English: Tom Corbett at the McCain rally at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Allyson Schwartz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Weingarten (Photo credit: mdesive)
What up Stephen Harper?
I couldn`t have said it better..
Spread it around, its got a good beat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz0GDSrkw-Q
The Straight Goods
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
Time for Weingarten to Go
*Too bad it took Randi Weingarten 10 years to "get arrested" when the
writing was on the blackboard with the obviously insane, destructive and
impossible goals of NCLB calling for 100% proficiency by 2014. The noose
around the teachers' necks has been getting tighter and tighter and now the
ones in the most vulnerable communities are gasping for air and about to
expire. The stories form Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and New York about
what's happening to these communities barely made news at all. Does anyone
even care that the head of the AFT was arrested?*
* The public schools, t... more »
March 12, 1973
The president makes a statement:
--
DURING my press conference Of January 31, 1973, I stated that I would issue
a statement outlining my views on executive privilege.
The doctrine of executive privilege is well established. It was first
invoked by President Washington, and it has been recognized and utilized by
our Presidents for almost 200 years since that time. The doctrine is rooted
in the Constitution, which vests "the Executive Power" solely in the
President, and it is designed to protect communications within the
executive branch in a variety of circumstances in time of both ... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we took a look at our trash bin and challenged ourselves to find
alternate uses for the stuff we ty... more »
Tom Wolf-- A Progressive Alternative To Tom Corbett And Allyson Schwartz
No one in their right mind could possibly want to see Tom Corbett reelected
governor of Pennsylvania. And polls indicate that voters are more than
ready for a change. But does "a change" mean replacing a corporate shill
like Tom Corbett with a corporate shill like Allyson Schwartz? As we saw
the other day, many Democrats would prefer a more progressive candidate
than Schwartz, who, until a couple weeks ago, was a vice chairman of the
corrupt, Wall Street-tainted New Dems. Earlier today PPP released a new
poll showing that any of the top Democratic contenders could beat Corbett.
To... more »
Quantitative easing in a nutshell
Just in case you haven’t seen it for a while …
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The Book of Mormon
I knew nothing about this show going in, except that two people I knew saw
it and loved it.
The Book of Mormon.
FREAKING hilarious. Best production I have seen in ages, pretty much loved
every second.
I saw it at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit with my season tickets, and I
read online that every show has sold out for it's 10 day appearance. I am
sure you can get tickets on Ticketmaster, through the Fisher ticket
exchange, eBay or Stubhub.
If you like musicals and comedy and are not easily offended, SEE THIS SHOW.
The Daily "Near You?"
Cliff, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier"
*"The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier"*
By Tim McDonnell|
"Back in 1999, Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann
released the climate change movement's most potent symbol: The "hockey
stick," a line graph of global temperature over the last 1,500 years that
shows an unmistakable, massive uptick in the 20th century, when humans
began to dump large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It's
among the most compelling bits of proof out there that human beings are
behind global warming, and as such has become a target on Mann's back for
climat... more »
Montanans Need to say NO!!!! to ALEC
Last week I saw this
*Conservative group fundraiser draws ire of Montana Democrats*
* *
*March 06, 2013 2:15 pm • Associated Press*
HELENA — A conservative think tank is drawing the ire of some Democrats for
using a state building for a membership drive.
The American Legislative Exchange Council has helped draft model
legislation used by Republican lawmakers.
The group was at the state Capitol on Wednesday seeking new members. It
offers a two-year membership for $100.
Republican supporters say the group plays an important role in helping
draft ideas that support "limited governm... more »
John Friend on Rense Radio w/ Jeff Rense
I was a guest on the Jeff Rense Program on *Rense* Radio last night
following my conversation with John Kaminski. Jeff and I discussed my
article *Was Hitler a Zionist Stooge?* and other aspects of WWII and
American history. You can download the program *here*.
Who the hell starts their day at 10:30 am?...
*really!*
I'm usually up by 5 am.
Via *White House Dossier:*
Obama's schedule.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
*10:30 am ||* Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
*1:30 pm ||* Meets with the House Republican Conference; United States
Capitol
*3:05 pm ||* Meets with Secretary of State Kerry
*3:40 pm ||* Meets with CEOs to discuss cybersecurity; Situation Room
*4:05 pm ||* Meets with business leaders on immigration reform; Eisenhower
Executive Office Building
*4:30 pm ||* Meets with Treasury Secretary Lew
*6:30 pm ||* Delivers remarks at Organizing for Action dinner
And could someone p... more »
Sushi...now with chopsticks
I was well into my teenage years before I felt comfortable wielding a pair
of chopsticks and a young adult before I required a taste for sushi. Not
so for the boy.
Of course its okay to cheat every now and then when good food is involved.
Bob Woodward and me
I was a new stay at home mom when the Senate Watergate Committee convened.
I watched untold hours of those hearings on the teevee. They were broadcast
live on the networks, pre-empting regular programming. There were reams of
newspaper reports. Actual convictions ensued. Sure there was a lot of
theater, but it felt like a functioning government. And none of it would
have happened without Woodward and Bernstein and a major metro newspaper
willing to support their investigative work. Hard to believe, seeing what
has become of it in the present day, that newspaper was the Washington
Po... more »
Pyongyang be buggered, we’re all going to get wet!
Comforting to know that American military monitoring of threats from North
Korea and China is in the competent hands of General Bran Flake:
America's top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by
North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in
computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked
what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region:
climate change.
“The ice is melting and sea is getting higher…”
Yes, strap on your snorkels and head ye for the hills, for lo, the threat
of seawater ri... more »
The term: 'Political Correctness'
There’s said to be an annual contest at Griffith University, Queensland,
calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.
The term this year: 'Political Correctness'
The winning student wrote:
Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, holding forth the
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the
clean end.
