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In Fear of Vaccines?
*Since there’s been much debate and misunderstanding about an alleged link between vaccines and autism, I asked Linda from the fabulously rational **Autism and Oughtisms** blog to write this Guest Post* *for any parents worried about making a vaccination decision in the face of so many anti-vaccine stories.* [image: Girl and doctor with injection]Fear of the unknown drives people to do crazy things. They’ll cling desperately to proposed answers -- however poorly supported those answers are -- merely because they *are* answers; any explanation is considered better than no explanati... more »
So, @theNation questions the “whiteness” of the Left, and…
… and brings up the recent Network for Public Education conference in Austin, TX, many of whom in attendance I know and I consider friends. The lede: At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public Education conference in Austin in March, an audience member asked the all-white panel for its definition of […]
The Table of Contents to My Book
On April 27, 2014, I announced publication of my book, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. I realize that the Amazon.com listing of my book currently lacks the interactive component allowing shoppers the opportunity to “look inside” the book. So, I have decided to offer some “peeks.” In my post entitled, Bush […]
Food Watch: Aren't you just dying to know what the World's Best Dumpling is?
*And the World's Best Dumpling is . . .* *Oh wait, we probably shouldn't spoil the suspense. Hey, just keep yer pants on. (For the record, these [REDACTED]s are made with crab paste, which apparently is okay but isn't necessarily part of the [REDACTED].) * *by Ken* You'd be hard put to find someone who loves dumplings more than I do. I always say that I've never met a dumpling I didn't like, though every time I say it, I realize this is not -- as I often say -- the sort of thing you really want to put in the form of a challenge. It doesn't take any time at all to start thinking of... more »
Bilateral Climate Cooperation between China and the United States: What Should We Expect?
One of this weeks big news items in international relations was the progress that China and the United States had made in their bilateral climate talks (gated but free registration available). While it is too early to say if the talks result in concrete action, this is the first time since forever that the two Continue reading
Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress TruthThe Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney
*25 Rules of Disinformation: How to Fight Back* *8 Traits of The Disinformationalist: * *What to Look For* *The Short Version: 25 Rules and 8 Traits* ------------------------------ *Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: * *The Rules of Disinformation* (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney copyright (c) 1997, 2000, 2001 All rights reserved (Edited June 2001) Permission to reprint/distribute hereby granted for any non commercial use provided information reproduced in its entirety and with author information in tact. For more ... more »
This is What Political Science Looks Like
[image: image] Students of Political Science might care to look at how science is done in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose recently released “scientific report” is filled with predictions of gloom and doom put there by … whom? Read on to see how, and by whom, those all important “summaries of the scientific consensus” are written. It might surprise you: *Understanding The 97% Consensus* It turns out that 97% of IPCC scientists are actually government officials. * Prof Stavins, Harvard’s Professor of Business and Government, was one of two ‘coordi... more »
NYSED, @EngageNY, and the Module Money Pit.
As part of its rushed implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education department contracted with three entities to create scripted module lessons for schools across the Empire State at a cost of $12.9 million. Some schools trusted their educators to create their own lessons that would best suit their classrooms. Other schools, possibly out of […]
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 2: On Redistribution
[image: -- "The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State" -- Bertrand de Jouvenel, economist, philosopher and co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947.] *"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to t... more »
Here We Go Again: Another Syria Chemical Weapons Tale
MORE WAR PORN TO PUSH FOR US ATTACK ON SYRIA It is hard not to be completely distracted by the endless torrent of war propaganda over Ukraine and getting Americans whipped up into a bloody frenzy of hatred towards Russia and Vladimir Putin but there is another lurid tale of Syrian gas attacks on civilians making the rounds this week. While it is nowhere near as intense an effort to promote lies upon which to base the long-desired apple of the neocon's eye that is regime change in Damascus as we saw back last summer when Obama and his incredible shrinking Secretary of State John Ker... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 1: Still the most serious symptom of our times…
"Straightforwardness is a foolish old-fashioned habit, a custom we have outgrown. 'We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.' We repeat, this is the most serious symptom of our times. The newspapers which have been speculating as to the disasters which are to flow, after a thousand years, from England's future want of coal, would do better to inquire into the far greater disasters which threaten at our door through England's present lack of supreme reverence for truth." - John Ruskin, from *Fors clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Gre... more »
Satire: “Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”
*“Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”* by Andy Borowitz LOS ANGELES (The Borowitz Report) — “After being banned by the N.B.A. Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told reporters that he would miss being around people he hates. “Sure, I’m saddened by this,” Sterling said. “Sitting in the stands night after night, a boiling cauldron of hatred bubbling inside me—it doesn’t get better than that. Those were good times.Knowing that I’ll never be able to sit in that arena again and look down on the people I despise—that hurts the most,” he s... more »
"The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by Thomas Merton"
Video Title: "The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by Thomas Merton." Source: Gethsemani3. Date Published: October 16, 2011. Description: "The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology On the Environment and Society As Seen by Thomas Merton"... A talk by Father Ezekiel Lotz OSB... Recorded at Gethsemani 3 a Buddhist / Catholic conference on the environment. Fr. Ezekiel Is a member of Mount Angel Abbey, Saint Benedict, Oregon. He earned a D.Phil. degree from the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University in 2005 and teaches at Mount Angel Seminary.
Saturated fat IS good for you, but how much polyunsaturated fat do you need?
Working on the "Real Food" AUT dietary guidelines submission it became clear that neither the epidemiology of the lipid hypothesis nor the RCT experiments testing it were designed to separate the supposed artery-clogging effect of saturated fat from the purported heart-healthy effect of polyunsaturated fat. What we had was a series of comparisons of higher SFA and lower PUFA vs. lower SFA and higher PUFA. There were no investigations of either higher SFA in a diet with optimal PUFA, or of deficient PUFA in a diet also low in SFA. The former of these, higher SFA in a diet with optimal... more »
Has Steve Israel Found The Next Alex Sink?
