Easily the dopiest challenge of Season 9 of Next Food Network Star was Episode 4's "Dinner and a Movie," in which three-person teams not only had to create a dinner suitable for a genre of movie -- romance, Western, and musical -- but do a trailer for it. Team Musical (Rodney the pie man, Chris, and Lovely) sang, God help us.
I have been watching the events unfold in Egypt over the last week, and I do not like what I am seeing... In fact, I do smell a rat.... There is absolutely no way in hell that the criminals in both the United States, and the criminal terrorist state of Israel would ever allow Egypt to slip from their grip....
At least 22 Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded, including a judge
My friend, Whitewraithe, was on Deanna Spingola's "Spingola Speaks" Internet radio show at www.republicbroadcasting.org, yesterday at 11am, CDT.....
I'm sure many people think of hospitals as places to go to be cured of sickness. I always think of hospitals as places to go to die. And not just to die because medicine doesn't cure much of anything but die because hospitals all filled with disease so that patients who go to them are at risk of catching something unrelated to whatever brought them there in the first place-- and dying. Does that sound crazy?
RT | July 6, 2013
“I was subjected to the sounds of a woman screaming, I was led to believe that my wife was being tortured,” Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee has shared with RT.
The former inmate has shed light on some of the torturous detention techniques at Guantanamo. They include, being cavity searched and given directions on how to commit suicide.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio July 6, 2013 [download audio]
by NoahNo, this isn’t about The Republican Party’s continuing war on women, as recently exemplified in the neo-fascist states of Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina. It’s just something that recent events made me think about on this 4th of July weekend. It’s not about abortion rights per se and it’s not about the hate-filled Herculean pro-death, Republican efforts to stop uterine and breast cancer screening with sneaky late night anti-democratic state legislature maneuvers.
Tool of the ptb’s. Here comes the rebrand. The filthy hand prints of NATO and friends..banksters, corporations and other assorted evil doers are all over this move
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | July 5, 2013
California had its chance, but now Montana has become the first state in the U.S. to require that police obtain a search warrant before using a person’s cellphone records to track their whereabouts.
Time to grade the Democratic freshmen-- or at least to pick out the 10 best and the 10 worst. Which ones lived up to what Alan Grayson laid out in his little monologue above? And which served the interest of careerism and corporate special interests above the interests of their own constituents? Short version-- for people in a hurry-- here are two lists (alphabetized), the 10 best, followed b the 10 worst:
David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins us once again for our monthly conversation on economics, finance and politics. This month we cover the latest destabilization in Egypt, the search of the Bolivian president’s plane in Austria in the midst of the Snowden drama, Michael Hastings’ death, Mark Carney’s first moves as Bank of England governor, and the recent drop in gold prices.
Here’s a poster being held in Egypt’s Tahrir Square:
Source here.
James joins Scott Teeters of Far Out Radio for a wide-ranging conversation on matters personal, national and geopolitical. James recounts the story of how he ended up in Japan and the two discuss Fukushima and the Japanese nuclear situation. Then the conversation branches out into a discussion of the Snowden saga and the Hastings assassination.
WARNING: Strong Language
My third appearance on The Renegade Variety Hour. Here's our prior conversations:
1. 222 (Supplemental): Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour
2. Empathizing with “The Enemy” (Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour, Part 2)
WARNING: Strong LanguageMy third appearance on The Renegade Variety Hour. Here's our prior conversations:1. 222 (Supplemental): Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour2. Empathizing with “The Enemy” (Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour, Part 2)At Porcfest, I sat down with Carlos and Taryn to discuss the topics listed below.
WARNING: Strong Language
My third appearance on The Renegade Variety Hour. Here's our prior conversations:
1. 222 (Supplemental): Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour
2. Empathizing with “The Enemy” (Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour, Part 2)
By Sharmine Narwani | Al-Akhbar | 2013-07-06
Freedom and democracy. How I have come to loathe this phrase. Two-lofty-words-and-a-conjunction bandied around by handmaidens of Empire: verbal grenades that can gut entire nations. When I hear “freedom and democracy” I instinctively look for cover – just as “Allahu Akbar” yelled loudly enough can now make Arabs and Muslims hit the ground fast.
Michael Hastings was that rarest of breeds: a mainstream reporter who wasn’t afraid to rail against the system, kick back against the establishment, and bite the hand that feeds him. On the morning of June 18, 2013, he died in a fiery car crash. But now details are emerging that he was on the verge of breaking an important new story about the CIA, and believed he was being investigated by the FBI. Now even a former counter-terrorism czar is admitting Hastings’ car may have been cyber-hijacked.
RT | July 05, 2013
As Washington officials continue to grapple with the fallout from the NSA scandal, it has been revealed that the US Postal Service photographs the outside of every piece of mail it processes each year – around 160 billion pieces annually.
At the request of law enforcement agencies, postal workers take pictures of the letters and packages before they are delivered, the New York Times reported.
In a strongly sectarian statement and with chilling similarities to the initial stages of the Syria conflict, an Al-Qaeda-inspired group has been established in Egypt in opposition to protests and military action which brought about the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood regime.
