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Survey: 23 % rise in street homelessness in NYC – Published on Global Research.ca (first on World Socialist Web Site WSWS), by Ali Ismail, May 16, 2012.

… The New York-based advocacy group Coalition for the Homeless, which has frequently criticized the city’s annual street homelessness survey, cast doubt on the city’s findings when they were released last month. “Today’s release of the City’s street homeless survey estimates a 23 percent increase in street homelessness from last year and confirms what we already know – there are more and more New Yorkers sleeping on the streets and in the subway system each night,” Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst for the Coalition said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

• Die Klostertaler: Das Große Finale Live, 154.14 min;
• Die Klostertaler: Abschied-Medley, Teil 3 – im Musikantenstadl vom 07.08.2010, 9.50 min;
• HIT MIX (59 min. NON STOP mix muzyki LIVE) [HQ], 59,03 min;
• Zillertal Hitmix, 30 Jahre Musikantenstadl – 2011, 9.26 min;
• Zillertaler Haderlumpen Open Air in Zell am 06.08.2011, 9.24 min;
• Die Jungen Zillertaler Open Air 2010 in Strass / Zillertal, 9.08 min;
• Grand Prix der Volksmusik, 34.01 min;
• Die Starparade der Volksmusik, 41.17 min;
• Musikantenstadl am Weerberg 2012, 57.43 min;
• Grand Prix der Volksmusik 2010 – Alle Sieger der letzte 25 Jahre [HD], 14.36 min;
• Andy Borgs Neujahrs-Musikantenstadl: die 15 letzten Minuten im 2010,  19.34 min;
• Finale – Avsenik medley (Musikantenstadl im Maribor 1990), 10.03 min;
• Stoakogler: Abschiedsmedley, 5.21 min;
• Der Mega-HITMIX der Volksmusik, 21.17 min;
• Auf Tournee mit Ruperti Reisen, mit Hias aus dem Musikantenstadl, 85.11 min.

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Charles Hawley, May 7, 2012.

Germany’s right-wing populists are fond of insulting Islam in order to attract attention. On Saturday, violence prone Salafists took the bait, resulting in a riot that left 29 police injured. Despite the clash, however, the anti-Islam party can continue to display their anti-Islam caricatures, a court has decided.   Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Patrick Stewart and Shakespeare, on this blog on May 6, 2012:

• Star Trek Convention Las Vegas 2010: NIMOY, SHATNER, STEWART, DORN, SPINER, 6.24 min;
• Michael Dorn (Worf) tells a funny Patrick Stewart story at Fan Expo 2010, 1.11 min;
• Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes Panel at Emerald City Comicon 2011, 34.47 min;
• Sir Patrick Stewart, 33.10 min;
• Patrick Stewart Panel, 41.33 min: Chicago Wizard World had Patrick Stewart for a very special panel hosted by Chris Hardwick;
• Patrick Stewart at 2012 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, 41.37 min;   Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Patrick Stewart and Star Trek, Talks, Conventions and other Comics, on this blog on May 7, 2012.

Patrick Stewart turned his back on Hollywood to return to England:

• Sir Patrick Stewart (1/2) HARDtalk, 14.08 min;
• Sir Patrick Stewart (2/2) HARDtalk, 10.30 min: Patrick Stewart will be instantly recognisable to millions around the world as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. Or as Professor Charles Xavier of X-Men. But after 17 years in Hollywood, he’s turned his back on it to return to England and to venues like London’s Young Vic – to his first love – Shakespeare and the theatre. In his latest role he’s even playing Shakespeare. So why choose small audiences in venues like this over the glamour of Hollywood?

