MediaFail: The Sony Hack, North Korea and Tales Swallowed Whole
Author Russ Baker will be on THE JACK BLOOD SHOW to discuss this, and the Boston Bombing Trial : This Friday January 9th, 2015
Author Russ Baker will be on THE JACK BLOOD SHOW to discuss this, and the Boston Bombing Trial : This Friday January 9th, 2015
Weekly News Update on the Americas | January 5, 2015 As of Dec. 11 authorities had closed the Playa Grande beach area in the western region of a national wildlife refuge on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques following the discovery of pieces of inactive munitions there. The US Environmental Protection Agency said the US […]
by Jason Ditz, January 05, 2015
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With the bitterly cold temperatures here in Central Canada (Gosh darn, that Global Warming) there has been a massive outbreak of seasonal Influenza.... Right now, the Jew spew media is constantly bombarding the sheeple with false claims that EVERYONE must go out and get their "flu shots" immediately to stop this "epidemic"....
She will fit right in at DHS.
The Department of Homeland Security continues to show that they continue to work with sexual deviants. On Monday of last week, a former South High School teacher in Colorado, Larisa Oringdulph, who engaged in sexting (texting about sex) with one of her students, was named South All-Hazards Regional Homeland Security Coordinator, a job that pays $48,000.
The Pueblo Chieftain reports:
MEMO | January 6, 2015 An Israel based rights organisation yesterday filed war crimes complaints against three Palestinian leaders before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper revealed. The Shurat HaDin Law Centre filed the complaints against Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rajoub, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, […]
“What’s a guy gotta do around here to lose a little credibility?” asked ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger in a 2012 piece about top Wall Street executives who created the financial meltdown but who remain top Wall Street executives, continue to sit on corporate and nonprofit boards, serve as regulators, and whose opinions are sought out by prominent op-ed pages and talk shows. Wall Street is not the only arena that one can be completely wrong and still retain powerful influence.
[Source: Perspectives in Defense Management, Winter 1972-1973 ] Originally posted by www.carrollquigley.net THE MYTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Carroll Quigley I COULD easily make this talk a self-praising, Fourth of July oration, vintage 1880. But that’s not what you want and that’s not what I am qualified to give you. I am going to give you an historical view of the […]
Former cop says she wasn’t surprised when she found out that her prior superior was just arrested for sexual assault, while on duty. By Cassandra Rules | The Free Thought Project | January 6, 2015 Dallas, TX– Officer David Kattner, a 26 year veteran of the Dallas Police Department was arrested in late December for sexually […]
Eureka!- found an article verifying that which seemed obvious. Just about two months back, I mentioned this goal of connecting alleged Kurdish (Sunni Muslim) enclaves into one territory. Clearly these are not Kurdish enclaves alone, because, other persons are resident in these areas. A point that has been mentioned here and is made clear again in the article below-From two months ago...
Joel Kotkin ends his essay for The Guardian on the rise of Wall Street under Obama with a plaintive call that many grassroots types on both sides of the partisan divide would recognize: "In caving in to Wall Street and its economic priorities, members of both parties have demonstrated where their primary loyalties lie.
Police State USA | January 5, 2015 The 300,000-member Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is demanding that the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama “act now” to expand the federal hate crimes statute and add police officers as a protected class. In a recent press release, the police union boasts that it has spent years […]
“What’s a guy gotta do around here to lose a little credibility?” asked ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger in a 2012 piece about top Wall Street executives who created the financial meltdown but who remain top Wall Street executives, continue to sit on corporate and nonprofit boards, serve as regulators, and whose opinions are sought out by prominent op-ed pages and talk shows. Wall Street is not the only arena that one can be completely wrong and still retain powerful influence.
UNIAN
January 6, 2015
Canada sends two ships to Odessa with equipment for Ukrainian military
Military winter clothing and other non-lethal assistance from the Government of Canada for Ukrainian military is to be delivered to Odessa on January 6, Ukrainian President and Defense Minister Advisor Yuriy Biriukov has said, according to Ukrainian news Web site Podrobnosti.
“What’s a guy gotta do around here to lose a little credibility?” asked ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger in a 2012 piece about top Wall Street executives who created the financial meltdown but who remain top Wall Street executives, continue to sit on corporate and nonprofit boards, serve as regulators, and whose opinions are sought out by prominent op-ed pages and talk shows. Wall Street is not the only arena that one can be completely wrong and still retain powerful influence.
Heading into the last quarter of his presidency, Barack Obama must decide whether he will let the neocons keep pulling his strings or finally break loose and pursue a realistic foreign policy seeking practical solutions to world problems, including the crisis with Russia over Ukraine.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Air Command
January 5, 2015
End of 2014 marks handover with NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission
Canadian CF-188 Hornet at Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania
And as for freedom of speech and expression, we need only look back to the most recent royal wedding to see how even these sacred 'shining British values' can be exposed as pure illusion
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From Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)
According to the New York Times, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, the commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, is trying to figure out why the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is such a dynamic force in Iraq and Syria, but has been flummoxed. The general’s band of graybeards […]
"What does it say about the richest country on earth that its citizens must depend upon raffles and spaghetti dinners to pay the medical bills-- a situation that exists in no other civilized country?
At least 52 people were killed and eight were wounded.
By Michael Hudson | CounterPunch | January 5, 2015 On the Senate’s last day in session in December, it approved the government’s $1.1 trillion budget for coming fiscal year. Few people realize how radical the new U.S. budget law was. Budget laws are supposed to decide simply what to fund and what to cut. A […]
This is a Washington Post map from November 5 of the partisan breakdown of state-legislature control following the 2014 election. [Click on it to enlarge.]by KenWhen I went to retrieve a washingtonpost.com piece that had sent chills through me over the weekend, I wasn't surprised to find that Greg Sargent had taken note of it too.
