Sunday, June 30, 2013

30 June - Blogs I'm Following

Deutsch: Auswirkungen von El Niño - Dezember 2...Deutsch: Auswirkungen von El Niño - Dezember 2002, Ocean Beach, San Diego (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Columbia River Gorge, photographed from the so...Columbia River Gorge, photographed from the southern edge of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The last scene of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman...The last scene of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (1843) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The Police State in action: Men arrested for walking in England.

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 11 minutes ago
The UK is a basket case. Our sad and troubled land is ruled by Talmudic tyrants who impose their will with their well-paid thugs in uniform, the police. Those who disagree with the ruling political orthodoxy can expect to be taken against their will by armed criminals, to be held in a place from which they cannot leave, and then after enduring this ordeal, be forced into a corrupt legal system which will be used to either rubber-stamp their kidnapping, or force them to pay money to a system which has long passed beyond having any credibility. In London, two men were arrested for t... more »

Sunday Classics: In "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner shows there's more than one way to get from Act I to Act II and from Act II to Act III

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 minutes ago
*by Ken* In our earlier post about Wagner's *Flying Dutchman* we heard the Norwegian sea captain Daland return home from a perilous voyage bringing a guest, none other than the Flying Dutchman to meet (and hopefully entrance) his daughter, Senta. Then we left the two potential lovers alone for their long scene, and I would have liked to return for the end of Act II, as Daland returns. Here is that little fragment. *DALAND*: Forgive me! My people will stay outside no longer; each time we return home you know there is a feast. I would enhance it. Therefore I come to ask if it can be ... more »

El Nino - Global Warming Link Found

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
The *El Nino - Southern Oscillation* (ENSO) has, for the first time, been linked to global warming. A team of researchers examining tree ring evidence from the past seven hundred years finds that ENSO events have increased in frequency since the onset of global warming. *Spawning droughts, floods, and other weather disturbances world-wide, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) impacts the daily life of millions of people. During El Niño, Atlantic hurricane activity wanes and rainfall in Hawaii decreases while Pacific winter storms shift southward, elevating the risk of floo... more »

California chalk protester hit with gag order for protesting Bank of America!

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
Jeff Olson, Chalk Activist Facing 13 years in jail for protesting Bank of America * * http://rt.com/usa/chalk-olson-diego-san-404/ *California chalk protester hit with gag order* Published time: June 28, 2013 20:56 Edited time: June 29, 2013 08:19 Reuters / Darryl Webb A California man facing more than a decade in prison for writing with chalk on public sidewalks has been told he’s barred from discussing the details of his controversial case outside of court. *Judge Howard Shore* issued a gag-order in a San Diego, California courtroom this week against Jeff Olson, *a 40-year-old a... more »

Rick Perry - This is god - Take Your Meds

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
Couln't help it. Great Sunday humor *Stolen from BlueStreet Journal* Gov Perry God Here The voice in your head is not me Take your meds.

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, June 30th, 2013M

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
It is now Sunday, June 30th, 2013, and it is time for my weekly rant of what I see is wrong and sometimes right in this world... First things first... I want to wish all of my fellow Canadians a Happy Canada Day tomorrow, July 1st, 2013. It is supposed to be a day to celebrate being Canadian... But considering what I have seen from the criminal Harper regime in Ottawa over the last while, there is little here to be truly happy about... Yes, the province of Alberta has just endured one of the worse floods in their history, with much of Calgary and surrounding communities inundated ... more »

'PM' With a Vengeance

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago
Time for another trawl through a week's worth of Radio 4's *PM*. Maybe the apocalyptic imagery used in last week's post was nearer the mark than might have been expected given that Eddie Mair seems to have vanished off the face of the earth, Rapture-like, and that we poor sinners were 'left behind' with Carolyn Quinn and Jane Garvey (the 'two beasts'?) Or maybe Eddie was just on holiday. Occam's Razor suggests that the Rapture is the likelier explanation. Anyhow, the programme seemed duller without him. Oh, and Ritula Shah turned up on Saturday. You can always tell it's her by the ... more »

Thank you!

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
This is late, and I apologize for that. I think I thanked everyone in person by email, but if there's anyone I missed in email, please accept my apologies. Thank you to everyone who donated! The need has been met. And thank you to those who couldn't donate, I know your heart is with me too as so many of you expressed. These are tough times, but better times are coming soon! I love you all!

Girls shot in honour killing 'were murdered for making video of themselves dancing in the rain' - Independent.ie

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
: Two teenage sisters and their mother were murdered in a Pakistan honour killing after a video emerged of them dancing in the rain. According to reports the two girls, aged just 15 and 16, were shot dead last Sunday alongside their mother after the girls' step-brother and accomplices carried out the attack to "restore the family's honour". The alleged killer, named as Khutore, reportedly carried out the attack after local men had seen the grainy video footage of the girls, named as Noor Basra and Noor Sheza, dancing during a downpour outside their home in Chilas, in the northern... more »

WE ENVISION SOMETHING BETTER

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot provides an in-depth portrait of the legendary Southern organizer and journalist whose life long activism exemplified what progressive white people can do to fight racism. She was labeled a "race traitor" by white supremacists and praised by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

BBC News - Can we make ourselves happier?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
One interesting line: 'Having children lowers your happiness levels, but your happiness increases when they grow up and leave home.' So overall overall who's happier, those who had children or those that didn't? http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23097143

The language of Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce...

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 3 hours ago
Put to such noble use here... I'm being sarcastic, just in case you couldn't tell. This was sent to Owen Jones on the occasion of his writing an article about the English Defence League. A wise man noted Stephen Yaxley-Lennon doesn't say these sorts of things when he goes on TV. "It's almost as though fascists consciously misrepresent their views for opportunistic gain or something".

Was investigative journalist Michael Hasting's death last week in a high-speed single-car automobile crash a bizare accident? Or was he assassinated by someone hacking into his car's controls?

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago
------------------------------ Bush advisor: Hastings crash ‘consistent with a car cyberattack’ Published time: June 25, 2013 16:19 Edited time: June 26, 2013 15:59 Original here A former cybersecurity advisor to President George W. Bush says a sophisticated computer hack could have been the cause of the automobile accident that claimed the life of journalist Michael Hastings last week in Los Angeles. Richard Clarke, a State Department official-turned-special advisor to several United ... more »

It's Now Admitted That Anti-War Activists Were and Are Targeted as Terrorists and Who Gets Money From Halliburton? (No Secrets Anymore - Just Ennui?) Ask Alan Anything!

