4 Jan - Blogs I'm Following

*Kyle Mizokami, National Interest:* The U.S. Navy’s 5 Most Lethal Weapons of War *WNU Editor:* No mention of the U.S. Navy's new rail gun .... but with time it will be an essential part oh what the US Navy is capable of.

*Redskins No. 2 stooge Bruce Allen, the president and GM who has presided over four losing seasons, says he feels "awfully responsible" for the team's dismal 4-12 season. "We're going to make sure that we hold everyone accountable for everything that happened," he says. But himself maybe not so much?* *"For too long, no one has trusted the basic setup of the [Washington Redskins] organization. So many flatterers and yes men survive while the truth tellers get offed or ignored, and every three or four years everyone gets fired and the club starts from scratch again. Step one for Sny... more »

I support land reclamation in Manila Bay. Remove those thick silt, mud, sand, other solid wastes in river beds near the bay. Also the thick lahar deposits in Bulacan rivers that contribute to frequent street flooding. I am indifferent who should do the reclamation project, the important thing is that someone should do it, soon. There are two (or more?) proposed land reclamation projects in Manila Bay. The Solar City project by the Manila Goldcoast Development Corp. in Manila City area, and the SM project in Pasay City. Another view of the proposed Solar City. This seems to be the ex... more »

Colonel Baqeri, an IRGC commander. Press TV *Times of Israel:* *Iran claims it foiled Israeli hit on nuke scientist* *WNU Editor: *Is this report from Iran true ... I do not know. But I do know that when it comes to announcements from Iran .... always be skeptical. *More News On Iranian Claims In Foiling An Israeli Plot To Assassinate A Key Iranian Nuclear Scientist* Security Commander: Attempt to Assassinate Iranian N. Scientist Foiled by IRGC -- FARS News Agency (Iran) IRGC thwarted Israeli terror attack on nuclear scientist: Colonel -- Press TV (Iran) Israeli terror attack on Ir... more »

*Richard Spencer, The Daily Telegraph:* *Iraqi Tribal Leader Describes Losing A Massive Fight To ISIS* *WNU Editor:* This is brutal and eye-opening account on what happens when the Islamic State conquers a territory. And as to U.S. hopes that it will be able to get the tribal sheiks to cooperate in defeating the Islamic State .... if this Telegraph's account is true .... it looks like the tribal sheiks and their followers have already been decimated.

The theme in our recent coverage of the Mikey Suits Grimm case has been that Grimm's case leaves more unanswered questions than it answers, questions almost entirely ignored by the FBI, by Congress and by the media. Grimm's ties to the Mafia -- and the work he's done for organized crime-- are almost never mentioned anywhere. The FBI very much prefers it that way. So does John Boehner. The Grimm denouement is not meant to get to the bottom of anything, just to sweep a potentially embarrassing chapter in the culture of corruption that is the United States Congress under the carpet. ... more »

*Wikipedia:* Natalie Zemon Davis, CC (born November 8, 1928) is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. In 2010, Davis was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize, worth 4.5 million Norwegian kroner (~$700,000 US), for her narrative approach to the field of history. On 29 June 2012, Davis was named Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest class within the order. On 10 July 2013, Davis was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama for "her insights into the study of history and her exacting eloquence in bringing the ... more »

*• Arizona Republican protests busload of YMCA Campers• Crazyspeak of the Year nominees No. 15: the Impeachment Variations (group nomination)• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 16: NM Rep. Steve Pearce* *In Part 12 we pay tribute to Arizona GOP congressional hopeful Adam Kwasman, the genius who decided it would help his primary bid to vent media outrage over a busful of supposedly terrified illegral-immigrant kiddie laborers -- who turned out to be, literally, YMCA happy campers.* *Crackpot Utopia:* *A dream world as envisioned by republicans; a manifestation or expression of th... more »

Sorry to get snoring boring about Tony Blair once more, but I have to say a few words about the silly phrasing Neal Lawson used while penning a New Year's message to the former Labour leader. The first rule of polemic is not to hand your opponent a shield that can parry your blows, and that is exactly what Neal did. By dropping in "your majority was too big" and "but in hindsight the wrong people were voting Labour", he allowed himself to be painted as both a *naïf* and someone not serious about electoral politics. No wonder the remaining friends of Blair, such as John Rentoul, Dan ... more »

