Wednesday, March 26, 2014

26 Mar - Blogs I'm Following

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Sashko Bily Murdered: Night of the Long Knives Begins in Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 3 minutes ago
Oleksandr Muzychko aka Sashko Bily of the extremist Right Sector group that was instrumental in backing the US backed coup d’etat in Kiev was shot dead by police yesterday. Has the Night of the Long Knives arrived? Has “Yats” been given the order to clean up his unelected regime to make the country safe for corporate plunder? There are conflicting stories about the killing of Muzychnko, one being that the brutal thug was gunned down while trying to escape what is officially described as a "special forces operation" that took place at a cafe in the city of Rivne in western Ukraine.... more »

Max Clifford's penis (NSFW)

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 minutes ago
I never thought that I'd write a piece with that heading! Max Clifford's trial was previously told that women had claimed that Max Clifford had claimed to have only a 'tiny' penis. Today I read that '"His doctor has recently measured his penis. "When flaccid, it is five and a quarter inches long - certainly not freakishly small, certainly not enormous" Five and a quarter inches flaccid? Wikipedia (don't visit this page if pictures of penises would upset you) reveals that: 'One study found the mean flaccid penis length to be 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) (measured by staff).[5] A review of se... more »

The Washington mudslide - who's to blame?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 46 minutes ago
Earlier today I posted this piece and promised to reveal who's to blame for the deaths and destruction... Please note that that is Anjem Choudary's view, not mine. I have asked Anjem Choudary this I have not had a response from Anjem Choudary.

WE CALL IT DEMOCRACY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 47 minutes ago
Most folks don't pay much attention to politics anymore. They've given up, they are depressed (financially and emotionally), likely on meds, and long ago determined that it was a waste of time to fight city hall.....let alone the feds. But they do care, worry about things, and some of them even mouth off at work or in the local bar. People are indeed agitated. Years ago (god why didn't I save the link?) I found a story that reported the oil-i-garchy's strategy was to make politics so dirty, so ugly, and so dominated by big *$$$$*, that the public would not go near it thus giving... more »

You Know What They Say About Old Dogs And New Tricks-- Meet Crooked Conservative, Ro Khanna

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 55 minutes ago
Republicans know they will never win the CA-17 congressional seat. It's way too educated, way too blue for them, D+20. So wealthy GOP plutocrats are bankrolling a sleazy, conservative fake Democrat, Ro Khanna to run against beloved progressive icon Mike Honda. It won't work any more than Khanna's past ridiculous races against Democrats Tom Lantos and Pete Stark. Khanna doesn't care what district he represents, just as long as he can get into Congress and push his Austerity agenda and the elitist programs his Republican donors love. Yesterday Khanna released his first TV ad, financ... more »

My Rottweiler, Shiraz, Loves to Sing with the Happy Song, by Pharrell. She sings every time it comes on. Video.

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 hour ago
My rottweiler, Shiraz who we got two months ago from the animal shelter, loves to sing the Happy Song. This is the only song she does this to. Every time it comes on, she begins singing. Enjoy and to put a smile on your face!

The Indignant Teachers Message to Her Massachusetts Colleagues About PARCC

jillconroy at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
http://theindignantteacher.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/a-letter-to-my-massachusetts-colleagues/Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face

The Best Reason Yet to Boycott Amazon

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 hours ago
- Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to *Kipp Foundation* whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. - AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. - Support your charitable organization by starting your shopping at *smile.amazon.com.*

Markets in Everything

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 2 hours ago
If there ever was a niche product, this is it.

Snow Blind: “Trapped in the Amber of This Moment”

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Snow Blind: “Trapped in the Amber of This Moment”. via Snow Blind: “Trapped in the Amber of This Moment”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Minor touching to de escalate a situation not assault

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
In *Reid*, [2004] O.J. No. 1641 (C.J.), the accused was acquitted on the charge of assault causing bodily harm where she took hold of the complainant's arm in the course of stepping outside of a residence to discuss a contentious matter with her, and the complainant fell down the stairs and broke her arm. The court, applying *Wolfe *(1974), 20 C.C.C.(2d) 382 (Ont.C.A.), found that the accused applied force as a "directional aid" and did not intend to or commit an act of assault. In *Johnson* (Oct. 2, 2000), 48 W.C.B.(2d) 46 (Sask.Prov.Ct.), the accused was acquitted of assault where... more »

A Conversation with Sven of Fascovereign Weltanschauung

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 2 hours ago
From The Daily Stormer: ''Sven Longshanks, writer and assignment editor of the Race War and British news sections of the *Daily Stormer*, herein interviews Rufus of News From Atlantis. Rufus has had several featured articles on the *Daily Stormer*, and has been working in the Nationalist cause online for 7 years now. He is based in the North of Britain, and has seen his area change from being 100% White to a surreal science fiction world where one never hears a word of English spoken on the street. The two old-fashioned Englishmen discuss the menacing behavior of the invading ho... more »

David Coleman and Jeb Bush Don't "Give a Shit" about Your Child's Feelings, Thoughts, or Self-Esteem

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
In 2011, the über-prissy Architekt of the Common Core Standards, David Coleman, had this to say at a State gathering in New York, where Coleman explained why teenagers' written reactions to *Cather in the Rye* were about to be discontinued in favor of explicating Samsung installation manuals (my bolds): Do people know the two most popular forms of writing in the American high school today? Texting, someone said, but I don't think that's for credit though yet. But I would say that as someone said, it is personal writing. It is either the exposition of a personal opinion or it the... more »

TEACH THE JOURNALISTS WELL: Easy listening!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014* *Part 3—Cue the familiar old tripe:* We were struck by a familiar pattern in Motoko Rich’s report. Rich was reporting new data from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Given the source, her headline was unsurprising: “School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines” Needless to say, there are many “patterns of inequality along racial lines” found in our public schools. In most cases, the difficulty begins when you try to explain them. Early in her report, Rich presented her first three examples of inequality. Or at least, sh... more »

Musings On Iraq Security Report Mar 15-21, 2014

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 3 hours ago
--> After a slight dip in operations the Iraqi insurgency camp back with a vengeance in the third week of March 2014. While the total number of attacks was within the range of previous weeks of 2014, the casualties were the highest of the year so far. This was largely the result of a large number of car bombings by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which are used in mass casualty attacks. The number of reported attacks in the third week of March was only a few more than the previous week but the resulting deaths and wounded were the highest of the year. The press r... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Plaquemines residents alarmed as levee project sits unfinished ~WWLTV* *Residents say streetscape project is bad timing ahead of Jazz Fest ~Tania Dall * *Payton explains thinking on Sproles trade ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *Festival season brings increase in illegal rentals ~Carlyn Scofield, WVUE* *Fair Grounds supporters say track facing hard times ~New Orleans Advocate* *Dream Chaser to breathe new life into Michoud ~Chris Bergin, NASASpaceflight.com* *Historic New Orleans Collection Honors the Boswell Sisters in a New Exhibit ~offBeat*

Has The Revolt Begun?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
It's beginning to look, Lawrence Martin writes, like the revolt has begun: Last week, the Supreme Court offered a declaration of its independence, reminding the Prime Minister that its power is constitutionally entrenched, not subject to his whims or arrogance. In pushing a highly controversial choice on the court, the PM tried to retroactively rewrite the rules via one of his much-criticized omnibus bills. The court’s stinging rebuke was applauded by pundits and editorialists across the land. Criticism of the Fair Elections Act has become international: The so-called Fair Elec... more »

Missing Planes & Mud-Slides

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
I don't watch television news. But I was out and about yesterday and CNN was on the television. They spent about ten minutes (at least) on speculation about the missing Malaysian aircraft. Then they spent three minutes talking about the mud-slide in, I forget, ... Washington State? These are important stories, but if I was in charge of a news channel, I would give the each about one-minute, maybe two-minutes, tops. Because their impact on people's lives is not widespread. But this is CNN we're talking about. Pro-corporate, US-American propaganda. Were they to move on to more relevan... more »

Sorrow or better fear of several "details"

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours ago
*By Václav Klaus, Czech ex-president* While it's true that we're confronted with "details" of this kind on an almost daily basis, sometimes an excessively high amount of them accumulates. From this perspective, the beginning of the last week of March 2014 was extraordinary. In our country [Czechia], a terrifying report about the 529 death penalties in Egypt was almost ignored. In other, analogous situations, the politically correct media may bend over backwards to highlight one such verdict but these days, they see it as a minor event. Why? Is it a symptom of their bad conscienc... more »

