a challenge to handle ...item 2.. 'F*** me! I can't even f***ing talk' -- KHQ Spokane reporter Lindsay Nadrich (26 June 2013) ...item 4.. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (Full Album) ... (Photo credit: marsmet472)ate Talk Radio Fading-- At Least In Terms Of Demos Advertisers Are Interested In
Two stories this week in *Inside Radio* demonstrate, once again, why Hate
Talk Radio is doomed. In short, the format isn't reaching a demo and
advertisers-- other than adult diaper makers, the NRA and the Republican
Party-- want to reach. The key ad target demos don't want to hear bitter
old white men screaming crazy, hateful conspiracy theories at them. Only
very old, bitter white males listen to Hate Talk Radio (and Fox News). It's
not a small number, but it isn't one legitimate advertisers care about
reaching.
The chart (above) tells the story of why mainstream Hate Talk radio ... more »
Alas, Arak: Plutonium, the Press & a New Path to Propaganda
Heavy-water
production plant near the central Iranian city of Arak
The following is the 77th update to my comprehensive, ongoing compendium
of constant predictions and prognostications regarding the supposed
inevitability and imminence of an alleged Iranian nuclear weapon,
hysterical allegations that have been made repeatedly for the past three
decades.One of the Wall Street Journal's
ECHELON
*Pilot's Eye view: Looking north west over GCHQ Bude (formerly CSOS
Morwenstow)*
Echelon - World-Wide Eavesdropping By The NSA from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*ECHELON *is the catch-all name used to refer to the signals intelligence
(SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five
signatory states to the UK–USA Security Agreement (Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, known as AUSCANZUKUS).
The system has been researched and reported on in a number of public
sources. Its capabilities and political implications were investigate... more »
Intellectual Jailbait: Hunting for Underage Ideas at APSA
APSA is around the corner and young academics should think about setting up
meetings with people who it would be good to know. Personal contacts are
much more important than they really should be in a business where it is
supposed to be the ideas that matter. Almost every single book blurb in
this world
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Oh, what Old Frank could teach Len Brown
It’s a lesson every big city planner needs to learn too:
Cities are made from the bottom up. They’re organic. They develop with each
individual decision about each individual building, letting the energy of a
city flow incrementally to the parts that are more or less highly valued,
to develop in a way that reflects the reasons for that valuation.
It’s the release of an abundant creative energy reflected in concrete form
in every great city.
Whereas all that the rules of a plan can do is to ban. And constrain. And
restrict.
And all that a monument builder can do is ride rough-shod... more »
So how’s that Australian election going?
First, some history, and a quiz …
… and as the election moves into its fifth year…
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"9/11 Pentagon Attack– Behind the Smoke Curtain"
*"9/11 Pentagon Attack– Behind the Smoke Curtain"*
By John Rolls
"Barbara Honegger’s presentation titled “Behind the Smoke Curtain” in
Seattle’s Town Hall Theater, January 12, 2013, on what happened and what
didn’t happen at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
- http://beforeitsnews.com/
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*Links mentioned in this video:*
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: http://ae911truth.org
Patriots Question 9/11: http://patriotsquestion911.com
Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth: http://pl911truth.com
Aaron Russo’s offer from Nicholas Rockefeller: http://youtu.be/iSii-xWoyKM
Another v... more »
I Will Never Accept A Smart Meter, Even If It Means Going Off The BC Hydro Grid
Please clich the first below link and watch the documentary trailer.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/08/12/crowd-sourced-documentary-exposes-smart-grid-shortfalls/2637497/
I can`t wait for the full documentary..Click the above link and watch the
trailer..
60,000 BC Homes in British Columbia stayed strong and refused the devices,
I am happy to say I am part of two of those homes that refused smart
meters....Even if it means going off the BC Hydro grid completely, we at
The Straight Goods will not capitulate...
Smart meters were never about a smart grid, we don`t hav... more »
"Economist: Obamacare Will Cost 4 Million Jobs"
* *
*"Economist: Obamacare Will Cost 4 Million Jobs"*
by Jason Farrell
“All that “affordable care” we’re about to be hit with just keeps getting
better. “Ask almost any employer and there won’t be much doubt,” says
Forbes writer and Daily Reckoning contributor John Goodman. “The Affordable
Care Act is likely to raise the cost of labor, discourage hiring and have a
negative effect on the economy.” As it turns out, that’s a bit of an
understatement.
