10:25 pm MST
Iraqi authorities on Friday released suspected Hezbollah operative Ali
Mussa Daqduq who was accused of killing American troops, his lawyer said,
adding he had made his way to Lebanon.
"There was no reason for his detention. last night the decision was made to
release him. He is out now and arrived in Beirut two hours ago,"
Abdulalmehdi al-Mutairi told Reuters by phone.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-iraq-daqduq-release-idUSBRE8AF0SS20121116
GAZA WAR – INVASION AND THEN WHAT?
With Israeli troops, tanks and armoured vehicles amassing at the border of
the Gaza Strip and with no let up in the tit-for-tat bombardments from both
sides, it certainly seems that an invasion is imminent.
Since it was Israel that initiated and provoked the current violence that
has led to this situation, it also seems likely that the Israelis had
contrived and manipulated events to ensure that it would lead to invasion.
In other words, this has been in the planning for some time. The question
now is; once the Israelis invade the Gaza Strip, what next?
After Operation Cast Lead in... more »
Occupied Borders: Israeli activist for Palestine visits Tohono O'odham land
Dr. Dalit Baum with Mike Wilson,
Tohono O'odham in Tucson
Photo Brenda Norrell*Occupied Borders: Palestine and Tohono O’odham land,
human rights activists making change*
*“The Tohono O‘odham Nation is now occupied by a foreign army called the US
Border Patrol." **Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson.*
* *
*By Brenda Norrell*
***Censored News copyright*
*http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com*
TUCSON -- An Israeli speaking out for the rights of Palestinians visited
the Tohono O’odham border and then shared her insights on the similarities
between the treatment of Palestine by Israel, and the treatmen... more »
Sunday Classics: Another set of three exotic Mahler "middle movements"
*Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in the first of the two
scherzos of Mahler's uncompleted Tenth Symphony (Cooke performing version)
in 2007.*
*by Ken*
We're in the middle of two projects. Last week we continued our Sexual
Obsession in Opera series with the initial intersection of the protagonists
of Bizet's *Carmen*, the free-spirited gypsy Carmen and the Basque army
sergeant Don José, both displaced to Seville. And two weeks ago we attacked Mahler's
uniquely wonderful Seventh Symphony from the middle: listening to the three
middle movements -- the two *Nachtmusik... more »
ROCKETS FROM EGYPT LAUNCHED INTO ISRAEL
*More info:*
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-rockets-fired-egypt-hit-israel_663502.html
Somalian Psyops, Flu Fraud, War Crimes - New World Next Week
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com - the video series from Corbett
Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important
developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
*Story #1*: Political Sockpuppetry - US Military Behind Fake African News
Sites
http://ur1.ca/awyne
Bloggers' Fear - Russian Crackdown On Illegal Web Content Causes Stir
http://ur1.ca/awynf
Corbett Report on Psyops 101: A Brief History of Fake News
http://ur1.ca/ar12k
NWNW Flashback: Fake Report Of Russian Tanks Sparks Panic In Country Of
Georgia
http://ur1.ca/rn5c
*Story #2*: British Medic... more »
If You Care About Gaza, Support 9/11 Truth
*Gaza is under attack. America is under attack. Truth is under attack.*
*Related:*
*Rethink 9/11: A Letter To Peace Activists*.
*If Martin Luther King, Jr. Were Alive Today, He Would Call For A New 9/11
Investigation*.
All the bleeding heart liberals who view 9/11 truth-tellers as kooks should
stop being so smug and investigate the 9/11 events with a more critical
eye. Being a conformist follower who blindly accepts the U.S. government
line on the most significant event in our times is nothing to be proud
about.
If you want to build international political pressure on the terror... more »
Analysis: Gaza & the Politics of ‘Greater Israel’
IDF announcement designed to provoke. *November 17, 2012* (Nile Bowie) - The
Israeli bombardment of Gaza being perpetuated under ‘Operation Pillar of
Defense’ comes at an interesting time. Under the leadership of Benjamin
Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements into
Palestinian lands has increased at unprecedented rates. Netanyahu’s
administration has approved the construction of 850 settler homes in the
occupied West Bank in June 2012, even after the Israeli parliament rejected
a bill to retroactively legalize some of the existing homes in the area. [2]... more »
Understanding China's Power Transition
China’s Transition: Towards a Red Revival or Socialist Democracy?
*November 17, 2012* (Nile Bowie) - As China’s 18th Communist Party
Congress draws to a close, the world’s most populous nation prepares to
install the country's fifth generation of leadership since the Chinese
Revolution of 1949. Despite overseeing a stringent police state with heavy
limitations on political expression, China’s leadership have taken the
nation from starvation to space travel in just a few decades, lifting
approximately 600 million people out of poverty. [1] Of course, the
Communist Party still ha... more »
Israeli Jewish man says Zionism is the cause of the problems
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Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Through My Eyes (Nebulae)”
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind: “VI Spirit - Through My Eyes (Nebulae)”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTgHuUuDQg&playnext=1&list=PLCC1D
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the
Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with
good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius.
*Click image for larger size.*
The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but
the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking
interstellar hydrogen gas. The dark dust filaments that lace M20 were
created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from
supernovae explosions. Which bright young stars light up the b... more »
Will The Israeli Terror State Assassinate Assad?
It is a very real possibility that the Netanyahoo government, in league
with nations like Qatar, England and America, will assassinate Assad. Read *
this*, and *this*.
Remember: *USrael is crazy*. It went crazy on 9/11. It wants World War III.
It desires escalations. Assassinating the leader of Syria will be a pivotal
event in this unfolding cosmic drama.
Bye-bye, Willard! Don't let the door slam behind you!
I grabbed this snippet off of washingtonpost.com's afternoon update
yesterday. It's one of those cases where I didn't feel any great need to
read the actual story but surely did enjoy the image conjured -- of
Republicans of all stripes waving into the distance and wishing their
decommissioned standard-bearer a heartfelt "good riddance" as he fades off
toward the horizon borne by the Five Mini-Willards, all of them intoning
the famous Romney Savage War-Wimp Chant, "Heck, no, we won't go!" -- to
war, that is. -- *Ken*
*
**"Romney seems to think that newsletters and meetings and mone... more »
Hopi Tribe cites threatened species in new lawsuit to halt desecration of Peaks
*By Brenda Norrell*
*Censored News*
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The Hopi Tribe filed a new lawsuit to halt the use of reclaimed sewage
water for snowmaking on sacred San Francisco Peaks, citing the presence of
a threatened plant that only appears on the Peaks.
