David Rovics sings at the A16 rally in Washington DC in spring of 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Even If Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Goes To Prison For Taking Bribes, Israel And Wasserman Schultz Will Make Sure She Has No Democratic Opponent
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the "candidate" she picked to run against her
There was a time that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen represented a safely red
district. But that was quite some time ago. The old 18th CD-- the
boundaries of which she helped draw when she was in the state legislature,
was an R+4 district and filled with anti-Castro reactionaries. Many of
those reactionaries are dead and Ileana's new district (FL-27) is a blue
district. But the DCCC acts as though no one told them. In 2008, McCain
still managed to eke out a narrow 123,543 (51%) win over Obama but by 2012
the tide had inexorab... more »
What's In Your Deodorant? #Review and #Giveaway
[image: What's in your deodorant?]
Try this: get your deodorant and look at the back label. What do you see?
I looked at a well-known brand and the first thing I noticed, at the top of
the label, was the caption "Drug Facts". Drugs? In my deodorant? As my eye
wandered down the label, I noticed a whole section of warnings. There were
words like "rash", "irritation", and a sentence which suggested that users
with kidney disease call their doctors before using the product. I also
found a warning that if the product was ingested, get medical help or call
poison control right away.
I was... more »
David Rovics : Coca Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’
Here’s my contribution to the discussion resulting from Coca-Cola’s
multilingual ‘America the Beautiful’ Super Bowl commercial. ‘America the
Beautiful’ By David Rovics | The Rag Blog | February 5, 2014 America is
beautiful but it’s got a lot of ugly … finish reading David Rovics :
Coca Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’
Book Review: “Making Human Rights a Reality”
My students and I have just read Emilie Hafner-Burton‘s grand treatise on
the human rights regime, Making Human Rights a Reality. Following her
earlier empirical studies, this is a sweeping descriptive appraisal of how
human rights law works and why it works so poorly, coupled with a
level-headed argument about strategies that human rights champions
Continue reading
Hearing Loss up, North Americans are not protecting their ears enough
With the number of people listening to headphones way too loud, it is a
wonder more teenagers are not going deaf or suffering hearing loss from
listening to loud music.
Instead the biggest contributors to hearing loss is people who have very
loud professions. Jobs like construction work, mining, military, plumbers,
carpenters, agriculture, firefighting, or manufacturing.
* I wish I could find statistics for hearing loss for musicians.
What I can tell you is that the percentage of people who are suffering
hearing loss is going up - and is predicted to keep going up.
Why?
A multitu... more »
Musical Interlude: Yanni, “Spirit of Nature”
Yanni, “Spirit of Nature”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJv_ZziKUJg
Top 10 Reasons to Join Teach for America
Top 10 Reasons to Join Teach For America
Posted on February 3, 2014
*Did you miss the last application deadline for Teach for America? Fret
not, young reader—you still have three more weeks before the next and final
deadline to join the 2014 corps.*
*By Jay Saper, TFA reject*
*1. Teach for America saves taxpayers a fortune. *Let’s face it: ending
poverty in this country would cost a fortune. That’s why instead of
focusing on what we *don’t* have—say, a place to sleep for all of our
children—TFA aims its laser of excellence on what we have plenty of: lazy
teachers who confess to only w... more »
"We can't reason with cats," says expert John Bradshaw -- which makes them sound a lot like right-wingers
*Domesticated cats may have developed in the Americas!* *So says cat
authority John Bradshaw, director of the University of Bristol's
Anthrozoology Institute, and author of Cat Sense: How the New Feline
Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, in this really wonderful
interview with WNYC's Leonard Lopate.*
*"We can't reason with cats. We have to accept them as they are.”*
*-- John Bradshaw*
*by Ken*
My original plan was to write about the truly astonishing round of braying
lies screeched by the Usual Right-Wing Suspects twisted beyond recognition
from projections about O... more »
Police State Updates February 5 , 2014 - Bringing new meaning to "going postal " - U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase ........ Total surveillance coming into view , TSA part of Security State Thug Complex........ Supreme Court Justice Scalia Confirms American Internment Camps Will Happen Again: “It is the Reality”
U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase
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Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion
rounds of ammo
*Kit Daniels*
Infowars.com
February 5, 2014
The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide
“assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.
[image: The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military federal
agencies purchasing large a... more »
Musical Interlude: Yanni, “Nostalgia”
Yanni, “Nostalgia”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWUe-iwyB2M
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista
recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys,
distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp
188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million
light-years distant toward the northern constellation Draco. Its
eye-catching tail is about 280 thousand light-years long and features
massive, bright blue star clusters.
*Click image for very large size.*
One story goes that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp
188 - from left to right i... more »
"We Remember What Is Meaningful To Us"
*"We Remember What Is Meaningful To Us"*
by the Association for Psychological Science
"We hold many beliefs about memory - for instance, if you study more, you
learn more. We are also constantly making judgments about particular
instances of learning and remembering - I'll never forget this party! That
was easy to understand. I'll ace it on the test. But do beliefs influence
judgments, and how do judgments affect memory performance? "There's a
disconnect among beliefs, judgments, and actual memory," says Williams
College psychologist Nate Kornell. Ask people to predict how or what t... more »
Chet Raymo, “In The Morning Of The World”
*“In The Morning Of The World” *
by Chet Raymo
“We knew the morning was special when we saw the blue meadow. Oh, yes, we
knew - Bailey, Greg and I - that the grass in the meadow beyond the trees
was green, but on that particular morning, with sunlight streaming aslant
through honey-colored leaves, the meadow was indisputably, undeniably,
stop-in-your-tracks-and-take-a-deep-breath blue. And in some corner of our
minds - as happens to all who attend the world and write - we scribbled
mental notes: morning light, honey dew, blue meadow.
I've introduced Greg and Bailey on this site bef... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Wakefield, Kansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Black Elk, "I See His Face..."
"The Sun, the Light of the world.
I hear him coming.
I see his face as he comes.
He makes the beings on earth happy
And they rejoice.
O, Wakan Tanka, I offer to You this world of Light."
- Black Elk, "The Sacred Pipe"
"An End In Itself..."
