Thursday, March 06, 2014

6 Mar - Blogs I'm Following II

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US Progressives & Republicans Overreact To Crimea Referendum Vote On Separating From Kiev

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 minutes ago
The U.S. media, including so-called alternative online media outlets such as the laughable edutainment show "The Young Turks," are against self-determination for the people of Crimea. They believe recognizing and respecting human rights is less important in this case than sticking it to Russia. There is nothing controversial or destabilizing about the people of Crimea voting to separate themselves from the new radical government in Kiev and going to Russia for protection and a better economic future. The government in Kiev is bankrupt, run by a coalition of US-managed political opp... more »

“Ohio Boy Pays It Forward”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 minutes ago
*“Ohio Boy Pays It Forward”* by CBS News “As part of our continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman meets an 8-year-old boy who found $20 in a parking lot and was thinking of spending it on a new video game. That changed when he saw the man in uniform.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCxuVSkT7k

Guest Post - Helpful Tips for a Great, Green Move!

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 23 minutes ago
[image: Helpful Tips for a Great, Green Move!] Winter is waning, and the peak season for movers—May until September—is quickly approaching. If you are planning an upcoming relocation, you may wonder how you can possibly have an eco-friendly move. Are visions of gas-guzzling trucks, excess cardboard and trash, and evil bubble wrap haunting your eco-friendly conscience? Don’t worry! There are numerous ways to complete a successful relocation—with your movers’ dirty boot marks the only footprints left behind. Pack eco-friendly Keep your move green by packing with earth-friendly materia... more »

Pravy Sektor: far-right gains after Ukraine's revolution

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*More dangerous than a military invasion is a financial invasion. The IMF's mild-mannered banksters represent a bigger threat to Ukraine's sovereignty than Putin's physically imposing troops. * An excerpt from, *"Exclusive: Leader of Far-Right Ukrainian Militant Group Talks Revolution With TIME"* by Simon Shuster, February 4: "But neither can Klitschko and his fellow politicians easily sever their ties with Pravy Sektor. The group serves some of the uprising’s most essential functions. Its fighters control the barricades around the protest camp in the center of Ukraine’s capital, a... more »

Putin's Account of Events in Ukraine Has Better Ring of Truth Than Kerry's

The bitter truth seems all that's left US now. The bitter truth, especially difficult for many Cold War survivors, is that Putin’s account of events in Ukraine is more accurate than Kerry’s and Obama’s and the New York Times’. The Russian leader finally shared his thinking during a press conference in Moscow Tuesday. The Times reported it well enough, even as it included in its language

Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Earth Shadow”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Deuter, “Earth Shadow” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvSNTTBR3w

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud. *Click image for larger size.* This striking close-up view spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with hints of contrasting red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recentl... more »

Chet Raymo, “Mortal Soul 5: The Restless Heart”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“Mortal Soul 5: The Restless Heart”* by Chet Raymo “In “Letters to a Young Poet”, Rainer Maria Rilke writes: "We should try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue." To which I would add, let us trust the gifts that nature has given us - curiosity, attention, reason - and if our personal lives are destined for oblivion, then know that we have made of ordinary things something grander and more enduring. We are the transformers. We are bestowers of praise. "Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to ... more »

"Minds..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica. Thanks for stopping by.

“Why Is Our Government (and Deep State) So Incompetent?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“Why Is Our Government (and Deep State) So Incompetent?”* by Charles Hugh Smith “Why is our government so incompetent? Short answer: because incompetence has been fully institutionalized in every branch, every agency and every nook and cranny of the state. Though many may reckon the U.S. government (and its Deep State) are not so much incompetent as merely evil, I suggest incompetence sows the seeds of evil consequences. It’s easy to lay the responsibility for the state’s incompetence on its staggering size and complexity, and there is much truth in the notion that no system of th... more »

If Crimea Seeks Independence There Is Nothing Obama Can Do To Stop It; Obama Has Violated International Law, The World's Intelligence, And Mankind's Historical Memory

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
An excerpt from, *"Obama calls Crimea independence vote illegal as U.S. destroyer sent on exercises in the Black Sea"* Associated Press via The National Post, March 6: President Barack Obama declared on Thursday that a referendum in 10 days on the future of a Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula would violate international law. *“The proposed referendum on the future of Crimea would violate the constitution and violate international law,”* Obama said. *“We are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders.”* Obama spoke hours after a March 16 date was... more »

To return for a moment to Roz Chast's new graphic memoir, why don't we START with the punch line?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Okay, this isn't exactly the "punch line" of a "joke," but it's sort-of. And we're going to work our way backwards, starting with the sort-of punch line and working back to what the hell the whole thing is about. Just trust me here, please. (With how many humorists can you perform this stunt?)* *by Ken* If you happen to have looked at my Monday post ("in a 'graphic memoir,' Roz Chast looks back: 'Can't We Talk About Something More PLEASANT?'") lately, you may have noticed a couple of updates, most importantly this one: I sort of assumed that what was posted on the *New Yorker* w... more »

BBC Now Admits: Armed Nazis Led “Revolution” in Kiev, Ukraine

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours ago
*March 7, 2014* (*Tony Cartlucci - New Eastern Outlook*) - Like the West’s support of sectarian terrorists across the Middle East, including Al Qaeda, it has found the most despicable elements in Ukrainian society to lead “revolution” for the sociopolitical reordering of Eastern Europe. As the dust settles and the West’s proxy regime finds itself safely entrenched in Kiev, Ukraine – the Western media can now finally recuperate some of its lost legitimacy after months of denying the obvious – that armed Neo-Nazis led the so-called “Euromaidan” uprising. A BBC Newsnight short titled, ... more »

In Ukraine, Washington Takes The Side of Bane; The Dark Putin Rises; Neo-Nazi Leaders Threaten To Put Ukraine Under Blanket of Terror

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
"John Daggett: I paid you a small fortune. Bane: And this gives you *power* over me? John Daggett: What is this? Bane: Your money and infrastructure have been important... 'til now!" [*Source: IMDb*]. *"Ukraine Neo-Nazi Party Threatens Russia with Nukes: “We’ll Regain our Nuclear Status in 6 Months”* [Global Research, March 1, 2014]. "The ADL doesn’t address the fact that *former Israeli soldiers fought alongside with known neo-Nazi militants* who now claim to reject antisemitism. This sends the paradoxical message that neo-Nazism is somehow acceptable. *It is worth noting that... more »

Here It Is: The NPE Common Core Panel Video

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
I plan to write a reflection on my NPE Common Core panel experience. However, allow me to first post this 40-minute video, which, I am guessing, includes each panelists’ opening remarks prior to the 30-minute question and answer segment. Each panelist was afforded seven minutes to speak, in the following order: AFT President Randi Weingarten speaks first; […]

STILL GOT HER JOB

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago

Insurance firm, Swiss Re, warns of large losses from “unforeseen consequences” of wireless technologies

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
* (remember, all they would have to do is use different frequencies than they choose to use, and the health affects could actually be helpful for health . . .)* stopsmartmeters.org.uk Specialists from the Emerging Risks team at leading global reinsurance firm, Swiss Re, are warning the insurance industry that “unforeseen consequences of electromagnetic fields” could lead to a raft of claims and significant product liability losses in the next 10 years. [image: SwissRe]In its Swiss Re SONAR Emerging Risks report, 2013, which covers risks that could “impact the insurance industr... more »

Fundraising: Here at the Agua Caliente Native American Film Festival

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News The Greyound bus stop is five miles from Palm Springs.Without warning was dropped off in the desertin a dust storm, which is in the foreground in the photo. I've made an extreme effort to get to the Palm Springs, to the Agua Caliente Native American Film Festival, where Tantoo Cardinal is being honored.  There was a train to bus, then walk to one town and

Hitlary Clinton Compares Putin With Hitler, While Her Dishonest Government Secretly Supports Hitler's Ideological Grandchildren In Kiev

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
Read: *"Ukraine: US, NATO, EU Want Nuland's Neo-Nazi Thugs In Power"* by Professor Francis Boyle. Title: Hillary Clinton clarifies Putin-Hitler comments. Source: CNN. Date Published: March 5.

