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"A Look to the Heavens"
“Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd
couple in this sharp cosmic portrait from the Hubble Space Telescope. But
they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the
eastern side of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster.
* Click image for larger size.*
About 54 million light-years distant, bright M60's simpler egg-like shape
is created by its randomly swarming older stars, while NGC 4647's young
blue stars, gas and dust are organized into winding arms rotating in a
flattened disk. Spiral NGC 4647 is estimated to be more distant than... more »
Wall Street-Owned New Dems Work With Singapore’s Repressive Government In Push For TPP
Singapore has long had one of the world’s most repressive governments. And
things aren’t getting better anytime soon.
But Singapore's government supports "free trade," and worships at its
alter. So Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is popular in Washington, D.C. and
on Wall Street. He was in town recently to be congratulated for his abiding
commitment to trade. He took advantage of the occasion to lecture Americans
on the "need" for Congress to approve the "vital" Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The secretive TPP would be the world’s largest trade agreement-- and would
ignite a worldwide... more »
Musical Interlude: Gandalf, “Blossoms Unfolding”
Gandalf, “Blossoms Unfolding”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRf9scJDbb8
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd
couple in this sharp cosmic portrait from the Hubble Space Telescope. But
they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the
eastern side of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster.
* Click image for larger size.*
About 54 million light-years distant, bright M60's simpler egg-like shape
is created by its randomly swarming older stars, while NGC 4647's young
blue stars, gas and dust are organized into winding arms rotating in a
flattened disk. Spiral NGC 4647 is estimated to be more distant th... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Things As They Are”
*“Things As They Are”*
by Paulo Coelho
“Of course things don’t always happen they way we wish they would. There
are moments in which we feel we are seeking something that is not meant for
us, knocking on doors that don’t open, waiting for miracles that don’t
manifest themselves. Fortunately that is the way things are – if everything
went the way we wanted, soon we would no longer have anything to write
about, nothing to guide our daily thoughts. This script serves our dreams
as nourishment, but to our battles as energy. And as it always happens with
the warriors that spend all thei... more »
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "What I Have Learned So Far"
*"What I Have Learned So Far"*
"Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly
attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.
Can one be passionate about the just, the
ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit
to no labor in its cause? I don't think so.
All summations have a beginning, all effect has a
story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.
Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of
light is the crossroads of- indolence, or action.
Be ignited, or be gone."
... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Maintenance of Self”
*“The Maintenance of Self”*
by Chet Raymo
"Ah, yes, the pitcher plant. Those devouring goblets. Those caldrons of
digestive juices. And now naturalists have found the biggest one yet, as
big as a chalice, on a mountaintop in the Philippines, its punch bowl
filled with beetles, flies and wasps.
*Come hither, ye who flitter. Admire my colors. Sip my nectar. Yes, yes,
just like that, *
*touch my milky pool. I'll be your Tar Baby. Your flypaper paramour. That's
it. *
*Sniff my irresistible scent. My buffet waits. Sip. Lap. Gorge yourself. *
Gotcha!
Countless plants use insects to consu... more »
The Daily "Near you?"
Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Tell Yourself..."
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone
won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have
to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are
here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it
happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death
brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples
falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you
tasted as many as you could.”
- Louise Erdrich
"For My Part..."
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
- Vincent van Gogh
"The Only Time..."
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times,
it's the only time we've got."
~ Art Buchwald
“9 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate (If You Believe In That Sort Of Thing)”
*“9 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate*
* (If You Believe In That Sort Of Thing)”*
by Kelsey Borresen
“Mention the word "soulmate" to a group of people and you're bound to get a
few eye rolls. The idea that there's one magical person for you who you'll
fall in love with instantly and never disagree with is just not realistic.
What does exist- at least for many people- is a person who you know
instinctively, who you connect with on the deepest level and who allows you
to grow as a person within the relationship. When that person is a romantic
partner, you've come across something truly... more »
Indonesia Threatens to go Fascist Again
Freddie would NOT be amused by this...
As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I
have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"
A music video made by several singers as a tribute to Indonesian
presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is causing outrage with its strong
Nazi overtones.
Bali-based filmmaker Daniel Ziv described the video as bringing “Nazi
skinhead imagery to Indonesian politics.”In the video, an adaptation of the
Queen classic “We Will Rock You,” musician Ahmad Dhani sports a
fascist-style uniform and holds a golden *Garu... more »
Indonesia Threatens to go Fascist Again
Freddie would NOT be amused by this...
As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I
have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"
A music video made by several singers as a tribute to Indonesian
presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is causing outrage with its strong
Nazi overtones.
Bali-based filmmaker Daniel Ziv described the video as bringing “Nazi
skinhead imagery to Indonesian politics.”In the video, an adaptation of the
Queen classic “We Will Rock You,” musician Ahmad Dhani sports a
fascist-style uniform and holds a golden *Garu... more »
From WaPo, on teacher demographics
A student laments in a blog for the Washington Post that his “school
district hires too many white teachers.” My PhD dissertation was
specifically on the lack of men in education, especially at the early
childhood level. Overcoming the gender roles, sexism, and homophobia, among
other things, that created the “feminization” of the teaching profession,
[…]
BEHIND THE SCENES
The shaky truce in East Ukraine has been extended with both the army and
anti-government fighters promising to recognize it. The ceasefire, which
has been in place for a week, is part of attempts to bring peace to the
region. RT's Maria Finoshina saw first-hand what Eastern Ukraine is like
amid the promised 'peace'.
The 1930 "KJ" Henderson Streamliner
Henderson Motorcycle
Arne Duncan Praises Worsening Segregation and Calls It A Tribute to Brown v Board
Arne Duncan was in Tennessee last month to deliver the keynote at a
corporate Education Writers Association. Duncan loves Tennessee, as it
represents one of the few states that has remained loyal to the RTTT plan
devised by the Gates Foundation.
