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The Double Life Of Fidel Castro
*New York Post:** Inside Fidel Castro’s life of luxury and ladies while country starved* With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and lived in a “fisherman’s hut” somewhere on the beach. But Castro’s public image was a carefully crafted myth, more fiction than fact. “While his people suffered, Fidel Castro lived in comfort — keeping everything, including his eight children, his many mistresses, even his wife, a secret,” wrote Juan Rei... more »
Should The U.S. Threaten A Trade War With China Over North Korea?
*Gordon G. Chang, Forbes*:* To Disarm North Korea, Wage Trade War On China* Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House told the Trump transition team that North Korea was, in the words of the paper, the “top national security priority” for the incoming administration. Virtually every American analyst agrees on what Trump should do to meet the No. 1 threat: drop his plans of confronting China on trade to obtain its assistance on “denuclearizing” the Kim regime. This line of thinking is not new and ignores 13 years of American foreign policy failure. In fact, it’s... more »
Pentagon No-Fly Zone Over Syria Prompts Russia War Fears
On November 15, Congress passed a resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, which experts are warning will result in a U.S. war with Russia. House Resolution 5732, otherwise known as the “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act,” means that America can now shoot down Russian warplanes operating in the region. Thefreehthoughtproject.com reports: Soon after the presidential election, key warmongers in Congress began formulating plans to make increased conflict a near certainty, complete with the kind of propaganda peddled before the Iraq attack. While everyone was distracted by t... more »
Two Retried U.S. Marine Generals Receommend Each Other To President-elect Trump For U.S. Secretary of Defense
Trump shakes hands with retired Marine Gen. John Kelly after meeting with him in Bedminster Township, N.J., on Nov. 20. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) *Washington Post:* *Retired Marine generals recommended each other to Trump as Pentagon chief* When President-elect Donald Trump met last weekend with two retired Marine Corps generals, they each recommended that Trump consider naming the other as secretary of defense, according to a source familiar with the generals’ talks. James N. Mattis and John F. Kelly are both seen as contenders for a cabinet position in the n... more »
Has Trump's Bizarre Win, Enabled An Even More Aggressive Putin?
In the last couple of weeks, Putin allies have come to power-- with his help-- in Moldava, Bulgaria and the United States. (Yes, Obama completely failed to protect America from that menace... and now I'm worried that the brutal Russian dictator will turn Ed Snowden over to Trumpanzee the first time el Presidente Pepe The Frog needs a rabbit to pull out of a hat.) This morning the *Financial Times* reported about Putin's ties to the neo-Nazi far right in an increasingly fascist Hungary (whose leader, Viktor Orban, and Trump have already forged a bond). Last week, *The Guardian* repo... more »
China's Space Program Is Threatening NASA's Dominance
Photo taken on June 3, 2013 shows the assembly of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and the Long March-2F carrier rocket at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The assembly was transported to the launch site on Monday morning, which marks the manned Shenzhou-10 mission entering the final phase of its preparation. The spacecraft, which will be launched in mid-June from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, will carry three astronauts and dock with Tiangong-1, target orbiter and space module. Source:China.org.cn *Bloomberg:* *This Remote Military Bas... more »
French Conservative Candidate Francois Fillon On Course To Be France's Next President
*New Europe:* *Fillion is the Presidential candidate of les Républicains* François Fillon secured the nomination of the French center-right les Républicains party on Sunday; his victory over Alain Juppé was expected. But the margin of victory was triumphant with a 68,4%- to- 31,6%. That was not bad for the man running as the “third candidate” last Sunday. “France can’t bear its decline. It wants the truth, and it wants action,” he said on Sunday evening. More than three million French were engaged in these primaries to elect the Presidential candidate of les Républicains, who poll... more »
Italy Facing A Banking Crisis If A Referendum Vote On Constitutional Reform Fails (As Expected)
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Reuters*: *Renzi faces pressure to stay in office as Italy referendum defeat looms* When a handful of European leaders met Barack Obama in Berlin this month to say their goodbyes, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi informed the group that he may well lose power before the U.S. president. While Obama leaves office on Jan. 20, Renzi has promised to resign if he does not win a Dec. 4 referendum on constitutional reform, opening the way for renewed political instability in the eurozone's third largest economy. "I have no desire to hang around if I lose,... more »
Iran Defense Minister: Russia Will Be Allowed To Use Iran's Hamadan Base For Military Operations On Syria
Su-24 bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik *Sputnik*: *Iran Could Allow Russia to Use Hamadan Base If Necessary for Syrian Operation* Iranian Defense Minister stated that Iranian authorities could allow Russia to use the Hamadan air base in western Iran for Moscow's aerial operation against terrorist in Syria if the situation in the crisis-torn Middle Eastern nation demanded it. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Iranian authorities could allow Russia to use the Hamadan air base in western Iran for Moscow's aerial operation again... more »
Musical Interlude: David Nevue "While The Trees Sleep"
David Nevue "While The Trees Sleep" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHqkNHIlfso
Army Corps says no forced removal of Standing Rock water protectors
This is not Syria. This is Standing Rock. These are water protectors on Thanksgiving Day at the river prepared for attack by militarized police, DAPL hired mercenaries and the the Morton County Sheriff. Photo copyright Rob Wilson. By Brenda Norrell Censored News The US Army Corps said today, Sunday, that it has no plans to forcibly remove Standing Rock water protectors camped on Treaty
U.N. And The GCC Are Concerned On The Theft Of Nuclear Material From An Iranian Nuclear Plant
Employees of the Research Institute for Protective Technologies, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection (WIS) inspect a dummy sample which is contaminated with a substance similar to the chemical weapon Sarin.. (photo credit:REUTERS) *Arutz Sheva*:* Deadly nuclear material stolen from Iran nuclear plant* A device containing Iridium-192 has been reported stolen from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, could be used to construct a dirty bomb. A device containing the nuclear material Iridium-192 has gone missing from Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and may have been stolen, ac... more »
Iran's Military Chief Of Staff: Iran May Seek Naval Bases In Yemen Or Syria
Iran's chief of staff General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri speaking at a military parade September 21, 2016 (Screen capture: Press TV) *Reuters*: *Iran may seek naval bases in Yemen or Syria: chief of staff* DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran may seek to set up naval bases in Yemen or Syria in the future, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces said in remarks published on Sunday. His comments, likely to be of concern to Shi'ite Iran's Sunni regional rival Saudi Arabia and its allies, raised the prospect of distant footholds perhaps being more valuable militarily to Tehran than nuclear tech... more »
On the Correlation Between Lack of Freedom and Nihilistic Violence
There exists a correlation between people’s sense of morality and reason, and the freedom that they enjoy in the country. When the government usurps the power to dictate what is moral, what is good economics, what is good culture, what is social justice, and how the nation’s wealth must be redistributed, then most people develop the mindset that it is not their job to think about such issues. As they begin to depend too much on the government, they loose the capability of applying their minds for taking a rational stand on social, political, economic, and moral problems. People wi... more »
Would Rural Outreach Have Made The Difference For The Democrats?
