Sunday, January 26, 2014

26 Jan - Blogs I'm Following

A gun recovered from the USS Maine, which was ...A gun recovered from the USS Maine, which was sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba February 15, 1898. The gun is now located at Fort Allen Park on the Eastern Promenade of Portland, Maine. Image made 2005 by Robert Swanson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Ralph Nader signing books at Barnes & Noble Un...Ralph Nader signing books at Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
David Swanson and Cindy Sheehan at White House...David Swanson and Cindy Sheehan at White House gates (Photo credit: Cheryl.Biren)
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While the prior bout of global financial distress which started in 2008 and has resulted in major financial markets of the West ( and Japan ) being essentially captured by Central Banks of the Federal Reserve , ECB , BOE and BOJ -- We are seeing clear signs that things are globally unraveling once again and this time it would appear things actually could be different ! Michael Snyder offers " 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown "

Catharsis Ours - 12 minutes ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/20-early-warning-signs-we-are-approaching-global-economic-meltdown 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2014 20:53 -0500 - Art Cashin - Baltic Dry - Bank Run - Brazil - China - Debt Ceiling - France - Global Economy - Italy - Meltdown - Sears - Turkey - Ukraine - Unemployment inShare10 *Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,* Have you been paying attenti... more »

Sunday Classics: Finally we get to the Final Scene of "Carmen"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 minutes ago
*Teresa Berganza and Plácido Domingo sing the final scene of Carmen.* *by Ken* One loose thread we're going to not so much tie up as pull all the way out before we close up shop here is the Final Scedne of Bizet's *Carmen*, which we were headed toward ever so gradually in a series of posts that stretched out quite awhile and got us *into* the scene. But I had it in mind to continue through it, trying to explain, or describe, or just *show* the point at which the fates of Carmen and Don José intersect so tragically. Well, now that I'm past trying to explain or describe or even just ... more »

SWANSON COMING TO MAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
*David Swanson in Brunswick, Maine* Feb. 15, 2014 Saturday 3 - 5 p.m. Curtis Memorial Library Sign up on Facebook. Flyer: PDF. *David Swanson in Portland, Maine* Feb. 15, 2014 Saturday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Lee Hall, Wishcamper Center, USM, 34 Bedford Street Parking in garage next to Wishcamper Flyer: PDF. Talks & Book signings. Free and open to the public. David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his new book, *War No More: The Case for Abolition*. Swanson's books include *When the World Outlawed War,* named by Ralph Nader as one of the six books everyone should read; the best-sel... more »

Honduras: The new president gets a lavish swearing-in

paul at Paying attention - 1 hour ago
There’s a certain over-the-top, bread and circuses aspect to tomorrow’s ceremonies for the swearing in of the new president of Honduras. Especially for a country that is, effectively, broke, with desperate unmet needs. The government has given all employees a half day off, in case they want to attend the ceremony or watch it on TV. A fleet of 450 buses has also been lined up to bring people from around the country. The national stadium in Tegicugalpa, the venue for the big event, is being repainted, and beginning Sunday night the roads in a wide area around the stadium will be closed... more »

Flashback: Canada/G20 peaceful protest crushed. Ukraine violent protest elavated

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
I want, at this time, to remind readers here of the G20 protests in Toronto, Canada. I want to remind readers how our government in Canada really supports the rights of peaceful protestors. I want to ask Canadians and Americans why it is our governments always put down peaceful protests with such violence? And why our police forces resort to using provocateurs in amongst the crowds to justify the heavy handed, ultra violent responses. *Recall? I had this video up in 2010?* In the post titled- Report from a G20 protest attendee. Video footage.Where was JTF2 ? Queen & Spadina Protes... more »

Corporate Education Losers Dust Off Antiquarian "Reforms," Again

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
Op-Ed published January 25 in *The Tennessean*: Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman continues a series of victory laps that began in the fall, when results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed improvement in reading and math scores for Tennessee’s fourth- and eighth-graders. Tennessee, however, remains far from the finish line in the federal Race to the Top that Tennessee entered in 2010. In 2013 Tennessee and the District of Columbia were the only two (out of 19) Race to the Top grant recipients to show performance gains over 2011 NAEP score... more »

ALEC Incompetency - Membership Lying to Board?

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
ALEC's member department is evidently giving out propaganda - even to the ALEC Board. When things get really bad - do a bad job of lying, must be the new motto at ALEC. Really folks - with the ALEC home office lying in docs and letters, multiple ALECers plagiarizing using a copy/paste of ALEC headquarters PR in editorials in the newspapers this past week and ALECers lying to their constituents about their membership - - - When is the general public going to finally wake up to the political menace known as the American Legislative Exchange Council? *<><><><><><><><* Back to where ... more »

Michaels Stores Is Investigating Data Breach .... The U.S. Secret Service confirmed that it is investigating a potential data breach at Michaels. Also, Michaels has just issued a statement stating that it “recently learned of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S. payment cards that had been used at Michaels, suggesting that the Company may have experienced a data security attack.”