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ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Broken Window Fallacy
Here’s the update for this Thursday’s econ session from our friends at the
Auckland Uni Economics Group:
*Hi all,
This week we’ll be talking about the most prevalent fallacy in economics,
which (when committed) leads to the biggest economic errors, and (when
spotted) starts you thinking like a real economist.
We’re talking about what is seen and what is not seen—most popularly known
as The Broken Window Fallacy.
Date: Thursday, March 14
Time: 6pm-7pm
Location: Case Room 3, Level Zero, Auckland University Business
School, Grafton Rd, Auckland
As always, all... more »
ALEC - It Really Sucks to be Finally Exposed
It sucks even more to be their PR firm.
While I was doing my research tonight (very productive, BTW – three new
articles coming up) I kept finding things that made me so, so sad for ALEC
(not so much).
*And this information was only in the last 24 hours.*
*And this information was on only the first ten pages of search results.*
*Just the snips from the Google results. *
ALEC Exposed in Iowa: How Corporate Influence Subverts Our Democratic
Process
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as
a "corporate bill mill"
As Alberta Premier Alison Redford t... more »
Airshow...
...never
ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his
department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR
aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any
other ministers of public works and industry involved.
It really is embarrassing that these people are still in power.
The doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada as a continuing principle of contract law
Brown v. Belleville (City), 2013 ONCA 148 holds:
[79] It is important to note at the outset that the doctrine of
privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada as a
continuing principle of contract law. It has been subject to a wealth of
repeated academic and judicial criticism, leading to frequent calls for law
reform in Canada and elsewhere. See for example, *London Drugs*, at pp.
418-26; *Fraser River Pile & Dredge Ltd. v. Can-Dive Services Ltd.*, [1999]
3 S.C.R. 108, at para. 26; McCamus, at pp. 296-301. Indeed, several
Commonwealth jurisdictions have... more »
Paul Ryan's plan for social Darwinism
Everybody is talking about Paul Ryan's new budget which is pretty much like
his old budget, only with more granny starving. I'd sum it up as further
slash the taxes on the wealthy, raise taxes on everyone else and pretty
much destroy any government program that might possibly increase the life
span of the poors, olds and disabled. The man who spent pretty much his
whole life dining on the taxpayers' dollar apparently thinks the government
is spending entirely too much money keeping these "takers" alive. In his
world they don't need so many poors anymore to do the menial work. Hell, w... more »
Once again, a solid Senate majority isn't enough to confirm a judge. Plus, George Will tells Watergate tall tales
*Really, you think that, just because Caitlin Halligan has a solid Senate
majority wanting to vote to confirm her nomination to the DC Circuit Court,
she should be confirmed? Where have you been?*
*"I don't think any reasonable person would find anything about Caitlin
Halligan that would constitute 'extraordinary circumstances. The idea that
a position that you took as a public official on behalf of your client
amounts to an extraordinary circumstance was pretty astonishing."*
*-- White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler,
to *The New Yorker*'s Jeffrey Toobin*
*by Ken*
Nevertheless, bec... more »
More on the Last Day
I am discovering all too well the limitations of typing with an Ipad and
cannot easily correct my grammatical and formatting errors. So, please
forgive them.
I want to address the discontinuities I mentioned.
First, no effort was made by the facilitators to summarize, synthesize,
compare or contrast any of the speakers contributions. The work of
sense-making was left entirely to the audience.
I believe this was an oversight and added to the disconnects.
The most pressing discontinuity stemmed from disconnects in:
1. The empirical findings of animal/human mutations and diseases do... more »
Last Day of Fukushima Conference
As an academic I've been to many many conferences, big and small.
I have mixed feelings about the Fukushima Symposium based on my previous
conference expectations.
What was great about the conference was the wide array of amazing speakers
Helen Caldicott was able to assemble.
My favorite speaker was Timothy Mousseau, whose work on birds and insects
in the Chernobyl zone is amazing and very heroic, given he has increased
his personal risks going back many times into contaminated zones to collect
animals, none of which he hurts and all of which he returns.
I spoke briefly with him d... more »
ALEC Ag-Gag Bill - A Blunder, PR Failure
Steven Maviglio
California Cattlemen's Introduction of "Ag-Gag" Bill May be Legislative and
PR Blunder of the Year
March 12, 2013 @ 11:01 AM
[image: Cow]You would think that the beef industry would have its hands
full dealing with news reports about the infusion of a distant relative of
Mr. Ed in IKEA meatballs and in other "beef" products. But no.
Here in California, the California Cattlemen's Association has embarked on
what is likely to go down as the biggest PR blunder of the 2013 legislative
session. It is sponsoring a bill that would essentially stop individuals
from exposing... more »
NEOCONS, ZIONISTS AND M.S.M. IGNORE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN KILLED BY ISRAELIS
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recently released
a preliminary report which has stated that a Palestinian child initially
thought to have been killed by Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip was
actually killed by an errant rocket that had been launched by Palestinian
fighters.
Despite due reverence to the death of a child, neoconservatives and
Zionists could barely disguise their joy at being handed a propaganda coup
enabling them to demean their enemies. Jonathan Tobin writing at the
neoconservative *Commentary* magazine certainly couldn’t let the
opportuni... more »
Modern air combat - the Sukhoi 27 explained
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/ccTJrxVqw9g
The world is changing and so are strategic requirements. For the one party
a drone is the optimum aerial weapon system (in particular when the economy
is declining), for the other advanced fighters and fighter-bombers (when
you have a vast country to protect). I admire the designs from Sukhoi and
its SU27 family. Why? That is pretty well explained and shown in this
movie...