Courtesy of Joel Cantor *Joel Cantor’s mansion, built in 2010, was rented for four days in August during the Republican National Convention for $25,000* The DCCC and EMILY's List having massively screwed up her campaign, Alex Sink will not subject herself to a rematch with now-Congressman David Jolly in November. That leaves Rev. Manuel Sykes as the official Democrat candidate. But if Steve Israel is going to lose again in Pinellas County, Manuel Sykes is not the candidate he plans to waste millions on. The DCCC has been beating the bushes looking for another deep-pocketed self-fund... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The Roger in Rogernomics
*Your chance this week at Auckland Uni Econ Group to question a former politician whose economic programme of thirty years ago still casts a long shadow over the political landscape today.* Hi everyone, Welcome back from the study break. We have some great speakers lined up for the Economics Group starting this week. This Thursday we are delighted to have join us a very significant figure from New Zealand's economic history - Roger Douglas. As Minister of Finance in the Labour government from 1984 to 1988 Roger Douglas implemented a series of economic reforms often referred to as... more »
CITO
This is International CITO weekend for us geocachers. CITO stands for "Cache In, Trash Out" (the idea being that while we're geocaching in public areas we also pick up trash) and today Southern Man will join some fellow 'cachers from a semi-nearby city (as it turns out, the same semi-nearby city in which Southern Daughter lives with her mother, which will become relevant later in this post) to clean up an area park. It was a three-hour drive (well, with one hour in reserve for geocaching) so Southern Man was on the road before dawn... Did we mention that there would be geocaching a... more »
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday this year was fairly laid back; church in the morning, and much of the family gathered at the Ancestral Manor for lunch. Southern Son and Southern Daughter. Unfortunately Southern Daughter chucked her lovely Easter dress and revereted to t-shirt and shorts as soon as we pulled up. Southern Daughter and Adopted Southern Nephew. My, what a big...gun you have there, Nephew! And let us remember the reason we celebrate today... As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," h... more »
“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad”
*“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow;* *There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad” * by Bob Nichols, “Veterans Today” “My opinion only, as requested by Alfred Webre, Dec 28, 2013, 1,024 Days from Mar 11, 2011. *First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction Level Event. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. * We can extend our lives somewhat, though. These steps are personal. People can do them or not. You will die quicker, or later, your choice. 1. Take off your shoes and outer ware (coats) when you enter your ... more »
"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"
*"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, * *It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"* The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found…Scattered All Over Japan by WashingtonsBlog "We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks – that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered up that fact for months. The next month, we reported that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered something much worse: nuclear melt-*throughs*, where the nuclear fuel melted through the containment vessels and into the ground. At the time, this was described as... more »
John Kerry has "proof" that Russia is behind rebellion in Luhansk
Or so John Kerry claims? Or so the Telegraph is reporting John Kerry claiming this? And let's read the claim of proof.. Ukraine separatists push east as UN intercepts Moscow orders Please take note that this oh so explosive proof warrants just a few sentences in this entire article. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, revealed that American eavesdroppers have overheard intelligence operatives being directed by Moscow. "We know exactly who's giving those orders, we know where they are coming from," he said, in remarks to a private meeting that were leaked on Tuesday. "Intel i... more »
Welcome to Tuscaloosa’s schools!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014* *Nobody cares about this:* Last week, we recommended the lengthy report in The Atlantic about the Tuscaloosa City schools—more specifically, about the “return of segregation” to those schools over the past fifteen years. The lengthy report, “Segregation Now...,” was written by Nikole Hannah-Jones of ProPublica. In our view, the report is fascinating in various ways, though we don’t always mean that as a compliment. As noted, Hannah-Jones’ report is quite lengthy. In our view, it seems to cover some parts of this story well. We’d say it covers other parts ... more »
#breaking BBC News
*Thanks to breaking news from the Gruadian, Twitter is ablaze tonight with news about the latest changes at the BBC.* *As Sue and myself have our ultra-trendy fingertips ever poised upon on the racing pulse of modern social media, here are our latest twitterings on who's in and who's out at the Beeeeeb...* Oh good, Mark Mardell has been dropped as the BBC's North America editor, *#greatnews *and *#ohdavidpreiser(usa)will be pleased. * Oh no though, Mark Mardell is going to become the presenter of Radio 4's *The World This Weekend *instead, *#morebiasontheway *and # *thatstheworldth... more »
An Interview with Piketty
On NPR...and I chime in as well.
April 29: The TandT is a disgrace.....
...particularly on this day. We are in the midst of the severest crisis most of us have ever faced. And there's not a word of it in the paper. The banner headline is that the Shediac campground is taking its next step. Well, yeah. There are lots of steps to starting a major campground. So are we going to get that nothing headline for the next month or more? On A3, a Riverview business committee recommends that business be involved in ALL decisions of city council. The council went wildly enthusiastic, and had puppies on the spot.. Obviously, nobody on that council knows the meani... more »
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
The US airborne division, which is to take part in NATO exercise 'Spring Storm' in May arrived in Estonia. Around 150 personnel arrived in the military transport aircraft to the Amari airbase, according to the country's defense ministry. Estonia is on Russia's border. These working class kids, with little other job prospects, sent into another potential meat grinder...when will we ever learn. We don't seem to care unless it is our kid. They are all our children - on all sides. Enough of this war mongering!
A genius idea for a new angle on porn (pun intended) - Slightly NSFW
GoPro: Girl Running with a gopro (head mount) *Thanks to Theo Spark *
Paul van Dyk - Crush
Exams and testing, I thought I was done with them a long time ago. And when I got the new job, well, chances are I'd be setting them. But no. All new academic staff at our place have to participate in the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education programme. HE is a market and the emboldened student/consumer demands fully trained teaching staff. I can see the logic, as it happens. Anyway, no proper blogging tonight as I'm near the end of my teaching portfolio. 7,200 words done so far, 10 out of 12 competencies covered. Therefore the pearls I leave you this evening are of the mus... more »
Free Gaza Propaganda
*[Did I hear a certain someone talk about "the BBC’s habit of allowing a litany of embellished falsehoods to be repeated on air, unchallenged", recently? Hmm, yes I did, and talking of which....]* Radio 4's *The Listening Project* is an attempt by the BBC and the British Library "to build a unique picture of our lives today" by "asking people up and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative". *Biased BBC*'s Alan had the misfortune to hear one of last Friday's editions of the ongoing series, *Adie and Ruth - Adventure in the Blood*, in wh... more »
CorpEd Profiteers and Privatizers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Over Test Refusal
NEWS Washington Post Malloy: CT could lose money if many students *opt out* of standardized *tests* The CT Mirror Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday that federal law restricts students from opting out of taking standardized *tests*, and if the state were to give students ... [image: Google Plus][image: Facebook][image: Twitter]Flag as irrelevant Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs ... Tribune highlighted a burgeoning *opt-out*movement that is exempting students from standar... more »
I will be documenting my trip to Mexico to go to the Dentist... from start to finish. $12,000 (U.S. prices) of dental work for $1500 in Mexico.
I am going to be going to Mexico for a dentist trip. I had written a little about it the other day, wanting to get donations for another to go with me to do a complete documentary it all. I took that post down after a few hours, as I did not feel comfortable asking for donations. I am going to the dentist and will be leaving May 11th. and will be in Merida Mexico until the 18th. Merida
Do more lectures improve student performance?
Yes, finds a new experimental study, but the authors interpret the effects as modest in size. One group of students in introductory microeconomics got a lecture twice a week (what the authors call the "traditional" format), and the other group of students got a lecture only once a week. All the students had the same access to online resources and the same wonderful textbook. (You can guess which one.) The results: We find that students in the traditional format scored 2.3 percentage points more on a 100-point scale on the combined midterm and final. There were no differences betw... more »
Incrementalism: Admission of Futility?
Some time ago, I discovered the Wingnut Wedgie that divides fetus fetishists into abolitionists and incrementalists. It has never gone away as an issue among them, with some demanding nothing less than absolute forced pregnancy for all and others, perhaps recognizing the futility of their cause, willing to settle for any kind of law at all. As a first step, note, to a complete ban. Here we go again with our pal, astroturfer and dominionist Mike Schouten, raising the question and seeming to invite discussion. Here's a stunning admission. He acknowledges that defunding abortion -- t... more »
TRIM THEIR SAILS/SALES
*The Navy's new Zumwalt stealth destroyer being built at Bath Iron Works in Maine* *Trim Their Sails/Sales* Word it getting around Zumwalt running over cost projections was supposed to be $4 billion some say will run up to 5-6-7 bill each going to build three of them The Navy didn't want Zumwalt Obama forced it down their throat his benefactors, Crown family in Chicago, largest stockholders in General Dynamics GD owns Bath Iron Works Obama owes Crown family they helped make him prez the palms are greased just like on The House of Cards The Pentagon worried now about sequestration b... more »
Stitching your finger with your sewing machine not recommended, the myth of "catching up", and digital detoxing...
*I'll try to keep this brief (exactly when was an Italian woman ever brief?)* I endeavor to maintain a schedule of sorts. My weekly planner is home made and based loosely on David Allen's Getting Things Done. The top 1/3 of the page is for my weekly goals. The middle is for my actual schedule based on what's in the top 1/3, and the bottom 1/3 is for notes (green ink for garden stuff ), along with my few appointments (in red ink.) I decided a few weeks ago that putting everything, or what seemed like everything, in the top 1/3 wasn't working very well. I did an Excel spreadsheet... more »
The Economy: “Is Capitalism Doomed?”