Since 2009 Duncan has been spewing the bromide that education is the civil
rights issue of our time, but in Nashville in May, Duncan took his game up
a notch. Now he's claiming that equality means equalizing test score
results. Once that is done, by whatever means necessary (see documented
brutality of KIPP and KIPP knock-offs), the equal... more »
Looks like NJ's Imperial Thieving Fat Bastard isn't going to be toiling on a chain gang anytime soon
*"Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go."* *You'd think by now NJ's Imperial
Thieving Fat Bastard governor would be packing his toothbrush for a decade
or two in the slammer, but it isn't looking that way. And "Scummy Joe"
Scarborough will tell us why.*
*by Ken*
For now, anyway, the last word apparently goes to "Scummy Joe" Scarborough,
who now seems to have officially set himself up as apologist of and coddler
of right-wing Imperial Thieving Fat Bastards.
MediaMatters took the trouble to document ("STUDY: New Investigation Into
Gov. Christie Adminstration Virtually Ignored By Majo... more »
Something wicked has arrived and most folks are clueless ( June 28 , 2014 ) Is the " planned " assault on the US Border and Border States the start of a larger assault ( Us Sovereignty ) ? Martin Armstrong discusses the Reset -- Martin Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is Rising Everywhere: "This Won't End Pretty"
Assault on the Border.....
*MEXICAN MILITARY CHOPPER CROSSES INTO USA, FIRES AT BORDER
AGENTS... AMNESTY ADVOCATES STORM CONGRESS...Activists arrested at Rep's
office...Illegals bankrupting border towns...'OBAMA GOING TO LET THEM
GO'...PAPER: Central America Economies Dependent on Remittances...SURPRISE:
FEDS TO FLY MIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA...BORDER PATROL AGENTS TEST POSITIVE FOR
DISEASES...HIV FEARS AS MIGRANTS EXPOSED ON JOURNEY NORTH...Ranchers say
criminal illegals 'everywhere'...Militia members form human chain to
stop...*
Dave Hodges......
The Trigger Even... more »
"The Crash Course: Massive Change Is Upon Us- The Three 'E's”
*"The Crash Course: Massive Change Is Upon Us- The Three 'E's”*
by Chris Martenson
Submitted by Tyler Durden
“The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the
massive changes now underway, as economic growth as we've known it is
ending due to depleting resources. But it also offers real hope. Those
individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can
lower their exposure to these coming trends- and even discover a better way
of life in the process. We'll show you how.”
"It is fair to say that this particular constellation of issues, pro... more »
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
By NICK HANAUER
[Source:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz35r2xaXD3]
Memo: From Nick Hanauer
To: My Fellow Zillionaires
You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud
and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more
than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like
the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which
I was the first nonfamily investor. Then I founded aQuantive, an Internet
advertising company tha... more »
"For Me, Not For Thee"
*"Hey, kid, c'mere. Aren't you glad your mother didn't have you yanked with
a coathanger?"*
In the midst of this past week, with the fundraising drive to
mitigate our financial circumstances, getting my three ebooks ready for the
relaunch, the interview, editing *Tatterdemalion*, and attending to
thousands of details that make up modern life, I neglected to write about
the one big story that directly affected my adopted state of Massachusetts.
Actually, there were two, the other being Gov Deval Patrick signing into
law a bill raising the minimum wage to $11 ph by 2017, which w... more »
Saturday Live
You would have to have a heart of stone not to find yourself warming to
parts of Radio 4's morning-hogging *Saturday Live. *
At the same time you'd also have to have a brain made out of mashed
potatoes not to realise that the programme has palpable designs upon us.
*Saturday Live* is very obviously, actively, seeking to warm the cockles of
our hearts.
Gratitude, love, sorrows, youthful enthusiasms, affectionate memories, etc,
are the strings upon which *Saturday Live* plays so well.
Similarly, you'd have to be a complete curmudgeon not to be beguiled by its
main presenter - the g... more »
“5 Sad Truths About Success And Happiness”
*“5 Sad Truths About Success And Happiness”*
by Bernard Marr
“Even as medical science and quality of life continues to increase our life
spans, it seems as though many of us are not really living the life we’re
given. Too often we are caught in the “busy” trap, running, running,
running—but never getting much of anywhere. But how would you live
differently if you knew you were going to die?
Finding true success and happiness: Not to be maudlin, but we all are going
to die—sooner or later. And while death is something we humans pretty
universally fear, thinking about our own demise ... more »
Enough
June 28, 2014 “Round and round she goes and where she stops, nobody
knows”. This has been a good week in my little corner of the world.
Goldilocks weather – not too hot, certainly not too cold – meant I … Continue
reading →
Joe Stiglitz: "We Are Not Embracing A Politics Of Envy If We Reverse A Politics Of Greed"
The word on the street: rigged. It's certainly the central theme of what
we're hearing from Elizabeth Warren-- and has a lot to do with why voters
in Massachusetts replaced Wall Street's favorite senator with her.
Yesterday we read, watched and listened to Nick Hanauer warn his fellow
billionaires of the dangers inherent in too much and too blatant rigging.
And today let's look at it from the perspective of one of the world's
foremost economists, Joseph Stiglitz, who seems to believe we've already reached
the inequality tipping point and that rigging is sending America down an
ugl... more »
Whackin' Adlai : Goldwater, the Tower Commission, Dallas Nazis and theYMCA
*"Those who know how the security of President Kennedy is organized, know
that it’s not possible for such a fanatic to commit such an assassination. *
*A political crime, thoroughly prepared and planned, has taken place. It is
not accidental that it took place in the Southern states, which are
well-known as a stronghold of racists and other fascist scum. *
*It is precisely here that Goldwater, one of the contenders for the
presidency, gets his support.”*
*Valerian Zorin, *
*Moscow State Radio,*
*November 22nd 1963*
*Before the Assassination*
The jostling of* Senator Lyndon B. Joh... more »
Nancy Pelosi, "ardent Catholic", makes a bunch of contradictory statements in the Rio Grande Valley......
