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Sean McMeekin | July 1914: Countdown to War
*"July 1914: Countdown to War" by Sean McMeekin. *
Video Title: Sean McMeekin | July 1914: Countdown to War - January 29,
2014. Source: The Kansas City Public Library. Date Published: January 29,
2014. Description:
In a discussion of his new book, historian Sean McMeekin reveals how a
small cabal of European statesmen used the assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand to initiate a long-awaited showdown among the Continent's powers,
ultimately leading to the start of World War I.
Why Boycott Organic Food Distributor Eden Foods?
Michigan right-wing crackpot Michael Potter (left)
Do you automatically assume organic and health food companies are hippies?
Liberal? Progressive? You shouldn't. Hitler was a vegetarian, remember? And
Mormon anti-gay fanatics, the Lassens are still running their health
grocery chain in Los Feliz and threatening to open another one in Echo
Park. Then there's Eden Foods… as bad as Hobby Lobby.
Lisa Hymas, writing for *Grist*, spilled the beans. "Like Hobby Lobby," she
wrote, "Eden Foods sued the Obama administration to try to get out of
providing contraceptive coverage for its employe... more »
The One Shows That There Is Still Some Good In Humanity: Algerian Soccer Team To Donate Their World Cup Prize Money To Gaza!
Many have criticized me for constantly putting up articles at this blog
that points to the doom and gloom in our world... But the facts are that we
are indeed in a war for all humanity against a very evil force that seeks
world domination and wants the eventual enslavement of us all.... I will
not sway from my own efforts in getting the message and the truth out about
that very criminal and most evil tribe of misfits and scoundrels......
But periodically something does happen that shows that mankind is deep
inside very good and that we all do care about the injustices committed
agai... more »
Thomas Jefferson vs. Ron Paul's First Episcopal Marital Rape Ministry
*Religious Freedom ≠ Religious Dictatorship*
In actual fact, ≠ DOES NOT* mean "Does Not Equal", or "Is Not The Same As"
- *it specifically denotes* "Inequality";*
Meaning that Uncle Ron is actually saying " *"Wants" are either inferior or
superior to "Rights"* ".
By the notation "*Wants ≠ Rights*", what he is actually expressing is that "
*Wants*" *he *agrees with, and thinks are virtuous and admirable (such as
black people not breeding, being forced to quit work due to medical bills
and time off due to unwanted pregnancies, and yet him *still *not having to
pay for it) are someti... more »
The Big Question That Everyone Should Be Asking: What Was The Israeli Connection To The 3 Settler Kidnappings? (I Would Say PLENTY!)
It does seem that I am always apologizing these days for my absence.. I
have had a lot of family and business issues to attend to the last while,
and sadly I have had to neglect this blog... I am doing my best in catching
up on what has been happening around the world when I can, and will
continue to post articles WHEN I do have the time... Patience everyone...
Yes, I have been watching what has been happening in Israel since the
"bodies" of the three Israeli teens has been found.... We have already seen
the criminal Israelis viciously attacking the Palestinians, blaming them
for t... more »
The Movie Transcendence
The best part was this song. Otherwise Meh!
Ethiopian Famine Relief
*His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, *
*Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, *
*King of Kings of Ethiopia, *
*Elect of God".*
*Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael*
*(23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975)*
The Emperor sent aid to the British government in 1947 when Britain was
affected by heavy flooding.
His letter to *Lord Meork, National Distress Fund, London* said, *"even
though We are busy of helping our people who didn't recover from the crises
of the war, We heard that your fertile and beautiful country is devastated
by the unusually heavy rain, and your request for aid. "Therefore, We ... more »
summer, teens, the library, and me
Yesterday was my first summer program at the library. Attendance was low,
but very keen. An artist and activist (who happens to be a friend of mine
from the war resisters movement) led a workshop I called "Comix that Save
the World". We explored the use of the comics form to express larger social
concerns. It was so much fun, the teens were so into it, that I'm thinking
of expanding it to an ongoing series, where kids could really develop
something.
The summer at Mississauga Central Library will be packed with programs for
teens - sometimes as many as three a week - and all are free... more »
Picket, Boycott, Shut Down Weingarten's Common Core Convention
From Inside AFT:
The *AFT convention*, set for July 11-14 at the Los Angeles Convention
Center, will focus on fighting back and fighting forward on key domestic
issues to reclaim the promise of America, including the Common Core State
Standards . . .
Book Watch: This cool New York summer reading list might work just as well for non-New Yorkers
*by Ken*
Especially with a holiday weekend coming up, some of us may have turned our
thoughts to getting some reading done.
Summer reading lists have become a publishing tradition, based on the
apparent assumption that people who don't read many books the rest of the
year suddenly turn bookworm in summer, or perhaps that summer readers are
looking for a different *kind* of reading. Depending on who's doing the
listing, I sometimes give a quick glance. (I always feel like I'm way
behind on my reading, so this is likely to make me feel worse, and you
can't put a price on that.) Gen... more »
The region is boiling
I was staggered to hear the Today programme dealing with the Islam-related
stories this morning. No connection was made between any of them by the
BBC, yet the main headlines concerned two major back-to-back Islam-related
stories.
Thursday 3rd July 2014.
*1.) “Good morning here are the headlines: Extra security measures are
being put in place in British Airports after the US authorities warned of a
potential new threat from Islamist extremists.*
*2.)Israeli military planes have targeted the Gaza Strip with tensions
running high over the murder of Palestinian and Israeli teenagers. W... more »
UK planned to "Extract, Equip, Train" 100,000 Syrians for "shock & awe"
*By BBC 'Investigations Correspondant" - Wow! That is impressive! Right?*
*Problem? I am not getting any sense of investigation?*
"The plan was called Extract, Equip, Train... a shock and awe attack that
would allow the Syrians themselves to defeat Assad", reports Nick Hopkins
The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army
to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight can reveal.
The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the
then most senior UK military officer, General Sir David Richards.
It was considered by the PM an... more »
Connecting dots ( July 3 , 2014 ) -- With the clamoring for a new great war making the rounds , is the game already afoot ? War in July ??? Some items to consider ....
War in July....... FWIW
Cryptome claims all Snowden files will be published in July to avert a war
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All of the National Security Agency files accessed by former contractor
Edward Snowden could be published in the month of July if vaguely worded
predictions tweeted this week from the digital library site Cryptome prove
to be correct.
A series of micro-messages publishe... more »
Not Hamas- Sinai based 'terror group' claims resposibility for student deaths
Jerusalem Post
The al-Qaida affiliated* Sinai-based* Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which
reportedly recently pledged allegiance to The Islamic State, formerly known
as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed responsibility
for the murder of the three yeshiva students in Judea.
The Egyptian-based group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and
murder of the three boys on its website, stating that “the kidnapping and
killing was a victory for the Islamic Caliphate.”
The statement threatened future operations against targets of the Israeli
“occupation.”
