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Make sure you don't have any presents from these naughty companies! Many nice people will buy naughty presents because they don't know what these companies have done directly against their right to know about GMOs.  #GMOs #RightToKnow #LabelGMOs #VoteWithYourWallet  For more information about the laundered money by these companies and the GMA use this source link: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/10/18/pepsi-coke-nestle-top-multi-million-dollar-campaign-against-i-522
Make sure you don't have any presents from these naughty companies! Many nice people will buy naughty presents because they don't know what these companies have done directly against their right to know about GMOs. ‪#‎GMOs‬‪#‎RightToKnow‬ ‪#‎LabelGMOs‬ ‪#‎VoteWithYourWallet‬ For more information about the laundered money by these companies and the GMA use this source link:http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/10/18/pepsi-coke-nestle-top-multi-million-dollar-campaign-against-i-522

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The suppression of science in Canada is getting so bad that academics (not raving extremists) are moving past comparing it to Bush's America and are now comparing Stephen Harper's government suppression of science to Stalin's Soviet Union! Read about the similarities here: 'In the Soviet Era as in Canada: Science Suffers Under Authoritarian Rule' http://bit.ly/18zsNA0 The New York Times editorial board has accused the Harper government of seeking to "guarantee public ignorance" by muzzling federal Canadian scientists. "This is more than an attack on academic freedom. It is an attempt to guarantee public ignorance." http://huff.to/1fJbr5M Harper conservatives Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Canadian Scientists >http://bit.ly/IN16KB Globe and Mail: Censorship is alive and well in Canada – just ask scientists http://bit.ly/JeBDKY Toronto Star: Harper government’s muzzling of scientists a mark of shame for Canada http://bit.ly/19Exwy2 Stephen Harper over the years has apparently styled himself after the former Soviet dictator, utilizing portions of Joseph Stalins' philosophy in order to divide and conquer, in order to keep himself in power. http://bit.ly/1dEFPN7 "Harper's choice of reading material has disturbed even some of his own party members. A senior conservative cabinet minister (who asked that the national post do not release his name) claims that: Harper had "read and mastered" the biography and leadership style of Russia's Communist dictator Josef Stalin, and said the prime minister has adopted some of the same tactics. "He plays people off against one another, he attempts to inspire fear rather than respect, he is unpredictable and he is 100 per cent focused on eliminating the opposition," the senior Conservative explained." Reference: 'Stephen Harper's reading material', Allan Woods, CanWest News Service, September 16 2006: -D



Do you want to help stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project? The oil companies are spending tens of millions of Canadian taxpayer dollars to push it through, in order to mass extract our non-renewable resources and destroy our pristine wilderness. But, we can fight back by still getting our message out on street, in the malls, etc: No Enbridge - No Pipelines - No Tankers - No Problem!

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"The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) procurement provisions are significant because they open up procurements by the provinces/territories, municipalities and utilities, which were previously shielded from disciplines under international procurement agreements such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Federal procurements will also be subject to the procurement disciplines in CETA, but this is not new because these procurements have always been subject to WTO and NAFTA disciplines."

http://www.mccarthy.ca/article_detail.aspx?id=6579#utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=inter-article-link


The EU summary of what CETA means for them.

"50% of the total expected gains for the EU are related to trade in services, 25% to the removal of tariffs and the remaining 25% of the GDP gains can be reached by the dismantling of Non-tariff barriers (NTB).

The benefits from the Agreement in the area of NTBs are estimated to result in a €2.9 billion gain for the EU and €1.7 billion for Canada."

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/canada/
"The CETA will be NAFTA-plus, a 21st century agreement addressing provincial procurement, agrifood trade, geographic indications, patent protection and other matters far beyond what’s in the NAFTA. These provisions will ultimately be enforceable through a binding state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism.

As well as state-level arbitration, the CETA will give binding arbitration rights to private investors to litigate against governments in cases where it is alleged that the treaty’s foreign investment obligations are being infringed. EU investors will be able to invoke these rights against Canada, including where the provinces and municipalities fail to live up to CETA’s terms. Canadian investors, of course, will have the same rights vis-à-vis European governments."

http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/e-brief_169.pdf
"Cracking down on who can remove information from departmental networks, banning unsecured portable devices, and imposing strict security guidelines on government smartphones and iPads, including the ability to remotely wipe their contents in the case of Correctional Services Canada, have been given more prominence in the wake of the data breach at Employment and Social Development Canada."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/26/federal-department-sought-to-ban-usb-drives-to-curb-risk-of-privacy-breaches/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter




In less than a week, on January 1, the most popular incandescent light bulbs - 40W and 60W bulbs - will no longer be made or imported into the U.S.




66 FOOT DROP IN CAVERNS WITHIN THE SALT DOME! That explains why the cracks occurred in the levee around the sinkhole! "Texas Brine advised that the tagging of Cavern 3 is at 4,076′ which is 66′ lower than the tagging performed two weeks ago. As information becomes available, it will be shared here."
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"If an economy goes full-on Mad Max and we're all reduced to bartering, the survivors are going to be more interested in useful goods than in a soft metal useful mostly for ornamental purposes."
These tests are a waste of time. Let's find a better way to educate the next generation of students. - Mischa Nachtigal


Cops are serving a foreign master?
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Talk about JUSTICE DENIED.

Most people would agree that modern slavery is a curse - but how many know that it is also expensive?  CLICK to learn more about the little-known realities of modern slavery. http://bit.ly/1bBNDjZ
Most people would agree that modern slavery is a curse - but how many know that it is also expensive? CLICK to learn more about the little-known realities of modern slavery. http://bit.ly/1bBNDjZ

Upworthy
Nailed it.

Thanks to Raise The Minimum Wage for the image!

Nailed it.   Thanks to Raise The Minimum Wage for the image!
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26 Dec - Blogs I'm Following

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50 years ago today: The Beatles

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 minutes ago
*On December 26, 1963*, *hastily pushed up in response to public demand, Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There." It wasn't the first Beatles release in the U.S., but it was the first by the group's official label, and the first properly promoted and distributed. The rest, as they say, is history.* *by Noah* As a youngster in the early 1960s, I had a portable radio. You’ve heard of "a boy and his dog" going everywhere together. Well, for me it was a boy and his radio. And it was always tuned... more »

Imágenes con mensajes de Año Nuevo realmente fabulosas

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 hour ago

Some Governors and Common Core: “Hot Friends Cooling”

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
Hoping to advance your own political career? Better be quiet about Common Core. Amazing how a number of formerly outspoken, pro-CCSS governors have strategically opted for silence (or some other form of distance) regarding the now-highly-charged CCSS. New York: Andrew Cuomo It seems, for example, that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become somewhat of […]

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Is The Long Feared Fukushima Radiation Plume Already Hitting The American West Coast?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
I have been tracking events pertaining to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March, 2011, for well over two and one half years now, and what I see is a situation that is absolutely not improving at all.... The fact is, readers, that the media and our own governments have been lying their asses off now for that entire period of time, and this disaster is absolutely NOT under control, period.... There has been growing fear that the full brunt of the Fukushima radiation would be hitting the west coast of both the United States and Canada by the end of this year, or even sometime in earl... more »

Back From A Much Needed Break

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
Yes, I am back... And I will be resuming writing articles, and of course my weekly rant, very shortly.. It was a much needed break... I was seriously suffering from burnout the last few weeks with a horrendous work schedule, family issues and needs, and of course trying to keep up with this blog..... It does get very depressing to see how bad this planet has been ruined by the Jewish criminal elite, and even I have a feeling of helplessness at times in not reaching enough people to fight their sick goal of world domination. I have watched over the last while as factions within this... more »

before the onion, before the yes men, there was the post new york post

laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago
One day, as I was getting off the subway on my way from Brooklyn to my workplace on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, people were handing out these tabloids. I never learned who made them, where they came from, or where they went. But I'm so glad I saved my copy all these years. It's a whole newspaper - news, sports, weather, ads for fake movies, personal ads. Brilliant. In case you can't read the date, it was 1984. And special bonus from one decade later, *The National OJ*. I had to scan them in two parts, but they are each tabloid size.

after eight years, i have a less-than-ideal observation about ontario health care

laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago
Since moving to Canada in 2005, my experiences with Ontario's health care system have been extremely positive. Through the public system, my partner and I have been able to access health care whenever we needed it, in convenient and pleasant settings, at no cost - that is, paid for with our taxes. The quality of care has been at least as good, and often superior, to anything I experineced in the United States. I love our public health care system, and I would love to see it expanded.* Single-payer, nonprofit health care is the only system that makes any sense. When I fractured my f... more »

blek le rat

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours ago

"I Have Nothing BUT Contempt for This Court..."

Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge on Tuesday twice expelled Ramzi bin al-Shibh — one of five Guantánamo Bay detainees facing a death penalty trial — from a courtroom at the military base there in Cuba after he disrupted proceedings by shouting about his treatment. Col. James L. Pohl, the judge presiding over the pretrial military commission hearing, clashed with Mr. bin al-Shibh at the start of both the morning and afternoon sessions. Each time, Mr. bin al-Shibh began loudly complaining about torture instead of answering a question from the judge about whether he understood his r... more »

Ed Snowden's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth

Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
Well, of course. The US Government asked Verizon if they could put in a man-in-the-middle tap on ALL their customers communications, and they said "Yes. " Because that's totally legal. It's their property, their hardware, their infrastructure. They just didn't tell their customers. But why should they? They're not obliged to. They certainly never said that they wouldn't. What's your point, Ed?

The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 2: Beware the Girl Scouts, Sheldon Adelson, and more

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
[*We continue the encore presentation of Noah's 2012 Idiocracy series. When I told him I was rerunning the series (begun last night with Part 1), he replied, "Running Idiocracy works fine. Repug nuttery is, unfortunately, timeless." And don't forget his new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?"*] *FOX "News" in the age of Idiocracy* *"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now beg... more »

Bears on ice

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago

DNA presence or absence and transference not mere "common sense"

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
R v Pruden, 2013 CanLII 83110: [13] The nature of the DNA evidence in this case was not straightforward and I agree that expert evidence was required to explain the significance of its *presence* or *absence* in respect of particular locations. See *R. v. F.M.*,2009 ONCA 485 (CanLII), 2009 ONCA 485 at para. 20, 250 O.A.C. 257. That is, the requirement for expert evidence regarding the transference of DNA can also include situations where the jury is asked to draw an inference from its presence as well as from its absence. See *R. v. Robinson (C.L.)*,2003 BCCA 3... more »

Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTAFGIM_0w

Egypt and Turkey: Destabilization and Destabilization

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago
Unsurprisingly, truly unsurprisingly, the new *saviours* (alleged) of the Egyptian people have now labelled Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization" Yawn. This convenient branding will be used to further degrade and destabilize Egypt. But,* Egypt i*s not going to be alone in this campaign of destruction. The labelling or branding/rebrand of Muslim Brotherhood as a 'terror' group bodes very ominously for* Erdogan and the Turkish people.* As I had mentioned way, way back in this July post: *Rebranding the Arab Spring to Reorder the Middle East/Africa* *Brief digression for back... more »

NETANYAHU WANTS WAR WITH IRAN, OBAMA DOESN’T; IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

If only it were. If it were just up to Obama there would be no war until he decides there will be. But he’s just the President and, while he wields a lot of clout, at the end of the day he has a Congress to answer to. If Obama put his foot down and said ‘no’ to Netanyahu launching a strike against Iran then Netanyahu wouldn’t do it. While there’s been a lot of talk of Netanyahu launching a unilateral strike against Iran, there is no way that he would do such thing without knowing that the US would come to Israel’s aid if Iran decided to retaliate – which it almost certainly would.... more »

ALEC PR Poobah - Twisting the Words to Protect ALEC's ...

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
Oh, my - - - - - - On Stand Your Ground - which was pushed by ALEC legislators from 2005 to April 2012 - #LicenseToKill *Meierling was quoted *as saying. “Every single person also knows that we no longer have any model policy on that issue, or any firearms issues for that matter.” Push come to shove -* that's not true, really - not true* Some of the "policies", not found on ALECs webpage. On welfare drug testing - which was introduced to ALEC legislators at the November 2010 ALEC meeting. *Meierling declined to say *if the staff at ALEC endorsed the idea of drug-testing welf... more »

Log in snow

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago

The man accused of killing a TSA agent in LA last month has his trial scheduled for February 2014

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
Three or four months for a high profile first degree murder case. Hmmn. In Canada we'd be looking at two years minimum. Maybe closer to three to four years ,,,

Annual Report of the Red Mountain Pilgrimage

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 6 hours ago
Well, I’ve survived yet another trip around the sun, and I hope you have, too. It’s been an interesting year, and a good one. I’m busy doing the work I was meant to do, and it’s finding an audience that appreciates it, and respects me. It’s a bit sad that I spent so many years hauling stone blocks up the latest pyramid, but I was always learning, too. It takes time to make sense of this world. I never imagined that, at this point in my life, there would still be so many fascinating new things to learn I’ve been living in the hermitage for four and a half years now, on a wee b... more »

Leonard Peltier's Christmas Message 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
By Leonard Peltier Censored News Greetings my relatives, friends, and supporters: In this season of giving, receiving and acknowledgement of blessings, I want to acknowledge all of the people who have helped me all of these years and I want the supporters outside the United States to know I appreciate them also. Sometimes I am at a loss for words. Some of you probably have experienced

Is Turkey As Corrupt As Wall Street? New Jersey?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Last night you may have heard me grousing about how Martin Scorsese left out the real life political corruption in the story of the Jordan Belfort scandal that shook Wall Street in the '90s. Belfort gave thousands of dollars to notorious Wall Street shill Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and, at D'Amato's urging, a check for $100,000 to the RNC in a vain hope to get the FBI off his back. Scorsese left that out iof his 3-hour film, *The Wolf Of Wall Street*, which opened yesterday. Maybe Scorsese left that chapter of Belfort's corruption out of the movie because no one would even fin... more »

A story of revolution….

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 hours ago
The King and his policymakers gather in a large building making laws for the people in lands far from the towers of the capital. The leaders imposed a biased system of judgement that took away the opportunities for localities to make their own decisions. People proclaimed that citizens should be judged by their “peers” instead […]

Esto es cancer....fotos

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 7 hours ago
*Como es la costrumbre de hacer comentarios propios antes de los articulos. Se le sugiere que lean el articulo publicado en el 2006 de una revista de salud en la Gran Brettania.* *Se trata de una posible cura....Un estudio secreto que aun no se ha publicado. Esta al final* *Otro asunto, En los estados unidos no hay, ni permiten injecciones de Vitamina C no gasten su tiempo preguntandoles a sus doctores Americanos. La unica solucion es ingerir tabletas de Vitaminas C con accion prolongada/demorada, por la sencilla razon de que nuestro cuerpo no puede almacenar la Vitamina C como lo ... more »

ALECer DirectTV Spreading Trash Across USA

2old2care at Because I Can - 7 hours ago
Been awhile - had some issues to deal with - but I'm back now. Had an interesting discussion today about DirectTV - ALEC member - DirectTV. DirectTV putting those ugly dishes on top of every roof they can and then - - - abandoning them. *True story - * Person I work with bought a house that had a DirectTV dish on the roof. They wanted a higher level of service - so DirectTV comes out to put a new dish on their roof. While they are there my collegaue asks them to remove the old dish - DirectTV says no and leaves. Now my co-worker climbed up on the roof - removed the ... more »

Bitcoin news - December 23 , 2013 -- Thousands of Hoarded Bitcoins Flood the Block Chain in Mystery Transaction ( caused by old time miners , large exchanges , long term early adherents , Silk Road or other blow us ? ) .... Singapore Regulators decline to interfere with Bitcoin.....News anchor learns valuable lesson about BitCoin security.....4 Million buck Icelandic BitCoin mining consortium....Silk Road Accused wants his BitCoin back from the Government .....

Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
December 24 , 2013...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/bofaml-asks-end-bitcoin BofAML Asks "Is This The End Of Bitcoin?" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2013 17:13 -0500 - Bitcoin - China - Renminbi - Switzerland - Volatility - Yuan inShare Following David Woo's initial $1300 fair-value price target for Bitcoin, the BofAML strategist has had to suffer through some significant changes; not the least of which is China's increasingly strict Bitcoin regulation. The shifts, he notes, *raise key ques... more »

BBC Openly Sides With Regime - Portrays Protesters as Violent, Anti-Democratic

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
A regime run by a convicted criminal hiding abroad would be unacceptable in any other country in the word and it is unacceptable in Thailand too. What's unacceptable worldwide, is also unacceptable here.*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Thailand is currently run by Thaksin Shianwatra. Thaksin was not on the ballot during the last general election, nor was he even in the country, but as the New York Times reported in their article, "In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype," he is still very much in charge: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the mo... more »

Catholics behaving badly...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
*via the Blaze.* Like a ton of other houses of worship on Wednesday, St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach held a Christmas Day service. And like most congregations, St. Patrick’s offered those assembled in the sanctuary some special music to celebrate one of the holiest days on the church calendar. But it’s safe to say few, if any, had Andrea Bocelli singing during communion. *read the rest* Now check out what some in the congregation did immediatly after receiving the body and blood of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Catholics believe in the true presence - or at least... more »

THINKING ABOUT SWORD AND CROWN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago
*MB and I with our favorite gals at the Addams-Melman House yesterday. We were looking at the new book called "Even Aliens Need Snacks"* *Our neighbors house grows icicles* - MB works for an organization that runs a homeless shelter/soup kitchen in Portland. It's a 45-minute drive from here. In Maine jobs are few and far between so people have to move around to work. She must be "on call" during the holidays because her turn came up in the supervisor’s rotation. So last night, Christmas night, at 12:30 she was woken by the beeper signaling her that she had to ... more »

TRIMMING THE BLING

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago

VAM, Sham, Thank You Ma’am

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago
Here’s a short, but hopefully sweet, three-minute speech on why I believe VAM is an unfair measure. ~ @angelcintronjr Tagged: teaching, vam

The Foisting of the Rejoicing

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 10 hours ago
It's time once again to (belatedly) dust off that old seasonal standard, *Barack and Michelle Do Christmas.* Talk about Deja Vu all over again*.* No wonder Thomas Friedman is reportedly Obama's favorite columnist. Not only do these chin-stroking dudes share the delusion that endless repetition is a virtue, they share the same audience: an exclusive set of elites who never tire of being told how virtuous they are when they temper their endless acquisitions with an occasional spurt of noblesse-oblige. So without further ado, The Obama Christmas Carol, 2013 version: THE PRESIDE... more »

Dystoian wisdom

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
If you can not go north head south.

Things to make your life easier...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
*like how to store those Christmas lights.* For years I've wound my strings of light around egg cartons. It works well, but does take up more space so I switched to pieces of cardboard. Here's another neat idea: How to Store Christmas Lights Around a Coat Hanger

John Foster Dulles vs William O. Douglas-- The Conservative Mind vs The Progressive Mind

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago
Lately, I've been writing a bit about a book I'm reading, Prediposed by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford. As I mentioned the other day, one of the themes is that "liberals and conservatives report distinct personality and psychological tendencies and have different tastes in all sorts of things from art and sports to personality traits and vocational preferences… Conservatives' cognitive patterns reveal a comfort level with clarity and hard categorization while liberals are more likely to value complexity and multiple categories." Another book I'm reading-- and loving th... more »

The Fordham Strong Arm of Letter Grades for State Standards

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
In my previous post, The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform, I cite the 2009 Broad Foundation report in which a number of major reformer “participants” told America of the reforms it might expect to be in place in 2012– one of which is the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Among the list of “participants” […]

Childish, anti-White ADL Jews denounce John Friend as "anti-Semite"

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago
Two days ago, Access ADL, the official blog of the White-hating, Jewish supremacist propaganda and intelligence gathering organization known as the Anti-Defamation League, *posted a blog* denouncing yours truly as an "anti-Semite" in an effort to not only defame me, but also David North, a fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. Mr. North *appeared on The Realist Report* last Wednesday, where we discussed the EB-5 visa program and the proposed "China City" scheduled to be built in New York state. True to form, the pathetic, childish, classless Jews writing for Access ADL spe... more »

Thailand: Regime Escalates Conflict - Deadly Mayhem Ensues

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters sought to occupy the Election Commission venue at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok for the third day today in attempts to disrupt the regime's show-elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, but were met instead by regime police. Clashes ensued, with police firing rubber bullets indiscriminately at protesters, bystanders and journalists alike. Tear gas flooded the streets of the densely populated urban district, forcing residents to flee and schools to prematurely close for the day. Police restrained and th... more »

My Best Books in 2013

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago
This year I am joining The Perpetual Page Turner in an end of year book survey. If you want see all 110 books I read this year, I would love for you to friend me on Goodreads. 1.Best Book You Read In 2013 by genre? - Contemporary YA – The Fault in Our Stars, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic – The Testing - Historical Fiction – Dark Triumph and Grave Mercy - Paranormal – Clockwork Princess and the Vampire Academy Series - Science Fiction – Parallel - Fantasy – Siege and Storm - Fairy Tale – Entwined 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought ... more »

Crackdown On Protest Site In Iraq’s Anbar Province Seemingly Averted

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
After several attempts at reconciliation between Anbar’s provincial government and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the on-going protests there events turned for the worse in December 2013. The premier claimed that the demonstration sites were a base for Al Qaeda and demanded that they be ended, and hinted at a crackdown. Just before that Sheikh Hamid al-Hayes accused the death of his nephew upon the Ramadi protests as well, and threatened to use violence unless the perpetrators were turned over to him. It seemed like either the government or Hayes’ tribe was about to storm ... more »

Interview With Global Politics On Iraq In 2014

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
Here’s a recent interview I did with Bob Tollast for Global Politics entitled “Who can bring unity to Iraq in 2014?”

Celebrating Arbaeen In Iraq's Karbala Dec. 22-23, 2013

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
In the middle of December 2013 thousands of Shiites from around the world celebrated Arbaeen by making a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala where the Shrine of Imam Abbas resides. These pictures are from Agence France Presse's Mohammed Sawaf showing pilgrims in Karbala on Dec. 22 and 23, 2013.

"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
*"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"* by Bill Bonner "It's been "Bureaucrat Appreciation Week. Just when we had lost all respect for them, we notice a countertrend. It's time for us to get in step. So, today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us... To the TSA agents at airports... to the IRS agents who audit our tax returns... to the NSA agents who read our emails... and to zombies everywhere... To all of you, we'd like to say a heartfelt "Go f***k yourself." No... no... no... We meant to say THANK YOU! Yes, dear reader, we'v... more »

TRIMMING THE SAILS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago

World's BIGGEST blog - day 4

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 13 hours ago
Lake Superior - the world's BIGGEST lake

Trifecta: How to Make Obamacare "Cool"...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*hear the latest bad healthcare idea.* "Embrace the suck young Americans" Young people are not interested in enrolling in Obamacare. Some have suggested making Obamacare cool. Is this even possible, and will Obamacare "cool" encourage the young and uninsured to sign-up for Obama's signature health care plan? Find out.

EPIDEMIC RADIATION EXPOSURES AND DEATHS IN JAPAN DUE TO THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR MELT-DOWN HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. ALSO COVERED UP HAVE BEEN LOWER BUT UNRELENTING QUANTIES OF WIND-CARRIED RADIONUCLIDES REACHING NORTH AMERICA. THIS RADIOACTIVE FALL-OUT IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT LEAST TO 2020. SO EDUCATE YOURSELFS AND YOUR LOVED ONES OF THIS THREAT AND LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY!

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago
------------------------------ Gundersen: All of Japan is contaminated, gov’t covering up enormous exposures to public; Epidemic is just beginning — Evacuee: We are in fact dying in Fukushima; What happened to us will soon affect all Japanese people (VIDEOS) Published: December 16th, 2013 at 8:54 pm ET Original Here By ENENews Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds, Dec. 16, 2013: The Japanese parliament has just passed the state secrets law. It’s really an information ‘iron curtain’ that’s preve... more »

Our Politics And The Loss Of Community

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
*The Tyee* has dusted off a piece which Murray Dobbin wrote four years ago. It's worth a read. Dobbin maintains that progressives have been infected by the same consumer culture that is destroying our politics and our planet: We have known for years that our consumer culture is out of control and our obsession with having more and more stuff has reached the status of a virus. Our consumer-driven global economy is a lethal threat to the planet and every one of its ecosystems. The lock that consumerism has on Western so-called civilization is formidable -- a virtual death-grip on o... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*We thought the LSU football story was a joke; now we learn Koch & smart-ALEC is buying entire university departments ~Louisiana Voice* *Washington Post: U.S. Loss of Ecologically-Sensitive Wetlands Staggering ~Gulf Seafood Institute* *Wood product said rotting in 'green'-built homes ~Richard Thompson, New Orleans Advocate*

Predictions 2014

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
God Reveals. This is the year all the teasers of this cycle of civilization are revealed. Men now have the power of Gods at their fingertips. The wisdom gap remains huge. Stephen Harper. He drops out. Well not quite he gets a seven figure job. Jim Prentice is the new leader of the PC. USA Congress goes back to democrats. Americans will no longer pay to eat a shit sandwich. Afghanistan goes back to normal. A medivels society where pedophilia is not only part of the culture, it defines the problem. After defending pedophilia for a decade, the west says, so hard to turn around a perve... more »

Christmas Was Yesterday-- But It's Never Too Late For These Words Of Warning From The AFL-CIO

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
The New York State AFL-CIO did the above video in regard to their own state. But there isn't a state in the Union that it doesn't apply to. Where is this not relevant: "We need to start looking at things from the perspective of the workers who call our state home, not the corporations who call Ne York their tax break layover." And they offer solutions that aren't in the forefront of politicians who cater to the 1%-- the entire Republican Party and the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Blue Dogs, New Dems, Third Wayers, et al. "We need to develop industries that crea... more »

Pointless Sacrifice

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
Thinking Aboot Edward Snowden. Will his sacrifice make any difference? Thinking Aboot the fate of the Chinese Tank Commander. And IO9 reminds me how Superman Man of Steel went off the rails. Movies cost millions to make, is there no one left who can say, thats just stupid, cut it out? BTW I do not Think Aboot the video as gospel. I was in Hong Kong that day, it was fantastic, and millions in the streets protested. It changed nothing.

Cadillac a metaphor for America

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
When I was growing up, a very common expression was it was the Cadillac of something. Thats the Cadillac of hockey sticks. Thats the Cadillac of steaks. etc etc. I think this idea ended the day they brought the Cinarom to market. Today Cadillac is fighting its way back to the top. Sadly it can no longer carry America in its trunk.

Local shop

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago
So. The M & S thing turned out to be a molehill, not the mountain it was cracked up to be. The current ‘truth’ appears to be (at the time of writing) that one solitary devout Muslim checkout assistant refused to handle pork’n’booze, whereupon the management okayed their fundamental right to practice quaint cultural practices. So. Not, as was recklessly disseminated in the media, M & S management dictating a policy of appeasement with all the unforeseen ramifications and counter-productivity entailed. It seems that the group who most objected to this impracticable proposal were M... more »

"[T]he only [U.S.] data from 2011 that we had was on newborns with hypothyroidism. Every baby in this country, every newborn baby is tested for certain diseases, one of which is hypothyroidism. And we looked at California ... and we looked at the changes in the rates of hypothyroidism for the nine months after Fukushima compared to the previous year, and we found a 26 percent increase in the rate of hypothyroidism.""[T]he doses in Japan are hundreds, thousands of times higher than they were on the West Coast. Unfortunately, there have really been no studies in Japan except for one, and that is one that's being done by the Fukushima Medical University. They haven't looked at hypothyroidism, but what they've done is this: they have taken 200,000 children under age 18 who live relatively close to Fukushima, and they tested for two things ... [one of which] was thyroid cancer. And they have found up to 59 children have thyroid cancer. In a normal population, it's very rare in children. In a normal [case] we would expect one or two. They have 59.""Second thing that they found is they through ultrasound look at the child's thyroid gland for precancerous lumps, you know, what they call cysts and nodules. And so far, 56 percent of children near Fukushima do in fact have a precancerous cyst or a nodule. And every year it gets higher--two years ago, 35 percent, last year 45 percent, this year 56 percent. Pretty soon we're going to find that almost every child in the area has a precancerous growth on their thyroid gland."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago
------------------------------ Original Here *Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster* Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in connecting the increase of hypothyroidism in newborns on the West coast to the Fukushima nuclear disaster - *December 23, 2013* More at The Real News *Bio* Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP). The group is the only one in the U.S. with a specific mission of producing research on health hazards of nuclear ... more »

War Watch December 26 , 2013 - US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’ , meanwhile Baghdad Christians targeted during Christmas holiday ......Iran MPs Push Enrichment Bill to Retaliate for US Sanctions .....Truce Set to End Siege on Town Outside Damascus - The rebel-held town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, on the outskirts of Damascus, is set to disarm as a condition for the military ending its siege against the town.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Iraq....... US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’Experts Doubt Move Will Halt Soaring Violence by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2013 Print This | Share This Eight months of worsening violence in Iraq have many concerned, and the Obama Administration is rush shipping large numbers of drones and missiles to the Maliki government to “confront al-Qaeda” with. Sectarian violence has been soaring in Iraq throughout the summer and into the winter, with spillover from Syria and internal resentment over Maliki’s reneging on power-sharing agreements combining to start a bloody civil... more »

The Etymology of "Miracle": On the Politics of Lies

P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
My doctoral work was a trifecta of marginalized scholarship since I attained an EdD (shunned second cousin to the PhD) by preparing a qualitative dissertation (closeted step-cousin of the sainted quantitative paradigm)—an educational biography (a mish-mash of a non-academic field, education, with a popular but lowly literary genre, biography) of Lou LaBrant (Thomas, 2001). My scholarship on biography helped me understand the roots of why academia shuns the biography: Biography began as hagiography, fabrications spun to praise manufactured heroes instead of scholarly tomes crafted to... more »

If you want to believe

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 16 hours ago
More non truther evidence.

Jaws in 30 seconds, performed by cartoon bunnies

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
Sheer genius!

wmtc winter break goes low-tech

laura k at wmtc - 17 hours ago
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season: I'm not busy. I always hear how "everyone is so busy this time of year" and "this is such a crazy time of year, you can't get anything done," but that never reflects my experience. We don't travel to see family, we have no extra social events, and we don't do Christmas shopping. Many years ago, we used to send a huge pile of winter-holiday cards, but we've gone digital with that, and we don't do it every year. So Christmas is an extra day off, and here in the Commonwealth, we have Boxing Day, too. Two days o... more »

Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
*Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle* by ÉirePort Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle. Planetary Energetic Healing streams are purposed to hu-being energetic correction as well as Hue-Being energetic upgrading. Birthing of what has been called "Nova Gaia" is now in process, and likely completes within the so-named "2014" period. Mastery classes are ongoing for all Hue-Beings, at Higher Levels of awareness. ÉirePort | December 25, 2013 at 19:47 URL: h... more »

Johnny Depp - Transcendance - full trailer

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 20 hours ago
We've all seen The Lawnmower Man... ...actually, we haven't. Only I saw it, with a few of my pervy chrome-sex friends; one night at a teenage video+beer party. It looks like Johnny Depp has now remade that film, sorta ... calling it TRANSCENDANCE. Filed under: NUCLEAR WEAPONS because this is where the future lies, irradiated.

JFK, THE MAN IN THE MASK, SATANISM, STEPHEN WARD

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Stella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny. "Mariella was part Jewish, she was actually quiet proud of that and spoke Hebrew." *(NightHawk: The Czech Night Hawk) *Mariella Novotny* played a sex game, called 'nurse and patient', with *JFK.* She was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia and of being a tool of the British security services. She may have been used by some shadowy elite that involved agents of Mossad, the KGB, the CIA and MI6. According to fellow prostitute Christeen Keeler, Mariella was originally Stella Capes, but she changed her name to Mariella Novotny beca... more »

Edward Snowden's Christmas Message Video 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
*December 25, 2013 * NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his 'Alternative Christmas Message' via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have "no conception of privacy." READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vkc7ab

Don't Be Foolish By Those In Authority In 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago
Washingtons Blog, 24 December 2013 Don’t Be Foolish Albert Einstein said: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth. Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to *absurd lengths *- and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said. Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us. In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely *running* D.C. and on ... more »

Edward Snowden - Christmas Message - Asking is Always Cheaper than Spying.

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago
So, it's 'all very nice' that whistleblowers like Edward Snowden have taken it up themselves to unsheet the spectre of surveillance that was haunting all our movements, transactions, ways of life. He was even kind enough to deliver a Christmas Day Message from his new home in Russia: But what is THE SECRET SERVICE really for? It's definitely NOT for 'our safety at home and abroad'. The Secret Service exists to maintain 'the security of corporate ownership' via patents pending where profit is won or lost on the random revelations behind some corporate non-disclosure agreement. Th... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours ago
Frosted bluebonnets in Texas. [RC McKee photo]

Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing, Documentary on Origins of Trance Music, Ecstasy As A Treatment For PTSD, And Sufi Whirling Dervishes

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
*I. Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing.* *Wikipedia: * Count Arnold Alexander Keyserling (February 9, 1922 – September 7, 2005) was a German philosopher and theologian. He is the son of Hermann Graf Keyserling and great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck. Quote from the video below: *"One thing is common to all transformation rites, the so-called rites of passage. These assume that man has two levels of consciousness. The normal, everyday consciousness, and that of joy or ecstasy. Whilst, for Western psychiatry, trance is an extra-ordinary experience, religion views... more »

Thursday Morning Post X-Mas Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 23 hours ago
Well, I hope you survived the crush of end of term and then the crush of family and holiday stuff, if you are in to that kind of thing. In the meantime, if you stepped away from the media, what did you miss? Well, South Sudan is on the brink while the Central African Republic Continue reading

"The Wolf Of Wall Street" Opened Today

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
It's another Scorsese-DiCaprio project-- there have been 5 so far-- so there has been plenty of fanfare. Based on the true story of Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort, anyone who had hoped the movie-- or the discussion around it-- would serve as an opportunity to take a serious look at Wall Street corruption will be sorely disappointed. It's as if Scorsese made a conscious effort to avoid it, and left out-- like 100% left out-- the ties between the Republican Party and the breathtaking Belfort scandals. There was no Senator Alfonse D'Amato character in the movie taking bribes. An... more »

Thailand: Regime Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Protesters' Heads

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Regime violence will only increase number, resolve of protesters - sham elections being disrupted. *December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Several protesters have been sent to the hospital as police began firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and using chemical laden water fired from water canons at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok. Reports and images from the clashes indicate that police have been firing rubber bullets at the heads of protesters, an illegal method that will only escalate tensions and attract more protesters - as was seen early December when protesters b... more »

2012: The Year That "Idiocracy" Moments Broke the Scale, Part 1

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*As our friend Bil pointed out in a comment on our colleague Noah's Sunday evening post "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?," Noah has not done one of his traditional blockbuster multipart end-of-year holiday series. I'm afraid plates have been rather full in the Noah household this holiday season, but I thought what we might do is to repeat last year's enormously popular series based on one of Noah's favorite films, Mike Judge's Idiocracy.* -- Ken *2012 was the year of the memorable "Idiocracy moment" when a Republican presidential candidate couldn't count to 3.* *b... more »

Christmas Eve in Holten, Netherlands

Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago
At 4:30pm on Christmas Eve, hundreds of Dutch schoolchildren set a candle before each of 1,394 burial plots marking the graves of Canadian soldiers who died liberating their town a few days before the end of the Second World War over 60 years ago. An unofficial remembrance ceremony marked every year by the people of Holten, Netherlands. I reckon if Steve were to attend, he would likely spontaneously burst into flames. .

South Sudan

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
*Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first President of South Sudan. * *His trademark hat was a gift from United States President George W. Bush.* "The oilfields in the South have kept the region's economy alive since 1999. South Sudan has the third-largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa. The economy of South Sudan is one of the world's most underdeveloped with South Sudan having little existing infrastructure and the highest maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates in the world as of 2011. South Sudan exports timber to the international market. The region also contains many ... more »

Merry Merry

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
DJ! has been kinda sleepy lately, for which we apologize. But we'd like to wish all our readers a safe and serene holiday, if you get/celebrate one. And to our Toronto friends and others hit by the ice storm and power outage, here's hoping you get through this crap as well as you can. ((((hugz))))

A Christmas Message from Edward Snowden

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] RuTube Edward Snowden’s alternative Christmas message demanding an end to mass surveillance was broadcast at 4:15 p.m. GMT. Original post follows below the video. British television’s Channel 4, known for broadcasting “unusual but relevant” figures’ holiday messages as opposed to the Queen of England’s annual speech, has chosen whistle-blower Edward Snowden to convey this year’s address. Snowden, who is responsible for opening our eyes to the omnipresence of the National Security Agency’s surveillance, was recorded by ... more »

Un-invented App Un App sin Inventar

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 day ago
Every a single person alive and dead has said the following words, "Remind me" Every one has said it and will say it.... The App that would be the most useful to the Mrs. and me would be a voice activated run in background just waiting for you to say those words "Remind me"...This app would then Via voice prompt ask you a few questions, such as, "Remind you what?" It would then take notes and say, "When? It would then use the calendar mode to remind you. This is the App we are waiting for.... More, Mas Cada persona viva y mueta han pronuciado estas palabras, "Recuerdame" Todos lo... more »

Leaving This Town

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
I followed Sam Youngman for only a short while on the twitter. I found him to be pretty much a pompous ass promoting bad policy. As the kids say, ain't nobody got time for that. So guess I missed his metamorphosis because I was surprised his longish goodbye note to DC was so self-aware. It's Politico, so be warned, but it's worth reading in full. Not even going to excerpt it, except this one line which captures the theme: In Washington, a divided America is good for business. And good for the insiders who run the place. Rare to find a insider that would say that out loud, but the... more »

The world's BIGGEST blog - day 3

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
Big Time Sensuality Big Audio Dynamite Big Yellow Taxi

Rockerfeller's Bane - The Biggest Boondoggle of Them All

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
*"...Machiavelli notes '..there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things...'"* "Following the attacks, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy (*$7B*), based on the two -- in Silverstein's view -- separate attacks. The insurance company, *Swiss Re, paid Mr. Silverstein $4.6 Billion — a princely return on a relatively paltry investment of $124 million.* There’s more. You see, the World Trade Towers were not the re... more »

It's a Wonderful Life... : COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
*To: The Director* *D.M. Ladd* *COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY* *(RUNNING MEMORANDUM)* There is submitted herewith the running memorandum concerning Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry which has been brought up to date as of May 26, 1947.... With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "scrooge-type" so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a commo... more »

Vito Rizzuto, Canadian mobster, dies age 67

CM at LILITH NEWS - 1 day ago
Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto has died. He suffered heart failure yesterday at the age of 67. Rizzuto was the head of Canada's biggest crime syndicate. More info to come.

"A Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
A Hallelujah Christmas by Cloverton. www.clovertonmusic.com "Hallelujah" originally written by Leonard Cohen Video by Wooten Media Productions LYRICS I've heard about this baby boy Who's come to earth to bring us joy And I just want to sing this song to you It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah Hallelujah A couple came to Bethlehem Expecting child, they searched the inn To find a place for You were coming soon There was no room for them to stay So in a manger filled with hay God's only Son was born, oh Halleluj... more »

Kaliningrad

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Sweden's former prime minister Goran Person once described Kaliningrad this way: "It is heavily polluted. There are illnesses there like AIDS and tuberculosis. There is atomic waste. You find almost every imaginable problem in Kaliningrad."

Micah Ali: "How Can Children Learn If Their Parents Are Unemployed?"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Micah Ali talks with a father at drop-off time outside McKinley Elementary's preschool classroom Micah Ali is an old friend of mine who I met through People For the American Way's Young Elected Officials Network. Blue America has endorsed him in an election next year for a seat in the California state Assembly. But right now he's still the head of the Compton School Board. This week Deepa Fernandes of KPCC hailed him as Compton's foot soldier for universal pre-K. Born and raised in Compton, Ali has spent six years on the school board-- a job that pays $0-- because he says he wants ... more »

A Christmas Wish

ancient clown at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
*ancient's BIBLE* It is my Christmas Wish for people to recognize, understand and share the Spiritual TRUTH that religions and corruption have distorted. The GOLDEN RULE, by which ALL others shall fall into place. It is NOT; "Do unto others..." It IS; "LOVE Thy Neighbor as you LOVE GOD and LOVE thyself." LOVE your humble servant, Pope Vincent

North Korea: Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Anti-aircraft Machine Guns: Report

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un *Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Antiaircraft Machine Guns: Report* The Huffington Post | By Alana Horowitz Posted: 12/24/2013 2:30 pm EST http://goo.gl/tlPznT Shocking new details have been revealed about the execution of Jang Song-thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle. The New York Times reports that the Jang's death was the end result of a brutal gun battle between Jang supporters and those of the regime over who controlled key land. As the Times tells it, Kim's forces were ordered to take back control over important fishing grounds that Jang had prev... more »

The Winds of North Africa

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Thought you might find this satellite image interesting. The bands of wind and rain coming out of Africa heading for Rome.... The weather forecasts say the winds are only 35mph here but we know that to be false, trees are down all over here, and winds are gusting up to 80mph and more.... *CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE...*

Shiny Brass Plates on Banks

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

Happy holidays

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
If it's in keeping with your celebration...

Iraq Christians Celebrate Mass In Baghdad's Karrada

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
The following pictures are from Agence France Presse's Sabah Arar showing Christians in Baghdad's Karrada attending mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean Church on Dec. 15, 2013.

Your house was paid for when you signed the note.

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*We said this a year ago but its good to see the information is getting more mainstream... I learned something new here in Morocco that I didn't know before. In Morocco the car title stays with the car even when you rent one. Its the renter's obligation to carry the title with them at all times in case the rental car is stolen. I asked Heather why that was a requirement here but not in the USA. She told me that all USA car titles are owned by the World Bank, which they monetize, and even when you request your title after you pay off a loan it says on the back "this is not a car ... more »

How they made Gravity

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Warning spoilers do not watch before you have seen the movie

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Sunday Classics preview: "Broadway in a Box"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 21 minutes ago
*by Ken* I was looking at this box, *Broadway in a Box*, that I got for some agreeably modest price as an Amazon special -- 25 cast recordings of Broadway musicals, mostly Original Broadway Cast recordings, but with seven revivals mixed in, four from Broadway and three from the Music Theater of Lincoln Center. I only had two on CD, and one of those wasn't an original-label reissue, so I figured what the heck. So I was looking at the box, which contains an interesting selection. Not necessarily the 25 I would have chosen from the RCA and Coiumbia musical-theater vaults (all now in... more »

Alan Waldman: 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' Was Brilliant British Sketch Series

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 56 minutes ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: This was most people’s first exposure to the highly original comic genius of English national treasures Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who wrote and performed many classic sketches. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have

Syria's Neighbours On Edge: A Corruption Scandal In Turkey And A Political Assassination In Lebanon Bring The Region Closer To Chaos

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 hour ago
There are over half a million Syrian refugees in Turkey. In October, *Reuters reported*, "The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 600,000 and more than 400,000 of them are living outside refugee camps, the Turkish disaster management agency said on Monday." There are even more Syrian refugees in Lebanon, who account for as much as 20 percent of the overall Lebanese population. According to the UN, the official number is a little under 800,000, but "Lebanese authorities say the exact number could be even higher since many of the Syrian refugees are unregistered and undoc... more »

Snowden the Spook

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 hour ago
• Raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and later moved to Maryland. • Attended a community college, but never completed his coursework and never graduated from high school. • 2003-2004: U.S. Army, discharged after training accident • 2005: NSA, Security Guard, University of Maryland. • 2006: CIA, IT security. • 2007-2009: CIA, diplomatic cover, Switzerland. • 2009-2013: NSA Contractor, Dell and later Booz Allen Hamilton.

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Eight years after Hurricane Katrina and West End still lies unrepaired ~Troy Gilbert, GulfLatitudes.com*

Thailand: Another Protester Killed as Regime Thugs Do Drive-By at Rally Site

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 2 hours ago
Same violence seen used by Thaksin Shinawatra in 2010, now unfolding again. *December 28, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - At approximately 3am Saturday morning, regime gunmen drove by the anti-regime rally site near Chamai Maruchet Bridge and gunned down one security guard - leaving several others injured. This comes one week after the regime's "red shirt" supporters began threatening an armed campaign of violence against protesters if the regime's sham elections were disrupted, and just after this week's violence in Din Daeng where one policeman and one protester were killed. In the l... more »

The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 3: Republicans Seek to Create a New Country. It's Called Crackpotopia!!!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
[*We continue our encore presentation of Noah's Idiocracy series. And don't forget Noah's new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?,""50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles," and "A Tale of Two Popes -- the one in the Vatican and the one in North Carolina."*] [*On Wednesday Noah began chronicling a spate of 2012 "Idiocracy moments" that recalled for him Mike Judge's 2006 film Idiocracy, a look 500 years into the future at a world gone, well, you know. Yesterday he was back with more, and still his list of sightings overflowed. So today we have Part 3.*-- Ed.] *by Noah* All hail... more »

"I'll be back..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Roger Waters, Radio KAOS, “Tide Is Turning” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66nqhVtq6xo Obviously something pretty catastrophic happened health wise here, and I have to suspend any blog activity for at least another few weeks while recovering from 4 coronary artery bypass grafts, without surgical intervention I'm assured there would have been be a zero chance for survival, so I'm grateful for that. Recovery is usually 4-12 weeks, and this is only week 2, so not a real happy camper at the moment. Thank you for your patience as this new phase of life begins, I wish only the very bes... more »

Bail conditions not reasonably connected to purposes of bail are unconstitutional

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 3 hours ago
R. v. Thompson, 2013 NSPC 124: [8] The purposes of a constitutional bail system were described by Lamer J. (as he then was) in *R. v. Morales*.[1] They are not hard to grasp: bail is structured to get the accused to return to court as required, prevent the commission of further offences, and prevent the commission of offences against the administration of justice; public safety and evidence preservation are implicit in this. [9] In order for bail to be reasonable, it makes sense that the conditions of bail must be reasonable. A condition imposed upon the liberty interes... more »

spaceship earth

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours ago
buckminster fuller

Las mejores Imágenes para fin de Año Gratis

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 5 hours ago

In Memory Carter Camp, Ponca

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
Carter Camp on far right at Wounded Knee March 1973. In Memory of Carter Camp, Ponca Carter Camp on far left. Photo Brenda Norrell Carter Camp has passed over to the Spirit World. In memory, a note of thanks for Carter and all of those present for sharing this special day in 2004. Prayers for a good journey, Brenda, Censored News By Brenda Norrell Human Rights Editor UN

Sovereignty 101:Installment 2 - Cultivating Power

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
What is happening now is exceptional. There are no moments before this one that you can call on as reference. None have gone through such a time as you now navigate. You have no historical figures, no guidelines, no memories to shape the world for you – to color your actions so you do this the “right way”. There is no “right way”, no “wrong way” – there is your way. Each thought, word and action is creative. Your co-creators, your “oppressors”, those found on and off planet are all participants in the formation of this new era. Do not assume that any greater power is held b... more »

Focusing and clarification of all Gaia Higher Dimensional energetic constructs occurs at this moment

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
*Focusing and clarification of all Gaia Higher Dimensional energetic constructs occurs at this moment* by ÉirePort Focusing and clarification of all Gaia Higher Dimensional energetic constructs occurs at this moment. *"Novelty"1 energy items are being discarded* along with all grids which support such. Authenticity is currently required for all new energetic and (so-called) Light Work. Flash Points of understanding come for non-resisting Hue-Beings, as well as hu-beings. The "Hue-Beings / hu-being" designation is now fading rapidly. Global Gaia awakening is near. ÉirePort | D... more »

NSA news for December 27 , 2013 .....The NSA's Massive Phone-Tracking Program Is Legal, New York Judge William Pauley Finds - this decision is in conflict with the decision of another Federal Court , Judge Richard Leon , who ruled the NSA's "indiscriminate and arbitrary" invasion of privacy is "likely" unconstitutional .... On to the Court of Appeals and US Supreme Court it would appear to resolve the conflicting decisions....Meanwhile back at the ranch , what does it all mean ? Is the mass culling producing useful intelligence - pertaining to fighting international terrorists ? On that point , it should be noted that ..... NSA Can’t Make Sense of Masses of Culled Data Too Much Useless Data, Warns Former NSA Coder William Binney .... Cutting through prior lies , Stanford Study: It Is Trivially Easy to Identify People With Metadata .... .....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/nsas-massive-phone-tracking-program-legal-new-york-judge-finds The NSA's Massive Phone-Tracking Program Is Legal, New York Judge Finds [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 12:15 -0500 - Israel - national security - New York City - New York State inShare Less than two weeks after Federal Judge Richard Leon ruled that the NSA's "indiscriminate and arbitrary" invasion of privacy is "likely" unconstitutional, giving a trace of hope that America may *rise above *its Orwellian Banana repub... more »

Target customer alert December 24 , 2013 - Target hackers are believed by at least one major bank ( JP Morgan Chase and Santander perhaps ) to have stolen encrypted bank PINs - CONTACT YOUR BANK - Change PINs at a minimum , consider the replacement of your debit card ...... Note both JP Morgan Chase and Santander Bank have lowered limits as to debit card withdrawals and purchase ! Target story getting bigger as now two Banks have reduced withdrawals and spending limits on debit cards , class actions suits multiply - first by customers but the Banks are going to " target " Target also ..... Was the hack internal or did the hack come through point of service technology ? Krebs on security articles discuss Target hack , the black market for credit cards and who is running the scam

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://rt.com/usa/us-banks-magnetic-card-target-651/ ( The use of outdated technology in US ( when compared with Europe and Canada ) gives thieves an edge - banks and retailers share blame for US weaknesses ) ​Magnetic swipe: Obsolete credit card tech makes US prime Target for fraudsters Published time: December 22, 2013 21:57 Get short URL [image: AFP Photo/Anne-Christine Poujoulat] AFP Photo/Anne-Christine Poujoulat Share on tumblr <iframe id="_atssh899" src="http://ct1.addthis.com/static/r07/sh142.html#iit=1388065319136&tmr=load%3D1388065317878%26core%3D1388065318088%26main%3D13... more »

Mike Pence's Secret Santas

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 7 hours ago
by Doug Martin As we enter an election year here in Indiana, it is time for all of us to start peering in on the campaign records of our beloved state politicians and the front groups that are their publically-secret Santas. So here are a few of Gov. Mike Pence’s, and they are many of the same people and corporations who funded former Indiana and Florida supt. of education Tony Bennett. *ELI LILLY: SWINGING BOTH WAYS* Eli Lilly’s PAC, this October, gaveGovt. Mike $10,000. Lilly, in its various shapes and forms, has been a big player in privatizing Indiana public schools and cl... more »

No shortage of high-tech workers

skrashenatSchools Matter - 7 hours ago
Sent to the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 27, 2013. In "Its no sin to be rich," (Dec. 27), Richard Riordan and Eli Broad state that jobs that don't require higher education "have left the country" and the "good jobs" that will stay require technological know-how. They conclude that we must work harder at educating our workers in technology. It is not clear that there is a demand for high-tech workers. In fact, some studies conclude that there are too many qualified candidates. Rutgers University professor Hal Salzman has reported that there are approximately three qualified graduates ann... more »

Today The Fed Soaked Up A Record $95 Billion In Excess Liquidity Sloshing Around ...........while the Fed music is playing the bankers and traders will dance........ just beware the music will stop and most likely suddenly !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Today The Fed Soaked Up A Record $95 Billion In Excess Liquidity Sloshing Around [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 15:48 -0500 - Liquidity Bubble - Reverse Repo inShare Once upon a time, back in 2010 and 2011, the Fed's Primary Dealers would engage in a furious game of window dressing at the end of every quarter, when they would sell their risky assets, and convert them into cash, a phenomenon which could be followed on the Fed's Primary Dealer asset holding page, and which we would showcase periodically such as on the chart below... more »

The Republican War Against Women [cont.]: "Doonesbury" explores the GOP's "Lady Problem"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
*DOONESBURY -- Wednesday* [*Click to enlarge*] *"Okay, I might've said it, but I was probably drunk."* *-- how GOP pols should not respond to queries about"Lady Problem" gaffes, says their special consultant* *by Ken* In our last post Howie took a nostalgic look back at the age-old and still-raging Republican War Against Women. In case there are readers who haven't been keeping up with this week's *Doonesbury* series, I thought we might recap the story of this desperate GOP in-house attempt to deal -- with the help of a trainer from Sensitivity Solutions -- with what *Doonebury* c... more »

When Schools Close

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
“The Arts & Technology Academy Public Charter School (ATA) is a Pre-K3 through 5th grade elementary school {Washington, D.C.} that focuses on performing, visual, and media arts instruction, which is infused with an extraordinary use and application of modern technology. Charter schools are independently run, publicly financed, and non-selective of its students.” Although ATA is a public charter school, the […]

@johnkuhntx guest post: The Wizards of Ed.

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
By John Kuhn There is a conundrum facing American K-12 education. It is the same conundrum that has always faced American K-12 education. How do we educate “those” kids? “Those” refers to the kids who are dealing with any (or all) of a host of disadvantages. They are from the “wrong” side of the tracks. […]

A College Rating System Designed to Benefit the Testing Industrial Complex and the Efficiency Zealots

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 9 hours ago
In these days of casino capitalism, the corporate education losers look more like losers every day. If those of us who are determined to restore sanity to our schools and colleges keep pushing, the whole corrupt and cowardly con game known for decades now as "education reform" will continue to unravel in the coming year. They will not go easily, however, which means that the education affirmation movement must keep pushing, debunking, uncovering, revealing, analyzing, and dissecting. No one wants the planned college rating system dreamed up by Pearson, Gates, and the short-sighted... more »

Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2013

BatocchioatVagabond Scholar - 9 hours ago
(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) (A 2007 Jon Swift picture.) Welcome to a tradition started by the late Jon Swift/Al Weisel. He left behind some excellent satire, but was also a nice guy and a strong supporter of small blogs. Lance Mannion put it well in 2010: Our late and much missed comrade in blogging, journalist and writer Al Weisel, revered and admired

Imágenes fantásticas de Año Nuevo 2014

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 9 hours ago

Only one civil standard of proof - balance of probabilities

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 10 hours ago
*McLean v. McLean*, 2013 ONCA 788 makes very clear there is only one civil standard of proof – balance of probabilities: [39] The trial judge held that Helen was required to provide “convincing proof” of a prior common intention to support her claim for rectification. He relied on the decision in Performance Industries Ltd. v. Sylvan Lake Golf & Tennis Club, 2002 SCC 19, [2002] 1 S.C.R. 678, at para. 41, in which Binnie J. held that in cases of rectification, “convincing proof”, that is, “proof that may fall well short of the criminal standard, but which goes beyond the sort o... more »

TOUCHING HEARTS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago
Sent to me this morning from a friend in Maine......

Republican War On Christmas Might Be Over For The Year, But Their War Against Women Never Ends

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Sometimes we cover the Republican War on Women, and invariably some pompous Republican asshat denies that there's any such thing. But it's very real and very serious and profoundly undemocratic. And it's got to stop. I've been reading The Brothers, Stephen Kinzer's much-acclaimed book about the two most venal Republicans who lived in any of our lifetimes, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, two deeply corrupt men-- in terms of using government office for self-enrichment-- the former the most destructive Secretary of State in American history and the latter, the bumbling head of t... more »

I have nothing to say...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*so how about some cute baby animals?*

2014 Resolution: Educate the Whole Child to Curtail School Shootings

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
The professional education community, as a whole, must do a better job in addressing school violence, i.e. school shootings, in 2014 and beyond. Unfortunately, since the devastating event in Sandy Hook, we’ve witnessed twenty-seven school-based shootings. We MUST do a better job in acknowledging the problem, and recalibrating our focus beyond simple test scores. We […]

Pussy Riot have no credentials to advise anyone

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
*And the boycott of the Olympics is indefensible and mean* Vladimir Putin and friends are working hard on a reconciliation with various foreign political forces ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi (Feb 6th-23rd). Mikhail Khodorovsky, a half-Jewish oligarch (who has lost most of his wealth but that hasn't eliminated him from the list of billionaires) and a prisoner of conscience according to Amnesty International, was freed after almost a decade in prison. He was wise enough to keep a low-key profile. Two Pussy Riot girls were freed after 1.5 years, too. They are primarily famous ... more »

Frosty Day

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago

Summary of Professional Conduct Rule 4.04 on Communication with Witnesses Giving Evidence

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago
RULE 4.04 Communicating With Witnesses Giving Testimony Witness Called By You or Witness Called by Party Opposite Sympathetic to You During Yes, on matters not yet covered Yes Chief Between No N/A Chief and Cross During No Yes Cross Between No N/A Cross and ReExam During N/A Yes... more »

Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy. via Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy.

Friday Nerd Blogging: Winterfest Depression Edition

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
Sorry folks, but with intermittent wifi in the US (my mother-in-law is a neo-luddite), the best I could do was this: Indeed, I spent part of this break reading less of a dissertation than I should have. So, yeah, there’s that. May your New Year’s Resolutions prove to be more resolute than me.

White Christmas in Prague: 9 in 40 years, no trend

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
In recent weeks, the weather was often cold but we didn't have a white Christmas almost anywhere in Czechia (as has been correctly predicted since mid December). Klimaskeptik.cz mentions some interesting statistics based on Centrum.CZ, NOVA.TV, PocasiCZ.CZ, and Infomet.CZ articles that make it clear that we shouldn't have expected a white Christmas. Well, during the last 40 years i.e. my lifetime, Prague has only experienced 9 white Christmases. December 24th snow cover in "cm" at six major Czech weather stations looks like this: The black and grey curves near the bottom dis... more »

Ma-Xi Meetup???

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
It's a common pattern for Ma to float ideas like a meet up with President Xi of China in the foreign press -- in this case a Hong Kong paper -- and then "explain" them to the home media. TT says: The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday defended the possibility of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at next year’s APEC meeting in Beijing, insisting that such a meeting would only be held if supported by Taiwanese and if national dignity can be maintained. The Mainland Affairs Council said that a Ma-Xi Mating would not be on the agenda f... more »

The Usurper's Christmas Message

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
I'm sort of an all-or-nothing kinda guy. You know, if I don't believe in a religion, then I stop going to church. Canada, and Canadians, are either historical entities trying to build a just, humane society for themselves and others, or they're not. Leftists should either dedicate themselves to achieving change or they should just STFU. Christmas is supposedly a season when Christians celebrate the birth of their saviour, but in our more secular times it's really supposed to be about reaching out to others and gifting each other in the spirit of self-sacrifice that this Jesus charac... more »

25-Plus Drugs In More Than Half Of America’s Drinking Water by Daniel Jennings

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
25-Plus Drugs In More Than Half Of America’s Drinking Water by Daniel Jennings Off The Grid News, 20 December 2013 You might be ingesting something poisonous each time you drink a glass of tap water — small amounts of prescription drugs. Researchers have found that half the water discharged from large water treatment plants in the United States is contaminated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, according to a new EPA study. The scariest part? The level of drugs in the water supply is much higher than previously thought, and scientists don’t how these trace amounts o... more »

A tale of two Popes -- the one in the Vatican, who takes Jesus' words to heart, and the one in North Carolina

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*As I confirmed during my December visit, there is evidence of backlash against North Carolina oligarchist "Puppet Master" Art Pope's way-far-right agenda.* *by Noah* There are two Popes in the news lately. Both represent organizations that claim to speak for Jesus Christ. One's name is Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the better-known of the two, and his actions befuddle and anger U.S. Republicans. The other's name is Art Pope. Art Pope is the North Carolina Republican Party's pope. Unlike many past Popes, Francis seems to take the reported actio... more »

Jennifer Aniston - "Sexy, very sexy, sexy"

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 15 hours ago
The scene where Jennifer Anison takes her bra off and her pokies all but are out of control. Jennifer Aniston's nipples always on display in Friends, a truly great series!

Spellings Doubles-Down on “Incredibly Complicated” High-Stakes Testing

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago
While political and popular debates teeter on the brink somewhere between surreal and catastrophic—consider the mess that is Sarah Palin homophobic-splaining the Phil Robertson controversy—the media access afforded Margaret Spellings may be reaching a level that rises about worse-of status for just a single year. I have offered the worst Op-Ed of 2013 and Bruce […]

US 10Y Yield Hits 3.019% on December 27 , 2013 - Highest Since July 2011 ..... and yet , Stocks Surge For Sixth Straight Session ( as of the close of trading December 26 , 2013 ) ...... Two trains racing in opposite directions.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/gold-silver-are-jumping ( Hmm , who let the dogs out ? ) Gold & Silver Are Jumping And WTI Crude Breaks $100 [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 09:09 -0500 - Bitcoin - Crude - Precious Metals - Twitter - Twitter inShare As the 10Y broke solidly through 3.00% so precious metals began to move and after testing $20 in Silver overnight a few times, both gold and silver have just run stops through key levels and are jumping like Twitter (or Bitcoin) for a few minutes. *WTI Crude has ... more »

ObamaCare updates - Christmas Eve Edition...... Ho ho Ho from HHS and the White House !

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
updates through 12/26..... http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/26/coming-up-next-obamacare-taxes-and-fees/ Coming up next: ObamaCare taxes and fees POSTED AT 11:31 AM ON DECEMBER 26, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY This reminder from the New York Post came on Christmas, when few paid attention, but it’s worth noting today. The disastrous rollout of ObamaCare is only the appetizer for Americans, the 2013 lead-in to higher costs and fees built into the so-called Affordable Care Act. What most people haven’t heard — yet — is the new fees that ObamaCare charges for access to those higher prem... more »

Toxic To Civic Health

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The conventional wisdom is that the price of political scandal can be measured in money and reputation. But Robin Sears -- an old hand at getting out the vote -- writes that the real cost of scandal is deadly: There is an even higher price. The damage that these scandals do to public trust. Not since the dawn of universal suffrage in the established democracies have voters been more angry at their governors. Nor have so many citizens in so many countries acted on the bumper sticker exhortation: “Don’t Vote! It Only Encourages Them!” In fact, a cynic might conclude that it co... more »

Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott ....... Only a matter of time before blowback occurs - Japanese Automakers Prepare For Abe 'Shrine Visit' Blowback , Japanese agricultural products also vulnerable !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/chinese-media-compares-japan-pm-terrorists-and-fascists-blasts-abes-homage-devils-ur Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 08:07 -0500 - China - Japan - Newspaper - Reuters inShare On Thursday, Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe stunned the world by defying everyone - including the EU and the US whose embassysent a tersely worded letter in which is said that it is "disappointed tha... more »

War Watch - December 27, 2013...... Syria . Af-Pak and Egypt in focus

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Syria........ Syrian Kurds Agree To Side With Opposition in Geneva Talks by Mohammed A. Salih, December 27, 2013 Print This | Share This Despite an atmosphere of deep mutual distrust, two major rival Syrian Kurdish bodies have agreed to attend an expected international conference on the fate of Syria, known as Geneva II, on the side of the Syrian opposition forces, Syrian Kurdish sources told IPS. That is contingent on the possibility that only two sides will be allowed to sit at the negotiating table: the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition groups. Although th... more »

The Shining in 30 seconds enacted by bunnies

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 16 hours ago
Sheer genius!

ROYAL SEX

Anonataangirfan - 17 hours ago
*Felix, whom Edward VII tried to seduce.* King Edward VII tried to seduce the homosexual Russian prince Felix Yusupov. (*Prince Felix Yusupov: The Man Who Murdered Rasputin* by Chris Dobson, 1989. Sexual perversion in the royal family,) Edward VII was the son of Prince Albert, whose official father, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was reportedly bisexual. stuttering performance But Edward VII also liked women. A gossip columnist once wrote: "There is nothing whatever between the Prince of Wales and Lillie Langtry." In his journal's next edition he wrote: "Not even ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 18 hours ago
*Know the enemy: Saints on Mike Glennon ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *New Orleans ranks #1 in-migration for 'Prime Workers' ~Don Ames* *Steep flood insurance rate-hikes loom for La. homeowners ~Jordan Bloom, The Advocate* *$1 million project to fight waterborne amoeba ~WWLTV* *Where Y'Eat: Act Two For Tujague's ~Ian McNulty, WWNO*

Top 100 Tweeting Bloggers 2013

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 18 hours ago
That awkward interregnum between Christmas and New Year. What is one to do? For politicos should we go full bore on our hobby horses as if it was a normal week. Or should we ease off and enjoy the wine, the mince pies and our recently-acquired selection of woolly jumpers? I'm all for a mix of both, if I'm honest. A bit of r'n'r, a few reflective/year-in-review postings on here, and business-as-usual on everyone's favourite micro-blogging site. That's the cue to segue into my annual list-a-thon of the Top 100 Tweeting Bloggers on, erm, Twitter. Long-time readers know this is an annu... more »

Time To Rally Again For GMO Labelling In California on January 6, 2014

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
CALIFORNIA: IT'S TIME TO RISE UP AGAIN! Please share and show up! #California #Sacramento #gmo #labelgmos #needtoknowgmo#freedom2chooz #boycottgmos #prop37 #labelgmossacramento#gmofreeusa RALLY ... Action NOW!! Come and bring a friend!! An impressive line-up of guest speakers will share their knowledge on January 6. The list includes: Pamm Larry initial instigator of Proposition 37 Label GMOs: Grassroots California, Zen Honeycutt, Director of Moms Across America (MAAM), social justice songwriter/musicians Jenn Rogar and Barclay Neumann, Adam Scow from Food and Water Watch, Paul To... more »

World's BIGGEST blog - day 5

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 19 hours ago
BIGGIE! SMALLS!

I Lived Through a Gardasil Nightmare by Lisa

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
Lisa I lived through a Gardasil nightmare by Lisa Spokane, Washington 30 October 2013 My name is Lisa and I had a horrible reaction to the set of Gardasil vaccines. It took almost six years to get back to being somewhat normal. Back in 2007 when I was 22, I was going in for a normal woman visit and I had a test come back positive for “abnormal cells.” They were cancer cells caused by HPV. I went in for the whole “cut and burn” procedure and my Doctor told me there was a new vaccine called Gardasil for HPV to protect against cervical cancer. She said I should get it so I don’t ... more »

J’ai vécu le cauchemar du Gardasil par Lisa

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
*Lisa* *J’ai vécu le cauchemar du Gardasil* par Lisa de Spokane, Washington, 30 octobre 2013 Je m’appelle Lisa. J’ai fait une horrible réaction à l’ensemble des doses du vaccin Gardasil. Il m’a fallu presque six ans pour redevenir à peu près normale. En 2007, quand j’avais 22 ans, je me suis rendue à une visite médicale routinière. Mon test s’est avéré positif. J’avais des « cellules anormales ». Il s’agissait de cellules cancéreuses causées par le HPV. Après m’être soumise à la procédure habituelle « couper et brûler », mon médecin m’a dit qu’il existait un nouveau vaccin appelé... more »

Jacob Bernoulli: a birthday

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
Welcome back after the Christmas – thanks for your wishes and even gifts. I hope you enjoyed the Saturnalia. Jacob Bernoulli was born on December 27th, 1654, as the first big hero of the Bernoulli family that turned out to be rather remarkable. It included 3 great sons of Niklaus Bernoulli (who was a descendant of some doctors and spice traders etc.) in the 17th century; and 6 additional mathematicians and physicists in the 18th century. I would still say that Jacob Bernoulli (from the group of the 3 sons) was the most important mathematician among these 9 men (Bernoulli numbers, d... more »

dream - WWW - wiremesh wolfman world

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago
as you can imagine, this dream is about a world made entirely of wiremesh, or chickenwire. But let's reverse back three hours. I can say this because (at about 11 o'clock) I challenged the 'forces of the parallel side' to reveal themselves to me. Nothing happened, as usual. I have never seen nothing; no spirit, no demon, no souls. So I called them CHICKENS and said I would 'meet them in my dreams' which was clearly the only place they felt powerful enough to show themselves and 'cause some havoc'. I did it, and it can't be undone. The results were very strange. Wiremesh Wolfman Wo... more »

Watch this Link: Will Heritage Scrub Its Obamacare History?

Kenneth ThomasatMiddle Class Political Economist - 22 hours ago
Mike the Mad Biologist leads me to a host of articles on the crazy things going on at Heritage Foundation, especially since former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina took over as president of the organization. Mike quotes Alex Pareene at length on how the rise of MBAs running both the Foundation (DeMint) and Heritage Action (Michael Needham) has turned Heritage from a respected think tank into a mainly political organization of the hard right. Pareene, in turn, leads to a good analysis by Julia Ioffe in *The New Republic*. As regular readers know, Heritage is an organization that ... more »

(Need Pest/Parasite Control?) We Are Two Nations Surely When One Half Is Glad To Let the Other Starve (They Don't Care) Are We Already France? (Sex, Drugs, Uh-huh!) Or Just the CIA In Its Usual Attack Mode? (Progressive Dems Only Pols Made by Own To Pay for Sexual Indiscretions) Don't Suspect the Bilderbergs, Please!

Edward Snowden announces breathlessly (in a brief Christmas greeting on the BBC's Channel 4) what we in netopia have been screaming about for years. Edward Snowden’s Christmas Message: NSA Surveillance Exceeds Orwell’s Imagination And that once esteemed Chamber strikes the gong for itself: Chamber of Commerce Sets GOP Goal for 2014: ‘No Fools On Our Ticket’ The nation isn't (διχοτομέω) cut

Egypt's Generals List Muslim Brotherhood As A Terror Organization; What Will Become of US-Egypt Ties?

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 22 hours ago
Time Magazine declared Mohammed Morsi to be the "most important man in the Middle East" a year ago. Heading into 2014, Morsi is on lockdown in prison and his group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has been officially designated as a terrorist organization by the interim Egyptian government that is under the management of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who seized power in July on the backs of a nationwide popular revolt to prevent the complete Islamization of his country by the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi tried to take over a historic country with a proud identity without an army. In hindsig... more »

50 years ago today: The Beatles

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*On December 26, 1963, hastily pushed up in response to public demand,* *Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There." It wasn't the first Beatles release in the U.S., but it was the first by the group's official label (or any major one), and the first properly promoted and distributed. The rest, as they say, is history.* *by Noah* As a youngster in the early 1960s, I had a portable radio. You’ve heard of "a boy and his dog" going everywhere together. Well, for me it was a boy and his radio. And ... more »

Some Governors and Common Core: “Hot Friends Cooling”

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Hoping to advance your own political career? Better be quiet about Common Core. Amazing how a number of formerly outspoken, pro-CCSS governors have strategically opted for silence (or some other form of distance) regarding the now-highly-charged CCSS. New York: Andrew Cuomo It seems, for example, that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become somewhat of […]

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Is The Long Feared Fukushima Radiation Plume Already Hitting The American West Coast?

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have been tracking events pertaining to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March, 2011, for well over two and one half years now, and what I see is a situation that is absolutely not improving at all.... The fact is, readers, that the media and our own governments have been lying their asses off now for that entire period of time, and this disaster is absolutely NOT under control, period.... There has been growing fear that the full brunt of the Fukushima radiation would be hitting the west coast of both the United States and Canada by the end of this year, or even sometime in earl... more »

Back From A Much Needed Break

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago
Yes, I am back... And I will be resuming writing articles, and of course my weekly rant, very shortly.. It was a much needed break... I was seriously suffering from burnout the last few weeks with a horrendous work schedule, family issues and needs, and of course trying to keep up with this blog..... It does get very depressing to see how bad this planet has been ruined by the Jewish criminal elite, and even I have a feeling of helplessness at times in not reaching enough people to fight their sick goal of world domination. I have watched over the last while as factions within this... more »

before the onion, before the yes men, there was the post new york post

laura katwmtc - 1 day ago
One day, as I was getting off the subway on my way from Brooklyn to my workplace on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, people were handing out these tabloids. I never learned who made them, where they came from, or where they went. But I'm so glad I saved my copy all these years. It's a whole newspaper - news, sports, weather, ads for fake movies, personal ads. Brilliant. In case you can't read the date, it was 1984. And special bonus from one decade later, *The National OJ*. I had to scan them in two parts, but they are each tabloid size.

after eight years, i have a less-than-ideal observation about ontario health care

laura katwmtc - 1 day ago
Since moving to Canada in 2005, my experiences with Ontario's health care system have been extremely positive. Through the public system, my partner and I have been able to access health care whenever we needed it, in convenient and pleasant settings, at no cost - that is, paid for with our taxes. The quality of care has been at least as good, and often superior, to anything I experineced in the United States. I love our public health care system, and I would love to see it expanded.* Single-payer, nonprofit health care is the only system that makes any sense. When I fractured my f... more »

"I Have Nothing BUT Contempt for This Court..."

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge on Tuesday twice expelled Ramzi bin al-Shibh — one of five Guantánamo Bay detainees facing a death penalty trial — from a courtroom at the military base there in Cuba after he disrupted proceedings by shouting about his treatment. Col. James L. Pohl, the judge presiding over the pretrial military commission hearing, clashed with Mr. bin al-Shibh at the start of both the morning and afternoon sessions. Each time, Mr. bin al-Shibh began loudly complaining about torture instead of answering a question from the judge about whether he understood his r... more »

Ed Snowden's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
Well, of course. The US Government asked Verizon if they could put in a man-in-the-middle tap on ALL their customers communications, and they said "Yes. " Because that's totally legal. It's their property, their hardware, their infrastructure. They just didn't tell their customers. But why should they? They're not obliged to. They certainly never said that they wouldn't. What's your point, Ed?

The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 2: Beware the Girl Scouts, Sheldon Adelson, and more

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
[*We continue the encore presentation of Noah's 2012 Idiocracy series. When I told him I was rerunning the series (begun last night with Part 1), he replied, "Running Idiocracy works fine. Repug nuttery is, unfortunately, timeless." And don't forget Noah's new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?,""50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles," and "A Tale of Two Popes -- the one in the Vatican and the one in North Carolina."*] *FOX "News" in the age of Idiocracy* *"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the strongest, the smartest, the ... more »

Bears on ice

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

DNA presence or absence and transference not mere "common sense"

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
R v Pruden, 2013 CanLII 83110: [13] The nature of the DNA evidence in this case was not straightforward and I agree that expert evidence was required to explain the significance of its *presence* or *absence* in respect of particular locations. See *R. v. F.M.*,2009 ONCA 485 (CanLII), 2009 ONCA 485 at para. 20, 250 O.A.C. 257. That is, the requirement for expert evidence regarding the transference of DNA can also include situations where the jury is asked to draw an inference from its presence as well as from its absence. See *R. v. Robinson (C.L.)*,2003 BCCA 3... more »

Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTAFGIM_0w

Egypt and Turkey: Destabilization and Destabilization

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Unsurprisingly, truly unsurprisingly, the new *saviours* (alleged) of the Egyptian people have now labelled Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization" Yawn. This convenient branding will be used to further degrade and destabilize Egypt. But,* Egypt i*s not going to be alone in this campaign of destruction. The labelling or branding/rebrand of Muslim Brotherhood as a 'terror' group bodes very ominously for* Erdogan and the Turkish people.* As I had mentioned way, way back in this July post: *Rebranding the Arab Spring to Reorder the Middle East/Africa* *Brief digression for back... more »

NETANYAHU WANTS WAR WITH IRAN, OBAMA DOESN’T; IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

If only it were. If it were just up to Obama there would be no war until he decides there will be. But he’s just the President and, while he wields a lot of clout, at the end of the day he has a Congress to answer to. If Obama put his foot down and said ‘no’ to Netanyahu launching a strike against Iran then Netanyahu wouldn’t do it. While there’s been a lot of talk of Netanyahu launching a unilateral strike against Iran, there is no way that he would do such thing without knowing that the US would come to Israel’s aid if Iran decided to retaliate – which it almost certainly would.... more »

ALEC PR Poobah - Twisting the Words to Protect ALEC's ...

2old2careatBecause I Can - 1 day ago
Oh, my - - - - - - On Stand Your Ground - which was pushed by ALEC legislators from 2005 to April 2012 - #LicenseToKill *Meierling was quoted *as saying. “Every single person also knows that we no longer have any model policy on that issue, or any firearms issues for that matter.” Push come to shove -* that's not true, really - not true* Some of the "policies", not found on ALECs webpage. On welfare drug testing - which was introduced to ALEC legislators at the November 2010 ALEC meeting. *Meierling declined to say *if the staff at ALEC endorsed the idea of drug-testing welf... more »

Log in snow

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

The man accused of killing a TSA agent in LA last month has his trial scheduled for February 2014

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
Three or four months for a high profile first degree murder case. Hmmn. In Canada we'd be looking at two years minimum. Maybe closer to three to four years ,,,

Annual Report of the Red Mountain Pilgrimage

What Is SustainableatWhat Is Sustainable - 1 day ago
Well, I’ve survived yet another trip around the sun, and I hope you have, too. It’s been an interesting year, and a good one. I’m busy doing the work I was meant to do, and it’s finding an audience that appreciates it, and respects me. It’s a bit sad that I spent so many years hauling stone blocks up the latest pyramid, but I was always learning, too. It takes time to make sense of this world. I never imagined that, at this point in my life, there would still be so many fascinating new things to learn. I’ve been living in the hermitage for four and a half years now, on a wee b... more »

Leonard Peltier's Christmas Message 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Leonard Peltier's Christmas Message 2013 By Leonard Peltier Censored News Greetings my relatives, friends, and supporters: In this season of giving, receiving and acknowledgement of blessings, I want to acknowledge all of the people who have helped me all of these years and I want the supporters outside the United States to know I appreciate them also. Sometimes I am at a loss for words.

Is Turkey As Corrupt As Wall Street? New Jersey?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Last night you may have heard me grousing about how Martin Scorsese left out the real life political corruption in the story of the Jordan Belfort scandal that shook Wall Street in the '90s. Belfort gave thousands of dollars to notorious Wall Street shill Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and, at D'Amato's urging, a check for $100,000 to the RNC in a vain hope to get the FBI off his back. Scorsese left that out iof his 3-hour film, *The Wolf Of Wall Street*, which opened yesterday. Maybe Scorsese left that chapter of Belfort's corruption out of the movie because no one would even fin... more »

A story of revolution….

Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The King and his policymakers gather in a large building making laws for the people in lands far from the towers of the capital. The leaders imposed a biased system of judgement that took away the opportunities for localities to make their own decisions. People proclaimed that citizens should be judged by their “peers” instead […]

Esto es cancer....fotos

Abraham Ben JudeaatAbraham says - 1 day ago
*Como es la costrumbre de hacer comentarios propios antes de los articulos. Se le sugiere que lean el articulo publicado en el 2006 de una revista de salud en la Gran Brettania.* *Se trata de una posible cura....Un estudio secreto que aun no se ha publicado. Esta al final* *Otro asunto, En los estados unidos no hay, ni permiten injecciones de Vitamina C no gasten su tiempo preguntandoles a sus doctores Americanos. La unica solucion es ingerir tabletas de Vitaminas C con accion prolongada/demorada, por la sencilla razon de que nuestro cuerpo no puede almacenar la Vitamina C como lo ... more »

ALECer DirectTV Spreading Trash Across USA

2old2careatBecause I Can - 1 day ago
Been awhile - had some issues to deal with - but I'm back now. Had an interesting discussion today about DirectTV - ALEC member - DirectTV. DirectTV putting those ugly dishes on top of every roof they can and then - - - abandoning them. *True story - * Person I work with bought a house that had a DirectTV dish on the roof. They wanted a higher level of service - so DirectTV comes out to put a new dish on their roof. While they are there my collegaue asks them to remove the old dish - DirectTV says no and leaves. Now my co-worker climbed up on the roof - removed the ... more »

Bitcoin news - December 23 , 2013 -- Thousands of Hoarded Bitcoins Flood the Block Chain in Mystery Transaction ( caused by old time miners , large exchanges , long term early adherents , Silk Road or other blow us ? ) .... Singapore Regulators decline to interfere with Bitcoin.....News anchor learns valuable lesson about BitCoin security.....4 Million buck Icelandic BitCoin mining consortium....Silk Road Accused wants his BitCoin back from the Government .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
December 24 , 2013...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/bofaml-asks-end-bitcoin BofAML Asks "Is This The End Of Bitcoin?" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2013 17:13 -0500 - Bitcoin - China - Renminbi - Switzerland - Volatility - Yuan inShare Following David Woo's initial $1300 fair-value price target for Bitcoin, the BofAML strategist has had to suffer through some significant changes; not the least of which is China's increasingly strict Bitcoin regulation. The shifts, he notes, *raise key ques... more »

BBC Openly Sides With Regime - Portrays Protesters as Violent, Anti-Democratic

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago
A regime run by a convicted criminal hiding abroad would be unacceptable in any other country in the word and it is unacceptable in Thailand too. What's unacceptable worldwide, is also unacceptable here.*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Thailand is currently run by Thaksin Shianwatra. Thaksin was not on the ballot during the last general election, nor was he even in the country, but as the New York Times reported in their article, "In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype," he is still very much in charge: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the mo... more »

Catholics behaving badly...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*via the Blaze.* Like a ton of other houses of worship on Wednesday, St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach held a Christmas Day service. And like most congregations, St. Patrick’s offered those assembled in the sanctuary some special music to celebrate one of the holiest days on the church calendar. But it’s safe to say few, if any, had Andrea Bocelli singing during communion. *read the rest* Now check out what some in the congregation did immediatly after receiving the body and blood of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Catholics believe in the true presence - or at least... more »

THINKING ABOUT SWORD AND CROWN

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago
*MB and I with our favorite gals at the Addams-Melman House yesterday. We were looking at the new book called "Even Aliens Need Snacks"* *Our neighbors house grows icicles* - MB works for an organization that runs a homeless shelter/soup kitchen in Portland. It's a 45-minute drive from here. In Maine jobs are few and far between so people have to move around to work. She must be "on call" during the holidays because her turn came up in the supervisor’s rotation. So last night, Christmas night, at 12:30 she was woken by the beeper signaling her that she had to ... more »

TRIMMING THE BLING

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

VAM, Sham, Thank You Ma’am

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Here’s a short, but hopefully sweet, three-minute speech on why I believe VAM is an unfair measure. ~ @angelcintronjr Tagged: teaching, vam

The Foisting of the Rejoicing

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 day ago
It's time once again to (belatedly) dust off that old seasonal standard, *Barack and Michelle Do Christmas.* Talk about Deja Vu all over again*.* No wonder Thomas Friedman is reportedly Obama's favorite columnist. Not only do these chin-stroking dudes share the delusion that endless repetition is a virtue, they share the same audience: an exclusive set of elites who never tire of being told how virtuous they are when they temper their endless acquisitions with an occasional spurt of noblesse-oblige. So without further ado, The Obama Christmas Carol, 2013 version: THE PRESIDE... more »

Dystoian wisdom

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
If you can not go north head south.

Things to make your life easier...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*like how to store those Christmas lights.* For years I've wound my strings of light around egg cartons. It works well, but does take up more space so I switched to pieces of cardboard. Here's another neat idea: How to Store Christmas Lights Around a Coat Hanger

John Foster Dulles vs William O. Douglas-- The Conservative Mind vs The Progressive Mind

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Lately, I've been writing a bit about a book I'm reading, Prediposed by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford. As I mentioned the other day, one of the themes is that "liberals and conservatives report distinct personality and psychological tendencies and have different tastes in all sorts of things from art and sports to personality traits and vocational preferences… Conservatives' cognitive patterns reveal a comfort level with clarity and hard categorization while liberals are more likely to value complexity and multiple categories." Another book I'm reading-- and loving th... more »

The Fordham Strong Arm of Letter Grades for State Standards

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
In my previous post, The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform, I cite the 2009 Broad Foundation report in which a number of major reformer “participants” told America of the reforms it might expect to be in place in 2012– one of which is the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Among the list of “participants” […]

Childish, anti-White ADL Jews denounce John Friend as "anti-Semite"

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
Two days ago, Access ADL, the official blog of the White-hating, Jewish supremacist propaganda and intelligence gathering organization known as the Anti-Defamation League, *posted a blog* denouncing yours truly as an "anti-Semite" in an effort to not only defame me, but also David North, a fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. Mr. North *appeared on The Realist Report* last Wednesday, where we discussed the EB-5 visa program and the proposed "China City" scheduled to be built in New York state. True to form, the pathetic, childish, classless Jews writing for Access ADL spe... more »

Thailand: Regime Escalates Conflict - Deadly Mayhem Ensues

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago
*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters sought to occupy the Election Commission venue at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok for the third day today in attempts to disrupt the regime's show-elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, but were met instead by regime police. Clashes ensued, with police firing rubber bullets indiscriminately at protesters, bystanders and journalists alike. Tear gas flooded the streets of the densely populated urban district, forcing residents to flee and schools to prematurely close for the day. Police restrained and th... more »
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Forecast failure: How flood warnings came too late for southern Albertans
It was shortly after 7 a.m. on June 20 when Trevor Allan finally got his first heads-up that High River was about to be overwhelmed by the worst flood in living memory.
NSA Court Battles: The Covert Report w/ Mark Novitsky
National security whistleblower and former private security analyst, Mark Novitsky shreds the latest Court decisions on NSA surveillance in the Battle of the Judges and the rights of privacy. Novitsky traces the long range plan to control every aspect of technology in order to manipulate and beguile the citizenry, as first articulated by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Novitsky is a security expert who called the game 10 years ago, before 9/11 and the Patriot Act. He got fired from Tele-tech when he tried to fix corruption in the system. For a powerful understanding of the coming police state, don’t miss
Times Square ball drop to be powered by Citi Bike this New Year's Eve
A stationary bike generator will light up the New Year's Eve ball.

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Rare 'frost quake' causes mystery boom
A rare seismic phenomenon has been blamed for reports of mysterious booming noises around Toronto. On Christmas Eve residents of several Canadian town...
Our New Champion in Self-Defeating Soft Power: Japan
At first I didn't believe the news this evening that Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. I didn't believe it, because such a move would be guaranteed to make a delicate situation in East Asia far, far worse. So Abe wouldn't actually do it, right? It turns out that he has. For a Japanese leader to visit Yasukuni, in the midst of tensions with China, is not quit
White man charged with ‘knockout game’ hate crime. Racial hypocrisy?
The Obama administration’s decision to charge a white man with a hate crime for allegedly punching a black man as part of the knockout game has led to criticism that it is applying the law unevenly. By Patrik Jonsson, Christian  Science Monitor The US Department of Justice on Thursday stepped into the cultural fray about the so-called “knockout game” when it brought federal hate crime charges agai
Dozens injured in Christmas piranha attack
Festive revelers were set upon by a school of carniverous fish at the Parana River in Argentina. Those celebrating Christmas with a swim in the cool w...
What to Do With a Problem Like the F-35? (title unknown) / by Eric Auner of TPR / 10h 

Scientists build tiny Terminator-style muscle
Researchers have developed an ultra-strong robotic muscle that can throw objects 50 times its own weight. In an achievement that could foreshadow the ...
You Might Have Missed: Drones, U.S. Arms in Iraq and Civil-Military Relations
        “Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap: FY2013-2038,” U.S. Department of Defense, 2013.  Inventory of DoD UAS (page 5) read more
Creepy App: ‘Flu Tracker’ Shows Which Symptoms Worse In Your Neighborhood
How Bad Is the Flu in Your Neighborhood? By Caroline Winter, Bloomberg Update, 2:45 p.m.: Adds comment from WebMD. Want to see how bad the flu is in your neighborhood? Health site WebMD (WBMD) has created a tracker that relies on crowdsourcing to estimate levels of illness by Zip Code. According to the site’s users, flu and cold symptoms on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, for example, are moderate to
Pilot reports near-collision with a UFO
A pilot flying over the UK had a near-miss with an unidentified object that flew towards his plane. The incident, involving an Airbus A320, took place...
A blue ribbon panel recommends fixing NSA: What's cosmetic and what might work
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Trust the math? An Update
Back in September, I wrote here about the news that Snowden’s revelations that confirmed suspicions that back in 2005-6 NSA mathematicians had compromised an NIST standard for elliptic-curve cryptography. The new standard was promoted as an improvement using sophisticated mathematical techniques, when these had really just been used to introduce a backdoor allowing the NSA to break encryption using this standard. There still does not seem to have been much discussion in the math community of the responsibility of mathematicians for this (although the AMS this month is running this opinion piec
Peter Higgs: “Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that”
The Guardian has an interesting piece about Peter Higgs, evidently their reporter talked to him on his way to the Nobel Prize ceremonies this week in Stockholm. Higgs will be speaking tomorrow (Sunday), and I’m curious to hear what he will have to say. His talk will be available live at the Nobel Prize website. Higgs points out that the kind of work he was awarded the prize for was done in an environment that no longer exists: He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today’s academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He
Milner-Zuckerberg Prizes for Mathematics
At the Hollywood-style awards ceremony last night for $3 million string theory and biomedical research prizes, it was announced that Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg will now start funding something similar in mathematics, called the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. According to the New York Times: Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist and self-described “failed physicist” who made a splash two years ago when he began handing out lavish cash awards to scientists, announced Thursday that he was expanding the universe of his largess again: This time, he will begin handing out $3

Dec 19

Latest on abc
In case you haven’t been following this story, “abc” refers to a famous conjecture in number theory, for which Shin Mochizuki claimed last year (see here) to have found a proof. His argument for abc involves a new set of ideas he has developed that he calls “Inter-Universal Teichmuller Theory” (IUTeich). These are explained in a set of four papers with a total length over 500 pages. The papers are
A Bubble-Universe at Stanford
Video from last weekend’s Fundamental Physics Prize scientific meeting at Stanford is now available, in unedited form, here. The first video there is a discussion moderated by Yuri Milner, who does a good job of asking Strominger, Polchinski, Green, Schwarz and Vafa questions, although getting pretty much exactly what you’d expect out of them (the hot topic is firewalls). After skimming through th

Dec 11

2014 Milner Prizes
Last March an Oscar-style ceremony hosted by Morgan Freeman was held in Geneva (see here) to award the 2013 $3 million Milner Prize to Princeton string theorist Alexander Polyakov. Tomorrow an even more lavish ceremony designed to turn “Oscars of Science” into instant multi-millionaires will be held in Mountain View, California (see here). It will feature Kevin Spacey, Conan O’Brien and Glenn Clos

Dec 10

Latest on Amplitudes
This week the Simons Center is hosting a workshop on “The Geometry and Physics of Scattering Amplitudes”, talks are available here. Last week they (and the YITP) held a one-day symposium on Trees, loops and precision QCD, based around the work of Zvi Bern, Lance Dixon and David Kosower that was recently awarded the 2014 Sakurai Prize. For more about this, see Dixon’s guest post here, or his talk a

Dec 09

What’s Next?
Last week’s public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study by Nati Seiberg is now available online. He was speaking with the title What’s Next? and promoting a story about where particle physics is and where it is going pretty much identical with that coming from his IAS colleagues. Despite the overwhelming failure of string theory unification and the dramatic evidence from the LHC ruling out

Dec 05

News from CERN
Here’s a roundup of recent CERN-related news: The status of the LHC and the LHC experiments was discussed here yesterday. The LHC shutdown is more or less on track, first beams at 13 TeV total energy Jan. 2015, physics starting April 2015. Both ATLAS and CMS have announced new data on tau-tau decays of the Higgs, providing stronger evidence for this signal than was available earlier. ATLAS sees a

Nov 27

Quantum Mechanics and Representation Theory: talk and book progress
Last week I gave a colloquium talk at the Texas Tech math department, slides are here if you’re interested. One motivation for the talk was to advertise the book project I’m working on, which gives a lot more detail about these topics if you find something interesting in the slides. The current state of the book is visible here. There are 31 chapters done, about another 5 to go. I also need to go
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The Year of the Whistleblower 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 9 minutes ago
The truth is the one thing that the US can not recover from By Brenda Norrell Censored News The year of 2013 was the year of the whistleblower.  Edward Snowden exposed that the US is spying on, and collecting data, belonging to the world's citizens and diplomats. A World Bank whistleblower exposed how the financial elite control the world, and bought the media to silence it. 

Online-Comments Watch: Are people just stoopid, or helpless, or what?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 16 minutes ago
*I'm not saying there aren't better Blu-ray players on the market, but my eerily compact, incredibly inexpensive region-free Orei BDP-A3 does everything I can imagine asking it to do and is working just fine, thank you! The remote control too. Some of those online commenters really need help.* *by Ken* I'm realizing that after all these years, I may have acquired something like religion, the object of my worship being Amazon Gold Box Specials. Well, mostly the video offerings thereof. Let me see, there were DVD offerings of the complete *Dick Van Dyke Show*, *Route 66*, *Columbo*,... more »

Trifecta: Dumps on the Pope?...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 57 minutes ago
*Bill Whittle goes off...* and we thank him. Income Inequality: The next war.

NGA “Corporate Fellows”: Providing Governors Ideas That Work

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
For four of the five years that I taught in Northwestern Georgia, I taught at an alternative school. Every time I received a new student, it meant that the student had been expelled from a district public school. I had a student who built a bomb and discharged it on a principal’s lawn. I had […]

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OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours ago

The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 4: Special Arkansas Edition

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
[*We continue our encore presentation of Noah's Idiocracy series. And don't forget Noah's new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?,""50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles," and "A Tale of Two Popes -- the one in the Vatican and the one in North Carolina."*] *"A child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly."* *-- former Arkansas State Rep. Charlie Fuqua (see below)* [*As Noah e... more »

What's missing from this map?

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 4 hours ago
Perhaps the Russians prepared it???

The Bankruptcy of America – 1933

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
[image: http://anticorruptionsociety.com/the-bankruptcy-of-america-1933/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog] [The following is excerpted from Judge Dale's *The Great American Adventure - Secrets of America.*] By Judge Dale, retired [image: our corrupt legal system_2] Public Trust On March 9, 1933, House Joint Resolution No. 192-10 by the 73rd Congress, was voted into law, which is the Emergency Banking Act. This Act declared the Treasury of the United States, ‘Bankrupt’, which is an impossible feat since the U. S. Treasury was secretly closed by the Congress twelve years earlier in... more »

Similar Fact Evidence

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 4 hours ago
R. v. P.E.L., 2013 BCCA 542: [20] Similar act evidence exemplifies a type of propensity reasoning. It could be colloquially expressed by the aphorism that a leopard does not change its spots. Of course, this sort of reasoning collides squarely with the long established common law rule that no one should be convicted simply by reason of rascality or a disreputable history – see *Harrison's Trial*(1692), 12 How. St. Tr. 833 (Old Bailey (London)), referred to by Binnie J. in*R. v. Handy*, 2002 SCC 56 (CanLII), 2002 SCC 56, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 908 at para. 32. He said at p. 926, p... more »

Big Foot Riders Photos by Pte San Win

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
Photos by Pte San WinPublished with permission at Censored News(Above) This photo was at the Cheyenne River by Bridger the first day the OGLALA's joined with Standing Rock and Cheyenne River relatives for the Big Foot Ride 2013. 12-23-13 Oglala Akicita Ronald Cross Dog - Little, the morning of 12-23-13 the first day he joined with relatives from Standing Rock and Cheyenne River on the

Shelby County Accepts Hard Cash to Settle Civil Rights Lawsuit Brought Against Municipalities

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 6 hours ago
Last year when Shelby County saw the lucrative Gates plan for turning over Memphis City schools to corporations melting away, the County filed a lawsuit against five suburban municipalities that were threatening to form their own school systems to avoid the Gates consolidation. The ostensible basis for the lawsuit was that the five new leafy suburban districts would exacerbate segregation in the remaining county schools. When the pending lawsuit failed to block the formation of the new school districts, thanks to neo-segregationists at the state level, the County essentially black... more »

File Under: What If...

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
If you're following the narrative on the blog with any regularity over the week, you probably noticed we've been taking a close look at Stephen Kinzer's brilliant new book, The Brothers, an intense look at the two worst and most destructive arch-villains in 20th Century American history. Having a major international airport named after John Foster Dulles is a slap in the face to all Americans who revere democracy and detest the aggressive fascism he espoused his entire miserable life. The Dulles brothers had just finished deposing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran... more »

Remembering the Gaza Massacre

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 7 hours ago
Government ministry buildings destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on December 30, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. (Photo Credit: Abid Katib/Getty Images) On December 27, 2008 – five years ago today – Israel launched a devastating military assault on the besieged people of Gaza. Relentless bombing and destruction continued for 22 days, during which time the Israeli army invaded the occupied

"Am I free to go?"

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 8 hours ago
The post on Carding raised a concern among readers that cooperating with police as a custom makes Carding effective. That's quite true. My concern is that for most young black men (and that's who are stopped - let's not pretend otherwise) anything other than immediate and polite cooperation might lead to unfortunate results. Remember it's a good idea to save yourself and then save the world. However, if if if one wants to exercise ones rights on being stopped a viable line is: "I do not wish to answer any questions. Am I free to go?" This repeated several times will likely le... more »

Karl Muck playing Parsifal

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 8 hours ago
One of the wonders of modern life is the ability to access major works of art almost anywhere. I recall when finding historic recordings required visiting record stores and hoping some obscure bin might have a Furtwangler or Hertz or Muck. Rarely indeed were such recordings to be found. That said, earlier today I downloaded Karl Muck's recordings of Parsifal from the late 20's (there is some issue as to whether they are studio or live or a mix). Muck has a direct connection to Wagner; whether we can say this is how Wagner would have presented Parsifal is not clear. But certainly... more »

Mike Duffy

LeDaroatLeDaro - 8 hours ago
I wonder what is he doing these days?

Year’s End

theozarkeratThe Conflicted Doomer - 9 hours ago
December 28, 2013 I made a pot of chicken and vegetable soup for Christmas dinner (and supper). And before you say, “Poor old woman,” this was a deliberate choice based on several factors – the main one being, had I … Continue reading →

Crippling Government

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 9 hours ago
Eugene Lang writes that, if you want to know what Stephen Harper has "accomplished," all you need do is tally up his tax cuts: Over the past eight years, most major categories of federal taxes have been cut deeply — from personal income taxes, to corporate income taxes, to the GST — so much so that Canada now has the second lowest business and consumption taxes in the G7. In addition, a litany of tax credits have been put in place, notably the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit, the Public Transit Credit, The Home Renovation Tax Credit and The Tax Credit for first time home buyers. An... more »

New look for blovel

risa bearatA Way to Live - 9 hours ago
New look for blovel header, illustration by Katrin Orav. http://starvationridge.blogspot.com/ Book cover to follow. No, I had not read Hunger Games when I wrote this. It's more like a The Road/Seven Samurai mashup. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/risabee

What research really says about "explicit and structured" phonics

skrashenatSchools Matter - 10 hours ago
Sent to the West Australian (Dec. 28) "New reading rules for kids," (Dec. 27) states that " ...international research has found that explicit and structured teaching of phonics - the relationship between letters and sounds - is the most effective way to teach reading." Not so. What research says is that the impact of explicit and structured phonics is strong only on tests in which children read lists of words in isolation; it is minuscule on tests in which children have to understand what they read. By far, the best predictor of how well children read for meaning is the amount o... more »

Will 2015 Be Labour's Poisoned Chalice?

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
It's tough being a political party. Life outside of government is relatively care free affair. You can formulate policy, spend your time critiquing and criticising, and look forward to a fair amount of time sat atop opinion polls. But once you're in power it's a whole different ball game. It's time to come up with the goods you promised in opposition. It's an occasion for breaking promises and getting found out, as our friends the Liberal Democrats have found to their cost. A party's image takes a battering, its representatives in local, devolved and European bodies pay the price o... more »

Caturday Blogging

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago
Guys, I'm so sorry for the complete lack of posts since Christmas. I'm sure you can all appreciate what demands the silly season makes on us. And right now, my thoughts aren't on the political landscape of the here and now but 1888 Whitechapel. Last night, in a 4000+ word last gasp, I'd finally completed the first draft of *Tatterdemalion*, my epic novel spanning 244,000+ words and over 600 pages. I've been working on it since late February this year and I finally have a complete draft. I've already finished the reformatting and all the headaches real writers publishing real b... more »

Are the elites in Pyongyang all that different from those in DC or NYC or most anywhere else?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*"Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday Machines."* *-- Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott)* *In the U.S. War Room, Soviet ambassador Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) reveals the existence of his country's Doomsday Machine to the American security brain trust, including President Merkin Muffley and technology genius Dr. Strangelove (both Peter Sellers) as well as General Turgidson.* The execution of the uncle of Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, had its roots in a firefight between forces loyal to Mr. Kim and those supporting the man who was supposed to be his regent, according to... more »

I THANK MY MOTHER

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago
*4th of July in Bath, Maine* I often suffer from the world. Maybe because we moved around in my Air Force family so much I have always found myself deeply identifying with suffering people everywhere. Because I lived in Germany and England when I was young I never considered myself an "American" when we moved back stateside. Really my only loyalty to America was the Baltimore Orioles baseball them - my version of a hometown - and hamburgers. I didn't think much about US military bases when I was young. When we were overseas we spent good periods of time living "on the economy" - ... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 3 - The Myth of Accumulation

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago
What you see as your daily life becomes burdensome as its purpose moves further up the food chain than you. Fulfillment is part of your every day when you have chosen a work, occupation, pastime or activity that on some level satisfies a desire or allows an expression or expansion of who you are. Most of your time is currently spent consumed in activity that serves the purpose of maintaining your physical life. You have to eat and desire a place to sleep. Perhaps there are others you feel responsible for as well. These facts alone create in you a “need” to work at some... more »

Thailand: Dead Policeman Shot from Above Where Regime Gunmen Were

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 11 hours ago
*December 28, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Thai PBS confirms that Police Sergeant Major Narong Pitisit was killed by a bullet fired from above, in its article titled, "Chalerm told to clarify “men in black” at the Labour Ministry." It stated (emphasis added): PDRC spokesman Aekkanat Promphan said on Friday that there was no way that protesters could get into the Labour Ministry’s building and climb up to the rooftop unnoticed whereas all the police were deployed at the centre to prevent protesters from breaking in. He added that he would like to know whether Chalerm was aware of the ... more »

New Year's Resolution: Resist the Lists

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 11 hours ago
I don't know about you, but whenever I see a headline with the words Best Of, Worst Of, Most Shocking Moments of 2013, Best Tweets of the Year, etc., etc. I do an immediate Gump, and run Forrest run. In this last week of the best of all possible worst years ever, we are being inundated by a veritable plague of lists. Have you noticed that *Duck Dynasty* seems to be on every single one of them? A cartoonish Methuselah homophobe racist is only the latest wedge issue in the culture wars that define the divide-and-conquer politics of the ruling class. The timing of Phil Robertson's Firs... more »

Postales de Año Nuevo 2014 con mensajes bonitos

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 12 hours ago

PEDOPHILES

Anonataangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Professor Cantor* Professor James M. Cantor claims to be an expert on pedophiles. He takes an interest in various paraphilias, such as: Feederism which is about being sexually aroused by eating. Maschalagnia which is about being sexually aroused by armpits. Pedovestism which is about being sexually aroused while dressed like a child. Stigmatophilia which is about being sexually roused by tatoos and body piercings. Professor James M. Cantor is an American clinical psychologist and research scientist. *He is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Univers... more »

Time Warped: Repeated Rhetoric of Urgency from Israel to Iran

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 12 hours ago
"You will be the death of me.     You will be the death of me." - Time Is Running Out (Muse, 2003) Earlier this week, journalist and author Max Blumenthal posted an excellent piece in Mondoweiss detailing the repetition of the "time is running out" bromide, so often used in discussions about the so-called two-state solution in Israel/Palestine by those who promote the endless and

War Plan Red

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 12 hours ago
Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan Red, also known as the Atlantic Strategic War Plan, was a plan for the United States to make war with the British Empire (the "Red" forces). It was developed by the United States Army following the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference; and approved in May 1930 by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy and updated in 1934–35. In 1939 it was decided that further planning was no longer applicable but that the plan be retained. Canada (Crimson), Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Newfoundland (Red), British Raj (Ruby), Australia (Scarlet), New Zeal... more »

Are children in D.C. learning more?

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 12 hours ago
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2013* *In the Post, Whitmire says yes:* Are children in D.C.’s public schools learning more than they did in the past? Have their reading skills advanced? Do today’s students know more math than their counterparts from earlier years? That’s the way it looks on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, even after disaggregation. But uh-oh! Because we liberals know as a matter of faith that such things *cannot* be true, Valerie Strauss invented a set of ridiculous claims to explain the score gains away. To examine Strauss' claims, click this. As always,... more »

Gold and silver news and views - December 28 , 2013 .... Data , pertinent articles and views on and / or touching on the precious metals ..... bonus items exposing the fake fed taper (

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/cheaper-gold-brings-new-customers-to-dubai-in-droves ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER Despite the big decline in the dollar index, there was almost no sign of that in the price action for gold in Far East and early London trading on their Friday. The smallish rally in late-afternoon Far East trading got dealt with in the usual manner at the London open---and the gold price was back below the Thursday New York close by the London morning gold fix. After that, the gold price didn't do a lot until around 8:45 a.m EST in Comex trading. Then, in les... more »

Fukushima nuclear debacle updates - following Fukushima pollution around the globe and into th global food chain.... State of play and decay of Fukushima nuclear plants...... Update on removal of the fuel rods at Reactor building 4

Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
Energy News..... 07:34 PM EST on December 27th, 2013 | 25 comments Radio: Experts warn ocean currents spreading Fukushima contamination across world — Official 4,000 miles away: Radiation in seafood imports increased noticeably; Time for all stakeholders to be on alert (AUDIO) 02:31 PM EST on December 27th, 2013 | 87 comments Reports: Highly significant quantity of fission products are flushed into environment by water used on Fukushima molten fuel, including plutonium and curium — Radioactivity to recirculate for many generations in ocean food chain, meat content will increase with... more »

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago
Alfred Hitchcock

Ben Carnes 'Remembering Carter Camp'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Carter Camp: R.I.P. 2013 "We Decided that our Indian people are more important to us than long jail terms." Carter Camp, Ponca Nation, Wounded Knee 1973 By Ben Carnes, Choctaw Eaglemanz Carter Camp painted as a warrior at Wounded Knee Remembering people of their words and actions has been my way of mourning, as a way to keep their spirit alive in our memories. His words above

Israel's Hilarious Hysteria:or, How Many North Koreas Does It Take to Fear-Monger About Iran?

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 13 hours ago
Back in April, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz took the stage at the second annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York City and told the right-wing crowd that, among other things, an Iran with an atomic arsenal would be "equal to 30 nuclear North Koreas." Steinitz repeated all the favored Israeli talking points; he called Iran an "existential threat," tossed out lazy

Carding - is it legal?

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago
Carding, that is police stopping of pedestrians on the street, and asking for identification and other information, is in the news again. (Note, if you are stopped I urge you always to be polite with police regardless of your legal rights. Unless you actually have something problematic on your person cooperate fully. If you have something problematic then politely say "I believe I do not have to answer any questions or show you what I have on me. I refuse to answer any questions or show you what I have on me. May I go now?" If they arrest you the police then have to justify their act... more »

AA: "Flight 11 Did Not Fly on 911!"

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 14 hours ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* American Airlines is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 9/11. WikiScanner discovered that American Airlines changed the Wikipedia entry to state that Flights 11 and 77 were not in the air on 9/11. WikiScanner offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.Reference: http://www.wired.com/politics... more »

Judging the (European) judges

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
Some senior British judges are now echoing the concerns expressed by many British people (including me) that the unelected judges of the European Court of Human Rights are aggressively asserting their right to overrule British laws, as devised by our own sovereign elected parliament, and that that's a bad thing. Anyone from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri who enjoys watching what the neighbours are getting up to behind closed clouds (especially over Britain) and who keeps tuning into BBC News (through their ever-so-fetching green antennae) might infer (from the BBC) that those c... more »

FEPZs on the march into education

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
*Are those egg cases on its back?* The Free Economic Pilot Zone initiative continues to advance, as Taiwan Today observes. Apparently one area to be liberalized is education, foreign institutions will be permitted to set up schools in the zones: The eye-catching new plan firmly demonstrates the government’s determination to liberalize. For example, in recent years elite educational institutions from Australia, Europe and the U.S. have established branches in Asia, precipitating educational innovation; Singapore, South Korea and even Malaysia have become important bases for interna... more »

Will Obama's Covert Actions In Egypt Haunt America In Future Decades The Way Eisenhower's Covert Actions In Iran Haunt Us Today?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Everyone blames Nazi-sympathizer John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, and his bumbling and incompetent brother, Allen, head of the CIA, for the unintended consequences brought on by the violent CIA overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh. History blames them-- and history was meant to blame them. Eisenhower's fingers are nowhere near any of that stuff-- only on his revered speech warning Americans about the Military-Industrial Complex. Eisenhower, who desperately wanted a cheap "victory" against communism, is more to blame than the venal Dulles broth... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Federal judge dismisses most of remaining Katrina damage lawsuits ~Mark Schleifstein*

Good News For Cold & Snow Lovers - The Big Freeze & Snow Is Coming To Many Parts Of The Country!

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 16 hours ago
*Good News For Cold & Snow Lovers - The Big Freeze & Snow Is Coming To Many Parts Of The Country!* The Arctic Oscillation has remained largely positive to date throughout December and it has been an unusually mild month overall. However, there has still been some snow events in the early and middle part of December, despite the milder temperatures. *http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/02/snow-forecast-for-uk-freezing-weather* *http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25450818* *http://news.stv.tv/scotland/257435-warnings-in-place-as-gale-force-winds-rain-and-snow-batter-scotland/*... more »

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
*Feds cancel St. Bernard Parish government's Hurricane Gustav disaster loan ~Bob Warren *

War watch December 28 , 2013 -- Israel , Iran , Afghanistan and Syria in focus -- Did Secretary of State John Kerry dare to offer that the infamous spy Jonathan Pollard could be release to Israel Officials - without President Obama's prior approving such a move - who is in charge ? Iran set to move toward direct Iran - US talks ? UK Army Chief Disputes Cameron’s Call for Afghan Pullout - who's in charge ? Syrian Army Killed 60 Islamist Rebels North of Damascus - Syria Army taking charge on the battlefield....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Israel...... http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/27/report-kerry-offered-pollard-release-to-israel/ ( Kerry must think he's President or something , right ? ) Report: Kerry Offered Pollard Release to IsraelOfficials: Obama Hadn't Approved of Idea by Jason Ditz, December 27, 2013 Print This | Share This Reports swirling around the Israeli press say that Secretary of State John Kerry has offered to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard and secure his departure to Israel if the Israeli government doesn’t renege on the promised releases of Palestinian detainees. The Channel 10 report cit... more »

harper Tweets About the Ice Storm

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago
Montreal Simon has another great indictment of the usurper. Far be it from that garbage-head harper to interrupt his Christmas in hiding to make a personal appearance during this crisis.

Some naughty Seinfeld

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 17 hours ago
Elaine's nipple is on her Christmas card! But not alas Julia Louis-Dreyfus George can't tear his eyes away from cleavage What happens when Elaine talks dirty He took it out!

Fat Free Econ 51: Ten Things About the Meralco Rate Hike

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 18 hours ago
* This is my article the other day in interaksyon.com. -------- 1. The P4.15 per kilowatt-hour (kwh) electricity rate increase is short-term. It should have applied for only a month (if the increase had not been staggered) while the Malampaya natural gas platform was under maintenance. After that, the original lower rates, other things being equal, should return. Thus, contrary to public opinion, the rate hike is not long term. 2. The rate increase stems mainly from the generation charge, partly from the transmission charge, but nothing from the distribution charge. As distributor,... more »

A Holiday Message From The Great Dictator

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
A Holiday Message From The Great Dictator [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 13:14 -0500 *Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,* *http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/holiday-message-great-dictator* In September 1939, six days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, Charlie Chaplin began filming one of his most epic films ever… and the first “talkie” for the silent film star. It was a courageous project - the ‘Great Dictator’ directly poked fun at Adolf Hitler. At the end of the movie, Chaplin looked into the camera and g... more »

Kruskal can read your mind and the mind of God

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
Gordon sent me a fun trick invented by physicist Martin David Kruskal. He can read your mind. Choose a random word in the first 3 verses of the Bible. So many choices! Count the number of letters \(N\) in that word \(W\) and find the next word that is \(N\) words after the word \(W\); for example, if you chose "heaven" in the first verse, you will have \(N=6\) and jump to "earth" in the following one; overlook the digits and punctuation marks. If you landed in the 7th verse, stop. Otherwise return by two sentences in this blog post and repeat the instruction again and again. Le... more »

World's BIGGEST Blog - Day 6

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 20 hours ago
"Some articles consist of a list of things that are themselves about lists of things..." Yep, this is the list of lists of lists. Possibly the most useful thing on the internet.

The Tsar speaks

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
Apropos of nothing (as someone - can't remember who - used to say)... There's a news headline sitting on the *My Blog List *panel at the right-hand side of our blog at this very moment which calls out to be drawn attention to: *Sky News* Smacking Children Should Be Banned, Says Tsar How times change! The Tsar turns out to be more liberal than Putin. As I say, 'apropos of nothing'.

Past History

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 21 hours ago
When I was young, I was one of the few kids who would talk to a boy called Stephen Bristow. Son of "Timmy" Bristow. A walking mountain. Or, as one Judge described him in court, a "Walking Nightmare". Oddly enough, he had a personal code of conduct that amounted to "Do unto others as they've done unto others, with interest.". The honest had nothing to fear. Others.... My mother disturbed an intruder in our house when coming home from shopping once. He fled, taking some items of considerable sentimental, though not monetary, value. Tim Bristow got word of it.... We received them bac... more »

Christmas leftovers

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
As the effects of that enormous Christmas turkey continue to wear off (and, no, I don't mean *Still Open All Hours*), here's a little pre-New Year BBC-related reading from the newspapers to while away a few minutes of your tedious post-Christmas Saturday morning. I leave you to form your own opinions. *1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee banned from having atheist on Radio 4's Thought for the Day (Daily Telegraph)* The BBC has banned Sir Tim Berners-Lee from having an atheist deliver Thought for the Day as he guest edited Radio 4’s Today programme, saying it must be spoken by a believer. Si... more »

The American Enterprise Institute, Common Core, and “Good Cop”

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 22 hours ago
In my research on Gates’ Common Core State Standards (CCSS) spending, I came across this unusual grant to the pro-reform group, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI): Date: June 2012 Purpose: to support their education policy work in four distinct areas: Exploring the Challenges of Common Core, Future of American Education Working Groups, Innovations in Financial Aid, and Bridging K-12 and […]

Sunday Classics preview: "Broadway in a Box"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*by Ken* I was looking at this box, *Broadway in a Box*, that I got for some agreeably modest price as an Amazon special -- 25 cast recordings of Broadway musicals, mostly Original Broadway Cast recordings, but with seven revivals mixed in, four from Broadway and three from the Music Theater of Lincoln Center. I only had two on CD, and one of those wasn't an original-label reissue, so I figured what the heck. So I was looking at the box, which contains an interesting selection. Not necessarily the 25 I would have chosen from the RCA and Coiumbia musical-theater vaults (all now in... more »

Alan Waldman: 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' Was Brilliant British Sketch Series

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: This was most people’s first exposure to the highly original comic genius of English national treasures Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who wrote and performed many classic sketches. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have

Syria's Neighbours On Edge: A Corruption Scandal In Turkey And A Political Assassination In Lebanon Bring The Region Closer To Chaos

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
There are over half a million Syrian refugees in Turkey. In October, *Reuters reported*, "The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 600,000 and more than 400,000 of them are living outside refugee camps, the Turkish disaster management agency said on Monday." There are even more Syrian refugees in Lebanon, who account for as much as 20 percent of the overall Lebanese population. According to the UN, the official number is a little under 800,000, but "Lebanese authorities say the exact number could be even higher since many of the Syrian refugees are unregistered and undoc... more »
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Constantly saying teachers are “poor” kind of pisses me off. I think we should stop it.

I get it. We all get it. Relative to other careers with similar education credentials, teachers are underpaid, given that many have graduate degrees. To wit: The average salary for full-time public school teachers in 2010–11 was $56,069 in current dollars (i.e. dollars that are not adjusted for inflation). In constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, the average […]

Cold Day in Toronto!!!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 32 minutes ago

What Does The Fox Say? Shirt with Layered Heat Transfer

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 35 minutes ago
I was given the Heat Transfer Vinyl to create this shirt. All opinions and instructions are 100% my own. Still singing What Does The Fox Say from yesterday's post? Yeah, me too. Today's shirt was made for my 5-year-old. It is more whimsical with just the ears and the tail and with two fun colors instead of just one. Making shirts with more than one color of vinyl is called layering heat transfer and it is surprisingly easy and just needs a little patience. She absolutely loves her shirt and in the week she has owned it has worn it three times, with me doing extra laundry just so she... more »

LAND OF SCRIPT: Misrepresenting Rice!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 52 minutes ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014* *Part 4—Kirkpatrick keeps script alive:* Modern journalistic practice is marked by at least two widespread problems. One the one hand, our press corps displays a stunning lack of basic journalistic skills. (The ability to paraphrase fairly, and to quote correctly, are two such basic skills.) They also display a devotion to script. Nine years ago, Paul Krugman described the phenomenon: KRUGMAN (8/3/04): *Reading the Script* A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good... more »

National Threat Alert: The Mind Trust’s CEE-Trust, George Bush, and Bill Gates

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 54 minutes ago
By Doug Martin The Indianapolis-based Mind Trust plays a major part in my forthcoming book *Hoosier School Heist,*but many people don’t realize that the group founded by former Democratic mayor Bart Peterson and David Harris is a national leader in the school privatization movement through its CEE-Trust (Cities for Education Entrepeneurship). Loaded with Bill Gates/Joyce and Carnegie Foundation money, CEE-Trust actively works for charterization not only in Indianapolis but in Kansas City, Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis, Dallas, Denver, and New Orleans. In fact, CEE-Trust boasts of 33... more »

Love the One you're with

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 55 minutes ago
First written 6/2012, the following article was featured on Gail Goodwin's beautiful website, Inspire Me Today, again today. Sign up there to receive daily encouragement in this coming year of great changes! This message still holds, *love the one you're with.* ~~~ Fall in love with yourself. This is it. You are here now on purpose, in this unique, exquisite body with your brilliant mind and enormous heart. Burst out of the constraints of “should” and “have to” and just “be”. Gracefully dance into freedom. You are here to love. *The hardest person for you to love is reading these... more »

BRITAIN'S SPIES OUTWITTED BY THE JEWS

Anonataangirfan - 1 hour ago
*"This book unveils the reality of an inbred caste... and its ... servile substrata of button-polishing bully-boys." - The Observer* *Calder Walton*'s book *Empire of Secrets **tells the story of Britain's spies.* Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – Observer / How Zionist Extremism Became British Spies’ Biggest Enemy / Empire of Secrets by Calder - Telegraph. / Bernard Porter reviews 'Empire of Secrets' / Book review: Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton Calder Walton explains that the British were probably the first to use 'extraordinary rendition'. MI5 would arrest a suspect, m... more »

@johnkuhntx: The Tyranny of the Datum

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
By John Kuhn Data is a big deal. A great deal of innovation is happening right now in the field of data collection, storage, and management in the field of education. There are some well-documented fears among parents and teachers regarding these trends. Who will control the data? How will the data be used? Will […]

@ArneDuncan is suzerain to the vassals

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
The Washington Post (aka Valerie Strauss) reported just days ago that the Secretary of Education intervened in choice of chancellor of NYC schools, discouraging choice of MD Supe Josh Starr. How dare Duncan, yes? Interfering in local education matters. My analysis? NYC is not merely a local education matter. This isn’t Albuquerque. This is New […]

Guest Post: Here’s to a Progressive/Conservative Movement to Take Back Our Schools

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
We met the other day in the kitchen of a retired teacher. We were quite the mix of people, with a far right conservative and a far left progressive; long­time retired teachers, and currently working teachers; elementary teachers, high school teachers and a university teacher. Despite our differences, we all came together out of a single concern: what is happening to public education. Although the meeting began as a discussion of the Common Core Standards, it quickly moved on to all the other aspects of the current so­-called “educational reform movement.” The issues of the most c... more »

Why do Americans still support Israel?

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 hour ago
An article appearing in *The Jewish Daily Forward* the other day highlighted and summarized a Pew Research Center poll recently conducted to gauge American support for the Jewish state of Israel. According to the article, 61% of those polled viewed Israel favorably, while 26% viewed Israel unfavorably. While Americans continue to hold long-time allies like Great Britain and Canada in high esteem, they are pretty divided as to how they feel about some of the government’s other key allies — like Israel. A recently published *Pew Research Center poll* reveals *that 61% of Americans vi... more »

Who killed the Palestinian Ambassador with an exploding safe, and other questions

Real History LisaatReal History Blog - 1 hour ago
First, Happy New Year! I closed my FB page - keeping up with the comments was too time-consuming. Here, I can decide when I want to set time aside to go through comments - there, I couldn't. So I will likely be posting here more often. I love Twitter for sharing news stories, like this one: "The safe that exploded and killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic had been in daily

Free Trade 30: BIPOR and APTIR

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 1 hour ago
Many national and multilateral agencies are known for being Bureaucracies Instigating Protectionism, Outings and Revelries (BIPOR). For instance, to have real free trade as in freedom to trade by the people, there is little or no need for endless negotiations if economies will declare unilateral trade liberalization, like what Hong Kong has done. Just open the borders to various goods and services from many countries at zero tariff, zero regulations except the trading of guns, bombs, fake and substandard medicines and food products, poisonous substances and a few others that can har... more »

The Trust Deficit

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 hour ago
Frank Graves' latest poll confirms the conventional wisdom: Canadians are losing trust in their democratic institutions. Trust in Canadian democracy has been on the wane for thirty years; but it has continued to decline during Stephen Harper's time in office: So while the Harper government is by no means responsible for the poor democratic health of the country, it certainly hasn’t managed to slow the trend — let alone reverse it. The rating of Canada’s democratic health has been on a straight line downward and is now at a historical nadir. Other polling from 2013 suggests that ... more »

The Observation Gap?

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has become the black hole of education discussions or “debates.” In fact, I’d submit that we spend far too much time and energy arguing for, or against, the CCSS that we’re neglecting other critical aspects of our profession. Case in point: the role classroom observations serve in providing teachers […]

CONFRONTING ISRAELI APARTHEID

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 2 hours ago
- The Israeli government is torturing Palestinian children, including keeping them in outdoor cages during winter, according to a new human rights report. A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel claims children suspected of minor crimes have been subjected to “public caging,” threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation. - Ilan Pappé is foremost among the Israeli "new historians" who have challenged the traditional view of Israeli history, especially the Israeli role in the 1948 ethic cleansing of P... more »

Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students. via Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students.

Pauvre Francois Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 3 hours ago
Poor François Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand.

ALEC PR is Really Their Own Propaganda Regurgitated

2old2careatBecause I Can - 3 hours ago
Been fuming over this one ever since I wrote an entry on ALECs twisting of words ( also known by my Mom as LYING) *Bill Meierling, a spokesman for ALEC*, said the organization "maintains no model policy on climate change.""on climate change" - he's being specific - "on climate change" must have some specific mumbo jumbo meaning for ALEC Especially when you consider the document drop the Guardian did in December with Headline and subheads that read ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy• Documents reveal conservative group's anti-green agenda ... more »

Why Doesn't America Allow Drug Importation?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Fred Upton sold out his Michigan constituents to the drug companies long ago I spent the holiday season on a ship cruising around the Galapagos, going from island to island. One day the highlight was seeing a sea lion give birth to her first pup and the next was watching an aquatic iguana rape a female iguana. Another day we saw parent frigates take turns caring for their chick while the other one hunted. The Ecuadorean naturalists helped us put the experiences into context. There wasn't reliable internet access on the ship but I did manage to come across the new Pew Poll about how f... more »

War Watch December 31 , 2013 - Negotiators miss deadline for Afghan security pact , Pentagon plows forward with Afghan War plans despite Intelligence Estimate , Afghan Government releases 650 detainees from Bagram...... Iran, world powers agree to implement nuclear deal in late January , additional articles related to Iran nuclear talks........ Syria misses deadline for removal of chemical weapons , Lebanon Army fires on Syria Copters ....... Turkey corruption scandal updates - PM Erdogan and AKP attempt to fend off the ongoing probes , Another AKP Deputy quits AKP , Gold mining company Koza Atlinhas its activities halted at Cukuralan goldfield - Is the Company on the wrong side politically ? Faced with legal challenges,Turkish government tries to weaken top administrative court

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Afghanistan...... US Ultimatum Fails, Afghan Troop Deal Remains Unsigned'Deadline' Passes Without Karzai's Signature by Jason Ditz, December 31, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration’s “end of the year” ultimatum for President Hamid Karzai to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) has now officially come and gone, and the BSA remains unsigned. The BSA is designed to keep troops in the nation “through 2024 and beyond,” and the administration had repeatedly warned through November and early December that all US troops would leave if Karzai didn’t sign by the end o... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*"Tort reform" = "Stop suing oil companies" ~Library Chronicles* *Louisiana creating one-stop shop for businesses* *Weekend offers Acadiana lots of big-name musicians ~Daily Advertiser*

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie....

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 4 hours ago
Bethlehem Unwrapped has, undeniably, drawn a disturbing number of enthusiastic and positive responses. Such a shame. It’s inflammatory in a wholly negative way, and I’m astounded at the wrongheadedness of the instigators. They may have begun the project with good intentions, but they leapt onto the wrong bandwagon ‘and they don’t even know it!’ The pretence that it was an even-handed symbol of protest at ‘walls’ in general was belied by much of the participants’ graffiti. The ‘This Wall saves Lives’ slogan was defaced, firstly with “Doesn’t” scrawled in black between ‘wall and ‘s... more »

Trifecta: How to Cope with Depressing News...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago
* Scott Ott will blow you away with his answer.*

Call Me Prescient: How My 2013 Employment Law Predictions Fared

Donna BallmanatScrew You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours ago
If you are a regular reader, you'll recall that I made predictions at the beginning of 2013 about what I thought we could expect. How did I do? Call me Cassandra. Here's what I said would happen, and what really did: *1. Even More Active NLRB: Look for stepped up activity against employers on social media restrictions, attempts to suppress worker concerted activities and lopsided agreements. NLRB will do what other government agencies have punted on: help employees.* Sure enough, NLRB didn't disappoint. They were up to full strength by the middle of the year. They continued to pre... more »

The Beginning of the Road Less Traveled

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 4 hours ago
Let me tell you about my Dream. For years and years I have had dream- a driving urge to create a community. Not just any ol plunked down houses and random people... but to create a true conscious community of people that are creating CHANGE. REAL LIFE CHANGE. I have spent years building various online communities in different areas of the world and with varying focuses. Each has been an awesome learning experience and in each case I have learned vital skills in leadership and in applying those skills within non-hierarchical, no "bullshit bureaucracy" communities. I loved the... more »

WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2013 12:39 -0500 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-31/wtf-chart-day-fed-soaks-record-200-billion-year-end-excess-liquidity A week ago the Fed announced its latest expansion to its Fixed-Rate Reverse Repo facility, which boosted the maximum allotment per counterparty to a whopping $3 billion from $1 billion (initially this was "only" $500 million), to wit: "this week the Committee authorized the Desk to modify the terms of the exer... more »

Evidence of the relationship is admissible in domestic abuse cases even where such incidentally shows bad character

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 5 hours ago
R. v. Carroll, 2014 ONCA 2: [122] First, in cases of domestic homicide, evidence may be admitted during the case for the Crown, including evidence of extrinsic misconduct, that elucidates the nature of the relationship between the spouses. This evidence may tend to establish animus or motive on the part of one spouse, and thus be relevant to prove that the killer of the deceased was the spouse with the animus or motive, rather than someone else, and that the killing was murder: *Moo*, at para. 98; *R. v. Cudjoe*, 2009 ONCA 543, 251 O.A.C. 163, at para. 64; and *R. v. Van Osselae... more »

It Won't Change. Unless ...

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 5 hours ago
... unless we DO SOMETHING. Do you understand this? I'd like to read about genuine strategies for change when I go online. Not endless, pointless internet bitch festivals. Nothing is going to change unless we DO SOMETHING. Global warming is going to bring hell on earth inevitably. Do you believe this or not? If you do, ... what do you propose to do about it? Join someone else's rally for an afternoon to "demand" change from governments in thrall to the oil industry? And if your "demands" aren't met after you all go home, then what? Notice how, for all our anger and criticism and "... more »

Icelanders Erupt: Overthrown Government and New Constitution

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 5 hours ago
[image: Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions] Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 - Tweet - - [image: Icelanders-overthrow-government] *[More manifestations of awakening are continuing to bust out, Iceland being a prime example of grass roots, bold and brave activism once again. Of course the US media are silent on the issue, just as any totalitarian regime would be. "Mustn't encourage the natives, they might get even more restless..." Damn these controllers, it's time to take them down any and every way we can.* *Non compliance is the perfect starter and ende... more »

STRONG WOMAN SONG - Sung by Lisa Muswagon and Raven Hart-Bellecourt

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
Lyrics: *A strong woman* *is one who feels deeply* *and loves fiercely.* *Her tears flow* *just as abundantly* *as her laughter.* *A strong woman* * is both soft and powerful.* *She is both* *practical and spiritual.* *A strong woman* *in her essence* *is a gift to the world.*

IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse Du Lys - Official Video 2013

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
*Published on Dec 26, 2013* IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse du Lys - Music, Lyrics & Vocal By IXI ISIS *Video By : Revival Musik : https://www.youtube.com/user/RevivalM... The First One Composed and Entire Produced By IXI ISIS. Check Out Single on ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/les... Like & Follow IXI ISIS: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IXIISIS.FANPAGE Website: http://www.ixiisis.com Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102640814761909170855?cfem=1#102640814761909170855/posts?cfem=1

One of every two Americans are now in poverty or low income. We’re not just hungry for food. We’re hungry for jobs, homes, for schools, for the basic necessities of life. We are hungry for justice! Democrats and Republicans, the bipartisan corporate parties in Congress (the only parties allowed in our faux democracy), reached a budget deal that will restore full military spending while allowing food stamp and unemployment cuts to move forward. The dominant culture in the United States tells us that we have rights to abstract concepts such as freedom but not to the tangible basic necessities of education, housing, health care, jobs and more. (Exerpts from this highly researched and well written essay)

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago
------------------------------ AlterNet / *By* *Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers* Original Here America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet — Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way? *This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?* Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/corgarashu*December 14, 2013* | This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was drafted by a commis... more »

January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month - Let's End Slavery In The 21st Century

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month *It's shameful what people will do for money. This is a billion dollar industry worldwide. It's shameful that this form of slavery still exists in the 21st Century.* *Here in Sweden it's girls from eastern Europe being used in the sex trade, businesses doing it with the help of the gov. believe it or not and pretty much 80 to 90 % of all immigration is human trafficing through smugglars who get from 10 to 20,000 USD to make all arrangements. It's a big cash cow.* For More Information: *Huffington Post - Human Trafficing Link* ... more »

Nima Arkani-Hamed debates a novelist

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
*...on differences between science and arts...* The Science Museum organized a 55-minute conversation of Nima Arkani-Hamed with Ian McEwan, an English novelist. Note that Nima is dressed in an unusually elegant, formal way, to show that physicists are culturally superior. Relatively to him, McEwan is dressed like a rank-and-file physicist. ;-) The female host mentions that Nima is an avid reader; she doesn't even have to say that he is a spectacular piano player, too. *The video starts with a 16-minute test of patience. Jump to 15:45 if you're sure that you would be able to pass t... more »

Correcting a liar or a fool

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 9 hours ago
I have been engaged in a Twitter debate with another anti-Israel type whose grasp on reality is poor. This one goes by the handle @The_Mitch92 and has tweeted that both 9/11 and 7/7 were false flag operations, but more of that later. @The_Mitch92 sees no place for a Jewish state, except maybe in Antarctica, says that Jews have no historical connection with the land of Israel and tries to blame Israel and America for all the troubles of the world. Here's one example of @The_Mitch92's output and my responses... @The_Mitch92's response was not to try and justify his initial claim but... more »

You must be dreaming

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
I read this with my jaw on the desk. Would this turkey, a man who was first elected on a backlash vote, actually quit? Are you smoking crack? Stephen Harper believes in one thing - Stephen Harper. The man is not your run of the mill sociopath. He believes that we, a nation of peace seekers, truly want everything to be exactly as he learned in five semesters of economics and the wisdom he

Wide Asleep in America's 20 Most Popular Posts of 2013

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 9 hours ago
(Flickr) A New Year is upon us. Reflecting on the year gone by, I feel that a few thank yous and shout-outs are due. First and foremost, thank you to you, the one reading this right now and those who have ever visited this site with an open mind and without an agenda. Your eyes are everything. In February 2013, I was lucky enough to join the incredible staff at Muftah, an online magazine

Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14” * By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The top story is the official start of Obama Care. Look at the mainstream media headline: “Health Care sign-ups top 1 Million.” Here’s what they are not telling you. People who have turned negative on government-run health care are at record numbers. A CNN poll says 63% think the new law will make health care more expensive. Here is probably the biggest headline, and it comes from Harvard. 56% of young people ages 18 to 29 give Obama Care a big thumbs down and are rejecting it. It is critical to get young healthy ... more »

Health Care Dollars Keep Luxury Car Market Upticking and From iPhone to Cisco Routers - NSA Hacks It All (Heritage Scrubs Up) New Paradigm Arising? (2014's Promises)

And you thought no one had made any money since the Financial Crash (2008)? You probably won't be surprised at who did (and still does). It appears that some have gotten fabulously wealthy since the devastation to so many millions' portfolios. Time to reformat that resume! From "Your Health Care Dollars At Work": Outside of Minneapolis, for example, Morrie's Luxury Auto received 16 of

“The Santa Claus Lie – A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*“The Santa Claus Lie – * *A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”* By Cognitive Dissonance “I spend what some might imagine is an inordinate amount of time thinking about lies and self deception. But from my point of view it is a fundamental flaw that cripples us as individuals and as a society. Lying and lies permeate our culture from top to bottom in ways we often never perceive and rarely wish to see. Essentially it is the foundational building block that supports all that is wrong with us and why we continuously repeat our oftentimes disastrous personal and societal mis... more »

Panic, Predictions and Propaganda:Endless Empty Estimates on Iran's Nuclear Program

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 11 hours ago
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, March 21, 2013 (AP) "As you know, Iran is just a week away from a nuclear weapon. 'They have been for the past 20 years...,' says people who would like to bomb Iran." - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, November 12, 2013 ***** It has been three years since I published "

Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3ym7PnXRs

Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" ......... Is further commentary required ? ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-02/soaring-caracas-stock-exchange-undergoes-1000-1-stock-split Home Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/02/2014 21:17 -0500 - Bolsa - Google - Japan inShare For generating the greatest "wealth effect" and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe level of 2.7 million, is getting surprisingly little attention or love (maybe because unlike other countries... more »

Updates On Syria [1.2]: MV Cape Ray To Destroy Syria's CW In The Mediterranean Within Weeks, Calls For A Ceasefire Grow, Health Crisis In Syria Reveals WHO's Lack Of Authority

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 14 hours ago
*1. An excerpt from, "Here's The Massive Ship Tasked With 'Unprecedented Mission' To Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons" by Mathieu Rabechault, Agence France Presse, Business Insider, January 2:* With special machinery installed in the hold of this American cargo ship, the MV Cape Ray is poised to embark on an unprecedented mission to destroy Syria's lethal chemical agents at sea. At a shipyard in Virginia, the 650-foot (197.5-meter) ship from the Maritime Administration's reserve fleet has been outfitted with two portable hydrolysis systems designed to neutralize the most dangerous ... more »

I Am Back!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 15 hours ago
Yes, I am back! First, I must reiterate what I have been saying for some time... I truly do hate hospitals.. The food truly sucks, and I barely had any sleep for the 3 nights that I was stuck there. I just spent the entire day today catching up on some much needed sleep..... I have been suffering over the last month at least with on and off coughing, fever, and chest congestion. It is the primary reason why I took that "week" off recently to try to work on getting myself healthy... However with the condition not improving, I had decided by last Saturday that if I was not better... more »

In Memorial: Listen to Charlie Hill at AIM's 40 Year Reunion

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
In Memorial: Listen to Comedian Charlie Hill at the American Indian Movement's 40 Year Reunion in San Francisco Discover Entertainment Internet Radio with Brenda Norrell on BlogTalkRadio Charlie HIll on Richard Pryor 1977 AIM audio recorded by Censored News and Earthcycles By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Oneida Comedian Charlie Hill appeared on stage with

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 4: A great anniversary approaches!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Plus more "Quote of the Year" nominees* *[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]* *by Noah* One of the greatest anniversaries in our nation’s history will happen this year. Forty years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned! It was either that or certain removal from office via impeachment, and it was bipartisan. That’s how bad it was. If Nixon wanted to retire with a pension and perks, it was the only way. The anti-semitism. The racism. The criminality, the paranoia, and the screaming down the halls of the White House. Psychosis. "I am not a crook." Yes ... more »

I'm back at the ASSA; you don't know how lucky you are, boy; back at the ASSA.

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 16 hours ago
I am at the Philly Allied Social Science Associations conference now and over the next few days. Terrible weather, great cheese steaks. The publisher of my favorite textbook will be promoting the new edition--the 7th. If you would like to get a peek, stop by the Cengage booth. Tomorrow (Friday), I will be hanging around there from about 3:30 to 4: 15 pm.

2013 - 2014. Different date, same liberal genocidal agenda

Rufus News From AtlantisatNews From Atlantis. - 17 hours ago
2013 was a year of absolute liberal lunacy. The New Year is already shewing signs of continuing the ever-accelerating march to the total genocide of the European nation and all that we hold dear. In 2013, the liberal bigots shewed their true colours in their hypocritical reactions to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Whilst anti-Internationalists treated the deaths as simply a welcome end to an equally odious pair of servants of International Finance Imperialism, the liberal bigots reacted to each quite differently. Whereas Thatcher's death was greeted with street ... more »

Teaser trailer for United Opt Out’s annual spring event #optout

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Embed and share widely. UOO takes their fight to Denver, CO this year, March 28th to 30th, 2014. Check their website over the coming months for updates and details. In the past two years, UOO’s events in Washington, DC attracted grassroots activists and prominent figures nationwide. They’ve kindled uprisings and awareness in numerous communities. If […]

Sun Dance continues

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 18 hours ago
Our dear Sol is partying like it's still New Years Eve. After a bit of a "quiet" spell - and as SDO and SOHO have been bouncing up and down like freakin yo yos with huge black outs of data, thats only conjecture- the sun is once again ramping up with lots of excitement. in the past 48 hours we've had 4 M Class solar flares, one of which was an M9.9- which is just a hair off of being an X Class. Spot 1936 had two M flares plus one on Dec 29th, but is just about to rotate over the limb and be not geoeffective to earth any more. BUT.... the two today came from spot 1944, which is ju... more »

Gold and Silver articles of note - January 2 , 2014 - highlights from GATA and Jesse's Cafe Americain !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Gata..... IMF paper warns of savings tax and debt repudiation Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-01-02 20:57. Section: Daily Dispatches 4:05p ET Thursday, January 2, 2014 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The International Monetary Fund study cited below by The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, warning of defaults, a tax on savings, and higher inflation to repudiate excessive debt, is posted at the IMF's Internet site here: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13266.pdf Evans-Pritchard's report on the study cites "financial repression." He writes: "Financial repression can t... more »

National Security Agency news for January 2 , 2014 .......NSA stands for ‘No Such Amendment’: Intelligence agency violates US Constitution - states former CIA officer Ray McGovern........ ​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption ....... Regardless of discussions of toothless , meaningless " reforms " , NSA will not be stopped by neither any politicians in DC nor the Courts - and they are acting as if they ave absolutely no concerns about these discussions !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption Published time: January 02, 2014 22:18 Get short URL [image: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch] Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tags Intelligence, Internet, Snowden, USA The National Security Agency is building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking any encryption used to protect the most vital records around the world. The US spy agency, shown to have deliberately weakened encryption standards, is seeking an advanced-speed, *“cryptologically useful quantum computer”* that can bypass encryption tha... more »

More amazing archaelogical discoveries in 2013

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 18 hours ago
I just discovered this site (thank you Nick and JJ!). They have a very cool selection of articles on some very interesting topics. As I posted the article on monday about the Archeological discoveries of 2013, I thought you might enjoy Message to Eagle's list- and again, no doubles from the previous lists I posted, lol. The one thing I will point out, is the number of "archeology" discoveries that have happened in countries where the US and G8 have been actively meddling...... Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Ethopia,..... hmmmmmmm..... kinda like a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh? htt... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 18 hours ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-consci... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 18 hours ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-conscio... more »

Plaintiff fails to prove damages but gets second chance at new trial

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 19 hours ago
TMS Lighting Ltd. v. KJS Transport Inc., 2014 ONCA 1: [83] It is well-established that where the absence of evidence renders it impossible to assess damages, a plaintiff may be entitled to only nominal damages. *Goldfarb*, for example, says so. But this is not invariably the case. Where a plaintiff proves a substantial loss and the trial judge errs in the assessment of damages arising from that loss, the interests of justice may necessitate a new trial on damages. Although the quantification of damages flowing from the established loss may prove difficult, nonetheless t... more »

A STATE FUNERAL FOR THE BUTCHER OF SABRA AND SHATILA?

The UK Daily Telegraph reports that Israel is preparing to give the war criminal Ariel Sharon a state funeral. The report was prompted by Sharon’s rapidly deteriorating health as he approaches his ninth year of being in a coma after having a debilitating stroke on 4 January 2006. In 1982 Ariel Sharon commanded Israeli Defence Forces in Lebanon and directly facilitated the massacres of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Phalangist and other right-wing irregular forces. Israeli forces had surrounded the camps preventing anyone from leaving and provided flares to light up the camps to al... more »

Not All Savages Are Republicans

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
I spent New Year's Eve watching undisturbed wildlife on the Galapagos Islands. It was truly awe-inspiring. The animals are so unafraid of humans that they are almost oblivious to our presence. One newborn baby sea lion mistook one of our party for its mother and tried to get close. We were all briefed in advance, of course, not to touch any animals. In the case of a baby sea lion it could be life and death. If the mother were to get back and call her baby and the baby responded and then the mother smelled something different on the baby-- like eau-de-human-- she would reject and ... more »

The EVENT Puzzle

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 19 hours ago
Sophia is seriously on a roll right now- along with several other brilliant writers/bloggers who've been putting out some amazing articles in the past few weeks. "This event will happen when all pieces of the puzzle are inserted.... ....There is no way to know just when the final puzzle piece will drop into place." So many have gone through this journey looking for the biggest answer of "WHEN?". We have read old prophecies, looked at the stars for answers within their alignments, listened to hour after hour of radio shows talking about the subject, read countless pages of channe... more »

Afghanistan

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 20 hours ago

Lyndon Johnson Sometimes Did the Right Thing

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 20 hours ago
This is very interesting - I had never before seen this prior to right now. This is an excellent example of Lyndon Johnson actually doing something right and, at a key moment refusing to be handled. Contrary to popular myth. LBJ's brief initial statement at Andrews is rightly deemed to be completely forgettable - what I find extremely interesting and frankly rather surprising is that he has clearly personally amended the prepared remarks the staff, and done so in such a way as to completely excise the entire Cold War dimension and all hints of nationalism from the words so as to ... more »

RIGHT-WING RISE IN EUROPE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 20 hours ago
Nothing seems to be able to stop Europe's lurch to the political right. With only tentative signs of economic growth and precious little good news for deeply indebted countries like Greece and France, it's a movement that seems difficult to reverse. RT's Peter Oliver takes a closer look at a continent in search of new answers to hard problems.

The common core ignores the evidence

skrashenatSchools Matter - 21 hours ago
Sent to the Los Angeles Times, Jan 2 Al Austin, in his letter to the Times (Jan 2) notes that the common core calls for "a sharp reduction" in literature in schools in favor of increased exposure to informational text. This policy was created without any empirical evidence. The common core designers ignored (or were not aware of) not only studies showing that reading literature contributes to an "enhanced theory of mind," described in the Times by Robert Sapolsky ("Another use for literature," Dec. 29) but also the massive amount of published research showing that self-selected "... more »

Do Teachers Matter?

P. L. ThomasatSchools Matter - 21 hours ago
I am seeking ways to address teachers and workers—and the conditions impacting all workers—as a focus of my public work in 2014. Recently, I came across a wonderful piece about Roberto Clemente: Common bond for uncommon men: Clemente and King shared a hatred for discrimination, by David Zirin. In part, this piece speaks to the importance of solidarity and community, the sense of empathy any one person can feel and act upon in solidarity with others. Zirin highlights Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on Clemente: David Maraniss quotes Clemente's feelings about King in his 2005 biograp... more »

The Far Left's Prospects in 2014

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 21 hours ago
On paper the far left agree on many things: the exploitative character of capitalism. The primacy of the working class. The unity of democracy and socialism. The inescapable necessity of revolution. The pro-imperialism of the AWL. And yet it remains as divided as ever. The regroupment projects of the last 20 years have, at best, come to nothing. At worst they have given rise to new animosities - especially north of the border. It's not a matter of piss-poor leadership and dismal routinism, though that has a role to play. The far left is in a structural bind. Neoliberalism is (un)dea... more »

Terror in Volgograd

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 21 hours ago
*Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to discuss the recent terror attacks in Volgograd, Russia. Draitser explains the political and geopolitical context within which the bombings should be examined. He notes the connections to the upcoming Sochi olympics, as well as Russia’s policy in Syria, as possible motivations.*

BBC Radio 4 - PJ Harvey edit TODAY - Denis Halliday: 'The U.N. Security Council - Dump The Wolves'.

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago
this morning, musician PJ Harvey was guest editor of Radio 4's three-hour TODAY programme and had Julian Assange on as *Thought For The Day*, but the most important speech was done by Denis Halliday the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998 and it was titled 'The U.N. Security Council - Dump The Wolves'. Here's a link to the BBC iPlayer stream of this morning's TODAY show: scroll to the 49:00 mark to experience Denis Halliday's powerful words, sorry if this link doesn't work with non-UK countries: maybe someone will youtube/vimeo this land... more »

Two tribes, becoming more tribal!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 21 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014* *Getting to know our own tribe:* Are the two tribes becoming more tribal? If not, we can’t imagine why. By now, powerful orgs are urging each tribe in the direction of true belief. Such conduct is profitable, and easy to do. It helps drives tribes apart. Of course, tribal beings can only see the tribalism in the *other* tribe. We thought of this after perusing this post by Kevin Drum, who isn't at fault in our story. Uh-oh! A new Pew survey has explored belief about evolution. In the new survey, 48 percent of Republicans said they believe that “humans a... more »

Hockey today

SteveatThinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
In my blood as thick as any football hooligan. Capable of making me equally stupid. I am very not satisfied with the product on ice. Sure the marketeers can milk us but what is the future. Hockey is a fringe sport on the world market. It depends upon excitement. Like baseball hockey is on a death spiral because it refuses to harness that. I could not care less about basketball. However what it allows is the stars to show what makes them stars. Hockey has chocked the chicken on that to appeal to non fans. Anyone who has played Civilization knows it is so easy to defend and so hard t... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 6 - The Force of Freedom

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
The force with which you live your life very much imitates the depth of feeling held regarding liberation. Those who consider themselves to be tightly shackled will not move around much – either figuratively or physically. They will tend to conform – only going places in their minds and with their bodies that are “allowed” or “suggested” by the ones doing the shackling. A glance at the population gives you a clear picture of which ones of us are in fact unchained. If we take this vision to an extreme – it will show us something quite disturbing to accepted belief systems. Tho... more »

Alignment with Higher D “Blue Earth Star” harmonics is recommended for Hue-Beings at this moment

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
*Alignment with Higher D “Blue Earth Star” harmonics is recommended for Hue-Beings at this moment* by ÉirePort Terrestrial concepts from prior paradigms are now dissolved and will not hold those attempting to attach to such. This includes such arenas as "environmental care", oceanographics, planetary species "saving", "dangers to the environment"... and many others. Current supported paradigm includes all dimensional levels of existence and thus, former 3D-only oriented paradigms are not useful, nor results-yielding. Energy harvesting from such 3D-only oriented paradigms is compl... more »

Social Studies National Curriculum: Pearson and Gates Ready for Next Push

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 23 hours ago
Even as 22 states are rethinking, restricting, or dropping prior commitments to national Common Core corporate standards for schools, this has not stopped the CorpEd machine from quietly pushing forward with another prong of its overreaching and lucrative exercise to increase testing, standardize thinking, and undercut diversity in American schools. On September 11, 2013, a group drunk with money from the Gates Foundation published *College, Career, and Civic Life: C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards*. Short on specifics and long on intent, the new C3 cram down crew of... more »

For the idiots who believe the 9/11 conspiracy theories, including @The_Mitch92

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 23 hours ago
I often read conspiracy theory nuts who state that 9/11 was an inside job and that the buildings couldn't have fallen so quickly etc. etc. Can I suggest that such people either seek psychiatric help or read this Popular Mechanics report.

John Kane recipient of media award in New York

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
John Kane is Recipient of Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York John Kane By Liz Hill Censored News WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 2, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and national expert commentator on Native issues, will receive a Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.

Thailand: Regime Plans to Counter January 13 Rally with Bused-in Mayhem

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 23 hours ago
*January 2, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci) - In a last desperate bid to cling to power, the regime plans to once again bus in mobs of its fanatical "red shirts" on January 13, 2014, just as anti-regime protesters announced plans to stage a massive, city-wide rally on the same day. Thai PBS reported in its article, "UDD to stage counter-rally on January 13," that: The pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will stage a rally in Bangkok to counter the People’s Democratic Reform Committee’s “Bangkok Shutdown” mass demonstration on January 13. UDD co-leader Jatup... more »

Hey, kids, cramming for your Geography final? Don't forget Snoopy Island!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Twittter user @tekken8810 *@etienneeshrdlu*: "Exactly as Nostradamus predicted. A new Snoopy-shaped island rises from the sea near Tokyo" *"Hiroshi Ito, a volcanologist with the Japanese coastguard, said the island could erode after the eruptions cease. 'But it could also remain permanently,' he told the FNN news network."* *-- from "Japanese 'Snoopy' island created byvolcanic eruption," in* The Guardian *by Ken* Boy, you can bet the creationists will have a field day with this one. As our pal Mai Armstrong, the indefatigable blogger of the (NY-NJ) Working Harbor Coalition, wri... more »

Global Poverty Rates and Economic Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours ago
The figure above comes from a recent, excellent paper by Martin Ravallion, The Idea of Antipoverty Policy, which shows a dramatic acceleration in the reduction of global poverty since 1950, Ravallion makes two observations based on the graph (of which he notes, "Neither observation has been made before to my knowledge"): The middle of the 20th century saw a marked a turning point in progress against poverty globally. Figure 2 plots two series for the $1 a day poverty rate, from Bourguignon and Morrisson (2000) and Shaohua Chen and Ravallion (2010). There is a long list of data prob... more »

The Brezezinski Doctrine

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
INTERVIEW WITH INTERVIEW WITH DR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI-(13/6/97) (Preliminary talk) INTERVIEWER: Thank you very much for being willing to do an interview. I'll start by asking about arms control: what were the Administration's arms control objectives when they came into office? ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: It was essentially to limit, first of all, the arms race, and then, if possible, to scale it down. I remember vividly how committed the newly elected President was to the idea of a significant cut in the nuclear weapons on both sides. That was kind of a central goal of his. INT: How ... more »

PJ's Today

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Hahahaha. Today I've been mostly listening to PJ Harvey’s Today programme. What a shocker!! (as they say on the tabloids) It’s just the type of thing I would’ve come up with, had I been invited, when I was about fourteen. No, twelve. Of course what she really wanted to do, the imp, was to make Today, Radio 4 into a teen-pop programme like, say, BBC three, amateurish but without the wit. All the items I heard seemed to be survivors of self-awareness-ectomies. Or should that be otomies. Pilger! Actually he said many spot-on things about media manipulation but forgot to mention that h... more »

Did Supreme Court Justice Roberts "set a trap" for Obamacare?...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*Bill Dunn over at American Thinker thinks so.* Bill Dunn is virtually smacking his lips at the cleverness of John Roberts who, in his wisdom, saw the upcoming debacle known as Obamacare. Supposedly, according to Dunn, he (Roberts) could in some last minute burst of light foresee that the roll out of Obamacare was going to be a disaster which would doom the Democrats, Obama, and the future political career of Hillary Clinton. One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national... more »

Aftermath of Shutting Down Ramadi Protest Site In Iraq

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
On December 30, 2013, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in conjunction with Anbar Governor Ahmed Diab took down the protest site in Ramadi. The province was already inflamed by the arrest of Parliamentarian Ahmed Alwani two day before from the Iraqi Islamic Party who was one of the leaders of the demonstrations. Immediately fighting broke out in Ramadi and Fallujah, which has continued to the present time. This has brought the internal divisions within Anbar to the forefront with different groups and individuals coming out for and against Baghdad in this conflict. In the bigg... more »

Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters. via Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters.

My Antarctic diary

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 1 day ago
*Guest blog by Dr Alexander Ladislav Mrdelka* As a member of the Czech Globe, an EU excellence institute proving that the Earth is dying, I was honored to have been the only Czech researcher who participated on the Antarctic mission. Our goal was to demonstrate that the last ice in Antarctica is melting away. Due to the unsustainable crime against Nature known as the "economic growth", Florida and other states and countries will soon be submerged. *We were intrigued by the photographs from the previous expedition that investigated the impact of global warming on Antarctica.* Also... more »

LAND OF SCRIPT: Still misquoting Rice after all these years!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014* *Part 3—Benghazi script survives:* Our modern “journalistic” culture is heavily built around script. What the heck is script? Nine years ago, Krugman defined it: KRUGMAN (8/3/04): *Reading the Script* A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good to see ourselves as others see us. *I've been finding The Daily Howler's concept of a media “script,” a story line that shapes coverage, often in the teeth of the evidence, particularly helpful in understanding cable news.*... more »

Updated: Morocco Diary #3

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
By American Kabuki January 2, 2014 They have a saying in Morocco, "Morocco was the first nation to recognize America when it became a nation. America promised to return the favor...and Morocco is still waiting." A lot of truth in that. Morocco regained its independence from France in 1955, yet it remains largely forgotten by America. For a country as friendly as it is to the USA it doesn't get a lot of American visitors. Moroccans are naturally friendly to Americans, but they don't often see them here. Caleb wants to create what he calls *"Caleb's House of Nerds"*, a communi... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago
Tulum, Mexico, view from my cabana - 1990s.

The Eleven Intentions by Lynda Terry

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
Source of Poster: http://notesalongthepath.com/2014/01/02/the-eleven-intentions-a-guest-post-from-lynda-terry/

@johnkuhntx Teaching: The Card Game

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
By John Kuhn In the spirit of “War” and “Old Maid,” I present a card game called “Teaching.” (Note: there is something inherently icky about symbolizing students with numbers or, in this case, playing cards. I didn’t create this game to imply that students are merely numbers or that some students are “worth more” than […]

Passing of Justice Webber

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
I knew him mainly as an arbitrator/mediator. He was a sensible lawyer and a very decent man; he will be missed. THE HONOURABLE JOHN B. WEBBER, Q.C. 1933 - 2013 Suddenly at home on December 26, 2013 - best friend and beloved husband of Janet (nee Johnson) and devoted father to Wendy Jackman (Dan) and Michael (Katherine). Proud grandfather of four wonderful grandchildren: Mallory, Walton, Rachel and Avery. Born September 11, 1933 in Oakville to Geoffrey and Estelle Webber. John practiced law in Brampton as a senior partner with Lawrence, Lawrence, Stevenson and Webber, was appointed... more »

Wild Bill: Welfare Warpath...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*"Anyone who is capable of rioting is also capable of getting a job and doesn't need welfare."*

What Does The Fox Say Shirt with Files

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
I was given the Heat Transfer Vinyl to create this shirt. All opinions and instructions are 100% my own. What Does The Fox Say? If you love or hate the video, you have to admit that it is everywhere right now. My 5-year-old walks around singing it at the top of her lungs on a daily basis, even my little nephew knows most of the words. My daughter loves the music video so much, that I am pretty sure she would wear a full on fox costume if I would let her. She was absolutely thrilled to get a Fox shirt of her very own and wants to wear it every day. This shirt is 1 of 2 Fox shirts, ch... more »
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The wreckage of the American Star (SS America)...The wreckage of the American Star (SS America) seen from land side, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Español: Restos del naufragio del American Star (SS America) vistos desde tierra. Français : Épave du American Star vue de la rive, Île de Fuerteventura, Canaries. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Polar vortex Italiano: Vortice polareEnglish: Polar vortex Italiano: Vortice polare (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Harold Ramis at a Hudson Union Societ...English: Harold Ramis at a Hudson Union Society event in October 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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VIDEO - AGENDA: Grinding America Down

Passionate PragmatistatNortherntruthseeker - 54 seconds ago
The Most Important Documentary On America Ever; Destroying America From Within *by: Josey Wales* There is nothing that is taking place in America today that can’t be understood by examining the 100-year history of the efforts to destroy America from within. This is a documentary that takes an in-depth look at the root of our decline in America; socialism with the ultimate goal of global communism. This documentary also lays out names and dates and groups that have an active and growing agenda to bring America down to a third-world country, from Karl Marx to the Fabian Socialists t... more »

SOCIAL JUSTICE: U.S. shocking redistribution of wealth in the past five years

Passionate PragmatistatNortherntruthseeker - 22 minutes ago
*WW~Notes: Here ya go, this is "socialism" plain and simple. The political progressives call it "social justice." Justice for who - I wonder?* [image: richpoor] Anyone reviewing the data is likely to conclude that there must be some mistake. It doesn't seem possible that one out of twenty American families could each have made a million dollars since Obama became President, while the average American family's net worth has barely recovered. But the evidence comes from numerous reputable sources. Some conservatives continue to claim that President Obama is unfriendly to business, ... more »

Life in the emerging American Police State: What's in store for our freedoms in 2014?

