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Lentil Soup- Cold Weather Food
Have you entered the mother's bracelet giveaway yet?
Lentil soup is straight out of my childhood. As a child, I would groan
when my mom said Lentil Soup was for dinner, but it grew on me and I like
it as an adult.
You will need:
bacon, my mom always used 3 or 4 slices, I say you can't ever have enough
bacon
1 medium onion, sliced
1 large carrot, peeled and sliced
1 large celery stalk, sliced
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
4 c. water
2 c. dried lentils
1 chicken bouillon cube
2 TBS, parsley, snipped
1 TBS salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp thyme
1 bay leaf
1 can crushed tomatoes
1 cup of wa... more »
Amazon - Author Central - Mike Philbin books/profile
Amazon have just updated my Author Central page, ensuring that readers have
a centralised place to get all the latest novels, collections and news
about forthcoming titles.
MIKE PHILBIN'S AUTHOR CENTRAL PAGE.
Readings
Running around like the chicken with the head cut off these days.
Here's what I'm reading on the GO Bus and the subway:
*The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China* by
Jay Taylor. It's fairly recent (2009) and makes use of a lot of recently
released archival material to construct a sympathetic portrait of China's
KMT leader during the mid-20th Century. It encompasses his entire life, so
there'll be a lot of stuff about Taiwan which will be brand new to me.
Chiang Kai-shek is generally not well treated by history. He was seen as a
ruthless, colourless autocr... more »
Some Conservatives Voice Petraeus Conspiracy Theories
It's the soap opera that shocked official Washington and ensnared a
previously squeaky clean CIA director at a time when he was supposed to
play a role in the accounting for a possible security misstep in Libya.
We don't know all the facts of why the FBI started investigating David
Petraeus' biographer and how it ultimately led to his resignation.
But a growing number of conservative commentators contend that the
resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus is more than simple
amends made for a personal wrong.
http://news.yahoo.com/start-voice-petraeus-affair-conspiracy-theory-... more »
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 15:47:08 UTC
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 03:47:08 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
25.903°S, 178.294°E
Depth
635.1 km (394.7 miles)
Region
SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
Distances
529 km (328 miles) NW of Raoul Island, New Zealand
Sally Bercow First To Get McAlpine Lawyer's Letter
Sally Bercow will be the first person to receive a letter from Lord
McAlpine's legal team after he was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse
scandal, Sky sources have revealed.
The Tory was wrongly accused because of a botched Newsnight investigation
and is poised to reach a settlement with the BBC.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011737/mcalpine-bercow-first-to-get-lawyers-letter
Spain suspends home evictions for most needy
Spain approved measures on Thursday to help the most needy families facing
eviction, a growing problem in the recession-bound nation highlighted last
week by the suicide of a woman whose home bailiffs came to seize.
The government said it would suspend evictions for two years for vulnerable
homeowners who can no longer pay back debt, including those with small
children, the disabled and long-term unemployed.
"This is an emergency response to mitigate the effects of the worst of the
economic crisis," Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said at
a weekly press conference.
... more »
War looms in chaotic Gaza
A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday,
drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to
15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of
the enclave.
On the second day of an assault Israel said might last many days and
culminate in a ground attack, its warplanes bombed targets in and around
Gaza city, where tall buildings trembled.
Plumes of smoke and dust furled into a sky laced with the vapor trails of
outgoing rockets.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-palestinians-israel-hamas-idUS... more »
SC12 Day 4
Southern Man will not bore you with SC12 conference details today, as it
was mostly more of the same. Instead he will (first) take you on a journey
into the geeky past.
Southern Lad discovered *Star Trek* in Jr. High School, when the series was
first in reruns. He'd actually seen one episode in first run - *This Side
Of Paradise* - a few years earlier. And he was completely taken by this
marvelous and imaginitive show. To the point that he would set up his
cassette-tape recorder and audio-tape the episodes (the long-suffering
Southern Mother would start the tape for him, as the bus... more »
IN RE AMBASSADOR RICE: CNN keeps script alive!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012*
*The disgrace of Anderson Cooper:* Who the heck is Susan Rice, “this girl”
we’re considering for secretary of state?
To get a rough idea, we will recommend this report by her most
authoritative biographer. Meanwhile, let’s offer two more examples of the
low-IQ garbage which went on the air last night.
Let’s skip the comments of John McCain, one of the dumbest, angriest people
in recorded history. Speaking with the equally hapless Anderson Cooper,
McCain helped us see why he famously graduated 894th out of 899 in his
Annapolis class.
Let’s skip this a... more »
Rogers (GA-ALEC) Right-Wing Whacko Crazy Person
*THIS*
*Is what the leadership of the American Legislative Exchange Council looks
like – whacko right-wing extremist crazies.*
Georgia‘s top lawmaker, Republican Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers,
believes President Obama is using a Soviet-era mind control program on
America to force the UN’s Communist agenda of killing small towns, moving
Americans into big cities. And before you laugh or enter into some other
state of non-belief, thinking no lawmaker is this ridiculous, know that
there’s video of this.
And before you make some assumption about old white Republican men, you
sho... more »
atardecer en la playa-beach
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Food Banks – November 2012
With
Thanksgiving fast approaching, this is a good time for those with the
means to donate to their local food banks, or for those in need to get
assistance. In my area, the Los Angeles food banks make a little go a
long way. (A few years back, I started making an annual donation about
this time of year.) The Feeding America site has a useful national food
bank locator. Best wishes to all
Ineffective assistance of counsel
*R. v. W.E.B* deals with a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The
Court summarizes the test:
To succeed on his ineffective assistance claim, the appellant must
discharge his onus to establish: (1) the facts that underpin his claim; (2)
the representation provided by his trial counsel was incompetent; and (3)
his counsel’s incompetent representation resulted in a miscarriage of
justice: *R. v. Joanisse* (1995), 102 C.C.C. (3d) 35 (C.A.); leave to
appeal to S.C.C. refused, [1996] S.C.C.A. No. 347; *R. v. T.* (L.C.) 2012
ONCA 116. Incompetence is determined by a reasonableness... more »
No Criminal Charges Despite Criminal Misdeeds
Why aren't the Wall Street banksters being charged criminally for the fraud
and deception at the heart of the financial crisis. Two prominent
economists have asserted publicly that criminal action was involved in the
crisis:
Kenneth Galbraith on Financial Industry Criminality and Economists' Lapses
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/Flyers/GalbraithMay4SubCommCrimeRV.pdf
William Black on Financial Criminality: http://
www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/the-two-documents-everyon_b_169813.html
Here is what Kenneth Galbraith had to say about criminal behaviors in the
crisis:
[Excerpte... more »
In a Dark Time....
Photo by John Carroll*
**In a dark time, the eye begins to see.* — Theodore Roethke
More doubt about human security improvement
Morning! Check out Reed Wood‘s post at Political Violence @ a Glance on
the lack of improvement in core physical integrity rights over time. It’s
not just the Political Terror Scale, either – the Physical Integrity Index
from Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset shows the same
lack of improvement over time.
IN RE AMBASSADOR RICE: Direct from the bottom of the barrel!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012*
*Jake Tapper goes slumming with Imus:* Ever since he got fired from MSNBC,
Don Imus has worked under radar.