*Yawning Baby* As we broach the *New Year 2015*, and setting goals/agendas....here is yet another list. It is a list of things that completely bore me. Now, I won't say that I'm correct at being bored by some of these issues/subjects...a few of them are very important in the overall scheme of things. It's just that they bore me. They bore me because: 1) Many of them are like the weather...*everybody talks about* *it* but nobody does anything about it; 2) Some of them provoke "*circular arguments" or "black and white thinking*" amongst those who deal with them in any dept... more »

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani prepares to depart after the end of a press conference on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New York September 26, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif/Files *Voice of America:* *Iran's Rouhani Urges End to Country's Isolation* *WNU Editor: *Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is threatening to put an Iranian nuclear agreement to a referendum .... *Rouhani threatens to hold Iran referendum* (Financial Times) .... something that I am sure that the person with the real power in Iran (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) will not like, and will... more »

Obama sanctions North Korea for something hacker experts say they couldn't do That's the way it works around here Washington slaps you upside the head and then blames you for making its hand hit you Coup d'etat in Kiev Russia's fault because they wouldn't submit On your knees or else you get hit Down south in Venezuela you won't submit Turn over your oil to Wall Street or else you get smacked It's the way of the bully used to call it 'tin horn dictator' Yes it is true now Washington is wearing the black hat We are slap happy phony hack attack tin horn showdown at sunset dictators

*Eliot Higgins, Business Insider/Bellingcat:* *Fresh Russian Vehicles Are Showing Up In Eastern Ukraine* *WNU Editor: *I have been hearing and reading reports in the past two weeks of fresh Russian military shipments to the rebels in eastern Ukraine .... it looks like this report confirms it.

Ukraine separatist Alexander Bednov, or “Batman,” was confirmed to have been killed on Thursday. (Image via lenta.ru/Russian social media) *IBTimes:* *Who killed Batman? Pro-Russian separatist's death blamed on Ukraine and other separatists* *WNU Editor*: I doubt that Ukraine security forces were involved in this "hit" .... they are staying in their foxholes and are rarely venturing out of their FOBs .... my money is on this being an internal settling of accounts. Am I surprised .... no .... dissension in the military rebel ranks in eastern Ukraine is nothing new .... even the kill... more »

A policeman secures the scene of a car bomb explosion near the Taleex junction of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, January 2, 2015. (Reuters) *Al Jazeera:* *Suicide bomber targets troop convoy in Somalia* *WNU Editor*: Al-Shabab is sending a message that they are far from defeated. *More News On Today's Massive Suicide Car Bomb Attack Targeting Somali Soldiers In Mogadishu* Car bomb targeting security forces explodes in Somali capital: police -- Reuters Somalia Suicide Bomber Attacks US-Trained Forces, Kills 4 -- Epoch Times/AP Four killed in Mogadishu suicide car bombing -- AFP Suici... more »

*F 35 Supersonic all weather single place Strike Fighter ( 2015 ) * *Development Cost = 1.1Trillion **Operational ( Maybe never )* *Approximately 45 cents of every dollar of Government spending goes to the Military and much of it is wasted dollars and misplaced priorities such as the current 1.1 Trillion dollar F 35 Strike Fighter. With the advent of Drones, the future of manned military aircraft is dimmed considerably and a restructuring of America's priorities is necessary ~ particularly in light of our rapidly fading infrastructure and inadequate social welfare programs. The que... more »

*WAGNER: Siegfried: Act I Prelude* *Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, cond. Decca, May and Oct. 1962* *Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, cond. Teldec, recorded live, June-July 1992* *Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. DG, recorded Dec. 1968 and Feb. 1969* *Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall, cond. EMI-Chandos, recorded live, August 1973* *by Ken* *by Ken* I would have liked, but couldn't find, a nice image of a darkened theater to accompany these miraculous opening pages of *Siegfried*, the third installment in Wagner's cycle *The Ring of... more »

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[image: USS Gary (FFG 51)]The US Congress has approved the transfer of six frigates being decommissioned by the US Navy to Taiwan and Mexico, but an expected transfer of ships to Turkey was not even part of the bill this year due to concerns about Turkish political developments. After the US House of Representatives passed a bill approving the transfer of the frigates on April 7, on Dec. 19 the Senate “finally” approved the ships' transfer, according to a story by the US weekly Defense News. “The 2012 version of the Naval Transfer Act, containing a number of ships for Turkey, also ... more »