Again, it's not really "news" that anti-war activists have been targeted as domestic terrorists. We were told this years ago when they were arrested and imprisoned (along with all the other legal protesters) during both the Democratic and Republican Conventions. The news then (pretty much totally ignored by the distracted populace) was why and who was benefitting from it? What is new is that

Why won’t the Times report Beastie Boy’s age!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago
*SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013* *Overworked editor backslides:* In late May, we swung into action. As always, we got you results! At the New York Times, public editor Margaret Sullivan was turning into a cheerleader. When we noted this obvious fact, she authored two consecutive columns about substantive topics. Sullivan’s hard-copy column only appears twice a month. But on June 2 and June 16, she tackled actual topics. This morning, Sullivan backslides. Exhausted by two weeks of work, she seems to be saying, “No mas!” Last Sunday, Sullivan offered no column. This week, she says she’s on a... more »

Digital Dementia-- Is It For Real?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Roland's my closest friend. I call his cell phone at least once a day. But I have no idea what his number is. I press a button on my cell and his phone is automatically "dialed." If I lost my phone, I wouldn't be able to contact him. Oh, wait, I could. All I would have to do is go to my computer and type in the first 3 or 4 letters of his screen name and his e-mail address would come up. If I was at another computer, though, I wouldn't be able to e-mail him either. I only know the first 3 or 4 letters of his rather complicated screen name. Everything comes up kind of automatically ... more »

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
Remember all the talk about western forces being out of Afghanistan in 2014? Well, that deal is off now. NATO has quietly decided it will keep advisers in Afghanistan until 2020 or until we totally take leave of our senses. The problem is the Afghan army - the one we've had a dozen years to create which works out to twice as long as we took to launch, fight and win WWII. It seems in the land of the most warlike peoples on the planet, twelve years isn't nearly long enough to establish a viable army capable of defending its central government. Twelve's not enough, maybe eighte... more »

Happy Pride

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
Here's an article from the Globe & Mail about it. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just googled these things. And the first tune on the radio that I knew was explicitly gay:

O Canada, you'll always be my girl

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 4 hours ago
Dear Canada: It’s been a year and a half since we parted, and I know I said some mean things in those emotional days toward the end. But I’ve been thinking about you a lot today. I saw a photo of you on Facebook, with that bright blue sky and sharp sunlight that I remember so well from the days when everything was going right. And suddenly I was lost in a thousand memories of the good times we had together. Putting some distance between us has been good for me. There were times when I loved your temperate spirit and tidy habits, but I hated that 1000-yard stare you’d get in your... more »

MN GreenTree - Screwing Homeowners - Shame On You!

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
*Green Tree Servicing LLC* 345 St. Peter Street St. Paul, MN 55102 800 643 0202 From Salon.com All of this has come to a head in a class-action lawsuit filed by Leonard Law Office in Massachusetts against Green Tree Servicing, a non-bank servicer based in St. Paul, Minn. Of course, servicers like Green Tree, Nationstar and Ocwen have terrible reputations as among the worst servicers in the country (worse than Bank of America, if you can imagine that). Among the charges Leonard Law Office made against Green Tree were claims that the servicer imposed illegal fees to process any ki... more »

PRISM's Conduit Into Your Life

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
The *Washington Post* has published a series of U.S. National Security Agency slides showing the conduits through which data flows into the American government's computer banks. The first column, PRISM Providers, identifies companies actively in the PRISM loop - Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, even Apple. Fortunately none of us ever have anything to do with any of those outfits, right?

EU slams Gaza over executions | Maan News Agency

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
' Describing the death penalty as cruel and inhuman, the EU said the sentences were "failing to provide deterrence to criminal behavior, and representing an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity.": Drapes this verdict coming from their beloved EU, don't expect much coverage of this from the BBC. The BBC's hatred of Israel outranks almost every other factor in determining news coverage. More here http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=609674

BBC News - Mid-East talks 'within reach' - US secretary of state

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
The BBC. piece on the prospects of peace talks does concentrated on what Israel is being asked to do in order for talks to take place, yes it's 'settlements' again; Michael White will be happy. I found this extract interesting: ' Among other issues, Mr Abbas is said to be pushing Israel to release the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners.' No BBC interest in what these prisoners were convicted for? Of course not. More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23118403

Do you boycott Israeli products so as to support the Palestinians?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
Why, Mahmoud Abbas eats Israeli grapes. Mind you who can blame him, after all they're very good grapes.

KISSINGER WANTS MOSLEM COUNTRIES SPLIT UP

Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago
*Morsi supporters fly the al Qaeda flag in Cairo, June 2013* The CIA's al Qaeda is ready to fight for the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt. *Morsi supporters, Egypt, June 2013. ** *#June30 : Apocalypse Now "Live Updated" "A Christian exodus is being planned for the Middle East by Washington, Tel Aviv, and Brussels..." End Of Times: Yinon Plan and the "Clash of Civilizations" *Armed Morsi supporters in Cairo, June 2013. *#June30 : Apocalypse Now "Live Updated" *According to Oded Yinon, in February 1982:* *"Breaking Egypt down territorially into distinct geographical regions is the po... more »

ALECer Fronts SCOTUS Prop 8 Case

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
You read the news every single day - you see the names: Hollingsworth v Perry After a California law defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman was struck down by the state supreme court as contrary to the state constitution, California voters adopted Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to overrule the state supreme court’s decision. Represented by prominent attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, two same-sex couples filed a federal legal challenge to Proposition 8 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 27, 2009. In August of ... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours ago
Same question as the one for conservatives, also leaning on the 4th of July week and my Salon column yesterday about the importance of elections: What politicians are you most proud of having supported?

You don't have to be religious to help - but the people who do mostly seem to be

paul at Paying attention - 5 hours ago
I’d certainly argue that you don’t have to believe in God to help others. It seems a natural thing to to do for any thinking, feeling creature. But it’s striking that the people who actually show up to help in Honduras are driven by their faiths. A posse from a Louisianan church was here this month to help an orphanage/care home in Copan Ruinas. They built beds for the kids, with cupboards for personal stuff. They worked hard, dealt with the inevitable problems and left the home much better off. The kids were big fans of the guys. The new units replaced wrecked beds with stinking ma... more »

Why PA sets preconditions - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
'The time has come to reveal the Palestinians' true colors. While world leaders attempt to cajole and nudge the two sides into negotiations, only one side consistently says it is ready to sit face to face without preconditions - Israel . The Palestinians, on the other hand, refuse to meet unless Israel agrees in advance to several demands. This should be a red flag indicator of their disingenuous intentions.' More here http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4398456,00.html

Get a TNTP Math Teacher and Neutralize Poverty Today!

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 6 hours ago
Every time I think I’ve discovered the bottom of the corporate education (Corped) sewer, I find out that there is more down there where that came from. The New Teacher Network, which was managed for awhile by the Queen of Real Pain and Fake Gain, Michelle Rhee, keeps piling it up. With a combination of […]

Gaiman’s Mythical Folding of Childhood into Adulthood | the becoming radical

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 6 hours ago
Gaiman’s Mythical Folding of Childhood into Adulthood | the becoming radical.