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Another Retailer comes clean regarding data breach Sources: Card Breach at Michaels Stores [image: facebook][image: twitter][image: google_plus][image: reddit][image: pinterest][image: linkedin][image: mail] Multiple sources in the banking industry say they are tracking a pattern of fraud on cards that were all recently used at *Michaels Stores Inc.*, an Irving, Texas-based arts-and-crafts retailer that maintains more than 1,250 stores across the United States. [image: michaels]On Friday morning, I put a call in to *SPM Communications*, the public relations company listed as the pr... more »

The Same One Hour 10,000 Times Is Not 10,000 Hours: Behaviorism, Math, and Utter Failure

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Speaking against testing isn’t an uphill battle; it is an upmountain battle—something like Pike’s Peak. But one of the most powerful and disturbing examples of just why traditional testing is such a failure to real learning is found in math classes—where behaviorism is both embraced and misused on a daily basis. We’ve all had this […]

Bitcoin news and views - January 25 , 2014 -- Nick Colas of ConvergEx offers his perspective on what challenges lie ahead for Bitcoin in 2014 ( The Three Critical Factors ) ..... And a look at Nick's critical three factors , with a focus on adoption of Bitcoin , implications and regulation .....

Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/bitcoin-2014-3-critical-factors Bitcoin In 2014 - The 3 Critical Factors [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2014 21:24 -0500 - Bitcoin - Federal Reserve - headlines - Madison Avenue - New York City - New York State - None - Turkey - Volatility inShare1 In the last year Bitcoin has gone 'viral'. As ConvergEx's Nick Colas notes, a lot has happened in 2013: Price appreciation, yes, from $20 to +$800 – the result of this online “Currency” going from science project to m... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago

Ukraine, Noah's Ark, the first Anglican woman priest, politics and religion, a radical nun and anti-clergy abuse

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
This morning's *Sunday *began by looking at the role being played by the main churches during the current unrest in *Ukraine*. William Crawley discussed it with the BBC's man there, David Stern. Apparently, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (formed in 1992 after schism from the Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church) is strongly backing the protests. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which became autonomous in 1990), on the other hand, is remaining cautious, initially ordering its priests not to back the protest... more »

54 Dead in an Egypt Polarized between pro-Military, anti-Coup on Revolution Anniversary

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Dozens killed in Egypt on anniversary of uprising January 25, 2014 2:45PM ET Three years after the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak, violence surged in the polarized country Topics: International Egypt Egypt in Turmoil [image: Egypt clashes] Security forces use teargas to disperse rallies held by opponents of Egypt's military coup to mark the third anniversary of the start of Egypt 2011 revolution in Cairo on Saturday.Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Twenty-nine people were killed during anti-government marches in Egypt on Saturday according to the country's health ministry... more »

NSA updates , revelations and news regarding potential NSA changes - January 26 , 2014 ....NSA is after industrial spying – Snowden to German TV ..... Microsoft May Thwart US Spying On Foreign Customers With A Radical Move [Report]

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
NSA is after industrial spying – Snowden to German TV Published time: January 26, 2014 09:44 Edited time: January 26, 2014 13:23 Get short URL [image: National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Jim Watson)] National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Jim Watson) Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tags Germany, Information Technology,Intelligence, Politics, Russia, Scandal, Security, Snowden, USA The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, fo... more »

'Opposition' says NO to power share in Ukraine- Coup in process

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours ago
The protestors were never peaceful.... The protestors only made demands. The protestors do not want compromise. They want their way. Like petulant children. Does this look to be peaceful protests? Protesters lit tires aflame during clashes with riot police in Kiev. Clashing with riot police? I don't see any clashing? I don't see any riot police? I just see people setting fires and damaging property. Is that protesting? * Opposition Says No to Ukraine on Power Share* * In a striking concession* ( huge concession) aimed at defusing Ukraine’s civil uprising and preserving his own gr... more »

Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that Blind

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
Richard Sherman\’s GPA and \”Thug\” Label: The Codes that Blind. via Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that Blind.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Canada's Herbert Hoover

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
Some people rejoiced last week, when Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz announced that interest rates would remain where they are. But Scott Clark and Peter Devries write: Reading between the lines suggests that the Bank does not expect a strengthening in employment growth and any significant reduction in the unemployment rate over the next eighteen months — before the 2015 election, in other words. And there is very little the Bank can do about it, short of lowering the overnight rate further. The simple fact is that there is a need for more aggregate demand in the economy. T... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Oil & Gas beneficiary and hatchet-man, Governorcost Bobly Jindal, politicking again to oust president of area levee board ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *Recent attacks have French Quarter employees, residents on edge ~WWLTV * *Marques Colston: 2013 season in review* *New Orleans to Host NADA Convention & Expo for 10th Time Since 1973 ~The Auto Channel* *Heart of Louisiana: Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile Store ~Dave McNamara, WVUE* *Good Eggs: Web-Based Aggregator Expands Its Brick & Mortar Operation ~Poppy Tooker, WWNO* *New Orleans and Louisiana artists set to grab ... more »