*I watched so you don't have to.*
Ms Pelosi flew down to tour the "humanitarian crisis" on the border where
magically, thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras and Guatemala
have somehow made it all the way across Mexico, and are now being given new
underwear that's way too big for them.
At the 4:30 mark she says, "If you believe as we do that every person,
every child has a spark of divinity in them and is therefore worthy of
respect."
She goes on to say that what she saw in the faces of the illegal immigrant
children was "dazzling."
Yet this woman, who calls herself ... more »
The Bullshit Chronicles: Yes, It's What We Unleashed (They Want to Say That This Is Not Even Just About Iraq, But About Islamic Radicalism from Nigeria to Pakistan)
No one saw it coming. So "they" are now saying (again). Except for the
hundreds of thousands of citizens who opposed, marched, and wrote thousands
of essays against it. And the millions who were positively influenced by
them but whose supporting opinions were ignored purposely by the powerful
decision makers. For years. If it's not Tricky Dick Cheney and his prancing
twisted spawn
Return To Paradise
So, I went back to the States for a short time to attend the wedding of two
of my favorite people, Ron and Erika. Flew Delta Thursday night and
returned Spirit the following Tuesday night All flights were easy and no
delays. Yay.
Got into Michigan late Thursday night and Ron and Meghan picked me up from
the Erika. Stayed at Ron's Thursday and Friday night. Friday I went to
the office and had lunch with everyone and picked up all the random stuff I
had sent to the office to bring back to Costa Rica with me. Packed it all
in the extra suitcase I brought with me. Friday night ... more »
June 28: propaganda, cheap sensationalism and plain old trivia
Section D for June 28,has five - count them. five - full pages of pictures
of grad dance couples. Apart from their parents, is it possible that
anybody gives a damn?
Yes, it is possible for a province that has been been brainwashed by
generations of lazy, commercial journalism practiced by unprincipled and,
seemingly, untrained journalists.
They're still playing up the stunning courage shown by Moncton through its
recent police shootings, and still marveling at the incredible resilience
which shows that Moncton "will rise again". This is really the cheapest
sort of sensationalist j... more »
Marina and the Diamonds - Primadonna
Blasting out the disco speakers tonight is ... this.
Untitled
*Coastal lawsuit won't move back to state court ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Student: My New Orleans school district hires too many white teachers
~Glen Sullivan*
*A Salute to the James Beard Awards ~Poppy Tooker, It's New Orleans*
*A Salute To The James Beard Awards * *June 28, 2014*
*A Salute To The James Beard Awards * *June 28, 2014*
Quarter Two Local By-Election Results 2014
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/- Q1
Average/
contest
+/- Q1
+/- Seats
Conservative
118
77,874
29.6%
+1.0%
660
+233
-1
Labour
112
83,902
31.9%
+0.7%
749
+208
0
LibDem
79
29,280
11.1%
+1.0%
371
+169
0
UKIP
68
35,399
13.5%
+0.1%
520
+243
+4
SNP*
5
4,463
1.7%
-2.2%
892
+51
-2
Plaid Cymru**
1
329
0.1%
-1.7%
329
-256
0
Green
45
16,639
6.3%
+4.0%
370
+263
+3
BNP
1
327
0.1%
+0.1%
327
+327
0
TUSC
13
896
0.3%
-0.2%
69
-47
0
I... more »
Musings On Iraq In The News
I was quoted in “ISIL funding becomes increasingly self-sufficient” in
Today’s Zaman and Andrew Sullivan's "The Ever-Expanding ISIS, Ctd" in the
Daily Dish.
Common Core Writers Hate Balanced Literacy
Another reason to dump the Common Core, from NYTimes:
*. . . .The city’s Education Department turned away from balanced literacy
several years ago amid concerns that it was unstructured and ineffective,
particularly for low-income children. And Ms. Fariña is facing sharp
resistance from some education experts, who argue that balanced literacy is
incompatible with the biggest shift in education today: the Common Core
academic standards.*
*During her almost six months as chancellor, Ms. Fariña, a veteran of the
school system, has reduced the role of standardized tests, increased
collab... more »
Supplemental: Rucker keeps pouring it on!
*SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014*
*Also, the Times bungles Denmark:* Young elite “journalist” Philip Rucker
just keeps pouring it on!
This morning, he’s been bumped to page A3 of the Washington Post. But he
continues to document every penny the Clintons have stolen since 2001.
“Obscene” and “grotesque,” he says today, describing a payment for a speech
which will apparently go to the Clinton Global Initiative. (Rucker fails to
record that apparent fact, which was reported on CNN last night.)
Rather, Rucker quotes a pundit who dropped those bombs. He quotes no one
asking why the Post has e... more »
ALEC's Model Bill to Get Public Money for Corporate Charters Before Any Students Enroll
From Politico:
— *ALEC will also consider two model bills* that could vastly expand
funding for charter schools, including facilities funds. One would require
states or districts to pay charters for their entire first year of
operation based on the enrollment figures administrators projected before
they opened their doors — not how many students actually show up. (Any
discrepancies would be addressed with adjustments to funding in the second
year.) Read the agenda and model bills:http://bit.ly/TAFxCC.
Who Wants War? Who Is Still Part Of Richard Nixon's Tribe?
Although many NeoCons are tiptoeing around it, Cheney isn't. They all want
to send American troops tonight for corporate profits in Iraq again but
only Cheney is actually saying it on TV-- although 206 Republicans and 44
Democrats voted for it on June 19 when they opposed Barbara Lee's amendment
to prohibit the use of funds for newer military operations in Iraq. 142
Democrats voted for the amendment and there were only 23 Republicans with
the good sense (or guts) to cross the aisle and vote with them. These are
the 23 Republicans:
*•* Justin Amash (R-MI)
*•* Dan Benishek (R-MI)
... more »
Fracking for natural gas/oil causes earthquakes
I believe it does. Are Oklahoma Earthquakes Tied to Fracking? Answer is
yes. But gas/oil companies won't admit it.