That doesn’t mean that he’s not on the air! Yesterday morning, before the
press conference, he was ruminating about “this girl,” Susan Rice:
IMUS (11/14/12): And then on another note— Of course there's nothing you
can do about it, but are you telling me that Susan Rice, this is a woman
who went out there and lied about the Benghazi thing, knew she was lying,
trying to tell us it was all about this video. *We're talking about this
girl being secre... more »
Incorrigible Romney
Last week, Garry Wills -- who has made a career of evaluating America's
presidents and would be presidents -- asked in the *New York Review of
Books*:
What lessons will Romney have to teach his party? The art of crawling
uselessly? How to contemn 47 percent of Americans less privileged and
beautiful than his family? How to repudiate the past while damaging the
future? It is said that he will write a book. Really? Does he want to
relive a five-year-long experience of degradation? What can be worse than
to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it?
His... more »
IN RE AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE: Check out the geniuses at the NewsHour!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012*
*The best Kwame Holman can do:* As everyone knows, PBS’ wonderful NewsHour
is our smartest TV news program.
Last evening, this was the best Kwame Holman could do while reporting on
Susan Rice. Please note the highlighted statement:
HOLMAN (11/14/12): Also on reporters’ agenda today, harsh criticism of U.N.
Ambassador Susan Rice by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John
McCain. *They strongly criticized her for saying the attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had been a spontaneous outburst of Muslim
anger, when officials already knew it... more »
The takers
By Capt. Fogg
You'd think George W. Bush was never born or had never been president,
since you never hear from him or about him and are often accused of some
kind of dementia if you mention his legacy. To be sure, I'm grateful that
he's keeping quiet and hasn't spent years making dire predictions of doom
and accusations of treason like other parts of the still twitching corpse
of his administration -- none of which have come to pass, by the way.
Perhaps his quiet reclusiveness has to do with the GOP plan to redact him
from the record so that they can't be accused of wrecking the co... more »
IN RE AMBASSADOR RICE: Weigel gets it right!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012*
*What makes this so hard:* Granted, he was late to the scene of the crime.
But yesterday, Slate’s Dave Weigel somehow managed to make accurate
statements about Ambassador Rice. What makes this so hard?
Let’s examine what Weigel managed to do:
First, he quoted a claim by Marco Rubio. After that, he correctly said that
Rubio’s claim is inaccurate:
WEIGEL (11/14/12): "We have a process for nominations, and we want to give
her a full hearing," said Sen. Marco Rubio yesterday when asked about Rice.
*"I'm concerned with the fact she went on Sunday shows an... more »
Roger Pielke Sr. Retires His Blog
Congrats to my dad, who has retired from blogging after more than 7 years.
I expect we'll see him comment here and elsewhere as the occasion arises.
I know that his steady efforts to discuss science and challenge claims have
been widely appreciated. Please feel free to offer any comments for him
here!
Little Change in Drought Over 60 Years
A new paper out in the current issue of Nature finds little evidence to
support claims that drought has increased globally over the past 60 years.
The authors write:
Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as
a result of climate change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in
regional precipitation but also because of increasing evaporation driven by
global warming1–3. Previous assessments of historic changes in drought over
the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries indicate that this may
already be happening globally. In particular, calcu... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Graham Parker, 62.
Just a bit of the good stuff:
1. Jonathan Chait, writing about change in the electorate while trying not
to annoy anyone about "realignment."
2. Seth Masket gets all angry with Nancy Pelosi just because she sort of
forget the rest of the world existed.
3. I didn't get around to reading Ezra Klein's ode to the Obama era until
now, but it's very much worth checking out.
Am I entitled to a Lunch Break? Coffee Breaks?
Under the Ontario *Employment Standards Act* (ESA) employers are required
to provide eating periods to employees. An employee must not work for more
than five hours in a row without getting a 30-minute eating period free
from work. However, if the employer and the employee agree, the eating
period can be split into two eating periods within every five consecutive
hours. The two eating periods must total at least 30 minutes. This
agreement can be verbal or in writing.
Eating periods are unpaid unless the employee's employment contract
requires payment. Whether the eating period is p... more »
Grassroots: After GMO Labeling Prop Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Themselves by Anthony Gucciardi
*HOW
TO CREATE YOUR OWN LABELS*
1. *Download image template here*
2. Print out labels on 1.5″ x 1.5″ print-to-the-edge square label
sheets.If
you want bigger labels see above for 2′x2′ label template .(you can find
label sheets at any office supply store)
*3. GMO- identification guidelines can be downloaded here or viewed
here.*Please read before labeling, to make sure you know what to
label. Guidelines can be printed on the back of the label sheet for
reference.
5. Go to your local super market, and look for products that may contain
GMOs
6. LABEL THEM YOURSELF!Grassroots: After GMO... more »
Two BP Workers Facing Manslaughter Charges: AP
Two BP employees are facing manslaughter charges over the 2010 oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico, according to sources speaking to the AP news agency.
The British oil giant BP is also said to have agreed to pay a criminal
penalty amounting to billions of dollars over the Deepwater Horizon
disaster which killed 11 people and set off a spill which continued for 87
days, fouling large areas of the southern coast of the US.
The AP source said BP will plead guilty to obstruction for lying to
Congress about how much oil was pouring out of the ruptured well.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011759... more »
U.S. senators vow to block Susan Rice promotion over Benghazi
Senior Republican senators vowed on Wednesday to block any future promotion
of Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, over her handling
of the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
"We will do whatever's necessary to block the nomination that's within our
power as far as Susan Rice is concerned," said Senator John McCain. Fellow
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported that stance at the same news
conference.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/14/us-usa-benghazi-senators-idUSBRE8AD17420121114
Protests flare in Mozambique over bus fare hikes
Protesters burned tires and barricaded roads in Mozambique's capital on
Thursday in retaliation to a government plan to hike bus fares in one of
the world's poorest countries.
Police encircled Maputo's poorest suburbs, where demonstrating commuters
blocked intersections with burning tires.
All bus services were cancelled. It was not immediately clear if there had
been any arrest or injuries.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-mozambique-protests-idUSBRE8AE0SM20121115
Jobless claims surge in wake of superstorm Sandy......Where is that prat now..who said it would create jobs?
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits surged last
week to a 1 1/2-year high, a sign superstorm Sandy had dented the economy
by leaving tens of thousands of people out of work.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 78,000 to a seasonally
adjusted 439,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was well
above the median forecast in a Reuters poll of 375,000.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-usa-economy-idUSBRE8AD11I20121115
Fiscal Cliff/Grand Bargain... Americans Are Wary Of Our Corrupted Political Elites
The now completely discredited Gallup poll-- which consistently botched the
election predictions this cycle-- is out with another survey: Americans
Urge Congress, the President to Avoid Fiscal Cliff: Most Americans want
both sides to compromise. Maybe it was the inherently deceptive and
ominously threatening way Gallup asked the question about the ginned up
"fiscal cliff," but their survey comes to slightly different conclusions
than less biased, less hyperbolic, more accurate polls.
Pew's poll was far more useful and looking at the problem instead of the
fantasy. First of all, mo... more »
IN RE AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE: Brian Williams has a lot of explaining to do!
*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012*
*Chuck Todd should be off the air:* You can’t say we didn’t tell you!
Yesterday afternoon, we told you what Rachel Maddow would do, now that
President Obama had stoutly defended Susan Rice.
This would free our team’s biggest faker to speak, we incomparably told
you. And sure enough! Four hours later, the whole world saw we were right!
After two months of ducking and dodging—two months in which The One True
Channel left Rice twisting in the wind—Maddow and her horrible stablemates
suddenly leaped to Rice’s defense.
