Monday, March 17, 2014

17 Mar - Blogs I'm Following II

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Progressive Music Classics. Killing Joke: "Empire Song"

. . *By MARC McDONALD* Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of working-class people around the world. The great post-punk band *Killing Joke* released their sixth single, *"Empire Song,"* on March 20, 1982. It turned out to be an eerily prescient song when, less than two weeks later, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Thatcher's Britain then sprung into action, gearing up for the subsequent Falklands War. *"The Empire Strikes Back."* was the cover story headline on the April 19 edition ... more »

St. Patrick's Day 2014

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 39 minutes ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's a tune I've posted elsewhere, Makem and Clancy's rousing rendition of "The Rocky Road to Dublin": (I posted the High Kings' excellent version last year.) For the day, Digby posts a U2 classic. Meanwhile, Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice has posted an open thread (and there are some other posts for occasion). My archives: 2013 (A children's version of the

Is your laundry detergent natural, toxic free, and Eco-friendly? #Review

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 hour ago
[image: Celadon Road Lavender Laundry Detergent Review] How many ingredients are in your laundry detergent? Go ahead ... go count ... I'll wait! Got it? Okay ... what's the verdict? Mine, Celadon Road's Lavender Laundry Detergent, has six ingredients: sodium bromate, soda ash, coconut oil, clay powder, vinegar, and essential oil. It is made in the USA and was originally created to ease the suffering of a child's eczema which was aggravated by commercial laundry products. It is safe for skin, clothing, and septic systems. It is not tested on animals and comes in a reusable container... more »

Crimea Referendum aftermath -- Tuesday March 18 , 2014 - Examining sanctions , Crimea moving forward as an independent state , while waiting for the next shoe to fall in Ukraine

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/ Tuesday, March 18 02:35 GMT: Tokyo is set to impose sanctions against Russia after it recognized Crimea as an independent state, a top government spokesman said on Tuesday. The “*Japanese government does not recognize the referendum in Crimea*," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. As part of the sanctions Japan will suspend talks on an investment pact and relaxation of visa requirements. "*The recognition of Crimean independence by Russia violates Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is regrettable*," Su... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Sea of Dreams”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
2002, “Sea of Dreams” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllFeTxxZ_Y

“The Limits Of Your Language Are The Limits Of Your World”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“The Limits Of Your Language Are The Limits Of Your World”* by Chet Raymo “Here is a recent APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). The title on the APOD site is "Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula." Something about the incongruity of the prosaic "Why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road?" title and the awesomeness of the image rendered me speechless. Talk about bringing heaven down to earth! The Running Chicken Nebula takes its name from its perceived shape (although I don't see it). The nebula spans dozens of light-years in the Milky Way Galaxy, about 6000 light-years from the Solar S... more »

Ed Felien : Straight talk about Crimea

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Was the referendum on Crimea’s independence legitimate? Does Catalonia have a right to secede from Spain? Scotland from Britain? Texas from Mexico? By Ed Felien | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 Crimea is a dangling appendix to the … finish reading Ed Felien : Straight talk about Crimea

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Findlay, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

PICKING A FIGHT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
- Just landed in Newark after aircraft maintenance problems interrupted my planned flight sequence of Santa Barbara-San Francisco-Chicago-Portland. Now I won’t make it back home tonight as originally scheduled and have to spend the night in Newark… getting home a day late on Tuesday. Had to cancel the taping of my next public access TV show on Tuesday morning. - I’ve been out of world news contact for several days and have not yet caught up with the latest about US-NATO intervention into Ukrainian affairs. I did notice some comments by the recen... more »

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Honoring Water and Horse Nation March 22, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
March 22nd World Water Day Statement by Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE - 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf PipeWelcome Back the Wakiya Oyate (Thunders) Ceremony Honoring the Sunka Wakan Oyate (Horse) NationIn the past the Welcome Back the Wakiya Oyate - Thunder Ceremony has always been done on March 21st, but because there is an International effort to respect the Mini

In the beginning

risa bear at A Way to Live - 2 hours ago
We keep our seed packets in a wooden index box in the refrigerator, and it's an exciting moment every year when the box comes out to be gone through for early planting in the potting shed/greenhouse. This year, for perhaps no very good reason other than that I like to, I've put a lot of greens seeds and roots seeds in an herb shaker, swirled them all together, and shaken out seed, as one might in salting one's dinner, over a flat of potting soil, to see what comes up. And again, two weeks later. Things have indeed come up, and while I recognize the lettuce, the kale, collards, c... more »

Gates Dined on March 13, 2014, with 80 Senators

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
Bill Gates has too much power. The following announcement, dated March 13, 2014, is from Politico: DINNER WITH GATES – About 80 senators are expected to attend a dinner discussion at the Capitol tonight with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the NYT’s David Brooks. The 6:45 p.m. dinner, according to an invitation obtained by Huddle, is sponsored by […]

Dine' and Hopi to Peabody Coal: Stop the abuse of Black Mesa remains and artifacts

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
Peabody coal removed 250 human remains from Black Mesa, 1.3 million artifacts Today the remains and artifacts are in infested areas, and looted. Scattered at universities, this could be the source of the auctions of sacred items in Paris. Jennafer Waggoner-Yellowhorse Black Mesa Coalition Censored News March 17, 2014 Black Mesa Archaeology Project was a field excavation paid for by Peabody

The Truth About Diego Garcia: Stealing A Nation

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 4 hours ago
I have been following the recent reports about the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370, and I am beginning to wonder if the reports that the flight was diverted to Diego Garcia, located the Chagos Archipelago in the south Indian Ocean some 1000 nautical miles south of the southern tip of India, are true. There is so much mystery surrounding the flight and why it changed direction and started flying along a southwestern flight path over the Indian Ocean. The direction that the flight took before it mysteriously disappeared off all radar screens put it in a direct course for Di... more »

Kate Braun : Lady Moon brings intense water energy on the Vernal Equinox

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
Balance is an important consideration for this celebration: hours of daylight and darkness are equal, hence the term ‘equinox.’ By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 “Pretty colors…everywhere / Mother Nature, she still cares…” Thursday, March … finish reading Kate Braun : Lady Moon brings intense water energy on the Vernal Equinox

BBC Bias and Balance

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 4 hours ago
Congrats to Duncan Weldon on his appointment as *Newsnight's* economics editor. But not everyone is wishing him well. The Tories have made their displeasure known. The *Daily Mail* aren't happy either. They're carrying on as if Yevgeni Preobrazhensky has been appointed. This is Buggers Broadcasting Communism, after all. Replying, Owen Jones has highlightedsome evidence that shows far from being a hive of socialist counter-hegemony, the BBC is pro-establishment and mainly rightwing. The response from *The Speccie* is "yeah, but the BBC is suffused with liberal bias" - characteristica... more »

“The Genius of Erasmus”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*“The Genius of Erasmus”* by David Swanson “Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, who lived from October 27, 1466, to July 12, 1536, faced censorship in his day, and has never been as popular among the rich and powerful as has his contemporary Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli. But at a distance of half a millennium, we ought to be able to judge work on its merit — and we ought to have regular celebrations of Erasmus around the world. Some of his ideas are catching on. His name is familiar in Europe as that of the EU’s student exchange program, named in his honor. We ought perhaps to w... more »

Bitcoin and Crypto-currencies updates March 15, 2014 ......Think Banks were leery of bitcoin before - wait until this sinks in -- Japanese Lender Mizuho Caught in Mt. Gox Scandal ! TigerDirect: Second Online Retailor to Top $1 Million in Bitcoin Sales ....... Mt. Gox kept exchange open despite knowledge of large-scale theft Exchange continued to operate and collect transaction fees despite its troubles, U.S. bankruptcy filing suggests ....... Icelandic government warns against Auroracoin ....... Bitcoin Exchange Doing Security Right: Bitcurex Successfully Blocked A Hacking Attack ...... CFTC is considering Bitcoin regulation ........ Balanced Energy has Been Told by Texas Regulators to Not Take Bitcoin for Exploration Investments ........ Bitcoin Businesses and Canadian Banks: The ‘Catch 22’ Dilemma

