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A country without care jumps at the chance to see the doctor
The doctor is in at Angelitos Felices
I’ve known for a while now that accessing medical care was a challenge for
the majority of Hondurans who have to rely on the public system. But it
wasn’t until I put in a couple of days as an ad-hoc translator for a U.S.
doctor in the villages this week that I fully understood that medical care
is as good as non-existent for a whole lot of people.
The doctor was part of a faith-based group out of Illinois and Tennessee
who were here to build fuel-efficient stoves in three villages around
Copan. She hadn’t planned on seeing patients, but word got ... more »
If detained by police, you have the right to REMAIN SILENT.
Anything you say can be taken down and used against you. When you are
detained or arrested, the thing police officers want most is to get
information from you. They will use all sorts of techniques to get you to
talk.
Sometimes it's hard to keep quiet; the police know it and they often try to
provoke someone into talking: not playing their game is brave and it also
keeps you out of their trap.
In Canada while you have the right to not answer questions you do not have
the right not to be asked questions. Even if you say you are exercising you
right to silence the police can questi... more »
Saturday Play, Scroobius Pip's "Try Dying"
Scroobius and friends trek up Mt. Snowden for charity. Then Scroobius raps
while shaving his hair down to a mohawk.
Find out more at Scroobius Pip's JustGiving page.
New SARS-related virus has now infected six, killed two in the Middle East
A new coronavirus from the same family as SARS has now infected six people
in the Middle East, two of whom have died, the World Health Organization
announced Friday.
The UN health agency said four new cases have been confirmed, in addition
to a previous patient from Saudi Arabia, who died in June, and another one
from Qatar still undergoing treatment in the United Kingdom.
Three of the new cases are Saudis — and two are family members who lived
together, the WHO said in a news release. One died and the other is
recovering.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1291914--qatar-ma... more »
Health Authorities Try To Identify Woman Exposed To Rabies
Health authorities are posting an urgent notice as they try to trace a
woman bitten by a cat in Chaplin, Connecticut about two weeks ago. The cat
has since died, and a necropsy found it suffered from rabies,
Director Robert Miller of the Eastern Highlands Health District says the
woman was driving on South Bear Hill Road, with at least one child in her
vehicle. It was after 5 p.m. around November 8th, but because it was dark,
the witness did not have more of a description than that. The car was
travelling between Cross Road and Canada Lane.
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/11/2... more »
18 Chinese miners die in coal-gas explosion
A coal mine accident in China's southwest killed 18 workers and trapped
five more on Saturday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
There were 28 workers working in the state-owned Xiangshui coalmine in
Guizhou province when the coal-and-gas explosion happened about 11 a.m.,
and five of those were rescued, Xinhua said. No other details were
immediately available.
China has the world's deadliest coal mine industry, with 1,973 miners
killed in accidents last year.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAQj0a5dZXOZescpoK2PMzLWhoYg?docId=da33c65c0eef43a3a915dff5beba848b
Gas explosion at Massachusetts strip club injures 18
RAW VIDEO: Downtown Springfield gas explosion
Gas explosion at restaurant in northern China kills 14 people, injures 47
The
government of Shouyang county in Shanxi province says on its official
website that a gas leak caused the blast and triggered a fire Friday
evening at the Xinyangyang hotpot restaurant.
The official Xinhua News Agency says six people were killed at the scene
and eight others died at a hospital. Seventeen people were severely
injured.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/gas-explosion-at-restaurant-in-northern-china-kills-14-people-injures-47/2012/11/23/7f90ba98-35e2-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html
Explosion, fire reported in Edgecombe County
EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N.C. — Authorities responded Friday afternoon to the
scene of a reported explosion and fire at a farm in Edgecombe County.
According to WTVD, the fire was reported around 12:30 p.m. at a farm
southwest of Conetoe.
Photos from WTVD’s helicopter “showed a farm building close to the
intersection of Thigpen and Ellis roads with its roof blown off,” the
station reports.
http://myfox8.com/2012/11/23/explosion-fire-reported-in-edgecombe-county/
Train hits van in southern Italy, killing six
A train hit a van in southern Italy on Saturday, killing at least six
people, the Italian fire service said on Saturday.
The van was waiting for the safety barriers to be opened manually at a
crossing near Rossano in the Calabria region when it was hit by the train,
Italian news agencies reported.
A landowner and Romanian clementine-pickers travelling in the vehicle were
among the victims, they said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/24/us-italy-crash-idUSBRE8AN0B720121124
Lost City Raiders, a B movie
My newly favorite Czech TV channel, Prima Cool (which airs not only The Big
Bang Theory), was broadcasting a silly 2008 U.S.-German-Austrian
science-fiction catastrophic global warming film, Lost City Raiders.
If you have 98 minutes, the whole movie is right here on this blog.
I kind of enjoy watching catastrophic movies – and view it as 1% of my job,
too. In this case, I feel satisfied and you should also feel satisfied
because this cheap $6 million movie scored the worst grades you may think
of, see e.g. 39% at IMDb.
The rest of the blog entry is full of spoilers.
It's yea... more »
Palestine Defended on the BBC (a rare moment)
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What Mattered This Week?
A quiet week in domestic politics, so I suppose I'll go with the ceasefire
in Gaza. No, it almost certainly didn't mean that a real solution to the
underlying situation is at hand, but anytime people avoid a disastrous
escalation it's probably a good thing, no?
I don't really have much for the didn't matter side of things, but I
suppose I can mention the idea of eliminating the Ames Straw Poll, which I
wrote about yesterday over at Greg's place.
But I was traveling, and so I may have missed all sorts of things. What do
you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Iran accuses U.S. of 'illegal and provocative acts' in Gulf and warns of 'adverse consequences'
Iran yesterday accused the U.S. Navy of carrying out 'illegal and
provocative acts' in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.
In letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council,
Iran's UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said the Navy repeatedly violated the
country's airspace.