*Naughty Naomi gives us a lesson in statistics* *Naomi Oreskes works in a similar way to the tyrants who claim that they "won" an election in which 99% of the population voted for them. Naomi goes one better than that. She has claimed that 100%of published climate scientists agree with global warming. That has got her much acclaim of course -- among those great lovers of tyrants, the political Left -- but no acclaim among people with any kind of skeptical mind.But that is all old hat now so let us look at her latest effusion below. She says a number of broadly co... more »

The Transpicuous News Show , for January 4th 2015, will be going out on CCN tonight at 10:30pm GMT, or 5:30pm EST. TN will be showing on CCN every Sunday night, and will be on The One Network as usual- with the ability to watch in the archive at any time. In the next couple of weeks I will be changing the format of Transpicuous News and will be opening the lines for questions after the broadcast of the show. The question and answer section will go out on the live stream on CCN. As soon as we have that organized, I announce the starting date. Watch Transpicuous News tonight... more »

*his funeral is today.*

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing Islamic State militants in Sinjar, walk towards the Syrian border (Reuters) *Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian/Observer:* *Arab spring prompts biggest migrant wave since second world war* *WNU Editor: *The numbers are staggering .... 16.7 million refugees worldwide .... a further 33.3 million people are “internally displaced” within their own war-torn countries .... and a good number of these people are in North Africa and the Middle East. Most of these refugees have their eyes on Europe, but Europe has its own problems, and are ... more »

US Social Surveillance Abuse Puts Civil Liberties in Jeopardy. *January 4, 2015* (Vladimir Platov -NEO) - According to various publications in the American and foreign media, the United States has created a global system of cyber espionage that allows the interception and processing of personal data around the globe in violation of fundamental human rights. Tapped phones, intercepted short messages, supervised discussions in social networks and stolen emails – this is the ugly reality we are living in. The NSA and other units of the United States Intelligence Community are more tha... more »

[image: rant-jpeg-b] Yes, Sunday again.. Another year and it does look like 2015 will be a make or break year in this fight against the criminals out to ruin our world... Right now in central Canada it is around -35C with temperatures plunging overnight to -40C with windchills around the -50C mark... It is near record cold here, and across most of Canada and in fact most of the Northern Hemisphere, and yet we do find all of the liars in the Jew spew media and their compliant shills harping again that we must do something to halt "Global Warming".... I am so shocked and I say to th... more »

Taking time off from blogging, I picked up this shot of the moon, which is nice, but its brightness is drowning out the Quadrantid meteor shower, which is peaking tonight... _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

*BBC:* *Boko Haram 'seizes army base' in Nigeria town of Baga* *WNU Editor:* This is a breaking news story .... but if true it will be a major defeat for the Nigerian army. This is also a major strategic loss for the Nigerian government/army .... the fall of this military base would now mean that Boko Haram has complete control of this part of Nigeria.

*Roundup 'Weedkiller' Feeds Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Study Finds* *by Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmedinfo.comThe nightmarish toxicological profile of Roundup herbicide (glyphosate) continues to emerge within the peer-reviewed research, this time revealing its role in supporting the growth of a pathogenic bacteria of great medical significance.A concerning new study published in the Brazilian Journal of Microbiology titled, "Influence of glyphosate in planktonic and biofilm growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa," indicates that the world's most widely used herbicide Roundup (g... more »

*FOX News/AP:** Pakistan strikes kill 31 militants, drone kills 7* *WNU Editor:* After the Pakistan school massacre .... the Pak Army had to respond. I expect this fight to escalate when winter in Pakistan's mountains are over. I also expect more U.S. drone strikes. *More News On The War Against the Taliban In Pakistan* Pakistan Taliban: US drone 'kills militants' in tribal region -- BBC Drone strike kills six suspected militants northwest Pakistan -- Reuters U.S. Drone Strike Said to Kill Militants in Pakistan -- NYT US drone 'kills militants' in Pakistan -- DW First 2015 US Drone St... more »