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/16/japanese-lender-mizuho-caught-mt-gox-scandal/ Japanese Lender Mizuho Caught in Mt. Gox Scandal Tom Boice 16/03/2014 Bitcoin, Bitcoin Exchanges, Business, News 1 Comment Posted 16 hours ago [image: Mizuho bank connected to Mt. Gox] Mizuho is the latest in a string of organizations facing heat over connection to MT. Gox (Reuters) Connection to the former leading Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has entangled another business partner in the exchange’s highly publicized demise. One of Japan’s largest lenders, Mizuho Bank Ltd., was added as... more »

The Jonestown Banks - by John Judge

Paul Coker at News Spike - 6 hours ago
The assets of Jim Jones' People's Temple have yet to be fully accounted, but early research in the press and by independent investigators put the total between $26 million and $2 billion. Following the money leads down a twisted trail of international banks, dummy fronts, real estate investments and conflicting government reports. Various sources estimate a total of at least $17-$20 million in foreign investments, and property worth $2.5 million that passed through deed, sale and ownership from 1976 to 1979. Some $12 million dollars was deposited in mysterious accounts in Panama. ... more »

Obama Sanctions are All Bark and No Bite

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 6 hours ago
With all of the smack-talking about bringing down a biblical plague of economic misery upon Russia unless the hated and demonized president Vladimir Putin stopped the Crimean referendum Barack Obama's sledgehammer of sanctions was as impotent as his five year tenure in office. With the once mighty US establishment and it's pocket media having spent weeks snarling like the hounds of hell themselves over opposition to their ill-advised and ultimately disastrous coup d'etat against the democratically elected leader of Ukraine today's announcement of a tepid targeting of a handful of... more »

“A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See to the Beginning of Time”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See to the Beginning of Time”* by Lawrence Krauss “At rare moments in scientific history, a new window on the universe opens up that changes everything. Today was quite possibly such a day. At a press conference on Monday morning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a team of scientists operating a sensitive microwave telescope at the South Pole announced the discovery of polarization distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which is the observable afterglow of the Big Bang. The distortions appear to be due to the ... more »

"How It Really Is- Happy St. Patrick's Day!"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

"Oh, the Humanity!"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
“One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.” - Christopher Morley, “Hide and Seek” “The truth is... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness.” - Virginia Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway” “The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” "Hell is other people." - Sartre

Gold and Precious metals reports - Saturday March 15 , 2014 - Highlights from Ed Steer's always interesting Gold and Silver Report , , news / views touching upon the precious metals .... highlights from from Harvey Organ's closing missive for the week !

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/bundesbanks-president-says-it-aims-to-hasten-gold-repatriation ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER For the third day in a row there was a brief rally in gold during morning trading in the Far East, but that didn't get far, and there wasn't much volume associated with it. From there, the gold price sank to its low of the day, which came an hour before London open. Once the low was in, gold developed a positive bias that lasted until 11 a.m. GMT in London---and then away it went to the upside until JPMorgan et al put an end to the fun at 9:30 a.m. E... more »

Mexico: Hermosillo UFO Was Just a Prank

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 hours ago
*Source: La Cara Oculta de los OvnisDate: 17 March 2014* *Mexico: Hermosillo UFO Was Just a Prank* Mexico, Hermosillo, 11 March – An unidentified flying object caused hundreds of citizens to travel to the outskirts of the state capital of Sonora to see the lights that rose capriciously into the sky for three hours. In the end, it was just a prank. Around 19:00 hours, residents of several districts located to the south of Hermosillo reported seeing various multicolored lights flying in formation over the city. The word “OVNI” (UFO) quickly became a trending topic on Twitter and F... more »

Indigenous Women's Symposium, Trent Univ, Ontario March 20 -- 23, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
Welcome to the 13 th INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S SYMPOSIUM Gchi-twaawendimong Ezhi-wiijikiiwendimong Gchi-twaa-nibiCelebrating our Relationships With Water March 20 to March 23, 2014First Peoples House of LearningTrent University, Peterborough, Ontario Welcome to the 2014Indigenous Women’s Symposium Click Here to Download 2014 Program Brochure (PDF) http://www.trentu.ca/academic/

Say’s Law and the Permanent Recession

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
*Guest post by Robert Blumen* Mainstream media discussion of the macro economic picture goes something like this: “When there is a recession, the central bank should stimulate. We know from history the recovery comes about 12-18 months after stimulus. Central banks stimulated, they printed a lot of money, we waited 18 months. So the economy *ipso facto* has recovered. Or it’s just about to recover, any time now.” But to quote the comedian Richard Pryor, “Who ya gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?” A Martian economist arriving on earth would have to admit the following: the US e... more »

War watch March 16 , 2014 -- Syria -- Syria claims to have captured rebel stronghold on Lebanese border Fall of Yabroud, a key rebel supply line into Lebanon, would be latest success for President Assad as conflict enters fourth year ....... Iraq -- another day of death dealing across Iraq ..... Afghanistan Election outlook - murky is the word presently as to who might win and what happens next ? Libya rebels offer to talk to Libya Government regarding sharing oil revenues - even as a second oil tanker lurks near Tobruk to load a second load of oil from the oil bandits .....Turkish PM risks inflaming tensions by linking dead teenager to terrorism

Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/16/syria-rebel-stronghold-lebanese-border-yabroud [image: Yabroud, Syria] The fall of Yabroud would deal a signifcant blow to rebels since the initiative passed to the government in spring of 2013. Photograph: Sana/Reuters Syria claims its military has seized a key town on the Lebanese border that was the target of a months-long offensive. Activists said fighting was continuing but the government was in control of much of Yabroud. Yabroud was an key supply line for rebels into neighbouring Lebanonand overlooked an important cross-country hi... more »

Speculation [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
When the facts reported change every day, then on what facts can you base any hypothesis? On what actual facts are you basing your speculations? *UPDATE*: “Frankly at this point, you’d be better off reading Tintin than watching the cable news reports.” Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Stephen Harper - tilting at windmills

Alison at Creekside - 8 hours ago
No stats supporting a rise in crime? It's invisible crime! Steve will slay invisible crime for us. Ha! No stats supporting a rise in anti-Semitism in Canada? Never mind. Steve set up a special parliamentary committee to slay the invisible rise of anti-Semitism in Canada and give it a whole new definition that might include you. No stats supporting public outcry against long form census? No problemo. It was an invisible public outcry. Long form census slayed, and bonus! - cripple StatsCan's budget. No stats supporting examples of voter fraud? Must be invisible voter fraud then,... more »

Security theater during high stakes testing. Why? Because security.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago
I’m advocating for a new government agency, under the authority of the Department of Education or Homeland Security, or perhaps a novel collaboration between the two. This new agency could easily handle the security theater that permeates all schools during the testing window. Actually, it’s apt to call it a theater of the absurd. For […]

MYSTERIOUS MICK JAGGER

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*Mick Jagger and Jimmy Savile are both linked to the spooks and to boys.* Mick Jagger's deceased 'girlfriend', *L'Wren Scott*, was raised by her adoptive Mormon family in Roy, Utah. dailymail. *Nat Rothschild with L’Wren Scott* L' Wren Scott has an Eyes Wide Shut connection. *Mick Jagger and boys in Mustique* Mick Jagger reportedly had sexual affairs with David Bowie, Brian Jones, MI5's Tom Driberg and many others. Being somewhat 'gay' Mick Jagger has always been wildly popular with the girls. Jean Shrimpton took pills in an attempted overdose after Mick Jagger left her for si... more »

Jonathan Yardley’s strange book review!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014* *Kitty Genovese, still not remembered:* Every Sunday, Jonathan Yardley writes a book review for the Washington Post Outlook section. In our view, Yardley’s reviews help make the Sunday Post a better read than the bloated Sunday Times. That said, Yardley’s latest review struck us as notably strange. Yardley reviewed a pair of books about the killing of Kitty Genovese, our country’s latest fiftieth anniversary event. In 1964, the killing of Genovese, a 28-year-old New York City woman, created a nationwide discussion which has never really ended. At the star... more »

Very interesting news re BBC anti-Israel bias

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
The excellent Is The BBC Biased has a very interesting piece that I have taken the liberty of quoting in full below. The BBC's anti-Israel bias is clear to anyone who follows their coverage and their hiding of the Balen Report speaks volumes for what was discovered by Mr Balen. Failure to observe due impartiality “The BBC’s news division is on course for another row with the corporation’s internal watchdog about its coverage of Israel.The BBC Trust has upheld a complaint which alleged that a five-minute report on Radio 4’s *Today* programme about the Six-Day War was misleading and b... more »

