Map of ground operations of Operation Desert Storm from February 24-28th 1991. Shows allied and Iraqi forces. Special arrows indicate the American 101 st Airborne division moved by air and where the French 6 st light division and American 3 rd Armored Cavalry Regiment provided security. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kerry/Edwards campaign logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Advertisement from the 1970s by American nuclear-energy companies, using Iran's nuclear program as a marketing ploy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Kerry, Kerry, Quite Contrary:US Secretary of State Reveals Ignorance on Iranian Nuclear Program
Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 minute ago
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry
(Credit: CBS)
In an extensive interview with Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes" this
past Sunday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry revealed a
startling lack of awareness of certain basic facts regarding Iran's
nuclear program and the history of various proposals Iran has made to
alleviate suspicion over its intentions.
Such ignorance goes a long
谢谢你做什么，两次世界大战代..大声笑..中国抗战老兵珍惜，不挨打！
Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 26 minutes ago
谁是这些年轻的警察害虫虐待他们的长辈？
The Common Core Memorandum of Understanding: What a Story
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 29 minutes ago
The question of who, exactly, is truly responsible for writing the Common
Core State Standards (CCSS) has been a matter for debate. Here is how the
CCSS website describes CCSS development: Building on the excellent
foundation of standards states have laid, the Common Core State Standards
are the first step in providing our young people […]
Vaccines; Bayou Corne Sinkhole
Anon at aangirfan - 51 minutes ago
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Dublinmick has left a new comment on the post "MADELEINE E-FITS; COVER-UP
BY POLICE?":
Reversing vaccine induced disease
http://www.reversingvaccineinduceddiseases.com/
Highly toxic squalene MF59 adjuvant that caused Gulf War syndrome in
military servicemen now being added to some civilian flu vaccines
After establishing that squalene MF59 was admittedly experimental, Capt.
Rovet went on to explain how the U.S. government willfully ignored all
documented evidence showing that the anthrax vaccine, and squalene MF59 in
particular, was directly responsible for triggering an epidem... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 56 minutes ago
2002, “Remember Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/
Was Accountability For Team Cheney-- A Nest Of War Criminals-- Ever Taken Off The Table?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
Darrell Issa's idea of a scandal for his House Oversight Committee to
investigate is an entirely partisan witch hunt like "Benghazi!" Though the
magnitude around 9-11 was a thousand times greater on any scale, there's
never been a peep out of Issa or any of his right-wing colleagues about the
dereliction of duty on the part of Cheney and his administration inherent
in that catastrophe. In his brilliant book, Angler, Barton Gellman makes it
perfectly clear that Cheney aggressively and vehemently dismissed every
serious warning that the American security and intelligence agencies
f... more »
Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*"Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II"*
by
Wil S. Hylton.
“A breathtaking work of literary journalism and a dazzling debut.
*Vanished*unfolds like a cinematic mystery while exploring the eternal
questions of
war, love, and loss. Hylton is a master storyteller.”—Philipp Meyer,
author
of *The Son.*
Title: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War
II.
Source: Riverhead Books. Date Published: August 22, 2013. Description:
In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men
vanished
over the Pacific islands of Pal... more »
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
A portal to another place. [image via]
Standing athwart the graves of murdered children
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
This bit of horribly bad taste got lost on a weekend. We're two months away
from the sad anniversary of the Newtown massacre. These Second Amendment
First / True Americans are planning pro-guns for all rallies at the mass
murder site.
NEWTOWN -- First Selectman Pat Llodra is asking gun rights organizations to
stay away from this town on Dec. 14, the first anniversary of the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shootings.
Three national pro-guns groups had announced on Thursday that they would
hold what they're calling "Guns Save Lives" rallies in all 50 states on the
anniversary. [...]... more »
Bearing False Witness - a Chronology
Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 1 hour ago
Here's the story - a hoax, a malicious libel, deliberately designed to
persecute one particular child.
A male student at Florence High School who claims to be a transgender has
been harrassing girls in the bathroom......
No interviews. No sources, other than the Pacific Justice Institute. The
same group that has lodged formal objections to teaching in science class
that the Earth orbits the Sun as that contradicts Scripture, thereby "creating
a hostile environment for those of faith".
create a hostile learning environment for those of faith. - See more at:
http://www.pacificjustice.... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, "Remember Now"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
2002, "Remember Now"
- http://www.youtube.com/
"Life Is Hard?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Life is hard?
True- but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies."
- Edward Abbey
what this blog has been missing!
laura k at wmtc - 1 hour ago
It's strange to be so completely focused on something and not post about it
here at all. So...
OMG RED SOX
That's better!
The 2013 Red Sox continue to thrill and amaze us. Last night they pulled
off one of the most improbable comebacks in postseason history. (Allan has
a nice look at how it happened.) I expect to be watching baseball deep into
October.
Or listening to, as the case may be.
We're not supposed to see these games at all, because telecom companies
rule the world, and postseason baseball is only available via cable TV. And
as you are undoubtedly sick of reading about ... more »
how to pursue something you don't really want
laura k at wmtc - 1 hour ago
Since the day I decided to go to graduate school and change my career(s),
my mind has reeled with questions about the future. When will I be able to
quit my horrible law-firm job? When will I get a professional position at
the library? When I get it, will I succeed, and will I enjoy my new work?
What place will writing still have in my life? Will my health suffer? Will
I have enough energy for these new demands? And on and on. It didn't feel
worried or anxious, but I was incredibly impatient for my new future to
arrive. Sometimes I could think of nothing else.
One after the next, t... more »
"Never Look Down..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step;
only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right
road."
- Dag Hammarskjold
Sam Smith, "Despair and Survival"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* *
*"Despair and Survival"*
by Sam Smith
"Ever since I read Thoreau in high school and adopted as my own his
declaration that he would rather sit alone on a pumpkin than be crowded on
a velvet stool, I have made the pursuit of individual freedom a part of my
daily business. I follow it like others follow football. I know the game,
the players, and the rules. And one of the most important things I have
discovered is how few people are able to help you much. The psychiatrist
with his elegant degree, the minister with an eye on the vestry's budget,
the philosophy professor just sho... more »
Why the Left Hates the Daily Mail
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 hour ago
Loathe as I am to pounce upon yet another bandwagon by adding to the *
dacreage* of comment on the *Daily Mail*'s ill-judged bust up with Ed
Miliband, I cannot refrain from doing so. You see, as a leftie, as someone
who values reason, equality and the labour movement, I'm *de facto*obsessed with the paper - at least that's
what its beleaguered editor thinks. However, just as England very
occasionally confounds expectations and turns in a decent performance
befitting the paper value of the squad, Paul Dacre is broadly right. Why?
1. *The Mail* and their fellow guttersnipes in the hard... more »
"The Wisdom of Tecumseh"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"So live your life so the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their views, and
demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify
all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your
people. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a
stranger if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to
none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your
life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If
y... more »
Its not a joke, so sign the petition if you like food.
Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
http://action.sumofus.org/a/world-food-prize-monsanto-syngenta/11/2/?akid=2419.1515733.YSGMRH&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1
Guest Post:The Great Nobel Heist of 2013
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
*Add together the diametrically opposed beliefs of two of the three
economics Nobel Prize winners, says guest poster David Howden, and you end
up with a big fat zero.*
The paradox of the awarding of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Science1 is really just par for the course. Friedrich Hayek and Gunnar
Myrdal shared the prize that year – both for their work on monetary
fluctuations and the business cycle. While there were some affinities
between the two early in their careers: both used a Wicksellian foundation,
stressed the importance of Knightian uncertainty and the role... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Last of the Mohicans”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Vangelis, “Last of the Mohicans”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydBT6pEqz4
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And I wonder... if the diseases brought to this continent by the invaders
hadn't wiped
out 90% of the indigenous population, and they'd had to face the tribes at
full strength, knowing what grief the pitiful survivors gave them, what
this country would be today...
- CP
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Brule', "Stomp Dance"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_l2Zt_um6M
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"Galaxies don't normally look like this. NGC 6745 actually shows the
results of two galaxies that have been colliding for only hundreds of
millions of years. Just off the above digitally sharpened photograph to the
lower right is the smaller galaxy, moving away. The larger galaxy, pictured
above, used to be a spiral galaxy but now is damaged and appears peculiar.
Gravity has distorted the shapes of the galaxies.
