Something a little different,

Thank You
Earl


THIS IS RARE FOOTAGE OF GEORGE HARRISON AND FRIENDS
This rehearsal was for Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert

This is a link to a PBR radio show "Science Friday". It's very interesting and touches on "big Ag's" use of antibiotics, pesticides and healing qualities.

Knowing a few people with food allergies made me want to post this, as the "bugs" are like "crustaceans" and send the same allergic reactions.

No, it doesn't taste like chicken,
Earl


May. 17, 2013
Insects May Be the Taste of the Next Generation

sciencefriday.com/segment/05/17/2013/ins...ion-report-says.html

Funny, how certain things hit you when your reading something.
Thank You
Earl

Jeff stated,

And someone else also noted that Syria is the only Russi-friendly nation giving it port access in the Mediterranean. I'm not enough of a military specialist to know whether this is really seen as having much significance.

Russian Pacific Fleet Warships Enter Mediterranean

en.rian.ru/military_news/20130516/181177...r-Mediterranean.html

VLADIVOSTOK, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A group of warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet entered the Mediterranean waters for the first time in decades, a fleet spokesman said on Thursday

“The task force has successfully passed through the Suez Channel and entered the Mediterranean. It is the first time in decades that Pacific Fleet warships enter this region,” Capt. First Rank Roman Martov said.

The vessels are now en route to Cyprus and are scheduled to make a port call in Limassol.

The group, including the destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the amphibious warfare ships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi, the tanker Pechenga and the salvage/rescue tug Fotiy Krylov left the port of Vladivostok on March 19 to join Russia’s Mediterranean task force.

The task force currently includes the large anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, the salvage/rescue tugs Altai and SB-921 and the tanker Lena from the Northern and Baltic Fleets, as well as the Ropucha-II Class landing ship Azov from the Black Sea Fleet.

The task force may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said last Sunday.

The Defense Ministry said in April Russia has begun setting up a naval task force in the Mediterranean, sending several warships from the Pacific Fleet to the region. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in March a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean was needed to defend Russia’s interests in the region.

A senior Defense Ministry official said the Mediterranean task force's command and control agencies will be based either in Novorossiysk, Russia, or in Sevastopol, Ukraine.

Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, head of the parliamentary defense committee, previously told RIA Novosti that the Mediterranean task force should be comprised of 10 warships and support vessels as part of several tactical groups tasked with attack, antisubmarine warfare and minesweeping.

The Soviet Union maintained its 5th Mediterranean Squadron from 1967 until 1992. It was formed to counter the US Navy's 6th Fleet during the Cold War, and consisted of 30-50 warships and auxiliary vessels.

DayOwl and Jeff,

Thank You, for your info and thoughts.

I'd like to watch how this bill goes. I feel it's a "building block" of what is to come. The numbers are staggering.


Grandstanding diversion tactics. They won't be cut. Big Ag and Big Food need those billions to stay afloat. Not to mention how JP Morgan makes millions every year off SNAP cards. They're not about to put up with any curtailment.


www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-flori...2ff305f35_print.html

www.communityfoodadvocates.org/blog/food-stamp-programs/


Think of this as the agricultural equivalent of "bail-ins". The public Treasuries are empty, the money-printing is already cranked-up to the max. If the Oligarchs want to do even more stealing (before the System collapses completely), then they must now TAKE that wealth directly from individual Victims -- one way or the other.

All very good input, again "Thank You",
Earl

House farm bill moves ahead with big cut in food stamps

www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-us...0130516?feedType=RSS

By Charles Abbott

WASHINGTON | Thu May 16, 2013 1:23am EDT

(Reuters) - A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially expensive expansion of federally subsidized crop insurance.

The House Agriculture Committee approved a five-year, $500 billion farm bill on a 36-10 vote. The next step will be debate by the full House, which is likely to start in June.

Congress is months late in writing a new farm law. The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced its version on Tuesday and the full Senate is set to begin debate on Thursday.