Now that Obama had spoken, they were... more »
Paraquat, Herbicides may Increase Parkinson’s Risk Threefold by Lisa Garber
Paraquat, Herbicides may Increase Parkinson’s Risk Threefoldby Lisa Garber
Natural Society, 14 November 2012
Evidence is piling up that Parkinson’s is just one of many favors
herbicides are doling out to the American public A study investigating
about 110 participants in central California found that individuals worked
with or lived in areas with paraquat and who had a head injury were three
times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease.
Paraquat is known to be deadly to animals and humans, and is used as an
alternative where other herbicides like glyphosate, an ingredient in... more »
War looms after Hamas rocket kills three Israelis
A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday,
drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to
13 and a military showdown lurched closer to all-out war with an invasion
of the enclave.
Israeli warplanes bombed targets in and around Gaza city, where tall
buildings trembled. Plumes of smoke and dust furled into a sky laced with
the vapor trails of outgoing rockets.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-palestinians-israel-hamas-idUSBRE8AD0WP20121115
Future of food pix with the Msatan
At Food Democracy Now! we are asking all California voters to stand up to
Monsanto and vote YES on Prop 37 tomorrow. It is time for transparency!
Prop 37 is simple and straightforward ballot measure, it requires food
producers to add GMO i...
nformation to labels by 2014- get the facts: http://www.carighttoknow.org/
Let's make the future of our food an informed sustainable healthy system
not a forced hidden agenda by Monsanto carried out by confused US
consumers. Share this post to show your support for Prop 37!
Next Media Mess
Last month the big deal went through: publisher Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong
decided to sell off his NextMedia's print and television operations in
Taiwan. The buyer at that time was Jeffrey Koo, Jr. The sale was widely
seen as a blow to media independence in Taiwan, since Next Media does a
great job throwing light in dark places, and Apple Daily, despite its front
pages splashed with sex and gore, did manage to establish itself as a
relatively non-partisan news source.
New wrinkle emerged this week: the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC)
is balking at the sale to Jeffrey Koo, Jr. T... more »
State Funds Mess...
Fund mess: KMT-DPP wrangling is ongoing...
The Presidential Office yesterday declined former Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP) chairperson Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) call for the president to hold
a national affairs conference to discuss problems related to the various
pension programs, saying that pension issues are being taken care of by the
executive and legislative branches.
The Council of Labor Affairs has been taking heat over the management of
NT$ 2 trillion in funds. For example:
After news surfaced that the labor funds would go bankrupt within the next
decade, additional inform... more »
Untitled
*Darren Sproles returns to New Orleans Saints practice*
U.S. to China: Let's talk nukes
China is modernizing its military at a "remarkable rate," including its own
nuclear weapons capability, says a congressionally mandated panel exploring
the relationship between the United States and China.
In its annual report to Congress, the U.S.-China Economic and Security
Review Commission said China has spent the past two decades improving and
advancing its military nuclear posture and could have a "triad" of land,
sea and air delivery systems "within the next two years."
China's People's Liberation Army "reportedly tested a variety of new
nuclear ballistic systems in 2012, inc... more »
Israel targets 100 sites in Gaza; U.N. calls for 'maximum restraint'
Israel continued a blistering assault early Thursday against Gaza,
targeting what it described as 100 terror sites in response to ongoing
rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, a move that has raised fears of a
widening conflict that could lead to an Israeli ground assault.
The countering Israeli and Palestinian attacks prompted the U.N. Security
Council to call an emergency closed door session late Wednesday in an
attempt to de-escalate the crisis. International diplomats hope to stave
off a repeat of Israel's widely condemned 2008 assault that saw its forces
go into Gaza after a... more »
Untitled
*BP expected to plead guilty to criminal misconduct, pay record penalty *
*Study: Income inequality wider in Mississippi*
*Bayou Corne Residents asked to OK monitoring*
*Levee sales tax prompts debate*
*New York Senators Seek Aid for Flood Defenses*
*Zulu legal challenge could 'cripple' the club*
*Trumpet auction to benefit ‘Satchmo’ music fest *
*Didn’t He Ramble: Remembering Bob French *
*Today in New Orleans ~NOLA DEFENDER*
Distractions Are Us, Progress Tells Us So!
A friend posted this article from the Nov. 1, NYT to his Facebook page the
other day: "Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say."
I'll note that "a version" of this was published as "For Better and for
Worse, Technology Use Alters Learning Styles, Teachers Say" in the print
edition. You decide if the web gurus who apply an "SEO" praxis to
headlines worked some sticky magic.
Of course, both headlines are full of ambiguities and assumptions. Just
look at the assumption that must be made to presume the reader knows what
is being "meant" by the word "technology."
I t... more »
France Raises Issue of Arming Syrian Rebels
France says it will bring up excluding defensive weapons from the current
arms embargo on Syria in order to help rebels fighting against the
government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in an interview Thursday his
country would work toward a coordinated plan for Syria with its European
allies.
"For the moment, there is an embargo, so there are no arms being from the
European side," he said. "The issue can be raised, it will no doubt be
raised for defensive arms. And this is something that we can only do in
coordination with the Europe... more »
EU-Egypt Task Force: EU pledges €5 billion in loans and grants to Egypt for 2012-2013
The EU-Egypt Task Force, the largest-ever meeting between the European
Union and Egypt, yesterday agreed a major package of economic and political
assistance to help Egypt with its ongoing transition, with the EU
undertaking to provide nearly €5 billion in the form of loans and grants
for 2012-2013.
The Task Force, co-chaired by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and
Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamel Amr, confirmed the EU as Egypt's largest
economic partner. "A new era in the relationship between the EU and the new
Egypt has started," the co-chairs' conclusions of the meeting sai... more »
IDF Drops Warning Leaflets Over Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip
The Arabic leaflet reads: "Important announcement for the residents of the
Gaza Strip: For your own safety, take responsibility for yourselves and
avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives and facilities and
those of other terror organizations that pose a risk to your safety.
Beeswax Filling Found in Neolithic Tooth
Microphotograph of the tooth crown in occlusal view with indication of the
surface covered by beeswax within the dotted line. (Bernardini F, Tuniz C,
Coppa A, Mancini L, Dreossi D, et al. (2012) Beeswax as Dental Filling on a
Neolithic Human Tooth. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44904.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044904)
Evidence that stone-age dentists were at work nearly seven millennia ago
has been discovered in Eastern Europe.
A team of mostly Italian researchers have been studying a human jawbone,
found in Slovenia near the Italian border, that contains a cracked canine
with a beeswax filling... more »
Full Employment Not Expected Until After the Next Presidential Election
After parsing the unemployment report that was issued by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday, November 2nd, two scholars at the
Heritage Foundation, Rea Hederman and James Sherk, concluded that at the
present jobs growth rate it could take another five years for a full jobs
recovery to occur from the Great Recession. That would place the recovery
after the next presidential election in 2016, and nearly ten years after
the start of the recession in December 2007.
Noting that 125,000 new jobs must be created every month just to keep up
with population growth, they turned to... more »
The Muslim Brotherhood calls for protests against Israeli action
The Muslim Brotherhood is calling for Friday protests against the most
recent assaults by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip. They are calling for
all Egyptians to join them “in announcing their wrath and condemnation of
the Israeli attacks.”
