RSA-The Economist Debate (Photo credit: cybaea)Rebels without cause - The Economist Intel Unit analysis of Protest Movements
Link: http://youtu.be/2ZpLQ5Exy_A - click in picture to start this film! *The Economist's Intelligence Unit* produced an interesting analysis of global protest movements. Here you can find more details. There appears to be a variety of protest engagement against 'traditional governance', whatever that means across the world. The Economist IU concludes that "...one striking feature is the rise of new social movements that defy easy categorisation and reject conventional modes of political engagement." I would add: "reject the lack of democracy" in a global society beyond 19th centuri... more »
Temps
Kelly Services, a temp agency, is now the second biggest private employer in the U.S. Only heavily subsidized, socially-toxic Walmart employs more people across the country. Last month, Michael Grabell filed this reportfor Pro Publica on the state of the temporary work in America. The implications are profound, not just for the individuals involved and for their families, but for our economic system going forward, for our democracy and for our society overall. Grabell paints a picture that sounds like the situation involving day laborers in third world countries but that isn't what... more »
Boston Police Photographer releases new photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - first photo interesting does not real a throat wound.when Tsarneaev surrendered ........
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/boston-magazine-fires-back-at-rolling-stone-cover-with-new-photos-of-bloody-tsarnaev/ ‘THIS IS THE REAL BOSTON BOMBER’: POLICE PHOTOGRAPHER FIRES BACK AT ROLLING STONE COVER WITH NEW PHOTOS OF BLOODY TSARNAEV Jul. 18, 2013 5:55pm Madeleine Morgenstern - 184 - 4.2K - 8 - 0 - - - 77 Boston Magazine has responded to Rolling Stone’s controversial new cover giving accused marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the glam rock star treatment with incredible new photos of his capture. This Tsarnaev — bloody and in the fixed beam of ... more »
La Defensa del Agua de la Tribu Yaqui
Yaqui defend their water in Sonora, Mexico Published on Jul 18, 2013 Desde el 29 de mayo de este año, la Tribu Yaqui y el Movimiento Ciudadano en defensa del agua de Ciudad Obregón, iniciaron el bloqueo intermitente en la carretera internacional número 15 México-Nogales a la altura del pueblo de Vícam, primer cabecera del territorio yaqui. Esta acción se organizó
And Now the Buzzards Descend to Pick the Corpse of Detroit
You might find this surprising but there's a group of mega-rich investors just waiting to pounce on a parcel of Detroit real estate. They call their vision the "Commonwealth of Belle Isle" and they have big plans for the one decent park the people of beleaguered Detroit have remaining to them. Belle Isle is a 982-acre island in the Detroit River near where the river meets Lake St. Clair. It's the biggest municipal-owned, island park in the U.S. This is what the vultures have in mind for Belle Isle: Consider it a fortress with a 12-knot moat, the ultimate gated community/municip... more »
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Doctor Debunks AFP Ad on ObamaCares
Two minutes. It's great - share it wide Source: OccupyDemocrats
Gaia Portal: Finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment
* * * * *Finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment* by ÉirePort Energetic couplings and finalization of Gaia portal connections into fully operational 5-7D planetary grid are in process at this now moment. Such connections and couplings have been designed for New Paradigm multi-dimensional manifestations and will be experienced by multiple Light-aware and non-Light-aware beings, across planetary surface, as well as throughout Inner Gaia realms. What some might term "mass awakenings" will occur in due time, ... more »
Fordham Institute’s Newsletter: Gadfly or Dung Beetle?
We called them tumble bugs when I was a kid down South. Dung beetles live in, by, and for manure. They carefully roll it into balls, place it underground, and lay their eggs in it. This provides a food source for their larvae, or as the case with Fordham’s busy beetles, for Americans seeking information […]
ALEC Legislators - Bottom Feeders
ALEC - Pimping for whoever can pay them enough money. There are a couple of errors in what is said in this - but I don't care. I love this. Nine minutes of your time - you don't have to watch it - listen to it. Funny that Pap mentions the Sagebrush Rebellion ALEC has an act for that -but it is not what anyone would imagine. Sagebrush Rebellion Act, it is designed to establish a mechanism for the transfer of ownership of unappropriated lands from the federal government to the states. There doesn't seem to be much of a public outcry. What? Let's change that! Let's say NO! to th... more »
The Secret Government
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As Detroit goes bankrupt, if you see anything the city owns that you like, try offering the "emergency manager" a few bucks
*See anything you like? Make 'em an offer. (Feel free to low-ball.)* *"The best analogy I have heard for what is happening in Detroit is that this is a five-decade Katrina. Now, you either get a voluntary agreement from people holding long-term debt, or you get bankruptcy."* *-- Peter Hammer, Wayne State University law professor and director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights* *by Ken* The news is pretty stark. The *Washington Post* (with help from the AP) reports: "Deroit goes bankrupt, largest municipal filing in U.S. history." Detroit filed the largest municipal bankru... more »
Congressman Chaka Fattah ( Dem - Pa ) calls for Washington bailout of the City of Detroit ... White House we're monitoring but solve your problems Detroit........
Congressman Asks Obama For "Immediate Support" With Detroit Bankruptcy [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2013 20:12 -0400 - Detroit - Michigan - President Obama - White House Four years ago he bailed out the city's automotive industry, and a whole lot of union votes. Moments ago, Obama was just called in again, this time to bail out the entire city. "Representative Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a leader of the Congressional Urban Caucus, sent a letter to President Obama today calling on the Administration* to lend a helping hand to Detroit*... more »
Summer Teaching – Why Teach and What Makes It Different
Recently, I finished teaching a month long summer course on International Relations to mainly first and second year undergrads at the University of Missouri. Although I’ve taught summer courses before, this was actually one of my first experiences with having to –for the love of all things holy! – do what my public school teaching Continue reading
On Writing Letters to Congress about ESEA
I received a very genuine email appeal from a fellow humane human engaged in the same struggle to create public schools controlled by the public. Here is part of it: As you know, ESEA will soon come before the house floor for amendment. Would you be willing to encourage colleagues to call their representatives and […]
NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS.
jueves, 18 de julio de 2013 #EZLN NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS. NUEVAS FECHAS PARA LA ESCUELITA, INFORMACIÓN DE VIDEOCONFERENCIAS Y DE OTRAS COSAS. Julio del 2013.Para: Las compañeras y compañeros de la Sexta y estudiantes de la Escuelita Zapatista.De: Subcomandante Insurgente
Mohawk Nation News 'Dim Apprentice'
DIM APPRENTICE Posted on July 18, 2013 Mohawk Nation News MNN. July 17, 2013. Prime Minister Harper’s former economic hit man within Indian Affairs, Jim Prentice, also known as “The-Dim-Apprentice”, is warning us, his Indigenous landlords, to turn over our energy and natural resources to the international bankers real quick, or else! Harper’s scam-the-Indians-and-get-a-commission right
Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue
*"Martin Buber: A Contemporary Perspective"* edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (2002). *Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue. Source: University of Chicago. Date Published: July 15, 2013. Description*: Paul Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals. He serves as editor-in-chief of the 22-volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber, sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgisc... more »
Friday Morning Ramble: The Earth Moved Under Our Feet Edition
Earthquake near Wellington this morning measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale (and 16 stone on the ordinary household scale*). *Recent Earthquakes* – GEONET "Impossible to serve hot, good-quality food" in schools, says Indian state education minister after 23 kids die. *In India, Playground Now a Graveyard* – WALL STREET JOURNAL The Maori population in Australia ("aka “Mozzies”) is growing faster than it is here, and they’re earning much better too—some evidence, you’d think, that race-based welfarism here at home is less beneficial than the melting pot across the Tasman. *Maori in... more »
Fukushima updates - July 18 , 2013.... Reactor 3 has steam coming up . Tepco says just heated rain ? Recall Reactor 3 is the one with the MOX fuel..... Meanwhile , items of note concerning thyroid cancers in Japan ,US military radiation related medical conditions including cancers and other unusual maladies....Radiation contamination and mutation items of note.....
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/steaming-reactor3-tepco-the-steam-is-the-heated-rain-same-thing-happened-last-year-but-didnt-report-it/ [Steaming reactor3] Tepco “The steam is the heated rain, same thing happened last year but didn’t report it” Posted by *Mochizuki* on July 18th, 2013 · No Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Following up this article.. *Tepco to hold an extraordinary press conference about reactor3 “steam” at the headquarters* [URL] *The steam is still coming up* at the moment of 16:00 7/18/2013. In the press ... more »
US Mulls attacking Syria - considering the news dominating the news cycle , why are we not surprised by this ?