*“Is Capitalism Doomed?”* by Bill Bonner Gualfin, Argentina. “The Dow went up 87 points yesterday. Gold went nowhere. Our guess: Neither stocks nor gold knows where to go from here. The economy is still weak, with mortgage lending at its lowest point in 14 years. But the Fed is still holding interest rates down... and feeding plenty of QE money into the market. The Fed is expected to continue tapering its QE program next month, taking another $10 billion off its monthly allowance for buying bonds from the private sector. But for the moment, economist Richard Duncan tells us that th... more »
CA-33: Dual Endorsement-- Ted Lieu And Marianne Williamson
Ted Lieu and Marianne Williamson-- every district should get this lucky! Rarely does a district get even *one* candidate running for Congress as stellar as either state Senator Ted Lieu or inspirational author Marianne Williamson, let alone *two*. Why can't my district-- right next door-- have someone good running for Congress? In fact, the very first time I spoke with Marianne was to beg her to run against Blue Dog warmonger Adam Schiff. At the time, her home was right on the boundary between the two districts. It was almost as though she was a Waxman constituent in the living room a... more »
Civil Forfeiture
*Ontario (Attorney General) v. $10,000.00 in Canadian Currency (In Rem),* 2014 ONSC 944: [7] “Unlawful activity” is defined in the Act as an act or omission that is an offence under an act of Canada, Ontario or another province or territory of Canada or even outside of Canada, if a similar act or omission would be an offence in Ontario if committed here. The Attorney General does not have to prove that the property in question is related to any particular offence: Chatterjee v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2009 SCC 19 (CanLII), [2009] 1 S.C.R. 624, at para. 21. Howev... more »
The way our greatest newspaper “reasons!”
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014* *In the end, this can lead to no good: *In this morning’s New York Times, the editors beat on Donald Sterling. That isn’t especially hard to do, especially if you’re willing to reason like this: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL (4/29/14): *It has been widely noted that Mr. Sterling has a history of bigotry. In 2009, Elgin Baylor, the all-star and former Clippers’ general manager, accused Mr. Sterling of racial discrimination in an unsuccessful lawsuit.* That same year, Mr. Sterling, who made much of his fortune in real estate, paid $2.725 million to settle a hous... more »
Mike's Story Part 9 - Limbo
*By Jenna Orkin* * Despite his growing recognition of what he'd lost by *burning his bridges*, Mike's spirits must have risen when a reporter from an influential US newspaper flew down with the idea of doing a feature on him. But emotionally, the conversation itself seems to have been a precursor of the movie, Collapse:* *" [S]even hours with the [newspaper] reporter yesterday. I´m writing a seperate [sic] email which you´ll get. It was in detail and he was serious. [Mike had been burned by mainstream features before, as a colleague was reminding him] but it went back through ... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Willie Geist knows script!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014* *Part 1—Bungling Magic Johnson:* It would be hard to find a more obvious pseudo-discussion than the current pseudo-discussion, the enthralling pseudo-discussion about the weird, incoherent and pitiful things Donald Sterling apparently said. All the pundits know what to say as they stage this pseudo-discussion. For starters, all our national pundits admit to being brighter and more upstanding than Sterling is! To appearances, it isn’t hard to be brighter and more upstanding than Sterling in the arena of race. Sterling seems to be almost as clueless as Cli... more »
Defending the Indefensible in the Late Days of the Testing Orgy
The testing madness is underway this week in Tennessee, where a week of TCAP counts 15-25 percent of a student's grade and 35-50 percent of a teacher's evaluation for the other 195 days of the school year. Is that reason enough for 3rd graders to be vomiting and having nosebleeds on their test booklets this week? But the insanity does not stop there. The State of Tennessee is funding the use of SAT-10 in K-2 again this year, so that benchmarks can be set and teachers evaluated based on standardized tests that some children cannot read yet. But wait, what is that deep rumbling I ... more »
A Very Shocking Video: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Reveals A Bitter Truth - There Are NO Gold Bullion Reserves In America!
For the last few years, I have been stating a very shocking truth here at this blog again and again... America has absolutely NO Gold Bullion reserves at all, period.... Few people have ever believed it, and many have still been promoting the lie that there is plenty of Gold "reserves" in both Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in the New York Mercantile Bank in New York City..... I have put up previous articles that state the fact on the contrary that all of the Gold in the United States was taken away from that nation decades ago. But now comes a very interesting and very important video, t... more »
transmission
"So much of who I am is because of Dr. Seuss." [courtesy of humansofnewyork]
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?. via Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
New Article From Whitewraithe: A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish Quotes Throughout The 20th Century
Whitewraithe is back... For those who have been unaware, my closest ally was laid up over the last while suffering from a very bad case of sinus infections as well as having some much needed dental surgery done... But now she is back and putting up articles over at her Pragmatic Witness website (www.whitewraithe.wordpress.com).... I want to present for everyone here her latest work that I found to be fabulous and yet very shocking... It is entitled: "A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish Quotes Throughout The 20th Century", and indeed shows exactly how these psychotic criminals truly think, and ho... more »
Iraq Holds Special Voting Despite Terrorist Attacks
Iraq held its special voting on April 28, 2014. The early balloting is mostly for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). The Iraqi Election Commission said there was over 90% participation. That was despite a wave of attacks by the insurgency. That showed that the militants were not able to disrupt the voting despite their best efforts. The ISF, prisoners, and those in hospitals came out in high numbers on April 28 to cast their ballots. The Iraqi Election Commission claimed there was a 91% turnout in the special voting. In Anbar only 40% participated. The on going fighting there and ... more »
Back To My Roots: Exposing The Fraud Of NASA's Project Apollo And The Moon Landing Hoax - Why Are Astronauts (Still) Lying?
I started my pursuit of the truth about our very sick world some 35 years ago ( I still cannot believe it has been that long) when I was exposed to the truth about NASA and its fraudulent "Project Apollo".... It was a shock to me, being a man of science, at that time to realize that we have been lied to and that man has never ever walked on the moon.... As time has gone by, more and more people are finally realizing as part of their exposure to the truths about our history that NASA has indeed lied to everyone about its "great achievements" in space travel, especially when it comes ... more »
In Three Days I Bring the Hammer Down
Did that get your attention? Did it? DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION MOTHER-FUCKERS???? Okay. Great. Actually, nothing's happening in three days that I know of. I should just be out from under a pretty big pile of work and then I'll blog something big. Until then, please enjoy this example of high-culture:
President Zeman criticizes "solar madmen" and "green loons"
*Including the EU officials who want to increase the share of "renewable" sources of energy* Well, this excerpt from a speech that the current Czech president Miloš Zeman gave on the today's Forum of Žofín (an island on the Moldau River in Prague) is one of the clearest reasons explaining why your humble correspondent didn't hesitate much before he endorsed the self-described left-winger Zeman as the successor to Václav Klaus. He would criticize the "solar madmen" and the "green loons". Let me translate the 2-minute excerpt linked to at the top of this short blog post: Zeman... more »
36 Countries where the US has supported Fascists, Drug lords & Terrorists
And bankers... Salon fails to mention the enrichment of banksters, the banking cartels and the benefit of big business. Whether it be big agriculture, big oil or the weapons makers? This list is, of course, grossly inadequate- It only mentions 35 countries, I added Ukraine. Each nation listed below has more information at this link From Argentina to Zaire I am only excerpting from the Salon article: *1. Afghanistan-* In the 1980s, the U.S. worked with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to overthrow Afghanistan’s socialist government. It funded, trained and armed forces led by conservativ... more »
Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake
*Source: Nuevo Diario Web (Santiago del Estero, Argentina)Date: 04.29.14* *Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake* **** Video is making the rounds of social media, creating a heated debate among Internet users **** MEXICO - The alleged presence of a UFO moments before an earthquake has given rise to suspicion and debates online. The video, recorded on April 18, has created two antagonistic lines of thought. On one hand there are those who believe in the authenticity of the images and who seek explanations that cause a relationship between both facts; on the other, the... more »
Joanne Barkan’s Three Types of Criticism of Edu-Philanthropy
Diane Ravitch recently praised Joanne Barkan’s “How to Criticize ‘Big Philanthropy’ Effectively.” Barkan’s excellent analysis was first presented at the March 2014 Network for Public Education (NEP) Conference in Austin, Texas. It is now published in Dissent Magazine. Barkan began with the oft-repeated question, “You’re going after Bill Gates?” She frequently hears the argument, “Leave […]
The Big Dog
It really is time to bury the notion that Stephen Harper is a brilliant strategist. Andrew Coyne writes: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of Harper as master strategist, able to see around corners and think seven moves ahead and what not, that we tend not to notice how many times he has been screwing up of late. The sudden and more or less complete rewriting, on the same day as the Supreme Court decision, of the colossally misjudged Fair Elections Act, after weeks of waving off any and all criticism as self-interested or partisan or both? Merely a prudent ... more »
Many New York Democrats Plan To Hold Their Noses When They Vote For Cuomo In November-- Or Will They?