John
Deplorable
Haiti: Deplorable Conditions for Cholera Patients@msf_usa shar.es/epBwG via
@sharethis
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) March 12, 2013
Threats, Libel, Calls for FDA & Government Action – and a Petition to the Governor: Research Ethics Morass at the University of Minnesota Psychiatry Continues
The sad and disgraceful story about the appalling unwillingness of the
University of Minnesota to in any way investigate closer what several
pieces of evidence suggest may very well be a major research ethics scandal
in its psychiatry department continues. The scandal involves drug trials
connected to several major Pharma companies, such as Astra-Zeneca, but for
once it is not them who appear to be doing the bad deed – it is the
university itself.
Former reports on this by myself are here, and here. The reporting of
University of Minnesota bioethicist Carl Elliott is assembled here ... more »
Ron Delisle passes
Those who knew Ron Delisle at Queen's will be saddened to hear that he
passed away this morning at Kingston General Hospital. Canada has lost a
great academic and a decent human being.
Those evil Tories
'The wages of ordinary full-time workers barely grew during this period and
were negative for the lowest earners... Even workers in the top half saw
their wages grow only slowly. It was only the very richest – those in the
top 5% - who experienced growth of more than 1% a year. This pattern of
wage growth among individuals contributed to a growing polarisation in
household incomes.'
Those evil Tories, only the top 5% experiencing growth on their incomes,
the rich looking after the rich...
Just one problem the above is taken from The Resolution Foundation's Report'Squeezed Britai... more »
Comparing Imaginary Numbers
How do you go about comparing imaginary numbers?
Kevin Drum says:
The fiscal cliff deal increased top marginal rates from 36 percent to 39.6
percent. Ryan's plan is based on reducing top rates to 25 percent. In other
words, not only does he want to get rid of the 39.6 percent rate, he wants
to make it even lower than it was before the fiscal cliff deal. He doesn't
accept the fiscal cliff increases at all.
Right? What am I missing here?
While Suzy Khimm reads the same budget and concludes:
Buried in Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget is one surprising detail: He wants to
raise more revenu... more »
Untitled
*Does stunning collapse of River Birch case portend uglier revelations
ahead?*
A Sea of Lies
Yesterday, the first lone bee was gathering pollen from the crocus peeking
out of the litter of leaves. As any gardener would know looking at the
size of the bee compared to the flower, every year this violet harbinger of
spring emerges smaller and more pale. Although the bulbs should divide and
spread, as time goes on there are, like the daffodils, fewer and fewer
along the long drive that leads through the woods to Wit's End, and less
and less along the banks of the Cold Brook where they were planted by the
former owner, long before I moved here, when first daughter had yet bare... more »
Salon goes belly (and spread keister) up!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013*
*The death of American journalism:* The horror of modern American
journalism is on display wherever you look.
Examples:
In the next few weeks, citizens will look on as the “press corps” pretends
to examine the new Ryan budget plan. (To watch Drum fight with the opening
rounds of the nonsense, just click this.)
At Slate, Tanner Colby takes a punishing look at the way Bob Woodward was
doing business as early as the 1980s. Was this great man *always* a fraud?
To examine that question, click here.
Last night, O’Reilly’s recent wave of lunacy continued apace o... more »
INSIDE THE MAN
As the creative powerhouse behind hugely influential band The Kinks, Ray
Davies was responsible for writing some of the best-loved songs of the 60s,
including pop classics You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting For You,
Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset. Alan
Yentob meets Davies, a unique talent who describes with rare candor his
troubled relationship with fame and the vicissitudes of his career.
Preparing for dryness
*Another repost while Risa recovers from the flu she picked up in Calif. :)
*
Last year at this time, the cold rains returned in March, and for a
rainy-day project, Risa built a solar food dehydrator from scraps. It did a
fair job of the drying that was asked of it, and there was enough work for
two dehydrators, so this year, as it's raining again, she's making another
as much like the old one as possible, and again from scraps. First, measure
your Craigslist window and then construct a box to fit. This box is made
from 3/8" plywood and 2X2" leftovers, about 35X47X6", assembled with... more »
Slaves To Debt... And To Death
Did you love Bryan Ferry's song Slave to Love? Me too. You can watch it at
the link-- but not at the embed above. That one's much scaried; it's about
the essence of the banking industry-- making us all slaves to debt, if not
as individuals, then as citizens of countries. And the way they do it is,
as President Eisenhower warned us in 1961, through the octopus-like
Military-Industrial Complex. The video clip is worth watching.
This week 8 Members of Congress concerned about this kind of thing more
than many of their colleagues-- Barbara Lee (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ),
Keith Elli... more »
The Mythical Liberal Order: A Reply and Response
Naazneen Barma, one of the authors of the “Mythical Liberal Order,”
responded to my post of last week with a reply to my critique. With her
permission, I’m posting her message here and my response. Readers, we’d
love for you to weigh in with your views. Naazneen had this to say about my
original post: I’d
Continue reading
"Dogs Are Able To Visually Recognize Their Own Species"
*"Dogs Are Able To Visually Recognize Their Own Species"*
by Lee Rannals
"New research reported in the journal "Animal Cognition" claims that dogs
are able to pick out faces of other dogs on a computer screen, and can
group them into a category of their own. Dr. Dominique Autier-Dérian, who
led the research along with colleagues, performed the first study to test
dogs’ ability to discriminate between species and form a “dog” category in
spite of the variability within the dog species. Previous research has
shown that in some species, individuals are able to recognize more easi... more »
Persistent lying about housing land supply
*[image: _hugh-pavletich-sml]Guest poster Hugh Pavletich asks why people
such as Mayor Len Brown of Auckland are persistently lying about housing
issues, and points out however you want to measure the amount of
immediately available building land, the only true measure of scarcity or
abundance is price.*
Supplying affordable new homes today is a very formulaic business indeed –
and has been since Bill and Alfred Levitt created the modern production
housing construction industry soon after World War 2.
