9:39pm MDST
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Giving a bugger
“Key’s announcement that he plans to respond to the GCSB’s habit of
illegally spying on New Zealanders by making it legal for them to spy on
New Zealanders is the same as National’s previous response when the
police were caught illegally spying on New Zealanders. No one gets held
accountable, and the law is changed to enable the previously illegal
activity.
“The message to government agencies – that they can break the law and
violate people’s rights with impunity because the government will never
prosecute them and will rewrite the law to whatever they want if they get
caught... more »
Revealing Some Truths About Britain's So Called "Iron Lady": Margaret Thatcher's Part In The Sinking Of The Argentinian Battleship "General Belgrano"!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1979
to 1990, and well known as the so called "Iron Lady" by many around the
world, passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Much of the news coming
out of the United Kingdom for the last two days and many Jewish run media
outlets around the world have paid tribute and much accolades to this
woman, the United Kingdom's first and only female Prime Minister, and her
legacy. From what I have discovered through research about this woman, I
do not hold her in the same high regard.....
I want to present one article ... more »
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Newest Update - TEPCO "Losing Faith" In Leaking Fukushima Tanks...But Has No Place To Put The Radioactive Water!
It has been a while since I last put up any updates on the still dangerous
situation with the failed nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power station in Japan, and I figured that there was no time like the
present...
I have watched the reports over the last week about the leaking nuclear
waste storage facility pits at Fukushima with about as much disgust as
everyone else.... It is troubling that now over 2 years since that horrific
disaster, we are watching as Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO)
continue to struggle in almost vain attempts to contain the situatio... more »
MicroSoftNBC Interviews Lawyer on Literacy, Reading, Testing, Homeschooling, and More
The next time that the young guns of The Cycle have a legal issue to talk
about, I am wondering if they will find an educator to analyze the issues
around the case. After giving the Occupy DOE event thirty seconds of video
with clueless voiceover by the host of the show, the producers gave United
Way CEO, Sheena Wright, 7 minutes to share her commonplace ignorance on the
issues of opting out, testing, home schooling, literacy, and more. But
then, with New York City short on educational reform scholars and
commentators, what's wrong with a lawyer's advice on school issues? After
... more »
Pol. Ideology 39: Thatcherism
The great, cool “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister from
1979-1990, passed away yesterday. RIP, Margaret.
Let me start with a few quotes from this great leader.
*To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure
leukaemia with leeches.*
*We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes,
to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society;
not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is
responsible for the state.*
*If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it... more »
Mayors Against Illegal Guns sets the NRA bullies in its sights
*This "Message from Neil Heslin," father of Jesse, is being circulated by
Mayors Against Illegal Guns as part of its Demand Action to End Gun Violencecampaign.
*
*"For too long, the only voice that has been loud enough to influence
Congress has been the Washington gun lobby's -- that's how we've ended up
with ineffective gun laws that have fueled our country's gun violence
epidemic. Now we're working to make sure that the voices of the more than
900 bipartisan mayors in our coalition -- and the 90 percent of Americans
who support commonsense reforms like background checks for all gu... more »
make believe
' Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
How oft would vice and virtue places change!
The new world would be nothing to the old,
If some Columbus of the moral seas
Would show mankind their souls' antipodes.
Lord Byron, in the satirical poem *Don Juan*, 1823*.*
Your Mission Part 2
*Your Mission Part 2*
April 9th, 2013
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/04/your-mission-part-ii.html
I received this message from the awesome Sue, whom I love so much for her
amazing energy!! This is a continuation of the visualization I wrote about
yesterday HERE.
[10:35:50 AM] Sue Harper Todd:
I have been DOing. After reading D’s brilliant visualization yesterday I
could immediately see everyone at the Party except the divines. I could
feel they were having a really hard time letting go of their ‘identity’. I
could see them as D described ‘hiding –closeted ... more »
Harry Reid ready to bust out gun control bill
Our Senate Majority Leader tells us he is a patient man, but apparently
he's lost his patience today. Harry Reid is forcing a cloture vote on the
current Democratic gun reform bill. The kabuki is complicated on this move
with the compromise bill still stuck in the back rooms and the above
pictured GOPers being joined by Mitch McConnell threatening a filibuster,
along a few red state Dems.
Not clear how serious they are about the filibuster. Josh says their
resolve is failing. Surely, there are long term problems for the Republican
party in blocking a vote on a bill that has the s... more »
Larry Ray : The Right of Americans to Love and Marry
There's
a problem when the stars and stripes exclude some Americans, forcing
them to have their own flag. Image from iHandbill.
The right to love and marry:
Picking the fly specks out of the pepper
Conservative judges on the Supreme Court were literally stewing and
sputtering as they questioned attorneys speaking in support of same-sex
marriage.
By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2013
It
“Sticking it to the man” by saying “stuff you” to artists
Promoters of economic theft recently have been pointing to Amanda Palmer’s
inspiring TED talk—“don’t *make *people pay for music; *ask* them” she
says—as grounds for saying the “old model” should die, copyright should go
hang, and every artist should be just like AFP*.
Palmer argues her outstanding success in getting her fans to support her
financially is built in large part on trusting them. “I put myself and my
work out there, I ask to be embraced, and I am embraced.” As a promoter of
artists rights myself, and also as one of the 24,388 people who trusted her
enough to back her ... more »
Untitled
*Gentrification flap rooted in an older debate over New Orleans
‘exceptionalism’ ~C. W. Cannon*
World War One!! ..... it seemed like a good idea at the time
**
*I see that the Conservative Party and their friends in the MSM are getting
ready to try and brainwash you into thinking that World War One was a
glorious moment in Canadian history. You are being told that Canadian
soldiers died for Canada's 'freedom' during the First World War ... to 'protect
and preserve our nation'. Nonsense!!!*
*Any one with even a fleeting knowledge of history will struggle with this
interpretation of the pointless, meaningless conflict known as 'the First
World War'.*
*
**Stop any citizen on the street and ask them what the reason for the First
World War... more »
Glenn Alexander Magee - Goethe the Alchemist
Glenn Alexander Magee is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and an
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University (LIU). Here is
a background of his work (*Source: LIU*):
If there is a unifying theme to my scholarship and my teaching, it is this:
I am interested in the relationship of philosophy to "the irrational."
Mysticism claims to provide wisdom in a non-discursive form and typically
rejects philosophy's insistence that all truths must be established by
reason. However, as my scholarly work demonstrates, throughout history
philosophers have in fact been i... more »
Untitled
*When Boatloads of Federal Money Attack ~Mike Church*~In 1817, President
James Madison vetoed(1) Henry Clay and John C Calhoun’s “Bonus Bill” which
would have given the Federal Government funding and authority to begin
building levees, canals and roads. In his veto Madison wrote “The
legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated, and it
does not appear that the power for constructing canals, and improving the
navigation of water courses… is among the enumerated powers vested by the
Constitution in the Government of the United States.”
If only Madison had been aro... more »
Untitled
*Collapse of Jindal plan spawns unfunded schemes to phase out income tax
~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
*Poke a fork in his buns cause Jindal’s Done ~Dakinikat, Sky Dancing *
GAIA PORTAL: Spheres of Light are Released from Gaia Portals at this Time
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* *Spheres of Light are Released from Gaia Portals at this Time*
by ÉirePort
Spheres of Light are released from Gaia portals at this time. As shells of
old paradigms are cracked, Spheres of Light are released, as well, from
individual beings.
This may appear to some as an effervescence of Light, appearing in regions
formerly viewed as stagnant or neutral or dark.
The Effervescence of Light spheres results from release of ego pressure
from individuals as well as cultures of all types throughout Gaia.
Resting during periods of physical "tiredness" encourages ego shell
crackin... more »
America Becomes Dr. Evil More And More As Each Day Passes
*NY Times: Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran*.