Crimea Chooses Their Own Future: Ridiculous Response From The Canadian Prime Minister!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 10 hours ago
The people of Crimea have spoken... By an overwhelming majority (Last report shows 96.7% in favor), the proud people of the Crimean peninsula have voted for their reunification with the Russian Federation. This erases 60 years of that original mistake made by the then Soviet Union in 1954 of attaching Crimea, which is predominantly Russian and Russian speaking to the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The vote and the referendum was perfectly legal and fully within the guidelines of the United Nations dictates for people to justifiably vote in referendums for their future. ... more »

Now that you have read so much of my incessant re-posting of his work, I highly recommend that you meet Paul Craig Roberts in person on this timely and nicely hosted interview.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago
------------------------------ http://youtu.be/cKH9bmH2YII The Road to World War 3: Ukraine, Russia and American Imperialism Stefan Molyneux Published on Feb 22, 2014 Stefan Molyneux speaks with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts about the violent protests in Ukraine, evidence that the United States is fueling the conflict with taxpayer dollars and the dangerous game that is being played in the attempt to install military and missile bases on the Russian border. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Regan and is a former associate ... more »

Teaching or Testing – Teachers Talk

Barbara Madeloni at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
Surveys and focus groups do not capture the pain and frustration teachers experience under mandates for high stakes testing and teacher evaluations that require the constant proving of ones worth. This video from Educators for a Democratic Union captures some of the devastating impact of testing on teachers, students, and our hopes for public education. […]

Lend a Blend

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
Filed under: ANGEL CINTRON, JR.: I Think, Therefore I Teach Tagged: blended learning, teaching

What British Political Party do you side with?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
Take the test here I'm not sure about the questions as there are policy areas that weren't asked about and unless you opt for 'Choose another stance' the offered options are somewhat restrictive. So should I vote UKIP from now on?

Carol Burris Corrects More Duncan Lies from Massachusetts

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
Boston's CorpEd rag, the *Boston Globe*, quoted Arne Duncan's recent lie that 40 percent of MA high school grads attending 4 year colleges take remedial courses. Did it occur to Globe's Scot Lehigh to do a little fact-checking? Oh, I forgot, his is a column, so any lie repeated is totally fair. Correction from The Answer Sheet: *. . . .*What is “staggering” is the gross inaccuracy of the claim. Here are the facts: • Twenty-two percent of the students who attend four-year state universities in Massachusetts and 10 percent of the students who attend the University of Massachuset... more »

Shiny Happy People: NPR, “Grit,” and “Myths that Deform” pt. 2

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
Shiny Happy People: NPR, “Grit,” and “Myths that Deform” pt. 2. via Shiny Happy People: NPR, “Grit,” and “Myths that Deform” pt. 2.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Mohawk Nation News 'Cry No More in Crimea'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
CRY NO MORE IN CRIMEA Posted on March 17, 2014  Mohawk Nation News MNN. Mar. 17, 2014. Crimeans voted 97.5% for unification with the motherland in a record turnout, only 1.7% against. US President Obama yells, “It’s illegal!” Czar Alexander III died at the summer palace in Livadia in Crimea Russia on October 20, 1894. Obama signed an executive orders to seize assets of any person or

SATANISTS IN LOUISIANA, CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
In 2005, *Pastor Louis Lamonica Jr*. (above), of *Hosanna Church *in Hammond in Louisiana, confessed to having been the head of a Satanic child abuse ring. The Daily Beast / www.dailymail.co.uk/ He confessed to taking part in Satanic rituals, child abuse and animal sacrifice in the Hosanna Church. Austin Bernard (above) was 'The Mastermind' of the cult. In the TV series 'True Detective,' the detectives uncover a string of ritualistic satanic murders carried out by top evangelical 'Christians' in South Louisiana. *Labat* *Pastor Louis Lamonica confessed*: 'I want to talk abo... more »

WILL US-NATO RESPECT THE VOTE?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago

The relentless dumbness of us the people!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014* *Dowd’s latest comment thread:* Following in the wake of talk radio, comment threads have helped us see the dumbness of us the people. Yesterday, the comments to Maureen Dowd’s latest column helped us see how dumb we can get inside our tribal worlds. On the whole, Dowd’s column was the latest hail of insults aimed at Obama, including a requisite reference to his mom jeans. But as she started, Dowd dismissed Scott Brown’s chances of winning Jeanne Shaheen’s Senate seat in New Hampshire. Dowd called Brown a “carpetbagger.” This produced a flurry of questions... more »

Carr Driven Off Cliff, Film at 11.

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid literary agents are. Never. Here are people who fail literally 90-95% of the time to find a home for the adult fiction they choose to represent and literally 90% of the shit that acquisitions editors buy from these idiots lose money. Yet, despite the fact that the publishing industry is in such a highly volatile state, with technological and market trends turning on a dime, the traditional business model remains stagnant, with editors insisting on buying unsalable work from agents who by and large display the most horrible judgment in... more »

Giveaway: Skating for Two at the Utah Olympic Oval

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours ago
Olympic Speed Skaters Chad Hedrick and Derek Parra at the Comcast Winter Games Celebration in Provo, Utah. Photo courtesy of Comcast. I think I have the after-Sochi blues. Two weeks of watching ice skating, skiing, hockey and even some curling and then it is over just like that and we go back to the normal, boring TV shows of before. It always makes me a little sad. This year, because of the weird winter we had in Utah, we didn't get the chance to hit the slopes this year and my 5-year-old little ski bunny, was pretty upset. To make it up to her, my husband has decided to take her ic... more »

Uruguay: A Mysterious Sighting in Nueva Helvecia

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago
*SOURCE: El Intransigente.com and Planeta UFODATE: 03.15.2014* Uruguay: A Mysterious Sighting in Nueva Helvecia Married couple saw a stunning flying object in the Uruguayan region of Nueva Helvecia Dante Soria, a member of *Testimonio OVNI*, was on vacation in the locality of Nueva Helvecia in Uruguay when he became the witness in the enigmatic sighting of a strange object. On the evening Monday, 20 January 2014, he decided to conduct a skywatch with his wife, Luisa YacĂłn. They both prepared mentally for the undertaking, as both are Reiki masters and form part of the *Testimonio ... more »

Duncan Warns Data Predators to Whom He Gave Privileges in 2009

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
At the behest of the Silicon Valley billionaires and the testing giants, the Obama Administration gutted FERPA protections for children in schools soon after coming into office, so that now corporate privateers and data predators have rich feeding grounds to collect, sift, and mine student and teacher data for whatever purposes they see fit. With parents and school boards with their hair on fire about cameras in the classroom and "cloud" data storage, Obama's corporate stooge, Arne Duncan, is trying to pretend to address the problem that his office directly caused. What is he doin... more »

Israel Ranked Best Middle Eastern Country to Live in as a Woman | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
Who apart from the screaming and shouting at Israel brigade would be surprised? 'Israel was the ranked the best country in which to live as a woman in the Middle East and North Africa region, according to a 2013 report cited by The Huffington Post on Thursday. Each year since 2006, the World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Report examining efforts to close the gap in four categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political Empowerment. While raked first for its region, the Jewish state came in 53rd ... more »

Iraq Shows Improvement In Poverty Levels, But Major Hurdles Continue

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
Despite Iraq’s vast natural resource wealth the country suffers from high rates of poverty. The United Nations just released data on Iraq’s battle with that problem. It provided statistics comparing 2007 with 2011. Those are important dates because they are during and after the civil war. Obviously while there was widespread fighting in the country poverty could not be combatted and likely got worse with the loss of jobs and displacement. Therefore comparing those two years showed how much progress or lack thereof that the government made going from conflict to a relatively peace... more »

TALKING TO OURSELVES: The latest insult to the tribe!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014* *Part 1—Between a rock and two ferns:* In 1980, the poet Billy Idol broke the world’s hearts with a sad tale of near-onanism: When there's no one else in sight In the crowded lonely night Well I wait so long For my love vibration *And I'm dancing with myself* Oh dancing with myself Oh dancing with myself *Well there's nothing to loseAnd there's nothing to proveI'll be dancing with myself* Poor Idol! We thought of the poet’s sad lament as we watched cable this weekend. In part, we refer to a tedious pair of segments we saw Steve Kornacki host. On balance, ... more »

Pop Quiz, Hotshot, Elections edition

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
I have a question for all those folks who study elections: any democracy hold an election within a week or two of being announced?

