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Extended Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Liquid Mind IV: Unity" (Full Album)
Liquid Mind, "Liquid Mind IV: Unity" (Full Album)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYu7k-O4iw
Dim the lights, sit comfortably, close your eyes and breathe deeply several
times.
Relax... Feel the music...
let your mind and heart create whatever images or emotions the music
suggests.
Let go, go with it... feel it in your soul, feel your spirit rise...
Nicaragua versus Honduras: One survived violent past, other still living in it
On the malecon in Managua There's nothing quite like the smell of
tropical air. We got off the plane in Managua, Nicaragua last night and
there it was, that delicious aroma of heat and humidity that I have come to
associate with our new life in Central America.
My partner and I are back here for our second round of Cuso
International placements, having completed two-plus years in Honduras in
April and eager to do it all over again in Nicaragua. On the rainy ride to
our hotel last night, Managua looked much like Honduras's two big cities
where we passed a lot of time during o... more »
Review - Zabada Kitchen Glove and Marvel
Awhile back I introduced you to several Zabada products including a
bathroom cleaning system. You can read that review HERE.
I recently had the opportunity to try out Zabada's kitchen cleaning system,
the kitchen glove and marvel.
[image: Review - Zabada Kitchen Glove and Marvel]*These two items eliminate
the need for cleaning solutions!*
[image: Review - Zabada Kitchen Glove and Marvel]*Fried veggies are yummy,*
*but make a mess!*What's your biggest kitchen clean-up headache?
For me, it's oil splatter.
I don't fry foods often but ohhhh ... sometimes there's nothing better than
hom... more »
TV Watch: More on how long should a TV season be -- British-style
*Annie and Martin Bryce (Penelope Wilton, Richard Briers) with unflappable
neighbor Paul Ryland (Peter Egan) in Ever Decreasing Circles (1985-89)*
*by Ken*
In my post earlier this evening, I stumbled into the bottomless-pit
question of how long a TV show's "season" should be. Maybe 39, as in the
good old days of American TV? Allowing just that 13-week pause for "summer
replacement" shows before the new season started up. Or the slimmed-down
standard of 22, on which the U.S. networks have generally settled?
As I pointed out, one TV creator who grew up in that system, David Chase,
r... more »
Untitled
Metro Event Thursday: The Rag Blog presents ‘City of Quartz‘ author Mike
Davis on ‘Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster.’
METRO EVENT | The Rag Blog : Celebrated Author & Urban Theorist Mike Davis in Austin this Thursday
Marxist Scholar Davis, author of ‘City of Quartz,’ will speak on ‘Texas vs.
California: Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster’ at 5604 Manor in Austin. “If
it’s apocalypse you want — and frankly who doesn’t, because how else to
explain the … finish reading *METRO EVENT* | The Rag Blog : Celebrated
Author & Urban Theorist Mike Davis in Austin this Thursday
Watch Sequoia 2014 Full Movie Online
*Sequoia (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : N/A
Score : 7.0
Release : 09 Mar 2014
Duration : 86 min
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Andy Landen
Writer : Andrew Rothschild
Cast : Aly Michalka, Joey Lauren Adams, Lou Diamond Phillips, Corbin Frost
Synopsis SequoiaA very lively woman with a very deadly cancer visits a
national park with the intention of ending her life there-- but her suicide
plans are continually thwarted, not least of all by her family, which finds
itself unamused with her death wish.
Description SequoiaSequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endlicher 1847. Common
names... more »
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Moment of Grace Part 1"
Liquid Mind, "Moment of Grace Part 1"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61vm_nLNYg
Musical Interlude: Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues”
Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI9SKuCIMpc
"Make me wanna holler, throw up both my hands..."
"No One In The World..."
“No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and
abilities
and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else
has done.”
- Joseph Campbell
Lion Rock 14: Reading Club Salon 2014, on Class and Inequality
Next week, I will attend the Reading Club Salon 2014, the 3rd annual round
table discussion sponsored by the Lion Rock Institute (LRI), Hong Kong's
free market think tank. The theme of this year's discussion will be *"New
Class, New Inequality?"*
The theme of the EFN Asia Conference 2014, to be held also next week in the
same hotel will be on Liberalism and Inequality. So the LRI event provides
additional theoretical discussions to the EFN conference.
Unlike in the previous two Reading Club Salon in 2012 and 2013 where there
were many reading materials, this year, there will be only... more »
rotd: this changes everything
Revolutionary thought of the day:
...if there is a reason for social movements to exist, it is not to accept
dominant values as fixed and unchangeable but to offer other ways to live -
to wage, and win, a battle of cultural worldviews. That means laying out a
vision of the world that competes directly with the one on harrowing
display at the Heartland conference and in so many other parts of our
culture, one that resonates with the majority of the people on the planet
because it is true: That we are not apart from nature but of it. That
acting collectively for a great good is not su... more »
TV Watch: Further thoughts on the short final season of "Parenthood" -- and the question of how long a TV season should be
*A promo for last week's episode (No. 5 of Season 6) of Parenthood*
*by Ken*
Almost exactly a month ago I voiced mixed feelings about the launch of
*Parenthood*'s sixth and final season, in a 13-episode format. The good
feelings had an obvious cause: the return of a show I'd joined well into
its run but come to value a lot. And the not-so-good feelings had equally
obvious causes: the "final season" part, and the "13-episode format" part.
Although he show in fact launched in 2010 with a 13-episode season, Seasons
2-5 contained 22, 18, 15, and 22 episodes.
I did note, however, that ... more »
The Poet: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Solitude”
*“Solitude”*
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a mere 27,000 light-years away,
lies a black hole with 4 million times the mass of the Sun. Fondly known as
Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the Milky Way's black hole is
fortunately mild-mannered compared to the central black holes in distant
active galaxies, much more calmly consuming material around it. From time
to time it does flare-up, though. An outburst lasting several hours is
captured in this series of premier X-ray images from the orbiting Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
*Click image for larger size.*
Launched la... more »
"Human Existence: Our Story in One Minute"
“Could you tell the story of human existence in a minute? This thrilling
video culls together multiple teasing snippets in an attempt to do just
that. And sets it to music. Briefly depicted, from start to finish, is an
artistic animation of the Big Bang, a trip across the early universe, the
formation of the Earth and Moon, the emergence of multi-celled life and
plants, the rise of reptiles and dinosaurs, a devastating meteor strike,
the rise of mammals and humans, and finally the rise of modern
civilization. The minute movie ends with a flyover of the modern skyscraper
and a human... more »
Chet Raymo, “Charybdis”
*“Charybdis”*
by Chet Raymo
"To my mind, there is no more spiritually fulfilling experience than lying
on one's back under a crystal clear late-summer sky unpolluted by
artificial light and seeing the Milky Way arching across the dome of night
from Sagittarius in the south to Cassiopeia in the north. Those of you who
live in the southern hemisphere will have a different perspective,
including a loftier view of the brilliant luminosity near the galactic
center in Sagittarius, but you know what I mean. One has a sense of falling
into infinity, of becoming a born-again child of cosmic ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Hyrum, Utah, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Tom Hayden : Battling Ebola: Cuba leads while U.S. lags
The U.S. has 550 military personnel in Africa on counterterrorism missions
while over 5,000 Africans have succumbed to the non-military threat of
Ebola. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | October 26, 2014 In what a New York
Times … finish reading Tom Hayden :
Battling Ebola: Cuba leads while U.S. lags
A Revelation Regarding the Common Core Sale: Evidence is needed.
