Thursday, May 02, 2013

2 May - Blogs I'm Following II

10:13pm MDST

Will you help John Cook "quantify the consensus"?

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 minutes ago
Climate fearmonger and kook John Cook sent me, because of this "one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web" you are just reading, the following link: Survey of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (University of Queensland) I suppose that the gibberish characters at the end of the URL will be used to identify the TRF readers. If you have fifteen minutes or so, you may try to be asked about 10 randomly chosen (unverified) abstracts of 1991-2011 papers from "Web of Science" and whether or not (at the scale 1-7) they confirm the "consensus" on the hysterical man-made gl... more »

Vegan Recipe - Potato Soup

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 minutes ago
*The calendar may say that it's spring but in my neck of the woods, there are still more than just a few wintery evenings. On a cool night, nothing is more comforting than a bowl of soup. This month's recipe comes from ... me. It is a hearty dish, packed with flavor. I prefer using whole spices ... in my opinion, they taste better. One can certainly use ground versions but I encourage you to try using them whole ... you'll love the complex flavor. I hope that you and your family enjoy this recipe.* *Potato Soup* *Makes 2-3 adult, main-dish servings* *Ingredients* 1/2 teaspoon Cum... more »

Urban Gadabout: It's Jane's Walk weekend -- be sure to check to see what's happening in your area`

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 minutes ago
*The NYC subways' Brighton Line had its origins in the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach Railroad, one of the railroads that connected to Brooklyn's ocean beaches. The big news in summer gadding is that Jack Eichenbaum is devoting another of his day-long subway-line odysseys to the Brighton Line.* *by Ken* Okay, I've been kind of grumpy about the fact that I'll be on the shelf for one of my favorite weekends of the year: that of Jane's Walks, in honor of pioneer urbanologist Jane Jacobs, who did so much to reorient the way we think about urban life and to empower urban folk to feel that we... more »

Photo radar and taxes and the power of political myths

paul at Paying attention - 47 minutes ago
It’s interesting the way political orthodoxy emerges, without much real evidence. Take two examples - photo radar and irrational tax phobia. Photo radar, it was clear during the leaders’ debate, is seen as political poison. Asked about reinstating it, all four leaders said no. The evidence from around the world is conclusive - photo radar reduces crashes and health care costs and saves lives. In the six years that B.C. had photo radar, road deaths averaged 408 annually. In the previous six years, an average 534 people died on the roads. That’s 126 families spared the death of a loved... more »

First Voices Indigenous Radio: Water, Borders and Resistance

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Listen to First Voices Indigenous Radio Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota from Cheyenne River http://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives Listen to the Program May 2, 2013 CANDACE DUCHENEAUX (Lakota) (www.facebook.com) and type in Mni or Mni Indigenous Water Summit to get the latest information and

State Of Texas To Enact "Texas-Israel Day" On May 8th... Yes, This Is NO JOKE!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I had closed my files of absurdity a few years back, and maybe that was a mistake... It seems that these days the lunacy of our society is becoming more and more pronounced! What you will see in this article is a prime example.... I came across the following article from the website: Liberty Fight, at www.libertyfight.com, and I seriously had to do a double take and read it again to realize it was no joke.... According to this article, that I have here for everyone to view for themselves, the criminal legislators in the state of Texas are going to honor (I really want to puke) the... more »

Social Injustice in Medicine

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 hour ago
Science has revolutionized medicine but there was no revolution and no plan for ensuring equal access. Excellence without equity is what you now inherit. It’s the chief human rights problem of twenty-first-century medicine, and only when we’re all under general anesthesia of the soul will we be able to ignore it as the century marches on. Farmer, Paul (2013-03-02). To Repair the World (p. 18). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.

The process of drawing inferences from the evidence is not the same as speculating

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
R. v. Scott, 2013 ONCA 286 holds: [12] The process of drawing inferences from the evidence is not the same as speculating. In this case, the evidence at the preliminary inquiry, fully considered in the context of a drug "rip off" robbery, did not provide some evidence of the subjective *mens rea** *requirement for second degree murder.

Coral Harbour NU

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago

Peter MacKay's Hole in the Ocean

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Sailors often complain that a boat is merely a hole in the ocean into which you pour money. This brings us to Harper DefMin, Peter MacKay's 250-million dollar hole in the ocean. *CBC News* is reporting a quirky deal surrounding Canada's Arctic offshore patrol vessel programme. And, yes, it involves not only MacKay but Harper hairpiece Rona Ambrose also. *Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose and Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced March 7 in Halifax that Ottawa will pay Irving Shipbuilding $288 million just to design – not build – a fleet of new Arctic offshore patrol ships.*... more »

Historic snows hit Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa – Snowfall unprecedented in the historical record for the month of May

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago
[image: Observed snowfall amounts in inches from the 1 May - 2 May 2013 snowstorm as of 9am EDT, 2 May 2013. A rare and historic May snowstorm pelted Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with snowfall amounts unprecedented in the historical record for the month of May. Graphic: NWS Minneapolis] By Dr. Jeff Masters 2 May 2013 (wunderground.com) – A rare and historic May snowstorm continues to pelt Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with snowfall amounts unprecedented in the historical record for the month of May. Winter Storm Achilles has brought 15.5" of snow to Owatonna, Minnesota, about ... more »

Tom Corbett And His Big Bong Theory

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
The Tea Party Tide swept a lot of toxic garbage into governors' mansions across the country-- Rick Scott in Florida, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Sam Brownback in Kansas, John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Snyder in Michigan, Bob Forced Ultrasound McDonnell in Virginia, Nathan Deal in Georgia, Nikki Haley in South Carolina, Puppet Pat in North Carolina, Jan Brewer in Arizona, Paul LePage in Maine, Mike Pence in Indiana, Rick Perry in Texas... to name some of the worst of the worst. How do you actually name one overall worst though? Very difficult... but no one could leave Pennsylvania's Tom... more »

Would you sign this?

