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Saturday, 29 June 2013
News.................
Just Your Normal California La-Di-Da
Cambrian Dissenters:Homosexual Marriage, Amnesty For Illegals - Fundamental Transformation Gathers Pace
Climate Teachers: if your pupils watch TV in the USA, this is what you are up against
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Russia to Deliver 10 Helicopter Gunships to Iraq
101st seeking to save 'Band of Brothers' regiment
Hollywood: Hey, this Obamacare thing is going to be pretty costly and complicated for us
Groundbreaking new laws take power from PM, give to provinces
Desperation: Green groups asking begging State Dept to redo their Keystone XL report
CDR Salamander: Did you just call me a Cracker?
Premier Maliki to visit Moscow soon
Copperhead
From Tsar to Snowden, US-Russian Extradition Deal Saw Quiet Demise
N.Y. man's death leads police to arsenal
Interior IG report: The Park Police have lost track of thousands of guns
Governor apologizes for deleted Facebook comments
Charge dismissed against student who refused to remove NRA shirt
Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail and felony charges for UVA student
Woman Sues For $18 Million After Nose Job Pics Posted Online
Space shuttle Atlantis 'go' for public viewing
CAR POOL: FHP, local law enforcement responds to odd accident in Miramar Beach
EDITORIAL: SRIA flies high with air show
Surprise: Illinois vastly underestimated pension funding shortfall
20 Reasons Conservatives Detest The Government
Bloomberg: Police stop minorities 'too little'
Obama Revises Washington’s First Inaugural Address
Obama Taps Political Aide to be South Africa Ambassador
Morsi’s speech to Egyptians from heart of an Islamist: All lies, insults and threats
Israeli leaders rebut criticism of under-reacting to threats from Syria by hinting at covert operations
Chaos and Crime: The Trials of Running a Syrian Refugee Camp
America’s Pacific Force Structure Takes Shape
Made in China: A US-Japan-Philippines Axis?
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Controversy Over New Yorker Magazine's Gay Marriage Bert and Ernie Cover
This was even on the local news this afternoon.
See, "Bert and Ernie's 'Moment of Joy' — The New Yorker's #DOMA Cover."
Like I said, burying the dagger in traditionalism, and rubbing this same-sex victory in the faces of people who want to protect their children from alternative values --- depraved values --- of which they do not agree.
And follow that link for additional responses.
Maxim Pinup Carissa Rosario Goes Topless Sunbathing in New York
Well, the gawkers ran to the rooftops to see this babe tanning her melons.
Man.
See, "Smokin' Hot Carissa Rosario Goes Topless Sunbathing in New York, Gawkers Run to the Rooftops!"
That's some SFW hotness at the link. Nice rack.
Friday, 28 June 2013
Mr. Obama's Losing Game.....................from Dan Friedman
[Long after the debate about Obama’s calamitous foreign policy is settled, the debate about whether his fiascos were blunders or intentions will rage on. df]
JPost, 6/28/2013
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
US foreign policy is failing worldwide.
Donkeys Can't Talk.....................from Dan Friedman
A good rabbi holds forth on the meaning of yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment in favor of same-sex marriage.
Five-minute YouTube video.
Help me help our wounded warriors through the Wounded Warrior Project!...from TPC
Please help me raise money for Wounded Warrior Project as I participate in a 30-mile bicycle event on Long Island July 20 in honor of Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter from Southampton who died saving 33 of his fellow marines.
Learn how at The Political Commentator here.
Something is happening.......................from Rico
Henry Bath [Henry Bath & Son Ltd, global storage and shipping of exchange-traded metals] owned by JP Morgan, delists 21 LME (London Metal Exchange) storage units.
- 6x Rotterdam
- 5x Baltimore
- 3x Liverpool
- 2x Bilbao
- 2x Singapore
- 1x each Chicago, New Orleans, Pusan
Somebody is broke, and something is broken.
Surely it has nothing to do with the 32% drop in COMEX inventories in the past five months, or the ZERO deposits into JPM's vaults in the past six months.
"Getting Back to Normal" - Wild Bill
Perhaps it is time for Americans to stop being so dependent on the government for necessities.
Watcher's Council Results! Get'em while they're hot!...from TPC
These are the results for the week of June 24, 2013 edition of the Watcher's Council, the world's #1 rated conservative blog aggregator!
