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Guns and Strategy
I strongly recommend Jonathan Chait's largely pessimistic view (from the
point of view of those who want legislation) of the chances of getting
anything restricting guns in any way whatsoever through the House. And if
that's correct -- if conservative Republicans remain dead set against
anything at all -- then there's almost nothing Barack Obama can do about it
(see, too, David Frum's view, which points out the possibility that
presidential public leadership could easily polarize the debate and
therefore backfire).
That said: I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that legis... more »
Where does the press corps get its facts!
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012*
*Does Scott Pelley actually know that:* We’ve been struck by the maudlin
nature of much of the coverage of the most recent mass shooting.
To our ear, Alexandra Petri’s column was wondrously faux at the Post. But
so were large amounts of the coverage, as journalists took turns assuring
the nation that they’ve never been so upset.
This morning, on Way Too Early, even Mike Barnicle played that card. For
ourselves, we didn’t especially believe him. That said, if he wasn’t upset
before this, he too must be mentally ill.
The journalists want you to know how up... more »
Tomorrows World had a mobile telephone in 1979
'From the BBC Archive 'Tomorrow's World' collection:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/index.shtmlMichael Rodd makes a
call with an experimental cordless mobile phone. It's 1979 and time for the
telephone to go mobile. In this report from a longer programme, Michael
Rodd (pictured above) examines a British prototype for a cordless telephone
that allows the user to make calls from anywhere. Also included at the end
of this item is a rather nice out-take as Rodd also experiences the first
mobile wrong number.'
Fascinating, quite fascinating.
Kim Jong-un Beefs Up Security Amid Fear of Unrest: Reason why the rocket was fired so hurriedly in North Korea?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has apparently stationed around 100 armored
vehicles at his house, summer home and other facilities for fear of a
military coup or uprising, sources say.
Kim "is extremely nervous about the possibility of an emergency developing
inside North Korea," claimed an informed source.
According to the source, Kim recently ordered officials to "place top
priority" on his personal security and to keep his itinerary top secret. As
a result, the venues of events he attends are swarming with guards carrying
automatic rifles and hand grenades, while his personal pl... more »
Symbols of an Alien Sky - the movie
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 59 minutes ago
Link: http://youtu.be/t7EAlTcZFwY
If you care to know about the Future, you'll need to understand (at least)
some of our Past. An exceptional movie about an exciting theme. Maybe all
we know is based on largely false assumptions...? Part II (10 minutes) you
can find here: http://youtu.be/I-46CJ5Pt7U
John
Cowards and Morons
The Newtown shooting last Friday morning is virtually unique in
American history not only because it's, by far, the worst elementary school
shooting of all time but because the usual gun nuts have gone into hiding.
The Sandy Hook massacre apparently is proving to be the tipping point
that's going to force a meaningful debate on gun control, one in which our
president, who has never once uttered the words "gun" and "control" in the
same sentence, will be taking point. Even if the 2nd amendment and its
misinformed proponents have discovered "the better part of valor", that
doesn... more »
FOOLED ABOUT SCHOOLS: The latest scores!
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012*
*Part 1—Keep gloom alive:* In late November, the New York Times published
an op-ed piece about our public schools.
The piece was written by Michael Brick, a former Times sports writer who
has become an overnight expert on education. As Brick started his piece, he
played a pair of familiar tunes:
BRICK (11/23/12): For the past three decades, one administration after
another has sought to fix America's troubled schools by making them compete
with one another. Mr. Obama has put up billions of dollars for his Race to
the Top program, a federal sweepstakes wh... more »
Sandy Hook: Gun Control or Psychiatric Med Control ?
Why has the media been using such an obviously outdated picture of the 20
year old Adam Lanza?
*A gun is an inanimate object*. It can do no harm unless wielded by a user
to cause harm or death. That is a fact. Everything else is spin. The spin
is thick and plentiful surrounding the Sandy Hook shootings And most of it
all focused on "gun control"
The Newtown school shootings have revived debate in the US media about gun
control - the same debate that raged, for a while, after previous
atrocities such as Columbine and Virginia Tech
While reinforcing the heartbreak of the killings... more »
Aaron Schock Got Caught
Aaron plans to burn this outfit as well
Aaron Schock, is a star inside the Republican House Caucus. He gained
notice for flaunting his six-pack abs on the cover of *Men's Health*magazine and
posing for a fashion shoot in *GQ* and they gave him a spot on House Ways
and Mean, a primo committee that makes campaign fundraising easy and even
put him on Kevin McCarthy's Whip Team as a Deputy Whip. He reminds many of
his colleagues of the once-popular and similarly well-dressed Mark Foley,
who was also closeted-back-home but fairly "out" in DC.
The dashing young closet case was just reelect... more »
I support the 2nd Amendment as Intended
*Here's your weapon*
* *
*Here's your ammo*
*Go for it buttwipes!!!!!!!!! *
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy
Birthday to Curtis Pride, 44.