RT | January 5, 2015 A study published by a top US literary organization on Monday, found that an increasing number of writers in democratic countries are censoring themselves due to fears about government surveillance. The study entitled “Global chilling: The impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers” surveyed 772 writers in 50 countries and […]
One of the most bizarre conclusions of D.C. Judge Combs-Greene were her findings that it was actionable to “question [Mann’s] intellect and reasoning” and that calling his work “intellectually bogus” was “tantamount to an accusation of fraud”. These absurd findings are all the more remarkable because, as National Review pointed out in their written brief, Harry Edwards, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
In First Amendment showdown, defiant journalist James Risen, forced to take the witness stand, refuses to reveal a source....
--Germany’s Der Spiegel reveals details of Obama’s kill list and targeted killings in Afghanistan
• TV for Dummies: Sarah Palin launches her own channel• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 17: Arizona schools superintendent John Huppenthal (rhymes with Neanderthal)• The final Crazyspeak of the Year nominee -- and also the winner!Yes, it's Sarah Palin TeeVee!
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com returns for some listener Q&A on Stoicism and a few other subjects.Discussed/Answered:- Stoicism and home education - Generating interest in philosophy- Material simplicity - A Stoic approach to personal finances and minimizing debt burdens- De-FOOing, Freedomain Radio call-ins, family and psychotherapy- Stoicism in marriages and family relationships, producing more win-win situations- The Anarchist/Abolitionist Gender GapBumper Music:"Wind of Change" - Scorpions"Lessons" - RushLook Closer:Bill
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com returns for some listener Q&A on Stoicism and a few other subjects.
Discussed/Answered:
- Stoicism and home education
- Generating interest in philosophy
- Material simplicity
- A Stoic approach to personal finances and minimizing debt burdens
- De-FOOing, Freedomain Radio call-ins, family and psychotherapy
- Stoicism in marriages and family relationships, producing more win-win situations
- The Anarchist/Abolitionist Gender Gap
Bill Buppert of zerogov.com returns for some listener Q&A on Stoicism and a few other subjects.
Discussed/Answered:
- Stoicism and home education
- Generating interest in philosophy
- Material simplicity
- A Stoic approach to personal finances and minimizing debt burdens
- De-FOOing, Freedomain Radio call-ins, family and psychotherapy
- Stoicism in marriages and family relationships, producing more win-win situations
- The Anarchist/Abolitionist Gender Gap
National Radio Company of Ukraine
January 5, 2015
Poroshenko transfers military equipment to Ukrainian army
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has transferred more than 100 items of modernized military equipment, including armored vehicles, aircraft and weapon systems, to the country’s army.
Obama imposes new sanctions against North Korea in response to Sony hack [ing themselves] 2 Jan 2015 The US has [insanely and arbitrarily] imposed economic sanctions against several North Korean government agencies and senior officials in retaliation for the country’s alleged role in hacking Sony Pictures’ systems
That’s right. As usual “Progressive” politics are…. REGRESSIVE! If Pope Francis REALLY wanted to end poverty he could a) Liquidate the vast wealth of the Vatican and help people (WWJD?) – Denounce Crony Capitalism, END ALL REGRESSIVE TAXES, Lead by example…. He wont. The new face of the Catholic Church (The first Jesuit) is doing what he was intended to do… Restore the Con game post EVIL Faced, sequestered Darth Pope Ratzinger!!!! ~ Jack
So the ball is in your court, Europe: will it be a triple-dip (and soon thereafter quadruple: see Japan) recession as your Goldman-controlled central bank plunders ever more of what little is left of middle-class wealth with promises that this year - for real - is when it all turns around, or will Europe acknowledge it has had enough and shifts its strategic, and trade, focus from west (speaking of the TTIP, Germany's agriculture minister just said "We can't protect every sausage" referring to the TTIP) to east?
More than a year before President Obama nominated federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be attorney general, a former federal judge quietly called on Congress to investigate her U.S. attorney’s office for trampling on victims’ rights.
Zeman’s now publicly asserting that the overthrow of Yanukovych was a coup instead of having merely expressed the democratic intentions of most of the Maidan demonstrators, constitutes a sharp break away from U.S. President Barack Obama, who was behind that Ukrainian coup and who endorses its current leaders.
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1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
1463 – French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal – Born
1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1776 – Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 168. Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Stephan Kinsella on Samsung-Apple trial, Laissez-Faire Club (Aug. 27, 2012). Video below.
Laird Scranton is an independent software designer who became interested in Dogon mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 97. He has been a featured speaker at national conferences on ancient mysteries, including the Paradigm Symposium. He is the author of several books, including The Science of the Dogon and China’s Cosmological Prehistory.
by Judith Curry
There is growing interest in the scientific, operational and applications communities in developing forecasts that fill the gap between medium range weather forecasts (up to two weeks) and seasonal forecasts (3-6 months).
The trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, set to begin in mid-January, is shaping up as a major battle in the U.S. government’s siege against whistleblowing. With its use of the Espionage Act to intimidate and prosecute people for leaks in “national security” realms, the Obama administration is determined to keep hiding important facts that the public has a vital right to know.
Al-Akhbar | January 5, 2015 Turkey and the United States aim to finalize an agreement on equipping and training the so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels this month, a senior Turkish foreign ministry official said Monday. Meanwhile, Syria’s Turkey-based opposition, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), ruled out taking part in a Russian-led bid for new talks to […]
My article “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sept. 4, 2009) has been translated into Italian, by Adriano Gualandi, as “Contro la proprietà intellettuale: una breve guida.” So for my work has been translated into 14 languages. (Comments from the original Mises blog discussion, now deleted, are archived here.)