Mohandas K. Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, future Prime Minister of India. Late 1930s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Museu de Cera de Barcelona (Indira Gandhi) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Is Our Economic Ignorance Increasing?
At the Financial Times John Authers writes ($) of the graph shown above: Compared to expectations pre-crisis, Richard Dobbs of the McKinsey Global Institute suggests companies simply expect less growth than they once did. More technically, Mr Dobbs points to a steady rise in Solow’s Residual. Named for Robert Solow, the Nobel laureate economist, it refers to the proportion of growth that cannot be accounted for by extra labour or extra capital. From 1920 to 1950, this figure was about 33 per cent. Now, according to McKinsey, the Solow Residual has risen to 50 per cent. What is the ... more »
Gaia Portal Has Served its Purpose…
*Gaia Portal Has Served its Purpose…* by ÉirePort We at ÉirePort group have noted the vastly increased Galactic awareness during the period of the GaiaPortal blog portal. At this point, both hu-manity and Hue-manity components of Gaia consciousness Energy structure have achieved sufficient levels that it is an appropriate moment to close this GaiaPortal blog portal. We remind all that the "Inner Guidance" is all that is necessary to connect with Gaia, and Higher Cosmics. We encourage each and all to follow such. Thank you for your service to this Planet. We honor each and all. ... more »
REACTIONS TO AIPAC'S ATTEMPT TO KILL IRAN DEAL
There has been alot of buzz across the Internet the last couple of days about the swelling opposition in Congress to the Iran nuclear deal. Right-wing Republicans and Democrats have joined up for a strong effort to kill any deal with Iran by unilaterally increasing already painful sanctions. Israel wants Iran taken down. Below is an excellent take on the issue by Kevin Zeese who helps run PopularResistance.org It seems like right now there is not a lot of likelihood [Senate leader] Harry Reid will let any vote come to the floor. It is definitely a destructive bill that pushes... more »
AMRITSAR CONSPIRACY
The CIA, Mossad and MI6 were not keen on Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi was assassinated shortly after the 1984 Amristar massacre. *Britain's SAS regiment helped carry out the massacre in Amritsar in India in 1984.* *Amritsar massacre* This is according to newly released official documents. *The documents show that a British SAS officer helped the Indian authorities come up with a plan, Operation Blue Star, to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar.* The documents show that Margaret Thatcher was fully aware of the SAS involvement. Around 1,000 peop... more »
THE RISE OF FASCISM
- This is a very good video and fills many gaps in our US history. Our organizing needs to point out and name this corporate fascism or else it'smaniacal egowill grow and become even more repressive. We are right on the edge of the wall now. Time to protect the kids and push back. - I once saw George W. Bush's Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld briefly quoted on video. He was walking out of the Pentagon and spoke this one powerful line: "We plan everything." Rumsfeld was answering the question about the quagmire that Iraq had become and the press was wond... more »
I wish I could quote Marry Poppins
When you do not know what to say, “summon up this word and then you’ve got a lot to say! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!” says Marry Poppins. I wish I could quote her when I do not know what to say to an MA student who wants to get a Ph.D. but perhaps should not. I think I Continue reading
The Fighting Spirit Among Kansas Populists-- Meet Jim Sherow
Kansas is one of the reddest of the red states. In 2012, Obama only managed to get 38% of the vote there. He won only two counties in the entire state, Wyandotte (Kansas City) and Douglas (Lawrence). Earlier, Rick Santorum won the GOP primary with 51%-- with more than *double* the votes Romney got. There are no Democrats in their delegation to Congress and in the 40 member state Senate, there are only 9 Democrats. But only *one* of Kansas' congressional districts actually looks, on paper, impossible for a Democrat-- the first CD, the massive western two-thirds of the state, which ... more »
Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation
Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation. via Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
The Realist Report - Eli James: early American history Part 1
** I accidentally scheduled today's show for 15 minutes. Once the 15 minutes of live air time were up, we had exactly one hour of recorded time. I didn't realize that and the show ended abruptly after 1 hour and 15 minutes. Eli will be joining me on Tuesday, January 28th at 8am PST to conclude our discussion on early American history and the Founding Fathers. Sorry about the mistaken today! ** On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Pastor Eli James of *Anglo-SaxonIsrael.com*. Pastor James and I will be discussing early American history, the American Revolution... more »
Can you hear me now?
Most of you have seen this: This is just a part of the latest $9 million advertising campaign embarked upon by the Harper government to convince you that they are wrapping their loving arms around you and are going to give you everything you ever wanted on your smartphone for a whole lot less money than you pay now. But, as with all things Harper, it is an ad campaign about nothing. You will
Sovereignty 101:Installment 9 - Life Sucks
It is widely accepted that life is hard. My sister was not the only one whose favorite saying was “Life sucks and then you die.” The whole notion of a joyful existence comes off as a frivolous idea – cool if you are lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth or if you are one of those perpetually optimistic people; but not realistic. To write here that joy is or ought to be your focus sounds nice but a bit naive. Rather, it would seem more efficient and helpful to focus on abundance, health or even free energy. Joy may result if those things are in place, but i... more »
The Economy: “Beware This Dangerous Wealth Mirage”
*“Beware This Dangerous Wealth Mirage”* by Bill Bonner “US stocks fell about 1% yesterday (give or take). Let's see, the total value of the stocks trading on the NYSE is about $17 trillion. So, yesterday erased about $170 billion worth of 'wealth.' By our reckoning, there's about $7 trillion left to go. It's too early to call a top... but we wouldn't want to be sitting on the uppermost branch of this tree. The higher up you go, the more dangerous your perch. From where we stand – on the ground and in plenty of cash and gold – the whole thing looks scary. There are too many people... more »
GMOs, Greenpeace and Public Health
Sometime in July 2013, I had a debate with some Greenpeace activists, about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). I initially called them as “anti-CO2, anti-coal, anti-nat gas, anti-nuke, anti-GMO, anti-Bt corn, anti everything”. The GP guy, Francis, replied that they are “against burning coal and fossil fuels, not only because doing so produces CO2 that causes global warming and nuclear power is beset with a lot of issues, esp. safety issues. but we are not "anti-everything" in fact, we are for other cleaner and safer sources of energy and energy efficiency. our stand against GMOs... more »
Kornacki knows what he’s talking about!
