11:10pm MST
The Dalek was insane. Radiation had altered the structure of its mind and
made it mad.
The mark of its insanity was, that of all Daleks in the great race of
Daleks, it had a name.
It was called the Abomination.
They had given it another name: in the imperial battle roster it was listed
as the Special Weapons Dalek.
The Emperor had decreed its creation.
They had ripped it from its birthing cradle, aware like all Daleks. They
had taken it and placed it in its shell and given it functions. But the
shell they gave it was wrong, twisted, a single function monstrosity – a
vast ... mo
It Costs A Lot To Monitor A Suspected Terrorist Or Militant
French authorities had removed Said Kouachi and his brother Cherif, the
gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris (seen at rear), from
the intelligence watch list. Still from video in Paris, January 7, 2015.
REUTERS/Reuters TV
*David Wise, Reuters*: *How much does it cost to watch a suspected
militant? Lots.*
*In 2011, U.S. intelligence informed French authorities that a French
citizen had slipped into Yemen, probably for terrorist training. In
November, the French security services placed the man, Said Kouachi, under
surveillance. They wiretapped his mobile phone, as... more »
"Here’s How to Remove the Ghastly Superfish Adware From Lenovo Laptops"
*"Here’s How to Remove the Ghastly Superfish*
* Adware From Lenovo Laptops"*
by Lily Hay Newman
"Whether you have a Lenovo PC or not, you’ve probably heard about the the “virulent,
evil adware” called Superfish that’s been shipping on the company’s
consumer laptops since September. And if you do own a Lenovo, you probably
know that you should check whether your machine is affected. But maybe you
haven’t because there was a Long Island Medium marathon on TV and then you
had to eat two bowls of cereal. Totally understandable. But now it’s time
to deal with this. It won’t take long.
A... more »
If You Do Not Call Them 'Radical Islamists', What Will You Call Them?
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)*
How A U.S. Prison Camp Help Spawn The Islamic State
Yuri Kozyrev/NOOR
*Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, Daily Beast:* *ISIS Used a U.S. Prison as
Boot Camp*
*In an excerpt from their new book on ISIS, Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan
show how jihadists used a U.S.-run Iraqi prison to coordinate with al
Qaeda.*
*In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and
Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved
from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of
international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced
videos and have conquered territory e... more »
Donbass Under Fire: On The Roads Of War (Documentary)
*WNU Editor:* For those who have any connection to Ukraine, this is not an
easy video to watch.
Hat tip to Jay for pointing out this video to me.
Musical Interlude: “Celtic Music, Relaxing And Beautiful Mix”
“Celtic Music, Relaxing And Beautiful Mix”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoktesLkHy8
Sign the Petition to the Senate
No Weapons to Ukraine
To: An Open Letter to the U.S. Senate *Sign the petition* *here*
Reject S. 452, "A bill to provide lethal weapons to the Government of
Ukraine."
Why is this important?
The United States is the leading provider of weapons to the world, and the
practice of providing weapons to countries in crisis has proven disastrous,
including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Expanding NATO to Russia's border and arming Russia's neighbors threatens
something worse than disaster. The United States is toying with nuclear war.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.... more »
Ukraine Ceasefire Is Crumbling
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces ride military vehicles near
Artemivsk, eastern Ukraine, February 22, 2015. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
*Reuters:* *Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist*
*(Reuters) - Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets
and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but
burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.*
*The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as
required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops were still under
attack.*
*Ukraine's currency,... more »
Great Article From Whitewraithe: How To Determine Fact From Fiction - The Recent ISIS Beheadings In Egypt
I am doing some catching up again... My good friend and cohost on the
Turbulent Times shows, Whitewraithe, recently wrote a fabulous article that
takes a good look at the recent "beheadings" of some 21 Egyptian Christians
by the Mossad/CIA run fraud "ISIS" group, and I want to present it here for
my own readers to view for themselves..
I therefore am presenting Whitewraithe's article from her website at
www.whitewraithe.wordpress.com here for everyone to read for themselves....
It is entitled: "How To Determine Fact From Fiction - The Recent ISIS
Beheadings in Egypt", and makes for ... more »
Al Jazeera And The Guardian To Release Hundreds Of Secret Intelligence Cables From The CIA, Britain's MI6, Israel's Mossad, South Africa Intelligence, Russia's FSB and Iran's Operatives
*Al Jazeera*: *Al Jazeera to Reveal Hundreds of Secret Intelligence
Documents*
*A leak of hundreds of secret intelligence papers from agencies all over
the world, offering a glimpse into the murky world of espionage.*
*Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, in collaboration with The Guardian
newspaper, is publishing an array of articles, analyses exploring the
stories contained within the documents.*
*The Spy Cables include papers written by intelligence agencies the world
over, including: Israel’s Mossad, Britain’s MI6, Russia’s FSB, Australia’s
ASIO and South Africa’s SSA.*
*WNU Edi... more »
More Proof That ISIS Is A FRAUD And A SHAM! United Kingdom Aircraft Shot Down Over Iraq Attempting To Supply ISIL (ISIS)
I am truly a very angry Northerntruthseeker these days.... I am watching my
own country, Canada, fall under tyranny with the criminal Harper regime in
Ottawa about to pass its ridiculous "terrorist" bill, also known as Bill
C-51.... The liars up here in Canada in both our own government and the Jew
spew media have done their work extremely well in convincing so many
gullible Canadians that there is a "war on terror" and that "something has
to be done" about the latest and greatest fraud "terrorist group" known as
ISIS, or ISIL, or Daesh....
It has been an extremely uphill battle for... more »
Q: How can you tell when "Holy Joe" Lieberman is lying? A: His lips are moving.
*Yes, its b-a-a-c-k!*
*-- from today's WaPo Monday "Opinions" e-mail*
*by Ken*
Okay, it's an ancient joke, the one I've recycled above. But tell me it
doesn't apply exactly to former CT Sen. "Holy Joe" Lieberman, aka "The
Holiest Joe of Them All."
Is it a moon phase or what? 'Cause we've really got the right-wing
scum-loons pouring out of the woodwork. For how many days now have we had
to listen to that lying scumbag-thug Rudy Giuliani blithering psychotically
about President Obama? And now here, telling the 23 members of the House
officially disaffected by the scheme to turn a j... more »
And the results of Christchurch’s four-year scientific experiment are …
*The Press*, Christchurch’s newspaper, says investors are losing confidence
in Christchurch.
Is it any bloody wonder?
For four years now your government has been carrying out a multi-year
scientific experiment in central planning. And outside their
centrally-planned “core,” the city is thriving. Inside, not so much.
Indeed, not at all. Investors and everyone else don’t want anything to do
with anything there.
Inside the former central area, central government, Christchurch Council
and Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ( CERA ) bureaucrats foolishly
locked it all down for ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“What is causing the picturesque ripples of supernova remnant SNR
0509-67.5? The ripples, as well as the greater nebula, were imaged in
unprecedented detail by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 and again late
last year. The red color was recoded by a Hubble filter that left only the
light emitted by energetic hydrogen. The precise reason for the ripples
remains unknown, with two considered origin hypotheses relating them to
relatively dense portions of either ejected or impacted gas.
*Click image for larger size.*
The reason for the broader red glowing ring is more clear, with expa... more »
"Worth Living..."
*"Worth Living..."*
by Norbert Capek
“It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.
O blow ye evil winds
into my body's fire,
my soul you'll never unravel.
Even though disappointed a thousand times,
or fallen in the fight,
and everything would worthless seem,
I have lived amidst eternity-
Be grateful, my soul-
My life was worth living.
He who was pressed from all sides
but remained victorious in spirit
is welcomed into the choir of heroes.
He who overcame the fetters,
giving wings to his mind,
is entering into the golden age of
the victorious.”
Composed in D... more »
Mossad Documents Contradict Israel PM's Iran Bomb Claim
*The Guardian*: *Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim
contradicted by Mossad*
*Gulf between Israeli secret service and PM revealed in documents shared
with the Guardian along with other secrets including CIA bids to contact
HamasBinyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012
that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted
by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.It is
part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s
major intelligence services – one of the biggest sp... more »
"The Gates of Hope"
*"The Gates of Hope"*
by Victoria Safford
"In his book "On the Rez," Ian Frazier tells a story about South Dakota's
Pine Ridge Reservation. In the fall of 1988 the Pine Ridge girls'
basketball team played an away game in Lead, South Dakota. It was one of
those times when the host gym was dense with anti-Indian hostility. Lead
fans waved food stamps, yelling fake Indian war cries and epithets like
"squaw" and "gut-eater." Usually, the Pine Ridge girls made their entrances
according to height, led by the tallest seniors. When they hesitated to
face the hostile crowd, a 14-year-old fr... more »
Chet Raymo, “You'll Be The Death Of Me Yet”
*“You'll Be The Death Of Me Yet”*
by Chet Raymo
"What parent hasn't said that to a child. Or at least thought it. "You're
taking years off my life," we say. And maybe we mean it and maybe we don't,
but it seems like all that energy we are investing in our offspring must
come from somewhere. Scientists talk about the "disposable soma" theory.
(Soma refers to an organism's body as distinct from its reproductive
cells.) According to the theory, producing and raising children diverts the
body's limited resources away from the task of maintaining and repairing
cells, with early aging as... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Croydon, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “Praying”
*“Praying”*
“It doesn't have to be the blue iris,
it could be weeds in a vacant lot,
or a few small stones;
just pay attention,
then patch a few words together
and don't try to make them elaborate,
this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks,
and a silence in which another voice may speak.”
- Mary Oliver, “Thirst”
"Self-respect, Opinions..."
“If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself,
you would have left them long ago.”
- Carla Gordon
“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory
images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.”
- Marshall Rosenberg
“My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself,
is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”
- Oscar Wilde
Nine Jump from Taiwanese fishing boat in the Falklands
From here. Cindy Sui's good 2014 piece on working conditions in the Taiwan
fishing boat industry.
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"5 Insane Right-Wing Moments This Week: Giuliani Becomes Totally Unhinged"
*"5 Insane Right-Wing Moments This Week: *
*Giuliani Becomes Totally Unhinged"*
By Janet Allon
*"1. Rudy Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love me or America because he’s not like
us. *There is one sure sign of America-hatred, and it is running for and
winning the presidency twice. While black. Another sign of hating America
is not being Rudy Giuliani, and not having had the specific experiences
that he has had. Like marrying your cousin, avoiding the draft, dumping
your wife on TV, race-baiting your way to the mayoralty, backing police
brutality against minorities and acting somewhat more li... more »
Superintendent to Parents: Withdraw Your Children During Test Week
Rocky Killian, West Lafayette, IN superintendent had this good advice for
parents:
"It's inhumane what we are doing to the kids, what we are doing to the
educational environment, we lost so much instructional time today, it's
ridiculous," Killion told WTHR-TV in Indianapolis on Feb. 12, after
computers froze during a dry run for ISTEP last week.
