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Hollande hits out at Merkel's austerity focus while warning recession and budget deficits are equal threats ahead of key EU summit
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
Troubled eurozone states should have the leeway to stimulate internal
demand with salary rises and tax cuts, Mr Hollande told Le Monde and
five
other European newspapers in a joint interview.
Well.. she is allowing Tax Cuts.....In Germany at least
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219280/European-Union-summit-Francois-Hollande-hits-Angela-Merkel-focusing-austerity.html
Greece braces for Another general strike over austerity
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
It will be the country's 20th national stoppage since the debt crisis
erupted two years ago and comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19986804
"Mark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Great Life"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 minutes ago
"Mark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Great Life"
by Henrik Edberg
"You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and
also a humorist, satirist and lecturer. Twain is known for his many – and
often funny – quotes. Here are a few of my favorite tips from him.
1. Approve of yourself. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own
approval.” If you don’t approve of yourself, of your behavior and actions
then you’ll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of
uncomfortable feelin... more »
Rights group recounts Gadhafi's last bloody moments; calls for justice
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
It's an iconic piece of video. For more than three minutes, you see a mob
of enraged men toss Moammar Gadhafi around like a broken mannequin.
Suspicion -- rather than order and forgiveness -- continues to grip Libya,
the rights group suggests, and justice is being ignored.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/gadhafi-death-report/
Suicide 'Insider' Attack Kills Six in Afghanistan
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A member of the Afghan intelligence service detonated a suicide vest
Saturday, killing two Americans and four Afghan intelligence agency
colleagues
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/world/asia/suicide-insider-attack-kills-six-in-afghanistan.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Kuwait's emir warned at opposition protest
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
Several protesters were hurt and others detained when protesters clashed
with security forces outside Kuwait's parliament building, reports say.
At least 5,000 people took part in the demonstration on Monday evening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19964068
Cameron to tread tricky path at EU summit
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
The prime minister hopes to begin a much wider renegotiation of Britain's
relationship with Brussels which would see other powers - for example, on
social and employment policy - repatriated.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19971119
Human trafficking to UK 'rising'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes ago
Last year the authorities learned of 946 victims, compared with 710 in
2010, the inter-departmental ministerial group on human trafficking said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19984615
A Special Thanks To Clear Channel
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 minutes ago
Clear Channel functions as a part of the Republican political machine. In
the past they have rejected Blue America radio ads for the flimsiest of
excuses and this cycle their billboard division told us flatly that they
don't care what kind of message we have, they flat out refuse to run any
billboards in Santa Clarita, where they own all the good billboard
locations, against Republican Buck McKeon or for Democrat Lee Rogers. So
why am I thanking them? If they hadn't turned down our billboards-- which
we needed to go along with our extensive radio campaign in the district-- I
woul... more »
To Fight Global Censorship, Support Infowars.com And The Global Alternative Media
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 minutes ago
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the
long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The
only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas." - Alfred Whitney
Griswold, American historian and president of Yale University from
1950–1963.
The biggest issue in America and throughout the Western world is not the
economy, or the situation in Syria, or Iran's nuclear program, but media
censorship.
Sure, freedom of speech exists, but it is *constrained with the habitual
use of totalitarian labels* like "conspiracy theory" and limite... more »
Syrian Rebels Get Missiles.....Well that sure is reassuring
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
Syrian rebel factions have obtained advanced portable antiaircraft weapons,
according to rebels and regional officials, a development that could alter
the Syrian war's trajectory and fan U.S. concerns that such weapons could
end up in the hands of anti-Western Islamist militias.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443684104578062842929673074.html
'For your freedom ignite a firebomb': The chilling terror magazine which inspired the Federal Reserve bomb suspect
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
The foreign student arrested over an attempt to blow-up the New York
Federal Reserve on Wednesday cited an extremist publication as inspiration
for his deadly plans.
Quazi Nafis, 21, reportedly learned how to make a bomb from an article
published by al-Qaeda in the magazine ‘Inspire.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219384/Federal-Reserve-bomb-plot-Quazi-Nafis-inspired-al-Qaeda-terrorist-magazine.html
Retail Crisis: Chain Store Closures Hit 32 A Day
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Major retailers are urged to work with landlords to ease rent bills as
chain closures surge to damage high streets.
http://news.sky.com/story/999003/retail-crisis-chain-store-closures-hit-32-a-day
UK 'Must Plan For Mumbai-Style Terror Attack'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
The Government is to urge the emergency services to better prepare for
major terrorist plots like those seen in India and Norway.
http://news.sky.com/story/999194/terrorism-uk-must-plan-for-major-attack
NY Bomb Plot Suspect Wanted To 'Destroy US'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
Security officials defend sting operations after a man is arrested for
plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction on US soil.
http://news.sky.com/story/999142/new-york-bank-bomb-plot-foiled-in-fbi-sting
Flavor Flav Arrested after threatening to attack her teenage son with a knife
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
The rap star is held in a jail after being arrested at his home during a
dispute with his fiancee and her son.
http://news.sky.com/story/999177/flavor-flav-held-over-assault-with-deadly-weapon
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA - 18th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
Magnitude
5.0
Date-Time
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 02:33:29 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 08:03:29 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
23.855°N, 81.294°E
Depth
14.8 km (9.2 miles)
Region
MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA
Distances
19 km (11 miles) NNW of Jaisinghnagar, India
5.7 Magnitude Earthquake WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND - 18th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
Magnitude
5.7
Date-Time
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 01:27:15 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 11:27:15 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
54.273°S, 143.919°E
Depth
10.2 km (6.3 miles)
Region
WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
Distances
975 km (605 miles) W of Macquarie Island, Australia
"Human Destiny: The Grace of the Present Moment"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 42 minutes ago
"Human Destiny: The Grace of the Present Moment"
by Michael Dowd
"Our present situation, I think, can be summarized by the following three
sentences: 1. The glory of the human has become the desolation of the
Earth. 2. The desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human.
3. Therefore, all human activities, professions, programs and institutions
must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit,
ignore or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship."- Thomas
Berry
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the diversity, stability, and
... more »
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake KURIL ISLANDS - 18th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes ago
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 00:35:11 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 12:35:11 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
48.330°N, 154.451°E
Depth
48.2 km (30.0 miles)
Region
KURIL ISLANDS
Distances
288 km (178 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
"The Legend of the Starfish"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 47 minutes ago
*"The Legend of the Starfish"*
"A vacationing businessman was walking along a beach when he saw a young
boy. Along the shore were many starfish that had been washed up by the tide
and were sure to die before the tide returned. The boy was walking slowly
along the shore and occasionally reached down and tossed the beached
starfish back into the ocean.
The businessman, hoping to teach the boy a little lesson in common sense,
walked up to the boy and said, “I have been watching what you are doing,
son. You have a good heart, and I know you mean well, but do you realize
how many bea... more »
Mitt's many binders of women
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 50 minutes ago
[graphic via]
By now you're aware the seminal moment of the debate was Mitt's bizarre
response to a question about equal pay for women. And of course, binders of
women became an instant meme. Within minutes, there was a facebook page
with 142K likes, a tumblr page and the phrase was trending on the twitter.
But the hiliarity shouldn't obscure the larger issues.
To the shock of no one, Mitt lied in his personal anecdote about how he was
so very concerned that no women had applied for a job with his cabinet
after he was elected governor that he immediately sent forth his menfolk to... more »
Musical Interlude: Secret Garden, “The Promise”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Secret Garden, “The Promise”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEmk1zMrkhM&feature=related
Aussie Govt. Whitewashes FBI Assassination Rendition Try For Former Spy
Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 1 hour ago
Gwenyth Todd in Iraq
*Five years ago, an American woman serving in Bahrain single handedly
stopped the United States government from a criminal attack on Iran and a
series of “false flag” terror attacks on American troops and ships in the
region.*
*American Neocons and Israeli lobby decided this was their last chance to
start a war, one that would saddle the next president with a disaster of
unprecedented proportions, fighting 3 wars during America’s Bush driven
economic collapse.*
Posted October 9, 2012
http://www.degaray.com/?p=2591
RealTime Gordon Duff
*Aussie Govt. Wh... more »
CRYPTOGON: Belgium Exxon-Mobil Manager Shot Dead
Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 2 hours ago
http://cryptogon.com/?p=31822
*Belgium: Exxon-Mobil Manager Shot Dead*
October 16th, 2012
Update: Better Translation
Cryptogon reader D has submitted a better English translation of the story:
Sunday night a top executive of the petro-chemical company ExxonMobil was
shot dead in the street in Neder-over-Heembeek, near Brussels. Nicholas
Mockford was shot in the head twice, when he and his wife were leaving an
Italian restaurant around 22h. Witnesses saw two men running away carrying
a motorcycle helmet.
The man died on the way to the hospital. His wife Mary was beaten and
co... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million
light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra,
the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with
luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes.
*Click image for larger size. *
Still, for earthbound astronomers NGC 3621 is not just another pretty
face-on spiral galaxy. Some of its brighter stars have been used as
standard candles to establish important estimates of extragalactic
distances and the scale of the Universe. This beautiful image of NGC 3621
traces... more »
Chet Raymo, "Wow!"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"Wow!"*
by Chet Raymo
"Bakewell distills Montaigne's philosophy of life to this succinct
statement: "The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each
instant of experience." Oh, she has more than that. She has her twenty
answers from Montaigne to the question "How To Live": Pay attention.
Question everything. Be convivial. Live temperately. Be ordinary and
imperfect. Don't fear death. And so on. But I'll settle for the naïve
amazement.
Nearly fifty years ago, as a young prof, I had a short column in the
college newspaper called "Under a Skeptical Star." I took the t... more »
Free Download: Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was the
Roman emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as
co-emperor from 161 until Lucius' death in 169. He was the last of the
"Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important
Stoic philosophers. His tenure was marked by wars in Asia against a
revitalized Parthian Empire, and with Germanic tribes along the Limes
Germanicus into Gaul and across the Da... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Gila, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"The 12 Rules of Survival"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"The 12 Rules of Survival"
by Laurence Gonzales
From "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why"
"As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty
years. In the last 15 or so years, I've concentrated on accidents in
outdoor recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and
why. To my surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive
seemingly impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart,
separated by culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most
successful survivors–those who practice what I cal... more »
Millions to take part in largest ever-earthquake drill across entire United States: 13 million Americans set to be involved
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9615994/Millions-to-take-part-in-largest-ever-earthquake-drill.html
Korea: Could turning the DMZ into a giant wildlife preserve and park be the way to unite the two Koreas and end the war?