What you can learn from the movies
Pssst. Here’s some important cold, hard facts about the world everyone can
learn from the movies. The first fact is, the movies are always right…
[image: Some movie facts]
And the last lesson is, if you ever meet kidnappers with duct tape, be
really scared of the tape.
Cartoon from 9GAG. Vid from Smithsonian Blogs.
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
EMHN 9: Private Sector Role in India UHC
Another bright and sensible paper from one of our international partners,
the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN). In a new paper published this
week, Indian economist and a friend, Debashis Chakraborty of the Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade in Delhi, argued that *"PPPs have the potential
to help India achieve its healthcare ambitions, although the government
should refrain from using its power to dominate the partnership, and will
have to allow private partners greater scope both to plan and manage."*
In his new seven-pages paper, The private sector’s role in achieving
Univer... more »
The Original Rudeboys - Sunny Days
We identify people by their different characteristics: the contours of
their body, the shape of their face, the colour of the hair or the sound of
their voice or even of their laugh. Their selfhood or character is summoned
up by the powerful blending of all these characteristics. I wish to
concentrate on only one of these qualities here, namely the last listed one
- the sound of the human voice.
Some years back, I remember viewing a TV programme on those poor lost souls
- the homeless or those of our number who live on our streets. The most
haunting thing about the whole programm... more »
Glenn Gaven : The Sad Saga of Austin's $10 Million Concrete Path
Austin
City Councilman Chris Riley on his trusty steed. Image from
chrisforaustin.com.
Taken for a ride:
The sad saga of the
$10 million concrete path
It is no coincidence that this segment of concrete treasure will run
along part of Austin Councilmember Chris Riley’s pet project, a New
Urbanist rezoning wet dream known as the Airport Boulevard Renovation
Project.
By Glenn Gaven / The Rag
Inanimate carbon rod
But let's be clear, future; not just for the next 5 years but the next
4,000 years, together, with the rod, in positive, serious fightback,
together, clear where we're going.
The Iron Lady and the BBC (Part Two)
Many right-leaning critics of the BBC (myself included) expected the BBC to
behave badly when Baroness Thatcher passed away. I've read so many
predictions (mostly on blogs) in the last few years about this - all
certain that the BBC's anti-Tory bias would come foaming across the
airwaves from the very moment of her death - that the fact that this has *
not* happened has come as a very pleasant surprise to me.
Not just to me. If you read through this interesting thread at *Biased BBC* you'll
discover a good number of other people (from a similar political
standpoint) who have also ... more »
Can’t even get the simplest things right!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013*
*The Los Angeles Times tries to report on Los Angeles crime rates:* We’ve
spent the afternoon in video-and-transcript Hell, reviewing the horrid
pseudo-discussion moderated by Melissa Harris-Perry last Sunday.
We’ll discuss that rolling nightmare tomorrow. For today, let’s review a
recent post by Kevin Drum.
Drum reviewed a news report in the Los Angeles Times—a report about Los
Angeles crime rates. The report referred to the city’s “decade-long
decline” in crime.
But as Drum noted, violent crime in L.A. has actually been on the downward
slope since 1991... more »
“Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead”
*“Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? *
*Cut the Pentagon Instead”*
by Robert Naiman
"The boss organizes the workers, union organizers like to say. Say what
you want about President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security and
veterans' benefits with the "chained CPI." He did accomplish one thing for
liberals that they often have a hard time doing on their own. He united
them - in opposition to his proposal.
Since Friday, the following groups, among others, have contacted me
expressing outrage about and pledging to vigorously oppose the president's
proposal: the AFL-CI... more »
Boycott the Royal Bank - Part 2
Shorter Gord Nixon : Look, they're not *your* jobs, they're *our* jobs, and
if we choose to move *our* jobs offshore to another company without you
because it's cheaper, that's just business. Besides, only one of the 13
dudes we brought in to RBC came under iGATE's temporary foreign worker
application - the rest of them are house guests.
About that one iGATE dude :G&M :
The federal government is investigating Royal Bank of Canada’s move to
outsource technology jobs and reviewing paperwork submitted by its
contractor to bring in temporary foreign workers. The probe centres on what... more »
Adrian Dix Scores The Oscar, Christy Clark Flaps Her Lips
Christy Clark continually utters before thinking, and now Christy Clark has
put the BC Liberals in a box..
Before we get started, ....I`m doing a mea culpa, backtracking on an
earlier post..
I wrote about the continual race to bottom with subsidies to the movie
industry..
Adrian Dix has announced increasing the labour subsidy to BC`s film
industry from the current 33% to 40%...This is a fabulous move, it`s being
applauded by industry experts, those employed, and especially by those
hoping to again become employed in the movie industry..
These new added labour tax breaks still k... more »
A Note on Thatcherism and New Labour
It is oft-noted that when asked what her greatest achievement was,
Margaret
Thatcher replied "Tony Blair". But is this really the case? Was the
dearly
departed having a laugh? Or were New Labour and the 'Third Way' a
continuation of Thatcherism by other means, one that was all smiles,
celebrity-savvy and had a better soundtrack? No. And yes.
Steve Bush's provocatively-titled *Progress* piece, Labour Ended
Thatcherismis interesting for drawing attention to the discontinuities
between
Thatcher and Blair, but for all that ventures a fundamentally flawed
position. Steve's argument is th... more »
What economics can teach philosophers
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This week, our friends at the Auckland University Economics Group have a
special invitation out to philosophers…
Hi all,
This Thursday we continue our discussion of what philosophy has to
teach economics, and vice versa.
Last week we looked at what economics takes from the “philosophic
tree”—and what it allows economics to do.
This week we complete the overview by talking about the important
lesson that economics gives back to the “tree”: a conclusion, taught and
confirmed by economic thinking, that social philosophers would ... more »
Planetary Boundaries as Millenarian Prophesies: A Guest Post by Steve Rayner
*This is a guest post by Steve Rayner, Oxford University, and is distilled
from a forthcoming book chapter that Steve has co-authored with Clare
Heyward, also of Oxford University. The full citation is (and please see
the original for the broader argument and references):*
*S. Rayner and C. Heyward, 2013 (in press). The Inevitability of Nature as
a Rhetorical Resource, Chapter 14 in Kerstin Hastrup (editor), Anthropology
and Nature (Routledge, London).*
*This post follows up an earlier discussion of the politics of planetary
boundaries on this blog here and a critique and follow ... more »
Judicial Nominations Update
Two pieces of news today:
First, the Senate approved the nomination of Patty Shwartz to the 3rd
Circuit appeals court by a 64-34 vote; Frank Lautenberg remains missing, so
that's ten Republicans voting for her after the GOP first agreed not to
force a cloture vote. Schwartz was first nominated in October 2011 for a
seat that has been vacant since June 2011. Progress! This is the fifth
appeals court judge confirmed by the Senate this year, leaving 16 such
spots on the bench open. Progress!
Or not...that's a long time to confirm a nomination, even one that did have
significant dissen... more »
Satire: "Right Not to Get Shot Faces Uphill Fight in Senate"
*"Right Not to Get Shot Faces Uphill Fight in Senate"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senate Republicans today vowed to
filibuster a controversial bill supporting the right not to get shot.
G.O.P. leaders lambasted the bill, arguing that the right to go to school,
work, or one’s home without fear of being shot was not guaranteed by the
U.S. Constitution. “The Second Amendment makes it very clear,” said Sen.
Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming). “The right to bear arms shall not be infringed by a
tiny minority’s desire not to be shot.”