*Click image for larger size.*
Although it is likely that no stars in the two galaxies directly collided,
the gas, dust, and ambient magnetic fields do interact directl... more »
The Kinder Chronicles, Part Two #DCPS
Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
I was somewhat recently a guest on the new Al Jazeera America show The
Stream to discuss the common core. When hearing about my appearance, my
grandfather asked, “Well, what did they introduce him as?” I think my
grandfather, who’s been a dominant fixture in my life, comes from a time, a
generation, maybe a […]
Our show with the inescapable Mercedes Schneider.
Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
Here it is. VAM. Teacher preparation. CCR. Tagged: teacher preparation, vam
William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” 2/7
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputat... more »
The Poet: Wendell Berry, "What We Need Is Here"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* "What We Need Is Here"*
by Wendell Berry
"Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here."
Everyone's A Spy Gate news - October 15 , 2013 .....NSA also harvests your contact lists ( as well as metadata , instant messages and emails ) globally ....Brazil taking countermeasures to NSA spying by building secure email system....While the NSA spys on the world are State Department Cable systems secure ? Privacy legacy concerns mount as surveillance in US Cities takes off....How many backdoors to the Net are being built an by whom ? .
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_print.html
NSA
collects millions of e-mail address books globallyBy Barton Gellman and
Ashkan Soltani, Monday, October 14, 6:53 PMThe National Security Agency
is
harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail
and
instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to
Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret
documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowde... more »
Government Shutdown Day 12 - October 12 , 2013 ......Exploring when the US Government actually runs out of money to pay the bills ( 10/17 - US hits debt ceilings and Treasury Department's extraordinary measures exhausted , 10/25 - 10/31 - cash balance becomes too low to pay all bills that fall due on a given day ) ..... Politicians still trying to come together to resolve debt ceiling and budget impasses.....
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/10/12/food-stamp-debit-cards/2972713/
( " Glitch " resolved , potential for chaos recognized by congress I'm
sure... )
People in 17 states found themselves unable to buy groceries with their
food stamp debit-style cards Saturday after a routine check by vendor Xerox
Corp. resulted in a system failure.
Xerox announced late in the evening that access had been restored for users
in the 17 states affected by the outage, hours after the first problems
were reported.
"Re-starting the EBT system required time to ensure service was back at
full func... more »
Chet Raymo, "The Ogre And Us"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* "The Ogre And Us"*
by Chet Raymo
"A passage from H. G. Wells' “Outline of History”, 1920: “We know very
little of the appearance of Neanderthal man, but this... seems to suggest
an extreme hairiness, an ugliness, or a repulsive strangeness in his
appearance over and above his low forehead, his beetle brows, his ape neck,
and his inferior stature... Says Sir Harry Johnston, in a survey of the
rise or modern man in his Views and Reviews: "The dim racial remembrance of
such gorilla-like monsters, with cunning brains, shambling gait, hairy
bodies, strong teeth, and possibly can... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Moultrie, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* “Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing the
Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies”*
By John W. Whitehead
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated
under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”
- Charles de Montesquieu
“We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small,
carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of
government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of
their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate. We find
ourselves badgered, bullied and browbea... more »
Yes, I'm willing to compromise with the revolting Teabaggers -- here's my proposal
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
*by Ken*
It must have been in response to my pass-along of Andy Borowitz's bulletin "Hostage-Takers
Call Comparisons to Tea Party 'Hurtful'" the oher day that our colleague
Noah wrote,
I've often thought that Obama should just say "We don't negotiate with
terrorists" since that's what republicans are. I just don't see much
distinction, except that maybe those who are usually called terrorists are
more humane whereas republicans want their victims to die slowly of
starvation, cancer, pollution, etc.
This has certainly been my position, and as regards the thorny question of
how we... more »
Some click bait on @huffingtonpost, insight into #TFA
Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
I suppose many think TFA’ers are blindingly insufferable. Clicked some
random piece on Huffington Post about the most insufferable people on
Facebook, or perhaps the seven insufferable sins, something like that. I
can’t remember where I put the link. But I did catch a screenshot of the
most interesting part. So, as an example of […]
Assad Jokes Nobel Peace Prize 'Should Have Been Mine'
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
President Bashar al-Assad joked with reporters that he should have been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize rather than the OPCW.
This is fitting since the Nobel Peace Prize has become a total joke. I hear
that the Nobel committee is thinking about posthumously awarding Hitler and
Stalin with Nobel Peace Prizes for their great humanitarian work.
So, really, what are these shiny gold coins worth? Nothing.
No one in their right mind should want to be associated with the Nobel
Peace Prize. It's poison at this point.
Video Title: Assad Jokes Nobel Peace Prize 'Should Have Been Mine.' Source:... more »
Economics for Real People - Stephen Toplis: Economics and its role in the real world
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
*Well, well, the next meeting of the Auckland Uni Economics Group should
see some challenging questions thrown the guest’s way (I hope at least one
person asks him about the Broken Window Fallacy). Here’s the write-up for
you:*
*Stephen Toplis, Head of Research, BNZ
*The University of Auckland Economics Group is proud this week to be
hosting Stephen Toplis, one of New Zealand’s most well-known economists.
Stephen is the Head of Research at the BNZ his team providing expert
analysis and commentary across most sectors and industries of the New
Zealand economy.
During thi... more »
The Military Coalition to launch protest in DC Tuesday October 15 , 2013 - Demands immediate end to Government Shutdown , stop using Vets for their political games !
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20131014/NEWS05/310140014/Military-Coalition-plans-shutdown-rally-Tuesday
Military Coalition plans shutdown rally
Tuesday
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[image: Military Supporters Rally In Washington To Re-Open]
A crowd gathers at the World War II Memorial to support a rally centered
around reopening national memorials closed by the government shutdown,
supported by military veterans, Tea Party activists and Republicans on Oc... more »
War watch October 12 , 2013 - - Libya Prime Minister informs that his recent kidnapping was actually a failed coup in which GNC members as well as members of the Prime Minister's security forces took part , Abdullah Senussi to be tried n Libya rather than at ICC after all ....... Syrian rebels accused of war crimes against Alawite villagers US financed and trained rebels urged to break from Saudi and Gulf financed and trained rebels .... ...... Afghanistan likely to kick US out of country ( just like Iraq ) as Bilateral Security Agreement deadline set to slip by the boards , US seizure of Taliban leader from Afghan Convoy and drone attacks against civilians paving way for Karzai to show US the door ..
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Libya news of the day.....
Failed coup a turning point for the better: Zeidan
*By Ashraf Abdul Wahab and Ahmed Elumami.*
[image: Libyans watched Zeidan on TV accuse opponents of political
consiracy (Photo: Aimen Eljali)]
Libyans watched Zeidan on TV accuse opponents of political consiracy
(Photo: Aimen Eljali)
*Tripoli, 11 October 2013:*
A clearly reinvigorated Prime Minister Ali Zeidan this evening delivered a
hour-long fighting speech on national television, in which he described
his abduction as a ‘coup’, blamed GNC opponents for sabotaging the business
of government, vowed firm... more »
Stephen Berry Says “Thanks Auckland!”
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
*Guest post by **Affordable City**’s Stephen Berry *
After the local body election results this weekend, I’m extraordinarily
proud of the results the eleven candidates of our nationwide local body
political party have achieved in such a short time. I’m very grateful for
the effort they have put into their campaigns, and for the team of
volunteers who have been there for them.
AFFORDABLE CITY CANDIDATE RESULTS
*Affordable Auckland
*Heidi Bale – Whau Local Board 1953 1.97%
Stephen Berry – Auckland Mayor 13539 3.98%
- Waitemata & Gulf Ward 1408 7.58%... more »
GOPers sole owners of shutdown fiasco
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
I've been holding this post for days so it wouldn't get lost in the holiday
weekend slump. Gratefully, it's finally picking up some steam. As this video
of debate on the shutdown from the House floor makes clear, the shutdown
(and now the pending debt default) was, and is, solely a construct of House
Republicans.
The video sparked enough clicks over the weekend to finally give the story
some legs with BigMedia. Jake Tapper is the first BigTV coverage I've seen
with this blog report on his *The Lead* blog:
That said, van Hollen continues, “On October 1st, the R's passed a Rule to
... more »
Fast-tracking fucking over Canadian workers
Alison at Creekside - 6 hours ago
Fort McMurray Today reports that 270 unionized welders and pipefitters
contracted to the Husky Sunrise tarsands project were laid off and replaced
by cheaper temporary foreign workers from Mexico, Ireland, Portugal and
Italy.
