Tuesday, May 14, 2013

14 May - Blogs I'm Following II

10:40pm MDST

Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 25 minutes ago
Related: *Friedrich Hölderlin - Love*. *Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods*. *Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates*. *Friedrich Hölderlin - To the Sun-God*. *Friedrich Hölderlin - Ganymede*. *Friedrich Hölderlin - Vulcan*. Source: *Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover.* 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California. Pg. 151-155. *Friedrich Hölderlin - The Blind Singer* Where are you, young one, who would always Wake me in the morning, where are you, light? My heart is awake, but the night always ... more »

Why Is Buck McKeon Gung-ho To Allow Insurance Companies To Deny Coverage To People With Pre-existing Conditions?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 39 minutes ago
90% or so of Americans would like to see Congress pass a law to enhance background checks for criminals, terrorists and the mentally-ill before they can purchase a gun. But Republicans have steadfastly refused to even allow a debate, let alone a vote, in the House. Instead, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has scheduled a 37th-- literally-- pointless vote on repealing Obamacare... not on making Obamacare better, which most people would like, but to *repeal* it, which would require a huge majority in the Senate *and* a signature from President Obama. So why are Cantor and Boehner ... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Plastic

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 39 minutes ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. This post contains great information and I encourage you to read through it at your leisure ... however, if you are short on time, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - This Week's Challenge Last week we left our shoes at the door ... a simple practice but one which reduces toxins in homes. As we wander through the day, we walk across many surfaces ... more »

Angelina Jolie’s breasts

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
Never has the disappearance of two breasts caused so much comment, so much of it so completely unhinged. (Add together celebrity + breasts +cancer and I think you approach the formula for madness.) Out of many, many candidates, I think this might be the most pathetic: [image: image] If true, I believe satirising that sort of ridiculous celebrity worship was part of the point (and, yes, there was one) of this song by late-lamented Australian band TISM. Enjoying this may perhaps be the most appropriate way to mark this inauspicious occasion: Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © ... more »

Let`s Get Ready To Rumbleeeeeee!

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 hour ago
Good evening friends, and foes, just back home after volunteering all day, phone banks, door knocking and pep talks.. Not quite live blogging at The Straight Goods but.....I will be giving updates, oohs and ahs.. Also, radio is playing in one ear, TV is in front of me and I`ll be dancing around the internet.. Bragging rights, seat predictions, upsets and surprises.. Bob Mackin is stating that internal BC Liberal polls are bad, they may get only 17 seats.. __________ Breaking: Liberal campaign manager's plea to the party "*Its time running out for the BC Liberals?* ** * * *... more »

Fix the World Project Documentary Intro Trailer

Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 hour ago
*Fix the World Project Documentary Intro Trailer* May 14, 2013 I must say I was so incredibly honored when I received the call from Hope to be a part of this ground breaking documentary. The work she and the rest of the FTW team are doing is absolutely game changing. When I was on the call with this amazing group of empowering women I described them as being the fifth dimensional patriots of our time...indeed. Excellent work! I'm so looking forward to seeing the final product! ~BK

Target your enemies

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
Just a week ago I talked about Richard Nixon’s Enemies List, and how New Zealand law has been moving towards making it ever easier for the well-connected to target their political adversaries. As always, America is already far ahead of us… Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Castro’s decade-long exercise in brutality

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
[image: image]I saw a headline at *The Age *decrying “Castro’s decade-long exercise in brutality,” and quietly gave thanks that his oppression of Cuban people is finally being recognised by a mainstream media more likely to lionise Castro and Che than recognise their inhumanity. But even as I clicked the link, I was wondering why it was talking about “decade-long”… Of course, it wasn’t talking about Fidel Castro’s decades-long imprisonment of the Cuban people, but the decade-long imprisonment by his near-namesake of three women (now released) in his Cleveland, Ohio, basement. The... more »

SOUTHERN FUSION MOVEMENT UNDERWAY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
If North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) is concerned about his place in history, it looks like he's got something to worry about. Several of the world's top historians, three of whom appear in this video, have been arrested in recent days protesting what Rev. Dr. William Barber II called an "avalanche of extremist policies that threaten health care, education, voting rights." McCrory has said he will sign bills that threaten the poor, the elderly, and minorities while giving tax cuts to the 23 wealthiest families in the state. The civil resistance campaign is being led by Barbe... more »

Third Graders Being Investigated in New York

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
On the heels of the largest test boycott in American history, there comes the other testing phenomenon that has swept the media lately. When kids exercise their rights as citizens, no one cares. When there’s even the slightest, itsy-bitsy hint that they might be cheating (even without any real evidence), stop the presses! Call the […]

US Prepares to Overthrow Malaysian Government

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours ago
Key to encircling and containing China, US sets proxies in motion for color revolution in Malaysian streets. *Image: US-proxy Anwar Ibrahim leads a Bersih rally in Malaysia. While Bersih has attempted to claim it is "independent" and simply pursusing "fair and clean elections," it is clearly a vehicle for returning Anwar Ibrahim back into power. Additionally, Bersih shares the same ties to the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as its crypto-leader Anwar Ibrahim - representing a dangerous and seditious conflict of interest. * .... *May 15, 2013* (AltThaiN... more »

Air of reality test

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
R. v. Buzizi 2013 SCC 27: [16] ... As the Court held in *Cinous*, "the air of reality test [is not] intended to assess whether the defence is likely, unlikely, somewhat likely, or very likely to succeed at the end of the day" (*R. v. Cinous*, 2002 SCC 29, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 3, at para. 54). Rather, the relevant question is whether the record contains a sufficient factual foundation for a properly instructed jury to give effect to the defence.

BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Blake Slonecker's 'New Dawn' Tells the LNS Story

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
A New Dawn for the New Left: Blake Slonecker's valuable history of LNS “By distributing a common news packet to underground outlets, LNS enabled local rags to cover national and international news to an unprecedented degree, curbing their isolation and giving shape to a vibrant Movement print culture.” -- Blake Slonecker By Jonah Raskin /

Tuesday Evening Linkage Club

PM at Duck of Minerva - 3 hours ago
I’ve been deficient in serving your delicious, piping-hot links. I apologize. And to make matters worse, I have a very small selection of links today. But you can take solace in knowing that these are hand-crafted, artisanal links–the type of linkage that would make Henry Kissinger envious. The worst restaurant in America. Yes, this is Continue reading

Canada Is The Worse Israel Butt Kissing Country On Earth: Canada Contributes To Illegal Occupation Of Palestine - Harper's Conservatives Promote Military Ties To Israel!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours ago
I had just put up an amazing video in my last article that shows the truth about how Canada now shows itself openly as being nothing more than Israel's b*tch. I have long said that this proud nation has now slid down the road to tyranny and the Harper government in Ottawa does nothing more than obey anything that Israel demands and desires.... It is absolutely sickening to behold... Now I discover that there is more to this sad story about how my Canada is on the road to ruin with its outright and tragic support for the criminally psychotic state of Israel.... I want to present th... more »

Japan seeks to go nuclear - as in their Defense Plan - which will set off a regional race to also go nuclear ......... With their economy sputtering , Fukushima wrecking the country through constant radiation contamination , Abe now wants to revive militaristic fantasies of the glories of the past ......

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
*http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12476* * * * Japanese Defense Plan: Go Nuclear Source: WSJ TOKYO—Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East. The Rokkasho reprocessing facility, based in Japan’s northern Aomori prefecture, is capable of producing nine tons of weapons-usable plutonium annually, said Japanese officials and nuclear-industry experts, enough to build as many as 2,000 bombs, a... more »

Canada Is The Worse Israel Butt Kissing Country On Earth... This Video Says It All!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours ago
When I saw the criminal Harper(stein) government in Ottawa throw Canada's support behind the murderous psychopaths in Israel that had just nuked the innocent country of Syria that killed thousands of people in the process last week, I wanted to throw up. I have long said that this country is no longer free and is in fact the most Israeli occupied country on Earth.... I have seen absolutely nothing that has ever changed that analysis... Now I want to present a very revealing short video that I came across recently that tells the truth about this nation and how it is nothing more th... more »

A public discussion nudged by Joe Sestak would likely be a noticeably better public discussion

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"The Senate needs an independent leader accountable only to 'We the People,' not any other interests . . . a leader accountable for deeds, not intentions."* *-- former PA Rep. (and former three-star Adm.) Joe Sestak, announcing a campaign for "Leadership for a Better America"* *by Ken* I trust everyone remembers Joe Sestak, the retired three-star admiral who was elected to two terms in Congress before deciding in 2010 to run for the Senate seat then held by then-Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, eventually defeating Specter for, yes, the *Democratic* nomination and then losing by a ... more »

Buena Vista School district closes door for the year a month early , fires all teachers - all school in the School District closed , voluntary camp to replace an education ! Pontiac School District also facing massive layoffs !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.infowars.com/michigan-district-fires-all-teachers-closes-every-school/ Michigan District Fires All Teachers, Closes Every School - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Yahoo! News* May 14, 2013 Buena Vista High School, via bvsd.k12.mi.us. Summer break has started very early for kids in one Michigan school district. Buena Vista schools have been closed for five days already, and on Monday, the district’s website stated that the sch... more »

