English: The Pentagon, looking northeast with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the distance Deutsch: Das Pentagon; Sicht nach Nordosten mit dem Potomac River und Washington Monument im Hintergrund Русский: Пентагон, вид с северо-восточной стороны. На заднем плане река Потомак и Монумент Вашингтона. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Pocosin cabin along the trail in Shenandoah National Park (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park CA1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of land use in the watershed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Big Sur Coast in Central California looking south near Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park Français : La côte de Big Sur suivant la Côte Centrale de Californie. Photo prise près de Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. Español: La costa de Big Sur en California Central hacia el sur, cerca de Julie Pfeiffer Burns State Park. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aerial view, looking northwest from over the Anacostia River, during the 1936 Potomac River flood. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the right distance (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map showing the Potomac River drainage basin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A typical white AT blaze along the trail in Pennsylvania. Typical blaze on the Appalachian Trail. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Smokey Bear with members of the Boy Scouts of America and the Camp Fire Girls in 1960 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: McWay Cove at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park Français : La petite baie et la cascade de McWay Cove dans la région de ((:fr:Big Sur (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Smokey the Bear (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Thursday Morning Linkage
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage, starting with some energy and
environment links: Illegal fish trade costs $10 billion to $23 billion in
global losses each eyar China’s coal mining companies and coal burning
power plants accounted for 15% of the country’s total freshwater
withdrawals China leading the United States on climate change? Charles Mann
Continue reading
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Ask The Mountains”
Vangelis, “Ask The Mountains”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBYf3lYSEg
"A Look to the Heavens"
“To see a vista like this takes patience, hiking, and a camera. Patience
was needed in searching out just the right place and waiting for just the
right time. A short hike was needed to reach this rugged perch above a
secluded cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California, USA. And a
camera was needed for the long exposure required to bring out the faint
light from stars and nebulae in the background Milky Way galaxy.
*Click image for larger size.*
Moonlight and a brief artificial flash illuminated the hidden beach and
inlet behind nearby trees in the above composite imag... more »
The Radicalizing of the Smokey the Bear Meme (Fracking Fires Kill) In the Country of Zombies
Remember, kids, only you can prevent fracking fires! It's a fracking Zombie
country these days, isn't it? Because only Zombies would cause these fires.
And they must be everywhere. Forest Service Seeks To Silence Smokey the
Bear Over Fracking Peter Rugh May 7, 2013 Modified Smokey the Bear meme.
Smokey the Bear thought he smelled a fire in the woods. But as he
approached the clearing
Chet Raymo, “The Silence”
*“The Silence”*
by Chet Raymo
“The hiding places of my power
Seem open; I approach, and then they close;
I see by glimpses now; when age comes on,
May scarcely see at all, and I would give,
While yet we may, as far as words can give,
A substance and a life to what I feel...”
"These few lines from Wordsworth's "The Prelude" leapt off the page at me
this morning. They capture well enough what my life has become. All those
years of teaching, of writing in the Boston Globe, were years of sharing
public knowledge, knowledge that had been vetted by the scientific
community. The... more »
Al Kamen offers a returning congressman a "hiker's guide" to Our Nation's Capital
*View of the Potomac River from Weverton Cliffs*
Over forty miles of the Appalachian Trail travel across Maryland, with most
of the AT following the ridgeline of South Mountain. Many call this
stretch of the AT easy compared to other areas, however there are some
steep climbs. The low point in the state along the trail is 261 feet at
the Potomac River and the highest point is near High Rock with an elevation
of 1905 feet.
This section of the Appalachian Trail takes hikers to its closest point to
the nations capital, Washington, DC. While the AT in Maryland is called
easy by some... more »
The Heart is the Throne of the All-Merciful
*"Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East"* by James Cutsinger.
*Title: The Heart is the Throne of the All-Merciful. YouTube Video
Description - [Channel: RecoveringtheSacred. Published on March 24, 2012]:*
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Paths to the Heart Conference, University of South
Carolina.
Also, check out *"The Power of the Heart"* by Catherine Jane Larkin, and *"Opening
the Heart Through Ecstatic Poetry: Coleman Barks at TED."*
ProWomanProForcedPregnancy Is a Total Stand-Alone (Astroturf) Organization
In a recent blogpost about March for Lies being such a good teachable
moment for young women to learn slut-shaming and sanctimonious judgement,
we mentioned that the original article by Amanda Watson seems to have
struck a nerve with those professional female slut-shamers over at
ProWomanProForcedPregnancy.
They responded with their lie protest that they are NOT affiliated with
other organizations.
You be the judge. The principal is Andrea Mrozek. Here's her day job.
Andrea currently works at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada as
Manager of Research and Communications.
B... more »
Untitled
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran introduces amendments to protect South Mississippi
from Louisiana levee project
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : 'Radio Unnameable' Legend Bob Fass and Filmmaker Paul Lovelace
Late-night radio revolutionary Bob Fass, left, and filmmaker Paul Lovelace.
Rag Radio podcast:
Free-form radio legend Bob Fass and
'Radio Unnameable' filmmaker Paul Lovelace
“I wanna be a neuron -- I don’t wanna be the brain. We’re all the brain.” -- Bob Fass to his radio audience in the 1960s.
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / May 9, 2013
Bob Fass is an American broadcast legend who
Gold and Silver news and views , Harvey Organ report for May 6 , 2013.... Gold and silver continues to leave Comex and GLD ETF .... but SLV continues to be essentially .....
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://beforeitsnews.com/gold-and-precious-metals/2013/05/world-bank-whistle-blower-precious-metals-to-serve-as-an-underpinning-for-paper-currencies-2499792.html
(
2013 - year of the whistle blower ? )
World Bank Whistle-Blower: “Precious Metals To Serve As An Underpinning
For
Paper Currencies”
Monday, May 6, 2013 4:11
(Before It's News)
I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with one of the western world’s
most courageous and astute women, *Karen Hudes*, *Former Senior Council*
to
the *World Bank—**now turned whistle-blower.*
It was a powerful conversation, as Karen spent 20 years... more »
W. Joseph Campbell - Getting It Wrong: Misreported Stories in American Journalism
W. Joseph Campbell - *Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported
Stories in American Journalism*.
The U.S. mainstream media can get things wrong? No way! Since when? How is
that even possible? It can't be! CONSPIRACY THEORY! CONSPIRACY THEORY!
*Title: Getting It Wrong: Misreported Stories in American Journalism.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: LibraryOfCongress. Uploaded on
September 8, 2011]:*
W. Joseph Campbell discusses his new book on the ten greatest misreported
stories in American journalism.
W. Joseph Campbell is a tenured professor in the School of Communic... more »
Fed's Fisher plays bad Fed Cop while sounding like a repentant drunk at the same time .... money quote " somewhere we have to have practical limits as to where we can build the balance sheet. We're moving in the direction of a $4 trillion balance sheet. We know we can't go on forever."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/feds-fisher-santelli-cant-go-forever
Fed's Fisher To Santelli: "This Can't Go On Forever"
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/08/2013 19:46 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Dallas Fed
- Fisher
- Monetary Policy
- Richard Fisher
- Rick Santelli
While notably 'not' the Fed's opinion, Dallas Fed head Richard Fisher
provided more than a few compellingly truthy comments in this excellent
discussion with CNBC's Rick Santelli. *It is fiscal policy that is holding
us back*, he warns, "we have a massive fo... more »
Listen up
It used to be that if you wanted to talk to the government you had to send
a letter.
Then you were able to send a fax.
Nowadays, if you want to say “listen up” you can send them your thoughts by
email, tweet or instant message.
But as of last night’s first reading of the bill to legalise the GCSB’s
inability to read the law by which the department of buggers is empowered,
we can now look forward to a new way of letting the government listen up:
by having them listening in directly. By having the buggers intercept our
emails, tap our phones, and bug our houses.
In short, by havi... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Sweet Briar, Virginia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“I Have Learned”
*“I Have Learned”*
Posted by Paulo Coelho
(This text, which I found on the Internet, is attributed to me. I did not
write it, but I think worth reproducing here. - PC)
"I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be
someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them;
I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care
back;
I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to
destroy it.
I’ve learned that you can get by on charm, for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you’d better know something;
I’ve learned... more »
17 Air Force Officers have nuclear launch keys revoked ? WTF , is there another mishap brewing at Minot ?
This is odd.....
http://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com/2013/05/stratcom-commander-strips-missileers-of.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/17-air-force-officers-have-nuke-launch-keys-revoked/
17 Air Force Officers Have Nuke
Launch Keys Revoked
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An Air Force commander has temporarily stripped 17 officers of their
authority to control and launch nuclear-armed Minuteman III missiles after
he found their performance lacking during a recent inspe... more »
Cyber Attack Tuesday ( take some cash out tonight , never know when the plug could be pulled for real ! ) Timing for this cyber attack interesting - right before the big Benghazi Hearing on Wednesday ! Wag The Dog anyone ?