Passionate PragmatistatNortherntruthseeker - 30 minutes ago
*Reposted from Pragmatic Witness - * [image: policedhs] In Harold Ramis' classic 1993 comedy *Groundhog Day*, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into his life but changes his priorities. Similarly, as I illustrate in my book *A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State*, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again - egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, g... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 36 minutes ago
*Saints Fans Use Secret Weapon Against The Philadelphia Eagles ~Saints Tailgate*

Sunday Classics preview: Two Scherzos

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 38 minutes ago
[*This preview begins the second part of a three-part Bruckner series, begun December 6-8 with "Bruckner's Fourth Symphony -- four stories for four movements," a reprise of a January 2010 post I've always been fond of. This Bruckner Seventh preview post appeared originally in July 2012. The Bruckner series -- and, I'm projecting, Sunday Classics -- will conclude with a new post on the Ninth Symphony.* -- Ken] *by Ken* In writing recently about the structure of Tchaikovsky's string sextet *Souvenir de Florence*, I noted that it employs a particular movement format: an opening move... more »

“Cold U.S. Temperatures Expected To Break Records As 'Polar Vortex' Blasts Midwest”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 41 minutes ago
*“Cold U.S. Temperatures Expected To Break * *Records **As 'Polar Vortex' Blasts Midwest”* By Carson Walker “The weather warnings are dire: Life threatening wind chills. Historic cold outbreak. Bitter cold temperatures. Winter is normally cold, but starting Sunday tundra-like temperatures are poised to deliver a rare and potentially dangerous sledgehammer blow to much of the Midwest, driving temperatures so far below zero that records will shatter. One reason? A "polar vortex," as one meteorologist calls it, which will send cold air piled up at the North Pole down to the U.S., funn... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
“Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. *Click image for larger size.* The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive sta... more »

Phil Everly...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
*January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014 * *RIP *

Real Life Consequences of Corporate Education Deform

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 3 hours ago
There's no shortage of education blogs and information about how utterly worthless and destructive current education policy is for the United States. There are mounds of factual, scientific evidence based on thousands of academic studies on the destructive education policies that continue to dumb down the nation's next generation. There are enough books and documents to fill the Capitol rotunda ten times over, but nothing has changed. As public school districts scramble to prepare for and implement Common Core, more high stakes standardized testing. and canned, scripted curriculum... more »

MAKE A MOVE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 3 hours ago
*An activist stands at the entrance to the CIA headquarters protesting the US drone attack in Yemen that recently killed a total of 17 innocent people* "People are practical. They want change but feel powerless, alone, do not want to be the blade of grass that sticks up above the others and is cut down. They wait for a sign from someone else who will make the first move, or the second. And at certain times in history, there are intrepid people who take the risk that if they make that first move others will follow quickly enough to prevent their being cut down. And if we understand thi... more »

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 5: Everyone's a critic, including me

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Some people really try my patience(Bill-O, Howie Kurtz, E. W. Jackson, et al.)* *[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]* *by Noah* What would any Quote of the Year contest be without one of the Republican Party's leading spokesweirdos, Bill O'Reilly. I think the most interesting question about this man is: Is he merely Archie Bunker with a TV show? Or is Roger Ailes broadcasting lunatic Republican propaganda from a remote insane asylum that's buried deep in a lead-shielded mountain somewhere. As the clip above shows, homophobia is not new turf for Bill-O. This is a deepl... more »

Letter to George W. Bush Iraqis, Including Children, Continue to Die or Suffer Terribly

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
*By Ralph Nader* George W. Bush George W. Bush Presidential Center PO Box 560887 Dallas, Texas, 57356 Dear Mr. Bush: January 03, 2014 "Information Clearing House - A few days ago I received a *personalized letter* from your Presidential Center which included a solicitation card for donations that actually provided words for my reply. They included “I’m honored to help tell the story of the Bush Presidency” and “I’m thrilled that the Bush Institute is advancing timeless principles and practical solutions to the challenges facing our world.” (Below were categories of “tax-deduct... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Owner's Manual'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
OWNER’S MANUAL Posted on January 3, 2014 MNN. Jan. 3, 2014. Oneida comedian and American Indian Movement AIM advocate, Charlie Hill, left us with many great insights. He said that we Indigenous have the “owner’s manual” to Turtle Island. We can fix it because It’s ours. The Kiainerekowa, Great Law of Peace, is our owner’s manual. Our job is to pass along the peace to the rest of the

Friday Nerd Blogging: IR Meets the Cold

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
What is better than one Nazi Zombie movie? Two of them! Yes, we have a sequel:

Buffy Sainte-Marie 'The Charlie Hill Award'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
Special thanks to Buffy Saint-Marie for sharing this tribute with Censored News which honors Oneida-Cree Comedian Charlie HIll Hi, Here’s a letter I wrote 6 years ago to some Native American philanthropy groups who were discussing whom they should fund: I thought Charlie Hill. Although at the time there wasn't the response I'd hoped for to fund our non-establishment off-the-grid unique

Judge should not discourage correction of interpreter by counsel

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 7 hours ago
R. v. S.D.S., 2014 ONCA 4: The appellant's counsel was fluent in Portuguese, and objected at times to the accuracy of the interpretation. The trial judge seemed to treat this as if counsel was offering a personal, competing expert opinion and instructed him to refrain from correcting the interpreter. The trial judge should not have discouraged these interventions.

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 7 hours ago
One orchid blooming.

happy new year from wmtc

laura katwmtc - 7 hours ago
On January 1, 2013, I was still in library school, and working as a library page. Allan's book proposal was still sitting on a publisher's desk. We were living at G's Court, and had no thought of moving. In 2013, in order of appearance: - Allan got a book contract, - I got a promotion from page to circulation clerk, - I finished my Master's degree, - We went to Spain (plus London and Paris), - I got my first librarian position, part-time, - I broke my foot, - Our basement, Allan's office, was destroyed by a sewage flood, - We moved, - The Red Sox won the World Series! - Allan wrote a book... more »

murdoch mysteries, abortion on tv, and maybe an anti-war reference, too

laura katwmtc - 7 hours ago
I always like to have a detective-mystery series to follow. I try many of them, like a few, and watch several episodes in a row as downtime relaxation. I recently started the Canadian "Murdoch Mysteries," which takes place in Toronto at the turn of the 20th Century. Back when we still had cable TV, I frequently saw promos for Murdoch Mysteries, but I thought it looked kind of cheesy. But when I recently clicked on it through Netflix, I discovered it's actually quite good. I'm now well into Season 2, and I'm finding the mysteries not obvious and the character development absorbing. ... more »

new year's resolutions from our man woody guthrie

laura katwmtc - 7 hours ago
According to the good folks at WoodGuthrie.org, our hero Woody Guthrie wrote these New Year's resolutions, which he called "rulin's," in 1943. Happily for us, an admirer at another website has transcribed them. Woody's rulin's are by turns sweet ("learn people better"), fanciful ("dream good"), and practical ("wear clean clothes"). Some are downright hilarious: "wash teeth if any". 33. Wake Up And Fight 32. Make Up Your Mind 31. Love Everybody 30. Love Pete 29. Love Papa 28. Love Mama 27. Help Win War — Beat Fascism 26. Dance Better 25. Play And Sing Good 24. Send Mary And K... more »

Political Scandal and Indifference

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
Let's look at what you would've won. No more privatisations. No market fundamentalism. An extension of trade union rights. A thriving mining industry using the most advanced technology in the world. A joined up approach to finance and industry. A strong labour movement. Communities proud of their history. All under three successive Labour governments, dating from 1987 to 2001. It was a time that saw the 1945 settlement strengthened and deepened. Social democracy renewed was the common sense of the age, so much so that they wrote it into the European Union's constitution. Britain, b... more »

Right Wing Crack Addicts Trey Radel And Rob Ford Believe They're Above The Law

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Right wing slobs Rob Ford and Trey Radel Manmohan Singh has been Prime Minister of India for a decade. This morning, he announced he would not run again in order to make way for young blood. I understand the feeling and it was certainly the way I felt when I decided to leave Warner Bros. The only way for people to move up is for people at the top to move on. Singh is backing Rahul Gandhi (age 43, son of Rajiv Gandhi) for the job. There is fear in India that the far right has a chance of taking over with neo-fascist bigot Narendra Modi becoming the next Prime Minister. Modi is compara... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
Bomoseen, Vermont, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

“The Better Angels Of Our Nature”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“The Better Angels Of Our Nature: * * How Charles Dickens Influenced Abraham Lincoln" * by Gene Griessman, Ph.D. “Here’s the story of an obscure but beautiful quotation from Charles Dickens that found its way into the First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln. n 1861, before his inauguration, Lincoln showed a draft of what he intended to say to William Seward, his Secretary of State. Seward recommended that Lincoln conclude with conciliatory words, and sketched out a few sentences for Lincoln to consider. Seward’s rough draft, which has been preserved, contains the expression “... more »

Chet Raymo, “Sailing to the Moon”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Sailing to the Moon”* by Chet Raymo “It's like fishing in the dark. Our thoughts are the hooks, Our hearts the new bait.” "And so, China has soft-landed a rover on the Moon. A splendid achievement of which that nation must be very proud. I'm proud too, for humankind. I think of what Thomas Merton wrote in “Thoughts in Solitude”, at a time when some far-seeing rocket scientists were considering the real possibility of going to our sister satellite: "What can we gain by sailing to the moon, if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves." I've read much of ... more »

Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
Perhaps the most sobering component of the privatization push is its unprecedented demand for data collection (data “mining”) on American students. Data mining is not just an American issue. However, on the American front, two education activists have been at the forefront of the fight against this mammoth student data collection: Louisiana’s Jason France (here’s a great […]

Memories Of Choral Society

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 8 hours ago
Southern Man has been a lover of classical music since childhood. He still remembers every work on the classical LP that Southern Father would put on the living-room stereo at night, turned up just enough that Southern Lad could hear them from his bed. And he would pursue music for the rest of his childhood as well, becoming at least somewhat proficient on piano (and less so on violin) by his high-school years. In college there was no question of majoring in music - there is no way that he'd ever be good enough to support himself with such - and Southern Man embraced the STEM fields ... more »

Bill Whittle: It's up to us...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago
*to reclaim our country. * You betcha!

John Fortune R.I.P.

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 8 hours ago
John Fortune was a satirical genius, here's one of his duets with John Bird as they explain the workings of the 'Markets' especially with regard to the 2008 crisis and the subprime market. John Fortune will be missed...

The Harper Government's latest Big Lie

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 8 hours ago
Well, it has a bag-load hauled out at those times when it is tactically expedient. This one however, is a slam-dunk. Remember Jason Kenney telling us all how the rules on foreign workers were going to be tightened up? Well it turns out they were ... and they weren't. Canadians now go to the head of the line for non-union sex-work. For anything else, you wait until the union's busted by flooding

DON'T PANIC ON THE ECONOMY

Anonataangirfan - 9 hours ago
Government debt is said to be dangerously high. (Debt to GDP ratios for 2014 may be *109% in the USA and 95% in the Euro area*) An International Monetary Fund (IMF) research paper is warning of* high inflation*, *a tax on savings* and *governments defaulting on their debts*. The research paper may be wrong. *The UK had VERY high debts in 1816, but boomed, and reduced debt, in the century that followed.* *The UK and USA should not necessarily be worrying about levels of debt.* Between 1949 and 1966, UK debt was mostly over 100% of GDP. Yet growth was a healthy 3.19 % on average.... more »

Stephen Harper an expert flip-floper

LeDaroatLeDaro - 9 hours ago
He is good at it but one of these days he is going to land on his head. Senate scandal might do it. Sorry the picture is very small. Camera was at a distance and was not allowed to be any closer.:)

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago

Geocaching At The Lake

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 9 hours ago
At this point Southern Man is actually hobbling along pretty well so he is starting to go after geocaches that require a little walking. This one was at a large area lake (hidden in that evergreen tree) and Southern Man stood and admired the beautiful day and watched the sailboats for a while before working his way down that (relatively modest) slope to nab the cache.

“A Simple Economic Truth America's Super Rich Don't Want Us to Know About”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“A Simple Economic Truth America's Super Rich Don't Want Us to Know About”* By Thom Hartmann “For the past 32 years, Americans have been living a lie. It's a lie that helps out rich people and screws working people, and it's a lie that needs to be called out. The people promoting this lie - most all of them rich people themselves - have been so good at promoting this lie that pretty much everybody believes it. It's even asserted as fact, without contradiction, in the mainstream media. But it's a lie. The lie is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable compan... more »

Christmas Party

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 9 hours ago
Yes, there will be Dirty Santa. Southern Man spent the entire evening *right there* on that couch with his foot up but the camera got passed around so there were plenty of pics. A lovely couple. Another lovely couple; Southern Man's Bible discussion group leader and his fiancée. Whoo hoo, look at our presents! Southern Man would soon steal those dark chocolate truffles... ...but she was able to obtain this lovely plaque to replace them. Yes, it's one of Southern Man's favorite verses and will be carved into his fireplace mantlepiece someday. What's a party without a little ... more »

Amnesty International says: Drop the vengeance! Free Albert Woodfox!

angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 9 hours ago
Featured below is the full text of an action alert for Albert Woodfox, released today by Amnesty International, timed to build public pressure in the days leading up to Albert's oral arguments in New Orleans on Tuesday, January 7. *(PHOTO: Michael Mable, the brother of Albert Woodfox, speaks at the press conference and delivery of petition to free Albert at the Louisiana State Capitol on Oct.21, 2013.)* This could be the end of Albert Woodfox's 40-year plus prison nightmare, if you act now. On Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hold a hear... more »

“2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse”* by Paul Craig Roberts 2014 is upon us. For a person who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1961, a year in which the class ring showed the same date right side up or upside down, the 21st century was a science fiction concept associated with Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” To us George Orwell’s 1984 seemed so far in the future we would never get there. Now it is 30 years in the past. Did we get there in Orwell’s sense? In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountabi... more »

Surgery

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 9 hours ago
Today was spent busily waiting, first for an ultrasound (part of the aforementioned physical exam of last Monday) and then surgery on that busted leg. The Bone Doc had alluded to not only putting a plate on the bone but any number of pins and screws to hold the rest of the ankle together but Southern Man put in a mild protest and asked that the ankle be left to heal on its own and then through the magic of modern anesthesia it was three hours later and he was in the recovery room getting dressed (yes, his memory kicks in as he is struggling to pull his pants on). There was no cast, ... more »

Christmas Day

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 9 hours ago
On Christmas Day Southern Man wandered over to a cousin's home for a family lunch. Southern Mother, Southern Father, and Southern Great-Aunt, the youngest sister of Southern Man's long-departed grandmother. The ever-lovely Southern Mother. Our gracious host, Southern Man's first cousin once removed. Why, yes, he's changed her diaper a time or two. Southern Second Cousin and an American Girl doll. Southern Daughter also collected those for a while. SFCOR, her charming and handsome husband, and SSC. Charming and handome husband's brother and his lovely wife.

PNC customers inPhiladelphia region - check your accounts , there could be errors in your PNC account ! Murder by internet ? Will hackers be able to target and kill victims remotely ? Recently Skype and Snapchat hacked - really nothing is safe out here folks !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/01/03/pnc-bank-acknowledges-glitch-affecting-unknown-number-of-customers/ 95 View Comments [image: (One PNC customer's account showed a number of "miscellaneous withdrawals" that the bank said it would reverse. Image provided by customer)] (One PNC customer’s account showed a number of “miscellaneous withdrawals” that the bank said it would reverse. Image provided by customer) *By Tim Jimenez* PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A number of PNC bank customers woke up today seeing less money in theiraccounts. The company is calling it a “glitch.” PNC spokeswom... more »

Homeless in Connecticut

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 10 hours ago
I'm liking Connecticut's junior Senator more and more all the time. This guy gets it. In order to better understand the reality his poorest constituents face, Sen. Chris Murphy spent the day with a homeless guy. The guy did everything right. He overcame tremendous odds in his childhood to better his life. Then the crash came and he lost his job and his home. Now he's on the street and the paltry $400 a month he was receiving in UI benefits were cut off by the crackpot conservatives in Congress. Thing is, this "fiscally responsible" policy makes it almost impossible for the homeless... more »

Christmas Eve

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 10 hours ago
As one might imagine Southern Man spent most of Christmas Eve on the couch with his leg propped up so most of these pics were by Teen Daughter. The long-time family tradition has been to gather at the Ancestral Manor on Christmas Eve so it was, as always, a large and merry gathering with much eating and chatting and reading from the Christmas story (as recounted by Saint Luke) and a generally wonderful time. Teen Daughter selfie. Another family tradition - Southern Sister stuffing the stockings. Southern Man usually stuffs with a favorite drink and a book. Southern Daughter at t... more »

What really happened when BoBo got high

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Well, I suppose you could read David Brook's true confession about smoking pot. I wouldn't recommend it. I gave up his columns years without a moment's regret. I would however highly endorse spending a few minutes reading the hilarious response posted by the guy who got high with BoBo in high school. It seems our Mr. Brooks left out a few details, among them: And here all along I thought he quit because of that time we got pulled over by the Radnor cops in senior year right after we’d clambaked his Mom’s Vista Cruiser, and first thing the cop does after the smoke clears is look him... more »

How many people were killed by Saddam Hussein's regime?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 10 hours ago
How many people were killed by Saddam Hussein's regime? This is a question that it is hard to answer, there are many answers none of which are 100% accurate (how could they be?) but there are ranges that are agreed upon. Wikipedia reports that: According to *The New York Times*, "he [Saddam] murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead. His seizure of Kuwait threw the Middle East into crisis. More insidious, arguably, was the ... more »

More Than Meets the Eye Behind Cambodia's Growing Unrest

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 11 hours ago
The Cambodian people undoubtedly face a tyrannical regime, but US-backed opposition will bring nation only deeper into despair and destitution. *January 3, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci) - Protests growing in both Thailand and neighboring Cambodia may at first look very similar. Both are against supposedly "elected governments," but both nations are clearly run by illegitimate dictatorships. Both nations have streets filled with growing numbers of dissatisfied people who are increasingly putting pressure on their respective regimes, lead by one or several opposition parties. And both see... more »

Concerning a 12-year-old public school script!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 11 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014* *Finland, when it was young:* Ever since December 2001, everyone has known the script: When it comes to the public schools, we have to copy miraculous Finland, land of miraculous test scores! All across the spectrum, people are still repeating this manifest nonsense today. Why do we call it nonsense? The script about miraculous Finland emerged from the release of the scores from the inaugural 2000 PISA. Finland scored at the top of the world. The script was soon being widely yodeled. Why do we call the script nonsense? We’ve discussed this topic many tim... more »

all the difference in the world

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
An old man was going for a walk on the beach, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread. He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs. The little boy answered, "Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die."“But there are homeless dogs everywhere," the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference” The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for him, for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

Have the Clintons turned "progressive"?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*"In classic Clinton style, [the former president] was gracious toward [former NYC Mayor Michael] Bloomberg, who took over the city in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and had to grapple with the impact of the recession that hit the country in 2008. Clinton thanked Bloomberg for leaving New York stronger than he found it."But on this day, Clinton, as always, was thinking about tomorrow. He wanted no one listening to conclude that he was there to split the difference between the outgoing and incoming mayors, to offer praise in equal amounts."And so, after... more »

Constantly saying teachers are “poor” kind of pisses me off. I think we should stop it.

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
I get it. We all get it. Relative to other careers with similar education credentials, teachers are underpaid, given that many have graduate degrees. To wit: The average salary for full-time public school teachers in 2010–11 was $56,069 in current dollars (i.e. dollars that are not adjusted for inflation). In constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, the average […]

Cold Day in Toronto!!!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 12 hours ago

What Does The Fox Say? Shirt with Layered Heat Transfer

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
I was given the Heat Transfer Vinyl to create this shirt. All opinions and instructions are 100% my own. Still singing What Does The Fox Say from yesterday's post? Yeah, me too. Today's shirt was made for my 5-year-old. It is more whimsical with just the ears and the tail and with two fun colors instead of just one. Making shirts with more than one color of vinyl is called layering heat transfer and it is surprisingly easy and just needs a little patience. She absolutely loves her shirt and in the week she has owned it has worn it three times, with me doing extra laundry just so she... more »

LAND OF SCRIPT: Misrepresenting Rice!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014* *Part 4—Kirkpatrick keeps script alive:* Modern journalistic practice is marked by at least two widespread problems. One the one hand, our press corps displays a stunning lack of basic journalistic skills. (The ability to paraphrase fairly, and to quote correctly, are two such basic skills.) They also display a devotion to script. Nine years ago, Paul Krugman described the phenomenon: KRUGMAN (8/3/04): *Reading the Script* A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good... more »

National Threat Alert: The Mind Trust’s CEE-Trust, George Bush, and Bill Gates

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 12 hours ago
By Doug Martin The Indianapolis-based Mind Trust plays a major part in my forthcoming book *Hoosier School Heist,*but many people don’t realize that the group founded by former Democratic mayor Bart Peterson and David Harris is a national leader in the school privatization movement through its CEE-Trust (Cities for Education Entrepeneurship). Loaded with Bill Gates/Joyce and Carnegie Foundation money, CEE-Trust actively works for charterization not only in Indianapolis but in Kansas City, Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis, Dallas, Denver, and New Orleans. In fact, CEE-Trust boasts of 33... more »

Love the One you're with

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
First written 6/2012, the following article was featured on Gail Goodwin's beautiful website, Inspire Me Today, again today. Sign up there to receive daily encouragement in this coming year of great changes! This message still holds, *love the one you're with.* ~~~ Fall in love with yourself. This is it. You are here now on purpose, in this unique, exquisite body with your brilliant mind and enormous heart. Burst out of the constraints of “should” and “have to” and just “be”. Gracefully dance into freedom. You are here to love. *The hardest person for you to love is reading these... more »

BRITAIN'S SPIES OUTWITTED BY THE JEWS

Anonataangirfan - 13 hours ago
*"This book unveils the reality of an inbred caste... and its ... servile substrata of button-polishing bully-boys." - The Observer* *Calder Walton*'s book *Empire of Secrets **tells the story of Britain's spies.* Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – Observer / How Zionist Extremism Became British Spies’ Biggest Enemy / Empire of Secrets by Calder - Telegraph. / Bernard Porter reviews 'Empire of Secrets' / Book review: Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton Calder Walton explains that the British were probably the first to use 'extraordinary rendition'. MI5 would arrest a suspect, m... more »

@johnkuhntx: The Tyranny of the Datum

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
By John Kuhn Data is a big deal. A great deal of innovation is happening right now in the field of data collection, storage, and management in the field of education. There are some well-documented fears among parents and teachers regarding these trends. Who will control the data? How will the data be used? Will […]

@ArneDuncan is suzerain to the vassals

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
The Washington Post (aka Valerie Strauss) reported just days ago that the Secretary of Education intervened in choice of chancellor of NYC schools, discouraging choice of MD Supe Josh Starr. How dare Duncan, yes? Interfering in local education matters. My analysis? NYC is not merely a local education matter. This isn’t Albuquerque. This is New […]

Guest Post: Here’s to a Progressive/Conservative Movement to Take Back Our Schools

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
We met the other day in the kitchen of a retired teacher. We were quite the mix of people, with a far right conservative and a far left progressive; long­time retired teachers, and currently working teachers; elementary teachers, high school teachers and a university teacher. Despite our differences, we all came together out of a […]

Why do Americans still support Israel?

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 13 hours ago
An article appearing in *The Jewish Daily Forward* the other day highlighted and summarized a Pew Research Center poll recently conducted to gauge American support for the Jewish state of Israel. According to the article, 61% of those polled viewed Israel favorably, while 26% viewed Israel unfavorably. While Americans continue to hold long-time allies like Great Britain and Canada in high esteem, they are pretty divided as to how they feel about some of the government’s other key allies — like Israel. A recently published *Pew Research Center poll* reveals *that 61% of Americans vi... more »

Who killed the Palestinian Ambassador with an exploding safe, and other questions

Real History LisaatReal History Blog - 13 hours ago
First, Happy New Year! I closed my FB page - keeping up with the comments was too time-consuming. Here, I can decide when I want to set time aside to go through comments - there, I couldn't. So I will likely be posting here more often. I love Twitter for sharing news stories, like this one: "The safe that exploded and killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic had been in daily

Free Trade 30: BIPOR and APTIR

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 13 hours ago
Many national and multilateral agencies are known for being Bureaucracies Instigating Protectionism, Outings and Revelries (BIPOR). For instance, to have real free trade as in freedom to trade by the people, there is little or no need for endless negotiations if economies will declare unilateral trade liberalization, like what Hong Kong has done. Just open the borders to various goods and services from many countries at zero tariff, zero regulations except the trading of guns, bombs, fake and substandard medicines and food products, poisonous substances and a few others that can har... more »

The Trust Deficit

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 13 hours ago
Frank Graves' latest poll confirms the conventional wisdom: Canadians are losing trust in their democratic institutions. Trust in Canadian democracy has been on the wane for thirty years; but it has continued to decline during Stephen Harper's time in office: So while the Harper government is by no means responsible for the poor democratic health of the country, it certainly hasn’t managed to slow the trend — let alone reverse it. The rating of Canada’s democratic health has been on a straight line downward and is now at a historical nadir. Other polling from 2013 suggests that ... more »

The Observation Gap?

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has become the black hole of education discussions or “debates.” In fact, I’d submit that we spend far too much time and energy arguing for, or against, the CCSS that we’re neglecting other critical aspects of our profession. Case in point: the role classroom observations serve in providing teachers […]

CONFRONTING ISRAELI APARTHEID

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago
- The Israeli government is torturing Palestinian children, including keeping them in outdoor cages during winter, according to a new human rights report. A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel claims children suspected of minor crimes have been subjected to “public caging,” threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation. - Ilan Pappé is foremost among the Israeli "new historians" who have challenged the traditional view of Israeli history, especially the Israeli role in the 1948 ethic cleansing of P... more »

Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students. via Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students.

Pauvre Francois Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 15 hours ago
Poor François Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand.

ALEC PR is Really Their Own Propaganda Regurgitated

2old2careatBecause I Can - 15 hours ago
Been fuming over this one ever since I wrote an entry on ALECs twisting of words ( also known by my Mom as LYING) *Bill Meierling, a spokesman for ALEC*, said the organization "maintains no model policy on climate change.""on climate change" - he's being specific - "on climate change" must have some specific mumbo jumbo meaning for ALEC Especially when you consider the document drop the Guardian did in December with Headline and subheads that read ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy• Documents reveal conservative group's anti-green agenda ... more »

Why Doesn't America Allow Drug Importation?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Fred Upton sold out his Michigan constituents to the drug companies long ago I spent the holiday season on a ship cruising around the Galapagos, going from island to island. One day the highlight was seeing a sea lion give birth to her first pup and the next was watching an aquatic iguana rape a female iguana. Another day we saw parent frigates take turns caring for their chick while the other one hunted. The Ecuadorean naturalists helped us put the experiences into context. There wasn't reliable internet access on the ship but I did manage to come across the new Pew Poll about how f... more »

War Watch December 31 , 2013 - Negotiators miss deadline for Afghan security pact , Pentagon plows forward with Afghan War plans despite Intelligence Estimate , Afghan Government releases 650 detainees from Bagram...... Iran, world powers agree to implement nuclear deal in late January , additional articles related to Iran nuclear talks........ Syria misses deadline for removal of chemical weapons , Lebanon Army fires on Syria Copters ....... Turkey corruption scandal updates - PM Erdogan and AKP attempt to fend off the ongoing probes , Another AKP Deputy quits AKP , Gold mining company Koza Atlinhas its activities halted at Cukuralan goldfield - Is the Company on the wrong side politically ? Faced with legal challenges,Turkish government tries to weaken top administrative court

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Afghanistan...... US Ultimatum Fails, Afghan Troop Deal Remains Unsigned'Deadline' Passes Without Karzai's Signature by Jason Ditz, December 31, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration’s “end of the year” ultimatum for President Hamid Karzai to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) has now officially come and gone, and the BSA remains unsigned. The BSA is designed to keep troops in the nation “through 2024 and beyond,” and the administration had repeatedly warned through November and early December that all US troops would leave if Karzai didn’t sign by the end o... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*"Tort reform" = "Stop suing oil companies" ~Library Chronicles* *Louisiana creating one-stop shop for businesses* *Weekend offers Acadiana lots of big-name musicians ~Daily Advertiser*

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie....

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Bethlehem Unwrapped has, undeniably, drawn a disturbing number of enthusiastic and positive responses. Such a shame. It’s inflammatory in a wholly negative way, and I’m astounded at the wrongheadedness of the instigators. They may have begun the project with good intentions, but they leapt onto the wrong bandwagon ‘and they don’t even know it!’ The pretence that it was an even-handed symbol of protest at ‘walls’ in general was belied by much of the participants’ graffiti. The ‘This Wall saves Lives’ slogan was defaced, firstly with “Doesn’t” scrawled in black between ‘wall and ‘s... more »

Trifecta: How to Cope with Depressing News...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 16 hours ago
* Scott Ott will blow you away with his answer.*

Call Me Prescient: How My 2013 Employment Law Predictions Fared

Donna BallmanatScrew You Guys, I'm Going Home - 16 hours ago
If you are a regular reader, you'll recall that I made predictions at the beginning of 2013 about what I thought we could expect. How did I do? Call me Cassandra. Here's what I said would happen, and what really did: *1. Even More Active NLRB: Look for stepped up activity against employers on social media restrictions, attempts to suppress worker concerted activities and lopsided agreements. NLRB will do what other government agencies have punted on: help employees.* Sure enough, NLRB didn't disappoint. They were up to full strength by the middle of the year. They continued to pre... more »

The Beginning of the Road Less Traveled

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 16 hours ago
Let me tell you about my Dream. For years and years I have had dream- a driving urge to create a community. Not just any ol plunked down houses and random people... but to create a true conscious community of people that are creating CHANGE. REAL LIFE CHANGE. I have spent years building various online communities in different areas of the world and with varying focuses. Each has been an awesome learning experience and in each case I have learned vital skills in leadership and in applying those skills within non-hierarchical, no "bullshit bureaucracy" communities. I loved the... more »

WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 16 hours ago
WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2013 12:39 -0500 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-31/wtf-chart-day-fed-soaks-record-200-billion-year-end-excess-liquidity A week ago the Fed announced its latest expansion to its Fixed-Rate Reverse Repo facility, which boosted the maximum allotment per counterparty to a whopping $3 billion from $1 billion (initially this was "only" $500 million), to wit: "this week the Committee authorized the Desk to modify the terms of the exer... more »

Evidence of the relationship is admissible in domestic abuse cases even where such incidentally shows bad character

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 17 hours ago
R. v. Carroll, 2014 ONCA 2: [122] First, in cases of domestic homicide, evidence may be admitted during the case for the Crown, including evidence of extrinsic misconduct, that elucidates the nature of the relationship between the spouses. This evidence may tend to establish animus or motive on the part of one spouse, and thus be relevant to prove that the killer of the deceased was the spouse with the animus or motive, rather than someone else, and that the killing was murder: *Moo*, at para. 98; *R. v. Cudjoe*, 2009 ONCA 543, 251 O.A.C. 163, at para. 64; and *R. v. Van Osselae... more »

It Won't Change. Unless ...

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 17 hours ago
... unless we DO SOMETHING. Do you understand this? I'd like to read about genuine strategies for change when I go online. Not endless, pointless internet bitch festivals. Nothing is going to change unless we DO SOMETHING. Global warming is going to bring hell on earth inevitably. Do you believe this or not? If you do, ... what do you propose to do about it? Join someone else's rally for an afternoon to "demand" change from governments in thrall to the oil industry? And if your "demands" aren't met after you all go home, then what? Notice how, for all our anger and criticism and "... more »

Icelanders Erupt: Overthrown Government and New Constitution

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 17 hours ago
[image: Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions] Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 - Tweet - - [image: Icelanders-overthrow-government] *[More manifestations of awakening are continuing to bust out, Iceland being a prime example of grass roots, bold and brave activism once again. Of course the US media are silent on the issue, just as any totalitarian regime would be. "Mustn't encourage the natives, they might get even more restless..." Damn these controllers, it's time to take them down any and every way we can.* *Non compliance is the perfect starter and ende... more »

STRONG WOMAN SONG - Sung by Lisa Muswagon and Raven Hart-Bellecourt

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
Lyrics: *A strong woman* *is one who feels deeply* *and loves fiercely.* *Her tears flow* *just as abundantly* *as her laughter.* *A strong woman* * is both soft and powerful.* *She is both* *practical and spiritual.* *A strong woman* *in her essence* *is a gift to the world.*

IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse Du Lys - Official Video 2013

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
*Published on Dec 26, 2013* IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse du Lys - Music, Lyrics & Vocal By IXI ISIS *Video By : Revival Musik : https://www.youtube.com/user/RevivalM... The First One Composed and Entire Produced By IXI ISIS. Check Out Single on ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/les... Like & Follow IXI ISIS: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IXIISIS.FANPAGE Website: http://www.ixiisis.com Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102640814761909170855?cfem=1#102640814761909170855/posts?cfem=1

One of every two Americans are now in poverty or low income. We’re not just hungry for food. We’re hungry for jobs, homes, for schools, for the basic necessities of life. We are hungry for justice! Democrats and Republicans, the bipartisan corporate parties in Congress (the only parties allowed in our faux democracy), reached a budget deal that will restore full military spending while allowing food stamp and unemployment cuts to move forward. The dominant culture in the United States tells us that we have rights to abstract concepts such as freedom but not to the tangible basic necessities of education, housing, health care, jobs and more. (Exerpts from this highly researched and well written essay)

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 20 hours ago
------------------------------ AlterNet / *By* *Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers* Original Here America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet — Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way? *This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?* Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/corgarashu*December 14, 2013* | This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was drafted by a commis... more »

January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month - Let's End Slavery In The 21st Century

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month *It's shameful what people will do for money. This is a billion dollar industry worldwide. It's shameful that this form of slavery still exists in the 21st Century.* *Here in Sweden it's girls from eastern Europe being used in the sex trade, businesses doing it with the help of the gov. believe it or not and pretty much 80 to 90 % of all immigration is human trafficing through smugglars who get from 10 to 20,000 USD to make all arrangements. It's a big cash cow.* For More Information: *Huffington Post - Human Trafficing Link* ... more »

Nima Arkani-Hamed debates a novelist

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
*...on differences between science and arts...* The Science Museum organized a 55-minute conversation of Nima Arkani-Hamed with Ian McEwan, an English novelist. Note that Nima is dressed in an unusually elegant, formal way, to show that physicists are culturally superior. Relatively to him, McEwan is dressed like a rank-and-file physicist. ;-) The female host mentions that Nima is an avid reader; she doesn't even have to say that he is a spectacular piano player, too. *The video starts with a 16-minute test of patience. Jump to 15:45 if you're sure that you would be able to pass t... more »

Correcting a liar or a fool

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 21 hours ago
I have been engaged in a Twitter debate with another anti-Israel type whose grasp on reality is poor. This one goes by the handle @The_Mitch92 and has tweeted that both 9/11 and 7/7 were false flag operations, but more of that later. @The_Mitch92 sees no place for a Jewish state, except maybe in Antarctica, says that Jews have no historical connection with the land of Israel and tries to blame Israel and America for all the troubles of the world. Here's one example of @The_Mitch92's output and my responses... @The_Mitch92's response was not to try and justify his initial claim but... more »

You must be dreaming

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 21 hours ago
I read this with my jaw on the desk. Would this turkey, a man who was first elected on a backlash vote, actually quit? Are you smoking crack? Stephen Harper believes in one thing - Stephen Harper. The man is not your run of the mill sociopath. He believes that we, a nation of peace seekers, truly want everything to be exactly as he learned in five semesters of economics and the wisdom he

Wide Asleep in America's 20 Most Popular Posts of 2013

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 21 hours ago
(Flickr) A New Year is upon us. Reflecting on the year gone by, I feel that a few thank yous and shout-outs are due. First and foremost, thank you to you, the one reading this right now and those who have ever visited this site with an open mind and without an agenda. Your eyes are everything. In February 2013, I was lucky enough to join the incredible staff at Muftah, an online magazine

Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14” * By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The top story is the official start of Obama Care. Look at the mainstream media headline: “Health Care sign-ups top 1 Million.” Here’s what they are not telling you. People who have turned negative on government-run health care are at record numbers. A CNN poll says 63% think the new law will make health care more expensive. Here is probably the biggest headline, and it comes from Harvard. 56% of young people ages 18 to 29 give Obama Care a big thumbs down and are rejecting it. It is critical to get young healthy ... more »

Health Care Dollars Keep Luxury Car Market Upticking and From iPhone to Cisco Routers - NSA Hacks It All (Heritage Scrubs Up) New Paradigm Arising? (2014's Promises)

And you thought no one had made any money since the Financial Crash (2008)? You probably won't be surprised at who did (and still does). It appears that some have gotten fabulously wealthy since the devastation to so many millions' portfolios. Time to reformat that resume! From "Your Health Care Dollars At Work": Outside of Minneapolis, for example, Morrie's Luxury Auto received 16 of

“The Santa Claus Lie – A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
*“The Santa Claus Lie – * *A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”* By Cognitive Dissonance “I spend what some might imagine is an inordinate amount of time thinking about lies and self deception. But from my point of view it is a fundamental flaw that cripples us as individuals and as a society. Lying and lies permeate our culture from top to bottom in ways we often never perceive and rarely wish to see. Essentially it is the foundational building block that supports all that is wrong with us and why we continuously repeat our oftentimes disastrous personal and societal mis... more »

Panic, Predictions and Propaganda:Endless Empty Estimates on Iran's Nuclear Program

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 23 hours ago
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, March 21, 2013 (AP) "As you know, Iran is just a week away from a nuclear weapon. 'They have been for the past 20 years...,' says people who would like to bomb Iran." - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, November 12, 2013 ***** It has been three years since I published "

Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3ym7PnXRs

Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" ......... Is further commentary required ? ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-02/soaring-caracas-stock-exchange-undergoes-1000-1-stock-split Home Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/02/2014 21:17 -0500 - Bolsa - Google - Japan inShare For generating the greatest "wealth effect" and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe level of 2.7 million, is getting surprisingly little attention or love (maybe because unlike other countries... more »

Updates On Syria [1.2]: MV Cape Ray To Destroy Syria's CW In The Mediterranean Within Weeks, Calls For A Ceasefire Grow, Health Crisis In Syria Reveals WHO's Lack Of Authority

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
*1. An excerpt from, "Here's The Massive Ship Tasked With 'Unprecedented Mission' To Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons" by Mathieu Rabechault, Agence France Presse, Business Insider, January 2:* With special machinery installed in the hold of this American cargo ship, the MV Cape Ray is poised to embark on an unprecedented mission to destroy Syria's lethal chemical agents at sea. At a shipyard in Virginia, the 650-foot (197.5-meter) ship from the Maritime Administration's reserve fleet has been outfitted with two portable hydrolysis systems designed to neutralize the most dangerous ... more »

I Am Back!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago
Yes, I am back! First, I must reiterate what I have been saying for some time... I truly do hate hospitals.. The food truly sucks, and I barely had any sleep for the 3 nights that I was stuck there. I just spent the entire day today catching up on some much needed sleep..... I have been suffering over the last month at least with on and off coughing, fever, and chest congestion. It is the primary reason why I took that "week" off recently to try to work on getting myself healthy... However with the condition not improving, I had decided by last Saturday that if I was not better... more »

In Memorial: Listen to Charlie Hill at AIM's 40 Year Reunion

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
In Memorial: Listen to Comedian Charlie Hill at the American Indian Movement's 40 Year Reunion in San Francisco Click arrow to listen: Charlie Hill at AIM Reunion Discover Entertainment Internet Radio with Brenda Norrell on BlogTalkRadio AIM audio recorded by Censored News and Earthcycles By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Oneida Comedian Charlie Hill appeared

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 4: A great anniversary approaches!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Plus more "Quote of the Year" nominees* *[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]* *by Noah* One of the greatest anniversaries in our nation’s history will happen this year. Forty years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned! It was either that or certain removal from office via impeachment, and it was bipartisan. That’s how bad it was. If Nixon wanted to retire with a pension and perks, it was the only way. The anti-semitism. The racism. The criminality, the paranoia, and the screaming down the halls of the White House. Psychosis. "I am not a crook." Yes ... more »

I'm back at the ASSA; you don't know how lucky you are, boy; back at the ASSA.

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
I am at the Philly Allied Social Science Associations conference now and over the next few days. Terrible weather, great cheese steaks. The publisher of my favorite textbook will be promoting the new edition--the 7th. If you would like to get a peek, stop by the Cengage booth. Tomorrow (Friday), I will be hanging around there from about 3:30 to 4: 15 pm.

2013 - 2014. Different date, same liberal genocidal agenda

Rufus News From AtlantisatNews From Atlantis. - 1 day ago
2013 was a year of absolute liberal lunacy. The New Year is already shewing signs of continuing the ever-accelerating march to the total genocide of the European nation and all that we hold dear. In 2013, the liberal bigots shewed their true colours in their hypocritical reactions to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Whilst anti-Internationalists treated the deaths as simply a welcome end to an equally odious pair of servants of International Finance Imperialism, the liberal bigots reacted to each quite differently. Whereas Thatcher's death was greeted with street ... more »

Teaser trailer for United Opt Out’s annual spring event #optout

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Embed and share widely. UOO takes their fight to Denver, CO this year, March 28th to 30th, 2014. Check their website over the coming months for updates and details. In the past two years, UOO’s events in Washington, DC attracted grassroots activists and prominent figures nationwide. They’ve kindled uprisings and awareness in numerous communities. If […]

Sun Dance continues

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 1 day ago
Our dear Sol is partying like it's still New Years Eve. After a bit of a "quiet" spell - and as SDO and SOHO have been bouncing up and down like freakin yo yos with huge black outs of data, thats only conjecture- the sun is once again ramping up with lots of excitement. in the past 48 hours we've had 4 M Class solar flares, one of which was an M9.9- which is just a hair off of being an X Class. Spot 1936 had two M flares plus one on Dec 29th, but is just about to rotate over the limb and be not geoeffective to earth any more. BUT.... the two today came from spot 1944, which is ju... more »

Gold and Silver articles of note - January 2 , 2014 - highlights from GATA and Jesse's Cafe Americain !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Gata..... Von Greyerz: Gold has moved out of central bank vaults to private vaults Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2014-01-03 18:51. Section: Daily Dispatches 1:50p ET Friday, January 3, 2014 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Western central banks don't permit audits of their gold reserves because the gold is no longer around, Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz tells King World News today. The metal, he says, has left their vaults and moved into private vaults largely in Asia. An excerpt from his interview is posted at the King World News blog here: http://kingworldnews.com/kingwor... more »

National Security Agency news for January 2 , 2014 .......NSA stands for ‘No Such Amendment’: Intelligence agency violates US Constitution - states former CIA officer Ray McGovern........ ​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption ....... Regardless of discussions of toothless , meaningless " reforms " , NSA will not be stopped by neither any politicians in DC nor the Courts - and they are acting as if they ave absolutely no concerns about these discussions !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption Published time: January 02, 2014 22:18 Get short URL [image: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch] Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tags Intelligence, Internet, Snowden, USA The National Security Agency is building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking any encryption used to protect the most vital records around the world. The US spy agency, shown to have deliberately weakened encryption standards, is seeking an advanced-speed, *“cryptologically useful quantum computer”* that can bypass encryption tha... more »

More amazing archaelogical discoveries in 2013

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 1 day ago
I just discovered this site (thank you Nick and JJ!). They have a very cool selection of articles on some very interesting topics. As I posted the article on monday about the Archeological discoveries of 2013, I thought you might enjoy Message to Eagle's list- and again, no doubles from the previous lists I posted, lol. The one thing I will point out, is the number of "archeology" discoveries that have happened in countries where the US and G8 have been actively meddling...... Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Ethopia,..... hmmmmmmm..... kinda like a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh? htt... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-consci... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-conscio... more »

Plaintiff fails to prove damages but gets second chance at new trial

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
TMS Lighting Ltd. v. KJS Transport Inc., 2014 ONCA 1: [83] It is well-established that where the absence of evidence renders it impossible to assess damages, a plaintiff may be entitled to only nominal damages. *Goldfarb*, for example, says so. But this is not invariably the case. Where a plaintiff proves a substantial loss and the trial judge errs in the assessment of damages arising from that loss, the interests of justice may necessitate a new trial on damages. Although the quantification of damages flowing from the established loss may prove difficult, nonetheless t... more »

A STATE FUNERAL FOR THE BUTCHER OF SABRA AND SHATILA?

The UK Daily Telegraph reports that Israel is preparing to give the war criminal Ariel Sharon a state funeral. The report was prompted by Sharon’s rapidly deteriorating health as he approaches his ninth year of being in a coma after having a debilitating stroke on 4 January 2006. In 1982 Ariel Sharon commanded Israeli Defence Forces in Lebanon and directly facilitated the massacres of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Phalangist and other right-wing irregular forces. Israeli forces had surrounded the camps preventing anyone from leaving and provided flares to light up the camps to al... more »

Not All Savages Are Republicans

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I spent New Year's Eve watching undisturbed wildlife on the Galapagos Islands. It was truly awe-inspiring. The animals are so unafraid of humans that they are almost oblivious to our presence. One newborn baby sea lion mistook one of our party for its mother and tried to get close. We were all briefed in advance, of course, not to touch any animals. In the case of a baby sea lion it could be life and death. If the mother were to get back and call her baby and the baby responded and then the mother smelled something different on the baby-- like eau-de-human-- she would reject and ... more »

The EVENT Puzzle

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 1 day ago
Sophia is seriously on a roll right now- along with several other brilliant writers/bloggers who've been putting out some amazing articles in the past few weeks. "This event will happen when all pieces of the puzzle are inserted.... ....There is no way to know just when the final puzzle piece will drop into place." So many have gone through this journey looking for the biggest answer of "WHEN?". We have read old prophecies, looked at the stars for answers within their alignments, listened to hour after hour of radio shows talking about the subject, read countless pages of channe... more »

Afghanistan

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Lyndon Johnson Sometimes Did the Right Thing

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
This is very interesting - I had never before seen this prior to right now. This is an excellent example of Lyndon Johnson actually doing something right and, at a key moment refusing to be handled. Contrary to popular myth. LBJ's brief initial statement at Andrews is rightly deemed to be completely forgettable - what I find extremely interesting and frankly rather surprising is that he has clearly personally amended the prepared remarks the staff, and done so in such a way as to completely excise the entire Cold War dimension and all hints of nationalism from the words so as to ... more »

RIGHT-WING RISE IN EUROPE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago
Nothing seems to be able to stop Europe's lurch to the political right. With only tentative signs of economic growth and precious little good news for deeply indebted countries like Greece and France, it's a movement that seems difficult to reverse. RT's Peter Oliver takes a closer look at a continent in search of new answers to hard problems.

The common core ignores the evidence

skrashenatSchools Matter - 1 day ago
Sent to the Los Angeles Times, Jan 2 Al Austin, in his letter to the Times (Jan 2) notes that the common core calls for "a sharp reduction" in literature in schools in favor of increased exposure to informational text. This policy was created without any empirical evidence. The common core designers ignored (or were not aware of) not only studies showing that reading literature contributes to an "enhanced theory of mind," described in the Times by Robert Sapolsky ("Another use for literature," Dec. 29) but also the massive amount of published research showing that self-selected "... more »

Do Teachers Matter?

P. L. ThomasatSchools Matter - 1 day ago
I am seeking ways to address teachers and workers—and the conditions impacting all workers—as a focus of my public work in 2014. Recently, I came across a wonderful piece about Roberto Clemente: Common bond for uncommon men: Clemente and King shared a hatred for discrimination, by David Zirin. In part, this piece speaks to the importance of solidarity and community, the sense of empathy any one person can feel and act upon in solidarity with others. Zirin highlights Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on Clemente: David Maraniss quotes Clemente's feelings about King in his 2005 biograp... more »
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A Country For The Old

Stephen Harper has always been up front about one of his political objectives -- the destruction of the Liberal Party. Recent polls suggest that he hasn't succeeded on that front. But, if Frank Graves' latest numbersare correct, he may well have gone along way to obtaining his second objective -- the destruction of the middle class. Harper bought into the touchstone of the American Right -- Ayn Rand's dictum that selfishness is a virtue. Graves writes that, in both countries, the results have been the same. The middle class is in decline: A comparison of poll tracking in Canada and... more »

Time to get my genes re-tested.

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 57 minutes ago
Identification of de novo copy number variants associated with human disorders of sexual development. Tannour-Louet et al *PLoS One*. 2010 Oct 26;5(10):e15392. Disorders of sexual development (DSD), ranging in severity from genital abnormalities to complete sex reversal, are among the most common human birth defects with *incidence rates reaching almost 3%*. Although causative alterations in key genes controlling gonad development have been identified, *the majority of DSD cases remain unexplained*. To improve the diagnosis, we screened 116 children born with idiopathic DSD using a ... more »

A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 hour ago
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker People are starting to notice. My comment : I find it amazing that so many non-Intersex people are so vehement in asserting that only *they* know who or what we *really* are. That their opinion trumps our experienced narrative. That might not be so bad if you could all agree with one another, but you can't. Then there's the overt homophobia - confusing us with gays. The overt trans- and intersex-phobia, (often from gays ironically enough, who object to being associated with us). They have a point - the only things we have in common i... more »

Thought For Today

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 hour ago
Heinlein – Specialization is for Insects | Not Always On A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein I prefer to live rather than die gallantly though. That's a last resort. Instead, I try to fight so efficiently t... more »

Joanne Yatvin: The Common Core Standards May Be Harmful to Children

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
The following article was written by Dr. Joanne Yatvin, who does a great job of pointing out problems with specific standards, and how easy it is to tell that the Common Core Standards were not created by educators or child learning specialists. Such specialists, such as Dr. Yatvin, have determined that they are harmful to […]

The Founder of the Nation of Islam...... Looks Kinda White...

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 2 hours ago
Wallace Fard Muhammad *"Allah came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W. D. Fard, in the third year (1933). He signed his name W. F. Muhammad which stands for Wallace Fard Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth."* *The Hon. Elijah Muhammad,* *Message to the Black Man, 1966* I quote The Enemy: *"Historians have used public records to identify Fard... more »

Collectable and eventually playable education activism game cards, courtesy of UOO

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
The activist organization United Opt Out, that little gaggle always does things a little differently. Well, in advance of their annual spring event, taking place in Denver, CO March 28th-30th, 2014, UOO is releasing a collection of activist game cards that will include the organizers and the guests who will be in attendance. Now, these […]

Another warm welcome to a new author, Dr. Denisha Jones (@denisha_jones)

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Denisha and I go back a few years. We were both graduate students at Indiana University. And oddly enough, we found our way there from DC, and now back again. Denisha’s at Howard University. Great institution with a Dean who’s said some very hopeful things about education reform. Dr. Jones is in this fight with […]

Censored Native poet, filmmaker and resisters, and a note from Noam Chomsky

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
While searching for my articles of travels with the Zapatistas, I stumbled across one of my most censored articles written in December of 2001. At the time, I had shared the article with Noam Chomsky, and had since forgotten about the note he sent back. Noam Chomsky wrote, “Interesting and eloquent. Thanks for sending." Simon Ortiz I'm sharing this again, because of the eloquence and power

Wish you had snow of your own? Eat your heart out!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Upper West Side (Manhattan)* DNAinfo caption: *Instagram user Alex Tarhini (@alextnyc) took this photo of a snow-blanketed Upper West Side street. (Click to enlarge.)* *by Ken* Some of you have probably had recent snowstorms of your own, while others haven't and are probably feeling mighty jealous. I suppose there are some of you who haven't and are just feeling *Schadenfreude* for us, which is really mean, but you may enjoy these pictures even more, you rats. Here in the Big Apple we've had a pretty frosty weekend following our big storm of Thursday-into-Friday, which made it reg... more »

A Legend Is Born In Pakistan: "Long Live Imran Khan The Great" Scream The Youth of Pakistan

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 3 hours ago
*The heavens bow before him! No illegal drone strike escapes his wrath! No NATO supply truck is safe on his watch! The man, the myth, the legend, the great and infallible Imran Khan! * Imran Khan is the true face of terror in NATO's mind. They control the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and help carry out their biggest attacks on U.S. and international soil, so those militants are nothing to worry about, but an independent political leader with mass following in Pakistan is what terrifies NATO generals and U.S. policymakers. Even the Taliban surrenders at the mere thought of Imran Khan and c... more »

Nice face, shame about the rep

Jody PatersonatA Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 4 hours ago
We're newly back from two weeks of travelling on the Caribbean side of Guatemala and through Belize. It's easy travel in Belize, where English is the primary language, and the little country is clearly a popular choice for North American and European travellers. But while I totally get how nice it is to just breeze through a welcoming country with great tourism infrastructure, hopefully we convinced at least a few of the travellers we met to give Honduras a try, too. The travellers I've met who have been to Honduras always say how much they loved their time here. It's a gorge... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago
Same one that I did for conservatives: who was your rookie of the year for the first session of Congress? Of those first elected in 2012, who impressed you? (Fine. I know you all are going to say Elizabeth Warren. So if you have runner-up, add that one, too).

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago
Looking back on the first session of Congress -- who is your rookie of the year? Who is the best of those newly elected in 2012?

Repugs: The Goal - How to Keep Poor People Poor

2old2careatBecause I Can - 4 hours ago
It's amazing to me - after decades of programs that have contributed greatly to our standard of living and to the standard of living of others - now the Repugs and RepubliCONS want to get rid of them. So be it - they have hated these programs and policies for decades - but in the past, they haven't been as adamant about destroying them - and thereby destroying our way of life in the United States. If you stop for a minute and think about it - we are currently in a time of * Corporatocracy, * * dollarocracy, * * plutocracy, or * * fascism.* Therefore anything that is... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 7 - Who's driving?

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
The course of a god is individually set. Each of us is on that course. The choice to incarnate as human is made freely. The opportunity for growth is sort of exponential here. Some of us came with different agendas. All of us came to set in place a real opportunity to create. So what is creation? We have evidence of it daily as children are born, cakes are made and movies are produced. Yet it is understood that another level of creation exists – a level that appears to be magical, powerful and beyond our ability. Everything necessary for us to create worlds exists within ... more »

MSM Again Fail To Tell All Sides Of Story On 'Obamacare'

Manifesto JoeatManifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 5 hours ago
By Manifesto Joe When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, known pejoratively to critics as "Obamacare," our Mainstream Media have, again and again, generally failed to tell the whole story. The reports have mostly focused on the early failures of the federal website, admittedly a debacle at first. But there are other sides to this story that are rarely being told. One rare case was a recent lead story in the middle-market daily newspaper of Wichita Falls, Texas -- I believe it is called the Record-News, owned by the Scripps chain. The report tells the story of Julie Coley of Wichi... more »

The Role of Poetry in Expressing the Divine Presence

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 5 hours ago
Video Title: The Role of Poetry in Expressing the Divine Presence. Source: RecoveringtheSacred. Date Published: December 1, 2012. Description: Patrick Laude, International Sufi Symposium 2007.

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, January 5th, 2014

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 6 hours ago
It is indeed good to be back…. I missed last week's rant due to fear of having a heart condition, and I am now doing a lot of catching up…. First and foremost, I truly want to thank Whitewraithe for helping me out at this blog during my short absence…. I really do hate hospitals, and even after getting a clean bill of health on my heart, I came down over the last few days with a very intense cold and fever. I do suspect that I caught that during my hospital stay! The angiogram is healing up nicely, but my right wrist does hurt like the dickens, and even as I type this rant, I am ... more »

Killing the Canadian Coast Guard. One massive hack at a time.

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 6 hours ago
You would naturally believe that Harper and his hillbilly cohort would be strengthening the Canadian Coast Guard for several reasons, not the least of which would be to strengthen any claim on the Arctic with positioned Arctic escort ships, search and rescue and just plain hanging a flag. Another reason would be the woefully inadequate CCG resources to deal with the upcoming traffic jam in

TV Watch: Okay, "Downton Abbey" deprivees, tonight's the big night* -- and wait, there's more!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
**Of course, don't forget to check your local listings.* Tough Justice with Michelle Dockery from Michelle Dockery *"She's not Lady Mary anymore."* *by Ken* Noah passed this on to me, and at first I assumed it was real -- yet another case of a gosh-darned Brit taking away American j-o-b-s. It turns out to be *better than real* (kind of scary-real, actually). And isn't "better than real" the post-Reagan American Dream? Note: In case it doesn't play (and I have a bad history with non-YouTube embeds), here's the link. (I've got my *Downton Abbey* Season 4 Blu-rays on pre-order, for ... more »

Argentina: Light Formation Over Tucumán

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 hours ago
A possible triangular UFO over Tucumán, Argentina? Contributing editor *Guillermo Gimenez* provides us the following photo from *Luis Burgos*'s FAO site. The image, taken by *Javier Lopez Posse*, is accompanied by the following text: "Attention, Tucumán! Today at 09:03 p.m. I captured three white lights in the shape of a triangle (possible triangualr UFO) flying from East to West at a 60-degree elevation. I was looking at it from North to South, apparently heading toward Cerro San Javier. It gave the impression of being translucent, with white yet opaque lights. If anyone else ... more »

KAISER WILHELM II, GAYS, FREEMASONS, JEWS AND WORLD WAR I

Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago
*'Little Willie'. Wilhelm in 1863* Scandal erupted in Germany in 1907. Various top people in the military and in the royal court were named as homosexuals. Kaiser Wilhelm II's intimate friend, Prince Philip von Eulenberg, was put on trial. *(Professor John C. G.-Rohl "The Kaiser and his Court, Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany",1966)* *Prince Philip von Eulenberg* A journalist called Harden claimed to have hard evidence of the Kaiser’s homosexuality. During Kaiser Wilhelm's annual hunt in the Black Forest, the chief of the Military Directorate died of a heart attack... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Sound of Music'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago
SOUND OF MUSIC MNN. Jan. 5, 2014. The orenda [energy], oyendera [body] and onikonra [the mind] all work together to be healthy and to communicate with the natural world. We are spirit beings with inherent vibrations. Taking us off natural sound and natural time creates divisions in our mind so that we can be separated from the oneness.  Pope Disney to corporatists: “You take over

Human-animal hybrids by artist Liu Xue

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 8 hours ago
some of the best sculpture art this blogger has ever seen has come out of China. Here's another example, my first art post in 2014, the bizarre and alluring human-animal hybrid sculptures of Liu Xue that explore tradional images of beauty in an unconventional (and highly original) fashion.  *image courtesy of **beautiful decay* *image courtesy of **beautiful decay*

Ronald Reagan's Secret Rabbit-In-Hat Plan To Subvert Our Society So Much That David Brooks Now Appears As A Serious Philosopher

Yes, Virginia, we're here in American due to a secret society's desire for power, eminence and riches. And freedom. Don't forget freedom! Ronald Reagan often spoke of America’s divine purpose and of a mysterious plan behind the nation’s founding. “You can call it mysticism if you want to,” he told the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1974, “but I have always believed that

Sunday Unwrapped/Interrupted

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
As predicted, when the Bethlehem Unwrapped item was featured on Ed Stourton’s Sunday, Radio 4, time ran out just as things were (might have been) hotting up. Having been trailed throughout, the discussion was nipped in the bud before anything significant or new had a chance to get its boots on. This sort of thing happens so frequently it’s beginning to look like a conspiracy by some mischievous BBC producers ‘aving a larf. Lucy Winkett reiterated the same claims she has stated many times in the BU publicity and subsequently in the Guardian, with knobs on. Alan Johnson, putting ... more »

We Rode with the Zapatistas

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
The impenetrable stronghold of the Zapatistas By Brenda Norrell Marcos with Tohono O'odham near Arizona border Photo Brenda Norrell Censored News When people speak of Che, they often speak of his deep love, love for humanity, love for Indigenous People, and love of justice. Those of us who traveled with, rode with, and supported the Zapatistas over the past 20 years, were drawn

Editorialising

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
What should a media organisation which is bound by statute and its own editorial guidelines to report impartially do when a UK politician appears to be engaging in shameless electioneering? Should it say so? *The Times *reports tonight: David Cameron rejected suggestions today that he has decided to protect pensions ahead of offering immediate help to working people because the retired are more likely to vote. The Prime Minister used his first major interview of the new year to announce the Government’s pledge to commit to the “triple lock”, which guarantees that pensions rise by ... more »

Libya updates January 5 , 2014 - oil blockades and political intrigue roll along.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
Oil Protests and blockades continue....Oil pipeline blocked at Nalut by protesting guards *By Seraj Essul.* *Tripoli, 4 January 2014:* Petroleum Facilities Guards based in Nalut have blocked an oil pipeline from the Wafa field to Mellitah, claiming that they have not been paid since last March and that all they have received from the government are their uniforms. The gas pipeline from the Wafa field to the Mellitah gas processing plant was closed for some weeks by protesting Amazigh demanding a greater say in the drafting of the constitution. However the deputy head of Nalut local ... more »

A new blog for you to check out from Canadian educator Tobey Steeves

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
It’s called ReMapping Education. I’ve always had very insightful chats with Mr. Steeves on Twitter. Hopefully we’ll cross paths in person sometime down the road soon. Hopefully fatherhood doesn’t keep his thoughts away from us for too long. Wish him luck on that one, @symphily on Twitter.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk […]

Dana Antiochus Confronts Jewish Privilege on RT

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago
If you weren't already aware, RT is basically a kosher operation. I rarely even bother visiting the site. Dana Antiochus of *Renegade Broadcasting*did an excellent job exposing this fact. Please watch and share this short video with friends and family.

The Bete Noire of the French Establishment- La Quenelle in English

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
*Hat tip to Gallier for leaving all the information that will be posted below!* gallier2January 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM Hi Penny, happy new year and all that. I wanted just drop you a link to a nice video explaining with a song what the Quenelle is all about. gallier2January 2, 2014 at 12:46 PM And here an excellent summary of the Quenelle situation in France http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/01/the-bete-noire-of-the-french-establishment/ *Merci Gallier deux!* This movement, originating in France, first got my attention a couple months back via The Vineyard of the Saker. Gallier clarif... more »

The Daniels-Lumina-ALEC-Sallie Mae-Purdue-Gallup Index: What Everyone Needs to Know

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 11 hours ago
by Doug Martin As a means to hold Purdue and other universities “accountable,” Mitch Daniels, in late December, announced the Purdue-Gallup Index which will track how well students in higher education fit into the US workforce. Anyone who followed Daniels' corporate school agenda while he was governor (or anyone following the corporate school leaders anywhere, for that matter) understands that using false measurements is a way to slash art teachers’ jobs and classes, fire teachers to create a temporary teaching workforce, turn schools completely over to private companies, and train... more »

Bruckner 7 -- a symphony built on its opening pair of musical twin towers

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
[*As I explained at the top of Friday night's preview, this is the second part of a three-part Bruckner series, begun December 6-8 with "Bruckner's Fourth Symphony -- four stories for four movements," a reprise of a January 2010 post I've always been fond of. This Bruckner Seventh preview post appeared originally in July 2012. The Bruckner series -- and, I'm projecting, Sunday Classics -- will conclude with a new post on the Ninth Symphony.* -- Ken] *The string chorale that bursts out shortly after the start of the Adagio (at bar 4 above) of the Bruckner Seventh* *by Ken* As prom... more »

Share My Lessons, Brought to You By AFT's Innovation Fund (Gates Foundation)

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 11 hours ago
As Bill Gates like to say, if you can't beat 'em, then buy 'em. Which is what he has done with American education policy, from control of the Business Roundtable's education agenda all the way through the AFT and NEA. Since 2009, Weingarten has been adding to AFT's nine-digit bank balance by accepting corporate foundation cash to promote Common Core, VAM tests, teacher evaluations based on test scores, and other CorpEd initiatives. From the AFT's website in 2010: . . . ."Effective teachers are the single greatest school-based factor in raising student achievement," said Vicki L. P... more »

Zapatistas fed up with media terrorism

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Democracy Now! Chiapas Professor Peter Rosset: Well, I think we face in Mexico and in the world—in the United States, as well, and in many countries—what Subcomandante Marcos has called "media terrorism," and that the mainstream media, what it does is it frightens people with unexplained images of threats and violence, making people support right-wing governments and repressive measures, and

Mitt Romney speaks on the targeting of his black adopted grandson by MSNBC...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*pure class.* Compare Mitt's behavior to the shuck and jive hateful rhetoric that spews forth daily from the current occupant of the White House.

Women of Fukushima

Women of Fukushima-English subtitles from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 12 hours ago

Here's some important Sunday reading for you...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*you're welcome.* *The Denaturalization of America* *and * *Obama To Americans: You Don’t Deserve To Be Free*

SPACE ALERT

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 12 hours ago
- I am beginning work on our next Global Network Space Alert!newsletter. Articles are coming in from around the globe - it's always a great learning experience for me as I pull these various strands together and make some sense of the greater Pentagon and Space Command strategy of global dominance through space control. Hope to have it printed and mailed by the third week of January. Let us know if you'd like bulk copies for local distribution. We just ask you to pay for the postage. - Sung-Hee Choi has posted the current Jeju prisoner information this ... more »

Thailand: Regime's "Red Shirts" Attack Protesters

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 12 hours ago
Regime directly controls "red shirt" enforcers, is directing violence and intimidation as it clings to power. *January 5, 2014* (ATN) - Regime "red shirts" attacked peaceful protesters in the northern city of Chiang Mai today, as thousands of fellow protesters marched simultaneously in Bangkok. Thailand's English paper Bangkok Post would report in their article, "Reds attack Chiang Mai protesters," that: Anti-government protesters were intercepted and attacked by red shirt supporters while staging a reform-before-election campaign in Chiang Mai's Muang district on Sunday. The rep... more »

Unsealed: Alien Files.... Seriously?

KRandleatA Different Perspective - 12 hours ago
While searching for something interesting to watch, I stumbled across a program called *Unsealed: Alien Files* and my only comment is, “Seriously?” This is one of the reasons that we have trouble getting science and journalism to take UFO reports seriously. It is one of the reasons that so many people have so little time for UFOs or who believe those seeing UFOs are deluded. This program, in the guise of a documentary, was filled with every half-baked idea, every conspiracy theory associated with UFOs, and every lousy piece of evidence available. It was horrendous. What surprised m... more »

Historic cold described as a polar vectors places much of US in a deep freeze ! Paging Victor Fries !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
- - - - - - - - Mr Freeze is in control .......... A 'Polar Vortex' Is Charging Toward The US, Bringing A Historic Cold Outbreak http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-05/jfk-shuts-down-after-plane-skids-ice-skating-rink-runway-entire-nation-blanketed-sub JFK Shuts Down After Plane Skids Off "Ice Skating Rink" Runway: Entire Nation Blanketed In Subzero Deep Freeze [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2014 09:35 -0500 - Fail - Las Vegas - National Weather Service - New York... more »

Pearson's aimsweb Behavior Module

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 13 hours ago
If you like Pearson's DIBELS-style nonsense reading test for young children, you are sure to find a place for Pearson's Behavior Module for turning children in test-passing robots. Like Pearson's other product lines in the *aimsweb* suite, it is entirely web-based so that your children's records can be stored for as long as there is a reason to manipulate their data and their lives. With aimsweb Behavior control system, you can begin keeping seamless records in pre-K for every behavior infraction, regardless of how small. You can also get extra help (or entirely creeped out) in we... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Saints' surprises: Run game and road win ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *Saints Beat Philadelphia Eagles In Wild Card Thriller, 26-24 ~Jason Saul, WWNO* *10 Annotated Pictures of Popeyes Chicken & Green Gatorade ~Bradley Warshauer, Black and Gold Review* *Sunday-Monday freeze watch for southeast Louisiana, including New Orleans, Baton Rouge ~Mark Schleifstein* *Why we should have incarcerated BP execs and confiscated all their US assets when their oil spilled ~Richard Thompson* *James Gill; Songwriter changes tune on plantation plans ~New Orleans Advocate*

Minister for Propaganda.

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 13 hours ago
Harry Patch, the last surviving British veteran of World War One on World War One: When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry. Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Herr Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107. We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out... more »

I wonder if Secretary Duncan heard our students’ stories?

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
Last spring, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited my school. Following the unfortunate tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook, the purpose of his visit was to meet with students, and staff, to discuss school and gun violence. The video below (4:23 minutes) is a condensed version of the hour-long discussion. The full video (51:36 minutes) […]

How Would You Get People Out In The Streets?

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
And what would you do with them once you'd gotten them there? Most leftists don't appear to give much thought to these questions. It's pathological. We imagine that sitting at home, complaining to like-minded friends online or in real life is sufficient. I'll continue to type these little complaints off and on until I'm inspired to write about something different.

Disproportionate Evaluative Rigor and the Three Laws of Data

johnkuhntxat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I promised in a recent post called The Tyranny of the Datum to write about some guiding standards for appropriate data usage, in the spirit of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and I will do that here today. Before I get to that, though, I’d like to briefly discuss–in a general sense–what I see […]

Are Markets Moral?

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 14 hours ago
A good friend from Malaysia, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, posted this in his fb wall today, a forum he attended in Delhi, India. "Are Markets Moral?" My answer is Yes. No one is putting a gun on someone's head to sell or buy something. Competition, not coercion or monopolization, gives more choices, more freedom, more happiness, to people. "In a free enterprise system, do justice and virtue win or lose?" They win. Voluntary exchange, absence of coercion, gives justice to people. The only coercion that must be maintained, is to over-penalize, over-bureaucratize, criminals like murderers, thi... more »

GOP Class Warriors Are Determined To Block Extension Of Unemployment Benefits

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Here at *DWT*, once we saw Patty Murray and the Senate Dems sacrifice the working poor to the voracious appetite of conservative predators in their shameful compromise with Paul Ryan, we amped up our coverage of the Republican War on the Poor and the Republicans' latest advances in the highly effective class war they've been fighting against America's working familiesfor decades. This isn't just about cutting food stamps, refusing the raise the minimum wage, repealing health insurance for poor families and refusing the extend unemployment insurance for workers thrown out of their j... more »

New Left Blogs December/January

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 16 hours ago
New year. New blogs. 1. A Political Education Network for Labour (Labour) (Twitter) 2. Bilgewatch (Unaligned) 3. BlackAndRedFlag (Unaligned/anarchist) 4. blinking ti.me (Labour) (Twitter) 5. Cllr Danielle Stone (Labour) (Twitter) 6. How Not to Suck at Game Design (Unaligned) (Twitter) 7. Kidbrooke with Hornfair Labour (Labour) (Twitter) 8. Latte Labour (Labour) (Twitter) 9. Pat McCarthy Blog (PeopleFirst) (Twitter) 10. PCS Young Members' Network (PCS) (Twitter) 11. Queer Friends of Chelsea Manning (Unaligned) (Twitter) 12. Revolting Pleb (Unaligned/anarchist) (Twitter) 13. stevencharlesrae... more »

19 Imágenes de personajes del anime - Amazing Art

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 16 hours ago

Freezing independence for the DPP?

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago
*Lotus in the mud...* The DPP made the news last week with party whip Ker Chien-ming calling for the party to "freeze" its independence plank if it wants to return to power. This proposal was greeted with unicorns and rainbows by Beijing, and summarily rejected by the DPP. What a coincidence, eh? That's the same Ker who was the subject of KMT Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng's alleged influence peddling. That MaWangMess focused on Ma's bizarre attempt to oust Wang, and Ker was sort of ignored with the media and political junkies riveted by the spectacle of Ma suffering abject def... more »

The Epic Journey of Gilga-Mike!

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 16 hours ago
I would like to direct your attention to the adventures of a friend of mine- my soul brother mike. *U*man*Mike* took on the adventure of a lifetime, in the seeking to follow his path where ever it takes him, with no more than a beat up backpack, a guitar, a couple of euro coins and a wholllllllllleeee lotta love in his heart to share everywhere he goes. Mike speaks from the heart, with the deepest kNOWing, and speaks openly, without guile or prettying up the language- my kinda guy!!!! His adventures are being updated whenever he's made some money to drop into an internet cafe and... more »

P.J. and P.H.

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
Well, Sue, Peter Hitchens agrees with you. And I agree with you both. I rather enjoyed singer P. J. Harvey’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. It wasn’t that much more Left-wing than it normally is, and I agreed with its strong support for liberty, its dislike of war and its condemnation of torture. It was far more honest and blatant than usual about its bias – which of course makes that bias much easier to resist. The BBC’s real partiality is effective because most people don’t notice it – the careful selection of subjects and guests to exclude some views and help othe... more »

All in the past?

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
There seems to be a pattern emerging. Several senior BBC figures - from Mark Thompson to Helen Boaden - have made various *mea culpas *about BBC bias in recent years. This is all for the good, and shows that those who criticised them for it at the time were right all along. These senior BBC figures, however, always seem to go on to say that such bias, however regrettable, is 'historic', 'a thing of the past', and that the corporation is now getting it about right. This weekend the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson has backed up Helen Boaden's admission of 'liberal' bias over... more »

TPP & Corporate Globalization International Call To Action On 31 January 2014

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
CALL TO ACTION: January 31 Inter-Continental Day of Action vs TPP & Corporate Globalization. READ: http://www.canadians.org/blog/call-action-january-31-inter-continental-day-action-vs-tpp-corporate-globalization #GMOs #TPP #InterContinentaldayofaction #Mexico #USA #Canada #gmofreeusa #Corporateglobalization #MéxicolibredetransgénicosGMOFreeMexico #gmofreecanada For those in other Lands: *http://inagist.com/all/418588877041844224/*

No more Secrets! Reading your friend's minds?

Imagine one could read your brains? Science fiction or science fact? Dr. Michael Persinger [...]

And now the Shipping Forecast...

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
For those who were never quite sure exactly where North Utsire and South Utsire are, here's a helpful map courtesy of the Met Office. All together now... Rockall, Malin, Hebrides. Southwest gale 8 to storm 10, veering west, severe gale 9 to violent storm 11. Rain, then squally showers. Poor, becoming moderate.

New Evidence Shows That Organic Soy Is Far Superior To GMO Soy

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
BREAKING NEWS: New independent peer reviewed study shows that contrary to claims by the GMO industry and the FDA, GM soy is NOT substantially equivalent to non-GM soy. Glyphosate tolerant GM soybeans contain high residues of glyphosate and...its toxic breakdown product AMPA, but conventional and organic soybeans contain none of these agrochemicals, according to the study. The study also found that organic soybeans showed the healthiest nutritional profile. ORGANIC ROCKS! READ: http://gmoevidence.com/dr-t-bohn-glyphosate-accumulates-in-roundup-ready-gm-soybeans/ #soy #gmo #gmo... more »

'BLANKET' JACKSON

Anonataangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Children of Michael Jackson and property developer Mohamed Hadid. Prince Michael II (Blanket) front. Michael Joseph Jr. (far left), Paris Michael Katherine (center). dailymail. Mohamed Hadid, born in Nazareth, grew up in Damascus and Beirut. His father worked for the CIA's Voice of America in Washington.* Blanket (Prince Michael II) has launched a cartoon series about a young boy avenging the murder of his father. Blanket, who is 12 in February 2014, is named as the writer and creator of the five sketches entitled *Kill Them All*. *Horror show vendetta of Michael Jackson's son ... more »

Earth probably has no dark matter ring

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
Three days ago, Nude Socialist was probably the first source that mentioned a provocative suggestion. In the article GPS satellites suggest Earth is heavy with dark matter, Anil Ananthaswamy mentions an unpublished proposal voiced by Ben Harris at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Harris determined the Earth's mass from the trajectories of the satellites and his result was between 0.005 and 0.008 percent higher than a figure of the International Astronomical Union. So he decided that the extra mass is due to a 190-kilometer-thick ring of dark matter surroundin... more »

The first 'Sunday' of 2014

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
Here are my first impressions about this morning's *Sunday* on Radio 4. The first *Sunday *of 2014 began with an interview between Edward Stourton and the Archbishop of Sudan, Daniel Deng, discussing the descent into chaos of South Sudan - the world's newest nation - after just two and a half years of independence from the Muslim north. Archbishop Deng says it's not a tribal conflict, rather it's a political issue, a power struggle. (That's not quite what I've been reading). He wants the outside world to pressurise both sides. The first Muslim-related story of the year came next.... more »

RSS AMSU 2013: 10th warmest year on record

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
Roy Spencer et al. claim that 2013 was the fourth warmest year of their 35-year-long satellite era. Their satellite friends/competitors at RSS AMSU which has been my primary source of temperature data since the beginning of this blog seem to disagree. *RSS, 1979-2013, graphics by Mathematica.* According to the RSS AMSU data, 2013 was actually the tenth warmest year – quite a difference for two datasets using "almost" the same methodology. The ranking is summarized by the table below. 01: {1998, 0.55}, 02: {2010, 0.472}, 03: {2005, 0.33}, 04: {2003, 0.32}, 05: {2002, 0.31... more »

Libricide. The Harper Government's Plan to Murder Science.

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago
How close to home does Harper's plan to transform Canada have to get before it arrives like the grim reaper on your doorstep? It has arrived on mine. Stephen Harper is destroying our scientific libraries. Years ago this country thought well enough of me to end my combat service and to send me off to become a scientist. Admittedly there was an ulterior motive. I would become one of the few

Libertarianism Isn't The Answer To Anything

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
According to ProgressivePunch's reckoning the 10 Republicans who have bolted their party's House leadership on crucial votes most frequently this session are: *•* Walter Jones (R-NC) *•* Chris Gibson (R-NY) *•* Justin Amash (R-MI) *•* Jimmy Duncan (R-TN) *•* Thomas Massie (R-KY) *•* Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) *•* Mark Sanford (R-SC) *•* Morgan Griffith (R-VA) *•* Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) *•* Tom McClintock (R-CA) Only three could be accurately described as "mainstream conservatives," which is what the Beltway media calls moderates these days, Gibson, LoBiondo and Griffith. The others re... more »

Video Bill Means at AIM West Part 3 of 4

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
. Indigenous Peoples brought gifts of climate change knowledge and power of matriarchal societies to United Nations Bill Means, Lakota, speaks at AIM West in San Francisco in Nov. 2013. Part 3 By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Bill Means, founder of the International Indian Treaty Council, describes the 30 year effort at the United Nations which culminated in the

Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan?