Thanks to the exposure of his neo-Nazi group's relationship with Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), David Duke is enjoying a moment of national quasi-relevance again-- long after most people thought the expatriate Austrian resident would never be heard from again. Duke joined the KKK when he was 17 and formed his first neo-Nazi group, the White Youth Alliance, when he was a college student in Baton Rouge in 1970. He gained notoriety by parading around the LSU campus in a Nazi uniform. His first run for political office was in 1975 in Baton Rouge when he ran for the state Senate a... more »

*ABC News*: *Post-ABC poll: Support for Afghanistan war rises as combat mission ends* *Update:* At the End of Afghanistan War, Most Doubt its Value (ABC News) *My Comment*:What probably has helped in the rise of the positive numbers is that the main stream media has basically ignored the story .... so the constant drumbeat of negative news has not come into play. As to what is my take on the entire campaign .... was the Afghan war worth it? In the beginning it was definitely necessary, but after routing the Taliban the priority among the U.S. and its coalition partners was that th... more »

[image: gmo_soy_rats_chart] New Study Finds GMO Soy Toxic to Kidneys, Liver, and Reproduction by Christina Sarich Natural Society, 2 January 2015 *In North America, approximately 75 to 89% of the soy beans grown are genetically modified (GM). One may not realize it, but this is concerning news – especially because recent research found that GM soy is toxic to the kidneys, liver, and more.* There isn’t just one smoking gun anymore pointing at GMO toxicology. There is now an entire arsenal of scientific research proving that genetically modified organisms adversely affect the bod... more »

Tweets..... *Rudaw English* ‏@RudawEnglish 2m2 minutes ago #*ISIS* cracks down on five confirmed cases of #*Ebola* among fighters: official http://fb.me/1UwpklEku BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Islamic State (ISIS) incinerated the corpses of five militants who were suspected of contracting Ebola, an Iraqi health official indicated. Faisal Ghazi, member of the Health Committee in Iraq’s council of ministries, said the five were incinerated in Mosul, the ISIS stronghold in Iraq. “The Islamic State organization incinerated five militants infected with Ebola to prevent further spread of th... more »

Celebrities have always influenced what people read, listened to and watched and we have many book examples such as Oprah in the US and to a lesser extent Richard and Judy in the UK. Now Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has stated his intent to not only read a book every two weeks, but to invite everyone to share the experience with him on Facebook. He has already launched a dedicated Facebook page called ‘*A year of books*’ and within the first 24 hours it has been liked by over 62,000 people. The billionaire is known for his New Year's Resolutions and determination to ... more »

*Written by Robin Mathews* *Unrestrained Police Brutality: Policy of the Canadian Conservative Government.* Tory tears for Victims Of Crime dry up quickly when the criminals are State Employees: police officers at all levels. [Remember the billion dollar G20] Police violence in Canada is virtually unrestrained against innocent people. Punishment for brutal assault by police officers on innocent and/or mentally damaged people is almost non-existent. In Ontario, Toni Farrell, was brutally attacked by a police officer, Sgt. Russell Watson, and permanently crippled. Recently interv... more »

*It often does but each reform should be a separate struggle* At the end of 1928, big Czechoslovak companies teamed up and created the Czechoslovak Normalization Society (the word "normalization" only acquired its terrible new meaning 40 years later), ČSN, which was telling members what shape nuts and bolts should have, among millions of analogous things. Since 1964, ČSN has been used to label individual "Czechoslovak State Norms". Just to be sure, we still use the acronym ČSN for the Czech technical norms, despite the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, because doing otherwise would vi... more »

*Exodus - Movement of de White People* *(Where's Yul Bryner when you really need him...?)* *"When the reports are that the film is being banned for being inaccurate to history, it makes me wonder how many other films they've banned for similar reasons, because "historical inaccuracy" is Hollywood's middle name."* Well, when everyone in the movie set in *AFRICA* is white, but where the Pharoah (as in 300) is clearly depicted as being oriental (meaning, *ARAB*), slaveholding (there is no history of chattel slavery in Africa) and effeminate (he's wearing make-up - check out the eye... more »

*The end result is an entire society of people that are just completely unable to think...* "Whenever you hear the word 'Discourse', watch out, because that's *them..."* *- Tarpley* *Whenever The Enemy overtly tags something as being 'Conspiracy Theory' in establishing the level and form of the upcoming discourse on any given topic - watch out. * *Because that's them.* *Especially when an initial examination of the thesis on it's merits shows it to be of high likelihood to be either partly or substantially accurate in it's core assumptions.* *For example:* *"Hollywood is ... more »