You Be the Judge. Or, Rather, Don't.

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 15 hours ago
We all have a favorite joke and this one happens to be mine. So what better day to share it than on St. Patrick's Day? ------------------------------ A conservative Irish judge went pub crawling after a hard Friday at court. He was known as a law and order judge and had an image to maintain but after such a hard day, his Irish thirst was raging. After he crawled out of his 6th pub, he vomited all over his brand new suit and racked his reeling brain for what to tell his teetotaling wife Brigit. Then he got a brilliant idea. He poured himself through the front do... more »

How to Win a Billion Dollars

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 15 hours ago
Quicken Loans will pay you a billion dollars if you fill out perfect bracket for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. But given the odds, the expected value is still less than a penny. You can enter here.

Ukraine Region Votes to Join Russia - WSJ.com

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
The WSJ reports http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579441563920333966?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories&mobile=ythat 'American officials realize that they misjudged Mr. Putin and are working to predict his next move, the senior official said. "We have misread Putin. He is not going to give up," the official said.' How come they couldn't see what I could? Or could they but now Barack Obama has more flexibility in his second term...

The Press Gallery Takes A Stand

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Last week the parliamentary press gallery passed the following motion: "We as the Parliamentary Press Gallery reserve the right to ask questions in all photo-ops and availabilities with the prime minister, cabinet ministers, and all parliamentarians, to fulfill our function as journalists in a democratic society.” The motion was passed in the face of the government's policy of not taking questions from reporters. James Baxter, the editor of *ipolitics*, writes: The Parliamentary Press Gallery has rarely shown the guts and gumption of its Washington counterparts, but we lately hav... more »

TC-48: “The Cadet Flight” - An Argentinean Missing Airplane

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 16 hours ago
*Source: CafĂ© Ufologico RIO54Date: 03.16.2014* [*The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 this month will go down as one of the most enigmatic and controversial incidents in aviation history, even if its ultimate whereabouts – and the fates of its 239 passengers – are established at some point after this writing. Unfortunately, it is possible for planes to vanish forever, or to be discovered by chance decades after radio contact was lost. This is the story of TC-48 -- SC*] *TC-48: “The Cadet Flight” - An Argentinean Missing Airplane* *By RubĂ©n Morales and Mario Lupo* A... more »

A federated Ukraine as proposed previously by Russia?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours ago
*Yesterday's post contained a link to a TIME article:* White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer also says supporting the new Ukrainian government “in every way possible” is at the top of the Obama’s administration’s priority list. *But action on $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine is on hold because Congress is on a break now.* 1 Billion in loan guarantees on hold because Congress went on break? Yesterday I asked: *Really? Are the thugs of Maidan being hung out to dry? Anyone?* I think they are being hung out to dry. I also suspect the inevitable win in Crimea was the reason f... more »

Service Pact Stuff

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago
[image: IMG_3350] *The Miaoli 54*. The awesome John Tkacik rips the service pact.... (Taipei Times): [The Singapore and N Zealand agreements] ASTEP and ANZTEC were signed under the WTO framework and enjoyed legal protection such as third party mediation and other resolutions and the equal stature of WTO members ensured a real increase in Taiwan’s export, whereas the cross-strait service trade agreement does not fall under such a category of trade agreements, he said. * The tertiary sectors in Taiwan and China are fundamentally different; the Chinese government is heavily involved i... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 16 hours ago
*Doctor’s Diary: Statins and their side effects* By James Le Fanu The assertion last week by researchers at London’s Imperial College that statins have virtually no side effects is so contrary to the experience of legions of Daily Telegraph readers over the past few years, it is only reasonable to inquire how they came to this conclusion. Dr Judith Finegold and her colleagues trawled through the published findings of the 29 drug company-sponsored statin trials and discovered that the number of “serious adverse events” to be similar among those taking the drug as among those on pla... more »

China financial strains emerging - March 17 , 2014 ......The Second Chinese Corporate Default: Real Estate Developer With CNY3.5 Billion In Debt Collapses , Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate Co. doesn’t have enough cash to repay creditors that include more than 15 banks, with China Construction Bank Corp. (939) holding more than 1 billion yuan of its debt, according to the officials, who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter. The company’s majority shareholder and his son, its legal representative, have been detained and face charges of illegal fundraising, the officials said.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-17/second-chinese-corporate-default-real-estate-developer-cny35-billion-debt-collapses The Second Chinese Corporate Default: Real Estate Developer With CNY3.5 Billion In Debt Collapses [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/17/2014 08:28 -0400 - Bond - China - Copper - Creditors - default - Newspaper - Nomura - Real estate - Yuan inShare A few days ago, copper prices and the Chinese stock market were roiled by speculation that another - the second in a row - Chinese bond defaul... more »

Redistribution of income

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
'Calls are being made for a probe into claims that members of Australia's Eritrean community are being forced to pay a so-called 'diaspora tax'. (Transcript from World News Radio) The federal government is being urged to investigate claims that representatives of the Eritrean government are forcing members of Australia's Eritrean community to pay an income tax banned by the United Nations.' More here http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/17/calls-probe-eritrean-diaspora-tax-australia I'm not too surprised, how many other such arrangements are in place in Western World?

NPR Whitewashes “Grit” Narrative

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
NPR Whitewashes “Grit” Narrative. via NPR Whitewashes “Grit” Narrative.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Clarissa Dickson Wright R.I.P.

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
The excellent chef and fascinating person Clarissa Dickson Wright has passed away far too young, at the age of Now I suppose we'll never find out why she claimed Tony Blair's nickname at the Bar back in the 1970s was Miranda. Nor what dirt she had on Peter Mandleson, Jack Straw, Cherie Blair and others. This and some other fascinating stories are alluded to in this Telegraph piece from 2007 'I wish I could relate Clarissa Dickson Wright's gossip about "Miranda", as she claims Tony Blair was known at the Bar when they moved in similar circles, back in the 1970s. The dirt she would ... more »

Crimea Election Updates For March 17 , 2014 ....... The Day Afterwards Crimea Names Ruble Currency; Applies To Join Russia, Expects To Become Region Of Russian Federation By Thursday .......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-17/crimea-names-ruble-currency-applies-join-russia-expects-become-region-russian-federa Crimea Names Ruble Currency; Applies To Join Russia, Expects To Become Region Of Russian Federation By Thursday [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/17/2014 07:24 -0400 - China - Nationalization - Natural Gas - Poland - Ukraine inShare2 First, for those who have missed this weekend's developing story surrounding events in Crimea, here is the 30 second summary, courtesy of Bloomberg: - U.S., EU warn Russ... more »

Day 10 Malaysian Airline Flight 370 -- the confusion becomes even more pronounced as Malaysia changes its narrative once again -- In yet another puzzling change of the official narrative, acting transport minister and minister of defence Hishammuddin Hussein revised the time of loss of communications with MH370 from 1.30 am local to 1.19 am, which would be two minutes before the last confirmed radar contact with the airliner that used a transponder to identify it to air traffic control system......another change in the narrative comes from how much fuel was allegedly remaining when communication was lost with the pilots ..... China criticisms really becoming loud as to Malaysian chaos incompetence and inability to handle the investigation ( note that was before today's presser with the contact timing and remaining fuel changes , which would impact the two corridors that the hi-jacked plane might have flown within or not flown within ) ......... Reader Michael Rhodes, a Sydney-based solicitor who says he has “extensive experience of Malaysia in particular and Malaysian Airlines” asks why the mobile phones and other communications devices of the people on board have not been traced.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/03/17/mh370-update-has-co-pilot-saying-all-right-good-night/ MH370 update has co-pilot saying ‘all right good night’ BEN SANDILANDS | MAR 17, 2014 9:46PM | EMAIL | PRINT - SHARE - - - - 0 - 0 inShare The newest version of the southern corridor map Malaysia Airlines says it believes the last words heard from missing flight MH370 “all right good night” were spoken by the first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid. The update at the end of Day 10 of the search for the Boeing 777-200ER and its 239 passengers and crew was told th... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago
*Construction set to begin on Lafitte Greenway project ~WWLTV * *As Louisiana's coast washes away, threatened communities face questions about their identity ~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch* *Zach Strief, New Orleans Saints agree to terms on 5-year contract* *Solar panels could supply N.O. airport’s energy needs ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *Six: One More Drop of Poison ~Mark Folse*