“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether
it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Between Hope and Acceptance
I recently read an essay by Shaheer Cassim, a young man from British
Columbia. I was unable to stop thinking about his extraordinary narrative,
in which with rare courage and lucid prose he shares his agonizing journey
into an awareness of the most dire implications of our rapidly
destabilizing climate. In the uncharted territory that arises when
seriously contemplating the Sixth Mass Extinction, no one can emerge with
equanimity unscathed. Shaheer's willingness to expose his painful
awakening with raw honesty will resonate with all who have been confronting
our perilous future. ... more »
"The Pig Farmer"
*"The Pig Farmer"*
by John Robbins
"One day in Iowa I met a particular gentleman—and I use that term,
gentleman, frankly, only because I am trying to be polite, for that is
certainly not how I saw him at the time. He owned and ran what he called a
“pork production facility.” I, on the other hand, would have called it a
pig Auschwitz. The conditions were brutal. The pigs were confined in cages
that were barely larger than their own bodies, with the cages stacked on
top of each other in tiers, three high. The sides and the bottoms of the
cages were steel slats, so that excrement from... more »
GCHQ secret unit uses DDOS attack tactics against Anonymous – Snowden leak
*GCHQ secret unit uses DDOS attack tactics against Anonymous – Snowden leak*
Published time: February 05, 2014 08:48
Edited time: February 05, 2014 10:51 Get short URL
AFP Photo / Peter StefenAFP Photo / Peter Stefen
http://rt.com/news/gchq-ddos-attacks-anonymous-670/
British intelligence has its own hacker subdivision that uses questionable
practices for hunting down enemies of the state, reveals a new leak from
Edward Snowden. GCHQ is fighting Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivists with
DDoS attacks and malware.
A classified document obtained by NBC News reveals that the British secr... more »
Gold news of the day February 5 , 2014 - items of note from Turd Ferguson , Koos Jansen and Jesse's Cafe Americain......
GATA....
TF Metals Report: Bear down
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2014-02-04 17:27. Section: Daily Dispatches
2:25p SRT Tuesday, February 3, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The TF Metal Report's Turd Ferguson today denounces the disconnect between
the market for real gold and the market for imaginary gold that continues
to control the former market but then offers some technical analysis
encouraging for the real stuff. It's headlined "Bear Down" and is posted at
the TF Metals Report here:
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/5459/bear-down
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold An... more »
Geneva 2 Meetings on Syria set to reconvene February 10 , 2014 - More of the same ? Will Iran be allowed to directly participate this go round ?
http://www.debka.com/article/23654/US-grants-Iran-a-seat-at-the-next-round-of-Geneva-II-conference-on-Syria---alongside-big-powers
The
second round of the Geneva II conference on the Syrian conflict opens
Monday, Feb. 10 – this time with a seat at the table for the Iranian
delegation provided by Washington, DEBKAfile reports exclusively.
Washington relayed this abrupt turnabout from its ban last week on
Iranian
representatives to the Tehran delegates quietly attending the secret
alternative conference taking place unannounced in Bern.
This event has proceeded in parallel to the pub... more »
Common Core Panelist Says “The Children Belong to All of Us”
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Lily Dane
*Activist Post*
Last Friday, a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress (CAP),
a liberal think tank, was held to promote Common Core and discuss those who
oppose it.
Paul Reville, the former secretary of education for Massachusetts and a
Common Core supporter, was one of the panelists.
He shared his thoughts on opponents of the curriculum, stating that critics
were a “tiny minority” who opposed standards altogether, which was unfair
because “the children belong to all of us.”
“The children belong to all of us.”
Unbelievable, isn’t ... more »
Emerging market news of the day February 5 , 2014 - Argentine Banking System Archives Destroyed By Deadly Fire - timing very interesting ! Brazil, Russia Cancel Debt Auctions; Head-in-Sand Move Won't Work ...... In a risk off world with the Fed taper in process , are most asset classes akin to EM assets ( The "Toxic Mix For Risk-Assets" In A Post-Taper World ) ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-05/argentine-banking-system-archives-destroyed-deadly-fire
Argentine Banking System Archives Destroyed By Deadly Fire
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/05/2014 13:57 -0500
- Market Sentiment
inShare1
While we are sure it is a very sad coincidence, on the day when Argentina
decrees limits on the FX positions banks can hold and the Argentine Central
Bank's reserves accounting is questioned publically, a massive fire -
killing 9 people - has *destroyed a warehouse archiving banking system
documents*. As The W... more »
Strike Ballots and Unintended Consequences
Johnson's at it again. Rather than sit down and have meaningful dialogue
with workers' representatives on the London Underground, he's been carping
about a "lack of mandate" because the RMT's successful strike ballot came
off the back of a 40% turnout. Instead, Johnson believes every ballot for
industrial action should meet a 50% threshold to qualify as lawful. Ever
keen to mimic the buffoon and curry favour with the wilting Tory
grassroots, Dave has intimated that he'd like to see the Underground
classed as an essential service, an imposition of a minimum service
agreement during ... more »
A brief announcement
*Starvation Ridge* is at last available on Amazon (though not yet for the
Kindle). Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Starvation-Ridge-Risa-Bear/dp/1304772683/. Be it
noted that if you buy the print edition from Lulu I make over three
dollars. At Amazon I make all of thirty-three cents! Thank you for your
kind attention. We will soon resume our regular blogging ...
Tenure Letters: To Sling or to Shoot Arrows?
This piece has been making waves in the academic world (for a much better
set of recommendations, see this piece). It gets much attention because it
both identifies a real problem and then suggests awful ways to handle it.
The latter is easier to deal with quickly. However, first let me be
clear–what I am
Continue reading
A former Harvard economics professor argues that the Fed’s efforts to strengthen America’s banks have perversely weakened them. He believes that members of the Fed become reverse Robin Hoods as they take from the poor. And he is withdrawing $1,000,000 from the Bank of America to keep it safe in the increasingly likely event that there will be a run on BofA and it won't have enough cash to pay back its depositors.
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*Is your money safe at the bank? An economist says ‘no’ and withdraws his*
BY TERRY BURNHAM *January 30, 2014 at 12:45 PM EST*
The Fed policies of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, who begins her term Feb.
1, are making former Harvard economist Terry Burnham withdraw his money
from Bank of America. Photo by Davis Turner/Getty Images.
*Terry Burnham, former Harvard economics professor, author of “Mean Genes”
and “Mean Markets and Lizard Brains,” provocative poster on this page and
long-time critic of the Federal Reserve, argues that the Fed’s efforts to... more »
Coffee Talk
Today was our monthly get-together for coffee and breakfast and fellowship
and a little Bible study...
At the kitchen table...
In the living room...
A lovely couple.
A princess.
Southern Man's geocaching partner.