*The claim to ha... more »
Some More *Clarity* on BESE’s “Special Counsel,” Contract Limitations, and PARCC
July 03, 2014, has been quite the day for uplifting information in
the Roemer/White vs. Jindal battle over Louisiana public education. In this
post, I elaborate on three topics: 1) Roemer’s, White’s, and the BESE
majority’s attempts to “retain special counsel” in order to sue the
governor; 2) further limits placed upon LDOE and BESE regarding contracts,
[…]
NSA Spygate ( July 3 , 2014 ) - If you have a phone / TV / Laptop / Desktop / Xbox ... assume you are under surveillance ----- Are You Targeted By The NSA?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/are-you-targeted-nsa
Are You Targeted By The NSA?
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2014 16:01 -0400
- Apple
- Erste
- ETC
- FBI
- Germany
- Google
- Newspaper
- PrISM
- The Onion
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*Meet XKeyscore - "a computer network exploitation system", as described in
an NSA presentation, devoted to gathering "nearly everything a user does on
the internet."* TheGerman site Das Erste has exposed the shocking truth
about the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "targe... more »
Gold news of note ( July 3 , 2014 ) ..... Funny how just as Deutsche Bank and Barclays have quit / been forced out of the gold manipulation business , along comes the Indian Central Bank -- India’s Central Bank To Sell Gold On The Market In Exchange For Gold At The Bank Of England ........ addditional items touching on gold and gold manipulations to consider ( h/t GATA )
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/friday-farce-caught-rigging-gold-and-dark-pools-barclays-begs-least-keep-fx-manipula
Caught Rigging Gold And Dark Pools, Barclays Begs To At Least Keep FX
Manipulation
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2014 15:31 -0400
- Barclays
- Dark Pools
- dark pools
- Goldbugs
- Hank Paulson
- Hank Paulson
- HFT
- LIBOR
- Market Manipulation
- Predatory Algos
- The Onion
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2014 has not been kind to Barclays: first, the UK bank proved countless
goldbugs right when i... more »
July 3: The exceptionalism of Exceptionalism.
Obama has recently and publicly stated that he believes in American
Exceptionalism with "every fibre of his being". In fact, that can be said
of almost everyone in the American government - and the Canadian
government. It such a strong belief that it's rather remarkable that few in
the news media know have explained what it means.
In fact, without knowing what it means, a very high proportion of Canadians
seem to believe in American Exceptionalism.
In brief, it means that the US has the right to do anything it likes to
other countries. Laws, whether domestic or international, do not... more »
How Will Pope Francis Handle Bigoted Hypocritical Gay Archbishop John Nienstedt?
I'm a huge Pope Francis fan. I've never been into religion but I've had a
great feeling about this guy as soon as he became Pope. I've always said I
wished there would be one truly great president-- instead of all the
mediocre crap-- before I die. That's why I pray that Elizabeth Warren
actually goes for it at some time. The office seeks the man (or woman),
not-- ideally-- the other way round. It worked out well enough in Rome this
last time.
But now Pope Francis is going to have to confront what too many of his
predecessors have hidden behind institutional hypocrisy to avoid: Chu... more »
Mike's Story Part 68 - A Presidential Energy Policy
Jenna Orkin
* Mike declined the political offer for sensible reasons boiling down to
the likelihood that it would not be worth the risk. He ended his email to
the friend who'd made the offer with, "I have a wonderful dog that I'm not
willing to abandon to friends or a kennel. I am doing work that I like and
I think my novel may well turn out to be the most important contribution of
what feels like a very long life."*
*June 14, 2008*
*I am sending this to the two most powerful and wonderful women I have
known in my life. I just wrote this as a note to go in the novel, which
... more »
The New Blitzkrieg
There’s a new version of maneuver warfare that’s being utilized mainly by
Islamic fundamentalist forces to seize territory from government forces
trained, equipped and organized along the Western model. This “new
blitzkrieg” relies on lightly armed fighters mounted on “technicals” – 4×4
trucks with heavy machineguns, light cannons, or automatic grenade
launchers mounted on the
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Inequality and British Capitalism
As we saw the other day, inequality has become so pathological that
capitalism could seize up. When lucrative markets are locked down, when
governments bow and scrape to big business, when social mobility is choked
off, and the unobtainable opulence of the vanishingly few is crassly
paraded in front of the many, capitalism is going out of its way to court
an existential crisis. Though, of course, there is no one as such to blame
for this state of affairs. And that's the most terrifying thing about the
system. Capitalism is blind. Market-driven production for profit means our
econom... more »
Supplemental: Did Matthews claim to be one of “us?”
*THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014*
*The press corps’ marketing scam:* Let’s give credit where credit is due!
On Monday, June 23, the Post’s Philip Rucker authored a lengthy front-page
report about Hillary Clinton’s troubling gaffes. Her troubling gaffes
concerned her wealth, which is also troubling.
The 1800-word poison pen piece ran beneath this headline: “Clinton's
rarefied life could be a liability in campaign.” Since then, the cub
reporter has been pouring it on, delivering Ole Massa’s narrative.
Let’s give credit where credit is due! That very night, Chris Matthews was
able to see, and... more »
Experts Challenge Israeli attempt to derail P5+1 Deal
So, if I am reading this correctly, Israel looks to be lobbying hard to
derail any agreement being made with Iran?* Link*
“A handful of non-proliferation experts are taking issue with the Israeli
position on a final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program,
specifically, Israeli demands that the deal model the plan that ridded
Syria of its chemical weapons (CW) stockpile and that intrusive inspections
won’t prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
Top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have
argued that the entirety of Iran’s nuclear program — inc... more »
Value-Added Scores Finally Explained by NM Education Department
This summer, an ongoing action by New Mexico teachers is to send in
Inspection of Public Records requests (IPRAs, for short), asking the Public
Education Department (PED) to send evidence that backs up teacher
evaluation reports received this year, and the means used to calculate the
scores. We’ve waited. We’ve waited some more. Finally, some of those […]
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*Jimmy Graham ruled a tight end by arbitrator ~WWLTV *
*Plaquemines argues for state court jurisdiction of suit against oil
companies ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Jaw-Dropping What Brad Pitt Is Doing To Native American Reservations*
*Arthur upgraded to hurricane, expected to soak Myrtle Beach today*
*Officials: Coralville Lake could top spillway next week~Josh O'Leary, Iowa
City Press-Citizen *
Chile: Aeronautical Agency Confirms UFO Sighting and Disseminates Image
*Source: Planeta UFODate: July 1, 2014*
*Chile: Aeronautical Agency Confirms UFO Sighting and Disseminates Image*
*Workers at the Collahuasi Mine in the northern region of Tarapacá saw and
photographed a silver disk that remained visible for some 2 hours at an
altitude of 600 meters.*
SANTIAGO DE CHILE (EFE) - Scientists from the Centro de Estudios de
Fenomenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), a branch of the General Office of Civil
Aeronautics, concluded that a sighting from April 2013 corresponds to an
unidentified flying object (UFO) whose image was disseminated on Tuesday.