*Valerie (Lisa Kudrow) and her nemesis Paulie G (Lance Barber) on the set of Seeing Red, in The Comeback* *by Ken* Since I last wrote (briefly) about the resuscitated season of *The Comeback* last week, a couple of things have happened. First, I thought of a possible factor in my confessed reluctance to abandon the show, even though I haven't really enjoyed it, and second, we've gotten the extra-long finale. You recall the premise. The original *Comeback*, as created and written by Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, had Kudrow as TV actress Valerie Cherish making what now turns... more »

*Meme - *How we can shift our focus to remedy negative emotions that correspond to the chakras. The post Transformation One Chakra at a Time appeared first on Waking Times.

Many people dislike inflation or rising prices of goods and services, understandable. So deflation or declining prices of commodities is good for them? Who benefit, who lose, if deflation happens? In Europe, high prices of commodities and services, partly due to high taxes, discourage people from high spending. Cheap oil should encourage them to travel more, spend more, but it seems it did not do the trick, now the threat of deflation in the Euro area is getting higher. source: http://uk.businessinsider.com/europe-and-deflation-2014-10?r=US And here is the recent inflation data f... more »

*Anna Hunt - *Here is a list of some of the benefits of regularly including avocados in your diet. The post 11 Reason to Put More Avocado to Your Diet appeared first on Waking Times.

The first paragraph of Jeffrey Epstein's wikipedia page is awkward: "Jeffrey Edward Epstein (born January 20, 1953) is an American financier and sex offender. He worked at Bear Stearns early in his career and subsequently formed his own firm. But he's pals with Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew and his 50,000-square-foot 9-story mansion just off Fifth Avenue is supposedy the largest private residence in Manhattan. So who cares if he was convicted of soliciting an underage girl (14 years old) for prostitution in 2008? Besides, among the lawyers defending him were Alan Dershowitz and K... more »

Just got back home from trip to Georgia and Florida for the new year's peace protest and retreat. After the events I made a stop in Graham, Florida to visit the tree farm where my office was during my time on staff with the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. Old friends John & Martina Linnehan are living there now and keeping the organization going with their current focus on sustainable living. I also went to nearby Gainesville where I lived for 10 years before moving to Maine and had dinner with long-time peacenik friends Julie Netzer, Miriam Elliott, and Eve & Richard Mac... more »

Waiting on the resolution to a plumbing problem (thankfully small in the grand scheme of plumbing problems) and cleaning up the (again, small) mess left in its wake. I’ll be back next week. Linda

*"ISIS burns 1,800-year-old church in Mosul" Al Arabiya News, July 20, 2014.* *Title: The History of Christianity in Iraq/Mesopotamia: Yesterday and Today - Fr. Najeeb Michaeel, OP. Date Published: March 22, 2013. Source: College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Digital Commons.* "We've built many new churches, especially in the North, because most Christian populations since 2003 are leaving Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra, and everywhere in Iraq, and trying to go to have more peace and safety in the Kurdistan region, or going out of borders to Syria, Turkey, Europe, Americ... more »

*• GOP and FOX whip up the hate over a POW exchange• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 14: Iowa asylum escapee Rep. Steve King* *It's the Old Crackpot Switcheroo!* *Nebraska Crackpot Rep. Lee Terry was merely one of a flock of Crackpot Cuckoobirds who were all gung-ho for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. . . until it happened and The Word came down from Crackpot Central -- and all hell broke loose.* *Crackpot Utopia:* *A dream world as envisioned by republicans; a manifestation or expression of the deranged, warped alternate universe inhabited by republicans, at least in... more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, heads the Security Council in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec. 26, 2014. Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service/RIA Novosti *Vasily Kashin, analyst, Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Moscow/Defense News*: *Russia Prepares for Lengthy Confrontation With West, Economic Restructuring* *WNU Editor: *Everyone that I know in Russia is expecting hard and tough times as a result of Ukraine, western sanctions, and the fall in commodity prices like oil. As an outside looking in I find the entire situation very strange .... living in ... more »

The Global Conflicts to Watch in 2014. The Atlantic *Peter Dorrie, War Is Boring:* *These Are The Wars That Will Rage In Africa In 2015* *WNU Editor:* A good summary on the conflicts that are now raging in Africa. Libya, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon, Congo, the rise of Al Qaeda/Islamic State affiliated terror groups .... are on the top of my "to watch" list. *Update:* Wars to watch on the global scene .... *10 Wars to Watch in 2015* -- Jean-Marie Guehenno, Foreign Policy (free registration necessary to read the article).

