Saturday, February 15, 2014

15 Feb - Blogs I'm Following

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@chalkbeatny dishes on Cuomo’s education contributors, but how about your own?

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 minutes ago
As Chalkbeat NY, a spry education journalism collective, gets cited in the Wall Street Journal for those in the education world funding Cuomo’s re-election campaign, maybe Chalkbeat should reconsider its own take. Easily accessible from its website, Chalkbeat does indeed take funding from a few, at minimum, key organizations that are currently undermining public education […]

Sochi Olympics preparation

LeDaro at LeDaro - 10 minutes ago
Time-lapse animation. 2005-2014.

A PRIMER ON IRAN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 minutes ago
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He received a dual Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. Professor Dabashi has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities. Professor D... more »

The Pivot to Asia: Some Tough Questions

Jeffrey Stacey at Duck of Minerva - 21 minutes ago
The so-called Pivot to Asia, or “rebalance” in official parlance, has been one of the Obama Administration’s signature strategic moves on the global chessboard. But for all the serious engagement of the Pacific Rim countries, the core of the pivot has always been about China and responding to its rise as a regional Continue reading

Your Daily Howler keeps getting results!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 31 minutes ago
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2014* *Still coming, Matt Miller and Hawking:* Inexorably, your Daily Howler just keeps pounding out those results. To wit: Last night, Governor Christie wasn’t mentioned on the Maddow TV show. People! Not even once! Yesterday, there was no news about Governor Christie, or about Fort Lee. And, for the first time in weeks, Rachel Maddow didn’t *pretend* that she had important, exclusive breaking news to share which no one else has reported. Possibly concerning “Nicole,” whoever that turns out to be! Maddow didn’t fake it! Around the nation, astonished view... more »

HARVARD PROFESSOR EXPLAINS THE WEATHER

Anon at aangirfan - 37 minutes ago
On 14 February 2114, Professor Martin L Weitzman, of Harvard University, explains the weather. *The world in 2114* He explains that geo-engineering the weather, which means changing the weather, is going to shape our future. *Aircraft spread particles to block out some of the suns rays. These are called chemtrails.* *According to Weitzman:* *1.* We geo-engineer the weather when we burn things like coal. *2. *Nature engineers the weather when a volcano throws out lots of dust. *After Tambora erupted in Indonesia 1815, we had The Year Without a Summer and Eighteen Hundred and Fro... more »

the day before disclosure

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 40 minutes ago

BBC News - UK storms: Two die as fierce storms continue

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 58 minutes ago
The BBC seem fit to tell us in amongst the terrible news that: ' Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted: "My thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of the people killed in the storms last night."' So what! In fact I feel the words of the Anti Nowhere League's biggest hit coming to mind... More pro Labour brainwashing here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26200497 and all over the BBC.

The Charter School Takeover Cycle in Memphis Schools

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
The Gates business plan for Memphis schools requires public school closures and corporate charter start-ups to replace them. A dozen schools are on the hit list for the coming year, and the charter operators are lined up waiting for the buildings to become empty. Parents, however, are not nearly as uninformed as county officials who are doing the Gates dirty work believe. See video below: *How the Charterization Cycle Works* So here is how the charter school takeover cycle works. First, we need public schools isolated by years of neglect, segregation, and poverty--schools tha... more »

Galileo Galilei: 450th birthday

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago
Galileo Galilei, the father of science, the scientific method, physics, modern physics, and astronomy, among other things (including 2 daughters and 1 son, all of them out of wedlock), was born on February 15th (unadjusted Julian calender i.e. Old Style), 1564 in Pisa, a town in the Duchy of Florence. *That's exactly 450 years ago today. Congratulations, Galileo!* His father Vincenzo Galilei was an achieved lutenist (like an obsolete guitar player) and music theorist and the family was doing fine. Nevertheless, this father needed lots of money for some dowries and extra expenses re... more »

Mexico: Mysterious Object Over Yucatán

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours ago
*Source: El Criterio and Planeta UFODate: 13 February 2014* *Mexico: Mysterious Object Over Yucatan* A putative UFO was recorded on video on 11 February 2014. The videographer adds that it was recorded at 22:00 hours on that day, adding: "I'm not saying it's a spaceship, but it is an unidentified flying object." The video - 1:30 minutes long - shows a light in the sky whose trajectory eliminates the likelihood of it being an airplane, as it comes and goes. The sighting took place at the Los Almedros II Park in Ciudad Caucel. The videographer's attention was drawn by the shining... more »

Dieudonné, Face to Face on Iranian TV: English

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours ago
After you listen share a rational thought or two?

The biases of Professor Justin Lewis

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago
If you want to get a handle on where the aforementioned Professor Justin Lewis of Cardiff University is coming from, here's a little light reading for your Saturday afternoon. If you felt that the BBC was biased against the Iraq War, then think again. Prof. Lewis's research (2003) found that the BBC was pro-war - as you can see from his *Guardian* article, *Biased broadcasting corporation: A survey of the main broadcasters' coverage of the invasion of Iraq shows the claim that the BBC was anti-war is the opposite of the truth*. If you felt in 2004 (just a year before the 7/7 bomb... more »

Argentina: Tucumán - Another Alleged UFO in the News

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours ago
*Source: El Cívico (www.elcívico.com.ar)Date: 13 Feb 2014* *Argentina: Tucumán - Another Alleged UFO in the News* TUCUMAN - A strange object was seen in the skies over San Miguel de Tucumán, creating doubts as to whether it was a UFO. The images were recorded with a cellphone camera from the corner of Mate de Luna and Pellegrini avenues from the capital city of the "Jardín de la República" (*garden of the republic* - the name bestowed by president Domingo Sarmiento on the area when he encountered the subtropical cloud forest [*yungas*] of the Tucumán-Bolivia region - Ed). The... more »

Not All Party Switchers Are Opportunists-- Meet Jason Thigpen (NC-03)

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Lately, I've been railing a lot about Steve Israel recruiting Republicans to run for Congress as Democrats. That usually works out very badly-- at least for people, unlike Steve Israel, who give a damn about Democratic values. But not every Republican-turned-fake-Democratic is an opportunistic shill. Jason Thigpen, who's running in North Carolina's third CD against Walter Jones is running because if realized that his value system is more inline with progressive Democrats than it is with Republicans. He blogged about it here last year after he had switched parties. Needless to say, ... more »

Global protest watch February 13 , 2014 ........Venezuelan anti-government protests turn violent ....... Police use force to disperse coup trials protest in Turkish capital ....... The Tanks Are Rolling In Post-Devaluation Kazakhstan ........ Ukraine sees stances harden on both sides as the February 17 , 2014 deadlines to comply with the Government's amnesty law , as well as the protesters demand to release jailed protesters , loom .........