A little good stuff:
1. The easiest way to get a Plain Blog link these days? Write a
pro-reform
Senate piece that opposes the current talking filibuster proposal.
Here'sthe Economist's M.S. Is it impossible for the talking filibuster
to work?
That's the wrong question; the right question is whether there's any
advantage in trying to do reform via the live filibuster, and the answer
to
that is almost certainly no.
2. I'm not going to link to individual posts, but the Monkey Cage has
been
running several pieces about guns, gun control, and other rel... more »
Elizabeth May
As 2012 draws to a close, Michael Harris reviews the state of all of
Canada's federal parties -- except the Bloc Quebecois. He has some
insightful comments about each. But I am particularly struck by what he
writes about Elizabeth May and The Green Party:
For now, the Green Party is Elizabeth May. Despite all the institutional
barricades erected in front of this prodigiously hard-working politician,
she tears the pant leg off the government on everything from the
environment to the Canada-as-resource-colony model promoted by our CEO-PM
himself. She runs the most intellectually al... more »
Negligent Storage Act - the Right Wing Gun Solution
One of the gun owners of America called into a local talk show this morning
and he rambled on about how "overall gun legislation" is the wrong way to
go.
He argued every point the show host brought up and kept coming back to his
solution for the firearm issue that we have in the USA. His ONLY solution.
Negligent Storage Act
Yep that is all we need.
Musta been the highlighted legislation sent out in the Gun Owners of
America or NRA newsletter that went out this past weekend or past month or
past year!!!
Where else would he have come up with crap like this?
What a bunch of gun-lovi... more »
Seriously? No shit Sherlock
Eating and drinking lots at xmas is to be expected, be aware that alcohol
can effect peoples judgement and behaviour http://t.co/k5u78Z1j -- Thames
Valley Police (@ThamesVP)
Damage component of the cause of action is not to be equated with the plaintiff’s ultimate financial loss
Andison v. Katz, 2012 MBCA 107 makes clear that a cause of action arises in
negligent misrepresentation when the representation is acted on. This does
not mean discoverability is met but rather the cause is complete:
27 Thus, it is clear that the damage component of the cause
of action is not to be equated with the plaintiff's ultimate financial loss
and also that the damage occurs when the would-be plaintiff acts on the
negligent advice, rather than when the actual financial loss occurs. (See
also *Central Trust Co. v. Rafuse*,**1986 CanLII 29 (SCC), [1986] 2 S.C.R.
... more »
4.7 Magnitude Earthquake KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION - 17th December 2012
Magnitude
4.7
Date-Time
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:28:37 UTC
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:28:37 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
30.994°S, 176.589°W
Depth
41.4 km (25.7 miles)
Region
KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances
225 km (139 miles) ENE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand
Get Your Flu Shot or Get Fired: Media Hails New ‘Safety’ Policies Forcing Shots on Workers by Anthony Gucciardi
Live Free or Possibly Die Or Be Crippled By The ShotsGet Your Flu Shot or
Get Fired: Media Hails New ‘Safety’ Policies Forcing Shots on Workers
by Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society, 17 December 2012
*Don’t want to be injected with the seasonal flu vaccine due to concerns
over ingredients like MSG, antibiotics, formaldehyde, and aluminum as
admitted by the FDA on their **own website**? Well then you may lose your
job for refusing a ‘safety’ measure, as more and more major corporations
are forcing the flu vaccine (among others) on workers in order to keep
their job.*
**
But ho... more »
'Just don't bring a terrorist in the house': Family's warning to estate agent who then rented home to Abu Qatada
Hate preacher Abu Qatada has been housed in a property belonging to a
family who told the rental agent they did not want it let to terrorists.
The brother and sister who own the £450,000 three-bedroom house in north
London were suspicious about their new tenants, but only realised who their
notorious tenant was after being tipped off by journalists.
The sister said: 'I had no idea. I said to the estate agent: "We're
watching a lot of Homeland; just don't bring a terrorist in the house".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249287/Abu-Qatada-new-landlord-didnt-want-terrorist-tenan... more »
My Response to Dr. Hanley's Criticism of My Last Article on Vaccination - A Guest Post by Michael Brine
We have sadly seen the current medical establishment give their power to
the Drug companies in the belief that this method of protection from
illnesses and disease – vaccination – will somehow, by injecting people
with poisons, especially young children, protect them from ill health.
It’s unbelievable!
There is an increasing awareness out in the public domain at large who are
seriously questioning this vaccination issue. I have seen that nurses in
B.C. and others as in the Yukon, and a major one in the UK. In the UK case
has started a strong opening discussion there across the c... more »
Security alert over Samsung's Smart TV as hackers claim they can access your set and seize control of microphone and cameras
Samsung's Smart TV could used by hackers to watch everything that happens
in your living room by gaining access to the device's built-in camera and
microphones, it has been claimed.
Malta-based security firm ReVuln posted a video showing how its researchers
had learned to crack the television to access its settings - including any
personal information stored on it.