A Few Facts (ahem) about John Tory

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours ago
Most people who've been around for a while know this one. Watch for young sprog Tory starting about 2:19. Ending with Kim Campbell and we know how her campaign went. Here's Wiki: The decision to launch the ads was taken mainly by PC campaign director John Tory along with Allan Gregg. . . Arguably, the modern age of vicious attack ads was launched with that beaut. Now, courtesy of a John Tory parody account, two stories you may not know (I didn't). The Missing Years in John Tory's Resume, aka The Cable Guy. From 2001 until 2009 John Tory was a director of Charter Communicatio... more »

End Of The Quarter Blues

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Blues in a good way though. We don't like making a big fuss about these arbitrary reporting quarters, as though they have any kind of intrinsic value. It's just a Beltway subterfuge Blue America prefers to ignore. Except not this quarter. We're embracing it. Yesterday we announced a fun little "contest." The Blue America PAC, we decided, would give a thousand dollar check to whichever progressive House candidate-- they're all here-- motivates the most supporters to contribute to their campaign by 6AM (PT) tomorrow. Actually, Jacquie just made me alter the rules slightly. Instead o... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 5 hours ago
*Drink tequila, lose weight? How sugars found in the Mexican spirit have 'tremendous' potential to fight obesity* *If you are a mouse* The sugar that gives tequila its kick could also help us stay slim. Researchers say the plant sugars that are fermented to create the Mexican spirit hold ‘tremendous’ potential in the battle of the bulge. Tests show the sugars from the cactus-like agave plant (which are not the same as in the more commonly known agave syrup) raise levels of a gut hormone that tells the brain it is time to stop eating. The hormone also keeps food the stomach for l... more »

BLOWBACK BEGINS IN UKRAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
Notorious Ukrainian right-wing militant leader Aleksandr Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bilyi, has been shot dead during a police raid against his gang, confirmed Ukraine's Ministry of Interior. Neil Clark, a UK-based journalist and broadcaster who's been covering the events in Ukraine extensively, explained why allegations that the Right Sector activist was assassinated make perfect sense.

QEG OPEN SOURCED

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/qeg-open-sourced/ *QEG OPEN SOURCED* As Promised, here are the open sourced documents for a quantum energy generator. This has been made possible by the people and for the people. It is freely given to the world. CLICK HERE FOR QEG OPEN SOURCE DOCUMENTS An average modern household requires 5-10KW of power to operate. A conventional generator needs 15KW to produce 10KW of power. To produce these 15KW of power we rely on gas, diesel, propane, coal or other products that can be metered creating profits for the oil industry. 130 years a... more »

Laurie Hawn does Brad Butt

Alison at Creekside - 5 hours ago
In the House on Monday, Con MP Laurie Hawn's memory appears to have picked up where Brad Butt's left off, repeating Butt's earlier allegations - later retracted - about voter information cards being picked up from apartment building lobbies for fraudulent voting purposes. Hawn, as per my vid excerpt above : "In the 2006 election, I was called personally and offered hundreds of voter cards that had been left in apartment buildings and so on. Like an idiot, I said, “No, we don't do that sort of thing”. I should have said, “Yes, come on down”, and had the police waiting." But accord... more »

A Breath of Fresh Air from Denver

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 5 hours ago
Denver will be hosting this year's United Opt Out event in a few weeks. This event was held on the front steps of the Department of Education building in Washington, DC for the past two years. I am an employed social studies and history teacher now for 6th grade and a lot has changed in two years. Finding a public school that is not suffering under the current policies is extremely difficult. However, the situation is unsustainable and the voices from all walks of life and society are getting louder. People are breaking free from the chains of NCLB and the cages of Common Core run ... more »

Turkey Updates ( Twitter block , Police brutality , Local Elections and alleged intimidation in focus ) - March 26 , 2014 -- A 10-year-old child was seriously injured during a protest in the southeastern province of Diyarbakıron March 25 after he was allegedly hit by a tear-gas canister fired by police....... An Ankara administrative court has issued a stay of execution on an executive decision adopted by Turkey’s telecommunication’s authority (TİB) to block access to Twitter, as the ban entered its sixth day on March 26. ...... Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has maintained that Sudan, governed by President Omar al-Bashir, would be an appropriate place for exile for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the March 30 local elections....... More than 100 armed provocateurs have been brought to Turkey’s capital for the purpose of sabotaging the upcoming elections, the main opposition party’s mayoral candidate for Ankara has said, citing key bodies of the state as sources for the information.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Another child injured during police intervention DİYARBAKIR - ISTANBUL Print PageSend to friend » - - - - - Share [image: Mehmet Ezer receives treatment after becoming the latest child to be struck in the head by a police tear-gas canister.] Mehmet Ezer receives treatment after becoming the latest child to be struck in the head by a police tear-gas canister. A 10-year-old child was seriously injured during a protest in the southeastern province of Diyarbakıron March 25 after he was allegedly hit by a tear-gas canister fired by police. After the Peace and Democrac... more »

“The Creeping Theft of Freedom”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*“The Creeping Theft of Freedom”* By Chris Tell “We're quickly heading into the abyss. I'm serious. I offer the story you'll read below as a mere anecdote in a sea of troubles. On return from a recent trip to Sri Lanka Mark and I traveled through Australia. Proceeding through the cattle stop that is “customs” we then met with the "security screeners". These are the folks allegedly protecting us from attackers armed with nail clippers and toothpaste. The first thing we saw was a giant sign that said refusing to undergo a body scan would result in detention. Mark, seeing this and ha... more »

Gold

Paul Coker at News Spike - 5 hours ago
"Me Gold! " "You only got away because me powers are weak! I NEED ME GOLD! " Webster Tarpley, Impersonating Ron Paul (No, really.) Note how gold flows into New York, but has difficulty flowing out of US private banking hands as isthe case with the ‘confiscation’ of Germany’s gold. Numerous attempts by *Bundesbank* to repatriate its gold reserves have been met with a brick wall, and to date, Germany has only recovered a miniscule 5 tonnes directly from the NY Fed – out of the total 674 tonnes (an additional 32 tonnes were recovered via French central bank). It’s worth pointing ou... more »

Obamacare Updates March 26 , 2014 -- The Obama administration will grant an extension to people who say they are unable to enroll in the new healthcare program by next Monday's deadline, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, quoting federal officials....... Supreme Court hears arguments on contraception coverage ( Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods Specialties cases ) .... Democratic pollster warns Senate Dems on ObamaCare: Don’t defend it ( Run Forest , Run ! )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
HEALTH OBAMATOEXTENDHEALTHCARESIGN-UPDEADLINE ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES Anyone who started to enroll but isn't finished by Monday will get an extension, federal officials said Tuesday March 25, 2014 10:57PM ET The Obama administration will grant an extension to people who say they are unable to enroll in the new healthcare program by next Monday's deadline, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, quoting federal officials. The Post said people who started to apply for Obamacare coverage through the HealthCare.gov website but cannot finish March 31 would have until about th... more »

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report March 26 , 2014 - News , Data and Views touching on the precious metals ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/chinas-monthly-gold-imports-through-hong-kong-jump-30-to-109.2-tonnes-in-fe ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER There wasn't much in the way of price action in either Far or East or early London trading on their Tuesday. Gold was up a bit more than five bucks by 11:30 a.m. GMT in London. Then it got sold down a bit over ten bucks in the next hour, with the low of the day coming at 8:30 a.m. EDT in New York. The high tick in New York during the subsequent rally came at the London p.m. gold fix, which was 11 a.m. EDT, as London is still not on Brit... more »

Barack Obama foreign affairs Genius?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
Somehow I doubt that the Obama worshipping BBC will remember this tweet.

