Geo-engineering: do we see weather warfare or don't we?
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:21:55 PM
I continue to witness a decline in solar output, hence
less 'warming' of the oceans that are our heat-tanks. We had hurricanes
at the pole that shifted ice around, undersea volcanoes working under
the Arctic etc.
What I do know is that our planet is cooling. And for some time already.
A natural cycle to my opinion. Whether the Gulf stream has to do with
this is uncertain and cause of controversies. http://iceagenow.info/http://www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/218 The real controversy...
http://youtu.be/l2JvbnxM_mc Anything 'new' here? See date...
http://youtu.be/mrDVoSuD_iI Any questions...?
Bloomberg Celebrates the Failure of New York City Public Schools
OIG Presents More Cover-Up Of Fast And Furious
10:13 pm MDST
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Friday Morning Linkage
Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 4 minutes ago
Joshua Goldstein and I look at R2P After Syria. But, what will Syria look
like after Syria? And, what exactly is the Obama administration
doing there? Training and arming the rebels covertly but not with
non-lethal military aid — body armor and night vision. UN arms treaty
blocked by Iran, North Korea, and Syria. Go figure.
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"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 minutes ago
“Bright spiral galaxy NGC 3169 appears to be unraveling in this cosmic
scene, played out some 70 million light-years away just below bright star
Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Its beautiful spiral arms
are distorted into sweeping tidal tails as NGC 3169 (left) and neighboring
NGC 3166 interact gravitationally, a common fate even for bright galaxies
in the local universe. In fact, drawn out stellar arcs and plumes,
indications of gravitational interactions, seem rampant in the deep and
colorful galaxy group photo.
*Click image for larger size.*
The picture spans... more »
Will Republicans Manage To Nominate Unelectable Crackpots In South Dakota And Georgia?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 minutes ago
Straight from the pit of hell
Georgia and South Dakota are both pretty red-- Romney won the former with
58% and the latter with 53%-- so the value of a Republican senatorial
nomination is massive. Either should sure worth a lot more than a GOP
nomination in New York or Hawaii. So you can count on some internal
bickering... if not bloodletting. Yesterday we took a quick look at the struggle
between Democrat Brendon Johnson and Blue Dog Stephanie Herseth Sandlin for
the Democratic nomination for the now open South Dakota senate seat (from
which Brendon's dad Tim is retiring). But the b... more »
Chet Raymo, “Cranes or Skyhooks?”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 minutes ago
*“Cranes or Skyhooks?”*
by Chet Raymo
“In the late 19th century, an intractable problem bedeviled scientists.
Geologists had convincingly demonstrated that the Earth was hundreds of
millions of years old, and fossil evidence suggested that life had been
around for most of that time. Which means the Sun must have been burning
more or less steadily throughout the duration. Yet physicists and chemists
could not provide any credible source of energy that would keep the Sun
shining for all that time. Not gravitational contraction. Not chemical
combustion or any other known chemical... more »
Patitos de color amarillo recién nacidos
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Pajarito listo para emprender su vuelo
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Dine' CARE: 'No!' to Navajoland becoming a dumpster for dirty coal
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 49 minutes ago
March
28, 2013
By Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment
Censored News
Obvious liabilities of Navajo Mine should prevent waste of $2.3 million
more for needless “investigation” by outside firms; Deal with BHP
Billiton should be dropped
Farmington, NM – As the Navajo Nation Council prepares to vote this week
on approving $2.3 million to continue paying a law firm and other
Guest Post – Tom Nichols: “Iraq War Debate too Driven by Bush Resentment: A Response to Bob Kelly’s Iraq Posts”
Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 51 minutes ago
I am happy to invite my friend Tom Nichols to guest-post about the
continuing Iraq War debate. Tom responded so substantially to my original
post series on the war (one, two, three), that I invited him to provide a
longer write-up. Tom is a professor of national security affairs at the
U.S. Naval War College
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The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 55 minutes ago
Camden, New Jersey, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Mujer elegante recolectando flores de primavera
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TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN DESTINY
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
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Teachers, workers and activists hope to pressure Chicago to abandon plans
to close 61 schools.
Lanchitas en la arena del mar a orillas de la playa
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Mohawk Nation News 'Kill the Messenger'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
KILL THE MESSENGER
Posted on March 28, 2013
MNN. Mar. 28, 2013. On March 26, 2013, the MNN
editor was invited to be the opening speaker at Champlain College in
Sherbrooke Quebec. The topic was, “A Native Perspective on Canada’s
Exploitation of Resources”. Two Mohawks, as is our custom, accompanied
the speaker. They sat at a table facing the crowd.
Happy Champlain
Hermoso campo de flores junto a las montañas nevadas
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Bella pareja de jirafas comiendo hojas de los árboles
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ALEC Career Path - Legislator to Lobbyist
2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
Why doesn't that surprise me?
Wonder where they got the idea?
*One newspaper article*
11 names
All republicons
All ALEC
Coincidence - I think not!!!
From Texas (with my ALEC additions)
Eleven House members who held office in 2011 and lost their re-election bidsor decided not to run again are now lobbyists.
Vicki Truitt, R-Keller, *ALEC*
former chairwoman, House Pensions, Investments and Financial Services
Committee.
Pay range: $125,000 to $250,000.
Clients: ACE Cash Express, Texas Retired Teachers Association, Texas
Council of Community Centers, Texas Hospital Associati... more »
Terrance Nelson 'Celebrating' the 10 Year Anniversary of the Second Invasion of Iraq
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
By Terrance Nelson
Roseau River Anishinabe
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Brenda Norrell
My last email to you which you posted contained some of the following
Your posting of the Native leaders from US and
Canada joining forces in opposing the Transcanada pipeline is good but
Native Americans and First Nations people must understand how deceptive
and
Men With Loaded Rifles Intimidate Moms Gathered At Indiana Gun Safety Rally
leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
By Igor Volsky on Mar 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm
Several men with assault rifles and hand guns crashed a Mayor’s Against
Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action event in Indianapolis, Indiana
on Thursday and stood silently as the state chapter of Moms Demand Action
held a rally in favor of limiting the availability of military style
weapons and universal background checks.
At least two or three men showed up at the rally site before the event
began and engaged in a discussion about gun regulations with the group, two
participants in the action told ThinkProgress. The armed men — who were ... more »
An Easter to remember
Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 2 hours ago
This is a nice time of year in Copan Ruinas. Semana Santa - the week
leading into Easter - is a crazy-big holiday in Honduras, with hundreds of
thousands of local travellers on the move. But Copan gets just enough of
that scene to make the town feel energized without crossing into insanity.
Tonight, the main street will be full of volunteers building the
two-block-long *alfombras *made from coloured sawdust. Using giant stencils
to create beautiful sawdust art in a rainbow of colours, the volunteers
will work into the wee hours tonight making a street mural that celebrates
Jesus and... more »
New Mexico farmers seek ‘priority call’ as record drought persists – ‘We could dry up some hay farms or we could dry up Las Vegas. Which is it going to be?’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Livestock along the dry Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Amid
the worst drought on record, the anger of southeastern New Mexico's farmers
and ranchers is boiling. Photo: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / The New York Times]
By FELICITY BARRINGER
26 March 2013
CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO (The New York Times) – Just after the local water
board announced this month that its farmers would get only one-tenth of
their normal water allotment this year, Ronnie Walterscheid, 53, stood up
and called on his elected representatives to declare a water war on their
upstream neighbors.