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
*A very interesting idea indeed.*
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3400711610039281806#editor/src=dashboard
"Any Real Change..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known
it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at
such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will
now bring, one clings to what one knew, or thought one knew; to what one
possessed or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is when a man is able,
without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished
or a privilege he had long possessed that he is set free- he has set
himself free- or higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
- James Baldwin
... but the judge criticized the law enforcement agents who helped push the plot forward: “The government made them terrorists.”
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
Entrapment is a tricky thing.
It's one thing where the police discover a plot and follow it along. But if
the police hatch the plot and convince someone to join in?
In Canada entrapment occurs when the police actually induce the commission
of the offence. Some factors a court may consider when deciding whether
police have induced the offence include the type of crime being
investigated, whether an average person would have been induced, the
persistence and number of attempts made by the police, the type of
inducement used (e.g. fraud, deceit, reward), and the existence of express
... more »
"Responsibility..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies
in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so
by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or
organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that
entity.”
- M. Scott Peck
In Willard's world, says Amy Davidson, women always seem to be missing where you expect them and to turn up where you don't
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
[*Click to enlarge.*]
*"Romney was fifty-six when he became governor, with decades spent in
business during which he could have made the sort of contacts that would
have turned him into a resource for others looking for qualified women."*
*-- Amy Davidson, in her newyorker.com blogpost
today,* "Mitt's Binders and the Missing Women"
*by Ken*
It could be that Republican presidential candidate Willard Inc. isn't
really clueless but merely plays clueless in his, you know, *presidential
campaign*.
Poor Willard is encountering concentrated hanging driblets of grief for
that peculiar de... more »
Afghanistan: "Gen. David Petraeus: We Cannot Win"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"I don't think you win this war. I think you keep fighting...
This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably
our kids' lives."
- General David Petraeus, quoted in "Obama’s Wars," by Bob Woodward.
•••
*"Gen. Petraeus' Counter-Insurgency Manual"*
"According to the US Army counter-insurgency manual re-written by General
David Petraeus, [now Director of the CIA - CP] a ratio of one soldier to 40
or 50 inhabitants (20 to 25 per 1000) is required to defeat an insurgency.
The population of Afghanistan is now about 33,609,937 (July 2009 est.)*,
meaning th... more »
“Losing Their Grip in Afghanistan”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*“Losing Their Grip in Afghanistan”*
by Ashley Smith
"Now in its eleventh year, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan is reeling
from crisis to crisis. The U.S. government has spent nearly $600 billion on
the war, yet the Taliban insurgency is unbowed. Afghan National Security
Forces, which the U.S. is training, hold their overlords in contempt. In a
wave of “green-on-blue attacks,” Afghan soldiers have killed 51 American
GIs so far this year. And the Afghan people continue to suffer extreme
poverty, disproving claims about the successful reconstruction of the
country.
This is no... more »
The great debate 2012
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
Well I'm feeling like absolute hell today so I'm late in my take on last
night's debate. There's a lot to unpack on the content but in general, as
clearly illustrated by the photo, by any reasonable metric President Obama
won this round decisively. He was fully engaged and challenged Mitt's
fabrications repeatedly. He struck the perfect balance between respect for
the process and disdain for Romney's rude behavior and wild blathering.
Romney came off as rude, arrogant, floundering and angry.
Unsurprisingly, Romney's supporters and whining pundits were complaining
about Candy Crowle... more »
Chris Hedges : Heartland Resistance to the Pipeline
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
Treesitters
in Winnsboro, Texas. Photo from the Tar Sands Blockade.
Resistance in the heartland:
The Great Tar Sands BlockadeRanchers, farmers, and enraged citizens,
often after seeing their land seized by eminent domain and their water
supplies placed under mortal threat, have united with Occupiers and
activists to oppose the building of the Keystone XL tar sand pipeline.
By Chris Hedges /
Successive Liberal And Conservative Governments Put Canadians Health At Risk According To USDA Report
leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago
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*Liberal / Tory .. same old story.*
*
**Neither Canada's Liberal nor Conservative governments actually care very
much about the health and safety of average Canadian citizens. All these
two old time political entities care about is not ruffling the feathers of
Canada's corporate sector.*
*This reality is abundantly clear with the release of a report on XL Foods
by the United States Department of Agriculture.*
*
**"Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) sent a series of audit reports to the CFIA **(Canadian
Food Inspection Age... more »
"A Lofty Ideal..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men
of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact
that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending
any save the most elemental- men whose whole thinking is done in terms of
emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot
understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or
be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most
devious and mediocre- the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion
that ... more »
FBI yet again foils their own fake terrorist plot, this time targeting the NY Federal Reserve
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago
Madison Ruppert, *Contributor*
At this point I wish I could laugh at the absurdly obvious nature of the
federal government’s involvement in the manufacture of domestic terrorism,
but unfortunately it is far too serious a matter.
For those who think the most recent case of 21-year-old Bangladeshi
national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s (FBI’s) major role in said case is something of a fluke,
think again.
Indeed, the FBI’s business is manufacturing terrorism of all kinds and breaking
the law in the process. The two most recent cases ... more »
How to Waste a Trillion Dollars
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago
*What America could have had for the cost of Lockheed Martin's F-35. *
Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor*
Already possessing the largest, most advanced air force and air defense
capability on the planet, the United States has recently developed at the
cost of 323 billion dollars, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) produced
by Lockheed Martin. It is the most expensive defense program in human
history. The US plans to buy a total of 2,443 of these aircraft, utilize
them for approximately 50 years at the total program cost of 1.5 trillion
dollars. The Pentagon has already begun a public... more »
Home Grown Humanity
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago
* The following is an excerpt from our book, *Surviving Survivalism – How
to Avoid Survivalism Culture Shock*, available on Amazon Kindle or
survivingsurvivalism.com. (Note: We asked our 21-year-old son, Jesse, if he
would contribute to this book by writing about his viewpoint of living this
life. Here are his words.)*
image source Jesse Gendron
I was recently asked “ Do you know how lucky you are never having been
vaccinated?”
The question gave me pause because it had become an invariable expectation
to encounter those attached to the ball and chain of the corporate world
who w... more »
Open War Policy Revealed by Romney's NeoCon Advisers
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago
Brandon Turbeville
On October 1, 2012, Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney outlined his own
version of imperialist American foreign policy before the Virginia Military
Institute. What Romney described was, in its goals, no different than that
of any other President since JFK.
As was made clear in his speech, the presentation of the mutated Manifest
Destiny to be ushered in by Romney would be significantly more open than
the “leading from behind” destabilization and coalition-based Obama
treachery, as the candidate has clearly stated this on more than one
occasion.
Essentially, whi... more »
Waitangi? It imposed no such obligation
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
I’m sorry, but this news this morning is ridiculous.
The Waitangi Tribunal has called on the Crown to apologise to the country's
kohanga reo because they have suffered significant prejudice from early
childhood policies of successive governments… The report follows a claim
made to the tribunal by the Kohanga Reo National Trust last year.
“Prejudice”?! Really? What sort of “prejudice”?
And a *claim*? A *Waitangi* claim? About *this*? Have we gone mad?
The only prejudice I can see here is race-based early childhood centres set
up and paid for by taxpayers on the basis of *racia... more »
Russian S-400s (anti-aircraft missiles) relocated near Turkey, while Hizballah shifts units, rockets into Syria
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/22446/Russian-S-400s-relocated-near-Turkey-Hizballah-shifts-units-rockets-into-Syria
Democratic Congresswoman Schultz Plays Dumb About NDAA And Obama's Secret Kill List
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
Watch: *Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Secret Kill List "The Most Radical Power a
Government Can Seize." *
Reminder: *Congress has 8% approval rating*.
This is why:
Fortune 500 Deferring $433 Billion in Taxes
Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 4 hours ago
According to a new report today from Citizens for Tax Justice, the 285
members of the Fortune 500 that have parked money overseas would owe an
estimated $433 billion in taxes if and when it is repatriated. No wonder
these companies are working so hard to get a "repatriation holiday" even
though the one given in 2004 did not yield any significant new investment,
but lots of dividends and stock buybacks.
The new report list 10 companies with $209 billion parked overseas that
report the taxes they would owe on these profits (only 47 do so). These
companies all report that they would o... more »
Mittsy's "Binders" Lie
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
In last night's debate, Mitt Romney said, as governor of Massachusetts he
looked around and noticed a distinct lack of women in senior positions.
So he went to women's groups to seek their help.
*"And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who
had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. *
*"I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find
folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women."*
A bald-faced lie atop all the other lies this bastard has been spinning.
Here's what actually happened from ... more »
"Buzzwords: The Corruptions of Language"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
* "Buzzwords: The Corruptions of Language"*
by Patrick Cockburn
“Never believe anything until it is officially denied,” is a useful saying,
advising skepticism towards whatever the government claims to be doing.
This is the right mental attitude for any journalist or observer of the
political scene. But for sniffing out official or journalistic mendacity,
evasion and ignorance, a good guide is the use of tired and misleading
words or phrases, their real purpose being not to illuminate but to conceal.
Suspicion of an attempt to deceive should be aroused by any sighting of the
wor... more »
"Filling the Black Hole- Two Elections: Israel and the US"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*"Filling the Black Hole-
Two Elections: Israel and the US"*
by Uri Avnery
"So we have two election campaigns in the next three months– one in the USA
and one in Israel. I don’t know which of them is more important for our
lives. In many respects, the two elections are very different. But in some
others, they are strikingly similar. It may be interesting to make some
comparisons.