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Venezuela Accuses AFP Of "Manipulating" News Coverage; Shuts Down Colombian TV Station [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/13/2014 20:36 -0500 - France - Twitter - Twitter inShare Having described Venezuela as "absolutely calm" today - when it was anything but; the fact that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has the stones to accuse Agence France Press of "manipulating" news coverage is stunning. - **VENEZUELA ASKS INFO MINISTER TO TAKE ACTIONS AGAINST AFP NEWS* Furthermore, Maduro has *taken a TV station off-air that competed with ... more »

No Comparison

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
When Nelson Mandela died, Stephen Harper eulogised him as a “great moral leader…He left prison with his mind closed to any settling of scores and his heart open to those he had fought against. He demonstrated that the only path open to his nation was to reject the appeal of bitterness.” In Friday's *Globe and Mail*, Gerry Caplan used that standard to compare the present prime minister of Canada to the former president of South Africa. The comparison is enlightening: Mr. Mandela practised magnanimity. Harper proudly declares: “I couldn’t care less what my critics say.” Mr. Mandela... more »

Banker Source on Wall Street Suicides: Big Things Are Going Down!

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 3 hours ago
Silver Doctors February 7, 2014 *[image: bankster Assassinations]Steve Quayle’s banker source “V” is warning that “big things are going down” as a result of the fact that the NY Fed & bullion banks are OUT OF PHYSICAL GOLD, and states that* *the 4 banker suicides in the past week were on a HIT LIST tied to FOREX fraud- a list which the source claims includes dozens of Wall Street banksters.The full warning alert from “V” is below:* *Steve Quayle‘s banker source V states that the recent rash of banker suicides were on a hit list tied to FOREX fraud:* Big big things are going down..... more »

Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis* What do the fiscal cliff and Common Core (CC) have in common? For the answer consider this scenario: An arsonist sets a home on fire, and then risks his life fighting the blaze—but the house eventually succumbs to the flames. The media and the public praise the arsonist a […]

War Watch February 15 , 2014 -- Pentagon: We May Kill Freed Afghan Detainees Threatens to 'Hunt Down' Detainees If They Oppose Foreign Forces .......... Saudis Give Syrian Rebels Anti-Aircraft Missiles Rebels Have Repeatedly Threatened Attacks on Civilian Airlines ....... Another day of sectarian death dealing in Iraq - PM Maliki plays Al Qaeda card with skill ..... Key al-Qaeda Members Escaped in Yemen Prison Break Five of Freed Were Awaiting Execution

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Afghanistan..... Pentagon: We May Kill Freed Afghan DetaineesThreatens to 'Hunt Down' Detainees If They Oppose Foreign Forces by Jason Ditz, February 14, 2014 Print This | Share This Lawfully released by the Afghan government on Thursday, 65 detainees who were held for years by the US military at Bagram could find themselves targets again at any time, officials say. While Rear Admiral John Kirby insisted the 65 “are not considered targets right now,” he also said that “every day we continue to go after enemies in Afghanistan” and that “nothing’s going to change about that.” Of the 65... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Where the Vile Things Are* [image: Where the Vile Things Are,"] * *Melissa "DJ Soul Sister" to Rule krewedelusion!*

No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass

P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass* "After several decades of rigorous effort, it is fair to say that the majority of our attention in political science has been given to interstate war and civil war," explains Christian Davenport, adding: I would say that it would be interesting to count the number of articles over the last five years on terrorism and compare it to the number of articles on repression but regardless, I stand by the claim that most of our attention has been focused on those activities that challenge political authorities. Actually, it’s probably not even close. Why ... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 4 hours ago
*Here we go again …* The cult of the vicitim is alive and well in the US. It’s been fostered by politicians and lawyers who are open to the idea that one’s problems, whatever they are, are the fault of someone else. And, given that doing so gives the pols more power (and the lawyers more money), the field is open for exploitation. Remember the tobacco settlement? Well guess who is next and why: "Lawyers are pitching state attorneys general in 16 states with a radical idea: make the food industry pay for soaring obesity-related health care costs. It’s a move straight fro... more »

Political Stuff: talks, Jason Hu, Bruce Jacobs

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours ago
*Someday it will be warm and sunny again....* J Michael Cole notes that the main gain from the "government to government" talks between the CCP of China and the KMT of Taiwan is the propaganda coup for Beijing. Nicely put. The ironic thing is while the world is atizzy at the "historic" talks between two parties that have been holding regular conversations for nearly two decades, the Taiwanese themselves are not at all excited, as Ralph Jennings documents in Christian Science Monitor. I was talking to some bike industry people in Taichung today. They pointed out that Taichung Bike ... more »

EIREPORT: Morphologies of all Star-Connecteds are in process of change and “upward” transmutation

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
http://eireport.wordpress.com/ *Morphologies of all Star-Connecteds are in process of change and “upward” transmutation* 15 Feb 2014 Morphologies of all Star-Connecteds are in process of change and “upward” transmutation. Higher Dimensional cosmic links of Star-Connecteds now widen, and strengthen, as the “Ascended Being” energetic grids engage, and “solidify”. Fulfillment of Planetary Inner Vision comes quickly. ------------------------------ *Cetacean Cosmic Guidance is now aligned with humans collective for energetic upliftment phase* 11 Feb 2014 *Cetacean Cosmic Guidance i... more »

Celebratory Planet - Motivational Planet - Re-prioritised Planet

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 4 hours ago
*image copyright Reuters 2014*...watching the Winter Olympics from Sochi RU I realised how, when directed through the right Creativity, Passion and Kinship motivators, "Celebration," is the KEY INGREDIENT to human happiness. I mean look at the faces of the Olympians on the winner's rostrum there, they're celebrating 'achievement' or 'personal success'. Most of the following examples of succecstacy(sic) i.e. joy at winning, are for issues involving personal gain; a step up the career ladder, a financial victory, a war won. What if those cheery happy *Olympians* weren't celebrating... more »

Argentina: A UFO Over Lake Musters?

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 5 hours ago
*Source: Cronica (www.diariocronica.com.ar)Date: 13 Feb 2014* *Argentina: A UFO Over Lake Musters?* The current "urban drought" - a result of supply restrictions aimed at recovering reserves as well as accidental pipe leakage - leads us to pay closer attention to Lake Musters and examine any particularities concerning water volume, evaporation, flow and distribution through one of the country's most complex aqueduct systems. The beautiful lake and its surroundings have again become the focus of attention, but this time on account of a strange unidentified flying object. This al... more »

To boldly go...into the 'Independent' comments section

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
You don't have to be Captain Kirk or Mr Spock to experience what it's like to visit a parallel universe. I visited one only this morning. I was reading an article on the *Independent *website by the paper's media editor Ian Burrell, outlining the complaints of Prof. Justin Lewis of Cardiff University. Prof. Lewis is unhappy that a report from this university claiming to have proven that the BBC is biased *towards* the right has been ignored by the BBC. The report 'found' that the BBC is pro-Conservative, pro-Eurosceptic and pro-business. You can read my own sniffy take on that re... more »

Heavenletter #4830 Embrace, February 14, 2014

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
*Heavenletter #4830 Embrace, February 14, 2014 * God said: There are thoughts, and there are many aspects to thoughts. And, so, is the One World One Thought with many aspects to it. When you come down to it, there are not really disagreements. There are different aspects, much as it is in the story of the blind men and the elephant. And so, two or more see differently. Two or more feel differently. Who is to say which is right, and why does it matter so much or at all? In many places of the world, life is a competition. Everyone wants to get an A. Everyone wants to be a champ... more »

Look Now! - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
 Look Now! *Now is the time to act! * *Hear again the joyous voices* *and * *allow their music to vibrate * *throughout your being.* *See the beauty * *all around * *and * *within you. * *Look now!* M.N. Hopkins *Note:* This was an older writing I changed to poetic form and published for the first time on my blog today. Enjoy.

