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Rahm Emanuel Isn't In Prison... So He'll Just Continue His Crime Spree For As Long As He Keeps Getting Away With It
When criminal types aren't prosecuted for their criminal behavior-- when they get away with it without paying a price-- it effectively gives them permission to keep it up and even go further down the road of criminality. We've been writing about Rahm Emanuel's criminal behavior-- behavior rewarded with immense sums of money, prestige and power... and more money-- and how he always gets away with it. It's the public that pays the price. Justin Elliott, writing this week for *ProPublica* shows how Rahm and other grotesquely corrupt Democrats have helped turning flying into a hell on ... more »
Red Warrior Camp--Warriors to the Frontline Now 'Kill the Black Snake'
Official Red Warrior Camp Frontline Communique10.13.2016 Censored News Greetings relatives across the hemispheres. We write you this message from the active frontline resistance along the banks of the sacred Mni Sose river on sovereign Lakota treaty territory. We are a growing community of dedicated water protectors that have been peacefully defending sacred water from the impending
Fiction Review: 'Salem's Lot
The town knew about darkness. It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when roatation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul. - *'Salem's Lot* by Stephen King, Chapter Ten There's a point of view that one should only read a book once. After that, why read it again, you know what happened. Truthfully, for some books, most even, that's definitely the case. But for me, there's certain books I read over and over again over the years. Not to find out what happened, but to experience the book again. And to take away something new from it. The b... more »
Friday Morning Ramble, 14.10.16
[image: Key] The rest is leftist drivel, but let this never be forgotten: “In their time in office, National has *tripled* New Zealand's debt from $31.4 to $93.9 billion… If National gives away the surplus in tax cuts [or more welfare], the debt Bill English built up will never be repaid.” *"Fiscal prudence"* – NO RIGHT TURN *A booming surplus* – KIWIBLOG *The surplus isn't really a surplus at all* – Andrew Dickens, NEWSTALK ZB “Helen Kelly didn’t take her medical cannabis before we came to see her last Friday…” *Helen* – Russell Brown, HARD NEWS Both Ministers Mallard ... more »
Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Shadows of the Mind”
Medwyn Goodall, “Shadows of the Mind” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOnxO1e5F2E
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy rises over the northern Chilean Atacama altiplano in this postcard from planet Earth. At an altitude of 4500 meters, the strange beauty of the desolate landscape could almost belong to another world though. Brownish red and yellow tinted sulfuric patches lie along the whitish salt flat beaches of the Salar de Aguas Calientes region. *Click image for larger size.* In the distance along the Argentina border is the stratovolcano Lastarria, its peak at 5700 meters (19,000 feet). In the clear, dark sky above, stars, nebulae, and cosmic dust cloud... more »
California's 2016 Propositions-- A Voter Guide
There are 17 propositions on the California ballot in November. Vote-by-mail started Monday so I figured that instead of waiting, I'd do a quick rundown of the propositions with the *DWT* recommendations. Candidate recommendations will be coming soon. Vote yes. Vote yes. Vote no. *Prop 53 is an important one to defeat.* It's basically an initiative of right-wing millionaires who are trying to hijack the system so as not to pay their fair share, as usual. Vote no. Vote yes. Vote yes. Vote Yes. Vote Yes. This one repeals the ban on bilingual education. ... more »
Is The Media Accurately Covering The Yemen War?
*Tom Cooper, War Is Boring*: *Much of What You Think You Know About the Yemen War … Is Wrong* Let’s cut through the misinformation With the latest spate of air strikes, civilian massacres and ballistic-missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and a U.S. Navy warship, the seemingly endless war in Yemen has worked its way back into the headlines. Many foreign observers, however, remain frankly befuddled by the conflict. And for good reason. It’s … complicated. And misinformation abounds. The truth is that Yemen’s government lacks popular support. Its military has largely sided with the insu... more »
Chet Raymo, "As Time Goes By"
* "As Time Goes By"* by Chet Raymo "Is time something that is defined by the ticking of a cosmic clock, God's wristwatch say? Time doesn't exist except for the current tick. The past is irretrievably gone. The future does not yet exist. Consciousness is awareness of a moment. Or is time a dimension like space? We move through time as we move through space. The past is still there; we're just not there anymore. The future exists; we'll get there. We experience time as we experience space, say, by looking out the window of a moving train. Or is time… Physicists and philosophers have... more »
Flavian Apollo
How the Flavian Emperors commissioned the project of Flavius Josephus to write The Gospels Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus Flavian Signature Edition Authored by Joseph Atwill Was Jesus the invention of a Roman emperor? The author of this ground-breaking book believes he was. "Caesar's Messiah" reveals the key to a new and revolutionary understanding of the origin of Christianity, explaining what is the New Testament, who is the real Jesus, and how Christ's second coming already occurred. The clues leading to these startling conclusions are found in the writi... more »
How John Podesta Killed the Clinton Campaign and Blink 182
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm just as disgusted as you are by the antics of the Clinton campaign, the DNC, David Brock's countless Super PACS, the mainstream media, the army of lobbyists infesting Camp Clinton like fleas and all the other scumbags, hired assassins and political piano wire operators. The Podesta email disclosures, courtesy of Wikileaks, is now on #6 and counting. And I'm not saying we should stop paying attention to this tsunami of sleaze from Tammany Hall 2.0. Far from it. However, a qualifier is called for here and I entreat you to stay with me becaus... more »
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
When a group of boys (or youths) from Bethel taunted the prophet for his baldness, Elisha cursed them in the name of Yahweh and two female bears came out of the forest and tore forty-two of the boys.
Economic News , Data & News.......October 13 , 2016.... Quick Hits For Thursday - 1) Markets & Market Moving News : US Stock Markets Rebound Off Early Lows , As Well As Down Days For Europe & Asia ; US Bonds Have a Turn-Around Day As Yields Fall & Thirty Year Auction Receives Strong Demand ; WTI Recovers From Earlier Low From Oil Inventory Report ; Global News Of Note. 2) Around The Horn In Europe - Items From Spain , Brexit Related News , CETA , Italy Items. 3) US Presidential Follies !
Markets & Market Moving News.... **Walter Bloomberg* @DeItaOne 3h 3 hours ago DOW JONES UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 41.50 POINTS, OR 0.23 PERCENT, AT 18,102.70 **Walter Bloomberg* @DeItaOne 3h 3 hours ago S&P 500 UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 6.32 POINTS, OR 0.30 PERCENT, AT 2,132.86 **Walter Bloomberg* @DeItaOne 3h3 hours ago NASDAQ UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 24.44 POINTS, OR 0.47 PERCENT, AT 5,214.58 *fred walton* @fredwalton216 13h 13 hours ago fred walton Retweeted Holger Zschaepitz Get set for risk off type of day .... fred walton added, *Holger Zs... more »
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 13, 2016
*Reuters*: *To stop bloodshed in Yemen, Obama must cut back Saudi support* In the early hours of Oct. 13, the American military carried out its first direct action against Houthi targets in Yemen, firing cruise missiles that destroyed three coastal radar sites. The strike was retaliation for two failed missile attacks on a U.S. Navy destroyer days earlier. The Houthis presumably targeted the United States because of its support for Saudi Arabia, which has been bombing Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen since March 2015. *Read more *.... *Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorial... more »
Pentagon Pushes For Anti-Drone Technology Ahead Of Mosul Offensive
The Pentagon is scrambling to bring anti-drone technology to US troops in Iraq. It follows after two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters died last week in an IED drone strike by ISIS. The booby-trapped unmanned aerial vehicle also injured two French soldiers. Sputnik reports: “The coalition has been working this issue hard for some time in concert with the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization, JIDO, the US Army, [the Office of the Secretary of Defense] and others,” Operation Inherent Resolve Spokesman Colonel John Dorrian said in an October 12 teleconference from Baghdad. In additio... more »
X-Zone Broadcast Network - Don Ecker
Don Ecker This week’s show featured Don Ecker who has been around the UFO scene nearly as long as I have. Don was the Director of Research for *UFO* magazine for nearly two decades and reported on some of the most important incidents of the last twenty or thirty years. He is a trained investigator, having worked with a number of police agencies, but has, sort of retired from the UFO field. Although I had planned to talk with him about his exit from the field, and we did touch on that, we explored the cattle mutilations which were big last century (though they continue today) and wh... more »
World News Briefs -- October 13, 2016
*BBC:** Portugal's Antonio Guterres elected UN secretary general* Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been officially appointed as the next UN secretary general. Mr Guterres, 67, will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January when Ban Ki-moon's second five-year term ends. The Portuguese, who led the UN refugee agency UNHCR for 10 years, was chosen from among 13 candidates last week. He said he would fulfil his role with gratitude and humility. Mr Guterres, who trained as an engineer, entered politics in 1976 in Portugal's first democratic election after the "... more »
U.S. Musician Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for his lifetime’s work in bringing poetic lyrical compositions to the ears of the masses. The American singer-songwriter has been an influential force in the conciousness of man. Bob Dylans’ songs during the 60s in the U.S. helped the hippie movement bring the issue of marijuana to the forefront. It allowed the parents of the Baby Boomers and later the Baby Boomers themselves to see the light and question authority, any authority; be it religious, governmental, military or otherwise. Some argue that world peace has been mainta... more »
