Monday, April 14, 2014

14 April - Blogs I'm Following

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ForeignPolicy.Com Fail

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 9 minutes ago
As I noted last week, for the final project in my linked seminar this year, my students have to design and launch a website to promote their fictitious human rights NGO. In prepping for the course and in developing the grading rubrics, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading the literature on what makes Continue reading

Jindal to Dump PARCC?

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 25 minutes ago
An April 14, 2014, nola.com article has Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal publicly saying he is “willing” to leave the Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers (PARCC)– and even the Common Core State Standards (CCSS): Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he is willing to withdraw Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the assessment associated with the Common Core academic standards if the […]

Alise Mills works for British Columbians for Prosperity

Alison at Creekside - 31 minutes ago
Pipelines booster *British Columbians for International **Prosperity* or BC4P, whose website DeSmogBlog noted 4 days ago "bears remarkable similarity to the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity", is "*an independent group* *of concerned citizens *looking to promote practical resource development" yadda yadda. They dropped the "International" from their brand name back in February : They are not for "International Prosperity" any longer apparently. This is possibly due to their new campaign *moneytrail.ca*, which in turn bears a remarkable similarity to Ethical Oil's "Foreign Speci... more »

Why the Growing Opt Out Movement Puts Fear into the Antiquated Losers of Corporate Education Reform

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
I was chatting today with someone I had not seen in a while, and told them about my work in support of United Opt Out and how it could 6 percent of parents keeping their children home on test days could make the tests unusable for the sorting and punishing they are intended. Brilliant, she said. Brilliant, indeed. That is why the creaky dean of CorpEd, Chester Finn, has offered his own "love it or leave it" message to all parents who insist that public schools should be about learning, rather than testing and corporate profits. The responses at Finn's own website should tell hi... more »

About yesterday's terrorist events in Overland Park: We're all in Kansas, Toto

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*The Overland Park alleged perp is, alas, only too well-known to hate-terrorist trackers like the Southern Poverty Law Center.* *by Ken* When Howie e-mailed this morning asking if I had any interest in "doing anything on the KKK guy who murdered the 3 in Kansas," my first thought was: I had some flash of a thought about it this morning while I was reading about it. I forget what the thought was, but maybe it'll come back to me. (More interesting, I hope, than "Oh God, not this again.") I know that before I knew what had happened, I'd read an e-mail from the 92nd Street Y referring... more »

How the West was Lost: Ranchers and Empire in the American West

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
[image: article-2603026-1D0F67D100000578-703_634x411] “*20 Cowboys Break Fed Blockade in Nevada, Retrieve Cattle*” *The recent victory of the Bundy family over invading federal agents – with a posse of armed cowboys riding herd on the agents -- has been characterised as **How the West Was Was Won* *. Author of this Guest Post Ryan McMaken is not so sure.* The militarised siege of a cattle ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn national attention as dozens of federal agents, armed with machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and more, have descended on the ranch to seize catt... more »

Libya Updates - April 14 , 2014 -- Trial of Saif, Saadi and Qaddafi-era officials adjourned By Ashraf Abdul Wahab. Tripoli, 14 April 2014: The hearing of cases against Saif and Saadi Qaddafi, along with 35 senior former regime officials, was today adjourned after less than half an hour of proceedings......Tunisia will hand over 10 Qaddafi officials only after “due legal process” ........ BREAKING NEWS: Al-Thinni resigns after attack on family home - says " No Thanks " to a thankless job ! Petrol supply in west resumes as Zawia blockade ends

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
Trial of Saif, Saadi and Qaddafi-era officials adjourned *By Ashraf Abdul Wahab*. *Tripoli, 14 April 2014*: The hearing of cases against Saif and Saadi Qaddafi, along with 35 senior former regime officials, was today adjourned after less than half an hour of proceedings. The trial was suspended until 27 April on the grounds that only 23 of the 37 defendants were present. The scene in court today was one of disorganisation and confusion, despite assurances from authorities beforehand that proceedings would go ahead unimpeded and with full transparency. Saif, along with seven individu... more »

drugs make money

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
every day in every way there are millions of citizens working away to make life better some of those are on the dime but no matter what the motivation they are doing things right. In this life I have seen there is so much to criitze and mostly it has come from the wrong end of a realiztion] the only reason they wanted contact with me was to decive. So cancer patient warriors and drug people with PHD that are working on low pay for you and me well I salute you because you are the finest taking your brains that are rare and working them for humanity well that is so rare As a unworthy hum... more »

Jungle Cat facts

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
Some people want to see you live not ugly others just do not care they say to justify let you make your own world of not worry like a jungle cat knowing it can not be knocked off as a matter of a fact

Sweeping

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
time wisks of history move the dust so slowly but in the end they get the job done if you are smart enough or so disenfranchised that you care to notice do not be bedeviled by historical dustbunnies gathered at your windows they all subside most never hit home and the worst of them die in flames in a battle which they entered rich and infallable and were to stupid to leave/

METRO | Proposed system for court-appointed attorneys must have accountability

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 TRAVIS COUNTY — The proposal, reported in the Austin American-Statesman on April 12, to create a new system for the appointment of attorneys who represent poor criminal defendants … finish reading *METRO* | Proposed system for court-appointed attorneys must have accountability

Psychology: "Positive Self-Deception"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"Positive Self-Deception"* by Damninteresting.com "Most people think of the "mentally disordered" as a delusional lot, holding bizarre and irrational ideas about themselves and the world around them. Isn’t a mental disorder, after all, an impairment or a distortion in thought or perception? This is what we tend to think, and for most of modern psychology's history, the experts have agreed; realistic perceptions have been considered essential to good mental health. More recently, however, research has arisen that challenges this common-sense notion. In 1988, psychologists Shelly Ta... more »

"Who Are You? How Do You Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character." - Henry Rollins

continuum so fantastic

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
Wow lets get hot lets take the signal and jump it up up to a place where even the most jaded can recogize some granite if geology is not were you mix ok politics just get it started just ket it real just recognize that like a doctor what you do every day means people will be here or politics rule Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit hard and heavy predomitates thouhg only in your world If you can find a majority living in shit you can rule the world but mother earth will give you ELboa for abusing the rules of which we are making everyday and with every birth

Dunedin hotel project death a symbol of the RMA

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
This is one we know about: a project stopped dead in its very expensive tracks by council intransigence – a council exercising their absolute powers under the Resource Management Act and Local Government Act, finally frustrating a property owner beyond reason. *Dunedin $100m waterfront hotel plans scrapped* Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been scrapped and the developers' partnership with the Dunedin City Council has descended into acrimony. Hotel developer Jing Song yesterday confirmed she had torn up a memorandum of understanding with the council,... more »

Chet Raymo, “L'amor Che Move il Sole e L'altre Stelle”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*“L'amor Che Move il Sole e L'altre Stelle”* by Chet Raymo “Like many of us, I faithfully check APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). When this image popped open the other day it took my breath away. I sat there gaping for five minutes. *Click image for much larger size.* Go to APOD. Drag the image to your desk-top. Open it and make it large enough to fill your screen. Or at least click on the image here. You are looking into the heart of the Great Orion Nebula, a gassy star-forming region of the Milky Way Galaxy that appears to the unaided eye as a blurry star in the scabbard of Or... more »

I want to be subersive

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 2 hours ago
I want to be subersive I really want to do those things that will change the world to make you the one that wants to cling to some kind of love based upon chemistry but that is long dead based upon a silicon society that might as well in the real world be dead bits and bytes and bandwidth romance we used to call it masturbation but now its a romantic truth I love your page so much I want to expire if you got a virus and we could not connect in the usual texting of unbelievable wire did you know that betty Sue was only Sue and her father was Dick Cheney and that how she got into Princeton an... more »