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/sites-down/
Many Websites Down This Afternoon, including ALL MSN sites.
<a href="http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/20
Being A Leader Is Not The Same As Being Led Around By A Ring In Your Nose
Tuesday at a House Financial Services Committee meeting, Arizona
freshman
Kyrsten Sinema, who's racked up one of the most reactionary voting
records
of any Democrat in Congress, might have thought no one was looking when
she
sold out her own constituents in favor of Wall Street banksters. She
backed all
the GOP's deregulation proposals and then touted it in the Democratic
caucus. She wasn't who I was talking about here... but she certainly
could
have been.
Adam Pase, the corporate-oriented Executive Director of the corrupt New
Demssent around a "dear colleague" letter Tuesday, shil... more »
ON TRIAL IN TENNESSEE
Downtown Knoxville, Tennessee was buzzing Monday with some unusual sights,
all in advance of a federal trial for three people charged with vandalizing
[pouring blood and painting anti-nuclear slogans] the Y-12 National
Security Complex in Oak Ridge.
Last July Michael Walli, 64, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Sister Megan Rice,
an 82-year-old nun, cut through fences at Y-12 in a protest against nuclear
weapons at the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.
Jury selection for their federal trial began Monday afternoon. Seventy five
potential jurors were vetted extensively by a spec... more »
6 year olds of America, we need to talk #commoncore
You’ve been hopped up on paste, stickers, finger paint, and the overall
ignorance of your ego-centricity for far too long. We need to have a
“Kintervention,” followed by some KIDBELS, and a little Response to
Kintervention time, just to see if the Kintervention was successful. Thank
you Education Week. Thank you for all that you [...]
The Truth About Economic Forecasting
*Guest post by Graeme B. Littler*
Astrologers, palmists, and crystal-ball gazers are scorned while
professional economists are heralded for their scientific achievements. Yet
the academics are no less mystical in trying to predict the direction of
interest rates, economic growth, and the stock market.
Sixty-five years ago, Thomas Dewey was defeated by Harry Truman in the US
presidential race, stunning the political experts and journalists who were
certain Dewey was going to win. While questions about “scientific” polling
techniques naturally arose, one journalist focused on the he... more »
“Sow Chaos, Reap Chaos”
*“Sow Chaos, Reap Chaos”*
by Missy Beattie
"Marine Capt. Cameron West said, “We are all in this together.” He and
other troops, Iraq or Afghanistan war amputees, traveled to Boston to
offer encouragement to those who lost limbs on April 15 at the Boston
Marathon. Their message: “Life’s not over.” While this was a generous
gesture, I can’t help but think that they’re not just missing a leg or an
arm, but the point. And an opportunity.
When son H was in grade school, one of his teachers taught conflict
resolution. I reinforced this and emphasized looking beneath the surface o... more »
When the chips are down
BDS is all wrong.
Palestinians and many of their gullible followers campaign against
“collective punishment”. In their opinion, the Israeli blockade of Gaza is
wrong in principle. While they simultaneously campaign for BDS that looks
extremely hypocritical.
Despite their appalling record of suicide bombings and terrorism,
Palestinians demand that Israel caters for their every need. In addition to
supplying their utilities, they insist that Israel should let them in and
out of Gaza willy nilly; back and forth, to mingle freely with the Israelis
they despise, no matter how many of... more »
Minn House - Still Has It's Moments
This is courtesy of citizen journalists - The Uptake.
Please consider donating to The Uptake - to help them continue giving us
coverage - that we won't see anywhere else.
The first guy speaking is a republiCON.
It automatically moves to other clips after this next clip.
You can quit watching after the license plate vote
I don't remember front license plates being at the top of any voter polls.
Evidently RepubliCONS still don't understand what the word "jobs" means.
Saves $500,000 a year - how many people does it put out of work?
What happens after the tests are over?
Apparently, “Spirit Week!” Wait, isn’t learning supposed to be fun ALL YEAR
ROUND? I guess not. Can we also think of new things to do in schools on
these Spirit Days? I remember them as a teacher and an entire grade level
wearing the same color really isn’t all that fun. Maybe I’m being too [...]
Malcolm London doing his thing at PBS TED talk event
The cult of TED is kind of strange. In any event, Chicago student poet and
activist Malcolm London was invited to speak and perform. You heard him
here At the Chalk Face recently with Israel Munoz. Here’s Malcolm’s
performance. But I’m told that his work was edited. We’re not sure how or
why. We’ll find [...]
MR. 109
The poor and working class, marginalized people of a profit driven culture,
filled the room at the Dewitt Court just outside of Syracuse, New York. There
were 109 cases to be heard and the “night court” began at 6:00 pm.
When one man appeared before the judge I heard the court say he was accused
of grand larceny. My mind immediately flashed back to Richard Connor, the
former CEO of the Portland Press Herald (Maine) who took over the paper a
few years ago and immediately reduced the news staff, sold off assets,
changed the paper’s political orientation to a right-wing rag, and ... more »
Stupidification of British Columbia/The BC Rail Corruption Scandal Stall Game
*Written by Grant G*
Classic baiting and switching performed like a Russian ballet, spins twirls
and tosses, a stage busy with dancers, design and artists adorned in tutus
and tight pants, eyes easily strained following all the moving parts, I
don`t know if we should turn the BC Rail Saga into a ballet or tragic
Shakespearian play, although the thought of Gordon Campbell and David
Mclean prancing in tight pants is less than appetizing.
More like a movie titled "*The Stupidification of British Columbia*"
I won`t dwell on John Van Dongen`s concerns for too long, some people h... more »
Benghazi blowout fizzles
Darrell Issa's folly has been billed for days as the hearing that would
blow the top off the alleged Benghazi cover-up. Or something. The leaks of
the expected testimony of the *very important whistleblowers* were
breathlessly touted as the bombshell that was going to drive Obama from
office. The crackpot con echo chamber could hardly contain its excitement.
And then the hearing happened. As you can see the committee was riveted.
[Luke Johnson photo via]
Appears this didn't go exactly as planned. To begin with their star witness
with the very important title, Deputy chief of miss... more »
Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad - Magic and the Occult in Islam
**
*Title: Magic and the Occult in Islam: Ahmad al-Buni (622H/1225CE?) and his
Shams Al-Ma'arif. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: SchAdvStudy.
Published on May 8, 2013]:*
A lecture by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (Department of Arabic and Islamic
Civilizations, American University in Cairo) delivered at the Warburg
Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study, on 1 May 2013.
Israel Blesses Jihad
*Israel is supporting the savage against the civilized man in Syria,
putting its military weight behind the Jihadist terrorists in their
struggle against Assad.*
Who is the biggest supporter of Jihadist terrorism? None other than. . .
Israel.
Justin Raimondo writes in his article, *"The Israeli-Jihadist Alliance"*:
It’s seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad.
And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto Israeli
alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets –
purportedly in order to prevent the Syria... more »
TRIAD TSUNAMI IN MALAYSIA?
*In Malaysia, the mask favoured by protesters working for the CIA.*
*
*The CIA's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Open Society
Institute (OSI) have been trying to bring about regime change in Malaysia,
reportedly.
US attempting regime change in Malaysia
*Malaysia is one of the world's economic success stories.*
"It was Malaysia's historic ability to combine the best of the Malays,
Chinese and Indian populations in an uneasy but ultimately workable
compromise that turned it into southeast Asia’s second-largest economy."
http://www.ft.
*But, some of the Chinese Malaysi... more »
We’re Going on a “DIG”!
It’s time to do some “digging for artifacts”! In order for my District to
evaluate my performance on Domain 4 of the Danielson Rubric. I must produce
2 pieces of EVIDENCE of each of the following: 1. Reflection on Teaching
2. Maintaining Accurate Records 3. Communicating with Families 4.
Participating in a Professional Community 5. [...]
Capitalism? Moral! What the hell are you talking about?
Capitalism? *Moral! *What the hell are you talking about?
Yaron Brook talks on the morality of capitalism on prime time Canadian TV.
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GOP Figures Out A New Way To Screw Working Families-- H.R. 1406
Remember when the GOP used to name bills that were meant to pollute the
air, the Clean Skies Act? Today Eric Cantor is introducing his Working
Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406), through Alabama puppet Martha Roby.