New Orleans vulnerable to storm surge on the Mississippi - even after all of the storm / flooding defense upgrades ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
As we approach Hurricane Season , is New Orleans still vulnerable even after the upgrades to its flood defenses after Katrina ? http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog New Orleans' Achilles Heel: a Storm Surge on the Mississippi River? Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 7:23 PM GMT on June 27, 2013+60 In the wake of the unthinkable devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, Congress approved a $14.5 billion upgrade to the city's flood defenses--the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS), a 139-mile system o... more »

Durbin Calls out ALEC - Again!

2old2care at Because I Can - 7 hours ago
Yesterday while I was lurking around tweet rolls I saw these three tweets. *Sen Durbin from IL asks NALEO to ask their sponsors if they continue to fund right wing ALEC* *Thank you Senator Durbin for speaking truth to power at NALEO event today. Investigate ALEC and their financial supporters.* And Durbin - was right on! A bunch of the sponsors were ALEC corporate members - a huge bunch! *NALEO * The NALEO Annual Conference provides direct access to our nation's top executive and legislative leaders. This is an unparalleled opportunity for attendees. Welcome to the National Assoc... more »

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
Here's one for the week leading up to July 4th. Long-time readers will recall that I'm an advocate of particularly celebrating politics and politicians on the 4th; I also have a new column at Salon this week on the importance of elections (warning, conservatives: you won't like my examples, but the piece should work with examples of your own). At any rate, this gets to the question: what politician are you proudest to have supported?

Common Core Seuss Standards? Perhaps. #commoncore

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
From an educator: We do not like the Common Core.It tells us not of what’s in storeUnless the kids don’t pass their testsOur futures will be put to rest. The kids will cry, struggle and fretAnd not learn to THINK, (the worst thing yet)The only thing that will occupy mindsIs finding the RIGHT answer every […]

Where’s @NCTQ on this one? Lazy. Pathetic. Ideology.

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
What the hell are you paying for then? Tagged: arizona, azteacherprep, teacher preparation

United Opt Out to release a national Declaration of Independence this Thursday, VIDEO

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
The group United Opt Out is about to take, what I think to be, a major and much more aggressive stance towards the current regime of Arne Duncan and his sycophants. Please watch the following teaser for the release of UOO’s Declaration of Independence this coming July 4th. Also look ahead to state-by-state refusal guides. […]

Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 27 , 2013 ...Data , news and views

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Two great articles from Jessie's blogspot below..... Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts - End of Quarter, Stealth Confiscation There is intraday commentary *here*. I think it is important. One remarkable thing about today's market action was the rebound in the miners even as gold underwent another waterfall bear raid of selling down to the 1200 level. While one can assign any motives they wish to the speculation about if and why there is a *stealth confiscation* happening, I do believe that the trigger for this was the request from Germany to have their sovereign gold returned... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago
*RSD’s Watered-down Incremental Miracle and Continued Fiscal Embarrassment ~ Mercedes Schneider* *Gill: ‘Enforceable obligation’ no tax* *Stephanie Grace: Jindal will serve as foil for next governor* * What about us brain dead slobs? ~Library Chronicles* *Child shooting solutions elusive ~Clair Galofaro, Advocate N.O. * *SeafoodSource.com: Gulf Shrimp Prices Soar on Disease Scare, CVDs*

FEC Quarter Ends Today; Should You Care?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
Today's the end of the FEC fundraising quarter and I want to refer you to a post yesterday you may have missed about real bipartisanship, bipartisanship based on compromising that genuinely works for both sides, not compromise based on a combination of opportunism, bribery and one side betraying core values. Some Members of Congress-- virtually all the Republicans, all the New Dems and every single Blue Dog for example-- finance their political careers by taking legalistic bribes from special interests like Wall Street banks, armaments makers and/or Big Oil. Blue America has been ... more »

16 Dairy Free Recipes and Creative Showcase Link-up

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours ago
A little while ago, my sister found out that one of her little boys is allergic to all things dairy. They tried just changing his diet, but he still go his hands on the dairy-laden food. In an effort to help her little boy, my sister decided to take her entire family completely dairy free, so this post today is dedicated to her and her efforts. I hope she will be able to find some great foods from this list. Make sure to visit each individual site for the recipe. Dairy, Egg and Nut Free Soy Nut Butter Cookies by Food Allergy Mama The Best Fruit Salad with Dairy Free Option ... more »

The Fevered Dreams Of Blue-Eyed Sheiks

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 9 hours ago
Not seeing the forest for the trees. It's the classic characterization of tunnel vision. An updated version of the old saw might be not seeing the shale for the pipeline. That, writes Jeffrey Simpson, is the disease which afflicts our present political masters: Recently, the U.S. Energy Information Agency produced an estimate that the U.S. has almost 60 billion barrels of “technically recoverable” shale oil. Now, “technically recoverable” does not mean that all this supply will be used. Nor does it mean, however, that supplies the agency knows about today will not increase, perhap... more »

Why Britain didn't put a man on the moon

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
"There's nothing to be gained in the way of hot spicy food or Olympic athletes" Al Muray makes total sense as always!

Some of the best cricket catches ever

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
Just like me in my prime...

Who Is Really Besieging Gaza? :: Gatestone Institute

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
An absolutely fascinating article. ' It is Hamas, not Israel, which is besieging Gaza. Those who claim to be concerned about the Palestinians in Gaza would actually do more good for these fine people if they stopped attacking Israel and instead switched their focus to addressing the true source of the Gazans' poverty, suffering and oppression: Hamas.' I await the BBC's coverage of this story... Yeah right! More here http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3453/besieging-gaza

Solar System Mysteries: how the Wind blows...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 11 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/4Taz18Ss1vU - use link when embedded video doesn't appear...!! More on this very intriguing (and controversial, but well-researched) subject you may find at: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/ http://www.holoscience.com/wp/ http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/eg-contents/ John PS. My-Opera isn't picking up video-links I discovered. Sorry for this inconvenience. The "trick-link I used now looks like this:
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/v/4Taz18Ss1vU&version=1&autohide=1&showinfo=0][IMGCENTER=http://files.myopera.com/[blog name here]/blog/Venus%20winds.jpg][/URL]...

