The Midnight Ride of Paul Barack Revere Obama:
One if by land, and two if by sea, and three if by air, and four if by drones . . . Or is it two if by land, and one if by sea? . . . However, there will be no deployment of Colonial ground forces. So it’s two if by ship-launched cruise missiles . . . Or is it three if by airstrikes? . . . Anyway, the British aren’t coming.
… we are gradually coming to a boil:
But if these people don’t have the first idea of what is happening to them, we can take heart. For, while they preen and clatter, their voices are less influential than they have ever been. Not for nothing have I stopped calling their trade, the Mainstream Media (MSM). That accords them too much weight and authority – they are the minority opinion: “legacy media” is a far better description.
… more at EUR.
‘”You’ve had your debate. There’s no need to write any more,” the unnamed official was quoted as saying.’
It would appear, that Mr. Snowden has kicked quite the hornet’s nest.
The spooks are spooked, and can hardly resist going full fascist.
Update: Correction, I guess we aren’t all terrorists now … we are just: “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous twenty somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.”
So, how’s that working out?
Xinhua News Agency – 1 March 2008
“If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” Orheim said.
[Dr. Olav Orheim – Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat]
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Canada.com – 16 November 2007
“According to these models, there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015.
“And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that,” said Fortier,””
[Professor Louis Fortier – Université Laval, Director ArcticNet]
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Your guide to all the facts and suppositions … there’s more than you think.
The Post-American era:
Privacy is dying in all technologically advanced nations, and it may simply be a glum fact of contemporary existence that the right to live an unmonitored life is now obsolete unless one wishes to relocate to upcountry villages in Somalia or Waziristan. Nevertheless, even by the standards of other Western nations, America’s loss of privacy is deeply disturbing. Its bureaucracy is bigger and better funded, and its response to revelations of its abuse of power is to make it bigger and better funded and more bureaucratic still.
… at least we can be assured that by now just about all NSA transgressions have been revealed 😉
George Jonas: Horses can do (almost) anything.
It’s code for “not this exit”.
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
“We can see how the dream of the Islamic Caliphate is being realized, Allah willing, by Dr. Muhammad Mursi and his brothers, his supporters, and his political party. We can see how the great dream, shared by us all – that of the United States of the Arabs… The United States of the Arabs will be restored, Allah willing. The United States of the Arabs will be restored by this man and his supporters.
The capital of the Caliphate – the capital of the United States of the Arabs – will be Jerusalem, Allah willing…”
One in six cancers – two million a year globally – are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest.
The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four – human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses – account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.
Most cases are in the developing world.
The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease.
Still, there remain glimmers of hope;
Tuesday’s recall election was a giant repudiation of Big Labor. It was a huge smackdown of the union bosses by a Wisconsin that is 86.5% non-union and tired of all the whining. Gov. Scott Walker was the real winner last night.
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Here is the shocker: With no reason for Republicans to vote, Gov. Scott Walker darn near got more votes than the four Democrats combined – 626,538 to 665,436. And how many of his supporters went for Falk in a mischief vote is an open question. What’s more, the Democrats managed to attract only two-thirds as many votes as the 900,000 who signed the recall petitions. Why did almost 300,000 people stay home?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
The Week, February 2012 – The Tea Party’s waning influence: 4 theories
NYT, May 2012 – The results of the primary end the career of one of the longest-serving members of the Senate and provide a new trophy for the Tea Party movement. Mr. Lugar, 80, leaves after three decades as one of the chamber’s leading foreign policy experts and with a reputation as a voice of moderation in his party.
I was under the weather last night, so we’re off to a slow start this morning. Blogging should be back to normal in a few hours. (And no, it was not self-inflicted.)
In the footprints of the prophet. (PBUH)
Keep flappin’ those gums, Mulcair;
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Monday comments made by federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair about the country’s resources sectors are “very, very divisive.” […]
Wall also weighed in via social media, posting on Twitter on Monday morning, “If @ThomasMulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a “disease”, what is his “cure”? Higher resource taxes? NDP needs to explain” and that, “Resources have been the cure not the problem, NDP.” The remarks were in response to comments made by Mulcair on Saturday when he said that, because of the way it raises the value of the Canadian dollar, other parts of the country are paying a price for the prosperity enjoyed by natural resource sectors.
Mulcair pointed to the oilsands in Alberta as a case in point. “It’s by definition the ‘Dutch disease,’ ” Mulcair said Saturday on the CBC Radio show, The House, referring to what happened to the Netherlands economy in the 1960s after vast deposits of natural gas were discovered in the nearby North Sea.
13 Saskatchewan MP’s send their regards!
Update:
You can send Nathan Cullen your regards here.