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014* *Suggests a billion good reasons for the access lane closings:* Steve Kornacki has been breaking the rules established for cable news talent. He seems to know what he’s talking about. He doesn’t restrict himself to the mouthing of nostrums and scripts and to the dropping of R-bombs. Kornacki is especially well versed concerning the state of New Jersey, where he began his journalistic career. This has made him the press corps’ most valuable player concerning the Fort Lee fandango. Why did those crazy lane closings occur? Kornacki explained his theory all ... more »
Fascinating! “Rare Color Film Shows What London Looked Like In 1927”
*“Rare Color Film Shows What London Looked Like In 1927”* “In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene shot some of the first-ever color film footage around London. He captured everyday life in the city with a technique innovated by his father, called Biocolour. Though we usually think of French names like Lumiere and Melies when we think of early film pioneers, Friese-Greene’s technique captures London in striking detail, as if putting the whole city in a time capsule. The people, now long since gone, pass before us like ghosts. What’s striking is, apart from the noticeably formal clothing and a ... more »
"Never Aired Pentagon 9/11 Video"
*"Never Aired Pentagon 9/11 Video"* By Mort Amsel “Where is the plane? There are many basic questions that remain unanswered from the World Trade Center attacks 13 years ago. Why did WTC 7 fall, where is the plane in Pennsylvania, where is the plane here at the Pentagon? I think those 3 are the simplest and biggest questions left unanswered. Below is unaired, unseen-before footage in HD of the attack on the Pentagon that day. -Mort” Offically we’re told that “American Airlines Flight 77 was a passenger flight which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, ... more »
请邮寄此无处不在，你看到的文章声称，沙特做9-11，是恐怖分子等，这是为下一步的入侵又一石油资源丰富的国家。 作为媒体试图帧沙特阿拉伯9-11（就像他们在伊拉克所做辩解战争），你可能要花点时间回去看一些的9-11的故事。
The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA'S HIGHEST RANKS The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11 Odigo Workers Received Warning of 9/11 Attacks All 9/11 Airports Serviced by One Israeli Owned Company The Israeli Spy Ring THE CONTROLLED COLLAPSE OF WTC 7 The BBC Announced WTC 7's Collapse 26 Minutes Before the Building Came Down Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses
JFK50 : Mark Lane of US Army Intelligence, and the KGB
*"...he had watched in horror from the windows of his embassy as officers of the hated Hungarian security service were strung up from lampposts. Andropov remained haunted for the rest of his life by the speed with which an apparently all-powerful Communist one-party state had begun to topple. * *When other Communist regimes later seemed at risk - in Prague in 1968, in Kabul in 1979, in Warsaw in 1981, he was convinced that, as in Budapest in 1956, only armed force could ensure their survival."* *In 1992, KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin defected to the UK with notes and copies of ... more »
WATCHING STORY GROW: Ditto-heads speak!
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014* *Part 2—Maddow’s important new theory:* In this morning’s editions, the New York Times continues to report that the motive for the lane closings has been established: “Last week, documents showed that one of Mr. Christie’s top aides gave the signal to his associates at the Port Authority to close two lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge in an act of political, *traffic-jamming vengeance against the mayor of Fort Lee, a Democrat who had declined to endorse the governor”* (our italics). So Kate Zernike still says. According to the Times, those d... more »
Tuesday Linkage
Digital Media and Human Security At Lawfare Blog, Jean Marie Simon’s review of Robert Nickelberg’s Afghanistan: A Distant War explores the role of digital photography in constructing wartime imaginaries. At Reductress, Andi Sharavsky describes the “Cutest Ways to Photograph Yourself Hugging Third-World Children.” Is there no end to the damage caused by Edward Snowden? Iranians Continue reading
We Can't Protect Our Misleaders, Incompetent As They Are, And Expect to Prevail--Or Survive
In putting the welfare of her friend, Randi Weingarten, ahead of everything else, Diane Ravitch has triggered a firestorm of criticism against her friend by many teachers who have, in the past, set on the sideline watching, as Randi and her posse of lawyers have handed over mile after mile of public school territory to the invading corporate horde of insatiable profiteers and Washington extortionists. Here are Ravitch’s latest remarks in the comments section of her blog post, “Why I Defend Randi:” When you fight among yourselves–a bad habit among progressives–you lose. Watch “The ... more »
Is industrial hemp the ultimate energy crop?