Food Buying Clubs Podcast by Dennis Crowley

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
Food Buying Clubs by Dennis Crowley on February 12, 2014 Podcast with host Dennis Crowley *Episode 14 of the Food Rights Hour podcast *is about food buying clubs. During this episode, our host Dennis Crowley and John Moody, food buying club consultant for FTCLDF members and administrator for Whole Life Buying Club, discuss: - How a food buying club works - Why food buying clubs matter to the local and real food movement - How John Moody crafted a truly successful food buying club model - Why food buying club members should also be FTCLDF members - How to find farmer... more »

Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
*Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle* *Tifton 85 Cyanide Grass is killing cows* When a herd of cattle suddenly died in Central Texas investigators were dispatched to the scene to investigate and now preliminary test results are blaming the animals deaths on the genetically modified grass the cows were consuming. The cows which were grazing on an 80-acre patch owned by Jerry Abel in Elgin, Texas died several weeks ago. Abel tells CBS Station KEYE that the grass should have been perfect since it had “a lot of leaf, it’s good grass, tested high fo... more »

A Letter from Carol

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
1960s UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement Posted by American Kabuki February 15, 2014 *I received this email from Carol this morning, thought I'd share it with all of you. Its a wonderful letter, the kind that gives me a real sense of satisfaction for starting this blog.* *The letter also spurred some thoughts in me as I was a child during the 60s and saw the hippies and how they recognized there was something wrong with the system of things, but later on many "sold out" to the system and became much more greedy than what they rebelled against. A kind of cognitive dissonance occur... more »

ISRAELIS KIDNAP AND TORTURE CHILDREN

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*The Israeli army is made up of Sadistic Pedophiles*

Big Pharma's Profits Over People & How to Hit Back

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
*February 15, 2014* (LocalOrg) - In Slashdot's "Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India," it states: "Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), are leaning on the United States government to discourage India from allowing the production and sale of affordable generic drugs to treat diseases such as cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. India is currently on the U.S. government's Priority Watch List — countries whose practices on protecting intellectual property Washington believes should be monitored closely. Last year Novartis lost a si... more »

Michio Kaku's theory of polar vortex

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
NewsBusters, WUWT, Climate Depot, and other skeptical websites have been mocking Michio Kaku's CBS shtick: Kaku has "explained" the snowy Northeast and Midwest and the relatively dry Californian weather in recent months as the result of the same cause, the "instability of historic proportions" that affects the polar vortex. He could have added the floods in the U.K. as a consequence, too – so that his fairy-tale would become even more global. ;-) The climate skeptics are making fun of the string field theorist's new book about futurism and the mind. Kaku seems to be keen on telepa... more »

'SPIES WORKING WITH NAZIS AND ISLAMISTS IN GERMANY'

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Sebastian Edathy* In Germany there is a case involving the secret services, Nazis and the *Azov Films* child abuse ring. In Germany, in 2013, Social Democrat *Sebastian Edathy* and his parliamentary panel investigated police and secret service activities in connection with a Nazi group. A neo-Nazi cell reportedly murdered Turks in Germany during a seven-year Gladio-style terrorism spree. Sebastian Edathy is now being linked to the Azov Films child pornography affair (Operation Spade in Canada). *German minister quits over child pornography inquiry 'leak'*. / SPD leaders knew a... more »

CSEC : Get Your Plouffe On!

Alison at Creekside - 10 hours ago
CBC : CSEC exoneration a 'mockery of public accountability' "The CSEC watchdog, headed on a part-time basis by a semi-retired judge, Jean-Pierre Plouffe, concluded: “No CSEC activity was directed at Canadians or persons in Canada…that would be illegal.”Plouffe’s office says its investigation exonerating CSEC consisted almost entirely of talking to CSEC." Lux ex Umbra : Q: Why did CSEC spy on Canadian wi-fi? A: It's all good! .

“Plutocrats Despising the Poor: An American Tradition”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“Plutocrats Despising the Poor: An American Tradition”* by Joseph A. Palermo “It's not surprising that greater numbers of Americans these days tell pollsters they believe corporate CEOs are grossly overpaid, or that they support an increase in the minimum wage, or agree with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposal to open an alternative banking systemthrough the U.S. Postal Service. Ever since Wall Street's giant mortgage bubble popped wreaking economic havoc with just about every working family in America people have rediscovered that the system is rigged against them. A... more »

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*The Wisdom Of Near-Death Experiences by Dr Penny Sartori, Watkins Publishing* *According to PENNY SARTORI:* Researchers writing in the medical journal Critical Care Medicine kept in touch with the parents of a six-month-old boy who nearly died in hospital during a serious illness. Three years later, the child was told by his parents that his grandmother was dying. The child asked: was she going through the tunnel to meet God? *dailymail.co.uk* Tom, the four-year-old son of a British soldier called Gary, was seriously ill in hospital. It was 'touch and go', said Gary. A few ... more »

Nuttier than Steve Stockman? We bring you a real Texan, Dwayne Stovall

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
*No, it's not the canine who's challenging Texas Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary, it's his master. Dwayne apparently isn't a big fan of "Beltway turtle" Mitch McConnell.* *by Ken* Howie passed along this clip, and what can I say? It's Texas, friends. If you're two-term Sen. John Cornyn, and you've spent your political career trying to be the kind of right-wing crackpot every Lone Star redneck crackpot can be proud of, the reality is that if you're up for reelection in 2014, the thing you have to watch out for is someone from the new generation of crackpots slithering a... more »

Back To My Roots: NASA And Their FAKE Apollo Moon Missions - The Apollo Moon Landings By Marcus Allen

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours ago
It is now just over 35 years since I was first told outright that all of NASA's Apollo manned moon missions were faked.... At that time, as a 19 year old bright yet brash University student who had at the time so much faith in the "system" and never doubted anything written in our "history" books as well as what was told by our governments and media, it was an eye opener and probably the turning point in my entire life.... It did not take me long after that original revelation to deduce that the entire Apollo program was fake, and that man could not land on the moon for a myriad of ... more »

