Fridge

Our refrigerator in the kitchen needs serious replacement. It has been with us for more that ten years and I believe it's time for him to retire ... European type houses. Our house is literary on top of a mountain, and it would really be tedious to ship bricks and other what-have-you's when it comes to transforming a house into that European feel [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 13:09:28

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Expert Predictions: Stock Market Could be Good in 2009USA TodayNEW YORK — Stock market forecasts tend to be sunny, and 2009 is no exception. Wall Street gurus are again predicting gains. But this year's bullish market call comes with an asterisk.Wary stock strategists, unsure how the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression will play out, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:43:00

DrumBeat: July 20, 2008

To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 13:14:15

Bush Stopped Israel from Bombing Iran!!

Is it the fear of international indictment for war crime that is making Cheney say things like Israel didn't have permission from the US to attack ... American and foreign officials. ... The White House denied that request outright, American officials said, and the Israelis backed off their plans, at least temporarily. But the tense exchanges also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 23:30:00

Parliamentary debate on Gaza

I don't know much about Labour MP Gerald Kaufman but I was very struck with his comments on Gaza when I heard his question to the foreign secretary in the House of Commons on Monday. It went like this;"In congratulating my right hon. Friend ... of Israel but he was in favour of the isolation of the Government elected in Palestine, in the only free [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:29:00

Climate News Roundup: June 13 - June 19, 2008

Friday, June 13, 2008 SOLAR THERMAL POWER: In Israel's Negev Desert blooms a field of 1,640 robotic mirrors that behave like sunflowers ... it had agreed on plans to tax new vehicles on how much they pollute instead of engine size in a bid ... has launched BioFields S.A.P.I. de C.V. to manufacture ethanol from algae. BIODIESEL (EU, USA): The European [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 20:38:00

Charon reports: State of the nation - podcast versionThe Lawyer is keeping a running tally of job losses and redundancies in the legal sector ... from their Hong Kong office. This morning, Dentons have announced plans to make up to 80 of their staff ... a month after the departure of its commercial and private client teams for Lupton Fawcett.”Our European [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:44:06

Nick Griffin Speaks for Manchester

A major speech by the party Chairman formed the centre-piece of Manchester BNP’s highly successful November meeting ... industrial power-house of the mid-20th century, to the “vibrant”, multicultural “Gunchester” we know and love ... traffic accident.  Finally, Derek launched a scathing attack on Labour’s plans for an unfair “Toll [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 23:52:49

Naomi Klein: Boycott, Divest, Sanction Israel

It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called on "people of conscience all over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:21:56

Green Ink: Gas Pains and Peak Coal

Crude oil futures hovered around $48 amid signs of tightening oil supplies and continued weak demand, Bloomberg reports ... , in the NYT. That is affecting European countries as far west as Austria, and is much worse than ... page: “The strategic stakes are as great as in Georgia last summer.” House speaker Nancy Pelosi [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:09:13

DrumBeat: September 12, 2008

Kazakh Oil: A War of Nerves - Russian brinkmanship could imperil the flow of oil and money across the Caspian to Europe ASTANA - On the scorching, ... and export more through that route. The plans for the corridor, though, were drawn before Russia's ... the Georgia events will cause transportation problems. But already Kazakhstan has canceled plans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 13:05:16

Concentrating the Wealth, Pt. 2

(See Part 1.) A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout. A number of the members of the bucket brigade - that's us, taxpayers - realized that for all the billions of dollars worth of bailing we're doing, we still appear to be sinking. Our task seems to be keeping things afloat long enough for first class passengers to fill the lifeboats [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 20:39:26

The father and daughter who war-monger together

The Cheney tag team is in the ring at the same time versus Iran. In recent days we’ve seen headlines from Bush’s European farewell tour like this from the London Times: “President George Bush starts talking language of a dove.” Also, in an apparent admission that his beef with Iran might not be settled during his presidency, Bush, [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 00:11:05

Iain Dale's daily fail

Tch. And to think that only last week he was returning from Teh Holy Land with a message of peace, mung-beans and understanding: ... the government. Yet now some unelected European judges are apparently about to force the British ... pseudo-blogging chum Paul Staines was tagged for 3 months and effectively under house arrest from 9pm [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 10:57:18

Third term

Elisabeth Bumiller has a fairly bland run down of the similarities and differences between McCain and Bush but she gets to the right place when she concludes that - well he's the same as Bush: A look at Mr. McCain’s 25-year record in the House ... is writing without thinking. Can someone please explain to me how John McCain plans to kick Russia [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 15:35:00

Reinventing the Evil Empire by Stephen Lendman

Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research, August 25, 2008 For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 03:15:50

More Good News. UK Government has Access to All Your Emails for a Year. Goodbye Privacy.