The US elections are far more corrupt than ours. Inevitably so. Since the
advent of TV, they have become hugely expensive. TV ads cost a lot of
money. Enough money can come only from big corporations an... more »
Romney Fun Time
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago
Among Mitt Romney's gaffes in the second debate was his remark about
"binders full of women." When the subject of helping women achieve pay
equity came up, Mittsy dodged the subject by talking about his days as
Massachusetts governor. According to the latest Romney fable, he asked a
women's group to help find him qualified women candidates for his office
and he received "binders full of women."
A lot of women are up in arms at being so blatantly objectified by Romney
but *The Young Turks*, bless them, found a bit of humour in it.
Derechos Humanos 'Border Patrol Deadly Force Terrorizes Border Communities'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
*U.S. Border Patrol's Deadly Force Policies *
*Terrorize Border Communities*
Remembering the migrants on San Xavier Tohono O'odham land.
Photo Brenda Norrell.
*By Derechos Humanos Coalition*
*Censored News*
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Coalición de Derechos Humanos denounces the most recent shooting of a 16
year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The incident, which occurred on
October 10th, is the latest in a series of shootings that have raised
serious questions as to the use of deadly force by the largest police
agency, the U.S. Border Patrol. The community deserves an... more »
FALSE FLAG PREDICTION: WHITE HOUSE INSIDER – BIN LADEN VERSION 2
Intercept at The Intercept - 6 hours ago
The Ulsterman Report
*This just came from Insider:*
*Have a heads up for you. This comes directly from the Old Man. Military
intelligence may have tracked location of a guy called “Khattalah” who
apparently organized the Benghazi attack. Check media reports for name.
Obama to order drone strikes or possible all out bombing operation. Says
it appears imminent. Obama will then make claim “perpetrators brought to
justice” to squash Benghazi questions and play part of hero. “Bin Laden
Version 2 “ If accurate, this scenario would fit with the earlier rescue
operation scenario you ... more »
People Respond to Incentives
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 6 hours ago
Even in France:
France's new 75 percent income tax on the rich may not be popular with
millionaires. But it's being cheered by another group: Paris real-estate
buyers. Real estate agents say that the number of multi-million-dollar
real-estate listings in Paris has jumped more than 25 percent over last
year -- due in part to the threat of the new income tax....[B]rokers say
the 75 percent tax on the wealthiest French citizens has contributed to the
decision by many of the them to sell their homes in anticipation of a
possible move to another country.
Religion vs Science
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
I don’t enjoy Ricky Gervais’s TV shows, but his Twitter feed is pure genius:
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Yes, Mittens, Government Can And Does Create Jobs
Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 6 hours ago
By Manifesto Joe
Mitt Scumney lost Tuesday night's encounter with President Obama on points,
and Obama showed more fire than he did in their lackluster first debate.
Scumney, though, seemed prepared for a more spirited show from Obama and
didn't do badly, on the whole. But one "point" he emphasized stuck in my
mind because of how dead wrong he is on it.
"Government doesn't create jobs," Scumney said repeatedly, with passion and
emphasis.
Scumney didn't live through World War II, nor did I. But if that war effort
wasn't powerful, compelling proof that government can and does create ... more »
World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules
Intercept at The Intercept - 6 hours ago
Guardian
Martin Lukacs
Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada
contravenes two UN conventions
[image: Geoengineering with bloom : high concentrations of chlorophyll in
the Eastern Gulf of Alaska]Yellow and brown colours show relatively high
concentrations
of chlorophyll in August 2012, after iron sulphate was
dumped into the Pacific Ocean as part of a
controversial geoengineering scheme.
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron
sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the
west coast of Ca... more »
Elsewhere: Romney/Bush, First Read
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago
At Greg's place, I wrote about Romney and Bush's similar platforms, and one
difference: there's a policy gap. Bush had some, in 2000.
And at PostPartisan, I wasn't happy at all with First Read, which claimed
to know what Romney and Obama were really thinking during the debate. Oy,
First Read!
That's it for now; time to concentrate on the game in St. Louis for a while.
Powerful Speech By Miko Peled, Son of A Famous Israeli General
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
*Miko Peled is a man of incredible courage*.
Miko Peled, author of *'The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in
Palestine,'* gave a powerful speech in Seattle on October 1, 2012, about
the true nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For more background, check out: *"When Everything You Know Is Not True:
Miko Peled Debunking Jewish Myths,"* and, *"Peled: The only way forward is
‘transformation’ of a racist apartheid state into a democracy."*
Pesticide sickens 378 Peru workers
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The chemical intoxicated at least 378 people, who overran the local
hospitals in Ica, a city 200 miles south of Lima.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/americas/peru-workers-pesticide/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
U.S. Embassy evacuated in Sweden security alert
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
he U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, was briefly evacuated Wednesday after
an alarm was raised over a suspicious envelope containing white powder,
Stockholm police said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/europe/sweden-us-embassy/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
'Devastation' after mosque bombing in Aleppo
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The peace of prayer time at a mosque in Aleppo was shattered Wednesday when
Syrian army planes bombed the site, killing and injuring several
worshippers, activists said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Epidemic claims 343 cattle near Sualkuchi, India
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Nearly 500 to 600 cattle have been affected by the disease at Bathan,
Srihati, Sarulah, Halogaon and Bamundi near Sualkuchi in the last two
weeks. The disease has broken out in an epidemic nature among the cattle of
the char areas, including Sarudia, Bardia, Laheswari and Gariyadia char.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct1612/state05
Fifth case of Legionnaires' disease reported in Carmarthen, Wales
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Public Health Wales and Carmarthenshire county council’s environmental
health department are currently investigating the outbreak, which have
seen
all patients needing hospital treatment as a result of their illness.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/10/11/fifth-case-of-legionnaires-disease-reported-in-carmarthen-91466-32013410/
I have no idea why, but Mrs NotaSheep came to bed singing this tonight...
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
Lord Boustany Faces Off Against A Louisiana Teabagger
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
In the contest next month for Louisiana's third congressional district,
Democrat Ron Richard isn't really a factor. The race pits two Republican
incumbents, Jeff Landry, a teabagger who currently represents the old 3rd
CD and His Lordship Charles Boustany, currently the representative of the
7th CD (which will cease to exist with this election). Until 2010-- and the
Great Blue Dog Apocalypse-- the 3rd was a conservative Democratic bastion
in the southernmost part of the state. (In 2008. the GOP didn't even bother
to field a candidate against Blue Dog Charlie Melancon but he made a ... more »
Melnikov House, by Konstanin Melnikov
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
[image: image]Source: Melnikov House
Even in the depths of the Soviet conquest of the soul, Konstanin Melnikov
found a way to make inspiring architecture. This, his family home, his
masterpiece, he somehow managed to get through the system.
[Hat tip Sandrine L.]
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"We're bankrupt, this country is bankrupt, and people just don't want to admit it."
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
The State vs Christie Marceau
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
The first job of the state, its *only* legitimate role, is to protect the
individual rights of its citizens—to protect each individuals’ rights to
life, liberty and pursuit of property and happiness.
To protect our lives.
[image: image]It failed to protect Christie Marceau.
The primary purpose of incarceration is not to punish criminals. It is not
to teach them a lesson, nor to turn them around. The primary purpose is
protection. Protection for the harmless, like Christie Marceau, from the
harmful, like her murderer.
The state, in the person of Justice McNaughton, failed Christi... more »
EU seeks way to involve non-euro states in banking union
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
European Union countries are considering creating a body inside the
European Central Bank to find a legally watertight way to involve states
outside the euro zone in a banking union, officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-eu-banking-union-idUSBRE89G1JX20121017
Alan Waldman : 'Bedazzled' is Brilliant British Comedy Classic
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours ago
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
The 1967 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore film Bedazzled is a comedy classic.
It's one of the most brilliant, hilarious British movies ever.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / October 17, 2012
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and
CIA officer, Army intelligence analyst killed in Afghan attack
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
A CIA officer and a U.S. Army intelligence analyst were among those killed
in a suicide bomb attack last weekend in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said
on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-usa-afghanistan-cia-idUSBRE89G1O320121017
CDC says deaths rise to 19 in worsening meningitis outbreak
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
The number of U.S. deaths from fungal meningitis linked to potentially
contaminated steroid injections rose to 19 with confirmation of two new
fatalities in Tennessee and one each in Florida and Virginia, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-usa-health-meningitis-deaths-idUSBRE89G1GE20121017
Russia criticizes EU Iran sanctions, urges talks
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
Russia criticized the European Union on Wednesday for imposing new
sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and called for a fresh round of
talks between world powers and Tehran as soon as possible.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-iran-nuclear-russia-idUSBRE89G1FM20121017
Federal Reserve building Bomb Plot Foiled by Undercover Officers - New York
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
Bangladeshi native Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on
Wednesday morning after a sting operation that involved the FBI and the New
York Police Department.
http://news.sky.com/story/999142/new-york-fed-bomb-plot-fbi-arrest-man
Three Deaths on the Border: New Questions
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
US Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, funeral for
Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguezl, 16, and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever*By
Brenda Norrell*
*Censored News*
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
TUCSON -- Three deaths on the border involving the US Border Patrol and the
Cochise County Sheriff have raised new alarms for border residents, and
opened the door for new questions.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever was killed in an accident just two weeks
before US Border Patrol agents opened fire on each other in Cochise County,
killing one Border Patrol agent.
The Cochise County Record ... more »
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake NIAS REGION, INDONESIA - 17th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
Magnitude
5.0
Date-Time
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 19:38:56 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 02:38:56 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
1.301°N, 97.229°E
Depth
35.2 km (21.9 miles)
Region
NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
Distances
161 km (100 miles) SE of Sinabang, Indonesia
Dance Your PhD
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 8 hours ago
Doing a PhD? Progress struck dead by writer's block? Why not try presenting
your *opus* as a piece of interpretative dance, like these chaps have done?
The above is a Social Science PhD looking at the evaluation of good
governance of resources in rural areas. Dry as regolith on paper, but
altogether more sumptuous when set to music.
The above was an Italian entry into the fifth annual 'Dance Your PhD'
competition (more here).