Peace Walk in Pittsfield
- My Internet connection is touch and go - none last night in Dexter but now that we are in Pittsfield we have it. The walk is going well - so far we've had about 20 of the same folks with us and another 10 have been coming and going. We are eating well - sleeping on floors and our first shower today in Pittsfield. - In the morning we hold an 8:30 am vigil at Cianbro HQ here in Pittsfield. Cianbro is the mega-development corporation pushing the unpopular East-West Corridor that would tear up alot of middle Maine's forests, farms and waterways. Las... more »
"Recent False Flags" lecture packs the house in Denver
A full house of 40+ people packed the Journeys for Conscious Living/Unity Church between Denver and Boulder, CO Monday evening to learn about "Recent False Flags." The event was recorded and should be available on-line soon. Keep an eye on this blog... more »
Five More Books on Marx and Marxism
By way of a sequel to this from a few years back, here are five more books about Marx and/or Marxism that use the materialist method to understand the world. The first of these has to be *Empire* by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000). It had sat on my shelf for 16 years before I finally got round to reading it this summer, and I've kicked myself ever since. In a great working of theoretical synthesis, Hardt and Negri bring together theories of political sovereignty, political economy, Marxism, and postmodernism in an entirely convincing whole. The basic thesis is global capitali... more »
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 13, 2016
*Reuters:* *U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on U.S. Navy ship* The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. The strikes, authorized by President Barack Obama, represent Washington's first direct military action against suspected Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen's conflict. Still, the Pentagon appeared to stress the limited nature of the strikes, aim... more »
"Summon Your Aliveness: Being Fully Present"
*"Summon Your Aliveness: Being Fully Present"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "When we live fully in the moment there is an aliveness that comes easily. When we are fully present, we offer our whole selves to whatever it is that we are doing. Our attention, our integrity, and our energy are all focused in the moment and on the task at hand. This is a powerful experience, and when we are in this state, we feel completely alive and invigorated. This kind of aliveness comes easily when we are absorbed in work or play that we love, but it is available to us in every moment, and we can l... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
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Common Core – Standardized Reality and the Slow Kill of Divergent Thinking
*Nathaniel Mauka* - You can know a million facts, but creativity is still the highest form of intelligence. The post Common Core – Standardized Reality and the Slow Kill of Divergent Thinking appeared first on Waking Times.
Turning The Presidential Race Into An Open-Pit Sewer... That's The Donald
The other day, anti-Trump Republican David Brooks wrote, of the debate, that Hillary "behaved in the normal manner on Sunday night. But Donald Trump did not. Trump treated his questioners as unrelatable automatons and delivered his answers to the void, even when he had the chance to seem sympathetic to an appealing young Islamic woman. That underlines the essential loneliness of Donald Trump. Trump seems to him to be a man incapable of making human connection. "He is essentially adviser-less, friendless. His campaign team is made up of cold mercenaries at best and Roger Ailes at w... more »
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Limitations Defences Must Be Pleaded
Singh v. Trump, 2016 ONCA 747: [132] This court has consistently held that "[t]he expiry of a limitation period is a defence to an action that must be pleaded in a statement of defence": *Collins v.* *Cortez*, 2014 ONCA 685, [2014] O.J. No. 4753, at para. 10, per van Rensburg J.A. (citing *S. (W.E.) v. P. (M.M.)* (2000), 50 O.R. (3d) 70 (C.A.), at paras. 37-38, leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused, [2001] 149 O.A.C. 397). This requirement is embodied in rule 25.07(4) of the *Rules of Civil Procedure*, which Ontario courts have consistently held "applies to pleadings relating to l... more »
French President Hollande Believes France Has A ‘Problem With Islam’
*National Post/The Telegraph:* *Explosive new book says Francois Hollande believes France has a ‘problem with Islam’* France has a “problem with Islam” and there is “too much” unwanted immigration, Francois Hollande has acknowledged in an explosive new book in which the Socialist president controversially claims that “the veiled woman of today” will tomorrow become France’s national icon, Marianne. Over the course of 61 sit-down interviews and Elysee dinners with two journalists, the French leader issues a string of extraordinarily unguarded comments on everything from Islam, foot... more »
WikiLeaks: Hillary To Usher In ‘One World Government’ When President
Newly released Wikileaks emails reveal that Hillary Clinton plans to usher in a One World Government when elected US President. Hillary could hardly contain her excitement in closed-door remarks delivered to a foreign bank in which she declared her “dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders“. The statement is from one of Hillary’s many paid speeches to top bankers, discovered in leaked emails of Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta. The email reads: *Hillary Clinton Said Her Dream Is A Hemispheric Common Market, With Open Trade And Open Markets. * “M... more »
4Chan Hacker To Release ‘Racist Hillary’ Video Tape
A hacker from the 4chan message board claims to possess a tape of Hillary Clinton making vile racist remarks about an African-American woman. The hacker, who has a very good track record, had previously released John Podesta emails and says he also has thousands of deleted Hillary Clinton emails that he’ll release before November 1st. “All 33k deleted Emails are going to be released by November 1st. probably in 4 – 5 sets. these emails are going to be the complete undoing of the Democratic Party. We are purposely holding them back so they cannot have time to replace Hillary,” the ... more »
Doctors Confirm Bizarre Spread Of ‘Person-to-Person’ Hallucinations
Residents in Oregon are falling ill from a bizarre and worrying hallucination illness that appears to spread via direct contact with other people. At least five people have been taken to the Bay Area Hospital so far, in what appears to be the first recorded case of a contagious person-to-person hallucination illness. Komonews.com reports: KVAL-TV News reported Wednesday that authorities have not yet pinpointed what caused the mysterious episodes, but they believe it was something spread by direct contact. The bizarre incident began around 3 a.m. Wednesday when the elderly woman’s...more »
Computer Program Solves Time Travel Problem
A computer program has finally solved a time travel problem that has left scientists baffled for decades and halted the development of a time travel machine. The grandfather paradox in which a time traveller travels into the past and kills their own grandfather, preventing the existence of one of their parents and therefore themselves – has finally been solved. Cosmosmagazine.com reports: But the problem is, if the protagonist doesn’t exist, then how could they go back in time to set off the chain of events in the first place? The paradox is often extended, in various guises, to ... more »
Taliban Fighters Ambushed And Killed A Battalion Of Retreating Afghan Troops In Helmand Province
Afghan special forces prepare for battle with the Taliban on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah yesterday. ABDUL MAILK/REUTERS *Reuters:* *Taliban fighters ambush, kill dozens of retreating Afghan troops* Taliban militants ambushed and killed around 100 Afghan police and soldiers earlier this week as they tried to retreat, the heaviest losses suffered by government forces during months of fierce clashes near the capital of southern Helmand province. On Tuesday, dozens of Afghan police and soldiers were cut down as they withdrew from their positions in Chah-e-Anjir, about 12 km outside t... more »
Turkey Raises Fears Of A U.S. - Russia War
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) talks during a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, October 10, 2016. © Osman Orsal / Reuters *The Independent*: *US and Russia 'will go to war' unless proxy Syria conflict resolved, Turkey warns* *The Cold War superpowers broke off biltateral talks on Syria following the bombing of a UN aid convoy near Aleppo last month which the US said amounted to a 'war crime'.* Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has warned that the “proxy wars” in the Middle East between t... more »
Russia Accuses President Obama Of Conducting A 'Scorched Earth' Policy
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walk to their seats for a meeting about Syria, in Zurich, Switzerland, January 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin *Reuters*: *Moscow accuses Washington of destroying U.S.-Russia relations* The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Obama administration of destroying relations with Moscow in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election next month, saying on Thursday that it hoped the next occupants of the White House would be better. In comments that underline how deeply a hacking scandal and differences ov... more »
Bob Dylan takes a very large prize!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016An enduring lesson in pity:* Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for literature, or at least that's what the smart set is currently claiming. Most likely, it happened because we thought about him just this Tuesday morning. In some ways, our favorite Dylan album is New Morning, because it's about discovering, fairly early in life, that you know how to be happy. But when we read David Brook's column this Tuesday, we thought about the Dylan lyric which comes to us more than any other: BROOKS (10/11/16): *Politics is an effort to make human connection, but Tr... more »
Respect Nature – Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds
*Wes Annac* - When will humans realize that to plunder nature is to spit in the face of our provider? The post Respect Nature – Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds appeared first on Waking Times.