The Superintendent of the Year for 2015, as named by the Indiana
Association of Public School Superintendents, followed it with this: "I
would prefer all of my students' parents withdraw and become home-schooled
during ISTEP, and then we c... more »
Did Crossroads Clinic Cross Its Fingers?
I'm confused. Is Crossroads Clinic pro-choice or anti-choice?
Or maybe, just, um, flexible.
Here they are trumpeting their involvement in The Sexual Assault Response
Network.
The Sexual Assault Response Network (SARN) is a collaboration of seven
partners including the Sexual Assault Response Committee (SARC), Crossroads
Clinic, Cantara Safe House, RCMP, Southern Alberta Child & Family Services
(Brooks Office), Victim Service Unit, and Alberta Health Services (AHS)
Emergency, Sexual Health Unit, and Social Worker Unit. These agencies
have banded together to address an overwhelming... more »
U.S. SecDef Carter Satisfied With Current Islamic State War Strategy
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter convenes the Regional Security Conference
held on Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Feb. 23, 2015. Carter met with senior
officers to assess the status of the effort to combat ISIL and other
security matters in the region. DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett
*Washington Post:* *Pentagon chief says he is satisfied by U.S. campaign
against Islamic State*
*CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — Calling the Islamic State “hardly invincible,” new
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter gave his blessing Monday to the U.S.-led
strategy against the militant group after convening a high-powered... more »
Hospital Woes
It's not very often I am forced to agree with much of anything that comes
from an Alberta politician, especially an NDP'er. Thinking back to the
time my own son was born here in 2011, though and remembering the gong show
it was at times, I do know that our maternity ward here faces many
challenges. Apparently, over the course of the past 4 years, not much has
changed. It's an issue I feel so strongly about that I sent off an email
to my local MLA here. Initially, I have to admit I just want to jump all
over the guy, but I've decided to wait and see if and how he responds
first. ... more »
Happy birthday Carl Menger, founder of causal-realist economics
[image: Principles of Economics by Carl Menger]I nearly forgot to mark the
birthday of one of the greatest economists who ever lived, Carl Menger.
He was the man who explained economic value.
Who brought Aristotle into modern economics.
Who brought causality into economic reasoning.
Who started a school of economics that still relies on his implicit
causal-realist methodology, whatever explicit denials might say.
Unlike his contemporaries, Menger was not interested in in creating
artificial, stylised representations of reality, but in explaining the real
world actions of real peo... more »
Obamacare Mega-Oops: Nearly One Million Incorrect Tax Forms Sent Out
Lily Dane
Sometimes one can’t help but wonder if this whole Obamacare fiasco is ever
going to end. It’s like a recurring bad dream…an infinite nightmare that
keeps returning, with new plot twists and horrible surprises every evening.
The latest blunder (to put it mildly) involves tax forms.
From the AP:
In a new setback for the health care law and the people it’s supposed to
help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that’s
fouling up the filings of nearly a million Americans.
After a successful sign-up season, the latest goof could signal new
problems with... more »
How To Commit Terrorism and Get Away With It
By Deek Jackson
So let's say you want to scare your population into accepting war or a new
policy, or an extreme version the one you've already got...
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How bad is YouTube censorship?
By Adam Kokesh
YouTube is plenty awesome, but it's not the free speech platform that they
want you to think it is. Kokesh says of YouTube: "War porn is okay if it is
just glorifying American militarism" but how-to-buy-weed-online videos are
"dangerous" and "harmful".
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Forget Ikea, Make Your Own Swedish Meatballs
I hate shopping. So going into Ikea is like the epitome of torture. The one
and only upside is Swedish meatballs. I love Swedish meatballs. I grew up
on them and they are comfort food at it's finest.
Thankfully, they're super easy to make, so I don't have to brave the trip
to Ikea.
*INGREDIENTS*
*Sauce*
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp + 2 tsp flour
6 Tbsp sour cream
2 cups beef broth
1 Tbsp parsley
1 tsp oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
Meatballs, cooked
Rice
*PREPARATION*
1. Prepare the sauce by preparing a gravy. Melt butter in a pan and
whisk in flour until light brown.
2. Slowl... more »
As DHS shutdown looms, Jeh Johnson Keeps Fear Alive With Terror Warning To Mall of America Customers
Doug Owen
Just as the DHS congressional Feb 27th budget deadline and possible
shutdown nears, a conveniently timed new domestic terror alert was issued
today by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Two weeks ago Jeh Johnson
also warned that a lapse in funding would cause a “terrible disruption,”
and “A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security in these times is
frankly too bitter to contemplate, but we have to contemplate it.”
Could this be another politically motivated scare tactic being used against
the US Congress and the American people?
Well... It was not too lo... more »
Photo Oscar Honoree Harry Belafonte: Earthcycles Bus on Long Walk 2
Govinda's
Earthcycles radio bus
on the National Mall in DC
at end of Long Walk 2.
Photo Brenda Norrell
Oscar Honoree Harry Belafonte joined Native American long walkers at the
end of the Longest Walk 2 in DC
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Feb. 23, 2015
Harry Belafonte was honored at the Oscars last night for his activism.
At the end of the Longest Walk 2 across America, Belafonte was
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 23, 2015
*Eli Lake, Bloomberg:* *Obama's Rushing to Disaster in Iraq*
*Now would be a very good time for U.S. President Barack Obama to think
about what happens after Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, is liberated
from the Islamic State.*
*Last week, top Pentagon officials briefed reporters about plans for the
Iraqi army and Kurdish forces, with U.S. air support, to retake Mosul in
April or May. Iraq's prime minister, Haidar al-Abadi, has been more sober,
telling the BBC that he hoped Mosul would be retaken in a "few months." On
Sunday, Iraq's new defense minister declined to say whether ... more »
World News Briefs -- February 23, 2015 (Evening Edition)
A fighter with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
army looks at a destroyed Ukrainian army tank near the town of Debaltseve
February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
*Reuters*: *Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist*
*(Reuters) - Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets
and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but
burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.*
*The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as
required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops were s... more »
Alice Embree : METRO EVENT | ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ screens in Austin
The film is a powerful testament to a movement that changed the course of
history. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | February 23, 2015 Event:
Screening of ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry‘ What: Feature documentary
on the early … finish reading Alice Embree :
*METRO EVENT* | ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ screens in Austin
In the wake of Rudy Giuliani's psychotic blitherings, a Dilbertian snapshot of "leadership"
*by Ken*
I had it in mind to amplify Howie's post earlier today on that dangerous
crackpot Rudy Giuliani ("Giuliani, A Serial Draft Dodger Who Was Raised By
A Career Criminal, Claims Obama Isn't Like Him"), and I may yet do that,
not just because Rudy himself has been such a damaging figure to our social
well-being but also because so many right-wing politicos -- even as they
scramble to distance themselves from the nutjob who declared that President
Obama "doesn't love America" -- have crucial components of what we might
call Rudy Disorder.
But Howie covered some nice basics wit... more »
What is 'news'?
There's a question I've daily had reason to ask as I suffer through the
pages of the Irving press. It struck me again, forcibly, as I read section
A of the TandT for February 23. There is not a 'news' story in it worth
reading. Some of it is absurdly trivial as in "Monctoners love the game of
hockey"; and the front page story that people are going to a local RV show
because they're thinking of going camping. Even the Larry's Gulch item (on
the same front page) has nothing to say. (There's going to be a report on
it. Big deal. We could have been told that in one sentence.)
But it'... more »
"How It Really Is"
“Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical;
especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of
crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
- H.L. Mencken
The Economy: “Is Putin's Russia Ready For Total Economic War With the West?”
*“Is Putin's Russia Ready For Total Economic War With the West?”*
by Ron Holland
“On February 18, 1943, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered
a rousing speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, asking the German people, "Sind
Sie bereit für totalen Krieg?" or "Are you ready for total War?" Germany
had planned for Blitzkrieg and a short war and was unprepared for a world
war as the combined military forces of the United States, England and the
Soviet Union crushed the Reich relentlessly and systematically. Although
the people and economy rallied in defense of Germany, total wa... more »
Russian President Putin: Apocalyptic War Against Ukraine Unlikely
Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Aleksey Nikolskyi)
*BBC:* *Russia's Vladimir Putin says war with Ukraine 'unlikely'*
*The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said war with neighbouring
Ukraine is "unlikely", in an interview for Russian television.Mr Putin also
stressed his support for the Minsk agreement as the best way to stabilise
eastern Ukraine.Ukraine has said there is clear evidence Russia is helping
the rebels in the east, something Russia denies.*
*Update:* Putin rules out apocalyptic war scenario in Ukraine -- Russia
Beyond The Headlines
*WNU Editor*:... more »
MPs and Second-Jobbing
Didn't they do well? Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw have done a blinder
dragging Parliament's reputation through the muck yet again. Fair play to *The
Telegraph* too, who teamed up with C4 *Dispatches* to complete the sting.
Fortuitous timing too, this has helped push the paper's recent difficulties
down the memory hole. Yet Rifkind and Straw, deary me. It is true that
neither men were engaged in Parliamentary rule-breaking of Denis
MacShane/Elliot Morley proportions, but it was very, very bad for all that.
Writing to ministers on behalf of paying clients, that's cash for questions ... more »
Misapprehension of evidence involves a "stringent standard"
*R. v. Bonnington,* 2015 ONCA 122:
Misapprehension of evidence involves a "stringent standard": *R. v. Lohrer*,
2004 SCC 80, [2004] 3 S.C.R. 732, at paras. 1-2. This standard is met only
"[w]here a trial judge is mistaken as to the substance of material parts of
the evidence and those errors play an essential part in the reasoning
process resulting in a conviction": *R. v. Morrissey *(1995), 22 O.R. (3d)
514 (C.A.), at p. 541, cited with approval in *Lohrer*.
The Greatest Speech Ever Made
*Video - *This is the final speech of the Great Dictator, delivered by the
character, the Jewish Barber, in Charlie Chaplin's 1940 film, "The Great
Dictator".
The post The Greatest Speech Ever Made appeared first on Waking Times.
Just in case you were wondering...
We've not have a post about BBC Sydney correspondent Jon Donnison's
ultra-biased tweets for a while. Here's his latest re-tweet (surprisingly
*not* about how wrong Israel is about something or other). It's not as
blatant as usual, but - given that he only ever re-tweets things that are
unfavourable to the Tories or UKIP...:
Of 180 MPs with additional jobs, 112 are Tories. 43 are Labour. 15 are Lib
Dems. #telegraph
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) February 23, 2015
Of course, he's *only* passing on some information, isn't he? There's no
ulterior motive whatsoever, is there? *(/sarc)*
If You Don't Understand How Goldman Sachs Traded Your Financial Heath for Theirs and Stole Your Future, It'll Happen Again - and Soon (Can You Hang On Until Infinity?) Are You That Well Off and Patient?