“It’s alway... more »
Bye-bye, Justice Nino -- write if you get work
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Oh no, does this mean the end for the Supreme Court's Sundance and Butch,
Justices Clarence and Nino? Sure, they're just good friends, and it's not
as if they were about to get married or anything -- were they? But still,
High Court Constitution-shredding just won't be the same without them doing
the heavy lifting together.*
*by Ken*
*The New Yorker*'s Andy Borowitz (gosh, that sounds odd, doesn't it?) has
been keeping close tabs on Supreme Court Justice Nino Scalia during this
trying week. (See his report earlier this week, "Scalia Furious He Has to
Hear About Gay Couples All We... more »
The Brookings Institution and Walter Sullivan
KRandle at A Different Perspective - 3 hours ago
As I was looking into the history of the Brookings Institution report
about their investigation into alien life and what would happen if we
learned there were aliens out there, I made a somewhat startling discovery.
Walter Sullivan, one time science editor of the *New York Times*had written
a book, *We Are Not Alone*, in 1964, and he quoted from that report. He was
writing about the short section that suggested that communication with an
alien race might not be a good thing for the people of Earth… might not be
bad, especially if it was only through radio astronomy, but there could ... more »
Progressives are Not a "Movement"
2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
I heard this on the radio on the way home today.
It's the truth - the whole truth
and nothing but the truth
*And the truth hurts.*
12 minutes of your time.
Time to wake up.
What is in it for "my" movement???
That is the problem that the citizen journalists have been running into
with the topic of ALEC.
The nonprofits who have co-opted the ALEC story, see ALEC as the biggest
damn purse they have ever found.
Instead of working together with citizen journalist and researchers that
know a shitload about ALEC - they kick us to the curb - becausetheycan.
Nonprofits vs Citizen Journalists ... more »
Compare the Meerkat
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 4 hours ago
Back by...ahem...popular demand, it's time for another snapshot of what *The
Daily Telegraph, The Guardian *and the *BBC News website *are reporting
tonight - at 23.00, 28 March 2013 precisely:
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**The Daily Telegraph*
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*Block immigration to save British jobs, influential MPs say*
Britain should be able to block immigration during the current period of
high unemployment, according to influential MPs.
*BBC unions silent over the Maggie Question*
BBC staff on strike say they are prepared to return to desks if Nelson
Mandela dies, however their generosity stops there.
*Pope was... more »
FBI only Dowloading "Criminals" - HAH!
2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
FBI's Lawyer Says Modernizing Surveillance Law For Real-Time Online
Snooping Is A 'Top Priority' In 2013
The Huffington Post | By Gerry Smith Posted: 03/28/2013 11:15 am EDT
The FBI’s "top priority" in 2013 is to modernize surveillance law so
authorities can monitor in real time the Web activities of Americans
suspected of committing crimes, the FBI’s general counsel said.
What a crock of sh#t.
They are downloading everything
Cause to the FBI we’re all criminals.
Every damn single one of us..
We all guilty until --- proven guilty.
Well FBI – you can put this one in your... more »
“What Is Perhaps the Most Powerful Word in the English Language?”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*“What Is Perhaps the Most Powerful Word in the English Language?”*
by Michael S. Broder, Ph.D.
“I'll spare you the tease. That word is "no"!
The ability to be assertive and say "no" is a communication skill we all
learn at a very young age. If you're a parent, you know better than anyone
that once this word enters a child's vocabulary it's used very often.
However, as an adult, "no" is often much more difficult to say. As life
gets busier and obligations increase, the ability to say "no" is
increasingly important. If you can learn to assert yourself, it can be the
differenc... more »
Armed and dangerous idiots
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
This is the stuff that makes me want to break crockery. Assholes with
loaded weapons crash a gun law reform rally.
This is not responsible gun ownership. These guys didn't have to crash this
event. They had to know there would be kids there. In the wake of the
school murders, just seeing the guns would likely frighten the children.
And in the light of the daily accidental discharges, it's fucking
dangerous. If they want to strut around acting like dicks, they could hold
their own damn event at a different time.
And these asshats are all about *their* free speech rights, but you ... more »
A Strange Omission
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
News of positive or negative predictions for the UK economy from
international bodies such as the IMF and the OECD often attract the
attention of the British media. Today's prognosis from the Paris-based OECD
has been no exception.
This morning's *Financial Times* reflected on the organisation's gloomy
forecasts for the eurozone. The OECD locates the gloom in France and
Italy, predicting that their economies will continue to shrink. They say
that Germany, however - like Japan and the U.S. - will have modest growth.
The* FT*,* *naturally, also reports the bit that will be of most ... more »
Look at all the hungry people
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Wall St. Journal is concern trolling about the rise in use of the food
assistance. Some well fed genius is appalled to learn the number of
enrollees aren't falling along with the unemployment rate. Well you don't
have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. There's a simple answer:
There are record numbers of Americans on food stamps today because there
are record numbers of Americans in poverty (records begin in 1959.)
As of 2011, there were 46.2 million men, women, and children living below
the U.S. poverty line. There isn't much reason to believe that the last
year of medioc... more »
A successful civil appellant is awarded the costs below and of the appeal
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago
Marshall v. MMV Financial Inc., 2013 ONCA 188 holds:
[23] As he was largely successful on both appeals, the costs awards below
are varied in any event, based on the general principle that a successful
appellant is awarded the costs below and of the appeal: see *Kopij v.
Toronto (Metropolitan)*, [1999] O.J. No. 239 (Ont. C.A.). Costs of the
application and the motion are fixed in the aggregate amount of $7,500
inclusive of disbursements and applicable taxes. Costs of the appeal are
fixed in the amount of $7,500 inclusive of disbursements and applicable
taxes. The respondent ther... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Higher Dimensional Sails are being Unfurled…
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
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* *GAIA PORTAL*
*Higher Dimensional Sails are being Unfurled…*
by ÉirePort
Quelled energetics in lower dimensions lead to refueling of Gaia
inhabitants. Sensations of these energetics are noted, yet these are
temporary.
Higher Dimensional sails are being unfurled in all Hue-manity. Even
non-aware ones feel the unfurling.
This unfurling leads to Higher Awareness in the non-awares.
Step stones these are for Hue-manity unfoldment, and are best embraced and
utilized, rather than resisted.
"Joy paradigm" alignment empowers all during this moment of unfurlment.
ÉirePort | March ... more »
Elections Canada: The Farce Continues
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 6 hours ago
Shorter Elections Canada: "We're useless."
Read the comments at the link. Canadians are fed up. (Except for the
pathetic harpercon hacks and trolls who vote down inarguable statements
about the importance of electoral integrity and democracy.)
Rule Number One For Graduate School Applicants
Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
Spring (where it exists) is the time of year when applicants to PhD
programs find out the outcome and decide where, if any place, to go. While
there are many factors that one must take into account, including what
might happen if your preferred adviser leaves (Will Moore’s take and mine),
there is something far
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Perversion
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago
From Corpus Christie's Caller.com by Ray McMurrey:
CORPUS CHRISTI — Exiting Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott
caught headlines before leaving office in 2012 when he claimed that
high-stakes testing in Texas has become a “perversion.” Thank you Robert
Scott for telling the truth.
Testing begins this week and the perversion is upon us. The public school
calendar has 180 instructional days, 45 devoted to testing and countless
others invested in test preparation. Current high-stakes testing undermines
student learning and the general health of children. . . . .
Read the rest ... more »
Kierkegaard On God's Love
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
Related: * *
*Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*.
*Kierkegaard On "Man."** *
*Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.*
Below is an excerpt from, "The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals." Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 140-42.
It is wonderful how God's love overwhelms me---alas, ultimately I know of
no truer prayer than what I pray over and over again, that God will allow
me and not be angry with me because I continuously thank him for having
done and for doing, yes, and for doing so indescribably... more »
Politicians May Be Slow To Change... But Republicans Are Absolutely GLACIAL When It Comes To Gay Equality
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Long after he was kicked out of the Army for fondling a private's privates,
Miss McConnell voted for DOMA-- and still clings to an outward show of
virulent homophobia
Boehner wasted over $3,000,000 in non-sequestered tax payer money to enrich
some of his lawyer crony pals by defending DOMA. Yesterday, even this
conservative Supreme Court sneered at the lame, stale and ineffective
arguments Team Boehner made on behalf of bigotry, divisiveness and hatred.