Chris Cerrone at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
Teachers and administrators across New York State were told to sign this “Confidentiality Agreement” before scoring the recent ELA and Math State Assessments. Are the exams that are used to judge students, teachers, and schools top secret? Should the public have the right to see the entire test? State Education bureaucrats keep repeating the importance [...]

Shout out to a new member of the team: Anne Sullivan, the Antique Teacher

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
Check out the About page here and these are some of her first posts. The Many Faces of NYSUT Mixed Messages? On Being “College Ready” We look forward to many more. -At the Chalk Face knows Schools Matter Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: anne sullivan, antique teacher

Bagram aircrash (29 April 2013) explained

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/lksDISvCmNI - what caused it? Link: http://youtu.be/eZbH62Bn0oM Now you know... Center of Gravity too far aft. Have a safe weekend! John

BEALE AFB DRONE PROTEST IN CALIFORNIA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
MARYSVILLE/BEALE AFB, CA. – Five people were arrested around 8 a.m. on April 30 after dozens of anti-drone demonstrators blocked the entrance to Beale Air Force Base for hours, resulting in hundreds of vehicles being prevented from entering the base. The California Highway Patrol had to be called in to clear traffic which had lines of hundreds of cars in several directions after peace advocates from Sacramento, San Francisco, Nevada City and as far away as Fresno protested President Obama’s U.S. killer drone program. Those arrested were briefly held on misdemeanor charges, which coul... more »

Risking everything for a better life

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 5 hours ago
Illegal immigrants aboard La Bestia, a notorious Mexican cargo trainIllegal immigration to the United States is both bane and blessing for Honduras. A young acquaintance of my boss is currently experiencing the bane side of things, locked up in a prison in Tyler, Texas after she got caught last month trying to enter the U.S. illegally. Prison officials are telling her she'll be held in jail for two or three months as punishment, then shipped back to Honduras along with the 2,500 or so other illegals from the country who are deported from the States every month. The blessing is, of co... more »

The power of thought and voice

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago

What's the Chance of a Northern Gateway Supertanker Disaster? Try 93-99%

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours ago
Simon Fraser University has released a study of the likelihood of an environmental catastrophe from the Harper/Enbridge Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline/supertanker scheme. Not surprisingly, their conclusions aren't quite as carefree and rosy as those put out by Enbridge. The chance of a bitumen supertanker disaster during the operating lifespan of the Northern Gateway? The research suggests it's a near certainty, at least if you consider a *93 to 99 per cent chance *nearly certain. Enbridge was claiming an 18% chance of tanker mishap. Along the Northern Gateway pipeline its... more »

ALEC OKC - Protestors Outnumber, “ALEC Members” Attending

2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago
*THANK YOU OK Brothers and Sisters!* *Oklahoma Labor gets the ALEC Gold Star* * * *What an Amazing Bunch of Protesting People!!!* Oklahoma Unions set a new standard that has to replicated in Chicago in August!! Bigger and Better. As I noted in a previous post – the ALEC legislative turnout for the OKC meeting was dismal. So much embarrassment for the struggling ALEC. Anyhow on the first day of the ALEC conference – The AFL-CIO, Teamsters – pushed along by the Professional Firefighters – had a rally – which they livestreamed. ALEC Not OK in Oklahoma 05/02/2013 Mike Hall Not e... more »

Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of Validity of UCC Filings

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
* * * * *Reblogged from: http://oppt-in.com/heather-ann-tucci-jarraf-responds-to-italian-accusations-on-lack-of-validity-of-ucc-filings/ * * * *Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of Validity of UCC Filings* May 2, 2013 *Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf responds to Italian accusations on Lack of Validity of UCC Filings* *This is an excerpt from a Skype room conversation this morning May 2, 2013* * [8:05:26 AM] Heather:* In response to Francesca’s message (or whomever was making the legal/lawful/commercial opinion) that the OPPT filings are/were inapplicable t... more »

The Romantic Spirit: Triumph of Death

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
Title: The Romantic Spirit: Triumph of Death [Full Version]. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Steven Steinbach. Uploaded on January 19, 2012]: "Triumph of Death" [Directed by Jean-Louis Fournier] - The 'art' of death influences Romantic writers.

Oliver Hartwich: The never-ending Euro crisis - anatomy of an economic policy disaster

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
*Last night **The New Zealand Initiative**’s Dr Oliver Hartwich gave the University of Auckland Economics Group an update on the never-ending Euro crisis, including a brief history of monetary union (we’ve seen all this before!), and a look at current issues and public debt, and hidden aspects like TARGET2. “Germany is the key player in this crisis,” he says. I took notes…* There is no easy solution any more. Monetary union: Today's Euro is not the first European monetary union to have been undertaken, or to fail. Mid-nineteenth-century France pushed for a Europe-wide monetary un... more »

Appearing tonight on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 6 hours ago
I will be talking austerity tonight with Thom Hartmann on his show, "The Big Picture." The program reaches 50 million homes in the United States, and you can look for a station here. Alternatively, you can watch it online here. The show starts at 7:00pm Eastern Daylight Time, and I am told my segment will begin about 7:15. The European Union released its unemployment figures this week. Eurozone unemployment increased from 12.0% in February to 12.1% in March, up from 11.0% in March 2013. Greece reached 27.2% unemployment in January 2013 (most recent data available), while according t... more »

Does Your Heart Break For The Congressional Republican Leadership?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Yesterday there was a flurry of speculation that Texas' radical right extremist Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada and is ineligible to serve, would run for president in 2016. Intensely disliked and mistrusted in his own caucus, there are probably plenty of Republicans-- cognizant that no one is going to beat Hillary Clinton anyway-- who would be happy to see Cruz run, lose and be gone from the Senate. But 2016 isn't going to be a good year for Senate Republicans anyway. They have a *lot* of vulnerable seats to defend. A Ted Cruz candidacy would positively kill them. Oh, Dick Shelby... more »

@HuffingtonPost cheerleading for #edreform.