Goodman cites the work of University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan,
an expert on labor economics. According to Mulligan’s number... more »
Neil Postman on Information (1995)
*"Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology"* by Neil Postman
(1993).
*Wikipedia:*
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author,
media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public
for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more
than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a
humanist, who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human
values.", though with a much stronger preference for faith and religious
belief as evidenced by his book "Technopoly: The ... more »
WILL ISRAEL INVADE THE SINAI?
I’ve asked this question before back when the Egyptian revolution was
getting underway in late January 2011. An Israeli invasion then was
thwarted when the interim government that followed the ousting of President
Hosni Mubarak gave assurances to Israel that they would be honouring the
peace agreements made between the two countries in 1979. After the
elections of June 2012 that saw President Mohamed Morsi come to power, the
Israelis were again quickly reassured by letters from the new president
that he too would be honouring the 1979 peace agreements. However, despite
the assurance... more »
Ian Welsh says of the James Clapper appointment: "It is Obama saying 'Kiss My Ass' "
*He's already shown he's wiling to lie for the cause. Who better to turn to
protect the secrets of our secrets?*
*"It's really hard for most people to understand just how much contempt our
lords and masters have for us. . . . Starting at about the Senior VP level,
people decide that they deserve everything they've got and everyone else
doesn't. If they did, they'd have it. . . .
"If you have an ideology which glorifies greed and which claims that
society is a meritocracy when there is copious evidence to the contrary,
those who win will believe they 'deserve' what they have, and e... more »
Captain Bernanke skillfully piloting the US Titanic right into the iceberg........
The Fed’s Confession: We Can Avoid A Crash At The End Of QE If Everybody
Believes That Everybody Believes In A Mirage….
Posted on August 14, 2013 by Wolf Richter — 1 Comment ↓
What rabble-rousers, economists (those banished from the mainstream media),
and bloggers have hammered on for years, a study by the San Francisco Fed *
finally* confesses: QE didn’t do a heck of a lot of good for the real
economy. Whatever it did for Wall Street, and however it shifted wealth and
destroyed what little remained of the free markets, and whatever
distortions, misallocations, and bubbles it created,... more »
Untitled
*Lawmakers, flood authority spar over wetlands lawsuit ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Lawmakers criticize Flood Protection Authority for suing oil and gas
companies ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Untitled
*Dat Dog Rising On Frenchmen Street ~NOLA DEFENDER*
US Postal Service to operate with just 5 days cash on hand starting October 1 ( New Fiscal Year ) .....
Uh, oh: The Postal Service will only have five days’ worth of cash-on-hand
in October
POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON AUGUST 14, 2013 BY ERIKA JOHNSEN
The relevant unions and their progressive Congressional allies have been
steadfastly resisting the repeated attempts at substantive reform of the
U.S. Postal Service, from both within and without the longstanding
institution — never mind that the quasi- agency is has been careening
ever-deeper into debt and is approaching a potential insolvency- and/or
bailout-scenario with every passing business day. In the latest twist of
poor financial new... more »
Kurds in Iraq and PM Maliki find common cause in fighting Al Qaeda aka islamic fighters in Iraq ? Enemy of my enemy is my friend....
http://news.yahoo.com/insight-iraq-kurds-reach-baghdad-fight-surging-al-121316145.html
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And not just Britain…
To paraphrase PJ O’Rourke, why are some parts of Britain flourishing while
too many others just suck?
Allister Heath’s answer: *The rest of the UK needs to copy London's
capitalist culture*
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Egypt: Creating a false paradigm to justify death and destruction
*This is one hell of an info packed post*. I would very much appreciate
the gift of your time to read as I gifted my time to research and write.
Thank-You in advance :)
When I began working on this post, news out of Egypt had just started
hitting the media. What was clear from those earliest reports is that this
had been a brutal operation. Starting at dawn, protest camps fogged heavily
with tear gas. Bulldozers, helicopters, snipers and live fire were all
immediately reported
Earliest casualty counts had approximately 40 dead. That seemed to low for
some of the imagery shown and t... more »
Louisiana Sinkhole Updates - More than a mouthful on Lake Fubar including recent flyover video footage and news / data for the ongoing debacle.....