From the SCOTUSblog analysis:
If the Supreme Court can find its way through a dense procedural thicket,
and confront the constitu... more »
Many other Democrats sinned concerning the DOMA!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013*
*In the days when Bill Clinton was young:* We’ll have to say, we’re filled
with disgust for the tribal practice of hating and hunting in threes.
That said, we thought Peter Baker wrote an interesting history of the
Defense of Marriage Act this week—and we don’t mean that as a compliment.
Part of what made the report interesting is the material Baker chose to
leave out.
Baker’s report appeared on the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times. For
starters, we were struck by this recollection of the congressional politics
of DOMA:
BAKER (3/26/13): *Mr. Clint... more »
SARKOZY, L'OREAL, NAZIS, JEWS
Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*Sarkozy allegedly accepted cash-stuffed envelopes.*
Jean-Michel Gentil was the judge who recently charged Nicolas Sarkozy with
taking money from Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman.
Jean-Michel Gentil has now received a bullet and a death threat in the post.
Medical experts say the mental health of Bettencourt, the L'Oreal heiress,
began to deteriorate in 2006.
*Judge investigating Nicolas Sarkozy receives bullet in post*
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*Liliane Bettencourt, the L’Oréal heiress, in 1975. Photograph:
Roger-Viollet/Rex Features*
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Sarkozy allegedly accepted cash-stuffed envelopes ... more »
Catch of the Day
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
Yeah, everyone is linking to this, but it's too good to pass up. Luke
Johnson read John Boehner's quote from Lincoln today, and noted:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) quotes Abraham Lincoln in a memo
released Thursday as warning of debt, but ignores the former president's
call for a tax or tariff.
Of course, the reason that Boehner did that -- I mean, apart from the
appalling sloppiness and laziness that a generation of easy accommodation
by Fox News and the rest of the GOP-aligned partisan press has taught to
Republican politicians -- is that Boehner, and most of the House
Rep... more »
Satire: “Bitter Scalia Leaves US”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Bitter Scalia Leaves US”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Justice Antonin Scalia dropped a
bombshell on the Supreme Court today, announcing his decision to resign
from the Court “effective immediately” and leave the United States forever.
Calling this week “by far the worst week of my life,” Justice Scalia lashed
out at his fellow-Justices and the nation, saying, “I don’t want to live in
a sick, sick country that thinks the way this country apparently thinks.”
Justice Scalia said that he had considered fleeing to Canada, “but they not
only have gay marria... more »
GOP plans to fight Obamacare forever
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
Bit of buzz today about the "secret Republican plan" to kill Obamacare.
After at least 37 failed attempts, they're not willing to give up the fight
yet. Their secret weapon is Mitch McConnell.
Steve Benen already has the details down:
The "secret Republican plan" really isn't much of a secret. Hell, it's not
really much of a plan, either. McConnell's idea is apparently to have
Republicans win a bunch of elections and then destroy the law through the
reconciliation process so Democrats can't filibuster the GOP's
anti-Obamacare crusade.
That's roughly the same plan Republicans cam... more »
Americans Want Climate Change Protection, Just Not the Bill
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours ago
Stanford researchers have found Americans believe in climate change and
acknowledge the risks but just don't want to pay for the measures that
would be needed to deal with them.
*The survey, commissioned by two departments at Stanford University, the
Woods Institute for the Environment and the Center for Ocean Solutions, was
the first to investigate public attitudes towards planning for a future of
sea-level rise and extreme storms.*
*It found a sharp disconnect between Americans' acknowledgement of climate
risks – which was high – and their willingness to pay for solutions.*
*"I... more »
Bargaining, Capabilities, and Crisis Outcomes
Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
I have enjoyed the recent exchange between Kroenig and Sechser & Fuhrmann
(see here, here, and here). One interesting point that came up regards the
role of conventional military capabilities in determining crisis outcomes.
Kroenig says that the MCT data S&F analyze must be flawed because their
results indicate that conventional military capabilities don’t matter
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The Fight in Chicago to Stop Mass School Closings: Model for the Nation
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
From SubstanceNews:Thousands march, 127 arrested in massive March 27
Chicago Loop protests against school closings, Emanuel dictatorship
George N. Schmidt - March 28, 2013
More than 3,000 teachers, parents, students and other citizens rallies and
marched against school closings in Chicago on March 27, 2013, and 129 were
arrested during civil disobedience to protest the largest number of public
school closings in U.S. history, according to a number of Substance
reporters and other sources who were present at the events. The rally,
marches, and sit-ins, are a continuation of the protes... more »
Now that there are different values of the euro, which ones should you avoid?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Cyprus is now in effect not in the core Euro zone, does that mean that
Cyprus Euros are worth less than other Euros? For quite a while I have
heard that many Germans have been demanding just German Euros. So how do
you know what Euro is from where?
Euro coins have a national side indicating which country issued them but
it's the notes that interest me more now. Euro notes do not have a national
side but don't worry you can tell their origin from the first character of
each note's serial number. The first character of the serial number is a
letter and that letter uniquely identifies ... more »
OBAMA'S GIFT TO MONSANTO
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago
On Tuesday, Obama signed the Agriculture Appropriations Bill into law.
Within the legislation exists a provision, "The Monsanto Protection Act,"
that has many concerned about the future safety of food because it protects
genetically modified seeds patents from litigation over health risks. Since
Obama signed the bill nearly 250,000 have signed a petition to the
president.
RT's Margaret Howell has more on the bill and how "frankenfish" could be
making their way into supermarkets across the nation.
Sifl and Olly Deal with Deceptive Video Games Ads
Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 8 hours ago
Thank you @NerdistChannel and @Lynchland for keeping S&O alive and fun.
Rock!
Incomes of Bottom 90 Percent Grew $59 in 40 Years; Top 10% grew $116,071 (Why Are Billionaires Dumping US Stock?) FRAUD ALERT!
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours ago
Just in case actual figures mean anything to anybody anymore (lolling in
the lap of luxury as I know all you non-10%-ers are . . .). Incomes of
Bottom 90 Percent Grew $59 in 40 Years During the same period, average
income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071 By Natasha
Lennard March 27, 2013 "Salon - Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston
has highlighted yet more
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago
*Gusman slams mayor's "last-ditch attempt" to get out of OPP consent decree
~Charles Maldonado, Gambit*
“The Natural Selection of American Citizens”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“The Natural Selection of American Citizens”*
By Jeff Berwick
“Fabian de Silva writes: Recently I read about a poll, which I believe was
from Gallup, that asked if the president can target US citizens for
assassination without due process on US soil. Seventy-eight percent of the
respondents (all Americans) said, “Sure it’s fine with me if the president
wants to murder me with a drone.” How nice to have nearly 8 out of 10
Americans be so altruistic, apparently believing that the president must
have some valuable reason to murder them, so it’s okay with them to
sacrifice their ... more »
war resister campaign update: behind the tindungan decision
laura k at wmtc - 8 hours ago
Supporters of U.S. war resisters in Canada may be interested in hearing
about the War Resisters Support Campaign event earlier this week. A large
crowd came out to share a meal, hear an update on the Campaign, and raise
funds for legal fees for the court martial of war resister Kimberly Rivera.
War resister Jules Tindungan kicked off the evening by speaking about the letter
from Iraq War veteran and resister Tomas Young, which I'm sure you've all
seen. We watched Young himself read the letter on Democracy Now (here).
It was announced that war resister Justin Colby was sentenced to ... more »
Guitarist Jay Smith Found Dead in Hotel Room
Jack Will at yayacanada - 8 hours ago
*Guitarist Jay Smith was found dead in an Edmonton hotel room* Wednesday
morning after performing with Matt Mays & El Torpedo, according to the
band’s Facebook page.
