Cover of A Brief History of TimeWhat's up with all those dead bankers?...
*read this report by Doug Hagmann , founder & director of the Northeast
Intelligence Network*
and
while you're reading it* remember who is hosting Michelle Obama this
weekend. *
I wrote the above post with a sort of tongue-in-cheek flavor, but this is
serious business.
*From: Canada Free Press and Doug Hagmann:*
I feel that this is one of the most important investigations I’ve ever
done. If my findings are correct, each of us might soon experience a
severe, if not crippling blow to our personal finances, the confiscation of
any wealth some of us have been able to accumulate over... more »
Paul Craig Roberts has recently published a series of articles on current events in Ukraine, which I have refrained from reposting on this blog because I supposed that most of my visitors would not be interested. However, with today's column PCR has solidified his evidence that the US and EU have been paying Ukrainian protesters with the objects of (1) realizing the EU's hope to loot Ukraine as they have already done to Greece and Latvia and (2) realizing the US's hope to admit Ukraine to NATO so that they might install anti-ballistic-missile batteries that would help the west 'win' a nuclear war with Russia. As PCR reported on February 12, "Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a rabid Russophobe and neoconservative warmonger, told the National Press Club last December that the US has 'invested' $5 billion in organizing a network to achieve US goals in Ukraine in order to give 'Ukraine the future it deserves'.” He concludes his column below with the warning "It was fools like Nuland playing the great game that gave us World War I. WORLD WAR III WOULD BE THE LAST WAR." (capitalization mine)
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*US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters — Paul Craig Roberts*
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US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters
Paul Craig Roberts
A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is
fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars.
Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures,
but it has plenty of mone... more »
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*Owen Courreges: ‘Dizneylandrieu’ is more than just a clever float ~Uptown
Messenger*
On still looking into Hawking’s Brief History!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014*
*How far can non-specialists get:* How far can a non-specialist get in A
Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking’s famous first book of “popular
science” directed at non-specialists?
As we noted last week, we returned to that ancient question after a recent
Science Times piece. But first, consider the piece which appeared in
yesterday’s Sunday Review.
Professor Frenkel had himself all tangled up over the mysterious nature of
the Pythagorean theorem. Needless to say, the New York Times thought this
was good solid stuff:
FRENKEL (2/16/14): If Pythagoras h... more »
“Fighting Back Against the NSA”
*“Fighting Back Against the NSA”*
by Rick Jensen
“While many Americans shake their heads at the feckless backsliding of our
current congressional Republican leadership, legislators in a handful of
states across this nation are bravely taking a stand against the National
Security Agency, a behemoth of unconstitutional breaches of privacy
currently recording and logging every one of your calls, emails, text
messages and online chats without warrants. Ironically, it was just as
House Speaker John Boehner surrendered the future of your children and
grandchildren to the Democrats’ push ... more »
"One Vile F***ing Task After Another..."
"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't f***ing want to do.
Many times, that's what the f*** life is... one vile f***ing task after
another.”
"Pain, or damage, don't end the world- or despair or f---in' beatings.
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in
store.
Stand it like a man- and give some back."
- “Al Swearengen”,
Ian McShane's character in “Deadwood”
“Paranoia, Surveillance and Military Tactics: Have We Become Enemies of the Government?”
*“Paranoia, Surveillance and Military Tactics:*
* Have We Become Enemies of the Government?”*
By John W. Whitehead
“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits
the highest levels of government… Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11,
America has succumbed to a form of historical amnesia fed by a culture of
fear, militarization and precarity. Relegated to the dustbin of organized
forgetting were the long-standing abuses carried out by America’s
intelligence agencies and the public’s long-standing distrust of the FBI,
government wiretaps and police actions th... more »
DOES THE NEW YORK TIMES KNOW ITS LEFT FROM ITS RIGHT?
Headline on Today’s (2/17/14) NYT front page: ” Common Core Curriculum
Now Has Critics on the Left” or another version of ”All the news that
fits, we print.” My initial reaction: Wow…finally they are opening their
eyes to see how many Democrats and progressives in NYS and beyond have been
fighting this fight for a […]
A Critical Look At Iraqi Nationalism and Sectarianism, An Interview With Author Harith Hasan
Harith Hasan is a writer for Al-Monitor and the author of *Imagining The
Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq*. He
is part of a new generation of Iraqi writers that are exploring the meaning
of nationalism and sectarianism. In his book he made a historical analysis
from the Ottoman times to the present of how Iraq as a country was formed
by colonial powers, the ruling elite, and their interaction with the
public. Rather than seeing nationalism and sectarianism as static ideas, he
has argued that they are both concepts that have changed over time b... more »
Signal of neutrino dark matter
*By Dr Adam Falkowski (Résonaances; Orsay, France)*
The title of this post is purposely over-optimistic in order to increase
the traffic. A more accurate statement is that a recent analysis
*Detection of An Unidentified Emission Line in the Stacked X-ray spectrum
of Galaxy Clusters* by Esra Bulbul and 5 co-authors
(NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian)
of X-ray spectrum of galactic clusters claims the presence of a
monochromatic \(3.5\keV\) photon line which can be interpreted as a signal
of a\[
\large{m_{\nu({\rm ster})} = 7\keV }
\]sterile neutrino dark matter candidate decaying into a ph... more »
How does a Wellesley grad end up like this?
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014*
*Presumably, it took practice:* Can we share a dirty little secret about
the new wave of America’s “press corps?”
These people just aren’t very smart. They aren’t especially *serious*people. Manifestly, they aren’t very honest.
To get an idea what we’re talking about, consider the new post by Margaret
Hartmann at New York magazine.
Pitifully, Hartmann’s headline says this: “Christie’s Other Childhood
Friend Gave Tour of Fort Lee Traffic Jam.”
This implies that David Wildstein was a “childhood friend” of Christie’s.
But guess what? *No one believes that!... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Gone with the wind'
GONE
WITH THE WIND
Posted on February 16, 2014
Mohawk Nation News
MNN. Feb. 16, 2014. Heenan Blaikie is the legal version of Canada’s
“economic hit man”. Perkins. ‘Economic Hit Man’. Canada’s largest law
firm makes rules so the business of war is “legal”. Our resources are
stolen and we are criminalized for resisting. Heenan made contracts for
Canadian weapons, warships and even
Love Again - A Quotation
M.N. Hopkins
Live air traffic map
Many of us like realtime maps, like the global wind map (updated every 3
hours).
Gene sent me a link to a mesmerizing truly realtime map of commercial
aircraft all over the globe:
Flight radar 24: realtime air traffic map
The map offers you about 6 types of the background (map/satellite etc.: see
the menus in the upper right corner). If you hover over a yellow jet, you
will learn the name of the flight. If you click at the yellow aircraft, you
will be shown additional data about the flight as well as the full
trajectory. (Yellow jets are realtime, orange jets are delayed by 5
minu... more »
BOLT OBSESSED OVER A.B.C.OBSESSION ABOUT BOATPEOPLE CONCERNS
The convicted racist and extreme Right-wing propagandist, Andrew Bolt, in his
column today has claimed that the ABC is ignoring the Abbott government’s
‘success’ in ‘stopping the boats and the drownings’. He claims that: “The
new Abbott Government’s policies to stop the boats, stop the drownings and
gradually empty the detention centres are clearly working.”