Nobody loves the IRS

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
Personally I prefer to call it a ginned up psuedo-scandal, but Josh is right about the politics of the IRS mess. GOP will be dining out on this one through 2014 and probably longer. This is Grade A prime rib for the angry base. No investigation, no irrefutable hard evidence will ever convince them they haven't been persecuted by the evel soshulist fascist liberal Dimmocrats to steal their First Amendment rights. God save us if somehow this gets tied directly to the White House for real. Everybody loves a scandal and hates the IRS. The mass outrage will drown out everything else for... more »

Leave to appeal from summary conviction appeal to Court of Appeal

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
R. v. Bresnark, 2013 ONCA 320: [6] Leave to appeal to this court from a summary conviction appeal pursuant to s. 839 is granted sparingly, and only when some exceptional circumstance justifies a further appeal. [7] The alleged error must be a question of law. Moreover, either (1) the merits of the appeal must be at least arguable and the issue must have general significance to the administration of justice beyond the particular case, or (2) the merits of the appeal must appear very strong: see *R. v. R.R.* (2008), 234 C.C.C. (3d) 463 (Ont. C.A.), at paras. 31 and... more »

Congressional Cons challenge Issa on Benghazi

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
This is the funniest thing I read today. Apparently the little people at home are wondering why they never see *their *guy on the teevee. Thus, the Crackpot caucus demands a piece of Issa's action. House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. A growing number of members on the committees with jurisdiction over the Benghazi matter — Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs ... more »

False Flag watch - May 12 , 2013......a few things to ponder as we attempt to decode what's going on presently and what nasty surprises might come next !

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/false-flag-o-meter-reaches-the-red-zone-why-a-government-orchestrated-distraction-event-is-highly-likely-to-occur-in-the-next-7-days-2644906.html False Flag-O-Meter Reaches The Red Zone: Why a government-orchestrated distraction event is highly likely to occur in the next 7 days Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:43 (Before It's News) [image: Time-Bomb-Fuse-Ignite-Explosion]

A Small Victory Against the Tennessee Pipeline in Pike County, PA

Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 5 hours ago
A small victory! As much as Kinder Morgan wishes to turn Milford, PA into a nineteenth century company town, residents still can't be guilty of trespass on public land. In a victory for Pike County's rural heritage, I was found not guilty today of trespassing for my March 4th parking job blockade of the Tennessee Pipeline access road in the Delaware State Forest. To join the campaign, follow our blog www.notennesseepipeline.org, check our Events page, donate to our legal fund, or simply share with your friends and family. The Tennessee Pipeline Northeast Upgrade Project currently un... more »

Brian Kelly & Jake Ducey: Be The Change Show Premieres Thursday May 16th!

Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
*Be the Change Show w/Brian Kelly & Jake Ducey Premieres on Orion Talk Radio this **Thursday, May 16th at 9am pacific* May 14, 2013 Gandhi said we must "be the change we wish to see in the world." One could argue this message is more relevant NOW than any other time in the history of humanity. The planet, and all 7 billion + of us who reside here, are under going a massive state of transformation and transitioning. Not because the world around and outside of us is changing, but because WE are changing within. Things we would have never thought possible just a mere 50 years ago ... more »

Boston, here I come

Sandra Guzman at Sandra Guzman - 5 hours ago
I'll be speaking tomorrow at ALPFA's 7th Annual Latina Summit. If you are in the area, there is still time to register. Come find mentors, connections, inspiration, and new best friends.

Yes, you can buy Claude Megson’s house…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
[image: 40FernGlennreshoot] Now for sale by new owners, here's late architect Claude Megson's own house, perched above tree-clad Dingle Dell in Auckland's St Heliers, with views in the other direction out to Rangitoto and the harbour. A simple looking exterior concealing an awful lot of living within. [image: image] Megson took the small, boxy, brick house (right) designed by the architect of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Richard Toy, and transformed it into something magical, something giving the feel of having discovered a particularly poignant tree-filled glade somehow touched b... more »

Department of Homeland Security commences putting hammer down on Bitcoin - shuts down Dwolla payments to and from Primary Bitcoin market Mt Gox !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BITCOINS Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox The DHS issued a "seizure warrant" for the funds associated with Mt. Gox's Dwolla account. By Jessica Roy 4:07pm - Twitter198 - Facebook - Reddit - LinkedIn4 - Google +1 - Email - Print - [image: (Photo: Silicon Angle)] (Photo: Silicon Angle) The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative conf... more »

Michael James : Doing the Whirlpool at the Paradise

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours ago
Whirlpool at the Paradise, Chicago, 2003. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: When the water was flowing at Chicago's Paradise bathhouse I've been in lots of whirlpools, steams, saunas, and mineral baths: a palatial bath house in Leningrad, a funkier setup in Donetsk, a treasure of a place in

Yes, you can buy Claude Megson’s house

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
[image: 40FernGlennreshoot] Now for sale by new owners, here's late architect Claude Megon's own house, perched above tree-clad Dingle Dell in Auckland' St Heliers, with views in the other direction out to Rangitoto and the harbour. A simple looking exterior concealing an awful lot of living within. [image: image] Megson took the small, boxy, brick house (right) designed by the architect of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Richard Toy, and transformed it into something magical, something giving the feel of having discovered a particularly poignant tree-filled glade somehow touched by ... more »

"Scroungers" and Class

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
I'm sure many readers were depressed to learn that Labour voters have swung to the right over their attitudes toward people who subsist on social security. According to Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who commissioned the research: * Two-thirds (66%) of the public identify an explanation for child poverty that relates to the characteristics and behaviour of parents, compared to the 28% who say it is down to broader social issues. * Fifteen per cent of the public in 1994 thought people lived in need because of laziness or lack of willpower, compared to 23% in 2010. Support for the view... more »

Social democracy unravelling

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
For many years we took it for granted that the public was to the left of the government, not any more. Since the beginning of the depression the British Social Attitudes survey has shown a clear right-ward shift in public opinion. According to this piece it has been driven by Labour supporters. According to the survey there has been a particular breakdown in social solidarity. In 2011 47% of Labour supporters agree with the statement “if benefits were not as generous people would learn to stand on their own feet”, up from 11% in 1987. Thirty-one percent of Labour supporters now t... more »

Child poverty is not rising but falling

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
John Boy Key is considering funding Hone Harawira’s “Food in Schools” bill, saying, "There is some merit, obviously, for food in schools - the Government has been supporting that in terms of a number of programmes." But as Lindsay Mitchell points out, and as you’d expect with Hone Harawira (whose whole career is built on artifice), the very bill to which they’re considering lending their support starts with a lie : From the bill’s Explanatory note: *"Growing levels of poverty in New Zealand have resulted in too many parents being unable to afford to provide their children with bre... more »

Is Sabotage A Crime Punishable By Something or Other?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Has the whole media signed an agreement to avoid the word "obstructionism" when reporting on the Republican Party policy agenda in Congress? Because I never see the mainstream media using that word-- and there is virtually no other way to describe what Boehner, Cantor and Miss McConnell have been doing for the past 5 years. Last week, the *National Memo* ran a bang-up post of the 5 ways the Republican Party has sabotaged our economic recovery, Republican Party sabotage being a direct outgrowth of Republican Party obstructionism. The GOP "made a conscious decision to slow the econo... more »

Summer has sprung?

risa bear at A Way to Live - 7 hours ago
Here we have April at the top and May at the bottom. Spring has sprung. Spring, heck, *summer* has sprung. Twelve straight days of 80F+ highs, simply unheard-of here, while snow continues to fall on friends elsewhere. I have had to water, and water, and water, and some of the spring greens have bolted anyway. And the creek, from which I'd thought to pump a bit of irrigation, dried up over a month ahead of schedule. So it goes. Facing north. To the left here is -- we hope -- a Three Sisters bed of beans, pumpkins, and sweet corn. To the right, greens, brassicas, alliums, peas, root... more »

I come to defend Holder, not condemn him

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
The AP phone records story is still developing so I don't have much to say yet. Still waiting for more facts to emerge from the noise. So far I've seen nothing to suggest the government acted illegally. As a TPM reader points out: More important it is clear to anyone who understands what happens in this type of investigation that the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records. Those records came from the phone company not from AP. They relate to dates and times of phone calls not content. Under the law such a subpoena is perfectly proper and under the law Justice and the phone com... more »

New Zealand Principal Offers Opt Out Option to Parents

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 8 hours ago
We need six percent of parents to opt out to make results unusable for high stakes purposes. New Zealand is on the their way to reaching that number. From the Sydney Morning Herald: . . . .Paul Marshall, principal at Emmaus Christian School in Canberra, took the unusual step of telling parents they could withdraw […]

Alan Waldman : ‘Wire in the Blood’ is a Gripping British Crime Series

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: Robson Green is powerful as an eccentric, troubled clinical psychologist who helps police solve gruesome Yorkshire crimes. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / May 14, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas, mysteries, and comedies from Canada,

Prince Charles clearly listens to the Luvvies & Greens

Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 8 hours ago
* * Prince Charles Vs Climate Sceptics - Again With The Deepest Respect, Charles, Please Do Shut Up Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is assuming a growing number of the duties of what is supposed to be an apolitical monarchy. Prince Charles's views were reinforced by Lord Stern, author of the 2006 report on the economics of climate change, who called sceptics and lo... more »