A cause of death for the East Coast musician, who was in his early 30s,
hasn’t been disclosed. But foul play is not suspected, the CBC reported.
Smith leaves behind two children.
“As you can all imagine, we are completely devastated,” singer Mays wrote
on Facebook.
“However, in our heart of hearts we know that we need to Play on. Jay’s
family as well as the band know he would have wanted it that way. All the
proceeds... more »
Miami Heat Winning Streak By The Numbers
Jack Will at yayacanada - 8 hours ago
Miami Heat Winning Streak By The Numbers - The Miami Heat’s 27-game winning
streak came to an end last night in Chicago against the Bulls in a 101-97
loss at the United Center. It marked the first Heat loss since February 1.
The Bulls won despite missing All-Stars Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah due to
injuries. Forward Luol Deng, led the way with 28 points, seven rebounds and
five assists. The streak represents the second longest in NBA history after
the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers’ record of 33 straight victories.
The Heat players have insisted throughout the streak that the NBA title... more »
Jenna Wolfe Pregnant
Jack Will at yayacanada - 8 hours ago
[image: Jenna Wolfe Pregnant]
Jenna Wolfe Pregnant. Jenna Wolfe is close with her TODAY colleagues -- but
not that close! The correspondent and TODAY Weekend anchor, 39, was a
newsmaker herself on Wednesday, March 27, when she both came out as gay and
announced that she was pregnant, with girlfriend (and fellow NBC
journalist) Stephanie Gosk set to co-parent the baby-to-be.
Happy to elaborate on the pregnancy further with E! News, Wolfe said that
she and Gosk are keeping one thing private: Their child's father. "The
rumor is that it's Lester Holt," Wolfe quipped of her co-anchor on ... more »
The dark side...
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 9 hours ago
Alex Callinicos complaining on Facebook that he had his invitation to
participate in the Historical Materialism conference in Delhi withdrawn at
short notice by email, rounded off by saying:
"This is to say nothing of the personal inconvenience and expense you are
exposing me to by withdrawing your invitation a week after you had
circulated a programme that included me as chairing one session and
speaking at another, and barely a week before I was due to fly to India.
This is quite unacceptable in what is meant to be an academic conference,
and it is also not how socialists should... more »
M408 Blew Up Real Good
noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours ago
The Iron Fist of PMSHithead comes crashing down on Warawa's Wank.
Conservative MP Mark Warawa has lost his appeal to bring a motion
condemning sex-selective abortion to the House of Commons for debate.
The procedure and House affairs committee upheld a decision by its
subcommittee that Warawa's motion, M-408, isn't eligible to be debated by
MPs, despite the advice of a non-partisan Library of Parliament analyst
that the motion was in order.
Warawa has five days to appeal to the House of Commons. He said Monday that
he has the backing he needs to bring the appeal, with the support of... more »
The U.S. Legacy from Iraq and Afghanistan - Only a Nuclear Attack Could be Worse
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
The costs and political fallout from America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
are and will continue to be enormous, somewhere between 4 and 6-trillion
dollars. That could be almost as damaging to American security than if
the U.S. suffered a nuclear attack.
*Money, ultimately, is power. In context, it would take a nuclear strike on
the United States to inflict the kind of economic damage that the wars have
reaped. The only nations capable of inflicting such damage are disinclined
toward doing so; and no non-state actor will plausibly obtain the
capability to match such a threat. All... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*Natural river diversion at ‘Mardi Gras Pass’ gains support from political,
commercial interests ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Once in a blue moon. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
[Photos are better if you click on them to embiggen.]
Syrian Conflict: The Price of Defying the West
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours ago
Haaretz piece reveals Syrian conflict is direct punitive result of Assad
defying West, obstructing US-Israeli attack on Iran.
* March 28, 2013* (LD) - Haaretz has recently published an exceptionally
revealing article, confirming that the Brooking Institution's "Which Path
to Persia?" report - a plan for the undermining and destruction of Iran -
had indeed been set in motion, and that the current Syrian conflict is a
direct result of Syria and Iran defying the West and disrupting what was to
be a coup de grâce delivered to Tehran.
The article is titled, "Assad’s Israeli friend," ap... more »
Sent Home
John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 10 hours ago
I sent Marie to a hospital in Port-au-Prince very early yesterday morning.
I spoke with one of the hospital doctors on the phone and told him Marie's
medical history. He told me that she would be evaluated but that they had
no open inpatient beds for her.
Marie called me before noon and was despondent. She said the hospital did
nothing for her and she was headed home on a tap tap. She said that "...if
I lie down, I will die."
I asked Marie if she could go to the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince
right then. She said their staff is on strike.
And OSF remains quiet about Marie in Pe... more »
The Real Reason Public Opinion Doesn't Work
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Jonathan Chait gets it half-right:
At his remarks today touting support for background checks on guns,
President Obama said, "Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices
calling for change." Actually, since background checks command 90 percent
in the polls but lack support from Republicans in Congress, pretty clearly
millions of voices calling for change are less powerful than holding a
House majority. They're also less powerful than a Senate majority. Or even
41 Senators, who can stop anything they want. A well-funded lobby probably
beats millions of voices calling for change,... more »
LETS ROCK THIS GALAXY! UNIVERSAL ABSOLUTE HUE-MANITY ARRIVES
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
Roger Baker : It's Official: Karl Marx Was Right!
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours ago
Karl Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery, London.
Wait... so, Karl Marx was right?
Terminal capitalism / Part 1
The doubts about the viability of capitalism as a system now extend far beyond its traditional critics.
By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / April 28, 2013
"Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried... Or so we thought. With the global economy in a protracted crisis, and workers
CIA，NSA，在中国，中东和俄罗斯使用虚假的手机信号塔
Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 11 hours ago
一个潜在的地标法庭上周四，一个神秘的技术，它可以让警察定位和跟踪人通过自己的手机涉嫌违反美国宪法将受到挑战。
美国公民自由联盟希望鲜为人知，但普遍的“黄貂鱼”监视设备，它声称违反第四修正案的权利，隐私控制。
该小组将敦促在亚利桑那州的一个联邦法院无视证据的黄貂鱼，这可能是一个测试案例，限制了该技术的使用，无须手令。
围绕围绕丹尼尔Rigmaiden的，一个黑客被指控领导一个复杂的身份窃贼团伙涉嫌偷了数以百万计的美元，通过提交虚假的纳税申报的情况。
“我们希望，法院发出了明确的信息给政府，它可以不保持法官在黑暗中。法官是没有橡胶邮票 -
他们是宪法保障我们的隐私，”琳达·莱尔，在律师领先的情况下，写了一个美国公民自由联盟在周三的博客文章。
电子前沿基金会，宣传组，与美国公民自由联盟提交了法庭之友简报，调用黄貂鱼“最大的技术威胁到手机隐私，你不知道”。
一个黄貂鱼模仿的手机塔，提示即使没有呼叫电话连接到它。这让一个黄貂鱼运营商向手机发送信号，找到它，并在某些情况下拦截谈话。
该设备扫描附近的其他人的数据，无论他们是调查的重点。
黄貂鱼是该技术的通用名称。类似的装置，通常是一个鞋盒大小，有不同的名称，如Triggerhead和食用鱼。
美国联邦调查局和其他执法机构使用该技术至少自2008年以来，根据美国公民自由联盟，他们经常隐瞒或淡化它的作用在监视请求联邦地方法官的法官。
... more »
ЦРУ, АНБ, используя ложные башни мобильных телефонов в Китае, Ближнем Востоке и в России
Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 11 hours ago
Скрытный технология, которая позволяет полиции отслеживать местонахождение
и людей через их мобильные телефоны в предполагаемое нарушение конституции
США будут оспорены в потенциальном случае суд вехой на четверг.