Despite conflicting reports , it would appear ICBC will NOT bailout investors in Gold Credit Trust Product after all .... Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has been holding firm against calls to compensate about 700 investors who bought the three-year trust product at its branches in Shanxi. The product, which raised funds for a coal miner in the province, was issued by China Credit Trust and distributed by the lender.... Investors of the Trust Product vow that ICBC will make them whole from any losses on the product ICBC pushed - "ICBC and China Credit Trust dug a hole, covered it with a straw mat and told us to jump in," said Gao Yiyang, an investor who spent almost $500,000 of his family's money on the product. "It now appears our money was not used for any of the company's actual operations. It was purely fraud to get our money to fill a huge deficit hole," he told AFP. !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1412077/china-trust-products-fate-hangs-balance-amid-talk-bailout http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1412873/icbc-bailout-trust-product-unlikely ICBC bailout of trust product unlikely A default may spook the financial system since a large number of trust products mature this year PUBLISHED : Saturday, 25 January, 2014, 5:29am UPDATED : Saturday, 25 January, 2014, 5:29am Jane Cal in Beijing - [image: 628db3a2794d78d470ff272fdd6e58f8.jpg] ICBC chairman Jiang Jianqing said the bank would not "rigidly" pay... more »

The Far Right Continues To Work To Defeat Mitch McConnell

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Almost all the Koch-funded far right extremist groups have now joined the battle to nominate teabagger Matt Bevin over McConnell in the May 20th Kentucky primary. The latest, this weekend, was the Republican Liberty Caucus. The group, which has been around since 1991, has also endorsed Milton Wolf over Pat Roberts in Kansas, Lee Bright over Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, Pat McGeehan in West Virginia instead of the Establishment corporate shill (Shelley Moore Capito), and Owen Hill in Colorado (instead of Ken Buck, the other extremist lunatic in the race). They claim the endors... more »

Ukraine protests updates January 26 , 2014 -- Ukrainian opposition urges snap elections, continues protests despite Prime Minister post offering to opposition and review of the Constitution promised .... position offer

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/opposition-ukraine-rejects-proposal-203/ Opposition leaders called for an early presidential election following a Saturday meeting with the government, where top government posts were offered to protest leaders and a review of the constitution was promised. Read RT's timeline of the Ukrainian clashes. The proposal to offer positions within the Ukrainian government to opposition leaders will be considered by all three parties and discussed with the people, Batkivschina leader Arseny Yatsenyuk said. *“We are not rejecting the offer, nor are we accepting it. We are in ... more »

Indiana HB1320: The ALEC, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch Plan for Student Data

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago
By Doug Martin You would think with many more Hoosiers finding out each and every day about the complete scam known as Indiana school reform, the legislators in Indianapolis would be smart enough to give it a rest. But no, instead of doing damage control on the eve of the release of my book *Hoosier School Heist*—which spills the beans on the out-of-state money, the handing over of charter schools to campaign donors and friends, the plagiarism at the State Board of Education, school vouchers and torture, felonies, the breaking of Open Door Laws, and other scandals and outright cor... more »

Doge Duncan, without comment.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
Much reforms!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: doge, Duncan, reform

Taiwan Offshoring

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
[image: FTV_Jan_2014_133] No time for blogging for a couple more days... Commonwealth strikes again with two great pieces on offshoring Taiwan's wealth here and here. Oh, and J Michael Cole on the truck driver who crashed into the presidential office _______________________ [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!

For the 50p Tax Rate

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
Did Ed Balls announce the nationalisation of the top 100 monopolies or something at yesterday's Fabian conference? I was there, and he assuredly did not. To make sure the dangerous radicalism of putting 5p on the top rate of tax was boxed in, he even ruled out renationalising energy companies and the rail. And yet, according to Lord Myners in today's *Telegraph* restoring the 50p tax rate for earners in receipt of an income on excess of £150,000 is "old Labour" and the "politics of envy". As the good lord is on the boards of several successful firms, I think he has an interest to d... more »

'BBC EXECUTIVE ABUSED BOYS IN AMSTERDAM'