But according to the pollster Harlan... more »
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Did You Vote For Obama (Or Romney)? Yes?-- Well Eat Your Dog And Cat Meat Burger And Shut Up
Liberty-- though not for Fido, obviously
Michael Brenner wrote a powerful piece for AlterNet a few days ago, America
Is Ruled By Billionaires, And They Are Coming After The Last Shred Of Our
Democracy. Like most Americans-- I'd like to say 99% of Americans but I
know that would be wishful thinking-- Brenner is instinctually repulsed by
plutocracy. He defines it succinctly in opening his essay and points out
that aside from owning everything, the plutocrats have had their political
handmaidens take significant actions that "directly favor the moneyed
interests."
The latter include t... more »
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Distinguished economist Michael Hudson was in England during Margaret Thatcher's rise to power. Here he tells the depressing story of how her determination to privatize every last civic function has made London the heaquarters of kleptocrats, drug lords, and dictators while in the process crushing the working and middle classes. Excerpt: "So by deregulating British banking, Margaret Thatcher led a race to the bottom of international finance. She said, we're going to be the ground floor, we're going to be the absolute bottom, deregulated, everything goes. She opened the doors for what became really the criminalized financial system that ended up wrecking AIG in America, pushing, if you noticed, the Wall Street firms like Lehman Brothers. It was all their London office where all of the real fraud and the gambling occurred."
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*Thatcher Gave More Power to Finance*
Michael Hudson: Thatcher deregulated banking and made London the center of
speculation and financialization - April 9, 13
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Michael Hudson is a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research
Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and
author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968
& 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign D... more »
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Ding dong etc...
An interesting if grim set of results from the latest Guardian/ICM survey.
Asked to assess Margaret Thatcher's term in office and it's legacy a narrow
majority of people look favourably on her destroying the basis of social
democracy, in this case trade unionism and council housing, but oppose the
(some would say logical) result of that destruction, structural
unemployment and widening class divisions.
Now, we're Gramsicans; we take it as read that median subaltern
consciousness in average times is contradictory, that's why we organise.
And of course this is just one survey, and sur... more »
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Once again I notice the difference between left and right
I inhabit a pretty civilised personal world but as ever I note that even
here, the left and right deal with differences of opinion differently. In
several meetings today I felt that some people wanted to talk about Lady
Thatcher's death but felt inhibited because whilst they were obviously
pro-Thatcher, they weren't sure about me. *I am not how most of you imagine
me to be, most people would assume that I am on the left, maybe the far
left . *
I have noted previously how lefty types feel free to insult politicians on
the right and how people on the right will just listen and accept ... more »
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Newark Students Fighting for Their Lives
One of the most hopeful signs at Occupy the DOE 2.0 in DC this weekend were
the number of students from all over the U.S. who showed up. Students are
beginning to stand up for their rights to a quality education and calling
out the corporate criminals who continue to suck the life and soul out of
public education while fattening their bottom lines and stockholder
profits. That's what market driven education looks like, but that is not
what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.
Meanwhile, parents in New Jersey are opting their children out of the tests
because ... more »
Time waits for no one
You don't have to be a Republican for this list of GOP milestones to make
you feel old. I remember the majority of them from having experienced them
in real time. The item that seems most relevant to our present day politics
is it's been almost 13 years since the first Bush Tax Cuts were signed into
law.
They promised at the time it was going to make everybody part of the
"ownership society." Predictably, 13 years later, the majority of Americans
own less while the "original owners" who got the biggest cuts now own
almost everything, including our government. And they still want mo... more »
Protest US Border Patrol Murder of Teen in Mexico, April 10, 2013
**español abajo**
April 9, 2013
Contact: Hannah Hafter (651) 338 8058 (US)
Jeanette Pasos - 631 110 0395 (MX)
*What: March and memorial to demand justice in Border Patrol Killing*
***When: Wednesday, April 10, starting at 5:30pm*
**
*Where: In Nogales, Sonora, demonstrators will meet in the “placita nueva”
near the international port of entry; in the Nogales, Arizona demonstrators
will gather at the corner of Grand and Crawford.*
**
*Demonstrators, Family to March April 10 to Demand Justice in Border Patrol
Killing*
*Nogales, AZ- *On Wednesday, April 10 advocates, supporters a... more »
Jimmy Carter
My view of Jimmy Carter is well known so I was interested to read this:
Dershowitz: I Challenge Carter to Human Rights Debate at Cardozo
I will come, at my own expense, to debate Jimmy Carter on Carter's own
human rights record. If Cardozo will have me, I will come and provide the
students, the administration and anyone else that is interested, with a
first rate debate about the meaning of human rights and they can decide
whether what Jimmy Carter has done, constitutes human rights or human
wrongs.
Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School,
has chal... more »
Cheyenne River Indigenous Water Summit May 22 -- 24, 2013
CHEYENNE RIVER HOHWOJU LAKOTA OF THE GREAT OCETI SAKOWIN
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Seven Sacred Council Fires
Invites All Indigenous of the Eagle+Condor Nations
INDIGENOUS WATER SUMMIT
May 22-24, 2013
Seeking a Summer of Solidarity with Indigenous Nations throughout the
Western Hemisphere in combating the world water crisis, impacts of climate
change and environmental racism, the Cheyenne River Hohwoju Lakota Nation
will host a three-day Indigenous Water Summit this spring on Lakota
homelands in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
The first annual Indigenous Water Summit will offer a... more »
THE STATE IS NOT WORRIED BY THE BLOGGERS
www.nielsen.com
*According to The Economist:*
The internet was expected to aid democracy.
"Instead, it has enabled the authoritarian state to get a firmer grip."
*"Not only has .... authoritarian rule survived the internet, but the state
has shown great skill in bending the technology to its own purposes,
enabling it to exercise better control..."*
*The CIA used the internet to bring poverty and chaos to Tunisia.*
The state "has deployed an army of cyber-police... web monitors and paid
online propagandists to watch, filter, censor and guide .... internet
users...
*"Government ... more »
"Don’t Worry, Everything is 'Normal'”
*"Don’t Worry, Everything is 'Normal'”*
by Bill Holter
"Yesterday John Embry of Sprott Asset Management wrote “This is headed
toward a catastrophic ending. We are in a period in world history that has
never been seen before, and the thought that the powers that be have any
idea how to get us out of this mess without serious chaos is dead wrong.”
Think about this quote, it is exactly correct in all facets. The world IS
in a mess no matter how many false statistics global governments release or
how many new highs the Dow or other averages make. Everything you see and
hear is “m... more »
Kryon: The Time Capsules of GAIA
*"THE TIME CAPSULES OF GAIA"*
This live channelling was Given on the Kryon Kundalini Tour
February 9, 2013
*To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon]
to provide even clearer understanding. Often what happens live has implied
energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed
page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Salt Lake City, Utah.
*
Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. The message that I
give this evening is an extension to the two that I have given previously
within the last weeks [in B... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Fatally Flawed'
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FATALLY FLAWED
Posted on April 9, 2013
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*MNN. APR. 9, 2013.* In Thahoketoteh of Kanekota and the Queen, T2007-12,
the decision went against the constitution and “the rule of law”. Federal
and provincial laws are applied to Six Nations by violating constitutional
law, such as the Royal Proclamation being superseded by Corporation of
Canada statutes. Canada is not a constitutional democracy as s. 109 of the
British North America Act 1867 is being deliberately ignored. No legal
reasons were given other than that Thahoketoteh did not state strong enough
facts, f... more »
TODAY - 4/9 - ALEC Economic Webinar Debunking Their LIes
Join Webinar Debunking Myths Promoted by ALEC
Posted by Third and State on *April 8, 2013 3:16 pm*
Posted in:
- State Budget and Taxes
[image: PA Policy Perspectives: A Webinar Series]The American Legislative
Exchange Council, or ALEC, may have recently abandoned its advocacy of
controversial Voter ID and Stand Your Ground laws in the face of public
scrutiny — but it hasn’t stopped pushing for fiscal policies that benefit
corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.