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 7 hours ago
It seems Huffington Post is confused when it comes to defining civil rights and labeling groups that fight for civil rights accordingly. In a story that ran in Huffington Post yesterday, Joy Resmovits opened up with: As droves of states wiggle out from some of the toughest components of the much-maligned federal No Child Left Behind Act, [...]

RNC exploits grieving Newtown mother in new ad

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
It's true that this new RNC ad where they're celebrating their "victory" over Obama in having squashed gun safety reform hits a new low in tasteless GOP gloating. But I'm only posting this because it shows the footage of Obama's last press conference where Jon Karl asked a stupid question about whether POTUS thought he's "lost his juice" because the bill couldn't even get to the floor for a simple up or down vote. Our DC insider media was obsessed with this one stupid question. Everybody covered it at length. I've seen Obama's response described as sarcastic, defensive, irritated a... more »

China Crosses 'Line Of Actual Control' With Stealth Invasion Of India

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-02/china-crosses-line-actual-control-stealth-invasion-india *China Crosses 'Line Of Actual Control' With Stealth Invasion Of India* Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2013 15:10 -0400 ● China India Newspaper Whether this is just a 'misunderstanding' or a land-grab to make up for Japan's Senkaku actions, the Indians are claiming that a platoon of Chinese soldiers have crossed the so-called 'Line of Actual Control' in the Indian-held Ladakh region. They have remained there for two weeks and even as India complains, the Chinese deny, saying t... more »

This week's All the Hegemony You Can Eat

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
Here’s an interesting little story. The state of Louisiana currently legislates for the equal teaching of evolution and intelligent design. The state’s governor endorsed the act, asking the rhetorical question, “what are we scared of”? Disinvestment in science and technology is one thing. Students who hold that the laws of nature can be suspended at any point are going to struggle with the sciences. If the state education system will not foster a scientific culture it will not turn out new scientists and will drive existing ones away. It’s an interesting illustration of the practi... more »

Transformational Tubes of Light…

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago
*Transformational Tubes of Light…* by ÉirePort Transformational Tubes of Light connect doorways, portals, gateways, along and within continents of surface Gaia, as well as throughout Inner Gaia. Those with eyes for viewing these are already aware of the intense transformational energies involved. Transformational Tubes of Light are required for the proper direction of these High Cosmic Frequencies. Tubes will appear and dissolve as required for Golden Age type upgrades of humanity, to Hue-manity. Rainbow Bodies become more visible, even to those with relatively non-developed Hig... more »

How Embarrassing - ALEC Mtg OKC - No Quorum

2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago
How incredibly sad. ALEC doesn’t have a quorum – for their big meeting about writing and passing ALEC “model legislation”. Their annual meeting that focuses on ALEC “model legislation and only 15% of their ALEC legislators show up. How incredibly sad. ALEC must be so embarrassed. No Quorum – the votes on the legislation don’t count No Quorum – the discussion is useless. What a waste of taxpayer money – They have NO quorum – they can’t do anything binding May as well just put those 15% of ALEC legislators back on the plane and send 'em home! Here you have an organization going d... more »

Break up the Too Big To Fail banks

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Don't want to get too excited about this just yet, but it's the best shot at killing the Too Big To Fail beast I've seen so far. Last week, on April 24th, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Louisiana Republican David Vitter introduced legislation called the "Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013 Act," or the "Brown-Vitter TBTF Act" for short. The bill is a gun aimed directly at the head of the Too-Big-To-Fail beast. Who knows if they'll get anywhere with it. Big Finance will be throwing around a lot of big money to stop them. But there are quite a few sur... more »

The Pope tweets

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
Yes I know the Pope has something of checkered past. People change over time. Let the person who has never done something they regret, or changed their mind about anything, be the first to sit in judgment. Me, I'm taking this tweet at face value. Pope Francis: My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost. Usually ignore the trolling replies but the crackpot con response to this one is so jaw dropping I read the whole thread. There are some very sick people on the internets.

Eric Cantor's Dilemma?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago
Ross Douthat is a fan of the ill-fated House health care initiative last week, which was torpedoed by a faction who decided that voting for a program to carry out a GOP talking point would, in this instance, count as supporting Obamacare. Douthat had previously bashed Republican politicians for not fighting for the policy ideas that some conservative wonks support, but now decides that Cantor deserves credit for trying -- because, Douthat believes, in his position he couldn't do more: Because the Republicans are a minority in the Senate, because senators represent broader constituen... more »

For whom the economy recovers

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
This isn't new, but it shows income inequality keeps getting progressively worse every day. In short, our current obsessed-with-profits philosophy is creating a country of a few million overlords (shareholders) and 300+ million serfs (employees). It is also resulting in employees sharing less of the corporate wealth that they spend their lives creating than they ever have before. That's not what has made America a great country. It's also not what most people think America or other lands of opportunity are supposed to be about. This is an old chart I've had saved for a few mon... more »