Louisiana sinkhole updates .. h/t Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle ..
New Fly Over, Tues. News + Siesmic Shakes at Lake FUBAR
AUGUST 13, 2013
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*LA 12 and 14 are especially active this noon. *[image: heli_button]
This is NOT work trucks:
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*LA17* very affected too . . . and it’s supposedly way over east of the
butane tanks.
*UPDATE: WED.* — This activity continues and it looks obvious work trucks
have stopped dumping fill on the berm roads (they make big marks on the
helicorder graphs) so is the Parish still under a *Code 1 alert* like they
said on yesterday’s blog... more »
Where Are All the Republican Realists?
In light of the brouhaha between Chris Christie and Rand Paul over foreign
policy, conservative columnist Ross Douthat opined in The New York Times
that the Republican Party seems to be missing the sort of realist
pragmatists of old that might have mediated between these views. He
attributes the realist decline to them being out of
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“Fukushima News You Don’t Want to Read About: Uncontainable”
*“Fukushima News You Don’t Want to Read About:*
* Uncontainable”*
by Dr. Sircus
"This has to be the worst picture I have ever seen. For all of us who
thought we were safer down here in South America, a hemisphere removed from
the jet streams blowing radiation directly from Fukushima over the United
States, we can now see how false that belief is. In this graphic from NOAA
we see that La Nina is splitting the jet stream sending radiation
increasingly over Hawaii and then on to South America.
In a petition to United States Senators we read, “Although the initial
meltdown of t... more »
Paper bag time . . .
MAYOR
FORD BECOMES a world-wide joke. Here's the latest on YouTube, titled
“Rob Ford's drunk Greek life, and the Toronto mayor's trip to jail”.
done by an outfit called Taiwan Animation. The people who posted have
some acerbic comments to go with it. Click on the link to read the whole
epistle.
Published on Aug 13, 2013
Toronto's walking facepalm of a mayor, Rob Ford, has made his city
SeaWorld chief is happy to have fewer people crowding his parks (and dumping cash in their coffers)
*Welcome to SeaWorld Orlando -- or maybe not*
*by Ken*
First it was Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner bragging about his House not
doing any legislating and dreaming of *un*-making rather than making laws.
Now the chief executive of the newly public SeaWorld conglomeration of
theme parks seems positively giddy about the sharp drop in attendance that
occurred at the very same time prices were raised at the ll parks an
average of 9 percent over the same period (second quarter) last year. (It's
"dynamic pricing" now, so it's hard to quantity the hike precisely.)
In case you were thinking... more »
A Nuclear Deal Between America And Iran Remains Off The Table In D.C.
*Read:*
*India, China Defy US Congress’ War on Iranian Oil (Juan Cole, August 13).*
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*On Iran Negotiations, US is Untrustworthy (AntiWar.com, August 13).*
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*Washington Ready to Repeat Past Mistakes in Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran;
Tehran Thinks About a Plan B (GoingToTehran.com, August 12).*
What could possibly save Egypt?
News overnight that Egyptians are being killed en-masse by their government
is hardly inspiring--especially since the reasons for the bloodletting this
time are not going away.
Sixty years of state brutality has suppressed violent Islamism, but not
killed it—and brutalised all of Egypt in the process. And democracy has
failed—delivering at first the radical Islamism the majority seem to want,
and now a return to the brutal suppression that has characterised too much
of “modern Egypt.”
So how to save Egypt—and the few liberals there that are the only genuine
source of hope?
A sug... more »
Geopolitical three dimension chess - focus on Russia , Azerbaijan , Jordan , China , Germany , Sudan and the role of the CIA ( ergo US ) in Syria .......
Geopolitical scrambles.....
http://www.panorama.am/en/popular/2013/08/14/az-weapon/
Azerbaijan is to suspend cooperation with U.S. and NATO to ensure energy
security
In the framework of Putin's visit to Azerbaijan, the parties coordinated
many issues in military sphere; in particular, issues of a rather
large-scaled cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia during the 22 years
of independence, the Russian military source reported this to "Doctrine",
the Military Journalistic Investigation Center, says Azerbaijani news
agency "Salamnews".