Last week, the *Washington Post* posited the assertion that A Democratic party that can't win rural districts... can't win national elections. They happen to be incorrect on two counts, one that Democrats can't win rural districts and the other that they can't win national elections. Remember, even if you don't want to accept the likelihood that "someone" (be it Putin, BigOil or a 400 pound man on his couch) hacked a few selected counties in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan to throw the elect Trump lost by over 2 million votes to him, it wasn't rural districts but sub... more »
Safety, stupidity, and why common sense isn’t very common anymore
With the weekend disaster on the Kaipara bar still on everyone’s mind, an ex-Department of Labour inspector, paramedic, and fireman wrote to Newtalk ZB’s Leighton Smith with the subject line, 'The Science of Being Stupid: Common Sense vs Health and Safety Act vs Bureaucrats'. He joined the programme to talk about common sense and how bureaucracy and box ticking has diminished it – on the Pike River tragedy, the Kaikoura earthquake, and more. Very interesting. *AUDIO HERE: **Tony Rigg: Common sense isn't very common anymore* – NEWSTALK ZB . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com ... more »
Elaine J. Cohen : METRO | It’s time for a ‘migra’ watch
By Elaine J. Cohen | The Rag Blog | November 27, 2016 AUSTIN — ICE out of Austin, an immigrant-led activist group, and the Austin Sanctuary Network met together for the first time at Wildflower Unitarian Church on November 22, … finish reading Elaine J. Cohen : *METRO* | It’s time for a ‘migra’ watch
“Why no leftie fake news sites?”
Fake news. Left liberals like to think they’re not part of it – to be specific, of the whole website-publishing-fake-political-stories-that-go-viral thing. *The Double Standard* for instance has this morning published a piece by “a fake news writer” claiming (to *The Sub-Standard*’s obvious delight) that “leftie / liberal fake news [sites are] much rarer” because “it just has never worked, it never takes off. You’ll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.” Perhaps a simpler explanation is that the liberal left don’t need to ... more »
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Awakening (Cosmic Sea)"
Liquid Mind, "Awakening (Cosmic Sea)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCa4dpKyzwo
What’s all this about “privilege”?
[image: Privilege] One of the most recent anti-concepts to emerge from postmodern academia is that of “privilege.” You can “check your privilege” here against a list of possible experiences– to find that if you are a wealthy, able-bodied, first-world, cis-gendered, heterosexual, non-ginga, native-born white male you are certainly privileged, and probably a rapist. The list of 100 experiences includes those that are good or bad, irritating or infuriating, But philosopher Stephen Hicks observes that * that the list packages all of the experiences under the “privilege” label.*... more »
"Two Trillion Galaxies, at the Very Least”
*Click image for larger size.* *"Two Trillion Galaxies, at the Very Least”* by Henry Fountain The scale of the universe, already unfathomable, just became even more so: There are about 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought. The new number, two trillion galaxies, is the result of work led by Christopher J. Conselice, an astrophysicist at the University of Nottingham in England, published in October in "The Astrophysical Journal." The team analyzed sky surveys by the Hubble Space Telescope and other instruments able to see far away, and therefore far back, through about 13 ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"These are galaxies of the Hercules Cluster, an archipelago of island universes a mere 500 million light-years away. Also known as Abell 2151, this cluster is loaded with gas and dust rich, star-forming spiral galaxies but has relatively few elliptical galaxies, which lack gas and dust and the associated newborn stars. The colors in this remarkably deep composite image clearly show the star forming galaxies with a blue tint and galaxies with older stellar populations with a yellowish cast. *Click image for larger size.* The sharp picture spans about 3/4 degree across the cluster cent... more »
Chet Raymo, "The Avid Pursuer"
*"The Avid Pursuer"* by Chet Raymo "In his autobiography, "Speak Memory," the novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov writes of the joys of butterfly collecting: "The highest enjoyment of timelessness...is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude..." The possibility of learning more and more about butterflies - those tiny truths- drew Nabokov, the avid ... more »
"The Night Pleases Us..."
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.” - Jorge Luis Borges
“25 Life Lessons By An Old Greek Shepherd”
*“25 Life Lessons By An Old Greek Shepherd”* by George Giotis, Greece by Greeks *“The road to the destination is never straight.* To reach out to the winter shelter someone must take a lot of turns, travel along rough roads, suffer losses. You have to make sure that you always take food supplies with you. *Leave the past behind.* If a wolf eats your goat, you can't do anything about it. Just make sure that next time you will be more careful. *Don't live just for saving money and don't be stingy.* Don't postpone the tasting of joy for future times. Do it now, while you are still yo... more »
Probably as many as 90% of all Americans believe without questioning everything they hear from the so-called mainstream media, known by members of the 10% as “prestitutes” paid by the military/industrial/security complex to lie about the truth or be fired. Here I list a few passages taken from Paul Craig Roberts’ latest post, beginning with “Russian news services are under attack from the EU and Western presstitutes as purveyors of ‘fake news’.” “As George Orwell predicted, telling the truth is now regarded by Western 'democratic' governments as a hostile act.” And finally “Abiding by its Washington master’s orders, the EU actually passed a resolution against Russian media for not following Washington’s line.” Accordingly, “Russian President Putin said that the resolution is a ‘visible sign of degradation of Western society’s idea of democracy’.” Now the 90% may say “so what”. The answer is that (1) Russia doesn’t want another World War, having lost 20 million civilians and soldiers in the last one, (2) whether or not the US military/industrial complex knows it, Russia has vastly superior weapons, and (3) if Russia is ever forced into a nuclear war, those of us in the west will not survive (though many in Russia may survive due to superior anti-ballistic missiles). Recently, we had a Presidential election and against all bets, Trump was the winner. How did that happen? Well, many are convinced that the elections were rigged ...but by whom? It couldn't have been alleged Russian hacking because such a hack required people with access to every polling place in every State of the Union. Impossible! Personally, I think it was done by members of our own military, who knew that if Hillary had been elected she would have pressed to start a war with Russia, in which case we might all end up dead. Whereas, Trump had made it clear early on that he has no problem working out some kind of a detente with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Apropos, if you should be thinking of leaving the 90% to join the 10%, please meet Putin here: http://impactglassman.blogspot.mx/2014/10/who-is-vladimir-putin-monster-if-thats.html7
------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________________________ *The Western War On Truth — Paul Craig Roberts* November 27, 2016 ___________________________________________________________________________________ The Western War On Truth Paul Craig Roberts The “war on terror” has simultaneously been a war on truth. For fifteen years—from 9/11 to Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” and “al Qaeda connections,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” endless lies about Gadaffi, “Russian invasion of Ukraine”—t... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
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"The Hound In The Kennel"
*"The Hound In The Kennel"* by John James "In my experience most of us take whatever frightens us or makes us uncomfortable and push it out of sight. This puts it into the unconscious. It does not disappear, but just lies in waiting like a faithful hound until let out. Meanwhile the conscious part can go on living as if nothing had happened. But as Carl Jung pointed out so perspicaciously, the hound keeps howling from the depth and thereby influences all that we do. So we can’t go on as before. We may try to carry on as always, but in truth everything we do is influenced by the un... more »
"At The End Of The Day..."
"Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be a human. Maybe, we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe, we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate." - "Grey's Anatomy"
So what do we think about The Donald's predatory attitude toward women?