U.K. Foreign Minister: Britain Looking At Military Options In Syria. British PM Says No
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson listens as Prime Minister Theresa May gives her speech on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville *Reuters*: *Britain looking at military options in Syria - foreign minister* Britain is looking at its military options in Syria but any action would need to be part of a coalition involving the United States and is not likely to happen soon, foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday. Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman took a more cautious approach, say... more »
New article on prenatal screening online
Yesterday I received word that the *American Journal of Bioethics* has accepted a so-called open peer commentary by myself on a coming so-called target-article that presents a seemingly drastic proposal regarding the ethics and policy of prenatal screening using non-invasive sample techniques and so-called whole genome sequencing technology for analysis. I am partly in sharp disagreement with this proposal, partly in full agreement, and rather critical of how the authors of the proposal have ignored crucial parts of the literature and linked complications. The response where I set... more »
Post editors spot a nothing-burger!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016They may have had Chozick in mind:* On Tuesday morning, the Washington Post wrote a sensible editorial. Like Kevin Drum before them, the editors said those WikiLeaks excerpts from Candidate Clinton's paid speeches were just a big nothing-burger. The editors criticized Clinton for refusing to release the transcripts of the speeches. But they said the dozen excerpts which were hacked from a John Podesta email were just a big pile of piddle. At the end of their editorial, the editors described an increasingly familiar process. They explained how nothing-bur... more »
Whoa! Archbishop Chaput unloads on Catholics United, the Clintons, and Obama...
*and doesn't pull any punches.* Wow! I'm not only deplorable, irredeemable, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, and not an American, but now you can add that I am attracted to "systematic thought and severely backward gender relations", and I don't understand what in hell someone is talking about when the concepts of Thomistic thought and subsidiarity are bandied about, as per the *recently leaked anti-Catholic Podesta emails. * Well, piss off you fly attracting spawns of Satan useless pieces of protoplasm. I've endured a life time of being told Catholics are no... more »
Authors retract (and replace) cardiac rehab study in JAMA journal
Researchers have retracted and replaced a 2014 paper in JAMA Internal Medicine after realizing a number of errors had affected the findings. The authors note the mistakes do not have a significant impact on the overall proportion of heart patients who participated in cardiac rehab. However, a number of findings were affected, such as the difference in participation […] The post Authors retract (and replace) cardiac rehab study in JAMA journal appeared first on Retraction Watch.
Grab those pussies...
...and get them out of Congress. Oh, no, no War on Women here, ladies and germs, not even when four Republican lawmakers who'd denounced Donald Trump over the weekend had slunk back to him. Because, what's a little misogyny among fellow Republicans, especially if tolerating it keeps a woman from getting in the White House? What's especially disheartening is one of these stalwart souls who'd called for Trump to delete his campaign and turn the reins over to Pence (and it doesn't work that way, btw) is a woman. Sens. Deb Fischer (Nebraska), John Thune (South Dakota) alo... more »
President Obama To Weigh Syrian Military Options On Friday
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives aboard the Marine One helicopter to depart O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTSRI2S *Reuters:* *Exclusive: Obama, aides expected to weigh Syria military options on Friday* U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said. Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully ... more »
Iraq In A 'War Of Words' With Turkey On The Upcoming Battle For Mosul
*USA Today*: *Sparks fly between Turkey, Iraq as battle looms to oust ISIL from Mosul* WASHINGTON — The leaders of Turkey and Iraq exchanged sharp words as they prepare for a military operation to oust Islamic State militants from the terror group’s last major redoubt in Iraq. The latest salvo came from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in response to a demand from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that Turkey withdraw its troops from Iraq, where they’ve been training a multi-ethnic force to participate in the looming battle. "You are not my interlocutor. You are not at ... more »
Social media and politics
Last month, I was one of three speakers in a lecture sponsored by UP Sapul, one of my three student organizations in UP Diliman in the 80s. Creating political awareness for less/minimal (not zero) government, free market and individual freedom Free market – free trade, voluntary exchange, zero to little government intervention in many sectors of the economy. More individual freedom, personal and civil society responsibility. * 3 types of free marketers: (1) Anarchist – zero state authority, zero central (and local?) government, citizens’ self-government by voluntary organiz... more »
"Promise Me..."
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - A. A. Milne, "Christopher Robin" to “Pooh”
"Are There Any Questions?"
"Are There Any Questions?" by Robert Fulghum "Are there any questions?" An offer that comes at the end of college lectures and long meetings. Said when an audience is not only overdosed with information, but when there is no time left anyhow. At times like that you sure do have questions. Like, "Can we leave now?" and "What the hell was this meeting for?" and "Where can I get a drink?" The gesture is supposed to indicate openness on the part of the speaker, I suppose, but if in fact you do ask a question, both the speaker and the audience will give you drop-dead looks. And some foo... more »
Midday Musical Interlude: Ludovico Einaudi, “Lady Labyrinth”
Ludovico Einaudi, “Lady Labyrinth” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDC1QvMhNs
“2016 Election Choices: Guaranteed Disaster Or Risky River Landing”
*“2016 Election Choices: Guaranteed Disaster Or Risky River Landing”* By Susan Stamper Brown "An 11-year old lewd comment by Donald Trump that the Clinton campaign dredged from the sewer reminds us America is in a nose dive and set to crash. So a little perspective here. Like it or not, either a crude buffoon with a Godly Vice President will win the election- or we choose a lying, cheating, corrupt criminal who is married to an alleged rapist and supports killing full-term babies on the taxpayers’ dime. Women: Hillary also defended a rapist against a 12-year old girl, calling the li... more »
"Almost Inevitably..."
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.” - H. L. Mencken
"The Truth About GOP Abandoning Trump"
*"The Truth About GOP Abandoning Trump"* by Karl Denninger "Let's cut the crap eh? Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Renice, John McCain and the others are not upset about Trump's foul mouth. That's yet another lie. Here's the truth: They know damn well that last year alone the House and Senate, both of which are Republican, presided over, passed and spent at a level that generated a *$1.4 trillion deficit. *Let me remind you that all revenue bills must originate in the house. The President may not spend one dollar that has not been allocated by Congress. It is a fact that the government... more »
The Esoteric Kubrick : Arthur Bremer, Mind Control and A Clockwork Orange
*Chicago Tribune* *August 22nd 1972* *"He kept a diary - and prior to that, he had never kept a diary before. It seems to me, that all these so-called political assassins keep diaries."* *Governor George Wallace on Arthur Bremer* *"We know Bremer wasn't a loner - something stinks about the whole thing"* *First Lady Lurmilla Wallace* *"Die, Die, Die, RFK Must Die"* *Sirhan Sirhan's automatic writing* *''I will finish what Hinckley started... RR must die... He [John Warnock Hinkley] has told me so in a prophetic dream. Sadly though, your death is also required. You will suffer the ... more »
All Sides Are Getting Ready For The Battle Of Mosul
*CNN:* *Inside ISIS-held Mosul: Resistance fighters defying occupation* Erbil, Iraq (CNN)In the distance, through the dusty haze that envelopes the arid plains of northern Iraq, we can just about make out ISIS on the horizon -- readying for a fight. In one of the lifeless villages along the main road to Mosul -- a city once inhabited by more than two million people before it became the main prize in the Iraqi portion of the militant group's self-declared caliphate -- a dozen or so tiny figures scatter around on bikes and in trucks. These villages are deserted we're told, aware tha... more »
Russian Media Is Reporting That The US And Saudi Arabia Will Grant 9,000 ISIS Fighters Free Passage From Mosul To Syria
*RT*: *US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source* The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. "More than 9,000 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) militants will be redeployed from Mosul to the eastern regions of Syria to carry out a major offensive operation, which involves capturing Deir ez-Zor and Palmyra,” the s... more »
After Today's U.S. Strikes Iran Has Deployed 2 Warships To Yemen's Coast
*Tasnim News Agency (Iran)*: *Iran Dispatches Naval Flotilla to Gulf of Aden* TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Navy has deployed a flotilla of warships to international waters for a mission that includes presence in the waters off the southern coasts of Yemen. Iran’s 44th flotilla, comprising Alvand destroyer and Bushehr logistic warship, has been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to protect the country’s trade vessels against piracy in the unsafe zone. The Iranian fleet will head for the waters near Somalia and Tanzania afterwards through the Indian Ocean. *R... more »
EU Interconnector Targets
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/eu-targets-for-interconnector-capacity/ I noted a couple of months ago the fact that the EU had set targets for building of interconnector capacity. Joe Public has done some digging and tracked down the Press Release from the European Commission last year, which introduced them. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4486_en.htm These […]
The Truth About Wildfires In California
By Paul Homewood https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/12/debunking-the-l-a-times-story-claiming-new-study-shows-human-caused-warming-doubled-western-u-s-area-burned-since-1984/ WUWT does a nice debunk on the latest attempt to link wildfires to global warming. Nationally, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, so far this year wildfires are down on recent years, and there is no evidence of any trend to them becoming worse. http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_statistics.html […]
Tax Cut 27, The Furusato tax in Japan as possible model in citizen empowerment
A Tokyo-based Filipino friend, Jules, shared this article from Tokyo Weekender: *The program was launched in 2008 as a way for a person to make a charitable donation to a municipality or prefecture of their choice—whether or not it was their hometown. Donors can even specify the purpose for which they want the money to be used: educational projects and helping the elderly are two examples. Beyond the feel-good aspect, though, there are two benefits that make donating all the sweeter.* *The first of these is that donations are tax deductible: depending on how much you donate and you... more »
'Gorilla escaped from enclosure' at London Zoo per BBC News
This part of the story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37650295 'Brad said visitors had since been allowed to leave the zoo.' makes me wonder one thing... Are they 100% that the escaped gorilla didn't escape hidden amongst the visitors!