With horrible headlines dominating the news cycle such as the following...... The Economy ? *DETROIT: Largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history...* NSA spy capers ? *ADMIT: NSA SPIES ON FRIENDS' FRIENDS' FRIENDS...* TSA searching parked cars at airports without notice ? *TSA SEARCHING PARKED CARS AT AIRPORTS...* IRS- Gate spreading like cancer ? *Questions about IRS snooping grow, extend to Biden home state...* * **Officials in DC ordered 'special scrutiny'...* * **Zimmerman case blowback fueling racial divide and giving opportunities for opportunists ? * * * *Jesse Jackson: ... more »
Together Index
A thick blanket of intense focus has wrapped itself around this place. Heat. The “dog days” of summer are here. Outside now, I witness their calling card – drooping branches, bleached flowers and burnt leaves. I wonder about the necessity for extremes. Sunshine and warmth are on one end required for life here; on the other – deadly. There is talk of a “heat index”. The temperature reads 96 degrees, while this index tells me it feels like 106. How does it know? Can an algorithm really understand what a specific temperature feels like to a human? Are not we uniquel... more »
Detroit files for bankruptcy and Michigan Governor Snyder authorizes the Chapter 9 filings - largest municipal bankruptcy in history.... Massive fight and massive looming haircuts for Detroit's creditors including Pension Funds and pensioners....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-18/when-60-years-lies-clash-reality-michigan-governor-snyder-authorizes-detroits-bankru When 60 Years Of Lies Clash With Reality: Michigan Governor Snyder Authorizes Detroit's Bankruptcy [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2013 17:31 -0400 - Bankruptcy Code - Creditors - Detroit - Fresh Start - Michigan - Reality - Unemployment The full letter from Michigan Governor Richard Snyder to Kevyn Orr, the man who just filed Detroit's bankruptcy petition. *Kevyn D. Orr* *Emergency Manager*... more »
How the Media is Mis-Reporting the DOD’s Drone Casualty Study
Earlier this week I posted about the classified DOD study showing a high rate of civilian harm from drone attacks. Not much else can be said about this finding by analysts until the study is de-classified, so instead let me discuss at some length the one other thing we do know: that the media has Continue reading
Thursday Afternoon Linkage
Before posting some mid-Thursday afternoon linkage, here is a little musing on not overstating the influence of social media on entertainment and politics. For a moment this week, the horribleness that was the SyFy Channel’s Sharknado set off a mini-Twitter storm that resulted in: a bunch of tweets but still dismal ratings for the made Continue reading
AWTT - America's True Hall of Fame
Presented for your inspiration, the web site AWTT, dedicated to Americans Who Tell the Truth. AWTT features a gallery of portraits by Robert Shetterly of that rare and bravest American species, the truth tellers. You'll find the famous and not-so-famous, from Abraham Lincoln to this guy, Bruce "Utah" Philips: "*Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. ... more »
The Assassination of JFK Jr.
The Assassination of JFK Jr. from Spike1138 on Vimeo. http://spitfirelist.com/f175 When John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in the crash of a private plane in July of 1999, media pundits ruminated at length about the recklessness of the Kennedys and "the Kennedy curse". This program explores the striking contradictions between the official version of JFK, Jr.'s death and the facts concerning his demise. The available data suggest that JFK, Jr. may have been the victim of foul play. The program consists of an interview with veteran journalist John Bryan, who worked for the San Francisco... more »
Guest Post - A Different Take on Geothermal Energy
When you hear about harvesting geothermal energy, what comes to mind? Do you imagine an Icelandic setting filled with collections of hot springs and an industrial size structure billowing heaps of steam, like this? [image: Harvesting geothermal energy.] Currently, these geothermal fields sparsely populate the Pacific Northwest, found as far inland as Northern Montana and Southern New Mexico. The largest of which is located at *The Geysers* in the Mayacamas Mountains just above San Francisco. As the world’s largest supplier of geothermal energy, the United States operates at an estim... more »
Lee Rogers And An Eternal, Shared American Dream
Political scuttlebutt in Santa Clarita is that Buck McKeon is busy sucking up all the benefits of political corruption available and setting himself up as an armaments lobbyist this session and that he won't run against Lee Rogers again in 2014. Rogers came closer to beating him last year than anyone else in McKeon's whole career. And that was without any help from the DCCC. This year the DCCC is weighing in on Rogers' behalf... and McKeon is trying to hand the district over to an outsider-- right-wing fanatic Tony Strickland. Several other local Republicans aren't prepared to see ... more »
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy
The Motor City has gone bust. *Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once the nation’s fourth-most-populous city, has filed for bankruptcy, an official said Thursday afternoon, the largest American city ever to take such a course.* *Ballroom, Lee Plaza Hotel* ** *Founded more than 300 years ago, the city expanded at a stunning rate in the first half of the 20th century with the arrival of the automobile industry, and then shrank away in recent decades at a similarly remarkable pace. A city of 1.8 million in 1950, it is now home to 700,000 people, as well as to te... more »
HAARP Gakona: Closed - what about new conspiracies?
Who hasn't heard about "Haarp"? If you haven't you've missed little: Haarp, as many understand it, has closed. Funny then to see a continuous stream of conspiracy stories and YouTube's where the Gakona (Alaska) Haarp research facility was closed in the beginning of May 2013. However, this is only a small part of the truth about Haarp, of which a dozen or so likewise installations can be found all over the planet. The real truth is: scientists don't know what might happen when they fiddle with the ionosphere and electro-jets high above our heads. This explains their curiosity to find ... more »
Elizabeth Warren (D Massachusetts) gets my vote as the finest U.S. Senator of our time. And Arizona's maveric Republican Senator John McCain has returned to his senses. They both advocate the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. Find out why, and then sign on!
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The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian Hawk" & Israel's New Gladiator at the UN
(Photo Credit: Pete Souza / White House) In her first appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Samantha Power, Obama's pick for next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that she will spend her time in the role much as her predecessor Susan Rice did: acting as Israel's consummate defender, fear-mongering about Iran, and opposing any move to champion Palestinian
"In the present case, the trial judge improperly used the appellant’s right to be present at his trial to discredit his testimony. She erred in doing so."
*R. v. Jorgge*, 2013 ONCA 485 is a very clear statement that a judge may not consider the possibility that an accused tailored their evidence to meet evidence already heard. The Court writes: [12] There is a natural temptation to reason as the trial judge did in this case. But this reasoning was improper because it subverted the appellant’s right to be present at his trial. Under s. 650(1) of the Criminal Code, accused persons have a statutory right, indeed an obligation, to be present at their trial. Section 650(1) is grounded in an accused’s right to a fair trial and right to ma... more »
"The War on the Young"
* * *"The War on the Young"* by Bill Bonner "Another slow day on Wall Street. Stocks up a little. Gold down a little. A hot summer day. Ain’t nuthin’ goin’ nowhere. Except away. “Bernanke vows no retreat from easy monetary policy,” says the headline on the Financial Times this morning. “On to Moscow!” he might have added with flair… echoing Napoleon or Adolf. Easy money is the headliner today. More comic than tragic. But it will be, we predict, one of the biggest public policy disasters of our time. Here in Paris, talk is of leaving town. Either for the summer vacation… or forev... more »
The bourgeois perspective of the Times!
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *The things we care about:* Again today, we observe a crushing difference in perspective on opposite sides of the Time op-ed page: Down the right side of the page, Nicholas Kristof is off in Mali, writing about blindness and leprosy. Kristof tends to be like that. On the other side of the page, Gail Collins is wasting everyone’s time writing about Liz Cheney. Last Thursday, she wasted everyone’s time writing about Spitzer/Weiner. Translation: Gail Collins has nothing to say or write about. Then too, Maureen Dowd is still writing from Paris. Yesterday, she ... more »
What's Round, Three Storeys High and Stuffed With Cash?
Why it's the Cavendish Cottager, the senator from Kanata, Prince Edward Island, Mike Duffy.