Newest Article From Lasha Darkmoon: Will US Sponsored Terrorists Try To Sabotage The Sochi Olympics?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours ago
I am back... Again, I have been spending more and more time lately taking care of personal and family business, and concentrating on getting myself more physically fit.... The recent scare I had with a "heart condition" caused me to realize that my focus must be on my own health and fitness first and foremost.. Therefore at times, this blog has been put on the so called "back burner" and has not received the attention that I used to do in previous years... But like I have said, I am in this for the long haul, and honestly want to see the day that we are able to achieve victory over ... more »

Comcast's CEO must just be kidding when he calls swallowing up Time Warner Cable "pro-consumer, pro-competitive, and strongly in the public interest"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
*by Ken* My first thought on hearing of Comcast's acquisition Time Warner Cable (which as far as I can tell is a more accurate description than a "merger" of the country's no. 1 and no. 2 cable-TV companies) was: They're not gonna let that happen, are they? By "they," I guess I meant the FCC, the FTC, the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division -- whoever would have to sign off on a corporate conglomeration that would turn two pretty powerful players in the cable industry into one behemoth. It's just not possible, is it? My second thought was: Well, they spent a lot of time and b... more »

('Thug Vote-Stealing Strategy for Next Elections Revealed) JPMorgan's Startling (Or NOT!) CIA Ties - 39-Year-Old VP Jumps/Thrown From/Or Just Has His Body Left On Roof of Skyscraper (Ms. Yellen, You're New, But It’s Time to Pay Attention to the Slowdown)

BREAKING: PBS To Return John Arnold’s $3.5 Million, Following Pando Exposé And it's not because he's embarrassed, friends. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ever wonder exactly where they were planning to steal the votes for the next election? Wonder no more. They don't make mistakes about elections. No matter how foolish the MSM makes most of them look on the TV snooze. Never take your eyes off the crooks.

KlickEx Launches Crypto-Currency 2.0: A New Global Asset-Backed Currency - as we have seen bitcoin achieve successes and failures , might KlickEx evolve into the crypto- currency that rises to the top of the feeding chain ? Something to ponder .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
*http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/will-this-be-the-new-world-reserve-currency* Will This Be A New World Reserve Currency? In the Pacific there has been a currency exchange system since 2009 that allows individuals to sent funds directly to each other. Payments in the same currency can be made instant and free of charge, swapping currencies takes no more than 5 minutes (to allow time for market orders to accumulate so that the best exchange rate possible is achieved) and has very low fees. This system is called KlickEx. It only deals in cleared funds, so all users (or banks) have an accou... more »

read dave kopay's open letter to michael sam

laura k at wmtc - 15 hours ago
Did I celebrate Michael Sam's coming out on Facebook and Twitter, and forget to mention it on wmtc?? Ack! Social media run amok! The news that a top NFL prospect has come out as gay in advance of the draft is electrifying. The support for Sam among NFL players is awesome. At first, there was a conspicuous silence among NFL owners, but Giants owner Steve Tisch and Dolphins owner Dolphins owner Stephen Ross have stepped up. Perhaps more will follow. Here's an excerpt from an open letter to Michael Sam from Dave Kopay, a former NFL player who came out as gay after he retired. Not only... more »

cherry-picked data and undisclosed bias: the failure of freakonomics

laura k at wmtc - 15 hours ago
Allan came home from one of his used-book sale sprees with copies of both *Freakonomics* and *Super Freakonomics*. I had read so many excerpts from, and reviews of, these books over the years, and their appearance was a reminder to actually read them myself. You're probably familiar with the general premise of *Freakonomics*. Steven D. Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen J. Dubner is a well-known writer and editor. The two teamed up to write an unusual mix of story, statistics, and surprises for a popular audience, using research and statistics... more »

Alcatraz Photos Longest Walk 4 by Leslie Reed

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
Thanks to photographer Leslie Reed for 14 new photos! . Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz: Leslie Reed Soggs, Sakonnet Band of Wampanoag, shared photos from the arrival at Alcatraz in December. Thank you from Censored News!

War watch February 13 , 2014 - Afghanistan and President Karzai continue to ignore US demand as Bagram prisoners released over US opposition , BSA remains unsigned and another insider attacks kills two US soldiers.... Syria - despite the occasional noises made by the irrelevant Syrian National coalition , the real focus has to be upon the Al Qaeda and jihadists fighters in Syria ....

Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Afghanistan.... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/karzai-criticises-respect-afghan-sovereignty ( Considering the foreign policy blunders to date - is the Obama Administration reading the tea leaves right about a post- Karzai Afghanistan ? ) Karzai criticises lack of US respect for Afghan sovereignty as relations worsen Obama administration looks increasingly likely to gamble with Afghan president’s successor over signing of security agreement - Share13 - - - inShare0 - Email - Dan Roberts in Washington - - theguardian.com, Thursday 13 Februa... more »

Bitcoin news round up February 13 , 2014 --Transaction malleability and attack on the Bitcoin network .....Silk Road 2.0 'Hacked' Using Bitcoin Bug, All Its Funds Stolen ......... The Guardian reports Bitcoin exchanges ( Mt Gox , BTC-e and Bitstamp ) suspend conversions as hacker attack intensifies ....... Mt. Gox Founder Mark Karpeles Responds to Critics ...... Bruce Fenton opines " Why Life Under Bitcoin Regulation Will Be Worse Than Investors Think " ...... Canada’s Finance Minister Prepares to Regulate Bitcoin ....... India’s Government Claims the RBI is Examining Virtual Currencies ......Bank of Greece Breaks Silence on Bitcoin ........ St Louis Fed curious as to why businesses would accept bitcoins in spite of fiat ? Roger Ver bets on Mt Gox solvency...... New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena — and they’re fighting back ....... Utopia Drug Marketplace Shutdown

Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Malleability problem addressed by Justcoin already ? How long for Bitstamp and Mt Gox to fix their particular glitches ? http://blog.justcoin.com/post/transaction-malleability-and-attack-on-the-bitcoin-network Transaction malleability and attack on the Bitcoin network TL;DR Funds are safe and Bitcoin withdrawals are back to normal The following post is quite technical, simply because Bitcoin is very technical. [image: There’s more work to do on DoS, but I’m doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it’s needed, before venturing into more complex ideas.] Like Satoshi Nak... more »

3D Printing Energy Global Network : MISSION I’M POSSIBLE

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 17 hours ago
I would like to introduce you to an amazing site and a brilliant group of people who are working together to make a difference in the world. I first met Dave through the To-BE Community skype room and Nick and Dave and I immediately hit it off. .... Being from a British family, I'm even immune to his caustic brit wit, lol. Dave is part of a global network of people using 3D Printers to give the planet an upgrade. I talked to Ralph Ring about Dave's work in our conversation with Ralph and Marsha last weekend HERE, and the Rings were very excited by what has been put together in thi... more »

The Story of How Corporate Welfare Child Prison Operators Got Rich in Pennsylvania