On Sunday, Steve Kornacki took a little look at the expanding rift between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic base. It's worth looking at the video above. Salon's Joan Walsh did a particularly excellent job straightening out Beltway political entrepreneur Ann Lewis, who actually defended Cuomo by quoting Ronald Reagan. I'm not going to get into speculating about what the Working Families Party may or may not do, beyond saying that with the union leadership telling them they;re on their own, they probably won't do much. Still, good segment from Kornacki. Wha... more »
Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone
Remember around this time last year when President Obama gave his big ballyhooed Drone Speech, promising more transparency to the citizen-consumers of America about who, when, where and why he obliterates and maims with his flying missiles? How time does fly, just like a Predator. Five years of Obama drone strikes, at least 2,500 people in their graves. That's assuming they could find any body parts to inter. Meanwhile, buried deep in the cyberspace of Tuesday's online *New York Times* (so as not to inordinately clash with another, bigger front page bullshit story about Obama the ... more »
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*Tornadoes tear through South, add to US death toll ~WWLTV * *Advertising in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race: A look at the (very big) numbers ~Stephanie Grace* *Mayor Mitchmo Landrieu nominates new slate of water board members ~Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate* *Energy company with fracking plans eyes 60,000 acres in St. Tammany Parish as St. Tammany residents, officials resist fracking ~Faimon A. Roberts III, B.R. Advocate* *St. Bernard Project Receives $3 Million for Disaster Recovery Lab ~Philanthropy News Digest* *Bill to protect Louisiana’s Coastal Fund moves to House floo... more »
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*Summer School Is For Suckers* *Take online classes instead* Students looking for ways to get a cheaper, faster college degree will inevitably run up against the suggestion that they enroll in summer school. And until recently that wasn't terrible advice. Taking advantage of lower off-season tuition offered by many schools or cheap classes at your hometown community college was a perfectly good way to clear out some less glamorous requirements and account for your summer without having to work too hard. With desperately low on-time graduation rates—only about 38 percent of studen... more »
Chinese Cashew Chicken with Tayler from Our Fairy Tale
*Today I am thrilled to have Tayler from Our Fairy Tale here to share her Chinese Cashew Chicken. I love all of Tayler's recipes and my absolute favorite part of her blog is her "Kids Write the Darndest Things" from her Junior High English class. Make sure to leave her some comment love and check out her blog! * Hi, Housewife Eclectic readers! My name is Tayler Morrell and I blog over at Our Fairy Tale. I've been married for a year and half and we are expecting our first childin July! My husband is finishing his last semester at Brigham Young University and I teach Junior High Engli... more »
A Book Recommendation For Those Who Have Experienced Trauma
*Life is stressful, anxiety provoking, and frequently traumatic. The result is that many of us are hurting, and often we are unaware of how deep our pain runs. * *These experiences aren't simply over and done with once they have passed. They each leave their mark, etched deep into both the psyche and the body. This affects how well we function from this point onwards. * *The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process shows what stress, anxiety, and trauma do to our mental wellbeing and physical health. Despite the uffering we experience in life, Dr. Berceli argues that even the most da... more »
Iveta Bartošová (1966-2014): murdered by tabloid hyenas
*Once best Czech female singer a victim of greedy tabloid journalists* I admit that this sad event fills me with much stronger emotions than the death of Gerald Guralnik – who had an appropriate age to die. *Buttons of Love, 1983* Iveta Bartošová (CZ, YouTube search) – who was voted the best Czechoslovak female singer (The Golden Nightingale) three times, in 1986, 1990, 1991 – committed suicide after a decade in which it was hunted by scum journalists from the tabloid media. She jumped under the train in Uhříněves (a village on the Southeastern border of Prague) today. She was bo... more »
Vegan Recipe - Minestrone Soup
*I love Minestrone Soup ... it's warm and comforting on a cool evening and reminds me of my Italian Grandmother, who usually had a pot on the stove when we arrived for a visit. Unfortunately, most recipes for this rustic dish include ingredients like Pancetta, chicken broth, and Parmesan ... items which don't fit into a vegan lifestyle.I recently tried a vegetarian version at a restaurant. Sadly, it was very bland. So I turned to the Internet for inspiration. I found recipes but, again, they lacked flavor. So, I headed into the kitchen and, thinking about the bold flavors in my... more »
We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual, so stay on guard.
[image: SE2014Apr29A.png] The Open Scroll Blog ------------------------------ Signs of the Season Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:58 AM PDT We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual, so stay on guard. The season of preparation has just past, where the victims chosen for sacrifice have been abducted and prepared. The Grand Climax extends from 4/26 to 5/1, and the rituals actually continue through 5/3. 4/30 is Walpurgisnacht, Roodmas Day or Beltane Eve, the greatest Witches Sabbat. May 1 is May Day, Beltane or Walpurgis Day. Tuesday the 29th, there will be an annul... more »
HELLO! Books Are Digitally Different
So what will be the next technology must have and what will drive its adoption? Will media come second and merely follow new technology? In the last decade we have seen the transition from fixed location desktop PCs, through luggable laptops, the life and death of the notepad, the ‘air’ laptops and the explosion of the tablet. We have seen single functional devices such as the eink ereaders come and almost go, the transition from games only consoles to games anywhere, the death of the music only iPod and Zune and those video movie players. Home entertainment devices and interoper... more »
Flip Flopper John Kerry Strikes Again
John "Skull and Bones" Kerry's tour de force as Obama's Secretary of State continues. Taking a break from his tirades against Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the refusal of Eastern Ukraine to fall into line to support the US installed, neo-Nazi infested puppet government in Kiev the esteemed Mr. Kerry stumbled into dangerous territory for a US establishment figure. In a speech at what has been described as a closed door meeting of The Trilateral Commission in a Daily Beast exclusive, Kerry bemoaned the demise of the latest round of Israel-Palestine peace talks and commented that ... more »
Ukraine Updates April 27 , 2014 --US failing to push economic sanctions against Russia through EU allies ...... Three members of Ukraine’s special anti-terrorist unit Aplha have been detained during a covert mission in Donetsk region, amid the buildup of Kiev’s military near the cities controlled by pro-federalization forces .......... (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said the United States and Europe must join forces to impose sanctions onRussia to stop it destabilizing Ukraine, where armed pro-Russian separatists were for a third day holding eight international observers prisoner. Washington and Brussels are expected, possibly as early as Monday, to name new people and firms close to Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be hit by punitive measures, but there is no consensus yet on wider economic sanctions ........ The combination of the polices of the government in Kiev and Washington blaming Russia for events is pushing the situation in Ukraine to a critical mass which threaten peace in Europe - Willie Wimmer, former Vice President of the OSCE explains his point of view in an interview.......... DONETSK, April 27, /ITAR-TASS/. The Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant (NKMZ) has provided to the people’s militia of Kramatorsk military equipment “for clearance of minefields set by Ukrainian troops near the city during the so-called “antiterrorist operation,” a representative of the press service of the Donetsk People’s Republic told Itar-Tass with reference to NKMZ chairman of the board, deputy of the People’s Council of Kramatorsk Maksim Vlasov.