High Crimes and Hogwash

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 6 hours ago
President Barack Obama just did what he does best which is to piss down the backs of Americans and tell them that it is raining. Fresh off one hell of a week of his spree of smacking close associates of the newest "New Hitler" Vladimir Putin with sanctions, hyping the Russian military presence on the border of Ukraine as though were the Wehrmacht itself and for good measure kicking the Russians out of G8 our vainglorious leader shifted to the NSA. With much pomp and circumstance Obama has proposed ending the bulk collection of telephone data by the government with a yet to be expl... more »

Secret Space war XIII: Alien Partners tell Putin, “Don’t Worry, We’ve Got Your Back”

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 6 hours ago
[image: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/02/secret-space-war-xiii-alien-partners-tell-putin-dont-worry-weve-got-your-back/] by Preston JamesSunday, March 2nd, 2014 [image: aliens-nordic]* Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be walking with a prideful swagger in his step lately.* In spite of growing conflicts between Israel-driven-America and Russia over Syria, Iran and now the Ukraine, he appears unusually confident. *Other world leaders involved appear to be increasingly stressed out by these growing conflicts, but not President Putin.* What could be going on in the ba... more »

QEG OPEN SOURCE PLANS!!!!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago
Please share The QEG Open Source plans Everywhere- Post the blueprints EVERYWHERE!!!!! The more places the plans are openly listed/posted, the more we insure that they remain in the public domain, and are untampered with!!! http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/qeg-open-sourced/ QEG OPEN SOURCED [image: small QEG-HopeGirl-logo] As Promised, here are the open sourced documents for a quantum energy generator. This has been made possible by the people and for the people. It is freely given to the world. CLICK HERE FOR QEG OPEN SOURCE DOCUMENTS An average modern household r... more »

Verizon defends decision to offer incest and child themed porn on video-on-demand

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 6 hours ago
By Hollie McKay Published March 20, 2014 FoxNews.com [image: VERIZON video on demand.jpg] Verizon's FiOS TV programming is displayed at the Verizon booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 9, 2013.Reuters LOS ANGELES – Broadband and telecommunications giant Verizon is under fire for defending its decision to provide hard-core porn titles with child and incest themes. The company was included in the 2014 Dirty Dozen List of pornography’s leading facilitators, compiled by Morality in Media (MIM), a national organization that opposes pornog... more »

High-tech scans of Egyptian mummies reveal tattoo of Archangel Michael

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 7 hours ago
[image: Ancient Origins] [image: Egyptian mummies with tattoo of Archangel Michael] *24 March, 2014 aprilholloway * A team of scientists in London have carried out high-tech scanning on eight Egyptian mummies from the British Museum, uncovering fascinating information about them, including the revelation that one of the female mummies has a tattoo symbolising Archangel Michael on her inner thigh. The eight mummies lived during different eras and came from different walks of life, from royalty to citizens living along the Nile. One of the mummies was only around two years of ag... more »

dispatches from ola 2014, part 3: hip-hop programming in the library

laura k at wmtc - 7 hours ago
My final post about the OLA Super Conference sessions I attended saves the best for last. "Sub-Urban Beats: Hip-Hop Programming in the Library" thrilled me with possibilities. Even more exciting, it was co-presented by two librarians from the Mississauga Library System who are youth specialists, Erica Conly and James Dekens. They worked with Damon Pfaff, of the Now Creative Group and Marcel DaCosta, a street dancer, community artist, and arts educator whose performance name is Frost Flow. Frost Flow is part of the Mississauga hip-hop collective Ground Illusionz; you can see some of ... more »

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Updates March 25 , 2014 - Malaysia Chronicle slams Malaysia Government's competence and intentions -- ANOTHER BAD CALL BY 'INCOMPETENT' NAJIB: M'sia now suspected of SHADY CONSPIRACY with Inmarsat ....... Live Blog items of note ( The Guardian ) including the Daily Update from the Malaysian Transport Minister ( who takes shots at China in response to their criticism of Malaysian efforts ) , commentary on the latest developments of the day !

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Tuesday, 25 March 2014 19:14ANOTHER BAD CALL BY 'INCOMPETENT' NAJIB: M'sia now suspected of SHADY CONSPIRACY with Inmarsat - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Print - E-mail - Comments (0) Rate this item - - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 (0 votes) [image: ANOTHER BAD CALL BY 'INCOMPETENT' NAJIB: M'sia now suspected of SHADY CONSPIRACY with Inmarsat] The Malaysian government’s probe into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has set traditional rules for conducting major air-crash investigations on their head. In th... more »

Greek Government, And Bailout Deal, On Verge Of Collapse Due To Definition Of "Fresh Milk" ....... The multi-bill of reforms agreed with the troika last week is due to be tabled in Parliament on Friday, with the government still scrambling to find a compromise with MPs and dairy farmers who oppose the proposed lengthening of fresh milk’s shelf life from five to around 10 days because it is seen as helping cheaper imports at the expense of local producers.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-25/greek-government-and-bailout-deal-verge-collapse-due-definition-fresh-milk Greek Government, And Bailout Deal, On Verge Of Collapse Due To Definition Of "Fresh Milk" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2014 20:58 -0400 - Bond - European Union - Eurozone - Greece - Gross Domestic Product - headlines - International Monetary Fund - Reuters - Unemployment inShare3 The Greek economic collapse, depression and bankruptcy has seen many odd things in its brief and often tim... more »

There Is But One Way - A Quote from M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
*There is but one way and this is the way of love. Love of Man and love of God. Both are interwoven or interconnected. For the gift of Love is given freely to be given freely to those in need.* M.N. Hopkins

The Healing Power Of Passionflower by Susan Patterson

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
The Healing Power Of Passionflower by Susan Patterson Off The Grid News, 21 March 2014 Gardeners in warmer regions of the world have always enjoyed the beautiful flowers and exotic fruits of the passionflower vine. Those who could not grow it outdoors often reserved some space in their greenhouses for this tropical trailer. Now the medicinal value of passionflowers is getting more attention, and that’s an additional reason to include it in every garden. There are several varieties of passionflower in cultivation; some for their flowers of unmatched beauty, and others for the e... more »

Lucille Ball's Mind Control Fillings

Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago
As Lucy tells the story, the events took place in 1942, when she was filming Du Barry Was a Lady with Red Skelton at MGM, during the early days of American involvement in World War II, when residents along the Pacific coast of California lived in dread fear of an imminent attack by the Japanese (especially after a Japanese submarine appeared off the coast of Santa Barbara on February 23). Lucy had recently had several temporary lead fillings installed in her teeth, and when she drove home from MGM to the ranch she and Desi owned in the San Fernando Valley late one evening, this i... more »

Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Show Tonight and Amazon

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
I will be joining Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach radio show on Wednesday, March 26 from around 9:15 to 10:00 pm. I will be discussing my book, *Hoosier School Heist*, which is now available at Amazon and details the Walton Family, Jeb Bush, New York hedge fund managers, the DeVos family of Amway fame, plagiarists, and Republican campaign donors who run charter schools in Indiana, just to name a few. Please turn in, and call, if you want to. The call-in phone number is 260-355-5151. You can listen to the show at Indiana Talks here: http://www.indianatalks.com/ If the ... more »

BICEP2 string-theoretical winner: N-flation

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago
Last Tuesday, I discussed some of the winners and losers of the apparent discovery of the primordial gravitational waves. The first winner that I mentioned was Andrei Linde's "chaotic inflation" with the potential \(V=\frac 12 m^2 \phi^2\). It is extremely simple and it matches all the observations at this point. However, it is just an effective field theory, not a full-fledged compactification of string theory. What are the actual compactifications or scenarios in string theory that are winners? We will turn to this question later in this blog post. One point that I haven't suff... more »

BBC News - Washington mudslide death toll reaches 16

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
The disaster in Washington is getting relatively little news coverage because today's dumbed down news can usually only cope with one main story at a time. Here's the BBC's latest report http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26743714 I'll post later a tweet telling us who caused this disaster. You might be surprised...