About 10 years ago, one of my friends was recommended she perform a paper
on feminist deconstruction through the medium of dance at a straight
sociology co... more »
The List Of Israeli Prime Ministers Who Were Good For America!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours ago
I did not watch the Barry Soetoro/Willard Romney farce of a "town hall
debate" last night... I didnt think I would have the stomach to watch the
bull crap flying out of the mouths of those two pro-Israel kiss butt
shills. It is truly astounding to think about how America has fallen so
far when the candidates for the Presidency of the United States debate who
is best for the criminal state of Israel!
Yes, it seems that the last half dozen or so Presidents of the United
States, were definitely puppets for the criminal state of Israel, would do
anything to please their Jewish masters,... more »
Ain't Nothing To Mess With: Syria's Air Defenses And Iran's Mining Capabilities
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago
*Photo: Turkish jets. Source.*
An excerpt from, *"Syria's Air Defenses Would Stifle A Turkish Military
Intervention,"* by Eyup Can [Source: Al Monitor]:
Talking is free of charge. Everybody talks. But look what Barkey [a Turkey
analyst at Lehigh University], was telling [*Radikal* journalist] Ezgi
Basaran in their interview yesterday: “The Turkish army doesn’t have enough
experience to set up a buffer zone.”
And then he lists the bitter truths.
To those who might ask who Henri Barkey is, let me remind them: He speaks
Turkish better than most Turks, has worked in the US State De... more »
CONvergence
noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
From the CPC government that created a testerical brouhaha around Canada's
Arctic sovereignty to justify the purchase of F-35 fighter planes, we now
have the CON rebranding of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
*Yesterday, Heritage Minister James Moore announced that the name and
mandate of the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be changed to create
the Canadian Museum of History. $25 million will be moved from other areas
of the Heritage budget to pay for the new museum. ** *
*“This decision is a mistake,” said James L. Turk, CAUT executive
director. “It needlessly eliminates... more »
Candidate Romney gets conned by a con!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012*
*Anatomy of a famous blunder/The transcript of what Romney said:* Following
a rare social engagement, we now give you the transcript of Candidate
Romney’s great and soon-to-be-famous historic debate blunder.
Below, you see what Romney said. Given the bullroar which has reigned for a
month, it’s easy to see why he said it:
ROMNEY (10/16/12): I think interesting— The president just said something
which, which is that, on the day after the [Benghazi] attack, he went into
the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror.
OBAMA: That’s what I said.
... more »
Vatican Taliban FAIL
noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
I'd say that a nominally Catholic country that legalizes abortion in the
face of the shitstorm hurled by the Vatican Taliban is on its way to
happier days.
Good news! Uruguay just joined the club.
Latin America is home to about half of the world's Roman Catholics and the
Church is opposed to abortion under any circumstances. But Uruguay, a
country of 3.2 million people, has a strong secular tradition.
Perhaps surprisingly, civil unions for LGBT folk are legal too.
The new regime is not perfect, of course.
Under the bill Congress passed, a woman can end her pregnancy during the
fir... more »
Money
Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago
Found at: http://www.facebook.com/brotherlylove.movement
Libyan militias shell former Gaddafi stronghold town
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
Libyan militias operating alongside the defense ministry shelled the former
Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid on Wednesday, with one person killed and
another 18 injured in counter-attacks, a local militia leader and a medical
source said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-libya-clashes-idUSBRE89G1EE20121017
John Dalli EU health chief resigns in corruption scandal, vows to clear name
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
BRUSSELS -- The European Union's health commissioner resigned Tuesday over
corruption allegations involving tobacco laws but has denied any wrongdoing
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/eu-health-chief-resigns-in-corruption-scandal-vows-to-clear-name-1.999230
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad backs Syria ceasefire proposal
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
KUWAIT – Iran backs the idea of a ceasefire in Syria during an Islamic
holiday next week and believes free elections are the right way to help
resolve the 19-month-old conflict
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/17/iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-backs-syria-ceasefire-proposal/
War crime? Gaddafi, son & dozens of loyalists executed by rebels
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
Green Party's Jill Stein arrested at site of Hofstra debate
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
“Loopholes: Another Word for Freedom”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Loopholes: Another Word for Freedom”*
by Jeffrey Tucker
"Let’s say that a thief demands $100 and lets you keep $10 because he likes
your suit. He calls that a deduction. The next day, he demands the whole
$110. He says that he is not stealing more. He is only eliminating
deductions and closing loopholes. That’s the GOP’s tax plan in a nutshell.
They say that it is not about raising your taxes. That’s what Democrats do,
and Republicans don’t do that sort of thing. Instead, Republicans favor the
“flat tax” that is “revenue neutral.” They will “pay for the tax cuts” by
capping de... more »
Harry Targ : From the Bay of Pigs to the Missile Crisis / 3
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours ago
Front
page of New York Daily News, October 23, 1962. From the Mitchell
Archives.
The Cuba story, Part 3:
The Bay of Pigs to the missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis suggests that the United States would go to any
extreme, even nuclear war, to defend the interests of capitalism.
By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 17, 2012
"In the missile crisis the Kennedys played their dangerous game
Here's Lil' Stevie
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
This shouldn't come as a surprise but here's Rick Mercer's take on the
dickhead we know as Steve Harper
Yeah, it's Lil' Steve and, yes, he's a dildo.
*CBC "comedian" Rick Mercer has painted the face of Canada's 22nd prime
minister on a wooden penis. The piece of "art" is called "Lil' Steve". *
*It's all for a good cause. The wooden phallus—or "woody"—and others like
it are being auctioned off as a fundraiser for the Calgary Sexual Health
Centre. The centre provides pregnancy testing, birth-control and
post-abortion counselling, sexuality-education programs, anti-homophobia
present... more »
Saudis Consider Free Speech and Revolutionary Ideas A Threat To “Public Order
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
There are some dangerous ideas like freedom of religion and the
inalienable
rights of individuals, that tend to blow apart the tyrannies which are
foolish enough to let them enter into the national dialogue.
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/saudis-consider-free-speech-and-revolutionary-ideas-a-threat-to-public-order/
The Financial Collapse Won't Come With A Warning Sticker
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
The financial system will survive until it doesn't. Such is the nature of
most catastrophes - they arrive without warning.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/922591-the-financial-collapse-won-t-come-with-a-warning-sticker
USAID/CIA supporting dictators and stifling democracy
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
“Clearly their main focus is not to give foreign aid to a country, it is
basically to advance the US economic interests” says Dr. Stuart Jeanne
Bramhall a researcher, writer, political-activist and blogger, who has
studied the activities of USAID for years.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_16/USAID-CIA-supporting-dictators-and-stifling-democracy-exclusive-interview/
Is Barack Obama arming Al Qaeda?
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
On Sunday, the New York Times published a lengthy article by David E.
Sanger "Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria" that has
drawn a wide response in the international media.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_16/Is-Barack-Obama-arming-Al-Qaeda/
Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ.
Intercept at The Intercept - 9 hours ago
ZCommunications
Edward S. Herman
[image: news1]
On October 11, 2011, Paul Krugman asserted on his blog that he had the
privilege of writing two columns a week for “the world’s greatest
newspaper,” the New York Times (NYT). The NYT is surely an outstanding
paper, with exceptionally wide scope, many good journalists on board and
publishing many interesting and enlightening articles. But if the standard
by which we judge greatness is the quality of its service to the public
interest, to the 99 percent who don’t own or advertise in newspapers or TV
networks, or control or benefit dire... more »
US Border Patrol kills teen in Mexico
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
Reuters photo*US Border Patrol opened fire on 16-year-old throwing rocks in
Nogales, Mexico, and killed him*
**
*Frontera NorteSur News: Group Calls for Border Security Oversight*
October 17, 2012
Human Rights News
*By Frontera NorteSur*
*Posted at Censored News*
An El Paso-based immigrant advocacy and human rights organization has
renewed a demand for Washington to establish an independent oversight and
review commission tasked with examining transparency, institutional
violence and “the overall border enforcement strategy and its impact on
border communities and families.”
The Bor... more »
Intensified Warrantless Spying in America
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald's just
published book titled "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars"
provide new information on lawless spying in America.
Eichenwald described "the most dramatic expansion of NSA's power and
authority in the agency's 49 year history." It was devised days after 9/11,
he said. In fact, it began much earlier.
In December 2000, the NSA said:
"The volumes and routing of data make finding and processing nuggets of
intelligence information more difficult. To perform both its offensive and
defensive mission, NS... more »
When the little head does the thinking
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Didn't get to post this last night before the debate but it's amusing
enough that I still want to archive here for future historians. I mean it
is kind of funny that the guy who claimed the terrorists hate us for our
moral depravity, Dinesh D'Souza, got caught sharing a hotel room with his
"finance" who appears to be half his age and for whom he apparently decided
to dump his wife of 20 years.
Did I mention, this little tryst happened at some big Christian convention
of the self-righteously "more moral than us heathens" where Mr. D'Souza was
the keynote speaker? And our paragon of ... more »
The Ultimate Bubble is Paper Money
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Keith Weiner, the head of The Gold Standard Institute USA, explains in this
exclusive interview for Matterhorn Asset Management, among other things:
why he sees a permanent backwardation in gold coming; the role of gold as
the cornerstone of investor’s portfolios; and the specific kind of gold
standard he envisions for the future.
http://goldswitzerland.com/the-ultimate-bubble-is-paper-money/
Why do Americans need an air force base in Poland?
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Matthew Spears, the first US air force specialist, has arrived in Poland.
He is going to work at a military air base near Lodz. According to the
Polish TVN24 channel, his colleagues are due to arrive there before the end
of this month. There will probably be almost two hundred specialists:
pilots, aircraft mechanics, and service staff.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_17/Why-do-Americans-need-an-air-force-base-in-Poland/
Libya questioner: 'After debate, Obama gave me more information about why he delayed calling it terrorist attack'...