A BIT OF HISTORY HELPS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
*David McReynolds was a long-time national staffer at War Resisters League in NYC. He also ran for president as a Socialist Party candidate a couple times* Let me go back to 1956, and the Hungarian Revolution. Keep in mind that NATO was formed FIRST, and the Warsaw Pact formed AFTER that, so while we think of NATO as a response to the danger of Soviet actions in the West, it was NATO that consolidated Western military power. The Soviets, who above all else feared a united Germany aligned with the US (in the days immediately after the end of the war) had NOT integrated East Germany ... more »

Mental health hours in Baltimore!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014* *As always, it’s nice to be nice:* In the wake of last night’s TV viewing, we were forced to take a few mental health hours today. Sometimes, even *we* find that we’ve reached our limit! For that reason, we’ve just returned from a Barnes and Noble, where we happened to observe two young people discovering that they had an inordinate amount to say to each other. You don’t get to see that every day! It’s a lovely thing to see. Earlier, in a Baltimore supermarket, we saw a deep exchange. As we were leaving the store, we heard a younger woman saying like thi... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago

Free Download: Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies- all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves... more »

"Free Your Mind..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
"Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of ‘*deserving*’, of ‘*earning*’, and you will begin to be able to think." - Ursula LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"; Odo, “The Prison Letters”

Afghanistan updates March 6 , 2013.......Friendly Fire: US Drone Strike Kills Five Afghan Soldiers Eight Others Also Wounded in Logar Strike ...... Karzai brother to withdraw from Afghan presidential race: rival ........ President Karzai explains why the Afghanistan War has left him bitter toward the US

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Friendly Fire: US Drone Strike Kills Five Afghan SoldiersEight Others Also Wounded in Logar Strike by Jason Ditz, March 06, 2014 Print This | Share This The Pentagon has confirmed launching a drone strike against the Logar Province of Afghanistan today, hitting their allies in a case of mistaken identity. The strike kill five Afghan National Army soldiers, and wounded eight others. The provincial governor’s spokesman said that the attack was “the result of poor coordination between the people on the ground and the operators of the drone.” NATO has promised an investigation into the k... more »

Shadows of 911 deception

Amin Fasei at Our Manmade Disasters - 6 hours ago
Main article to follow: https://www.facebook.com/shadowsof911lies/photos_stream Before we look at the fake photos of 911, let's get our orientation right with the correct perspective of the sun's shadow defined by its altitude (tangent of shadow) and azimuth (with reference to true north). Follow us as we go through the journey of discriminating the truth and facts from fakery. At 8:45am on 21 Sept 2001, the sun's shadow azimuth is 297 deg; casting a shadow in perfect alignment with the northern and southern sides of the WTC -1 and WTC-2 towers. (marked N1, S1, N2, S2 on the sat.... more »

Why I Blog

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
For seven-and-one-third years this blog has weighed on my brain like a digital nightmare. Apart from a six month break in 2007 and 18 months 2011-12, I've been writing or thinking about writing content. Even when I took a leave of absence words, phrases, screeds of 500 words or more often tangoed across my eyeballs when the shutters came down at night. As our minds have allowed social media technologies to colonise and structure our perceptions - how many times have you thought of a real-life in terms of an instagram snap or a sharply-observed tweet? - so mine finds half-digested i... more »

Friday Morning Ramble: Edition #465

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
*Another ramble around things I planned to blog about this week but never did…* “The trouble with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Episode 67… *Nightmare Brown: Wants a poll tax to pay for his unaffordable trainset* – PM of NZ She’s even sharper than she looks, you know. *"Secretive and incompetent"* – KEEPING STOCK Polls are full of holes. iPredict polls no exception to the rule. *Careful What You iPredict* – GONZO FREAKPOWER “It was reported in yesterday's media that Labour is contemplating the introduction of a "digital content levy" to pay for t... more »

Thursday Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
In the all Ukraine all the time edition of the Duck, here are some essential reads from this week. Will ad more in a bit. Dan Nexon channeling his inner Henry Kissinger on the Monkey Cage Henry Kissinger channeling his inner Henry Kissinger in the WaPo Joshua Rovner on why Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is a Continue reading

Conflict Resolution In Ukraine And Crimea

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
*Source of photo*. We've heard a lot of talk of war in Ukraine, but very little about how to resolve the crisis in a peaceful, balanced, and rational way. The same pattern that we witnessed in Syria in 2011, which began with violent protests against the regime followed by threats and arming of Jihadist extremists by the Obama administration, is now being repeated in Ukraine. President Obama even has the audacity to claim that developments in Ukraine represent *"an unusual and extraordinary threat"* to U.S. national security. In reality, it is European, Ukrainian, and Russian securi... more »

Not All Education Reform Is Of The Phony-Baloney Michelle Rhee Rip Off Variety

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Progressives understand this; conservatives don't An old friend of mine, Bertis Downs, who has shared some insights into education policy with us before, just wrote a letter to President Obama about the impact of his administration’s standardized test-based policies. Bertis said it was OK to share it here. Dear President Obama, Last month, you hosted Clarke Central High School’s college admissions advisor Lawrence Harris at the White House. You honored this exemplary educator at a forum on making college more attainable for low-income students, and our community celebrated his reco... more »

Liberals, PQ are neck and neck: poll

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago
But that does not mean a minority government. The Liberals are concentrated and will win some ridings with huge majorities - and that means the more spread out PQ can win more seats. http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=9587462

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
*Co-Leaders (Or good cop - bad cop)* So what is a devil? Is it religious or cultural? He works for the corporate man who we call Mr. Big The devil works hard for Mr. Big he is ambitious and self righteous he is smart and has been well screened and watched and tested and trained (that missing year in the bio) The promise was made when the white house deal was cut likely over a whiskey in the padded leather chairs inside the dark wooden walls Obama gets to be prez McCain took the fall like a good wrestler would McCain gets to 'serve' as sort of hidden co-prez to guide the young man to ... more »

Ukraine's Junta Knows The Hague Is NATO's Kangaroo Court - Joaquin Flores

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
Title: Ukraine's Junta Knows The Hague Is NATO's Kangaroo Court - Joaquin Flores. Source: 108Morris108. Date Published: March 6.

