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Funding War And Domestic Spying
This week I literally marveled at how deftly Alan Grayson was able to use
congressional procedures beyond the ken of garden variety congressmembers
to get five amendments to the defense-spending bill passed without
controversy particularly one prohibiting torture. “This amendment,"
explained Grayson to any Members who might not be paying attention, "makes
the intent of Congress clear; it makes the law clear: We. Don’t. Torture.
The United States military is prohibited from torturing any human being, at
home or abroad.” Another very important amendment he got through is being
refer... more »
Guest Post - Smart Tips for Eco-friendly Shipping Packaging
[image: Eco Shipping]
Shipping is a common part of modern life as we require and desire goods
from around the world. Business capitalise on this with many seeking items
from all over the globe to offer consumers the widest range of goods in one
location. It is not only products we ship, we ship ourselves with more of
us relocating to different parts of the world. Including many students who
ship their worldly goods half way across the world to their new
universities, however, is there any thought behind the materials and
suppliers used?
Shipping with recycled packagingWith the amoun... more »
Rabies Redux
*Rolling past an earth god temple in Sanzhi township.*
One of the great pleasures of living in Taiwan is the lack of rabies among
the stray animals. It means that you can interact with them without worry
of a bad death. It looks like that may be coming to an end... first, the
WSJ:
But this week the Council of Agriculture confirmed that the lethal disease
has made a comeback on the island after three dead wild Formosa
ferret-badgers found in the mountains of Yunlin and Nantou counties tested
positive for the disease.
Although currently the zoonotic disease is isolated among wild
f... more »
Meet the new “controversial” Dean.
I have almost finished my 4th week as the Dean of the School of Education
at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. Today I did my first television
appearance. I was interviewed by Wisconsin Eye. I went into the interview
feeling pretty good. I knew I was going to be interviewed for 30 minutes
by Steve […]
Inevitable Inflation?
*Guest post by Ed Bugos*
In an article I first saw on June 28th, Martin Feldstein asserts that
quantitative easing is NOT money printing, and suggests that is the main
reason we have not seen any price inflation.
[image: _Quote5]The link between Fed bond purchases and the subsequent
growth of the money stock changed after 2008, because the Fed began to pay
interest on excess reserves [which] induced the banks to maintain excess
reserves at the Fed instead of lending and creating deposits to absorb the
increased reserves, as they would have done before 2008. As a result, the
volum... more »
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*Jindal denounces lawsuit targeting oil and gas firms, misunderstands state
law ~New Orleans Advocate*
*Bizarre study proposes eliminating nearly 35 miles of levees in New
Orleans area levee systems ~Physics.org *
Hans Jonas and Jewish Mysticism - Christian Wiese
Professor Christian Wiese is the co-editor of, *"The Legacy of Hans Jonas."
*
"Prof. Wiese was educated in Protestant theology, Religious Studies and
Jewish Studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Heidelberg and
the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; he earned his PhD in 1997 at the
University of Frankfurt am Main and his “Habilitation” in Jewish Studies in
2006 at Erfurt University. Before coming to Sussex, he held positions as an
assistant professor in Jewish History at the Salomon Ludwig
Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish History (University of Duisburg) and
as an ass... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Sociologist, Author, and New Left Pioneer, and Critic, Todd Gitlin
Todd
Gitlin. Photo by David Shankbone / Wikimedia Commons.
Rag Radio podcast:
Sociologist, media critic, author,
and SDS pioneer Todd Gitlin
Our discussion with the renowned scholar and author ranges from the
legacy of the Port Huron Statement and Gitlin's critical take on the
later days of the movement, to the role of mass media in shaping social
events.
By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog /
What, Setting Aside Money for A Rainy Day? This Is Harperland After All!
One of the first thing Sideshow Steve Harper did upon seizing the reins of
power was to powerfully defund the federal government. Clinging to the
neo-con ideology that taxation is theft and that government surpluses are
the fruits of that crime, Harper slashed the GST by two points... and a few
years later with the onset of the 2008 Great Recession the walls came
tumblin' down. With the treasury bare, Harper had to go to the markets to
borrow money for his half-assed stimulus budget.
Now the folks who run Calgary are having to rethink this rancid rightwing
tax phobia. They're... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: From the Firm to the Wider World
Our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group are back for the new
semester. Here’s their update for tonight’s show discussion:
YES! We’re back!!
Welcome to those who have joined the group after visiting us during
this Orientation Week. We look forward to meeting you again at our first
meeting of this semester which is this Thursday.
Yes, our weekly seminars return starting tonight at 6pm. And we're
thrilled to say that we've got a fascinating talk and discussion planned.
We’ll looking at a question that always starts plenty of debates. Put
simply: What role should the ... more »
Max Keiser says Deutsche Bank on suicide watch !
*My Geneva fund contact: Deutsche Bank is officially on suicide watch. DB
will be the next ‘Lehman’ moment that triggers new collapse..*
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/360017521753075713
*Deutsche Bank Opaque Loans From Brazil to Italy Hide Risk*
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-11/deutsche-bank-opaque-loans-from-brazil-to-italy-hide-risk.html
*Deutsche Bank’s Accounting Raises Questions*
….In other words, these ‘secured’ loans are not really secured, unless one
considers what is effectively a short position on the bonds that were
provided as collateral to represent adequa... more »
Why My Students Do Not Need Teach for America
Wow, there has been such a flurry of stories and discussions in regards to
Teach for America and its destructive role in education today. I suppose
my letter to new recruits played an important part in calling into question
this organization, striking a chord of truth. TFA has gone into full-time
PR mode with a […]
Cyber Events Data and Foreign Policy Reactions
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ryan C. Maness of the University of
Illinois at Chicago and Brandon Valeriano of the University of Glasgow. In
the rush to note the changing face of the battlefield, few scholars have
actually examined the impact of cyber conflict on foreign policy dynamics.
Instead most studies are
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War watch - Syria , Egypt and forgotten Libya inn focus - July 24 , 2013.....
Syria updates......
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-04-230713.html
*War against Iran, Iraq AND Syria?*
By Pepe Escobar
Amidst the incessant rumble in the (Washington) jungle about a possible
Obama administration military adventure in Syria, new information has come
to light. And what a piece of Pipelineistan information that is.
Picture Iraqi Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian
Allaw, and the current Iranian caretaker Oil Minister Mohammad Aliabadi
getting together in the port of Assalouyeh, southern Iran, to sign a memorandum
of understa... more »
Michael James : Pledging Allegiance in 1961
Pledging
allegiance, Westport, Connecticut, 1961. Photo by Michael James from
his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long
Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Pledging allegiance in
Westport, Connecticut in 1961
Westport is where I learned to love America, where we played in fields,
in woods, and on the shores of the Saugatuck River and Long Island
Sound.
By Michael
Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner needs our help -- he's run out of ideas for his top legislative priorities
*If the House GOP can't think of anything better to prioritize, maybe they
could do something about the McRib sandwich (by all means click on it to
enlarge) -- and do something about the sauce, and maybe the pork too.*
*by Ken*
Earlier today Howie wrote ("Is Boehner Retiring?) about rumors that the
only speaker of the House we have is thinking about packing it in:
"Boehner's job -- trying to herd the fractious, racist, unpatriotic
teabaggers in his own party -- is so thankless and stressful that there are
rumors he's contemplating retirement."
Well, that might be the poor sod's so... more »
FUBARshima nuclear debacle rolling along - massive groundwater flows of contaminated water to the sea - which of course lying Tepco knew would happen.... Meanwhile , what is causing the steam at Unit # 3 ??????
[Breaking] Impervious wall construction intermitted “due to the shortage of
Fukushima workers”
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Having contaminated groundwater flowing to the sea, Tepco is building the
impervious wall near the seaside.
(cf, Tepco completed 16% of ground improvement on the east side of
reactor1&2 [URL])
In the press conference of 7/24/2013, Tepco announced *the urgent
construction was intermitted due to the shortage of Fukushima worker.
(12:09) *For the safety issue... more »
COOP Bank Rescue Plan - Question is who is being rescued ? The Slog blogspot has a few ideas .... COOP Bank reassures 2 million members ( quick folks , grab your money and run for the door ! ) ..... Meanwhile , hedge funds are circling on the debt of COOP Bank - so you know who is going to win there !
COOP BANK EXCLUSIVE: How Westminster MPs are stealing small bondholders’
life savings to save their necks
*Pre-Election Labour cover-up becomes constitutional crisis because LibDems
also Bank with CoOp**Brown, Balls, Darling, Cable and Osborne implicated*
*
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Bailin proposal will stuff innocent older people on smaller incomes
*If ever there was a scandal to demonstrate how none of the three main UK
Parties care about any of us, this one is it. **Sources close to the team
working round the clock to reconstruct the Cooperative Bank say this tight
group is facing a huge dilemma on severa... more »
Stop Land Grabbing and End Police Violence in Taiwan
The Taiwan Rural Front asks for your support..... read the whole thing;
suggested actions in the link:
*Dapu Land Case*
The power of eminent domain has been routinely abused in Taiwan for the
sake of land speculation. The case of the Dapu Village is the most
appalling case of such state-sanctioned robbery. On 9th June 2010, excavators
bulldozed and destroyed the Dapu villagers' crop two weeks before harvest
in a dawn raid.