The staggering reality of Jewish charity in America

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 10 hours ago
*The Jewish Daily Forward*, one of the oldest and most respected media outlets in the Jewish community in America, recently published *Part I* of a series of articles examining and analyzing the extremely powerful, influential and well-funded network of Jewish charities operating in the United States today. The information revealed is simply staggering, even for those of us knowledgeable and aware of organized Jewish power dominating American politics, media, finance and culture. *The Forward*reports: The American Jewish community’s network of charity organizations is a font of Jewi... more »

BILL GROSS

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
Bill Gross runs Pimco's $270.0 billion Total Return Fund. Reportedly, he earns $200m a year. Fund manager pay outstrips banks / Bill and his Grossly 'indefensible' salary In 2011 "he missed a rally in US Treasuries." In 2013 "he misjudged the timing and impact of the Fed’s plan to scale back its asset purchases." This "contributed to the biggest decline in almost two decades for his Total Return fund." Andrew Balls, the brother of Ed Balls of the U.K. opposition Labour Party, is head of European fund management at Pimco. Reportedly, Gross has Jewish roots. The Jews of Forbes ... more »

The Simple Path - A Guest Post by Paul Bucalo

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago
*The Simple Path* A simple series of thoughts inspired by an overwhelming view in the sky. The picture cannot do justice to the huge clouds and late afternoon sunshine that accentuated their boundaries, nor how close they were to me, as if to show how insignificant I was in the majestic scale of existence they held reign over. *Paul Bucalo* *Source:* *Paul's G+ Homepage*

Enbridge And Stephen Harper Can Shove The Pipeline Up Their Ass

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 11 hours ago
[image: ohio pipeline] Well well well, here we go again, a disastrous supertanker with barge collision oil spill on Sunday in Galveston bay Texas, and today, one day after the 25 year anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oiltanker grounding on Bligh reef in Prince William Sound another pipeline oil spill disaster, this one in a nature reserve in Southeast Ohio...... Sorry folks, another cut n past job....These stories need to be told to British Columbians, told to Stephen Harper, told to Enbridge... Oil spills are inevitable, this pipeline was just repaired and reopened, the pipeline c... more »

Contemporary Adaptations of Euripides' 'The Trojan Women'

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago
*An excerpt from, "Syrian refugees stage Euripides’ ‘The Trojan Women" by Charlotte Eagar, Financial Times, January 3, 2014:* *The Trojan Women* is about refugees, set at the fall of Troy. All the men are dead and the former Queen Hecuba of Troy, her daughter Cassandra and the rest of the women are waiting in a refugee camp to hear their fate. Euripides wrote the play in 415BC as an anti-war protest against the Athenians’ brutal capture of the neutral island of Melos; they slaughtered all the men and sold the women and children into slavery. We’ve spent the past month tracking dow... more »

How Many More Billions In Taxpayer Dollars Will The Military Industrial Complex Waste On Pakistan's Corrupt Oligarchy?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
Unless you read your *NY Times* in Pakistan, where the story was disappeared, you probably read about how the Pakistanis knew exactly where Osama bin-Laden was while they took billions of dollars in American aid and pretended to be looking for him. This wasn't really a secret, just another manifestation of the expensive dysfunction that the U.S. spy agencies have always been. Right from the beginning. Failure, failure, failure-- and billions and billions and unknowable billions of dollars wasted. The spy agencies aren't worth shit-- except for unconstitutional spying on American ... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Photos

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours ago
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 »

Presser with the Student Leaders

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
News Translation Taiwan Voice 2014/03/26 (Facebook) Press Conference with Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting It is often overheard that the student protesters (coming from the top universities in Taiwan) outmatch the Ma administration intellectually, but yet they are still portrayed as troublemakers. Here is a transcript of a press conference with two of the student leaders following the mayhem at the Executive Yuan that shows these students are thoughtful, smart, and resolute. Press Conference with Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting at 9:30 after President Ma’s press conference held on the m... more »

25 And In Transition

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 14 hours ago
I was tagged in a little Facebook meme by an old school mate and thought I'd do an extended post here. Essentially it's a trip down memory lane as I have to think back to when I was 25 and share a few things about my life then. As it turns out, it was a good age to be randomly assigned since that was a pretty big year in my life with many changes. At age 25 I had been living more or less on a permanent basis in Windsor, Ontario. I was finishing up my Bachelor of Education degree there. I had been a reservist with the Windsor Regiment for the past 18 months or so before moving aw... more »

BC NDP, Crossroads and Bitter Reflections

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 14 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* We need to talk a little bit more about Jenny Kwan, and in particularly why she must resign.. http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2014/03/jenny-kwan-have-nice-life-in-private.html The party, the NDP does not need this distraction, with Jenny kwan remaining in the NDP caucus it`s almost impossible for the party to criticize BC Liberal corruption and cronyism, to complain of taxpayer abuse, we appear hypocritical to say the least. I have battled NDP supporters online and on Twitter over the Kwan scandal, over and over again I hear the same refrain from t... more »

Alan Waldman : ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ is a fun, stylish mystery series set in 1928 Melbourne

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours ago
Delightful flapper detective Miss Phryne Fisher, wonderfully played by Essie Davis, makes this Aussie gem well worth your time. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | March 25, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his … finish reading Alan Waldman : ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ is a fun, stylish mystery series set in 1928 Melbourne

they own you !

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 15 hours ago

I am a diminutive monster of death and destruction.

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago
Stepping out of a shower using hot water from an electric heater, wearing clothes spun by a mechanical weaving mill, typing on a laptop manufactured in a complex assembly plant from components shipped around the world on large ocean-going vessels, publishing using a very complex electronic network of switches and routers, and relying on a complex set of computers and infrastructure made of resources obtained from and powered by petro-chemicals,* environmentalist George Monbiot declares in an article he hopes “will inject you with a venom” that human beings are *"diminutive monster... more »

Bitcoin and Crypotcoin news updates March 25 , 2014 .. h/t Coin Desk and Cryptocoin news --Internal Revenue Service to Treat Digital Currencies as Property for Tax Purposes ....... Zip Zap suspends BTC transactions ..... Auroracoin Airdrop: Will Iceland Embrace a National Digital Currency ..... Kraken Bitcoin Exchange Passes ‘Proof of Reserves’ Cryptographic Audit ..... Exchange Vircurex Freezes Withdrawals, Claims Lack of Reserves ..... ECB says Bitcoin is ‘economically insignificant’ ( Is that fear that I smell in the air from the ECB )

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Coin Desk items ....... Internal Revenue Service to Treat Digital Currencies as Property for Tax Purposes Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) | Published on March 25, 2014 at 18:32 GMT | *News, Regulation, US & Canada* inShare13 <div class="fb-like fb-share" style="background-image: url(http://www.coindesk.com/wp-content/themes/coindesk2/images/fb-share2.png?1ce0ed); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 59

What Common Core Looks Like In Desperation

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago
It seems that the protests of the American citizen against the so-called Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has become proverbial grains of sand in the works of the mammoth corporate reform machine. Die-hard supporters of CCSS are becoming desperate, and such is showing in their words and actions. Consider Jeb Bush’s declaration, “In Asia today, they […]

Turkey Vs. Syria: NATO’s Last Gasp?

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours ago
[image: geraphian20130603164902280]*March 26, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Tensions have risen once again along the Syrian-Tukrish border as Turkey downs a Syrian warplane and terrorists backed by Turkish troops storm across the border and down Syria’s western coast in Latakia province. Turkey’s renewed vigor appears to be in part a result of pressure placed on Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by US-backed mobs who have been taking to the streets for months seeking his ouster. Citing Reuters and AFP reports, RT’s article, “Turkey downs Syrian jet near border ‘for ai... more »

Alaska back to Russia- Petition

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours ago
* I kid you not!* * We the People @Whitehouse.gov* we petition the obama administration to:Alaska back to Russia. Groups Siberian russians crossed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago. Russian began to settle on the Arctic coast, Aleuts inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago. First visited Alaska August 21, 1732, members of the team boat "St. Gabriel »under the surveyor Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fedorov during the expedition Shestakov and DI Pavlutski 1729-1735 years Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia *Created:* Mar 21,... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 16 hours ago
*NEW BOOK "To Kill an Error" - A novel approach to Global Warming Scepticism* by Jed B van de Poll Kindle Price: US$6.68 "To Kill an Error" is a fictional account of the furore surrounding the 2010 accusations of data manipulation associated with the world's temperature record. While Al Gore's book 'An Inconvenient Truth' was a factual book based on fiction, 'To Kill an Error' is a fictional book based on fact. The story is a fast-paced thriller of corporate greed and intrigue on an international scale that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you learn some uncomfortable t... more »

It's press corps vs. press handlers (again!) -- plus a "Loop" contest update and reminder

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*by Ken* The lead item in today's *Washington Post* "In the Loop" column begins by referring back to "a recent play-by-play" by Politico's Dylan Byers, "illustrating the cat-and-mouse games the White House plays with the press," so I thought we would start with the Dylan Byers post, from last week, called "The most transparent administration, cont.": A quick look at how the sausage gets made, or doesn't... On Tuesday night, The New York Times reported that no reporters would be traveling with First Lady Michelle Obama to China, and that she would be giving no interviews while the... more »

In Denouncing Common Core, Ravitch Promotes National Standards

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
Even back to the days when Diane Ravitch was a trusted employee of the Bush I Administration, she was an advocate for voluntary national curriculum standards. She has continued to hold this position, even as her previous pro-corporate vices became untenable for anyone with intellectual aspirations or even a lick of integrity. She said in a New York Times op-ed in 2005 that "unfortunately, the political calculations that resulted in the No Child Left Behind law adopting a strategy of letting the states choose their own standards and tests remain the reality." Some things change, a... more »

Quote of the Day: On Milk…and More

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours ago
If I may simplify for a moment, when the Swiss want wheat they produce watches; when Japan wants oil they produce cars. The magic of international trade does the rest. Here in New Zealand, when we want Japanese cars, Swiss watches, Saudi oil and Chinese electronics goods we turn grass into milk. But think how much we take milk, and our friend the cow, for granted. Jeffrey Tucker reminds us: Humankind lived 6,000 without a reliable source for milk. Milk spoils. It must be transported before that happens. Before trains and refrigeration, you were pretty much out of luck, unless yo... more »

Spain in Focus ! First Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and Venice just voted to secede from Rome ....... A more important referendum looms in Spain with Catalonian ...... Spain is facing not just growing protests as dissatisfaction grows along with rampant unemployment - however a Catalan secession Referendum vote is coming to a head this Fall .......

Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
http://ragingbullshit.com/2014/03/21/jitters-rise-over-prospect-of-catalan-independence/ Jitters Mount Over Prospect of Catalonian Independence [image: images (4)]21/03/2014 by Don Quijones “*President, you are making a grave mistake.*“ These are the words that Isidro Fainé, the CEO of Catalonia’s megabank La Caixa, is alleged to have said to the region’s president, Artur Mas, during a private face-to-face meeting last year. Like many of Spain’s business and finance big shots, Fainé is growing a little jittery over the prospect of Catalonian independence – and with good reason. The ... more »

Strange Bedfellows: Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel & the Rockefeller Foundation

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
*Guest post by Hugh Pavletich* *Former Mayor Bob Parker Goes … A Great Start … *Former Mayor Bob Parker threw in the towel mid-2013 (knighted thereafter for his services to public relations and for bending the knee to central government), and in the subsequent election nine of the 13 members of the Christchurch City Council were either replaced or withdrew themselves. Since then however new Mayor Lianne Dalziel has struggled in the job. *The Peoples Protest .. Clear Direction Forward … *The clean-out of the Council had its foundations in the 4,000+ strong Peoples Protest on 1 F... more »

Never a Dull Moment in Politics ...

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 18 hours ago
*A guest post from Candi Chetwynd. Eagle-eyed followers of the Stoke political scene will know Candi as Labour's November by-election candidate and, more recently, as one of the long-listed hopefuls in the contest to follow Joan Walley after her retirement in 2015. In this blog, Candi talks about what it was like to run in both competitions.* Almost two years ago, I joined and attended my first constituency meeting of Stoke-on-Trent Central Labour Party. Little did I then know that my membership application would change my life to the degree it has. It was Labour for me because it ... more »

Chet Raymo,“Hours And Seasons”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*“Hours And Seasons”* by Chet Raymo “I have this peripatetic lifestyle that takes me between three different places of residence with the solstices and equinoxes. And so it is that I'm back in New England for the beginning of spring. My training in physics accustomed me to a Newtonian notion of time- a linear progression that moves equably from a distant past to an undefined future, every instant indistinguishable from any other. Works great for physics, but doesn't correspond to how I live my life. My personal time is circular, corresponding to the diurnal and annual cycles of Ea... more »

Harper's Empathy Deficit

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 19 hours ago
It's no secret that Stephen Harper lacks people skills. What he really lacks, Tasha Kheiriddin writes, is empathy: But Harper displays little understanding of human emotions. And that’s where his best-laid plans come crashing down. He didn’t read the tea leaves on Senator Mike Duffy; stripping Duffy of his senatorship might have been the right thing to do, but wouldn’t it leave Duffy with a desperate need to defend his reputation? Harper didn’t realize that the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline might hinge on Canada’s environmental reputation; bashing the treehuggers might ple... more »

The perfect bias-free BBC day (Part II)

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Continuing... After *Sunday *and the *Radio 4 Appeal -* Mariella Frostrup appealing on behalf of the BBC's Sports Relief - came *Sunday Worship *(8.05am). I'm entirely with Chrish (in the comments) in describing this Syrian Orthodox Service as powerful, and full of interesting information. I also thought the call to prayer/extemporising of Christian song at the end of communion was stunning, and enjoyed the hymns in in Arabic and Aramaic. The weaving of voices - including the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Britain, the kidnapped/very probably murdered Archbishop of Aleppo ... more »

Pressure on the shadow banking system in China beginning to become visible ? Nervous depositors aren't waiting around to find out at small banks ........What A Bank Run In China Looks Like: Hundreds Rush To Banks Following Solvency Rumors !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
What A Bank Run In China Looks Like: Hundreds Rush To Banks Following Solvency Rumors [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2014 12:22 -0400 - Bank Failures - Bank Run - Bear Stearns - China - default - Hong Kong - Housing Bubble - Real estate - Reuters - Yuan inShare22 Curious what the real, and not pre-spun for public consumption, sentiment on the ground is in a China (where the housing bubble has already popped and the severe contraction in credit is forcing the ultra wealthy to luxury real estate in ... more »

Malaysia Airline Flight 370 --Day 18 -- Early morning updates March 25 , 2014 -- China demands Malaysia handover all relevant satellite data analysis on the missing Malaysian plane ... the aftermath to Monday's dramatic declaration that Flight 370 has been lost at Sea in the Indian Ocean ........ By the way , how was it that on another Malaysia Airlines plane MH 606 with engine trouble today , a passenger 's text message was able to be transmitted ( but no one on Flight 370 could do the same for all of those hours of air travel ? )

Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
Still clear as mud ... top three items to consider from Malaysia Chronicle..... Tuesday, 25 March 2014 07:03 MH370 pilots acted as they should in an emergency, not as SINISTER KILLERS portrayed by M'sian govt - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Print - E-mail - Comments (2) Rate this item - - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 (5 votes) [image: MH370 pilots acted as they should in an emergency, not as SINISTER KILLERS portrayed by M'sian govt] After 16 days of trying to give their own spin to the few facts available about the pil... more »

You Know What They Say About Old Dogs And New Tricks-- Meet Crooked Conservative, Ro Khanna

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
Republicans know they will never win the CA-17 congressional seat. It's way too educated, way too blue for them, D+20. So wealthy GOP plutocrats are bankrolling a sleazy, conservative fake Democrat, Ro Khanna to run against beloved progressive icon Mike Honda. It won't work any more than Khanna's past ridiculous races against Democrats Tom Lantos and Pete Stark. Khanna doesn't care what district he represents, just as long as he can get into Congress and push his Austerity agenda and the elitist programs his Republican donors love. Yesterday Khanna released his first TV ad, financ... more »

In His Defense Of Paul Ryan's Racism, Bill O'Reilly Called Barbara Lee "A Notorious Race Hustler"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
Barbara Lee has been one of the most consistent, courageous and articulate voices in Congress on behalf of ordinary working families. Corporations and the one percent do not finance her career. She doesn't represent them. She's one of the handful of progressives who represent just plain folks who never even thought about going out and hiring a lobbyist. Needless to say, when Congresswoman Lee speaks out, the might of the plutocrats is arrayed against her. Malefactors like the Koch brothers and the Adelsons are enraged when an independent free-thinker like Barbara Lee uses the medi... more »

Spring Break!

Southern Man at Southern Man - 21 hours ago
Ah, Spring Break, that glorious week in the middle of the semester. Alas, it was too brief... Southern Man had Teen Daughter for the first half of break. Of course she took nature photos at every opportunity. One of many sunset pics by Teen Daughter. We had a lot of fun - saw the new Disney movie, went to the trampoline park, ate out any number of times - before she had to go back to her Mother on Wednesday. Of course there was geocaching. Southern Man did this one with the teen son of a friend and a couple of cachers from Kansas that we met early in the day. The caches were ... more »

BRUSSELS: Europe urges Obama to Free Peltier!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Read more at NAIS: http://www.bloggen.be/natam/

The New York Times and the livin’ is easy!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014* *Public editor Margaret Sullivan runs off with Mr. Peanut:* We’re constantly puzzled by work we encounter in the New York Times. Case in point: This morning, on the front page, a news report about Flight 370 started off like this: FULLER AND BUCKLEY (3/15/14): *A British satellite company has solved one crucial aspect of the mystery surrounding the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8,* using a complex mathematical process to determine that it ended its journey in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean. Guided by a principle of physics cal... more »

Top Ten Facts of the MH370 Air Disaster

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours ago
The Malaysian government recently confirmed for the media that MH370, the flight bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, crashed in the Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board. Despite the Malaysian government not providing a single shred of solid evidence to prove the plane had crashed anywhere and the fact that Chinese officials barred grieving and skeptical relatives from speaking to the press, the American mainstream media is reporting these unsupported claims as incontrovertible fact, thereby ending wild and reckless speculation on the part of CNN and Fox News. What are ... more »

Are We (Finally) Ready to Face Teacher Education’s Race Problem?