Американский союз гражданских свобод надеется обуздать мало известных, но
широко распространенной "скат" устройств наблюдения котором он утверждает,
нарушает четвертую поправку и право на частную жизнь.
Эта группа будет призывать федеральный суд в штате Аризона игнорировать
доказательства, полученные ската в чем может быть прецедентом для
ограничения использования этой те... more »
Takers And Makers-- Paul Ryan vs Jesus
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Whether you believe in Satan as an existential concept or as a bogeyman--
or, if you're a Mormon, as Jesus' bro-- no one would be a better
representative of the doctrine's inherent Hellish precepts than Wisconsin
mutinous Catholic Paul Ryan. Once again, the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops have denounced Ryan's immoral budget that makes a mockery of the
most fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ. Paul Ryan's message-- the
message of the entire GOP these days-- is all about "takers" vs "makers."
Jesus' most basic teaching:
*Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the king... more »
Stop Imperialism: Episode 62
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
Syria, Iraq, Cyprus, BRICS, and more... *
*
*March 28, 2013* (StopImperialism.com)
IN TODAY’S EPISODE:*1. **Syria* [image: syria80]Syrian rebels fire chemical
weapons in Aleppo, killing at least 16 – government
Syria rebels and regime blame each other for 1st alleged chemical weapons
attack
Syrian warplanes strike Lebanon border
Ghassan Hitto voted premier of Syria’s rebel territorySegment Start: 00 h
09 min 35 secSegment End: 00 h 34 min 12 sec*2. Iraq
* [image: Iraq_80]At least 48 killed, 167 wounded in bombings in Baghdad
Muqtada al-Sadr lashes out against US, Maliki
Maliki re-e... more »
INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Translator and Mystic Willis Barnstone on Babe Ruth, the Beats & More
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
Willis
Barnstone, right, with Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, 1975.
Interview with Willis Barnstone:
Hermit, translator, ardent baseball fan
“People called Babe Ruth a womanizer and a drunk. Southerners suspected
that he was part black. Protestants denounced him because he was
Catholic. He never forgot that he was an orphan. Unlike other baseball
greats, he was the opposite of a racist and
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Progressive Sportswriter Dave Zirin Takes Off the Gloves
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
Dave
Zirin: "Politics have always been a part of sports."
Rag Radio podcast:
Progressive sportswriter Dave Zirin
on the intersection of sports and politics
"Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism
and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been
obliterated." -- Dave Zirin on Rag Radio
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / March 28, 2013
Dave
وكالة المخابرات المركزية، وذلك باستخدام أبراج الهواتف المحمولة كاذبة في الصين وروسيا والشرق الأوسط
Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 11 hours ago
وسيتم الطعن A التكنولوجيا السرية والتي تتيح تحديد مكان والشرطة تتبع الناس
من خلال هواتفهم الجوالة في انتهاك مزعوم للدستور الأمريكي في قضية المحكمة
المعالم السياحية المحتملة يوم الخميس.
أمريكا تأمل اتحاد الحريات المدنية لكبح جماح غير معروفة على نطاق واسع ولكن
أجهزة "اللادغة" المراقبة التي تدعي أنها تنتهك التعديل الرابع والحق في
الخصوصية.
ستقوم المجموعة نحث محكمة اتحادية في ولاية اريزونا في تجاهل الأدلة التي تم
الحصول عليها من قبل اللادغة في ما يمكن أن يكون اختبارا للحد من استخدام
التكنولوجيا دون أمر قضائي.
حالة تدور حول Rigmaiden دانيال، أحد القراصنة المتهمين يقود عصابة من اللصوص
ا... more »
Two Simple Questions That Might Just Give You Fits
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Two seemingly simple questions. What is information? What is its
relation to reality? Give them a shot. You could win ten grand. I'm not
competing but questions like this do almost demand answers.
Surely information is, in essence, a conveyance. It is the transmission of
something - a thought, an idea, an image - to one or more sensory
receptors. Touch can be a conveyance of information. So too can smell
or taste. We receive information from sound as well as from images.
In its classical iteration, information had an essentially tutorial
connotation. It was a form of ... more »
NJ Loves Chris Christie?
gail zawacki at Wit's End - 11 hours ago
Wow, I can't believe I was invited to speak on a HuffPo live panel
discussion, and brought up climate change without even mentioning that
pollution is killing trees! Oh well - it's a complicated subject that most
people are totally unfamiliar with, and there wouldn't have been time to
explain it. Maybe some day I'll get a chance to talk about that.
Meanwhile, here's the segment, which is about Chris Christie. I'm the
third speaker in - and then again at 20 minutes, if you want to skip the
whole thing:
The little known Timed2Panick PMD on 20061226 at 12:26:21 UTC
Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 11 hours ago
Mars and the Moon
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago
Mars and the Moon by Robert Crawford
Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority, Part III
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
Editor’s Note: Back in February I riffed on a post by Erik Voeten in which
Erik discussed two articles in International Organization (IO). One, by our
colleague Matt Kroenig, argued that nuclear superiority gives states
advantages in crisis bargaining (PDF). Another, by Todd Sechser and Matthew
Fuhrmann, rejects this claim (PDF). After the two posts sparked some
interesting discussion–both on- and offline–I approached
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Amooc Time
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
About a month ago I wrote that: The recent obsession with MOOCs has its
roots in three interlocking trends: the application of business-school
speak to higher education, technology fetishism, and the quest to push down
labor costs. It wouldn’t be too much of an exaggeration to say that these
are three faces of late-modern capitalism: the
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Part 2:Cyprus, Israel,Turkey, Syria: NATO and global resource diversion/control
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago
*Must Read :Part 1:Cyprus, Israel,Turkey, Syria: NATO and global resource
diversion/control before you read any further into the post below, unless
you have been reading along here for the past month, minimally.*
*Here is where Turkey & Israel come into play.*
Recall the big news of Israel 'apologizing' to Turkey? That very strategic,
very timely move happened in *relation to Syria's destabilization*. As I
had mentioned it would on numerous occasions. If you're new to my previous
claims, *become aware here: Israel/Turkey "kiss and makeup" Ominous for
Syrian Situation*
Yet another r... more »
We can fly
Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
We are swimming in a sea of possibility. Whatever we desire is right here.
All that’s missing is focus.
This is all created by us. Thoughts attract more and more of whatever
they look or feel like. We know this. We’ve heard it before. Yet we
persist in accepting what life “deals” to us. Why?
Creation requires active thought. The word “energize” works here. It is
an action; it is a doing. You cannot sit still while energizing, and you
are never still. Always a thought is emerging on the tail of the one
before it. This being that you are is a creation machine! Yo... more »
Salon attempts to discuss the Chicago schools!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013*
*We liberals don’t care about black kids:* Yesterday, Salon attempted to
discuss Chicago’s public schools. In a rational world, the bungling would
be a scandal.
The piece was written by Natasha Lennard, "an assistant news editor at
Salon, covering non-electoral politics, general news and rabble-rousing."
We were struck by one key word in the headline:
*Mass protests hit Chicago over school closures*
The Chicago Teachers Union is rallying support against closures that will
disproportionately affect black, Latino kids
We were struck by that one key word: ... more »
How The Civilian Surge In Iraq Didn’t Quite Meet Its Mark
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
In January 2007, President George Bush announced the Surge. He called for
two marine battalions and five army brigades to head towards Iraq along
with an increased number of reconstruction workers to conduct a unified
counterinsurgency campaign. The argument was that the increased troops
would help bring down violence, and allow for reconciliation. On the
civilian side, more Americans were to be sent out into the provinces to
work with Iraqis to find out their needs, and help empower them to run
their own country. While the extra forces helped bring down violence in
Iraq the civi... more »
GUARDIAN VIDEO: Iraq War 10 Years On: The Museum's Story
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
GUARDIAN VIDEO: Iraq War 10 Years On: A Football Trainers Story
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
Re-Visiting US Funded Death Squads in Latin America?