ZEROHEDGE: Argentine Banking System Archives Destroyed By Deadly Fire
*How convenient! -AK*
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-05/argentine-banking-system-archives-destroyed-deadly-fire
Argentine Banking System Archives Destroyed By Deadly Fire
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/05/2014 13:57 -0500
- Market Sentiment
While we are sure it is a very sad coincidence, on the day when Argentina
decrees limits on the FX positions banks can hold and the Argentine Central
Bank's reserves accounting is questioned publically, a massive fire -
killing 9 people - has *destroyed a warehouse archiving banking system
documen... more »
Mike Rogers Can Devote All His Time To Undermining Democracy Since He Has No Reelection Worries
Congenital liar, Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Until recently, Michigan congressman Mike Rogers has operated mostly in the
shadows. Some might find that fitting for the Chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee; we don't. Rogers is charged with over site of the
sprawling, out-of-control surveillance state. Instead he has run his
committee as a cheering squad for it. Mike Rogers, along with Ranking
Member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Jeff Miller
(R-FL), Mike Conaway (R-TX), Peter King (R-NY), Michele Bachmann (R-MN),
Adam Schiff (New Dem-CA), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Mi... more »
Family Fun
A few random family photos...
Teen Daughter by the gazebo at the Ancestral Manor.
Southern Cousin watches as Teen Daughter launches into a cartwheel.
Southern Father contemplates his firewood stash.
BC Liberals Play Stall Game, Postpone LNG Taxation Framework To 2015 or later
We were told by Christy Clark and the BC Liberals that LNG would be our
financial savior, LNG revenues will retire the debt, pay-off crown debt,
eliminate tolls and our provincial sales tax plus at least $100 billion
dollars in a prosperity fund for future generations..
Ha, that is so funny, so ridiculous considering Japan is restarting their
nuclear facilities, Shinzo Abe, Japan`s newly elected leader stated last
week..
*"Nuclear power will be a crucial element of Japan`s baseload power"*
There is nothing going on in the LNG game, I receive newsletters from
several LNG online j... more »
"How It Really Is"
Oh, you ungrateful "little people"! After all the filthy scum-sucking
parasites
compassionate, job-creating rich folks have done to for you? How very rude!
- CP
And no, don't you dare read this article!
“The Final Swindle Of Private American Wealth Has Begun”
- http://beforeitsnews.com/
Four eyes, two impressions
That said...
Time for a case of 'different takes on the same thing':
John Anderson at *Biased BBC *(someone who first spurred me into blogging) has
commented:
Credit where it is due – Jeremy Paxman takes apart the Oxfam goon over the
Sodastream factory and the employment of Palestinians. So just shut up,
Yoland Knell.
...before linking to last night's *Newsnight. *
Watching that double interview on *Newsnight*, I too thought that Paxo
skewered Ben Phillips of Oxfam and that SodaStreams's Daniel Bimbaum gave
an excellent account of himself, his company and Scarlett, and, like Joh... more »
A LOOK BACK
Here is a video called "The Battle for America's Soul" filmed at a 2005
speech. The event was held at the Emmanual Mennonite Church in Gainesville,
Florida.
The one-hour video covers the mythology of America, corruption within the
military industrial complex, plans for U.S. control of space, the corporate
destruction of the American economy, America's addiction to weapons and
war, and concludes with a transformative suggestion for the nation.
“The Video Is Mightier Than the Missile”
*“The Video Is Mightier Than the Missile”*
by David Swanson
“Can a video help change the world? It’s one of a great many tools we’re
developing, and yes we hope it can. Here are more ways to help move us from
war culture to peace culture:
- http://worldbeyondwar.org/ResourceCenter
- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
Ruminations on killing the pig!
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014*
*Dowd hates, loves high school blather:* Here at The Daily Howler, we’re
opposed to killing the pig.
We strongly favor conducting skilled investigations of the pig. That said,
the press corps tends to open the killing fields while we wait for such
probes to mature.
At present, the pig in question is Chris Christie. This has produced
several complaints in the past few days.
One complaint concerns his ongoing formulation about the possible role of
the alleged traffic study. To Kevin Drum, what follows was absurd. Except
for one word in Christie’s text,... more »
The Economy: “The 4 Pillars of Poverty”
*“The 4 Pillars of Poverty”*
by Marc Faber
“I think it is remarkable that, despite the growth the US has enjoyed since
the 1960s, the poverty rate has barely changed. Writing for the Wall Street
Journal last month under the title “How the War on Poverty Was Lost”,
Robert Rector notes that: “Fifty years and $20 trillion later, LBJ’s goal
to help the poor become self-supporting has failed.” He writes further: On
Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union
address to announce an ambitious government undertaking. “This
administration today, here and now,” he t... more »
Economic Liberalization via Charter Change, the FEF Statement
Investments and job creation is not a crime that must be restricted by
governments. The Philippine Constitution, ratified in 1987 or 27 years ago,
is nice except that it explicitly limits or bars foreigners from owning
certain assets and businesses in the country. Some sectors are limited to
either 40 percent maximum equity ownership by foreign investors, some are
outright off-limits to foreign investors.
I believe that the PH constitution needs to be revised and amended. In
addition, I wish to see a Constitution that is 10 pages max. Very few
details, mostly motherhood statements.... more »
Sheer genius from Joy Division
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpa9LtunUcg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"I cannot stand George Alagiah"
A cat (with some singer or other)
No time to post anything of significance today, but - as this is a blog -
Something Must Be Posted. So...
I learned today that a favourite Lou Reed track of mine, *Satellite of Love
*(featuring David Bowie, bom-bom-bomming in the background), has been
covered by Morrissey, pop's best-known present-day misanthrope.
The original lyrics included the lines:
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on TV
Mozza's modified lyrics, however, read:
I watched it for a little while
I cannot stand the TV
And, for those of you wanting a BBC conne... more »
RMT London Underground Strike - day 1
*My experience*
The first day of this strike has been very effective. My own personal
experience is that my commute, normally one and a half hours and two buses
(practically door-to-door), managed to take three hours both ways with long
stretches of walking.
*What's at stake?*
The tube staff have right on their side. Boris Johnson promised in election
material not to close ticket offices, in fact he said he'd have a "manned
ticket office in every station." Boris Johnson has no mandate to do what
he's doing. He has also not met with RMT representatives since taking
office. He's mor... more »
Mystery ads about Rob Ford
It is interesting.;)
Another good one.
Update: I found an interesting Gif:
There are quite a few more gifs here.
US & EU wade deeper in Ukraine standoff with an "aid" package
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The US and the EU are attempting to work their "magic" (facetious) To
resolve the crisis they created in the Ukraine. *Create the problem. Wait
for the reaction- Or create a reaction and then offer up a solution. Of
sorts?*
*I will highlight the interesting bits. *
-Exactly who is going to be aided by this package? It very clearly is not
the Ukrainian people.