*DOONESBURY by G. B. Trudeau* [*Click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* Not so long ago -- a year, maybe? -- a known history with women like The Donald's would have been, by itself, an absolute disqualifying factor in an American national political campaign. (What about JFK's now-well-known philandering, you say? Of course it was known to insiders at the time, just as The Donald's was. Is there any question, though, that if the country had known then what we later came to know, yes indeed, it would have been an absolute disqualifying factor.) In The Donald's case this is only one of a c... more »
The Poet: Wendell Berry, "The Country Of Marriage"
*"The Country Of Marriage"* *I.* "I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you as you walk. You are holding in your body the dark seed of my sleep. *II.* This comes after silence. Was it something I said that bound me to you, some mere promise or, worse, the fear of loneliness and death? A man lost in the woods in the dark, I stood still and said nothing. And then there rose in me, like the earth’s empowering brew rising in root and branch, the words of a dream of you I did not know I had dre... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Fidel Finally Free'
FIDEL FINALLY FREE Posted on November 27, 2016 Please post & distribute. Nov. 27, 2016. Fidel Castro of Cuba was the only leader who stood up to Western imperialism and maintained. He awakened the spirit of the Cuban people. They showed they can stand on their own against the ‘manifest destiny’. He inspired revolutionary movements worldwide. Cubans survived the harshest economic
Nursery Schools In Italy Ban Unvaccinated Children
Politicians in Emilia-Romagna, a region in northern Italy, have approved a law that bans unvaccinated children from attending nurseries, for public health and safety reasons. The law will come into force next month, but parents will be given until the spring of 2017 to bring their child’s immunisation up to date. RT.com reports: The law was passed by the regional Legislative Assembly with a majority of 27 votes in favor on Wednesday. The five votes against the initiative came from the Five Star Movement, while 10 lawmakers abstained. Approvata legge @RegioneER servizi prima infanzi... more »
Water Protectors Defy US Army Corps’ Camp Eviction Threat
Standing Rock water protectors have said they will continue to stand their ground in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Their response was given in defiance of a US Army Corps notice which stated that the location of a protest camp would be out of bounds from December 5th. RT reports: In a press conference held at the Oceti Sakowin protest camp, members of the indigenous community gave a united response to a letter sent to Standing Rock tribal chairman Dave Archambault II informing of possible evictions north of the Cannonball River. Protesters, who call themselves water... more »
Less moderate
The BBC is nothing if not predictable at times. Seeing (on Twitter) that the result of the race from the presidential candidacy of the French centre-right has resulted (by a huge margin) in the triumph of the more right-wing of the two candidates, M. Fillon, I immediately clicked onto the BBC website to see if the BBC had committed some act of bias (as a blogger about BBC bias inevitably tends to do, alas). And guess what? There it is, straight away: Bias! Breaking news... Yes, M. Fillon is *less moderate *than M. Juppe, according to the BBC. What with being more right-wing 'n... more »
"Who Likes The Taste Of Crow??"
https://youtu.be/KTOgqEY_BJs The smug, certain, lefty media and fellow travellers of the left.
Peak Demand For Natural Gas
By Paul Homewood I posted an article about natural gas yesterday, showing that we would have to more then triple electricity generation to replace gas in the UK. I mentioned that I had published a graph recently, estimating what peak demand might look like under such a scenario. Unfortunately I could not put my […]
Fake news
The US magazine *Slate* tells the story of how "even those outlets that pat themselves on the back for being the serious voices in an Internet filled with fakes and anonymous sources can still fall prey to fake news in the desperate search for clicks". One of the fake stories doing the rounds in recent days was Ivanka Trump's "response" to her father's quip that he would date her if she wasn't his daughter: "If he wasn't my father, I would spray him with Mace”. The problem is that she never said it. It appears to have originated in a joke from a comedian in 2006. Still, that di... more »
The Candidate by Alex Nunns
In the extraordinarily fluid period it is going through, the sudden rise of Jeremy Corbyn from the obscurity of the back benches to the front rank of British politics is perhaps the most shocking, and for some baffling, turn it has taken in decades. Within the space of a month, socialist ideas were catapulted back into the mainstream and by the end of last summer Labour was won by the left. As readers know, the so-called "deep process" underpinning Corbyn's rise is part of a pattern across the West activating different constituencies behind different political projects. In Labour's ... more »
Autism and Exposure to Excess Ionizing Radiation: Is There a Link?
A number of you have asked about the reaction to my paper on autism and ionizing radiation delivered at an international conference on autism in Cyprus: http://autism360cy.com/ My paper argued for a systemic approach to understanding autism that deconstructed the idea that the body is separate from its environment: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdicvwgf18eg9q9/00%20Autistic%20Ontologies%20and%20the%20Open%20Genome%20Paper%20November%201%202016.pdf?dl=1 The paper argued that findings on genetics that have dominated research into autism have revealed no universally detectable alleles or m... more »
Food for thought
*Harry's Place *continues to give food for thought. The latest post there, Mehrdad Amanpour's *Who gave us post truth, conspiracy culture and the alt-right?*, is very strong indeed. Mehrdad is talking to the Left, but right-wingers will most likely find it of considerable interest too. His own reaction to the (non-)reporting of the Muslim grooming scandals is of particular interest. He* could* be talking about the BBC throughout (given that they exemplify many of the left-leaning behaviours he describes) and, at one point, he *is *specifically talking about the BBC: The same app... more »
Time to spit on Castro’s grave [update 2]
A minor dictator and tyrant for six decades has died. Opined Garray Kasparov, who lived under several, there is no need to mourn: *Fidel Castro was one of the 20th century's many monsters. We should lament only that he had so long to inflict misery on Cuba and beyond. Don't rationalise or apologise for Castro's decades of brutal repression, torture, and murder. He didn't fight for freedom; he destroyed it.* So “why are some dictators remembered so fondly?” wonders Douglas Murray at *The Times*. *Long before his death it was obvious that Fidel Castro would benefit from ... more »
MKs withdraw petition against Rabbi who advocated rape of Gentile women by IDF
Meretz members have withdrawn their petition again Rabbi Karim’s appointment, announcing that his affidavit is a great victory. ed note–again, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, consider the implications associated with all of this. At the center of it all was/is the opinion of this Rabbi that the rape of Gentile women by […]
Israeli Ministers Call for Settlement Expansion After ‘Pyro-terrorism’
Defense Minister Lieberman says Israel has proof that 17 fires were caused by arson. Netanyahu pledges a quick rebuilding effort in hardest hit city of Haifa. ed note–remember, there are many one-size-fits-all answers that Jews use for a myriad of scenarios- ‘Anti-Semitism’–explains any and all reflexive blowback resulting from obnoxious and criminal Judaic behavior, ‘6,000,000’–the only […]
For all his flaws
Andrew Neil is still pursuing the point tonight: - Castro' "flaws": 5,600 Cubans murdered by firing squad; 1,200 in “extrajudicial assassinations,” 10s of 1000s jailed/tortured/died escaping. And on a related theme... Surely BBC Trending will be reporting the extraordinary (and often very funny) #forallhisflaws and #trudeaueulogies jokes that have swept across Twitter over the past couple of days? These hashtags have been a huge (Twitter) phenomenon in the UK (re Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to Castro's death) and in Canada (re Justin Trudeau's reaction to Castro's death). The... more »
Why Did Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Call Fidel Castro A 'Remarkable Leader'?