He mentioned flights over the coastal areas of Bushehr on seven occasions
in October, and most recently a U.S. drone flight on November 1 which
ignored radio warnings and penetrated Iranian airspace.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237736/Iran-accuses-U-S-illegal-provocative-acts-Gulf-warn... more »
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake FIJI REGION - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 18:48:00 UTC
Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 06:48:00 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
21.358°S, 178.808°W
Depth
549.1 km (341.2 miles)
Region
FIJI REGION
Distances
79 km (49 miles) S of Ndoi Island, Fiji
4.7 Magnitude Earthquake BANDA SEA - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.7
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 16:26:40 UTC
Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 01:26:40 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
6.155°S, 130.585°E
Depth
123.6 km (76.8 miles)
Region
BANDA SEA
Distances
213 km (132 miles) NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia
Suicide on a Grand Scale
Prince Charles states the obvious.
"*Mankind is on the brink of 'committing suicide on a grand scale' unless
rapid progress is made on green issues, the Prince of Wales warned today.*
*
**"In very strong language, Prince Charles claimed the planet was doomed to
an 'unimaginable future' if the problems in carbon dioxide emissions in the
atmosphere, intensive farming using pesticides, and the depletion of
natural resources were not addressed.*"
Charles had a special word for the like of Canada's political leadership,
referring to them as those who, "*cling to the disintegrating raft... more »
Duncan - US Congress - $3,000 ALEC DUES
In an excellent piece of investigative journalism that was released by the
Voter Legislative Transparency Project on ALEC memberships/dues you will
find this statement:
Kasich, Walker and Brewer are all alumni. How about Speaker John Boehner
and House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor? Both are known ALEC “alumni” and
with the discovery of the Legacy membership program, one or both could be
members while serving in the U.S. Congress. ALEC’s refusal to release any
of their membership lists, forces researchers to spend hours digging out
these small bits of evidence – which ALEC will neit... more »
Rare white tiger escapes enclosure and mauls three employees at Czech zoo
The incident happened at the zoo in the northern city of Liberec in the
Czech Republic. One man suffered head injuries while two women sustained
minor injuries. A spokesman for the zoo confirmed the seven-year-old tiger,
named Paris, had been sedated and posed no further danger.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237535/Rare-white-tiger-escapes-enclosure-mauls-employees-Czech-zoo.html
Cameron rounds on EU leaders who quaffed £120 bottles of wine over lunch while insisting there was no room to make savings in the Brussels budget
David Cameron last night accused Brussels of existing in a ‘parallel
universe’ and ‘insulting taxpayers’ last night as EU budget talks collapsed
in acrimony.
In the strongest condemnation of EU institutions ever issued by a British
prime minister, Mr Cameron reacted with scorn after being accused of
‘blackmailing’ other leaders by demanding spending cuts and defending
Britain’s rebate.
Mr Cameron said he was astonished that EU bosses were refusing to cut ‘a
single euro’ from their spending plans – as the two-day summit designed to
fix the next seven-year budget deal for the EU brok... more »
Le basket case: Why should anyone listen to a country whose imploding economy could drag the whole of Europe down with it?...Says the Idiot who's country has just Lost their AAA rating
During all the smoke and confusion surrounding this week’s battle over a
proposed new seven-year EU budget, it is France that has mounted the
fiercest resistance to David Cameron’s call for tens of billions of pounds
worth of cuts.
The irony of this couldn’t — to use a Gallic adjective — be more piquant.
For the truth is that France is an economic basket case that is
over-indebted, over-taxed, over-regulated, spendthrift, poorly governed and
in desperate need of wholesale reform.
And the irony is even more profound, for without such reform, the zealously
pro-EU France and its deep-... more »
Thinking the Unthinkable?
Yesterday, climate activist and environmental writer Bill McKibben tweeted
a link to this eye-opening graphic: In many ways, this chart is merely
another disturbing bit of information about weather in a year of shocking
weather news. The United States experienced a record drought this summer –
and many areas are still facing tremendous water shortages.
Continue reading
Better Worship This Brazilian Post
*If only for the fact that I'm putting it up*:
"High school students explore Amazon, Brazilian tribes" by Lindsey
Anderson | Associated Press, August 07, 2012
Eight Massachusetts high school students returned to the United States
Monday with unique stories to tell after spending two weeks in the Amazon.
The Wilbraham & Monson Academy students and their chaperones studied
conservation, land issues, and two indigenous tribes in western Mato Grosso
state, as well as how to catch dinner while avoiding stingrays, piranhas,
and anacondas....
16-year-old Jessica Smith said via phone f... more »
Spain sends Algerian criminal to live in the UK... and there's nothing we can do about it
An Algerian-born career criminal suspected of a ‘marriage of convenience’
to a British citizen has been deported from Spain to the UK.
Police said Lazhari Zemouche had been arrested 92 times in Spain over the
past 25 years for crimes from theft to robbery and had used a number of
fake identities.
But because he had married in the UK before his latest crime spree in
Spain, he was deported to London rather than to his native Algeria.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237590/Spanish-send-Algerian-criminal-live-UK--theres-it.html
Study shows summer climate change, mostly warming
[image: The global average temperature of the Earth has increased, but
year-to-year variability in local climates impedes the identification of
clear changes in observations and human experience. Based on observational
data only we demonstrate that large parts of the Earth have experienced a
significant local shift towards warmer temperatures in the summer season,
particularly at lower latitudes. Mahlstein, I., G. Hegerl, and S. Solomon
(2012)]Contact: Irina Mahlstein, CIRES, 303-497-4746
Jane Palmer, CIRES science writer, 303-883-4398
13 November 2012
(UC Boulder) – Analysis of... more »
31 Days of Photo Props: Just Like Mommy
What little girl doesn't want to be just like her mom? When little girls
are very young, like in the 18 months to 2-year range, I love to "Just Like
Mommy" photos. These fun pictures use some of mom's things to express the
personality of both the subject and mom in the photographs.