It is meant to deny working men and women overtime pay. There are 168
cosponsors, not one of whom is a Democrat. In fact most of them are from
Confederate districts that have been safely gerrymandered and where
anti-union and anti-working family sentiment is part of the political
culture. Most... but not all. Among the cosponsors of this bill who could
suffer from th... more »
Catch of the Day
Okay, it's just as much trivia as CotD, but Reid Wilson deserves something
for noticing one thing -- really two things -- about the newly elected Mark
Sanford:
Mark Sanford will join 10 other members of the class of 1994 in Congress
when he's sworn in
Weirdly, Sanford will be the 3rd member of the class of '94 to return this
Congress after taking time off (Stockman and Salmon, too)
I've written about Newt babies vs. Watergate babies before (and also
sparked by a Reid Wilson item; I guess we share an interest). I don't think
this late-in-the-day revival for the '94ers will really d... more »
When happened when people got Medicaid coverage!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013*
*The New York Times fails to explain:* Out in Oregon, low-income people who
lacked Medicaid coverage got thrown into a lottery.
The state had enough extra money to extend coverage to some, not to all. On
this basis, some people from the lottery pool received Medicaid coverage.
Other people just like them did not.
This created the opportunity for the Oregon Medicaid study, whose results
are now being used to convince the world that Medicaid coverage is
worthless, just no damn good. In her news report in the New York Times, this
is the way Annie Lowrey descr... more »
Who is profiting from government-payed, low-income jobs?
An article in yesterday's Washington Post addressed the role of the
federal
government in subsidizing low-wage, private employment:
Jim Tankersley and Marjorie Censer (May 7, 2013) Study: U.S. taxpayers
employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart, McDonald’s combined. The
Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/study-us-taxpayers-employ-more-low-wage-workers-than-wal-mart-mcdonalds-combined/2013/05/07/91a061d2-b726-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
[Excerpted]
Federal taxpayers employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Martand
McDonald’s combi... more »
ALERT for Fukushima Daiichi
Majia's Blog - 8 hours ago
I don't think this is fog. It is moving very, very quickly. I
grew up on
the coast of California and I've never seen fog move like this.
Tepco
timestamp is May 2 00:34
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Real News Report on Rhee and the Epidemic of Test Cheating
From a couple weeks back, but excellent reporting (if Merrow spoke such
honesty on PBS, he would be much more credible). Filed under: CHALK FACE:
General News & Commentary Tagged: john merrow, michelle rhee, test cheating
Russia/US Accord Offers no easy resolution
While I may be feeling unwell, I just can't pull myself away from the
situation in Syria
A *fairly decent ,, though still lacking, *article from BBC?
Who would have thought?
*
**Negotiations *
That sets one of the parameters that are essential for successful movement
towards a settlement of the Syrian conflict, which has embroiled many
outside players
Arresting and reversing that process of disintegration is a massive task
*Lakhdar Brahimi, stressed that, vital and hopeful as the apparent
US-Russian understanding is, it is only a first step. *
In practice, sufficient ambiguities were ... more »
Voucher system wastes another generation of learners
Milton Friedman talked about the four ways of spending money:
There are four ways in which you can spend money.
1. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you
really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your
money.
2. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a
birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the
content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost.
3. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend
somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m ... more »
The Harper Conservatives have no choice but to table all related documents to find where the 'missing' $3.1Billion tax dollars went
**
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*Today, the New Democrats are upping the ante with a motion that, if
passed, would force the government to show its work by delivering to the
House all related annual reports, internal evaluations, Treasury Board
submissions and related material by June 17th, at which point the speaker
would make arrangements to post the entire collection online. *
***The NDP proposal would also provide the AG with "all necessary resources
to perform an in-depth forensic audit" of the material, which would
continue "until the missing $3.1 billion is found and acco... more »
Peggy Atwood: "Wake Up!"
http://www.peggyatwood.com/
http://www.northerncountrymusic.com/
http://www.catskillmountaindomes.com/
Mining 18: Nickel, Copper, Gold Production
To analyze the country's mining industry and propose certain government
regulations and taxation policy, it is important to compare the local
industry with those at the international level. So that there will be more
solid basis for such regulations, like how much taxes to impose given
certain costs of operation for different metallic products. And if
government is over-taxing or under-taxing the industry.
I saw this informative 27-slides presentation on Philippines and global
mining made in September 2012 by Intiera RMG. The data are useful and cool,
posting some of them here.
The... more »
GOP Hypocrisy on Wages
*Raise The Minimum Wage To More Than $10 Per Hour?*
*NO – we can’t do that!!*
*raising the minimum wage is bad for business because *
the increase doesn't help the poor, most of whom aren't working;
costs jobs;
cuts job opportunities for the young;
raises the price of goods produced with a lot of labor services;
and
reduces the purchasing power of consumers, when owners raise prices to
cover increased costs.
* *
*But this is is not bad for business:*
The *CEO* and chairman of General Motors saw his compensation for 2012 rise
to $11.1 million, up from $7.7 million in the previou... more »
Indigenous occupation of Belo Monte dam site enters sixth day – Government refuses to negotiate, ejects journalists from site on World Press Freedom Day
[image: On 2 May 2013, some two hundred native Indians from eight ethnic
groups entered the building site of the Belo Monte dam, on the Xingu River
in Pará state, demanding government-held consultations, the suspension of
construction on the Xingu, Tapajos, and Teles Pires rivers, and the
withdrawal of troops from their land. The Belo Monte Construction
Consortium (CCBM) said 3,000 of the 22,000 workers at the site were
currently prevented from working. Photo: Ruy Sposati / Agência Raízes]
By Lucy Jordan
7 May 2013
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL (The Rio Times) – The federal government said Mo... more »
Cleveland Abductions
It's a heart-warming story. Three young women, long since given up for dead
by the authorities are found alive and well 10 years after their
disappearance. It's a horrific story. Three young women are abducted and
subjected to a decade of imprisonment, degradation, sexual abuse and forced
pregnancy.
Guess which bits the media have focused on.
Sweet 16: What Matters v. What Should Matter in Teacher Qualities
My colleague and social studies educator, George Lipscomb, is offering a
May Experience course addressing “What Makes a Great Teacher.” He started
the course today with a Sweet 16 of teacher values so I thought this idea
may be a great way to ask people to confront priorities regarding what our
current high-stakes test-based accountability [...]
"Top Secret!"
*"Top Secret!"*
by Bill Bonner
"US stocks continue to climb. The Dow has passed the 15,000 milestone.
Gold, meanwhile, got smacked yesterday. It sank back to $1,448 per ounce.
What's ahead? A mood of prophecy, perhaps brought on by a large helping of
osso bucco from our local Italian restaurant, came over us last night. We
looked into the future. And there we saw a grim world.
As we reported last week, public life bumbles along under a combination of
false pretenses and self-imposed delusions. Monday's news told us that the
worst enemy Americans now face is themselves. For e... more »
Gerald Celente: “Middle East Out of Control”
*Gerald Celente: “Middle East Out of Control”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Trends researcher Gerald Celente predicts war in the Middle East. He
says, “It is out of control. What are people waiting for–an Archduke
Ferdinand moment?” Celente thinks Israel bombing Syria means World War 3 is
on its way. The cycle leading to war started with the crash of 2008.
Celente says, “Crash, depression, currency wars... trade wars and then real
wars. That’s what we’re seeing again.” Celente charges, “This is a proxy
war against Iran because when Syria is choked off, then Iran is left ... more »
Mark Sanford's win is GOP's loss
Despite the optimistic polling, it's not that shocking South Carolina's own
Appalachian Trail hiker won the special election yesterday. What's more
surprising is how close the votes were. Sure 54% to 45% ordinarily sounds
like a big win but if you look at the actual totals Sanford only won by
12,838 votes. Granted a special election draws a lot fewer voters but
compared to the guy he's replacing, who won by 62% to 35% just last year,
it doesn't look as impressive.
As satisfying as watching the cons deal with an upset would have been been,
on a practical level, this was the best o... more »
Toby Lester - Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
*"Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World
in His Own Image"* by Toby Lester.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: MsAllisonBreen. Uploaded on February
13, 2012]:
Everybody knows Leonardo's iconic picture of a man standing in a circle and
a square. It's everywhere, deployed on everything from coffee cups and
T-shirts to corporate logos and international spacecraft, celebrating
subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the human form,
and the universality of the human spirit. It's the world's most famous
cultural icon—yet nobody know... more »
Downton Billy
Since Bill Gates and other billionaire boys and girls club members are
dictating education policy and coming up with new and brilliant ideas such
as, “the teacher is the most important” indicator of whether students
learn, perhaps he can give us some more lessons on teaching. We can start
lesson one on conspicuous consumption, [...]