Michael Voris: Cultural Nazis...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
*against the Church.*

The "news" and Southern Poverty Law Center pushing ANTI-SEMITE Story Down Our Throats Today

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 2 hours ago
Everywhere I turn, I hear on the "news" about this ANTI-SEMITE who shot some people in Kansas at two Jewish Centers. He killed two CHRISTIANS, but that's another story. How many people got killed today or in the last few days? Why is THIS story being shoved down our throats? Be wary of any story that mentions: SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, ANTI-SEMITE, NEO-NAZI, SKINHEAD, HITLER, WHITE SUPREMACIST. And this story has ALL those buzzwords! The Southern Poverty Law Center, or AIPAC-SOUTH, is all about fomenting anti-semitism and using sensationalizing stories like this to "suggest" ... more »

A People’s History of Egypt, Part 21, Section 2, 1992-2000

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
A 2001 Human Rights Watch report outlined the severe human rights violations of the Mubarak regime between 1992 and 2000. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's … finish reading A People’s History of Egypt, Part 21, Section 2, 1992-2000

OMG, But They’re Breaking the Law!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
They’re breaking the law! OMG! Society will break down!! Ah, maybe not. Just look at these dangerous, anti-social rule-breakers… [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-01] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-16] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-08] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-09] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-10] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-18] [image: Anarchists-Funny-Rebels-04] More dangerous rule-breakers here. [Hat tip Jim Matzger] PS: I always figured there’s a great opportunity for rule-breaking holidays around the US, heading around the country to break every state’s wei... more »

NSA Reporting Wins Pulitzer Prize to Dismay of Fascists

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 3 hours ago
Fanatical Long Island Congressman Peter King, a supporter of the terrorist wing of the Irish Republican Army erupted on Monday in yet another of his trademark mouth-foaming tirades. Congressman King, the pride of New York's Second Congressional District - whose residents insist on screwing America by returning this lunatic piece of crap to office - threw a temper tantrum directed at that hated concept of freedom of the press in denouncing the Pulitzer Prize being awarded for reporting on the unconstitutional rampage of the NSA Stasi. Launching into a Twitter frenzy, King called the... more »

He did not die to soon

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 3 hours ago
Game of Thrones is a well told story. Has there ever been a character you wanted dead more than the little prince? And this is a story just in the middle.

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk--Russia 1710 Treaty Belt'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
MOHAWK-RUSSIA 1710 TREATY BELT Posted on April 13, 2014 MNN. Apr. 13, 2014. In 1710 the four chiefs from the [Iroquois Confederacy] Rotino’shonni:onwe went to the Court of Queen Anne in London to make peace treaties with the 13 European monarchical families. It was the first International Conference on World Peace called by our people to make the same kind of peace treaties we had

Solitary Confinement Exhibition Plants Seed for Advocacy Among SULC Student Body

angola3news at Angola 3 News - 4 hours ago
*Solitary Confinement Exhibition Plants Seed for Advocacy Among SULC Student Body* *Written for Angola 3 News by Arisa A. Banks * *(3L Class Representative; Symposium Editor, Journal of Race, Gender, & Poverty)* The seed for advocacy was planted among the student body stirred by the Solitary Confinement Exhibition, during 2014 Law Week activities at the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Oliver B. Spellman Law Library’s Civil Rights Room was the site for the exhibit throughout Law Week, March 17-21. Inspired by the remarkable story of the Angola 3, thi... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Jeanie Riess on the lack of bus stop infrastructure at the Canal Street transfer hub ~Gambit* *Public Demo Aims to Improve CBD Transit Hub ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Owen Courreges: Freret bus line sacrificed to prop up new Loyola Avenue streetcar numbers ~Uptown Messenger*

Women no longer Nwords of the world

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 4 hours ago
I am out for a walk a long way from nowhere if that place exists in this sandbox I gotta take a pee I got no choice when you gotta go you gotta go is my phyisiand remorse Someone doing the same captures my event they tweet it out and its bytes ill spent but if I were a women it would be a different story so lets just close down this debate if you are born a wonmen on this planet you face a different fate and we can be lords of the jungle or just be civilized when it comes to women lets always make the law on their side after all they have a magical ability they can reproduce.

Business 360 17: Electricity and GDP Growth

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 4 hours ago
* This is my article for Business 360, a monthly magazine published in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 2014 issue. ------------ Electricity powers many economic activities in any society, from small shops that give jobs to micro entrepreneurs to cranes that build huge and tall buildings. Economies that rely more on human and animal power and energy tend to be very poor because of low productivity while those that use more machines that run on extensive electricity tend to be rich because of higher productivity. Below is an illustration of how selected Asian economies have expanded their el... more »

US WANTS TO CREATE CHAOS ALONG RUSSIAN BORDERS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 5 hours ago
A top Obama admin official says Washington is considering arming Ukrainian govt forces. RT's Gayane Chichakyan has the details. To find out more about this development, Nebojsa Malic a foreign affairs expert and historian joins us live. Can't ask it often enough - what if Russia was arming people on our Canadian or Mexican borders?

Labor Econ 13: The Term 'Jobless Growth' is Wrong

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours ago
* This is my article in thelobbyist.biz last Friday. ----------- The term "jobless growth" is wrong. Growth means more or additional output from (a) more workers and entrepreneurs employed, or (b) the same number of workers and entrepreneurs producing more from the same input (ie, higher productivity). If (b) happens, then higher productivity people will create new jobs elsewhere -- additional nanny for the kids, eating outside more often, jobs for those in restos/bars/hotels. Assuming that the same number of employed people, say 37 million, was recorded this year as last year, it ... more »

Ukraine: A Thought Experiment

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
1. You run an authoritarian regime in a vast country beset with economic problems, corruption, and ethnically-based insurgencies. 2. The nation on your doorstep - which formerly used to be an integral part of the multinational state ran from your capital for 70 years - has been intriguing with your long-term opponents in the international arena. Former client states and allies are now under the umbrella of their transnational military alliance and supra-national political project. There is ample evidence they were materially supporting opposition social movements in said neighbouri... more »

Why Democrats Won't Win Back The House In 2014-- Don't Blame Hillary

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
This morning, everyone was talking about Maggie Haberman's new piece for *Politico*, Struggling Dems waiting for Hillary in 2014. While many progressives grappled with the idea that the Democratic Party seems wedded to a candidate who is another servant of Wall Street corporate interests, there are other unpleasant implications to be considered. Short version: the pathetic Beltway Democrats have turned off their base so badly that they can't get them to come out and vote without luring them with a celebrity. So… forget the midterms-- chances to take back the House nonexistant/Sena... more »

Do A Lot of Evil? (Google Plays With the Corpse of the USA)

Yep. Believe it. That is how the free market works. Today. And, heckfire, it may always work that way if we don't organize to defeat this money-force now. Andrew Leonard speaks: Here’s how the free market works. Libertarian think tanks get paid by private corporations to host conferences designed to push industry-friendly regulation. It’s a beautiful thing to watch. The emergence of

One Skull one Ear Redux

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 5 hours ago
Do not know you at all. But I like you. Thats a rare skill. Obviously you exploit it, but what makes you strange is you have the intellectual heft as proven by the way the worm turns to back up your stuff A subversive with a pedigree we have no seen that in Canada since Darcy McGee. The problem as you as well are sure to analyze what is the target we got a lot of sheep and sheep dogs working the fields making some kind of economic activity beyond the comprehension of a border collie Someone sometime has to against the stream row when then know we are on course to go over the falls I inve... more »

Alan Waldman : ‘Dirty, Pretty Things’ with Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor is a movie you should see

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago
Drama, exposé, thriller, and more, this is a powerful film that grabs and holds you from beginning to surprise ending. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of … finish reading Alan Waldman : ‘Dirty, Pretty Things’ with Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor is a movie you should see

