Saturday, March 08, 2014

8 Mar - Blogs I'm Following II

Sunset at Huntington Beach, California.Sunset at Huntington Beach, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: en: Grauman's Chinese Theatre, photog...English: en: Grauman's Chinese Theatre, photographed by Carol M. Highsmith, who has donated her collection to the Library of Congress, and placed the images in the public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: This map shows the incorporated areas...English: This map shows the incorporated areas in Los Angeles County, California. Monterey Park is highlighted in red. I created it in Inkscape using data from the Los Angeles County Website (Los Angeles County Incorporated Area and District Map (PDF). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Hookers and Blow in Fort Crack?

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 7 minutes ago
One thing I get asked about living here is the crime rate. It's not really something I like to talk about or really think about, not because I want to ignore or whitewash things but simply because I've found the stereotype annoying and removed from the reality of my everyday life. I'm not naive enough to think that we inhabit a perfect world or that this city isn't without its challenges. But for the most part, I tend to find out about illicit happenings here pretty much like everyone else in this country....by reading it in the news. In my 4 years year I can say I've never seen... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 minutes ago

Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 32 minutes ago
Welcome to *Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man*! Zan Overall, also known as the Wise Old Man, is an activist, musician, and actor. Tonight, we will again hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, along with a review of his recent activism on the UCLA campus and at the 2014 Oscar Awards Ceremony last Sunday night in Hollywood, California. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in and supported the *Spring 2014 fundraiser* ... more »

Senator Ed Hernández And Congresswomen Jackie Speier And Grace Napolitano Buck The Machine To Endorse Eloise Reyes

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 35 minutes ago
This pathetic mess somehow "forgot" to mention to California progressives that he's been begging the corrupt, anti-working family New Dems to endorse him Dr. Ed Hernández, former president of the California Optometric Association, is the state Senator representing the 24th district, which stretches from East L.A. through Monterey Park, Rosemead, and El Monte out to Azusa and Covina. Hernández is chairman of the Senate Health Committee and one of the most respected Los Angeles legislators in Sacramento and a powerful advocate for working families. Last night he stood with a growing l... more »

Looking forward

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago

The wheels on the bus go round and round: Tips for a better Honduran bus experience

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 3 hours ago
Spend enough hours on a Honduran long-distance bus and you will end up boarding them with the seasoned eye of a veteran seat-assessor, able to take in the available options at a glance and make the best choice with barely a moment of additional anxiety to the passengers jamming in behind you. Having been up, down and around this country on all manner of public transportation, here are my recommendations for how it's done: 1.* Do I have control of the window? *Unless you're on a first-class, air-conditioned bus - in which case none of this matters, because you'll have an assigne... more »

Sunday Classics preview: Chamber-scale Mahler

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken* I'm just about to leave for a chamber-ensemble concert devoted to, of all composers, Mahler -- comprising, in reduced-orchestra form, the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony, the *Songs of a Wayfarer*, and *Das Lied von der Erde*. As some of you out there will recall, we still have a "complete" *Das Lied*under Sunday Classics promise, and I've done a fair amount of performance-sorting and thinking, but I still don't know what I want to say. Maybe nothing more. We'll see. In the meantime I thought tonight we'd listen to the famous Adagietto, familiar from countless funerals... more »

Almost 70 Years Late -- FBI Quietly Opens Secret Files That Attest HITLER WENT TO ARGENTINA Rather Than Commit Suicide...

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
*(we've been lied to about basically everything . . one day, they will tell you about Kennedy, 911, bin Laden, etc, etc, etc . . )* RED FLAG NEWS [image: Read the documents yourself at fbi.gov] Read the documents yourself at fbi.gov (by R&S, Exposing the Realities) — Newly declassified FBI documents prove that the government knew Hitler was alive and well, and living in the Andes Mountains long after World War II. On April 30 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker. His body was later discovered and identified by the Soviets before being rushed back to Ru... more »

How To Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 5 hours ago
Thinking Humanity*The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree.* Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression A new study published in the journal *Atherosclerosis* confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.[i] Mice with a genetic suscept... more »

Self Defence against the truth

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 5 hours ago
I have a scan of a pink flyod CD cover on one of my blogs. Yes I have heard several small species grooving in a pic with a cave. So were they fifty years to early or just tragically late to connect with History.

"According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It is Greece all over again."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago
------------------------------ *The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun* ------------------------------ March 6, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun Paul Craig Roberts This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received her reward: a 50% cut in her pension. According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will c... more »

OSCE observers prevented from entering Crimea- Mercs in Ukraine & more

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
For the third time- warning shots fired this time. Can't say about the other two *Here's the news* Warning shots have been fired as a team of international military observers was turned back from entering Crimea. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said that no-one was hurt in the incident at Armyansk. It was the third time the OSCE has been prevented from entering Crimea, now in the control of pro-Russian forces. *I will be updating with a piece from Israel Shamir, thank you, very relevant, stay tuned. * And then something from brian .... The Ukrainian... more »

Challenger, KAL 007 and Oliver North

Paul Coker at News Spike - 6 hours ago
"If you can get hold of a book by Barry Schiff (he's an aviation writer) written a year before the incident, called *Flight 209 is Down*, it will explain to you, in part, in this novel form, the real scenario. What happened, according to Fletcher Prouty's work, Bob Cutler's work, other researchers, is that 007 stayed on course, never deviated. KAL 015 right behind it, saw it, on radar and visible, all the way through. It never left course, kept along R20." John Judge KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A powerful electrical storm created an eerie tapestry of light in the skies near Space... more »

Of Polls and Public Engagement in International Relations

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
This is a guest post by Idean Salehyan. There has been a lot of hand-wringing and debate lately as to whether or not academics are engaged enough with important policy questions (See Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times and just a few responses, here and here). As this conversation was circling around the blogosphere, there was an impressive initiative Continue reading

Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
On a slightly personal note, I was reading the obituary in the *Telegraph *of the woman who served as Lancaster's MP for 27 years, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman. When I went with school to the Houses of Parliament, it was Dame Elaine (a Conservative) who guided us round. Born and educated in God's (real) own country, Lancashire, she did her wartime service as a land girl. She went to university with Margaret Thatcher. Her first husband was killed in a car crash. She herself suffered head injuries and memory loss but, remarkably, she took over the job of running his 149-acre farm w... more »

Bad Bear's Photos: Makin' Fry Bread at Cal State Puvungna Powwow

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
Thanks to Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson for sharing photos today. Long Walkers Teri and Bad Bear at Teri Szynkowski's fry bread stand at California State University Long Beach.