Some prop ideas for these pictures include, mom's jewelry, sunglasses, high
heels or running shoes (depending on what mom likes to wear), purses, cell
phone and mom's soft drink of choice.
These pictures are easy, because mom has all the props on hand for them
already and because what kid doesn't love ... more »
Buddhist Temples Burned in Bangladesh
"Bangladesh Buddhist temples torched" Associated Press, October 01, 2012
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims angry over an
alleged derogatory photo of the Koran on Facebook set fires in at least 10
Buddhist temples and 40 homes near the southern border with Myanmar,
authorities said Sunday....
The Bangladeshi violence follows protests that erupted in Muslim countries
over the past month after a low-budget film, ‘‘Innocence of Muslims,’’
produced by a US citizen denigrated the prophet Mohammed by portraying
Islam’s holiest figure as a fraud, womanizer, and chil... more »
Even Ann Coulter Knows The Teabaggers Demanding The GOP Move Further Right Are, In Her Words, "Moron Showoffs"
Even a crackpot right-wing publicity hound like Ann Coulter can smell a
delusional moron on the far right when she's confronted with one. In her
column for some lunatic fringe website yesterday, Coulter castigated Jenny
Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots as a "small mind" for blaming Romney
for the big Republican Party electoral defeats across the nation this
month. She objected to Martin's statement about Romney's unsuitability as a
Republican candidate in statements like this: "What we got was a weak,
moderate candidate handpicked by the Beltway elites and country club
estab... more »
Belarus Sours on Sweden
"Sweden, Belarus in diplomatic spat" Associated Press, August 04, 2012
STOCKHOLM —The dispute was the latest in a series of diplomatic spats
between Belarus and Western nations, especially European Union states that
have taken steps against the former Soviet country and its longtime leader,
President Alexander Lukashenko, over its stifling of human rights.
Ambassador Stefan Eriksson was in Sweden on vacation when the decision was
announced.
The reasons given included that the diplomat had met with opposition
activists in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, and that Sweden had provided a ... more »
Two Near Misses in Two Days
Two shipping near misses off Kitimat in two days. Thursday the deep sea
freighter, *Tern Arrow*, lost engine power and wound up drifting for three
hours in Laredo Sound south of Kitimat. You won't see this in any
Enbridge ads but the ship was adrift in 40 knot winds and heavy seas, very
far from the conditions that often prevail in that area.
On Tuesday night, a loaded German container ship had to alter course to
dodge a fishing boat and ran aground on a sand bar south of Prince
Rupert. Fortunately it was only sand, the hull wasn't holed and the ship
was able to be pulled of... more »
Tritium BioAccumulates in Phytoplankton
Benedict C. Jaeschke and Clare Bradshaw Bioaccumulation of tritiated water
in phytoplankton and trophic transfer of organically bound tritium to the
blue mussel, Mytilus edulis
Journal of environmental Radioactivity Volume 115, January 2013, Pages 28–33
[Abstract] Large releases of tritium are currently permitted in coastal
areas due to assumptions that it rapidly disperses in the water and has a
low toxicity due to its low energy emissions.
This paper presents a laboratory experiment developed to identify
previously untested scenarios where tritium may concentrate or transfer... more »
Preview Russell Means Documentary
*Russell Means: "I think its important to find out who you are. By any
means necessary."*
*Preview shared from Russell Means Freedom*
Russell became more controversial than ever in later years. The following
article concerning Obama at Censored News attracted a blast of negative
reactions. Russell was never homogenized and always went against the flow,
against conformity, as in this article where Russell supports Palestinians
and points out Obama's support of Zionists. --*Censored News*
**
*Russell Means Breaking the Silence on Obama*
*By Brenda Norrell*
*Censored News Jan. 10, 2009... more »
Hungry For Another Post About Bahrain?
*I know it has **been a while, but since I took the time to find these
morsels in my Boston Globe: *
"Bahrain court upholds life sentences for activists; Decision on dissidents
may intensify clashes" by Reem Khalifa | Associated Press, September 05,
2012
MANAMA, Bahrain — A Bahrain court Tuesday *upheld jail sentences* against
20 opposition figures convicted of *plotting to overthrow the
Western-allied government*, including eight prominent activists facing life
in prison.
The decision is likely to deepen the nearly 19-month-long crisis between
Bahrain’s Sunni rulers and Shi’ite... more »
The Missing First Step
Rona Ambrose has a typically Ambrosian approach to hunting down Canada's
next combat jet to replace the stellar but aging CF-18s.
Rona's gonna chat. She's going to talk to our allies - the U.S., Australia
and Britain. Maybe she wants them to tell us what they want Canada to
buy.
Then she will consult with competing fighter manufacturers and come up with
some sort of list, presumably of each aircraft's strengths and weaknesses
or how good it looks in Tory blue or something.
And only then will the Air Force wade in with its statement of requirements
to identify the winner.
In o... more »
Video: Science Girl talks climate change and dirty energy
The Science Girl takes a comedic look at the differences between climate
and weather. Created for the live broadcast of *24 Hours of Reality: The
Dirty Weather Report*.
Climate Reality
Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,oil production,coal,alternative
energy,wildfire,flood,heat wave,drought
BBC Bias exposed
Via Benny Pieser & CCNet.
3) Christopher Booker: The BBC’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’ And The Loss Of Trust
The Sunday Telegraph, 18 November 2012
Unfolding in the shadow of the greatest crisis in the BBC’s 90-year history
has been another scandal, rather less publicised, which again reveals how
profoundly the BBC has gone off the rails, morally and professionally. Last
week, I reported how the BBC had spent large sums of our money fielding an
array of lawyers against a pensioner from Wales to hide what I called, with
considerable understatement, “a dirty little secret”. But that secre... more »
Al Qaeda "Virtue Police" Show up Along NATO Protected Turkish-Syrian Border
NATO-backed terrorists along Turkish-Syrian border establish Al Qaeda-style
"Virtue & Vice Police," heralding the West's true designs for Syria.