Towton: Englisc Culture Awakening

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 5 hours ago
Living in the colonised part of the West Riding, it is easy to forget that England is still alive. Within easy driving distance from the colonised and ruined Pennines, is the beautiful village of Towton; a place which is a part of the West Riding, no matter that it has been classified as North Yorkshire by idiots who like to draw lines on maps with no respect for the people who live in the places they defile. Yesterday marked the anniversary of the Battle of Towton. The Battle itself occurred on Palm Sunday 1461, which in that year was on the 29th March, hence the anniversary bein... more »

One Skull one ear

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Van Gogh left a legacy of one skull ear missing. Plus the colours in his painting all bled into each other. You have to believe I want to monetize my body parts. The winners I despise have made their fortune keeping people down. I have not a single upstream swirl of progressive air about me like Dyson If Tesla charge their batteries from me they might have a one time world record but I could not sustain that output. Show me the money. All politics is local. You win a ground game by dominating the space you work in. We have a surplus of very smart people doing very dumb things. I wou... more »

Snowden revelations lead to Pulitzer Prizes for courageous media

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
A Vindication for the Public: The Guardian and Washington Post Win the Pulitzer Prize April 14, 2014 By Edward Snowden https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/vindication-public-guardian-and-washington-post-win-pulitzer-prize I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago

Maybe the Royals have some value after all?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
I’m beginning to think the Royal Family may have some value after all. Two recent incidents, relating to two damned big issues, have changed my mind. It was reported yesterday by Radio NZ1 that Prince William expressed surprise when visiting Christchurch that the rebuilding in Christchurch is taking so long. Translated from diplomatic Royal-speak, which never ever even implies fault or wrongdoing, you might read that as asking, “What the fuck have you been doing all this time, and how come it’s taking so freaking long.” Which is a fair question, Your Eminence – the correct ans... more »

Paul Craig Roberts,“Washington is Humanity’s Worst Enemy”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*“Washington is Humanity’s Worst Enemy”* by Paul Craig Roberts "How does Washington get away with the claim that the country it rules is a democracy and has freedom? This absurd assertion ranks as one of the most unsubstantiated claims in history. There is no democracy whatsoever. Voting is a mask for rule by a few powerful interest groups. In two 21st century rulings (Citizens United and McCutcheon), the US Supreme Court has ruled that the purchase of the US government by private interest groups is merely the exercise of free speech. These rulings allow powerful corporate and fina... more »

Game of Thrones and the great illiteracy

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Special interests no matter what their stripe despise knowledge. The pen remains mightier than the sword but in the 21st century the movement to fuse them together defies history. History is a broken record of science replacing the siren song of lobbyist. While we move forward on many fronts its remarkable how the lobbyists have reason if not in retreat under some kind of he said she said control. Vaccines are proven to wipe out disease that previously killed millions of people and left millions more weakened for life. Yet today we have millions of idiot parents refusing to vaccine... more »

Mexico: Strange Lights Over the Yucatan Peninsula

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 6 hours ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and SIPSEDate: April 11, 2014* *Mexico: Strange Lights Over the Yucatan Peninsula* *By Jorge Moreno, SIPSE* *Jose Peña of Valladolid reports an alleged UFO sighting that was apparently confirmed by residents from nearby towns.* MERIDA, Yucatan – Jose Peña Sosa of the city of Valladolid sent us a report on a UFO sighting from “la Sultana de Oriented.” What is interesting about the case is that subsequently, others in nearby communities (Ebtún and Cuncunul) also reported similar events, leading one to think that it is the same object. Pena Sosa notes: “We saw so... more »

Ebenezer Scrooge loved his money so much that he slept with it. Now American corporations are doing the same thing. Instead of reinvesting their enormous riches (acrued with the help of insanely low taxes and large tax loopholes) and thus boosting the stagnant economy, these kleptocrats are letting their loot pile up just like Scrooge.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
------------------------------ A flood of cash is filling the coffers of Corporate America and nobody else. (Photo by lightboxx/ Shutterstock) *FEATURES » MARCH 24, 2014* *Money, Money, Everywhere* *In an age of disparity, corporate wealth is far from an indicator of economic health.* *BY REP. ALAN GRAYSON* I read a number of finance-industry newsletters. I want to share with you a recent excerpt from one of them. Here it is: $1,265,836,000,000. This is the amount of cash that S&P 500 companies (excluding banks and other financial institutions) are currently sitting on. As of the b... more »

More from the NHS, the 'envy of the world'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
'A pregnant woman with appendicitis died after a bungling trainee surgeon mistakenly removed one of her healthy ovaries, a tribunal heard today.' Those poor people who live in countries that don't have socialised medicine.... More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2604464/Surgeons-face-misconduct-charges-death-pregnant-woman-unborn-baby-bungling-trainee-removed-ovary-instead-appendix.html

Argentina: Researching a UFO Crash in General Campos

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 hours ago
*Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014Source: AIM Digital (http://www.aimdigital.com.ar)* *Argentina: Researching a UFO Crash in General Campos* The VISION OVNI team is looking into an event that occurred in the late 1980s known as the “Campo Grande Crash” which caused great commotion in the province of Entre Rios. The Director of the Comisión de Estudios del Fenómeno Ovni de la República Argentina (CEFORA), Andrea Pérez Simondini, added: “it was a resonant case, very near the town where governor Sergio Uribarri served as intendant in 1985." ” In a dialogue with this news agency, the rese... more »

Promise and Peril of Investing In Iraq, Interview with MENA Capitals’ Ali Albazzaz

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 7 hours ago
Ali Albazzaz is a finance specialist focused on doing business in Iraq. He is a consultant working with MENA Capital, an investment company that focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, including Iraq. That country has huge potential with its vast energy wealth along with huge needs after decades of wars and sanctions. This has attracted a wide variety of companies interested in developing its oil and gas sector along with rebuilding the nation in general. Unfortunately the rebirth of the insurgency might scare off foreign money. To discuss the promise and peril of Iraq is A... more »

Pulitzer Prizes announced at 3!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014* *Waiting for Rosenthal:* The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today at 3 PM Eastern. Around here, that amounts to a case of “Waiting for Rosenthal”—waiting for *Elisabeth* Rosenthal, who produced the most unusual journalistic work of the past year. Full disclosure—we don’t even know if Rosenthal has been nominated for a Pulitzer. Nominations aren’t announced until the awards are given. But last year, Rosenthal penned the voluminous PAYING TILL IT HURTS series for the New York Times. Back in August, we posted a run-down of her first three front-page r... more »

An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Self-Promotion

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
This week’s installment of An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week concerns self-promotion and self-citation differences between men and women. The idea for this installment came to me while I was having a celebratory drink with K. Chad Clay and Jim Piazza at ISA. We were celebrating our recent Political Research Quarterly article (also coauthored Continue reading

“US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study”* by Eric Zuesse “A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study’s opening question, "Who governs? Who really rules?" in this country, is: "Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our ... more »

RISE UP Video! This is perfect considering everything going on and the Celestial Events this month. Taking Our Power Back!