The Hopi Tribe filed for a mandatory injunction on Wednesday, Nov. 14,
2012. A Flagstaff radio station reported that the Arizona Snowbowl began
using the snow making equipment on Tuesday.
The threatened grounsel, or Packera franciscana, consists of only about 500
plants in the alpine forest of the San Francisco Peaks. T... more »
Chet Raymo, “Charybdis”
*“Charybdis”*
by Chet Raymo
"To my mind, there is no more spiritually fulfilling experience than lying
on one's back under a crystal clear late-summer sky unpolluted by
artificial light and seeing the Milky Way arching across the dome of night
from Sagittarius in the south to Cassiopeia in the north. Those of you who
live in the southern hemisphere will have a different perspective,
including a loftier view of the brilliant luminosity near the galactic
center in Sagittarius, but you know what I mean. One has a sense of falling
into infinity, of becoming a born-again child of cosmi... more »
Louisiana Wants Out. Speaking of Morans.
The South will rise again - sort of. America's unhinged Right is
breathless with excitement at a few thousand nutjobs in the slave states petitioning
Washington for the right to secede from the Union.
*...according to Drew Zahn of Christianity Today, Louisiana’s secession
petition has more than 14,000 signatures, more than halfway to the
threshold needed after which the White House has pledged to respond. Texas,
is another state to join the secessionists with about 25,000 signatures.*
* *
*According to political experts such as strategist Mike Baker, Americans
are becoming disenc... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Slangerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark. Thanks for stopping by.
Elsewhere: Filibusters, More, and some Housekeeping
I haven't been running these items this week, and I wound up posting less
over here today than intended thanks to a balky computer this morning, but
I figured I should link to at least some of what I've been up to. A bit of
housekeeping down in the last paragraph, too.
The main thing has been the filibuster all week. In particular, I wroteagainst talking filibusters yesterday, and then
again today. It's both impractical as a solution, and irrational,
and...well, read the pieces if you need to be convinced.
Also one earlier in the week about filibusters and executive branch
nominatio... more »
Alan Watts, "All About The Folly..."
"Archimedes said, "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the Earth"; but there
isn't one. It is like betting on the future of the human race - I might
wish to lay a bet that the human race would destroy itself by the year
3000, but there is nowhere to place the bet. On the contrary, I am involved
in the world and must try to see that it does not blow itself to pieces. I
once had a terrible argument with Margaret Mead. She was holding forth one
evening on the absolute horror of the atomic bomb, and how everybody should
spring into action and abolish it, but she was getting so furious a... more »
“Living With the Contradictions"
*“Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary*
* Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress”*
By Charles Eisenstein
"Last week I sat down for a telephone conversation with Joseph Chilton
Pearce, an author who has had a big influence not only on my work, but on
the way I have raised my children. He alerted me early on to the damage
that hospital birthing, day care, television, and modern schooling do to
the developing brain. A World War Two veteran, he could be considered one
of the elders of the human potential movement, although he brings t... more »
The End of Economic Growth?
Listen above to a debate I participated in airing on the CDC tomorrow.
Comments welcomed. Here is how the program introduces the program:
In the Deep Sixed series, we examine aspects of life we take for granted
today that might not survive tomorrow. This week: economic growth. We
consider the future of growth with help from Matthew Lazin-Ryder, host of
CBC radio's The Invisible Hand, Jeff Rubin, former chief economist for CIBC
World Markets and author of *The End of Growth*, and Roger Pielke Jr,
Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, and author... more »
GAZA WAR – THE ISRAELI ENDGAME
Given, despite their propaganda to the contrary, that the Israelis
instigated this current round of violence by the attempted targeted
killings of Palestinian fighters Talat Jarbi and Mohammed Maqawi as they
rode their motorbike near Rafah on Sunday 21 October 2012, and have since
chosen to escalate the violence by extra-judicially murdering Hamas
commander Ahmed al-Jabari, it has become clear that the Israelis have a
long term game plan that looks ominous for the people of the Gaza Strip.
Each and every quiet period over the past three months has been broken not
by Hamas but by the... more »
Guest Workers - Just Another Greasy Subsidy to the Fossil Fuelers
I have been truly dismayed by the near total lack of outrage over the
Harper government's policies to allow foreign energy companies to import
cheap, foreign labour to extract Canadian fossil fuel resources.
No matter how much lipstick you slap on that pig, it's just another greasy
subsidy to the fossil fuelers, one of so many. In the mid- to long-term
it's also a great way to drive down Canadian wages.
Whether it's 200-Chinese labourers brought in to mine coal in British
Columbia or unknown numbers imported to extract bitumen from Athabasca,
it's an indictment of the provincial... more »
Police and Crime Commissioner Shambles
Words don't exist in the English language that adequately describe the mess
the government made of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. For a
flagship policy, I cannot think of anything the Tories have done that quite
matches the amateurishness that has accompanied its implementation. The
national leaflet that was supposed to go out explaining the policy and
powers of a PCC was not delivered to large swathes of Stoke-on-Trent (and,
I presume, the country). The usual mechanisms supporting elections, like
Royal Mail-delivered mail shots and party election broadcasts were not
... more »
Bad teeth, bad diet and hunger in Honduras
Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth,
often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their baby teeth.
A story in the newspaper offered a possible clue. Funazucar, the umbrella
association of sugar producers, proudly announced it's donating 40 tonnes
of sugar to a school lunch program for poor kids and to help nursing
mothers with nutrition. Some 21,000 people, about 16,000 of them children,
will benefit.
That works out to about 1.9 kilos of sugar per person. It's not a lot. The
average North American consumes about 60 kilos of sugar a yea... more »
Romney, Republicans, and Rand
Jonathan Chait riffs today on Romney, Republicans, and libertarians. His
general point that every faction after a loss simply blames all the other
factions is certainly correct.
But I think it’s unfair to libertarians to stick them with Ayn Rand. I
agree with Chait that Rand is electoral poison, but it’s easy to be a very
conservative libertarian without even a hint of Rand. As I read it, there's
nothing whatsoever about libertarian idea which require the belief in an
elite group of "makers." That's Rand -- but it isn't inherent in ideas
about radical support of markets over governm... more »
Betray Whom? Petraeus Going the Route of Colby, Casey? (All-Out War Feared As Israel Moves Troops Toward Gaza)
[BREAKING NEWS: All-Out War Feared As Israel Moves Troops Toward Gaza
Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers Frenkel reports: "Israeli tanks and
troops moved toward the Gaza Strip on Thursday night in apparent
preparation for a possible invasion." READ MORE Juan Cole:
Counterinsurgency Was Real Petraeus Failure Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Juan Cole: "I was opposed to General
Tibetan self-immolations continue in China: 10 cases in last 12 days
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/11/201211168315869759.html
THIRD WAY: A THINK TANK CREATED BY WALL STREET TO FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. DON'T BE FOOLED!