Husky says their work was over but a commenter under another article who
was a worker on the site disputes this :
"The work contracted to Black and McDonald was no where near complete. We
had to conduct a handover to Saipem (a mostly Italian workforce), detailing
to them where we had stopped work so that they may continue. In the final
week, Saipem foreign w... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago
*Saints start to turn page after first loss ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
Philadelphia Photographer Captures School Closings
Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago
From Newsworks:
Photo exhibit opening this week chronicles the 'decline and destruction' of
Philly public schools
"It's like a visual documentation of what was once a public-school system.
This is the beginning of the decline and the destruction of it."
--Harvey Finkle, photographer, Philadelphia School Closings Photo
Collective and Public School Notebook
The display's 20, mostly color photographs are the work of the Philadelphia
School Closings Photo Collective. The loose network of nearly 30
photographers divvied up the list in response to a call for action sent out
by heralde... more »
A short quiz on the #DebtCeiling: Who said … ?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
Here’s a (very) short quiz on the American Debt Ceiling. Just four
questions, the answers to which will make you laugh.
1. Who said about raising the Debt Ceiling, “We can’t just give a blank
cheque over and over again”?
2. Who said about raising the Debt Ceiling, “The request sounds like a
drunk going to an AA meeting saying, ‘just give me one more drink’”?
3. Who said about raising the Debt Ceiling, “Most Americans know that
increasing the debt is the last thing we should be doing”?
4. Who said about raising the Debt Ceiling, “America has a debt problem and
a failure of leaders... more »
Nadege and Structural Sin
John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 7 hours ago
Nadege and Structural Sin http://t.co/vEpD6ot9Uf
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) October 14, 2013
Sedition, Secession... Right Wing Dogs Are Not Giving Up No Matter What The Polls Say
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
Please watch the Bill Moyers video above. We're going to talk a little
about it in a moment. But before we do, I want to remind you who Paul Ryan
is. If you had just landed from Uranus or Neptune and perused the Beltway
media, you would come away thinking Ryan is a "serious" and "thoughtful"
mainstream political leader. He isn't. He's a phony, a fraud and a film
flam man, just like Paul Krugman has been pointing out for years. And now
he's leading the House Republicans in a dangerous game of chicken with the
economic well-being of the entire world. While Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was ... more »
"Fukushima Update: Worst Case Scenario Reached According To Japanese Professors– A ‘World-Ends-Scenario’"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
* *
*"Fukushima Update: Worst Case Scenario Reached According *
*To Japanese Professors– A ‘World-Ends-Scenario’"*
by ENE, Before It's News
"According to Professors in Japan, the ‘worst case scenario’ for Fukushima
has been reached, the nuclear rods have melted and went through the reactor
floors. This story released today from ENENews is disheartening and shares
that this situation will continue to be THE major story for world health
for humans, fish, bird and animal life across the entire world for decades
if not longer. The worst case scenario for Fukushima is also a
‘world-e... more »
Technologies Foster Conformity
Douglas Storm at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
In a college essay circa 1837 on the "pleasures and privileges" of a
literary life, Henry David Thoreau begins with a quote out of Horace
stating that every writer loves the grove and flees the city...
This love of retiring from the hurry and bustle of the world has, in all
ages, closely adhered to those minds most devoted to study and elevated by
genius. Such an one "will gladly snatch an hour of retreat, to let his
thoughts expatiate at large, and seek for that variety in his own ideas
which the objects of sense cannot afford him...."
It is to a retirement which lasted ten years... more »
‘Native Affairs’ scoop
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
As you might have heard, last night’s *Native Affairs* programme on Maori
TV exposed what looks like a fairly egregious example of folks in what is
essentially a taxpayer-funded charity, the Kohanga Reo National Trust,
treating taxpayers’ money like their own—spending it on trips, fuel and
wedding dresses.
I’m not going to focus on the details of what Iritana Tawhiwhirangi and her
daughter-in-law Lynda Tawhiwhirangi, the general manager of the trust's
charity-status subsidiary Te Pataka Ohanga, were supposed to have done.
Others can do that.
What I want to applaud was how Maori ... more »
26 Liberal Senators AND 20 Conservative Senators Spent Over $1,000,000 Tax Dollars In Travel Costs During Last Federal Election ...
leftdog at Buckdog - 8 hours ago
**
*Canadians should not be all that 'thankful' for our Senate free-loaders on
this Thanksgiving Day - 2013. The Hill Times has disclosed that Canada's
unelected, undemocratic Conservative and Liberal Party Senators spent over
1 Million tax dollars to campaign for their political party during the last
federal election.*
*
**Would someone please tell me why the Senate has not yet been abolished?
(Liberal / Tory ... same old story)!*
*
**"The Senate spent more than $1-million to pay for Senators to travel
between Ottawa and their regions during a period that covered the May 2011
ele... more »
Malala Yousafzai on Parade cover!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013*
*Secrets of moral transmission:* We were intrigued by Marie Arana’s book
review in yesterday’s Washington Post.
The review appeared on the front page of the Outlook section. Arana was
reviewing Malala Yousafzai’s new book, I Am Malala.
Who is Malala Yousafzai? She has always struck as an other-worldly figure,
of a type one rarely encounters. Is this how Jesus seemed to the elders
when he spoke in the temple?
It may be that Malala Yousafzai will simply turn out to have a 300 IQ. But
whoever or whatever she is, we’re fairly sure she isn’t what Arana seemed ... more »
Horseback Ride for Unci Maka: Stop tarsands, uranium mining and heavy hauls
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
Photo
by Winona LaDuke
Lakota ride for the protection of Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth) against
the KXL pipeline, the tarsands oil mines, uranium miners, heavy hauls.
Oct 13-15, 2013 from Wanbli Heavy Haul Bockade site to Takini at
Cheyenne River Homelands where the KXL plans to cross the Cheyenne
River.
Monday, Oct. 14, 2013: Riding from Kadoka to Phillip today!
Debra White Plume,
Longest Walk 4 Photos Kansas, Monday, Oct., 14, 2013
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
Longest
Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz in eastern Kansas today, Monday, Oct. 14,
2013. Thanks to Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone,
for photos via cell for Censored News!
Click 'read more' for more of photos from today and Sunday!
Below: Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 Longest Walk 4 Photos by Bad Bear, thanks
for sharing with Censored News!
Longest Walk 4
Red Cross calls for release of staff kidnapped in Syria
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
Here is one of the many drawbacks of giving crazy people truckloads of guns
and cash.
Red Cross calls for release of staff kidnapped in Syria. Source: The
Guardian. Date Published: October 14, 2013.
Let's have an honest talk about Rand Paul...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
*right now I don't have an opinion and want to hear yours.*
First, here's the video making the rounds of Rand Paul being asked by Candy
"why won't someone fix my hair" Crowley if he could ever become a Democrat.
Now, here's someone who blogs at *Mr. L's Tavern*, which consists entirely
of his "talk" shows done on YouTube. They're all about 20 minutes long and
the ones I've seen are quite good.
Mr. L has a completely different take on Rand Paul. Take a few minutes to
listen to what Mr. L has to say about Rand Paul. It will make you think.
Is he right?
*Let me know what you t... more »
Protesters chain themselves at profiteering Arizona migrant prison
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago
October
14, 2013
Tags: arizona, civil disobedience, detention center, Eloy
Just now, protestors chained themselves in front of the Eloy Detention
Center. Their action calls on the President to stop deportations and the
criminalization of immigrants. Through civil disobedience they say
they’re exposing the inhumane imprisonment at the center of current
immigration policy and the needless
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*Lewis: Pats’ heroics aside, Saints still in great shape ~New Orleans
Advocate*
*Jimmy Graham Undergoes MRI! ~John Hendrix, Who Dat Dish*
*Across the nation cost of flood insurance rises, along with worries ~
SunHerald.com*
Read more here:
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/10/13/5028469/cost-of-flood-insurance-rises.html#storylink=cpy
Oh Rory, why?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
I read that Rory Rory McIlroy has dumped his tennis golden girlfriend,
Caroline Wozniacki, in the hope of getting back on course and retaining his
former World Number One status.
Hmm...
Do you think you should reconsider Rory?
Remembering Columbus
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
from Glen Brown's blog:
Celebrating "Free Market" Style with Christopher Columbus
*From Columbus’ first expedition log:*
* *
“They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword;
they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no
iron. Their spears are made of cane… They would make fine servants… With
fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want”
(Zinn, Howard. *A People’s History of the United States, 1492 – Present*).