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-27/quest-find-putins-billions The Quest To Find "Putin's Billions" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/27/2014 19:49 -0400 - Germany - Google - Layering - Nationalism - Natural Gas - Private Jet - Reality - SPY - The Economist - Treasury Department - Ukraine - United Kingdom - Vladimir Putin inShare1 Just over a month ago, in the latest round of sanctions against Russia, and specifically Putin's inner circle of advisors and lieutenants, one person was sing... more »
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*A radical idea* Whether or not man has caused global warming isn’t really the question. The question that we’re asking now is to what extent the so-called climate change models have predictive value, when in fact, 114 out of 117 predictions made in regards to global warming have proven wrong. Warming forecasts have consistently overstated the amount of warming that’s happening. They also missed the decade and a half long pause in global warming that we’re currently experiencing. Dr. Roy Spencer has estimated that as many as 95% of the global warming models have just been flat out... more »
MiG21-LanceR military pilots haven't flown in long time how much they flew this period
[image: MiG-21 Lancer]National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced on Friday, in Targu Mures (central Romania) that MiG 21 Lancer fighter jets fly sorties every day and that Romanian military pilots haven't flown in a long time how much they've flown in this period. 'Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, measures have been taken by NATO for the supervision of the airspace of NATO border countries and these AWACS planes that are used for electronic surveillance, together with the MApN aviation execute supervisory missions everyday and air-space policing missions. (...) S... more »
Russian shipyard lays keel of new class Replenishment Oiler "Academician Pashin” (project 23130)
[image: Project 23130 tanker]On April 26th, 2014, a keel-laying ceremony in presence of Admiral Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov (Russian Navy's Commander-in-Chief) took place at Nevsky Shipyard for a new generation of Replenishment Oiler for the Russian Navy. Described by the shipyard as "Medium-sized sea tanker Academician Pashin” (Project 23130) the vessel is the first tanker to be built for the Russian Navy since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The new class of vessel will bring much needed logistical and replenishment at sea support to the Russian Navy fleet. Read more
Inspirational E-Book: Seven Lessons Before I Was Able to Become Love by Roxana Jones
A new inspirational e-book with positive words that will open doors to new outcomes in your life. Roxana Jones shares once again what she has learned and introduces some of the turning points she has experienced in the past few years, through this new collection of *inspirational books *where she describes life lessons that have been essential on her path of healing and personal transformation. Use these words of *wisdom* as tools that can help you open your heart. It is your heart that will understand these short books better than your mind. Try it and experience it. *Click o... more »
April 28, 2014 - About 48…
*About 48…* First of all, I’m going to try to do better with getting articles up here at Project Camelot. When Kerry offered the opportunity to write a column and express my views and information I was both flattered and inspired. Personal issues and a very nasty winter have conspired to dampen my enthusiasm in addition to my inherent nature of being very mindful of providing information before vetting it thoroughly. Yeah, I’m a nuts and bolts kind of guy. Blame it on my background and life experience of performing all kinds of investigations for over 30 years. In my field of ... more »
Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)
Gerald Guralnik, a senior physicist at Brown University, died on Saturday: PBS. Along with Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble, he wrote one of the 1964 papersthat introduced the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism, or the Higgs mechanism for short, into particle physics. I was giving a talk at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in March 2002 (on the bus, it's 50 minutes from Boston, if I am not mistaken) and I believe that he came to the talk but it's a long time ago and I don't remember for certain. Guralnik wrote some other other well-known papers about QCD, hadro... more »
E-Book Inspiracional: Siete lecciones antes de poder convertirme en Amor por Roxana Jones
[image: Read BestSelling Inspirational Author Roxana Jones' free ebook] E-Book Inspiracional: Siete lecciones antes de poder convertirme en Amor Un nuevo e-book lleno de inspiración y palabras positivas que abrirá puertas a nuevos resultados en tu vida. Roxana Jones, comparte una vez más lo que ha aprendido, e introduce parte del trabajo individual que ha realizado en los últimos años, a través de esta nueva colección de *libros de inspiración*, donde describe lecciones de vida que han sido esenciales en su camino de sanación y transformación personal. Usa estas palabras de *sabi... more »
Obama in Manila and Air Force One
US President Barack Obama has already left Manila. He stayed for 24 hours here, arrived yesterday 1:30pm, departed today around 1:30pm too. Some of my friends in fb posted funny comments, others were angry at the heavy traffic caused by road closures where Mr. Obama and his tight security will pass by. The photos, I got from fb too, which are generally funny. Like this one below, Pres. Obama telling Pres. Aquino that the former does not want to see the latter's showbiz sister. Below are from *JB Baylon*. He gave me permission to post these fb status, from yesterday until today. ... more »
Thales finalises delivery of maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey
[image: CN235]Thales announces the delivery of the final standard for the maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey as part of the MELTEM II programme, for which Thales is the prime contractor. To this day, five of the six aircraft have been delivered to this standard, with the sixth set for delivery before the summer. This follows the three maritime surveillance aircraft which were sent to the Turkish coastguards last year. Read more
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Hide From Russian Radar
[image: F-35C Lightning II]The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—the jet that the Pentagon is counting on to be the stealthy future of its tactical aircraft—is having all sorts of shortcomings. But the most serious may be that the JSF is not, in fact, stealthy in the eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars. Nor is it particularly good at jamming enemy radar. Which means the Defense Department is committing hundreds of billions of dollars to a fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming aircraft that protect non-stealthy—“radar-shiny,” as some insiders call them—... more »
Lockheed Martin Receives $611 Million Contract for Production of First PAC-3 MSE Missiles
[image: PAC-3 MSE]Lockheed Martin received a $611 million contract from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for the first production order of the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) following the Army’s successful Milestone C decision earlier this year. The contract includes the production of both PAC-3 MSE missiles and Launcher Modifications Kits (LMKs). The PAC-3 MSE’s revolutionary two-pulse solid rocket motor provides increased performance in both altitude and range – while employing the same proven hit-to-kill technology that the PAC-3 Missile uniquely brings to the ... more »
Iraqi helicopters strike Al Qaida ISIL convoy in Syrian territory
[image: AH-64D Apache]For the first time in decades, Iraq has attacked neighboring Syria. The government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said the Iraq Army attacked a convoy in eastern Syria. Officials said Iraqi helicopters fired missiles toward vehicles sent by Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Read more
Putin gives green light to sale of S-400 missile system to China
[image: S-400 triumph]Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has given a green light to sell the country's newest S-400 air defense guided missile system to China, which Russian media claim will give Beijing an edge in the airspace of the Taiwan Strait and over islands in the East China Sea at the center of a dispute with Japan, reports the military news website of Huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language website of China's Global Times. Beijing has been interested in acquiring the guided missile system since 2011. Two years ago, Russia talked with several countries interested in buying the... more »
Conservatives vow to speed release of report on CF-18 replacement
[image: CF-18 Hornet]Ottawa is relenting to external pressure and now promising to speed up the release of a “public report” on the fighter jets pegged to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18s. The document, which has been put together for widespread release, lists the risks and benefits of the four fighter jets that were involved in an “options analysis” overseen by the Canadian Forces. Last week, officials at Public Works and Government Services Canada told The Globe and Mail that the report would only be released “once the government has made a decision on a path forward.” Read more