But then this was never, ever about what was good for the Ukraine or her
people
We have talk of carrots or sticks... more »
Philip Corso Interview with Budd Hopkins, Filmed by Carol Rainey
Nearly everyone agrees that many of the tales told by Philip J. Corso are
not grounded in reality. When challenged, he often backtracked, blamed his
co-author, or said that he hadn’t seen the galleys (we call them page
proofs now) of the book. In any case, he has little credibility… especially
after the great switching of the Introduction caper (meaning that Strom
Thurman wrote the introduction for a different book, and yes, I have even
more evidence for that… In fact, in a document entitled *Alien Source: The
Roswell UFO Crash and Today’s Technological Miracles* which was a proposa... more »
Satire: “Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1”
*“Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1”*
by Andy Borowitz
REDMOND, WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Bill Gates’ first day at work
in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start
yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the
Windows 8.1 upgrade. The installation hit a snag early on, sources said,
when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his
PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.
After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. G... more »
FAMOUS PEDOPHILE - CARLETON GAJDUSEK
*Carleton Gajdusek*, above, visited tribes in New Guinea which had
paedophile traditions.
Carleton was a Nobel prizewinning medical researcher from New York.
*Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 1923-2008*
*Carleton and his boys*
In 1963 Carleton brought to the USA a 12-year-old boy he had adopted in New
Guinea.
This was the first of his 56 adopted sons.
He put them all through school, and many through university or medical
school.
*Daniel Carleton Gajdusek*
*Carleton.*
In the 1990s the FBI were alerted that something was not quite right.
The FBI questioned Carleton's adopted sons.
... more »
The Realist Report - John Kaminski & John de Nugent: Resisting the Jew World Order
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by two returning
guests: John de Nugent and John Kaminski. We will be discussing the recent
anti-Jewish protests in France, the rise of nationalism, and the growing
resistance to the Jew World Order.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *French march demanding Jews get out and the Army overthrow the Jewish
President Francois Hollande* - John de Nugent
- *Apologies ... more »
Joint CAPP/Postmedia tarsands promotion
Postmedia - CAPP Showcase - January 2013 from Postmedia 3i on Vimeo.
Transcript :
"Postmedia is proud to present its 2013 media partnership with CAPP.
We are a media company national in scope but community-focused. Canadians
know our brands, trust our content, and welcome us as a vital member of
their communities.
In 2013, we'll join Canadians in discussing what really drives Canada's
economic engine - energy. With a multi-media strategy that includes a
digital sponsorship of the Energy Channel across our national network. Our
editorial coverage will be tied to multiple touchpoi... more »
Political Transformationalism
Kyrsten Sinema ran for Congress last year as a progressive. She called me
several times asking for money. But something in her story didn't add up.
She didn't sound like a progressive; she sounded like a phony careerist who
would say anything for a nickel. Even though I was on a board with her and
everyone else was giving, I was turned off by her sleazy pitches and didn't
contribute or put her up for a Blue America endorsement. She didn't pass
the smell test even though the first time she ran for office, in 2002, she
ran as a Green-- finishing last among 5 candidates and garnering ... more »
You're The Sprinkles To My Cupcake Valentine with Free Printable
Today's Valentine is less for an entire class, and more for the other
people in your life. This would be perfect for a high schooler who wanted
to give Valentines to some of their friends, or in my case I am giving them
to some of the ladies at my church that I visit every month. Just a cute
reminder to friends that you are thinking of them.
You will need:
- The round sprinkles containers, I find them in the Dollar Spot at
Target
- Tape
- Scissors
- The Printable at the Bottom of this Post
Cut out the printable and attach it to the top of the sprinkle container. ... more »
Costs in Estate Matters
Sawdon Estate v. Sawdon, 2014 ONCA 101:
[82] In *Geffen v. Goodman Estate*, [1991] 2 S.C.R. 353, at pp.
390-391, Wilson J., writing for the court on this issue, reiterated the
long-standing principle that estate trustees are entitled to be indemnified
for all reasonably incurred costs, including legal costs. She quoted with
approval the following statement from *Re Dallaway*, [1982] 3 All E.R. 118,
at p. 122:
In so far as [an estate trustee] does not recover his costs from any other
person, he is entitled to take his costs out of the fund held by him unless
the court othe... more »
ALL ROADS LEAD TO BIAS: Losing the thread!
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014*
*A postponement:* In our view, this has been a remarkable week.
We were especially struck by Monday night’s Maddow Show. In particular, we
were struck by the exchanges between Maddow and John Wisniewski, co-chair
of the New Jersey Assembly’s investigation into the Fort Lee lane closings.
Maddow was expanding the list of people she wants to see drawn and
quartered. We felt her list of wanted posters was moving well beyond the
state of the facts in this case—and Maddow has been rather selective in the
facts she has chosen to report.
What was actually beh... more »
Justin Trudeau's Senate Move... a great political move or amateurish
Harper has been mired in embarrassing scandals concerning his Senators,
from Wallin to Duffy to Brazeau. Justin Trudeau has responded with a move
that some have called "bold" and "game-changing" by kicking all Liberal
Senators out of caucus. I don't think it's "bold" or "game-changing" and it
does not show Trudeau to be a Senate reformer.
The supposedly "independent" caucus in the Senate - whom Trudeau did not
seem to consult on this move - still call themselves Liberal, have Liberal
members as employees, and will still be active members of the Liberal
Party. Looks all smoke and m... more »
Tex Hall: Blood Oil and the Murder Probes
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Tex Hall preparing upcoming Oil and Gas
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By
Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Tex Hall rose to fame with a good public relations writer, up through
the National Congress of American Indians. Then, as chairman of the
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara in North Dakota, Hall pushed for the oil and
Where dreams come to die
Family home at Dixie
The stink is what hits you first, a fetid blend of sewage, rot, musty
laundry washed in a contaminated river, and poisonous-looking water spewing
into the river from the giant factory across the road.
Dixie, they call this place. It’s one of San Pedro Sula’s notorious *bordos,
*the riverfront slums where an estimated 8,000 families from all over
Honduras have ended up putting their dreams for a better life behind them
to live as squatters in rickety shacks built out of scrounged materials.
Squeezed onto a tiny strip of land between the factory and the fil... more »
Learn For Life Foundation of Western Australia sponsors MK-Ultra gore-based mind-control techniques?
"Set Yourself Free" sees four students cutting class to spend the day at
the beach. Yes, it's REAL, it's on the L.F.L.W.A. (educational) website.
*The clip, created for the nonprofit Learn For Life Foundation of Western
Australia to promote the importance of education, shows a quartet of teens
cutting class to hit the beach, which turns out to be an explosives testing
site. While boozing, bathing in the water and flirting with sexual
encounters, three of them dramatically explode — with blood and body parts
sent flying.* [source DAILY NEWS]
"*We have to look to Osama Bin Laden fo... more »
ALEC Continues Their Nasty Ways
I ran into an *ALEC document today that was posted by DesSmog Blog* and had
not seen the light of day the way it should have. The sad part about the
doc is that the link opens up a PDF - that doesn't seem to be easily
searchable via the web. That limits the number of people who can actually
find it and view it.