After a y... more »
The Facebook Laboratory: Social Control in the Twenty-First Century
The Wall Street Journal today has an article titled “Facebook Lab Had
Few
Limits.” (July 3, 2014 p. A1).
See also Washington Post’s “Cornell’s Ethic Board did Not Approve
Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study.” Apparently a Cornell faculty
member involved in the study failed to get Institutional Review Board
approval for the study before it was conducted, a human subjects
requirement in all universities:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/01/facebooks-emotional-manipulation-study-was-even-worse-than-you-thought/
In
the study, researchers at Facebook tweak... more »
Fukushima Steaming May 30
Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago
I was out of town for over a week and couldn't watch the
webcams. However,
I've seen plenty of ugly looking screenshots posted by
Enenewsers over the
last week in the webcam discussion forum here.
I had a chance to view for myself today Fukushima steaming away.
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Court Case - there is no justice - when it's treated like a Game
*like a lovely pointless Chess set.*
first of all, *CRIMINAL scum*, right... oh, let me temper my tone for the
purposes of this missive... these *'innocents until proven guilty'* are
often-times *LYING ON THE HOLY BIBLE*. So, what's the point in forcing an
Accused to 'swear on it'? I'll caveat this by saying, "If there really was
a God, and he really did know everything about you, you'd know whether you
were lying under Oath or not."
Do you get this? Lawyers and Judges *ALLOW *the Accused to lie. Why can I
say this? Ask yourselves this, "Has anyone convicted of a crime ever been *FU... more »
If We're Not Losers, Why Do Our Own Parties Ignore or Defy Us
Why am I not "training my guns" on the real enemies? Because, say I were to
write some brilliant condemnation of the capitalist-imperialists, what
would happen? The left would go "You tell 'em thwap!" and that'd be it.
There's no movement to galvanize. There's no organization. There's no hope
of tactics. There's nothing.
Better, methinks, that I shame the smug, self-satisfied denizens of the
left out of their brain-dead allegiance to failure. Or not. It's what I
want to talk about anyhow, so tuff shit to you all.
It's pretty simple really. We're so useless and powerless that even ou... more »
Celestial Mechanics
the worlds finest obit
was around our SUN
I do not think we know
the politicians who
decided this was the final one
So much green energy
being expelled
so much hydrogen
that would blow
up conservative cells
Yeah we gotta Sun
]Yeah it gives to everyone
and if you think your
going to rape this earth
look the sunrise
because it will give
you and yours
a horrible sunscreen
vision of dearth
Mariann G. Wizard : SPECIAL REPORT | The Drug War: ‘Against the Wind,’ Part 1
Marijuana prohibition is a house of straw. During the past month, the winds
of change have started to rip that house apart and now the DEA may be
reevaluating cannabis’ status as a ‘dangerous drug.’ By Mariann G. Wizard
| … finish reading Mariann G. Wizard :
*SPECIAL REPORT* | The Drug War: ‘Against the Wind,’ Part 1
9th ICCC, Las Vegas
The 9th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) will be held next
week in Las Vegas, USA. It is an annual, sometimes twice a year (2009, NYC
and Wash DC; 2010, Chicago and Sydney) conference sponsored by the
Chicago-based free market think tank, the Heartland Institute.
I was able to attend the 2nd ICCC in March 2009 in NYC, and the 4th ICCC in
Chicago in May 2010. In both instances I was given a travel grant by
Heartland because MG Thinkers was among the minor NGO co-sponsors of the
event, courtesy of our membership at the IPN-initiatied Civil Society
Coalition on Climat... more »
Did Steve Israel Send Lox With The Bagels And Cream Cheese To Sean Eldridge's Campaign?
Yesterday there was all kinds of commotion on the right from a hum drum
post about Sean Eldridge firing his campaign manager and the quality of
assistance his campaign gets from Steve Israel. One person in the campaign
seems angry that I mentioned Israel sent widely unappreciated bagels and
cream cheese every week and another told me the story lacked credibility
because I didn't mention the lox (while another refused to even confirm
that there ever even *was* lox).
On the other hand, my suspicions about why Eldridge dumped campaign manager
Mike Reid were partially confirmed. Ever... more »
Wallace Springs Farm Sausage and Ground Pork
Wallace Springs Farm's freezer has just been restocked with fresh frozen
sausage and ground pork in time for your summer BBQs. Six varieties of
sausage to choose from or buy ground pork and make your own. Buy 20 lbs or
more and receive a free 1 litre of Wallace Springs pure old fashioned Maple
syrup.
Sausage $5.49/lb. and the ground pork $4.99/lb.
HOW THE SPIN SOUNDS IN KIEV
Post by AntiMaidan l Say NO to fascism.
This short video shows just how the US-NATO corrupt regime in Kiev lies to
their own people and the rest of the world. You'd think that by now folks
would learn not to trust these cats but put some bars and stars on a
uniformed soldier and they can get away with just about anything.
The first part has the Ukrainian military spokesman saying they take great
care not to harm civilians and then the rest of the video shows the truth.
MORE JAIL TIME ON JEJU
More peace activists in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea take
a brave stand in non-violently resisting the building of the naval base on
the 'island of peace'! We salute your powerful witness against militarism
and pray for peace in the Asia Pacific region!
Two more peace activists went to jail today for refusing to pay fines
related to protests opposing the construction of a naval base on Jeju
Island. Lee Jong-Hwa and Park Seung-Ho took a conscientious stand against
militarism and injustice. They said, "We will resolutely resist till the
day when the Jeju naval base c... more »
BALKANIZATION OF IRAQ
Carving up the spoils..... the US-NATO program was always about breaking
Iraq into pieces just like was done to Yugoslavia and Libya.....Russia and
China are also on the list for carving up.
Transendence
I am trying to watch it but it transends my abiltiy or hardware or
something, it marketing trickery if you ask me. Like humans cataloging big
Ape behavior, big data is going to make you want to buy a sex toy for your
mother in law.
We are stupid humans there should be a twelve step process for that. Native
Americans fled ancient China because they did not want to be the next
eunech who was intelligent enough to see
Now right now we all have to believe. We got to believe in far more
constructed senarios than anyone who ever invented a religion could
possibly believe.
Mankind to it... more »
Dear visitor to my blog, As you may know, most of my recent posts are quasi-replicated re-postings of the work of others. Accordingly, I was getting set to repost the June 30, 2014 lead post of Democracy Now, when I discovered that the embed code would not function ...even though it appeared to be no different in construction from the many Democracy Now embed codes I've used in the past. After many tries with no luck, I finally decided that it must have been censored. Why do I think that? Well, upon watching the video corresponding to the frozen copy below, I've concluded that it is because Edward Snowden comes across in this testimony before the German Parliament as such a sincere individual with true concern for human rights so deep that he regards his having to hide in Russia indefinitely is a small price to pay to get out the story of NSA's spying. Indeed, it is my sense that anyone who has been previously been lied into believing that Snowden is a traitor will immediatly see him as a hero! So go to the link below the photo, which should take you to the original, and watch at least long enough to take in this close-up segment (about 4 minutes in), and then decide whether or not you agree with my assessment.