On 18th July 2013, hundreds of police officers returned and razed the
residents’ homes, while the house owners were away pleading with the
central government to... more »
Owen nails it . . .
—
Porkarama personified —
IN CASE YOU MISSED Owen's post at Northern Reflections, "Mr. Harper's
Balloon", do click on the link to find out more about the Mike Duffy Hot
Air Balloon and a lot more about some serious facets of Stevie's
malfeasance. The way the CONcheese seems to be ripening, maybe they'll
make a Porkela Wallin version in time for the Santa Claus Parade?
Just as we expected? Modules = test prep skills.
I have been looking through the new Common Core aligned modules on the New
York State Education Department’s EngageNY website as the folks in Albany
have been constantly promoting the new curriculum. I have produced two
reactions recently to my suspicions that these high priced modules are
nothing more than a scripted curriculum. Today as […]
A- Rod trainwreck stumbling and bumbling toward his inevitable suspension unless he plays smarter than he has to date - Hey A- Rod , take whatever deal MLB and the Union will offer you short of a life time ban already !
If A-r od comes back to the Yanks ..... They have to bring out Yoko to
sing.......
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/doctor_yankees_rod_told_quad_strain_fmCqizGfwTYkOPwOhb139I
Doctor says he sees 'nothing significant' on A-Rod's MRI; Yankees GM says
star was in violation of league rules for seeking second opinion
- By KEN DAVIDOFF
- Last Updated: 7:43 PM, July 24, 2013
- Posted: 2:10 PM, July 24, 2013
- Yankees Blog
[image: Alex Rodriguez in Tampa today.]
Jay Nolan
Alex Rodriguez in Tampa today.
... more »
"How It Really Is"
Along with the rest of the country, too...
- CP
Monumental council debts
This is some interesting spin from the head of Local Government NZ:
Councils spent $700 million more than they earned in the past financial
year, leading to the worst operating deficit on record, but officials say
this was one of the symptoms of keeping rates low in tough economic times…
Local Government NZ head [and mayor of underperforming Hastings Council]
Lawrence Yule said councils had tried to keep rates as low as possible
since the economic downturn and so had incurred some operating deficits.
What the hell is Yule talking about? “Keep rates as low as possible,” says
the di... more »
“The NSA's Version Of ‘The Dog Ate My Homework’"
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*“The NSA's Version Of ‘The Dog Ate My Homework’"*
by Tyler Durden
“When it comes to the conversion of the US into a totalitarian state, few
things are quite as symbolic as the construction of the NSA's Bluffdale,
Utah Data Canter, which was revealed last year by Wired, yet which did not
get much prominence until June's revelations by Edward Snowden. Costing
billions in taxpayer money, the facility is simply the largest hard disk
ever built, designed to store every current and future electronic
communication, both foreign and domestic, to be made available at a
moment's notic... more »
Hercules Offshore natural gas rig explosion - burning out of control and could burn for months !
Deep
Horizon Redux ?
http://www.onwingsofcare.org/index.php/protection-a-preservation/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-2010/gulf-2013/418-20130723-hercules-rig-explosion-gom.html
http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2013/07/gulf_of_mexico_natural_gas_wel.html#incart_m-rpt-2
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Gulf of Mexico rig exploded Tuesday evening, causing drill floor and
derrick to collapse. *(U.S. Coast Guard)*
The operator of the natural gas rig burning out of control in the Gulf
of
Mexico has begun preparations to move a jack-up rig to the location to
potentially drill a relief well, federa... more »
General Al-Sisi Calls For Mass Protests; FSA Terrorists Rejoin Assad's Fold; USraeli-Backed Al-Qaeda Holds 200 Kurds As Hostages
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*I. General Al-Sisi Calls For Mass Protests, Eyes Destruction of Extremist
Muslim Brotherhood. *
An excerpt from, *"Egypt: Preparing The Repression"* by b, Moon of Alabama,
July 24:
For the military the Muslim Brotherhood protests in Cairo and the threat
from the Sinai belong together. It is looking for ways to harshly clamp
down on both.
The military chief General Al-Sisi has now called for large demonstrations
to support a crack down:
*"I urge the people to take to the streets this coming Friday to prove
their will and give me, the army and police, a mandate to confront pos... more »
Greetings and Salutations
I am proud to announce the long-awaited release of *Sustainable or Bust*. It’s
immediately available in paperback and Kindle versions from Amazon outlets
around the world. It will shortly be available via non-Amazon booksellers
— the printer indicates that my book will slither its way through the
various independent distribution channels in “approximately six weeks.” It
may just be the perfect gift for every occasion!
As a rule, I have no affection for corporations, but I do have gratitude
for Amazon (the seller), and its subsidiary CreateSpace (the printer), for
allowing me t... more »
“The U.S. Is A Lawless State”
*“The U.S. Is A Lawless State”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
“Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts says, “The country
is not being run by the President. It is being run by spy agencies and
private interest groups, Wall Street and military security complex... They
run the country. The President is a puppet, a figurehead.” Dr. Roberts
contends, “If you are a lawless state, which the United States is, it obeys
no international law. It does not obey the Geneva Convention, It tortures
people. It doesn’t obey the Constitution. It doesn’t obey anything. It
does w... more »
Explosion heard before tragic spanish train crash today outside Santiago de Compostela ..... 45 known dead at present time , hundreds injured as well .....
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/07/2013724202911344554.html
Dozens killed in Spanish train crash
At least 45 dead and 70 injured after mass carriage derailment outside city
of Santiago de Compostela.
Last Modified: 24 Jul 2013 22:52
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At least 45 people were killed and 70 injured when a train derailed on the
outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela in one of ... more »
Comex Expiration on Thursday - set up for gold smash on Wednesday ? Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - July 24 , 2013 !
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/07/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_24.html
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Tomorrow Must Be COMEX Options
Expiration
"*Major Strasser:* Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the
Germans in their beloved Paris?
*Rick:* It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
*Heinz:* Can you imagine us in London?
*Rick:* When you get there, ask me.
*Captain Renault:* Hmmh! A diplomat!
*Major Strasser:* How about New York?
*Rick:* Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I
wouldn't advise you to invade."
*Casablan... more »
"I Can’t Get No…"
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*"I Can’t Get No…"*
by Bill Bonner
"In the summer of 1965, President Johnson opened a new phase of the war in
Vietnam. Instead of observing, training, advising and protecting… US
soldiers were to go on the offensive. It was already nearly a half-century
after Woodrow Wilson had put America into the empire business; still, the
country was just getting the hang of it. But in a matter of months, there
would be more than half a million U.S. troops in that steamy hellhole.
Their mission was to protect Western democracy from the communist menace.
That they were on a fools’ errand,... more »
Space-saving furniture
Look at the ingenuity of this space-saving furniture, effectively turning
one room of your home into two or even three.
Install units like these sliding panels like this, and a small space can
easily become a mansion.
[Hat tip Geek Press]
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Why TEAC (CAEP) Accreditation Means Less than Zero
In May TEAC provided the for- profit American College of Education (ACE)
the official stamp of approval to prey on the poor and the unsuspecting who
want to be teachers. ACE has a sordid history of exploitation and
grandiose scheming, some of which is documented here. ACE is a subsidiary
of Higher Ed Holdings, LLC, which […]
(Who Benefits From All That Collected Data?) Onward Back to Feudalism and The US Government Is Metamorphosing Into the Borg
New Questions Undermine Government’s Spying Claims By Marcy Wheeler As the
House considers defunding NSA dragnet collection today, the credibility of
the program just got murkier So this is what all that data collection
was/is about. We have our first winner! And no one thought the commercial
side of this venture would pay off? il giant Chevron has been granted
access to "more than 100
Lawrence O’Donnell just can’t quit Bill Clinton!
*WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013*
*Still dazzled by Gennifer Flowers:* It’s one of the most remarkable press
stories of the past twenty years.
We refer to the way the East Coast Irish Catholic Democratic-leaning press
cabal led the charge against President Clinton, then against Candidate Gore.
Who were the top ten Clinton/Gore-haters? It’s hard to know who would make
that list who isn’t East Coast Irish Catholic.
Lawrence O’Donnell was one of those people. He spread false claims about
Candidate Gore all the way through October 2000. But as of today, it’s his
jones against President Clinto... more »
Why Hillary Clinton Supporters Should Be Contributing To Barbara Buono's Gubernatorial Campaign Right Now
Let's leave out, for now, that New Jersey state Senator Barbara Buono, like
Hillary, has been a tireless champion for equality and a consistent and
successful fighter for women's rights. Keep it in the back of your mind--
along with the well-established fact that Buono's opponent, Chris Christie,
has been a loudmouthed sexist pig who has thrown roadblocks in the way of
the legitimate aspirations of New Jersey women. He actually *vetoed* pay
equity legislation and even called one bill "senseless bureaucracy" and he cut
funding for Planned Parenthood, forcing 6 centers to close. He's... more »
Blood Oath: The Conspiracy to Murder Nicole Brown Simpson
Blood Oath: The Conspiracy to Murder Nicole Brown Simpson from Spike1138 on
Vimeo.