This was a remarkable entrepreneurial feat, as the Levitts and many others
had ... more »
Christy Clark`s LNG Superpower Dreams Turn Nightmare
More bad news for British Columbia`s LNG superpower dreams..
(Thanks to the Disaffected Lib for pointing this out)
http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2013/03/iran-pipeline-to-pakistan-next-stop.html
Iran has completed a natural gas pipeline, come Monday construction of the
pipeline takes another step, Pakistan has agreed to start construction of
the pipeline in their country, this is expected to take 2 years, Iran has
huge deposits of natural gas ...
This project has been delayed because the USA has been threatening
Pakistan, threatening to cut off monies to Pakistan if it has an... more »
The Economy: "Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies"
*"Staring Armageddon In The Face But *
*Hiding It With Official Lies"*
– Paul Craig Roberts
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created
236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in
Brooklyn that I’ll let you have at a good price. Where are these alleged
jobs? The BLS says 48,000 were created in construction. That is possible, considering
that revenue-starved real estate developers are misreading the housing
situation. Then there are 23,700 new jobs in retail trade, which is hard to
believe considering the absence of consumer ... more »
Gwich'in Steering Committee Open House March 13, 2013
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Satire: "Ryan Budget Plan Gets Endorsement From Ayn Rand"
*"Ryan Budget Plan Gets Endorsement From Ayn Rand"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) was
jubilant today after his newly unveiled budget plan picked up a key
endorsement from the novelist Ayn Rand. It was a rare public utterance for
the late Ms. Rand, who has been damned to eternal torment in Satan’s lake
of fire since 1982. “This is a budget I wish I had written,” said Ms. Rand,
pausing to scream as white-hot flames licked her face. “Paul Ryan is a
great man and I look forward to meeting him someday.”
Rep. Ryan acknowledged Ms... more »
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Our Movement Must Be a Safe Space for Women
Support this initiative by Cath Elliott and Marshajane Thompson and sign
the statement below here.
We the undersigned labour movement activists stand in solidarity with all
women opposing all forms of male violence against women. We recognise that
male violence against women is endemic in society, and that our movement is
obviously and unfortunately not exempt.
We believe that our trade union and labour movement has the potential to
transform society for the better. Therefore we have a particular
responsibility to confront and challenge male violence against women within
our movem... more »
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"The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part II"
*"The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part II"*
A conversation with Doug Casey
by The Gold Report
*"The Gold Report:* In the conversation titled On 2013, you say 2013 will
be ugly, but merely a warm-up for 2014. Yet the economic trends appear to
be positive: the end of quantitative easing by year-end, increased domestic
oil and gas production resulting in inexpensive energy for decades to come,
more manufacturing jobs, and less unemployment. Is this slow-growing
economic recovery masking the effects of the deficit and unfunded
liabilities, thus allowing politicians to kick t... more »
Maarten Horst Interviews Brian Kelly on the OPPT March 7, 2013
*Here's an interview Brian did with Maarten Horst from*
* ET First Contact Radio on March 7, 2013*
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Had such a blast doing this interview with Maarten. Covered some
information I hadn't been given clearance yet to discuss on other shows. I
think folks will find it VERY interesting ;)
Enjoy!
~ Brain
Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November | Fox News
Now you know why the US Democrats were so against voter registration
legislation. How many more similar examples have yet to come to light?
'She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and
now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for allegedly
voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal voting in 2008
and 2011.
The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday, faces
eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun, have been
charged separately.
Richardson had admitted on camera to a local TV st... more »
Iran Pipeline to Pakistan. Next stop, China?
Despite pressure from the United States, Pakistan has reached an agreement
for the construction of a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran.
Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, the gas pipeline appears to be routed
right past Gwadar, the Pakistani southern port, control of which has
recently passed to China.
Just sayin'
It's Still Fossil Fuel
The Japanese have successfully tapped seabed methane clathrates, also known
as "flammable ice." Deposits of compressed and frozen methane are fairly
common in northern waters. British Columbia has looked at exploiting them.
*The gas field is about 50km away from Japan's main island, in the Nankai
Trough.*
* **Researchers say it could provide an alternative energy source for Japan
which imports all its energy needs.*
*Offshore deposits present a potentially enormous source of methane but
also some environmental concern, because the underwater geology containing
them is unstable ... more »
Underestimating China
The Chinese keep taking the West by surprise with their technological
advancement. We're pretty sure a fair bit of their knowledge is purloined
via the internet. Some, probably, but not all.
And, speaking of the internet, it seems China is poised to rock the world
with a "next generation" internet that is expected to be a world-beater.
Just as our conventional internet is nearing it's 4.3-billion full
capacity, China is deploying a system that is supposedly 80,000 trillion
trillion times larger.
Shhh. Don't Tell Harper
With his authoritarian bent, this might just appeal to Sideshow Steve.
And, of course, when thinking of Ruler Harper who doesn't think of Albania?
*Wired.com* has a neat item about former Albanian strongman Enver Hoxa and
his obsession with bunker-building. During the Communist dictator's
40-year rule, he covered his country with 750,000 concrete bunkers. That's
one for every four Albanians.
Being concrete, they're still pretty much intact to this day.* *The
article has a gallery of 22-photos. Here are a few.
Photos by David Galjaard from his book, *Concresco.*
Post-Commun... more »
It's Official
*"I'd love to be able to do my job, gentlemen, but Goldman Sachs is holding
my testicles hostage."*
* * Eric Holder's more worthless than Erik Erikson will prove to be for
Fox "News."