Israel has responded to rocket fire this week with bombings that left seven
dead. Egypt assisted the two sides reach a tenuous truce, but there is
still fear of escalation in the Gazan fighting.
http://dailynewsegypt.com/2012/11/14/brotherhood-calls-for-protests-against-israeli-action/
Ever wondered how Google Search's autocomplete works?
"Princess Leia Metal Bikini"
Interesting, huh?!
Earthing: A New Way to Connect With The Earth
Many people have found that they sleep better, have more energy, and
experience pain relief by connecting with the Earth. It’s called earthing
and occurs naturally when we walk barefoot on the earth. Photo courtesy:
Mario Tama/Getty Images
What could help Tour de France riders sleep soundly, heal road rash and
tendinitis, and feel vitality and high morale during the grueling days of
the race? The secret is the special sleeping bag — an “earthing” bag. The
discovery of how to use the Earth’s energy for healing can benefit everyone
just as the energy has benefited those who go barefo... more »
Portugal: ''Lowering deficit will take “decades”
Finance Minister Vítor Gaspar acknowledged in Lisbon on Tuesday (November
6) that it will take “decades” for the country to fully reduce its public
deficit and ensure a “prudent budgetary position”.
The minister also revealed, at a hearing before the parliamentary committee
of troika’s budgetary assistance programme, that the IMF and the World Bank
were close to concluding an evaluation of further spending cuts.
http://www.algarveresident.com/0-49719/algarve/lowering-deficit-will-take-decades
Five police arrested for 'persuading criminals to confess to crimes they did not commit'....To Boost their Crime Ratings
The officers, four men and a woman, were questioned over claims they
dishonestly manipulated suspects to boost their crime detection figures.
They were held by anti-corruption colleagues at their desks in Maidstone,
Kent, after a whistle-blower raised the alarm.
The allegations centre on the controversial practise of criminals admitting
to other crimes known as TICs, or 'taken into consideration', when they are
sentenced.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233187/Five-police-arrested-persuading-criminals-confess-crimes-did-commit.html
5.6 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
5.6
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 11:22:22 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 01:22:22 AM at epicenter
Location
52.485°N, 173.354°E
Depth
30 km (18.6 miles)
Region
NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
Distances
42 km (26 miles) SSE (164°) from Attu Station, AK
...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT...
EVALUATION
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* AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED - A TSUNAMI IS *NOT* EXPECTED.
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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* MAGNITUDE 5.6
* ORIGIN TIME 0222 AKST NOV 15 2012
0322 PST NOV 15 2012
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4.8 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude M 4.8
Region NEAR EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA
Date time 2012-11-15 11:20:34.9 UTC
Location 53.10 N ; 160.50 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 124 km E Petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy, Russia
BBC Palestine journalist cradles dead baby son after Israeli rocket attack on Gaza
Gently cradling the tiny body of his young son to his chest, Jihad
Masharawi's devastation is heartbreaking as tears stream down his face.
The BBC Arabic picture editor's 11-month-old son Omar was injured in Gaza
by an Israeli airstrike yesterday and despite being rushed to a local
hopsital, he was pronounced dead.
Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Gaza Strip as Israel
targeted the Islamic militants - the attack resulted in the death of eleven
Palestinians including young Omar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233248/BBC-picture-editors-11-month-old-so... more »
Violent clashes as austerity protests grip EU cities
Clashes in Lisbon left nearly 50 people hurt while in Spain at least 70
were injured and some 140 arrests were made.
Wednesday's action was co-ordinated by the European Trade Union
Confederation. One of its officials, Judith Kirton-Darling, told the BBC
that austerity was not working.
"It's increasing inequalities, it's increasing the social instability in
society and it's not resolving the economic crisis," she said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20320993
Belize PM to McAfee: 'come forward man'
Prime Minister Dean Barrow urged anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee,
wanted for questioning in the murder of a neighbor, to turn himself in to
Belizean authorities.
McAfee, 67, told CNBC television Tuesday that he was moving every four
hours to avoid police who want to question him about the murder of fellow
American Gregory Faull, a Florida native who was found dead at his home in
a pool of blood.
"Mr McAfee is a person of interest," Barrow said in a phone interview
broadcast on national radio and television.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iUv5V30A7zQPf1lF... more »
Thieving EU: Herman Van Rompuy tries to grab £2.5bn back from Britain's EU rebate
In
a secret paper, seen by The Daily Telegraph, the EU president has
proposed cutting the annual refund, which is worth £3.2 billion a year,
by
over 10 per cent during a seven year Brussels budgetary plan for 2014 to
2020.
The move piles further pressure on David Cameron just one week before
the
Prime Ministers faces his toughest battle at a Brussels summit that will
determine the level of EU spending for seven years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9679833/Herman-Van-Rompuy-tries-to-grab-2.5bn-back-from-Britains-EU-rebate.html
*More
than 9 million people took to... more »
France's Hollande to meet head of new Syrian opposition
French President Francois Hollande will on Saturday meet the new head of
Syria's new opposition National Coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, in Paris,
his office said.
France on Tuesday became the first Western country to recognise the
coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jTUfEaeshHcjo5NM6hPlwLOi0Usw?docId=CNG.08c684503b52a13d0b33ea46c18124ad.1e1
Jimmy Savile investigation: 450 potential victims now identified...And still not a Person Jailed for the Cover up or being part of this sick circle
The Metropolitan Police said its Operation Yewtree probe, into alleged
abuse by Savile and others, had recorded 200 claims of sexual assault.
A man in his 60s, from Bedfordshire, was arrested on suspicion of sexual
offences at 07:45 GMT on Thursday.
It is the fourth arrest by Operation Yewtree officers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20336798
Greek protesters storm German partnership meeting
Greek workers stormed a meeting of Greek and German officials in the
northern city of Thessaloniki on Thursday and tried to attack a German
diplomat in a protest over austerity measures.
Police used truncheons and teargas to disperse around 250 city employees
after several burst into the building and ran swearing through its halls.
Police said the protesters wanted to stop the meeting aimed at smoothing
ties between Berlin and Athens.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-greece-germany-clashes-idUSBRE8AE0P120121115
Eurozone Enters Recession Again
The Eurozone has officially entered recession after its collective economic
output was found to have fallen by 0.1% in the third quarter.
Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, found that the collective GDP of the
single currency area contracted by 0.1% in the July to September period
from the quarter before following on from the 0.2% decline recorded in the
second quarter.
The grim figure plunges the 17-nation bloc into its second recession since
2009.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011800/eurozone-enters-recession-again
Christopher McGee Jailed for 5 Years over the death of teenager Georgia Varley.
The 45-year-old was convicted of the manslaughter of a drunk teenager after
he signalled for a train to move as she was leaning against the carriage.
He was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence by a unanimous jury
at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday following a two-week trial.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011819/railway-guard-jailed-over-teens-death
4.3 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.3
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 10:40:27 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 04:40:27 AM at epicenter
Location
15.230°N, 93.196°W
Depth
74.2 km (46.1 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO
Distances
39 km (24 miles) SW (235°) from Mapastepec, Chiapas, Mexico
"The Best Thing In The World For You..."
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney
Former CIA/Army General: “Martial Law Expected & Warranted”
*Former CIA/Army General:*
* “Martial Law Expected & Warranted”*
by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul
“Lt. General William Boykin (retired) told TruNews Radio that the U.S.
economy of the United States “is just about t0 break” and collapse. And
when the dam gives way, severe food shortages and pervasive violence
throughout America will warrant, in his opinion, an executive declaration
of martial law.