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago
The nascent civil war in South Sudan is a product of kleptocratic governance, systemic corruption, and political posturing that has reignited deep ethnic divisions between the nation’s two largest tribal groups. (Nile Bowie - RT) - The world’s youngest nation has been in disarray since December 14th, when sporadic gunfire and skirmishes broke out in the capital, Juba. Shortly after, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir announced that a coup had been attempted by members of his own presidential guard allied with Riek Machar, the ambitious former vice president who was purged in July. ... more »

Some Major Developments In Egypt, Iraq, Syria, And Lebanon: General Sisi Will Run For Presidency, Terrorist Group Isis Is On The Rise But Faces Intense Backlash From Citizens And Fighters Across The Region, Violence In Iraq Reaches Mid-2006 Levels

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
*1. An excerpt from, "Egypt: Abdul Fattah Al Sissi 'to run for presidency'" Gulf News, January 4:* *Egypt's deputy prime minister and defence minister Abdul Fattah Al Sissi is expected to step down in the coming days to pave the way for his nomination in the upcoming presidential elections, Egyptian media reported.* *Al Wafd* newspaper reported that his exit will be part of a government reshuffle in the second half of January that will also see vice president Ziyad Baha’ Al Deen leave his post. The paper cited "political sources with connections to ruling cirlces", adding that the... more »

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 6 (and last!): In the words of Dan Quayle, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Exploiting tragedy for a buck; plus Miss America's not American?, "Quote of the Year" winner* *[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]* *Miss America, Missouri-born Nina Davuluri -- zowie!* *by Noah* *THE MINDS OF CORPORATISTS: EXPLOITING TRAGEDY FOR A BUCK* What is it about the corporate mind? How do the idiots who make decisions in our corporations continually get it so wrong, so tasteless and obnoxious? Is it a mediocrity-rising- to-the-corner-office thing? Does the seduction of the perks that come with position make one oblivious? Is that why the Detroit car companies... more »

West Coast radiation 500 times normal, no alert is human rights abuse

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
Deborah Dupre *Human Rights Examiner* [image: U.S. government's Fukushima radiation coverup, an unspeakable human rights abuse] January 4, 2014 County health experts are "befuddled" about why West Coast radiation levels are at a minimum, five times higher than usual and as high as 500 times normal, according to officials. Government agents, however, continue failing to issue an alert and instead, advise that the heightened level of radiation poisoning is not unsafe for humans, a grave rights abuse. Since July 2012, this reporter has published articles about people on the U... more »

TRACKING DRONE KILLS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago
Since 2002, the US has launched 461 drone strikes, killing over 3,500 people - 457 of whom were civilians, according to recent research. The strikes occurred in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Pentagon recently released its annual report on the use of unmanned systems, which laid out a roadmap - through 2038 - of how the unmanned aerial vehicle program will continue to develop. RT's Meghan Lopez talks about the UAV program's past and future with Mary Ellen O'Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Abraham Wagner, an adjunct professor of international and pub... more »

The New York Crimes And The Washington Ghost Support Al-Qaeda Terrorism In Lebanon

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
*The Angry Arab - From the Washington Post: or how to make readers sympathetic to a car bomb:* "The bombing in the Shiite neighborhood of Haret Hreik, *which is controlled by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement*". What does "controlled" mean? And does Amal, which has a most powerful presence there, also control the area? And what about those Shi`ites and atheists and non-Shi`ites who live there: are they also "controlled" by Hizbullah? *The Angry Arab - You tell me: does this language justify the bombing of civilians? From the New York Times:* "*While the neighborhood is residential*, *... more »
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View from Treehouse children's museum.View from Treehouse children's museum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Zion Canyon at sunset in Zion Nationa...English: Zion Canyon at sunset in Zion National Park as seen from Angels Landing looking south. Français : Zion Canyon (Parc national de Zion, en Utah, USA) au coucher du soleil vu d'Angels Landing en regardant vers le sud. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: view of the Monument Valley, Between ...English: view of the Monument Valley, Between Arizona and Utah. Español: Vista del Monument Valley, entre Utah y Arizona (Estados Unidos). Français : Monument Valley, symbole de l'ouest sauvage, sur la frontière entre l'Arizona et l'Utah, aux Etats Unis. Nederlands: Monument Valley is het symbool bij uitstek van Amerika's Wilde Westen Русский: Панорама Долины монументов (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Utah State CapitolUtah State Capitol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
University of Utah campus housing, medical bui...University of Utah campus housing, medical buildings and Salt Lake City view (Photo credit: Tony Frates)
Utah Bladderfern habitatUtah Bladderfern habitat (Photo credit: Tony Frates)
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He's Not OUR President (But You Already Figured That Out) And Whose President Is Getting Much Clearer As We Learn That He Favors the Centrist Liars' Positions - It Makes Him Feel Good! (The Year of the Great Redistribution)

I've been among the more reticent commenters (from the Left wing) about our President's actions since his winning of the White House. Sure, I've not been happy with many of his decisions and I've made my opinion well known in blogtopia about my feelings concerning his choices for financial advice which favored "change" schemes that enriched the banksters (again) and didn't do anything to

Teaching within a low SES school is bittersweet.

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
Teaching is a demanding profession. The average teacher, regardless of his or her assignment, overcomes many obstacles throughout the school year. With that said, teaching within an economically disadvantaged neighborhood school is physically, mentally and emotionally draining. For better or worse, teaching within low socio-economic status (SES) neighborhood school is bittersweet. Teaching within a low […]

Update to Collected Poems

risa bearatA Way to Live - 2 hours ago
collected poems By risa bear View this Author's Spotlight Paperback, 74 Pages [image: collected poems] Preview Price: $9.99 Ships in 3-5 business days These poems, collected for the first time, appeared in the books Desire for the Land and Lettuce in Winter, and in the journals Bellowing Ark, Sand River Journal, New Zoo Poetry Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Aerious, Disquieting Muses, Ariga: Visions, Writtenmind, and Rockhurst Review. "Cityscape with Pink Rose" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. By the author of 100 Poems, homecomings, iron buddhas, Starvation Ridge, and Viewing ... more »

In Canada

BorisatThe Galloping Beaver - 2 hours ago
The rise of the Harper Government, means that it can now be said that "Canadian" spy agencies (CSIS, CSE, etc) work for private industry. Now, should Enbridge or some other corporation decides that a pipeline or a shopping mall would look good in your neighbourhood but you don't, the spies may well have a look-see at you, your life, and the people you associate with. The cooperation of the

Immigration and Class Politics

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 2 hours ago
Years of scaremongering by the press, successive governments and opportunist politicians have ensured immigration has become nothing more than a fetid, toxic swamp. Its rotten stink permeates politics as it competes to scapegoat and appear "tough" on people who come to live and work here. Basically, it's who can fall furthest, fastest into a bottomless pit of amorality and wilful ignorance. But, apparently, all they want is an open and honest debate about immigration *innocent face*. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you Nigel Farage is talking bollocks on immigration, but he is. ... more »

If Utah hunger-striking doodybrain Trestin Meacham croaks, how about we have a giant bonfire and wienie roast? (I'll bring the marshmallows)

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*What do you think? Do you suppose Utah far-far-far-right-wing whackjob Trestin Meacham is any relation to onetime Yankees shortstop Bobby Meacham? Bobby M had his moments in pinstripes, which is more than you can say for his maybe-cousin the nutjob buttwipe.* *"Trestin Meacham . . . is now drawing attention to himself by saying he will not eat until Utah’s legislature willingly disobeys the federal government by reinstating its ban on same-sex marriages."* -- *from ThinkProgress's Annie-Rose Strasser's* "Utah Politician Is Fasting to Stop Same-Sex Marriages" *by Ken* Who'd-a thunk... more »

"Major Fukushima Radiation Warning! LA Times Sounds Alarm: West Coast Update: Stop Eating Pacific Ocean Seafood Now!"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"Major Fukushima Radiation Warning! LA Times Sounds Alarm:* * West Coast Update: Stop Eating Pacific Ocean Seafood Now!".* By Live Free or Die . "The newly released video below from Low Carb Cory sounds a warning that this story at ENENews via the LA Times emphasizes, STOP EATING Pacific Ocean seafood! Low Carb Cory generally covers health & nutrition subjects but voices a loud alarm to his viewers that Fukushima is out of control and the entire Pacific Ocean food chain is suffering as a result with warnings this is just the tip of the iceberg. The ENENews story shares this dire w... more »

Wake County Resegregationists' New Strategy: Charter Schools

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 3 hours ago
It took a concerted effort by Wake County citizens to reclaim their school board after it was hijacked by anti-diversity candidates with money from the Koch Bros. Some of that history can be found here (reverse chronological order), and it speaks to the determination of local citizens who remained insistent on protecting one of the great school experiments in socioeconomic diversity. Even though Dems have reclaimed a majority of seats on the Board and significant portions of the diversity program have been preserved, the new resegregation threat now comes from the State level, whic... more »

Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 12, Section 2, 1947-1948

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
The movement to democratize Egypt: Except for their religious beliefs, Jews shared lifestyles with those of Muslim background. Jewish home in Egypt. Image from BBC Watch. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | January 6, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog "people's history" series, "The Movement to Democratize Egypt," could not be more timely. Also see

Apocalyptic supervolcanoes ( like Yellowstone ) can suddenly explode ‘with no outside cause’ .... Yellowstone super volcano additional items of interest !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Apocalyptic supervolcanoes can suddenly explode ‘with no outside cause’ Published time: January 06, 2014 19:22 Get short URL [image: Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier)] Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier) Share on tumblr Tags Natural disasters, Science Scientists have discovered what causes cataclysm-inducing supervolcanoes to erupt, and the answer offers little reassurance. Their eruptions are caused by magma buoyancy, which makes them less predictable and more frequent than previously thought. A team of geologists from the Swiss... more »

Thailand: More Throw-Away Propaganda From NYT

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 3 hours ago
*January 7, 2014* (ATN) - An unsigned "editorial" appearing in the New York Times titled, "Democracy in Peril in Asia," most likely written by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), reiterates the disingenuous narrative peddled by the West regarding "democracy" in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Regarding Cambodia, the editorial claims: In Cambodia, in recent days, military police officers have opened fire on protesters, killing several people. The protests started after Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia through intimidation and violence for nearly three ... more »

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr issues stay on January 6 , 2014 regarding freezing pensions for Detroit workers as mediation continues ......... The stay delays for now Orr's prior move to freeze pensions of city workers / employees in the General Retirement System - which was set to go into effect as of December 31 , 2013 !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.freep.com/article/20140106/NEWS/301060055/Detroit-pension-freeze-Orr [image: Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr quietly issued an executive order freezing the pensions of city workers as of Dec. 31.] Purchase Image Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr quietly issued an executive order freezing the pensions of city workers as of Dec. 31. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press By Matt Helms Detroit Free Press Staff Writer - FILED UNDER - Local News Related Links - PDF: Order approving pension freeze for city employees - Retirees' committee says Detroit ig... more »

THE BONUS REBELLION

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 3 hours ago
A largely forgotten event in US history - the post-WW I bonus Army occupation of Washington. The government crushing of this veterans rebellion was brutal and unforgiving.This is a perfect historical illustration of just how this country chews up and spits out its war veterans who fought and died to the benefit of the capitalist oligarchy. I just finished reading a book about this WW I period called "Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and The Right to Dissent". It's the moving story about the US government's repression of the Socialist Party candidate for presi... more »

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the XXVII Guadalajara International Book Fair

hygiecratathygiecracy - 4 hours ago
published on Tikkun Considered the most important Book Fair in the Spanish-speaking world, and second in the world only to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, concluded this Sunday, December 8th, under heavy security. The unusually high level of security resulted from the guest of honor of this year’s book fair, the State of Israel. For the past 20 years, the book fair has honored a city, country, or region as its guest. No earlier guests, however, have been as controversial, or have aroused as much protest and dissent, as has the... more »

Wolf interview

Rich RifkinatLexicon Daily - 4 hours ago
Prof. Diane Wolf *I posed the same questions I asked of Sunaina Maira to other faculty at UC Davis, including Professor Diane Wolf. What follows is a complete transcript of her response to my inquiry.* *Wolf:* Thank you for your questions which are very thorough and thoughtful. This is clearly a very complicated issue. I think that the ASA and the Association of Asian American Studies which was the first scholarly organization to vote on this have chosen the wrong institution to boycott and in that sense, they have mis-fired. Clearly there are other countries whose human rights ab... more »

Bitcoin news for January 2 , 2014 ! 56% of Bitcoiners Believe the Bitcoin Price Will Reach $10,000 in 2014 ...... Bitcoin makes further moves into main stream commerce ....... Paypal planning competition by way of " Virtual Tokens " , as per Ebay patent proposal ........ Lebanon Central Bank the latest issuing Bitcoin warnings........Singapore and Bitcoin - a discussion from guest poster at Zero Hedge Keith Hilden !

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
1/5 ....Someone is playing pump up the price of bitcoin games ....... again ! [image: Creative Commons License] [image: Creative Commons License] [image: Creative Commons License] 1/4/14 ........ Malaysian Central Bank Has No Plans To Regulate Bitcoin Jon Southurst (@southtopia) | Published on January 4, 2014 at 12:49 GMT | *Asia, News, Regulation* inShare3 Share 34 [image: shutterstock_124874587] Malaysia’s Central Bank, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), joined others by publishing its own statement on bitcoin this week. The statement was similar to those... more »

13 most popular posts for 2013

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 4 hours ago
Stephen Hicks’s post highlighting his 13 most popular posts for 2013suggested to me I should do the same. So here’s what you, dear readers found most popular* here at Not PC – my lucky 13: 1. Remember the Bhopal disaster? 2. Twisting the Treaty: A Tribal Grab for Wealth and Power 3. You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money 4. Sorry Russel. you’re wrong 5. Why is this young couple subsidising the ‘Politicians Bankers Welfare Fund’? 6. One Law For All 7. The Complete Idiot’s Chart to Understanding the Middle East 8. Where’s the tar and feather... more »

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are"

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 4 hours ago
A nice quotation but not from Ben Franklin (as usually attributed). First, the quotation does not appear to be referred to anywhere prior to 2000. Second the use of the word "outraged" is problematic. In the quotation it is used to describe the emotional state of an individual. But in the 18th century, the word "outraged" implied that something terrible had been done to someone (or something) without referring to how that made someone feel. The quotation doesn't come from Ben Franklin.

"How It Really Is'

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago

"Are Pope Francis, Bill De Blasio and Barack Obama Right About Capitalism?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*"Are Pope Francis, Bill De Blasio and Barack Obama Right About Capitalism?"* by Bill Bonner “Pope Francis in the Eternal City... Bill De Blasio in the Big Apple... President Obama in the White House... From the pulpit to the Oval Office to City Hall – capitalism is coming under attack in 2014. Obama has made income inequality a central bugaboo for the last two years of his presidency. De Blasio is hot on the theme, too. "A Tale of Two Cities" was his campaign theme. De Blasio figured there were more votes in the poor city than in the rich city... and that the folks on the po' sid... more »

Here's what I said over two months ago...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 5 hours ago
* and people are just now waking up to this? (repost below) * * But first:* Do you realize that children of a family of four making 92K a year qualifies for Medicaid? That's right. A child in New York state, for example, may be eligible for government-funded health care if his family’s household income is less than four times the federal poverty level, or $92,200 for a family of four. Source: Slate (the chart above shows 4X poverty level to be $94,200.00) *Read the rest and see the charts* And we also know now that your *assets will be seized upon your death* to pay back al... more »

Omushkegowuk walking to Ottawa: Reclaiming our steps

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
Photo Credit: Rodney Hookimaw (Rod Neezy) Reclaiming Our Steps Past, Present and FutureWe, the grassroots People, are walking to Ottawa from the traditional territories of the Omushkegowuk (People) to deliver a message to the leaders of both levels of Government and to our respective Chiefs that the time to honour our Treaties is now! The time to address and reconcile Aboriginal issues is now

“Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*“Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp:* * The Many Ways That You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued and Controlled”* By John W. Whitehead “[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have convinced us that we need to be connected to them to be happy.”—Pratap Chatterjee, journalist "What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega-corporations running amo... more »

Satire: “Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in Face”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*“Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making * *Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in Face”* by Andy Borowitz MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)— “The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said “so much for global warming” and similar comments were punched in the face. Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head r... more »

What Works Better-- America's War On Poverty Or The GOP's War On Poor People?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
Conservatives always ignore history and always want to reargue their issues. Today we're hearing the same tired, discredited arguments for why the rich should be the focus of government largesse and why helping the poor is a waste of money. When you hear today's crop of ignorant teabaggers and erudite think tank loons arguing against the minimum wage, they are trying the same nonsense they tried-- and failed with-- for decades. Today the far right Club for Growth, predictably, demanded that all the senators they own vote against extending unemployment benefits. Overturning FDR's N... more »

NEWS FLASH - LIBERATOR (free planet novel #2) - first draft complete.

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 7 hours ago
*out already...* I've been at it since Tandem (a G3 whistleblower novel) was released in late September, writing and updating book two of the *free planet trilogy * LIBERATOR. I was 66,000 words in. I had the two final chapters to tidy up. I also had 'four assigned military/civilian chapter slots' to fill before I got there. And one more part-written chapter before that lot. Then suddenly, I realised, "It's done." I deleted those four empty chapter slots, lifted my hands from the keyboard, then shared the news with a good friend of mine, "It's done," I grinned. And she said what ... more »

A Game of Chess

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
A few BBC interviews really stood out for me over the past week - and none of them were by the BBC's regular interviewers. The first was Dominic Lawson's *Across the Board *interview with former Soviet dissident/Israeli deputy prime minister Natan Sharansky. Mr Sharansky's chilling description of his experiences of solitary confinement in the Soviet Union were a reminder of something we very rarely hear discussed on the BBC - the sheer viciousness of the Soviet Union, even after the days of Stalin. His conditions of imprisonment sounded uncannily like those experienced by the host... more »

Immigration’ and ‘The Truth’

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
The BBC trailer gives us a quick impression of what we’re going to see. *“BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson reveals the full impact of the extraordinary demographic change Britain has undergone.” * He’s going to talk to some politicians, Labour and Conservative, and: *“untangle the truth about immigration from the political rhetoric.”* So you see, the BBC plays down Nick’s criticism of the corporation and their trailer concentrates on the demographics and the politics he’s about to highlight in his documentary. *“In Southampton, Nick visits a school where 42 languages are spoke... more »

Video Bill Means AIM West 2013 Part 4

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
. Bill Means, Lakota, speaking at AIM West 2013. Part 4. Indigenous Peoples seeking observer status at United Nations By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Lakota Bill Means describes the long struggle for recognition of Indigenous Peoples rights at the United Nations, in this video recorded live at AIM West Conference in November of 2013. Means describes how four

The power of dark money

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 7 hours ago
Not much new in this Koch Brothers rehash. They raised 400 million from undisclosed donors and they *had* to hide the donors because, all these obscenely wealthy people are deathly afraid of hate mail. Or something. We'll leave aside that you can't get near a Koch Brothers confab with an army of angry citizens. I suspect between the few hundred oligarchs that pretty much run the world, they probably employ the equivalent of the entire Blackwater corporation, or whatever it calls itself these days. As always, Charlie pinpoints the cause of this corruption. It is of course, Citizens ... more »

“I don’t want to sail with this Ship of Fools…”

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 7 hours ago
[image: File:Narrenschiff (1549).jpg] The Ship of Fools was a popular medieval allegory depicting “a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious; passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction.” The allegory could not be a more apt description of the band of sorry deluded sad sacks who have entertained our southern hemisphere summer by sitting trapped in Antarctic pack ice while all their climate science tells them it’s fine and sunny outside. (And while all half the northern hemisphere is buried under s... more »

CALL TO ACTION IN SPRING

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 8 hours ago
*Call for Local Spring Asia-Pacific Events* *Around the World* After twelve years of war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Obama Administration is “pivoting” to the Asia-Pacific. Sixty percent of the U.S. military forces are being deployed in the region to “contain” China. The popular phrase in Washington to describe this process is a “re-balancing” of US forces. The increased militarization of the US’s Asia-Pacific policies is anything but benign. It is fueling region-wide arms races, increasing the dangers of war, as we have seen in the territorial dispute over the... more »

Digital Media = Surge in Partisanship?

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 8 hours ago
I just read somewhere that digital media (mainly the internet) is responsible for the increasely partisan nature of political debate in North America. I think there's some truth to that. But I also think it's best to avoid thinking there was ever a "good old days" when society wasn't polarized by something. Weren't the Second-Wave Feminists accused of being "shrill" and "confrontational"? Were gays in the age of AIDS in the 1980s thought to be an angry, disreputable bunch? Wasn't US society polarized by the Black Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War? Was the FLQ a more polariz... more »

Preconceived Delusions

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 8 hours ago
I think part of the reason for the failure of the left to adequately respond to harper is that new ideas bounce-off of preconceived delusions that people have. "A big rally would bring harper down" is probably flitting through people's minds. So they imagine that a hard struggle involving permanent occupations is a waste of time. Or "the police will shoot us in the street like dogs" keeps Canadian leftists from remembering that (for the time being anyway) Canada is not a total despotism with absolutely no legal protections for basic human rights. (How someone could simultaneously th... more »

Radio program of the year!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 8 hours ago
*MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014* *We salute The Nation for saluting Marc Steiner:* Lustily, we salute The Nation for saluting our friend, Marc Steiner. In The Nation’s current edition, John Nichols presents a feature called “The Progressive Honor Roll of 2013.” Along the way, he wisely cites Steiner’s radio program: *MOST VALUABLE RADIO PROGRAM: The Marc Steiner Show* No one who has listened to veteran activist Marc Steiner’s morning show on Morgan State University’s WEAA can figure out why this guy hasn’t gone national. Yet Steiner is so into his hometown of Baltimore that it’s hard to ... more »

ERDOGAN PROTECTS 'AL QAEDA FINANCIER' AL QADI

Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago
*Dick Cheney's friend Yasin al-Qadi, believed to be linked to 9 11, the Mumbai attacks and the CIA.* Links have been discovered between al Qaeda and Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan. *Yasin al-Qadi, who is an associate of al Qaeda, has entered Turkey multiple times escorted by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's protective detail and without a passport or visa.* *Yasin al-Qadi escorted by PM's security detail*, Al Qadi is a businessman believed to have funneled millions of dollars to al Qaeda. *Chicago, where al Qadi met Osama bin Laden in 1979. Le Monde reported that th... more »

Geneva II, the Kurds and an irrevocable right. Affecting Syria/Turkey and Iraq

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 8 hours ago
*Geneva II and the Kurds* The Kurds have been mentioned here, concerning Syria, on numerous occasions. And, most recently with regard to the pressure being put on Turkey and Erdogan. *“Is Erdogan not wanting to see Turkey balkanized for a Kurdish state?”* ANKARA,— ANF spoke to Middle East specialist Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger regarding potential developments in *Syrian Kurdistan *[Rojava] and in a new democratic Syria. Gerger drew attention to some striking points. *Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger* says the Rojava Kurds face being under siege before the Geneva II conference, adding:* "The Kurd... more »

Weingarten Is A Sham

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 8 hours ago
Randi Weingarten told Politico today that she is beginning a national campaign called “VAM is a Sham.” *NEW TACTIC ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS: *Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is launching a campaign against using value-added metrics to evaluate teacher effectiveness. Her mantra: “VAM is a sham.” That’s a notable shift for the AFT and its affiliates, which have previously ratified contracts and endorsed evaluation systems that rely on VAM. Weingarten tells Morning Education that she has always been leery of value-added “but we rolled up our sleeves,... more »

Radio 4 Comedians Bingo: The Rules

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
This evening's *The Unbelievable Truth *wasn't exactly a laugh a minute, or even every ten minutes. (I managed about two laughs in total.) Even the studio audience seemed underwhelmed by the humour on offer tonight. (There were even a few tumbleweed moments.) Still, it gave me the chance to play '*Radio 4 Comedians Bingo*' - a delightful game where you always use the same card marked with the words* 'Daily Mail', 'bankers', 'Gove', 'Osborne', 'Cameron', 'Old Etonians', 'Bullingdon', 'UKIP', 'Farage', 'Daily Mail', 'NHS', 'xenophobia/racism', 'Putin', 'Palin/Bush/U.S. Republicans', ... more »

NC State Dept of Archives destroys priceless documents

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 8 hours ago
This is absolutely criminal and completely senseless. Full story at the link but here's the short version: - This summer a new Clerk of Court in Franklin County discovered a trove (an entire roomful) of documents, some dating back to 1840, in a previously sealed room in the Franklin County, North Carolina Court House. - The Local historical group enthusiastically poured themselves into the project, mobilizing volunteers and the whole community – securing space to work, materials, and finances – in order to catalog and preserve the bounty of record books, photographs, deeds, chatte... more »

Coffee and Geocaching

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 8 hours ago
A clear and bright (if cool) Saturday began with our monthly gathering for breakfast and coffee and fellowship... Looks like the Christmas stockings are still up... In The Kitchen... A lovely couple... The Boys... After breakfast Southern Man and the son of one of the guests slipped out to do a little geocaching. Signing the log... Southern Man then dropped by the Ancestral Manor for lunch and laundry and a shower and a bit of running round with Southern Son and by the time we were done the expected cold front had moved in so Southern Man went home and turned on all the h... more »

A Minor Setback

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 8 hours ago
So Southern Man was getting along well enough without the rental crutches that he turned them in late last week. Then today he reported to the Bone Doc this morning for a checkup and to have the staples from the incision removed. Which hurt, a lot. Sadly Southern Man was unable to get a copy of the new x-rays, which are pretty cool as they show the plate and screws, five short ones in the fibula and two long ones that go all the way through the fibula and into the tibia. And then we had the following conversation: Bone Doc: Where are your crutches? Southern Man: I didn't think I nee... more »

ALEC - Throws Mud at the Wall, Calls it Legislation

2old2careatBecause I Can - 9 hours ago
The 1996 voucher program in Cleveland led to a lawsuit over vouchers and religious freedom heard by Supreme Court in 2002 U.S.Court Finds Ohio Vouchers Unconstitutional December 12, 2000|From Associated Press CINCINNATI — Setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court ruling on the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court Monday declared Cleveland's school voucher program unconstitutional because it uses tax money to send students to religious schools. America was not awake – we didn’t see the damage this would cause and it ended up in front of SCOTUS which chose to ... more »

REVOLT IS IN THE AIR AGAIN

Allen L Roland, Ph.DatAllen L Roland's Weblog - 9 hours ago
*WW I Veterans Bonus March on Washington,1932* *Here's a blast from the past that clearly shows that the public can be mobilized for a cause as it once was in 1932 ~ when thousands of WW1 veterans marched for their promised bonus* *electrif**ying** the country in the process** ~ but now, with the Internet, true revolution and change is possible**: Allen L Roland* *Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it: Mark Twain* *It's hard to believe that this happened over 80 years ago but this exceptionally rare 7 minute film fr... more »

Behind Assad's Comeback a Mismatch in Commitments??

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago
*Behind Assad's Comeback, a Mismatch in Commitments* *There has been NO mismatch in commitments * This article makes me thing we are witnessing the implantation of a new meme "Mismatch in commitments" Regime's Survival Seen as Example of America's Inability to Steer Events From a Distance *Spin- America has been able to steer events from a distance with little or no problem. * *Plenty of allies in the area willing to assist in the task.* In the early days of the Syrian rebellion, U.S. intelligence agencies made a prediction: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered, an ... more »

Travel First Aid Kits and Easy Medication Refills with Walgreens

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 10 hours ago
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. Figuring out the medical needs on my family can be stressful. We have three different doctors for three people in our house, so our prescription history, immunization records, patient histories and medication refills are all over the place. Luckily, Walgreens keeps them all together for me and easily accessible online. We may all have different, but having the same pharmacy really helps keep me organized. I... more »

Trinary star won't disprove the equivalence principle

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
Today, science writers were busy to write about the newest death of a pillar of modern physics, in this case Einstein's theory of relativity: Google News, Physics World, BBC, dozens of others... Your browser does not support the video tag. *Video by Anne M. Archibald, a PhD student and a co-author of the discovery* All this buzz is based on a newly published article, A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system by Scott Ransom and 20 co-authors (Nature) ------------------------------ arXiv copy of the paper (free PDF) which reports some observations of a star system called PS... more »

perspective

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

HANCOCK DRONE TRIAL

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 10 hours ago
There have been a series of protests at Hancock Air National Guard base outside of Syracuse, New York. As a result several trials have taken place during the past couple of years. The base switched four years ago from flying F-16 fighter jets to operating drones from Hancock Field. The drones operated from the Syracuse base support military operations in Afghanistan. This video includes openings by James Ricks, Ed Kinane, Clare Grady, and a short one by the prosecutor in the Dewitt town court January 3. The trial went until shortly after midnight, but the prosecution had yet ... more »

Finally a picture emerges of the system by which the Kochs moved and obscured the sources of a bare minimum $407M outside the campaign-finance system in the 2012 election cycle

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago
*Efforts to trace the movement of money contributed, raised, and funneled by the Koch Brothers'"network" during the 2012 electoral cycle have so far produced this org chart. No wait, this is a diagram of the London Underground, which is much, much easier to understand.* *"It is a very sophisticated and complicated structure. It's designed to make it opaque as to where the money is coming from and where the money is going. No layperson thought this up. It would only be worth it if you were spending the kind of dollars the Koch brothers are, because this was not cheap."* -- *Notre ... more »

If you teach high school economics...

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 10 hours ago
...you will most definitely want to click here.

What Was the "War on Poverty"?

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours ago
This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson declaring a "war on poverty." The NYT reports: Half a century after Mr. Johnson’s now-famed State of the Union address, the debate over the government’s role in creating opportunity and ending deprivation has flared anew, with inequality as acute as it was in the Roaring Twenties and the ranks of the poor and near-poor at record highs. Here is what President Johnson said in that inaugural address: This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all ... more »

Rob Ford running again

LeDaroatLeDaro - 10 hours ago
For the mayor of Toronto. He is confident he will win. :)

Frank Luntz throws a pity party

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 10 hours ago
I suppose this piece is supposed make us feel sorry for that evil pudgy putz, Frank Luntz who's having a crisis of faith because his slick sloganery isn't doing the job anymore. Damn the little people for failing to kowtow to his superior powers of persuasion. But in the end, the whole interview boils down to this: Luntz's populism has turned on itself and become its opposite: fear and loathing of the masses. "I am grateful that Occupy Wall Street turned out to be a bunch of crazy, disgusting, rude, horrible people, because they were onto something," he says. "Limbaugh made fun of ... more »

Not thought Control

SteveatThinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
It was a stupid tale that was told to keep the children silent for a while then the next thing blew that reality to otherworlds A man would rise from the dead he would lead all humanity in a quest that all would come to dread People please be serious we live on a planet not on the garden of Eden this planet is under attack not from alien but from the humans who can not keep a majority off smack or some other pleasure drug to make them so numb they can reject a theory that say all you enjoy does not come from Gods love. So what should we do when we realize that gay straight and transgend... more »

government destruction of environmental archives: the harper govt's war on facts marches on

laura katwmtc - 11 hours ago
At year's end, *The Tyee* reported that a memo - marked "secret" and first reported on OCanada.com - cast grave doubts on the Harper Government's claim that environmental archives were destroyed only after they had been preserved digitally. In other words, the memo proves what progressive and concerned Canadians have long known and suspected to be true. A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper ... more »

From the Laboratories of the Plutocracy

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 11 hours ago
*"Nothing Exceeds Like Excess"* On the off-chance that some of you think that the Democrats are really, really sincere this time about helping poor jobless people, and that Barack Obama really, really means it when he says he will make income inequality the defining issue of his second term, permit me to gently burst your balloon. Just because Obama has stopped vocally espousing cutting the safety net as part of his Grand Bargain of deficit reduction with his GOP frenemies doesn't mean that his deeply ingrained desire for austerity for the masses isn't still merrily simmering on t... more »

Still No Free Speech At Work: Response To Your Comments on Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty

Donna BallmanatScrew You Guys, I'm Going Home - 12 hours ago
Wow! I had no idea so many of my readers loved *Duck Dynasty*. With almost 2000 comments, I can't possibly respond to them all. When I wrote last weekthat A&E was probably within its rights to suspend Phil Robertson for making racist (yes, it's racist to say blacks were better off under Jim Crow) and homophobic comments (and I didn't even know then about the sexist and disturbing comments he made about marrying 15-year-old girls), you had lots to say. Some of you talked about religious discrimination. Some wanted to know more about his contract with A&E. I'll talk about those issues i... more »

Killing Canada

BorisatThe Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago
Years ago I blogged here about the motivation behind Harper being one of absolute loathing for the country he happened to exist in. I can't seem to locate that post now, but I still think I have a point. Harper's goal is to destroy the Canada that you and I know and love, which is to say he aims to destroy Canada. Piece by piece, like some twisted Dark Age torturer with his victim. Think of the

A Reality-Based Review of 2013 Market-Driven Research

John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 13 hours ago
Teachers unions exist to protect teachers and to do so they must work collaboratively within the system so it will better serve all stakeholders. The Shanker Istitute's Matt DiCarlo exemplifies our unions' willingness to listen to all sides. But, where is the Matt DiCarlo of corporate reform? Where is a reformer who is will break ranks, for instance, on Washington D.C.'s IMPACT? There are plenty of individual reformers who have open minds. Are there any who are allowed to be like DiCarlo and acknowledge the strengths of evidence on the teachers' side? In a strategy known as "conve... more »

Violence In Iraq’s Anbar Highlights Divided Tribes There

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
As fighting continues in Iraq’s western Anbar province, the various tribes there have found themselves in a precarious situation. Some have aligned themselves with the central government against insurgents, some are opposed to both the federal forces and the militants, while still others have joined the gunmen. Anbar was always a very divisive place in part because of the deep-seated tribal rivalries. Those are all being exasperated by the current rebellion in the governorate. Anbar’s various sheikhs are taking sides in the brewing conflict in their governorate. The two brothers... more »

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: Announcing our media trend of the year!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 14 hours ago
*MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014* *Part 1—Two different forms of poverty:* We were struck by something on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times. In a “Washington Memo” analysis piece, economics reporter Annie Lowrey discussed the War on Poverty, which is now 50 years old. Headline included, this is the way she started: LOWREY (1/5/14): *50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag* To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. *The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations,* and 46... more »

GMO foods

SteveatThinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
I am not categorically opposed to GMO foods. I am all for better living through chemistry. IMHO GMO foods are not proven safe. I read yesterday about a scientist who in 1957 said trans fats are deadly. Today we believe him. We have been lied to repeatedly about the benefits of scientific advance. Nuclear power is another case in point. If done perfectly light water reactors make perfect sense. Then you have Fukushima. This makes perfect sense look ridiculous. What went wrong: built in an earthquake zone, but I expect we can engineer around that. The problem is they did not. Secon... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*Carnival season kicks off in New Orleans ~WWL* *Phunny Phorty Phellows, Krewe of Joan of Arc, Broadway star Alice Ripley at NOCCA and more! ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Hundreds of fans welcome the New Orleans Saints at the airport early Sunday morning * *Louisiana’s profitable prisons ~Maxim Robin, Le Monde diplomatique* *Gulf Wild Sets Sail in New Direction ~Jason Delacruz, GSI* *Residents Await The Return Of The Circle Food Store ~Land Kaplan-Levenson WWNO* *George Rodrigue gallery to reopen; Wendy Rodrigue bids farewell ~Doug MacCash*

Liz Cheney Slinking Off Back To Virginia-- Ends Wyoming Senate Bid

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
Once Liz Cheney's dismal initial polling numbers started sinking even further as Wyoming voters came in contact with her, I became hopeful that if she stayed in the race, her role in Cheney's take-over of the U.S. government in the first weeks of the Bush administration would come to the fore and help American understand how catastrophic the Cheney family has already been for this country. But last night it became clear that that is an exposé for another time. Liz Cheney called it quits to her ill-fated primary challenge to Mike Enzi. There's going to be an official announcement t... more »

How to talk to the POlice

SteveatThinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
Police are important. Police have a very difficult job and deserve your up most respect. Police are all that separate a city from Toronto from a city like Kabul. However the Police are also the sharp end of the spear for the MAN. The police do what they are told. Your only defence is your legal rights, do not give them away. Never submit, never surrender. Use your rights or watch as your children lose them. Like everything else in life you must read the fine print or in this case a readable version. Americans got rights at birth, Canada got them with the Charter of Rights which wil... more »

The Triumph Of Mean

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Michael den Tandt writes that, if you're wondering why you keep getting those fund raising emails from political parties, blame Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper. Chretien brought in public financing for elections, but limited contributions. Harper eliminated public funding but kept the small contributions: Chretien never intended for things to go in the direction they’ve gone. His reform, Bill C-24, limited corporate and union donations to $1,000. Corporations without operations in Canada were banned from giving, as were Crown corporations. Individuals were limited to contributin... more »

More Fun with Geoengineering

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 15 hours ago
*"He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one&endash;ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.* Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could h... more »

The Manning Spy Watchdog Centre for Building Northern Gateway

AlisonatCreekside - 15 hours ago
The Vancouver Observer is reporting that last month former Reform/Alliance/Con MP Chuck Strahl added Enbridge "Northern Gateway Pipeline lobbyist" to the list of other part-time jobs he has accrued since leaving Harper's cabinet two years ago: - Chair of SIRC, the Security Intelligence Review Committee watchdog which oversees CSIS, for five years starting in June 2012 - Chair of the Manning Centre for Building Conservatives since April 2013 - two year election campaigner for Christy Clark, according to her, until the obvious conflict of interest went public a month be... more »

October Surprise and the Rockefellers - by Robert Parry

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 15 hours ago
I*n 1974, the Shah of Iran was diagnosed with cancer.* *In 1975, former CIA director, and the U.S. Ambassador to Iran, Richard Helms learned of the Shah's cancer through the Shah's closest confidant, General Hossein Fardoust. * *The Shah, Helms and Fardoust had been close personal friends since their school days together in Switzerland during the 1930s.* *On November 4, 1976, concurrent with Jimmy Carter's election as President, CIA Director George Bush issued a secret memo to the U.S. Ambassador in Iran, Richard Helms, asking:* *"Have there been any changes in the personality patt... more »

Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage. via Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

CES 2014: Samsung aims to connect devices

Samsung has announced a system to connect together a household's various gadgets, appliances, and utility controls. It said one way the Smart Home service could be used would be to turn off a home's lights and TV if the owner said going out into a smart watch app. Samsung supposed the service would originally be limited to its own products and planned to support third parties devices in time. Samsung said its new service would initially offer three features such as device control, home view and customer service. The firm said its Smart Home app would primarily run on selected Sam... more »

Puppies poop in the direction of the magnetic field

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 18 hours ago
The Christian Science Monitor and lots of other news outlets inform about a seemingly crackpot-sounding yet fascinating Czech-German (well, mostly, 10:2, Czech) research published in Frontiers in Zoology, Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field (PDF full) Incidentally, do you agree that the "mainstream" media on the Internet prefer not to link to the original papers even though they're freely accessible and it's easy to link? Readers who are gullible sheep that have to rely upon "interpreters" are apparently more attractive for the journalists. But bac... more »

Thailand: Regime Threatens Covert Violence Against Protesters

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 18 hours ago
Beware of agent provocateurs and staged confrontations with "regime supporters" for January 13, 2014 rally. Be prepared, and the regime will crumble. *January 6, 2014* (ATN) - Thailand's current regime led by unelected defacto dictator Thaksin Shianwatra and his nepotist-appointed proxy and sister Yingluck Shinawatra has issued a threat to protesters regarding an upcoming January 13, 2014 mass mobilization. Bangkok's English paper "The Nation" reported in its article, "Justice minister warns people against joining Bangkok Shutdown protest," that: Caretaker Justice Minister Chaikas... more »

Monday Morning Linkage

Vikash YadavatDuck of Minerva - 18 hours ago
Hi, Ducks! Happy New Year! I’m back after a semester wandering across northern India. Did you miss me? Well, here are your links anyway… Professor Ole Wæver argues for “open science to fight big threats.” Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the NSA a simple question that may finally make a difference. (Okay, probably not.) This year Continue reading

Finding Hope after a Gardasil Disaster by Tracie Toler Moorman

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
MaddieFinding Hope after a Gardasil Disaster By Tracie Toler Moorman, Overland Park, Kansas Sane Vax, Inc, 19 September 2013 *For the sake of your child, please do your research. Education conquers fear, and knowledge is power.* It is difficult to know where to begin when charting the 19-month journey my daughter and family have traveled since she was injured by the Gardasil vaccine in 2012. Maddie, my girl, as I like to call her, was a 15-year old happy, healthy, straight-A, honors/AP high school student. It was easy being her mother; it was a joy to be with her. S... more »

Fighting man made climate change or redistributing wealth?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 19 hours ago
"The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War...one must say clearly that de facto we distribute the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns." Otto Edenhofer, IPCC Working Group III co-chair, Nov. 14, 2010.

“If the phenomenon only appears after heavy data manipulation, perhaps manipulation of the data is the only phenomenon.” — Maurizio Morabito

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 19 hours ago
“If the phenomenon only appears after heavy data manipulation, perhaps manipulation of the data is the only phenomenon.” — Maurizio Morabito

FAMOUS 'JEWS'

Anonataangirfan - 20 hours ago
Dana International, aka Sharon Cohen, is a Yemeni Jew. *Joseph Dhu Nuwas.* *Joseph* Dhu Nuwas, c 517–525, was Jewish. He was the king of the Jewish kingdom of Yemen. He is famous for killing many thousands of Christians. Spotlight on Dhu Nuwas / Dhu Nuwas / Юсуф Зу-Нувас — Циклопедия When Yemen eventually became Moslem, many Yemenis only pretended to convert to Islam. *Salem, who died in a plane crash.* *Salem* is a Yemeni who helped the CIA at the time of Iran-Contra. Salem is believed to be a crypto-Jew. Salem attended Millfield, the expensive English boarding school. *Pla... more »

Epiphany...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 21 hours ago
*He is revealed.*

His Immenseness will come out of his hole in ... Mill Bay, B.C.

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 21 hours ago
... And then he'll make sure he's securely insulated from anything British Columbia by hiding behind the locked gates of a conservative bastion for the wealthy, Brentwood College School. Prime Minister Harper visits Cowichan on Tuesday for a private Tory party event at Brentwood College School. The 1 p.m. gathering, hosted by members and donors of the Conservative Party of Canada, promises to

Updates On Syria [1.6]: Geneva II Presents An Opportunity For A Ceasefire Agreement, Syrians Keep Up Morale With Live Theater, Media Tries To Sell "Moderate Rebels" Storyline Once Again

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 22 hours ago
*1. An excerpt from, "The Saudi challenge to US Syria policy" Al-Monitor, January 5:* *The priority for Geneva II, especially given the terrorism in Iraq and Lebanon, let alone the devastating humanitarian tragedy in Syria, should be a cease-fire and discussions of a transition to internationally supervised elections in Syria*, as advocated by former US President Jimmy Carter, among others, including this column. The US does not have an interest in supporting a continuation of the war until Assad is overthrown. There is no strategic rationale or moral high ground in fighting Assad... more »

This Isn't About The Tom Dooley Who Hung Down His Head-- This Is The Other Tom Dooley

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
Growing up, CBS' weekly game show *What's My Line?* was one of the most popular shows on the relatively new television machine. It ran from 1950 to 1967 and won a bunch of Emmys and Golden Globes. By the time the above episode ran in 1959, the guest, Tom Dooley, had already had his major impact on the word stage, although in a role that certainly never came up on the show. To John Daley, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen-- and their audience-- young Dr. Dooley was a crusading physician running hospitals in the war-torn Laotian jungle. When I was very young, Dooley h... more »

A Country For The Old

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago
Stephen Harper has always been up front about one of his political objectives -- the destruction of the Liberal Party. Recent polls suggest that he hasn't succeeded on that front. But, if Frank Graves' latest numbersare correct, he may well have gone along way to obtaining his second objective -- the destruction of the middle class. Harper bought into the touchstone of the American Right -- Ayn Rand's dictum that selfishness is a virtue. Graves writes that, in both countries, the results have been the same. The middle class is in decline: A comparison of poll tracking in Canada and... more »

Time to get my genes re-tested.

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 day ago
Identification of de novo copy number variants associated with human disorders of sexual development. Tannour-Louet et al *PLoS One*. 2010 Oct 26;5(10):e15392. Disorders of sexual development (DSD), ranging in severity from genital abnormalities to complete sex reversal, are among the most common human birth defects with *incidence rates reaching almost 3%*. Although causative alterations in key genes controlling gonad development have been identified, *the majority of DSD cases remain unexplained*. To improve the diagnosis, we screened 116 children born with idiopathic DSD using a ... more »

A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 day ago
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker People are starting to notice. My comment : I find it amazing that so many non-Intersex people are so vehement in asserting that only *they* know who or what we *really* are. That their opinion trumps our experienced narrative. That might not be so bad if you could all agree with one another, but you can't. Then there's the overt homophobia - confusing us with gays. The overt trans- and intersex-phobia, (often from gays ironically enough, who object to being associated with us). They have a point - the only things we have in common i... more »

Thought For Today

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 day ago
Heinlein – Specialization is for Insects | Not Always On A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein I prefer to live rather than die gallantly though. That's a last resort. Instead, I try to fight so efficiently t... more »

Joanne Yatvin: The Common Core Standards May Be Harmful to Children

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The following article was written by Dr. Joanne Yatvin, who does a great job of pointing out problems with specific standards, and how easy it is to tell that the Common Core Standards were not created by educators or child learning specialists. Such specialists, such as Dr. Yatvin, have determined that they are harmful to […]

The Founder of the Nation of Islam...... Looks Kinda White...

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
Wallace Fard Muhammad *"Allah came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W. D. Fard, in the third year (1933). He signed his name W. F. Muhammad which stands for Wallace Fard Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth."* *The Hon. Elijah Muhammad,* *Message to the Black Man, 1966* I quote The Enemy: *"Historians have used public records to identify Fard... more »

Collectable and eventually playable education activism game cards, courtesy of UOO

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The activist organization United Opt Out, that little gaggle always does things a little differently. Well, in advance of their annual spring event, taking place in Denver, CO March 28th-30th, 2014, UOO is releasing a collection of activist game cards that will include the organizers and the guests who will be in attendance. Now, these […]

Another warm welcome to a new author, Dr. Denisha Jones (@denisha_jones)

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Denisha and I go back a few years. We were both graduate students at Indiana University. And oddly enough, we found our way there from DC, and now back again. Denisha’s at Howard University. Great institution with a Dean who’s said some very hopeful things about education reform. Dr. Jones is in this fight with […]

Censored Native poet, filmmaker and resisters, and a note from Noam Chomsky

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
While searching for my articles of travels with the Zapatistas, I stumbled across one of my most censored articles written in December of 2001. At the time, I had shared the article with Noam Chomsky, and had since forgotten about the note he sent back. Noam Chomsky wrote, “Interesting and eloquent. Thanks for sending." Simon Ortiz I'm sharing this again, because of the eloquence and power
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Moving Day

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 13 minutes ago
Yes, boxes are being packed and unpacked at Plain Blog world headquarters today for the big move...well, figuratively at least. But in fact the big day is tomorrow. Bloomberg View is here. And they already have a page for me, here. Empty now, but by late morning tomorrow there should be something there. I'm afraid at first there won't be a dedicated rss feed, but they're actually a few weeks away from a redesign, and among other things one of the benefits will be rss feeds for the authors. I'll have all of that easy to find here once it happens. Meanwhile, you can use that bio page ... more »

"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate Degrees Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 minutes ago
*"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate* * Degrees **Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"* by Michael Snyder "What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor? 59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to his story, in this article you will also hear about severa... more »

The Realist Report - Sandy Hook debate

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 24 minutes ago
** Michael Collins Piper backed out of the debate late last night. I received an email from him this morning when I woke up stating that he was having health issues, and would be unable to participate in the debate. ** On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Dr. Jim Fetzer*and *Michael Collins Piper*. We will be debating the alleged shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012. Calls are welcomed during the second hour. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTune... more »

Albert Woodfox's Hour in the 5th: A reportback on Albert's January 7 oral arguments

angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 48 minutes ago
*MEDIA: **Lauren McGaughy, Times-Picayune* *II* *Daily Journal / Associated Press* *II* *UPI* *VIEW / DOWNLOAD:* *A3 info flyer for Jan. 7* *II* *Listen to audio from the oral arguments* *II* *Rev. Patricia Bates / NRCAT statement* *(PHOTO: A3 supporters at the Court on Jan. 7)* For those who were unable to attend, Albert's oral argument in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, defending Judge Brady's decision to overturn his conviction for a third time, is now complete (click here to listen). As expected, the proceedings were brief and rather mystifying. It was clear that m... more »

Anthem for High Stakes Testing Era (with apologies to Country Joe McDonald)

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 55 minutes ago
To be sung to the tune of “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” by Country Joe and the Fish (see video below) Well come on all you teachers and tykes, Uncle Sam’s made a problem he’s tryin’ to hype, He got himself some pressure to privatize, All the schools in the nation right before our eyes, So put down your books and grab a #2, We've got a whole lot of testin’ to do. And its 1,2,3 what are we learning for? Don't ask me I don't have a say, It's examination day, And its 5,6,7 send in Melinda Gates, Well there ain’t no time to do your best, WHOOPEE we've all got more tests. Well come... more »

A Different Look at the Income of the 99%

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 hour ago
Research by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty is fundamental to debates over inequality. They have documented that a larger share of US income has been going to the top 10% -- and especially the top 1% -- of all earners. Their data is shown in the graph at the top of this post. Here is how the New York Times recently characterized their work: The top 1 percent took more than one-fifth of the income earned by Americans, one of the highest levels on record since 1913, when the government instituted an income tax. The figures underscore that even after the recession the country remain... more »

Looks Like Humpty Dumpty Is Falling Off A Bridge-- Will Chris Christie Resign?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
"They are the children of Buono voters." When Blue America endorsed Barbara Buono for governor of New Jersey last year, it wasn't because she's pretty and it wasn't because she's a Democrat. It's because she's an outstanding, principled progressive and because she was running against the corrupt transpartisan New Jersey political machine headed by one of America's worse governors ever, Chris Christie. New Jersey voters, basking in their ignorance and pigheadedness, elected Christie 1,252,100 (60.4%) to 790,245 (38.1%). Hudson County (Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City) was th... more »

How Pinteresting: An Easy Way To Keep Track Of Medicine Doses

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
[image: Keeping Track of Medicine, Children's Medicine] I realized this morning that is has been more than year since I tested a Pinterest pin and shared the results. This idea is a simple one, when you or your child have a medication that needs to be taken daily for a set number of days, you take a black marker and mark a box for all of the doses on the side of a bottle. I had this pin in my back of my mind for a long time, but didn't have the occasion to use it until just a couple of months ago when my daughter had an ear infection. I have to say it was an absolute life saver. I d... more »

Twisted Logic: The Kafkaesque Saga Continues

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 hour ago
Imagine if you dunked the Obama Pretzel into a cup of your favorite winter-time comfort beverage. Not only would it get increasingly soggy, it would inevitably dissolve into a pathetic clump of dough, never to be a popular taste sensation again. That now appears to be the fate of the secrecy-obsessed president. Even with a complicit federal court actually agreeing that we the citizens have no right to see all the sorry excuses the Justice Department has dreamed up over the years to cover up for the human rights abuses perpetrated both at home and abroad, there is no longer much pub... more »

Why do you not comment

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
I comment way to much. I take risks with my commentary. So if you think I am sane or even suffer insanity, please comment just one damm time, it would mean so much to me.

I said the wrong thing

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
No you did not, you said what in your heart was true, Who can we blame when our real life romances do not even measure up to the first act of any Hollywood advance flame So far we do not have GPS to direct lonely hearts to their best possible address I do not want tech to know how I love and how other users could use that for there personal freak show. I love my wife, I love my kids and its not my first rodeo. If you want to search my files and sell my joy then I would say to the military get me a drone I have identified an Al Queda suspect and speaking as a tourist I think he is doing so... more »

Alan Dershowitz Leaves Harvard for Hasbara

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 1 hour ago
(Photo Credit: Sun Sentinel) Often times, when powerful and public figures – from government officials and politicians, community leaders, high-powered corporate CEOs, NFL coaches, and countless local TV news anchors - leave their longtime positions, they say their decision was influenced by wanting “to spend more time” with their families and loved ones. Such a stated reason is often a

What Linda Darling-Hammond said!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 2 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *Frankly, we don’t get it:* Over Christmas, we were surprised by several statements from leading “educational experts.” One such expert was Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, who guested on Morning Edition. Early on, tape was played in which she said this: GREENE (12/26/13): This is Morning Edition from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. The United States has spent a decade trying to improve the standing of its schools compared to the rest of the world. *Education researcher Linda Darling-Hammond says the result is disappointing.* DARLING-HAMMOND... more »

Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Standards Won\’t Change Inequity: A Reader. via Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Former Mayor Ray 'Baby Head''Chocolate Don''Ack Ack''Soft Hand''Mr. Goddamnit' Nagin's attorney says he is ready for trial* *RSD’s school closure process has uneven effect on students at failing schools ~Jessica Williams, The Lens* *New Mardi Gras laws would keep all ladders six feet from the curb ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Coming soon to Algiers: a herd of Masai giraffes ~Chad Calder, The Advocate* *Ian McNulty: Breakfast, and biscuits, on Banks ~New Orleans Advocate*

O’Reilly and Beck have nice things to say!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 3 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *O’Reilly heaps praise on Maddow:* Everyone is dumb on occasion, as everyone understands. Yes, it was dumb to ask for jokes about that Romney family photo. When we’re using our heads, we don’t do that. That said, we were glad to see Bill O’Reilly take a walk on the mild side last week. He spoke up for Harris-Perry: O'REILLY (1/2/14): Now Miss Perry has apologized to the Romney family, but this seems to be a never-ending saga over at MSNBC. Joining us from Washington, Miss Laura Ingraham. *So I don't think Miss Harris-Perry meant to be malicious here,*... more »

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: It spreads!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 3 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* Part 3—MSNBC too: Within our journalistic culture, it isn’t polite to notice, mention, cite or complain about the dumbnification. You’re allowed to talk about media bias. You’re even allowed to say that some statement or viewpoint is wrong. But it isn’t considered polite to talk about the spread of The Dumb, even as it worms its way into every aspect of the nation’s journalistic life. Within our spreading, democratized press corps, almost everyone is surfing The Dumb at this point. The right to engage in the dumbnification makes everyone’s life a little... more »

John Karhiio Kane 'Here We Go Again'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Here We Go Again By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News I'm sorry, but I can't resist the temptation. As we rip open a new calendar I can't help but reflect on the past year and the one that is now before us. I won't attempt to list all those who completed their time with us in this last trip around our eldest Brother, the Sun. We have had people close and intimate to us as well as

Children's Book Corner: The United States of Bubba

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours ago
Once upon a time, there was a mighty nation named the United States of Bubba. Bubba used to be part of a much larger country called the United States of America but, fearing government infringement on their states' rights, Bubba seceded from the union and founded its own neo-confederacy and named it Bubba. Bubba's national motto was "Fuck, Yeah! Fuck you!" and its flag consisted of a revamped Confederate flag with a giant red, white and blue finger pointed at the rest of the earth in the center. For many of the people in these new United States, this was a paradise. ... more »

THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER - first pictures just in.

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 3 hours ago
a yearning for an upbeat and positive news story amongst all the doom-laden FLOOD STORIES from my current country of residence and Solar X-class flares led me to this encouraging story: THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER. images c/o geekquinox *The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) took almost 10 years to complete, and began its first observations back in November 2013. One of the first targets the astronomers pointed it at was the young star HR4796A (pictured above), which is the central partner in a binary star system with a distant red dwarf companion.* [source GEEKQUINOX] Lovely stuff, and ... more »

VIDEO: Tribal Rebels In Ramadi

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 3 hours ago
Videos like these show that many of the fighters in Anbar are not from the Islamic State of Iraq as the media keeps on reporting.

To BE Community

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 3 hours ago
Welcome my friends to our new website for our new Community!! We are still working on the crowdfunding page, which I will post as soon as it's ready to go! http://to-becommunity.blogspot.com/ *REAL LIFE CHANGE. REAL WORLD CHANGE. COMPLETE CHANGE.* *The BEginning:* The building of a community, unified in the creation, exploration and education of a FULLY self sustaining cooperative village. *The Road Less Traveled:* To BE the Changes we wish to see in the world, we need to change the paradigm of what obviously does not work. The Implementation of CHANGE starts from the gr... more »

Most Poguenet Song of the Century

SteveatThinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
It does not matter what war is in question. The pawns sacrifice and if they do not die in the first wave when they come home damaged the government of the time does the best to bury them. So all you gung ho wannabes should consider in reality war is hell, hell for the losers, hell for the victors and hell for all the ancillary persons . Winston Churchill was no shrinking violet but he famously said "Jaw Jaw is better than war war" Even if you can conduct a war with push button ease, listen to the Pouges and the pain that must be believed.

Dreams get smaller; but start big!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 5 hours ago
There's a series of advertisements for York University where young people fantasize about what they will achieve in the years ahead. Some of the achievements are quite spectacular and speak to an apparent self confidence that is astounding. Indeed, my grumpy initial reaction was "such arrogance - they'll be lucky to find a job of any kind if they even get a degree". But then I thought again. If university students don't dream big who will? Yes over time our dreams shrink - the slings and arrows of daily living make it clear that the adults we became won't, say, bring peace to... more »

NO US BASES ON OKINAWA

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 5 hours ago
*STATEMENT* *We oppose construction of a new US military base within Okinawa, and support the people of Okinawa in their struggle for peace, dignity, human rights and protection of the environment* We the undersigned oppose the deal made at the end of 2013 between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Governor of Okinawa Hirokazu Nakaima to deepen and extend the military colonization of Okinawa at the expense of the people and the environment. Using the lure of economic development, Mr. Abe has extracted approval from Governor Nakaima to reclaim the water off Henoko, on the northeastern... more »

JFK Was Right: The CIA Should Have Been Splintered Into A Thousand Pieces And Scattered To The Winds

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
After Kennedy took office, he was unaware that the CIA, in accord with an OK from President Eisenhower and working with the Belgians, had overseen the gruesome torture and brutal murder of the Congo's popular first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. With Lumumba already dead a month and his body dissolved in sulphuric acid, Kennedy called for him to be reintegrated into the new nation's government. The CIA-- Allen Dulles, who JFK foolishly kept on as director-- hadn't told him that they had carried out Eisenhower 's orders to have him murdered as a commie dupe. According to Stephen ... more »

Insanity Drives The Bus

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 5 hours ago
Stephen Harper he is all about strengthening the economy. Not so, writesTom Walkom. He is abandoning it: The reasons are political. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his finance minister, Jim Flaherty, now have only one goal in mind — the 2015 federal election. And they are determined to slash government spending in order to balance Ottawa’s books before then. They calculate that a fiscal surplus in 2015 will allow their party to offer voters a platter of tasty tax cuts that will win it four more years in power. As a political strategy, it has worked before. It's been all ab... more »

The Truth (but not necessarily the whole truth)

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
Brilliant Isn’t hindsight brilliant? - as that character on the fast show might have said. I mean, just look at the Arab Spring. The way the the BBC kindergarten eulogised the antics in Tahrir Square, even after, or was that during, the sexual assault of Lara Logan. Oh how we crowed when the BBC turned out to be mistaken. Of course there’s no ‘turned out’ about it. Like all history, it’s an evolving, never-ending situation, and who are we to jump to premature conclusions. On the other hand, if you can see an imminent car crash when others are still lost in euphoria while hurtling ... more »

Still cold today!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 5 hours ago

Libya updates January 8 , 2014 - Political insecurity continues .......... Armed Groups In Libya Are Selling The Oil They Seized

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Protestors besiege Congress demanding it sack the Prime Minister *By Ahmed Elumami.* [image: Zeidan GNC] The Prime Minister at Congress when he was appointed *Tripoli, 7 January 2014*: The General National Congress was blockaded this afternoon by protestors demanding that it pass a vote withdrawing confidence in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Members were prevented leaving by the protestors – estimated at around 100 – unless they voted to sack Zeidan. The situation was chaotic. Some members who had left the building after the morning session were called back. Others were prevented from ret... more »

Cyberwarfare greater threat to US than terrorism, say security experts ......The FBI Admits Its Primary Focus Is "Not" Law Enforcement

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Cyberwarfare greater threat to US than terrorism, say security experts by Michael Pizzi @michaelwpizzi January 7, 2014 5:00PM ET Intelligence and defense officials warn of 'cyber Pearl Harbor' Topics: War Technology National Security [image: NSA] The headquarters of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland.NSA via Getty Images Cyberwarfare is the greatest threat facing the United States – outstripping even terrorism – according to defense, military, and national security leaders in a Defense News poll, a sign that hawkish warnings about an imminent “cyber Pearl Harbor” have... more »

War watch - January 4 , 2014 - Iraq sees more turmoil as the miscalculation by Prime Minister Maliki to impose a violent crackdown on protests in Ramadi has led to not just political turmoil , but also gave Al Qaeda an opening to attack both Ramadi ( and seize chunks of that city ) and capture Fallujah .....Americans finally questioning why so many have died for nothing in Iraq ? Meanwhile in Syria , the Rebels continue their fight against each other - this time in North West Syria ...... House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Seeks New House Resolution to Kill Iran Talks ...... In Afghanistan , Kafka still rules the roost as the Afghan Review Boards backs down to US pressure and agrees to hold off releasing 88 Bagram detainees against whom no credible evidence of wrongdoing has been produced by the US - key head jarring points ( The US Army has argued that they wouldn’t have been detaining them for years without charges if they weren’t “dangerous,” and has also insisted the Review Board was never meant to have the power to release anyone, but rather only could choose between prosecuting those for whom evidence exists, or lacking that to carry out “further investigations” to look for some evidence. )

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Iraq....... http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/01/06/Maliki-urges-Fallujah-tribes-to-expel-militants.html By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News Monday, 6 January 2014 The United States said on Monday it is accelerating its military sales and deliveries to Iraq to help the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government fight al-Qaeda-linked militants in the restive Anbar province. The United States is looking to provide additional shipments of Hellfire missiles as early as this spring, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in a briefing, according to Reuters. ... more »

Just what are Old Spice saying?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 7 hours ago
Two very odd Old Spice adverts...

Gerald Celente is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance. -- Wikipedia

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/pn_B6NTybVE Celente Trends 2014: Global Economies Tanking and Gold Prices Rising TheAlexJonesChannel *Published on Jan 3, 2014* http://www.trendsresearch.com/ Stay in the know - Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones Cherchez la Verite

Savage Society And Broken Codes Of Conduct

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 9 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* Stories written from the inside, shadows and light, directions and decisions, blinking road signs and soon one finds a road most traveled, a one-way road to where destiny grips your grasping hands... Valerie starts her day with a chocolate bar and a hit off the crack pipe, nourishment for a member of an outcast community, heroin thrice daily to keep her drug sickness from kicking in, crack and meth for street courage, darkness descends on a cold city and out they come, it seems like only yesterday when Valerie was the newest hot young babe offering her soul... more »

Five HEP papers

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 9 hours ago
The visitor number 10 million came to this blog around 11 am, Central European Time, today, from the whitehouse.gov domain. Congratulations (it was 5 am locally over there!). It's a coincidence because most of the recognizable visitors' domains seem to be academic and during the European morning, U.S. visits in general score less than 10% (over 50% when all times are included, however). I will just mention five new papers on the arXiv – two hep-ph papers and three hep-th papers. Chul Kim, Ahmad Idilbi, Thomas Mehen, and Yeo Woong Yoon discuss another interesting possible route fo... more »

Solar Update: Lights Camera Action!

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 9 hours ago
The lovely Sol is dancing a tango again. For the past week we've seen elevated levels of flares, leading up to yesterdays set of exciting set of boogie woogie disco moves. In the past 48 hours we had 3 major flares- two from spot 1944- an M 7.2 and an X 1.2, and a parting shot from 1947 of M3.2 as it rotated off the western limb. The Xflare by 1944 - which is Beta Gamma Delta- was interactive with 1946 right above it (Beta Gamma). The X Class and M7.2 were both directly Earth facing and geoeffective. 1944 has also been spouting off constant C Class flares for the past 24 hours. ... more »

WILLIAM HAGUE; SEX SCANDALS

Anonataangirfan - 11 hours ago
*Christopher Myers and William Hague, who shared a hotel bedroom. * Britain's Foreign Secretary, the government minister responsible for the security service MI6, is William Hague. *1.* *William Hague wrote a book about a gay Prime Minister called William Pitt the Younger.* "Scurrilous verses and lampoons appeared drawing attention to Pitt's relationship with Tom Steele, a young man with whom he spent a number of holidays in Brighton." Gay William Pitt *Hague and very close friend Sebastian Coe (now Lord Coe)* *2.* *William Hague's wife Ffion has written a book, The Grand Tour,... more »

candy

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago

A Fantastic Summative Comment on My Data Mining Post

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
On January 3, 2014, I posted a piece entitled Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars. On January 5, Diane Ravitch featured the post on her blog due to the post’s active commentary on both sides of the issue, including that of an inBloom representative. It is January 7, and the comments are still live (167 comments). […]

Did You Think Ken Cuccinelli And EW Jackson Were Extreme? Wait Til You Meet Brat, A Teabagger Running Against Cantor

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
Crazy Brat Steve Israel, whose Long Island district has a rare 0 PVI (equally split between Democrats and Republicans) doesn't challenge any Republican leaders. All the House GOP leaders-- every single one of them-- has immunity and in return, Israel, the worst choice as a DCCC chair in history, is the *only* incumbent in a 0 PVI district that isn't a battleground. The RNC undermines Israel's Republican opponents, the same way Israel undermines anyone who tries to run against Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, Upton, Rogers, Camp or any senior Republican Hoiuse leader. Clearly, Pelosi had lost ... more »

Climate Change Deniers are Science is real deniers

SteveatThinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
I would put that up there with Kirk Cameroon explaining that a Banana has a zipper therefore evolution never happens. Climate change deniers are science is a fact deniers. The fact is and even if you do not believe it its still true is that if you increase the concentration of CO2 in a atmosphere it will retain more heat. No one denies the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has been rising dramatically over the last one hundred years. We can debate about the source, if you said the majority was natural you would be wrong. Remember that volcano is Iceland that shut down air tra... more »

Sunny el perrito del Presidente Barack Obama - Cute little pet

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 15 hours ago
Sunny, es nombre de la mascota del Presidente Barack Obama. Se trata de un hermoso cachorrito de color negro que acompaña a la familia del Presidente en la Casa Blanca. Actualmente comparte la fama con Boo. Un precioso animalito que hasta parece de peluche.

Erdogan Cleans House, Purges Police of Opponents, Gulen Loyalists

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 15 hours ago
*Source of photo: The London Economic*. An excerpt from, *"Turkey purges police amid graft scandal"* by Fulya Ozerkan, AFP, January 7: *Turkey purged hundreds of police and launched an investigation into prosecutors Tuesday in the latest twist in a vast corruption scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.* *A government decree published at midnight announced the sacking of 350 police officers in Ankara, including chiefs of the financial crimes, anti-smuggling, cyber crime and organised crime units, media reports said.* Turkey's top judicial body, ... more »

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Cover Up: "The Levels Of Radiation At The Crippled Fukushima Site Are Through The F***ing Roof!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 17 hours ago
It is indeed good to be back... I have had to take a bit of additional time to allow my right arm to heal properly from the Angiogram, and to get some strength back..... I really have a lot of catching up to do, and I figure I would start off by tackling the REAL situation with the Fukushima disaster, and not the absolute bullcrap that the Jewish controlled media and our criminal Jewish controlled governments continue to spew... I came across this most interesting article today that I want to share with all of my readers right here... It comes from the "SHTFplan.com" website, at www... more »

Global terror-fighting turns out to be a bit beyond the reach of the NYPD

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
*If sheer scowling determination could foil global terrorism, maybe Commissioner Ray could have led the NYPD to glory. In the real world, alas, it doesn't seem to have worked out that way.* *by Ken* It's true that at the moment I'm not feeling especially charitably disposed toward former NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who finished out his tenure as commander of Emperor-Mayor Mike's Imperial Paramilitary Guards looking like a self-glorifying buttwad. But I really don't want to be jumping ugly on him just for the sake of jumping ugly on him. So when Commissioner Ray got the idea... more »

Passive House

SteveatThinking Aboot - 17 hours ago
A passive house is a super insulated air impermeable house with low thermal bridging. To function it must have a heat ex-changer pictured on the left of the drawing.IMHO especially in Canada it should be the new standard build.

New trial ordered where trial judge took into account in assessing credibility that a Muslim chose to affirm and not swear

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 18 hours ago
R v TRJ 2013 BCCA 449. As a practical matter delving into why someone swears or affirms is NEVER prudent.

Not too cold to play!!!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 18 hours ago

Exercise of partial right to silence ought not to be held against an accused

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 18 hours ago
In *R. v. Wilson*, 2013 ONSC 7830 the Court held that a witness/accused who told the police only part of what happened ought not to be found less credible. The reasoning was that a partial exercise of the right to silence ought not to be held against an accused. Some might argue this encourages an accused to give police a vague story, bereft of all detail, with a more detailed concoction presented at trial. The Court holds: [16] I am satisfied that in accordance with the legal principles set out in *Palmer*, *G.L., *and *R. v. Rivera*, 2011 ONCA 225 (CanLII), 2011 ONCA 225,... more »

Dr. Denis Rancourt files application to the Supreme Court of Canada for his right to an impartial court

Denis RancourtatActivist Teacher - 18 hours ago
An Ontario superior court judge had strong personal, family, emotional, and contractual financial ties to a party intervening for the plaintiff in [the] case, and also to the law firm representing the party in court, and did not disclose any of these ties. This party was also the employer of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, and funded the plaintiff’s litigation. The judge was tasked with

Cruising Under Sail

SteveatThinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
"Cruising Under Sail has for many years enjoyed a considerable reputation as an important work which covers every practical aspect of cruising for the beginner and expert alike. The author's unrivaled experience in long-distance cruising has commanded an enormous following of dedicated readers and his sensible, practical approach to sound seamanship has great appeal to those wishing to learn and improve the art of safe cruising. "Cruising Under Sail combines Hiscock's classic books, "Cruising Under Sail and "Voyaging Under Sail. Topics include: stability; cockpit and steering arran... more »

Why Harper loves all thing U.K.

SteveatThinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
I have been reading about these new laws in the UK. In summary the police can arrest anyone over ten at any time for no reason. Wow!

Alan Wieder : Bill Ayers''Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident'

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 18 hours ago
In his ongoing journey, and with his new memoir, 'Public Enemy,' Bill Ayers continues to bring the radical 'spark' forward. Image from Uprising Radio. By Alan Wieder | The Rag Blog | January 7, 2014 Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn will speak at "Underground Goes Overboard," a launch party for TheRagBlog.com, at 7 p.m., Friday, January 17, at the 5604 Manor Community Center in Austin.

John Yudkin on Dietary Instinct, plus examples from experiments with Wistar Rats and Orphans

George HendersonatThe High-fat Hep C Diet - 18 hours ago
*Arguments for a Soda Tax are sometimes based on the specific metabolic effects of fructose, but for most people these effects are only slightly more stressful than the effects of glucose, and probably not worth worrying about too much. A more convincing argument to my mind is that sugar availability promotes overconsumption of energy, and carbohydrate energy in particular. Not to mention azo dyes and similar unappreciated toxins, which are mainly consumed associated with sugars. This allows the sugar industry to say "it's the calories" when analysing the data. But does restricting... more »

Tigres salvajes en su hábitat (parte 1)

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 19 hours ago

Hanna Skandera’s Reforms Cause More Than ‘Discomfort’

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera recently wrote an editorial to the Albuquerque Journal stating more untruths, vague ideas, and plenty of blame against those who are questioning her initiatives. She suggests that there will be some “discomfort” during her period of reforms. I suggest that discomfort isn’t the problem; what we’re fighting against is the actual […]

The Debate: Insurgent Infighting in Syria- Broader destabilization

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 19 hours ago
*What a fortuitous find. What an excellent debate.* Eric Draitser hits all the right notes! I was literally cheering him on. And, why wouldn’t I? He is singing from the songbook I know so well..... *And the clip of that evil horrible witch Hillary Clinton?! Grrr......* *FYI: Eric Draitser runs the excellent site- Stop Imperialism* Perma linked in the sidebar at the right *“ Draitser explains how both (rebels) are part of the broader destabilization campaign orchestrated by the US and its regional clients. Additionally, he argues that the distinction between the two sides is more a ma... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

No shit, Sherlock!

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
Left-wing political messages smuggled none-too-subtly into a popular BBC drama programme? Could that really be true? (Please see the title of this post!): Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has criticised the "biased" BBC after he was attacked during an episode of Sherlock. In a mocked up newspaper which flashed up on screen on Sunday night programme makers took a swipe at the “dithering, incoherent, and self-interested” Mayor and his “hair-brained” (sic) schemes. Responding to the attack, which was seemingly unrelated to the rest of the show, Mr Johnson said: “It is elementary m... more »

Summer is for quizzes: What kind of libertarian are you?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 20 hours ago
So on this one, you can discover (according to the quiz’s authors) what kind of libertarian you are. Apparently, I’m a “small ‘l’ libertarian.” leaning towards “agorism.” Whatever the hell that means. You Scored as *"Small L" libertarian* Small l libertarians are libertarians, usually of the minarchist variety, who do not particularly identify with the official Libertarian Party or are not active in it, or may even actively oppose it. Small l libertarians are likely to view the Libertarian Party as moving in too moderate of a direction. Small l libertarian may ten... more »

A longer (21-hour?) school day?

skrashenatSchools Matter - 20 hours ago
Sent to the Telegraph (UK), Jan. 7 It is inspiring to read about Education Minister Truss' desire to lengthen the school day ("Schools should adopt Chinese-style lessons, says minister," Jan. 3). Her proposal to add an extra 30 minutes for "enrichment" and an extra hour for homework, however, fall far short of what is needed. Let's push ahead and consider an even longer day. A study published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1991 concluded that a 21-hour school day is optimal, with continuous classes and no breaks, except for two breaks for meals and one lavatory visit. Am... more »

'Newsnight': A tsunami of bias

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
Arbitrary as it might be (and despite the reservations of psychologists), New Year always feels like a good time to begin a new project. As this blog focuses (mainly) on the issue of BBC bias, this is probably the time to begin a new, year-long BBC bias-monitoring project. (Well, time for me to start it anyhow. Sue has much less time on her hands!!) So all that's needed then is to select the right project. Maybe choose a prestigious BBC current affairs programme and monitor it for an entire year? Sounds reasonable to me (if a bit overfacing). But which one? Well, *Today *is... more »

H index and H University

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 20 hours ago
A friend writes: Glen Ellison has a very neat study (ungated version) of adjusted h-index measures of citation performance that he shows have great predictive power for where people end up getting tenure (among other things). What I thought you would find more interesting is that: i) Harvard comes out first in citations to its faculty members. See table 5 page 84. ii) Table 6, page 87, has a list of the top 5 economists by decade. In the two cohorts of people with PhDs after 1996, I was struck that 5 out of 10 have Harvard PhDs (with 3 MIT, 1 Chicago, and 1 Berkeley rounding the l... more »

RU-486 Is Back, Now With Godwin's Law

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill)atDAMMIT JANET! - 21 hours ago
Health Canada is an odd organization, isn't it? Back in November, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a commentary advocating for the approval of RU-486, the preferred medical abortion drug, unaccountably not yet sanctioned in pro-choice Canada. It explained: A manufacturer must apply to bring the drug to market in Canada. Health Canada, citing confidentiality laws, would not confirm whether it is currently studying such an application. However, [Dr. Sheila] Dunn said an application had been made within the last year. She said it may have taken time for a manufactu... more »

Councils’ “experts” among the last still drinking Al Gore’s Kool Aid

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 21 hours ago
Al Bore’s absurdist 2006 film also showed alarmist maps and videos of sea levels rising 20 feet by the by the year 2100 – a rise that would bury a big two-storey house under the sea. None of the UN’s IPCC reports ever supported this surreal fantasy (or his entirely made-up claim that “New Zealand may be refuge as rising sea levels displace hundred of millions of people”). Indeed the latest UN IPCC report continues to dial back its alarmism, with figures showing sea level rise exhibiting no rate of acceleration at all: rising over the last 100 years at the roughly constant rate of... more »

We're living the good life on "death bets," says Ian Welsh, and the IOUs may come due sooner than we gamblers thought

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
*The difference between a "death bet" and this kind is that at least with roulette you've got a shot at winning. With the death bet, you know the debt is going to fall due; you only "win" by dying before it does.* *"In its pure form, the death bet is just that, a bet that when the bill comes due, you’ll be dead. If you live a good life and die owing millions, well, what do you care?"* *-- Ian Welsh, in a new post,* "The Death Bet" *by Ken* Ian Welsh has been doing a fair amount of wide and deep looking at the way societies fit together, and I haven't known quite how to chronicle th... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 21 hours ago
Blue butterflies in the Amazon. [photo via]

Ranking IR Journals

Phil ArenaatDuck of Minerva - 21 hours ago
Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Brian J. Phillips, of the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics. What are the best International Relations journals? How do we know if one journal is better than another? And how should this affect your decision about where to send a manuscript? I recently worked on Continue reading

RONNIE BIGGS, A CHILD STAR, MERCENARIES

Anonataangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Ronnie Biggs (top left) and his pop-star son Mike (bottom left)* *Ronnie Biggs* was a small-time London crook. In 1963, Biggs helped to steal from a mail train the sum of £2.6 million. This is the equivalent today of £50 million or $80 million. *Some people believe that the brains behind this Great Train Robbery was a group of well-connected mercenaries who wanted the money to finance various coups.* *Bevins* Reginald Bevins, the government minister in charge of the post office, issued a statement stating that the Great Train Robbery was likely to be "an inside job". Mail tra... more »

Shouldn’t we call it the “having-a-husband” penalty?

amurdieatDuck of Minerva - 22 hours ago
As Jennifer Grose at Slate reported this morning, a paper by Wendy Stock and John Siegfried at the most recent AEA meetings, had some very disturbing – but not surprising – findings in regarding women academics and marriage. The Slate article calls it the “wife penalty.” I’d prefer it to be called the “having-a-husband penalty.” Continue reading

“People Vanishing In Clusters, Unexplained – What’s Happening?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*“People Vanishing In Clusters, Unexplained – What’s Happening?”* By Susan Duclos “The video below at the 1:07 mark shows a news report that is chilling, shocking and inexplicable. Clusters of people simply vanishing, sometimes 2 or 3 but up to 20 and 30 people disappearing from the same locations across the US in national parks, sometimes right from under the noses people that are with them. Young, old and in between, some of them are found in places that are termed as “inaccessible,” or in areas that had already been searched. Stranger still is the reaction of the Federal agenci... more »

FBI burglars who exposed 'COINTELPRO' come out of the shadows

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Above: Democracy Now! Read transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_was_time_to_do_more New York Times The FBI burglars who first exposed the word 'COINTELPRO' came out of the shadows after 43 years.  "Among the grim litany of revelations was a blackmail letter F.B.I. agents had sent anonymously to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,threatening to expose his extramarital affairs

The Nation’s most valuable book of the year!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 22 hours ago
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013* *Ravitch’s Reign of Error:* Yesterday, we saluted The Nation for naming Marc Steiner’s radio program the most valuable program of the year. Right above Steiner in the list of awards, John Nichols selected the year’s most valuable book of the year. It’s a book we’ve been reading, musing about: *MOST VALUABLE BOOK: Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error* Yes, she really did serve as an assistant education secretary for George H.W. Bush, and yes, she once supported George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind.” But Ravitch refuses to cling to failed strategies, as she exp... more »

Concentration Camp Gaza

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 22 hours ago
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/02/concentration-camp-gaza-obesity-edition/

Tuesday Pre-Dusk Linkage

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 22 hours ago
With the year barely begun, we have already seen much over-the-top, endless self-promotion, so I will try to avoid that trap. Instead, we should note that while the Duck is not just about applying pop culture to IR and vice versa, it does seem to be with us, including shedding insight on events in Ukraine. Continue reading

“Everything You Wanted to Know About the 'Polar Vortex' That's Engulfed Much of N. America with Freezing Temps”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
*“Everything You Wanted to Know About the 'Polar Vortex'* * That's Engulfed Much of N. America with Freezing Temps”* By Emily Atkin “On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “Colder than Mars.” Indeed, recent temperatures across the U.S. have been Mars-like. Forecasts in the midwest call for temperatures to drop to 32 below zero in Fargo, N.D.; minus 21 in Madison, W... more »

Whose chillin' in the Polar (Arctic) Vortex? And, how 'bout that ship in Antarctica?