In an amazing round of testimony (or should we spell it "testimoney"?)
before the US Senate, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to Chuck
Grassley that Wall Street banks are indeed too big to jail. This is what
he'd actually said to Grassley:
I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large
that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with... more »
No, Not "Everyone" Fell For The Bush-Cheney Call To War In Iraq
National Memo kicked off the week reminding us that not *everyone* fell for
the Bush-Cheney war propaganda and not everyone went along with their rush
to war in Iraq. There were, in fact, millions of people who protested and,
in terms of insiders, National Memo spotlights people who criticized the
invasion risking their careers and reputations to do so. They focus on
Tyler Drumheller, head of CIA operations in Europe, the Knight Ridder
Newspaper chain, Al Gore, blue chip journalists Dana Milbank, Walter
Pincus, and Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, Carne
R... more »
Enhanced credit for pre conviction custody may properly include ineligibility for remission and parole while in remand custody
R. v. Summers, 2013 ONCA 147 holds enhanced credit for pre conviction
custody may properly include consideration of ineligibility for remission
and parole while in remand custody:
[8] As I see it, however, s. 719(3.1) of the Code allows a
sentencing judge to credit pre-sentence custody at a ratio up to, but not
exceeding, 1.5:1 for each day spent in pre-sentence custody where, on
consideration of all relevant circumstances, such credit is necessary to
achieve a fair and just sanction in accordance with the statutory scheme
for sentencing and punishment set out in the Cod... more »
ISA 2013 Blogging Reception
The good people at SAGE just sent this image along. It’s a mockup of one
side of the reception postcards that will be handed out at ISA 2013. I will
be running repeated reminders of the reception from now until the
conference. It will be from 7.30-8.30pm on 4 April in Yosemite A.
Unfortunately, only
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Well, That's That Then.
In an upset, Falkland Islanders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of flipping
the bird to Argentina.
*Despite near zero temperatures and flurries of snow and rain, the turnout
was 92% from an electorate of 1,650. All but three people voted yes to the
question posed on the ballots: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain
their current political status as an overseas territory of the United
Kingdom?" *
Those pesky Argies were not impressed.
In Papal News
Let the Conclave begin!
Wait, what's that? There's already a snag? Frontrunner Papal would-be,
Cardinal Angelo Scola's diocese has just been raided by Italy's anti-mafia
cop squad.
*Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in
Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn
raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by,
and supplies to, hospitals".*
*Healthcare in Lombardy is the principal responsibility of the regional
administration, which for the past 18 years has been run by Roberto
Formigo... more »
Mr. O was still explaining his outburst last night!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013*
*The poodle which didn’t bark:* Last Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly melted
down on his semi-eponymous cable news program.
Over and over, he called Alan Colmes a liar, although he began to apologize
for the name-calling before the segment was over. The following night, he
devoted his opening segment to the fracas, though he kept spreading
disinformation about Obama’s budget proposals, the matter which had been in
question. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/8/13.
Those segments aired last Tuesday and Wednesday. But how strange! Last
night, O’Reilly was *still* trying to... more »
THE ORIGINAL SIN: Why was Whitaker frisked!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013*
*Part 2—The heartfelt belief that we know:* Why was Forest Whitaker
stopped, then frisked, outside a New York deli last month?
To tell you the truth, we don’t know. Everyone agrees that Whitaker did
absolutely nothing wrong—that he was *mistakenly* suspected of shoplifting.
But why was Whitaker suspected? To tell you the truth, we don’t know. There
has been little reporting about the incident. As far as we know, the name
of the deli employee in question hasn’t even been reported; neither has his
age or his race or ethnicity.
There has been no reporting a... more »
Manila the Miners' Canary of Climate Change
The Philippines are now being thought of as the "miners' canary" of climate
change. The archipelagic state has reeled under the impacts of sea level
rise and typhoons of increasing frequency and intensity. But the capital, Manila,
is the worst of all and now faces permanent flooding because residents have
compounded sea level rise and storm surges with subsidence caused by
draining their aquifers.
*In an interview with GMA News Online, Dr. Kelvin S. Rodolfo, Professor
Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained that the
over-pumping of groundwater is the main ca... more »
Wing's Presentation on Epidemiology
Steve Wing
He begins by addressing the limitations of the Hiroshima lifetime study,
which include :
1. The study began 5 years after the bombing
2. Studies of cancer began in 1958
3. Fallout was not addressed because the people studied were primarily
subject to gamma and neutron radiation from the initial blasts rather than
fallout, which impacted populations located further away
4. No research addressed subjects exposure to ingested and inhaled
radioisotopes
5. No research addressed birth defects and miscarriages
He also addressed a vareity of other issues that impacted statist... more »
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
Henry Farrell reflects on political economy, game theory, and methodology
[Crooked Timber] ICYMI: Voeten links to Fukuyama on new measures of
governance (ungated) [The Monkey Cage, Governance] Fukuyama seeks a measure
of the actual quality of governance, regardless of regime type. For my
part, I’ll note that I’ve discovered “political scientists measure
democracy using quantitative
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Iraq 10 Years Later (1): How Culpable is Academic International Relations?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the war this month. I’ll be teaching it in
the next few weeks at school because of the decade anniversary (March 20).
My quick sense is that any defensible theory behind the war was simply
buried by an execution so awful, disorganized, mismanaged, and incompetent
that it invalidated the whole
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After the party, the CVAC's
When we realize our value we will be valuable. When we realize our value
we will be valuable. When we realize our value we will be valuable. We
are not valuable until we say so.
Why do you have low self esteem? Who told you to hate yourself? You were
programmed to comply and made to be obedient. When you realize your value
you will become valuable.
You do not realize your value and so you do not see yourself as valuable.
What makes one piece of paper more valuable than another? One rock more
valuable than another? An agreement – words like “In God We Trust” or “... more »
A Minor Defense of Ryan and the Republicans
Since I took it to Paul Ryan and the Republicans in fairly strong language
yesterday, and I suspect I'll not wind up saying nice things about Ryan's
budget, I'll back up a bit and say one thing in their defense.