Countering The Demented Ravings Of Doctors Like Paul Broun And Phil Gingrey, Georgia Sociopaths

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Lee Rogers, surgeon, progressive This morning's *NY Times* looked at medical doctors in Congress-- although the post is mostly a puff piece about a naive right-wing pediatric neurosurgeon in Oregon who's running against Jeff Merkley. The Senate has 3 doctors now (Coburn, Barrasso and the uncertified ophthalmologist Rand Paul) and there are 17 in the House (many of whom are certifiably-- and horrifyingly-- insane, like Tennessee Republican, Scott DesJarlais, who is best known for sedating his patients with heavy drugs to have sex with them, and a couple of whacked out Georgia extremis... more »

On Free Will

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
Sugar drinks may kill you faster than heroin, but the good news in both cases it was a free choice. Free choice is a brilliant, until it meats reality. We are all victims of goverment. But goverment is the only way to prevent us to be the victims of individuals. Now vote which is worse.

Most brilliant Framing

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
Framing is a new name for what used to be argument. Now there is no need to argue just a need to decide you can frame the issue with a force that makes the other side abide. Its true on some heart and sole issues from both side when the invective right our wrong rings true like medieval kings they will surrender that issue and Armour up for the next conflict. There is no longer a sentiment that to some thing I must be true,

Kill the butterflies cause they are free

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
we fly like butterfly's so innocent with nothing behind our wings except pollination so may families have dies just keeping our jungle alive no one we know no one we do not believe has not been bought out by the powers that believe If you say freedom all the sheeple will accept the fact that you deceive because it means you will be the last one to receive the blade of reality that just does not kill you but collects a lifetime of taxes and waits without priduce for your kin and kind to contribute above and beyond taxes in this freely elected mandate to forgive when we deceive,

The Two Hinkleys

Paul Coker at News Spike - 7 hours ago
TESTS SET FOR MAN CHARGED IN THREATBy JOSEPH B. TREASTERPublished: April 9, 1981 A Federal judge yesterday ordered a psychiatric examination for the 22-year-old unemployed man who was charged in Manhattan Tuesday with threatening to kill President Reagan. Other authorities said the man had indicated he was motivated to commit violence by a ''prophetic dream.'' The accused man, Edward M. Richardson of Drexel Hill, Pa., told of the dream in a letter that was delivered to Jodie Foster, the actress, at Yale University last Monday, Federal law enforcement officials said. In the lette... more »

Quebec as a country

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 8 hours ago
Amid all the shouting idots and regal progressions there is some willing desire of all people to fly the flag. Its so easy an appeal, these guys are making economic violence on your downtrodden lives. Its exactly the appeal that moved Germany into such a violent appeal for respect. How can respect a Quebecois, should I drop my pants and say there you go at length will not measure up to the manhood of the Quebec measure of dick length based upon the phase of stimulation.. Oh fuck I am a minority on a contient that has not got over slavery. Please tell me you are not shirly serious abo... more »

The EU's funding of the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Do you remember the "brief frisson of excitement" a week or so ago about an article in the *Spectator *that I myself, sharing in that frisson, describedas looking like "a questions-really-need-answering kind of scoop to me, and quite damning against the BBC"? The *Speccie *had used FoI requests to force a reluctant BBC to reveal that it had received some £4 million in EU funding between 2011 and 2013. So what happened next? Well, nothing really. The "brief frisson of excitement" subsided, and the BBC's world continues to spin on regardless. Aha!...but, via Christopher Booker at ... more »

"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"* by Pamela Meyer "What if deception is in the eye of the beholder? And what if lies can help us tell the truth? Enter into the multimedia world of magician Marco Tempest and decide for yourself." "Marco is right: The biggest lies are the lies we tell ourselves. S.E. Hinton wrote in The Outsiders, "I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me." Maybe she was onto something. We've trained ourselves to accept certain truths about where we find fulfillment, where we find joy, and where we find success. But should we challenge that conventi... more »

We all like life

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 8 hours ago
When the tiger strikes how will you deflect its g force blows that even a kung fu fighter would say will take me to kingdom come and thats what I say wake up do not be stupid we have lives a life that is slipping away there is no cure just adapat and we could do this with no magical cure It would mean giving up all the commercial crap Kim kardasion would no longer be the targert of our youths sexucal and intetllecutal tarp. We must draw a new horizen and if you look to history this land was tamed and maintained in a sustainbale way sure some perverts slept with their daugters but they... more »

Research Mission: The Politics of Species Survival

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours ago
My research mission is to disclose political and environmental dangers to our well-being as a species. I study the politics of our vitality as a species and I've become increasingly interested in ionizing radiation's biological effects because they directly threaten species survival, a fact that has been known since the 1940s but has been deliberately denied for reasons of political power. Below find some data I've assembled about the reproductive and childhood effects of ionizing radiation. The data were assembled in response to a media inquiry about thyroid nodules & cancer among... more »

Lunch and Geocaching

Southern Man at Southern Man - 8 hours ago
Today was the monthly geocacher's lunch, which is always a great time. Forget geocaching - Little Gypsy came to sell cookies! Bonnie wasn't aware that the question was "who wants to host the next luncheon?" "Take this haunted Totem and recieve three free mushrooms!" Little Gypsy and Hate To Be Lost mug for the camera. After lunch Southern Man and Dr. Scissortail headed out to pick up a few caches... "Can't get in that way..." We were five feet from the cache, but had to trek to the other end of the tunnel and break out the flashlights to get to it. Good people and good tim... more »

Physical Therapy

Southern Man at Southern Man - 8 hours ago
So after numerous delays Southern Man finally gets his first appointment with the surgeon-recommended physical therapist to work on that ankle. But when Southern Man found out what it would cost ($200 per visit *with*insurance!) he decided that walking to distant geocaches would be both cheaper and more effective so he tackled one near the therapist called "Deer Trail" that was about a half-mile in to an undeveloped area. One of the deer didn't make it. So there will be no physical therapy this month, just lots of backwoods geocaching. Wait, isn't that how Southern Man broke his le... more »

"America's Glorious Empire of Debt, Part II"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*Editor's note:* America's economic recovery may seem like it is built on solid ground. But scratch the surface and a very different reality emerges. In their book, "The New Empire of Debt", Bill Bonner and co-author Addison Wiggin, reveal the faulty foundations on which the US economy rests. Through his widely followed e-letters and his bestselling books, Bill has made it his mission to warn readers about the dangers posed to them by America's debt-fueled and heavily manipulated economic model. He believes that the debt crisis of 2008 was just the first wave of a much bigger cris... more »

Ukraine, Quebec and the price of tea in China

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 9 hours ago
If John Wayne was an interplanetary cowboy sitting so high in his saddle he could see the earth like a big TV, what would he see? Violent death is part of the cowboy creed, and where that is happening you will find many gunslingers and a few Marshall who believe. The Duke would surely want to do the most good for the pilgrims of this planet. If that were the case he would be taking the reigns in hand in central Africa where the carnage is like worse than Gettysburg every week out of hand. Our maybe he would see the hundreds of gunshots death every day in the USA and think that's my... more »

Sandra - In the Heat of the Night

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 9 hours ago
East confronts West. Idle talk of a new Cold War is in the air. For some, including me, the nostalgic pull has proven too difficult to resist - musically speaking. Thankfully, German skies in the 1980s weren't lit up by shell fire and the exhaust trails of tactical nukes. Instead, galloping basslines, hairspray and concrete-hard shoulder pads cavorted under the shadow of the bomb. To recall that apposite time, for your aural delectation here is a battle hymn from the front.