“Jon Stewart Destroys Obama Over IRS Scandal”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
“Jon Stewart Destroys Obama Over IRS Scandal” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3O2jNy0jvkY

Satire: “Kim Jong-Un Defends Right To Obtain Journalists’ Phone Records”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“Kim Jong-Un Defends Right To Obtain Journalists’ Phone Records”* by Andy Borowitz PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)— “As controversy swirled around the Department of Justice’s move to obtain journalists’ phone records, the White House picked up a vote of support today from an unexpected source, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea. “I honestly don’t see what the fuss is all about,” Mr. Kim said in an official statement today. “Of course it’s the government’s right to know what people are doing at all times—and journalists would be right at the top of the list.” Mr. Kim als... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago

Citizen Hearing and Alien Bodies

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 8 hours ago
At the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, Merrill Cook asked a question that, at the time was confusing for those of us facing him and his former congressional buddies. He wanted to know, as near as I can figure now, if anyone who claimed to have seen the bodies of the alien creatures had mentioned it in 1947. We all struggled with this as he kept talking about it and we thought of military men who had seen the bodies but who had said nothing until years later. We didn’t think of anyone who had talked about it in 1947, or how we could expect to find anything about that now? The committe... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*Deborah Cotton Updates ~New Orleans Good Good*

Blame Congress for the IRS mess - Updated

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Once you cut through the self-serving noise over the IRS psuedo-scandal, a few things become clear. Tea Party groups weren't really being targeted for their political beliefs. They were being asked to prove why they deserved a big tax exemption. And let's be real, if the name of your group stands for Taxed Enough Already, you're begging to be tied up in paperwork. As I said before, I think most of the smaller groups were run by grifters who saw a prime opportunity to profit personally from the fear and anger of misinformed conservatives. More than one of them has been exposed as a ... more »

FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT THREAT AND COVER UP CONTINUES

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 9 hours ago
*A new study in April of 2013 suggests that nuclear fallout from Fukushima in March of 2011 has led to significant elevated rates of congenital thyroid illness among infants born on the West Coast and Hawaii ~ keeping in mind that President Obama not only denied this threat but ordered the EPA to stop weekly & monthly testing for radiation in April of 2011: Allen L Roland* *A creeping and never ending deadly fog of radiation, invisible to the eye but not to the immune system, continues to blanket the West Coast while its human cost is just beginning to be percei... more »

Anti-Choice 'Sophisticated'? ROTFLMAO!

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours ago
I realize that books have to be flogged, but lately these people, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon, have been all over Canadian media with a 'new' take on fetus fetishist strategy. Actually, it ain't new at all, but hey, those women's studies MAs (pdf)don't write themselves, you know. The thesis is that the anti-choice movement in Canada is getting 'sophisticated', co-opting pro-choice language, framing abortion as 'harming women', moving the *undebate* into a discussion of free speech and democracy, claiming that it's a 'youth movement', and playing the 'silenced' victim card. The ... more »

Who are the real enemies of the USA?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
*trees, meet forest.* Does Obama really know what's going on? Probably not, nor does he care. As a malignant narcissist, who cares only about flying around in his tax-payer supported really big plane, hobnobbing with the scum of Hollywood, and golfing - that is, when he's not playing basketball and watching ESPN, he is, no doubt, not interested nor is he kept in the loop. I believe him when he repeatably says, "I found out about this or that when you, the little people, did." Or, "I had no notion of such a thing being said about Benghazi." Really? His handlers purposely keep... more »

Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You - "Rumsfeld's Rules"

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
He's back. Donald Rumsfeld has written a leadership guide entitled *Rumsfeld's Rules* that is being released today. *Wired* has a review. *Who better to impart life lessons than the only defense secretary in U.S. history to screw up two wars at once? True to confident form, that’s what Donald Rumsfeld attempts in his new book on leadership, Rumsfeld’s Rules. He actually has good advice — so much that you really wish he would have taken some of it at the Pentagon. * *“If you expect people to be in on the landing, include them in the takeoff” is good advice. “When negotiating, neve... more »

MANY AMERICANS SUPPORTED HITLER

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*American Nazis.* *Johnny Milanos photos of the American-Nazis annual convention in Atlanta.* *"Before 1919, Hitler had been a political 'gun for hire' who had many Jewish friends and had flirted with both Communism and Socialism."* What sort of people would organise events such as: 9 11, genocide, the torture of children, the lynching of innocent people....? Think of Nazis and Zionists? Or perhaps think of Genghis Khan, Caligula, the Medicis, the Hapsburgs, the Ming Emperors, the Plantagenets, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers... [image: Sisters. Tigray. Ethiopia] *By courregesg*... more »

It's No Wonder the Beijing Politburo and our Harper Parliament are Best Friends Forever

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
It turns out that the Chinese Communist leadership and the Canadian Conservative leadership believe in a lot of the same stuff. They both want economic liberalism but political conformity and suppression of dissent. China's leadership has now sent out a notice to crack down on the introduction and spread of dangerous Western values. *The Chinese government has confronted demands for democratic reform from activists emboldened by Mr Xi's vows to respect the law. In recent days, some activists have cited rumours that the party issued a warning against seven ideas that are considere... more »

What actually happened in Benghazi that night?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013* *Richard Cohen and Gregory Hicks seem to think they know:* The laziness of the career liberal world does produce horrible outcomes. Ever since last September, the liberal world has stood aside as Susan Rice gets thrown under the bus. As usual, our leaders have all run off and hid in the woods, just as they did all during the Clinton-Gore years. As a result, we get this passage from Richard Cohen in today’s hard-copy Washington Post. Again, we’ll call this obscene: COHEN (5/14/13): So what is Benghazi? It is the place in Libya where the United States maintain... more »

Today's Global Outrages

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
There doesn't seem to be a day that passes anymore that doesn't bring some but today we have two outrages to pass along courtesy of the *Sydney Morning Herald*. First up is the mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto. Hashi, in a moment of splendid Japanese cultural sensitivity, chose to deliver his views on the "comfort women" who were kidnapped by the Japanese army and forced to work in brothels serving Japanese soldiers. *Mr Hashimoto told reporters in Osaka on Monday that the comfort women served a useful purpose. "When soldiers are risking their lives by running through storms of bu... more »

WEST CALLS OBAMA WAR CRIMINAL

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
Cornell West on BBC calls Obama a war criminal. He also calls the poverty levels in the US spiritually profane. The Obama team has taken to calling West un-American for having the audacity to tell the truth about the president and his right-wing policies. Sadly not many "progressive" black leaders are willing to speak out against Obama for fear of retribution. But it's basically the same story with many white "progressives" as well. Those who are attached to the Democratic party are neutralized and unwilling to speak the truth about Obama's role in perpetuating endless war, des... more »

“Grapes Of Wrath”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“Grapes Of Wrath”* by James Quinn "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed." - John Steinbeck, "Grapes of Wrath" "John Steinbeck wrote his masterpiece "The Grapes o... more »

An Old Brit War Vet Laments the Death of the Democracy He Fought to Preserve

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Harry Leslie Smith says he's too old to fight those who today would wreck the civilization he and so many others fought and in too many cases died to protect. In his closing years Harry sees his civilization again imperiledonly, this time, not from some distant fascist monster but from within. *Across the world death moved, for too many years in lock step with both the season for sowing and for reaping. We were a world at war, and for those of us in Britain the cost was enormous in lost and ruined lives. But it didn't matter because we believed that the cause was just and that, wh... more »

Spectacular Video - Nature at Work on the Saskatchewan River

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency recorded this amazing video of a massive ice surge along the Saskatchewan River.

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Babbling Barons of Bubbleism Alert!

. . . important subtext of all the recent bubble rhetoric is the demand that Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues stop trying to fight mass unemployment, that they must cease and desist their efforts to boost the economy or dire consequences will follow. In fact, however, there isn’t any case for believing that we face any broad bubble problem, let alone that worrying about hypothetical

The Economy: “Breaking Inequality”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
“Breaking Inequality” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s-GWdpvgiIA#!