US/Britian talk of using force in Syria and "refugees beg for a no fly zone"
*UPDATE BELOW: SYRIA'S "REBEL" COMMANDER HEADING TO THE US* The refugees begging is over the top. So, I will save it for last. Along with the picture of John Kerry *TorStar* “Senator, I am in favour of building a moderate opposition and supporting it,” Dempsey said. *“The question whether to support it with direct kinetic strikes ... is a decision for our elected officials, not for the senior military leader of the nation.”* *The use of kinetic strikes, a military term that typically refers to missiles and bombs, “is under deliberation inside of our agencies of government,” Demp... more »
Der Spiegel: Jimmy Carter Supports Snowden; Admits to Press: "America Has No Functioning Democracy"
President Jimmy Carter *This was posted at Brian Kelly's Blog -AK* * * http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/jimmy-carter-supports-snowden-admits-to.html *Jimmy Carter Supports Snowden; Admits to Press: "America Has No Functioning Democracy"* July 18, 2013 Found this in one of Germany's biggest newspapers; Spiegel. Of course we won't hear about Carter's comments in any American Press. To say "America has no functioning Democracy," is quite the statement by a former President. A direct link to that article, using google translate, can be found here. Ex-President Carter: "The i... more »
ALEC Conference - The Numbers Don't Compute
Now there is a little bit of a conundrum here. Consider this from the ALEC webpage: Hotel Address The Palmer House Hilton 17 East Monroe St. Chicago, IL60603 Reservation Deadline Wednesday, July 17, 2013 After July 17, 2013 every effort will be made to accommodate new reservations, based on availability and rate Doesn't matter what the rate is - the corporations are footing the bill - with their ALEC Scholarships. BUT note one other thing. The Palmer is the ONLY HOTEL LISTED for the conference No other hotel, with ALEC conference rates, is listed. None, just the Palmer.... more »
Untitled
*Sediment diversion is important to survival of state’s coast ~Aaron Viles, The Lens* *Dennis Persica: Business likes N.O., but state ... not so much ~Advocate*
Maoist TV loses ratings battle!
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *We recall the last time they started:* We were intrigued by Bill Carter’s report about viewership for the Zimmerman verdict. According to Carter, more than ten million people watched the verdict on one of the cable news channels. That is a massive number for 10 o’clock Eastern on a Saturday night. This is the way the numbers broke down: *Cable news viewers for Zimmerman verdict:* *Fox News: *3.68 million *CNN:* 3.4 million *HLN:* 2.2 million *MSNBC:* 1.3 million You can’t necessarily learn much from a single event of this type. MSNBC’s audience is probab...more »
Pesticide-Contaminated Lunch Kills 22 Children in India, Protests Spark by Elizabeth Renter
Pesticide-Contaminated Lunch Kills 22 Children in India, Protests Spark by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 17 July 2013 *Twenty-two children are dead so far* in the village of Dharmasati Gandaman, in India’s Bihar state. The cause is not some communicable disease or strange virus, but their school lunch. According to the BBC, the children all ate from the school’s free mid-day meal. *Forty-seven fell ill and 28 had been taken to area hospitals.* The free-lunch program is designed to both combat hunger and increase school attendance in the poverty-stricken village. It’s refe... more »
Musical Interlude: Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"
Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWnHAhKX6E&html5=1
Documentary Evidence in Civil Matters
Documentary evidence poses a major challenge for the Courts. This is especially so for civil cases – often trials for these matters are conducted with a focus on the substantive issues and without a focus on how things are to be proven. As a result evidentiary issues relating to proof of documents can be overlooked. Prior to admission all documents must be authenticated and established as relevant. Authentication, that is proving the document is what it purports to be, seldom poses an issue. A person who made or received the document can say it is, in fact, for example, a letter ... more »
How the Gates Foundation Is Undergirding the College Caste System
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has an explosive series of articles on the influence on higher education by vulture philanthropy and corporate foundations. Taking advantage of recent research by Hall and Thomas, CHE goes in depth to uncover a sewer of self-serving corruption, arrogant and ignorant policymaking, anti-democratic social steering, and a U. S. Department […]
The Allure of Order Previews the Failure of Common Core
The chapter that taught me the most in The Allure of Order covers the 1970s and the story of how state governments grew in importance. I was most struck, however, by Mehta’s account of Maryland’s accountability-based reform, Maryland Student Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), in the 1990s. It was an effort to combine accountability with a […]
It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life For me. And I'm feeling good
*Carmelle, forwarded us this video below, fits the mood of the day very well indeed! -AK* Thursday, 18 July 2013 *This old world is a new world.... how I feel* *OH Carmelle I sooooo Know how you feel!!! I feel it too!! -D.* And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel (refrain:)x2 It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling good Fish in the sea you know how I feel River running free you know how I feel Blossom... more »
ReDigitizing
Southern Man has a fairly extensive collection of music; lots of classical, lots of classic rock and blues, a fair bit of gospel, plenty of post-hardcore (thanks to Southern Son) and modern pop (favored by both Southern Daughters), and a scattering of others. It is mostly inaccessible - LPs boxed up in the barn and CDs scattered everywhere. So in an effort to (a) gather his music into one accessible place and (b) free himself from the tyranny of 20th-century rotating storage media, Southern Man is gathering his CDs and copying them to MP3s for easy playback. Yes, these too will ev... more »
Multimillionaire New Dem John Delaney Wants To Give Rich Corporations Another Tax Holiday
Another entitled multimillionaire in Congress undermining the lives of ordinary Americans If you caught the post Monday about how the DCCC recruits too many damned millionaires who have no way of relating to ordinary working families, you may have noticed that Maryland multimillionaire backbencher John Delaney spent $2,370,556 last year to buy himself a seat, the third most among the wealthy Democratic freshmen (all of whom immediately joined the extremely corrupt, pro-Business/anti-Family New Dems). In the battle over saving Social Security-- the importance of which these wealthy as... more »
Photo Longest Walk 4 Begins!
Photo copyright Brent Casa Azul/Thanks for sharing with Censored News! By Brenda Norrell Censored News WASHINGTON DC -- The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz began with a Sunrise Ceremony in Washington DC on Monday morning, July 15, 2013. Walkers are now on their way to Pennsylvania, enroute to Alcatraz. Walkers from the Long Walk 2 northern route include Michael Lane, top right, who was on
The reach and power of Standard Group Tales!
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *White liberals, please stay in your cars:* Occasionally, a professional journalist will reject a Standard Group Story. On Monday, Will Saletan rejected the current Standard Story in a post at Slate. As he starts, he says he “almost joined the frenzy” about the Zimmerman verdict: SALETAN (7/15/13): *I almost joined the frenzy. Yesterday I was going to write that Zimmerman pursued Martin against police instructions and illustrated the perils of racial profiling. But I hadn’t followed the case in detail.* So I sat down and watched the closing arguments: ne... more »
Question for McCainologists
My PP post yesterday was about "How Ted Cruz got Richard Cordray confirmed." It's about Republican overreach in general, but it's also about one particular possibility: that a big part of what happened had to do with John McCain getting upset with Ted Cruz. Which is, in turn, based on the idea -- familiar to McCain watchers -- that most of his career can be interpreted as basically a series of temper tantrums. Do note: there's another plausible interpretation, which is that it's all straightforward opportunism (Left to save his career after the Keating 5! Still left to occupy vacant... more »
"How It Really Is"
Highly educated and aware, fully and truthfully informed by their totally trustworthy and ever-honest main stream media and government, deeply concerned Americans ponder the grave issues confronting their country... - CP
"No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation"
* * *"No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation"* By Matthias Chang "I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized daylight robbery. Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and no government would dare embark on such a drastic action to bail out insolvent banks. Before I explain why confiscation of bank deposits in the UK and US is a certainty and absolutely legal, I need all readers of this article to do the following: Ask your local police, sheriffs, lawyers,... more »
Benjamin & His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Lies:Netanyahu Cries 'Wolf'...Again
"[An Iranian nuclear bomb] was a lot further away 15 years ago when I started talking about it. It was a lot further away 10 years ago. It was a lot further away five years. It was a lot further away five months ago. They are getting there, and they are getting very, very close." - Benjamin Netanyahu, March 7, 2012 "Red line, white line, black line and the like is for children. This is
"The Perils of Obedience"
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. The experiments were also controversial, and considered by some scientists to be unethical and physically or psychologically abusive. Psychologist Diana Baumrind considered the experiment "harmful because it may cause permanent psychological damage and cause p... more »
Boston: The Iranian Connection
Washington Talk: Briefing; C.I.A. Secrets *Published: February 15, 1988* There is no shortage of memoirs and books by former intelligence officials. But when Graham Fuller retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, leaving his post as national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, his first publication had nothing to do with cloaks, daggers or nasty deeds in back alleys. Mr. Fuller's book, titled ''How to Learn a Foreign Language,'' suggests a practical approach to a topic that has confounded generations of American high school and college students. Mr. Fuller ... more »
Protests Break Out Again In Iraq Over Lack Of Electricity