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) *New York Times*:* Justin Trudeau Criticized for Praising Fidel Castro as ‘Remarkable Leader’* Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada would like the world to know that he was rather fond of Fidel Castro. Or at least, that is the message that many people took from his unusually warm statement on the death of the Cuban dictator, whom he hailed on Saturday as “a remarkable leader.” “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century,” Mr. Trudeau said in the statement, which was iss... more »
A Fraud Wrapped in a Fake Inside of a Fiction
(graphic by Kat Garcia) When going about the miserable job of exposing so-called fake news outlets (translation: any outlet either fairly or unfairly critical of the defeated Hillary Clinton as well as US foreign policy) it's always best to do your dirty work anonymously. You see, if the Russian puppet-masters controlling even such popular progressive American sites as *Truthout *and *Naked Capitalism* ever discern your true identity, you run the risk of getting rubbed out by a KGB agent in one of the dark alleys connecting the impulses of your paranoid little mind. Therefore, i... more »
Oppdatering: Jeg er i Paris
God søndag alle fine lesere ♡ Da har jeg litt ekstra tid til å gi en lite statusoppdatering igjen; i skrivende stund sitter jeg på et hotellrom i Paris, og har "fri" frem til i morgen tidlig. ("Fri" betyr at jeg er her alene, og at jeg ikke har noen direkte avtaler før i morgen, men jeg har jo hele tiden to artikler og en avhandling som skal skrives ferdig over meg.) Denne uken (som strengt tatt begynner i morgen, selv om jeg på en måte føler den begynner i dag, siden jeg er på jobbreise nå) skal jeg nemlig delta på mitt siste eksperiment mens jeg fremdeles er doktorgradsstipendiat. ... more »
Experts
Here's a post that might sound like 'stating the blindingly obvious' (or wrong-headed), but still... (In for a penny, in for a pound, but no euros please.) The Govester I enjoyed Emily ('Lady Nugee') and Michael ('Gove') on the sofa at the end of *The Andrew Marr Show. *It was surprisingly agreeable. But during that chat, and the preceding formal interview with the Govester (as Boris used to call him), a thought crossed my mind (yes, just one!): Michael Gove was being polite and self-deprecating about the way that 'experts' quote (*"People in this country have had enough of expert... more »
Afterthought
A Helen Yaffe fan, reading her book on Guevara Something I didn't post about yesterday was that I tried to keep up with most of the BBC News Channel's Castro coverage between about 10am to 3pm (using the scrollable 'live' online News Channel feed so that I could quickly skip most of the rest of the channel's output before finding something better to do). The reason I felt I *couldn't* post about was that I'd missed an hour and that *might* have undermined the truth of the point I *would* have made (by featuring a strong critic of the late dictator): namely that* all* the one-on-... more »
Has Rachel Maddow commented on her US Presidential Election prediction?
https://youtu.be/Zn3f0Xav6-w Hello Rachel Maddow...
With The Death Of Fidel Castro, What Is Next For Cuba?
Castro speaking with the press in Havana during a visit of U.S. Senator George McGovern in May 1975. Prensa Latina / Reuters *NBC*: *Cuba After Castro: How Much Change, and How Quickly?* MIAMI — As the world takes in the news that Fidel Castro has died, many people are asking what will happen next in one of the last remaining Communist countries. Raul Castro has been the leader of Cuba since his brother handed over power 10 years ago, and significant change has taken place on the island including reforms that would have been unthinkable under Fidel. Raul Castro and President Barac... more »
Can We Expect Courageousness From Our Elected Officials?
As I've mentioned before, I got a threatening letter from Trump's attorney over a post we did on Melania's former career. I didn't think much about it and my own attorney told me to ignore it. Since then one member of the *DWT* staff told me he's been getting threats-- including to his family-- from Trumpist deplorables. A well-known public figure who is about to start writing a regular column was wondering if it would be safe and if, perhaps he should use a pseudonym. (In the end he decided to use his real name and his column will start in about 2 weeks.) Today a fiery grassroots ... more »
Standing Rock Resistance Spirit Radio is Back!
Govinda of Earthcycles is starting up the radio station now! Standing Rock Resistance Spirit Radio is Back! By Brenda Norrell Censored News Govinda is back at Standing Rock Camp setting up Standing Rock Resistance Spirit Radio! He's at Oceti Sakowin camp. The solar system is set up, and onward and forward as he readies for broadcast the new van of the Indigenous Environmental
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, November 27th, 2016
[image: rant-jpeg-b] Sunday... Last Sunday in the month of November, and once again time for my weekly rant.. As most readers are now aware, I have made some significant changes to the design and layout of this blog.... I basically had the same layout for almost 5+ years running and I periodically got some comments and emails saying that it had got a bit "stale" and was sometimes hard to read... Well, last weekend I started toying around with the settings and the configuration and lo and behold but I basically fucked up my entire blog! It took me hours to figure out what I did wr... more »
Top President-Elect Aide Unloads On The Possibilitly Of Mitt Romney Being Appointed As U.S. Secretary of State
*Politico:* *Conway unloads on Romney* Appointing Mitt Romney as Secretary of State would be viewed as a major betrayal by many supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Sunday. “It’s just breathtaking in scope and intensity,” Conway said of the opposition to Romney among Trump supporters. “Receiving deluge of social media & private comms re: Romney Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state,” Conway wrote on Twitter on Thursday, linking to a POLITICO article about opposition to Romney. “I felt compelled t... more »
Stand for Standing Rock by Audrey Headley, 2016, © Copyright, All Rights Reserved.
*Audrey Headley, Graphic Designer* "I am a graphic designer who lives in the beautiful parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. I create social issues posters, packaging and logos at Ahead Design Studio. In my spare time, I garden and take walks to photograph nature throughout our hills. Audrey Headley, Flicker, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
Morning Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, “The Way of the World”
Justin Hayward, “The Way of the World” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY
"From Inside..."
"All that threatened the cave man- dangers, darkness, famine, thirst, ghosts, demons- all has passed to the interior of our souls, all troubles us, grieves us, threatens us from inside." - E. Morin
"Syria and the Statistics of War"
*"Syria and the Statistics of War"* "Trust none of what you hear, some of what you read, half of what you see." by Nassim Nicholas Taleb "When Pasquale Cirillo and I examined the historical accounts of wars for our statistical analysis of violence, we discovered huge holes- people take numbers for gospel, yet many accounts were fabrications. Many historians, political “scientists”, and others for fall for them, then get to write books. For instance we saw that the scientific entertainer Steven Pinker based his analysis of the severity of the An Lushan rebellion on a shoddy overesti... more »
Wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman causes outrage with an astonishing HOLOCAUST-themed ice dance show
DAILY MAIL – The wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman caused outrage after performing a holocaust- themed ice skating performance. Tatyana Navka and her partner Andrew Burkovsjy take each other’s hands and start their routine – which features a mime of people being shot – wearing the same striped pyjamas as death camp prisoners, complete with the Star Of […]
2 Arabs confess to starting wildfires in Israel
Police chief Roni Alsheich says arson attacks are nothing new, says cops prepared to treat cases as terrorism ed note–besides the obvious, which is Israel’s legendary and autonomic use of torture in getting ‘confessions that in fact are not real, there is an even bigger question that needs to be asked in all of this, […]
Electoral College members receiving death threats in last-ditch attempt to block Trump
ed note–remember, all of this is a continuation of what organized Jewish interests began doing a year ago when they realized that the presidency of one Donald J. Trump threatened what they had in mind and thus initiated a program designed to destroy his candidacy. All of you who seized upon the tiny factoids ‘proving’ that he […]
Economic News , Data & Views....... November 27 , 2016...... Quick Hits For Sunday - 1) France - Second Round For Centre- Right Runoff Contest , Fillon Seems Set To Top Juppe. 2) Greece - Domestic Politics , Refugee Crisis Updates , Creditor Talks In Focus. 3) Italy In Focus - Renzi Trapped In Referendum Mouse Trap Of His Own Making. 4) Turkey - Ongoing Purge Updates , Iraq & Syria War Update - Turkey Angle ( H/T Elijah Magnier for Special Insight On Syria ) , Erdogan Moving Toward Consolidating Power As Parliament Prepares New Constitutional Draft Giving Broad Powers To The President , Additional Items Of Note. 5) Libya Updates For Sunday. 6) South Korea Protests Continue - Largest Protest Since 1987. 7) Odds & Ends
France.... *Europe Elects* @EuropeElects 1m 1 minute ago France, Odoxa poll Fillon (LR-EPP) 32% Le Pen (FN-ENF) 22% Macron (EM-NI) 13% Mélenchon (FG-LEFT) 12% Hollande (PS-S&D) 8% #PrimaireDroite *Europe Elects* @EuropeElects 29s 30 seconds ago France, Harris poll: Fillon (LR-EPP): 26% Le Pen (FN-ENF): 24% Macron (EM-NI): 14% Mélenchon (FG-LEFT): 13% #PrimaireDroite *fred walton* @fredwalton216 38s 39 seconds ago fred walton Retweeted zerohedge FILLON HAS ABOUT 69.5% OF PRIMARY VOTE, PROVISIONAL COUNT SHOWS JUPPE HAS ABOUT 30.5% OF VOTE, PROVISIONAL COUNT S... more »
First Sunday of Advent...