------------------------------
*William K. Black
Original here*
*Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, *
*Kansas City; Sr. regulator during *
*S&L debacle *
Wall Street Uses Third Way to Lead Its Assault on Social Security Posted:
11/13/2012 8:51 am
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Third Way, lobbyists for and from Wall Street who are leading the effort to
enrich Wall Street by privatizing Social Security, was created by Wall
Street to fool some of the people all of the time. I have writtenpreviously to expose t... more »
Bad teeth, sugar and hunger in Honduras
Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth,
often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their baby teeth.
A story in the newspaper offered a possible clue. Funazucar, the umbrella
association of sugar producers, proudly announced it's donating 40 tonnes
of sugar to a school lunch program for poor kids and to help nursing
mothers with nutrition. Some 21,000 people, about 16,000 of them children,
will benefit.
That works out to about 1.9 kilos of sugar per person. It's not a lot. The
average North American consumes about 60 kilos of sugar a ye... more »
Bad teeth, sugar and hunger in Honduras
Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth,
often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their baby teeth.
A story in the newspaper offered a possible clue. Funazucar, the umbrella
association of sugar producers, proudly announced it's donating 40 tonnes
of sugar to a school lunch program for poor kids and to help nursing
mothers with nutrition. Some 21,000 people, about 16,000 of them children,
will benefit.
That works out to about 1.9 kilos of sugar per person. It's not a lot. The
average North American consumes about 60 kilos of sugar a ye... more »
Arizona Election Fraud: Mickey Duniho and Jim March Report Election Shenanigans to Pima County's Board of Supervisors
County Board of Supervisors Comment for 11-13-2012
I have not spoken in this forum since I was appointed to your Election
Integrity Commission four years ago. A sequence of events has brought me
here today.
* * * * * * * *
The first event: In November 2011 the state added new election
requirements, including one that counties must sort early ballots by
precincts for the hand count audit. John Moffatt was involved, and reported
to your commission on changes proposed and made – but did not report this
new requirement to your commission.
The second event: In June and July 2012, B... more »
Bad teeth, sugar and hunger in Honduras
Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth,
often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their baby teeth.
A story in the newspaper offered a possible clue. Funazucar, the umbrella
association of sugar producers, proudly announced it's donating 40 tonnes
of sugar to a school lunch program for poor kids and to help nursing
mothers with nutrition. Some 21,000 people, about 16,000 of them children,
will benefit.
That works out to about 1.9 kilos of sugar per person. It's not a lot. The
average North American consumes about 60 kilos of sugar a ye... more »
Graph of the Day: Total Annual Inflow to Perth Dams, 1911-2012
[image: Annual inflow to Perth dams, 1911-2012, showing stepwise changes.
watercorporation.com.au]
This graph shows how the average amount of water received into Perth dams
has dropped dramatically in recent times.
In order to provide an accurate comparison Stirling, Wokalup, and Samson
Brook Dams are not included in this data, as these Dams only came online in
2001. Inflow is therefore simulated based on Perth dams pre 2001.
Year is taken as May to April and labeled year is start (winter) of year.
Yearly streamflow for major surface water sources
Technorati Tags: Australia,drou... more »
Bad teeth, sugar and hunger in Honduras
Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth,
often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their baby teeth.
A story in the newspaper offered a possible clue. Funazucar, the umbrella
association of sugar producers, proudly announced it's donating 40 tonnes
of sugar to a school lunch program for poor kids and to help nursing
mothers with nutrition. Some 21,000 people, about 16,000 of them children,
will benefit.
That works out to about 1.9 kilos of sugar per person. It's not a lot. The
average North American consumes about 60 kilos of sugar a yea... more »
88 percent of Americans say the U.S. should try to reduce global warming: Yale survey
[image: The day after 'super storm' Sandy, the coastal community of Breezy
Point, in Far Rockaway, Queens remains devastated by fire and flooding.
Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis]
By Larry O'Hanlon
15 November 2012
(Discovery News) – A large majority of Americans now say global warming
should be a priority for the president and Congress, according to a new
report by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. The report is
based on a national survey conducted in early September – well before
hurricane Sandy provided even more persuasive evidence that climate is
changing and s... more »
Of Hijabs, Burkas and Haircuts ...
At DJ! we have approached the question of women wearing religious coveringsin the same manner that we consider the sexual
violation of women and children, femicide, access to abortion, and the
eradication of female genital mutilation.
How does it affect women facing these situations, what have women with
knowledge and experience said and how can we support *leurs revendications*?
We have also pointed out Islamophobia in all its overt and covert forms.
Thus, we're perplexed that this complaint has not been challenged by other
women.
Could it be that there's a fear of being slagged fo... more »
Satire: “Americans Deserve Answers”
*“Americans Deserve Answers”*
by Peter Funt
"For some reason- be it post-election syndrome, pre-holiday jitters, or
maybe climate change- the nation has been hit by a tsunami of Pressing
Questions. Among them:
*Q:* What is the fiscal cliff?
*A:* The actual cliff is about 45 miles north of Phoenix, Ariz. It got its
name during the 2008 campaign when Sen. John McCain held a photo-op at the
site, threatening to throw one Democrat off the cliff each day until there
was a satisfactory resolution of the fiscal crisis.
*Q:* What is the fiscal crisis?
*A:* In human terms, it’s when so... more »
How Obama Won Ohio
*He stole it, ha-ha!*
"Election Fraud? Obama Won More Than 99 Percent Of The Vote In More Than
100 Ohio Precincts
November 11th, 2012
by Michael
Barack Obama received more than 99% of the vote in more than 100 precincts
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on election day. In fact, there were a
substantial number of precincts where Mitt Romney got exactly *zero votes*.
So how in the world did this happen? Third world dictators don’t even get
99% of the vote. Overall, Mitt Romney received 30.12% of the vote in
Cuyahoga County. There were even a bunch of precincts in Cuyahoga County
that R... more »
Is Miss McConnell Giggling? I Don't Think So
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele summarized the Republican Party's
efforts to win control of the Senate and put Miss McConnell in charge: "All
you had to do was grab four, so how do you lose two?" And most of the
losses were in red states that gave Romney comfortable margins of victory:
Indiana, where Romney won by 10.5% and Richard Mourdock lost by 5.6%;
Missouri, where Romney won by 9.6% and Todd Akin lost by 15.5%; Montana,
where Romney won by 13.5% and Denny Rehberg lost by 3.9%; and North Dakota
where Romney won by 19.8% and Rick Berg lost by 1.0%. How lame was *that*?
