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I don't care what Alan Simpson said
Submitted by SEDER on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 4:08pm.
I don't mind Alan Simpson's foul mouth. I'm a grown up. I don't care that he refers to me and most Americans as the lesser people. Am I surprised a guy who was bequeathed a Senate seat from his father considers himself above those of us not gifted a Senator's pension? Hell no. Alan Simpson didn't just label everyone who paid into, collects and relies upon social security a "tit" sucker. He indicted Social Security, one of the most successful government programs this country has ever seen, one which has kept millions of retirees, orphans, disabled and widows out of poverty; as a big stupid, wasteful and abused pile of mothers milk. His disdain for Social Security is visceral- he hates social security more than my 5 year-old hates going to bed. And, just like my 5 year-old hates going to bed so much she can't even consider that she actually needs the sleep, Simpson hates social security so much he can't seem to consider whether it contributes to the deficit or not. There's definitely some sucking going on around here alright and it's coming from Chairman Alan Simpson, who hasn't been doing the job he was hired to do. Simpson's the Chairman of the debt commission - he's more than three quarters of the way through his work and he's clearly lost sight of his mandate. His commission has been charged with proposing "recommendations that meaningfully improve the long-run fiscal outlook, including changes to address the growth of entitlement spending...". How can you accurately judge Social Security's impact on long term fiscal outlook if you think anyone who participates in the program is a tit sucker who's never had "real work"- and if consider the entire program just a crutch for people like that? If you hate Social Security and its participants that much, how can you possibly accurately and objectively analyze Social Security's impact on anything- never mind offer a rational proposal on whether it should be changed or cut??? Social Security is self supporting, between its Treasury Bills, the interest they earn and payroll taxes, Social Security doesn't contribute a dime to the deficit at least until 2037- and even then only if we decide to make up the 20% benefit reductions by drawing from the Treasury's general fund. Social Security's benefits were deliberately prepaid by payroll tax increases under Reagan back in the '80s- it simply doesn't contribute to the deficit. You know what spending does actually contribute to the deficit? All of it! Every penny the Government spends, whether it's building bridges or paying Alan Simpson's generous Senate Pension adds to the deficit. Does that mean it should all be cut? Of course not, that's why Simpson's commission was set up - to objectively look at what unnecessarily adds to the deficit and what should be cut. Would you trust my findings, if, as the debt commission chairman, I showed up, announced that Alan Simpson is a tit sucker and then proposed we should deal with the debt by cutting his pension? I hope not. Which is exactly why Alan Simpson has done such a disservice, not just to those he insulted, but to the entire country. His term is nearly over and by failing to make an objective assessment of what we need to do if we want to cut the deficit, he has tainted the entire process and invalidated the commissions findings before they've even come out. Sucking Indeed! cross posted at HuffingtonPost |
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HuffingtonPost hmmm
I remember around the time you gave that wall that roundhouse kick it had a somewhat longer name. ;)
---Out
I'm not surprised someone who hates "tit suckers"...
...despises people. He hates life itself.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. Sigmund Freud
Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy
Former Cuban president says the 9/11 mastermind is in the pay of the CIA and cites WikiLeaks as his source
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
But the ageing Cuban revolutionary may have gone too far for all but the most ardent believer in the reach and competence of America's intelligence agency. He has claimed that Osama bin Laden is in the pay of the CIA and that President George Bush summoned up the al-Qaida leader whenever he needed to increase the fear quotient. The former Cuban president said he knows it because he has read WikiLeaks.
Castro told a visiting Lithuanian writer, who is known as a font of intriguing conspiracy theories about plots for world domination, that Bin Laden was working for the White House.
"Bush never lacked for Bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate," Castro said, according to the Communist party daily, Granma. "Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, Bin Laden would appear, threatening people with a story about what he was going to do."
He said that thousands of pages of American classified documents made public by WikiLeaks pointed to who the al-Qaida leader is really working for.
"Who showed that he [Bin Laden] is indeed a CIA agent was WikiLeaks. It proved it with documents," he said, but did not explain exactly how.
He made his comments during a meeting with Daniel Estulin, the author of three books about the secretive Bilderberg Club which includes men such as Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, leading European officials and business executives. Estulin says that the club is form of secret world government, manipulating economies and political systems.
Estulin offered his own views on Bin Laden: that the man seen in videos since 9/11 is not him at all but a "bad actor".
However the two men did find something to disagree on.
Estulin has long argued that the human race will need to find another planet to live on because of overcrowding....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/27/fidel-castro-osama-bin-laden...
glory ... re gloryoski on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:41pm.
I just saw this.
gloryoski on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:41pm.
"... I just wanted to give this uninteresting, fatuously complimentary blog a heads up as far as the dissertation you are writing on us over there."
I MAY NO LONGER BE AMUSED. PLEASE, correct me if I am wrong; however, are you implying the Seder's blog is negatively spoken about over there, on "that other Blog", especially by Mr. Crank Bait?
;):(
It was something that had not happened in a while...
with him, that I know of, but yeah, yesterday afternoon he and one other (only) were at it again.
I think it is over, again, for now. I haven't looked today and won't. (School.)
I need to leave it, especially if he doesn't bring it over here. I think we should leave it...
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No, wait, day before yesterday...
Come On Up
I did not know her, Leah.
Very nice.
Bye.
Ew ,,,
gski and ms_a made me l@@k at that other place...I don't know what gski is talking about but even trying to look for it caused me to feel sort of ill...That 'tributary' of a place is perfect where it is...away from me...
Central Banksters (aka Federal Reserve) out shopping perhaps?
Since I opine that Depressions are engineered and used by the OVERLORDS as shopping spree Consolidation Time, this piece really caught my eye as it is the first time I've seen any of these "failed" local banks give another side of the story.
Even if this proves nothing toward my suspicions, seeing 'the other side' that differs from the "Feds'" Banking System's claims is an anomaly in this Depression.--
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100826/OPINION/100829596/1307/opi...
GUEST OPINION: A message from Sonoma Valley Bank board
By SEAN CUTTING
[excerpt]
A week ago, Sonoma lost one of its leading community members — Sonoma Valley Bank. It was 22 years old and far too young for its untimely and unnecessary demise. It carried the reputation of being one of the most generous, helpful, caring and supportive institutions in town.
The employees, management and we, all of us on the board of directors, were in shock as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. arrived as receivers on Friday.
The executive team and the board had been working for eight months to raise the needed capital and were weeks away from consummating an agreement with an investor. We requested a delay from the Department of Financial Institutions which was in control, but it chose instead to move forward with closure.
The bank demonstrated that it was stable, with good liquidity. It had strong assets, showed a profit and was continuing to bolster needed capital ratios. The reserve was healthy and the problem loans (which echoed the real estate collapse in our country) were being addressed. By the end of the fourth quarter, we believe we would have satisfied all of the DFI requirements.
One of the leading attorneys in America's banking industry, who reviewed the consent order, our financials and the requests of the FDIC, stated: “Never in the history of banking, to my knowledge, has a bank with the capital ratios of Sonoma Valley Bank and with the trends of the bank been closed by its primary regulator.”
The executive team, our employees and the board of directors of Sonoma Valley Bank are devastated with the decision of closure. Our pain for the community, its shareholders and its customers is immeasurable. We all lost a great friend, a generous provider, a caring lender and a leader in both the banking world and Sonoma community.
[more at link]
Leah on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 9:33pm.
Kewl! She was good. One of my Sisters can sing better than that though ...My other Sister & her family is in TX. TX = grrr & eek! ;)
Alice on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 10:11pm.
I don't understand fully, but I am over here, but I can easily leave, also, for we ALL have work to do. Perhaps some are retired over there and have time to write "a bunch" of negative?
;)
Drive the Moneychangers out of The Temple
The Hardball Briefing On MSNBC
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First up - Don't curb your enthusiasm.
If the Republicans run away with the House and maybe even the Senate this fall, it will be because not enough Democrats come out to vote. How can Democrats close the enthusiasm gap and energize their base? Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) will tell us if the "fear factor" the Democrats' last, best hope.
The People United
"My purpose is to help eradicate from the world its mania for persecution, to help align all good men. Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile, Christian and non-Christian, in a battle to stamp out the ferocity, the barbarism and the hate of this bloody era. I want the good Jews with me, and I'm called a Jew baiter, an anti-Semite."
Father Coughlin
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcoughlinE.htm
Father Coughlin
In 1935 Coughlin started a campaign to restructure the Federal Reserve System and urged Roosevelt to take full government control over the nation's banking system and to establish a Central Bank. Coughlin also became involved in trade unions. He established the Automotive Industrial Workers Association (AIWA) in Detroit in direct competition with the more radical United Auto Workers. Coughlin also joined Huey Long in the campaign to persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support the paying of the Bonus Bill, a large sum of money owed to the American veterans of the First World War.
Glenn Beck Slanders Father Coughlin
Rita Zucca Fan Club
Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 11:09pm.
I don't understand fully, but I am over here...Perhaps some...have time to write "a bunch" of negative?
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Perhaps the information being supplied to you is not as pure as you assume? Perhaps the interpretation is inaccurate for one reason or another? Perhaps the messenger has a motive of which you are unaware?
Naw. Not to worry. You are probably being told everything you need to know in exactly the way you need to know it. Why wouldn't you be?
Tea Cheers Crank Bait.
I am watching "Blood Dolphin, about the horrid kills {i.e. murders} in Taiji, Japan. :( GRRR!
WTF blood & dolphin cries... that is what I am focused upon ATT.
Now Sea Shepherds are in the background, since I have seen before. :):(
;)
My "impure" motives
Oh, I'm pretty sure she's aware that I'm not the president of your fanclub.
How does that change what you wrote?
