Wednesday, June 12, 2013

12 June - Blogs I`m Following

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Iron curtain Germany (near Witzenhausen-Heilig...Iron curtain Germany (near Witzenhausen-Heiligenstadt) Français : Le Rideau de fer dans la campagne allemande, près de Witzenhausen. Nederlands: IJzeren gordijn Duitsland (nabij Witzenhausen-Heiligenstadt) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Mohawk Nation News 'Bilderbergers'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 minutes ago
Bilderbergers Posted on June 11, 2013 MNN. JUNE 11, 2013. The Bilderberg Group that secretly met in Watford UK is a private international policy summit of the wealthiest people in the world. Bilderberg Association is a registered UK charity that takes “donations” from BP, Goldman Sachs and other multinational corporations. They plan to control the world, i.e. (the price

Mohawk Nation News 'Might is not right!'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 minutes ago
MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT! Posted on June 10, 2013 MNN. May 31, 2013. We don’t want genocide for anyone or ecocide for our environment. The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak from the strong. “Might makes right” by a few self appointed rulers must end. We can only beat them with our mind. To be free all people must be both guides and servants of the law.  Rule of

Better than Bouef Bourguignon

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 18 minutes ago
[image: Bouef Bourguignon without Wine] Bouef Bourguignon is a favorite in our household. I have modified the original recipe from Julia Child to fit our tastes and the fact that we never have wine lying around the house. I have switch my recipe to use juice instead and it is delicious. My favorite part of this whole recipe is the mushrooms. Even my dad, who hates mushrooms loves these. Just proof that butter fixes anything. *You need:* 1.5 -2 pounds of stew meat a package of bacon a carrot a piece of celery 1/8 cup of green onion Pasta Mushrooms Better than Bou... more »

Israeli female soldiers just want to have fun, semi-naked fun... Slightly NSFW

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 24 minutes ago
There's been a lot of fuss in the media about some young female Israeli army conscripts playing around and showing off a little more flesh than you might expect from soldiers. Personally I'm not that disgusted... It seems that young female Israeli soldiers have a history of this sort of stuff...

Wherein Lee Valley Tries to Help You Get Your Freak On

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 31 minutes ago
This was just too good not to share. Head shaving or tattoos not included.

How We Once Distinguished Democracy from Totalitarianism

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
One of the great themes of the Cold War was individual freedom from state prying and oppression. Unlike the Communist world, democracy ensured we were free to go about our affairs, to speak our minds, openly and freely. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, however, there was no such freedom. The state monitored its citizens, spied on them, forced people to speak to each other covertly in hushed tones if at all. We were free *from* our government, they were not. That critical distinction of the past is fading fast now. Even in Canada our government now harvests what is call... more »

Passing of a legend

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago
JUDGE MAURICE ALEXANDER CHARLES August 6, 1920 - June 8, 2013 The family of Judge Maurice Alexander Charles wishes to notify his friends and members of the legal fraternity of his passing at the Toronto East General Hospital on Saturday, June 8, 2013. Visitation will be held at the Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough (east of Kennedy Rd.), on Wednesday from 5 - 9 p.m. and on Thursday from 9 - 10 a.m. followed by a funeral service in the Ogden Chapel Thursday at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SickKids Foundation or Ronald MCDonald House.

Play Misty Watercolored Memories For Me

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour ago
No wonder half the American people are just fine with their government stalking them. The same number now hold a favorable view of George W. Bush. If you look at the data (not mined, but gathered politely over the telephone with the consent of the questioned), you'll notice that almost a quarter of the Democrats polled now like Bush. His approval ratings have been creeping up at about the same pace at which Obama has been revealing himself to be more like Bush than not. It could just be a melding of personas. Then again, as Gallup notes, Americans have always treated ex-presidents ... more »

It's Wednesday...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*what's going on.* For me it's unrelenting outside work every. single. day. Close to being caught up (except for weeding, which never, ever goes away.) There's so much going on in the news it's impossible to latch on to any one thing. So I don't try. I've come to the conclusion that I can't do one darn thing about any of this crap anyway. How about this "hump day" ad? I agree with *Mr. Always On Watch *that's is just too cute for words. Okay, he didn't use the word "cute." After all, he's a real manly-man type. He does think the voice is perfect. So do I. Here's som... more »

Congress Gags Itself

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour ago
I like this Kevin Drum item on NSA and oversight, but it repeats something which I think shouldn't be accepted so easily by everyone: The traditional method of oversight is via congressional committees and the court system. But even if you assume that intelligence organizations are reporting their activities honestly, those don't really work anymore. Once a program is in place, courts end up rubber stamping virtually every application and congressional committees do pretty much the same. They simply become too accustomed to what's going on to truly pay attention. And in the case of ... more »

Poverty, isolation, hopelessness and Gladue

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago
R. v. Attutuvaa, 2013 NUCJ 10 shows that poverty has a significant Gladue implication: [27] The Supreme Court of Canada requires the sentencing judge to take judicial notice of systemic factors that have impacted, and are now impacting, the aboriginal communities of Canada. This Court has done so. The Nunavut Court of Justice travels to all the communities of Nunavut. The Court is acutely aware of prevailing social and economic conditions in Nunavut. [28] Citizens growing up in Nunavut's communities are all affected, some more, some less, by conditions of extreme isolation. Employme... more »

Hassan Hassan: Rebels carry out sectarian cleansing in eastern Syria

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
Ethnic cleansing in Syria, where are the 'human rights' activists or are they only bothered if they can blame Israel? News here http://www.hhassan.com/2013/06/rebels-carry-out-setarian-cleansing-in.html?spref=tw&m=1

Wednesday Addams Linkage

PM at Duck of Minerva - 2 hours ago
Phil Schrodt’s very smart thoughts about the NSA and surveillance. [A Second Mouse] Anton Strezhnev analyzes the prospects for Snowden’s extradition. Strezhnev’s take is very smart, but I wonder if he overestimates the degree to which this will be a normal case in which Beijing would not choose to intervene. After all, Snowden fled to Continue reading

Maureen and Lawrence are smelling a scandal!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013* *Best of all, it's in Hillaryland:* Maureen Dowd has started smelling a scandal. Best of all, it’s in Hillaryland! What happens when this aroma wafts? Dowd starts sifting pure crap. This morning, she devotes all her skills and powers to a literary exegesis of Hillary Clinton’s recent tweets. Dowd sees “focus-grouping” and “calculation” everywhere in these tweets. She’s reminded of Clinton’s “homogenized memoir,” which has been out for ten years. That’s what Maureen Dowd sees in these tweets. In Dowd, *we* see the reigning queen of the world’s dumbest eli... more »

The Great Undoer

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Canada's next great leader will not be a doer. Our next great leader, if we are lucky enough to have one, will be an undoer - a leader who will systematically cut out the rot that has beset this country slowly for decades and then very quickly, very powerfully over the last decade. Canada doesn't need reforming. Canada needs restoring, rehab if you like. We need to rehabilitate Canadian democracy. Stephen Harper has shown us how easily one man can undermine our democratic freedom. He has shown how even a country with solid democratic traditions can be subverted to the will... more »

JULY 4 PARADE IN BATH - DRONES & SURVEILLANCE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
Obama has indeed announced that 30,000 drones will be flying over the US in the coming years to watch all of us. Reassuring isn't it? Here in Maine the Bring Our War $$ Home campaign and PeaceWorks are going to do a joint effort for the July 4 parade in Bath this year. This parade draws a huge crowd and gives us a great chance to spread our message about protecting our rights to privacy. Since the drone and the surveillance issues are so important right now we are going to combine them as our theme for July 4. We urge you to consider joining us on July 4 to help carry puppets, sig... more »

BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Smith's 'Nuclear Roulette' Makes the Case for 'No Nukes'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours ago
Gar Smith makes the case: 'No Nukes' is still the right call The collection of facts, figures, and overall documentation of the industry’s lies, foibles, miscalculations, and just plain duplicity should insure the addition of more to the ranks of the anti-nuclear forces. By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / June 12, 2013 [Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on

My Reading of the Greek Public Service Media Close-down

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 2 hours ago
With the atrocities in Syria and the desperate political violence madness currently wielded by the Turkish government against orderly civil protests as cover, the Greek government yesterday decided to close down its entire public service media institution (TV and radio) - effective immediately(see also here, here, here, here) – supposedly as a part of its program to restore the country's political economy and public finances. This astonishing action for a European democracy in peace time quickly takes Greece into the same shameful "almost on the brink of leaving the EU by democratic ... more »

Canadian News Reporter Saša Petricic Arrested In Turkey ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
[image: Progressive Bloggers] *No details are yet available other than Mr. Petricic's tweet above that turned up about an hour ago .... stay tuned for more info when available ... * *"CBC confirmed that Petricic was arrested “and may be one of many journalists who were.”* ** *The broadcaster said it is investigating" * *-The Toronto Star has now picked up this story ... *