First place was awarded to an article from Joshuapundit titled 'Fear and Loathing in DC - The Gang of Eight's amnesty bill is a disaster' with the link to that article, along with links to 23 others, in this article at The Political Commentator.
Israeli Leftist Sees the Abyss; Pees in His Pants..........................from Dan Friedman
[Ari Shavit is a garden variety Israeli leftist who writes for the hard-left Israeli daily, Ha'aretz. Sounds like just another scared Jew, doesn't he? df]
Ha'aretz, 6/27/2013
What the world promised would never happen is happening. What Israel’s defense establishment promised would never happen is happening. Iran is becoming a nuclear power, while Israel stands alone.
By Ari Shavit
News........................
Semper Fiddles
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - You know you always wondered....
The British government's jihad against free thought
CDR Salamander: Add to your nuance, if you have any, about The War Between the States
What CNN Cut Out of the TWA 800 Interview
Chapter VII: Iraq to Restore Arms Industry?
Japanese scientists clone mouse from a drop of blood
Ring of Fire, Den of Thieves
Ecuador to US: Take your trade and shove it
License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers
9/10 Mentality: CIA Blasted for NYPD Help
Reminder: President Everyman's billionaire besty with offshore trusts confirmed as Commerce Secretary
Boehner tells House Republicans he won't bring Gang of Eight bill to the floor
Gay CNN Anchor Gives Viewers Tour of Gay Bar, Gets Live Shot of Gay 'Kiss-Out'
‘Hell to pay:’ Residents angry as RCMP sieze guns from High River homes
Wes Welker and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being an NFL Receiver
Might Congress actually split up the gigantic farm bill?
LOL: Birthers Ambush Obama During $100 Million Trip To Africa; Welcome Home Mr. President
Ted Cruz Exposes Amnesty Bill: $5000 Penalty For Hiring Citizens Over Legalized Aliens
A Crime Most Banal: Indonesia’s Human Trafficking Fix
Paula Deen, tell ‘em all to go to hell
White House: Obama Didn’t Have Time for Africa
Michelle is Not on Vacation in Africa
Germany Faced with "Loudspeaker Jihad"
US spooks stockpile arms for Syrian rebels in Jordan for August onslaught
Outrage over Syrian rebels assaulting catholic monastery, killing hermit
Iran conducts test of new rocket motor with ICBM capability
One Week After.............................from Rico
Gold has broken below $1200/oz.
One week after the FOMC (Fed's Open Mouth Committee) Gold is down 12% and Silver down 14%.
To put today in context, equities and bonds are rallying on the basis that there will be NO end to QE; and Gold is crashing because QE is ending.
- Yeah, riiiight.
To put the past year or so in context:
- Venezuela asks for repatriation of its 211 tons of Gold. Gets it. Gold price goes up.
- Germany asks for its 374 tons of Gold to be repatriated. Is told no can do...wait seven years. An obvious "market operation" to knock down the price of Gold (and Silver) almost immediately commences.
It's as simple as this:
- NO trader dumps hundreds or thousands of contracts onto the market with "at market" instructions wiith any other purpose tha to take the price down. Period.
Then WHY?
- Also simple. Somebody has been playing fast-and-loose with bullion, and the cookie jar is empty. Oooooops!
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Former New England Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez Denied Bail, Will Remain Behind Bars
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been charged with murder, and today he was denied bail.
Turns out the dude's a mofo!
See, "Aaron Hernandez Denied Bail."
Yesterday: Aaron Hernandez brandishing a Glock handgun for a selfie iPhone pic http://t.co/dsKeJGOopk pic.twitter.com/Ene9YROtkh
— TMZ (@TMZ) June 27, 2013
Gwyneth Paltrow, 40, Strips Down to Racy Lingerie in New Movie Trailer
She works out an hour every morning to keep her smokin' hot bod in shape.
And not only does she strip down to lingerie at the clip, she gets down to some very forward French kissing at that scene. Steamy wench!
See, "Smokin', Sexy Gwyneth Paltrow Strips in 'Thanks for Sharing' Trailer."
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Unintended consequences.......................from Rico
The latest paper-driven manipulation and exercise in bullion inventory adjustment was officially sanctioned and Wall Street implemented.
- As usual.
This blatant "asset stripping" and "wealth confiscation" may have bought a little 'time' for the paper game, but it also accellerated the flow of bullion from West to East.
- Chinese premiums on physical bullion are ~ $35/oz.