*prepare, for He is coming.* Advent is a period of spiritual preparation in which many Christians make themselves ready for the coming, or birth of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Celebrating Advent typically involves a season of prayer, fasting and repentance, followed by anticipation, hope and joy. Many Christians celebrate Advent not only by thanking God for Christ's first coming to Earth as a baby, but also for his presence among us today through the Holy Spirit, and in preparation and anticipation of his final coming at the end of time. When my mother was a girl she told us Grandma pu... more »
"We Are In The Hands..."
"We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts." - Victor Hugo
Mosul Campaign Day 41, Nov 26, 2016
More information became available about events that occurred on November 25. The Golden Division attacked the Aminneighborhood, while both Qahira and Masarif were freed. On November 26, there was fightingin the Bakr, Zuhur, Intisar, Judaydat al-Mufti, Salam, Younis Sabawi, and Palestine areas of the city. That was a perfect example of the back and forth battle for the city. Judaydat al-Mufti was originally attacked on November 1, Younis Sabawi on November 11, and Palestine on November 13. Salam and Zuhur have been liberated once each, and Bakr and Intisar have been freed twice. S... more »
Big Data Quid
The Narrative machine. Only fake news sites have this kind of information freely available.
Why Is Hillary Clinton's Team Participating In The Recount Process?
*New York Times:* *Hillary Clinton’s Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill Stein* WASHINGTON — Nearly three weeks after Election Day, Hillary Clinton’s campaign said on Saturday that it would participate in a recount process in Wisconsin incited by a third-party candidate and would join any potential recounts in two other closely contested states, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The Clinton campaign held out little hope of success in any of the three states, and said it had seen no “actionable evidence” of vote hacking that might taint the results or otherwise provide new groun... more »
“A Memo To The Trump Administration On Defense Spending”
*“A Memo To The Trump Administration On Defense Spending”* By Ron Paul "In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the rest of the year was far too low. *That figure for the last two months of 2016 is larger than Spain’s budget for the entire year!* And this is just a “war-fighting” supplemental, not actual “defense” spending! More U.S. troops are being sent to Iraq, S... more »
Snow Mexican Diary Day 7 ish
Snowcrash is the history text needed to understand the Trump presidency. Whats good for Trump is good for America. Snow Mexican writing about Snowcrash as Winter approaches, its sublime. So far I am batting 1000 in my predictions for a Trump presidency. After outlasting handfuls of Presidents Fidel Castro finally surrendered the mortal coils to President Trump. A complicated figure that Fidel. When you walk with such big steps upon the world some things are going to be crushed. On balance he was a relatively benevolent dictator. In modern history those are rare even the ones that ... more »
The Economy: “The War On Cash: This Is Where I Get Off”
*“The War On Cash: This Is Where I Get Off”* by Jeff Thomas "We began writing on the War on Cash some time ago, when it was still just a theoretical ploy that we believed banks and governments were likely to employ as their economic adventurism continued to unravel. But, in the last year, several countries have, as a part of the War on Cash, begun removing larger bank notes from circulation in order to force people to perform all economic transactions through the banking system, assuring that the banks would gain total control over the movement of money. Of course, the banks could ... more »
The U.S, Main Stream Media Targets Alternative Media
*The Intercept:* *Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group* THE WASHINGTON POST ON THURSDAY NIGHT promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.” The article by reporter Craig Timberg – headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say” – cites a report by a new, anonymous website calling itself “PropOrNot,” which claims that millions of Americans ... more »
Canadian flesh wound on the F35
With a nudge nudge wink wink Canada has commited itself to not building a defence based upon F35 flying bricks. Instead the logical move was made. Canada will purchase 18 F18 superhornets and defer any decision on the F35 purchase until the 2020's. Seriously even if the F35 could do half of what is advertised by 2020 this plane which began development in 1996 will be a quarter century old technology. The Russkies and Chinese for whom this plane is the only target can already use cell towers to detect and shoot it down. The biggest design flaw of the F35 is that it is a flying bri... more »
Afghanistan Is Now Confronting Its Culture Of Corruption
Abdulhai Jurat, a former military prosecutor accused of bribery, stands in the dock surrounded by police at his trial in the new Anti-Corruption Justice Center. (Pam Constable/The Washington Post) *Washington Post:* *Finally, Afghanistan is trying to penetrate and purge high-level corruption* KABUL — The courtroom was tense. The prosecutor’s team fiddled with its new equipment. The defendant, tall and imposing in the dock, fidgeted with his shirt cuffs. Then the lights were switched off and a video scene flashed on the wall. It showed a brief scuffle on a garden path outside a ho... more »
Taliban Leaders May Have Moved Into Afghanistan From Pakistan
AFP *Khaama Press:* *Taliban may have moved leadership council from Pakistan to Afghanistan* The top Taliban leaders in the group’s leadership council may have abandoned Pakistan and have likely moved to Afghanistan, it has been reported. A spokesman for the group Zabiullah Mujahd confirmed to Associated Press that the leadership council was relocated some months ago. Mujahid did not provide further information regarding the exact date and location within the country where the leadership council was relocated. However, another Taliban official has said the council has been shifte... more »
Japan Scrambles Jets As China Sends Fighter And Bombers Through A Disputed Strait South Of Okinawa
A Chinese military plane H-6 bomber © Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan / Reuters *Japan Times*: *China again sends fighter jets, bombers through sensitive strait south of Okinawa* The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled aircraft in response to a flight by Chinese fighters and bombers through a key entryway into the Pacific Ocean between Okinawa and Miyako Island, the Defense Ministry said. Two Chinese fighters and bombers, as well as two other surveillance planes, flew through the Miyako Strait on Friday. The flight, which did not infringe on Japanese territorial a... more »
"Recount Disgrace: Jill Stein for Hillary?"
*"Recount Disgrace: Jill Stein for Hillary?"* by Steve Lendman "*Shameful!* What’s going on? Why did her campaign announce its “intent to file for a recount of votes in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, leading a multi-partisan effort to check the accuracy of the machine-counted vote tallies in these states in order to ensure the integrity of our election?” *Did she forget Hillary criticizing Trump’s possible refusal to accept electoral results when asked, calling it “a direct threat to our democracy?”* *Does she support what war goddess, racketeer, ... more »
Russia Protests Planned Ukraine Missile Tests Near Crimea
A "Buk" anti-aircraft battery launches a ground-to-air missile during the Ukrainian army's "Duel-99" military manoeuvres at the Chauda firing ground in the Crimean peninsula October 12, 1999 © Reuters *Reuters*: *Ukraine's missile test plans near Crimea heat up row with Russia* MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Moscow protested against Ukraine's plans to carry out missile tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 following the toppling of a pro-Russian Ukrainian president, raising the temperature in the dispute between the two countries. Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsia said late o... more »
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*Homes bought out in Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster provide place for tornado victims ~David Mitchell, The Advocate*
Way cool: There's a map app!!!!