Reproductive Public Health Ethics at MANCEPT 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 9 hours ago
Happy to be able to tell the world that a proposal headed by myself for a series of sessions at the increasingly popular and important MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory conference has been accepted for this year's edition, September 8-10, 2014. The proposal is on the theme of *Reproductive Public Health Ethics*, where a selected lineup of speakers from the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the UK will address different dimensions (biopolitics, bioethics, public health ethics, population ethics, environmental ethics) of ethics and value issues attached to reproductive policy. The ... more »

Ukraine and Gardening

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 10 hours ago
March 8, 2014 Ukraine, 2014 Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Thank goodness for the blogosphere. Yes, you have to pick your sources wisely, but you can find news there that the corporate owned, mainstream media won’t touch. Such is the … Continue reading →

Hawaii Cuts Uninsured Population in Half

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 10 hours ago
In case you haven't seen Charles Gaba's great website ACAsignups.net, you really need to see it. It is the best source available for tracking Obamacare enrollments, covering all categories of signups, including Medicaid, the federal and state exchanges, off-exchange signups, and estimated under-26ers. One of the most notable achievements of Obamacare is in the President's birthplace, Hawaii, where the number of uninsured people has already fallen by more than half, despite having a horrible website for the state-run exchange. The biggest chunk of this is through Medicaid enrollments... more »

Navajos welcome Fukushima to Four Corners forum: High Power March 13, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Cameron Venue Change from Monument Valley to Kayenta: Screening of "High Power" with Former Nuclear Engineer and Filmmaker Pradeep IndulkarPanel Discussion on Uranium Mining Impacts to be Held in Cameron Kayenta Contact: Klee Benally indigenousaction@gmail.com FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Pradeep Indulkar, a filmmaker from India who is also a qualified engineer and worked in an Atomic

No Unnecessary Testing, Not No Testing

skrashen at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
Submitted to the Indy Star, March 8, 2014 Tim Swarens writes that "Diane Ravitch’s opposition to accountability isn’t realistic," (March 7) because we need to "identify those who excel and those who lag behind." Agreed. But we don't need to test every child every year on every subject to find this out. The NAEP test, a zero-stakes standardized test, is given to samples of students every few years, and the results are extrapolated to get an accurate assessment of how districts, states and the country are doing. If we want to expand the NAEP to measure performance for individual scho... more »

TYSON REBOOTS SAGAN'S COSMOS

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 11 hours ago
*Neil deGrasse Tyson* *Finally, in this world of constant crisis, we have a reminder that we are part of something vast and magical that Carl Sagan introduced us to with his 1980's Cosmos series. Neil deGrasse Tyson channels the spirit of Sagan with his Cosmos: a spacetime Odyssey on March 9th and reinforces Sagan's observation that we are still the way for the cosmos to know itself: Allen L Roland * *When Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Journey aired on PBS in 1980, it went on to win an Emmy Award and become that network’s most-watched series... more »

Invite me next time Nigella, I like the sound of your dress code...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
The Mandrake column in today's Telegraph reports that Nigella Lawson's dinner parties are much more relaxed post her separation from Charles Saatchi. "... I realised there was nobody coming I would be uncomfortable in front of just wearing socks and leggings, and no make-up." Any time you want to invite me, I'll join you in wearing just socks and leggings, no make-up... The very thought!

Los Angeles Welcomes The California Democratic Party Convention

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Last night the California Democratic Party kicked off it's annual 3-day convention here in L.A. Professional Democrats of all stripes streamed into town. This morning, one national operative spat in disgust, "Everyone is so slovenly. This place in worse than ComicCon." For me, though, it was a wonderful opportunity for a series of lunches and dinners with old friends. For those who are serious about being in The Party, Party Chairman John Burton kicked off the real event with a welcoming speech at the Westin Bonaventure that sought to celebrate the Democratic victories-- Democrats... more »

More timid than the Poles

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
Two days ago, a blogger at The Economist wrote the article More timid than the Poles that describes the author's surprise that despite the Soviet-led 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak politicians avoid loud shouting of "War to Russia" and reject the sanctions, something that is heard from Poland. The article rates this "insufficiently heroic" Czech and Slovak attitude negatively. As you know, I think that in this very context of the Ukrainian crisis, our moderate reaction is a positive thing, and we should perhaps be even less anti-Russian. But I want to mention a... more »

The Lib Dems are unprincipled in pursuit of power? No shit Sherlock

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
The Telegraph reports that 'The Liberal Democrats are prepared to jettison any of their manifesto promises in order to get into power again, the party's policy chief indicated last night.' Is anyone in theI slightest bit surprised?

Examine the March 6 , 2014 President Obama Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine - And then ask this question Is the US declaring economic warfare on China and Russia ( think Treasury bonds , FNM and FRE debt , Mortgage backed securities - owned by China's government directly , by state investment vehicles / sovereign wealth funds , by wealthy individuals in Russia and China ) ? A fair reading of this Executive Order seems to indicate yes.......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
For Immediate Release March 06, 2014 Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq*.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 *et seq*.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182... more »

Ukraine Updates ( Late Friday as well as Friday morning March 7 , 2014 ) .....While Kiev , US and EU shriek loudly about the looming Crimea Referendum - with limp sanction - lite wrist slaps being imposed by the EU and US , both Crimea firmly stand their ground and intend to see the Referendum go forward....

Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
Late March 7 , 2014...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-07/russian-troops-storming-ukraine-air-force-base-crimea-time-reports-citing-crimea-tv Russian Troops Storm Ukraine Air Force Base In Crimea, Reuters Confirms [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2014 14:10 -0500 - Reuters - Ukraine inShare Update 2: *ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5* * * * Update, and this time from Reuters: - *ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL, NO SHOTS FIRED - REUTERS REPORTER ON THE S... more »

Start the Week, shipmates!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
Time for a belated bouquet (especially after all these brickbats)... This Monday's *Start the Week* was exceptional. Its theme was 'The Vikings and Seafaring'. For starters, there was Historian *Michael Wood* (yes him) talking about the Vikings. He's always great value. Here's a sample of his contribution to the programme: There's a sort of swaggering self-confidence to them. Arab and Persian writers refer to their tattoos, their long hair and their personal bathing habit, and their swagger. They are almost like Johnny Depp. I remember there was an exhibition in London in 1980, t... more »

MALAYSIAN AIRLINES MH370 - STOLEN PASSPORTS

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
Are 'terrorists' behind Malaysian Airline crash? Fears grow after it emerges two passengers were using stolen passports. "A European official said he was surprised that it had been possible to check in with stolen passports at the Kuala Lumpur airport and that an alert should have popped up on the airline agent’s computer." *Passport Theft Adds to Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines* Almihdhar. *Some of the 'CIA planning' for the 9 11 attacks in the United States was done in Malaysia. * Malaysia and 9 11 'The main planner' of the 'CIA bombings' on the Indonesian island of Bali... more »

Train traveler says he didn’t “get” Hawking!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014* *How often does that happen:* How often does *that* happen? This morning, in a local coffee joint, we guarded a younger fellow’s luggage as he used the men’s salon. In the long run, he seemed to be on his way to nearby Penn Station. Upon returning from the men’s room, he caught us perusing Stephen Hawking’s 1988 best-seller, A Brief History of Time. We’ve been reading our Hawking every morning in recent weeks. It’s an antidote to the infantilization involved in watching you-know-who tell her stories about scandal topics. This morning, a rare event occurr... more »

Teach For America and The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Katie Osgood at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
As the controversy around Teach For America grows, it is incredibly important to understand the role of venture philanthropy in education reform. This video provides powerful context in regards to how many nonprofits are used to maintain and exacerbate the injustices and inequalities in our world. Perhaps one of the most ad vanced mechanisms […]

Nova Scotia Newspaper in Hot Water Over Cartoon Comparing Harper to Nazis

LeDaro at LeDaro - 13 hours ago
Harper is a horrible prime minister, he does not care about democracy or science. He has tarnished Canada's image on the world stage by promoting the tarsands and by supporting George W. Bush style militarism. Canada was denied a seat on the UN Security Council because of how Harper has damaged the country's international reputation. No longer peacekeepers. I have no use for Harper, he is a bully with authoritarian tendencies promoting destructive policies, but calling is Nazi is a little too much. The cartoon (pictured above) appeared in the Pictou Advocate - a weekly Nova Scot... more »

Multiple Aliases for the Adult 'Victims' of Sandy Hook. No birth records for child victims. Who are those children who sang at the Super Bowl? Look familiar?

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 13 hours ago
I am so thankful for those on the internet who search for the Truth. Together we all uncover the LIES and Deception of Sandy Hook. We all do are different things regarding it. I have watched the information about the Aliases of Nancy Lanza and have done multiple searches regarding that too. The web of lies and many names she had is outrageous. It comes down to the fact that it appears Nancy

Pakistan’s Democratic Progression and the Impending Changes in Afghanistan

Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
This is guest post by Professor T.V. Paul* On March 5, 2014, the Nawaz Sharif government completed nine months in office, despite Pakistan’s continued economic crisis, chronic power shortages, and escalating sectarian violence. The military and the ISI are yet to show any inclination to wrest control of power from the civilians. In November, 2013 Continue reading

Breakthrough in human cloning raises hopes for treatment of Parkinson's and heart disease

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 14 hours ago
*THE INDEPENDENT* News could lead to tissue-transplant operations for range of debilitating disorders, also including MS and spinal cord injuries Steve Connor Thursday 16 May 2013 Scientists have finally made the long-awaited breakthrough in human cloning by turning skin cells into early-stage embryos that were then used to create specialised tissue cells for transplant operations, it has been revealed today. For the first time, researchers have unequivocally created human embryonic stem cells using the cloning technique that led to the birth of Dolly the sheep. However, unlike... more »

ARRIVED IN VEGAS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
I am in Las Vegas after a long flight yesterday from Portland-Newark-Vegas. You are hit with high-tech slot machines as soon as you come off the plane at the airport. The terminal is quite grand, but also quite unimaginative. In one massive rotunda they have four tall plastic palm trees standing there. Kind of a true symbol of the unreality of this place. I am staying in a $35 a night motel (who knew you could get a room in the US at that price anymore) sharing with Catholic Worker (CW) activist Dennis Apel who got me invited to speak to this west coast gathering of CW activi... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Lawsuit filed against oil and gas companies to face fierce opposition ~WWLTV * [image: http://gogreenarmy.com/] *~Editilla Conswellas~* Won't make it to'da Water Festival today, more for health reasons than lack of wanting to be there. I'll admit it, Ladderellos, Mardi Gras Kicked My Ass! It took a couple'a days to rise up but up it came like a viscous hurricane crup yesterday. But I hope all involved with this fine event know my anonymocity does not speak of ambivalence. I'm work in the undergrowth, beneath even the underground, beneath the grassroots. Some of you who've followed... more »

AUTHOR/ARTIST MIKE PHILBIN SELFIE Q&A:

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 15 hours ago
Q: So, you're working on two books at once, Mike? A: I am, one's called WATCHER, the other's called REAPER. I'm about 15,000 words into the WATCHER novel. I'm about 8,000 words into the REAPER novel. And they're both 'healthily' up in the air, even though I have 'last chapter' candidates for both novels. Q: What's it like writing two books at once, any bleedthrough? A: No, have you ever tried doing this? Q: Isn't it a lot like juggling a chainsaw and a shark at the same time? A: Not really, WATCHER is based in the TANDEM (g3 whistleblower) WAR WORLD of cities and espionage and ev... more »

Speaker Hensarling?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
It isn't easy getting credible and dependable Republican staffers on Capitol Hill to speak with me, even off the record. They're almost as bad as Blue Dogs and New Dems. I lucked out the other day-- with a slightly drunk-- and very horny-- one, who took a shine to my companion and was eager to show how well-connected he is. He seemed a lot more certain than anyone else I've spoken to that Boehner won't be running for Speaker again. Everyone else tells me he's wrong, although no one is certain. He says he is certain. And he says the lines are already being drawn for who will be the... more »

Crimea: Media Propaganda Machine set to "HIGH"

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 15 hours ago
This article is written especially for all those people that you know, that believe the main stream media and ONLY the main stream media's "NEWS". This article is for your family and friends and colleagues that believe that what the media is reporting on is the news as it really IS. For those who do not understand the political and financial controllers who tell the media what to report and more importantly, what NOT to report on. As I have been writing for the past few months, transparency IS coming out in the Main Stream Media (MSM). Usually the trick is being able to see/read b... more »