“I’ll be very honest with you; the situation in America could be such that
martial law is actually warranted, and that situation in my view could
occur if we had an economic collap... more »
6.0 Magnitude Earthquake GUERRERO, MEXICO - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
6.0
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 09:20:23 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 03:20:23 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
18.407°N, 100.373°W
Depth
60.9 km (37.8 miles)
Region
GUERRERO, MEXICO
Distances
10 km (6 miles) E of Tlalchapa, Mexico
“Reality & Truth Divorced,” James Howard Kunstler Interview
*“Reality & Truth Divorced,” James Howard Kunstler Interview*
by Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
“Journalist/Author James Howard Kunstler says, “We have epochal divergence
between reality and truth. When you divorce them from each other, you start
to get a society that’s in trouble.” Kunstler, who cut his teeth at Rolling
Stone magazine in the 70’s, has seen plenty, but nothing like what’s going
on now. “The banking system has been kept going on accounting fraud since
the crash of 2008,” says Kunstler. He says the banks are “...holding
leadership hostage in an attempt to desperately... more »
Lemmings - Dr. William Pierce
Video found at the excellent blog *HARDON'S BLOG*:
There are no hospitals for theories
*Just offices and cemeteries*
It's refreshing that I may sometimes fully agree with a text by Matt
Strassler:
Why Theories Don’t Go Into Hospitals
BBC's Pallab Ghosh has quoted Christopher Parkes of LHCb who has said
"Supersymmetry may not be dead but these latest results have certainly put
it into hospital."
*Even if one (or two) gets into a hospital, it doesn't mean he's not a
supersymmetric hero (a superhero for short). A shoulder surgery isn't the
end of the world.*
But nothing like that is possible in science.
Supersymmetry is a symmetry, a principle added to the list... more »
What the Fiscal Cliff Means for the Middle Class
Now that the election is over, it seems like all the politicians and
pundits can talk about is the so-called "fiscal cliff." But the chatter
around the fiscal cliff is deeply weird, so in this post I will explain
what it is and what the issues involved mean for the middle class.
Just what is the fiscal cliff? It is the combination of spending cuts and
tax increases set to take place on January 1 based on several different
laws. Estimates of the consequences run as high as $800 billion next year,
or 5.2% of the country's $15.29 trillion gross domestic product in 2011.
Yes, that would... more »
FEMA sold disaster shelters as 'Frankenstorm' gathered strength
Federal officials sold hundreds of emergency trailers for disaster victims
at fire-sale prices in the months before Hurricane Sandy churned toward the
United States, The Washington Examiner has learned.
Now, with thousands of families left homeless in New York and New Jersey by
the hurricane, those same federal officials are poised to spend more
taxpayer dollars to buy brand-new trailers.
In all, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold nearly 900 of the
prefabricated temporary homes - none more than four years old and most used
only once
http://washingtonexaminer.com/fema-... more »
The case against accelerated reader
Sent to the Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, November 14
The case against accelerated reader (AR) is even stronger than the Jan
Lacina’s article states (“Accelerated Reader: Teaching kids the 'game' of
school testing, Nov. 13).
There is no clear evidence that AR works, even in the short term. AR has
four components: It provides access to books, provides time to read,
quizzes children on what they read, and awards prizes for performance on
the quizzes. As Dean Lacina notes, it is well-established that providing
books and time to read are effective, but AR research does not show that
the ... more »
5.7 Magnitude Earthquake BISMARCK SEA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
5.7
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 08:21:49 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 06:21:49 PM at epicenter
Location
3.250°S, 148.176°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles)
Region
BISMARCK SEA
Distances
171 km (106 miles) SE (143°) from Lorengau, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea
Yoselyn Ortega indicted on murder charges in children's deaths
A grand jury indicted the nanny of two young children found stabbed to
death in the bathtub of their Manhattan apartment for their murders, court
documents show.
Yoselyn Ortega, 50, was arrested earlier this month and charged with the
murders of Lucia Krim, 6, and her brother Leo, 2.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/14/justice/new-york-nanny-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Pakistan to free 'a number of Taliban'
Pakistan agreed to free "a number of Taliban detainees" from its prisons
"in support of peace and reconciliation" efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan's
foreign ministry said Wednesday.
The announcement followed three days of meetings in Islamabad between
Pakistani officials and a high-level delegation from Afghanistan's High
Peace Council, which is trying to get the Taliban to negotiate peace in
that country.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/14/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-release/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Syrian opposition leader expects more from U.S.
The newly elected leader of the Syrian opposition, cleric Sheikh Ahmed Moaz
al-Khatib, said President Barack Obama's comments Wednesday about the
war-torn country represent a much-appreciated "good step initially."
During a news conference, Obama said he was encouraged to see the Syrian
opposition organizing under an umbrella group and considers them a
"legitimate representative of the aspirations of the Syrian people."
However, the president also said he isn't prepared to recognize the group
as "some sort of government in exile," and he won't give weaponry directly
to the rebels, b... more »
Broadwell had "substantial" classified data
A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA
Director David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial
classified information that should have been stored under more secure
conditions, law enforcement and national security officials said on
Wednesday.
The contents and amount of the classified material - and questions about
how Broadwell got it - are significant enough to warrant a continuing
investigation, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity
because they are not authorized to comment publicly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/20... more »
Battle lines drawn over "growth revenue"
The holy grail of conservative tax policy - the theory that lower tax rates
will generate stronger revenues by turbo-charging economic growth - has
sprung back to life and is stirring controversy again in Washington.
The so-called "dynamic scoring" theory, disputed by many independent
economists, has formed the basis of Republicans' defensive line on
negotiations over the year-end "fiscal cliff" of looming tax hikes and
automatic spending cuts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-usa-fiscal-conservatives-idUSBRE8AE0CV20121115
Myanmar to free 452 prisoners ahead of Obama visit
Myanmar said it would free 452 prisoners in a goodwill gesture ahead of a
historic visit to the former military state by U.S. President Barack Obama,
but activists and the main opposition party said it was not clear if
political detainees were among them.
State media said on Thursday the prisoners would be freed with the "intent
to help promote goodwill and the bilateral relationship". A Home Ministry
official said some "prisoners of conscience" would be among them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-myanmar-prisoners-idUSBRE8AE04920121115
EU Back in Recession....Did we leave it?
Germany and France each grew by 0.2 percent in the third quarter but with
the euro zone's debt-laden members suffering deeply, the currency bloc as a
whole is likely to have slid into recession.
The quarterly performance of Europe's dominant economy reported on Thursday
was in line with forecasts and analysts said it could not defy gravity for
much longer. The French economy surprised on the upside, having been
expected to post no growth at all after a revised 0.1 percent fall in the
second quarter.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-eurozone-economy-idUSBRE8AE0HV20121115
9 Million + Protest - Anti-austerity strikes sweep across Europe
Police and protesters clashed in Spain and Italy on Wednesday as millions
of workers went on strike in organized labour’s biggest Europe-wide
challenge to austerity policies since the euro zone debt crisis erupted
three years ago.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled, schools were shut, factories were at a
standstill and trains barely ran in Spain and Portugal where unions held
their first joint general strike. Stoppages in Belgium interrupted
international rail services.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/anti-austerity-strikes-... more »
Two Old Ladies On A Bus Discuss Prop 37
Two Old Ladies On A Bus Discuss Prop 37
by A Passenger
Food Freedom News, 14 November 2012
*Overheard on a bus:*
“Good morning, Alice.”