The House and Senate bills each end the $5 billion-a-year direct-payment subsidy, long a target of reformers, and spin off at least three new types of crop insurance.

Almost half the savings in the House bill would come from a $20.5 billion cut over 10 years in spending on food stamps for low-income Americans.

The House plan would restrict eligibility and require closer accounting of certain costs. It would be the largest cut in food stamps since the 1996 welfare reform law, experts say.

Food stamps are seen as the make-or-break issue for the latest farm bill, rather than crop subsidies, which have traditionally been the focus of debate.

An urban-rural partnership traditionally carries farm bills to passage - city lawmakers back generous farm subsidies in exchange for well-funded nutrition programs - but threatens to shatter this time around.

The farm bill died last year amid Democratic opposition to Republican demands for $16 billion in food stamp cuts. The bill was never debated by the full House.

A STEP TOO FAR?

"This goes too far," Democrat Jim McGovern said of the latest bill. The Massachusetts lawmaker lost 27-17 on a mostly party-line vote when he tried to eliminate the food stamp cuts in the new bill.

Iowa Republican Steve King said high food stamp enrollment would "expand the dependency class" and Austin Scott, a Georgia Republican, suggested it was unfair that "nutrition is getting five times as much as production agriculture" in the bill.

About 2 million people, or 4 percent of participants, would lose food stamps under language in the new House bill to eliminate so-called categorical eligibility, created by welfare reform, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan think tank.

Some 45.6 million people, many of them impoverished elderly or working-poor families with children, received food stamps at latest count.

While the bill expands crop insurance spending by $9 billion over a decade, it would cut traditional subsidies by $22 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Aides to Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas said the farm safety net would shrink overall.

Federal payments could surge above current levels if commodity prices fall sharply, said agricultural economist Vince Smith of Montana State University. When crop insurance and crop supports are considered together, "the government is responsible for a much larger share of any farm income shortfall," Smith said.

Cotton growers would get a special revenue insurance program to replace subsidies that the World Trade Organization says violated trade rules. The government would pay 80 percent of the premium. Peanuts would get a separate revenue insurance program.

"Companies underwriting federal crop insurance are likely to be among the major beneficiaries of the new farm bill when it becomes law," said analyst Mark McMinimy of Guggenheim Washington Research Group.

U.S. commodity prices are at historically high levels so farm program changes may not be felt immediately for most crops. However, the Senate and House farm bills set peanut supports slightly above the projected market price and raise the "target" price for rice by 27 percent to 33 percent.

Both versions of the bill would make slightly more land available for growing crops by shrinking the Conservation Reserve, a program that pays farmers to idle fragile land for 10 years or more. The House would cap the reserve at 24 million acres and the Senate at 25 million acres, down from the 27 million acres now idled.

(This story corrects the attribution to Smith from Lucas in the 15th paragraph)

(Reporting By Charles Abbott; Editing by Ros Krasny and Jim Loney)

Jeff,

A belated thought-

If we can talk about "de-evolution" in USA society.

Kinda figure, what could this bring to musicians ???

The messenger's, the last philosophers.

A dynamic I didn't think of.... at the time.

Thank You
Earl

This is probably my favorite "morning song".

Thank You
Earl

MORNING DANCE by Spyro Gyra

Dizzy is a morning favorite. He was so captivating to watch as a kid. This is a new selection I found. Just wanted to share-
Thank You
Earl



Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Giants Of Jazz Copenhagen 1971

And now this story told from days of our own
When gossamer doggies ran round
They'd patiently wait
With pieces of eight
So everybody could smile one more time
Yeah, poppies
Yeah, poppies

The End

Thank You
Earl



Songwriters: Reed, Lou
I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm goin' to try for the kingdom if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
Then I tell you things aren't quite the same

When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I have made big decision
I'm goin' to try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death

You can't help me not you guys
All you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
I put on a sailor's suit and cap

Away from the big city
Where a man cannot be free
Of all the evils in this town
And of himself and those around
Oh, and I guess I just don't know
Oh, and I guess I just don't know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead

When the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jims in this town
And everybody putting everybody else down
And all of the politicians makin' crazy sounds
All the dead bodies piled up in mounds, yeah

Wow, that heroin is in my blood
And the blood is in my head
Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead
Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
I pictured us at the end of time
Holding up a camera to our eyes
I took a picture of you, took a picture of me In the background of the picture was water running to the sea
So I pictured us standing there Just staying away from time Just watching it like a river As it slowly washes by, washes by
And now Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
The feedback loop is closing in so tight Surrounding ourselves with satellites
But I picture us standing there Just staying away from time Just watching it like a river As it slowly washes by, washes by
And now Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
And now Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking Pictures of people taking pictures
I pictured us at the end of time Taking pictures of nothing



www.metrolyrics.com/pictures-of-people-t...cs-jack-johnson.html

Physical gold and silver will be transferred from the west to the east as long as the precious metals are undervalued in the west. But that can not last for ever.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law

Jeff,

All three "Knack" albums Earl? Lol! I was feeling sheepish in confessing to owning their debut album (with "My Sharona" - lol). Most of the Bubble-gum Rock I actually liked as a teen I'll still listen to (and enjoy). But I have not been able to convince myself to "Get The Knack" again...

They were easy to learn to play guitar too. Fun, not too deep- LOL

I couldn't afford the albums "retail", the used record store was my "hang out". That and the.99 cent bend at Woolworth. I'd often just look at the studio location, didn't have a clue of the band. They called them "Cut Corners".

Then you get into sound, lighting, you get a song list and you go WTF??? The library had books with all the "song copyrights" and a brief Bio. I learned everything I could. Everyone had something, you could embrace.

Wild Cherry, he gave up. Pawned his guitar and was a cook. Quit his job and gave it one more try- hit number one. He still was playing that song at a Disney pavilion in 2000. I guess, you gotta respect that at some level.

The Knack,
Within months of their live debut, popular club gigs on the Sunset Strip, as well as guest jams with musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Ray Manzarek , led to the band being the subject of a record label bidding war.

I thought I was in pretty good company.

Gosh, all this time I thought if anyone knew I actually owned a "George Micheal" CD, that would be a sentence worse than - Oooops

Gotta Go-
Earl

The FDIC Illusion of Insured Bank Deposits


demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/fdic/fdic.html

Jeff,

Thank You, for taking a interest in DEVO. We get wrapped up sometimes and forget music is discovery and sometimes rediscovery.

I saw them around 1979. There story of witnessing the Kent State murders/shootings and at that point "was the de-evolution of society". Your comment in the coming collapse had me thinking about this one. It was great to "re-discover".

Thank You
Earl

Appreciate any input-

Thank You
Earl



Palm Beach County sheriff gets $1 million for violence prevention unit amid questions about civil liberties, care for mentally ill


www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-...prevention-un/nXbs4/

By Dara Kam and Stacey Singer - Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf.

Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed.

The goal will be avoiding crime — and making sure law enforcement knows about potential powder kegs before tragedies occur, Bradshaw said. But the earmark, which is a one-time-only funding provision, provoked a debate Monday among mental health advocates and providers about the balance between civil liberties, privacy and protecting the public.

Bradshaw said his proposal is a first-of-its-kind in the nation, and he hopes it will become a model for the rest of the state like his gang prevention and pill-mill units.

“Every single incident, whether it’s Newtown, that movie theater, or the guy who spouts off at work and then goes home and kills his wife and two kids — in every single case, there were people who said they knew ahead of time that there was a problem,” Bradshaw said. “If the neighbor of the mom in Newtown had called somebody, this might have saved 25 kids’ lives.”

Bradshaw is readying a hotline and is planning public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors, friends or family members if they fear they could harm themselves or others.

The goal won’t be to arrest troubled people but to get them help before there’s violence, Bradshaw said. As a side benefit, law enforcement will have needed information to keep a close eye on things.