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 23 hours ago
Me. Me. Me..... How about you? *Day 2 of the super chill.* The furnace hasn't stopped. It is so windy, it keeps you up at night. Temp- Minus 16 C. Wind chill- Minus 29 C. White out conditions [image: Weather map showing how the polar vortex is bringing freezing weather to the US]Today [image: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72103000/jpg/_72103346_polar_vortex1.jpg] Yesterday Parts of the US and Canada are braced for potentially record-breaking low temperatures as a blast of arctic air blows across North America. A winter storm has already blanketed areas of Canada and th... more »

The survivors of Palestinian terrorism deserve recognition too

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 23 hours ago
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/05/blind-taste-test/

Tone, pt. 4: Dystopian Fiction, Passion, and the Education Reform Debate

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
Tone, pt. 4: Dystopian Fiction, Passion, and the Education Reform Debate. via Tone, pt. 4: Dystopian Fiction, Passion, and the Education Reform Debate.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Soundproofing your basement Cave

SteveatThinking Aboot - 23 hours ago
Roxul Safe n Sound Acoustic Foam Acoustic Drywall Acoustic tuning

Stephen Harper and climate demonstrator

LeDaroatLeDaro - 23 hours ago
Will Harper do anything about climate change? I have my serious doubts. He is an oil salesman. He works for oil companies,rich people and corporations. Picture:

Messiah - Temple of Dreams

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
C'mon, give me a break. My train was *two hours late* this morning! So I'm having a break from blogging this evening to read and play retro video games. Hence why I'm treating you lucky, lucky people to this: Did I dream that you dreamed about me?

It's Tuesday: Let's do the Neutron Dance...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*m'kay?* *Hollywood Movie Dance Tribute: *

The Realist Report - Jason Erb: Exposing Faux Capitalism

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Jason Erb, host of *Exposing Faux Capitalism* on the Truth Frequency Radio Network. Jason and I will be discussing a variety of subjects, including the Federal Reserve and capitalism, media fakery and deception, the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII, and other matters. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.

Cold Out, Right? Now Boehner And His GOP Colleagues Will Determine Whether To Force Unemployed Workers Into Penury And Starvation-- Yes, Here In America

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Yesterday the Senate postponed voting on extending unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans whose benefits expired last week and for even more people whose benefits will expire between now and July. Reid sensed he could get 5 Republicans to cross the aisle and back the American people, instead of their own party's determination to make Obama fail by making America fail. It worked. This morning, the Senate voted 60-37 (Collins, Murkowsky, Coats, Heller, Ayotte and Portman crossing the aisle to got with all the Democrats) to shut down the Republican filibuster against ext... more »

The Conservative Party of Canada: a Criminal Organization?

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 1 day ago
Fascism and Contemporary Canada. Locating the Present Conservative Government Led by Stephen Harper. Part X *The Conservative Party of Canada: a Criminal Organization?* *Written by Robin Mathews* Send this column to a Conservative voter. Old Canadian Conservatism is gone. The present government in power is a gathering of neoliberal goons for whom Canadian democracy is an impediment to be erased with all speed. That is not a foolish or extreme statement … as we shall see. One of the iconic Old Canadian Conservatives, Hugh Segal, is leaving the Senate. Prepar... more »

"Incidentally"

BorisatThe Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
Curious word, that. Once upon a time spy agencies were tasked with monitoring legitmate defence-related threats, say the Soviets and their allied and proxy forces, armed insurrectionists in Canada and abroad (e.g. FLQ, armed Aboriginal groups, Islamist terrorists), or Canadians in the habit of trading defence secrets to enemy powers. Part of how this game was played would have involved

"It wouldn't be B.C. without it"

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
The words issued by the so-called prime minister of Canada when a protester managed to breach his security yesterday. Wouldn't it now? In other words, Harper expects to come to BC, (as little as possible), and be faced with people who vocally express their displeasure with his wrecking-ball policies, his smear politics, and his lying, cheating performance behind the doors of his office. The

If David Brooks was in a Cop Show

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
and now a word from our sponsor H/T Driftglass

Don Cheadle on Inferior Goods

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
A friend emails me: Entertainment Weekly asked Don Cheadle what his last splurge was. Here is his reply: "I went to Giorgio Baldi restaurant [in Santa Monica]. When I was a broke student and a very poor actor, I made a deal with myself that when I started to make money, I would spend it on meals so I didn't have to just eat ramen, potatoes and Kraft mac and cheese."

Real life in the apartheid state of Israel

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/07/photo-of-the-day-near-jerusalem-central-bus-station/

What is the Official Poverty Rate?

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day ago
The notion of a “poverty rate” is pretty simple: come up with a definition of “poverty,” determine a quantitative measure that corresponds to that definition, and then count up the number of people who are in “poverty” under that measure. Being in poverty is of course a subjective determination which can be defined in many different ways. This post focuses on the “poverty rate” as defined by the Census Bureau of the US government. The official US poverty rate is the focus on much informed public discussion. For instance, the New York Times referred to the “poverty rate” 248 times o... more »

When Corruption Trumps Economics

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago
Going forward, Stephen Harper's strategy appears to be ride out the scandals and crow about the economy. If he had any sense of history -- even recent history -- the prime minister might re-evaluate that strategy. He would only have to revisit Paul Martin's tenure as prime minister. Michael Harris writes: If anyone saved Canada from going into the abyss of Mulroney-era deficits, it was the former finance minister in Jean Chretien’s government. As Preston Manning observed, Canada dodged a bullet in the financial meltdown of 2008 precisely because Martin got the deficit under contr... more »

Cold weather: comments welcome

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 1 day ago
In previous days, we in Central Europe have experienced near-freezing (0 °C, 32 °F) temperatures with a very small amount of snow. Things improved today: we enjoyed an almost sunny day with temperatures reaching almost 10 °C, 50 °F. Slightly more than 1/2 of the TRF readers are located in the U.S. (which I still consider the leader of the civilization, greetings). North America has suffered a weather that is almost a mirror image of what we have in Europe. *The purple color feels chilly; it is near 0 °F.* One may perhaps blame this asymmetric fate on the counterclockwise winds in ... more »

My Top 10 Bookish Resolutions

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
[image: Book Resolutions, Reading Resolutions] I love New Years Resolutions. I know most resolutions are forgotten about by part of the way through the year, but I love the opportunity to sit and evaluate what I want out of the year. Every year I post a list of my resolutions, but usually under each resolution is 5 or 10 sub-resolutions that I don't post. Since the link-up for the Broke and the Bookish is bookish resolutions, here are my book sub-resolutions. 1. Read the books I have purchased and haven't gotten around to yet. I have copies of The Elite and Crown of Midnight sittin... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Are the Saints Destined for Redemption? ~John Hendrix, Who Dat Dish*

Mohawk Nation News 'Free Loaders'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
FREE LOADERS Posted on January 7, 2014  Mohawk Nation News MNN. JAN. 6, 2014. Prime Minister Harper, the CEO of the Corporation of Canada, is setting up full-time war just like the US. These spongers have never worked. They only want to live off the backs of others. They want to keep stealing, selling our possessions and then pocketing the money.     Canada has lost business in

Harry Potter and the Questionable Metaphors: Sino-Chinese Addition

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 1 day ago
People may have wondered why spend so much time thinking about what pop culture says about international relations. They have have pondered whether dedicating entire class sessions to Harry Potter and the International Relations of Ethnic Conflict might be misguided. I can now officially and completely say to such un-named people: feh! Feh, I say! Continue reading

Why I hate JetBlue just now

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
I was supposed to be on my way to St John's today, but then this happened.

With Fighting Still Going On In Anbar Province Iraq’s Premier Maliki Continues To Issue Arrest Warrants For Protest Leaders

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
The fighting in Anbar has not stopped Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from going after the leaders of the country’s protest movement. One of the original causes of the conflict in the governorate was the arrest of Iraqi Islamic Party Parliamentarian Ahmed Alwani who was known for giving inflammatory speeches about Shiites at the Ramadi sit-in square. Now Baghdad has warrants out for Sheikh Ali Hatem Sulaiman and Sheikh Mohammed Taha Hamdun both prominent members of the demonstrations. (*Radio Nawa*) On December 28, a story ran in the Iraqi press that there were orders to detain Sh... more »

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: The year of Salon!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013* *Part 2—Joining a decades-old culture:* For us, the dumbnification of Salon was the most striking media event of the past year. Salon was created in the 1990s as a magazine which was politically left-of-center and intellectually brighter than average. In the dumbnification we honor today, Salon has joined a deepening, decades-old culture—a culture in which liberals and progressives have played active *and* passive roles. Our political discourse has been very dumb for a good long many years. As a sampler, let’s consider a few of the themes we have explore... more »

Quantitative Research of 2013 that Reflects Reality, Part II

John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 1 day ago
The inherent flaws of attaching stakes to value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness were obvious from the beginning. Even if a statistical model magically found a way to control for poverty, race, and other factors, there was no guarantee that systems would adopt the model that was most fair. Even if an algorithm was devised that was reliable for all types of schools across the country, there was no reason to believe, in this teacher-bashing environment, that if would be used in a valid manner. Above all, it invited more testing, perhaps tripling or quadrupling of subjects wher... more »

An odd double standard

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago
Imagine walking into a German restaurant in London and finding a portrait of Adolf Hitler on the wall; very, very unlikely. Imagine walking into a Russian Restaurant in London and finding a portrait of Josef Stalin on the wall; equally unlikely. However walk into London's Baozi Inn in Newport Street, part of London's Chinatown, and there's a picture of Chairman Mao on the wall. Hitler's Nazi regime is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of around 12 million people, Stalin's Soviet Russia for the deaths of around 9 million people but Mao's Communist regime in China fo... more »

8 Jan - Blogs I'm Following II

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Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova 1994...Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova 1994D (SN1994D) in galaxy NGC 4526 (SN 1994D is the bright spot on the lower left) 한국어: 허블 우주 망원경이 찍은 NGC 5426은하에 있는 초신성 SN1994D의 이미지 (이미지 하단 왼쪽에 있는 밝은 점이 SN 1994D) Русский: Снимок телескопа «Хаббл» сверхновой SN 1994D в галактике NGC 4526 (SN 1994D - яркая точка внизу слева) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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MAIZ ORIGINS ; MIGRATIONS HISTORY CHANNEL SEGMENT

Roberto RodriguezatDr Cintli - 5 minutes ago
MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS: I got interviewed for a program below by the History Channel. It will be airing Saturday January 18th at 9PM EST/8PM CST on the H2 network. They did not give me a script about the rest of the program. They asked me about Aztlan... but O told them that was not my primary research, rather, maiz. Think they were more interested in Aztlan, but I did get to speak about the origins of maiz and its spread throughout the continent. See what happens. More info below. http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed.

The 20 Democratic House Incumbents Leading Their Party To Ruin In November

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 10 minutes ago
Gallup was out with some interesting findings this morning: Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents. Look at that chart! It should be sending waves of fear through the hearts of the worthless careerists who run the Beltway establishments of the two corrupt political parties. Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identific... more »

BLOGGER - How to change template

Peteratthe original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 26 minutes ago
First, log into www.blogger.com (Dashboard) and click the down arrow near the orange pencil icon as shown in the screenshot below: [image: Dashboard down arrow] Dashboard > Template Then at the top right hand corner you will see a tab BACKUP/RESTORE and you will see a pop-up: [image: Backup or restore template popup] First, it is wise to first backup your template before you make any changes, so click DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE then save the xml file in your computer where you can easily find it again. Now assuming you have the new template in xml format save in your computer, click... more »

inBloom and Data Mining: A Common Core Cousin

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 49 minutes ago
This week I posted this piece about a January 9, 2014, webinar promoting data mining– a webinar with Gates money all over it. (Here is a briefer follow-up to the post.) The initial post had a record number of comments, some of which were made by an inBloom representative. The comments prompted me to further investigate some of the […]

Musical Interlude: 2002, “We Meet Again”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
2002, “We Meet Again” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OmsxDef9c

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
“How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310 million light years distant, a more precise determination could be coupled with its known recession speed to help humanity better calibrate the expansion rate of the entire visible universe. Toward this goal, several images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to help identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars. Since NGC 4921 is a member of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, refining its distance would also allow a better distance determination to one of the large... more »

"Can You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago

Blowing The Sandy Hook Fraud To Bits: John Friend's Realist Report With Guest Jim Fetzer Discuss The Fraudulence Of Sandy Hook!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I have long said that the Sandy Hook "massacre" of December 14th, 2012 was a complete HOAX! The fact is, readers, that Sandy Hook was a criminal government controlled operation for the sole purpose of creating the propaganda of fear and grievance to try to convince the American people to give up their second amendment right to bear arms to resist their own tyrannical government.... It is a fact that NOBODY died in the Sandy Hook operation and that the supposed "shooter" himself, Adam Lanza, probably never existed at all! For this article, I want to present the following article tha... more »

the baby box

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours ago

Professor Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism - Meister Eckhart

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 3 hours ago
*Wikipedia:* Bernard McGinn (born 1937) is a theologian, historian, and scholar of spirituality, affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he is Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and the Committees on Medieval Studies and on General Studies. Video Title: Meister Eckhart. Source: YouTube channel Eric Gilmour. Date Published: May 21, 2013. Description: Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism. Reading the Mystics

Police State USA - an overview of 2013 in the police state and additional items of note to consider - apart from the NSA revelations ( still unfolding ) , consider the many other events and actions that ave occurred - so many things have come to pass , they probably are a blur in the minds of many !

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-04/nsa-responds-bernie-sanders-whether-it-spies-congress ( Guess that's pretty clear.... ) - Bernie Sanders - George Orwell - None - SPY inShare Yesterday, in what we characterized as an episode of a "*real life magic-mushroom, banana dictatorship envisioned by George Orwell*" gone full retard, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders asked the NSA point blank whether it has "spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?" Today, via the Bezos Post, we got the answer: "*Members ... more »

Hats off to Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken* If you're thinking that the Mssrs Maddux, Glavine, and Thomas fall outside DWT's normal purview, I think I can explain why it seems to me important to celebrate them by means of a simple analogy to our more familiar political and journalistic spheres. Take "Mo" Dowd -- please! (Ha ha!) If you looked at the NYT e-roundup this morning, you saw this: The sensible response would have been to mutter, "Oh, the horror!," and move quickly on. But let's say that instead you allowed yourself to wonder whether our Ms. Mo based this brilliant observation on actually having watche... more »

The 9/11 Commission Concluded that "Al-Qa'ida Appears to Have Relied on a Core Group of Financial Facilitators Who Raised Money from a Variety of Donors Primarily in the Gulf Countries and Particularly in Saudi Arabia"

U.S. Admits Review of Drone Strike on Reported Yemen Wedding Party Natasha Lennard Footage passed on to a human rights group shows graphic aftermath of a strike that enraged Yemenis VIDEO The Saudi plan looks doomed from the start, though it could get a lot more Syrians killed before it fails. Yazid Sayegh of the Carnegie Middle East Centre highlights succinctly the risks involved in the

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
San Rafael, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Chet Raymo, “Criteria For Truth”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*“Criteria For Truth”* by Chet Raymo “The physicists and cosmologists tell us that the universe consists of 5% ordinary matter (the kind of stuff your chair is made of), 27% dark matter (massy stuff of a yet undetermined nature), and 68% dark energy (also yet unidentified). Dark matter and dark energy are hypothesized to exist because of their apparent effects on luminous objects \- stars and galaxies. Which is to say, most of what is is invisible. It's sort of like hypothesizing the existence of poltergeists to account for moving candlesticks. With a difference. Weakly interactin... more »

Alternative news and views - January 8 , 2013 - An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday - don't recall hearing about this one on the national news ..... Border patrolman gives refreshing response at checkpoint - hope springs for a minute...........despite the non response by almost every congress critter to the revelation that the NSA spys on them just like any other American citizen - this is a big deal folks .......Ford knows when their customers break the law and where - makes one wonder does the NSA know what Ford knows , have they obtained or can they obtain Ford's GPS data...... Terminators coming closer to reality ....... 911 story crumbling , not that many sheeple give a hot darn.......

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Indiana_guardsman_stopped_for_speeding_had_48_bombs%2C_blueprints_for_a_Navy_SEAL_training_facility/31837/0/0/0/Y/M.html SOURCE: COLUMBUS DISPATCHAn Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to detonate the bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski’s civilian job is as a ground... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago

"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay* * Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"* By Daily Mail Reporter "A generous boss is selling the restaurant he has owned for 17 years to help a 19-year-old employee suffering from a brain tumor. Brittany Mathis, whose father died suddenly from a brain tumor when she was just a child, was diagnosed last month - but does not have health insurance to cover the costs of her treatment. Now Michael De Beyer, the German-born owner of Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, has offered to sell his life's wo... more »

Deep tweets

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 5 hours ago
No, I didn't click the link and watch the stupid "faux ads" and neither should you encourage this sort of pathetic click-baiting. The tweets alone tell the story. Clearly *The Lead* has ruined Jake Tapper. I've been thinking for the last couple of weeks his work has been going downhill. This just lost any respect I had left for him. What attack ads based on Bob Gates' book might look like #TheLead http://t.co/u9g6CkBoI7 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 8, 2014 Followed by this one. You probably know Sippe Cupp is the resident crackpot con on the tv somewhere. Forget what show sh... more »

Mitch McConnel: GOP's top ratfucker

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Interesting profile piece on how Mitch McConnell rose to become the top gunof GOP ratfuckery. If you wondered how he gets away with his transparent dirty tricks, this would explain it: McConnell nevertheless manipulates the press masterfully, using methods that are head-smackingly obvious and yet still elude most politicians. He knows exactly what he wants to say, repeats it with emphasis, then stops. He will not be drawn out, and has no compunction about refusing questions. He would never make Boehner’s mistake, because he won’t entertain hypotheticals. “We don’t issue a whole lot ... more »

Gilad Atzmon does le/la Quenelle

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 5 hours ago
A big thanks is being sent out to Gallier. He is keeping you and I in the know regarding the Quenelle Merci mon ami! Gallier2January 8, 2014 at 2:22 AM Hi Penny, here a nice video in English from Gilad Atzmon. Explaining things. You will like it. And I do like it. Yes, I do! *First up Gilad Atzmon does le quenelle. * *And pay attention to his line of questioning. Hmmmmm......* *Video # 2- *Brought to us, again, by Gallier gallier2January 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM Just in. You can see the popularity of our interior minister: Yes, the interior minister looks to be really ador... more »

Climate Tricks 24: Polar Vortex is Caused by Global Warming?

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 5 hours ago
The terrible cold experienced in Canada and the US this week and last week has caused death and misery for some, but also fun and laughter for others. All images below I got from facebook photos of several friends, not one I made myself. A Filipino friend in NYC posted, "Many are cold, but only a few are frozen" :-) This is lifted from the original biblical verse, "Many are called, but only a few are chosen." The "soon extinct polar bears due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW)" also have a good time. In Lake Michigan... Chicago River was 3/4 frozen as of last Monday. See ... more »

Conservative Senator wants heads to roll ...

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
Harper-appointed senator, Bob Runciman got all pen-to-paper-like today and went into a Duffy-style rant over political message carriers walking into the anointed one's private hob-knob session in Vancouver. Former Ontario solicitor general Bob Runciman is questioning why two activists who got to within an arm's-length of the prime minister this week were allowed to "walk away scot-free and

APPR on Steroids and other Cuomoisms

Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago
My quick reaction to New York Governor Cuomo’s education proposals from his “State of the State” speech today. For those outside New York State, Governor Cuomo has proclaimed himself as the “lobbyist for the students”, but reads right from the Corporate Education reform script. I address my teaching colleagues here: APPR on Steroids and other […]

Thailand: Regime Power Grab Runs into Judicial Brick Wall

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 6 hours ago
Usurping constitutional amendment that would allow prime minister to sign foreign treaties without Parliamentary approval is overturned. Regime cries "judicial coup." *January 8, 2014 *(ATN) - The now overturned amendment of article 190 of the Thai Constitution would have allowed the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to sign foreign treaties without Parliamentary approval - in a dangerous and despotic consolidation of power that was begun under her brother Thaksin Shinawatra. Bangkok's English newspaper The Nation reported in its article, "Constitutional Court rules against Artic... more »

Answering the question frozen on the lips of North Hemispherians…

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 6 hours ago
[image: image] More … - *Record cold from global warming causing 'polar vortex' debunked* – THE HOCKEY SCHTICK - *Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer refutes claims that global warming is causing record cold: ‘Polar vortices have been around forever. They have almost nothing to do with more CO2 in the atmosphere’* – CLIMATE DEPOT - *Global warming devastates America* – James Delingpole, TELEGRAPH - *‘Height of absurdity!’ Joe Bastardi blasts global warming ‘geniuses,’ their ‘delusional agenda’ [pics]* – TWITCHY - *Embarrased Global Warming Alarmist... more »

Mark Duggan inquest verdict

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 6 hours ago
Mark Duggan was unarmed, he always was unarmed. The police followed him through the streets and then shot him down. He had no gun. The gun that the police said he had on him had no fingerprints and no traces of his DNA. What was the jury thinking when they decided, 8 to 2, that despite this fact, his killing was lawful? How were they selected? Say it again and again to anyone you meet who has doubts, Mark Duggan was unarmed. Regardless of who he was, what he had done, or what he might have been going to do, on that car journey he was unarmed. With this perverse verdict the police ha... more »

The Plundering of South Sudan

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 6 hours ago
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda's Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil. *January 9, 2014* (LD) - RT's report "Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan?" gave a succinct background on the warring factions inside the new "nation" of South Sudan and the Western genesis of the conflict. The report would state: The SPLM has received support from the US and Israel throughout the duration of the civil war fought between southern rebels and Khartoum, which has historically had unfriendly relations with ... more »

Thoughts on Mark Duggan

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
Trials or inquests by jury are the most democratic means of bringing a legal process to a conclusion. Recruited from the electoral roll, jurors provide an important corrective to magistrates and judges, who might be hardened by the number of cases that come before them and/or be out of touch with the pace of modern life. Juries aren't perfect by any means. In their turn they are open to manipulation of evidence by skilled barristers, can be bamboozled by expert testimony, and are subject to judicial direction. They can also reach "perverse" conclusions by ignoring the instructions ... more »

Charles le Gai Eaton On Consumerism and The Environment

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 7 hours ago
*Source of photo.* *Wikipedia:* Charles le Gai Eaton (also known as Hasan le Gai Eaton or Hassan Abdul Hakeem; 1 January 1921 – 26 February 2010) was a British diplomat, writer and Sufist Islamic scholar. Having been passed over for military service during the Second World War, in the late 1940s and early 1950s he worked as a lecturer, teacher and newspaper editor in Egypt (at Cairo University) and Jamaica, before joining the British Diplomatic Service in 1959. As a diplomat, Eaton's postings included the Colonial Office outpost in Jamaica and the Deputy High Commission office ... more »

Maine's Tea Party Governor Paul LePage Wants To Abolish Child Labor Laws

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Politics isn't something polite people people discuss at dinner, especially not with strangers. Not since high school when the class year book referred to me as *gallant*, has anyone accused me of being polite. The first day of my Galapagos cruise a few weeks ago, we hadn't even boarded the ship yet when I ferreted out that one of my fellow passengers was not just a Republican from Chicago, but a Republican from Chicago enamored of Rahm Emanuel! I despaired that everyone on the ship was going to be a Republican. But then I met Sheron and Stephanie, a sparkling and delightful mothe... more »

Professor Parker journeys to Colby!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 7 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *A rather peculiar performance:* We’ve been curious about Christopher Parker since 2010. Parker, an associate professor at the University of Washington, burst on the scene at that time with a somewhat murky, somewhat bungled study of the tea party’s racial attitudes. The study produced substantial excitement in some liberal precincts. The bungling struck us as odd. We’ve been curious about Parker ever since. Over the weekend, C-Span aired an event at Colby College featuring Professor Parker. Colby students were in the audience, along with some people f... more »

Tax increases in Honduras, and linking aid to fair, effective tax policies

paulatPaying attention - 7 hours ago
Taxes are big news in Honduras, as the outgoing Congress pushes through a bunch of last-minute increases. The Congress is controlled by the National party, which won the November election. The increases are a way to get the unpopular deeds done before the new president takes over in two weeks. It doesn’t look much like good governance, mostly because there are apparently no studies of the impact of the increases, or whether they are the best way to raise more revenue.Taxed into poverty? I was going to write about the increases anyway, but a Guardian blog postthis week added an interest... more »

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 7 hours ago
This is an awesome article for those like me who really like the visuals. It's also very entertaining and enlightening, and there are a couple of WOWs in there too. Enjoy!!! http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/12/23/40-maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/ 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World truther December 23, 2013 2 If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some o... more »

is it time to de-legalise PROFIT?

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 8 hours ago
well, this post might to cause a stir: is it time to de-legalise PROFIT? "But, then, Mike, how are we to *make a living*?" Now, we're talking, but first what do I mean by 'profit'. In business, you have overheads (costs) and takings (how much money you make), profit is *'what's left from your takings once you've removed your overheads'*. It's real easy. Too easy, maybe. Why is that? Well, *why* are you living your life like that? There's nothing virtuous or right about making money, there's nothing moral about charging more than something's worth, there's nothing honest about ri... more »

WEDNESDAY DOUBLE FEATURE.....

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 8 hours ago
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Dine' Minds: Grassroots gather to discuss energy and business on Navajo Nation

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago
PUBLIC FORUM Diné Minds presents the Diné Bóhólníí’ áła’ a lei: Restoring Communication and Understanding within our Nation Forum When: January 17th, 2014 (9:00 AM- 5:00 PM) Where: Navajo Nation Museum Why:  To provide the public an opportunity to get their questions answered on the decisions being rendered by our council and our government representatives regarding energy policy

MARK DUGGAN MURDER AND RIOTS - INSIDE JOB

Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago
*On 22 July 2011, in Kent, General Petraeus met Brigadier Simon Wolsey, commander of the British Army's 2 (South East) Brigade. Brig Wolsey worked at the Pentagon from 2006 to 2008. Petraeus was also in the UK in March 2011. * Some people believe that the riots in England, in August 2011, were organised by the security services. The idea, according to the 'conspiracy theorists', was to discredit 'the rioters' and thus make future riots less likely. *Mark Duggan* On 4 August 2011, the police shot dead an unarmed man called Mark Duggan, in Tottenham, in London. The riots began o... more »

Leni Riefenstahl was a film-maker too

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
As this year is 'The Year of *Newsnight*' at '*Is*', I'd just like to echo Sue's concerns about last night's edition of the programme*. * Yes, that Paxo interview with far-Right Holocaust denier Alain Sohal really did simply introduce him as a 'French writer and film-maker' (as did the accompanying caption), with Jeremy Paxman merely adding that Sohal is Dieudonne's friend. Astonishingly, Jeremy Paxman didn't even ask Sohal about his own use of the quenelle at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin - a sick provocation if ever they was one. Why on earth not? If Sohal had to be chose... more »

THE BATTLE IN ATHENS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 9 hours ago

A VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 9 hours ago

Unemployment creates jobs and is good for the economy...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
*so sayeth a man who just returned from a multimillion dollar vacation.*

Christie's bridge scandal leads nowhere

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Josh joined the chorus singing a dirge for Chris Christie in the wake of emails released today showing Gov. Blowhard's top aides were involved in creating that massive traffic jam in New Jersey simply for petty political payback. Lot of internet pundits seem to think this is the death knell for Christie's 2016 hopes. I'm not seeing it. This kind of juvenile ratfuckery is exactly the sort of thing that thrills the crackpot con base. He pissed off a librul Democratic mayor and most of the base considers New Jersey just another outpost of east coast elites. If anything, it's going to ... more »

Moving Day

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Yes, boxes are being packed and unpacked at Plain Blog world headquarters today for the big move...well, figuratively at least. But in fact the big day is tomorrow. Bloomberg View is here. And they already have a page for me, here. Empty now, but by late morning tomorrow there should be something there. I'm afraid at first there won't be a dedicated rss feed, but they're actually a few weeks away from a redesign, and among other things one of the benefits will be rss feeds for the authors. I'll have all of that easy to find here once it happens. Meanwhile, you can use that bio page ... more »

"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate Degrees Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate* * Degrees **Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"* by Michael Snyder "What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor? 59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to his story, in this article you will also hear about severa... more »

The Realist Report - Sandy Hook debate

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 10 hours ago
** Michael Collins Piper backed out of the debate late last night. I received an email from him this morning when I woke up stating that he was having health issues, and would be unable to participate in the debate. ** On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Dr. Jim Fetzer*and *Michael Collins Piper*. We will be debating the alleged shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012. Calls are welcomed during the second hour. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTune... more »

Albert Woodfox's Hour in the 5th: A reportback on Albert's January 7 oral arguments

angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 10 hours ago
*MEDIA: **Lauren McGaughy, Times-Picayune* *II* *Daily Journal / Associated Press* *II* *UPI* *VIEW / DOWNLOAD:* *A3 info flyer for Jan. 7* *II* *Listen to audio from the oral arguments* *II* *Rev. Patricia Bates / NRCAT statement* *(PHOTO: A3 supporters at the Court on Jan. 7) * For those who were unable to attend, Albert's oral argument in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, defending Judge Brady's decision to overturn his conviction for a third time, is now complete (click here to listen). As expected, the proceedings were brief and rather mystifying. It was clear that ... more »

Anthem for High Stakes Testing Era (with apologies to Country Joe McDonald)

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 10 hours ago
To be sung to the tune of “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” by Country Joe and the Fish (see video below) Well come on all you teachers and tykes, Uncle Sam’s made a problem he’s tryin’ to hype, He got himself some pressure to privatize, All the schools in the nation right before our eyes, So put down your books and grab a #2, We've got a whole lot of testin’ to do. And its 1,2,3 what are we learning for? Don't ask me I don't have a say, It's high stakes testing day, And its 5,6,7 send in Melinda Gates, Well there ain’t no time to do your best, WHOOPEE we've all got more tests. W... more »

A Different Look at the Income of the 99%

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 11 hours ago
Research by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty is fundamental to debates over inequality. They have documented that a larger share of US income has been going to the top 10% -- and especially the top 1% -- of all earners. Their data is shown in the graph at the top of this post. Here is how the New York Times recently characterized their work: The top 1 percent took more than one-fifth of the income earned by Americans, one of the highest levels on record since 1913, when the government instituted an income tax. The figures underscore that even after the recession the country remain... more »

Looks Like Humpty Dumpty Is Falling Off A Bridge-- Will Chris Christie Resign?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
"They are the children of Buono voters." When Blue America endorsed Barbara Buono for governor of New Jersey last year, it wasn't because she's pretty and it wasn't because she's a Democrat. It's because she's an outstanding, principled progressive and because she was running against the corrupt transpartisan New Jersey political machine headed by one of America's worse governors ever, Chris Christie. New Jersey voters, basking in their ignorance and pigheadedness, elected Christie 1,252,100 (60.4%) to 790,245 (38.1%). Hudson County (Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City) was th... more »

How Pinteresting: An Easy Way To Keep Track Of Medicine Doses

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago
[image: Keeping Track of Medicine, Children's Medicine] I realized this morning that is has been more than year since I tested a Pinterest pin and shared the results. This idea is a simple one, when you or your child have a medication that needs to be taken daily for a set number of days, you take a black marker and mark a box for all of the doses on the side of a bottle. I had this pin in my back of my mind for a long time, but didn't have the occasion to use it until just a couple of months ago when my daughter had an ear infection. I have to say it was an absolute life saver. I d... more »

Twisted Logic: The Kafkaesque Saga Continues

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 11 hours ago
Imagine if you dunked the Obama Pretzel into a cup of your favorite winter-time comfort beverage. Not only would it get increasingly soggy, it would inevitably dissolve into a pathetic clump of dough, never to be a popular taste sensation again. That now appears to be the fate of the secrecy-obsessed president. Even with a complicit federal court actually agreeing that we the citizens have no right to see all the sorry excuses the Justice Department has dreamed up over the years to cover up for the human rights abuses perpetrated both at home and abroad, there is no longer much pub... more »

Why do you not comment

SteveatThinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
I comment way to much. I take risks with my commentary. So if you think I am sane or even suffer insanity, please comment just one damm time, it would mean so much to me.

I said the wrong thing

SteveatThinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
No you did not, you said what in your heart was true, Who can we blame when our real life romances do not even measure up to the first act of any Hollywood advance flame So far we do not have GPS to direct lonely hearts to their best possible address I do not want tech to know how I love and how other users could use that for there personal freak show. I love my wife, I love my kids and its not my first rodeo. If you want to search my files and sell my joy then I would say to the military get me a drone I have identified an Al Queda suspect and speaking as a tourist I think he is doing so... more »

Alan Dershowitz Leaves Harvard for Hasbara

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 11 hours ago
(Photo Credit: Sun Sentinel) Often times, when powerful and public figures – from government officials and politicians, community leaders, high-powered corporate CEOs, NFL coaches, and countless local TV news anchors - leave their longtime positions, they say their decision was influenced by wanting “to spend more time” with their families and loved ones. Such a stated reason is often a

What Linda Darling-Hammond said!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *Frankly, we don’t get it:* Over Christmas, we were surprised by several statements from leading “educational experts.” One such expert was Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, who guested on Morning Edition. Early on, tape was played in which she said this: GREENE (12/26/13): This is Morning Edition from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. The United States has spent a decade trying to improve the standing of its schools compared to the rest of the world. *Education researcher Linda Darling-Hammond says the result is disappointing.* DARLING-HAMMOND... more »

Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
Standards Won\’t Change Inequity: A Reader. via Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago
*Former Mayor Ray 'Baby Head''Chocolate Don''Ack Ack''Soft Hand''Mr. Goddamnit' Nagin's attorney says he is ready for trial* *RSD’s school closure process has uneven effect on students at failing schools ~Jessica Williams, The Lens* *New Mardi Gras laws would keep all ladders six feet from the curb ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Coming soon to Algiers: a herd of Masai giraffes ~Chad Calder, The Advocate* *Ian McNulty: Breakfast, and biscuits, on Banks ~New Orleans Advocate*

O’Reilly and Beck have nice things to say!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 13 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *O’Reilly heaps praise on Maddow:* Everyone is dumb on occasion, as everyone understands. Yes, it was dumb to ask for jokes about that Romney family photo. When we’re using our heads, we don’t do that. That said, we were glad to see Bill O’Reilly take a walk on the mild side last week. He spoke up for Harris-Perry: O'REILLY (1/2/14): Now Miss Perry has apologized to the Romney family, but this seems to be a never-ending saga over at MSNBC. Joining us from Washington, Miss Laura Ingraham. *So I don't think Miss Harris-Perry meant to be malicious here,*... more »

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: It spreads!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 13 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* Part 3—MSNBC too: Within our journalistic culture, it isn’t polite to notice, mention, cite or complain about the dumbnification. You’re allowed to talk about media bias. You’re even allowed to say that some statement or viewpoint is wrong. But it isn’t considered polite to talk about the spread of The Dumb, even as it worms its way into every aspect of the nation’s journalistic life. Within our spreading, democratized press corps, almost everyone is surfing The Dumb at this point. The right to engage in the dumbnification makes everyone’s life a little... more »

John Karhiio Kane 'Here We Go Again'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Here We Go Again By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News I'm sorry, but I can't resist the temptation. As we rip open a new calendar I can't help but reflect on the past year and the one that is now before us. I won't attempt to list all those who completed their time with us in this last trip around our eldest Brother, the Sun. We have had people close and intimate to us as well as

Children's Book Corner: The United States of Bubba

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago
Once upon a time, there was a mighty nation named the United States of Bubba. Bubba used to be part of a much larger country called the United States of America but, fearing government infringement on their states' rights, Bubba seceded from the union and founded its own neo-confederacy and named it Bubba. Bubba's national motto was "Fuck, Yeah! Fuck you!" and its flag consisted of a revamped Confederate flag with a giant red, white and blue finger pointed at the rest of the earth in the center. For many of the people in these new United States, this was a paradise. ... more »

THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER - first pictures just in.

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 13 hours ago
a yearning for an upbeat and positive news story amongst all the doom-laden FLOOD STORIES from my current country of residence and Solar X-class flares led me to this encouraging story: THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER. images c/o geekquinox *The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) took almost 10 years to complete, and began its first observations back in November 2013. One of the first targets the astronomers pointed it at was the young star HR4796A (pictured above), which is the central partner in a binary star system with a distant red dwarf companion.* [source GEEKQUINOX] Lovely stuff, and ... more »

VIDEO: Tribal Rebels In Ramadi

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
Videos like these show that many of the fighters in Anbar are not from the Islamic State of Iraq as the media keeps on reporting.

To BE Community

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 13 hours ago
Welcome my friends to our new website for our new Community!! We are still working on the crowdfunding page, which I will post as soon as it's ready to go! http://to-becommunity.blogspot.com/ *REAL LIFE CHANGE. REAL WORLD CHANGE. COMPLETE CHANGE.* *The BEginning:* The building of a community, unified in the creation, exploration and education of a FULLY self sustaining cooperative village. *The Road Less Traveled:* To BE the Changes we wish to see in the world, we need to change the paradigm of what obviously does not work. The Implementation of CHANGE starts from the gr... more »

Most Poguenet Song of the Century

SteveatThinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
It does not matter what war is in question. The pawns sacrifice and if they do not die in the first wave when they come home damaged the government of the time does the best to bury them. So all you gung ho wannabes should consider in reality war is hell, hell for the losers, hell for the victors and hell for all the ancillary persons . Winston Churchill was no shrinking violet but he famously said "Jaw Jaw is better than war war" Even if you can conduct a war with push button ease, listen to the Pouges and the pain that must be believed.

Dreams get smaller; but start big!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 15 hours ago
There's a series of advertisements for York University where young people fantasize about what they will achieve in the years ahead. Some of the achievements are quite spectacular and speak to an apparent self confidence that is astounding. Indeed, my grumpy initial reaction was "such arrogance - they'll be lucky to find a job of any kind if they even get a degree". But then I thought again. If university students don't dream big who will? Yes over time our dreams shrink - the slings and arrows of daily living make it clear that the adults we became won't, say, bring peace to... more »

NO US BASES ON OKINAWA

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 15 hours ago
*STATEMENT* *We oppose construction of a new US military base within Okinawa, and support the people of Okinawa in their struggle for peace, dignity, human rights and protection of the environment* We the undersigned oppose the deal made at the end of 2013 between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Governor of Okinawa Hirokazu Nakaima to deepen and extend the military colonization of Okinawa at the expense of the people and the environment. Using the lure of economic development, Mr. Abe has extracted approval from Governor Nakaima to reclaim the water off Henoko, on the northeastern... more »

JFK Was Right: The CIA Should Have Been Splintered Into A Thousand Pieces And Scattered To The Winds

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
After Kennedy took office, he was unaware that the CIA, in accord with an OK from President Eisenhower and working with the Belgians, had overseen the gruesome torture and brutal murder of the Congo's popular first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. With Lumumba already dead a month and his body dissolved in sulphuric acid, Kennedy called for him to be reintegrated into the new nation's government. The CIA-- Allen Dulles, who JFK foolishly kept on as director-- hadn't told him that they had carried out Eisenhower 's orders to have him murdered as a commie dupe. According to Stephen ... more »

Insanity Drives The Bus

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Stephen Harper he is all about strengthening the economy. Not so, writesTom Walkom. He is abandoning it: The reasons are political. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his finance minister, Jim Flaherty, now have only one goal in mind — the 2015 federal election. And they are determined to slash government spending in order to balance Ottawa’s books before then. They calculate that a fiscal surplus in 2015 will allow their party to offer voters a platter of tasty tax cuts that will win it four more years in power. As a political strategy, it has worked before. It's been all ab... more »

The Truth (but not necessarily the whole truth)

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago
Brilliant Isn’t hindsight brilliant? - as that character on the fast show might have said. I mean, just look at the Arab Spring. The way the the BBC kindergarten eulogised the antics in Tahrir Square, even after, or was that during, the sexual assault of Lara Logan. Oh how we crowed when the BBC turned out to be mistaken. Of course there’s no ‘turned out’ about it. Like all history, it’s an evolving, never-ending situation, and who are we to jump to premature conclusions. On the other hand, if you can see an imminent car crash when others are still lost in euphoria while hurtling ... more »

Still cold today!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 15 hours ago

Libya updates January 8 , 2014 - Political insecurity continues .......... Armed Groups In Libya Are Selling The Oil They Seized

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Protestors besiege Congress demanding it sack the Prime Minister *By Ahmed Elumami.* [image: Zeidan GNC] The Prime Minister at Congress when he was appointed *Tripoli, 7 January 2014*: The General National Congress was blockaded this afternoon by protestors demanding that it pass a vote withdrawing confidence in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Members were prevented leaving by the protestors – estimated at around 100 – unless they voted to sack Zeidan. The situation was chaotic. Some members who had left the building after the morning session were called back. Others were prevented from ret... more »

Cyberwarfare greater threat to US than terrorism, say security experts ......The FBI Admits Its Primary Focus Is "Not" Law Enforcement

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Cyberwarfare greater threat to US than terrorism, say security experts by Michael Pizzi @michaelwpizzi January 7, 2014 5:00PM ET Intelligence and defense officials warn of 'cyber Pearl Harbor' Topics: War Technology National Security [image: NSA] The headquarters of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland.NSA via Getty Images Cyberwarfare is the greatest threat facing the United States – outstripping even terrorism – according to defense, military, and national security leaders in a Defense News poll, a sign that hawkish warnings about an imminent “cyber Pearl Harbor” have... more »

War watch - January 4 , 2014 - Iraq sees more turmoil as the miscalculation by Prime Minister Maliki to impose a violent crackdown on protests in Ramadi has led to not just political turmoil , but also gave Al Qaeda an opening to attack both Ramadi ( and seize chunks of that city ) and capture Fallujah .....Americans finally questioning why so many have died for nothing in Iraq ? Meanwhile in Syria , the Rebels continue their fight against each other - this time in North West Syria ...... House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Seeks New House Resolution to Kill Iran Talks ...... In Afghanistan , Kafka still rules the roost as the Afghan Review Boards backs down to US pressure and agrees to hold off releasing 88 Bagram detainees against whom no credible evidence of wrongdoing has been produced by the US - key head jarring points ( The US Army has argued that they wouldn’t have been detaining them for years without charges if they weren’t “dangerous,” and has also insisted the Review Board was never meant to have the power to release anyone, but rather only could choose between prosecuting those for whom evidence exists, or lacking that to carry out “further investigations” to look for some evidence. )

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Iraq....... http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/01/06/Maliki-urges-Fallujah-tribes-to-expel-militants.html By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News Monday, 6 January 2014 The United States said on Monday it is accelerating its military sales and deliveries to Iraq to help the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government fight al-Qaeda-linked militants in the restive Anbar province. The United States is looking to provide additional shipments of Hellfire missiles as early as this spring, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in a briefing, according to Reuters. ... more »

Just what are Old Spice saying?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 17 hours ago
Two very odd Old Spice adverts...

Gerald Celente is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance. -- Wikipedia

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 19 hours ago
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/pn_B6NTybVE Celente Trends 2014: Global Economies Tanking and Gold Prices Rising TheAlexJonesChannel *Published on Jan 3, 2014* http://www.trendsresearch.com/ Stay in the know - Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones Cherchez la Verite

Savage Society And Broken Codes Of Conduct

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 19 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* Stories written from the inside, shadows and light, directions and decisions, blinking road signs and soon one finds a road most traveled, a one-way road to where destiny grips your grasping hands... Valerie starts her day with a chocolate bar and a hit off the crack pipe, nourishment for a member of an outcast community, heroin thrice daily to keep her drug sickness from kicking in, crack and meth for street courage, darkness descends on a cold city and out they come, it seems like only yesterday when Valerie was the newest hot young babe offering her soul... more »

Five HEP papers

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
The visitor number 10 million came to this blog around 11 am, Central European Time, today, from the whitehouse.gov domain. Congratulations (it was 5 am locally over there!). It's a coincidence because most of the recognizable visitors' domains seem to be academic and during the European morning, U.S. visits in general score less than 10% (over 50% when all times are included, however). I will just mention five new papers on the arXiv – two hep-ph papers and three hep-th papers. Chul Kim, Ahmad Idilbi, Thomas Mehen, and Yeo Woong Yoon discuss another interesting possible route fo... more »

Solar Update: Lights Camera Action!

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 19 hours ago
The lovely Sol is dancing a tango again. For the past week we've seen elevated levels of flares, leading up to yesterdays set of exciting set of boogie woogie disco moves. In the past 48 hours we had 3 major flares- two from spot 1944- an M 7.2 and an X 1.2, and a parting shot from 1947 of M3.2 as it rotated off the western limb. The Xflare by 1944 - which is Beta Gamma Delta- was interactive with 1946 right above it (Beta Gamma). The X Class and M7.2 were both directly Earth facing and geoeffective. 1944 has also been spouting off constant C Class flares for the past 24 hours. ... more »

WILLIAM HAGUE; SEX SCANDALS

Anonataangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Christopher Myers and William Hague, who shared a hotel bedroom. * Britain's Foreign Secretary, the government minister responsible for the security service MI6, is William Hague. *1.* *William Hague wrote a book about a gay Prime Minister called William Pitt the Younger.* "Scurrilous verses and lampoons appeared drawing attention to Pitt's relationship with Tom Steele, a young man with whom he spent a number of holidays in Brighton." Gay William Pitt *Hague and very close friend Sebastian Coe (now Lord Coe)* *2.* *William Hague's wife Ffion has written a book, The Grand Tour,... more »

candy

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 21 hours ago

A Fantastic Summative Comment on My Data Mining Post

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On January 3, 2014, I posted a piece entitled Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars. On January 5, Diane Ravitch featured the post on her blog due to the post’s active commentary on both sides of the issue, including that of an inBloom representative. It is January 7, and the comments are still live (167 comments). […]

Did You Think Ken Cuccinelli And EW Jackson Were Extreme? Wait Til You Meet Brat, A Teabagger Running Against Cantor

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Crazy Brat Steve Israel, whose Long Island district has a rare 0 PVI (equally split between Democrats and Republicans) doesn't challenge any Republican leaders. All the House GOP leaders-- every single one of them-- has immunity and in return, Israel, the worst choice as a DCCC chair in history, is the *only* incumbent in a 0 PVI district that isn't a battleground. The RNC undermines Israel's Republican opponents, the same way Israel undermines anyone who tries to run against Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, Upton, Rogers, Camp or any senior Republican Hoiuse leader. Clearly, Pelosi had lost ... more »

Climate Change Deniers are Science is real deniers

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I would put that up there with Kirk Cameroon explaining that a Banana has a zipper therefore evolution never happens. Climate change deniers are science is a fact deniers. The fact is and even if you do not believe it its still true is that if you increase the concentration of CO2 in a atmosphere it will retain more heat. No one denies the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has been rising dramatically over the last one hundred years. We can debate about the source, if you said the majority was natural you would be wrong. Remember that volcano is Iceland that shut down air tra... more »

Sunny el perrito del Presidente Barack Obama - Cute little pet

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago
Sunny, es nombre de la mascota del Presidente Barack Obama. Se trata de un hermoso cachorrito de color negro que acompaña a la familia del Presidente en la Casa Blanca. Actualmente comparte la fama con Boo. Un precioso animalito que hasta parece de peluche.

Erdogan Cleans House, Purges Police of Opponents, Gulen Loyalists

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
*Source of photo: The London Economic*. An excerpt from, *"Turkey purges police amid graft scandal"* by Fulya Ozerkan, AFP, January 7: *Turkey purged hundreds of police and launched an investigation into prosecutors Tuesday in the latest twist in a vast corruption scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.* *A government decree published at midnight announced the sacking of 350 police officers in Ankara, including chiefs of the financial crimes, anti-smuggling, cyber crime and organised crime units, media reports said.* Turkey's top judicial body, ... more »

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Cover Up: "The Levels Of Radiation At The Crippled Fukushima Site Are Through The F***ing Roof!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago
It is indeed good to be back... I have had to take a bit of additional time to allow my right arm to heal properly from the Angiogram, and to get some strength back..... I really have a lot of catching up to do, and I figure I would start off by tackling the REAL situation with the Fukushima disaster, and not the absolute bullcrap that the Jewish controlled media and our criminal Jewish controlled governments continue to spew... I came across this most interesting article today that I want to share with all of my readers right here... It comes from the "SHTFplan.com" website, at www... more »

Global terror-fighting turns out to be a bit beyond the reach of the NYPD

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*If sheer scowling determination could foil global terrorism, maybe Commissioner Ray could have led the NYPD to glory. In the real world, alas, it doesn't seem to have worked out that way.* *by Ken* It's true that at the moment I'm not feeling especially charitably disposed toward former NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who finished out his tenure as commander of Emperor-Mayor Mike's Imperial Paramilitary Guards looking like a self-glorifying buttwad. But I really don't want to be jumping ugly on him just for the sake of jumping ugly on him. So when Commissioner Ray got the idea... more »

Passive House

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
A passive house is a super insulated air impermeable house with low thermal bridging. To function it must have a heat ex-changer pictured on the left of the drawing.IMHO especially in Canada it should be the new standard build.

New trial ordered where trial judge took into account in assessing credibility that a Muslim chose to affirm and not swear

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
R v TRJ 2013 BCCA 449. As a practical matter delving into why someone swears or affirms is NEVER prudent.

Not too cold to play!!!

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Exercise of partial right to silence ought not to be held against an accused

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago
In *R. v. Wilson*, 2013 ONSC 7830 the Court held that a witness/accused who told the police only part of what happened ought not to be found less credible. The reasoning was that a partial exercise of the right to silence ought not to be held against an accused. Some might argue this encourages an accused to give police a vague story, bereft of all detail, with a more detailed concoction presented at trial. The Court holds: [16] I am satisfied that in accordance with the legal principles set out in *Palmer*, *G.L., *and *R. v. Rivera*, 2011 ONCA 225 (CanLII), 2011 ONCA 225,... more »

Dr. Denis Rancourt files application to the Supreme Court of Canada for his right to an impartial court

Denis RancourtatActivist Teacher - 1 day ago
An Ontario superior court judge had strong personal, family, emotional, and contractual financial ties to a party intervening for the plaintiff in [the] case, and also to the law firm representing the party in court, and did not disclose any of these ties. This party was also the employer of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, and funded the plaintiff’s litigation. The judge was tasked with

Cruising Under Sail

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
"Cruising Under Sail has for many years enjoyed a considerable reputation as an important work which covers every practical aspect of cruising for the beginner and expert alike. The author's unrivaled experience in long-distance cruising has commanded an enormous following of dedicated readers and his sensible, practical approach to sound seamanship has great appeal to those wishing to learn and improve the art of safe cruising. "Cruising Under Sail combines Hiscock's classic books, "Cruising Under Sail and "Voyaging Under Sail. Topics include: stability; cockpit and steering arran... more »

Why Harper loves all thing U.K.

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I have been reading about these new laws in the UK. In summary the police can arrest anyone over ten at any time for no reason. Wow!

Alan Wieder : Bill Ayers''Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident'

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 1 day ago
In his ongoing journey, and with his new memoir, 'Public Enemy,' Bill Ayers continues to bring the radical 'spark' forward. Image from Uprising Radio. By Alan Wieder | The Rag Blog | January 7, 2014 Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn will speak at "Underground Goes Overboard," a launch party for TheRagBlog.com, at 7 p.m., Friday, January 17, at the 5604 Manor Community Center in Austin.

John Yudkin on Dietary Instinct, plus examples from experiments with Wistar Rats and Orphans

George HendersonatThe High-fat Hep C Diet - 1 day ago
*Arguments for a Soda Tax are sometimes based on the specific metabolic effects of fructose, but for most people these effects are only slightly more stressful than the effects of glucose, and probably not worth worrying about too much. A more convincing argument to my mind is that sugar availability promotes overconsumption of energy, and carbohydrate energy in particular. Not to mention azo dyes and similar unappreciated toxins, which are mainly consumed associated with sugars. This allows the sugar industry to say "it's the calories" when analysing the data. But does restricting... more »

Tigres salvajes en su hábitat (parte 1)

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

Hanna Skandera’s Reforms Cause More Than ‘Discomfort’

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera recently wrote an editorial to the Albuquerque Journal stating more untruths, vague ideas, and plenty of blame against those who are questioning her initiatives. She suggests that there will be some “discomfort” during her period of reforms. I suggest that discomfort isn’t the problem; what we’re fighting against is the actual […]

The Debate: Insurgent Infighting in Syria- Broader destabilization

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*What a fortuitous find. What an excellent debate.* Eric Draitser hits all the right notes! I was literally cheering him on. And, why wouldn’t I? He is singing from the songbook I know so well..... *And the clip of that evil horrible witch Hillary Clinton?! Grrr......* *FYI: Eric Draitser runs the excellent site- Stop Imperialism* Perma linked in the sidebar at the right *“ Draitser explains how both (rebels) are part of the broader destabilization campaign orchestrated by the US and its regional clients. Additionally, he argues that the distinction between the two sides is more a ma... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

No shit, Sherlock!

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Left-wing political messages smuggled none-too-subtly into a popular BBC drama programme? Could that really be true? (Please see the title of this post!): Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has criticised the "biased" BBC after he was attacked during an episode of Sherlock. In a mocked up newspaper which flashed up on screen on Sunday night programme makers took a swipe at the “dithering, incoherent, and self-interested” Mayor and his “hair-brained” (sic) schemes. Responding to the attack, which was seemingly unrelated to the rest of the show, Mr Johnson said: “It is elementary m... more »

Summer is for quizzes: What kind of libertarian are you?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago
So on this one, you can discover (according to the quiz’s authors) what kind of libertarian you are. Apparently, I’m a “small ‘l’ libertarian.” leaning towards “agorism.” Whatever the hell that means. You Scored as *"Small L" libertarian* Small l libertarians are libertarians, usually of the minarchist variety, who do not particularly identify with the official Libertarian Party or are not active in it, or may even actively oppose it. Small l libertarians are likely to view the Libertarian Party as moving in too moderate of a direction. Small l libertarian may ten... more »

A longer (21-hour?) school day?

skrashenatSchools Matter - 1 day ago
Sent to the Telegraph (UK), Jan. 7 It is inspiring to read about Education Minister Truss' desire to lengthen the school day ("Schools should adopt Chinese-style lessons, says minister," Jan. 3). Her proposal to add an extra 30 minutes for "enrichment" and an extra hour for homework, however, fall far short of what is needed. Let's push ahead and consider an even longer day. A study published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1991 concluded that a 21-hour school day is optimal, with continuous classes and no breaks, except for two breaks for meals and one lavatory visit. Am... more »

'Newsnight': A tsunami of bias

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Arbitrary as it might be (and despite the reservations of psychologists), New Year always feels like a good time to begin a new project. As this blog focuses (mainly) on the issue of BBC bias, this is probably the time to begin a new, year-long BBC bias-monitoring project. (Well, time for me to start it anyhow. Sue has much less time on her hands!!) So all that's needed then is to select the right project. Maybe choose a prestigious BBC current affairs programme and monitor it for an entire year? Sounds reasonable to me (if a bit overfacing). But which one? Well, *Today *is... more »

H index and H University

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
A friend writes: Glen Ellison has a very neat study (ungated version) of adjusted h-index measures of citation performance that he shows have great predictive power for where people end up getting tenure (among other things). What I thought you would find more interesting is that: i) Harvard comes out first in citations to its faculty members. See table 5 page 84. ii) Table 6, page 87, has a list of the top 5 economists by decade. In the two cohorts of people with PhDs after 1996, I was struck that 5 out of 10 have Harvard PhDs (with 3 MIT, 1 Chicago, and 1 Berkeley rounding the l... more »

RU-486 Is Back, Now With Godwin's Law

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill)atDAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
Health Canada is an odd organization, isn't it? Back in November, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a commentary advocating for the approval of RU-486, the preferred medical abortion drug, unaccountably not yet sanctioned in pro-choice Canada. It explained: A manufacturer must apply to bring the drug to market in Canada. Health Canada, citing confidentiality laws, would not confirm whether it is currently studying such an application. However, [Dr. Sheila] Dunn said an application had been made within the last year. She said it may have taken time for a manufactu... more »

Councils’ “experts” among the last still drinking Al Gore’s Kool Aid

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago
Al Bore’s absurdist 2006 film also showed alarmist maps and videos of sea levels rising 20 feet by the by the year 2100 – a rise that would bury a big two-storey house under the sea. None of the UN’s IPCC reports ever supported this surreal fantasy (or his entirely made-up claim that “New Zealand may be refuge as rising sea levels displace hundred of millions of people”). Indeed the latest UN IPCC report continues to dial back its alarmism, with figures showing sea level rise exhibiting no rate of acceleration at all: rising over the last 100 years at the roughly constant rate of... more »

We're living the good life on "death bets," says Ian Welsh, and the IOUs may come due sooner than we gamblers thought

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The difference between a "death bet" and this kind is that at least with roulette you've got a shot at winning. With the death bet, you know the debt is going to fall due; you only "win" by dying before it does.* *"In its pure form, the death bet is just that, a bet that when the bill comes due, you’ll be dead. If you live a good life and die owing millions, well, what do you care?"* *-- Ian Welsh, in a new post,* "The Death Bet" *by Ken* Ian Welsh has been doing a fair amount of wide and deep looking at the way societies fit together, and I haven't known quite how to chronicle th... more »
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The remarkable problem of basic test scores!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 23 minutes ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014* *Is San Diego the best:* Is San Diego the nation’s best urban school system? We have no opinion about that. We don’t know if there is one single best urban district. Diane Ravitch says San Diego is best; she may be right, of course. On Tuesday, she started a post on the subject like this: RAVITCH (1/7/14): *Something magical is happening in San Diego.* It is a good school district. Teachers and administrators and the school board are working towards common goals. *San Diego, in my view, is the best urban district in the nation.* *I say this not based on... more »

Audio: Deal making behind purchse of BHP Navajo Mine

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 24 minutes ago
Deal making behind purchase of BHP Navajo Mine -This audio is in Navajo and English, but we can translate to English if we get enough requests. PLEASE share with your parents, grandparents, friends, and neighbors.- This audio is a report by Shiprock's Council Delegate, Russell Begaye on the purchase of BHP Navajo Mine. It is an enlightening and totally incredible report on the

Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III

John Thompsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 37 minutes ago
This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo’s “The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013.” The preceding posts, here and here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after value-added systems were implemented. The preceding […]

What is the White Man March?

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 59 minutes ago
Kyle Hunt, host of *The Blitzkrieg Broadcast* on *Renegade Broadcasting*, is one of the leading organizers of the *White Man March* scheduled for March 15th, 2014. What follows is a transcript of the questions I asked Kyle for an article about the White Man March I am currently writing for *American Free Press*, followed by his responses. *JF:* What is the White Man March? What is the purpose and ultimate goal of the march? *KH:* The White Man March is scheduled for March 15th, 2014, and will involve coordinated pro-White activity around the world. The purpose is to spread informat... more »

Game On! Gaming Party Trailer Utah Giveaway

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
It's a New Year and that means everyone has a birthday this year! What is a better way to celebrate then to spend time playing your favorite video game with your family and friends? Bargains with Brittanie and Trust Me, I'm a Mom are teaming up with some fantastic bloggers and Game On! to offer our Utah Readers a spectacular giveaway! Game On! is a company that provides a mobile video game party trailer dedicated to bringing the finest video game party right to your front door or where your next party is located. The gaming trailer provides five internal 55″ HD TVs where gamers can... more »

On Corporate Tax Reform

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 hour ago
An article out of the Richmond Fed offers a nice overview of the issues.

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: Scandal!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 hour ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014* *Interlude—Dumbnification is us:* In modern journalistic culture, you *are*allowed to talk about a journalist’s alleged “bias.” You *aren’t* encouraged to think about his or her level of dumbnification. Such assessments are considered rude, beyond the pale. In our view, this constitutes a major flaw in modern press corps culture. It’s hard to see how dumb our press culture is, especially when the topic is kept out of sight, out of bounds. And so it continues: The inability to report even the simplest types of statistics. The inability to quote or paraphr... more »

Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War. via Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 2 hours ago
Yes, I was dubious too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww&feature=youtube_gdata_player To be honest, I still am!

Watchdog of the Week: Murray Freedman Beats the BBC

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 2 hours ago
It is possible to get the BBC to apologise for a piece of bias I've had a couple of successes in the past. Today, Honest Reporting has news of another victory over the BBC's anti Israel agenda. http://honestreporting.com/watchdog-of-the-week-murray-freedman-beats-the-bbc/

Of rats and men

Capt. FoggatThe Impolitic - 2 hours ago
*Or, In Vino Veritas* By Capt. Fogg When I watched Dennis Rodman's drunken rant the other day, I was astonished, dumfounded and amazed that none of the commentary included the compelling, obvious, unavoidable observation that the man was dead drunk: smashed, stewed, tanked, wasted, three sheets to the wind and shitfaced. It was probably more obvious to the sheepish players sitting next to him who were, I'm sure, worried about any open flame in such hazardous atmosphere. If we needed any further reminder of the somewhat erratic journalistic and public tendency to forgive athle... more »

Progressive Music Classics. "Punk Prayer" by Pussy Riot

Marc McDonaldatBeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 2 hours ago
. . *By MARC McDONALD* Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics. I have to laugh when I hear bands like Green Day described as "punk." Green Day is about as "punk" as a cup of Starbucks coffee. Green Day wouldn't know real "punk" if it walked up to them and grabbed them by the balls. (Not that corporate cowards like Green Day have any balls in the first place). In any case, Russia's *Pussy Riot* has more balls than the entire U.S. corporate recording industry. Real punk has always been about challenging the system. The Sex Pistols (at least in their first incarnat... more »

IT'S JUST SMALL CHANGE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 2 hours ago

ALEC Corporations - Legislation to Cover Incompetence

2old2careatBecause I Can - 2 hours ago
PUC = Public Utilities Commission *New PUC member might hinder Boulder’s municipalization* *By Jefferson Dodge* Why did I find this info? Cause I was following this: The controversy over the appointment of Glenn Vaad, a member of the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), … ALEC, a group that has campaigned to overturn renewable energy standards around the country. ALEC’s “State Legislator of the Year” award in 2012 chair of the ALEC Task Force on Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development, Vaad received ALEC “scholarships” for traveling to the council’s c... more »

Steve, Maggie and Ronnie

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 3 hours ago
Stephen Harper has never been a big tent politician. But he has always been devoted to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Jeffrey Simpson writes: In March, 1989, with the Progressive Conservative government of prime minister Brian Mulroney safely re-elected, a young right-wing maverick wrote a long memorandum about how to create a stronger, sharper conservative movement. Stephen Harper was by then a Reformer, having abandoned the PCs, and he offered advice on how to shift the Reform Party from being a populist critic of the status quo to what he called a “modern version of the ... more »

Just Say No-- To Fast-Tracking The Corporate "Free" Trade Agenda

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Let me reiterate an old story. Bush I signed the NAFTA treaty at the end of 1992. Bush couldn't get it through Congress so he left his Wall Street/Chamber of Commerce baby in Clinton's hands and Clinton put responsibility for getting House Dems to get on board in the hands of a then little known White House thug from Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was still bragging, threateningly, at the time that he had lost a finger fighting off a Syria tank on the Golan Heights. (He was actually making lanyards at a summer camp for children of wealthy American Jews, nowhere near the Golan Heig... more »

Greatest Conspiracy

SteveatThinking Aboot - 3 hours ago
(credit) In the pantheon of conspiracy theory the winner by far is the Kennedy assassination. Some real interesting stuff here. If I was making a purely speculative movie with total poetic licence about the Kennedy assassination the plot would be as follows. *Dulles is convinced JFK will not fight in Vietnam. A syndicate is formed with Dulles, Hoover, Johnson and the Mob. The hit team is lead by GHWB and the actual trigger pulled by Liddy and Hunt. Nixon has nothing to do with it. Strange though in real life he was in Dallas that day, even more curious the reason why?* *So in my mov... more »

Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III

John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 3 hours ago
This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo's "The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013." The preceding posts, hereand here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after value-added systems were implemented. The preceding post concluded with Dan Goldhaber's and Susanna Loeb's finding that value added produced up to 68% false positives and 68% false negatives when predicting future effectiveness. In other words, value-added evaluatio... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Kickin’ It Old School ~moosedenied* *"That sensation you were feeling late Saturday night was the Quickening. Believe it." ~Grand Master Wang* *Clueless or Lying ~Library Chronicles* *Woman found dead in tent under Pontchartrain Expressway overpass after freezing night ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Rift aired out between police monitor, inspector general ~John Simmerman, N.O. Advocate* *Carnival 2014 brings more changes for suburban krewes ~Scott Satchfield, WVUE* *Residents hear Corps' coastal plan for South Louisiana ~John Guidroz / American Press* *Barges Pile Up Near ... more »

William Hauge

SteveatThinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
This guy even from across the ocean always irritated me. I do not know if he is Gay or not, it really does not matter to me. However if William is a pedophile its a different story. Aangrifan has some interesting views on the subject. The upper level of England seems to be a overflowing cesspool. And my conspiracy theory jones loves that deceased MI6 worker Gaerth Williams found locked inside his gym bag is part of the speculation. Apparently even though the bag was locked from the outside, it was determined there was no foul play. Apparently there were no fingerprints anywhere in... more »

harper is Like the Weather

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 7 hours ago
Everybody talks about him but nobody does anything about him.

Hamiltonians, not dogmas, pick the right bases, prices, and rates

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 7 hours ago
*What big-government advocates and hidden-variable cranks have in common* This blog post will combine diverse topics – including the philosophy of science, economics, general quantum physics, quantum field theory, and string theory. It will try to answer the following question: What is the most widespread general error that prevents people from acquiring the rational and/or correct understanding of problems? My answer is that a vast majority of people constrain themselves by dogmas, assumptions, group think, and stereotypes – while they should try hard to impartially look for the an... more »

Early Taipei Mayor Election Prognosticatin'

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 9 hours ago
*Thinkin'....* The Taipei Times ran a short piece on Sean Lien, the son of Lien Chan, the former Presidential candidate of the KMT and Honorary Chairman, etc, who is one of Taiwan's wealthiest human beings. The piece hinted at a couple of important issues that a longtime politics watcher in Taipei explained to me over dinner this week. For the first time in a while a victory for the pro-Taiwan side in Taipei may be within reach. The article observes: Recent opinion polls have suggested that *Sean Lien is the favorite to win the Taipei mayoral race, while showing that support for Ko... more »

HOT ARGENTINIAN SEX

Anonataangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Fanny.* Fanny Foxe (Annabelle Battistella) was an Argentinian stripper who became the mistress of Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills. Mills was a contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972. In October 1974, Fanny and Wilbur were taking a drive in Washington at around 2 am when they were stopped by the police. Fanne attempted to flee the scene. Wilbur was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974. *Maria Belén Chapur and Mark Sanford* Maria Belén Chapur is an Argentine journalist who had an affair with South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. For six days in... more »

Stalker's Guide To... another new Mike Philbin novel?

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 10 hours ago
STALKER'S GUIDE TO... is a potentially massive novel that's been playing in the back of my mind for 'a few years' now. *SGT... started out as an idea for a Video Game, but I didn't 'go through with it' in any constructive sense, and it's just been there, in the background. I've explored certain aspects of this story, this interventionist world, in recent novels Bukkakeworld (2008) and Tandem (2013) for example, but that's all they are; snippets of, referential to, jarring visuals from; nothing more than. With my second Free Planet novel #2 LIBERATOR now in its first-draft (spell... more »

"[T]he White House tells us that ObamaCare is a worthy program even though those who are supposed to be helped by it aren’t because of large deductibles, copays, and Medicaid estate recovery. The cost of this non-help is a doubling of the policy premiums on those insured Americans who did not need ObamaCare and the reclassification by employers of workers’ jobs from full-time to part-time in order to avoid medical insurance costs. All it took was campaign contributions from the insurance industry to turn a policy that hurts most and helps none into a worthy program. Worthy, of course, for the insurance companies." [excerpt]

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago
------------------------------ *The Case of the Missing Recovery — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ January 3, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *The Case of the Missing Recovery* Paul Craig Roberts Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago. It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those... more »

Look at what lane closures in New Jersey have just wrought

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago
Read this very, very closely. New Jersey governor Chris Christie was ensnared in a billowing political furore on Wednesday when newly released emails connected one of his top aides to a decision to block lanes on the approach to a busy bridge, causing traffic chaos, apparently in an act of revenge against a political enemy.  So what, you say. Dirty U.S. politics. Meh! Read a little more.

The Pre-Stonehenge Caucasian Man - far too photogenic? what's going on here?

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 10 hours ago
*Tourists entering English Heritage's new £27 million visitor centre at Stonehenge will quickly confront its most spectacular exhibit - a man who was born 500 years before the earliest stone monument appeared at the site. The well-preserved skeleton was discovered in an elaborate tomb in the 1860s, providing a rare example of the anatomy of Neolithic people. His face has been brought to life by Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson, using information from bone and tooth analyses. The length of the man's bones, the skeleton's weight and his age - estimated at between 25 and 40 years old... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
2002, “Remember Now” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4qjI8VVzg Perhaps their finest work, certainly my favorite... sublime.

MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS HISTORY CHANNEL SEGMENT

Roberto RodriguezatDr Cintli - 12 hours ago
MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS: I got interviewed for a program below by the History Channel. It will be airing Saturday January 18th at 9PM EST/8PM CST on the H2 network. They did not give me a script about the rest of the program. They asked me about Aztlan... but O told them that was not my primary research, rather, maiz. Think they were more interested in Aztlan, but I did get to speak about the origins of maiz and its spread throughout the continent. See what happens. More info below. http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed.

The 20 Democratic House Incumbents Leading Their Party To Ruin In November

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Gallup was out with some interesting findings this morning: Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents. Look at that chart! It should be sending waves of fear through the hearts of the worthless careerists who run the Beltway establishments of the two corrupt political parties. Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identific... more »

BLOGGER - How to change template

First, log into www.blogger.com (Dashboard) and click the down arrow near the orange pencil icon as shown in the screenshot below: [image: Dashboard down arrow] Dashboard > Template Then at the top right hand corner you will see a tab BACKUP/RESTORE and you will see a pop-up: [image: Backup or restore template popup] First, it is wise to first backup your template before you make any changes, so click DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE then save the xml file in your computer where you can easily find it again. Now assuming you have the new template in xml format save in your computer, click... more »

inBloom and Data Mining: A Common Core Cousin

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
This week I posted this piece about a January 9, 2014, webinar promoting data mining– a webinar with Gates money all over it. (Here is a briefer follow-up to the post.) The initial post had a record number of comments, some of which were made by an inBloom representative. The comments prompted me to further investigate some of the […]

Musical Interlude: 2002, “We Meet Again”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
2002, “We Meet Again” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OmsxDef9c

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310 million light years distant, a more precise determination could be coupled with its known recession speed to help humanity better calibrate the expansion rate of the entire visible universe. Toward this goal, several images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to help identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars. Since NGC 4921 is a member of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, refining its distance would also allow a better distance determination to one of the large... more »

"Can You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago

Blowing The Sandy Hook Fraud To Bits: John Friend's Realist Report With Guest Jim Fetzer Discuss The Fraudulence Of Sandy Hook!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 14 hours ago
I have long said that the Sandy Hook "massacre" of December 14th, 2012 was a complete HOAX! The fact is, readers, that Sandy Hook was a criminal government controlled operation for the sole purpose of creating the propaganda of fear and grievance to try to convince the American people to give up their second amendment right to bear arms to resist their own tyrannical government.... It is a fact that NOBODY died in the Sandy Hook operation and that the supposed "shooter" himself, Adam Lanza, probably never existed at all! For this article, I want to present the following article tha... more »

the baby box

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 14 hours ago

Professor Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism - Meister Eckhart

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 15 hours ago
*Wikipedia:* Bernard McGinn (born 1937) is a theologian, historian, and scholar of spirituality, affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he is Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and the Committees on Medieval Studies and on General Studies. Video Title: Meister Eckhart. Source: YouTube channel Eric Gilmour. Date Published: May 21, 2013. Description: Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism. Reading the Mystics

Police State USA - an overview of 2013 in the police state and additional items of note to consider - apart from the NSA revelations ( still unfolding ) , consider the many other events and actions that ave occurred - so many things have come to pass , they probably are a blur in the minds of many !

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-04/nsa-responds-bernie-sanders-whether-it-spies-congress ( Guess that's pretty clear.... ) - Bernie Sanders - George Orwell - None - SPY inShare Yesterday, in what we characterized as an episode of a "*real life magic-mushroom, banana dictatorship envisioned by George Orwell*" gone full retard, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders asked the NSA point blank whether it has "spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?" Today, via the Bezos Post, we got the answer: "*Members ... more »

Hats off to Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*by Ken* If you're thinking that the Mssrs Maddux, Glavine, and Thomas fall outside DWT's normal purview, I think I can explain why it seems to me important to celebrate them by means of a simple analogy to our more familiar political and journalistic spheres. Take "Mo" Dowd -- please! (Ha ha!) If you looked at the NYT e-roundup this morning, you saw this: The sensible response would have been to mutter, "Oh, the horror!," and move quickly on. But let's say that instead you allowed yourself to wonder whether our Ms. Mo based this brilliant observation on actually having watche... more »

The 9/11 Commission Concluded that "Al-Qa'ida Appears to Have Relied on a Core Group of Financial Facilitators Who Raised Money from a Variety of Donors Primarily in the Gulf Countries and Particularly in Saudi Arabia"

U.S. Admits Review of Drone Strike on Reported Yemen Wedding Party Natasha Lennard Footage passed on to a human rights group shows graphic aftermath of a strike that enraged Yemenis VIDEO The Saudi plan looks doomed from the start, though it could get a lot more Syrians killed before it fails. Yazid Sayegh of the Carnegie Middle East Centre highlights succinctly the risks involved in the

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
San Rafael, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Chet Raymo, “Criteria For Truth”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*“Criteria For Truth”* by Chet Raymo “The physicists and cosmologists tell us that the universe consists of 5% ordinary matter (the kind of stuff your chair is made of), 27% dark matter (massy stuff of a yet undetermined nature), and 68% dark energy (also yet unidentified). Dark matter and dark energy are hypothesized to exist because of their apparent effects on luminous objects \- stars and galaxies. Which is to say, most of what is is invisible. It's sort of like hypothesizing the existence of poltergeists to account for moving candlesticks. With a difference. Weakly interactin... more »

Alternative news and views - January 8 , 2013 - An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday - don't recall hearing about this one on the national news ..... Border patrolman gives refreshing response at checkpoint - hope springs for a minute...........despite the non response by almost every congress critter to the revelation that the NSA spys on them just like any other American citizen - this is a big deal folks .......Ford knows when their customers break the law and where - makes one wonder does the NSA know what Ford knows , have they obtained or can they obtain Ford's GPS data...... Terminators coming closer to reality ....... 911 story crumbling , not that many sheeple give a hot darn.......

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Indiana_guardsman_stopped_for_speeding_had_48_bombs%2C_blueprints_for_a_Navy_SEAL_training_facility/31837/0/0/0/Y/M.html SOURCE: COLUMBUS DISPATCHAn Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to detonate the bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski’s civilian job is as a ground... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago

"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay* * Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"* By Daily Mail Reporter "A generous boss is selling the restaurant he has owned for 17 years to help a 19-year-old employee suffering from a brain tumor. Brittany Mathis, whose father died suddenly from a brain tumor when she was just a child, was diagnosed last month - but does not have health insurance to cover the costs of her treatment. Now Michael De Beyer, the German-born owner of Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, has offered to sell his life's wo... more »

Deep tweets

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 17 hours ago
No, I didn't click the link and watch the stupid "faux ads" and neither should you encourage this sort of pathetic click-baiting. The tweets alone tell the story. Clearly *The Lead* has ruined Jake Tapper. I've been thinking for the last couple of weeks his work has been going downhill. This just lost any respect I had left for him. What attack ads based on Bob Gates' book might look like #TheLead http://t.co/u9g6CkBoI7 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 8, 2014 Followed by this one. You probably know Sippe Cupp is the resident crackpot con on the tv somewhere. Forget what show sh... more »

Mitch McConnel: GOP's top ratfucker

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 17 hours ago
Interesting profile piece on how Mitch McConnell rose to become the top gunof GOP ratfuckery. If you wondered how he gets away with his transparent dirty tricks, this would explain it: McConnell nevertheless manipulates the press masterfully, using methods that are head-smackingly obvious and yet still elude most politicians. He knows exactly what he wants to say, repeats it with emphasis, then stops. He will not be drawn out, and has no compunction about refusing questions. He would never make Boehner’s mistake, because he won’t entertain hypotheticals. “We don’t issue a whole lot ... more »

Gilad Atzmon does le/la Quenelle

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 18 hours ago
A big thanks is being sent out to Gallier. He is keeping you and I in the know regarding the Quenelle Merci mon ami! Gallier2January 8, 2014 at 2:22 AM Hi Penny, here a nice video in English from Gilad Atzmon. Explaining things. You will like it. And I do like it. Yes, I do! *First up Gilad Atzmon does la quenelle. * *And pay attention to his line of questioning. Hmmmmm......* *Updated: Longer version of the adoring crowds greeting the interior minister* gallier2January 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM Hi Penny, here a bit longer version of the second video http://joelecorbeau.com/... more »

Climate Tricks 24: Polar Vortex is Caused by Global Warming?