“Well, the very same to you, Sally. Good morning. Lovely day.”
“Yes, a bit nippy but beautiful. I see you’ve been shopping. What have
you got there?”
“I’ve got some food to grow in my apartment. I’ve decided to take on that
nasty Monsanto myself.”
“Oh, prop 37.”
“Yes. That’s it.”
“Poor prop 37.”
“Yes, poor prop 37. Al that money from those big companies to stop it.”
“Yes, and electronic voting.”
“So unreal.”
“Yes. Machines run by companies. ... more »
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE GUATEMALA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 08:01:01 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 02:01:01 AM at epicenter
Location
14.078°N, 91.628°W
Depth
35 km (21.7 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Distances
52 km (32 miles) S (173°) from Retalhuleu, Retalhuleu, Guatemala
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE GUATEMALA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 06:42:38 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 12:42:38 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
14.222°N, 92.307°W
Depth
35.2 km (21.9 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Distances
34 km (21 miles) SSW of Ocos, Guatemala
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake MAUG ISLANDS REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 04:58:59 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 02:58:59 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
19.123°N, 145.816°E
Depth
124.6 km (77.4 miles)
Region
MAUG ISLANDS REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISL.
Distances
42 km (26 miles) NNE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands
Gaza Rocket Attack Kills Three Israelis
Three Israelis have been killed after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a
building in the south of the country, according to police.
The casualties were the first since Israel launched its operation on
Wednesday with the assassination of Hamas' top military commander.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the rocket struck an
apartment building in the town of Kiryat Malahi.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011672/gaza-rocket-attack-kills-three-israelis
"Do you want to go to war Berlahkay?"
The Substitute Teacher - Well I thought it was funny
Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.
NASA Discovers Magnetic Field Portals Feeding Northern Lights
This is worth watching. Occasional magnetic field portals do open between
the Sun and the Earth's magnetic fields allowing injections of energetic
particles into our atmosphere and clearly responsible for things like the
northern lights. Some are brief in duration while others appear to hang
around, again conforming with our experience with the northern lights.
They have been able to use old data to confirm an effective protocol for
discovering these portals so a new satellite is going up to monitor them
closely.
This will give us a much better mapping of the fine detail of... more »
Empirical Addiction Resolution
This is an astonishing item. It is the first real hope for a therapeutic
protocol that succeeds in resolving addictive behavior. Of course it is
controversial but what we have here is specific and dramatic improvement
and are relapses easily overcome.
What has been poorly understood is that modern empiricism is
revolutionizing the practice of medicine. By modern empiricism I mean
internet assisted empiricism that nicely dispenses with professional
science and prods data to discover fresh data. That is much of what we now
do here.
All empirical results now attract a ... more »
Relationship Between Telomere Length and Mortality Investigated
This is an excellent study that polices up a lot of implied conjecture
that has been already well accepted. The bonus however is that it is only
in the late stage that shortened telomere length is associated with an
increased death risk.
With our developing capacity to replace tissue with stem cells that turn
the biological clock back to zero, the possibility arises that extended
life is completely plausible. In fact, right now it is a certainty.
In the meantime slowing telomere loss is good and telomere restoration is
better. Efforts in those directions are availabl... more »
New Meteorite Crater South of Haiti
This is speculative of course, but the hard fact remains that a comet
impacted on the crust from the North Pole traveling south in order to shift
the crust itself. It came in almost tangentially, entering the atmosphere
over Siberia, passing though the ice cap exploding ice debris along its
path that formed the Carolina bays of note and then impacted south at
forty degrees degrees south of the then Pole in Hudson Bay. This occurred
12,900 BP and triggered the Younger Dryas and the end of the Ice Age.
This possible discovery certainly works for us. It is good to see the ... more »
PROOF OF HEAVEN?
[image: Next stop Kamalapur]
*Bangladesh by* lucafabbozzo
Would you try to help the kid in the photo above?
We suspect that most people would like to help.
In the world of nature, "some animals will help rear each other's offspring"
(New Scientist, 10 November 2012)
[image: Sudan 1998, by Tom Stoddart]
*A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during a
food distribution at a feeding center in Sudan in 1998. Photo by Tom
Stoddart.*
*
*People are not always kind.
For example, some people have not learned to be sympathetic to the
handicapped, even within their... more »
Perfesser Dave explains negative TV advertising and the job-killing Tory carbon tax
Zap! You’re frozen! … In the dark! The Harper Tories’ latest TV advertising
attack on NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. Perfesser Dave, below, explains why
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will do the same thing he’s accusing Mr.
Mulcair of planning if he manages to get re-elected. Below Perfesser Dave:
Robert Stanfield, the underwear guy, Allan Fotheringham ... more »
GAZA WAR – MAJOR ATTACK IMMINENT?
According
to the RT Live Update blog it seems the Israelis are planning to
shutdown internet access to the Gaza Strip. If this is the case, then
clearly the Israelis have further actions planned for the Gaza Strip.
This
is increasingly likely since, according to the IDF official
Twitteraccount, rocket fire from the Gaza into Israel continued
throughout the
night keeping some one million Israelis in shelters overnight.
Meanwhile Israeli troops have been massing at the border with Gaza
preparing for what may well be a full-on invasion of the Gaza Strip. As
dawn breaks on Thursday morn... more »
HTML 101 for bloggers - simple HTML to improve your blog
You don't have to be a computer geek to be able to use some simple HTML to
improve your blog by leaps and bounds. Don't be put off by the technical
jargon but let me show you some example how you will become a better
blogger just by learning *minimal HTML* and improving on the codes
generated while using the *COMPOSE* mode.
I have already made a post on Anchor text and how to make hyperlink open in
new window or tab which has very clear explanation on hyperlinks and how
you can *easily* make them open in new windows and if you have to read that
post, you should and it should confir... more »
Man sees himself in 450-year-old painting
http://wtvr.com/2012/11/14/man-sees-himself-in-medieval-art/
*WTVR* – A college student and his girlfriend had to take a closer look
after stumbling upon a painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Do you see the resemblance?
GAZA WAR – MAJOR ATTACK IMMINENT?
According
to the RT Live Update blog it seems the Israelis are planning to
shutdown internet access to the Gaza Strip. If this is the case, then
clearly the Israelis have further actions planned for the Gaza Strip.
This
is increasingly likely since, according to the IDF official
Twitteraccount, rocket fire from the Gaza into Israel continued
throughout the
night keeping some one million Israelis in shelters overnight.
Meanwhile Israeli troops have been massing at the border with Gaza
preparing for what may well be a full-on invasion of the Gaza Strip. As
dawn breaks on Thursday morn... more »
Red Cross and FEMA spent $181,000 to put up Sandy relief workers in Manhattan's upscale Soho Grand hotel...
While tens of thousands of victims of Hurricane Sandy continue to struggle
without power or heat, many of them homeless or living in damaged houses,
some fortunate relief workers have been staying at a luxury Manhattan hotel
since arriving in town to help with the aftermath of the storm.
Representatives from American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management
Administration (FEMA) said that the two agencies booked a total of 48 rooms
in the upscale SoHo Grand to house some of the relief workers at a
discounted nightly rate of $310 a room.
Red Cross spokeswoman Laura Howe told the ... more »
The day the Tiber burst its banks: Rome under water after much of Italy is swamped by torrential rain
Flood water covered swathes of central and northern Italy today after
the
region was battered by torrential rain.