According to MJIC "Doctrine" information Az... more »
Egypt's Day of Terror
Egypt's day of terror has been brewing for a long time. 18 months ago,
Mubarak's regime suffered a mortal body blow on Egypt's Day of Rage as
millions poured onto the streets. Approximately two weeks later Mubarak
had
been swept from power by an alliance of convenience of *ancien
regime's*opponents, and a military presenting itself as a neutral
arbiter and
guarantor of stability. The problem then became one typical of the fall
of
authoritarian governments. They are brittle things, despite the varying
levels of repression they meted out during their life time, but at the
same
time th... more »
TEA Challenges Huffman/Haslam Plan to Tie Licensure to Value-Addled Test Scores
You have to take the 18 minutes to view this news conference announcement
in order to appreciate the profound unfairness of using VAM for ANY high
stakes decision. For more context, detailed discussion, and a survey of the
mountain of research studies, buy the book. Tagged: teacher certification,
teacher licensure, Tennessee schools, value-added
Gold and Silver report - News and views of the day - August 14 , 2013.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-paulson-13f-2013-8
( Wrong way John Paulson.... dumped half of his GLD shares at end of Q-2 )
John Paulson's new 13F quarterly regulatory filing is out.
The highlight of the filing is that he's scaled back on his gold position.
At the end of Q2, Paulson held just 10,234,852 shares of SPDR Gold Trust,
down from 21,837,552 shares in Q1.
Paulson, who made a name for himself by shorting subprime mortgages when
the housing bubble burst, has been getting crushed by his bet on gold.
and....
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/08/george-soros-sells-gold-john-... more »
Movie Review - Pacific Rim
Southern
Man gets the feeling that he's going to be posting a whole series
of scathing review on the upcoming crop of sci-fi movies. He already
knows
that *Elysium* is awful and he has a very bad feeling about *Ender's
Game*but we'll kick it off with the CGI-laden atrocity that is
*Pacific Rim*.
The plot is intriguing: alien beasts (called Kaijus in the film) from
another dimension invade not from the stars but through an
interdimsensional portal at the floor of the Pacific Ocean. They are
large
and ill-tempered and have the annoying habit of rampaging Godzilla-like
(but without Go... more »
NY Times blast Clintons over Clinton Foundation cronyism and conflicts - say a critical mass has been reached for these issues , multi- million deficits despite raking in about a half billion during the period of 1997 - 2007..... NY Times then suddenly hit by cyber attack ! Anyone naive enough to think that's just a coincidence ?
strange coincidence - NYT blasts Clintons , NYT hit by cyber attack the
same day......
*NY TIMES* : CLINTON FOUNDATION RIFE WITH CRONYISM
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On Wednesday, the *New York Times* ran a blistering investigative report revealing
the Clinton Foundation as a nonprofit rife with crony capitalist conflicts
of interest and multi-million dollar deficits despite raking in at least $492
million from 1997 to 2007.
In 2007 and 2008, the Clinton Foundation, wh... more »
The (American) Job Market and Interpretive Methods in Political Science
M. David Forrest, a soon-to-be-assistant-professor of American politics,
forwarded the following letter to the “interpretation and methods”
listserv. He agreed to let me post it at the Duck. Given the methodological
heterogeneity of our readership, I thought it would be of interest. It
reads: [I am an American Politics scholar who primarily uses interpretive
methods and
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Resistance is Not Futile.
A claim common among opponents of a treaty ban on autonomous weapon systems
(AWS) is that treaties banning weapons don’t work – suggesting efforts to
arrest the development of AWS are an exercise in futility. Now this claim
has been picked up uncritically by the editors at Bloomberg, writing in the
derisively titled, “No Really, How
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Why I detest the BBC’s Middle East news team, as Knell reports on prisoner release without mentioning their crimes
The BBC's pro Islamist terrorist coverage continues.