GMO MONKEY BUSINESS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
Ignoring the many existing alternatives our indigenous biodiversity and knowledge offers to address the public health emergency of iron deficiency, India's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has signed an agreement with Queensland University (Australia) to provide AUD $1.4 million (US $1.44 million) and INR80 million (US $1.43 million) towards the cost of the Indian component to increase the iron content in banana through genetic engineering. Dr. Dale of Queensland University who will receive this generosity from our government, and has already received $15... more »

WASTING YOUR $$$ IN AFGHANISTAN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
Top Afghan officials have been on the CIA's payroll for over a decade, receiving tens of millions of US dollars in cash. Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted to receiving the clandestine financial support, but dismissed the sum as a "small amount." You'd think the public and Congress would be screaming about this as we see cutbacks to vital social programs in the US. Politicians get upset about a few "welfare Queens" but this corruption makes that look like peanuts.

It Wasn't A Happy May Day, Not In Europe-- And Probably Not At Chez Paul Ryan

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Except for Seattle, it was a pretty quiet May Day here in the U.S. where Boehner, Ryan, Miss McConnell and Obama are introducing the devastating Austerity agenda more gradually than they did in Europe. May Day was marked by protests by workers across the globe, starting in Asia, with as many as 150,000 demonstrators getting the ball rolling in Jakarta, while smaller protests sprang up in Seoul, Phnom Penh, Dhaka and Manila. With 80 countries around the world marking May 1 as a public holiday, Istanbul's Taksim Square was in lockdown on Wednesday, after the Turkish government ban... more »

Mining 17: Palawan, Samar, Surigao and Mine Tailings

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours ago
There is one lively exchange on mining in the facebook wall of a friend, JB Baylon. The original exchanges were made last February 19, 2013. Then the other day, one of JB's friends, that we will just call Mr. U, made strong anti-mining comments and called those who posted about mining in Australia and people wearing precious stones as "morons". It's personal attack of course, shooting the messenger, not the message. I am posting the raw, unedited exchanges, except the less substantial comments. With explicit permission from JB and implicit permission from the others. To see the raw ... more »

Don't give your Beer Money to ALEC!

2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours ago
The latest bad news came from* **Anheuser-Busch *InBev, the world's largest brewer, which on Tuesday reported a* 4.1% drop* in sales to U.S. retailers for the first quarter ending in March. Sales for *MillerCoors* brands, meanwhile, *dropped 3.3%* in the quarter, parent company SABMiller recently reported, while Heineken USA sales were down by low-single digits. *From ALECExposed* Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.[14] Member of ALEC's Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force and ALEC's Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force[35] MillerCoors Brewing Company,[15][14] member o... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Preparedness'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
INDIGENOUS PREPAREDNESS Posted on May 2, 2013 MNN. May 1, 2013. Theft of our Indigenous resources is the cause of war. Some of us are standing up to it. All of us resisting together will end war. A big danger for the bankers is that the people will come to the Indigenous way and support the protection of natural resources. In the bankers’ pursuit of world domination the

Top Secret Memo: U.S. Govt Admits UFO Subject is Most Highly Classified in U.S. Rated Higher Than the Hydrogen Bomb

Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago
*Citizen Hearing on Disclosure Day 4: U.S. Govt Admits UFO Subject is Most Highly Classified in US Rated Higher Than the Hydrogen Bomb* May 2, 2013 This is some of the best testimony I've seen so far. *"UFOs to be "the most highly classified subject in the United States. Flying saucers exist." *It doesn't get much more in your face than that! ~BK Link to Huffington Post article here. It's international day at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure (CHD), in Washington, D.C., in which several individuals, including military personnel, will present testimony of UFO encounters in ... more »

Two Random Things

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 11 hours ago
Almost a decade ago, I spoke to a group of socialist academics and activists. I said that if we were to move forward we needed to come up with something big but nevertheless doable with the political system as we know it. I proposed utilizing small-l liberal values about democracy and human rights to begin campaigning for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing liberal rights of citizenship (including freedom of speech, assembly) of workers within their workplaces. It's rather developed and I've discussed it elsewhere (to no effect!) so you're free to read about it here or at enm... more »

We’ve been right about this too!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013* *We’ll grant you, it does no good:* Right from the start, for many years, we’ve warned you about Maureen Dowd. Make no mistake! Dowd has been very influential over the past twenty years. Back in 1992, Katherine Boo warned the world about the insipid trend she described as “Creeping Dowdism.” Boo’s detailed warning was ignored. The simpering dumbness Boo denounced has very much taken hold in the mainstream press. This has been a disaster for modern pseudo-journalism. We’ve endlessly warned you about this matter. We’ll grant you, it does no good. Public edi... more »

UFO Sighting Moon Caught by Amateur Astronomer

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago

Stephanie Miller avoided the truth!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013* *This is the way the guild works:* Over at the New York Times, Gail Collins had been off for three weeks. This morning, she returned with her first column since April 13. Needless to say, she wrote her column about “The Luv Guv.” With three full weeks to dream up a topic, she wrote her column about Mark Sanford, his fiancée and his wife. The Times has insulted you in this way for a great many years. This brings us to a striking segment we saw on CNN. Not that many people were watching, but a problem was clearly defined. Erin Burnett teased last night’s seg... more »