Still think "local control" makes any sense at all in an economy controlled
by poorly-regulated but extremely well-connected banks and investment
institutions? Hunh. Dream on. February 21, 2015 Swimming With the Sharks:
Goldman Sachs, Schools, and Capital Appreciation Bonds By Ellen Brown
Remember when Goldman Sachs - dubbed by Matt Taibbi (as) the "Vampire
Squid" - sold derivatives to
Why the High-Fat Hep C Diet? Rationale and n=1 results.
I originally started this blog to publicise the hypothesis that a diet low
in carbohydrate and linoleic acid, but high in saturated fat and long-chain
PUFA, will inhibit HCV replication.
The blog header with the pig above is the abstract for this hypothesis.
I first worked this out in 2010 after reading Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution
while studying HCV replication. The lipid patterns in low-carb dieters -
low TG and VLDL, high HDL, normal or high LDL - are those associated with
lower viral load and improved response to treatment in HCV cases.
The mechanics of HCV replication and i... more »
U.S. Led Airstrikes Have Killed 1,600 In Syria In The Past Five Months
An explosion following an air strike is seen in central Kobani in Syria,
November 17, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Osman Orsal
*The Telegraph/AFP:* *US-led air strikes in Syria 'kill 1,600 - mainly
jihadists - in five months'*
*More than 1,600 people, mainly jihadists, have been killed by coalition
air strikes in Syria, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
US-led air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (Isil) in
Syria have killed more than 1,600 people, mainly jihadists, since they
began five months ago, a monitor said on Monday.The Syrian Observatory for... more »
Thinking Slow
Was it Confucius, the Lord Buddha or from Norwich, it's the bishop of the
week, Swashbucklingly Reverend Lord Bishop Graham James (of 'Thought for
the Day' fame) who first said 'Slow down, stop and think'?
Whoever it was, I treated myself to an international bestseller a couple of
years ago by a Nobel Prize for Economics winner, Daniel Kahneman, called
'Thinking, Fast and Slow'. I've taken the 'Thinking Slow' path with it,
having only read the first couple of pages of its introduction, but, being
an optimist, I hope to finish it before I die.
Blogging, however, is typically fas... more »
New Map Shows The Terrifying Rise Of The Islamic State
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)*
Growth of terror: Since its formation as the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria in 2013 - it has conquered regions of Iraq, Syria and recently Libya
- while building support among marginalised Muslims in Turkey, Yemen, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt's Sinai Province, Afghanistan, Tunisia and Algeria
*Daily Mail*: *The terrifying rise of ISIS: Map that shows how terror
group's tentacles now reach from Algeria to Afghanistan*
** ISIS began as Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004 and militants had just 1,000
soldiers, but it has grown to more than 30,000*
** Reach of ISIS now span... more »
Lakota Media Project Video 'Who will protect Cheyenne River? I will'
Watch Lakota Media Project Video:
'Who will protect Cheyenne River? I will'
Moccasins on the Ground, Dupree, South Dakota, Feb. 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvYmnMIPi7o
Greece Will Miss Today's Deadline In Submitting Draft Reforms. Many Greeks Are Angry With The New Deal
*New York Times:* *Greece’s Leaders Face a Revolt at Home as They Try to
Appease Creditors*
*BRUSSELS — Greek leaders scrambled on Sunday to come up with a list of
proposed changes to the nation’s austerity program that would be acceptable
to their creditors by a Monday deadline, even as they faced a revolt by
members of their own radical-left party, angered that the government had
bent to demands by Brussels.An 11th-hour deal reached on Friday by Greece
and eurozone finance ministers did nothing immediately to reduce the
obligations Greece must fulfill to keep a lifeline of cas... more »
If Oil Prices Continue To Decline OPEC Is Considering An Emergency Meeting
*CNBC/Financial Times*:* Oil slide could trigger Opec emergency meeting*
*Members of Opec have discussed holding an emergency meeting if crude
continues to slide, according to Nigeria’s oil minister, in a sign of their
growing alarm over the impact of a lower oil price on their economies.*
*The comments by Diezani Alison-Madueke come three months after the
cartel’s decision to hold production at 30m barrels a day, even as the oil
price has plunged since mid-June.*
*WNU Editor: *No complaints from here on oil price declines. I live in
Canada .... and even though it has been a super... more »
A 10 Year Phased Iran-US Nuclear Deal Is Taking Shape
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and AEOI Director Ali Akbar
Salehi meet with US secretary of State John Kerry and US Energy Secretary
Ernest Moniz in the Swiss city of Geneva on February 22, 2015. Press TV
*New York Times*: *Talks End With Proposal to Limit Iran’s Nuclear
Production for at Least 10 Years*
*GENEVA — Iranian and American officials ended a round of high-level
nuclear talks here on Monday considering a proposal that would strictly
limit for at least 10 years Iran’s ability to produce nuclear material, but
gradually ease restrictions on Tehran in the final... more »
GMO Music
*Kit Walker* - Let’s consider music as a kind of food, because we all
agree, right? Music is food for the soul. Imagine a world with no music.
Horrible. We would starve spiritually without music.
The post GMO Music appeared first on Waking Times.
Was It A Mistake To Spend Millions Of Dollars To Elect Right-Wing Democrat Gwen Graham In Florida?
Florida's 2 worst congressional Democrats
Almost a year ago, when she first declared her candidacy for the Florida
panhandle seat that gaffe-prone Republican Steve Sutherland had won from
reactionary Blue Dog Allen Boyd in 2010, I managed to contact Bob Graham's
daughter Gwen. I spoke with her while she was driving southwest from
Tallahassee towards Panama City. My first impressions were that she was
"well spoken and idealistic-sounding but that she didn't want to go beyond
generalities she had down by rote, like 'I want to be a different type of
representative to find a common groun... more »
The Economy: "The Day the ATMs Run Out…"
*"The Day the ATMs Run Out…"*
by Bill Bonner
"Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM to get cash… and there
is none! While we were thinking about what was really going on with today’s
strange new money system, a startling thought occurred to us. Our financial
system could take a surprising and catastrophic twist that almost nobody
imagines, let alone anticipates.
Do you remember when a lethal tsunami hit the beaches of Southeast Asia,
killing thousands of people and causing billions of dollars of damage?
Well, just before the 80-foot wall of water slammed into the coa... more »
Will public school teachers become "independent contractors"?
An interesting article: Why we are all becoming independent contractors
(Nation of Change, Feb. 23, 2015).
My comment, posted at
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/23/becoming-independent-contractors/
Many college professors are now independent contractors, known as
"adjuncts." They are paid separately for each course they teach, and are
not paid very much, and get no benefits. As budgets at universities get
tighter, departments are gradually moving toward adjuncts.
Will public school teachers become independent contractors? This is, I
think, one of the goals of school "re... more »
Dear Fellow Submissives: The State Is Our Christian Grey
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*Guest
post by Jeffrey Tucker*
The cultural panic about the enormous commercial success of *50 Shades
of
Grey* has gone on for years, and, from that, you might get the
impression
that the story romanticises unspeakable things.
Though I’ve not read the book, my impression from the movie was entirely
opposite. It is not a hymn to the secret glories of BDSM. It is a
sophisticated allegory that takes apart, and ultimately condemns in the
strongest ... more »
Did Putin Approve A Ukraine Invasion Before The Collapse Of The Yanukovych Government Last Year?
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor
Yanukovich attend a signing ceremony after a meeting of the
Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission at the Kremlin in Moscow, December
17, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
*McClathcy News*: *Russian news report: Putin approved Ukraine invasion
before Kiev government collapsed*
*BERLIN — A Russian newspaper claims to have an official government
strategy document outlining the invasion of Ukraine that was prepared weeks
before the Ukrainian government collapsed last year.The editor of Novaya
Gazeta, Dmitri Mu... more »
Never mind the bollacks we got terrorism
Fifty thousand people die in car accidents,and the same amount are shot by
gunshot every day to amount to a year,
Yet when some guy with a cellphone makes a video
in a cave
we go to extremes.
Forget the gun
forget the bad transit
a guy with a cellphone
in a cave
threatened
what is most improtant
about us
the shopping mall.
The worst case the West Edmonton mall faces
is the continuted ownership of Oliers discrace.
I have no idea and I am shooting from the hip
if crazy Katz is in west edmonton
but it makes
things rhym.
Everyone Knows
revolts are started in a garage
or some more radical storefront
and its come to the attention
of the ancient powers
the next generation o
advancement
willl have to be
the lemonade
stand
and the children shall
lead
Transcending the Illusion of Disconnection
*Phil Watt* - Spirituality is a very personal affair regardless of the
various pathways that one may take or disciplines that one may adhere to.
The post Transcending the Illusion of Disconnection appeared first on Waking
Times.
Monday Pussy - Jobless edition
We're getting too efficient for our own good. The old method was to cut a
worker or two, divide their work load amongst the remaining staff and
pocket the difference. And if you were lucky enough to survive the budget
cut you might get a penny or two with your newly defined role. And let's
not forget a flashy title like foreman, vice president, supervisor, or
associate. Which basically meant you were one step above the janitor.
Then there's the "shaving of the hours". Starts out at X hours for a
particular job calculated by an estimator. He submits the bid to the home
office kno... more »
How Ayahuasca Affects the Artistic Functions of the Brain
*Video - *Emma Lucy explains how ayahuasca allows her to read the
intelligence of nature and download it into art.
The post How Ayahuasca Affects the Artistic Functions of the Brain appeared
first on Waking Times.
The Rag Blog : METRO EVENT | Step up on the Day of the Fallen
Join the Workers Defense Project in support of the construction workers who
build Texas. Event: ‘Day of the Fallen’ March and Rally What: Support the
construction workers who build Texas When: Wednesday, February 25, 2015,
3:45 p.m. Where: J.J. Pickle … finish reading The Rag Blog :
*METRO EVENT* | Step up on the Day of
the Fallen
Ukraine`s Economy Continues To Get Worse
Valeria Gontareva, the head of Ukraine's Central Bank, said there was
“panic” on the market in connection with ongoing fighting with pro-Russian
militants in Ukraine’s east. Photo: Reuters
*CNBC*: *Ukraine's economic 'meltdown' just got worse*
*Ukraine's currency plunged to new record lows on Monday morning, as a
failed peace plan and continued violence piled more pressure on a country
that has seen a year of political and economic turmoil.*
*The country's central bank said the official rate for the hryvnia had
dropped 7 percent on Monday, to close to 30 against the U.S. dollar,
... more »
Ukrainian President Poroshenko Vows To Return Crimea To Ukraine
Ukraine will never give up its sovereign rights to Crimea. We will protect
rights of its people with all available means.