On October 22, 2014, the corporate-reform-friendly think tank, American
Enterprise Institute (AEI), hosted a panel discussion entitled, What Now
for the Common Core? Below is the description of the panel participants and
the *implementation-focused* conclusion is actually what should have
happened before CCSS was adopted by any state and certainly before CCSS was
ever proclaimed as “ensuring college […]
Vince Dementri was at WTC 7 a Half Hour Before it Fell
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"Fully Committed to Now: Why We Are Not Shown the Big Picture"
*"Fully Committed to Now:Why We Are Not Shown the Big Picture"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Often we want to be shown the big picture but it is not always in our best
interest as we can easily become overwhelmed. Sometimes, we may find
ourselves wishing we knew what our lives are going to look like or what
gifts and challenges are going to be presented to us in the coming months
or years. We may want to know if the relationship we’re in now will go the
distance or if our goals will be realized. Perhaps we feel like we need
help making a decision and we want to know which choice... more »
(Flood of Dem Voting Paramount To Middle-Class Survival) Kill the Economics Jester? (David F. Brooks: They're Coming for You Ha Ha!) Delaware Court Allows Companies to Write By-Laws that Make Shareholders Pay Company's Legal Cost If They Lose Case Filed Against Company (Net Positive of QE)
It seems rather obvious at this time in U.S. history that if there's not a
flood of Democrats elected (especially in the Senate) during this next
election (North Carolina being one of the GOP-Koch-ad-imperiled), that the
downward-trajectory spiral being endured by the middle class will be
heading into Depression territory. Vote like your life depends on it. The
Republican Party’s Electoral
A3 Newsletter: Albert Woodfox's Courtroom Battles Continue; Oct. 29 and Beyond
(PHOTO: A3 supporters gather in support of Albert Woodfox)
Please join us on the morning of Wednesday, October 29th, at the US Court
of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (600 Camp St.) in New Orleans for oral
arguments about whether or not to uphold Judge Brady's January 2014 ruling
that put an end to the invasive, dehumanizing strip and cavity searches
Albert had been tortured by since May of 2013.
As you may remember, this is the second of two outstanding appeals of
rulings in A3's favor that have frozen progress towards the final trial
prep stages of the decade long A3 civil case, whi... more »
The Century of Humiliation is Expansionist Baloney
This post takes a look at China's claim to the South China Sea and what it
teaches us about the whole idea of national humiliation that even
foreigners who should know better still use as if it explained something
about Chinese government policy. It is actually expansionist propaganda,
which presents Chinese expansionism as redress of victimization, as is
common among expansionists of all political stripes and nations.
I've shamelessly stolen a bunch of slides from Bill Hayton's presentation,
which is online here. As he introduces in another piece on the South China
Sea mess:
At t... more »
What Canadien Kids Want for Christmas?
The Sweater as a t shirt.
Collapse of The Post-WWI Middle East State System: Audio of New Yorker Panel
An excerpt from, *"The Political Scene: A Panel on the Middle East"* by The
New Yorker, October 16, 2014:
“The Middle East is coming apart in a way that, I think, is unprecedented,” Dexter
Filkins says on this week’s Political Scene, which was recorded live at The
New Yorker Festival last Sunday. Filkins was joined by Steve Coll, Robin
Wright, and Jon Lee Anderson for a panel discussion moderated by Evan Osnos
about their experiences covering the Middle East and the rise of extremism
in the region. ISIS represents a great threat to stability in Iraq and
Syria, but the panelists agre... more »
Musical Interlude: Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Wind On The Water”
*“Wind On The Water”*
by Graham Nash and David Crosby
"Over the years you have been hunted
by the men who threw harpoons,
And in the long run he will kill you
just to feed the pets we raise,
put the flowers in your vase,
and make the lipstick for your face.
Over the years you swam the ocean
Following feelings of your own,
Now you are washed up on the shoreline,
I can see your body lie,
It's a shame you have to die
to put the shadow on our eye.
Maybe we'll go,
Maybe we'll disappear,
It's not that we don't know,
It's just that we don't want to care.
Under the bridges,
Over the foam,
Wind on... more »
Exchange of letters in FT on status of Taiwan
*Burning off the fields*
This exchange of letters involves a couple of people I know spanking the
Chinese representative in the UK for promulgating annexation propaganda.
Nice work, people!
+++++++++++++
FINANCIAL TIMES
October 24, 2014
*It’s time for a bullying regime to step into the 21st century*
Sir, The letter about Taiwan (October 18) from Chinese embassy spokesman
Miao Deyu is textbook Chinese Communist party propaganda that cannot pass
unchallenged.
First, the false assertion that Taiwan is “an inalienable part of China”.
It is clear from China’s own historical maps and ... more »
harper's cynical use of "terrorism"
First of all, if you haven't seen it already, I think Sabina Becker's take
on the recent murders of Canadian soldiers by mentally disturbed
individuals is bang-on:
Like this week. These past few days saw us “attacked” by two “terrorists”
who, it turns out, were something else altogether. One was a paranoid
schizophrenic; the other, a drug addict. But since both were Muslims, and
chose to attack and kill soldiers of the Canadian army, with a confused
mess of ISIL propaganda and madness roaring through their heads, they just
automatically got labelled as terrorists. As if they had flo... more »
What kind of bay Fascist are you?
The problem with goverment is that it went from being all authoritarian all
the time to Laissez-faire and corrupt, and now its Laissez-faire, corrupt
and authoritarian.
H/T The Burning Platform via Zero Hedge
Rutger Hauer, “Requiem, 2019”
Rutger Hauer, “Requiem, 2019”
Please DO use full screen mode.
- http://www.stumbleupon.com/
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"As I rocked in the moonlight,
And reefed the sail.
It'll happen to you
Also without fail,
If it happens to me.
Sang the world's last whale."