FILM / Michael Simmons : How Bob Fass Revolutionized Late-Night Radio

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago
Bob Fass in the WBAI studios in New York. Photo by, yes, Bob Fass. Photos courtesy Radio Unnameable. Radio Unnameable: Bob Fass revolutionized late-night radio Fass and 'Cabal' changed history and deserve the credit and Lovelace and Wolfson have provided the first in-depth cinematic look. It resonates like an epic tale with the hero emerging as a long-shot survivor. By Michael Simmons /

sweet dreams

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 12 hours ago

Dirty coal wants Navajo water, and reporters are helping the cause

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
By Brenda Norrell Power lines on Navajoland take electricity to the Southwest Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com  May 2, 2013 The Salt River Project has not signed the Navajo Generating Station lease signed by the Navajo Nation. SRP wants the Navajo rights to the Little Colorado River water for the future, and SRP does not want to pay the amounts in the lease to the Navajo Nation to

Why Democrats Lost the FAA Fight, and What They Should Do Next Time

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
I have a new column out over at TAP on the FAA fight: Here’s what Democrats should have done, and should be ready to do next time that a Republicans object to a specific program cut...Democrats should collect all of their sequestration complaints: Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and on and on. Next time Republicans squawk about a terrible spending cut (maybe to defense contracts?), Senate Democrats should immediately rush a bill to the floor to satisfy the Republican complaint along with a similar-sized Democratic objection. And they should satisfy those complaints, but not by giving a... more »

Iraq’s Protest Movement And Insurgency Split About Response To Hawija Raid

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
Iraq has been beset by a new wave of violence following the raid upon protesters in Hawija in Tamim province. On April 23, 2013, security forces entered the protest camp in the town looking for the assailants who attacked a checkpoint four days beforehand that left one soldier dead and three wounded. That resulted in 30 people being killed, and dozens more wounded. Immediately afterward there were retaliatory attacks across northern and western Iraq. The Baathist Naqshibandi group took responsibility for many of these operations. That insurgent movement and others have been trying... more »

Kristin Moe : Polluted Houston Neighborhood Draws the Line at Tar Sands

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
Children from the Manchester neighborhood in Houston with oil refinery smokestack in the background. Photo by Tar Sands Blockade. Photo by Tar Sands Blockade / YES! Magazine. Houston's most polluted neighborhood draws the line at Alberta Tar Sands East Texas is the belly of the beast: the heart of America’s oil country and the seat of power for the fossil fuels industry. By Kristin Moe /

Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S. – ‘The Earth will end only when God declares it to be over’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887. Graphic: via youarenownearingtheend.blogspot.com] By Eric W. Dolan 1 May 2013 (The Raw Story) – The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date. Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered that belief in the biblical end-times was a motivating factor behind resistance to curbing climate change. “[T]he fact ... more »

5/2 Protest ALEC TODAY - Education on ALEC Tomorrow

2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago
From TeamsterNationThursday, May 2, 2013Stand up to ALEC in Oklahoma Working families in Oklahomaare standing up to ALEC and their state lawmakers today to march for the middle class. ALEC(the American Legislative Exchange Council) will hold its annual meeting today and tomorrow in the Oklahoma capitol. Teamsters, other unions, working families, politicians and labor leaders will be there to tell Oklahomans what ALEC is really about. . March info: What: March for the Middle Class and Working Family Rally *When: 4-8 p.m., Thursday, May 2, 2013* Where: Coca-Cola Event Center, 425... more »

Occupy Tarsands Pipeline Routes

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Click image to enlarge The oil moguls don't care if there are a few leaks, spills, ruptures, fires and explosions along the tar sands pipeline routes. Why should they care, as long as they are getting huge subsidies from the USA and Canada? When that horrible tar sands rupture occurred in Mayflower, Arkansas, Exxon didn't even stop transporting that poisonous stuff through the

TIDE TURNS IN SYRIA

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
*Syria * Paul Wood has talked to Syrian revolutionaries who have deserted the Free Syrian Army in outrage at the atrocities the rebels are committing against ordinary people. *Syria* According to the BBC's Paul Wood, in the UK's Spectator magazine, *the Free Syrian Army has fallen prey to gangsters and fanatics* * * *The Fxxx Syria Army* Douglas Murray in the Spectator writes that *if there was ever a time to intervene in Syria, it has passed* "What good opposition elements there were have been killed, have fallen away or otherwise become insignificant... *Syria.* "By now eve... more »

WSJ: "Norway Orders BP to Review Safety"

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
By K. M. Hovland (2013, April 30) The Wall Street Journal, p. B6 [Excerpted] Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority ordered BP PLC to review its management systems for the second time in two years after concluding that serious safety breaches caused a North Sea leak that could have turned into a major accident.... [end] Majia here: BP has an incredibly bad track record of safety, lies, and assaults against public health: 1. *Majia's Blog*: *BP* Trying to Avoid All Future Liabilities from Gulf Oil Spill *majiasblog*.*blogspot*.com/2011/07/*bp*-trying-to-avoid-all-future.html‎ ... more »

The Human Costs of School “Reform”

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 13 hours ago
A study by Elaine Weiss and Don Long of the Bolder Broader Approach shows that the corporate school “reform” experiment has claimed to have raised student achievement but that those gains evaporate upon close examination. A previous post, “The Benefits (and Costs) of ‘Reform’ in Three Cities,” discussed their “Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps Reality,” [...]

THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: What made Reinhart and Rogoff tick?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013* *Part 3— Three unflattering portraits:* Why didn’t *other* ranking professors check Reinhart and Rogoff’s work? Beats us! In early 2010, the Harvard professors unveiled a study which “instantly became famous.” According to Paul Krugman, “it was, and is, surely the most influential economic analysis of recent years.” Gack! Reinhart and Rogoff’s famous paper was widely used to promote economic austerity policies. Meanwhile, some people had doubts, right from the start, about the professors’ findings. But doggone it! No one asked the professors to share their ... more »

SHADOW CABINET

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
*Six members of the newly created Green Shadow Cabinet gathered at the anti-drone conference in Syracuse, New York last weekend. Front row from left: Howie Hawkins, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Col. Ann Wright, David Swanson. Back row: Keven Zeese, and Bruce Gagnon* **It was a real surprise and honor for me to be invited to serve as Secretary of Space in the Green Shadow Cabinet. (I joked that I will have the largest area of responsibility and travel to deep space will take years at a time.) Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominee... more »

Props thundering away

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
Off from the airstrip in Repulse Bay and on to Coral Harbour:

Testing Crashes in Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Minnesota

Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 13 hours ago
If Common Core Corporate Standards are to survive and thus fulfill their function as defining what is thinkable and unthinkable in school, then more tests, many more tests, will be required to assure everyone is keeping his thoughts inside the bubbles. I am gratified to see the system already breaking down before it can even [...]

Iraq’s Women’s Weight Lifting Team Prepares For Championship in Qatar, April 2013

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago
Amidst all the violence taking place in Iraq recently, many citizens are still able to go about their business. These pictures show the Iraqi female weight lifting team preparing in a gym in Baghdad’s Sadr City for the Asian Championship scheduled to take place in Qatar in May 2013. All photos by Reuters.

Wonky Wankers

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
Oh, no! A randomized controlled trial reveals that when poor people get medical insurance because they won a lottery, they don't instantaneously shed their ravaged, neglected bodies and become pictures of robust good health overnight. The wonkosphere is going nuts. Pseudoliberals worry that the "bombshell" results of an Oregon study on insured and uninsured poor people could put a damper on Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Republican nihilists are crowing "we told you so" -- you give a bunch of takers gummint health care and they still get sick, so why waste money on them? No matter... more »

ALEC Legislators: Manipulating of the Free-market

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
All morining I have been thinking - - - Today in OKC at the ALEC meeting MONEY IS SPEECH and CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE LAWMAKERS/LEGISLATORS Whenever you think of American Legislative Exchange Council legislative members, envision them as pirates, plundering public tax dollars doing whatever they deem necessary for their for-profit ALEC corporate buddies. The corporate buddies that they are meeting with today - secretly, behind closed doors in OKC - both of them, legislators *&* corporations - writing and voting on new ALEC legislation. The corporate buddies that they a... more »

National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
Of the 6 churches I passed on my way to the office this morning, 3 reminded me that today is National Day of Prayer. In the spirit of the day, I’m following my Grandmother-in-Law’s advice and suggesting that we all pray for our enemies.[1] Here’s my list: Reviewer 2. Thanks for the suggestions! XOXO Continue reading

Highlights from At the Chalk Face, 6PM EST every Sunday, #blogtalkradio

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 14 hours ago
To the reader and listener out there. When we bring you the radio show every Sunday at 6PM EST, know that we work hard to bring you the stories and people in education that mainstream sources ignore. We call all of the people with whom we speak friends. They fight with all of us to [...]

Nazis ‘shipped arms to Palestinians’ - Israel News, Ynetnews

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
If anyone is surprised by this then they really haven't been paying much attention... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html

Sub-Criticalities in Daiichi Water Storage Pools?

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago
Are sub-criticalities occurring in Tepco Daiichi's water storage pools or at some other location at the plant? Major steam/smoke release http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/alert-for-fukushima-daiichi.html Black tendrils FROM THE GROUND envelope the plant http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/look-at-black-tendrils-envelope-daiichi.htm For though I walk through the darkest valley http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-i-walk-through-darkest-valley.html Majia here: I know Tepco’s been having trouble with the spent fuel pool cooling *Fukushima nuclear plant's cooling system g... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Jo Ann Pflug, 73. To the good stuff: 1. Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt go in depth on yesterday's Oregon Medicaid study. I screwed this up in the Roundup at Greg's place last night, and I shouldn't have. The initial spin was that the study showed no health benefits (while also showing substantial financial benefits) from Medicaid, but that's an incorrect reading. It does show some benefits, but mainly the evidence is inconclusive -- and it's not clear, Carroll and Frakt explain, that the study was able to actually reach conclusions on health outcomes. And at any r... more »

Someone said it again, school closures are racist

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 15 hours ago
And folks are going to keep saying it. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: closures, Duncan, racism, usde

ALEC Eviscerates FoIA / Open Records

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
Since ALEC, through their most current actions, has effectively destroyed the presumption that ALEC's records/correspondence with OUR state legislators are public - we can therefore surmise that ALEC state legislators now believe that they WORK FOR ALEC. First of all – let me put this out there. * * *Elected officials serve at the will of the people.* That being said – any elected official – in fact, any employee in the US - has no reasonable expectation of privacy – while in the workplace. AND That being said – any elected official – has no reasonable expectation of privacy – whe... more »

Doctor Who "The Silence" Shirt

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
[image: The Silence Shirt] I have a confession to make. I am a huge Doctor Who fan. If you know me in person, it isn't much of a secret. As I sit here typing this I am wearing a Tardis sweatshirt over a t-shirt that proclaims that "Bow Ties are Cool." All of this is being watched over by the army of Doctor Who Lego figures that sit by my computer. It is a little bit of an obsession, that involves slipping into a British accent and wishing I had Converse to wear. My husband doesn't understand the Whovian side of me, but he politely tolerates it and only slightly rolls his eyes when ... more »