Pipe, shove, smoke

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
As an acknowledged Kraftwerk fan, I've obviously got a need to dot the i's and cross the t's about everything, and this 'suppressed' immigration report is really bugging me. Yes, it may not matter - as most voters' concerns about the effects of mass immigration lie far, far, far away from the narrow economic focus of this latest Westminster/media bubble debate, and most people accept that Eastern Europeans (of a certain kind) are hard-working people who bring benefits to our economy - *but*... It's now quite clear that *Newsnight *overplayed its hand the other night, putting a se... more »

Don't Want an Abortion? Don't Go to a Crisis Pregnancy Centre

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
On Twitter yesterday National Network of Abortion Funds posted a link to an excerpt from a book by heroic USian abortion provider Susan Wicklund. I had a patient in the clinic who really did not want an abortion but who had no resources to cover the costs of prenatal care or childbirth. She was single and without insurance coverage but made just enough money to be ineligible for state assistance. She already had outstanding bills at the hospital and with the local ob-gyn practice. No doctor would see her without payment up front. We were willing to do the abortion for a reduced rate... more »

"Parental Consent" Comes to Canada

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
In what is believed to be a first in Canada, a new partnership between Saskatchewan ProLife and ARPA (Association for Reformed Political Action) is trying to bring parental consent regulations to Saskatchewan. This is currently the situation. *I’m under the age of 18, do I need parental consent to have an abortion?* There is currently no legislation regarding the age of consent for obtaining an abortion in Canada; however, many hospitals have their own internal policy regarding parental consent. Some hospitals require parental consent for any type of surgery performed on a young per... more »

Ignore the sweaty parts

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 8 hours ago
She had dozens of suitors and one could extrpolate in a well defined way that meant millions of men wanted her in an old school way Men are dumb when it comes to picking the right one. Maybe we should say its a two on one against a difficult goalie Love rules there has to be that spark that chemical reaction when reality hits the sweaty parts There is no choice to build upon passionate foundations for if we never trusted we would never have invented a central bank. Male and Female are like oil and alchool one powers you up the other papers over being down. women like the flames and loo... more »

“Question Everything, Believe Nothing”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“Question Everything, Believe Nothing”* Chapter One: Suspending Disbelief By Cognitive Dissonance “Where are the outer boundaries of our mental box, that comforting space where we ‘believe’ the uniquely individual ‘me’ can be found? What is the limit of our ability to think and perceive beyond our current ‘belief’ system, to think outside the lines of our own perceptional box? Can we ever locate a clearly defined line of demarcation where we cross over from all that ‘we’ believe is ‘me’ and where the herding ‘we’ bulls ‘us’ over? Is ‘our’ belief system entirely ‘yours’ or is it for... more »

Meet Humphrey from the Toronto Zoo!!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago

What makes a man turn centrist?

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
Gold...? Lust for power...? Or were you just born with a heart full of centrality?

What are YOU doing to stop the Un-Fair Elections Act?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 8 hours ago
What have you THOUGHT about doing? What have you heard about what ANYBODY is doing? Isn't it terrifyingly ridiculous how completely devoid of ideas and initiative we all are? A government that everyone but the politically-insane recognizes was in contempt of Parliament, engages in widespread election fraud, stymies the investigations of said fraud, uses its criminally-obtained majority to ram through the most appalling omnibus legislation in this country's history, and then gets a thoroughly partisan weasel like Pierre Poliviere to craft a massive bill to neuter our already tame el... more »

To all the corporate shills who read this blog...

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 8 hours ago
Dear corporate shills, and WAR WORLD soldiers, I've seen your links arriving here from your worldwide offices and consoles. What are you doing? Seriously, what's the point in you being here, on this blog, reading this crap? You're not going to learn anything. It's not for you. Please, just leave. Click onto another website/blog. Clear your cache of visited websites. And never come back. In fact, I can't save any of you. You realise that, right? Whether you're a corporate shill or just someone who thinks they understand whatever the fucking hell I'm supposed to be ranting about... more »

Offer and Counter Offer

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago
*Sotiropoulou v. Beaudin*, 2014 ONCA 168: [4] Counsel submits that the terms of the respondents’ counter-offer were not essential terms of the agreement. However, the law is clear. As Professor Fridman notes, “[m]ore than once has it been said that an acceptance must correspond precisely to the terms of the offer”: G.H.L. Fridman, The Law of Contract in Canada, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2011), at p. 57. Otherwise, the purported acceptance is “at most a counter-offer, and a further communication of assent will be required from the offeror” before a contract is formed: S.D.... more »

More CPAC: Dan Bongino...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago
"We are losing the hearts and minds of people"

fuck off

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 9 hours ago

Supreme Court of Canada Courtroom

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago

John Kane, Mohawk: 'Economy? We don't need no stinking economy'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Economy? We Don't Need No Stinking Economy! By John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk Censored News John Kane I haven't weighed in much on Canada's Bill C-10 issues but in the overall scheme of things it is no different than any of the others on the long list of anti-Native laws, regulations and policies that Canada and the U.S. have attempted to impose on our people and lands for centuries and,

Do we need the SAT?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
Sent to USA Today Not mentioned in the discussion of changes in the SAT ("Sharpen those pencils: The SAT test is getting harder," March 6) is the question of whether we need SAT-type examinations. In two different studies, researchers from UC Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton reported that high school grades were a good predictor of college success, and that adding SAT scores did not improve the predictive power of grades alone. These results suggest that teacher evaluation does a better job of evaluating student potential than standardized testing does: The repeated judgments of... more »

Equipping Florida Parents to Expose Jeb Bush’s Florida Education “Miracle”

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
The purpose of this post is to provide a brief summary for Florida parents regarding the failure of the spectrum of so-called education “reforms” introduced and advanced by former Governor Jeb Bush (1999 – 2007). I have written this brief, two-page “talking points” Word doc to complement the contents of this post. Thus, parents can use the “talking […]

Paul Ryan's Anthem

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 11 hours ago
Big Ego, Small Bulk *(graphic by Kat Garcia)* Paul Ryan emerged from the ancient subway tunnel of his mind this week and unleashed his latest attempt at Ayn Rand fan fiction upon the World Council of Scholars. In a literary hissy fit largely ignored because of the Ukraine crisis, he threw his cold, cold water on all 50 candles of the LBJ War on Poverty birthday cake. It's his Party, and he can cry if he wants to. And he wants everybody to cry with him. Especially the poor people, without whom there would be no distasteful Poverty and no need for the anti-poverty programs that in ... more »

It May Be Ted Cruz Week At CPAC But Today Is Chris Christie Day

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Always one of the craziest media circuses on the calendar, CPAC opens today at National Harbor, Maryland. Chris Christie waddled up to the podium about an hour late-- after lead-off candidates Ted Cruz, who talked about term, limits, "petrotyrants" (though not the Koch brothers) and abolishing the IRS, and Paul Ryan, who talked about being Irish. Although he conspicuously *not* invited last year-- too kissy-kissy with the demonized Obama-- the martyrdom of being caught breaking the law has made him a much sought after celebrity in Crazy Conservative World this year. He joins other... more »

I want my Obamaphone!

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg The younger generation, and to me that means almost everyone, sees a cellular phone as something much more than a telephone. It's a *symbol*even if everyone and his 5 year old kid has one and the semiotic value has much to do with the snob quotient, the joy of having something before anyone else has one, and very little to do with making phone calls. So judging from the jealousy in Rush Limbaugh's voice, the phone to have, the phone he doesn't have, is the Obamaphone. No, being filthy rich won't help, in fact it has no price and it's so exclusive it doesn't actually ... more »

Another brief word on civility in the #edreform debates

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
I know I’ve commented on this before, so I’ll keep this brief. Within debates for and against corporate education reform, corporate reformers often respond to passionate debate with complaints. “Ouch, you’re attacking me.” “That’s an ad hominem attack, sir, that’s just morbidly ad hominem.” Folks like to throw that word ad hominem around. It’s almost […]

GALLOWAY ON UKRAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
Much of the media's reporting on the geopolitical tensions surrounding Ukraine has focused on the US and Russia. Missing from that coverage has been reaction from the European Union. RT's Ameera David speaks with George Galloway, a member of Parliament from the United Kingdom's Respect Party, about the Ukrainian conflict and asks how he would like to see the EU proceed.