'We can install malicious software to gain complete root access to the TV,'
they claim in the video.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2249303/Hackers-penetrate-home-Crack-Samsungs-Smart-TV-allows-attacker-s... more »
70 Military Vehicles Dispatched on Request for Staff Release
China's internet sources revealed that on Dec. 12th Jinan
Military Region dispatched 70 military vehicles to besiege the town hall of
Hekou District, Dongying city in Shandong.
The army requested the authorities to release the culprit of a
car accident, who is a staff member of the military region.
The pictures uploaded to the internet show slogans were
hung on several military vehicles.
Two of the army vehicles stopped blocking the town hall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkaR61oz8C8
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION - 17th December 2012
Magnitude mb 4.6
Region CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION
Date time 2012-12-17 10:08:21.0 UTC
Location 28.85 N ; 15.58 W
Depth 40 km
Distances 78 km N Gáldar, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
US Shooting 'Sparks Big Rise In Gun Sales'
Parents of children at the Sandy Hook school have visited a gun store
asking to buy weapons for protection in the wake of the shooting.
One gun shop owner in Newtown reported that a couple had been in his shop
looking for something to help safeguard their family.
Sales of weapons have soared in the wake of Friday's shooting, according to
anecdotal evidence from stores.
The same happened in July after the Colorado movie theatre massacre: the
number of people getting approval to buy a guns increased by 43% in a week.
http://news.sky.com/story/1026461/us-school-shooting-sparks-rise-in... more »
US senator launches bid to ban assault weapons
A leading Democratic senator launched a bid to ban assault weapons in the
wake of the latest deadly US school shooting, announcing that she will put
a bill before Congress on January 3.
Dianne Feinstein, the influential chair of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, said she believed President Barack Obama would support her
legislation, also aimed at outlawing magazines carrying more than 10
bullets.
"I'm going to introduce in the Senate, and the same bill will be introduced
in the House, a bill to ban assault weapons," the California lawmaker told
NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
htt... more »
Gaza: IDF shoots at fishing boat; Palestinian injured
Israeli Navy forces identified a Palestinian fishing boat, outside the
fishing limits in the northern Gaza Strip. The forces called upon the
Palestinians to stop but they continued. In response, the forces fired
gunshots in the direction of the boat.
A preliminary investigation into the incident uncovered that one of the
Palestinians sustained injuries to his lower extremities, apparently caused
by the ricochet. The soldiers administered first aid and transferred him in
light to moderate condition to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4... more »
Egypt opposition calls for protests against basic law
Egypt's opposition called for nationwide protests against a constitution
backed by President Mohamed Mursi, after a vote exposed deep divisions that
could undermine his efforts to build consensus for tough economic measures.
The Islamist leader won a 57 percent "yes" vote for the constitution in a
first round of a referendum at the weekend, according to state media, a
margin that was less than his party had hoped for and which is likely to
embolden the opposition.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/17/egypt-politics-idUSL5E8NH4BB20121217
The end comes for Comet as all stores prepare to close doors tomorrow
Administrator Deloitte has confirmed that all remaining Comet stores will
close their doors tomorrow (December 18th).
Many closed for good over the weekend. The move will result in the loss of
some 6,600 jobs just days before Christmas. £2.1m in holiday and back pay
will be paid to employees.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/the-end-comes-for-comet-as-all-stores-prepare-to-close-doors-tomorrow/0108306
Syrian vice president says neither side can win war
Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa said that neither the forces of
President Bashar al-Assad nor rebels seeking to overthrow him can win the
war which is now being fought on the outskirts of Assad's powerbase in
Damascus.
Sharaa, a Sunni Muslim in a power structure dominated by Assad's Alawite
minority, has rarely been seen since the Syrian revolt erupted in March
2011 and is not part of the president's inner circle directing the fight
against Sunni rebels.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/17/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8AJ1FK20121217
Police killed outside U.S. grocery store
Two Kansas police officers responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle
were fatally shot in the head outside a grocery store Sunday night.
A third officer who fired back at the shooter was not injured, said Topeka
Police Chief Ron Miller.
Police identified the shooter as David Edward Tiscareno, 22. He managed to
escape.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/17/justice/kansas-officers-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Philippines typhoon deaths top 1,000
The grim toll from a typhoon that devastated southern Philippines earlier
this month continues to climb, with 1,020 reported dead as of Sunday
morning, authorities said.
Officials fear the toll from the December 4 storm will rise further.
Because while rescue crews continue searching, the chances of finding
people alive dim with each passing day.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/16/world/asia/philippines-typhoon/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Anonymous targets Westboro Baptist over threats of Newtown protest
Hacktivist group Anonymous published what it claims to be personal
information of members of the Westboro Baptist Church after the group
announced on Saturday it would picket Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 children and adults were killed.
Anonymous published private e-mail addresses, phone numbers and home
addresses of various members, and teased the group about the hack on
Twitter. Anonymous also posted a video condemning the group for "breeding
hatred" and adding, "We will destroy you. We are coming."