Did you know that the US first President George Washington grew Hemp? By the way, did you know that the US Government/corporation owns all the patents on medical cannabis cures and treatments? Hemp is one of the ultimate renewable resources of our planet. From paper, to fabric, to bio fuel, to medicine,...... 60 Ways to use your Hempand another article of interest in the hemp arena http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/05/hemp-could-free-us-from-oil-prevent.html Original Article HERE: http://theconversation.com/is-industrial-hemp-the-ultimate-energy-crop-20707 2 Januar... more »
Kark Denninger, Health Care: “Hisssssssssssss!!!!!!”; A Comment
*“Hisssssssssssss!!!!!!”* by Kark Denninger "That's the overpressure relief valve trying to prevent it from blowing sky-high... According to the numbers released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, only 24 percent – or 489,460 – of the 2.2 million people who signed up for ACA were in the coveted 18-to-34 age range. Uh, they were looking for 40%. They didn't get there. They didn't get anywhere near there. This is a major problem, because the rates that were filed were predicated on that. With the demographics that actually have come in, that is, people d... more »
Expressions Vinyl $25 Giftcard Giveaway
Last week I shared a couple of projects I made using Expressions Vinyl. It was my first experience using Expressions Vinyl and I have to say I am hooked. I used two different kinds of heat transfer in my projects and both were easy to use, easy to weed and ironed on beautifully. In fact, since posting the fox shirts, I have promised my five nephews to make them matching fox shirts too. Expressions Vinyl carries everything you could want for your cutting machines, including all of the Silhouette Starter Kits, rhinestones, heat transfer vinyl and adhesive vinyl. My absolute favorite ... more »
Blackfish. An Editorial by Barbara Ann Levy, LCAT, Creative Arts Therapist
As the curator of this site I don't speak out frequently but instead simply post videos on this blog for you to draw your own conclusions but this time is different. I am heartsick. The brutality of dolphins, whales and our environment must stop. Last night I followed *The Cove* postings on Twitter and broke down into tears of deep grief for the marine mammals as reports of heinous abuse, manhandling of female dolphins for example and their capture, torture and sadistic killing were tweeted by observors of small spotted dolphins. I have personal experience and have interacted w... more »
Iraq’s Oil Industry Stagnant In 2013
Despite hopes for continued growth, Iraq’s oil industry was stagnant in 2013. It not only exported less oil than 2012, but it didn’t earn as much either. That hasn’t stopped the Oil Ministry from predicting huge expansion in 2014. Most of the major oil fields in the south are going to increase production this year, but that can’t be exploited unless the government’s infrastructure projects are completed on time. There are several large ones that are to be finished by this summer. Baghdad has never done anything on schedule however, but they will eventually be finished, and when th... more »
MILITARY COUNCIL OF ANBAR VIDEOS
Rebels Outside Of Fallujah Jan 12, 2014 Iraqi Army soldiers surrender Jan 11, 2014 Rebels with Iraqi Army vehicles Jan 11, 2014
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*Saints aren’t ceding control of NFC ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
Neil Young Calls Out Stephen Harper on Tar Sands
Stephen Harper is an international embarrassment for his unconditional hawking of the tar sands, disregarding the rights of First Nations, and ignoring the negative environmental effects. On the latter, we already know that Harper is muzzling scientists, preferring to listen to corporate greed over facts and research. Neil Young is drawing new attention to the tar sands fiasco - and the overall fiasco of the Harper Conservative government - which is reckless about environmental conservation, the rights of First Nations, and Canada's increasingly tarnished reputation. The responses ... more »
Tuesday Linkage
Digital Media and Human Security At Lawfare Blog, Jean Marie Simon’s review of Robert Nickelberg’s Afghanistan: A Distant War explores the role of digital photography in constructing wartime imaginaries. At Reductress, Andi Sharavsky describes the “Cutest Ways to Photograph Yourself Hugging Third-World Children.” Is there no end to the damage caused by Edward Snowden? Iranians Continue reading
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*Jury selection begins in Jefferson Parish Katrina flooding case ~WDSU* *Exhibit showcases history of civic-minded Hermes ~Stephanie Bruno, N.O. Advocate* *Committee to take up Carnival rules ahead of vote ~Carolyn Scofield, WVUE* *Bayou St. John residents look into restricting public activity of other N.O. citizens near the waterway ~Della Hasselle, Mid-City Messenger* *UNO grapples with falling revenue, enrollment ~Richard Thompson* *A Tulane student project tracks the Times-Picayune before and after a digital overhaul ~Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review* *Farmer experim... more »
Mikey Suits (R-Staten Island) Is Still Not In Prison; Meet The FBI's "Candidate A"
Does this Mafia thug/GOP congressman look innocent to you? Every time another Michael Grimm crony gets arrested I feel like I'm supposed to start all over again with how we first came into contact with him back during the heady days of the Duke Cunningham investigation in 2005 when he had a small role to play in a payoff by New York GOP mobster Tom Kontogiannis (currently in prison) to George W. Bush. But there's so much of it, spanning so many categories of corruption… here, just read it for yourself if you want the background and I'll just go into the latest news about Congress' mo... more »
Taking Goebbels' Advice
The CBC reports this morning that the Harper government spent $2.5 million to promote its non existent jobs program: CBC News has also learned that that advertising cash came from an $11-million fund set aside last year for Employment and Social Development Canada to promote the government as a job creator. Before the Canada Job Grant TV ad went to air, the government paid Environics Research Group almost $70,000 to conduct market research. Focus groups saw a near-final version of the commercial. Environics reported that the ad would have the desired result: "The main message w... more »
War watch January 14 , 2014 - Syria , Iraq , Iran and Afghanistan in focus....
Syria.... Aleppo Kurds Fear al-Qaeda Will Take Their Towns'War Within a War' Could Give AQI Pretext to Attack by Jason Ditz, January 13, 2014 Print This | Share This Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) doesn’t really need an excuse to attack Kurdish villages, and has hit them off and on in recent months in the Aleppo Province, mostly revenge for having been ousted from the nation’s northeast by Kurdish militias. But the Aleppo Kurds say that with the outbreak of a “war within a war” between AQI And other rebel factions, territory grabs are becoming even more common and that’s making them a targe... more »
Celtic Woman - The Call
*November 27, 2009* Music video by Celtic Woman performing The Call. *I will end this day of blogging with something beautiful.* *Enjoy*
'Monsanto Mafia' - US Highest Court Controlled By Monsanto
*January 14, 2014* The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto's claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company's ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials. READ MORE: *http://on.rt.com/eph9nl*
USA Will Be Missing Out On Increased Organic Trend While The Ukraine Benefits With A Big Order From China
China continued to reject corn cargoes from the U.S. that contained an unapproved genetically modified variety and instead accepted the first bulk-carrier shipment of non-GMO corn from Ukraine...GOOD. READ: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-06/china-rejecting-u-dot-s-dot-corn-as-first-shipment-from-ukraine-arrives #China #USA #Ukraine #gmo #corn #gmocorn #MIR162 #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa *Source:* *GMO Free USA*
Daniel Bushell - Truth Seeker - 'Unequivocal' Cell Phones Cause Cancer
RT > Truth Seeker > Daniel Bushell is claiming that Cell Phones Causing Cancer is gonna be the same as Smoking and Asbestos and Fracking and Prozac, namely pro-Corporate *independent research* shows that 'there's no problem at all holding a microwave transmitter to your head like a loaded gun' whereas *real-independent research* suggests very strongly that CELL PHONE RADIATION is a tsunami of health insurance claims waiting to happen! This applies to WIFI as well, just not to the same extent as the mobile phone issue. Hm, why did 'broadband for everyone' come with WIFI attached to i... more »
Harper's Army
Scenario. The Army is faced with two challenges. First, post-Afghanistan everything, from burnt out kit to burnt out troops. Second, the Army is still afflicted with a Harper, which effectively means being tarted-up for parades and photo-ops but having the very basics like new trucks and post-service welfare denied like some trophy partner shown off in public but beaten and starved at home. The
The BBC: still as pro-EU as ever after all these years
Lord Tebbit gets close: 'I value the BBC. It often produces programmes unmatched by other broadcasters. I like the absence of commercial advertisements, though I regret the increasing intrusion of advertisements for its own programmes and the deplorable prevalence of background music which swamps the voices of those to whom I am trying to listen. I fear, however, that its inability to recognise its Left-wing, pro EU-bias may destroy a great British institution.…' Personally I'd say that it was too late to save the BBC. More here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/10... more »
The Military
So, I'm now actually reading *The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar*Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang. Here it is - right from the review: Stein and Lang have made great, sometimes awkwardly charming efforts to make what could have been a baffling policy paper into an eye-popping, very readable, and provocative narrative. They come a hair’s breadth away from pronouncing that the military hijacked Canadian foreign policy. I wonder if it was the grunts who wanted to fight so bad, ... who wanted to get into combat. You know, ... if you wanted to fight and then you got your leg blown ... more »
Should Doug Ford be told by an adult to shut up?