The Esoteric Kubrick : Iam in a World of Shit
[ The Qabblist Conjorour ] said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: *Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement. Observe the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the other nations who worship idols. It has been taught: Note from this incident how serious a thing it is to put a man to shame, for God espoused the cause of Bar Kamza and destroyed His House and burnt His Temple.* Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Gittin Folio 56a He said, I won't. Then let me give you half th... more »
Houthi Rebels Deny Firing Missiles At U.S. Warships
A handout image released by the US navy shows a guided-missile destroyer USS Mason. The US navy said that two missiles fired from Houthi-held territory in Yemen fell short of the US warship while it was patrolling the Red Sea. Navy Visual News Service (NVNS) / AFP *DW*: After US strikes Yemen, Houthis deny firing on ships Yemeni rebels deny targeting a US ship in the Red Sea. The United States has supported the Saudi-led coalition, which has left much of the country in rubble after a year and a half of airstrikes. Houthis deny accusations that they fired missiles at a US destroyer ... more »
The U.S. Military Has Directly Entered The Conflict In Yemen
*Daily Mail:* *US military destroys three 'radar sites' in Yemen in tit-for-tat response to two failed missile attacks on their Navy destroyer * * The retaliatory attack on Thursday was authorized by President Obama * Marks first shots fired by the US against Yemen's Shiite rebels the Houthis * Missiles launched from Houthi-controlled territory targeted the USS Mason twice in four days this week * Officials said the three radar sites were in remote areas, where there was little risk of civilian casualties or collateral damage * US previously only provided logistical support and ref... more »
Picture Of The Day
*Howitzer Fury * Soldiers fire a 155 mm howitzer at Orchard Combat Training Center, Idaho, Oct. 10, 2016. The soldiers are participating in Raptor Fury, a training exercise to validate the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade's mission readiness. Army photo by Capt. Brian Harris
Tweet For Today
Bob Dylan wins #NobelPrize for Literature https://t.co/rp6ZZeJREr pic.twitter.com/3kQcQUM0hC — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 13, 2016
First time assian
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Sharp Increase in Autism Rate Among California Kindergartners: Could Increase be Linked to Fukushima Fallout?
I was searching for the new autism diagnostic rate and discovered that California has a significant increase in autism incidents among kindergartners: Reese, Phillip. July 18 2016. Autism rates in California public schools jumped 7 percent in 2016. Sacramento Bee, http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article90300877.html#storylink=cpy The increase was especially sharp among kindergartners, where autism cases grew by 17 percent last year [2015]. More than one of every 65 kindergartners in California public schools is classified as autistic To reiterate, the article is rep... more »
There is no pain your reciving
message not delivered despite pink flyod fame
NBC Planned to Use Trump Audio to Influence Debate & Election
* Billy Bush, Donald Trump and *Days of our Lives* actress Arianne Zucker. Zucker was apparently the subject of all the crude remarks. That bus Bush is standing next to? He's now under it (source; click to enlarge).* *by Gaius Publius* Not long ago, Howie alluded to the timing of the release of the Mark Foley pageboy information as engineered to influence that election. His discussion of Foley is here, in the first few paragraphs. Howie didn't exactly make a parallel to the Trump Tape release, but the implication was there, as I read it. More recently, Chris Hayes, in a side comme... more »
The Ballad of Donald Trump
Yes he was born rich rich like the rain that will always fall to earth and grow green crops and I should commit suicide because I cant produce like that pasture because thats the way it was and the way it will always be Unlike his peers he did not go to upstream addictions he just remained a 60's asshole which in the hole war on the world is a guy you would want in a foxhole in a Zombie apoclylsre but otherwise easy to despise Man and woeman are never equal thats bioloic; and if you want to bring lawsuits to prove your a bitch go forward to scratch that itch I have never done anything na... more »
Five Tips for Bloggers - Posted on "The Sullen Bell" Blogger Discussion site
*Truth - By George Orwell* *Hi Folks: I've just posted a list of "Five Tips for Bloggers" on "The Sullen Bell" Blogger Discussion site. *I won't copy them here as a "tease" to get you to visit the site here: Perhaps others have their own tips for Bloggers...I would love to read them. Make all comments on the Sullen Bell Blogger Discussion site please. Thanks. gc
Mohawk Nation News 'The Verdict'
THE VERDICT Posted on October 13, 2016 Please post and distribute. MNN. Oct. 13, 2016. The US District Court of NY has proven that we onkwe’hon:weh cannot get a fair trial on ono’ware:keh, great turtle island. The jury ruled that the 51 NYS I-81 INDIAN Detail had a right to brutally attack over 100 men, women and children on May 18, 1997, without punishment. The people were conducting a
Iran Deploys Warships Off Yemen Coast
Iran has deployed a fleet of warships to the Gulf of Aden, the republic’s naval commander has confirmed. The deployment coincides with US cruise missile strikes on radar sites believed to be in the Houthi rebel controlled area of Yemen The Iranian naval commander dismissed claims the fleet has been deployed to intervene in the conflict in Yemen. RT reports The Iranian Navy has sent the warships to international waters for a mission that includes entering the area off the southern coast of Yemen, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari confirmed on Wednesday. The area is among the world’s ... more »
Wikileaks Email Dump Shows NEA Rigged Hillary Endorsement
Source here. WRITTEN BY: MIKE ANTONUCCI - Oct• 11•16 The release by Wikileaks of the e-mails of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, revealed that the leaders of the National Education Association were determined to win an endorsement for Clinton well before determining the wishes of the union’s representative bodies . Despite constant pressure from NEA’s leaders, and a positive recommendation from the union’s PAC Council ( although I suspected some manipulation there as well ), there was still serious doubt whether the proposed Clinton endorsement would meet the 58%...more »
Kundalini Rising - I : A World of Shit
*P**rivate Joker: * Leonard, if Hartman comes in here and catches us, we'll both be in a *World of Shit.* *Private Pyle:* *Iam!* In a World - of *Shit*! Left shoulder, hut! Right shoulder, hut! Lock and load! Order, hut! This is my rifle! There are many like it but this one is mine!... *"Property is theft,"* Hagbard said, passing the peace pipe. *"If the BIA helps those real estate developers take our land,"* Uncle John Feather said,* "that will be theft. But if we keep the land, that is certainly not theft." * Night was falling in the Mohawk reservation, but Hagbard s... more »
Cancer researcher earns 5th retraction after misconduct finding
A cancer researcher has logged her fifth retraction following an investigation that concluded she had committed scientific misconduct. We’ve previously reported on four retractions of papers by Stephanie Watkins, a researcher at Loyola Medicine. The previously issued notices — in The Journal of Clinical Investigation and Cancer Research — note that an investigation committee appointed by […] The post Cancer researcher earns 5th retraction after misconduct finding appeared first on Retraction Watch.