- Indian premiums on physical bullion rose overnight from $8-10/oz to $20/oz and demand has outrun supply.
But its not confined to India and China alone. Despite the 34% drop in Silver this quarter (the largest quarterly move in thirty years) the American firm 'Scottsdale' has had single days where they sold more physical bullion that they have in a typical month, the 'smackdown' apparently convincing those who have been 'waiting' that NOW may be the time to load the boat, or risk missing the next bull run in the marketplace.
Late News...............
Cambrian Dissenters:Nelson Mandela - Politicians And Hollywood Get Ready To Mourn Their Celebrity Terrorist
Russian Navy Pulls Personnel Out of Syria Base
U.S.,Coalition Forces Conduct Amphibious Landing on Red Beach
Entire Military Comes Out Of Closet, Confirms They Are All Gay
You can't win a rigged game
UN’s Falk gives voice to 9/11 conspiracy theory;
host's website blames “Zio-Nazis”
Iraq to Receive Russian Military Helicopters
Harrier For Sale On eBay
Teenage Star Witness Against George Zimmerman Has Tweeted About Case, Getting High, And Her "Court Nails"
Iraq official says Baghdad open to US military aid
Poll: Support for Obamacare repeal hits new high
U.N. council brings Iraq closer to end of 1990s sanctions
Well, well, looks like Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi WAS directly involved with the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans
IRS shows the need for limited government again
Ecuador says Snowden asylum document unauthorized
IRS inspector general: No, liberal groups weren't "targeted" the way tea-party groups were
Obama Discusses His Hotel with Senegalese President
Obama is determined to destroy America in order to save it.
Obama’s Eco-Assault on America
Obama: US won't send fighter jets to intercept Snowden flights
The Real Source of American Power: Its Rivers
Seven years in Tibet: 2 million 'displaced' by Chinese relocation policy
AFRICOM commander during Libya attack speaks out
Man flying Nazi flag to protest Obama
Gutierrez: Boehner a 'Friend and Ally' in Immigration Reform Fight
Graham, Schumer Miss Immigration Bill Mark, Fail to Hit 70 Votes
Immigration Bill Will Decriminalize Obama's Felony Identity Document Fraud?
How to make a pizza with EyeHandy! (Video)...from TPC
Because anyone who wants to learn how to make a pizza at home might as well learn the ropes from Vanda and Dovile!
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
ZoNATION: Lil' Wayne Is a Flag Stomping Coward
Hear what AlfonZo Rachel thinks of the Lil' Wayne flag stomping controversy. Did Lil' Wayne make a mistake, or did he really intend to trample on the stars and stripes?
In Israel, Netanyahu Can't Get Arrested........................from Rico
[Bibi’s own party builds up their defenses against him. df]
JPost, 6/27/2013
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu losing control.
The "new" retirement...........................from Rico
Bursting the biggest bubble of all...the 'retirement' bubble.
- There won't be much 'retirement' ahead for many.
The "new" retirement for many Americans will be (or already is) a "food stamp" retirement.
Fauxbama's 'recovery' has created a permanent class of working poor and not-working poor.
- The 'historic' money being paid-out for food stamps
(~ $70 billion/year and rising) illustrates the point.
Forty-five percent of US households have made NO plans to fund their retirements, and have NO pesions, NO IRA's or 401(k)'s. Nothing.
Did I say nothing?
- One in four have NO savings at all.
- Three in four either work paycheck-to-paycheck, and/or now live foodstamp-to-foodstamp. The former won't ever be 'retiring' and many of the latter are already 'retired' but haven't figured it out yet.
'Reforming' illegal immigration with laws that incentivize employers to drop citizens and hire illegals, plus ships even more jobs out of the country, makes perfect 'sense' in the upside-down, back-asswards, Orwellian think tank otherwise known as Washingtoon, DC (District of Criminals).
- I guess that is why the Department of Homeland Stasi 'needs' their tanks, so they can impose Socialist unity on anyone who has figured out that getting elected to Congress turns people into rats...
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Super-Dooper Snoopers
By Alan Caruba
While in the U.S. Army in the early 60s, I worked in the G-2 (intelligence) office of my battalion. I was surely no James Bond, but I did need a security clearance and quickly was granted one to be around documents marked “secret.” There are now thousands waiting for their security clearances and 4.8 million who already have one!