Don't Give Up

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 11 hours ago
Listening to my Inner Consciousness is something that I have been exploring on this amazing journey Inner consciousness. Not "Higher". This is a thought that has been racing around my heart for a long while now. I have always had an issue with the expression "Higher Consciousness", because even if we are talking about an internal "self", I rebel at the term "higher" as it creates the feeling of ME being lower or less than. Words are conscious creators that have direct effect on ourselves and our environment. With that in mind (lol) I will call it my Inner Consciousness. Thro... more »

Project Hammer

Paul Coker at News Spike - 12 hours ago
PROJECT HAMMER RELOADED The Ties That Bind – Mapping The Covert Connections David Guyatt 2003 THE BACKGROUND Beginning in 1988 and lasting until approximately 1992, Project Hammer was the latest in a series of highly secretive banking practices – known as collateral trading programmes – that are used to create, as if by magic, huge amounts of unaccountable funds for use in specific projects. These vast pools of unvouchered slush funds are applied to finance a wide variety of clandestine activities that include secret military projects, geo-political requirements and the deve... more »

Ted Cruz at CPAC...(entire speech)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*breakfast delayed because I need to hear something positive. * *How We Win*

Venus Again

Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 12 hours ago
I have submitted the following comment to the Steven Goddard site, where the subject of Venus's hot surface is erupting again: *Convection does NOT dominate in the global troposphere, the constant vertical temperature lapse rate (temperature gradient) does; that is the stage upon which weather (and climate) plays its part. Convection just drives the weather (primarily horizontally), it does not create or maintain the vertical lapse rate--the hydrostatic condition does that (and Jerry Gorline needs to understand that his derivation above is even more easily, and effectively, done as:... more »

Transformers 4 trailer - Age of Extinction - with dinosaurs!

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 13 hours ago
"I can break it down, strip it for parts. This stuff is what's gonna put you through college," and thank God Shia LeBoeuf isn't in it this time (though I might miss his girly scream). A NEW ERA HAS BEGUN, the Age of the Transformers is over.

Musings On Iraq Security Report For Feb. 8-16, 2014

MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
The second quarter of February 2014 was just as violent as the first, but there was a large drop in casualties. The number of dead and wounded went down by around one-quarter from the first seven days of the month, but that was not from a lack of trying as the number of attacks went up slightly. Baghdad, Salahaddin, Anbar, and Ninewa accounted for the vast majority of security incidents, while there were only a few in Tamim, Diyala, Babil, Dhi Qar, Karbala, and Wasit. Overall, February is stacking up to be just as deadly as the previous months. There were 227 attacks reported in... more »

The 'Suppressed' Report Cometh

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
Continuing from where my last post left off... Well, that 'suppressed' immigration report has now been published (around three hours ago)... ....and it certainly proved to be a *very* under-the-radar publication by the government. Most newspapers, including the *Mail*, have yet to catch up with the news - so you probably heard it here first. There certainly are shades of *The Thick of It *then, as *Newsnight* editor Ian Katz has been quick to tweet: Only most sceptical Thick of It fan wd wonder if timing of immigration report release hd anything to do w 2 other big reports comin... more »

CORRUPTION SPREADS: Maddow gone wild!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014* *Interlude—Our campus for a transcript:* The New York Times can be frustrating, due to its management of its various editions. On its web site, the Times shows the front-page display for its “New York Edition” and for its “National Edition.” Here on our sprawling campus, we receive a daily paper which is marked “Washington Edition.” At Nexis, most Times listings are attributed to something called the “Late Edition.” Go figure! In the mix of these different editions, a news report may appear in the Times without a subscriber seeing it. That’s what happene... more »

Bruce Carson : "the secret sauce"

Alison at Creekside - 14 hours ago
"You are the secret sauce," Doug Black, President of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, wrote to EPIC co-founder and Harper's disgraced "fixer" Bruce Carson. *Bruce Carson, former PMO staffer, has banking records seized by RCMP * According to CBC yesterday, an RCMP affidavit alleges Carson illegally lobbied many of his former government colleagues - including Nigel Wright and Wayne Wouters, Clerk of the Privy Council - on behalf of EPIC, an industry lobby group of 38 energy resource members including Shell, Suncor, Enbridge, EnCana, Imperial Oil, Cenovus, ConoccoPhillips and C... more »

HARD TIMES AHEAD IN UKRAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago
- RT reports: The self-proclaimed government in Kiev is reportedly planning to cut pensions by 50 percent as part of unprecedented austerity measures to save Ukraine from default. With an “empty treasury”, reduction of payments might take place in March. Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy reported on December 1, 2013, that an average pension in Ukraine is $160....The European Commission offeredUkraine an 11 billion euro loan if Kiev agrees a deal with the IMF, European Commission President Jose Barroso announced on Wednesday. As a rule, help from financial organizations suc... more »

A Week From Tuesday-- George Gollin Goes Up Against The Machine In Illinois

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Earlier this month we introduced our newest House candidate, Illinois particle physicist George Gollin. Above is the TV ad he's trying to get up on stations across the sprawling district that goes from Bloomington and Champaign, straight through the Illinois farm belt to the northern suburbs of St. Louis. The election is a week from Tuesday, March 18, enough time to show this ad to the undecided voters who will cast the decisive ballots in this hotly contested race. Even before scientist/Congressman Rush Holt announced his retirement from Congress, a friend of mine put together t... more »

Essay in The New Republic

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours ago
I have an essay in The New Republic here following up on the "debate" with John Holdren. This post is so that readers can engage with me and ask questions. All are welcome but do note that this blog has a comment policy. Note also that at Dot Earth at the New York Times, Any Revkin has posted up a long comment from Martin Hoerling, a NOAA scientist and drought expert. Well worth a read. Here it is, have a read, then come back if you'd like to discuss.

The Circular Course Of Things

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Yesterday, Pauline Marois announced that Quebecers will be going to the polls on April 7th. She is prepared to defend her Charter of Values. But she has said nothing about holding a third referendum. In 1980, my wife and I voted in the first referendum. But by 1995, like many of our generation, we had left Quebec -- not so much by choice but from necessity. I began my teaching career at a new high school in the Eastern Townships. The school's population was 1,100 students. By the time we left twelve years later -- because of Quebec's language law and a weak economy -- the school's... more »

Crimea Referendum vote March 16/14- Donetsk update

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
Updated once and maybe more to come.... CBC-Lawmakers in the embattled Crimean region of Ukraine have decided to hold a referendum March 16 on whether Crimea should become part of Russia. "This is our response to the disorder and lawlessness in Kyiv," Sergei Shuvainikov, a member of the local Crimean legislature, said Thursday. "We will decide our future ourselves." The parliament in Crimea, which enjoys a degree (almost complete) of autonomy under current Ukrainian law, voted 78 with eight abstentions in favour of holding the referendum. *Local voters will also be given the choi... more »

4 Personal Stories Of Vaccine Related Injury & Death

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
*Personal Stories of Vaccine Damage and Death* *Here are a few unsolicited personal stories of vaccine damage and death received by the **Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute.** To read even more personal stories of vaccine damage, plus a collection of unsolicited questions, comments and concerns, visit these links: **recent emails** and **multiple vaccines** administered simultaneously. Also, be sure to watch this important video on **overdosed babies**. For the most comprehensive information available about vaccines and the diseases they're meant to protect against, be sure to r... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 16 hours ago
*Saturated fat is not bad for health, says heart expert* *The word is getting out -- at long last* NHS guidelines which advise cutting down on high fat foods like butter, cream and chocolate may be putting the public at risk and should be urgently revised, a leading heart scientist has warned. Diets that are low in saturated fat do not lower cholesterol, prevent heart disease or help people live longer, Dr James DiNicolantonio insists. He is so concerned about misinterpretation of ‘flawed data’ that he has called for a new public health campaign to admit ‘we got it wrong.’ Briti... more »

SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”. via SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Hillary Surfaces and Compares Putin to Hitler

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 17 hours ago
With the restoration of the corrupt Clinton family dynasty looming the likely successor to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham-Clinton has played the obligatory Nazi card in joining in on the Putin pile on. Mrss Clinton made her remarks comparing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler during a private appearance in California, taken along with similar off the cuff statements in non-public settings by SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia (internment camps) and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (screw half of the country) it is a window into the very deranged mindset of the Ame... more »

@DD1958 cannot answer a straight question but is willing to use synthetic outrage to avoid having to do so

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
Further to my posts about @DD1958, most recently here yesterday, it seems that POPS! has decided that synthetic outrage is the best that he can manage in order to avoid answering my question as to why the 'Palestinians' and their supporters claim that Israel is 'occupying Palestinian land' in 'the West Bank' and Gaza but had no such problem when Jordan and Egypt occupied 'the West Bank' and Gaza 1948-1967. Yes he's gone off in a fake huff... You can read the truth behind that nasty claim in yesterday's post. I'd take @DD1958 more seriously had he not revealed his tactics previously... more »

War watch March 3 -4 , 2013 -- IRAN -- Report: Obama Will Ask Israel to Stop Assassinating Iranian Scientists ( wasn't aware Israel had admitted to doing so , but I guess we just formally outed them on that one .. ) ...... AFGHANISTAN -- Karzai prevails -- Zero-option in Afghanistan called off ? WaPo: “President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy” ........ TURKEY -- Corruption scandals and the ire of PM Erdogan roll on ......

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Iran....... AIPAC Dictates Terms on Future Iran DealDemands Iran Dismantle Civilian Program by Jason Ditz, March 02, 2014 Print This | Share This A key Israel Lobby convention, the AIPAC Conference was severely inconvenienced today by the media coverage of Crimean secession, which many complained was “stealing their thunder.” Still it wouldn’t be an AIPAC conference if they didn’t treat US foreign policy as something they could unilaterally dictate, and today that meant specific demands for what the details of a US-Iran deal would be allowed to include. Immediately endorsed by a ser... more »

Global GMO Free Coalition Is Coming Soon

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago
[image: Foto: Coming Soon.... The Biotech Industry's Worst Nightmare!] Coming Soon...The Biotech Industry's Worst Nightmare! The world is coming together. Join us and stay tuned for more. #GlobalGMOFreeCoalition #GGFC #gmofree #nongmo #labelgmos #boycottgmos #bangmos #sustainablepulse #gmofreeusa #gmofreecanada Coming Soon.... The Biotech Industry's Worst Nightmare! *Source:* *GMO Free Canada*

Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scores

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scoresFiled under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Ukraine - "they were the same snipers killing people from both sides"

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 17 hours ago
[image: http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/] Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tapePublished time: March 05, 2014 12:41 The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online. UPDATE: Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call *“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanuko... more »

Why Was CourseSmart Offloaded?

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 18 hours ago
This week’s news that the publishing educational joint venture CourseSmart has been acquired by Ingram’s Content Group should be not a surprise, but raises some interesting questions about publisher's joint ventures. Some six years ago whilst speaking at the National Association of College Stores (NACS) conference in Minneapolis, I was drawn to a cluster of delegates who were busy taking notes and sat apart from the delegates. I spoke to them afterwards and discovered that they were all from CourseSmart and they were obviously sent to press the delegates’ flesh. On being asked w... more »

Two fresh dark matter stories

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
*Randall, Reece link DM and dinosaurs; strengthening DM signal in Central Milky Way* I want to mention two developments related to dark matter. First, Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece of Harvard have finally released a preprint – to appear in Physical Review Letters – linking extinctions and dark matter: Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts As the "comments" (an entry in the arXiv form) point out, there are no dinosaurs in the paper so let me offer you a compensation. *Holy crap, we forgot to install a thermonuclear missile shield above Chick-Ku-Klux-Club in the Yuca... more »

Brian Greene's talk on the state of string theory

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
Stephen and Vincent Della Pietra – who are not *Capo di tutti capi* because there are two of them; instead, they are fratelli – donated a few million dollars to Stony Brook and launched their lecture series. Recent speakers included (or the coming one will include) Wilczek, Linde, Veltman (and Schwarz). In October 2011, Brian Greene gave the talk on "The State of String theory" which was finally posted to YouTube and if you can sacrifice 76 minutes (or a part of them), you are invited to watch the talk. There are lots of the usual and some unusual introductory comments related ... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 21 hours ago
*Calling the Global Warming Charlatans "Nazis" is historically accurate* *Nature fantasists and authoritarian people-haters in both cases. Details here -- JR* By Alan Caruba On February 20th, the noted meteorologist, Dr. Roy W. Spencer, fed up with being called a “denier” of global warming, posted a commentary on his blog titled “Time to push back against the global warming Nazis.” “When politicians and scientists started calling people like me ‘deniers’, they crossed the line. They are still doing it,” said Dr. Spencer. “They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that glob... more »

WOULD ENGLAND USE FORCE?

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
*Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party. (Photo Peter Brunskill)* On 5 March 2014, at the Market Oracle, 'policy analyst' Andrew_McKillop asks: *Would England Use Force To Stop Scottish Independence? * According to Andrew McKillop (Biography): *1.* Any English action to prevent Scotland from becoming independent would be a land and resource grab. *2.* Scotland can model itself on Norway or Switzerland. "Neither Norway nor Switzerland are member states of the EU, which they rightly regard as a dangerously unstable Debtors Union run by the 20th century champion of Eu... more »

'Obamacare' Is Helping Many It Was Intended To Help

Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 22 hours ago
By Manifesto Joe I had misgivings about Barack Obama from the start -- that's why I voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. I doubted that Obama had the Beltway experience that he needed for an effective White House. In many ways, I'd say that has proved to be true. But my sympathies are largely with Obama now, especially in some of his worst hours. I think the man's heart is generally in the right place, and he's splattered with mud no matter what he does or doesn't do. Now we even have right-wing crazies who think he should bomb Russia over what Puti... more »

Is that cigar about to explode?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
Just going back to *Newsnight*'s bullish report claiming that the government suppressed an internal report, and the question of whether Chris Cook's report was a bombshell or an exploding cigar... ...well, *The Daily Mail* (surprise, surprise!) is now taking issue with the BBC about it: Migrants DO cost UK jobs says 'buried' report: BBC attacked after claiming document was suppressed by No 10 Chris Cook's sources in Whitehall have told him one thing; the *Mail*'s sources are telling them something else - namely that, contrary to *Newsnight*'s clams that that the still-unpublished... more »

Lemon Velvet Squares and Lime Jello Parfaits- You're Invited Link Party and Features

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago
Thank you to everyone that participated last week. Each of us will take one week a month to feature some of our favorites from the party. This week's features are by Debra from Housewife Eclectic. Make sure you link up some projects and recipes of your own so you’ll be in the running for next weeks featured favorites. [image: You're invited header 2]I love being able to host a party with some of my favorite people including Jesseca from One Sweet Appetite, Holly from Bits of Everything, and Jonie from Just Between Friends. Things have been busy at Housewife Eclectic the last month ... more »