— Петро Порошенко (@poroshenko) February 23, 2015
*Sputnik*: *Poroshenko Vows to 'Regain Control' of Crimea, Gets Rebuke from
Crimean PM*
*Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed early Monday to return
"occupied Crimea" to Ukraine, prompting a rebuke from internet users, and
later from Crimean authorities as well.*
*In a pair of tweets published after 2am Monday morning, Poroshenko stated
that "Ukraine will regain control of occupied Crimea," noting that "... more »
Giuliani vs Obama 2015
Almost eight years ago, it looked like Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama could
have been going to compete for the White House.
*Let's go, Obama girls.*
Finally, America's mayor didn't make it through the primaries. You know,
your humble correspondent probably isn't the most canonical guy who would
have picked Giuliani but I would find him highly natural in the office,
anyway. He's still a symbol of the mainstream America's leader who has
everything that seemed necessary in those old years when I couldn't think
about a single major complaint against America – these days, I have way to... more »
EASTWOOD'S AMERICAN SNIPER HAS ANTI-WAR MESSAGE
*Click on Photo to enlarge*
*Clint Eastwood's lonely vigilante of Dirty Harry days lives in American
Sniper but now the killings have taken a toll and he has Post Traumatic
Stress ~ which virtually all combat veterans have to some degree. The VA
has been reluctant to tackle soul damage from veterans participating in
military combat but my own extensive experience as a heart centered
counselor and consultant with combat veterans with PTSD as well as recent
studies have conclusively shown that it is a significant risk factor in the
rising military suicide rate and it most ce... more »
Another reason why the West is hijacking Ukraine, an illustration of Obama's duplicity, and more about the "Nuland Factor."
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*Blogs of the Saker Community:French Saker:
http://lesakerfrancophone.netRussian Saker: http://thesaker.ru/German
Saker: http://www.vineyardsaker.de/Oceania Saker:
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/Latin American Saker:
http://vineyardsakerlatam.wordpress.com/Italian Saker:
http://sakeritalia.it/Our Brothers in Arms:Colonel Cassad in English:
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/FortRuss:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/Kazzura:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2L5r9T5iYCH0Mmgq85jNQRussia Insider:
http://russia-ins... more »
WHO IS NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Lazy and possibly not super-honest?
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015Part 1—The latest cut-and-paste:* Consider it the
latest chance to learn more about Nicholas Kristof—possibly to broaden our
sense of who Nicholas Kristof is.
In yesterday’s New York Times, the former Rhodes scholar was reciting some
of the liberal world’s most familiar scripts.
We assume his basic claims are basically valid. That said, people like
Kristof remind us of the need to demand evidence and proof, even for claims
which may seem tribally obvious.
As often seems to be the case, Kristof’s column took maybe ten minutes to
write. As usual, it sat b... more »
Ukraine War News Updates -- February 23, 2015
*BBC*: *Ukraine says it cannot start heavy weapons withdrawal*
The Ukrainian military has said it cannot start withdrawing heavy weapons
from the front line in the *east until the rebels stop shelling its
positions.*
*Military spokesman Lt Col Anatoliy Stelmakh told reporters the rebels had
not stopped firing.*
*Both sides agreed at the weekend to begin withdrawing heavy weapons
shortly, under this month's ceasefire.*
*Two Ukrainian soldiers died on Sunday, the military said, while the rebels
reported one death on their side.*
*Ukraine War News Updates -- February 23, 2015*
U... more »
Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities
Norman Finkelstein: About Netanyahu *Feb 23, 2015*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UseTj-nR8&feature=youtu.be
Israelis torturing non-Jewish children. 2014 Australian documentary film.
Viewer discretion.
*Published on Feb 14, 2014*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL048x4msM
Alison Weir - The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel
August 1, 2014
Banned from the media journalist Alison Weir explains why this is happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UwcVP_k2Y&feature=youtu.be
New testimonies from Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities
Isra... more »
GUEST POST: Dangerous Nuclear Problem, Thousands of Cracks in Nuclear Containment Vessels Due to Manufacturing Error or Possible Aging Flaw
News Headlines this week from various sources identify a major issue with
Nuclear Plant containment vessels built in the 1970s by a Belgian company,
Rotterdam Dry Dock. Thousands of cracks were found in Belgium steel of two
nuclear containment vessels, the same manufacturing used in twenty other
older systems used worldwide, to include the USA.
Fukuleaks reports http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14453
“the new round of inspections on two reactors in Belgium found thousands of
additional cracks in the reactor vessels…
13,047 cracks in Doel 3
3,149 in Tihange 2
Initial inspectio... more »
World News Briefs -- February 23, 2015
Smoke and flames rise over a hill near the Syrian town of Kobani after an
airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian
border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 23,
2014. Credit: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
*Al Jazeera*:* US-led air strikes on Syria ISIL targets 'kill 1,600'*
*Monitor says armed fighters make up most of the dead, but has documented
deaths of 62 civilians since operations began.US-led air strikes against
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria have killed
more than 1,600 people since they... more »
Sharme on the past!
I have have done many things
with diminishing returns
and most if not all of these
collectibles could be called
adventure
A human life need adventure
like a break dancer needs
a broken life
we need no more stimulation
than to live well
Somehow living normal
has become a liability if not a disgrace
and we should all aim for the
stars despite the fact that in most case
the Koch brothers own them
and getting into their Galaxy means
you are not first
We live in very troubled times
but we are way better than our
ancestors who faced way worse
lets just take a moment and think
about how pri... more »
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 23, 2015
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a news conference during
a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels
February 5, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Francois Lenoir
*Bloomberg:* *NATO's Response to Putin's Odd War Games Won't Be Fast*
*(Bloomberg) -- As the Kremlin’s warplanes probe the edges of NATO
airspace, the alliance says its forces are ready if the Russians come.
Political leaders will need a little longer to issue the marching
orders.Whatever the scenario -- an overt Russian attack on eastern Europe,
a proxy war fought by pro-Russian re... more »
Damascus Steel
Is it just a legend our does
it exist
I do not know
because this world
has given me
a weak steel heart
the thought that before
burtal bloodsthirsty Godss
exist as an panancia
makes me weak
We are way better than that now
yes democracy feild and fients
and mostly dissappears
before our eyes
but when something
so full of air
is submerged
its going to surface
with force
and we know that
great men will be ther
at the rescue
otherwise was living pointless
My picture will never be on a stamp
and the medal of Canada will not
be attaced to my stump
of Canada
But believe me now
and I will p... more »
A German Perspective on Ukraine War
A few years ago I met German peacenik Irene Eckert in Chicago at an
anti-NATO protest while the cancerous military alliance was holding its
annual meeting in that city. Irene has been very active on the Ukraine
issue and yesterday I sent her a question...see below for her response.
*BG*: Can you give me your opinion on Merkel and how much Germany will
resist Washington?
*IE:* Well your question goes right into the heart of the matter and there
is no clear answer.
There is an ongoing "dispute" here mainly on the political right over an
assumed "limited German sovereignty". In t... more »
Black Magic and Dark Hidden Influences in the Music Industry
*David Gardner* - The depiction of dark forces is almost omnipresent in
today’s most well-known music industry acts. Why are these ominous messages
promoted?
The post Black Magic and Dark Hidden Influences in the Music Industry
appeared first on Waking Times.
Fernando Rivera pleads guilty in Ostreicher case
This just appeared in The Yeshiva World. As I told on this blog come time
ago, the corruption was at the local level and not in La Paz. The
government is going after those who treated Jacob Ostreicher badly, and
this whole situation would have turned out better had not clowns like Sean
Penn gotten involved, some accusing the La Paz administration for the local
problems.
A Bolivian judge has sentenced to three years in prison the most senior
government official known to be involved in the extortion ring that preyed
on U.S. businessman Jacob Ostreicher. Fernando Rivera was sentenced M... more »
More Pro-Employee Bills To Watch In The Florida Legislature
To their credit, some Florida legislators are doing their darndest to try
to fix Florida's anti-employee legal climate. I wrote about some pro-employee
bills filed, and now there are some more to keep an eye on this legislative
session:
*Banning employer fraud*: A bill proposed would make it illegal for an
employer to procure an employee's services fraudulently, and also beefs up
anti-retaliation provisions for employees who complain about unpaid wages.
*Pregnancy discrimination*: Two identical bills would add pregnancy to the
protected classes under the Florida Civil Rights Act. I'... more »
"Rising inequality is not about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power."
Paul Krugman turns his attention today to the "deeply unserious fantasy"
promoted by the corporate education dissemblers and diversionists, who have
made careers and millions from pretending that inequality is a schooling
issue and that education will solve all the problems that poverty,
classism, and racism have created. This dangerous myth is perpetuated by
billionaire backers of profiteering charter groups such as the Knowledge is
Power Program (KIPP). Can the lie be made more figural than that name!
A clip from Krugman:
. . . .there’s no evidence that a skills gap is holding ... more »
Washington Announces Mosul Campaign Plan To Placate Iraq Politicians
This year Iraq’s politicians are hoping for a major turn around in the
security situation in the country. A big focus is upon retaking Mosul the
nation’s second largest city and the center of the Islamic State’s (IS)
caliphate in Iraq. Premier Haider Abadi recently said that the city would
be freed soon. Given this pressure the United States decided to announce a
plan to attack Mosul this spring. This garnered a huge amount of press
coverage, but largely missed the fact that the Iraq Security Forces (ISF)
would not be ready for such a large undertaking in just a few months.
Rather... more »
Flotsam and Jetsam
Creative writing assignment: Imagine the self-pitying rationalizations and
blubbering going on inside Dean Del Mastro's brain as the fraudster awaits
his sentencing.
Why didn't stephen harper attend debates in the House of Commons on his
"Stasi-in-Canada" bill?Answer: He's a fucking pants-pissing coward. He was
afraid that he'd shit his pants if Mulcair asked him a hard question and he
was also consumed with the fear that the "Islamists" who populate his
paranoid mind might attack the legislature as this important piece of
legislation was being discussed.
On both those days, harpe... more »
McDonald’s and Monsanto Are Both ‘Losing Money Fast’
*Anthony Gucciardi* - In a series of headlines that would pass as virtually
unbelievable several years ago, mainstream economists are sounding the
alarm over the financial decline of both fast food giant McDonald’s and
biotech juggernaut Monsanto.
The post McDonald’s and Monsanto Are Both ‘Losing Money Fast’ appeared
first on Waking Times.
Giuliani, A Serial Draft Dodger Who Was Raised By A Career Criminal, Claims Obama Isn't Like Him
Scott Walker surrogate Rudy Giuliani
Louisiana's clownish governor, Bobby Jindal-- does he still perform
exorcisms?-- immediately chimed in how much he agrees with Rudy Guiliani
that President Obama doesn't love America. No one asked and no one cared
but he did get his name in the papers, albeit disparagingly. The Guiliani
meltdown took place at a fundraiser for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,
the union-busting thug who's afraid to say-- at least publicly-- whether he
agrees with Guiliani (and Jindal) or not. Over the weekend, Walker said he doesn't
know if Obama is a Christian. It'... more »
Why is Canada the new Thug on the Block?