Well, if one happens to be a xenophobic racist who is anxious to keep
non-white foreigners out of Australia then the policies of the closet thing
Australia has ever got to a fascist government are, indeed, working. But,
what nee... more »
Hitched to Everything
Shortly after Hurricane Sandy I wrote to George Monbiot about the damage
being done to trees from pollution. Leaving aside the flooding along the
coast, the major issue from the storm was the loss of power in the
mid-Atlantic region, and that was the result of millions of trees and
branches that fell. The reason so many fell, even though the winds were
not extraordinary by the time the storm made landfall, is that they are
dying prematurely. It was evident from the many photos taken of the
aftermath that trees were black with rot on their interiors, and I
explained that ozone wea... more »
Will Bill Gates Take the Podium at AERA?
It’s a tough time in higher education, with a growing army of exploited,
part-time academic sharecroppers now driving from school to school to fill
teaching slots that were once reserved for tenure track professors. See
chart below from AAUP:
As full-time faculty numbers dwindle, so does the core university value of
shared governance, which has been a defining aspect of universities for
hundreds of years.
Such a shortage, however, offers administrators the opportunity to add new
layers of mid-level managers, directors, assistants to this and associates
to that all over campus... more »
What to Give Obama for President's Day
What are we supposed to -do- on President's Day? The Lawless One occupying
the White House would no doubt make it a day to celebrate himself as one
would expect from a Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Un.
This President's Day, try to forget about the sabotage being daily employed
by this person known as Barack Hussein Obama and instead reminisce about a
time when we had a President who didn't daily work to undermine the
foundation of this nation.
*Articles of impeachment would be the most appropriate President's Day gift
this year.* However, that's obviously a fantasy since John Boehn... more »
A quick bite, using the new-new #commoncore math to calculate tips. Nicely done.
Pretty funny!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
Tagged: common core, math, tips
Building Castles in the Sky
Who has not? Even the lowest slave about to be hanged for looking so good,
has a dream. His dream and my dream and yours are all aligned. If your
human you want a beautiful sustainable place to live where everybody knows
each others name. I expect our current crop of trillionares to build such a
place post haste.
Let's start the week with Wild Bill: A liberal confronts Wild Bill...
*"truth and justice are concepts the left finds hard to comprehend."*
My PTSD, I never found the right tree
The truth about advertising. You are a animal being. You can be manipulated
as easy as pavlovas dog. You do not believe this, you are a fool. Right
now say, I am a fool and I will no longer be moved by animal spirits.
Now you are free what will you do? As the biggest monkey in the world what
tree will you climb? There are so many trees to choose from. Those closest
just give you enough counts to pro create. All the best trees are covered
with climbers and you will have to climb over them to get to the top. Many
of those you push down will be eternally wounded and some will actually ... more »
THE PRESS CORPS [HEART] ACCUSERS: Kornacki’s latest imagined friend!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014*
*Part 1—He’s no George Washington:* George Washington couldn’t tell a lie,
as almost everyone knows.
Yesterday, in this news report, Steve Kornacki came pretty darn close.
Kornacki should be embarrassed. Yesterday, he invented the latest in the
long line of imaginary figures who drive our “press corps’” novelized tales
of scandal and high adventure.
To its credit, the New York Times has taken a pass on Kornacki’s exciting
new invention. Elsewhere, the nation’s brain cells are under attack—in
these exciting headlines, to cite just a few examples:
THE NE... more »
Can't Muster Enthusiasm to Care About Foreign Affairs
Oh sure. I probably follow things more than the average person, but I find
it increasingly hard to see the point of commenting on events in other
countries when we can't even do anything about getting control of our own
country. You know, I'm long since past the point where I'd say that Canada
should "do something" about unspeakable horrors somewhere. Not only do I
realize that our governments are controlled by monsters, it's increasingly
obvious that we have zero influence and zero ability to gain influence to
control these beasts.
"Sign this petition!"
Of for fuck's sake!
"Atten... more »
“8 Deranged Comments from America's Far-Right This Week—Ted Cruz's Achy Breaky Heart Edition”
*“8 Deranged Comments from America's Far-Right This Week—*
*Ted Cruz's Achy Breaky Heart Edition”*
By Janet Allon
*“1.Ted Cruz’s ‘heart weeps’ because of marriage equality gains. *Our
favorite nut-job senator from Texas was holding forth again this week, and
our ears were hurting. Texas Senator Ted Cruz explained to Family Research
Council president Tony Perkins how his proposed State Marriage Defense Act
would, “make it more difficult for married same-sex couples to receive
legal recognition.”
Thanks, Ted. We were worried about that. But the crusading lawmaker didn’t
stop there... more »
Joni Mitchell Contest Ends At Noon (PT) Today
At noon today (Pacific Time, so 3pm on the East Coast), Blue America will
randomly select 4 "winners" of our Joni Mitchell drawing. It's been a fun
little "contest" and we managed to raise around $11,000 for Congress' most
essential Member, Alan Grayson, and another $8,000 for California
congressional candidate with a similar progressive perspective, Lee Rogers.
We feel good-- and we feel grateful to the over 800 men and women who
chipped in (here). Thank you.
If you haven't entered the contest yet, you have 'til noon at that link
above. And if you want to contribute to Alan and L... more »
new novel(s) plural - the promotional tour that never was - writers aren't whores at the Capitalist gang-bang
in October 2013, I brought out my first 'war world' novel TANDEM via
Chimericana Books. It took two months to write and edit. It was liberating;
great fun to do.
in January 2014, I brought out 'free planet part 2' LIBERATOR via
Chimericana Books, the follow-up to CUSTODIAN (free planet part 1) released
in early 2013. I had begun Liberator earlier in 2013 and put it to one side
until after the writing of Tandem when I realised that 'character writes
its own story'. And I noticed something about 'the way my writing mind
works'.
I was 'distracted' by having to do something els... more »
The Star leaks and the Fair Elections Act
Last week, the Star published a half dozen articles based on secret memos
and a 70-page slide show about the Cons' 2015 election war room strategies anonymously
leaked to them, as presented to the *Conservative National Council* above
by Harper's former dcomm and now executive director of the CPC, Dimitri
Soudas :
"Everything we do is part of the strategy to ensure we win in 2015 with
another majority government"
The campaign is slated to start this spring.