When Democrats Go Bad

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Are you getting dozens of donor letters from Democrats again? Another phony-baloney deadline plea... do they come every other week now? They're starting to clog up my e-mail box. I delete most of them without looking but Tuesday I got one from a freshman I had contributed to in the past. She's been a lousy representative-- with a dismal ProgressivePunch crucial vote score of 40.0-- tied with a handful of conservatives down in Blue Dog territory. But she-- unlike any of them-- ran as a progressive. 40.0 is unbelievably bad. Boehner's biggest Democratic supporters in the House, John... more »

Scientists In Chains

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Melissa Mancini, over at the Huffington Post, has documented Stephen Harper's war on science. Consider the record: - Environment Canada put out 71 news releases in 2012, compared with 110 in 2005, a decrease of more than 35 per cent. - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans put out 128 news releases in 2012, compared with 243 in 2005, a decrease of 47 per cent - The National Research Council put out 14 news releases in 2012, versus 33 in 2005, a decrease of 58 per cent - Natural Resources Canada put out 154 news releases in 2012, compared with 176 in 2005, a... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Third time no charm as Bill to repeal Louisiana's 'Faith-in-God Science Act' FAILS* *"Restoration" Projects Announced: BP Boondoggles Beginning? ~Aaron Viles* *Ransomware virus impersonates FBI, locks up computers across New Orleans ~Jennifer Hale* *Mayor Landrieu vetoes food truck ordinance, citing legal concerns ~Dominic Massa* *~Vendors still have hope despite veto of new food truck ordinance ~Tania Dall* *Where To Eat Fries in New Orleans, Reader Decided ~Gwendolyn Knapp* *New Orleans Puppet Festival This Sunday ~Katie Walenter* *Review: Hugh Laurie proves his musical w... more »

That figures.....staged bombing, fake bomb detector and crisis actors faking as severed limbs bomb victims

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 15 hours ago
20130212 (drafted) 20130502 (updated) For years we had been warning about fake safety first policies aka SAFETY FRAUD. We had seen safety in form but not safety in practices in many industries all over the world. Selling safety is a much better business than ENRON selling energy which they don't have. If the accident or disaster did not happen, well fine and good. Nothing tested and the vendor of the fake "safety" device such fake bomb detector, continues to rake in millions in unscrupulous profits, thousands of times over the actual production cost. The customers feel happy not... more »

Innovative smart RFID-enabled paper

Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago
*US scientists have developed a method to embed radio frequency detection chips on to paper that they say is faster, cheaper and offers wider applications than current methods. *The patent-pending technology uses laser beams energy to exactly move the ultra-thin chips. Antennas are also fixed with the same method. The method could be used to prevent fraud as well as supply a new sense to the term paper trail. The findings are presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference on RFID in Orlando, Florida... more »

Citizen Hearing on Disclosure

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 16 hours ago
The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure being held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. is now half over and I’m astonished at the abuse thrown by those not in attendance and the press seeking out the few who are members of the lunatic fringe. I have heard, repeatedly, about two who showed up wearing headbands with crystals but I never saw them (other than in a newspaper photo), and I have seen references to tinfoil hats which are not in evidence. On the flip side, I see people smeared by association, called out because their views don’t match those of others, or something ... more »

OR Charter School Terrorizes Teachers - Should be Sued

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago
Charter School Terror .... Charter School - For profit Entity Would this have happened in a REAL PUBLIC School - not on your life. Cammie DeCastro, principal of the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway, Ore., admits that the plan she had to protect her school from an armed gunman is in tatters after two masked men stormed in and appeared to open fire on a meeting room full of teachers last Friday, The Oregonian reports. Luckily, the bullets were rubber, the gunmen were school staffers, students were not in the building that day, and the whole thing was a drill. But the teachers we... more »

ALEC - Parasite Sucking Democracy Out of the US

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago
The ALEC Annual Task Force Summit starts today in Oklahoma City. Found an excellent entry this morning that is well worth your time to read and enjoy. The whole thing is found *>>>HERE<<<* *ALEC Holds Annual Meeting in OKC, Looms Menacingly Over Flyover Country* By Pearl On May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment This Machine Kills The Poor Tomorrow and Friday, the overpowered copy-machine known as ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) will hold their large annual task force meeting in Oklahoma City. You might expect that such legislation would be mostly fiscal in nature, dealing w... more »

Bo SingDong

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 19 hours ago
It appears that this purge in the Chinese Communist Party will be in slow motion as they systematically round up those who matter and put them through an actual trial. Such a process working its way down will stiffen Chinese morality for a long time. It is actually a huge reformation that will ultimately cleanse Chinese society itself in quite the same way Nazism was scoured out of Germany. That Bo has abandoned false hope and actively working to save his life is a huge victory for the present leadership. In the meantime, his faction can surely be blamed for the aggres... more »

Prowling Deposit Confiscation with Ellen Brown

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 19 hours ago
The problem is simple. Deposit taking institutions must not carry a significant derivative portfolio whatsoever and that portfolio must be publicly disclosed as to exposure. This allows depositors to judge their real exposure which is the second problem. Banks today have abandoned their risk adverse position and now present real depositor risk. During the present clean up phase we have been going through, these rules have been set aside. This must now end if we are to expect independent depositors to be comfortable again. The good news is that mortgage lending is now ... more »

Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medicine

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 19 hours ago
This reminds us of the power of one carefully documented case study. This is a nice bit of historical research now been seen in perspective that informs us of its importance. In the same way, recent survival of CPR assisted heart attack victims are now changing all our protocols for that particular event. Both inform doctors to not give up quite so quickly, however tempting. I suspect that the stomach wall finally grew back together over time and actually closed of the wound as he made it into old age and heavy work. *Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medici... more »