- Pete Seeger
"5 Craziest Right-Wing Moments this Week: Christian Celeb’s Bonkers Ideas about Halloween"
*"5 Craziest Right-Wing Moments this Week: *
*Christian Celeb’s Bonkers Ideas about Halloween"*
By Janet Allon
*"1. Kirk Cameron: Obama Halloween masks are actually celebrating Jesus’
triumph over Satan. *Former "Growing Pains" star Kirk Cameron is doing his
darndest to rebrand Halloween as a Christian holiday. At the same time, the
uber-right-wing Christian actor is getting his digs in at Obama. “When you
go out on Halloween and see all people dressed in costumes and see someone
in a great big bobble-head Obama costume with great big ears and an Obama
face, are they honoring him or... more »
Goodbye To the US of A corporation
This appears to be good news...but it was my understanding the corporation
was registered in London? So I don't quite know what to make of this... -AK
http://mainerepublicemailalert.com/2014/10/25/goodbye-to-the-us-of-a-corporation/
Goodbye To the US of A corporation
Posted on October 25, 2014 by David Robinson
Friday, October 24, 2014
If you go to the following Puerto Rico Corporation website, the United
States of America (the corporation) has been cancelled. Either go to this
web site, at the link click for translation to english:
https://prcorpfiling.f1hst.com/CorpInfo/Corpora... more »
Watch Mercenaries Full Movie 2014 Streaming
*Mercenaries (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : Unrated
Score : 3.6
Release : 05 Aug 2014
Duration : 89 min
Genre : Action, Adventure
Director : Christopher Ray, Christopher Ray
Writer : Edward DeRuiter (screenplay), Edward DeRuiter
Cast : Zoë Bell, Kristanna Loken, Vivica A. Fox, Brigitte Nielsen
Synopsis MercenariesA diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while
touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to
infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
Description MercenariesThis page has been archived and commenting is
disabled. Mystery Sponsor Of W... more »
Watch Adira 2014 Full Movie Online
*Adira (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : N/A
Score : 6.4
Release : 06 Feb 2014
Duration : 80 min
Genre : Adventure, Drama, War
Director : Irene Delmonte, Bradley J. Lincoln
Writer : Irene Delmonte, Irene Delmonte
Cast : Roger Denesha, Alexander T. Buettner, Chris Bylsma, Michael Cootes
Synopsis AdiraDuring the Holocaust, a young Jewish girl flees from the
grasp of the Gestapo and finds herself stranded on an abandoned farm.
Description AdiraIseng aja mau catat harga kredit Kawasaki Ninja 250R dari
Adira Finance. Ini dari lembaran daftar harga yang saya ambil Rabu 8
Oktober di Motor City... more »
"'They Just Want The Money!' The IRS Can Now Seize Accounts On Suspicion Alone"
* "'They Just Want The Money!' *
*The IRS Can Now Seize Accounts On Suspicion Alone"*
Submitted by Tyler Durden
“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes
your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?” The
federal government does.
The topic of civil asset forfeiture has been high on our agenda recently as federal
'agents' discover how to steal Americans' hard-earned cash with zero
repurcussions , and decide unilaterally how much cash a 'common man' is
allowed to carry; but as The NY Times reports, the escalation to The IRS
brin... more »
Satire: “Study: Fear of Ebola Highest Among People Who Did Not Pay Attention During Math and Science Classes”
*“Study: Fear of Ebola Highest Among People Who Did *
*Not Pay Attention During Math and Science Classes”*
by Andy Borowitz
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)— “A new study, by the University of
Minnesota, indicates that fear of contracting the Ebola virus is highest
among Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes.
According to the study, those whose minds were elsewhere while being taught
certain concepts, like what a virus is and numbers, are at a significantly
greater risk of being afraid of catching Ebola than people who were paying
even scant attention... more »
Turbans, casettes, and George Bush the First's strongest cuss word
And while I'm being a positive polly rather than a negative nelly, I'd also
like to say that this morning's *Broadcasting House* wasn't half bad
either.
The programme marked the end of Britain's military involvement in
Afghanistan. It also looked more generally at Afghanistan by inviting two
BBC reporters - Lyse Doucet and her youngish Afghan protégé Tahir Qadiry -
to try to capture the spirit of Afghanistan in six objects.
The warmth of their feelings towards each other was endearing. I felt the
humanity of Lyse Doucet there, proud of having found this young man for the
BBC and... more »
Russell Brand, Narcissist and Comrade?
I've always had a soft spot for Russell Brand. Like many recovering *Big
Brother* fans, I first encountered him on E4's *E-Forum*, a side programme
to *Big Brother's Little Brother*, which in turn was an adjunct to the main
event. But there was something about Brand that made him stand out even in
those days. Was it his larking about? His knowing jokes about himself and
celebrity? The casual peppering of monologue with Nietzschean observations
and obscure social theory references? Yes, probably. Since then his
cheeky-chappery has taken off. Hollywood films and megastar celebrity
ex... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Nazi Canada'
NAZI
CANADA
Posted on October 25, 2014
Mohawk Nation News
Please post and distribute.
MNN. Oct. 25, 2014. The false flag gunfight on Parliament Hill was
Hitler’s Reichtag fire of February 1933. Canada’s new anti-terror law is
the model for the Nazi takeover of the world. Within days democracy was
shut down. Now martial law can be declared, armed soldiers sent into
residential areas,
Today Kentucky's Two Biggest Newspapers Told The Voters Why They Should Send McConnell Packing
Although the right-wing crackpot newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio endorsed
McConnell, yesterday Kentucky's two biggest newspapers, the Louisville
*Courier-Journal* and the Lexington *Herald-Leader*, both recommended that
Kentucky voters fire McConnell and replace him with Secretary of State
Alison Grimes. The latest polling shows a dead-heat, within the margin of
error, although McConnell had already spent $21,494,327 by the September 30
FEC reporting deadline (and has written his campaign another $1.8 million
check in the past couple of days), in the same time that Grimes spent
$11,... more »
Watch The Curse of Styria Full Movie 2014 Streaming
*The Curse of Styria (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : N/A
Score : N/A
Release : N/A
Duration : N/A
Genre : Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Director : Mauricio Chernovetzky, Mark Devendorf
Writer : Karl Bardosh (dramaturge), Mauricio Chernovetzky (screenplay),
Mark Devendorf (screenplay), Sheridan Le Fanu (novel)
Cast : Eleanor Tomlinson, Stephen Rea, Erika Marozsán, Katie Silverman
Synopsis The Curse of StyriaLara (Eleanor Tomlinson) and her estranged
father, Dr. Hill (Stephen Rea), travel behind the iron curtain to a
decrepit castle outside the Hungarian town of Styria. In the nearby woods, ... more »
Polly and the Nightjar
Forgive me for NOT being a 'negative nelly' about the BBC for a moment, but
I used the extra hour given unto us by the clocks falling back (as the
mnemonic says - though I keep getting confused between falling back and
falling forwards, springing back and springing forwards) to listen to Radio
4 between 6 and 7 o'clock and was transfixed by the delights of *Something
Understood* and *The Living World*.