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 8 hours ago
This is a Great Video and is perfect considering everything going on this month, including the 'Grand Cross' and Eclipses too. This is about Truth of us being enslaved by those in Control. We are the Ones who need to Save ourselves! It is through a change of our own consciousness and understanding that we have the Power! We are the Power! Through our changing the way we think and stop

Giveaway: Tickets to BYU Women's Conference

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours ago
Today I am teaming up with some wonderful bloggers to bring you a chance to win tickets to BYU Women's Conference. [image: giveaway] BYU Women's Conference is a two day event held in Provo, Utah where tens of thousands of women come to be uplifted and inspired. The two days are filled with classes that each touch on a different subject that may be something that you are going through in your life or need some help with. There are classes ranging from depression, to tips to make your marriage more successful to learning how to share your religion through social media. There really is... more »

“Historic! Feds Forced to Surrender to American Citizens”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“Historic! Feds Forced to Surrender to American Citizens”* by Infowars.com “In an epic standoff that Infowars reporter David Knight described as being like “something out of a movie,” supporters of Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy advanced on a position held by BLM agents despite threats that they would be shot at, eventually forcing BLM feds to release 100 cattle that had been stolen from Bundy as part of a land grab dispute that threatened to escalate into a Waco-style confrontation.” - http:// www.infowars.com/historic-feds-forced-to-surrender-to-american-citizens/ - https://ww... more »

Thorium free at last?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 9 hours ago
It seems so much better than Uranium. Is this the greatest resource to be held back ever? Watch for the 100 MPG carburetor to be revealed next week! Full speed ahead with this tech. BTW Bill Gates for one is all in!

Reading The Signs

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 9 hours ago
Over the weekend, voters -- in Calgary and Kitimat -- made two important decisions. Tim Harper writes: In one, Conservatives in Calgary’s Signal Hill riding finally rid themselves of a six-term embarrassment named Rob Anders, handing the nomination to a former provincial cabinet minister, Ron Liepert, in a family feud for the ages. In the other, the voters of Kitimat, B.C., who have been promised untold economic riches for their support of the $6.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project took a look at the gifts offered by energy giant Enbridge and thumbed their nose at the pro... more »

Have Mainers Finally Had It With Koch-Addicted Republicans?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
More than a few people have been asserting that Republican Governor Paul LePage, knowing he's already lost his reelection fight, is now only working for an audience of two: Texas neo-fascists David and Charles Koch. The clownish LePage doesn't want to go back to working at a Marden's Surplus and Salvage and he's counting on the Koch brothers to set him up with some kind of situation inside their Empire. That would certainly explain his vetoes Friday evening of two bills very popular with Mainers-- and very unpopular with Kochs. Terry Morrison's LD 1252, *An Act to Improve Maine’s ... more »

Panda Cub

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago

what is the matrix ?

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 9 hours ago

METRO | Robust UT-Austin campus coalition fights corporatized ‘shared services’ plan

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours ago
Event: Stop Shared Services Rally Sponsor: UT Save Our Community Coalition Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Time: Noon Place: South Mall, University of Texas at Austin By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 AUSTIN — A … finish reading *METRO* | Robust UT-Austin campus coalition fights corporatized ‘shared services’ plan

Hey, Skippy, this is how it's done.

Alison at Creekside - 9 hours ago
A picture of voters lining up for 6 hours to vote in the 2012 election in Democrat-heavy Miami-Dade Florida is accompanied by the caption : "New rule prohibits voters in Miami-Dade from using the restroom, no matter how long the line." h/t Kev Apparently the decision to close *all* restrooms was a direct response to a request from a disability rights lawyer regarding the accessibility of polling place bathrooms to those with disabilities. So now people with disabilities are not being especially singled out for discrimination and everyone is free to choose between voting and pe... more »

Ukraine in Crisis- The disappearing country

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 9 hours ago
Interesting title from the Economist- came across this one last night, saved it for today The journalist even includes this SLOVIANSK, UKRAINE (for now) Before we get to the economist a brief digression I actually watched some of the UN session last night. Live. Unfortunately I missed Churkin's statement and absolutely would not watch Samantha Power- not wanting to take in her evil energy France, UK & Australia were absolutely on the same message. Some language used was almost identical. Same talking points. Same blather. I expect Ms Power would have talked along the same line and l... more »

Ping Ping MH370?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
Is this just another red herring in this mystery. The pings give cover to the official story, as weird as that is.

YOUR $$$ PAYS FOR ENDLESS WAR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
Today is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Events are being held all over the planet to call for an end to militarism and for global disarmament. Money for human and environmental needs not war. You can find much more about this *here*

Yes We Have No Banana's

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
Monocultures are dangerous to human existence. Politically, ethnically, religiously and most important food. ThinkAboot that when considering GMO foods.

View From Princess's Front Door

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 10 hours ago
Photo by John Carroll--Delmas, Port-au-Prince (April 13, 2014)

ThinkingAboot oily bits -Climate Change

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
*Climate Change, Tar Sands and non binding referendums* - Kitamat BC is ground zero in the Climate Change cost benefit experiment. Despite the overwhelming corporate and political forces thrown at a local group organized by a postman, the Tar Sands lost 40% to 60%. This is the end of the Gateway Pipeline, maybe Keystone as well. All I have read about the North American Energy Sector is how fracking has changed the equation. Yet despite this flood of new supply, consumer prices for natural gas and oil continue to soar. Ironically for the tar sands its a snake eating its tail. Can'... more »

Thinkingaboot tidbit - Managed Democracy

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
*Canadian Free Elections Act * - an Orwellian three act play. In USA its the real deal Republicans think they can suppress the vote with a slickness that will bear fruit. Surely Harper knew this was not on in Canada. So he set up a straw man called vouching. In the end he will coincide vouching and try and slip in the true anti democratic vote management measures.

Qualified privilege

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
Merit Consultants International Ltd. v. Chandler, 2014 BCCA 121: [29] Qualified privilege, however, is not limited to the contents of documents filed in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. As Brown writes ( *supra*, at §13.1), the privilege protects a communication made by a person "in the discharge of some public or private duty, or for the purpose of pursuing or protecting some private interest, provided it is made to a person who has some corresponding interest in receiving it." As Brown also observes, the privilege does not extend to statements that go beyond the "e... more »

NASA Plans: A Warp Drive, Visit to Alpha Centauri

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 10 hours ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* A triple star system associated with Alpha Centauri is now targeted for a visit by NASA! The triple-star system is composed of a binary system - two stars akin to the Sun --and another, larger and hotter star, c alled Alpha Centauri A. Two other stars are smaller, cooler. Alpha Centauri B is itself orbited by a red dwarf and is more distant. A third star may or may not be a part of the "systems". Called Proxima Centauri, it is just 4.22 light-years from Earth --the closest star outside our Solar System. Recall that our own sun is a star. Thi... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 10 hours ago
*They want me silenced. Brandeis complies* Ayaan Hirsi Ali has just released (as of 4:30 p.m. E.T. Wednesday, April 9) this statement in response to Brandeis University’s decision to rescind her invitation to receive an honorary degree: “Yesterday Brandeis University decided to withdraw an honorary degree they were to confer upon me next month during their Commencement exercises. I wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I was completely shocked when President Frederick Lawrence c... more »

The Paradox of Race in the U.S.

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
The Paradox of Race in the U.S.. via The Paradox of Race in the U.S..Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Thinking aboot tidbits -Ukraine

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 10 hours ago
*Ukraine* - Looks like a soft Russian takeover of the East. As I have said before you do not tug on Supermans cape, you don't piss into the wind, and you do not start a land war in central Asia. Neocons never learn. Unfortunately when they mis play the Great Game everybody else suffers. Follow the money, who wins from High Energy Prices? Who wins from arm sales? Who wins from Global divisions?