A Narcissist Scorned: Obama Throws Another Tantrum

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 18 hours ago
Despite weeks of saber rattling and threats from our dear leader *Barack the Feckless* and his bull in a China shop Secretary of State John Kerry, the Skull and Bones pedigreed stammering ass whose brief tenure has now put the US on a path to a war with Russia the referendum in Crimea that they had so desperately wanted to avoid went down on Sunday. With the third body blow to dwindling US prestige now having landed – the first two being Russia’s offer of asylum to former government whistleblower turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden followed by the humiliation of Russian leader ... more »

Failure to observe due impartiality

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
“The BBC’s news division is on course for another row with the corporation’s internal watchdog about its coverage of Israel.The BBC Trust has upheld a complaint which alleged that a five-minute report on Radio 4’s *Today* programme about the Six-Day War was misleading and biased, *The Times* has learnt. The findings, due to be published later this month, will inflame internal tensions that have lingered since the trust partially upheld several complaints about the accuracy and partiality of Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, five years ago.” So begins an article in today... more »

Who Is Unprepared? US Students? Or Arne Duncan?

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
While Arne Duncan continues his ugly swipes at students, parents, teachers, and schools, I believe it is time to turn the focus on the accuser. Are U.S. students unprepared for college? I recommend Carol Burris’s answer: Are American students grossly unprepared for college? Or is Duncan unprepared, noting that he has no experience teaching but lots […]

"Fukushima Meltdown Could Be 10,000 Times As High As Chernobyl"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
*"Fukushima Meltdown Could Be 10,000 Times As High As Chernobyl"* by David McNeill TOKYO — “In the chaotic, fearful weeks after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, in March 2011, researchers struggled to measure the radioactive fallout unleashed on the public. Michio Aoyama’s initial findings were more startling than most. As a senior scientist at the Japanese government’s Meteorological Research Institute, he said levels of radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean could be *10,000 times as high*as contamination after Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear acci... more »

Ron Paul Calls Out Neocon Meddling in Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 18 hours ago
Retired Congressman Ron Paul has been a consistent critic of the neocon domination of US foreign policy that with the western backed overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine that come roaring back into vogue. Never underestimate the neocons, they were thought to have been permanently discredited and for all intents and purposes dead and buried after the Iraq fiasco but they are back with a vengeance - you can say that they never truly went away. Like the cockroach, the neoconservative seems to be virtually indestructible primarily because unlike the permanently ta... more »

COLLAPSE COMING?

Anon at aangirfan - 18 hours ago
According to a report, by mathematician* Safa Motesharrei* (above) and others, *industrial civilization 'may be heading toward collapse' within decades.* The causes: *1.* the wide gap between the rich and the poor and *2.* the strain on the planet's resources. According to the report, rich 'elites' may be responsible for both problems. According to the report: 'The mass of the population, while producing the wealth, is only allocated a small portion of it by elites, usually at or just above subsistence levels.' The report refers to the downfall of various civilizations, inclu... more »

BBC reveals: 2,500 year-old Jewish text contains 'negative messages for women'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
The wonderful BBC Watch reveals http://bbcwatch.org/2014/03/16/bbc-reveals-2500-year-old-jewish-text-contains-negative-messages-for-womenthat '... the BBC has also added some interpretations of its own to the Purim story and has made the shocking discovery that a 2,500 year-old text contains “negative messages for women”.' I look forward to the BBC's shocked revelation of the negative messages for women that run through the Koran, but I won't hold my breath.

The common core and testing fever

skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
Sent to the Oregonian, March 19, 2014 Brett Bigham suggests that we need more standards and less testing ("Common Core Standards are not insidious: Guest opinion," March 16). The Common Core, however, is requiring an astonishing amount of standardized testing, far more than No Child Left Behind (NCLB) required. The new tests include the usual end of year tests, but in more subjects and in all grade levels, as well as interim tests during the year and possibly pretests in the fall to measure improvement over the academic year, about a 20-fold increase over NCLB. The tests will be ... more »

Media War: The Battle for Crimea

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago
[image: 543] The Western media's myth mill is working overtime to gain ground lost to Russia. *March 17, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Western press has been deceiving readers, listeners, and viewers since the beginning of the so-called "Euromaidan" protests - from covering up the ultra-right wing ideology and literal Neo-Nazi flag wavers leading the mobs, to the role the West has played in organizing, funding, and equipping the protesters in the first place. With their proxies now entrenched in Kiev after violently overthrowing the elected government of Viktor Yanukovych,... more »

Nope, no chemtrails here - looking towards London - Oxford 6 a.m.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 22 hours ago
it's been a while since I posted an "Oxford, looking towards London" chemtrails picture, so here's one from this morning, 6 a.m. Kinda ugly, ain't it?

Books About the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
You can find a review of my book and four others by Charles Perrow at the journal, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists here http://thebulletin.org/five-assessments-fukushima-disaster Dr. Charles Perrow, an emeritus professor at Yale and visiting professor at Stanford, reviews the following in his 'Five assessments of the Fukushima disaster': Samuels, Richard J (2013) *3.11: **Disaster and Change in Japan*. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Nadesan, Majia H (2013) *Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk*. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan The Independent Investigation Commi... more »

Growing Inequality Reflected in Health Outcomes

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Within the US: “The gaps continue to widen between the communities with the highest life expectancy and the lowest,” said Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, which produces the county-level life-expectancy figures. “There is nothing in sight that suggests that the 25-year trend is going to stop.” A. Lowrey (2014, March 15) Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap. The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap.html?emc=edit_th_20140316&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=32962000

Sunday Night w/ the Wise Old Man

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
Welcome to *Sunday Night w/ the Wise Old Man*! Zan Overall, also known as the Wise Old Man, is an activist, musican and actor. Tonight, we will once again hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, along with a review of his recent activism and a commentary on some articles recently appearing in *American Free Press* and *The Barnes Review*. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in and supported the *Spring 2014 fundraiser... more »

My Vegan Life - Eating Out

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
[image: My Vegan Life - Eating Out]*Dietary restrictions make * *eating "out" a challenge*.For the most part, going vegan has been easy. We cook at home using fresh, whole ingredients and create delicious meals. But every once in awhile, we enjoy a meal out ... and that presents a problem. Not everyone understands the meaning of "vegan" or even "vegetarian". [image: Eating out presents a challenge to vegans.]*Restaurants aren't always vegan friendly.*Many people assume that "meatless" simply means "without beef". In restaurants, a server may tell you that a vegetable soup is vegetar... more »

Ann Frank

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
Now, that's what I call an October Surprise.... Hang on... Wait, what..?! Let me guess - The fourth volume of the four, implicitly, would be the one covering the Auschwitz / Bergen-Belsen narrative... *It is a historical fact, disputed by absolutely no-one, that not only did Ann Frank survive Auschwitz, her entire family evaded selection for the gas chambers.* As can best be established, she died in January or Feburary of 1945 in Belsen, victim of an epidemic of Typhus. Regarding how this happened, I quote The Enemy: *"In the chaos that marked the unloading of the trains, the... more »

Gates and Duncan and Their Common Core “Freedom” Charade

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
In his purchased keynote at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) (I know, huh?), billionaire-with-zero-teaching-experience Bill Gates insisted that the feds are getting the bum rap when it comes to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). As Huffington Post’s Joy Resmovits notes, Gates went on to address critiques that the Common Core represents a national curriculum, […]

East v West in 18 simple infographics

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
“ A picture is worth a thousand words" href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html" target=_blank>A picture is worth a thousand words” Confucius didn’t say. But Chinese graphic artist Yang Liu ingeniously saves many thousand in illustrating cultural differences between Chinese and westerners. These are my faves. [image: image] [image: image] And for anyone who’s ever eaten Yum Char… [image: image] Head here for all 18. [Hat tip Stephen Hicks] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organo... more »

Call Your State Senator Tomorrow in Tennessee

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Local TV news in Knoxville has typical coverage below of the move by the TN House last week, which voted overwhelmingly to delay implementation of Common Core testing. Note that Mike Edwards, who leads off the "fair and balanced coverage," is the President of Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, a Board of Director member of the Teneessee Business Roundtable, member of the U. S. Chamber of Horrors, and member of the State Board of Education. Note, too, that no students, parents, or teachers were interviewed. Call your state Senator tomorrow and simply tell her this: Please vote with t... more »

YOU are @thechalkface!