Shakespeare:    Read the rest of this entry »

• DEUTER – Seven sacred pools, 9.25 min.
• Deuter – Gaia Dreaming Herself Awake (Garden of the Gods), 7.45 min;
• DEUTER & KAMAL & ANUGAMA – REIKI WELLNESS {.PARA MI SEÑORA MARIE DE A.}, 67.57 min;
• REIKI (spa), 56.44 min;
• Zen Garden, 61,03 min;
• Kamal – Water Healing / Dreamcatcher / Heart Initiation (Shamanic Healing), 28.02 min;
• DEUTER – 14 top tracks videos in autoplay;
• Chill Out Relax Music – Wonderful Meditation Mantra – Guru Guru Waheguru, 31.40 min;

*****   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Phil Rockstroh, May 2, 2012.

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural trajectory of unregulated capitalism tends towards hyper-authoritarian excess, even towards fascism. Moreover, by the standards of capitalist ideology, and exacerbated by the rigged nature of economic and social arrangements—large segments of society are deemed losers, and, resultantly, will grow restive, if scapegoats aren’t invented to mitigate a sense of humiliation and displace rage.    Read the rest of this entry »

listen to the 86th of 200 small videos in autoplay: Tea Party Meets Occupy Richmond … and to all the rest, if you have time …

Published in Chiropractic UAE /latest newsletters.

Game-changing plays in any sport and at any level are tremendously exciting. Whether we’re watching Pop Warner football, middle school recreational soccer, high school basketball, or Major League Baseball, an extraordinary athletic play makes us stand up and cheer. If our team takes the lead as a result, so much the better … //   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Socialist Project, by Richard Fidler, April 25, 2012.

A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec’s largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar sands and shale gas development, opposition to the Quebec government’s Plan Nord mining expansion, support for radical measures to protect ecosystems, and other causes. And many wore the red felt square symbolizing support to the province’s students fighting the Liberal government’s 75 per cent increase in post-secondary education fees over the next five years. The Earth Day march was the largest mobilization to date in a mounting wave of citizen protest throughout the province.   Read the rest of this entry »

• Brian Greene: Why is our universe fine-tuned for life, 21.48 min, on TED talks, April 2012: At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science’s biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows how the mind-boggling idea of a multiverse may hold the answer to the riddle …  Read the rest of this entry »

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Des paroles et des actes, 140.18 min;
• Mélenchon-Parole-de-candidat, 63.20 min;
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon à Expliquez-vous, 43.48 min;
• Mélenchon: C-politique-France5, 70.17 min;
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon face à Jean-François Copé, 29.21 min;
• Mélenchon face à un banquier, 9.27 min;
• Jean Luc Mélenchon à Salut les Terriens, 10.17 min;
• Intégral: Jean-Luc Melenchon contre Marine Le Pen, 49.21 min;
• Mélenchon explose et déstabilise Marine Le Pen, 10.44 min;
• MÉLENCHON PULVÉRISE WAUQUIEZ ET LA RÉFORME DU RSA, 2.53 min;   Read the rest of this entry »

Other countries would love to import Germany’s economic model. But its way of doing things is a lot less amenable to export than the wares it produces – Published on The Economist, April 14, 2012.

THE European Central Bank controls Europe’s currency from Frankfurt, Germany’s financial centre. Beckhoff Automation, in a bucolic corner of Westphalia, controls the bank. Or more precisely, its devices control the bank’s lighting and ventilation. Other Beckhoff gizmos raise the curtain and dim the lights at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Yet more are embedded in luxury sailboats, in dancing fountains outside Las Vegas hotels and in half the wind turbines made in China.   Read the rest of this entry »

• Externsteine, on en.wikipedia: are a distinctive rock formation located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe of northwestern Germany, not far from the city of Detmold at Horn-Bad Meinberg.[1] The formation is a tor consisting of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills …     Read the rest of this entry »

Find on YouTube:

• Scorpions – Live At Wacken Open Air 2006, 139.11 min;
• Scorpions – Get Your Sting & Blackout 2011 (Live at Saarbrucken), 114.00 min;
• Scorpions – Acoustica COMPLETO, 118.37 min;
• 81 top tracks on YouTube for the Scorpions, in autoplay.

depth: 4.700 meters on YouTube:

- in english /subtitled in norwegian, 92.32 min, uploaded by Artas1984 on Jun 20, 2011;

- in german /in 9 episodes, uploaded by technikfreak1994 on 28 Nov. 2010: Teil 1, 10.00 min;  Teil 2, 10.00 min;  Teil 3, 10.01 min;  Teil 4, 10.00 min;  Teil 5, 10.01 min;  Teil 6, 10.01 min;   Teil 7,  10.00 min;   Teil 8, 10.01 min;  Teil 9, 10.54 min.

see also Bismarck wreck: images on panoramio, place on Google Earth: 48° 43′ 11.86″ N – 11° 36′ 5.62″ W, etc … Read the rest of this entry »

Published on The Economist, April 12, 2012.