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
Like Lord McAlpine, Wifred De'ath is presumably innocent. BBC News - No charges against ex-BBC producer Wilfred De'Ath However, someone else is in trouble. Reportedly, a *BBC executive* *sexually abused boys at his home in Amsterdam.* *BBC embroiled in further scandal as executive 'filmed Dutch child abuse movies'* 26 January 2014, Express.co.uk *According to the Sunday Express, in the 1980s, the BBC executive reportedly -* *1. Had a known British child abuser staying at his home.* *2. Made child porn films at his home.* *3. Had boys from British care homes brought to his home ... more »

More or Less, or a lot less

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
You may (or may not) recall that biased Radio 4 immigration debate from the start of this year, *Immigration: Good for Whom? * Well, Radio 4's excellent *More or Less *[h/t *hefyd *in the comments] returned to it this week after a listener queried the stats used by two of the contributors - the confident assertion by mass immigration advocate Susie Symes that immigrants contribute £70 billion a year to this country, and the confident but contradictory assertion by the more sceptical David Goodhart that their fiscal contribution was actually either neutral, or slightly negative. Th... more »

500 % Radiation Increase of "No Concern": Experts to Unveil Radiation Levels in California From Fukushima Fallout by Mike Barret

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
In California 500% Radiation Increase of ‘No Concern’: Experts to Unveil Radiation Levels in CA from Fukushima Fallout by Mike Barret Natural Society, 26 January 2014 An Assembly member from California wants more transparency for citizens concerning the Fukushima fallout hitting their shores. Bob Wieckowski is asking for the Department of Public Health to post updated information about the true radiation levels on California coastlines, requesting that they be put in ‘layman’s’ terms to mitigate any concerns about the true radiation exposure that many citizens and the marine anim... more »

Church of England still 'Tory Party at prayer' but it's the difference between Jews and Muslims that helps to explain BBC attitude to both

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
'... in the 2010 election, Muslims favoured Labour, while the Jewish vote went to the Conservatives.' No wonder the BBC so clearly favour Muslims over Jews, to think I thought it was just about Israel and the Palestinians... More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25889828

Theos - Voting and Values in Britain - Does religion count?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 9 hours ago
I always go out of my way to call the usually-abbreviated LSE, The London School of Economic and Political Science. Because it's important how close the ties are between Finance and Politics, and Science. They're 'like that', *intertwines fingers to show closeness*. Economics and Politics (Science of) are joined at the hip. So too, it seems, are Politics and Voting reinforced by research put forward by Theos* (a think tank which believes *"you can’t understand the modern world without understanding religion"*) suggesting that, wait for this stunner, "Specific religious denominations... more »

Thirded! (apparently)

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
Being, as you may know, something of a follower of Radio 4's *Sunday*, I like to keep an eye on its Twitter feed. It usually tells listeners what's coming up or what a guest on the programme has just said. It also occasionally retweets comments sent to it via Twitter. Its latest retweet, however, is something it just happened to pick up on Twitter about the findings of a Theos report on UK religious affiliations and voting patterns (which the programme had discussed). It's a rather partisan thing to retweet, isn't it? Retweeted by BBC Radio 4 Sunday *Stuart* ‏@Stuey_James 58m ... more »

For Sunday...God Whispers...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
*remain calm.* *from my dear friend ** Biene Vallee - and we thank her. *

The never-ending common core boondoggle

skrashen at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
Sent to USA Today, January 25, 2014. I was happy to read that "Some states get cold feet as Common Core testing draws near," (Jan. 24). As Theodor Rebarber noted, estimates of costs should include technology. All common core tests must be delivered online, on up-to-date computers, which many schools do not have. This will cost billions, and we can be sure that as soon as the system is functioning, most of the technology will be obsolete, which means a never-ending boondoggle for computer and testing companies at taxpayers' expense. If the brave new tests fail to produce improvement,... more »

Gold

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
If you blog about bias it's surely inevitable that you'll end up throwing more brickbats than bouquets at the BBC; in fact, it tends to be pretty much brickbats all the way. Here, however, are a couple of bouquets for the BBC. One goes to whoever decided to choose Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal by Matthew Hart as last week's Radio 4 Book of the Week. Another goes to whoever abridged it (Peter Nichols, that's you!). The first episode recounted the author's descent into South Africa's Mponeng mine, the deepest man-made hole on Earth (2.5 miles deep) - an inte... more »

Good Points, Bad Analysis and Unread Links

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 11 hours ago
If you constantly call yourself an expert, you should probably do your best to know what you're talking about. Or at least read the content of links you provide to try and support your analysis. This seemingly obvious concept has again proven itself beyond the capacity of one of the Western media's most favored bearer of conventional wisdom and hackneyed talking points. In a short blog post