WI GOP Endorse State-Santioned Rape

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
This issue was brought to my attention this morning - by this tweet: Source: @progess2day Republicans cut off debate amid Democrats' protests By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel Madison — Amid tumult on the state Senate floor, Republicans cut off debate and approved a bill Wednesday requiring women seeking abortions to get ultrasounds. Democrats protested the bill's merits and the process by which it was passed. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) cut off debate after half an hour Wednesday and Democrats howled in protest. The bill had been debate... more »

Western Backed Death Squads Publicly Execute Boy in Syria

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
15-year-old Mohammad al-Qatta image credit: Syrian Observatory on Human Rights Brandon Turbeville In yet one more in a long list of savage acts, Syrian “rebels” (more accurately labeled “death squads”) have publicly executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents and his siblings for allegedly “blaspheming” the prophet Mohammed. Coffee vender Mohammed al-Qatta was captured and killed for stating that he would not extend credit to an unspecified individual “Even if Muhammad comes down,” a common phrase used by many Syrians. This statement was construed as blasphemy by the death ... more »

Is it More Treasonous to Violate the Constitution or to Expose Those Violations?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Freda Art Eric Blair In a free society the government is supposed to be open and transparent while the citizens enjoy privacy. What, then, do you call a society where the government is ultra secretive and all citizens are spied on by the state? Establishment pundits are frantically attempting to make the NSA spy scandal story about whether the whistleblower is a hero or a traitor instead of debating the real issue -- whether broad government spying on U.S. citizens violates their Constitutional rights. This divide-and-distract strategy has long been used to protect the real crim... more »

Whistleblowing: Exemplary Patriotism

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Stephen Lendman Dees Illustration Whistleblowing reflects doing the right thing. It exposes wrongdoing. It does so because it matters. Edward Joseph Snowden follows a noble tradition. Others before him established it. Daniel Ellsberg called his NSA leak the most important in US history. More on him below. Expressions of patriotism can reflect good or ill. Samuel Johnson said it’s the last refuge of a scoundrel. Thomas Paine called dissent its highest form. So did Howard Zinn. According to Machiavelli: When the safety of one's country wholly depends on the decision to be taken,... more »

Attorney Refutes Dr. Offit's Vaccine Exemption Criticism by Alan Phillips, J.D.

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours ago
Attorney Refutes Dr. Offit's Vaccine Exemption Criticism by Alan Phillips, J.D. Green Med Info, 10 June 2013 *Pediatrician and pro-vaccine advocate Dr. Paul Offit, who once said a child can safely receive 10,000 vaccines at once, has spoken out repeatedly against vaccine religious exemptions, implying that his opinion is more important than the fundamental moral tenets of a variety of world religions. * Pediatrician and pro-vaccine advocate Dr. Paul Offit has spoken out repeatedly against vaccine religious exemptions. For example, in one speech ( http://www.vaccinationcouncil... more »

I never met a data I didn't like...

Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 2 hours ago
One of the "excuses" for the NSA phone-record tracking is that "it's not data, it's only metadata." But this claim is completely wrong. Metadata is data about data. "Americans make an average of 7.8 phone calls per day" is metadata. "Someone in Palo Alto, CA using John Smith's phone called someone in New York City holding Al Kaida's phone at 7:18 this morning and talked for 16 minutes" is a piece of information, otherwise known as *data*, *not*"metadata." The actual words the two spoke are *additional* data, and presumably generally more informative data, but the fact that they spoke... more »

With troops and techies US prepares for cyberwarfare

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours ago
Feeling a bit burnt out today....so just a news article Quite relevant. The command, based at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 25 miles north of Washington, is rushing to add between 3,000 and 4,000 new cyber warriors under its wing by late 2015, *more than quadrupling its size.* Most of Cyber Command's new troops will focus on defense, detecting and stopping computer penetrations of military and other critical networks by America's adversaries like China, Iran or North Korea. *But there is an increasing focus on offense as military commanders beef up plans to execute cyber strikes *or s... more »

Solidarity and My Name: Some Thoughts

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 2 hours ago
I have written about this before at this blog: John Proctor, in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, nearly bends to signing a false confession, but then has a moment of clarity and proclaims: “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am […]

CDC to ‘Study’ Gun Violence, Ignore Link to Antidepressants

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Melissa Melton Guns weren’t the only weapons involved in many of our nation’s mass shootings over the last two decades. After the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary last December, President Obama signed 23 executive orders relating to guns and gun violence in this country. Of those 23, seven were specifically related to mental health issues. One of the orders directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify and research the most pressing topics related to the causes of gun violence. The CDC asked an Institute of Medicine committee to set the agenda ... more »

The Soul-Rape of Bradley Manning

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Wendy McElroy US Army Private Bradley Manning is being persecuted for exposing war crimes committed by the Bush and Obama administrations. Like any criminal, the US government wants its wrongful acts to remain secret; it wishes to make the truth illegal. On June 3rd, the trial of Manning began. He previously pled guilty to 10 offenses that could collectively bring 20 years in custody, but the military prosecutors were not satisfied. They pursued the capital offense of “aiding the enemy” which can be punished by execution or life imprisonment. This is Obama's warning to anyone els... more »

86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Rainey Reitman *EFF* Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union – are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations about unchecked domestic surveillance. In an open letter to lawmakers sent today, the groups call for a congressional investigatory committee, similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s. The letter also demands legal reforms to rein in domestic spying and demands that public of... more »

12 fotos muy lindas para fondos y wallpapers de tu pc

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 2 hours ago
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Will Quebec Fire a Rocket Up Harper's Fundamentalist Ass?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
All eyes should be on Quebec's National Assembly where the government is expected to table its bill on medically-assisted death. The debate, said to be fierce, shows how emotionally-charged and religiously-loaded the subject is. To some it's murder by physician. To the other side it's death with dignity or terminal sedation. It's a subject that almost convulses with emotion, especially fear. There are many quite willing to deny others who stand on the cusp of death, as we must all do, the opportunity to escape the "Great Agony." And those who work so hard to deny the dying ... more »

The Establishment Strikes Back

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
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What Is The Government’s Spying Agenda?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Paul Craig Roberts It has been public information for a decade that the US government secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally spies on its citizens. Congress and the federal courts have done nothing about this extreme violation of the US Constitution and statutory law, and the insouciant US public seems unperturbed. In 2004 a whistleblower informed the New York Times that the National Security Agency (NSA) was violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by ignoring the FISA court and spying on Americans without obtaining the necessary warrants. The corrupt New ... more »

Ron Paul: Who's Going to Punish Those Who Violate the Constitution?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
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NJ Bill Would Force Drivers To Give Cell Phones to Police

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of NSA Phone Spying Program

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
*Activist Post* The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a constitutional challenge to a surveillance program under which the National Security Agency vacuums up information about every phone call placed within, from, or to the United States. The lawsuit argues that the program violates the First Amendment rights of free speech and association as well as the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment. The complaint also charges that the dragnet program exceeds the authority that Congress provided through the Patriot Act. "This ... more »

China: Man Arrested for Hoaxing ET Capture Story

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 3 hours ago
*Source:El Norte de Castilla http://ocio.elnortedecastilla.es/famosos/un-hombre-de-la-provincia-china-de-shangdong-ha-asegurado-que-tiene-un-alien-en-11062013.html Date: 06.12.2013* China: Man Arrested for Hoaxing ET Capture Story A man was arrested in China after hoaxing an account involving the capture of an alleged ET. Li Kai was arrested by the police after having made up the alleged capture of an extraterrestrial near the Yellow River in Binzhou, Shandong Province. Li Kai published photos of the fake creature inside a freezer. The man said he saw five extraterrestrials descend ... more »

Dust Bowl Conditions Are Literally Returning To The Western Half Of The United States

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Michael Snyder What would you do if a 15-hour dust storm with winds up to 60 miles an hour hit your home, and afterwards there were three-foot drifts of dirt covering everything that you owned? As crazy as that sounds, that is exactly what is now happening in some areas of the western United States. Three years of severe drought has turned the soil of much of the western United States into a fine powder that the wind can easily pick up. As a result, we are seeing “apocalyptic” dust storms unlike anything the region has seen since the days of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Farmers... more »

Why The Surveillance State Must Be Erased

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Brandon Smith In America today there is a great rushing storm, a swirling hurricane of clashing opinions and ideologies that defy coherent organization and classification. This social tempest has been triggered by certain revelations among the general public on issues which we in the Liberty Movement have long been aware. The fact that our government is bought and paid for by international corporate interests, the fact that our government has positioned itself to spy on ALL Americans without warrant and without probable cause, the fact that our government is instituting policy in... more »

ALEC's Healthcare Plan - Charitycare

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
I guess when you are looking for alternatives to Obamacare - it takes a right-wing extremist organization like ALEC to come up with - what they think is a viable alternative. Their alternative - Charitycare. Today – today, not 1932 - on the ALEC blog site there is an entry that pushes a piece of ALEC copy/paste legislation known as the “Out of State Charity Act”. What this act does is let licensed medical personnel from other states (some with requirements less than your state currently has) to come into your state and offer charity health care. The salient question would ari... more »

IRS buying tiny surveillance equipment hidden in plants, coffee trays, clock radios

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Jeremy Brooks/Flickr Madison Ruppert Apparently the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has branched out from just reading e-mails and other electronic communications without a warrant into the realm of physical surveillance. A purchase request for cameras and recording equipment small enough to be concealed in everyday household items was submitted by the IRS recently, showing that it isn’t content with the many scandals already plaguing the agency. Interestingly, the IRS apparently needs the equipment quite urgently. The solicitation was posted on June 6 and is looking to have it fu... more »

Top 3 Current Global Targets For Anglo-American Destabilization

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Brandon Turbeville In keeping with the obvious Anglo-American assault on Syria, destabilization efforts disguised as popular movements against national governments are once again popping up in all corners of the world. Although the thinly disguised destabilization campaign known as the Arab Spring was largely confined to the Middle East, the latest push by Western-backed intelligence agencies, governments, militaries, and NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) is now taking on global form. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Malaysia all seem to be caught in the crosshairs of the Anglo-Ameri... more »

Who protects you from TSA Abusers?