Plainly its the application of Conservative values to foreign policy. In
the 18th Century a thuggish foreign policy was the norm. The most
enlightened empire was the Austria Hungarian Hapsburg affair. Affair is the
way it was managed. Some Emperors sent armies, the Austrians sent daughters.
When the dust of the 20th century settled only one Empire remained. The
thuggish aspects of American foreign policy are not in dispute. Operation
TP-AJAX which thwarted for most of a century and counting democracy in the
most probable country to adopt. Pinochet, Vietnam and so many other where
... more »
70 Years Ago The U.S. Flag Was Raised At Iwo Jima
*Stars and Stripes*: *The Battle of Iwo Jima: 70 years later*
*At Iwo Jima’s southern tip stands its tallest point, Mount Suribachi,
peaking at 554 feet. The morning of Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal’s
arrival, amid fierce fighting across the island, a Marine platoon climbed
to the summit. As a handful of its members lifted a 20-foot-long water pipe
topped with a small American flag, Forrestal, watching from the beach below
with Gen. Holland Smith, spoke the line that enshrined him in military
mythology.*
*WNU Editor*: Stars and Stripes is doing a special on remembering Iwo... more »
Kurds/Turks evacuate Suleyman Shah tomb- Yet more KURD/ISIS symbiosis
*Having done multiple postings citing what appears to be a fluidity between
the Kurds and ISIS, I am going to point out that symbiosis yet again.*
*Where does Kurd begin and ISIS end? Where does ISIS began and Kurd end?
It's all very blurry.*
I will relink previous posts on this topic, but, first let's read this news
article:
* Kurds cooperate with Turkish army to move Suleyman Shah tomb*
*I will of course highlight the interesting bits! *
The Turkish army evacuation of the Suleyman Shah tomb, and transfer of its
contents to a different location in Kobani, was coordinated four days in... more »
Metal Fires in Fast Reactors: Part I
The origin of this post was from an extensive quotation the first part of
of a Sandia NL report on liquid sodium cooled fast reactors. The question
I am addressing is a simple one, how safe is the IFR. Although the backers
of the IFR tout its safety, they also advocate for more government
investment in IFR r&D. Although they do not admit it, among the issues
requiring futher R&D, as this report clearly shows is safety.
"Metal Fire Implications for Advanced Reactors, Part 1: Literature Review,"
is an important report for anyone who is interested in the IFR or other
fast sodium cool... more »
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter Convenes ISIS Strategy Meeting With Top US Military Commanders
U. S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter meets with Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister
and Defense Minister Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah al-Sabah in Kuwait City, Feb.
22, 2015. During his first overseas trip as secretary, Carter plans to meet
with senior U.S. military and foreign leaders to assess operations in
Afghanistan and the regional effort to contain and defeat the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant. DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett
*Stars and Stripes*: *Carter arrives in Kuwait for major meeting on Islamic
State strategy*
*KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter arrived Sunda... more »
Kurdish Fighters Are Killing Islamic State Fighters By The 'Truckload'
Grim work: The men's bodies were piled onto a pickup truck by Kurdish
Peshmerga forces today
*Daily Mail:* *Bodies of ISIS terrorists piled onto pickup truck after more
than 60 are killed in battles with Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq*
** Fierce fighting broke out last night near Iraqi village of Sultan
Abdullah*
** Kurdistan Democratic Party said there were at least 60 bodies by today*
** Images appeared to show dead Islamists being piled on back of trucks*
** Assault came after plans revealed for 25,000-troop recapture of Mosul*
** City in northern Iraq was seized by ISIS terrori... more »
Kurdish Fighters Paraded In Cages By The Islamic State In Kirkuk
*Daily Mail:* *Twisted new ISIS video shows 'Kurdish Peshmerga' fighters
paraded in cages through the streets and interviewed by their captors who
hint heavily that death awaits*
* * Nine-minute video shows 21 Kurdish fighters paraded through Iraqi
streets * It echoes video released recently of a similar procession of
prisoners * But in an abhorrent twist, the prisoners are then interviewed
on camera * Then dragged from cages and forced to kneel in front of
menacing militants * Ends with a haunting shot of an elderly man's face,
before cutting to black *
*WNU Editor:* I suspe... more »
A Non-Liberal State
http://www.notable-quotes.com/
Last week, Ralph Nader declared that Stephen Harper was unsafe at any
speed. Michael Harris writes:
According to the former U.S. presidential candidate and long-time consumer
advocate, this prime minister is a combination of Chevrolet’s doomed
Corvair and Dick Cheney: A lemon and a warmonger — all rolled up into a
consumer dud begging for a recall.
With police state powers about to be handed to Canada’s spy agency based on
a factitious threat, Nader pointed out that the PM’s talents run to
hyperbole, not to... more »
The Kurds Want 'Heavy Weapons' From The U.S.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on the outskirts of Mosul. Photograph: Reuters
*The Guardian:* * Kurdish Peshmerga call for heavy weaponry to take their
fight to Isis*
*Fighters deride western fears that sending them weapons could give real
impetus to frequent talk of sovereignty at the expense of IraqFrom his
perch behind sandbags on a last approach towards Mosul, Captain Ibrahim of
the Kurdish Peshmerga lives and breathes his enemy.Down the hill, around a
mile across an open plain, Islamic State (Isis) gunmen hide in a
partly-ruined village. At least a half dozen times a day, t... more »
Private donors From The Gulf Oil States Continue To Help Bankroll The Islamic State
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)*
*Patrick Cockburn, The Independent:* *Private donors from Gulf oil states
helping to bankroll salaries of up to 100,000 Isis fighters*
*Exclusive: In Irbil, Patrick Cockburn hears from a Kurdish official how
Gulf oil cash is shoring up the terrorists, and why this, with a divided
enemy, suggests a long war aheadIslamic State is still receiving
significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and
Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish
official.The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the Gul... more »
Forced Vaccinations: They are calling for YOUR "Comments"
StarShip Earth published this excellent and extremely important article on
Saturday. THIS is information that demands a response. THIS is one of
those rare opportunities that are given to us to MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
*“Published on February 6, 2015 amid the “measles outbreak” media frenzy,
the HHS is accepting “public comment” on its Draft National Adult
Immunization Plan (NAIP) until March 9, 2015. Under the NAIP, all adult
American citizens will be compelled to receive current and retroactive
vaccination regimens that may amount to several dozen “shots” per
individual during their “... more »
I met the Ukippers
Well I sat through Meet the Ukippers last night but I didn’t really need to
because it’s on YouTube.
Good grief. No wonder the BBC set out to ridicule them. They had to be
ridiculed and someone had to do it.
I can only think of about five that have any credibility whatsoever.
I’ll name them: Nigel Farage, Douglas Carswell, Mark Reckless and Suzanne
Evans. I’ve never seen Suzanne Evans in action, but I’m willing to take
other people’s word that she can talk the talk. There’s another woman who
people like too. Diane James, is it? She was vaguely passable when I saw
her once on QT, at ... more »
Pakistan Resigns Itself To A Long War In The Tribal Areas On The Afghan Border
*Washington Post:* *Pakistan braces for a long and deadly war in tribal
areas on Afghan border*
*RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — When 10 Pakistani soldiers tried to dislodge
Taliban militants from a madrassa near the Afghan border this summer, their
advance was crippled by relentless gunfire. Within minutes, two soldiers
were dead, and Imran Ali had so many bullets in his legs he couldn’t tell
whether they were still attached.*
*For 22 agonizing hours, Ali said, he curled up on the floor waiting for
other soldiers to fight their way in to rescue him. After he was finally
flown to safety, ... more »
So You Want To Help Africa Mr Paterson? Then Stop Promoting Ideology And Falsehoods To Push GMOs
According to Mathew Holehouse in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper (here),
former UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson will this week accuse the
European Union and Greenpeace of condemning people in the developing world
to death by refusing to accept genetically modified crops. Speaking in
Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday, Paterson will warn that a food
revolution that could save Africa from hunger is being held back and that
the world is on the cusp of a green revolution, of the kind that fed a
billion people in the 1960s and 1970s as the world’s population soared.
After talking abo... more »
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*Not much progress on 2007 slate of Congress-approved coastal projects ~Bob
Marshall, via N.O. Advocate *
*FEMA awards $2.4 million to Jefferson, Plaquemines for Isaac repairs
~Ramon Antonio Vargas *
*New Orleans’ Irish Channel a holdover of the Irish influence on the Big
Easy ~Sheila Langen*
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*More States Push Back Against Common Core*
*Common core is basically a good idea but it has been hijacked by Leftists
to make it their propaganda tool*
Common Core continues to be a top concern in the states, with Mississippi
and Wisconsin being the latest states taking steps to distance themselves
from the controversial standards.
Mississippi is considering full repeal of the Common Core standards. State
senators Michael Watson and Angela Burks introduced legislation to repeal
the standards last month, with Watson telling GulfLive.com Mississippi
“will end up with our own standa... more »
Modern Slavery: Consumer Shackles, BUY BUY BUY!
Modern Slavery | The True Reason behind the 40-Hour Work Week and Why Most
People Are Economic Slaves
The following post details in plain english the absurdity of modern
society, and the unquestioned assumptions that keep us all buying into it.
Thankfully with enough data most people can see reality for what is. See
the post Trust Law: How You Became A Commodity for a detailed explanation
of how modern slavery has been legalized and pandemic on earth.
- Justin
Source - Nexus Illuminati
by EV
*Economic slavery*, or *wage slavery*, refers to one’s total and immediate
dependence on ... more »
Financial and Political Update ( February 23 , 2015 ) - Greece Reform List due in Brussels today ...... Ukraine currency and economy in freefall but Kiev continues with its War against the Eastern Regions ..... Portuguese debt falls below US debt ( in yield ) ......HSBC craters......
Tweets.....
Evening....
Frances Coppola retweeted
*Linda Yueh* @lindayueh 2h
2 hours ago
#Greece timeline of key risks until August via @ecoeurope @TheStalwart @
MorganStanley
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fred walton retweeted
*Yannis Koutsomitis* @YanniKouts · 1h1 hour ago
Here is the reponse by a Syriza official to the leak of #Greece's gov't
proposals earlier tonight: "Apparently,… http://twishort.com/FbGhc
*Twishort*
Tweet more than 140 characters
Here is the reponse by a Syriza official to the leak of #Greece's gov't
proposals earlier tonight: "Apparently,... more »
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*Massachusetts Democrat Senator goes "ad hominem"*
*Senator Edward J. Markey has jumped on the bandwagon set in motion by the
recent NYT article about Dr Willie Soon. He's got nothing intelligent to
say about climate change so is attacking those who do. But a debate about
persons tells us nothing about the truth or falsehood of what those persons
say. The test of truth its agreement with reality and 18 years of global
temperature stasis is a reality that heavily favors the skeptics, not the
Warmists.The fact is that a small minority of skeptics do receive some
funding from bu... more »
Check Out This New Amazingly Simple Open-Source Food Grow System
By The Health Ranger
The Health Ranger, Mike Adams, reveals the Food Rising Mini-Farm Grow Box
at the Health Freedom Expo in Naples, FL. Adams is releasing this
technology to the public for free as an open-source project to promote the
decentralization of healthy food production.