For The Record #10 -
Blood Oath (1996)
Dave Emory
These segments are excerpted directly from the text of Blood Oath: The
Conspiracy to Murder Nicole Brown Simpson by Stephen Worth and Carl Jaspers
(soft cover edition: Rainbow Books, copyright 1996) and cover the events
set forth in the book. In addition to the points of information outlined in
the description of the above interview with Stephen Worth, the series
contains a chilling description of the actual killing of Ron and Nicole, as
related ... more »
Kate Middleton's Doctor Wanted to Buy a New Front Door in 1999 - His Mrs. Was Dead Against it
*[All credit to Elaine's mate Matt for the joke that led to that title -
strange what you remember sometimes....]*
Royal Baby Scam : Jill Dando’s Murder link and Fiance : In charge of the
Scam : All you need to know : Kate was and has not been pregnant : Why did
they kill the nurse : What a Right Royal Scam:
*THE FULL MOON BABY STORY WITH A DIFFERENCE: A Royal twist that deserves
closer scrutiny:*
*Remember if “they cover it up” it does not mean we cannot “find the real
truth”:*
*It all started with the Murder of Jacintha Saldahna back in December 2012.
*
*The palace c... more »
Oy, Kraushaar
Granted, I haven't watched the president's speech today. But that's OK;
apparently, Josh Kraushaar hasn't watched anything else the president did
from about March 2009 until today.
Seriously: I think this could be the single stupidest thing I've heard
anyone try to peddle yet about Barack Obama's economic record:
Instead of taking up health care reform in the wake of the Great Recession,
the president could have spent his time addressing Americans’ economic
insecurity by promoting programs for those finding themselves out of work,
struggling to find new jobs, and looking to get back... more »
Over 200 Groups And Organizations Formally Ask Harper's PMO To Release Their 'Enemies' List ...
[image: Progressive Bloggers]*
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*OTTAWA—More than 200 public-interest and aid organizations are formally
asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to reveal who’s on the
“enemy” lists given to new ministers in this month’s cabinet shuffle.*
**
*But it doesn’t appear that Harper’s PMO will be producing the lists
anytime soon — if ever.*
**
*A letter from Voices-Voix, a coalition of well-known groups such as
Amnesty International and Oxfam, was sent on Wednesday to the PMO, in the
wake of a leaked PMO email directing staffers to include lists of “friend
and enemy stakeholder... more »
This is what you get when you have an hereditary head of state...
You get people who have never seen an episode of Blackadder. Prince George
indeed!
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Assad Reunion
*"On the eve of this year’s Bilderberg meeting, the Anglo-French
intelligence bosses have clearly shown their hand with two high-profile
attacks on Obama. Wednesday, June 5 marked the liberation of Qusayr, the
great Stalingrad of the Syrian terrorist death squads deployed by NATO
against Assad. With the rout of these terrorists, the main units of the
self-styled Free Syrian Army, along with the Nusra branch of al Qaeda, are
likely to face annihilation in the short to medium term.*
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*On the same day that Qusayr fell, the British and French governments
hysterically demanded t... more »
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
"*These assholes they always get away.*" - George Zimmerman, moments before
murdering Trayvon Martin and getting away with it.
(Original image discourtesy of Twitchy.com)
As a reader of fiction and a movie buff, I've long been cognizant of
the basic rule that, if a character kills an innocent person, especially a
child, they forfeit any claims to sympathy. In fiction, television and in
the movies, if they kill an innocent person, the moral code dictates that
antagonist will get it in the end, either by getting kille... more »
GOP POTUS' - Let ALEC in White House
Well - here's a little history on ALEC and the White House.
Expecially important to consider - cause not only does ALEC then have
access to the POTUS - but they also have access (with the POTUS' blessing)
to the staff in ALL the different federal agencies - which begs the question
"How many people who work in the Federal Government are ALECers"
Think about it after you have read this entry.
*THE REAGAN YEARS*
The following are excerpts from the ALEC's 25th Annual Meeting
Commemorative Program (1998) where they state:
So well received were the policies which ALEC proffered in the lat... more »
Not In Front of the Children
"*We don't speak of these things, not in front of the children*."
That, according to Gwynne Dyer, is the approach being taken by our
political and military leadership when it comes to the geopolitical aspects
of climate change. They don't talk about it in front of the children -
that's you and me. Here, in a lecture from 2010, he explores the
conversation we will never have:
N.B. This was recorded in 2010 when Dyer was briefly optimistic that
runaway climate change would be averted with a combination of common sense
and geo-engineering. That's a phase he's passed through sin... more »
Early Soviet Diplomacy
Whether you're a Trot, Tankie or a sad sectarian (like me!) Marcel
Liebman's *Leninism Under Lenin* is absolutely essential reading. Published
40 years ago, it paints a rigorous and meticulously-researched portrait of
Lenin and the Bolsheviks. It shows how Lenin's conception of the
revolutionary party passed through several phases according to the pace of
class struggle in Tsarist Russia. At times conspiratorial, but mostly
anarchic and democratic; small wonder the little Lenins of the British far
left have not found a place for this book on their suggested reading lists.
Anyway, a... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Dr. Jim Fetzer,
founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Dr. Fetzer and I will be discussing his
recent debate with Dick Eastman on the Rense Radio network regarding the
controversial issue of planes/no planes in New York City.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Here are some important links related to this discussion:
- *9/11: Planes/No Planes and "Video Fakery"* by Dr. Jim Fetzer
- *PSYOP aspects of 9/11* by John Friend
- *9/11: trauma-based mind control on a societal s... more »
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*City’s attorney aggressively questioning Gusman’s budget figures ~John
Simerman, New Orleans Advocate*
BIG CHANGES: SYRIA AND EGYPT
*Good friends once more.*
THE TIDE turned in Syria as early as May 2013, when the BBC started
criticising the rebels.
The CIA and Pentagon would appear to have a new policy.
*"You’ve probably noticed the change in tone of the Atlanticist press on
the Syrian issue. *
*
*
*"The 'rebels', these 'champions of Freedom', have suddenly turned into
fanatical terrorists who tear each other apart." *
*www.voltairenet.org/article179521.html*
*Syria*
According to Thierry Meyssan, "Washington has simply abandoned the idea of
overthrowing Assad...
"Next step: the loss of French influence ... more »
Anti-Protest Law Passes Nearly Unanimously And Is Signed By The President
*Anti-Protest Law Passes Nearly Unanimously And Is Signed By The President*
Posted: 03/14/2012 10:49 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp/anti-occupy-law-passes-nea_b_1343728.html
By Lee Camp, Comedian and author featured on "Countdown," "Good Morning
America," Comedy Central, and Showtime
So I have some great news folks! The Republicans and the Democrats in
Congress and the White House FINALLY came together and agreed on something.
This is HUGE. These guys disagree on EVERYTHING! Getting them to see
eye-to-eye is like getting the Jews and the Palestinians to do a trust fall
... more »
Oh Yes We Do
Leave it to the head of Canada's most disliked cellular provider, Rogers
CEO Nadir Mohamed, to whine that Canada doesn't need a fourth major
cellphone company.
Okay, Nadir, how bout we put that to the test. Let's put it to every
Rogers customer and former customer from the past three years and see what
they think. No, not interested? Yeah, didn't think so.
It's well documented that Canadians get lousy service and pay exorbitant
prices for the privilege. That's on you, Nadir. So, sure, let in the
competition and let's up the game.
And, while we're at it, we might consider ... more »
Europe's New Climate - Deluge
Ah, southern Germany in May. When I heard a buddy was going back to his
parents' homeland for an aunt's 80th birthday, I told him of the glories of
the south in May, especially the spargel season. It's a white asparagus
grown throughout Bavaria and elsewhere that, when fresh, is astonishingly
good. Munich, Baden - life is good.
Turned out I was wrong. It was cold and damp, wet to be more accurate.
The place, along with much of central Europe was beset by heavy flooding.
My friend gave his aunt a kiss and headed off to seek refuge in Rome.
Things have changed over the course ... more »
Ever Heard of a "Methane Pulse"? Get Ready, It Could be Just Two Years Away.
It's sort of like walking along a cliff edge blindfolded. Most of us,
given the choice, would say no.
There's a worst case scenario and a best case scenario and not much in
between. That's the situation that confronts us with new warnings that we
could be taken by surprise by a "methane pulse" from the Arctic. Put
simply we may be at a major tipping point, the loss of Arctic sea ice, that
triggers a natural feedback mechanism giving rise to runaway global warming.