Schools Matter - 17 hours ago
*AMY GOODMAN* *DEMOCRACY NOW!** / VIDEO INTERVIEW* From Nation of Change: Published: Wednesday 5 February 2014 *“Kids for Cash” is the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.* Today a special on "kids for cash," the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities. We hear from two of the youth: Charlie Balasav... more »

Legalised Euthanasia for Children Regardless of Age in Belgium: The Actual Law in English

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 17 hours ago
The past few days we have heard the reports of the change made to the Belgian (permissive, but also restrictive) euthanasia law that makes it include children of all ages among those who may lawfully receive medical help to end their lives. For instance here, here, here and here. None, however, have had access to or quoted any actual English translation of the new law. Thanks to my colleague Kristof Van Assche at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel's Faculty of Law and Criminology, I'm now happy to be able provide one for interested readers, with the following disclaimer: This is Kristof... more »

The Bermuda Triangle and the C-119 Disappearance

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 18 hours ago
As most of you know, I spent some time as an Air Force intelligence officer. I was assigned to the 928th Tactical Airlift Group which was part of the 440th Tactical Airlift Group which was headquartered at General Billy Mitchell Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During that time, there was an intelligence conference held in Milwaukee (and of no importance at all, it was here, late at night I first saw *ZULU*). The relevance of all this somewhat personal information will become obvious in a moment. Now, according to Bermuda Triangle lore (and to Gian Quasar) on June 5, 1965, “a C-119 v... more »

Going French: transport-related emissions in a nuclear/EV environment

Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 18 hours ago
One of the nice things about analyses you can do on the back of an envelope is that they are easier to understand and lend themselves to settling issues.  It occurred to me that a comparison of US LDV carbon emissions to the EV-related emissions from a nuclearized grid would be just one of those things. First off, gasoline.  Motor gasoline forms about 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon burned.  In 2012

Will The Tea Party Adopt The "A Million Dollars/A Million Votes" Plan As Part Of Their Anti-Democracy Platform?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
"Money is all over the place." Really? Watch that video from Thursday's Chris Hayes' MSNBC show above. That's the ugly sound of Republican class war against American families. That's why there are children who don't have enough food to eat. That guy in the bow tie and the canary yellow cardigan could have been reading a script from the days that lead up to the French Revolution. Admit it, you'd secretly watch him being guillotined if it was televised. And the accursed Tom Perkins too. He wasn't on Chris' show last night. But you probably remember him from his whining about how the... more »

Obamacare versus Romneycare

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 19 hours ago
One of the themes that we have all heard over the past few years is that President Obama's healthcare reform is merely bringing the kind of changes Massachusetts had under Governor Romney to the nation. If that were really true, you would think that these national reforms would have minimal impact on the state of Massachusetts. Well, here is a story from today's Boston Globe: About 50,000 health insurance applications, many filed by low-income Massachusetts residents, have yet to be processed by the state’s troubled insurance marketplace, officials disclosed Thursday, and it may tak... more »

Jodorowsky's Dune - Giger the set designer, Salvador Dali the Emperor, Orson Wells and Mick Jagger

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
*moloko vellocet, sir or madam?* Remembering that Frank Herbert's original novel DUNE was about the oil industry, Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted to make a film adaptation that would *'give one LSD hallucinations without taking LSD'*. "I want to change the young minds of all the world." he said. Indeed, LSD-induced MK Ultra for the masses... *This fascinating documentary explores the genesis of one of cinema's greatest epics that never was: cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's (EL TOPO) adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic Dune, whose cast would have included such icons as... more »

Computer is baaaaack...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 20 hours ago
*and so far Windows 7 is A-okay.* And, yes Odie - I know it's not as good as a Mac. Sigh... I did lose my bookmarks, but since I'm into decluttering, might as well declutter my bookmarks, too. Off to work... See ya later, peeps.

Dine' Sarah White 'Uncertainties remain with Navajo Mine purchase'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Uncertainties remain with Navajo Mine purchase Sarah Jane White Tiis Tsoh Sikaad community member Censored News Lorenzo Bates stated in Tuesday’s Farmington Daily Times newspaper that he informed the community members in all six Chapters about the mine purchase. However, as I stated in this same article, only English was spoken by Mr. Bates, so how does he know if he got his message

Classroom Activity: Thinking Strategically

Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 21 hours ago
This third activity comes after students are to have listened to a lecture on game theory (slides). Look below the fold for details. First, I asked them to fully characterize the optimal strategy for player 1 in the following modified centipede game, assuming player 2 adopts their optimal strategy. That second part is important, and I stressed Continue reading

ANYTHING GOES: Everybody agrees!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014* *Part 4—McMorris Rodgers and us:* Speaking in one of our most august forums, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers did in fact make a misstatement. She was delivering the official GOP response to the president’s State of the Union Address. At one point, she said what follows. What she said was wrong: MCMORRIS RODGERS (1/28/14): Not long ago, *I got a letter from Bette in Spokane, who had hoped the president's health care law would save her money, but found out instead her premiums were going up nearly $700 a month.* We've all talked to too many people who've recei... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'US Canada Joint Military Operations against Mohawks'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
US-CANADA JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST MOHAWKS Posted on February 14, 2014  Mohawk Nation News MNN. Feb. 13, 2014. “Gallant Piper” is the US counterpart to Canada’s military plan to annihilate Mohawks through “Operation Campus/Scorpion-Saxon”.  “Canada declares war on Mohawks”. Remembering Kanehsatake, Kahnawake,Tyendinaga, Akwesasne, Six Nations …. Mohawks as “Keepers of

The Truth about Numbers

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
From DailyKos: Do not follow this troublemaker, @RubenBolling. And whatever you do, do not join the INNER HIVE, which is surely some kind of secret cabal of secular, humanist, moral-relativist, evolution-hugging mathe-manics who get comic strips emailed to them BEFORE publication, which is clearly unnatural.

In general, where an accused is sentenced for separate events, sentences should be consecutive

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago
*R. v Drader, *2014 ABCA 69: [4] In ascertaining what is a fit sentence, a sentencing court may make sentences concurrent or consecutive. Particularly where an accused is being sentenced for a number of offences at the same time, the principles of totality and proportionality will inform whether sentences should be consecutive or concurrent. However, as a general principle, where an accused is sentenced on separate days for completely separate events, typically the sentences should be consecutive. Otherwise, the result is that there is no effective sentence for the lat... more »

Putin racing at Sochi Olympics

LeDaro at LeDaro - 21 hours ago
He is way ahead of his competitors. :))

Friday Nerd Blogging: Winter Olympic Edition

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 21 hours ago
I was trying to find a good Star Wars-Valentine’s Day mash up and failed. And then I thought, what would Brian Boitano do? [NFSW-words] Old oldie but a goodie. Enjoy the games and enjoy the excuse to eat lots of chocolate and smooch them if you got ‘em.