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/presidential-debate-libya-questioner-says-obama-didnt-answer/2012/10/17/7109898e-1867-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_blog.html
Bizarre Coincidence: Democrats Get More Time in All Three Debates
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330742/bizarre-coincidence-democrats-get-more-time-all-three-debates-katrina-trinko
Now French President plans to ban homework because it's 'not fair on poor kids'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Children in France already have lessons just four days a week. And they get
two hours each day for lunch and enjoy longer school holidays.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218820/Sorry-kids-France-President-Hollande-plans-ban-homework-education-reforms.html
Judge's fury as he kicks out illegal immigrant from UK for a THIRD time after he tried to stay under Human Rights Act
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave (pictured) dismissed Gbenga Sunday’s attempt to
launch a 'judicial review' and said no more public money should be
wasted
on the case.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219097/Judges-fury-kicks-illegal-immigrant-UK-THIRD-time-tried-stay-Human-Rights-Act.html
Marina Golub Killed: Actress who said she had fresh details about murder of Princess Michael's Russian toyboy is killed in 'mysterious' car crash
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Marina Golub, an actress and close friend of Mr Kravchenko's, has now
been
killed in a Hyundai taxi, after apparently having been warned off for
asking questions about his death.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219152/Russian-actress-uncovered-new-details-murder-Princess-Michaels-toyboy-millionaire-killed-car-crash.html
Faris Quayam a trainee doctor quizzed for eight hours by police and charged with fraud after headphones he sold on eBay for £140 got lost in the post
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
The case against Faris Quayam, 22 (pictured), a trainee doctor at St
George's University, London, was thrown out of court at the first
hearing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219065/Student-grilled-hours-police-charged-fraud-headphones-sold-eBay-140-got-lost-post.html
Julia Gillard Falls at Gandhi's grave....Oops Prime Minister!
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Discoverability
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
Duchesne v. St-Denis, 2012 ONCA 699 deals with limitation periods and
discoverability. The Court holds that a claim is discoverable when the
facts necessary for the claim are known; the legal effect of those facts is
not a condition precedent to discovering the claim. The Court writes:
[29] Both the Master and the Divisional Court erred in their
interpretation of previous decisions of this court relative to whether
knowledge of legal consequences that flow from known facts is required in
order for actual knowledge to exist. Such knowledge may assist in the
acquisition of a... more »
The Costs of Keeping Cool
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
North Americans had a tough and expensive time keeping cool over the
summer. A prolonged heat wave coupled with sustained drought (that
continues in many places) drove demand for plenty of air conditioning.
Know how much electricity Americans, in a normal year, consume for
cooling? More than the entire electrical consumption of the billion plus
population of Africa. Vehicle air conditioners are said to account for 7
to 10-billion gallons of gasoline annually.
And now, with the planet warming and billions in some of the hottest
regions coming into newfound prosperity, the dem... more »
5.5 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 17th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Magnitude
5.5
Date-Time
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 17:23:42 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 06:23:42 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
19.011°S, 174.162°W
Depth
29.8 km (18.5 miles)
Region
TONGA
Distances
43 km (26 miles) SSW of Neiafu, Tonga
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*City wary of writing a blank check to bail out Sheriff Marlin Gusman's
corrupt leadership ~Tom Gogola, The Lens*
Heist: Who Stole The American Dream?
Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago
George Carlin: The American Dream
Preparing for a class I came across a classic crime comic cover
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
Wild stuff!
Drug Innovation 5: The US PCAST Report on Propelling Drug Discovery
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours ago
There was a new report, *Report to the President on Propelling Innovation
in Drug Discovery, Development and Evaluation* made by the President’s
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), Office of the
President of the United States, dated September 2012. The members of this
Council seem to be high profile scientists and academics in some known US
universities. The 110 pages report can be downloaded at
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast.
Among the findings of the report is this chart below: While the number of
new molecular entity (NME) and new biological entity (NBE) appr... more »
How Brad Wall's 'Plan For Growth' Will Grow Washington's Treasury With No Benefit For Saskatchewan
leftdog at Buckdog - 11 hours ago
*"When an American company like Mosaic repatriates profits from
Saskatchewan to the US, it pays the 35% American federal corporate tax rate
minus a credit for corporate taxes paid in Canada. The combined
federal-Saskatchewan rate is currently 27% (12% + 15%), well below the US
threshold. Cutting Saskatchewan corporate taxes further below that
threshold would force US companies operating in Saskatchewan to pay more
American tax, shifting revenue from our provincial treasury to Washington
with no benefit for Saskatchewan."*
*Erin Weir*
*Economist - Candidate for Leader of the Sask ND... more »
Back to the Bates . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago
DALTON
EXITS Ontario politics with a masterful stroke: proroguing the Ontario
Legislature. As a result, there are no debates about the worst series of
mistakes committed by an Ontario administration in one very long time.
From E-Health, to Ornge, to the Oakville Power Station Stumble, to the
battle with Ontario teachers. All of this becomes something for the next
government to deal with.
A Bit Of Humor During These Dark Times....
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours ago
I have been extremely busy the last few days catching up on major projects
at work... By the time I get around to even surfing the internet over the
last few days during the evening, I have been over tired, and really wiped
out. So new articles will be slow to come by for the next few days...
Please bare with me...
Some people criticize myself and others that we only put up articles about
doom and gloom at our blogs... I therefore decided that I would
periodically put up some posts that have some humor in them!
Therefore, for today, I want to put up an interesting video that will ... more »
Twitter Flawed......or are the Influenced by Payments
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
This section on Twitter (see image) has puzzled me for a while now.
"People you might enjoy Following", merrily suggests the headline. I have
noticed that probably 99 out of 100 suggestions from Twitter
are totally irrelevant to our 7000+ earthquake tweets we have posted.
If its not Bieber or Gaga, its Obama, Barosso and now this treat: our
idiotic faux-President van Rompuy.
Are they paying to hassle us? Surely it must be a bad Joke. Enjoy
Following!? Not in this life time or the next.
Job Creation Isn't The Same As Vulture Capitalism
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Romney is an experienced businessman
I doubt that former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman wrote the
headline, but the *Newsweek* article he penned is titled Mitt Romney: The
Great Deformer. And if Stockman didn't write the headline, he sure wrote
all the reasoning behind it. Last we touched bases with Mr. Stockman was in
March when he appeared with Bill Moyers to announce that we've learned no
lessons about the dangers of crony capitalism. As every Republican running
for office continues to pledge undying fealty to Ronald Reagan, they are
willfully forgetting the uncomfortable l... more »
Are We Crazy Yet?
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
Tim Murphy says that "we're all slowly going insane," but I'm not so sure.
The occasion is a PPP poll which finds that everyone predicts one thing:
fraud by the other side.
-In Ohio 62% of Republicans think Democrats will engage in voter fraud to
make sure that Barack Obama wins. 50% of the Democrats think that the GOP
will engage in voter fraud to ensure a Romney victory.
-In Florida 60% of Republicans think Democrats will engage in voter fraud
to make sure that Barack Obama wins. 55% of the Democrats think that the
GOP will engage in voter fraud to ensure a Romney victory.
-In No... more »
Wednesday Afternoon Video
Daniel Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
This may not be the worst (professional, major record label) video of all
time, but it certainly makes a strong bid for the title. Do you have any
suggestions for worse videos?
"This Is What Democracy Looks Like . . . ."
West End Bob at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago
in the Excited States of America:
Pitiful, isn't it ? ? ? ?
5.1 Magnitude Earthquake KEPULAUAN SULA, INDONESIA - 17th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Magnitude mb 5.1
Region KEPULAUAN SULA, INDONESIA
Date time 2012-10-17 15:58:58.0 UTC
Location 1.16 S ; 126.86 E
Depth 40 km
Distance 216 km S Tidore, Indonesia
IMF urges aid for Italy, Spain but Rome baulking
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
The International Monetary Fund called on the eve of a European Union
summit for both Spain and Italy to seek euro zone assistance to draw a line
under the bloc's debt crisis, but Rome has rebuffed the idea and Madrid
seems likely to apply alone.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/us-eurozone-idUSBRE89G0NO20121017
Amazon Whispercast Controls and Broadcasts Stuff
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 11 hours ago
Amazon has announced a free service that is about making it easy to
distribute ebooks to groups. The immediate question many may ask is ‘so
what, groups don’t buy ebooks’, but they do and today can’t achieve that
mass distribution or broadcast.
‘Whispercast for Kindle,’ will allow purseholders and stakeholder to buy
once and send with one click. Teachers can send to students not just ebooks
but also set up and manage access policies on school equipment effectively
blocking undesirable access. An enterprise could also benefit for the same
controls, but it is schools and that lucra... more »
5.0 Magnitude Earthquake SAMOA ISLANDS REGION - 17th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Magnitude
5.0
Date-Time
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 14:50:00 UTC
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 02:50:00 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
14.869°S, 173.639°W
Depth
23.8 km (14.8 miles)
Region
SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
Distances
120 km (74 miles) N of Hihifo, Tonga
4.0 Magnitude Earthquake SULAWESI, INDONESIA - 17th October
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Magnitude M 4.0
Region SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Date time 2012-10-17 10:02:38.2 UTC
Location 0.21 S ; 122.96 E
Depth 100 km
Distance 83 km N Luwuk, Indonesia
Blinders Vs Binders
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
I didn't watch last night's debate.
I could be disingenuous and fake it by, in Romney-style, retroactively
watching video, read the summaries in the media, on Twitter and elsewhere
and pretend I was there the whole time as if I was an NBC sportscaster
doing canned commentary during the Olympics. But I've tried to be honest
with my readers even if it embarrasses me. After all, with no journalistic
credentials, my word and my reader's sense of trust in me is all I have. So
I'll just start this post right now with an admission that I wasn't
interested in last night's debate and didn't... more »
Bullying or Social Justice
Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 12 hours ago
Quick
half-formed thought that's too long for Twitter:
There is an interesting discussion on Twitter (and elsewhere) about the
value of shaming and exposing bullies publicly. Some of us are crying,
wait a minute, this can turn into vigilantism and another form of
bullying.
Some of the responses amount to, "Trust us we've got under control, we
won't let it get to that point."
And what is
In debate, a bungle by Candidate Romney!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012*
*Where do these bungles come from:* Question:
Will Mitt Romney’s world-class bungle make the highlight reel? His
world-class bungle last night about what Obama said?
Will it make the highlight reel of Wickedly Great Debate Moments? Will it
turn into one of the tales the “journalists” love to tell?