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
Honduras: A Culture of Impunity. Is the US State Department Misleading
Congress about Possible US Funding for Honduran Death Squads. (2013, March
28). Al Jazeera,
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/03/201332882542746858.html
[Excerpted] A new investigation has further highlighted the culture of
impunity that exists within the Honduran police force.The Associated Press
heard testimony that strongly suggests that people are being disappeared by
roving groups of armed officers. There are claims that the US Congress may
be funding these units…. [end]
Majia... more »
Waiting for peak oil: a paradox
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
As an enthusiastic proponent of fracking, Gene sent me a link to this NBC
article
Power shift: Energy boom dawning in America
that argues, among other things, that due to fracking, the U.S. will
leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the #1 fossil fuel producer by
2020. Already today, we see amazingly dropping prices of natural gas and
many other things will follow. The technologies are getting better all the
time. You get the point but you may find more information about these
matters.
Just minutes later, I opened the blog of Alexander Ač, a crazy professional
Czech and Slo... more »
Part 1:Cyprus, Israel,Turkey, Syria: NATO and global resource diversion/control
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
*Yes, we are going long.* With many links. To understand complicated
situations, we must delve into a more broad spectrum of information.
We are also going to look back to move forward. I am encouraging readers to
read the entire two part post once it is up.
A great deal of my time is invested in this post. Time to think and time to
write up.
*Cyprus: Island in the Sun*
*So let's begin with today's news:*
As we are all aware Cyprus is reopening it's banks for the first time in
nearly two weeks. With very strict controls in place. Controls that will
most assuredly remain permanent... more »
The Cyprus banking system explained
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
Clarke and Dawe explain in their own manner...
*Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*
What is the purpose of insurance?
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago
A friend points me to this passage:
At a White House briefing Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius said some of what passes for health insurance today is so
skimpy it can't be compared to the comprehensive coverage available under
the law. "Some of these folks have very high catastrophic plans that don't
pay for anything unless you get hit by a bus," she said. "They're really
mortgage protection, not health insurance."
I have the same problem with my other insurance policies. My homeowner
insurance doesn't cover the cost when my gutters need cleaning, and... more »
GLOBAL REPUTATION FOR HYPOCRISY
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
- As the wealthy have gotten wealthier, a new study reported by the Washington
Post found, an economic arms race has been created in which the middle
class has been spending beyond their means in order to keep up with the
Joneses. The study calls this “trickle-down consumption.” The result?
Americans are saving less, bankruptcies are becoming more common, and
politicians are pushing for policies to make it easier to take on debt. As
the rich spend more on things like expensive preschools or fitness clubs or
even fashion, their middle-income neighbors start ... more »
Don't Drink the Yellow Snow
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago
(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to reader CC)
This is what passes for propaganda nowadays. After watching this four
and a half minute-long clip on North Korean TV, you'll be begging for
Goebbels and PRAVDA to make a comeback. Either that or you'll be laughing
your ass off at the North Koreans' obsession with Americans drinking snow.
But hey, at least America's poor, hungry and homosexual who are lucky
enough to have floors to sleep on can huddle together. Although I wish the
poors hadn't eaten all the birds.
Watch out for a cameo of a Republican candidate from Oregon, whoeve... more »
THE ROAD TO IRAQ: The liberal world just keeps getting conned!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
THU*RSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013*
*Part 4—Richard Perle and our own liberal swine:* It’s amazing how often we
liberals get conned while watching The One True Channel.
Consider one of the many things Chris Matthews said on last Friday’s
Hardball.
Matthews was lustily praising himself as a brave anti-war freedom fighter
in the run-up to the war in Iraq. He pimped himself on last Friday’s
Hardball, then again on the 10 PM discussion program concerning the
documentary, Hubris.
This Monday, he was at it again, praising himself for his antiwar stand. In
all these instances, he got over with a ... more »
The Conservative Coalition
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 13 hours ago
This week's revolt in the Conservative caucus has exposed the government's
fault lines. Tom Walkom writes that the Harper Party is split three ways:
Over the past eight days, three of those factional fault lines have emerged
into full public view. The first is economic. Some Conservatives are true
market zealots who view any interference with the workings of demand and
supply as anathema.
It was these Conservatives that Small Business Minister Maxime Bernier was
speaking to last week when he publicly chastised Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty for asking mortgage lender Manulife Finan... more »
Food Stamp Use Up Dramatically in US
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
The article attributes the rise in food stamp use primarily to the economy,
but also notes that there has been some loosening of eligibility
restrictions. I can tell you that the eligibility restrictions are very
rigorous.
I recently had a student come to me in distress because she found out she
was ineligible for food stamps, despite having no assets, because of her
student status.
I've had former students (since graduated) with children who really needed
the stamps, but were deemed ineligible because they had some limited
retirement assets.
I think growing dependence on food st... more »
Updated - Why Stephen Harper Turned Canada's Back on Our Warming World
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
We're out. The Harper government has pulled Canada out of the U.N.
convention to fight drought in the world.
We're officially the only country to exit the drought agreement. Every
other nation remains a party to the convention.
We stand alone, supposedly because John Baird wasn't pleased with "the
results" the group had achieved. With a government as duplicitous and
secretive as Harper's we can only guess at this government's true motives.
It certainly wasn't the trifling amount Canada was contributing to the
effort. For the period 2010 to 2013 Canada kicked in a whopping $2... more »
Apologies...
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
*A morning market mess in Dongshih.....*
Just overwhelmed with work at the moment. Gonna listen to the symphonies of
Joly Braga Santos (Two and Four are especially lovely) and finish up my
work. Might have a post up in a couple of days.
_______________________
[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! Delenda est, baby.
Read Stuff, You Should
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Ken Howard, 69. Do people even know about the White
Shadow?
A little good stuff:
1. Doug Ahler, Jack Citrin, and Gabriel Lenz on polarization and the
new(ish) primary law in California.
2. Conor Friedersdorf on drones.
3. Dan Larison makes an obvious but overlooked point.
4. And welcome to the news media, 2013 edition.
A CO2 apocalypse and what caused it - an answer
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 14 hours ago
Link:
http://youtu.be/2mxjeCqngJI
*Our ancestors thought* their Gods caused disaster and havoc. Since the
Gods were dismissed only some 400 years ago we tend to believe that WE
ourselves are the cause of global catastrophes. What may be true for
moneyor a traffic accident certainly doesn't hold true for Nature. Its
Grand
Scheme only sees the holistic rhythm of things, the natural cycles that
may
take many years, hundreds of years or even far longer to return to some
starting point again. But also the connections between all natural
phenomena, whether that is a lightning strike, or a... more »
NASA: Mars in collision with asteroid 2013A1?!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 14 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/8r9U29gnhbo - Bear in mind: this is NOT Comet
C2012/S1 (ISON): http://youtu.be/-1GMB52BI2M
*Rush hour in the skies*? Do we live in a shooting gallery?
John
Giving
John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 14 hours ago
Short video from the New York Times. Could be a satire of all of us who are
trying to "help" Haiti.
Blue America Hires A Forensic Specialist To Look Over Bachmann's Crooked Dealings
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
You've probably seen that right-wing extremist Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has
been in trouble with federal regulators regarding monkey business with the
huge flows of cash into and out of her political campaigns. The
semi-independent Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating how she's
been using her campaign funds, similar charges that forced Jesse Jackson,
Jr. to resign and get sentenced to prison. She's now using her campaign
funds to hire the biggest, most well-connected, most expensive-- and most
people Inside-the-Beltway admit the absolute shadiest-- law firm in DC,
Patton... more »
ALECers Get "Education" AT Canadian Tar Sands
2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
FIRST
Saw this on Daily Kos
This is a very short note to provide notice to all that the U.S. Department
of State has scheduled a public meeting on the KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE for
April 18, 2013 in Grand Island, Nebraska. They will be taking comment on
the Supplemental EIS recently published March 8 and up for a 45 day comment
period.