*November 24, 2012* (LD) - An obscure, unreported pair of Getty images
created on November 21, 2012 depict masked, armed terrorists atop a
building with the words "Committee for Promotion of Virtues and Prevention
of Vice" scrawled across its facade. The images were taken in al-Bab,
northern Syria.
*Images: Screenshots from Getty Images depicting Al Qaeda-style "virtue
police" atop a building in northern Syria. The accompanying captions
... more »
3.5 Magnitude Earthquake CENTRAL CALIFORNIA - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
3.5
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 15:44:35 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 07:44:35 AM at epicenter
Location
36.615°N, 121.221°W
Depth
5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Region
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Distances
12 km (7 miles) NW (323°) from Pinnacles, CA
Canada''s MSM Never Hold Stephen Harper Accountable For The Things That He Says ...
Prime Minister Harper is a firm believer in the idea that people should be
held accountable for the things they say - however, he doesn' t practice
what he preaches .... neither does Canad's MSM Establishment EVER hold him
to account for his vitriolic statements .....
"A culture of defeat..."
- Stephen Harper, describing the Atlantic provinces, May 2001.
"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the
term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact
that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have
very low e... more »
Egypt Judges Condemn President's 'Attack'
Egyptian judges have condemned a decree granting President Mohamed Morsi
sweeping new powers, as angry protesters clashed with police for a second
day.
A handful of rock-throwing activists battled riot police in the streets
near Tahrir Square, where several thousand protesters massed on Friday to
demonstrate against a decree, which effectively prevents Mr Morsi's
decisions from being challenged.
The move also removed powers from the judiciary and allows the president to
take any measures to protect national security.
http://news.sky.com/story/1015951/egypt-judges-condemn-presidents... more »
4.4 Magnitude Earthquake ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.4
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:50:20 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 09:50:20 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
22.064°S, 68.544°W
Depth
101.5 km (63.1 miles)
Region
ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
Distances
60 km (37 miles) NE of Calama, Chile
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 11:52:28 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 11:52:28 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
51.609°N, 159.111°E
Depth
78.1 km (48.5 miles)
Region
OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
Distances
154 km (95 miles) SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE GUATEMALA - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 11:21:10 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 05:21:10 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
14.009°N, 92.202°W
Depth
63.6 km (39.5 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Distances
44 km (27 miles) SW of Champerico, Guatemala
Osama Bin Laden Is Really, Really Dead
Daily Bell
USS Carl Vinson
*Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors
watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and
traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. The
emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information
Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of
government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were
released Wednesday by the Defense Department. – Huffington Post*
*Dominant Social Theme:* Oh, he is dead. Yes, we killed him. He is g... more »
Namibia Indigenous protest dam, mining, human rights violations
*NAMIBIA: INDIGENOUS SEMI-NOMADIC HIMBA AND ZEMBA MARCH IN PROTEST AGAINST
DAM, MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS*
**
*By Rebecca Sommer*
Censored News
Namibia, 24 Nov 2012: Hundreds of semi-nomadic Himba from Omuhonga and
Epupa region marched today from their villages to Okanguati, a small town
about 120 km away from Opuwo, to protest against Namibia’s human rights
violations against them.
[image: (Photo © Rebecca Sommer) Chief Hikuminae Kapika signing the
invitation to the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights and fundamental
freedoms of Indigenous Peoples to visit them]
(Photo © R... more »
Who protects the nazis?
Caught the scum of the Met tweeting this earlier. Note the use of the
#freetommyrobinson hashtag. Kind of gives the game away. Unsurprisingly,
they've since deleted the tweet. ACAB.
[edit] The offending tweet has now re-appeared in its entirety.
Beware! Road suprises ahead!!!
What a bizzare sign!
Would You?
If someone cheated at cards and you know they cheated, would you allow them
to keep your money? Would you allow them to keep your money and then play
against them at a later date under the same conditions?
Would you allow someone who wants you dead to make your health care
decisions for you? Would you allow someone who wants you dead and someone
who is a stupid ignoramus to make your life or death decisions for you?
Would you tolerate it if someone stole from you and the police were
bought-off or corrupt in some other way and simply refused to investigate?
Would you tolerate it if t... more »
Untitled
*"Person to Person": Drew and Brittany Brees*
*New Orleans Saints Set to Host San Francisco 49ers on Sunday*
*Will Smith happy Cerullo, Williams will testify, Vilma not happy he’ll
miss it*
*Owen Courreges: Do we have a homelessness strategy, or just a Super Bowl
punt?*
*Oyster harvests at historic low*
*Corps cuts flow on Missouri River*
Jesse Jackson, Jr.-- Why The Case Of Selective Persecution?
Several Republican congressmen are extremely concerned with House Armed
Services Chairman Buck McKeon's immense and unreported gambling debts to
Organized Crime figure-- and possible agent of at least one foreign power--
Sheldon Adelson. More than a few Democrats are concerned that their party
caucus is about to elevate one of its most corrupt members, Joe Crowley
(R-NY), to an important leadership position. Crowley, who was recently let
off the hook for the House Ethics Committee-- along with Republican Tom
Price in an apparent tit-for-tat deal-- after he was caught trading votes ... more »
RoboConjob Disclaimer : No voters were harmed in the making of this election fraud
McMaher and CBC's Terry Milewski report on this week's release of internal
emails between an alarmed Elections Canada and a stonewalling Con Party
lawyer Arthur Hamilton.
Turns out EC officials' were reporting on a robocall "scam" in a "dozen
ridings" across "at least 6 provinces", starting *three days before the
last election.*
Four months later Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand was still publicly
referring to them as "crank calls".
