Some interesting points arose out of this November 24, 2013 interview on the Big Plantation with G. Edward Griffin. First, in clearing up a misconception about an alleged 100-year charter for the Federal Reserve, he claims there originally was one, when in reality, it was a 20-year charter. 16m – In clearing up misconception about […]
Micah Ali talks with a father at drop-off time outside McKinley Elementary's preschool classroomMicah Ali is an old friend of mine who I met through People For the American Way's Young Elected Officials Network. Blue America has endorsed him in an election next year for a seat in the California state Assembly. But right now he's still the head of the Compton School Board.
With Arbaeen over, bombers turned much of their attention to Christian Iraqis celebrating the Christmas holiday in Baghdad. At least 75 people were killed and 141 more were wounded in those and other attacks.
Some things to consider giving Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza on Dec 24:
You might have guessed by now I do not like wars and the people who start them. They always get others to do the fighting and the dying. This first article tells you what George Bush , Barack Obama and Tony Blair have done in your name.
This Is What Bush And Obama Did For Israel In Your Name
http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/this-is-what-bush-and-obama-did-for-israel-in-your-name/
Russian Information Agency Novosti
December 25, 2013
Russia, China to Ensure Security of Syrian Chemical Stockpile
MOSCOW: Russia and China are in charge of providing security for the Syrian government’s chemical arsenal as it is being taken out of the country, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday.
Polling indicates that Ted Cruz would be the easiest Republican for a Democratic presidential nominee to beat in 2016. That may be because he's the most extreme and radical right-winger the GOP has ever come close to nominating, or it might just be because the polls are measuring a lack of name recognition. But there is no lack of name recognition on the far right fringes.
The American media usually profit handsomely from "hyper-partisan" fighting – finding, and sometimes creating, politically conflict-laden stories that get more viewers, listeners, readers, and thus higher advertising revenues. After abetting this discordant political environment, the media then tell us any bi-partisan agreement to lessen such conflict is good, apparently no matter what’s in it. That’s […]
Like tyrants throughout history, Thaksin will use "elections" to lend himself legitimacy he otherwise doesn't have. December 25, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Elections alone do not make any given regime legitimate. Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, held regular elections - of course, Hussein was the only viable candidate running and easily was returned to power, time and time again (See BBC's "Saddam 'wins 100% of vote'").
You may have read today that Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing a formal pardon "on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Britain." This isn't the first time we've looked into Turning here at DWT. Several years ago, Blue America invited Alan Grayson to speak at the Brave New Films studio in Culver City.
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It has to be wondered whether the Prime Minister reflected on his 1989 “all expenses paid trip” to South Africa “funded by a firm that lobbied against the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime”- or the “Hang Nelson Mandela” badges that aspiring Conservative MPs wore at the time – some now actual MPs in his Party. The post Nelson Mandela’s Legacy: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair.
As citizens, the questions we face become more broad and cut to the very core of what it means to live in a democracy: What is the impact to businesses when Internet traffic and private networks are breached or they’re required to provide backdoors or hackable vulnerabilities in their products? What will become of our relationship to technology if no one trusts the platforms we use all day long? What is the impact on personal relationships when NSA employees are able to monitor loved ones’, co-workers’ or enemies’ Internet traffic?
The uprisings of the Arab Spring have so far produced anarchy in Libya, a civil war in Syria, greater autocracy in Bahrain and resumed dictatorial rule in Egypt.The post Hazards of Revolution appeared first on BSNEWS.
DC on BFP #23 | Shahid Buttar joins us to explore how the FBI, CIA, CBP, local state agencies and police departments have been spying domestically and laying the groundwork for the "panopticon" for decades - and ways to counter Big Brother through activism, community outreach, media, music, and art.
The Arbaeen holiday ended today. It marks the conclusion of a 40-day mourning period that commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, a grandchild of the Prophet Mohammed. His
Rather then every year, for six years running now, expressing the same wish : PeaceI will let a song express the sentiment. A song I hadn't heard for some time, until just the other day. Two very different crooners, yet, their singing together makes one very harmonious songHope you enjoy it as much as I do?! A bit of background: An odd story of holiday harmonyCheers!
Mac Thornberry and Buck McKeon, shameless tools of the Military Industrial ComplexLast Friday, we looked at some of the speculation on which Members of the House are most likely to announce retirements over the next few months.
Part Three: Helpful Metaphors and Methods
What are the results of knowing and using the skills of the Trivium Method of critical thinking in conjunction with the skills of using Voluntary Communication, also known as Non-Violent Communication (or NVC)?
This show continues a series about Merging the Trivium Method with Voluntary Communication, and developing strategies for better interpersonal connections. Darrell Becker will be co-hosting all episodes in this series.
Discussed Today: (Darrell's Notes)
Part Three: Helpful Metaphors and Methods
What are the results of knowing and using the skills of the Trivium Method of critical thinking in conjunction with the skills of using Voluntary Communication, also known as Non-Violent Communication (or NVC)?
This show continues a series about Merging the Trivium Method with Voluntary Communication, and developing strategies for better interpersonal connections. Darrell Becker will be co-hosting all episodes in this series.
