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'Parliament is sovereign': Grayling warns Strasbourg in row over prisoner votes as ex-minister says UK should leave European court
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling today raised the prospect of Britain
defying the European Court of Human Rights over giving prisoners the vote.
Speaking in the Commons he repeatedly stressed the UK Parliament is
‘sovereign’ and it was up to MPs to decide whether or not to comply with
rulings from Strasbourg.
Even if fines were imposed on Britain, MPs could decide not to pay them.
Despite Attorney General Dominic Grieve warning Cabinet ministers they
could not take a stand against a European court’s controversial diktat, Mr
Grayling insisted: ‘Ultimately this Parliament is sovereign... more »
MISSING RADIATION DATA
*TEPCO adds missing radiation data to online archive** *November 20, 2012
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211200029
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
[Excerpted] Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Nov. 19 that previously missing
radiation monitoring data taken during the early phase of last year's
nuclear disaster is now available from the utility's online database.
The data in question concerns readings at monitoring posts on the grounds
of TEPCO's Fukushima
No. 2 nuclear power plant, 12 kilometers south of the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant.
Readings taken between 9 ... more »
Indian radiographer who could not speak English worked at cancer hospital for SIX YEARS before being sacked after string of complaints
An Indian radiographer has been sacked from his job at a cancer hospital
after six years following a string of complaints that he could not speak
clear English.
Ramani Ramaswany was dismissed from The Christie hospital, in Manchester,
and suspended from the national radiography register for a year after
complaints were made against him that he was unable to communicate
effectively with patients and colleagues.
The Health and Care Professions Council found that Mr Ramaswamy had showed
a ‘lack of competence’ in a number of areas while working at The Christie.
http://www.dailymail.c... more »
Imperio de las luces nocturnas
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Imagenes creativas de la vida en el bosque
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F-35 Sleaze
Nice work. Steal an election. Steal a majority. Dominate committees to
hide your crimes.
The NDP accused the Conservatives of using a House of Commons committee to
whitewash the auditor general's scathing indictment of the government's
mammoth F-35 jet fighter procurement.
The NDP levelled the charge in a dissenting opinion to the public accounts
committee's report, tabled Wednesday.
"The NDP remains deeply concerned that this study did not allow
parliamentarians to shed light and complete the inquiry on this very
important matter," says the three-page dissenting opinion.
"*Only sev... more »
Educate Your Family on ALEC
This holiday - when you are together with your family - please take a
moment to educate them on ALEC.
Connect to Bill Moyers' expose' on ALEC - watch is together as a family -
then discuss it.
Be thankful that we currently have a representative government of, by, and
for the people.
Moyers 30 minute ALEC expose' is
>>>>HERE<<<<
Even is there is only one family member willing to listen - someone who has
never heard about ALEC before - that will be one more person who can
continue the message.
**
David Cecil: Uganda Halts British Producer's Gay Trial
A British theatre producer, facing two years in jail for staging a play
featuring a homosexual, has had his case postponed again by a Ugandan court.
The postponement comes at a time when the Ugandan parliament is about to
debate a bill allowing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality".
David Cecil, 34, was arrested in September after refusing to allow
government censors to review the play The River and the Mountain which was
performed in August.
He was charged with "disobeying lawful orders".
http://news.sky.com/story/1015104/uganda-halts-british-producers-gay-trial
Varias aves volando por el bosque
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Thanks!
I say my “gratitudes” almost every night before I go to sleep.
There are a lot of things and people I am thankful for – Republicans are
not on the list, anywhere.
This year I am thankful for
My friends
My kid (generic on purpose)
My brother and his wife
My job
My dependable old car that gets me to my job
A roof over my head
Food in my cupboard
Clothes on my back
In addition to those normal types of thanks that most people spout off
about, even if they really don’t mean it,
I give thanks almost every night for
For my blog readers
For all the tweeps @Progress2Day
For the dedicated... more »
Untitled
*Hurricane Sandy Reveals That Evacuating Is No Holiday ~Sandy Rosenthal*
*Federal Prosecutors Let It All Hang Out On The Internet ~John McQuaid*
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 14:19:30 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 11:19:30 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
35.284°N, 140.437°E
Depth
78.1 km (48.5 miles)
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
6 km (3 miles) ENE of Ohara, Japan
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake FIJI REGION - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 14:16:40 UTC
Friday, November 23, 2012 at 02:16:40 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
17.891°S, 178.502°W
Depth
577.1 km (358.6 miles)
Region
FIJI REGION
Distances
278 km (172 miles) SE of Lambasa, Fiji
Paisaje de las curvas de una carretera
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Post Hurricane Sandy Drag Benefit for The Red Cross and Cherry Grove, NY Dunes Fund
This is a post Hurricane Sandy benefit for The Red Cross and for the Cherry
Grove Dunes Fund.
Untitled
*Saints Nation Guru: Fan Predictions for 49ers Game!*
Soldiers spell out critique of Netanyahu as a ‘loser’ for not using ground forces in Gaza
http://www.timesofisrael.com/soldiers-spell-out-critique-of-netanyahu-as-a-loser-for-not-using-ground-forces-in-gaza/
Cornhusk dolls and flawed development plans
Children of the cornhusk dolls on the march (Jody Paterson photo)
The cornhusk doll kids of La Pintada are part of life in Copan Ruinas.
La Pintada is about five kilometres away - an hour’s walk, one more poor
village among many. A few years ago, a development project introduced a
couple of microenterprises, women’s co-ops to produce “artesania” for the
tourist market.
One group of women make cornhusk dolls. They’re cute, brightly coloured and
obviously take some skill, but are a little boring.
And the marketing plan is deeply flawed. The children of La Pintada walk
into town, with gru... more »
When should counsel be appointed to prosecute a criminal appeal
*R. v. Frank*, 2012 NSCA 114 deals with when counsel should be appointed to
prosecute a criminal appeal:
[7] Section 684 of the *Criminal Code *provides:
*684*. (1) A court of appeal or a judge of that court may, at any time,
assign counsel to act on behalf of an accused who is a party to an appeal
or to proceedings preliminary or incidental to an appeal where, in the
opinion of the court or judge, it appears desirable in the interests of
justice that the accused should have legal assistance and where it appears
that the accused has not sufficient means to obtain that a... more »
Untitled
*Resident questions why S&WB employee was swapping out iconic meter covers*
*Texas Brine sinkhole plan would plug well*
*Sandy's impact on east coast fisheries still playing out*
SUSY exists because the number 3/2 can't be missing
This blog entry elaborates upon a simple point made by Nima Arkani-Hamed in
a recent talk (and by others). First, look at this IQ test. What is missing
in the box?\[
\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
j& 0 & 1/2 & 1 & ??? & 2\\
\hline
\end{array}
\] Those of you who have figured out that \(???=3/2\) earned a ticket and
they may continue to read. ;-)
The numbers in the table are the spins of the known elementary particles.
The Higgs boson became the first discovered spinless elementary particle,
one with \(j=0\). Leptons and quarks have \(j=1/2\). The photon, gluon,
W-boson... more »
Thanksgiving 2008
Dateline: Provincetown, Massachusetts, November 25, 2008
Just weeks ago, Barack Obama had been elected the 44th
president of the United States, yet liberal journalist Mike Flannigan is
the only political pundit in America not writing about it. In fact, while
his colleagues are exhausting every minutia of the historic election, Mike
takes an ill-advised and deeply unpopular leave of absence from his
magazine to go on an epic road trip up and down the upper east coast. Why?
