Brian Schatz and his wife Linda, flanked by Hawaii's favorite son and his wife, MichelleThis weekend, the Honolulu Star Advertiser put out another one their absurd polls. This one shows Governor Neil Abercrombie and Senator Brian Schatz losing to conservatives.

DC on BFP #29 | Kevin Gosztola joins us this week to discuss the case of the NATO 3 and what it tells us about the current state of "free speech" in the United States. Also, the issue of suspicionless surveillance and how local police play a larger role in the "panopticon" than you might think.

Press TV – February 17, 2014

The US Central Intelligence Agency is seeking new drone bases in unnamed countries in Central Asia, fearing the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan would affect the targeted killings in neighboring Pakistan.

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 17, 2014 Can an effective European-wide political front be quickly improvised in opposition to the brutal austerity policies dictated since 2008 by the infamous Troika of the European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund? This is the question which will be answered between [...]

The Mann libel case has been attracting increasing commentary, including from people outside the climate community. Integral to Mann’s litigation are representations that he was “investigated” by 6-9 investigations, all of which supposedly gave him “exonerations” on wide-ranging counts, including “scientific misconduct”, “fraud”, “academic fraud”, “data falsification”, “statistical manipulation”, “manipulation of data” and even supposed findings that his work was “properly conducted an fairly presented”.

By Donald C. Morton | Watts Up With That? | February 17, 2014

Herzberg Program in Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada
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Tesla LIVES! When we will be allowed FREE electricity (as a human right)

Romney gave filmmaker Greg Whiteley and Netflix permission to release the docudrama, MITT, this year-- rather than in 2009-- because in 2009 he wanted to run for president again… and after the 2012 drubbing, he knew he wouldn't ever be running for anything again. As you can see in the discussion on Fox "News" above, Romney-die hards see the release of the film as the beginning of a third presidential campaign.

Excessive radiation levels detected at New Mexico waste site –’We’re in shutdown mode.’ – DOE spokesman

The US Empire, in its efforts to contain, and therefore dominate and control such a strategic and resource-rich region, is more than content to allow its reactionary and sectarian clients to incite the conflict necessary to subvert, fracture and divide the inevitable power a unified Middle East could claim: if only their progressive aspirations and unity were not repeatedly “set back” by Zionist occupation and manufactured antagonism.The post Israel and Saudi Arabia’s priorities in Syria appeared first on

ALL of the children DIED that day. Yeah – Good work on that.

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The state police hold a ceremony next week to honor more than 200 officers who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.
The state police will also acknowledge several trauma psychologists who worked with officers following the shooting at the school, when 20 first graders and six adults were killed.

The little known George P. Bush (from the powerful Bush Dynasty) is rising to political power in Texas on his ‘Hispanic’ credentials. His rising star is a Trojan Horse towards stopping a “Blue State” from emerging in Texas, swinging potentially Democratic voters back to the GOP, while priming the Southwest for the immigration reforms designed by his father Jeb Bush at the Council on Foreign Relations – in turn part of the larger plan to usher in a North American Union and seize vast land areas for the planned Trans-Texas Corridor which will fast-track NAFTA-on-steroids global trade.

In this edition of their bi-monthly talk on The Power Hour James and Joyce discuss the Chinese debt bubble, plummeting Bitcoin prices, banker deaths, the biggest fraud in the world and more. They also take your calls on a range of subjects from false flags to the petroyuan to weather manipulation.
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War propaganda! We do not forget that the “Nazis” were funded by Wall St.
North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities, UN investigators said on Monday.
The investigators told Kim in a letter they were advising the United Nations to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC), to make sure any culprits “including possibly yourself” were held accountable.

 
By Brandon Martinez
In late September 2001, a couple of weeks after 9/11, the United States was struck with what the Bush regime dubbed a “second wave” of terrorism. Letters laced with deadly anthrax spores arrived in the mailboxes of prominent media figures and two American senators. Five people were killed and 17 others were infected.

The recent media coverage of severe floods in the UK demonstrates this assimilation and herd mentality of corporate media professionals about as well as any other topic today. No matter how extreme the weather, and how awful the hardships endured by ordinary people in the floods, the culpability of corporate-driven industrial 'civilisation', its inherent ecological unsustainability, and the urgent need for radical changes, must not be addressed in any meaningful way.