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200 Evidence-Based Reasons NOT To Vaccinate - FREE Research PDF Download!
*Quick download here*
Sayer Ji
(Please read the description for context of what you are getting, and what
to do with it.)
The media, your pediatrician, politicians and health authorities like the
CDC and FDA claim that vaccines are safe and effective. So why do hundreds
of peer-reviewed studies indicate the opposite is true? Read, download, and
share this document widely to provide the necessary evidence-based
counterbalance to the pro-vaccination propaganda that has globally infected
popular consciousness and discussion like an intractable disease.
It is abundantly clear tha... more »
Tim nice but dim
The BBC has receive a tsunami of complaints (which they’ve rejected) about
Tim Willcox from people like me. But not me, and I’ll tell you why not.
I think calling for him to resign or be sacked is ‘playing the man not the
ball’, and worse, it’s playing into the hands of critics of Israel who
dismiss people like me who try to defend the Jewish state by calling us
“Israel Firsters” who bleat “Israel right or wrong” at every opportunity.
Well I don’t consider myself to be one, in fact I think the whole concept
is simply sloganeering and meaningless.
However this is what I think is happ... more »
What ISIS Really Wants and Is
This fascinating article
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
will tell you more about ISIS than a thousand Barack Hussein Obama speeches
will.
Here's a key extract:
'The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it
has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the
disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion
preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even
learned interpretations of Islam.
Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by... more »
Keiser Report - Blackwater War World Order - an exploding global market for conflict
look, there's really decent money to be made from War World or Corporate
War Starters like Blackwater. You know that armies are no longer to defend
one's state/country from invasion but to wage for-profit *ordo ab chao* or
Order From Chaos.
Max Keiser and Stacey Herbert go into the scandalous fine granularity of
this private mercenary patent-protective War Worlding: actually, they've
been going on about this for years now and if you haven't listened then
you'll probably not listen now.
Stay on your backs, sheople, keep pissing on your soft bellies.
*FURTHER CORPORATE WAR WORLD... more »
Some links
- Wushanding mud volcano
- WantWant: Taiwan considers making* northernmost* islands a national
park. A subtle revelation of what everyone knows: the Senkakus aren't
part of Taiwan. The northernmost islands of Taiwan have historically been
these three.
- WantWant: Deer conservation, new thinking needed.
- Ko Wen-je's remarks on colonialism ripped in the... Times of Oman.
- Sister of corporal whose death sparked massive protests to run for seat
in Taichung 3 with newly forming party (from the great Facebook group Taiwan
News in English. Freddy Lim of the ... more »
The Greek Apology: The "Big Boys" won this round
Herein lies the truth of "Politics".
I try to not be a Negative Nancy. I try to not always look for the holes
in the logic. I try to not always scrutinize every word and action of the
players ... but really, I can't help myself.
It comes down to that old saying: "Fool me once,..."
Here is the point I want to make. Maybe some of these guys really DO get
into politics to try and "save the world". Maybe some of these guys
actually DO have great ideas, big plans on how to implement them and an
amazing dream of the changes they want to make.....
.... But the moment that they step i... more »
More India-Israel joint defence projects on anvil
[image: Spike ATM]Reflecting rapid expansion in military ties, Israel has
said it was ready to share cutting-edge defence technologies with India and
both countries will go for co-development of a number of key weapon systems
soon.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said both countries have overcome
hurdles in co-development of Barak 8 missile defence system and work on
another key project of aerial defence systems was on track.
At the end of his India visit, Ya'alon said his talks with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar were very "satisfying"
... more »
Northrop Grumman Offers Enhanced C4ISR Capabilities to Customers Worldwide with Advanced Digital Cockpit
[image: Black Hawk Cockpit]As part of an array of global defence
capabilities, Northrop Grumman Corporation is showcasing its digital
cockpit solution at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference
(IDEX) in Abu Dhabi.
The company's revolutionary cockpit and integrated avionics will be on
display Feb. 22-26 in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Northrop
Grumman is a premier provider of an open architecture based cockpit design
that can be easily customized for the needs of customers around the globe.
The company is already under contract and implementing its avionics ... more »
Business 360 22: Nepal's Tourism Potential
* This is my article for Business 360 magazine published in Kathmandu,
Nepal, February 2015 issue.
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*Nepal's Tourism Potential*
Nepal is a beautiful and unique country with lots of interesting and
fantastic places to see and feel, both for those who love indoors and the
outdoors. Gifted with eight of the top 10 highest mountains in the planet
Nepal has unique natural ornaments and can allure tens of millions of
people from abroad.
I went to Nepal for the first time in January, 2015 to attend the third
Asia Liberty Forum. During the time I also had an opportunity to have a ... more »
Typhoon Fighter Jet Is Set for Weapons Upgrade
[image: Eurofighter Typhoon]Four European countries on Sunday committed to
upgrading the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet’s air-to-ground weapons, as
airstrikes on Islamic insurgents in Iraq underscore the need for planes to
hit moving targets.
Representatives from the U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain signed a €200
million ($228 million) contract to upgrade the jet, said the Eurofighter
consortium, which includes BAE Systems PLC, Airbus Group NV and
Finmeccanica SpA. The new capabilities will likely be available in two
years.
The upgrade will fit the Typhoon combat jet with Brimstone-2... more »
RAAF pushes for tighter integration of assets
[image: Boeing 737-700 AEW&C (Wedgetail)]The Royal Australian Air Force has
ambitious plans that emphasise the seamless integration of airborne assets,
as it continues to induct new platforms.
Speaking with Flightglobal on the sidelines of an air force conference, AM
Geoff Brown foresees air force operations fundamentally changing in the
next ten years, relying on data produced from a range of platforms, as well
as improve situational awareness.
The concept, dubbed 'Plan Jericho,' will see greater connectivity, allowing
for dynamic re-tasking of aircraft, as well as improved integra... more »
Australia Says Military Is Training With U.S. Reaper Drones
[image: MQ-9 Reaper]Australia has given a strong indication it is
considering buying armed American-made drones of the type used against
insurgents in Afghanistan and Syria, announcing its military has already
begun training to fly the weapons.
Just days after the U.S. government said it would allow the sale of its
drones to military allies, Australia’s conservative government on Monday
said the country’s air force had already commenced training aircrew and
support staff in the U.S. on the MQ-9 ’Reaper’ drone.
“It would be remiss of Australia not to continue to develop our knowledge... more »
Israel Acquired 14 Additional F-35 Jets from the US at $2.82 billion
[image: F-35A Lightning II]A delegation of Defense Ministry officials to
the US headed by Aharon Marmarosh, has signed a contract this weekend
finalizing Israel's purchase of 14 additional Joint Strike Fighter F-35
fighter jets, after the ministerial military procurement committee approved
the deal in November 2014.
The deal was signed with the JSF Project team at the Pentagon, and it
includes 14 jets, with an option to purchase another 17 of the aircraft in
the future.
This deal is an addition to the previous one singed in September 2010 for
the procurement of 19 F-35s. In total,... more »
India now puts aircraft carrier plan on fast track
[image: INS Vikrant]India is trying to fast-track finalization of its
long-pending ambitious plan to launch indigenous construction of its
largest-ever aircraft carrier.
Though the propulsion system for the proposed 65,000-tonne warship is yet
to be decided, the plan is veering towards nuclear power for greater
operational endurance.
The ongoing "detailed" naval study for this indigenous aircraft carrier-II
(IAC-II) project has gained urgency since the ageing 56-year-old INS Viraat
-- quite toothless now with just 11 Sea Harrier jump-jets left to operate
from its deck -- will be r... more »
Every American Should Spend a Day In Jail
Recklessness and unlimited resources never worked well together. It is
always a rush to the lowest common denominator. Free weapons and trigger
happy fools is obviously a lousy idea. Yet as this writer observes, our own
fools allowed it all to happen.
How about invading Iraq for the simple purpose of collecting all weapons.
Do a collection drive before a full press weapons sweep. Then destroy any
weapons found hidden and the property associated with that weapon. That at
least will make sure everybody digs it all up ahead of time. Then sweep
surrounding fields.
It is a lot of wor... more »
Christians Can Opt Out of ObamaCare
[image: christian-health-care]
Let me get this right. Christians can form CO-OPs to manage their health
insurance and likely almost eliminate administrative overhead as well.
Better this cuts the annual cost to a very reasonable level through this
elimination of financial and admin surcharges.
That the left objects is rich. This supposed to be their actual doctrine.
Instead they opt for government run pyramids of surcharge based systems
that naturally run out of control while actually destroying efficiencies
and ethics.
This also tells me that a better system is readily ... more »
Minor Collision Between INS Sindhughosh Submarine and Fishing Trawler Off Mumbai's Coast
[image: INS Sindhurakshak]INS Sindhughosh, a Kilo-class submarine, had a
minor collision with a fishing trawler off the coast of Mumbai on the
intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the Navy has said.
However, there were no major damages to the submarine in the collision, the
Navy added. The Ministry of Defence has been informed about the incident.
The submarine was part of an exercise being conducted in pitch dark
conditions. Its periscope suffered minor dislocation after it hit the unlit
fishing vessel.
Read more
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
[image: 2015.2.3.SoulFire.main]
Let me go further. Land and food is essential for the restoration of our
civil society and the complete elimination of all forms of poverty. It is
how it is done that is the real trick and we have ample examples of horrid
abusive protocols out of history. We also have plenty of counter examples
and this certainly is one such.
Failure is a direct result of flawed economic and social engineering.
Success is the obverse and needs to become global doctrine which is
something that i have been working toward.
These successes merely demonstrate the... more »
Growers Are Making Bank on This Green, Fragrant Bud. No, Not That One.
What this means of course is that craft beer is on the way to becoming snob
heaven. Which seriously spells the ultimate demise of industrial grade
beer as anything but a cheap alternative and a progressive loss of market
share.
We have all been watching this slowly evolve and now it is clearly winning
out. It will always be about the hops and that means quality and location
to perfect taste and nuance. Beer tasting is an expanding line of work.
The industrial producers discounted the hop producers out of business a
long time ago. now the shoe is on the other ... more »
Bipedal Canine in Manitoba
Another bulls eye. We have a well observed creature conforming to the male
form of the Giant sloth. There is no confusion either. This now locates
them in Manitoba. I have had them in the Great Lakes District and this is
just on the edge.
We get here the bipedal stance, but this creature is just as comfortable on
four limbs. This animal has full claws on all limbs. It is never to be
approached even armed. You have no idea what you face and unfortunately it
is an ambush killer that may mean from fifty yards.
