Afghanistan: Exiles of the Mountain of Oblivion.

The first picture really took me aback — she is almost ethereal.

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O exiles of the mountain of oblivion!
O the jewels of your names, slumbering in the mire of silence
O your obliterated memories, your light blue memories
In the silty mind of a wave in the sea of forgetting
Where is the clear, flowing stream of your thoughts?
Which thieving hand plundered the pure golden statue of your dreams?
In this storm which gives birth to oppression
Where has your ship, your serene silver mooncraft gone?

Light blue memories, Nadia Anjuman

It’s been almost a year now since I dedicated a post to Nadia Anjuman – Remembering Nadia Anjuman: One Day, My Hands Will Become Weavers.

A new book featuring her poetry came out couple of months ago, entitled Load poems like guns: Women’s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan. It made me think of Anjuman again, made me dive into her poetry and admire it once…

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TransCanada asks U.S. to delay Keystone XL pipeline review

If you believe for one second that Hillary Clinton is against the Keystone XL…I have some oceanfront property in Indiana I want to sell you.
How many times do we have to say NO?! The American public is overwhelmingly against Keystone. The landowners whose lives would be affected are against it. The Native Americans have protested against it. The only people who are for it are the Big Energy profiteers…who will risk polluting the aquifers to sell oil to China. No. No. NO.

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Company may be waiting for a more favourable political climate, analyst says

CBC News, Nov 2, 2015

TransCanada Corporation has asked the U.S. State Department to pause its review of the presidential permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline.

The company sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, saying it believes there is sound precedent for making the request to pause the review.

That adds a new wrinkle to one of the biggest Canada-U.S. political irritants of recent years, involving a proposed pipeline from Alberta to Texas.

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David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education

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University of Rochester (New York) education professor David Hursh has a new book coming out on November 23, 2015: The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education (Routledge).

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(The Kindle version is already available on Amazon.com. Moreover, this flyer from Routledge includes information on a 20 percent discount.)

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Hursh’s The End of Public Schools is divided into five chapters:

Chapter 1: The Demise of the Public in Public Schools

Chapter 2: Understanding the Rise of Neoliberal Policies

Chapter 3: Governor Cuomo and the Neoliberal Attack on Public Schools, Teachers, and Unions

Chapter 4: The Gates Foundation, Pearson, and Arne Duncan

Chapter 5: Manufactured and Real Crises: Rethinking Education and Capitalism

In this post, I offer a glimpse into each chapter via thought-provoking excerpts that attest to the overall quality of Hursh’s book. (Note: In-text citations removed for ease of presentation.)

From Chapter…

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Chem Trail Cowboy

Dark satire.  Loved the stewardesses — nice touch.

The assumption is that these planes are being flown by humans.  With all the technology now — drones and the ability to remotely control planes — it’s very possible that the planes spraying chemtrails/geoengineering don’t have a human flying them.  This makes it easier to poison people…no pesky human emotions like morality, compassion, guilt, to stop them from spraying us.

Gene Logsdon on the gift that keeps on giving

Gene Logsdon has once again cracked me up with his wry sense of humor about farming.  And the comments are as entertaining as ever. Enjoy 🙂

This post points to the circle of life.  Farming has become so commercialized that circle has been disrupted.

And I take exception to the destroying of geese eggs because the geese are doing what comes naturally.  Golfers get these beautiful courses to play on and you gotta take the good with the bad.  It’s one thing to take a goose life to feed yourself and your family, and a whole ‘nother thing to destroy them because they’re inconveniencing you.

RCMP probing officers’ handling of domestic violence allegation against Onion Lake Chief Fox

This is sad to read because of the traditional native belief that women are seen as equals, and deserve honor and respect.

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Vicki Monague filed complaint over RCMP’s handling of her criminal allegation of domestic violence against Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief Wallace Fox. Photo supplied by Monague to APTN. Vicki Monague filed complaint over RCMP’s handling of her criminal allegation of domestic violence against Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief Wallace Fox. Photo supplied by Monague to APTN.

by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, October 27, 2015
The RCMP is probing complaints filed against officers from the Onion Lake Cree Nation detachment over their handling of a domestic violence allegation against Chief Wallace Fox, APTN National News has learned.

Fox, the long-time chief of the Saskatchewan First Nation, was charged Monday with two counts of assault, one count of possession of a dangerous weapon and one count of uttering threats to damage property stemming from a domestic incident at his Onion Lake residence. He is scheduled to appear in provincial court on Dec. 16.

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Caribou hunting trip a learning experience for N.W.T. students, teachers

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When Chief Julius students returned from the hunt, they finished butchering the animals and put some of the meat in their school freezers. (Submitted by Justin Cormier to CBC News) When Chief Julius students returned from the hunt, they finished butchering the animals and put some of the meat in their school freezers.  The community of Fort McPherson is primarily Gwich’in (Submitted by Justin Cormier to CBC News)

Large groups of caribou have been hanging out along the Dempster Highway near the N.W.T./Yukon border

By Northwind, CBC News, Oct 25, 2015

If a recent school hunting trip along the Dempster Highway was a learning experience for the students, it was even more so for one of their teachers.

“I don’t think I’ll ever top that experience in terms of being a teacher and having that student-teacher relationship,” said Justin Cormier, a teacher at Chief Julius School in Fort McPherson. “That was one of the best experiences of my life.”

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More Fake 9/11 nooz

I can’t hardly stand to look at these videos…I get a sick feeling looking at them.  And all the questions going  unanswered.

Here’s one by the folks who had the previous video on CGI graphics:

The video below shows very clearly that the planes were inserted via CGI:

Good God.  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the whole of them murdered 3,000 people.  And you hear the actors pretend screaming when the pretend plane “hits” the building.

All soulless bastards who participated in this fakery while people died…

…while our Constitution died…

Communications 101

You know, I would have loved to gone on to get my Masters and PhD in Communications and taught at the college level…but alas…

Here’s the next best thing, however —

Three really good videos illustrating Communication techniques.

First we have Crow’s very good primer on one of the persuasion principles: belief.  The other is: values.  If you value material things, they have a much easier time of manipulating and motivating you.  People will kill another human being to gain possession of their material things.

Next, we have George W. Bush weaseling out of the responsibility of the White House to inform the public they are watching Video News Releases (VNR):

Note how Bush says the Bush Justice Dept.(that tried to fire all U.S. Attorneys) okayed the Bush Administration VNR’s so long as they are factual…according to the Bush Military Industrial Complex.  And when Ken Herman pushes him on requiring that the media disclose it is a VNR, Bush sidesteps responsibility.

Finally, we have computer generated imagery (CGI) used to deceive viewers.  In the first clip, the man and woman both have characteristic black lines indicating they were put into a scene.  They were probably in a studio in front of what they call a “green screen” that allows a computer to add background scenery later.

They don’t explain a lot in the 9/11 scene, only that they refer to it as a “movie”.  Do they mean that footage was shot,  then was altered, and then given to the media to air later?  I’ll put another video up that explains the media’s role in creating the lie of the planes bringing down the WTC towers.

Robbie Parker is clearly acting.  What a fake.  He’s smiling like he has no cares, and then goes into acting mode.  Good Lord.

When she says “when they rendered it” — she is talking about when they take the raw tape and put it into video editing software.  She says that they just didn’t want to take the time to refine the quality of the video to sharpen the video subjects, which is good for us, I guess, making it easier to spot.

The next one is quite obvious a green screen.  It’s almost laughable how they are trying to pass this off as live reporting in front of the U.S. ship.  So…is this a VNR from the Military Industrial Complex?