An Alternative Look At Iraq’s 1970s Economic Development
The 1970s is widely considered a golden period for Iraq. During this time, oil production increased, and astute government planning was able to use that revenue to nearly quadrupled per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Life expectancy, school enrolment, and literacy all increased as well. Indiana State University Economics Professor Bassam Yousif studiedthis period, and while acknowledging the great gains that were made also argued that it was eventually undercut by politicization by the Baathist government. Iraq’s economy and society saw tremendous development in the 1970s. ... more »
Russian Embassy In Syria Came Under Mortar Attack For Two Hours
The Russian Embassy in Syria was shelled for two hours on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Ministry said that the attack was launched from the Jobar neighborhood, east of Damascus, that is under the control of extremist terrorists. The Russian Embassy also came under attack last week. RT reports: Stating that no one was injured in the shelling, the ministry said the embassy’s territory was covered in bomb splinters. The ministry has strongly condemned the attack – the second one on the embassy this month. “On October 12, starting... more »
"Pro-woman" Fetus Freaks Support Trump
Out of the bizarre spectacle that is the 2016 US presidential election, the most (darkly) amusing aspect to a reproductive rights blogger is the fetus freaks' unswerving endorsement of the misogynist self-confessed serial sexual assaulter and child-ogler as their man. Anti-choice groups have worked hard over the past few years to re-brand themselves as pro-woman, like ProWomanProForcedPregnancy, aka the Astroturf Blog of Focus on the Family. They contend that abortion is bad for women and, as champions of all things womanly, it's their duty to point this out to us benighted broads.... more »
WHERE THE PISA GAPS ARE: Large gaps within the American scores!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016* *Part 2 in this series* *Part 3—The shape of our demographics:* In December 2012, results were released from the latest quadrennial administration of the TIMSS and the PIRLS. This latest testing had occurred in 2011. As we noted yesterday, American students had performed rather well as compared to their peers around the world. Unless you read the New York Times, where Motoko Rich's news report started like this, gloomy headline included: RICH (12/11/12): *U.S. Students Still Lag Globally In Math and Science, Tests ShowFourth- and eighth-grade student... more »
My Mother
My Mother no wonder why if you know me that is complicated and perfect because I have two mothers and two fathers so that is why I can not just take one side in any discussion I want more God bless my mother and my father cause they really made me more suri genis and all that well it had it reward but still waiting for the big payoff that all that cross breeding gives to most half and quarter and more divide breeds
Greg Hunter, "Deutsche Bank Walking Dead- Bill Holter"
"*Deutsche Bank Walking Dead- Bill Holter"* *Between Now & Election Extremely Dangerous* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Financial writer Bill Holter says if you want to know how bad the global financial problems are in the world, start with Germany’s Deutsche Bank (DB). The problems keep mounting, and it’s been all downhill since June when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deemed DB as the most systemically dangerous bank in the world. Holter warns, “Deutsche Bank is dead. It’s a walking dead institution. Just the fact that there is a debate, whether or not there’s a problem,... more »
Calling Me a Trump trumpet is Rich
I want to see Trump as president like I want to see an abortion but its that kind of choice
If not the Jews the Irish
Yeah the Pouges should get a Noble prize as well
Syrian President Bashar al Assad Looks Positively on Russian/Turkish Rapprochement
*Damascus, SANA – President Bashar al-Assad said Syria looks positively at the improvement of relations between Moscow and Ankara recently.His remarks came in an interview with the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that is due to be published at 1 am (Damascus time).* *Answering a question on whether he thinks the Russians are making a mistake by trusting Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his forces’ shooting down of the Russian warplane, President al-Assad said “In fact, I positively view this relationship.”“We in Syria only wish that, out of this rapprochement between Rus... more »
Working the Democratic lie
Well its more like the truth because if you play the game and are smart and dark enough you will win But it you are a fuckup and shit disterber you better be good enough or no body will know your name
Jeffrey Smith Speaks Free Online On Avoiding GMOs October 14 & 16 2016
*Jeffrey Smith Speaks on "Why Avoiding GMOs and Roundup Residues is FUNDAMENTAL to Your Health"* *in The Truth About Cancer. Livestreamed, absolutely FREE and ONLINE, October 14th-16th:* *Click here for FREE access to the entire event!*
US Trying To Save The Terrorists In Syria’s Aleppo- Analyst
The United States is doing its level best to save the terrorist groups in Aleppo in order to maintain leverage for its ultimate goal of regime change in Syria, according to James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst. Jatras also pointed out that there are no moderate groups in Syria, which is the reason why the US says it can’t separate them from the terrorists. Press TV reports: What the Americans are really doing is protecting terrorists but they do not want to admit it, he added. Jatras further stated these terrorist groups use the Syrian people as “human shields” ... more »
Cash Is Figural for Gestalt Charter $chools
The Gestalt Community Schools operate a half-dozen segregated corporate reform schools in Memphis. Their stated vision at their website is . . . building better communities through education. To this end, Gestalt targets low-income communities that have failing schools, then catalyzes grassroots leadership to revitalize the neighborhood, educates the youth through high-performing schools, and partners with providers to tackle out-of-school challenges that hinder students from succeeding. This week it was announced that two of its schools in one of Memphis's shrinking neighborhood... more »
Criticism swirls around high-profile history book about North Korea
An award-winning account of North Korea during the Cold War has fallen under criticism, claiming the author included material not supported by the list of references. One historian has uploaded a series of what he calls “noteworthy problems” with Tyranny of the Weak, winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History in 2014. Balazs […] The post Criticism swirls around high-profile history book about North Korea appeared first on Retraction Watch.
The Toxicity Of Donald Trump vs The Toxicity Of Paul Ryan-- Republican Civil War
The *Salt Lake Tribune* isn't a mouthpiece for the LDS Church; but it is Utah's biggest newspaper and yesterday it endorsed Hillary Clinton. The mouthpiece for the LDS Church is the *Deseret News*, which is owned by the LDS Church, and it urged its readers last week not to vote for Trump, telling them that "considering his conduct and comportment, we do not believe Trump holds the ideals and values of this community." Yesterday's Tribune went further: "It is time to get serious," the editors wrote. "It has been amusing, to a degree, to watch the circus that was the Republican pri... more »
Greatest Jew since Jesus
This is a personal challage I am not going to google anything because like navigation in a car using google as a backstop for native intelligence is going to make you a shepple faster than any slavery circumstance Great Jews I know personally these are pretty few my college roomate a privileged child named Howie and a internet lawyer So the gold standard is Jesus what a mother fucking imaculate jew. The only way possible due to human bioligy that God could bring him to us without sex was pre cognative masturbation in the womb Great Jews I have enjoyed now this is not a German upscale men... more »
The Last Person Standing
Yesterday, Tony Clement dropped out of the Conservative leadership race and Chris Alexander dropped in. The Conservative ranks are teeming with ambition. But ambition is expensive. Brent Rathgeber writes: Running for the leadership of a Canadian political party is no modest undertaking. Including the registration fee and a subsequent charge for access to the membership list, it costs $100,000 to play. But that’s only the beginning. Canada is a big country. Given that the leadership contest is weighted — that is, the 338 electoral districts are each assigned an equal number of poi... more »
Untitled
*British State teachers refuse to push poor, bright pupils to apply for Oxbridge because they believe they 'won't be happy there'* *And that's not unreasonable. The British class system is vicious and students from poor backgrounds will be likely to feel excluded by students from elite backgrounds who dominate the social scene* State school teachers refuse to encourage bright, disadvantaged pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge because they assume most ‘won’t be happy there’. Four in ten teachers said they would rarely or never advise their cleverest children to apply – despi... more »
The Hareem
People get serious the biggest contributours to the Clinton Foundation may have a hareem. Look at history people, powerful men have legions of women. Is it right or is it wrong. Yes its wrong but its like communism, good ideas fail when they meet flesh.
Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 13th Oct)
RBS destroyed customers' businesses for profit and rewarded staff who targeted struggling firms, leaked files suggest New documents show a project, labelled by one executive in an email as a 'dash for cash', crippled firms as it dangled hefty bonuses to staff who targeted firms to be 'restructured.' RBS, which was bailed out in the financial crisis by taxpayers, allegedly destroyed thousands
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*New book: Twenty-five Myths That Are Destroying the Environment: What Many Environmentalists Believe and Why They Are Wrong* *Written by Daniel Botkin. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Lanham, MD 20706. $12.71 from Amazon* The Introduction discusses the distinctions between myths, folktales, and science, and the chapters discuss which generalizations about environment are which of these. SOME OF THE 25 MYTHS THAT ARE DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT: Myth 1 We Are the Only Species That Has Had Global Effects on Environment Myth 2 Life Is Fragile and Can't Adjust Easily to Change Myth ... more »
US Launches Strikes At Yemen After Failed Attacks On Warships
The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Yemen’s three coastal radar sites, citing retaliation for two failed missile attacks on American warships in the Red Sea. The Pentagon said that three radar sites had been destroyed early on Thursday in the impoverished country. #USNavy #USSNitze launches strike Oct. 13 against 3 coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory in #Yemen – https://t.co/ZTG1WmVQ9w pic.twitter.com/cHweOQpoe5 — U.S. Navy (@USNavy) October 13, 2016 The USS Mason and the USS Ponce, were targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory of... more »
US, Saudi Arabia Grant ISIS Free Passage From Iraqi To Syria -Report
The US and Saudi Arabia have reportedly agreed to grant thousands of ISIS terrorists free passage out of the Iraqi city of Mosul ahead of a major operation aimed at retaking the city from its occupiers. A military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti that ISIS will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria. “More than 9,000 Daesh militants will be redeployed from Mosul to the eastern regions of Syria to carry out a major offensive operation, which involves capturing Dayr al-Zawr and Palmyra,” the unnamed diplomatic source told the news agency on Wednesday. The source sa... more »
An open appeal to our American brothers & sisters; to choose between a devastating global war or Peace_&_Prosperity.