Ryan is taking a fair amount of heat from some liberals because the budget
matches the Romney/Ryan campaign plan and because the ticket that ran on
that platform lost. For example, Jared Bernstein: "OK…but the thing is, we
had a national election on this preference set, and it lost."
I suppose there's nothing wrong with this as a talking point, but really:
what else do you e... more »
Their BIG Joke On You Explained: Laundered Drug Money Mainly A Hedge By the Banks?
It's just a favor (almost) that anyone from that level even speaks to us
(US) anymore. Have you started to feel that way also? I think we are lucky
to have an inside man like Bob Reich. Former labor secretary Robert Reich
says, “The idea that most Americans have been living beyond their means is
pure fantasy perpetrated by a small minority at the top whose means have
gone through the
The Good Ol’ Cold War
In the aftermath of a long war, a new degree of suspicion ensues between
two powerful countries that were nominally on the same side…one rattles its
sabre, threatening small countries on its borders…the other shores up
relations with the very same countries… a tit-for-tat arms race begins,
waged with the advantages of recent technological advances…espionage
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Beyond Critical Thinking -- a book review by author Jeff Schmidt
Beyond
Critical Thinking
Review of Denis Rancourt's Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight
Against Racism
By Jeff Schmidt
Author of Disciplined Minds
jeffschmidt@alumni.uci.edu
To understand Denis Rancourt and his book, Hierarchy and Free Expression
in the Fight Against Racism, you have to know the difference between
critical thinking and independent thinking.
Critical thinking is
Iraq Finally Passes 2013 Budget But With Protests
At the beginning of March 2013, Iraq’s parliament finally passed the annual
budget. Voting on it had been delayed for months, mainly because of
disputes between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central
government over the former’s oil policy. The argument was not resolved by
the time the vote took place, which led to complaints by the Kurdish
Coalition. In terms of the actual budget, it is the largest in Iraqi
history. It also has the biggest outlay for investment, but many of the
country’s ministries have proven incapable of spending all their money. The
budget is ... more »
Chief of U.S. Pacific forces calls climate change biggest worry – ‘You could have millions of people displaced, and security will start to crumble pretty quickly’
[image: Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III met privately with security and
foreign policy specialists at Harvard and Tufts universities on 7-8 March
2013. He said the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region
is climate change. Photo: Jay Directo / AFP / Getty Images]By Bryan Bender
9 March 2013
CAMBRIDGE (Boston Globe) – America’s top military officer in charge of
monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between
China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides
an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term sec... more »
Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools
*Beka Books is owned by Arlin and Beka Horton, who both graduated from Bob
Jones "University" in 1951. The company, which now has an extensive
product line of semi-literate ultra-fundamentalist teaching materials, made
headlines a couple of years ago by changing the Christian unfriendly "Slave
Trade" to the "Atlantic Triangular Trade." How offensive an unwholesome to
talk about slavery in a Christian environment. From Political Research
Associates:*
On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s
meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first cha... more »
Rising sea levels threaten historic Jamestown, marine geologist says island’s future is grim – ‘You can only fight nature for so long, because she will win’
[image: Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, the original site of the Jamestown
colony. Rising sea levels are threatening Jamestown, the site of the first
permanent English settlement in North America. Photo: Williamsburg Virginia
guide]
JAMESTOWN, Virginia, 10 March 2013 (Associated Press) – Rising sea levels
are threatening Jamestown, the site of the first permanent English
settlement in North America.
Jamestown Island, where most of Jamestown is located, lies 3 feet or less
above the tidal James River. Scientists project that it will be underwater
by 2100, but flooding will increase... more »
Canada losing its seasons – ‘We are changing seasonality. The north is becoming like the south, losing its sharp contrasts between the four seasons.’
[image: Average monthly Arctic sea ice extent, February 1979-2013. Graphic:
NSIDC]
By Stephen Leahy
11 March 2013
UXBRIDGE, Canada (IPS) – “Canada is not a country, it’s winter,” Canadians
say with pride. But the nation’s long, fearsome winters will live only in
memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.
Winters are already significantly warmer and shorter than just 30 years
ago. The temperature regimes and plant life of the south have marched more
than 700 kilometres northward, new research shows.
The frozen north is leaving and won’t be back for millennia due to
... more »
‘Melbourne on the Murray’ as city bakes in record heat – ‘It’s stunning. That heat is just not going anywhere.’
[image: Melbourne residents escape the record heat on the beach, 11 March
2013. Photo: Sydney Morning Herald]
By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor
11 March 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) -- Melbourne's heatwave has set more records as
city dwellers endure temperatures more usually felt much further inland.
The mercury touched 30 degrees late morning and peaked at 37.1 just after
4pm, exceeding the forecast high of 36. Melbourne has only posted eight
consecutive days of 30 degrees or more on four occasions - in 1890, 1898,
1951 and 1961 - in records that go back to 1856. Each of t... more »
Farewell to one of Victoria's most controversial citizens
The death of Victoria lawyer Doug Christie last night prompted me to dig
out a feature I did on him for the Times Colonist way back in 2002.
Everybody's got a strong, strong opinion on the man, and plenty of people
just plain hate him. But like most people, he was a complex character.
An uneasy peace: At 56, controversial lawyer Douglas Christie now worries
for his childrenVictoria Times Colonist, Monitor section
Sun Mar 3 2002
They're dying off, the men who Douglas Christie loved the most. His heroes
are dead men and the list is growing every day.
