Friday, July 19, 2013

19 July - Blogs I'm Following

History of the use of nuclear power (top) and ...History of the use of nuclear power (top) and the number of active nuclear power plants (bottom). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is ...The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a nuclear power plant. After usage in the power plant, the spent fuel is delivered to a reprocessing plant (2) or to a final repository (3) for geological disposition. In reprocessing 95% of spent fuel can be recycled to be returned to usage in a power plant (4). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Rhodochrosite Pyrite and Black MicaRhodochrosite Pyrite and Black Mica (Photo credit: Orbital Joe)
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Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 minutes ago
I like this Dave Weigel post on how entirely ineffective Ted Cruz has been in the Senate. OK, I would have liked it better if he had linked to my Post item on how Cruz got Cordray confirmed, but I like it anyway.* One point to add. Cruz is campaigning in Iowa and, as Robert Costa reports (via Weigel), saying that his price for getting a CR (and therefore not shutting down the government) is fully defunding the ACA. Which is, you know, charming. I mean -- never mind either the ethics or the efficacy of holding the normal functioning of the government hostage to one's preferences, but... more »

A hot day for democracy

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 24 minutes ago
The Honduran *Congreso Nacional* came to town yesterday, part of a mobile-meeting plan for the legislative branch of government that gets the politicians out of the capital once in a while to hear from "the people." Apparently President Porfirio Lobo was here, too, but all I know of that is I heard a helicopter coming in for a landing around 2 p.m., such a rare event in Copan Ruinas that it had to mean something big. Congress met in the municipal hall near Parque Central, so I wandered down to the park yesterday morning to see what I could see. Not much, as it turns out. The... more »

Why NCTQ Wants to Get Rid of Schools of Education

freetoteach at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 28 minutes ago
A social studies lesson on the business of education from Alan Singer, Hofstra Uniersity: They think they found the solution to fix American schools and it is really very simple: get rid of schools of education because they fail to adequately train teachers. The NCTQ posted a list of the advisory committee for its study on […]

Why Nick Ruiz Over John Mica?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 32 minutes ago
Nick Ruiz is a dedicated progressive and lifelong environmentalist running for the central Florida congressional seat currently held by GOP hack John Mica. Blue America has endorsed Nick and if you'd like to contribute to his campaign, you can do it on this Act Blue page. This week Mica cast his 38th consecutive vote to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act despite the fact that the legislation has begun to deliver for his own Orlando-area constituents. As a result of the law: *•* 10,900 young adults in the district now have health insurance through their parents’ plan. ... more »

Harper's Auto-Generated Enemies Lists

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 35 minutes ago
If you're Stephen Harper you can assume that what you consider "enemies" would include pretty much the entire membership of organizations such as the Council of Canadians. So why would you waste time amassing enemies lists when you can force these organizations to do it for you? This e-mail I received from the CoC neatly explains the situation: *A new federal Not-for-Profit Corporation Act (NFP Act) came into effect in 2009. Every federally incorporated not-for-profit, including the Council and all other social justice and environmental organizations, must amend their by-laws to c... more »

Kent Hawkins Comments on Nuclear Power

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 50 minutes ago
MasterResource, in general, and Kent Hawkins, in particular, have not given a great deal of attention to nuclear power in the past. MasterResource has its' origin in the fossil fuel industry and indeed from within one of the more notorious fossil fuel businesses, ENRON. Hawkins is by no means anti-nuke. He recognizes that in the near future global society faces major changes in energy technology, but until quite recently has not focused on nuclear power as offering a potential for energy change, however in a recent post http://www.masterresource.org/2013/01/sound-energy-policy-ii/Haw... more »

Agenda 21 Chapter 8 – The Final Coup

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 55 minutes ago
Julie Beal If you think the economy is simply going to collapse, think again. The bankers, the corporations, and the United Nations have got *ecosystem accounting* ready to rock and roll, and it’s set to change everything…. … the plan is brilliant. You reduce the number from 7+ billion by at least 33% without firing one shot. You simply privatize all natural resources and then price access so that the bottom third of the globe’s population cannot afford it. And so, they die; it will be the biggest die-off of the Anthropocene epoch. From Papua New Guinea to Croatia, from Bolivia to ... more »

Who better to comment on Detroit than Dewey From Detroit...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*and we thank him.* *The Motor City: Broken and Out of Warranty* I'm predicting a federal bailout in 3,2,1... more »

Revenge of the Blackfish

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
A documentary, *Blackfish*, opening today at the Toronto International Film Festival focuses on what marine "parks" around the world, like the GTA's *MarineLand, *are inflicting on their captive orcas and how, after years of basically being left in a bathtub, some orcas take their revenge. Sorry but I'm with the orca on this one. Leave them in the ocean with their pods where they belong. It's disgraceful that the people and government of Ontario allow these creatures to be incarcerated for an abbreviated life in horrible conditions.

Not So "Incompetent" After All, Eh Rupe?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
*Some pictures are worth a thousand words* Now that recordings have emerged trashing Rupert Murdoch's claims that he knew nothing of his newspapers' phone hacking and police corruption, Ol' Rupe is backpeddling. At first he denounced the police investigation as "totally incompetent." Now that the recording has surfaced, Murdoch has written to say that he had "*used the wrong adjectives*". *Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz wrote to Murdoch asking him to comment on the secret recording.* * **In a reply released on Thursday, Murdoch said: "I accept that I used the w... more »

Removing the Shackles: Through the Looking Glass of Transparency

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 hour ago
Posted at: http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/07/through-looking-glass-of-transparency.html Friday, 19 July 2013 *Through the Looking Glass of Transparency* trans·par·ent *adjective \tran(t)s-ˈper-ənt\* Definition of TRANSPARENT *1* a *(1)* : having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid *(2)* : allowing the passage of a specified form of radiation (as X-rays or ultraviolet light) b : fine or sheer enough to be seen through : diaphanous * * *2* a : free from pretense or deceit : frank b ... more »

Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Stephen Lendman Swedish Sociology Professor Stefan Svallfors nominated him. He praised his "heroic effort at great personal cost." He revealed NSA's lawless global spying. He told millions worldwide what they need to know. He did so at great risk. He deserves high praise, not persecution. He showed "individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms," said Svallfors. His nominating letter states: "Best committee members! I suggest that the 2013 Peace Prize (be) awarded to the American citizen Edward Snowden. ... more »

39 Fantastic Prepping Tips

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Gaye Levy People often ask where my ideas and where my knowledge comes from. When that happens, I chuckle a bit to myself because just like the person asking, my knowledge comes from a variety of sources: first hand experience, books, online forums and of course, Backdoor Survival readers. So you see, it is not that I am smarter or more clever than everyone else but rather that I have taken my passion for preparedness and made it an active part of my life. That leads me to the topic for today’s article. Following my own art... more »

The Dismal Plight of Bradley Manning

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
*The Guardian's *Steve Bell captures what America's military justice system holds in store for Bradley Manning: *In a preliminary ruling on the multiple charges Mr Manning faces, military judge Colonel Denise Lind threw out a defence motion that the prosecution had failed to produce evidence to sustain a charge that Manning had 'aided the enemy.'* *...But in insisting on the 'aiding' charge and 11 others, the Obama administration is holding out for another 154 years jail time – with no parole option.* *Claiming to be 'extraordinarily disappointed' by the decision, Colonel Morris... more »

Cooper’s abject refusal to speak!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *Flatly false, also ugly:* Does Anderson Cooper like his job? His job as a national *journalist?* On Tuesday night’s show, he failed to challenge a guest when he plainly should have. The guest in question made a false statement—a statement he knew was false. Elsewhere, Cooper has corrected this misstatement. Tuesday night, with high feeling all around, he simply gave it a pass. The guest in question was Barbara Arnwine, president of The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Arnwine made this statement about the juror Cooper interviewed one night be... more »

Friday Morning Linkage

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
Is it 1953 or 2013? 2013 Aspen Security Forum is currently meeting in Aspen Meadows, CO. Here’s the list of speakers — scroll through and see if anything strikes you. HT: Tamara Cofman Wittes. An excellent piece by Naunihal Singh that concludes for all the talk of a unique people’s revolution, the Egyptian coup Continue reading

Why Not Just Waterboard Them?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
One of the dirty little tricks American interrogator/torturers adopted during the War on Terror has made it to the homeland. It is subjecting the prisoner to the prolonged stress of intense cold. That, according to lawyers, is a method being used against hunger-striking prisoners by California prison guards. *Prison guards are trying to break a hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners in California by blasting cells with cold air, confiscating legal documents and, in one case, banning lawyers, according to legal representatives and relatives.* *Authorities have taken the... more »

Kent Hawkins Offers Reasonable Doubt About Wind's Carbon Mitigation Effectiveness (updated repost)

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 hour ago
Nuclear Green Revolution had its' origin in a debate which I had with GRIST'S David Roberts. Roberts argued that investments in nuclear power would be a mistake. When confronted with the need for post carbon power sources, Roberts claimed that renewables could provide all the power we need at a lower cost than nuclear power. I did not have a source that provided a strong contradiction, so I set out setting up a preliminary source from scratch. My source looked at what renewables cost and what we got for our money and what else it would take a renewable post carbon system to work. M... more »

BBC News - Government borrowing fell in 2012-13, revised figures show

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
Can you hear the gritted teeth at the Labour supporting BBC as they have to admit that: 'Nonetheless, three months into the fiscal year, the government remains on course to reduce the budget deficit in line with its forecasts.' Ooh that must have hurt. Just wondering what Ed Balls will have to say? More gritted teeth comments here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23372309

It Worked for Capone, Now Let's Use It on Multi-Nationals

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Tax evasion is a crime. Multi-national corporations are criminals. In fact, the G20 is warning that advanced countries are facing "global tax chaos" as multi-nationals evade taxes by laundering their revenues through low-tax or no-tax havens. The buggers really do think they're above the law, a clear impression they've received from our politicians for thirty years or more. *On Friday, the [British] chancellor, George Osborne, will hail a two-year action plan drawn up by the OECD thinktank to clamp down on questionable international corporate tax practices.* *The long-awaited r... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*State looking into piping problem in cavern near Bayou Corne sinkhole ~David J. Mitchell, Advocate* *Crazy Saints Fans Update: West Nile, The Dirty Bird Killa ~Saints Tailgate*

Criminal Enterprise Operations of the Police

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dave Hodges After moving to the border state of Arizona, I learned quickly that it isn’t prudent to drive a car into Mexico because the Federal Police like to pull over “American-looking” tourists and shake them down for cash (yes, Virginia, the Mexican national police force does profile). The practice of Mexican police harassing traveling Americans for their cash is so prevalent, most insurance companies require a special rider on one’s insurance policy before covering a car trip into Mexico. I used to think that this abus... more »

The One People: Interview with Kiri from NZ 19th July 2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
Kiri creates her own documents to deposit her value and tells her story of her journey...