Put a link, if you really want to continue this. I imagine you will link to the beginning of your whole monograph on "Sam's experiment," to the relatively innocuous part, in hopes that busy or "sick-feeling" people will stop reading before they get to the part to which I refer?...
Kind of like waiting until one o'clock in the morning to post your insinuations when your name was showing up in the sidebar at 9 and 10 o'clock.
If I had time, I might talk about Sam's thread topper...
the pluses and minuses. The way the motives for the establishment of the commission are characterized there.
I know that Leah is aware of same. It was her link I followed to FDL's "Can the Catfood Comission" petition.
Thanks Leah. (Pardon me. There I go "back-slapping" again.)
Thank You, Glenn Beck!
CounterPunch Diary
Thank You, Glenn Beck!
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
This weekend brings us the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington back in 1963. It was when Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial. At least 250,000 people, 75-80 per cent black, rallied in the Mall. Each year the anniversary rolls around, you’ll hear plenty of high-flown strophes from prominent progressives, black and white, evoking Dr. King’s dream of racial justice and equality. Barack Obama’s speechwriters are, no doubt, polishing just such a commentary by their boss.
In terms of political energy, the event is as inert as Labor Day, itself just around the corner at the start of September.
But this year brings welcome relief from such pietism. The premier anniversary celebration of the March has been hijacked by the right-wing commentator, Glenn Beck. The prime speaker will be Sarah Palin, the Tea Party’s pinup girl and as unlikely as any woman in Alaska ever to have had a pinup of MLK on her dorm wall. To have the March on Washington honored by Beck and Palin is as shocking to liberal America as installing Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern slave states in the Civil War, next to Lincoln in the Memorial – an insertion which will no doubt be approved by Congress, and endorsed by Obama in the interests of bipartisanship, just as soon as the 14th Amendment is repealed.
Beck admits that when he scheduled a rally in Washington on August 28 to boost his new book, The Plan, and strut his stuff to the Tea Party masses, he had no idea it was the anniversary of the March. But he swiftly turned ignorance into opportunity. He’s now saying that’s he is working “to finish the job” that was at the heart of the 1963 March on Washington and King’s vision.
Beck claims the ideas of Dr. King have been corrupted and that he will resurrect the true King. As part of this mission, Beck is trying to separate Dr. King from social justice and limit King to advocacy of individual Christian salvation. According to Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, writing on this site last week, D.C., “Beck has even reached out to distant relatives of Dr. King, like Dr. King’s niece. After questioning her several times he gets her to say that King was not about social justice or government redistribution of the wealth.”
From the left comes the angry response that King was, indeed, committed to the need to redistribute wealth in order to advance a juster nation and was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968, in the course of a visit to black city workers on strike.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08272010.html
HOUSTON – A three-alarm
HOUSTON – A three-alarm fire swept through a northeast Houston warehouse early Friday wiping out more than 10,000 pieces of voting equipment, but officials said voters should have nothing to worry about when the elections begin in a few months.
The Harris County Election Technology Center, located on Canino at Downey, caught fire around 4:20 a.m., and the blaze quickly grew to three alarms.
The warehouse stored more than 10,000 pieces of equipment, including voting booths and eSlates, the computer-based machines used for collecting votes. Officials estimate the total damages at $30 million.
The fire comes just months before the general elections on November 2, which include the governor’s race. Early voting is scheduled to begin in October.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/27/896763/-BREAKING:-All-voting-mac...
http://www.khou.com/home/3-alarm-fire-destroys-Harris-County-Election-Se...
Obama taps Bloomberg for views
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, anxious to show he is still focused on the battered economy despite being on vacation, took time out of his golf game on Friday to chat about the growth situation with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg before they hit the course.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q52T20100827
NGOs warn of 'contaminated' whale meat
For the past weeks, anti-whaling activists have been drafting a letter aimed at persuading governments to act, in particular, trying to draw attention to the issue of consuming meat of smaller whales and dolphins, known as small cetaceans.
will knowing of the mercury in whale meat stop people from eating them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11113887
Malcolm X on the March on Washington
Malcolm X on the March on Washington, 1964
From The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. 278-281.
Not long ago, the black man in America was fed a dose of another form of the weakening, lulling and deluding effects of so-called "integration." It was that "Farce in Washington," I call it.
The idea of a mass of blacks marching on Washington was originally the brainchild of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' A. Philip Randolph. For twenty or more years the March on Washington idea had floated around among Negroes. And, spontaneously, suddenly now, that idea caught on.
Overalled rural Southern Negroes, small town Negroes, Northern ghetto Negroes, even thousands of previously Uncle Tom Negroes began talking "March!"
Nothing since Joe Louis had so coalesced the masses of Negroes. Groups of Negroes were talking of getting to Washington any way they could--in rickety old cars, on buses, hitch-hiking--walking, even, if they had to. They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington--to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns--demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action.
This was a national bitterness; militant, unorganized, and leaderless. Predominantly, it was young Negroes, defiant of whatever might be the consequences, sick and tired of the black man's neck under the white man's heel.
The white man had plenty of good reasons for nervous worry. The right spark--some unpredictable emotional chemistry--could set off a black uprising. The government knew that thousands of milling, angry blacks not only could completely disrupt Washington--but they could erupt in Washington.
The White House speedily invited in the major civil rights Negro "leaders." They were asked to stop the planned March. They truthfully said they hadn't begun it, they had no control over it--the idea was national, spontaneous, unorganized, and leaderless. In other words, it was a black powder keg.
Any student of how "integration" can weaken the black man's movement was about to observe a master lesson.
The White House, with a fanfare of international publicity, "approved," "endorsed," and "welcomed" a March on Washington. The big civil rights organizations right at this time had been publicly squabbling about donations. The New York Times had broken the story. The NAACP had charged that other agencies' demonstrations, highly publicized, had attracted a major part of the civil rights donations--while the NAACP got left holding the bag, supplying costly bail and legal talent for the other organizations' jailed demonstrators.
It was like a movie. The next scene was the "big six" civil rights Negro "leaders" meeting in New York City with the white head of a big philanthropic agency. They were told that their money--wrangling in public was damaging their image. And a reported $800,000 was donated to a United Civil Rights Leadership council that was quickly organized by the "big six."
Now, what had instantly achieved black unity? The white man's money. What string was attached to the money? Advice. Not only was there this donation, but another comparable sum was promised, for sometime later on, after the March. . . obviously if all went well.
The original "angry" March on Washington was now about to be entirely changed.
Massive international publicity projected the "big six" as March on Washington leaders. It was news to those angry grass-roots Negroes steadily adding steam to their March plans. They probably assumed that now those famous "leaders" were endorsing and joining them.
Invited next to join the March were four famous white public figures: one Catholic, one Jew, one Protestant, and one labor boss.
The massive publicity now gently hinted that the "big ten" would "supervise" the March on Washington's "mood," and its "direction."
The four white figures began nodding. The word spread fast among so-called "liberal" Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and laborites: it was "democratic" to join this black March. And suddenly, the previously March--nervous whites began announcing they were going.
It was as if electrical current shot through the ranks of bourgeois Negroes--the very so-called "middle class" and "upper class" who had earlier been deploring the March on Washington talk by grass-roots Negroes.
But white people, now, were going to march.
Why, some downtrodden, jobless, hungry Negroes might have gotten trampled. Those "integration"-mad Negroes practically ran over each other trying to find out where to sign up. The "angry blacks" March suddenly had been made chic. Suddenly it had a Kentucky Derby image. For the status-seeker, it was a status symbol. "Were you there?" You can hear that right today.
It had become an outing, a picnic.
The morning of the March, any rickety carloads of angry, dusty, sweating small-town Negroes would have gotten lost among the chartered jet planes, railroad cars, and air-conditioned buses. What originally was planned to be an angry riptide, one English newspaper aptly described now as "the gentle flood."
Talk about "integrated"! It was like salt and pepper. And, by now, there wasn't a single logistics aspect uncontrolled.
The marchers had been instructed to bring no signs--signs were provided. They had been told to sing one song: "We Shall Overcome." They had been told how to arrive, when, where to arrive, where to assemble, when to start marching, the route to march. First aid stations were strategically located--even where to faint!
Yes, I was there. I observed that circus. Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing "We Shall Overcome. . .Suum Day. . ." while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the very people they were supposed to be angrily revolting against? Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and "I Have A Dream" speeches?
And the black masses in America were--and still are--having a nightmare.
France this is a priority?
UN committee has urged France to avoid collective deportations of Roma (Gypsies) to Romania.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also said it was concerned about "discriminatory" political speeches in France.
The French government said it was "scrupulously respecting European law" and helping deported Roma reintegrate.
France has recently sent hundreds of Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria and dismantled more than 100 illegal camps.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that 300 such camps are to be removed. The latest round of deportations took place on Thursday.
(more)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11113163
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FRENCH JAZZ MUSIC OWES A LOT TO THE GYPSIES
What good can come from Beck's March?
I am very sad that People will march with Beck . I can only hope that it backfires. Where are they going to get people of color to show up?
(silly man don't you know about stock photo's and video in the can waiting to aired on the Murdick stations and newspapers ?)
This Week on Ring of Fire
This Week on Ring of Fire Radio!
August 27th, 2010
This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern
This week on Ring of Fire Radio, Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair contributor and author of the best-selling book on Rupert Murdoch, “The Man Who Owns The News,” will join us to discuss the real origin of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy and to tell us why he believes Sarah Palin is already running for president.
We’ll also be talking with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation magazine, about how the Republican Party is doing everything in its power to purge the party of all moderate politicians who don’t follow in lock step with the Tea Party movement.
And author Deanna Zandt will be here to tell us how social networking websites can help progressives spread vital information and create relationships with people who share common interests.