Please watch the video here.
Birth Control: Deeply Moral or Inconsequential?
You can't have it both ways.
Either birth control is a highly moral issue on which physicians must be
allowed to impose their "conscience" or it is a trivial matter with
negligible consequences that can be easily dealt with.
"A doctor at a Calgary walk-in clinic is refusing to prescribe birth
control due to her personal beliefs."
This caused a ruckus starting on Facebook and a comment was sought from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (bold mine).
Under the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta’s policy on Moral
or Religious Beliefs Affecting Medical Care,... more »
Local Council By-Elections June 2014
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/-
May
Average/
contest
+/-
May
+/- Seats
Conservative
10
4,349
22.3%
-7.8%
435
-276
+1
Labour
9
8,883
45.6%
+14.5%
987
+221
+1
LibDem
5
362
1.9%
-10.0%
72
-314
0
UKIP
8
2,253
11.5%
-2.1%
282
-308
0
SNP*
1
1,170
6.0%
+4.6%
1,170
+347
-1
Plaid Cymru**
0
Green
4
456
2.3%
-4.6%
114
-287
0
BNP
0
-0.... more »
Hey little buddy
The fact is you fucked me for your own advancement. So well did I school
you when you came to me because of your Mothers suicide attempt. I made
that go away in the corporation and then you betrayed me for your own ends.
I did not perform, I let the valve to regime change open. For this I do not
blame you. I was wrong but when you where right, you where not there. That
is something you will live to regret. Not because I will take any action.
This all happened twenty years ago. I do not dwell upon it as I am sure you
dont.
I just wanted to say this is an anniversary of failure. Mine ... more »
Are U a Rob Ford Voter
1) Like your coke
a) coke is sugar water
b)powder my nose instead of flaming my lungs
c) Rock on, Rock on and on an on
2) Transit preference
a) Escalades only lanes
b) If its not underground, its not expensive enough to not do
c) Only failures ride buses
d) I would like to ride Karen Stinz
3) Sexual preference
a) Homos will turn Toronto to Salt, and I would love to pepper that
b) any port in a storm is a good place
c) I can not see my penis
4) The waterfront
a) monorails, monorails and destination Ferris wheels
b) big condos, just make them bigger because I have shorted all the ones... more »
FORUM IN BATH SUPPORTS REDIRECTION OF MILITARY SPENDING
We had 100 people turn out last night in Bath for the public forum on
Maine's growing dependence on military spending. A three-woman panel of
speakers did a good job putting our present situation in context and
offered ideas for ways we can begin to deal with our state's economic
addiction to military spending.
The key take away was that we need more local discussion across the state
about how military spending is capital intensive - meaning that federal
spending on military production creates fewer jobs than any other kind of
investment. Studies have long revealed that if we pu... more »
FORUM IN BATH SUPPORTS REDIRECTION OF MILITARY SPENDING
We had 100 people turn out last night in Bath for the public forum on
Maine's growing dependence on military spending. A three-woman panel of
speakers did a good job putting our present situation in context and
offered ideas for ways we can begin to deal with our state's economic
addiction to military spending.
The key take away was that we need more local discussion across the state
about how military spending is capital intensive - meaning that federal
spending on military production creates fewer jobs than any other kind of
investment. Studies have long revealed that if we pu... more »
Jewish Defense Explained
I am making the case that people of Jewish persuasion are no different than
other people of other persuasions. First they come for the Jews, then the
homosexuals and then the downloaders. Yes this is what I fear. There is a
economic and geographic HARDRAIN going to rain down upon me an you, and our
children, I doubt they will be enough grandchildren to care about. The same
people who decided exterminating some of their most productive creative
educated citizens have not left the playing field. Its like Cambodia baby,
if you think, you could be marginalized at the very least, and push... more »
Toronto Mayors Race
I expect John Tory to drop out. He will do this to stop Chow from winning.
However no one is going to vote for Ford. Tim Hudak proved this.
IRS troubles just getting started ? June 28 , 2014 .....BREAKING: Meet Emmet Sullivan, IRS Judge Who Once Sicced a Special Prosecutor on DOJ Lerner, Holder, Obama: Are You Packing Your Bags?
New York Observer.....
BREAKING: Meet Emmet Sullivan, IRS Judge Who Once Sicced a Special
Prosecutor on DOJLerner, Holder, Obama: Are You Packing Your Bags?
By Sidney Powell | 06/27/14 8:44pm
[image: Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner takes the
Fifth before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, March 5,
2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)]
Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner takes the Fifth before
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, March 5, 2014 in
Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevi... more »
Fuel Cells VS Battery
Fuel Cells in a knockout. Hydrogen bitches!
What Are The Odds That Two Completely Different Stories In The U.S., One In The North (Detroit) And One In The South (Texas), Are Both Calling for U.N. Intervention ???
Isn't this odd? Two stories at the same time are about the U.S. calling for
U.N. help on American soil.
*NBC "news": Groups Seek UN Help to Restore Detroit Water Service*
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: HALF OF DETROIT RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO HAVE THEIR
WATER SHUT OFF BECAUSE THEY CAN'T PAY THE BILL
Nicole Hill holds up her past due water bill at her home in Detroit on June
25, 2014.
*BELOW...we have ANOTHER "humanitarian crisis" at the complete opposite
border in the South in Texas:*
THE "INVASION OF THE HONDURAS KIDS" "humanitarian crisis".