Creature Feature
Truthfully, I had no idea who Ray Harryhausen was until he died this week,
but I've enjoyed his work my whole life. I've watched every one of these
movies more than once. When I was kid this kind of special effect was scary
as hell. In many ways I still like this obviously fake, hand done stop
action much better than today's computer generated realism.
RIP Mr. Harryhausen. You may have lived in relative obscurity but your
creatures will live forever on the screen.
Ray Harryhausen - thanks for all the thrills
Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an
American visual effects creator, writer, and producer who lived in London,
England, from 1960 until his death in 2013. He created a brand of
stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."
His most memorable works include the animation on Mighty Joe Young, with
pioneer Willis H. O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects
(1949); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, his first color film; and Jason and the
Argonauts, featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors.
Before the advent of comp... more »
Benghazi hearings: I'm supposed to be mowing the lawn...
*except the hearings are riveting...*
Watch live at:
*C-Span *
Cassava disease spreading across Africa at alarming rate – ‘The new strain looks to us to be much more aggressive’
By MICHELLE FAUL
7 May 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of
cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is
attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into
Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps
feed 500 million Africans.
"The extremely devastating results are already dramatic today but could be
catastrophic tomorrow" if nothing is done to halt the Cassava Brown Streak
Disease, or CBSD, scientist Claude Fauquet, co-founder of the Global
Cassava Partners... more »
ALEC Travels to the Tar Sands - AGAIN
BTW: Someone should tell the "ALEC" blog that - "ALEC" is still showing
up on their blog. Come on guys - get with the program I thought you folks
#Dumped"ALEC".
Back to business
Not one write-up about ALECers traveling to the Alberta tar sands.
Not two write-ups about ALECers traveling to the Alberta tar sands.
But three write-ups from ALEC members about traveling to the Alberta tar
sands..
Wonder if it was three trips with ten or twelve ALEC members going each
time?
Wonder if it was one trip - three separate write-ups by ALEC members.
Now they call the trip to the Alberta t... more »
No, the Creation of the 60 Vote Senate Isn't Harry Reid's Fault
I really dislike this Republican talking point, repeated by former
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe at an appearance at the University of
Denver:
- The majority has increasingly "filled up the amendment tree," making
it harder for minority members to have any influence on legislation.
- Minority members increasingly respond to this by filibustering.
It's probably a nice thing for Snowe to believe; it makes her choice to go
along with "filibuster everything" seem like a reaction to Democratic
overreach rather than going along with a radical, norm-destroying group of
Rep... more »
Robert Jensen : The Universe Is an Undifferentiated Whole
In
his new "primer on critical thinking," Arguing for Our Lives, Robert
Jensen "connects abstract ideas with the everyday political and
spiritual struggles of ordinary people."
Arguing for our lives:
The universe is an undifferentiated whole
The knowledge we humans can acquire -- while impressive in what it
allows us to build -- is not adequate to manage the complexity of the
world.
By
Yet another fine fact-checking mess!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013*
*Glenn Kessler returns to Benghazi:* In our previous post, we discussed
Rachel Maddow’s reaction to PolitiFact’s latest strange rating.
Maddow said PolitiFact is ruining fact-checking all by itself. Yesterday,
we thought Glenn Kessler tried to do his part at his Washington Post Fact
Checker site.
As you know, Benghazi is back in the news. Yesterday, Kessler linked to his
original post on this topic, in which he awarded Susan Rice two Pinocchios
for statements she made on the September 16 Sunday programs.
He said he thinks that, “over time,” his original pos... more »
Sleazy New Dem Colleen Hanabusa Challenges Progressive Hawai'i Senator Brian Schatz
Lately I've been bombarded with e-mails from sleazy New Dem Colleen
Hanabusa, who's giving up her House seat to challenge progressive Senate
incumbent Brian Schatz. Thursday it was "Today, Colleen will make a very
important announcement about the future of Hawaii and we wanted you to be
the first to know." Yesterday it was "After months of careful
consideration, meeting with my friends and family to talk story and
listening to people from across Hawai'i, I was proud to share with you a
few days ago that I am beginning my campaign for the United States
Senate... But before I can ha... more »
Rising seas in southern Caribbean offer dark preview of future amid climate change – ‘The sea will take this whole place down’
[image: In this 22 April 2013 photo, the stump of an unrooted palm tree
sits on the shore of the fishing village in Telegraph, Grenada. The people
along this vulnerable stretch of eastern Grenada have been watching the sea
eat away at their shoreline in recent decades, a result of destructive
practices such as sand mining and a ferocious storm surge made worse by
climate change, according to researchers with the U.S.-based Nature
Conservancy, who have helped locals map the extent of coastal erosion.
Photo: David McFadden/ Associated Press]
TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) – The old coastal... more »
Maddow lowers the boom on PolitiFact!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013*
*Sadly, she was largely right:* Rachel Maddow’s jihad against Politifact
began in a compromised fashion.
As we all eventually do, Maddow had made a mistake. Politifact corrected
her on her mistake. In the process, PolitiFact made a mistake of its own.
Maddow reacted in an extremely unbalanced way, and a war was born. She went
on and on and on and on, lambasting PolitiFact for its mistake, without
ever noting the fact that the site had been right about her own mistake.
We’d have to call that old reaction mostly dishonest. If you want to review
this unbalan... more »
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*Pulitzer winners leave Times-Picayune for Advocate *
*John Georges, New Owner of The Advocate: 'New Orleans Wants a Daily Paper'
~WWNO*
*Advocate owner says he ‘tried to buy’ Times-Picayune ~Andrewe Beaujon*
Carver High Community Stands Against School Closure
Corporate ed reformers in Memphis are planning to close a dozen schools in
order to backfill the current 57-million dollar hole created by the planned
opening of more corporate charter schools. Citizens, however, have a
different view on the matter. Join the fight in Memphis to improve
community schools, rather than shutting them down to [...]
london, day one
It's wonderful to be here! Wonderful to see R again, to meet her partner,
to spend time with her family, to be in their home. And to see London
again! I love this city.
So to backtrack... Our flight was uneventful. Flying overnight is never
fun, since I don't sleep *at all*, but everything went smoothly. A few days
ago, we had read some horror stories online about US Airways' transatlantic
flights through Philadelphia, and were a bit concerned. But either US
Airways has upgraded their planes and their service, or those complaining
people had unreasonable expectations. The flight was... more »
Is the School “Reform” Drought Breaking?
Wasn’t Sir Ken Robinson’s Education TED talk wonderful? His PBS TED
presentation followed some outstanding students, teachers, and scholars who
stressed the power of relationship-building and fostering students’
creativity. He also followed “reformers” like Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada,
and host John Legend. Perhaps because they were on public television,
these accountability hawks were on their [...]
Giant swamp rats are literally eating Louisiana – ‘I just don’t know how these people who love their home so much are going to go on living here’
[image: A litter of young nutria. Nutria are an invasive species in
Louisiana. Photo: John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk / National Geographic]
By Joanna M. Foster
7 May 2013
(Takepart.com) – On the southern edge of Louisiana, there is almost as much
water as land. You can't drive to anyone's house, you have to travel by
boat, and sometimes there are hours of water between neighbors. It takes a
special breed to make a home here, in the swamp, amongst the mosquitos and almost
annual hurricanes. But those who do call it home, love it. They see a
magical space of strange stillness and s... more »
A third year of drought threatens southwestern Oklahoma – ‘You either adapt or you sell out and move on’
[image: Members of a drought committee at a farm near Guymon, Oklahoma in
1936, during the extended drought that caused the 'Dust Bowl'. Photo:
Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress]By Joe Wertz
6 May 2013
(NPR) – “Extreme” and “exceptional” drought persists throughout much of
the state, especially in southwestern Oklahoma. Low reservoir levels have
forced city officials in Altus to issue emergency water restrictions, and
Oklahomans throughout the region are worried about the future.
Associated Press reporter Sharon Cohen interviewed Kent Walker, a farmer
and rancher who lives ... more »
Chile: Startling Photos of a UFO over Mining Operation
*Source: Panorama Diario (Chile)
Date: 8 May 2013*
Startling photos of an alleged UFO over a mining operation in Copiapó were
published recently. These are photos taken last Tuesday afternoon (30 April
2013) by heavy equipment operators. The workers were carrying out
dismantling operations in the Cerro Negro works of the CAP company, only a
few kilometers distant from the Atacama Region, when they noticed the
unidentified flying object.