What was supposed to be an overnight trip began when he gets a... more »
An Open Letter To Big Dan From The Guy Who's BETTER Than Nate Silver: RICHARD CHARNIN - TRUTH IS ALL
*RICHARD CHARNIN: Truth Is All *
I met Richard Charnin on *THE BRAD BLOG*. His comments under the username
"TRUTH IS ALL" about his election and voting analysis were and are
impressive to everyone. I called him THE ULTIMATE NUMBERS CRUNCHER. Anyone
who researches and is hip to electronic voting machine fraud, election
fraud, follows *Bev Harris' BlackBoxVoting.org*, etc... knows of Richard
Charnin. He has written several *BOOKS* on these subjects. He wrote me the
following on Facebook, and I feel fortunate to have friends like him write
to me, and I'd like to share this with every... more »
Happy Thanksgiving!
Since this is my blog and I make the rules, I hereby decree that you don't
have to give thanks today if you can't help but feel like ungrateful little
wretches. Personally speaking, I am always grateful on Thanksgiving when it
turns out that my turkey has nicely thawed. There is nothing worse than
trying to pry out a frozen congealed mass of guts from the belly of the
beast at 7 in the morning. I did that under-the-faucet operation several
years ago, and I don't ever want to go through it again.
If anybody is unsociably huddled in front of a computer screen on this day
of family to... more »
Boston Globe Junk Food
*There is so much of it you could overdose on it. *
*
**I'll get you started with a small bite I noticed:*
"Hostess closing 3 bakeries following strike" by Sarah Skidmore |
Associated Press, November 13, 2012
Hostess Brands Inc. is *permanently closing* three bakeries following a *nationwide
strike* by its bakers union.
The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and Wonder Bread said Monday that the
strike has prevented it from producing and delivering products, and it is
closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. The facilities
employ 627 workers.
Hostess, based in Irving, ... more »
This Cycle's Biggest Turkey: Meet Steve Israel (D-NY)
All the votes are counted and all the races decided-- although there's a
Republican vs Republican runoff in Louisiana and a recount pending in North
Carolina that could put Blue Dog Mike McIntyre's razor thin win in
jeopardy-- and the make up of the new Congress goes from 240 Republicans
and 190 Democrats to 234 Republicans and 201 Democrats. Nationally
Democrats won slightly over half a million more votes in congressional
races but because of grotesquely partisan gerrymandering by
Republican-controlled state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
and North Carolina winning ... more »
An interview you must watch
I will post more about this later, work must take priority...
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=_gs7igC5siY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_gs7igC5siY&gl=GB&client=mv-vf-uk&safesearch=always
Giving thanks
Not that warm on this holiday so I don't have many Thanksgiving traditions.
Not even around the food. I have a few side dish favorites but don't really
like turkey. Well, except for the classic WKRP Thanksgiving episode. This
is the best capture I've ever seen. It includes the build up that explains
the punchline, for those too young to remember seeing it when it originally
aired. Dr. Johnny Fever was so hot. He was ironic *way* before it was cool.
A cheerful holiday to all, whether or not you celebrate the occasion.
East London attack on teenager: Man Arrested
A man has been arrested after a teenage girl was knocked unconscious and
left sprawled across the pavement in an apparently random attack near her
home.
Shocking CCTV footage showed a man jogging up behind the 16-year-old and
smacking her around the head.
The girl was left lying on the ground in Plaistow, east London, as her
attacker casually jogged off.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A man, aged 34, was arrested yesterday
evening in connection with the assault of a 16-year-old female in High
Street, Plaistow.
"He remains in custody at an east London police station."
http://ww... more »
Cameron 'not happy' as EU budget negotiations begin
The British prime minister is understood to be unhappy with the compromise
offered by European Council President Herman van Rompuy, because it would
involve cuts to Britain's 3.6bn euro annual rebate. Speaking to the House
of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Cameron said he would not accept any cuts to
Britain's rebate.
Herman van Rompuy is caught in a balancing act between several wealth EU
nations, who want a freeze or a reduction to the annual EU budget, and a
bloc of poorer nations who would like an increase.
http://www.channel4.com/news/cameron-not-happy-as-eu-budget-negotiations-begin
Jersey Bridgeman, six, found dead just a year after her father was jailed for keeping her chained to a dresser
A six-year-old Arkansas girl, whose father and stepmother were arrested
last year for chaining her to a dresser, was found dead early Tuesday
morning.
Authorities found the body of young Jersey Bridgeman in a vacant house
approximately 10 minutes after she was reported missing.
So far, investigators are ruling her death as a homicide but have yet to
say how exactly the girl died or release any names of suspects.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236668/Girl-6-father-chained-dresser-dead.html
Japan's new nuclear-proof robot gets stage fright: High-tech machine locks up as it's unveiled for the first time
The failure occurred as Toshiba presented the four-legged device,
forcing
embarrassed technicians to meekly carry it away. Although it is a world
leader in robotics, Japan did not have a device capable of entering the
damaged Fukushima nuclear facility after last year's devastating
earthquake
and tsunami. Instead, authorities were forced to bring in U.S. robots.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2236786/Japans-new-nuclear-proof-robot-gets-stage-fright-High-tech-machine-locks-unveiled-time.html
5.6 Magnitude Earthquake SALTA, ARGENTINA - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
5.6
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 13:07:05 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 10:07:05 AM at epicenter
Location
22.666°S, 63.488°W
Depth
459.1 km (285.3 miles)
Region
SALTA, ARGENTINA
Distances
180 km (112 miles) SE (134°) from Tarija, Bolivia
Huge Martian dust storm picks up steam - but are NASA's rovers safe in its path?
NASA is hoping that their red planet rovers won’t roll over in the face of
a massive dust storm.
The space agency is tracking a regional storm on Mars, but says it has so
far not affected the operations of Curiosity and Opportunity - its two
rovers on the surface.
The storm raging in the planet’s southern hemisphere was spotted earlier
this month by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circling high above the
planet.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236698/NASA-monitoring-huge-Martian-dust-storm-path-Curiosity-Opportunity.html
Rebecca Blake Jailed for 3 Months in Dubai
A British woman and Irish man accused of engaging in sexual activities in a
Dubai taxi have been sentenced to three months in prison and then
deportation.
Rebecca Blake and Conor McRedmond denied charges of "breach of honour with
consent" and committing "an indecent act in a taxi" when they appeared in
court last month.
They pleaded guilty to a third charge related to consumption of alcohol in
public.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014989/dubai-taxi-sex-british-woman-is-jailed
Pearson's Despair
Like Chris Hedges, Michael Harris speaks truth to power. Today he takes on
the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians -- and the Harper
government's Middle East policy:
Question for Stephen Harper, John Baird, Jason Kenney and Peter MacKay: if
you were in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, instead of sitting in front of
a fire in Ottawa with an NFL game on TV, if you were in the morgue in Gaza
looking at the men, women and children now dead even though they were not
members of Hamas, would you still say it was okay? Would you still write
that blank cheque to the government of ... more »
Deal on 2014-2020 EU budget hinges on deep cuts
BRUSSELS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - European Union leaders will need to agree a
first-ever cut in the bloc's long-term spending plans if they are to clinch
a deal at a summit starting on Thursday, with the drive for austerity
likely to trump all other concerns.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel played down the chances of an agreement
this week, even though senior EU officials warned that failure could lead
to a renewed crisis and derail efforts to shore up the euro zone.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/21/eu-budget-idUSL5E8MLAJF20121121
Happy Thanksgiving To All My American Family & Friends
Have a great day and a great weekend! Happy Thanksgiving!
York County Jail: 40 Female Prison Inmates Hospitalized
More than 40 inmates at the York County Prison in Pennsylvania were taken
to the hospital Wednesday night. They were treated for carbon monoxide
poisoning.
Russia opposes NATO missile deployment near Turkey-Syria border
Russia opposes the possible deployment by NATO of Patriot missiles near
Turkey's border with Syria, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
"This would not foster stability in the region," Foreign Ministry spokesman
Alexander Lukashevich said of Turkey's request for deployment to the
Western military alliance.