During Columbus’ second expedition, Columbus wrote: “Let us in the name o... more »
中国和越南正在做他们的老把戏了！
Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 10 hours ago
严重的是，这是一个非常积极的发展。这两个国家现在需要做的是敦促所有其他国家的既得利益在这些有争议的水域（如菲律宾和日本）表来制定出一个合理的妥协，这将完全避免任何军事对抗。
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1331106/china-vietnam-set-group-explore-disputed-south-china-sea
Halloween Village for Under $10
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours ago
We love Halloween in this house. I think I have almost as many Halloween
decorations as I have Christmas ones, and that is saying something. I have
been obsessed with little villages since our wedding when a sweet friend of
my mom's, who has since passed away, gave me my very first Christmas house.
Our Christmas village is a huge part of our Holiday decorations, so as soon
as I saw this little village floating around Pinterest this year, I knew I
had to have one.
This darling little Halloween Village, first seen at The 36th Avenue, is
easy to make and very affordable. Head your ... more »
This is the lowest government satisfaction rating in Gallup's history. Why am I not surprised?
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago
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October 10, 2013
Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Gov't Drops to New LowDemocrats remain
most likely to be satisfied, but much less so than in September
by Joy Wilke
*This article is part of an* *ongoing series* *analyzing how the government
shutdown and the debate over raising the debt ceiling are affecting
Americans' views of government, government leaders, political parties, the
economy, and the country in general.*
PRINCETON, NJ -- Eighteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the way
the nation is being gover... more »
It's on again... in Eloy. El hielo se derrite
Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 11 hours ago
It's not an exaggeration... we are in a state of insurrection:
It's on again... in Eloy. El hielo se derrite: http://
www.notonemoredeportation.com/2013/10/14/eloy/
MADELEINE McCANN, DUTROUX AND LELIEVRE
Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
*In prison - The man said to be Marc Dutroux. Could it be a body double?*
How might a top member of the Dutroux child kidnapping gang have been able
to be in Portugal when Madeleine McCann disappeared?
Dutroux and Lelievre were sent to jail in 2004.
Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.
*The original Marc Dutroux*
*
*Could Marc Dutroux have a body double?
*'Dutroux' arrested.*
*'Dutroux' in court. *
*
*Could the Doutroux in court be the real Dutroux?
* *
*Police photo of the suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance.*
Could the man above be the kidnapper of Madeleine McCa... more »
Sock puppet Obama to meet with Reid and Boehner today to continue the charade of "negotiating"...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*the picture below says it all. Aren't those items in reverse order?*
This is all nothing more than a bunch of political theater - on both sides
of the aisle. I'm sure they'll drag it out until the 17th, which is the
date chosen for government default. There's plenty of tax revenue to pay
the interest, but we are constantly threatened with Social Security
payments not being made.
Really?
I haven't heard one politician mention cutting welfare or food stamps. And
it they did do that, consider what just happened in Louisiana when WalMart
decided to allow people to purchase with... more »
How Many House Republicans Are Up For Cruzification?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Over the weekend, the *Wall Street Journal* was celebrating a shady, little
know right-wing ideologue and GOP operative for the glory the Republicans
have heaped on themselves in recent weeks with the government shut down and
impending default debacle. As you probably guessed this whole calamity for
the nation has more authors than just Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and a bunch of
fringy Michele Bachmann/Louie Gohmert loons in the House. Michael Needham
is the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, DeMint's attack machine.
"I really believe we are in a great position right now," he told th... more »
Debt ceiling collision risk is being underestimated
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
Two weeks ago, I discussed the partial government shutdown that was coming
and it indeed came and turned out to be the non-event I expected.
However, we were also aware of another threat which is related but much
larger, perhaps by a factor of 100-1,000: a collision with the debt
ceiling, a legally imposed upper limit on the amount of the U.S. public
debt. We're now just 3 days away from the expected D Day even though the
U.S. debt clock tells us that the threshold at $16.699 teradollars has
already been breached. ;-) There is no deal so far, tensions are running
high in the U.S. ca... more »
Elsewhere: Democracy, Republicans, Shutdown links
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
No links post this morning with the holiday, such as it is. I'm not sure
what I'll be writing here today...I will be over at Greg's place and PP.
And new columns. At TAP, I argue for Madisonian democracy against the wave
of hits its taken during the shutdown (and in particular, from Dylan
Matthews).
Over at Salon over the weekend, I push back against predictions of
long-term doom for the GOP. As I've said before, I do think that if
Republicans win the presidency in the near future that there's a good
chance they'll have difficulty governing, and they're obviously having
difficulty ... more »
Reading Ripley: Ripley appears with Anderson Cooper!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013*
*Expresses new top concern:* Here at THE HOWLER, we rarely find ourselves
inclined to dislike individuals.
How ecumenical is our spirit? Last week, we even acknowledged that Joan
Walsh may have been a good person once too! If *that* doesn’t prove that
God is love, we don’t know what does.
We can’t help it! That generosity of spirit just seems to be the way we
are! That’s why we were surprised last week when we watched Amanda Ripley
with a CNN panel.
Last Wednesday night, Anderson Cooper dragged Ripley out to discuss a new
OECD study. In Tuesday morning’s... more »
Mirror, Mirror on the wall
Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
This is, now and always, precisely what you expect. You are a creator
being; not sometimes, not after “ascension”, not with practice – right now.
There is beauty, simplicity and honesty in immersion. You are surrounded
with your own reflections. Your world can’t help but be a mirror. You are
the one who made it.
This point in the process, quantum physics points to what is happening. It
tells us that intention and observation determine results. You see what it
is you expect to see. Today we are dealing with our core. This lifetime
may be about shifting the world yet th... more »
The Bleat Before the Croak
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
Let's see.... we now live in a representative democracy where about 95 out
of every hundred citizens have lost faith in Congress and just want them
gone. But they won't leave! They are some of the most loathed people in
America, yet there they still are, being treated with all due deference and
respect by the six corporate media conglomerates bringing you 90% of all
the news you're fit to hear. Any subliminal messages that may be coming
through your TVs and newspapers are your problem.
In other news, the *New York Times* has a retrospective of Dolly the Sheep.
Dolly, you may remembe... more »
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem with his genes. :)
LeDaro at LeDaro - 13 hours ago
He made an off-hand comment that if Iranians were free and had a democratic
government then Iranian people will be free to wear jeans and listen to
Western music. That remark backfired on Natenyahoo.
*Update:*
"creative sales techniques to 'move' students to higher levels of achievement"
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
Somewhere down the road we will look back on this era of efficiency
fixation in the same way we now view the eliminators of waste of the early
20th Century schools, who took principles of "scientific management" and
tried to map them onto schools, thus elaborating a system of education
based on the efficient transmittal of info bits.
Today's example for the future history books on education reform: Daniel
Pink, who is offering educators an appetizing kind of laxative webinar
through corporate reform's unofficial organ, Ed Week:
For many, the quintessential image of a salesperson is ... more »
Thanks for the Memri
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
The Telegraph is almost as obsessed with BBC bashing as the Daily Mail, but
I regard neither of them as a friend, as in my enemy’s enemy. For a start,
Peter Oborne is a prominent Telegraph columnist with an irrational hatred
for the dastardly Israel (Jewish) lobby, but on the other hand the
Telegraph does ferret out a lot of gossip about the Beeb, as does the Daily
Mail.
However, the Mail no longer boasts Melanie Phillips as a regular columnist,
and rumour has it that she was given the heave-ho after her controversial
performance on Question Time, where she famously ‘lost it,’ h... more »
Columbus Day
Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours ago
*In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue...*
...and then went back to Europe and held press conferences, thus
establishing his everlasting fame as "discoverer" of the New World.
Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519.
There are no known authentic portraits of Columbus.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailer and navigator. He was largely
self-taught, mastering Latin, Portuguese, and Castilian, and well read in
astronomy, geography, and history, including the works of Claudius Ptolemy, Cardinal
Pierre d'Ailly's *Ima... more »
Gorgeous Taitung
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
Seven minutes of pure heaven.