Blocking HIV Reservoirs

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 19 hours ago
This is a huge step closer to eliminating the HIV virus. We know the key protein and we know that we have to turn it of to win. This is at least a clear pathway. The disease itself is now well controlled but certainly not cured. Eliminating these reservoirs opens the door to an outright cure. This will ultimately be described as one of the greatest battles in medical science but also one of the most productive in terms of new science. I do think that we are in the homestretch with HIV. This is not the only route now. *Discovery may help prevent HIV 'reservoirs' f... more »

texas photos may 2013

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 19 hours ago

Labor Econ 12: Wallace, Lenin, Stalin, Mao

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
No, no, no. Peter Wallace does not advocate the same things as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. Peter of the Wallace Business Forum, is an Australian businessman and consultant who has lived in the Philippines for nearly four decades now, has a Filipino wife and kids, and advocates market-oriented reforms in the economy. I did not feel like writing another paper on Labor Day yesterday as I have written several papers on labor economics already. So I am reposting Peter's article in the Inquirer today. I share his ideas on this subject. ---------- *Like It Is* *May Day... more »

Euro Collapse Update: 'Get out if you still can'...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 19 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/UZap5n3zGZ8 The slow-motion implosion of Europe and its Euro-Zone still continuous. *"The Pantheon of Idiots"* (see clip) that tries to 'govern' this tiny area of the globe (ever noticed?) still follows the German Kanzler Mrs. Angela Merkel into the mutual abyss. The German "System", a worn out decadent politico-industrial master-slave system that doesn't fit any other country on this planet, should be applied to all Europea nation-states? Even if it is corrupt? German euro-imperialism isn't going to make it, Farage believes and so do I. But even in Germany a ... more »

Two dark matter papers

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
When it comes to the existence of dark matter, I have two news – good and bad. Let me begin with the bad news. We often discuss provoking statements by some of the dark matter direct search experiments that claim that they see evidence of a dark matter particle under the ground. But there's still one staunch experiment in the "Dark Matter Is Not Seen" axis of the dark matter wars that refuses all these claims, XENON100 (soon to be upgraded to XENON1T: yes, the numbers stand for 100 kilograms and 1 ton of liquid xenon). The latest exclusion plot described in this paper (click) is rat... more »

OSAMA IN RUSSIA

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Chechnyans* * * The 'Boston Bombers' are from a part of Russia called Chechnya. The CIA used the bank called BCCI to fund the Islamic terrorists in the Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan. On the board of directors of BCCI were the CIA's William Casey and the CIA's Richard Helms On the board of directors of BCCI was Adnan Khashoggi, the representative of Saudi Bin Laden Group in the USA. *Ricin, Diamonds, and Stingers - Dissident Voice-30 Apr 2013* *DUDAYEV, former Chechen president. The CIA is reported to have used bin Laden and al Qaeda against the Russians in Chechnya.* ... more »

May Day 2013

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 21 hours ago
Happy May Day! A couple of links: Democracy Now covers the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed over 400 people. A demonstration was held today. Erik Loomis weighs in on Bangladesh and the Texas factory explosion, and also passes on some useful links.

EU Lifts Oil Embargo on Syria - Buys Directly from Al Qaeda

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago
Western media hails EU oil deal as potential game changer, despite admitting Al Qaeda holds oil fields. *May 2, 2013* (LD) - It was recently reported that the European Union would be lifting its oil embargo on Syria, in an effort to help fund what it calls "rebels" operating there. In the Associated Press article, "EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels," it states: The European Union on Monday lifted its oil embargo on Syria to provide more economic support to the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's regime. The decision will allow for crude exports from rebel-... more »

$3.1-billion : Now is the time to commit accounting

Alison at Creekside - 22 hours ago
*The Sixth Estate : Who is the Auditor General Protecting on $3 Billion Boondoggle?* * *Auditor General Michael Ferguson on As It Happens yesterday : "... or maybe in fact it was spent on things other than the public, uh, the anti-terrorism-type initiatives. Now there was also the ability for government, for departments, to get approval to re-allocate some of the funding so that could have been part of the story as well." So $3.1-billion, nearly 25% of the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Initiative, was perhaps re-allocated and spent on "things other than the anti-terrorism ini... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Here there be dragon trees.

May 1, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
Two pieces of news on this day, the day after Nixon finally let his top two staff members and his Attorney General go and fired John Dean. The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, sponsored by liberal Republican Charles Percy calling for a special prosecutor. And Nixon was shocked to find the FBI had sealed off the offices of Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, at the orders of new White House Counsel Leonard Garment. Haldeman, Ambrose tells us, had comes to his old office to start preparing for his appearances before the grand jury and the Senate Watergate Committee, but an FBI ... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 23 hours ago
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Mike Delaney of * Prothink.org* and *TruTube.TV* and Scott Roberts of *TheForbiddenTruth.net*. We'll be discussing a variety of topics in what will be a fairly laid back informal conversation. Calls will be taken throughout the program. You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!

Thursday Morning Linkage

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 23 hours ago
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage. Back on the Africa theme from a couple of weeks ago, here are some good reads from the week: More reports on the elephant poaching crisis in CAR Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers with the help of park rangers; time for Kruger fences to come back up Alex Continue reading

It’s called a constitution

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 23 hours ago
Already, in the first 100 days of his second term, the Prez is discovering that even in its current state a constitutional republic is not quite yet a dictatorship. Which is the real point of having a written constitution, right? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Time to sleep

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

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