*Something Understood* was about our need for art, but playwright Polly
Stenham used it chiefly to explain what writing plays means to her - and
doing so in highly-charged, poetic la... more »
Watch Giovanni's Island 2014 Full Movie Online
*Giovanni's Island (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : N/A
Score : 7.5
Release : 22 Feb 2014
Duration : 102 min
Genre : Animation, Drama, History
Director : Mizuho Nishikubo
Writer : Shigemichi Sugita (original story), Shigemichi Sugita
(screenplay), Wendee Lee (adaptation), Yoshiki Sakurai (screenplay)
Cast : Natalie Hoover, Masachika Ichimura, Polina Ilyushenko, Hiroshi
Inuzuka
Synopsis Giovanni's IslandIn the aftermath of the most devastating conflict
mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of
the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remo... more »
Groupthink and the Turkish Government
The Turkish government’s unwillingness to intervene in Kobani has led to
renewed violence across the country, claiming more than 30 lives. Turkey’s
own Kurds demanded action, Ankara bulked, people died. The peace process
between Ankara and the Kurds might now be in jeopardy. And the government
is drafting a suspicious bill that, if passed, can restrict the
Continue reading
Watch Nightcrawler 2014 Full Movie Online
*Nightcrawler (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : R
Score : 8.4
Release : 31 Oct 2014
Duration : 117 min
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : Dan Gilroy
Writer : Dan Gilroy
Cast : Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo, Ann Cusack
Synopsis NightcrawlerA young man stumbles upon the underground world of
L.A. freelance crime journalism.
Description NightcrawlerDark Pact Slark calls upon deities of the swamps to
seal a dark pact. Sacrificing some of his lifeblood, Slark is redeemed of
all negative effects.,Pagonis Live Bait Ltd. Pagonis Live Bait Ltd. has
been serving the North Americ... more »
All the people of the lulled and dumbfound state...
So, Dylan Thomas was big in Germany.
Who knew? Former BBC Berlin correspondent - and Dylan Thomas fan - Steve
Evans, that's who, and his *Cold War Poet* tonight on Radio 4 was
fascinating.
John Humphrys won't like the tense I'm using here, but to begin at the
beginning:
1954. Dylan Thomas is dead. The BBC has already posthumously broadcast his
wonderful radio play *Under Milk Wood*. Seeking to spread British culture
to the parts of post-war Germany under British control (the north-west),
they commission an Austrian Jewish exile, Erich Fried, to translate *Under
Milk Wood* into ... more »
the "that-which-shall-not-be-named" standards and testing program
Dolores Umbridge, chair of a newly formed but unnamed committee with
representatives of the US Department of Education, The Gates Foundation,
PARCC, and the Pearson organization today announced spectacular progress
in creating new labels for the "that-which-shall-not-be-named" standards
and testing program now adopted by most of the United States.
At a press conference Umbridge assured reporters that regardless of which
of the many new terms are adopted by individual states, all versions will
remain true to Susan Ohanian's characterization: “a radical untried
curriculum overha... more »
Reality
'... somehow we are being told that Israel (and by extension the West) are
now the "White" oppressors of the poor "Brown" Muslims. Despite the fact
that more Muslims have been killed by other Muslims than by everyone else
in the world combined. Despite the fact that Jews are neither white, nor
colonialists. Despite the fact that Muslims are actually conducting
genocides against indigenous people even as we speak. The population of
Muslims is 1.57 billion while Jews number approximately 14 million.
Suddenly this doesn't look so much big bully Israel beating up the poor
little Arabs... more »
A British Celebrity Russell Brand's Reaction To Stephen Harper's Handling Of Ottawa Attack
*TORONTO - A British celebrity isn't wowed by Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's handling of the aftermath of the shooting of an honour guard at
the National War Memorial.*
The video below is worth watching.
Read more here
The Grand Illusion of Time
*Film - *The illusion of time - past, present and future - all exist
together.
The post The Grand Illusion of Time appeared first on Waking Times.
'Halt impoundments' says Navajo Hopi Land Commission
.
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
The Navajo Hopi Land Commission's letter to Hopi Chairman Herman Honanie
states that the Hopi Tribe should desist from the impoundment of Navajo
sheep due to the traumatic impact on Navajos with sheep on Hopi
Partitioned Lands. The Commission says that the Hopi Tribe should work
with the Commission in a spirit of cooperation to resolve the issues in a
Why Did This Palestinian Facebook Group Care About A Nepal Bus Crash?
Israelly Cool has another expose of Palestinian hatred for Israeli Jews
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/10/25/why-did-this-palestinian-facebook-group-care-about-a-nepal-bus-crash/
' Oh God, exterminate them and kill them vaporized and left them none
To hell
O limit the Zionist Jews and kill them, vaporize them and don't leave any
of them
To hell and good riddance, expand their dead Allah
Allah Akbar
Alhamdulillah
God burn them'
Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism
*Video - *Recent research reconfirms the irrelevance of materialism and
goes even further to explain true reality.
The post Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism appeared first on Waking Times.
10 Scientific Ways to be Happy
*Meme - *It has been scientifically proven that certain activities such as
smiling, meditation and exercise will make you a happy person.
The post 10 Scientific Ways to be Happy appeared first on Waking Times.
French "hate speech" lawsuit leading to worldwide online censorship
*The Jewish Daily Forward* recently published an article describing how
large Internet-based social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter,
and YouTube, are dealing with online "hate speech," particularly in the
aftermath of a judicial ruling roughly one year ago in France that required
Twitter to remove "anti-Semitic" content. The article notes:
A little over a year after a French court forced Twitter to remove some
anti-Semitic content, experts say *the ruling has had a ripple effect,
leading other Internet companies to act more aggressively against hate
speech in an effort ... more »
Reporter Targeted by Obama War on Journalism Blasts Terror War Ripoffs
Pallets of Cash in Iraq
James Risen is the poster boy for the Obama administration’s war on
journalism. The New York Times reporter faces a prison sentence for his
refusal to testify in the trial of whistleblower and former CIA employee Jeffrey
Alexander Sterling. Sterling, who has been indicted under the Espionage Act
of 1917 was a source for information that Risen wrote about in his book "State
of War" and the feds are hellbent at setting an example. The archaic World
War I law has been a favorite of the Obama Justice Department when it comes
to squashing scrutiny of our now ful... more »
Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama
This New York Post
http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/former-cbs-reporter-explains-how-the-liberal-media-protects-obama/
article reveals how the US media protects Barack Hussein Obama from
criticism.
'... "Imagine a parallel scenario in which President Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney personally appeared at groundbreakings for, and used
billions of tax dollars to support, multiple giant corporate ventures whose
investors were sometimes major campaign bundlers, only to have one (or two,
or three) go bankrupt . . . when they knew in advance the companies' credit
ratings were junk."'
... more »
Will Crooked South Dakota Republican Mike Rounds Drown In His Own Culture Of Corruption-- Or Become A U.S. Senator?
Mike Rounds has surrounded himself with crooks who have helped make him
wealthy
If you follow *DWT* with any regularity you weren't taken by surprise when
the DSCC and the Beltway pundits who take their marching orders from the
party committees discovered South Dakota's Senate race last week. The
Senate race pits populist Rick Weiland against crooked GOP establishment
shill Mike Rounds and other two conservative Republicans running as
independents. And Rounds' EB-5 visa selling scandal isn't news to you
either. Nor is the independence of mind and spirit that made us predict
months a... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, October 26th, 2014
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Yes, it is indeed time for my weekly rant.... It has been a week full of
very interesting and troubling situations across the planet over the last
week, especially right here in Canada, and I will do my best to cover them
in summary with my own thoughts about exactly what is happening in our sick
world...