*A new paper in the journal Nature argues that the release of a 50
Gigatonne (Gt) methane pulse from thawing Arcti... more »
Student Loans... Today's the Day
Last week we were dismayed how Obama pressured Senate Democrats into a putrid
deal with Republicans (and through them, Wall Street) on the student loan
debacle. Today the Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill, which benefits
students in the short term and crucifies students over time-- a really
ugly, shameful compromise. Blue America is standing behind the position
articulated by MoveOn regarding the bill: "Congress' deal
on student loan interest rates is an unacceptable plan to sell out and
profit off the backs of students. This deal jeopardizes the long term well
being of our ... more »
JFK - GARRISON EXPLAINS
*Kennedy*
More here: Fairy Tales Are Dangerous
A Critique Of The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths, An Interview With UC Berkeley Prof. Mark Van Der Laan
Mark Van Der Laan is a Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the
University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he won a presidential award for
his work. In 2006 he wrote a number of articles about the two surveys on
deaths in Iraq since the 2003 invasion that publicly became known as the
Lancet reports. The first Lancet paper was published in October 2004 and estimated
98,000 excess deaths in the 18 months following the overthrow of Saddam,
excluding the province of Anbar. The second one argued there were 654,965
killed from March 2003 to July 2006. Van Der Laan was one of many ... more »
Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
Posted:
7/22/2013
*By Barbara Loe Fisher *
Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’
hire
of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The
View,1the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot
days in
July is beginning to dry. It was fascinating to watch the
well-orchestrated
response by online mainstream media, which took on the frenzy of an old
fashioned witch hunt to burn a heretic at the stake.
Reviewing 29 articles published in major print and broadcast media
outlets
between July 9 and July 18, 20132 with 19... more »
Untitled
*Drilling rig on fire in gulf begins to collapse ~David Hammer, WWLTV *
*BSEE, Coast Guard Provide Response Oversight to Rig Fire, report no sheen
on water*
~Abatement efforts underway near Hercules 265 Rig where fire has caused
collapse of the drill floor and derrick following an explosion Tuesday
night. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard
*Meet TS DORIAN ~Weather Underground*
~MODIS satellite image of Tropical Storm Dorian taken at approximately 8 am
EDT July 24, 2013. At the time, Dorian had top winds near 50 mph. Image
credit: NASA.
Now, Let's Put it In Harper's Language: Climate Change Catastrophe is Insanely Costly
Sixty trillion dollars, how's that Steve?
That's an estimate of the costs of Arctic thawing from climate change.
That's 60,000,000,000,000.00 and that's a lotta zeroes.
*Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic
timebomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global
financial system, say a group of economists and polar scientists.*
*Governments and industry have expected the widespread warming of the
Arctic region in the past 20 years to be an economic boon, allowing the
exploitation of new gas and oilfields and enabling shipping to trave... more »
Energy Companies Pay Prisons to Cut Power During Heat Waves
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Amanda Warren
Another dumpy thing about Ohio, besides their increasing sinkhole problem,
is the way they treat their prisoners. There are witness accounts of how
privatization has dramatically changed typical jail time. Any major
discomfort is acceptable as long as it turns a profit.
This recent absurdity may or may not have to do with privatization, but
some signs say yes. As if the prison industry isn't bloated enough,
ushering in recruits all the time with new laws waiting to be broken and
using prisoners for slave labor ... more »
The Comet cometh - ISON closing in!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/A1yH_DuC88M - click in picture to start this film!
*Read and see more* about Comet C/2012 S1 "ISON" on the links below:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=2576
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/comet_ison/
http://www.isoncampaign.org/
ISON might be the "comet of a life-time" or just fizzle away... Either way
it might become a surprise for us. Now ISON is rapidly closing in on Mars
you could also look at this NASA website with links to more nice info
materials! This comet is NOT on a collision course with Earth, but at the
end of November 201... more »
Pol. Ideology 47: SONA Rallies, Socialism and Thomas van Beersum
Another big rally by the leftist group Bayan Muna and other nat-dem allies
was made last Monday, July 22, to protest the annual State of the Nation
Address (SONA) speech of the President at the House of Representatives in
Batasan, Quezon City. The entire north-bound lane of the 10-lanes
Commonwealth Avenue was closed by the demonstrators and the big police
force blocking them. There was a collision between the two groups that
afternoon.
I commented in one friend’s facebook wall that they were “ungas, violent
demonstrators.” A certain Paul Galutera corrected me, posting a news story ... more »
Snowden Wins Whistleblower Award
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Stephen Lendman
In America, he's a wanted man. He's a fugitive. He's a world hero. He
connected the dots for millions. He told people what they need to know.
Doing the right thing is its own reward. Transparency International Germany
gave him its Whistleblower Award. He's "(t)his year's winner," it said.
In 1999, it was established. It's sponsored by the Association of German
Scientists (VDW) and the German branch of the International Association of
Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).
He'll receive 3,300 euros (about $4,4... more »
The Price of Ecosystem Services and Well Being in The United States
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Julie Beal
After years of woolly talk about sustainability, things are about to get
very specific. Instead of just aiming for vague ‘eco-friendliness’, all the
goods, and all the bads, related to the environment, and society, are to be
quantified, and given a *price*. These prices are to be part of each
country’s overall GDP value, and each company’s accounts. Landowners around
the world, including the U.S., are now being *paid money *for such things
as the value of a fly, or shade created by trees. Various ‘ecosystem
servi... more »
Call Your Congress Critters, Stop the Spying
*Update* 6:58 pm: The House amendment that would have banned the
indiscriminate collection of all our phone and internet records was very
narrowly defeated minutes ago. Final vote was 217 for continued spying, 205
against.
As one of the C-Span callers pointed out during the phone-in discussion
prior to the vote, even if the House and then the Senate had agreed to
officially ban spying on Americans, the all-powerful security state would
have easily found work-arounds. These people operate with impunity. They
always have.
The one positive thing about this vote is that our Congress Cr... more »
U.S. Arctic Ambitions and the Militarization of the High North
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Dana Gabriel
Canada recently took over the leadership of the Arctic Council and will be
succeeded by the U.S. in 2015. With back-to-back chairmanships, it gives
both countries an opportunity to increase cooperation on initiatives that
could enhance the development of a shared North American vision for the
Arctic.
The U.S. has significant geopolitical and economic interests in the high
north and have released a new national strategy which seeks to advance
their Arctic ambitions. While the region has thus far been peaceful, st... more »
6 Apocalyptic Technologies That Most People Have Not Even Heard About Yet
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Michael Snyder
Are you ready for the future? We live at a time when technology is
advancing at an exponential pace. Today, scientists are rapidly developing
bizarre new technologies that most science fiction writers never even would
have dreamed of a couple decades ago. For example, would you be willing to
get rid of your bank card and start paying for things with only your face?
Would you be willing to allow a technology company to put one large
computer chip or thousands of really, really small ones (“neural dust”)
into... more »
Bail pending appeal
R. v. Shelly Annette Taylor 2013 PECA 1 holds:
[3] For this motion, the hearing and determination are
governed by the provisions ofs.679(3) of the *Criminal Code*. The judge of
the Court of Appeal may order that the appellant be released pending
determination of her appeal if the appellant establishes that:
a. the appeal is not frivolous;
b. the appellant will surrender herself into custody in accordance
with the terms of the order; and
c. her detention is not necessary in the public interest.
[4] Section 679(5) of the *Cri... more »
Do parents impose psychodramas on kids?
*WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013*
*Maureen Dowd’s overwrought mother:* Do parents sometimes attempt to impose
their own psychodramas on their children?
Can they sometimes display bad judgment in the process?
Well actually yes, that sometimes occurs! Remember Maureen Dowd’s column
from May 1998?
Dowd was in Belfast, observing the attempted resolution of the troubles. As
she started, she recalled a psychodrama her mother once dropped on her head:
DOWD (5/20/98): Here is what you need to know about the Irish soul.
We are an unforgiving people. We believe in the Evil Eye. We like to fight.
... more »
See, I Had to Look Up Something Limbaugh Said, And...
I have a new column up at the Prospect about the long-term political
effects of health care reform, and more generally the theory of a liberal
plot to craft a permanent majority for Democrats by making the majority of
voters dependent on the government -- the theory, really, behind the GOP
"47%" obsession. Basically, I call nonsense on it. I think it's a good one,
so please check it out.
Meanwhile, I had to track down a good Rush Limbaugh quote for it, and found
this:
But they also want people to use Obamacare as a gateway to more government
dependence. So the more people that sig... more »
Pepsi’s Naked Juice ‘Exposed’, $9 Mil Deceptive Marketing Lawsuit Lost
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Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
*And yes, that title IS a terrible pun…*
PepsiCo., the biggest food company contributor (at a cool $2.5 million) to
the defeat of California’s prop 37 right to know genetically modified food
labeling law just got done losing a $9 million dollar lawsuit over the fact
that the packaging on its Naked Juice product is completely misleading in
nearly every way.
While it’s true that the juice does contain some fruits and vegetables, it
is apparently anything but 100% fruit and/or vegetable juice or... more »
Can Google Glass Be Modified to Read Your Brain?
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image source Nicholas West
It's no mystery that tech behemoths Microsoft and Google have been
developing gadgets for the augmented reality consumer space. Nevertheless,
Google Glass has met some resistance over privacy concerns, even reaching
the halls of Congress.
If turning the average person into a roving snitch isn't bad enough,
another concern was revealed recently: Google Glass can be hacked and
modified for facial recognition capability. Stephen Balaban, founder of
Lambda Labs stated his intentions to design an alte... more »
As invasive in-store tracking technology becomes more common, companies attempt to self-regulate
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image credit:
airdiogo/Flickr Madison Ruppert
A little-known industry built around tracking customers in and around
physical stores has grown considerably over recent years and now the
industry is supposedly going to regulate itself amidst privacy concerns.