The health tourist 'hit and runners' who rip you off... with £24million in unpaid NHS bills as abuse of free care by non-EU patients doubles in just one year | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
Here's the headlines from the article: ' Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt promises crack down after Mail On Sunday investigation For every £100 spent by the NHS on health tourists only £23 has been paid back One individual cost the NHS £217,000 but not a penny has been repaid' This is a story that has been reported over and over again over the last 15 years. I have absolutely no faith in the latest crackdown for two reasons: first because there are too many people in the NHS who feel that it is a good thing to spend money on health care for non British people, it's a similar mi... more »

BOY RAISED BY GLOBAL PEDOPHILE RING

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Boy raised by global pedophile ring* In 2005, a Russian mother sold her little boy, Adam, for $8,000. Adam was sold to an American - a member of *Boy Lovers* - a global pedophile ring. Aged 22 months, Adam began to appear in hardcore porn - of the sort which makes lots of money on the internet. *36% of the internet is pornography. One third of all down loads are porn. Online porn makes $3,000 per second. (Sunday Times)* Adam was filmed being sexually abused by his 'adoptive parents' and at least eight other child abusers in Australia, France, Germany and the United States. Ada... more »

They Sell It But They Supposedly Have Nothing to Do With It.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
When you buy Athabasca DilBit you're buying two fuels - a form of synthetic oil and a type of coal. Alberta bitumen contains heavy oil and it contains petroleum coke also known as petcoke. When buyers refine the bitumen into synthetic oil, they're left with a lot of petcoke, anywhere from 15 to 30% by volume. As the mountain of the stuff building up on the Detroit waterfront from a small volume bitumen refining operation illustrates, you have to do something with it. Petcoke is sold, at rock bottom prices, to customers willing to burn the dirt cheap, high carbon and high sulp... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago

MICHAEL JACKSON, FBI FILES, ISRAEL

Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago
*STELLA*: *Boy A* came to see Michael Jackson… The parents were in the room smoking pot with a five-month-old baby. At the time, Michael was crazy about *Boy A* and his little brother. *PHILIP*: Michael likes them young. *Boy A* was getting too old. The first time when Michael saw *Boy A* in the movie, XXXX XXXX, he told *Boy A* he wanted to meet him. Philip and Stella worked at Neverland in California, for nine months and were the only live-in staff. They were interviewed by a private detective working for Hollywood sleuth Anthony Pellicano. * * *www.mirror.co.uk/* * * The... more »

Old playhouse

risa bear at A Way to Live - 16 hours ago
Retreated to a cabin built so long time gone, so many childhood tears expended on my shoulder, bruised fingers, knees whacked, sorrows, yours and mine. I have improved these walls, found some carpeting, tacked up that between studs for winter, covered all with rough-sawn one-by, loving other folk's dead fences as I do. The desk was my mother's. These books belong to that other person's life that held this body five decades and more, but I like them still. Spenser, Sidney, Plath, Carruth, Millay, Thoreau of course, and Abbey. Eclectic. There is no water in our creek, it being very late ... more »

my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew, part 3 and final

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. By now it should be clear that my abandonment of my ties to Israel, and my support for the liberation of Palestine, are not based on denial of my Jewish heritage or on anti-Semitism. This is a political issue, and a moral one. Jewish people cannot be - and should not be - expected to adhere to some kind of party line of political views. I am heartened that increasing numbers of Jewish people are making their own journeys away from unconditional support for Israel - away from nationalism and towards justice - and I'm frustrated and saddened that so many oth... more »

Does Steve Israel Understand How To Make GOP Racism Work Against Them-- Or Is That Not Reptilian Enough For Him?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
Like we saw Thursday, now that the Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform, what's next? The Senate Democrats have already given away every conceivable bargaining chip available before the bill becomes worthless and insupportable. Nothing will ever change the minds of the racists in control in the House. There are two camps of Republicans in the House on this issue-- the majority camp of racists and bigots and then a more mainstream camp that knows it should be done for various reasons but is afraid of the racists and bigots. Until Boehner has a majority of * Republican... more »

Timbre - The Wind May Be Beautiful - Audiotree Live

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
From *Timbre's official website*: "Nashville based harpist/songwriter Timbre has been enchanting audiences across the world with her unique harp-based folk rock. Though featured playing harp with bands/artists such as Jack White, Ricky Skaggs, mewithoutYou, and the Chariot, her solo music is even more breathtaking. Her ensemble of musicians bring complete stillness to crowded bars and festivals, silencing audiences of thousands." Timbre - The Wind May Be Beautiful - Audiotree Live. Source: YouTube Channel Audiotreetv. Date Published: May 29, 2013. Description: Timbre and the Tr... more »

ALEC Nastiness Goes to Iraq

2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours ago
Today when I was researching something else I found this (again). It's important to remember that we were still at war in Iraq in 2009. In 2009, there were still soldiers and civilians dying in Iraq. International Relations Task Force Meeting Federal Relations Working Group Meeting States and Nation Policy Summit, Washington, DC Friday, December 4, 2009 In his presentation on Good Governance Promotion in Iraq, Senator Curt Bramble (UT) explained various reasons why and how the U.S. ought to be instrumental in educating newly elected Iraqi state legislators by training them in prin... more »

The Society of Individuals

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson at Duck of Minerva - 18 hours ago
Although I have made many of the points I am about to make in comments posted on Phil’s and Eric’s posts about rational choice theory over the past week, what I want to do at this point is to pull the whole thing together and make clear just why I still maintain that rational choice Continue reading

Great Article By Kevin Barrett Via Lasha Darkmoon: Snowden's Revelations Are Just Tip Of NSA Spy Scandal Iceberg!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours ago
I have indeed been following the continuing story of Edward Snowden, who supposedly has fled America for his very life... And has very valuable information that could blow the entire criminal NSA organization in America to heck..... We have seen reports of his whereabouts in Russia, with revelations that Ecuador is willing to grant him asylum.... We also see the threats from the criminal Soetoro regime in Washington towards any nation willing to "harbor this fugitive"....There has even been speculation that the US has indeed been working hard on getting hit squads out to have Snowde... more »

I Hate ALEC and Everything It Stands For

2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours ago
I hate the American Legislative Exchange Council and everything it stands for. ALEC is the only organization in the history of our nation that has intentionally brought corporations into the legislative process. ALEC is the only organization in the history of our nation that has intentionally taken away the representative government of, for and by the people and and surreptitiously handed it over to the corporations.. ALEC legislators are the buffoons of our government. They suck up to ALEC corporate members that pay ALEC to ship them from their state to ALEC meetings. Then thes... more »

Getting Back To My Roots: Exposing The Fraud Of Project Apollo

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours ago
I have been tackling political and science issues for such a long time that I have not touched on the one subject that started me on the road to the truth... And that of course was finding out over 3 decades ago that Project Apollo and the United States putting a man on the moon was a fraud. It is a fact that once you do realize that NASA LIED their asses off and fooled the entire world with the fraud of Project Apollo, that you begin to see other aspects of our so called "history" in a completely different light... If they can lie about Project Apollo, then they can lie about E... more »

BIG HIT IN SWEDEN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 19 hours ago
We showed the film at Global Network conference today in Sweden...... It was a smashing hit....people were crying and they were clapping to the music at the end.....I handed out the DVD's strategically to key leaders in various Swedish cities, and from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Japan and Mexico.....people passed the hat to send money to the village but I insisted they keep the money towards sending someone to the village ASAP......they loved the music, the story, and the resistance.....many people sent congrats to Regis Tremblay....it's was a European opening night... more »