This map app gives historical map overlays for Taiwan. It was developed by the Academia Sinica. Peter Dunstan of Taichung AmCham informed everyone on Facebook that if you don't have Taiwan Google, you can still get the map to work via this APK (with instructions on how to install)... You'll need to enable installations from unknown sources, download the apk and install. Worked a treat for me. Install from unknown sources is under Security settings. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous po... more »
Australia Stops Donating Money To Clinton Foundation
Australia has cut all official ties with the Clinton Foundation following Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the US presidential election. Sputnik reports: On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced to the joint party room that agreements with the Foundation previously set up by the Rudd-Gillard government had not been renewed. “[Former Prime Minister Julia] Gillard also donated $300 million of our money to the Clinton-affiliated Global Partnership for Education,” Australian newspaper the Herald Sun wrote in an October article titled, “Why have we donated to Clinton’s foundation?... more »
MSM Spread False CNN ‘News’ After Slamming ‘Fake News’
The mainstream media is so concerned with the subject of Fake News and the threat that it poses that they are now subjectively consumed by it. Mainstream news is making unsubstantiated claims that Anthony Bourdain’s travel show ‘Parts Unknown’ was replaced by 30 minutes of adult film entertainment on CNN. The corporate media has been running damage control ever since their months-long promotion of Hillary Clinton failed to seal the Democratic nominee’s ascension to the White House. Anti Media reports: Mainstream outlets have made a concerted effort to perpetuate the narrative that... more »
London Met Police Brutally Attacked By Mob Of 30 Schoolchildren
Video footage shows two Met police officers being attacked by a group of 30 schoolchildren in Lewisham. The officers had intervened to break up a fight and arrest a suspect. They were punched and kicked, surrounded by baying teenagers, with one officer getting dragged to the pavement. Evening Standard reports: They then begin repeatedly kicking him and stamping on his head, to loud shouts from the other teens. His female colleague tries to intervene but is pushed away by the youths. She was allegedly punched in the jaw during the violence. Another man, believed to be a teacher, is ... more »
Activist Angel vs. Kevin Barrett on "DC Pizzagate"
*Video above: Truth vs. NEW$ 11/24 broadcast on Seattle cable access TV* *By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor* When Pastor Don Grahn invited me to pre-record a Truth vs. NEW$ interview, I had no idea what was coming. I assumed it would be about Middle East politics, Islamic studies, or false flags, my three main areas of expertise. I even hoped to talk about my new edited book Orlando False Flag. Instead, the guest host, Activist Angel, began excitedly haranguing me about the so-called “pizza-gate” scandal: Allegations that Wiki-leaked John Podesta emails exposed a pedophile piz... more »
On to a rainbow
That latest blog post of Mark Mardell's characteristically drips with one-sided mockery. Eg: In some quarters, [Philip Hammond] is already castigated for not sticking to a "happy clappy" script. Sensible people agree Brexit is an economic leap in the dark, destination unknown. But to some, acknowledging this is akin to heresy. *Our leap, they insist, will be on to a rainbow from where we will slide gently to a pot of gold.*
Donnie Darkmouth
One of the unusual moments during Mark Mardell's Thanksgiving bash came when Mark called the election-campaigning Donald Trump "Donnie Darkmouth". It's a phrase he appears to like as he *also *used it in his latest BBC News website blog post: Because the President-elect was so brutally frank about his extreme prescriptions on the road to power, he can afford to tone it down a bit now. Donnie Darkmouth can, to an extent, morph into Temperate Trump. Where did he get that from? Neither Google nor Twitter are bringing up any results for 'Donnie Darkmouth'. Did he borrow it from someone... more »
Thankgiving
The recent news that the BBC is cracking down (for cost reasons) on well-known presenters flying off on foreign jaunts to cover big stories and, instead, confining them to carrying out “two-way” interviews from the studio with correspondents on the ground *doesn't *seem to have reached the offices of *The World This Weekend.* BBC 'frequent flier' Mark Mardell managed to wangle himself a BBC-funded trip to Washington and Pennsylvania this week. The reason for going to Pennsylvania? To attend a family's Thankgiving dinner and talk Trump over the turkey. That's nice for him. The... more »
The New Dems Are Electing Their Leaders Now Too
*The New Dems-- even worse than the old Dems* Most leadership battles are playing out in Congress outside of the purview of regular Americans. A couple weeks ago, we mentioned that the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the New Dems-- was in the process of electing new officers. Jared Polis, the wealthiest Democrat in the House, is running for the chairmanship, although people tell me that Wall Street crook and ex-New Dem chieftain Joe Crowley still calls the shots there. Polis is sending his election literature to non-members who forward them on to me for a laugh. He followe... more »
Snow Mexican Daily Diary Day 7 ish
Snowcrash is the history text needed to understand the Trump presidency. Whats good for Trump is good for America. Snow Mexican writing about Snowcrash as Winter approaches, its sublime. So far I am batting 1000 in my predictions for a Trump presidency. After outlasting handfuls of Presidents Fidel Castro finally surrendered the mortal coils to President Trump. A complicated figure that Fidel. When you walk with such big steps upon the world some things are going to be crushed. On balance he was a relatively benevolent dictator. In modern history those are rare even the ones that ... more »
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*From Jenna Orkin * Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S. North America is going to get a new billionaire every 6 days India demonetized some of its currency to fight corruption, but the country's poorest are hurting the most Soros pledges $10M to fight hate crimes Brazil's New President Temer Threatened With Impeachment After New Corruption Scandal Emerges Washington Post Names Drudge, Zero Hedge, & Ron Paul As Anti-Clinton "Sophisticated Russian Propaganda Tools"Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn reportedly had 'forbidden' internet connection at th...more »
Silents are empowered as Cosmics arise
*Silents are empowered as Cosmics arise* by ÉirePort Silents are empowered as Cosmics arise. Florentines deliver the message to the Higher Ones. Ecstatic communications are tempered with Joy. Flowers are observed in Gehenna. ÉirePort | November 27, 2016 at 08:08 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-AS - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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*Raising a Generation of Overly-Protected "Bubble Children"* David Vetter, born in 1971 with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)-a hereditary disease dramatically weakening the immune system and incurable at the time-died at age twelve. Spending his short life living inside a plastic bubble that sought, unsuccessfully in the end, to protect him from the world of germs outside, he was dubbed "the bubble boy." As we look at what is taking place on college campuses around the country today, we are witnessing a similar effort to protect young people from the realities of the world ... more »
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*National Geographic asked photographers to show the impact of climate change* The idea that you could photograph climate change is a considerable absurdity so it should be no great surprise that the results embodied much absurdity. And equally absurd is the idea that you can support a generalization -- which global warming is -- by selected cases of something. I used to be something of a photographer in my youth and I am quite confident that I could produce a series of shots to "illustrate" just about anything. For instance, just about everyone seems to have heard that Austral... more »
Fair Elections Act Updated
This week the Liberals introduced a bill to reverse many of the more egregious changes brought in with the Conservative “fair” elections act, the *summary of this legislation* says...... This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act to (a) remove limitations on public education and information activities conducted by the Chief Electoral Officer; (b) establish a Register of Future Electors in which Canadian citizens 14 to 17 years of age may consent to be included; (c) authorize the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to provide the Chief Electoral Officer with information about pe... more »
Labels
The paper review on this morning's *The Andrew Marr Show *was fun to watch. There was plenty of good-natured disagreement. The reviewers ran from the centre-right (Fraser Nelson) through the centre-left (Miranda Green) to the far-left (Paul Mason) - or, as they say in certain of the louder parts of Twitter, from the far-right through the right to the left. Such labelling can, of course, be more revealing of where the labeller is coming from, regardless of whether the labeller is actually aware of that or not. (My labels, however, are neutral and impartial ones and, thus, wholly ... more »
More Black Days In July
It's been almost half a century since the assassination of Martin Luther King and the urban infernos that followed his death. That's two generations, and many people have no memory of that time. But we may be returning to that time. Linda McQuaig writes: I’ve always been amazed at the way Americans routinely describe their country as “the greatest democracy on earth,” without considering how that characterization fits with its history of genocide against Native Americans and more than two centuries of slavery. The fact that slavery was central to the American experience is rarely ... more »
NASA Data Debunks ‘Man-Made Global Warming’