Sunday morning reading

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
A little light reading to accompanying your bacon, eggs and sausages this morning... A couple of weeks ago, ITV accused the BBC of using licence-payers money to rip off TV programmes from its commercially-funded rivals in an “aggressive” pursuit of higher ratings in a submission to the Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee: The BBC’s pursuit of audience share regardless of distinctiveness or innovation has been evident where the BBC has rushed to commission or produce almost identical programmes to those by ITV, and then has scheduled them against ITV’s planned transmissions.... more »

the alien agenda

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 12 hours ago
I have researched and studied the alien presence for 46 years. The early contactees of the 50's such as Adamski, Van Tassel, Menger, and Meier were contacted by alien groups who were here to offer us help. Their offer was rejected by our government and the military because they denied our requests for technology and required us to end war and destroy our atomic weapons. Other alien groups were then quick to offer the enticement of technology in exchange for certain privileges and a treaty emerged. In exchange for technology they would be granted secrecy and be allowed to abduct peo... more »

Al Haig, The NSC and the White House Spy Ring: The Nixon Story You Never Heard

Paul Coker at News Spike - 12 hours ago
*"...However, authors Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin were highly critical of much of Haig's behind-the-scenes work as Nixon's chief of staff in their 1991 book Silent Coup: The Removal of a President. * *They described several episodes where Haig misled the president and others, particularly those surrounding the court battles over Nixon's White House tape recordings, and Ford's eventual pardon of Nixon in September 1974. * *Having conducted dozens of interviews of key participants, including Gerald Ford, Robert Hartmann, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, John Dean,... more »

FL-13-- A Special Election All About Hypocrisy

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
The DCCC and NRCC have already spent over half a million dollars in FL-13 smearing, respectively, NRCC candidate David Jolly and DCCC candidate Alex Sink. The DCCC spent $288,151 last week and the NRCC put in , $220,049 last week (bringing their total to $353,419). Two other especially sleazy outfits have jumped in, one on behalf of Jolly, (the Allen West Guardian Fund- $36,930) and one on behalf of Sink (EMILY's List- $15,264). As of last month, Sink reported having $1,054,488 on hand and Jolly, who just finished a bruising and expensive primary, reported $141,891 cash on hand. ... more »

Jack and Kwame

Paul Coker at News Spike - 13 hours ago
*President John F. Kennedy Attends Arrival Ceremonies for Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of the Republic of Ghana* *8 March 1961* Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Student Convocation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, February 12, 1960 "Perhaps no area of the world deserves more of our knowledge and attention while getting so little as the great, throbbing continent of Africa. If we were to ask a group of politicians or college students in Africa about the United States, we would for the most part receive such stereotyped replies as: "America is rich," "... more »

The US Has Failed (For The Moment) To Sucker The American Public Into Going To War Against Syria - MIT Study Finds Syrian Government NOT Behind Rocket Attacks!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours ago
We all remember last August when the US/NATO/Israel, and the trained monkeys in the Jewish controlled media were screaming to high heaven that Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria, had committed an atrocity by launching a chemical weapon rocket attack on his own civilians in Damascus, Syria…. But luckily people were NOT fooled, and many automatically saw through the deception and knew from the beginning that this "rocket attack" was actually committed by the American/Israeli bought and paid for murderous "rebels"…. The sole purpose of the attack was indeed to try to sway and sucker t... more »

Wild Bill: Dr. Ben Carson for President?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*what do you think?*

Time To Put The "Global Warming" Fraud Out Of Its Misery: Sun Scientists Are Now Debating Whether Solar Lull Could Trigger Another "Little Ice Age"

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours ago
I have put up countless articles in this blog exposing the absolute LIES perpetrated by the hucksters behind the "Global Warming" fraud…. I figure that now with everyone waking up to the reality that it is indeed a massive hoax and swindle, it is time to focus on the present situation, where we see a steep downfall in solar radiation generated from our Yellow Dwarf Star, Sol, or commonly called "The Sun", and the consequences of that decline… There have been some recent alarming reports about how our Sun has gone "quiet"…. That quietness is actually the amount of solar activity in t... more »

the secret meeting

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 14 hours ago

Taxes, The Beatles and Adam Smith

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 14 hours ago
A friend, Dr. Amado “Bong” Mendoza of the UP Political Science Department, posted his poem in his fb wall today…. *Taxing to death* *A septon on political economyTaxation is the purest of political gamesThe process determinesWho gets what, where, and whenSmith (Adam, that is) warnedIf taxes were onerousMobile capital can frustrate the avaricious princeTaxes are as sure as deathLennon and McCartney croonedDead men should declare the pennies in their eyes.* *© 2014 All rights reserved* -------------- I like it, so I added a stanza from The Beatles’ song, “Taxman”, *Let... more »

kitty wake up

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 15 hours ago

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Jindal the Koch Sucker tries again to oust president of area levee board ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*

Should a parent go to jail for This?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
Today, I learned about two “education theft” cases where a parent, Kelley Williams Bollar, served nine days in jail, and a set of parents, Hamlet and Olesia Garcia are facing up to seven years in prison. I’m ashamed I wasn’t aware of this problem before today – January 25th. However, now that I’m aware this practice exists, I’m […]