TV Watch: I'm going to try again, but I still won't be able to communicate the brilliance of Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
*JEREMY [Joshua Molina]*: Not fitting in is how qualified people lose jobs. *ISAAC [Robert Guillaume]*: Yeah, but a lot of the time it's how they end up working here. . . . It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people; and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. . . . You fit in on your own time. When you come to work for me, you show up to play. *-- from "The Hungry and the Hunted," Season 1, Episode 3, of Sports Night* *by Ken* As I wrote a few weeks ago, one of the things I star... more »

Predatory capitalists

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours ago
There's no real news this weekend so here's your long read. ProPublica posts an eye-opening piece, "The Expendables: How the temps who power corporate giants are getting crushed." In cities all across the country, workers stand on street corners, line up in alleys or wait in a neon-lit beauty salon for rickety vans to whisk them off to warehouses miles away. Some vans are so packed that to get to work, people must squat on milk crates, sit on the laps of passengers they do not know or sometimes lie on the floor, the other workers’ feet on top of them. This is not Mexico. It is not... more »

Talking 'bout our immigration

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours ago
Still pretty much offline for the last few days so I'm late to the immigration bill. Was mildly surprised to see the Senate pull it off with a 68-32 vote. Obama is urging the House to pass it by the August recess. Good luck with that. The new dynamic on Capitol Hill is Senate passes bills and they now go to Boehner's House of Dysfunction to die. The crackpot caucus isn't going to agree to do pass anything that doesn't piss off liberals and Boehner vows to uphold the Hastert rule for the bill. Last I heard they're going to try to write a new bill that can get the crackpots on board,... more »

A Conversation with Dr. Paul Tillich

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
*Wikipedia*: "Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian. Tillich is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century." "There was a tremendous amount of disappointment that the First World War didn't make the world happy or mature for democracy, as the slogan was. Then the years before the Second World War were full of anxiety about the Hitler situation, the Communist situation. Then the American younger generation went into the Second World War and came out ... more »

St Louis Police Chief wants Drones to patrol high crime areas - coming within a year ? Snowden got the drop on NSA / CIA - is that why he has been " dispatched " so far ? APD officially become Revenue Agents - tickets to fund their own pay raises moving forward ? CIA embedded with NYP - and how many other PDs overall ?

Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://www.infowars.com/st-louis-police-chief-wants-drones-to-patrol-high-crime-areas/ St. Louis Police Chief Wants Drones to Patrol High Crime Areas - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] UAVs would also track suspicious vehicles *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com June 27, 2013 St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has called for the city’s high crime areas to be patrolled by unmanned surveillance drones within a year, in addition to using the te... more »

Weekend Fun 45: Life is Like a Bikini, It is Brief

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours ago
I posted this joke in my fb wall last Friday... *Life is like a bikini, it is brief. Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is interesting but what they conceal is vital. * Lots of likes and funny remarks from many friends, except for one feminist who insisted that the underwear should refer always to both men and women. Maybe a case of gender militance or whatever. Many friends liking it, I simply added other jokes that I can remember. Below, nice and cool watermelon art. Bahasa Malaysia is the official language of Malaysia. Bahasa Pilipinas is what happens after heavy rains... more »

Rasp 13

risa bear at A Way to Live - 22 hours ago
Raspberries, I find, come on more suddenly than blackberries, and it pays to pick twice a day. I like to have both hands available for this sort of thing, so a nail apron full of repurposed yogurt containers fills the bill. For awhile there, I was just filling the containers, lidding them, labeling them with a Sharpie, "Rasp 13," and popping them in the freezer. But ran into a space problem, so started dumping loads into the slow cooker. There's a high of 91F or so all this week, so the cooker and the water-bath canner were carried out of doors, where they would not burden the ... more »

Some Random Thoughts About Doom

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 22 hours ago
June 29, 2013 Living things die. Non-living things erode or dissipate or quit working. It’s a fact of life, we say, that nothing lasts forever. I won’t. We won’t. The Empire we live in won’t. The earth we live on … Continue reading →

Time for some summer relaxation ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 23 hours ago
*Will see you all on Canada Day ... time for some Saskatchewan summer R & R ... *

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Guerrilla knitting on Walton Street, Oxford. [photo via]

Court And Spark

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
When I was 16 I hitchhiked from Brooklyn to Los Angeles so I could stow away on a ship to Tonga. In Brooklyn there had never been anything like the billboard campaigns along Route 66 in state after state in the middle of the country to impeach Earl Warren. Warren was a moderate Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by President Eisenhower, and Fred Koch, the money behind the virulently anti-American John Birch Society and the father of today's vile Koch brothers, made it his life's work to impeach Earl Warren (as well as Eisenhower and Kennedy). Fred Koch is the ... more »

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report for June 27 , 2013 - Data from June 26 , 2013 , news and views ...

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Gold Premiums Double In India As Demand Outstrips Supply [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/27/2013 09:17 -0400 - India - Reuters *Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,* WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. From *Reuters*: *MUMBAI (Reuters) – Gold premiums doubled in India on Wednesday as suppliers struggled to meet surging demand after a ban on consignment imports, but futures prices fell to their lowest in more than a month as international gold prices fell due to a strong dollar.* *India, the world’s b... more »

The next best thing in journalism

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

The New CEA Chair

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
Click here to read my column in Sunday's *NY Times*.

Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Peter Attia has dedicated his medical career to investigating the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. A surgeon who developed metabolic syndrome himself despite the fact that he ate well and exercised often, Attia realized that our understanding of these important health issues may not actually be correct. He devoted himself to using vigorous scientific inquiry to test both our assumptions and new hypotheses through the Nutrition Science Initiative, the nonprofit he co-founded in 2012. Attia also writes the blog Eating Academy, which charts his own adventures in... more »

NSA bugged EU Diplomats in DC , NY and Brussels .. UN bugged , internal computer networks in EU offices in DC and NY surveilled - documents and emails obtained from European officials as well ! European Union labeled as " Target " , which should really burn their britches ... Meanwhile fog around Snowden gets denser.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
As we wait to see what happens with Edward Snowden , more NSA revelation come forth..... GLENN GREENWALD: The NSA Can Store 'One Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Single Day' **DAVE URBANSKI, THE BLAZE JUN. 29, 2013, 4:25 PM 359 1 - - inShare5 - - - ** EMAIL - ** MORE [image: greenwald] Flickr/Gage Skidmore Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald hasn’t published the story yet, but he gave the Socialism Conference in Chicago a big taste of his next reveal: The National Security Agency can store one billion phone calls each day. Speaking to a raucous audience via Skype... more »

Snubbing Thugs and Banning Bloggers

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Even though what I am about to say is only indirectly related to the BBC, the presupposition is that the BBC is largely responsible for the politically correct constraints that stunt our thinking. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Melanie Phillips has written about Theresa May’s ill-advised decision to ban Geller and Spencer. It seems the government has caved in to pressure from the likes of Tony Lloyd and Nick Lowles, two of the most disreputable individuals ever to have influenced a Home Secretary. 'making your world secure' Melanie Phillips explains what a bad move ... more »