Join a webinar on Tuesday, April 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. hosted by the
Pennsylvania Budget and P... more »
Social Security Should not be CUT by so Much as a Dime!
*By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
SS should not be CUT --it should be strengthened! If there is a shortfall,
send the bill to the 'ruling elite' which has gotten filthy rich with all
sorts of 'tax' avoidance schemes that the middle and poorer classes could
only dream about! Elite money winds up offshore; but SS is a boon to the
economy.
What's up? Has no one bothered to read John Maynard Keynes?
Cutting SS would plunge the nation into depression as a result of the LOST
PURCHASING POWER of seniors who will be reduced to penury! Many have
already been reduced to shopping at ... more »
A continuum of cop violence against women: systemic and authoritarian, sexualized and fetishized.
From Ayesha, we learn about yet another woman's death, as a the tragic
outcome of a desultory police investigation.
*In an extensive post on a Facebook memorial page, her mother Leah Parsons
described how the straight-A high school student became depressed and
suicidal after the incident.*
*
* *“The person Rehtaeh once was all changed one dreaded night in November
2011. She went with a friend to another’s home. In that home she was raped
by four young boys . . . one of those boys took a photo of her being raped
and decided it would be fun to distribute the photo to everyone in
Rehta... more »
Tony Rooke wins his TV License case by stating the BBC were complicit in 9/11.
seriously, this is EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT in the sense that the BBC didn't
mention this before being taken to court by Tony Rooke: and they still
haven't talked about it.
Points Of View, anyone?
The interesting aspect of this, for me, is that not only did Tony Rooke get
away with not paying for his TV license due to his claim that the BBC were
somehow 'in league with or coordinated with the terrorists i.e. T.H.E.Y.'
on the day of 9/11 when the US Air FOrce stood down allowing two commercial
airliners to fly over restricted airspace for an hour and then crash into
the WTC building... more »
The Filibuster Can't Defeat Gun Control
Today seems to be Beat Up on Harry Reid Day. Dan Savage:
Republicans regard first and second graders as expendable. Wish Dems felt
the same about the filibuster.
And, sure, might as well quote Wil Wheaton:
@fakedansavage I wonder if people sending thousands of post cards that say
"I told you so" to Harry Reid would get movement on reform?
Justin Green notes that Reid has threatened majority-imposed Senate reform
over judges, but:
But if you're a liberal, don't get your hopes up about Reid doing the same
thing to get a vote on gun control.
The why is easy: many of the Senators who ... more »
Paradise Becomes a Nightmare
It's wonderful to see that ever more people are waking up to the dangers of
pollution, and taking personal risks to stop it that would have seemed
outlandish just a year ago - such as this gallant grandma in Oklahoma, who
used a bikelock around her neck earlier today to halt excavation for the
Keystone XL pipeline. But while the article on the Great Plains Tar Sands
Resistance website talks about the health effects in neighborhoods in the
path of pipelines, from spills and emissions and chemicals, not once does
it mention climate change - let alone the global trend of forest dieback... more »
Why are the Recent Contaminated Water Spills at Tepco so Significant
Majia here: There have been many recent reports of major leaks by most, if
not all, of Tepco's water tanks used for containing radioactive water.
The reason containment leaks are significant is that the Daiichi site is
saturated with water.
Contaminated ground water at the site could contaminate the fresh water
aquifer (indeed, it probably already has).
Furthermore, contaminated ground water will pour into the basements of the
reactor buildings. Tepco cannot handle the volume of this water and has not
been successful in pumping it all out.
The possibility of highly contaminated wa... more »
Arms Race Update: Laser Weapons
*Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran by Thom Shanker April
8,
2013, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/world/navy-deploying-laser-weapon-prototype-in-persian-gulf.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130409&_r=0
*
[Excerpted]
— The Navy is going to sea for the first time with a laser
attack weapon that has been shown in tests to disable patrol boats and
blind or destroy surveillance drones.
A prototype shipboard laser will be deployed on a converted amphibious
transport and docking ship in the Persian Gulf…
…The laser is designed to carry out a graduat... more »
Genome Stability and Transgenerational Mutations Caused by Radiation
'Genome Stability: Transgenerational Mutation by Radiation' by Yuri E.
Dubrova1,2, Mark Plumb3, Bruno Gutierrez1, Emma Boulton3 & Alec J. Jeffreys1
*Nature* *405*, 37 (4 May 2000) | doi:10.1038/35011135
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v405/n6782/abs/405037a0.html
[Excerpted] Parental exposure to ionizing radiation increases the frequency
of germline mutations detectable in the next generation1. Parental exposure
can also increase the rate of mutation in somatic cells2, 3and confer a
predisposition to cancer4, 5, 6 in offspring, suggesting that there could
be an indirect effect ... more »
4 Italian Journos kidnapped in Northern Syria: Who did they get photos of ?
Short on time today. Had this one bookmarked. You may have read it. Or not.
Four Italian journalists have been detained *(kidnapped)* since Friday in
northern Syria, although the circumstances of what happened are unclear.
Two of the men and one woman are freelancers, the fourth man works for
Italian television station RAI.
Authorities in Rome say the are working to ensure the safety of the
journalists.
euronews spoke to Cristiano Tinazzi, a journalist who has worked in Syria
and with one of the reporters detained.
“Apparently the journalists saw *a special unit* *known as a Qatib... more »
The conduct of the accused while on bail prior to revocation, if applicable, may be a relevant factor in determining whether to grant enhanced credit
R. v. Morris, 2013 ONCA 223 holds:
[15] While the trial judge concluded that lack of remission on
pre-sentencing custody is not of itself a factor warranting enhanced
credit, she also reasoned, at para. 54, that while the appellant was not
detained in custody under ss. 524(4) or (8), "the conduct of the accused
while on bail prior to revocation, if applicable, may be a relevant factor
in determining whether to grant enhanced credit." She concluded that, in
this case, the circumstances were analogous to ss. 524(4) and (8), and
therefore did not justify enhanced credit.
[16]... more »
ISA Theory Section Book Prize
Despite the lack of an update at its website, I am now the Chair of the
International Studies Association (ISA) Theory Section. Obviously, all ISA
members should join and contribute $5 to our budget. But the reason for
this post is that we’ve promised public discussion of the wording of our
new book award. I’ve
Continue reading
Honda vs Khanna-- Substance vs (Bad) Style
Here's one member of the Obama team not getting on the Ro Khanna choo choo
There was some sense of panic last week in the left blogosphere where it
came out that some former Obama campaign operatives-- no one you probably
ever heard of-- took jobs from tech-and-publicity-savvy Ro (short for
Rohit) Khanna's perpetual campaign to put himself into office. Blue America
has long encouraged primaries against bad Democrats. Last year we helped
progressive superstar Matt Cartwright beat corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden in
northeast Pennsylvania. We also lent a hand to a young reformer in El Paso,... more »
How green is wind power?
'Wind companies are not owned and operated by idealistic entrepreneurs.
They are run by some of Canada's, and the world's, biggest corporations,
including pipeline and pulp and paper companies.
Wind contracts are flipped like other financial instruments. NextEra, the
outfit that cut down the eagle's nest, is the largest generator of wind and
solar power in North America. Because of a lucrative U.S. tax break for
wind power, the company has paid no U.S. corporate income tax for several
years, despite billions in profits. Big Wind is among the biggest lobbyists
in Washington.'
Mor... more »
The Time Margaret Thatcher Met One of India's 'God Men' - The Daily Beast
A truly odd story...
'Kapil Komireddi sends the amazing story of the day Margaret Thatcher, not
yet prime minister, met one of India's leading "God men," as the Indians
amusingly call them. The story comes from the memoirs of K. Natwar Singh, a
high-ranking Indian diplomat.