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Snowden Asylum in Germany? Support Grows for NSA Whistleblower After Merkel
Cancels Verizon Contract
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/30/snowden_asylum_in_germany_support_grows
Cherchez la Verite
Of C. David Heymann, lies and truths
I
wrote this a while back for the CTKA.net site, but given that a new
book from the author has been published, it's worth a reprint here.
- - - - - -
As a researcher into a controversial subject – the assassinations of the
sixties – people often ask me this question: How do you know which
sources to believe and which to disbelieve?
My answer is this: When you read an author for the first time
I can not complain
I can not complain
though if I could a wood
I would grow a tree
in my honor
and collect all its benefits
as a royalty
But that's not my fate
I was born in a bad way
and raised myself
with my parents help
I can not complain
I see the world
and I am free of pain
Like 80% of the planet
I am not a coal fanatic
So I feel the pain
I know all the simptions
and even the cause
But the solution
its pollution
Yeah the world
we got can handle
an infite amout of
pollution or unatrural compounds
that in nature would not exist
we are taunting God
every day
with the way
we work the earth
to what I e... more »
In search of a truly portable cellphone
I wouldn't say I rail against all of life’s constraints, but the lack of
control for customers of cellphone service in Canada has always made me
crazy.
This, then, is the story of one woman with minimal knowledge of
cellphone technology on an all-consuming mission: To find an affordable
phone that could be taken almost anywhere in the world with just the change
of a SIM card.
The term for this magical thing is an “unlocked world phone,” a phrase
I’d never heard when the search got underway in May, but one which I’d
become very familiar with in the research-filled weeks... more »
Agri Econ 14: NO to Further Extension of Agrarian Reform
Three weeks ago, there was a report that after President Noynoy Aquino met
with several farmer leaders, he was persuaded to have another extension of
agrarian reform (AR) in the Philippines, from end-June 2014 (last weekend)
to another two years, mid-2016.
This is wrong. Endless extension of forced land redistribution is wrong.
Agrarian reform in Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan took only three years or
less, zero extension. Here, it is 42 years now, plus two more years? Then
extend again when the next administration comes to power?
If one has 10 hectares or more of inherited land from h... more »
Another tough schedule for the president...
H/T White House Dossier
*Obama Schedule || Thursday, July 3, 2014*
*10:00 ||* Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
*12:30 pm ||* Lunch with Biden
Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers, Research
Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers, Research.
via Attack on “Balanced Literacy” Is Attack on Professional Teachers,
Research.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Said it before and we’ll say it again: #edreform is cheap @rocketshiped
Rocketship Education sputters. I guess they didn’t build that play too well
as they flew it. An editorial from the WI Journal Sentinel pretty much sums
it up. Rocketship relies on inexperienced teachers, almost one-third of
whom quit last year. It saves money by having students as young as
kindergarten spend one-quarter of their day […]
SOLDIER PROTESTS UKRAINE WAR ON THEIR OWN CITIZENS
Significant protests against the war being waged in eastern Ukraine by the
governing regime in Kyiv are taking place by the conscript soldiers of the
Ukraine army and their families, friends and supporters. The protests are
entirely unreported in mainstream, western media. They take on a renewed
urgency as a result of Kyiv's July 1 announcement that it is ending a ten
day ceasefire and resuming its military assaults against the towns and
cities in the east.
*(Click here for many more stories and links about growing resistance to
the US-NATO Kiev regime by citizens of Ukraine)*
*A... more »
ANTHROPOLOGISTS WITHIN: Despising the Clintons in block-long estates!
*THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014*
*Part 4—Anthropologist Leibovich speaks:* In this morning’s Washington
Post, the famous newspaper’s jihadic obsession burns on.
It’s true that Philip Rucker, the cub reporter, has been exiled to page A3
today. But on that page, he is given 1358 words, and a photograph, to
extend his “Ahab watch” concerning those grotesque and obscene speaking
fees, the sign of a sick society.
Today, Rucker considers the unseemly amounts Hillary Clinton has received,
or will receive, for speeches at eight universities. He highlights
“outrage” from student leaders about these... more »
Fight Salt and Sugar in our Foods
RATS will eat themselves to death if salt and sugar are at unnatural levels
in their food, and so will horses. Admit you can not control your lizard
brain and be part of a better future.
Reasonable apprehension of bias
Langstaff v. Marson, 2014 ONCA 510:
[24] There is a strong presumption of judicial impartiality and a
heavy burden on a party who seeks to rebut this presumption.
[25] Judicial impartiality has been called "the key to our judicial
process": see*Wewaykum Indian Band v. Canada, **[2003] 2 S.C.R. 259*, at p.
288. Chief Justice Lamer referred to "public confidence in the impartiality
of the judiciary" as "essential to the effectiveness of the court system":
see *R. v. Campbell,* [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, at para 10. The presumption of
impartiality anchors public confidence in the... more »
Fight GMO foods
I just know in my heart they are wrong, wrong like Nuclear power, wrong
like Oxycontin, wrong, wrong, wrong as the future.
When I see wrong repeated over and over I thinkaboot it must be a Klingon
word we have adapted.
Paul Bernardo Getting Married
I want to throw up. I want to lock up the women in question because she is
obviously a danger to the state. I just wonder because the source is the
SUN is this all a Harper black ops?
I am proud of Canada for not having capital punishment. Its wrong on every
level. Bernardo is getting punishment, but this headline is gravy for
the Conservatives.
No serious journalists should have published this story. Its bullshit news.
Party Poly-ticks
Perhaps
it's the nature of party politics that eventually causes parties to
abdicate themselves of their founding principles. Political parties come
into existence with ideological agendas and a set of corresponding
positions and policies. It's what makes them political parties.
Eventually though, parties lose themselves in politics. The
Conservatives, whether Reform or a proper Tory variety,
O Yeah Links
Too tired to blog. Enjoy some links.
Yeah!!! Taipei Times says obstacle to foreign nationals taking out local
citizenship may be removed.
- Epoch Times: CCP Using thugs to undermine Occupy movement?
- Was the Sunflower movement successful?
- Ma meets Kerry in Panama
- Tsai Ing-wen presser in English (video)
- D Engbarth: Rights experts urge Action on gender equality
- FPIF: China's South China Sea move gives it strategic access to the
Indian Ocean
- China's Dangerous Taiwan Gambit
- WantWant: using aboriginal culture to expand Chinese tourism
_______________... more »
Who Is Grubbier-- France's Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy Or L.A.'s Ex-Sheriff Lee Baca? How About Mississippi Nutcase Chris McDaniel?