In yesterday’s New York Times, Jeremey Peters almost broke the sound
barrier repeating the press corps’ ridiculous tales about key moments from
past debates. Now that Romney has made an *actual* bungle, on tape, will
our fair-minded journalists add it to the... more »
Haitian Medical Team to Work in Peoria
John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 12 hours ago
*It was recently announced that a Haitian medical team will be working in
Peoria in mid-January 2013. The team will include 17 people including
nurses, doctors, cooks, a big crowd-control-man, a podiatrist, and a “leaf
doctor” who is described as an "absolute riot".
Dr. Jean-Maxmillian Beauvoir St. Volel ("Dr. Max") is the leader of the
team. He sat down with me in Port-au-Prince today which marks the
anniversary of the death of the leader of Haiti's revolution for
independence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
Dr. John: Dr. Max it is nice to see you. Please tell us about yourself.
Dr. Ma... more »
Antiscience beliefs jeopardize U.S. democracy
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: Photo of the outside of the Genesis Expo Creationist museum in
Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire, England, June 2009. Geni / Wikipedia]
By Shawn Lawrence Otto
16 October 2012
It is hard to know exactly when it became acceptable for U.S. politicians
to be antiscience. For some two centuries science was a preeminent force in
American politics, and scientific innovation has been the leading driver of
U.S. economic growth since World War II. Kids in the 1960s gathered in
school cafeterias to watch moon launches and landings on televisions
wheeled in on carts. Breakthroughs in th... more »
Judicial Independence
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
All judges, whether appointed to provincial or federal positions are
entitled to judicial independence in Canada. The source of such
independence for federal appointments is in part from the text of the *Constitution
Act, 1867* (s. 96) but more generally, arises from unwritten, but binding
norms adopted by the Constitution (*Provincial Judges Reference* [1997] 3
SCR 3).
Judicial independence requires security of tenure, financial security and
administrative independence.
Security of tenure means, at base, that a judge serves until a fixed
retirement date so long as the judge i... more »
Repost: 2012 US Elections: Obamney vs. Rombama
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours ago
War, economic collapse, and personal devastation await Americans no matter
who they vote for - and what we should do instead.
*by Tony Cartalucci *
*Editor's Note: There is absolutely no difference between Romney and Obama
- as illustrated in detail below, the very same policy makers will be
handing the same script to the "president" no matter who wins in November.
Beware of the retrenched false left-right paradigm run in concert by convicted
criminal George Soros and Neo-Con media projects like Glenn Beck and World
News Daily (WND). They are desperately trying to keep Americans inte... more »
Raphael Bousso converts to the Church of Firewall
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
*His (and probably AMPS') error boils down to a widespread
misinterpretation of "choices" in quantum mechanics*
Clayton informed me that Raphael Bousso who has written the most meaningful
reply to the AMPS black hole firewall paradox has completely reverted his
position.
I have previously discussed the black hole firewall argument and Raphael's
first reply to it.
Now we see two versions of his preprint,
v1: Observer Complementarity Upholds the Equivalence Principle (firewalls
are wrong)
------------------------------
v2: Complementarity Is Not Enough (firewalls are true and deep)... more »
Canada's Outrageous Geoengineering Scam
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
The Harper government knew of Russ George's plan to seed the waters off the
Queen Charlotte Islands with a hundred tons of iron sulphate. The Harper
government also knew that this was the very sort of geoengineering
experiment in ocean fertilization that is banned by the UN's convention on
biological diversity (CBD) and London convention on the dumping of wastes
at sea and yet it looked the other way.
The Californian had been trying to find a place to stage his experiment but
he's been turned down around the world by countries rich and poor until he
got away with it in Canadian... more »
The Times reports new facts on Benghazi!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012*
*Still can’t explain what Rice said:* Yesterday morning, the New York Times
published a very important report.
(Too bad it appeared on page 6.)
Reporting from Cairo, David Kirkpatrick reported new facts about the fatal
attack on the consulate in Benghazi. Kirkpatrick’s report flies in the face
of various claims which have been used as political weapons in the ongoing
race for the White House.
What actually happened in the attacks which took the lives of four
Americans? Remarkably, Kirkpatrick says the attack probably *was* an act of
retaliation for th... more »
Your Boot, Government Ass - Insert, Repeat
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago
Interesting and timely observation from EnviroCan climatologist David
Phillips. He says it's time for the *public* to ensure their government
authorities are planning for climate change.
“*The insurance industry is absolutely convinced that what they are seeing
is the result of climate change. Since 2000 they are paying out gobs of
money because of severe weather and flooding issues. It is something that
we have to convince at all levels, municipal, provincial, and federal
governments that we have to invest in our infrastructure.*
*“It’s a responsibility of government to protect... more »
Jordan (OH-ALEC) and Much More!!!
2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
*Jim Jordan – OHIO Congressman*
*Jim Jordan – ALEC Alum*
*Jim Jordan - Republican Study Committee Chairman*
After generating months of controversy for its championing of right-wing
policies in state houses, the American Legislative Exchange Council is
turning to the federal level. On Friday, the Heritage Foundation will host
a policy gathering for both current ALEC members and the RepublicanStudy
Committee -- a group of staunchly conservative House Republicans -- in
hopes of beginning a partnership between the two organizations.
A senior GOP aide told Roll Call that the meeting c... more »
Weapons to fake Syrian "rebels" (who are actually terrorists trying to undermine a country), are landing directly into hands of militant groups
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*Where's
that fraud Danny now to explain things for us? Where is the
anonymous fool commenting "i luv u danny" on the CC
now? Probably both
hanging out with their terrorist friends while stroking their AKs,
that's
where.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
Wonkie Walker (WI) - Won the Weyrich Award
2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
Did a Google search - did not see this out there.
How did we miss this in *February 2012?*
Musta been one of those best kept ALEC/Weyrich secrets.
Wasn't even on the Weyrich Award webpage - had to find it on a different
RWNJ site.
*News Releases*
*Weyrich Awards Winners Announced*
by News Release
Contact: Deborah Hamilton at (215) 815-7716, (610) 584-1096,
dhamilton@hamiltonstrategies.com
BREAKING NEWS: WINNERS OF 2012 WEYRICH AWARDS
Awards Ceremony Honored Those Advancing the Cause of Liberty
Washington, D.C. – The 2012 Weyrich Awards Dinner, held this evening at the
Marriott ... more »
What did you think of the debate? My quick thoughts.
Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours ago
Threats to Assassinate Romney Explode After Debate
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*Mostly from... guess who!*
http://www.infowars.com/threats-to-assassinate-romney-explode-after-debate/
SM Welcomes Elwood Robinson
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
* **Dr. Elwood L. Robinson is the Provost and Vice-President of Academic
Affairs at Cambridge College. He was the founding Dean of the College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences at North Carolina Central University (NCCU).*
* *
*From 1996-1999, he served as the chairperson of the Department of
Psychology at North Carolina Central University. The former Chair of the
Department has an exemplary record of service to NCCU, this state and
nation. He has served NCCU in a variety of capacities during his more than
25-year tenure. *
*
He became a full Professor in 1996. Dr. Robinson is a ... more »
Study confirms sea-level rise is accelerating along northeast U.S. coast
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Abrupt shift: The rate at which sea level is rising increased
abruptly beginning in 1987 at all 8 stations along the northeastern U.S.
coast: SWPT = Norfolk; BALT = Baltimore; ATLC = Atlantic City; SDHK = Sandy
Hook, NJ; NYTB = New York; BOST = Boston; PORT = Portland, ME; HFAX =
Halifax, Nova Scotia. John Boon / VIMS]By David Malmquist, VIMS
16 October 2012
A new study by emeritus professor John Boon of the Virginia Institute of
Marine Science shows that the rate of sea-level rise is increasing at tidal
stations along the Atlantic coast of North America, including those ... more »
Alpha Centauri B: Earth-Size Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Discovered
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Anti Putin Riots: Russian Opposition Leader Held Over 'Riot Plot'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov is accused of meeting Georgian officials
to discuss raising £120m to fund anti-Putin riots.
http://news.sky.com/story/998931/russian-opposition-leader-held-over-riot-plot
The Debate Questions? Fair
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
There's an early consensus that, in the words of Jonathan Chait, "Obama
enjoyed friendly questions from an audience that obviously leaned left" in
the second debate. Naturally, conservatives agree. I thought the questions
favored Obama during the debate, but a second look convinced me that it's
wrong: the questions were about as fair as it gets.
From the "Town Hall" audience questions, I count three that were solidly
pro-Obama and one that was somewhat pro-Obama; three solidly pro-Romney and
one somewhat pro-Romney; and three neutral ones.
So, why the false impression? I think it wa... more »
UK Flood Warning As Gale Force Winds Forecast
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Strong winds and high tides could lead to soaring sea levels and spray
coming over sea walls, the Environment Agency warns.
http://news.sky.com/story/998785/flood-warning-as-gale-force-winds-forecast
Andrew Mitchell: Miliband Says 'He's Toast'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Andrew Mitchell squirms in the Commons as his row with an officer dominates
PMQs and the Labour leader insists he has to go.
http://news.sky.com/story/998799/andrew-mitchell-miliband-says-hes-toast
Flooding in Miami Beach prompts official warning about rising seas
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Car drives through flooded West Avenue on Miami Beach, 16 October
2012. Miami-Dade County officials said Tuesday’s flooding of Alton Road and
other low-lying areas in Miami Beach is a warning about the perils of
rising sea levels. South Florida Business Journal]
By Paul Brinkmann, Reporter
16 October 2012
(South Florida Business Journal) – Miami-Dade County officials said
Tuesday’s flooding of Alton Road and other low-lying areas in Miami Beach
is a warning about the perils of rising sea levels.
Parts of Miami Beach were flooded by unusually high tide Tuesday morning,
wh... more »
Everyday Sexism
noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours ago
One way and another, misogyny and sexism have been in the news a lot
lately.
A few days ago I noticed this Twitter account, @EverydaySexism and its
website.