Jay Inslee (WA) Likes ALEC - According to ALECer

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
ALEC supporters are really drawing at straws right now to justify the extremist policies of the ALEC - making misleading public statements. Twisting the facts, making broad misleading statements to prove that the American Legislative Exchange Council is nonpartisan - lying, really. They are publishing all kinds of crap. Take this case in point Jay Inslee –Governor, State of Washington (the state that passed legalized marijuana and marriage equality into law in December 2012) *From Daily Kos on Jay Inslee* ... he hasn't voted a straight line progressive caucus agen... more »

Complicity in international criminal law

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
Ezokola *v.* Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 SCC 40 deals with complicity in a criminal organization for international criminal law purposes: [68] In sum, while the various modes of commission recognized in international criminal law articulate a broad concept of complicity, individuals will not be held liable for crimes committed by a group simply because they are associated with that group, or because they passively acquiesced to the group's criminal purpose. At a minimum, complicity under international criminal law requires an individual to ... more »

SOCIETY DOWN: Is Anderson Cooper a journalist?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013* *Interlude—Journalistic star fails to perform:* Last night, Anderson Cooper refused to do his job. It would have been painful to do his job, but Cooper is well compensated. He represents himself as a broadcast journalist. There are certain unpleasant tasks such folk are supposed to take on. Last night, through most of an hour-long program, Cooper kept walking away from those journalistic tasks. In particular, he kept refusing to challenge guests who were offering questionable accounts of a high-profile event. What happened in Sanford on the night when Trayvo... more »

Hymenoplasty operations women virgins again increased NHS costs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
Because the NHS has a bottomless pit of money to spend! Hymenoplasty and breast enlargement are generally not necessary medical procedures, but are for religious, cultural or personal pride reasons. I don't want to pay for others to have this sort of operation, especially when people are dieing because the NHS won't fund life saving cancer treatment. Priorities, priorities... More here http://www.closeronline.co.uk/2012/06/rise-in-ops-to-make-women-virgins-again

Summarizing Declining Participation in Democracy

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 hours ago
Owen at Northern Reflections beat me to it. Yesterday I read this excellent summary by Alex Himmelfarb of a Samara study on declining political participation in Canada and thought I'd blog about today. Himmelfarb mentions "social trust" the "degrees of inequality in society, and public policy as being vital to increased participation in, and trust in democracy. I'll spin it my way: Seems to me that in the 1940s and 1950s, an expanding economy and a shared culture made white people less angry at each other. (In the 1920s and 1930s, lots of people voted because mass democracy was ... more »

16 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Are you a conspiracy theorist? If not, perhaps you should be. Yes, there have certainly been a lot of “conspiracy theories” over the years that have turned out not to be accurate. However, the truth is that a large number of very prominent conspiracy theories have turned out to actually be true. So the next time that you run into some “tin foil hat wearing lunatics”, you might want to actually listen to what they have to say. They may actually know some things that you do not. In fact, one recent study fo... more »

The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching. You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also "roll over" existing debt that has reached maturity. Of course the government never actually pays off any of that debt. Instead, it essentially takes out new debts to cover the old ones. So the U.S. government is actually borrowing far more money each yea... more »

5 Examples of When You Might Not Know What You Are Eating

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *When we buy food at the grocery store, many of us expect to get what we think we’re paying for.* Melissa Melton But, as it turns out, our food isn’t always what we think it is. From the horse meat scandal that is currently rocking the United Kingdom — to the widespread realization that the ground beef sold in many U.S. markets is actually a mix of bits of meat, fat, sinew, bloody effluvia, and ammonia dubbed “pink slime” — consumers are continually shown just how at the mercy of industrial food conglomerates we truly are wh... more »

European Parliament may call on Snowden, NSA chief and Glenn Greenwald to testify about NSA spying

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: Jon and Mel Kots/Flickr Madison Ruppert With the European Parliament getting prepared to launch an investigation into the massive National Security Agency surveillance programs, whistleblower Edward Snowden, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander and journalist Glenn Greenwald may be called to testify. The series of hearings on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs is slated to begin in September, which was established after the agency’s global spying efforts were revealed in June. The fallout in Europe has ... more »

Soon The Only Person Left In The PMO Will Be The Guy Who SHOULD Have Resigned In The First Place.

leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
** *-Senior staffer who allegedly knew of Duffy payment leaves PMO (Chris Woodcock) * *-Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, resigns * *-Benjamin Perrin: ‘I was not consulted on, and did not participate in, Nigel Wright’s decision’*

Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 7.19.13"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 7.19.13"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Fed Chief Ben Bernanke testified in front of the House and Senate this week about the economy and money printing. The headline in USA Today says it all, “Fed Help Won’t Fade.” Remember, this is $85 billion in bond buying each and every month. That’s $45 billion in Treasury bonds and $40 billion in sour mortgage debt. I call it the fraud and mistakes of big banks. Why doesn’t anyone in Congress ask which banks are getting $40 billion each and every month? This is a half-trillion bucks a year, and nobody in Congress ... more »

Everything Is Fine, But…

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Everything is going to be just great. Haven't you heard? The stock market is at an all-time high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is incredibly low, and the official unemployment rate has been steadily declining since early in Barack Obama's first term. Of course I am being facetious, but this is the kind of talk about the economy that you will hear if you tune in to the mainstream media. They would have us believe that those running things know exactly what they are doing and that... more »

Anonymous Operation NSA - Exposing Dianne Feinstein

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein has taken over $698,000 in bribes from the surveillance-industrial complex since PRISM has been in place. She votes in favor of them and against your rights. She violates the U.S. Constitution. Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

TSA: Keeping Travelers Safe by Inspecting Cars Left in Valet Parking

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kimberly Paxton Now not only does the TSA thoroughly inspect your person and your carry-on bags – they can order an inspection of the car you left behind also. A New York woman was shocked to return home from a trip to find a notice on her car informing her that it had been searched after her departure from Greater Rochester International Airport. Apparently, only cars that are valet parked are subject to this treatment. Valet attendants are under orders of the TSA to search the vehicles that are left with them. (Valet atten... more »

Bernanke Confirms: “If We Were To Tighten Policy, The Economy Would Tank”

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Mac Slavo Financial analysts have opined that the United States is well on the road to recovery. They cite various data points to make the case that the multi-trillion dollar bailouts and stimulus have brought us back from the brink of a collapse so serious that Congressional leaders had been told that should the bailouts fail, there was a real possibility of martial law being declared. We’re doing so well, in fact, that just a couple of years ago President Obama assured the nation of our progress, claiming that we “reversed... more »

Texans Urged Not To Panic As Army Battles Radiation Leak

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Chris Carrington 30 people are undergoing testing for radiation poisoning after a leak was discovered at Fort Bliss Texas. An above-ground bunker used to store weaponry has been found to contain both alpha and beta particles and there is concern that soldiers using the weapons may have been exposed to low-level radiation. It has also emerged that when the area was controlled by the Air Force, contaminated material was buried around the site. A retired worker raised concerns that a new housing development currently under cons... more »

Social Contract: The Exceptions to the Rule

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *individual rights are sacrificed so an elite "vanguard" can take more power to itself.* ~anon *The Social Contract* Jean-Jacques Rousseau Susan Boskey What do the September 2013 completion of the mega NSA data and surveillance center in Bluffdale Utah, federalized SWAT teams smashing down homeowners' front doors, and the July 2013 acceptance of the Obama Administration’s appeal to retain portions of the NDAA for the indefinite detention of Americans have in common? For those who are not in denial, these three facts alone p... more »

UPDATE: Adam Kokesh From Jail

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Adam Kokesh* As many of you know, Adam Kokesh was arrested on July 9, 2013 at his residence in Herndon, VA. The US Parks Police, aided by the local Herndon police force and a coalition of other agencies raided and ransacked Adam’s home. They provided a warrant only after they had taken Adam into custody and had completed an extensive search. They also detained and harassed all the occupants of the house for an extended period and would not provide reason for the detainment. Raymond Morrogh is the Commonwealth Attorney for ... more »

Feds vs. Raisins: Small Farmers Stand Up to the USDA

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
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Activist Adam Kokesh will run for President in 2020

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
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Euroland news for July 19 , 2013 - Counting down the time until German Election on September 22 , 2013 and the return of reality..... Goldman's take on the ECB collateral shift ...... Spain's Deputy PM Saenz denies she will replace PM Rajoy - so you know the clock is ticking on Rajoy and who is replacement will be !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Two Months Until The German Elections And The Return Of Reality [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/19/2013 08:46 -0400 - default - European Central Bank - France - Germany - Greece - Italy - Portugal - Real estate - Reality - Sovereigns *Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,* *“For what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe.”* * -Stephen Hawking* Europe has denigrated into a strange place where *fantasy replaces reality as necessitated by their go... more »

Detroit has filed for bankruptcy - keep your eyes on Illinois as Chicago School District has a second round of mass Teacher layoffs and pension reform is now part of the discussion there !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-cps-layoffs-20130719,0,4180625.story By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and Kim Geiger, Chicago Tribune reporters 6:34 a.m. CDT, July 19, 2013 Citing a $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Public Schools will lay off more than 2,000 employees, more than 1,000 of them teachers, the district said Thursday night. About half of the 1,036 teachers being let go are tenured. The latest layoffs, which also include 1,077 school staff members, are in addition to 855 employees — including 420 teachers — who were laid off last month as a result of the dist... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Rick Ankiel, 34. Enough to make you a baseball fan. The good stuff: 1. Nice one from Nate Silver on patterns and presidential elections. 2. More on ACA implementation from Jonathan Cohn. 3. Sarah Posner on Hobby Lobby. 4. And Steve Benen on the GOP-aligned partisan press.