One thing that is in that PDF is reports from ALEC taskforce directors -
where they brag about how many pieces of ALEC legislation has been pushed
thru the states and *a write-up on that is at Daily Kos*.
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The snips below are from a documentfrom the ALEC An... more »
Solow vs Mankiw on the One Percent
Readers of this blog will be familiar with my recent article Defending the
One Percent. In the new released issue of *JEP*, you can read a letter by
Bob Solow commenting on the article as well as my response.
A Class War Soliloquy
(Ed. note: This discourse was left as a comment in the previous thread. So
that it may get the wider attention and the bigger font it so richly
merits, I am taking the liberty of re-posting it here.)
MUSINGS OF THE LUCKY MAN
WHO THOUGHT HE WAS SELF-MADE
*by Jay - Ottawa*
To increase the Quality of Opportunity
Or to decrease the Inequality of Income:
That is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler to salute the gifted,
The avaricious, and the lucky born ––
And even to support them further as they
Zoom down the unobstructed lanes
Made special for them
At full throttle in daddy’s caddie
On... more »
NOT MY CONCERN
*New 'Prompt Global Strike' systems now under development would give the US
Strategic Command (StratCom) the capability to hit Russia or China from
space*
The cutting of steel
the turn of the wrench
the twisting of the screw
our hard hats are at work
How these pieces fit together
is not my concern
it's jobs in America
what other option do we have?
It's the only game in town
we'd better take it
before someone else grabs the work
that's the way it is in dog-eat-dog land
I am just here
for the paycheck
and occasional rah-rah
when the politicians stop by
and tell us we are the greatest
air... more »
Classroom Activity: Simplification is not a Sin
Editor’s note: this is a slightly modified version of a post that
originally appeared on my personal blog. As I mentioned here, I’ve decided
to try “flipping the classroom” this semester, meaning I’m now posting the
lectures online and using the class time this frees up for Q&A and for
activities meant to reinforce core concepts and
Continue reading
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*Brees theatrics are an absurd but fitting end to non-controversy involving
Jimmy Graham ~BlackandGold.com*
*John Barry is King of Feb. 15 Krewe du Vieux Parade ~Will Coviello, Gambit
*
*Garret Graves Could Become Coastal Candidate in 6th District ~Jeremy
Alford, LaPolitics*
*Prosecutors: As finances tanked, Nagin sought cash ~Gordon Russell, New
Orleans Advocate*
*As huge hospitals take shape, small restaurants and bars are emerging on
Tulane Avenue ~Ian McNulty*
*Revenant and Jack White’s Third Man Records Involved in Local Copyright
Dispute ~Jennifer Odel, offBeat*
*2014 Fren... more »
The Big Bang?
There has been much debate about Justin Trudeau's Senate gambit. Bill
Tieleman claims that it is merely sleight of hand. But Lawrence Martin
thinks it may be a big bang moment, which starts the process of democratic
reform:
The Trudeau gambit could well touch off a chain reaction or at least
provide momentum for more reform. There is much criticism of his exploit –
and much of that criticism is justified. But there is broad support. People
are fed up with hyper-partisanship. Even conservative groups like the
Canada West Foundation and commentators like Robert Fulford see value i... more »
Hope In Northern Virginia
There are two congressional retirements at the end of this term in
Virginia, Jim Moran and Frank Wolf. Wolf's district leans Democratic but
still has a PVI of R+2. In 2008 Obama beat McCain 51-48%. In 2012, Romney
squeaked by Obama 50-49% The DCCC and testate Democratic Party see the seat
as a good pick up opportunity. Due east-- and meeting along Dolley Madison
Blvd and Chain Bridge Road in McLean-- is a VA-08, Moran's much bluer seat.
The PVI is a healthy D+16. Obama beat McCain and Romney by the same
landslide margins-- 68-31%. The district is comprised of the inner DC
suburbs.... more »
De Blasio: Not Just Another Bullshitter
It has to feel like Spring in New York in the middle of a snowstorm: a
progressive mayor elected to serve the people that Wall Street predators
and casino capitalists forgot. From DNAInfo New York:
". . . . De Blasio sparked a political showdown earlier this month by
rejecting Cuomo's offer to provide $1.5 billion for universal pre-K across
the state over the next five years. Instead of using state funds to create
thousands of new pre-K seats in the city, de Blasio wants to increase taxes
on the city's most affluent residents, which he said would guarantee a more
reliable funding ... more »
BREAKING NEWS: Florida
*Breaking News*
Florida legislators follow renaming Common Core by replacing "turd" with
"dandelion" in official state dictionary.
More as details become available.
Sentence of the Day
From the Congressional Budget Office:
CBO estimates that the ACA [Affordable Care Act] will reduce the total
number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent during
the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose
to supply less labor—given the new taxes and other incentives they will
face and the financial benefits some will receive.
Implicit in this estimate are elasticities that measure how much people
respond to incentives. My sense is that CBO is typically conservative when
it come to gauging these incentives effects. So I would tak... more »
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Astrophotographers Rush to Capture Images of New Supernova 2014J
The new supernova in M82 captured by the 32-inch Schulman Telescope (RCOS)
at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center in Arizona on January 23, 2014. Credit and
copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Astrophotographers Rush to Capture Images of New Supernova 2014J
by NANCY ATKINSON on JANUARY 23, 2014
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter
With news yesterday of the closest confirmed type Ia supernova since the
1800′s, astronomers in the northern hemisphere risked frostbite and hoped
for clear skies to try and capture images of the... more »
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*The key to longevity depends on your SEX: Sleep is crucial for men while
women need plenty of vitamin B6 and vegetables*
*Based on a survey of elderly Chinese in Taiwan who mostly followed
traditional Chinese dietary beliefs! Generalizability? Don't go there*
As if they needed any more excuse, new research suggests men need their
sleep if they’re to live a long life.
Women, on the other hand, can live long lives despite poor sleep habits as
long as they eat a diverse diet that includes vitamin B6 and plenty of
vegetables.