' Significantly, at no point during her shallow reporting of the "parties"
and "big family reunions" does Knell bother to make clear to her audiences
the significance of the fact that these events celebrating the release of
murderers are organised by the same (foreign aid funded) Palestinian
Authority which is supposed to be a 'partner for peace'. At no point does
she raise the question of how such official public displays of the
glorification of terror and violent crime against foreign tourists,
Israelis and Palestinians migh... more »
Iowa Republican Steve King On The Attack Again-- Except This Time His Target Is The GOP House Leadership
It's almost as though King has a political death wish. His House district
has been redrawn and while still the reddest seat in Iowa, it isn't nearly
as safe as it once was. The PVI is R+5, Romney beat Obama 53-45% and King
himself had a relatively close call, alos winning just 53% of the vote
against Christie Vilsack. Vilsack beat him in 7 counties, including two of
the three big ones, Cerro Gordo and Story. King spent $3,815,765-- even
more than he was able to raise. His seat is on the DCCC's radar and he has
a strong opponent next year in Jim Mowrer, a Boone farm boy who served i... more »
Now the Data-Miners Are Afraid of Being Counter-Data-Mined
The Pentagon seems to have had one of those "oh shit" moments when it
dawned on them that data-mining can be a double-edged sword. Apparently
some out-of-the-box thinker asked what might happen if a potential
adversary chose to sift through America's mountains of
commercially-available data?
*The doomsday thinkers over at DARPA are looking for researchers to
"investigate the national security threat posed by public data available
either for purchase or through open sources." The question is, could a
determined data miner use only publicly available information -- culled
from Web ... more »
The United States Air Force Wants to Go All Nano on China's Ass
At times it seems the U.S. military is obsessed with finding ways to attack
China. They've already staged a full-dress rehearsal of a stealth
first-strike against China, *Operation Chimichanga*. That scenario
envisioned a wave of F-35 stealth light bombers, protected by F-22 stealth
fighters, catching the Chinese napping and wiping out their key air defence
infrastructure to seize effective control of Chinese airspace.
Apparently the Chinese can now read and they've figured out that the best
way to defend against a pre-emptive attack is pre-emptively. You launch a
pre-emptive ... more »
Inequality for All - Coming Soon, Very Soon, Oh Hell, It's Already Here!
A trailer for Robert Reich's new documentary, *Inequality for All*
**
Reich asks "*who is looking out for the American worker*?"* *We need to
ask who is looking out for Canadian workers? Harper has been waging a
relentless war on Canadian labour since he seized the reins of power.
There was a time when that would have sparked howls of righteous
indignation from the NDP - before they morphed into *Latter Day Liberals*.
As for the *Conservative-Lites*, well they're worse than useless.
Lamar W. Hankins : How George W. Bush Aided the Terrorists
Mission
accomplished! Have Bush's (and Obama's) policies boosted terrorist
recruitment? Photo from Reuters.
How George W. Bush aided the terrorists
(According to the government)
Bush’s bogus war in Iraq; the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and
“black site” prisons; waterboarding and other uses of torture; and the
civilian death toll from drone strikes have all served as recruiting
tools
Might we see Bank Bail -in for Europe by early 2014 ? A look at key points raised in the latet " The Slog " blogspot Global Looting series ....Meanwhile , while Germany and France see GDP improve , the greater european depression rolls on....
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/global-looting-the-numbers-that-all-point-to-imminent-bank-bailins/
GLOBAL LOOTING: The numbers that all point to imminent bank bailins
*U*npaid Greek bank loans exceed total Greek bank recapitalisation budget.
*€4 trillion hole in the EU banking system*
*US Fed ships €1.3 trillion of prop-up money into eurozone*
*French debt is 174% of gdp*
*ClubMed debt is now mathematically unrepayable*
“Ignore what they tell you,” a famous Wall Street trader once told Mark J.
Grant, “just look at the numbers”. This was always the advice I gave to
trainee advert... more »
Not All The Protesters In Egypt Are Peaceful (Video)
The video below shows two masked men firing at the Egyptian police. It
dispels the media generated myth that the protesters in Egypt are peaceful,
hippie-era lovers who just want democracy to be restored. Nothing could be
further from the truth.
Not all the protesters are unarmed and peaceful. There are many violent
extremists, agent provocateurs, and most likely foreign Jihadists brought
in by the Muslim Brotherhood gang to create disruption and disorder. Sure,
there are many protesters who have zero aspirations for power and believe
they are in the streets for the right reasons. T... more »
Update: The University of Minnesota Psychiatry Research Ethics Scandal
This is to update a little bit on the situation with regard to the
disgraceful twists and ugly and very possible bona fide cover-up activities
and general lack of transparency of the University of Minnesota management
to avoid a real investigation of the tragic, Astra Zeneca sponsored
psychiatry drug trials that caused several suicides and that raise a number
of serious queries about irregularities and abuse, such as possibly
falsified consent forms. I have reported about this increasingly shameful
affair here, here and here.