What's wrong with voters who allow themselves to be suckered by
conservative politicians?
I was listening to an amazing broadcast on KCRW the other night. It was a
discussion between an anchor who didn't know it was amazing and a beat
reporter who was just as clueless. The reporter was babbling to the anchor
about how 6 officials of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department were
convicted of obstructing a federal probe into violence against inmates in
county jails. She reported that they could get long prison sentences-- like
15 years or more-- but that no one thought they would because, ... more »
It Takes Imagination
http://www.aoga.org
When it comes to climate change, Murray Dobbin writes, knowledge isn't the
problem. We have plenty of it. And it's growing everyday:
We have seen especially alarming predictions in the past few months. Two
studies released almost simultaneously claim with a high degree of
certainty that the glaciers in the western Antarctic are irreversibly
melting. The first, by NASA and the University of California-Irvine,
examined a group of large glaciers that collectively contain the eq... more »
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*“Diversity”: The Idol of Academia*
“Diversity” is not just a good in the academic world. It is the supreme
good, the one good before which all other considerations must yield.
Recently, a colleague expressed a preference for a certain Northeastern
city university over a certain Midwestern Christian college because, he
said, the former has more “diversity” than the latter.
All that this means, though, is that because this big city university in
the Northeast is a racial, ethnic, and socio-economic polyglot and its
Midwestern Christian counterpart is just too white, the former is
p... more »
Can we exchange seats for something else?
It has started to rub me the wrong way when media outlets refer to
increasing school enrollment as “seats.” From the NY Daily News: The city
will offer 53,000 pre-K seats in the fall, up from about 20,000 this year.
Many of the new seats will be in public schools, but the majority will be
[…]
Big-Pharma Vaccines Deemed "Safe" by Big-Pharma Funded "Study"
*July 3, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - RT's article, "Vaccines don’t
cause autism, complications extremely rare – study," states that:
*There is no evidence that immunizing vaccinations cause autism while any
complications arising from their administration to children are extremely
rare, new analysis comprised of 67 research studies has discovered.*
*“There is strong evidence that MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine
is not associated with autism,”the study’s results said.*
RT cites a "Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of
Pediatrics" study titled, "Safety... more »
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sometimes knowing your rights is all it takes: in which we win our landlord battle
We won! And we won so easily, we're left scratching our heads and asking,
"What just happened?"
As you'll recall, our landlord asked for an illegal rent increase - 10.5%
when the legal allowable is 0.8%! - and implied that he would resort to
dirty tricks if we didn't pay.
We did our homework, checked and double-checked that this home does not
fall through a serious loophole in Ontario rent laws. We crafted an email
with just the right tone - straightforward and firm, but with nothing that
could be considered belligerent.
When he received our email, he asked when he could come over ... more »
Glenn Greenwald's Big NSA Story Gets Squashed
On Monday, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald let the news
slip via Twitterthat his long-awaited NSA story was to be published on The
Intercept at midnight. By Tuesday morning, much to the dismay of myself and
many others it appeared that the site - which since its rollout has been
disappointly devoid of new material - has caved to government pressure
tactics did not post the story. According to a rather cryptic Tweet by
Greenwald later on Monday, *"After 3 months working on our story, USG today
suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investig... more »
Iraq Sectarian Civil War and Jihadist Battles Updates ( July 3 , 2014 ) ..... As if battling the Kurds and Sunnis wasn't enough on his plate , PM Maliki opens a third front by battling a Shi'a rival in southern Iraq - and somehow Maliki sees a new Iraqi Government by next week ( with Maliki still at the helm ? ) ..... Ever notice Maliki listens to no one but wants everyone to help him ( Maliki Urges Neighbors to Join in Iraq’s War Against ISIS Says Caliphate Is a Problem for the Whole Region ) ? Biggest problem for any Unity government is neither of the three major factions and combatants ( Shi'a / Sunni or Kurd trust each other and no one trusts Maliki )
Anti War......
Maliki Cracks Down on Shi’ite Rival: 45 Killed In Karbala ClashTroops Tried
to Arrest Cleric Critical of 'Call to Arms'
by Jason Ditz, July 02, 2014
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After a bloody crackdown on Sunni Arabs, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki saw violence soar for months, and most of the Sunni portion of
the nation now taken over by ISIS. Kurdistan, likewise, is one foot out the
door to secession.
The lesson apparently unlearned, Maliki’s forces attacked the offices of a
popular cleric in the Shi’ite holy city of Karbala today, aiming to arrest
him for public ... more »
The Middle East conflict summed up - 'One side wants the other side dead'
'The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in
the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in
peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most
Palestinians do not want Israel to exist. As Dennis Prager explains, this
is really all you need to know. In 5 minutes, understand how Israel was
founded, and how, since that auspicious day in 1948, its neighbors have
tried to destroy it, again and again. '
U.S. plans sale of 4,000 more Hellfire missiles to Iraq
[image: AGM-114 Hellfire]The State Department has told lawmakers informally
that the Obama administration wants to sell Iraq more than 4,000 additional
Hellfire missiles made by Lockheed Martin for the government’s fight
against Islamic insurgents, according to people familiar with the plan.
Sale of the laser-guided missiles would be in addition to 500 previously
purchased, of which about 400 have been delivered.
The U.S. has pledged military aid to Iraq in its fight against the
militants, an extremist Sunni group that’s seized a swath of territory
north and west of Baghdad. Iraq’s ... more »
D's Update: Computers, Communications and Cats
*Edited July 3 at 9:54 am: Well folks.... it's taken me 6 DAYS to get this
article to post! I was literally about to go over to Bill's place and
retype it all out on his computer and get him to post it on American Kabuki
instead!! Well.... I'm about to press publish- everyone cross your
fingers!!!*
June 27th, 2014,
Good morning everyone!
I'm back..... again. lol.
Since my last post, I've run into a litany of communications issues. It's
almost as if someone is telling me to stay off the computer- which really
doesn't work well with my schedule, lol.
This is just a short upd... more »
the Paddington bear film - the REAL CONSPIRACY - who is this imposter?
*Creepy Paddington image c/o Irish Times*
I realise you're going, "Free Planet blog generally deals with serious
*satanic* anti-Illuminati or *conglomerate* anti-Profit issues that are
ruining modern life and making us wage-slaves, oh, and sometimes some art.
But this rough and scruffy cunning and 'attitude crippled' life-like naked
brown bear cub with flesh-ripping canines is NOT Paddington bear...
...because Paddington bear is a *talking toy* in a planar world. Not a real
i.e. voiceless, bear cub in a 3D world. This is the real Paddington bear,
notice his plump proportions and... more »
No wonder Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls made such a mess of the UK economy, they can't do simple maths
Guido Fawkes has the details
http://order-order.com/2014/07/02/eds-pmqs-figures-out-by-134/
Xi Arrival in South Korea Marked by N. Korea Missiles
Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with South Korean President
Park Geun Hye today with a series of North Korean missile launches lending
urgency to their pledge to rein in Kim Jong Un’s nuclear ambitions.