McConnell Upset By Working Class Guy In The Senatorial Race In Kentucky-- How Did That Happen?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*Special Guest Post by Ed Marksberry Part 1* Well, let’s start from the beginning; a working class guy Ed Marksberry who has been an advocate and volunteer for past Democrats seeking election and was the Democratic Party nominee for Congress in 2010, demonstrated from the start of his campaign that it was time to give the ownership back to the grassroots supporters, who have been ignored for years by the party powers-that-be in past elections. Yes, that’s right, instead of a career politician who is tainted by the political process and the influence of money; we finally had a can... more »

The Palestinians view of Israel per Pew's latest market research

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
So we are told that the Palestinians want to live in peace alongside Israel but Pew's market research shows that only 14% of those in the Palestinian Territories think that there is a way for Israel and the Palestinian Territories to coexist peacefully and that 45% support armed struggle as the best way to achieve statehood with another 22% supporting armed struggle along with non-violent and negotiations. It's strange that the BBC and many western politicians keep telling us that the Palestinians want peace and that Israel's actions are the main obstacles to peace, when the P... more »

Maybe There's More Sarah Palin Than We'd Like to Admit in Our Own Politicians.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
An eye-opener in today's *Guardian* reveals that, before she jettisoned the Alaska governor's office to join John McCain's presidential campaign, Sarah Palin was actively involved on the climate change front. *In September 2007, a rising star of Alaskan politics dared to take on one of the toughest, most challenging issues for any leader: climate change. That summer, seasonal ice cover had fallen to its lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979, leaving much of the Arctic as open water. A few months earlier, Al Gore had won an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. * *It seeme... more »

Russia catches a US spy- linked to the Embassy/CIA

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
*Quite a public expulsion*........ *Odd?* *Timing?* Coincidentally or not, the actual post I am in the midst of working on was about Russia. Making it more timely then ever. Later today or tomorrow it will be up Caught red-handed: Russia releases alleged U.S. spying letter after arresting CIA agency In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be *Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, sits in the FSB offices in Moscow. * Some of the confiscated belongings of Ryan C. Fogle, the third secret... more »

Videos: Roundtable Honoring John Redhouse, Dine' activist

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Legendary activist John Redhouse (center) Photo courtesy Leona Morgan Watch video one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZYEmNxaDk Watch video two at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_xZH_rswkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_xZH_rswk Indigenous Liberation and The Grounds of Decolonization: A Symposium to Honor the life and work of scholar and activist JOHN REDHOUSE. The

Behind Iraq’s Impressive GDP Growth Rate

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
Iraq’s economy is noteworthy for its contradictions. Many experts believe that it will be one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the next few years. That’s mostly because of its tremendous oil and natural gas wealth that fuels the entire nation. On the other hand, unemployment, underemployment, and poverty are relatively high. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a perfect example of a figure that appears to show the promise of the country, but upon further inspection shows the large structural problems within Iraq. Iraq’s economy is expected to expand tremendously ... more »

Graph of the Day: Continental scale reconstructions of surface temperature for the past two millennia

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago
[image: Continental-scale temperature reconstructions. 30-year mean temperatures for the seven PAGES 2k Network regions, standardized to have the same mean. North America includes a shorter tree-ring-based and a longer pollen-based reconstruction. Dashed outlines enclose intervals of pronounced volcanic and solar negative forcing since AD 850. Graphic: PAst Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Consortium] By Darrell Kaufman 21 April 2013 (RealClimate) – In a major step forward in proxy data synthesis, the PAst Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Consortium has just published a suite of continental s... more »

Lockdown Tarsands Keystone XL Resistance: Young Women Arrested in Oklahoma!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Hughes County, OK, May 14th, 2013 Early this morning Bailey and Holly, both of whom are local Oklahomans and with Cross Timbers Earth First!, walked onto a Keystone XL active construction site in Hughes County, Oklahoma and locked themselves to concrete filled barrels obstructing the use of heavy machinery used in the construction of the pipeline. Bailey and Holly are part of Cross

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
So many "scandals," so many silly analogies -- but Steve Benen appears to be exactly correct about Lamar Alexander's ridiculous comparison between Iran-Contra and Obama Administration efforts to raise money for publicizing options under the ACA. Benen: In order for Alexander's comparison to make sense, here's what would have happened: imagine Obama asked Congress to approve the Affordable Care Act, but instead, Congress did the opposite, approving a measure ordering the president not to change the existing the health care system. Obama, undaunted, sold weapons to North Korea and the... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours ago
Swarovski Kristallwelten | Wattens, Austria. [click to embiggen]

harpercon defeated; an okay day for Canada

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 12 hours ago
It's tough getting around to visit all the small communities in a place like Labrador. That's why getting free plane rides would give a huge advantage to any candidate who could score 'em. And, the smaller airline companies who serve Labrador might not have the liquid cash sitting around to donate to the harpercon candidate who could get them some sweetheart government contracts later, would have the wherewithal to provide those free rides. That's called corruption 101. Penashue tried to blame it on his inexperienced enthusiastic staffer, but that was bullshit. In the end, blata... more »

Oops, We Did it Again!

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) *“It is an immutable law of the universe that if you give government power, it uses it.”*- Former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) If, after 2016, we take away any real revelations and insights from the Obama administration, it will be Republican-Libertarian Bob Barr's maxim of government always using power if it has it given to it. Perhaps, in a recycling of the Bush era cynicism of the overreach of government power, we may also trot out Ben Franklin's bromide about those who surrender liberty for a little security and d... more »

Prior to Free Planet - Blackmail'd will become the new blog status.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 12 hours ago
*I wanted to report* on the very interesting story of American Embassy Worker Ryan Fogle who was kicked out of Russia today having been caught 'in the act' of trying to recruit a Russian Special Service Agent to work for the CIA. Fogle had the Jason Bourne identikit, passports, cash, comms, wigs, compass, etc... We all know racy Russian redhead Anna Chapman got kicked out of USA, along with some of her spy colleagues. Surely, the US intel services are gonna cry SET UP at some point and say it's all a fabrication or tit-for-tat expulsion in a continuing war that's looking more and m... more »

Victoria Nuland is worth more than Rice!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013* *Quite correctly, David Brooks defends the latest scapegoat:* Last Friday night, viewers of Fox were treated to an obscenity from a fallen figure. Tucker Carlson killed the pig while speaking on Hannity. For various reasons, the highlighted portrait is obscene, ugly, false, vile: CARLSON (5/10/13): Let me just jump with a couple of facts there. So, we know actually some of what happened. The CIA offered up its analysis to the administration, to the State Department. And *Victoria Nuland—who is a Hillary loyalist and a well-known mediocrity and hack, by the wa... more »

Is This Our Civilization's Obituary?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago
From the *New Yorker.* Nicholas Thompson, on the crossing of the 400 ppm marker, tries to put our civilization's future in perspective, to show the moral collapse that we work so hard to ignore, and the brutal prospects we bequeath to our children and theirs. It's something of a *pre-mortem*obituary. *We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were jungles in northern Canada. And the number hurdles ever upward, as ocean levels rise and extreme weatherbecomes routine. Three-fifty was the old target; four-fifty is the new one. ... more »

Reiner Schürmann - Time, the Body, Nothingness

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
Related: *An Excerpt From Meister Eckhart's Sermon "Jesus Entered."* *Wikipedia:* Father Reiner Schürmann, O.P., Ph.D. (February 4, 1941 – August 20, 1993) was Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Born in Amsterdam in 1941 of German parents, Reiner Schürmann wrote all his major published work in French. Director of the faculty of philosophy at the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty of New York at the time of his death, he was the author of three notable philosophical works: Maître Eckhart et la joie errante ("Master Eckhart an... more »

Raising awareness

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
I’ve been virtually incommunicado for a few days and didn’t manage to finish follow-up piece in time to post before I left. I read an article on Harry’s Place that explored, above and below the line, Hawking’s boycott and related issues in depth. Sadly the comments will be zapped all too soon. One in particular steered Hawking’s allegiance with the BDS movement in the direction of the BBC. It was from commenter ‘mind the crap’, whose blogging moniker forewarns the reader about the content of his own comments, which, unintentional or not, is quite considerate. He said: *“**Maybe ... more »

“A university isn’t Disneyland and professors aren’t Mickey Mouse”

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
Ari Kohen on the value of “edutainment“: Finally, and most importantly, is the central claim that the test of education is whether or not it’s entertaining. Wales asks, “why wouldn’t you have the most entertaining professor, the one with the proven track record of getting knowledge into people’s heads?” Is there evidence that the most entertaining Continue reading

Un regalo mas especial - mi mundo en espanol

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 13 hours ago
Just to reaffirm that old dogs can still learn new tricks, how's this news: I'm reading Ken Follett's latest book in Spanish. Yes, 16 months after landing in a Spanish-speaking country with Spanish-language skills that were not much more than tourist grade, I am now making my way through an epic set in the pre-war years as Hitler rises to power. And I'm understanding it (well, mostly). I've loved this time in Honduras for all kinds of reasons. But I think I might love it most for the opportunity it has given me to finally fulfill my dream to learn Spanish. Ever since my daughter Rega... more »

Pick Your Scandal

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
It's a fact that the government spies on all of us. What's that massive new data center in Utah for, anyway? But when the DOJ brazenly grabs the phone records of one of the biggest press organizations in the world, it not only makes Nixon grin in his grave, it gives him and all the paranoid autocrats who ever lived a huge dose of post-mortem Viagra. Barack Obama makes them all look like raving civil libertarians, even as he vainly tries to distance himself from his own abusive orgy. The man is so obsessed with leaks, he's plugging the ephemeral dike holes not with a judicious littl... more »

The criminality of the megabanks caused the present recession, yet the Federal government treats them as too big to fail and too big to jail. But what if the states were to sue individual bankers accused of defrauding the public? How sweet that would be! And California's Attorney General is contemplating doing just that. Support her!