When interviewed by Radio Nostálgica FM, which made the visual material
property of Juan Avalos Fajardo available on its website (*PHOTOS AT:
htt... more »
Argentina: Impressive UFO Sighting in San Clemente
*Source: Diario Popular
http://www.diariopopular.com.ar/notas/155823-impresionante-avistaje-ovni-san-clemente
Date: 05/08/2013*
*Argentina: Impressive UFO Sighting in San Clemente*
Photos were taken fortuitously by a couple enjoying a day out in the resort
city in Buenos Aires.
A tourist couple, enjoying a variety show in Mundo Marino , took several
photos with their camera that show the outline of a UFO flying over the
city fo San Clemente del Tuyú, Province of Buenos Aires.
The chance photos could show what is popularly known as a "flying saucer",
which thoroughly startled the ... more »
Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Facts to Vindicate Failed Iran Sanctions Policy
Tehran
Research Reactor
(Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Iranian Presidency)
“Comment is free, but facts are sacred.”
- C.P. Scott, editor of the Guardian, 1921
Israeli commentator Meir Javedanfar has made a very successful career of
trafficking conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives about Iran’s
nuclear program.
In a recent op-ed for the Guardian newspaper he has insisted – as he has
Attitudes
Photo by Maria King Carroll
"Attitudes are more important than abilities. Motives are more important
than methods. Character is more important than cleverness. And the heart
takes precedence over the head."
Denis Parsons Burkitt, 1911-1993
(Dr. Burkitt was an Irishman who drove across sub-Saharan Africa in his
beat up Ford pick up truck. He found many African kids between the ages of
5 and 8 years who had deadly facial tumors. He biopsied the tumor and it
was found to be caused by a virus. Who would have thought that a virus
could cause a cancer now called Burkitt's lymphoma?)
THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: Proposing the theme of Malick’s next film!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013*
*Part 5—The absence of the professors:* Did Professors Reinhart and Rogoff
do what Krugman says they did?
According to Krugman, the famous professors made an unfortunate claim in
early 2010, in a paper which became influential on a world-wide basis.
According to Krugman, the professors “purported to identify a critical
‘threshold,’ a tipping point, for government indebtedness. Once debt
exceeds 90 percent of gross domestic product, they claimed, economic growth
drops off sharply.” For more detail, see yesterday’s report.
Did the famous Harvard professors ... more »
Rampant Rape in the Military: Who Knew?
He is shocked, shocked that raping is going on in this establishment.
Commander in Chief Obama, along with the Congress, Army, Navy, Air Force
and Marines and all the ships at sea are floundering. How in the name of
almighty empire could this be happening to the greatest military force the
world has ever known?
Let the annual bromides begin.
He wants it rooted out, pronto. Same as he wanted it rooted out last year,
and the year before that. And just to show how much he cares, he's punted
the scandal of a 37% increase in military sexual assaults in one year over
to yet another wishy... more »
Syrian troops push down strategic highway towards Jordan
Following up on the previous Syrian Internet has gone down again
Came across this: Syria’s Internet goes dark as troops push into strategic
town on highway to Jordan
BEIRUT—Syrian troops pushed Wednesday into a strategic town along the
highway leading to the Jordanian border as a massive Internet outage
engulfed most of the country for a second day.
The regime’s advance into Khirbet Ghazaleh, a town south of Damascus along
a key artery to the border, came after weeks of fighting and government
attempts to secure the highway.
Also looks to be fighting in the north near the Turk... more »
Graph of the Day: Snow water content in Southern Sierras of California, 2 May 2013
[image: The water content of the snowpack in the Southern Sierra Mountains
of California, from San Joaquin through Kern and Owens, was 9% of average
for the date on 2 May 2013 (and 7% of the average for April 1.) The
snowpack is usually not this thin until early July. Statewide, the snowpack
was 17% of average for the date. Graphic: California Department of Water
Resources]
By Dr. Jeff Masters
3 May 2013
(wunderground.com) – The water content of the snowpack in the Southern
Sierra Mountains of California, from San Joaquin through Kern and Owens,
was 9% of average for the date on ... more »
Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker In England Changes Nothing On The Ground In Iraq
British businessman Jim McCormick was recently sentenced to ten years in
prison for selling fake bomb detectors around the world. The ADE 651
devices were said to be able to find anything from explosives to people to
ivory several hundred meters away. Those bold claims along with the
instructions on how to use them should have warned any country or
organization about their effectiveness, but Iraq ended up being the largest
purchaser of the devices in the world. Several groups in Iraq had been
investigating the detectors since 2009, and a general in the Interior
Ministry was eventu... more »
Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept
Loyal DAMMIT JANET! readers, I have an assignment for you today.
I want you to send these two links to your cranky Uncle Bob and your
tax-hating Cousin Laura and ask them if they are OK with this spending by
the CONtempt Party government.
Item 1: Secret spending on consultants.
A Star investigation has found 90 per cent of the $2.4 billion paid out in
the past decade comes with no description of the work done — and more than
a dozen departments refuse to provide details when pressed.
Item 2: Economic Action Scam.
Those TV ads are still airing more than six weeks after the budge... more »
Why Reading Scott Sagan Scares Me.
Over the years I’ve taught Scott Sagan and Charles Perrow for a range of
different courses. Based on those two books, I’m pretty sure that I’d
rather not read these two terms in the same sentence: “nuclear weapons” and
“rot.” From this morning’s Washington Post: The Air Force stripped an
unprecedented 17 officers of their
Continue reading
Midweek Mélange
I don’t know whether to feel horribly manipulated, simply appreciate the
nerd-fest humor, or both. Andrew Philips on the new Australian Defense
White Paper. Dan Trombly on the efficacy of US intervention in Syria. Jay
Ulfelder wants to restrict our use of the term “state” to, as best as I can
tell, sovereign-territorial entities. His
Continue reading
ALEC Ramps Up the Secrecy Quotient
This article is truer today – than it was last Wednesday – before the ALEC
meeting.
*This "Partnership" is the Gun Pointed at the Heart of Democracy*
By Greg Madison, Associate Editor --- May 8, 2013
*There's a gun pointed at the heart of representative democracy, and your
Congressperson has their finger on the trigger*.
It's called the American Legislative Exchange Council- or ALEC for short.
And while its name may sound perfectly harmless, it's the single reason why
your vote no longer matters.
You see, due to the influence wielded by this mysterious group, elected
officials ha... more »
Cons : "Well you didn't ask us."
In response to NDP questions on Monday regarding the missing $3.1 billion
in public security and anti-terrorism spending and why even the words "public
security and anti-terrorism" hadn't shown up in nine years of public
accounts, Tony Gazebo of the Treasury Board blamed the opposition for not
guessing the right question :
“If NDP caucus members from the years from 2001 to 2009 did not ask the
right questions then that is their problem, not the problem on this side of
the House.”
In February, Public SafetyMin Vic Toews used the same tactic. When
questioned as to how the Cons manage... more »
The Way Forward on Guantánamo-- Guest Post By Michelle Ringuette Of Amnesty International
President Obama and prominent members of Congress, including House Armed
Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), have rather
conveniently started blaming each other for the lack of progress toward
closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. But their arguments are
self-serving and political: Congress has done little to help, and President
Obama doesn’t need their help anyway.
The *Fresno Bee*, in a May 4 editorial, saw McKeon’s words for what they
were, noting that Congress was continuing to put up roadblocks to
transferring detainees out of the facility and... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Philip Bailey, 62.
Fortunately, there's good stuff:
1. With the caveat that I haven't read it, I suspect this new paper, "Preventing
Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment," is something
people should know about. Sara Heller, Harold Pollack, Roseanna Ander, Jens
Ludwig.
2. Ezra Klein on the Senate.
3. Greg Koger, cranky about third-rate think tank research. Not about the
Senate, although Greg is mentioned in the previous linked item.
4. And Noah Smith praises getting a Ph.D. in economics.
IOWA ACTION: Petition for ALEC Transparency
I am assuming it is meant for Iowans - but it does not say only Iowans can
sign the petition on the webpage.
PLEASE consider signing this.
*Sign it*
*>>>HERE<<<*
Part of the petition from Progress Iowa:
Please release the following information to the public:
1. Any "35-Day Mailing" from the American Legislative Exchange Council that
you have received
2. The roster of ALEC members in Iowa
3. The roster of your Task Force's Membership
4. Financial records detailing payments from the State of Iowa to the
American Legislative Council for the payment of membership dues, and any
oth... more »
"We Don't Make Mistakes. Bureaucrats Do."
When Marc Garneau -- Canada's first astronaut -- was not invited to a
ceremony celebrating the Canadarm's contribution to space exploration, the
Harper government blamed that oversight on the officials at the air museum
and space agency, who issued the invitations.
Hard to believe, writes Michael Harris:
And is the Harper government actually claiming that it never occurred to
them to glance over the guest list or to invite our first Space Man to the
Canadarm ceremony?