NATO ambassadors met on Wednesday to consider the request, which followed
weeks of talks between Turkey and NATO allies about how to shore up
security on its 900-km (560-mile) border to avoid a spillover from the
Syrian civil war.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in... more »
Newspaper copy editor punished for adding 'allegedly' to sentence stating Obama was born in Hawaii
A
newspaper copy editor who added the word 'allegedly' to a report
stating
Obama was born in Hawaii has been disciplined after the report generated
searing attack from readers.
Appearing in the Montana Independent on Sunday, the edit to an
Associated
Press report covering the president's visit to Asia was said by the
paper
to have been an error in judgement, wrongly meant as a joke.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236415/Birthers-Montana-Independent-copy-editor-disciplined-adding-allegedly-Obama-born-Hawaii-report.html
Protestors, heavily armored police and bargain-hungry shoppers: America prepares for Black Friday
Shoppers,
protestors and police are gearing up for an expected bout of
mayhem at the nation's malls and superstores Friday as the U.S.
officially
kicks off its holiday season with the biggest shopping day of the year.
Hundreds of people are already pitching camps outside of Walmarts, Best
Buys and other superstores across America, hoping to catch the
door-buster
sales this Black Friday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236687/Black-Friday-2012-preparations-Protestors-heavily-armored-police-bargain-hungry-shoppers.html
'Fire Lindsey Stone': Nonprofit fires the two women who sparked outrage online with Photo
Two Massachusetts women have been fired from their jobs after posting a
photo to Facebook in which one of them was depicted flashing her middle
finger at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lindsey Stone, 30, and coworker Jamie Schuh, 38, were sacked from their
jobs on Wednesday after the photo, which Schuh snapped of Stone, sparked
outrage online. The incident inspired an unidentified Facebook user to
start a group called 'Fire Lindsey Stone,' which helped the photo gain even
more attention this week, garnering more than 19,000 'likes' since Monday
from other users.
http://www.dailymai... more »
Gaza ceasefire: local press reaction
Rashomon 羅生門
Story
Palestinian papers are broadly supportive of the Gaza ceasefire agreed
between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, while reactions in Israel
are more mixed.
The Hamas-run, Gaza-based Filastin newspaper runs a headline quoting Hamas
Prime Minister Ismail Haniya as saying that "we are proud of resistance and
our people's steadfastness" and that his government "is satisfied with the
truce agreement".
The paper reports that the "Palestinian government in Gaza has announced
that it will make 22 November an official national holiday" and says that
"all parts of t... more »
Al-Hilli's family who was massacred in the Alps were shot by a crazed serial killer with a hatred of tourists, say detectives
Police officers investigating the horrific murders of a British family in
the Alps believe they were shot by a serial killer with a hatred of
tourists, it has emerged.
The motive behind the horrific killings of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal
and mother-in-law Suhaila Iqbal while on a camping holiday in the south of
France have left detectives baffled.
But French detectives say they have now linked the murders of the British
family with the mysterious death of another tourist in July.
Xavier Baligant, 29, was shot four times at a rest area near Nancy while he
was heading home to Belgi... more »
Southern European Jobseekers Head North in Droves
Economic crisis and mass unemployment in Southern Europe have triggered an
exodus of highly qualified jobseekers, many of whom are making their way
north to Germany. There, a relatively strong economy and growing shortage
of skilled workers makes companies eager to ensure that the newcomers feel
welcome.
Ziehl-Abegg, a mid-sized specialist in ventilation technology based in the
southwestern German town of Künzelsau, recently welcomed two new engineers
from Portugal, and a third is on his way.
"We always take them under our wing," says company spokesman Rainer Grill.
"Our employees ... more »
General Petraeus’s leaked emails about Israel
Interestingly, in an unrelated story on the supposedly declining power of
the Israel lobby in today's Guardian, the paper's Washington correspondent,
Chris McGreal, writes:
Senior figures in the American military, including General David Petraeus
who has commanded US forces in both wars, have identified Israel's
continued occupation of Palestinian land as an obstacle to resolving those
conflicts.
McGreal is referring to the general's official "posture" statement on US
Central Command -- which Petraeus was in charge of before he was redeployed
to Afghanistan by President Obama a fort... more »
Turkish PM condemns UN Security Council, Israel
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he does not trust the
United Nations due to its failure in the Syrian crisis, while condemning
Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Erdoğan described Israel yesterday as a “terrorist state” for carrying out
its bombardment of Gaza, highlighting hostility for Ankara’s former ally
since relations between the countries collapsed in 2010, Reuters reported.
His comments came after nearly a week of Palestinian rocket attacks on
Israel and Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-condemns-un-security-council-is... more »
The real struggle begins Europe descends into fascism
Across southern Europe resistance is taking on a new urgency. In Spain
people are speaking of the start of ‘the real struggle’, while in Greece
the term ‘civil war’ permeates the political climate. In both countries a
frightening re-emergence of a dictatorship past seems to characterize the
current historical moment as fascist ideologies become more acceptable and
police tactics become more pre-emptive and militarized. These two trends
emerging together, the rise of far right ideologies and pre-emptive
militarized policing, indicate a shift in the discourses of legitimacy used
by th... more »
California gets face scanners to spy on everyone at once
In a single second, law enforcement agents can match a suspect against
millions upon millions of profiles in vast detailed databases stored on the
cloud. It’s all done using facial recognition, and in Southern California
it’s already occurring.
Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and
matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile,
scanning millions upon millions of entries from within vast, intricate
databases stored on the cloud.
It’s done with state of the art facial recognition technology, and in
Southern California it... more »
China's New Passport has Expansionist Designs
China has done it again. Neighbors all peeved....
The Philippines and Vietnam condemned Chinese passports containing a map of
China's disputed maritime claims on Thursday, branding the new design a
violation of their sovereignty.
The map means countries disputing the Chinese claims will have to stamp
microchip-equipped passports of countless visitors, in effect acquiescing
to the Chinese point of view.
The Peaceful Rise© in action! According to other news sources, the pages
contain photos of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan, that reservoir built by the
Japanese, and another site in Taiwan. W... more »
The Secret War Between China and the US for Africa's Oil Riches
In the struggle to secure energy resources, the great powers consider all
states to be fair game. Indeed, this is precisely what characterizes
American foreign policy in the modern era. When it comes to economic and
geopolitical interests, Washington seldom differentiates between democratic
leaders and despots, especially when those interests involve oil.
Currently, the stakes are high in the rush to secure oil resources and
nowhere is this more evident than in the Sino-American rivalry in Africa.
Both states are competing to secure their share of oil supplies in order to
quench the... more »
Tottenham Hotspur Fans Attacked In Rome by Masked Gang
A group of English football fans have been injured in a late-night clash in
Rome ahead of a Europa League match.
At least nine Britons and an American were hurt when they were set upon by
masked assailants in a pub in the Italian capital, according to police.
The Britons were in the country to support Tottenham Hotspur who are due to
play Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico on Thursday night.
They were set upon by knife-wielding "Ultras" - fanatical fans - when they
were enjoying a drink at The Drunken Ship pub, according to reports.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014951/tottenham-hotspur-fans... more »
Bahrain repressed protesters with West's tacit approval - Amnesty International
A year after an eruption of protests in Bahrain, the ruling monarchy
continues to commit serious human rights abuses against activists. Amnesty
International has criticized the US and UK for ignoring the repression, and
urged action.