The Westboro group holds protests at military f... more »
Has life in U.S. gone insane?
There are days when it seems fair to ask if part of American life has gone
irretrievably insane. A description of the scene inside the elementary
school, from a law enforcement official who spoke to a reporter, was that
it resembled "a killing field."
That is a term of warfare, even of genocide, yet it seems not at all out of
place in the context of contemporary domestic news.
"We have lockdown drills," said Mary Ann Jacob, a library clerk at the
school. She was explaining to reporters that the teachers, children and
staff at Sandy Hook Elementary, like teachers, children and staff ... more »
Exorcising Maxwell's daemons
*And the lowest allowed power consumption of PCs*
In our discussions about information and heat, James Gallagher said some of
the usual wrong things about irreversibility – for example, he believes
that the proof of the H-theorem is invalid because of the molecular chaos
assumption (this assumption is a pure technicality allowing explicit
calculations but the overall conclusion, the increasing entropy, is
independent of any such Ansatz!).
However, he has also made a statement about an algorithm to reduce the
entropy with the help of his PC:
I mean I can simulate deterministic dynam... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good morning… here’s your Monday roundup… US & Europe The European Court of
Human Rights (ECHR) found that Macedonian officials handed an (innocent)
German citizen over to American officials who sodomized and tortured him in
the presence of Macedonian officials and on Macedonian soil. Something to
ponder as you watch Zero Dark Thirty. Central/South Asia Afghanistan:
Continue reading
American jailed for assaulting Aussie bus driver
An American man who attacked a Sydney bus driver has been sentenced to nine
months jail.
The driver suffered severe injuries in the brutal assault caught on
security cameras.
It was a brutal attack, on a defenceless bus driver.
Twenty-five-year-old Samuel Alan Smith told Waverley Court he was tired
after a 14-hour shift as a restaurant sommelier, and said he was
disoriented after falling asleep on the bus home.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/article/15661730/bus-driver-s-attacker-sentenced/
6.1 Magnitude Earthquake SULAWESI, INDONESIA - 17th December 2012
Magnitude
6.1
Date-Time
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 09:16:28 UTC
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 05:16:28 PM at epicenter
Location
0.709°S, 123.837°E
Depth
18.5 km (11.5 miles)
Region
SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances
163 km (101 miles) SSE (149°) from Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Republican congressman says Sandy Hook principal should have had a machine gun so she could 'take his head off before he killed those precious kids'
A Republican Congressman said that elementary school principals should be
armed and have access to assault rifles in order to kill potential shooters.
Representative Louie Gohmert theorized that if the principal at Sandy Hook
Elementary School had an M-4 rifle in her office, then she would have been
able to shoot Adam Lanza before he proceeded to kill 20 students and six
adults at the Newtown, Connecticut school.
'I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she
heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically
with nothing in her hands and... more »
Suspected al-Qaeda terrorist arrested outside the British Embassy in Romania wielding a sword
British Embassy staff in Romania were targeted by a suspected al-Qaeda
terrorist brandishing a sword.
The Iraqi, named as Karim Friad, was pounced on by police as he brandished
the nine-inch blade near the building's gates in the capital, Bucharest.
Sources told the paper his mission was to kill British or American
officials.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249034/.html
The moon (crash) landing: Two satellites due to collide with the lunar surface today... but don't worry, NASA planned it to happen
Twin NASA satellites are due for a cosmic collision of sorts Monday
after
concluding a 15-month mission to map the gravity signature of Earth's
nearest neighbor.
Scientists last week set the Grail spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow,
respectively, on course for a crash-landing into a lunar crater near the
moon's north pole.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249244/A-cosmic-collision-Two-NASA-satellites-en-route-controlled-crash-landing-moon-Monday.html
Brandon Bryant: 'Did we just kill a kid?': The moment drone operator who assassinated Afghans with the push of a button on a computer in the U.S. followed orders to shoot a child... and decided he had to quit
Brandon Bryant, 27, from Missoula, Montana, saw 'men, women and children
die' during his six years in the Air Force operating Predator drones.
But
after following orders to shoot and kill a toddler in Afghanistan he
knew
he couldn't keep doing what he was doing. He now suffers post-traumatic
stress disorder but is no longer 'dreaming in infrared' having quit the
military.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249252/Brandon-Bryant-Ex-U-S-drone-operator-murdered-scores-people-pushing-button-New-Mexico-describes-quit-following-orders-kill-child.html
White House won't accept new tax offer from Republican leader
President Barack Obama is not ready to accept a new offer from the
Republican leader of the U.S. the House of Representatives to raise taxes
on top earners in exchange for major cuts in entitlement programs, a source
said late Saturday.
The shape and details of Boehner's offer were uncertain Saturday night, as
was the exact reason the president was prepared to reject it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-usa-fiscal-republicans-idUSBRE8BE0AN20121216
Hungary's Jews face down new extremism
A week after a leader of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party called for lists
of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy
stepped forward.