I suspect that hunters have been disappeared by thi... more »
How to Grow Buckets Full of Blueberries at Home
This helps. Blueberries are an excellent garden fruit that do take extra
soil preparation and the like. but once established, they produce
productively all summer far longer than any other fruit without special
hybridization.
I can see them been a mainstay everywhere. In many ways they are really
just getting going. The raisin forms also works very well as well and can
be used in many blends.
In the Vancouver lower mainland i have watched field after field been
switched over year by year. This happens to be no small decision as no
other crop is then entertained ever. There... more »
The Legendary Origins of Merlin the Magician
Of course, the fictional character of Merlin was neatly recreated as
Gandalf by Tolkien in the Twentieth century and if we skip names, Merlin is
part of the whole genre of fantasy and fantasy gaming. We all recognize
this wonderful character.
Its early emergence can be blamed on Geoffrey of Monmouth, but its
immediate popularity in Wales allowed it to be picked up and imitated by
every troubadour. That is how it was done then. The real question is
whether this character had a previous life in the oral tradition before
Geoffrey picked it up. So far it appears unlikely and... more »
Ronald Reagan's Free-Market Mentors
Reagan matured into a serious economic thinker who then and only then had
the necessary conviction to make the changes that he made in our economic
system. Poseurs have emerged since to rationalize alterations that Reagan
would have powerfully opposed but that is another story and we are now
paying the price of all that.
This is a telling of even his small beginnings that led to his later
development as a serious player, however well he hid just that. He also
had the remarkable skill to sell to everyman that made all those good ideas
fly.
Conservative thinking has a long pe... more »
'Missing Oil' from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor
First off, the bulk of the spilled oil has actually been disappeared
through both recovery and dissipation in some form or the other. What is
left is an intractable residual that will now take a long time to be
destroyed for lack of oxygen.
Yet the layer is actually very thin so even that may disappear quicker than
anticipated.
The take home is that 95% of spilled oil will disappear inside of five
years. Most of that will be simply be destroyed by biological action.
Thus the best strategy always must be to stimulate biological activity as
quickly as possible.
.
*'Missin... more »
The Trip Treatment
We have recently noted that research has taken off on all forms of mind
altering drugs. This is also releasing information of the spiritual
experience as well with trained observers taking notes. We can touch on
all this, but having thousands of individual reports, properly organized
and compared is hugely more productive and useful. We are now going there. We
have lost two generation in time and that means two generations of
suffering that likely could have been avoided. I think this will now
quickly change.
These things are not cures but they liberate the mind. After all i... more »
Flexible Graphene-Based LED Clears the Way for Flexible Displays
[image: Researchers have created a new graphene-based flexible LED display
prototype (not pictured...]
The ability to fabricate graphene based technology is continuing to
advance and is rewarding us with a very flexible palette of options. I do
expect to see flexible displays sooner than expected. Better yet, i think
this will be ideal for 3D technology.Can you imagine embedded processors
supporting a holograph display. That now looks plausible.The advance in
nano based single atomic layer technology in the past decade has been
breathtaking.I waited literally forty years for us... more »
Scientists Hit Upon New Reset Button for Biological Clocks
[image: Researchers from Tennessee's Vanderbilt University claim to have
discovered a switch for t...]
This does not sound too market ready but is a proof of principal. It is
certainly possible. Thus a reset pill pack that forces alteration is also
plausible. Something like that would be valuable if only to end the
induced time lag that is very uncomfortable. Better yet it would be nice to
reestablish normal sleeping patterns quickly and decisively. Most of us do
get our sleep pattern thrown off and restoration is often never the same. .
*Scientists hit upon new reset button f... more »
Enko Running Shoes have a Shocking Design
[image: Each Enko shoe features 2 cm (0.8 in) of coil-sprung suspension]
It certainly is an oddity. The more important question is whether or not
it will be of any use. It appears that a few thousand customers will soon
endeavor to to find out. I admit to been personally skeptical and expect
wear issues to ultimately make this device impractical. However we can be
surprised.
Many other variations have been put out there over decades and most change
little except the direction of the marketing budget. Air pads are
essentially small enough to actually beg significance ... more »
World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rules The World
[image: Karen Hudes]
This is important as it reveals the institutional mindset and the obvious
paranoia that goes with it. Worse is that they are deluded into believing
it all. Yet the apparent strings they control and pull only gives then a
mirage of control.
It is actually meaningless to the extent that it misses the entire point of
an economic system, which is to facilitate the free exchange of information
in a continuous fashion. The fundamental error of those who would be king
is the same everywhere. It is that no individual can properly make the
b... more »
A Circus of the Senses
[image: Flower farming in Northern Holland, 1982. Photo by Dennis
Stock/Magnum]
This is data on the mind that most of us do not perceive at all. So far it
is an instructive phenomenum with no obvious application as yet. I do
think it is going to turn out to be useful.
I am now well aware that we fail to properly perceive the blue end of the
spectrum. What we do perceive is that part filtered out by the physical
atom,s and molecules of the atmosphere instead. Our brain effectively
uses that as an observational standard and ignores parts of the spectrum
close by leaving us ... more »
Secrets in 2,000-Year-Old Scorched Scrolls of Herculaneum to be Revealed with New Tech
This is really great news. when i first heard about these charred scrolls,
i had hoped that there might be a way to recover the data. Of course it
would actually be asking too much to recover a scroll we actually want.
So much was lost. At least a thousand years of records disappeared into
first the fall of the Western empire and ultimately the loss of the
libraries of Alexandria and Byzantium. Thus we must accept every scrap.
Hopefully many other abandoned hoards will be found particularly as
everybody knows these are sought and will be rewarded. We certainly have
never ... more »
Expanding on Three Tiers of Matter
*I continue to add more explanation for my readers to assist them in
understanding what this means.*
This item is meant to be a simple non rigorous description of our particle
universe as I now understand it. This description is informed by my
discoveries in mathematics, my thought experiment on the creation of the
first neutral neutrino pairing and the induced expansive growth of the
universe from this first action of intent. *I am underlying key concepts*
and that is good enough for understanding the gist of this text. All this
can be simulated and my metrics can be used ... more »
Be Careful What You Wish For: Awakening the Third Eye
I do agree that this must be prepared for. Success promises to allow you
to actually perceive the spirit world. That means that you must be
mentally rady for all that entails through reading and any guidance you may
garner.
It is here that a truly well trained shaman would be welcome. Today they
are thin on the ground and demand is increasing sharply meaning that many
more need to be trained and that clearly takes years.
Otherwise you are on your own and you must be careful. Recall that spirits
can have motives that are not to our advantage. That most appear to be
positiv... more »
Dolores Cannon’s Work using Hypnotherapy
This report goes a long way to providing a larger framework to understand
the many other partial reports and direct discoveries we have been
pursuing. That we are living presently in a zone of intervention is highly
informative and inspiring. The intervention began after 1945 which appears
to coincide with the mass of data available.
What is happening is that we are been accelerated toward a planetary
transition. We are certainly receiving ample reports supporting just that
and have for some time. It is also true that scientific knowledge is also
accelerating toward much th... more »
How Indians Have Turned British Military Bands Into Indian Wedding Bands
[image: Members of an Indian wedding band wait on a road divider in New
Delhi on Feb. 17, 2013. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)]
Only in India. I notice no one is paying the price to master the bagpipes
here. Otherwise, this is a delightful story and a serious visible echo of
the Raj. Of course the Raj has never really disappeared just as the Roman
empire never truly disappeared. They simply ceased to matter politically
while the institutional skeleton lived on and on because they were simply
essential.
Two hundred high end wedding is not many weddings. There is obviously ... more »
The Surprising Connection between Etowah Mounds, Georgia and Tulsa, Oklahoma
[image: CouncilOakArt-night] Here is an item outlining the progressive
dispossession of the Creeks and Cherokees in the southern USA. It is not a
pleasent story but it happened and many died in the process. The detail of
how it came about is usually glossed over and it is a tale of chicanery and
politics as well. Little credit goes to anyone. The big problem
continues to be concepts such as hunting grounds when hunting has ended and
alternative land use becomes possible. It remains the role of the State to
determine title and land rights and even if you had not considered yours... more »
The Ancient Disc of Life and the Colonization of Planet Earth
[image: Ancient Disc of Life - NASA]
This is sort of a review of Lana Corrine Contrell's manuscript which
never gained much traction in terms of popularity but is a thousand page
manuscript that tackles sources for the cultural history of the ancients.I
am pleased to discover this text, long as it is because i have been forced
to rely on snippets from those sources until now. That was still ample to
open the working conjecture on the apparent role of an alien class of
rulers who set up Bronze Age civilization and nursed it into independence.
They likely were responsible for mai... more »
BICEP Cosmic Inflation Claim Was Wrong
I personally had low expectations for the so called primordial signal, as
in not expecting any such thing. Thus elimination the BICEP conclusion is
a positive. I really do not expect them, to get lucky here. In my Cloud
Cosmology, expansion is at the speed of light beginning from a first
movement well described and rigorously defined in my posting march 7 of
2013. Everything after is geometric decay producing fundamental particles
all of which progress to agglomeration and decay into larger particles on
to ultimately the physical structure of our universe. Asymmetries will ... more »
Immunotherapy, Natural Allopathic Medicine and Cancer With Dr Sircus
[image:
http://www.jerryokungu.org/dev/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/battling-cancer.jpg]
The best commercial cancer protocol is the one that appears to maximize the
time spent using the drug while delaying death only. In no way is cure
contemplated as that will simply stop the treadmill. We now have 374
different drugs in the pipeline all of whom will never cure but will
reasonably extend the pay period through drug dependance.
At the same time, a simple baking soda protocol will actually end the
cancer and we now have confirmation regarding that and direct comparables
all of... more »
Shedding Light on Three Big Lies About Systemic Pesticides and Bees
[image: Shedding Light on Three Big Lies About Systemic Pesticides and Bees]
How bad must the Neonics disaster become? Not only is this collapsing
bee population both tame and wild, it is slashing other insect populations
as well. Here we discover bee keepers retreating to woodland refugia in
order to save what is left of their hives.
The industry knows and no one accept any of the lies been promoted by this
highlighted industry shill. This is worse than the tobacco scam in terms
of actual damage. Yet it tells me that the drum beat of scientific reality
has forced the neon... more »
This Scientific ‘Global Warming’ Scandal is Much Bigger
[image: Urban-Sunbathing-AFP]
There is a belief out there that with unlimited money and the will, it is
possible to cook scientific results to promote your agenda. We have come
across this phenomena in the drug industry and in aqgricultural chemical
industry. Both are now showing a serious disconnect from empirical
reality, mostly because more of the same appears better to these profoundly
ignorant opportunists.