All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will by law keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for a year. As part of a European Commission directive, from March of this year, the government will pay ... peer on the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, said it meant anyone’s movements could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 08:35:35

Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008

Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00

Look! There Goes Another One, Gertie! Why Those're the Funniest Lookin' Geese I've Ever SEEN!

And a gladsome good morning to y'all.(I am loving that word. Gladsome. It's so festive, don't you think?)So I have this couch ... it a family heirloom by now?I've moved it with me from apartment to apartment to house to house ... be FANTASTIC! A SHOWPIECE!" For TWENTY YEARS I've had these grandiose plans, and for twenty years the thing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:33:00

The 99 Things Meme

I don't know why, it just caught my eye. My life took quite a while to get revved up, but t has, especially in recent years, become very full. From Doug Johnson and Susan Sedro (who draws our attention to the American-European bias ... in the last year.15. Adopted a child. No, and I have no plans to.16. Had food poisoning. Ick, yes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:49:00

Push for PPPs Heats Up in 2009

President-elect Barack Obama is laying the groundwork for a giant economic stimulus package - up to $850 billion over two years - in his first test of legislative give and take with Congress, according to the AP. The report states that Obama’s economic advisers are currently assembling a recovery plan and already reaching out to lawmakers in an [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:21:22

Examples Of Hate Speech

1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies �*not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:07:36

FAST FORWARD

Four shots, no goals. No shame for a 20-year-old who was playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League mere months ago, and who started the season on the Florida Panthers’ fourth line. No shame for Michael Frolik, since even the league’s great hope, Sidney Crosby, entered Sunday’s play with the same 0-for-4 record on shootout attempts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:05:14

Civic Judo: Gypsy integration in reality

This program of TV NOVA, "Civic Judo" about the gypsy questions, was aired in May 2008. English transcript, my fast translation:0:00 Narrator: Our reporter, Ms Bohunka Frankova, recorded a program for you that we titled in a simple way: Roma minority.0:05 Narrator: It's being discussed a lot. Many people are criticized for their racist statements [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 19:29:00

'As if things weren't bad enough...'

Not so long ago, there was an article from a Russian news agency, to which I linked, reporting the predictions of a Russian 'expert', Igor Panarin, stating that the U.S. would break up by 2010. The article drew a fair amount of notice on conservative/nationalist blogs and forums, and we discussed it here, of course. Now (rather belatedly) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 11:14:00

The SCA debate - Standing for Office

Your mission, should you accept it, is to engage constructively with chapter 7 of the DCLG’s new white paper, ‘Communities in Control: Real People, Real Power’… …and yes, after reading the chapter and mulling it over, it does feel very much like ‘Mission Impossible’ because the chapter provides very little of substance to engage with [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 17:44:25

DrumBeat: August 12, 2008

High gas prices make motorists click on carpool sites NEW YORK — Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savings. Gilliland found one rider through the classifieds website Craigslist and another using the carpool-matching service [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 12:54:13

Weekly Economic Potpourri

The jobs report comes out tomorrow and the overwhelming odds are it will be the 9th consecutive month of job losses. Here are some interesting headlines and quotes from the past week. Asian Stocks Fall to Three-Year Low, Led by Toyota, Hang Seng "In my adult lifetime I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful, economically, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 06:47:57

Personal Finance For Freelancers, a Four Part Series

This series was written by a friend of mine, Sara Freitas Maltaverne, and originally published on April 7, 2008 ... with a team of translators to provide the same service in the major European languages. You can find ... t what it used to be! Gone are the days of 40-year careers with a single employer—and the generous pension plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:00:18

House Democrats Introduce National Feed-in Tariff for Renewable Energy Projects

U.S. Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Mike Honda (D-CA) introduced landmark legislation ... have been passed into law. The International Energy Agency, the European Commission and the United Kingdom’s Stern Review have determined that feed-in tariff policies in Germany, Spain, France and other E [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 21:49:37

Aldis Hodge Goes From 'Lights' to 'Leverage'

Today's cuppa: diet cola at the Fox Party Before I hit the sack, I wanted to share some fun stuff I received today from Aldis Hodge, ... support to the team of former ne'er-do-wells led by a former insurance investigator (Timothy Hutton ... about the show is that this character is mine to mold. I get to be this guy for, hopefully, many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:28:59

Obama’s Socialization Europeanizing of America

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen, a proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world. ~~~ This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 21:42:34

Disinformation Campaign On Israel-Iran Attack

About a year ago, the US suddenly made a dramatic about-face and backed down from its planned air and missile attack on Iran's nuclear weapons ... . Instead, the White House engineered a remarkable and bogus intelligence story about how Iran had formerly ... House, government intelligence masters are changing their tune and prepping for another [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:52:00

A little history or are the elites of Israel idiots and what the hell is Hamas anyway