Procedures for the Public Meeting
Speakers: All members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting
and state their comments for the administrative record. Persons who want to
speak at the meeting will need to sign up in person at the entrance o... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Katrina's winds too weak to destroy Biloxi houses, State Farm claims
manager says ~Anita Lee, SunHerald.com*
Read more here:
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/27/4555678/katrinas-winds-too-weak-to-destroy.html#storylink=cpy
*Corps of Engineers Excels at Wasting Money ~Ryan Alexander*
~Editilla Co'tellas~Setting aside the Exquisite Corps' current extortion of
New Orleans with their never-finished *Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk
Reduction System in Name Only * (HSDRRSNO), take for example: The M/V *
Mississippi* is (according to Corps PR) a "working" towboat for the USACE
Memphis Di... more »
In case you missed it "Cold Dead Hands"
2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
'Cold Dead Hand' is abt u heartless motherf%ckers unwilling 2 bend 4 the
safety of our kids.Sorry if you're offended… say.ly/jtu5rar
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) March 24, 2013
From Crooks and Liars.
Irrational dissatisfactions with physics
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours ago
When people aren't understanding certain issues in physics and when they're
asking questions, e.g. at the Physics Stack Exchange, they understandably
seem unhappy about something. When something seems strange or something
doesn't make sense, it's sensible for people to feel somewhat disturbed or
unhappy. All of us know the feeling.
In some cases, the dissatisfaction depends on a technical result and there
are many of them to be learned. However, I would say that way too often,
people are dissatisfied because of reasons that are utterly non-technical
and that are universal.
One s... more »
BEREZOVSKY; LITVINENKO; BIN LADEN; JEWISH MAFIA
Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago
"The global organized crime syndicate ... has ... thoroughly permeated the
American political and business system...
"Across the United States, FBI agents have been hamstrung by the Justice
and Homeland Security Departments... whose close links to the
Russian-Israeli Mafia ... have seen case after case involving
Russian-Israeli mobsters going un-investigated and virtually ignored...
*The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence ...*
*Forest Hills - home of the Mafia. aangirfan.blogspot.com*
"As seen in the poisoning of Russian ex-FSB and KGB agent Alexander
Litv... more »
For the idiots and those full of hate who scream "we are all Hamas now"
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
This is what Hamas do, still proud?
TV Dragon Breathes New Life Into Jessops
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
'The collapsed high street camera chain Jessops is being relaunched today
by Peter Jones, of Dragon's Den fame.'
More here on Sky News.
I felt sorry for Jessops when they went under and am pleased that they may
return to the high street; we need proper camera shops not just Internet
suppliers. Jessops had mostly knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff and you
could at least handle the cameras you were thinking of buying, something
you can't do on the Internet.
However many years ago, I was very keen on photography and saw something
play out many times... On New Oxford Street in Lon... more »
Deposit Confiscation
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
Fundamentally, the state owes an obligation to the first standard
deviation of all depositors by size to preserve their deposits and matching
assets in full. This is done through prudent banking. Outside that magic
pool that preserves every household, the banks can accept large deposits
and take large risks and they can all go bust or make great profits. That
is called investment banking.
Deposit insurance was never meant to backstop any form of speculation.
That the losers have worked assiduously to lay off their mistakes is
certainly no surprise and will not end until... more »
Leadership Failure
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
This item makes the much more telling argument that we are dealing with
structural failure most of the time or realistically all the time. Solving
that type of failure is naturally difficult since we have long remained
unsatisfied. I have been saying as much on specific cases for years. In
fact much of our civilization is gamed disadvantageously and tradition has
kept it all in place.
I see our core problem as our dependence on a command and control model
and no obvious replacement put in place. I have thought through an
alternate that I call the rule of twelve, but it may ... more »
Cannabis and Graham Hancock
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
This is an informed comment of cannabis well worth reading. Momentum is
presently in the direction of legalizing and regulating the proper use of
this drug. It will not stop outright abuse as that is usually part of a
different problem altogether.
I anticipate that the winding down of the 'war on drugs' will take years
and ignorance will continue to be the preferred stance.
In the meantime individuals deal with it as they can and this looks to be
a case of masking as far a arthritis is concerned.
*Was I wrong to quit cannabis completely?*
*Greg Hancock*
*
I recently ... more »
Mystery Booms
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
This is both amusing and makes total sense. No good old boy is going to
ask either the mines department or the EPA for permission if they can help
it and they most certainly have title anyway so surface rights are no
problem.
The boom will have overwhelmed the original suppliers a long time ago and
anything close to spec would be satisfactory. I am sure that the engineers
can determine quality on site when they take delivery. (The sand has to be
rounded and within a screening standard).
Thus a convenient bench on the back forty can soon become a quarry with a
screener,... more »
For Your Reading Torture: The Army Corps of Engineers Permit
Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 21 hours ago
Our protest 2/26/2013, Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia HQ
by Alex Lotorto
On Monday, March 25, in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. stated that they had received all
required federal permits, including those needed from the Obama
administration's Army Corps of Engineers for wetland, streams, and river
crossings in Pennsylvania.
After clear cutting was complete, TGP was forced to leave the trees laying
in Pennsylvania because they had not received this permit. Now, heavy
equipment can move in to construct Loops 317, 319, 321, and... more »
Lisa Harrison Interviews OPPT Trustee Caleb Skinner
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago
Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell
angola3news at Angola 3 News - 22 hours ago
*This statement from Robert King was released as part of the new issue of
the A3 Coalition newsletter, which you can read in full here. *
*Albert Woodfox*
Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to
our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than
40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known,
especially in light of the recent email response by Louisiana's Attorney
General, James Caldwell. One wonders: Why in the face of so many mitigating
facts and circumstances would the Attorney General persis... more »
March 27, 1973
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
Nixon and Haldeman are back in Washington, dealing with the McCord
accusations that have leaked, Jeb Magruder's new threats, Dean's impossible
situation, the continuing possibility that Hunt or Liddy will start
talking, the continuing effort to find some way to get on top of things,
the Gray nomination (which is still out there)...it's going to be a busy
day.
(Note: At this point, and for the next few weeks, there's far more
information than I can include in these posts; I'll do what I can, but the
White House is now obsessed with Watergate -- and there's also the
prosecutors and... more »
Bill Brockbrader calls in with Eva Hearing Update March 27 2013
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
Universal internet slows after main attack in history
Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago
*The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security
experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its type in
history.*A row between a spam-fighting set and hosting firm has sparked
reprisal
attacks affecting the wider internet. It is having an impact on popular
services like Netflix - and experts worry it could rise to affect
banking
and email systems. Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating
the
attacks.
Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit
association which aims to assist email providers filter out spam and
oth... more »
Delayed Spring: Egypt's Morsi Is Not A Very Popular Leader
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
Assad is more popular in his country than Morsi is in his, and yet the
latter is the beneficiary of a youth-led revolution. In the context of the
Arab Spring this doesn't make any sense, but there is a good reason why
Assad is more popular than Morsi.
What is going on in Syria cannot be attributed to the Arab Spring. Syria is
under attack from the outside, and most of the so-called "rebels" are
foreign-born Jihadists (Libyans, Tunisians, etc). Basically, the scum of
the Islamic world have descended on Syria and are tearing Syrian society
apart with the help of U.S. money and weapons... more »
Happy Easter [[updated]
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 23 hours ago
Yes, folks, it’s Easter—that time of year in which we celebrate the advent
of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with all that suggests: fertility,
new life, rebirth, the end of the darkness of Winter. No wonder then that
this celebration, named after Ishtar (pronounced “Easter”)—the Babylonian
goddess of fertility, war, love, and sex—involves eating, drinking, eggs,
buns and rabbits.