Last week we wrote this, about Doug Ford and his histrionics. The more bullies like him and Rob bellow their loathsome discourse, the quicker it become evident how mendacious they truly are. Today Doug Ford described Karen Stintz in disparaging terms, at a Toronto council meeting about how the city might handle future natural disasters like the ice storm. The Fordzilla brothers reacted to her criticism about Rob Ford's activities with their well-honed two-fer tactics: temper tantrums and name-calling. From here: “You saw for the first time Karen Stintz going unglued. I’ve seen it n... more »
Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic"
Protesters are fighting against a loud, violent, and well connected minority led by Thaksin Shinawatra and backed by Wall Street. *January 14, 2014* (ATN) - Even at face value, Eric Sommer's (under the pen name David Marx) op-ed on Russia's RT is full of factual errors that call into question both his premise and his conclusion. The opinion piece titled, "Thailand's political crisis: The inside story," contains such blatant errors it is a wonder it was published at all: - Sommer claims there are "80 million Thai people," when in fact Thailand's population is only between 65... more »
Science can only falsify, not retire, ideas
In late 2012, I explained why There are no hospitals for theories. Surprisingly, unusually, and happily, I was in agreement with Matt Strassler (well, we would agree in a much higher majority of questions if the "ensemble of questions" were picked by a different algorithm than the choice of interesting topics for the blogosphere). In science, we work with hypotheses and theories and only abandon them when they have been proven wrong – by the analysis of empirical and theoretical data – at a sufficient confidence level. There is nothing in between. In particular, a scientist cannot... more »
dreams - our dreams - why are they rendered at such a high resolution?
What does it mean, "Rendered at such a high resolution?" Mike? Well, as you'll from the image to the right, the upper eye is 'rendered' at low resolution e.g. 128 across by 64 tall (you can count the individual pixels that make the image) while its lower partners is rendered at something like 640 by 480 pixels, you can't count the pixels as easily but the image can hold MUCH MORE DETAIL. It takes enormous amounts of brain power to render at such high resolutions. On top of all the emotional content of a dream, this resolution relates to the detail one might find in a CITY. The audi... more »
An absolute phoney
Harper is at it again. In a trick stolen from the Christy Clark manual of "quick wins", The Great Pretender is now holding secret press conferences. Last week, while members of the English media were blocked from questioning Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a Lower Mainland visit, he held an event to field queries from a select few members of the ethnic media. Some of the chosen few who
Thailand Politics and the Monarchy, Part 2
There will be a snap elections in Thailand on February 2 or less than 3 weeks from now. The Protesters can democratically and constitutionally remove the current administration if they succeed. But they want an unelected People's Council to assume power immediately with two years no election. Rule of law huh? Photo from BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25708092 The Democratic Party of Thailand does not seem to appreciate fully what rule of law and political liberalism really means. Assuming the protesters including the Democratic Party will succeed in forcing the current... more »
'The Plots to Kill Occupy Protesters' and other life lessons
Occupy Houston 'The Plots to Kill Occupy Protesters' and other life lessons By Brenda Norrell Censored News Today Censored News honors journalists and journalism making a difference. However, along with the good there is the ugly: Arizona Daily Star celebrates a Fighter of Indians and the plagiarizers in Indian country. First of all, in case you missed it, there is the fearless
THE MYSTERIOUS BOTTOMLEYS
*Margaret Thatcher and Virginia Bottomley* Virginia Garnett married Peter Bottomley. Both Virginia and Peter Bottomley became Conservative members of the UK parliament. Virginia Bottomley is a Governor of the spooky London School of Economics. *Peter Bottomley* Peter Bottomley was present at the Heysel stadium disaster in Brussels on 29 May 1985. Peter Bottomley was present at the the Kings Cross fire of 18 November 1987. Reportedly, certain juvenile members of a pedophile ring were in a cafe, underground, when the fire broke out. Peter Bottomley was present at the Kegworth air... more »
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel ....... In what should outrage every American - noting this has occurred during the so called War Against Drugs and harsh federal drug sentencing guidelines - we now find out that an investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. ........ here is another head kicking nugget --- Zambada-Niebla's lawyer claimed to the court that in the late 1990s, Castro struck a deal with U.S. agents in which Sinaloa would provide information about rival drug trafficking organizations while the U.S. would dismiss its case against the Sinaloa lawyer and refrain from interfering with Sinaloa drug trafficking activities or actively prosecuting Sinaloa leadership. ...... And we have heard about this before , but still mid blowing ---- "The agents stated that this arrangement had been approved by high-ranking officials and federal prosecutors," Zambada-Niebla lawyer wrote. After being extradited to Chicago in February 2010, Zambada-Niebla argued that he was also "immune from arrest or prosecution" because he actively provided information to U.S. federal agents. ........ And was this what " Fast and Furious Operation " really was all about --- Zambada-Niebla also alleged that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to finance and arm the cartel in exchange for information used to take down its rivals. (If true, that re-raises the issue regarding what Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the gun-running arrangements.) ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1 An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S. There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be "the world’s most powerful drug traf... more »