Alarm Bells Should Be Going Off

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The Harperites didn't consult Marc Mayrand when they drew up their election "reforms." And there was a reason they did everything they could to prevent him from testifying before the parliamentary committee looking into those reforms. But testify he did. And, Andrew Coyne writes, he shredded the bill: The chief electoral officer, in his quiet, workmanlike way, simply shredded it, almost line for line, proposing more than two dozen amendments that would effectively rewrite the bill. The provision banning “vouching” came in for particularly heavy fire: while the government insis... more »

Paper Tigers

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Following last week's post about the BBC's three paper tiger 'feedback' programmes (*Points of View, Feedback *and *Newswatch*), this week's *Newswatch *proved to be fairly typical of the species (though still the best). A very short bit on the question of BBC bias over Ukraine (a couple of bite-sized e-mails) was followed by much longer feature on that hardy perennial *Newswatch *topic: 'Why oh why, has Huw Edwards been sent to the Ukraine, wasting money, for no apparent reason?' [a good question, but as no one at the BBC *ever* takes the blindest bit of notice of it, it remains... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 16 hours ago
*Progressive Mission Creep In Your Diet* Ever heard of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee before? Neither had I before it came up in a discussion with a friend last week. This group meets every five years, under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, to update and set dietary guidelines for all Americans. Seems harmless enough, right? Well, much like every government entity that starts out with seemingly good intentions, progressives eventually discover a way for its influence and power to advance their agenda in ways n... more »

James Hunt - Thames Television interview

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnNn-TXXcw&feature=youtube_gdata_player What a marvellous interview and how well spoken James and the interviewer are, a different era and I would suggest a better one in some ways.

Mohawk Nation News 'War Club'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
WAR CLUB Posted on March 8, 2014 MMN. Mar. 7, 2014. Refusing to give us the results of his ongoing investigation of the 825 missing and murdered Aboriginal girls and young women is a travesty of justice. Peter McKay, the Minister of Justice, threw the reports onto the floor of the House of Commons. The Members of Parliament made jokes,  laughed and clapped. The guilt and cover up go

Grassroots Lower Brule: Fighting the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago
A Message from Owe Aku at Lower Brule - the Kul Wicasa Oyate By Kent Lebsock Owe Aku International Justice Project Censored News Dutch translation NAIS Lower Brule Kul Wicasa Oyate, Sovereign Lakota Territory, March 5, 2014  - When the people of the Kul Wicasa Oyate discovered that their IRA Tribal Council had allegedly signed a secret agreement with TransCanada, without the free,

'Newsnight': 3-7 March

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
So what were the stories *Newsnight *chose to cover last week? Here's this week's list: *Monday 3/3* 1. Ukraine/Russia. Interviews with Senator John McCain (Republican); Pavlo Sheremeta, interim Ukrainian economics minister; Sir Menzies Campbell (Lib Dem) & Alexander Nekrassov, former Yeltsin advisor. 2. Michael Gove "tells ushe doesn't care how posh his cabinet colleagues are, even if the voters do." Interview with Michael Gove (Con). 3. *Benefits Street. *Interview with 'White Dee'. 4. Cameron aide arrested over child pornography allegations. *Tuesday 4/3* 1. Downing Street's 's... more »

Be Not Afraid - A Quote by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
*We will say to be not afraid and be as who you are. That will be your greatest strength.* *A quote by M.N. Hopkins*

Soviet Ukraine

Paul Coker at News Spike - 19 hours ago
*"Since 1654, when the tsars began steadily to extend their control over Ukraine, Ukrainians had lived in two distinct worlds: one ruled by the Russians and the other by Poles or Austrians. As a result of the Second World War, the East/West Ukrainian dichotomy finally ceased to exist, at least on the political level. The process of amalgamation—of unification of two long-separated branches of the Ukrainian people—was not only a major aspect of the post-war period, but an event of epochal significance in the history of Ukraine."* *—Orest Subtelny, a Canadian historian of Ukrainian ... more »

The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 20 hours ago
*GasChamberHoax.com* *What is the "Holocaust" story really all about?*

German Nation Building

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago
The Young Poland of Lelewel and Worcell demands the re-creation of the Polish state and rollback of the 1772-95 partitions of Poland. But they go much further, laying claim to Poland in its old Jagiellonian borders, stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea. This includes an explicit denial that any Ukrainian nation exists. In the orbit of Young Poland is the poet Adam Mickiewicz, a close friend of Mazzini’s who was with him last year during the Roman Republic. Mickiewicz argues that Poland is special because it has suffered more than any other nat... more »

Russian Nation Building

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago
"I'll say that the Ukrainian people treated me well. I recall warmly the years I spent there. This was a period full of responsibilities, but pleasant because it brought satisfaction ... But far be it from me to inflate my significance. The entire Ukrainian people was exerting great efforts ... I attribute Ukraine's successes to the Ukrainian people as a whole. I won't elaborate further on this theme, but in principle it's very easy to demonstrate. I'm Russian myself, and I don't want to offend the Russians." Nikita Khrushchev, Former Premier of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Repu... more »

Purim

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago
Purim (Hebrew: פּוּרִים (help·info) Pûrîm "lots", from the word pur פור,[3] related to Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire where a plot had been formed to destroy them. The story is recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Ester מגילת אסתר in Hebrew). According to the Book of Esther, Haman, royal vizier to King Ahasuerus (presumed to be Xerxes I of Persia), planned to kill all the Jews in the empire, but his plans were foiled by Mordecai and his adopted daughter Esther who had risen to... more »

ROY JENKINS - CIA ASSET?

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
Roy Jenkins (above) had lots of mistresses and he mixed with the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Lord Victor Rothschild. Roy Jenkins was a friend of Noel Annan, Lord Annan, a British military intelligence officer. Lord Annan was married to Gabriele Ullstein. *Lord Annan* In 1966, Lord Annan, as 'provost' of King's College, Cambridge, held a dinner party at his home. This was attended by Lord Victor Rothschild, 'Home Secretary' Roy Jenkins (responsible for MI5) and Anthony Blunt (reportedly a key member of Lord Victor Rothschild's spy ring). Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ... more »

Decriminalise the BBC licence fee!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
There's a good deal of talk today about a cross-party initiative in parliament, now backed by some cabinet minister (including the Culture Secretary), which intends to change the law to stop classifying those who refuse to pay the BBC's TV licence fee as criminals. They want to turn it from a criminal offence into a civil matter. At the moment anyone convicted of the offence automatically gets a criminal record - and given the high number of convictions for this offence, that's resulting in *huge* numbers of people receiving a criminal record. Those behind the parliamentary moti... more »

A Lesser Spotted Oddie is sighted. Twitchers go mad.