A petition to the governor of Minnesota to launch an inde... more »
MAINE DRONE PEACE WALK SCHEDULE
*October 10-19, 2013*
*Welcome & Register*
We invite you to consider joining the October 10-19 *Preserve our Privacy:
No Drone Spying in Maine* peace walk. The walk is being organized by the
Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home and Maine Veterans for Peace.
The peace walk will be led by Buddhist nun Jun-san Yasuda (Grafton,
NY) from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. They are an order from Japan and
specialize in doing peace walks all over the world.
We must push back against the expanding use of surveillance drones in the
US and weaponized drones around the world that are killi... more »
More Snowdens and Mannings coming soon as Anonymous inside the Army .... if inside the Army , more leaks will come out ! Items of interest on the surveillance scandal !
Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
One can see why NSA wants to fire as many humans as possible......
US Army’s Active-Duty Captain Reveals “More Leaks like Snowden coming soon”
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New Media, New Public Intellectuals | the becoming radical.
Thoughts for the Brain - language and stuff
English is the closest thing to a global lingua franca. This state of
affairs was established by two successive global empires, numerous wars,
occupations etc, centuries of oppression and exploitation. It is testament
to Walter Benjamin’s observation that each document of civilisation is
simultaneously one of barbarism.
One thousand years ago English did not exist. Five hundred years ago it was
of little account; it did not even encompass what is now known as England.
We can’t begin to know exactly where language will go in the next hundred,
let alone thousand years. There are two p... more »
Which news orgs was Maddow talking about?
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013*
*Tabloidy star likes to clown:* Unless you enjoy watching millionaires
making convincing chicken sounds, Rachel Maddow is increasingly a
waste-of-time hack. (For link to clucks, see below.)
In recent weeks, Maddow has been telling a tabloidized tale about the death
of Ibragim Todashev, whom the FRBI shot and killed during an interrogation
on May 22, in Florida. Previously, Todashev had lived in Boston, where he
was an associate of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
He was being questioned about those associations when he was shot and
killed.
Maddow is certainly right... more »
A Breathtaking Look at the Changing Face of the Far North
*The Guardian* has posted a fascinating audio-slideshow, *Above Zero*,
narrated by photographer Olaf Otto Becker who chronicled the Greenland ice
sheet and how rapidly it is changing. They're quite amazing photographs
that deserve a look.
Climate Wars - Ranchers Versus Frackers in West Texas
Ranchers in Texas are reeling from years of drought and heatwaves. Now
they're seeing what little water remains being taken by frackers.
With a "bought and paid for" state and federal government, those ranchers
are pretty much in a David & Goliath battle only Goliath has cornered the
rock market.
The Ghosts That Haunt Pam Wallin
Pam Wallin wants you to know one thing - she will gladly pay back every
dime she wrongfully pocketed in expenses - plus interest. I believe her.
I believe she couldn't write that cheque fast enough.
There's something missing. It's the creaking noise from Pam's knees as she
supplicates herself, pleading for mercy. It's not the money, well not any
more, for Pam. It's the ruination she fears, real "end of the line"
reputational Armageddon. That, and of course, the prospect of wracking up
a criminal conviction or two in the process. She wants somebody to take
her off the hook.... more »
Shades of Jim Crow
It's been more than a little embarrassing to live in North Carolina since
the easily deluded voters here turned the joint over to the crackpot con
Republicans who are now in a race to turn the place into the wingnuttiest
state in the union. The latest attack on voting rights in Raleigh is geting
national attention. As it should. They mandated onerous voter ID
requirements, cut down early voting and made voter registration as
difficult as possible among other odious ploys to suppress Democratic
voters. But these two provisions are being largely overlooked though
they're likely to tur... more »
Catch of the Day
What Greg Sargent said:
This latest move from a shutdown-based strategy against Obamacare to a debt
limit-based one (presuming it will even happen) is part of a larger
pattern, in which GOP leaders try to talk conservatives out of the favored
insane and dangerous strategy of the moment by promising another
confrontation around some other leverage point later. Indeed, GOP leaders
have done exactly this in the past, in order to avoid a confrontation over
— yup — the debt ceiling...