In November 2011, a panel of human rights experts investigated the uprising
in Bahrain and its aftermath and released the Bahraini Independent
Commission of Enquiry (BICI) report. In June 2012, the panel sent a follow
up unit to monitor Bahrain's progress in implementing the report’s
recommendations. Amnesty International has found that human rights
a... more »
4.0 Magnitude Earthquake SICILY, ITALY - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude ML 4.0
Region SICILY, ITALY
Date time 2012-11-22 11:25:52.0 UTC
Location 37.79 N ; 14.98 E
Depth 17 km
Distances 10 km S Randazzo, Italy
Rebels seize army base in eastern Syria
Activists say Syrian rebels have seized a key military base with artillery
stockpiles in the country's east.
The capture of the base in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province near the
border with Iraq follows the seizure of a military airport in the same area
last week.
The rebels have been making advances in the strategic province for weeks.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/rebels-seize-army-base-in-eastern-syria-1.1048830
UN under fire over fall of Goma in DR Congo
The UN's failure to confront insurgents who seized a strategic city in the
Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday has raised questions about its
largest and costliest peacekeeping mission.
The blue helmets gave up the battle for Goma in the eastern part of the
country without firing a shot, standing aside as M23 rebels - widely
believed to be backed by Rwanda - overran the frontier city of up to one
million people.
For the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, it was "absurd" that the
UN troops had allowed the rebels to parade past them. He urged that the
mandate of the more th... more »
Forget Nobel Peace Prize, EU launches summit warfare
The European Union may have won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but to
many EU leaders, officials, diplomats and even journalists, it can feel
more like a torture chamber.
Increasingly, Europe is governed at night by leaders in an advanced state
of exhaustion, disregarding scientific evidence that this can lead to bad
decisions, or non-decisions.
Over the past three years, the EU has held 25 summits to try to tackle its
debt crisis and related economic turmoil, with few of those meetings ending
before 3 or 4 a.m. -- usually after 12 hours or more of near-fruitless
negotiation.
h... more »
Afghan opium growth sees "alarming" rise: U.N.
Afghanistan needs to be more serious about fighting drugs after an
"alarming" 18 percent increase in opium cultivation this year, the U.N.
drugs agency said on Tuesday.
The rise was mainly due to high prices and a failure of state agencies to
work together to wipe out a trade that helps fund the Taliban-led
insurgency, a United Nations report said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/20/us-afghanistan-opium-idUSBRE8AJ13A20121120
After Sandy, some dump homes, while others hunt for bargains
"Reduced for Quick Sale!" reads Mike Montalbano's Craigslist ad for the
three-bedroom home he needs to sell before he can relocate for a new job.
The drywall is new, as are the appliances. The only problem? Location.
Montalbano's home is in Tom's River, New Jersey, which was pummeled by last
month's Sandy megastorm.
"A lot of people are scared to come back to the water," says Montalbano.
"Back in the day, everybody wanted to come to the shore. Now it's a mess
down here."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/20/us-storm-sandy-realestate-idUSBRE8AJ10620121120
Euro zone faces deepest downturn since early 2009
The euro zone economy is on course for its weakest quarter since the dark
days of early 2009, according to business surveys that showed companies
toiling against shrinking order books in November.
Service sector firms like banks and hotels that comprise the bulk of the
economy fared particularly badly this month, and laid off staff at a faster
pace.
While the monthly rate of decline that manufacturers reported eased far
more than economists anticipated, Markit's latest Purchasing Managers'
Indexes (PMIs) pointed to little change overall for a recession-hit euro
zone this month.
ht... more »
Sarkozy in court over campaign
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at a Bordeaux court
Thursday for questioning in a probe involving illegal campaign donations,
CNN affiliate BFM-TV said.
The investigation of the former leader has largely centered around whether
L'Oreal cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt and her staff illegally
helped him during his 2007 presidential campaign.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/22/world/europe/france-sarkozy-court/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Israeli military touts successes after conflict
The relentless pace of the Israeli airstrike on Gaza gave the country's
military time to make a significant dent in the offensive capability of
Hamas, the Israeli military said.
Over the eight day conflict, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) looked to
deplete some of the estimated 12,000 rockets Hamas has in its arsenal and
destroy tunnels that are said to be used to smuggle weapons.
"We are very satisfied with the achievements that we have had in this
operation," Israel Defense Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said
on CNN's 'Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.'
http://securi... more »
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake BALI REGION, INDONESIA - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
5.0
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 09:09:31 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 05:09:31 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
8.907°S, 115.153°E
Depth
73.8 km (45.9 miles)
Region
BALI REGION, INDONESIA
Distances
9 km (5 miles) SSE of Kangin, Indonesia
Proposed EU Budget Rise 'Quite Wrong': David Cameron
The Prime Minister said he would be fighting "very hard" for a good deal
for British taxpayers and to keep the rebate negotiated by Margaret
Thatcher in the 1980s.
"These are very important negotiations. Clearly at a time when we are
making difficult decisions at home over public spending it would be quite
wrong - it is quite wrong - for there to be proposals for this increased
extra spending in the EU," he said.
Mr Cameron is calling for a real-terms freeze, or even a cut, in the budget
for 2014-20 - the sole subject on the agenda for the summit, which is being
attended by leader... more »
JEWISH CHILD ABUSE RINGS; US SERVICEMEN
*Betar, a Nazi-style group in Poland, led by Menachem Begin. Website for
this image. "Betar adopted salutes and uniforms on the fascist
model."[1]Allegedly, Betar was rather gay and Menachem Begin was a child
abuser.
*
"Menachem Begin, President Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a
Master
Race, a holy people."
Carter Reveals Begin Viewed Jews As The Master Race.
Website for this image...
"In Rome, Italy, in 2000, Italian police broke up a ring of eleven top
Jewish gangsters.
"It was discovered that they had been kidnapping Gentile (non-Jewish)
children between the ages of t... more »
The BBC's definition of a ceasefire 'holding' is instructive
The BBC report in a piece headed 'Gaza crisis: Israel-Hamas ceasefire
agreement holds' that:
'A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement that runs the
Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Thursday.
Israel radio said some rockets had been fired from Gaza, but there was no
sign of an Israeli response.'
So the ceasefire is holding because Israel hasn't responded to Hamas
rockets. However the firing of Hamas rockets does not break the ceasefire!
Just as before the recent Israeli retaliation, the BBC will minimise
coverage of rockets fired from Gaza at Israel, will minim... more »
VIDEO Yaqui Foro Internacional del Agua Nov 2012
*Espanol: Conclusion, Foro Internacional del Agua 2012*
*Conclusion, summary of final statement at the International Forum for the
Defense of Water, Vicam Pueblo, hosted by Traditional Authority of Yaqui.
Nov. 20-21, 2012.*
*By Brenda Norrell*
*Censored News*
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
VICAM PUEBLO, Sonora, Mexico -- In solidarity with Zapatistas, Indigenous
gathered on Yaqui land in Sonora, south of Arizona and near the coast, to
unite in the defense of water. Yaqui are fighting the government of Mexico
who wants to seize Yaqui water from the Rio Yaqui for the city of
He... more »
Stuart Freedman: RIP
Stuart Jay Freedman, UC Berkeley physicist, died at the age of 68. He
joined Princeton in 1972 and Berkeley in 1991. A former particle theorist
became an unusually versatile experimenter even though he used to dislike
the Berkeley labs as "Big Science" (in a pejorative sense, similar to the
"Big Government").
*Picture via Rolf Kaltschmidt*
A famous paper he wrote with John Clauser in April 1972 experimentally
disproved local hidden variable models of quantum mechanics. The PRL
document is wonderfully free of nonsense. They measure a correlation of
photons' polarizations in calciu... more »
Benghazi security chief assassinated
Unknown gunmen have assassinated the temporary security director for the
eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in the latest violence to rock the city,
state media reported Wednesday.