For the third time in four years, Iraqis have taken to the street to express their anger with the government for not providing enough electricity to meet demand. There are on-going protests in Basra and Dhi Qar provinces, the sight of similar events in 2010 and 2011. In response, the Electricity Ministry has tried to blame the weather and other ministries, which was very similar to previous years when it refused to take responsibility for its own shortcomings. The summers are very hot in Iraq, and if these protests grow they could pose a serious problem for the government, which is... more »
The Economy: “The Reason The Fed's Game Will End In Detonation”
* * *“The Reason The Fed's Game Will End In Detonation”* by Karl Denninger “You might not have caught it, but if you didn't you weren't thinking. One of the last questions and answers given by Bernanke was "what if rates rise?" His answer? The economy will tank. Did that tell you everything you needed to know? It should have. He can't exit. Not now, not ever. Which paradoxically, means he will exit because if an outcome is inevitable then the longer you wait and the more distortion you pump in before it happens the worse it is and he cannot avoid owning the outcome either way. T... more »
DEAD CITIES
*Venice - a lively place in the 1980s* "Many houses and apartments are empty for weeks or months at a time... "And the workers who service this culture invariably commute long distances..." *Desert attests to lack of community - FT.com* This applies to parts of Venice, Paris, London... Ordinary people are being priced out of some of our cities. *Paris - too expensive.* Simon Kuper, in the Financial Times, has written about how "Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself... "Paris is pricing out even the upper middle-class." ... more »
“Critical Warning No. 17: Dow 5,000, crash of 65%”
* “Critical Warning No. 17: Dow 5,000, crash of 65%”* by Paul B. Farrell "Critical warning No. 17? Lost count? Here’s the latest: “The stock market is about to have a devastating decline; we will see Dow 5,000 before we see Dow 20,000.” That’s Terry Burnham, former Goldman Sachs trader, biotech entrepreneur, money manager, author of “Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality,” on PBS. A former Harvard professor of behavioral economics, a guy on par with Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman; “Black Swan’s” Nassim Nicholas Taleb; and Dan Ariely,... more »
Personalized Shrinky Dink Necklace- Perfect for Grandmas
This year for my Mother-in-Law's birthday, my daughter really wanted to make her present. We spent hours pouring over Pinterest and couldn't find anything my daughter thought was the right present to make. We pulled out the Shrinky Dinks to make something else, when she asked if we could make Grandma a necklace that she drew. It was absolutely perfect. She could draw pictures of them together and we could easily turn it into jewelry. You will need: - Shrinky Dinks - Markers - Scissors - An Oven preheated to 325 - a hole punch - a necklace chain I u... more »
Jay D. Jurie : 'Approved Killing' in Florida
Emmett Till, left, and Trayvon Martin. Image from Tumblr. Intimations of Emmett Till: A 'shocking story of approved killing' in Florida Today the pre-1960s explicit racial 'code' has been supplanted by the implicit code upon which 'profiling' is based. By Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / July 18, 2013The Rag Blog's Jay Jurie will discuss issues raised in this article with Rag Blog editor
IL Educators to Say NO to ALEC
*CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION* ALEC Exposed Rally in Chicago 07/16/2013 *Be there Thursday, August 8 to protest outside of the American Legislative Exchange Council *[ALEC] 40th Anniversary Conference in Chicago August 7-9. ALEC is bringing state politicians here to push a dangerous agenda that rewards greedy CEOs at the expense of middle class families and our public schools and puts our safety at risk. Forty years of ALEC is nothing to celebrate. Can we count on you to be there and push back? When greedy corporations are allowed to make the rules, our community suffers. Good full ti... more »
A Little Plain Blog Told-You-So
Hey, I don't do this very often, but: Me, in June, on concerns that temporarily losing the New Jersey seat might prevent Democrats from doing Senate reform: I don't question [this] reporting -- that is, I'm sure that Democrats are saying what he reports they're saying -- but I don't really believe it. I continue to believe it's highly unlikely that the Democrats will act unless they're very close to being unanimous. One defection, maybe; two, perhaps; more, and I don't think anything happens. I made this point multiple times: Harry Reid wasn't going to act with 51, or if Joe Biden ... more »
Check out our latest episode on #TFA in Minnesota
Here’s our latest episode of At the Chalk Face with two graduate students from the University of Minnesota who are resisting their institution’s potential deal with TFA. I’m still a little annoyed by the end of this episode. I decided to use Zingaya to run the show instead of Skype, and it cut us off. […]
5 Reasons Why More Americans Don’t Protest Against The System
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Sigmund Fraud Having recently celebrated their nation’s independence on July 4th, Americans were invited to recall the spirit of protest, rebellion, and revolution that marks the popular myth of the birth of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence still stands as an important example of how the tolerance of any man can be exceeded by the actions of an overbearing and intrusive government. Yet, 237 years after the signing of this document, one has to wonder what has happened to the spirit of fearlessness... more »
SOCIETY DOWN: What happened in Sanford that night?
*THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013* *Part 3—How life can become a cartoon:* On Saturday night, the jury reached its verdict in the Zimmerman trial. One night earlier, Piers Morgan had conducted his latest discussion of the high-profile trial. As he started, he boasted about his “stellar panel.” It included Judge Glenda *and* Judge Alex, the hosts of *two* syndicated programs! Morgan is one of the dumbest people on the cable dial. His history in Great Britain was so noxious that CNN simply *knew* they had to import the chap. At one point in last Friday’s discussion, a wonderful moment occurr... more »
There may be one way our public schools are failing. #racism
I have heard student teachers and veterans wonder why they should teach about diversity or multicultural values if they and their students are white. Or, in other instances, appreciation and understanding of cultural diversity is viewed as an add-on or supplement, rarely the underlying goal of education. Still, in more instances, educators simply avoid discussions […]
The Sound of Sangre: Let's help these guys tell a good story
If you like documentary film, folk music of a very original kind, or Latin America, *this project* to find a mysterious Honduran band that plays * narcocorrido* music is worth checking out. The two U.S. men spearheading the project, Chris Valdes and Ted Griswold, taught in the Olancho region of Honduras and kept hearing talk of Los Plebes de Olancho, one of the bands in the country that does the very tricky work of sitting down with *narcotraficantes* working in the cocaine industry and documenting their hair-raising, dangerous stories in songs. The bands keep a pretty low p... more »
Tom Hayden : Is Obama Really in Control?
This plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Vienna despite Obama's earlier comment that he "wouldn't scramble jets against a 29 year old hacker." Photo by Andres Gutierrez / AP. Refs being 'worked'? Does Obama control the State? The executive branch has aided in the unaccountable growth of a Frankenstein-like Leviathan which now is beyond the control of its own
Is The Safety Of The State Really Worth More Than The Truth?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Brandon Smith It's a strange and terrible tragedy when a culture forgets its own history and identity. It is even more tragic when that culture becomes deluded enough to think it can replace its heritage from scratch; that it can conjure political and social reformations out of thin air, and abandon the centuries upon centuries of accomplishment and failures of generations past. To think that one can live without the lessons and principles of one's ancestors is a disease – a mental disorder of the highest caliber. It is an i... more »
Michael Hastings Cremated Despite Family Wishes to Have Body
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Paul Lawrance Former *Rolling Stone* journalist Michael Hastings has been cremated and sent home in a urn despite the fact his family wanted his body. Hastings died on June 18th after his Mercedes crashed into a tree and had burst into flames in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing speculation to arise that Hastings, who was working on a major exposé of the CIA, could have been set up. Kimberly Dvorak of San Diego 6 who spoke directly with friends of Hastings family said, “A close family friend did confirm t... more »
When is legislation of quasi-constitutional status?
Nunavut (Minister of the Environment) v. WSCC, 2013 NUCJ 11 has a useful analysis of when a statute is to be given special consideration as being of quasi-consititutional status: A. Is the Safety Act "quasi-constitutional" legislation? [22] Jenkins submits that the purpose and objectives of the Safety Act are of such importance that the legislation is "quasi-constitutional" in nature. [23] Laws may be constitutional, quasi-constitutional, or of general application. The paramountcy of legislation may be determined by reference to, amongst other things, its characterization as ... more »
Idiocracy Now: The Sold Out $120 White T-Shirt by Kanye West
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Melissa Melton I’m going to tell you a short story. Once upon a time, American founding father Benjamin Franklin said “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Over 200 years later in America, it was revealed our government was wholesale spying on the people. Instead of outrage and promises to immediately shut down these programs and hold anyone who violated the Constitution under them responsible, the president’s response to this revelation was, ... more »
Hemp vs Cotton: The Ultimate Showdown
Joe Martino Hemp has been making a lot of noise lately, especially with the growing awareness surrounding the use of hemp oil for treating cancer. Although the word ‘hemp’ still often gets confused and lumped into the same definition as Cannabis, a similar but psychoactive plant, it’s important to realize hemp can be a major game changer for our world if used to its potential. As we go through this post, you will be wondering ‘why don’t we use this stuff all the time...for everything?!’ Simple answer, farming hemp was banned in the US and other countries in the 1937 because of the ... more »
What the F*ck is Wrong with Police in America?