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 21 hours ago
Are We (Finally) Ready to Face Teacher Education’s Race Problem?. via Are We (Finally) Ready to Face Teacher Education’s Race Problem?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

“The Fourteen Year Economic Recession”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*“The Fourteen Year Economic Recession”* By James Quinn "When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napoleon Bonaparte *Click image for larger size.* “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of ... more »

“A Military Plot to Take Over America: Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*“A Military Plot to Take Over America: * *Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished?”* By John W. Whitehead “I’m suggesting Mr. President, there’s a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday.”—Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey, “Seven Days in May” (1964) “With a screenplay written by Rod Serling, creator of The “Twilight Zone”, director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller “Seven Days in May” is a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. Yet, incredibly enough, 50 y... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago
*Vitter the #KochSucker ~Adrastos, First Draft*

Debate on Bilingual Education Needs to Include All the Facts

skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
Published in Education Week, March 25, 2014 The campaign to full restore bilingual education in California needs to include the research. Despite efforts by academics, this research was not brought to the attention of the voters. Not mentioned in the *Education Week* article is the fact that studies done before and after Proposition 227 passed consistently showed that students in bilingual programs outperform similar students enrolled in English-only programs on tests of reading English. Had the public known this, the outcome of the election might have been different. Also, as re... more »

The Anti-Roma Racist Apartheid Stink of the Sheraton Stockholm Hotel Can't Be Washed Off as "Mistake"

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 22 hours ago
So, this is what happened in my country today: As the Swedish Government was to launch a long awaited and important white book, documenting and finally publicly acknowledging decade after decade of endemic discrimination and persecution or Roma people in Sweden, one of the main speakers, Diana Nyman, chairman of the Roma council in Gothenburg, and specially invited prominent guest to speak at the ceremony – where also the Queen and the Crown Princess took part, besides the minister of social affairs, Erik Ullenhag – was heading down to the restaurant of the luxury Sheraton Hotel... more »

WOULD CHRIST BLESS WARSHIPS?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 22 hours ago
Christ, the prince of peace is coming to Bath to give his blessings his support his stamp of approval to a killing machine The Pentagon has religious approval the way the institution of slavery was once blessed by many churches The priests of darkness then maintained that 'inferior' slaves were meant by god to be ruled by the slave class "Jesus Christ recognized this slavery institution as one that was lawful among men, and regulated its relative duties. ... I affirm then, first (and no man denies) that Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command; and second, I ... more »

THE ZUMWALT & CHRIST'S BLESSING

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
The Navy's new Zumwalt stealth destroyer will get the 'blessings of Christ' on April 12 at Bath Iron Works.

What Have We Learned in a Century?

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours ago
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) That sometimes even history's most hideous lessons are worth forgetting. Today is the 100th 103rd Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the worst industrial accident in New York history and one that claimed the lives of 146 men, women and children. In lieu of private unions, this is what the workers at Triangle Shirtwaist had to endure: Many of the workers made under $2 a day, a day often being 12 hours or longer. Out of those wages, the employees had to pay the owners for the needles, thread and electricity they... more »

harper consorting with Anti-Semites?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
Gerry Caplan makes a good point. While harper is cynically posturing as the fast friend of the US puppets in the Ukraine, he also appears to be playing footsie with anti-Semites. Anti-Semitism, as we all know, has no more uncompromising a foe than Stephen Harper and his government. They even denounce it where it does not exist. So we can be sure they must be outraged by Svoboda, even though in public, strangely enough, they have been silent as the grave. Given his newfound pre-occupation with Ukraine, Mr. Harper will surely know that only 16 months ago, the European Parliament expr... more »

The Realist Report - Tom in CT: Propaganda

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Tom in CT. Tom and I will be discussing the psychologically and emotionally exploitative propaganda associated with 9/11 and the fake Jewish "Holocaust" narrative of WWII. 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: - *The Most Famous Holocaust Photo a Fraud* - Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth - *1945 - US Army Brass on 'Nazi' Atrocities - 'I Swear'* - *WW... more »

Coloring Book T-Shirts

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
[image: Housewife Eclectic: Coloring Book T-Shirts] Whenever the grand kids all get together at my mom's house, one of their favorite things to do is make coloring book t-shirts. These t-shirts are perfect for just about any age that can trace a simple drawing. It keeps the younger kids occupied coloring and the older kids love the chance to have a personalized t-shirt that they made all by themselves. You will need: - a plain white shirt - coloring books - masking tape - a piece of cardboard or foam core - fabric markers [image: Housewife Eclectic: Coloring Book T-... more »

Lakota Voice exposes Rosebud Sioux Attorney General as non-Indian

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Attorney General Concha – Resolutions Pass to Terminate Contract March 25, 2014 by Ann-erika White Bird Lakota Voice SICANGU LAKOTA OYATE -Soldier Creek Community and Sicangu Village/Antelope Community have both passed Resolutions to terminate the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Attorney General Aisha Uwais-Savage Concha’s contract. Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Attorney General Aisha Uwais-Savage

OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO Protest Racism in Sports spring 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
"I'm Not Your Indian Anymore' Retire Racism in Sports Protests March 31: Oakland Coliseum at box office April 25: AT&T Park box office San Francisco

Web-Cam Observations

Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Here are my screen shots of today's emission event. I suspect it was very thick because the TBS cam was entirely obscured for awhile: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8y0lojx6d0aieq/March%2010%202014.pdf I've been talking to my friend, an atmospheric chemist, about the webcam phenomena. I had hypothesized tritium was responsible for some of the webcam effects, such as spiderwebs. I learned that we cannot see tritium directly, only its interactions with other elements. The green we associate with tritium derives from interaction with phosphor. Tritium interacts with phosphor in a process c... more »

Israeli embassies shut doors as diplomats go on strike- Really?!

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Last post for the day! Promise... Hat tip to HHQ for this tidbit. Hei Hu QuanMarch 24, 2014 at 9:52 PM Poor little 'Gas Princess" Yulia, go grab a US supplied Armalite and parachute into Moscow and show us what a brave little Neo-Nazi Barbie you can be. You can be an instant martyr for your rubbish West-driven cause when your remains come back promptly in a Russian bin liner. *By the way Penny, I don't know if you or the other readers caught this bit of very suspicious behaviour, but Israel just closed its embassies around the world. Israel closes embassies around the world as diplom... more »

THE NATO CANCER

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
- Rick Rozoff from Chicago has become a leading expert on NATO, particularly the steroidal expansion of the military wing of corporate globalization. He does an interview with Gary Null about NATO which can be heard *here. *Much to his credit Rick is also a fan of The Kinks. - Poland late last week said it would speed up the process for choosing a "missile defense" system that would tie into the US-NATO program. Warsaw had previously intended to cull the number of contractor proposals by early summer. There are competing bids from four different entitie... more »

Can The GOP Replace Democracy With Plutocracy? Case Study: The Adelsons

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
In the last couple of cycles Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, funneled $94,402,625 into U.S. political campaigns. Although some of it was wasted on crackpot fringe candidates like Shmuley Boteach, Miriam wrote 3 checks for $5,000,000 each on June 14, 2012, October 15, 2012 and October 19, 2012 to Romney's SuperPAC, Restore Our Future. On June 14, 2012, October 11, 2012 and October 19, 2012, Sheldon also wrote $5,000,000 checks to the same Romney SuperPAC. That's a cool $30,000,000. And it isn't all the money-- on behalf of China, Israel and the Mafia-- the Adelson's managed to ... more »

Ukraine's National Bank may get rid of hryvna to stuff regime coffers?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
freethinker- Thanks for bringing this to my attention Before I forget, brian, thanks for the heads up regarding the assassination reported on in the previous post! freethinkerMarch 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM Did you catch this ? - Ukraine's National Bank may get rid of hryvna to stuff regime coffers *Isn't this interesting?!* [image: http://cdn.ruvr.ru/2014/03/23/1502537757/54f65465df65df65df.jpg] It seems like the National Bank of Ukraine, guided by Arseniy Yatseniuk’s self-styled government to the radiant future, has come to a decision to do away with the country's national currency h... more »