Discussed Today: (Darrell's Notes)
Part Three: Helpful Metaphors and MethodsWhat are the results of knowing and using the skills of the Trivium Method of critical thinking in conjunction with the skills of using Voluntary Communication, also known as Non-Violent Communication (or NVC)?This show continues a series about Merging the Trivium Method with Voluntary Communication, and developing strategies for better interpersonal connections. Darrell Becker will be co-hosting all episodes in this series.Discussed Today: (Darrell's Notes)Relevant Metaphors:1.
Take a look at those poll results above that PPP found when they surveyed CA-31 (the Inland Empire). The very extreme right Republican incumbent, multimillionaire Gary Miller, has one of the most dismal job approval ratings of any incumbent in any district in America-- 27%. If the election were held today-- with no campaigning at all-- he would lose to any Democrat 48-39%.
Rather than bringing pine logs to the poor, 21st-century energy policies do the exact opposite. More children now shiver in the cold.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Archil Sulakauri
From The Doves (1960)
Translated by I. Petrova and Ts. Topuridze
The raindrops rapped on the bottom of the pail.
by Judith Curry Best wishes to all for the holidays, and Merry Xmas!Filed under: Open thread
Gaza has been locked down at least since 2007 (and incrementally for decades), bombed and starved, its infrastructure decimated time and again, not allowed to re-build, its power plant bombed, its sewage and sanitation and water lines destroyed time and again, denied replacement parts for said destruction… and now, just as the rest of the world is again occupied with holidays, the Zionists are bombing Gaza anew.Gaza has no tanks, no attack helicopters, no warplanes, no warships, no nuclear arms (nor electricity). Israel does.
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The best thing that could happen for America in the 2016 presidential race would be for the GOP to give the far right extremists and crazed teabaggers exactly what they want to happen in the Republican Party primary: a win by Ted Cruz. Cruz is a smart, well-educated guy and he will be able to make a cogent and articulate case for right-wing extremism. When Romney lost to Obama last year, the true believers of the right fringe said it was because Romney wouldn't or couldn't make the case effectively.
Isn't it ironic? As zionist christians fall all over themselves to cater to followers of Judaism.A Christmas tree cannot be displayed in Israel: Israel's parliament bans Christmas tree displayIt seems Israelis are unconcerned with catering to Christians?
The NFL is the most watched show in the US, Christians are killed wholesale in Syria without a word from the mainstream media, and anti-depressants strike again. Encryption equals pedophile, and Raw milk could be …
See the phantoms filling the sky around you. They astound you, I can tell, these inhabitants of hell. Poor wretches whom the Hand of Heaven ignores. Beware, beware, beware, lest their dreadful fate be yours! ~ the ghost of Jacob Marley in Scrooge, 1970 For most of us our favorite passage in A Christmas Carol […]
A moment of sanity amidst the infinite stupidity of war. In the end, we have more in common with the furthest flung foreign common man than the closest corporate-fascists that presume dominion over our lives. If only the British & Germans realized it was the greed of their own banking houses that had them in the trenches and not some irreconcilable difference amongst themselves... Knowledge is power, ignorance literally can mean death.
Like Obama's, this was a tough year for Morrissey. When his band wasn't being food poisoned at gigs, he was in the hospital with serious health problems. He was forced to cancel so many concerts that he lost the ability to get tour insurance. On the other hand his book, Autobiography entered the British charts at #1 and sold more copies its first week than Keith Richards' did.
At least 51 people were killed and 44 more were wounded in fresh violence. Arbaeen pilgrims and journalists were among today’s victims. over a dozen gunmen were also killed. A suicide bomber blew up his car outside television studio in Tikrit, allowing four of his colleagues to get inside. There, two of them detonated their […]
TOR Radio #86 | Danny Benavides and Guillermo Jimenez discuss Narco Culture, present-day "drug war" Mexico and "civil war" Syria, the latest arrests associated with "Silk Road 2.0," developments in ongoing NSA shenanigans, independence in media, and the cost of being a "legitimate journalist."
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If you're a Blue America member, you already saw the letter we sent out from Eloise Reyes, the progressive running to win the bluest seat in America held by a Republican, CA-31, the Inland Empire (San Bernardino, Uplands, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Loma Linda, Colton). A typical DCCC misstep-- backing an empty suit who is too conservative for the district, Pete Aguilar-- cost the Democrats this D+5 district in 2012. Aguilar was beaten by two Republicans and because of him there was no Democrat on the general election ballot when Obama beat Romney 57-41%.
by Judith Curry My interview with Russ Roberts of EconTalk is now online. I rarely give recorded interviews (almost never live interviews), for the simple reason that I think I am a much more effective communicator in writing than as … Continue reading →
Sodomite Supremacists are spearheading the persecution and marginalization of ChristiansFrom: http://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/well-another-american-icon-irredeemably-tarnished/
Ht anonymous commenter!UPDATED BELOW Pertinent background: *Turkish PM Erdogan threatened/challenged by Fethullah Gulen? *Turkey & Ukraine afflicted with EU/ private banking/business parasitesAs usual I will highlight the interesting bits.
Christmas, for me, is a beautiful time of year. It’s not the pretty lights and the shiny decorations that make it beautiful, although they are quite pleasant to the senses. It’s not nature’s show of ice and snow that make it beautiful. Although such scenes make nice postcards to look at, dealing with them in real life is annoying to me and can actually be quite hazardous. It’s not the clear air and the twinkling stars in the night sky that make it beautiful, although I do enjoy contemplating them I prefer the longer warm days to the longer cold nights.