North Korea has conducted three rounds of missile firings in the past week,
including two overseen by Kim, that heightened tensions on the peninsula
before Xi’s arrival.
As one of Kim’s few allies and his country’s biggest trading partner, China
has leverage over North Korea, which has detonated three nuclear devices
and threatened to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.
Re... more »
Boeing signs contract to produce Super Hornets and Growlers
[image: EA-18G Growler]Boeing has been awarded a contract by the F/A-18 and
EA-18G Programme Office (PMA-265) to produce and deliver 44 F/A-18 Super
Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft over the next two years.
The latest contract will allow the US Navy to acquire the remaining
aircraft included in the programme of record by the end of the fiscal year
2016, as well as 12 EA-18Gs for the Royal Australian Air Force, which were
requested in July 2013.
PMA-265 programme manager captain Frank Morley said that F/A-18 and EA-18G
jets are the predominant tactical force for both the US Navy an... more »
The Mogambo Guru, “A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”
*“A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”*
by The Mogambo Guru
“I can hear the family gathered outside, banging on the walls of the
Mogambo Bunker Of Paranoid Hysteria (MBOPH), demanding that I unlock the
door, come outside immediately, stop acting like a crazy person, and at
least pick up the empty pizza boxes that I threw out into the yard, because
the neighbors are complaining, and it looks so tacky, and blah blah blah.
Well, the neighbors may be complaining to each other about a few colorful
cardboard boxes festively strewn randomly about, decorating the yard, but
it is never... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Suddenly Yours”
2002, “Suddenly Yours”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQn4U-IxDL8
'Iranian attack jets deployed' to help Iraq fight Isis
Iran has supplied Iraq with attack jets to help it counter an offensive by
Sunni rebels led by the Islamist group Isis, strong evidence suggests.
Russia supplied an initial delivery of the aircraft just a few days ago.
But analysts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in
London say that a further delivery, on 1 July, originates from Iran.
Read more
The Mogambo Guru, “A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”
*“A Massive Tax Hike That Will Doom Us All”*
by The Mogambo Guru
“I can hear the family gathered outside, banging on the walls of the
Mogambo Bunker Of Paranoid Hysteria (MBOPH), demanding that I unlock the
door, come outside immediately, stop acting like a crazy person, and at
least pick up the empty pizza boxes that I threw out into the yard, because
the neighbors are complaining, and it looks so tacky, and blah blah blah.
Well, the neighbors may be complaining to each other about a few colorful
cardboard boxes festively strewn randomly about, decorating the yard, but
it is never... more »
FA-50 Fighter Jets to Join Philippines' Military Fleet Next Year: Report
[image: F/A-50 Golden Eagle]A pair of FA-50 fighter jets will be added to
the Philippines' military fleet next year, the president announced Tuesday,
as the country aims to defend its territory.
President Benigno Aquino III said two of 12 FA-50 multi-purpose fighters
will be delivered by their South Korean manufacturer next year and the rest
are expected to follow in the next three years, The Associated Press
reported.
The Philippines has scrambled to modernize its military, one of Asia's
weakest, amid increasingly tense territorial disputes with China in the
South China Sea.
Re... more »
Northrop Grumman Receives $3.6 Billion Multiyear Contract for 25 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft
[image: E-2D Advanced Hawkeye]The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman
Corporation a $3.6 billion fixed price, incentive fee multiyear contract to
deliver 25 new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, bringing the total number of
aircraft on contract to 50.
Developed and produced by Northrop Grumman, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is
the world's only aircraft specifically designed as a carrier-based airborne
early warning and control (AEW&C) system.
With its structurally distinctive design – a rotating rotodome and four
vertical stabilizer tail configuration – the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye provi... more »
Boeing, U.S. Navy Expand P-8A Maritime Patrol Fleet with 14th Delivery
[image: P-8A Poseidon]Boeing recently helped expand the U.S. Navy’s
maritime patrol capabilities with delivery of the 14th P-8A Poseidon
aircraft.
The P-8A, delivered on schedule, is now with its squadron at Naval Air
Station Jacksonville, Fla. Boeing will deliver seven more of the maritime
patrol aircraft this year.
“We’re putting P-8A aircraft through their paces out in the field and
appreciate all the reliability, capabilities and improvements the Poseidon
brings to the table,” said U.S. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, P-8A deputy
program manager. “The next squadron is trained, read... more »
China's Most Dangerous Missile (So Far)
[image: H-6G Badger with YJ-12 cruise missile]Buried on page 40 of the
Pentagon’s latest annual report on China’s military power is a brief
mention of the YJ-12, a recent addition to China’s portfolio of anti-ship
cruise missiles (ASCM).
The report notes that, “The new missile provides an increased threat to
naval assets, due to its long range and supersonic speeds.” True, but in an
understated way.
In fact, the YJ-12 is the most dangerous anti-ship missile China has
produced thus far, posing an even greater risk to the U.S. Navy’s surface
forces in the Western Pacific than the m... more »
F-35 fleet grounded pending engine inspections
[image: F-35B Lightning II]The entire fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35
Lightning II fighters will reportedly be grounded in order to facilitate a
thorough engine inspection.
The order comes after the June 23 fire in an F-35A at Eglin AFB in Florida
in which the pilot was forced to abandon his takeoff and the aircraft was
extensively damaged. The pilot escaped without injury, and the aircraft has
been sequestered pending an investigation.
US media reports indicate the fire was likely engine-related, and that a
joint directive from US and UK military officials will require mandatory
eng... more »
New lighter-weight anchor system tested for aircraft carrier
[image: USS Gerald R. Ford]The U.S. Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS
Gerald R. Ford, will feature a new lighter-weight anchor and chain than
predecessor vessels.
Huntington Ingalls Industries says the anchor weighs 30,000 pounds, a
significantly lighter weight than anchors used on other carriers. Each link
of the 1,440-foot anchor chain weighs about 136 pounds.
Testing of the ship's anchor windlass system with simulated 180- and
360-foot drops was conducted recently by the company's Newport News
Shipbuilding Division.
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Canadians Together Can Save The Bees
[image: Foto: Thanks to a four-year review of 800 studies, the science is
now clear. Neonicotinoid pesticides kill bees. And butterflies, birds and
worms. They may even harm humans. Help us ban neonics in Canada. Take two
minutes to send a note to federal and provincial politicians. Together we
can #SAVEtheBEES. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://action2.davidsuzuki.org/neonics]
Thanks to a four-year review of 800 studies, the science is now clear.
Neonicotinoid pesticides kill bees. And butterflies, birds and worms. They
may even harm humans. Join us in calling for a ban on neonicotinoid
... more »
Decommissioning plan pulls all frigates from fleet by end of FY '15
[image: USS Kauffman]Start saying goodbye to the frigates.