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”

That’s enough for Senate budget chief Joe Negron, R-Stuart, who helped push through the funding last weekend.

He said he met with Bradshaw about the program and “got assurances from the sheriff that this is going to be done in a way that respects people’s autonomy and privacy, and that he makes sure to protect against people making false claims.”

Mental health advocates, however, worry about a potential new source of stigma, and the potential for erosion of the civil rights of people with mental illnesses.

“How are they possibly going to watch everybody who makes a comment like that? It’s subjective,” said Liz Downey, executive director of the Palm Beach County branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “We don’t want to take away people’s civil liberties just because people aren’t behaving the way we think they should be.”

Bradshaw acknowledged the risk that anyone in a messy divorce or in a dispute with a neighbor could abuse the hotline. But, he said, he’s confident that his trained professionals will know how to sort out fact from fiction.

“We know how to sift through frivolous complaints,” he said.

The proposal still needs the blessing of Gov. Rick Scott, who has line-item veto authority.

But if it goes forward, Palm Beach County’s already stretched mental health and substance abuse providers could find themselves even busier. There is no ready source of funds once the $1 million runs its course, as there hasn’t been an increase to community mental health funding in many years.

“Our community agencies throughout the state don’t have the funds to meet the needs they have currently,” said Bob Sharpe, CEO of the Florida Council for Community Mental Health. “It sounds like it could work, but with no new funding we’d have to find it within existing resources.”

If Bradshaw’s teams can keep people out of crisis units and promote early intervention, that has the potential to save money, said Ann Berner, CEO of the Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network, which manages mental health care payments for the state.

To be successful, however, there will have to be close coordination with the mental health providers, she said. For example, the county already pays for mobile crisis response teams at two nonprofit mental health providers, a service that includes a 24-hour crisis call center. They, too, are trained to de-escalate conflicts and refer troubled people to care. Which ones will respond when there’s a call from a school or a home? That will have to be clarified.

Also, after troubled people are identified by Bradshaw’s teams, then what? Who will pay for their care? The state? Medicaid? The county? The Palm Beach County Public Defender has a good program to ensure qualified people apply for the Social Security and Medicaid benefits they may need, she said. Some high-level conversations have started, but more are needed, Berner added.

“I think that would be an area we really need to collaborate on, and soon,” she said.

The $1 million Bradshaw won represents a third of what he had sought from the Legislature, but it’s a 10-fold bump from what was originally earmarked before House and Senate budget leaders finalized the state’s $74 billion budget over the weekend.

What's interesting in the following article is the fact, that a federal agency is attacking JP Morgan:

"But what is worst for JPM, and its brilliant (abovementioned) employee, often times credited with creating the Credit Default Swap product and market (simply an instrument to trade credit with negligible upfront collateral and thus allow equity option-like speculation in the credit realm), is that FERC may be seeking to throw the book at none other than Blythe Masters."

www.zerohedge.com/print/473544

When we take a closer look at the recent Canadian and German foreign policy, we can notice a new development. The last one to two years the governments of Canada and Germany tried "secretly" to strengthen their relationships with Russia.

www.canadainternational.gc.ca/russia-rus...laterales/index.aspx

www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58521

In my opinion both governments know very well what is coming and both want to build a base for the time after "the inevitable" has ocurred.

There will be a new common market formed by the BRICS and the gateways to this market are Russia and China in the first place. Btw. we speak about 40% of the world population.

In one point Mr. Putin and Mr. Medwedev have a different opinion compared to some governments in the west. Both do not want a one world government in the sense of the NWO, they plead for a multi polar powerstructure on earth.

security Conference Munich 2013:



What did Christoph Hörstel (geopolical commentator in Germany) said:

"Make no mistake President Putin is an oligarch, but he is patriotic one".

Redpill-

Sometimes I like to listen to modern classics - not every day.
Here are two examples from "Two Steps from Hell", composed by Thomas Bergersen.
This is definitely no music to calm you down.