Col. Faraj al-Dursi was shot dead by three unidentified men in a civilian
car on Tuesday night, security officials in the city said, according to
Libyan state news agency LANA.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/world/africa/libya-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
The BBC's anti-Semitic past
Thanks to a contributor to Biased-BBC, I have found a fascinating article
from The Independent. It's from 1993. The article is entitled 'Why the BBC
ignored the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism in the top ranks of broadcasting and
Foreign Office staff led to the news being suppressed, says Stephen Ward'
and contains a huge amount of interesting material. Here are a few extracts:
'ANTI-SEMITISM in the higher ranks of the Foreign Office and the BBC during
the Second World War led to a policy which suppressed news about Germany's
attempt to exterminate European Jews, new research will show this... more »
Rebels say Syria hospital strike kills 40
Syrian rebels accused government forces of bombing a hospital in the
besieged city of Aleppo late Wednesday, killing at least 40 people as the
conflict there ground on.
Ralib al-Omar, a leader of the Yusif al-Asma rebel group, said the attack
targeted the Dar al-Shifa Hospital and that the dead included two nurses.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition
activists, said a doctor was among the dead as well -- one of 108 people
the group said were killed across the country on Wednesday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.ht... more »
Inside Turkey's tunnel to Europe
As a city that sits astride two continents, Istanbul has always been a
strategic gateway between the East and West. But an ambitious railway
project is pulling the two continents even closer together with the
construction of the world's deepest submerged tunnel.
The 76-kilometer (47.2-mile) Marmaray Project will be the world's first
railway connection between Europe and Asia, ferrying passengers under a
1.4-km (0.9-m) section of the Bosphorus Strait.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/world/europe/istanbul-marmaray-tunnel/index.html?hpt=hp_c4
In Iatest clash, Iran casts a shadow
In the latest round of fighting between Israelis and the Palestinian
militants of Hamas in Gaza, one key player looms like an ominous,
lengthening shadow: Iran.
Never far from sight or mind, the standoff between Iran and the West over
Iran's nuclear program serves as the backdrop to the fighting. It frames
Israeli tactics and strategy and influences the international diplomatic
response. Iran and its nuclear program also play a powerful psychological
role, as observers and participants ponder the parallels between the latest
Israel-Hamas conflict and a possible war in which Iran wou... more »
Pakistan Taliban vow to attack Indian targets over Mumbai gunman
Pakistan's Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets
to avenge the country's execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone
survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai
that killed 166 people in 2008.
Kasab was hanged on Wednesday amid great secrecy, underscoring the
political sensitivity of the November 26, 2008, massacre, which still casts
a pall over relations between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/22/us-india-execution-taliban-idUSBRE8AL05120121122
Monuments to waste overshadow EU budget battle
EU leaders go into a budget battle on Thursday under pressure to avoid some
glaring mistakes of the past: half-empty motorways, airports that barely
see a flight and high-speed rail lines with few passengers to repay vast
construction costs.
Getting any deal on the European Union's 2014-2020 budget at this week's
Brussels summit will be hard enough. Tougher still will be resisting the
temptation to pour billions more into projects that become monuments to
waste.
Cohesion funds - used for new roads, bridges and other infrastructure in
the EU's poorest regions - account for 33 perce... more »
Australian tax crackdown to target Google, other multinationals
Australia released draft revisions to tax laws on Thursday, which it said
were designed to stop big firms, including the local arm of Google, from
shifting their income to countries such as Holland or Ireland where the tax
rates are lower.
The move is in line with a push by Britain and Germany who want the G20
group of nations to make multinational companies pay their "fair share" of
taxes, following reports of large firms exploiting loopholes to shift
taxation of their income away from where they are generated.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/22/us-australia-google-tax-idUSB... more »
Suicide Bomber Kills 23 Near Pakistan Capital
A suicide bomber has killed at least 23 people in an attack on a Shi'ite
Muslim procession in Pakistan.
Police say they tried to stop and search the attacker as he attempted to
join the march in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, but he ran past them and
detonated the explosives.
The bomber was also carrying grenades, some of which exploded.
At least 62 people were wounded in the attack, at midnight, including six
police officers.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014881/suicide-bomber-kills-23-near-pakistan-capital
UK Flood Alert As Heavy Rain Sweeps The Country
Britain is braced for another day of deluges and flooding as heavy rain
sweeps across the country.
Homes were flooded and roads left underwater on Wednesday as downpours
caused widespread disruption, and forecasters warn more misery is on its
way.
Vehicles were abandoned and there were reports of entire villages being cut
off as floodwater surged through lanes and streets and into homes.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014903/flood-alert-as-heavy-rain-sweeps-the-country
Gaza: Israel And Hamas Ceasefire Holds
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears to have held overnight.
A truce brokered between the two sides came into effect on Wednesday
evening, bringing eight days of fighting to an end.
Both sides quickly claimed victory, with Hamas insisting it had defeated
Israel.
The Israelis, meanwhile, said they have severely impaired the military
capability of Hamas, which governs Gaza.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014888/gaza-israel-and-hamas-ceasefire-holding
A declaration of Joy
More gifts from our angel "down under"...
"I am still 28, Declaration of Joy."
Too often is heart's desire at odds with the brain's understanding. The
brain is easily beguiled by surface-level forms, quick to attribute 'truth'
to whatever it is told, quicker still to change it's 'mind' as new
information comes to light. The heart, meanwhile, knows nothing of this.
Cardiac perception drifts along undercurrents, informing us (if we choose
to listen) of the most joyful route of all the possible paths through our
lives.
I choose to swim below the surface, and move the way joy... more »
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 06:32:24 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 02:32:24 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
4.932°N, 126.497°E
Depth
100.5 km (62.5 miles)
Region
KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
Distances
126 km (78 miles) ESE of Sarangani, Philippines
4.7 Magnitude Earthquake GUAM REGION - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.7
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 06:27:19 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 04:27:19 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
13.548°N, 144.585°E
Depth
131.4 km (81.7 miles)
Region
GUAM REGION
Distances
14 km (8 miles) NW of Piti Village, Guam
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake ORURO, BOLIVIA - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 05:55:12 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 01:55:12 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
19.184°S, 67.514°W
Depth
193.5 km (120.2 miles)
Region
ORURO, BOLIVIA
Distances
84 km (52 miles) WSW of Challapata, Bolivia
As Israel-Gaza Charade Concludes, West Pivots Back to Syria
As predicted, Israel accepts humiliating ceasefire to bolster partners in
Syrian subversion - Egypt, Turkey, & Qatar.
*November 22, 2012* (LD) - Reuters reported in their article, "Jubilant
Palestinians mob Gaza streets," regarding the ceasefire agreement
"brokered" by Egypt that, "the agreement calls on Hamas and Israel to cease
all forms of military activity, including Israel's targeted killings of
militants, and for an easing of the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza."
The article featured a photograph of cheering Palestinians in Gaza waving
the Egyptian flag, reflecting both the... more »
Free Download Of The Book Called The New Health Paradigm by Anthony Gucciardi
Free pdf download link:
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Giving Thanks to Our Readers: Top Selling Health Book ‘New Health Paradigm’
Now 100% Free
by Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Health, 22 November 2012
We are tremendously thankful this holiday season to all of our readers for
continuing to spread the word and support our operation through
disseminating vital information to the public when it comes to not only
natural health but everything that we cover here on NaturalSociety. In a
display of thanks, we’re *making my top selling natura... more »
5.2 Magnitude Earthquake KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 05:21:49 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 05:21:49 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
54.086°N, 168.301°E
Depth
30 km (18.6 miles)
Region
KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
Distances
193 km (119 miles) SE of Nikol'skoye, Russia
Wild at Heart Heads Up
Just a quick heads up: the local environmental organization Wild at Heart
has rebooted and reconfigured their English site. Here is an excerpt from
the English version of their Shadow Report on Nuclear Power:
...Like Fukushima Island, the location of the 2011 Japanese nuclear
disaster, Taiwan is situated at the juncture of the Phillippine and
Eurasian Tectonic Plates. Islands along this geologically active seabed
bulge frequently experience high-magnitude earthquakes -- from 1991 to
2006, there were an average of 18,500 earthquakes per year, with 49,919 in
1999 alone. There are fau... more »
ASSASSINATION PORN
Producer/director Kathryn Bigelow (ex-wife of fellow film director James
Cameron)'s HURT LOCKER won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing at
the 82nd Academy Awards in 2009, so it was only a matter of time before
T.H.E.Y. asked her to do 'this':
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, any more.