What I Have Been Reading: Princess in the Opal Mask, The Elite and Crown of Midnight

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours ago
This retelling of Man in the Iron Mask is just as gripping as the original story, with lots of character and plot elements of its own. Princess Wilha knows what her face looks like, but no one else around her does. Since her birth she has been forced to wear an opal mask, concealing what lays beneath. The few times she has dared to show anybody her face, they have been abruptly dismissed from the palace. There are all sorts of rumors flying around, that her face is deformed, that one look from her can kill, that one look can heal, but when Princess Wilha looks beneath the mask, all... more »

What if the Crown fails to elect Summary or Indictable

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago
The Crown has the power of election on hybrid criminal offences. A hybrid offence is an offence defined in the Criminal Code as having both summary and indictable classes of punishment. Hybrid offences are deemed to be indictable until the Crown elects to proceed summarily. *R. v. Marr*, 2005 NSCA 73 at para. 20; *R. v. Dudley* 2009 SCC 58 at para. 21

Weekend Update

Southern Man at Southern Man - 22 hours ago
A busy weekend! This was a Teen Daughter Weekend so on Friday Southern Man headed out to rendezvouz with Southern Ex to retrieve her. Naturally the first thing she did was grab the camera and start to play. The Eye I have stared at this for an hour and still have no idea what it is. Saturday morning was the monthly geocacher's luncheon... Girl Scouts Have Cookies! Alex, an air traffic controller and geocacher from Germany, is in Southern City for some training at the FAA center. We start 'em caching young. Bubbles! Southern Man hit a few nearby caches after the meeting;... more »

Stronger voting rights for those who pay higher taxes

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
An MIT- and Harvard-trained venture capitalist has proposed a system in which the votes are proportional to the wealth, more precisely to the total income taxes you paid last time: Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes By the way, a month ago, this pundit compared the war on rich that is taking place in the U.S. to the Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews. I've been thinking about similar types of "weighting" for 25 years but when I ceased to be a teenager, my excitement about them went down, a little bit. Well, I've been also thinking about stronger votes for vote... more »

HELP THE BOYCOTT OF SODASTREAM

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 22 hours ago
This morning, after first shoveling a large dump of wet heavy snow, I met local Episcopal Deacon Carol Huntington at a coffee shop in our downtown Bath shopping area. We prepared to cross the street to a popular local store called Now You're Cooking where we had an appointment with the owner. We carried a letter asking him to stop selling SodaStream carbonation devices or other products made by this company. SodaStream manufactures these machines within an Israeli settlement in occupied Palestinian territory. These settlements are illegal under international law and are obstacle... more »

Four Score and Ten

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 22 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg This morning I began my 70th year of breathing and as it's inevitably another year closer to the cessation of that respiration, I like to acknowledge both disturbing facts by beginning something new. I bought a new motorcycle and coincidental to February being Black History Month as well as the month of my birth, I began to read a new poet: Derek Walcott. Of course I mean new to* me.* I've never been without a motorcycle for almost 50 years and Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature over 20 years ago and is hardly new to anyone literate. But a personal discover... more »

What if the Crown fails to elect Summary or Indictable

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago
The Crown has the power of election on hybrid criminal offences. A hybrid offence is an offence defined in the Criminal Code as having both summary and indictable classes of punishment. Hybrid offences are deemed to be indictable until the Crown elects to proceed summarily. *R. v. Marr*, 2005 NSCA 73 at para. 20; *R. v. Dudley* 2009 SCC 58 at para. 21

Ted Cruz Has Made Himself The Scourge Of Senate Republicans-- And They Don't Like That

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
In 2009, Nanci Griffith put out an album, *The Loving Kind*, inspired by the death of Mildred Loving the year before. Nanci and Mildred both saw the clear relationship between the landmark Supreme Court case, *Loving v Virginia*-- which struck down the miscegenation laws that remained in the South to prohibit marriages of whites and blacks-- to the struggle for LGBT marriage equality. Nanci's title song was an eloquent musical statement of what Judge Arenda Wright Allen did last night in declaring Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. “Our Constitution declares... more »

happy valentine's day

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago

Sokolich, Foye seem to [HEART] Bill Baroni!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014* *Very-special Valentine’s Day traffic lane report:* An amazing thing happened on cable last night: Rachel Maddow did an informative segment concerning Governor Christie! How did this rarest event occur? Maddow interviewed Andrea Bernstein, the WNYC reporter who actually seems to know actual things about the Christie years. Last Thursday, we cited Bernstein’s informative-seeming appearance with Lawrence O’Donnell. On that occasion, Bernstein explained David Wildstein’s job at the Port Authority—exactly one hour after Maddow announced, for perhaps the ten... more »

BOB Plecas, The Inspiration Behind Christy Clark Forcing A Teachers Strike Stratagy

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 23 hours ago
Thanks to a very astute reader and undisputed king of retrieving documents and files.... Here is that article referenced yesterday in my post in its entirety, also, I was wrong on the publication date, it was not March 15th 2012...publication date in The Vancouver Sun was.. Feb 15th/2012....(Thanks again to you know who...Grant G) _______- *A winning game plan for Clark* Bill Bennett moved the Social Credit party back to the centre, supporting environmental issues (preserving the Skagit Valley, for example) and promising funding for independent schools. While it was the perce... more »

Love Quest : Day 7 - "Singles Awareness Day"

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
[image: Picture] We’ve gotten to the end of this Quest and the beginning of the rest of your days. How you feel about yourself in them will, in no small way, determine how much love you experience as a tangible force. There are places you’ll go that are brimming with love. You may meet someone and “fall” in love, have a child and for a time be immersed in the pure energy of newborn love or begin a project you are passionate about and find yourself swimming in the juices of creative love. Each of these situations is temporary. You’ll move through them and wake up one day on the... more »

The Culling of the American Herd

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
There was a mass outbreak of righteous indignation this week at the news that a Danish zoo had not only wantonly slaughtered a baby giraffe, it had fed the chopped-up remains to the lions. In full public view. In broad daylight. In front of the *children*. News outlets just couldn't get enough of the spectacle, playing it over and over and over again, salaciously daring us to avert our eyes from the graphic content if we are sensitive viewers.... and above all, to get our precious *children *out of the room. CNN has run nine separate updates on the story so far this week. The shock,... more »

OPPT UCC Filings: Reviewing them again....

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
*Thank you to AK for bringing this up today and re-posting some of the filings.* For your Review. If you've read the One People's Public Trust UCC filing Documents before, I suggest re-reading them this weekend- I think you will be surprised at how much easier it is to understand them a year later. There have been many many pertinent conversations flowing in various groups..... I think they would do well to re-read these documents for a bit of clarity on what they are trying to achieve. The last two posted here are ones that people should especially take note of, considering al... more »

Putin celebrating Sochi Olympics

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
Vladimir Putin's happy dance for Sochi Olympics. This little guy is the new Czar of Russia.