"Everything" includes a "drive, disrupt, disunity" campaign targeting
Justin Trudeau from *within* the upcoming Liberal conv... more »
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*Most efforts to win legal claims for Federal Flood / "Katrina" damage have
failed ~Chad Calder, New Orleans Advocate*
*Gulf Coast’s industrial boom strains labor pool ~Ryan Holeywell, Fuel Fix*
*Meet the Budweiser Clydesdales in City Park!*
Ignoring The American Experience
Some Americans have been warning Canada that following in their footsteps
isn't wise. They warned that establishing mandatory minimum sentences fills
up jails but does not deter crime. Still, as crime has fallen in this
country, the Harperites have insisted that they know more about punishment
than judges, and so our prisons are crammed to over capacity.
Now, an American lawyer, who has been battling American voter ID laws,
warns that the "Fair" Elections Act will cause voter suppression. Witold
Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union for
Pennsylvania, cites... more »
U.S. Rejoices as Olympic Hockey Team Spanks Russians
The ceaseless U.S. propaganda campaign that has relentlessly smeared Russia
and particularly Vladimir Putin since he granted asylum to former
government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and then
derailed the big push for a war on Syria scored big time on Saturday. The
2014 edition of the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team beat their Russian
counterparts setting off a wave of raw nationalist fervor and conjuring up
memories of the Cold War era. One of the greatest propaganda triumphs of
the latter part of the 20th Century was when the 1980 team defied all odds
and bea... more »
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*Type 2 diabetes may NOT be caused by suddenly piling on the pounds: Most
patients 'have been overweight for years'*
*I have been challenging this supposed causal link for years*
Type 2 diabetes might not be caused by piling on the pounds, new research
suggests. Researchers discovered people who have been of a stable, but
excessive, weight for many years are more likely to develop the condition
than those who have recently gained a lot of weight.
As a result, they say the best way to reduce the number of cases of
diabetes could be to focus on small weight reductions for the whol... more »
Ed Steer's Gold , Silver and Precious Metal Update February 15 , 2014 - Data for Friday , February 14 , 2014 as well as data for the week ..... various articles to consider including Doug Noland's weekly missive ( Transitions ) , items from King World's blog , items from Gata , various commentaries touching on the precious metals ......., .
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/finance-ministry-in-netherlands-denies-what-its-central-bank-president-admi
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price didn't do much in Far East trading on their Friday, but was
up about six bucks by the time the London morning gold fix was done for the
day at 10:30 a.m. GMT. From that point, a more serious rally began that
got sold down a bit at the noon GMT silver fix. Another rally began at
8:45 a.m. EST---and that rally was brought to an end at the London p.m.
gold fix, which was 10 a.m. in New York. After that, the gold price traded ... more »
Aluminum: Neurotoxin from Hell
Removing The ShacklesSunday, 16 February 2014
I have been studying the effects of Aluminum on humans for a long time now,
and in my ever continuing endeavor to educate people on the dangers of
vaccines, aluminum has always been the key culprit in the danger zone.
A few months ago I wrote an article linking Aluminum in vaccines AND
chemtrails as a deliberate attempt by the Powers That Were to block effects
of solar rays on our planets consciousness.
One of the very blatant dots that has been reinforced over and over is that
the world "Governments" are completely aware of ALL of this... more »
Latin America watch February17 , 2014 -- Venezuela expels 3 US diplomats ; President Nicolas Maduro issued the order after Obama administration sided with opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez ; Relatively large student-led opposition protests convened in Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and many other cities throughout the country ; the turnout ( 15 , 000 - 20 ,0000 ) and widespread geographic distribution of this week's protests indicate that the movement may be gaining traction. ...... Argentina Fines Walmart For Violating "Fair Price" Pact, Urges Citizens To Denounce "Evil" Retailers
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/17/venezuela-expels3usdiplomatsamidprotestviolence.html
Venezuela expels 3 US diplomats
February 17, 2014 3:09AM ET
President Nicolas Maduro issued the order after Obama administration sided
with opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez
Topics: Venezuela Nicolas Maduro International
[image: Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attend a
pro-government rally, one holding a painting of independence hero Simon
Bolivar in Caracas.]
Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attend a pro-government
rally, one holding a painting of... more »
War Watch 2/17/14 - Real reason to continue Afghanistan occupation revealed ? CIA Fears Afghan Pullout Would Stall Their Drone War ....Can't Fly Drones Out if Afghanistan Isn't Occupied ....... US, Syria Trade Blame for Failed Peace Talks Syria: US Created 'Negative Climate' for Talks ........ Iraq news -- Sadr Quits Politics As Attacks Leave 58 Dead, 42 Wounded ...... Iran sanctions news -- Iran's Largest Private Bank Sues UK Government For $4 Billion Over Sanctions
Afghanistan.....
CIA Fears Afghan Pullout Would Stall Their Drone WarCan't Fly Drones Out if
Afghanistan Isn't Occupied
by Jason Ditz, February 16, 2014
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The Obama Administration continues to push the idea that the “zero option,”
of leaving Afghanistan outright at the end of the year, remains possible.
Despite this, officials across several agencies, including the Pentagon,
have insisted it is not under serious consideration.
The CIA sees such a pullout as a huge problem, after the Pakistani
government chased them out of airfields they were using for drones... more »
Obamacare thread February 15 - February 21 , 2014.....Pelosi: No, there won’t be a mandate delay for the little people because this is sound policy ........ on the hustle for the young bodies needed to prop up Obamacare......Obamacare layoff quandary ..... pass the buch to 2016 game in process.....Will the next government " mandate " be that all doctors participate in Obamacare ?
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Pelosi: No, there won’t be a mandate delay for
the little people because this is sound policy
POSTED AT 7:21 PM ON FEBRUARY 14, 2014 BY MARY KATHARINE HAM
A variation on the “you’re gonna love it once it’s fully enacted” chorus of
fibs we’ve been hearing since this thing was passed in 2009. It isn’t
really news, per se, that Rep. Nancy Pelosi is willing to support a pass
for employers for this law that doesn’t go to individuals about to be hit
with the mandate tax. It’s not news that she’s willing to ignore the many
failings of the law and its implementation and refer to it as ut... more »
Monday Morning Links
Good morning. Here are your links … Bilal Sarwary at the BBC gives us a
glimpse of Helmand province that is rarely seen. He writes, “This type of
checkpost is the real front line. There are poppy fields on one side,
police headquarters on the other and constant fights with the Taliban.” So
much for
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Kill Cold & Infection-Causing Germs Naturally With A Homemade Antibacterial Disinfecting Room Spray
How to Kill Cold & Infection-Causing Germs Naturally: Homemade
Antibacterial Disinfecting Room Spray
by Andrea
Frugally Sustainable, 29 September 2013
A cold and flu preventative.
This antibacterial, disinfecting spray contains many germ-killing
botanicals and essential oils that have been used historically to treat a
variety of infections and diseases.
To shorten the duration of someone’s illness — or prevent it all together –
I keep the ingredients for this spray handy all year round…spraying it
throughout the home whenever necessary.
*Pure Air Disinfecting Spray*
*Supplies... more »
Denying Tenure and Moving On
For some people this has been a very good month, for others, no so much.