Devastating storms caused huge damage at the weekend, washing out roads
and
isolating towns in southern Tuscany, where four people died as a result
of
flooding.
Yesterday one of Rome's most historic bridges was closed as the swollen
Tiber River roared through the capital and flooded outlying
neighbourhoods.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232956/River-Tiber-breaks-banks-northern-central-Italy-swamped-torrential-rain-Historic-Ponte-Milvio-bridge-closed.html
'COVER UP BY THE SPOOKS'
*Website for this image...*
The police had a dossier "thick" with reports by boys that they had been
abused by Sir Cyril Smith.
Police officer Tony Robinson says that the UK security service MI5 told him
the dossier had to be sent to London.
Tony Robinson says that the then Director of Public Prosecutions decided
that prosecution of Smith was "not in the public interest".
Tony Robinson says "The police now say the file is lost. It seems like
there was a complete cover up to me."
*Sir Cyril Smith sex abuse dossier seized by MI5*
Three victims of the North Wales child abuse scand... more »
Henry Hamilton 'killed himself because President was re-elected' and scrawled 'F*** Obama' on his will
A former tanning salon owner was found dead two days after the election
after telling his partner that he was 'not going to be around' if President
Obama won a second term.
Henry Hamilton was discovered next to two empty prescription pill bottles
with the message 'F*** Obama!' written over his will.
His partner said that the 64-year-old man was 'very upset about the
election results.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232845/Man-killed-saying-wouldnt-Obama-elected.html
Riot police on the streets of Lisbon and rubber bullets fired in Madrid as Europe explodes on day of anti-austerity protests
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232706/Riot-police-streets-Lisbon-rubber-bullets-fired-Madrid-Europe-explodes-day-anti-austerity-protests.html
Hundreds
of police officers took to the streets of Lisbon as protestors
armed with rocks and bottles attempted to attack the Parliament
building.
There were chants of 'out with the Government' with some protestors also
firing flares at the lines of riot police. Across Europe there were
scenes
of violent protest during anti-austerity strikes with rubber bullets
fired
on the streets of Madrid, running battles with police in Milan and
Rom... more »
Greed of the energy sharks: Power firm's profits surge by 38% as your bill goes up by a QUARTER
Scottish & Southern Energy made £397.5m in the six months to the end of
September, up 38 per cent or some £110m on the same period last year. It is
the latest power giant to record an enormous income rise (see graph) after
saddling customers with crippling price increases. A few weeks ago SEE hit
its 9.6million customers with a 9 per cent increase. Its tariffs are now
some 24 per cent higher than they were in January 2011 - adding more than
£260 to the typical annual energy bill.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233109/Power-firms-profits-surge-38-goes-QUARTER.html
Message from Mikos in the Hollow Earth
*Message from Mikos in the Hollow Earth*
As channeled through Dianne Robbins
November, 2012
A New Golden Age Begins!
My dearest residents on Earth, I am Mikos, speaking to you from the Inner
Chambers of the Library of Porthologos located beneath the Aegean Sea deep
inside the opening in the Center of the Earth.
The Light on the surface is expanding at hyper-speed and exponentially
increasing faster than we can believe. You are all in for the “ride” of
your lives, racing to catch up in consciousness with your unseen brothers
and sisters living inside the Earth. We can hardly w... more »
Europeans Are Trying To Figure Out Why Conservatism Went Off The Rails In America
This past weekend, journalist Paul Harris tried to help U.K. readers
understand what happened in the U.S. election and why the Republican Party
seems so hell-bent on self destruction. The picture he paints of the GOP
doesn't look anything like mainstream European conservative parties, but
like extreme right, neo-Nazi fringe groups. Reporting from Pella, Iowa he
interviewed 75 year old Shirley Schutte as an example of some mighty ugly
sentiments. "Obama is a Muslim," the right-wing crackpot asserted. Was she
sure about that? "I am. I am not sure he even should have been there [in
t... more »
Unidentified Bird flu strain hits New South Wales farm, Australia
An unidentified strain of bird flu has been detected at a hen farm near
Maitland in the Hunter Valley, prompting authorities to quarantine about
50,000 chickens.
The suspected virus is not thought to be the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu
that has killed 359 people worldwide in sporadic outbreaks since 2003.
Nonetheless, the 50,000 hens may have to be destroyed, the NSW Department
of Primary Industries said.
A "first response team" of specialists from the department is on site to
enforce the quarantine, while the CSIRO runs lab tests on samples of the
virus, with results expected th... more »
MUSLIM CHILDREN KILLED BY U.S. ARMCHAIR SOLDIERS AT THEIR COMPUTER CONSOLES DIRECTING DRONE ATTACKS AGAINST SUPPOSED TERRORISTS IN THEIR HOMES
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*American Immorality Is At A Peak*
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November 13, 2012 |
Original Here
When Chris Floyd is at his best, as he is below, he puts things in
perspective for readers that they otherwise never confront. Obama has won
reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be
different. Fat chance.
While evil continues to envelop America, the public is focused on CIA
director General Petraeus’ resignation. The FBI sp... more »
3 Died in Chlorine Leak in Central Russia
Three people died and nine were hospitalized in a chlorine leak at a
chemical plant in Russia's central Perm Region, local emergency department
said Wednesday.
"Three people died on the spot as a result of a chlorine leak and nine
others were hospitalized due to gas contamination," the department was
quoted by local media as saying.
In addition, 38 more people were admitted to the hospitals for
non-life-threatening treatment, the authorities added.
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/11/14/2702s732719.htm
The Maiona Group Presents: The Jakaara Project “A New Dawn, A New Beginning, A New Generation.”
The Maiona Group
Presents
The Jakaara Project
“A New Dawn, A New Beginning, A New Generation.”
*Hello and Welcome to All,*
We currently find ourselves as individuals, families and communities,
awakened via information we have received via the many social and network
medias, that now has us poised and ready that we can all come together to
assist in the regenerative and restorative measures required for our
continued development and planetary wellbeing.
The model we are putting forward to drive this is “The Jakaara Project”,
and is designed at promoting a new way of livi... more »
Deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever breaks out in Uganda
The deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever has broken out in the central Ugandan
district of Luwero about one month after the World Health Organization
(WHO) declared the East African country free of the disease.
Joaquim Saweka, the WHO country representative told Xinhua by telephone on
Wednesday that the outbreak was confirmed on Tuesday following laboratory
tests that turned out positive for the disease.
"Yes that is true, we have dispatched one team to make preliminary
assessment and also set up an isolation unit," he said.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/744473.shtml
James Holmes hospitalized
The suspect in the Aurora movie theater mass slaying has been hospitalized
with an undisclosed illness or injury serious enough that his defense team
asked that a scheduled pre-trial hearing be postponed.
Defense attorneys for James Holmes asked for an emergency hearing late
Wednesday afternoon saying their client’s condition made it impossible for
him to appear in court Thursday.
Public defender Tamara Brady offered no details, citing Holmes’ medical and
psychiatric privilege.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-james-holmes-massacre-hospital-20121114,0,4287193.st... more »
UN Security Council holds emergency session on Israel raids
The U.N. Security Council met in a closed emergency meeting on Wednesday
night to discuss Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip as Israel
threatened a wider offensive in the Palestinian enclave to stem rocket
salvoes by Hamas militants.