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago
------------------------------ Will JPMorgan Chase Bankers Finally Pay the Piper? By Richard Eskow Will California Attorney General Kamala Harris hang tough in her new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, the first to target individual bankers accused of defrauding the public? If so, it would be the first time in five years that executives at a major bank have personally paid a price for their misdeeds. *Weekend at Jamie’s* Recent revelations have shown the world that JPMorgan Chase comes as close as any institution in America to embodying all that is corrupt, contemptible, and ... more »

America’s first climate refugees: Alaska native villages threatened with coastal erosion – ‘It’s real, global warming, it’s real’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: A child plays in a flooded area of Newtok village. More than 180 native communities in Alaska are experiencing flooding and loss of land as ice melts due to climate change. Photo: Brian Adams] By Suzanne Goldenberg in Newtok, Alaska 13 May 2013 (Guardian) – Sabrina Warner keeps having the same nightmare: a huge wave rearing up out of the water and crashing over her home, forcing her to swim for her life with her toddler son. "I dream about the water coming in," she said. The landscape in winter on the Bering Sea coast seems peaceful, the tidal wave of Warner's nightmare t... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*James Gill leaves TP to join The Advocate!* *Mother’s Day shooting reminds us that no one is immune from street violence ~Jed Horne* *Citizens Rally at Site of Mother's Day Shooting (PHOTOS) ~NOLA DEFENDER* *I Walk the Line ~Accidental Cajun* *Mayor Landrieu lays blame on judges for shooting suspect being free ~WWL* *Who should pay for flood insurance? ~Eric Holdeman* *Levee contractors sued by leasing company who allegedly owe nearly $660K ~Louisiana Record* *Top Chef Gets $375,000 From NOLA and Louisiana (Using BP Oil Spill Recovery Funds) ~Hillary Dixler* *Review: St. Lawrenc... more »

It's Time For Change In BC ....

leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago
*-B.C. New Democrats* *-Your B.C. New Democratic Candidates* [image: Progressive Bloggers]

BULLROAR OVER BENGHAZI: David in Wonderland!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013* *Part 2—If it’s Sunday, nothing has to make sense:* We’ve all been living in Wonderland for perhaps the past 21 years. In Wonderland, facts get invented, then adopted by all. Other key facts disappear. Embellished paraphrase is common. Routinely, these embellished accounts of what somebody said will be accepted by one and all. (In some cases, these embellished accounts of what somebody said begin to appear inside quotes!) Privileged children are paid millions of bucks to go on TV and pretend to be journalists. And so it happened: On Sunday, David Gregory ... more »

Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region – Glaciers have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 180 meters

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest (second peak from left) and the national park surrounding it. Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 180 meters (590 feet). Photo: Pavel Novak] By: Sudeep Thakuri, Graduate School of Earth, Environment and Biodiversity, University of Milan, Milan, MB, Italy, and Water Research Institute, National Research Council , Brugherio, MB, Italy and colleagues Contact: Sarah Charley, +1 (202) 777-7516 scharley@agu.org 13 May 2013 Cancún, M... more »

More on the Phils/Taiwan Fisherman Mess

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
*Delivering veggies in Tsaotun* The Taiwan Coast Guard has a couple of reports on its website about this (like to thank the anonymous commenter on a previous post). This one says the shooting occurred at "approximately 164 nautical miles south-east of Eluanbi (latitude 20 degrees 07 minutes east longitude 123 degrees 01 minutes)". The CNA graphic complete with a bit of unseemly nationalistic blood, has it located.... It is difficult for me to look at that graphic and not see the Taiwanese boats as operating in Philippines waters. In fact (read on below!) Manila has it in a slight... more »

Farmacology with Daphne Miller

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago
I just read this book and I certainly recommend it. What it captures is the ongoing effort by individual farmers to achieve an holistic protocol for agricultural production. This is not mainstream as yet and what we understand as organic practice is very much a work in progress even if it is now clearly shown to be superior to industrial ways. This is still a glimpse of the true future of agriculture. To fully emerge, holistic agriculture needs to integrate the people themselves and overcome a long history of the low grade abuse of the land's servants. This can be done ... more »

Graphene Based Hetrostructures

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago
We need to learn a new phrase. Graphene Based Heterostructures. This was an obvious promise of graphene research but it turns out to be unexpectedly way more accessible than anyone imagined. The rapid evolution of thin structures has now begun and it will dominate all our lives. Most certainly, a high yield solar elegy protocol will be one of the first obvious applications. Most though, I would like to see thin skinned batteries and thin skinned coolants. Both are difficult in three dimensional configurations but may now become surprising. Both will be central to the f... more »

Global Fig Culture

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago
This is an interesting issue. First of, it is the most transportable fruit we can imagine. The simple act of drying allows it to be carried on land and at sea. This likely even preserves pollination insect larvae. Thus our conjecture regarding the global Atlantean world pretty well demands such a global distribution. Plenty of other crops also made the Bronze Age trip although with spotty results. That a wide range of separate varieties gives a year round harvest certainly drove any general effort to move the horticulture. We have really just begun to explore this fr... more »

Grape Hypertension Linkage Identified

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago
This tells us that the relationship is way more direct and important than anyone ever imagined. It makes the lifestyle choice rather compelling. Our primitive ancestors were clearly evolved to eat a lot of fruit on an ongoing basis. Any animal protein was always a bonus and not always too important. What the animal protein did was plausibly top off a steady but often irregular diet of plants. In our world, it is possible to consume a steady diet of fruit, vegetables and nuts. This strongly suggests that we need to build our diets around just that and use fish, insect... more »

Why the kids of the 1% are still better than your kids

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 15 hours ago
Because they can afford to hire “disabled” tour guides to help them jump ahead in lines at Disney. BOOM! From the New York Post. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: 1%, disney, new york post, one percent, wealth

Can We Agree to a New Approach to School Improvement?

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 15 hours ago
PBS’s first education TED talk began with the promise that it would not play the blame game. The great presentations that followed raise the question of what could be accomplished if they obeyed that policy, stopped pointing fingers, and promoted “win win” methods of school improvement. A previous post, “What if School “Reformers” Kept Up […]

ALEC an Invaluable Resource to Businesses

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
Here’s a piece from the Roll Call regarding Congressional lobbying in Q1-2013. My emphasis - I’ve bolded the names of companies that are known past or present ALEC members. * * *Top 25 Organizations Lobbying in First Quarter* By Kent Cooper Posted at 7:40 a.m. on April 23 Here is the ranking of the top 25 organizations spending on federal lobbying during the first quarter of 2013. *Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A*. $10,140,000 *National Association of Realtors* $8,500,000 *U.S.** Chamber Institute for Legal Reform* $6,430,000 *Northrop Grumman Corporation* $5,820,000 ... more »

What If The DCCC Had A Special Category Of Targets Based On Who Does The Most Harm?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
A certainty: you will never beat Cantor, Boehner & Ryan unless you try The DCCC targets districts it thinks it can win based on a few factors. They look at Republican-held districts, for example, where Obama won or did well. The seven Republican-held congressional districts Obama did best in-- with margins of 5 points or more-- were: *•* CA-31 (Gary Miller) Obama beat Romney 57-41% *•* CA-21 (David Valadao) Obama beat Romney 55-44% *•* NJ-02 (Frank LoBiondo) Obama beat Romney 54-46% *•* FL-27 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) Obama beat Romney 53-47% *•* NY-19 (Chris Gibson) Obama beat Romney 52-4... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to George Lucas, 69. Despite everything. Graffiti and Star Wars is still a one-two punch that stacks up with the very best, and then add his contributions to Empire and Raiders, and the good bits of the rest of his career (and I remain a big fan of Jedi)...He couldn't sustain it? Well, he's not the only one; he just did it in a way more public way than most. And some good stuff: 1. Brendan Nyhan on the scandal(s) he predicted. 2. Fenno's Paradox and re-election, from Michael Ensley. 3. So much for rebranding, Ed Kilgore notes. 4. I think Conor Friedersdorf's continu... more »

ISA Theory Section Call for Conference Paper Awards

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
The Theory Section seeks nominations for its new conference paper awards. All papers with a strong theoretical focus which were presented at the 2013 ISA conference in San Francisco are eligible. The Theory Section seeks to honor excellent work in theorizing international politics across the plurality of theoretical approaches. Two awards will be granted: one Continue reading

The definitive version - Space Oddity

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 15 hours ago
Cmdr. Chris Hadfield's last task as commander of the International Station before leaving for Earth - make this video. He landed only a few hours ago.