Tenure (and by proxy promotion) is the thing most American Professors
strive for, desire, believe is the crowning moment in their careers.* I
will say for one, tenure denials, whether justified or outrageous –
happen. Our careers are determined by
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ICHR: Human Rights Violations Continue, Increase in the PA and Gaza
' Human rights violations, including death and murder, continued to be
practiced by the Palestinian Authority and by the Hamas government in
Gaza,
this according to as report by the Palestinian Independent Commission
for
Human Rights (ICHR) presenting a comprehensive overview of the major
violations during January, 2014, in the Palestinian controlled areas.
The
report depicts a general state of anarchy and lawlessness in the PA.'
More here
http://matzav.com/ichr-human-rights-violations-continue-increase-in-the-pa-and-gazabut
not on the BBC, a campaigning news outlet that actively s... more »
Radiation Leak: Carlsbad NM Nuclear Waste Site
Well Well Well..... T'would seem that I hit upon something that happened
two weeks ago when I posted the information about the US testing the B61
Atomic bomb and the fire in Carlsbad NM later on that day. Last night
Reuters quietly published an article stating that the same site
experienced:
*"Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an
underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a
spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in
1999."*
So I think we need to be asking: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN CARLSBAD?
In... more »
ALEC Yanks the Chain of Another Media Source
A newspaper gave ALEC a pass when evidently ALEC rebutted an editorial.
The newspaper didn't question it - just posted it - which is a disservice
to everyone who read that newspaper.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease and evidently can distort the truth in
anyway they want to get exposure.
Doesn't take an idiot to read thru this
- but for those of you that are RW idiots or ALEC members
- lets clear this up for you.
*The papers clarification *
An editorial Tuesday stated that the American Legislative Exchange Council
is behind the effort to enact state laws that require welfare appl... more »
GAY SCOTLAND
*Sean Connery (acting)*
The newspaper* Scotland on Sunday* has produced its annual* Pink Scotland
List. *
The Scots have always been pretty gay, or bisexual.
*King James I* (and VI) had a number of male lovers, including: Robert
Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
*Rabbie Burns* had his reputed homosexual relationship.
Robert Burns.
*Sir Walter Scott* liked gay characters.
In Redguantlet, Darsie writes, "my love for Alan Fairford surpasses the
love of woman."
Darsie Latimer
*Cardinal Keith O'Brien (above) was in long-term gay relationship.... more »
Weapons Wall Street Uses To Manipulate US and Tennessee Titanic Sinks
I had an essay that I'd worked on for over six hours today before it was
eaten whole by the Blogger dog. Sorry. I'll try to recover it as much as
possible tomorrow. In its stead, we can ponder again how the stock market
has been so manipulated by the owners of industry that no one in our
nation's non-super-rich citizenry should expect fair play from it. Or it
could just be voodoo. (H/t to
Has Steve Israel Been Foiled In His Attempt To Sneak Homophobic Blue Dog Chris Carney Back Into Congress?
When I lived in Stroudsburg, it was part of PA-11 and the congressman was a
crooked old Wall Street Democrat, Paul Kanjorski. Back then the PVI was D+5
and Bush only managed to win 43% against Gore in 2000 and 47% against Kerry
4 years later. When Pennsylvania's avatar of xenophobia and racism, Lou
Barletta first ran against Kanjorski in 2002, Kanjorski beat him 56-42%.
Barletta was back in 2008 and made it much closer-- 52-48%. And then the
Republican legislature did a major gerrymandering routine with giving
Barletta, then the KKK hero mayor of Hazelton, a safe perch from which t... more »
Is A Vegan Diet Healthy?
[image: Is A Vegan Diet Healthy?]
Before giving up animal products, I imagined vegans to be lean, fit, and
healthy people. I had visions of charging up the side of a mountain with
endless energy and never, ever, having to count calories or watch what I
ate. During my first month without meat, my vision was becoming a reality.
I felt great, lost weight and ate as much as I wanted. Veganism was the
panacea ... the ultimate diet for weight control and health.
And then, a strange thing began to happen. The weight I had lost began
creeping back on. The energy I was enjoying ebbed a bit an... more »
Think Your Local TV News Is Local? Think Again
ht to Alternet.
Updates On Syria [2.16]: Brahimi Apologizes To The Syrian People For Geneva II Failure, Israhell Treats Jihadist Terrorists Wounded In Syria
*1. An excerpt from, "Brahimi's apology" by Clovis Maksoud, Al-Monitor,
February 16:*
Prompting Brahimi’s apology to the Syrian people was the “process” of both
Geneva I and II, which constituted motion without movement — a precise
description of the futility that characterized these so-called negotiations.
The deadlock of the two Syrian parties should provide an impetus to act
jointly, not just as power brokers for a speedy solution, but to uphold the
doctrine of responsibility to protect civilians and coordinate with the
United Nations to effectively end the growing humanitarian t... more »
Weather is a daily occurrence, climate is a daily conditon
H/T Mound of Sound
60 Minutes, bought sold and paid for?
The initial reaction of the fighter pilot community to their new aircraft
was lukewarm. Between its massive dimensions and troubled early service
life, the F-105 had garnered a number of uncomplimentary nicknames. In
addition to the aforementioned "Thud", nicknames included the "Squat
Bomber", "Lead Sled", and the "Hyper Hog" and/or "Ultra Hog".[38] The
aircraft's offensive capabilities were sarcastically referred to as a
"Triple Threat" — it could bomb you, strafe you, or fall on you.
The question is if 60 Minutes was doing infomercials, who would be paying
the freight? The contro... more »
Academic Family Tree
Almost exactly three years ago, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson blogged “Who’s
Your Grand-Advisor? Crowdsourcing an IR lineage map” at the Duck. Patrick
was searching for an academic family tree website with a focus on
international relations: I did a little digging and thus far have been
completely unable to locate something that I would have thought
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Food Watch: Hasn't the bacon thing by now gone a little too far? ("A little"? How about A LOT?)
*by Ken*
I had it in mind to do yet another bitch-slap session on Food Network, this
time focusing on *Food Network Magazine*, which somehow I didn't catch up
with until the last couple of years. (Regular publication began in 2009.)
I've had a strange experience with *FNM*. I found my first few issues
really exciting, but beyond the first half-dozen or so I found myself going
through the motions, and lately I've found I can breeze through issues in a
single 10- or 15-minute sitting, with very little I feel the need to go
back to.
And now comes the "Bacon Issue" (March).
During t... more »
Propaganda, Plagiarism, and Public Misleading on CREDO (Reprise)
The corporate charter industry is working every angle to put the best
makeup on the CREDO charter study of 2013. And "news coverage" in
Tennessee shows their efforts paying off.
Two examples of Tennessee media “coverage” of the 2013 CREDO charter
school study are provided below, and as you can see, they are both lifted
from the Tennessee Charter Schools Association blog post. Who said blogs
are not respected sources of information!?