_______________________
[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its
sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores
of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky's Prof. Juan Romero
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
In 1920 the League of Nations created the British Mandate in Iraq, and the
next year the English established a monarchy led by King Faisal I from
Syria. By 1932 Iraq officially gained independence, while the British
maintained control over its security and foreign affairs. Growing class
divisions and clashes between the ruling elite and the opposition and
military eventually led to the 1958 coup by the Free Officers and General
Abdul Karim Qasim. The new government attempted a dramatic transformation
of the economy, class structure, and international relations. Supporters
claimed... more »
NEWSREEL VIDEO: Pro-Nasser Revolt In Iraq Topples King Faisal 1958
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
VIDEO: February 1963 Coup The Baath Party And The Fall Of Abdul Karim Qasim
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
VIDEO: Gen. Abdul Karim Qasim Military Parade Baghdad, Iraq May 1959
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
Self-embellished Prophecies from Amory Lovins, By Alex DeVolpi
Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 14 hours ago
*Dr. Alex DeVolpi is a retired Argonne National Laboratory scientist.
During the Cold War, Dr. DeVolpi participated in talks with Soviet
scientists about nuclear weapons control issues. These talks were in
support of nuclear arms control negotiations between the United States and
the Soviet Union.*
*
**Dr DeVolpi has written about numerous topics since his retirement.*
*
**The March/April/ issue of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists contained an
anti-nuclear essay *
*“The economics of a US civilian nuclear phase-out,” by the notorious
Harvard Physics drop out, Amory Lovins. Dr. De... more »
A Detox Recipe For Those Who Like To Make Their Own Juices
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
*
**Note: * I have yet to try this recipe. I just found it today and plan to
give it a go in the future. I just thought that I would share this with
those who have juicers and like to try different recipes.
Luis Burgos: The First Humanoids in Argentina
Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours ago
*Source: CIENCIA OVNI
http://humanoides-1.blogspot.com.ar/p/blog-page.html*
*The First Humanoids in the Country*
*By Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía*
Tres Arroyos, located over 600 km south of Buenos Aires, shall henceforth
not only be known as the “national wheat capital”, as many of you will
remember it as being the location in the province of Buenos Aires where the
“first humanoid encounter in the country” took place.
In early 1971, in the full bloom of summer, I had the chance to spend the
season in Orense, a lovely beach community which, along with Reta and
Cla... more »
WE THE (WALKING) DEAD: Steuver’s complaint!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013*
*Prologue—When HAL shut down:* We’ve never watched The Walking Dead, the
AMC zombie drama now in its fourth season.
On the other hand, we did watch yesterday’s panel discussion on Meet the
Press.
Was *that* not a form of the walking dead—that obviously faux discussion
between those panelists and that moderator? (We’ll excuse Chuck Todd, who
tried to create real discussion.)
Meet the Press is hardly alone, of course. Last Wednesday, we watched the
pundit panel which interviewed author Amanda Ripley on CNN’s Anderson
Cooper.
Were *they* not part of the w... more »
The Radical Christian Right
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Chris Hedges writes that, if you want to understand what is presently
playing out in Washington, you have to understand the Radical Christian
Right. They know what they want -- and what they want is frightening:
There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a
diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the
intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish
the role of government to create a theocratic state based on “biblical
law,” and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and
“Chris... more »
Weekend Fun
Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours ago
A few cell phone snaps from an evening out with The Gang for Fright Fest at
the local amusement park...
Taken by a kind stranger on Jonathan's cell phone camera.
Back: Southern Man, Mark; Front: Adam, Amber, Jonathan.
Selfie by Amber.
We rode rides and ate overpriced amusement park food and paid $5 extra to
go to the front of the line at the haunted house. Great fun!
Blue America Endorses Paul Clements For The Michigan Seat Held By Fred Upton
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Last week, MoveOn and PPP polled some of the swing districts where the DCCC
protects Republican incumbents. The results were breathtaking, especially
for media folks who only get their information from Cook and the DCCC. Blue
America candidates are on target to beat long-time Republican incumbents
and one of the strongest showings was from first-time candidate, Paul
Clements, who's running against Fred Upton in western Michigan. Upton is
underwater in terms of his constituents' approval. Only 34% approve of his
job performance. 53% disapprove. And if the election were held today, ... more »
US backed Rebels fighters unity continues to crumble as more groups pull out of the SNC and refusal to attend Geneva 2 sidelines alleged moderate group further , Iraq Kurdistan prepares to strike Syrian Rebel fighters in Syrian Kurdistan - which would bring Iraq further into the Syria War ! Iran and P5 + 1 meeting set for later this week as apparent pathway to an Agreement seems more possible than in quite a few years ! .....
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/opposition-west-incapable-talks-166/
West can’t get Syrian opp to peace talks, blames Russia - Lavrov
Published time: October 14, 2013 09:20
Edited time: October 14, 2013 11:43
Get short URL
[image: Free Syrian Army fighters take positions behind a damaged car as
they fire their weapons during an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood, October 9,
2013. (Reuters/Malek Alshemali)]
Free Syrian Army fighters take positions behind a damaged car as they fire
their weapons during an offensive against forces... more »
Should Diane Ravitch Be More Careful to Not Hurt Reformers' Feelings?
John Thompson at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago
By now, I’m about the only slowpoke who hasn’t taken a stand on Diane
Ravitch’s *Reign of Error.* Those who object to her indictment of
“corporate reform” have had time to catch any possible error of fact or
logic. If there is a rebuttal to Ravitch’s statement that “it is difficult
to find education organizations that have not been funded by the Gates
Foundation,” surely it would have been made by now.
I never expected *Reign of Error *to convert true believers in
accountability-driven reform, but it is a shame that they have not engaged
in a debate over Ravitch’s evidence or argume... more »
The risk of doing nothing - Virgin.com
Barbara Ann Levy at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 16 hours ago
Imágenes fantásticas de hadas en el bosque de los sueños
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 16 hours ago
*Haz click aquí para regalarnos un "Me Gusta" en Facebook. ¡Gracias!*
October Surprise 2012 - Benghazi
Paul Coker at News Spike - 16 hours ago
October Surprise 2012: Innocence of Muslims from unpersonal on Vimeo.
It's an Israeli-Koch Brothers-Saudi-backed PsyOp to sabotage Obama's
historic US-Iranian Détente.
As I have been saying all along.
All the protests were in Sunni Countries, where the House of Saud and the
Gulf States have considerable influence, power bases and agents of
influence; none of the protests were in Shi'ite countries, like Iran, Iraq
and Syria, or in any Kurdish regions North of the Euphrates Shi'ia corridor
- they never heard anything about this.
Pajama Media / PJ Media are a privatised Intelli... more »
Chicken-Hawk Scum-Bags
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago
A good survey of the harpercon's dismal record of hypocrisy and deceit. I
can't believe that we didn't force these ugly fuckers from power years ago.
Canadian apathy.
Monday morning linkage
Adrienne LeBas at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
The shutdown continues to dominate the day’s news.Resolution still
seems distant. Last week, US Treasury Department Secretary Jack Lew
reminded the Senate that extraordinary measures used to cope with our
current debt limit run out on Thursday. This weekend, IMF head Christine
Lagarde says that a default could tip the world economy into recession. The
African Union
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Having an e-fit
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
*“The e-fits are clear, and I’ve asked the public to look very carefully at
them and if they know who this person is, please come forward.”*
(If I were you I’d ask the plastic surgery community if they’ve performed
any suspicious chin-ectomies recently.)
John Boehner, Speaker of the House, is unhappy!
LeDaro at LeDaro - 17 hours ago
Poor John Boehner. He wants to compromise on Government shutdown but
Tea-bagger Repugs don't agree with him. He is in a great dilemma.
Silly Comments from Academic make headlines
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours ago
The Taipei Times gave this fellow front page headlines:
President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) statement that cross-strait relations are
“not international relations” during his Double Ten National Day speech has
further weakened Taiwan’s sovereignty and was meant as a hint for the US
and Japan not to interfere in cross-strait issues, a local academic said.
“If by including such words in the National Day address Ma intends to make
the cross-strait issue an internal matter and not open to international
interference, it would cause serious repercussions in the days to come,”
said Wong Ming-hs... more »
Joint Letter on the Wiretapping, Ma-Wang Mess
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours ago
The Taipei Times printed the text:
As international SCHOLARS and writers who applauded the transition to
democracy, that began in the late 1980s, we are deeply concerned about the
backsliding of freedom, democracy and human rights under the current
administration in Taiwan.