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CIA investing in research aimed at modifying the Earth’s climate for unknown reasons
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: richardcox8592/Flickr Madison Ruppert The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is participating in funding a $630,000 study on geoengineering for reasons which are not entirely clear as of yet. Geoengineering is the practice of using highly experimental techniques to modify the climate of the Earth in various ways, something which researchers like Dane Wigington contend is highly dangerous. This particular 21-month-long study has a final report due in the fall of 2014 and was commissioned in concert with the N... more »
Tragic Mistake Or Deliberate Plan? 30 Million People Injected with Mandatory Vaccination Containing Live SV40 Cancer Virus
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Daisy Luther People like to shake their heads at the eccentricities of those of us who eschew vaccines for ourselves and our families, but a recent document that was published (then immediately removed from the website) by the CDC gives even more credibility to our claims of “You just don’t know what’s in that stuff.” A polio vaccine injection that was given to people between 1955-1963 contained a live cancer virus. Here is a cached copy of the CDC document. *Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet* ... more »
The “McDonald’s Budget”: Laughably Unrealistic But Also Deeply Tragic
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] click to enlarge Michael Snyder Can you support a family on $2,000 a month? Recently, McDonald's and Visa teamed up to launch a website that is intended to help employees of McDonald's manage their money. The aspect of the website that is getting a tremendous amount of national attention is the "McDonald's Budget" which is a sample monthly budget designed to help workers plan their spending. You can see a copy of it for yourself right here. This budget is laughably unrealistic, but it is also deeply tragic, because there ... more »
Federal Court Throws Out Block On Indefinite Detention Provision of NDAA
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Once again in the US you can be detained by the military indefinitely without trial.* image source Paul Lawrance Wednesday, the US District Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit threw out an injunction on the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that had been ordered by a judge through *Hedges vs. Obama*. In September 2012 a federal court in New York had issued a permanent injunction on section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA. This provision allows for indefinite detention of citizens and p... more »
Ed Snowden Stuck in Russia: Is This a Political Move by Obama?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Chris Carrington Stranded at a hotel in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Ed Snowden has been helped by Russian officials to apply for temporary asylum in the country. He is effectively trapped in Russia because the US government has cancelled his passport. He has been offered asylum by a number of Latin American countries, but without papers further cross-border travel is impossible. It’s strange that his documents weren’t cancelled immediately when the government found out he had taken flight. Could it be that his being on Ru... more »
Town To Issue Licenses and Bounties To Shoot Down Drones: “They Fly In Town, They Get Shot Down”
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] proper drone hunting technique Mac Slavo The President, Congress and the Department of Homeland Security may think it’s legal to spy on the Land of the Free by deploying thousands of drones over the skies of America, but the residents of Deer Trail, Colorado have a different idea. Not only are they set to vote on hunting licenses authorizing the shoot-down of unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over their town, but they’ll be issued a $100 bounty if they can prove they did it: The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is consid... more »
Big Brother Tracks Your Car with Photo Database: “There’s no expectation of privacy”
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kimberly Paxton Do you ever feel like someone is watching you when you’re driving down the road? Well, they are. Not only are you being watched, but your car is being photographed via license plate scanners, the photo is being saved, and it’s there for future tracking purposes. This isn’t just a high-crime, big-city kind of tactic – this is also happening in small town USA as police departments blame decreasing budgets for the perceived necessity of high-tech surveillance. Wherever you have driven your car, the government h... more »
Untitled
*Questions of would-be WTC developers are revealing ~Jaquetta White, New Orleans Advocate * *Company's proposal to run ferries may include increased fares ~WWLTV* *CCC Toll Amnesty Program to begin July 22 ~WVUE* *I-Team: La. welfare money withdrawn at vacation hotspots ~WDSU* *Veteran T-P reporter will spearhead Advocate’s push into St. John, St. Charles parishes* *Erosion control demonstration project highlighted at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum ~MS Business Journal* *Jimmy’s, neighbors hope to reach common ground before City Council meeting next week ~Uptown Messe... more »
Transport Econ 10: MMDA and Car Ban
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz ------------ The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino has proposed to raise the in the use of private vehicles in Metro Manila’s streets from one to two days a week. The goal is to reduce traffic in the national capital region. Public outcry and disapproval, especially among car owners, and more particularly from those who have only one car, was high. The message is simple: Prohibiting people from using their own car/s two days a week is wrong. Especially if such car is used for business or to transport k... more »
10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Do you ever feel trapped in an invisible control grid that is slowly but surely closing in all around you? Do you ever feel like virtually everything that you do is being watched, tracked, monitored and recorded? If so, unfortunately it is not just your imagination. Our society is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother prison grid by a government that is seemingly obsessed with knowing everything that we do. They want a record of all of our phone calls, all of our Internet activity and all of our fina... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Nelson Mandela, 95. And the good stuff: 1. Here's Norm Ornstein's take on the Senate showdown and deal. 2. Andrew Sullivan walks back his panic over Barack Obama's Syria policy. 3. Jobs and health care, from Ross Douthat. 4. Tom Nawrocki on the cover of the Rolling Stone.* 5. And Arendt on German TV. I haven't watched yet...also haven't seen the recent movie. Will get to both, I'm sure. *No, I didn't link to it just so I could say that. I don't even think I linked to it just because I wish he would blog more.
Kissinger: ‘Terrorists are really people that reject the international system’
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Kissinger’s definition of terrorism might surprise you.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Then again, it might be exactly what you thought it would be. The clip below is from a 2007 AKBank convention in Instanbul, Turkey held right before the annual Bilderberg Meeting which took place there that same year. In it, former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, (as well as member of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Bohemian Grove among others) Henry Kissinger can be seen g... more »
Those 'liberal' Lib Dems
Guido Fawkes reports that the Lib Dems have withdrawn the party whip from MP David Ward. This is as a result of his rather intemperate remarks about Israel. Good news you might think, the Lib Dems making a stand on Israel. Well not really as this section of the letter makes clear: We wish to reiterate that this is not about telling you what your views should be. Indeed, we have all visited the occupied territories and we have all experienced an instinctive and liberal reaction to the humanitarian suffering we have witnessed. You will know that Nick, Simon and I have a consistent tr... more »
GOP Want to Be The "Party of Obstructionists"
Vice President Cheney's daughter said so. I shake my head when I see something like this - I can't help wondering "What kind of drugs are the GOP taking?" Really , please tell me what pharmaceuticals are messing with the synapses in RepubliCON brains. Yesterday: Cheney's daughter has decided to run for Senate in Wyoming. Who cares what her first name is - the only reason she is running, the only reason she getting news is because she is Cheney's daughter. Cheney's daughter is a* life long resident of Virginia*. Her kids and husband live in Virginia. She (or her dad for her) bou... more »
Canada's Print Media Editorial Boards Will Soon Have To Recognize The Need For Stephen Harper To Step Down
* **- National Post: Andrew Coyne "You will be shocked to see who is on Stephen Harper's Enemy List* * **-CTV News: PMO withholding email about Wright/Duffy deal from RCMP: sources* * **-The Windsor Star: Richard Nixon, Watergate cited as anger erupts over Stephen Harper government's 'enemy' list** *
Hate Crimes
On April 29, 2009, the House passed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, 249-175, 18 Republican abandoning their hate-filled and bigoted leaders, crossing the aisle and voting with the Democrats. Boehner, Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy were against the bill and they had support from 17 of the most racist and conservative Democrats in the House: *•* Dan Boren (Blue Dog-OK,) forced to retire *•* Bobby Bright (Blue Dog-AL), defeated with the help of Blue America *•* Chris Carney (Blue Dog-PA), defeated with the help of Blue America *•* Travis Childers (Blue Dog-MS), defeated *•* Artur Davis (Ne... more »
Will You Welcome and Love Your Robot Overlords?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Nicholas West There is no question that robots are evolving at warp speed. As computer power grows exponentially, and political and military commitment to neuroscience is established, robots are taking on an increasingly humanoid form in both appearance and thought. Transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil have been very open discussing their plans for The Singularity - the moment when computer intelligence surpasses that of humans to such an extent that humans become practically redundant, perhaps as soon as 2045. Robots are alread... more »
Goldfish, by Gustav Klimt
A cheeky one from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Subtitled 'To My Critics' (for all too obvious reasons deriving from complaints about his paintings being too erotic for public display) this is one of a collection of ceiling paintings at the University of Vienna. [image: Posted with Blogsy]Posted with Blogsy Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Behind the image
A small story of note, about the power of images. There is a storm brewing in the USA over this cover. That's not a young rock star or actor nicknamed "The Bomber" that is a bomber, the Boston Bomber. People are upset, perhaps understandably, that he could be depicted in such a light. But that is, more or less, what he looks like. The accompanying article asks how he 'became a monster'. But for some what matters more is why doesn't he look like a monster, why isn't he bearded and swivel eyed, with hooks for hands? This is, of course, the actual horror and the actual context of what... more »
40 Stats That Prove The U.S. Economy Has Already Been Collapsing Over The Past Decade
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dees Illustration Michael Snyder The "coming economic collapse" has already been happening. You see, the truth is that the economic collapse is not a single event. It has already started, it is happening right now, and it will accelerate during the years ahead. The statistics in this article show *very clearly* that the U.S. economy has fallen dramatically over the past ten years or so. Unfortunately, there are lots of mockers out there that love to mock the idea of an economic collapse even though one is happening right... more »
The Rise of the Avatars
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source Nicholas West For those unfamiliar with the full goals of The Singularity Movement, it is valuable to visit the website *2045* -- the theoretical date when computer intelligence surpasses that of humanity, thus establishing a new form of social and economic contract. Just a short while ago -- more or less yesterday -- a "Rise of the Robots" scenario was being debated for its potential Utopian and Dystopian outcomes. Then the movie *Avatar* supplanted *Terminator* to reflect an entirely new possibility. It di... more »
For there to be reconciliation, there has to be truth.