Thinking....... at Isn't That Interesting - 3 hours ago
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States The TSA was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, sponsored by Don Young in the United States House of Representative and Ernest Hollings in the Senate, passed by the 107th U.S. Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19, 2001. Originally part of the United States Department of Transportation, the TSA was moved to the Department of Home... more »

Duncan Embraces of “Personalized Learning” and Company Curricula

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
As corporate education has made the 10-hour work day the gold standard for the segregated K-8 test camps that behaviorally neuter poor children, a different kind of high school is being promoted that will loose the “career ready” as soon as they can pass the tests required to set them upon a career at WalMart. […]

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Jason Mewes, 39. I'm still pretty far behind on everything after travel (and especially after a travel day), but here's some good stuff: 1. Matthew Cooper and Garance Franke-Ruta have some of my favorite advice during a fast-breaking story: slow down a bit; what we know about the NSA story and about Edward Snowden may still change dramatically, so no need to conclude anything yet. 2. How California's top-two primary is evolving, from Seth Masket. 3. And I haven't read it yet, but I've heard that Rich Yeselson on Taft-Hartley and the past and future of unions is th... more »

Still waiting...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
Remember this email? Trust Editorial 29 May to me Dear Audience Member I am sorry for the delay in sending you the Trustees’ decision. I’m afraid the minutes are still being ratified for April’s meeting, but we will be in touch as soon as they have been. Best wishes, Leanne Buckle Well another two weeks on and I'm still waiting. Are the BBC deliberately delaying or are they really this incompetent at ratifying minutes of a meeting?

If any doubt remains…

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
The compromise argument that Common Core is revolutionary, but a high-stakes testing moratorium is needed appears to be gaining traction. But this is simply a concession to the very real fact that Common Core is destined to benefit only the standards and testing market being created by this Brave New World of Common Core. If […]

March Against Monsanto organizer to face charges for using amplified sound at a park

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
Kristin "Krissy" Jones arrested at the Ann Arbor, Michigan March Against Monsanto - May 25, 2013 Madison Ruppert In an apparent case of an organizer of a major protest being targeted by police, Kristen “Krissi” Jones, an organizer of the Ann Arbor, Michigan March Against Monsanto, was arrested for using amplified sound in a public park on May 25, 2013. Jones maintains that she did no such thing and says that fifteen other people used a bullhorn in Hanover Park that day but were neither harassed nor arrested. The individuals organizing this particular March Against Monsanto protest... more »

TWO KINDS OF FACTS: Amazing errors concerning the schools!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013* *Part 3—A nation whose highest-ranking professors and newspapers can’t get basic facts right:* On the most basic level, adopting some sort of national educational “standards” makes a lot of sense. Math in Nebraska is amazingly similar to math in Maine. In a highly mobile nation, it has never really made much sense to have the fifty different states inventing fifty different math curriculums—along with fifty sets of year-end tests, which can’t be compared with each other. This practice has never exactly made sense. Then again, it has never exactly made sen... more »

Untitled

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
In March, on his first visit to the Jewish state as president, Barack Obama exhorted Israelis to reach out to their Arab neighbors and see that "sometimes the greatest miracle is recognizing that the world can change." But consider Egypt, where in 2011 a popular revolt swept away Hosni Mubarak's pharaonic dictatorship only to replace it with a Muslim Brotherhood-led theocracy. Through it all, one element of Egyptian culture has remained constant: its virulent anti-Semitism. "Khaybar," a serial drama set to air during the holy month of Ramadan (starting on July 8), is Egyptian TV's... more »

Did someone help Ed Snowden punch a hole in the NSA?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
image source Jon Rappoport Ed Snowden, NSA leaker. Honest man. Doing what was right. Bravo. That still doesn’t preclude the possibility that, unknown to him, he was managed by people to put him the right place to expose NSA secrets. Snowden’s exposure of NSA was a righteous act, because that agency is a RICO criminal. But that doesn’t mean we have the whole story. How many people work in classified jobs for the NSA? And here is one man, Snowden, who is working for Booz Allen, an outside contractor, but is assigned to NSA, and he can get access to, and copy, documents that expose ... more »

Violence Against Women Is No Big Deal

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
That's why it's so prevalent. That's why ordinary average joes, "good guys" do it so easily. Our society (patriarchal) devalues women. I have my issues with the whole "rape is not about sex, it's about power" thesis, but I do know that rape isn't "surprise sex." Rape is meant to take something from someone without their consent. And to steal from people is to disrespect them. To violate them through rape is to show contempt for them. And to take pictures about it and joke about it is to treat the victim as less than human. And this is done to women with such frequency because men de... more »

Conservative Men Further Ramp Up Their War Against Women

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
In the video above, from Tuesday evening, Rachel discusses Republican Party self-interest. She's a smart gal but she can't get her head around how exactly it is self-interest-- considering so many women vote nowadays-- for the Republican Party, as a party, to go so conspicuously out of its way to alienate and further alienate women as a class of people. If you ever had any doubt that the Republicans are waging a war against women-- dictated by their crazy conservative and misogynistic patriarchal base-- just watch the clip. And it's not just in primitive and backward Southern stat... more »

Treasonous Spying: Shoot the Messenger, Not the Monitor

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
*Is he who watches the watchers a hero or villain? A traitor or whistleblower? And do the watched even take notice?* * *Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton In true form, the regular fixtures of establishment media and Washington circles have come forward to demonize the most recent whistleblower, former National Security Administration (NSA) Contractor Edward Snowden, as well as journalist Glenn Greenwald who published Snowden’s leaks. Together they reveal a program of massive, wholesale surveillance by the NSA of American’s Internet activities on every major platform available. Instead... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
A fairy ring. [source unknown]

LuvStock this year at The Refuge Jul 12-14

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours ago
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Jim Willie calls next great scandal as the expose of leasing and theft of 20,000 tons of allocated gold .....Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 10 , 2013...... Jessie crossroads cafe - Jim Rickards comments on Roubini Gold call of 1000 by 2015....

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-next-scandal-to-break-is-leasing-theft-of-20000-tons-of-allocated-gold/ JIM WILLIE: NEXT SCANDAL TO BREAK IS LEASING & THEFT OF 20,000 TONS OF ALLOCATED GOLD! JUNE 10, 2013 BY THE DOC <span class="post-comments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://silverdoctors.com/wp-content/themes/enterprise/images/icon-comments.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin-bottom: 0px; ma

Sharia law in action, no coverage on BBC news as yet...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
'Police in Kahta, Turkey say they have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say relatives buried alive in a so-called "honor" killing as punishment for talking to boys. Turkish police found the girl's corpse after following up on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the family killed the girl shortly after deciding her fate at a family council meeting. Her body was then buried under a chicken pen. The girl's family then reported her missing to the police. Police say that the girl had complained two months earlier that her grandfather beat her for talking to boys.... more »

Taipei Times Editorial Page on history: say what?

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours ago
*A vendor waits for customers* Lately the strange rightward shift in certain editorials of the Taipei Times has sent any number of people scurrying to their keyboards to ask me WTF is going on with those editorials. This week's piece was hard to classify.... The effort continues and only last week, Taiwan supporters were excitedly clamoring over the release of a declassified CIA document from 1949 which said that from a legal standpoint, Taiwan could not be considered to have been part of the ROC. *All that is fine, but in the end, no amount of legal documents, historical findin... more »

4.7 Trillion a day FX market exposed as just another fraud ! Foreign exchange market has been rigged by Banks for at least a decade ! Dealers colluding with counterparties - customers ripped off .....Financial Conduct Authority " considering " opening a probe ? FX joins Commodities , stocks , bonds as manipulated control fraud markets with authorities once again M.IA / looking the other way / failing to meaningful regulates , let alone police these crooks !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-12/banks-rig-47-trillion-day-currency-markets-profit-clients Banks Rig $4.7 Trillion A Day Currency Markets To Profit Off Clients [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/12/2013 07:45 -0400 - Barclays - Bloomberg News - Bond - Central Banks - Citigroup - default - Deutsche Bank - Japan - LIBOR - Merrill - NYMEX - Reuters *From GoldCore* *Banks Rig $4.7 Trillion A Day Currency Markets To Profit Off Clients* The world’s biggest banks have been manipulating benchmark fore... more »

NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden leaves his Hong Kong Hotel - next destination China , Iceland , Ecuador ? Can he reach sanctuary or will he get " disappeared " ?