Jimmy Carter: Snowden's Leak 'Useful', 'America Has No Functioning Democracy'

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Freda Art *Activist Post* In an article appearing in the German-language, Spiegel, former President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for whistleblowers and had sharp criticisms of the Obama Administration. Carter called the disclosure by Edward Snowden "useful" and said "the invasion of privacy" and "government secrecy" has gone too far. Carter said the leaks are "likely to be useful because they inform the public." "America has no functioning democracy," Carter stated. From Spiegel translated by Google Translate: The ... more »

What If A Drone Killed YOUR Grandson?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
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Egypt braces for Friday morning protests on July 19 , 2013......Israel and US brace for islamists actions in the Sinai.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Egypt braces for fresh Friday protests Supporters of deposed president begin to gather at more than a dozen locations across the capital, Cairo. Last Modified: 19 Jul 2013 11:33 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Morsi supporters in Nasr City seem to be digging in for the long haul, fortifying their sit-in with barricades [Reuters] Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have slowly begun to gather at more than a dozen locations around the capital to demand the re... more »

What Does The Cordray Confirmation Mean?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Tuesday saw two very important Senate votes. First came Harry Reid's cloture vote to end the nearly two year-long GOP filibuster of Richard Cordray's nomination to be Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The Republicans and their Wall Street masters don't want consumers protected from banksters and they oppose the Bureau itself and have blocked Cordray's appointment for that reason rather than because they found anything wrong with Cordray himself. Wednesday Lindsey Graham-- mostly preoccupied with grandstanding about boycotting the 2014 Olympics in Moscow-- a... more »

Afganistan and Karzai thanks the US for its support by taxing and fining the US as the withdrawal proceeds along ! Meanwhile , Taliban and Afghans get ready for the post US and post Karzai world ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/18/afghanistans-thanks-for-us-generosity-harsh-taxes-/ So much for thanks: As the U.S. accelerates its exit from a decadelong, $100 billion reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, American generosity is getting an unwelcome penalty in the form of taxes and fees imposed by President Hamid Karzai’s government on U.S. contractors supporting the rebuilding effort. Everything from exiting military equipment and food for troops to new federal contract dollars are facing levies, customs fees and fines — a wave of taxation estimated to slice $1 bi... more »

Has Germany and Angela Merkel's government been implicated in participating in NSA's Prism Program ? Bild says Nato was cooperating in Prism back in 2011 - which is a contradiction to the position of the German government which denies knowledge of Prism...Additional news items touching on the now global spying scandal ! .

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/18/are-there-really-two-prisms-or-just-one-prism-with-nato-involvement/ Are there really two PRISMs, or just one PRISM with NATO involvement? by David Meyer 1 DAY AGO **2 Comments - - - - - - A** - A** [image: 5285447846_e08eb710f3_b] SUMMARY: Nowhere (U.S. aside) is PRISM a hotter topic than in Germany. With the issue proving central to upcoming elections, some pretty wild claims are flying around — and the rest of the world should take note. **tweet this If you thought the PRISM debacle couldn’t get any more convoluted, then... more »

Is China planning to back its currency with Gold ? In the context of the huge demand for gold from China and its public concerns regarding the state of the West and dollar denominated assets , this is the important story of the day to consider.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/07/china-reported-planning-to-back-yuan.html 18 JULY 2013 China Reported Planning To Back the Yuan With Gold This is an interesting article for several reasons, not the least of which is that it is from a Russian publication and perspective, reflecting on the possible actions of China in the evolution of the global reserve currency regime. As you know Russia is promoting a rethinking of the post Bretton Woods monetary system through their chairmanship of the G20 this year. There are other shoes to drop yet from that. I suspect that C... more »

Monsanto Drops Bid to Advance New GM Crops in Europe

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Freda Art *Activist Post* Monsanto announced today that they are quitting their effort to get more genetically modified crops approved in Europe. "We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe," the biotech company said in a statement. "Instead, we will focus on enabling imports of biotech crops into the EU and the growth of our current business there," Monsanto added. Only two genetically modified crops are allowed to be grown in the European Union (Monsanto's MON 810 maize and BAS... more »

Defense Contractor Quits Over US War Crimes

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
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One Happy Panda!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago

Former Mexican President: The Drug War Has Been a Total Failure

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago
*Youtube* Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox sits down with HIGH TIMES for an exclusive interview regarding his global initiative to legalize marijuana. Alarmed by the Drug War that has been ravaging his country since he left office in 2006, President Fox has created a broad coalition that includes American pot activists to focus on a singular goal that will help curb cartel violence: legalizing pot. Subscribe to High Times Channel Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

Greg Rickford, Minister of Science and Technology

Alison at Creekside - 5 hours ago
2011 : MP Greg Rickford - centre - proudly announces funding for fish lab at Experimental Lakes Area, calling it “Canada’s most innovative freshwater research centre.” The 58-lake globally renowned research facility in his Kenora riding was responsible for the research behind the Canada-US acid rain treaty, May 2012 : The DFO announces it is dumping ELA to save $2M per year, even though it will cost $50M to shut it down. After months of hiding from his constituents and outraged scientists, Rickford emerged to explain: "Our mandate has moved to a smaller-scale research that reflec... more »

The Longer He Stays, The More Damage He Does

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours ago
Lawrence Martin has admitted that the title for his latest book was inspired by Rick Pearlstein's examination of the Nixon administration. However, Martin writes, Harperland is not Nixonland -- at least not yet: Harperland is not in a league with Nixonland, certainly not on the basis of what we know now. But that doesn’t mean that the abuse of power by this government is not of an extraordinary nature. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t shadings of character and behaviour that are similar to Nixon’s. There’s been a siege mentality at work here that calls to mind those times. We hav... more »

Chi Federation of Labor to Say NO to ALEC

2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
*Chicago Federation of Labor* *Be there Thursday, August 8 to protest outside of the American Legislative Exchange Council* [ALEC] 40th Anniversary Conference in Chicago August 7-9. ALEC is bringing state politicians to Chicago to push a dangerous agenda that rewards greedy CEOs at the expense of middle class families and our public schools and puts our safety at risk. Forty years of ALEC is nothing to celebrate. When greedy corporations are allowed to make the rules, our community suffers. Good full time jobs are outsourced or replaced by part time jobs at low wages while CEOs an... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago
*Sequestration Could Curtail 'Hurricane Hunter' Missions ~Scott Neuman, WWNO * *It turns out the Corps of Engineers has yet to figure out how to 'armor' New Orleans' brand new area levees* *Thibodaux firm lands $29.5 million pump contract in Plaquemines Parish ~Xerxese Wilson, Daily Comet**~Also~ Nicholls State's Drone Mapping program gets boost* *Levee protection methods debated at meeting ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *New developments could revitalize upper Canal Street ~Lee Isaacson, WVUE* *La casino winnings down $8M from June 2012* Read more here: http://www.islandpa... more »

The Changing Distribution of Income

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 6 hours ago
Click on graphic to enlarge.  Mark Perry points out: "Yes, the middle class has been disappearing, but they haven’t fallen into the lower class, they’ve risen into the upper class."