The blog post, of course, is the typical self-serving propaganda we have
come to expect from the charter school promotion groups, especially the
bare... more »
Japan GDP Biggest Miss In 18 Months; Slowest Growth Since Before Second Coming Of Abe
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-16/japan-gdp-biggest-miss-18-months-slowest-growth-second-coming-abe
Japan GDP Biggest Miss In 18 Months; Slowest Growth Since Before Second
Coming Of Abe
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/16/2014 19:13 -0500
- Bank of Japan
- Bond
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hayman Capital
- Japan
- Kyle Bass
- Kyle Bass
- Monetization
- Reality
- Sovereign Debt
- Yen
inShare1
Get long 'Depends' may be the most befitting headline for tonight's massive
macro miss in Japan. For th... more »
UAW loses organization drive at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga , Tennessee ..... Key takeaway -- The UAW is almost certain to challenge the vote with the National Labor Relations Board because of potentially influencing comments made by Republican lawmakers and anti-union groups in recent days. U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) suggested that Volkswagen would reward Tennessee by bringing production of a new car to the factory if voters rejected forming a union. The automaker denied the claim. About 165 workers, or 11%, didn't vote.......... Volkswagen said it stayed neutral through the process, even welcoming UAW representatives to speak to employees inside the factory. "Whatever the result, workers and Volkswagen should feel proud of how they conducted themselves," the UAW said on Twitter as votes were being counted Friday night. The union also said the "outside interference was an outrage."
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/15/tennessee-vw-workers-reject-unionization-bid-by-uaw/
Tennessee VW workers REJECT unionization bid by UAW
POSTED AT 8:31 AM ON FEBRUARY 15, 2014 BY JAZZ SHAW
People around Chattanooga, Tennessee have been on pins and needles this
past week, awaiting the results of a vote by workers at the Volkswagen
manufacturing plant in their area deciding whether or not they would invite
United Auto Workers into their town to organize workers. The wait is over,
and the workers have told the giant auto workers ‘ union to pack sand.
Workers at a Volkswagen f... more »
這是一個公關噱頭擦亮奧巴馬的形象，和一些貧困笨蛋在巴基斯坦得到了交口稱讚: 如何方便，考慮到烏薩馬本拉登在2001年十二月死於自然原因！
第一假照片，使用路透社和英國的出版社。
這裡是假的是怎麼做的！
看到完整的故事在這裡
和
Untitled
*The great 1928 flood of London*
*Floods are nothing new for the Thames*
In 1928 the Thames flooded much of central London, with fatal consequences.
It was the last time the heart of the UK's capital has been under water.
How did the city cope and what has changed?
It was after midnight when the river burst its banks. Most Londoners slept
as the floodwaters gushed into some of the nation's grandest buildings and
submerged many of city's narrowest slum streets under 4ft of water.
The Houses of Parliament, the Tate Gallery and the Tower of London were all
swamped. So too, tragically... more »
How Special-Interest Groups Benefit from Minimum Wage Laws
*Guest post by Gary Galles*
Those campaigning for a “living wage,” or a substantial jump in the minimum
wage, all assert that the purpose is to help working families.
Unfortunately, careful students of the evidence come to a different
conclusion. As Mark Wilson summarises it, “evidence from a large number of
academic studies suggests that minimum wage increases don’t reduce poverty
levels.”
Some workers lose jobs (high minimum-wage places have among the highest
unemployment rates); others have hours cut. The least-skilled get competed
out of the jobs that remain (e.g., the minimu... more »
Why UKIP Will Not Die
Ideas are very hard to kill, especially if they're adhered to by a swathe
of the population. Among other things, that's what political parties are
(officially) about. There are certain principles or collections of ideas
espoused by different organisations. Sometimes they're bundled up in
coalitions of like-minds, like the Conservatives and Labour. Sometimes
they're spotless and pure - step forward the sects on the far left and the
far right. And, on occasion, a party can act as a lightning rod of
discontent born of a variety of grumbles. That mantle, once the preserve of
the Libera... more »
Aluminum: Neurotoxin from Hell
I have been studying the effects of Aluminum on humans for a long time now,
and in my ever continuing endeavor to educate people on the dangers of
vaccines, aluminum has always been the key culprit in the danger zone.
A few months ago I wrote an article linking Aluminum in vaccines AND
chemtrails as a deliberate attempt by the Powers That Were to block effects
of solar rays on our planets consciousness.
One of the very blatant dots that has been reinforced over and over is that
the world "Governments" are completely aware of ALL of this and doing
everything in their power to Stop ... more »
Some thoughts on #edTPA: Guest Post by Celia Oyler
Celia made the these observations on Facebook in response to the article
listed below that appeared in the Times Union. Student teachers in New York
face daunting new exams The other fall out is that quite a few excellent
beginning teachers are choosing NOT to get certified in the state of New
York. Quite a […]
Why do we fight when all around us collaborate?
Why do we fight? Is it because by doing so we make ourselves popular with
those who control our nations, thus gaining an easier life? Hardly! We
fight because we have a deep and unshakable sense of duty towards our kin,
even in the face of their opposition to our efforts to save them from
forces which they refuse to acknowledge.
By treading the path we follow, we have embraced hardship. We find doors
slammed shut, which would be open if only we would commit treason against
our blood. For daring to utter forbidden truth, we find ourselves
blacklisted from comfortable employment. Not... more »
The CIA, the Military & Drugs- a dot connecting resource
The info contained at the site below relates to, or can help fill in, so
many blanks I couldn't even begin to address when I put up the post: Phillip
Seymour Hoffman & the Military /Terror/Drug & Banking Complex
[image: Philip Seymour-Hoffman won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as
Truman Copote, the brilliant but tortured American writer whose life
provided perfect fodder for American cinema.]As Capote
*You might wish to hang on to this site, book mark it, as a resource.*
I am going to link it in the sidebar permanently
There is hours and hours of listening. I have gotten through the... more »
My March Speaking Schedule
How cool is it to be able to write such a post title? I have two events in
March, both out-of-state (i.e., not in Louisiana). First, I will be a
panelist at the first Network for Public Education Conference in Austin,
Texas, on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2. I am scheduled to be on a
[…]
Northern Europe's Secret Economic Weapon
*Black is USA, Brown Norway, and Grey Mexico.*
Its no secret at home, but you will never hear a hug a thug proclaimer come
to the logical conclusion. Build a crime free society and its a positive
economic snowball. Yes the opposite is true. Imagine the economic cost of
defending Israel. Imagine the economic liberty of peace in the middle east.
I am not saying peace at any cost, I am not saying peace in possible, just
what a blessing peace would be.