Vitamin B6 can be found in food such as meat, bananas, n... more »
Services Struggle
With the new legislative session slated to begin, the KMT and DPP struggle over
the services pact. The situation is the same as it usually is -- the DPP
wants the bill to be reviewed piece by piece, the KMT wants it up for a
vote as a single package. The pact was actually passed last June but no
date of implementation was set, meaning that the legislature can still
prevent it from coming into force. ECFA, despite all the promises from the
neoliberal crowd, has been a colossal failure for all but the rich and for
organized crime; ordinary people have seen little or nothing. This has... more »
SCOTUS Justice: Internment Camps Can Happen Here
In a stunning moment of truth Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia let it
slip during an appearance before University of Hawaii law school students
that internment camps are a possibility in The Homeland. While this sort of
pathology is commonplace among the authoritarian elite who have seized
control of this once great country and while it should come as no shock to
readers here an admission such as this should scare the hell out of
Americans. With each new glimpse into the hive mind of the American
fascists the so-called "conspiracy theorists" are validated, first with the
Snowd... more »
YouTube: Begins auditing video views
The video-sharing *website* YouTube supposed it has started to audit the
number of views a video has received. The move is intended at preventing
users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube supposed,
mislead people about the popularity of a video. There are concerns that
some spectators are using tools like redirects or buying views to increase
their count.
YouTube supposed it will now occasionally validate the views on videos and
remove the fake ones from the total. Some bad actors try to game the scheme
by artificially inflating view counts. They're not just co... more »
Bill Nye debates Ken Ham
*Evolution vs creation*
If you have 2.5 spare hours, you may want to watch the debate between a
creationist and an evolutionist.
*The moving content begins around 13:00.*
Bill Nye is known as "The Science Guy" who became famous after he stole
Professor Proton's shtick (and Sheldon Cooper's wallet). Ken Ham is an
Australia-born founder of various creationist facilities. A CNN host
moderated the debate somewhere in Cincinnati.
Their yesterday's debate was sort of friendly. Once viewed as the prototype
of a bitter intellectual war, the creation-vs-evolution cold war morphed
into a... more »
You Want To Vaccinate My Child? No Problem, Just Sign This Form
*preventdisease.com*
August 9, 2013 by DAVE MIHALOVIC
I have yet to meet a Physician that will sign this form now downloaded by
hundreds of parents. The reason they won't sign is two-fold: First, they do
not want to place themselves in a vulnerable position of being negligent
for not providing informed consent to thousands of other parents; and
second, many of them realize after their own extensive research that the
risks far outweigh any benefits when it comes to vaccination.
It's been over a year since hundreds of parents have downloaded this form
and there are still no repor... more »
The NEW Media: Exchanging Value- UPDATE
After I published the article "The NEW Media: Exchanging Value" at 1:30 am
my time, lol, I fell into bed.
..... and couldn't' sleep because I was so ramped up from writing the
article. I laid in bed and just let the energy course through my body as
my brain explored all the new ideas that have suddenly been laid out before
me, the changing of perceptions, and the energetic exchange.
It took quite a while to get to sleep.
This morning I woke up and I kNEW exactly what I was going to DO. This IS
the time for changing the paradigm, so I will make the changes that
resonate with me, ... more »
Free Planet - am I performing - an invaluable service?
"Am I performing an invaluable service to Free Planet?" this is the
question I'm wondering if anyone out there is asking.
"Is ANYONE even *thinking about* Free Planet?"
"And why should they?"
These, *and many other questions*, are what I've been asking myself since
deciding to write the *Devil's Advocate* 'free planet series' novels
Custodian and Liberator just to gauge reaction to such a 'bewildering
concept'. Just to show you how HORRIBLE such a world could be if we don't
all want it. If we don't support the real version of our lives, as opposed
to the pre-Fabricated Educatio... more »
Muslims killed Dracula - Banksters Beware!
The Muslim Ummah under The Ottomans killed Vlad the Impaler also known as
Dracula. However, the death of the devil made things come to such a state
that his legacy lives on in the form of the modern day Banks and their
agents, the politicians! Still bloodsuckers and pedophiles, most banksters
and politicians deserve a similar fate to Drakool. They can party in Hell!
MURDERED CHILDREN - SUNDERLAND
*Jimmy Savile, in the North West of England, in Cumbria.*
'Serial killer' *Steven Grieveson* has links to Cumbria and to Sunderland,
both in the North of England.
*Jimmy Savile in the North East of England, near Sunderland*
*Steven Grieveson* was convicted of the murders of four teenage boys in the
city of Sunderland between 1993 and 1994.
*Steven Grieveson *
Steven Grieveson was taken into care when he was 13.
*He was sent to live at a children's care home in Cumbria in the UK.*
Chuildren's care homes are sometimes used by the elite as child brothels.
*DEATHS IN CUMBRIA*
*In ... more »
Libya updates February 5 , 20 - Government and Security issues in focus ! Total items to consider .....PM Zeidan not in favor of forming a “crisis government” ....... Misrata leaders say removal of GNC would lead to chaos ...... Libya destroys all useable chemical weapons ....... Zeidan denies Le Figaro report of foreign troops in South Libya
Government ......
Zeidan not in favour of forming a “crisis government”
*By Sami Zaptia.*
*Tripoli, 4 February 2014:*
Speaking at Monday’s press conference, the Prime Minister said that he was
not in favour of forming a so-called “crisis government”.
Asked by the media if he intended to do so, Ali Zeidan said that he was not
going to form a one “just to satisfy the demands of the street”. He further
added that “some people do not even know what a crisis government is”.
It will be recalled that Zeidan is reported to be on the verge of either
reshuffling his present cabinet, or appoint... more »
Aristotelian teleology was never scientifically sensible
Sean Carroll believes many bizarre – more precisely, demonstrably wrong –
things about the arrow of time. A few days ago, he decided to "humanize
them" by partially defending Aristotle's teleology.
Reality, Pushed From Behind
Aristotle believed that events are happening in the way they are happening
because of some purpose – because of some "mandatory" final state that
everything must converge to. Carroll admits that science was being built on
"dysteleological physicalism" but he still defends the musings by "smart
cookie" Aristotle by many pseudoarguments.
If you think about the ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Twilight moon by the Chrysler Building. [Inga Sarda Sorenson photo]
JOHN RYKENER
spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com
According to court records in London, the clergy have been among the chief
users of male prostitutes.
*John Rykener*, a London rent boy, named as clients numerous men of the
church.
When John Rykener was brought before the authorities, he explained that "a
certain Anna, the whore of a former servant of Sir Thomas Blount, first
taught him."
*He said that he had had sex with a number of people including:*
Phillip, rector of Theydon Garnon, Sir William Foxlee, Sir John, Sir Walter,
Two Franciscans Brother Michael and Brother John, a Carmelite friar,... more »
Girl Scout GMO Free Cookie Twitter Party Today, February 5, 2014
Join us today at 6pm PST/8pm CST/9pm EST for the Girl Scouts Cookie Season
Twitter Party. We'll be educating about GMOs and asking the Girl Scouts to
please make our cookies GMO free. It will be a GMO free Girls' Night Out
(GNO)!