Stunning new data from NASA indicates El Nino drove record high temperatures, suggesting man-made emissions are not to blame for global warming after all. Global average temperatures have fallen more than 1 degree since the middle of this year – coinciding with the end of El Nino – and now some scientists are arguing that the high temperatures of previous years were caused by El Nino, a cyclical natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions by humans. The stunning new NASA data revealing the huge drop in temperatures suggests they were right. Daily Mail r... more »
Putin Warns Americans To Be Careful Of Smart Technology
Smart technology is a tool being used by the New World Order to control and manipulate the masses and we should be ‘very, very careful’ about how much power we allow smart technology to have in our lives, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “genius” of the New World Order surveillance project lies in the fact that “consumers have been conned into paying out of their own pockets for the devices that will spy on them and their families,” Putin said, speaking to a visiting group in the Kremlin. “The average American home is now rigged like a maximum security prison with... more »
Thousands Of Africans Rise Up Against Bill Gates
Africans are rising up against Bill Gates and forcing the closure of a chain of schools funded by the billionaire because the schools are ignoring the laws of the land and putting the “life and safety” of thousands of young children on the line. Uganda’s high court investigated the for-profit schools and immediately ordered them to close down. The schools were described as “unsanitary and unqualified” in court documents, and have been ordered to close their doors in December because they failed national standards. BThe Director of Education Standards for the Ministry, Huzaifa Muta... more »
Video: Son Of Sex Pistols Manager Burns $6M Of Punk Memorabilia
Over $6 million worth of rare punk memorabilia was burned yesterday by Joe Corré because he didn’t want the valuable items to “end up on a banker’s wall.“ Corré, son of Vivian Westwood and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren burned all of his rare collectibles — including items belonging to Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten — on the 40th anniversary of the release of “Anarchy in the U.K.” by the Sex Pistols. “Welcome, to the great punk rock swindle,” Corré says while standing on the barge in the River Thames in London with the items valued at $6 million. “A time when you can buy McDon... more »
Bye, bye Aaqil. Hello James.
Here's something I missed the other day. Aaqil Ahmed, who became the BBC's (first Muslim) Head of Religion and Ethics in 2009, is leaving the BBC. He sent out a tweet a couple of weeks ago, saying: He's not going to be directly replaced either. Instead, responsibility for BBC religious broadcasting will pass into the hands of... ...guess who?... Yes, James Purnell, the former New Labour cabinet minister recently promoted to BBC Head of Radio and Education - an appointment which brought accusations of empire-building *even before* this latest expansion of his role. The *Guardia... more »
Fake News Alert: CNN Finally Admits White Helmets Staged Fake Video
*November 27, 2016* (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - CNN, among many other establishment media platforms, has long promoted the US-European funded "Syrian Civil Defence" also known as the "White Helmets." Yet on November 25, they published an article titled, "Syria's White Helmets apologize for Mannequin Challenge video," in which they admit: *It's a familiar scene: Syria Civil Defence, also known as the "White Helmets," rushing to rescue a man covered in rubble, but unlike thousands of other videos from Aleppo, this one is staged.* CNN would continue by claiming: *The nearly one-minute... more »
Accept Not A Fallen State Of Mankind. - A Discourse by M.N. Hopkins
*So, we see how this world limits one's dreams. Forces are always at work to put a damper on doers of good deeds and right actions. A few of darkness project their own weakness out upon the lands and reward those who portray or you could also say, betray there fellows. If one appears to be strong or wise, he is discredited and made to look a fool. Every roadblock is put in the path of one who seeks to do good acts in your world and then, their failure is portrayed as due to their own weaknesses or inabilities. Yet, at the same time we find leaders in business, industry, and gov... more »
Opinions
Here are a selection of Andrew Neil's latest tweets re Fidel Castro: - "For all his flaws". Early Castro - prisoners blood nearly all drained before execution. Blood sold to Viet Cong. - Poet Valladares. Backed Fidel. But independent-minded. Charged with terrorism. Jailed 30 years. Cell so small he had to stand. Eat excrement. - On Castro's death, remember Huber Matos, comrade in arms. Attacked Castro's ties to Moscow. Show trial. Torture. 20 yrs prison. 16 solitary. - Castro made huge improvements to Cuban health system. But if you haven't got hard currency... more »
Was Hillary defeated by Kremlin-paid propaganda agents?
I used to consider The Washington Post as a daily that an average intelligent person could see as one of his information sources. But this picture was diminishing over the years and three days ago, it dropped hugely because of the article Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say In this most viewed article on WaPo's site on Friday, Craig Timberg teaches us that Donald Trump didn't win because of his personality, his program, his campaign strategy, preferences and values of a majority of the U.S. public, and their genuine dissatisfaction with ... more »
Builders make billions as housing crisis escalates
A Bureau analysis has found Britain's major housebuilding firms are making multi-billion pound profits at the same time they argue they cannot meet affordable housing targets because they are financially unviable. The post Builders make billions as housing crisis escalates appeared first on The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
US Constitution Listed As ‘Russian Propaganda’ and ‘Fake News’
The mainstream media’s war on fake news has taken an unexpected turn as the U.S. Constitution has been labelled as “Russian propaganda” by their ‘fake news algorithm’. The Washington Post wrote an op-ed on Thursday detailing how Russia used websites run the U.S. to push anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda in order to ensure Trump won. Thegatewaypundit.com reports: The left is very focused on “fake news” websites after Hillary Clinton suffered a shocking loss in the November 8th election to Republican Donald Trump. The Washington Post used the obscure website Propaganda or Not as their... more »
Internet Privacy In UK Now ‘Worse Than China’
UK citizens have been stripped of their right to any online privacy, with a new law making the British public subject to 24/7 draconian surveillance that surpasses the restrictions placed on Chinese citizens. China can now boast that their citizens enjoy more privacy rights than users in the UK following the Snoopers’ Charter bill which was passed in Parliament last week. The new law introduces unprecedented surveillance and hacking powers, awarded to a large list of government agencies. Dailymail.co.uk reports: Chris Yui, who works in Edinburgh as a general manager at Uber, wrote... more »
Cemetery Of Alien ‘Giants’ Found In Central Africa
A team of anthropologists have found the remains of what appear to be real-life giants in a mysterious cemetery in Central Africa. According to scientists, the burial, located in the jungle near the city of Kigali Rwanda, could be evidence of alien life from another planet over 500 years ago. Pravdareport.com reports: At first, researchers thought that they came across the remains of ancient settlements, but no signs of human life have been found nearby.A team of anthropologists have found the remains of what appear to be real-life giants in a mysterious cemetery in Central Africa... more »
CNN Try To Trick Alt. Media With ‘Thanksgiving Porn’ Fake News
CNN has been caught red-handed feeding fake news into the public arena in order to trick independent news outlets into publishing it. The false report about CNN airing porn for 30 minutes on Thanksgiving day went viral on social media on Friday, with other major mainstream media outlets running the story without doing any fact checking. CNN have since admitted that they helped perpetuate the story in order to trick alternative media into republishing it so that they could then accuse them of publishing ‘fake news’. However, alternative media outlets and independents journalists di... more »
Private Army On Standby As America Civil War Looms
A private army has been deployed from the Persian Gulf towards the United States to prepare for an “impending civil war in America,” according to former U.S. Navy SEAL officer Eric Prince. The US-based Frontier Services Group (FSG) are sending 70 transport aircraft packed with arms belonging to one of the most feared mercenary forces in the world. Whatdoesitmean.com reports: Critical to note about both of these companies, FSG and RRMC, this report says, is that they are owned by Erik Prince, who is not only one of the world’s acknowledged experts on creating private armies, he is,... more »
Russia: Native Americans Originate From The Motherland
Anthropologists from Russia have discovered that Native Americans originated from Russia approximately twenty thousand years ago. The latest study conducted by a team of American and Russian scientists found that the descendants of the North American Indians who lived 5,000 years ago are still alive today. Pravdareport.com reports: This conclusion was made by researchers after comparing the DNA of fossils found on the northern coast of British Columbia in Canada and the living people who belong to the first several tribes from this area. This discovery marks a very important step ... more »
R.I.P., Fidel Castro-- A Giant Among Puny Leaders
*Not establishment guys* Last night, just as I was going to bed, I learned that Fidel Castro, age 90, had died. I remember how excited I was, as a small child learning how he had freed his country from the fascist grasp of the U.S.-backed dictator. I wanted to dedicate my bar mitzvah to him but my mother had the rabbi talk me out of it. In later years, like many of his earliest admirers, I was aghast at some of the decisions he made that took him down from the perch I had constructed in my mind for him. He turned out to be nearly as bad as other political leaders, reminding me at th... more »
Economic News , Data & Views ....... November 26 , 2016......Quick Hits For Saturday 1) Greece In Focus : Creditor Talks & Domestic Policy In Focus. 2) UK - News Of Note For Saturday. 3) US Political Updates For Saturday. 4) Odds & Ends.