Companies and the technologies they use are quite diverse, ranging from facial
recognition cameras in mannequins to systems that track signals from Wi-Fi
enabled smartphones.
The latter technology is used by a company called Euclid which bills itself
as “Google Analytics... more »
Remember When Obama Said Detroit Was Coming Back?
Barack Obama speaking in and about Detroit in 2011:
"This is a city that's been to heck and back," Obama said. "And while there
are still a lot of challenges here, I see a city that's coming back."
Wrong again Barack.
More here
http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/remember-when-obama-said-detroit-was-coming-back-20130723
Are children being scared to death because of Trayvon Martin?
*WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013*
*Anderson Cooper, Part Deux, and a devoted mother:* Are children being
scared to death because of the death of Trayvon Martin?
Last night, Anderson Cooper aired Part 2 of his attempt to discuss “Race
and Justice in America.” Overall, we’d call his efforts weak. In a later
post, we’ll discuss comments made last night by Sunny Hostin and Mark
Geragos, who conducted a vaudeville act with Cooper each night during the
Zimmerman trial.
We think topics like these deserve better. They won’t likely get it from
Cooper.
Last night, Cooper spoke with a mother who is... more »
The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Coming Retirement Crisis That Will Shake America To The Core
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Michael Snyder
The pension nightmare that is at the heart of the horrific financial crisis
in Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg of the coming retirement crisis
that will shake America to the core. Right now, more than 10,000 Baby
Boomers are hitting the age of 65 every single day, and this will continue
to happen every single day until the year 2030. As a society, we have made
trillions of dollars of financial promises to these Baby Boomers, and there
is no way that we are going to be able to keep those promises. The ... more »
Going Galt, Going Gray
At the dawn of the 21st Century we look back and marvel at the world that
we have made. And by "we" Southern Man means Western Civilization, the
source of pretty much all that is good today. That's right - dead white
males built the world, and you get to live in it. You really can't thank
them enough.
For the first time in human history, social stratification is a diamond,
not a pyramid. For most of history most poeple were dirt poor; there was no
middle class and few were wealthy. Now the middle class dominates. And we
are almost unbelievably wealthy. A family of four living on th... more »
America and Germany: Longstanding Espionage Partners
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Image Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed Stasi. It was East Germany's secret police. It
was one of the most repressive state apparatuses in modern times.
Its infamous reputation speaks for itself. It's reincarnated in new form.
Given today's state-of-the-art technology. It's worse now than then. The
previous article said the following:
On July 7, Der Spiegel headlined "Snowden claims: NSA Ties Put German
Intelligence in Tight Spot."
"They're in bed together," said Snowden. NSA partners with foreign
intelligence i... more »
Former Sask Premier Roy Romanow Says Health-care Reform Will Go Further With Federal Support - Urges PM Harper To Meet With Premiers
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*Stephen Harper continues to avoid meeting with Canada's Premiers as they
struggle to deal with a variety of issues that face each province and the
nation as a whole.*
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**"Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to meet with Canada's premiers to make
the most out of provincial and territorial efforts to stretch health-care
spending, former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow says. Romanow told CBC
News that the premiers are doing what they can, but they need the support
of the federal government to cut costs and improve service.*
***Responsibility for h... more »
Total Failure Of Foreign Intelligence As Spy Agencies Miss Massive Al Qaeda Prison Break
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image source Mac Slavo
They’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars to monitor the activities of
every single American by turning their listening networks on purported
domestic terrorists operating in the United States.
They know your underwear size. They know where you drove your car today.
They know what you put up on Facebook, texted to your wife and emailed to
your friends. And they’ve done it all in the supposed interest of “national
security.”
If, however, you were an Al Qaeda terrorist coordinating a large-scale
pr... more »
Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
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Morgan Weiland
*EFF*
Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not
qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for bloggers,
freelancers, and other non-salaried journalists.
On July 12, the Justice Department released its new guidelines on
investigations involving the news media in the wake of the fallout from the
leak scandals involving the monitoring of AP and Fox News reporters. While
the guidelines certainly provide much-needed protections for establishment
journalists, as indep... more »
A new Hart sponsored AFT survey, this time with parents #teach13
The AFT released a new HART survey of parental attitudes towards prevailing
education policies. Here’s your sample: This national survey consisted of
interviews with 1,003 public school parents (parents with children who
attend a regular public school and/or a charter public school), with a
margin of error on survey results at ±3.1 percentage points. The […]
Photos of home
The above image was taken by the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn. The Earth
is the blue dot below the last of Saturn's visible rings.
The following image is even more humbling...
This image was taken by Voyager 1 in 1996 and shows the Earth as a tiny
blue dot in the right most band of colour.
NASA explains:
'This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a
part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1.
The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar
system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Eart... more »
The apartheid state of Israel again...
'Guess who graduated first in this year's medical school class at the
Technion, Israel's version of M.I.T.? The answer will surprise you. It's a
27-year-old stereotype-buster: a charming, feminist, smart, open-minded and
observant Islamic woman named Mais Ali-Saleh who grew up in a small village
outside of Nazareth, in Israel's Galilee.
Ali-Selah's academic excellence not only marks her own personal achievement
but also proves that contrary to propaganda spouted by proponents of the
BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Movement -- whose latest convert is
Stephen Hawking -- an ac... more »
Top U.S. General Warns: “The Decision To Use Force Is No Less Than An Act of War”
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Anthony Freda Art Mac Slavo
For those politicians in Washington and their supporters who think engaging
the Syrian army with a “kinetic action” akin to Libya’s “no fly zones” is
all it will take to oust the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, consider
the latest assessment from America’s top commanding officer.
On Thursday Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told
a Senate committee that the Obama administration is considering the use of
military force in Syria …
Gen. Dempsey warned “the decision to ... more »
It's going to be hot today...
*and tomorrow. Yikes! *
Post Falls ID7 Day Forecast
*Today*
[image: Hot]
Hot
*High: 97 °F *
*Tonight*
[image: Mostly Clear]
Mostly
Clear
Low: 58 °F
*Thursday*
[image: Hot]
Hot
*High: 97 °F *
*Thursday Night*
[image: Clear]
Clear
Low: 60 °F
*Friday*
[image: Sunny]
Sunny
High: 92 °F
*Friday Night*
[image: Clear]
Clear
Low: 59 °F
*Saturday*
[image: Sunny]
Sunny
High: 84 °F
*Saturday Night*
[image: Mostly Clear]
Mostly
Clear
Low: 57 °F
*Sunday*
[image: Sunny]
Sunny
High: 83 °F
Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
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Anthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts
I spent the summer of 1961 behind the Iron Curtain. I was part of the
US-USSR student exchange program. It was the second year of the program
that operated under auspices of the US Department of State. Our return to
the West via train through East Germany was interrupted by the construction
of the Berlin Wall. We were sent back to Poland. The East German rail
tracks were occupied with Soviet troop and tank trains as the Red Army
concentrated in East Germany to face down any Western interfe... more »
The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?
Michael Snyder
In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has
been made which could rock the world. Some are calling it the biggest
discovery of oil in 50 years. Earlier this year, a company called Linc
Energy announced that tests had revealed that there was a minimum of 3.5
billion barrels of oil equivalent sitting under more than 65,000 square
kilometres of land that it owns in the Arckaringa Basin.
But that is the minimum number. It has been projected that there could
ultimately be up to 233 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the area. If
that tu... more »
New Hampshire Becomes 19th State to Legalize Medical Marijuana
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Phillip Smith
All of New England is now medical marijuana territory, as New Hampshire
Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) Tuesday afternoon signed into law a bill allowing it
in the Granite State.
"Allowing doctors to provide relief to patients through the use of
appropriately regulated and dispensed medical marijuana is the
compassionate and right policy for the state of New Hampshire, and this
legislation ensures that we approach this policy in the right way with
measures to prevent abuse," Hassan said in a signing statement.
"By pro... more »
SERVANTS TO CRUMP: New York Times readers were grossly misled!
*WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013*
*Part 3—The Times didn’t care:* Can Natalie Jackson say that?
In the New York Times, she could! On March 17, 2012, the Times published
its first report about the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Quickly, Lizette Alvarez made a very serious factual error. As she did, she
painted an astonishingly lurid picture of what had occurred that night:
ALVAREZ (3/17/12): Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed
in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable
facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag
o... more »
‘Rider’ in House Bill Seeks to Let Dow Keep Spraying Fluoride Pesticide on Our Food
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Melissa Melton
Does the government even pass a bill anymore unless it benefits mega
corporations and places profits over people?