"My mother and father were Jewish, and so am I, whether you like it or
not," the state secretary of the Development Ministry told parliament,
explaining he did not have dual citizenship with Israel and was not
religious.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-hungary-jews-idUSBRE8BF0HI20121216
Blast in Pakistani market kills at least 15 people
A blast in a market in northwest Pakistan on Monday killed at least 15
people, a security official said.
The official said at least 20 people had been wounded in the blast in the
market in the Khyber region, near the border with Afghanistan, and the
death toll could rise.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/17/us-pakistan-blast-idUSBRE8BG07H20121217
4.0 Magnitude Earthquake SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA - 17th December 2012
Magnitude ML 4.0
Region SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
Date time 2012-12-17 07:46:09.0 UTC
Location 31.80 S ; 68.46 W
Depth 201 km
Distances 30 km S San juan, Argentina
4.1 Magnitude Earthquake TAIWAN - 17th December 2012
Magnitude ML 4.1
Region TAIWAN
Date time 2012-12-17 04:56:51.9 UTC
Location 24.82 N ; 121.99 E
Depth 9 km
Distances 19 km E Toucheng, TAIWAN
Newtown school shooting story already being changed by the media to eliminate eyewitness reports of a second shooter
As the story of this shooting was first breaking, the news was reporting a
second gunman.
FoxNews reported that this second gunman was “led out of the woods by
officers” and then questioned. The original source of this report was the
Connecticut Post.
A local CBS affiliate was also reporting the existence of a second gunman
and said “Police believe there may be a second gunman and are looking for a
red or maroon van with its back window blown out…”
ABC News also originally reported, “A second gunman is apparently at large.
Car-to-car searches are underway.”
http://www.pakalertpres... more »
CYCLONE EVAN BEARS DOWN ON FIJI'S NORTH
More than 3,000 people are sheltering in evacuation centres as Cyclone Evan
bears down on Fiji's northern islands.
The storm has already caused widespread damage in Samoa, claiming at least
four lives.
Fiji's Meteorological Office says at 12noon local time the centre of Severe
Tropical Cyclone C Evan was about 35 kilometres south of Yasawa i Ra island.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/15656060/cyclone-evan-bears-down-on-fijis-north/
Afghanistan Bomb Blast Kills 10 Young Girls
Ten young girls have been killed by a landmine explosion in eastern
Afghanistan, officials say.
The children were collecting firewood when one of them accidentally struck
the mine with an axe, according to Chapahar district governor Mohammad
Seddiq Dawlatzai.
The victims were all aged nine to 13. Two girls were critically injured and
are being treated in hospital.
http://news.sky.com/story/1026343/afghanistan-bomb-blast-kills-10-young-girls
Benjamin Fulford: Pakistanis Capture Billions in NATO Drug Mafia Money
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbenjaminfulford.typepad.com%2F
This
video shows one billion dollars worth of dollar bills taken from drug
mafia NATO in Pakistan. Looking for help to open the box.
The following link was sent by people in Pakistan who say they have
seized
billions of dollars in 100 dollar bills from the NATO drug mafia. They
are
looking for help in getting them open.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm23r9x9wqs
Sky City China
Somehow I am not yet a believer here. Tall buildings have problems that
increase exponentially as we increase in height. However, with these folks,
they have obviously worked through the issues. What remains to see is
whether the economics will fly and if the consumer will accept the product.
Recall 31400 people are going to want to leave and enter the building
every day. This means a couple of thousand per hour. Those elevators will
be loading and unloading constantly.
Even providing as many commercial services as possible will still see
folks heading out.
Besides the... more »
Building Food Revolution
The hard point is that the real science has landed. It represents
uniformally bad news for the purveyors of out food supplies. First off
though we have the sheer weight of the China study that cleanly links
animal proteins in general with the full palette of our chronic diseases
and then shows that plant proteins obviate those same diseases.
The stunning take home is that all animal and fish proteins need to be
used rarely if at all and even then as flavoring agents. Even our obsession
over fat in fact appears to have been triggered by the animal protein
co-product. There m... more »
Sky City
This is amazing stuff and well worth doing. The truth is that it could
only have been justified in China. Our own building industry is overbuilt
and under utilized and that is not a formula to drive innovation.
The technology is best applied for building structures capable of housing
two hundred and providing additional work space. These could be plunked
down beside any village and used to swiftly reduce the land used for
housing. In that environment, the land cost becomes irrelevant. In practice
it will work best if the adjacent farm land is made community property
anyw... more »
Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase
What has happened is that mankind entered the world of agricultural
abundance and is adapting to this new paradigm with a blast of increased
variation and choices. At present we are witnessing the onslaught of global
hybridization. This will shift variations across huge populations and
induce natural hybrid vigor world wide. It is all stunningly efficient and
we barely understand it is happening.
Add to that our incipient capacity to outright manage desired outcomes and
we might expect to begin raising special purpose humans. As I have already
posted, I have conjectured t... more »
LEADER OF CHILD KILLERS PRETENDS TO WEEP FOR VICTIMS
.