Milewski :
"Ever since the scandal broke, the Conservative line has been it was just a
rogue operation in one riding, in Guelph of course, and tha... more »
The Phony Populist
Yesterday, Don Gilmour published a must read piece in the* Toronto Star*.
His target was the phony populist politician. Using Toronto Mayor Rob Ford,
Calgary mayor -- and Alberta premier -- Ralph Klein and former Washington
Mayor Marion Barry as salient examples, Gilmour argued that, with populist
politicians, image and substance are diametrically opposed:
One of the ironies **of a populist politician is that he is often a triumph
of image over truth, the very thing he was elected to counter.
Before Ralph Klein was elected mayor of Calgary in 1980, he was a portly,
rumpled tele... more »
The 234-bit gene that turns an ape into a man
You must have wondered why some of us are human while others are just apes.
As I learned from an article that was sent to me by Peter F., all the
difference may boil down to 117 base pairs on the 20th chromosome.
Study: Single Gene, Plus Some "Junk" DNA Turned Ape Ancestors Into Modern
Man (Daily Tech)
Recall that all the information needed to create and run an organism is
digitally stored in the DNA molecule, a sequence of base pairs. Each base
pair is either AT or TA or CG or GG (the first and second letter correspond
to the 1st strand and the 2nd strand of the double helix and th... more »
UKIP's Foster Care "Scandal"
There's a stench in the air, the stench of opportunism. Rotherham Borough
Council's decision to remove foster kids from a couple on the grounds they
are UKIP members has caused something of a stir this morning. Farage has
been dribbling his outrage over the airwaves, describing it as "typical of
the bigotry you get from the Labour Party and Labour-controlled councils."
Gove has now waded in and said there will be an investigation on top of one
hastily announced by the Borough Council itself.
You could be forgiven for thinking there's a by-election on.
Let's get the established fac... more »
Vivid Pictures - Zero Point : Volume I - Messages From The Past
"Zero Point: Volume I - Messages from the Past" is a full length
independent documentary compilation from Vivid Pictures; featuring Graham
Hancock, David Wilcock, Terrence McKenna and more.
*The film focuses on a hidden episode in human history, unlocking the
secrets of the Precession of the Equinoxes and its significance. Zero Point
uncovers the messages expressed through ancient monuments worldwide,
examines various maps, monuments and artifacts which seem to reveal great
secrets about the nature of time, our past and our future.*
The section dealing with THE METER, the modern u... more »
Division of Labor: Conquering the "Public"
Anthony Cody, in his Living in Dialogue blog, has recently addressed the
strategy common among "No Excuses" Reformers (NER) using a corporate
playbook to render all that is public *private*: Cody identifies "division
[as] the key weapon that reformers will be using in the years to come."
Divide and conquer has never been more powerful and subtle than it is in
the education reform debate, driven by Big Money (Bill Gate),
faux-progressives (Michelle Rhee and Arne Duncan), and tepid political
leadership (Barack Obama).
To the strategies aimed at dividing workers against themselves, the... more »
Conrad Black: A National Policy for the 22nd century
He's right:
Then, we must innovate in social policy. First, as I have written here
before, a wealth tax to fight poverty, by which the taxpayers design and
operate, like charities, methods for combating poverty. This would
incentivize the wealthy and the financially most astute to reduce poverty,
as the tax would decline as defined poverty declined. And let us abolish
imprisonment for all non-violent offences except the briefest periods, the
most egregious offenses, or the chronic recidivists. Instead of building
more prisons, let us focus on community service and rehabilitation fo... more »
Oy that's my map
I noted that traffic to my site was down and its because this blog is no
longer featuring in the top images for the Google search 'Gaza map'. Oddly
the same map that I featured in this article last year still appears in the
Google images search but instead of this blog, it links to this blog.
To be fair Durruti's Flames is making a similar point to me regarding the
map, but is that really the point?
Here's the map in question...
This map makes a similar visual point
Aspartame-Cancer Link Exposed: Increasing Your Cancer Risk by Elizabeth Renter
Aspartame-Cancer Link Exposed: Increasing Your Cancer Riskby Elizabeth
Renter
Natural Society, 24 November 2012
*There have been several studies over the years that established a link
between **aspartame** consumption and cancer risk. But, these studies were
frequently criticized as being too small, only capturing a short period of
time, and otherwise not living up to strict scientific standards. A new
study, however, addresses these concerns and substantiates what the
previous ones already said: that aspartame in diet soda can increase your
risk of certain types of cancer, exp... more »
Jeremy Bown - "‘too emotive’ and ‘veering into opinion’"
The Mail reports that:
'The BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring has been heavily criticised – by the
corporation’s bosses.Head of news Helen Boaden admitted that her
journalists got carried away with events and produced ‘over-excited’
reports.
She told a BBC Trust report that in Libya, where reporters were ‘embedded’
with rebels, they may have failed to explore both sides of the story
properly.
Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen was among those criticised in the study
into coverage of the uprisings, which found that ‘excitement’ did sometimes
‘infect’ the reporting, which some viewers... more »
3.0 Magnitude Earthquake EASTERN TENNESSEE - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
3.0
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 11:03:13 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 06:03:13 AM at epicenter
Location
35.922°N, 83.507°W
Depth
5 km (3.1 miles)
Region
EASTERN TENNESSEE
Distances
7 km (4 miles) NE of Sevierville, Tennessee
4.4 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE GUATEMALA - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.4
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 10:12:54 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 04:12:54 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
14.072°N, 92.120°W
Depth
64.4 km (40.0 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Distances
33 km (20 miles) SW of Champerico, Guatemala
Become a Laird, Lord or Lady in Scotland For Only $49.99!
Photo courtesy: Flickr/Moyan Brenn/CC BY 2.0
A land conservation group calling themselves Highland Titles has come up
with a unique way to raise funds to conserve the dwindling highland forests
and help conserve other Scottish ecosystems.
