The Transportation Security Administration today announced the year-to-date statistics on airport security screenings for 2012:

1. Terrorist Plots Discovered..................0
2....

https://stopsmartmeters.org/2012/03/19/more-orwellian-twists-not-being-home-means-opting-out-and-how-your-home-is-now-a-wireless-facility/

The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the...

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." - Karl Marx

Some of my learnings and discoveries around religion (and thank you, Barry, for the invitation!):

When I was growing up (to some extent), my...

https://votesolar.org/wp-content/themes/oulipo/images/vsheader.gifCommonly known as the policy that allows your electric meter to spin backwards, net metering is a simple billing arrangement that...

Since the text of this post came through with *s between most all syllables, I'm reposting the part below the picture less *s.
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Monsanto's...

Jim Bennett sounds like the kind of person I would want to hang out with. *Logical, concerned about the facts and honest too. * the former writer sounds like a real di--. *This "progressive" site...

I thought a theory was like a 'hunch'.
In Jan. the entire RNC signed a resolution providing for a complete US withdrawl from the UN based on their extreme environmental policy and the catastrophic...

You guys are lucky to have 'ubaru' on here.
You have a journalist quality writer speaking truth on your blog, talk about gratitude, very cool.

'CSummer's post reminds me that aside from speaking...

https://youtu.be/pkRcfy4t6CM


https://youtu.be/1lzFBeiLtr4

Just for a change, I'd like to try imagining that there are some things we all want. I'd like to believe that if we could focus together on those things instead of on what we don't want, we might...

Dear Edward,

The thing is, religion is inseparable from those who adhere to it. Religion only has the power that it has because of the people who give it that power. If we had the ability to...

Here's a video that has gotten almost 20 million views on Youtube!

What do you think? Do you "hate religion" or do you think religion is helpful? I'm particularly interested in responses from...

We could use...

I'm glad to see this subject which is central to ALL that is wrong with our society (civally and fiscally) is still alive on the blog and on waccobb's radar, regardless of our willingness to accept...

Genocidal ? That's a little excessive, if you ask me. Please show us which genocide Thomas Jefferson & Patrick Henry were guilty of, Please, before you bandy serious adjectives like "genocidal"...

that's not gonna work. You're establishing postulates and creating what your opponents will see as straw man arguments. I agree with your perspective and conclusions, by the way, but I'm not sold by...

Thank you, Liz Yuen, for posting this document in its entirety. It really does my heart good to read these words again, after forty-five years, or so. This document represents some of the best of our...

Dixon, my impression of Liz's "basic rap" is that she merely adheres to old school thought on the "Rights of Man." That's the school of thought promoted by Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, & Thomas...

Bad news: In case you didn't hear it; Kucinich lost his House seat to another progressive, due to redistricting.

Good news: Now we can try to recruit him to run as an Independent for President; or...

from surfermag.com:

The front runner for an American Fukushima

San Onofre is my favorite "away" surf break. I knew they had a "minor" incident a month or so ago, but I had no idea how bad it...

Still no one sees fit on this bulletin "bored" to discuss the qualifications of Jill Stein or Rocky Anderson, yet many of you call yourselves progressives. I guess I missed the re-definition of...

Conrad, I don't consider U.N. Agenda [SIZE=4]21 to be a "conspiracy." Rather, it is only part and parcel - and symptomatic - of the various kinds of directives that descend down to the commons...

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:56am PST

Legendary kayaker makes history in giant surf off Oregon

By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com



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from delancyplace.com:

In today's excerpt - in the 1930s and 1940s, the great diaspora of poor Americans
from the south to the cities of the North and West brought the blues of young, musically...

Read the full article Here.

Yet another medical preventative measure is shown to cause more harm than good. How does this happen?
(Hmmm - a "great idea" turns into a great investment...

"A segment from Cory Reddish's comedy show at the Lost Church in San Francisco on February 22nd, 2012. This is a song parody of the common perception of /misinterpretation of Tantra as being a...

Hi Everyone,
And a little later you can look to the east to see Mars. And if you stay up really late you can see Saturn, also in the east.
Enjoy,
Marty

Speaking of drones.... This from the ACLU:


https://www.aclu.org/files/imagecache/blog_feature_500/blog_images/blog_drone.jpg...

How to Heal Tooth Decay with Nutrition

by Laurel Blair, NTP

https://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/Fig.42.jpgOne of the most revolutionary moments in my life was when I first realized...

On the etiology of the phrase "conspiracy theory"





The C.I.A. dealt with their perceived problem of containing public awareness about the assassination of John Kennedy {after the cat was...

African Chuckle(for Duncan)
That African chuckle
wafting around
smoky jazz joints,
and weaving
between ragtime tunes,
around
suburban kids
break dancing
in the...

In honor of Presidents Day, here's morph of all the presidents! (You can dismiss the ad by mousing over it and clicking the close button.)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYrZZ68zhSs

...

Letter sent today to Feinstein and Boxer (they are NOT my senators, although I reside in CA -- I have revoked their right to represent my interests):

"Politicians who send soldiers to die for...

xx

Thanks for the story. We all can use this reminder of seeing the better side of life despite all the reasons for seeing otherwise. I can always better practice choosing rather than just reacting out...

Nice!


https://original.antiwar.com/lee-wrights/2012/02/15/why-peace-why-not/

Well done historical overview. I like this guy.


https://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell73.1.html
The 'Progressive' Legacy


by Thomas Sowell
...

[QUOTE=podfish;147801]that trivializes the issue.

So mass murder is merely trivial...

>>>They type of psychopathy that allows one to kill at whim is rare if it exists at all.

Korea,...

Remember kids: the for-profit medical industry is not working for you. It is working for the 1%, at your expense.
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23 Jan 2012

As the Republican presidential candidates propose to...

This is a word we use to plug
holes with. It’s the right size for those warm
blanks in speech, for those red heart-
shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing
like real hearts. Add lace
and...

This bit, they tell me, wasn't shown on the Grammy broadcast:


https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002308152

Black Box Voting strikes again, with an expose of more shady vote collection shenanigans . . .

You can discuss or rate this here: https://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/81913.html -...

Hi Conrad,

Call me crazy, but I do truly believe that, until we cure ourselves (spontaneous remission?) of the vicious, arrogant, psychopathic belief that we have the right to attack and kill...

Go back and read the selections from public eye that I have enclosed in the boxed text. You will find that I have made an accurate distillation & rendition of the meaning and drift intended by the...

Just FYI... I received this forwarded from a list I'm on, and it immediately made me think to ad it to this thread from several weeks back. Some may know local activist Mary Moore? She finds and...

My friend Rosa and a couple folks told me about the site. The Agenda 21 topic was my motivation for getting on. Actually A21 resistance motivates much of my waking life now.
Those close to me will...

From the website of Chip Berlet :


https://www.publiceye.org/





This is the litany, repeated over and over again by Chip Berlet, and his colleagues at public eye, & his friends on...

Manufacturing -- Controlled -- Dialectics







which link, behind the text, up close, looks like this:

One Difference Among the Candidates Posted on February 8, 2012 by Lew Rockwell
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