The Word

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago
The speed with which decisions are made by you is an indication of which part of yourself you are listening to. So many times the thoughts used to direct your life and monitor your activities are thoughtless regurgitations of things you were taught by your elders in a very different time. Habit is the reason so many of us end up unhappy. It sort of takes over and replaces conscious choice with behavior that does not serve you or help to attain any of your goals. Habits are a form of addiction and we continue them not because they bring us any pleasure but because we ca... more »

Stalinist-leaners reject Chait speech!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014* *We’ve seen this gong-show before:* Last week, Jonathan Chait wrote a piece for New York magazine about some aspect of race. We found it quite underwhelming. We didn’t really get his point. We didn’t think his work was especially sharp. We thought Chait made one important new point. On the down side, we thought he buried that one naughty point under a mountain of feathers. What was Chait’s new point? Midway through his lengthy piece, he discussed an obvious problem in our political discourse—the lazy, low-IQ use of the R-bomb which has come to typify low-IQ... more »

God, Guns and Hitler

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
I have certain misgivings about hate crime laws, but we're reminded this morning -- the eve of *Pesach *or The Passover, and a week before Hitler's birthday, that people who belong to hate-based organizations and creeds, who post virulent hate messages and calls for extermination on-line, need their constitutional right to keep and bear arms infringed. I feel quite protective of our guaranteed right to free speech and our right to think what we think, but speech that incites to violence, that creates a mortal danger to the public, is something else and that's been established for a ... more »

Getting To Know You Questions with Tony's Pizza

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
“This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and Tony’s Pizza, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #tonyspizzeria http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV.” My absolute favorite weekend activity is to have a pizza and game night with friends. There are few things better than good friends, fun and good food. We especially love this kind of date night when we are just getting to know another couple. It is low pressure and with Tony's Pizza from Walmart, it is easy to throw together. My only complaint is that sometimes when you are playing inte... more »

THE 77 PERCENT CONFUSION: A famous statistic!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014* *Part 1—Three unflattering lessons:* Over the weekend, a famous statistic got lots of play in America’s leading newspapers. On Saturday morning, the Washington Post ran a mordant cartoon by the mordant cartoonist Margulies: In the cartoon, a TV screen announces the fact that Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman. A TV viewer is shown saying this: “CBS could have gotten Tina Fey for 77 percent of what he’s getting!” In this way, a famous statistic was reinforced again. The cartoon’s message was obvious and quite familiar: Women get paid 77 percent ... more »

Clark's answers on RCI role don't add up

paul at Paying attention - 12 hours ago
Christy Clark needs to provide better answers about her previously undisclosed role with RCI Capital Group. In 2007, Clark signed a contract to become founding chair and director of an RCI subsidiary that hoped to win multimillion-dollar contracts to bring international students to Canadian universities. The universities would get high-paying students; RCI would get money for recruiting the students in Asia; and Clark would get finder’s fees and four per cent of revenues. Since becoming premier, Clark has promoted RCI, which collects fees for arranging foreign investments in Canada, o... more »

The Little-Known Obamacare COBRA Catch-22

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 12 hours ago
When I'm negotiating severance packages for employees, many times employers will offer to pay a month or more of COBRA payments. COBRA is the law that says employers have to let employees who lose their jobs stay on the company's insurance for up to 18 months as long as the employee pays 100% of the premium. Those premiums can be huge: $1,000 or more sometimes. Getting the employer to pick up some of the premiums can be a huge benefit. Until now, that is. Find out about the problem I found that occurs if you lose your job after open enrollment by reading my article at AOL Jobs.You h... more »

April 14: Z-Z-Z-Z-...

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 12 hours ago
It must take very special minds to produce, year after year, a newspaper that says nothing at all. Today, I read the paper through breakfast, with nothing to do on most pages but look at the pictures. We had our second or third story with pictures of the Speed Car Show, all three stories and the pictures pretty much the same. We must be at - oh - our thirtieth or fortieth story on the Malaysian flight, all of them saying the same thing - nothing. I'm sure that Jim Flaherty was a nice guy, and everybody liked him. But do we really need all those obituaries disguised as news and colum... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Who Will Pay To Restore Land Damaged By Oil and Gas? You or Oil and Gas? ~LEAN * *“Pancake” Could be on Saints’ Menu in Draft’s Early Rounds ~HarahanWhoDat, Saints Tailgate* *Landrieu looking for three tax increases to pay for consent decrees, pensions ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens* *State employee or Jindal campaign worker? ~C.B.Forgotston* *Local teens team up to organize peace rally against violence ~WWLTV * *Mid-City residents & businesses raising money to install crime cameras ~WVUE* *TUCP Direction Presents: A lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson* *N.O., BR make list of nation's to... more »

Frank Sinatra Contest-- The Best Is Yet To Come… For South Dakota

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
Today Blue America is launching an effort on behalf of prairie populist Rick Weiland who's running for the open blue Senate seat in South Dakota. With two Republicans running against the GOP Establishment pick *in the general election*, this should be a great opportunity to elect a dedicated tribune of working families in what the DC pundits see as a tough race. One Republican is an ex-U.S. Seantor, Larry Pressler, and the other is a Tea Party extremist, Gordon Howie (no relation) who switched his registration so he could run as an independent. This week, Rick released his first ... more »

Corruption in a Vacuum Tube

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
In today's disappointing New York Times column, Paul Krugman correctly blames the predatory financial industry for "undermining our economy and our society." But he refrains from blaming the political system in general and the Obama administration in particular, even though "there is a clear correlation between the rise of modern finance and America’s return to Gilded Age levels of inequality." Instead, he writes that "we" are giving vast amounts of public money to the same people who screw the little guy every single minute of every single day (the words after "we" are mine, not K... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 13 hours ago
*Green tea CAN make you clever: Drink improves memory and could help treat dementia (?)* *A very small study (N=12!) using an odd measure of cognitive functioning. Journal article "Green tea extract enhances parieto-frontal connectivity during working memory processing" here* Green tea has always been hailed as the healthiest hot drink of choice, but new research has found it can also be good for your mind. Scientists claim green tea enhances several cognitive functions, in particular our working memory. The new findings suggest that green tea could be used to treat dementia an... more »

Bundy Ranch Updates - April 14 , 2014 --Sen. Harry Reid: Bundy Dispute ‘Not Over’ ....... BLM Flip Flops: “No Deal” on Dropping Actions Against Bundy .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
Sen. Harry Reid: Bundy Dispute ‘Not Over’ - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over” *Mikael Thalen*Infowars.com April 14, 2014 After remaining silent for days, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid made comments regarding the ongoing dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and rancher Cliven Bundy today, accusing the Bundy family of violating the law... more »

Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “You and Me”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
Moody Blues, “You and Me” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UZ5oVYmb8

Musical Interlude: Michael Bolton, “When I'm Back On My Feet Again”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
Michael Bolton, “When I'm Back On My Feet Again” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=114QK3SVqyk

Giveaway: KitchenAid Mixer

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
There are few things more essential to a cook who loves to bake than a great stand mixer. Kitchen Aids are so incredible that my sister who decorates cakes actually has two! Today I’ve teamed up with a few of my favorite blog buddies to bring one of these amazing mixers to you one of you! This giveaway is brought to you by the 10 amazing bloggers pictued above. You can check out all of their blogs by clicking on their photos. Then enter for you chance to win a KitchenAid 5qt mixer of your very own! Entering is super simple. Just follow the instructions on the rafflecopter below! The... more »

Musical Interlude: Brule', “Stomp Dance”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
Brule', “Stomp Dance” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_l2Zt_um6M

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Spirit Moves”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
2002, “Spirit Moves” “This is a video from the DVD/CD set by 2002 "A Word in the Wind", with performance clips of the band layered into the composition. The song is called "Spirit Moves". It features Randy Copus on guitar (Stratocaster) and Pamela on her transverse flute. It has a hypnotic, sultry, jazz feel.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwGjLx5bOo&feature=related

Bitcoin Updates April 14 , 2014 -- BTC-e Back Online Following DDoS Attack .... Facebook targets financial services...... CCN Week in Review: Heartbleed, Sidechains, Bitcoin Investments, and More !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
BTC-e Back Online Following DDoS Attack Nermin Hajdarbegovic | Published on April 14, 2014 at 10:12 BST | *BTC-e, Exchanges, News* inShare1 Share 13 [image: hacker concept] BTC-e was down briefly on Sunday, following a powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its servers. DDoS attacks against bitcoin exchanges have gained notoriety since the ‘massive and concerted’ attack which targeted multiple organisations earlier this year. However, in the current climate of uncertainty even a harmless attack can be misinterpreted, with speculation spreading like wildfire on s... more »

Syria Update April 12 , 2014 - Losing badly against Assad's forces and with in-fighting threatening to derail the whole Rebel scheme - we see another attempt to foist a chemical weapon attack in Syria ( allegedly by Assad forces ) ...... With the US stock market going sideways , Ukraine going sideways , Iran slowing winning the nuclear quest negotiation chess game , Afghanistan and Iraq already sideways - can the sense the need for a distraction ? Heck , the Bundy Ranch family just chumped the Feds in Nevada - not even Charlie Sheen had times as bad as these ! Recall we have seen this movie before , not even a year ago regarding Syria !