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
Spring is definitely on the horizon. Daffodils ahoy! I woke this morning to hear what sounded like four-and-twenty blackbirds singing their hearts out, Neil Diamond-style, at various distances from our window, creating echo effects as one song paused and another one got going. It's a sound that always makes me feel just a little bit happier about things (except BBC bias, of course.) Having listened very attentively one year to a particular blackbird (the one who perched on the tree nearest to our back room), I now know that blackbirds have very individual songs. This bird, wh... more »

Videos: Ukraine's 'Iron Brigade' readies for combat; Putin: Russia could not ignore calls for help; Prayer for Ukraine

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
Ukraine's 'Iron Brigade' readies for combat. Source: Reuters. Date Published: March 7. Putin: Russia could not ignore calls for help. Source: Reuters. Date Published: March 7. Prayer for Ukraine. Source: TheCossackmate. Date Published: October 13, 2010. Description: Spiritual anthem of Ukraine, lyrics: Oleksandr Konysky, music: Mykola Lysenko.

BC Liberal`s LNG Bafflegab Bullshit(Inside the numbers)

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 22 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* Below is a release by the BC Liberal ministry of LNG propaganda, I`m about to shred their numbers one by one, but before I get there, this was released on the same day as Stats Canada revealed BC lost 10,400 jobs in the month of February, methinks this web was spun to deflect from the ongoing bad economic news emanating from British Columbia...Oh, and there was more, on this same day Christy Clark donned her same photo-op hardhat out in Port Moody at the Evergreen skytrain site, Global BC was ready with cameras in hand to blow Christy Clark`s Jobs Plan trump... more »

Pi

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago
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Crimea - Rumour Control

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago
This is Rumour Control - So here they are, the facts: 1) A Russian naval presence in Crimea dates to 1783 when the port city of Sevastopol was founded by Russian Prince Grigory Potemkin. Crimea was part of Russia until Nikita Khruschev gave it to Ukraine in 1954. 2) In 1997, amid the wreckage of the USSR, Russia & Ukraine signed a Partition Treaty determining the fate of the military bases and vessels in Crimea. The deal sparked widespread officer ‘defections’ to Russia and was ratified by the Russian & Ukrainian parliaments in 1999. Russia received 81.7 percent of the fleet’s... more »

Spesifikasi dan Harga Baru Huawei Ascend P6 Lengkap

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 23 hours ago
Spesifikasi dan Harga Baru Huawei Ascend P6 Lengkap | Huawei Ascend P6 adalah salah satu produk yang dikasih oleh brand Huawei , smartphone ini  memiliki beberapa fitur yang menarik dan bisa dibandingkan dengan brand lain pada kelasnya,  handphone itu  memiliki sistem operasi android V4.2.2 atau biasa aja dikenal di masyarakat dengan identitas android jelly bean,  dan juga memiliki prosesor

Energy Econ 15: Electricity Angsts, Presentation at UP Diliman

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours ago
The other day, I was one of three speakers in a forum on the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) at UP Diliman. The two other speakers were Maria Teresa "Maitet" Diokno of the Center for Power Issues and Initiatives (CPII) and Atty. Debora Anastacia Layugan of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). I knew that Maitet, a fellow UPSE alumni, would be talking critically and negatively about the EPIRA as I have read one of her articles on the subject. And it's good that she spoke ahead of me. She said that the law promised many things but has not delivered. Like bringin... more »

OK, geography whizzes, it's time once again to strut your geographical stuff. Plus: "How do you show the unshowable?"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*This cover was trickier than we civilians probably would have thought, since how, after all, do you illustrate black holes, which can't be seen? Tom O'Neill tells the story in "Behind the Cover: March 2014 -- How do you show the unshowable?"* *by Ken* In January I passed along the monthly geography quiz that *National Geographic* cleverly prints on the sheet that -- stuck inside the sealed plastic that carries your subscription copy -- serves as your address label ("Who's up for a jography quiz? Plus Garrison Keillor's 'personal geography' of 'home'"). I guess I was feeling kind ... more »

Predatory Reform Strikes Again: Kahn Academy and College Board

educationalchemy at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Kahn Academy and College Board have joined forced to “revise” college SAT testing! And they’ve brought their buddies ALEC, Gates, and McKinsey along for the ride. Predatory reform strikes again. Kahn Academy is the darling of education “reformers” and entrepreneurs, spearheading the movement to provide online instruction in lieu of bodied and interactive learning, to […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Bobby and Big Oil squash Mr. Bill ~Gambit *

CPAC 2014: Rand Paul electrifies the audience...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*"Imagine when the White House is occupied by a friend of liberty."* "I'm talking about electing lovers of liberty." "Our rights are inherent. They are inseparable from our person. Our rights are innate. They come from our Creator and no government can take them from us." "Let's take a stand." "It's a time for boldness and action." "Let us stand together for liberty."

John (Fire) Lame Deer, "The Green Frog Skin"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"The Green Frog Skin" by John (Fire) Lame Deer "The Green Frog Skin – that’s what I call the dollar bill. In our attitude towards it lies the biggest difference between the Indians and the whites. My grandparents grew up in an Indian world without money. Just before the Custer battle the white soldiers had received their pay. Their pockets were full of green paper and they had no place to spend it. What were their last thoughts as an Indian bullet or arrow hit them? I guess they were thinking of all that money going to waste, of not having had a chance to enjoy it, of a bunch of du... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Brilliant Venus and the central Milky Way rise in the early morning hours of March 1 in this sea and skyscape. The scene looks out from a beach at Sea Isle City, New Jersey, USA, planet Earth. *Click image for larger size.* Of course, Earth orbits well within the solar system's habitable zone, that Goldilocks region not too close and not too far from the Sun where surface temperatures can support liquid water. Similar in size to Earth, Venus lies just beyond the inner boundary of the habitable zone. The watery reflection of light from our inhospitable sister planet is seen along a c... more »

Chet Raymo,“The Spare And The True”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“The Spare And The True”* by Chet Raymo “Twice during the past few years, someone has alerted me to quotes from my Globe columns in the American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed.), illustrating the use of words. For spacefaring, the dictionary cites my reference to "spacefaring nations." For exotic, 2. Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange, the dictionary cites my observation "If something can be explained simply, in a familiar way, then it is best to avoid more exotic explanations." Now that pleases me. I contributed Ockham's Razor to the American Heritage Dictionary... more »

Washington State Legislature Considers Tying Test Scores to Teacher and Principal Evaluations