It hasn't been easy being the lawy... more »
Untitled
*Tulane professor protests neuroscience society’s decision to stop meeting
in New Orleans*
*Without tolls on the CCC, revenue sources sought for bridge upkeep*
*Drivers want refunds on pre-paid CCC toll tags* *Developers request more
time for controversial luxury apartments project* *Café Reconcile reopens
today *
invasive Species Boundary
In reality, this is a battle that can not be won. The Mississippi Basin and
the Great Lakes Basin share a thousand mile long headwaters consisting
mostly of farm fields, wetlands and woodlands. All of it is flushed and
flooded during the spring breakup with every depression and ditch full of
water. Pathways will exist and carp populations will expand to steadily
increase the probability of penetration.
If it has not happened yet, then we have been lucky. Sooner or later all
populations in the headwaters regions will reach full capacity at which
crossing over the head waters divid... more »
‘Zionism’ Means Something Different for Some Muslims
This is an important nuance to the understanding of the meaning of Zionism
outside traditional western understanding. The education system has
promoted a threat concept that is actually ludicrous and implausible, but
certainly expanded the concept of a national enemy that was obviously
convenient for rulers. Who would have thought.
I now clearly realize that a huge amount of Middle Eastern propaganda is
about apples rather than oranges. Most likely it is also used as code to
resist the West while pandering to it. We have wrongly linked the words to
our own understanding of Zionis... more »
Spanish Chupacabra Update
This is a translation from Spanish language sources. I must say that there
is a lot of material from the Spanish language press that I do wish to
access in my many areas of interest. In this update, Puerto Rican gargoyle
from twenty years ago has reappeared which effectively suggests that there
is a native population generally avoiding contact. Geographically, it is
accessible to Central American comparables.
Otherwise other creatures are out there to sow confusion. These could be
even other types of unidentified vampire bats. What is clear is that local
reports and local popul... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Tammy Duckworth, 45.
On to the good stuff:
1. David Frum doesn't like Woodrow Wilson and explains why you shouldn't,
either.
2. New Buzzfeed WH reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro seems to be starting out
with a healthy realistic view of the job. I wrote about this a while ago,
by the way.
3. Andrew Sprung on the GOP, electioneering effects, and more.
4. Health care real estate, from Sarah Kliff.
5. And via Sarah Binder, Richard Arenberg's filibuster defense.
We Really Do Need A Healthy Republican Party
Jim Himes, once a Goldman Sachs banker, now vice-chair of the New Dems, is
working harder than anyone to gut the derivatives regulations Wall Street
hates
Zack Beauchamp made an elegant case for why America needs a mainstream
conservative party and an electorally plausible GOP. "Progressives," he
writes, "should want the Republican reformers to succeed in creating a
party that’s both more substantively tethered to reality and, as a
consequence, more electorally viable. The current Republican party is a
serious threat given the structure of American politics even if it’s in
long-ter... more »
New Rankings
*US News and World Report* has released its updated rankings of graduate
programs in economics. Click here to see them. The top programs are:
#1 Harvard
#1 MIT
#1 Princeton
#1 Chicago
#5 Stanford
#5 UC-Berkeley
#7 Northwestern
#7 Yale
#9 Penn
#10 Columbia
#11 NYU
#11 Minnesota
#13 Michigan
#13 Wisconsin
#15 Caltech
#15 UCLA
#15 UC-San Diego
#18 Cornell
#19 Brown
#19 Carnegie Mellon
#19 Duke
Tues. 3/12 - ALEC in Iowa, Noon - Be There
*Tuesday March 12th*
*ALEC in Iowa*
*Room 22*
*Iowa State Capitol, Room 22, Des Moines, Iowa*
*Tuesday, March 12th, 12:00 – 1:00 PM*
Official News Release
Des Moines, Iowa — Local and national leaders will speak out on Tuesday,
March 12th about the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, and
its influence on Iowa’s legislative process. Lisa Graves, the executive
director of the Center for Media and Democracy and publisher of
ALECexposed.org, Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair of the national Progressive
States Network, and Peter Fisher, research director for the Iowa Policy
Proje... more »
ALEC - Moving Public Land to Corporations
Of great importance to anyone in the US who enjoys or just appreciates the
beauty of the American great outdoors is an article that appeared today at
the Center for American Progress.
* **State Efforts to ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands*
This article is VERY important in understanding how ALEC members view our
public lands.
ALEC members view our public lands as a commodity to be sold or traded to
ALEC corporate profit members – becausetheycan.
It is the duty and responsibility of EVERY American to make sure that this
rape of public lands by American Legislative Exchange Council me... more »
Co-operatism Vs Corporatism
Paul Adams writes that it will probably take another election defeat before
the Liberals and the NDP decide there is good reason for them to work
together. Each party has its champion of cooperation:
Like Nathan Cullen in the NDP race last year, [Joyce] Murray has presented
a credible progressive version of her party’s traditions while also arguing
for party cooperation. And she’s attracted significant support — even
though leadership races are when party supporters are at their most
partisan.
Of course, we all know she won’t actually win.
The old ways die hard. And co-operati... more »
Phil Mickelson - RAZR Fit Xtreme TV Ad - Award Quality Visuals
forget the news, forget soaps, forget reality shows, *advertisements* can
'sometimes' provide the most Creative, the most Innovative, the most
Enjoyable televisual moments elevating the *blatant product sell* to the
level of ART.
This incredible 2013 advert from Callaway c/o Factory Design Labs in
collaboration with Leviathan showing Phil Mickelson swinging their
de-constructing re-constructing Razr Fit Extreme golf club is exactly that:
Art.
The Need to Revisit The Supply Chain
Logistics always taught us that supply chains are only as strong as their
weakest link. This is particularly relevant in a finely balanced chain such
as the book trade, which is made complex by the many to many relationships
and single source of product.
Publisher, former politician and founder of Biteback Publishing Iain Dale,
made a strong speech at the Independent Publishers Guild conference last
week claiming that the large retailers have publishers ‘over a barrel’. So
what is the ‘barrel’ he was claiming and how does it impact today’s supply
chain.