The Enbridge Tantrum, Oliver's Deceit

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
When it comes to the merits of the Northern Gateway pipeline, lawyers for the bitumen traffickers almost go apoplectic complaining about the lack of existing pipeline capacity. They come across like little children throwing tantrums. Question: if it's capacity they're worried about, why are they squandering 50% or more of what they already have? 30% of what they're transporting is condensate, light hydrocarbon (oil) that has to be mixed with bitumen so that, with enough heat and pressure, it will move through pipelines. They need condensate because bitumen is tarry sludge, he... more »

One Fund Boston - administered by Ken Feinberg , distributes 61 million to 232 victims of the Boston Marathon bombings..... Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted on thirty charges regarding Boston bombings

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
- Boston Marathon bombing Boston Marathon fund to share $61m among bombing victims One Fund Boston to give financial aid to 232 victims, including payments of $2.2m to the families of the four people killed - Share****21 - - - inShare1 - Email - Amanda Holpuch in New York - guardian.co.uk, Saturday 29 June 2013 11.58 EDT - Jump to comments (9) [image: People in Boston observe silcence] Thousands gather at the memorial on Boylston Street for a moment of silence a week after the bombing. Photograph: Nicolaus Czarnecki/Metro/Zuma/Corbis Nearly $61 ... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Presence of Higher Entities energy has engaged local Higher Grids…

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
* * * * *Presence of Higher Entities energy has engaged local Higher Grids…* by ÉirePort Presence of Higher Entities energy has engaged local Higher Grids and provides Illumination within communities at all levels. Remnants of non-Light-oriented beings and groups continue dissolution as Higher Entities presence is accompanied by lower frequency higher density dissolution organisms. Higher Entities presence at this time was called forth by raised consciousness levels achieve during preceding 11 day period. ÉirePort | June 29, 2013 at 15:43 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-mH

Bob Carter's academic job "not renewed"

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
*Climate alarmists' dirty hands were very likely behind the scenes* I met Bob Carter (and his wife) 2.5 years ago during a seminar he was delivering in Prague's Auto Moto Club, an event organized by the think tank (CEP) led by Václav Klaus, then the Czech president. This Australian scholar is a geologist but his talks about the climate are perfectionist, comprehensive, comprehensible, balanced, reasonable, and focused on the most important points that are overlooked by many others. He is always careful to see things in their proper context and to assign them the right importance. He... more »

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Tidal Wave is Coming!

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-tidal-wave-is-coming.html Saturday, 29 June 2013 *The Tidal Wave is coming! * Posted by D from Removing the Shackles Fasten your seat belts everyone, because the ride is about to get really REALLY fun! It's time to move forward and take the bull by the horns, put him in a head lock and give him a really funky hair cut. .... the "Bull" being the financial system and the banks. This is your official heads up, get your gear on, pull together the clans and organize your plan of action. Stoke up the fires in your hearts, and... more »

Is Saudi Arabia committing genocide against anti- regime protesters ? Which would be ironical as the Saudis are supporting protests and rebellion in Syria on the grounds of Assad committing genocide against anti-regime protesters / rebels ! While not covered by western media , Press TV and Middle Eastern outlets cover the story of Shiite protests in Saudia Eastern Province !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.eurasiareview.com/29062013-saudi-arabia-thousands-of-shia-minorities-protest-in-eastern-province/ http://www.albawaba.com/news/thousands-shia-minorities-protest-saudi-arabias-eastern-province-502736 Thousands of Shia minorities protest in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province Published June 28th, 2013 - 07:08 GMT via SyndiGate.info Rate Article: Select ratingPoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome Poor Okay Good Great Awesome [image: PRINT][image: Send Mail] comment (0) Share: Share on facebookFacebookShare on twitterTwitterShare on google_plusone_shareGoogle+Share on linkedinLinkedinShare on p... more »

Mt Gox has moved to register with FINCEN as a money services business - wonder if MtGox's two week limit on USD withdrawals was tied to Mt Gox complying with Treasury ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-registers-with-fincen-as-a-money-services-business/ Mt. Gox registers with FinCEN as a money services business Published On June 29, 2013 at 14:45 BST | By Emily Spaven | *Exchanges, Regulation* inShare1 [image: US cash] Mt. Gox, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has taken a step towards complying with US money-laundering regulations by registering as a money services business with the US Treasury Department. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, shows on their website that Mt. Gox’s registration as a money services ... more »

VIDEO Anonymous Message on PRISM and Edward Snowden

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Anonymous Message on PRISM and Edward Snowden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaT9UXg0U8E&feature=youtu.be

Right To Vote/Right To Marry: The Red States

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Barney Frank retired from Congress last year. Obama picked a series of crooked Wall Street operators for positions he should have tried filling with brilliant and proven tribunes of the public like Barney and Brad Miller (D-NC), who also resigned last year. I'm not certain what Brad is up to now but Barney has certainly not faded away. Having been for so many years the most noteworthy openly gay Member of Congress, media turned to him in droves for comments about the grudging and narrow Supreme Court ruling that struck down DOMA and kind of struck down California's hateful Prop 8... more »

We are a nation of immigrants

Kevin Wood at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son's.

GOP - Screw the Cities - Screw the People

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
I saw this tweet on one of my favorite tweet roll. Social media is so important – cause now we can share what is happening – or happened – across the states. Sometimes what looks new, has already been done by the GOP elsewhere. I thought I should show the world what happened in Minnesota – while we were under RepubliCON rule. What is happening in Wisconsin - was done to Minnesota by extremist RepubliCONS over the past 10 years. The Minnesota RepubliCONS “no new taxes” and let’s "protect the rich" policies of the MN RepubliCONS over the past decade – hit average Minnesotans in t... more »

Around The Horn With Some Topics: Snowden, Israel Ties To NSA Spying, Michael Hastings Assassination, 911, And Some History

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago
Some very credible people are calling the Edward Snowden/NSA leak an "inside job". One glaring flag raised that makes me agree, is that the mainstream media is covering it. Think about all the things the MSM doesn't cover: NDAA, 911, ANY evidence that contradicts an "official government story". And why isn't Snowden talking about *Israel's ties to NSA spying*? *NAOMI WOLF: My Creeping Concern that the NSA Leaker Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to be…* *GORDON DUFF: Veil of Lies, Snowden and Wikileaks* *Mossad: RSA Security & Ptech Run US Govt Computers* *The Israeli Crimina... more »

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
I suppose this isn't a tough one, isn't it? Whichever you want -- I'll just mention the VRA decision to kick it off, as one that mattered...I don't even want to guess at what didn't matter, but I'll be interested to see if there are arguments pro or con on the Texas abortion filibuster. So, what do you have? What do you think mattered this week?