OK, First the so called "shooting" in Ottawa.... What I see is indeed a
false flag operation, folks, with the Jew spew media just going hog wild
with information overload for the general public... It is so remarkable
that the day after the shooting, the local... more »
Editor's Note
Busy with family responsibilities. Blogging will return tomorrow morning.
Libya Is The Latest Islamic State Conquest
A fighter from armed group Operation Dawn fires a weapon during clashes
with rival group the Zintan brigade, on the outskirts of the city of Kklh,
southwest of Tripoli Oct. 21, 2014. (File: Reuters)
*Libya Has Become The Latest Isil Conquest -- The Telegraph*
Extremists have declared Libya part of the Isil caliphate. Former Libyan
militant Noman Benotman examines what's gone wrong
Libya is now in the throes of an extreme political crisis. If the
conditions remain unchallenged and, hence, unchanged, it will turn into
another Syria or Iraq.
While ISIL has managed to capture the a... more »
Calling All Geeks
So here's what I did.
Yesterday, I got myself a Toshiba at the local Best Buy with a 1TB HD
for *real* cheap. After nearly three and a half years, my old Lenovo just
isn't cutting it anymore. Ergo, despite our financial difficulties, I had
to bite the bullet and get an upgrade. Anyway, I ran into a few problems
right out of the gate.
Firstly, this Toshiba, as with so many other computers these days,
doesn't come with the full complement of bundled software. Manufacturers
finally discovered they could make a shitload more money by stealing that
software that we'd taken... more »
U.S. Failing To Halt The Islamic State's Military Campaign
Smoke and flames billow following an explosion in the Syrian town of
Kobani, October 22, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STRINGER)
*US Struggles To Turn The Tide In War Against IS -- Dan De Luce, Times of
Israel*
*Though coalition strikes have kept jihadists from overrunning Kurds in
Kobani, no counter-offensive is in sight*
Washington, United States (AFP) — After more than two months of air
strikes, a US-led coalition has prevented the fall of a northern Syrian
town to Islamic State jihadists but is still struggling to halt the group’s
advances on other fronts, experts say.
Since the a... more »
Iraqi And Kurdish Forces Push Back The Islamic State
Shi'ite fighters and Iraqi army members ride in vehicles during a patrol in
Jurf al-Sakhar October 25, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer
*Iraqi Forces, Peshmerga Claim Gains Against ISIS; Battle For Kobani
Continues -- CNN*
Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraqi security forces have regained control of the area of
Jurf al-Sakhar, a town south of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi said Saturday, as they battle to keep ISIS militants in check.
In a post on Facebook, al-Abadi saluted the efforts made by Iraqi forces to
liberate the area and said they "have inflicted a strong blow to the
terr... more »
kevin vickers, nathan cirillo, and canada's response to recent acts of violence
I've been thinking a lot about Kevin Vickers. By now the world knows
Vickers' name: he is the sergeant-at-arms of the Parliament of Canada, and
his quick thinking and courage undoubtedly saved lives. Vickers shot killed
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who had already killed one person and appeared intent
on killing others.
Vickers is a hero. But my thoughts of him are filled not with adulation,
but with sorrow. Imagine going to work one day, a day like any other, and
by the time the day is done, you have taken a human life. You have killed a
man at close range. What could that be like? It wou... more »
Israelis kill Americans with impunity
[image: 14-year old slain Palestinian youth, Orwa Hammad who is also a U.S.
citizen, was killed by the Israeli army, October 24, 2014. (Photo: Shadi
Hattem)]Orwa Hammad: The latest American kid murdered by Israel
*The Israelis have killed another young American.*
Like 18-year-old Furkan Dogan, who was murdered aboard the Mavi Marmara,
and 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, who was deliberately crushed beneath an
Israeli bulldozer, the latest victim – 14-year-old Orwa Hammad – was
martyred trying to stop the genocide in Occupied Palestine...
Full article:
http://www.presstv.com/detail/20... more »
British Forces And US Marines Have Formally Ended Their Combat Operations In Afghanistan After 13 Years Of War
*Last U.S. Marines, British Combat Forces End Afghan Operations, Prepare
Withdrawal -- Reuters*
(Reuters) - The last U.S. Marines unit and final British combat troops in
Afghanistan officially ended their operations on Sunday as they packed up
to leave the country and transferred a massive military base to the Afghan
military.
The American and British flags were lowered and folded up for the final
time at the regional headquarters of the international military, 13 years
after the toppling of the Taliban’s radical Islamist regime launched
America's longest war.
The timing of the ... more »
Des Moines Register: Joni Ernst Is Too Extreme For The U.S. Senate
Friday morning we were wondering whether or not Joni Ernst's decision to
hide from the *Des Moine's Register*'s editorial board endorsement process
would matter. Since then, she has also decided to skip editorial board
endorsement meetings of the *Cedar Rapids Gazette*, the *Dubuque
Telegraph-Herald* and the *Quad-City Times*-- all the major newspapers of
Iowa, except for the far right-wing *Sioux City Journal*, which embraces
her outside-the-mainstream, extremist world view. [The *Journal*'s
endorsement of Ernst: "Because our vision matches the conservative vision
of Ernst in mor... more »
Does Russian President Putin Have Cancer?
Russia's President Vladimir Putin Photo: Reuters
*Cancer Rumors Swirl Around Putin -- Richard Johnson, New York Post*
There is an explanation for Vladimir Putin’s hurry to invade Ukraine — it
is rumored he has cancer.
News outlets from Belarus to Poland have reported for months that the
Russian strongman has cancer of the spinal cord. But my sources say it’s
pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal forms of the disease.
Putin is allegedly being treated by an elderly doctor from the old East
Germany whom Putin met decades ago while serving in Dresden for the KGB.
The doctor has be... more »
John Simpson on the hard-done-by BBC, the 'rather likeable' Saddam Hussein and 'useless' UK leaders
Unless you read the *Southern Daily Echo *(and who doesn't?) you might have
missed some comments made by the BBC's John Simpson (best known for
liberating Kabul from the Taliban single-handed). He was giving at a talk
at a fundraiser for Winchester Cathedral, but had some things to say about
the BBC's funding too - and Saddam Hussein and the UK's leaders.
On the BBC, he thinks it is “in its last stages” because of funding cuts:
Cuts that we have been seeing will be nothing to the cuts that we are going
to see, because the government will ensure that the license fee is cut back
mas... more »
ECB Stress Test Results Released October 26 , 2014 - 25 Banks fail , spin begins immediately ... Keep focused if you're " All Along The WatchTower "
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Just to be clear, the claim that *as of now* 150 major #euro zone banks
only have a €9.5bn capital shortfall is ludicrous. @ecb #whitewash
*zerohedge* @zerohedge 4m4 minutes ago
Even Goldman isn't buying it: "Shortfall below expectations, €25 bn pre-
and €9 bn post mitigations vs. €38-51 bn expected range"
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The Chart That Crushes All Credibility Of The ECB's Latest Stress Test
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What Is Next For Ukraine?