The GOP's Midterm Strategy:
Weekend Edition
August 27-29, 2010
The GOP's Midterm Strategy:
Make Sure Obama Fails
By MIKE WHITNEY
On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the estimated impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a.--Obama's $787 billion fiscal stimulus) The report provides conclusive evidence that the stimulus did exactly what it was designed to do and helped to avert another Great Depression. Here's a summary:
It raised real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by between 1.7 per cent and 4.5 per cent;
Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.8 percentage points;
Increased the number of people employed by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million;
Increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 2.0 million to 4.8 million compared with what would have occurred otherwise.
Naturally, the Republican leadership is in a frenzy over the report and trying desperately to underplay its conclusions. That's why House minority leader John Boehner launched a counterattack earlier this week claiming that the stimulus "has gotten us nowhere" and that it was a sign of "government run amok."
Boehner's talking points are part of a larger political strategy to mislead the public about the effects of the stimulus while assuming the mantle of fiscal conservatives. Bear in mind, that George W. Bush nearly doubled the national debt--from $5.4 trillion to $10.5 trillion--during his tenure in office through his tax cuts and foreign wars. If GOP leaders were really "thrifty minded" conservatives as they pretend to be, they could have proved it during the time they controlled the White House and both Houses of congress. As it stands, their appeal for more belt tightening just looks like cynical ploy to drum up support for the midterms.
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney08272010.html
A. Philip Randolph
BBC's Mark Thompson takes aim at Murdoch empire
BBC director general Mark Thompson says Sky is becoming 'dominant force' in British TV –
Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, has launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB is too powerful and threatens to "dwarf" the BBC and its competitors.
Delivering the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Mediaguardian Edinburgh television festival, Thompson rounded on Sky's chairman, James Murdoch, who used the same speech last year to attack the corporation.
"A year ago, James Murdoch fretted aloud about the lamentable dominance of the BBC," he said. "He was able to do that only by leaving Sky out of the equation."
Thompson said Sky was "well on its way to being the most dominant force in broadcast media in this country".
He said that News Corp, in effect controlled by the Murdoch family, now enjoys unprecedented industry power in the UK. News Corp owns 39% of Sky and is in the process of buying the part of the broadcaster it does not already own.
"If News Corporation's proposal to acquire all of the remaining share in Sky goes through, Sky will not just be Britain's biggest broadcaster, but a full part of a company which is also dominant in national newspapers as well as [being] one of Britain's biggest publishers," Thompson said. That would be "a concentration of cross-media ownership that would not be allowed in the United States or Australia".
In a sideswipe at the Murdoch press he also criticised newspaper coverage of the BBC, claiming: "Some newspapers appear to print something hostile about the BBC every week … the scale and intensity of the current assaults does feel different."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/27/bbc-mark-thompson-murdoch-ma...
Catfood Commission Guts social security
Deficit Commission chair Alan Simpson says that Social Security is "a milk cow with 300 million tits."
Wrong: it's a vital lifeline for senior citizens. And if it's cut in any way, the elderly will be forced into poverty and eat cat food to survive.
Sign the petition to President Barack Obama to can the Catfood Commission before it guts Social Security:
The deficit commission is a stacked deck that will needlessly cut Social Security. Alan Simpson's vulgar assertion that the program is "a milk cow with 300 million tits" shows the true intent of the deficit commission: cutting Social Security at all costs.
Don't fire Alan Simpson. Can the whole Catfood Commission to save Social Security.
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/CanTheCatfoodCommission?source=em20...
The Nazification of the United States
Initially German courts resisted Hitler’s illegal acts. Hitler got around the courts by creating a parallel court system, like the Bush regime did with its military tribunals. It won’t be long before a decision of the US Supreme Court will not mean anything. Any decision that goes against the regime will simply be ignored.
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Death of the First Amendment
The Nazification of the United States
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce an important article, “Obama’s US Assassination Program.”
It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FlSA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying.
Nothing was done about it. “National security” placed the president and executive branch above the law of the land. Civil libertarians worried that the US government was freeing its power from the constraints of law, but no one else seemed to care.
Encouraged by its success in breaking the law, the executive branch early this year announced that the Obama regime has given itself the right to murder Americans abroad if such Americans are considered a “threat.” “Threat” was not defined and, thus, a death sentence would be issued by a subjective decision of an unaccountable official.
There was hardly a peep out of the public or the media. Americans and the media were content for the government to summarily execute traitors and turncoats, and who better to identify traitors and turncoats than the government with all its spy programs.
The problem with this sort of thing is that once it starts, it doesn’t stop. As Norris reports, citing Obama regime security officials, the next stage is to criminalize dissent and criticism of the government. The May 2010 National Security Strategy states: “We are now moving beyond traditional distinctions between homeland and national security. . . . This includes a determination to prevent terrorist attacks against the American people by fully coordinating the actions that we take abroad with the actions and precautions that we take at home.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08272010.html
The Real Reversion to Nazism
France this is a priority?
Submitted by taozen on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 9:51am.
UN committee has urged France to avoid collective deportations of Roma (Gypsies) to Romania.
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This sort of activity disturbs me way more than does Beck's Folly.
BBC
I was listening to a BBC story about people who choose a "transient lifestyle" and the current legal crackdown on them.. They were referred to as "Vagabonds and Gypsies".
The Welsh Gypsies
Clip from 1964 showing the life of Welsh gypsies as they lived their life then. By that time gipsies were starting to use modern caravans instead of their traditional multi coloured horse drawn wooden ones. This clip shows both ways of life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/eclips/pages/eng_7to14_his_modern_gipsy.shtml
Kendrick Meek for Senate
https://donate.kendrickmeek.com/pages/12/
WHERE ON TV R THE BLOODY "protests"!
Well at least I can drown my sorrow's that with sea'n TMNT. naw now Dragon Ball Z -- except does ANYONE SEE THAT there is now an extension of NAME that ENDS IN SOUNDING --- Dragon Ball Z-AI ...but sounds like Z-(K)AI IT SOUNDS TO ME AS SOMETHING ELSE. JUST SOUNDS TOO "FUCKING CLOSE! ANYONE JEWISH.......? Japanese Cartoons have been showing WHAT WE SHOULD BE ADHERING TO CODES 2 & 3 (Emergency warning signs) SIGNS ... grrr - I will tell on my other sites ALSO! TOON ZAI ("toons" say also)(as Bonzi (I don't know how 2 spell)
{I got a call thus added later}
*** *** and do not think me prejudice ...
{grrr if u do, eye-roll} Chinese & Japanese & ALL Nationalities are in Organizations I am In & have been in for many DECADES - even the radical ones!
{{{I just saw a county dude whilst i was looking 4 protests and I was trying to get into then on the song I HEARD "Frisco". NO ONE SHOULD EVER SAY "MY CITY" THAT WAY!
then I heard "blame it on Texas" --- U BETCHA I WILL.
GRRR }}}
Watch
golf today, instead.
Green triangle growers convention
A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage
1928 Presidential campaign slogan - Herbert Hoover
A chicken in every yard
and pot farms in every gagrage
2010 Green T Presidential campaign slogan GTP
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http://deoxy.org/greentri.htm
all profits are given to fight the neo nazi movement and it's evil off shoots.
ONE NATION IS ABOUT
ONE NATION
IS ABOUT REORDERING OUR NATION'S PRIORITIES TO INVEST IN OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE
— OUR PEOPLE.
http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/main.aspx
AU Bans FLU Vaccine
(NaturalNews) Although it's still summer in North America, it is of course winter in Australia, and the flu season is well under way there. As usual, Australian health authorities have been urging parents there to vaccinate their children against the flu, propagating the mythology that flu vaccines are both safe and effective. But this time around, many Australian parents found out the hard way that they were being lied to.
It didn't take long to realize the truth after their children start going into convulsions following the flu vaccine injections. Other children began vomiting or exhibiting dangerously high levels of fever. One child has gone into a coma and may never recover.
As reported in WA Today (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/f...)
"Perth mother of two Bea Flint said her 11-month-old boy Avery had a seizure after receiving the first dose of the two-dose flu vaccination on Saturday. Mrs Flint said that after the 9am vaccination she noticed Avery had a minor temperature about 2pm. At 7.45pm, Avery started whimpering and moaning. When Mrs Flint got to his cot the baby had vomited and was lying on his side having a seizure. 'He couldn't cry - his head was hanging down in the car seat and he couldn't move. I was petrified - it was one of the worst experiences of my life."
The story goes on to say, "The doctor who treated Avery told Mrs Flint her baby was the fifth child with similar symptoms admitted to the hospital that day."
In other words, this was no rare event. Vaccinated children suffering severe convulsions were piling up in hospital emergency rooms across the country.
The real kicker, though, is that children started having convulsions two weeks ago but Australian health authorities ignored them, insisting that the vaccine was safe and causing it to be injected in yet more babies. Two weeks later, with dozens more children experiencing convulsions (and who knows how many thousands actually being harmed in less obvious ways), Commonwealth chief health officer Professor Jim Bishop finally announced the vaccination ban.
Remember: Health authorities in Australia, UK, the United States and everywhere else have relentlessly insisted that flu vaccines are perfectly safe and can't possibly harm anyone. In the U.S., the FDA has given its approval to the very same flu vaccine that's harming children in Australia, and the CDC has insisted that all children in the USA -- regardless of age -- should now be injected with this very same flu vaccine.
So now we've got a vaccine that Australia has banned but the USA somehow says is safe enough to inject into a six-month-old infant. How many convulsing babies will it take in the U.S. before American parents realize the truth about flu vaccines?
more
http://www.naturalnews.com/029586_Australia_vaccines.html
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Shirley Sherrod Charade
Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 5:28am.
...I imagine you will link to the beginning of your whole monograph...before...the part to which I refer?...
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You're right. I would. I would provide the entire context to expose Breitbart-like cherry-picking. You are selling a product. I am not. I have been relating my observations since May or June of 2004 because the subject interests me and because I enjoy learning the thoughts that other people have on the same subject.