To our dear American brothers & sisters, Please come out to vote wisely, this Nov 8. Each vote counts. Each vote is part of a collective force to be reckoned with. Do not lose out on a rare opportunity to tilt our world back, from the brink of extinction. The world is watching nervously, this pivotal 2016 US presidential election. For the first time since President JF Kennedy, you have an "outsider" candidate who will make America great again. A good-heart, honest "born-in-America" concerned citizen who might have spoken occasional rash words (as all human beings do) but meant no r... more »
On PK Subban
I hate to say it but its not black and white but the fact that PK was more NBA than NHL made him move
Bob Dylan was named the surprise winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Can we not all now say he is the greatest Jew since Jesus?
‘Henry Ford House,’ by Marion Mahony
[image: 12_0125_HenryFordDwelling (1)] The Henry Ford House in Dearborn, Michigan looked like a done deal. But returning from Europe when the foundations were already poured, the great industrialist declared he wanted “a touch of English manor” and not the Prairie Style masterwork Marion Mahony had already delivered. [image: Mahony-FORD-1stfloor] So the possible very public breakthrough for a natural-born American architecture was stillborn, and on its foundations (quite literally) the Old World architecture Mahony and her colleagues were trying to shake off took over again. ... more »
Thailand: The Truth Before the Storm
Before Western lies begin, what you need to know about this critical moment for Thailand. *October 13, 2016* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Thailand is a pivotal nation centered amid Southeast Asia and commanding a prominent economy with a large population. It played a pivotal role during the US war in Vietnam, but has since then incrementally diverged from serving US hegemony in Asia. As of now, Thailand has clearly and decisively performed its own "pivot" away from Washington and toward a diverse portfolio of alternative ties, including with Beijing and Moscow. Its military inventor... more »
Does Hillary's victory guarantee a nuclear war?
*It's unlikely but similar, weaker statements are probably true* Criticisms of Donald Trump are usually ill-defined insults, slurs, or accusations, or *ad hominem* attacks focused on things that don't matter. Even though he is no "clearcut conservative", Trump has personified the targets of many weird far left-wing conspiracy theories. For example, a part of the left-wing ideological psychopaths known as the climate alarmists have turned Trump into the man who will single-handedly destroy the Earth by making it fry through global warming. I genuinely hope that as a president, Trum... more »
Musical Interlude: Ludovico Einaudi, “Primavera”
Ludovico Einaudi, “Primavera” - https://www.youtube.com/
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*From Jenna Orkin*Children in South Africa have offered new hope in the fight against AIDS — they have a built-in defense against HI A powerful medicine derived from marijuana is transforming global perceptions of the drug Tens of thousands of drowned livestock carcasses litter North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew 'Facial-profiling' could be dangerously inaccurate and biased, experts war The richest village in China is one of the most mysterious places on earth You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body — but you can never imprison my mind': Hong Kong la... more »
I will put you in Jail
If you wish to understand why the money boys are so frantic to elect Hilary there it is. Systemic treason brought about the collapse of 2008 and it was not by the politicians who in 1999 foolishly loosened the governors put in by Joe Kennedy and FDR in 1933. For the past eight years the money boys have step by step foisted the bill of that debacle onto the national debt and the USA taxpayer who actually cannot pay. Trump has stated that those governors are coming back which alone ensures he is no economic ignoramus. The collapse meant that the money boys had to ensure that the... more »
Genesis for the New Space Age with John Leith - Chpt VI - USA Shares Secret of New Plane with Allies
Again we now encounter an odd variation that does not come naturally unless it is largely true. I know from other work that the Canadian British USA military research alliance is very much intact but never talked about. That Germany became part of it is also completely believable because of scientific skill levels that could be tapped.. Yet it is not something that an American writer would think to suggest unless it actually was true and he knew it. This does not make the rest of the story true but it speaks clearly to deep level informants. I posted a picture here of Comox ... more »
New Claims About The Great Pyramid, Citing The Oldest Papyrus Ever Found
[image: Photograph from 1870s via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery] It appears that the documents do not specify what was been built but do specify Giza. At the same time we also have dates of 2589 bc to 2566 bc for Khufu though this material suggests that he lived perhaps four years longer. However the accepted dates for the Great Pyramid is almost a century later and obviously part of the same generational building program. This certainly confirms the importance of this building program in the time and place. Those trying to place alternate times on all this b... more »
NYT hit piece on Donald Trump demonstrates stunning financial illiteracy of the left
The truth of the matter is that they failed to even try. They merely concocted a fraudulent hit piece out of full cloth based on two or three line entries in a tax return representing the turn over of billions of dollars in business that was clearly not theirs. A detailed analysis of sophisticated tax strategy is far beyond these folks pay grade. Once again, the primary place to manufacture losses in real estate is to have rapid write downs against highly leverage assets. The write downs give you your losses early but then they are recovered years later in revenues which is w... more »
Say WHAT?! “US, Saudis to Grant 9,000 ISIS Fighters Safe Passage From Iraqi Mosul to Syria”
*“US, Saudis to Grant 9,000 ISIS Fighters * *Safe Passage From Iraqi Mosul to Syria”* by RT "The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. "More than 9,000 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) militants will be redeployed from Mosul to the eastern regions of Syria to carry out a major offensive operation, which involves capturing Deir ez-Zor and Palmyra,” the source ... more »
Mike Pence Compares Hillary Clinton to Nixon: ‘Looks Like Obstruction’ per Breitbart
'"I'm old enough to remember a president who erased 18 and a half minutes and they ran him out of town," said Pence — the reference to the Watergate scandaland former President Nixon being forced into leaving the office of President of the United States. "And Hillary Clinton deleted more than 18,000 emails that were under a subpoena from the United States congress.""Men and women, that doesn't look like politics to me, that looks like obstruction," said Pence.' More here at Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/12/pence-compares-hillary-clinton-nixon/ ... more »
Nick Smith & Phil Twyford are both right, and both very wrong
The major party’s various spokesthings have all been arguing through the media over how many “affordable” homes have been built in the last three years, yet none have bothered to ask whether that tag in the context over which they’re arguing means anything. The story first. Looking for a headline, Labour’s Phil Twyford “released official Auckland Council figures that showed in the past three years, only 18 houses built on special housing areas were declared to be an affordable dwelling.” Which sounds damning. In response, “Housing Minister Nick Smith said more than 500 homes fr... more »
False Flag Attack Imminent in Syria as Globalists Engineer World War III
*Isaac Davis* - History is clear that state powers manufacture the events which take us to war. The post False Flag Attack Imminent in Syria as Globalists Engineer World War III appeared first on Waking Times.
Make Halloween Great Again With The Horror Of Herr Trump!
*-by Noah* Well, THIS was bound to happen. Here’s a splendid opportunity to make Halloween great again. You can do it with the visage of America’s most popular neo-nazi, snatch-grabbing, gay conversion supporting, broom-riding, tax-evading douchebag, Donald J. Trump. No, I don’t mean wearing a mask of America’s newest Charlie Manson. That’s so passé. I mean, why not explore your own artistic abilities and carve out a nice, round, fat pumpkin so it looks just like the Republican Party’s beloved choice to be our President and the leader of the free world? It's a natural! Or, is tha... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is actually tossing and turning. In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! Collisions between gas in the inner and outer regions are creating many hot blue stars and pink emission nebula. *Click image for larger size.* The above image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001 and released in 2004. The fascinating internal motions of M64, also cataloged as NGC 4826, are thought... more »
Chet Raymo, “Try To Remember…”
*“Try To Remember…”* by Chet Raymo “In a sleepless hour of the night, I was trying to remember the last name of a person I have known well for more than forty years. When my spouse stirred in her sleep, I asked her. She couldn't remember either. One again I started mentally through the alphabet. "I think it starts with B," I said. Ten minutes later she rolled over and said, "The next letter is R." Bingo! The name popped into my head. Or I should say, "popped out of my head." Because it was in there somewhere, recorded in a tangle of neurons as materially as if it were written on a ... more »
The Syrian War To Free Itself From The Evil US/Israel/NATO Criminal Cabal: This Is Sickening - Russian Media Reports US And Saudi Arabia Sending ISIS Terrorists From Mosul In Iraq To Syria!