Mars Mystery
This story is getting plenty of buzz and apparently we will have to wait
a couple of weeks for confirmation. The point is obviously that some folks
are excited. Most likely we have an unambiguous methane signature.
Anyway it must be good news vis a vis the existence of biological life on
Mars. Otherwise we are looking at rocks and minerals we know and understand
or rocks and minerals we do not understand. Welcome to prospecting.
Curiosity has been very productive and I expect plenty more. This is a
strongly disturbed area promising plenty of interesting geology.
*Mar... more »
Universal Translator at Microsoft
If one ever wanted to describe an intractable problem this is it. The
hard reality is that for this to achieve near perfection, it will be
necessary to produce artificial cognition that simulates ourselves. The
speaker needs to know when the wrong choice has been supplied. It also
needs to anticipate.
Yet we have already learned that we can work with near enough for incoming
information and human cognition. The other way is quite a different matter.
Yet this is were a coaching protocol is necessary just as we do in
language teaching. Perhaps we can get there yet. It ... more »
Identical Twin DNA Diverges
This is a natural outcome of our improving knowledge regarding DNA
flexibility itself which is no longer seen as a fixed system but one that
changes throughout life.
Through items like this it is possible to capture the ongoing emergence of
a vastly more dynamic model for human DNA.
It is a revolution in understanding that remains invisible to the popular
consciousness.
*Identical Twins Are Genetically Different, Research Suggests*
*By Tia Ghose, Sat, 10 Nov, 2012*
*
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/identical-twins-genetically-different-research-suggests-161105688.ht... more »
Third Generation Steel
This can be described as third generation steel and it promises to be no
more costly to produce. Impressively it will be excellent for toughening
armor against IEDs.
The quality of steel continues to advance and increase user options. It
must be a part with the longest research program in human history
considering that it has been unending and punctuated with rare successes
that usually changed everything.
All good.
*High-strength material advancements at may lead to new, life-saving steel*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Detroit MI (SPX) Nov 07, 2012*
*The . steel be... more »
Refreshing Vietnamese Summer Rolls!
*Refreshing Asian Summer Rolls!*
*
*
Summer rolls are super delicious, and whenever I see them on the menu, I
want to order them. But I have often found that they are a bit pricey, and
sometimes I feel like 1 summer roll for £4 is just a bit overboard! A few
years ago me and my sister Aly Cool and the Amazing Lisa made these summer
rolls, and found that they are actually pretty simple (rolling these rolls
can be a little tricky, but once you get the hang of it, it is pretty fun).
So I decided to give summer rolls another attempt. And they turned out just
perfect! They are super healt... more »
UFO OVER LAGUNA BEACH CALIFORNIA
I went up to Los Angeles today to meet with a friend of GW Hardin and Joe
Crane to receive another dose of the Wholeness Blessing and also to get the
Oneness Blesssing. That was itself an interesting experience which I will
write about later. Forgive me if my writing is off, the two blessings
really zonked me so my speech and writing is kind of like if I had been
drinking or really tired....
On the way home to San Diego the traffic was quite severe in Orange County
so I decided to avoid the I-5 and I-405 freeway and take the 73 toll road
south as its quite a bit quicker. A... more »
Five Lingering Unsolved Mysteries From the JFK Assassination
.
.
*By MARC McDONALD*
It has now been 49 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Since then, thousands of books have been written about what is probably the
single biggest unsolved mystery of the 20th century. After nearly half a
century, it's becoming increasingly clear that we may never fully
understand what happened that day.
I myself have long harbored doubts about the government's own seriously
flawed version of what happened in Dealey Plaza. The 1964 Warren Commission
Report has rightfully been criticized over the years for the inaccuracies
and flawed inform... more »
Oil Producing Countries Asked to Levy Carbon Tax on Exports
Oh this will go over well with Ol' Shifty Steve Harper.
A gaggle of poor nations are asking major oil producers to levy a 3-5%
carbon tax on oil exported to affluent countries. The receipts would then
be deposited in a "green climate fund" to help the poorest and most
vulnerable countries adapt to global warming.
*The Ecuadorean president, Rafael Correa, proposed a carbon tax at a summit
of Arab and South American countries in October in Peru which included the
heads of state and energy ministers of nine of Opec's 12 countries. The
Guardian understands the proposal was taken ser... more »
The one hundred and sixty sixth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award
This week's winner is a Tweeter on my timeline:
'I'm not optimistic. I'm 100% certain that rockets will continue to be
fired at Israel. Palestinian terrorists doesn't want peace. Period. --
Andreas Fagerbakke (@afagerbakke)'
Do you think? "No shit, Sherlock"
MEDIA BRAINWASHING: OBAMA, BIN LADEN, KASAB...
In the days before the US presidential election I asked a number of Brits
what they thought about Obama and Romney.
They all said that Obama was the good guy.
Why?
Because that was how he was presented on the TV news broadcasts.
I remember asking a Moslem taxi driver in Manchester if he thought that al
Qaeda was run by the CIA.
The taxi driver's attitude was that bin Laden was very obviously an enemy
of the CIA.
Why?
Because that's what his Moslem newspaper told him.
*Website for this image*
I remember asking a Hindu in Mumbai if he thought that India's chief enemy
was the... more »
Well There Goes the Nativity Set
Apparently "we" (that'd be the Vatican) really doesn't know when Jesus was
born but they're guessing it was somewhere between 7 and 2 B.C. Then
again, how could he have been born before B.C.? Wouldn't that be C.B.C.
and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's spoken for. I don't know,
this is way too deep for me.
Anyway, Joe "The Rat" Ratzinger, better known as Pope Benny to the likes of
you, says not only do we have the birth year of Jesus all wrong, there
weren't any oxen, donkeys, sheep, goats or any other animals present at the
birth? Really? It's an inn, the inn'... more »
Malaysia: Victim of America’s “Irregular Warfare” Ops?
2010 US Unconventional Warfare Manual (.pdf)
*November 21, 2012* (Nile Bowie) - The issue of civil society groups
receiving foreign funding has been a major point of discussion in Malaysia
during recent times, causing controversy and drawing criticism from
activists to members of Parliament alike. Some activists tend to view
Putrajaya’s investigation into rights advocacy groups like SUARAM (a noted
recipient of foreign funding) as a desperate attempt to stifle dissent and
attack civil society. Former PM Mahathir Mohamad’s has repeatedly warned of
a foreign-funded destabilization camp... more »
Expense account outrages? Only in government, you say? Puleeze!