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://news.yahoo.com/journalist-us-surveillance-case-more-come-050921834.html ( Glenn Greenwald states many more revelations ( dozens of stories ) yet to be unveiled regarding surveillance by NSA et al ) HONG KONG (AP) — The journalist who exposed classified U.S. surveillance programs leaked by an American defense contractor said Tuesday that there will be more 'significant revelations' to come from the documents. "We are going to have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months," said Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Gree... more »

Noem (SD-ALEC) Says No to Senate Run

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
I’m pretty sure Noem looked at the writing on the wall and knew that there wasn’t a chance in hell that an ALEC-er could get elected in South Dakota right now. ALEC is not doing well in South Dakota right now - yoo-hoo. *GOP Rep. Kristi Noem Will Not Run For SD Senate Seat* Perry Stein 6:53 PM EDT, Tuesday June 11, 2013 Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) announced Tuesday that she would not be seeking the GOP nomination for the Senate "I am grateful to everyone who has encouraged me and pledged support for a potential campaign for the U.S. Senate," Noem said in a statement. "Right now [my... more »

A Progressive Conservative Revival?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours ago
Michael Harris writes that Stephen Harper can't save the Conservative Party. Neither can anyone in his cabinet: The essential reason that no Harper cabinet minister can ride to the party’s rescue is that they are all part of the problem. They all bought in to the model Harper built for winning and holding power. But the model was flawed, the principles it espoused were inimical to civil public life, and now people are throwing off this Steve-Power that he tried to pass off as conservatism and democracy. If Canadians no longer want the organ grinder, why would they want the monkey... more »

War on the Workers

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
I hear this song on Democracy Now every once in awhile and thought I should share - in case others had not heard it* *- 3 1/2 minutes* * *Ann Feeney - War on the Workers *

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago
*RSD moving many students to F schools ~Jessica Williams, The Lens/Advocate* *Sources: Grand jury to probe La. company for alleged human trafficking* *City says nearly $2 billion in retail dollars lost to neighboring parishes* *'The Lens' Takes a Closer Look at NOLA 4 Life Fund Recipients ~Eve Troeh, WWNO* *Krewe of Freret considering dropping beads from throws* *U.S. Sees Greater Gulf Of Mexico Oil and Gas Losses In 2013 Storm Season ~ Reuters* *Exquisite Corps reopens Mississippi River locks after flooding* *Levees, Removable Walls Proposed to Protect NYC*~New York's Sea-Level Plan... more »

Justice of the Peace Bench

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
The Justice of the Peace Bench has become thoroughly professional and is a highly trained and skilled body of adjudicators. The ancient office of justice of the peace is one of great honour and responsibility. In 1195, Richard I ("the Lionheart") of England commissioned certain knights to preserve the peace in unruly areas. They were responsible to Richard for ensuring that the law was upheld, and preserved the "King's Peace," and were the first Justices of the Peace. Over time the policing role diminished and justices were chosen as being persons of standing and wisdom in the comm... more »

Ice dancing

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

Greece Shuts Down State TV and Radio Stations - 2,500 Loose Their Jobs

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
People gather in front of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) headquarters in Athens, to protest the Greek government's decision of closing ERT, June 11, 2013. Greece's government announced on Tuesday the immediate shutdown of the national television and radio broadcaster ERT as of Tuesday midnight local time and its reopening with a pared-down staff in the future. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos) Greece shuts down state TV and radio, strong reactions Sina English News, 12 June 2012 Greece's government announced on Tuesday the immediate shutdown of the national television and radio b... more »

The Hobbit - The desolation of Smaug - Trailer

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
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Record high contrast in how the BBC and the Telegraph report today's employment news!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
The front page of the online *Daily Telegraph *is emblazoned with the good news: *UK employment at record high as more pensioners stay in work* More good news for UK economy as figures show the number of Britons claiming jobless benefits fell by 8,600 to the lowest level in two years in May, its seventh consecutive drop. Click into the article and you'll find that the good news keeps on coming, with good statistic after good statistic being reported. As well as UK employment reaching a record high between February and April (the highest since records began over 40 years ago), une... more »

Musical Interlude: The Mamas & The Papas, "Twelve Thirty"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
The Mamas & The Papas, "Twelve Thirty" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuNgo8vIato I just always liked this little tune... lol CP

Bias by Labelling?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
Sue's point about the BBC's willingness to use the 'far-right' label is borne out by a simple search of the BBC website. A search using the term 'far-right' brings up 2,651 news results, whereas an equivalent search using the term 'far-left' brings up a mere 211 results (over twelve times more often). As with any other media organisation, it is the BBC's own choice - shall we say 'whim'? - to describe various organisations and parties in certain ways. For example, it's long been their preference to label the kinds of protesters campaigning against the G8 summit as 'anti-capital... more »

JIMMY SAVILE, CHILD MURDERERS, TOP PEOPLE

Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago
*Child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who had friends in high places. * The child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley had powerful friends. Ian Brady was befriended by Sir Jimmy Savile. Myra Hindley was befriended by Lord David Astor, a former editor of the Observer, and by Lord Longford, a former cabinet minister who took a great interest in pornography. Astor and Longford plotted to get Hindley released from prison. Myra Hindley's relationship with Lord Longford Some people believe that Hindley has secretly been released from prison, although the official story is that s... more »

Here's a speech about Barack Obama that I promise you will never find its way onto the BBC

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
That this speech by Congressman Jim Bridenstine's on the House floor about Barack Obama's record will never find its way onto the BBC isn't the key point, after all very few such speeches do. The key point is that most people in the UK watching this speech will have no idea what the events being referred to signify. The BBC's censorship of criticism and negative reporting of Barack Obama is so complete that the rest of us who do talk about such matters might as well be speaking another language.

Gaia Portal: Crossings of Dimensions Occur in Each Moment…

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago
* * * * *I find this interesting timing since we opened the Eternal Essence portal in the Sahara this past weekend and collapsed the old "souls for gold" energy that got anchored there so many hundreds of years ago during the slave trade in North Africa. * * * *We also did a group healing on Bob Wright who couldn't walk after the Illuminati attacked him in 2008. The next day Bob walked 20 meters (video will be forthcoming when I arrive home in the USA). He continues to improve and his nerves are now reattached to his muscles. He's got some weeks ahead of strengthening his muscle... more »

Ed Balls’s office passed fine dining bills to taxpayers - Telegraph

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
'Ed Balls' ministerial office spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on fine-dining at smart hotels and restaurants, £150-worth of takeaways from Domino's pizza and shopping at department store chain John Lewis. Spending on Mr Balls' office credit card has been released covering the period when he was Schools secretary from 28 June 2007 to 11 May 2010. ... However Mr Balls's staff also charged a £1,480 jaunt to New York, comprising more than £600 at the sumptuous Benjamin Hotel in Manhattan. ... The New York trip, for three nights in April 2009, also included a bill for m... more »

The Character of Edward Snowden

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours ago
We have a young man who has led a blameless life. Few can say as much and the attack dogs will not be able to discredit him this way. In the meantime he has placed himself outside frivolous law enforcement. This was also necessary. Now the press and the American people can confront this new reality. What is completely shocking is just how easily they chose to create this capability. The USA is not supposed to be at war with its citizens. How are the American people going to fix this? Too many people are dabbling in real power to abuse humanity and observing this is very... more »

GMOs Science Deficit

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours ago
This is a well researched article that spells out the present deficiencies in the present applications of the GMO protocol. Until recently, I had little reason to not give the industry a pass. Yet we are seeing ample evidence of the mad scientists from hell hard at work cooking results to order. This is bad enough to send the whole industry right back to square one and to completely rethink now they do research. If I did some of this nonsense around a gold mine, I would be off to jail. And yes, minimize all GMO consumption. An item here and there will not be a problem ... more »

End of Theft

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours ago
The unintended consequence of increasing data density and connectivity is that we become illuminated by void in the data and become easily found. Yet so what? This has been always true and omits the fact that no one usually needs to be found at all. There is certainly no need to be alone in this modern holographic world. Quite rightly though, personal injury is on the way to becoming something that can no longer be hidden. We will still have to increasingly focus on removing natural drivers of such behavior but I am seeing progress there also. We have already seen th... more »

Scandinavian Bronze Age Atlantean Interaction

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours ago
I have already outlined the extensive global trade that clearly existed between 2500 BC through 1159 BC. I use those two dates in particular because they can be pinned down extremely well. The actual trade culture itself collapsed in the Atlantic around 1159 BC. However remnants also continued to operate afterward in a piecemeal fashion. The knowledge was never totally lost but it got cut up into smaller sub routes. The Atlantic remnant was effectively killed of by the advent of Roman hegemony. Thus it is unsurprising that the Scandinavians operated into the Ohio Valley... more »

Keiser Report: PRISM, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, etc. Copyright Prostitutes!