When the news of intentional malnutrition of aboriginal children in 1940s Canada came out, a Crown Attorney I was sitting with said "that's just like Nazi Germany". My instinct was to say "no, there wasn't a plan to kill" but then I stopped and thought a bit. And realized the Crown was right. The imposition of malnutrition is not the same as the imposition of death. But both actions are based in the same mindset - the people "we" are dealing with are not the same as "us" and are lesser beings who can be used without regard for their inherent dignity and value. "They" are other an... more »
Inequality Keeps Them In Power
Everyone complains about public apathy. We know that democracy in Canada is in trouble. But nothing seems to change. Alex Himelfarb suggests that the reason things don't change is because we lack social trust: By “social trust” is meant something more than whether we trust our neighbour or others in our community or in similar circumstance. It is rather the generalized belief that most people in a society can be trusted, including those quite different from ourselves. Social trust is not the same as political trust, but where it is high people are readier to trust their democrac... more »
ALEC's Next Target - Our Trees and Forests
Tree-huggers may be the next ALEC eco-terrorists - Really, literally. Based on this article out of New Jersey - it appears that ALEC legislators have set their sites on our trees and forests. Just wanted to make you aware of it - cause as you know - if the legislation is in New Jersey - it WILL be coming to a state near you soon. No conspiracy theories here folks, but thought I’d point out some very close similarities between the ideas, findings, provisions, and debate on the NJ “Forest Harvest” bill and the model bill on forestry written by the American Legislative Exchange Council... more »
Observations on the Great Gatsby Curve
In recent years, some economists have drawn attention to a correlation that has been dubbed the Great Gatsby curve. In particular, countries that have more inequality in income also have less economic mobility. (By the way, the curve seems misnamed: Jay Gatsby lived in a time a great inequality and managed to move from being very poor to being very rich. But never mind that.) My own view is that this correlation is not particularly surprising. Let me give you an analogy to explain why. Suppose we collected data on various chess clubs (nations). In every club, we have data on e... more »
The Birth of Calculus
I could hardly follow this: ... I put it on to fall asleep to, but i was still awake when i lost the argument ...
"To be in a Minority of One Doesn't Make You Mad..."
On 8 July 2013, psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas, of the University of Kent in theUK, published a study of conspiracist and conventionalist comments at news websites. The authors were surprised to discover that: Of the 2174 comments collected, 1459 were conspiracist and 715 were conventionalist. "That means it is the pro-conspiracy commenters who are expressing what is now the conventional wisdom, while the anti-conspiracy commenters are becoming a small, beleaguered minority." The new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype - a hos... more »
Israel the 'apartheid state' (part 2)
On Tuesday, the Jerusalem Police closed the Temple Mount to Muslim and Christian visitors in an effort to prevent clashes between different religious groups. The closure order came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when many Muslims pray at the Dome of the Rock on the site. Muslim and Christian MKs attempted to enter the compound Tuesday morning, but police prevented them from doing so. How utterly disgusting, where are the protests from the United Nations and the anti-Israel protest groups? This is typical of the 'apartheid state of Israel'. Except I changed the wordi... more »
Siobhain McDonagh and the Social Contract
Silly season arrived early in the Commons yesterday. No, I'm not talking about the weekly farce that is Prime Minister's Questions but rather Siobhain McDonagh's Bill introduced under the 10 Minute Rule. You see, what the member for Mitcham and Morden would like to do is make access to social security dependent on being on the electoral register. The reasoning is simple. The right to mine, yours or anyone else's access to support in hard times is conditional on your fulfilment of social obligations. In Siobhain's case, this should include being registered to vote. She argued a refo... more »
The Battle for Egypt's Soul: Why Morsi Was Doomed From The Start
*Morsi was not a revolutionary figure. He did not express the soul of Egypt. The defeat of his administration first came in the court of public opinion, so it cannot be attributed solely to actions taken by the military. * "Islamic revivalism in Egypt, then, was counterbalanced and tempered from its inception by the ascendant forces of liberalism and nationalism, which steered the country on a modern path, starting with Muhammad Ali and continuing during the British rule (1882-1922) and after independence under the monarchy. The monarchic period (1922-1952) ushered in liberal con... more »
Israel the 'apartheid state'
Israel announced on Tuesday new rules to grant some rights to foreign domestic workers, but stressed they must "respect" Judaism and "obey" their employers. Labor Minister David Finkelstein said that the maids must respect "Judaism and its teachings... and obey the orders of the employers and their family members concerning getting the agreed work done." A domestic worker "does not have the right to reject a work, or leave a job, without a valid reason," he added in remarks carried by the official JNA news agency. How despicable is that? Why are the United Nations and the OIC n... more »
Snowden Did What He Believed Right
In the end, Snowdon looked at the blood on his hands and asked the inevitable question demanded by Nuremburg. The State cannot absolve you of guilt for committing crimes against its citizens simply because someone at a higher pay scale authorized it. His answer was to throw his career and life to the winds and come clean. This was his patriotism. Now we might begin to confront the problem politically with hard evidence in hand rather than a litany of official denial. That the majority of Americans agree today is stunning and a clear measure that the American people are... more »
Sainthood
There are few things about the human condition or its institutions that can be considered admirable. Recognition of the status of saint is one such towering exception that has marched through time to confront every human failure of both the church itself and humanity in general. It is everyman’s admonition to do better. That the Catholic church has taken up this institution with serious enthusiasm with the reign of Pope John Paul II is something to be grateful for and the proper answer to those who have glorified a whole hjost of contemporary leaders including many of ... more »
Prevent Disease News - CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine!!!
according to the Prevent Disease news website, *CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine In An 8-Year Span When It Was Contaminated With Cancer Virus The CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine within an 8-year span from 1955-1963 when a proportion of the vaccine was contaminated with a cancer causing polyomavirus called SV40. It has been estimated that 10-30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of the vaccine. SV40... more »
Lake Vostok Teems With Life
This gives us realistic time capsule that is around fifteen million years old that has also preserved a large range of life forms that we can now compare to the extant suite. It is likely our only good chance to do this and it is certainly welcome. The time gap is also good enough to generate viable conclusions regarding such things as DNA change that we would both like to know comfortably and have a clean standard to work against. I am not surprised that it is teeming with life either. *Antarctic Lake Vostok buried under two miles of ice found to teem with life* ... more »
The Day the Earth Exploded?
I simply do not think so. Any moderate accumulation will quickly cook off. And yes we do have shallow georeactors that did cook off. So relying on nuclear energy to do much besides heating the core is not reasonable. I am more inclined to accept that the accumulation developed two centers and that the moon had a large enough nucleus to force assembly and to scour the surrounding space. We suffer from a lack of a decent comparable. It may also have come about during the calving of Jupiter as an oversized unbalanced planet that then shed the moon. The plum pudding ... more »
Is this taking the piss?