Lowongan Kerja Service Engineer Januari 2014 Jakarta Barat
Lowongan Kerja Service Engineer Januari 2014 Jakarta Barat -Kota Jakarta barat yang masih termasuk dalam kawasan DKI jakarta ini masih banyak penangguran di kota ini, nah maka dari itu disini saya akan memberikan info yang saya temukan tentang Lowongan Kerja di Jakarta. Ada Perusahaan di kota jakarta barat yaitu PT Infiniti Bioanalitika Solusindo sedang membuka peluang kerja kepada anda
That Anti-union Billboard in Times Square: Consider the Timing
On January 8, 2014, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) (a misnomer) produced the following five-story billboard in Times Square (New York City): This is not CUF’s first swipe at Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). In December 2013, CUF launched a similar ad– a full-page ad in the New York Times– attempting the same […]
"A Look to the Heavens"
“What will survive this battle of the galaxies? Known as Seyfert's Sextet, this intriguing group of galaxies lies in the head portion of the split constellation of the Snake (Serpens). The sextet actually contains only four interacting galaxies, though. Near the center of this Hubble Space Telescope picture, the small face-on spiral galaxy lies in the distant background and appears only by chance aligned with the main group. Also, the prominent condensation on the upper left is likely not a separate galaxy at all, but a tidal tail of stars flung out by the galaxies' gravitational i... more »
The Realist Report - Horus the Avenger
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Horus the Avenger of *White Rabbit Radio*. Horus and I will be talking about the weaponization of language, the systematic attack on White people and Western civilization, and how we can fight back. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *WhiteRabbitRadioTV - YouTube channel* - *Half of US Congress are millionaires: study* - Yahoo! News - *Vets outraged o... more »
FOIA info request goes after sewage snow damage on sacred San Francisco Peaks
Photo by Protect Peaks FOIA filed for each document on sewage snow damage on sacred San Francisco Peaks By Brenda Norrell Censored News FLAGSTAFF, Arizona -- The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out what damage is being done by the sewage water snow on sacred San Francisco Peaks. The FOIA for "each and every document" on corrosion and
The Zionist City of Tel-Aviv was designed before Israel was formed
A Brief History of Tel Aviv Now 100 years Old Steve Plotkin on Youtube Published on Jun 15, 2012 A history of the founding of the city of Tel Aviv, Israel with the changing times, political forces, and external influences. The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New City and Its Setting The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New City and Its Setting As Tel Aviv expanded, rows of apartment blocks and commercial structures were erected where previously there were sand dunes, orange groves, olive orchards, and vineyards. Agrarian villages, too, were swallowed up b... more »
Maybe The GOP War On Women Will Result In The Re-Release Of "Just Say Roe"
In 1987 I was running Sire for Seymour Stein. He hired me because he felt the powers at our parent company, Warner Bros, didn't prioritize his signings. He was in NYC and they were in Burbank and he felt he needed someone there. That was me. When this new music format came along-- CDs-- only priority artists were getting their records released as CDs… Dire Straits, Prince, David Lee Roth. The only Sire artist with CD releases was Madonna. But Seymour and I were both determined to break our "baby bands" and we both felt the CD was the future of retail. Our head of retail, though, ... more »
“Radiation Expert: Fukushima Plant “Out of Control”
*“Radiation Expert: Fukushima Plant “Out of Control”* by ENE Jan. 6, 2014 interview with Professor Chris Busby, Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk and member of UK Department of Health Committee Examining Radiation Risk for Internal Emitters (CERRIE), Infowars (at 19:45 in): “I think they’re going to have to throw a fence around there and watch it forever. I don’t see what else they can do. I did think, and they did think, about the possibility of bombing it into the ocean, but frankly I think there’s nothing much they can do now — the genies out of th... more »
SHARON’S GAZA PULL-OUT: IT WAS NEVER REALLY THAT BIG A DEAL
Zionists and their neoconservative supporters have always framed Ariel Sharon’s pull-out of the Gaza Strip as some kind of concession to Palestinians that might result in peace for those Israelis who lived under the threat of attack from Palestinians who had been ghettoised within the Strip and were resisting occupation. The pull-out was seen as a precursor to the ‘land for peace’ deals that Israel was pushing as part of the ‘Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan’. The Zionists figured that, if they pulled out of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians inside would give up attacking Israel on acc... more »
War Watch January 12 , 2014 - Syria Rebel in-fighting has devolved into a narrative of good Al Qaeda vs bad Al Qaeda ( West may not be winner in Syria battle of ‘good al Qaida’ vs. ‘bad al Qaida’ ) ..... Iraq sectarian fighting continues unabated ( more bad Al Qaeda vs in this instance Sunni Tribes and Iraq Government forces ) Iran sanctions game may leave Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei as the real winner in Iran ( moderate Iranians the losers if Sanctions by Congress cause nuclear talks to be halted ) ...... Libya " insecurity " continues as controversy swirls around Cyrenaican federalsts including Jadhran , Libyan Cabinet Member shot down in hometown , former southern security head shot down in tripoli ...