Troika back in Athens , more / additional measures will be required to fill latest but not last funding gap ! OPAP under pressure from Emma Delta - another privatization failure looming ? And what should come as no surprise - deposits below 100 K are NOT safe , they still can be seized - which means they will be seized under next pretense.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_29/06/2013_506603 *Troika due back in Athens, with mixed agenda* As the government prepares for the return of envoys representing Greece’s troika of foreign lenders on Monday, a draft plan of the revised memorandum seen by Kathimerini indicates the potential need for new austerity measures if authorities fail to meet revenue targets and to plug a funding gap. According to the draft document, unspecified new measures may have to be taken if authorities fail to collect adequate revenue from outstanding debts to the state and fail ... more »

Racism Is Busting Out All Over

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
Paula Deen may finally be getting her just desserts over revelations of racism, but that doesn't mean other uber-wealthy bigots are getting theirs. To the contrary: the eighth wonder of the world richest billionaire in the Homeland, Michael Bloomberg, still reigns supreme one day after uttering these reptilian words on why he wants to continue New York City's infamous Stop and Frisk program aimed against minorities: One newspaper and one news service, they just keep saying, ‘Oh, it’s a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group.’ That may be. But it’s not a disproport... more »

What’s wrong with being a “badass?”

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Tomorrow at 6PM EST, we’re going to interview Mark Naison, someone who’s been with us in this fight for a long time now. He has recently gathered a group of people in an effort to organize the Bad Ass Teachers association on Facebook. In what, a week, there’s almost 20,000 members? The discussion is lively […]

POGGI ARRESTED AFTER NAMING TOP CLERGY 'INVOLVED IN CHILD ABUSE'.

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Poggi.* * * Don Patrizio Poggi, who accused priests in Rome of involvement in the sexual abuse of children, has been arrested by the police for slander. *Pedofilia: arrestato ex sacerdote Poggi per calunnia */ *Italian prosecutors reject claims of Roman clerical-pedophile ring* * * Poggi has named names. *Romanian street child* *Prostituzione gay in Vaticano. I nomi: dal vescovo di Tivoli* ... Translate this page *The transcript from the Italian TV channel La 7: * Young Romanians were recruited for pedophile priests. Romanian boys and girls were lured to participate in feasts wit... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Losers, Weepers'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
LOSERS, WEEPERS Posted on June 29, 2013 MNN. June 29, 2013. The mayors of four Montreal South Shore communities are blocking Quebec’s decision to give back a 300-acre plot of stolen land to the Mohawks of Kahnwake. It was taken to build Highway 30 on unceded territory. The mayors said “two wrongs don’t make a right”. Returning stolen property is just wrong! They have

Has the NSA collected gun data ? This would be in addition to collecting phone records - are book purchases , credit card purchases , medical records , financial records , pharmacy records or anything else that would be considered private matters ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
How The NSA Collects Your Internet Data In Four Charts [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/30/2013 03:37 -0400 - PrISM When it blew the lid open on the NSA domestic spying scandal in conjunction with the Guardian, the Washington Post released the first batch of slides revealing the preliminary details of which Internet firms cooperate in secret with the NSA, unleashing a firestorm of lies and denials by these same private companies (not to mention the administration), whose collaboration with the US government was subsequently revealed to be of symb... more »

A massive improvement over last year!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013* *Charles Blow outlines the case:* We wouldn’t want to be on the Zimmerman jury. That jury faces a hard decision about events which were poorly observed. The jurors know that considerable feeling surrounds the case. As part of that considerable feeling, many frameworks are being offered which may or may not make sense. We were struck by some of Charles Blow’s frameworks in this morning’s New York Times column. We thought quite a few of those frameworks made sense and were quite fair. Sometimes, we thought they maybe didn’t and weren’t. This is one of Blow... more »

Sunnanæfen Linkage

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Robert Lieber takes another swing at the declinism debate. Kyrgyzstan moves forward on evicting the US from Manas. US suspends Bangladesh’s trade privileges. China shifts policy on the Dali Lama. Also commits combat troops to Mali. David Schorr on nuclear zero. And also: Kindred W. takes on Dan Drezner’s critique of the foreign-policy commentariat. In case you missed Continue reading

Vote now!

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
The Steering Committee of the International Socialist Network has, in its wisdom, put the title of its future publication up to a vote. You can rank up to twenty three suggestions (some of them saner than others) in order of preference. I would have suggested One Foot in the Gulags, but without that option I went for Cactus first, then Here Comes Everybody, then Left Field, then Vendetta. There's also "Up Yours" which I will go with on the proviso we can also add "Alex Callinicos".

Global Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall [image: slide_2] *The following is Part 3 of the Global Power Project, originally published at Occupy.com* *The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 2, which appeared last week, I discussed some of the dominant institutions that have facilitated and have in turn been supported by the development of this oligarchic class. In this third part, I examine the dynastic influence wielded by prominent cor... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*YES WE HAVE A WINNAH!* *~Editilla Crowtellas~ Aaaaah neva'win anything bwahahahahaha! ~Special thanks yous to'da seller who gave all the proceeds to Team Gleason!* *The Sean Payton Effect ~Ryan Edwards, Canal Street Chronicles* *Orleans Parish School Board president slams superintendent, calls for ouster ~Andrew Vanacor, Advocate New Orleans bureau* *One area along Louisiana's coast comes back from the dead ~WVUE* *Citrus Cancor found on plants at City Park ~WDSU* *New Orleans Dance Festival takes over Tulane*

Bill Gross " How to Escape a Sinking Ship " and Doug Noland's Friday Essay " Uninsurable Risks "

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Bill Gross Explains How To Escape A Sinking Ship [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/29/2013 10:39 -0400 - Ben Bernanke - Bill Gross - Bond - Central Banks - China - Equity Markets - High Yield - Housing Prices - Monetization - PIMCO - Quantitative Easing - Reality - St Louis Fed - Total Return Fund - Unemployment - Volatility It is unclear if the florid analogy in Bill Gross' latest monthly letter, namely a "sinking ship" or at least a seaborne vessel on the verge of being one, is ... more »

Agenda 21: A Baby Boomer Rant

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Samm Simpson I don’t watch TV because of lying charlatans. And ads telling people what pill to ask for while detailing those deadly side effects from that medicine you’re supposed to ask for. TV is a multi-tasking wonder: babysitter, entertainment, propaganda information control center. Today’s digital and aural implants maneuver their magic as brain washer, social engineer and in-home beast. I stopped watching TV after George Clooney left *ER*. Does that mean I’m out of touch? Glad my Toyota still runs. Getting the oil changed every 3000 miles helped. My odometer has clo... more »

Snowden: Shooting the Messenger

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Stephen Lendman A previous article said challenging US lawlessness more than ever matters. Big Brother spying reflects it. Unprecedented global surveillance is official US policy. Everyone can be monitored all the time, everywhere, for any reason or none at all. National security threats are fabricated. America's only enemies are ones it creates. The ACLU said "(i)t's time to get angry. (It's) "Time to Rein in the Surveillance State." Stop lawless US spying. Mega-data-mining's unconstitutional. "This unprecedented surveillance strikes at the core of our right to free speech, a... more »