Citizens, Not Consumers

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Natalie Brender writes in *The Toronto Star* that, if disasters such as the factory collapse in Bangladesh are to be avoided in the future, we are going to have to stop acting as consumers and start acting as citizens. Private initiatives by non governmental agencies aren't enough: As usual, the reason for this state of affairs is that things are complicated. The locations, actors, incentives and pressures involved in today’s global supply chains are so diverse and complex that uncoordinated action from any number of angles isn’t enough to make a major difference. If private volun... more »

Good morning

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago

Russia makes various foreign Policy moves - Us / Iran and Syria in focus....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/22963/Putin-again-warns-Netanyahu-hands-off-Syria Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, May, 14. He came for a last-ditch attempt to head off the supply of advanced Russian anti-air S-300 missile systems to Syria. Instead, the Russian leader turned the conversation around to focus implicitly on Israel’s air strikes against Damascus on May 3 and May 5. After their conversation he issued a warning: "In this crucial period it is especially... more »

Germany Confidence miss - current situation and overal German ZEW below expectations..... sovereign debt in Europe still doing the " Draghi Rock " - which will work right up until it doesn't .... Troika related news items - Finland and Single Bank Supervision / Resolution Regime in focus .....Meanwhile in Asian sentiment , Taiwan and Philippines follow China and Japan in battling over islands in the Sea !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Eurozone / Troika news..... http://www.acting-man.com/?p=23262 The ECB and Germany – Another Spat Develops May 14, 2013 | Author Pater Tenebrarum *ECB eager to Inflate* As we noted in our update on the last ECB rate decision, Mario Draghi said in his press conference that the ECB wishes for the creation of a larger ABS market (asset backed securities) in Europe in order to be able to monetize more debt. The difficulty for the ECB, as Draghi explained, is that it is forbidden by statute from financing governments, while monetizing bank loans directly has the disadvantage that they l... more »

Ed Steer's Morning Report on Gold and silver - May 14 , 2013 !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/paul-craig-roberts-gold-market-rigging-exposes-a-gangster-state Paul Craig Roberts: Gold Market Rigging Exposes a Gangster State May *14* - Yesterday in Gold and Silver - Critical Reads - The Funnies - The Wrap RetweetShare "Gold was not allowed to seriously breach its 20-day moving average." ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER Gold was under selling pressure right from the 6:00 p.m. EDT time open in New York on Sunday evening...and by shortly after 10:00 a.m in Tokyo, gold was down about twenty bucks...and traded very close to the $1,430... more »

Argentina: Remotely- Guided UFOS Threaten Highways in Buenos Aires

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago
*Source: Diario Popular Date: 05.14.13* *Argentina: Remotely-Guided UFOS Threaten Highways in Buenos Aires* To the south of La Plata, these devices pursue cars or appear out of thin air in the midst of the river, shoulders or cattle troughs to startle drivers and fishermen alike. A wide area bordered by the Bay of Sanborombón and Route 2 to the south of La Plata have turned into a pole of attraction for the same UFO phenomenon that researchers have associated with the “activity of remotely guided luminous probes” – a miracle of nanotechnology – and which have allegedly caused ac... more »

JGB watch - May 14 , 2013 - third halt in three days barely missed in JGB Futures ! .... ten year bond hits 0.84 , 5 year hits 0.40 - a 22 month high ...... can you say things are disorderly there at the longer end of the yield curve ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Japan Government Bond Yields 2Y: - *Current*0.13 - *1M Ago*0.13 - *1Y Ago*0.11 2Y5Y10Y30Y0.001.00 0.13 0.13 0.11 NameYield1 Day1 Month1 YearTimeJGB 2 Year Yield0.13%+3+2+401:30:44JGB 5 Year Yield0.40%+8+17+1703:05:39JGB 10 Year Yield0.84%+10+23001:31:24JGB 30 Year Yield1.78%+6+25-401:31:33 Change shown in basis points http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-14/jgb-futures-narrowly-avoid-third-halt-three-days-tick-5y-yields-jump-highest-22-mont JGB Futures Narrowly Avoid Third Halt In Three Days (By A Tick); 5Y Yields Jump To Highest In 22 Months [image: Tyler ... more »

Four Easy Fixes for Corporate Taxation

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 18 hours ago
Everyone "knows" that the corporate income tax is a mess. Ask any company. They pay too much in corporate income tax, face rates higher than in any other OECD country, and are just following the law when they use tax havens to keep profits eternally deferred from taxation and to perform general sleight-of-hand. Don't believe a word of it. While some economists believe we shouldn't tax corporations at all, the corporate income tax (CIT) is a necessary backstopto the personal income tax (PIT). With no CIT or a rate lower than the PIT, individuals have an incentive to incorporate their ... more »

Christy Romer on Japan

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 18 hours ago
Last month, I had the pleasure of hearing Christy Romer give a great talk about Japanese monetary policy at the NBER Macro Annual conference. You can now read it here.

Drug Innovation 12: H7N9, SARS, Bird Flu and Vaccines

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
Today, I read three stories of the SARS-like virus that has affected Saudi Arabia, and bird flu virus in China. Some 15 people have already died in Saudi Arabia alone, from SARS-like coronavirus. There are some panic especially in the eastern part of the country. See the news here. A follow up article, also today, New SARS-like virus can probably pass person-to-person. In one family alone in Eastern Saudi Arabia, the father died and the three children got sick too with similar symptoms, two are in the ICU already. Then the news in China with 35 deaths already from a strain of H7N... more »

Vaccine Danger: Merck is Big Pharma’s Vaccine Monsanto by Paul Fassa

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
Source: http://www.prwatch.org/node/6263/printVaccine Danger: Merck is Big Pharma’s Vaccine Monsanto by Paul Fassa Natural Society, 14 May 2013 The pharmaceutical giant *Merck* enjoys vast revenues if they’re able to advertise and “lobby” politicians to pass laws promoting their vaccinations, even while still paying huge fines and settlements for the toxic aftermath of their other medicinal drugs. Merck has paid out a total of *almost $5 billion to settle* nearly 27,000 Voixx civil law suits. This drug, intended for arthritic pain relief, created 27,000 cases of heart attacks... more »

FAY WELDON - TRUE SELF

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Fay Weldon, who wrote the first episode of Upstairs, Downstairs.* Novelist Fay Weldon claims to have had two 'near-death experiences' during surgery. Fay Weldon was an atheist, but her two 'out-of-body experiences' have made her believe in an afterlife. She says: "In one I saw the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, and there was certainly an extraordinary sense of warmth, communality and progress." BUT, for anyone hoping for an easier life after death, Fay Weldon says of life after death: "It was just more of the same - hard work, two steps forward, one step back." near... more »

CNN Faking Satellite Interview

Americani Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 20 hours ago

Peter Mandelson and immigration

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
Lord Mandelson said: ‘In 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.’ Remember that between 1997 and 2010, net migration to Britain totalled more than 2.2 million, that's more than twice the population of Birmingham. Also remember that the annual net immigration figure quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people in 1997 to 198,000 by 2009. It was Andrew Neather who let the cat out of the bag when he revealed ... more »

Well done Danny Baker

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
The Sony radio awards were presented last night and I am pleased to report that Danny Baker won gold in the Best Entertainment Programme section for his 5Live show: The Danny Baker Show WINNER: GOLD Danny Baker - Presenter Lynsey Hipgrave - Co-presenter Clare Davison - Producer Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live What the Judges Said"Danny expertly sews the whole program together with the flair and palpable enthusiasm of someone who oozes with a love and desire to be on the radio." I wonder if the 'pinheaded weasels' who sacked Danny Baker from BBC Radio London, a... more »

Media links to the Barack Obama administration - "It's a family matter" (part 2)

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Does this graphic make it easier to understand why the US media is so soft on investigating Barack Obama especially re Benghazi? No family links with the BBC, that I know of, so we'll have to put the BBC's unwavering support down to love.

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 22 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by John Hardon of *Hardon's Blog* and Cairo, both White Nationalists based in the United Kingdom. We'll be discussing a variety of subjects, including the current state of affairs in the United Kingdom, Muslim immigration, the Jewish Problem, Adolf Hitler and European history, and related topics. Calls will be taken throughout the conversation. Tune in for a lively discussion! You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!

BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Wu Ming Does the Middle Ages

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours ago
Masterful job by writers' collective: Wu Ming does the Middle Ages The reader is propelled into a tale of spies for and against the Church; of bloody feuds between armies of the Church and peasant rebels; and of communities organized along principles we would now call communist. By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / May 14, 2013 The Middle Ages might not seem like an exciting period of human

Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 23 hours ago
Journalists Memorial Wall, Newseum, Washington D.C. (Photo Credit: Fallen Soldier/Wikimedia Commons) Just two days before Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza last November were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor "reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have

The Road Back If We're Brave Enough to Take It. It's Not for the Timid or Those Who Play Safe.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
We like to call ourselves progressives but very little of what we write, what we advocate for, is genuinely progressive. Far too much of it is simply whining, bitching. How many times can we chant, "Stephen Harper is a shit, Stephen Harper is a shit," before we accept that we're not making anything better in the doing? Of course he's a shit, so what? That shit has been in power for what, going on seven years now? And he has a majority government to show for his perfidy. So we've got a prime ministerial shit with a majority government. We keep focusing on all of his faults ev... more »

Evidence of Major Daytime Steam Release

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUze59bLlk Start at about 1:35. Wotcha posted this at the Fukushima webcam discussion forum here

9 Fabulous Books that Deal With Tough Subjects

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
I love a funny, uplifting book as much as the next person, but life isn't always funny and uplifting. Sometimes it is hard and heartbreaking. Sometimes it is agony and unfair, but it is overcoming that makes life so sweet. Here are 9 of my favorites books that deal with hard subject matter. Linking up with The Broke and the Bookish. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Would you sell your soul for youth? This classic by Oscar Wilde touches on the innocence and the evils of the soul. I love this commentary on human decision. Dark Triumph- Some people have stories so tragic, you wonder how t... more »

One More Freaking Day

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
It has been such a long time coming but tomorrow we will end the arrogant and abusive reign of British Columbia's corrupt and dishonest provincial government. The cheap hustlers, thieves and fixers collectively known as the British Columbia Liberal Party will be kicked to the curb where they can indulge in an in-house orgy of recriminations and revenge. I wonder how Christy Clark sleeps amid the noise of all those Liberal knives being sharpened. I will have to wait until tomorrow night to learn the fate of my own, once very safe Liberal riding. *The Tyee* proclaimed Parksville-Qua... more »