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Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 5:28am.
...Kind of like waiting until one o'clock in the morning to post your insinuations when your name was showing up in the sidebar at 9 and 10 o'clock.
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You got yourself some rock solid proof of something-or-other there. Too bad for me that there is no easy way to hide my presence by, say, logging out. Oh, well. Lucky for me I have no reason to hide.
US tells consulate staff to send children home from Mexico area
Is there an announcement warning tourists too?
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q5ZR20100827
[excerpt]
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. government told staff at its consulate in Monterrey to send their children out of the northern Mexican city where drug violence has been escalating, the consulate said on Friday.
The decision follows an apparent kidnap attempt outside an elite private school attended by children of U.S. consulate staff, amid rising drug violence in Mexico's business capital that has surged since the start of this year.
[more at link]
8/28/63
Krugman: "Fire Alan Simpson!"
Instead, the Obama Administration is cowed by the right wing!
Yes, the Obama Administration audaciously accepted the apology of Simpson!
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Fire Alan Simpson
I always thought that the deficit commission was a bad idea; it has only looked worse over time, as the buzz is that Democrats are caving in to Republicans, leaning ever further toward an all-cuts, no taxes solution, including a sharp rise in the retirement age.
I’ve also had my eye on Alan Simpson, the supposedly grown-up Republican co-chair, who has been talking nonsense about Social Security from the get-go.
At this point, though, Obama is on the spot: he has to fire Simpson, or turn the whole thing into a combination of farce and tragedy — the farce being the nature of the co-chair, the tragedy being that Democrats are so afraid of Republicans that nothing, absolutely nothing, will get them sanctioned.
When you have a commission dedicated to the common good, and the co-chair dismisses Social Security as a “milk cow with 310 million tits,” you either have to get rid of him or admit that you’re completely, um, cowed by the right wing, that IOKIYAR rules completely.
And no, an apology won’t suffice. Simpson was completely in character here; it was perfectly consistent with everything else he’s said, and with his previous behavior. He has to go.
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Link:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/fire-alan-simpson/
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UPDATE: The White House "accepts" Simpson's apology.
But at the White House, Jennifer Psaki, the deputy communications director, said,
“Alan Simpson has apologized and while we regret and do not condone his comments, we accept his apology and he will continue to serve.”
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Links:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/simpson-apologizes-to-crit...
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/08/alan-simpson-apologizes.h...
What it means to lose one's place in the economic scheme of
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/this-economy-is-ripping-the-...
[excerpt]
This Economy Is Ripping The Dignity Of Millions Of Unemployed Americans To Shreds
If you can still put a roof over your head and food on the table for your family, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. There are millions of Americans out there right now that are really, really suffering. The cold, hard reality of it is that there aren't even close to enough jobs out there for everyone right now. It is almost as if we are all caught in a really bizarre game of musical chairs where the losers get stripped of their tickets to the middle class. What this horrible economy is doing to the dignity of millions of middle class Americans is incredibly saddening. There are a lot of very highly educated and very hard working Americans who cannot seem to get jobs no matter what they do and now find themselves doing whatever they can just to survive. It can be really hard to keep your dignity when you played by all the rules and you worked as hard as you could all your life and now you find yourself a half step away from being homeless. Those of us who are still doing okay should never look down on those who are struggling in this economy, because the truth is that any of us could be next.
If you really want to read some horror stories about what long-term unemployment is doing to some people in America, you should go spend an hour or two over at Unemployed-Friends some time. It is a great forum with a lot of great resources for the unemployed, but it also contains dozens and dozens and dozens of heartbreaking stories from middle class Americans who have had their lives shattered by this economic downturn.
The following is a typical story on Unemployed-Friends. It is from a 48 year old Air Force veteran who has lost everything and is now sleeping in his vehicle. It turns out that Scott48's job was shipped off to India and now he has been out of work for over two years....
[more at link]
Election candidates file suit
Ten Tennesse election candidates have filed suit for election improprieties--
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8016
Neocon dream come true: Squashing union activity in Iraq
http://www.truth-out.org/is-us-pulling-plug-iraqi-workers62632
If Not Now, When?
Grace Lee Boggs
Excerpts from If Not Now, When?
Instead in every community and city we should be discussing how to make the “Radical Revolution of Values” not only against Racism but against Materialism and Militarism that Dr. King called for in his 1967 anti-Vietnam war speech.
King’s call for this “Radical Revolution” came only four years after his 1963 “I have a Dream” speech. But in those few years, youth in Watts, California and other cities had risen in Rebellion. In Chicago King and anti-racist marchers had experienced the raw ugliness of Northern racism. The genocidal war in Vietnam had exposed our country as the world’s worst purveyor of violence and on the wrong side of the world revolution.
That is why in 1967 King decided that the time had come to warn the American people that unless we make a Radical Revolution in Values, we face spiritual death.
In 2010, 42 years later, we are experiencing massive physical and spiritual death.
Why are we STILL marching and dreaming?
Why are we not making a “radical revolution in values”?
Why are we STILL obsessed with economic growth?
Why are we STILL allowing corporations to deprive us of jobs by replacing human beings on the line with robots and by exporting jobs overseas to make greater profits?
Why are we STILL accepting the dictatorship of technology and of corporations?
THE TIME HAS COME to
• slow down global warming by building sustainable local economies and by living more simply.
• reject the dictatorship of technology so that it is no longer normal and natural to replace human beings with robots.
• stop corporations from exporting jobs overseas.
• end factory-type schooling and start engaging schoolchildren in local community rebuilding.
LET’S START THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX!
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
http://boggsblog.org/2010/08/22/if-not-now-when/
star vox has got the goods
http://boggsblog.org/2010/08/22/if-not-now-when/
more please
MLK I have a Dream watch it again
http://www.bradblog.com/
did you know
On june 23rd of 1963 this Most important speech was rehersed at Aretha Frankin father' s CHurCH
I love palying MLK to young sensitive people and watch them get all moved and hopeful.
convenient fire
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8017
Floating around the: blogosphere
Bible pages make good rolling paper. Many is the time I enjoyed a big fat bible spliff. I never tried rolling a Qu'ran joint though.
So yeah I'm into burning Bibles but only one page at a time.
United We Fall - a new film that is a Must watch if
Learn about the NORTH AMERICAN UNION and the AMERO
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you want to know more about the proposed North American Union (Canada, US, Mexico unified in ONE borderless union) and the Amero, the common currency (so say good bye to the dollar). This plan is much further along as believed, and most citizens don't know anything about it.
Watch UNITED WE FALL on Youtube - directed by
Brian Law, produced by Dan Dicks and Bryan Law
This film is one of the best documentaries I have seen so far. Every piece of info is documentated on film or paper or comes right out of the mouth of the speakers. And the people agreed to be interviewed are the ones you would want to hear from: The Founder of the NAU: Robert Paster (Council of Foreign Relations, what else) and the Father of the Amero, Herbert Grubel, who applied the Euro data to the Amero and published a paper "The Case for the Amero," Freiser Institut.
Among many other imp. things, The film deals with the "Secret Societies," i.e. Bilderberg Group, Council of FR, Trilaterial Commission). Every "policy maker" whether elected or not, seems to belong to these groups. Most belong to all of them. They meet once a year in Secret while total Media Blackout exists (Media moguls are also members, of course). Without the alternative media who pushed them into the open we would still be in in the dark. Remember when Obama and HClinton attended the Bilderberg meeting in 2008 and the servant press thought they met in Clinton's house? Oh, the excitement ....
Anyone else noticed how the "Power people" usually act as if they don't have the slightest idea what the interviewer is talking about when asked about the Bilderberg Group? Whether its Brezinski, the Candian Pres. etc. ... they always act as if they are just coming together to enjoy a benign Kaffeeklatsch since they have the lovely same interests etc. ... and with a little joke the speakers always get the clueless audience on their side.
But in this film watch Robert Paster, the Father of the North American Union, react when the interviewer asks him about the global government. His face tells you everything. Because Clearly, the NAU is just the beginning, just as the EU is just the beginning in Europe. Next is the NWO. Paster just didn't expected that question.
This film is a Must See again.
Globalists follow the Hegelian Dialicetic. Out of order comes chaos (see W even mention these exact these words). That is if you can cause enough pain and wars and misery for the people, oneness emerges and you can offer the solution to the problems you created from the very beginning. Ex.: 9/11. and Aftermath - Patriot Act, etc.
Radical changes will be introduced - new threats will evolve (Iraq War etc.) - the population gets used to it and accepts more and more .... WE SAW HAPPEN IN FRONT OF OUR VERY EYES.
VIDEO here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2oXyJDd55A
Battle in Seattle - still streaming on Netflix
In 1999 the World Trade Organization met in Seattle and this film is based on the protest that made it impossible to take place -
Protesters who engaged in peaceful demonstration were successful in the end but had to suffer brutal POLICE violence, i.e. chemical and conventional weapons were used against them .... many were arrested.
Original film clips from the demonstrations can be seen in UNITED WE FALL, the film about the North American Union I discussed above. The filmmaker of Battle In Seattle did a great job.
Look at the outfit of the police alone. Absolutely horrifying. Do they care if people die? No.
Actors Ray Liotta, Martin Henderson, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron and more are doing a great job.
Don't miss Battle in Seattle.
Battle in Seattle - still streaming on Netflix
In 1999 the World Trade Organization met in Seattle and this film is based on the protest that made it impossible to take place -
Protesters who engaged in peaceful demonstration were successful in the end but had to suffer brutal POLICE violence, i.e. chemical and conventional weapons were used against them .... many were arrested.
Original film clips from the demonstrations can be seen in UNITED WE FALL, the film about the North American Union I discussed above. The filmmaker of Battle In Seattle did a great job.