Chandraswamy did not disappoint Mrs Thatcher. He prophesied that she would
be Prime Minister for nine, eleven or thirteen years. Mrs Thatcher, no
doubt believed that she would be Prime Minister one day. Nine, eleven,
thirteen years was a bit much. Mrs Thatcher put one final question. When
would she become a Prim... more »
Why China is doubling down on nuclear power
[image: Sites of nuclear power plants in China, November 2008. Graphic:
Research Institute of Tepia / Japan Society of Maintenology]
*Andrew Brandler, the CEO of CLP Group, Hong Kong's biggest utility, talks
about how Asia plans to balance its soaring energy demands with the
planet's need to wean itself from fossil fuels.*
By David Whitford, editor-at-large
8 April 2013
(Fortune) – China Light and Power's roots are more than a hundred years
deep in Hong Kong. It's still the city's largest utility. But today what's
known as the CLP Group operates across Asia -- on the mainland (whe... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : 'Bronx Butch' Memoirist & Performance Artist Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
Annie
Rachele Lanzillotto.
Rag Radio podcast:
'Bronx Butch' memoirist & performance artist,
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
“Annie Lanzillotto, the bard of Bronx Italian butch, is an American
original, a performance artist and cultural anthropologist whose work is
unique... an astonishing writer possessed of an utterly inimitable
voice." -- Author John Gennari
By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog / April 9
Italian Bank Holdings Of Italian Debt Rise To All Time High | Zero Hedge
Zero
Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-09/italian-bank-holdings-italian-debt-rise-all-time-highexplains
a particularly ridiculous result of ECB rules.
'... courtesy of ECB generosity, Italian debt continues to be "cash
good
collateral" with the ECB, and as a result Italian banks can't wait to
pledge and repo it with Mario Draghi in exchange for virtually full cash
allottment. In other words, the more debt the Italian Tesoro issues, the
more fungiblecash the Italian banks have to spend on such things as
padding
up their cap ratios and making their balance sheets appear lik... more »
Solow on Bernanke
In *The New Republic*, with thoughtful and thought-provoking commentary on
the financial system.
In the Midst of the Long Depression, We’re Told That the President Intends to Cuts Social Security. Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call (Cuts Would Also Lead to Tax Increases for All Income Levels Except the Highest Tax Bracket)
Unless the President’s budget excludes the chained CPI from IRS
calculation, it would also lead to tax increases for all income except that
in the highest tax bracket. So his Social Security cut would also be a
middle-class tax hike. Catching on yet to "our" President's neoliberal
plans? They're becoming rather hard to miss (or to keep thinking/pretending
that they're acci-
What Gene Robinson said last week!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013*
*Familiar bold words without meaning:* Last week, we reviewed several
discussions of the Atlanta public school cheating scandal.
We meant to touch on this column by Gene Robinson. Let’s do so today.
We will start with an assumption. We will assume that Robinson doesn’t
really know a whole lot about the way the public schools work. He probably
doesn’t know a whole lot about standardized testing.
There’s no reason why he should. No one’s an expert on every issue. And the
liberal world to which he belongs devotes little time to these topics.
Robinson wrote ab... more »
Not Even One Cent Of Taxpayers Money Should Be Spent On Margaret Thatcher's Funeral - Privatising her funeral would be a fitting tribute to her free-enterprise legacy
**
*"The Iron Lady herself would surely agree that poor taxpayers should not
be further burdened in these times of British austerity. Surely, the
private sector, which benefited immensely from her time in power should
foot the full bill for the public event of her funeral."*
*by Sunny Hundal*
Margaret Thatcher's close ideological ally Ronald Reagan famously said the
10 most dangerous words in the English language were: "Hi, I'm from the
government, and I'm here to help."
Neither Thatcher nor Reagan were enamoured with the state and its role in
society. They wanted private compani... more »
Some more Thatcherisms
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on
anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” “I always cheer up
immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if
they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political
argument left.”
“Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and
policies in se... more »
Let Us Come Not to Praise Thatcher But to Bury Her
(Image courtesy of constant reader CC)
God only knows why we're having this debate or any of these debates.
Before Margaret Thatcher had the chance to shit her bed, wingnuts were
already foaming at the mouth wondering why Google wasn't honoring her as
they had Hugo Chavez (April Fool's, morons, it was labor leader Cesar
Chavez, which still makes him just as evil in your addled minds). Another
wingnut I refuse to even link to tried to make the AP sound as if it was
Pravda 2.0 by extolling Hugo Chavez in their obituary of him while
supposedly giving short shrift to Thatcher.
... more »
THE WAY WE ARE: The professor’s big fail!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013*
*Part 2—One of our smartest discussions:* Intellectually and
journalistically, The Way We Are is quite bad.
Sunday’s column by the New York Times public editor didn’t even rise to the
level of parody. In her bimonthly column, she sought to define the types of
questions from readers which are “perfectly reasonable.”
Incredibly, there were the three questions she chose. For details, see
yesterday's post:
1. How can I read the Times on-line without getting confused?
2. Who writes the Times editorials?
3. Can I get my wedding announcement removed from the digi... more »
The Ironic Lady: Margaret Thatcher, Supposed Champion of 'Freedom and Democracy', and Her Dictator Friends
Margaret
Thatcher in a British tank during a visit to British forces in
Fallingbostel, Germany, September 17, 1986
(AP)
Margaret Thatcher died Monday, April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. While
there is no dearth of hagiographic profiles of the former British Prime
Minister in the mainstream press and scathing vitriol elsewhere, it
should be remembered that, throughout her career, Thatcher was a
DON'T CRY
A series of short videos from Gangjeong village on Jeju Island where
yesterday people blocked the Navy base construction gates.
The polluted water from the construction site is now moving further
off-shore into the area where the UNESCO recognized endangered soft coral
reefs are located. The South Korean government once called this entire
place a "Special Preservation Area" but this designation has been washed
away by the US demand for the Navy base that will be used as part of
Obama's pivot into the Asia-Pacific to control China.
A couple of days ago a retired US Navy man... more »
Margaret Thatcher Was Not All That
I do not mourn her death. I don't rejoice in it.
I will pray for her - that she rots in hell.
All of the evil she perpetrated will continue - because others have and
will carry forth "her torch".
From a working persons standpoint - she was part of the problem. And while
most of the American media is throwing out glowing eulogies about her - I
don't share those views.
Margaret Thatcher:
Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they
say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the
State.
She was anti-union
She was for privati... more »
Rebuilding the shores, increasing the risks – ‘The climate is changing, the ocean is rising, more storms are coming, and millions of Americans are in harm’s way’
[image: Kim Johnson looked out at the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy
in Atlantic City, N.J., in October 2012. Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images]
By JUSTIN GILLIS
8 April 2013
(The New York Times) – This might be a good time to take a look at the most
important environmental law that nobody has ever heard of.
The real estate industry fought that law bitterly in Congress, but lost,
and it landed on Ronald Reagan’s desk in 1982. The president not only
signed it, but did so with a rhetorical flourish, calling it a “triumph for
natural resource conservation and federal fiscal r... more »
Sadrists End Boycott Of Iraq’s Cabinet In Another Pre-Election Ploy
The Sadrists like the rest of Iraq’s political parties are all positioning
themselves for the April 2013 provincial elections. Sadr’s followers have
been doing so much longer than many. They have gone back and forth with
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for the last two years. Every few months
they criticize his policies, and say that they oppose his continued rule in
Iraq, but then reconcile a little while afterward. The most recent example
of this political game was the Sadr Trend’s termination of its short-lived
boycott of the cabinet.
MP Araji, head of the Sadr bloc in parliame... more »
Sumatran rhino population plunges, down to 100 animals – ‘Serious steps must be taken to roll back the tide of extinction of the Sumatran rhino’
[image: Sumatran rhino in Sabah, a neighboring state in Malaysian Borneo.