Bottom line? The crunchy cons chose to punish the rival politician rather
than honour the astronaut.
It is bred... more »
Mail Organizer from a Cereal Box
Mail has the tendency to get scattered all over our house. It has never
been a problem before, until we got slapped with a late fee because I never
noticed that a certain letter was actually a bill. After that, my husband
insisted we have a central location for the mail. I wanted something
simple, something that I could change easily as my decor changed. After
thinking about it for awhile, this is what I came up with.
You will need:
a cereal box
a piece of sand paper
scissors
paint and scrapbook paper in coordinating colors
Mod Podge
Chalkboard Labels
Poster Strips (to hang the... more »
Big Brother Using Sophisticated Cameras to Mark Targets
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Ed Steer's May 8 , 2013 Morning Report on gold & Silver
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China Produces 90 Tonnes, Consumes 320 Tonnes in Q1 of 2013
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The gold price opened quietly in early Far East trading on their
Tuesday...and then began to chop lower shortly before 10:00 a.m. in Tokyo.
It gained a bit of that back once London began to trade, but had the rug
pulled out from under it... more »
White House delays release of secret torture report
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*Head of Army Corps Responds to Levees.org’s Demand for Locations of Faulty
Levees*
*Parish leaders fighting FEMA flood maps from sending rates skyrocketing ~Dennis
Woltering*
*Hurricane center chief focusing on water hazards*
*Where Does The Mississippi River Set Down Its Mud? ~WWNO*
*Saints punter Thomas Morstead to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer*
*Marigny gun-grabber says he's not a hero for April 27 act of courage ~Casey
Ferrand*
*Coastal advocates question spill fine spending ~Nikki Buskey*
*Shreveport chef to compete for "King of Louisiana Seafood"*
*2013 National M... more »
Shrinking Discretionary Spending
We are increasingly moving toward a subscription lifestyle which bodes well
for some and could give others a few sleepless nights as consumers’
discretionary spending effectively shrinks.
Only last week we were discussing subscription models with a financial
industry expert, who informed us that it is being predicted that some 10%
of spending could be subscription based in the near future. That may sound
a small percentage but when we remove the must buys on rent, utilities,
food, clothing etc. it leaves little discretionary spending and that 10%
suddenly becomes a much larger thre... more »
Syrian Internet has gone down again
This article shows the drop off in internet traffic
Syria’s access to the Internet was cut on Tuesday. *The most likely
culprit, security researchers said, was the Syrian government.*
Syrian Internet traffic came to a halt just before 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Google reported a drop in Internet traffic around that time, as did the
Local Coordinating Committees, an antigovernment activist group in Syria.
Four physical cables connect Syria to the Internet — three under the sea,
and the fourth over land through Turkey. For outsiders to cause Tuesday’s
outage, security experts say, they ... more »
Syria updates - May 8 , 2013..... US Military intervention within the next several months ( clear the Al Qaeda rebels cannot get the job done against the Syrian Government troops at this point )
« Breaking News »Syrian army recaptures strategic southern town
DEBKA*file* May 8, 2013, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
After a two-month bombardment, the Syrian army Wednesday recaptured from
rebel fighters the Horan region’s Kirbet Ghazaleh which sits athwart an
important transit route to Jordan and is key to the town of Deraa where the
anti-Assad uprising erupted in March 2011. Syrian opposition forces accused
the Jordanian-backed rebel military council of failing to supply the town’s
defenders with the weapons needed for repulsing Assad’s forces.
« Breaking News »Russia and US agree only o... more »
Overnight data from China ( exports and imports ) better than expected , German Industrial Production data better than expected ...... Swiss consumer prices continue slump , Netherlands Industrial Production fell much more than expected..... ECB allegedly looking at ways to revive ABS market even buying ABS ( except Buba is opposed so how far can this go ? ) ....... Macro news and views for May 8 , 2013
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Roosevelt as saviour?
President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" has long been credited with
rescuing the US from the Great Depression of the 1930s. While digging up
material for tonight’s discussion on the Great Depression, I uncovered this
presentation by economics scholar Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at
UCLA, who challenges the conventional wisdom in a provocative examination
of FDR's economic policies.
It recalls to mind Steven Kates’s argument “There is no such thing as an
independent force that can be described as aggregate demand.”
If you want to get to the essence of Say’s Law you must... more »
Don't Cry For Him, Argentina
South Carolina: Proudly embarrassing the United States abroad since 1861.
#Sanford
— Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) May 8, 2013
So, this is what passes for "family values" in South Carolina's 1st
district:
They decided to elect over a smart lady and successful businesswoman a
guy who politically was three years ago like Eva Perón: Still in the public
eye but deader than a doornail.
The man, for want of a better word, they elected to warm his old seat:
Lied to staff and his constituents that he was hiking the Appalachian
trail when in reality he was fucking his... more »
Opposing Theocracy
This is an ideological struggle not of our choosing that attempts to
establish its writ using the putative support of its adherents to impose
their ideas. Of course we object. What has not happened yet is outright
confrontation and the establishment of powerful boundaries. This has only
because we have preferred denial to the cost of establishing a new paradigm.
From my perspective, they cannot win through. In fact the weight of
secularism is grinding away at their world and the demands of education is
forcibly broadening their perspectives. This has not prevented atrocity ... more »
Beet Juice Lowers High Blood Pressure
Specific experiments have pretty well spelled it out. Raw vegetable
release nitrates directly into the bloodstream causing a strong downward
adjustment in blood pressure. Beet juice appears to be particularly strong
in terms of this effect.
Obviously many other factors are also brought to bear here that matter
also that remain often unidentified. Yet the nitrate cycle is well known
and fundamental.
We already know that a vegan diet is wonderfully successful. What should
also be clear is that the vegan portion of your diet needs to be there even
if the rest is not. I am... more »
Ancient Earth Crust Stored in Deep Mantle
It may be possible to map this effect in other recycled volcanic rocks
worldwide and give us an indirect way to see the ancient past. At least we
now know that it is possible.
Slowly but surely we are advancing our knowledge of geological history and
piecing together an awesome history.
At the same time, we can look across at Venus and see another prospective
planet to terraform also. The surface rock temperature remains at over 600C
and will remain there until we cause the planet to be bombarded with comets
that pack plenty of of water and carbon.
That would cause t... more »
Lightening Modeling
Does anyone really think that we have lightening figured out? Besides
gamma rays and errant electrons we also have stripped atoms accumulating
and moving around to form ball lightening also. In fact a channel may well
be formed by stripped ions. The ball lightening was only recently properly
described.
A good explanation may be that we are actually seeing a heat effect
penetrating the air mass as the surplus electrons drill toward the ground.
Once the ions are hot enough the electrons are able to cascade easily
through the mass of ions.
Once the potential becomes larg... more »
Satire: “Sanford’s Comeback Gives Hope To Liars”
*“Sanford’s Comeback Gives Hope To Liars”*
by Andy Borowitz
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Borowitz Report)— “Former South Carolina Governor
Mark Sanford’s stunning upset in a special congressional election on
Tuesday served as an inspiration to liars across the state and beyond,
prominent members of the lying community said tonight. “In America, liars
are always made to feel bad about ourselves, as if what we’re doing is
wrong,” said Harland Dorrinson, fifty-seven, a liar from suburban
Charleston. “Mark Sanford’s victory tonight is a victory for the lying
lifestyle.” Carol Foyler, thi... more »
The one hundred and forty ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award
This week's award is awarded in the full knowledge that the recipient knew
that the answer was obvious before they undertook the research. So the
award is less about the recipient than publicising the report.
The Commentator reveals for the second year running that:
'the BBC has been shown to have an inherent Left-leaning bias through its
newspaper procurement policy which has again displayed a tilt towards The
Guardian newspaper.'
The BBC biased towards the left and full of Guardian readers - "No shit,
Sherlock"
Here's some more:
'The news comes despite the continuing decline of... more »
Nine cars buried in Jalan Ampang LANDSLIDE
Editor's note:
Coming so close after BN declared their illegal GE-13 victory, this must be
a Divine Sign of the UNDERLYING ROT of the collapsing BN govt. It is only
a matter of time.
KUALA LUMPUR - Nine cars parked at a private parking lot near the Bukit
Nanas monorail station in Jalan Sultan Ismail here were damaged in a
landslide during a downpour yesterday .
It is understood that the rain at 6.30pm had caused the soil on the slope
to loosen. After 30 minutes, the landslide occurred.
Logeswaran, an engineer who works at a company opposite the parking lot,
said his two-month-ol... more »
The World's End
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The third part of the ice cream and beer themed trilogy is coming... Following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, comes The World's end - complete with obligatory Simon Pegg fence jumping gag!