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/syrian-jets-hit-rebel-bastions-near-damascus-2014413162921799697.html Syrian jets hit rebel bastions near Damascus Fierce air assault reported near the capital even as President Assad declares war has turned in government's favour. Last updated: 13 Apr 2014 17:14 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Online footage showed highly destructive barrel bomb attacks on Daraya, southwest of Damascus [YouTube] Syrian jet fighters are reported... more »

Musical Interlude: Runrig, “Abhainn An T-Sluaigh” (“The Crowded River”)

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
Runrig, “Abhainn An T-Sluaigh” (“The Crowded River”) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFid6nXZpg

Gardasil Reality Check Denmark: Two Shots Were Too Many For My Daughter by Lone Frederiksen

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
Karina Gardasil: Two shots were too many for my daughter By Lone Frederiksen Copenhagen, Denmark *Karina is now at the stage that she does not want to go and see any more doctors, attend hospital appointments, have blood tests taken as she feels no good will come of it, they simply have no idea how to treat her.* Let me begin my story by saying that my 24 year old daughter Karina was a very active girl prior to receiving the HPV vaccine Gardasil. She loved to swim and would do this at least 5 to 7 times per week and her sessions would last for around two hours. She had to give... more »

Andrei Linde: universe or multiverse?

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours ago
Some time ago, before the BICEP2 discovery (in July 2012, weeks after the Higgs discovery), Andrei Linde gave an 82-minute talk at SETI, a center to search for ETs. Because Linde and his theories – even some more specific theories – seem to be greatly vindicated by the BICEP2 announcement, it may be interesting to listen to his more general ideas about the subject. Linde is a pretty entertaining speaker – the audience is laughing often, too. He starts with jokes about the word "principle" and comments about the cosmological principle, the uniformity principle, the big bang theo... more »

Press Release - KUMIKO by Mike Philbin - third G3 Whistleblower novel

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 17 hours ago
*not finished cover art*  Tandem (G3 whistleblower novel #1, out now) Watcher (G3 whistleblower novel #2, being written) Kumiko (G3 whistleblower novel #3, hm... there's no reason why not) *SELFIETERVIEW:* What's this book about, Mike? *Kumiko's a third G3-whistleblower novel that'll be all sorts of exciting and flavourful, and weird too. It'll tie all the G3-nonsense together, with any luck.* Any chance of a sneak peek? *I'm still working on Watcher (G3 #2) and Reaper (Free Planet #3), through 2014, but Kumiko (2015) will expand upon the spooky G3-group's octopus-like g... more »

Corporatocracy and the illusion of Democracy

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 18 hours ago
Corporatocracy and the illusion of Democracy *Written By Mark Taliano* “Freedom” and “democracy” are useful words, but very bankrupt: useful because they serve to advance imperial/corporate agendas, bankrupt because they are empty vessels perennially co-opted. When illegal coups are orchestrated to overthrow democratically elected governments in Venezuela, Honduras, Ukraine, or elsewhere, the lies of freedom and democracy are seamlessly attached to the criminal acts. *“Freedom” and “democracy” are still cloaking, tacitly or overtly, mass murder and genocide in Iraq, a... more »

Join The Stop The TPP Twitter Storm on Tuesday April 15, 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
[image: Foto: Join us every TUESDAY for the TPP Twitter Storm & FB Blitz to create awareness! Tuesdays at 6pm PDT/8pm CDT/9pm EDT. Who opposes the TPP? Everyone except giant corporations, like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and the politicians they own. The TPP is a TOXIC TRANS-PACIFIC "trade" agreement that puts corporate wealth over human health. Save the date and join us Tuesday night! Tweets will be available on Tuesday. Follow: http://Twitter.com/TPPMediaMarch SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-the-media-it-s-time-to-expose-the-tpp Learn more and print out... more »

Fukushima Plant Conditions

Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
Today the cam views appear relatively ordinary, although heat can be seen streaming up from the remains of unit 2. <img alt="" height="315" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAdMAAAFwCAIAAABsFAa6AAAgAElEQVR4nMy9d3Mb2bWvPZ/kJluBBLp3zqkTcg7MOSmLiqMJtifYPuf92u8f3Q0ClDRjH/veOlVPqUCoh+IAxIO1f3vthW92lsPd5fBgb3JytLg633/25PjVi/PbF+dvXp6/fX3x4e31dx+f/vjdy5//8vbvf/v2P/7+6a+/fvzxh9dv3lxdX+8fHU12dvrzeW8y6QzH3eG035/0W8Ne1uu4dsvkuc4LnbdV1pFZhyc1WZvnLZ63WJ7TIsVZgKmNg25YsaXZY0UfK/rYsG0rGl5FwYDUgtSB1MWpixMXext7C7xDweMQaJrQLGF54IXjheEtzVuKt6Roa9W2qu1U4WXmeWKZN8QZpC1UFkgHhAcigTJDqoV1h5gBNSN... more »

A Prematurely Old Man

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 19 hours ago
Stephen Harper likes to boast that seniors are his most loyal supporters. You'll notice that he has very little to say about the young. That's because he really isn't concerned about them. Take job creation -- something for which the prime minister claims a special talent. Carol Goar writes: A government bent on lowering the living standard of Canada’s next generation couldn’t do a much better job than Stephen Harper and his colleagues have done. The Prime Minister and his high-octane employment minister, Jason Kenney , have thrown one barrier after the next in front of young j... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 20 hours ago
*Astrophysics and climate* *For some time I have been aware that there are substantial challenges to the conventional picture of the sun as a gas ball. I am also aware that the "electric universe" theory has been gaining ground. As I already track social science, medical science and climate science, however, I have refused to add issues in astrophysics to my plate. Just this once however I am putting up below something from the "Thunderbolt" project -- which is the organization principally promoting the electric universe theory* Is Kirchhoff’s Law Valid? Kirchhoff’s law of the... more »

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH --DOWN WITH COPS!