When this "INVASION OF HONDURAS KIDS" story st... more »
Anti-Spying Blimp Flown Over Massive NSA Data Storage Facility in Utah
In an attempt to bring publicity to the mass surveillance and data-mining
activities of the American Stasi a blimp with the message "Illegal Spying
Below" was flown over that massive data storage facility that the NSA has
built in Bluffdale, Utah. The blimp was a joint venture between three
disparate activist groups Greenpeace, The Electronic Frontier Foundation and
the Tenth Amendment Center in an alliance that confounds the corrupt
two-party power structure and the phony left-right paradigm and proves that
people can set aside differences and unite against a shared enemy. I have ... more »
It's the which
Working on a post for the economics blog, as usual. Here is my opening
paragraph:
GDP is a measure of *final* spending only. Not *all* spending. For example,
GDP excludes things that can be taken as corporate tax deductions. Things
like the "cost of goods sold" which, if you buy stuff in order to sell it,
is clearly not "final" spending when you buy it.
This stuff is clear to me because I know it. But when I read the paragraph
it isn't clear to me. The trouble is that last sentence. It doesn't make
things clear. It makes things complicated:
Things like the "cost of goods sold" whic... more »
Do Bluegrass Voters Want To Give Up On Their Old Kentucky Homo?
I have no dog in this fight-- or in the battles in *any* of the states
where corporate ConservaDems are opposing reactionary Republicans. I would
like to see Shenna Bellows (ME) and Rick Weiland (SD) win their races-- and
I'm contributing regularly (can you, too?)-- but who wins Senate seats in
Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky is pretty academic for
me. Or maybe a better way to describe it-- and why I write about these
races-- is that they are pure entertainment. If a charismatic coke freak
causes Lindsey Graham to lose to a right-wing Democrat in South Carolina, ... more »
Untitled
*Back to the dead-end*
*Drop out and get a real education*
Life Experience, New Technology Can Teach You More Than School Ever Could
I have written before about the college bubble in the United States and
where it may lead. The current problems in the college system are pretty
obvious, just as Mark Cuban stated in an interview last week. How this
giant college debacle unfolds will have huge implications and may lead to
entirely new ways of looking at education, not only in the university
system but with schooling overall.
For the last few generations in the West, the prest... more »
A Nation Of Laws
DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS
This week's Supreme Court decision is not a blanket rejection of pipelines.
It's more complicated and far reaching than that. Tom Walkom writes:
First, it doesn’t exclude aboriginal lands from provincial laws. Provinces
are free to make laws about matters like oil drilling and forestry. But
these laws must be applied to lands under aboriginal title in a manner that
protects native rights.
For instance, provincial governments can’t unilaterally let forest
companies clear-cut Indian land.
Second, the decision... more »
Free Planet returns - GPS watches always give you - the correct local time.
*where, but not when*it's been a while since I did a dedicated *Free Planet*
blogpost but here's a new one: *GPS WATCHES*.
"We already have GPS-watches, Mike, ya dumb-ass!" and you'd be right. You'd
be impolite, and (hence) a little bit off-topic, but you'd be right.
We *do* already have GPS-enabled watches, but we only use half the
functionality of them. We know *where* we are but not really *when* we are.
You confused?
Well, let's put it like this, "The Sun crosses the sky all day, every day,"
and we always know the path for any given set of GPS coordinates. We have
tables of the... more »
art - Tran Nguyen - place the woman down in the suburbs...
*Tran Nguyen* *is a Georgia-based gallery artist and freelance illustrator.
Born in Vietnam and raised in the States, she is fascinated with creating
visuals that can be used as a psycho-therapeutic support vehicle, exploring
the mind's landscape. Her paintings are created with a soft, delicate
quality using colored pencil and acrylic on paper.* [source TRAN NGUYEN]
There's something really special (and haunted) about Tran Nguyen's subtle
artwork, especially the images in this claustrophobic suburban series.
Pushing Atwan up a hill forever
Not Polly Toynbee
Alas, poor Sisyphus! - punished by being forced to push an immense boulder
up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action for
eternity. Thank the gods that that poor man's only a Greek myth!
Still, it could be worse: He might have been forced to watch *Dateline
London *for ever and ever. For his sins.
Today's edition began by discussing David Cameron, Mr Juncker and the EU.
In an ideal world where the makers of *Dateline London* really cared about
being 'BBC impartiality', they would have made sure that the assembled
panel would offer some ... more »
Iraq Updates June 28 , 2014 -- Drones, Troops, and Hellfire Missiles: US Involvement in Iraq Grows Iraq Used All 300 Hellfire Missiles Weeks Ago ( Mission creep and policy by the seat of pants ? ) , While Grand Ayatollah Sistani urges that the Iraq Parliament agreee on a new PM by Tuesday , can that happen with atrocities occurring on both the Sunni and Shi'a side ? Regional impacts ( Syria , Jordan , Lebanon and Saudia Arabia in focus ) .....
Tweets to consider -- FWIW...
*Mark* @markito0171 · 24s
#Iraq Heavy battle now on road (50km) btw #Samarra & #Tikrit -dozens of
burning vehicles (probably ambush on the huge #Maliki-forces convoy)
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*Mark* @markito0171 · 16m
#Iraq #Anbar Rebels destroyed tanks & armored vehicles on highway bridges
in northern Saqulauiah area http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=3
3.424708&lon=43.655891&z=13&m=b …
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*Mark* @markito0171 · 39m
#Iraq #Maliki-forces started today biggest assault so far to regain control
of #Tikrit with thousands of soldiers, aircrafts & heavy weapons
*Mark* ... more »
Polish Nationalists Destroy Multicultural Antifascist Festival in London June 21st 2014
No wonder JewKIP are so keen to attack our Polish brothers and sisters,
whilst making the insane claim that Pakistanis with UK documents have more
right to be here than Europeans!
Long live the European Nation. Let us hope that the heroic actions of our
brethren from the east inspire the subdued Anglo-Saxons and Celts to arise
from their slumber and join the fight against the liberal neo-Marxist
'politically correct' genocide of our people.
'Today', Lord Lawson and the BBC Complaints Unit
Evidence from the latest IPCC report?
Here's one that will wind some of you right up!...