HIGH-SPEED currency trading uses oodles of computing power to exploit short-lived price differences in international foreign-exchange markets. Jonathon Keats proposes an alternative: exploit the electrical differences between currencies to power a low-speed computer. In an exhibit which opens on April 12th at the Rockefeller Centre in New York Mr Keats, a concept artist (or, as he likes to call himself, an experimental philosopher), introduces the notion “electro-chemical arbitrage”. An engineer might call it a battery … // Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Sherine Abdel-Razek, 5 – 11 April 2012. /ec1.htm

With Egypt’s politics dominated by Islamists, the financial market has developed a love for Sharia-compliant products. With Egyptian newspaper headlines signalling Islamists’ increasing hold on politics, the economy pages are regularly filled with information on all kinds of investment products that adhere to Islamic principles. Sharia law bans both interest and speculative trading.   Read the rest of this entry »

Watch these videos on YouTube:

• Changing Paradigms, 55.20 minutes: Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last?
• Bring on the learning revolution, 20.57 min: … Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning – creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish …
• Creativity, Learning and the Curriculum, 29.27 min: … talk at Learning Without Frontiers …
• Educating the Heart and Mind, 48.59 min;
• A New Direction, 41,45 min: Bridge Building, connecting the Arts and Schools in London. A New Direction asked Sir Ken Robinson to reflect on the current challenges around creativity in education.

at the World Puja Network Show – Friday April 13, 2012 – (Please post and circulate widely) – Received by Newsletter, From CSETI, Date: 05/04/2012

UFO & Energy Secrecy: How it is maintained from early 1900s thru the present, Dr. Greer will be joined by Dr. Ted Loder to discuss the complex issue of UFO and Energy secrecy.  They will discuss how since the early 1920’s energy solutions have been suppressed and how the energy and UFO issues are related.  From T. Townsend Brown, to Jimmy Dolittle, the 3rd Reich, Barry Goldwater … This will be an in-depth discussion of history from a different perspective.

The World Puja Network.org (conversations), air time: April 13, 2012:
11 am Pacific/ 2 pm Eastern – and – 6 pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern.

See also: Disclosure Project.org; Orion Project.org; CSETI.org; Steven M. Greer, USA.

Voyez cette vidéo, publié dans YouTube, 146.32 minutes / 2.26′32 heures:  … Quels sont les fondamentaux de l’Éducation Nationale? À quoi sert-elle? Y a t-il eu des alternatives? Quelles perspectives pour l’Éducation Nationale? …

… et, si vous n’avez que quelques minutes: Altergouvernement, par Franck Lepage, le 3 février 2012.

Published on ZNet, by OccupyWallSt, April 03, 2012.

In another sign of the Occupy movement’s diversifying tactics and growing spring momentum, yesterday Occupy San Francisco liberated a vacant building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and announced plans to establish a permanent occupation – including a social center, shelter, and food bank – on the site. The April 1st action began with a lively march from Union Square before arriving at the building just before 6pm. When they arrived, Occupiers who had already secured the building greeted the marchers with open doors.  Read the rest of this entry »

Liberals and leftists vow to continue their protests at the Islamist monopoly over drafting a new constitution – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Khaled Dawoud, 29 March – 4 April 2012.

… El-Shobki, an expert at Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, has long supported reconciliation between Egypt’s political Islamic groups, led by the Brotherhood, and its secular elite. He was among the few non- Islamist members of the constituent assembly elected during Saturday’s joint meeting of the People’s Assembly and Shura Council.  Read the rest of this entry »

juste reçu par e-mail: A Toulouse, un balcon bien encombré, paru dans AGORA Vox, lundi 2 avril 2012.