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 20 hours ago
*Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* My comments are inspired by a story that Jay Diamond had posted on Facebook: Federal investigators have opened an inquiry into the tragic case of a high school student in Bastrop County, Tex., who suffered severe brain damage and nearly died last fall after a deputy sheriff shocked him with a Taser, a high voltage electronic weapon. In North Carolina, civil rights lawyers have filed a complaint with the Justice Department, charging the Wake County school system with violating the constitutional rights of minority children by subjecting them to... more »

Ukraine: The Anti-Maidan Begins

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours ago
*April 14, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - It was predicted that the regime in Kiev would not last long, and that almost immediately there would be a backlash. First, opposition would come from eastern Ukraine where Ukrainians stand by their nation’s long historical, linguistic, cultural, economic, and strategic ties to Russia. Then opposition would come from western Ukraine, where people, despite their perceived anti-Russian sentiments and initial support for the “Euromaidan” protests, would find the corrupt client regime in Kiev intolerable as it integrated the nation into the EU... more »

BREAKING: Su, Hsieh, drop out of DPP Chairmanship race + stuff

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago
[image: IMG_4452] *Me at the historic Ta-an train station outside Houli on Fumei Road. The station and area are being developed as tourism area.* Today both Su Tseng-cheng and Frank Hsieh announced that they would not run for the DPP Chairmanship position. This leaves it open for Tsai Ing-wen. I hope, against hope, that the DPP has had an attack of sense and will appoint one person to run the party while another runs as its Presidential candidate. Yesterday this very frustrating interview of Taiwan expert Shelley Rigger by Jeffery Wasserstrom appeared in Dissent Quarterly. Her heart... more »

MMP = More Marriages of Convenience?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago
I can’t think of a fancy-arsed acronym to describe it, but MMP obviously stands for More Marriages of Convenience. The InterMana Party sort-of agreement, should one ever be made and either party (or agreement) stay around long enough to make a difference, is exactly the sort of marriage of convenience the MMP laws, rules and environment not only makes possible, but positively encourages. Why that should surprise media commentators says more about media commentators than it does about either Mr and Mrs Harawira or Mr DotCon. Regardless of what the media commentators think, the rule... more »

Is South Carolina Ready For A Democratic Party Take-Over?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
We've been talking about convicted cocaine dealer/ex-Treasurer of South Carolina Tom Ravenel ® and how he is hoping to pivot from ex-con and BRAVO sit com/reality show star to anti-Lindsey Graham general election Senate candidate in November. If he does, he's likely to throw the election to the Democratic candidate. You don't think so? Progressive outsider Jay Stamper has hard the Democratic nomination all to himself until Ravenel made it public he was going to run. At that point, the Democratic state Party Establishment got behind hopeless conservative state Senator Brad Hutto wh... more »

LGNZ’s Alternative Funding Mechanisms Can Get Stuffed

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 22 hours ago
I note councils around the country are at it again to get someone,anyone, to pay through the nose for their borrowing and over-spending. They call this “looking for alternative funding mechanisms.” Basing rates on property values alone may soon no longer be sustainable as the sole taxation form for many councils, says Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). Why will basing rates on property values alone no longer be sustainable as the sole taxation form for many councils? The answer is as simple as its corollary conclusion is obvious: because they’re spending too damned much and do... more »

Meet & Greet (#MtaGt) - April - Jen & Joey Go Green

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 22 hours ago
Welcome to Meet & Greet, a regular series designed to grow our green community. [image: A monthly link-up party for green blogs on Reduce Footprints] Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site:
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(Allies Tired Yet of U.S. Lies?) Americans Blinded By Agendas? (The Truth(s) About the Boston Bombers)

The evidence is in, and it confirms what a lot of us (on the left) were saying throughout this bloody massacre. Because as hard as it is for some to admit it, the US is an empire in search of control of resources in order to continue running it. And, therefore: Assad did not do it, we did it. And everyone who is anyone knew it all along. And the constant pose as the self-proclaimed,

Equality versus Liberty

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 23 hours ago
Googling around to set up that Piketty post, below, I came up with good old Tibor Machan talking to John Stossel about NB: Tibor comes on about 8 minutes in, after Bob Beckel argues against “ripping off” the poor by allowing a “large gap.” Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Taiwan/India/Modi

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 23 hours ago
Taiwan wants Modi in the election, according to the Economic Times, from whence this came. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!

Weekend in the hills: the Miaoli 54-1 and Dongchi Road

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
*On the 54-1 above the tombs.* Two days of excellent sunny weather. I decided to see what the Miaoli 54-1 is like and have a long-anticipated meet up with Scott E. Click on READ MORE as always... *ROUTE NOTES*: To find the Miaoli 54-1, follow Zhongzheng Road north out of Jhuolan town. Soon it will become the 54-1. The road rises ever more steeply through the cemetery just over a kilometer to the top of the ridge. After resting at the temple there, and taking in the great views over the Jhuolan basin, you spend the remaining 7 kilometers of this road rolling through farms and past ... more »

Meanwhile in Egypt . . .

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Field Marshall Abdel al-Sisi*: *Things are just working out for him!* *by Ken* Since just at this second the right-wing mental defectives who specialize in hysterically bellicose mentally defective foreign-policy crackpottery aren't getting much traction from the "Who lost Egypt?" motif (not while the "Who lost Syria?" and "Who wussed out on Iran?" and "Who's losing Ukraine?" motives make for eye-catchinger loony tunes), Egypt has sort off dropped over the side of the flat earth. So things must be going pretty well there, right? Yeah, right. Ian Welsh wrote about Egypt the other ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Broken system produces 11-day season for recreational anglers ~Coastal Conservation Association*

Piketty: Egalité, Fraternité–but Let’s Have No More of that Liberté

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: image] You may have heard of a French fellow called Thomas Piketty, called “the most important economist today,” whose book *Capital (in the Twenty-First Century) *has been launched across the intellectual firmament with the sort of impetus not seen since the days of *Silent Spring, The Population Bomb*– or *The Spirit Level*. The book is [image: Handout]695-pages of rollicking neo-Marxist agitprop against inequality and in favour of massive new taxes on the rich. The book is a sensation on the left, a nuclear target for the right, and an endless battlefield for economic... more »

US is looking into new Syria chemical weapons claim

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Is all this going on because today is the 13th? The ‘chemical weapons’ as manipulative tactic? I had hoped would go away, is not. Today there are claims of a chlorine attack. Why would the Syrian government bother with this, when the Syrian Army has the upper hand almost everywhere- If chlorine was used, again, only the NATO mercs have anything at all to gain from doing this *Washington Post is running with the news* The United States said Sunday that it was looking into claims of a new chemical weapons attack in Syria, after rebels and the government traded accusations over the us... more »

Easter Week: Its beginnings

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
It’s Easter Week – a time, since human cultural life began up in the northern hemisphere, when men and women came together to celebrate. To celebrate what? Why, to celebrate spring, of course. The end of winter; the onset of new life; of fertility and rebirth; the end of winter’s cold and darkness and the start of longer days, more sun, summer harvests and a time when living is easy. Or, at least, easi*er. * Imagine this week thousands of years ago, long before lighting and heating and modern refrigeration and all the first world delights and problems of today, back when the owne... more »

Musical Interlude: Native American, “Ghost Dance- Power Drums, Spirit Pride”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Native American, “Ghost Dance- Power Drums, Spirit Pride” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYorIKf5L0c Turn it *UP*!

"How It Really Is"

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

Satire: “Nation Stunned To Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Nation Stunned To Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Millions of Americans were in a state of shock this past week after learning that Congress had accomplished something fifty years ago. Although the incident was widely reported throughout the week, the revelation that Congress had achieved something positive and substantial for the country a half century ago left many incredulous and baffled. Adding to their disbelief were reports that the accomplishment came as the result of collaboration between a Democr... more »

UOO to CEA: How Can We Help?

peggyrobertson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Read more at PegwithPen!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face

The People vs. BLM: Liberty defeats govt. tyranny as feds release all cattle at Bundy Ranch

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
( there has been tons of stories breaking in the last few days about the Bundy Ranch / BLM situation . . the one below kind of sums things up at this point . . I am also posting a playlist below that sort of shows recent developments, although there has been Live Feeds being streamed from there by Pete Santilli (imo a potential FBI CoIntelPro provocateur) and Infowars . . anyway, the main reason that there was a fed stand-down may well be that it has been exposed that the scum Harry Reid is having the area cleared due to a huge land gift of the area in question to the Chinese ... more »

Russia requests UNSC Meeting Tonight.Ukraine Military Op- Criminal

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
*Following on Ukraine ordering a military operation against the pro-federation protestors-* *Update 2 in the post **Ukraine- Conflict, casualties, building seizures,1 MIA Oligarch & Updates* *Additional info here- Ukraine to deploy troops "in anti-terror" Operation* The article linked above was initially headlined -*Ukraine special forces sent to eastern city.* Then changed to "anti-terror" http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-04-13/ukraine-special-forces-sent-to-eastern-city Perhaps a bit too much was given away with that headline? *Anti-terror means oppression and the only att... more »

Republicans Are Still Obstructing Judicial Nominations

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Just before adjourning for another vacation on Friday, the Senate finally voted to end the obstructionist right-wing filibuster against Michelle Friedland, who had been nominated for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on August 1, 2013. She was rated unanimously "well qualified" by the American Bar Association. In January the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, by a wide bipartisan margin, 14-3, to forward the nomination on to the full Senate. But Miss McConnell and the other poutraged extremists have been doing everything they could to clock her and ... more »

vox.com: PARCC Tests Are “Working”!