I read all over the news media that scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, part of the University of the West of England have developed a way to charge mobile phones by using human urine. Apparently this team has been working for on their version of the microbial fuel cell (MFC), an old concept that has never quite become commercially viable. MFCs use bacteria to break down organic material and so create power. The bacteria need the right food to generate a usable amount of electricity, and the Bristol Robotics team think that human urine is a possibility, either that or that... more »
THE FIFTH ESTATE - Cumberbatch as Assange - 'feigning' the flames of war
so, let's see how Dreamworks SPIN this 'biopic' i.e. which political brush are they going to use to paint The Wikileaks (betrayal) Story, and how will the content of the 'narrative' relate to the Swedish-extradition threat currently detaining Mr Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London? *incidental music to this trailer sounds a little bit like 'spiegel im spiegel' by arvo part* Oh, dear, this film is described by Erin White of Clevver Movies as*"feigning the flames of war," * according to Assange: one thinks she meant 'fanning'. *SUPPLEMENTAL WHISTLEBLOWER NEWS:* here's form... more »
Where do we go from here, as a race?
Knowing what we know about the 'usefulness factor' of any given patent number... "In other words, if it doesn't work, it cannot be issued a patent." * * Knowing what we know about the criminality of the Corporate War Machine for PROFIT and ASSET and DEBT SLAVERY... Knowing what we know about the Religious Wars and Crusades that have ruined this planet, the invasions based on faith and the victimising of innocent indigenous tribes in Australia, Africa, America and more recently the Middle East... Where do we go from here, as a race?
Your moment of Zen
Brugge, Belgium. [George Marinelli photo]
Subsidy Megadeals Out of Control Since Great Recession
The recent Good Jobs First report Megadeals is the most detailed compilation to date of the largest economic development incentive packages ever given by state and local governments. Defined as incentive packages of $75 million or more in nominal value, these deals have multiplied in both number and value in recent years as governments compete for a smaller pool of large investments. Starting with Pennsylvania’s 1976 $100 million deal for Volkswagen, the report details 240 megadeals through May 2013. The total cumulative amount of the deals comes to $64 billion. The report uncove... more »
New miraculous ways how F-theory achieves gauge coupling unification
F-theory phenomenomenology has been described in dozens of TRF articles, e.g. these. Initiated by Vafa et al. less than a decade ago, this formally 12-dimensional approach to particle physics combines some of the fanciest higher-dimensional stringy geometric methods with those of braneworlds to make predictions in which particle physics is somewhat naturally "decoupled" from the four-dimensional gravity and in which the properties of particle physics are somewhat different and thoroughly geometrized as (often degenerate) eight-real-dimensional complex shapes. Today, an interesti... more »
CN Rail, Ghost Trains Traversing Ghost Bridges, Corporate Greed Exposed
For at least a decade we have been hearing big industry talk about the looming labour shortage coming at us, how millions of workers are going to be needed, we here at The straight Goods have been skeptical to say the least.. Propaganda, industry propaganda, if big corporations told us the truth would we as a population put up with their crimes, environmental crimes, accounting fraud, every time I read a paper the story is about industry shedding jobs in the name of efficiency, I believe industry has taken this route, the route of glorious employment opportunities, millions of wo... more »
#Ashes: Rules versus principles
Sporting contents do have important philosophical lessons to teach us. After Australia’s failure in the first Ashes test, and with many Australians blaming English batsmen Stuart Broad for not “walking” when he knew he’d knicked the ball for a catch, this tweet was doing the rounds: [image: Stuart Broad walks into a bar...] Naturally, since the incident, sporting forums have been all ablaze debating the choice to walk, or not to walk when you know you’re out—and whether on that basis you're a cheat, or not a cheat. I liked this comment that appeared on a post at the Footy Almanac.... more »
Bill Press: Stupidest Punditry Of The Week
When I was president of Reprise Records I hired a guy to be the first online promotion man in the music business. People thought it was the funniest, kookiest thing they had ever heard. Online was just some silly gimmick that would never take off. The reaction was as if I had hired someone to be a promotion man for Mars, Venus and the moon... you know, just in case. (The guy I hired eventually went on to help develop iTunes for Apple.) But at the time, everyone was laughing. Still, all the trade magazines handled it delicately; no one was mean or disparaging at all. That's because... more »
Adam Gopnik on Christian Writers and Liberal Readers
*Wikipedia:* "Adam Gopnik, (born August 24, 1956) is a Canadian-raised American writer, essayist and commentator. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker—to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism." Adam Gopnik on Christian Writers and Liberal Readers. Source: TVOBigIdeas. Date Published: July 13, 2012. Description: Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, discusses W. H. Auden, William Emerson and Lewis Carol in a lecture entitled, The Morning Star is the Evening Star: Christian Writers and Liberal Readers. "We are drawn t... more »
My legacy of dunces #highered
I am on the edge of leaving higher education. It chewed me up and spit me out. Or was it vice versa? I can’t remember. But it doesn’t matter. Higher education, public institutions especially and teacher preparation more specifically, is not interested in saving itself. Or, it is perfectly willing to offer up an arm […]
Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers and the Horror of Solitary Confinement
*(PHOTO: Herman Wallace, without leg irons, using an exercise bike, following his recent transfer from solitary confinement. Herman wanted to show supporters he is fighting to survive. Photo by Hermanshouse.org)* *Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers and the Horror of Solitary Confinement* *By Angola 3 News* Last month, we were devastated to learn that the Angola 3’s Herman Wallace had been diagnosed with liver cancer, and that he was continuing to be held in isolation in a locked room at Hunt Correctional Center's prison infirmary. Reflecti... more »
Special Correspondent : Rag Blog Editor Dreyer Has Alleged Birthday!
Ridiculous graphic by James Retherford / The Rag Blog. Unprecedented development: Dreyer has another birthday! Rag Blog editor Thorne Dreyer's alleged 'birthday' event to be held Friday, August 2, from 6-9 p.m., at Maria's Taco Xpress, 2529 S. Lamar Blvd in Austin. By Our Special Correspondent / July 18, 2013 AUSTIN, Texas -- In a surprising development, usually reliable sources close to
Jason Brodeur - Sanford FL Rep is an ALECer
Not only is he from Sanford. Not only is he an ALEC member. He was on the task force established by Governor Snot right after the murder of Trayvon Martin to review the “Stand Your Ground” law. Brodeur didn’t ask to be on the task force. But he readily agreed to it when Weatherford called, he said. Having an ALECer on that task force was like having a fox guard the henhouse. The conclusion of the task force: "If the only alternative to an altercation is a duty to retreat, that gives more rights to the assailant than to the victim," said Rep. Brodeur. "So we determined that it wa... more »
Auckland is stuffed.
AUCKLAND IS STUFFED—if her mayoral candidates for the coming elections are any guide. For many years, in election after Auckland mayoral election, it was a sure guarantee of victory to come out with no policy platform at all beyond the single plank: “Vote for me, I’m not the other bastard.” It’s worked for years: Les Mills was elected on the basis of little more than *not *being Catherine Tizard. Christine Fletcher was elected on the single platform of not being Les Mills. Following which John Banks was elected on the basis of not being Christine Fletcher, Dick Hubbard was electe... more »
Egypt in Crisis: Ben Wedeman's View
Egypt in Crisis: Ben Wedeman's View. Source: NewsBBC003. Date Published: July 17, 2013. Description: CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman talks about his experiences covering the Egyptian crisis.
There is No Room for a Conscience in Diplomacy
*Video Title: There is No Room for a Conscience in Diplomacy. Source: carnegiecouncil. Date Published: June 4, 2013. Description*: Independent Diplomat executive director Carne Ross describes the moral void of the British diplomatic service. May 21, 2013. For complete audio and transcript, go to: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20130521/index.html "Indeed, as a diplomat working for a government, you are not particularly encouraged to be questioning or self-doubting about the message that your government is transmitting to the world. Indeed, such is the kind of ov... more »
Any Bad-Ass Teachers Out There Want to Make Some Noise July 25?