History: Persepolis recreated, by Omidir:

• part 1/5, 8.38 min;
• part 2/5, 9.52 min;
• part 3/5, 8.52 min;
• part 4/5, 10.30 min;
• part 5/5, 3.22 min.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on en.wikipedia:

• Paititi is a legendary Inca lost city or utopian rich land said to lie east of the Andes, hidden somewhere within the remote rainforests of southeast Peru, northern Bolivia or southwest Brazil. The Paititi legend in Peru revolves around the story of the culture-hero Inkarri, who, after he had founded Q’ero and Cusco, retreated toward the jungles of Pantiacolla to live out the rest of his days in his refuge city of Paititi. Other versions of the legend see Paititi as an Inca refuge in the border area between Bolivia and Brazil …   Read the rest of this entry »

• Wakatobi Dive Resort, UW video 2007, 10.55 min;
• WAKATOBI NATIONAL PARK, 5.40 min;
• Kraylen’s Reef - Target Mandarin Attacking Helpless SPS colony, 1.34 min;
• Coral Reef Adventure, 1-4 HD 720p, 14.09 min;
• Coral Reef Adventure, 2-4 HD 720p, 14.41 min;
• Coral Reef Adventure, x-4 HD 720p, 6.40 min;
• Coral Reef Adventure, 4-4 HD 720p, 10.44 min;
• Reef Corals Up Close 2009, 720p HD, 7.48 min.
• Diving Sharm el Sheik, in HD, 5.41 min;
• Scuba Diving, Dry Tortugas Reefs, 2.01 min;
• The World’s Best Dive Destinations, in HD, 5.35 min;
• Coral Reef Adventures, part 1, 2.02 min;
• Fish at the Coral Reef – Mayan Riviera Sony HD, 6.35 min;
• Edis Paradies: 1. mov, 1.53 min; and 3. mov, 1.04 min.

Published on ZNet, Interview by Koritha Mitchell and Jamilah King, March 22, 2012.

The unprovoked killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has sparked widespread national outrage, particularly among black Americans. The particulars of the case are, at best, tragic, and at worst, horrifying: Martin was visiting a friend of his father’s in a small gated community outside of Orlando, sporting a gray hoodie and armed with a pack of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Along the way he became a target of nearby resident George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old member of the local Neighborhood Watch, who thought the teen looked “suspicious.” Zimmerman then shot and killed Martin—and, so far, it’s been with legal impunity, protected in part by Florida’s expansive definition of self-defense … //   Read the rest of this entry »

• TRUK LAGOON “NIPPO MARU” WRECK, 6.11 min;
• Deep Wrecks of Truck Lagoon by Clay Wiseman, 8.44 min;
• Tragedy of Truk Lagoon – La tragédie du lagon de Truk, 2.23 min;
• Scuba Diving the Wrecks of Truk Lagoon, 5.09 min;
• USS Saratoga, Bikini Atoll, 4.08 min;
• ship wrecks, 4.18 min.
• Return to Midway, 2.48 min;
• Bismarck, 3.39 min:
• Thistlegorm, by f64se on 6 Apr 2010, 4.48 min;
• Ghosts of the Thistlegorm – Le fantôme du Thistlegorm, 8.10 min;
• Sea Wreckage of World War II, 6.21 min;
• Deep Wreck Mysteries – Die Wracks von U325, U400 und U1021: 1/7, 9.42 min; 2/7, 6.13 min; 3/7, 5.56 min; 4/7, 6.44 min; 5/7, 7.49 min; 6/7, 6.48 min; 7/7, 8.05 min;
• Return to Titanic (2005) National Geographic Channel, 41.46 min: Robert Ballard returns to Titanic 20 years after her discovery.

Published on Raw Story, by AFP, March 19, 2012.

Asia leads the world when it comes to weapon imports, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI. Globally the volume of international transfers of majorconventional weapons was 24 percent higher in the period 2007-11 compared to the 2002-06 period, the report said.   Read the rest of this entry »