Christy Clark`s LNG Plans and Job Numbers Turn Into A Mirage
*Written by Grant G*
There is something seriously wrong with Christy Clark and the BC Liberals
LNG superpower plans, as you know I have been skeptical of this scheme,
especially on the scale the BC Liberals have advertised..
The Liberal Government $40 million dollar ad blitz we`ve endured the last
18 months, these ads talked of not $billions in revenue but $trillions, in
the throne speech and in the BC Liberal election platform LNG has been all
they talked about..
There was talk about LNG royalties eliminating the debt, eliminating sales
tax and creating a prosperity fund worth... more »
200 games for #StevieJ
Has their been a better all-round player in modern AFL than Geelong’s
mercurial genius Steve Johnson?
Sit back and enjoy … and ponder if Dan Carter could do half of what the
great Stevie J has done in his 200 games.
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CLEVELAND BROTHEL PROTECTED BY POLICE AND CIA?
*Ariel Castro kidnapped kids for the CIA?*
Ariel Castro said he worked for the CIA.
Jow Popow, a childhood friend of Ariel Castro, says:
"Ariel was in my garage probably five or six years ago. ..
"He said he was in the CIA...
"It's the way he said it, how serious he said it."
*Hints of a dark side in Cleveland abduction suspect's life | Reuters*
*General Michael Aquino, of the US military, is said to be linked to the
kidnapping of Johhny Gosch.*
Ariel Castro kidnapped kids for the CIA?
Marc Dutroux is believed to have kidnapped kids for people linked to the
CIA.
*New Leads Impl... more »
IS YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ABOUT TO BLOW...And DELIBERATELY???
........pm from one of our trusted journalist......
posted Mon 16 March 2009 10:51 PM
IS YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ABOUT TO BLOW...And DELIBERATELY???
Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism with a Christian
perspective-
I have previously reported MUCH information about the covert military BLACK
OPS in place in YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (YNP), and reported about
military admissions (which I have gathered from reliable sources, including
911 truthteller retired USAF FIELD MCCONNELL, and at least one Pentagon
source) of huge amounts of powerful military explosives being c... more »
Jo Nesbo - The Redeemer - justice system quotation
The Redeemer is a *Detective Harry Hole* thriller written by Norwegian
writer Jo Nesbo and published in 2005 and it's one of his best books in the
series.
The story's a good 'un, just gets on with it, is well researched and 'feels
sufficiently authentic' and every now and then Nesbo allows his characters
to THINK on the page. Here's an excerpt from what's technically the
Epilogue; it's a commentary on the Justice System, incipient corruption and
Small Fry vs Big Fish:
*"Some say the reason so many criminals go free is that the legal system is
a net with a large mesh. But that give... more »
WORLD BANK WHISTLE-BLOWER: “PRECIOUS METALS TO SERVE AS AN UNDERPINNING FOR PAPER CURRENCIES”
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http://silverdoctors.com/world-bank-whistle-blower-precious-metals-to-serve-as-an-underpinning-for-paper-currencies/#more-26232
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*WORLD BANK WHISTLE-BLOWER: “PRECIOUS METALS TO SERVE AS AN UNDERPINNING
FOR PAPER CURRENCIES”*
MAY 7, 2013 BY THE DOC
I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with one of the western world’s
most courageous and astute women, Karen Hudes, Former Senior Counsel to the
World Bank—now turned whistle-blower.
It was a powerful conversation, as Karen spent 20 years with the World Bank
as an attorney and economist, before being “let-go” after reporti... more »
Thirty Seconds to Mars: This is War (A song about Peace)
*Here's another interesting video, the surprise is at the end. :) -AK*
Today is V.E. Day
Today is V.E. Day, the day we celebrate the victory of the Allied powers
over Nazi Germany which ended the Second World War. The history of the end
of the Second World War: the fight for Berlin, the last days in Hitler's
bunker and the subsequent chaos make for interesting study but the real
sentiment should be relief that the war ended and sorrow for the millions
of people (Jews and others) murdered by the German National Socialist Party
lead Germany and for the other civilians and armed forces that died to free
Europe from Nazi tyranny.
Unfortunately the end of the Second World W... more »
F-16s: the eternal sunshine of our spotless media
*Always a pretty view above the Liyu Reservoir in Miaoli.*
*Leonard Shelby: If we talk for too long, I'll forget how we started. Next
time I see you, I'm not gonna remember this conversation. I don't even know
if I've met you before.*
According to AFP, we've arrived at a turning point....
Taiwan's Defence Minister Kao Hua-chu said for the first time Monday that
Taipei will not necessarily take the deal even if Washington gives the nod.
"Our demand has changed following the announcement of the upgrade project.
The jet fighters we buy in the future have to outperform the F-16 upgrad... more »
May 7, 1973
It's a new week, and the new White House is getting organized, with Nixon
agreeing on Al Haig as his new chief of staff.
Elliot Richardson is preparing for his confirmation hearings for Attorney
General, scheduled to begin in a couple of days, and today he announces
that he would appoint a special counsel to handle Watergate.
At some point in early May, John Dean -- having failed to get what he
wanted from the Justice Department -- started working another angle. He
approached Senator Lowell Weicker, maverick Republican from Connecticut,
and secretly told him what Dean was prepared... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
This post contains a lot of great information and I encourage you to read
through it at your leisure ... however, if you are short on time, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we tried to live on $1.50 per person per day for food. What an
"eye-opener". I somehow thought th... more »
Will Syria Be Obama's Iraq?
McCain and Lindsey Graham aren't the only obsessive war-mongers urging
Obama to attack Syria. There are plenty-- and on both sides of the aisle.
So far the President has been urging caution and insisting on getting to
the bottom of the rumors being pushed out by practiced liars like McCain
and Graham as though they were gospel. Like the "proof" that nerve gas was
used. Perhaps it was... but who, exactly used it? Do we even know who the
"good guys" and who the "bad guys" are in this conflict? It would be
probably most prudent to assume that everyone involved wishes America ill.
An... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Dr. Kaasem
Khaleel, better known as Dr. K. Dr. K has done extensive research on media
fakery and PSYOPS perpetuated against the American public, including the
Sandy Hook "shooting" hoax, the recent Boston "bombing", and even 9/11. Be
sure to visit his website *NODISINFO.COM* where you can find many of his
research relating to media fakery and PSYOPS. Dr. K is also a prolific
author, and published *Wrongly Blamed: The Real Facts Behind 9/11 and the
London Bombings* back in 2006, in which he makes the case that
internationa... more »
Must have got lost
Day slipped away from me. All I got at this hour is a Joel Pett cartoon.
[click to embiggen]
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Great Myths of the Great Depression
[image: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic...]
Tomorrow night the Auckland University Economics Group meets again. Here’s
their note about what they’ll be discussing:
Six years on and we’re still mired in the Greatest Economic Depression
since the one still known as THE Great Depression.
Last week we looked at the ongoing Euro-Crisis. This week we talk about
this most famous, but in may respects the least known, of all economic
disasters.
Everyone knows about the *first *Great Depression—but is everything they
know correct?
There are many lessons from the Grea... more »
Maybe you can beat Wellington on a good day?
In pointing out the obvious, that Wellington is losing businesses as they
depart for places elsewhere (replacing businesses with politicians as one
wag said) John Key has stirred up a Hurricane’s nest. Aggrieved
Wellingtonians are springing up all over to argue Wellington is not dying.
Mind you, their refutations are not exactly strong—mayor Celia Wade-Brown,
for example, in mentioning that only the other day she had met some Chinese
students in her office was not really offering strong opposition.
Having visited recently to sample AFL and a fair proportion of hostelries
along wi... more »
A Bunni Donation Button...
*has been added to my sidebar on the top, thanks to the wizardry of Odie,
AKA Woodsterman. Thanks, Odie. *
This PayPal account is not associated with me, but goes directly to Bunni's
funeral and cemetery fund.
Any amount you can help with would much appreciated.
Thank you
*
**The Catholic Funeral Mass for Carol Mackie (Amusing Bunni) has been
scheduled.*
Viewing will be at 9am on Wednesday May 8, 2013 at
Lakeview Funeral Home
1458 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
Funeral Mass will be at 11am the same day at:
Transfiguration Catholic Church
2609 W. Carmen Ave.
Chicago, IL 6062... more »
Gary Witherspoon 'Water and Energy: Survival in the American Southwest'
Water
and Energy:
Survival in the American Southwest
Narrative on Dine' water rights and Navajo Generating Station lease
negotiations
By Gary Witherspoon
Censored News
In 1519, Cortez and his army of mercenaries invaded the Triple Alliance
formed by the great city states of central Mexico. His conquest of the
Mexica took several years and finally succeeded as a result of an
Christy Clark, BC Rail Questions, We Need To Talk To Your Brother Bruce Clark
There are many unanswered questions surrounding BC Rail and a public
inquiry is definitely required..The Gerrand conflict of interest case that
was conducted only looked at a very thin slice of the BC Rail corruption
scandal, and despite Gerrand`s ruling, too many questions remain
unresolved..