Sunday Classics: Today we hear the whole of Beethoven's grand, stirring "Archduke" Trio
*The Atos Trio plays the beautiful third-movement Andante cantabile of
Beethoven's Archduke Trio in Berlin's Joseph-Joachim-Saal, December 2011.*
*by Ken*
As I mentioned in last night's preview, a piece dear to my heart popped
into my head yesterday, and it was extremely welcome, because I think of it
as, for want of a better way of putting it, a "good new" piece. I love it
end to end, but I especially love that magisterial opening given to the
piano. Once upon a time, way back when, I picked up a used copy of the
piano part of the complete Beethoven piano trios for $5, and was sho... more »
Radionuclides in Our Food NOT Safe, At Any Level
Enenews has a worrying headline based on data from the California
Department of Public Health:
Gov’t Test: Cattle feed at California dairy farm had 300 pCi/kg of
radioactive cesium after Fukushima; 9-month gap between when sample
harvested and when received by lab — New UC Berkeley study reveals over
3,500 pCi/kg of cesium deposited on nearby roadside
http://enenews.com/govt-doc-cattle-feed-california-dairy-farm-300-pcikg-radioactive-cesium-after-fukushima-tested-9-months-after-being-harvested-berkeley-study-reveals-3500-pcikg-cesium
The
headline is sourced with two citations:
A... more »
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
*I'm tired of the militarization of our police force, the glorification of
the military and the humanization of war at the expense of peace, altruism
and social cooperation ~ which also happen to be the driving tenets of
evolution. It's time for a dramatic chance and millions, including myself,
are now rightfully saying give peace a chance: Allen L Roland*
*'A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in
their mission can alter the course of history.' **Mohandas K. Gandhi*
*We are beyond talk, it's time for action for there is no change wit... more »
Obamacare's Forced Homes Inspections . . "for the children"
[image: Ben Swann] Ben Swann
*Sep 6, 2013*
http://benswann.com/
Ben Swann talks via Skype with Kent Masterson Brown, a constitutional
attorney about Obamacare's "forced home inspection provision" which
Politifact claims does not exist.
Techno-Fix
Welcome to our all-you-can-eat buffet of eco-predicaments, a remarkable
achievement brought to you by our old friend, technological innovation. Our
friend isn’t evil. He’s a hilarious charismatic trickster who excels at
making comical mistakes. Every brilliant idea blows up in his face,
flattens him with a boulder, or rockets him over a cliff. He never gives
up. He never learns from his mistakes. He never succeeds.
Like the trickster, Americans are famous for our manic techno-optimism. Economic
growth and material progress make us giddy with delight, and seventy-two
percent ... more »
Charters: Another point of view
Sent to the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 16, 2014
Mathew Kaminski's enthusiasm for Success Academy and for charters in
general, ("Teachers Union Enemy No. 1", February 15) presents only part of
the story.
The high test scores achieved by Success Charter Schools in New York has
been thoroughly discussed in a series of blogs by Diane Ravitch
(http://dianeravitch.net/category/harlem-success-academy/). The series
includes evidence that Success schools devote an astonishing amount of time
to test preparation and devote little or no time to subjects that are not
tested, evidence that teach... more »
On the Iron Men of Wall Street
Commenting on my recent column, Paul Krugman wonders if I somehow missed
the financial crisis of the past few years. He seems to think the crisis
proves that the titans of Wall Street earn much more than the value of
their contributions.
I will be the first to admit that measuring the social value of the
financial sector is hard. But let me offer a few observations:
1. In thinking about the social value of the workers in the financial
system, it is as important to keep in mind long-run growth as well as
short-run fluctuations. Financial intermediation plays a key role in
growt... more »
MOSSAD'S ARAB SPRING
On 31 January 2014, Egyptian TV aired a play which explained that Mossad
organised the Arab Spring.
*Egyptian play suggests Mossad behind Arab Spring*
The play has a scene, in Mossad HQ, where a Mossad agent says, "Our
perspective is a simple and humble one.
"All we want is to control the whole world."
Another Mossad agent then says that there is plan for "a huge operation,
involving espionage and the sowing of disunity", which will take place in
Egypt and in the entire Arab world.
"Today begins the the Arab Spring revolution," says a third Mossad agent.
Of course, it wasn't jus... more »
Oranges and Lemons
I've never heard the bells of St Clement Danes, The Strand, London before,
even though I've been hearing about them since I was very young. This
morning's *Bells on Sunday *put that omission right. Hear them while you
can!
The Radio 4 presenter told us that it's believed that the tenth bell was
added to allow the tune of *Oranges and Lemons *to be played. Which is
nice.
Sadly they didn't play *Oranges and Lemons *today, ringing out the changes
on London Surprise Royal instead. Which is still nice.
I do like bells.
Vladimir Putin very happy for Sochi Olympic 2014
Putin is jumping up and down with joy. ;)
Wide Asleep on Unauthorized Disclosure
I
had the pleasure of joining Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola, two truly
amazing reporters, this week for a chat about Iran, Israel and all that
fun stuff on the fifth episode of their new podcast, Unauthorized
Disclosure.
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Rania Khalek is an independent journalist covering disadvantaged,
marginalized and vulnerable communities. Her incredible
About those CON-veeenient leaks...
Imagine it said in Preston Manning's voice. CON-veeenient!
It's the only way to observe the onslaught of leaks and planted items that
glutted the mainstream media this week. If one were cynical, one might
think that some were deliberately engineered to divert attention away from
the MASSIVE Harper CPC attack on democracy — disingenuously called *Fair
Reform Act* — by neutralizing and weakening the work Elections Canada does.
Some have called it the Conservative Amnesty Act since it will
retroactively exculpate any election fraud engineered by the CPC.
Observe the 'who', the 'what... more »
Radioactive Snowstorm?
Majia's Blog - 23 hours ago
Someone at Enenews asked for my interpretation of recent events at
Daiichi
after the webcam was obscured today by what looked like a radioactive
snowstorm:
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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 16th, 2014
It is Sunday again, and time for my usual rant..
First I must inform everyone flat out that I am indeed a Cass Sunstein
shill and that I am now going to spend my time spewing out Jewish
propaganda, lies, and false psychological garbage, just to fill people's
heads with disinformation.... And if you believe any of that, then I have a
pyramid in Egypt to sell you...
I am so sick of this absolutely ridiculous bunch of bull crap coming from
certain individuals whom I used to admire in this so called "truth
movement" that everyone who can think rationally is suddenly a victim of
this Je... more »
Is Anyone In Politics A Bigger Maroon Than The DCCC's Fumbling Steve Israel?
Pete Aguilar, another Steve Israel recruit
Last cycle, Israel managed to do the seemingly impossible., losing a
majority Latino D+5 district, CA-31 (the Inland Empire) in a spectacular
debacle. President Obama won the new district 118,043 (57%) to 83,822 (41%)
but on that same day-- thanks to Israel's bungling incompetence-- those
118,043 Obama voters had no Democrat to vote for on that same ballot-- just
two unsavory right-wing Republican corporate whores, Gary Miller and Bob
Dutton. Beltway Steve didn't have any understanding of the new California
jungle primary and he backed the w... more »
How The Conservative Party Tried To Prevent The Red Maple Leaf From Being Canada's Flag - Feb 1965
"From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers
and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed
Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will
vote with pride."
Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures - marked the final
phase of the Conservative fight against the red Maple Leaf Flag.
Introduced in senate today, and even with the last vote they declared that
they would not quit and that the fight would go on in the senate, where a
similar flag resolution was being introduced today.
The e... more »
Part 5: Classroom Video Camera Project . . . Who Benefits? Who Loses?
*Part 5: Classroom Video Camera Project . . . Who Benefits? Who Loses?*
Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn
Part 4 and links to previous posts
Does anyone think that children’s educational data stored in third party
corporate “cloud” computers are secure? No one in his right mind would
answer yes to that one, and yet the U. S. Department of Education forced
through changes to FERPA regulations in 2011 to allow student and teacher
data to be collected, stored, and shared this way.
Why? It has everything to do with how philanthrocapitalists like Bill
Gates and the supporting cast of Silicon ... more »
The History of Political Correctness
The following video, originally found at *DailyStormer.com*, is a *must
watch* if you want to gain a deeper insight and understanding of what is
wrong with our culture and society today. Take the time to watch this 22
minute video.
*Organized Jewry: destroyers of Western civilization*
Bombshell from Italy ! Has Italy started cash confiscation protocol - and retroactive to February 1 , 2014 ? "Money Launderer Until Proven Innocent:" - Italy Imposes 20% Tax Withholding On All Inbound Money Transfers ....... And how long before this 20 percent withholding applies throughout the Eurozone in order to prevent Italy bank runs and monetary forum shopping to avoid Italy's confiscation scheme ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-16/money-launderer-until-proven-innocent-italy-imposes-20-tax-withholding-all-inbound-m
"Money Launderer Until Proven Innocent:" - Italy Imposes 20% Tax
Withholding On All Inbound Money Transfers
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/16/2014 11:40 -0500
- Eurozone
- fixed
- Google
- Italy
- New Normal
- recovery
- Tax Withholding
inShare
While the propaganda surrounding Europe's "recovery" has reached deafening
levels, what is going on behind the scenes is quite the opposite, and in
... more »
Emerging market Updates - February 16 , 2014 ----- Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way; Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings ....... Irony of the Day: Venezuela President Calls for "Protest March Against Fascism" ........ Turkish Parliament approves controversial bill tightening up government grip on judicial body
Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:27 AM
Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way;
Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings
Price of many goods in Argentina soared in the past two weeks. US brands
are at the forefront of the action. Via translation from *Lanacion*, In two
weeks, Warehouse Prices Rose 30%, with mayonnaise, cookies, and coffee
leading the way. Officially, prices are up 3%.3. In realty, prices are up
30%.
*According to official data, the price of food and beverages was up 3.3%. A
tour of various supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires, found ... more »
Why does the schlub always get the pretty girl?
At least this frog turns into a handsome princeI found an old Stephen
King book in a hotel book exchange a couple weeks ago. I usually enjoy his
books, but this one’s got a secondary plot line of a widower over 40
falling in love with an enchanting 19-year-old girl, and I just can’t bear
that May-September thing even one more time.
I mean, think about how many times you have read a book, seen a movie
or watched a TV series in which some aspect of the plot involved a man who
was either much older or much homelier (and often both) than the woman who
loved him. If books and m... more »
The Curse of Oak Island on History
History (formerly the History Channel where they once actually examined
some history) just finished its run of documentaries titled *The Curse of
Oak Island*. This is the Nova Scotia location where it is alleged that
pirates… or Knights Templar ... or Roger Bacon ... or some unknown person
or persons buried something of great value centuries ago.
For those who don’t know, sometime in the late 18th century, three teenage
boys exploring Oak Island found a place where it seemed something might be
buried. They dug down, found a layer of wooden planks, tore them out and
dug some more fi... more »
On Stanley Fischer
Wellesley College's Joe Joyce reviews Stan's qualifications to be the Fed's
Vice Chair.
Man Responsible for Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead in Sochi
It was a pure rumour.
Mishap:
Rumour:
Untitled
*Whistleblower asks state to investigate Sheriff Gusman's extra payments to
Orleans deputies ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens*
Come to Sunny Gaza
The other day I heard this FOOC. “why might our man visiting the Gaza Strip
be considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday?” trails
Kate Adie. The FOOC web page was entitled “Come to Sunny Gaza”
“BBC man has a revelatory experience” i.e. BBC man finds out that Gaza is
not actually an open-air prison.
I don’t know much about Simon Cox, so after a perfunctory Google I’d say
he’s standard BBC issue. I won’t go into pointless speculation about
whether his intentions were honourable or not.
Seeing the web article made me think about it more. What was wrong with it?
I... more »
TPP Update - February 16 , 2014 -- Obama Pushes TPP Negotiations Despite Mounting Opposition at Home and Abroad ( Obama's corporate handlers really want this bad.. )
Obama Pushes TPP Negotiations Despite Mounting Opposition at Home and Abroad
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*EFF*
February 16, 2014
House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi firmly announced her rejection of the
“Fast Track” bill at an event on Wednesday, saying it was “out of the
question.” Its passage has become increasingly tenuous since Senate
Majority leader Harry Reid came out against it two weeks ago.
Fast Track is a mechanism that em... more »
Why Occupy Bangkok is Working and Occupy Wall Street Didn't
Power flows from institutions and those without them have no power.
*February 14, 2014* (New Eastern Outlook - Tony Cartalucci) - Occupy Wall
Street, ideologically speaking, could not have been any more universally
appealing. It was the 99% against the 1% (or more accurately - the 99.9%
vs. the 0.1%), with the realization that big money had taken over politics
and society to the detriment of all, regardless of political affiliation.
With such a broadly appealing message, how come the movement fizzled?
*Image: Occupy Bangkok has exposed and hobbled the Wall Street-backed
regime of Th... more »
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*Will Smith not surprised, but sad to leave New Orleans Saints
~BlackandGold.com*
*Hopes for cutting judgeships in New Orleans to save money fade ~Andrew
Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate*
*Hideous High-Rise Developer, Neighborhood Org Present Plans for Holy Cross
School Site ~Stacy Coco, NOLA DEFENDER*
*Researchers looking at sugarcane hybrid as possible biofuel ~WDSU*
Ukraine’s " opposition" keeps getting “ Zelyonka”
*The one very clear message that we can take away from this is the so
called 'opposition' is not supported by everyone. That is... not everyone
in the Ukraine is supportive of the western puppets or EU subversion.*
*I also like the disinfectant aspect- like house cleaning? *
*And we can have a chuckle! Or two?*
*Victoria Nuland's pet "Yats' get Zelyonk'd*
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the chairman of Ukraine's opposition Batkivshchyna
(Fatherland) faction, donned a crisp white shirt before traveling to
Kharkiv on February 12 to visit jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
That might have b... more »
Florida "Justice" Redux
A couple of questions to consider in the Jordan Davis murder by Michael
Dunn:
How does a jury convict of attempted murder charges (which it did) and fail
to convict on murder charges (which it did not), when there is a dead body
of the atttemptee in the room bleeding on the floor?