The Order of DeMolay

Paul Coker at News Spike - 16 hours ago
"Founded by Frank S. Land, a Freemason, DeMolay is modeled after Freemasonry. With the sponsorship of a Masonic body, a DeMolay chapter often meets in a lodge room or, if not in a lodge room, in some other appropriate room within the same building. Although none of the youth groups are "masonic organizations" as such, DeMolay is considered to be part of the general "family" of Masonic and associated organizations, along with other youth groups such as Job's Daughters and Rainbow. As with Rainbow, a family connection to Masonry is not a prerequisite for membership into DeMolay. DeMo... more »

The NYT Editorial Board takes on the Koch Bros' political money machine

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*"The clandestine influence of the Kochs and their Palm Springs friends would be much reduced if they were forced to play in the sunshine."* *-- from an editorial in tomorrow's NYT,* "The Koch Party" *by Ken* I've noted that the Koch Brothers have turned up in any number of posts from Howie and Noah, and worry that I haven't been wielding my wee cudgel often enough. That's the thing about Big Money, backed up by its all-but-invariable alter-ego, Deep Pockets: It rolls on and on, tending in the end to outlast and overwhelm contrary voices fueled by mere spunk. It's hardly an origin... more »

AIPAC Senator may face jail for helping gangsters

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 17 hours ago
*Stew Webb Whistleblower-Activist* AIPAC Senator may face jail for helping gangsters[image: 347457_Sen. Robert Menendez] Senator Menendez under investigation for ties to fugitive bankers … by Press TV, Tehran [image: AIPAC has been busy little bees lately] AIPAC has been busy little bees lately *[ Editors Note: Surprise, surprise...up pops the annoucement of what has had to be a long running investigation, and a sensitive one with a Democratic White house having a criminal investigation of an well known senator.* *Are we finally seeing some pay back by Obama for those working wi... more »

Princess Diana was an Anti-Zionist Jew - The Smoking Gun

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
*Born :James Michael Goldsmith* *26 February 1933* *Paris, France* *Died : 18 July 1997 (aged 64)* *Benahavís, Spain* *Cause of Death : Pancreatic cancer* *"Sir James, who was 64, started his career as a hotel cook and became one of the world's wealthiest men. He died on Friday night in Spain, apparently from a heart attack linked to cancer of the pancreas diagnosed in 1993."* No evidence of this WHATSOEVER. He was diabetic; there is no evidence he had pancreatic cancer.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
*February 12, 1996* *Vol. 45* *No. 6* *Diana Draws Blood* By Michelle Green *Lashing Out at Tiggy Brings a Legal Warning and Enrages the Queen * Reports that became public last week suggest that Diana, 34, has recently played into the hands of those who may not wish her well. On Jan. 24, British papers pegged her as the source of a false rumor that Charles's aide Alexandra "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, companion to Princes William, 13, and Harry, 11, when they are with their father, had become pregnant by Charles last year and had an abortion. According to witnesses who gave thei... more »

Would I Lie to You?

antiqueteacher60 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Reblogged from An Antique Teacher:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9zF8OsR_8&w=660&h=495] This week, a very personable "professional developer" from BOCES came to my school to "guide" the K-6 teachers in the use of the Tri-State Quality Rubric - a rubric that is to help us all align our lessons to the CCSS and is to be used as a "learning tool". […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 hours ago
*State has explored illegally obtaining drug for upcoming execution ~Della Hasselle, The Lens*

Jew-loving mayor of NYC: my job is to defend Israel

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 18 hours ago
The headline from the Israeli daily *Haaretz* says it all: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a heartfelt speech praising Israel at a private gala event hosted by AIPAC at the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan Thursday night, the local website Capital New York reported. According to an edited audio recording obtained by the site (below), *de Blasio said that "part of his job description is to defend Israel"* and that it is *"elemental to being an American, because there is no greater ally on earth, and that's something we can say proudly."* The Israel lobby's event was closed to jou... more »

Is increasing reading instruction a good idea?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 18 hours ago
Sent to Education Week, January 25, 2014 We need to take a much closer look at claims that increased time spent in reading instruction results in improvement in reading achievement ("Fla. Pushes Longer School Day, More Reading in Some Schools," Jan. 22). According the Ed Week article, scores were higher than comparison schools in only 20 of the 100 schools observed. In other words, in 80 out of the 100 schools, there comparison schools did as well (or worse?). In addition, we are told that teachers in the program were known to "effective in teaching reading," in other words, in incr... more »