Mark yo...ur calendar and spread the word! As cookie season kicks off,
don't forget to make a donation to the local troop instead of buying GMO
cookies made by a division of Kellogg's!
Tweets will be available here today before the party: http://bit.ly/1jdvpdN
#GirlScoutCookies #GNOnoGMO #GMO #BOYCOTTKelloggs #Kelloggs #BoycottKeebler
#Keebler #GMOfr... more »
Adobe Climb Down Over ACS5 Deadline
After the storms comes the calm and time to reflect.
Adobe have now climbed down from their ACS5 stance and have left the
migration timetable in the hands of their customers. A statement posted on
the Datalogics blog says:
*As stated during our January 29th Datalogics and Adobe webinar announcing
the release of the new hardened Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Reader
Mobile SDK (RMSDK) 10 and Adobe Content Server (ACS) 5, Adobe revealed a
July 2014 time table for migrating to RMSDK 10 and ACS 5.*
*After receiving feedback from customers and webinar attendees, Adobe has
revised th... more »
Torres News: Spy photos of Aboriginals 'We lived in fear'
By
Brenda Norrell
Censored News
After Censored News first published news of the Australian intelligence
agency's spy photos of Aboriginals, I was contacted by an editor of
remote regional newspapers in Australia. Editor Mark Bousen said he
hadn't heard news of the photo exhibit in Australia.
Tonight, Censored News received the follow up to the story. Special
thanks to Bousen for sharing
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*A Historical Perspective on Hysterical Rhetoric*
From 1948 to the present, environmental activists have declared that the
sky is falling.
*Suzuki hysteria*
We tend to ignore history in our daily lives. Which is too bad, because
historical perspective is one of our best defenses against foolish ideas.
Once we realize that a long line of people have insisted, in recent
decades, that we’re on the brink of environmental disaster, today’s climate
doomsayers suddenly snap into perspective.
Absolutely nothing new is going on here. Today’s hysteria, exaggeration,
and emotionally manip... more »
February 3, 1959. The night the music died...
* Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) died in
a tragic plane crash in Iowa.*
*May they rest in peace.*
*I was 13 when they died. I miss them... *
Rock ‘n’ roll was still in its infancy when it suffered its first tragedy.
On Feb. 3, 1959, three of the biggest stars of the day — Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, known as the Big Bopper — were killed
in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The three acts, along with Dion and the Belmonts, were on a package tour
called the Winter Dance Party, which was to play 24 Midwestern cities in as
man... more »
Christy Clark, Burning Public Education To The Ground
I really need to bite my tongue, I was almost tempted to pull a Tsakumis
with the use of foul language(in describing Christy Clark), however, those
descriptors are not appropriate for this story, or any story, let me just
say this..
We are presently celebrating the Year of the Horse, how ironic
considering we have a *premier who is a Horse`s Ass!*
Is Christy Clark/s hatred towards teachers because she failed to get an
education, because she quit S-F-U-....Quit after her student piers rejected
Christy Clark`s bid for student president, Clark was caught cheating, and I
have mentio... more »
Republicans Want To Get Rid Of Their Corrupt Beltway Leaders… How About Democrats?
I met with a friendly congressman this week to talk about the prospects for
improving House Democratic leadership in a post-Pelosi world. Aside from
assuring me that enough members of the caucus detest Steve Israel so that
he's not going up any ladders, it was a depressing conversation.
Acknowledging that Steny Hoyer as Speaker or Minority Leader will mean the
caucus would, in effect, be run entirely by K Street, one phrase stuck in
my head: "Hoyer is very likable and no one is interested in patricide." I'm
glad they are get along in their cushy club there but, the people's
busine... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Portion Control
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
An Olympics Musical Break: We're Barefootin', with Bare Putin
(With apologies to Robert Parker)
Everybody get on your feet,
We can’t search you when you in your seat
Take off your shoes, your coat, and your shirt,
Let’s see you dance and no one gets hurt,
We're barefootin', with bare Putin,
We're barefootin', with bare Putin,
Went to a party at a swinging yurt,
Long Tall Sergei was quite a flirt
Threw way his wig, and his high collar, too,
He was doin’ a dance without shoes or shirt
He was barefootin', with bare Putin,
He was barefootin', with bare Putin,
Hey little gal with the red cardigan,
I bet you can barefoot, I know y... more »
The Moratorium Miracle: Delaying PARCC Can Actually Help Save It
Today I read two articles regarding testing and the Common Core State
Standards (CCSS). After reading both, I am left with the same thought: The
events detailed in both articles promote CCSS survival– and by extension–
PARCC survival. The first is this press release regarding the Partnership
for the Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC): […]
A3 Newsletter: Don't Stand Still, Stand Up! (Legal Update, Upcoming Events with Robert King, and Feb. 15 Vigil)
As we begin this month, we've learned the civil case jointly filed by
Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox has been frozen as the
State once again appeals a federal decision not in their favor, and we all
still anxiously word as to whether Albert's conviction will be vacated once
and for all. On February 19th, Albert turns 67, and the 26th will mark one
year since his conviction was overturned for a third time, but somehow,
despite decades of struggle and mountains of evidence pointing to
innocence, he still shivers in a solitary cell.
Rather than settling in and slowi... more »
Time to Let the American Enabling Act Expire
In an all too rare display of chutzpah in post-September 11, 2001 America
which has been hammered home incessantly as* 'the day when everything
changed'* for nearly twelve and a half years by fascist opportunists there
is a growing move to pushback against Obama's NSA Stasi and its illegality.
Without delving into the depths of speculation and conspiracy trafficking
it is apparent that the USA PATRIOT Act was to 9/11 what the Enabling Act was
to the Reichstag Fire in the terms of historical analogies. While
admittedly less ostentatious than the depraved Nazi regime and their orgy
... more »
EPA Sets Disturbing Precedent by Walking Away from Radiation Contaminated Zone
Public Integrity has the story:
EPA abandons major radiation cleanup in Florida, despite cancer concerns.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/01/30/14190/epa-abandons-major-radiation-cleanup-florida-despite-cancer-concerns
[Excerpt] The Environmental Protection Agency is walking away after a
decades-long battle with Florida politicians and industry officials over
cleaning up phosphate-mining waste in an area that could expose more than
100,000 residents to cancer-causing radiation levels.
Under a decision quietly finalized two weeks ago, the federal agency will
leave it to state o... more »
JapanFocus: The (Wrong) Origins of the Senkaku Mess
JapanFocus, a progressive website that turns out lots of interesting stuff
on Okinawa, on Japanese colonialism, and on Cold War and post-Cold War
history and politics in NE Asia, put on a fine display this month of the
way lefties often adopt the right-wing imperialism of non-western nations
as their analytical stance, something that needs to stop. In *The Origins
of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute between China, Taiwan and Japan*, Mark Seldon
and Yabuki Susumu write:
*...While other important issues add to the gravity of the conflict,
including enlarged territorial claims by China, Ja... more »
Plane Delays and NAIA Bureaucracy
* This is my article yesterday in thelobbyist.biz.