If a black man in Florida, or anywhere else, shot with deadly force into a
car filled of unarmed white boys, how many minutes would it take to
deliberate his fate--if he were lucky enough to make it court?
Solicitor Client privilege applies during production orders
*R. v. A.B.*, 2014 NLCA 8:
[34] Consequently, I conclude that it is the nature of the
communications and the solicitor-client relationship that give rise to the
need to protect a possible claim of solicitor-client privilege and not
simply a particular physical location such as a lawyer's office. The Trial
Division judge did not err in finding that solicitor-client privilege was
engaged even though the orders were not directed at the respondent's law
office but rather at the use of cellular telephone and landline phone
equipment belonging to the respondent and her brother, a ... more »
Is Obama Going To Continue Making The Federal Judiciary Overly Friendly To Corporate Criminals?
When's the last time we asked you to sign a petition? Right… never. But our
friends at Daily Kos are offering the kind of strategic initiative that
appeals to us. They want progressives to express their frustration with
President Obama's tendency to fill the judiciary with corporate lawyers.
It's been making a lot of us sick? Not you? Did you know that just over 70%
of President Obama's judicial nominees have been corporate lawyers? And
less than 4% have been public interest lawyers… just 10 since he was
inaugurated in 2009!
Their petition to the President is short and to the poin... more »
Not Seeing The Other Half
For some time now, Robert Reich writes, the United States has been
devolving into a We and Them Society -- as in, *Why should we pay for them?*He sites several examples:
The middle-class and wealthy citizens of East Baton Rouge Parish,
Louisiana, for example, are trying to secede from the school district they
now share with poorer residents of town, and set up their own districtfunded by property taxes from their higher-valued homes.
Similar efforts are underway in Memphis, Atlanta, and Dallas. Over the past
two years, two wealthy suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, have left the
count... more »
The Great Poli Sci Portfolio
In the dustup produced by Nick Kristof, one of the basic misperceptions
keeps being repeated–that the American Political Science Review is not
influential or readable enough. The job of the APSR is not to be read by
policy-makers but by political scientists. Really? Yes. Let me explain.
The academic journals have their place in the
Continue reading
#Edreform is Omni Consumer Products #robocop
I’m not too excited about the Robocop reboot. It seems like it lost the
original’s wit, humor, and surprisingly serious commentary about a largely
predicted dystopian future. All right, enough serious talk about a movie
with a car called the 6000 SUX. Although, very close to what soon became a
reality: the SUV. But in honor […]
Bitcoin Updates - February 16 , 2014 - Mt Gox bitcoin price has a massive intraday swing , yanked up to 540 and then crashing down to 224 around 8:02 AM EST ..... Mt Gox protest photos from Saturday February 15 , 2014- from Tokyo ..... NY Post calls bitcoin a ponzi scheme ......... Mt Gox raked in allegedly 1.9 million in trading fees from 2/4/14 through 2/15/14 ..... wonder how much still raked in for 2/16/14 ........ MIT tells NJ to back off its students threatened by legal action concerning Tidbit
Mt Gox customers........
We want withdrawals!
Two day chart of MT Gox - note where things stand this morning ! 248 as of
7:50 EST . 224 at 8:02 EST ..... price differential to Bitstamp
approaching 400 !
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This chart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License.
Saturday February 15 , 2014 protest at MT Gox office.....
Welcome to 21st-century Ponzi scheme: Bitcoin
By Jonathon M. Trugman
February 15, 2014 | 5:08pm
Modal Trigger
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Photo: Reu... more »
Palestinians deprive their own people of clean water for propaganda...and the world accepts it !
' the PA has built just one sewage plant over the past 15 years, despite a
$500 million international donor fund available to them to build
more. There are plans for building purification plants in several major
Palestinian towns such as Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus, paid for by donor
countries, but the Palestinians have decided that they don’t want to build
in the Oslo defined Areas A and B under their control, but only in Area C
(which is under full Israeli military, and administrative control). Israel
has stringent regulations for these and similar projects in other parts of
I... more »
Untitled
*West Virginia chemical spill: We have enough information to manage the
risk*
In a prior post, I addressed the background related to the recent chemical
spill that contaminated drinking water in West Virginia, and I highlighted
why more regulation would not do much good. But we continue to hear that we
need more regulation because we don’t have enough information about this
chemical and thousands of others. Such claims divert our attention from the
real issue: failure to properly implement the many emergency planning laws
and programs on the books.
In any case, the claim is wrong. ... more »
Excitable BBC commentators, and Russell Brand getting his comeuppance
Talking on the Sunday papers, here's a selection of stories from today's
newspapers (well, one of them) concerning the BBC.
Call me biased and inconsistent, but if there's one bias I don't mind the
BBC displaying it's a spot of restrained jingoism during sports
competitions. The BBC has been getting complaints, however, that its
jingoism has been anything but restrained.
Martin Johnson at *The Sunday Times *(£) has an amusing article on the
subject today:
TELEVISION coverage of the Winter Olympics began with the BBC fielding
complaints that the commentary team became overpatrio... more »
Big Infrastructure Projects, Metro Manila, 2014-2016
Some big infrastructure projects in Metro Manila will start tomorrow,
especially the extension of the skyway that will connect the South Luzon
Expressway (SLEX) to North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). Our house is not far
from this project, so somehow we will be affected by the heavy traffic, but
am not complaining.
That map is from http://www.mymanila.net/. Copied from MMDA I think. Here
are the details of those projects. I re-arranged the list starting with
Makati, where I live :-)
*Project*
*Impacted Cities*
*Impacted Streets*
Buendia Underpass
Makati City
Buendia, Makati Avenue an... more »
The Border Cafe
*The Border Cafe *
A work of fiction (or is it?)
*By American Kabuki*
Chapter 1
It had been a long winter for both. Weary from the battle the operatives
approached the rendezvous with trepidation. They hated each other had scars
to prove it. Campo Blanco's war with Team Noir was thousands of years old.
They suffered much loss of life in the skirmishes. Team Noir had one
objective acquisition and power and they did it well. They did it
ruthlessly. Campo Blanco had the advantage of the rising energetics.
Herve entered the cafe cautiously, Pierre was waiting at the far table with... more »
Sunday headlines
I listened to the 7 o'clock news bulletin before *Sunday* after having
looked at Sky News's invaluable gallery of the British newspaper front
pages.
I'll list what stories the BBC chose to report after outlining the stories
featured by the UK papers today.
The *Observer *led with 'Miliband's stark warning: climate change an issue
of national security', 'Labour to set record for female MPs' and 'Midlands
priest faces genocide probe'.
The *Independent on Sunday *led with 'NHS chief orders urgent child death
review'.
The *Sunday People *led on the same story as the *Independent on... more »
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