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 18 hours ago
The terrible cold experienced in Canada and the US this week and last week has caused death and misery for some, but also fun and laughter for others. All images below I got from facebook photos of several friends, not one I made myself. A Filipino friend in NYC posted, "Many are cold, but only a few are frozen" :-) This is lifted from the original biblical verse, "Many are called, but only a few are chosen." The "soon extinct polar bears due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW)" also have a good time. In Lake Michigan... Chicago River was 3/4 frozen as of last Monday. See ... more »

Conservative Senator wants heads to roll ...

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 18 hours ago
Harper-appointed senator, Bob Runciman got all pen-to-paper-like today and went into a Duffy-style rant over political message carriers walking into the anointed one's private hob-knob session in Vancouver. Former Ontario solicitor general Bob Runciman is questioning why two activists who got to within an arm's-length of the prime minister this week were allowed to "walk away scot-free and

APPR on Steroids and other Cuomoisms

Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
My quick reaction to New York Governor Cuomo’s education proposals from his “State of the State” speech today. For those outside New York State, Governor Cuomo has proclaimed himself as the “lobbyist for the students”, but reads right from the Corporate Education reform script. I address my teaching colleagues here: APPR on Steroids and other […]

Thailand: Regime Power Grab Runs into Judicial Brick Wall

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 18 hours ago
Usurping constitutional amendment that would allow prime minister to sign foreign treaties without Parliamentary approval is overturned. Regime cries "judicial coup." *January 8, 2014 *(ATN) - The now overturned amendment of article 190 of the Thai Constitution would have allowed the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to sign foreign treaties without Parliamentary approval - in a dangerous and despotic consolidation of power that was begun under her brother Thaksin Shinawatra. Bangkok's English newspaper The Nation reported in its article, "Constitutional Court rules against Artic... more »

Answering the question frozen on the lips of North Hemispherians…

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 18 hours ago
[image: image] More … - *Record cold from global warming causing 'polar vortex' debunked* – THE HOCKEY SCHTICK - *Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer refutes claims that global warming is causing record cold: ‘Polar vortices have been around forever. They have almost nothing to do with more CO2 in the atmosphere’* – CLIMATE DEPOT - *Global warming devastates America* – James Delingpole, TELEGRAPH - *‘Height of absurdity!’ Joe Bastardi blasts global warming ‘geniuses,’ their ‘delusional agenda’ [pics]* – TWITCHY - *Embarrased Global Warming Alarmist... more »

Mark Duggan inquest verdict

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 19 hours ago
Mark Duggan was unarmed, he always was unarmed. The police followed him through the streets and then shot him down. He had no gun. The gun that the police said he had on him had no fingerprints and no traces of his DNA. What was the jury thinking when they decided, 8 to 2, that despite this fact, his killing was lawful? How were they selected? Say it again and again to anyone you meet who has doubts, Mark Duggan was unarmed. Regardless of who he was, what he had done, or what he might have been going to do, on that car journey he was unarmed. With this perverse verdict the police ha... more »

The Plundering of South Sudan

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 19 hours ago
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda's Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil. *January 9, 2014* (LD) - RT's report "Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan?" gave a succinct background on the warring factions inside the new "nation" of South Sudan and the Western genesis of the conflict. The report would state: The SPLM has received support from the US and Israel throughout the duration of the civil war fought between southern rebels and Khartoum, which has historically had unfriendly relations with ... more »

Thoughts on Mark Duggan

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 19 hours ago
Trials or inquests by jury are the most democratic means of bringing a legal process to a conclusion. Recruited from the electoral roll, jurors provide an important corrective to magistrates and judges, who might be hardened by the number of cases that come before them and/or be out of touch with the pace of modern life. Juries aren't perfect by any means. In their turn they are open to manipulation of evidence by skilled barristers, can be bamboozled by expert testimony, and are subject to judicial direction. They can also reach "perverse" conclusions by ignoring the instructions ... more »

Charles le Gai Eaton On Consumerism and The Environment

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 19 hours ago
*Source of photo.* *Wikipedia:* Charles le Gai Eaton (also known as Hasan le Gai Eaton or Hassan Abdul Hakeem; 1 January 1921 – 26 February 2010) was a British diplomat, writer and Sufist Islamic scholar. Having been passed over for military service during the Second World War, in the late 1940s and early 1950s he worked as a lecturer, teacher and newspaper editor in Egypt (at Cairo University) and Jamaica, before joining the British Diplomatic Service in 1959. As a diplomat, Eaton's postings included the Colonial Office outpost in Jamaica and the Deputy High Commission office ... more »

Maine's Tea Party Governor Paul LePage Wants To Abolish Child Labor Laws

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Politics isn't something polite people people discuss at dinner, especially not with strangers. Not since high school when the class year book referred to me as *gallant*, has anyone accused me of being polite. The first day of my Galapagos cruise a few weeks ago, we hadn't even boarded the ship yet when I ferreted out that one of my fellow passengers was not just a Republican from Chicago, but a Republican from Chicago enamored of Rahm Emanuel! I despaired that everyone on the ship was going to be a Republican. But then I met Sheron and Stephanie, a sparkling and delightful mothe... more »

Professor Parker journeys to Colby!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 19 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *A rather peculiar performance:* We’ve been curious about Christopher Parker since 2010. Parker, an associate professor at the University of Washington, burst on the scene at that time with a somewhat murky, somewhat bungled study of the tea party’s racial attitudes. The study produced substantial excitement in some liberal precincts. The bungling struck us as odd. We’ve been curious about Parker ever since. Over the weekend, C-Span aired an event at Colby College featuring Professor Parker. Colby students were in the audience, along with some people f... more »

Tax increases in Honduras, and linking aid to fair, effective tax policies

paulatPaying attention - 20 hours ago
Taxes are big news in Honduras, as the outgoing Congress pushes through a bunch of last-minute increases. The Congress is controlled by the National party, which won the November election. The increases are a way to get the unpopular deeds done before the new president takes over in two weeks. It doesn’t look much like good governance, mostly because there are apparently no studies of the impact of the increases, or whether they are the best way to raise more revenue.Taxed into poverty? I was going to write about the increases anyway, but a Guardian blog postthis week added an interest... more »

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 20 hours ago
This is an awesome article for those like me who really like the visuals. It's also very entertaining and enlightening, and there are a couple of WOWs in there too. Enjoy!!! http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/12/23/40-maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/ 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World truther December 23, 2013 2 If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some o... more »

is it time to de-legalise PROFIT?

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 20 hours ago
well, this post might to cause a stir: is it time to de-legalise PROFIT? "But, then, Mike, how are we to *make a living*?" Now, we're talking, but first what do I mean by 'profit'. In business, you have overheads (costs) and takings (how much money you make), profit is *'what's left from your takings once you've removed your overheads'*. It's real easy. Too easy, maybe. Why is that? Well, *why* are you living your life like that? There's nothing virtuous or right about making money, there's nothing moral about charging more than something's worth, there's nothing honest about ri... more »

WEDNESDAY DOUBLE FEATURE.....

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 21 hours ago
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Dine' Minds: Grassroots gather to discuss energy and business on Navajo Nation

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
PUBLIC FORUM Diné Minds presents the Diné Bóhólníí’ áła’ a lei: Restoring Communication and Understanding within our Nation Forum When: January 17th, 2014 (9:00 AM- 5:00 PM) Where: Navajo Nation Museum Why:  To provide the public an opportunity to get their questions answered on the decisions being rendered by our council and our government representatives regarding energy policy

MARK DUGGAN MURDER AND RIOTS - INSIDE JOB

Anonataangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Mark Duggan's son, at his father's funeral.* The killing of Mark Duggan, by police in London, led to the big riots in England of 2011. Many people believe that the killing of Duggan was designed to spark the riots. The UK authorities have a long history of killing unarmed civilians. In 2009, the police in London killed an innocent man called Ian Tomlinson. Tomlinson was on his way home from work when he was struck by police officer Simon Harwood, from the notorious Territorial Support Group. The Guardian published video footage which showed Tomlinson being struck from behind b... more »

Leni Riefenstahl was a film-maker too

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
As this year is 'The Year of *Newsnight*' at '*Is*', I'd just like to echo Sue's concerns about last night's edition of the programme*. * Yes, that Paxo interview with far-Right Holocaust denier Alain Sohal really did simply introduce him as a 'French writer and film-maker' (as did the accompanying caption), with Jeremy Paxman merely adding that Sohal is Dieudonne's friend. Astonishingly, Jeremy Paxman didn't even ask Sohal about his own use of the quenelle at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin - a sick provocation if ever they was one. Why on earth not? If Sohal had to be chose... more »

THE BATTLE IN ATHENS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 21 hours ago

A VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 22 hours ago

Unemployment creates jobs and is good for the economy...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 22 hours ago
*so sayeth a man who just returned from a multimillion dollar vacation.*

Christie's bridge scandal leads nowhere

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 22 hours ago
Josh joined the chorus singing a dirge for Chris Christie in the wake of emails released today showing Gov. Blowhard's top aides were involved in creating that massive traffic jam in New Jersey simply for petty political payback. Lot of internet pundits seem to think this is the death knell for Christie's 2016 hopes. I'm not seeing it. This kind of juvenile ratfuckery is exactly the sort of thing that thrills the crackpot con base. He pissed off a librul Democratic mayor and most of the base considers New Jersey just another outpost of east coast elites. If anything, it's going to ... more »

Moving Day

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
Yes, boxes are being packed and unpacked at Plain Blog world headquarters today for the big move...well, figuratively at least. But in fact the big day is tomorrow. Bloomberg View is here. And they already have a page for me, here. Empty now, but by late morning tomorrow there should be something there. I'm afraid at first there won't be a dedicated rss feed, but they're actually a few weeks away from a redesign, and among other things one of the benefits will be rss feeds for the authors. I'll have all of that easy to find here once it happens. Meanwhile, you can use that bio page ... more »

"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate Degrees Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate* * Degrees **Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van"* by Michael Snyder "What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor? 59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to his story, in this article you will also hear about severa... more »

The Realist Report - Sandy Hook debate

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 23 hours ago
** Michael Collins Piper backed out of the debate late last night. I received an email from him this morning when I woke up stating that he was having health issues, and would be unable to participate in the debate. ** On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Dr. Jim Fetzer*and *Michael Collins Piper*. We will be debating the alleged shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012. Calls are welcomed during the second hour. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTune... more »

Anthem for High Stakes Testing Era (with apologies to Country Joe McDonald)

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 23 hours ago
To be sung to the tune of “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” by Country Joe and the Fish (see video below) Well come on all you teachers and tykes, Uncle Sam’s made a problem he’s tryin’ to hype, He got himself some pressure to privatize, All the schools in the nation right before our eyes, So put down your books and grab a #2, We've got a whole lot of testin’ to do. And its 1,2,3 what are we learning for? Don't ask me I don't have a say, It's high stakes testing day, And its 5,6,7 send in Melinda Gates, Well there ain’t no time to do your best, WHOOPEE we've all got more tests. W... more »

A Different Look at the Income of the 99%

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours ago
Research by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty is fundamental to debates over inequality. They have documented that a larger share of US income has been going to the top 10% -- and especially the top 1% -- of all earners. Their data is shown in the graph at the top of this post. Here is how the New York Times recently characterized their work: The top 1 percent took more than one-fifth of the income earned by Americans, one of the highest levels on record since 1913, when the government instituted an income tax. The figures underscore that even after the recession the country remain... more »

Looks Like Humpty Dumpty Is Falling Off A Bridge-- Will Chris Christie Resign?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
"They are the children of Buono voters." When Blue America endorsed Barbara Buono for governor of New Jersey last year, it wasn't because she's pretty and it wasn't because she's a Democrat. It's because she's an outstanding, principled progressive and because she was running against the corrupt transpartisan New Jersey political machine headed by one of America's worse governors ever, Chris Christie. New Jersey voters, basking in their ignorance and pigheadedness, elected Christie 1,252,100 (60.4%) to 790,245 (38.1%). Hudson County (Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City) was th... more »

How Pinteresting: An Easy Way To Keep Track Of Medicine Doses

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
[image: Keeping Track of Medicine, Children's Medicine] I realized this morning that is has been more than year since I tested a Pinterest pin and shared the results. This idea is a simple one, when you or your child have a medication that needs to be taken daily for a set number of days, you take a black marker and mark a box for all of the doses on the side of a bottle. I had this pin in my back of my mind for a long time, but didn't have the occasion to use it until just a couple of months ago when my daughter had an ear infection. I have to say it was an absolute life saver. I d... more »

Twisted Logic: The Kafkaesque Saga Continues

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 day ago
Imagine if you dunked the Obama Pretzel into a cup of your favorite winter-time comfort beverage. Not only would it get increasingly soggy, it would inevitably dissolve into a pathetic clump of dough, never to be a popular taste sensation again. That now appears to be the fate of the secrecy-obsessed president. Even with a complicit federal court actually agreeing that we the citizens have no right to see all the sorry excuses the Justice Department has dreamed up over the years to cover up for the human rights abuses perpetrated both at home and abroad, there is no longer much pub... more »

Why do you not comment

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I comment way to much. I take risks with my commentary. So if you think I am sane or even suffer insanity, please comment just one damm time, it would mean so much to me.

I said the wrong thing

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
No you did not, you said what in your heart was true, Who can we blame when our real life romances do not even measure up to the first act of any Hollywood advance flame So far we do not have GPS to direct lonely hearts to their best possible address I do not want tech to know how I love and how other users could use that for there personal freak show. I love my wife, I love my kids and its not my first rodeo. If you want to search my files and sell my joy then I would say to the military get me a drone I have identified an Al Queda suspect and speaking as a tourist I think he is doing so... more »

Alan Dershowitz Leaves Harvard for Hasbara

Nima ShiraziatWide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
(Photo Credit: Sun Sentinel) Often times, when powerful and public figures – from government officials and politicians, community leaders, high-powered corporate CEOs, NFL coaches, and countless local TV news anchors - leave their longtime positions, they say their decision was influenced by wanting “to spend more time” with their families and loved ones. Such a stated reason is often a

What Linda Darling-Hammond said!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *Frankly, we don’t get it:* Over Christmas, we were surprised by several statements from leading “educational experts.” One such expert was Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, who guested on Morning Edition. Early on, tape was played in which she said this: GREENE (12/26/13): This is Morning Edition from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. The United States has spent a decade trying to improve the standing of its schools compared to the rest of the world. *Education researcher Linda Darling-Hammond says the result is disappointing.* DARLING-HAMMOND... more »

Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Standards Won\’t Change Inequity: A Reader. via Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Former Mayor Ray 'Baby Head''Chocolate Don''Ack Ack''Soft Hand''Mr. Goddamnit' Nagin's attorney says he is ready for trial* *RSD’s school closure process has uneven effect on students at failing schools ~Jessica Williams, The Lens* *New Mardi Gras laws would keep all ladders six feet from the curb ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Coming soon to Algiers: a herd of Masai giraffes ~Chad Calder, The Advocate* *Ian McNulty: Breakfast, and biscuits, on Banks ~New Orleans Advocate*

O’Reilly and Beck have nice things to say!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* *O’Reilly heaps praise on Maddow:* Everyone is dumb on occasion, as everyone understands. Yes, it was dumb to ask for jokes about that Romney family photo. When we’re using our heads, we don’t do that. That said, we were glad to see Bill O’Reilly take a walk on the mild side last week. He spoke up for Harris-Perry: O'REILLY (1/2/14): Now Miss Perry has apologized to the Romney family, but this seems to be a never-ending saga over at MSNBC. Joining us from Washington, Miss Laura Ingraham. *So I don't think Miss Harris-Perry meant to be malicious here,*... more »

DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: It spreads!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014* Part 3—MSNBC too: Within our journalistic culture, it isn’t polite to notice, mention, cite or complain about the dumbnification. You’re allowed to talk about media bias. You’re even allowed to say that some statement or viewpoint is wrong. But it isn’t considered polite to talk about the spread of The Dumb, even as it worms its way into every aspect of the nation’s journalistic life. Within our spreading, democratized press corps, almost everyone is surfing The Dumb at this point. The right to engage in the dumbnification makes everyone’s life a little... more »

John Karhiio Kane 'Here We Go Again'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Here We Go Again By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News I'm sorry, but I can't resist the temptation. As we rip open a new calendar I can't help but reflect on the past year and the one that is now before us. I won't attempt to list all those who completed their time with us in this last trip around our eldest Brother, the Sun. We have had people close and intimate to us as well as

Children's Book Corner: The United States of Bubba

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
Once upon a time, there was a mighty nation named the United States of Bubba. Bubba used to be part of a much larger country called the United States of America but, fearing government infringement on their states' rights, Bubba seceded from the union and founded its own neo-confederacy and named it Bubba. Bubba's national motto was "Fuck, Yeah! Fuck you!" and its flag consisted of a revamped Confederate flag with a giant red, white and blue finger pointed at the rest of the earth in the center. For many of the people in these new United States, this was a paradise. ... more »

THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER - first pictures just in.

Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
a yearning for an upbeat and positive news story amongst all the doom-laden FLOOD STORIES from my current country of residence and Solar X-class flares led me to this encouraging story: THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER. images c/o geekquinox *The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) took almost 10 years to complete, and began its first observations back in November 2013. One of the first targets the astronomers pointed it at was the young star HR4796A (pictured above), which is the central partner in a binary star system with a distant red dwarf companion.* [source GEEKQUINOX] Lovely stuff, and ... more »

VIDEO: Tribal Rebels In Ramadi

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
Videos like these show that many of the fighters in Anbar are not from the Islamic State of Iraq as the media keeps on reporting.

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Here's Where Teens Are Going Instead Of Facebook

How Facebook deals with controversial content

Why Everything You Know About Cancer And The Environment Is Wrong

Most Credible Climate Skeptic Not So Credible After All

Kate Sheppard* is a (now former) staff reporter in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. She was previously the political reporter for Grist and a writing fellow at The American Prospect

 On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein talks with Dr. Patrick Michaels about global warming and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Michaels is Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. He taught Environmental Science for 30 years at University of Virginia. He is a past President of the American Association of State Climatologists, and former Program Chair of the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. A former contributing author to the IPCC, he is an outspoken critic of the organization’s politicization of science

Climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels on Global Warming and the IPCC 

Articles By S. Fred Singer

The Renewable Electricity Standard is a Hoax, a Fraud, and a Rip-Off 

Chris de Freitas:Emotion clouding underlying science of global warming 

Most people are surprised to hear that no one has uncovered any empirical real-world evidence that humans are causing dangerous global warming. Finding this evidence is crucial, since scientific issues are resolved by observations that support a theory or hypothesis.

No science should have to rely on one group or authority saying, "Just trust us," particularly when tens of millions of dollars of public policy decisions are on the line.

The Climate Elusion

It was surface temps before it was heat hiding in the deep oceans. It was decreasing snow before it was increasing snow. It was ice extent before it was ice volume. Etc etc. Whatever happens, there is always a new story devised/concocted to “explain” that whatever is happening is wholly compatible with AGW and especially with the “it’s worse than we thought” meme.

We have no way to tell what is scientifically plausible to think about future climates.

 

GM Crops Do Not Deliver More Nutrition

ASSESSING THE SAFETY AND NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF GENETICALLY ENGINEEREDFOODS

Obama, the Great Dis-Equalizer 

Freedom Rider: Prosecuting Black Victims

Prosecutors go to bizarre lengths to put Black victims of police gunfire in prison. A young man blinded by a cop’s bullet may spend 35 years in prison. A unarmed, mentally ill man who was shot at by police faces 25 years behind bars because the cops wounded two bystanders. Who cares? “The black misleadership class are unconcerned with the plight of the people who are targeted by the system.

On the Front Lines of Class War: Why the Fight for a Livable Wage is Everyone's Fight

 “Solidarity unionism” has energized thousands of workers in low wage industries, especially fast food. The movement has been building for more than a decade, in response to the pauperization of the U.S. working class. "There are millions of workers in this industry living in poverty, with no consistent scheduling, no job security and no respect.

 

Health Care Now

42% of Americans now identify as political independents

A record number of Americans have abandoned both parties and now identify themselves as independents. Gallup: Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008. The results are based on more than 18,000 interviews with Americans...

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    Though Christie Didn't Put It There, New Jersey Does Have A Severed Horse's Head On It's State Flag

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
    *The Daily Show* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook As a service to people who watch Fox News, which has made a great effort to block out the unfolding Chris Christie scandal, here's what happened today to their shockingly incompetent hero-- aside from this, of course: Chris Christie succeeded at one thing in his press conference today. He acted civilly. He didn't thrust a pudgy finger into any women's faces and scream at them; he had his bullying instincts in check. He announced that he was "embarrassed and humiliated" that his bridge scandal was un... more »

    The Politics of Some One?

    Charli CarpenteratDuck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
    Ever since Wikileaks hit the headlines with the release of its Collateral Murder video I’ve been thinking (and sometimes blogging) about what kind of actor it is, what kind of politics it represents, what this means for global governance. But I could never for the life of me figure out how to really tackle these Continue reading

    70 NEOCONS PETITION CONGRESS TO EFFECTIVELY ALLOW ISRAEL TO SAY WHEN THE U.S. SHOULD ATTACK IRAN

    Seventy senior Israeli-centric neoconservatives have written an open letter to Congress imploring them to do more to ensure Iran complies with the conditions of any agreement finally reached with the P5+1 over Iran’s nuclear program. While the neocons are ostensibly asking Congress to ensure compliance, it is clear that their real aim is to convince members of Congress to support the bill currently passing through the Senate which calls for tighter sanctions against Iran in the event of any waywardness on Iran’s part. The neocons are eager to see the bill get through Congress with e... more »

    On DCPS education budgets. Trying to do our jobs with nothing. @valeriestrauss @dcpublicschools

    Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
    I teach in Ward 8. A clerical error lead to the District rescinding our budget until it’s sorted out. So, as of right now, one of the neediest schools in the entire District is operating with no money. And when I mean no money, I mean nothing, nada, zilch, zippo, nothing. We paid for the […]

    Judge allowed to ask clarifying questions at trial

    James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 3 hours ago
    *Silvio v. 698743 Ontario Limited (J. DiFranco & Son Construction)*, 2014 ONCA 17: [8] Third, the appellants contend that the trial judge compromised trial fairness by improperly interfering with the defendants’ cross-examination of witnesses. They set out eight examples in their factum. [9] We do not accept this submission. In the context of an eight-day trial, the small number of interventions during the defendants’ cross-examination of witnesses were directed at clarification of a witness’ evidence, ensuring that the defendants’ counsel was reading properly f... more »

    From our A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Dept.: Do you recognize this Indian diplomat?

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
    *From washingtonpost.com -- click to enlarge* by Ken I'm not sure why I clicked through to the the "*Washington Post* e-"News Alert" that went out this afternoon at 4:12:14 PM, but I did, and I was greeted with what you see above. I sat looking at it for a brief while, then whizzed through the brief text, then sat looking at it for a longer while. Am I the only one who took it for granted that the photo was of the (female) Indian diplomat in question? Possibly at a hearing of some sort before her departure, dressed in some unusual native garb I'm not familiar with? No, as I disc... more »

    JPMorgan To Exit Foodstamp, Other Prepaid Cards Business ! How lucrative is the EBT business ? Note the following nugget - Just how lucrative JP Morgan’s EBT state contracts are is hard to say, because total national data on EBT contracts are not reported. But thanks to a combination of public-records requests and contracts that are available online, here’s what we do know: 18 of the 24 states JP Morgan handles have been contracted to pay the bank up to $560,492,596.02 since 2004.Since 2007, Florida has been contracted to pay JP Morgan $90,351,202.22. Pennsylvania’s seven-year contract totaled $112,541,823.27. New York’s seven-year contract totaled $126,394,917 ........ So with revenue streams from other sources impacted , such as mortgage creation impacted by rising interest rates , proprietary trading impacted by the Volcker rule - why is JP Morgan really walking away from this profitable line of business ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-09/jpmorgan-exit-foodstamp-other-prepaid-cards-business JPMorgan To Exit Foodstamp, Other Prepaid Cards Business [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2014 12:19 -0500 - Bloomberg News - Florida - recovery - Reuters inShare2 Mess with us, we'll mess with you. That is the message one can derive from JPMorgan's surprise announcement that it plans to "sell or wind down its business of issuing prepaid cards for corporate payrolls and government tax refunds and benefits." Which also includes the in... more »

    CONCERNING THE FACTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF PRESIDENTJOHN F. KENNEDY - By Fidel Castro - November 23rd, 1963

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 3 hours ago
    Always, when something very important has happened, national or international, we have thought it desirable to speak to the people, to express our opinions. And in every such case to express the orientation of the Government, the orientation of our Party, so that each one of us all know the attitude we should adopt in each one of these situations. It is true that we are somewhat accustomed to various types of unexpected events, important, serious events, because since the victory of the Revolution our country has had to face a series of problems, a series of situations that have prepar... more »

    "A Look to the Heavens"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
    “This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410 in striking false-colors. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and right of center, the tadpoles of IC 410. The picture is a composite of images taken through narrow band filters. The narrow band image data traces atoms in the nebula, with emission from sulfur atoms in red, hydrogen atoms in green, and oxygen in blue. *Click image for larger size.* Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars tha... more »

    Chet Raymo, “Silence And Speech”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
    *“Silence And Speech”* by Chet Raymo “The poet Jane Hirshfield was last evening's guest of the college. As I read her work in anticipation of the visit, I found myself thinking of Rainer Maria Rilke, and in particular of the "Duino Elegies", among my favorite poems. "Does a poem enlarge the world/ or only our idea of the world?" asks Hirshfield in one of her poems. She wrestles with the central paradox of artistic creation, a paradox that also concerned Rilke. I recall reading somewhere that the painter Wassily Kandinsky could be transfixed, enraptured, by the sight of a collar but... more »

    Gold and Silver News and Views - January 9 , 2014 - Jesse notes an " Interesting Development at the Comex " ..... Alasdair Macleod: Index trackers and their effect on gold and silver futures .... Royal Mint Runs Out of Sovereign Gold Coins on “Exceptional” Demand ..... Dave Kranzler asks " Comex Gold Inventory: Do You Really Trust The Banks ? " Bill Holter discusses Gold Manipulation 101

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
    Articles , news and views from Janaury 9 , 2014 - as we wait the now traditional Non Farm Payroll and Employment situation PM manipulations on Friday January 10 , 2014......... http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2014/01/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_9.html 09 JANUARY 2014 Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Interesting Development at the Comex I thought it was pretty interesting that 63,877 ounces of gold bullion left the registered inventory from Scotia Mocatta yesterday. That brings the deliverable category down to a new low of 416,563 ounces for this leg of th... more »

    Obamacare updates - January 9 , 2014 .....Will There Be an Obamacare Death Spiral in 2015? No ......... AP: Insurers discovering they have no record of some ObamaCare enrollees ...... Surprise: Numerous Insurers push Obamacare payment deadline to late January

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
    http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/09/ap-insurers-discovering-they-have-no-record-of-some-obamacare-enrollees/ AP: Insurers discovering they have no record of some ObamaCare enrollees POSTED AT 4:41 PM ON JANUARY 9, 2014 BY ALLAHPUNDIT Is this the first moderately big tremor for O-Care on the news wires this year or did I miss something earlier? It’s been so cold in most of the country, I imagine some significant number of new enrollees decided to put off their first doctor’s appointment, which means few cases so far of people discovering technical snafus that have left them in go... more »

    Deep tweets

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 4 hours ago
    I find this uniquely terrifying. No idea on the cultural reference. Kind of hoping it's West Wing and this is a bizarre declaration of candidacy. Can you tell what our favorite show is? http://t.co/t6VfIV8ajo pic.twitter.com/kEki0rPIcA — Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) January 9, 2014

    Winter Olympics in dire straits due to ongoing terror attack concerns and threats from Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov ? After the two prior attacks in Volgograd - occurring on consecutive days , we now see this news today ......Numerous Explosives Discovered Near Winter Olympics Site - further underlining the seriousness of the threats , note that the Russian media reported that Russian security forces had come across multiple unexplained deaths and explosive devices in a region near Sochi, resulting in an aggressive "anti-terrorism sweep."

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-09/numerous-explosives-discovered-near-winter-olympics-site Numerous Explosives Discovered Near Winter Olympics Site [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2014 16:46 -0500 - ABC News - national security - None - Obamacare - President Obama - Vladimir Putin - White House inShare1 Just a few short weeks away, the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympic may go off with a bang, literally, judging by the amount of "terrorist" chatter surrounding the games. Today however, it is more ... more »

    CRACKING DOWN IN THE UK

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 4 hours ago
    In the UK, the government is introducing new laws to protect US military bases in Britain - a person could be punished just for walking a dog nearby. The government's using legislation enacted over a century ago, to move ahead without Parliament's approval.

    AIM leader who visited Iran now heads chiefs organization

    brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
    APTN: AIM leader who visited Iran now grand chief of Manitoba chiefs organization APTN National News WINNIPEG–An American Indian Movement leader who visited Iran is now the head of a Manitoba chiefs organization. Terry Nelson, an AIM National vice-chair, won by two votes on the fourth ballot during an election Thursday for the next grand chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization. http://

    Holey Corpus Christie!

    Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 4 hours ago
    Like many people with nothing better to do this afternoon, I was glued to CNN's coverage of the Chris Christie marathon news con. "I am a very sad person today," he sneered. If there is any justice, the New Jersey governor will get sadder still. His former Port Authority appointee, implicated in the deliberate snarling of George Washington Bridge traffic last fall, reportedly is cutting a deal with prosecutors for immunity in exchange for testimony. It remains to be seen whether Bridget Ann Kelly, fired over her own gleefully vindictive machinations, will remain vindictive enough ... more »

    Freedom House Photo/Art contest

    Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
    Call for Photos and Art Today, Freedom House will begin accepting submissions for its third annual photo and art contest, Images of Repression and Freedom. We invite professional and amateur photographers and artists to submit photos and other forms of art (i.e. cartoons, prints, paintings, graphic art) that reflect the themes of freedom, political participation, democracy, human rights, and repression. Semifinalists chosen by Freedom House will be displayed and auctioned as a fundraiser on April 10, 2014 in Washington, DC. The top three winners will be featured on the Freedom Ho... more »

    IF YOU HAD DOUBTS....

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 5 hours ago
    - It's been a good day. I went to our state capital in Augusta today to the rally of the Maine Alliance for the Common Good. It's a statewide multi-issue group that some of us created last year. We had a big rally during the legislative session in 2013 and today we held a rally on just the second day of the new session at the capital. About 150 folks turned out and the event featured mostly young speakers, including a ten-year old boy speaking about Nestle that controls alot of the water in Maine. Other speakers talked about climate change, student debt,... more »

    McDonald's Wants YOU To Know How To Eat Healthier and Manage Your Poverty, Rethugs Divide-and-Conquer USA Scheme Triumphs As It's Deep-Sixed, and Senators From States With Highest Unemployment Poised to Kill Unemployment Insurance For Their Voters Without Apology

    It's good to know, isn't it, that McDonald's is truly interested in helping its employees to be healthier and better prepared to face the adversity of poverty? But how did the laws in the U.S. let them get away with this type of behavior for so long? The McDonald's website tried to explain (until it was "yanked" (deleted)). Just last month the website provided financial advice, telling

    Was the "War on Poverty" a Success? Yes.

    noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 5 hours ago
    The graph above comes from a new paper by Christopher Wimer and colleagues at Columbia University (available here in PDF). The paper helps to address what is a surprisingly difficult question to answer: How has poverty changed over time? Wimer et al. explain: Poverty measures set a poverty line or threshold and then evaluate resources against that threshold. The official poverty measure is flawed on both counts: it uses thresholds that are outdated and are not adjusted appropriately for the needs of different types of individuals and households; and it uses an incomplete measure o... more »

    SIRC - the other board members

    AlisonatCreekside - 5 hours ago
    Big stink this week because in addition to being SIRC Chair, Chuck Strahl is also a registered lobbyist for Enbridge and for *Alberta Frog Lake Energy Resources Corp*, a First Nations firm that has partnered with a Chinese-company to drill for oil. This would probably never have blown up the way it did this week if ... - if the Harper government as a whole didn't behave like pro-pipelines lobbyists and activists themselves, - if CSIS, the spy agency which SIRC oversees, didn't spy on anti-pipelines activists, and - if CSIS director Richard Fadden hadn't publicly ex... more »

    A lesson in poverty

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 6 hours ago
    Went to Fred's Discount store today to get a new shower head. Three people at checkout ahead of me. First one was an elderly black granny with a preteen granddaughter. Granny was digging in her purse to pay for garbage bags. She came up one penny short. The clerk let it go. The next was an tiny older white woman. She paid for the soup and crackers with a SNAP card. It was so old it wouldn't scan. They had to punch the numbers in. She was fifty cents short for the OTC cold medicine. She was going to use her debit card. I offered to pay the fifty cents because it would probably cost ... more »

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    New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
    *Doubted at every step of the way, undersized Sproles continues to amaze ~Joe Posnanski*

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    New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
    *David vs. Goliath: John Barry, New Orleanian of the Year 2013 ~Gambit*

    Friday Morning Ramble: The “It’s Colder Than a Ticket-Taker’s Smile” Edition

    Peter CresswellatNot PC - 6 hours ago
    [image: image] I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Niagara Falls is freezing over. [image: 5] I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but frigid temperatures forced an esacped prisoner to turn himself in. I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Hell is freezing over too. I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but don't try pissing outside. I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but water from fire hoses turns to ice as it hits burning buildings. I’m not saying it’s cold in the U.S. right now …. but Lake Michigan i... more »

    Interlude. A screen capture to divert you from your search

    DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 7 hours ago
    I regularly make the mistake of goggling away to engineer my way onto a lot of websites. Part of the reason is that I don't bookmark them and I can't be bothered to scroll through my browser's history. I'm not lazy ... really. I'm just a little disorganized, and I like it that way. So, when I was looking for The Daily Show recently, I had forgotten that the U.S. site rejects video requests from

    "How It Really Is"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

    “The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
    *“The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces”* By Jim Hightower “What a Christmas little Bastrop had! It's still a mystery how Santa Claus got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a nifty present that most children could only dream about: A big honkin', steel-clad, war toy called MRAP. But Bastrop is not a six-year-old child, and an MRAP is not a toy. Bastrop is a Texas county of some 75,000 people, and MRAP stands for "Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected." It's a heavily-armored military vehicle weighing about 15 tons — one of several versions of fighting machines that ha... more »

    How It Should Be: “Very Surprising Reaction From Cop After Refusing Checkpoint Stop”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
    *“Very Surprising Reaction From Cop After Refusing Checkpoint Stop”* “If every cop not only knew but honored the Constitution and treated citizens with respect instead of immediate suspicion... We have this. There now...isn't that better? The way it could and should be.” - http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread992108/pg1 *Good luck!*

    In Hawaii's Senate Contest The Best Feminist Is A Man

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
    Both of Hawai`i's U.S. Senators rank high in Progressive Punch ratings; Hanabusa seeks to break up the partnership U.S. Senator Brian Schatz is a proud feminist-- with a record of achievement to prove it. And he's running for reelection on it, despite a big money challenge by conservative New Dem, Colleen Hanabusa, backed by corrupt war industry contractors and, predictably (albeit sadly), EMILY's List. He has an entire section of his campaign website devoted to reproductive freedom. And he's an original co-sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act-- top-priority legislation for... more »

    You Spin Me Round...Like a Record, Baby

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
    There's a dramatic-looking instance of BBC bias being reported today. The *Telegraph *tells us that "David Cameron has accused the BBC of misleading listeners in Liverpool about the scale of the cuts to their city" and cites some shocking bias from a BBC presenter: In testy exchanges on BBC Radio Merseyside, Mr Cameron was accused of “unfairly” hitting the city with steeper cuts than those faced by the council in his prosperous constituency of Witney. Roger Phillips, the host, told Mr Cameron he was “so out of touch it’s untrue”, adding he should spend a week in the area and visi... more »

    The Duggan Riots

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 8 hours ago
    Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, said: "I have spoken to well into double figures of people who saw people with walkie-talkies and radios directing people around." I can confirm this. Only the downmarket end of Croydon town centre towards Thornton Hearh and small businesses were torched. No corporate multinational premises were seriously dammaged. In August 2011, three separate police units were following Mark Duggan as he travelled in a taxi through Tottenham. *1.* *According to the police*, Duggan threw away a gun. A gun was reportedly found 20 feet away from the taxi, on the other... more »

    Jeff Gerth: From Watergate to Whitewater

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 8 hours ago
    Bill Clinton and his wife were business partners with the owner of a failing savings and loan association that was subject to state regulation early in his tenure as Governor of Arkansas, records show. The partnership, a real estate joint venture that was developing land in the Ozarks, involved the Clintons and James B. McDougal, a former Clinton aide turned developer. It started in 1978, and at times money from Mr. McDougal's savings and loan was used to subsidize it. The corporation continues to this day, but does not appear to be active. Mr. McDougal gave a detailed account ... more »

    Malala Yousafzai visits Fort Lee!

    bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 8 hours ago
    *THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014 * *Mayor Sokolich, before being baited:* Eventually, Mayor Sokolich was baited last night about being called “that little Serbian.” He tossed off a remark about one Christie aide who “deserves an ass-kicking.” This gave one upright cable show the headlines it had been chasing: *Christie ex-aide “deserves an ass-kicking”* Chris Hayes interviews Fort Lee’s Mayor Mark Sokolich about “Bridgegate.” On cable, exciting times! But before the baiting, when the mayor was good, we thought he was *very*good. Speaking to Chris Hayes, the mayor described his own nature:... more »

    Bill Whittle interviews Dr. Burt Folsom: The Myth of the Robber Barons, Part 1

    AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
    *"Market Entrepreneur" vs. "Political Entrepreneur" * To all the budding entrepreneurs out there: This is how it's done.

    “Today's Reserve Currency = Tomorrow's Wallpaper”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
    *“Today's Reserve Currency = Tomorrow's Wallpaper” * by Bill Bonner “Somehow, like it or not, the world turns. Today's hegemon becomes tomorrow's also-ran. Today's reserve currency becomes tomorrow's wallpaper. Today's cock o' the walk becomes tomorrow's dinner. Hey, we didn't create this system. We don't even especially like it. But that's just the way it is. We'll come back to this in a minute. First, let's just note that yesterday's markets were losers for just about everyone. The Dow lost 68 points. Gold was down $4 an ounce. Now, back to our thoughts on money – the same tho... more »

    Another bad quarter for Postmedia, and a plan that's not working

    paulatPaying attention - 9 hours ago
    The latest grim quarterly report from Postmedia sharpens questions about the company’s future. Continuing declines in revenue and circulation are too great to be solved by the company’s current approach. The corporate strategy is straightforward. Cut costs, find ways to get readers to pay more, in part through innovations like tablet editions, and convince advertisers that they should pay more for more effective ads. It might work, if revenue was not continuing to vanish at such an amazing rate. Revenue fell 8.4 per cent compared to the same quarter a year earlier, or $17.7 million. ... more »

    Yet More Fun with Geoengineering

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 9 hours ago
    *"Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require "alternate enemies," some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. * *Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be ... more »

    The "knockout game" has a real face

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 9 hours ago
    The "knockout game" has been increasing in popularity in the USA, sounds like fun? Here's the reality... A little old white lady smacked in the face by a young black thug and posted onto Facebook by one of his mates.. Disgusting? I'm sure all right-minded people would agree. How about Diane Abbott and Lee Jasper, will they condemn such actions or seek to excuse them? Here's some background to the "knockout game" nnn

    Former KIPP Students Respond to KIPP Teacher Interview Excerpt

    Jim HornatSchools Matter - 9 hours ago
    The KIPP damage control machine has not sprung into full action mode yet, but my recent sharing of a small clip from one interview with a former KIPP teacher has generated a number of comments here and here and here. (Note that anyone other than those forced into anonymity for security or safety reasons should include real names when posting comments at SM). I include two responses below from two former KIPP students with very different perspectives on KIPP. The first one offers an unreserved endorsement of KIPP and all its practices, while the second one offers something quite dif... more »

    The one hundred and sixty-eighth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 9 hours ago
    The Telegraph reports that: '*We want a United States of Europe says top EU official* A campaign for the European Union to become a "United States of* Europe*" will be the "best weapon against the Eurosceptics", one of Brussels' most senior officials has said. Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission and the longest serving Brussels commissioner, has called for "a true political union" to be put on the agenda for EU elections this spring. "We need to build a United States of Europe with the Commission as government and two chambers – the European Parliament and ... more »

    Catastrophic Cognitive Dissonance Danger Ahead :protect yourself with maximum ignorance against toxic truths

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
    Your Three of a kind that can beat a full house: my Seinfelden Neuman Jerry! Jerry as usual your performance has insulted my intelligence, but then again so did the new Superman movie. But in both cases larger than the periphery was I not entertained? Catastrophic Cognitive Dissonance Danger protect yourself with maximum ignorance if you cant handle the truth. Referring above subject the huge bandwidth of today's Stepfordan panels playing melodic symphony's sharp right notes hypnotic word salad giving birth to child bearing rhetorical certainty. If Rob Ford could only play the mu... more »

    What Is A Human Being?

    What Is SustainableatWhat Is Sustainable - 10 hours ago
    Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a gorgeous tropical rainforest in Africa. Among the many beings living there were three tribes of primates. They were the ancestors of modern chimps, baboons, and humans. All of them were tree dwellers. Primates, who evolved whilst bounding from branch to branch in the forest, have highly developed senses of sight and touch. On the other hand, lost mammals that evolved for life on the ground have highly developed senses of smell. By and by, the climate cooled, the rainforest shrank, and grassland expanded. The tree dwellers were not... more »

    seriously

    OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago
    why so serious ?

    WWII in Europe and the Pacific in Seven Minutes

    PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
    We've seen WWII in Europe in seven minutes before, but how about on a global scale? It's fascinating: As this is the centenary of the First World War, can we expect the Western Front in seven minutes too?

    The Politics of No One?

    Charli CarpenteratDuck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
    Ever since Wikileaks hit the headlines with the release of its Collateral Murder video I’ve been thinking about what kind of actor it is, what kind of politics it represents, what this means for global order. Finally some IR scholars have written a piece e

    Looking For Me? I'm Over At Bloomberg View

    Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
    First post is up: Will Scandal Cost Christie the Invisible Primary? Yes, I got "party actors" and who they are into my first post...just worked out that way. More to come! Again, my general page over there is also up (will get you first paragraphs of each post, click through for full thing...alas, true blogs just aren't happening any more). And here's the next post: Catch of the Day There were a few requests for keeping links here to posts there, at least until the rss feed shows up (in a few weeks, after their site redesign is launched)...I haven't decided yet, but I'll try to d... more »

    How Will Economic Fairness Issues Play Out In The Midterm Elections

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
    I found the above quote this morning on the Facebook page of Jason Thigpen, the North Carolina Republican-turned-progressive Democrat running for the House seat occupied by Walter Jones. What a contrast to the talk among House Republicans this morning-- the ones who have slashed the food stamps program so that every child and every vet who is struggling to survive on food stamps gets 20 fewer meals per month-- for starters; they have even more drastic more cuts to the program they want to pass this month. The Republicans in the House aren't talking about extending unemployment ins... more »

    Op-Ed: Appeasement is Never the Answer to Festering Despotism

    Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 11 hours ago
    Thailand has those who support the regime, others who boldly oppose it, and there is another group - those who believe appeasement, idealism, and denial will solve everything. History disagrees. *January 9, 2014* (ATN) - Bangkok Post's column writer Voranai Vanijaka is sharp. He is well informed and a skillful writer. He has demonstrated an astute awareness of the criminality of Thaksin Shianwatra and the danger he poses to Thailand as a democracy and as a free, functioning society. However, like all of us, Voranai is also human. For him, like many people throughout history when f... more »

    The remarkable problem of basic test scores!

    bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 12 hours ago
    *THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014* *Is San Diego the best:* Is San Diego the nation’s best urban school system? We have no opinion about that. We don’t know if there is one single best urban district. Diane Ravitch says San Diego is best; she may be right, of course. On Tuesday, she started a post on the subject like this: RAVITCH (1/7/14): *Something magical is happening in San Diego.* It is a good school district. Teachers and administrators and the school board are working towards common goals. *San Diego, in my view, is the best urban district in the nation.* *I say this not based on... more »

    Audio: Deal making behind purchase of BHP Navajo Mine

    brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
    Deal making behind purchase of BHP Navajo Mine -This audio is in Navajo and English, but we can translate to English if we get enough requests. PLEASE share with your parents, grandparents, friends, and neighbors.- This audio is a report by Shiprock's Council Delegate, Russell Begaye on the purchase of BHP Navajo Mine. It is an enlightening and totally incredible report on the

    Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III

    John Thompsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
    This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo’s “The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013.” The preceding posts, here and here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after value-added systems were implemented. The preceding […]

    What is the White Man March?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
    Kyle Hunt, host of *The Blitzkrieg Broadcast* on *Renegade Broadcasting*, is one of the leading organizers of the *White Man March* scheduled for March 15th, 2014. What follows is a transcript of the questions I asked Kyle for an article about the White Man March I am currently writing for *American Free Press*, followed by his responses. *JF:* What is the White Man March? What is the purpose and ultimate goal of the march? *KH:* The White Man March is scheduled for March 15th, 2014, and will involve coordinated pro-White activity around the world. The purpose is to spread informat... more »

    Game On! Gaming Party Trailer Utah Giveaway

    Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 13 hours ago
    It's a New Year and that means everyone has a birthday this year! What is a better way to celebrate then to spend time playing your favorite video game with your family and friends? Bargains with Brittanie and Trust Me, I'm a Mom are teaming up with some fantastic bloggers and Game On! to offer our Utah Readers a spectacular giveaway! Game On! is a company that provides a mobile video game party trailer dedicated to bringing the finest video game party right to your front door or where your next party is located. The gaming trailer provides five internal 55″ HD TVs where gamers can... more »

    On Corporate Tax Reform

    Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago
    An article out of the Richmond Fed offers a nice overview of the issues.

    DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: Scandal!

    bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 13 hours ago
    *THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014* *Interlude—Dumbnification is us:* In modern journalistic culture, you *are*allowed to talk about a journalist’s alleged “bias.” You *aren’t* encouraged to think about his or her level of dumbnification. Such assessments are considered rude, beyond the pale. In our view, this constitutes a major flaw in modern press corps culture. It’s hard to see how dumb our press culture is, especially when the topic is kept out of sight, out of bounds. And so it continues: The inability to report even the simplest types of statistics. The inability to quote or paraphr... more »

    Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War

    plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
    Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War. via Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 14 hours ago
    Yes, I was dubious too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww&feature=youtube_gdata_player To be honest, I still am!

    Watchdog of the Week: Murray Freedman Beats the BBC

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 14 hours ago
    It is possible to get the BBC to apologise for a piece of bias I've had a couple of successes in the past. Today, Honest Reporting has news of another victory over the BBC's anti Israel agenda. http://honestreporting.com/watchdog-of-the-week-murray-freedman-beats-the-bbc/

    Of rats and men

    Capt. FoggatThe Impolitic - 14 hours ago
    *Or, In Vino Veritas* By Capt. Fogg When I watched Dennis Rodman's drunken rant the other day, I was astonished, dumfounded and amazed that none of the commentary included the compelling, obvious, unavoidable observation that the man was dead drunk: smashed, stewed, tanked, wasted, three sheets to the wind and shitfaced. It was probably more obvious to the sheepish players sitting next to him who were, I'm sure, worried about any open flame in such hazardous atmosphere. If we needed any further reminder of the somewhat erratic journalistic and public tendency to forgive athle... more »

    Progressive Music Classics. "Punk Prayer" by Pussy Riot

    Marc McDonaldatBeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 14 hours ago
    . . *By MARC McDONALD* Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics. I have to laugh when I hear bands like Green Day described as "punk." Green Day is about as "punk" as a cup of Starbucks coffee. Green Day wouldn't know real "punk" if it walked up to them and grabbed them by the balls. (Not that corporate cowards like Green Day have any balls in the first place). In any case, Russia's *Pussy Riot* has more balls than the entire U.S. corporate recording industry. Real punk has always been about challenging the system. The Sex Pistols (at least in their first incarnat... more »

    IT'S JUST SMALL CHANGE

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago

    ALEC Corporations - Legislation to Cover Incompetence

    2old2careatBecause I Can - 14 hours ago
    PUC = Public Utilities Commission *New PUC member might hinder Boulder’s municipalization* *By Jefferson Dodge* Why did I find this info? Cause I was following this: The controversy over the appointment of Glenn Vaad, a member of the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), … ALEC, a group that has campaigned to overturn renewable energy standards around the country. ALEC’s “State Legislator of the Year” award in 2012 chair of the ALEC Task Force on Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development, Vaad received ALEC “scholarships” for traveling to the council’s c... more »

    Steve, Maggie and Ronnie

    Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 14 hours ago
    Stephen Harper has never been a big tent politician. But he has always been devoted to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Jeffrey Simpson writes: In March, 1989, with the Progressive Conservative government of prime minister Brian Mulroney safely re-elected, a young right-wing maverick wrote a long memorandum about how to create a stronger, sharper conservative movement. Stephen Harper was by then a Reformer, having abandoned the PCs, and he offered advice on how to shift the Reform Party from being a populist critic of the status quo to what he called a “modern version of the ... more »

    Just Say No-- To Fast-Tracking The Corporate "Free" Trade Agenda

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
    Let me reiterate an old story. Bush I signed the NAFTA treaty at the end of 1992. Bush couldn't get it through Congress so he left his Wall Street/Chamber of Commerce baby in Clinton's hands and Clinton put responsibility for getting House Dems to get on board in the hands of a then little known White House thug from Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was still bragging, threateningly, at the time that he had lost a finger fighting off a Syria tank on the Golan Heights. (He was actually making lanyards at a summer camp for children of wealthy American Jews, nowhere near the Golan Heig... more »

    Greatest Conspiracy

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 15 hours ago
    (credit) In the pantheon of conspiracy theory the winner by far is the Kennedy assassination. Some real interesting stuff here. If I was making a purely speculative movie with total poetic licence about the Kennedy assassination the plot would be as follows. *Dulles is convinced JFK will not fight in Vietnam. A syndicate is formed with Dulles, Hoover, Johnson and the Mob. The hit team is lead by GHWB and the actual trigger pulled by Liddy and Hunt. Nixon has nothing to do with it. Strange though in real life he was in Dallas that day, even more curious the reason why?* *So in my mov... more »

    Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III

    John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 15 hours ago
    This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo's "The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013." The preceding posts, hereand here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after those systems were implemented. The preceding post concluded with Dan Goldhaber's and Susanna Loeb's finding that value-added produced up to 68% false positives and 68% false negatives when predicting future effectiveness. In other words, value-added evaluations are spectacularly ill-suited for n... more »

    Untitled

    New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
    *Kickin’ It Old School ~moosedenied* *"That sensation you were feeling late Saturday night was the Quickening. Believe it." ~Grand Master Wang* *Clueless or Lying ~Library Chronicles* *Carnival 2014 brings more changes for suburban krewes ~Scott Satchfield, WVUE* *Woman found dead in tent under Pontchartrain Expressway overpass after freezing night ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger* *Rift aired out between police monitor, inspector general ~John Simmerman, N.O. Advocate* *University of New Orleans Makes U.S. News & World Report’s “Least Debt” List for Third Year in a Row* *Resid... more »

    William Hauge

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 16 hours ago
    This guy even from across the ocean always irritated me. I do not know if he is Gay or not, it really does not matter to me. However if William is a pedophile its a different story. Aangrifan has some interesting views on the subject. The upper level of England seems to be a overflowing cesspool. And my conspiracy theory jones loves that deceased MI6 worker Gaerth Williams found locked inside his gym bag is part of the speculation. Apparently even though the bag was locked from the outside, it was determined there was no foul play. Apparently there were no fingerprints anywhere in... more »

    harper is Like the Weather

    thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 19 hours ago
    Everybody talks about him but nobody does anything about him.

    Hamiltonians, not dogmas, pick the right bases, prices, and rates

    Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
    *What big-government advocates and hidden-variable cranks have in common* This blog post will combine diverse topics – including the philosophy of science, economics, general quantum physics, quantum field theory, and string theory. It will try to answer the following question: What is the most widespread general error that prevents people from acquiring the rational and/or correct understanding of problems? My answer is that a vast majority of people constrain themselves by dogmas, assumptions, group think, and stereotypes – while they should try hard to impartially look for the an... more »

    Early Taipei Mayor Election Prognosticatin'

    Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago
    *Thinkin'....* The Taipei Times ran a short piece on Sean Lien, the son of Lien Chan, the former Presidential candidate of the KMT and Honorary Chairman, etc, who is one of Taiwan's wealthiest human beings. The piece hinted at a couple of important issues that a longtime politics watcher in Taipei explained to me over dinner this week. For the first time in a while a victory for the pro-Taiwan side in Taipei may be within reach. The article observes: Recent opinion polls have suggested that *Sean Lien is the favorite to win the Taipei mayoral race, while showing that support for Ko... more »

    HOT ARGENTINIAN SEX

    Anonataangirfan - 21 hours ago
    *Fanny.* Fanny Foxe (Annabelle Battistella) was an Argentinian stripper who became the mistress of Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills. Mills was a contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972. In October 1974, Fanny and Wilbur were taking a drive in Washington at around 2 am when they were stopped by the police. Fanne attempted to flee the scene. Wilbur was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974. *Maria Belén Chapur and Mark Sanford* Maria Belén Chapur is an Argentine journalist who had an affair with South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. For six days in... more »

    Stalker's Guide To... another new Mike Philbin novel?

    Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 21 hours ago
    STALKER'S GUIDE TO... is a potentially massive novel that's been playing in the back of my mind for 'a few years' now. *SGT... started out as an idea for a Video Game, but I didn't 'go through with it' in any constructive sense, and it's just been there, in the background. I've explored certain aspects of this story, this interventionist world, in recent novels Bukkakeworld (2008) and Tandem (2013) for example, but that's all they are; snippets of, referential to, jarring visuals from; nothing more than. With my second Free Planet novel #2 LIBERATOR now in its first-draft (spell... more »

    "[T]he White House tells us that ObamaCare is a worthy program even though those who are supposed to be helped by it aren’t because of large deductibles, copays, and Medicaid estate recovery. The cost of this non-help is a doubling of the policy premiums on those insured Americans who did not need ObamaCare and the reclassification by employers of workers’ jobs from full-time to part-time in order to avoid medical insurance costs. All it took was campaign contributions from the insurance industry to turn a policy that hurts most and helps none into a worthy program. Worthy, of course, for the insurance companies." [excerpt]

    David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago
    ------------------------------ *The Case of the Missing Recovery — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ January 3, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *The Case of the Missing Recovery* Paul Craig Roberts Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago. It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those... more »

    Look at what lane closures in New Jersey have just wrought (updated)

    DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago
    Read this very, very closely. New Jersey governor Chris Christie was ensnared in a billowing political furore on Wednesday when newly released emails connected one of his top aides to a decision to block lanes on the approach to a busy bridge, causing traffic chaos, apparently in an act of revenge against a political enemy.  So what, you say. Dirty U.S. politics. Meh! Read a little more.

    The Pre-Stonehenge Caucasian Man - far too photogenic? what's going on here?

    Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 22 hours ago
    *Tourists entering English Heritage's new £27 million visitor centre at Stonehenge will quickly confront its most spectacular exhibit - a man who was born 500 years before the earliest stone monument appeared at the site. The well-preserved skeleton was discovered in an elaborate tomb in the 1860s, providing a rare example of the anatomy of Neolithic people. His face has been brought to life by Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson, using information from bone and tooth analyses. The length of the man's bones, the skeleton's weight and his age - estimated at between 25 and 40 years old... more »

    Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
    2002, “Remember Now” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4qjI8VVzg Perhaps their finest work, certainly my favorite... sublime.

    MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS HISTORY CHANNEL SEGMENT

    Roberto RodriguezatDr Cintli - 1 day ago
    MAIZ ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS: I got interviewed for a program below by the History Channel. It will be airing Saturday January 18th at 9PM EST/8PM CST on the H2 network. They did not give me a script about the rest of the program. They asked me about Aztlan... but O told them that was not my primary research, rather, maiz. Think they were more interested in Aztlan, but I did get to speak about the origins of maiz and its spread throughout the continent. See what happens. More info below. http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed.

    The 20 Democratic House Incumbents Leading Their Party To Ruin In November

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    Gallup was out with some interesting findings this morning: Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents. Look at that chart! It should be sending waves of fear through the hearts of the worthless careerists who run the Beltway establishments of the two corrupt political parties. Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identific... more »

    BLOGGER - How to change template

    First, log into www.blogger.com (Dashboard) and click the down arrow near the orange pencil icon as shown in the screenshot below: [image: Dashboard down arrow] Dashboard > Template Then at the top right hand corner you will see a tab BACKUP/RESTORE and you will see a pop-up: [image: Backup or restore template popup] First, it is wise to first backup your template before you make any changes, so click DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE then save the xml file in your computer where you can easily find it again. Now assuming you have the new template in xml format save in your computer, click... more »

    inBloom and Data Mining: A Common Core Cousin

    deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
    This week I posted this piece about a January 9, 2014, webinar promoting data mining– a webinar with Gates money all over it. (Here is a briefer follow-up to the post.) The initial post had a record number of comments, some of which were made by an inBloom representative. The comments prompted me to further investigate some of the […]

    Musical Interlude: 2002, “We Meet Again”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    2002, “We Meet Again” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OmsxDef9c

    "A Look to the Heavens"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    “How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310 million light years distant, a more precise determination could be coupled with its known recession speed to help humanity better calibrate the expansion rate of the entire visible universe. Toward this goal, several images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to help identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars. Since NGC 4921 is a member of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, refining its distance would also allow a better distance determination to one of the large... more »

    "Can You?"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

    Blowing The Sandy Hook Fraud To Bits: John Friend's Realist Report With Guest Jim Fetzer Discuss The Fraudulence Of Sandy Hook!

    NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago
    I have long said that the Sandy Hook "massacre" of December 14th, 2012 was a complete HOAX! The fact is, readers, that Sandy Hook was a criminal government controlled operation for the sole purpose of creating the propaganda of fear and grievance to try to convince the American people to give up their second amendment right to bear arms to resist their own tyrannical government.... It is a fact that NOBODY died in the Sandy Hook operation and that the supposed "shooter" himself, Adam Lanza, probably never existed at all! For this article, I want to present the following article tha... more »

    Professor Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism - Meister Eckhart

    Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago
    *Wikipedia:* Bernard McGinn (born 1937) is a theologian, historian, and scholar of spirituality, affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he is Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and the Committees on Medieval Studies and on General Studies. Video Title: Meister Eckhart. Source: YouTube channel Eric Gilmour. Date Published: May 21, 2013. Description: Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism. Reading the Mystics

    Police State USA - an overview of 2013 in the police state and additional items of note to consider - apart from the NSA revelations ( still unfolding ) , consider the many other events and actions that ave occurred - so many things have come to pass , they probably are a blur in the minds of many !

    Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-04/nsa-responds-bernie-sanders-whether-it-spies-congress ( Guess that's pretty clear.... ) - Bernie Sanders - George Orwell - None - SPY inShare Yesterday, in what we characterized as an episode of a "*real life magic-mushroom, banana dictatorship envisioned by George Orwell*" gone full retard, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders asked the NSA point blank whether it has "spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?" Today, via the Bezos Post, we got the answer: "*Members ... more »

    Hats off to Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas!

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    *by Ken* If you're thinking that the Mssrs Maddux, Glavine, and Thomas fall outside DWT's normal purview, I think I can explain why it seems to me important to celebrate them by means of a simple analogy to our more familiar political and journalistic spheres. Take "Mo" Dowd -- please! (Ha ha!) If you looked at the NYT e-roundup this morning, you saw this: The sensible response would have been to mutter, "Oh, the horror!," and move quickly on. But let's say that instead you allowed yourself to wonder whether our Ms. Mo based this brilliant observation on actually having watche... more »

    The 9/11 Commission Concluded that "Al-Qa'ida Appears to Have Relied on a Core Group of Financial Facilitators Who Raised Money from a Variety of Donors Primarily in the Gulf Countries and Particularly in Saudi Arabia"

    U.S. Admits Review of Drone Strike on Reported Yemen Wedding Party Natasha Lennard Footage passed on to a human rights group shows graphic aftermath of a strike that enraged Yemenis VIDEO The Saudi plan looks doomed from the start, though it could get a lot more Syrians killed before it fails. Yazid Sayegh of the Carnegie Middle East Centre highlights succinctly the risks involved in the

    The Daily "Near You?"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    San Rafael, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

    Chet Raymo, “Criteria For Truth”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    *“Criteria For Truth”* by Chet Raymo “The physicists and cosmologists tell us that the universe consists of 5% ordinary matter (the kind of stuff your chair is made of), 27% dark matter (massy stuff of a yet undetermined nature), and 68% dark energy (also yet unidentified). Dark matter and dark energy are hypothesized to exist because of their apparent effects on luminous objects \- stars and galaxies. Which is to say, most of what is is invisible. It's sort of like hypothesizing the existence of poltergeists to account for moving candlesticks. With a difference. Weakly interactin... more »

    Alternative news and views - January 8 , 2013 - An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday - don't recall hearing about this one on the national news ..... Border patrolman gives refreshing response at checkpoint - hope springs for a minute...........despite the non response by almost every congress critter to the revelation that the NSA spys on them just like any other American citizen - this is a big deal folks .......Ford knows when their customers break the law and where - makes one wonder does the NSA know what Ford knows , have they obtained or can they obtain Ford's GPS data...... Terminators coming closer to reality ....... 911 story crumbling , not that many sheeple give a hot darn.......

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    http://www.blacklistednews.com/Indiana_guardsman_stopped_for_speeding_had_48_bombs%2C_blueprints_for_a_Navy_SEAL_training_facility/31837/0/0/0/Y/M.html SOURCE: COLUMBUS DISPATCHAn Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside Columbus on New Year’s Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car, the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to detonate the bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski’s civilian job is as a ground... more »

    "How It Really Is"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

    "Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    *"Boss Sells Restaurant He Has Owned For 17 Years To Pay* * Medical Costs For Employee, 19, With Brain Tumor"* By Daily Mail Reporter "A generous boss is selling the restaurant he has owned for 17 years to help a 19-year-old employee suffering from a brain tumor. Brittany Mathis, whose father died suddenly from a brain tumor when she was just a child, was diagnosed last month - but does not have health insurance to cover the costs of her treatment. Now Michael De Beyer, the German-born owner of Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, has offered to sell his life's wo... more »

    11 Jan - Blogs I'm Following II

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    War watch January 9 -11, 2014.... Iran nuclear talks with P5 + 1 hit snag over Tehran's nuclear centrifuge research ....... Syria rebel infighting continues as Rebel forces attack two chemical weapon sites..... Iraq's chaotic situation in Anbar continues as tribes want neither Iraq's military nor Al Qaeda in their midst .....

    Catharsis Ours - 23 minutes ago
    Iran....... Obama WH: Pro-Sanctions Senators Should Admit They Want War With Iran John Glaser, January 10, 2014 Print This | Share This | Comment As Jason Ditz highlights in the news section today, congressional support for heaping additional sanctions on Iran, even as the interim deal plays out ahead of further negotiations on a final deal, is picking up in the Senate. Up to 58 senators have committed to voting yes on new sanctions, an action the Obama administration and Iranian negotiators have said would kill good faith negotiations. But the Obama White House seems to be steppin... more »

    Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia Resigns

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 31 minutes ago
    Americans don't know much about the Central African Republic. Until the last couple of weeks it hadn't been in the American news cycles since 1979 when French paratroopers ousted self-proclaimed Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, who had been eating school children. He was found guilty of related charges but they never proved the cannibalism charges-- nor did they try very hard since it was seen as a national embarrassment-- and he served 7 years of his life-in-prison sentence. He was posthumously pardoned in 2010. One of Africa's most brutal dictators, accused of cannibalism and feedin... more »

    Video - What is the White Man March?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 41 minutes ago
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    A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions --An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates

    angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 41 minutes ago
    *(PHOTO: Rev. Dr. Bates speaks in support of Albert Woodfox at LA State Capitol, Oct. 21, 2013)* *A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions * *--An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates* *By Angola 3 News* This past Fall, Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 made news headlines around the world when his conviction was overturned and he was dramatically released from prison after 41 years in solitary confinement. At the time of his release on October 1, 2013 he had been fighting terminal liver cancer for several months. T... more »

    How to fix Toronto for good

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 44 minutes ago
    Toronto needs better hard power or infrastructure and better soft power or cultural efficiency. Both powers are best practiced on a generational timeline. Children continually hear they are the future, but its always admonished in a glib nebulous way, " you can be anything you want" sorry no you cant, you have opportunities, but in fact everyone can not be anything they want. This is the foundation of the lie politicians use to win short sighted victories. The TDSB should have a *How to be the Future curriculum*. In the early years its mostly stories of heroes and villains. Rob Fo... more »

    Neiman Marcus also has sustained a cyber attack customer data breach ( back in mid- December ) involving credit and debit cards used at Neiman Marcus ! Only after Brian Krebs made inquiries , did Neiman Marcus acknowledge the mid - December breach and that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. ! Neiman Marcus spokesperson Ginger Reeder said the company does not yet know the cause, size or duration of the breach, noting that these are details being sought by a third-party forensics firm which has yet to complete its investigation. But she said there is no evidence that shoppers who purchased from the company’s online stores were affected by this breach. In that regard , the breach at Neiman Marcus is similar to the Target breach ( online stores were not affected in the Target breach. ) And as of today , the Target breach remains an unsolved crime. next question - how many other stores might have suffered breached between black Friday and Xmas ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
    As to the additional breaches - several more yet to be revealed..... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-more-well-known-u-retailers-victims-cyberattacks-024345910--sector.html Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed. Smaller breaches on at least three ot... more »

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    Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 1 hour ago
    BREAKING: Pioneer, Syngenta & DOW Chemical file suit against Kaua'i to invalidate Bill 2491, which requires them to disclose the pesticides they spray and to maintain buffer zones for safety. Looks like they've just shot themselves in the f...oot. More publicity to show the world how evil they are. READ THE NEWS: http://news.yahoo.com/agrichemical-companies-sue-block-anti-gmo-law-hawaii-171141482--sector.html READ about the link between this birth defect and the herbicide atrazine: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/05/link.between.birth.defect.gastroschisis.and.agricul... more »

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    Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 2 hours ago
    I find it amazing how low our mainstream media has stooped, lazy, bought off and complicit in propping up both a corrupt and inept BC Liberal Government, Gordon Campbell was corrupt as the day is long and nothing has changed under the guidance of Christy Clark, if anything it has gotten worse, when will the media remember their job is to hold Government to account and not just cheerlead and read press releases.. Can`t they figure out why no one wants to buy newspapers anymore, or listen to talk radio, the public needs critical thought, actually the public would appreciate even a lit... more »

    Alex Rodriguez suspension decision released - 162 games ( full regular season ) and post season ban for the upcoming season set by Independent Arbitrator Frederic Horowitz ..... 60 Minutes will interview Anthony Bosch ( formerly of Biogenesis ) and MLB COO Rob Manfred - discussion of the case against A- Rod...... meanwhile A- Rod plans to head to Federal Court to seek an injunction !

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
    http://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-news/2014/1/11/5299642/alex-rodriguez-suspended-steroids-evidence-anthony-bosch-60-minutes/in/5062745 Alex Rodriguez suspension: MLB's evidence to be presented on 60 Minutes Sunday night By Tanya Bondurant  @TanyaBondurant on Jan 11 2014, 8:00p 5 Patrick McDermott Biogenesis clinic owner Anthony Bosch and MLB COO Rob Manfred will appear during primetime to hash out details of the case against A-Rod. TWEET (10) SHARE (8)  SHARE 5 COMMENTS The world will get a look at the details of MLB's case against Alex Rodriguezthat led to his 162-game suspe... more »

    In re. Smartypants Researchers v. James Bond, I'm inclined to side with 007

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
    *Caption from the medical journal BMJ:* "*James Bond’s weekly alcohol consumption by year of book publication*" *by Ken* When it comes to awe for doctors, my friend Peter had his pretty well derailed by going to school with a sizable number of schlubs who were fated to go on to become same. As a result, in his mind, medical degrees and licenses notwithstanding, they remained pretty much the same schlubs he had known in high school and college. And so in approaching this research into the drinking habits of Commander James Bond, aka 007, I'm inclined to bear in mind that the resear... more »

    TV Watch: Searching for bright spots in this cataclysmically awful TV season

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
    *Even though, or perhsps because, the comic-book store has descended into ghostly solitude, Stuart (Kevin Sussman) has amply rewarded the increased attention of The Big Bang Theory's producers -- and the other "supporting" characters are coming up aces too.* *by Ken* I haven't been doing much "TV Watch"-ing lately, which might be because I haven't been doing much TV watching, but anyone who knows me knows that that's a laugh. Especially with two shiny new TVs, I've probably never watched more TV in my life. It's just that less and less of it is, you know, *TV*. At least not curren... more »

    JFK50: "Lyndon Did It".

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 4 hours ago
    Print This | ShareThis Defaming The Dead: A Legal Remedy for Absurd Charges That LBJ Murdered JFKBy JOHN W. DEANFriday, Mar. 12, 2004 In October 2003, Barr McClellan published *Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.*. As its title suggests, the book makes an astounding claim that former President Lyndon Johnson, and other deceased officials and persons, were involved in a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. This claim is patently absurd. Yet according to the *New York Times*, over 75,000 copies of the book have been sold. McClellan is a retired Texas attorney who says h... more »

    Musical Interlude: Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
    Yanni, “To the One Who Knows” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF3kxNYTmsk

    A scheduled Harperectomy . . .

    EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
    SOCIAL MEDICINE:People like the Koch brothers, Stevie and Rob Ford are actually mentally-ill from the POV of rational humanist social norms. By their lights, though, their greed is 100% rational and desirable, regardless of cost to others. The sad truth of history is that other people who think like that have managed to do a lot of damage before they were stopped.THE POLITICAL SCALPEL:

    Many rivers to cross for Christie

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 5 hours ago
    While I continue to think Christie's bridge scandal will ultimately lead nowhere, the story has a lot longer legs than I first anticipated. The hundreds of pages of documents will keep the media busy for at least a couple of weeks and if it turns out the lane closures were illegal somebody could get indicted. It could become a enduring scandal of his administration. But hell, we're talking about Jersey. Politicians and their operatives are always getting caught in scandals. It's part of the fabric of life in The Garden State. Everybody who's not a gullible, hardcore conservative kn... more »

    Guided Reading in Kindergarten is one of the many dramatic outrages of #commoncore

    Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
    As the regular reader knows, I am now teaching Kindergarten in SE Washington, DC this year. Enjoying it so much more than teaching at the university level. This entire school year for DCPS, for whom I worked previously over a decade ago, there has been an obsession with the use of Guided Reading. My expertise […]

    Think you better slow your Mustang down

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 6 hours ago
    I'm still moving slow this week. So have some funky music.

    We're One and we're done.

    Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
    With the completion of this experiment on humanity, a wide diversity of emotions surface. Anger, disbelief, fear, exhaustion and skepticism are among them. What can be trusted? Who has our best interests at heart? How do we discern assistance from manipulation? What are the motives of anyone in power; of anyone period? Each question leads ultimately back to you. It depends always on your point of view. We are sharing a pivotal moment. Each of us decided to join this party for our own reasons. As of late, those reasons are coming into sharper focus as our paths diverge. I... more »

    Coming out of the Cold

    theozarkeratThe Conflicted Doomer - 6 hours ago
    January 11, 2014 We went from zero for a high (with a low of -10) on Monday or Tuesday of last week to thirty-four for a low tonight and sixty degrees for a high tomorrow. Like much of the country, … Continue reading →

    Canada Stupid, Norwary Smart

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
    Every citizen of Norway is now a millionaire. The same would be true in Canada if PET had not lost to Brian Mulroney.

    "How It Really Is"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

    “Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
    *“Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day* * That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”* By Lynn Stuart Parramore “For the past five years, the market for luxury goods has been on a roll, even as the rest of the economy sputtered. Fancy cars are flying off the production lines. Tiffany and Prada are in the pink. Even Big Tobacco is in on the action, doing brisk business in high-end cigars. Consumer spending is up! the latest headlines shout. Rejoice! But wait — if a big chunk of this is driven by sales of luxury goods, is that ultimately a good thing for the economy? ... more »

    We On The Grind In... Georgia

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
    In Georgia, they want Medicare expansion and they want to keep their crazy anti-healthcare Governor. Maybe they listen to too much Hate Talk Radio and watch too much Fox News and have wound up with addled brains, but an Atlanta *Journal-Constitution* poll released today yields a portrait of one very confused electorate. Let's start with this interesting finding among Peach State respondents: 57% of them favor Medicaid expansion. OK, that makes sense and is pretty much in line with what voters in other red states without Medicare expansion want. But the guy who's preventing Medicare... more »

    Are the Greens Progressive?

    PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 8 hours ago
    Are the Greens a progressive party? Are they enemies of the labour movement that need combatting alongside the Tories, UKIP, LibDems and the rest? I ask because, as *Graun* readers may have seen, Ian Sinclair posed the question last week; "why does the left ignore the Green Party?" It's a fair enough question to ask. Ian provided a list of policies most Labour types wish we would take on board. Wild ultra-leftist promises like renationalising rail and public utilities, which also happen to be backed by the public at large. All progressive, all would go some way to making Britain a ... more »

    BEN ALI, THEY FOOLED US!

    Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago
    It is now three years since the CIA, NATO and Mossad overthrew Zine Ben-Ali, the man who ensured Tunisia was peaceful, easy-going and increasingly prosperous. As a result of the CIA-NATO-Mossad coup, crime and poverty have soared. On 7 January 2014, protesters were out in force. The cry one could hear in streets across Tunisia is: *"Ben Ali, they fooled us! Come back soon!"* *'There has been a surge of nostalgia' for Ben Ali in Tunisia *- FRANCE 24 - ‎Jan 10, 2014‎ In Tunis, the words* 'Vive Ben Ali'* have been written on the walls of buildings. A Facebook page entitled *'Forg... more »

    Assorted observations

    sueatIs the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
    In the wake of all those uplifting pro-immigration stories and items featuring irreproachable Bulgarian and Romanian professional individuals who intend coming here, or who are here already, I was stunned when a little upcoming item on local BBC TV was trailed....... “How easy it is for immigrants to claim welfare.” The link has disappeared from the BBC iPlayer (it was there earlier) so you'll have to take my word for it. *“They call this country 'a field of wonders!'”* At least I'm pretty sure that’s what this Russian interpreter who helped them apply for their benefits said. Howev... more »

    “Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
    *“Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”* by Eric Margolis “How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat? How can al-Qaida be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of black Africa? This after the US spent over $1 trillion trying to stamp out al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western in... more »

    Solar Update: ...... Something stinks.

    D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 9 hours ago
    Well after the events of past 4 days it is, in my opinion, absolutely conclusive that NASA, NOAA and there sister agencies are lying through their teeth, or completely incompetent. On Wed I published a Solar Update HERE, mostly focused on the X class flare from spot 1944 and the predicted upcoming geomagnetic storm caused by the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) generated by the X Flare. "NOAA is giving a risk 80% of M Class and 50% of X Class flares for today.... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I give it 100% chance of an MClass flare today from 1944/6, and I expect we'll see ... more »

    Will Obama Raid Your Pension To Bailout Bankers? ...

    AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
    *you betcha.* It *will* happen. And you better keep your eyes on your 401K and savings accounts, too From: The Western Center for Journalism

    Will Fukushima Daiichi Kill Vast Swathes of Life in the Pacific Ocean?

    Majia's BlogatMajia's Blog - 10 hours ago
    (Hat tip: The argument outlined here was suggested in a careful assemblage of Enenews headlines, particularly this one: Radiation jumps around Fukushima plant — Now ~1,000% previous levels — Tepco kept strontium-90 data secret for months — Officials knew of increase but ‘too busy’ to do anything — Gov’t holds Friday meeting about what can be done. I've made the argument explicit using additional data.) The nuclear village is prepped for the propaganda war. Nuclear scientists are lined up ready with their research to minimize the impact. Even non-biased scientists may grossly undere... more »

    A Week's Worth of 'Newsnight'

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
    As promised earlier this week, here's a review of this week's *Newsnight.* OK, before I begin I've got to say that I almost immediately regretted promising to make 2014 *Is the BBC biased?*'s year of *Newsnight*. I'd nearly forgotten that I don't actually enjoy watching *Newsnight. *It's fair to say that I've now experienced 'total memory recall' though - and, no, I still don't like watching *Newsnight*. And now that ex-*Guardian* assistant editor Ian Katz is in charge it's becoming more *Guardian-*like than ever - full of *Guardian*-geared topics and hip-'n-happening features abo... more »

    Satire: Andy Borowitz, “Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
    *“Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”* by Andy Borowitz TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)— “At a hastily called press conference today, Chris Christie revealed that he only became aware that he was the governor of New Jersey in the past seventy-two hours. “Unbeknownst to me, some people I thought I could trust were secretly working to elect me governor of this state,” a visibly stunned Christie told reporters. “I have acted swiftly and fired them all.” While asserting that he had terminated all of the people who were involved in the scheme to elect him, he said that, if he finds add... more »

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    thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 10 hours ago

    Nationalism

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 10 hours ago
    *"For Mazzini, a nationality means a race, a fixed array of behavior like a breed of dog or a species of animal. * *He is not thinking of a national community united by a literate language and a classical culture to which any person can become assimilated through a political choice. * *For Mazzini, race is unchangeable, and race is destiny. * *It is a matter of blood and soil. * *Cats fight dogs, French fight Germans, Germans fight Poles, and so on through all eternity. These hatreds are the main datum of sensory perception.* *Each of Mazzini’s organizations demands immediate nationa... more »

    New cover for iron buddhas

    risa bearatA Way to Live - 10 hours ago
    Iron Buddhas By Risa Bear View this Author's Spotlight Paperback, 185 Pages [image: Iron Buddhas] Preview Price: $11.99 Ships in 3-5 business days Iron Buddhas is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a woman's experiences tree planting and fire fighting in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. Stephanie Smith sets out from Georgia to Oregon in the winter of '75 seeking work in the woods. She finds that and more. By the author of Starvation Ridge. *PDF $1.99Epub $2.99* The price of the paper edition, alas, had to go up, but the epubs have not changed in price, and there is a blov... more »

    USDOE's Guiding Principles: School Climate and Discipline

    Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
    Reblogged from Ward 8 DC Teacher: Guiding Principle #1, creating a safe and supportive school environment, is a great first step. However, we must move beyond expressing idealistic principles, and more towards implementing pragmatic best practices. Schools consisting of low-income, high-trauma, and at-risk student populations need targeted approaches. My school, a DCPS traditional public middle […]

    THIS ISSUE ON CORPORATE WELFARE

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago
    My latest public access TV show with guest Orlando Delogu who is a retired law professor at the University of Southern Maine. He specializes on corporate welfare issues and helped us tremendously in our recent campaign here in Bath to try to block the requested tax break by General Dynamics that owns Bath Iron Works. We were able to trim about one million dollars from this proposed corporate tax break. A bit more money for the local people and less for those at the top of the war machine.