By October 2015, the fleet will be devoid of frigates for the first time in
more than 70 years, according to the Navy’s latest decommissioning plan.
The Navy plans to retire all of the remaining frigates, as well as five
ships and two subs, during fiscal year 2015, the service announced Tuesday.
Read more
Competition seeks ideas to transform nuclear sub
[image: Dmitrii Donskoy]Reappropriating structures or spaces for new uses
is a common occurrence. Sydney's Goods Line and Battersea Power Station are
both the focus of such projects.
Now, architectural firm Matterbetter is asking for submissions to reimagine
perhaps the most unusual thing yet: a Russian nuclear submarine.
Matterbetter explains that the Typhoon Class submarine joined the Soviet
fleet in 1980 during the Cold War and is still the largest nuclear
submarine ever built. At 175 x 23 m (574 x 75 ft), it is comparable in size
to Norman Foster's Gherkin building in London.
... more »
U.S. Navy promotes first woman to four-star admiral
The U.S. Navy made history Tuesday when they promoted the first woman to
the rank of four-star admiral.
Michelle Howard is the first female sailor to become a four-star admiral in
the Navy’s 236-year history. During the promotion ceremony held at the
Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National
Cemetery, Howard talked not about herself, but her fellow servicemen and
women, Huffington Post reports.
“Our sailors and Marines are this legacy. They are volunteers,” Howard
said. “And with every mission, they demonstrate our core values, values our
founders would ... more »
S. Korean Navy launches 5th 1,800-ton-class attack submarine
[image: KSS II (Type 214) class SSK]South Korea's Navy launched a 1,800-ton
Type 214 submarine Thursday as part of efforts to boost its underwater
warfare capabilities against North Korean submarines, officers said.
As the fifth of its kind, the sub, named after Korea's famous independence
fighter Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932), is equipped with indigenous ship-to-ship
cruise missiles named Haeseong, or Sea Star, torpedoes and mines for
anti-submarine warfare, the Navy said.
Source
How To Make A Non-Toxic Cocconut Oil Sunscreen
[image: non toxic]
How To Make A Non-Toxic Cocconut Oil Sunscreen
by Jessica Espinoza
Higher Perspective
Many carrier oils used in holistic and natural skincare have an intrinsic
natural SPF, or sun protection factor, and coconut oil is one of many
carrier oils which can be used to make a sun protection cream.
The recipe below for a natural homemade coconut oil sunscreen uses a
variety of oils and produces more of a body butter. It is safe for the
whole family to use, but make sure not to ingest it.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup shea butter
- 1/8 cup... more »
US to Sell India Submarine-Launched Missiles
[image: UGM-84 Harpoon]On Tuesday, the U.S. announced its intention to sell
India submarine-launched missiles.
The announcement was made in a press release by the Defense Security
Cooperation Agency (DSCA). “The State Department has made a determination
approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to India for UGM-84L Harpoon
missiles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support
for an estimated cost of $200 million,” the press release said.
It noted that it sent a certification of delivery to Congress on July 1,
2014.
Read more
British boy Photographs Scottish Soldier's Ghost During Cemetery Visit
[image: Feature Rates Apply MANDATORY CREDIT: John Phillips/Rex Features.
Editorial Use Only. No books, advertising or merchandising without
photographer's permission] I have seen a number of purported ghost images
and all lacked identity. Yet this one changes all that and add in the post
discovery research in which a battle connection is made not obvious in the
middle of a German graveyard and we have a quality observation of a spirit
affecting the physical surround to produce this visible representation. We
have had plenty of claims that say just this. Now we have an excellent... more »
Spray On Graphene
*Slowly but surely we are getting there. Now imagine two layers on either
side of flexible stretchy material. Modest annealing might produce almost
perfect sheets of graphene. Sooner or later this is going to be possible
and here we the many ways forward.*
*Again we are coming closer to the multilayered sandwich.*
*This technology is now almost a decade old and the advances have been
excellent. There is little doubt that it will become central to all aspects
of technology.*
*Scientists create "spray-on graphene"*
*Ben Coxworth*
*May 29, 2014*
*http://www.gizmag.com/spray-on-gr... more »
Dolphins Guide Scientists to Rescue Suicidal Girl
This is an astonishing story and powerfully informs us that as we learn to
properly work with the ocean, that our natural allies in this endeavor are
already there for us. I wonder why?
Recall that we have an outstanding conjecture that humanity established a
global civilization as early as 40,000 years ago until the deliberate
abandonment in preparation for the Pleistocene Nonconformity of 12900 years
ago. That happens to be an effective working span of some 27,000 years at
least. Assuming they then took at least twenty thousand of those years to
reach modernity, we still hav... more »
Wild Husbandry and Bruce 'Buckshot' Hemming
This is an insightful article that bears reading. As I have been posting an
actively groomed forest is a healthy forest and along with all that comes
species management to produce ample nut and fruit harvests. Now we discover
just how critical predictor management becomes also.
Predator control allows ample utilization of the habitat and even supplies
the remaining preditors with an ample supply of scavenged game as well. As
this item makes clear, the game density can be sustained at a huge level
provided predator behavior is tightly managed.
A hundred fold increase in game av... more »
Saab acquires ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB
[image: Saab logo]Defence and security company Saab has today entered into
an agreement with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG regarding the
acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB (TKMS AB, formerly Kockums).
The purchase price is MSEK 340.
This acquisition is in line with Saab’s ambition to increase its
capabilities in the naval domain. This move further strengthens Saab’s
status as a comprehensive supplier of military systems.
In April 2014, Saab and ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG signed a
non-binding Memorandum of Understanding regarding the acquisition of the
S... more »
Fifth Borei, fourth Yasen submarines to be laid down in Severodvinsk July 27
[image: Yasen class SSN (Project 855)]The construction of the firth Project
955A strategic nuclear submarine and the fourth Project 855M multirole
submarine will begin on July 27, a week later than was initially planned, a
source in the Russian defense industry told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday, July 2.
“The change of the date is not connected with technical reasons and has
been necessitated solely by the fact that July 27 is Navy Day in Russia,”
the source said.
Russia’s defense shipyard Sevmash in Severodvinsk, northern Arkhangelsk
region, will start building three new fourth-generation... more »
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*Goddard was right after all*
*Anthony Watts climbs down below. A climate record that people rely on to
justify billions of dollars of panic spending is now admitted to contain
extensive "zombie" data. Watts is still apologizing for the Warmist
"scientists" as he obviously wants to be loved. But he has no explanation
for the fact that most of the "errors" are in the Warmist direction. If
you are aware of the extensive exposition of crookedness at NOAA by Roger
Pielke Sr., you would be much less optimistic about the Warmist
"scientists" than Watts is*
Sometimes, you can believe... more »
Higgs contest: the hard way to return to top 3
Now it's a good (but not stellar) moment for the Higgs ATLAS-Kaggle
challenge. If you look at its leaderboard, only one minor permutation of
the top 7 rankings (879 teams compete in total) has occurred in the last 7
days:
*Due to a permutation of the top 2 places exactly 7 days ago, this
screenshot became a bit obsolete minutes after I posted it.*
And – the T.A.G. duo will surely agree – it is a small change in a good
direction. ;-) And it was so hard to achieve this small change of the AMS
score! What have I done?