During the last couple of days we have had to endure as nauseating a
spectacle as one is ever likely to see.
Child-killer Barack Obama pretending to weep over the deaths of 26
children
in an elementary school in Connecticut.
As we have heard no regrets whatsoever expressed regarding the 170+
childrenhe has murdered himself in Pakistan, only a total fool could
take his
grief-ridden act seriously.
Can such fools possibly exist out there.
Step forward the entire Zionist mainstream media who can be guaranteed
to
take the words of every establishment liar at face value.
Now the ent... more »
Fire at Fukushima?
Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago
I recommend viewing this Fuku1 live video posted at Enenews by Vital1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmak92fx6KI&feature=player_embedded#!
There have been quite a few unusual observations of the plant since the 7.3
earthquake this week. If there was a fire, citizen monitoring stations
should be showing peaks, depending upon which way the wind was blowing
Citizens in Japan and those downstream of the jet stream should look for
any unusual monitoring results:
<img alt=""
src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAaUAAADuCAIAAAAWWI/iAAAgAElEQVR4nOy7V5PkRn7oqw8gKcTlcDjT0748gI... more »
Attack on Kent Hehr highlights deepening fissures in Alberta Liberal ranks
Calgary-Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr with a crowd of Liberalberta supporters in
the background. (Bad joke. I apologize.) Below: Alberta Liberal Leader Raj
Sherman. An angry and public attack last week on Liberal MLA Kent Hehr by
Alberta Liberal Party President Todd Van Vliet suggests the party’s caucus
is splintering under the leadership of former Progressive ... more »
The Syrian-Turkish Border Is A Flashpoint For WWIII
*Source of photo*.
There are many regional flashpoints in the Middle East, but military
experts believe that the Syrian-Turkish border is the most volatile.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich *said in
November*that, "The militarization of the Syrian-Turkish border is a
dismal signal."
At the moment, there is a low-level conflict on the Syrian-Turkish
border.
There have been *clashes throughout the past year*, often times stoked
by
the FSA, the NATO-backed Jihadist insurgency that is fighting Assad.
But if the United States government has anything to say abou... more »
Pennsylvania nuclear power plant: Unexpected shutdown reported
An energy company says it’s trying to figure out why a central Pennsylvania
nuclear power plant reactor shut down unexpectedly.
PPL Corp says Unit 2 at the Susquehanna nuclear facility near Berwick shut
down early Sunday morning. The company says the reactor is safe and stable.
In a statement, Allentown-based PPL says the shutdown occurred during
routine testing of a valve on the unit’s main turbine system.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/unexpected-shutdown-reported-at-us-nuclear-plant/article4208906.ece
Daytime UFO filmed over Orlando Florida: Dec 15, 2012
Daytime UFO over Orlando, Florida 15 December 2012 *by justa4t*
Ecuador declares orange alert near Tungurahua volcano
ECUADOR has issued an orange alert - the second-highest warning level - for
towns near the Tungurahua volcano, as its level of activity rose, civil
defence officials say.
The area of the warning covers the adjacent provinces of Tungurahua and
Chimborazo, according to the national civil defence agency.
Greater activity has been building since Wednesday, along with a slight
increase in gas emissions from the 5029-metre volcano, located about 135km
south of the capital Quito, the Geophysical Institute said.
http://www.news.com.au/world/ecuador-declares-volcano-alert/story-fndir2ev-122... more »
Mayan 'death and rebirth' date marks the perfect time to tackle planet's crisis
At 12 minutes past noon last Wednesday, 12.12.12, 12 minutes of wintry
stillness was broken by the low chime of a gong. The crowd gathered around
the Chalice Well beneath Glastonbury Tor linked hands, looked skywards,
then touched the earth. A multitude of others did the same across the world
– only this place, as everyone knows, is rather special.