According to the Guardian*,* the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit has
apparently upheld a complaint against the *Today *programme for inviting
Lord Lawson on to discuss climate science without undermining him
beforehand. *Grauniad *environment blogger Hugh Muir writes:
It still sends a frisson down the spine of certain producers to give
airtime to the former chancellor Lord Lawson so that he can chip away at
the widespread scientific agreement over the causes and impact of climate
change. The temp... more »
Taiwan Voice on Zhang's visit
*Kitteh is unhappy with Zhang.*
I've been busy putting together a presentation so enjoy Taiwan Voice's
reporting on the visit of Zhang Zhi-jun's visit to Taiwan. Click on Read
More to see full report.... (Facebook).
Taiwan Voice:
Fourth and last day of Zhang Zhijun’s visit—Zhang cancels scheduled visits;
Taiwan’s MAC still treated as nothing more than Zhang’s personal secretary.
Today (28th) at 2 AM, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) announced on
short notice that Zhang Zhijun’s travel schedule will change. His scheduled
visit to Kaohsiung’s Chien-Cheng Fish Harbor and The Li... more »
Musical Interlude: Adiemus, “In Caelum Fero”
Adiemus, “In Caelum Fero”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dc-tRfKjuQ
Musical Interlude: Enigma, “T.N.T. For The Brain”
Enigma, “T.N.T. For The Brain”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZfLIsfredU
"There Is A Family Of Us...'
"There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence
that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe
we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the
power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!"
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood,
but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
- "Illusions: The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah"
"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we
finally ov... more »
"Moving Image Shows 2 Shelter Dogs Who Turned To Each Other For Love And Companionship"
*"Moving Image Shows 2 Shelter Dogs Who Turned *
*To Each Other For Love And Companionship"*
By Melissa McGlensey
"All creatures need comfort and companionship, not just humans. A photo of
two shelter dogs who, without a real home and people to love them, found
friendship in one another, is making its rounds on the Internet this week. The
touching image shows Delaware, a friendly 8-month-old a pit bull mix, and
Kyra, a playful 1-year-old Lab mix, spooning together in their shared space
at the Fulton County Shelter in Atlanta, Georgia.
*Click image for larger size.*
Every year, millio... more »
Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox
I've previously posted the masterwork of Swede Mason - MasterChef Synesthesia
(twice in fact) but here's the almost as good Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox.
Archaeologists Recreate Elixir of Long Life Recipe from Unearthed Bottle
It could be said that this was more for fun than any practical reason. But
the history does show a long lasting interest and serious claims been made.
I suspect that vtnhe interest was well grounded in ancient practice and a
real elixir. Work today in this field is plausibly drawing close to such a
concoction.
It is certainly not to be deemed impossible and may well be plausible. As
well we have a scattering of recent evidence supporting this theme that
come with excellent credentials. It may well not be that difficult in
practice. At least now I see work ongoing.
Our own civ... more »
The Impossibility of Growth?
The impossibility of the growth model always misses the power of resource
displacement. We use scarce resources only because it is presently cheap.
When that changes a new resource is applied. This whole blog has been about
discovering those inevitable options and telling you about it.
After seven years, I how know that energy will be almost free and that it
will be available to every human on Earth. I even know how to deliver it.
Otherwise, sustainable surface agriculture can support 100,000,000,000
souls in comfort and delight and fabulous health.
If we then get bored we can t... more »
Japan’s Population Problem
The problem is actually simple to fix, but then no one has been willing to
cast it in a proper framework. The difficulty is with the nuclear family
concept engineered directly into our whole society is such that its natural
inefficiencies are papered over but never addressed. This is also a leading
cause of structural poverty as well.
The correct formula must be engineered around the natural community of one
hundred and fifty forming a natural community. Communal childcare becomes
practical and this allows for the security to produce larger families or
even to have families at all.... more »
Scientific Truth About Psychodelics
I have long since come to the conclusion that regulatory policy at the
government level regarding the scientific investigation of all
psychological agents is at best psychotic and more likely it has been
criminally diverted to preserve commercial advantage at the expense of
serious competition. There is just too many outright willful lies been
peddled to allow much forgiveness.
Now we are discovering that these illegal substances are clearly beneficial
at a very low level of investigatory involvement. What this means is that
the large laboratories knew this decades ago and then ... more »
Sarajevo assassination: 100 years
Exactly 100 years ago, the Great War became unavoidable. (That's how the
people called a world war before they were forced to realize that this
exercise is repeatable.)
On Sunday, June 28th, 1914, the prospective Czech king – who also managed
to be destined to become the Hungarian king and the emperor of the rest of
Austria-Hungary, too – archduke Franz Ferdinand d'Este, along with his
wife, Czech countess Sophie (Žofie, genetically Czech aristocrat,
culturally fully Germanized) who was afraid of her husband's safety
(rightfully, it turned out, but her fear didn't help), was murde... more »
Van Roekel to NEA: With what will you replace the accountability system?
It’s not the first time Dennis Van Roekel (DVR) has asked this loaded
question. Last year, DVR asked the NEA membership at large, during an
interview, with what they would purport to replace the Common Core State
Standards, if we did get rid of them. Now, he’s asking the same question,
but regarding the current […]
Who's giving feedback to 'Feedback'?
Since that remarkable interview between John Humphrys and Roger Bolton on
*Feedback* (back on 14 March), where Mr Humphrys outlined his reasons for
saying that the BBC had "a liberal bias" and Mr Bolton argued against him
rather testily, *Feedback *has dealt with the issue of bias on a number of
further occasions.
In the closing weeks of the last series of the programme, they focused on
criticisms of the BBC for inviting 'sceptical' non-scientists like Lord
Lawson to give their views on climate change. So far in this new series, *Feedback
*has discussed (a) criticism of the BBC fo... more »
Bruno Zumino: 1923-2014
Sadly, Bruno Zumino, an Italian emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, died at age
of 91 on June 22nd early after the midnight.
His 100 or so papers have won him 20,000 citations or so, a sign he was a
top physicist.