NDTV (facebook) *Top Commentary/Analysis/Editorial:** Militant Islam’s 2014 march* -- Carol J. Williams, Stars and Stripes/Los Angeles Times *Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 3, 2015* New Year, New Strikes: Coalition Renews Efforts to Expel Islamic State with Fresh Force in Iraq and Syria -- Samuel Oakford, VICE News Iran deal would mean a less volatile world -- Julian Borger, Gulf News China: 2014 Year in Review -- Edited by Asif Farooq and Scott McKnight, The Diplomat Xinjiang: Has China's crackdown on 'terrorism' worked? -- Carrie Gracie, BBC China editor 'Th... more »

Hyperlipid wrote an interesting post a while back about the Inuit, and how a genetic mutation means that many of them are never in ketosis even eating a very low carb diet. Basically, the mutation ensures that low carb brain metabolism runs predominantly on glucose, not ketone bodies. Because similar mutations are common in other populations dependent on low carbohydrate seafood diets, it must be a valid alternative to ketone metabolism in these populations. But what really interested me is that not everyone has the mutation. Natural selection has kept the Inui... more »

Not Exactly ChummyThis analysis recently appeared in the US government propaganda mouthpiece, BloombergView. Greencrow has added a candid subtext in* RED.* http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-31/inside-obamas-secret-outreach-to-Russia By Josh Rogin *Subtext by Greencrow* President Barack Obama's administration has been working behind the scenes for months to forge a new working relationship with Russia, *Actually, Obama has been working for months to try and outsmart the Grand Chess master....with no success at all.* despite the fact that Russian President Vladimi... more »

Hows about Katie Hopkins? You either love her or hate ‘er, don’t you? I mean dontcha? I wouldn’t like to be on the wrong end of a tongue lashing from Katie, but you have to admire someone who’s made a successful and maybe lucrative career out of shit-stirring. Creative or what? Mind you, the Tweeting thing was witty. I don’t know about the ‘sweaty’ bit - what was that actually about - but the *“Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?"* had a bit of a sting in it, eh what? The Apprentice has a lot to answer for. Katie does take risks in pursuit of infamy. Her sp... more »

One of the best researchers out there that has come up with some truly dynamite articles and facts is of course Jim Stone, who writes the blog: Jim Stone Freelance, at www.jimstonefreelance.com.... Jim has been so spot on for the last while with his findings concerning so many topics, including the missing Malaysian flight MH370 flight that most definitely flew to Diego Garcia, and of course the Malaysian flight MH17 false flag that was most definitely the last flight of the missing MH370! It has been so hard to find many mistakes that Jim has ever made, but just like myself, he i... more »

*Video - *The former US Department of Education Senior Policy Advisor suggests that the our educational system is deliberately dumbing down America. The post The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America appeared first on Waking Times.

There was a short series of reports on Radio 4's *Broadcasting House* last year that I meant to blog about at the time, but (for some reason) didn't. There were three reports in the series. The first focused on the stories of desperate (im)migrants trying to get to Europe via the Spanish (Gibraltar-like) enclaves on the Moroccan coast. (There have been quite a few such reports on the BBC in the past couple of years - Paul Mason's pieces for *Newsnight* being the ones I remember most clearly). The second focused on the stories of (im)migrants trying to get to the UK via Calais, ... more »

1. Se cree que los tres Reyes Magos provenían de distintos continentes, África, Asia y Europa, aunque lo más probable es que su punto de origen fue Persia, hoy Irán. 2. Otra versión cuenta que los Reyes Magos representaban las religiones paganas de Asia, África y Europa, quienes acuden ante Jesús como reconocimiento del cristianismo. 3. Existen relatos que hablan de cuatro y hasta doce reyes que visitaron a Jesús, sin embargo, la versión más extendida determina tres por el número de regalos que presentaron en el pesebre: incienso por ser Dios; oro por ser Rey; y mirra por ser homb... more »