Greenpeace Tells the FDA: Stop Misleading the Public About GMOs by Christina Sarich

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
Greenpeace Tells the FDA: Stop Misleading the Public About GMOs by Christina Sarich Natural Society, 18 July 2013 Greenpeace is speaking up for the general public, by telling the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that they have no right to claim that GMOs are safe for Americans, or anyone else. Some call Greenpeace a militant environmentalist group, but with the recent science coming out about how harmful pesticides are to pollinators, and therefore a large portion of the food supply, Greenpeace would more appropriately be called sane or conscientious. The FDA and Monsanto ha... more »

Antisemitism is the main obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peace

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
'... in all too many mosques, schools and television programs across the Arab and Muslim world, the public is indoctrinated with the most vile anti-Jewish bigotry. Hatred is idealized to a degree that the average American, and the average Israeli, cannot comprehend or imagine.' I can comprehend this hatred, I see it far too often on Twitter and the Web. More here http://cifwatch.com/2013/07/19/resolved-antisemitism-is-the-main-obstacle-to-israeli-palestinian-peace/

Guest Post - Up-Cycling you’re Recycling

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 7 hours ago
[image: Recycling Symbol] One of the easiest things to do around the office is recycling: you make a huge difference, while not requiring people to change their habits or workload. The reasons behind recycling far outweigh any negatives to the process. It’s really easy to do, and you can see the difference it makes, especially when you start buying recycled products as well. Making products from raw materials costs more than from recycled products, so when manufacturers can use old objects, a lot of energy is conserved. Not only does it protect the environment from draining natural ... more »

Union Push Back on Obamacare

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
Germany has had a successful universal health care system since it was put in place under Bismarck. That is well over a century ago and the system survived the catastrophe of two world wars including one in which outright internal devastation was inflicted on the capital stock. During the interim, special interests have used propaganda and bribes to prevent a similar system been installed in the USA while not serving a third of the population and gaming the other two thirds to pay the most anywhere. The attempt to convert the current horror into a universal system is ... more »

Evolution of the Throw

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
Skip the pointed stick theory. It is good but long before that it was a simple throwing stone well aimed. Even our Bigfoot cousin has been observed using that method. A pointed stick does need to be fire hardened and surely emerged with the general acceptance of fire. Yet the whole development to that point needed to be driven by need and accurate stone throwing is sufficient. Throw in efficient running and a loss of a fur coat and we are well up to ourselves. One of the earliest confirmation of stone throwing was a Saharan waterhole with curious disc shaped stones that were... more »

Guayusa and Lucid Dreaming

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
The idea of lucid dreaming is a recent addition to our understanding of mindfulness and this site develops it nicely, while marketing the benefits of guayusa as an effective dream stimulant. This appears to be a safe protocol and an assist for those also working on meditation Feedback is vital in situations such as this so feel free to tell others of your experiences. It may well turn out to be modestly effective for most. Lucid Dreaming http://www.raisingmyvibrations.com/lucid-dreaming.html *1. Write your dreams down every morning* * **This is the most important ... more »

What Do Ants Know That We Don’t?

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
This is a rich comparison between the way ants communicate and organize, compared to that of our own. Unsurprisingly, they are similar and naturally suggestive as well. This item suggests that it may even by possible to learn from this. In the meantime, it is an excellent teaching analogy for computer science. Read and enjoy. *What Do Ants Know That We Don’t?* *BY DEBORAH GORDON* *07.06.13* * http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/what-ants-yes-know-that-we-dont-the-future-of-networking/ * *Ever notice how ant colonies so successfully explore and exploit resou... more »

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal's visit to SFS-Q

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
*Wikipedia:* "Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (born 23 September 1923) is a leading Egyptian journalist. For 17 years (1957–1974) he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and has been a respected commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years." *Mohamed Hassanein Heikal's visit to SFS-Q. Source: GUQatar. Date Published: May 22, 2013. Description:* Renowned journalist and historian, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, met with Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) students, at a discussion roundtable at their Education City campus. "Some analysts have noted that Sisi’s coup and ... more »

Major Fighting Between Kurds and Al Qaeda In Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
*Al-Qaeda is the black death.* Read for background: *Kurds drive Al-Qaeda fighters out of Ras al-Ain*. *II.* *Al-Qaeda is a plague* that was invented by the spin doctors in U.S., Pakistan, England, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. It is not a legitimate social, political, and spiritual movement. Any check that is put on this plague from whatever army---Kurds, Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, etc---is a good and positive thing. This plague won't go away anytime soon, especially if USrael and their Sunni slaves in the region have anything to say about it. I read somewhere t... more »

Naturalness and the LHC nightmare

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
Phil Gibbs wrote a nice essay, Naturally Unnatural, in which he discusses the annual EPS-HEP conference that just began in Stockholm and the subdued/nightmare feelings that phenomenologists may have due to the perfect agreement between the LHC and the Standard Model. He adds comments about naturalness and the multiverse. *Unnaturalness is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder.* Nima is quoted as a defender of a \(100\TeV\) collider. A possible result could be that nothing new is found which would be considered fascinating by Nima because that would be a proof of some unnaturalnes... more »

Adrian Dix, Throwing Punches While Laying On The Ground Bleeding/NDP, The Hypocrisy Party

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 8 hours ago
_________________ Updated post/July 18/2013 *Written by Grant G * Today and this week in question period the opposition NDP tried to make hay with new revelations into the ethnicgate scandal... I wrote this post about Dyble`s report, in this post I asserted correctly that the BC Liberal`s had engaged and employed the ethnic outreach plan, a plan to use public dollars for party work....I clearly stated that the plot was not only thought of and contemplated but fully implemented.. I wrote many posts at the time, I highlighted how the Burnaby hospital scandal was part of ethnicga... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
"A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. The central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula's central star. *Click image for larger size.* Of course, in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud re... more »

"Not Much Mental distance..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
“A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw d... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
San Antonio, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Mary Oliver, "I Want"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
"Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it." - Mary Oliver

"March To The Sea, And Make Salt"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*"March To The Sea, And Make Salt"* by Dan W "Satya is the Sanskrit word for “truth”; agraha means "great enthusiasm and interest". The two words combined may be rendered as "the firmness of truth.” The term was popularized during the Indian Independence Movement, and is used in many Indian languages including Hindi. It can also mean"the force of truth." On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and 78 male satyagrahis set out on foot for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, 390 kilometres (240 mi) from their starting point at Sabarmati Ashram. At Aslali, and the other villages that the ma... more »

"The First Rule of Life"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
"The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you." - Elizabeth Aston

Chet Raymo, “Mentally Enhanced”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Mentally Enhanced”* by Chet Raymo "Here she is, folks, from a report in the May 14, 2009 issue of Nature, the oldest known piece of representational art, a 35,000-year-old female figurine carved from mammoth ivory, from the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany. Huge breasts. Explicit vulva. Tiny head. Are we surprised? The first images our male ancestors looked at were - porn. But wait. Why do we automatically assume that the artist was male? Maybe while the guys were out hunting woolly mammoths, the gals were home carving figurines, magical talismans, meant to enhance the... more »

They'll be days like this...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago

Another Top PMO Aide Walks the Plank

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
And there wasn't so much as a splash to mark Chris Woodcock's departure from Stephen Harper's nest of bent vipers, officially known as the PMO or Prime Minister's Office. This time it was Harper's Director of Management and Issues or Issues Management which is a title that suggests nothing so much as a "fixer", the very role in which ex-con Bruce Carson served Harpo until he was outed in a scandal. Woodcock is another senior PMO staffer fingered by the RCMP as having prior notice of former Chief of Staff Nigel Wright's 90-thousand dollar, under-the-table cheque to Senator Mike Duff... more »

A CRACK IN THE WALL

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago
‘America has no functioning democracy’Former US President Jimmy Carter lambasted US intelligence methods as undemocratic and described Edward Snowden’s NSA leak as “beneficial” for the country. Carter lashed out at the US political system when the issue of the previously top-secret NSA surveillance program was touched upon at the Atlantic Bridge meeting on Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia. “*America has no functioning democracy at this moment*,” Carter said, according to Der Spiegel. He also believes the spying-scandal is undermining democracy around the world, as people become increas... more »

A live bull is hung from a tree until it dies for Chinese 'luck' festival

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
' Chinese villagers have defended their tradition of hanging a live bull from a tree until it dies as part of a ritual to bring them luck and a bumper harvest. The 'cow-hanging ceremony' has been carried out by the minority Dong people of southern China for almost 500 years and now attracts hundreds of tourists. ' I won't hold my breath waiting for the lefty types who scream about animals rights in UK and west to protest about this cruelty. Read more here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2364099/Pictured-Horrifying-moment-live-bull-hung-tree-dies-Chinese-luck-festival.h... more »

Mining 27: Ensuring Responsible Mining from Small and Large Projects

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours ago
A friend, Arcy Garcia, posted in his facebook wall my recent paper, Mining 26: Presentation at Rotary Club of Taguig Fort Bonifacio, and invited his friends from the Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) and Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) to comment on it. Only one commented, Mr. Samson Pedragosa, and I’m glad he did, as Samson has some constructive ideas how to further encourage responsible mining, not kill it. Below are our exchanges from July 16-19, 2013 , with permission from Arcy and Samson that I will use their comments. Thanks Arcy, Samson. This is six pages long including p... more »

DETROIT - DEAD CITY

Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
*Detroit* In recent decades, cars made in Detroit have been generally inferior to those made in Germany and Japan. Now, Detroit has become the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy - with debts of possibly $20 billion. Healthcare and other benefits for retired people are likely to be affected. * http://www.dailymail.co.uk/* *In March 2013, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of taking bribes and rigging contracts.* The USA is good at producing ignorant, brainwashed people, but not much else. *BOEING* Dreamliner fire at Heathrow linked to ANOTHER l... more »

Detroit declares bankruptcy

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
*...but the distortion of the markets continues...* Detroit declared bankruptcy according to the Chapter 9 of the federal law. You may see what it probably means for the city and the bondholders and others. We are talking about the "city proper" only – with 700,000 people, it's the 18th largest U.S. city (but the population was 2 million just decades ago). The metropolitan area hosts about 5 million people and is largely unaffected. A century ago or so, Detroit was the leader of innovation in the same way as Silicon Valley is today (or at least was several years ago) after Henry ... more »

Continuing Conundrum: The New Technologies Replaced Many Jobs With Few, Created New Billionaires Without Principles, and Made Us All Into Commodities To Be Sold to Advertisers - And Almost Everyone Got Poorer (A Metaphor for Our Time)

Rebecca Solnit at Tom's Dispatch has a very perceptive take on what's going down now and will happen even harder soon. And why. . . . there is massive upheaval in Egypt and in Brazil, and in recent years there have been popular rebellions in many parts of the Arab world, Turkey, Iceland, Greece, Spain, Britain, Chile, and the U.S. itself with Occupy. The globe is on fire with popular

MEDIA DAY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago
Today is media day for me in Quezon City, Philippines. Veteran Filipino activist Corazon Fabros took me this morning to a "media forum" which is a weekly gathering of journalists who discuss a particular topic. Fifty TV/radio/newspaper journalists came to hear me discuss Obama's "pivot" into the Asia-Pacific and its implications for their nation. It was great fun and they really understand things quite well and see grave dangers in the US military "coming back" into their nation. Following that I did an interview for a local TV station and next I do a print media interview over... more »

Marie's "Must Read"

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
Over at *A Puff of Absurdity*, Marie Snyder has written a terrific summary of the wisdom of Noam Chomsky. It's a "must read" for anyone with progressivism in their blood. Do check it out.