His papers include six very different articles with over 1,000 citations
per paper. They cover the eras both before the discovery of supersymmetry
and after the discovery of supersymmetry.
The first class includes work on chiral Lagrangians and collaborators like
Coleman and Callan. However, as his surname indicates, Zumino was most
important for the research of supersy... more »
[Videos] Will an alternative to prime minister Maliki emerge in Iraq? + Al-Maliki's Fate Hinges On Iraqi Shi'ite Political Forces
Video Title: Will an alternative to prime minister Maliki emerge in Iraq?
Source: PBS NewsHour. Date Published: June 27, 2014.
Video Title: Al-Maliki's Fate Hinges On Iraqi Shi'ite Political Forces.
Source: The Real News. Date Published: June 26, 2014.
The F35 Fiasco Continues…. More Proof That "If You Squeeze It You Get Lemon Juice: "F35 Burns On Runway During Testing!
I have put up many previous articles before at this blog concerning the
Lougheed Martin F35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter that is soon to replace
the ENTIRE American air fleet and is right now being sold to other air
forces across the planet….I have already shown that this airplane is an
absolute LEMON and all production of this fiasco should be ended
immediately….
We have already seen evidence that the F35 is a flying disaster… It does
not have the stealthy capabilities as promoted by Lougheed Martin… And on
top of that it cannot even fly as fast as its competition or is even as
... more »
Video: My Five Minutes on Louisiana Public Broadcasting
As a means of addressing issues from the recent legislative session,
Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) produced two shows involving three
legislative issues: abortion clinic regulation, oil and gas
companies/coastal preservation, and Common Core (CCSS). The first video
aired weeks ago and featured individuals supporting one viewpoint (as
concerns CCSS, that CCSS is good). On June […]
US State Dept Lacks All Credibility Regarding Refugee Figures fromNulandistan and Free Ukraine
The UN Refugee Agency estimates *164,000 *refugees within the Former
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic;
Of that number, over *110,000* have fled to the Russian Federation, and *54,000
*have been "Internally Displaced", either within *Free Ukraine*, or
ethnically cleansed from *Nulandistan* to free areas East of the *Dnieper*,
not currently under NATO Occupation.
*For comparison:* the massive human rights violations in the states that
declared independence from the Former Yugoslavia from 1991 onwards,
including Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, resulting in the
deaths... more »
Rich people don't get (or stay) rich by just giving their money away to little people -- like the menials who bring them food
*"DNAinfo put together a map of GrubHub's data, showing how each
neighborhood tipped from March 2013 to March 2014. (Note that the map does
not include parts of the Rockaways, where GrubHub said they had
insufficient data.)"*
*"If you don't tip [food delivery people], I don't know how people think
they're going to live."*
*-- Upper West Sider Nancy Burden, an elementary-school teacher*
*by Ken*
Hold onto that thought, Nancy. We're going to come back to it.
I think we have our Least Surprising Exposé of the Week here, as reported
the other day by Rosa Goldensohn for DNAinfo New Yor... more »
Whitewraithe On Charles Giuliani's Show Today, June 27th, 2014
My good friend, Whitewraithe, was on the Charles Giuliani show this morning
over at Outside Radio (www.outsideradio.blogspot.com) and it was indeed a
very informative show…
For those that want the link to this broadcast, I have it here:
http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/ctd07pr59r/Truth_Hertz_with_Charles_Giuliani_2014.06.27.mp3
Whitewraithe has always been an excellent speaker and I have always said
that she makes for an excellent guest…
The material covered in this interview was fantastic and again is a must
listen to by everyone… Take the time and send Wraithe some of your comments
... more »
The Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What If You Slept"
*"What If You Slept"*
"What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At the Chalk Face programming updates
First, we want to thank everyone out there for listening and supporting At
the Chalk Face radio. Ever since we started broadcasting in the winter of
2010, we knew the show fulfilled an important niche in the overall
education dialogue that was unavailable at the time. I don’t think anyone
else delivers it like we […]
Musical Interlude: Alan Parsons Project, “Lucifer”
Alan Parsons Project, “Lucifer”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGUUrgmBkQ
◆
Finding this song got me thinking about "good" and "evil" in this most
perfect world of ours, and I remembered something from the Bible which made
me curious...
Revelations 12:7 "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon and his angels fought back.
8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
9 The great dragon was hurled down- that ancient serpent called the devil,
or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and
his a... more »
Kahlil Gibran, “Maxims”
*“Maxims”*
by Kahlil Gibran
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt
blood.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury;
but if you injure him you will always remember.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does
not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. I wash my
ha... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Where The Stars And Moon Play”
“Pamela and Randy Copus are the duo known as 2002. Randy Copus plays piano,
electric cello, guitar, bass and keyboards. Pamela Copus plays flutes,
harp, keyboards and a wind instrument called a WX5. Both musicians also
provide all of the vocals on their albums, recording their voices many,
many times and layering them to create a "virtual choir" with a celestial,
angelic quality.”
2002, “Where The Stars And Moon Play”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqLFemZOOg&feature=related
Mark Twain, "Letters From the Earth"
*"Letters From the Earth"*
by Mark Twain
"This is a strange place, an extraordinary place, and interesting. There is
nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals
are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane. Man is a
marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low
grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable;
and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in
all sincerity calls himself the "noblest work of God." This is the truth I
am telling you. And this is... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is
actually tossing and turning. In an unexpected twist, recent observations
have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is
rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! Collisions
between gas in the inner and outer regions are creating many hot blue stars
and pink emission nebula.
*Click image for larger size.*
The above image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001 and
released in 2004. The fascinating internal motions of M64, also cataloged
as NGC 4826, are thought... more »
"If The Earth Were Only A Few Feet In Diameter..."
"If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a
field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People
would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools,
and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps
on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of
gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at
the creatures in the water. The people would declare it sacred bec... more »
Chet Raymo, "Splat!"