First the Supreme Court ruled that pharmaceutical companies are exempt from
lawsuits. Then a Monsanto rider magically found its way into a non-related
2013 Senate spending bill.
Now, a rider protecting Dow Chemical’s sulfuryl fluoride pesticide (known
by the market name Vikane) has found its way into the 2014 House
Appropriations Bill to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from
phasing ... more »
Untitled
*How Many More Times? ~Saints Win *
*Can Bobby Hebert Even Pronounce Akwasi Owusu-Ansah? ~Saints Tailgate*
*Fire has erupted on blown-out Gulf gas well*
*Owner of burning Gulf rig considers relief well BWAHAHAHAHA*
*Historic suit seeks damages from 97 energy companies for Louisiana's
coastal erosion ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*
*Science to be key factor in lawsuit against oil and gas companies for
coastal loss ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
*Historic lawsuit coming against Big Oil ~Clancy Dubos*
*La. flood control authority to sue major oil, gas companies, seeking
wetland restor... more »
No PARCCing
Have your heard about the PARCC Asseesments? The Partnership for
Assessment for Readiness for College and Careers is a collection of 22
states that will be producing a series of Common Core aligned exams. The
PARCC Assessments are scheduled to begin in the 2014-15 school year.
Promotion for the PARCC consortium has begun just as […]
Socialism, Class Struggle and The American Presidency
From Farewell, America (1968) :
"Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were accidents along the way, deviates
from the American mythology.
An American who enters politics for unselfish reasons is regarded with
suspicion.
His attitude can only conceal a lust for power or a senseless and dangerous
devotion to the "public welfare." Politics and the public welfare have
little in common, and the activities of a politician are not considered
normal or comprehensible unless they are pursued for selfish and material
gain.
President Jackson was condemned in 1831 by Vincenne's Gazette
i... more »
TGIHD (Thank God It's Hump Day)
The
U.K. can be forgiven for going overboard on the Plutocratic
Parturition, a.k.a. the birth of the Royal Heir (the proper
pronunciation
of which, I learned from watching the CNN coverage, is *Aaah*: an
elongated short "a" spoken directly through the nose.) After all, the
birthis expected to pump tons of money -- an estimated £250m -- into the
sputtering British economy. That is even more than the Olympics brought
in.
But why the fascination on this side of the pond?
Like the Brits, we are absolutely desperate for some good news, some
good
vicarious escapism as an antidote to the mi... more »
PNAC: The Foreign Policy Initiative
*The Foreign Policy Initiative* (FPI) is a neoconservative think tank begun
in 2009 by William Kristol, the founder of the Project for the New American
Century. FPI is, according to its website, "... promotes continued U.S.
engagement -- diplomatic, economic, and military -- in the world and
rejection of policies that would lead us down the path to isolationism;
robust support for America's democratic allies and opposition to rogue
regimes that threaten American interests; the human rights of those
oppressed by their governments, and U.S. leadership in working to spread
political ... more »
PNAC: 1998 Project for a New American Century Presidential Ultimatum
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*January 26, 1998*
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy
toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the
Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold
War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity
to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge
you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would
secure the... more »
THE PIVOT TO DARWIN
*Holding banner at the front gate of Robertson Army Barracks in Darwin
where Obama intends to deploy 2,500 US Marines. Who does the US need to
protect Australia from or is this purely Pentagon power projection?*
*Dennis Doherty runs interference as private security guard at Shoal Bay
Satellite Receiving Station base tried to block our banner*
I arrived in Darwin, on the north coast of Australia, yesterday afternoon.
This is where Obama has announced that over 2,500 US Marines would be sent
as part of the "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific.
Joining me here was Denis Doherty (who I was with... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to the great Barry Lamar Bonds, 49. Probably still would be
a league-average hitter, if they hadn't blackballed him. Certainly as great
a player as any of us has seen. And was just good at so many things on the
field, beyond his too-good-for-the-game hitting during the late career
surge.
Some good stuff:
1. Huh. Chris Cillizza is now willing to write that House Republicans are
primarily responsible for the lack of compromise in Congress. Interesting
(via...sorry, someone caught this and put it on twitter, but I didn't save
it).
2. A new paper by Anthony Johnstone on... more »
Papiss Cisse and his religious sensibilities
When the news broke that Newcastle striker, and occasional member of my
fantasy football team two seasons ago, Papass Cisse was refusing to wear
his Newcastle FC top if it carried the logo of their main sponsor Wonga.com
(the payday loans company), I was not inclined to cover the story. If
Papass Cisse has religious principles that he is not prepared to break then
that is his concern and if that means that there is an issue over the
sponsor's logo on his shirt well then he can refund Wonga 1/11 of their
sponsorship, or similar; or alternatively move club. I did get a little fed
up o... more »
Is Boehner Retiring?
Boehner's job-- trying to herd the fractious, racist, unpatriotic
teabaggers in his own party-- is so thankless and stressful that there are
rumors he's contemplating retirement. Since the rumor originates with
Politico, they may not be entirely credible, although they insist that "the
rumors are real, and they’re bouncing from Capitol Hill to K Street. When
Boehner might retire has become a favorite parlor game on Capitol Hill."
Boehner is certainly floundering, even twisting in the wind. This past
weekend he tried redefining how to judge the success of his Congress,
embracing ob... more »
Why the Prisoners' Dilemma Has Not Been Tested In Any Way Whatsoever
Right,
so the last few days or so, a minor socio-behavioral experiment
conducted by two economics researchers in a German prison (where they
compare how inmates and students reason) has been kicked around the web
and
social media via a brief article in the web magazine *Business
Insider*(bounced further or cross-posted by numerous sites and blogs,
including
*Improbable Research* and *Freakonomics*) as news of the famous game
theoretical result called the prisoners' dilemma having now been
*tested*and, as it where, faulted – or, at least, put into question. The
report in
*Business Insi... more »
Mr. Harper's Balloon
Michael Harris writes that the Harper government has a new emblem -- a "two
and a half storey hot air balloon floating high in the parliamentary sky
over the Ottawa River: Senator Mike Duffy, clutching a briefcase stuffed
with cash."
Mr. Harper has always claimed that he is a wise steward of the public
purse. There is no better emblem to torpedo that myth than the inflated
Senator form Kanata. Duffy may eventually take the prime minister down with
him. The list of people Duffy has already taken out is growing:
The body count alone – senators Tkachuk, LeBreton and the prime minist... more »
Stop the NSA Spying on Americans in American - Call Congress Today as the vote might be this evening in the House !
Stop the NSA – Call the Congress Now!
by Justin Raimondo, July 23, 2013
Print This | Share This
Edward Snowden’s sacrifice was not in vain – because many thousands in the
United States are rising to take up the battle he started. And they mean to
win.
At the head of the libertarian army that’s storming the gates of the
Leviathan: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan), a Ron Paul Republican – and he
has the statist Establishment of both parties scrambling to block his
amendment to the 2014 defense appropriations bill, the LIBERT-E Act, (H.R.
2399, the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic... more »
Royal Baby: Some Numbers.
Did you notice yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of English Defence
Leaguer, Knight Templar and Freemason Anders Brevik's Norwegian NATO
bloodletting massacre? 22/7.
2 + 7 = 9
2 + 2 + 7 = 11
Andy Murray won the New York Grand Slam on 9/11.
He won Wimbledon on 7/7, 77 years after the last British male champion,
with the last female champion in 1977, the Royal Jubilee.
They are up to something MASSIVE....
Lamas (aka Lugjnasadh) is coming up - most important Magickal / occult /
satanic holiday of the year after Beltane.
The start of the Harvest....
And more.
'... more »
She's got Style and Jelly Beans Sandals.
This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with
Pollinate Media Group™ and Jelly Beans but all my opinions are my own.
#pmedia #JellysAreBack http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO
My little girl has a unique fashion sense. The little girl you see sitting
in the grocery cart with a feather boa and sunglasses, that is my kid. She
loves bright, bold colors and and fun accessories. She loves to dress over
the top and I even though I don't want to, I often find myself reeling her
back in, especially when it comes to dressing for church on Sunday. If I
love something, she usual... more »
Traces of Soulik: Wrecked Bridge
My man Steve F and I rode out east of Jhuolan over to Shuangchi village.
The view east from the Baibufan Bridge was even lovelier than usual,
because typhoon Soulik had knocked down the wires that usually chop the
scene in half. And not just the wires....
....Soulik's fury had sent streams of water cascading down the hill behind
Steve's left shoulder. It had undermined the bridge and sent that retaining
wall floating out into the river.
Another view of the damage.
In this photo, if you look carefully at the expansion joint, you can see
that the end of the bridge shifted to the eas... more »
A couple of Lin Jia-lung Posters
The DPP's Lin Jia-lung asks voters to support him in the DPP's phone poll
primary for the Taichung mayoral election. The top poster proclaims "The
Hope of Taichung". We sure could use some hope down here.
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Win a Date With thwap!
Sigh. I'm desperate. Any Toronto-area readers who are interested in
actually doing something about harper in the 3-d world, ... send me an
email to smartzeethwap[at]yahoo.ca. We'll meet up and talk shit out.
I don't want this initiative to come from "thwap" so that's why I'm not
posting about it here.
The Chickenshit Society
*Caught this cool bee with lime-green stripes in a field near my house.*
*Indeed, it was doubtless in Germany that chickenshit reached its wartime
apogee. Consider the activities devised for the inmates of camps like
Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz -- digging holes to fill in again, endless
"roll calls" in freezing weather with the dead falling in place: these are
merely chickenshit raised to the highest power.* - Paul M. Fussell, *Wartime
*.