Appa... more »
California: "You Can't Fix Stupid, But You Can Move"
*"You Can't Fix Stupid, But You Can Move"*
by Karl Denninger
"You have to laugh... earlier this month, California voters passed
Proposition 30, a ballot measure containing a number of tax increases that
will help avoid drastic cuts to the state's higher education system. But
according to a recent UC Berkeley report, all of those gains could be wiped
out by a series of deals made by University of California administrators.
Many of those officials, the report notes, have close ties to Wall Street
firms making millions in profits from the state's cash-strapped
institutions.
So the... more »
Only a Conservative...
...would find joy in putting large numbers of people out of work.
"We said we would eliminate 19,200 positions within the federal
government and we are doing what we promised to do. In just
six months, we have already achieved more than half the reductions set
out in the budget. A leaner, more affordable government is good for
taxpayers and it's important in terms of our ability to return
RPT-Israel's Barak seeks 3 more Iron Dome rocket interceptors
** Anti-rocket system rushed to the field as Gaza burns
* U.S. backs Israeli air defence as missile threats mount*
Defence Minister Ehud Barak will seek cabinet approval for funds that could
provide Israel with three new Iron Dome rocket interceptors, officials said
on Friday as cross-border fighting surged in Gaza.
Israel's military air defence corps has four Iron Dome batteries deployed
and will receive a fifth from state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Ltd after Barak rushed its production, his ministry said in a statement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/palestin... more »
The Economy: "What Is The 'Fiscal Cliff'”?
*"What Is The 'Fiscal Cliff'”?*
by Patrick Martin
“The term “fiscal cliff,” first used by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke last February, refers to the simultaneous expiration of tax cuts
and imposition of spending cuts on January 1, 2013. The American media has
seized on the term “fiscal cliff” and promoted it, in part, to suggest that
measures which would otherwise be enormously popular- ending the Bush tax
cuts for the wealthy or cutting military spending- are threatening, even
dangerous.
The main purpose of the media propaganda about the impending “cliff” is to
create... more »
John David Ebert - On The Avengers [Movie Review]
*The Avengers *
*A Movie Review *
*by John David Ebert*
*Cinema Discourse*
-
If *Star Wars* is the creation of an American national epic by other means
(than literary), Marvel’s new superhero film *The Avengers* brings into
visibility before us how the superhero is becoming part of an unofficial
American polytheism, or in other words, paganism by other means (than cults
and liturgies).
The seven superheroes of the film’s pantheon are, of course, drawn from Old
World prototypes: Thor, the giant killer, has been lifted out of whole
cloth from Scandinavian mythology; Iron Man is ... more »
Eurozone slumps back into recession after austerity cuts
Output drops across single currency bloc as economists warn of no early end
to crisis
The Independent
Ben Chu
The eurozone has double-dipped back into its second recession in three
years, official figures confirmed yesterday – and analysts warned economic
pain across the single currency will continue well into 2013.
Output across the 17-member bloc fell by 0.1 per cent over the third
quarter of 2012, following a 0.2 per cent decline in the second quarter,
according to Eurostat.
The picture across the Continent was uneven with France and Germany both
eking out 0.2 per cent growt... more »
Palestinians shoot down Israeli F-16 fighter jet in Gaza: Hamas
Palestinian fighters have downed an Israeli warplane flying over the Gaza
Strip as retaliatory rocket attacks from the enclave continue to sound
alarms across Israel.
According to Hamas sources, the Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down on
Friday.
Meanwhile, several Israelis were injured after three rockets fired from
Gaza hit the settlement of Gush Etzion in al-Quds (Jerusalem).
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/11/16/272691/israeli-f16-jet-shot-down-in-gaza/
A chicken moat
And now I think I have run out of how-tos for awhile! :)
Smile-a-while: CNN previews hero Petraeus!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012*
*Well-known genius prepared to “acknowledge” that he knew all along:* No
one who watches the press corps closely can escape the sneaking suspicion
that they can’t be human life-forms.
Case in point: Barbara Starr’s report to Anderson Cooper about what
Petraeus was going to testify today. Starr appeared with Cooper last night,
Thursday night, in the 8 o’clock hour.
What follows was Starr's sneak preview of Petraeus’ upcoming testimony
before the Senate and House Intelligence Committees concerning the Benghazi
attack.
She said the following with a straig... more »
film reviews - Dark Shadows - Cosmopolis
*DARK SHADOWS:*
director: Tim Burton
starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mrs Tim Burton
as I'm British, I didn't see the original TV series that Dark Shadows is
based upon so I have no prejudiced or preconceptions either way but I tell
you what, "I really enjoyed every cinematic minute," of this wonderful
film. I love the 200 years late vernacular of Depp's Barnabas Collins, and
his ever-so-visceral misunderstanding of the era he rises into. The family
is fashionably dysfunctional but in the end, *blood is thicker than water*.
The trailer, while cosy and cutified, doesn't ... more »
WORLD MEDIA OUTLETS VERIFY THAT ISRAELI F-16 HAS BEEN SHOT DOWN, PILOT CAPTURED
*Important info:*
Israel claimed this did not happen, further reducing the believability of
information being shared by the IDF at present.
ANONYMOUS LAUNCHES ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELI WEBSITES IN RETALIATION FOR ISRAELI BOMBINGS
*More here:*
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/16/250005.html
GAIA PORTAL: Incoming Light Energies Create Bubbles of Resolution
*Incoming Light Energies Create Bubbles of Resolution*
by ÉirePort
Higher D incoming Light Energies of Galactic Sun origin create bubbles of
resolution. Temporary isolation and restriction of anharmonics occur until
resolution.
Some will sense a "popping" of these bubbles once resolution completes.
Conscious participation from non-judgment space is helpful in resolving
these anharmonics.
These occur at all levels, individual, group, community, country,
planetary. All Hue-mans sense these multi-level anharmonics and subsequent
resolutions.
Resting and communication with Nature... more »
We Need Another Charter
We need to go beyond our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Conditions on
the ground have changed markedly since the Trudeau government formulated
what Canadians today with genuine affection call "the Charter."