Look at the outfit of the police alone. Absolutely horrifying. Do they care if people die? No.
Actors Ray Liotta, Martin Henderson, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron and more are doing a great job.
Don't miss Battle in Seattle.
taozen on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 7:38pm.
...but does anyone know why i no longer like Aretha?
:):(
Aretha wears alot of fur
she plays with codi rice
she out sold pink
some reason Why Mrs Antrope no longer like Aretha Franklin.
$ In Detroit around Christmas time people are known to wish you A Wreath of Frankins" and a prosperous New Year $
Another late-night Sederville BTV!
WARNING!!! If you use Firefox DO NOT UPDATE!
We thought updating Firefox browser was maybe a good idea, as some of the attendees to the recent DEFCON in Las Vegas attempted (successfully) to exploit security holes in all browsers. After ignoring FF's pop-ups to "UPDATE NOW!" for several weeks we decided to give it a try. WRONG!
Turns out FF now starts a "special" service called "plugin-container.exe" that runs automatically and cannot be stopped AND runs your CPU at nearly 100% all the time! If you let your CPU run at 100% for any extended period of time it will FRY ITSELF and your PC will be DOA in a matter of days. Nice, eh? AND there is no way of BACKING OUT these updates! Double nice, eh?
Well I pitched a bitch at the FF forum HERE FWIW and I am struggling making my PC stop using so much CPU. So if you get asked to "UPDATE" Firefox JUST SAY NO! (check the link for a "workaround")
3.6.7 seems stable but 3.6.8 wreaks havoc!
Nevertheless we managed to get this week's BRICK TEEVEE up for your pleasure and enjoyment DESPITE dumbass FF updates!
BRICK TEEVEE BACK TO SCHOOL!
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/5959
BRICK TEEVEE BACK TO SCHOOL! @ filthy-rich.blogspot.com
Be sure to click through to the links on ARNE DUNCAN.
I'm pretty sure Duncan had a hand in setting up all the Military Schools in Chicago, too. Da basturd.
What ho Sederistas!
U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq is Fiction
Glen Ford, Editor, Black Agenda Report
Wed, 08/25/2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford (my bold)
U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq is Fiction
Embedded corporate media rose to new heights of non-journalism as, on command, they conjured up an end to (America's) Iraq War based on nothing more than a change of nomenclature. Combat soldiers woke up one morning as "advise and assist" troops whose "bases" were magically transformed into "fortified compounds." Still, the U.S. empire has no intention of leaving Iraq - especially when there are so many available euphemisms for staying.
~snip~
It is a wonderment to watch the blind enthusiasm with which the corporate media embrace name changes as if they are actual facts. As the Washington Post announced the departure from Iraq of the 2nd Infantry Division's 4th Stryker Brigade, describing the unit as the "final U.S. combat brigade to be pulled out of the country," seven brigades just like the 4th brigade remain on Iraqi soil. There is no difference in armament, equipment, configuration and training between the 4th Stryker Brigade that exited for Kuwait, and the Stryker Brigades that remain behind - except, the name change. The in-country Stryker units are now called "Advise and Assist Brigades." The two National Guard infantry brigades left behind in Iraq have also undergone a nomenclatural transformation: they are no longer "combat" units, but "security" forces.
~snip~
It was perversely hilarious to observe the corporate media, last week, as they collectively celebrated an event that never happened. "Last combat soldiers leave Baghdad" read the Washington Post headline, with variations on the same fantasy theme in Newsweek, UPI, Reuters...virtually everywhere.
Read on......
Tea Cheers re taozen on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 12:47am.
I was just meaning the obvious which you got. ;):( {Fur}
;) {I didn't know about Pink. rats sniff :( }
...just watching Martial Arts. ;)
...didn't know about "wreath"
...Larry Fields won by breaking 11 "bats"...kewl
Now Poker, but Phil Helmud (sp} is missing thus *poof* the channel. {may check later, but this is my night for Anime{sp}
:)
BTW Star Vox on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 6:40pm ..
;)
Finland suspends H1N1 vaccines
Finland suspends H1N1 vaccines after children suffer narcolepsy from vaccinations
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Shortly after Australia banned flu vaccines in children due to an alarming increase in vomiting, fevers and seizures caused by the vaccines (http://www.naturalnews.com/029586_A...), Finland has now suspended H1N1 vaccines due to increased reports of narcolepsy in children and teens. Narcolepsy is a nervous system disorder characterized by extreme fatigue and daytime sleepiness. It indicates a serious malfunction of the brain and nervous system.
Finland is now reporting that narcolepsy is appearing in children immediately following vaccination with H1N1 vaccines. So far, six children are confirmed of suffering the neurological side effect and nine more are in the process of being confirmed, reports The Epoch Times (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/con...).
The Finland National Institute for Health (THL) said in a press release that the cause of the narcolepsy may be the vaccine, and they are investigating further.
Sweden's Medical Products Agency, meanwhile, launched a similar investigation on August 19 to try to determine the cause of post-vaccination narcolepsy also found in children there. The vaccines appear to be causing a pattern of neurological disorders affecting children and teens across the planet.
The harm caused by flu vaccines
H1N1 swine flu vaccines and seasonal flu vaccines have been linked to seizures and other neurological disorders, and they have resulted in some children and teens being paralyzed or even killed. At the same time, there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that seasonal flu vaccines are even safe or effective -- they've never been subjected to double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, which are considered the "gold standard" of scientific investigation.
There's no real evidence that seasonal flu vaccines work at all, in fact. Most of the people who get sick every winter, it turns out, are the very people who got vaccinated. That's because vaccines actually weaken the immune system and cause increased risk of future infections. A study published in the journal PLoS revealed that seasonal flu vaccination actually increases the risk of H1N1 swine flu infections ("Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus?" Viboud C, Simonsen L (2010) PLoS Med 7(4): e1000259).
Also see: http://www.naturalnews.com/028538_s...
Rather than protecting the public, seasonal flu vaccines and H1N1 swine flu vaccines actually leave them more vulnerable to future infections. That simple fact, combined with the increasing reports of neurological side effects being linked to vaccines, should raise serious questions about the reasoning behind any mass-vaccination program.
When it comes to vaccines, children seem to suffer more than adults. It is the children who are winding up in hospitals, convulsing with seizures or suffering narcolepsy. The saddest part of this is that these children could be very effectively protected from seasonal flu with vitamin D, but the medical industry isn't recommending vitamin D for children.
Vaccines remain the prescription for everyone; even as children around the world are suffering the consequences.
Additional sources for this story include:
The Epoch Times:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/con...
PrisonPlanet.com:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/finland...
Migrant killings
snipped
Buscaglia said Calderon had glossed over evidence that all of Mexico's major crime groups had grown stronger during his term, and that he has used military force against the cartels without taking other steps to deal with pervasive government corruption, which allowed the cartels to strengthen.
"The president, unfortunately, looks at all of this as a media war," Buscaglia said. The portrayal of Los Zetas as weakened "is a marketing story" to deal with the international black eye Mexico has suffered with the massacre, he said.
http://www.truth-out.org/whats-behind-mexican-migrant-killings-still-unc...
Ashkenazi Jews have higher heterozygosity than Europeans
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100826141331.htm
What's your reaction to Beck's manipulations
Was it good for him?
Did he get done what he set out to do?
was the reaction by the media appropriate?
did it strengthen or weaken The bagger/racist/white trash/ unity party?
was anyone as embarassed as I am to be American ?
Tea Cheers ... but it has gotten too sunny cuz
I still need to run to the store for more meow food "before I sleep..." bah humbug ... but soon...
re beck ... does one remember that it was the KOCH brothers
that covered the COST of "the buses" to get the tea "party-'rs" to Washington DC? ...just contemplating? ;)
Nosed Rain God Chac
Yucatán Peninsula, Campache, México.
lots of other pictures look around if the mystery of the mayans still interests you.
Chicanná Archaeological Ruins. Group D, Structure XX.
Shows The Prominently - Nosed Rain God Chac On The Corners Of The Temple.
http://www.delange.org/Chicanna/Chicanna.htm
or a Trotsky field trip
http://www.delange.org/Trotsky/Trotsky.htm
What's your reaction to Beck's manipulations
Submitted by taozen on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 10:12am.
Was it good for him?
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He is riling up Republican voters. Will he succeed in bringing back Republican majorities in congress? That's the new question.
Revolutionary Tours
The killer spent 20 years in prison and when released received The Order Of Lenin from the Soviet Union when he went back there to live. His name was Jaime Ramon Mercader del Rio. We learn later on after the fall of the Soviet Union that this agent was personally selected by the head of the KBG and that he had personally met with Joseph Stalin to receive his direction to kill Trosky.
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A chicken in every pot
and an ice pick in every
Trot.
Elections/(Republicans) Two from OEN
Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians...
by David Swanson
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Withdraw-the-Last-Combat-P-by-David-Swa...
(Wedgies...)
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Republicans Plan McCarthyite Prosecutions
by Brent Budowski
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Republicans-plan-McCarthyi-by-Brent-Bud...
("Fear Factor?")
Bye.
WTF!
One of Budowski's sponsors is this anti-union book: http://www.thedevilatmydoorstep.com/overview.html
Support Sam on HuffPo (then really bye)
He only has five comments so far. If you have time, go and comment there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-seder/i-dont-care-what-alan-sim_b_6975...
You could even post links to stuff with more info on the Commission also too.
3.6.8
-Another late-night Sederville BTV!
new
Submitted by FilthyRich on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 2:22am.
WARNING!!! If you use Firefox DO NOT UPDATE!-
I'm on that one...?!?
Did he get done what he set out to do?
Of course, he succeeded. He's building a movement, just like Hitler. He, and the right generally, is driving the politics of the country. Occasionally, the Dems, feebly respond, but even in that case, that are simply reacting to the latest manufactured "issue." 1070, the "mosque," the authenticity of Obama's Christianity or birth, and now this perverted rally, who's making "news?" Not us.