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 10 hours ago
In my forthcoming novel CUSTODIAN (free planet #1) I make it clear that PROFIT and abuse of Copyright/Patent is the REAL CRIME on this beleaguered consumerist planet... *In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert ask, "What is Boundless Informant, PRISM, Trans-Pacific Partnership, SOPA, PIPA and ACTA if not copyright prostitutes colluding and beating up the competition? Max also informs President Barack Obama that a food stamp is NOT a job. In the second half, Max talks to artist, Mark McGowan (aka The Artist Taxi Driver), about his pushing the pig to Downing... more »

One more small step for Mankind

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 10 hours ago
From The Associated Press A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from where they will give science lessons to youngsters. A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 10 astronaut capsule lifted off as scheduled at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT) Tuesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert. The spacecraft will transport the crew to the Tiangong 1, an experimental prototype for a much larger Chinese space station to be launched in 2020. They'll be docked t... more »

Murry Salby: CO2 is the integral of temperature

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
*...in the past, on short timescales, it has therefore fluctuated rapidly... * Honza [=Jan] U. sent me the following one-hour April 2013 talk by Prof Murry Salby of Australia's Macquarie University: This astrophysicist and atmospheric scientist has a rather impressive publication record. At the beginning, I was a bit discouraged by Pierre Gosselin's summary that suggested that Salby was making some widespread elementary errors about the direct attribution of CO2 emissions according to their isotopic composition (the extra CO2 we see in the atmosphere generally has a very different... more »

Immigration chaos 'won't ever be fixed': UK's new immigration boss can't rule out further backlog of unprocessed cases via Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
'Earlier this year, the Home Affairs Select Committee warned it would take the UKBA 24 years to clear a backlog of asylum and immigration cases the size of the population of Iceland. ... ... it emerged thousands of people had been admitted to Britain without having been checked against a watch list.' This would be hardly surprising and not really worth mentioning except in passing. More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339892/Immigration-chaos-wont-fixed-UKs-new-immigration-boss-rule-backlog-unprocessed-cases.html But then I read this: 'Meanwhile, Labour could in... more »

Candid Camera - 'PM Harper May 2011 Election Night Behind The Scenes' .. YouTube

leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago
** * **Stephen Harper imitating Joe Clark - John Diefenbaker - Brian Mulroney. This appeared on YouTube on the evening of June 11, 2013. No idea who posted it. *

Alan Waldman : Helen Mirren Won Top Awards for TV Movie Series ‘Prime Suspect’

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: Mirren plays Brit cop Jane Tennison, who fights serious sexism while solving big crimes and facing personal challenges By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / June 11, 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,

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
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NEOCON ‘MAD MAX’ BOOT BECOMES CONFUSED AND DELUSIONAL OVER SYRIA

Max Boot, the ultra right-wing neoconservative commentator, seems to have become confused over who is fighting who in Syria these days. He writes in * Commentary* today that it’s not too late for the US and their allies to arm and support the rebels – but only the moderate secular rebels fighting al-Assad. He says: *I still believe it is not too late to tip the balance of power not only between Assad and the rebels but also between rebel factions, empowering the more mainstream groups and draining power from the Al Nusrah Front and its ilk.* The problem is that the ‘al-Nusrah Front’... more »

Morsi Defends Position In Looming Fight Over The Nile

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
Overflow of the Nile. *Source.* Related: *War Over Water? Dispute Between Egypt and Ethiopia Over Nile Grows After Violent Threats Made On Egyptian TV*. *"For Egypt, the Nile is the state; a threat to the river constitutes a threat to national security."* - Ayman Shabaana, "political science professor at Cairo University’s Institute for African Studies." (Source - *"Egypt: Differences ‘Narrowing’ Over Nile Waters"* by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani, IPS, August 21, 2009). An excerpt from, *"Egypt 'war' talk raises Ethiopia Nile dam stakes"* by Tom Perry and Alastair ... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Close The Door

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet. Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World! 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. Before we get started, I'd like to introduce you to t... more »

Fareed Zakaria On Erdoğan In 2011: "His Voice May Be The Voice of The New Middle East"

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
The hosts and analysts on CNN and the "mainstream" media are proven wrong about the Middle East time after time. With every new political development in the Middle East their previous analysis of policies and political personalities is shown to be illusory and grounded in ideology instead of reality. Back in 2011, CNN's Fareed Zakaria said the policies of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, "are boosting his standing as a populist hero," and added, "his voice may be the voice of the new Middle East." Less than two years later, Zakaria's glowing statements about Erdoğan soun... more »

deep inside

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 14 hours ago
what i see a possible future.

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 14 hours ago

Q: Who do you need for an affordable city? A: Developers.

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago
Whale Oil’s irregular correspondent Policy Parrot is worth following on so-called “planning and development issues” in Auckland Council. Just yesterday, he pointed out that the allegedly “permissive” Unitary Auckland Plan is about to become anything but, with the heights and densities “permitted” by planners about to be scaled back, and the Council announcing that most (all?) new developments will be “notified”—meaning every new development will have to cross a lake of fire on a wooden boat to gain “permission?” to proceed. And today, he’s pointing out that everything council is ... more »

The Santa Monica California Shooting: Is This Another Hoax?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours ago
When the first reports came out last week of ANOTHER mass "shooting" in America... This time at Santa Monica College in California... I began to wonder and to have my suspicions... Considering that the criminal Jewish elite were already doing their most evil in previous false flags in America such as the Aurora Colorado "Shooting", the Sandy Hook "Massacre", and the Boston Massachusetts "Bombing", I had hoped that Americans were not being played as suckers again with this Santa Monica California shooting.... But...... I want to present the following 2 important videos that come cour... more »

Comments on Dr. Murry Salby's Critique of the Climate Consensus

Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 14 hours ago
I have commented upon the Dr. Murry Salby presentation recently touted by the critics of the academic climate science consensus, at the claes johnsonsite: *I prefer the summary analysis presented at appinsys.com. And if you look at the temperature record (the first graph at the appinsys link), you will see what everyone should know, that the temperature decreased from 1880 to 1910, increased from 1910 to 1940, decreased again from 1940 to 1975, and increased again from 1975 to about 2000. Now the CO2 record from 1957 onwardshows dC/dt has increased monotonically over that period, i.e.,... more »

It’s Time; Let’s Talk

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 15 hours ago
The rally on June 8 kind of bothered me. I’m not sure why. It made me realize that teachers and locals aren’t getting the full story. That bugs me. Professionals are smart, and they like to have the full facts so that they can make good, thoughtful judgments about things. Things like Race to the […]

Experts: Defeat of Erdoğan Dooms The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago
*How can this man secure a peace deal with the Kurds when he can't even secure peace in the streets?* Middle East experts are saying that the political defeat of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan could endanger the shaky Turkish-Kurdish peace deal that went into effect in early May when *PKK soldiers began exiting the country*and made their way to northern Iraq. It is the belief of some that a sizable amount of the secular and nationalist protesters that are taking part in the anti-Erdoğan protests do not wish to see a permanent peace between the Kurds and the Turkish state. Read the... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
“The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects. Though its wingspan covers over 3 light-years, NGC 6302 is no exception. With an estimated surface temperature of about 250,000 degrees C, the dying central star of this particular planetary nebula has become exceptionally hot, shining brightly in ultraviolet light but hidden from direct view by a dense torus of dust. *Click image for larger size.* This sharp and colorful close-up of the dying star's nebula was recorded in 2009 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3,... more »

Bear on ice, north Baffin

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago

Business Bureaucracy 8: Exchanges at Imperium et Populi (Philippines)

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 15 hours ago
A friend, Rev. Ruel Chavez, posted my article from the lobbyist.biz dated January 23, 2013, Personal and economic freedom, Philippines and rest of the world, in one of his facebook groups, Imperium et Populi (Philippines)(Government and People, Philippines) last Saturday, June 8, 2013. There were several comments and exchanges among members. Some members requested Ruel to bring me into the group so I can reply to their questions and additional comments. I was added (I seldom join discussion groups in facebook as my fb wall and that of my friends’ are already my discussion platforms, ... more »

Fukushima update - June 11 , 2013. The Horror .......

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306110092 Removal of nuke fuel debris at Fukushima plant set for 2020 - Previous ArticleIn age of Abe, local governments still fight for nuclear-free society - June 11, 2013 By JIN NISHIKAWA/ Staff Writer The extraction of melted nuclear fuel rod debris at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could begin in 2020, or 18 months earlier than originally anticipated, the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said June 10. In releasing a draft amendment to the current decommissioning road map, however, the go... more »

Some decent folks live in Texas but...