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
On April 11, 2014, vox.com, a supposedly a “data-driven news site” started this month (April 2014) by Ezra Klein, posted this propagandastic wonder regarding Partnership for Assessment for College and Careers (PARCC) field testing. Note that field testing does not begin to touch the magnitude of actual PARCC testing designed for grades K-12 (see here and here and here), quite the […]

The Dome of the Rock aka The third holiest site in Islam in disrepair in 1954

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
http://youtu.be/NS3jQ4YlQy0 Odd how when under Muslim control the Dome of the Rock was in such disrepair, could it be the case that it only became important to Muslims when it came under Jewish control?

military propaganda at sports events reaches new extremes: continuous recruitment ads at baseball games

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
I've recently returned from a lovely trip to Boston, filled with so many of my favourite things: friends, family, books, and baseball. I love Fenway Park, and I'm always happy to be there. On this trip, we saw three great games, two of them wins, so I was thrilled. The games were marred by only one thing: nearly constant propaganda for the US military. This is not an exaggeration. Throughout Fenway Park, as in many sports venues, monitors show a TV feed of the action on the field. Right now, between innings, the Fenway Park monitors show a continuous feed of advertising for the Un... more »

The Mounting Costs of the Ongoing Neocon Infestation

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Like the cockroach the American neoconservative ideologue is the ultimate survivor. Despite having been what appeared to be thoroughly routed and exposed as dangerous cranks and crazies in charge of big things for their disastrous Iraq fiasco – the likes of Perle, Feith, Libby, Wolfowitz and other luminaries were sent backing after the first Bush term – they are now resurgent and ready to seize power to complete the work of the Project For the New American Century (PNAC). Having retrenched and now integrated into the US power structure, in particular at the State Department, embedd... more »

The Experiment: Doomed to Fail

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
[image: Picture] There is a tendency as human to reach first and ask later. By reach, what is referred to here is any and all action that pushes the known standards. We like to go further than man has gone before and so we do – *in every possible way.* This habit of pushing the edge of the envelope is one of the characteristics that was not bred into man by anyone else; it is who man is. Yet it has become his most dominant and desirable trait. Without much assistance man has accomplished a great deal. This is because of your tenacity and refusal to succumb to limits. All ... more »

Making Ukraine Safe for Corporate Vultures

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland Promises Ukraine Loot to Corporate Vultures The corrupt US state-corporate media has been making hay out of the ongoing vilification of Russian president Vladimir Putin, particularly to firmly affix the devil horns to his head in presenting a false narrative on events in Ukraine. While there is no reference or actual history of events presented to offer perspective the selling of the looming Russian invasion as well as Putin’s restoration of the old Soviet Empire is as much a con job as that restoration of the Islamic Caliphate in pushing the phony war... more »

Nexus - Ground Zero – Nuclear Demolition of the World Trade Center.

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
Ground Zero – Nuclear Demolition of the World Trade Center. An improved English version of the scandalous article from the NEXUS German magazine. *The third truth about September 11 (2001)* *The official story of September 11th (2001) is a bag of lies and this seems to be a proven fact within communities outside the mainstream. What really did happen? A new series of revelations by a former member of Soviet nuclear intelligence has shocked even those who believed they had a clear view behind the curtain.* [read the rest of the accusation @ Khalezov 2014] Yup, Dmitri Khalezov h... more »

Lead Now's Petition

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
So, not too long ago, "Lead Now" delivered copies of a petition with 80,000 signatures protesting the "Fair Elections Act" to Conservative MPs. 80,000 signatures! In a country with millions of voters. Pathetic. And, obviously, delivering those petitions to those cowardly harpercon scum hasn't dramatically realigned the balance-of-power in this country. This was a token demonstration. It wasn't really intended to change things was it? It was a pathetic way for what is essentially an NDP-backed group inform the ruling party that some people disagree with them. Well, guess what LeadNow... more »

“7 Right-Wing Absurdities This Week: Colbert Causes Conservative Meltdown Edition”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“7 Right-Wing Absurdities This Week: * *Colbert Causes Conservative Meltdown Edition”* By Janet Allon *1. Various conservative clowns: Stephen Colbert will single-handedly destroy America. *The hysteria on the right about Stephen Colbert’s elevation to CBS’s "Late Night" post has been nothing short of hilarious. Even before news hit that Colbert would replace David Letterman when he retires, Bill O’Reilly frantically declared that Colbert is responsible for the “destruction of America.” That’s quite a distinction, when there are so many other things vying for the title of “America’... more »

A Million Reasons Why Enbridge Will Never Be Given Permission for Northern Gateway, Here is Reason Number 30

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day ago
NTSB Press Release National Transportation Safety Board *Office of Public Affairs* ------------------------------ Pipeline Rupture and Oil Spill Accident Caused by Organizational Failures and Weak Regulations July 10, 2012 WASHINGTON - Pervasive organizational failures by a pipeline operator along with weak federal regulations led to a pipeline rupture and subsequent oil spill in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board said today. On Sunday, July 25, 2010, at about 5:58 p.m., a 30 inch-diameter pipeline (Line 6B) owned and operated by Enbridge Incorporated ruptured... more »

Gold and Silver Report April 12 , 2014 -- Data , News and views focusing on the precious metals !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Harvey Organ snippets.... http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-112014gld-loses-another-18-tonnes.html Friday, April 11, 2014 April 11.2014/Gld loses another 1.8 tonnes as this gold heads to Shanghai/no change in silver SLV/gold and silver hold in price/Blythe Masters under investigation/Poor earnings from JPMorgan/Putin may win again as the west looks to pay the Ukrainian bill/Bourses around the globe spill red ink!! Gold closed down $1.40 at $1318.70 (comex to comex closing time ). Silver was down 15 cents to $19.93 In the access market tonight at 5:15 pm gold: $131... more »

Friday Beaver - Late again. Better late than never

Demeur at Demeur - 1 day ago
Republicans hate beavers Republicans must think beavers are stupid. They blocked a bill in the House to make pay more equitable. In some states a beaver must undergo a medically unnecessary ultrasound before they can get an abortion. Add to this the recent cuts to food stamps most of which go to baby beaver kits as well as cuts to head start and it sure looks like a war on beavers. Then of course there's the voter ID laws enacted to to make it more difficult for beavers to vote. And where is a beaver supposed to carry that ID? Don't answer that. There's the push for more gas and... more »

The Economy: "How About Some Truth?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"How About Some Truth?"* by Karl Denninger "All you have to do to ensure failure is refuse to tell the truth. *"*April is cruel for other reasons. It’s Financial Literacy Month, when well-meaning experts bear the bad news: many of us are financial fools. The 30-day marketing blitz sweeps up Congress, banks, state capitols, pollsters and personal finance columnists in an annual lamentation- and scolding- that Americans, the kids especially, don’t know much about money. To help, Bank of America, for example, is sponsoring a workshop series to educate low-income people. Moreover, a ... more »
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