*Ukraine’s Slow Descent Into Madness -- Lucian Kim, Slate*
While it fights rebels in the east, Kiev is beginning to crumble from the
inside.
KIEV, Ukraine—Less than a year ago, Viktor Yanukovych was not yet the
disgraced former president of Ukraine and ruled over his impoverished but
peaceful nation from Mezhyhirya, his sprawling residence outside Kiev. Here
Yanukovych entertained his cronies aboard a fake Spanish galleon, watched
TV from the comfort of his wood-paneled Jacuzzi, and prayed for redemption
in a jewel-encrusted private chapel.
The main house—an outsized, five-story ... more »
Ukrainians Go To The Polls To Elect A Parliamnet
A combination photo shows pre-election posters as they are seen on the
streets of Kiev October 22, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Gleb Garanich
*Ukrainians Go To The Polls In Election Set To Increase Tensions With
Russia By Backing Pro-Western Parties -- Daily Mail*
* President Petro Poroshenko called the vote as he aims to cement new
direction after ousting of pro-Russian leaders
* Polls show majority of Ukrainians support economic and democratic reforms
- eventually leading to EU membership
* Voters in Crimea and separatist-controlled areas of the eastern Lugansk
and Donetsk provinces were... more »
Much ado about the TIME’s latest anti-teacher cover #TIMEfail. This is what I’m thinking.
There’s a lot of hullaballoo about TIME magazine’s just-released
anti-teacher cover. And it’s JUST the cover, mind you. Nothing surprises me
anymore about the education debates, especially content from the carpet
baggers. But what I find most interesting is this unyielding faith in the
problem solving abilities of Silicon Valley. It seems as if this is […]
Vote Buying in Taipei?
*Yellow ribbons on a random telephone pole...*
Heh. The Chinese Production Party, composed of Chinese spouses of
Taiwanese, is allegedly buying votes for Sean Lien in Taipei. Who could
have imagined that? I'll be curious to see whether the prosecutors actually
go after the CPP for this. More ominous is the fact that the Chinese
spouses are organized into a pro-China party that actually has the funds to
perform these acts (from where?). These spouses, unlike the rest of us
foreigners, do not have to give up their citizenship when they take out ROC
citizenship. And of course, when an... more »
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*Kids React to Common Core: 'Mommy, Please Home-School Me'*
Another day of school, another Common Core horror story. Parents in Royal
Palm Beach, Florida complained to administrators that their children are
languishing under Core-aligned instruction and standardized testing. One
parent reported that her third-grade son comes home from school every day
thinking he is stupid because he can't pass his tests. "Mommy, please
home-school me," he begged, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Lest anyone assume the kid is the problem, keep in mind that some teachers
don't even have access to ... more »
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*"Green" Britain gets the jitters amid fears of going dark brown*
*All those windmills and solar farms are doing nothing to avert looming
blackouts*
Hotels will be paid to turn down refrigerators and factories paid to make
staff work overnight to cut energy consumption and prevent blackouts this
winter, under emergency plans to be revealed this week.
Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, has told The Sunday Telegraph that energy
regulators have asked for extra contingency measures to cut consumption in
event of a cold winter or more power station failures.
Energy analysts have warned t... more »
.........Democracy Under Fire?
"The objective of *these **attacks*was to instil fear and panic in our
country, as I said yesterday, Canadians will not be intimidated. Here we
are, in our seats, in our chamber,* in the very heart of our democracy.*"
Stephen Harper in the House of Commons Thursday October 23rd.
This phrase has been much in the headlines and repeated by many both inside
and outside the halls of power and was much in evidence during the 'crisis'
by news anchors and the like trying to fill in time whist they waited for
real information to emerge. I take a little bit on an issue with this.
Parliament m... more »
Techno-Utopianism at Cooper Union
MB and I are staying at a hotel along Korea Way in New York City.
Yesterday we spent a 12-hours listening to speeches at the Techo-Utopianism
& the Fate of the Earth conference inside the Great Hall at Copper Union.
My panel (along with old friends Dr. Helen Caldicott and Gar Smith) was the
last of the day beginning at 7:45 pm. After we finished MB and I took a
cab back to Korea Way and went inside an all-night Korean restaurant just
across from our hotel and had a beer and steamed dumplings. Perfect late
night snack.
The podium used by all the speakers at the conference was th... more »
"I don't feel the thing smells good"
Usually on a Sunday morning I post something complaining about bias on Radio
4's *Sunday *programme.
Instead, this morning, I'd like to post a transcription of a report from
the BBC's John Laurenson, featured on today's programme, which looks at
anti-Semitism in France. [Transcribing French names isn't easy, so there
will be asterisks where names cannot be deciphered.]
I found it to be a report which, not for the first time, does John
Laurenson great credit - and giving credit where credit's due is something
we ought to give much more often.
France was the country where Theodor... more »
Le Gardasil a-t-il tué la jeune Adriana, 17 ans ? par Guillame Atchouel
[image: Adriana died at age 17. Her parents blame the vaccine.]AdrianaLe
Gardasil a-t-il tué la jeune Adriana, 17 ans ?
par Guillaume Atchouel
Le Gardasil, un vaccin contre le cancer de l'utérus, est-il responsable de
la mort d'Adriana Kolbecher, cette adolescente des Hautes-Pyrénées décédée
le 20 octobre 2010 ? Ses parents le pensent, même si, pour l'heure, aucune
preuve n'existe.
Les plaintes se multiplient à l'encontre du Gardasil, ce vaccin contre le
cancer du col de l'utérus que de très nombreuses jeunes filles reçoivent
chaque année en France. De plus en plus de médecins dou... more »
Did Gardasil Kill Adriana, Age 17 in Toulouse, France? by Guillaume Atchouel
*[image: Adriana died at age 17. Her parents blame the vaccine.]**Adriana
died at age 17. Her parents blame the vaccine.*
Did Gardasil Kill Adriana, age 17?
By Guillaume Atchouel
Sane Vax, Inc., 19 October 2014
Is Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, to blame for the death of Adriana
Kolbecher, a teenager from the French *Hautes-Pyrénées* region who died on
the 20th of October 2010? Her parents think so even if so far, there is no
proof.
The number of lawsuits against Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine
administered to many young French girls every year, is on the rise. An... more »
A wolf in Armani
If I wake up early enough on a Sunday I enjoy listening to the radio 4‘s
Profile. This morning, the clocks worked in the programme’s favour, and I
listened with interest to the episode on Sir Andrew Green.
However I missed the previous episode about Hassan Rouhani so I thought I
ought to listen to it on the iPlayer, to see if it would help me understand
the BBC’s approach to Sir Andrew Green, and to see if Mary Ann Sieghart would
agree with Jack Straw, that Rouhani is a twinkle-eyed softie, or Benjamin
Netanyahu, that he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. (Rouhani wears Armani
suits ... more »
The Royal Thai Navy and Air Force acquire five EC645 T2 and two EC725 rotorcraft from Airbus Helicopters
[image: EC645 T2]The airborne capabilities of Thailand’s navy and air force
will be significantly enhanced with the acquisition of two mission-ready
Airbus Helicopters rotorcraft types: the light-utility EC645 T2 and the
11-ton-class EC725.