Greece updates January 25 , 2014 - Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras is expected to face a barrage of questions from his eurozone counterparts at a summit in Brussels on Monday amid the slow implementation of reforms which has led troika officials to delay their scheduled return to Athens ....... Losing on cuts to to pensioners lump sums on retirement ( armed forces and emergency services for now ) will make the existing 500 million gap wider for the Greek Coalition Government...... Troika - slaves proposal , punitive fines ( scrambling for euros from wherever ) , banks issue ultimatum to fishing farming companies ( just kill another line of business , why don't you ? )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
*Council of State weighing appeals over cuts to pensioners' lump sums* In the wake of a leaked decision by the Council of State deeming wage cuts imposed on members of the armed forces and emergency services to be unconstitutional, the court is considering appeals by other groups of civil servants against reductions to the lump sums they receive on retirement, Kathimerini understands. The appeals being weighed by the country’s highest administrative court have been lodged by civil servants but also by social security funds, according to sources. The Finance Ministry is already scramb... more »

Iranian Officials Respond to John Kerry's "Military Option" Threat

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 19 hours ago
United States Secretary of State John Kerry In response to recent comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry regarding a potential military strike on Iran, Brigadier General Seyyed Masoud Jazayeri - Iran's deputy chief of staff - said in an interview that, in the event of an attack, American interests in the region would be "completely destroyed." Speaking to Al Arabiya this week, Kerry

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

“Bill Maher: The Right-Wing's Pathetic Fake ‘Manliness’"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*“Bill Maher: * *The Right-Wing's Pathetic Fake ‘Manliness’"* By Alyssa Figueroa "Conservatives were outraged this week after President Obama said that if he had a son, he would not allow him to play football — commenting on the violent culture of the game. From Rush Limbaugh saying Obama's comment was "irresponsible," to Glenn Beck saying Obama should "stop being a chick," conservatives whined about the importance of manliness, continuing their narrative about masculinity that attempts to veil their cowardly actions. Watch Bill Maher take them on here:" - http://www.alternet.org/

“Inside the Obscene Lifestyles of the New Global Super-Rich”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*“Inside the Obscene Lifestyles of the New Global Super-Rich”* By Lynn Stuart Parramore “A new crop of global super-rich is pouring into the United States, changing the economic landscape from Manhattan to Los Angeles. They’re driving up the price of real estate, pushing out the middle class and going on buying binges that would make Gilded Age robber barons blush. First they want the hotel room — perhaps the storied, $15,000-a-night penthouse at the Fairmont San Francisco, where guests receive honey made by the Fairmont’s own honeybees. JFK was rumored to tryst there with Marilyn ... more »

Eichmann

Paul Coker at News Spike - 19 hours ago
In 1937, Labor Zionist *Feivel Polkes* invited Eichmann to Palestine. On 2 October 1937, the Nazi visited a kibbutz. Realizing he was a German agent, the British deported him to Egypt, where he eventually met *Polkes*, who offered to spy for Germany in return for loosened currency restrictions for Zionists. In 1944, Labor Zionist *Reszo Kasztner (a.k.a. Rudolph Kastner*) negotiated with Eichmann, *offering silence on Nazi plans to deport 750,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in return for Eichmann's promise to send prominent Jews to Switzerland.* *In 1946, Kasztner reported his acti... more »

Imagine Replacing Bachmann With An Actual Progressive!

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
When right-wing sociopath Michele Bachmann announced her retirement from Congress last year, followed by Jim Graves' withdrawal from the MN-06 congressional race, we kind of stopped watching this district. For one thing, the district has a PVI of R+10, pretty prohibitive territory for a Democrat and just right for a right-wing lobbyist like Tom Emmer, the probably GOP nominee. For another, a horrible DCCC-type fake Democrat, Sartell mayor Joe Perske looked like he would be the nominee. Emmer, who was defeated in his run for governor last year, is as extremist in his politics as B... more »

One hour and thirty minutes with Ziggy Stardust

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 20 hours ago
CBC rules H/T to Gizmodo

LISTEN Lenny Foster describes Anaya's meeting with Peltier

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech Radio web site. Listen at this link: La Onda Bajita - January 24, 2014 at 8:00pm Lenny Foster's interview begins at 8:30 pm Audio by Tony Gonzales, AIM West Across Indian Land KPFA Article and photo by Brenda Norrell Censored News "They haven't broken his will or broken his spirit. He remains very positive and very strong. Today's

"20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*"20 Early Warning Signs That We Are * *Approaching **A Global Economic Meltdown"* by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog "Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China? If you are like most Americans, you have not been. Most Americans don't seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should. In major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence, shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks. We are not at a "global crisis" stage yet, ... more »

Palmerston's Irregulars

Paul Coker at News Spike - 21 hours ago
Prime Minister Palmerston conducted, the opium business behind a screen of respectability, in full public view. What remained hidden — until the report of the Military Commission that heard evidence on the Lincoln Assassination — was the importance of Palmerston's secret life, as Patriarch of the *Scottish Rite* of Freemasonry. It does not surprise the modern student that the perpetrators of the narcotics traffic show up in every element of the dirty side of 19th century politics, including presidential assassinations. But the extent of the web of criminal networks put in plac... more »

GMO Free Canada needs your Help

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
So Help yourself by reading this blog by Stranger in a Strange Land. Wonder if he is a Heinlein fan, a citizen of the galaxy who has a space suit and will travel like myself. We are all three missed meals from anarchy, so never forget national security starts with food security.