What we need today is a supplemental charter prescribing the principles on
which we are to be governed through this century. We are going to need
clearly stated principles to ensure the social cohesion that will determine
how Canadians weather what's coming our way.
Simple things - healthcare; education; measures to redress inequality of
wealth, income and opportunity - ever... more »
Turkey raps Israel on Gaza, to discuss with U.S., Egypt
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan decried Israeli's air strikes on Gaza
on Friday as a pre-election stunt and said he would discuss the crisis with
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo this weekend.
Under Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party, Turkey has sought to use its
clout as a rising democratic power in the Muslim world to increase its
influence in the Middle East, distancing itself from former ally Israel.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-palestinians-israel-turkey-idUSBRE8AF0TD20121116
Thousands protest in Egypt against Gaza attacks
Thousands protested in Egyptian cities on Friday against Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip and Egypt's president vowed to support the
enclave's population in the face of "blatant aggression".
Western governments are watching Egypt's response to the attacks for signs
of a more assertive stance towards Israel since an Islamist came to power
in the Arab world's most populous nation.
President Mohamed Mursi is mindful of anti-Israeli sentiment among
Egyptians emboldened by last year's Arab Spring uprising but needs to show
Western allies his new government is no threat to Middle Eas... more »
Israel moves to call 75.000 reserves
Israeli ministers were on Friday asked to endorse the call-up of up to
75,000 reservists after Palestinian militants nearly hit Jerusalem with a
rocket for the first time in decades and fired at Tel Aviv for a second day.
The rocket attacks were a challenge to Israel's Gaza offensive and came
just hours after Egypt's prime minister, denouncing what he described as
Israeli aggression, visited the enclave and said Cairo was prepared to
mediate.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-palestinians-israel-hamas-idUSBRE8AD0WP20121116
30年后：试想一下，如果..
*American Scofflaw*
今天呢？特警队和炸弹队的到来。但在此之前，我们进一步推测，这里是一个简短的视频由麻省理工学院的博爱犯下的恶作剧，对于那些不熟悉。
如果它发生在星期六？发生大规模的恐慌。哇，一切都变了。美国已成为土地的毛主席
Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude
YouTube video description - [Channel: Gottfried Leibniz]:
BBC narration of William Wordsworth's 'Prelude'.
*Wikipedia*: "The poem has been referred to as the first *psychological epic
*."
Life on Mars Probable?
Let us deal with this another way. The actual exposed surface of Mars,
which is all we get to see, is a sterilizing environment at best just like
our worst deserts. Finding life there is difficult. Even methane will be
hard to come by in a planet were it is not obviously abundant.
Yet inside the rock near a hotspot, if such still exists, completely
different conditions can prosper. Deeper down the planet's internal heat
becomes available to support anything. So while it is presently nearly
lifeless, it was once anything but lifeless in its biological potential and
that... more »
Language skills relevant in removal of counsel
Maftoun v. Banitaba, 2012 ONCA 786 suggests that choice of counsel has
greater significance where language skills are in play:
[6] In addition to the importance of sustaining the value of a
party's counsel of choice where possible, the removal of counsel for the
respondents would cause them prejudice. Both respondents speak Farsi as do
their counsel. Mr. Zargar, who was self-represented today, required and had
the assistance of an interpreter who speaks Farsi. The importance of being
able to communicate in the language of one's choice is important as it
enables the most ful... more »
Israhell Is Wiping Palestine Off The Map
Israhell assassinated the leader of its enemy, who was *desperate to make
peace*, and then it tells Palestinians and the international community that
it would be alright to have a ceasefire.
Israhell is committing acts of war but then it says it is only acting in
self-defense and asks for a ceasefire. What a cowardly punk Israhell is.
Only morons would agree to a ceasefire in this situation. Forget a
ceasefire.
What will a temporary ceasefire achieve? Nothing. Israhell will just break
it again and assassinate another leader. It has already started the war,
the other side must e... more »
Maybe Hamas wants Bibi re-elected?
A reader writes as below. I am not convinced but she or he makes a credible
argument:
"Iran is nowhere near completing a nuke. Threats that they are getting
close is just a Likudnik talking point.
The real issue here is that Hamas wants to influence the Israeli election
to keep Bibi in power. They are extremists, and the only thing they hate
more than extreme right-wing Israelis are moderate/left-wing Israelis who
might restart the peace process. Hamas (and Bibi) are enemies of peace, and
share the objective of keeping the conflict going, and keeping each other
in power.
Anyone... more »
World cereal production in 2012 down 2.7 percent from the 2011 record
[image: World cereal production, utilization, and stocks, November 2012.
fao.org]8 November 2012 (FAO) – This season’s world cereal supply and
demand balance is proving much tighter than in 2011/12 with global
production falling short of the projected demand and cereal stocks
declining sharply. However, the tightening is not uniform across all
cereals. While this season’s maize and wheat supplies are compromised by
disappointing harvests, supplies of rice are ample, which is prompting a
further build-up of inventories.
- Global cereal *production* in 2012 is expected to fall... more »
Mayan civilization’s collapse linked to climate change
[image: Mayan ruin in Guatemala. Michele Falzone / Photographer's Choice /
Getty Images]
By Deborah Zabarenko
9 November 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For a clue to the possible impact of climate change
on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Mayan
civilization, which disintegrated into famine, war and collapse as a
long-term wet weather pattern shifted to drought.
An international team of researchers compiled a detailed climate record
that tracks 2,000 years of wet and dry weather in present-day Belize, where
Mayan cities developed from the year 300 t... more »
Wave of evictions leads to homeless crisis in Spain
[image: Spain citizen Francisco Rodríguez Flores in a building where he and
his family live that has been taken over by the homeless. It had been
vacant for three years. Samuel Aranda for The New York Times]
By SUZANNE DALEY
11 November 2012
SEVILLE, Spain – The first night after Francisco Rodríguez Flores, 71, and
his wife, Ana López Corral, 67, were evicted from their small apartment
here after falling behind on their mortgage, they slept in the entrance
hall of their building. Their daughters, both unemployed and living with
them, slept in a neighbor’s van.
