chandler & Price 10X15 press and a type cabinet (48 cases of type) since about 1986, and for most of that time the shop faced away from the window into the garage. Its footprint assured that ours would be a one car garage,
A forest road
Everyone takes a break sometime; we are fortunate here in having the hills very near us to run to, and so we did that last week.Our first stop was the place, thirty-seven years ago, that we honeymooned. I had been part of a Hoedad crew parked there for five or six weeks by the Forest Service on a tree planting contract, and had fond, if still fresh, memories of the place, with its grove of seven-f
Stone Buddhas
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Vote No to ALEC to Take Back the House
People are wondering - - - wringing their hands - - - - What can we dofor the Dems to keep the US Senatefor the Dems to get the US HouseAs in the states - one way to go about it - is #VoteNo2ALECMembers of the extremist, pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council running for Congress are listed below90 members running for the US House9 members running for the US Senate                    
ALEC Influence - Hidden Behind the Curtain
Many times over the past 4 years we have seen articles and blog entries that stated that a governor was beholding to the Koch’s or they were passing legislation by ALEC, or were acting like an ALECer, but we could never connect them directly to ALEC.Reason being is that many of them were not legislators before they became governor, so they didn’t have a chance to be a documented ALEC member, or i
ALEC HQ Misleads America with Presser
Such good news today with Google kicking ALEC to the curbWas out having a drink - celebrating the good news of the day and my birthday and I come home to this!The day dampened by an ALEC presser that - - - again - - -  misleads people.This presser is a demonstration why we HAVE TO HAVE people monitoring what happens at ALEC meetings – cause without it – the lies they tell will believed as truth.Am
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God's Own Army: A Progressive Poem
By MARC McDONALDInspired by Manifesto Joe, (a stellar poet who has done a lot of good work) I figured I'd give this poetry thing a shot.God's Own ArmyThey are God's own army,and they are knocking at the door.They'll save you from the queers,and they'll save you from the whores.They'll tell you who God hates,so you too can go to war.
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I Don't Believe The Eric Frein "Diary" Story
You would have to have blind faith in government, like a religion, to believe the stories in the "news" that "officials" are telling us about Eric Frein.The latest is: they found a "diary" in which he virtually gave a play-by-play confession. Eric Frein, they tell us, shot two cops, killing one of them, and he has been hiding from the police for almost a month. 'I sho
Sweden Just Recognized Palestine, So Will There Be A Mossad "Lone Nut Gunman" False Flag Soon In Sweden?
Sweden just became the first major European country that is going to recognize the state of Palestine:Huffington Post: Sweden To Recognize State Of PalestineLet me refresh your memory on what happened the last time a Scandinavian country began getting vocal about being pro-Palestinian:CAMP IN NORWAY WHERE SHOOTING OCCURRED HAD JUST CONCLUDED PRO-PALESTINIAN RALLY THE DAY BEFORE Massacre In Norway:
While the "MANHUNT" For Eric Frein Is Going On, How Many Citizens Have The Cops Murdered?
Have you seen this man...on your lottery machine???We all know the Pennsylvania State Police are searching for Eric Frein whom they accuse of shooting two Pennsylvania State Policemen, killing one of them. But while the "MANHUNT" for Eric Frein is going on, how many citizens in that time period have police murdered, beaten, tazed, and brutalized and how many Constitutional laws have the
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famine? teach the controversy!
Here's a fascinating long piece on how, among other things, China is promoting revisionist views of the Great Leap forward famine as part of its general reassertion of the Party's beneficient role in modern Chinese history. The thing is that this is not your daddy's propaganda struggle, where the centre lays down the line and the rest parrots it.  Instead, as the author notes, we have something th
making a spectacle
Hey, James has turned up in the Spectator, noting that Hong Kong is keeping the old Chinese spirit of righteous rebellion alive.
always thinking of the little people
This could be the Mail reporting on a London Tube strike. But no; it's China Daily reporting on Hong Kong protests: The daily lives of many people in Hong Kong have been disrupted by the blockades staged by protestors in various districts — with more than 42 bus routes and some tram services suspended — as thousands of activists continue to occupy major roads in the central business area of the c
concentration, dispersal & resistance in Hong Kong
The protesters are led by a group called Occupy Central... Always good to have Vox around to get something neatly wrong. Here's my crack at it, as much to clear my own head as anything else:  Friday & Saturday's attempt to storm Hong Kong's government centre was not originally under the leadership of OccupyHK, but organised autonomously by high school and university students as the climax of
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Letter to editor "ADEM fails to meet community’s needs"
ADEM fails to meet community’s needs Dear Editor:The Tuscaloosa News’ Lydia Seabol Avant recently did a fine job in the article “EPA Investigates Landfill,” (The Tuscaloosa News, Aug. 14, Page 1A) which described the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation of the discriminatory impact on Uniontown’s citizens caused by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s decision to pe
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ADOBE Says Read The Small Print
Details about the extent of the Adobe security snoop into individual’s reading habits and harvesting of data is becoming clearer and the arrogance adopted by them over what is personal data would appear to many to raise the question as to whether they are fit to manage many services digital content.There explanation of what they monitor conveys no remiss and some would say carries the usual ‘read
Adobe Says: Read the Small Print
Details about the extent of the Adobe security snoop into individual’s reading habits is becoming clearer and the arrogance adopted by them over what is personal data would appear to many to raise the question as to whether they are fit to manage many services digital content.There explanation of what they monitor conveys no remiss and some would say carries the usual ‘read the small print’ caveat
Are Adobe Secretly Watching You Read Via DRM?
The question of privacy on the internet has once again raised its head with the posting by Digital Reader on Adobe’s ACS DRM systemand what is claimed to be excessive data gathering of personal information from consumer’s elibraries.We can’t comment on whether the facts as presented are true or false, but we are able to say that if true, they are a significant shift from where Adobe started from a
Amazon Creates New 'X Factor' or Crowdsourcing Offer
This week Amazon added another layer to their offer, a new ‘crowdsourcing’ book submission one, which as with all things Amazon today, immediately polarised many. The lure is to attract would be authors into what some would call a digital slush pile 'X factor’ competition, where readers vote and those works that get the votes, win and potentially get selected for stardom and the recognition their
SWETS Go Bust
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The best discipline
Oh. I write every day. (Not this blog. My economics blog. Every day, four a.m.)When I write, I'm fussy. After I get the idea down on paper I start at the top and read and fix things and take a break and read and fix things and take the dogs out and read and fix things. I start reading at the top, stop when I have to fix something, fix it, and start reading from the top again.You have to read from
It's all right for words to mean what they say
Eudora Welty:It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, for words to mean what they say. It's all right too for words and appearances to mean more than one thing — ambiguity is a fact of life. But it is not all right, not in good faith, for things not to mean what they say.From Michael Leddy's Against “deep reading” at Orange Crate Art.
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Buckdog  //  actions

Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums Sitting On $575 BILLION Hoard Thanks To Harper Conservaties Tax Cuts ....
Corporate tax freedom day continues to get earlier with each passing year thanks to generous government tax cuts, the Canadian Labour Congress says in a report issued Tuesday.While most individual Canadians don't earn enough to pay off their taxes until sometime in late June, the labour group says the country's businesses will have reaped sufficient revenue to pay their year's share by Jan. 30.The
Under A Harper Conservative Government, When Canada Talks To The World ... No One Listens Anymore ...
Stephen Harper Mocked Over Empty UN General Assembly For His Speech
Harper Refuses To Answer ANY Questions On Iraq Mission - Partisan House Of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer Refuses To Follow Rules Of The House!!
Speaker Andrew Scheer is so completely in the pocket of the Prime Minister's Office, he will not follow the Rules of the House and require the Conservative Government to adhere to some sane relevancy when answering questions in Question Periond.  SHAME ON SPEAKER SCHEER!!!Tue, Sep 23: "NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair wanted to talk about Canada’s military mission in Iraq. Conservative MP Paul Calan
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Calgary Herald - Top Stories  //  actions

Prosecutor: Steenkamp family turned down Pistorius' offer of $34,000
PRETORIA, South Africa – Oscar Pistorius offered $34,000 to the family of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after he killed her, but the family rejected the funds because they did not want “blood money,” a prosecutor said Tuesday at the sentencing hearing […]
Live from the Magnotta trial
Follow The Gazette's Sue Montgomery as she live-tweets the proceedings at the Luka Magnotta trial in Montreal.
Prentice, Mandel to announce possible fix for ‘bed-blockers’ problem
Premier Jim Prentice and Health Minister Stephen Mandel will hold a news conference in Edmonton Tuesday to announce a possible solution to a chronic problem in the health-care system — so-called bed blockers. These are seniors who, through no fault of their own, occupy acute care beds because no long-term care or continuing care beds are available.
Russian hackers used flaw in Microsoft Windows to spy on NATO, a new report says 3 Calgary Herald - ... / 1h

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