Canada's Foreign Aid Container

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
I was just adding up the hundreds of millions of dollars in Aid Dollars Harper has promised in the past week alone. How much of this will get to the people that need it? How much of it will prop up governments that are illegitimate. How much is part of making a neo con world? Canada spends roughly Six Billion a year of foreign aid. IMHO we are not seeing much for it, maybe Switzerland could give us a better picture. Therefore I would switch all of our aid to something concrete. Shipping container housing is my idea of making life better for the downtrodden world, and that include... more »

DUTROUX, SAVILE, CHENEY, MADELEINE McCANN...

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
*Dutroux. **Was Dutroux working for the security services?* Marc Dutroux has recently written a letter to the father of one of the four children whose death was blamed on Marc Dutroux. Dutroux writes of a massive conspiracy and he denies being responsible for the deaths of the four children. * La Dernière Heure* The Dutroux affair was about a child abuse network that provided children to top people in Belgium and beyond - people linked to the CIA's Operation Gladio, Bilderberg and Mossad. There is a belief that most of the organisers and top people got away with it. *Regina Lo... more »

Falling Skies

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 23 hours ago
I have been thinking aboot the relative decline of the human condition since 911. Everything wrong in todays world can be traced back to the idelogical incompetence of the Bush Administration. Yes they ruthlessly accomplished the Conservative Mission, thus proving how suicidal the plan really was. Now nihilism has replaced our former optimism. We desperately need to switch our culture from a Market Driven Economy to a Performance Based Society. The answers and examples of what works are right on every travel website. Northern Europe, especially Germany, and Singapore are the citie... more »

Pablum Preview

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours ago
From SuperPacs to Super Storms to Super-Soakers, we can now move on to Super-Speech: a/k/a the annual State of the Union (SOTU) harangue next week. You might call it the Superbowl of Presidential Addresses, delivered as it is to a joint session of Congress, some Supreme Court members, the First Lady in her royal box with a carefully selected entourage of human props, every last one of them dressed to kill, jockeying for prime TV camera position. Although Barack Obama is designated the star quarterback for this particular political game, this year's edition will feature not one, but ... more »

Security situation at Sochi Olympics, Russia, does not look good

LeDaro at LeDaro - 23 hours ago
The security at Sochi Olympic seems to be serious problem. We live in a very troubled world. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Reshaping the World

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 23 hours ago
The elite of the planet met in Davos, this week, for the World Economic Forum, as they have for over forty years. The theme of this year’s get together was, “Reshaping the World”, with global inequality one of the “hot” … Continue reading →

'Dateline': Business as usual

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 23 hours ago
Today's *Dateline London* demonstrated that however much pressure the programme comes under from outside sources - usually bloggers - to be a bit more inclusive and less of a a left-liberal talking shop, it will keep reverting to type. Hence my reluctance to even talk about it any more. Today's castlist was classic *Dateline. *It consisted of (a) strongly pro-EU, anti-Anglo-Saxon-model-of-capitalism French left-winger Marc Roche of *Le Monde *(France's answer to *The Guardian*); (b) left-wing, environmentalist, *Guardian/Observer *writer Isabel Hilton of China.dialogue; (c) Abdul... more »

A Bitter, Self-Pitying Boehner Blames His Republican House Colleagues For "A Very Predictable Disaster"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Boehner told Jay Leno on Thursday that he's learned that "a leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk." His problem, an inability to exercise the kind of skills needed to actually *be* a leader, never dawned on him when he led his caucus over the cliff last year, despite understanding what a disaster it would be. When Leno then brought up the idea of rooting for America to fail for narrow partisan advantage and mentioned his Congress' 8% approval rating (as the audience cheered), Boehner tried deflecting the blame away from himself: "The Congress has been America's f... more »

The Times’ reporting has been Wildsteinesque!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014* *So too with Maddow’s performance:* Kevin Drum says there’s no chance that David Wildstein was conducting a “legitimate” traffic study when he closed two traffic lanes leading out of Fort Lee. Click here for the analysts' favorite. We don’t completely agree with Drum’s post, for reasons we’ll offer below. It wouldn’t be our first bet that Wildstein was acting in good faith. But on a *journalistic* basis, we would say that possibility hasn’t yet been disproved. That, of course, doesn’t speak to the question of the New York Times’ reporting of the Fort ... more »
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