The Royal Thai Navy signed for five EC645 T2s to be deployed on transport
duties and other missions, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2016.
Its purchase represents the first export order of this militarized version
of the EC145 T2, which is the newest and most powerful model in Airbus
Helicopters’ proven EC145 light twin-engine helicopter f... more »
China's J-31 to debut at Zhuhai air show next month
[image: J-31A Gyrfalcon]China's mysterious J-31 fighter jet will make its
long-awaited debut at the annual China International Aviation & Aerospace
Exhibition in Zhuhai on Nov. 11, reports our Chinese-language sister paper
Want Daily.
The J-31, also known as "Gyrfalcon," or Falcon Hawk by some military
enthusiasts, is a twin-engine, mid-size fifth-generation jet fighter
currently under development by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.
The jet is said to be even more mysterious than the J-20, the fellow
fifth-generation fighter being developed by the Chengdu Aerospace
Corporation.
Rea... more »
Russia to get advanced aircraft carrier in 2030s: official
[image: Voldivostok LHD]Russia has worked out a long-term military
development program that envisages construction of an aircraft carrier for
the Navy, a high-ranking military official said Saturday.
"An aircraft carrier whose construction is planned will significantly
differ from heavy aircraft cruisers that our Navy used to have and has
now," Russian Navy Deputy Commander Viktor Bursuk told a local radio
station.
"This will be a versatile warship equipped with manned and unmanned
aircraft systems and also robotic systems capable of operating in all
possible environments, includin... more »
Birthday 2014
Friends and family members, thank you very much for your greetings. Really
appreciate them.
This week, I received 400+ greetings, mostly in facebook (wall posts +
private mails), by SMS, and a few by email. Among the funny greetings are
these. The beer greetings are from my mountaineering buddy Raymond Asanza.
On my birthday, 257 friends greeted me in my fb wall. That's for 24 hours
of that day. It excludes private mails. Then there are belated greetings
until today, and possibly until tomorrow.
My wife treated me and the two girls to a birthday dinner on a nice
resto-bar at one o... more »
NAS Whidbey Prowlers returning from final mission
[image: E/A-6 Prowler]A carrier with EA-18G Growlers from Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station is en route to assist with air strikes against the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
The USS Carl Vinson strike group, which includes Electronic Attack Squadron
139, replaces the USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group, deployed since
Feb. 15, according to the Navy.
NAS Whidbey-based VAQ 134 has been a part of the departing strike group,
and the squadrons involvement will be the Navy’s final job for the Prowler.
Read more
The USS North Dakota, a $2.6-billion attack submarine, is commissioned
A large crowd and a warm October Saturday morning welcomed the Navy’s most
advanced attack submarine, USS North Dakota, and its crew into Navy
history.
The commissioning ceremony for the $2.6-billion submarine, currently the
most advanced member of the Navy’s fleet, was held at the Naval Submarine
Base and lasted about 90 minutes.
It featured remarks from politicians, Navy officials and executives, who
spoke just feet away from USS Virginia, the first of the Virginia-class
submarines, of which USS North Dakota is now a member.
Read more
Defence ministry clears Israeli anti-tank missile, six submarines
[image: Spike ATM]The defence ministry Saturday cleared big ticket defence
deals worth Rs.80,000 crore which include Israel's guided anti-tank missile
Spike, sources said.
Spike missiles were chosen instead of the US' Javelin missiles, for which
Washington had lobbied hard.
India will be buying over 8,000 missiles worth Rs.32,000 crore.
Read more
Interstellar: the best visualization of black hole's environment
I wrote about the Interstellar (2014) movie and Kip Thorne's role as a star
in the movie more than a year ago.
But the premiere of Christopher Nolan's film is rapidly approaching now.
Next Wednesday, London will see the world premiere and it will be followed
by the U.S. premiere exactly one week later.
A black hole – and probably a wormhole – will play a very important role in
the movie. The visualization of the black hole environment, including the
accretion disks and gravitational lensing, won't be just some Hollywood
license that "looks" sciency. Instead, it will be based on... more »
6 Made-in-India Submarines for Navy for 53,000 Crores
[image: INS Vagli]The Defence Acquisition Council of India on Saturday
cleared defence deals worth Rs. 80,000 crore.
The deal includes the acquisition of six conventional submarines to augment
the aging and depleted submarine fleet and two midget submarines -- also
known as 'Swimmer Delivery Vehicles' - which are used for special
operations.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'make in India' campaign and the
overall policy to build and strengthen the fledgling Indian defence
industry, all six boats will be made in Indian shipyards.
Read more
Putin Exposes Criminal Global Order
*October 26, 2014* (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) -Russian President Vladimir Putin,
before an international audience, exposed an international order
capitalizing on the end of the Cold War to reshape the world according to
its own interests, sidelining concepts such as basic international
relations, international laws, systems of checks and balances, and even the
very concept of national sovereignty itself. Amid President Putin's speech,
he would condemn the United States' support for neo-fascists, terrorists,
and its contempt for national sovereignty around the world.
*The West's Rebuttal ... more »
McConnell: Self-Funding Multimillionaire Investing More Money In His Source Of Wealth-- His Sleazy Political Career
Last week we looked at PolitiFact verify that Mitch McConnell is the number
one recipient of lobbyist money in the entire Congress. McConnell has used
his Senate office to become immensely wealthy, primarily by being an
unregistered agent of the Chinese Communist government and pushing their
agenda. As the September 30 FEC reporting deadline, McConnell had already
raised $26,896,568 and spent $21,494,327 to Alison Grimes' $16,250,304
raised and $11,862,353 spent. Meanwhile, McConnell's own criminal SuperPAC,
Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, and SuperPACs allied with his campaign ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Have you ever seen a sun pillar? When the air is cold and the Sun is
rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and create an
unusual column of light. Ice sometimes forms flat, six-sided shaped
crystals as it falls from high-level clouds. Air resistance causes these
crystals to lie nearly flat much of the time as they flutter to the ground.
Sunlight reflects off crystals that are properly aligned, creating the
sun-pillar effect.
* Click image for larger size.*
In the above picture taken last week, a sun-pillar reflects light from a
Sun setting over Östersund, Swed... more »
“The Three Truths”
*“The Three Truths”*
"• The soul is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose
growth and splendor has no limit.
• The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is
undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen, or smelt, but it is perceived
by the one who desires perception.
• Each of us is our own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or
gloom to ourselves, the decreer of our life, our reward, our punishment.
These truths which are as great as is life itself are as simple as the
simplest mind of man. Feed the hungry with them."
- “The Idyll... more »
Chet Raymo, “Thinking Fast And Thinking Slow”
*“Thinking Fast And Thinking Slow”*
by Chet Raymo
“Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writing in the New York Times on the evolutionary
origins of religion: "To put it at its simplest, we hand on our genes as
individuals but we survive as members of groups, and groups can exist only
when individuals act not solely for their own advantage but for the sake of
the group as a whole. Our unique advantage is that we form larger and more
complex groups than any other life-form. A result is that we have two
patterns of reaction in the brain, one focusing on potential danger to us
as individuals, the oth... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Glennallen, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Only One Rule..."