While an erosion of democracy and justice has been ongoing since this
administration assumed office in 2008, recent events constitute a
fundamental breach of the basic principles of separation of powers and
checks and balances in a democracy.
We refer in particular to President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) use of the S... more »
Nunavut literacy
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago
This is an ongoing problem. If you cannot read, and read well, you cannot
compete for jobs. I'm involved in a project to bring more free books to
Nunavut but that's hardly enough. Better teaching with more resources at
the primary level is needed.
From CBC this week:
"A survey released Tuesday morning shows adults in the Northwest
Territories and Nunavut have fallen behind Yukon and other provinces in
terms of literacy and numeracy.
The Northwest Territories ranked 12th out of the 13 Canadian provinces and
territories on an international survey compiled by the Organization for
Ec... more »
GOOD MEDIA COVERAGE
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 17 hours ago
We walked along the Kennebec River yesterday as we approached Skowhegan.
The colorful fall leaves on trees overhanging the narrow road made for a
picturesque moment. We took a break at a beautiful park on the river and
as we were preparing to leave a reporter from the Waterville newspaper
stopped to interview us. The same story ran in three papers (Portland,
Augusta, Waterville) across the state this morning. You can find it *here*
The Bangor Daily News also has an article today. See it *here*
We've been doing better than one could expect with the media so far on the
walk. ... more »
The Nobel
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 17 hours ago
Congratulations to Eugene Fama, Lars Hansen, and Robert Shiller. A very
well-deserved prize. All three have long been among the most highly cited
economists.
Open Thread: RIP Jamie Hubley
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 18 hours ago
This is probably the last video uploaded by the late Jamie Hubley, a
gay teenager who'd committed suicide two years ago today after being
mercilessly bullied by homophobes in Kanata, Canada. Here, he's covering
"Rehab" by another self-doomed soul, Amy Winehouse. Jamie would be 17
today, 18 next month. I wrote about him in a disjointed, rambling post two
years ago when I first heard the news of his suicide on Facebook and, if
anything, his death bothers me at least as much now as it did two years
ago. In case you've never heard his story before, Jamie was the only openly
gay bo... more »
Happy Thanksgiving
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours ago
On January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest
with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in
October."
Happy 88th Birthday, Margaret Thatcher
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
Yesterday was Margaret Thatcher's 88th birthday. Happy birthday, Iron Lady.
RIP.
"Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of
money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to
spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you
more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that 'someone
else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only
taxpayers' money" -- Margaret Thatcher, October 1983
"As Ron once put it: the nine most dangerous words in the English language
are 'I'm from the... more »
Monday Morning Linkage- it’s all about balance
Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
Women missing…online? The Huffington Post has reported that the gender gap
exists online- with 200 million fewer women using the internet than men.
Scholars, students, and the general public are set to sit in for a 6-hour
editing party at Brown University to try to remedy the gender imbalance on
wikipedia (NYT suggests that only
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“They Are Coming: IMF Proposes A 10% Supertax On All Eurozone Household Savings- for YOUR Savings!”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“They Are Coming: IMF Proposes A 10% Supertax On *
*All Eurozone Household Savings- for YOUR Savings!”*
by John Rubino
.
“They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the
gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums… drums in the
deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out…
they are coming.” - Gandalf
.
"Another of history’s many lessons is that governments under pressure
become thieves. And today’s governments are under a lot of pressure. Before
we look at the coming wave of asset confiscations, let’s stroll ... more »
VIDEO: Media Camouflage – How Monsanto Silences The Media
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
VIDEO: Media Camouflage – Monsanto’s Alleged Cancer-Causing Additives to
MilkHow Monsanto kills the news
Global Research Canada, 11 October 2013
When it comes to food, it would be in your best interest to realize that
you are being lied to on a daily basis.
If a big company grows it, processes it and sells it, then it’s probably
garbage that you’d be better off not consuming.
In some cases, this problem goes far beyond “garbage” into another realm
entirely.
This video is a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of how news is really “made”
in America and why corporate and “public” broa... more »
3 Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula by Christina Sarich
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
3 Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula
by Christina Sarich
Natural Society, 13 October 2013
It seems with the many reports of birth defects, organ failure, cancer, and
other unsavory health conditions associated with GMO consumption,* we
should limit the use of GMO in baby products.* After all, babies are very
sensitive to the foods they consume, and we already know that pesticides
found in mother’s milk can be damaging. *Below you will learn of three
companies which represent more than 90% of baby formula sales in the US
that won’t consider removing GMOs from your baby’s food.... more »
MADELEINE E-FITS; COVER-UP BY POLICE?
Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
Herman Van Rompuy, who has attended Bilderberg, was Belgium's Minister of
Justice when Marc Dutroux escaped from the Belgian police.
Marc Dutroux's gang kidnapped children, and supplied them to the elite,
reportedly with the help of the Belgian police.
In July 2013, Van Rompuy visited the Mediterranean island of Malta.
*Herman Van Rompuy in Valetta, Malta, 11 July 2013. *
On 17 August 2013, a barrister (lawyer), at a party in Manchester in the
UK, had a conversation with a man who told him he had met Madeleine McCann
on a Mediterranean island in the summer of 2013.
The barrister... more »
The hidden Egyptian blocakade of Gaza
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
The
BBC finally manage to acknowledge that Egypt is blockading Gaza as well
as Israel. Admittedly you to have to read to the very end of this
pieceabout the discovery of a Hamas terror tunnel before you find:
'Egypt, which has its own blockade of Gaza, has recently attempted to
close
off the network of tunnels used to smuggle goods beneath the border.'
What the BBC manage not to directly report is that per the Jerusalem
Post:
'The tunnel was constructed using approximately 24,000 Israeli concrete
slabs which the IDF had permitted into Gaza to ease the crisis in the
civilian construc... more »
“US Credit an Unfaithful Hussy”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
* “US Credit an Unfaithful Hussy”*
by Prr Lzkdrqxcwm
"A tragedy is brewing in the United States. Within a decade, the country
that has gone from the second freest in the world to the 17th. And the
threat is much worse than the federal government’s current 20% shutdown. If
Congress does not increase the debt ceiling (as it has done more than 100
times since 1917), the government may default on its debt later this month.
This debt is made up of government bonds held by investors both in America
and in other countries. “Investors” include ordinary citizens through their
pension fun... more »
The Economy: “Thought For The Day...”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
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*“Thought For The Day...”*
by Karl Denninger
“What would you say to someone who had $27,000 in family income a year,
spent $37,000, and had run up $170,000 on their credit card – and now was
demanding that you let them add even more to their balance? You’d call them
insane, right? And you’d also call those who lent them the $170,000 insane.
What would you do if they then pulled a gun on you and demanded more credit
on that card, and worse, demanded that YOU cover it with more unemployment,
less purchasing power, more people dependent on food stamps and more
offshoring of jobs... more »
all your Presidents are WORSHIPPING SATAN???
Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 22 hours ago
the real funny thing about all this 'satanic hand gesture' is Free Planet
dismisses satanism, catholicism, islam, judaism, sikhism etc. as
childish/bullying 'ways to control the subscribing Corporate War masses',
so treat what I'm about to show you with a massive pinch of salt, if you're
easily offended by The Debate. There are those who'll say, "Gah, this is
just Presidents trying to appeal to the yoof by their adoption of Heavy
Metal hand signs," but is it? Is it all just a joke? Or a 'bit of pally
hand banter'?
This doesn't mean The Church of Satansim should be dismissed as havi... more »
Today in History for October 14th
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
*Today we remember and honour the achievements of two great Americans.
One excelled in the air, the other in the realm of the spirit: Captain
Chuck Yeager and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. *
Today in History for October 14th. Source: AssociatedPress.
We Speak Your Name (A3 Newsletter about Herman Wallace's Memorial Service)
angola3news at Angola 3 News - 23 hours ago
*HONORING HERMAN:* *Tribute made to by US Congressmen Conyers, Richmond,
and Scott* *II* *Mural and Banner in North Carolina* II *Mumia
Abu-Jamal's Message for Herman's Memorial** (in Spanish)*
* *
*(A3 Coalition Newsletter, Oct. 13, 2013)*
Yesterday, Herman Wallace was laid to rest after a memorial service
befitting his liberation roots. New Orleans supporters, friends and family
came together to create a magnificent send off for Herman, just the way he
wanted it.