Had it with my coffee this morning- Thank You

robinsld-
Your insight is fascinating much appreciated.

As kids this was probably our first exposure to "classical" music.

Thank You
Earl

Do we have to take it serious ?

www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/29/caught-...estrating-world-war/

For all those interested in permaculture...

www.occupymonsanto360.org/2012/04/25/int...free-video-lectures/

Peace,
Mertis

Jeff,

may be you like this classical stuff also:





I am a fan of Carl Orff.

Will they all get it ?

silverdoctors.com/chart-of-the-day-gld-inventory-exodus/

"This guy told my friend that there is a scramble by many very wealthy European families/entities to get their 400 oz bars out of the big bank vaults. He knows this personally, for a fact. He said the private banker community is small over there and the big wealthy families all talk to each other and act on the same rumors/sentiment. The Bundesbank/Fed and the ABN/Amro situations triggered this move. He knows for a fact JPM tried to calm fears about 3 months ago by sending a letter to it's very wealthy clients assuring them their bars were safe, in allocated accounts. He said right now those same families are walking into the big banks like JPM and demanding delivery of their bars or threatening to take their $100's of millions in investment portfolios to competitors. His wording was "these people are putting a gun to the heads of private banks and demanding their gold."

At some point there will be an even bigger "run on the bank" by those looking for delivery of the physical gold/silver that they have been "assured" is sitting in their "trusty" bank custodian vault. I know for myself that I have seen enough from the JPM's of the world to not trust anything they do or say. I think a lot more people are finally coming to that same conclusion. At some point there will be a complete collapse of trust in the paper monetary system and the price of gold/silver will really go parabolic, as the masses realize all at once - and far too late I might add - that everything that was rumored over the last 13 years about paper gold, gold leasing, etc is actually true."

truthingold.blogspot.de/2013/04/the-glob...er-bullion_6103.html

Government Seeks to Fine Companies for Not Complying With Wiretap Orders

By Kim Zetter

www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/fines-wiretap-noncompliance/

It isn’t often that communications companies push back against government requests to monitor customers and hand over information about them, but a government task force is seeking to make it even harder for companies to say no.

The task force is pushing for legislation that would penalize companies like Google, Facebook and Skype that fail to comply with court orders for wiretapping, according to the Washington Post. The cost of non-complying would be an escalating series of fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars. Fines that remained unpaid after 90 days would double daily.

Unlike telecommunications companies that are required under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to have systems that are wiretap-enabled, some internet communication methods — such as social networking sites and online gaming sites — aren’t easily wiretapped and are not required to enable the capability under CALEA. Companies that argue that they don’t have the means to enable wiretapping have avoided complying with court orders seeking real-time surveillance, the paper notes. The legislation is intended to force these companies into finding technology solutions that would enable real-time surveillance.

Microsoft reportedly applied for a patent in 2009 for a technology called Legal Intercept that would have the ability to secretly monitor, intercept and record Skype calls. Microsoft filed for the patent before it bought Skype in 2011.

The push for legislation to compel these companies to cooperate with wiretapping orders began in 2010 after Google initiated end-to-end encryption for Gmail and text messages, which made it more difficult for the FBI to intercept e-mail under a court order, the Post notes.

But critics like Matt Blaze, professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, have argued that the intercept capabilities introduce vulnerabilities (.pdf) that make it possible for foreign intelligence agencies and others to hijack the surveillance systems on communication networks and do their own spying.

The move to wiretap the internet isn’t new. The New York Times reported in 2010 that federal officials were seeking new regulations to wiretap the internet.

The piece noted that officials wanted legislation that would require all communications providers — including encrypted e-mail providers, like Google, social networking sites like Facebook, and messaging and voice services like Skype — to install the technical capability for wiretapping. Officials wanted these services to provide the ability not only to intercept and record communications but to and decrypt encrypted communications.

Officials argue that they’re not seeking new powers; they just want to extend the monitoring authority they currently have for telecommunications to other communication methods on the internet.