Diplomats said U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman was briefing
the 15-nation council. Israeli and Palestinians envoys will also have a
chance to speak.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-israel-palestinians-un-council-idUSBRE8AD1SI20121115
Europe Gripped By Anti-Austerity Action
A wave of anti-austerity anger is sweeping across Europe with general
strikes in Spain and Portugal and walkouts in Greece and Italy - grounding
flights, closing schools and shutting down transport.
Millions of workers have been taking part in the dozens of co-ordinated
protests in a so-called European Day of Action and Solidarity against
spending cuts and tax hikes.
In Portugal, violent clashes took place between activists and police
officers in Lisbon, and one woman was seen being repeatedly struck with a
baton.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011176/anti-austerity-strikes-protests-g... more »
Petraeus To Testify On Libya Attack
Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify before a House of
Representatives Intelligence Committee tasked with investigating the deadly
attack on the US Consulate in Libya.
General Petraeus, who vacated his post as the nation's top spy last week
after admitting he had an extramarital affair with his biographer, will
testify at a session held in private on Friday.
He had been originally been scheduled to appear before the committee, but
that had been scrapped after he resigned from the CIA last week.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011510/ex-cia-boss-petraeus-to-testify-on-... more »
Rat Massacre: Galapagos Islands To Kill Millions
Ecuador is preparing to massacre more than 180 million rats as it seeks to
eradicate them from the Galapagos Islands.
A helicopter will drop nearly 22 tons of specially designed poisonous bait
on Pinzon Island, an uninhabited island in the archipelago 600 miles off
the coast of Ecuador and the nearby Plaza Sur islet.
It is the second stage in an offensive that aims to kill all non-native
rodents across the 19 islands that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory
of evolution by 2020.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011658/rat-massacre-galapagos-islands-to-kill-millions
Israel Warns Of More Gaza Attacks
World leaders have urged Israel to show restraint after prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to "expand" military operations in the Gaza
Strip following its assassination of a Hamas leader.
US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon both
telephoned Mr Netanyahu ahead of an urgent UN Security Council meeting on
the deteriorating situation.
According to the White House, Mr Obama reiterated US support for Israel's
right to self-defence against rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip but urged
Israel to avoid civilian casualties in the Palestinian territory.
htt... more »
China Unveils Xi Jinping As New Leader
Xi Jinping has been unveiled as the new general secretary of the Communist
Party in China during an official ceremony.
He will formally take over as Chinese president from Hu Jintao in March -
leading the world's second largest economy and newest diplomatic and
military power amid increasingly vocal calls for economic and political
reform.
Xi is the son of a party elder and has served as vice president for the
past five years.
http://news.sky.com/story/1011683/china-unveils-xi-jinping-as-new-leader
4.3 Magnitude Earthquake CRETE, GREECE - 15th November 2012
Magnitude ML 4.3
Region CRETE, GREECE
Date time 2012-11-15 03:07:24.0 UTC
Location 35.08 N ; 23.36 E
Depth 2 km
Distances 32 km SW Yialós, Crete, Greece
4.1 Magnitude Earthquake CAUCASUS REGION, RUSSIA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.1
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 01:36:38 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 04:36:38 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
43.971°N, 39.108°E
Depth
18 km (11.2 miles)
Region
CAUCASUS REGION, RUSSIA
Distances
7 km (4 miles) SSW of Shepsi, Russia
4.4 Magnitude Earthquake BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.4
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 01:30:39 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 11:30:39 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
27.491°N, 140.081°E
Depth
485.1 km (301.4 miles)
Region
BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
Distances
216 km (134 miles) WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan
4.2 Magnitude Earthquake KYRGYZSTAN - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.2
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 00:25:52 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 06:25:52 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
39.627°N, 73.523°E
Depth
52.6 km (32.7 miles)
Region
KYRGYZSTAN
Distances
25 km (15 miles) ESE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan
4.0 Magnitude Earthquake XIZANG-QINGHAI BORDER REGION - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.0
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 00:00:28 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 08:00:28 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
32.877°N, 92.318°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region
XIZANG-QINGHAI BORDER REGION
Distances
63 km (39 miles) NNE of Segong, China
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 15th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 00:00:06 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 10:00:06 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
5.802°S, 151.723°E
Depth
8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Region
NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances
171 km (106 miles) SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
Benjamin Fulford 11-15-11…”The cabalists struggle in vain to stop the new financial system”… “The global human awakening will not be stopped”
Reposted from Kauilapele's Blog: http://goo.gl/ahQCj
Posted on 2011/11/14
Another uplifting report from Benjamin. The Maiona group, or Red Dragon,
“links 59 countries plus 2700 tribes mostly in the South Pacific Region”,
and is working with the White Dragons to move the planet toward peace and a
harmonic world. I’ve never heard of this group before, but I’m sure there
are many so-called “secret” societies which we never (and maybe will never)
hear of.
Of course, apply Higher Discernment to Ben’s articles.
*Highlights*
- …insiders assure us that plans for a new financial sys... more »
5.4 Magnitude Earthquake NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 14th November 2012
Magnitude
5.4
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 23:41:53 UTC
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 09:41:53 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
5.743°S, 151.557°E
Depth
6 km (3.7 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region
NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances
158 km (98 miles) E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Interviews with Activist David MacBryde; Author Jan Reid
Berlin-based
activist David MacBryde in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday,
November 9, 2012. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio. Inset photo below,
from left: Rag Radio's Tracey Schulz and Thorne Dreyer and guest David
Macbryde. Photo by Charlie Martin / KOOP.
Rag Radio podcasts:
Our man in Berlin David MacBryde
and Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid
By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog /
Resurrecting The Peace Ship: Abie Nathan - In Memory
Abie Nathan was a volunteer pilot in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War who became
an Israeli peace activist. He is viewed as one of the greatest Israelis. He
thought his work for peace and equal co-existence was done in 1993, when
the Oslo Peace Accords were signed. But 9/11 (a Mossad-CIA job) made war a
permanent feature in the lives of Israelis and Palestinians for the
foreseeable future. 9/11 also brought America into the picture which
pleased Israel's extremist rulers.
The most recent aggression against Gaza by the Israeli military is a
reminder that war is easy and peace is hard. But ... more »
Could Obama's election win save the world from asteroid doom?
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/20121114142120721507.html
Garry Wills on Willard: "What can be worse than to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it?"
*Willard's way, per GW:* *"Ask not what you can do for your*
**
*country, but what your country can do for your family."*
*
* *"What vestige of a backbone is Romney left with? Things he was once
proud of -- health-care guarantees, opposition to noxious emissions,
support of gay rights and women’s rights, he had the shamelessness to treat
as matters of shame all through his years-long crawl to the Republican
nomination."*
*-- Garry Wills, in a NYRB blogpost,* "What Romney Lost"
*by Ken*
Maybe I was so convinced -- or maybe just so afraid (after surviving eight
years of the "Chimpy ... more »
President Obama and the Iron Law of Climate Change
You could not ask for a more clear expression of the iron law of climate
change and its implications that that which was given by President Obama
today in a press conference (emphasis added):
There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way
would involve making some tough political choices, and you know,
understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused
and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that,
you know,* if the message is somehow we’re going to ignore jobs and growth
simply to address climate change, ... more »
Arrest People Who Call For State Secession Say Democrats.
Democrats and Republicans want to keep the American people as slaves on the Federal Reserve's plantation. "This is not a free society" - Alex Jones.
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