Guest Post - Rewarding Teachers That Deserve it

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
As parents and their communities consider the available educational options for American children, questions arise. Many different alternative modes of education are presented by various individuals and groups who often promote a specific philosophy or agenda. One thing that all sides agree upon is that the individual who presents the educational material, be it a parent, a formal educator or another person, will have a great impact on the students' learning career. Guiding children and preparing them to take their place in society, whether that involves pursuing further studies aft... more »

Sometimes cartoonists tackle seemingly trivial subjects, and sometimes they tackle the really big ones

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*"Oh, I know He works in mysterious ways, but if I worked that mysteriously I'd get fired."* *"If we're all wrong and God actually does exist, in my opinion He's going to turn out to be Jewish. At least, I certainly hope so, because if He is Jewish I figure He can take a joke."* -- New Yorker *cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, in the e-newsletter/blogpost* "The Cosmology of Cartoonists" *"The idea of a god or gods doesn't hold for me -- but works great for cartoons."* -- New Yorker *cartoonist Chris Weyant (see below)* *by Ken* I've been meaning to get back to *New Yorker* cartoon editor... more »

New Zealand to Outlaw Patents on Software

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Guest post by **Dale Halling** * According to Kiwi Blog, which calls this “A good move from the Gov’t on patents,” there is a new Patent Bill that will prohibit patents on software. Logically, this suggests that there is something special about software that is incompatible with patents. In order to determine this, we first have to have a clear understanding of what software is and what a patent is. A patent is a property right that a person earns by creating a new invention. But what is an invention? An invention is anything created by man that has an *objective result*. Thi... more »

Mario Joseph and Father Jean-Juste

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day ago
Mario Joseph awarded Doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University defend.ht/politics/artic… via @defendhaiti — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 14, 2013

BOOKS / Bill Fletcher Jr. : Gar Alperovitz and Visions of a New World

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
What Then Must We Do?: Political economist Gar Alperovitz and visions of a new world The struggle for structural reforms is essential to changing the 'common sense' of the U.S. political arena. But it is not enough to wound the rabid beast; one must ultimately bring it down. By Bill Fletcher Jr. / Jacobin / May 13, 2013 Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do?, will be Thorne

Liberal Victory in Labrador

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
MONTRÉAL– Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made the following statement today on the by-election results in Labrador: "I am immensely proud of Yvonne Jones and want to offer her my heartfelt congratulations on this victory. I was thrilled to campaign with Yvonne in Labrador, and am equally looking forward to the strong track record of proven leadership that she brings to both the Liberal caucus and to Parliament on behalf of her riding. Today we have demonstrated that the Liberal message of hope and hard work is resonating, and that Canadians are tired of the Conservatives' politics... more »

The Stereotype

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day ago
(I intended to do this post some time ago but it just got lost in the shuffle. Spring was late getting here this year so I haven't had the opportunity to get out and hit some trails as I had hoped and my birding list is woefully shorter than this time last year. But with decent-looking weekend weather on the horizon I hope to make up for my shortfall of posts in the very near future.) As with many stereotypes there is usually a grain of truth in there. Since I think I've heard just about every stereotype out there about Fort McMurray in my short 3 years here, I thought it would b... more »

Uh oh, 29 pages of math practice homework for a first grader? Really? #stopcommoncore

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Your common core, at work. Test prep… two years prior to an official tested grade. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: common core, first grade, math, test prep

Scientists: Ubiquitous household chemical could be killing cats – ‘Significant association’ between hyperthyroidsim and brominated flame retardants

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
By Jeff Burnside 8 May 2013 SEATTLE (KOMO News) – A chemical threat lies hidden in millions of American homes, and top government scientists believe it could be killing cats. Right now in the special session of the state legislature, lawmakers are fighting powerful interests to ban versions of the chemical. Dr. Dennis Wackerbarth is a top expert on hyperthyroidsim, and he said countless numbers of cats die from the disease each year. Millions of indoor cats have been hit in recent decades by thyroid glands that go crazy, switching their metabolism into high gear. They become ra... more »

Formosan Button Man

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
Military Intelligence: What US troops will see when Taiwan is taken: "The Big Button Man!!" from the _Lubbock Morning Avalanche_ (Lubbock, Texas) 27 April 1945 Page 4. via Paul Barclay and the East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette. Needless to say, no such tradition existed. _______________________ [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!

Europe says " No " , " Non " to Europe ...... meanwhile watch out for the Troy revolt as Conservatives plot a referendum escape from Europe !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Just Say Non To The New "Sick Man Of Europe" - Support For EU Plunges In France And Most European Countries [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/13/2013 20:32 -0400 - Bond - Czech - European Union - France - Germany - Greece - Gross Domestic Product - Italy - Monetary Policy - Nicolas Sarkozy - Poland - Portugal - Reality - Recession - Sovereigns - Unemployment - Unification In some surprising news, and quite contrary to what its record low bond yields would indicate (for a key ... more »

The DCCC's Plague Of New Dem Self-Funders... And Worse

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Umm... actually, corporate-oriented New Dem Suzan DelBene wrote herself $5 million in personal checks to crush her middle class opponents and buy a House seat Because of the innate nature of the Republican Party and what it has come to represent-- basically the longtime conservative quest to preserve the *status quo* or the reactionary quest to push for a *status quo ante*-- it surprises no one when you see multimillionaires like Darrell Issa (R-CA), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Fred Upton (R-MI) being "entitled" to committee chairs. Of the multimillionaires who are 50 richest Members of C... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
San Jose, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Fukushima updates - May 13 , 2013 ! Tepco flailing away as usual ...... injecting Nitrogen into Reactor 2 building while hoping nothing goes boom ..... Tepco attempt to dump contaminated ground water turned down by fisheries associations that still want to have safe / edible fish to catch..... More Tepco hi- jinks , cover ups , lies.......

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Fukushima thread for the next few days..... Tepco just flipping and pulling levers - pushing buttons and praying something works for awhile , no clue as to what they're doing..... Tepco to start nitrogen gas injection into reactor2 for the first time, “Not knowing the hydrogen gas concentration” Posted by *Mochizuki* on May 13th, 2013 · No Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Tepco is going to inject nitrogen gas into reactor2 as a test. They need to keep the hydrogen gas concentration lower than 2% or it may cause hydrogen exp... more »

Student “Takes Aim” at Common Core Math

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Somebody has had just about enough of the developmentally inappropriate, overbearing, confusing, and time-consuming program that Pearson thinks is going to help him grow into a successful adult. Enjoy this student’s videography: Filed under: KRIS NIELSEN: First, Do No Harm Tagged: ccss, common core, envision math, pearson

Climate change will make hundreds of millions homeless – ‘It could become a permanent feature of life on Earth’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storm and rising seas. Photo: Simon Maina / AFP] By Robin McKie, science editor 11 May 2013 (The Observer) – It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere had reached a level of 400 parts per million (ppm). Massive movements of people are likely to occur... more »

Satire: “G.O.P. Split Over Whether To Waste Time Investigating Benghazi Or Repealing Obamacare”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“G.O.P. Split Over Whether To Waste Time Investigating* * Benghazi Or Repealing Obamacare”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “A deep divide has emerged within the Republican Party over whether to waste Congress’s time investigating Benghazi talking points or repealing Obamacare, G.O.P. lawmakers confirmed today. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia), sounded the first discordant note at a press briefing this morning, telling reporters, “The time for wasting day after day investigating Benghazi is over. The American people are counting us to waste ... more »

Fraser (TX-ALEC) Knows How to Spend Other People's Money

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
Think twice before you donate to this guys campaign In the last three years, Troy Fraser, chairperson of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, spent more than $300,000 from his campaign account maintaining his personal airplane, at least $33,000 on country club fees and dues, and more than $4,000 on suits, on top of thousands of dollars on upscale hotels for conferences and events everywhere from Hawaii to Buenos Aires, according to his campaign finance reports. Between 2008 and 2010, Fraser claimed more travel per diems – 361, valued at more than $58,000 – than any other member ... more »

St Louis nuclear concern - what happens when an underground landfill fire meets a pool of nuclear waste ? If you lived in St Louis , would you want to discover what the answer is ? Is the answer a dirty bomb - brought to you by true domestic terrorists ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
St. Louis on the Brink of Nuke Waste Disaster MAY 13, 2013 Reblogged from flying cuttlefish picayune: *Rolling Stone*: *An underground landfill fire near tons of nuclear waste raises serious health and safety concerns – so why isn't the government doing more to help?* "No one knows for sure what happens when *an underground inferno meets a pool of atomic waste,* but residents aren't eager to find out." *ENE-News* on it (with more info in comments) - … Read more… 52 more words *Mississippi River related . . .* * * *http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/st-louis-is-burning-20130510... more »

What? How Did This Get Past the G&M Editors?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
This is incredible coming from the pipeline promoting, bitumen boosting Globe & Mail. An urgent appeal to our next provincial government to deal with our environmental challenges. That includes saving our remaining stocks of old growth trees like this giant from the Upper Walbran valley on Vancouver Island. Is there any other place in Canada you can find trees this magnificent? Harper has so emasculated and corrupted the Department of Fisheries and Oceans that one of the recommendations is that British Columbia simply step in and take over. Maybe, since Harper wants to str... more »