Photo: Jeremy Hance]
By Jeremy Hance
8 April 2013
(mongabay.com) – Less than 100 Sumatran rhinos survive in the world today,
according to a bleak new population estimate by experts. The last survey in
2008 estimated that around 250 Sumatran rhinos survived, but that estimate
now appears optimistic and has been slashed by 60 percent. However
conservationists are responding with a major new agreement between the
Indonesian and Malaysian governments at a recent summit by the
International Union for Conservatio... more »
Wellington water ban lifted – New Zealand’s worst drought in over 30 years may cost $2 billion
[image: A cow searches for edible grass in drought strickened paddocks in
Waiuku, New Zealand. Drought was declared in March 2013 in several North
Island regions, including the largest dairying provinces. Photo: Sandra Mu
/ Getty Images]
9 April 2013 (APNZ) – Wellington's water ban has been lifted almost four
weeks since sprinklers fell silent across the capital.
Regional authorities introduced a total ban on outdoor water use in
mid-March after revealing there were only 20 days of water supply left.
They also started drawing water from the Hutt River and urged residents in
Welli... more »
"Thatcher in Poland"
Would any other British political leader have been as resolute?
Coal mine closures
If I hear one more ex-miner celebrating the death of Lady Thatcher I might
just scream. The BBC have given airtime to numerous such people, people who
just realise one key fact.
There were more pit closures under Harold Wilson's Labour government than
under Lady Thatcher's Conservative government: 406 pits closed in the 1960s
(with 315,000 job losses), only 146 closed in the 1980s (with 173,000 jobs
losses).
I wonder why the BBC never point that out? Would it spoil their carefully
constructed narrative?
today is equal pay day in ontario
Today, April 9, is Equal Pay Day in Ontario. Please watch this short video
to learn why we are *still* fighting for pay equity. Then visit the Equal
Pay Coalition to learn how you can raise your voice for pay equity in this
province.
"This is not something we should still be fighting for.
Students today should be reading about this in their textbooks."
Miserable Failure
So, Tom Flanagan is back, writing in the Glib n' Stale. (He doesn't have a
steady gig like plagiarist, shit-for-brains Margaret Wente, but that might
be testimony to his inferior fellatio skills.) Anyhow, if some figure,
revered by the Canadian Left, had been filmed saying that child pornography
was just a "taste in pictures" do you think they could ever rehabilitate
themselves in the eyes of the Globe's editorial board? In Flanagan's case,
he's done sterling service for Canada's scum-bag ruling elite, attacking
and attacking and insulting the First Nations and providing a blue-print... more »
How the West was lost (part x)
'TORONTO – When a single dad signed his nine-year-old daughter up for
female-only swim lessons, he didn't realize he — as a man — was going to be
banned from watching her practice.
Chris (who didn't want his last name published) was shocked when he had the
blinds to the viewing area of the Dennis R. Timbrell Recreation Centre pool
in Flemingdon Park shut on him and then was told by staffers it was for
"religious reasons."
"I spoke to a staff member and she told me that it's because of Muslim
women, that we're not allowed to look at them or whatever," Chris, 38, told
the Toronto S... more »
Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?
So went the lyrics of a song from my youth. Lawrence Martin writes this
morning that those lyrics should be repeating themselves inside Stephen
Harper's head. The reason for the ear worm is the ascension of Justin
Trudeau:
The Trudeau name is his worst nightmare. Mr. Harper’s animosity toward the
Liberalism of Pierre Trudeau was what ignited and drove his political
ambition. Nothing would plague him more than having a Trudeau succeed him
and begin turning back his conservative advances.
And Harper's best before date is catching up with him:
If he decides to stay, he must not onl... more »
Margaret Thatcher And EMILY's List
While we didn't cheer, nor take part in the wailing and the rending of
garments, at the announcement of Margaret Thatcher's death-- she's been
all but dead for several years-- yesterday, we did recognize her passing. I
hope you read Ken's fair and balanced obit last night. And, regardless what
you thought of her reactionary brand of politics, there is certainly no
denying her a hard-earned place in history-- England's first women prime
minister. When a similarly senile British Consul General assigned to the
L.A. garden party and high tea post, viciously anti-union Dame Barbara Hay... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Marty Krofft, 76. Among the strangest things of the
strange 1970s was the dominance of kids network TV, for a while, by Sid and
Marty Krofft. I'm pretty sure the ultimate example of this was Lidsville --
which I certainly watched when it was on -- but I'm open to arguments that
one of the others was even stranger.
The good stuff:
1. Dylan Matthews on Margaret Thatcher's economic record.
2. Nicole Cliffe on Thatcher.
3. Jamelle Bouie on Thatcher, Reagan, ideology, and time.
4. Dan Drezner on Thatcher and IR.
5. And Thatcher and music, from Matthew Horton at NME ... more »
Chickens and Foxes
I wanted to write about two interesting blog [cross] posts by Marc Goldberg
on Harry’s Place. The comments there are nearly always as interesting as
the original post, and that’s why that website, and for me those threads
in particular, make compulsive reading.
Incidentally, does Marc Goldberg seem a bit surprised that the BBC-educated
British believe so wholeheartedly in the so-called Palestinian narrative
they’ve been fed by the likes of the BBC?
The first piece is about popular author Iain Banks’s article in the
Guardian, where he expounds on his support for BDS.
I have to say... more »
Feds Making More on Student Loans Annually Than Ford Motor Co.
With cuts to public universities and students in debt to the tune of a
trillion dollars, the Feds are raking in $34,000,000,000 each year on loans
that students are working two jobs to repay. Now that obscenity could get
worse if loan rates are allowed to double in July. From the NYTimes:
. . . .On Tuesday, the day before the White House plans to send its budget
to Congress, student advocacy groups are releasing an issue brief charging
that the federal government should not be profiting from student loans,
while more and more students bear a crushing debt burden.
The brief, citin... more »
Thatcher was evil, she said that 'there was no such thing as society'
Thatcher was evil, she said that 'there was no such thing as society' I am
sick of hearing lefty fools spouting that line.
Because no she didn't, what she actually said was this:
“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people
have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the government's job
to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope
with it!'; 'I am homeless, the government must house me!' and so they are
casting their problems on society and who is society?
"There is no such thing! There are individual men and wome... more »
RESCUING HUG - KYRIE AND BRIELLE JACKSON
The 'Rescuing Hug'...
This is a story of twins.
"One baby was not expected to live.
"A hospital nurse fought to put them in the same incubator.
"The stronger baby wrapped her arm around her sister, and her touch allowed
the struggling baby's heart to stabilize and her temperature to return to
normal."
*The Twins when older. PARTLY IN ENGLISH.*
Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born in 1995 at the Massachusetts Memorial
Hospital in Worcester, MA.
Each of the twins weighed two pounds at birth.
Kyrie was putting on a bit of weight.
Brielle was gasping and blue-faced.
Nurse Gayle... more »
Untitled
*Exxon Spills Chemicals in Louisiana While Cleaning Up Oil in Arkansas*
*As more bike paths are created, city of N.O. hosts Bike to Work Day*
*Federal City military charter school a step closer to permanent home
costing $17 million*
*MS Jury finds State Farm committed fraud against federal government*
Read more here:
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/04/08/4579415/jury-finds-state-farm-committed.html#storylink=cpy
*Chargrilled Oysters Recipe*
*Will Coviello on what's new at the 30th annual free music fest in the
Vieux Carre*~ *2013 French Quarter Festival Traffic Advisory*
Thanks Gordon Brown
'The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s
a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve
currency,'
I read that somewhere this week and it reminded me of the great sulk
himself, Gordon Brown, who rather than hold gold, sold gold.