The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism
experienced by women on a day to day basis. They might be serious or minor,
outrageously offensive or so niggling and normalised that you don’t even
feel able to protest. Say as much or as little as you like, use your real
name or a pseudonym – it’s up to you. By sharing your story you’re showing
the world that sexism *does* exist, it *is* faced by women *ever... more »
Press TV launches facebook petition to save news channel in Europe
Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours ago
PressTV
Press TV has launched a Facebook petition to save the news channel across
Europe after European satellite provider Eutelsat SA stopped the broadcast
of several Iranian satellite channels on the order of the European
Commission.
In a blatant violation of freedom of speech, the company ordered media
services company, Arqiva, to take the Iranian satellite channels off one of
its Hot Bird frequencies on Monday.
The decision follows months of jamming of Iranian channels by European
satellite companies.
Iranian news channels affected by the decision only aimed to break the
We... more »
WHO LOST AMERICA: What, the New York Times worry?
bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012*
*Part 3—What we have here is a failure to report:* Last evening, Candidate
Romney made a truly remarkable claim.
Unfortunately, few voters have any way of judging if his claim is accurate!
To a large extent, our cluelessness stems from a growing trend in the
headlong decline of our culture.
In large part, our cluelessness stems from our big news orgs’ refusal to
report.
What we have here is a failure of Americanism—a refusal to perform the
basic tasks expected from alleged journalists.
What claim did Candidate Romney make? He spoke in response to a ba... more »
Dear Secretary Duncan,
Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
Published in the *National Journal*Letter to Duncan: N.J. Education
Standards Are Hurting Minority Students
by Doris Nhan
Updated: October 16, 2012 | 1:05 p.m.
October 16, 2012 | 12:52 p.m.
The new accountability system implemented by New Jersey’s Education
Department is disproportionately damaging for districts with lower-income
minority students than schools with majority white students, according to a
letter sent on Monday to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The letter, signed by a coalition of educators, administrators and
civil-rights groups, alleges that the No Child Left B... more »
Iran Condemns EU's Anti-Iran Sanctions
Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours ago
Iran Review
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Europe for its new
unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, describing the move as
“illogical and inhuman.”
“The unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the European
Union are illegal, inhuman and illogical, and are imposed only under the
pretext of our country’s peaceful nuclear activities,” the ministry’s
spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Mehmanparast echoed comments made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who said the Western embargos are intended
to target... more »
Blind Man Tasered: Police Mistake Stick For Sword
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
A "terrified" blind man was hit with a 50,000 volt Taser gun after police
mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
Surely if the police can't tell the difference between a white stick and a
Samurai sword they shouldn't be in the force.
http://news.sky.com/story/998967/blind-man-tasered-police-mistake-stick-for-sword
Wednesday Morning Linkage
Daniel Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
There’s some rambling analysis after the linkage. Charles King is very
skeptical of the Scottish independence referendum. William Nomikos argues
that Israeli politics may be moderating. Lisa Lundquist on the most recent
insider attack in Afghanistan. Via Victoria Hui, An … Continue reading →
Sask NDP leadership candidate Erin Weir responds to Premier Wall’s “Plan for Growth”
leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*"**But economist and NDP leadership candidate Erin Weir noted that of the
eight provinces where manufacturing sales rose from July to August,
Saskatchewan had the second-lowest percentage increase. *
*He added that manufacturing employment in the province is continuing to
fall from 32,000 in November 2007 to 26,500 in September 2012. “While
Saskatchewan manufacturing sales have been increasing, our province has
lost 5,500 manufacturing jobs since the Sask. Party took office,’’ Weir
said.*
*Regina Leader-Post*
*October 16, 2012*
*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *... more »
Video: Century of Manipulation
Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours ago
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The History of the Rockefellers
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
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Hispanic Isn't Spanish For Stupid
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
Tim Harper reminds his readers this morning that, south of the border, the
Hispanic population has exploded. The community:
has grown 43 per cent over the past decade, and will be 30 per cent of the
U.S. population by 2050 (double the size of the African American
population).
Mitt Romney has said that his preferred way of dealing with that community
is "self deportation." And Canadian governments have never recognized its
existence:
With the most fundamental demographic shift of our lifetimes unfolding
before their eyes, successive Canadian governments have blissfully
continue... more »
Obama Administration Knows They're Arming Al Qaeda in Syria
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
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NDAA, Arrest, and Indefinite Detention
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
*We The People*
There was a time when we the people could expect privacy in our homes, in
our conversations, in our every day lives. *As our previous video
illustrated*, everything that we assume to be private is actually being
spied upon and recorded.
In this video you'll see that not only is your privacy gone, but that you
can be arrested at any time, without committing a crime, without an arrest
warrant, without ever being charged with a crime, and held against you
will, without any rights whatsoever, simply for saying or posting something
that some government agent doesn't li... more »
WotW: Speak the Language of Birds
Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
In the beginning was Facebook. OK, really it was MySpace, but can we just
forget about that ugly episode? Everyone was happy and had a great social
network to share meaningless updates and go around poking people. Then
along came a little bird named Twitter, giving people the chance to tweet
shorter versions of meaningless updates.
Fast forward a few years. Today, Twitter is more than just "that other"
social network; it's holding a huge market share of the social media world
and gaining new accounts every day. Yet, by and large, Twitter is
misunderstood. Almost every day I hear som... more »
State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon
Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours ago
Foreign Policy
Josh Rogan
Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is
about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past
2014, a top State Department official said Tuesday.
Last week, U.S. and Afghan negotiators met in Kabul to talk about the
Bilateral Security Agreement that will govern the extension of U.S. troops
past 2014, when President Barack Obama said the combat mission in
Afghanistan will end and the U.S. will complete the transition of the
entire country to Afghan government control.
Also last week, Biden told Americans ... more »
Upstate New York Residents Question Environmental Quality of Legacy Site
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 15 hours ago
By: Duane Craig
Regardless of what Watertown, N.Y. residents might want, the state’s
Department of Environmental Conservation says it won’t be doing any more
environmental testing at the former New York Air Brake site, according to
this article.
Besides residents, public officials are also concerned about high cancer
rates and other illnesses that affect the north side of that community. Of
increasing concern, is the possibility of vapor intrusion into nearby homes
from high levels of chemicals that have made their way into the soils
beneath the homes. DEC says it won’t be monitori... more »
Romney Returned Michael Grimm's Shady Cash-- Other Republicans, Like Charlie Bass And Richard Tisei Are Happy To Have It
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
The Romney-Ryan campaign has made it very clear-- even publicly clear--
that they don't want the two Mafia-connected Republican congressmen,
Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm (Staten Island) and David "The Gangster"
Rivera(Miami), both under FBI criminal investigation, anywhere near the
campaign.
Romney returned the $2,500 check Grimm sent his campaign. The only Mob
money Romney is allowing this year has to be funneled through Las Vegas
and
Macau crime boss Sheldon Adelson.
Grimm's shady political action committee, the Grass Roots Initiative To
Maintain Our Majority PAC (AKA- the GrimmP... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Norm! Happy Birthday to George Wendt, 64.
Morning-after good stuff:
1. Tim Carney has good fun with Barack Obama's foolish lobbyist ban -- and
foolish reporters who bought it. My view? The only thing that's any good
about the ban are all the waivers granted to allow good people to work in
the administration.
2. Excellent post by Mark Blumenthal about reading the polls in a close race
.
3. Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, from Heather Hurlburt.
4. I suppose everyone saw this already, but I do have to link to my
brother's gotcha on "binders full of women."
5. And of cou... more »
Exploring a Third Option in Syria ?
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
*From GulfNews*
The goal should be not to overthrow Al Assad but build a political system
that will provide voice and vote to all Syrians and protect all minorities
and sects
I find that opening sentence odd, since all minorities and sects were doing
ok in secular Syria. The Christians were not being targeted and displaced
until NATO's mercs came to town... There are some questionable assertions
in this piece, but, what is compelling is the third way being suggest
Until now, two strategies have been pursued. Kofi Annan, the former UN
secretary-general and Brahimi’s predecessor as ... more »
SAVILE, EMI, MK ULTRA, ERIC WOOLFSON, DARREN BURN, MARK THOMPSON
Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago
*Anonymous writes:*
"We used to go to *the cellar*, a large underground music event where Jimmy
Savile would play records and do his chat.
"One of our group Wayne Johnston wanted Jimmy's autograph.
"So Jimmy said come to me afterwards.
"We went over and Jimmy said to Wayne 'come in here on your own'.
"Wayne was 14, and we only ever had his word for this, but he said Jimmy
gave him something and his legs went weak and he was all floppy.
*Savile and Blair.*
"He said jimmy pulled off his trousers and pushed a cigar up his bottom and
wiggled it about, and said 'I will smoke that o... more »
ALEC Privatization = Educational Apartheid
2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
Wow!
A piece on Democracy Now took me someplace this morning that I had no
intention of going – but I must.
Amy Goodman was interviewing two influential people in the student
uprisings in Chile - a movement that doesn’t get any press in the United
States and without her report I would not have moved to the next level of
my research.
The Chilean educational system is run on an ALEC model – privatized. Chile
is/was run totally and completely for decades on an ALEC free market
privatization model – fascism – and authoritarianism. More on that later.
But the snips that I am about t... more »
Free Download: The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes - A Global Citizens Report pdf
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes - A Global Citizens Report
*Click here to download the GMO Emperor has no Clothes – A Global Citizen’s
report*
*Source:*
*http://www.facebook.com/PermacultureAssociation*
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
*After spat, La. to have 1st black chief justice *
*Lycée parents complain to BESE about pricey fees for tutoring ~Jessica
Williams, The Lens*
*Lycee Francais questioned on racial diversity, outreach issues before
state board ~Uptown Messenger*
*6 Southeast parishes unite for storm, flood protection*
*Oil in cavern and sinkhole being moved*
* *
*Industrial ships prove 'vital' to tax rolls*
**
*Joe Negron: Congress must strip Army Corps of Engineers authority over
Lake Okeechobee, give it to regional, Florida management that would be more
accountable *
*Post-Isaac Assistance Availab... more »
3 Vintage ‘Scientific’ Big Pharma Drugs that Contained Ingredients Like Heroin
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Anthony Gucciardi
Would you like some *Bayer Heroin* for that cough? How about some cocaine
for that back pain? It sounds truly insane now, but *for decades major drug
companies* like Bayer were peddling off diacetylmorphine (known as heroin)
as a powerful pharmaceutical method of treating coughs, curing morphine
addiction (seriously), and just about everything else. Better yet,
virtually all of these products were *proudly advertised in the prestigious American
Journal of Surgery.*
Even following the subsequent ban on heroin being sold as a drug by Bayer
after roughly 26 years... more »
Greece Is Not Poor - It Actually Has Massive Untapped Reserves Of Gold, Oil And Natural Gas
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Michael Snyder, *Contributor*
It turns out that the poster child for the European debt crisis is not
actually poor at all. In fact, the truth is that the nation of Greece is
sitting on absolutely massive untapped reserves of gold, oil and natural
gas. If the Greeks were to fully exploit the natural resources that are
literally right under their feet, they would no longer have any debt
problems.