His points are nothing new... more »
More referendum observations
A longtime observer of local politics pointed out to me another bit of
anti-democratic fallout from the Double 50 threshold: ballot secrecy. There
won't be any. Consider...
1. It is likely that the KMT will instruct its people to stay home.
2. It is also likely that the referendum will not combined with next year's
elections.
3. Thus, the only thing voted on will be the Fourth Nuke Plant referendum.
If KMT types are ordered to stay home, this means that the only people
going will be, in the very least, people who are voting to stop
construction and operation of the plant, and who a... more »
Interesting how the BBC choose when to report with 'context'
The BBC's reluctant report includes this piece of context at the end:
'The UN report concluded that at least 169 Palestinians were killed by
Israeli attacks during the offensive.
It said more than 100 were civilians, including 33 children and 13 women.
The report said six Israelis were killed by Palestinians attacks, including
four civilians.'
Even if we accept the Palestinian sourced split between civilians and
military, and work on the minimum figure of 101 civilians out of 169
deaths, that makes a ratio of approximately 1.69:1 civilians:military. This
sounds terrible, after al... more »
Keiser Report - Man-eating Sinkhole Season
*copyright bloomberg*I mean, just because I regularly report on Max Keiser
and Stacey Herbert's every-other-day show Keiser Report broadcast by RUSSIA
TODAY out of central Moscow doesn't mean Free Planet condones i) every
race-to-the-bottom buy-silver dog bitcoiner for himself or ii) communism.
Today's wind-swept discussion by the young lovers (they are still dating,
right?) involves them likening the seasonal Sinkhole Phenomenon to the
eternal Prison Capitalism practises that are RAMPANT on this
financially-enslaved planet - the image (top right) suggest they might have
'borrowed' ... more »
Gustav Kirchhoff: a birthday
*Sad recent event:* Donald Glaser, the 1960 Nobel prize winner in physics
for his invention of the bubble chamber, died on February 28th.
Gustav Kirchhoff was born on March 12th, 1824, in Königsberg, capital of
Prussia (now the island of Kaliningrad, Russia: note that it was easy to
correct the country's name) to a lawyer and his wife. He married his math
teacher's daughter and got lots of good education by people including
Jacobi.
In some sense, we could say that this important 19th century physicist was
the ultimate conventional career mainstream scientist. He died at age of 63 ... more »
Is the right-wing Manning Centre plotting ‘Manchurian Municipal Candidates’?
Former Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, the crazy
uncle of American politics, with some of his young acolytes at this
weekend’s Manning Centre “Big Ideas” conference. Below: anti-medicare
crusader Dr. Brian Day, a sign directing conferees to advice on how to sell
their kidneys, and Mr. Manning himself. OTTAWA You can’t take an ... more »
Musical Interlude: Genesis, "Land of Confusion"
Genesis, “Land of Confusion”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujuYiweht8
Is the United States of America the greatest country on the world?
------------------------------
http://youtu.be/16K6m3Ua2nw
*The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...*
*James Bouder*
*Published on Jun 26, 2012*
Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's
Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
Cherchez la Verite
sex and death
"Death is like sex...
you will find it in your own way."
March 11, 1973
Chuck Colson, now outside of the White House, took a trip out of the
country during Patrick Gray's testimony, and now talks to the president on
the phone, mainly reassuring him. Nixon knows what's important, however:
keeping the White House staff, and John Dean in particular, away from
Congress.
--
Colson: [...] As I told Bob, you do get a completely different feeling when
you come back and see the jackassery that is engaged in this town. My God
almighty. Just lean back, and there is the *Washington Post*, big picture
of Kalmbach and Chapin, you know, as if that really had any conse... more »
The Failed Cabal Timeline
Posted by American Kabuki
March 11, 2013
This is the 2nd piece of the recording supplied to me by an anonymous
contact in late 2012. The other portion of this video was about the mind
controlled Montauk children was published shortly after the killings in
Sandy Hill NJ. I felt that information had to get out immediately.
This portion I delayed posting, mostly because there was so much hysteria
around 12/21/2012, both from the negative disaster perspective (Hollywood
did its best to magnify that possibility) and from others expecting a
suddenly miraculous new world. I had no desire... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of the Realist Report, we'll be joined by *John Kaminski*,
a returning guest! John and I will be discussing his recent article *UGLY
EMPIRE* and the latest developments since the last time he was on the
program. We'll also discuss solutions to the problems confronting our
nation and world, including the recent *National Protectionism Manifesto*released by Mike Sledge and
*Renegade Broadcasting*.
*John Kaminski* is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida,
constantly trying to figure out why we are destroying ourselves and
pinpointing a corrupt belief system ... more »
Can You Trace The Byzantine Empire On A Current Map?
We love history at *DWT*. Last night when we posted about America's most
hated Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney, we were well aware that
most people don't know who he is or why he's important-- and we know that
no one who was born as one of his slaves is still alive today. But with
today's most vicious Supreme Court racist, Antonin Scalia, agitating among
his colleagues to declare Title V of the Voting Rights Act
unconstitutional-- or, at least, outdated-- and lionizing Taney, there is a
need to understand how the evil of deranged racism causes grievous harm to
our coun... more »
NEOCON CHUTZPAH OVER TARGETTED ASSASSINATIONS
Before I launch into criticising neocons for their hypocrisy and double
standards regarding targeted assassinations, I should point out that I am
against any type of targeted assassination regardless of who is killing who.
Today in *Commentary* magazine, Jonathan Tobin, the magazines most prolific
neoconservative propagandist, wrote an article criticising the honouring in
France of the Palestinian fighter Majdi Rimawi who is imprisoned in Israel
for assassinating Rehavam Ze’evi, who at the time of his assassination was
Israel’s Minister of Tourism.
Tobin writes:
*Bezons,* [a suburb... more »
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