Paul Craig Roberts, in what is likely to be his hardest-hitting column ever, excoriates five lying liers who have relentlessly violated the Constitution, making them traitors to the United States. Yet, they have not been arrested and put on trial.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *The Five Criminals: In America the Gestapo Has Replaced The Rule Of Law* ------------------------------ February 13, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *The Five Criminals**In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law* Paul Craig Roberts RT is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. http://rt.com/usa/intel-hearing-snowden-threat... more »

Thailand: Protesters Bring Prayer Books to Gunfight... And Win

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*Image: A protester sits at the feet of policereciting prayers from a book in defiance ofregime orders to clear the streets and returnhome. **February 14, 2014* (ATN) - The regime of accused mass murderer, convicted criminal and fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra chose the sacred Buddhist holiday of Makha Bucha to carry out a bungled crackdown on the now month-long "Occupy Bangkok" protest campaign. Regime police, notorious for their brutality and already guilty of killing several protesters as well as overseeing brazen broad daylight assassinations targeting protest leaders, came out i... more »

The CIA Freedom Fighter's Manual (1983)

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
"Practical gude to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state without having to use special tools and with minimal risk for the combatant."

What is Derek Parfit to do with the Prize Money? Preliminary Explorations

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 1 day ago
As I reported yesterday, All Souls (Oxford) emeritus and moral philosophy giant Derek Parfit has been selected as the 2014 Rolf Schock Logic and Philosophy laureate and, in effect, will receive about € 68 000. After having cheered at this excellent choice for about 24 hours (this affirming him as a worthy winner), I'm now moving to the next, obviously more pressing question: *Whatever should he do with the money??* There are, to start with, three crude options – a sort of A, B, C of the philosophy of Derek Parfit, if you want – needed scrutiny to commence exploring this complex iss... more »

Reformist @teachplus puts out some pretty thin gruel on the impact of testing

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Teacher leadership organization and reformist Teach Plus put out a recent study on the amount of time actually spent on testing in urban districts. It’s interesting that so much (relatively, speaking) fanfare surrounded this report because, well, it’s not really all that powerful. After reading through it, Teach Plus seems to want to tip its […]

Mark Weber on the Destructive NJ Ed Commish, Chris Cerf (Broad Academy '04)

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
from NJ Spotlight: The state education chief’s so-called reforms may have stirred up something more powerful than frustration and resignation Chris Cerf says he’s not leaving his post as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education because of Bridgegate, and I believe him. When Cerf departs at the end of March, he’ll be continuing a pattern of sliding back and forth between the private and public sector that he’s engaged in over his entire career. Leaving for Rupert Murdoch’s Amplify -- or some similar corporate education outfit -- was the next, inevitable step for Cerf, no matter how ma... more »

Paul Ryan's Attack On Military Pensions Has Helped Make The GOP Even More Toxic

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
You've probably read that Paul Ryan's plan to screw over military families with cuts to compensation and pensions has been backfiring, making the apostle of Randian greed and selfishness even more toxic than he's been in the past. Wednesday, when the Senate voted 95-3 to throw out Ryan's wretched calculations to steal from military veterans for the sake of his Big Business paymasters who hate paying their share of taxes, even the worst of the right-wing extremists like Ted Cruz (R-TX), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) voted with Elizabeth Warren, Barbara B... more »

The Road To Fascism

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
The Harper government has ordered the Canada Revenue Agency to carefully audit the books of organizations opposed to pipelines. Murray Dobbins correctly wonders if big oil has subverted Canadian democracy. But the government's use of the tax man to get at its enemies is not Dobbins' biggest worry. The more frightening development is Stephen Harper's use of the security establishment to monitor Canadians: Harper's general list of assaults, as bad as they are (and columnist Lawrence Martin has compiled a pretty thorough one here), is different from our prime minister's genuinely fri... more »

Another anti-TFA screed for the books

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
I won’t say that I disagree with the author’s arguments. However: I am white. I am female. I was educated at a prestigious university, which included a minor in education. In essence, I am riddled with privilege. Do I belong in a classroom in a community of color to which I have no connection and […]

They Aren't Going To Beg You To Stay (So Don't Quit Unless You Mean It)

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day ago
One of the things that makes me shake my head in my law practice is when people tell me that they either quit or discussed possibly quitting, then tried to take it back. I shake my head, because they're almost always contacting me because they're suddenly unemployed. Many employees think they're indispensable. Whether they've been with the company a long time, are high-producing sales people, or just know where the bodies are buried, lots of employees quit or threaten to quit with the secret belief that their employer can't live without them. That the boss will beg them to stay. Th... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Former mayor Morial fires back at Nagin over ‘Batphone’ ~New Orleans Advocate* ~Morial, now president of the National Urban League, said the phone was designed to stay active even when power and regular phone service went down. Nagin’s on-the-stand joke, Morial said, “got under my skin because Katrina was nothing to play around with. The way he handled it — (President George W.) Bush and (Gov. Kathleen) Blanco, too — made New Orleans the laughingstock of the country.” *Had Nagin picked up the phone instead of ridiculing it, Morial added, “he might have learned something.”* *Corps o... more »

Happy Valentine's Day

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
Source.

Dear CBC: The Olympics Isn't the Big Story

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
... You stupid fucks. "This just in: The harpercon government has just begun the process of ramming-through legislation that Elections Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand calls 'an affront to democracy.' Also, they've introduced legislation to strip citizenship from Canadians, even those who were born here, and ship them off to countries that torture .... Wait! What's this? Ladies and gentlemen! Fantastic news! CANADA HAS JUST WON THE SILVER MEDAL IN EXTREME DOWNHILL SLED-CURLING!!!! Let's go live to Sochi for the latest!!!"

Price of bluefin tuna nosedives at Tokyo auction

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
Yahoo News *(the auction price drops by 95%, but will not say why . . they are not allowed to . . ) ** Yahoo News * By ELAINE KURTENBACH January 5, 2014 [image: Sushi restauranteur Kiyoshi Kimura poses with a 507-pound (230-kilogram) bluefin tuna he bought at an auction before cutting it at his restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Kimura paid 7.36 million yen (about $70,000) for the bluefin tuna in the year's celebratory first auction, just one-twentieth of what he paid a year earlier despite signs the species is in serious decline. (AP Photo/... more »

Happy Valentine's Day

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

Leuren Moret: Fukushima radiation has made Hawaii and Pacific islands unsafe for humans

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
EcologyNews.com A web portal for the ecology and for revelations about environmental war on the environment such as HAARP-chemtrails, Fukushima global nuclear false flag, and depleted uranium weapons. [image: 1-PACIFIC.CESIUM.137] *Map showing progressing flow of Cesium 137 from Fukushima across Pacific Ocean* BERKELEY, CA - In response to a question from a viewer from Canada, independent scientist and radiation expert Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABT has stated that Fukushima Radiation has made Hawaii and the Pacific islands unsafe for human habitation and swimming in the adjace... more »

Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm. via Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem. via Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Some links....