A few posts below this one I blogged on Death by Chickenshit, quoting
Fussell. Yet, chickenshit shapes how authority everywhere in Taiwan culture... more »
Sat 27th Lecture from Hsiao Bi-khim (DPP legislator at large)
*Who lives on those mountaintops in the background!?*
Jerome K sends this around:
*+++++++++++++++++++*
We do have to make up badges for each entering, so for the last minute
people let me know as soon as possible.
Reference the talk as below
Topic: "Everything you wanted to know about Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, but
were afraid to ask."
Speaker: Bi-khim Hsiao, Legislator at Large for the DPP. She has also
served twice before in the Legislative Yuan (LY). Her credentials are many;
google her for full details.
Venue: Legislative Yuan Chun Hsien Bldg. First Floor (details on how t... more »
22 Things Happy People Do Differently by Chiara Fucarino
Source of picture: http://notesalongthepath.com/
There are two types of people in the world: those who choose to be happy,
and those who choose to be unhappy. Contrary to popular belief, happiness
doesn’t come from fame, fortune, other people, or material possessions.
Rather, it comes from within. The richest person in the world could be
miserable while a homeless person could be right outside, smiling and
content with their life. Happy people are happy because they *make* themselves
happy. They maintain a positive outlook on life and remain at peace with
themselves.
The question ... more »
Burden of proof not on moving party in mobility cases
Sferruzzi v. Allan, 2013 ONCA 496:
[42] *Gordon v. Goertz*, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27 is the seminal case on
mobility in family law cases. In it, the Supreme Court set out the
principles that govern such matters. Paragraphs 49-50 of *Gordon* contain
the following summary of those principles:
1. The parent applying for a change in the custody or access order must
meet the threshold requirement of demonstrating a material change in the
circumstances affecting the child.
2. If the threshold is met, the judge on the application must embark on
a fresh inquiry into what is in th... more »
Relativity bans faster-than-light warp drive
In recent 24 hours, lots of media outlets including
NY Times, The Daily Mail, Russia Today, The PK Nation, Times of India, Bend
Bulletin
discuss the NASA research into faster-than-light spaceships based on "warp
drive". The idea is being attributed to Mexican fantasist (rather than
physicist) Miguel Alcubierre while Dr (???) Harold White is being mentioned
as the most active researcher working on this ambitious project.
The proposed idea is simple: reduce the magnitude of the space-like
components of the metric tensor in front of the spaceship and increase it
behind the spaceshi... more »
PA minister: PA agreements modeled after Muhammad's Hudaybiyyah Peace Treaty
Can we trust the Palestinians re any peace treaty? More news that you won't
find reported on the anti-Israel BBC.
'On the eve of the renewed peace talks with Israel, PA Minister of
Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash said in his Friday sermon that when PA
leaders signed agreements with Israel, they knew how to walk "the right
path, which leads to achievement, exactly like the Prophet [Muhammad] did
in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah." Al-Habbash's sermon was delivered in the
presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and was broadcast on official
Palestinian Authority TV.
The Hudaybiyyah pe... more »
"Occupied Territories": What About Cyprus, Kashmir, Tibet?
The Gatestone Institute wonder why only the 'occupation of Palestinian
lands' is a matter for concern. What about Tibet, occupied by China,
Northern Cyprus occupied by Turkey and others?
Is the Palestinian issue only deemed so important because it allows attacks
on the world's only Jewish state?
F-theory on \(Spin(7)\) manifolds, icezones to beat firewalls
I want to mention three new hep-th preprints. One is on F-theory and two
are concerned with the black hole information puzzles.
Concerning the former, Federico Bonetti, Thomas W. Grimm, and Tom G. Pugh
of Munich wrote a paper called
Non-Supersymmetric F-Theory Compactifications on \(Spin(7)\) Manifolds.
There exist just a few interesting holonomy groups that manifolds
constructed of extra dimensions in string/M-theory may respect. Realistic
vacua of F-theory are usually thought of as \(SU(4)\approx Spin(6)\)
holonomy Calabi-Yau manifolds that preserve 1/8 of the original SUSY i.e.
... more »
THE PRINCE
*Royal baby. William told the media: "He's a big boy, he's quite heavy. We
are still working on a name so we will have that as soon as we can. It's
the first time we have seen him really so we are having a proper chance to
catch up." BBC News - William and Kate present baby prince*
William and Kate have a mentor called Sir David Manning.
Sir David Manning is on Kate and William's staff.
Manning was in New York on 9 11 and saw the fall of the Twin Towers.
Manning saw the smoke coming from the World Trade Center.
(New Statesman - NS Profile - David Manning)
*Sir David Manning, 'par... more »
Compare and contrast
It's a little odd how much energy the BBC are putting into furthering the
Lynton Crosby allegations when they just happily just took Tony 'pretty
straight guy' Blair's word that Bernie Ecclestone's £1 million donation to
the Labour party was in no way linked to tobacco advertising legislation.
Likewise this recent BBC coverage seems somewhat more frenzied than their
coverage of the accusations about Peter Mandelson's dealings with aluminium
mogul Oleg Deripaska, and his role in setting EU aluminium import policy.
In fact the number of Peter Mandelson stories that the BBC decided were... more »
UHC 16: Dialogue on UHC and Medicine Access, AIM July 25-26
The Department of Health (DOH), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
(PHIC or PhilHealth), FDA and the AIM Dr. Stephen Zuellig Center for Asian
Business Transformation (AIM ZCABT) will hold a policy dialogue tomorrow
and on Friday, on “Universal Health Care and Access to Medicine” at the
Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Makati City.
I received the invite only today when the DOH National Center for
Pharmaceutical Access and Management (NCPAM) extended the invite to all
members of the DOH Advisory Council for the Implementation of RA 9502
(Cheaper Medicines Law of 2008). Thanks... more »
Palestinians killed by poison gas in a Palestinian refugee camp
A camp for Palestinian refugees has been bombed by chemical weapons and yet
the BBC don't seem interested; why? Are they so in thrall to the 'Jewish
lobby'that they won't cover such a story < /sarcasm>?
The answer is more prosaic, the Palestinian refugee camp is in Syria and
the Palestinians were killed by Syrian forces. So the BBC's interest is all
but nil, I cannot find a reference to this on the BBC Middle East news
yet. I think we all know that if a camp in Gaza had been attacked by
Israel and just one Palestinian had been killed then that would have been
headline news on the ... more »
Smallholders the solution
United Nations report offers *agroecology *and *smallholders *as the
solution to the developing food crisis. Reblogged from The Red Mullet. It's
nice to have the United Nations confirm what some of us have been saying
all along.
*Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to **food, Olivier
De Schutter*
"...[I]ncreasing food production to meet future needs, while necessary, is
not sufficient. It will not allow significant progress in combating hunger
and malnutrition if it is not combined with higher incomes and improved
livelihoods for the poorest – particularly smal... more »
THE OBAMA PLANTATION
For a response to President Obama’s comments on the acquittal of George
Zimmerman and racism in the United States, Democracy Now is joined by Dr.
Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous
books.
Simon Critchley on Religion and Death
Simon Critchley is the author of, *"The Faith of the Faithless:
Experiments in Political Theology" *(2012).
Simon Critchley on Religion and Death. Source: Big Think. Date Published:
April 23, 2012. Description:
The philosopher talks about how suicide has become a taboo and how death
could be regarded differently.
New Subnational African Education and Infrastructure Dataset
Todd Smith, Anustubh Agnihotri, and I have put together a new resource of
subnational education and infrastructure access indicators for Africa,
released as part of the Climate Change and Africa Political Stability
(CCAPS) program at the University of Texas. This dataset provides data on
literacy rates, primary and secondary school attendance rates, access to
improved water
Continue reading
July 23, 1973
Nixon responds to the Ervin Committee's request for a handful of tapes:
--
I have considered your request that I permit the Committee to have access
to tapes of my private conversations with a number of my closest aides. I
have concluded that the principles stated in my letter to you of July 6th
preclude me from complying with that request, and I shall not do so. Indeed
the special nature of tape recordings of private conversations is such that
these principles apply with even greater force to tapes of private
Presidential conversations than to Presidential papers.
--
But that's n... more »
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Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Use Counter-Top Appliances or Eat Raw
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
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 great information and I encourage ... more »
Guarantee: The NSA Isn't The Only Outfit Spying On You
I picked up a thin volume that came in the mail the other day, lol...OMG!:
What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management,
Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying by Matt Ivester. I'm long past being
a student. In fact, I'm past being a professor as well. But, as someone who
spends a lot of my time online, I figured there would be some good lessons
in this book I could benefit from. I figured correctly. As Jennifer Aaker,
author and Stanford professor said, "We are at a critical point in
technological history-- where social media is beginning to have more impact ... more »
Untitled
*Historic suit seeks damages from 100 energy companies for Louisiana's
coastal erosion ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*
*Science to be key factor in lawsuit against oil and gas companies for
coastal loss ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Jean Trounstine : The Plight of California's Prisons
Cruel
and unusual: Overcrowded California prisons. Image from
TheBusySignal.com.