Al-Akhbar | February 17, 2014

Iran’s top decision-maker Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that while he is not against a resumption of nuclear negotiations with the world’s major powers, the talks will “lead nowhere”.
“Some of the officials of the previous government as well as the officials of this government think the problem will be resolved if they negotiate the nuclear issue,” Khamenei said in remarks published on his website Khamenei.ir.

At noon today (Pacific Time, so 3pm on the East Coast), Blue America will randomly select 4 "winners" of our Joni Mitchell drawing. It's been a fun little "contest" and we managed to raise around $11,000 for Congress' most essential Member, Alan Grayson, and another $8,000 for California congressional candidate with a similar progressive perspective, Lee Rogers.

Press TV – February 17, 2014

A report says that the flood-stricken areas in the southern coasts of Britain have been left without planned defenses due to the UK government’s austerity cuts.
The report, published by the Guardian on Sunday, said that the flood-affected areas, including Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have not received planned defense measures, which total many millions of pounds, due to the funding cuts.

Voice of Russia
February 16, 2014

Western color revolution architecture activated in Bosnia-Herzegovina – Stephan Karganovic
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Suspicions are being raised in Geneva, Syria and among certain UN aid agencies in Homs and elsewhere that those they are trying to save from starvation, were ‘set-up’ to fail as a result of power politics and influences emanating from Washington and Tel Aviv.The post How Not to Get Aid into Homs appeared first on BSNEWS.

Washington wants regime change in the Ukraine for one reason only; in the wider New Great Game in Eurasia context, that would be the rough equivalent of Texas defecting from the US and becoming a Russian ally. The post The new US-Russia Cold War appeared first on BSNEWS.

Civil Georgia
February 16, 2014
Alasania: Georgia Asked to Join EU Military Operation in Central African Republic
Tbilisi: The EU has asked Georgia to contribute to its military mission in the Central African Republic, Georgian Defense Minister, Irakli Alasania, said on Sunday.
“We are now at the stage of discussing this request; we will inform you when the decision is made,” he told journalists.

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Nikolai Gogol
From Taras Bulba (1834-1842)
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International Solidarity Movement | February 17, 2014

Hebron, Occupied Palestine – On Sunday, the 16th of February, Israeli soldiers and border police in Hebron fired tear gas and sound grenades at children on their way to school. The border police also chased the children, attempting to arrest them.

The most interesting thing about these confrontations is watching Brand’s skilful manoeuvring as he refuses to allow himself to be intellectually sidetracked or cornered. It’s like watching an Olympic athlete. He has to use every skill in his considerable emotional and intellectual armoury: humour, matiness, intelligence, quick-wittedness, compassion, muted anger.

Public opinion in Western Europe is wrong to regard the Ukrainian crisis as a showdown between Westerners and Russians. In reality, Washington’s goal is not to push the country into the arms of the European Union, but to deprive Russia of its historical partners. To do this, the United States is prepared to ignite a new civil war on the continentThe post After Yugoslavia, Ukraine? appeared first on BSNEWS.

Each member state of the coalition has its own interest in this [Syrian] war and believes it can be satisfied, even though these interests are sometimes contradictory.
But the most important issues are economic: huge reserves of natural gas have been discovered in the south-eastern Mediterranean. The center of this deposit is near Homs in Syria (more precisely, at Qara).The post An Interview with Thierry Meyssan appeared first on BSNEWS.

Even when the balance is paid on time every month, credit card use imposes a huge hidden cost on users—hidden because the cost is deducted from what the merchant receives, then passed on to you in the form of higher prices.The post Usurious Returns on Phantom Money: The Credit Card Gravy Train appeared first on BSNEWS.