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
[image: IMG_6333] *Tiny aphids on a grass stem.* _____________ *Daily Links*: - Scholars advocate that ROC and PRC jointly put out justification for China's claims to the South China Sea (recall that the nine-dash line was an ROC concept originally). The article says "Yen said that *there has been no legal justification whatsoever* for the “nine-dash line” since the territory within the line was first claimed in 1947 by the then-Nationalist government in Beijing, which fled to Taiwan in 1949." No kidding? - MAC Chairman says cross-strait relations are not sta... more »

OPPT UCC FILING DOC # 2013032035, MARCH 18, 2013ETERNAL ESSENCE FILING, RESTATED

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
UCC DOC #2013032035 Eternal Essence filing

OPPT UCC FILINGS RESTATED: UCC Doc. # 2000043135 and UCC Doc. # 2012132883, UNIVERSAL CONTRACTS/SOUL CONTRACTS ARE SATISFIED (COMPLETED)

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Seems to be some confusion out there about Universal Contracts and Soul Contracts still being in effect. All Universal Contracts/Soul Contracts are satisfied, finished. The experiment in separation is finished (although some have yet to get the memo...) No entity can hold you to any Universal Contract or Soul Contract as much as they may try... I hate to say this, but this was publicly posted over a year ago...but some are just waking up to it. :) UCC 2000043135 Soul Contracts Satisfied2 UCC 2012132883 Soul Contracts Satisfied

Europe falling apart again -- Greek Unemployment Hits New Record; People Employed Drops To Record Low; 61.4% Of Youth Without A Job ..... Italian PM Enrico Letta's government in danger of collapse Embattled leader challenges rivals including Matteo Renzi to 'lay their cards on the table' ...... Meanwhile both the Bank of England and the EU are studying Bail -ins and deposit mobility schemes aka confiscation of savings and assets !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Greece..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-13/greek-unemployment-hits-new-record-people-employed-drops-record-low-614-youth-withou Greek Unemployment Hits New Record; People Employed Drops To Record Low; 61.4% Of Youth Without A Job [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/13/2014 08:08 -0500 - Unemployment inShare Something funny happened on the Grecovery: the Grecession.... Actually, make that the Gepression. In a nutshell - according to Elstat, Greek unemployment in November rose to a record high on both a seasonally adjusted and unadjusted b... more »

Mt Gox update February 14 , 2014 - Two day chart - bitcoin at 334 ( and falling fast ) as of time of posting ( with a more than 250 dollar differential between price at Bitstamp ) ...... Also , note the significant gap between Bistamp and BRC -e ( close to 40 dollars ! ) ........ Protest at Mt Gox ! This would be the second protest at Mt Gox from a customer who has traveled to Tokyo to be seen and heard ( this gent is from London )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
[image: Creative Commons License] This chart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. [image: Creative Commons License] This chart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Protest at Mt Gox, Tokyo, 14th February 2014

Love Transcends Karma by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
*M.N. Hopkins.*

Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.14.14"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.14.14"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "It’s another week and another delay to part of Obama Care. Businesses with 50 to 100 employees will have another year to phase in health care coverage. Now, most of these companies already provide health care, but not the kind that Obama Care requires with free abortions and birth control and other “free” stuff. This “free” stuff will have to be paid for in much higher premiums, deductibles and co-pays. And just wait until you are taxed on the portion of your health care the employer pays for. That will amount to ano... more »

Iran: A Diplomatic Threat?

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV to discuss the absurd accusation of Iran being in league with Al Qaeda. Draitser explains that such a narrative is rooted in a deeply held fear that Iran’s foreign policy presents an obstacle to US hegemony in the region. He draws the connection between US policy in Syria, and the similarity of these most recent accusations with similar lies spouted by the Bush Administration.

Patricia Albright: Marijuana Advocate Caught between State, Federal Law

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
Our friend Tricia Albright is still fighting the US federal "government"and the court case has been moved back to July 2014. On an even brighter note, at least the Albright's court case is now getting main stream media attention!!! I've highlighted the parts of this article that people need to be aware of. This isn't just about one mom and her son facing criminal prosecution for trying to help people, this is about the greater threat of a Federal Court stomping on Rights, and even worse, making up their own rules as they go along. .... Since when does a State of California Licens... more »

What makes Aaron Swartz a hero?

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
[image: RT-02-13-14]February 14, 2014 (Eric Draitser) - The recent anti-NSA, anti-surveillance protests were the latest manifestation of a burgeoning movement for freedom from mass surveillance and the liberation of information. It is this new resistance movement, comprised of myriad individuals and organizations, which is perhaps the greatest measure of the legacy of Aaron Swartz. By the time of his death a little more than a year ago, Aaron Swartz had already achieved more in his 26 years than most activists achieve in a lifetime. He was a technological innovator, contributing his... more »

Happy Valentines Day 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
*Happy Valentines Day To All*

GIANT PROTECTED PEDOPHILE RING BASED IN MEMPHIS

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Georgia Tann* Georgia Tann's pedophile ring stole more than 5,000 children. Georgia Tann had the support of top people. She sexually abused young girls. She murdered scores of children. *New York governor Herbert Lehman* She supplied stolen children to top people such as Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and various mobsters. The parents of New York governor Herbert Lehman used her services. *Georgia Tann* Tann trafficked children to every state of the USA. Some of the children were sent abroad. Georgia Tann - Wikipedia, / The Hollywood Baby Snatcher / Georgia Tann: adoption archi... more »

French ZOG predictably censors Dieudonne, Quenelle

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
*No one believes the Jews and their lies anymore. Do you?*Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, *the heroic* Afro-French comedian who popularized the anti-establishment gesture known as the "quenelle", has been ordered by the Jewish-controlled French government to remove *"sections of a YouTube video in which"* the renegade comedian and activist *"celebrates the quenelle salute,"* according to the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*. The *JTA* reports: The Court of Grands Instances in its ruling Wednesday said one of the passages violated *French law against Holocaust denial* and another was *incitement ... more »

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David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ JP Morgan Executive Becomes 5th Banker to Die in Last 2 Weeks Some fear spate of deaths linked to imminent financial crisis *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com February 12, 2014 Two weeks after the suicide of a JP Morgan banker who jumped to his death from the top of a building, another of the firm’s employees has died, with 37-year-old Ryan Henry Crane becoming the 5th banker fatality in just the last few weeks alone. Crane was an Executive Director in JPM’s Global Program Trading desk based in New York and had been with the firm for 14 years. Few d... more »

Pictures of a Revolution: Iran, 35 Years Ago

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
Iranian soldiers aim rifles at an anti-Shah demonstration, 1978 Thirty-five years ago this week, a massive popular uprising in Iran deposed the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after years of severe repression and months of growing unrest. Below are photos taken between November 1978 and February 1979. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) November 4, 1978: Troops loyal to

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm* Preface: The following papers support skeptic arguments against Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC), Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or ACC/AGW Alarm [Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW)]. ACC/AGW Alarm: (defined), "concern relating to a perceived negative environmental or socio-economic effect of ACC/AGW, usually exaggerated as catastrophic." Disclaimer: The inclusion of a paper in this list does not imply a specific personal position to any of the authors. While certain authors on the ... more »
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