Designer Babies One Step Closer Thanks To UK Ruling

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Chris Carrington A ruling today brings the prospects of ‘designer babies’ a step closer to reality. The UK has approved three person IVF (in vitro fertilization) which experts say could remove the chance of fatal diseases passing down the mitochondrial DNA strand from the female line. Defective mitochondrial DNA affects one in 6500 babies. Opponents adamant that the procedure is unethical arguing that there are other methods available to women affected by mitochondrial disorders. Earlier this year, a public consultation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) ... more »

Med Mob Has Groomed 70 Percent of Americans on Prescription Drugs

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
*Dees Art* Heather Callaghan Have you ever had a family member come home with a drug sample? Kind of like those Wal-Mart product samples you can get in the mail except it's handed to you in good faith by an authority. Prescription medicines are the first go-to solution of doctors for almost any type of ailment. Recently, Mayo Clinic research found that 70% or 7 out of 10 people in the U.S. are on prescription drugs. Twenty percent are on five or more prescriptions. Shocking as that may seem, it isn't really when one considers that some of those prescriptions were most likely giv... more »

Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 26 , 2013 - another huge smash down for the Precious metals - gold , silver and platinum get tommy hammered again ... note gold standing for June at Comex has risen despite the raids , JP Morgan still has not supplied the gold for the unfilled May and June contracts , GLD inventory flat despite today's massive manipulations . What will the Cartel try thursday and Friday to shake out longs ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/06/massive-raid-on-goldsilver-todayamount.html Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Massive raid on gold/silver today/Amount standing for gold at comex rises to 30.46 tonnes/GLD and SLV inventories remain constant/Italy reveals massive fraud on the public with hidden derivatives/Gold coming close to marginal cost/Mining sector in South Africa in disarray/ Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Gold closed down by $45.20 to $1229.60 (comex closing time ). Silver fell by 94 cents to $18.59 (comex closing time) In the access market at 5:00 pm, gold and silver fin... more »

Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
I'm seriously just too busy to post anything else.

Surveying the sectarian divide in the Islamiac world - the view from Egypt , Iraq and Syria where the US backed extremist tend to be Sunni .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Egypt...... Eight Egyptian MPs resign in support of anti-Morsi protesters Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:58PM GMT 1 7 29 At least eight Egyptian lawmakers have tendered their resignation in a bid to declare their support for opponents of President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt braces for day of rival protests Pro- and anti- President Morsi camps prepare for Sunday rallies as opposition activists call for second revolution. Last Modified: 29 Jun 2013 16:50 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Mor... more »

Agenda 21: The Steady-State Illusion

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
*Energy is the all-pervasive underlying currency of our society*. -- (Senator Mark Hatfield, 1974) Julie Beal Plans are afoot to control population growth, the production and consumption of goods, and the very air we breathe. Faithfully following the blueprint of Agenda 21, the United Nations is now ‘considering’ the transition to a steady-state economy – a system of central planning which has been gaining headway since the release of the Club of Rome’s *Limits to Growth*, more than forty years ago. Requiring technocratic global governance, the steady-state economy, … aims for ... more »

Bipartisanship... The Good Kind

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Yesterday we talked about how cowardly New Dem freshmen Patrick Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema, who Boehner and Cantor know they can count on to almost always betray progressive Democratic ideals and vote with the GOP in a way that allows them to claim their toxic agenda is "bipartisan," have a phony-baloney bipartisan caucus that helps round up naive Democratic freshman to vote with the GOP. That isn't bipartisan-- that's self-loathing surrender-monkey opportunism. And Murphy and Sinema are probably the two worst mistakes of 2012. This week Alan Grayson (D-FL) showed the way real bipa... more »

U.S. Army restricting access to the Guardian across all of their networks over security concerns

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
image credit: US Army Africa/Flickr Madison Ruppert The U.S. Army has admitted to restricting access to the Guardian, the site that has reported extensively on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs as of late, over “operational security” concerns. Interestingly, the Army has a habit of blocking websites for reasons which are at times strange, including the official website for the Southern Baptist Convention, a Christian denomination with almost 16 million members. The Army removed the block after public outcry; but during the time it was blocked, the user attemptin... more »

Saturday Linkfest

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
[image: IMG_1350] *Weeding the sidewalk garden...* Too busy to blog today, so let's catch up on some links: - China and Taiwan: Steady as She Goes China, Taiwan and the US appear to be relatively comfortable with the current state of cross-strait relations. But that shouldn’t lead us into a false sense of security, warns Roderick Wye. Beijing still remains determined to unite Taiwan with the Chinese mainland. - Not often you see good stuff like this in the media: Taiwan on Edge as China grows closer As China's economy has slowed so too has Taiwan's,... more »

Washington Is Driving The World To The Final War

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Anthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts *V For Vendetta*, a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has super powers. If you have not seen this film, you should watch it. It might wake you up and give you courage. The excerpts below show that, at least among some filmmakers, the desire for liberty still exists. Whether the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen. If Americans can overcome their gullibility, their lifelong brainwashing, the... more »

What Do We Tell Our Children?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Dave Hodges When I became a parent, I mistakenly thought that I would raise my son just like my parents raised me. My parents instilled in me a fundamental respect for authority, how to honor the great traditions of our country and how to work hard to get what I wanted out of life. I grew up loving the ideals of our country, the freedom and the opportunity. As a result, I have lived a good and prosperous life. I give thanks to my parents and to God everyday for my good fortune. However, I have learned that I was not fully prepared to be a parent because I do not know how to teach... more »

Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Records Of Your Credit Card Transactions

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Michael Snyder Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private? If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble. As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions. And in turn, those government agencies share that information with other government agencies that want it. So if you are making a purchase that you don't want anyone to know about, don't use a credit card. This is one of the reasons why the government hates cash so much. It is just so hard to track. In ... more »

A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination Agenda: The Rise of Herpes Zoster (Shingles)

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Sayer Ji A new systematic review published in *PLoS* titled, "Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review," confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulted in a decline in chickenpox cases associated with infection from the wild-circulating virus, has led to a concerning increase in the incidence of herpes zoster (shingles), a far more serious expression of chickenpox virus (varicella zoster) infection. This new review brings to the forefront a few critically impo... more »

Jurors Still Angry About Hershberger Trial; Food Club Gets 100 New Members

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Unlikely friends? Vernon, wife, jurors Heather Callaghan If you've been paying attention to the details of Vernon Hershberger's trial, the bigger picture is completely insane. The final result was a less punitive fine of $1,000 and $513 in court costs that a supporter covered on Vernon's sentencing day. He was found not guilty on three criminal charges relating to lack of licensing to distribute fresh foods, and guilty on the last count of breaking a food holding order. The jury members, however, are feeling jilted. Listen to their own words: Hat's off to author David Gumpert ... more »
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