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Syria..... Al-Qaeda Executes Scores of Rivals in Northern SyriaExecuted Huge Number of al-Nusra Fighters by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2014 Print This | Share This Underscoring just how ugly the infighting among rebel factions in northern Syria has gotten, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has captured and executed an estimated 70 rivals, including a large number of fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, another al-Qaeda affiliate. The fighting that began a week ago Friday claimed 500 dead in the first week, and a weekend of fighting and executions has brought that number to at least 700 now. Initial fig... more »
Jack A. Smith : Why the U.S. wants to stay in Afghanistan
The U.S. is supposed to withdraw troops by the end of the year, and the American people overwhelmingly want us to leave, but President Obama intends to retain a military presence. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | … finish reading Jack A. Smith : Why the U.S. wants to stay in Afghanistan
Obamacare updates January 13 , 2014 -- Obamacare Enrollment Explained In Three Charts
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-13/obamacare-enrollment-explained-three-charts Obamacare Enrollment Explained In Three Charts [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/13/2014 18:50 -0500 - Cohen - Insurance Companies - Medicare - Obamacare - Reality - White House inShare By now the distinction that "enrollment" in Obamacare does not actually mean coverage should be painfully clear: one still has to pay, and according to a recent analysis up to 50% of "enrollees" in any given state have not paid, which means the White House... more »
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Ethics of Casual Teaching Contracts: how we are all implicated in selling out academia and exploiting our students
For the last few years in particular, there has been a marked increase in the number of sessional, casual, teaching-only, adjunct, fixed term, temporary job ‘opportunities’ listed and circulated in the usual IR job venues. These various titles and categories point to one reality: precarious labor is a permanent reality within academia. The trend has Continue reading
Ariel Sharon (1928-2014)
*by Ken* I suppose we should have laid the son of a bitch to rest yesterday, but given the eight years during which he was already withdrawn from the world in the vegetative state that followed his incapacitating stroke shorty into the new year of 2006, I thought he could wait a day while we heard *New Yorker* reporter Jane Mayer remember another newly departed son of a bitch, Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes. The habit of speaking little ill of the dead is especially unfortunate in the case of Sharon, who developed into a full-blown monster. Here's how Ian Welsh remembered h... more »
On women…
[image: "This is about the unbridgeable gulf between what each of us wants and how to interpret another's feelings," says Mankoff. "It's a wonderfully complicated sentence, and we understand it transfers to the very complicated psychological dimensions that separate them from each other." Bruce Eric Kaplan, October 26, 1998.] One of several “favourite New Yorker cartoons ever,” as chosen by the magazine’s over-analytical cartoon editor. Unaccountably, there was *not one* by Thurber, a man obsessed by both women and dogs – and possibly their best cartoonist ever. Easily remedied: ... more »
Learning to teach reading from Whitey McWhiterson and her twin sister
I don’t mean to bring race or whatever into this. Good teaching is good teaching, right? But the reader might know about my frustrations with early literacy instruction as of late, particularly guided reading. When examining a few new models and other suggestions, here’s what I see: white kids, white lily classrooms, white teachers, white, […]
Chet Raymo, “We Are the Consciousness of the Universe”
*“We Are the Consciousness of the Universe”* by Chet Raymo “The leaves are raked and bagged. The grass is mowed for the last time. The geraniums smile weak goodbyes. Now, as if by some law of compensation, the curtain opens on the sky. The great starless spaces of autumn fall like a black velvet drape into the west. The show opens. The sky begins. As the Sun sinks beneath the horizon, the Pleiades rise in the east, heralding the arrival of the spectacular winter stars. Aldebaran, the red eye of the Bull. Sirius, the Dog Star. Rigel and Betelgeuse in Orion. Castor and Pollux, the Tw... more »
"We, The Jewish People, Control America, and the Americans Know It" ~ the recently deceased Ariel Sharon
You've probably seen the MAINSTREAM MEDIA eulogizing the "great" former leader of Israel Ariel Sharon. In all the coverage you've seen, have you seen his quote: “Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”??? Of course not, and here's why: *Six Jewish Companies Control 96% Of The World’s Media* Where did Jewish control over most everything we see and hear in the U.S. start? Try here: Whe... more »
Requiem for Stella
After a long illness Stella has moved to that great Dog Park In The Sky. Stella was a Good Dog. Photo by Southern Sister. As the Official Dog of Southern Man Blog Stella can also be seen here, here, here, and here.
Will Nature, Young People and Future Generations Forgive Us?
*By Jay - Ottawa* Earth scientists have documented five mass extinctions. In simple terms extinction works like this: A new world blooms, life flourishes for a while, a fatal problem develops and most of that epoch’s creatures are wiped out. Forever. Sometimes the die off is swift, sometimes slow but relentless. Despite a handful of extinctions, Earth hasn’t turned into a Moon or a Mars. The vital spark has survived –– so far –– through a few small, base creatures who survive one epoch to reanimate another world full of life –– but always a new world that never quite re... more »
'Ceasefires possible in areas of Syria', says John Kerry [Source: Euronews]
"Ceasefire" must be socialized into the mindset of every party to this conflict. Each for its own reasons will see this as a "win" *if it is framed properly*." - Dr. Marc Gopin, *"'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear"*, Huffington Post, January 2. A *quote* by Dr. Thomas Daffern, director of the UK-based *International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy*, talking about a ceasefire in Syria: *"What I'm calling for is a ceasefire, a unilateral, universal ceasefire in Syria by all parties. But it's a mental or spiritual ceasefire I'm calling for first. We're n... more »
“9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week”
*“9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week”* By Janet Allon “New Jersey’s vindictive governor may have grabbed all the headlines this week, but that doesn't mean other right-wingers failed to dish up their usual combo of inane and offensive statements. *1. Ohio politician not sorry at all for sending out racist email. *Apologies can be so very lame. It’s true. And they have such a variety of ways of being lame. There’s the non-apology apology, aka the faux-pology, which often starts something like, “I’m sorry if I offended you....” There’s the apology th... more »
Weekend Update
And it is a busy one with Teen Daughter in town, plus the monthly geocacher's lunch and Christian dance. On Friday Southern Man zoomed up the turnpike to fetch Teen Daughter from her mother. As always she chatted and sang all the way back. We ended up at the mall for dinner and a scary movie. Teen Daughter knows all of these movies by heart and was quick to identify references to previous films when she wasn't cowering under Southern Man's jacket. Saturday morning was our monthly geocacher's luncheon. A festive gathering. Our luncheon hostess (on the left, who caches under th... more »
My third re-posted Paul Craig Roberts blog in a row(!), this one having to do with U.S. unemployment. The remarkable fact here is that the folks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have finally come out with a payroll jobs report that disproves the alleged recovery. This has led PCR to "wonder how the BLS civil servants who produced it can avoid retribution" ...for letting us know that there is no -- and can never be -- a recovery from the "great recession" so long as 73% of the US work force continues to earn less than $50,000, millions of others have searched for but finally given up trying to find a job, and no new jobs are being created.