For many people, these days between last Wednesday, 12 December, and the
winter solstice on 21 December next Friday constitute a portal of some
kind, based upon a convergence of predictions in ancient calendars, notably
that of the Maya i... more »
Emerging Europe: Goal challenged
For
the countries of central and eastern Europe, the unassailable momentum
of integration with Europe’s west has been a double-edged sword. For
much
of the past decade, the wealth gap between west and east has narrowed as
inflows of cheap capital helped power economic growth in the former
communist countries.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c652df60-4514-11e2-838f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2FHbtzBdg
5.6 Magnitude Earthquake KURIL ISLANDS - 17th December 2012
Magnitude
5.6
Date-Time
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 00:28:55 UTC
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:28:55 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
49.749°N, 155.952°E
Depth
38.9 km (24.2 miles)
Region
KURIL ISLANDS
Distances
102 km (63 miles) S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake VALPARAISO, CHILE - 16th December 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 22:46:11 UTC
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 07:46:11 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
33.762°S, 71.433°W
Depth
54.9 km (34.1 miles)
Region
VALPARAISO, CHILE
Distances
20 km (12 miles) WSW of Melipilla, Chile
Dangerous Music: Sugar Man, Beatles and Buffy Sainte Marie
Sugar
Man, Sixto Rodriquez
How music cracked open the world: Searching for Sugar Man, How the
Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, and the music of Buffy Sainte Marie
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Searching for Sugar Man, and How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, tell
the same story, in very different ways. Both films tell how music,
forbidden and censored music,
Quote of the day: On the reaction to a shooting
*“’Tough cases make bad law,’ it is often said. I suggest
a corollary: extreme events make bad legislation.”*
- Gene Callahan, “A*** L****, the Perfect Cypher upon Whom We Can Project
Our Agendas”
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to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
4.4 Magnitude Earthquake PAGAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS - 16th December 2012
Magnitude
4.4
Date-Time
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 21:50:29 UTC
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 07:50:29 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
18.206°N, 146.843°E
Depth
53.6 km (33.3 miles)
Region
PAGAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Distances
113 km (70 miles) E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands
Who Says Obama's Policies Are Considered Republican? Anyone With A Brain-- Including President Barack H. Obama
If you've followed this blog with any regularity over the past few years,
you've probably noticed an uncomfortable disdain for Barack Obama-- going
back to right after he was elected to the Senate and picked Joe Lieberman
as his mentor, and continuing right up to the current attempts to work with
Boehner to balance the budget on the backs on the elderly and the middle
class. The wealthy and powerful have continued to do extraordinarily well
under Obama... regular working families, much less so. And, as Dan Rather
told a somewhat stunned Rachel Maddow Thursday night (watch the video... more »
Robotic arm: Paralyzed woman's thoughts
*According to US study, unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been
achieved using a paralysed woman's thoughts.*Jan, who is 53 and paralyzed
from the neck down, was able to deftly pick up, move and place a range of
objects in a manner similar to a normal arm. Brain implants were used to
manage the robotic arm and Jan was diagnosed with spinocerebellar
degeneration 13 years ago and progressively lost control of her body. She
is now incapable to move her arms.
The pulses of electricity in the brain are then translated into commands to
move the arm, which bends at the elbow, wris... more »
President's Comments in Newtown, Connecticut
I was out at dinner when this came on TV. Everyone in the place froze and
listened.
567 Grams: Avicenna's Floating Man Argument And The Newtown Massacre
Abraham Lincoln believed in life after death, *possessed psychic abilities*,
and famously dreamed about his own demise shortly before it happened. He is
not alone. Philosophers, mystics, poets, and prophets all speak about the
eternal life of the soul and the existence of a world beyond this one.
Read this excerpt from Tai Carmen's article, *"The Human Soul and The
Floating Man"*:
"The 11th century Persian philosopher Avicenna devised The Floating Man thought
experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality of
the soul: he directed readers to imagine themselv... more »
Right Wingers Tweeting Bigotry During NewTown Vigil
I won't repeat any of what is in the diary here.
On Daily Kos tonight.
It's really disgusting.
BUT - Please read the whole thing
There are two really good points made by the diarist.
>>>>HERE<<<<<
You have not begun to see all that is in store for you.
*
*
*You have not begun to see all that is in store for you. *
As channeled by Ron Head
December 16, 2012 in Michael, Ron's Channeled Messages
Michael
Before we begin today, let us tell all who are suffering because of their
connection to your loss of so many dear little ones they are here with us
and they are well cared for. We offer our comfort to all who ask. We
understand your pain and wish you peace in your knowing of their return
home.
Let us now begin by pointing out to you, although we know it is totally
unnecessary, that only five days remain in your current ‘... more »
Costa Rica Bans Sport Hunting
Pumas are among Costa Rica's most treasured species. Photo courtesy: Raul
Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
Good for you, Costa Rica!! Costa Rica has became the first Latin American
country to ban hunting as a sport, after an unanimous and final vote from
Congress.
Lawmakers had provisionally approved a reform to its Wildlife Conservation
law back in October. With a population of 4.5 million people, Costa Rica is
one of the world's most biodiverse nations.
The central American country is already known for its environmental
mindset, with 25% of its land protected as national parks or reser... more »
Secret Libor Transcripts Expose Trader Rate-Manipulation
*
*
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-13/rigged-libor-with-police-nearby-shows-flaw-of-light-touch.html
*
* *Secret Libor Transcripts Expose Trader Rate-Manipulation*
By Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch
December 13, 2012 11:01 AM EST
Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank
of Scotland Group Plc’s trading floor overlooking London’s Liverpool Street
station, Paul White punched a series of numbers into his computer.
White, who joined RBS in 1984, was one of the employees responsible for the
firm’s submissions to the London interbank offered rate, or... more »
The International Banking Cartel/Cabal
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight Families:
by Dean Henderson
*(Excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers
in the Persian Gulf… Part one of a five-part series)*
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup
and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal
Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank,
BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly
over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company ... more »
Did You Know That...