As a proud black man who struggled for justice for himself, his comrades,
his people and all people, Herman wan... more »
Random Airport Guy, Walmart Line Ups....and My Secret Truck Identification Deficiency
Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 23 hours ago
Earlier this summer my cousin Douglas got in touch with me about escaping
the disaster of Ontario (thanks Premier Wynne for wrecking my home
province, by the way) and pursuing a fresh start here in Fort McMurray. I
was keen to help him out, knowing that despite all the lofty rhetoric out
there, it can be a bit of a challenge to get settled in here and get
working if you just come out cold turkey. Yes, I've heard the stories too
about guys getting off the plane and landing a job within hours of their
arrival but for someone starting out here there can be a few challenges
(finding a... more »
The Common Core Public License: Guess Who Wins?
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On October 10, 2013, I published a post, The Fight to Save Common Core:
Count Me Out, in which I briefly discuss the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS) public license. In this post, I more closely examine the
CCSS license in order to offer a more detailed account of both its contents
and the implications of those […]
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“What's going on in the center of this spiral galaxy? Named the Sombrero
Galaxy for its hat-like resemblance, M104 features a prominent dust lane
and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. Reasons for the
Sombrero's hat-like appearance include an unusually large and extended
central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk
that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of
the extended central bulge.
*Click image for larger size.*
Close inspection of the bulge in the above photograph shows many points of
light that ar... more »
"No, We Can't Have It All"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
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*"No, We Can't Have It All"*
by Derrick Jensen
"We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have
automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon. We can have irrigated
wine from Mendocino and Sonoma counties, or we can have the Russian and Eel
Rivers. We can have oil from beneath the oceans, or we can have whales. We
can have cardboard boxes or we can have living forests. We can have
computers and cancer clusters from the manufacture of those computers, or
we can have neither. We can have electricity and a world devastated by
mining, or we can ha... more »
Boehner Has Decided Keeping The Anthony Weiner Memorial House Gym Open Is "Essential"
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Aside from Progressive Caucus leaders Alan Grayson, Raul Grijalva and Keith
Ellison, who are all relatively safe for reelection, Blue AMerica has only endorsed
2 House incumbents so far this cycle. One is the progressive Member of the
New Hampshire congressional delegation, Carol Shea-Porter and a press
release she sent out of the weekend helps explain why.
The government has been shut down for eleven days, but Members of Congress
who have paid membership continue to have access to their gym and spa while
workers face furloughs.
“It is absolutely outrageous that John Boehner refu... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Go Green Academy
Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
[image: A link-up for green blogs on Reduce Footprints Blog]
Banner by Art Ist
Grab our banner for your site:
*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
collection
of environment... more »
*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
collection
of environment... more » "You Think You Knew Crazy? Think Again. 10 Shockers from the Increasingly Unhinged Right Wing"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
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*"You Think You Knew Crazy? Think Again. *
*10 Shockers from the Increasingly Unhinged Right Wing"*
**
*by Janet Allon*
*1. Michele Bachmann: 'Obama is part of Al Qaeda and end times are
near.'*To the extent that she is capable of rational decision-making,
Minn. Rep.
Michele Bachmann decided this week might be a fitting time to remind the
public that she is batshit crazy. During a radio interview, she spun out
her theory that, A) President Obama is arming terrorists, generally, and
Al
Qaeda, specifically. And B) This is cause for rejoicing because it is a
sign that the end t... more »
Kan, Jaczko, Gundersen, Bradford and Nader -- Nuclear Power Through the Fukukshima Perspective | Enformable
rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
by Karl Grossman - - It started this June in California. Speaking about the
problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear plants through the perspective
of the Fukushima nuclear complex catastrophe was a panel of Naoto Kan,
prime minister of Japan when the disaster began; Gregory Jaczko, chairman
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) at the time; Peter
Bradford, an NRC member when the Three Mile Island accident happened; and
nuclear engineer and former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen.
This week the same panel of experts on nuclear technology—joined by
long-ti... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Gordon, Alabama, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
A Cherokee Proverb
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on
inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us
all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,
superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, generosity, empathy, truth,
compassion and faith.”
The grandson thought about this for a minute and then asked the
grandfather, “Which wolf wins?”
The old Cherokee simply repli... more »
Chet Raymo, "What Does It All Mean?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
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*"What Does It All Mean?"*
by Chet Raymo
"A good friend tells me via e-mail that she is reading Leo Tolstoy's "Anna
Karenina." I read the book for a second time two years ago, in the new
translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It's one of those
novels I had to read twice - once in middle age (I would not have had the
patience in youth) and once in settled maturity. In middle age, it was all
about Anna, and passion, and doubt. In old age - for me at least - it's
about Levin, settled, happily married, enjoying as much intellectual peace
as might be possible in th... more »
When cocaine is all there is
Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
Drugs are on my mind, as they often are these days. South American
cocaine, to be more specific, 800 tons of which are reportedly moved north
every year to eager markets in the U.S. and Canada. And the majority of it
passes right through this region where I’m working at the moment - the
Moskitia.
Just before I left Copan Ruinas to come down here, I was telling an
American friend about how I loved coming to this gorgeous place but at the
same time always felt a bit on edge because of the enormous presence of The
Business, as I've come to think of it. She was astounded that suc... more »
You say you want a negotiation
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Well, this is encouraging. It appears our Democrats learned how to negotiate.
Helluva a counter offer to the GOP's inane demands:
Washington Post: "Rather than making concessions that would undermine
Obama's signature health-care initiative, as Republicans first demanded,
Democrats are now on the offensive and seeking to undo what has become a
cherished prize for the GOP: deep agency spending cuts known as the
sequester."
Much more at Taegan's link.
Solidarity to the Parents
peggyrobertson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
This morning I sat in front of my computer determined – determined to
answer every opt out question in my inbox – this is hard to accomplish
because they just keep coming. But today I did it. At least until tomorrow
morning or until I check my email again. I answered questions from
distraught parents, […]
This Oughta Mean Something ...
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
International cover-up of genotoxic environmental catastrophe? I'm one of
those limp-wristed "pwogwessive" types whooz against things like the death
penalty. But maybe an uprising, followed by executions of those who
launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003 would teach these scumbags some
fucking lessons?
Do you think rumsfeld, Condi, Cheney or bush II would die as well as Saddam
Hussein? No fucking way. Of all of them, I think Condi would die the
proudest. She was, I think, the most deluded. Cheney would have had a
pathetic heart attack long before the sentence was carried out. rumsfe... more »
The Right Wing Comes Out Of The Closet - They Really Like: DIRTY HIPPIE UNEMPLOYED BIKERS, UNIONIZED TRUCKERS, NATIONAL PARKS, & SINGLE-PAYER GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE FOR VETERANS
Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago
(The entire time leading up to the truckers' rally in DC there was not ONE
story that Sarah Palin & Ted Cruz would be speaking there! Who is the
person(s) or group who got Sarah Palin & Ted Cruz to speak and didn't tell
anyone? Isn't Ted Cruz IN the government the truckers are protesting?
Classic co-opting of a grassroots event. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, & FOX
"news" will continue the co-opting this week with coverage of Sarah Palin &
Ted Cruz at the truckers' rally...and more "national park shutdown"
stories. These stories stem from rightwing media, just like "GROUND ZERO
MOSQUE... more »
TV Watch: Could the barren wasteland of this TV season be somehow connected to the barren wasteland of our social and political reality?
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Bright lights in the void*: *I haven't watched this official trailer for
Season 3 of Homeland, but you may want to. If the season turned out to be
good, I didn't want it spoiled by the preview, and if it didn't, well, I
didn't want to waste my time. So far, I'm happier than I could have
imagined. It's less of a surprise the The Good Wife is off to a great
season start -- less of a surprise, but still an enormous relief.*
*by Ken*
Let's just throw this out as an off-the-cuff thought rather than a closely
argued sociocultural treatise, but do you suppose there could be a
connection... more »
Great Moments in Republican Rebranding
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
Jesus fucking Christ on a foam rubber crutch, Fat Jack Leonard and the
Three Stooges had more gravitas than this bald-headed white separatist.
U.S. foreign Aid to Egypt
Hani Fakhouri at Middle East Today - 1 day ago
Recently, the Arab press in particular and the western press in general
have focused on President Barack Obama’s decision to stop U.S. aid to
Egypt. The rationale he used is based on the Egyptian military coup that
removed the freely and democratically elected ex-president Morsi.