Japan's Radioactive Mutant fruits

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 12 hours ago
We asked before where are Japan's mutations...Below we see what some radio active particles can do to fruits...So we ask again where are the HUMAN MUTATIONS? Water melon with extra thick skin A mushroom  A lettuce  Mutant Egg plant    Seed Newsvine

Guest Post – Dave Kang: "International Relations Theory and East Asian History"

Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
It’s always a pleasure to guest-post my good friend Dave Kang. Dave teaches at the University of Southern California and runs their Korean Studies Institute (the pic). Here are some previous guest posts he’s written (one, two, three). Here is his encouragement to actually apply international relations theory to East Asia. I can’t agree more. Continue reading

Rebels without cause - The Economist Intel Unit analysis of Protest Movements

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 13 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/2ZpLQ5Exy_A - click in picture to start this film! *The Economist's Intelligence Unit* produced an interesting analysis of global protest movements. Here you can find more details. There appears to be a variety of protest engagement against 'traditional governance', whatever that means across the world. The Economist IU concludes that "...one striking feature is the rise of new social movements that defy easy categorisation and reject conventional modes of political engagement." I would add: "reject the lack of democracy" in a global society beyond 19th centuri... more »

Temps

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
Kelly Services, a temp agency, is now the second biggest private employer in the U.S. Only heavily subsidized, socially-toxic Walmart employs more people across the country. Last month, Michael Grabell filed this reportfor Pro Publica on the state of the temporary work in America. The implications are profound, not just for the individuals involved and for their families, but for our economic system going forward, for our democracy and for our society overall. Grabell paints a picture that sounds like the situation involving day laborers in third world countries but that isn't what... more »

Boston Police Photographer releases new photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - first photo interesting does not real a throat wound.when Tsarneaev surrendered ........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/boston-magazine-fires-back-at-rolling-stone-cover-with-new-photos-of-bloody-tsarnaev/ ‘THIS IS THE REAL BOSTON BOMBER’: POLICE PHOTOGRAPHER FIRES BACK AT ROLLING STONE COVER WITH NEW PHOTOS OF BLOODY TSARNAEV Jul. 18, 2013 5:55pm Madeleine Morgenstern - 184 - 4.2K - 8 - 0 - - - 77 Boston Magazine has responded to Rolling Stone’s controversial new cover giving accused marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the glam rock star treatment with incredible new photos of his capture. This Tsarnaev — bloody and in the fixed beam of ... more »

La Defensa del Agua de la Tribu Yaqui

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Yaqui defend their water in Sonora, Mexico Published on Jul 18, 2013 Desde el 29 de mayo de este año, la Tribu Yaqui y el Movimiento Ciudadano en defensa del agua de Ciudad Obregón, iniciaron el bloqueo intermitente en la carretera internacional número 15 México-Nogales a la altura del pueblo de Vícam, primer cabecera del territorio yaqui. Esta acción se organizó

And Now the Buzzards Descend to Pick the Corpse of Detroit

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
You might find this surprising but there's a group of mega-rich investors just waiting to pounce on a parcel of Detroit real estate. They call their vision the "Commonwealth of Belle Isle" and they have big plans for the one decent park the people of beleaguered Detroit have remaining to them. Belle Isle is a 982-acre island in the Detroit River near where the river meets Lake St. Clair. It's the biggest municipal-owned, island park in the U.S. This is what the vultures have in mind for Belle Isle: Consider it a fortress with a 12-knot moat, the ultimate gated community/municip... more »

Las mejores imágenes del mundo XIV (32 fotos gratis)

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 14 hours ago
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Doctor Debunks AFP Ad on ObamaCares

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
Two minutes. It's great - share it wide Source: OccupyDemocrats

Gaia Portal: Finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago
* * * * *Finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment* by ÉirePort Energetic couplings and finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment. Such connections and couplings have been designed for New Paradigm multi-dimensional manifestations and will be experienced by multiple Light-aware and non-Light-aware beings, across planetary surface, as well as throughout Inner Gaia realms. What some might term "mass awakenings" will occur in due time, ... more »

Fordham Institute’s Newsletter: Gadfly or Dung Beetle?

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
We called them tumble bugs when I was a kid down South. Dung beetles live in, by, and for manure. They carefully roll it into balls, place it underground, and lay their eggs in it. This provides a food source for their larvae, or as the case with Fordham’s busy beetles, for Americans seeking information […]

ALEC Legislators - Bottom Feeders

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago
ALEC - Pimping for whoever can pay them enough money. There are a couple of errors in what is said in this - but I don't care. I love this. Nine minutes of your time - you don't have to watch it - listen to it. Funny that Pap mentions the Sagebrush Rebellion ALEC has an act for that -but it is not what anyone would imagine. Sagebrush Rebellion Act, it is designed to establish a mechanism for the transfer of ownership of unappropriated lands from the federal government to the states. There doesn't seem to be much of a public outcry. What? Let's change that! Let's say NO! to th... more »

The Secret Government

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
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As Detroit goes bankrupt, if you see anything the city owns that you like, try offering the "emergency manager" a few bucks

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*See anything you like? Make 'em an offer. (Feel free to low-ball.)* *"The best analogy I have heard for what is happening in Detroit is that this is a five-decade Katrina. Now, you either get a voluntary agreement from people holding long-term debt, or you get bankruptcy."* *-- Peter Hammer, Wayne State University law professor and director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights* *by Ken* The news is pretty stark. The *Washington Post* (with help from the AP) reports: "Deroit goes bankrupt, largest municipal filing in U.S. history." Detroit filed the largest municipal bankru... more »

Congressman Chaka Fattah ( Dem - Pa ) calls for Washington bailout of the City of Detroit ... White House we're monitoring but solve your problems Detroit........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Congressman Asks Obama For "Immediate Support" With Detroit Bankruptcy [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2013 20:12 -0400 - Detroit - Michigan - President Obama - White House Four years ago he bailed out the city's automotive industry, and a whole lot of union votes. Moments ago, Obama was just called in again, this time to bail out the entire city. "Representative Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a leader of the Congressional Urban Caucus, sent a letter to President Obama today calling on the Administration* to lend a helping hand to Detroit*... more »

Summer Teaching – Why Teach and What Makes It Different

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
Recently, I finished teaching a month long summer course on International Relations to mainly first and second year undergrads at the University of Missouri. Although I’ve taught summer courses before, this was actually one of my first experiences with having to –for the love of all things holy! – do what my public school teaching Continue reading

On Writing Letters to Congress about ESEA

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
I received a very genuine email appeal from a fellow humane human engaged in the same struggle to create public schools controlled by the public. Here is part of it: As you know, ESEA will soon come before the house floor for amendment. Would you be willing to encourage colleagues to call their representatives and […]

Bear Drumdancer

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago

NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS.

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
jueves, 18 de julio de 2013 #EZLN NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS. NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS. Julio del 2013.Para: Las compañeras y compañeros de la Sexta y estudiantes de la Escuelita Zapatista.De: Subcomandante Insurgente

Mohawk Nation News 'Dim Apprentice'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
DIM APPRENTICE Posted on July 18, 2013   Mohawk Nation News MNN. July 17, 2013. Prime Minister Harper’s former economic hit man within Indian Affairs, Jim Prentice, also known as “The-Dim-Apprentice”, is warning us, his Indigenous landlords, to turn over our energy and natural resources to the international bankers real quick, or else! Harper’s scam-the-Indians-and-get-a-commission right

Imagine... The World Will Be As One...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 17 hours ago

Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
*"Martin Buber: A Contemporary Perspective"* edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (2002). *Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue. Source: University of Chicago. Date Published: July 15, 2013. Description*: Paul Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals. He serves as editor-in-chief of the 22-volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber, sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgisc... more »

Friday Morning Ramble: The Earth Moved Under Our Feet Edition

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
Earthquake near Wellington this morning measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale (and 16 stone on the ordinary household scale*). *Recent Earthquakes* – GEONET "Impossible to serve hot, good-quality food" in schools, says Indian state education minister after 23 kids die. *In India, Playground Now a Graveyard* – WALL STREET JOURNAL The Maori population in Australia ("aka “Mozzies”) is growing faster than it is here, and they’re earning much better too—some evidence, you’d think, that race-based welfarism here at home is less beneficial than the melting pot across the Tasman. *Maori in... more »

Fukushima updates - July 18 , 2013.... Reactor 3 has steam coming up . Tepco says just heated rain ? Recall Reactor 3 is the one with the MOX fuel..... Meanwhile , items of note concerning thyroid cancers in Japan ,US military radiation related medical conditions including cancers and other unusual maladies....Radiation contamination and mutation items of note.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/steaming-reactor3-tepco-the-steam-is-the-heated-rain-same-thing-happened-last-year-but-didnt-report-it/ [Steaming reactor3] Tepco “The steam is the heated rain, same thing happened last year but didn’t report it” Posted by *Mochizuki* on July 18th, 2013 · No Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Following up this article.. *Tepco to hold an extraordinary press conference about reactor3 “steam” at the headquarters* [URL] *The steam is still coming up* at the moment of 16:00 7/18/2013. In the press ... more »