Matt Taibbi described the Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, as ”a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” On July 25, some of Goldman’s fellow squid, along with another handful of New York City’s 70 billionaires and a few dozen of […]
Mayor Grumpy sends a signal to a city councilman who hasn't signed on to his police city-state
*Queens City Councilmember Mark Weprin has found himself in Mayor Grumpy's crosshairs.* *"The mayor is putting his money where his mouth is -- or at least he's threatening. Bloomberg, in this situation, sees the people that voted for this bill as his enemies, so he's screwing them."* *-- Baruch College political science professor Doug Muzzio, to DNAinfo.com's Colby Hamilton* *by Ken* So tell us, Professor Muzzio, this kind of strong-arming of a city councilmember ("Bloomberg Scouted GOP Candidates to Oust Weprin After Stop-and-Frisk Vote") is a pretty common thing, right? Maybe no... more »
THE EMPIRE OF BASES ENFORCE CORPORATE INTERESTS
Today is the final day of the conference in Manila. It's been a very good event and I've met some great folks and learned alot. The Ban the Bases Now movement is strong around the globe as it takes on the important task of dismantling empire. All the activist stories from various countries began with US corporate attempts to control land and resources. Peasants in the Philippines lost their lands to the building of US bases many years ago. Then they forced the US to close its bases in 1991 - a great victory for national sovereignty. But the US is coming back. In a local pap... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Voter Suppression is Republican Hallmark
Political cartoon by John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune. Image from FireIntheBelly. Voter suppression is a hallmark of today’s Republicans If it took nearly 100 years to assure racial fairness in voting under law, then it might take longer than 48 years to remedy that problem in actual practice. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 17, 2013 I have never seen a modern definition of
Dying in the desert in Maricopa County, Arizona
Graves of migrants in Sonoran Desert/Photo Brenda Norrell In one of the hottest desert regions in the US, migrants continue to die of dehydration, in an area where US Border Patrol agents have failed to respond to calls for help. By Brenda Norrell Censored News July 17, 2013 The fact that the US Border Patrol is leaving migrants to die in the desert south of Phoenix was exposed in the
End compulsory education
As Mark Twain once observed, he never allowed schooling to get in the way of his education. Sadly, today, he wouldn’t have the choice. Edward Cline points out that today’s compulsory factory schools are frequently so poor that if the inmates acquire any real-world "smarts" at all, “it is only after they have left school and escaped the brow-beating cajolings and ministrations of teachers dedicated to indoctrinating students to become selfless, tolerant, non-judgmental, and self-sacrificial ‘good citizens.’” Yet there is a move to end compulsory state-sanctioned schooling to allow... more »
Irish Infantry to Golan. Israel everywhere. Samantha Power grovels & more
*Time for another news round up. Let’s see what I was able to corral ? * *Going long * I can't get over how often Ireland comes up in relation to the destabilization of the Middle East. They seem an odd affiliate on the surface, but, scratch just a bit deeper............ *Irish troops are going to Golan as part of UN force* *Does anyone find that odd? Suspicious? You should* [image: The Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last week. A Government spokesman said the Irish troops would be acting in an o... more »
Black man confesses to killing a little six year old girl by repeatedly stabbing her and stuffing her body in a garbage can...
*where the hell is the outrage for this little girl from Sharpton and Jackson? * Perhaps it doesn't fit their narrative. This POS also babysat her in the past and is being investigated for sexual battery of an 11 year old. Story *HERE * *Matthew Flugence* The little girl Ahlittia North:
CAB DRIVER: WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?
Luke Rudkowski talks to Mark McGowan, the Artist Taxi Driver about the various projects he has done over the years. Mark begins with a story about a trip to America where he crawled through the streets of NYC on President's Day with a George W. Bush mask on and a sign that read "Kick My Ass." Mark discuss his views on using art and direct action instead of protesting as a way to make people think.
Obama administration drowning in lawsuits filed over NSA surveillance
AFP Photo / DPA / Angelika Warmuth / Germany out Obama administration drowning in lawsuits filed over NSA surveillance Get short URL Published time: July 16, 2013 17:39 Edited time: July 17, 2013 10:26 http://rt.com/usa/snowden-leaks-surveillance-suits-174/ Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency. Both the White House and Congress have weighed in on the case of Edward Snowden and the revelations he’s made by leaking National S... more »
RT.COM: NSA is more than just a spy network, it’s global fascism
AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards * * * * * * *NSA is more than just a spy network, it’s global fascism* *Patrick Henningsen is a writer, investigative journalist, and filmmaker and founder of the news website 21stCenturyWire.com.* http://rt.com/op-edge/nsa-network-global-fascism-167/ July 16, 2013 13:46 Despite the size and scope of Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing, there's little sign of Washington DC changing its practices, and even less of an indication that any of its European allies will actually hold it to account. Germany Flip-Flops Germany’s chan... more »
Green anti-fracking hysteria “accompanied” by hysteria
RADIO NZ: “The Green Party says international research which suggests large earthquakes can trigger swarms of tremors near fracking sites, strengthens its calls for a moratorium on the oil and gas drilling technique. An article published in *Science* magazine has found fracking, which involves forcing large quantities of toxic chemicals into rock, has been accompanied by an increase in quakes that are triggered by distant seismic events…” That’s some very careful wording there—to say that “fracking … has been accompanied by an increase in quakes that are triggered by distant seism... more »
Beyond Thunderdome, Bring On Nuclear Power
I have been attempting to show how British Columbia`s BC Liberal Government forecast of riches beyond our dreams coming from fraccing and exports to Asia is but a fantasy tale being told by false prophets... And I believe that case was made.....So far The Straight Goods has avoided the Environmental arguments against fraccing, and they are well documented and compelling....That story needs to be told Let`s start with this..part 1 part II Part III Part IV Part V ____________ I have talked recently about Japan restarting their nuclear facilities, and as much as tha... more »
Talking Academic Journals: Online Fora
At the end of May I posted the Georgetown-anchored bid for International Studies Quarterly that provides a roadmap for what we intend to do with the journal. I also briefly discussed the online model we’re developing for International Studies Quarterly Online, an effort under the capable supervision of PTJ. And yes, we might need a better name Continue reading
Peace Education and the #commoncore. Friends?
I was invited to speak on a panel at a Peace education summit at American University’s School of International Service. Along with two panelists from the Office of the State Superintendent of DC, who spoke about recent anti-bullying legislation, my role was to give a broader perspective on the Common Core State Standards. In order […]
The Reactionary Mania To Destroy Social Security Continues Unabated-- Since The 1930s
Social Security is the most popular government program in the history of America. But elites have always hated it and have always tried to undermine and destroy it. We can't kill the elites but we must stop them from killing Social Security. Before Paul Ryan began clamoring to cut Social Security, mainstream Republicans had been too scared to touch the "third rail" of American politics. By even taking their crackpot right-wing schemes seriously, Obama has helped them make Social Security less of a third rail. Every Republican and every Democrat who threatens Social Security should ... more »
B37, 42 and 44
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) I saw *42*, the movie about Jackie Robinson, for the first time last night. And in the scene where Robinson gets to Florida for the first time just before spring training where he tries out for the Montreal Monarchs, Sanford is mentioned. Sanford, in real life, is where Branch Rickey had situated Robinson, specifically in the home of an African American community leader and when Sanford was mentioned for the first time, exactly 72 hours after the verdict came in, klaxxon alarms, understandably, began ringing in my head. ... more »
The Evolution of Technology
Humans are the most sophisticated toolmakers in the family of life. We’ve gone from stone hammers to hydrogen bombs. We’ve become so addicted to our technology that we can no longer survive without it. If we eliminated electricity, this way of life would disintegrate before our eyes, causing many to perish. Humans no longer sit in the pilot seat of our global civilization. The autopilot runs the show. Our complex labyrinth of technology herds us through a chute. It’s no longer possible to make sharp (intelligent) turns, because the system has immense momentum and no brakes. ... more »
Vision Maker Media: Native American films funded across Indian country
Documentaries represent Native voices from Arizona, California, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Wyoming, and a couple documentaries will span coast to coast Vision Maker Media AnnouncesPublic Media Content Fund Awards Lincoln, Neb: Vision Maker Media announces ten, newly funded documentaries as part of its Public Media Content Fund. Sixty-two producers and public television stations
Herman Wallace Removed From Solitary: More humane conditions for Herman, one big step towards compassionate release
*(Recent photo of Herman by Hermanshouse.org*) Last Friday, July 12, Louisiana’s Hunt prison reduced Herman Wallace’s classification from maximum to medium security meaning Herman is no longer being held in solitary confinement. He will stay in the prison hospital in a 10-bunk dorm, with access to a day room, and won’t have to wear leg irons. This was confirmed by visitors who saw Herman over the weekend and who took this photo of him using the exercise bike. Herman wanted to show supporters he is fighting to survive. This is not enough. The call for Herman’s release continues wit... more »
The “Best and the Brightest” Point the Way Toward Test-Driven Reform
It is hard to tell which is more revealing. Is it more shocking that 21st century school reform has degenerated into an un-funny knock-off of “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the spoof of the embarrassing scientific management policy known as “Taylorism?” Or is it more disturbing that the essence of accountability-driven reform is illuminated by “The […]
Khashoggi's Ship
Khashoggi's Ship is a song Who said my party was all over, huh, huh, I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are like a supernova, Huh, huh, perpetual craze, I said that Everybody drank my wine - you get my drift, And then we took a holiday on khashoggi's Ship - well, We really had a good good time they was all so sexy We was bad, we was blitzed, All in all it was a pretty good trip, This big bad sucker with a fist as big as your head, Wanted to get me, I said go away I said kiss my ass honey, He pulled out a gun, wanted to arrest me, I said uh, uh, babe, Now listen ... more »
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