When Edward Snowden, an analyst for a national security contractor, decided to tell the world that the National Security Agency was actually gathering meta-data about all of our communications (and the rest of the world’s), I was among those who were not surprised. Whole books had been written about this practice before and since 9/11. James Bamford had published “The Puzzle Palace” about the NSA way back in 1983!
The Justice Department has charged Snowden with conveying classified information to an unauthorized party, disclosing communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. The charges, each of which carries a potential 10-year prison term, were filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Well, at least that beats a firing squad.
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media thinks a lot of notable news media personalities have been duped. “Those who claimed NSA traitor Edward Snowden was a patriot or hero have egg all over their faces, as the former NSA contract worker has fled from China to Russia…” I am inclined to agree.
It is a fact of life in this year of our Lord 2013 that information about you is so available that there are few if any of your purchases and preferences that are not known to every company with whom you do business. Your local supermarket knows the brand of cereal or shampoo you prefer. This is called “open source” information and it is not only gathered, but sold to anyone who wants it.
The information you voluntarily or unwittingly give to those with whom you do business as well as the information may post daily on your Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In accounts is all accessible and accessed.
The NSA has long had powers to scoop up scads of information about communications by, to, and from Americans. Its roots go back to the earliest days of the Cold War. Until recently revelations, we thought that the information we provide to the Internal Revenue Service was closely guarded and never to be used for political purposes, but in the Age of Obama, that illusion has been shattered.
In a recent Business Week article, Ashlee Vance reported “Less recognized is that, in this era of open-source software, the NSA gets direct access to the inventions of thousands of the smartest computer science minds on the planet for free.”
“It started,” said Vance,”with the founding of Google in 1998. The search engine giant needed to collect and analyze so much data that it couldn’t afford to buy systems from big-name tech companies. Instead, Google created its own open-source software program that ran across hundreds of thousands of computers. Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter have been even more aggressive about open-sourcing their underlying infrastructure.”
NSA and, indeed, the President, could have put a lot of the consternation to rest by coming out early and explaining what it does and the limitations under which it works. While it is most certainly a very secretive agency, there is much that is common knowledge about its mission.
In the post 9/11 era with a massive Homeland Security Agency charged with keeping us safe, it is a good, if not essential, idea to have a public discussion about the role of the Fourth Amendment protection of our privacy. Even though the Founders had no idea of modern communications they still believed that our privacy must be respected. Meanwhile, we live in a world of enormous electronic connectivity that is subject to surveillance.
Moreover, there are those who believe all the surveillance we are learning about is just the tip of the iceberg. There is widespread speculation that the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Department of Justice and other agencies has been working on a massive consolidation of power in the White House, preparing for the deliberate collapse of the U.S. dollar, and the chaos that would follow.
On June 19, the president of the Associated Press, Gary Pruitt, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. saying that the DOJ seizure of journalist’s phone records has had “a chilling effect” on newsgathering, not just for the AP but other newsgathering organizations. He described the collection of records affecting more than a hundred journalists was an “overbroad and sloppy fishing expedition” that failed to follow procedures on notification. If the intent was to impact legitimate news gathering, it was successful.
We still trust that law enforcement must secure a warrant to tap our phones, but the information about with whom we speak is routinely gathered, as it must, by telephone companies. It can be a useful tool to determine patterns, especially if they are between Americans and foreigners with bad intentions.
Inherent in all this data-gathering is the potential for its misuse—and worse—but that is true of much of what government does. The need for congressional oversight was never more paramount, but it comes at a time when the Congress is held in low esteem and sharply divided.
The greater present concern must be that we have a White House engaged in a plan to render the Constitution useless with a manufactured crisis to deliberately impose an authoritarian control over all of us.
We now living in an Orwellian era of super-dooper snoopers
© Alan Caruba, 2013
Obama responds flippantly to questions regarding to the Snowden espionage case! (Video)...from TPC
This video shows a flippant President Obama speaking about the Snowden espionage case and the fact that he will not be scrambling fighter jets to take care of a 29-year old hacker.
Scenes From Arabia: Arab World War Two........................from Dan Friedman
[Helloo! Anybody home? df]
PJ Media, June 26, 2013
By Barry Rubin
Derivatives follow-up: Italy Faces Huge Losses on Derivatives Restructured in Eurozone Crisis!...from TPC
As a follow-up to the two articles about the dangers posed to the global financial markets from derivates at The Political Commentator yesterday, Italy is now facing huge losses from derivatives it restructured during the 2008 financial crisis.
Read at The Political Commentator here.
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