Maddow, Kornacki propagandize the tribe!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014* *Becoming the thing we oppose:* Yesterday morning, a fascinating report appeared on the front page of the New York Times. The report concerns an impending review of the Fort Lee lane closings—a review of events from Team Christie itself! As he started, Michael Barbaro offered the basics: BARBARO (3/24/14): With his office suddenly engulfed in scandal over lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey two months ago summoned a pair of top defense lawyers from an elite law firm to the State House and asked them to undertak... more »

Thailand: Mass Mobilization This Saturday - March 29, 2014

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*March 25, 2014 *(ATN) - Protesters in Thailand's capital of Bangkok are planning another mass march this Saturday in opposition of convicted criminal, fugitive, accused mass murderer, billionaire, autocrat Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime. Protesters have been carrying out demonstrations continuously since late October 2013, including a lengthy "Occupy Bangkok" campaign preceding sham elections that saw 7 massive encampments across the city bring its major avenues to a standstill for weeks. The elections resulted in an unprecedented nationwide boycott of the polls, where o... more »

Barack, the Scrivener

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
As commander in chief, Barack Obama ostensibly has the power to order an immediate halt to the unconstitutional bulk collection of our domestic phone records by the National Security Agency. But, like Herman Melville's *Bartleby, the Scrivener*, it seems he would prefer not to. So much for his boast that this would be a "year of action" and that with his pen and his phone, he would bypass a gridlocked Congress to get stuff done. When it suits the interests of the deep state, Obama prefers to punt the NSA controversy right over to Congress, whose lower House is, ever so conveniently... more »

Harriet Harman expressing solidarity with her former economics advisor Duncan Weldon, now BBC Newsnight's new economics editor

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
When I saw this tweet, and thanks to Guido Fawkes for the spot, I remembered that I had some video of Harriet Harman giving assistance to another BBC presenter... The BBC and the Labour party - two cheeks of the same arse.

No Dogs No Blacks No Jews

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The real apartheid state is Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have just refused access to their country for one of the journalists due to accompany Barack Obama to that country. That one journalist is not an Israeli, not that banning Israelis would be in any way acceptable, but he is Jewish. Will Barack Obama take a stand on this issue? Of course not, he's got oil producing, Jihad enabling arses to kiss in Saudi Arabia and anyway it's only Jews that will be upset and why should Barack Obama care about the feelings of Jews? More here http://www.israellycool.com/2014/03/25/no-dogs-no-black... more »

Grindstones Make Grit

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
With Seligman disciple, Angela Duckworth, teaming up with KIPP co-father, Dave Levin, the industrial child psychologists have an able researcher and an experimental site to figure out how to roughen up the grindstone to reduce more urban children to piles of grit. At this point, we don't know what the how much grit will be ground out by subjecting children to years of screaming, labeling, threatening, social isolation, impossible demands, humiliation, and constant surveillance, but the corporate charter reform schoolers are hellbent to find out. A clip from Vicki Zakrzewski at Huff... more »

How Egypt is Stopping the Next "Syrian War"

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
The West's next proxy war is being stopped before it starts in Egypt. *Photograph: Cairo, Egypt. Tarek Wajeh/Almasry Alyoum/EPA**March 25, 2014*(Tony Cartalucci) - The unprecedented sentencing of over 500 Muslim Brotherhood members to death in Egypt for their role in the attack, torture, and murder of an Egyptian policeman, is the culmination of a lighting fast, all encompassing security crackdown across the pivotal North African Arab nation. The move has created a chilling effect that has left the otherwise violent mobs of the Muslim Brotherhood silent and the streets they generall... more »

1945 - US Army Brass on 'Nazi' Atrocities - 'I Swear'

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
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Insurgent Financing In Iraq’s Ninewa Province

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
Two Iraqi newspapers, New Sabah and Iraq Times recently disclosed new details on how insurgent groups are funding themselves in Ninewa province. They mentioned traditional means such as charging businesses protection money and kidnappings, but added information on stealing salaries from the security forces and charging money for imports. The governorate capital Mosul is an infamous urban base for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), but also includes other militant groups such as Ansar al-Sunna, and the Baathist Jaish Rijal al-Tariqat al-Naqshibandi. Their financial n... more »

UN panel warns about climate change

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
A Polar Bear walks on the frozen tundra next to Hudson Bay ahead of the freeze-over 12 November 2007 outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. | PAUL J. RICHARDS via Getty Images *If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you're mistaken. That's the message from top climate scientists gathering in Japan this week to assess the impact of global warming.* *In fact, they will say, the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and very human.* *"The polar bear is us," says Patricia Romero Lankao of the federally financed National Center for Atm... more »

The Chinese cut the energy Gordian knot

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 1 day ago
*Chinese LFTR Development: Workforce and Cost * The Chinese have recently anounced plans to begin building Thorium Breeding Molten Salt Reactors in 10 years. The reason for this decision is the need to replace smog belching coal fired power plants that emit air pollutants that kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and emit huge amounts of climate This plan is very ambitious. It lies at the heart of chinese plans to eliminate coal as a source of the energy that will power future Chinese society. According to American experts, the Chinese ten year plan would be impossible. But... more »

Ukraine: One fascist assassinated. Defence Minister dumped

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
It should be pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that the coup government in Ukraine, is full of *problematic persons. *Ukraine no doubt needs these head bashers in the apparatus of their tyrannical state. So, I am suspecting a cleansing of the most foul, the most noxious, the most obvious. But, the vast majority of riff raff will remain and will be used as needed to oppress the legitimate grievances of the Ukrainian populace once IMF 'reforms' take hold. From the previous post-* Ukraine: Regime Change & the IMF's Bitter Pill* *"The bailout agreement will include the impositi... more »

More links on protesters + other links

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
*Protesters plastered this TVBS van with angry messages. The cardboard one says "Thanks TVBS reporters, for working so hard to make fake news for my father and mother to see." TVBS is a rabidly pro-KMT station.* Too tired and too busy to blog, mea culpa. Enjoy some links. - Chinese netizens are shocked to discover that Taiwan's leading pop band is pro-Taiwan. D'oh. - Al Qaeda occupies the Legislative Yuan and other absurdities. I got an email from a Deep Blue informing that the student leaders are just professional students who are like the communist leaders of the 19... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Uptown family concerned by lack of 911 response after break-in, several calls to authorities ~WWLTV * *State Senators refuse to repeal La. unintelligent creationism law ~WVUE* *Nearly 234,000 get $40 Citizens Insurance refunds ~AP, via WDSU* *Shotgun House Tour! ~Preservation Resource Center* *Report: BP Oil Spill causes damage in embryonic fish ~Amy Wold, Advocate* *One Day on Earth asking for New Orleans submissions ~Alex Woodward * *2014 Big Easy Music Awards nominations ~Gambit* *JazzFest 2014, Cubed ~NOLA DEFENDER*

The Moral Imperative to Opt Out Until the System is Changed

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Editorial from *Philadelphia Inquirer* (ht to Ken Derstine) *POSTED: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 1:08 Am* Parents are right to protest the oversize emphasis placed on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams when so many schools are poorly funded. Robin Roberts says her three children won't be taking the PSSAs with the rest of the students at Philadelphia's C.W. Henry Elementary School. "If it's so important for us to do well on these tests, why are they not setting us up to succeed?" asked Roberts. It's a good question. You can't expect much success on standardized tests w... more »

TEACH THE JOURNALISTS WELL: Black kids are doing much better in school!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014* *Part 2—Why won’t the New York Times tell you:* In Friday’s New York Times, Motoko Rich described a large batch of information about America’s public schools. The data came from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Headline included, this was Rich’s summary: RICH (3/21/14): *School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines * *Racial minorities are more likely than white students to be suspended from school, to have less access to rigorous math and science classes, and to be taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience,* a... more »

URGENT: NATO's Turkey Providing Air Support for Al Qaeda in Northern Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*March 25, 2014* (Mimi Al Laham) - The downing of a Syrian jet by Turkey was not an isolated incident but part of a major offensive by Al Qaeda affiliated groups Jabhat Al Nusra (designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department) and Ahrar Al Sham against a northwestern Syrian-Turkish border crossing. Turkey has been supporting Al Qaeda’s attack on the Kassab border crossing, the only crossing that was still held by the Syrian military. While the AFP did report that the group involved in the attack was the AlQaeda faction Jabhat Al Nusra , this fact has not made it to ... more »