Right. Lets get this shindig started (again). I feel a need for a long article, so grab a coffee, or a tea, or something stronger, get some snacks (no high fructose corn syrup, please, something healthy) and lets begin. Right now you have probably seen Israeli bombers using bombs, including white phosphorus ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 05:14:30

Bank of England mulls "nuclear option" of cash injection

The Bank of England is working on radical plans to inject cash directly into the economy - the nuclear option to be used only when interest rates ... could be found to conflict with European Union laws on how governments manage their budgets. However, added weight was given to the proposals by European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 12:38:19

EU green plans face tough road ahead

Amid widespread concerns that the global financial meltdown could hinder efforts to tackle climate change, European Commission plans to cut greenhouse gases face difficulties after EU environment ministers led by Italy called for significant changes at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. Under the plans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 13:01:19

Georgia/Russian War: Blame Obama

-By Warner Todd Huston General Wesley Clark had one thing right during his tenure as a general in the U.S. military ... , the Russians found that they could not count out any action with Bush in the White House. Now, let ... of the EU have no will to stop Russian plans to control all energy in the region. Only the U.S.A. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 11:55:05

Square Today, Octagon Tomorrow

Orson Squire Fowler was determined to be a preacher. At the tender age of 17 he walked 400 miles from his small town of Cohocton, New York to Massachusetts so that he might be tutored in the ways of the ministry. When Fowler enrolled in Amherst he made fast friends with another minister-to-be, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:45:17

Dandelion Salad by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Global Research, June 29, 2008 Will Anti-War Forces Seize this Opportunity? ... , which are clearly designed to prepare a military aggression, and the European Union kicked ... problem, before the Cheney-Bush junta is forced to leave the White House, there is little hope [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 02:19:51

War Party in a Bind: After Nuclear Talks in Geneva, Iran Will Likely Agree

Dandelion Salad by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Global Research, July 23, 2008 The meeting in Geneva on July 19, between representatives of the 5+1 (U.N. Security Council permanent members plus Germany) and Iran, should be heartily welcomed by all those who seek a diplomatic solution to the hoked-up case against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 03:11:59

Bosnia, Hillary’s Playground

At a time when the U.S. power and authority are increasingly challenged around the world, the incoming team sees the Balkans as the last geopolitically significant area where they can assert their “credibility” by postulating a maximalist set of objectives as the only outcome acceptable to the United States, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 12:24:54

Whole Lotta Stimlatin' Goin' On

The push to stimulate is underway globally. No one stopped to figure out we are in this mess because of prior pushes to stimulate ... that the package will be between five and $700 billion. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ... of historic proportions.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said any stimulus package must be several hundred [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 21:20:00

Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project

by Andrew G. Marshall featured writer Dandelion Salad July 11, 2008 Establishing an “Arc of Crisis” Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 08:19:31

DrumBeat: January 1, 2009

Blackout fear for EU as gas row escalates Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, ... energy giant, says it will continue pumping gas to European customers through Ukrainian territory ... to restore supplies, a White House spokesman said Russia should bear in mind "the humanitarian [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:53

Book Review: The Warriors by Mark Andrew Olsen

Abby Sherman and Dylan Hatfield, former compatriots in the war against evil, are not speaking to each other. In his yearning for the action he previously enjoyed as a covert assassin and special ops agent he considers returning to a form of active deployment, a move Abby strongly disagrees with [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 06:49:10

Putin’s Winning Hand By Mike Whitney + video

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 08/16/08 “ICH” Once the Atlantic Alliance is shattered, America’s lifeline to the world is kaput There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, manufacturing plants and residential areas [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 20:52:06

Of War, and Tent Hospitals

Via Andrew Sullivan, I came across this snippet from Jeffrey Goldberg: I saw Sally Quinn, an adjunct member of my Torah study group, last night, and she had a smart idea: Why not erect a massive tent hospital in Sderot, staff it with Israeli army doctors, and treat the Palestinian wounded there? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:18:20

Medvedev, Bush Stand For Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Barack Obama Wrist Watch: Time For a Change Indeed Thursday Israel and Hamas Will Begin Truce Jerry Manuel Named Interim Manager of Mets Navy ... on White House race Add comments Latest and greatest! NYSE Euronext Introduces SFTI Community Platform ... The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced plans to introduce a new service [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 18:11:52

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 16 January 2009. United States & the Americas Reuters - The Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals has dismissed and then refiled all of the pending charges, a move military defense lawyers said on Wednesday could make it politically tougher for U.S [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:58:18

Changed Climate: Meltdown Has Europe Backpedaling on Climate Caps

The fallout from the financial crisis might be ready to claim another casualty: Europe’s ambitious plans to tackle climate change. The crisis, and fears that it will turn into a full-blown recession, is opening European eyes ... more-expensive climate legislation on European businesses. The British, dependent as an island nation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 09:05:00

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