I decided that one particular algorithm isn't good enough. It'... more »
As Iraq Burns, US Plans $500 Million to Terrorists in Syria
*July 3, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The New York Times in its article,
"Obama Requests Money to Train ‘Appropriately Vetted’ Syrian Rebels,"
stated:
* President Obama requested $500 million from Congress on Thursday to train
and equip what the White House is calling “appropriately vetted” members of
the Syrian opposition, reflecting increased worry about the spillover of
the Syrian conflict into Iraq.*
The reportage is a stunning entanglement of contradictions, claiming that
the additional funding for terrorists fighting in Syria will somehow
address "spillover" that is in fac... more »
Labour's nepotismocracy
' We've got son of Blair, son of Straw, son of Prescott, son of Dromey.
When you take out the Red Princes, you'll find that 80% of their candidates
are union sponsored. They bought the candidates, they bought the policies,
they bought the leader, we must never let them near the country."'
Guido Fawkes has the story
http://order-order.com/2014/07/02/red-princes-gets-box-office-treatment/
Yesterday, Paul Craig Roberts posted a partial translation of President Putin's July 1 address to the Russian diplomatic corps. Today, he published a complete English translation of Putin's entire speech as re-posted below. Those of you preferring the shorter version, which I posted this morning, need only to scroll down.
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*Full Text of Putin’s Address to the Russian Diplomatic Corps*
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Below is President Putin’s complete address to the Russian diplomatic
corps. It reveals Putin to be a person well aware of the threats that US
unilateralism poses to the entire world. Washington’s belief that the US is
exceptional and indispensable results in dictatorial behavior toward other
countries and the overriding of th... more »
Ole Ole Ole Ole Ticos
We went to Dominical on Sunday to meet up with Jesse and Diana and watch
the game. They live about 15 minutes from there, but used to live there
and they love hanging at the beach there. WE went to a restaurant/bar
called Tortilla Flats. While there, met some other people as well. I
think almost the entire place was Americans, which was kinda strange.
It took about an hour and 20 minutes to get there and we were early so we
grabbed a table and ordered from chips and guac while we waited. Once we
got there, we ordered lunch. I had mahi tacos and Kurt had a grilled
cheese an... more »
Isn't Higgs a sneutrino dressed as a man?
*Related LHC news*: Both ATLAS and CMS released lots of new papers and
preprints today. Perhaps most interestingly, ATLAS' measurement of the WW
cross section still shows a uniform 2-sigmish excess in all channels after
the 20/fb of the 2012 data which keeps the idea of light stops alive. Note
that the paper is based on a set of collisions that is disjoint from the previous
collisions that also showed an excess.
Carla Biggio wrote a serious paper about a question that is so playful and
ambitious that it may look silly to most particle physicists:
Is the standard model scalar the f... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier
17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation
Sagittarius. At that distance, this degree wide field of view spans almost
100 light-years, courtesy of ESO's new VLT Survey Telescope and OmegaCAM.
The sharp, false color image includes both optical and infrared data,
following faint details of the region's gas and dust clouds against a
backdrop of central Milky Way stars.
*Click image for larger size.*
Stellar winds and energetic light from hot, massive stars formed from M17's
stock of co... more »
Paul LePage Denies He Talked With Domestic Terrorists About Executing Or Hanging Democratic Legislative Leaders
There's supposed to be this huge chasm in the Maine Republican Party
between the business-oriented moderates and the far right extremists (with
another split in their for the Ron Paul libertarian branch). The moderates
have been the home base for respectable political leaders like Senators
Margaret Chase Smith, Bill Cohen, Olympia Snowe. Interestingly enough,
Susan Collins has always attempted to glom onto that faction while
maintaining strong ties to the extremists. You don't find many media
reports of it this cycle, but Olympia Snowe sure isn't out on the hustings
asking her su... more »
"High Flight"
*“High Flight”*
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew -
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high... more »
Free Download: George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
"Animal Farm"
by George Orwell
Biographical note: "George Orwell, 1903-1950, was the pen name used by
British author and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. During most of his
professional life time Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in
the British press and in books such as "Homage to Catalonia," describing
his activities during the Spanish Civil War, and "Down and Out in Paris and
London," describing a period of poverty in these cities. Orwell is best
remembered today for two of his novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen
Eighty-Four."
Description: Power corrupts, but absolute... more »
"The Journey..."
"Happiness is a journey, not a destination. For a long time it seemed to me
that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some
obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished
business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on
me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see
there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every
moment you have and remember that time waits for no one."
~ Souza
The Poet: Walt Whitman, "Miracles"
"Miracles"
"Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge
of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with anyone I love, or sleep in the bed
at night with anyone I love,
Or sit at the table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honeybees busy around the hive
of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wond... more »
Chet Raymo, “Morning Stars”
*“Morning Stars”*
by Chet Raymo
“For some years this William Blake watercolor hung in my living room, blown
up photographically to enormous size (that was back in my darkroom days).
An illustration from The Book of Job: "When the morning stars sang
together..." The original watercolor is small, not a lot larger than what
you will get if you click on the image here...
*Click image for larger size.*
That's Job and his family at the bottom, enclosed by the thickest clouds,
representing the flesh. Under the Lord's left arm is the Moon goddess
Diana, the heart or feeling, delicately hol... more »
"Just Once..."
"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps
calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just
once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the
earth, seems beyond undoing."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The Daily "Near You?"
Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
"Stop Stress From Killing You"
*"Stop Stress From Killing You"*
by Elizabeth Walling
"What is stress? Physiologically, stress could be considered any event that
triggers a marked response by the adrenal glands. In basic terms, this
response is the release of cortisol. It's the body's natural reaction to
any stressor. For occasional stressors, cortisol can provide a burst of
benefits like increased energy, heightened reflexes and a higher threshold
for pain. However, when stress is chronic, as it often is in modern
society, cortisol levels can remain unnaturally high and lead to damaging
effects, which include:
... more »
“Persistence: Why It's Sometimes Better To Walk Away”
*“Persistence: *
*Why It's Sometimes Better To Walk Away”*
By Art Markman
“When Pope Benedict XVI announced he was resigning his decision shocked the
world, because popes don't usually step down. And that got me thinking
about the decision to walk away from things you have committed to in the
past.We live in a culture that promotes persistence. Phrases like “Winners never
quit, and quitters never win” dominate our public discussion. So, is that
true? Should you really continue to pour effort into situations, even when
they seem hopeless? Should you stay in a relationship, just bec... more »
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