US Mulls attacking Syria - considering the news dominating the news cycle , why are we not surprised by this ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
With horrible headlines dominating the news cycle such as the following...... The Economy ? *DETROIT: Largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history...* NSA spy capers ? *ADMIT: NSA SPIES ON FRIENDS' FRIENDS' FRIENDS...* TSA searching parked cars at airports without notice ? *TSA SEARCHING PARKED CARS AT AIRPORTS...* IRS- Gate spreading like cancer ? *Questions about IRS snooping grow, extend to Biden home state...* * **Officials in DC ordered 'special scrutiny'...* * **Zimmerman case blowback fueling racial divide and giving opportunities for opportunists ? * * * *Jesse Jackson: ... more »

Together Index (with updated clip)

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago
A thick blanket of intense focus has wrapped itself around this place. Heat. The “dog days” of summer are here. Outside now, I witness their calling card – drooping branches, bleached flowers and burnt leaves. I wonder about the necessity for extremes. Sunshine and warmth are on one end required for life here; on the other – deadly. There is talk of a “heat index”. The temperature reads 96 degrees, while this index tells me it feels like 106. How does it know? Can an algorithm really understand what a specific temperature feels like to a human? Are not we uniq... more »

Detroit files for bankruptcy and Michigan Governor Snyder authorizes the Chapter 9 filings - largest municipal bankruptcy in history.... Massive fight and massive looming haircuts for Detroit's creditors including Pension Funds and pensioners....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-18/when-60-years-lies-clash-reality-michigan-governor-snyder-authorizes-detroits-bankru When 60 Years Of Lies Clash With Reality: Michigan Governor Snyder Authorizes Detroit's Bankruptcy [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2013 17:31 -0400 - Bankruptcy Code - Creditors - Detroit - Fresh Start - Michigan - Reality - Unemployment The full letter from Michigan Governor Richard Snyder to Kevyn Orr, the man who just filed Detroit's bankruptcy petition. *Kevyn D. Orr* *Emergency Manager*... more »

How the Media is Mis-Reporting the DOD’s Drone Casualty Study

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
Earlier this week I posted about the classified DOD study showing a high rate of civilian harm from drone attacks. Not much else can be said about this finding by analysts until the study is de-classified, so instead let me discuss at some length the one other thing we do know: that the media has Continue reading

Thursday Afternoon Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
Before posting some mid-Thursday afternoon linkage, here is a little musing on not overstating the influence of social media on entertainment and politics. For a moment this week, the horribleness that was the SyFy Channel’s Sharknado set off a mini-Twitter storm that resulted in: a bunch of tweets but still dismal ratings for the made Continue reading

AWTT - America's True Hall of Fame

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
Presented for your inspiration, the web site AWTT, dedicated to Americans Who Tell the Truth. AWTT features a gallery of portraits by Robert Shetterly of that rare and bravest American species, the truth tellers. You'll find the famous and not-so-famous, from Abraham Lincoln to this guy, Bruce "Utah" Philips: "*Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. ... more »

The Assassination of JFK Jr.

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago
The Assassination of JFK Jr. from Spike1138 on Vimeo. http://spitfirelist.com/f175 When John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in the crash of a private plane in July of 1999, media pundits ruminated at length about the recklessness of the Kennedys and "the Kennedy curse". This program explores the striking contradictions between the official version of JFK, Jr.'s death and the facts concerning his demise. The available data suggest that JFK, Jr. may have been the victim of foul play. The program consists of an interview with veteran journalist John Bryan, who worked for the San Francisco... more »

Guest Post - A Different Take on Geothermal Energy

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 20 hours ago
When you hear about harvesting geothermal energy, what comes to mind? Do you imagine an Icelandic setting filled with collections of hot springs and an industrial size structure billowing heaps of steam, like this? [image: Harvesting geothermal energy.] Currently, these geothermal fields sparsely populate the Pacific Northwest, found as far inland as Northern Montana and Southern New Mexico. The largest of which is located at *The Geysers* in the Mayacamas Mountains just above San Francisco. As the world’s largest supplier of geothermal energy, the United States operates at an estim... more »

Lee Rogers And An Eternal, Shared American Dream

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
Political scuttlebutt in Santa Clarita is that Buck McKeon is busy sucking up all the benefits of political corruption available and setting himself up as an armaments lobbyist this session and that he won't run against Lee Rogers again in 2014. Rogers came closer to beating him last year than anyone else in McKeon's whole career. And that was without any help from the DCCC. This year the DCCC is weighing in on Rogers' behalf... and McKeon is trying to hand the district over to an outsider-- right-wing fanatic Tony Strickland. Several other local Republicans aren't prepared to see ... more »

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
The Motor City has gone bust. *Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once the nation’s fourth-most-populous city, has filed for bankruptcy, an official said Thursday afternoon, the largest American city ever to take such a course.* *Ballroom, Lee Plaza Hotel* ** *Founded more than 300 years ago, the city expanded at a stunning rate in the first half of the 20th century with the arrival of the automobile industry, and then shrank away in recent decades at a similarly remarkable pace. A city of 1.8 million in 1950, it is now home to 700,000 people, as well as to te... more »

HAARP Gakona: Closed - what about new conspiracies?

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 21 hours ago
Who hasn't heard about "Haarp"? If you haven't you've missed little: Haarp, as many understand it, has closed. Funny then to see a continuous stream of conspiracy stories and YouTube's where the Gakona (Alaska) Haarp research facility was closed in the beginning of May 2013. However, this is only a small part of the truth about Haarp, of which a dozen or so likewise installations can be found all over the planet. The real truth is: scientists don't know what might happen when they fiddle with the ionosphere and electro-jets high above our heads. This explains their curiosity to find ... more »

Elizabeth Warren (D Massachusetts) gets my vote as the finest U.S. Senator of our time. And Arizona's maveric Republican Senator John McCain has returned to his senses. They both advocate the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. Find out why, and then sign on!

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago
------------------------------ Sign on to the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act http://youtu.be/ONEcoq9pjac To be a Citizen Co-Sponsor go here (it will take you all of 30 seconds). Cherchez la Verite

The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian Hawk" & Israel's New Gladiator at the UN

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 21 hours ago
(Photo Credit: Pete Souza / White House) In her first appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Samantha Power, Obama's pick for next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that she will spend her time in the role much as her predecessor Susan Rice did: acting as Israel's consummate defender, fear-mongering about Iran, and opposing any move to champion Palestinian

"In the present case, the trial judge improperly used the appellant’s right to be present at his trial to discredit his testimony. She erred in doing so."

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago
*R. v. Jorgge*, 2013 ONCA 485 is a very clear statement that a judge may not consider the possibility that an accused tailored their evidence to meet evidence already heard. The Court writes: [12] There is a natural temptation to reason as the trial judge did in this case. But this reasoning was improper because it subverted the appellant’s right to be present at his trial. Under s. 650(1) of the Criminal Code, accused persons have a statutory right, indeed an obligation, to be present at their trial. Section 650(1) is grounded in an accused’s right to a fair trial and right to ma... more »

"The War on the Young"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
* * *"The War on the Young"* by Bill Bonner "Another slow day on Wall Street. Stocks up a little. Gold down a little. A hot summer day. Ain’t nuthin’ goin’ nowhere. Except away. “Bernanke vows no retreat from easy monetary policy,” says the headline on the Financial Times this morning. “On to Moscow!” he might have added with flair… echoing Napoleon or Adolf. Easy money is the headliner today. More comic than tragic. But it will be, we predict, one of the biggest public policy disasters of our time. Here in Paris, talk is of leaving town. Either for the summer vacation… or forev... more »

The bourgeois perspective of the Times!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *The things we care about:* Again today, we observe a crushing difference in perspective on opposite sides of the Time op-ed page: Down the right side of the page, Nicholas Kristof is off in Mali, writing about blindness and leprosy. Kristof tends to be like that. On the other side of the page, Gail Collins is wasting everyone’s time writing about Liz Cheney. Last Thursday, she wasted everyone’s time writing about Spitzer/Weiner. Translation: Gail Collins has nothing to say or write about. Then too, Maureen Dowd is still writing from Paris. Yesterday, she ... more »

Snowy day

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago

What's Round, Three Storeys High and Stuffed With Cash?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
Why it's the Cavendish Cottager, the senator from Kanata, Prince Edward Island, Mike Duffy.