Have you always wanted to indulge your inner Downton Abbey fantasy, but
didn't have the landed property to do so? Are you seeking the perfect
present for the poseur princess in your life? Have you grown tired of your
mail-order ministership and dream of a new novelty title to behold? Look no
further.
To the potential dismay of Ladies and Lords ac... more »
Thai Protesters Confront US-backed Regime
As in Egypt, protesters come out as backlash against Western-fomented color
revolutions unfolds.
*November 24, 2012* (AltThaiNews) - No sooner did the long-announced
protest start (full background here), then police acting under orders of
the Yingluck Shinawatra "Peua Thai Party" (PTP) led government began firing
teargas at protesters challenging police lines.
*Image: (@pissanuk - Twitter) Taken today, November 24, 2012, near the
protest site. Clashes with over-zealous police acting on government orders
have already taken place before the rally fully began, with the government
de... more »
Facebook's new privacy policy violates EU law
Facebook’s new privacy policy violates EU law, raising concerns over the
sharing of private data with affiliated business without user consent. US
privacy experts expressed concern over how Facebook shares this data with
advertisers.
European Data Protection Commissioner Gary Davis has asked for Facebook to
clarify its new changes to users’ privacy policy. As commissioner, Davis is
responsible for ensuring that Facebook complies with EU and Irish law.
"We will be seeking urgent further clarification from Facebook Ireland and
if we consider that the proposed changes require a specifi... more »
Middle East nuclear talks will not occur next month: U.S.
Talks planned for next month on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East
will not take place, the United States said on Friday, a development likely
to anger Arab states but please Israel.
The State Department announced that the mid-December conference on creating
a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, would not occur and did
not make clear when, or whether, it would take place.
Earlier this month, diplomats told Reuters that the talks were likely to be
postponed, rather than canceled outright.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/24/us-nuclear-middleast-idUSBRE8AN0... more »
Clashes in Cairo after Mursi seizes new powers
Angry youths hurled rocks at security forces and burned a police truck as
thousands gathered in central Cairo to protest at Egyptian President
Mohamed Mursi's decision to grab sweeping new powers.
Police fired tear gas near Tahrir Square, heart of the 2011 uprising that
toppled Hosni Mubarak at the height of the Arab Spring. Thousands demanded
that Mursi should quit and accused him of launching a "coup".
There were also violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said and Suez.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/24/us-egypt-president-idUSBRE8AM0DO20121124
Bishop Williamson's Blog. Dictatorship Imminent
.
Number CCLXXX (280) *24 November 2012*
------------------------------
*DICTATORSHIP IMMINENT*
A remarkable portrait of our contemporary world appeared two months ago on
the Internet website, 321gold. The title is daunting: “Decline, Decay,
Denial, Delusion and Despair”, but the content is surely true to life.
Starting from a street scene to be found no doubt all over the eastern
United States, the author concludes that within 15 years an Orwellian
dictatorship will descend upon his country as the unwanted effect of wanted
causes. But the USA is not typical of the whole world ? Th... more »
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 08:59:47 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 05:59:47 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
35.555°N, 139.975°E
Depth
65.7 km (40.8 miles)
Region
NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
10 km (6 miles) WNW of Ichihara, Japan
Welcome Galactics!
After my iMac was ordered, a reader offered me an iMac that he had
inherited from a friend. Its the smaller screen model, but same year of
manufacture. I told him that I knew of a light worker that really needed
a new computer and I would set it up for them if he shipped it to me to
inspect, configure and forward to the person in need. Thought I'd share
the love that was shown to me to someone else.
When I unpackaged the box tonight I found this bumper sticker attached to
the screen.... "WELCOME GALACTICS"..... My readers keeps me entertained
and laughing!
I am a l... more »
Gas Leak Blast Levels Massachusetts Strip Club
An explosion triggered by a gas leak flattened a strip club in Springfield,
Massachusetts, injuring at least 18 people.
The Scores Gentlemen's Club, exploded at about 5.25pm local time as a gas
company was looking for a leak under the road, said Springfield Police
Captain William Collins.
The blast blew out all windows in a three-block radius, leaving three more
buildings damaged beyond repair and prompting emergency workers to evacuate
an apartment building that buckled.
http://news.sky.com/story/1015801/gas-leak-blast-levels-massachusetts-strip-club
Obama Legitimizes Morsi’s Protection Racket
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-goldman/obama-legitimizes-morsis-protection-racket/#.UK4W8f3Lf2g.twitter
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 03:02:43 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 03:02:43 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
26.024°S, 178.868°W
Depth
494.9 km (307.5 miles)
Region
SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
Distances
372 km (231 miles) NNW of Raoul Island, New Zealand
5.1 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
5.1
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 01:30:00 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 10:30:00 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
38.288°N, 141.714°E
Depth
49.6 km (30.8 miles)
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
38 km (23 miles) ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE - 24th November 2012
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 01:19:27 UTC
Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:19:27 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
23.814°S, 67.863°W
Depth
121.9 km (75.7 miles)
Region
ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
Distances
105 km (65 miles) SSE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Couple Lose Foster Children For Being In UKIP
A couple say three foster children were taken from them because of their
membership of the UK Independence Party.
The unnamed couple, from South Yorkshire, took on a baby girl, a boy and an
older girl from an ethnic and troubled family background in September.
Less than eight weeks into the placement they were visited by a Rotherham
social worker and foster agency official who accused them of belonging to a
party with "racist policies" which meant they were unsuitable to look after
the children.
The visit followed an anoymous tip-off about the couple's party membership.
http://news... more »
SIR CYRIL THREATENED TO SUE 'AND WAS PROTECTED BY MI5'
*Child abuser Sir Cyril Smith (right) with his party leader Jeremy Thorpe,
who was accused of trying to murder a male lover. Smith was acquainted with
child abuser Sir Jimmy Savile.*
In 1979, Sir Cyril Smith was accused by *Rochdale Alternative Press* of
abusing boys at a children's home.