UK Deploys Four RAF Jets to Patrol Baltics
[image: Eurofighter Typhoon]Britain is deploying four Typhoon fighter-jets to the Baltics as part of a Nato show of support against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis. The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, said: "In the wake of recent events in Ukraine, it is right that Nato takes steps to reaffirm very publicly its commitment to the collective security of its members." The events in the Ukraine have increased nervousness in the Baltic states, formerly part of the Soviet Union. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are, unlike Ukraine, members of Nato, and Russian action against any of the... more »
In Wake of Zumwalt Launch, Higher Costs Seen in DDG-1000 Program
[image: Zumwalt (DDG1000) class DDG]A couple of weeks ago, the world's most advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt, formally hit the water at a christening ceremony at Bath Iron Works. The midcoast shipyard is due to build two more of the DDG-1000 destroyers for the U.S. Navy over the next several years. The program, however, has ended up being much more costly than originally intended, in part because it was drastically cut back a few years ago from 32 ships to just three. Read more
BAE Systems to Maintain and Modernize U.S. Navy Ships in Hawaii
[image: USS Michael Murphy]BAE Systems has received a multi-ship, multi-option (MSMO) contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain, and modernize nine destroyers and cruisers, either homeported in or visiting Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, includes modernization, maintenance, and repair work for the USS Chafee, USS John Paul Jones, USS Chung-Hoon, USS Hopper, USS Michael Murphy, USS O’Kane, USS Halsey, USS Milius, and USS Preble. This award marks a continuation of work BAE Systems has been performing on the same type of s... more »
NZ Govt announces $100m boost for Defence
[image: HMNZS Te Kaha]The government plans to invest more than $500 million in the Defence Force over the next four years, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says. The investment followed several years of budget cuts which were outlined in a Defence white paper in 2010. In the Budget next month, government would commit to $100.9m in operation funding for 2014/15 and a total of $535.5m over the next four years. Read more
Raytheon tests new guidance system for Tomahawk cruise missile
[image: BGM-109 Tomahawk]Raytheon Company successfully completed a passive seeker test designed for a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile using company-funded independent research and development investment. The captive flight test, using a modified Tomahawk Block IV missile nose cone, demonstrated that Raytheon's advanced, next-generation; multi-function processor can enable the cruise missile to navigate to and track moving targets emitting radio frequency signals. For the test, the nosecone of a Tomahawk Block IV missile was equipped with passive antennas integrated with Raytheon'... more »
Mazagon Dock looks at next sub project
[image: Scorpene class SSK]Project 75 is one of India's most closely guarded military projects, almost as inaccessible to outsiders as the nuclear ballistic missile submarine, INS Arihant, nearing completion in Visakhapatnam. In a giant shed in the East Yard of Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai (MDL), a 200-feet-long, cigar-shaped, metal cylinder is the first of six conventionally powered Scorpene submarines that the Indian Navy contracted to build with Franco-Spanish company, Armaris (since taken over by French shipbuilding major, DCNS). The boat (as submariners call their vessels) is obvi... more »
EB signs deal with Navy for 10 Virginia-class submarines
[image: Virginia class SSN]Navy officials have signed a $17.6 billion contract with Electric Boat, committing the service to buy the next 10 Virginia-class submarines. For the Groton shipyard, which has faced a cycle of layoffs and recalls in recent years, the contract represents nearly a decade’s worth of work. “This award has great significance for the U.S. Navy, our company and the entire submarine industrial base,” Jeffrey S. Geiger, president of Electric Boat, said in a statement. “By continuing to produce two ships per year, the Navy and industry team retains the stability req... more »
Devon-built Samuel Beckett ship handed to Irish Naval Service
[image: Samuel Beckett]A 50m euros (£41m) vessel has been handed over to the Irish Naval Service at a Devon shipyard. The 295ft (90m) craft, called the Samuel Beckett, is the first completed ship to be built at Appledore Shipyard, near Bideford, since 2002. The Irish Navy ordered two vessels from the shipyard in October 2010 for 99m euros (£81m). The second, called the James Joyce is still being built. Read more
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"A Look to the Heavens"
“Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of the galaxy's dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms. *Click image for larger size.* In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000 l... more »
West Hangs Syrian-Style War Over Egypt’s Future
*April 29, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Al-Akhbar English in an article titled, “Egypt: Free Egyptian Army being formed in Libya,” reported that: *Egyptian security forces continue to chase armed groups active in the country. The confrontation does not seem it will come to end soon, with the information unfolding daily to security agencies about plans by those group to destabilize Egypt.* *Security sources revealed to Al-Akhbar that “intelligence and security agencies succeeded in monitoring the movements of terrorist groups and arrested some of them inside the towns and village... more »
No Quixote!
Have I posted this before? Never mind. If I did, I just laughed like a drain all over again. [Hat tip The Reduced Shakespeare Company] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Rollo May, "The Courage To Create"
*"The Courage To Create"* by Rollo May "We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes in sexual mores, in marriage styles, in family structures, in education, in religion, technology, and almost every other aspect of modern life. And behind it all is the threat of the atom bomb, which recedes into the distance but never disappears. To live with sensitivity in this age of limbo indeed requires courage. A choice confronts us. Shall we, as we feel our foundations shaking, withdraw in ... more »
Chet Raymo“Trying To Be Good”
*“Trying To Be Good”* by Chet Raymo “A few lines from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese": "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." I've quoted these lines before, if not here, then elsewhere. When I first read them back in the late 80s, they resonated with what I felt at the time. I had spent part of my earliest adulthood walking on my knees, both literally and metaphorically, seeking to tame what I took to be the animal within. Saint Augus... more »
The Constitution, Treaties with First Nations, and the Media
Just a quick question here: How many people in the mainstream media, praising the Supreme Court decision which defends the procedures of the Constitution Act, 1982, have dismissed the sanctity of our treaties with the First Nations Peoples?
VIDEO Moccasins on the Ground Red Shirt, Lakota homelands April 2014
. 'Water is sacred.' By Unedited Media Published on Apr 28, 2014 Lakota and their allies gather to build solidarity, unity, and skills to protect Sacred Water against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline. Watch this wonderful video of voices from all across the nation gathered at Red Shirt, on Lakota lands at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, protecting the Ogallala aquifer and water and land
Most Are, But Not Every Congressional Whore The Kochs Use To Sabotage Green Energy Is A Republican
It's very hard to trace the Koch cash sloshing around American politics; it's meant to be hard. They funnel so much money into so many right-wing groups that it would be a full time job to sort it all out. Perhaps it's safe to assume, though, that the recipients of legalistic bribes from Koch Industries directly are among those most devoted to the Koch war against democracy. In the last cycle, Koch Industries alone doled out almost $2,000,000 to candidates for Congress, all but $40,737 of it to Republicans. Koch Industries knew exactly which corrupt Democrats from the Republican w... more »
(Oh! Those Poor Poor Rich!!!) Bank of America Doesn't Check Its Math (To Its Decided Advantage) The Gilded Age Has Only Just Begun: Piketty’s Wealth Gap Wake Up Call Goes Out To the Masses
. . . the disparity in wealth is much greater than the disparity of income, and that’s because of tax avoidance by the rich. BREAKING! Bank Of America's Stock Plunges By 6% After $4B Capital Plan Blunder Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan runs a financial firm that has 263,000 employees and $2.2 trillion of assets and investors on Monday appeared to wonder once again whether anyone can manage
“What is a Photocopier?”