Past and Present: Eugenics, Standardized Tests, and the Politics of School Reform--Hoosier connections and challenges
*[Editor's note: An early draft version was posted in error. This has been
corrected.]*
*
***Guest Post by John Loflin, Education-Community Action Team.
johnharrisloflin@yahoo.com*
*Past and present: Eugenics, standardized tests, and politics of school
reform: Hoosier connections and challenges*
“If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today’s prototypical culture were
possible such an investigation
would needs show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in
normality.”
... more »
Margaret Thatcher: 1925-2013
The world's most important female politician of the 20th century – and
Britain's #1 peacetime politician of the same era – left us yesterday after
a stroke. Her physical health has been tolerable in recent years but her
mental health wasn't which is why her life's work was essentially wrapped
up already a decade ago.
*Klaus reminds us of Thatcher's speech about the EU in Burges, Belgium. See
also what our current president Miloš Zeman wrote in the condolence letter
to Cameron.*
Her departure marks the end of an era. Together with Ronald Reagan,
Margaret Thatcher was the politicia... more »
Elysium - Matt Damon - scifi from the director of District 9
*being compared to District 9 on steroids, Sony Pictures showed a sneak
peak with 10 minutes of footage and a new trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s
Elysium at Arclight in Hollywood today. Tomorrow at 7pm EST, a new trailer
will be hitting the internet! At the moment, the buzz is very good for
Elysium, many saying how amazing this million dollar film looks.* [source
SCIFIED]
I'll update this blogpost with the exclusive first trailer tomorrow.
Russian Scientists Predict Temperature Decline
There is theory out there that we are not seeing nor having reviewed and
that bothers me. The more so since this present fifteen year plateau is
naturally biased downward at this time. The positive effects of the
present should peak this year and then disappear next year. In short we
are very much due for a reversal although not as deep as is been drummed
here.
Without any special tools or theories, I am presently uncomfortable. Of
course, western climate science will be hurled into a deep disrepute that
has been well earned and will haunt them a long time. Yet the R... more »
Poverty Collapsing
What needs to be said is that global poverty is dropping rapidly and in
fact much faster than the most optimistic projections here. Illiteracy is
no problem. The advent of the cell phone empowered everyone, even it a
child is acting as the link. Society is presently readjusting as fast as
possible because they can. Even the least connected illiterate is a good
prospect for enough literacy to operate the cell phone. The rapid drop in
the chart is reflecting this.
It is also true that doubling the economic activity of two out of three
people immediately employs the other th... more »
Mayan Blue Deciphered
A little bit of good effort here has unraveled the methodology for
producing the long lasting Mayan blue color. It is not that demanding and
is a strong contender for modern applications. After all the base is clay
and the dye binds to the clay and any heat treatment is modest. Thus a
surface can be prepared and the surface neatly finished with a blow torch
even.
Our present alternatives are usually ceramic based and hardly amenable to
shaping and painting. Our paints are thin and inevitably decay soon enough
although some excellent alternatives have been mooted about but ... more »
Non Random Order in Genetic Code?
This is not an idle question. It is one thing to anticipate a long drawn
out evolution of organic life from its raw beginnings once. We are seeing
parts of that argument falling into place. Yet it is sort of pointless to
try repeating the process when simple inoculation is plausible even by the
accidents of the universe but more convincingly by deliberate choice.
Venus is ready to be terraformed by the simple expedient of adding ample
water and methane. Once the bombardment is over, it is no trick to add a
little biology to go to work. It is really just too easy.
More... more »
Seoul Target of Nuclear Attack?
Let us think the unthinkable. North Korea creates a viable nuclear bomb
and loads it on an airplane or even a truck with a dead man switch. A
simple transport carrying this would not be seen as a threat as it flew
toward the border just north of Seoul. Once it crossed the border at say
four hundred miles an hour, it is at the right altitude and only ten
minutes away. One could even bluff by claiming to be defecting.
Even exploding directly on the border produces massive damage around
Seoul. The odds of doing much better is excellent.
Remote viewing and prophecy of... more »
Civil War and End Game in the Middle East
Here are two excellent articles covering the Middle East from Conrad Black
and Clifford May that provide ample perspective. There is actually ample
reason to be now tentatively optimistic regarding the ultimate shape of the
Middle Eastern polity.
Way more critically, with the advent of the Arab Spring, everything has
sped up. There are also plenty more shoes to drop here although it looks
as if nascent movements of the demos are holding themselves in check for
now to gain experience in terms of what can work. Just do not confuse the
quiet for a lessening of the pressu... more »
Science in on Bee Collapse
Ouch. This tells us that our bees after a certain modest threshold of
exposure must simply get lost. Even worse, two pesticides used naturally in
tandem produce cumulative damage. It is not good news and this is ample
evidence to completely redress the whole pesticide protocol and work
actively to stop exposure.
The science here is actually worse news than we had actually anticipated.
Two groups present the same impact. Without doubt, the anti mite protocol
needs to be completely revisited.
Unfortunately this movie has not ended yet. Another item tells us that th... more »
Shakespeare a Ruthless Businessman
Get real already. In the time and place in which everyone was inherently
self sufficient the trader stored capital by buying goods and grain against
future demand. It was literally the only business other that buying land
and receiving scant rentals, along with paid haulage.
We knew he was from a trading family and we know he made additional
success in London on the stage. That became successful but you can be sure
it was touchy in the early going. The point is that he was a man of
capital who had a natural skill to write and produce his own plays.
His excellence ... more »
Over Unity Hydrogen Production From Biomass
This is a huge game changer. For forty years, the hydrogen economy was a
bad joke because there was no good way to produce hydrogen. This changes
all that. Even better it will clearly be applicable at source were the
biomass is produced.
The end products will be high quality hydrogen and the remaining biomass
with the sugars still intact but broken down. It may well have improved
commercial value.
It is too soon to tell, but this sounds perfect for agriculture. An
internal source of energy is produced and the first step in biomass
management consists of shredding an... more »
Giant Squid
The quick take home is that the creature in its youth spans all oceans and
then as it reaches maturity drops below the surface waters into the deep.
I also think that other large creatures follow the same pathway and are
even more elusive. In particular, we have ample reason to think the sea
serpent fits this model although I also suspect that it goes deep much
sooner if not immediately once it leaves its fresh water nursery.
At least we are now establishing a real presence in the deep although
temporary. A longer lasting presence will allow us to discover most of
what i... more »
Reading Meta DNA Code
Slowly but surely, we are unraveling the mechanics of genetic coding, even
it we are a long way from truly managing it all ourselves. Yet reading
this, one cannot feel but rather hopeful that we are going to be able to
totally manage the whole story.
In the not too distant future we can expect a generation of robust
humanity working well into the parameters available to us but still totally
adapted to our world. This will be great news and welcome. We have all
lived with weaknesses and their unsatisfactory resolution.
This will be the true inheritance of mankind, par... more »
The New Scientific Revolution With Robert Sheldrake
Dark matter consists of neutral neutrinos. They represent over 96% of the
content of the universe. Importantly, they do not interact easily with
gravity until they have self assembled into a large enough grouping or even
decay into one of the particles we actually recognize. We live in an ocean
of such real particles.
This forms what I have described as Cloud Cosmology.
Every grouping forms up geometrically and then decays at some point or the
other. What is produced is a particle and a photon carrying of the surplus
curvature brought about by the decay. This produ... more »
Mapping Breath Diagnostics
The real take home is that breath testing is certain to be a diagnostic
gold mine simply because all reactions taking place inside the body
inevitably express themselves in terms of gaseous waste dumped into the
lungs.
Thus a simple protocol will be to determine and measure those outputs and
compare pathologies to establish associations. Once the foot work is well
done, we have the type of data to support almost automatic diagnostic
decisions with the use of a small handhold sensor.