    Shelley Moore Capito Says She "Stands With West Virginia Against Obama’s War On Coal"-- As Her Constituents Line Up For Bottled Water

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
    Most West Virginians never seem to learn any lessons about the natural resource exploitation companies that hold absolute power in their state. Their bottom lines-- the only priority they care about-- trump the well-being of the rest of society. That simple. It's why healthy societies protect themselves from predators with regulations and effective government. Now people in Charleston and 9 surrounding counties are praying the trucks of bottled water arrive and keep arriving, courtesy of the National Guard-- 9 counties where they can't use their regular water sources for drinking... more »

    Speaking of Long, Strange Trips

    jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago
    [image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-axqHJ1x1EsI/T_XcuSDFbdI/AAAAAAAAC9M/La7i2G-l8j4/s1600/DSC_0449.JPG] I'll just get it out of the way right now. As this New Year has already been strange and thick for us here at Pottersville, rarely if ever in a good way, I can tell you that by the 29th, I will have already forgotten that my 9th anniversary as a blogger is coming up. Coming up 13 days before that, or in the next five days, is my 55th birthday. As I've stated recently, everything is hitting me all at once, namely annual auto inspection, the renewal of my license and regist... more »

    12 Jan - Blogs I'm Following

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    'Ice and Snow World' in Harbin, China Español:...'Ice and Snow World' in Harbin, China Español: Invierno en Harbin. עברית: 'עולם הקרח והשלג'בחארבין Polski: Festiwal Rzeźb Lodowych w Harbinie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
    Wandering around the streets, Harbin, Heilongj...Wandering around the streets, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
    China,  Shibangou Bridge underpass,   Fuling, ...China, Shibangou Bridge underpass, Fuling, Yangtze river (Photo credit: bilwander)
    Montage of various Harbin imagesMontage of various Harbin images (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
    J.A.M Trans Nissan DFV-949 (fleet No A-950) an...J.A.M Trans Nissan DFV-949 (fleet No A-950) and five other buses on layover in the Lawton area of Manila, Philippines. (Photo credit: express000)
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    Cis, Trans, and Privilege

    Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 minute ago
    I'm not one to rail on about Gender Politics. I'm interested in Human Rights, especially as they effect Trans and Intersex people. I'm interested in the Science of Sex and Gender. The sociology, politics, and ideology, not so much. There's an awfully low signal-to-noise ratio there, unevidenced conjectures declaimed with much conviction, and often inhuman cruelty. This blog is intended to be educational and informative, about a matter that should be of interest to everyone. A matter of "public concern", mixing education about the science, and information about how Trans and Interse... more »

    Mohawk Nation News 'Old Hat'

    brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 3 minutes ago
    OLD HAT Posted on January 12, 2014  Mohawk Nation News Jan. 12, 2014: Unfortunately for Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and his corporate overlords’ plans to control the world, soon the old technology they use will become obsolete. Their tyranny of us and our mother will be as extinct as they will become. Bill C38 is Harper’s version of Hitler’s “enabling act” of 1933, to get money for

    "I wish I could add a fond remembrance" (Jane Mayer on Reagan press sec'y Larry Speakes)

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 10 minutes ago
    *"I wish I could add a fond remembrance of Larry Speakes . . . . There have been plenty of accolades, and I'm sure there will be more. But it's worth a note about how Speakes treated reporters who strayed from the company line."* -- *Jane Mayer, in a newyorker.com "News Desk" post,* "Crossing Larry Speakes" *by Ken* Is there such a thing as a good White House press secretary? In this day and age, maybe the interests of an administration and the media have diverged to the point that there can't be. You can think of the administration as either "just trying to get our story out" or ... more »

    China Plans To Seize South China Sea Island From Philippines, Says "Battle Will Be Restricted" ..... I other news , Japan holds military drill as S. China Sea islands dispute widens

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/china-plans-seize-south-china-sea-island-philippines-says-battle-will-be-restricted China Plans To Seize South China Sea Island From Philippines, Says "Battle Will Be Restricted" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/12/2014 19:00 -0500 - China - Japan - Obama Administration - recovery inShare Following Japan's proclamations that it will take over another 280 'disputed ownership' islands, it appears the increasingly dis-approved of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's path of militarism and provocation... more »

    Does this school really care for the children?

    Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
    From a Georgia school: Yes, this is what education has become. I have no words. Please feel free to comment below.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face

    China's fairytale theatre of ice sculptures- Harbin Ice and Snow Festival

    PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
    Though myself and so many others were freezing earlier this week... Unusually so. In Harbin, China they are enjoying themselves at their yearly Ice and Snow Festival .I gotta admit this icy cold display is pretty darn awesome! I will post a few images. And link to the rest. Or here *"It took 7,000 artists to create this sprawling 6,458,400 square feet of winter wonderland in Harbin, China's tenth most populous city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, where winter temperatures drop to a low of -40 degrees Celsius.* *Countless blocks of crystal ice were cut from the frozen... more »

    We’re rock stars

    Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 hour ago
    *Sex, Drugs and Rock'N'Roll 13** by chrismaverick on **deviantART* WELL, LOAD UP ON drugs and bring your friends, because New Zealand is being talked up as the “rock star” economy for 2014. Hee haw! This, by the way, is predicated on three things underlying what economists call “growth” that these groupies see as fairly foregone conclusions: 1. The dairy boom. 2. The housing boom. 3. The Canterbury RebuildTM But there are problems with each of these—the first problem being in the way these alleged economists measure growth. YOU SEE, IF IT is to mean anything at all, ... more »

    The Ravitch Conference, Featuring Randi Weingarten

    Jim HornatSchools Matter - 1 hour ago
    Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody started a new organization a year or so ago called the Network for Public Education. Board members were chosen, and the chosen board members chose Ravitch as President and Cody as Treasurer. As NPE president, Ravitch will be the Keynote Speaker at a UTexas based two-day conference in early March that, according to Cody, will "bring together activists from around the country to network and learn together, from one another, so as to strengthen our ability to act in defense of public education." Prominently noted on the conference poster at the NPE webs... more »

    WAR CRIMINALS GATHER FOR WAR CRIMINAL’S FUNERAL

    The war criminal Tony Blair will be present for Ariel Sharon’s funeral as will be Australia’s Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop. Bishop was a member of the Australian war criminal John Howard’s government that was part of the group of nations that waged unprovoked war against Iraq knowing that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and knowing that Iraq was not a threat to Australia. Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to send Bishop to Sharon’s funeral exposes the Australian government’s support of ruthless Israeli Zionist policies against the Palestinian people and a ... more »

    Richard Dawkins on Retiring Essentialism

    PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 2 hours ago
    As someone who exists in the real world, I'm always interested in the annual "big question" event organised by edge.org, the online home for clever folk who keep it real by talking about the real. This year, the question posed by this forum of what the *Graun* likes to call the "world's most brilliant minds" was "which scientific idea would you retire, and why?" Interesting. You can read Ian McEwan's polemic against arrogance, Azra Raza on the use of mouse models in science, and Stewart Brand on the linear no-threshold radiation dose hypothesis. By all means, take a look. It's inte... more »

    Toss another book on the fire

    AlisonatCreekside - 2 hours ago
    Yeah, it's an old toon recycled for Steve's Libricide : *CBC Fifth Estate : Silence of the Labs* I see Steve has also recycled Dimitri Soudas back into play. I like how Dimitri's new rug really ties the room together.

    Quakes offshore Chiba and the new volcano growing offshore of Tokyo - are there connections between these two different events and perhaps a precursor of a large seismic event ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
    5 continuous quakes offshore Chiba→JP Gov “New irregular diastrophism on-going offshore different from 311″ Posted by *Mochizuki* on January 12th, 2014 · No Comments Share on deliciousShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services *Note : If you are from the international mass media, Don’t read this site before having a contact with me.* Following up this article.. *5 quakes Chiba east offshore within 7 hours on 1/2/2014* [URL] The continuous earthquakes are assumed to be “slow earthquake [wikipedia]“, according to Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Th... more »

    Sunday Classics: Now we hear Mahler's heartbreaking "Kindertotenlieder"

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
    *Baritone Matthias Goerne sings "Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n" ("Now will the sun rise just as brightly"), the opening song of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, with Jonathan Nott conducting the Mahler Youth Orchestra, at a Proms concert in the Royal Albert Hall, Sept. 4, 2009.* Now will the sun rise just as brightly as if no misfortune had happened in the night. The misfortune happened to me alone; the sun shines for everyone. Your must not hoard the night within, it must be absorbed into the eternal light. A little lamp in my shelter has gone out; hail to the joyful light of the wo... more »

    Top 100 Movies by Body Count

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
    Full list over at MovieBodyCounts.com. Also thanks to Business Insider for entering that data and drawing this graph.

    North Carolina's Unemployment Misery Made Unbearable By Koch-Funded State Rethuglicans, But Not To Worry - Plantations Being Gov't-Funded To Return!

    January 11, 2014 The Raleigh Experiment North Carolina is an interesting place these days, and I mean that in the worst possible way. It’s a southern state, but one with a major technology complex, growing foreign investment, and what seemed until recently to be a moderating, increasingly sophisticated political culture. But then came the Republican wave of 2010, and NC was taken over

    "Do ‘Question Time’ audiences need to be quite so hostile?"

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 4 hours ago
    It's interesting that Nigel Farage seems to have come to the same conclusion as James Delingpole about the problem with BBC One's *Question Time.* Just as Dellers "totally believes" that the *QT* team tries its best to ensure that their audiences reflect the political spectrum, so Nige also says (in today's* Independent*) that he's "not pointing the finger of blame at the *QT* team" for the peculiar hostility he and other UKIP members so often face from *Question Time *audiences, and the evident fact that *QT *audiences generally do *not* seem to reflect the political spectrum. ... more »

    Visual Stimulation for a Sunday evening

    D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 4 hours ago
    [image: Someone at work finally paid attention to my warning sign.] [image: Watch out!] [image: Bilbo Baggins, everyone.] and just in case you don't think that your eyes are the projectors ....

    US Senator Ted Cruz speaks at Texas Public Policy Foundation's Policy Orientation 2014...

    AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 5 hours ago
    *take the time to listen. * You won't be sorry... Promise.

    Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, January 12th, 2013

    NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 6 hours ago
    Sunday.... And again time for my usual rant that will both surprise you and piss many people off at the same time... First, I want again to thank everyone for their support over the last while during a time when I was led to believe that I had a heart condition... I went for the followup this last week, and the doctor stated that my heart is perfectly fine. There is no blockage and all the EKG and blood work readings are back to normal. I can almost safely state that the cause of all the commotion in the first place was most probably due to one heck of a viral infection in my che... more »

    The legendary megapod

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
    Clive James is stilling writing beautiful TV reviews at the *Daily Telegraph*. Here's an extract from his latest piece: Having painstakingly disguised an underwater camera as a tuna, BBC One was rewarded with an entrée into a so-called “megapod” of dolphins. We were assured that this was the first time ever that a megapod had been seen. And indeed* Dolphins: Spy in the Pod *featured some stunning footage, if stunning footage is what you go for. Personally, after the first thousand or so dolphins had surrounded the dummy tuna, I started to get a bit blasé. When so many dolphins mee... more »

    'Soft power' and Fat Boy Kim

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
    Kim Jong-un *The Sunday Times* had a bit of a scoop this morning, reporting that William Hague and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are "helping" BBC Worldwide to negotiate with the sick, mass-murderous regime in North Korea to encourage them to allow various BBC programmes to be broadcast on the totalitarian dictatorship's airwaves - an exercise in 'soft power' by the British government. [This is probably the sort of thing that gets our friend Tom wound up about the BBC. Has he given up already?]. *The Sunday Times*'s headline went for one BBC programme in particular - *Teletu... more »

    What is the "Holocaust" story really all about?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 7 hours ago
    Jewish leaders in Hungary are up in arms about a *"planned monument to victims of the Germany occupation for ignoring Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust,"* according to an article recently published by the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*. The Hungarian government is *planning to build* a monument commemorating *all* alleged "victims" of the "German occupation" of Hungary during WWII, not merely the alleged Jewish victims of the fake "Holocaust" story. Essentially, the organized Jewish community in Hungary is upset because their racial and religious kinsmen are not receiving all the att... more »

    Spin

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
    Stats are great. Really they are. The problems start when people start spinning the stats. Here's an example. The statistic that 24,000 families who do not live in the UK receive child benefit, costing millions of pounds, is "crackers", according to the *Daily Mail*. The same figure - without any mention of the 'millions of pounds' cost - was mentioned by Shaun Ley on this morning's *Broadcasting House. * He, however, spun presented it as being *only* 24,000 families, describing the numbers as "smaller" than might be expected. Spinning the stats then. *Broadcasting House ... more »

    Ayn Rand on science, altruism, and the U.S. businessmen's treason

    Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 7 hours ago
    Ayn Rand (1905-1982; she moved from the USSR to the U.S. in 1931) was an originally Russian Jewish, later U.S. author, philosopher, and a libertarian guru. Several folks have pointed out to me that her thinking was close to mine. I have never been exposed to her work and thoughts – a fact that is not too surprising given my 16 years in a communist country plus 10 years in the U.S. Academia. But finally today, when Willie Soon recommended me the 52-minute talk above – named "The Sanction of the Victims"– that she gave in 1981, a year before she died of a heart attack (it was her l... more »

    Ravitch Announces Randi's "Decoupling" of Common Core from VAM

    Jim HornatSchools Matter - 7 hours ago
    With light diminishing between Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten's positions, Dr. Ravitch posted this this morning. My comment at her blog follows. *A reader who calls himself or herself “Democracy” left comments criticizing me for defending Randi Weingarten–or perhaps for not attacking her.* *Here is my response to Democracy:* *Democracy, you ask a good question, and I will answer as best I can..* *As you know, I have criticized the Common Core in many posts. I have criticized the lack of transparency and the lack of educator participation in its development. I have criticized the... more »

    Why Debbie Wasserman Schultz Should Never Be Speaker Of The House

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
    Sugar is just one reason to keep her away from power; more later Since 1990, Big Sugar has given just over $34.3 million in legalistic bribes to Members of Congress and candidates to Congress. The biggest recipient in the House is corrupt Blue Dog Collin Peterson (MN), once chair, now ranking member, of the den in inequity known as the House Agriculture Committee. He's banked $321,627 so far. The current Ag Committee Chair, Frank Lucas (R-OK) has gobbled up $205,000 from the sugar barons so far. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has done nicely as well-- just about $100,000 b... more »

    THE BUTCHER OF SABRA AND SHATILA IS DEAD; WHO AMONG THE WORLD’S LEADERS WILL BE THERE FOR HIS FUNERAL?

    It’ll be interesting to see who of the world’s leaders will turn up for this war criminals funeral. Will the mainstream Western media whitewash his crimes or simply ignore them? See here for an accounting of Sharon’s part in the crime.

    Thailand: Thaksin Supporters Threaten to Kidnap & Kill Daughters of Army Chief

    Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 8 hours ago
    *Image: Thai Army Commander-in-ChiefPrayuth Chan-ocha's twin daughters havebecome the target of kidnapping and deaththreats by the supporters of ThaksinShinawatra.**January 12, 2014* (ATN) - The Bangkok Post has confirmed that craven threats by Thaksin supporters have been made against Thai Royal Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha and his twin daughters. In it's article, "Abduction threat on Prayuth's daughters," the Bangkok Post would report: The Royal Thai Army on Sunday condemned an anti-coup activist and supporter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra afte... more »

    Mike Sledge on The Realist Report

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 8 hours ago
    *Reconstructions Live w/ Mike Sledge - Renegade Broadcasting* Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube*

    Poverty Gold

    Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 9 hours ago
    President Obama has marked the 50th Anniversary of LBJ's War on Poverty speech with yet another cynical dog whistle to Wall Street. In announcing the formation of "Promise Zones" in five carefully selected communities, Obama effectively assured the ruling class that their record windfalls will continue, unimpeded and unabated. There's gold in them thar blighted hills and dales, so the free market is cordially invited to line its pockets from so-called Poverty Pockets. As CounterPunch's Mike Whitney so saliently observes (h/t AnneEnigma), Obama's promise zones are nothing more than... more »

    Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative

    sueatIs the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
    (or if it’s anything to do with Israel, eliminate the positive and accentuate the negative) Of all the media coverage of ‘Ariel Sharon the man’ I’ve looked at today, I don’t think the BBC’s has been the most biased. Yesterday they dwelt far too much on the bitter reactions of Israel’s enemies, though there are some grudging attempts at balance, frequently qualified by those obligatory ‘buts’. I understand there are individual BBC Twitterers who would have it otherwise. No balance and no buts. The comparison between the overall coverage of Sharon’s life and death and Mandela’s has... more »

    Ariel Sharon Dead

    LeDaroatLeDaro - 10 hours ago
    Stephen Harper is very saddened. Sharon who butchered Palestinians mercilessly. *Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, described Sharon as "one of the architects of modern-day Israel" and one of its "staunchest defenders" in a statement of condolence."A renowned military leader, Mr. Sharon pursued the security of Israel with unyielding determination that was recognized by friends and foes alike."* CBC I wonder what rest of the folks think.

    Rethinking “Creative” in the Common Core Era: “Let’s not tell them what to write”

    plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
    Rethinking \”Creative\” in the Common Core Era: \”Let\’s not tell them what to write\”. via Rethinking “Creative” in the Common Core Era: “Let’s not tell them what to write”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

    A Friend

    gail zawackiatWit's End - 10 hours ago
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216154851.htm *Global Warming: Four Degree Rise Will End Vegetation 'Carbon Sink', Research Suggests* *Dec. 16, 2013* — Latest climate and biosphere modelling suggests that the length of time carbon remains in vegetation during the global carbon cycle -- known as 'residence time' -- is the key "uncertainty" in predicting how Earth's terrestrial plant life -- and consequently almost all life -- will respond to higher CO2 levels and global warming, say researchers. Carbon will spend increasingly less time in vegetation as the negative i... more »

    Cattle Mutilations: “Some Animals Survive” - Interview with Daniel U. Padilla

    Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago
    *Cattle Mutilations: “Some Animals Survive”* *A Radio Interview with Daniel Ubaldo Padilla in Chepes, La Rioja – December 13 2013* *[Intro omitted]* *Daniel U. Padilla*: Just let me clarify a few things. While I am identified as an ufologist within the UFO community in Argentina my specialty is the subject of mutilations. There is no question that the UFO phenomenon is tightly related with the cattle mutilations phenomenon, which I have been studying for eleven years, I want to be objective about this. While the ETH or the UFO theory of beings that may not be from here is invo... more »

    Still Chugging along....

    Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 10 hours ago
    [image: IMG_2779] ...but I probably won't be posting here for a few days. Insanely busy. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

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    New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
    *VIDEO: Large crowd greets Saints upon return ~WWLTV * *James Gill: How the Brits feel about the War of 1812 ~New Orleans Advocate* *Richard Campanella Cityscapes: How New Orleans House Numbers Came To Be ~Eve Troeh, WWNO* *Exhibition: ‘Photography at NOMA’ at The New Orleans Museum of Art ~Dr. Marcus Bunyan, Art Blart*

    THE FUNNIES....

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago

    Today's cardinal number: 19

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
    Poor Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. On the day Pope Francis makes him a cardinal, the BBC's report on the Pope's move relegates his good news to the final two paragraphs. Yes, the good old internationalist BBC is far more interested in the new cardinals from the Global South. This is how they begin their report: Pope Francis is to appoint 19 new cardinals next month, including churchmen from Haiti and Burkina Faso, reflecting his commitment to the poor. Well done Cardinal-to-be Vincent!

    The Costs of Common Core?

    plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
    Funding public education constitutes a large percentage of many states’ total budget, and thus, over the past three or four decades, the role of governor has become necessarily one that impacts education policy strongly. I believe that increased connection between partisan politics and conducting public schools has been powerfully and negatively influential. When I posted Millions […]

    Arik, Dieudonne, vicars under attack, Flesh and Blood, Bethlehem Unwrapped, Paul Goggins, a codex, and the devil

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
    This morning's *Sunday* began with a short appraisal of the life of *Ariel Sharon* from the BBC's Kevin Connolly, beginning with Mr Sharon's role in "what Israelis call their war of independence" (as Edward Stourton put it). One area that interested Kevin and Ed was the changing nature of Zionism. We now tend to think of Zionism as being "associated with Orthodox religion", said Kevin, but in the early days it was largely a secular, socialist movement driven by the urge to build a new kind of society based on the principles of the Left, and the Sharon family belonged to that secul... more »

    THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago

    More from Gilad Atzmon on the censorship of Dieudonné & la quenelle

    PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
    Thanks again gallier! gallier2January 12, 2014 at 5:42 AM New intervention from Gilad Atzmon about Dieudo What do you think about the issues raised by Gilad?

    SUNDAY SONG

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago

    Here He Comes

    Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 11 hours ago
    So you thought the election was in 2015. And now, like Humphrey Bogart -- who went to Casablanca for the waters -- you discover that you have been misinformed. The election campaign has begun. Don Martin writes: Stephen Harper photo-ops are being booked across the country. Advance squads deployed to handpick participants to ensure partisan purity, gender balance and ethnic diversity. Film crews have been hired to document it all. Editors will varnish over any negative optics. And a velvet-voiced narrator will script the action during breaks in the Maple Leaf Forever soundtrack. ... more »

    Why Steny Hoyer Should Never Be Speaker Of The House

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
    Hoyer: Two portions for K Street, drippings for working families Members if Congress tell me if Hoyer ever gets the gavel every single bill will go through K Street for revision and nothing worthwhile will veer get done. Hoyer is the worst kind of centrist and has always fought for his wing of the Democratic Party-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. This week he was doing just what you would expect some old, out of touch white guy to do-- campaigning against progressive efforts to end marijuana prohibition. Even while his own state's dynamic, progressive gubernatorial hope... more »

    Fukushima Updates January 9 , 2014 - Unvarnished news , articles and views regarding the unfolding global disaster otherwise known as the Fukushima debacle .....

    Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
    Ex - SKF #Fukushima I NPP: Data on Strontium in Water Hasn't Been Published for 6 Months, and Will Not Be Published Until TEPCO Figures Out What's Wrong What's worse is (as usual) TEPCO didn't say anything until now. What's even worse is that TEPCO is not going to release the data until it fully investigates why the new results differ from the old results. Nuclear Regulation Authority was openly expressing doubt about the data that came from TEPCO on radioactive materials measurement, and that was about 6 months ago. From Yomiuri Shinbun (1/9/2014): 東電、ストロンチウム濃度公表せず…測定誤り? TEPCO... more »

    FEMALE MP IN PEDOPHILE RING

    Anonataangirfan - 14 hours ago
    *Andrew Ash, who was abused by members of a pedophile ring, which included a female member of parliament.* A female member of the UK parliament sexually abused a thirteen-year-old boy called Andrew Ash. Andrew Ash was brought from a government children's home, to parliament, to be sexually abused. *Female MP abused boy in care* - Express.co.uk ‎ *Female MPs.* The female MP was part of a pedophile ring 'at the heart of government', a ring that included Sir Jimmy Savile. Andrew was also trafficked to Amsterdam on a number of occasions. *Female MP abused boy in care* - Express.co.... more »

    Greece updates January 12 , 2014 - Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister Reveals Advanced Case of Stockholm Syndrome ........ Troika arrival likely to be postponed Target date for an agreement with the country’s creditors will be deferred to February as talks hit snags..... Greece's industrial output continues to suffer - suffering since 2008 !

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/yanis-varoufakis-greek-finance-minister-reveals-advanced-case-stockholm-syndrome.html Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister Reveals Advanced Case of Stockholm SyndromePosted on January 11, 2014 by Yves Smith *By Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economics at the University of Athens. Originally posted at his blog* This is a stupendous story. Possibly for the first time in its tainted history, the International Monetary Fund had a major change of heart and tried to do the right thing by a ‘program’ country, only to be turned down by that very ... more »

    Another Republican, Another Bridge to Nowhere

    jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 15 hours ago
    (By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) “*Time for some traffic problems* in *Fort Lee*.” -Former Chris Christie Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, pictured above, returning to the scene of the crime It's tough, if not outright impossible, to provide additional news or even original commentary to the Bridgegate episode of September 9-13, 2013 that Rachel Maddow hasn't already covered since she's been screaming about this from the rafters of MSNBC's sound stages. Suffice it to say that while the 2000 pages of documents consisting of damning emails and text... more »

    Thor News - NeoWise 'asteroid hunter' back online - planetary spiral orbits

    Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 16 hours ago
    I love Thor News; he is Texas's answer to BBC Sky At Night's Sir Patrick Moore. Here he is telling us that infrared object detector NEOWISE is back online since they 'fixed the fridge' on it. Lovely diarism. *ADDITIONAL SPACE GUBBINS:* did you know that our Solar System is in the Milky Way Galaxy? Of course you did. But did you know that the plane of rotation isn't flat to our galaxy. In fact it's close to a ninty degree tilt. This means that the planets, as they rotate round the sun are forming a SPIRAL PATH through the cosmos. I was *umming* and *arring* about actually posting ... more »

    BBC News - Ariel Sharon death: Ex-PM to lie in state in Israel

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 17 hours ago
    Unlike with Nelson 'the second Christ' Mandela, on whose death no negative comments were allowed, the BBC's report of the death of Ariel Sharon contains mention of his 'crime': '... after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 he was found to have been responsible by an Israeli inquiry of failing to prevent the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.' I don't recall Nelson Mandela's terrorist past getting much if any coverage on the BBC. Nor was Nelson Mandela held responsible for failing to prevent his wife's fondness f... more »

    WAR CRIMES DOSSIER NAMES WALL

    Anonataangirfan - 17 hours ago
    *Wall and Blair.* *General Sir Peter Wall*, the head of the British Army, could be prosecuted for war crimes. *Dossier on 'abuse' by UK forces in Iraq goes to ICC* - The Independent A 250-page dossier names Sir Peter Wall and gives details of beatings, electrocution, mock executions and sexual assault. The dossier has been presented to the* International Criminal Court.* The former UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and the former UK Defence Minister Adam Ingram are also named in the report. *Iraq torture.* The dossier is the result of several years' work by Public Interest Lawyers ... more »

    Roger Roger

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
    Reading the *Biased BBC* blog for many years, I've been able to follow the extraordinary saga of the Freedom of Information battle between dogged blogger Tony Newbery of Harmless Sky and the almost-as-dogged BBC over a 2006 seminar organised by the corporation's environment analyst Roger Harrabin. As is its way (think of the Balen Report), the BBC made a determined and legally costly effort to keep all information about the controversial seminar secret, for its eyes only. The legal battle came to an end last month with Mr Newbery's final victory over the BBC. *The Mail on Sunda... more »

    inBloom, Clever, and Student Privacy: More “Big Data” Considerations

    deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
    My last few posts have focused on the issue of student data collection, storage, and dissemination to “education vendors.” Meanwhile, I have also been reading about the call to separate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from assessments. I maintain that the spectrum of reforms are intended to be a package deal and are promoted as such by the […]

    EXPOSED: Fake "Respect My Vote" Protest Abuse Fellow Protester

    Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 19 hours ago
    *January 12, 2014* (ATN) - Thai demonstrators donning white shirts, lighting candles, releasing white balloons and carrying placards stating "Respect My Vote," are portrayed as ordinary people who simply want to defend the democratic process against growing anti-regime protesters. However, it was clear from the beginning that it was nothing more than a rebranding of the regime's "red shirt" enforcers in an effort to confuse the public both in Thailand and internationally. *Image: The regime believes the Thai people, and more importantly, international audiences are as ignorant as ... more »

    War watch January 9 -11, 2014.... Iran nuclear talks with P5 + 1 hit snag over Tehran's nuclear centrifuge research ....... Syria rebel infighting continues as Rebel forces attack two chemical weapon sites..... Iraq's chaotic situation in Anbar continues as tribes want neither Iraq's military nor Al Qaeda in their midst .....

    Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
    Iran....... Obama WH: Pro-Sanctions Senators Should Admit They Want War With Iran John Glaser, January 10, 2014 Print This | Share This | Comment As Jason Ditz highlights in the news section today, congressional support for heaping additional sanctions on Iran, even as the interim deal plays out ahead of further negotiations on a final deal, is picking up in the Senate. Up to 58 senators have committed to voting yes on new sanctions, an action the Obama administration and Iranian negotiators have said would kill good faith negotiations. But the Obama White House seems to be steppin... more »

    Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia Resigns

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
    Americans don't know much about the Central African Republic. Until the last couple of weeks it hadn't been in the American news cycles since 1979 when French paratroopers ousted self-proclaimed Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, who had been eating school children. He was found guilty of related charges but they never proved the cannibalism charges-- nor did they try very hard since it was seen as a national embarrassment-- and he served 7 years of his life-in-prison sentence. He was posthumously pardoned in 2010. One of Africa's most brutal dictators, accused of cannibalism and feedin... more »

    Video - What is the White Man March?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 21 hours ago
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    A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions --An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Bates

    angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 21 hours ago
    Sign the Amnesty Intl. petition for Albert Woodfox! *(PHOTO: On behalf of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Rev. Dr. Patricia Bates speaks in support of Albert Woodfox at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge on October 21, 2013.)* *A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions * *--An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates* *By Angola 3 News* This past Fall, Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 made news headlines around the world when his conviction was overturned and he was dramatically released from pr... more »

    How to fix Toronto for good

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 21 hours ago
    Toronto needs better hard power or infrastructure and better soft power or cultural efficiency. Both powers are best practiced on a generational timeline. Children continually hear they are the future, but its always admonished in a glib nebulous way, " you can be anything you want" sorry no you cant, you have opportunities, but in fact everyone can not be anything they want. This is the foundation of the lie politicians use to win short sighted victories. The TDSB should have a *How to be the Future curriculum*. In the early years its mostly stories of heroes and villains. Rob ... more »

    Neiman Marcus also has sustained a cyber attack customer data breach ( back in mid- December ) involving credit and debit cards used at Neiman Marcus ! Only after Brian Krebs made inquiries , did Neiman Marcus acknowledge the mid - December breach and that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. ! Neiman Marcus spokesperson Ginger Reeder said the company does not yet know the cause, size or duration of the breach, noting that these are details being sought by a third-party forensics firm which has yet to complete its investigation. But she said there is no evidence that shoppers who purchased from the company’s online stores were affected by this breach. In that regard , the breach at Neiman Marcus is similar to the Target breach ( online stores were not affected in the Target breach. ) And as of today , the Target breach remains an unsolved crime. next question - how many other stores might have suffered breached between black Friday and Xmas ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
    As to the additional breaches - several more yet to be revealed and the Target hack attack grow larger..... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-more-well-known-u-retailers-victims-cyberattacks-024345910--sector.html Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclos... more »

    Breaking GMO News From Kauai, Hawaii

    Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
    BREAKING: Pioneer, Syngenta & DOW Chemical file suit against Kaua'i to invalidate Bill 2491, which requires them to disclose the pesticides they spray and to maintain buffer zones for safety. Looks like they've just shot themselves in the f...oot. More publicity to show the world how evil they are. READ THE NEWS: http://news.yahoo.com/agrichemical-companies-sue-block-anti-gmo-law-hawaii-171141482--sector.html READ about the link between this birth defect and the herbicide atrazine: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/05/link.between.birth.defect.gastroschisis.and.agricul... more »

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    Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 22 hours ago
    I find it amazing how low our mainstream media has stooped, lazy, bought off and complicit in propping up both a corrupt and inept BC Liberal Government, Gordon Campbell was corrupt as the day is long and nothing has changed under the guidance of Christy Clark, if anything it has gotten worse, when will the media remember their job is to hold Government to account and not just cheerlead and read press releases.. Can`t they figure out why no one wants to buy newspapers anymore, or listen to talk radio, the public needs critical thought, actually the public would appreciate even a lit... more »

    Alex Rodriguez suspension decision released - 162 games ( full regular season ) and post season ban for the upcoming season set by Independent Arbitrator Frederic Horowitz ..... 60 Minutes will interview Anthony Bosch ( formerly of Biogenesis ) and MLB COO Rob Manfred - discussion of the case against A- Rod...... meanwhile A- Rod plans to head to Federal Court to seek an injunction !

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
    http://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-news/2014/1/11/5299642/alex-rodriguez-suspended-steroids-evidence-anthony-bosch-60-minutes/in/5062745 Alex Rodriguez suspension: MLB's evidence to be presented on 60 Minutes Sunday night By Tanya Bondurant  @TanyaBondurant on Jan 11 2014, 8:00p 5 Patrick McDermott Biogenesis clinic owner Anthony Bosch and MLB COO Rob Manfred will appear during primetime to hash out details of the case against A-Rod. TWEET (10) SHARE (8)  SHARE 5 COMMENTS The world will get a look at the details of MLB's case against Alex Rodriguezthat led to his 162-game suspe... more »

    In re. Smartypants Researchers v. James Bond, I'm inclined to side with 007

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    *Caption from the medical journal BMJ:* "*James Bond’s weekly alcohol consumption by year of book publication*" *by Ken* When it comes to awe for doctors, my friend Peter had his pretty well derailed by going to school with a sizable number of schlubs who were fated to go on to become same. As a result, in his mind, medical degrees and licenses notwithstanding, they remained pretty much the same schlubs he had known in high school and college. And so in approaching this research into the drinking habits of Commander James Bond, aka 007, I'm inclined to bear in mind that the resear... more »

    TV Watch: Searching for bright spots in this cataclysmically awful TV season

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    *Even though, or perhsps because, the comic-book store has descended into ghostly solitude, Stuart (Kevin Sussman) has amply rewarded the increased attention of The Big Bang Theory's producers -- and the other "supporting" characters are coming up aces too.* *by Ken* I haven't been doing much "TV Watch"-ing lately, which might be because I haven't been doing much TV watching, but anyone who knows me knows that that's a laugh. Especially with two shiny new TVs, I've probably never watched more TV in my life. It's just that less and less of it is, you know, *TV*. At least not curren... more »

    JFK50: "Lyndon Did It".

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
    Print This | ShareThis Defaming The Dead: A Legal Remedy for Absurd Charges That LBJ Murdered JFKBy JOHN W. DEANFriday, Mar. 12, 2004 In October 2003, Barr McClellan published *Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.*. As its title suggests, the book makes an astounding claim that former President Lyndon Johnson, and other deceased officials and persons, were involved in a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. This claim is patently absurd. Yet according to the *New York Times*, over 75,000 copies of the book have been sold. McClellan is a retired Texas attorney who says h... more »

    Musical Interlude: Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    Yanni, “To the One Who Knows” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF3kxNYTmsk

    A scheduled Harperectomy . . .

    EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
    SOCIAL MEDICINE:People like the Koch brothers, Stevie and Rob Ford are actually mentally-ill from the POV of rational humanist social norms. By their lights, though, their greed is 100% rational and desirable, regardless of cost to others. The sad truth of history is that other people who think like that have managed to do a lot of damage before they were stopped.THE POLITICAL SCALPEL:

    Many rivers to cross for Christie

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago
    While I continue to think Christie's bridge scandal will ultimately lead nowhere, the story has a lot longer legs than I first anticipated. The hundreds of pages of documents will keep the media busy for at least a couple of weeks and if it turns out the lane closures were illegal somebody could get indicted. It could become a enduring scandal of his administration. But hell, we're talking about Jersey. Politicians and their operatives are always getting caught in scandals. It's part of the fabric of life in The Garden State. Everybody who's not a gullible, hardcore conservative kn... more »

    Guided Reading in Kindergarten is one of the many dramatic outrages of #commoncore

    Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
    As the regular reader knows, I am now teaching Kindergarten in SE Washington, DC this year. Enjoying it so much more than teaching at the university level. This entire school year for DCPS, for whom I worked previously over a decade ago, there has been an obsession with the use of Guided Reading. My expertise […]

    Think you better slow your Mustang down

    Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago
    I'm still moving slow this week. So have some funky music.

    We're One and we're done.

    Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
    With the completion of this experiment on humanity, a wide diversity of emotions surface. Anger, disbelief, fear, exhaustion and skepticism are among them. What can be trusted? Who has our best interests at heart? How do we discern assistance from manipulation? What are the motives of anyone in power; of anyone period? Each question leads ultimately back to you. It depends always on your point of view. We are sharing a pivotal moment. Each of us decided to join this party for our own reasons. As of late, those reasons are coming into sharper focus as our paths diverge. I... more »

    Coming out of the Cold

    theozarkeratThe Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
    January 11, 2014 We went from zero for a high (with a low of -10) on Monday or Tuesday of last week to thirty-four for a low tonight and sixty degrees for a high tomorrow. Like much of the country, … Continue reading →

    Canada Stupid, Norwary Smart

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
    Every citizen of Norway is now a millionaire. The same would be true in Canada if PET had not lost to Brian Mulroney.

    "How It Really Is"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

    “Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    *“Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day* * That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”* By Lynn Stuart Parramore “For the past five years, the market for luxury goods has been on a roll, even as the rest of the economy sputtered. Fancy cars are flying off the production lines. Tiffany and Prada are in the pink. Even Big Tobacco is in on the action, doing brisk business in high-end cigars. Consumer spending is up! the latest headlines shout. Rejoice! But wait — if a big chunk of this is driven by sales of luxury goods, is that ultimately a good thing for the economy? ... more »

    We On The Grind In... Georgia

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    In Georgia, they want Medicare expansion and they want to keep their crazy anti-healthcare Governor. Maybe they listen to too much Hate Talk Radio and watch too much Fox News and have wound up with addled brains, but an Atlanta *Journal-Constitution* poll released today yields a portrait of one very confused electorate. Let's start with this interesting finding among Peach State respondents: 57% of them favor Medicaid expansion. OK, that makes sense and is pretty much in line with what voters in other red states without Medicare expansion want. But the guy who's preventing Medicare... more »

    Are the Greens Progressive?

    PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
    Are the Greens a progressive party? Are they enemies of the labour movement that need combatting alongside the Tories, UKIP, LibDems and the rest? I ask because, as *Graun* readers may have seen, Ian Sinclair posed the question last week; "why does the left ignore the Green Party?" It's a fair enough question to ask. Ian provided a list of policies most Labour types wish we would take on board. Wild ultra-leftist promises like renationalising rail and public utilities, which also happen to be backed by the public at large. All progressive, all would go some way to making Britain a ... more »

    BEN ALI, THEY FOOLED US!

    Anonataangirfan - 1 day ago
    It is now three years since the CIA, NATO and Mossad overthrew Zine Ben-Ali, the man who ensured Tunisia was peaceful, easy-going and increasingly prosperous. As a result of the CIA-NATO-Mossad coup, crime and poverty have soared. On 7 January 2014, protesters were out in force. The cry one could hear in streets across Tunisia is: *"Ben Ali, they fooled us! Come back soon!"* *'There has been a surge of nostalgia' for Ben Ali in Tunisia *- FRANCE 24 - ‎Jan 10, 2014‎ In Tunis, the words* 'Vive Ben Ali'* have been written on the walls of buildings. A Facebook page entitled *'Forg... more »

    Assorted observations

    sueatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
    In the wake of all those uplifting pro-immigration stories and items featuring irreproachable Bulgarian and Romanian professional individuals who intend coming here, or who are here already, I was stunned when a little upcoming item on local BBC TV was trailed....... “How easy it is for immigrants to claim welfare.” The link has disappeared from the BBC iPlayer (it was there earlier) so you'll have to take my word for it. *“They call this country 'a field of wonders!'”* At least I'm pretty sure that’s what this Russian interpreter who helped them apply for their benefits said. Howev... more »

    “Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    *“Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”* by Eric Margolis “How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat? How can al-Qaida be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of black Africa? This after the US spent over $1 trillion trying to stamp out al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western in... more »

    Solar Update: ...... Something stinks.

    D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 1 day ago
    Well after the events of past 4 days it is, in my opinion, absolutely conclusive that NASA, NOAA and there sister agencies are lying through their teeth, or completely incompetent. On Wed I published a Solar Update HERE, mostly focused on the X class flare from spot 1944 and the predicted upcoming geomagnetic storm caused by the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) generated by the X Flare. "NOAA is giving a risk 80% of M Class and 50% of X Class flares for today.... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I give it 100% chance of an MClass flare today from 1944/6, and I expect we'll see ... more »

    Will Obama Raid Your Pension To Bailout Bankers? ...

    AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
    *you betcha.* It *will* happen. And you better keep your eyes on your 401K and savings accounts, too From: The Western Center for Journalism

    Will Fukushima Daiichi Kill Vast Swathes of Life in the Pacific Ocean?

    Majia's BlogatMajia's Blog - 1 day ago
    (Hat tip: The argument outlined here was suggested in a careful assemblage of Enenews headlines, particularly this one: Radiation jumps around Fukushima plant — Now ~1,000% previous levels — Tepco kept strontium-90 data secret for months — Officials knew of increase but ‘too busy’ to do anything — Gov’t holds Friday meeting about what can be done. I've made the argument explicit using additional data.) The nuclear village is prepped for the propaganda war. Nuclear scientists are lined up ready with their research to minimize the impact. Even non-biased scientists may grossly underes... more »

    A Week's Worth of 'Newsnight'

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
    As promised earlier this week, here's a review of this week's *Newsnight.* OK, before I begin I've got to say that I almost immediately regretted promising to make 2014 *Is the BBC biased?*'s year of *Newsnight*. I'd nearly forgotten that I don't actually enjoy watching *Newsnight. *It's fair to say that I've now experienced 'total memory recall' though - and, no, I still don't like watching *Newsnight*. And now that ex-*Guardian* assistant editor Ian Katz is in charge it's becoming more *Guardian-*like than ever - full of *Guardian*-geared topics and hip-'n-happening features abo... more »

    Satire: Andy Borowitz, “Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    *“Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”* by Andy Borowitz TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)— “At a hastily called press conference today, Chris Christie revealed that he only became aware that he was the governor of New Jersey in the past seventy-two hours. “Unbeknownst to me, some people I thought I could trust were secretly working to elect me governor of this state,” a visibly stunned Christie told reporters. “I have acted swiftly and fired them all.” While asserting that he had terminated all of the people who were involved in the scheme to elect him, he said that, if he finds add... more »

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    thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago

    Nationalism

    Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago
    *"For Mazzini, a nationality means a race, a fixed array of behavior like a breed of dog or a species of animal. * *He is not thinking of a national community united by a literate language and a classical culture to which any person can become assimilated through a political choice. * *For Mazzini, race is unchangeable, and race is destiny. * *It is a matter of blood and soil. * *Cats fight dogs, French fight Germans, Germans fight Poles, and so on through all eternity. These hatreds are the main datum of sensory perception.* *Each of Mazzini’s organizations demands immediate nationa... more »

    New cover for iron buddhas

    risa bearatA Way to Live - 1 day ago
    Iron Buddhas By Risa Bear View this Author's Spotlight Paperback, 185 Pages [image: Iron Buddhas] Preview Price: $11.99 Ships in 3-5 business days Iron Buddhas is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a woman's experiences tree planting and fire fighting in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. Stephanie Smith sets out from Georgia to Oregon in the winter of '75 seeking work in the woods. She finds that and more. By the author of Starvation Ridge. *PDF $1.99Epub $2.99* The price of the paper edition, alas, had to go up, but the epubs have not changed in price, and there is a blov... more »

    US DOE's Guiding Principles: School Climate and Discipline

    Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
    Reblogged from Ward 8 DC Teacher: Guiding Principle #1, creating a safe and supportive school environment, is a great first step. However, we must move beyond expressing idealistic principles, and more towards implementing pragmatic best practices. Schools consisting of low-income, high-trauma, and at-risk student populations need targeted approaches. My school, a DCPS traditional public middle […]

    THIS ISSUE ON CORPORATE WELFARE

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago
    My latest public access TV show with guest Orlando Delogu who is a retired law professor at the University of Southern Maine. He specializes on corporate welfare issues and helped us tremendously in our recent campaign here in Bath to try to block the requested tax break by General Dynamics that owns Bath Iron Works. We were able to trim about one million dollars from this proposed corporate tax break. A bit more money for the local people and less for those at the top of the war machine.

    Shelley Moore Capito Says She "Stands With West Virginia Against Obama’s War On Coal"-- As Her Constituents Line Up For Bottled Water

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    Most West Virginians never seem to learn any lessons about the natural resource exploitation companies that hold absolute power in their state. Their bottom lines-- the only priority they care about-- trump the well-being of the rest of society. That simple. It's why healthy societies protect themselves from predators with regulations and effective government. Now people in Charleston and 9 surrounding counties are praying the trucks of bottled water arrive and keep arriving, courtesy of the National Guard-- 9 counties where they can't use their regular water sources for drinking... more »

    Speaking of Long, Strange Trips

    jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
    [image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-axqHJ1x1EsI/T_XcuSDFbdI/AAAAAAAAC9M/La7i2G-l8j4/s1600/DSC_0449.JPG] I'll just get it out of the way right now. As this New Year has already been strange and thick for us here at Pottersville, rarely if ever in a good way, I can tell you that by the 29th, I will have already forgotten that my 9th anniversary as a blogger is coming up. Coming up 13 days before that, or in the next five days, is my 55th birthday. As I've stated recently, everything is hitting me all at once, namely annual auto inspection, the renewal of my license and regist... more »

    Question: Could the mess in Fort Lee, New Jersey have been a bungled attempt at a study?

    bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago
    *SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2014* *Its ostensible purpose:* Is it possible? Is it possible that the mess in Fort Lee really was some sort of bungled traffic study? After scanning the new cache of documents released yesterday, we can’t exactly say. Before we offer our reasons for saying that, we’ll offer an overview: We liberals are inclined to want to believe the worst about a pol like Christie. All over the globe, we humans have always been so inclined. That said, our public discourse has been a viper’s nest of bungled and misleading narratives for the past many years. Examples: In ... more »
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    Noam Chomsky: 1971 Burglary of FBI Office Proved Agency Had Become a "National Political Police"
    "It Was Time to Do More Than Protest": Activists Admit to 1971 FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
    From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2)
     
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    Dawson Barrett : Kurt Cobain, King of the Outcast Teens

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
    In recognition of the anniversary of the death of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain, a host of retrospectives will recognize both the raw potency of Cobain’s songwriting and the tragedy of his heroin use and suicide. They will hide that Nirvana … finish reading Dawson Barrett : Kurt Cobain, King of the Outcast Teens

    Alan Waldman : The 17 Best Films I Saw in 2013

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    My favorite films seen in 2013 include Saint Misbehavin’, Philomena, About Time, and the French film, The Well-Digger’s Daughter. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2014 I saw 17 excellent films in theatres, on cable/dish TV … finish reading Alan Waldman : The 17 Best Films I Saw in 2013

    Ron Jacobs : Julie Wark’s ‘Human Rights Manifesto’ Points Finger at Neoliberalism

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Julie Wark has written a manifesto for justice and it is clear for now that we as a species have failed. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2014 [The Human Rights Manifesto by Julie Wark (2013: … finish reading Ron Jacobs : Julie Wark’s ‘Human Rights Manifesto’ Points Finger at Neoliberalism

    Ted McLaughlin : Why Congress Can’t Understand Your Financial Struggle

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    For the first time in this country’s history, more than half of the members of Congress are at least millionaires. By Ted McLaughlin | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2014 The figures above are for Congress in 2012, and … finish reading Ted McLaughlin : Why Congress Can’t Understand Your Financial Struggle

    Lamar W. Hankins : The Ubiquitous Influence of Religion in America

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Beginning with the push against the Communist menace in the 1950s, which led to the increased use of “In God We Trust” on our coinage , religion has increasingly pushed its way into public policy. By Lamar W. Hankins | … finish reading Lamar W. Hankins : The Ubiquitous Influence of Religion in America

    Alan Wieder : Bill Ayers’ ‘Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident’

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    In his ongoing journey, and with his new memoir, ‘Public Enemy,’ Bill Ayers continues to bring the radical ‘spark’ forward. By Alan Wieder | The Rag Blog | January 7, 2014 Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn will speak at “Underground … finish reading Alan Wieder : Bill Ayers’ ‘Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident’

    Michael James : Like a Bruegel Painting, 1966

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    The JOIN Community Union was our effort in Uptown, Chicago, to build solidarity and create an organized force for change, especially among poor people of Southern origin. By Michael James | The Rag Blog | January 6, 2014 [In this … finish reading Michael James : Like a Bruegel Painting, 1966

    Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part 12, Section 2, 1947-1948

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    The movement to democratize Egypt: Except for their religious beliefs, Jews shared lifestyles with those of Muslim background. By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / January 6, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog … finish reading Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part 12, Section 2, 1947-1948

    Kate Braun : Waxing Crescent Moon is Time to Set New Goals

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Moon Musings: The Waxing Crescent Moon — which falls on January 4–5, 2014 — is a time to set goals for positive changes in your life. By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | January 3, 2013 Waxing moons are … finish reading Kate Braun : Waxing Crescent Moon is Time to Set New Goals

    Alan Waldman: ‘A Bit of Fry & Laurie’ Was Brilliant British Sketch Series

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Waldman’s film and TV treasures you may have missed: This was most people’s first exposure to the highly original comic genius of English national treasures Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who wrote and performed many classic sketches. By Alan … finish reading Alan Waldman: ‘A Bit of Fry & Laurie’ Was Brilliant British Sketch Series

    Tom Hayden : Progressive Dems See Opening for New Politics

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Elizabeth Warren and the populists say ‘No way!’ to ‘Third Way.’ Conditions ripe for a new politics: An opening for progressive Democrats The Democratic progressive base is making clear that Hillary Clinton must make an adjustment from her hawkish centrism … finish reading Tom Hayden : Progressive Dems See Opening for New Politics

    Jack A. Smith : Climate Change Confab Brings Too Little Too Late

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Climate change activists in Warsaw, Friday, November 22, 2013, portray, from right, French President Francois Hollande, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Obama, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo by Czarek Sokolowski, / AP. Climate Change meeting in Warsaw brings … finish reading Jack A. Smith : Climate Change Confab Brings Too Little Too Late

    Lamar W. Hankins : Opportunist Narvaiz Takes On Doggett Again in Gerrymandered 35th

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Congressional candidate Susan Narvaiz and friend. Image from Facebook. Unsolicited advice, Dept.: A Narvaiz strategy to defeat Doggett Narvaiz is a political chameleon who says what she needs to say and does what she needs to do to protect herself … finish reading Lamar W. Hankins : Opportunist Narvaiz Takes On Doggett Again in Gerrymandered 35th

    Steve Horn : Keystone XL’s Houston ‘Fork in the Road’

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
    Houston’s refinery row. Image from Gulf Restoration Network / DaSmogBlog. Keystone XL fork in the road: TransCanada’s Houston Lateral Pipeline Houston’s LyondellBasell refinery is retooling itself for the looming feast of tar sands crude and fracked oil bounty that awaits … finish reading Steve Horn : Keystone XL’s Houston ‘Fork in the Road’
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    Main points in the Iran nuclear deal

    Iran said on Sunday that an accord it struck with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of sanctions will take effect from January 20. The United States confirmed the news although President Barack Obama warned of a tough road ahead to real a comprehensive…
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    Exclusive: Iran to get first $550 million of blocked $4.2 billion on February 1

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran would receive the first $550 million installment of a total of $4.2 billion in previously blocked* overseas funds on or about February 1, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday

    Aid agencies head to Tonga amid reports of extensive damage

    Relief agencies were sending aid to Tonga on Monday amid reports of extensive damage to low-lying islands in the South Pacific archipelago after they were battered by a strong cyclone at the weekend.


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    Fire destroys ancient Tibetan town in China (9 photos)

    A fire that raged for nearly 10 hours Saturday razed an ancient Tibetan town in southwest China that's popular with tourists, burning down hundreds of buildings 

    Bangladesh’s Radical Turn

    In 1971, the U.S. abetted a genocide in Bangladesh—and it’s now siding with the radical Islamist culprits, who are fomenting the country’s latest political crisis.

    How Organic Vegetables Are Rehabilitating San Quentin Inmates

    But a program taking place in San Quentin has flipped that script, using quality whole foods to empower the incarcerated.  The Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison, located outside of San Fran


     

    W. VA WATER LIGHTS ON FIRE

    A chemical spill has left 300,000 in West Virginia without tap water since Thursday and it'll be days before the restrictions are lifted. FEMA delivered a million liters of water over the weekend to help the nine counties affected and Saturday the U.S. Chemical Safety Board opened its investigation…
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    Scientists Don't Want The Moon To Become Like West Virginia

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 28 minutes ago
    Imagine Freedom Industries with a charter to operate on the Moon! This week, as the president of Freedom Industries, which is affiliated with the Koch brothers, insisted that there's too much of a fuss being made over the toxic spill on the Elk River, even just *touching*-- not drinking, *touching*-- the water that comes out of their taps induces non-stop vomiting for folks living in tens of thousands of homes in West Virginia. And Freedom Industries is not subject to any permits or inspections by the EPA. The New York Times reported, “According to Department of Environmental P... more »

    Widespread Corruption

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
    We have seen it in Quebec, want to bet its not the same in Ontario? Well in England its epidemic. Beyond the Pale. "The thing that corruption stories -- even astounding ones like this -- teach us is that our systems need to account for the possibility that the authorities are corrupt, or sloppy, or duped. Creating laws that give police and magistrates the power to declare anything anyone does illegal, storing massive DNA databases, allowing for secret courts and warrantless surveillance, creatingunaccountable systems of censorship, and letting spies run wild are all examples of sy... more »

    So how much of the "Paleo Diet" is based on an actual Paleolithic diet?

    Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 hour ago
    Since I stilll have this conversation about this fad diet with someone at least once a week (sigh), here’s TED Fellow Christina Warinner, an expert on ancient diets, answering the question: *So how much of this "Paleo Diet" stuff is based on an actual Paleolithic diet?* The answer is *not really any of it*. Who’s Christina Warinner, and what the hell would she know? Well… Dr. Christina Warinner has excavated around the world, from the Maya jungles of Belize to the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, and she is pioneering the biomolecular investigation of archaeological dental calculu... more »

    On the defense of @randiweingarten by @dianeravitch

    It’s really quite simple, actually. Simple for me, at least. To begin, you can review Ravitch’s personal defense of the President of AFT. The American Federation of Teachers is a political organization. It must operate in a way that satisfies numerous interests and issues and permutations. I won’t begin to understand that position as I […]

    Updates On Syria [1.12]: Assad Is Rallying Sunni Leaders Against Saudi Arabia's Goons, Obama Admin Ensures Geneva II Will Fail By Saying Assad Must Go, Turkish Government Is Arming Al-Qaeda Under The Guise of Humanitarian Aid

    Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 hour ago
    *1. An excerpt from, "Conflicts Forum's Weekly Comment 27 December 2013 - 3 January 2014" Conflicts Forum, January 10, 2014: * Yet, if we stand back from the region, it is clear that the Syrian government, over the last weeks, is rapidly consolidating its military situation. The circumstance of Damascus is far different today from even a few weeks ago (as recent visitors to the city confirm to us). It is true that, at one level, sectarian animosities (particularly Saudi ones) have reached new heights across the region, but a new – and underrated – factor is being felt: Sunnis are fa... more »

    Big Law watch - After a Merger Falls Through, Patton Boggs Keeps Looking for the right merger partner...... A look at proposed mergers in big Law tht did not come to pass in 2013 , speculation on another prospective pairing.....

    http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/after-a-merger-fails-patton-boggs-still-seeks-partners/?_r=0 After a Merger Falls Through, Patton Boggs Keeps LookingBY ELIZABETH OLSON [image: Tom Boggs, partner with the Washington-based law firm of Patton Boggs.]Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images Tom Boggs, partner with the Washington-based law firm of Patton Boggs. For over a half-century, the Washington law firm Patton Boggs has been a significant player in the nation’s legal, lobbying and business worlds. The firm has represented corporations like the Mars candy company and Exxon ... more »

    Cis, Trans, and Privilege

    Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 3 hours ago
    I'm not one to rail on about Gender Politics. I'm interested in Human Rights, especially as they effect Trans and Intersex people. I'm interested in the Science of Sex and Gender. The sociology, politics, and ideology, not so much. There's an awfully low signal-to-noise ratio there, unevidenced conjectures declaimed with much conviction, and often inhuman cruelty. This blog is intended to be educational and informative, about a matter that should be of interest to everyone. A matter of "public concern", mixing education about the science, and information about how Trans and Interse... more »

    Mohawk Nation News 'Old Hat'

    brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
    OLD HAT Posted on January 12, 2014  Mohawk Nation News Jan. 12, 2014: Unfortunately for Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and his corporate overlords’ plans to control the world, soon the old technology they use will become obsolete. Their tyranny of us and our mother will be as extinct as they will become. Bill C38 is Harper’s version of Hitler’s “enabling act” of 1933, to get money for

    "I wish I could add a fond remembrance" (Jane Mayer on Reagan press sec'y Larry Speakes)

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
    *"I wish I could add a fond remembrance of Larry Speakes . . . . There have been plenty of accolades, and I'm sure there will be more. But it's worth a note about how Speakes treated reporters who strayed from the company line."* -- *Jane Mayer, in a newyorker.com "News Desk" post,* "Crossing Larry Speakes" *by Ken* Is there such a thing as a good White House press secretary? In this day and age, maybe the interests of an administration and the media have diverged to the point that there can't be. You can think of the administration as either "just trying to get our story out" or ... more »

    China Plans To Seize South China Sea Island From Philippines, Says "Battle Will Be Restricted" ..... I other news , Japan holds military drill as S. China Sea islands dispute widens

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/china-plans-seize-south-china-sea-island-philippines-says-battle-will-be-restricted China Plans To Seize South China Sea Island From Philippines, Says "Battle Will Be Restricted" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/12/2014 19:00 -0500 - China - Japan - Obama Administration - recovery inShare Following Japan's proclamations that it will take over another 280 'disputed ownership' islands, it appears the increasingly dis-approved of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's path of militarism and provocation... more »

    Does this school really care for the children?

    Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
    …or is this what education has become? From a Georgia school: I have no words. Please feel free to comment below.Filed under: CHRIS CERRONE: The "Parentucator"

    China's fairytale theatre of ice sculptures- Harbin Ice and Snow Festival

    PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago
    Though myself and so many others were freezing earlier this week... Unusually so. In Harbin, China they are enjoying themselves at their yearly Ice and Snow Festival .I gotta admit this icy cold display is pretty darn awesome! I will post a few images. And link to the rest. Or here *"It took 7,000 artists to create this sprawling 6,458,400 square feet of winter wonderland in Harbin, China's tenth most populous city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, where winter temperatures drop to a low of -40 degrees Celsius.* *Countless blocks of crystal ice were cut from the frozen... more »

    We’re rock stars

    Peter CresswellatNot PC - 4 hours ago
    *Sex, Drugs and Rock'N'Roll 13** by chrismaverick on **deviantART* WELL, LOAD UP ON drugs and bring your friends, because New Zealand is being talked up as the “rock star” economy for 2014. Hee haw! This, by the way, is predicated on three things underlying what economists call “growth” that these groupies see as fairly foregone conclusions: 1. The dairy boom. 2. The housing boom. 3. The Canterbury RebuildTM But there are problems with each of these—the first problem being in the way these alleged economists measure growth. YOU SEE, IF IT is to mean anything at all, ... more »

    Dawson Barrett : Kurt Cobain, King of the Outcast Teens

    Thorne DreyeratThe Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
    In recognition of the anniversary of the death of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain, a host of retrospectives will recognize both the raw potency of Cobain’s songwriting and the tragedy of his heroin use and suicide. They will hide that Nirvana … finish reading Dawson Barrett : Kurt Cobain, King of the Outcast Teens

    The Ravitch Conference, Featuring Randi Weingarten

    Jim HornatSchools Matter - 5 hours ago
    Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody started a new organization a year or so ago called the Network for Public Education. Board members were chosen, and the chosen board members chose Ravitch as President and Cody as Treasurer. As NPE president, Ravitch will be the Keynote Speaker at a UTexas based two-day conference in early March that, according to Cody, will "bring together activists from around the country to network and learn together, from one another, so as to strengthen our ability to act in defense of public education." Prominently noted on the conference poster at the NPE webs... more »

    WAR CRIMINALS GATHER FOR WAR CRIMINAL’S FUNERAL

    The war criminal Tony Blair will be present for Ariel Sharon’s funeral as will be Australia’s Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop. Bishop was a member of the Australian war criminal John Howard’s government that was part of the group of nations that waged unprovoked war against Iraq knowing that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and knowing that Iraq was not a threat to Australia. Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to send Bishop to Sharon’s funeral exposes the Australian government’s support of ruthless Israeli Zionist policies against the Palestinian people and a ... more »

    Richard Dawkins on Retiring Essentialism

    PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
    As someone who exists in the real world, I'm always interested in the annual "big question" event organised by edge.org, the online home for clever folk who keep it real by talking about the real. This year, the question posed by this forum of what the *Graun* likes to call the "world's most brilliant minds" was "which scientific idea would you retire, and why?" Interesting. You can read Ian McEwan's polemic against arrogance, Azra Raza on the use of mouse models in science, and Stewart Brand on the linear no-threshold radiation dose hypothesis. By all means, take a look. It's inte... more »

    Toss another book on the fire

    AlisonatCreekside - 6 hours ago
    Yeah, it's an old toon recycled for Steve's Libricide : *CBC Fifth Estate : Silence of the Labs* I see Steve has also recycled Dimitri Soudas back into play. I like how Dimitri's new rug really ties the room together.

    Quakes offshore Chiba and the new volcano growing offshore of Tokyo - are there connections between these two different events and perhaps a precursor of a large seismic event ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
    5 continuous quakes offshore Chiba→JP Gov “New irregular diastrophism on-going offshore different from 311″ Posted by *Mochizuki* on January 12th, 2014 · No Comments Share on deliciousShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services *Note : If you are from the international mass media, Don’t read this site before having a contact with me.* Following up this article.. *5 quakes Chiba east offshore within 7 hours on 1/2/2014* [URL] The continuous earthquakes are assumed to be “slow earthquake [wikipedia]“, according to Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Th... more »

    Sunday Classics: Now we hear Mahler's heartbreaking "Kindertotenlieder"

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
    *Baritone Matthias Goerne sings "Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n" ("Now will the sun rise just as brightly"), the opening song of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, with Jonathan Nott conducting the Mahler Youth Orchestra, at a Proms concert in the Royal Albert Hall, Sept. 4, 2009.* Now will the sun rise just as brightly as if no misfortune had happened in the night. The misfortune happened to me alone; the sun shines for everyone. Your must not hoard the night within, it must be absorbed into the eternal light. A little lamp in my shelter has gone out; hail to the joyful light of the wo... more »

    Top 100 Movies by Body Count

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
    Full list over at MovieBodyCounts.com. Also thanks to Business Insider for entering that data and drawing this graph.

    North Carolina's Unemployment Misery Made Unbearable By Koch-Funded State Rethuglicans, But Not To Worry - Plantations Being Gov't-Funded To Return!

    January 11, 2014 The Raleigh Experiment North Carolina is an interesting place these days, and I mean that in the worst possible way. It’s a southern state, but one with a major technology complex, growing foreign investment, and what seemed until recently to be a moderating, increasingly sophisticated political culture. But then came the Republican wave of 2010, and NC was taken over

    "Do ‘Question Time’ audiences need to be quite so hostile?"

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
    It's interesting that Nigel Farage seems to have come to the same conclusion as James Delingpole about the problem with BBC One's *Question Time.* Just as Dellers "totally believes" that the *QT* team tries its best to ensure that their audiences reflect the political spectrum, so Nige also says (in today's* Independent*) that he's "not pointing the finger of blame at the *QT* team" for the peculiar hostility he and other UKIP members so often face from *Question Time *audiences, and the evident fact that *QT *audiences generally do *not* seem to reflect the political spectrum. ... more »

    Visual Stimulation for a Sunday evening

    D ... Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 8 hours ago
    [image: Someone at work finally paid attention to my warning sign.] [image: Watch out!] [image: Bilbo Baggins, everyone.] and just in case you don't think that your eyes are the projectors ....

    US Senator Ted Cruz speaks at Texas Public Policy Foundation's Policy Orientation 2014...

    AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago
    *take the time to listen. * You won't be sorry... Promise.

    Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, January 12th, 2013

    NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 9 hours ago
    Sunday.... And again time for my usual rant that will both surprise you and piss many people off at the same time... First, I want again to thank everyone for their support over the last while during a time when I was led to believe that I had a heart condition... I went for the followup this last week, and the doctor stated that my heart is perfectly fine. There is no blockage and all the EKG and blood work readings are back to normal. I can almost safely state that the cause of all the commotion in the first place was most probably due to one heck of a viral infection in my che... more »

    The legendary megapod

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
    Clive James is stilling writing beautiful TV reviews at the *Daily Telegraph*. Here's an extract from his latest piece: Having painstakingly disguised an underwater camera as a tuna, BBC One was rewarded with an entrée into a so-called “megapod” of dolphins. We were assured that this was the first time ever that a megapod had been seen. And indeed* Dolphins: Spy in the Pod *featured some stunning footage, if stunning footage is what you go for. Personally, after the first thousand or so dolphins had surrounded the dummy tuna, I started to get a bit blasé. When so many dolphins mee... more »

    'Soft power' and Fat Boy Kim

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
    Kim Jong-un *The Sunday Times* had a bit of a scoop this morning, reporting that William Hague and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are "helping" BBC Worldwide to negotiate with the sick, mass-murderous regime in North Korea to encourage them to allow various BBC programmes to be broadcast on the totalitarian dictatorship's airwaves - an exercise in 'soft power' by the British government. [This is probably the sort of thing that gets our friend Tom wound up about the BBC. Has he given up already?]. *The Sunday Times*'s headline went for one BBC programme in particular - *Teletu... more »

    What is the "Holocaust" story really all about?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 10 hours ago
    Jewish leaders in Hungary are up in arms about a *"planned monument to victims of the Germany occupation for ignoring Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust,"* according to an article recently published by the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*. The Hungarian government is *planning to build* a monument commemorating *all* alleged "victims" of the "German occupation" of Hungary during WWII, not merely the alleged Jewish victims of the fake "Holocaust" story. Essentially, the organized Jewish community in Hungary is upset because their racial and religious kinsmen are not receiving all the att... more »

    Spin

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
    Stats are great. Really they are. The problems start when people start spinning the stats. Here's an example. The statistic that 24,000 families who do not live in the UK receive child benefit, costing millions of pounds, is "crackers", according to the *Daily Mail*. The same figure - without any mention of the 'millions of pounds' cost - was mentioned by Shaun Ley on this morning's *Broadcasting House. * He, however, spun presented it as being *only* 24,000 families, describing the numbers as "smaller" than might be expected. Spinning the stats then. *Broadcasting House ... more »

    Ayn Rand on science, altruism, and the U.S. businessmen's treason

    Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
    Ayn Rand (1905-1982; she moved from the USSR to the U.S. in 1931) was an originally Russian Jewish, later U.S. author, philosopher, and a libertarian guru. Several folks have pointed out to me that her thinking was close to mine. I have never been exposed to her work and thoughts – a fact that is not too surprising given my 16 years in a communist country plus 10 years in the U.S. Academia. But finally today, when Willie Soon recommended me the 52-minute talk above – named "The Sanction of the Victims"– that she gave in 1981, a year before she died of a heart attack (it was her l... more »

    Ravitch Announces Randi's "Decoupling" of Common Core from VAM

    Jim HornatSchools Matter - 11 hours ago
    With light diminishing between Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten's positions, Dr. Ravitch posted this this morning. My comment at her blog follows. *A reader who calls himself or herself “Democracy” left comments criticizing me for defending Randi Weingarten–or perhaps for not attacking her.* *Here is my response to Democracy:* *Democracy, you ask a good question, and I will answer as best I can..* *As you know, I have criticized the Common Core in many posts. I have criticized the lack of transparency and the lack of educator participation in its development. I have criticized the... more »

    Why Debbie Wasserman Schultz Should Never Be Speaker Of The House

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
    Sugar is just one reason to keep her away from power; more later Since 1990, Big Sugar has given just over $34.3 million in legalistic bribes to Members of Congress and candidates to Congress. The biggest recipient in the House is corrupt Blue Dog Collin Peterson (MN), once chair, now ranking member, of the den in inequity known as the House Agriculture Committee. He's banked $321,627 so far. The current Ag Committee Chair, Frank Lucas (R-OK) has gobbled up $205,000 from the sugar barons so far. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has done nicely as well-- just about $100,000 b... more »

    THE BUTCHER OF SABRA AND SHATILA IS DEAD; WHO AMONG THE WORLD’S LEADERS WILL BE THERE FOR HIS FUNERAL?

    It’ll be interesting to see who of the world’s leaders will turn up for this war criminals funeral. Will the mainstream Western media whitewash his crimes or simply ignore them? See here for an accounting of Sharon’s part in the crime.

    Thailand: Thaksin Supporters Threaten to Kidnap & Kill Daughters of Army Chief

    Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 11 hours ago
    *Image: Thai Army Commander-in-ChiefPrayuth Chan-ocha's twin daughters havebecome the target of kidnapping and deaththreats by the supporters of ThaksinShinawatra.**January 12, 2014* (ATN) - The Bangkok Post has confirmed that craven threats by Thaksin supporters have been made against Thai Royal Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha and his twin daughters. In it's article, "Abduction threat on Prayuth's daughters," the Bangkok Post would report: The Royal Thai Army on Sunday condemned an anti-coup activist and supporter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra afte... more »

    Mike Sledge on The Realist Report

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
    *Reconstructions Live w/ Mike Sledge - Renegade Broadcasting* Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube*

    Poverty Gold

    Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 12 hours ago
    President Obama has marked the 50th Anniversary of LBJ's War on Poverty speech with yet another cynical dog whistle to Wall Street. In announcing the formation of "Promise Zones" in five carefully selected communities, Obama effectively assured the ruling class that their record windfalls will continue, unimpeded and unabated. There's gold in them thar blighted hills and dales, so the free market is cordially invited to line its pockets from so-called Poverty Pockets. As CounterPunch's Mike Whitney so saliently observes (h/t AnneEnigma), Obama's promise zones are nothing more than... more »

    Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative

    sueatIs the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
    (or if it’s anything to do with Israel, eliminate the positive and accentuate the negative) Of all the media coverage of ‘Ariel Sharon the man’ I’ve looked at today, I don’t think the BBC’s has been the most biased. Yesterday they dwelt far too much on the bitter reactions of Israel’s enemies, though there are some grudging attempts at balance, frequently qualified by those obligatory ‘buts’. I understand there are individual BBC Twitterers who would have it otherwise. No balance and no buts. The comparison between the overall coverage of Sharon’s life and death and Mandela’s has... more »

    Ariel Sharon Dead

    LeDaroatLeDaro - 13 hours ago
    Stephen Harper is very saddened. Sharon who butchered Palestinians mercilessly. *Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, described Sharon as "one of the architects of modern-day Israel" and one of its "staunchest defenders" in a statement of condolence."A renowned military leader, Mr. Sharon pursued the security of Israel with unyielding determination that was recognized by friends and foes alike."* CBC I wonder what rest of the folks think.

    Rethinking “Creative” in the Common Core Era: “Let’s not tell them what to write”

    plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
    Rethinking \”Creative\” in the Common Core Era: \”Let\’s not tell them what to write\”. via Rethinking “Creative” in the Common Core Era: “Let’s not tell them what to write”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

    A Friend

    gail zawackiatWit's End - 13 hours ago
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216154851.htm *Global Warming: Four Degree Rise Will End Vegetation 'Carbon Sink', Research Suggests* *Dec. 16, 2013* — Latest climate and biosphere modelling suggests that the length of time carbon remains in vegetation during the global carbon cycle -- known as 'residence time' -- is the key "uncertainty" in predicting how Earth's terrestrial plant life -- and consequently almost all life -- will respond to higher CO2 levels and global warming, say researchers. Carbon will spend increasingly less time in vegetation as the negative i... more »

    Cattle Mutilations: “Some Animals Survive” - Interview with Daniel U. Padilla

    Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours ago
    *Cattle Mutilations: “Some Animals Survive”* *A Radio Interview with Daniel Ubaldo Padilla in Chepes, La Rioja – December 13 2013* *[Intro omitted]* *Daniel U. Padilla*: Just let me clarify a few things. While I am identified as an ufologist within the UFO community in Argentina my specialty is the subject of mutilations. There is no question that the UFO phenomenon is tightly related with the cattle mutilations phenomenon, which I have been studying for eleven years, I want to be objective about this. While the ETH or the UFO theory of beings that may not be from here is invo... more »

    Still Chugging along....

    Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
    [image: IMG_2779] ...but I probably won't be posting here for a few days. Insanely busy. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

    Untitled

    New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
    *VIDEO: Large crowd greets Saints upon return ~WWLTV * *James Gill: How the Brits feel about the War of 1812 ~New Orleans Advocate* *Richard Campanella Cityscapes: How New Orleans House Numbers Came To Be ~Eve Troeh, WWNO* *Exhibition: ‘Photography at NOMA’ at The New Orleans Museum of Art ~Dr. Marcus Bunyan, Art Blart*

    THE FUNNIES....

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago

    Today's cardinal number: 19

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
    Poor Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. On the day Pope Francis makes him a cardinal, the BBC's report on the Pope's move relegates his good news to the final two paragraphs. Yes, the good old internationalist BBC is far more interested in the new cardinals from the Global South. This is how they begin their report: Pope Francis is to appoint 19 new cardinals next month, including churchmen from Haiti and Burkina Faso, reflecting his commitment to the poor. Well done Cardinal-to-be Vincent!

    The Costs of Common Core?

    plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
    Funding public education constitutes a large percentage of many states’ total budget, and thus, over the past three or four decades, the role of governor has become necessarily one that impacts education policy strongly. I believe that increased connection between partisan politics and conducting public schools has been powerfully and negatively influential. When I posted Millions […]

    Arik, Dieudonne, vicars under attack, Flesh and Blood, Bethlehem Unwrapped, Paul Goggins, a codex, and the devil

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago
    This morning's *Sunday* began with a short appraisal of the life of *Ariel Sharon* from the BBC's Kevin Connolly, beginning with Mr Sharon's role in "what Israelis call their war of independence" (as Edward Stourton put it). One area that interested Kevin and Ed was the changing nature of Zionism. We now tend to think of Zionism as being "associated with Orthodox religion", said Kevin, but in the early days it was largely a secular, socialist movement driven by the urge to build a new kind of society based on the principles of the Left, and the Sharon family belonged to that secul... more »

    THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 15 hours ago

    More from Gilad Atzmon on the censorship of Dieudonné & la quenelle

    PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
    Thanks again gallier! gallier2January 12, 2014 at 5:42 AM New intervention from Gilad Atzmon about Dieudo What do you think about the issues raised by Gilad?

    SUNDAY SONG

    Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 15 hours ago

    Here He Comes

    Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago
    So you thought the election was in 2015. And now, like Humphrey Bogart -- who went to Casablanca for the waters -- you discover that you have been misinformed. The election campaign has begun. Don Martin writes: Stephen Harper photo-ops are being booked across the country. Advance squads deployed to handpick participants to ensure partisan purity, gender balance and ethnic diversity. Film crews have been hired to document it all. Editors will varnish over any negative optics. And a velvet-voiced narrator will script the action during breaks in the Maple Leaf Forever soundtrack. ... more »

    Why Steny Hoyer Should Never Be Speaker Of The House

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
    Hoyer: Two portions for K Street, drippings for working families Members if Congress tell me if Hoyer ever gets the gavel every single bill will go through K Street for revision and nothing worthwhile will veer get done. Hoyer is the worst kind of centrist and has always fought for his wing of the Democratic Party-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. This week he was doing just what you would expect some old, out of touch white guy to do-- campaigning against progressive efforts to end marijuana prohibition. Even while his own state's dynamic, progressive gubernatorial hope... more »

    Fukushima Updates January 9 , 2014 - Unvarnished news , articles and views regarding the unfolding global disaster otherwise known as the Fukushima debacle .....

    Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
    Ex - SKF #Fukushima I NPP: Data on Strontium in Water Hasn't Been Published for 6 Months, and Will Not Be Published Until TEPCO Figures Out What's Wrong What's worse is (as usual) TEPCO didn't say anything until now. What's even worse is that TEPCO is not going to release the data until it fully investigates why the new results differ from the old results. Nuclear Regulation Authority was openly expressing doubt about the data that came from TEPCO on radioactive materials measurement, and that was about 6 months ago. From Yomiuri Shinbun (1/9/2014): 東電、ストロンチウム濃度公表せず…測定誤り? TEPCO... more »

    FEMALE MP IN PEDOPHILE RING

    Anonataangirfan - 17 hours ago
    *Andrew Ash, who was abused by members of a pedophile ring, which included a female member of parliament.* A female member of the UK parliament sexually abused a thirteen-year-old boy called Andrew Ash. Andrew Ash was brought from a government children's home, to parliament, to be sexually abused. *Female MP abused boy in care* - Express.co.uk ‎ *Female MPs.* The female MP was part of a pedophile ring 'at the heart of government', a ring that included Sir Jimmy Savile. Andrew was also trafficked to Amsterdam on a number of occasions. *Female MP abused boy in care* - Express.co.... more »

    Greece updates January 12 , 2014 - Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister Reveals Advanced Case of Stockholm Syndrome ........ Troika arrival likely to be postponed Target date for an agreement with the country’s creditors will be deferred to February as talks hit snags..... Greece's industrial output continues to suffer - suffering since 2008 !