The magnitude of Obama's victory, gave the Dems a chance to actually curtail some of the power of the right by prosecuting the Bush Crime Family. The power of the right wasn't attacked, and the policies that have been served up for the American people are crap. We are at such a low point now, that a jingoistic, anti-union, anti-immigrant, racist, huckster like Beck, can present himself as the new MLK. In a country so near collapse, that lacks any organized opposition, Beck could become anything.
Specifically, we need to be alert for the creation of some type Beck sanctioned militia uniform. We'll be close to an outright coup, if he establishes a force of half-million, uniformed followers.
Oh, and the lowest point. There's always a Rebecca Rolfe:
Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951)is an American minister[3], conservative political activist, author and politician. She is a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A.D. William King, Sr. and his wife Naomi Barber King. She is the director of African-American Outreach at the Roman Catholic pro-life group Priests for Life.[4] She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C. think-tank......
For the 2000 Republican presidential primary, Alveda King endorsed Steve Forbes.[11]
Regarding Martin Luther King Jr. and family, Alveda King claimed that "Mrs. Coretta Scott King knew that her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was pro-life" regarding Martin Luther King Jr. winning the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.[12] In 1994, Alveda King wrote a letter condemning Coretta Scott King's support for abortion and gay rights.[6] According to Fox News, Alveda King has "long argued" that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.[13] University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King: "King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s."[6]
The Advocate magazine has quoted King speaking out against gay rights. At a 1997 rally in Sacramento protesting proposed state legislation to extend civil rights to gays and lesbians, King said: "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights. No one is enslaving homosexuals...or making them sit in the back of the bus."[14] In a 1998 speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "Homosexuality cannot be elevated to the civil rights issue. The civil rights movement was born from the Bible. God hates homosexuality."[15] King had been making public appearances throughout 1997 criticizing gay rights.[16]
King is a pro-life speaker and often speaks on college campuses about abortion issues.[17] She joined the pro-Life movement, crusading to offer women alternatives to abortion.[18] King is also noted for her opposition to same-sex marriage.[19] Angela D. Dillard classifies King as among "prominent black members of the Religious Right."[20] King is currently a board member of the organization Georgia Right to Life.[4]
On August 28, 2010, King spoke at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial.[21] Before the rally King explained to the Christian Science Monitor that speaking at the rally was a chance to engage in freedom of speech and to praise the man, Lincoln, that "led this fledgling nation out of slavery, and made my people free."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
Chemtrail Conspiracy: KC10 Spraying Death by Air
A pilot shots a chemical plane from his cockpit: the video shows an aircraft that spread chemtrails over Canada from the nozzles.
The footage is the irrefutable proof of a chemical and clandestine operation that a bold pilot offers to the public in order to demonstrate that chemtrails are real.
Watch the Video on YOUTube
Chemtrail Conspiracy: KC10 Spraying Death by Air
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=42
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I have only learned about Chemtrails a few months ago. Thanks to Nora :-)
But now I see that other people have discussed them on blogs and youtubes for years.
SO WHY DON'T WE FIGHT THIS DEATH FROM THE SKY?
btw. The film "Toxic Skies" is based on the Chemtrails.
If you don't know what Chemtrails look like, immediately after spraying and hours later, see all the Chemtrails Youtubes filmed all over the world.
The sky above our house is usually so blue, rarely cloudy, so when I looked up a couple weeks ago: Chemtrails in all their deadly fake phony cloudyness.
The plane usually sprays the poison in crosswise pattern to make it look like clouds.
Don't be deceived. They are not clouds.
The pilot in this video demonstrates that chemtrails are not another "conspiracy theory" but a fact. To kill us slowly. But surely.
Thanks to Finnish Dr. Rauni Kilde who explains in detail what chemtrails are all about, why they exist, what the chemical spray consists of ...all kinds of deadly poisons and then some incl. microchips.
See Dr. Rauni Kilde's interviews on Youtube. She discusses electrosmog, the danger of all vaccines, the swine flue hoax (and what that particular vaccine consists of), chemtrails, and most important MIND CONTROL. And so much more.
--btw.
The Useless Eater article led me to this website. Looks interesting but I haven't checked it out yet.
Of course, The power of the right wasn't attacked
Obama was selected to continue the policies of BushII. That is why. This Beck nonsense is just another diversion. Its old hat. Anyone who lived thru the 90s knows what I am talking about.
Repubs and Dems are a two-headed party monster. That is the fact everyone should be worried about. Left and Right hold each other up. I can't say that often enough.
Obama, As if he cared. I bet he doesn't even remember a thing what he promised during the election. The Democratic members of Congress are a total disgrace. But there is a reason for it: Self-protection. Listen to someone I used to know for the longest time: Al Franken. He made it into the Senate and is a total Loser. Just like the rest of them. My goodness, Obama lover Kucinich starts to look more and more like a Saint.
And Obama is doing his job well and FAST. And That is the task the elite handed him. It is all happening in the first year because the fear exists that the citizens may wake up. A lot of them have. But too many are still asleep. So sadly I don't believe that we will be saved. Americans have become way too passive in the last two or three decades. The Mind Control is working big time. People believe the government officials and when disaster happens, they beg for help from BIG LEADER. As I mentioned earlier, its the Hegelian Dialectic in force. People also, despite everything, continue to believe the servant press and repeat what they hear .... and overall they could care less.
Obama is outdoing Bush in just about everything. EVERYTHING. Of course, thats why he was selected. The elite knew that the liberals would give him cover. And they do. Every day in the mainstream servant press and on talk radio. Guess these people don't care that they lost every single right they ever had.
And talking about cover. Obama was selected to give the whole politics and Endgame of the Elite a new and shiny cover. He was selected because the elite could see that the voters, esp. the liberals, would fall for his bamboozling. Once that was established the Press, the mouthpiece of the government, was ordered to turn Obama into a popular candidate And it did work. They thought he was the best thing since slice bread.
re the magnitude of Obama's victory. Considering how he was supported by the servant press (and that incl. the rightwing press btw.) how could he not win the election. Hillary Clinton who won the big cities primaries (while Obama was handed the caucus system) could have easily won but SHE WAS NOT SELECTED. I bet when both attended Bilderberg that was already a fact.
Besides ....
the Election is not decided by the voters
but by the people who count the votes.
So in 2008, no matter what happened, Obama would have won the election.
Bridge, I thought it was just rethugs "padding" the vote...
:o
People like Beck can be/are dangerous
even if corporatist dems also use right-wing haters and schemers like him as bogeymen and/or distractions to keep their anti-corporatist critics from being too critical or from being heard if they are.
(I.e, both/and.)
Also, as gd implied, it is not "old hat" in that it is an escalation--a huge escalation--of what was going on in the 90s. Racism is there so much more openly. People like him are less marginal now.
It may be valuable for us to understand how the MLK March on Washington has already been de-historicized in some of the ways that Leah was posting about yesterday. Keeping in mind how it is perceived by most people is also important, however. And if Glenn Beck manages to divest the MLK March for these people even of the most idealized, non-controversial associations with racial equality, non-violence (poorly understood), etc--then that's a problem.
Alexander Cockburn has also always had a HUGE issue with MLK--all out of proportion with...well, anything really....It is one of the things that most repels me from him, although he is right about a lot.
BRAVO Makers of The Cove...
I saw most of The Cove, but it will be on at Midnight, again.
again, BRAVO Makers of The Cove... the last action has been so needed carrying a large computer screen... showing The Horrid Blood Kill.
no
that's not right either
what was here before
nevermind
/
The Gaffe
by C. K. Williams
1
If that someone who's me yet not me yet who judges me is always with me,
as he is, shouldn't he have been there when I said so long ago that thing
I said?
If he who rakes me with such not trivial shame for minor sins now were
there then,
shouldn't he have warned me he'd even now devastate me for my
unpardonable affront?
I'm a child then, yet already I've composed this conscience-beast, who
harries me:
is there anything else I can say with certainty about who I was, except that I,
that he,
could already draw from infinitesimal transgressions complex chords
of remorse,
and orchestrate ever-undiminishing retribution from the hapless rest
of myself?
2
The son of some friends of my parents has died, and my parents, paying
their call,
take me along, and I'm sent out with the dead boy's brother and some
others to play.
We're joking around, and words come to my mind, which to my
amazement are said.
How do you know when you can laugh when somebody dies, your brother dies?
is what's said, and the others go quiet, the backyard goes quiet,
everyone stares,
and I want to know now why that someone in me who's me yet not me let
me say it.
Shouldn't he have told me the contrition cycle would from then be ever
upon me,
it didn't matter that I'd really only wanted to know how grief ends,
and when?
3
I could hear the boy's mother sobbing inside, then stopping, sobbing
then stopping.
Was the end of her grief already there? Had her someone in her told her
it would end?
Was her someone in her kinder to her, not tearing at her, as mine did,
still does, me,
for guessing grief someday ends? Is that why her sobbing stopped
sometimes?
She didn't laugh, though, or I never heard her. How do you know when
you can laugh?
Why couldn't someone have been there in me not just to accuse me, but
to explain?
The kids were playing again, I was playing, I didn't hear anything more
from inside.
The way now sometimes what's in me is silent, too, and sometimes,
though never really, forgets.
Canto XII
Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Arise to birth with me, my brother.
Give me your hand out of the depths
sown by your sorrows.
You will not return from these stone fastnesses.
You will not emerge from subterranean time.
Your rasping voice will not come back,
nor your pierced eyes rise from their sockets.
Look at me from the depths of the earth,
tiller of fields, weaver, reticent shepherd,
groom of totemic guanacos,
mason high on your treacherous scaffolding,
iceman of Andean tears,
jeweler with crushed fingers,
farmer anxious among his seedlings,
potter wasted among his clays--
bring to the cup of this new life
your ancient buried sorrows.