A group calling itself ”Ansar Al-Sharia in the Land of Kinaanah (Egypt)” published a launch statement on an Al-Qaeda online forum, in which it condemned the Egyptian military’s actions, Christians and “herds of criminals and thugs”.
RT | July 5, 2013
It’s been a few hundred years since the Third Amendment was written to keep King George from quartering British troops in American homes, but a lawsuit just filed in Nevada suggests it’s as relevant as ever.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
July 4, 2013
NATO AND PARTNERS TO CONDUCT AIR-DEFENCE TRAINING OVER ICELAND
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Sweden will deploy an air-to-air refuelling aircraft to Iceland to support IFM14. Finland and Norway will deploy SAR helicopters alongside Iceland’s SAR force.
Norway will act as the sponsor nation for Finland and Sweden, and will provide a training director for IFM14.
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“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.
by Cecil BothwellThanks to support from readers of this blog, and Glen Greenwald's endorsement, I was able to wage a credible primary campaign against our former Blue Dog Rep.
The News | July 6, 2013
WASHINGTON: America’s missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.
The miss represented yet another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.
A military coup in Egypt yesterday resulted in the removal and imprisonment of the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, a closure of media outlets sympathetic to him, the house arrest of his advisors, and the suspension of the constitution. The military that overthrew Morsi is the main recipient of the $1.3 billion yearly US aid package [...]
Homero Francesch is the piano soloist in this performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Jeunesse Choir.by KenWe have a great musical fantasy coming up Sunday -- Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, so I thought tonight we would review the two wonderful fantasies we've already heard.THERE WAS, FOR ONE, LISZT'S HUNGARIAN FANTASIAWe first heard it in the August 2010 post "The piano-and-orchestra Liszt -- the
Suicide bombers struck in Baghdad and Samarra, killing dozens. Overall, at least 33 were killed and 74 were wounded across the country.
UN: Four million Syrians could starve as aid delivery lags
A volunteer shares out food to the people in the Bab al-Salam refugee camp for displaced Syrians near the border with Turkey on 2 July 2013. (Photo: AFP – JM Lopez)
Four million Syrians, a fifth of the population, are unable to produce or buy enough food to survive, the United Nations said on Friday.
Guardian caption: "Three business sectors -- restaurants, retail trade, and temporary help -- account for more than half of new jobs in the US.""This would be a bad situation in any case, but it is made worse by the fact that it is 100% preventable. We know how to make the economy grow more rapidly and generate jobs.
By Gary G. Kohls | Consortium News | July 4, 2013
In American politics and media, anyone who questions the concept of “American Exceptionalism” is banished to the margins of society. But this self-aggrandizing notion has always contained a large measure of self-deception, ignoring the suffering inflicted on other peoples and on U.S. soldiers, as Gary G. Kohls notes.
I haven’t forgot about Syria.Despite the situation in Egypt. Which looks to be taking a turn for the worse. Sigh. If you haven’t noticed. Muslim Brotherhood is protesting, Egyptian army and or other civilians are alleged to be killing them. And so it goes... "voting" part of the illusion machine The ingredients are mixed and heated.Everything is being done to inflame the situation.
By Matthew Harwood | ACLU | July 5, 2013
Next Tuesday, James Comey will have his first job interview for succeeding Robert Mueller as director of the FBI.
On Christmas Day 2009, Kurt Haskell and his wife Lori were on-board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam bound for Detroit, on which the so-called "Underwear Bomber", Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to set off an explosive or incendiary device. According to the official version of events, this was an Al-Qaeda attack against the United States of America. Joining us to dispute this narrative, is Kurt Haskell himself, who, as a witness to this event, explains why he believes he was in the presence of a staged, false-flag operation, organised by the U.S. itself.
On Christmas Day 2009, Kurt Haskell and his wife Lori were on-board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam bound for Detroit, on which the so-called "Underwear Bomber", Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to set off an explosive or incendiary device. According to the official version of events, this was an Al-Qaeda attack against the United States of America. Joining us to dispute this narrative, is Kurt Haskell himself, who, as a witness to this event, explains why he believes he was in the presence of a staged, false-flag operation, organised by the U.S. itself.
CA-45 is entirely within Orange County... and not the more liberal part on the coast. The district goes from the Anaheim Hills, North Tustin and Irvine down to Mission Viejo and Lake Forest. The eastern part of the district beyond Silverado and Trabaco Canyon is uninhabitable. Last year Campbell won reelection against a credible Democrat, Sukee Kang, 59-41%. Campbell spent $1,421,706 and Kang spent $754,627.
As promised, I want to present Part II of Whitewraithe's expose on the truth about Hollywood and the Entertainment industry...
I want to present the following article from my friend, Whitewraithe, who writes the blog: Pragmatic Witness II, at www.pragmaticwitnessii.wordpress.com, entitled: "How Hollywood Conquered A Superpower, Part I", that I know that all of my own readers will enjoy immensely...
According to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 2010 the Department of Homeland Security considered the possibility of arming their border drones with “expendables or non-lethal weapons.”