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/yanis-varoufakis-greek-finance-minister-reveals-advanced-case-stockholm-syndrome.html Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister Reveals Advanced Case of Stockholm SyndromePosted on January 11, 2014 by Yves Smith *By Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economics at the University of Athens. Originally posted at his blog* This is a stupendous story. Possibly for the first time in its tainted history, the International Monetary Fund had a major change of heart and tried to do the right thing by a ‘program’ country, only to be turned down by that very ... more »

    Another Republican, Another Bridge to Nowhere

    jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 18 hours ago
    (By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) “*Time for some traffic problems* in *Fort Lee*.” -Former Chris Christie Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, pictured above, returning to the scene of the crime It's tough, if not outright impossible, to provide additional news or even original commentary to the Bridgegate episode of September 9-13, 2013 that Rachel Maddow hasn't already covered since she's been screaming about this from the rafters of MSNBC's sound stages. Suffice it to say that while the 2000 pages of documents consisting of damning emails and text... more »

    Thor News - NeoWise 'asteroid hunter' back online - planetary spiral orbits

    Mike PhilbinatFREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
    I love Thor News; he is Texas's answer to BBC Sky At Night's Sir Patrick Moore. Here he is telling us that infrared object detector NEOWISE is back online since they 'fixed the fridge' on it. Lovely diarism. *ADDITIONAL SPACE GUBBINS:* did you know that our Solar System is in the Milky Way Galaxy? Of course you did. But did you know that the plane of rotation isn't flat to our galaxy. In fact it's close to a ninty degree tilt. This means that the planets, as they rotate round the sun are forming a SPIRAL PATH through the cosmos. I was *umming* and *arring* about actually posting ... more »

    BBC News - Ariel Sharon death: Ex-PM to lie in state in Israel

    Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 20 hours ago
    Unlike with Nelson 'the second Christ' Mandela, on whose death no negative comments were allowed, the BBC's report of the death of Ariel Sharon contains mention of his 'crime': '... after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 he was found to have been responsible by an Israeli inquiry of failing to prevent the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.' I don't recall Nelson Mandela's terrorist past getting much if any coverage on the BBC. Nor was Nelson Mandela held responsible for failing to prevent his wife's fondness f... more »

    WAR CRIMES DOSSIER NAMES WALL

    Anonataangirfan - 20 hours ago
    *Wall and Blair.* *General Sir Peter Wall*, the head of the British Army, could be prosecuted for war crimes. *Dossier on 'abuse' by UK forces in Iraq goes to ICC* - The Independent A 250-page dossier names Sir Peter Wall and gives details of beatings, electrocution, mock executions and sexual assault. The dossier has been presented to the* International Criminal Court.* The former UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and the former UK Defence Minister Adam Ingram are also named in the report. *Iraq torture.* The dossier is the result of several years' work by Public Interest Lawyers ... more »

    Roger Roger

    CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
    Reading the *Biased BBC* blog for many years, I've been able to follow the extraordinary saga of the Freedom of Information battle between dogged blogger Tony Newbery of Harmless Sky and the almost-as-dogged BBC over a 2006 seminar organised by the corporation's environment analyst Roger Harrabin. As is its way (think of the Balen Report), the BBC made a determined and legally costly effort to keep all information about the controversial seminar secret, for its eyes only. The legal battle came to an end last month with Mr Newbery's final victory over the BBC. *The Mail on Sunda... more »

    inBloom, Clever, and Student Privacy: More “Big Data” Considerations

    deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 22 hours ago
    My last few posts have focused on the issue of student data collection, storage, and dissemination to “education vendors.” Meanwhile, I have also been reading about the call to separate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from assessments. I maintain that the spectrum of reforms are intended to be a package deal and are promoted as such by the […]

    EXPOSED: Fake "Respect My Vote" Protest Abuse Fellow Protester

    Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 22 hours ago
    *January 12, 2014* (ATN) - Thai demonstrators donning white shirts, lighting candles, releasing white balloons and carrying placards stating "Respect My Vote," are portrayed as ordinary people who simply want to defend the democratic process against growing anti-regime protesters. However, it was clear from the beginning that it was nothing more than a rebranding of the regime's "red shirt" enforcers in an effort to confuse the public both in Thailand and internationally. *Image: The regime believes the Thai people, and more importantly, international audiences are as ignorant as ... more »

    War watch January 9 -11, 2014.... Iran nuclear talks with P5 + 1 hit snag over Tehran's nuclear centrifuge research ....... Syria rebel infighting continues as Rebel forces attack two chemical weapon sites..... Iraq's chaotic situation in Anbar continues as tribes want neither Iraq's military nor Al Qaeda in their midst .....

    Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    Iran....... Obama WH: Pro-Sanctions Senators Should Admit They Want War With Iran John Glaser, January 10, 2014 Print This | Share This | Comment As Jason Ditz highlights in the news section today, congressional support for heaping additional sanctions on Iran, even as the interim deal plays out ahead of further negotiations on a final deal, is picking up in the Senate. Up to 58 senators have committed to voting yes on new sanctions, an action the Obama administration and Iranian negotiators have said would kill good faith negotiations. But the Obama White House seems to be steppin... more »

    Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia Resigns

    DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    Americans don't know much about the Central African Republic. Until the last couple of weeks it hadn't been in the American news cycles since 1979 when French paratroopers ousted self-proclaimed Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, who had been eating school children. He was found guilty of related charges but they never proved the cannibalism charges-- nor did they try very hard since it was seen as a national embarrassment-- and he served 7 years of his life-in-prison sentence. He was posthumously pardoned in 2010. One of Africa's most brutal dictators, accused of cannibalism and feedin... more »

    Video - What is the White Man March?

    John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
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    A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions --An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Bates

    angola3newsatAngola 3 News - 1 day ago
    Sign the Amnesty Intl. petition for Albert Woodfox! *(PHOTO: On behalf of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Rev. Dr. Patricia Bates speaks in support of Albert Woodfox at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge on October 21, 2013.)* *A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions * *--An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates* *By Angola 3 News* This past Fall, Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 made news headlines around the world when his conviction was overturned and he was dramatically released from pr... more »

    How to fix Toronto for good

    SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago
    Toronto needs better hard power or infrastructure and better soft power or cultural efficiency. Both powers are best practiced on a generational timeline. Children continually hear they are the future, but its always admonished in a glib nebulous way, " you can be anything you want" sorry no you cant, you have opportunities, but in fact everyone can not be anything they want. This is the foundation of the lie politicians use to win short sighted victories. The TDSB should have a *How to be the Future curriculum*. In the early years its mostly stories of heroes and villains. Rob ... more »

    Neiman Marcus also has sustained a cyber attack customer data breach ( back in mid- December ) involving credit and debit cards used at Neiman Marcus ! Only after Brian Krebs made inquiries , did Neiman Marcus acknowledge the mid - December breach and that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. ! Neiman Marcus spokesperson Ginger Reeder said the company does not yet know the cause, size or duration of the breach, noting that these are details being sought by a third-party forensics firm which has yet to complete its investigation. But she said there is no evidence that shoppers who purchased from the company’s online stores were affected by this breach. In that regard , the breach at Neiman Marcus is similar to the Target breach ( online stores were not affected in the Target breach. ) And as of today , the Target breach remains an unsolved crime. next question - how many other stores might have suffered breached between black Friday and Xmas ?

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    As to the additional breaches - several more yet to be revealed and the Target hack attack grow larger..... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-more-well-known-u-retailers-victims-cyberattacks-024345910--sector.html Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclos... more »

    Breaking GMO News From Kauai, Hawaii

    Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
    BREAKING: Pioneer, Syngenta & DOW Chemical file suit against Kaua'i to invalidate Bill 2491, which requires them to disclose the pesticides they spray and to maintain buffer zones for safety. Looks like they've just shot themselves in the f...oot. More publicity to show the world how evil they are. READ THE NEWS: http://news.yahoo.com/agrichemical-companies-sue-block-anti-gmo-law-hawaii-171141482--sector.html READ about the link between this birth defect and the herbicide atrazine: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/05/link.between.birth.defect.gastroschisis.and.agricul... more »

    Untitled

    Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 1 day ago
    I find it amazing how low our mainstream media has stooped, lazy, bought off and complicit in propping up both a corrupt and inept BC Liberal Government, Gordon Campbell was corrupt as the day is long and nothing has changed under the guidance of Christy Clark, if anything it has gotten worse, when will the media remember their job is to hold Government to account and not just cheerlead and read press releases.. Can`t they figure out why no one wants to buy newspapers anymore, or listen to talk radio, the public needs critical thought, actually the public would appreciate even a lit... more »

    Alex Rodriguez suspension decision released - 162 games ( full regular season ) and post season ban for the upcoming season set by Independent Arbitrator Frederic Horowitz ..... 60 Minutes will interview Anthony Bosch ( formerly of Biogenesis ) and MLB COO Rob Manfred - discussion of the case against A- Rod...... meanwhile A- Rod plans to head to Federal Court to seek an injunction !

    Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    http://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-news/2014/1/11/5299642/alex-rodriguez-suspended-steroids-evidence-anthony-bosch-60-minutes/in/5062745 Alex Rodriguez suspension: MLB's evidence to be presented on 60 Minutes Sunday night By Tanya Bondurant  @TanyaBondurant on Jan 11 2014, 8:00p 5 Patrick McDermott Biogenesis clinic owner Anthony Bosch and MLB COO Rob Manfred will appear during primetime to hash out details of the case against A-Rod. TWEET (10) SHARE (8)  SHARE 5 COMMENTS The world will get a look at the details of MLB's case against Alex Rodriguezthat led to his 162-game suspe... more »

    In re. Smartypants Researchers v. James Bond, I'm inclined to side with 007

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    *Caption from the medical journal BMJ:* "*James Bond’s weekly alcohol consumption by year of book publication*" *by Ken* When it comes to awe for doctors, my friend Peter had his pretty well derailed by going to school with a sizable number of schlubs who were fated to go on to become same. As a result, in his mind, medical degrees and licenses notwithstanding, they remained pretty much the same schlubs he had known in high school and college. And so in approaching this research into the drinking habits of Commander James Bond, aka 007, I'm inclined to bear in mind that the resear... more »

    TV Watch: Searching for bright spots in this cataclysmically awful TV season

    KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    *Even though, or perhsps because, the comic-book store has descended into ghostly solitude, Stuart (Kevin Sussman) has amply rewarded the increased attention of The Big Bang Theory's producers -- and the other "supporting" characters are coming up aces too.* *by Ken* I haven't been doing much "TV Watch"-ing lately, which might be because I haven't been doing much TV watching, but anyone who knows me knows that that's a laugh. Especially with two shiny new TVs, I've probably never watched more TV in my life. It's just that less and less of it is, you know, *TV*. At least not curren... more »
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    That Anti-union Billboard in Times Square: Consider the Timing

    deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 minutes ago
    On January 12, 2014, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) (a misnomer) produced the following five-story billboard in Times Square (New York City): This is not CUF’s first swipe at Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). In December 2013, CUF launched a similar ad– a full-page ad in the New York Times– attempting the same […]

    "A Look to the Heavens"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 minutes ago
    “What will survive this battle of the galaxies? Known as Seyfert's Sextet, this intriguing group of galaxies lies in the head portion of the split constellation of the Snake (Serpens). The sextet actually contains only four interacting galaxies, though. Near the center of this Hubble Space Telescope picture, the small face-on spiral galaxy lies in the distant background and appears only by chance aligned with the main group. Also, the prominent condensation on the upper left is likely not a separate galaxy at all, but a tidal tail of stars flung out by the galaxies' gravitational i... more »

    The Realist Report - Horus the Avenger

    John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 42 minutes ago
    On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Horus the Avenger of *White Rabbit Radio*. Horus and I will be talking about the weaponization of language, the systematic attack on White people and Western civilization, and how we can fight back. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *WhiteRabbitRadioTV - YouTube channel* - *Half of US Congress are millionaires: study* - Yahoo! News - *Vets outraged o... more »

    FOIA info request goes after sewage snow damage on sacred San Francisco Peaks

    brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 46 minutes ago
    Photo by Protect Peaks FOIA filed for each document on sewage snow damage on sacred San Francisco Peaks By Brenda Norrell Censored News FLAGSTAFF, Arizona -- The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out what damage is being done by the sewage water snow on sacred San Francisco Peaks. The FOIA for "each and every document" on corrosion and

    The Zionist City of Tel-Aviv was designed before Israel was formed

    Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 55 minutes ago
    The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New City and Its Setting As Tel Aviv expanded, rows of apartment blocks and commercial structures were erected where previously there were sand dunes, orange groves, olive orchards, and vineyards. Agrarian villages, too, were swallowed up by the forces of urbanization. During the early 1940s the adjacent German colony Sarona was also annexed to Tel Aviv. The new city’s growth outpaced its ability to adopt modern sanitary arrangements. Among this collection’s unique items is a set of sewer diagrams prepared by a London-based engineering fir... more »

    Maybe The GOP War On Women Will Result In The Re-Release Of "Just Say Roe"

    DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
    In 1987 I was running Sire for Seymour Stein. He hired me because he felt the powers at our parent company, Warner Bros, didn't prioritize his signings. He was in NYC and they were in Burbank and he felt he needed someone there. That was me. When this new music format came along-- CDs-- only priority artists were getting their records released as CDs… Dire Straits, Prince, David Lee Roth. The only Sire artist with CD releases was Madonna. But Seymour and I were both determined to break our "baby bands" and we both felt the CD was the future of retail. Our head of retail, though, ... more »

    “Radiation Expert: Fukushima Plant “Out of Control”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
    *“Radiation Expert: Fukushima Plant “Out of Control”* by ENE Jan. 6, 2014 interview with Professor Chris Busby, Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk and member of UK Department of Health Committee Examining Radiation Risk for Internal Emitters (CERRIE), Infowars (at 19:45 in): “I think they’re going to have to throw a fence around there and watch it forever. I don’t see what else they can do. I did think, and they did think, about the possibility of bombing it into the ocean, but frankly I think there’s nothing much they can do now — the genies out of th... more »

    SHARON’S GAZA PULL-OUT: IT WAS NEVER REALLY THAT BIG A DEAL

    Zionists and their neoconservative supporters have always framed Ariel Sharon’s pull-out of the Gaza Strip as some kind of concession to Palestinians that might result in peace for those Israelis who lived under the threat of attack from Palestinians who had been ghettoised within the Strip and were resisting occupation. The pull-out was seen as a precursor to the ‘land for peace’ deals that Israel was pushing as part of the ‘Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan’. The Zionists figured that, if they pulled out of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians inside would give up attacking Israel on acc... more »

    War Watch January 12 , 2014 - Syria Rebel in-fighting has devolved into a narrative of good Al Qaeda vs bad Al Qaeda ( West may not be winner in Syria battle of ‘good al Qaida’ vs. ‘bad al Qaida’ ) ..... Iraq sectarian fighting continues unabated ( more bad Al Qaeda vs in this instance Sunni Tribes and Iraq Government forces ) Iran sanctions game may leave Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei as the real winner in Iran ( moderate Iranians the losers if Sanctions by Congress cause nuclear talks to be halted ) ...... Libya " insecurity " continues as controversy swirls around Cyrenaican federalsts including Jadhran , Libyan Cabinet Member shot down in hometown , former southern security head shot down in tripoli ...

    Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
    Syria..... Al-Qaeda Executes Scores of Rivals in Northern SyriaExecuted Huge Number of al-Nusra Fighters by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2014 Print This | Share This Underscoring just how ugly the infighting among rebel factions in northern Syria has gotten, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has captured and executed an estimated 70 rivals, including a large number of fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, another al-Qaeda affiliate. The fighting that began a week ago Friday claimed 500 dead in the first week, and a weekend of fighting and executions has brought that number to at least 700 now. Initial fig... more »

    Jack A. Smith : Why the U.S. wants to stay in Afghanistan

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours ago
    The U.S. is supposed to withdraw troops by the end of the year, and the American people overwhelmingly want us to leave, but President Obama intends to retain a military presence. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | … finish reading Jack A. Smith : Why the U.S. wants to stay in Afghanistan

    Obamacare updates January 13 , 2014 -- Obamacare Enrollment Explained In Three Charts

    Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-13/obamacare-enrollment-explained-three-charts Obamacare Enrollment Explained In Three Charts [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/13/2014 18:50 -0500 - Cohen - Insurance Companies - Medicare - Obamacare - Reality - White House inShare By now the distinction that "enrollment" in Obamacare does not actually mean coverage should be painfully clear: one still has to pay, and according to a recent analysis up to 50% of "enrollees" in any given state have not paid, which means the White House... more »

    The Daily "Near You?"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
    Waynesville, North Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

    "Perhaps..."

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

    The Ethics of Casual Teaching Contracts: how we are all implicated in selling out academia and exploiting our students

    Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 3 hours ago
    For the last few years in particular, there has been a marked increase in the number of sessional, casual, teaching-only, adjunct, fixed term, temporary job ‘opportunities’ listed and circulated in the usual IR job venues. These various titles and categories point to one reality: precarious labor is a permanent reality within academia. The trend has Continue reading

    Ariel Sharon (1928-2014)

    KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
    *by Ken* I suppose we should have laid the son of a bitch to rest yesterday, but given the eight years during which he was already withdrawn from the world in the vegetative state that followed his incapacitating stroke shorty into the new year of 2006, I thought he could wait a day while we heard *New Yorker* reporter Jane Mayer remember another newly departed son of a bitch, Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes. The habit of speaking little ill of the dead is especially unfortunate in the case of Sharon, who developed into a full-blown monster. Here's how Ian Welsh remembered h... more »

    On women…

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
    [image: "This is about the unbridgeable gulf between what each of us wants and how to interpret another's feelings," says Mankoff. "It's a wonderfully complicated sentence, and we understand it transfers to the very complicated psychological dimensions that separate them from each other." Bruce Eric Kaplan, October 26, 1998.] One of several “favourite New Yorker cartoons ever,” as chosen by the magazine’s over-analytical cartoon editor. Unaccountably, there was *not one* by Thurber, a man obsessed by both women and dogs – and possibly their best cartoonist ever. Easily remedied: ... more »

    Learning to teach reading from Whitey McWhiterson and her twin sister

    Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
    I don’t mean to bring race or whatever into this. Good teaching is good teaching, right? But the reader might know about my frustrations with early literacy instruction as of late, particularly guided reading. When examining a few new models and other suggestions, here’s what I see: white kids, white lily classrooms, white teachers, white, […]

    Chet Raymo, “We Are the Consciousness of the Universe”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
    *“We Are the Consciousness of the Universe”* by Chet Raymo “The leaves are raked and bagged. The grass is mowed for the last time. The geraniums smile weak goodbyes. Now, as if by some law of compensation, the curtain opens on the sky. The great starless spaces of autumn fall like a black velvet drape into the west. The show opens. The sky begins. As the Sun sinks beneath the horizon, the Pleiades rise in the east, heralding the arrival of the spectacular winter stars. Aldebaran, the red eye of the Bull. Sirius, the Dog Star. Rigel and Betelgeuse in Orion. Castor and Pollux, the Tw... more »

    "We, The Jewish People, Control America, and the Americans Know It" ~ the recently deceased Ariel Sharon

    Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 4 hours ago
    You've probably seen the MAINSTREAM MEDIA eulogizing the "great" former leader of Israel Ariel Sharon. In all the coverage you've seen, have you seen his quote: “Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”??? Of course not, and here's why: *Six Jewish Companies Control 96% Of The World’s Media* Where did Jewish control over most everything we see and hear in the U.S. start? Try here: Whe... more »

    Requiem for Stella

    Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours ago
    After a long illness Stella has moved to that great Dog Park In The Sky. Stella was a Good Dog. Photo by Southern Sister. As the Official Dog of Southern Man Blog Stella can also be seen here, here, here, and here.

    Will Nature, Young People and Future Generations Forgive Us?

    Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 6 hours ago
    *By Jay - Ottawa* Earth scientists have documented five mass extinctions. In simple terms extinction works like this: A new world blooms, life flourishes for a while, a fatal problem develops and most of that epoch’s creatures are wiped out. Forever. Sometimes the die off is swift, sometimes slow but relentless. Despite a handful of extinctions, Earth hasn’t turned into a Moon or a Mars. The vital spark has survived –– so far –– through a few small, base creatures who survive one epoch to reanimate another world full of life –– but always a new world that never quite re... more »

    'Ceasefires possible in areas of Syria', says John Kerry [Source: Euronews]

    Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
    "Ceasefire" must be socialized into the mindset of every party to this conflict. Each for its own reasons will see this as a "win" *if it is framed properly*." - Dr. Marc Gopin, *"'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear"*, Huffington Post, January 2. A *quote* by Dr. Thomas Daffern, director of the UK-based *International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy*, talking about a ceasefire in Syria: *"What I'm calling for is a ceasefire, a unilateral, universal ceasefire in Syria by all parties. But it's a mental or spiritual ceasefire I'm calling for first. We're n... more »

    "How It Really Is"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago

    “9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
    *“9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week”* By Janet Allon “New Jersey’s vindictive governor may have grabbed all the headlines this week, but that doesn't mean other right-wingers failed to dish up their usual combo of inane and offensive statements. *1. Ohio politician not sorry at all for sending out racist email. *Apologies can be so very lame. It’s true. And they have such a variety of ways of being lame. There’s the non-apology apology, aka the faux-pology, which often starts something like, “I’m sorry if I offended you....” There’s the apology th... more »

    Weekend Update

    Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours ago
    And it is a busy one with Teen Daughter in town, plus the monthly geocacher's lunch and Christian dance. On Friday Southern Man zoomed up the turnpike to fetch Teen Daughter from her mother. As always she chatted and sang all the way back. We ended up at the mall for dinner and a scary movie. Teen Daughter knows all of these movies by heart and was quick to identify references to previous films when she wasn't cowering under Southern Man's jacket. Saturday morning was our monthly geocacher's luncheon. A festive gathering. Our luncheon hostess (on the left, who caches under th... more »

    My third re-posted Paul Craig Roberts blog in a row(!), this one having to do with U.S. unemployment. The remarkable fact here is that the folks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have finally come out with a payroll jobs report that disproves the alleged recovery. This has led PCR to "wonder how the BLS civil servants who produced it can avoid retribution" ...for letting us know that there is no -- and can never be -- a recovery from the "great recession" so long as 73% of the US work force continues to earn less than $50,000, millions of others have searched for but finally given up trying to find a job, and no new jobs are being created.

    David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
    ------------------------------ *No Jobs For Americans — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ January 10, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter No Jobs For Americans Paul Craig Roberts The alleged recovery took a direct hit from Friday’s payroll jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 74,000 net new jobs in December. Wholesale and retail trade accounted for 70,700 of these jobs or 95.5%. It is likely that the December wholesale and retail hi... more »

    Hazy Shade Of Winter

    Southern Man at Southern Man - 7 hours ago

    MORE NEOCON NONSENSE FROM ‘MAD MAX’ BOOT

    Neocon warmonger Max Boot writing in *Commentary* today seems to think that the latest negotiations with Iran will “implicitly recognize Iran’s ‘right’ to enrich uranium”, adding “i.e., its ‘right’ to maintain breakout capacity to build a bomb within a few weeks or months”. First off, Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has always had the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and, while Iran’s enemies have tried desperately to accuse Iran of having a nuclear weapons program, there has never been any hard evidence produced to support the claim. All t... more »

    How Capitalism Saved Europe From Starvation

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
    *When it comes to knowing their history, what most people know about about most of history just isn’t so. There’s no more what-you-know-isn’t-so about history than what people think they know about the beginnings of modern capitalism and the coming of the industrial revolution…* [A selection from *Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow*] *by Ludwig von Mises* [image: Wojciech_Gerson_-_Gdańsk_in_the_XVII_century]Two-hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man’s social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ances... more »

    Central bank propaganda from the central banker’s central bank

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
    In a four-minute piece of video propaganda on what is supposedly their specialist subject, money, the Atlanta Federal Reserve gets at least five things wrong, explains Mish Shedlock, including: 1. What money is 2. Price stability 3. Exponential math 4. Who benefits from inflation 5. That Federal Reserve policies are responsible for asset bubbles that grow increasingly larger over time That's one hell of a lot of things to be wrong about [in just four minutes], especially for someone "*big on getting our communications right.* " Read more (and watch the video... more »

    Benefits Street

    Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
    We Brits love our two minute hates, and going by the bile trickling down Twitter this evening Channel 4's *Benefits Street* has cornered that market. So a few points. This programme, despite its obvious opportunism, was conceived and produced by metropolitan elite-types. And metropolitan I, of course, mean London. In typical path-to-hell fashion perhaps the filmmakers genuinely believe they're helping the people involved in this show. There's an element of the working class exotic about it, a whiff of the northern Other (despite Birmingham not being 'the north'). It smacks of nice ... more »

    Oh, that Daily Mail outlook

    Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
    Yeah, it's more funny than sinister, but this unremitting drive to pathologise normal socio-cultural discourse is dangerous. Everything short of solid endorsement of the Dail Mail outlook is evidence of left wing bias. Anything to the left that's more vigourous than holding a copy of the Guardian (Sherlock is seen holding a copy of the Guardian - the *Guardian,* it's like a conspiracy!) is Cultural Marxism. This is an attempt (however small and daft the example) to build the same kind of hysteria that infects American public life.

    The DCCC Doesn't Usually Back Normal People For Congress-- But It Does Back Millionaires And Shady Lobbyists

    DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
    Corrupt Inland Empire conservatives rally around their boy Pete Aguilar, including his pal Jerry Lewis, Bill Emmerson, Mike Morrell and, of course, Gary Miller Friday I was busy blaming Steve Israel of the DCCC-- and his counterparts at the NRCC-- for the fact that more than half the Members of Congress are millionaires. Israel, after all, recruits them-- and discourages ordinary working men and women from running. But millionaires aren't even the worst of the garbage Israel recruits. He also encourages the only profession ranked below "Member of Congress" by ordinary Americans in... more »

    Punctuation matters.

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
    [Hat tip Noodle Food] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

    Quiz: Which classical character are you?

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
    Apparently I’m the wily Odysseus! Cool. [image: image] Which classical character are you? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

    Tobacco Tax 9: Why Earmarking Legislation is Wrong

    Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours ago
    The Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 (RA 10351) is one year old (enacted December 20, 2012) and after its first year implementation, it seems to have exceeded its revenue target. BIR said sin tax collection in 2012 full year was P50.4 billion, and January-November 2013 collection was P91.6 billion, higher than full year 2013 target of P85.8 billion. Now some legislators and the advocates of the law are asking, where is that money? See various reports yesterday, Phil. Star, Cayetano asks where sin tax money goes Rappler, Senators: Where is sin tax money going? Tribune, After 1 year of rich... more »

    John Kane to Address “Inherent Sovereignty” at Arizona State University

    brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
    John Kane to Address “Inherent Sovereignty” at Arizona State University By Liz Hill Censored News WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 13, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and national commentator on Native issues, will be a featured speaker at “Who Decides You’re Real? Fixing the Federal Recognition Process,” a two-day conference at Arizona State University in Tempe. Kane will be one of four

    Minimum Wage as an Antipoverty Tool

    Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 9 hours ago
    David Henderson reports: If the federal minimum wage were increased to $9.50 per hour: - Only 11.3 percent of workers who would gain from the increase live in households officially defined as poor. - A whopping 63.2 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners living in households with incomes equal to twice the poverty line or more. - Some 42.3 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners who live in households that have incomes equal to three times the poverty line or more.

    what i'm reading: just kids by patti smith

    laura k at wmtc - 9 hours ago
    *Just Kids* is a memoir by the artist and musician Patti Smith, about her life and relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The book is a memoir of both Smith's and Mapplethorpe's coming of age as artists, and of the path of their relationships, both with each other and with other people who were formative in their young lives. *Just Kids* is also a memoir of New York City in the 1970s, especially of certain slices of the art and music scenes. Although Smith met and hung out with many famous musicians, artists, and writers during the time she writes about, *Just Kids* does... more »

    let them stay week day 2: letter to the editor

    laura k at wmtc - 9 hours ago
    *Let Them Stay Week 2014* kicked off yesterday with a flutter on social media. Today we get underway in earnest by writing letters to the editors of local newspapers. Three ideas for letters are here on the War Resisters Support Campaign website. An excellent list of email address, along with some tips for writing effective letters, is here, thanks to the good folks fighting for our public health care system. Your letter might reference one of three events: the 10th anniversary of the first Iraq War resister to arrive in Canada, the recent release from prison of war resister Kimb... more »

    Colour Revolutions - Look Out, Brazil!

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 10 hours ago
    RevolutionLocationDate startedDate endedDescriptionCarnation Revolution PortugalApril 25, 1974The revolution is associated with the colour carnation becausecarnations were worn.Velvet Revolution CzechoslovakiaNovember 17, 1989December 29, 1989in 1989, a peaceful demonstration by students (mostly fromCharles University) was attacked by the police – and in time contributed to the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.Yellow Revolution PhilippinesFebruary 22, 1986February 25, 1986The 1986 People Power Revolution (also called the "EDSA" or the "Yellow” Revolution) in t... more »

    'Daily Mail' Bingo

    Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 10 hours ago
    Those of us playing *Radio 4 Comedians Bingo *during tonight's *The Unbelievable Truth *will have been pretty disappointed, as it was a surprisingly low scoring edition of the show (and funny too). Still, thanks to Jeremy Hardy, we were at least able to mark off the *'Daily Mail' *as he took his inevitable Radio 4 comedians' swipe at that newspaper over its 'fascist' past. That makes it three editions in a row now where Radio 4 comedians on *The Unbelievable Truth *(namely David Mitchell, Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Hardy) have had a swipe at the *Daily Mail* - surely ample testi... more »

    Book Review: “North Korea in Transition” – Oh Wait, it’s Not in Transition…

    Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
    I know book reviews bore everyone, but the journal where I published this doesn’t post electronic versions of book reviews. So I thought this would be a good place to put it for internet accessibility. I tried to make this interesting by focusing on trends in NK, rather than just summarizing the constituent essays. It’s Continue reading

    Wild Bill: Commie Rat Democrats...

    Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
    are hard at work and doing a darn good job.

    Things we can learn from Mr. Brady!

    bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
    *MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Star QB fights climate denial:* Tom Brady beat the Colts this Saturday night. In his typically modest way, he also fought climate denial. How did Mr. Brady do that? Consider this passage from the sports section of today’s New York Times: ARATON (1/13/14): If you had the Patriots scoring six touchdowns without Tom Brady throwing for any in a 43-22 thrashing of the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday night, there’s a handicapping job waiting for you somewhere... *In a New England downpour, a hard reign fell on Andrew Luck and the Colts at Gillette Stadium.* L... more »

    RODMAN ON HIS KOREA VISIT

    Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
    Actually he is right....he is just a person trying to make peace in his own way. Someone has to the break the ice at last - instead of a hot shooting war - and it turned out to be Dennis Rodman. Sometimes history comes calling and you have to go with it.....

    WHO STILL BE THE DEVIL?

    Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
    "Somebody Blew Up America" by Amiri Baraka with Rob Brown-saxophone, recorded live on February 21, 2009 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. This production is part of "Free Jazz at the Sanctuary," a 13-part series of performance videos featuring some of the world's most talented improvisers. Each hour-long show is available on DVD directly from Downtown Music Gallery (www.downtownmusicgallery.com). For more information on this series, visit www.JazzSanctuary.org

    WE ARE BEING SCHOOLED......

    Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
    Frack U. Mexico. Directed by Greg "Gringoyo" Berger. Screenplay by Al Giordano. Good news! Mexico has the fourth largest shale gas reserves in the world, and the Mexican Congress is about to change the constitution so that private companies can drill for it. That means that U.S. companies will soon be there, fracking for gas. Sure, there may be some complications from the more than 500 chemicals that will be pumped into Mexico's aquifers, but never fear: Joe T. Hodo, President of "Frack U. Mexico!" is here to show you why Mexicans should stop worrying and learn to love fracking...... more »

    NO MORE EXCUSES

    Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
    On the 12th anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at the U.S. detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, activists occupy the National Museum of American History to create their own exhibit.

    Christie gets his buddy back!

    bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
    *MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Ways to make story grow:* When the press corps invents a Standard Group Story, their work can take several forms. The main point must be driven, of course. But many less significant, smaller points will make the story that much better—more pleasing, more satisfying to the target audience. When Bill Clinton got it on with Miss Lewinsky, the claim that she was a “21-year-old intern” made the story *vastly* better. When the corps decided to slime Candidate Gore, the claim that he grew up in a fancy hotel was extremely pleasing. Gore didn’t grow up in a fan... more »

    Syria: Geneva II, Captagon trafficking and Iran/IAEA

    Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
    * Going long, but, interesting* *WP* PARIS — International backers of Syria’s fractious opposition warned rebel political leaders Sunday that upcoming negotiations for a transition government to replace President Bashar al-Assad may be their last, best hope to bring their country’s civil war to an end. With* less than two weeks to go before a negotiating conference in Geneva *sponsored by the United Nations, the U.S.-backed Syrian Opposition Coalition has yet to say that it will attend. Amid rising frustration among its supporters, the group’s attempts to come to agreement and appoi... more »

    Thorne Dreyer : December guests on Rag Radio include ‘Radical Jesus’ editor, criminal justice blogger, Chicano novelist

    Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
    Our Rag Radio podcasts feature interviews with historian and graphic nonfiction publisher Paul Buhle, Texas blogger and prison reform advocate Scott Henson, and fiction writer Daniel Chacón, author of ‘Hotel Juárez.’ By Rag Radio | The Rag Blog | January … finish reading Thorne Dreyer : December guests on Rag Radio include ‘Radical Jesus’ editor, criminal justice blogger, Chicano novelist

    No Jobs for Americans As Unemployment Number Drops From from 7.0% to 6.7%

    Still thinking about those new jobs creation numbers and how the unemployment rate came down from 7% to 6.7%? Dr. Roberts says it's a shill, and he's got the logic and real numbers to prove it. I noticed today that the financial media presstitutes were a bit hesitant to hype the drop in the rate of unemployment when there was no jobs growth to account for it. The Wall Street and bank

    Climbing a treet

    James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago

    “Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich"

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
    *“Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich: * *It’s Time for ‘Militant Nonviolent Resistance’”* By John W. Whitehead “Everywhere, “time is winding up,” in the words of one of our spirituals, “corruption in the land, people take a stand, time is winding up.”—Martin Luther King Jr. We now live in a two-tiered system of governance. There are two sets of laws: one set for the government and its corporate allies, and another set for you and me. The laws which apply to the majority of the population allow the government to do things like sending SWAT teams crashing through yo... more »

    Chris Christie's Political Ambitions: Dead In The Water-- And Getting Deader

    DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
    On *Meet The Press* yesterday, Chris Matthews ended the segment on the rapidly expanding Chris Christie scandal by pointing out that Christie's greatest hit in the eyes of the general public was how much of an activist, on-the-ground leader he was when Hurricane Sandy devastated wide swathes of New Jersey. Matthews pointed out the incongruity of Christie's supposed nowhere-to-be-found posture when his aides shut down the George Washington Bridge for 4 days. Until now, people have seen Christie not as the corrupt overbearing and thuggish bully he's always been, but as a no-nonsense... more »

    Virtual tour to 7 power plants

    Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
    There are 430 nuclear reactors but so far, there has been no comprehensive virtual tour into the nuclear power plants' interior. The dominant Czech power utility company ČEZ is changing that. For seven weeks, it will be presenting a new virtual tour to one of its power plants (click, main web). *The Štěchovice dam (1945).* On Monday, 10 a.m. Central European Winter Time, they release a new site. The first plant that became available today is the hydroplant in Štěchovice, a dam on the Moldau South of Prague. You may imagine that it is rather low-tech (the dam was built between ... more »

    Psychotic Mass Murderer Ariel Sharon Is Dead: Eulogizing A Mass Murderer!

    Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours ago
    I for one am very happy that one of the worse mass murderers in the last 1/2 century, Ariel Sharon, is finally dead! This psychopath has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinians, and was the Israeli Prime Minister during the time of the Israeli led 9-11 attacks on the United States. But as usual we find the Jewish controlled media, and many Jewish controlled governments, around the world singing the praises of this psychopath, and many are now heading to Israel to pay homage to this mass murdering freak! To give a proper perspective on Ariel Sharon... more »

    Beating on Christie hoping for some truth.

    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
    So Chis Chestier is given a power that he regrets later. This is as big a distraction as i will screw you sideways and deny it much later, Is it possible to find a leader that did not think it was anti popular to bring out his mistress later.

    Recently at Bloomberg View

    Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
    I suppose I'll start a new post, and update it throughout the week, with links to current posts over there. As always with these, I may or may not update here in a timely way; your best bet is just to go over to my main page there. Here are the weekend links: Friday Baseball Post What Mattered? Sunday Question for Conservatives Sunday Question for Liberals And Monday, January 13: Read Stuff, You Should Why Campaign Finance Laws Make Things Worse George Miller and the Ruling Class of 1974 Will High Court Trim Presidential Power?

    Thailand: "Occupy Bangkok" Begins

    Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours ago
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters, hundreds of vehicles permanently occupy intersections across Bangkok in opposition of Wall Street-backed regime. *January 13, 2014* (ATN) - The fourth, and largest mass mobilization yet by protesters seeking to rid Thailand of unelected dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime, has filled the streets of Bangkok with hundreds of thousands of protesters, turning sections of the city's roads into walking streets, campsites, stages, and protest areas. *Images: Scenes from just a few of 8 major protest sites where permanent encampm... more »

    Basel Bestows a Break to the Banks, Belying Bankruptcy

    D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 13 hours ago
    Very interesting folks!!! My highlights and comments in blue. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579316584090630274?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303819704579316584090630274.html Banks Get a Break on Leverage-Ratio RulesBasel Committee Softens Terms of Requirement Meant to Ensure Lenders' Soundness Geoffrey T. Smith Updated Jan. 12, 2014 4:31 p.m. ET World banking regulators said they would soften the terms of a rule meant to ensure banks' soundness, bowing to pressure from banks that had argued it would stifle... more »

    Gardasil: What Lack of Informed Consent Did For Me by Nicole Alexandra

    Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago
    Gardasil: What lack of informed consent did for me By Nicole Alexandra Sacramento California Sane Vax, Inc. 10 January 2014 I had seen many Gardasil commercials on television and wanted to be ‘one less girl’ affected by cervical cancer. My doctor said I needed the HPV vaccine and I trusted the information I was given. I believed the vaccine was important for my health. I chose to get vaccinated. I was not told that regular pap smears were an effective way to detect abnormal cells which could be treated before they developed into cervical cancer. I was not told the vast ma... more »

    We are all Freaks

    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
    Just get over it an do as much as you can do with love.

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    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
    I heard the beautiful vibrations of sound no one could deny that they formed my future advance to respond to a sound that over I no control or faced with a lawsuit would not agree this is the path upon which vitalization must advance. If your ignorant and not well imfored you will see that benath all of Cananda and the CBC are minirals, great wealth for those that believe. Gold bugs drive me crazy becuase they think this is the meauure that defines humanity. Its like a weapon with lethal certanty. Sure I can kill any progressive agnda like a target on Daley plazza which in real life was ki... more »

    We came from someplace

    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
    I am all for our celebrities to be graded. It separates the Kim Kardahisn and Kanye Wests from the real case. When you are looking at a starfield its like a sportsteam, but in Hollywood its all about who could make us the most money without complaining they were not first in line to that great disbursement of a trust fest. Time has revealed who where stars and who the gamma ray turned there internal organs into some kind of midnfield. Hollywood stars are the tissue paper of history. You could blow your nose on them with love, but still for the most part they were stupid on policy wh... more »

    BECKHAMS AND BUTTERFLIES

    Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago
    For Harper Beckham's nursery. *Metrosexual Quarterly* at The Newspaceman *Harper* ~~~~ *PROTECTING THE PEDOPHILE RINGS* *FEMALE MP IN PEDOPHILE RING* *WAR CRIMES DOSSIER NAMES WALL*

    Harper government:CBC Fifth Estate Documentary Exposing Damage to Scientific Research -"Silence of the Labs"

    LeDaro at LeDaro - 14 hours ago
    I knew about Harper's war on science but CBC's Fifth Estate documentary, Silence of the Labs, was revealing, showing the full extent of the damage being wrought by the Harper Conservatives. I never thought it was this bad. The damage done is immense, scientists muzzled, world renowned research projects axed, all in the name of politics. An archeologist leading a team researching Viking landings on Baffin Island - a project that received international media attention - was axed because the Harper CONS wanted to emphasize British history, including the War of 1812, and did not want... more »

    Islamic State of Iraq And The Levant Continues To Overplay Its Hand

    Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
    As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) attempts a comeback it continues to repeat the same mistakes that turned most of the country against it in the past. Part of its current Soldiers’ Harvest campaign is to gain and hold territory in Iraq. As a result it has moved into certain towns and cities and begun issuing warnings and orders to the population about what it will not accept based upon its interpretation of Islam. Recently it has banned wearing western clothing and listening to music. Another bad trend is its tendency to attack anyone that does not agree with it.... more »

    @BBCRadio4 Thank you

    Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
    Cardiff Palestine Solidarity Campaign are pleased with BBC Radio 4 this afternoon: *CardiffPSC* ‏@CardiffPSC25m @BBCRadio4 Thank you for *the* afternoon drama *The* *Brick* set in # Jerusalem about *the* ease with which #Palestinian history has been obliterated The object of their gratitude is Afternoon Drama: The Brick, "a compelling portrait of Palestinian life by Selma Dabbagh...a British Palestinian writer based in London".

    Common Core Without Testing Is Like Vampires Without Blood

    Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
    Not many people remember that Diane Ravitch was for Common Core before she was against it, and what turned her against it was the certainty that any benefit of second graders all learning to write memos rather than reading *Mrs. Frisby* . . . would be negated by an increase in testing--which she had come to understand to be the tool for destroying public schools. Now Ravitch's friend, Randi Weingarten, has suddenly decided to "uncouple" testing from Common Core. PhilaKen and whole bunch of other folks at the Ravitch blog have noted that Common Core without testing is like sunshine ... more »

    Mayor Sokolich seems to change his story!

    bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
    *MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Watching story change:* This morning, the New York Times presents a 2847-word background report on the lane closings in Fort Lee. It’s a familiar type of report. Once a particular story attains a certain critical mass, the Times assembles a coffle of scribes to offer voluminous background. In theory, this is a good idea. In practice, sometimes not. Today’s report was assembled by the traditional cast of thousands. N. R. Kleinfeld is the reporter of record. Beyond that, “reporting was contributed by Michael Barbaro, David W. Chen, Jim Dwyer, Matt Fleg... more »

    October Surprise and Henry Kissinger : Strange Diplomacy in Iran - byRobert Dreyfus, 12/2/1980

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 14 hours ago
    This is interesting - just doing some debunking of debunking on the Newsweek attack piece on Garry Sick and his book (which none of them had read when they wrote it), and noticed something interesting; First, they try and originate the first allegation of a secret deal to LaRouche, on December 2nd 1980, who report Kissinger meeting in Paris with people prior to the election (an old habit with him), as written up in Executive Intelligence Review. The LaRouchies have archived all their back issues (split up into either articles or full issues) for EIR online, as PDFs. So I pul... more »

    Cold Play

    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
    Stop the argument, they are top level.

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    New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
    *"Watch Me Do My Thing: Surveillance in New Orleans." ~Jules Bentley, Antigravity Magazine* *On your side ~Library Chronicles *

    California Readers--Read This and Act

    Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago
    K-12 News Network has obtained an email that the United Way sent to its partner groups advertising an informational session held by Superintendent John Deasy that will provide details on the rollout of Local Control Funding Formula councils. These councils, part of Local Control Accountability Plans, must by law include community members, parents, teachers, and others who will participate in determining funding priorities for Los Angeles Unified schools. They will be expected to review preliminary budgets and provide feedback and oversight so that foster children, those from low-inc... more »

    Doctor Who Lego Figure Necklace

    Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
    [image: Housewife Eclectic: Doctor Who Lego Figure Necklace] I have a confession to make. I love to collect things. There is something about looking for those last few pieces to a collection that I can't get enough of. One of my absolute favorite collections is my Lego figures, especially the Doctor Who Micro Figures I have collected over the last year or so. Lego figures are so much fun because they are small, but carry so much impact in the details. A few months ago, I was looking for a birthday gift for a fellow Whovian (people who love Doctor Who) and I knew she would love a nec... more »

    Telling the World "I LOVE You"

    D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 15 hours ago
    I woke up this morning, knowing that in my sleep time I had been "discussing" the frequency of Love- the cause and effect of LOVE on the physical and etheric "bodies" of ourselves and even the surrounding energy fields around us. While I wish I could remember all the details that I discussed (ugh, I hate waking up and "forgetting"), the one major point that stayed with me is that everything resonates through frequencies, and that the frequency of LOVE is one of the strongest and most energetic waves that we create and emanate. We are all tied together in one huge mosaic of spira... more »

    Turkey corruption probe updates January 13 , 2014 ....Judicial Bill remains mired in controversy and rowdy debate and scuffles during a Commission Meeting...... Main opposition leader meets President Gül, requests withdrawal of judicial bill ..... Graft prosecutor Zekeriya Öz rejects relocation, takes annual leave ...... Brussels asks Turkey to be consulted to ensure judicial bill in line with EU legislation ...... Graft accusations aim to thwart Istanbul’s third airport and bridge plans: AKP spokesman

    Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
    Main opposition leader meets President Gül, requests withdrawal of judicial bill ANKARA Print PageSend to friend » - - - - - Share [image: Many figures last week urged President Abdullah Gül to play the intermediary for solving the ongoing crisis. DHA photo] Many figures last week urged President Abdullah Gül to play the intermediary for solving the ongoing crisis. DHA photo Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu held a meeting with President Abdullah Gül Jan. 13 in Ankara, voicing the Republican People Party’s (CHP) position over a controversial bill giving t... more »

    Wondering Who The Republican Party's Next Todd Akin Will Be? There Are So Many To Choose From

    DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
    Get used to seeing pictures of New Jersey teabagger Steve Lonegan yelling Steve Stockman's deranged "John Cornyn-is-a-liberal" campaign really is something to behold. Stockman, a former vagrant strung out out on and dealing a wide varietis drugs, is making a lot of ambient noise on twitterand producing amusing infographics like these: In December, when he announced he would be abandoning his House seat to primary Cornyn, he asserted that "Liberal John Cornyn wakes up every morning and works to make the Senate a more liberal place. That’s why I am running for the United States Senate... more »

    For 11(b) applications the time period from the charge to the completion of the trial is properly considered in assessing inferred prejudice

    James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
    *R. v. Lo*, 2014 ONCA 23: [2] We also agree with counsel for the appellant’s submission that the trial judge’s reasons are open to the interpretation that when considering inferred prejudice, a trial judge should not have regard to neutral time periods. If that was what the trial judge intended to say, he was, with respect, in error: see R. v. Ralph, 2014 ONCA 3. The entire period of the delay, that is the time period from the charge to the completion of the trial, is properly considered in assessing inferred prejudice.

    WATCHING STORY GROW: Contradiction!

    bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 hours ago
    *MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014* *Part 1—Maddow versus the Times:* What explains September’s lane closings at the George Washington Bridge? On Thursday morning, the New York Times gave a definitive answer. It appeared in Kate Zernike’s news report, the featured report in the top right-hand corner of the newspaper’s front page. Below, you see the way the news report started. According to Zernike, the truth about a “mystery” had finally been “revealed:” ZERNIKE (1/9/14): The mystery of who closed two lanes onto the George Washington Bridge—turning the borough of Fort Lee, N.J., into a park... more »

    Exceptional Talent and US Immigration

    noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 16 hours ago
    I have an analysis of immigration and US Soccer up over at Law in Sport. Here is how it starts: Issues related to immigration and citizenship have long been debated in the United States, and are reemerging as a political issue, with calls for reform coming from both Republicans and Democrats. President Obama says that "the US immigration system is broken ... there are 11 million people living in the shadows."1 One consequence of the broken immigration system can be seen in US soccer, where certain immigrants to the United States are deemed ineligible to represent Team USA, despite... more »

    Stratum of Higher Gaia Light now covers the planet

            AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 16 hours ago
    *I apologize for the lack of postings lately. Internet service has been really bad since the solar flares last week. -Bill* *Stratum of Higher Gaia Light now covers the planet* by ÉirePort Stratum of Higher Gaia Light now covers the planet and the consciousness of all inhabitants. Such encompasses all levels of Gaia expression, and allows no "escape" from the uplifting effects. Those of humanity which have held the so-called "dark" contrast, are encouraged by this Higher Vibration to release those rôles, and rise with the rest of Hue-manity. As always, resistance to the incre... more »

    A War On the Poor

    Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
    As Republicans and Democrats argue about whether they should extend unemployment insurance to the long termed unemployed, Paul Krugman writesthat the Republican argument is part of a war on the poor: Right now Republicans are doing all they can to hurt the poor, and they would have inflicted vast additional harm if they had won the 2012 election. Moreover, G.O.P. harshness toward the less fortunate isn’t just a matter of spite (although that’s part of it); it’s deeply rooted in the party’s ideology, which is why recent speeches by leading Republicans declaring that they do too care... more »

    The grotesque pedophocracy reappears in the Quenelle controversy

    Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours ago
    *Flashback time.* Why? We have been discussing the quenelle and the controversy surrounding that gesture. Gallier has been doing his due diligence and uncovered yet another reason the psychopathic elites have their "knickers in a knot" concerning a new show put on by Dieudonné *The two most recent posts on the subject:* * More from Gilad Atzmon on the censorship of Dieudonné & la quenelle * The Economist explains "What is the quenelle" *But, as usual, there is more............* gallier2*January 13, 2014 at 3:39 AM* *Okay, things start to get clearer now. There is one aspect of Dieudo... more »

    If you like spin, you’ll love this

    sue at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
    * “Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim, a breakdown of census figures shows.**The percentage of Muslims among the under-fives is almost twice as high as in the general population. In an indication of the extent to which birthrate is changing the UK’s religious demographic, fewer than one in 200 people over 85 is Muslim.* *One expert said it was foreseeable that Muslims who worshipped would outnumber practising Christians.” It’s not inconceivable” said David Voas, professor of population studies at the University of Essex.”* *“Data from the 2011 cens... more »

    Gardasil : comment j’ai payé l’absence de consentement éclairé par Nicole Alexandra

    Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
    *Gardasil : comment j’ai payé l’absence de consentement éclairé* par Nicole Alexandra, 10 janvier *« Le Gardasil a changé ma santé, ma vie et celle de ma famille pour toujours : physiquement, mentalement, émotionnellement et financièrement »* J’avais vu beaucoup de publicité à la télévision pour le Gardasil et je voulais être « une fille de moins » qui serait atteinte par le cancer du col de l’utérus. Mon médecin m’a dit que je devais faire le vaccin contre le HPV et j’ai fait confiance à l’information qui m’était donnée. J’ai cru que le vaccin était important pour ma san... more »

    Download Twitter for Android Versi Terbaru 2014

    irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 17 hours ago
    Download Twitter for Android Versi Terbaru 2014 - ngobroli soal jejaring sosial semakin hari semakin amat banyak umat menggunakannya, salah satu jejaring sosial yang terkenal saat ini adalah "Twitter". Twitter yang didirikan dalam tahun 2006 ini yang dibentuk oleh Jack Dorsey, saat ini telah mendunia dan diperkirakan pengguna di seluruh dunia kini mencapai 100 juta pengguna bahkan mungkin

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    New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago
    *Our Who Dat Nation is down, but won't give up hope, no ~Don Ames, WWL* *Chinatown, New Orleans ~Richard Campanella* *Proposals to fill in canals not gaining much traction ~Amy Wold, Advocate* *Guest Post | Hancock County Alliance for Good Government: 2014-A Year of “Elections” and “Decisions” ~Slabbed * *Flu spreading in state, locally ~Carolyn Scofield, WVUE*

    Codex Alimentarius

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
    Ian R. Crane - Codex Alimentarius from Spike EP on Vimeo. *Quote: * *"The Codex Alimentarius Commission, established by FAO and WHO in 1963 develops harmonised international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice to protect the health of the consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade. The Commission also promotes coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations. For more information see here: http://www.codexalimentarius.org/about-codex/en/ "The reference made to Codex food safety standa... more »

    October Surprise: Anatomy of a Hit-Piece

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 18 hours ago
    *I quote The Enemy:* "....the Reagan Administration, for instance, wanted absolutely nothing to do with him; they considered him *far* too unsound...." *- Christopher Hitchins, * *The Trials of Henry Kissinger, * *2001* I quote the Editoral, Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 7, Dec. 2nd 1980, pp2.: *It is a story that will not die--a dark tale of conspiracy and political intrigue that, if true, would constitute something like an accusation of treason against George Bush, the late William Casey and other members of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Briefly put... more »

    Colourful Map of the body and it's emotional responses

    D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 19 hours ago
    An interesting Map of what the body looks like compared to emotions!!! http://sitsshow.blogspot.com/ This data is very interesting in relation to the Ancient Mysteries and The Alchemical process of realizing yourself and attaining Self Mastery. This post goes well with Emotional Guidance Scale (Explained in detail) How to be guided by your emotions, instead of controlled by them. By Justin. And the post True Health: How to Tap Into the Healing Abilities of Your Chakras . Our Emotions, (E-Motion Energy in Motion) reflect to us physically, what we have created within, our RE-Presenta... more »

    Food Safety Lectures by Dr. Shiv Chopra In Ontario, Canada on January 26th & 27th 2014

    Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
    Do you live in Ontario? World renowned public speaker and best selling author, Shiv chopra, of "Corrupt To The Core" will be speaking at 3 upcoming events in Ontario. See poster below for more details.#DrShivChopra #CorrupttotheCore #GMOs #Ontario #FoodSafety #Pesticides #Herbicides #gmofreecanada *Source:* *GMO Free Canada Facebook*

    Jupiter Ascending - Sean Bean, Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum - Wachowski Wachonski

    Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
    due Summer 2014, Jupiter Ascending is the latest release from the Matrix Trilogy *'brothers'* the Wachowskis. *Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) is an unlucky Russian immigrant who cleans toilets for a living. She encounters Caine (Channing Tatum), an interplanetary warrior whom the Queen of the Universe sent to kill Jupiter. Caine tells Jupiter that the stars were pointing to an extraordinary event on the night she was born, and that her DNA could mark her as the universe's next leader.* [source SYNOPSIS] "Your Earth is a very small part of a very large Industry," Hell, yeah!

    Nukes have worked since 1945 - why keep affirming that - nuclear tests thru 1989?

    Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
    unless the goal is to a) destabilise the west coast of USA (which has happened) or the Russian continent or the mid-Pacific or b) destabilise the health of humans around the world, why all these nuclear detonations thru 1989? We know nukes have worked since Oppenheimer's Trinity i.e. July 16th 1945, what's the point of RE-TESTING NUKES on this global scale? *THIS POST EXCLUSIVELY SPONSORED BY WAR WORLD TECHNOLOGIES INC:* *Lorien Howell, an estate manager at Oxford law firm Convo & Convo, is seduced by her G3 whistleblowing client 'Actor Arrenay' to join him in liberating mank... more »

    Monday Morning Linkage

    Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 20 hours ago
    Hi. Here are some links to help you get your week started… Richard Shapcott reviews Daniel J. Levine’s Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique. The book is compared to P.T. Jackson’s The Conduct of Inquiry. Shapcott says that “Levine’s goal is to place the idea of a moral/ethical vocation at the heart of the Continue reading

    Pilots for 9/11 Truth - 911 Intercepted - Skygate 911 trailer & scenes

    Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 20 hours ago
    9/11's *FOG OF WAR* happened, why? "We can not call out for some reason..." Danielle O'Brien air traffic controller at Dulles AFB, unable to work with her 'disabled' communication system on the day of the 9/11 Event. Here's commercial airline pilot Mitoa Edjang, at a Pilots for 911 Truthconference, saying why he's *not convinced by* the (as reported) 9/11 Event. *WHAT THIS POST'S REALLY ABOUT:* here's the latest documentary from Pilots for 911 Truth, titled: Skygate 911 SAMPLE ONE: SAMPLE TWO:

    PROTECTING THE PEDOPHILE RINGS

    Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
    *Mysterious death of child witness* *In the UK, undercover police, including members of the notorious 'Special Branch', posed as Sunday People newspaper reporters to get close to key witnesses in the current child abuse scandal.* *http://www.mirror.co.uk/* This child abuse and child murder scandal involves huge numbers of top people and huge numbers of children. *Child-abuse pedophile networks for top people are believed to have been active throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA over many years, and reportedly they are run by the security services.* ... more »

    Princess Leia in THAT metallic bikini slave costume... twice!

    Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
    This picture, recently tweeted (@TheWookieeRoars) by Peter Mayhew aka Chewbacca from Star Wars, would have set my teenage self's heart all a-flutter and affected certain other areas too... It's Princess Leia and her stunt double relaxing on the Star Wars set... both in their slave girl metallic bikini costumes... Still works on this middle aged man!

    Chomsky

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 22 hours ago
    "In 1969, he was in the Boston area on an extended business function. He therefore arranged a discussion with Chomsky. Chomsky had initially agreed to a one-hour meeting in his office. Ray brought only 3-4 pieces of evidence, including his work on CE 399, and a series of stills from the Zapruder film. Soon after the discussion began, Chomsky told “his secretary to cancel the remaining appointments for the day. The scheduled one-hour meeting stretched to 3-4 hours. Chomsky showed great interest in the material. We mutually agreed to a follow-up session later in the week. ... more »

    It is the Death of History - by Robert Fisk (2007)

    Paul Coker at News Spike - 22 hours ago
    *2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq's historic past – the very cradle of human civilisation – has emerged as one of the most shameful symbols of our disastrous occupation.* *Evidence amassed by archaeologists shows that even those Iraqis who trained as archaeological workers in ... more »

    Wilhelm Wien: 150th birthday

    Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
    Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was born on January 13th, 1864, to a landowner father in Prussia and died in 1928. He received the 1911 Nobel prize in physics for his work on the black-body radiation. Over his lifetime, he was affiliated with German universities in Giessen, Würzburg, Munich, Aachen, Göttingen, and Berlin as well as with Columbia University in New York (in April 1913; yes, 7 universities for his 7 names). His PhD adviser was Hermann von Helmholtz. He would always work on experiments related to light and electromagnetic radiation but he would try to propose ... more »

    Musical Interlude: R.E.M., “Everybody Hurts”

    noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
    Not doing so well recovery wise today, a rough day, so apologies for no posts, but thought of this very sad but beautiful song and wanted to share it with you... Hold on, you’re not alone... -CP R.E.M., “Everybody Hurts” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc

    Scientists Don't Want The Moon To Become Like West Virginia

    DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
    Imagine Freedom Industries with a charter to operate on the Moon! This week, as the president of Freedom Industries, which is affiliated with the Koch brothers, insisted that there's too much of a fuss being made over the toxic spill on the Elk River, even just *touching*-- not drinking, *touching*-- the water that comes out of their taps induces non-stop vomiting for folks living in tens of thousands of homes in West Virginia. And Freedom Industries is not subject to any permits or inspections by the EPA. The New York Times reported, “According to Department of Environmental P... more »

    Widespread Corruption

    Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
    We have seen it in Quebec, want to bet its not the same in Ontario? Well in England its epidemic. Beyond the Pale. "The thing that corruption stories -- even astounding ones like this -- teach us is that our systems need to account for the possibility that the authorities are corrupt, or sloppy, or duped. Creating laws that give police and magistrates the power to declare anything anyone does illegal, storing massive DNA databases, allowing for secret courts and warrantless surveillance, creatingunaccountable systems of censorship, and letting spies run wild are all examples of sy... more »

    So how much of the "Paleo Diet" is based on an actual Paleolithic diet?

    Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
    Since I stilll have this conversation about this fad diet with someone at least once a week (sigh), here’s TED Fellow Christina Warinner, an expert on ancient diets, answering the question: *So how much of this "Paleo Diet" stuff is based on an actual Paleolithic diet?* The answer is *not really any of it*. Who’s Christina Warinner, and what the hell would she know? Well… Dr. Christina Warinner has excavated around the world, from the Maya jungles of Belize to the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, and she is pioneering the biomolecular investigation of archaeological dental calculu... more »

    On the defense of @rweingarten by @dianeravitch

    Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
    It’s really quite simple, actually. Simple for me, at least. To begin, you can review Ravitch’s personal defense of the President of AFT. The American Federation of Teachers is a political organization. It must operate in a way that satisfies numerous interests and issues and permutations. I won’t begin to understand that position as I […]

    Updates On Syria [1.12]: Assad Is Rallying Sunni Leaders Against Saudi Arabia's Goons, Obama Admin Ensures Geneva II Will Fail By Saying Assad Must Go, Turkish Government Is Arming Al-Qaeda Under The Guise of Humanitarian Aid

    Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
    *1. An excerpt from, "Conflicts Forum's Weekly Comment 27 December 2013 - 3 January 2014" Conflicts Forum, January 10, 2014: * Yet, if we stand back from the region, it is clear that the Syrian government, over the last weeks, is rapidly consolidating its military situation. The circumstance of Damascus is far different today from even a few weeks ago (as recent visitors to the city confirm to us). It is true that, at one level, sectarian animosities (particularly Saudi ones) have reached new heights across the region, but a new – and underrated – factor is being felt: Sunnis are fa... more »

    Big Law watch - After a Merger Falls Through, Patton Boggs Keeps Looking for the right merger partner...... A look at proposed mergers in big Law tht did not come to pass in 2013 , speculation on another prospective pairing.....

    Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
    http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/after-a-merger-fails-patton-boggs-still-seeks-partners/?_r=0 After a Merger Falls Through, Patton Boggs Keeps LookingBY ELIZABETH OLSON [image: Tom Boggs, partner with the Washington-based law firm of Patton Boggs.]Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images Tom Boggs, partner with the Washington-based law firm of Patton Boggs. For over a half-century, the Washington law firm Patton Boggs has been a significant player in the nation’s legal, lobbying and business worlds. The firm has represented corporations like the Mars candy company and Exxon ... more »
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    Omen of the Birds (1964) ...item 3.. Grandmoth...Omen of the Birds (1964) ...item 3.. Grandmother killed by horrific flesh-eating disease just five days after first complaining -- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center .. Fayetteville, North Carolina (24 September 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet451)
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    Surprised? We didn't think so.

    Bulk Spying Is Not Effective Terrorism Prevention Tactic: Report
    commondreams.org
    An in-depth analysis of 227 individuals recruited by al Qaida or like-minded groups, and charged in the U.S. with an act of terrorism since 9/11, shows the contribution of NSA's bulk surveillance programs to these cases was minimal,

    JUST OUT: Wind Mobile will no longer be participating in tomorrow's auction of wireless resources that are crucial to the future of cell phone service in Canada.

    If you own a mobile device, the spectrum auction affects you. Make your voice heard against Big Telecom's stranglehold at https://OpenMedia.ca/Gatekeepers

    CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel ....... In what should outrage every American - noting this has occurred during the so called War Against Drugs and harsh federal drug sentencing guidelines - we now find out that an investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. ........ here is another head kicking nugget --- Zambada-Niebla's lawyer claimed to the court that in the late 1990s, Castro struck a deal with U.S. agents in which Sinaloa would provide information about rival drug trafficking organizations while the U.S. would dismiss its case against the Sinaloa lawyer and refrain from interfering with Sinaloa drug trafficking activities or actively prosecuting Sinaloa leadership. ...... And we have heard about this before , but still mid blowing ---- "The agents stated that this arrangement had been approved by high-ranking officials and federal prosecutors," Zambada-Niebla lawyer wrote. After being extradited to Chicago in February 2010, Zambada-Niebla argued that he was also "immune from arrest or prosecution" because he actively provided information to U.S. federal agents. ........ And was this what " Fast and Furious Operation " really was all about --- Zambada-Niebla also alleged that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to finance and arm the cartel in exchange for information used to take down its rivals. (If true, that re-raises the issue regarding what Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the gun-running arrangements.) ---

    Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 minutes ago
    http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1 An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S. There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be "the world’s most powerful drug traf... more »

     


    Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
    globalresearch.ca
    A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who’s now the

    Did you take this week's FactCheck Quiz? The topics: Medicaid, Affordable Care Act exchange enrollment and the U.S. poverty rate. http://ow.ly/sxRLU

     War is Boring

    Say It Ain't So! Joint Fighter Programs Don't Actually Save Money

    A warplane built for everyone pleases no one

     

    The Air Force Totally Lied to You About the Fiery Fate of Its Stealth Bomber

    Swift cover-up as $2-billion warplane goes up in flames

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    "Will Nature, Young People and Future Generations Forgive Us?"

    Bloggeropit said...

    Do you notice how much of this information relies on James Hansen and the IPCC ? Kindly note that, as the name states, it is an intergovernmental panel. That means it deals with policy desired to be promulgated internationally...and is a ( UN ) bureaucracy tasked with showing a connection between man's consumption of fossil fuel and global warming. Yet the models are innately unverifiable because they presume to prophesy, so there is great confusion and a 'range of possibilities' that does not conform to observed reality.
    That by itself is not remarkable. A short timeline 'calculating' results of sparse readings on a short timeline of air temperatures on a water world subject to orbital variations and cycles, heated by its own nuclear furnace and cooled by evaporation into space has a complexity of unknown and unmeasured processes.
    Such a view 'denies' only that 'science' has a verifiable handle on things. But the epithet is useful when alleging people believe only one thing or another.
    That is false reporting which poisons the well to scientific methodology....contrast and compare. Contest ideas to see if they work. Anything else smacks of religion because there is no supporting argument.
    Otherwise we would not see meteorologists needing to be smacked down and shut up.
    Interesting thoughts. What is a 'global temperature ?' University of Guelph proposed that was an impossible calculation.
    Species die off. As if mankinds' occupation of such a majority of the planetary surface and perverted unsustainable corporate 'agriculture' did not carry the seeds of its own destruction by reducing biodiversity.
    One blog even acts as a site promoting concerns for ozone pollution as a stimulus for tree die off.
    And there is the Nitrogen Cycle promoting dead zones in the oceans and lakes because of fertilizer stimulating algal growth.
    I prefer to address things like lack of proper concern for drinking water preservation as risks to life.
    The idea that adding more of a trace gas that stimulates plant growth to the air, combined with warming temperatures which should do the same, is a proposed existential threat borders on parody.
    January 13, 2014 at 9:19 PM


    Scott Smith being removed by Police at direction of Governor of West Virgina when Scott attempted to donate technology to fingerprint water for the Citizens of Charleston West Viginia
    Scott Smith being removed by Police at direction of Governor of West Virgina when Scott attempted to donate technology to fingerprint water for the Citizens of Charleston West Viginia
    300,000 West Virginia residents are without drinking water after a "clean" coal plant leaked 5,000 gallons of toxic chemical into the Elk River. To help with water relief efforts for West Virginians, DONATE here: http://bit.ly/1a2PVe8

    Click SHARE if you agree that filthy coal must be replaced by smart, clean renewable energy.

    300,000 West Virginia residents are without drinking water after a "clean" coal plant leaked 5,000 gallons of toxic chemical into the Elk River. To help with water relief efforts for West Virginians, DONATE here: http://bit.ly/1a2PVe8  Click SHARE if you agree that filthy coal must be replaced by smart, clean renewable energy.

    Akademic Shokalskiy makes it back to port, ‪#‎spirtofmawson‬ fools still stuck in Antartica http://wp.me/p7y4l-qkv

    Akademic Shokalskiy makes it back to port, #spirtofmawson fools still stuck in Antartica
    wattsupwiththat.com
    The comedy just keeps on coming. Plus, now it seems that Turney failed to get some approvals, and his welcome home may not be all the happy. Maybe he’ll stay in Antarctica.

    "Some degree of sinking is going on all the way from southern Maine to northern Florida... and scientists appear convinced that the coastline damage is happening on a rapid timescale."

    Even an Alberta based MSM paper knows the truth about the tar sands rebranded "oilsands". 67% think Neil Young is right.
    link: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Poll+feel+about+Neil+Young+attacking+oilsands/9378167/story.html?cid=dlvr.it-twitter-edmontonjournal

    :) Even an Alberta based MSM paper knows the truth about the tar sands rebranded "oilsands". 67% think Neil Young is right.


    State officials say not everyone should do this at once and strain the system. And they say flushing the lines in your home will do you no good if you are not yet cleared for clean water. Nevertheless, here are the flushing instructions being handed out. The entire protocol is posted on the water company’s website at http://www.amwater.com/files/WV%20-%20How%20to%20flush.pdf
    State officials say not everyone should do this at once and strain the system. And they say flushing the lines in your home will do you no good if you are not yet cleared for clean water. Nevertheless, here are the flushing instructions being handed out. The entire protocol is posted on the water company’s website at http://www.amwater.com/files/WV%20-%20How%20to%20flush.pdf

    GM foods, Heavy metal Vaccines and Pharmaceutical drugs with everlasting side affects the depopulation agenda is the real WWIII against the populace.

    BBC Drops Chemtrail Bombshell! Geoengineering Would Backfire! | Chemtrails
    beforeitsnews.com
    For EVERYONE out there who still believes that chemtrails and geoengineering the weather are merely a ‘tinfoil hat’ conspiracy, PLEASE sit up and take notice



    www.foodexposed.co.za
    2500 new additional antibiotic resistant genes identified in young children.Posted on November 14, 2013 by StaffA new study publicized in PLOS ONE has analyzed the level of antibiotic resistant genes found in the intestinal tract of American children under the age of five.The genes are a new cause f...

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    http://healthierliving4you.com/toxintruth3 Presentation Reveals The Truth About The Toxins In Your Body The Government Has Kept Secret & The Simple Method To Rid The Body Of These Harmful Toxins In Less Than 30 Minutes A Week! http://healthierliving4you.com/toxintruth3

    "One of the most difficult thing about continuing to monitor for these impacts is the way the information is secreted and released slowly, after you'd want to know it. I have many fond memories of dolphins jumping through the waters of Barataria Bay in 2010 and 2011. This new information can cast a harsh light on those memories, fouling them. As a scientist, I am familiar with how long it does take to carefully and logically parse data into information. But as a human being, the reevaluation of my memories does not come easily. I continue to mourn the Gulf, although I don't know all of what I'm mourning. And I know that more bad news is to come.


    All the more reason then, that BP must be made to pay for every life lost. Please write the Justice Department in their memory." ~ Scott Eustis, Gulf Restoration Network: United for a healthy Gulf of Mexico

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    "This high court which gave corporations the ability to patent life forms in 1980, and under Citizens United in 2010 gave corporations the power to buy their way to election victories, has now in 2014 denied farmers the basic right of protecting themselves from the notorious patent bully Monsanto."—Jim Gerritsen, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association


    Chemical Companies Face Backlash over Kaua’i Pesticide Lawsuit
    sustainablepulse.com
    Yesterday, three of the world’s largest agrochemical companies filed a lawsuit against the County of Kauaʻi to block implementation of the recently passed Kauaʻi Ordinance 960 (formerly known as Bill 2491). Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer


    Coca-Cola paid $1 million to make sure you don’t know this.
    banoosh.com
    Coca-Cola paid $1 million to make sure you don’t know this.December 17, 2013 by MR.H9 CommentsCoca-Cola has been having a rough time. The company owns Honest Tea, Odwalla, Powerade, Vitamin Water, Simply Orange, and


    http://wideshut.co.uk/ipcc-muddy-waters-before-mark-duggan-shooting-inquest/


    www.voice-online.co.ukA POLICE officer has said Mark Duggan could not have thrown the gun he is alleged to have been carrying out of the cab he was travelling in when police intercepted him.
    Republicans want the GOP-majority House to be run according to Leninist principles of democratic centralism - but since the majority of Senators are Democrats, they want the Senate run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune....

     Iran Nuclear Threat Debunked; Why All Weapon Claims Are Baseless 

    Although it’s difficult for many in the West to get their heads around due to years of sensational headlines, the very concept of Iran building nuclear weapons is unfounded speculation, compounded by wild accusations and window-dressed intelligence by biased nations with ulterior motives. Why should Iran grant Western backed officials the right to gallivant around their country and snoop at military installations? Is Iran allowed to send officials to snoop around American military sites? Do the UN get to roll in to Israel’s illegal nuclear facilities?
    How exactly do we take an organization like the IAEA seriously, when it’s being pressured by a nuclear state that isn’t even a member of the Nuclear non-Proliferation treaty (Israel), and America, who has used nuclear weapons in the past and is involved militarily in hundreds of nations across the world [1]?
    Iran is not a nation whose history is littered with covert operations, coup-d-tates, and illegal wars of aggression and mass murder.
    Nor is it a country that obliterated hundreds of thousands of people and flattened an entire city like America did to Japan during WWII, or a Nation that has a policy to use nuclear weapons in the future like Israel and its Samson Option [2], a plan to go out all nukes blazing if significantly attacked itself.

     


    Iraq: “Devastating” Dossier Alleging British War Crimes Lodged with the International Criminal...
    globalresearch.ca
    A “devastating” two hundred and fifty page document: "The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-how-gangs-used-the-freemasons-to-corrupt-police-9054670.html

     

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/lockerbie-if-not-megrahi-then-who-9008961.html

     
    http://wideshut.co.uk/soviet-afghan-war-cia-muslim-rebels/

     

    "For the last 40 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict has been my main research interest, and I can honestly say that I have never come across a single scintilla of evidence to support the notion of Sharon as a man of peace," says Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and author of “Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations.”

    In addition to our roundtable discussion, we air our interview with Ellen Siegel, a Jewish-American nurse who worked at a hospital at the Sabra camp at the time of the massacre.

    Noam Chomsky: Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms
    democracynow.org
    Democracy Now! looks at one of the most shocking incidents in the career of the late former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982. Democracy Now! hosts a roundtable on Sharon's political and military legacy with Noa

    What should be done to end the conflict? Do you agree with the points raised by our guests?

    Who is Behind the Terrorists in Syria? The "Geneva-2 Talks are an Exercise in Shadow Fake Diplomacy"
    globalresearch.ca
    Decisions on the Syrian issue will be taken behind closed doors, and the main question will be "Who is behind the terrorists," Michel Chossudovsky, Director

     

     

    China has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds.


    We’d like to see the power to create money transferred to a democratic, accountable and transparent process, where everyone knows who has the power to create money, how much money they create, and how that money will be used. However this process is set up – whether it’s the Bank of England or a new committee that decides whether to create money, it must be accountable to Parliament and protected from abuse by vested interests. http://www.positivemoney.org/our-proposals/
    We’d like to see the power to create money transferred to a democratic, accountable and transparent process, where everyone knows who has the power to create money, how much money they create, and how that money will be used. However this process is set up – whether it’s the Bank of England or a new committee that decides whether to create money, it must be accountable to Parliament and protected from abuse by vested interests. http://www.positivemoney.org/our-proposals/
    "The start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account imbalances of the United States and China. A decade later, we can happily declare that the era of global imbalances is over."
    "Four of the world’s most important financial regulators recently asked the world’s derivatives industry to change the way it does business. The question now is whether the regulators can make that happen with a request, as opposed to something more substantial. That will not be easy."

    (Photo credit: Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons)

    How the the top 1% of the top 1% are the financial gatekeepers of elections.
    NOW IS THE TIME. AVAILABLE ON I-TUNES, DVD, ON DEMAND. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN CHANGE DIRECTION IS IF AMERICANS UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHY.


    -- "A Must See Movie!" - The Huffington Post
    -- "Engaging and Passionate" - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
    -- "Smart, funny and articulate," - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
    -- "Inequality For All comes at a critical moment for America" - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post
    -- "Does for income disparity what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change" - Variety
    -- "Unflinching, impassioned, informed and insistent" - Scott Bowles, USA Today
    -- "93 percent," Rotten Tomatoes website.

    NOW IS THE TIME. AVAILABLE ON I-TUNES, DVD, ON DEMAND. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN CHANGE DIRECTION IS IF AMERICANS UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHY.    -- "A Must See Movie!" - The Huffington Post -- "Engaging and Passionate" - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal -- "Smart, funny and articulate," - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times -- "Inequality For All comes at a critical moment for America" - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post -- "Does for income disparity what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change" - Variety -- "Unflinching, impassioned, informed and insistent" - Scott Bowles, USA Today -- "93 percent," Rotten Tomatoes website.

     


    Washington Post on ‪#‎darkmoney‬: "What do they fear from disclosure of their political investments? Are they ashamed of their positions or their candidates, or of their role in supporting them? Voters know that these donors are trying to hide something, and that only creates more suspicion and cynicism."
    Our collaboration with the Washington Post (http://bit.ly/1dtblwb) inspired this op-ed from the Post's editorial board.
    Paul Krugman | Enemies of the Poor

    Ted McLaughlin : Why Congress can’t understand your financial struggle

    For the first time in this country’s history, more than half of the members of Congress are at least millionaires.

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    Chart by OpenSecrets.com. Image from jobsanger.

    The ‪#‎bridgegate‬ story isn't the only issue plaguing Gov. Chris Christie today.

    Now he's being investigated for his use of Sandy relief money: http://on.msnbc.com/1eP84JC

    Do you think 2014 will turn out to be a good or bad year for Christie?


    Hupacasath First Nation (Port Alberni). Our court challenge to FIPA is moving forward to the Court of Appeal and our argument will most likely be heard by late Spring.

    It is so good to see that the Comox chapter of the Council of Canadians is going to raise awareness on the 31st. On behalf of Hupacasath, thank you for doing this important work. Should we win at Court of Appeal, it is our hope that the decision will set a precedent for the TPP and CETA that also affect our constitutional rights.

    It is a critical time for people to assert their personal sovereignty and say "NO". If we don't then our rights will continue to be taken away from us. I encourage people to attend and let it be known that you oppose these International Agreements.
    . "https://www.facebook.com/events/400481076753321/

    Noam Chomsky: Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a 'Neoliberal Assault'

    Over the Side With Old Scientific Tenets

    JAN. 14. 2014
    Here are some concepts you might consider tossing out with the Christmas wrappings as you get started on the new year: human nature, cause and effect, the theory of everything, free will and evidence-based medicine.
    Those are only a few of the shibboleths, pillars of modern thought or delusions — take your choice — that appear in a new compendium of essays by 166 (and counting) deep thinkers, scientists, writers, blowhards (again, take your choice) as answers to the question: What scientific idea is ready for retirement?
    The discussion is posted at edge.org. Take a look. No matter who you are, you are bound to find something that will drive you crazy. ...

    2 Georgetown University professors say, "The retraction of the Séralini study is a black mark on medical publishing, a blow to science, and a win for corporate bullies."

    Four antipsychotic medications still prescribed even though found to be ineffective and dangerous: http://blogs.naturalnews.com/four-antipsychotic-medications-still-prescribed-even-though-found-to-be-ineffective-and-dangerous/

    Four Antipsychotic Medications Still Prescribed Even Though Found to be Ineffective and...
    blogs.naturalnews.com
    A new study from researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Stanford University and the University of Iowa funded by the



    Hundreds reported seeing a fireball over New England yesterday at around 5:20 p.m. A viewer in South Portland sent us this photo taken at that exact time. There are differing opinions that what she shot was not the fireball, but an airplane. What do you think?  For more info on the fireball observed by many, click here. http://rightweather.com/2014/01/hundreds-report-seeing-fireball-new-england/
    Hundreds reported seeing a fireball over New England yesterday at around 5:20 p.m. A viewer in South Portland sent us this photo taken at that exact time. There are differing opinions that what she shot was not the fireball, but an airplane. What do you think? For more info on the fireball observed by many, click here. http://rightweather.com/2014/01/hundreds-report-seeing-fireball-new-england/

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