Show me your blood and your furrow;
say to me: here I was scourged
because a gem was dull or because the earth
failed to give up in time its tithe of corn or stone.
Point out to me the rock on which you stumbled,
the wood they used to crucify your body.
Strike the old flints
to kindle ancient lamps, light up the whips
glued to your wounds throughout the centuries
and light the axes gleaming with your blood.
I come to speak for your dead mouths.
Throughout the earth
let dead lips congregate,
out of the depths spin this long night to me
as if I rode at anchor here with you.
And tell me everything, tell chain by chain,
and link by link, and step by step;
sharpen the knives you kept hidden away,
thrust them into my breast, into my hands,
like a torrent of sunbursts,
an Amazon of buried jaguars,
and leave me cry: hours, days and years,
blind ages, stellar centuries.
And give me silence, give me water, hope.
Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes.
Let bodies cling like magnets to my body.
Come quickly to my veins and to my mouth.
Speak through my speech, and through my blood.
--Pablo Neruda
music offering with robben ford
I met someone who's revealing Tracy Nelson to me, and upon investigating on the net came across this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vYPZjRGts&NR=1
sipping newly brewed "hot" cup of Tea - Cheers
;)
I like that jazzy song, but country music still eek ...
{yes, I know there are traces of Classical & Rock, but still Country, ick :}
teahee ;)
Honestly don't think it is gonna get any more "uniformy"
on an amateur level than official merch...
but the hat is brown. :{ (I think a brown shirt would be too much. He has to hide his least subtle shit behind the "crazy.")
http://glennbeck.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?pc=BXCH002
(Find out about this site host? Used to be pretty mainstream before downloads I believe...)
Does anybody know WTF "the bees know" means? (See tee shirt in miniature at bottom right.)
Musictoday (knew it sounded familiar)
used to be the name of a company run locally (out of the nearby small town of Crozet).
Here they are now called LiveNation, but when you use search terms "musictoday charlottesville" the first hit is LiveNation. That might not mean anything...
CeeCee? nora?
Oh holy fuckin' shit look at this shit...
http://getpresales.com/bill-oreilly-glenn-beck-livenation-presale-passwo...
This HAS to have been all over the local press already, which I don't look at nearly enough...
Right?
GGGtg
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MMM-hmmm. Nice gender balance with the hiring there too, guys (and I use the term _guys_ advisedly here).
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/musictoday
Way nice....
-...
And give me silence, give me water, hope.
Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes.
Let bodies cling like magnets to my body.
Come quickly to my veins and to my mouth.
Speak through my speech, and through my blood.
--Pablo Neruda-
*
I think I found 2 of my 4 half sisters on facebook....
We'll see if they write back....
Tea Cheers {just always work'n sniff }
;):(
JFI WILL CHINESE WORKERS CHALLENGE GLOBAL CAPITALISM?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...
.
Musictoday
Swallowed up by Live Nation 4 years ago. Live Nation, a spinoff of Clear Channel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation
Something of a monstrosity even by my standards.
As I suspected, the merch co. related to DMB.
http://www.allbusiness.com/services/legal-services/4464918-1.html
Thanks. Now I am glad I thought twice about that op.
DMB
Yeah, I was pretty sure about that, but I wasn't going to bring that up without being sure.
*sigh*
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Ms_A. Tanks. Nice series on China. "The End of the End of History." I like it.
Support for Islamic Center
Below is Common Cause's statement of support for an Islamic center to be built in lower Manhattan, near the site of Ground Zero. Dozens of political, civic and religious leaders have already signed (see the list at http://www.commoncause.org/IslamicCenter). If you wish to add your name to the statement, please complete the form at the bottom of this page.
http://www.commoncause.org/site/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b...
Done did it.
But I may have just made myself from NY by default. :}
I really don't mind either way if they build that
I don't go to churches...
That is one thing that is in my who cares..pick your battles...
and all that jazz list..things...
It ain't just about a "church" Alice...
or even just about freedom of religion...but you knew that. :)
(Did you watch the video where that African-American guy who had nothing to do with nothing got harassed at the anti-"mosque" rally last week?)
Anyhow...
out. :)
OK...one more thing...
if anybody comes across anything else by people who are reading over the leaked "Red Memo" to see what actually is and is not in there (citing page numbers, quoting, etc), I'd be really happy if you'd post links to that.
What is it about?
?
I'm so happy that Amy Goodman is finally taking
some time off...I hope she is relaxing and recharging..
What's it about? You mean the "mosque" thing or
the red memo? Either way I'll talk to you about it later if you haven't already gotten an answer.
I am just starting to feel better. Was sick all weekend. Must work.
Glad you're feeling better...
Yes the mosque...I don't know what red memo is without looking it up...But you don't have to get into it later...
BTW CUZ Ahhh me like ... ... I forgot, thus copied "CODE"
... reminds me of a mostly Irish & Mexican & Apache hybrid... & as "old school ways", didn't fully know until in late 40's & early 50's. :):(
kewl song...
{wow Cenk on Dylan Ratigan, kewl}
*poof*
SAM SEDER IS ON DYLAN RATIGAN'S {with Cenk}
KEWL
Sam You were Charming & "logical"...
I must ask you also, elsewhere.
Can't wait to see, Sam.
/
Banshee means in Irish = Bean Sidhe {a form} just means a
Woman Sidhe TeeHee TeaHee ;)
Meanwhile offa stray rethug tweet
http://posttogop.com/
(Is this Kristin Branch thing (video) old news? Does the future belong to her? I am still doin' the MJSC time warp.)
gloryoski on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 5:20pm.
on a "loop" at a later time, probably. Kewl, he was truly grand.
Many ghosts...MSNBC peeps...
or a whole buncha roo-skies?
What did you used to have to do with ghosts?
Eat em? Hop on top of em?
Can one of you ghosts answer ?s about the "mosque?"
Make yourselves useful. And if you are MSNBC peeps that got directed here, please say so. (I have impure motives...)
Gloryoski, who knew Crozet is such happening place?...
...I go by this facility all the time when I'm in town and wondered about it, thinking one day I'd stop in and investigate. I had always thought it must be a studio or agency of some kind.
...Listed online and still may have a token presence, I'll check it out next time I'm in town:
Musictoday
5391 3 Notch'd Road
Crozet, VA 22932-3104
(434) 823-2226
...LiveNation and MusicToday both are listed as sponsors -
We're in the midst of planning for the fourth annual Crozet Music Festival, which will offer the best in local and regional music for a weekend of eclectic entertainment.
Proceeds from the festival go to benefit the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad and other local charities.
The festival will once again be held at Misty Mountain. Local food vendors, breweries and wineries will be on hand all weekend long.
Thanks to everyone that has made this event such a success in the past. Take a look at the bands we have coming this year and mark your calendar. We're looking forward to it!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Featuring over 45 exceptional music acts, food, and festivities, the annual Crozet Music Festival is exactly what Crozet is: eclectic, family-oriented, American, and a heck of a good time.
5 years in the making, the Crozet Music Festival was backed by a host of local business sponsors, artists, and music lovers.
As a community event, the proceeds support the development plans of area non-profits. And what’s more - It's a blast!
http://www.crozetmusicfestival.com/
Music Program Schedule
http://www.crozetmusicfestival.com/schedule.html
...details on the intial joint venture and eventual sell off
Issue #18.35 :: 08/28/2006 - 09/03/2006
The music machine
Coran Capshaw started a music-and-merch revolution with his DMB-driven Musictoday empire. But, with global powerhouse Live Nation now taking control, will this small-town business survive unscathed?
BY WILL GOLDSMITH
http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=121304062461064&ShowArticle_ID=1332...
...and, in 2007,Capshaw sold off the rest of his share in MusicToday to LiveNation
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/25/whats-good-for-caps...
...and, now, Capshaw runs Red Light Management, an agency in Charlottesville, VA that represents Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and more.
http://www.redlightmanagement.com/contact.php?sect=contact
Thanks CeeCee. Like I said, really should read local press
more.
Cashpaw...grrrr.
Crozet was a little too happening for some of its longtime residents during the boom. Honestly haven't been out there in years to see how it's changed.
Oct 2--"I got way better places to go." ;)
Philadelphia
The church in Philadelphia (3:7-13) stood at an important junction of the imperial post road that ran from Rome through Troas, Pergamum, and Sardis on through to Tarsus and the East. They had an open door through which to share the gospel.
Yet here too a synagogue of Satan opposed the believers. Although no archaeological evidence for a synagogue has been found, a 3rd-century A.D. inscription was found 10 miles east of the city mentioning a "synagogue of the Hebrews". Philadelphia was located in an earthquake-prone region called the Catacecaumene.
Both Sardis and Philadelphia were devastated by earthquakes in A.D. 17. Asian temples were built to withstand severe earthquakes. Their foundations were laid on beds of charcoal covered with wool fleeces, which caused the structure to "float" on the soil like a raft. Each block was joined to another by metal cramps, so that the platform was a unity.
The temple would be the most secure structure in the city, hence the promise to be a pillar in the temple of God was one of security and safety. Inscribed pillars are found throughout Aegean Turkey. A dramatic example is the temple of Zeus at Euromos with dedicatory inscriptions on ten of the eleven standing pillars. Jesus will write divine names as well as his new name on those human "pillars" who overcome.
Philadelphia received a new name twice in the first century: the first time after the A.D. 17 earthquake to "Neocaesarea" in gratitude for Tiberius' generosity, the second time to "Flavia" after Vespasian gave financial assistance following a similar catastrophe.