The plight of California's prisons:
Hunger strike, sterilization, and valley fever
While we complain of 100 degree heat and take solace in our
air-conditioned homes, prisoners across the country are suffering -- and
not just for their crimes.
By Jean Trounstine / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2013
It’s been two
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined yet again by
Clement Pulaski of *TrueSonsofAbraham.com* to discuss his essays *Aryans
Follow the Sun* and *Usury and the Corruption of American Society*.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Does Copyright Stifle or Enable Creativity?
Now and again you find a talk on copyright on TED from Johanna Blakely that
makes you think and see things differently. Blakely challenges our values
and what creates innovation and also the definition of utility. You find
yourself asking if we are we approaching copyright in the right way for the
'creative' media industry sectors?
The question remains how the creator makes money in a world of plagiarism.
Perhaps its to do more with the democratization of fashion, recipes, jokes,
etc. This forces designers and creators to go that extra mile and taking
copying as a driver and not... more »
Weiner's weiner on display...
*again.*
And people would actually vote for a man who finds it necessary to take
pics of his penis?
What has this country become?
Henry Geiger - Moonshine And Sunlight (1984)
*Related: *
* Henry Geiger - Symbol And Myth (1974).*
*Henry Geiger - The Present And The Long View (1979)*.
*Wikipedia:*
Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief
writer of MANAS Journal which published from 1948-1988. Abraham Maslow
called him “the only small ‘p’ philosopher America has produced in this
century.”
*Wikipedia:*
MANAS was an eight-page philosophical weekly written, edited, and published
by Henry Geiger from 1948 until December 1988. Each issue typically
contained several short essays that reflected on the human condition,
exami... more »
Hedge Fund SAC to face criminal charges ? This follows civil charges against Steven Cohen by the SEC last week !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-23/final-straw-sac-criminal-charges-be-filed-week
The Final Straw For SAC: Criminal Charges To Be Filed This Week
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2013 22:18 -0400
- Cohen
- Insider Trading
- SAC
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Securities Fraud
- Steve Cohen
- Wall Street Journal
It would appear the camel's back of the career of Steve Cohen and his firm
SAC Capital has received its last straw. As the WSJ reports, Federal
prosecutors plan to bring criminal charges against ... more »
NC Republican Taliban Gone Wild: Kills Voter Awareness HS Program to Pre-Register Students
The Koch Brothers’ chief henchman in North Carolina is Art Pope, who led
the effort in Wake County to kill socioeconomic school integration a couple
of years back. Wake County awoke from its slumber and ousted the racist
school board members and the Broadie superintendent, and now things are
starting to get back to normal. Now […]
Scranton , Pa faces 117 percent property tax to balance budget .... and that's before the city police and firefighter union pension issues get sorted out....
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/07/scranton-needs-117-property-tax-hike-to.html
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:25 AM
Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget; Simple Truth:
Scranton is Bankrupt
Those looking for the next city to go bankrupt should consider the
possibilities in Scranton.
The Pennsylvania Economy League projects Scranton could be looking at $18
million deficit, 117 percent tax hike in 2014.
Scranton taxpayers could face a 117 percent increase in taxes next year as
the city's finances continue to spiral out of control.
A new analysis by t... more »
What happens when you try the Prisoners Dilemma on actual prisoners?
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So much of modern mainstream microeconomics is built on mathematical
reasoning based on the so-called Prisoner’s Dilemma.
But, as if to demonstrate the distance from the real world of the reasoning
of mainstream economics, no-one had ever tested the Prisoner’s Dilemma on
real prisoners.
And when two Hamburg researchers did, what they found confounded the
elegant mathematical reasoning relied on by economists.
Not only did the prisoners cooperate far more than the alleged economists’
models say they would, they cooperated far more than students, on whom, to
date, t... more »
The day Australia closed the door
Australians aren’t just failing at cricket. They’re also failing at acting
on that which they supposedly believe.
This week they begin rejecting refugees arriving in Australia by boat,
sending them instead to a concentration camp off Papua New Guinea.
This in the name of a country and people who sing, in their national
anthem:
“*For those who've come across the seas*. *We've boundless plains to share…”
*
Turns out that’s just empty words and flatulence.
[Hat tip Sandrine L.]
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihu... more »
The Detroit mess: "So now the deficit scolds have a new case to misinterpret" (Paul Krugman)
*-- Tim Eagan (click to enlarge)*
*"Detroit does seem to have had especially bad governance, but for the
most
part the city was just an innocent victim of market forces. What? Market
forces have victims? Of course they do."*
*-- Paul Krugman, in his NYT column yesterday,*
"Detroit, the New Greece"
*by Ken*
I suppose it would be going too far to suggest that the deficit hawks
are
giddy about the Detroit bankruptcy situation because of the opportunity
it
presents to stick it to working people -- or, better, still,
*retired*working people. Oh, I think they're pretty happy about this.
A... more »
" The Entire Western World is Detroit " opines Bill Holter......As Detroit awaits its bail in and hopes for an Obama bailout , let's follow the Cyprus situation ( first bail in ) and bail in on the way Spain ! Greece items of the day - more Troika tantrums at non actions from Greece !
(courtesy Bill Holter/Miles Franklin)
The entire Western world is "Detroit"
As you must know by now, Detroit is bankrupt and must
restructure...somehow. They once were the manufacturing capital of the
United States and the largest concentrated manufacturer in the world. They
now have over 28% unemployment (actually much higher), and cannot afford to
pay for even basic services and much of the city is "bombed out" as in
destroyed. There are calls for all sorts of remedies such as private
equity rebuilding and public (federal) bailouts. ALL of this misses the
point...
The p... more »
Dead Secretaries Society
Two case studies: Compare and Contrast
*Subject One:* Congressman Gary Condit (D, CA)
Personal Background:
Democratic Congressman from California, Chair of the House Intelligence
Committee
Dead Secretary:
Chandra Levy, suspected Mossad Asset inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Date of Death / Disappearance:
May 1st, 2001
(Last day of Beltane)
(4 months prior to 9/11)
(4 months subsequent to First Innaugural of the Unelected,
Court-appointed President George W. Bush)
Background to Death:
"In Sex, Power & Murder, every detail of Chandra Levy's tempestuous affair
with Congr... more »
BC Government States No LNG Plants Online Until 2021, Two Election Cycles Away!
Yesterday I explained how Rich Coleman is full of shit about the Japanese
market for LNG from British Columbia, I also pointed out as did others how
the BC Liberal`s claims of(before the election) that B.C. LNG would
eliminate British Columbia`s debt, pay for bridge tolls, pay off crown
debts at BC Hydro, BC Ferries, eliminate sales tax and also add$hundreds of
billions of dollars into a prosperity fund for future generations, ...Those
pre-election BC Liberal claims went from those outlandish claims to how
LNG revenue over 30 years "*would help eliminate the debt*"...
And today ... more »
SEC charges Texas Man with running Bitcoin denominated ponzi scheme - actually , it you look back to when the story first broke ( and the ponzi schemer ran away ) , the value opined to be lost was 5 million...... As of today , the value lost was about 48 million million ( using a price of 94.5 ) ..... looking back to the prior high of around 230 , you looking at lost alleged value of at least 110 million ! Be careful out here folks ! Mt Gox info from their website for your consideration....Changes to their deposit procedures and also their statement on their July 4 , 2013 resumption of withdrawals and improved banking ( just who are their new banking partners - why not just say whom ) ...... backlog talk is a concern and why does it take so long to process deposits ?
http://www.infowars.com/sec-charges-texas-man-with-running-bitcoin-denominated-ponzi-scheme/
SEC Charges Texas Man With Running Bitcoin-Denominated Ponzi Scheme
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*zerohedge.com*
July 23, 2013
That didn’t take long.
*From the SEC:*
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Texas man and his
company with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin, a
virtual currency traded on onl... more »
A LAKE IN MAINE
Sebago Tar Sands Demonstration from Regis Tremblay on Vimeo.
On Saturday, July 20, 2013, 350 Maine conducted a wonderful "teach-in" at
Sebago Lake to inform the public about the dangers of fossil fuels, and
specifically Tar-sands. The Canadians want to reverse the flow of the
Portland to Montreal pipeline to move filthy, dirty Tar-sands oil down
through Maine, 500 feet from Sebago Lake, to Portland to be shipped to
China and other places. 200 people took part in the festivities and street
(lake) theater.
350.org founder, Bill McKibben spoke to the crowd and took part in the
activ... more »
Today Detroit, tomorrow the world
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If you discount the life-giving value of continuing economic growth and
progress, then check out what happens in a city that has abandoned both.
It teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Members of the City Council have
simply stopped showing up for work. Whole blocks are seemingly abandoned.
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 take, on average, almost an hour for help to
arrive. Police solve – this is apparently true – 8.7% of crimes. 8.7%! The
only reason the sky-high crime rate isn’t higher is, apparently, a shortage
of available innocent victims.
And look at this description... more »
From Nor-man Gold-man Today
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American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Posted on Monday, July 22, 2013
We need to get the word out about this. Will you help?
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
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