*"Splat!"*
by Chet Raymo
"In Stephen Crane's American classic, "The Red Badge of Courage," young
Henry Fleming goes off to war fired by dreams of heroic sweep and grandeur.
"He had read of marches, sieges, conflicts, and had longed to see it all.
His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid
with breathless deeds." In the war to preserve the Union he would mingle in
one of the great affairs of the earth. He longs, yes longs, for the
symbolic wound, the blood-red badge of courage.
The first foes Fleming encounters are some Confederate pickets along a
ri... more »
"Unfair..."
"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible,
screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
- Albert Ellis
The Daily "Near You?"
Manteca, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"The Status Quo: Life as We Know It"
*"The Status Quo: Life as We Know It"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Our lives can sometimes become status quo and that is ok as long as we
aren't keeping it that way on purpose. When our lives are going well, and
sometimes even when they aren’t, we may find ourselves feeling very
attached to the status quo of our existence- life as we know it. It is a
very human tendency to resist change as though it were possible to simply
decide not to do it, or have it in our lives. But change will come and the
status quo will go, sooner or later, with our consent or without it. We may
find a... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Satan Sells Used Objects”
*“Satan Sells Used Objects”*
by Paulo Coelho
“Needing to adapt to the new times, Satan decided to get rid of a whole lot
of his stock of temptations. He placed an ad in the newspaper and attended
his customers all day in his workshop. It was a fantastic stock: stones for
the virtuous to stumble over, mirrors for increasing one’s self-importance,
and spectacles that reduced the importance of others. Some objects hanging
on the wall drew a lot of attention: a dagger with a curved blade to be
used on someone’s back, and tape-recorders that registered only gossip and
lies.
“Don’t wor... more »
The Poet: Edwin Muir, "The Way"
*"The Way"*
"Friend, I have lost the way.
*The way leads on.*
Is there another way?
*The way is one.*
I must retrace the track.
*It's lost and gone.*
Back, I must travel back!
*None goes there, none.*
Then I'll make here my place,
*(The road leads on),*
Stand still and set my face,
*(The road leaps on),*
Stay here, for ever stay.
*None stays here, none.*
I cannot find the way.
*The way leads on.*
Oh places I have passed!
*That journey's done.*
And what will come at last?
*The road leads on."*
*․ *
~ Edwin Muir,
"Collected Poems"
"The Peculiar Evil..."
"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is
robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those
who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the
opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error
for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the
clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its
collision with error."
- John Stuart Mill,
"The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth"
"As leaders, boomers are a bust" (Dana Milbank) -- or, what the world needs now is more Howard Bakers
*Is the root of all our political problems that we don't have any
modern-day "great compromisers"? You know like that master political fixer
the late Howard Baker? (If you're dying to see the master fixer "rendered"
in a video minute, you'll find the clip here.)*
*by Ken*
I think this is wrong, or mostly wrong -- the case that Dana Milbank makes
in a *Washington Post* column, "As leaders, boomers are a bust," arguing
the all-surpassing virtue of compromise, and arguing that the failure of
baby boomers to rightfully esteem compromises explains why boomers have
produced such execrab... more »
Is the Fed losing control of the markets that they manipulate ? ( June 27 , 2014 ) The Panic Behind The Propaganda: Why The Fed Wants You To Sell Your Bonds ....... How The Fed Distorts Everything
The Panic Behind The Propaganda: Why The Fed Wants You To Sell Your Bonds
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 06/27/2014 13:30 -0400
- Bond
- Delivery Fails
- Fail
- Federal Reserve
- Repo Market
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As Barclays' Joe Abate warns,*delivery fails in the Treasury market have
surged recently.*While not at the scale of the 2008 crisis yet, we suspect
the spike is what is panicking the Fed to say "the market is wrong", talk
up short-end rates, and implore the public to sell-sell-sell their bonds.
The Fed's market domination has meant ... more »
One way to silence a blowhard ! June 27 , 2014 ----Venezuela blackout leaves commuters scrambling, silences president
Star Online.....
Published: Saturday June 28, 2014 MYT 6:10:42 AM
Updated: Saturday June 28, 2014 MYT 6:10:42 AM
Venezuela blackout leaves commuters scrambling, silences president
BY BRIAN ELLSWORTH AND PATRICIA VELEZ
[image: People try to find other modes of transportation after subway
services were cut off during a blackout in Caracas June 27, 2014.
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins]
People try to find other modes of transportation after subway services were
cut off during a blackout in Caracas June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia
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John Kerry- Arm Syrian 'rebels' to push back Iraqi 'jihadis' ????
*Brand- rebels? Brand - jihadis? The label depends on the spin. *
*1st up -Syrian rebels to receive yet more US funding. Let's look at them?*
*President Barack Obama is seeking $500 million from Congress to train and
arm select members of the Syrian opposition * U.S. administration officials
say* the U.S. has grown increasingly confident in recent months *about its
ability to distinguish the moderate rebels from the more extremist elements?
More money to arm Islamist mercs to terrorize Syrians. Has the US grown
more confident? No.
This isn't about confidence. Or the nonsensical mo... more »
what i'm reading: dark age ahead by jane jacobs
*Dark Age Ahead*, by the late Jane Jacobs, contains some important insights
about the state of North American society. For me, however, the book is
more notable for what it doesn’t contain.
Picking up where Jared Diamond left off in *Guns, Germs, and Steel* (which
Jacobs references several times in her introduction) and *Collapse*, Jacobs
identifies five pillars of society that she believes are in decay:
community and family, higher education, the effective practice of science
and science-based technology, taxes and governmental powers directly in
touch with needs and possibilities,... more »
Satire: “Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form”
*“Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “After announcing, on Thursday, that it
would seek $500 million to help “train and equip appropriately vetted
elements of the moderate Syrian armed opposition,” the White House today
posted the following Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form:
Welcome to the United States’ Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see
if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an
answer to the following questions:As a Syrian rebel, I think the word or phrase that best describes me ... more »
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