US/Britian talk of using force in Syria and "refugees beg for a no fly zone"

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours ago
*UPDATE BELOW: SYRIA'S "REBEL" COMMANDER HEADING TO THE US* *and news of a report from the "FSA" that Assad transferred chemical weapons.... (Of course this pack of lies originates in Israeli media. It does however present a very convenient lie that can be used against Syria, Lebanon &Iran)* *scroll down * The refugees begging is over the top. So, I will save it for last. *(before updates) *Along with the picture of John Kerry *TorStar* “Senator, I am in favour of building a moderate opposition and supporting it,” Dempsey said. *“The question whether to support it with direct kinet... more »

Der Spiegel: Jimmy Carter Supports Snowden; Admits to Press: "America Has No Functioning Democracy"

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
President Jimmy Carter *This was posted at Brian Kelly's Blog -AK* * * http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/jimmy-carter-supports-snowden-admits-to.html *Jimmy Carter Supports Snowden; Admits to Press: "America Has No Functioning Democracy"* July 18, 2013 Found this in one of Germany's biggest newspapers; Spiegel. Of course we won't hear about Carter's comments in any American Press. To say "America has no functioning Democracy," is quite the statement by a former President. A direct link to that article, using google translate, can be found here. Ex-President Carter: "The i... more »

ALEC Conference - The Numbers Don't Compute

2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago
Now there is a little bit of a conundrum here. Consider this from the ALEC webpage: Hotel Address The Palmer House Hilton 17 East Monroe St. Chicago, IL60603 Reservation Deadline Wednesday, July 17, 2013 After July 17, 2013 every effort will be made to accommodate new reservations, based on availability and rate Doesn't matter what the rate is - the corporations are footing the bill - with their ALEC Scholarships. BUT note one other thing. The Palmer is the ONLY HOTEL LISTED for the conference No other hotel, with ALEC conference rates, is listed. None, just the Palmer.... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago
*Sediment diversion is important to survival of state’s coast ~Aaron Viles, The Lens* *Dennis Persica: Business likes N.O., but state ... not so much ~Advocate*

Maoist TV loses ratings battle!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *We recall the last time they started:* We were intrigued by Bill Carter’s report about viewership for the Zimmerman verdict. According to Carter, more than ten million people watched the verdict on one of the cable news channels. That is a massive number for 10 o’clock Eastern on a Saturday night. This is the way the numbers broke down: *Cable news viewers for Zimmerman verdict:* *Fox News: *3.68 million *CNN:* 3.4 million *HLN:* 2.2 million *MSNBC:* 1.3 million You can’t necessarily learn much from a single event of this type. MSNBC’s audience is probab... more »

Pesticide-Contaminated Lunch Kills 22 Children in India, Protests Spark by Elizabeth Renter

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 23 hours ago
Pesticide-Contaminated Lunch Kills 22 Children in India, Protests Spark by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 17 July 2013 *Twenty-two children are dead so far* in the village of Dharmasati Gandaman, in India’s Bihar state. The cause is not some communicable disease or strange virus, but their school lunch. According to the BBC, the children all ate from the school’s free mid-day meal. *Forty-seven fell ill and 28 had been taken to area hospitals.* The free-lunch program is designed to both combat hunger and increase school attendance in the poverty-stricken village. It’s refe... more »

Musical Interlude: Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWnHAhKX6E&html5=1

Documentary Evidence in Civil Matters

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago
Documentary evidence poses a major challenge for the Courts. This is especially so for civil cases – often trials for these matters are conducted with a focus on the substantive issues and without a focus on how things are to be proven. As a result evidentiary issues relating to proof of documents can be overlooked. Prior to admission all documents must be authenticated and established as relevant. Authentication, that is proving the document is what it purports to be, seldom poses an issue. A person who made or received the document can say it is, in fact, for example, a letter ... more »

How the Gates Foundation Is Undergirding the College Caste System

Jim Horn at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has an explosive series of articles on the influence on higher education by vulture philanthropy and corporate foundations. Taking advantage of recent research by Hall and Thomas, CHE goes in depth to uncover a sewer of self-serving corruption, arrogant and ignorant policymaking, anti-democratic social steering, and a U. S. Department […]

The Allure of Order Previews the Failure of Common Core

John Thompson at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
The chapter that taught me the most in The Allure of Order covers the 1970s and the story of how state governments grew in importance. I was most struck, however, by Mehta’s account of Maryland’s accountability-based reform, Maryland Student Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), in the 1990s. It was an effort to combine accountability with a […]

It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life For me. And I'm feeling good

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
*Carmelle, forwarded us this video below, fits the mood of the day very well indeed! -AK* Thursday, 18 July 2013 *This old world is a new world.... how I feel* *OH Carmelle I sooooo Know how you feel!!! I feel it too!! -D.* And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel (refrain:)x2 It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling good Fish in the sea you know how I feel River running free you know how I feel Blossom... more »

ReDigitizing

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day ago
Southern Man has a fairly extensive collection of music; lots of classical, lots of classic rock and blues, a fair bit of gospel, plenty of post-hardcore (thanks to Southern Son) and modern pop (favored by both Southern Daughters), and a scattering of others. It is mostly inaccessible - LPs boxed up in the barn and CDs scattered everywhere. So in an effort to (a) gather his music into one accessible place and (b) free himself from the tyranny of 20th-century rotating storage media, Southern Man is gathering his CDs and copying them to MP3s for easy playback. Yes, these too will ev... more »

Multimillionaire New Dem John Delaney Wants To Give Rich Corporations Another Tax Holiday

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Another entitled multimillionaire in Congress undermining the lives of ordinary Americans If you caught the post Monday about how the DCCC recruits too many damned millionaires who have no way of relating to ordinary working families, you may have noticed that Maryland multimillionaire backbencher John Delaney spent $2,370,556 last year to buy himself a seat, the third most among the wealthy Democratic freshmen (all of whom immediately joined the extremely corrupt, pro-Business/anti-Family New Dems). In the battle over saving Social Security-- the importance of which these wealthy as... more »

Photo Longest Walk 4 Begins!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Photo copyright Brent Casa Azul/Thanks for sharing with Censored News! By Brenda Norrell Censored News WASHINGTON DC -- The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz began with a Sunrise Ceremony in Washington DC on Monday morning, July 15, 2013. Walkers are now on their way to Pennsylvania, enroute to Alcatraz. Walkers from the Long Walk 2 northern route include Michael Lane, top right, who was on

The reach and power of Standard Group Tales!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *White liberals, please stay in your cars:* Occasionally, a professional journalist will reject a Standard Group Story. On Monday, Will Saletan rejected the current Standard Story in a post at Slate. As he starts, he says he “almost joined the frenzy” about the Zimmerman verdict: SALETAN (7/15/13): *I almost joined the frenzy. Yesterday I was going to write that Zimmerman pursued Martin against police instructions and illustrated the perils of racial profiling. But I hadn’t followed the case in detail.* So I sat down and watched the closing arguments: ne... more »

Question for McCainologists

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
My PP post yesterday was about "How Ted Cruz got Richard Cordray confirmed." It's about Republican overreach in general, but it's also about one particular possibility: that a big part of what happened had to do with John McCain getting upset with Ted Cruz. Which is, in turn, based on the idea -- familiar to McCain watchers -- that most of his career can be interpreted as basically a series of temper tantrums. Do note: there's another plausible interpretation, which is that it's all straightforward opportunism (Left to save his career after the Keating 5! Still left to occupy vacant... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Highly educated and aware, fully and truthfully informed by their totally trustworthy and ever-honest main stream media and government, deeply concerned Americans ponder the grave issues confronting their country... - CP

"No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation"* By Matthias Chang "I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized daylight robbery. Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and no government would dare embark on such a drastic action to bail out insolvent banks. Before I explain why confiscation of bank deposits in the UK and US is a certainty and absolutely legal, I need all readers of this article to do the following: Ask your local police, sheriffs, lawyers,... more »

Benjamin & His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Lies:Netanyahu Cries 'Wolf'...Again

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
"[An Iranian nuclear bomb] was a lot further away 15 years ago when I started talking about it. It was a lot further away 10 years ago. It was a lot further away five years. It was a lot further away five months ago. They are getting there, and they are getting very, very close." - Benjamin Netanyahu, March 7, 2012 "Red line, white line, black line and the like is for children. This is

"The Perils of Obedience"

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. The experiments were also controversial, and considered by some scientists to be unethical and physically or psychologically abusive. Psychologist Diana Baumrind considered the experiment "harmful because it may cause permanent psychological damage and cause p... more »

Boston: The Iranian Connection

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
Washington Talk: Briefing; C.I.A. Secrets *Published: February 15, 1988* There is no shortage of memoirs and books by former intelligence officials. But when Graham Fuller retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, leaving his post as national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, his first publication had nothing to do with cloaks, daggers or nasty deeds in back alleys. Mr. Fuller's book, titled ''How to Learn a Foreign Language,'' suggests a practical approach to a topic that has confounded generations of American high school and college students. Mr. Fuller ... more »

Protests Break Out Again In Iraq Over Lack Of Electricity

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
For the third time in four years, Iraqis have taken to the street to express their anger with the government for not providing enough electricity to meet demand. There are on-going protests in Basra and Dhi Qar provinces, the sight of similar events in 2010 and 2011. In response, the Electricity Ministry has tried to blame the weather and other ministries, which was very similar to previous years when it refused to take responsibility for its own shortcomings. The summers are very hot in Iraq, and if these protests grow they could pose a serious problem for the government, which is... more »

The Economy: “The Reason The Fed's Game Will End In Detonation”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“The Reason The Fed's Game Will End In Detonation”* by Karl Denninger “You might not have caught it, but if you didn't you weren't thinking. One of the last questions and answers given by Bernanke was "what if rates rise?" His answer? The economy will tank. Did that tell you everything you needed to know? It should have. He can't exit. Not now, not ever. Which paradoxically, means he will exit because if an outcome is inevitable then the longer you wait and the more distortion you pump in before it happens the worse it is and he cannot avoid owning the outcome either way. T... more »

DEAD CITIES

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Venice - a lively place in the 1980s* "Many houses and apartments are empty for weeks or months at a time... "And the workers who service this culture invariably commute long distances..." *Desert attests to lack of community - FT.com* This applies to parts of Venice, Paris, London... Ordinary people are being priced out of some of our cities. *Paris - too expensive.* Simon Kuper, in the Financial Times, has written about how "Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself... "Paris is pricing out even the upper middle-class." ... more »

“Critical Warning No. 17: Dow 5,000, crash of 65%”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* “Critical Warning No. 17: Dow 5,000, crash of 65%”* by Paul B. Farrell "Critical warning No. 17? Lost count? Here’s the latest: “The stock market is about to have a devastating decline; we will see Dow 5,000 before we see Dow 20,000.” That’s Terry Burnham, former Goldman Sachs trader, biotech entrepreneur, money manager, author of “Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality,” on PBS. A former Harvard professor of behavioral economics, a guy on par with Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman; “Black Swan’s” Nassim Nicholas Taleb; and Dan Ariely,... more »