Fukushima Update: "Large Marine Animals Likely Sensed Danger of Fukushima Plume And Fled"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"Mystery’ Solved? US Gov’t Expert: Large Marine Animals Likely Sensed Danger* * of Fukushima Plume and Fled, “Not going to wait until they start to die off.” * Unprecedented concentrations of whales and other sea life clustered just off West Coast. by ENE News *Jeff Feldner, Oregon Sea Grant Extension (NOAA) fisheries specialist:*"It’s probable that, for one thing, a lot of the larger animals got out of there quickly. The other thing is that I suspect animals, like whales for instance, I think they would probably be able to tell that something was wrong. They’re very, very intellig... more »

Disney on Ice Rockin' Ever After

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago
Disney on Ice is one of our favorite Grandma outings of the year, and last night's Rockin' Ever After was absolutely no exception. Honestly, we have been to other Disney on Ice shows that featured some of the same princesses, so I was expecting some repeats, but there weren't any. Even though the shows featured the same princesses, they were completely different. I loved how this year's Disney on Ice really focused on the music and the special effects were amazing. I wish I could have take a picture of my daughter's face during The Little Mermaid section, especially the aerial stun... more »

5 Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up by Ronnie Cummins & Katherinee Paul

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 23 hours ago
5 Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up by Ronnie Cummins and Katherine Paul Common Dreams, 2 March 2014 To hear the pesticide and junk food marketers of the world tell it, anyone who questions the value, legitimacy or safety of GMO crops is naïve, anti-science and irrational to the point of hysteria. But how long can Monsanto ignore the mounting actual scientific evidence that their technology is not only failing to live up to its promises, it’s putting public health at risk? Jim Goodman, farmer, activist and member of the Organic Consumers Association policy a... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago

FDA, FCC Now Targeting Whistleblowers Video - An Interview With Anthony Gucciardi

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 23 hours ago
March 4, 2014 With activism at all time highs surrounding incognito threats lurking within the food supply, and major movements throughout the country all aimed at sweeping things like GMOs from the food supply, it should come as no surprise that agencies like the FDA are concerned about internal whistleblowers leaking key intel to the public. It should also come as no surprise that government organizations from the FDA to the FCC are now monitoring social networks across the board, all on a quest to track the flow of information that has now been dominated by the alternative n... more »

Sandy Hook HOAX! Sherry Questioning All Shows Evidence That There Were NO Children At Sandy Hook Elementary School "Shooting" At All!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 23 hours ago
In previous articles that I posted at this blog from videos and articles from a great fellow real truth seeker, Sherrie, who writes the excellent blog: "Sherrie Questioning All" (www.sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com) evidence was presented that shows that the so called "School" where that so called "massacre" that occurred at Sandy Hook on December 14th, 2012, could not have had students at all... It was a dilapidated pig-sty, as well as a serious health hazard due to horrific amounts of mold and algae. It is a fact that mold itself is a toxic bio-hazard, and cannot be present in... more »

Red To Blue… Boo Hoo Hoo

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
DCCC will never win back the House until they get Republicans like this out of Democratic seats-- but that means recruiting candidates and fighting to win-- which Steve Israel refuses to do Now that the DCCC has officially launched its Red-to-Blue program, what happened to Steve Israel's vaunted Jumpstart program and the candidates he tapped, many despite primary races back home? The program itself has been "disappeared" from the DCCC website. Most of the candidates, though, were automatically placed on the Red-to-Blue list: Patrick Henry Hayes (AR-02/PVI- R+8), Amanda Renteria (CA-2... more »

Vegan Recipe - Healthy Homemade Granola

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
*Do you love granola? I do! It's great for breakfast or as a snack and it's easy to pack for "on the go" munching. Unfortunately, most commercial brands are expensive and they typically contain less-than-healthy ingredients. Today's recipe comes from Amber, owner of the wonderful site, Fettle Vegan. Never visited this site? Well, let me tell you, you're missing out. Amber shares some amazing dishes. Things like Kung Pao Cauliflower, Blueberry Streusel Muffins (which are gluten free), Lavender Scones and Blueberry Kale Smoothie. Don't they make your mouth water?Amber has a "to di... more »

Future Islands – "Seasons (Waiting On You)"

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day ago
This song has been in rotation at KCRW, and you can hear/see the official video here. I went with the live version, though, because the band made their television debut on Letterman on Monday, and their frontman (Samuel T. Herring, apparently) is a theatrical goofball who goes for broke. Rock on, brother!

“My My, Others Read History?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“My My, Others Read History?”* by Karl Denninger “I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked... Iran may not seem the best vantage point to observe the convulsions in Ukraine and Thailand. But traveling through the country last week, I often thought of its constitutional revolution in 1906 - one whose political legacy exceeds that of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and offers more instructive lessons than any European revolution in why democratic upsurges often produce mayhem, followed in short order by tyranny. The effort, led by Iranian intellectuals and activists, to check a centralized... more »

Crack down on crime where it counts

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
This morning's paper brought news of a tiny baby found abandoned at the foot of a tree in a village not far from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Next to him was a bag full of baby products - a bottle of milk, diapers, talcum powder, a bib - and a note asking whoever found the baby to look after him well. A neighbour saw the news about the foundling and called in to report the young mother who had abandoned the baby, and now she's going to prison. Oh, come on. In the same paper, there were stories about 14 people who had been fatally shot in Honduras the day before, inclu... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Senator Robert Adley wants it both ways ~We Saw That*

Free Economic Zones = Mini Banana Republics

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
*Rift valley near Yuli, rain.* The Ma government's return to the industrial zone policies of the 1960s and 1970s has an interesting twist. The DPP pointed out: The project aims to establish free economic pilot zones in Keelung Port, Suao Port in Yilan County, Taipei Port, Taichung Port, Anping Port in Greater Tainan, Kaohsuing Port, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis in Taoyuan County and the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park to demonstrate a model for business convenience and liberalization. “Thirty-three of the 73 articles in the special act are blank authorizations, which give alm... more »

Government follies ---- Hello HillaryCare: ObamaCare Deadline Extended Beyond Obama's Term and risk corridor payments could hit 5.5 billion for 2015 - that would the taxpayer bailout risk corridor ! File under " we are so screwed " -- Shocker: Federal government’s fiscal deterioration almost 5 times official deficit .........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Obamacare..... Health insurance marketplaces signing up few uninsured Americans, surveys sayBy Amy Goldstein, Updated: Thursday, March 6, 3:00 PMThe new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal. A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or pla... more »

US Israel Partnership Directly Associated with the Chamber of Commerce

Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day ago
Early this morning congress passed this iniative...HR 938 which guarantees that Israel will get full support from this country, no matter what The vote was 407 to 1, which once again confirms that our government is bought and paid for by the New World Order. I will exclude Senator Ron Wyden, of my district in Oregon who didn't vote, but I can't believe that our elected representatives are supporting Free Trade and Globalization, while turning their eyes and ears from the destabilization being done in small countries like Egypt, Libya, and Syria, and now being done in the Ukraine. ... more »

"Bernanke earns more in one day than he did all of last year as Fed chief" (Reuters/AOL headline)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Awww, isn't this adorable?* *Big Al 'n' Big Ben, together! Are they on the clock? Holy bank balance, Batman! Or maybe it's like one of those glossy National Geographic photos of a lion or tiger mama tending to one of her cuddly little offspring. (The official caption reads: "US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke (R) speaks with former chairman Alan Greenspan during a ceremony marking the centennial of the founding of the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC on December 16, 2013.")* *"Lawyers and agents say Bernanke, 60, should be able to command around $250,000 per speech for a wh... more »