364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome.
1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

Shawn P. Wilbur
In preparation for this week’s edition of The Well-Read Anarchist we talk to Shawn Wilbur, a bookbinder and independent scholar with a special interest in the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. In this in-depth conversation, we go beyond his famous dictum that “property is theft” to examine Proudhon’s life, the social and political context of his era, his contributions to anarchist thought, and the criticisms that are leveled against him.
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The media is our window on the world – but what if that window is dirtied and blurred? How can we really know what’s happening in, say, Venezuela, where an increasingly authoritarian government with Marxist inclinations is up against a rebellion by middle-and-working class folks – and the US government is further muddying the picture […]

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Imagine this: a president and his top officials as self-professed assassins – and proud of it, even attempting to gain political capital from it. It’s not that American presidents have never been associated with assassination attempts before. At a National Security Council meeting, Dwight D. Eisenhower personally ordered the CIA to […]

When I lived in Stroudsburg, it was part of PA-11 and the congressman was a crooked old Wall Street Democrat, Paul Kanjorski. Back then the PVI was D+5 and Bush only managed to win 43% against Gore in 2000 and 47% against Kerry 4 years later.

At least 58 people were killed in fresh violence, and 42 more were wounded. Clashes continued in Ramadi and Falluja. The third city under militant control, Suleiman Bek, also saw clashes. Also, Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would retire from politics just two months before national elections.

TweetThe US continues it's criminal game with Libya.

Joining us today is Nicholas Lucier, an Austin-based activist who recently engaged in a 14-day hunger strike to raise awareness of the forced medication of the water supply known as “water fluoridation” in Austin, Texas.

by KenI had it in mind to do yet another bitch-slap session on Food Network, this time focusing on Food Network Magazine, which somehow I didn't catch up with until the last couple of years. (Regular publication began in 2009.) I've had a strange experience with FNM.

TweetThe truth about Khalifa Haftar and his lame attempt at a coup has been updated by the Libyans inside Tripoli tonight.
The US spin machine leaked to their underground in Tripoli that Haftar had left Tripoli and was on his way to Saudi Arabia. They had hidden him away in Tripoli.
Tonight it is being reported by an eye witness that Haftar is being housed in a compound behind the US Embassy in Tripoli and that he is being protected by the US Embassy. He has an Apache Helicopter at his disposal.

Updated at bottom The info contained at the site below relates to, or can help fill in, so many blanks I couldn't even begin to address when I put up the post: Phillip Seymour Hoffman & the Military /Terror/Drug & Banking ComplexAs Capote You might wish to hang on to this site, book mark it, as a resource.

 
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The Atos Trio plays the beautiful third-movement Andante cantabile of Beethoven's Archduke Trio in Berlin's Joseph-Joachim-Saal, December 2011.by KenAs I mentioned in last night's preview, a piece dear to my heart popped into my head yesterday, and it was extremely welcome, because I think of it as, for want of a better way of putting it, a "good new" piece. I love it end to end, but I especially love that magisterial opening given to the piano.

Here is a summary I prepared of Fakeologist Radio Episode 87a with Simon Shack of September Clues. 8m – Reporter standing so close to WTC — says take 1, take 2 — when pans up to top floors, it’s edited in 12m – Reusing actors 14m – “King Kong man” 15m – Simon said it’s […]

Press TV – February 16, 2014

A Nepal-based human rights organization says over 400 Nepalese workers have lost their lives on World Cup stadium construction sites in Qatar.
The Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee (PNCC), which follows up on migrant workers deaths in Qatar, recently published lists of the dead using official sources in the Qatari capital, Doha.
The PNCC also warned that the death toll can reach 4,000 by 2022.

Part I: Palestinian Resistance in Context, Between Non-Violent and Armed Struggle

It is Sunday again, and time for my usual rant..First I must inform everyone flat out that I am indeed a Cass Sunstein shill and that I am now going to spend my time spewing out Jewish propaganda, lies, and false psychological garbage, just to fill people's heads with disinformation....

Pete Aguilar, another Steve Israel recruitLast cycle, Israel managed to do the seemingly impossible., losing a majority Latino D+5 district, CA-31 (the Inland Empire) in a spectacular debacle. President Obama won the new district 118,043 (57%) to 83,822 (41%) but on that same day-- thanks to Israel's bungling incompetence-- those 118,043 Obama voters had no Democrat to vote for on that same ballot-- just two unsavory right-wing Republican corporate whores, Gary Miller and Bob Dutton.

In the second round of Geneva II talks, the government agreed to a temporary ceasefire in Homs, and a lifting of the blockade, in order to allow citizens to flee if they wish, and to allow some aid and provisions to enter for those who remain. Immediately following this concession on the part of the government, the United States and its allies attempted to push a Chapter 7 resolution through the U.N. Security Council.