First off, I believe taking anything to any conflict commissioner in Canada
is a waste of time, these positions are patronage, their rulings and
opinions are always soft, tempered tsk tsk milktoast fare, scathing rebukes
and critical thought will not be found in any conflict commissi... more »
Michael James : Heading to the Finish Line
Sportsman's
Park, Cicero, Illinois, 1986. Photo by Michael James from his
forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Heading to the finish line at
Sportsman's Park in Cicero
Straight up: horses were my first love -- before cowboys and Indians,
Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wally Parks and the National
Hot Rod Association... more »
Penny-wise . . .
Got
an appeal for money from the Oakville Ontario
PC's this week, on behalf of the latest chooch to give it a try.
What was interesting about it was the stamps on the
envelope, two "A" postage and a surprise, a 1937 3¢ Coronation stamp. I
guess two "A"s and 3¢ are what Canada Post charges these days. I mailed a
#10 five or six months ago, for around 60 cents or so, as I recall.
Don't do
Deep Green Resistance Camp at White Clay May 2013
DEEP
GREEN RESISTANCE: Camp at White Clay, Nebraska, bordering Pine Ridge,
S.D. , where liquor stores profiteer
The camp on the White KKKlay border is still going strong. They do need
help with supplies if anyone can help. They need wood, food, and water.
They also need more warriors to stand with them in this fight. If you
would like to help please email DGR Great Plains Coordinator T.R.
Virginia scientist finds East Coast sea levels rising at accelerating rate
[image: John Boon, a Virginia Institute of Marine Science oceanographer,
stands near the breakwaters at Virginia Institute of Marine Science in
Gloucester on 22 April 2013. Boon's 2012 study showed that the rate of
rising seas is increasing along much of the East Coast. Photo: AP]
GLOUCESTER POINT, 5 May 2013 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) – For years,
computer simulations have predicted that climate change will cause East
Coast sea levels to rise at an increasingly rapid rate.
In a 2010 study, Virginia Institute of Marine Science oceanographer John
Boon looked at decades of tide-gauge... more »
"Justice O'Connor regrets"
*"There is no more eloquent testimony to the evolution of the Republican
Party than the ideological fate of the last three Justices to leave the
Supreme Court: O'Connor, Souter, and Stevens. In this way, O'Connor's
apostasy on Bush v. Gore is a surprise -- but perhaps only because it took
so long."*
*-- Jeffrey Toobin, in a newyorker.com
post,* "Justice O'Connor Regrets"
*by Ken*
I expect you noticed that retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
recently expressed strong second thoughts about about the dreadful 2000
Bush v. Gore decision, for which she wrote the 5-4 major... more »
Getting rich off global warming – ‘I predict there will be thirty to fifty-thousand climate and adaptation professionals in next decade or so’
[image: Cover of 'Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science
and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World', Edited by Susanne Moser and
Maxwell Boykoff. Graphic: Routledge]By Alexander Zaitchik
5 May 2013
(Salon) – On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation
Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall
when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my
pile of conference literature, a mess of pamphlets and reports with titles
like
*Getting Climate Smart: A Water Preparedness Guide for State Action*, and ... more »
Alan Waldman : ‘Fawlty Towers’ is a Dozen Classic Comic Gems
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Former Monty Python star John Cleese and wife Connie Booth carefully
crafted 12 unforgettable, hilarious episodes.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England,
Friday Nerd Blogging Way Early
Despite the geekiness of my previous post today, I had to double dip with
this: H/T Jeff Emanuel
Game of Thrones Over-Thinking: Applications from Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
What do Arend Lijphart, John McGarry and Tywin Lannister have in common?
Power-sharing! Since we are halfway through the third season, and we got a
nice dialogue about the interplay between nation, nationalism and anarchy
between Varys and Littlefinger (not in the book), it is time for us to
ponder how these basic concepts play
Continue reading
An ALEC Protest Sign
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Knowledge-Movement/473608799319088
Three major terror ( WMD - nuclear in the case of DC ) drills in three different cities , set for some time between May 7 and May 29 ...... and right before these drills the Coast Guard is told to stand down and stay in Port ? ?
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/coast-guard-ordered-to-stay-in-port-and-allow-infiltration-2640320.html
( Almost as if they want someone to slip in....... )
Coast Guard Ordered To Stay In Port And Allow Infiltration
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 13:09
(Before It's News)
[image: OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA]
MIAMI, FL – Drugs, weapons, illegal aliens all are welcome under a new
directive. There is an ongoing, emergency situation with the U.S. Coast
Guard, which is now an agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
.
“By directive, starting last Monday, 29 April 2013 (barring em... more »
For GOP - Workplace Ignorance is Bliss.
Saw this on Think Progress
A big worry of opponents of the bill is that employers will have the power
to coerce employees into taking comp time instead of having to pay them
overtime wages. When confronted with this possibility, the bill’s sponsor,
Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), told the Sirius radio show The Morning Briefing
with Tim Farley that employees will be able to turn to existing worker
protections against coercion
It is evident
SHE has never worked as a grunt in private industry.
It is evident that she has never worked as a grunt - with no union
protection – in private ind... more »
Decoboards Unlimited- Finally A Cute Whiteboard
Last summer, my parents redid their house. New carpet, new tile in the
bathrooms and kitchen, paint and even new pictures and wall hangings for
each room. My parents are pretty much out of their kid phase and my dad
wanted the house to reflect that they weren't worried about marker on the
sofa anymore. The one snag came when my mom wanted to hang a whiteboard in
the kitchen.
A whiteboard has hung in my parents kitchen for as long as I can remember,
it is a place for the shopping list, notes saying we are at friends houses
and other important information. All my mom could find was a ... more »
Bob Feldman : The Influence of Texas' 'Big Rich,' 1974-1995
Texas oil patriarch H. L. Hunt. The Hunt family was reputed to be the world's wealthiest. Image from The Famous People.
The hidden history of Texas
Part 14: 1974-1995/2 --The influence of Texas' 'big rich'
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2013
[This is the second section of Part 14 of Bob Feldman's Rag Blog series on the hidden history of Texas.]
During the 1970s and early 1980s the
CATO Institute to Spread Right-Wing Propoganda in Appleton
http://www.tecmidwest.com/cm/pdfs/TEC-Event-may2013.pdf
Mohawk Nation News 'Guns, Guns, Guns'
GUNS,
GUNS, GUNS
May 7, 2013
MNN. May 7, 2013. The gun owners have not fallen into Obama’s trap. The
National Rifle Association NRA meeting in Texas is a good example of
their great fears. TV star Glenn Beck said, “Guns should only be in the
hands of good people”! Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said, “The men
and women who secured this country have the answers”. They are
beginning to
Harvey Organ and Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Reports - May 4 , 2013 ! Data and plenty of news and views !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/05/gold-and-silver-holdgold-declines-again.html
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Gold and silver hold/Gold declines again at GLD and Comex/Gold deliveries
are now 5.97 tonnes for April/Silver at 16.29 million oz
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed down $3.40 to $1464.30 (comex closing time). Silver rose by 19
cents to $23.98 (comex closing time).
In the access market at 5 pm gold and silver are the following :
gold: $1470.70.
silver: $24.13
At the comex, the open interest in silver fell by 850 contracts to 144,886
contracts as we had s... more »
@michelemcneil and #edweek: #optout suppression!
Sometimes you just can’t beat a dead horse enough. I know Shaun already
mentioned Michele McNeil and her inability to understand the depth of the
Occupy the DOE event. However, Shaun was too nice. In her latest post, Ms.
McNeil wastes reader’s time, complicates the issue, and intentionally down
plays the power behind the revolt. What appears to [...]
Christy Clark, She`s Come Undone(reposted)
*Written by grant G*
The entire BC Liberal Government and party are in disarray, words and
phrases are being tossed around like *final death throes, end of a dynasty,
thunderstruck, dying days, point of no return *and they are all fitting
though I prefer to use phrases and words like *crime family gunned down, corruption
rooted out, zombies exposed to sunlight melt *and my favorite, *ding dong
the wicked witch is dead..*
Scandal and organized crime, it`s as simple as that, I still remember the
headlines after our BC Legislature was raided by police *"Organized crime
has infiltr... more »
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