Come on, you’ve been in arguments like this, haven’t you. Yes, it’s a true story. Indeed, it’s from a *transcript* of an Ohio Supreme Court trial … Sort of reminds you of another famous trial… [Hat tip Diana Hsieh] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Kate Braun : Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
It is a fire festival and marks the return of vitality and passion to Mother Earth. By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | April 28, 2014 “Have you walked around your parks and towns so knife-edged orderly? While the … finish reading Kate Braun : Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
Conspiracy rumors become conspiracy fact ---- Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade Secrets" By Federal Regulator ........ Takeaway as ghoulish as it comes -- " It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.” "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/guest-post-suspicious-deaths-bankers-are-now-classified-trade-secrets-federal-regula Guest Post: Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade Secrets" By Federal Regulator [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2014 21:46 -0400 - Bank of America - Bank of America - Bloomberg News - Citibank - Citigroup - Comptroller of the Currency - Falcon - fixed - Freedom of Information Act - Guest Post - Hong Kong - JPMorgan Chase - Office of the Comptroller... more »
Bush and Rhee Endorse a Book– Fortunately, Not Mine
As I announced on April 27, 2014, my book on key individuals and organizations exploiting public education is now published: A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. Harvard professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute Paul Peterson and two others also have a book coming out; it entitled, Teachers versus the […]
How to Get Arrested in Britain, #67
You can now get arrested in Britain and face four years in jail for quoting Churchill. True story. Paul Weston faces 2 years in jail for standing in a town square and quoting this, from Churchill’s 1899 book *River War*, no less: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule o... more »
Ukraine Updates April 26 , 2014 -- Kiev attempts to one up the looming cut off of natural gas by cutting off water to Crimea ! Adding up the Kiev owes to Gazprom ( about 13.6 billion euros ) and the loan repayment Russia surely will demand to be repaid early ( 3 billion euros ) , that just about encompasses the so called IMF aid package ( none of which actually has been delivered to date . ) ..... And then there's another 20 billion euros of Ukraine debt ( including another 3 billion in chinese loans ) hanging out there ready to default...... Additional news of note from Eastern Ukraine - OSCE hostages , attempt to negotiate their release by a second OSCE Team ( calling Comedy Central to pick up new material ) ...... Flashpoint in Donetsk sees unknown and unidentifed gunman / helicopters land , checkpoint attacked ...... EU works on latest non biting sanctions ..... ...
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-26/satellite-images-reveal-massing-15000-ukraine-troops-hundreds-tanks-around-slavyansk Satellite Images Reveal Massing Of 15,000 Ukraine Troops, Hundreds Of Tanks Around Slavyansk [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2014 16:15 -0400 - None - Ukraine inShare Yesterday, we jokingly noted that with separatists blockading Slavyansk from a Ukraine special-forces invasion, and with the Ukraine army blockading Slavyansk from said separatists (unclear exactly why), that the east Ukraine city of Slavyansk is ea... more »
Diabetis, Cure?
This is an UN-finished post.... When done... nutritional supplemental resources will be given to help restore the health and function of the stomach and liver.... What I know, What They won't tell you.... Hypothesis.... Diabetes is a Blood DIS-ORDER disease...When our body can no longer balance, clean or filter properly the blood that is when Diabetes and other blood related diseases DEVELOPS in us.... Question for you, What organ in our body is responsible for cleaning and balancing the blood? The Liver... *The liver has over 500 different functions* The liver has the following c... more »
Another Overwhelming Wave of ECFA Successes
*Putting in cables in Kaoshiung.* The Taipei Times reports on the amazing increases decreases in Chinese investment in Taiwan: Chinese investment in Taiwan in the first quarter plummeted 90.83 percent to US$12.75 million from a year earlier, and investments from other foreign countries also fell in the first quarter by 33.82 percent to US$833.7 million, the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Investment Commission said on Monday. Meanwhile,* Taiwanese investment in China grew 28.97 percent in the first quarter from a year ago to top US$2.8 billion, *the commission said. Yes! Chinese inv... more »
The Wayfinders
Long, long ago, Teutonic storytellers told tales by the fire. Many of them mention a deity who was a wisdom seeker, singer, poet, and warrior. Odin had two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who daily flew out over the world, observed the events, and returned to report the news. The names of his birds meant “thought” and “memory.” Odin cherished these ravens. He knew that the loss of thought would be terrible, but that the loss of memory would be far worse. Thought is clever and useful, but memory is essential and indispensable. When thought is disconnected from memory, the result is... more »
“Epidemic Of Hunger: New Report Says 49 Million Americans Are Dealing With Food Insecurity”
*“Epidemic Of Hunger: * *New Report Says 49 Million Americans Are Dealing With Food Insecurity”* by Michael Snyder “If the economy really is "getting better", then why are nearly 50 million Americans dealing with food insecurity? In 1854, Henry David Thoreau observed that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". The same could be said of our time. In America today, most people are quietly scratching and clawing their way from month to month. Nine of the top ten occupations in the U.S. pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year, but those that actually are working are ... more »
No fair! We the people demand perp-walk pix of "Mikey Suits" Grimm! (And where's Rudy Giuliani when we need him?)
*Hey, Mikey Suits! Your picture here?* *"A perp walk is a common custom of American law enforcement, the practice of taking an arrested suspect through a public place at some point after the arrest, creating an opportunity for the media to take photographs and video of the event. The defendant is typically handcuffed or otherwise restrained, and is sometimes dressed in prison garb. . . . Law enforcement agencies often coordinate with the media in scheduling and arranging them."* -- *Wikipedia* *"'As a former FBI agent, Representative Grimm should understand the motto: fidelity, br... more »
The Sow is Mine: The Exorcist and Mind War
The Sow is Mine: The Exorcist and Mind War from Spike EP on Vimeo. "Marketing researcher and psychologist James Vicary tested subliminal ads in a New Jersey movie theatre. "Hungry? Eat Popcorn" and "Drink Coca-Cola" were flashed on the screen at 1/3000 of a second every five seconds during the movie. Sales increased for popcorn and Coca-Cola. On December 8, 1972, The New York Times reported that In-Flight Motion Pictures, Inc. would begin selling subliminal commercials embedded in the movies they would distribute to all the major airlines. Stores across thecountry are reducing the... more »
Internet For the 1 Percent: New FCC Rules Strike Down Net Neutrality, Opening Fast Lanes for Fees | Democracy Now!
Internet For the 1 Percent: New FCC Rules Strike Down Net Neutrality, Opening Fast Lanes for Fees | Democracy Now!