Executives of Covenant Health enjoy a bottle of 2001 Il Piggione over lunch
at Edmonton’s Characters Restaurant. Catholic health care executives may
not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Liberalbertaliberal Leader Raj
Sherman. Alberta’s health care gong show continued to wheeze along
yesterday with another revelation by the CBC that a couple of senior execs
at ... more »
The Five-Step Guide To Preserving The Dream World: The Example of Israel
*Photo: America and Israel, two magical kingdoms that live in Fantasyland.*
*Related:** *
*10 Reasons Why Reality Is A Collective Dream*
*5 More Reasons Why Reality Is A Collective Dream*
"The lie is omnipresent, and it affects almost every political argument we
attempt to analyze. But a great many people continue to believe the lie,
and to believe what politicians *say* their goals are, as opposed to what
their actions consistently reveal." - Arthur Silber, *"The Infinite Human
Capacity to Deny the Obvious."*
"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deli... more »
Elsewhere and Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I don't think I'll be posting anything on
Thanksgiving, but perhaps I might on Friday (and I'll be over at Greg's
place Friday afternoon). For those celebrating, then, enjoy!
A couple of things to leave you with...I wrote one over at PP today about
the question of whether conservatives are really going to take on Rush
Limbaugh.
And an old one: from last year, things for political junkies to be thankful
for. Enjoy!
Salvatore Perrone Arrested: Suspect 'confesses' to killing two of three shopkeepers brutally murdered in Brooklyn
A low-end clothing dealer was arrested Wednesday in the killings of
three
Brooklyn shopkeepers, police said.
Salvatore Perrone, 63, of Staten Island, confessed to two of the
killings
after turning himself in to police, according to the New York Post.
'He puts himself at all three scenes,' a source told the Post. 'The
motive
is still unclear.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236459/Police-arrest-John-Doe-Duffel-Bags-Suspect-turns-seen-near-TWO-Brooklyn-murder-scenes.html
Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden's secret burial at sea
Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no American
sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson,
and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the secret ceremony.
The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of
Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public
disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The
emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.
Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, by a Navy SEAL team that assaulted his
compound in Abbottabad... more »
Two MORE 'victims' come forward to accuse Elmo star of grooming them for underage sex
After a week of allegations being made, retracted and renewed, voice of
Elmo Kevin Clash, 52, faces Thanksgiving with the threat that two further
'victims' lurk in the wings. The puppeteer resigned from Sesame Street as
Cecil Singleton, 23, became the second young man to allege sexual abuse.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236555/EXCLUSIVE-Two-victims-come-forward-accuse-Elmo-star-grooming-underage-sex.html
Flu jabs are a 'waste of taxpayer's money', claim scientists who say the benefits have been over-hyped
The benefits of the annual flu jab have been ‘over-hyped’, scientists claim.
They say the vaccine is far less effective than is widely believed, with
some studies showing it protects less than two-thirds of the population.
The US researchers say ministers in Britain as well as America are ‘wasting
taxpayers’ money’ on the jab.
And they claim that because the benefits have been so ‘over-promoted’,
scientists have been deterred from inventing vaccines that would be far
more effective.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2236253/Flu-jabs-waste-taxpayers-money-claim-scientists-ben... more »
Why Does John McCain Hate Susan Rice? Republicans and Benghazi
I’ve been curious why John McCain is pursuing Susan Rice with such a
vengeance for her inopportune remarks on Sunday talk shows in September
about the not-so spontaneous attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. As
I think about other prospective nominees to lead the State Department like
John Kerry, John McCain actually has more
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Essex House Fire: Deaths of six members of the same family in house fire now being treated as MURDER
A tragic house fire which killed six members of the same family is now
being treating by detectives as murder, after police said last night they
believe someone burgled the home and then started a blaze.
Sabah Usmani, 44, and sons Sohaib, 11, and Rayyan, six, and daughter Hira,
13, died last month in Harlow, Essex, with a third son, Muneeb, nine, and
daughter Maheen, three, dying in hospital.
Dr Usmani's husband Abdul Shakoor, 45, was the only survivor, and police
have made a fresh appeal for witnesses because ‘someone knows something’
about the incident but has failed to tell offi... more »
A shambles! The truth about our leaky borders... Lack of checks let thousands of illegal immigrants stay in Britain
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers were
allowed to stay in the UK without proper checks in yet another borders
scandal, it emerged last night.
A Government inspector found that thousands of foreign nationals were
granted an ‘amnesty’ without their files even being looked at.
Officials at the shambolic UK Border Agency (UKBA) also ignored evidence of
deception and fraud by applicants whose cases dated back up to 17 years.
Some 124,000 cases were put in cold storage without proper checks to see if
the applicant could be found. It has since emerged 37,50... more »
Secret courts plan is left in tatters after Lords reject closed hearings by crushing majority
Peers voted by crushing majorities for fundamental changes to the Justice
and Security Bill, which would allow civil cases involving national
security to be conducted in secret. By margins of over 100 votes, peers
voted to remove ministers' exclusive right to apply for secret hearings and
to give judges ultimate discretion in deciding whether or not they should
be held behind closed doors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236585/Secret-courts-plan-chaos-Lords-reject-closed-hearings-crushing-majority.html
Sudan makes arrests after foiled "sabotage attempt:" state-linked media
Sudan's security services thwarted a "sabotage attempt" led by opposition
forces and arrested a number of civilian and military figures in connection
with the incident early on Thursday, state-linked media reported.
Witnesses told Reuters they saw tanks and armored vehicles moving down a
major street in central Khartoum, the capital, around midnight. A Reuters
reporter said security in the area appeared normal in the early morning.
Sudan, ruled by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir since he seized power in a
1989 coup, has avoided the massive political upheaval that has convulsed
other... more »
EU budget summit offers hours of hard bargaining.....Hands up, if you think this is another waste of time!
EU leaders are to begin talks on the bloc's seven-year budget, with many of
them calling for cuts in line with the savings they are making nationally.
Countries that rely heavily on EU funding, including Poland and its
ex-communist neighbours, want current spending levels maintained or raised.
The UK and some other net contributors say cuts have to be made. At stake
are 973bn euros (£782.5bn; $1,245bn).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20435667
"Logical Proof for God": A compelling video
*Added info:*
While this lecture is given to a Muslim audience, I'm sure those of all
those faiths will enjoy its science and sincerity. Perhaps it may even wake
up a non-believer or two.
European Space Agency approves Ariane 5 rocket upgrade, Yeah! We are Made of Money in Europe
European Space Agency (Esa) member states have resolved key issues at their
ministerial council and agreed a 10.1bn euro (£8.1bn) programme of
activities.
The big decisions included approval for an upgrade to Europe's Ariane 5
rocket in parallel with design work on a replacement for the early 2020s.
Backing was also given to the project to provide the propulsion unit for
Nasa's new manned capsule, Orion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20440134
Republican Whoremonger Outpolls Romney
Lance Gilman is a happy camper. He was just elected County Commissioner in
Storey County, Nevada-- and elected by a wide margin. It's a tiny county--
population 4,010, horseshoed between Washoe (Reno) and Carson. Storey was
the only county in the state to vote to legalize marijuana in the 2006
referendum. Earlier this month, President Obama got 920 votes there (40%)
and Romney got 1,321 votes (57%). Of Nevada's 17 counties, Storey was the
5th best-performing for the president. Gilman, a grandfather, did better
than Romney, winning 62% of the vote.
Prostitution is legal there-- and... more »
Avian Flu H5N1 Outbreak in Bangladesh
BANGLADESH - An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus caused
by the H5N1 virus has been reported at a commercial farm near Dhaka to the
OIE.
The outbreak was reported by Dr Musaddique Hossain, Director (Animal Health
& Administration), Department of Livestock Services, Ministry of Fisheries
and Livestock, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/27370/avian-flu-h5n1-outbreak-in-bangladesh
Australia quarantines farm to contain H7 bird flu outbreak
Australia's first outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus in 15
years should be contained by a cull of 50,000 chickens, authorities said on
Friday, although they do not know what caused the case at an egg farm in
New South Wales state.