"It was the worst ... more »
Drought persists in U.S. High Plains despite recent rain
[image: John Honeywell kicks up red dust in a dry field as he pulls a forty
foot grain drill to plant winter wheat near Orlando, Okla., on 12 September
2012. Nearly 60 percent of the contiguous US was in at least "moderate"
drought as of November 13, according to Thursday's Drought Monitor. Sue
Ogrocki / AP file]
By Carey Gillam
15 November 2012
(Reuters) – A storm system that brought cold, wet weather to much of the
United States last week helped ease drought in many states, but some areas
that were most in need of moisture were missed, according to a climatology
report issued o... more »
Russia will back Egyptian efforts to end Israeli aggression: Putin
PressTV
[image: Russian President Vladimir Putin]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will back Egyptian
efforts to put an end to the Israeli aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on
Friday, Putin said Russia planned to support Cairo's efforts directed at
normalizing the situation in the Palestinian territory, the Kremlin said in
a statement.
The remarks come after Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil visited the
Gaza Strip on Friday, where he urged the world leaders to stop Tel Aviv’s
attacks.
... more »
6.8 Magnitude Earthquake KURIL ISLANDS - 16th November 2012
Magnitude
6.8
Date-Time
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 18:12:37 UTC
Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 05:12:37 AM at epicenter
Location
49.291°N, 155.445°E
Depth
4.9 km (3.0 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region
KURIL ISLANDS
Distances
162 km (101 miles) SSW (198°) from Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia
TSUNAMI REPORT
THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIM... more »
Penny's pokies - NSFW - Friday Night Rule 5 - Kaley Cuoco
Not as popular an internet subject as Jennifer Aniston's but still my
public has requested, so...
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION - 16th November 2012
Magnitude
5.0
Date-Time
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 18:00:27 UTC
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 04:00:27 PM at epicenter
Location
55.863°S, 26.708°W
Depth
16.3 km (10.1 miles)
Region
SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
Distances
98 km (60 miles) NNE of Visokoi Island,
Location, Location, Location
Is anyone else noticing the irony of where the deficit hawks are pouncing
on FDR's New Deal in anticipation of disemboweling it?
The apparatchiks of the plutocracy had their first Grand Guignol Bargain
meet-up this morning in that historic bastion of populism known as the Roosevelt
Room. The West Wing work-space actually gets its name from both
Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin.
This was akin to holding a Black Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. I live right
across the river from the second Roosevelt's burying place in Hyde Park. So
if I hear a rumbling from the east, I know it will be th... more »
Israel channel 2 TV: Army orders to mobilize up to 75,000 reservists for possible ground campaign
JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Defence Minister Ehud Barak sought government
approval on Friday to mobilize up to 75,000 reserve troops for Israel's
Gaza campaign, political sources said, in a sign of preparations for a
possible ground offensive.
The sources, speaking after Palestinian rockets were fired at Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv, said ministers were being polled by telephone by the cabinet
secretary to approve the call-up.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Conflict_on_the_Gaza_Strip
Inciting war crimes: Israel minister says force Gaza population into Egypt, cut off water, electricity
Electronic Intifada
Ali Abunimah
Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza city on 15 November 2012.An
Israeli minister has called for the army to bomb Gaza until the population
flees en masse into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, and for water and electricity
supplies to be cut, a clear case of incitement to war crimes.
Israel Katz, Israel’s transport minister, was quoted on the Orthodox
website *B’Hadrei Haredim* on 11 November:
Israel must act in Gaza with a very clear policy. *The leadership of the
Hamas, which is responsible for all the attacks and shooting, must be
eliminated*.... more »
McCain's Benghazi Fail-- Was A Vainglorious Old U.S. Senator Responsible For The Tragedy In Benghazi?
-by Juan Adams
A few weeks back, I was lounging around catching up with the Sunday morning
talk shows and happened upon *Face The Nation* where Senator John McCain
was furiously spinning a conspiracy theory about the attack on the Benghazi
consulate. His takeaway message was that there had either been gross
incompetence or worse, a cover up. McCain's accusatory tone struck me as
rather nasty conduct for a senator but I allowed that there might have been
an element of grief. I too had questioned the rather lax security given the
location and timing of the attack. McCain shook his h... more »
Massing troops and tanks near Gaza, Israel says wants no war
Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said on
Friday it was calling up 16,000 reservists, signs of a possible imminent
invasion of the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes.
Israel's warplanes, drones and helicopters appeared to shift focus from
suspected Palestinian rocket sites to the northern Gaza frontier, where
their bombs created incursion corridors by clearing landmines or guerrilla
gun nests.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-palestinians-israel-gaza-tactics-idUSBRE8AF0XD20121116
U.S. gave A123 $1 million as it filed bankruptcy
The Obama administration provided struggling battery maker A123 Systems Inc
with nearly $1 million on the day it filed for bankruptcy, the company told
lawmakers investigating its government grant.
The company, which makes lithium ion batteries for electric cars, filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after a rescue deal with
Chinese auto parts supplier Wanxiang Group fell apart.
That same day, October 16, A123 received a $946,830 payment as part of its
$249 million clean energy grant from the Energy Department, the company
said in a letter, obtained by Reuters, to Re... more »
EGYPT EXPLODES IN PROTEST OVER ISRAELI BOMBING CAMPAIGN IN SOLIDARITY WITH GAZANS
*Reports coming in that Tahrir square has filled with protestors demanding
to join the Gazans as "human shields" against Israeli bombs.*
Iran ready to sharply increase nuclear work in bunker: IAEA
Iran is set to sharply expand its uranium enrichment in an underground site
after installing all the centrifuges it was built for, a U.N. nuclear
report showed on Friday, a move that could increase Western alarm about
Tehran's nuclear course.
The latest quarterly International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran came
10 days after the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama, which raised
hopes for a revival of nuclear diplomacy with Iran following speculation
that Israel might bomb the nuclear facilities of its arch-enemy soon.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-nuclear... more »
U.S. drug testing firm probed for alleged fraud, intimidation
A federal grand jury in Boston is investigating Millennium Laboratories of
San Diego, a fast-growing private company selling urine drug testing
services to pain clinics across the United States.
The company not only is under investigation by the Justice Department for
allegations of health care fraud but also for intimidating former
employees, one who was portrayed in a slideshow at a company meeting as a
corpse in a body bag.
Two of the ex-employees, who had raised concerns about Millennium's sales
practices, also say they were followed for weeks by private investigators
they beli... more »
The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader US-NATO-Israel Military Agenda. Towards a Scenario of Military Escalation?
Global Research
Michel Chossoduvsky
[image: GazaMap]
On November 14, Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari was murdered in a
Israeli missile attack. In a bitter irony, barely a few hours before the
attack, Hamas received the draft proposal of a permanent truce agreement
with Israel.
“Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received
the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included
mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between
Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”(Haaretz, November 15, 2012)
The targe... more »
Media Report NO Criminal Charges in MF Global Expected
The New York Times and Washington Post emphasize a "risk taking" culture
fostered by Corzine and a failure of regulators in the MF Global scam.
Neither news report addresses the fundamental criminality at issue in MF
Global's "re-hypothetication" of customer accounts.
What is interesting is that the Congressional report cited in both of these
articles *does* outline the criminal suits pending.
So, why are the media focusing on a "risk taking culture" and "regulatory
failure" rather than addressing the criminality at the heart of this
stinking mess?
Before reading The New York Ti... more »
Get Out. Now.
"*We cannot pretend there is any more to do in Afghanistan.*"
That brief observation underlies the argument of former British Liberal Dem
leader, Lord Ashdown, that it's time to pull his country's military forces
out of Afghanistan, just as quickly as possible.
Calling the war in Afghanistan, "*this awful mistake," *Ashdown said the
only reason remaining for fighting is to cover our withdrawal.
*"It is not worth wasting one more life in Afghanistan. All that we can
achieve has now been achieved. All that we might have achieved if we had
done things differently, has been lost. The... more »
Do nation states belong to the 19th century? Is it bad?
Czech president Klaus had to go through another memorable, tense moment
when he was giving an interview in Vienna:
DER STANDARD: Václav Klaus: Is that clear? Yes? Good. (autom. transl. from
German)
After some sentences, he decided that the journalists from Der Standard, a
major [social liberal] Austrian daily, didn't deserve more than he has
already given to them. And I understand him very well.
The journalists pretended that they were asking questions but in reality,
they were trying to bully the interviewee or impose the politically correct
ideology upon him. It quickly became... more »
What is Hamas doing? Watch the circus, not the sideshow
How does Hamas firing rockets at Jerusalem help Hamas?
Not much.
Yes a rocket barrage to express rage at the assassination of Ahmed Jabari
makes some sense. It is a proportionate response. But rockets at Jerusalem?
It screams out "come and retake Gaza so Israel is safe". Hamas doesn't
benefit.
Only Iran benefits.
By causing a distraction for Israel in Gaza they buy time to finish
building an atomic bomb.
I suspect Israel is smart enough to see that.
Remember don't watch the sideshow. Watch the circus.
Jerusalem: Hamas Rocket Attack Targets City
Hamas said it has fired a long-range rocket at Jerusalem - the first time
the holy city is thought to have been targeted by Gaza militants using such
a weapon.
Israeli police said the rocket landed in an open area near Gush Ezion, a
collection of Jewish settlements in the West Bank southeast of the city.
The rocket caused no damage or injuries, the Jewish state's army said.
http://news.sky.com/story/1012190/jerusalem-hamas-rocket-attack-targets-city
Oil Rig Fire Leaves Two Dead Off US Coast
At least two people have died and two more are missing after an explosion
on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a US Coast Guard spokesman confirmed.
Four more people were airlifted to hospital. Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash
did not immediately have information on their condition.
The explosion took place on a shallow-water production platform owned by
Black Elk Energy about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana.
http://news.sky.com/story/1012438/oil-rig-fire-leaves-two-dead-off-us-coast
Res Ipsa Loquitor
Actual screen capture. To say anything further would be superfluous.
(an actual crossposting from the actual Woodshed, actually.)
Tweet
SUE GOOGLE?
Website for this image...
Should Google be sued for allowing certain material on its search pages?
For example, a Tweet, that is alleged to be not 100% balanced, fair and
accurate?
Is the following balanced, fair and accurate:
"Lord Alan Sugar: Sad news on the death of Jimmy Savile very funny man and
did loads of work for charity RIP."
Jimmy Savile
*Puglia*
*Or how about this:*
*Lord McAlpine's Sex Secret.*
*
*
[image: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)]
January 27, 2002
Lord McAlpine's partner "is 27 years his junior, and younger than two of
his children".
"So how has the... more »
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake TAJIKISTAN - 16th November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 16:40:17 UTC
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 09:40:17 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
37.544°N, 72.030°E
Depth
127.6 km (79.3 miles)
Region
TAJIKISTAN
Distances
36 km (22 miles) NNE of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan
4.0 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN IRAN - 16th November 2012
Magnitude ML 4.0
Region SOUTHERN IRAN
Date time 2012-11-16 15:54:18.0 UTC
Location 28.68 N ; 51.23 E
Depth 22 km
Distances 14 km W Khormuj, Iran
Hermoso comedor urbano - Urban Zen Colletion
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SUSAN RICE CLARIFICATION WATCH: Where does Standard Group Paraphrase come from!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012*
*In your view, what did Rice say:* We awoke this morning to NBC’s Tracie
Potts. She was paraphrasing Susan Rice on the cable show, Early Look.
We can find no record of what Potts said, though her very unhelpful
paraphrase turned on a key word—“spontaneous.”
But in yesterday morning’s New York Times, reporter Mark Landler offered
this Standard Paraphrase of What Rice Really Said. We don’t think this is
good work:
LANDLER (11/15/12): In his first formal news conference in eight months,
which was meant to position Mr. Obama for the coming fiscal battles bu... more »
Israeli media issues statement that citizens should prepare for "7 Day war"
*Alert has been updated with new information regarding Gazan situation.*
Amahacas de playa en un lindo día de primavera
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Bañera de lujo con cristales transparente
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Hotel Bahía de la tortuga en Hawaii - Turtle Bay Resort
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Oil-Rig Fire in Gulf of Mexico: 2 Dead
Coast Guard officials said they are investigating a fire at an oil-drilling
platform off the coast of Louisiana.
A parish official said the rig isn't drilling at a deep-water site like the
Macondo well that blew out in 2010. That blowout led to an explosion that
killed 11 workers and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578122971137576286.html
A Way With Words
As Glenn Greenwald and others have cogently pointed out, the American media
have been displaying a definite neo-con/neo-liberal bias when it comes to
coverage of the recent Israel/Gaza violence. Israeli casualties are
always mentioned in the first graf of New York Times stories, for example,
while that much worse and so unfortunate "collateral damage" inflicted on
the Palestinian side gets buried deep within the sixth or seventh paragraph.
And the coverage also reflects the dawning of the new age of War by Tweet.
A series of graphic AP photos showing a grief-stricken Palestinian fath... more »
Reloj de oro Rolex - Rolex Oyster perpetual datejust
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Developers and Military/Industrial Complex Bump Heads in Sacramento County
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours ago
By: Duane Craig
A now defunct housing development in Sacramento County is still haunting
the developers who originally had to find sources of water other than
groundwater to move on with the project, according to this Sacramento
Business Journal article.