“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-
God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
“Man shows inhumanity to Man. It’s axiomatic of our existence. It’s the
story of our past, it’s the story of our present, and it will very likely
be the story of our future. Indeed, it’s a story that’s reinforced every
day, whether we’re watching the evening news or the latest entry in the
“Saw” series. However, our history is also littered with awe-inspiring
examples of men and women showing incredible compassion in the face of
unspeakable evil and insurmountable odds. Every story o... more »
"How to Protect Your Energy"
*"How to Protect Your Energy"*
By Judith Orloff MD
“As you go through the intuitive healing process you need to know: each of
us has our own special power. We carry it within; it waits to be awakened.
Call it your inner self, your spirit, or light–however conceived, you must
meet and come to know your core-essence. The source of all intuition, it is
your fiercest ally and advocate against danger. By connecting with this
part of yourself you’ll mount confidence, feel safer in the world. Then
whatever or whoever crosses your path–even the devil incarnate–will be no
match for your res... more »
Thanks, Mayor Mike! Welcome to 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere
*In "the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere," lucky
buyers may be able to snag penthouse digs for a mere $95 million.*
*by Ken*
In the clip, note the comment 432 Park Avenue from the real-estate guy: "It
definitely catches your eye as you are walking down Park Avenue, but I
think people are going to be following suit and there are going to be more
like it, I hope."
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Here's another, provided by our pal
Mitch Waxman in a recent post on his *Newtown Pentacle* blog, where he
happened to be taking pictures way across the East Ri... more »
Terrestrial Energy, Correcting a mistake.
Given my limitations, it is inevitable that I will commit mistakes. At any
rate, I made a mistake in my account of terrestial energy. The mistake
arrose from Hugh MacDiarmid's discussion of the prospects of Terrestrial
Energy, a Canadian company that proposes to build a commercial Molten Salt
Reactor. MacDiarmid claimed that the new MSR would be 6 times more fuel
efficient as a conventional reactor. There are two ways to accomplish this
using Molten Salt Reactor Technology. One is by Adopting Denatured Molten
Salt Reactor Technology. In DMSRs both liquid Uranium salt and Liquid... more »
Watch The Drop 2014 Full Movie Online
*The Drop (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : R
Score : 7.9
Release : 12 Sep 2014
Duration : 106 min
Genre : Crime, Drama
Director : Michaël R. Roskam
Writer : Dennis Lehane (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (short story 'Animal
Rescue')
Cast : Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis The DropFollows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert
scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - 'money drops' - in the
underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and
cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and
entwi... more »
Watch You or a Loved One 2014 Full Movie Online
*You or a Loved One (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : N/A
Score : N/A
Release : N/A
Duration : 84 min
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director : Matt Mercer
Writer : Chris Bouffard
Cast : Chris Bouffard, Katie Wallack, Charley Koontz, Matt Mercer
Synopsis You or a Loved OneReeling from withdrawal effects after a
pharmaceutical drug trial, a reclusive aspiring illustrator sets out to
form a relationship with an outgoing gal despite his continuous efforts at
solitude and isolation. Parker is uncertain if he suffers from anxiety, but
as the medication leaves his system he can barely perform daily t... more »
Satire? “How to Write a Sentence”
*“How to Write a Sentence”*
by James Thomas
“Well, here you are, looking at this, trying, hoping, floundering,
scrabbling, wishing, dying to find out the mystery of “how to” write a
sentence. Or possibly you have tried write sentence and failed utterly.
Never mind and never fear. I am an, thankfully, expert of sentences. Read
on and be disbelieving! There is much to have taught you, and little time,
so very, very little and small time.
Where shall/should you/one start/begin? At the start/beginning, of course!
You ought always, and in everything you do, to begin a sentence at the
b... more »
die well
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods."
Watch Falcon Rising Full Movie 2014 Streaming
*Falcon Rising (2014)*
Year : 2014
Rating : R
Score : 5.8
Release : 05 Sep 2014
Duration : 103 min
Genre : Action, Adventure
Director : Ernie Barbarash
Writer : Y.T. Parazi
Cast : Michael Jai White, Neal McDonough, Laila Ali, Lateef Crowder
Synopsis Falcon RisingFAVELA, the first installment in the CODENAME: FALCON
franchise, introduces former marine John 'Falcon' Chapman, a dark anti-hero
driven by guilt and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, who will
destroy himself unless given something else to destroy - a useful
weapon-of-last-resort for the U.S. State Department.... more »
Grievous Errors
I hadn't planned on writing about the Media Matters outing of *New York
Times* columnist Ross Douthat as a paid shill for an anti-LGBT hate group.
My outrage and disgust capacity had already just about reached the breaking
point when I read about his unfortunate appearance before a group so
despicable that it's on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of terrible,
awful, and downright dangerous people.
But then, even after he got caught publicly gay-bashing and made a smirking
"mistakes were made" pseudo-apology to a few blogs, Douthat now has the
chutzpah to use his latest *Tim... more »
Libya: JTF-2, Parliament Hill shooter Bibeau/Zaheff & Father Be(u)lgasem Zaheff
Are you a betting person? What would you think would be the odds that the
players on Parliament Hill, the day of the shooting, had all spent time in
Libya. At the time of the NATO bombings.
Curious, isn't it?
I wanted to let this whole Parliament Hill shooting go. I really did! It's
exhausting. But, I cannot without getting this all out of my system, so to
speak
The presence of JTF-2 on Parliament Hill? As I have already explained JTF-2
is a counter terror/special ops outfit. Counter-terror is a doublespeak way
of saying, while not really saying the truth/reality/fact that JTF-2 is... more »
The Ebola Quarantines Begin
In the wake of the latest Ebola case, this one in the mega-population
center of New York City there are serious questions on how to prevent a
national spread of the virus. Both New York and New Jersey are sufficiently
spooked so as to begin to implement mandatory quarantines on some of those
returning from areas where Ebola is rampant. The question now becomes just
how much of an intrusion on civil liberties will come as the result of the
escalated state of action.
It seems rather quaint to be talking about civil liberties at all in the
post Constitutional wasteland of the Obama ... more »
British Islamists: The Caliphate Will Expand to Europe and the U.S.
*British Islamists: The Caliphate Will Expand to Europe and the U.S.
Source: MEMRI TV. Date Published: October 22, 2014. Description:*
British Islamist Anjem Choudary recently warned the West: "Hands off Muslim
lands... When we've established the shari'a, we will come to you."
Choudary, speaking on a panel that included British Islamists Abu Rumaysah
and Abu Baraa, showed an image of Buckingham Palace with a superimposed
minaret and dome and said: "We will remove your regime and implement the
shari'a in Europe." Abu Rumaysah said: "One day Obama will witness his own
country being ru... more »
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