It has proven mostly correct in the short and medium term. That is why we
have not had a real repeat of the thalidomide scandal although serious
anomalies have occ... more »
Footage of Skunkape/Bigfoot
This is actually important confirmation regarding my own thinking and
working conjectures related to the so called skunk Ape. difficult as it is
to make out actual detail, we go observe the motion of the limbs and the
body. This is extremely important because i can recognize them.
First of it is certainly not a bear and bears are also unhappy around
alligators and i suspect snakes. Nor will they dive into the swamp to
escape mere observation. The same holds as true for Bigfoot who is even
less inclined to swim with alligators. They are our cousins after all.
However once... more »
Are Jews ever responsible for "anti-Semitism"?
Are Jews, their behavior and actions, and the policies they promote *ever*
responsible for genuine anti-Jewish sentiment? Apparently not, according to
Yair Rosenberg, who recently published an article on the subject for *Tablet
Magazine*. In fact, honestly inquiring as to whether or not Jewish actions
and behaviors are directly tied to criticism and hostility towards Jews is
itself "anti-Semitic," Rosenberg argues.
A popular, mainstream Swedish radio host, Helena Groll, had the temerity to
ask Israel's ambassador to Sweden whether or not Jews are responsible for
rising "anti-Semitis... more »
How Barack Hussein Obama would have given that speech after the attack on Pearl Harbour
As found at Theo Spark
Hawking wins the "best male actor" Oscar
*Eddie Redmayne did a great job in "TOE"*
The Theory of Everything (2014) is coming to the Czech movie theaters this
week. Those of us who have mastered the space and time have already seen
the picture. The touching film is based on "Travelling to Infinity: My Life
with Stephen" by Jane Wilde Hawking, the famous physicist's first wife,
which is a reason to expect fewer path integrals and more of the social
stuff.
Even Stephen Hawking himself has pointed out that Eddie Redmayne was almost
as handsome as himself (Hawking) so you shouldn't be surprised that this
actor added the Osca... more »
Should The U.S. Leave Afghanistan Or Stay?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks at a
question-and-answer session with U.S. military personnel at Kandahar
Airfield in Kandahar February 22, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
*Reuters:* *Tough choice for U.S. in Afghanistan's Kandahar province*
*(Reuters) - A once bustling military hub at the heart of America's war in
southern Afghanistan, Kandahar Air Field seemed destined to quietly shut
down this year as part of a U.S. withdrawal that had already thinned its
numbers.*
*But, now, there appears to be growing signs that fate might be postponed,
if only for... more »
Turkey Launches Massive Military Operation To Evacuate Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria
*Daily Mail:* *Turkey evacuates troops guarding Ottoman tomb in Syria as
remains of revered figure are moved to new location*
** Overnight operation saw 600 Turkish troops enter Syria near Kobane*
** Some 40 troops have been guarding Ottoman tomb in Syria since 2012*
** Operation saw the guard extracted, tomb destroyed and remains moved*
** Tomb of Suleyman Shah, is considered sovereign Turkish territory*
** Shah was the grandfather of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire*
*More News On Turkey Launching A Massive Military Operation To Evacuate
Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria*
Turkey... more »
Snowden Documentary CitizenFour Grabs Oscar For Best Documentary
*RT*: *Snowden documentary CitizenFour grabs Oscar*
*A Laura Poitras’ film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has won
Hollywood’s highest accolade by snatching the Oscar for Best Documentary.*
*“The disclosures of Edward Snowden don’t only expose a threat to our
privacy but to our democracy itself," Poitras said during her acceptance
speech. She was joined on stage by editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, producer Dirk
Wilutzky and Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills. *
*WNU Editor*: I am not surprised by this award. As for the Snowden
documentary CitizenFour .... I have seen it and it is... more »
Al-Shabaab Threatens To Attack U.S, U.K., And Canadian Shopping Malls
CNN:* Al-Shabaab threatens malls, including some in U.S.; FBI downplays
threat*
*But after a video from terror group Al-Shabaab calling for attacks on
shopping malls in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, how
worried should shoppers be?Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told CNN
Sunday that there's "no credible or specific evidence" suggesting a U.S.
mall attack is in the works. But he warned Americans to watch out."If
anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today," he said, "they've
got to be particularly careful."*
*WNU Editor:* U.S. intelligence ... more »
Terror Bombing In The Ukrainian City Of Kharkiv
*Guardian: * *Ukraine truce rocked by Kharkiv blast*
*Two people killed including a police officer in explosion in Ukraine’s
second-largest city as violations of ceasefire continueTwo people were
killed and about a dozen injured when a bomb exploded in Ukraine’s
second-largest city at a march on to mark the first anniversary of the
ousting of president Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s interior ministry
said.The ministry said Sunday’s blast in the government-held eastern city
of Kharkiv was due to an “unknown explosive device” and was being
considered a terrorist act. A police ... more »
US security chief warns shoppers after terror threat per BBC News
'In the video, a man with a British-sounding accent and full face covering
calls on supporters of al-Shabab to attack "American or Jewish-owned"
Western shopping centres.'
Jewish not Israeli? Maybe someone should explain that to Barack Hussein
Obama and David Cameron, it's about religion.
More here http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31576486 but no mention of
the word Muslims.
Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Marfa Lights 1"
Deuter, "Marfa Lights 1"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUUOddETfk
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent
[Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century
astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters.
*Click image for larger size.*
Though it appeared to Messier to be fuzzy and round and without stars,
Messier 5 (M5) is now known to be a globular star cluster, 100,000 stars or
more, bound by gravity and packed into a region around 165 light-years in
diameter. It lies some 25,000 light-years away. Roaming the halo of our
galaxy, globular star clusters are ancient members... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Cosmography of Myself”
*“The Cosmography of Myself”*
by Chet Raymo
“It was a common conceit of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to think of the
human self– body and soul– as a microcosm, a little world made cunningly of
elements and an angel-like sprite, a miniature version of the macroscosm,
the universe. So-called "correspondences" linked the microcosm and the
macrocosm. For example, each of the seven holes in the human head
corresponded to a celestial body- Sun, Moon, or one of the five known
planets. Astrology articulated a vast system of correspondences between the
peregrinations of stars and human l... more »
"The Secret Of Surrender: Seeing The Illusion"
*"The Secret Of Surrender: Seeing The Illusion"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Surrender should be seen as a great strength and comes when we let go of
trying to attain the impossible. Most of us were raised and live in a
culture that emphasizes the ideals of independence and control. The general
idea is that we are on our own and we don’t need any help from anyone else,
and if we are really successful it’s because we are in complete control.
However, true lasting success comes only with surrender, which is the
opposite of control. We cannot accomplish anything truly great on our ... more »
Paulo Coelho, "The One Guilty Man"
*"The One Guilty Man"*
by Paulo Coelho
"Wise King Weng asked to visit the palace prison. And he began listening to
the prisoners’ complaints. ‘I’m innocent,’ said a man accused of murder.
‘I’m here simply because I wanted to give my wife a fright, but I
accidentally killed her.’ ‘I was accused of taking a bribe,’ said another,
‘but all I did was accept a gift.’
All the prisoners declared their innocence to King Weng, until one of them,
a young man of only twenty or so, said: ‘I’m guilty. I wounded my brother
in a fight and I deserve to be punished. This place has made me reflect on... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Ninth Duino Elegy"
*"Ninth Duino Elegy"*
"Praise the world to the angel: leave the unsayable aside.
Your exalted feelings do not move him.
In the universe, where he feels feelings, you are a beginner.
Therefore show him what is ordinary, what has been
shaped from generation to generation, shaped by hand and eye.
Tell him of things. He will stand still in astonishment,
the way you stood by the ropemaker in Rome
or beside the potter on the Nile.
Show him how happy a thing can be, how innocent and ours,
how even a lament takes pure form,
serves as a thing, dies as a thing,
while the violin, blessing it, fades... more »
"If You Have Come to Help Me..."
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together."
- 1970s Aboriginal activists group, Queensland
"3 Simple Questions That Will Change Your Life"
*"3 Simple Questions That Will Change Your Life"*
by Jonathan
"I love simple solutions to seemingly complex issues, don’t you? So often
we seem to complicate the daylights out of things by over-analyzing,
dissecting and brainstorming. I gravitate toward simple solutions whenever
possible. Asking yourself the right question is one of the simplest ways to
direct your thoughts in a positive direction without jumping through a
bunch of mental or emotional hoops. What are the right questions? In
particular, those that stimulate your mind to consider new possibilities or
interrupt old es... more »
The Oscars
*WNU Editor*: A small confession readers .... I am a rabid fan of American
culture (music, movies, literature) .... and I also enjoy watching shows
like the Oscars. This is also what I call family time .... my mom, GF, etc.
.... an excuse for downtime on a cold Sunday night .... to have a good
laughs .... and yes .... tonight's Oscars has a few of them courtesy of the
host Neil Patrick Harris. When the show is over I will be back to blogging
.... sighhh .... back to the real world.
Colorado Students Getting It Done
*R.A.V.E. action brochure passing out!*
*Join us at Littleton High School on Saturday February 28th at 7 p.m. to
pass out opt out brochures at the end of their musical "Beauty and the
Beast."Littleton High School address - 199 East Littleton
BoulevardLittleton, Colorado 80121-1106DATE: 2/28/2015 (Sat 7:00PM
)LOCATION: Littleton High SchoolCREATED BY: Stefanie Fuhr CONTACT *CONTACT
Introducing…the DUMBPHONE
"What it is, see, is…well, it looks just like a Smartphone, except it’s
really, REALLY dumb."
Full story: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/21/dumbphone/
‘Net neutrality’ in a cartoon or two…
So how does it work?
Because "nothing says forward-looking for the 21st century like a regulated
utility."
RELATED READING:
- *'Net Neutrality' Q&A: What it is, how it affects you* – NZ HERALD
- “The Federal Communications Commission recently announced new “net
neutrality” rules, ostensibly to guarantee a “free and open internet.” But
as the New York times reported, the new rules are “a strong hand to
regulate the internet.” In reading FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s defence of
his plan, one can uncover hidden threats to internet freedom.”
*Toward a Less-Free Int... more »
TV Watch: As the final run of "Mad Men" draws nigh, the question becomes, how much does Don Draper have to pay for his sins?
*The official "first trailer" for the final episodes of Mad Men. The first
of the final seven episodes airs April 5.*
*by Ken*
I have paid abundant tribute to the tight-lippedness of Vince Gilligan, the
creator-overseer of AMC's *Breaking Bad*, which has carried over into Vince
and Peter Gould's *Better Call Saul*. But Matt Weiner, the mastermind of
AMC's other great series, *Mad Men* is no slouch in the keeping-mum
department either. As the air dates approach for the final half-season's
worth of episodes, which launch April 5, Matt knows he has to feed the
insatiable publicity ma... more »
Selling Lies And...... by Dresden James
Source:
*Living With Common Sense Facebook*
The Abomination
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