At the center of the controversy are a number of aviation manufacturers
including Aerojet, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. In a lawsuit, the
developers, allege that the manufacturers released hazardous substances
into eastern Sacramento County. Those substances, the developers say,
contaminated the ground water, requiring them to spe... more »
Sexual harassment constitutes sexual discrimination
*Friedmann v. MacGarvie*, 2012 BCCA 445 is a source for the proposition
that sexual harassment constitutes sexual discrimination:
[32] One way to demonstrate in a discrimination case that the group
characteristic of the complainant was a factor in the adverse treatment
received by him or her is to introduce evidence of the treatment of persons
who did not share the group characteristic. However, that is not the only
way in which it can be demonstrated. In a sexual harassment case, the very
nature of the sexual harassment can be sufficient to establish that the
gender of... more »
Leaked documents: Mainstream media ignoring Salazar scheme to steal Navajo water rights
Media ignoring leaked documents of Salazar/Kyl theft of Navajo water rights
*By Brenda Norrell*
*Censored News*
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The mainstream media is ignoring these leaked documents below, exposing the
Navajo water rights theft scheme of Interior Sec. Ken Salazar, with Arizona
Sen. Jon Kyl.
After the meeting was exposed, Salazar put a public relations spin on it
this week and made it public to further the cover-up.
Arizona is desperate for Navajo water from the Little Colorado River, both
to water lawns and golf courses and continue the lavish lifestyles, and for... more »
Catch of the Day
To Dave Wasserman, who first of all has been performing a terrific service
to everyone by updating the presidential election results when most or all
of the major news organization sites haven't been, and second notes:
4,000+ new votes reported in Colorado, now within 0.03% of losing "Tipping
Point State" honors to Pennsylvania
Which means that everyone owes a major apology to Team Romney. Even if
Pennsylvania doesn't wind up as the state that put Barack Obama over the
top, it was pretty close, and Romney's campaign was entirely sensible in
putting resources there; indeed, the real... more »
NRC Charged With Lessening Restrictions
"According to a year-long investigation finalized by the Associated Press
in 2012, the AP says they believe that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
has regularly lessened restrictions in recent years. In their probe, they
found that 82 of America’s operating reactors are more than a
quarter-century old, with 66 units having been re-licensed for an
additional two decades."
Cited in "Cracks found in South Carolina atomic station's nuclear reactor
head." RT Nov 15, 2012
http://rt.com/usa/news/cracks-atomic-reactor-head-797/
Danny Baker on the Jonathan Ross Show
"Po
"Possibly the greatest radio presenter" - Possibly?
France at war with The Economist after British magazine declares country as Europe's 'time bomb'
French officials blasted weekly British magazine The Economist after its
front cover claimed that France was the 'time-bomb at the heart of Europe'.
They accused the magazine of sensationalist journalism and compared the
publication to Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine which carried cartoons of
Prophet Muhammad naked in September.
The Economist's front cover showed seven baguettes held together by a
French tricolour with a lit fuse protruding from the centre.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233943/The-Economist-riles-French-officials-describing-France-time-bomb-Europe.html
Poland, France back stronger EU, bilateral ties
The leaders of Poland and France say they want the new European Union
budget to allow for development and further integration despite the need
for cuts and austerity measures.
French President Francois Hollande visited Warsaw on Friday and met with
his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Komorowski. They said EU leaders need to
make targeted decisions as they discuss the upcoming EU budget, in order to
help the 27-nation bloc and its 17-nation eurozone overcome the current
debt crisis
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUmnHTvToK61WnI1dpN37ZXJsdYw?docId=0fa6aad3fd524f4c85cf... more »
Music star Al Gore plans a virtual reality drop
The king of pop is dead; long live Al Gore.
Honestly, I think this "adjust frequencies" music genre is pretty good. He
could join the young rapping Australian climate alarmists, too.
Yesterday, I watched Al Gore's "Dirty Weather" show for about 30 minutes in
total and Anthony Watts' competing TV program for more than hour; it was
especially Roy Spencer that made the watching irresistible.
The difference couldn't be more striking. It's often being said that the
climate panic is driven by scientists. But Al Gore's show offered virtually
no scientists. It offered lots of ordinary peo... more »
Hamas Claims Rocket Attack
Air raid sirens have sounded in Jerusalem, signaling a possible rocket
attack aimed at Israel's capital.
Channel 10 reports that two rockets landed outside Jerusalem.
The Israel Defence Force confirmed that a rocket was fired from Gaza to an
area outside Jerusalem.
Hamas militants said they had fired a long-range missile at Jerusalem.
http://news.sky.com/story/1012190/jerusalem-hamas-claims-rocket-attack
Democracy is Dead - and the People know it.
Yesterday the people of England and Wales were asked to vote for the newly
created posts of Police and Crime Commissioners. The totally alien idea is
akin to the American concept of Elected Sheriffs, and has absolutely no
place in our countries. Of course, to the Internationalists and
Atlanticists, anything which undermines the identity of sovereign nations,
is a good thing.
We have recently had all manner of pointless referenda, including
Proportional Representation, Regional Assemblies in England, Directly
Elected Mayors, and such nonsense. In every case, the hoped for outco... more »
Egypt won't leave Gaza alone: president
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said Friday that Egypt will not leave the
Gaza Strip alone while describing the Israeli military operation against
the Palestinian enclave as a "barefaced" aggression on humanity.
"I'm warning the aggressors on Gaza, they can't have any power over the
strip," Morsi said in a statement after the Friday prayer.
"Cairo won't leave Gaza alone, and I'm speaking on behalf of all Egyptian
people that Egypt now is different than before," he added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/16/c_131979748.htm
Friday Morning Linkage
From our infatuation with swing states to the pageantry of the Chinese
Communist Catwalk — great night of TV in China as Xi Jingping steps out
first from behind the curtain. I miss the old days when it was a
surprise…. This isn’t going to end well. This morning’s Jerusalem Post
editorial: ”Operation Pillar of Defense
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75,000 Troops to "secure" chemical weapons in Syria.....
That's according to the Pentagon!. Were going long so sit a spell
*NYT's *
The Pentagon has told the Obama administration that any military effort to
seize Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would require upward of 75,000
troops
The estimated size of the potential effort, provided to the White House by
the military’s Central Command and Joint Staff, called into question
whether the United States would have the resources to act quickly if it
detected the movement of chemical weapons
Check out the perception management!
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Iraq releases suspected Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq
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