I anticipate that this methodology will be far superior to other types of
tests such ... more »
Cloned Embryos of Extinct Frog
This item gives us another window on the developing discipline of
de-extinction. We all think that it is going to work and even if the road
is vastly longer, what we are learning is certain to allow some form of
recovery to take place.
I consider it completely reasonable to restore all extinct island biomes
as a matter of future consideration not because of any good compelling
reason that directly benefits ourselves, but because we really can and it
would please us.
In practice, restoring the full Ice Age biome in a continental setting is
likely stupid. Far better to... more »
liquid Layer Discovered in Mantle
This is quite shallow and would still be quite viscous. Yet there would
be the possibility of local movement and that would allow the mechanism to
translate compression forces forces throughout the plate allowing it to
creep forward as we observe. This actually resolves the whole issue
regarding plate tectonics.
The thickness allows a slow readjustment after a crustal shift has taken
place using my postulated far deeper slip plain. Curvature would be
disturbed generally and this zone would naturally release the stresses and
give us the sudden subsidence event of the At... more »
THE REAL THATCHER
*People in London celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher. Photograph:
Danny E. Martindale/Getty Images*
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Margaret Thatcher is one of the architects of the present economic crisis.
"Her legacy is of public division, private selfishness and a cult of greed."
"As Germany and other northern nations have shown, economic dynamism has
been possible without the squandering of social cohesion that Mrs Thatcher
promoted."
*Margaret Thatcher: the lady and the land she leaves behind*
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*In Glasgow, celebrations of Margaret Thatcher's death. Photograph: Jeff J
Mitchell/Getty Images*
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Wise words indeed from Mrs Thatcher
"The state has no source of money other than the money people earn
themselves..."
"There is no such thong as public money, there is just tax-payers money"
"Prosperity won't come by inventing more and nmore lavish public
expenditure programs"
"You don't grow richer by ordering another chequebook from the bank"
Watching this short video should be compulsory for all politicians, once or
twice a day...
I didn't agree with everything Lady Thatcher did BUT bearing in mind the
state of the nation in 1979 there really was no alternative, she was a
necessary, sometimes unpleasant, ... more »
War crimes are being committed in Israel / Palestinian conflict
'As stone-throwing Palestinian children have been in the news lately it is
relevant to observe that enlistment of children to carry out these violent
acts is in effect no different than enlisting child soldiers, which is a
war crime in terms of Article 8(2)(b)(xxvi) of the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
The time has come to recognize that encouraging children to hurl stones and
firebombs, as well as using them as human shields, as practiced by Hamas,
cannot be described as anything but enlisting them to participate actively
in hostilities and therefore a w... more »
In The Guardian newspaper's report about this subject they quote a former Mackenzie Group economist as saying that as much as $32 trillion might be hidden away in offshore tax havens. This is roughly twice the GDP of the United States, by far the largest GDP in the world. $32 trillion is also about 13 times greater than the current funds in the Social Security Trust Fund and 246 times the $130 billion that Obama proposes to extract from Social Security over the next 10 years. So a one-time levy of just 0.4% imposed on the criminal corporation's current offshore stash could achive the exact same savings without stealing a nickel from our impoverished veterans, unemployed, and elderly.
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*Investigation Reveals Trillions Hidden in Tax Havens*
Bill Black: An international collaboration of investigative journalists has
released the names of wealthy individuals stashing as much as three times
the American GDP in tax havens 2013-04-05 14:11:33
More at The Real News
*Bio*
William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE,
teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC).
He ... more »
Top 10 Books I Read Before I Was a Blogger
I started blogging five years ago. Five. It seems like a lifetime ago. I
can't specifically remember anything I read 5 years ago, but thanks to
trusty Goodreads, I was able to find some loved titles from long
ago. Linking up with The Broke and the Bookish.
1. Ella Enchanted- I know I'm an adult and this book is written for
preteens but I absolutely LOVE it. I think it will be on my favorite list
for a long time coming. In this Cinderella retelling Ella is under a curse
from a fairy that makes her compelled to be obedient. In a land of ogres,
fairies and trolls, Ella must learn ho... more »
Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Will Be Stopped, The Battle For Life,
As you know Exxon Mobile, the company responsible for the latest oil spill
in Arkansas, the first reports that came out stated the diluted bitumen
Alberta tar oil hadn`t reached local water supplies, that lie was quickly
exposed as just that..*A blatant lie*
Then as reported here Exxon Mobile used incredible influence and flexed
their big dollar muscles and were granted a no flyover order by FAA, many
were wondering why Exxon wanted this power...We here at The Straight Goods
knew exactly why Exxon Mobile wanted a no flyover order, to keep the media
from seeing oil saturated water, ... more »
April 8, 1973
John Dean now meets with Earl Silbert, the Watergate prosecutor who had
been totally duped by the White House counsel for all these months.
Apparently the first meeting isn't as productive as it could be; Dean has
so much to tell that it's hard for them all to get it organized.
Meanwhile, during that meeting, Dean is called from Air Force One telling
him to be in Ehrlichman's office later in the afternoon. In that meeting,
with Ehrlichman and Haldeman, Dean doesn't even admit to the first Silbert
meeting, instead implying that it was still to come, and of course Dean is
still not le... more »
Gransnet launches local service aims to bring over-50s closer
T*he website Gransnet, an online society for the over-50s, is launching a
chain of local sites. *The novel service has received money from the
Nominet Trust, a charity which funds technology projects with a social
intention. Ofcom figures propose that 7.5 million UK adults have never been
online, and two fifths of those are aged over 75.
Many older people in the UK are still not online, leaving them potentially
isolated and at a difficulty. Baroness Lane-Fox supposed she hoped the
local Gransnet service, which will contain information about events,
classes, volunteering opportunit... more »
Is there a Downside to Open Access Publishing?
Robert Farley’s post last week about how long the journal publication
process is struck a chord. One of my journal articles took three years from
submission to appearance and was gated (I had to get my own piece through
inter-library loan since it came out and the library didn’t have a
subscription for the most
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That Whole GOP Rebranding Thing A Few Weeks Ago Was Just For Silly Gooses In The Beltway Press
Reince and Jefferson Beauregard-- not a lick of difference where it matters
(except Jefferson Beauregard left his makeup kit at home when he came for
the photo-shoot)
That nasty KKK senator from Alabama, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III,
apparently never got-- or maybe never bothered to read-- the memo about how
the Republican Party is making a concerted effort to woo immigrants from
Latin America and Asia into the new post-bigoted GOP. Just after midnight,
on March 23, as the vote on the budget approached, Sessions offered a
rather hateful amendment which lost on a mostly party-lin... more »
Excellent Editorial in Japan Times About Fukushima Fatalities
Majia here: The link for the Fukushima Symposium referenced in the
editorial is here:
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/symposium-update--online-archive-now-available-at-live-stream-link.html
Excepts from the EXCEPTIONAL editorial that should be read in full at the
link provided:
‘Rosy Fukushima health report faulted by experts,’ Japan Times, by Brian A.
Victoria (Apr 9, 2013) Japan Times,
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/09/voices/rosy-fukushima-health-report-faulted-by-experts/#.UWN-ecqQN-Q
Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
[Excerpted]...Prime Minister, I know many... more »
Kate Braun : Waxing Crescent Moon Is Time to Clarify Your Focus
Waxing
crescent moon. Image from Missouri Skies / EarthSky.
Moon Musings:
Waxing Crescent Moon
(April 12-14, 2013)
As Lady Moon progresses to fullness, your goals should also progress to
completion.
By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / April 8, 2013
The waxing moon is a time to promote growth, to focus on increasing
whatever it is that you would like to see increase in your life, to
clarify focus
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