Europe..... Greece..... *Manos Giakoumis* @ManosGiakoumis 5m 5 minutes ago #Greece Fin, Econ, Energy & Labour Mins held teleconference with institutions' mission chiefs ahead of Mon #Eurogroup Working Group #economy *Manos Giakoumis* @ManosGiakoumis 3h 3 hours ago Teleconference between #Greece FinMin @tsakalotos and institutions' mission chiefs in progress (via @capitalgr) #economy *fred walton* @fredwalton216 4h 4 hours ago fred walton Retweeted Kathimerini English As for bailout negotiations with Greece’s creditors - two sides continue to disagree as regard... more »
Musical Interlude: Jeff Bjorck, “Waiting For Farewell”
Jeff Bjorck, “Waiting For Farewell” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GfA3UK00aQ&spfreload=5
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This colorful cosmic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent on the left; the curious shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC 470. *Click image for larger size.* The faint, wide arcs or shells of NGC 474 could have been formed by a gravitational encounter with neighbor NGC 470. Alternately the shells could be caused by a merger with a smaller galaxy producing an effect analogous to ripples... more »
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Can You Imagine?"
*"Can You Imagine?" * "For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer's night or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now - whenever we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine they don't dance, from the root up, wishing to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly more shade - surely you can't imagine they just stand there loving every minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings of the years slowly and without a sound thickening, and nothing different unless the w... more »
Is Trumpy-The-Clown Going To Drain The Wall Street Swamp? You're Joking, Right?
Perhaps you were angry that Obama's Justice Department never went after Wall Street elites. I sure was. Last year David Sirota did a powerful piece for *International Business Times* about how prosecution for white collar crimes was at a 20-year low-- although not because there was less of that kind of crime. While Bernie was getting standing ovations for demanding more Wall Street prosecutions-- with Hillary and even Trump pretending to go along with the sentiment-- prosecutions were down 12% for 2015 from 2014 and down 29% in five years. Underscoring the assertion that it wasn't ... more »
Justin Trudeau, while a controversial figure, loved socialism with all his heart.
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, as part of his official statement on the overdue death of Cuban Communist and Military Dictator Fidel Castro, said: "it is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.” “While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante." Except of course those Cubans who fled Cuba, died in his prisons or in rebellion, or were afraid to complain about the total lack of f... more »
LEST WE FORGET – Revealed: In 1950s Mossad spies married Arabs to conceal identity
“They were planted as Arabs, married Palestinians, had children and were incorporated into the Palestinian community as businessmen. They were the first to provide intelligence regarding the establishment of Fatah, and took part in the first plans to kill Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad.” Sabba – Mossad’s Ulysses Project is still alive and kicking and […]
Paper Wraps Jelly Baby
In 1942, Aleister Crowley, a British occultist, claimed to have invented the usage of a V-sign in February 1941 as a magical foil to the Nazis' use of the Swastika. He maintained that he passed this to friends at the *BBC*, and to the *British Naval Intelligence Division* through his connections in *MI5*, eventually gaining the approval of *Winston Churchill.* Crowley noted that his 1913 publication Magick featured a V-sign and a swastika on the same plate. *(The bemused Movellans are watching a game of paper scissors stone.) * *DOCTOR:* Paper wraps stone. *ROMANA: *Ha, s... more »
US Desperados Pass Syria "No Fly" Resolution in House as Opportunities for Chaos in Syria Dwindle.
*Drone Footage of Foreign-Sponsored Terrorists'* *Damage done to Aleppo, Syria* *All damage you will see in this video* *brought to you by US Taxpayer dollar$* Carefully covered up activity by the Obama Regime in the last days of the Obomber's lame duck presidency indicates that the House of Representatives (Congress) passed a resolution for a Syrian No Fly Zone .... thus provoking war with Russia. Here is the entire report and I will have my reaction in comments to follow: Soon after the presidential election, key warmongers in Congress began formulating plans to make increased c... more »
Breaking: Blasts Heard In Kurdish Training Camp. US & British Instructors Present?
*Related to earlier reporting or upping the ante?* *TASS:* ANKARA, November 27. /TASS/. *Several blasts rocked training camps of paramilitary units of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party in the Syrian province of Khaseke in Tel Tamer on Saturday, Anadoly Agency reported. * *The report said there several people were killed and wounded in the accident. * According to the agency, there were the US and British military instructors in the camp. The facility was formed by the Democratic Union in 2013, for training the Kurdish militia. The trainings have been performed by US instructors ... more »
Water Protectors Attorneys -- Corps and Police: Rights Violations and Excessive Force
. By Water Protector Legal Collective/National Lawyer's Guild, Formerly Red Owl Legal Collective Censored News French translation by Christine Prat http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3851 Dutch translation by Alice Holemans http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/
Chet Raymo, "The Song of Amergin"
"The Song of Amergin" by Chet Raymo "It is commonly called "The Song of Amergin," and it is reputed to be the first poem composed in Ireland, by one of the "Milesian princes" who colonized the island several hundred years before the birth of Christ. "I am the wind on the sea. I am the ocean wave. I am the sound of the billows. I am the seven-horned stag. I am the hawk on the cliff. I am the dewdrop in sunlight. I am the fairest of flowers. I am the raging boar. I am the salmon in the deep pool. I am the lake on the plain. I am the meaning of the poem. I am the point of the spear. I am t... more »
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