Smith, who had freemason connections, announced that he was going to sue
for libel.
Lord Boothby, Prime Minister John Major and others successfully sued for
libel when accused of sexual misbehaviour.
LORD 'X' SUED, AND WON.
People shut up and Smith was able to continue his political career.
ht... more »
Foster parents 'stigmatised and slandered’ for being members of Ukip - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9700001/Foster-parents-stigmatised-and-slandered-for-being-members-of-Ukip.html
I wonder if Rotherham Council would take similar action against foster
parents who were Islamists or communists?
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 11/23/12”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 11/23/12”*
Gaza-Israel Fighting, Fiscal Cliff and Debt Ceiling to Infinity
by Greg Hunter
"A cease-fire was announced earlier this week in the Gaza-Israeli conflict.
Fighting lasted longer than a week and claimed the lives of 140
Palestinians. Israel counted five dead and more than a dozen wounded. It is
not the “durable outcome” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was seeking,
but at least the bloodshed stopped. The only question is how long will it
be before the shooting starts again. This is a cease-fire, not a peace
accord. There was significant destructi... more »
Musical Interlude: Jason Mraz, “I Won't Give Up”
Jason Mraz, “I Won't Give Up”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-4u9W-bns
Sea Creatures
Dale has provided us here with an overview of previous work on the sea
creature phenomenon particularly as done by Paul Leblond.
What I am comfortable with is that there are outright sea serpents out
there with external gills on their heads. These have been seen up close and
personal all over the world. I am unconvinced that we have pleiosaurs out
there though. The argument that we are mistaking other creatures for this
is well taken and nicely shown by some of this material.
On the west coast, there were 300 individual reports of cadosaurus and one
I read and posted ... more »
Heart Tissue Restoration Successful
The fact remains that they are already doing it. Heart tissue is been
restored using stem cells in a location were it truly matters. Thus this
will available far quicker than imagined.
What has recently become apparent is that injection of stem cells made
from one's own skin cells can be targeted to restore damaged tissue
anywhere. There is obviously a lot more to it than that but it is still
that simple.
If we are lucky, a whole slew of ailments can be treated this way
successfully.
Of course, the holy grail here is the restoration of brain damage.
Everything el... more »
Elixer of Life?
This is a truly odd story that has few precedents except as a plot device
in fiction. The problem we face though is that such an elixir is and was
actively sought in India and whatever brew he consumed is obviously
impossible to reconstruct.
Having said that I suspect that a speculation of mine regarding the likely
active ingredient may have some traction simply because the apparent
appearance of the reported elixir conforms to my expectation . The
speculation itself was driven by a nineteenth century report of an
individual who was observed going through biological rev... more »
Electron Vortex Microscope
This is actually rather important. A electron beam vortex is produced but
it is also been tightly managed allowing incredible precision.
The real bottom line is that this precision and scale allows us to
envisage the manipulation of single molecules themselves. This appears to
be the tool able to do just that.
Thus this work has now truly begun.
*Electron Microscopes With a Twist*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 07, 2012*
*
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Electron_Microscopes_With_a_Twist_999.html
*
*Nowadays, electronmicroscopes are an essent... more »
Musical Interlude: Dan Fogelberg, “Nether Lands”
Dan Fogelberg, “Nether Lands”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrQFaB50w0
Climate propaganda in Australia
Joanne Nova (see also Anthony Watts) made sure that my pressure didn't stay
relatively low for too much time in the morning. Why? I have listened to a
16-minute long show on the ABC, the Australian public radio, called
Attitudes to climate change (audio)
We used to hear some remotely similar propaganda programs until 1989 –
although not too many have been this hardcore in the 1980s, I would say (in
particular, I don't remember a single radio program against Havel or
dissidents etc. that would be this nasty) – but the public radio and TV
simply can't produce programs that would be th... more »
Musical Interlude: David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwUKi9ouEc&feature=related
EXCLUSIVE! Calgary Centre and Stephen Harper’s Canada bashing fallout! Did I say exclusive?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tells the rest of Canada to be afraid, very
afraid. Actual Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated.
Below: the real Mr. Harper, sort of; the “despised” Bill Phipps. In the
wake of Sun News Network’s stale “exclusive” about Liberal Leader Justin
Trudeau’s commentary on Alberta politicians two years ago, ... more »
VASILY
Vasily Makeyev, aged 13, was kept naked, filthy and starving in a
darkened
cowshed.
He hugged a calf to keep warm in winter.
He was heard howling at night.
Almost blind and barely able to speak, he was reportedly thrown food
scraps
by his parents.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236953/Vasily-Makeyev-living-filthy-barn-cows-Russia-parents-refused-allow-house.html#ixzz2D4mvBbDs
REJECTED
BY HIS FAMILY
BANGBANG ON JALAN SUDIRMAN
Sunday Classics preview: Enter the Toreador
*By the time Don José arrives at Lillas Pastia's joint in Act II of Carmen,
we have a new player. Enter the Toreador. (Above: Aris Agiris as Escamillo
at Covent Garden, 2010.*
*ESCAMILLO*: Let's go! On guard! Let's go! On guard!
Ah! Toreador, on guard! Toreador! Toreador!
And surely think, yes think while fighting
that a dark eye is watching you,
and that love awaits you!
Toreador! Love awaits you!
*ALL*: Toreador, on guard! Toreador! Toreador!
And surely think, yes think while fighting
that a dark eye is watching you,
and that love awaits you!
Toreador! Love awaits you!