Fortunately, this recent economic crisis has spurred them to action and it
is now being projected that Greece will be the number one gold producer in
Europe by 2016. In addition, Gree... more »
9 Supermarket Secrets: What Your Grocer Won’t Tell You
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Elizabeth Renter
If you love reading about natural health, you may already be a little
suspicious of every food on your grocer’s shelves. At this point, you are
likely a label reader, you check produce stickers to see how far your
vegetables have traveled, and you are on the lookout for food items you
know, or at least suspect, may have genetically-modified ingredients.
But, are you aware of all the many supermarket secrets that could be
working against your physical and financial health – aside from you feeling
things like nasty effects of pesticides smothered on your produce?
... more »
Big Pharma Giant Withdraws Major MS Drug, Increases Price by 20 Times
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Lisa Garber
Corporate greed trumps noble intentions yet again in the world of Big
Pharma. Sanofi, the world’s fourth-largest pharmaceutical company, recently
withdrew the leukemia drug Alemtuzumab after 20 years of prescribing it,
off label, to treat multiple sclerosis patients. Sanofi and subsidiary
Genzyme cite intentions to apply for appropriate licensing—but before you
applaud the companies for following regulations, keep in mind that they
intend to rebrand and raise the cost of Alemtuzumab—by 15 to 20 times.
*Off label Use*
Prescribing drugs according to a physician’s inst... more »
The Next Food Crisis Will Be Caused By Globalist Land-Grabs and Privatization
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Susanne Posel, *Contributor*
The UN warns that global food stores like grains are depleting at an
exponential rate; and when combined with failing harvests, there will be a
food crisis in 2013.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) explains that “we’ve not
been producing as much as we are consuming. That is why stocks are being
run down. Supplies are now very tight across the world and reserves are at
a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year.”
Since 2010, the FAO has stated that the rise in food prices is directly
correlated to the 80 million ... more »
Global Food Reserves Have Reached Their Lowest Level In Almost 40 Years
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Michael Snyder, *Contributor*
For six of the last eleven years the world has consumed more food than it
has produced. This year, drought in the United States and elsewhere has
put even more pressure on global food supplies than usual.
As a result, global food reserves have reached their lowest level in almost
40 years.
Experts are warning that if next summer is similar to this summer that it
could be enough to trigger a major global food crisis. At this point, the
world is literally living from one year to the next. There is simply not
much of a buffer left.
In the Western ... more »
Building a DIY Rocket Stove
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
*The Almost Free DIY Rocket Stove*
Gaye Levy, *Contributor*
Rocket Stoves are pretty neat. Common among campers and backpacking
enthusiasts, rocket stoves are relatively new to urban dwellers or those
that do not spend a lot of time outdoors. But wait – here come the preppers
who seek fuel efficient ways to cook outdoors when the grid goes down. Not
to make light of the situation, five years ago I had no idea what a rocket
stove was nor did I know how they worked.
How times have changed.
While there are many commercial rocket stoves (and I own two including the Solo
Stove and ... more »
Research: Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Sayer Ji, *Contributor*
While technically a berry, pomegranate "fruit" may be nature's answer to
turning the tide against the #1 cause of death in the industrialized world:
heart disease. Let's start with what it tells us simply through
experiencing it...
Pomegranate has a remarkable astringency, giving your mouth and gums that
dry, puckering mouth feel. This cleansing sensation is technically caused,
as with all astringents, by shrinking and disinfecting your mucous
membranes.
Anyone who drinks pomegranate juice, or is lucky enough to eat one fresh,
can understand why it is ... more »
The Sanctions Game
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
image source Stephen Lendman, *Contributor*
A previous article said that Washington bears full responsibility for
imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to
go along. Doing so harms their own interests.
Heavy-handed US bullying largely gets its way. Rule of law principles and
norms are violated. At issue is advancing Washington's imperium.
America's 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) lets
presidents claim unusual and/or extraordinary foreign threats, declare a
national emergency, and regulate commerce accordingly.
Presidents ... more »
Highest Court in the European Union To Rule On Biometrics Privacy
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Katitza Rodriguez
*EFF*
Courts are investigating the legality of a European Union regulation
requiring biometric passports in Europe. Last month, the Dutch Council of
State (Raad van State, the highest Dutch administrative court) asked the
European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide if the regulation requiring
fingerprints in passports and travel documents violates citizens’ right to
privacy. The case entered the courts when three Dutch citizens were denied
passports and another citizen was denied an ID card for refusing to provide
their fingerprints. The ECJ ruling will play an imp... more »
What Will the Price of Gold Be in January 2014?
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Jeff Clark
*Casey Research*
While many of us at Casey Research don't like making price predictions, and
certainly ones accompanied by a specific date, it's hard to ignore the
correlation between the US monetary base and the gold price.
That correlation says we'll see $2,300 gold by January 2014.
There are plenty of long-term charts that show a connection between gold
and various other forms of money (and credit). Most show that one
outperforms until the other catches up. But let's zero in on our current
circumstances, namely the expansion of the US monetary base since the
financia... more »
Orwellian Nightmare or Technological Utopia? Wired's "Living by Numbers" Health Conference
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor*
*Wired Magazine* has conducted a "Living by Numbers" health conference in
New York City, drawing together experts and leaders involved in medicine,
science, technology, and business to share their perspective on the
progress and future of healthcare. The underlying theme of the "Living by
Numbers" conference was the gathering and applying of information regarding
our health to improve the prevention and treatment of injuries and sickness.
*Image: Craig Venter discusses 3D DNA printers at Wired's Living by Number
Health Conference in New York City. T... more »
When is it rational to leave graduate school?
PM at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
Among the many interesting things about graduate school is its propensity
to spark greater drinking than I ever thought possible. After preparing
(most of) a three-hour talk on using R, I definitely found that celebrating
America’s greatest brewer-turned-patriot was useful. … Continue reading →
EU regulators: Google privacy policy has legal ‘irregularities’ and may not be ‘in compliance’ with law
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Madison Ruppert, *Contributor*
The new Google privacy policy, which was updated earlier this year, is now
coming under fire from regulators in the European Union.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer previously called for an investigation into
this privacy policy to be carried out by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
although any such investigation would be questionable at best.
Seeing as Google has such a tight relationship with the United States
government and was cleared of wrongdoing by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) related to their spying on Americans, any investigat... more »
Kraft Factory Chemical Accident Leads to Deadly ‘Poison Cloud’
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Lisa Garber
When workers at a German Kraft Foods facility accidentally poured nitric
acid into a tank of sodium hydroxide, 250 factory employees fled and 700
firefighters arrived at the scene to combat the resultant blaze. About
1,800 people have been evacuated from the area and authorities have closed
all nearby schools and kindergartens as well as a passing highway.
It’s not just the fire authorities are worried about, however. The nitrous
gases from the reaction are highly toxic to the human body.
*Poison Cloud Released*
When the firefighters attempted to pump the nitric aci... more »
Big Pharma Meningitis Outbreak Continues, No End in Sight
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
Lisa Garber
The meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroids has killed 15
people and infected 231 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. And the situation is not improving.
“We’re nowhere near the end of this problem,” says Vanderbilt University
Medical Center expert Dr. William Schaffner. “We will see more patients
reporting in ill and we’ll have to treat many more going forward.”
*14,000 People at Risk*
Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration found fungus in sealed
vials of a steroid manufactured by the New England Com... more »
New York Times Admits Stanford Organic Food Study Flaws, Apologizes
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
Lisa Garber
We broke the story of Stanford’s ridiculous organic food study the very
night of its publication. Now, a month later, the media is catching on to
the study’s flaws; *New York Times Opinion* columnist Mark Bittman apologized
for hoping—in vain—that the study would have little impact on the media. *“That
was dumb of me,” he says, “and I’m sorry.”*
*Narrow Definitions and Egregious Oversights*
The study suggests that organic animal and plant products are no healthier
than conventionally grown varieties. Bittman puts it beautifully:
By providing ‘useful’ and ‘counterint... more »
Green Party Candidates Arrested At Site of Presidential Debate
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
*Activist Post*
In an attempt to protest the two-party political monopoly in America's
so-called democracy, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and
running mate Cheri Honkala protested outside last night's presidential
debate which refused to allow them or other third-party candidates to
participate.
Both major parties have acted as one authoritarian force in keeping the presidential
debates closed to independent-minded parties who they clearly fear may
inject real issues into the discussion. The wholly corrupt Commission on
Presidential Debates requires that independe... more »
A Farm for the Future Documentary - Part 1
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago
BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in
the UK.
Featuring Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Fordhall Farm,
Richard Heinberg and others.
Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil,
food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture.
A Farm for the Future Documentary - Part 2
*Direct link to the above youtube video:* * *
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0X25hMLXiE&feature=relmfu** *
Source: http://centerforsustainableliving.org/wordpress/permaculture/
McGuinty's Crimes, Not the "Robamney" Scam
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 17 hours ago
I have almost zero interest in the sham debate between the two
representatives of the oligarchs. What we should be talking about is
condemning anyone who praises Dalton McGuinty's era of corruption and
contempt. OUR own democratic process, which is teetering at the edge of the
abyss is what should concern us. NOT the contrived spectacle of the country
that fell into the depths long ago.
A new, improved Barack Obama shows up for the second debate but fails to halt Mitt Romney's momentum
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago
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Underground Bunker in Louisiana Explodes with 7000ft Mushroom Clowd
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
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