President Obama’s rationale is totally wrong. Whoever briefed him was not
in touch with reality. His foreign policies regarding the Middle East in
general and the Arab world in particular has been wrong. The Arab
population was optimistic after his 2008 election, but is now totally
disappointed in the pre... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*James Gill: Big shot steps in on behalf of oil and gas ~New Orleans
Advocate*
Game changer!
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
So the Tea Party faithful held a protest in DC today which was duly
addressed by the leading Crackpot Cons who build their own personal reality
for them. It was billed as a Million Man March but looking at the photos
I'd say 2-3 thousand max at its height and I'm probably being over generous.
And a dozen big trucks that showed up for the Ten Thousand Angry Truckers
Convoy circled the park while a few dozen true conservatives tore down the
gates around the War Memorial. But according to conservative math (real
numbers are skewed!) close enough to live up to the billing. Besides, loo... more »
Sharing pears
Michael Paul Goldenberg at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Reblogged from Talking Math with Your Kids: I took the kids camping this
weekend. Jay Cooke State Park is lovely. I recommend a visit if you have
never been. We had the following conversation at the campsite on Saturday
evening. Me: Griff, we have two pears and three people. What should we do
about that? […]
Dutchsinse, OPPT, and the mystery of the missing facts
Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
So it all started last night (in my time zone) when a friend on skype sent
me a link to Dutchsinse's latest video and told me that "He's saying OPPT
is following Aleister Crowley!!".... well I just HAD to go listen to the
report..... especially since I'm pretty sure Heather doesn't even know who
Crowley is, lol.
I listened to the whole video (and for those who were/are following the
comments on the video, I wrote the first 3 comments I made as I was
listening to the report).
Dutch's video went viral all over the place and the skype chats rooms
exploded with comments and responses... more »
So, maybe you had no-one to vote for?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
By the way: if you didn’t bother voting for mayors or councillors this
election—even though you know that virtually all mayors and councillors
both old and new regard your property as their business, and your pocket as
their personal ATM machine—then maybe you should have done something about
it?
You know, like standing yourself? Or supporting those who did, so more folk
could hear what they had to say?
There were a few candidates across the country standing against that
premise, and some of them polled well, and some few of them got elected.
And I hope some of you do let me know... more »
NO TO DRONES IN MAINE
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
We arrived at the Skowhegan Community Center around 4:00 pm today after a
13 mile walk. We left Bangor with 30 folks and walked 6.3 miles out of the
city. Ten folks from Bangor then bid us goodbye and we shuttled 40 miles
ahead on Hwy 2 heading west and had lunch along the road. Then we walked
another six-plus miles into Skowhegan.
Yesterday when we were walking thru Orono a Native American man named
Gkisedtanamoogk heard us drumming as he was washing dishes. He teaches
peace studies and Native American history at the University of
Maine-Orono. He came running after us and d... more »
Chinese relentless quest for gold underlines their call ( by way of their official press agency ) for a new reserve currency and replacement of the Dollar ( due to US fiscal failure and irresponsibility ) and New World Order - meaning China wants to be in Charge folks !
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/chinas-official-press-agency-calls-new-reserve-currency
China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World
Order
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2013 14:32 -0400
- Budget Deficit
- China
- Debt Ceiling
- Fail
- Federal Reserve
- International Monetary Fund
- Iraq
- recovery
- Reserve Currency
- White House
- World Bank
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We assume it is a coincidence that on the day in which we demonstrate
China's relentless appetite for g... more »
Secession Victories: Want To Know Why So Few Are Happy? (Just 11 Percent of the U.S. Population Has Enough Senate Representation To Stop Anything That the Other 89 Percent May Want) And They Completely Control the House of Representatives
Cirze at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago
(If throwing a contribution Pottersville2's way won't break your budget in
these difficult financial times, I really need it, and would wholeheartedly
appreciate it. Anything you can afford will make a huge difference in this
blog's lifetime.) With as much unalloyed confusion and as little
satisfaction (not to mention real happiness) as there is in the U.S. today
(no, I'm not talking about
I'm Willing To Bet That Kyrsten Sinema And Sean Patrick Maloney Will Never Be On A Postage Stamp
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I have credits on a lot of films and albums but none thrill me as much as
when the end credits on the 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk roll
and I see my name. I wasn't in the movie and I was shocked to see my name
in the credits. It was there because the filmmaker had used some stills I
had taken of Harvey over the years. I had been unable to bring myself to
watch it-- too distraught-- for over a decade and had no idea my name was
attached to it.
Harvey was an important person in my life when I first moved to the West
Coast after having lived in Europe for nearly 7 year... more »
ZEROHEDGE: China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World Order
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/chinas-official-press-agency-calls-new-reserve-currency
China's Official Press Agency Calls For New Reserve Currency, And New World
Order
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2013 14:32 -0400
We assume it is a coincidence that on the day in which we demonstrate
China's relentless appetite for gold, driven by what we and many others
believe is the country's desire to have a call option on a gold-backed
reserve currency when the time comes, just posted in China's official press
agency, Xinhua, is an op-... more »
"The Only Time..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times,
it's the only time we've got."
~ Art Buchwald
How difficult is to drop a letter in the post?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
People are asking this morning: “How difficult is to drop a letter in the
post?” They’re asking, because so few people bothered to vote in the latest
local government elections, the results for which (in case you haven’t
noticed) were announced over the weekend.
Implied in that question is the notion that the *only* thing holding people
back from voting was the alleged difficulty of filling out a paper form and
finding an envelope, a stamp and a postbox. As if fixing low voter turnout
would be “fixed” if folk could fix their choice on their iPad.
But the people asking that questio... more »
‘Captain Phillips’ Is A Hollywood/CIA PsyOp
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Source: Columbia Pictures.
'Captain Phillips' belongs in the company of Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, United
93, and other joint Hollywood-CIA productions that take liberties with the
truth, to put it mildly.
The crew members of the ship that was taken hostage in Somalian waters,
captained by what appears to be a moron from hell, say that the movie is a
big lie.
Here is an excerpt from the article, *"Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is
one big lie"* by Maureen Callahan, The New York Post, October 13:
It didn’t go down like that, say several crew members: The pirates just
reneged on... more »
"Sometimes You Do..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea
that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're
licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no
matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
~ "Harper Lee", "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Sunday Question for Liberals
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Gotta get away from shutdown/debt limit for a while. So how about Syria:
how are you feeling now about Barack Obama's actions on Syria?
Jaguar C-X75 just got ugly... damn ugly.
Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 1 day ago
after reporting on the thing for a couple of years, twelve months ago the
(cancelled?) Jaguar C-X75 jet-turbine powered electric-all-wheel driven
concept car looked like this. Glorious, clean ominous. It was powered by
two rear-mounted mini-jet engines and it had an electric motor per wheel.
Expensive, yes, and insane, but imagine how that jet-whistle alone would
have sounded as you floored the pedal.
SEX ON WHEELS, right?
Now, suddenly, it looks, and sounds, like this ... oh, dear: what have they
done?
How can that even claim to be the same car? Ugly spoiler'd backend, uglier ... more »
Paulo Coelho “Dreams: The 12 Steps”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Dreams: The 12 Steps”*
by Paulo Coelho
"When Joseph Campbell created the expression “follow your blessing,” he was
reflecting an idea that seems to be very appropriate right now. In “The
Alchemist,” this same idea is called “Personal Legend.” Alan Cohen, a
therapist who lives in Hawaii, is also working on this theme. He says that
in his lectures he asks those who are dissatisfied with their work and
seventy-five percent of the audience raise their hands. Cohen has created a
system of twelve steps to help people to rediscover their “blessing” (he is
a follower of Campbell):
*1... more »
Kennedy and Nixon
Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
*"The Watergate break-in of 1972 (in which, I have always been convinced,
Nixon was not so much a guilty perpetrator as a guilty victim) followed
Nixon's secret negotiations with Hanoi for disengagement from Vietnam,
significantly advanced by his May 1972 visit to Moscow, where he signed the
first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement."*
*
**- Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)*
Kennedy and Nixon from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
The Hegelian Dialectic of 20th Century History.
The National Security State creates it's own Manichean duality, objects of
ego identificat... more »
“60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* “60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think”*
by Marc Chernoff
"In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or
how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that
might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In your quiet moments,
pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing
that needs to shift in order for you to experience more happiness, more
love, and more vitality, is your way of thinking.
Here are 60 thought-provoking quotes gathered from our sister site, Everyday
Life Lessons, and from... more »
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