I really do not get the stupidity of people sometimes.. I was out and about today doing some errands and I spent part of this morning with my usual group of colleagues and friends at the local Tim Hortons restaurant here in central Canada to discuss what has been happening in Canada and of course around the world.... As usual the topic did turn to "terrorism" and I listened once again as several people at our table were talking about how terrible "ISIS" was and how our Canadian government has to do MORE to fight "terrorism".... I had to bite my tongue so hard, for I have long known t... more »
Mythic vs. Mythical
This one stands as a Litmus Test Shibboleth for all self-identifying Free Thinkers and Men of Science. "*Mythic*" presumes that it may actually exist; "*Mythical*" presumes that it doesn't exist, nor could it possibly have any basis in fact or material realism. *Hence we do not need to look for it, because it won't be there.* Again, I stress "*realism*", over "*reality*", as it explicitly invokes the Thought Crime of *Imagination* and *Creative Reason* ("*Logocentrism*") *I am Logocentric and Proud.*
The Syrian War To Free Itself From The Evil US/Israel/NATO Criminal Cabal: Must See Video - Truth Regarding Syria, NOT Civil War But US Invasion!
I have now fully recovered from my sickness over the last week, and spent the day running errands... I am finally going through literally a TON of emails and comments that have been sent my way, including many that contain links to some most interesting articles and videos that the sender has requested I look at and possibly use them here at this site... ONE video in particular came to my attention and the information enclosed is fabulous and tells the absolute truth about exactly what is happening in Syria.....It was actually released almost a month ago, and came to my attention a ... more »
Footage Of Obama Flashing Erection At Female Reporters Goes Viral
Footage of Barack Obama flashing his erection at female reporters in 2008 has surfaced and is going viral on the internet. The footage, captured by CNN during the 2008 Presidential campaign, shows then Senator Obama on a campaign flight, talking on a cellphone. As he arises from his seat a nearby female reporter catches a glance of something that makes her uncomfortable, sending her squealing to the back of the plane. However, rather than downplay the awkward incident, Obama plays it up. The future President stands up and thrusts out a leg, making sure all of the reporters on the... more »
992
"In the year of our lord 992, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu set sail in their longboats on a voyage to rediscover the lost continent. After many months on perilous stormy seas, their search was fruitless. Just when all seemed lost they discovered... *America!" *
National Coming Out Day is a good time for folks to come out of closets of all sorts
*by Ken* I realize that National Coming Out Day was yesterday, but as it didn't fall on one of my blogging days, I'm exercising blogorific license to stretch it to a two-day event. Of course the spirit shouldn't be term-limited -- the time for anyone to come out of whatever closet the person may be dwelling in is as soon as he or she is ready, and the time to help prepare everyone else is now, whenever now happens to be. One happy byproduct of the delay in celebrating the day is the opportunity to take note of last night's season premiere of ABC's disarmingly wacky sitcom *The Re... more »
“Don’t act like you own your children” [updated]
If there are children who suffer from the poverty of low expectations, there are many others suffering the pain of living out the expectations of their parents, instead of their own. Australian novelist and father of x Vinay Kolhatkar has some timely advice for such parents: “Don’t Act Like You Own Your Children.” *“You don’t own your children.” If those five words were ingrained in us, half the parenting problems in the world, and half the parent-child relationship strains would disappear. “No, I can’t bring them to your wedding, because they are not suitcases or trophies; t... more »
"We May Know..."
"We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that's finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbor who's crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it's even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That's enough for me, or it isn't enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life." - Fernando Pessoa
The Poet: Donald Justice, "The Evening of the Mind"
*"The Evening of the Mind"* "Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood; Here is the shadow moving down the page Where you sit reading by the garden wall. Now the dwarf peach trees, nailed to their trellises, Shudder and droop. Your know their voices now, Faintly the martyred peaches crying out Your name, the name nobody knows but you. It is the aura and the coming on. It is the thing descending, circling, here. And now it puts a claw out and you take it. Thankfully in your lap you take it, so. You said you would not go away again, You did not want t... more »
Disney on Ice in Salt Lake City Giveaway!
Disney on Ice is headed back to Salt Lake City this November! Disney on Ice is hands down my favorite girls night. I take my girls and my mom and we head to the Vivant Smart Home Arena for a night of princesses, stories and Mickey. It is truly a magical experience that every child should get to have! We are so excited because this years show includes The Lion King, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and Frozen! My kids can't get enough of Ariel, Tinkerbell and Elsa so this show is going to be fantastic! Disney on Ice is the perfect outing for any ages. I have been taking my daughte... more »
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 12, 2016
*Frontline:* *Who’s Who in the Fight Against ISIS?* The global fight against ISIS has been halting and complex since it began in late 2014. The United States has led an international coalition of more than 60 countries against ISIS. Some nations — including the United Kingdom, Australia, France and a handful of regional powers — have helped launch airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, while others have cracked down on the flow of funds and foreign fighters to ISIS. Still others have contributed humanitarian aid, taken in refugees or provided weapons and training to fighters on the ground... more »
Putin To Russians Abroad: ‘Come Home Immediately’
Vladimir Putin has ordered all Russian families with children studying abroad to return home to Russia immediately, as fears grow that the world is on the brink of World War 3. The children are to return to Russia urgently for their own safety, according to a report quoting Putin in media outlet Znak on Tuesday. Russian intelligence sources believe that a major war with the United States is now more likely than it has been for decades. Government and media have warned the people to prepare for nuclear Armegeddon, after the U.S. announced it was “cutting ties” with Russia regardin... more »
WikiLeaks: Clinton Told Wall St. She Is 100% Against Legalizing Cannabis
WikiLeaks has revealed that Hillary Clinton told Goldman Sachs bankers that legalization of marijuana will not happen on her watch. WikiLeaks has been the most important thing that has happened to an election in a long time. We’ve been able to catch glimpses of the real nature of politicians and bureaucrats like never before, and see the state of democracy for what it is: a once mighty oak ravaged by white ants. In Hillary Clinton, we see a figure beholden to Wall St., working diligently to advance the influence of financial corporations over government policy and taxpayer money. H... more »
Child Hospitalized After Eating Bucket Of Maggot-Infested KFC
An Arkansas mother had to take her 5-year-old son to hospital after he ate a bucket of KFC fried chicken infested with maggots. The unnamed woman shared a video of the maggot-infested chicken to the Helena-West Helena Police Department’s Facebook page, the local news station Fox13 reports. She claims that shortly after her son ate some of it he began gagging violently and projectile vomiting, which promoted her to take him the emergency room. She reportedly purchased the meal at a KFC in West Helena, Arkansas located at 789 Sebastian Street, according to Fox13. The video shows mag... more »
Goodbye Bees, Hello Tiny, Winged RoboBees
Following the news bees are now officially an endangered species as “colony collapse disorder” accelerates, a Harvard research team claims they have the solution – robotic honeybees. Researchers at Harvard and the University of Washington are building tiny robotic insect drones with the intention of replacing endangered bee populations. The police and military have also planned to use them for surveillance and “data gathering”. Instead of attempting to save the bees by reducing the use of pesticides, revising safety standards for cell phone radiation, or changing our destructive i... more »
October 12, 2016 – White Hats Report #54 – It’s now or never
We had a long, detailed report prepared, analyzing the two debates and the aftermath and the points and counterpoints and after writing three pages of information that, in review, should already be obvious to our readers, we decided to shift gears, step back and reassess our message. We have issued 54 reports in 6 years, some lengthy with attachments and details, others with concepts and ideals and still others with just raw information. We have written about the cabal and the many players involved including both sides of the political aisle. It should be obvious that we’ve been cle... more »
Economic News , Data & Views .... October 12 , 2016 ..... Items To Consider For Wednesday 1) US Stock Markets Have MixeJour ; d Day ; US Bonds Break Losing Streak ; Oil Items For Wednesday ; Fed Minutes Don't Move Markets Much ; Europe & Asia News & Market Items ; Wells Fargo CEO Quits With Immediate Effect . 2) Around The Horn Europe : Spain - PSOE & Catalan Socialist Party May Split , Hispanic Day Parade : UK-Brexit Items DeItaly - Budget Woes , Bank Woes ; Germany - Deutsche Bank In Focus ; Greece - Debt Restructure Dancing , Refugee / Migrant Situation , Domestic Items ; Netherlands - EU-UKR Deal In Focus , Dutch No At Referendum A Sticky Wicket ; Austria - Refugee Item ; Turkey - Purge . 3) Odds & Ends - Hurricane Matthew Aftermath , US Election Follies , China Continues To Weaken Yuan , Duterte Continues Getting Closer To China & Russia , Saudi Arabia - A Variety Of Woes these Days , Turkey- Syria Items