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A fried posted last January 27 one of his travel nightmares when he came
home from Norway.
*Another shameful episode at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport…. our
plane was supposed to touch down at 1155AM but we had to go on circles for
3x of 15 minutes each because of the queuing problem in the run way. On the
third round the Pilot of flight TG 620 had to make an emergency landing at
Clark because our plane almost run out of fuel. I was both angry and
ashamed as I heard all the side comments and complaints of the pas... more »
Mark Rosenblum - Possibility of a Two State Solution (Source: Peace Islands Institute)
*From the Peace Islands Institute website: *
We are proud and thrilled to announce that IDC is growing, expanding and
therefore it has needed to be reorganized. IDC has a new name now: Peace
Islands Institute. So, IDC will serve as an Institute that will have
different platforms. Peace Islands Institute, a NJ organization, will open
branches in the neighboring states.
In addition to programs that IDC has organized so far, Peace Islands
Institute will support academic programs and researches on issues like
democracy, human rights, women issues, community development. In this
sense... more »
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*Jindal coastal adviser Garret Graves resigns, effective Feb. 17 ~Mark
Schleifstein*
Teachers aren’t Cattle! (VAMs 101)
If you ever need a simple explanation for how VAMs are highly unreliable,
then look no further! This is, by far, the best video I’ve seen on this
issue. It’s definitely worth watching & sharing! Ladies and gentlemen,
brothers and sisters, we – teachers – are not cattle! We’re more than shady
measurement “tools.” […]
Has "Sling-Bob" Gates ALWAYS gotten it wrong?
*A quick show of hands: How many of you out there would let "Dr. Gates" so
much as look at, let alone touch, your tonsils?*
*"This combination of elfish charm and sub-par performance goes back a long
way.*"
*-- Jonathan Alter, in "The Wars RobertGates Got Wrong," on newyorker.com*
*by Ken*
As we prepare to talk again about Robert "Sling-Bob" Gates, the former
director of Central Intelligence and (under both R and D prezzes) secretary
of defense, we should perhaps do a quick-refresher quiz on the
circumstances under which Sling-Bob made his return to gummint service in
2006, as su... more »
Waitangi Day: Something to celebrate
*“Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an
inalienable right if practiced by a minority… Like every other form of
collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned.” *- Ayn Rand, “Racism”
Oh Galt, it’s Waitangi Week again – and already the hikois of protest and
the graspers of the unearned are infesting the place from top to bottom.
The birth of the best little country in the world is being celebrated – not
with the deserved pride of a great achievement – but, once again, with the
full cast of cant and lies and humbug. A Waitangi Day of one race, ... more »
Greater access to … profits.
Sent to the New York Times, Feb. 4, 2014
Why are Microsoft, Verizon, Sprint and Apple so eager to donate three
quarters of a billion dollars to increase school access to the internet
("Obama Announces Pledges of $750 Million for Student Technology," Feb. 4)?
Could it be related to the fact that the Common Core requires online
testing, a move that will result in unprecedented profits for these
companies?
Online testing requires not only access, but massive amounts of new
technology that promises to be obsolete as soon as it is in place. There is
no evidence that greater access to t... more »
Robert Jensen : ‘Declaring victory wherever we can’
An interview with Cynthia Kaufman on her book, ‘Getting Past Capitalism:
History, Vision, Hope’ By Robert Jensen | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2014
[Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope by Cynthia Kaufman (2013:
Lexington Books); Paperback; 200 pp; … finish reading Robert Jensen :
‘Declaring victory wherever we can’
The NEW Media: Exchanging Value
This past weekend I had a series of very enlightening and enlightened
conversations with several people. The kind of conversations that expand
your understanding and are shocking in their clarity of the moment. One of
the people I talked to today was my friend Oliver in Sweden, and he took
the conversation and ran with it and sent me the article below.
I have come a long way on my own personal journey to "getting it" and to
learning about my own internal issues. I talked about a small part of that
HERE, and yet, I realized today that even that was a skewed perspective.
This topic ... more »
Cardinal Varela, on his way to Mass, gently questioned by lady-like and charming feminists - not exactly...
*more like the hounds of hell were unleashed upon the world. *
Bare-breasted feminists hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he
arrived at church on Sunday in protest at his support for a tightening of
Spain’s abortion law.
Five topless protesters swooped on Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela as
he got out of a car to attend an evening mass at a church in central
Madrid.
They hurled red-stained knickers at the cardinal, who they say is one of
the forces behind the conservative government’s planned abortion reform.
*Warning: *Bare breasts bouncing around in public, hyste... more »
ONLY LOVE TRULY HEALS
*Only love truly heals because only love lies deepest within us. The basic
underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of
love and soul consciousness (**Unified Field* *) which lies not only beyond
time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle
property is the urge to unite: Allen L Roland *
*The only right love is that between couples whose passion leads them both,
one through the other, to a higher possession of their being: Teilhard de
Chardin*
For almost 40 years I have been demonstrating that there is no tru... more »
Obama And Rouhani Need To Bring Their Children Into Line, And Finalize The Nuclear Deal Now, Not Later
*Picking up the phone is not rocket science. Shaking hands is better than
slamming your fists. *
At a certain point this year, hopefully sooner rather than later, President
Obama and President Rouhani will have to bring their children into line and
finalize the nuclear deal between the two countries for good. Obama has to
deal with rebellious children in the Senate, including a Senate toddler *raising
his voice against Obama's nuclear deal in another country*, and Rouhani has
to deal with a small minority of loud-mouthed fanatics who need to be
tamed. It won't be easy, but it beats... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Pete Seeger: A life that enriched ‘you and me’
The world has been diminished by his passing, just as it was enriched by
his life. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2014 Several
weeks ago, I began writing a column I intended to publish … finish reading Lamar
W. Hankins :
Pete Seeger: A life that enriched ‘you and me’
Rakuten Replaces Serbinis at Kobo
All companies and teams only change their leader when they are forced to do
so or when the current one isn’t delivering what the owners seek. Only a
fool changes a wheel when it isn't broken.
Two years after Kobo was acquired by Japan’s Rakuten they have announced
that Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis is stepping down as chief executive of the
ebook company. Serbinis will be replaced by Takahito “Taka” Aiki, with
immediate effect and Aiki is to relocate to Canada. It is reported that
Serbinis will remain with Kobo as the company’s founder and vice chairman.
Until recently Aiki was CEO of th... more »
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