What do you wish Glory...? What do you need to know ...
about the Mosque? hmmm ghosts, well some are *poof*. :}
Yale University and the Problem of Antisemitism
By Lawrence Davidson
Monday, August 30, 2010
Between the 23rd and the 25th of August, Yale University held a conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity.” It was sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. Therefore, this was a university event and not one brought in from the outside to use Yale facilities. On the surface there is nothing wrong with this. Antisemitism is an age old form of racism and it calls for ongoing academic study. The problem is that this particular conference approached the subject from the ideologically driven position of radical Zionism. In other words, many of the assumptions upon which the conference was built were unfortunately tainted with bias. Indeed, in at least one instance (a panel on the “self-hating” Jew), one might suggest that the event was itself promoting a particularly virulent form of antisemitism. Very odd indeed.
The way you initially judge an academic conference is from the reputation of its participants and the nature of its panels. Philip Weiss, the co-editor of the blog Mondoweiss, has looked at both these categories and he concludes that this conference was “dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.” It appears he is largely correct. Many (though not all) on the participant list are the sort of strident supporters of Israel who confuse Zionism with Judaism and criticism of Israel with “demonization.” Some of the panels were dedicated to problematic issues as “Jewish Self-Hatred” and “Confronting and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy.” Itamar Marcus who was a conference keynote speaker and is also a leader of the West Bank settler movement, lectured the participants on “The Central Role of Palestinian Antisemitism in Creating the Palestinian Identity.” Putting many of the participants (regardless of their academic credentials and affiliations) into the context created by these panels, what you get is not an academic conference in toto. Parts of it were more like an attempt to assert ideology as truth.
Let’s take a look at some of the assumptions that appear to be behind at least a part of the conference.
1. Criticism of Israel/Zionism, somehow smacks of “demonization” and this constitutes a “contemporary form of antisemitism.” (This seems to be the opinion of Charles Small, the Yale Initiative director -- See the Weiss link above). If you think this assertion through, you find that it is illogical. Leaving aside the fact that not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists, it is nonsensical to claim that criticism of a political state and its idiosyncratic ideology is the same as criticism of a worldwide religion and people. The only way those at the Yale conference could fall into this confusion is by taking Israel’s description of itself as the “Jewish state” and then uncritically accepting that this warrants the conflation of an entire people and religion with that state. This is an enormous leap, and one that just does not reflect reality.
Indeed, it is even logically suspect to assume that criticism of Israel or Zionism is anti-Israeli, much less anti-Jewish! By way of analogy, one can point to the fact that there are millions of Americans who have consistently criticized U.S. domestic and foreign policy at least since the 1960s. The only folks who accuse them of being anti-American are the fanatics on the far right. Is that the sort of company the Yale Initiative academics want to keep? Maybe so. The Zionist version of such fanatics certainly showed up for their conference and seemed to fit right in.
http://www.zcommunications.org/yale-university-and-the-problem-of-antise...
Alice wanted to know what the issue was about.
I didn't really feel like trying to be that eloquent today or getting into a thing, since I should be working and once you get into a thing here...
Ghosts...When they actually materialize in a place where you also are you are supposed to leave them be, let them walk around in peace, unless they want to tell you that there's something that they need from you. That's the plan of action I intend to follow if that ever occurs. I'm not sure if that's from some belief source or just a jumble of ghost movies in my head. You'd probably know.
Buy anyhow...
Alice wanted to know why she should care about
"GZM" getting built even if she ever didn't go to churches.
tel lme why not to care about the rights of others?
Is my question. I dont go to church but I sure want people who want to get the chance to decide for themselves
whirling dervishes.
http://www.whirlingdervishes.org/sufizm.htm
Guess it wouldn't take too long to repost this.
Then there's this thing by some guy...
I guess everybody knows by now this happened today.
Lawsuit Challenges Obama's Power To Kill Citizens Without Due Process - Glenn Greenwald
(update below - Update II)
Three weeks ago, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, based on the Treasury Department's failure to grant a "license" to those groups to represent U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki in his efforts to obtain a court order barring the U.S. Government from assassinating him without due process. In response, Treasury officials issued the license (those groups are nonetheless proceeding with that lawsuit in an attempt to have the entire licensing scheme declared unconstitutional on the ground that the Federal Government has no authority to require its permission before American lawyers can represent American citizens, even if the citizen in question has been accused of being a Terrorist).
With the license now issued, the ACLU and CCR this afternoon filed a lawsuit on behalf of Anwar Awlaki, with Awlaki's father as the named plaintiff, to prevent the Obama administration from proceeding with Awlaki's due-process-free assassination. Awlaki is unable to file the lawsuit on his own because the U.S. government's threats to kill him, as well as its prior unsuccessful attempts, cause him to be in hiding and thus make it infeasible for him to assert his legal rights directly...
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/30/assassinati...
These irritatingly vague subject lines are really
just a kind of an invocation.
(The truncation is gilding the lily...)
Then if I scram...maybe...maybe.
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Btw Leah--Devil At My Doorstep pops up for Glenn as well. I think it's like most ads. Very little control by the blogger especially if on a compendium site.
:)
:) *Poof* 4 a bit
Antisemitism at Yale? Gosh!
Leah -
Well I'm in New Haven, and this doesn't surprise me. There are people here and other people here. Nowadays the noisy exceptionalist imperialist frat gets attention. I steer clear of those dudes; do you? If you take them on - applause. Do you remember Sam - in the days of Minority Report, with Janeane - on the phone taking on Dershowitz over this Isaeli-critics-are-antisemite issue? Sam said some diplomatically incisive things about the destructive potentials of that line of reasoning. But Dershowitz, undaunted, kept right on rolling - like a big Caterpillar destructobulldozer barging into Gaza.
- Thanks
I think I mean that in the list of things I choose to be
concerned with at this point in my life...that one is not up there...Along with a lot of other things...Not a huge judgment thing here...just what's so for me...
tigers milk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11104948
Last post not about a ghost but
a duende.
:)
belize this its true
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/duende.htm
might work
here are accounts by rain forest native inhabitants who wear face masks on the back of their heads to look as if they are coming at you instead of going away from you, which might explain the backward feet phenomenon. The practice of the Halloween face mask on the back of one's head is still practiced today, even by FFI field people to fool a tiger attack. It is believed that tigers will not attack humans from the front, only from the rear, thus they wear face masks on the back of the head confusing the tigers quite normal inclination to attack its prey from behind the neck. If feet appear from a distance to be backwards from the direction of the face of the Duende, this could be an explanation. A little ditty of information I learned in the Asian Pacific rim countries, in areas where tigers roam - this mask wearing practice goes on.
Kewl Alice.
Hey Alice, how's the weather out there? Is love really all around?
That's kind of like "God is everywhere...," no?
When I first got to a red state (SC), they told me that so many times I was afraid I would sit on "Him." (And not in a good way.)
I like most Muslins...
Well Bill Press I do not believe nor like most Mormons (even with a few in my family).
When "they" knock on my door I say I do not support any "group" that proselytizes so about division of people!.!
German banker blasted for remarks on Jews
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/08/30/German-banker-b...
Vatican Rag
I am from many Catholics, but i have been called a CatholicWitch
since a wee small child, BY FRIENDS! Now when called a Witch it is from what I would call Enemies.
This is what was posted recently:
Just to contemplate...
Just to contemplate...
I believe ATT we should STOP ALL immigration...{especially from overseas- not only Mexico)...so we can contemplate...(I was even married to a charming English man) Now What?
I personally believe "no more children" or one or two until ALL our children are adopted or in "foster families"...
NO MORE INVITRO!
ALL CHILDREN THAT ARE ALREADY HERE DESERVE "LOVE & TOUCH"
...even our children that are HOMELESS here & there & everywhere!
LOOK OVERSEAS. One will see OVER-Population, and we get ALL countries OVERFLOW, which is constant. Is that okay?
Does one remember Solent Green and similar concepts?
{Well, that ought to start a battle or two ...:}
I think we need to start talking :}
NASA says we will not relocate to another planet. That topic, into the Future, is not within our realm of thought - not for MANY MANY DECADES...
{...this is difficult, because having a baby is what IS SO VERY
NATURAL...{it makes me cry to even say the subject}}
...then let us even talk about our homeless animals also...
JFI ;)
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From: Help Stop the Cruelties! (205251293)
To: (334965187)
Date: 7/30/2009 4:33:30 AM
Subject: NAMIBIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER-PLZ SIGN, READ & REPOST! TY
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Von: Tracy~♥~ (458055957)
An: (205251293)
Datum: 30.07.2009 04:04:30
Betreff: NAMIBIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER-PLZ SIGN, READ & REPOST! TY
The second-largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world has begun just off the southern coast of Africa in Namibia.
During what's been described as "the cruelest seal 'hunt' on the planet," The Cape fur seals are rounded up on Namibian beaches and slaughtered over a period of 20 weeks, The pups are still nursing when they are clubbed or stabbed to death.
The annual commercial seal harvesting season in Namibia officially began on July 1 with a quota of 85 000 pups due to be clubbed to death and 6 000 bulls to be shot on the country's coast.
Cape Fur seals are killed mostly for their fur. Adult males are also killed for their penises, which are exported to Asia to be used as aphrodisiacs.
Warning video footage is VERY GRAPHIC!!
Please click the links below to help.
Please click to send pre written letter to Namibia
Please click here to add your voice and express your outrage to Hatem Yavuz for their culpability in animal cruelty
PLEASE SIGN,READ AND REPOST - MANY THANKS
Posted by Druid Morrigan Conway at 1:11 PM 0 comments
*** ***LOOK AT DATE {and there are deaths earlier...}
The Killing Goes On...animal & human. Do I just look at ALL Deaths as BALANCE {...just Karma} and just go "dance" & enjoy life ... and just ALL less fortunate more than me, DIE? {NOT...!}
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Is everyone at least clicking human & animal causes, DAILY?
http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/
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