*The high-fly... more »
On Rice Contamination in Japan: Samples Dated Sep 29, 2011
Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago
Paddy-field contamination with 134Cs and 137Cs due to Fukushima Dai-ichi
Nuclear Power Plant accident and soil-to-rice transfer coefficients Satoru
Endo*, Tsuyoshi Kajimoto, Kiyoshi Shizuma Journal of environmental
Radioactivity 116 (2013) 59e64
[Abstract] The transfer coefficient (TF) from soil to rice plants of 134Cs
and 137Cs in the form of radioactive deposition from the Fukushima Dai-ichi
Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011 was investigated in
three rice paddy fields in Minami-Soma City. Rice crops were planted in the
following May and harvested at the end of ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The universe is filled with galaxies. But to see them astronomers must
look out beyond the stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way. For example,
consider this colorful telescopic view of spiral galaxy NGC 6384, about 80
million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.
At that distance, NGC 6384 spans an estimated 150,000 light-years, but this
close-up of the galaxy's central region is about 70,000 light-years wide.
*Click image for larger size. *
The sharp image shows details in the distant galaxy's blue spiral arms and
yellowish core. Still, the indivi... more »
Chet Raymo, “Is Consciousness Incomprehensible?”
*“Is Consciousness Incomprehensible?” *
by Chet Raymo
"There are reasonable arguments for the incomprehensibility of human
consciousness, and some of them were given here the other day in Comments.
Let me offer arguments for the contrary.
First, one very important feature of consciousness has already been
comprehended. We can say with a high degree of confidence that there is no
ghost in the machine, that consciousness is an emergent physio-chemical
property of the material brain. Whether consciousness is deterministic or
involves some measure of quantum uncertainty remains to b... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Homestead, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Robert Lanza, MD, "Does Death Exist? Life Is Forever, Says Theory"
"Does Death Exist? Life Is Forever, Says Theory"
by Robert Lanza, MD
"In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny swallows nitroglycerine and gunpowder, and
springs back to life even when he gets flattened by a boulder. But it's not
just Bugs. Experiments suggest that life can't be destroyed either. The
'many-worlds' interpretation of quantum physics states that there are an
infinite number of universes (the 'multiverse'). Everything that can
possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death doesn't exist in any real
sense in these scenarios since all of them exist simultaneously regardless
of what... more »
Kahlil Gibran, "The Madman"
*"The Madman"*
by Kahlil Gibran
"It was in the garden of a madhouse that I met a youth with a face pale
and lovely and full of wonder. And I sat beside him upon the bench, and I
said, “Why are you here?”
And he looked at me in astonishment, and he said, “It is an unseemly
question, yet I will answer you. My father would make of me a reproduction
of himself; so also would my uncle. My mother would have me the image of
her seafaring husband as the perfect example for me to follow. My brother
thinks I should be like him, a fine athlete. And my teachers also, the
doctor of phil... more »
"Why Are You Waiting?"
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
~ Stephen Levine
"Fully Committed to Now: Why We Are Not Shown the Big Picture"
*"Fully Committed to Now:
Why We Are Not Shown the Big Picture"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Often we want to be shown the big picture but it is not always in our best
interest as we can easily become overwhelmed. Sometimes, we may find
ourselves wishing we knew what our lives are going to look like or what
gifts and challenges are going to be presented to us in the coming months
or years. We may want to know if the relationship we’re in now will go the
distance or if our goals will be realized. Perhaps we feel like we need
help making a decision and we want to know which cho... more »
Interesting Video: Alex Jones Says Iran Wants To Wipe Israel Off The Map!
I have always been under attack by those people in the so called "truth
movement" for my attacks on the so called "head honcho" of the entire
fraudulent "truth movement", Mr. Alex Jones himself. I have not backed
down at all from my assertions over the years that this man, who has a very
large following, is nothing more than pure disinformation and has the only
purpose of leading people down the wrong path and away from the REAL
criminals that are out for our enslavement.
Just today, I was alerted to a new video, via Youtube, that shows again
exactly WHY Alex Jones absolutely can ... more »
AIM West Red N' Blues Concert Nov. 23, 2012
Govinda at Earthcycles has some of the videos posted from this week's AIM
West Coast Conference, and is working on more. Scroll down the livestream
page to see the videos
http://www.livestream.com/aimwest?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks
Paul Krugman warns not to "shrug off" Marco Rubio's "awkward moment" -- it's "symptomatic of a much broader problem"
*Above: David Sipress's offering today in his week of New Yorker Daily
Cartoon-ing. Says Paul Krugman, the attitude reflected in Marco Rubio's **GQ
whiff on the age of the planet -- the Right's willingness, even eagerness,
to simply deny inconvenient evidence -- has implications far beyond
biology, including economics.*
*"On economics, as in hard science, modern conservatives don't want to hear
anything challenging their preconceptions -- and they don't want anyone
else to hear about it, either.
"So don't shrug off Mr. Rubio's awkward moment. His inability to deal with
geological ... more »
El bosque encantado - Los colores del otoño
[image: Bosque en Otoño]
*Nota:* Haga usted click aquí para ver más *imágenes de bosques*
Por favor visite nuestra página oficial: www.fotofrontera.com
Language a factor in determining best interests of the child
Perron v. Perron, 2012 ONCA 811 holds:
[44] In a linguistic minority environment, homogeneous
French-language schools are generally preferable to French immersion
programs for ensuring that both languages, namely French and English, are
maintained at the highest level. In a region with a large English-speaking
majority, homogeneous instruction in French does not result in losing the
language and culture of the linguistic majority. This does not therefore
imply a choice of preferring the culture and language of the minority over
those of the majority. In a minority setting, hom... more »
“On Relationships In Your Political Life”
*“On Relationships In Your Political Life”* by Karl Denninger “How many of you have ever been in an abusive relationship? Do you currently adhere to a political party - more than just voting, but actually adhering to one? You know what I’m talking about - phone banking, making and distributing signs, public advocacy, maybe even more. Maybe you’re a precinct captain, one of the folks who “runs” a county-level political organization, or perhaps you’re involved at the state or even national levels. If so, have you ever stopped to consider whether or not you’re actually part of an...
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