Bilderberger meetings set for June 6-9 , 2013 .... but with this weekend Emergency G- 7 meetings and the Mini - Bilderberg Meetings also this weekend , understand whatever plans are being considered are in the process of being finalized !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Are the Elites getting Organized ahead of this year's Bilderberg meetings ? Two meeting of the Elites and G- 7 indicates yes they are...... Watford mayor on 2013 Bilderberg meeting LIKE THIS ARTICLE2 By Alex Allen May 11, 2013 in Politics 3 comments 3 107 7 0 Google +0 + Watford - Watford's elected mayor has spoken out about this year's Bilderberg meeting in the United Kingdom, criticizing frequent Bilderberg protesters as being violent. It was reported in April that this year's Bilderberg meeting will be held near Watford in the United Kingdom from June 6-9; and despite the rec... more »

400 gigabytes of off-shore tax evasion

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
Awhile ago I posted a story about the ICIJ getting information regarding secret off-shore accounts being used for possible tax evasion. That data drop was 260 Gigbytes of data. Today the ICIJ release a new report that notes: A statement from the British tax office puts the size of the data obtained by the three tax authorities at 400 gigabytes, compared to the 260 gigabytes gathered by the ICIJ. “The 400 gigabytes of data is still being analyzed but early results show the use of companies and trusts in a number of territories around the world including Singapore, the British V... more »

Bachmann Leaves Minnesota - Fears the Wrath of God

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
*“Sodom and Gomorrah thought they could defy the will of God – and we all know what happened to them. If the governor signs this legislation into law the Minneapolis-St. Paul region will be next.* “I have a friend from Eden Prairie who’s already packed everything she owns into her car and is driving out to Montana as we speak. These are very scary times. I don’t want my family to be the last ones out.” What was that all about. Her statement regarding the passage of the gay marriage legislation in Minnesota which BTW - passed today - will be signed into law by Governor Dayton tom... more »

Saudis look for an exit with dignity from Syrian War campaign - Turkey and Jordan left to carry the water of the West ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/82909-report-hizbullah-fighters-advance-to-syria-jordan-border Report: Hizbullah Fighters Advance to Syria-Jordan Borderإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية by Naharnet Newsdesk 18 hours ago Comment 56 [image: W460] Hizbullah fighters have been advancing swiftly into southern Syria and have reached the flashpoint southern town of Daraa near the border with Jordan, media reports said on Tuesday. A source close to Hizbullah told the Kuwaiti al-Qabas newspaper that Hizbullah fighters played a significant role in helping the regime troops to take full power of the s... more »

Verbal threats may amount to self-defence

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
R v Surette, [2009] Y.J. No. 149: 20 As to the argument by Crown counsel that words cannot constitute a use of force within the definition of self-defence, I find that accepting this position could lead to illogical or absurd results. As an extreme example, if an individual is threatened by the use of force against him which could result in grievous bodily harm or death, to the extent that he is justified in repelling that force with deadly force, and he possesses a loaded firearm, it would be a defence to that individual if he shot the aggressor but not if he only threatened to... more »

Will the Housing Accord cure the land banks?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Guest post by Phil Hayward* *Now that a “housing accord” between the government and Auckland Council has been announced it’s worth asking, what’s been agreed and will it make any real difference. Last year after the NZ Productivity Commission released its findings and recommendations over its Inquiry into Housing Affordability, Phil Hayward said they * *completely fail to identify the extent of market freedom surrounding property development and the supply of land for it that is essential to ensure housing affordability and economic stability. There is a very real danger that “... more »

barcelona, day three

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
What a day we've had. We had two incredible architecture experiences today, one of them among the most astounding buildings we have ever seen. It was also a *long* day. We are currently recuperating in our hotel room. Allan's blisters have blisters. * * * * We took off early today, heading for La Sagrada Familia. We booked our tickets online the night before. If you ever go, this is a must, and a tip we discovered by accident. There's no service charge or extra fees, and you avoid hours of queueing up in the hot sun. We booked the first entrance time, between 9 and 10 a.m., and ent... more »

“Nuclear Terror in the Middle East: Lethality Beyond the Pale”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Nuclear Terror in the Middle East: Lethality Beyond the Pale”* by Nick Turse “In those first minutes, they’ll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They’ll just stand there. Soon, you’ll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree angle. Your eyes will be drawn to their hands and you’ll think you mind is playing tricks. But it won’t be. Their fingers will start to resemble stalactites, seeming to melt toward the ground. And it won’t be long until the screaming begins. Shrieking. Moaning. Tens of thousands of victims at once. The... more »

Data, Data Everywhere

freetoteach at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Enjoyed Tim and Shaun’s discussion Sunday on InBloom thanks for bringing Rachel from CO to educate us. if No Child Left Behind was propaganda, this data mining bonanaza is another holy grail for corporate ed deformers. I keep getting ads and invitations to update my Linked In account and once on Facebook, people start popping […]

Searching For Identity and Purpose

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 day ago
Once upon a time, Carl Jung said, “I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become.” He understood his calling, the special role that was unique to his existence. He consciously pursued it, and he spent his life on a path of powerful healing. James Hillman was one of Jung’s apprentices. Hillman did not believe that newborns came into this world as blank slates. He saw infants as unique acorns, ready to spend their lives growing into unique oaks. Every oak tree had a different form. No two were identical. The form of the tree was influenced by the information stored ... more »

Let'em Eat Grubs

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Think we don't have a global population problem? Think we're not exhausting our environment? Well has the U.N. got a grub for you. A new report from the U.N. Food & Agriculture Organization says if the world wants to achieve food security, a lot of people are going to have to start eating bugs. The report, *Edible Insects - Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security*, shows an assortment of supposedly delectable little critters. The report claims that bugs already form an integral part of the diets of 2-billion people. It holds, logically enough, that insects may provide the... more »

Why being called a bitch may not be such a bad thing for women

Sandra Guzman at Sandra Guzman - 1 day ago
A friend recently called me a bitch while saying warm heartedly that,"it's the thing that she loves most about me." In camaraderie she said that she too was a bitch. I was not comforted, at least not right away. To be called a bitch to my face, by a dear friend, I must admit that for a second, shocked me. Me? No way? I am strong, I am honest, I am assertive, I am confident, I am sweet, I am kind, but a bitch, I am not! Or am I? And why take offense to the word since I am in great company--Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Susan Rice, Dolores Huerta are purportedly "bitches" or "bit... more »

The Final Meltdown

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
We're leaving together/But still it's farewell/And maybe we'll come back/To earth, who can tell? With UKIP doing well in the polls and benefiting from the most benign coverage a party has attracted since Blair's halcyon days, Tory MPs working furiously to no-confidence the Queen's Speech, AND senior cabinet members and grandees alike throwing grist in t'mill, the enigmatic lyrics to Europe's 1986 poodle mega smash fit the 2013 Tory party's trajectory quite nicely. But whereas everyone's favourite rock anthem had a touch of mystery, there is no such air about the fate awaiting the ... more »

The Man Who Fell Back to Earth

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: image]Everyone’s favourite astronaut Chris Hadfield, who’s been tweeting from the International Space Station everything from pictures of earth’s cities to showing how tears work in zero gravity, bows out at the station with a small rewrite of the obvious cover song, and some non-special effects the original music video maker could only dream about: Despite the good Commander’s voice being better suited for space work than singing, David Bowie tweeted his endorsement. [image: image] The first music video shot in space now has over 1.8 million views! Content is copyright P... more »

Benghazi is the new circle derp

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Obama is right. The Benghazi frenzy is a sideshow. Actually I would call it a freak show stuffed into a clown car, but not going to quibble about it. Certainly, it's painfully obvious why the GOPers are pushing it. With polling already being done showing she would blow anybody on both sides of the fence out of the race in 2016, they fear the Hillary. [graphic via] What may not be apparent, at least to those who don't watch the media players closely, is why our "both sides do it" journos suddenly got so interested in pushing such an obviously fake controversy and in fact, taking ... more »

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OPPT-IN Facebook Page & Radio Show Migration

Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Oppt-In went viral, and has become a universal conversation thanks to YOU On January 22, 2013 (US) | January 23, 2013 (AU), as The Collective Imagination radio show rounded the 77 minute mark of its 2 hour broadcast, I announced our desire to launch a campaign called Oppt-In with the slogan "I am Free. Oppt-In.". The idea was to get a conversation started, get the word out that we are all free - in every sense of the word. IT WORKED! That day, I suggested we start by posting an image of ourselves with the words, "I am Free. Oppt-In," and I kick... more »

You Call That a Cover-Up?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Obviously, things don't have to be as bad as Watergate to be important malfeasance, but given all the loose talk about "cover-up" and "worse than Watergate" in the context of Benghazi, I figured it was worth just pointing out quickly the general outlines of the Watergate cover-up. * The cover-up was essentially directed by the president, overseen by the White House Chief of Staff, and at the operational level run by the White House Counsel. * A false story was concocted. * Both at the White House and at the campaign committee, everyone involved destroyed evidence. * Low-level p... more »
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