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
DON’T BE CONFUSED @the chalkface is still the punk rock thrill ride that delivers readers, viewers, and listeners the unfiltered truth about education reform. We don’t take corporate contributions from Gates and Walton. But what about this new Chalkbeat? Sadly they do take funds from Gates and Walton. This is your brain on Chalkbeat. This […]

#WhatCouldGoWrong

Michael Paul Goldenberg at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Originally posted on Math Minds: On Tuesday, I received a book entitled “Accelerating Learning for All Students” in which all of the teachers in the district will receive professional development in the upcoming week. I cannot speak to the ELA piece of the material, however the math examples made me cringe. I quickly got out…

On the Education of a PM as a Crony [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
The place in which PM John Key learned about business was a business dedicated to sucking the marrow out of special privilege, says Charles Morris from Reuters (linked to this morning by David Chaston at Interest.Co.NZ). Merrill Lynch were the crony’s crony, and they died of it. Between 2001 and 2008, [says Chaston] …. they paid out US$50 billion in salaries and bonuses, and sold out to Bank of America. A “sell-out” made at the point their modern business model had collapsed, at the height of the 2008 Crash. Indeed, after a proper accounting it seems even after the terrific p... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*EPA Bureaucrats Paint the Town Red with Federal Charge Cards* There appears to be a flourishing culture of financial misconduct at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This culture has been perpetuated by a lack of administrative oversight leading to millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted. At a time when D.C.’s fiscal climate is characterized by a national debt that is spiraling out of control, there is no excuse for any government organization to be lacking financial accountability. A report released this month by the EPA Inspector General (IG) found EPA employees impr... more »

AMERICA AND THE NEOCONS LIED THEN - AND STILL LIE TODAY

In an article today at *Commentary* online, senior neoconservative writer Michael Rubin attempts to perpetuate the lie that the US was given false intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s WMDs. Rubin writes: *The narrative of “Bush lied, people died,” is nonsense of course. The problem was that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bluffed his own generals and aides. When Americans tapped into their phone calls, they heard Saddam’s lieutenants discussing such weapons as if they had them, and when American spies debriefed their Iraqi counterparts, there was no sign of deception because many of t... more »

Gee, Obama Not A Progressive? We're Shocked! Shocked! That Gambling's Been Going On! (They Tell US the Stories (And We Gasp and Believe Them?))

You can't trick karma (Confidence - Ed Burns). Although you can try. The real trick is keeping the downtrodden, despairing millions serenely tricked. That takes real confidence. The last comment below mirrors that confidence game. To our lasting grief. Or: There is a club. And you are not invited. There Is No Meritocracy: It’s Just the 1 Percent, and the Game Is Rigged

Stephen Harper and Senate scandal

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
Richard Nixon seemed to have spoken the same words when faced with the Watergate scandal.

Can Economists Ever Get It Right? [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
What do economists do all day, and why should anyone care? Working economists promote their “science” on the basis of their forecasts. But are their forecasts any better than throwing a dart at a board? Recent reports say “No.” It's hard to find nice things to say about economists. Their detachment from the real world of human activity is matched only by their enormous influence over it, and by their unearned assumption that this arrangement is well deserved. Both unearned and undeserved, as a new OECD report on their own economists’ reports makes clear enough. Translate this f... more »

“World War 1All Over Again: The Same Fools Play the Same Game”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“World War 1All Over Again: The Same Fools Play the Same Game”* By Paul Craig Roberts “If you reduce the lie to a scientific system, put it on thick and heavy, and with great effort and sufficient finances scatter it all over the world as the pure truth, you can deceive whole nations for a long time and drive them to slaughter for causes in which they have not the slightest interest.” - Chief French Editor, “Behind the Scenes in French Journalism”, describing the organization of World War 1 propaganda in France. Did US Secretary of State John Kerry ask you before he delivered an al... more »

Common Core As “Technologically Necessary”: A Looming Shift In Sales Pitch?

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The term Common Core is so negatively charged that Common Core State Standards (CCSS) proponents are trying their hardest to ditch the term– not ditch CCSS– just the term. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee suggested that states “rebrand” the CCSS product– give it a shiny new name in order to fool the public into thinking its gone. In my […]

Fat Cats and Suck-Ups

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
The headline in the so-called Progressive Congressional Caucus's latest budget proposal tells the whole sordid, regressive story: 8.8 MILLION JOBS BY 2017 $4 TRILLION IN DEFICIT REDUCTION Austerity is dead, and income inequality has been proclaimed as the defining challenge of our time. So long live.... *Deficit Reduction? * Somebody hasn't been reading their Paul Krugman, who rightly observes that it's stupid to worry about deficit reduction during economic downturns. Somebody didn't get the message that the Fix the Debt cult of billionaire deficit hawks just turned diseased tai... more »

7 Things Anti-Interventionists Forgot to Tell Putin

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
It’s good advice, says Robert Tracinski, only the people who need it aren’t listening. ‘This is the fundamental naivetĂ© of the anti-interventionists. They offer excellent advice, just not to the people who need it. You might call this the paradox of pacifism: the reasonable counsels of peace find their most eager audience among those who least need to hear them, while being ignored by the fanatics and strongmen who actually drive most of the world’s conflicts. So all of this advice just ends up restraining the good guys and letting the bad guys run wild—until we are forced into a... more »

Crimea: Massive turnout/votes overwhelmingly in favour of joining Russia

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
With a turnout the western governments could only dream of. The turn out does indeed make legitimate the decision. I believe the last election in Canada saw about 50 percent turn out? Unsure of the US? Making the government, at least in Canada, quite illegitimate in their claims of representing the people of Canada. *Early Count Shows 95 Percent of Crimea Voters Want to Be Russian* With fifty percent of the ballots counted, an overwhelming 95.5 percent of voters in Crimea are in favor of joining Russia, a preliminary tally indicated Sunday. Only 3.5 percent voted to remain part of Uk... more »

Common Core = “College Ready” ?

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
From New York parent Loy Gross: Why do we need Common Core? Experts tell us it will make kids “college and career ready.” And let me add, potatoes don’t have wings because my bicycle is a 10-speed. Out of those two statements, only one has a measure of truth. Potatoes don’t have wings. And my […]

Ebstein's Anomaly

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day ago
Marc--February, 2014 (Photo by John Carroll)

QUOTE OF THE DAY: On the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*“Baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don’t create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.”* - Charles Bukowski, from his 1992 poem “Air and Light and Time and Space,” which cartoonist Zen Pencils has creatively adapted for comic book. Probably while working 16-hour days in a coal mine. UPDATE: Scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov makes a similar point less poetically: “I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters in three segments, all at once, though they were to be run on three separate days. In between... more »

While World Attention Stays Focused On Ukraine: Remembering Rachel Corrie, Murdered 11 Years Ago Today By The Criminal State Of Israel

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
Yes, the world is still indeed focused squarely on the nation of Ukraine that of course saw a US led coup against its democratically elected government earlier this year. And there is of course the very important referendum today where the results of the vote have just come in and the proud people of Crimea have voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation. Things may go from bad to worse this coming week as the US criminal regime has stated that they will not honor the rights of the Crimean people and will reject this legal referendum results... Th... more »

HC Unit Theory - first post of 2014 - 12 into 20 will it go?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
so, for those, like me, who've been a) trying to keep up with HC Unit ideas and b) make cogent sense of them, here's another enigmatic entry for discussion. We already know that HC3 i.e. three HC Units out of phase by 90 degrees, are the building block of all atoms. HC1 is hydrogen, alternating through 0+0- cycles. HC4 is helium, no net (charge) output, all curves complimented. HC12 is carbon. Now, remember how Carbon is made of four groups of HC3 (I've highlighted them within the 'grey mass'. The next Nobel gas up from Carbon is Neon, that's HC20. So, by having to squeeze a ... more »