Personalized Shrinky Dink Necklace- Perfect for Grandmas

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
This year for my Mother-in-Law's birthday, my daughter really wanted to make her present. We spent hours pouring over Pinterest and couldn't find anything my daughter thought was the right present to make. We pulled out the Shrinky Dinks to make something else, when she asked if we could make Grandma a necklace that she drew. It was absolutely perfect. She could draw pictures of them together and we could easily turn it into jewelry. You will need: - Shrinky Dinks - Markers - Scissors - An Oven preheated to 325 - a hole punch - a necklace chain I u... more »

Jay D. Jurie : 'Approved Killing' in Florida

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Emmett Till, left, and Trayvon Martin. Image from Tumblr. Intimations of Emmett Till: A 'shocking story of  approved killing' in Florida Today the pre-1960s explicit racial 'code' has been supplanted by the implicit code upon which 'profiling' is based. By Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / July 18, 2013The Rag Blog's Jay Jurie will discuss issues raised in this article with Rag Blog editor

IL Educators to Say NO to ALEC

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
*CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION* ALEC Exposed Rally in Chicago 07/16/2013 *Be there Thursday, August 8 to protest outside of the American Legislative Exchange Council *[ALEC] 40th Anniversary Conference in Chicago August 7-9. ALEC is bringing state politicians here to push a dangerous agenda that rewards greedy CEOs at the expense of middle class families and our public schools and puts our safety at risk. Forty years of ALEC is nothing to celebrate. Can we count on you to be there and push back? When greedy corporations are allowed to make the rules, our community suffers. Good full ti... more »

A Little Plain Blog Told-You-So

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Hey, I don't do this very often, but: Me, in June, on concerns that temporarily losing the New Jersey seat might prevent Democrats from doing Senate reform: I don't question [this] reporting -- that is, I'm sure that Democrats are saying what he reports they're saying -- but I don't really believe it. I continue to believe it's highly unlikely that the Democrats will act unless they're very close to being unanimous. One defection, maybe; two, perhaps; more, and I don't think anything happens. I made this point multiple times: Harry Reid wasn't going to act with 51, or if Joe Biden ... more »

Check out our latest episode on #TFA in Minnesota

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Here’s our latest episode of At the Chalk Face with two graduate students from the University of Minnesota who are resisting their institution’s potential deal with TFA. I’m still a little annoyed by the end of this episode. I decided to use Zingaya to run the show instead of Skype, and it cut us off. […]

5 Reasons Why More Americans Don’t Protest Against The System

[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Sigmund Fraud Having recently celebrated their nation’s independence on July 4th, Americans were invited to recall the spirit of protest, rebellion, and revolution that marks the popular myth of the birth of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence still stands as an important example of how the tolerance of any man can be exceeded by the actions of an overbearing and intrusive government. Yet, 237 years after the signing of this document, one has to wonder what has happened to the spirit of fearlessness... more »

SOCIETY DOWN: What happened in Sanford that night?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *Part 3—How life can become a cartoon:* On Saturday night, the jury reached its verdict in the Zimmerman trial. One night earlier, Piers Morgan had conducted his latest discussion of the high-profile trial. As he started, he boasted about his “stellar panel.” It included Judge Glenda *and* Judge Alex, the hosts of *two* syndicated programs! Morgan is one of the dumbest people on the cable dial. His history in Great Britain was so noxious that CNN simply *knew* they had to import the chap. At one point in last Friday’s discussion, a wonderful moment occurr... more »

There may be one way our public schools are failing. #racism

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
I have heard student teachers and veterans wonder why they should teach about diversity or multicultural values if they and their students are white. Or, in other instances, appreciation and understanding of cultural diversity is viewed as an add-on or supplement, rarely the underlying goal of education. Still, in more instances, educators simply avoid discussions […]

The Sound of Sangre: Let's help these guys tell a good story

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
If you like documentary film, folk music of a very original kind, or Latin America, *this project* to find a mysterious Honduran band that plays * narcocorrido* music is worth checking out. The two U.S. men spearheading the project, Chris Valdes and Ted Griswold, taught in the Olancho region of Honduras and kept hearing talk of Los Plebes de Olancho, one of the bands in the country that does the very tricky work of sitting down with *narcotraficantes* working in the cocaine industry and documenting their hair-raising, dangerous stories in songs. The bands keep a pretty low p... more »

Tom Hayden : Is Obama Really in Control?

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
This plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Vienna despite Obama's earlier comment that he "wouldn't scramble jets against a 29 year old hacker." Photo by Andres Gutierrez / AP. Refs being 'worked'? Does Obama control the State? The executive branch has aided in the unaccountable growth of a Frankenstein-like Leviathan which now is beyond the control of its own

Is The Safety Of The State Really Worth More Than The Truth?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Brandon Smith It's a strange and terrible tragedy when a culture forgets its own history and identity. It is even more tragic when that culture becomes deluded enough to think it can replace its heritage from scratch; that it can conjure political and social reformations out of thin air, and abandon the centuries upon centuries of accomplishment and failures of generations past. To think that one can live without the lessons and principles of one's ancestors is a disease – a mental disorder of the highest caliber. It is an i... more »

Michael Hastings Cremated Despite Family Wishes to Have Body

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Paul Lawrance Former *Rolling Stone* journalist Michael Hastings has been cremated and sent home in a urn despite the fact his family wanted his body. Hastings died on June 18th after his Mercedes crashed into a tree and had burst into flames in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing speculation to arise that Hastings, who was working on a major exposé of the CIA, could have been set up. Kimberly Dvorak of San Diego 6 who spoke directly with friends of Hastings family said, “A close family friend did confirm t... more »

When is legislation of quasi-constitutional status?

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Nunavut (Minister of the Environment) v. WSCC, 2013 NUCJ 11 has a useful analysis of when a statute is to be given special consideration as being of quasi-consititutional status: A. Is the Safety Act "quasi-constitutional" legislation? [22] Jenkins submits that the purpose and objectives of the Safety Act are of such importance that the legislation is "quasi-constitutional" in nature. [23] Laws may be constitutional, quasi-constitutional, or of general application. The paramountcy of legislation may be determined by reference to, amongst other things, its characterization as ... more »

Idiocracy Now: The Sold Out $120 White T-Shirt by Kanye West

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Melissa Melton I’m going to tell you a short story. Once upon a time, American founding father Benjamin Franklin said “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Over 200 years later in America, it was revealed our government was wholesale spying on the people. Instead of outrage and promises to immediately shut down these programs and hold anyone who violated the Constitution under them responsible, the president’s response to this revelation was, ... more »

Hemp vs Cotton: The Ultimate Showdown

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
Joe Martino Hemp has been making a lot of noise lately, especially with the growing awareness surrounding the use of hemp oil for treating cancer. Although the word ‘hemp’ still often gets confused and lumped into the same definition as Cannabis, a similar but psychoactive plant, it’s important to realize hemp can be a major game changer for our world if used to its potential. As we go through this post, you will be wondering ‘why don’t we use this stuff all the time...for everything?!’ Simple answer, farming hemp was banned in the US and other countries in the 1937 because of the ... more »

What the F*ck is Wrong with Police in America?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
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CIA investing in research aimed at modifying the Earth’s climate for unknown reasons

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: richardcox8592/Flickr Madison Ruppert The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is participating in funding a $630,000 study on geoengineering for reasons which are not entirely clear as of yet. Geoengineering is the practice of using highly experimental techniques to modify the climate of the Earth in various ways, something which researchers like Dane Wigington contend is highly dangerous. This particular 21-month-long study has a final report due in the fall of 2014 and was commissioned in concert with the N... more »

Tragic Mistake Or Deliberate Plan? 30 Million People Injected with Mandatory Vaccination Containing Live SV40 Cancer Virus

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Daisy Luther People like to shake their heads at the eccentricities of those of us who eschew vaccines for ourselves and our families, but a recent document that was published (then immediately removed from the website) by the CDC gives even more credibility to our claims of “You just don’t know what’s in that stuff.” A polio vaccine injection that was given to people between 1955-1963 contained a live cancer virus. Here is a cached copy of the CDC document. *Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet* ... more »

The “McDonald’s Budget”: Laughably Unrealistic But Also Deeply Tragic

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] click to enlarge Michael Snyder Can you support a family on $2,000 a month? Recently, McDonald's and Visa teamed up to launch a website that is intended to help employees of McDonald's manage their money. The aspect of the website that is getting a tremendous amount of national attention is the "McDonald's Budget" which is a sample monthly budget designed to help workers plan their spending. You can see a copy of it for yourself right here. This budget is laughably unrealistic, but it is also deeply tragic, because there ... more »

Federal Court Throws Out Block On Indefinite Detention Provision of NDAA

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Once again in the US you can be detained by the military indefinitely without trial.* image source Paul Lawrance Wednesday, the US District Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit threw out an injunction on the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that had been ordered by a judge through *Hedges vs. Obama*. In September 2012 a federal court in New York had issued a permanent injunction on section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA. This provision allows for indefinite detention of citizens and p... more »

Ed Snowden Stuck in Russia: Is This a Political Move by Obama?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Chris Carrington Stranded at a hotel in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Ed Snowden has been helped by Russian officials to apply for temporary asylum in the country. He is effectively trapped in Russia because the US government has cancelled his passport. He has been offered asylum by a number of Latin American countries, but without papers further cross-border travel is impossible. It’s strange that his documents weren’t cancelled immediately when the government found out he had taken flight. Could it be that his being on Ru... more »
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