"Electronic monitoring is not a primary ground panacea"

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
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North Carolina's Duke-Paid Governor's State Environmental Stooge Attempts To Flim-Flam Coal Ash Spill Water Disaster

Did I mention that I received notice from my county government a few days ago to not drink, bathe in, wash clothes in, or just generally trust our public water supply? These are the culprits, and although many wags like to say that North Carolina deserves what it voted for, the Koch-funded campaigns of the legislative representatives were secret for a long time (credit is due to the Citizens

The Demise of UFO Magazine

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day ago
Today, while searching for information about something else, I saw that there was an Internet listing that suggested there was an “Important Message from *UFO Magazine*.” Having contributed to it frequently, and because I know those who have been involved with it in the past including Don and Vicki Ecker, I clicked on the link. I mean, the magazine hadn’t been around for a while and I wondered what was going on. What I found was this: The owner of UFO Magazine, Inc. has officially noticed [sic] that he is putting UFO Magazine, Inc. up for sale. We do not know If [sic] there is cur... more »

Russia's Asia "Pivot" with Focus on Energy

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*"Russian Gas Exports to Asia Expected to Quadruple by 2020." Source of image: US Energy Information Administration.* Video Title: Russia's Asia "Pivot" with Focus on Energy. Source: YouTube channel Jay Fidell. Date Published: November 26, 2013. Description: In this broadcast,"Asia-in- Review" Host Hong Jiang explores Russia's recent foreign policy and geopolitical shifts into Asia followed by its fascinating energy moves into the Region with international business lawyer & professor, David Day. Next, the conversation turns to the critical and fascinating energy "pivot" that Russi... more »

Harvard Research Finds Link Between Fluoridated Water, ADHD and Mental Disorders

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
Joe Martino *Activist Post* New research published in *The Lancet* by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) found that various chemicals that many children are exposed to are having a direct effect on the creation of disorders labelled under the name ADHD as well as other mental disorders. One of the chemicals said to be having an effect is fluoride, or variations of fluoride. Governments have been performing artificial fluoridation for a number of years regardless of the lack of effectiveness it has in ... more »

Ukraine- How insane is the EU- Sanctions? Lavrov shuns Kiev stooge & more

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*Big power talks make little progress* -High-level diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine made little apparent headway at talks in Paris on Wednesday with Moscow and Washington at odds and Russia's foreign minister refusing to recognize his Ukrainian counterpart. -Russia had earlier rebuffed Western demands that its forces that have seized control of Ukraine's Crimea region should return to their bases. -NATO, at a meeting in Brussels, announced it was cutting back on cooperation with Russia to try to pressure it into backing down on Ukraine and suspended planning for ... more »

Stephen Harper Throws His Conservative Base Under the Bus(Bring on the Legalized Ganja Edition)

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day ago
*Written by Grant G* Interesting times in Canadian politics for sure, developments are coming fast n furious, special interest groups, the religious right and most particularly the federal Conservative party base are being thrown under the bus in a last ditch effort to retain power.. It shows a Stephen Harper in desperation mode, it also shows a Canadian populous that Stephen Harper has no real values, no real beliefs and no moral conscience, Stephen Harper is prepared to throw everyone who has ever supported him and his party under the bus to retain a grip on power, he`s not w... more »

Back, for a short while... here's some stuff about stuff

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
I remember a time before the current Golden Age of Television. It was a time when TV was largely embarrassing and terrible. The age of Mr Blobby and Jim Davidson. That said it was also a time when BBC2 wasn't just BBC1 with slippers on. Friday night you could watch anything from Johnathan Meades to Ren and Stimpy... that's if you were allowed the second TV. If we are in a Golden Age it's because multi-channel TV helps viewers pan through the river of excrement (or Channel Four as it's now known) for those priceless nuggets. It's channels like BBC3 that do the work. Not much of it's... more »

Kate Zernike never quits!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014* *Three pundits, four perspectives on motive:* Over at the New York Times, Kate Zernike never quits. Yesterday morning, she said it again. We have no idea why: ZERNIKE (3/4/14): Court papers filed by a lawyer for Gov. Chris Christie’s former campaign manager indicate that federal prosecutors are moving aggressively to investigate the role of the governor’s aides in the George Washington Bridge lane closing scandal. An agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation telephoned the campaign manager, Bill Stepien, in January, about a week after *a cache of e... more »

50 Is The Magic Number! Have Conservatives Made Obamacare Disappear Now?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Who needs "Democrats" like these when we already have Republicans? Today, conservatives in the House voted for the 50th time to repeal the Affordable Care Act-- which is already covering 10 million Americans. Yesterday, President Obama rolled his eyes and said, "You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it. We understand. We get you don't like it. I got it." Kansas anti-family extremist Lynn Jenkins' bill would delay the individual mandate, a stupid Republi... more »

Ukraine: Georgian Background to the Western “Invasion” Hysteria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Recalling similar fabrications regarding Georgia’s aggression versus Russia and examining existing Russo-Ukrainian strategic relations before Western-backed mobs overthrew the government in Kiev, we can see there is no “invasion” at all. *March 6, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci/New Eastern Outlook) -* Invasion (noun) – the act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.* The BBC reported in its June 2013 article titled, “Five years on, Georgia makes up with Russia,” that (emphasis added): On 8 August, Georgia will mark the fifth anniversary of the o... more »

Tom Hayden : Is a new Cold War upon us?

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed, resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the neoconservatives, and the … finish reading Tom Hayden : Is a new Cold War upon us?

Quote of the Day: On honouring your self

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey decided he needed to *enjoy watching his movies as much as he enjoyed making them.* So… “I got much more selfish. I’m a fan of the word *selfish*. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-*ish*, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. *Selfish *has always gotten a bad rap. You *should* do for you. I wanted new experiences.” - Matthew McConaughey, interview with GQ And on turning his acting around and receiving his Oscar… When I was 15 years old, I had an important person in my l... more »

Robert Free 'The UN Game of Charades' Boycott Indigenous World Conference

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Robert Free: The UN Game of Charades BOYCOTT the UN sham World Indigenous Conference! Robert Free (on left) with Sid Mills Wounded Knee Robert Free points out that many grassroots frontline veterans have been demanding the UN Indian NGO World Indigenous Conference promoters boycott the sham and not give it the token semblance of credibility. Free, who was among those at the Occupation of

The greatness of the other perspective!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014* *The impulse to restrict:* Many people have commented on the greatness of Lupita Nyong’o’s acceptance speech Sunday night. “It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is due to so much pain in someone else’s,” Nyong’o said as she started, referring to the life of the woman she portrayed in 12 Years a Slave. We’ll admit it—we wouldn’t have thought about that if she hadn’t said it. On the other hand, once someone has said such a thing, do you get to celebrate at all? Should Steve McQueen have jumped for joy in the way he did? We don’t... more »

Thorne Dreyer and Bob Simmons : VIDEO | Austin’s ‘Underground Goes Overboard’ with Ayers and Dohrn

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Bill and Bernardine lead an engaging and often very funny community conversation at The Rag Blog’s launch party — all captured on Bob Simmons’ video! Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn host an entertaining and provocative discussion at The Rag Blog‘s … finish reading Thorne Dreyer and Bob Simmons: *VIDEO* | Austin’s ‘Underground Goes Overboard’ with Ayers and Dohrn

eBook Subscriptions Part 3: The Future Should Be Significant

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 1 day ago
In the last two articles we looked at today’s subscription market and some of the players, but what of the future? Do we really believe that the consumer will continue to want to ‘buy’ eBooks that they effectively don’t own, that they can’t easily share with others and that they are prohibited from reselling. Adobe may have backed down from their heavy handed approach to their initial ACS5 upgrade plans, but DRM remains a millstone around consumer’s necks and wedded to yesterday’s 'download to a device' ownership model. Today the media world is moving towards on demand, streamed a... more »

YOU DECIDE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Putin at news conference yesterday. It's long but quite interesting.