James Boutin at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Two bills currently under consideration before the legislature in Olympia, Senate Bill 5880 and House Bill 2800, would mandate the inclusion of state test scores in both teacher and principal evaluations. These bills were introduced after US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Governor Jay Inslee that he would not consider extending a NCLB waiver currently in place […]

"Pinocchio Paul" Ryan blames his latest whopper on one of Scott Walker's hired liars

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Rep. "Pinocchio Paul" Ryan (R-WI) says this lie isn't his fault!* . . . Should [Ryan] get a pass because he heard this from a witness before Congress? It really depends on the circumstances. In this case, he referenced the story in a major speech. The burden always falls on the speaker, and we believe politicians need to check the facts in any prepared remarks. In this case, apparently, the story was too good to check. We appreciate he is regretful now. But a simple inquiry would have determined that the person telling the story actually is an advocate for the federal programs ... more »

SHADES OF TRUTH

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
At an EU summit in Brussels, Ukraine's interim Prime Minister has claimed that there are Russian tanks on the ground in the country. That's despite Ukraine's own border patrol maintaining that no forces had crossed the frontier. Well in her regular report - Gayane Chichakyan has put together the many other claims around events in Ukraine that simply don't add up.

Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people --- flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing , arrival time was 22:30 GMT.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Malaysia Airlines plane missing with more than 200 passengers on board DateMarch 8, 2014 - 12:25PM - *1225* reading now - Read later Nick Toscano - - - - inShare - submit to reddit - Email article - Print - Reprints & permissions - [image: Malaysia Airloine.] A Malaysia Airline plane is missing with 200 passengers. *Photo: Joe Armao* Search and rescue teams are trying to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that has gone missing with more than 200 passengers on board. The airline lost contact with the B777-200 aircraft after it departed Kuala Lum... more »

Emerging market debt - China faces the threat of another corporate bond default ( which would be the third such threatened default of a credit product so far this year ) as a solar related company has a interest payment due Friday March 7 , 2014 which is allegedly cannot meet - do we see China kick the default can down the road again ? Hidden debts of emerging market nations ( Russia and Ukraine in focus ) , examining offshore debt issuance for those nations with the largest exposures .... Emerging markets face problem with arithmetic - Ordinary households in too many countries have seen their share of total GDP plunge. Until it rebounds, the global imbalances will only remain in place, and without a global New Deal, the only alternative to weak demand will be soaring debt ......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Zero Hedge.... China On The Verge Of First Corporate Bond Default Once More [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2014 22:50 -0500 - Bond - China - Creditors - default - European Central Bank - Eurozone - fixed - Gross Domestic Product - Reality - Reuters - Risk Management - Shadow Banking - Yuan inShare1 While everyone was focusing on the threat of tumbling debt dominoes in China's shadow banking sector, a new threat has re-emerged: regular, plain vanilla corporate bankruptcies, in the co

Putin Flouts Obama as Neocons Stew

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
In the latest episode in the ongoing reality show* ‘Death of a Narcissist’* it is almost painful to see the incredible shrinking president Barack Obama continuing to thrash about on his own hook. For the second time in six months or so he has talked much smack in leading the international law violation machine that is neocon U.S. foreign policy towards yet another crisis that despite his bellicose rhetoric and a pocket media onslaught he has no way of emerging victorious. In the late 1980's dark comedy "The War of the Roses" the divorce attorney played by Danny DeVito wisely offer... more »

UKRAINE CRISIS: What You Need to Know About the Sniper Leak

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
[image: AMTV] AMTV *Mar 7, 2014* In today's video, Christopher Greene of AMTV reports on the Ukraine sniper leak. http://www.amtvmedia.com/re-direct-uk...

Classroom Activity: Institutions as Epiphenomena and Screening Mechanisms

Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a lecture (slides) on how international institutions promote cooperation. In that lecture, I presented the epiphenomenal critique, which I think establishes an important baseline, then went on to discuss specific mechanisms by which institutions might solve coordination problems, collaboration problems, and problems of trust/fear of exploitation (the Continue reading

The thesis of this column is that the U.S. "mainstream media" reports only "news" vetted by the U.S. Government, an entity that lies on virtually every issue for which We The People would be better off learning the truth. The "mainstream media" now reports only the government's version, because several well known and respected U.S. newscasters have been fired for telling the truth. Currently, the government propaganda being passed off as news is blaming Russia for things that happened recently in Ukraine that Russia did not commit. Ironically, a popular American newscaster for Russia Today (RT), Abby Martin fell for some of this propaganda and criticized Russia on the air for doing things it actually didn't do ...and yet she was NOT fired! So who is the "Evil Empire" now?

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *Propaganda Rules The News –Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ March 5, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Propaganda Rules The News Paul Craig Roberts Gerald Celente calls the Western media “presstitutes,” an ingenuous term that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has been no jo... more »

Musical Interlude: Kevin Wood, “In Search Of Kindred Spirits”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Kevin Wood, “In Search Of Kindred Spirits” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxkT5TQbWg

“A Social Science of Human Rights” – Some New Social Science

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
This morning, I woke up with a very nice notice about the 50th Anniversary Issue of Journal of Peace Research in my inbox. The issue is worth checking out – there’s some good stuff in there. As a human rights scholar, I was really interested in the “A Social Science of Human Rights” piece by Emilie Continue reading

Fully serve the Shenendehowa 568!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014* *The Times attends kindergarten:* Are we a literate people? Do we know how to read and write? Increasingly, we’d have to say the answer is no. For our latest case in point, we present an article which appeared on the front page of today’s New York Times, “New York Edition” only. The report concerns full-day kindergarten in the state of New York. From his study carrel on the front page, Al Baker describes the problem: BAKER (3/7/14): A significant expansion of full-day preschool in the state is likely in the coming years, though a fight continues between Gov.... more »

Why Settle? Is Bernie Sanders Going To Run For President?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Why Settle is the name of an ActBlue page that suggests that we do *not*have to always settle for vile careerist corporate shills as presidential nominees. Alternatives are offered. One of those alternatives is the great independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders. And yesterday, John Nichols offered Sanders*The Nation*'s platform to explain why he's prepared to run (against Hillary Clinton and whichever right-wing automaton the Republicans put up. "Sanders," writes Nichols, "has begun talking with savvy progressive political strategists, traveling to unexpected locations suc... more »

It's Time for Congress to Investigate High Stakes Testing

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
More than 400 educators, citizens, bloggers, activists and parents met in Austin, Texas for the first Annual Network for Public Education Conference. The press release just doesn't seem to be getting much press. Diane Ravitch was on the Ed Show last night on MSNBC. I suppose that's a start but the real story, Ed, is the call for investigative Congressional hearings on how high stake standardized testing has become the WMD in the takeover of public schools by for profit corporations. Pick up the phone and call your representatives and let them know that you've had enough of this ga... more »