------------------------------ *No Jobs For Americans — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ January 10, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter No Jobs For Americans Paul Craig Roberts The alleged recovery took a direct hit from Friday’s payroll jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 74,000 net new jobs in December. Wholesale and retail trade accounted for 70,700 of these jobs or 95.5%. It is likely that the December wholesale and retail hi... more »
MORE NEOCON NONSENSE FROM ‘MAD MAX’ BOOT
Neocon warmonger Max Boot writing in *Commentary* today seems to think that the latest negotiations with Iran will “implicitly recognize Iran’s ‘right’ to enrich uranium”, adding “i.e., its ‘right’ to maintain breakout capacity to build a bomb within a few weeks or months”. First off, Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has always had the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and, while Iran’s enemies have tried desperately to accuse Iran of having a nuclear weapons program, there has never been any hard evidence produced to support the claim. All t... more »
How Capitalism Saved Europe From Starvation
*When it comes to knowing their history, what most people know about about most of history just isn’t so. There’s no more what-you-know-isn’t-so about history than what people think they know about the beginnings of modern capitalism and the coming of the industrial revolution…* [A selection from *Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow*] *by Ludwig von Mises* [image: Wojciech_Gerson_-_Gdańsk_in_the_XVII_century]Two-hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man’s social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ances... more »
Central bank propaganda from the central banker’s central bank
In a four-minute piece of video propaganda on what is supposedly their specialist subject, money, the Atlanta Federal Reserve gets at least five things wrong, explains Mish Shedlock, including: 1. What money is 2. Price stability 3. Exponential math 4. Who benefits from inflation 5. That Federal Reserve policies are responsible for asset bubbles that grow increasingly larger over time That's one hell of a lot of things to be wrong about [in just four minutes], especially for someone "*big on getting our communications right.* " Read more (and watch the video... more »
Benefits Street
We Brits love our two minute hates, and going by the bile trickling down Twitter this evening Channel 4's *Benefits Street* has cornered that market. So a few points. This programme, despite its obvious opportunism, was conceived and produced by metropolitan elite-types. And metropolitan I, of course, mean London. In typical path-to-hell fashion perhaps the filmmakers genuinely believe they're helping the people involved in this show. There's an element of the working class exotic about it, a whiff of the northern Other (despite Birmingham not being 'the north'). It smacks of nice ... more »
Oh, that Daily Mail outlook
Yeah, it's more funny than sinister, but this unremitting drive to pathologise normal socio-cultural discourse is dangerous. Everything short of solid endorsement of the Dail Mail outlook is evidence of left wing bias. Anything to the left that's more vigourous than holding a copy of the Guardian (Sherlock is seen holding a copy of the Guardian - the *Guardian,* it's like a conspiracy!) is Cultural Marxism. This is an attempt (however small and daft the example) to build the same kind of hysteria that infects American public life.
The DCCC Doesn't Usually Back Normal People For Congress-- But It Does Back Millionaires And Shady Lobbyists
Corrupt Inland Empire conservatives rally around their boy Pete Aguilar, including his pal Jerry Lewis, Bill Emmerson, Mike Morrell and, of course, Gary Miller Friday I was busy blaming Steve Israel of the DCCC-- and his counterparts at the NRCC-- for the fact that more than half the Members of Congress are millionaires. Israel, after all, recruits them-- and discourages ordinary working men and women from running. But millionaires aren't even the worst of the garbage Israel recruits. He also encourages the only profession ranked below "Member of Congress" by ordinary Americans in... more »
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Quiz: Which classical character are you?
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Tobacco Tax 9: Why Earmarking Legislation is Wrong
The Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 (RA 10351) is one year old (enacted December 20, 2012) and after its first year implementation, it seems to have exceeded its revenue target. BIR said sin tax collection in 2012 full year was P50.4 billion, and January-November 2013 collection was P91.6 billion, higher than full year 2013 target of P85.8 billion. Now some legislators and the advocates of the law are asking, where is that money? See various reports yesterday, Phil. Star, Cayetano asks where sin tax money goes Rappler, Senators: Where is sin tax money going? Tribune, After 1 year of rich... more »
John Kane to Address “Inherent Sovereignty” at Arizona State University
John Kane to Address “Inherent Sovereignty” at Arizona State University By Liz Hill Censored News WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 13, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and national commentator on Native issues, will be a featured speaker at “Who Decides You’re Real? Fixing the Federal Recognition Process,” a two-day conference at Arizona State University in Tempe. Kane will be one of four
Minimum Wage as an Antipoverty Tool
David Henderson reports: If the federal minimum wage were increased to $9.50 per hour: - Only 11.3 percent of workers who would gain from the increase live in households officially defined as poor. - A whopping 63.2 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners living in households with incomes equal to twice the poverty line or more. - Some 42.3 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners who live in households that have incomes equal to three times the poverty line or more.
what i'm reading: just kids by patti smith
*Just Kids* is a memoir by the artist and musician Patti Smith, about her life and relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The book is a memoir of both Smith's and Mapplethorpe's coming of age as artists, and of the path of their relationships, both with each other and with other people who were formative in their young lives. *Just Kids* is also a memoir of New York City in the 1970s, especially of certain slices of the art and music scenes. Although Smith met and hung out with many famous musicians, artists, and writers during the time she writes about, *Just Kids* does... more »
let them stay week day 2: letter to the editor
*Let Them Stay Week 2014* kicked off yesterday with a flutter on social media. Today we get underway in earnest by writing letters to the editors of local newspapers. Three ideas for letters are here on the War Resisters Support Campaign website. An excellent list of email address, along with some tips for writing effective letters, is here, thanks to the good folks fighting for our public health care system. Your letter might reference one of three events: the 10th anniversary of the first Iraq War resister to arrive in Canada, the recent release from prison of war resister Kimb... more »
Colour Revolutions - Look Out, Brazil!
RevolutionLocationDate startedDate endedDescriptionCarnation Revolution PortugalApril 25, 1974The revolution is associated with the colour carnation becausecarnations were worn.Velvet Revolution CzechoslovakiaNovember 17, 1989December 29, 1989in 1989, a peaceful demonstration by students (mostly fromCharles University) was attacked by the police – and in time contributed to the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.Yellow Revolution PhilippinesFebruary 22, 1986February 25, 1986The 1986 People Power Revolution (also called the "EDSA" or the "Yellow” Revolution) in t... more »
'Daily Mail' Bingo
Those of us playing *Radio 4 Comedians Bingo *during tonight's *The Unbelievable Truth *will have been pretty disappointed, as it was a surprisingly low scoring edition of the show (and funny too). Still, thanks to Jeremy Hardy, we were at least able to mark off the *'Daily Mail' *as he took his inevitable Radio 4 comedians' swipe at that newspaper over its 'fascist' past. That makes it three editions in a row now where Radio 4 comedians on *The Unbelievable Truth *(namely David Mitchell, Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Hardy) have had a swipe at the *Daily Mail* - surely ample testi... more »
Book Review: “North Korea in Transition” – Oh Wait, it’s Not in Transition…
I know book reviews bore everyone, but the journal where I published this doesn’t post electronic versions of book reviews. So I thought this would be a good place to put it for internet accessibility. I tried to make this interesting by focusing on trends in NK, rather than just summarizing the constituent essays. It’s Continue reading
Wild Bill: Commie Rat Democrats...
are hard at work and doing a darn good job.