Markets..... Asian Morning - Thursday *fred walton* @fredwalton216 1m 1 minute ago fred walton Retweeted zerohedge Down Goes Frazier..... fred walton added, *zerohedge* @zerohedge Stocks, USDJPY Plunge After Dismal China Trade Data http://www. zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-1 2/stocks-usdjpy-plunge-after-dismal-china-trade-data … *Livesquawk* @Livesquawk 16m 16 minutes ago China Trade Balance (USD) Sep: 41.99B (est. 53.00B, prev. 52.05B) *zerohedge* @zerohedge 7m 7 minutes ago CHINA'S SEPT. EXPORTS FALL 5.6% Y/Y IN YUAN TERMS; EST. +2.5%. More devaluation co... more »
Great Moments in Signage
Except in this case, it's not the sign that's so noteworthy but who's holding it up. I guess they're still awaiting Donald Trump's African American to arrive, in the back of the bus, no doubt. In case you're confounded by the teleprompter, the sign says, "Blacks for Trump." Which right now is a very active hashtag on Twitter. There's another active hashtag: #repealthe19th. As I'm sure virtually any woman reading this already knows, that's the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920. So, where did this movement begin? By morons like the one y... more »
Russia and Turkey Plot The Endgame in Aleppo
*Recent Related Posts:* - *Putin arrives in Istanbul, Turkey, to attend World Energy Congress* - - *October in Turkey. Putin's visit/Coup 2- New Relations- Gazprom Deal* *Asia Times-**M.K. Bhadrakumar By M.K. Bhadrakumar October 12, 2016 5:28 PM (UTC+8)* *The visit by President Vladimir Putin to Istanbul on Monday marks the Russian-Turkish rapprochement taking a leap toward full normalization of relations. Energy cooperation provided the leitmotif.* The signing of the inter-governmental agreement on the proposed Turkish Stream gas pipeline and the consensus to expedite... more »
World News Briefs -- October 12, 2016
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting in Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2016. REUTERS/SERGEI KARPUKHIN *Reuters:* *Kerry and Lavrov to resume talks on Syria despite war crimes row* U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss Syria, officials said on Wednesday, as a devastating bombing campaign of the city of Aleppo intensified. The Syrian government launched an assault to capture rebel-held areas of Aleppo last month with Russian air support and Iranian-backed mili... more »
Putin Deploys ZRK Missile System To Attack US Air Force In Syria
President Vladimir Putin has ordered for the deployment of the ZRK missile system to Syria in order to shoot down US Air Force planes in the region. Russia’s longest running newspaper Izvestigya has reported that Russia intends to strengthen its anti-air defense systems in Syria as tensions with the U.S. continue to deteriorate. Fort-russ.com reports: Russian authorities are considering sending a batch of “Pantsir” anti-aircraft rocket missile and gun systems (ZRPK) to Syria. The deal, concluded a few years ago, was only partially realized for financial reasons. Now Moscow has de... more »
WikiLeaks: Hillary Confirms Saudi Arabia Sponsor ISIS
New WikiLeaks emails reveal that Hillary Clinton acknowledged to colleagues that Saudi Arabia and Qatar sponsor ISIS. The leaked email was sent on August 17, 2014, by Hillary to her campaign manager, John Podesta. In the email, Clinton admitted that both Qatar and the Saudi regime “are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.” Zerohedge.com reports: The email, which was sent just days after the US launched it “temporary” air campaign in Syria, which has now extended over two years, represents an eight-point plan la... more »
Jill Stein: Hillary Created ISIS
Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, has accused Hillary Clinton of creating ISIS and allowing them to become one of the most powerful terrorist organisations in the world. Stein made the comments after the latest US presidential debate between Clinton and Trump on Sunday. Presstv.ir reports: “The power of ISIS (ISIL) in Syria comes directly out of the catastrophe of Iraq, which Hillary Clinton supported, and Donald Trump did, as well,” Stein said Sunday during an interview (part two is here) with the Democracy Now! news program. Stein and Libertarian presidential nomin... more »
British Tabloids Go Into WW3 Hysteria Over Unconfirmed Report
An unconfirmed report from a regional Russian news website has driven some British tabloids into a world war three frenzy. It managed to send some media outlets into overdrive using scaremongering narrative and images about the seriously aggressive Russia and how ‘Big Bad Vlad’ secretly wanted to nuke them. The allegations were based on a claim that Russian officials had been ordered to leave the West their families. RT reports: Based on anonymous sources, it has since been denied by the Kremlin. Still some British media outlets jumped at a chance for a little Russia-bashing exerc... more »
It’s Oktoberfest … and beer is freedom
Beer is freedom, and German brewers are worried at foreign innovation – about beers so hoppy they’ll melt your face. Matt Kibbe explains what Ludwig Von Mises has to do with it. Drink up: . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with attribution.
I don’t normally agree with Judith Collins…
I’ve found very little grounds for agreement with Judith Collins over the years, but there’s very little to disagree with in her off-the-cuff remarks to the Police Association's annual conference yesterday, as reported by Radio NZ. “Many of the problems blamed on child poverty can be blamed on parents, Police Minister Judith Collins says.” And that’s true, isn’t it. *Ms Collins was challenged at the Police Association's annual conference in Wellington today by a delegate, who said poverty was making law enforcement harder.* * The delegate said his officers had been very busy ... more »
A Defence of Stop the War
I'm definitely not a fan of the Stop the War Coalition. It has a legion of problems, rooted in a rather reflex anti-imperialism that leaves it open to claims of soft soaping dictators, and providing cover for whosoever incurs the displeasure of the State Department and Whitehall. That said, some of the criticisms thrown at the group over the last couple of days strike me as stupid and disingenuous. Such as Boris Johnson's argument that it should be organising demonstrations outside the Russian embassy against the vile atrocities committed in Aleppo. First things first, Stop the Wa... more »
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 12, 2016
The USS Mason (DDG 87), a guided missile destroyer, arrives at Port Canaveral, Florida, April 4, 2003. REUTERS/Karl Ronstrom/File photo *Reuters:* *U.S. Navy destroyer again targeted by missiles from Yemen: U.S. officials* A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the second such incident in the past four days, U.S. officials told Reuters. The USS Mason, which was accompanied by the USS Ponce - an amphibious transport dock - fired defensive salvos in response to the missiles, neither... more »
Rules for the next presidential debate
The Peoples Cube report http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/rules-for-the-next-presidential-debate-t18700.html on the rules for the next Presidential debate. These have been approved by CNN (Clinton News Network) and the BBC (Bravo Bravo Clinton).
Putin's Istanbul Trip...fleeting answers to fleeting questions.
*Erdogan and Putin* Geopolitical events stream by us at warp speed. So hard to keep track of what we were even talking about a week or two ago. Oh yes, now I recall...I was speculating that the reason for the sudden trip of Putin to meet Erdogan in Istanbul on October 10/11th was, in part at least, to quell a rumoured second coup attempt against Erdogan. It seems there was also a big Energy convention going on in Istanbul at the time. Lots of reason to have soldiers and security personnel in the streets. The report linked above is very clear about the terms of the proposed pip... more »
Is Rachel Maddow out of her mind?
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016It might be time to check:* Yesterday afternoon, Al Gore appeared with Candidate Clinton in Miami, where they discussed climate change. In our view, Clinton gave about as good a speech as we've ever seen her give. Inevitably, though, the children searched for ways to gossip and snark about Gore. We were amazed by Rachel Maddow's treatment of the event. Let's start with the peculiar way she teased her upcoming segment: MADDOW (10/11/16): ...Ralph Nader went on for decades campaigning for consumer safety and for integrity and openness in government. And ... more »
Is Paul LePage's Primitivist Idealization Of Authoritarianism A Harbinger Of Things To Come For America?
*2 rotund fascists* What is wrong with the Maine state legislature? Starting with Charles Robinson of Kansas in 1862, only 15 governors have ever been impeached, Rod Blogojevich (D-IL), currently serving out a prison term, being the most recent (2009). Another relatively recent impeachment and conviction was in Arizona in 1988 (far right crackpot and vile racist Evan Meacham). Maine has never impeached a governor but the legislature has threatened to impeach the current misanthrope several times and then never followed through. LePage was elected twice, though never with a majority... more »
Oct. 12: An angry day
A couple of nights ago, I caught the last scene of the film "A Tale of Two Cities". This is Dickens' view of the French revolution , a view in which the dignified members of the French aristocracy are led to public execution by beheading - while the ignorant poor watch in laughter and jeers. The last man to die in the film is Sydney Carton, a young Englishman who had devoted himself to saving those dignified aristocrats from the ignorant mob. "I go to a far, far better place than I have ever been...." The story is more than a little one-sided. The French aristocracy had long been ... more »
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"That's The Feeling..."
"You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them. They live on a golden island and have the key to the only bridge. Your parents are not millionaires, so it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, you aren't invited to their party. That's the great shame. The idiots have the gold, and the poor die to give it to them. So you better start to laugh, because this world is one big joke written by the few, at the expense of the masses. Look around you, that feeling your life isn't going anywhere? That's the feeling that makes yo... more »
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