Insecurity Updates - March 25 , 2014 -- Homeland Security Exercise Targets “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny” ...... New Jersey Lawmaker Blasts Proposed Magazine Ban “This body intends to treat otherwise law-abiding citizens the same way it treats sex offenders…” ...... Additional items from the Stasi State.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Homeland Security Exercise Targets “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny” - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] Leaked documents reveal plan to counter online dissent during martial law *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com March 24, 2014 Leaked Homeland Security documents obtained by Infowars reveal details of a joint DHS/FEMA national exercise set to take place this week, one of the components of which revolves around an effort to counter ... more »

Austerity never actually occurred for the big shots in D.C......Eric Holder & DoJ Spent Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars On Unreported Personal Travel - - The agency that tracks federal travel did not report hundreds of personal and other “nonmission” trips aboard government planes for senior Justice Department officials including Attorney General Eric Holder and former FBI Director Robert Mueller ..... Congress’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Office determined that the 395 flights cost taxpayers $7.8 million. But the General Services Administration, which oversees trips aboard federal jets, did not require documentation because of a GSA reporting exemption that covers intelligence agencies, even in cases of unclassified personal travel. Considering travel extravagance from the President and First Lady , no wonder the Minions are running amok on the tazpayer dimes !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/eric-holder-doj-spent-millions-taxpayer-dollars-unreported-personal-travel Eric Holder & DoJ Spent Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars On Unreported Personal Travel [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2014 21:36 -0400 - FBI - Mexico inShare *Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,* As the Attorney General of these United States, Eric Holder is the top legal advisor for the entire nation. As such, he has been in a position to help punish financial criminals and the mega-banks for the crimes t... more »

Sea Turtle Rescue Release from Loggerhead in West. Palm Beach Florida. His Run for Freedom, Beautiful!

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 day ago
I was in West Palm Beach Florida last week with my daughter during her Spring Break (that is why there were no posts from me). We went to the Loggerhead Turtle Rescue in West Palm Beach, where my mother volunteers at times. It was beautiful how this turtle ran to the water for FREEDOM. It had been rescued off the pier after being hooked on a fish hook. It was found to have a few fish

Blue America Is Taking A Brief Time Out

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
If you ever donate to Democratic candidates or committees, for the rest of this week, you are likely to be bombarded with with hysterical, desperate spam from the DCCC, DSCC and their myriad candidates. The New Dems and Third Way candidates from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, like Patrick Murphy and Sean Patrick Maloney, have been instructed to send out as many as 5 e-mails *per day* leading up to Monday, the last day of the FEC's first quarter of 2014. As the *Washington Post*'s Aaron Blake put it yesterday, pointing specifically to sleazy New Dem Brad Schneider (IL)... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 1 day ago
*CDC: Higher cancer risk for kids living near busy roads* *This is a bit of a nonsense. Why review only 7 studies? Did all the others show no effect? And did they all control for income? Probably not -- in which case we may be looking at a poverty effect. The journal article is "Residential Traffic Exposure and Childhood Leukemia"* Young children who are exposed to high levels of vehicle exhaust — such as what they'd encounter living near busy roads in urban areas — appear to have a greater risk of childhood leukemia, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention r... more »

Ukraine: Regime Change & the IMF's Bitter Pill

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*Article from Global Research. Worth reading entirely* [image: arsenyiy obama] *In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF–in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels– had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine’s monetary system. The EuroMaidan protests leading up to “regime change” and the formation of an interim government were followed by purges within key ministries and government bodies. * Interim Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk meets P... more »

Ed Steer's Gold , Silver and Precious Metals Update March 25 , 2014 - News , Data and Views of the day

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/silver-vault-for-600-tonnes-starting-in-singapore-on-investor-demand ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER It was obvious that the gold price was going to have a rough go of it on Monday. By around 10:30 a.m. Hong Kong time, gold was down ten bucks---and volume was well over 20,000 contracts, which is extremely high for that time of day, so the HFT boyz were busy. After that, not much happened until precisely 8:30 a.m. EDT---and the New York HFT traders had their work done for the day by 11:30 a.m. The gold price traded pretty flat from there into ... more »

Venezuela Bolivar Devalues 89% in Start of New FX Market - Today's launch of SICAD II, a new currency market which allows the free-market to bid for USD (in Bolivars), appears to be an effort to provide liquidity to a black-market for dollars. SICAD II priced at 55 Bolivars today - an 89% devaluation from the official rate of 6.29 (and another auction-based rate SICAD I - applicable to some firms - of 10.8) ..... TEEN, PREGNANT 28- YEAR-OLD LATEST KILLED IN ATTACKS ON VENEZUELAN PROTESTERS

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Squirrel watch...... Venezuela's Maduro Averts Military Coup, Arrests Three Air Force Generals [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2014 15:28 -0400 - Ukraine inShare1 A day after Venezuela formally devalued its currency by way of the new and improved FX central planning system SICAD II, which sent the official value of the Bolivar 89% lower, the government desperately needed a distraction. It got just that when earlier today Socialist par excellence Nicolas Maduro announced that he had narrowly avoided a coup after he arrested three air for... more »

'Sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
That sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy is not just my view but that of the European Court of Human Rights. In the case of Refah Partisi v Turkey, the ECHR upheld the Turkish Constitutional Court's dissolution of The Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) for violating Turkey's principle of secularism (by calling for the re-introduction of religious law). The ECHR held "that sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy." The ECHR justified this by reasoning that a legal regime based on sharia would diverge from the Convention's values, ... more »

Labour are against hereditary privilege, well unless...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Labour are against hereditary privilege, well unless it keeps jobs in their families...

IPCC: impact of climate change small, either beneficial or not

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Media write about the report of the Second Working Group of the IPCC (focusing on "impacts of the hypothetical climate change") that will release its fifth report next Monday. Most of the sources tell us about the catastrophes that will cripple Asia, Australia, and any other random piece of the globe. You have seen this stuff 1,000 times in the past so you may imagine what they have to offer. But there are some notable exceptions. The BBC chose an interesting title, *Dissent among scientists over key climate impact report*. But The Sydney Morning Herald has the most upbeat articl... more »

Musical Interlude: Karl Jenkins, “Palladio”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Karl Jenkins, “Palladio” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqmbz8W1-tA

“The UN v. Skynet?” An ISA Teaser

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
As the gods of the International Studies Association have seen fit to place my panel at 8:15 on a Saturday morning, I decided to advertise my talk in the blogosphere in hopes of drumming up some attendees. Below please see the teaser trailer for my working paper this year, which explores the impact of science Continue reading

Musical Interlude: Adiemus, “In Caelum Fero”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Adiemus, “In Caelum Fero” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dc-tRfKjuQ&feature=related

“UAV Predator/Reaper Target Destruction GCS”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“UAV Predator/Reaper Target Destruction GCS”* by DefenseTech "This is fairly detailed look at a Predator/Reaper strike simulated by what looks like company officials, though I'd bet this is what a CIA strike might look like. The video is both fascinating and at the same time disturbing. For one, it's amazing the control and detailed view available to the "pilot" and "sensor." It just blows me away that two people can control several drones from an air conditioned trailer 7,000 miles away in Nevada- or 100 miles away. The ability for the operators to distinguish targets, coordinat... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes. Still, for earthbound astronomers NGC 3621 is not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy. Some of its brighter stars have been used as standard candles to establish important estimates of extragalactic distances and the scale of the Universe. *Click image for larger size.* This beautiful image of NGC 3621 traces the... more »

Paulo Coelho, "Our True Friends..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives." - Paulo Coelho

DEMMINK, HEROIN, PEDOPHILE RINGS

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
In a court in Holland, a former police chief, Klaas *Langedoen*, has said that 'Turkey blackmailed Joris *Demmink*' the former boss of the Dutch Justice Ministry. 'Turkije chanteerde justitietop met Demmink ... - De Telegraaf - *Translate this page* *Demmink* has been accused of sexually abusing boys in Turkey. *Langedoen*, the former chief of the Dutch Criminal Investigation Department (CID), carried out an investigation in Turkey. *The blackmail deal was reportedly arranged between former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and the then Dutch Minister of Justice Winnie Sorg... more »

"My Own View..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. It happens to be my view, but it doesn't challenge any of the findings of Darwin or Huxley or Einstein or Hawking.” - Christopher Hitchens
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