Chris Hedges,“Welcome to Satan’s Ball”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Welcome to Satan’s Ball”* by Chris Hedges “Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita,” a bitter satire of Soviet life at the height of Stalin’s purges, captured the surrealist experience of living in a brutal totalitarianism. In the novel’s world, lies are considered true and truth is considered seditious. Existence is a dark carnival of opportunism, unchecked state power, hedonism and terrorism. It is peopled with omnipotent secret police, wholesale spying and surveillance, show trials, censorship, mass arrests, summary executions and disappearances, along with famines, gulag... more »

George Osborne's Political Vision

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
The Budget affords ambitious chancellors the chance to shine. Thus goes the common sense of the observers of Westminster's murky intrigues. If true, might one expect fiscal pyrotechnics at the despatch box this week as George Osborne delivers his speech? After all, this is the long lead-in to a contest the Tories are widely expected to lose. If this most likely scenario comes to pass and the front bench assumes seats on the other side of the house post-2015 (hopefully for a very long time), might we expect some post-Dave positioning this Wednesday from the present Second Lord of th... more »

NATO's killers in Syria: Will Trade Golan in exchange for no fly zone enforcement

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Can it be anymore clear that the 'opposition' is not Syrian? Not that I need to remind regular readers here. Can it be anymore clear that the so called opposition has been supported by, cooperated with and continues to collude with Israel. Israel is not afraid of Islamists for the simple reason they are on the same team. That fact is abundantly clear! *Haaretz- Syrian Opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli Military support* Top opposition official tells Al Arab newspaper militant groups want Israel to enforce a no-fly zone. The Syrian opposition is willing to give up... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

R.E., Americans and the Pope, David Cameron's Jewish ancestry, Tony Benn, a Catholic prize winner, & Francis and Justin

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
This week's *Sunday*. 1. *R.E.* *Religious education can reduce religious misunderstanding and conflict according to a new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on RE. Edward Stourton talks to Stephen Lloyd MP and former counter terrorism minister Hazel Blears.* This opening segment returned to a topic first discussed on *Sunday* a couple of weeks ago, when the programme featured a very one-sided report about the effect government bursary cuts might have on RE knowledge. That report consisted of campaigners from *only* one side of the argument (the side critical of Michae... more »

Lost in the supermarket

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
The clash identified the problem perfectly. But now that has become a kind of wage slavery. Yes we will pay whatever it cost to monopolies to those companies that own democracy.

While the Crimea referendum has become a controversy , why haven't referendums in the Venetian Republic , Kosovo , South Sudan , Scotland , Catalonia and the Falklands not only have not been fiercely opposed by the West including the US - in certain situations , they have been supported ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
​‘Serene’ referendum: Italian region votes on restoration of Venetian Republic Published time: March 16, 2014 10:32 Edited time: March 16, 2014 16:00 Get short URL [image: Reuters / Manuel Silvestri] Reuters / Manuel Silvestri Share on tumblr Tags EU, Human rights, Politics, Protest As Crimeans make their way to the polls this Sunday, another region further in the heart of Europe is also deciding its fate in a referendum: the Italian region of Veneto, which is voting on whether to break with Rome. The independence movement insists the industrial northern region’s wealth is being draine... more »

Censored News March 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Here's some of our top articles, and original articles, during March 2014! Indigenous Resistance Lakota Allies Gather to Stand Sacred Ground Bahe of Big Mountain: Gradual Resurgence of Land Based Resistance Klee Benally on Democracy Now: Uranium mining and genocide Border Militarization on Democracy Now: Alex Soto and Klee Benally Leonard Peltier denied medication in prison Robert Free:

Provocateur McCain Returns to Kiev

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Senator John McCain, the man whose adoration by the US state-corporate media is second only to his proclivity to turn up as an agitator in whichever country happens to be the next stop on the neocon PNAC world domination tour has showed up in Kiev again this weekend. With the massively over-hyped imminent Russian invasion only hours away according to US and western propaganda organs - because Putin is just like Hitler you know - the pathological media whore is hellbent on working the crowds after the western backed coup d'etat that ousted democratically elected leader Viktor Yanuk... more »

If the law don't get you, your regulatory body will

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
What fuckery is this? From BC. Women’s health clinics, health authorities and the Opposition NDP are lining up to criticize new fees that could lead to service cuts at community abortion clinics. Two Metro Vancouver women’s centres and one Vancouver Island clinic are facing 400 per cent increases to regulatory fees charged by the College of Physicians and Surgeons this year, which equate to an almost $9,000 bill this year. The College had raised these fees to other clinics a few years ago but granted the women's centres a reprieve. Now suddenly and summarily ended. The college i... more »

Mike Duffy in his defence

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Living With Water * *Why The Prison Capital Of The World Should Legalize Marijuana ~CenLamar* *Marigny Murder: Shooting at Iggy's Bar ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Jackie Clarkson loses District C race, announces she will become honorary consul general to Lithuania ~Kevin Allman, Gambit *

To our bosses and our bosses’ bosses, the #edreform hiearchy

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
First, a vocabulary lesson. To the left, the simple Google definition of the word “priority.” It would seem as if thought and policy leaders in many school systems, particularly those in tenuous political climates, try to put schools in low-income communities of color in a position of “priority.” That is, divert the most resources to […]

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 16th, 2014

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
[image: rant-jpeg-b] I am back... This sinus infection/cold combination definitely took longer than I had anticipated to clear up. I decided that I was not going to push myself the last few days and just do the right thing by getting plenty of rest, liquids, etc. That also meant not spending much time on the computer. I know that I missed a lot of things going on in the world and I spent much of last night catching up.... Hopefully I can have much of that covered in this rant, so bear with me... I see things still running red hot in the Ukraine right now, with so much talk in t... more »

Siberian Scientists playing God ? EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth ..... what could go wrong and wasn't there a movie along these lines called Jurassic Park ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/exclusive-siberian-scientists-announce-they-now-have-a-high-chance-to-clone-the-extinct-woolly-mammoth/ EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth By Anna Liesowska 13 March 2014 Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team. 'We must have a reason to clone, as it is one thing to do it for scientific purpose, and another - to clone for the sake of curiosity'. Picture: Nikolay Pschennikov, North-Eastern Federal Universtity ... more »

The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer. via The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Bias in Newsnight's recruitment policy

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
There's an interesting exchange at *Biased BBC*, in the light of *Newsnight*'s appointment of the TUC's chief economist to be its new Economics Editor, which has got me thinking. Here's that exchange in a nutshell: *Guest Who*: Most people prefer to be totally unaware of what the politics of their bringers of information and education are because their professional efforts are objective. The BBC does however rather seem to fish from one, very limited, noisy pond, and seems content to reap what it flaunts. *Dunc*: The point surely is not to employ someone who is objective, but t... more »

Riding the Hills of Miaoli

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
[image: IMG_3340] *Drew rests on the climb on the 52-3.* Helluva a ride this Saturday as Drew and I banged around the hills of Miaoli, and came home banged up but happy. This ride took us on one of my favorite local roads, Pinglin Road out of Jhuolan in Miaoli. From Pinglin Road, we took the Miaoli 54 back to the 3. Once we reached the 3, we turned south and took the 52-3 along the northwest side of the Liyu Reservoir. Brutal hills, but lovely views. Only about 85 kms round trip from Taichung, but well over 1000 meters of climbing.... click that READ MORE link below.... *Route ma... more »

Sabotaging Environment Canada

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
Minister of the Environment Leona Aglukkaq recently released a report setting forth her ministry's priorities. They are: "conservation and restoration of landscapes, water and wildlife; information on changing weather patterns and minimizing threats from pollution." These priorities are supposedly part of an overall plan to provide "a clean, safe and sustainable environment while supporting economic prosperity." But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, funding for the ministry is being slashed. As usual, the Harper government's rhetoric doesn't match its deeds: For priority one, Environment... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 1 day ago
*Growing evidence that autism is linked to pollution* *The journal article is: *Environmental and State-Level Regulatory Factors Affect the Incidence of Autism and Intellectual Disability" *. What they in fact found was a correlation between the rate of congenital malformations of the reproductive system and autism. They claimed that the rate of congenital malformations of the reproductive system is a surrogate for environmental exposure to pollution. That is drawing a long bow indeed. Pollution may be one cause of malformations but it is not even clear that it is the main ca... more »