Show Me the Monetary Policy! [updated]
“I STAND UNASHAMEDLY FOR raising people’s wages,” said Labour’s David Parker this morning, as he announced a policy to lower real wages. Go figure. [image: image]Like all New Labour’s policies in this New Age Under Cunliffe (somewhat like the Age of Aquarius in that they’re all mostly dripping wet), their new “monetary policy” – i.e., giving the Reserve Bank more power to control the exchange rate by controlling people’s savings rate – seems to have been thought up on the hoof and issued in haste, without any pause for reflection along the rushed road to release. Let’s be clear. ... more »
“Minecraft Is Shaping A Generation, And That Is A Good Thing”
Until recently, I thought Minecraft was an updated sort of Battleships for the computer age. Until a friend’s kid showed me his Minecraft world. Showed me briefly, ‘cos he hadn’t time to waste talking to an old fart like me when had to get back to … whatever the hell it is you do on (in?) Minecraft. Made me realise it’s too easy to dismiss “this sort of thing” out of hand. Minecraft and stuff like it might be shaping a generation, but as parent Emily Willingham writes, that’s not necessarily a bad thing: Thanks to Minecraft, my children not only have built entire worlds but also ... more »
FAST LANE - SLOW LANE ON INTERNET
Digital rights groups are mobilizing over rumors the Federal Communications Commission may be about to abandon the principle of net neutrality. Organizations are concerned the agency may release new rules allowing companies to pay internet service providers to deliver their content faster than the content of competitors. The agency attempted to implement regulations ensuring net neutrality in the past, but a federal court struck down the move. Executive vice president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition Jessica Gonzalez speaks with RT's Ameera David to break down net neutrali... more »
The Ugly American: Sarah Palin Jokes about Torture at NRA Convention
*“waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists”* *-Sarah “the quitter” Palin* In yet another of standard bits of shameful and anti-American behavior that charlatans engage in, Sarah 'lock and load' Palin has emerged from semi-obscurity as the long tapered end of a turd pokes through the water in the toilet. I really and truly work very hard to ignore the celebrated by national media figure of the piece of Wasilla white trash hit it big like the Clampetts. I mean *why* encourage her because attention, mouse clicks and liberal wails of outrage is what she feeds on but I just have to we... more »
Giveaway: Cancun Cafe in Utah
Utah Readers if you are looking for a local, authentic Mexican food restaurant to visit you should consider visiting *Cancun Cafe*. The first Cancun Cafe location opened in Utah in 1993 by the Mendez Family. Bringing their traditional homemade dishes and authentic Mexican recipes from their hometown of Merida, Mexico they began offering them in a family-style establishment for Utah residents to enjoy. Currently Cancun Cafe has 3 locations in the Salt Lake Valley. The newest location was opened earlier this month in Downtown Salt Lake. They are hosting a Grand Opening celebration on ... more »
6 Ways to Pamper Mom for Mother's Day with Britney from The Princess and Her Cowboys
*Today I am thrilled to have Britney from The Princess and Her Cowboys to share some fantastic Mother's Day ideas with you. I love Britney's blog especially her DIY Chef Hats and her cute Magnet Photo Board. Be sure to leave her some comment love and check out her blog! * Hi! I'm Britney from The Princess & Her Cowboys where I love to share about all things crafty, food as well as writing about anything under the sun. I'm so grateful to Debra for letting me share here today! [image: Brit] Since Mother's Day is coming up, I have been trying to think of ideas to get for my own mother ... more »
Ending Legal Highs Another Legal Low
The “legal high’ regime was always bound to fail, so it’s hard to mourn its passing. Over its short life, the regime made illegal the sale of a drug that *Lancet *said is safer than alcohol and tobacco, while allowing the sale of drugs of increasing harm. This makes no sense. The tragedy is that the end of this regime does nothing to bring the end of drug consumption, so folk currently consuming these harmful legal highs will be thrown on the mercies of gangsters and criminals selling illegal drugs of dubious quality. Why so? Because however much the War-On-Drugsters think other... more »
(Democracy Dies from Crime of Peaceful Protest) How Long Will We (US) Put Up With This Treatment from the .01%? (The First Trillionaire Will Be - 25 April 2014 Gold/Silver Charts - Madness, Ending Badly)
BREAKING! Search for Flight 370 to be Expanded, Privatized and Drawn Out to 8 Months at an “Estimated” Cost of $60 Million Remember how hundreds of people were seen being arrested and loaded into vans during the Occupy Police Riot? Did you think they'd be released due to lack of evidence concerning real crimes? Do you remember with whom the courts were populated during the Cheney/Bush Junta
NATO Intelligence and the OSCE
*"How can he be a prisoner of war, he's a spy!"* *- Fletcher Prouty on PoW/MIAs* *"I would say to Mr. Zannier, don’t go to Ukraine, rather you should denounce the abuse and perversion of an OSCE vehicle in the name of the OSCE by what is in fact NATO military intelligence, and if you’re caught behind military lines with no uniform, that’s sometimes called espionage, whether that’s the current situation or not, it’s not clear, but I would urge everyone to stop referring to them as OSCE observers, they are NATO military officers."* http://www.nation.com.pk/international/28-Apr-201... more »
Leadhorse Choctaw sharing stickball game in Central and South America
Now in Central America and headed south, Leadhorse Choctaw shares "Kabooca Towa' stickball game, the game of peace By Leadhorse Choctaw Censored News Leadhorse Choctaw is on a journey through Central and South America, now headed for Honduras, sharing the traditional game of peace Kabocca Towa (stickball game). "It is a game used to settle disputes between tribes and people," Leadhorse
Lament for the Arcade
Nothing makes me feel like a fossilized old nerd like modern video games. I just can't play most of them. It's not that I don't want to, I just don't have the time (or want to devote the time) required. I grew up in the arcade era with Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Defender, Karateka, etc. I owned and played on a Coleco Adam, Commodore 64 (then a 128), and migrated to IBM PC games through the 386. One
Epolitics and Libertarianism
Politics is changing, suggests Douglas Carswell. The "internet thingy" means the barriers to political entry, or, at least, political comment are lower than they've ever been. Westminster, hidebound and wrapped in its own importance is threatened with extinction unless it moves with the times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is hardly fresh stuff. It would have been stale in 2004. Perhaps even as early as *1994* this looked like old jobs. Must have been a quiet in the *Telegraph* office when it got commissioned. Yes, blogging and social media have brought the costs of a public platform down ... more »
Ugly old fat Donald Sterling who wears a rat on his head is a racist?...
*and we care, why?* I just had the unpleasant experience of listening to Sean Hannity display very little outrage over the alleged anti-black comments of the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling. Last week he was turning cartwheels over Cliven Bundy who had the temerity to speak the truth. Doesn't take long to figure this one out. Hannity was a supporter of Bundy, but claims he didn't even know who Sterling was. Yeppers - no guilt by association on Sterling so we can dial down the rhetoric. He did throw out one "despicable" to solidify his anti-racist stance for the world. Despic... more »
"3 Stupidest Right-Wing Reactions to Donald Sterling's Racist Rant"
*"3 Stupidest Right-Wing Reactions to Donald Sterling's Racist Rant"* By Janet Allon *"1. Bill Kristol thinks outrage at Sterling is just hysteria. *The conservative pundit used his perch on Sunday morning’s “The Week” to tell everyone to just calm down about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s abundantly and almost comically evident racism. Kristol allowed that telling his girlfriend not to be photographed with black people or to bring them to Sterling’s basketball games was kinda bigoted, but, "Deeds matter more than speeches," he said, adding, "I don't think the LA Clippers are... more »
“Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State”
*“Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State”* By John W. Whitehead “The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States…”—Henry Mencken, American Journalist (April 1924) "How do you persuade a nation of relatively freedom-loving individuals to march in lock step w... more »
Virginia Republicans Nominated A Congressional Candidate Beyond Execrable-- Meet Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock always pretends she's normal. She isn't When I first started the DWT Book Store, David Brock's story about his journey out of political darkness, *Blinded By The Right*, was one of the very first selections. The 2002 bestseller exposed, first-hand, the hypocrisy among the blue chip and craven Beltway wing nuts with whom he had been associating. One such crackpot, Barbara Comstock, just won the GOP nomination for the Congressional seat Frank Wolf is leaving, VA-10, a Northern Virginia suburban swing district (PVI- R+2) that Obama won in 2008 (51-48%) and lost in 2012 ... more »