Kleenex-brand tissues started out as thin, gauzelike paper called
Cellucotton that Kimberly-Clark produced as liners for GIs' gas masks
during World War 1. When the war ended, the company used the surplus to
make "Kleenex Kerchiefs", which it heavily promoted as "the Sanitary Cold
Cream Remover". Women all over the country scrambled to buy the handy
things. Until then, they'd used washcloths and towels to take off their
makeup. But they soon began writing to the company with a complaint: Their
husbands and children were forever snatching the Kerchiefs to blow their
noses! The folks... more »
Jewish Controlled Hollywood Playing People As Suckers Again: Newest Crap Movie, "Zero Dark Thirty" Is Blatant "Global War On Terror" Propaganda!
While being laid up today, I actually turned on the "Talmudvision" to watch
a bit of sports news, and to catch up on what has been happening with the
NHL hockey lockout (Yes, this is, or was, the only professional sport I
actually enjoy watching). I saw a commercial that I found revolting and
disgusting. It was for a new Jewish Hollywood created piece of crap movie
to be released in January, called "Zero Dark Thirty". I could not believe
the blatant lies and pure propaganda I was seeing... It was almost as bad
as the other piece of crap laugher of a movie released recently called... more »
Supersizing Secrecy (And Downsizing Democracy)? What We Must Really Love (Not To Mention Admire)
From my mentor Tom Engelhardt at the TomDispatch we learn who really won
all those "contested" elections. And it wasn't us. Not by a long shot. And
when you next think of where money is to be made in this country . . . . .
. . The first thing they might notice is that the Intelligence Community of
2012 with 17 official outfits has, by the simplest of calculations, almost
doubled. The real
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 16th, 2012
I have been suffering today from what appears to be Influenza like
symptoms... My son caught it from someone at his school (It is sad that in
today's economy, working parents send sick kids to school!), and he
suffered from it earlier this week. I was crossing my fingers that I would
not get it, but I guess my luck ran out. Hopefully this will not last
long, and I should be back to my normal self in a few days..I figure that
with the fever subsided enough for the moment, I will try to fire off my
weekly rant...
Yes, I am still very pissed off by what I see with this latest shootin... more »
"Let us celebrate the falling bodies . . . as a demonstration of our fealty, our bondage, to the great god Gun" (Garry Wills)
*"I have often thought that we should raise a statue of [Charlton] Heston
at each of the many sites of multiple murders around our land. We would
soon have armies of statues, whole droves of Heston acolytes standing
sentry at the shrines of Moloch dotting the landscape."*
*"That horror cannot be blamed just on one unhinged person. It was the
sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god.
We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing
power readily supplied him."*
*-- Garry Wills, in a NYRB blogpost,* "Our Moloch"
*Moloch*Fro... more »
Daily Links, Monday, Dec 17, 2012
*In Tianzhong train station, an express awaits.*
Time for another edition of weekly links......
*BLOGS*:
- The Suhua Highway and rail line not rail line are closed, probably for
about three weeks. Travel to Hualien is now a major pain. If New Years puts
you in Hualien, you might want to reconsider.
- Ben on the SET TV mess, in which a popular host leaves the show over
allegations management censored pro-Taiwan commentary.
- Ben also comments on Robert Ross' remarks on F-16s.
- Way cool: WWII Japanese pillboxes in the Taichung/Taiwan. Great,
useful post.
*... more »
Oh, the weather outside's not frightful (and by the pool's delightful)
Copan Christmas elves
I was sitting by the pool today, sipping a *cerveza*and thinking about what
a very different Christmas I’ll be having this year.
This is my first Christmas ever outside of Canada. I’m not the type to
make too big a deal out of Christmas, but I did have a few rituals around
the season. The absence of those rituals this year is making me newly aware
of the ones I’m missing and the ones I never did take much of a shine to.
Cold weather, for instance. Maybe I dreamed of a white Christmas a few
times as a kid, but that desire pretty much went away once I started to ... more »
Malevolent Maples Destined for Oblivion
Wit's End - 15 hours ago
For most of my life, I had always thought of the world as a splendid,
benevolent, and resilient place. I remember when I was young going out to
the lawn with an iron tool. It had a turned, grooved wooden handle, and at
the end of the long spike, rusty under chipped paint, was a sharp forked
tip. My job was to gouge out the stubborn deep taproots of the shiny,
noisily yellow dandelions...before they turned into sparkly floating
snowflakes that made wishes come true. If there were chemical herbicides
available back then, we couldn't afford to buy any - but there was plenty
of tim... more »
Why Strong Science Assessors Matter
In my latest Bridges column I connect Hurricane Sandy to Mad Cow disease
through the repeatedly-learned lesson that effective use of science in
decision making depends upon having strong institutions. Here is how it
starts:
Last month in Berlin, I participated in the 10th anniversary conference of
the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment – the Bundesinstitut für
Risikobewertung (BfR). The BfR is one of a number of European organizations
that Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, executive director of the European Food
Safety Authority (EFSA), characterized at the conference as "the... more »
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