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 16 hours ago
its reputation as an extreme right-wing, christian fundamentalist, patriarchal, xenophobic, misogynist, homophobic, violent hell-hole is mostly well-deserved. When Louise (of _Thelma and Louise_) wanted to make a run for Mexico, she wanted to avoid Texas. Except for the enlightened city of Austin and environs, that is the correct approach to this reactionary US state. DJ! has many, many blogposts about the Texan political climate and its dominant anti-Choice practices. This judgement was recently pronounced there: On Christmas Eve 2009, Ezekiel Gilbert, 30, shot Lenora Ivie Frag... more »

The Banksters Know Just How To Fix Spain's Economy-- Suspend The Minium Wage... And Give The Banks To The Banksters

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Luis Maria Linde, ECB President Mario Draghi and President of the Spanish Parliament Jesus Posada Spain cooked its own goose last year when it elected a uber-corrupt right-wing government lead by crooked wing-nut Mariano Rajoy. The Bank of Spain's brand new crackpot right-wing Governor, Luis Maria Linde, is urging that government, enmeshed in endless corruption scandals and an Austerity economy cascading out of control, to sell two nationalized banks (Catalunya Banc and NCG Banco), quickly raise the retirement age and scrap the minimum wage. Nothing about executing banksters and con... more »

Isn't it time we all got our priorities on NSA surveillance straight? Thank you, Andy Borowitz!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*The New Yorker's Amy Davison claims that Davy Brooks offers "an odd perspective" on Edward Snowden. Our Davy? "An odd perspective"? Imagine!* *by Ken* I know it's the job of every patriotic American at present to take sides in the matter of the NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Why, over at *The New Yorker* I hear that John Cassidy ("Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero") and Jeffrey Toobin ("Edward Snowden Is No Hero") are stalking each other in the halls with squirtguns. Why, even David Brooks has weighed in, apparently on the theory that the country is in urgent need of the Moronic V... more »

In Greece , not only won't the revolution be televised - the recovery won't be broadcast either ..... ERT to be shutdown by Greek Government

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/12/greek-journalists-close-state-broadcaster-ert Greek journalists defy government order to close state broadcaster ERT, Hellenic Broadcasting Corp, was ordered to shut down as part of public spending cuts, but remained on air via the internet • Click here to see ERT's Ustream broadcast - Share****265 - - - inShare7 - Email - Lisa O'Carroll - guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 June 2013 05.54 EDT - Jump to comments (79) [image: ERT] ERT journalists at the state broadcaster’s headquarters continue to work, despite a gover... more »

ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Classical Versus ‘Austrian’ Schools of Economic Thought

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago
*Here’s the note from our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group about this week’s discussion:* We'll be talking in later weeks about the differences and the debate between Hayek and Keynes. This week, we'll be looking at the differences between the Classical School of Smith, Say, Mill and Ricardo, and the Austrian School of Menger, Von Mises, Hayek and Bohm-Bawerk--and explain the importance of the debate for understanding economics today. And we'll conclude by pointing out some of the similarities between the schools, and give some pointers to reconciling the diffe... more »

News oddities to ponder - June 11 , 2013 ...... Lead Story ......... Roadblocks in St Clair and Bibbs County , Alabama - seeking blood and DNA samples ? IRS seeking urgent bids for spy gear - WTF ? George Orwell's 1984 sales surge 6884 percent in the last 24 hours .......FBI requests for records surge 1000 percent over past 4 years.......Have the polygraphs started yet for the 30 - 40 folks ( NSA / Booz Allen , et al ) who had that secret FISA Court Order - the one Snowden shouldn't have had access to in the first place ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Oddities in the news...... http://blog.al.com/east-alabama/2013/06/why_were_roadblocks_in_st_clai.html ( Of course , rather than a police roadblock , why not request volunteers at a local school , firehouse or Church ? ) Why were roadblocks in St. Clair and Bibb counties asking for blood and DNA samples this weekend? PELL CITY, Alabama -- St. Clair and Bibb county authorities are confirming there were roadblocks at several locations in their counties Friday and Saturday asking for blood and DNA samples. However, the samples were voluntary and motorists were paid for them as part ... more »

LNG Spin Zone Unraveled, Uncomfortable Facts

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 17 hours ago
Corporate spin, bluster of the bullish, is anything real, what can be believed, just like the never-ending petroleum industry ads on Suns News of pristine environments, clean flowing waters and a harmonious blissful arrangement between mother nature and tar oil goop extractors.. At times I feel the BC Government orders up press releases to directly counter articles posted at The Straight Goods, at least when it comes to LNG, .....Recently the esteemed Andrew Weaver has perused these articles and agreed with the analysis coming from this site, Andrew Weaver featured on CTV(toni... more »

BEING SPIED ON BY ALL THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 17 hours ago
*The Daily Show with Jon Stewart* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Charged with overseeing the NSA's domestic surveillance programs, the FISA court wears out its rubber stamp.

Anonymous, DefCon, and Young and Adult Hackers of the World: We Need Your Help

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 17 hours ago
If you are a young person of school age or an adult with a child in public schools, you should be outraged that your education, or your son’s or daughter’s education, is in the process of being hijacked by Business Roundtable self-serving ideologues whose ignorance about education is matched only by their greed and hatred […]

Musical Interlude: Walter Murphy, “A Fifth of Beethoven”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
Walter Murphy, “A Fifth of Beethoven” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ouMaLRth-s

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
Johnson City, New York, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Chet Raymo, “The Dark Angel”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* “The Dark Angel”* by Chet Raymo “The American Civil War claimed an estimated 620,000 lives, approximately the same number as in all of the nation's other wars put together. Compared to the size of the country's population, six times as many young men died between 1861 and 1865 as in World War II. Few American families, north or south, were unaffected. Lincoln insisted at Gettysburg "that these dead shall not have died in vain." Drew Gilpin Faust, historian and President of Harvard University, has written a book that tries to measure the effect on the American psyche of t... more »

“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* * *“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”* by The Huffington Post "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Shakespeare employs this biting insult in "Macbeth" to establish the complete and utter repulsiveness of the three witches. Their "withered and wild" features cause Macbeth and Banquo to question if the sisters are even human beings. "Methinks thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon you." In "All's Well That Ends Well," Lafeu hits infamous liar and coward Porolle... more »

"Life..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Join the Tweetin’ Fun at #againstcommoncore

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 18 hours ago
Tweet much? Thanks to Roseanne Eckert, I’m gonna start her idea up on Twitter. Using hashtag #againstcommoncore, fill in the blanks: I am a ________ and a _____________ and I’m #againstcommoncore. Example: I am a dad and an educator and I’m #againstcommoncore. No planned Twitter bombs or wars. Just an ongoing plug. Keep it up and […]

"They Thought They Were Free"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
*Excerpt: "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45"* by Milton Mayer *"But Then It Was Too Late"* "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do wi... more »

"What’s Normal in a Profoundly Abnormal Society?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* * * "What’s Normal in a Profoundly Abnormal Society?"* by James Quinn "I consider myself a seeker of truth. It isn’t easy finding it in todays’ world. In an alternate version of the famous scene from "A Few Good Men," I picture myself telling Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner that I want the truth and his angry truthful response: “Son, we live in a world that has Wall Street banks, and those banks have to be guarded by puppet politicians in Washington D.C. with lobbyist written laws and Madison Avenue PR maggots with media propaganda. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Representative Paul? I ... more »

SURVEILLANCE STATE: Start the children early

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
*The Guardian,* who deserve the credit for breaking the news that your secrets aren’t safe as long as the NSA is in the cyber-room, tell the tale through some re-issues of classic children’s books, including these favourites … [image: NSA Kids books] [image: NSA Kids books] [image: NSA Kids books] [image: nsa kids books] [Covers by Twitter user Darth, via the Guardian] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

SURVEILLANCE STATE: "If They Want to Get You, They Will Get You in Time"

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
[image: 3] *As new technology gives the surveillance state more power, it’s even more important to constrain the state. This guest post by Jeffrey Tuckerexamines the latest revelations of how far, and how many, the modern state is surveilling.* *"If They Want to Get You, They Will Get You in Time"* What a few days it's been, like watching a global prize-fight of epic proportions, with every conceivable side throwing the hardest possible punches. It began with the first leak in the U.K.'s *Guardian*, which was echoed in *The Washington Post*. The specific allegation was that the ... more »

Ban Suspensions as Alternatives Are Implemented

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 20 hours ago
I very much respect Daniel Losen and the UCLA Civil Rights Project, so I was taken aback by his statement on NPR regarding the question of whether a single suspension could send a secondary student of color down the pipeline to prison. Losen replied that even one such incident is “associated” with a doubling of […]

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

Republican Hatred Of Science (And Reality) Lends Itself To Comedy (As Well As Tragedy)

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
What a team! There are several Republican polling firms who stay in business by telling Republicans what they want to hear. Mitt Romney actually believed he was going to win in November. He spent a small fortune on consultants and pollsters and instead of predicting a 332-206 electoral college sweep for President Obama they had persuaded Romney-- who lost the national vote by over 3.5 million-- that he should waste his time interviewing a transition staff and potential cabinet members. He didn't win a single close state and the only state even remotely considered part of the battlegr... more »

“Useful Phrases for the Surveillance State”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
* “Useful Phrases for the Surveillance State”* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)— “In the event that the U.S. government is monitoring your conversations, here are some useful phrases to insert into your phone calls, texts, or e-mails: I think the N.S.A. is awesome. I just re-read “Nineteen Eighty-Four”—it actually has a lot of good ideas in it! There’s no such thing as a “bad” drone. Sure am glad that I never talk to any foreigners. I wouldn’t know the first thing about making ricin. The Fourth Amendment is overrated. If you ask me, Guantánamo is full of nothin... more »

The Kraken - the huge octopus that ... exists!