War Watch March 15 , 2014 -- Syria -- We now see that an Al-Qaeda Faction ( Al Qaeda in Iraq aka A Q I ) Attacks Israel at Border with Lebanon Israel Shells Hezbollah Targets 'in Retaliation' , Al-Qaeda Faction Leaves Northwest Syrian Provinces Forces Are Shoring Up Defenses Amid Threats From Rival Rebels , Fresh From Syria, Saudi Militants Head to Yemen to Fight for al-Qaeda AQAP Sees Influx of Seasoned Fighters ........ Pakistan -- Drone strikes down in Pakistan but spike in Afghanistan , 19 Killed in Bombings as Pakistani Taliban Splinter Group Threatens Talks TTP Blasts Faction for 'Conspiracy' to Derail Talks ...... Turkey -- Corruption scandals , media intimidation efforts update and additional PM Erdogan antic updates !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Syria......... Al-Qaeda Faction Attacks Israel at Border with LebanonIsrael Shells Hezbollah Targets 'in Retaliation' by Jason Ditz, March 14, 2014 Print This | Share This Israeli troops shelled several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon today, nominally in retaliation for a bombing attack against troops along the border. It was soon apparent, however, that Hezbollah was not to blame. Rather, it was al-Qaeda in Iraq(AQI), the splinter faction which controls territory across northern Syria and Iraq, which claimed credit for the strike. The bomb hit an Israeli military convoy, thoug... more »

Council of Islamic Ideology declares women's existence anti-Islamic | Pakistan Today

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
I had to read this article twice in case it was a parody. Maybe it is because otherwise it's truly horrific. 'Islamabad - Sharia Correspondent: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah. As the meeting concluded CII Chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Shirani noted that women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as soon as possible. The announcement comes a cou... more »

West to Punish Crimea for Fleeing Regime in Kiev

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
[image: band-eu-ctj71081-600x338]*March 16, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Indicative of the West’s true stance on democracy, Reuters reported in its article, “Kerry warns U.S., Europe ready to act if Crimea referendum held,” that: *The United States and the European Union will take serious steps against Russia if a referendum on Ukraine’s Crimea region goes ahead as planned on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday.* Bloomberg News would add that the US and EU planned to “exact an economic toll” if the referendum went ahead – in other words the emplacement of... more »

Ukraine’s Crimea goes to independence poll on March 16 , 2014 -- A crucial referendum on either becoming an integral part of Russia or staying within Ukraine on conditions of wide autonomy has kicked off in the Republic of Crimea despite international condemnation and pressure from Kiev...... And then we shall see what happens after the Referendum !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://rt.com/news/crimea-independence-referendum-poll-110/ A crucial referendum on either becoming an integral part of Russia or staying within Ukraine on conditions of wide autonomy has kicked off in the Republic of Crimea despite international condemnation and pressure from Kiev. PaulaSlier_RT @*PaulaSlier_RT* Follow Cold and raining in #*Simferopol* but voting going smoothly and people turning up at polling booths #*Crimea* #*Crimeareferendum* 4:30 AM - 16 Mar 2014 The polling stations of 27 regional Crimea election commissions are going to be open all day long, starting from 8a... more »

War watch March 14 , 2014 --- Turkey has more than 2 millions citizens march in protest upon the death of 15 year Berkin Elvan - 417 arrested and claims of disproportionate force raised , First indictment in Turkey's graft probe sent to deputy chief prosecutor , Economy Minister insists Turkey’s ‘economic success’ target of graft allegations , Funeral of young man killed in sidelines of Berkin Elvan protests cause tension in sensitive area ........ Syria -- Syrian Islamists: 94 Hostages Held Since August Available for ‘Swap’ Will Trade Them for 2,000 Detainees ....... Iraq death dealing and sectarian fighting continues unabated ....... Afghanistan news items of note

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Turkey...... Two million marched, 417 arrested during Berkin Elvan protests as ‘disproportionate force’ probed Fevzi KIZILKOYUNHĂśRRÄ°YET / ANKARA Print PageSend to friend » - - - - - Share [image: Thousands of people attend the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12. AFP photo] Thousands of people attend the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12. AFP p... more »

Does the British 'Justice' system want the Islamist terrorists to win?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Read the whole of this Mail article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581477/Terrorist-freed-jail-early-plotting-blow-transatlantic-planes-caught-trying-Syria.htmland despair at the stupidity of the British justice system. ' A terrorist freed early from jail after plotting to blow up transatlantic planes has admitted trying to sneak out of Britain on a fake passport. Nabeel Hussain, 30, who was convicted in 2009 for his part in a suicide mission to blow up seven passenger jets with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks, was arrested at Stansted on September 23 as he trie... more »

Day 9 of the Malaysia Airline Flight 370 Mystery - Open questions remain . 1) How could a passenger jet, 74 metres long and with a 61-metre wingspan, apparently disappear for six hours before anyone raised the alarm ? 2) how could it cross the airspace of multiple countries in a region sensitive about security without anyone noticing ? 3) When the inspector general of Malaysian police announced that his officers were looking at several possible causes of the disappearance: hijacking, sabotage, or the crew and passengers' personal or psychological problems , were all crew and passengers cleared ? 4) whether the communication systems systems were shut off before or after air traffic control last spoke to the pilots. The calm "Goodnight" from the cockpit clearly raises questions if the systems had already been disabled. 5) Significant navigational experience as well as flight knowledge ( the timing of the diversion is also striking: just as the responsibility of Malaysia's air traffic control officials gave way to Vietnam's. The perfect opportunity for the plane to go missing with minimal attention ) , so if the pilot and co-pilot were not involved , who one the plane had such knowledge ? 6) Which leads to the basic question - what is the motive for this hi-jack ? 7) If this was a kidnapping , who is / are the target(s) and why not attempt to contact anyone to date , no ransom demand to date ? 8) If this was piracy - what was the booty - perhaps Malaysia Airlines will clarify what cargo ( from an one individual worth more than 500 , 000 or any one company worth more than a million dollars was carried in freight ? 9) If an act of terror , why no explosion evidence a week later , despite using the sophisticated techniques available today - and no debris found after a week or jet fuel observed ? Moreover , no one has claimed this event creditably to date 10 ) Have all military and civilian airbases within the flight range ( see visual aids section ) confirmed no observations of Flight 370 on either military or civilian radar or other communication systems and does that include Diego Garcia ? Will they make their communication data available to investigators ? Would such bases allow investigators access to clear each base as being a harbor / hiding place for the missing plane ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-16/malaysian-airlines-flight-370-complete-timeline-and-infographic Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: The Complete Timeline And Infographic [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/16/2014 11:14 -0400 - Australia - Boeing - China - Fail - France - Hong Kong - India - Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Yuan inShare With Malaysian authorities frustrated (and seemingly confused), and US and Chinese government offering "help" to solve this increasingly mysterious disa... more »

A Fascinating article I found online about what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
I'm not saying it's true, just fascinating... http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/20dopw/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/cg2uht6

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*HAPPY ST. PAT'S DAY NEW ORLEANS!*

Free Planet - first ever LIVE remote viewing session.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
this term 'remote viewing' it's been applied to all sorts of military WAR WORLD Covert Operative abilities and assets. Personally, it sounds like the equivalent of Day Dreaming, to me; just letting one's mind wander and writing down shit. So, I was doing something else. Reading some blog/website/forum, and I got this 'message' come through. Not a words and pictures message, just a 'feeling'. The back-right of my head started to tingle, like I was being asked to do this experiment right now. So, *anything for a laugh*, based on this 'feeling' and the insistent back-right head-buzz,... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*No warmer now than it was in 2003* *And other differences are microscopic when expressed as percentages of degrees Kelvin* No warming. That is what can be deduced from data compiled by NASA as it relates to temperature over the past decade. The average temperature in 2003 was 14.61 degrees Celsius. And the average temperature in 2013 was 14.61 degrees Celsius, at a growth rate of 0 percent. Yet, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by more than 5.5 percent, from 375.77 parts per million (ppm) to 396.48 ppm, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA... more »
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