Quixotic Left? Well, "Not True Sales" Has Been Regular Bank Business for Decades . . . So . . . (Feeding the Beast) Di(a)mon(d) Still Golden, Er . . . Platinum (Not All Agricultural Systems Are Created Equal)

JPMorgan and other megabanks have now been caught in over a dozen major frauds, including LIBOR-rigging and bid-rigging; yet no prominent banker has gone to jail. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of all mortgages nationally remain underwater (meaning the balance owed exceeds the current value of the home), sapping homeowners’ budgets, the housing market and the economy. Since the banks, the

Going to Morocco- Are you Coming?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
We are on our Way to Morocco!!!! I want to send a huge THANK YOU out to everyone who has donated funds for us to get there- we have received enough to book our air fare to get Back to Morocco and we will be leaving in the next couple of weeks. Now comes the packing and sorting and making lists of what to bring with us, what to ship :blankets, towels, extra clothing, pots and pans and kitchen wares, books, toys, - for the community in Morocco. Nick and I are also considering gathering up supplies- house hold goods, construction materials etc...- in Canada and shipping a contain... more »

A Schneider Debriefing on Weingarten

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On Sunday, March 2, 2014, I participated in a much-publicized Common Core (CCSS) panel with four other individuals as part of the Network for Public Education (NPE) first annual conference in Austin, Texas. (A 40-minute video of the CCSS panel can be found here; a five-minute video excerpt of my seven-minute opener can be found here.) One […]

Friday Nerd Blogging: Textual Analysis Edition

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Everything is awesome! But I do wonder if the song from the Lego movie (see below) is not just a secret appeal to irredentism: “Everything is cool when we are part of a team!” So, everything is better when folks are united, and what is more united than a mother country with its lost territory? Continue reading

INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*The Scottish National Party (SNP) wants Scotland to be independent, but are the SNP being led by the wrong people?* *According to commentator John Wight: * "The SNP, and the broader YES campaign they are leading, are *starting to pay a heavy price for their timidity* *in putting forward a vision for Scottish independence*, *which can be summed up as 'independence without independence.'"* *Campaign for Scottish independence vulnerable* *In the Financial Times, John Kay wrote: * "It is possible to imagine a future for an independent Scotland characterised by *reactionary municipal... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Syrian Archbishop tells USA: Stop Murdering Syrians

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Video Title: Syrian Archbishop tells USA: Stop Murdering Syrians. Source: Mussalaha Reconciliation. Date Published: March 2, 2014. Description: This is an excerpt from an interview with the Archbishop of Hassakeh-Nisibi for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Behnan Hindo, where he expresses his anger at Western foreign policy that has been actively backing hardline Wahhabi terrorists to topple the Syrian government while causing all Syrians to suffer as a result. Quote: "I myself am not that much for the government. However, when I compare what awaits me with these people to what I ha... more »

Rick Perry inspires at CPAC: "Good morning, America"...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*I still like Rick Perry.* I leave you with this as I dash off to work.

Watch "There Is No European Demos: Why AECR will not propose a candidate for the Commission Presidency" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
EU democracy? A chimera... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngp1V3M1NVA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

orgasm power

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
wilhelm reich watch the documentary

Justice Vic Toews

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
*OTTAWA, March 7, 2014* – The Honourable Peter MacKay, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Central Nova, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment: *The Honourable Victor E. Toews* is appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba to replace Mr. Justice D.P. Bryk, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of February 16, 2014. Mr. Justice Toews received a Bachelor of Laws from Robson Hall, University of Manitoba, in 1976 and was admitted to the Bar of Manitoba in 1977. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of ... more »

Watch "BDS Bullies at NUI Galway"

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The sound of prejudice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoHKOZUEJcE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And finally...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Oh, those i's and t's! I just can't leave them be without wanting every last one of them dotted and crossed, so here's a final post about that flippin' "suppressed" immigration that *Newsnight *was so pleased with itself for reporting about the other night, and about which you're probably well and truly sick of hearing about!... Last night's *Newsnight* *di*d return to the story (as predicted) but, rather like Ian Katz's tweet earlier in the day heavily insinuating that the government chose yesterday to release the report because it was 'a good day to bury bad news' (because of t... more »

"I Rise Today To Talk About The Persecution Of Christians Around The World!" Congressman Byrne; Hezbollah's Leader to Christians: 'Where are your Churches, Crosses, & Nuns?' - English Subtitles

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
The main reason why Christians are under threat in Syria and across the Middle East is because Congressman Byrne's own lunatic government is backing extremist forces like Al-Qaeda with money and weapons, not because of the attitudes of the people of these countries towards Christians. Blaming the governments of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq for the persecution of Christians is a bit rich when it is the U.S. government that has backed anti-Christian Al-Qaeda terrorists in these countries. Along with Al-Qaeda and other intolerant groups, the other force that is threatening and persecuting C... more »

Will BRAVO Spawn A Monster This November… In Charleston?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
No one knows if South Carolina Republican-turned-Libertarian Thomas Ravenel is floating trial balloons about running for Senate this year-- against his nemesis Lindsey Graham-- as a publicity stunt for his new BRAVO TV show, Southern Charm or if his participation in the shocking TV show is a publicity stunt for his Senate run. But this week the *Post and Courier* broke the story-- for those who didn't watch the first episode of the bizarre Charleston-based reality-sit-com-- that Ravenel may take on Lindsey Grahamas an independent candidate. For those who haven't been following the... more »

\(P=NP\) is conceivable; there is no partial evidence in purely discrete mathematics

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Scott Aaronson of MIT has finally written his new essay The Scientific Case for \(P\neq NP\) where your humble correspondent is appointed as the spokesman of the people who suggest that \(P\neq NP\) is just “a fashionable dogma of the so-called experts,” something that’s no more likely to be true than false. A fine summary, by the way. We the doubters can even point to at least one accomplished complexity theorist, Dick Lipton, who publicly advocates agnosticism about whether \(P=NP\), Scott says. (Check that my text on \(P=NP\) and the Erdös problemthat was written two weeks earli... more »

“Christie’s Bridge, Netanyahu’s Diet”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Christie’s Bridge, Netanyahu’s Diet”* by Thomas Are “It’s been a half a year and Chris Christie is still in the news. At least his administration is in trouble because they shut down two of three access lanes to the George Washington Bridge. Last August, a deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, emailed David Wildstein, the governor’s appointee to the Port Authority, saying, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” Wildstein responded, “Got it.” And, “it” caused a huge traffic jam for days and the question remains, “Did Christie know about it?” Americans just won’t put ... more »
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