Things we can learn from Mr. Brady!
*MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Star QB fights climate denial:* Tom Brady beat the Colts this Saturday night. In his typically modest way, he also fought climate denial. How did Mr. Brady do that? Consider this passage from the sports section of today’s New York Times: ARATON (1/13/14): If you had the Patriots scoring six touchdowns without Tom Brady throwing for any in a 43-22 thrashing of the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday night, there’s a handicapping job waiting for you somewhere... *In a New England downpour, a hard reign fell on Andrew Luck and the Colts at Gillette Stadium.* L... more »
RODMAN ON HIS KOREA VISIT
Actually he is right....he is just a person trying to make peace in his own way. Someone has to the break the ice at last - instead of a hot shooting war - and it turned out to be Dennis Rodman. Sometimes history comes calling and you have to go with it.....
WHO STILL BE THE DEVIL?
"Somebody Blew Up America" by Amiri Baraka with Rob Brown-saxophone, recorded live on February 21, 2009 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. This production is part of "Free Jazz at the Sanctuary," a 13-part series of performance videos featuring some of the world's most talented improvisers. Each hour-long show is available on DVD directly from Downtown Music Gallery (www.downtownmusicgallery.com). For more information on this series, visit www.JazzSanctuary.org
WE ARE BEING SCHOOLED......
Frack U. Mexico. Directed by Greg "Gringoyo" Berger. Screenplay by Al Giordano. Good news! Mexico has the fourth largest shale gas reserves in the world, and the Mexican Congress is about to change the constitution so that private companies can drill for it. That means that U.S. companies will soon be there, fracking for gas. Sure, there may be some complications from the more than 500 chemicals that will be pumped into Mexico's aquifers, but never fear: Joe T. Hodo, President of "Frack U. Mexico!" is here to show you why Mexicans should stop worrying and learn to love fracking...... more »
NO MORE EXCUSES
On the 12th anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at the U.S. detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, activists occupy the National Museum of American History to create their own exhibit.
Christie gets his buddy back!
*MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Ways to make story grow:* When the press corps invents a Standard Group Story, their work can take several forms. The main point must be driven, of course. But many less significant, smaller points will make the story that much better—more pleasing, more satisfying to the target audience. When Bill Clinton got it on with Miss Lewinsky, the claim that she was a “21-year-old intern” made the story *vastly* better. When the corps decided to slime Candidate Gore, the claim that he grew up in a fancy hotel was extremely pleasing. Gore didn’t grow up in a fan... more »
Syria: Geneva II, Captagon trafficking and Iran/IAEA
* Going long, but, interesting* *WP* PARIS — International backers of Syria’s fractious opposition warned rebel political leaders Sunday that upcoming negotiations for a transition government to replace President Bashar al-Assad may be their last, best hope to bring their country’s civil war to an end. With* less than two weeks to go before a negotiating conference in Geneva *sponsored by the United Nations, the U.S.-backed Syrian Opposition Coalition has yet to say that it will attend. Amid rising frustration among its supporters, the group’s attempts to come to agreement and appoi... more »
Thorne Dreyer : December guests on Rag Radio include ‘Radical Jesus’ editor, criminal justice blogger, Chicano novelist
Our Rag Radio podcasts feature interviews with historian and graphic nonfiction publisher Paul Buhle, Texas blogger and prison reform advocate Scott Henson, and fiction writer Daniel Chacón, author of ‘Hotel Juárez.’ By Rag Radio | The Rag Blog | January … finish reading Thorne Dreyer : December guests on Rag Radio include ‘Radical Jesus’ editor, criminal justice blogger, Chicano novelist
No Jobs for Americans As Unemployment Number Drops From from 7.0% to 6.7%
Still thinking about those new jobs creation numbers and how the unemployment rate came down from 7% to 6.7%? Dr. Roberts says it's a shill, and he's got the logic and real numbers to prove it. I noticed today that the financial media presstitutes were a bit hesitant to hype the drop in the rate of unemployment when there was no jobs growth to account for it. The Wall Street and bank
“Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich"
*“Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich: * *It’s Time for ‘Militant Nonviolent Resistance’”* By John W. Whitehead “Everywhere, “time is winding up,” in the words of one of our spirituals, “corruption in the land, people take a stand, time is winding up.”—Martin Luther King Jr. We now live in a two-tiered system of governance. There are two sets of laws: one set for the government and its corporate allies, and another set for you and me. The laws which apply to the majority of the population allow the government to do things like sending SWAT teams crashing through yo... more »
Chris Christie's Political Ambitions: Dead In The Water-- And Getting Deader
On *Meet The Press* yesterday, Chris Matthews ended the segment on the rapidly expanding Chris Christie scandal by pointing out that Christie's greatest hit in the eyes of the general public was how much of an activist, on-the-ground leader he was when Hurricane Sandy devastated wide swathes of New Jersey. Matthews pointed out the incongruity of Christie's supposed nowhere-to-be-found posture when his aides shut down the George Washington Bridge for 4 days. Until now, people have seen Christie not as the corrupt overbearing and thuggish bully he's always been, but as a no-nonsense... more »
Virtual tour to 7 power plants
There are 430 nuclear reactors but so far, there has been no comprehensive virtual tour into the nuclear power plants' interior. The dominant Czech power utility company ČEZ is changing that. For seven weeks, it will be presenting a new virtual tour to one of its power plants (click, main web). *The Štěchovice dam (1945).* On Monday, 10 a.m. Central European Winter Time, they release a new site. The first plant that became available today is the hydroplant in Štěchovice, a dam on the Moldau South of Prague. You may imagine that it is rather low-tech (the dam was built between ... more »
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