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 20 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/rXkOPv3wVZw A great piece of research a.o. by Edith A. Widder, an oceanographer who had a brilliant idea. Old stories came to life, stories that nobody wanted to believe. Now we know and can see it. The Kraken exists and is 2 stories high. Enjoy your next day at the sunny beaches, but watch out for it when tipping your toes in the sea! You never know! John

Shenzhou-10 Launch

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 20 hours ago
Is there anything more visually striking than the modernity of a rocket launch? Best of luck to the three taikonauts during their fortnight sojourn at China's orbiting spacelab. Now, this blog has talked about space programmes twice before, so on a lazy night like this I recommend you check them out in lieu of anything new.

"First They Came..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemöller • “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke

“If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, Why Aren’t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
* * *“If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, * *Why Aren’t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well?”* By John W. Whitehead “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistanc... more »

Do We Need Another Edu-Proclamation, or Do We Need Resistance Strategies to End High Stakes Tests?

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 21 hours ago
Every few weeks it seems another group of luminaries signs on and circulates another proclamation or declaration making it clear what perpetrators who aren’t listening “must do” or “should do” to correct the corporate savaging of public education. The latest appears today and is posted at Daily Kos and WaPo. This one appears vetted by […]

Conditional sentence for an offence of violence

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago
*R. v. Pottie,* 2013 NSCA 68 deals with the often vexed question of a conditional discharge for a violent offence. The *Criminal Code* provides: 730. (1) Where an accused, other than an organization, pleads guilty to or is found guilty of an offence, other than an offence for which a minimum punishment is prescribed by law or an offence punishable by imprisonment for fourteen years or for life, the court before which the accused appears may, if it considers it to be in the best interests of the accused and not contrary to the public interest, instead of convicting the accused, by ... more »

In Moving Beyond Repartee

Kuhio Kane at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 21 hours ago
A comment made to the blog, Cloaking Inequality: We need to move the conversation forward. There is nothing new in all the words I have read so far in the blog article nor the response / comment Dr. Thornburg put out there. The focus of an activist movement to maintain public education in America must […]

Criminal Thanks NRA

2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago
From *Think Progress* – *Bornman, who is serving a 20-year sentence for bank robbery,* wrote to the Hartford Courant explaining how easy it would be for him to get a gun even though he is legally banned from buying one: As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I’d like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks. Upon release in a few years from my current federal sentence on b... more »

Glenn Greenwald Comes To the Rescue and Then Gets Disappeared? How Metadata Ruins Your Privacy, Overbroad Orders and Giants Deny Access to Servers

What else would they say? Internet giants deny granting government 'direct access' to serversAP survey: Economists see no stock market bubble Here's where the very last of the Left leave the party and a real leader exposes Obama's Bush III governing: I hope Glenn Greenwald has a nice place already picked out either in a country without extradition treaties with the US or is so lawyered up (

On Non-Resident Voting in the Iranian Election

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 22 hours ago
This Friday, June 14, 2013, millions will head to the polls to vote for the next president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. While the vast majority of votes will naturally come from voters inside Iran itself, many will also come from outside its borders as any documented Iranian citizen worldwide is eligible to cast a ballot in the race. Last week, Hassan Qashqavi, Iranian Deputy Foreign

A little something

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 22 hours ago

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago
*A Brief History Of Saints Logos ~Wallace Dellery, Canal Street Chronicles*

Dems - the Dangerous Sheeple

2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago
Dems sometimes have a hypocrit syndrome. We bitch about how the RebpulCONS act - but we refuse to look at our own behavior. Kinda creates problems when we consistently claim credibility, based on the use of facts. *From Huffington Post *– my new formatting I couldn't make this up if I wanted to. *From Huffington Post *– This is what happens when you blindly follow a leader Regardless of whether that leader deserved to be followed – OR NOT - - on a particular situation. I see this at Daily Kos a lot - where they defend the POTUS - regardless of what he is up to - because he is a... more »

How Multinationals Corps Screw US in 4 steps

2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago
Great read on* Common Dreams *today It’s about Google – but in essence the facts presented can be applied to every multi-national company in the US. SNIPS *from * *Paul Buchheit's article* Yes, these companies provide quality products and much-desired entertainment. They deserve a sizable profit. But while they're making unprecedented profits, they're creating little more than low-wage positions, investing minimally in the country that funded their growth, and making a mockery of the tax laws that are supposed to pay for the next generation's education. We all like free websit... more »

Bernays refuses to break from the tribe!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013* *Even as she flips on surveillance:* We live in a *highly* tribal time. Kevin Drum reports one way the tribes have flipped in a new post which is based on a survey by Pew. Here's the basic rundown: When Bush was in charge, Democrats thought NSA surveillance was unacceptable. On balance, Republicans held the other view. Now that Obama is ruling the roost, the views of the two sides have flipped. On balance, Democrats support surveillance. GOP members do not. This morning, a letter to the New York Times helped display the tribal feelings which may be occasio... more »

Those Skittles really aren’t part of the trial!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013* *When you don’t want the whole truth:* Witnesses sometimes swear to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” As a journalistic matter, the whole truth can be overrated. Consider this chunk of an AP news report about the impending trial of George Zimmerman. Mike Schneider did the reporting, one part of which is just wrong: SCHNEIDER (6/10/13): The Feb. 26, 2012, confrontation began when Zimmerman spotted Martin, whom he did not recognize, walking in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, the gated townhome community where Zimmerman lived and the fianc... more »

ExxonMobil sends Mafia-style Letter to PA?

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 23 hours ago
Note: I have not yet verified the authenticity of the letter in this post. But, if it is real, now we’re starting to feel some heat! Because of opposition movements (like my friends and me), Governor Corbett of Pennsylvania put the brakes on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (aka the Pennsylvania […]

An England Under 21 team that might not have finished bottom of their group

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
Jack Butland (Stoke City) Kyle Walker (Tottenham) Luke Shaw (Southampton) Jack Rodwell (Man City) Phil Jones (Man Utd) Steven Caulker (Tottenham) Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) Danny Welbeck (Man Utd) Wilfried Zaha (Man Utd) A decent 4-3-3, would they be able to compete? Look good up front doesn't it!

You hear that #highered #teacherprep? It’s your clock, winding down.

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 23 hours ago
Some very nice people worked at the GSE at Willamette U in Salem, OR. They recently found out that their entire school is closing. Why? The email, written by University President Steve Thorsett, said the Board of Trustees’ decision was based in large part on a state and national trend in licensing and accreditation that […]

Finding and abandoning incorrect general relativity lore

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours ago
While I was buying and installing my new fridge, I kept on burning my brain by analyzing various refinements and implications of the paper by Maldacena and Susskind. Some business with the M2-brane topology change and entanglement looked too obvious to me so I returned to the question how do the black hole exterior and interior really interact. The burning of the brain is composed of various steps that combine and recombine analytic continuation, diverse choices of coordinates, unusual ways to redefine the connectedness of the spacetime, and connections between previously disconne... more »

Art of duplicity

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
The other day this popped into my inbox. Abdul Bari Atwan: “If you support the Palestinian resistance, you do not consider Bin Laden’s attacks terrorism”Abdul Bari Atwan, a London-based journalist and editor of *Al Quds Al Arabi*, told Egypt’s ON TV, when asked if Bin Laden was a terrorist, that:*“If you support the Palestinian resistance, you do not consider [Bin Laden's attacks] terrorism. But if you are with America, Europe, and Israel, you do consider it terrorism. It depends on your definition of terrorism … Whoever fights America and its enterprise in the region, and whoev... more »

CHILDREN EXECUTED BY USA'S ALLIES IN SYRIA.

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Executed, in front of his Mum and Dad, by the allies of the USA and NATO* The USA's allies in Syria have executed a 14-year-old boy in front of his parents. Mohammad Qataa sold coffee at a street stall in Aleppo in Syria. He was executed for blasphemy after saying 'he wouldn't even give the Prophet a free coffee.' *After being executed.* The executioners are working for the USA and NATO. *Little Mohammad Qataa was working as a street vendor in Aleppo when three members of a group that is trying to topple President Assad overheard him arguing with a friend over a bill.* It is... more »

O Hillary

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I think a generic Republican-- which is, after all, what they all are anyway-- could beat Hillary Clinton in Texas, Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina in 2016. But those will probably be the battleground states if she runs. That's really bad news for the GOP, which would prefer that the battleground states be Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire, all states Clinton will probably have in the bag going into the election. I guess if North Colorado is a state by 2016, a Republican would win there. And the chances of North Colorado being a state-- like with ... more »

The latest lie from the government that lies about everything

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *Another Phony Jobs Report From A Government That Lies About Everything –Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ June 7, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy. Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs. Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that economis... more »

This Is Too Good To Miss: 23 Reasons Why I Feel Safer Today In America!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
With all the reports coming out now about how the NSA has been purposely spying on every American citizen via their phones, social media, and even their personal e-mails, I am indeed shocked that more American citizens are not up in arms about this horrendous action by their own criminal government? Is America at the point now that its own citizens are hopelessly dumbed down by chemicals and the droning effect of their Talmud-Visions that they are unwilling to act to defend their freedoms and liberties? I do wonder... I came across the following article from the "From The Trenches... more »

Do Americans support tracking phone records?

Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 1 day ago
The Pew poll is being reported by news organizations, and by Pew, in a very misleading manner. Here's Pew's headline, and the way it's being reported: "Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic" But the actual poll reads: "NSA getting secret court orders to track millions of Americans to investigate terrorism is acceptable/not acceptable/don't know" 56% of people polled answered acceptable to *that* question, which has one huge lie and one huge bias. The lie is that NSA is getting secret court orders to track millions of Americans; they are doing no such t... more »

Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Jeffrey Toobin’s “Edward Snowden is no Hero” has generated some very sprited debate in my Facebook circles. Most of my online interlocutors fall into the left civil-libertarian camp, so readers might imagine their consensus view of Snowden’s action. I’m much less sanguine. I take the ethical, moral, and legal obligations of holding a high-level security Continue reading

James Corbett/Jan Irvin: CIA/Mkultra/Mind Control & the brave new world?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Don't forget the first post for today either.....Syria Conflict: A brief military analysis

House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer Decides To Uphold And Reward Ongoing Conservative Party Electoral Misdeeds

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
*Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons, is WRONG to let two Conservative 'candidates' sit in the House of Commons in spite of an Elections Canada ruling that they should not be allowed to vote or receive remuneration as a result of violating the Canada Election Act in the last election. SHAME!!! * *Hill Times *

Syria Conflict: A brief military analysis

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Heralding the Rise of Russia-Russo-Armenian Relations, Eurasian Geopolitics and Combating Western Globalism. This blog has many geopolitical articles. Always enlightening. Perhaps controversial? Depending on your own thoughts, feelings and knowledge regarding geopolitical situations. The analysis on Syria is very good. Heralding the Rise of Russia is in the blogroll should you wish to continue checking them out! Syrian Conflict: A Brief Military Analysis - June, 2013An excerpt from a lengthy, but well worth *reading entirely post*, *from this blogger:* *-With momentum on their side... more »

#Commoncore supporters are butthurt #ESEA

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Know your meme. CCSSO abandoning “efforts” to write social studies standards to instead focus on ELA/Math implementation, and to thwart opposition to CCSS, according to Education Weak [link excluded purposely, find it yourself if you want, or trust us]. CCSSO Executive Director Chris Minnich told me that the chiefs group wants and needs to focus […]

BILDERBERG; BRAINWASHING; ISRAELI FLAG

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Note the number of UK Members of Parliament copying Andrew Neil's mocking laugh. * Looks like the policy of the elite is mocking laughter. Perhaps it is a guilty smirk rather than a mocking laugh. *The BBC's Andrew Neil mocks Alex Jones.* Bilderberg wants the world run by the rich elite. *“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group”* *Bilderberg means rule by a rich elite; it means Feudalism.* Bilderberg's 'wish list' includes... *Control of world populations by 'mind control'...* Manufactured crises and perpetual wars... *“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group”* dreamweaver11... more »

HOME SICK

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
I've been in bed the last two days and feel like I got ran over by a truck. My entire body aches and my nose is running. Sleep is hard to come by. It all began Sunday morning when I woke up with a horrible sore throat. I've been trying to figure out where I got this bug. Maybe somewhere on the way home from Berkeley. My last morning there I had to get up very early so I could catch the "Super Shuttle" to the San Francisco airport for an 8:00 am flight. I was standing outside just after 5am waiting for it to arrive. The morning before I had planned to sleep in but the confere... more »

Humanity Roars Like Lions Caged Inside the Agenda 21 Matrix

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Ginger Jane Hammack *Activist Post* This cage has had societies under a spell for decades. The light from the lamp post is softly glowing. We've been starring at it for years. Our feet wet from random sprayings through the bars. Our spirits have been provoked to hunt inner truth and we wait. While opening the King James Bible and turning to Proverbs 28:1 the most inspirational verse reads, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." While it is daunting to wake up the caged, I'm encouraged somehow to show them they can be bold as lions. With 6% o... more »

All your government surveillance is privatized

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
As I said in the previous post, we're having the wrong arguments about domestic surveillance. All the chatter is about Snowden and Obama and Bush. What's being lost in the noise is talking about the policy. The bigger scandal than the surveillance is that the surveillance is being contracted out to private corporations. Take for instance Snowden's last employer from whence he apparently hacked his documents, Booz Allen Hamilton. The company employs about 25,000 people, almost half of whom hold top secret security clearances, providing “access to information that would cause ‘except... more »

Edward Snowden Vanishes From His Hong Kong Hotel Room

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Chris Carrington According to reports from the BBC, Edward Snowden has vanished from his Hong Kong hotel room. Ex-CIA employee Snowden, 29, was not expected to check out and the move has taken many by surprise. His whereabouts are unknown and thus far he has not made contact with anyone as to his plans. Snowden who is on record as saying he had “an obligation to help free people from oppression” He is being investigated regarding the leaks and the case has been referred to the Department of Justice as a criminal matter. An online petition on the White House website has so far got... more »

Youth sentences relevant for adult mandatory minimum calculation

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*R. v. Able*, 2013 ONCA 385 holds that a youth sentence can be applicable in determining the mandatory minimum penalty under s. 95(2) of the Criminal Code: [16] The respondent, on the other hand, contends that the application of s. 82(4) is also limited by the operation of s. 119(9)(a). Accordingly, the appellant is well within the "period of access" defined in s. 119(2) and the enhanced five-year mandatory minimum in s. 95(2) for second or subsequent offenders should apply. [17] I agree with the respondent. In *Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd. (Re)*, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, at para... more »

Senate to hold closed briefing on NSA surveillance, lawmakers say they weren’t informed of programs

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
A portion of the Senate Intelligence Committee image credit: SenRockefeller/Flickr Madison Ruppert The Senate Intelligence Committee will reportedly hold a closed briefing for members to discuss the recently revealed National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs after some lawmakers complained about not being informed of PRISM. The recent media furor began with a report showing that a secret court order forced Verizon to hand over all records for U.S. customers to the NSA. Soon after, the massive NSA surveillance program called PRISM involving major tech companies was revea... more »

HOLLYWOOD AND SELLING WAR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Doug Bailey

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Doug Bailey, the founder of The Hotline, RIP. The Hotline was simply the best way to follow campaign news in 1988. And 1990. And 1992. And every election through at least 2000, which means at least through the point at which National Journal acquired it in 1996. I've had Hotline access on and off over the years, depending on where I worked, and it's been consistently excellent throughout. Not only extremely informative, but always a lot of fun. In fact, just last week I realized you could get "Wake-Up Call" via email, and subscribed. Before the Hotline...well, you just couldn't get ... more »

Iraq’s Oil Exports Remain Flat-Lined For Last Fourteen Months

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
April 2013 saw Iraq return to its highest export levels in the last 30 years. Unfortunately, the industry still suffers from a number of major problems, which prevent it from being able to maintain those figures, and reach its lofty goals. Not only that, but the price for Iraqi crude saw a dip for that month, while problems with Kurdistan and insurgents also came up. Those are all reasons why Iraq’s petroleum business has been at a plateau for the last fourteen months. That doesn’t mean production is not growing, and things won’t change, but it will just take a lot longer than the... more »

The Washington Post won’t criticize Fox!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013* *Dearest darlings, it just isn’t done:* Professional courtesy plays a large role in American pseudo-journalism. And no, it isn't just Rachel Maddow! Consider the editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post about the IRS mess. In our view, the editors made an obvious, constructive point in their editorial. Without diminishing or excusing the “troubling conduct” of the IRS, the editors blasted the overstated scandal-mongering of the GOP. They even named some names: WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL (6/10/13): Capitol Hill saw three more days of hearings last week abo... more »

Victoria Nece - PRISM PowerPoint Redesign - girl made a judgement call

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 1 day ago
amid all the media-ring-nose-led furore associated with 'whatever the hell this recent Edward Snowden *whistleblower event* is or might be, graphic designer Victoria Nece has taken it upon herself to rework the decidedly 1990's retro feel of the thus-far-leaked pages of the NSA's PRISM intelligence template that seems to be applied to all Corporate War Machine 'product's (to use parlance from the Bradley Manning trial). Here are her own words from the relevant page of her website where the rest of the reworked graphics are hosted: *So, I’m not sure why anyone was really shocked ... more »

TWO KINDS OF FACTS: Hacker and Dreifus make a very key point!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013* *Part 2—It won’t produce a discussion:* Given the way our discourse works, it often seems we have two kinds of facts—invented and withheld. In any given subject area, we’re subjected to waves of invented facts—factual claims which are wrong or misleading. At the same time, an array of *accurate* facts are studiously withheld from view. In various subject areas, these two kinds of facts are used to create highly familiar, novelized tales—novelized tales which make clear vision impossible. One such tale was given a prominent place in Sunday’s New York Times. ... more »
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