Mariann G. Wizard : VERSE |’Texas gay marriage: Soon come?’

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Texas Gay Marriage: Soon Come? By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Candidates claiming to support the Constitution need to get hip: Love’s sweet institution will soon be respected in fair distribution. Today’s headlines say … finish reading Mariann G. Wizard : *VERSE* |’Texas gay marriage: Soon come?’

AIM West on Indian Country Today's 'Trash Newspaper'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Yellow Journalism: Boycott 'Trash Newspaper' By Tony Gonzales AIM West Censored News AIM West at Dept of Justice San Francisco Feb. 27, 2014 Len Foster,As you are AIM member, Wounded Knee veteran, and a member of the board of director for the NGO International Indian Treaty council (IITC), founded by AIM, (and international political arm of the AIM, and as you being the spiritual advisor

Communities of color have been decimated by corporate reform. Now anger spreads when it affects white folk like @RBNLake

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Robin Lake of Seattle writes: As the director of an education think tank focused on national issues, it feels indulgent to write about my own kids’ experiences in the public school system. But there’s no better way to illustrate one of the reasons my organization pursues the work it does on behalf of students. Let […]

The end of Pax Americana has implications

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Like most of his comments, this is too good to waste, so I’ve pulled out this comment by **Liberty Scott** for a Guest Post…* …the key point is that the US, particularly the Obama Administration (although Bush wimped out over Georgia) has withdrawn from the world. Putin effectively annexed two parts of Georgia, he frightened the US into not implementing a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic (despite both countries being members of NATO and wanting it), and now he has taken part of Ukraine. China is watching because it wants to see what would happen if it took ... more »

BIlingual education: What does the research say?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Sent to Education Week, March 5, 2014 There are two crucial research findings related to the Sen. Lara's proposal to repeal Proposition 227 ("Calif. Bill Would Repeal Bilingual-Education Restrictions," March 4). The first: study after study has shown that students in bilingual programs outperform similar students enrolled in English-only programs on tests of English reading. The second: As noted by Prof. McField in the Ed Week article, dismantling bilingual education in California has not improved achievement for English learners in California. Both of these findings deserve m... more »

As draft law nears passage, haredi Israelis take to streets

Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day ago
The powers that be, aka Zionist's, in Israel would have us believe that it is always against them, but nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the Jews in Israel and throughout the world disapprove of the ongoing agenda to take control of that part of the world and would prefer to live in peace. Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews protesting a measure to draft them into the Israeli military, March 2, 2014. By Ben SalesMarch 4, 2014 10:37am JERUSALEM (JTA) — Beneath banners invoking historic calamities from the Egyptian enslavement to the Holocaust, hundreds of... more »

Tax Cut 17: BIR vs. Physicians

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) made this paid advertisement that appeared in several national newspapers last weekend I think. Posting below some comments by doctors expressed in facebook, posted on my friend Dr. Jed Inciong's fb wall, except those from change.org petition and Dr. Calimag. My own discussion at the end. Other posters/images are also posted in fb, copy-pasting them here. ----------- *(1) Change.org Petition (around March 2, 2014, initiated by Minerva Calimag)* *The medical profession and all physicians are always portrayed as tax evaders by the BIR.* The rece... more »

Equal treatment for UKIP?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The Telegraph reports that: 'Ukip have been given a boost in the run up to the European elections after Ofcom ruled that broadcasters have to treat them in the same way as any other major party. The decision means Ukip will be given the same status as the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats for election broadcasts and news coverage of the May 22 contest.' If the BBC do actually give UKIP equal status to Labour, Conservatives and the LibDems then the type of coverage will be similar to the Conservatives not Labour. The BBC's coverage of the Labour party will as usual be ove... more »

Musical Interlude: Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-9NEFalsjE

Sandy Hook Police Dash Cam Video does not show children evacuating per Official Timeline.

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 day ago
The One and only photo released of children at SH. Suppose to have happened at 10:47 AM - would have been in front of police dash cam shown below. Never happened in front of dash cam. They were not running, but walking. There is a Police Dash Cam video of the parking lot of Sandy Hook. I show the official timeline as written out by the Police of what happened and when. The official

President Obama just doesn't seem to understand! 我認為普京的目標是烏克蘭分裂成東,西,隨著工業和農業生產力的東與俄羅斯對齊。

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day ago
WATERBOARD THE BITCH! I mean, just stop and think a moment. Obama claims the authority to murder a US citizen by drone strike just because they *might* be thinking of harming US citizens, and here we have the most destructive force ever unleashed against the American people, the IRS, clearly having committed illegal actions (or Lerner would not need to take the Fifth) and Lerner gets to walk out of the room? Remember that using the IRS against political enemies was one of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon!

Refuse to blow

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*R. v. Goleski*, 2014 BCCA 80: Elements of Failure/Refusal [71] As discussed in Lewko at para. 9, the elements of the offence that the Crown must prove are: (i) a proper demand; (ii) a failure or refusal to provide the required breath sample; and (iii) an intention to fail or refuse to provide the required sample. In R. v. Moser 1992 CanLII 2839 (ON CA), (1992), 71 C.C.C. (3d) 165 at 176 (Ont. C.A.), Mr. Justice Doherty said this: The essential elements of the offence described in s. 254(5) consist of a proper demand and a refusal or failure to comply with that demand. The defen... more »

'MISSILE DEFENSE' AGENCY..... RIGHT ON SCHEDULE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
*Fiscal Year 2015 Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Budget Press Briefing * You might not watch all of this so I thought I share a few of this officer's words on the new "missile defense" (MD) budget request: - "due to recent threat developments" - The new missile defense interceptor "kill vehicle" will allow for "new tactics in weapons doctrine" - The MDA is "engineering the kill chain from beginning to end" - New accuracy will "allow the war fighters to dramatically improve their shot doctrine" - The budget will allow the MDA to "continue to support Israel's missi... more »

Ukraine-O-Mania: Kerry Does Kiev

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
So on Tuesday (a.k.a. Kill List Day in the White House) John Kerry did the helicopter hustle in Kiev (cue the *Pictures at an Exhibition* music in the previous post), a bag of bribery cash in one hand, a bouquet of flowers in the other. Nobody does subtle like the secretary of state: And nobody does propagandistic bathos like the *New York Times:* *Trudging through a damp mist, Mr. Kerry stopped first for an emotional visit to improvised memorials where protesters were gunned down last month as they voiced opposition to what was then Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin government.* *Mr. Ker... more »

THE PLOT THICKENS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tapeRT The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online. There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation. “I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s inte... more »

Nigel in the Lions' Den

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
*Managers at the BBC (at the instigation of senior BBC management) have passed a decree that Nigel Fagage is to debate Nick Clegg on the BBC, with David Dimblebly presiding, in the run-up to this years's Euro elections. * In the first year of the reign of Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, came Nickuchadnezzar, Deputy Prime Minister, prince of the eunuchs, unto the BBC, and besieged it. It pleased Tony Hall to set over the BBC James Harding. Now God had brought Nigel Farage into favour and tender love with the voters of the United Kingdom, and the prince of the eunuchs sai... more »
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