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) said all chickens at the
property in Maitland, 160 km (100 miles) north of Sydney, will be destroyed
after the H7 virus was detected last week.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-australia-birdflu-idUKBRE8AE14B20121116
Gaza truce could pave way for new US peace push
*Egypt's* The US success in helping to broker a Gaza ceasefire shows it
cannot turn its back on the Middle East and should perhaps seize the moment
to try to rekindle peace talks, experts said.
With Egypt's new Islamist President Mohamed Morsi emerging strengthened
from his first big test, having shown he can act as a broker between Israel
and the Palestinians, the time could be right for a new American push, they
said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jt4BotGp6JxPydM1sbLfeAFhzkQQ?docId=CNG.f426549e76ca1e99f97fd9122609ad8c.41
ADHD Medication for prisoners so they have yet another excuse for their Behaviour
Treating a common behavioural disorder in convicted criminals could
dramatically reduce the risk of them re-offending, new research suggests.
One of the biggest studies of its kind has found that people diagnosed with
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at least 30% less
likely to commit crime if they are given medication.
The researchers now say that if prisoners suffering from ADHD were
identified and treated, the impact on the criminal justice system could be
significant.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014786/adhd-medication-may-cut-reoffending-rates
UK Renters Warned About 'Rogue' Letting Agents
The lettings sector needs more regulation, the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said, after revealing a rise in the number
of so-called rogue agents.
Those renting properties are at risk of being taken advantage of by
unscrupulous agents amid "a total lack of effective regulation", RICS
warned after surveying 2,000 people.
The organisation said that renters had come to expect "worryingly low
standards", with two thirds of those questioned saying they had not been
given an inventory when they moved into a rented property in the last two
years.
http://news.sky.com... more »
Cameron To Insist On Austerity In EU Budget
David Cameron travels to Brussels later insisting that austerity being
enforced around Europe is reflected in the EU's budget.
He will join leaders from all 27 countries at a special summit to set the
European Union's spending limits from 2014 to 2020.
It is a complex and deeply divisive process, with the UK balking at the
European Commission's opening gambit - to increase the overall spending
ceiling to a maximum €1,091,000,000,000.
This was flatly rejected by Britain and nearly all the net contributors to
the European Union.
http://news.sky.com/story/1014803/cameron-to-insist-on... more »
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 22nd November 2012
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 01:42:48 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 11:42:48 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
5.790°S, 154.358°E
Depth
398.7 km (247.8 miles)
Region
BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances
137 km (85 miles) WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
4.3 Magnitude Earthquake ALASKA PENINSULA - 21st November 2012
Magnitude
4.3
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 23:30:07 UTC
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 02:30:07 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
54.309°N, 160.757°W
Depth
23.2 km (14.4 miles)
Region
ALASKA PENINSULA
Distances
94 km (58 miles) SW of Chernabura Island, Alaska
5.2 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE - 21st November 2012
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 22:52:28 UTC
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 07:52:28 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
33.985°S, 72.012°W
Depth
9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
Distances
55 km (34 miles) SW of San Antonio, Chile
4.5 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE - 21st November 2012
Magnitude
4.5
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 22:51:22 UTC
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 07:51:22 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
33.978°S, 72.183°W
Depth
9.9 km (6.2 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
Distances
67 km (41 miles) SW of San Antonio, Chile
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake TAIWAN REGION - 21st November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 22:25:25 UTC
Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 06:25:25 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
23.978°N, 122.341°E
Depth
22 km (13.7 miles)
Region
TAIWAN REGION
Distances
74 km (45 miles) E of Hualian, Taiwan
Legalise drugs–the debate
In response to the decision by Coloradan and Washingtonian voters to
legalise marijuana, the Obama administration admits that marijuana
legalization can do miracles.
According to the federal government, the price of pot will plummet
following legalization while remaining above the black-market level. Pot
will be dangerously cheap yet dangerously expensive at the same time.
Someone’s obviously smoking something, and it’s not just the good people of
Colorado and Washington.
Should marijuana be legalised all across the board? Should all states? How
about all drugs?
This timely deb... more »
Could Obama put himself in a position to run for a third term?
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13441271-could-obama-put-himself-in-a-position-to-run-for-a-third-term?utm_campaign=Outbrain&utm_source=Outbrain1Cents
Thanksgiving comes but once a year -- thank goodness!
*The Black Friday rush begins . . .*
Jack Ziegler, in this week's *New Yorker*
*by Ken*
Our management kindly let us office drones decamp at 2pm this afternoon on
condition that all our work was done. The bell rang, and as if by magic
everyone's work was done. (In truth, we didn't have exactly a full
complement onsite when the bell rang.) So I've had plenty of time to think
of some appropriate way to celebrate Thanksgiving here among the
takers-not-makers class.
Don't ask me why, but most of the day my brain kept cycling back to Jim
Hightower's newly posted column. Naturally no asp... more »
Can't They See How This Ends?
The U.S. military has really fallen for this remote-controlled mayhem
business. The latest and greatest thing is the miniature, one-way drone.
It has a range of between 6 to 10-miles, it can loiter over the target from
10 to 30-minutes, and then it ends its service life by flying into the
ground, detonating a couple of pounds of high explosive. Some can be
controlled by a ground operator sitting in the safety of a cozy bunker.
Others can use GPS guidance. Others might even be robotic, flying to the
designated spot and waiting until it detects something with the parameters ... more »
GAZA WAR – INVASION CANCELLED OR JUST POSTPONED?
The agreement that came into effect just a few hours is not an accord for
peace but merely a ceasefire. It is unlikely to be permanent and further
talks are unlikely to yield much for the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the
Israeli troops amassed at the Gaza Strip’s borders continue their build-up
and they remain on alert ready to move a moments notice as Netanyahu warns “of
possible additional military action if the cease-fire fails to lead to
long-term security”. What Netanyahu’s idea of ‘long-term security’ might be
is anyone’s guess. It may well be that all Netanyahu wants is a bit more... more »
GO NAD!
British fetus fascist and lying MP Nadine Dorries is the first contestant
voted out of a reality show.
The MP for Mid Bedfordshire said she decided to take part in the reality TV
show to get her controversial views on issues such as abortion across to
the wider public. But if that was the case, she appears not to have won
them over.
Her unpopularity with the public was clearly evident in viewers' repeatedly
voting for her to undergo bushtucker trials, eating a range of gruesome
delicacies including a camel's toe, an ostrich's anus and some cattle
genitals, which the Sun recorded wi... more »
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT KARL ROVE ACTUALLY FAILED TO DELIVER OHIO TO ROMNEY BECAUSE OF *ANONYMOUS*? I THINK SO ...AND I SURE HOPE SO!
*THE MOVIE "V" IS UPLIFTING ...UNTIL WE BEGIN TO ADMIT THAT IT IS JUST A
FAIRY TAIL AND CAN'T HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE.* *BUT ANONYMOUS CERTAINLY HAS
HAPPENED!*
By David L Griscom
Back on November 8th, I was convinced that Karl Rove failed to deliver Ohio
to Romney because his original vote-flipping software failed to account for
an unexpectedly high percentage of Obama voters in Ohio, and his televised
late-night insistence that Romney would still win would have lead to
wide-spread suspicion if he had rigged it.
However, it turns out that the election system in Ohio on Election Nigh... more »
I am thankful - Updated
I am *really* thankful I'm not trying to get out of Manhattan tonight. This
is the crowd *outside* of Penn Station.
[photo via The Matthew Keys]
This is what it looks like inside the station.
[photo via Hudsonette]
And this is what's happening.
WPIX: Nightmare before Thanksgiving: Penn Station shut down as signal
problems cripple LIRR, NJ Transit, Amtrak (Story).
My sympathy to the thousands who are living through it.
*Meanwhile*: Grand Central Station is relative empty.
[photo via A Great Big City]
Always loved that train station. And as a child, loved the automat that was... more »
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