Oh, and a dead figure from Christian mythology: the Christian festival
having been grafted onto (and borrowed from) the pagan.
Ishtar’s Sunday commemorated the resurrection of her consort, a god cal... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
“Are the nearest galaxies distributed randomly? A plot of over one million
of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky
Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. The vast majority of these infrared
extended sources are galaxies.
*Click image for larger size.*
Visible above is an incredible tapestry of structure that provides limits
on how the universe formed and evolved. Many galaxies are gravitationally
bound together to form clusters, which themselves are loosely bound into
superclusters, which in turn are sometimes seen to align over even larger
scale... more »
WTF?!, No Seriously, WTF! - Bank Of America Holds Patent On 'Changing Your Emotions' During Customer Service Call
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
Reblogged from:
http://dailybail.com/home/wtf-no-seriously-wtf-bank-of-america-holds-patent-on-changin.html
*WTF?!, No Seriously, WTF! - Bank Of America Holds Patent On 'Changing Your
Emotions' During Customer Service Call*
*Systems For Inducing Change In A Human Physiological Characteristic*
Patent Abstract
Systems and methods for inducing a change in a human physiological
characteristic. The physiological characteristic may correspond to an
emotional state of a dialogue participant. The dialogue participant may be
an individual participating in a conversation. The outcome of ... more »
Thursday Morning Linkage
Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage with some categories for helpful
reading… Global Economy Cyprus and EU avert financial catastrophe but EU
looks like “gang that can’t shoot straight” Krugman recommends Cyprus exit
from the Euro Energy and the Environment Wildlife returns to Guyana CFR
hosts joint event with Conservation International on the mainstreaming of
Continue reading
Chet Raymo, “The Nagel Ado”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“The Nagel Ado”*
by Chet Raymo
“I've now read Thomas Nagel's “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist
Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” and,
frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Nagel's argument goes
something like this: Consciousness cannot be explained within the current
evolutionary physio-chemical paradigm- that is, consciousness is
irreducible within the context of contemporary science. Therefore, a new
paradigm is required, one admitting an irreducible cosmic consciousness, a
natural teleological principle that guides and informs na... more »
Vettin' The Candidates
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
What a rotten hand to be dealt!
*DWT* readers always ask me to check out whichever Democrat washes up on
the beach of their district and see if they're any good. I mean, chances
are they'll always be better than whatever godforsaken Republican already
holds the seat, but my job is to see if they're better enough to warrant
really getting behind them. The vetting process usually takes a couple
months. But I just got off the phone with a woman running for Congress, her
first bid at any kind of electoral office. And, without prejudicing the
process, I couldn't help myself from sharing s... more »
Google Street View sends cameras into Namie, an abandoned town in Fukushima where once 21,000 people lived
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: Google Streetview image showing the abandoned city of Namie in
Fukushima Prefecture, March 2013. Photo: Google]
By David McNeill
27 March 2013
TOKYO (Independent) – Google’s Streetview cars have been in to the area
around the Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time. Their maps reveal
the destruction wrought by Japan’s huge earthquake – and give the 21,000
residents forced to flee the chance to see what they left behind.
It is a nuclear-era *Mary Celeste*, a town left virtually untouched since
its 21,000 residents fled two years ago.
Rubble and roof tiles still litter ... more »
Video Havasupai Elder Rex Tilousi Speaks at Hickory Ground Rally Phoenix
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Havasupai
Elder Rex Tilousi speaks in defense of sacred lands, outside the
National Indian Gaming Association annual gathering in Phoenix, as
Native Americans rally to defend Hickory Ground ceremonial grounds from
casino development.
VIDEO Klee Benally at Hickory Ground Rally Phoenix
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Klee
Benally, Dine', speaks at Sacred Lands Rally, outside National Indian
Gaming Conference in Phoenix, defending San Francisco Peaks, and
supporting the movement to protect Hickory Ground ceremonial grounds
from casino development.
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Kailua, Hawaii, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Ecuador auctions off three million hectares of Amazon rainforest to China oil firms
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: Oil exploration blocks to be auctioned off by Ecuador. Ecuador
plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian
rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering indigenous groups and
underlining the global environmental toll of China's insatiable thirst for
energy. Graphic: Amazon Watch]
By Jonathan Kaiman
26 March 2013
BEIJING (guardian.co.uk) – Ecuador plans to auction off more than three
million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies,
angering indigenous groups and underlining the global environmental toll of
China's ... more »
An appeal in the Kachkar case would likely fail
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
The Crown can appeal a finding of Not Criminally Responsible but only in
very limited circumstances. The Crown has to show the trial judge made a
material legal error in charging the jury, the jury's verdict was perverse
or somehow the decision was a miscarriage of justice. It is not enough that
the decision was wrong - the jury are entitled to be wrong just so long as
they are not perverse.
And that means an appeal in the Kachkar case would likely fail. The trial
judge appears to have given a perfectly acceptable charge. Kachkar's
behaviour, screaming about Chinese technology and... more »
Morning Brew Round Table Discussion on Manifestation Thur Mar 28th at noon EST
Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Join Gwen Caldwell, who will be hosting a roundtable discussion on Morning
Brew tomorrow with Bob Wright, Seraph G: El (and perhaps other guests)
about energy, frequencies and how to manifest all things in your life which
you desire. Please join us at noon ET morningbrew.webs.com
Mohawk Nation News 'Cyprus'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
CYPRUS
Posted on March 27, 2013
MNN. Mar. 27, 2013. The theft of the savings
accounts of the people has begun, starting in Cyprus. The bankers “royal
economists” created the current fractional reserve system based on
debt. They are squeezing the people “so tight against their chest that
the people can hardly breathe”. [Dekanawida].
So who are these bankers that presume
Jim Carrey's "Cold Dead Hand"
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey from Jim Carrey
Quote of the Day, 3: Post-Cyprus
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
“You cannot dick around with money on this scale unless you know what
you’re doing. To suggest that the bail-in legislation is a problem [only]
for the periphery and uninsured depositors is to say that the fire is
downstairs… [We have rank amateurs playing a high-stakes game without
understanding either the rules or what’s at stake. Maybe our masters have
plans for a controlled detonation of a massively complex and unstable
system. But I see damn all evidence of that. Instead we appear to have a
group of under-qualified provincial politicians who, having been badly
mauled by a hou... more »
If Supreme Court justices are really concerned about standing, make Paul Clement give back the BLAG-pilfered millions or make "Sunny John" Boehner pay it all back
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The New York Times's Marcus Mabry talks to reporter John Schwartz about
the Supreme Court's consecutive days of hearings on marriage-equality
issues -- California's Prop 8 yesterday, DOMA today.*
*by Ken*
Court-watchers stress that we mustn't make assumptions about Supreme Court
justices' ultimate decisions from the questions they ask during oral
arguments. But nobody seems to question that:
(1) Yesterday the justices showed reluctance to take bold action in the
appeal to save California's homo-hating Prop 8. What some of of those
court-watchers conveniently forget is that the Ro... more »
Dr. Jon Saphier and the Lie That Keeps on Paying Off for His Company
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Massachusetts is just one state that has approved Jon Saphier as a licensed
vendor to peddle his "Research for Better Teaching" (RBT) to teachers and
school leaders across the state. Saphier's consultants, in fact, are in
action tomorrow in at the RBT Conference Center in Acton, MA. Big bucks.
At the tap root of Saphier's expensive advice is a very old and withered
lie that Saphier keeps alive, told so often by Saphier, himself, that it is
impossible to know if he has come to actually believe it. From the preface
of The Skillful Teacher . . . (2008):
Of all the things that matter... more »
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