Now we are being asked to believe that Republicans will use the debt limit
— on which they caved last t... more »
Contras
Bush-Reagan, Taxes, Reaganomics and Contras from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there.
The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es verdad - those Washington Bullets again
And in the Bay of Pigs in 196... more »
How Agri-Business is Poisoning Our Lakes and Oceans
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls them
"biological deserts." They are the dead zones that are spreading along our
coasts and inland waterways.
"*Habitats that would normally be teeming with life become, essentially,
biological deserts*," NOAA says.
While there are various causes for dead zones in different places, the
majority are blamed on agricultural runoff full of nitrogen and phosphorous
from fertilizers that fuels algae blooms that, in turn, suck the oxygen out
of vast swathes of fresh and seawater, killing off the life that would
normall... more »
Marilyn Katz : Detroit and the Myth of Black Misleadership
Pedestrian walks past graffiti in downtown Detroit. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Image from Minnesota Public Radio.
Detroit’s downfall:
Beyond the myth of black misleadership
How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight.
By Marilyn Katz / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2013
It would be comforting to the rest of us if, as oft reported, Detroit’s current woes were
(Spitting On the Constitution: We Rule - You Don't) Why Jamie Di(a)mon(d) Will Never Be Called To Account
Yeah. He's smart all right. The smartest banker according to our smartest
President. Oh yes, and I forgot. Rich. And, of course, they're not going to
help the poor taxpayers of Detroit (or anywhere else for that matter).
After all, they aren't New York. Think the arrest of the two fall guys at
JPMorgan, means that Jamie Di(a)mon(d), Chairman, CEO, JPMorgan President
in Charge of Insider
Rachel Maddow vs. Russia
Why Are the Russians Launching a Full Bore Frontal Attack on Rachel Maddow?from
Spike1138 on Vimeo.
When Abby Martin says "this country" and "this Government", is she talking
about Barack Obama's America or Vladimir Putin's Russia (who signs her
paychecks).
It's very unclear - and this is troubling for a number of reasons, not
least the disingenuous editing of Maddow's comments surround the Tsarnaev
case.
Chiefly, since it is the Russian contention that the Chechen are Islamists
and guilty - when plainly, there are not.
And Putin's FSB knows they are not.
It's also the implicti... more »
Discussion about old and new theoretical physics forums
I am not taking any positions about these matters – and about the Stack
Exchange forums, their contents, and their moderators, among related topics
– but this blog entry was written with the only purpose: to allow the
exchange of information and opinions between users who are interested in
the debate about the sufficiency of the existing forums and about the
possibilities to create and sustain new ones (and about their desirability
and role).
However, I must assure everyone that it is not easy to create and maintain
a discussion forum and to guarantee the appropriate amount of qu... more »
Help! I have a pre-born brainwashed soldier in my uterus!
This is interesting, not so much for the theology, but for the author's
view of the necessity of the argument.
A Catholic theologian, Charles Camosy, whom LifeShite tars as the guy who
invited 'pro-abortion' ethicist, Peter Singer, to speak, first refers to
the case in Phoenix in which a nun got excommunicated for saving a life.
Specifically, the life of a pregnant woman. And more specifically, by
approving a 'direct abortion'.
He says, rightly, that the Church was characterized (again) as
'anti-woman'.
The Church can do better.
And we must do better. The new moment in the abor... more »
Some Advice on Advice
My latest Bridges column is just out, and in it I provide some advice on
giving evidence to policy makers, fresh off my Senate testimony last month.
Here is how it begins:
Last month I was invited to testify before a hearing of the US Senate's
Committee on Environment and Public Works on the science of climate change.
It is a privilege to be called upon to share one's expertise with policy
makers. Yet most experts, and certainly most academic experts, receive
little training in how to engage effectively with policy makers in a formal
setting such as an evidentiary public hearing. ... more »
New Jersey... What Now?
Every New Jersey Democrat I know-- even the best of 'em-- are warning about
the need to rally around Cory Booker now that he's in a face-off against a
big bad right-wing lunatic. Early this morning, on her way to the airport,
Barbara Buono told me that "When the polls closed I went to Cory Booker’s
election night party. I know that Blue America members may not have
supported Cory in the primary. But now that the primary is behind
us, it's absolutely critical that Democrats in New Jersey and the rest of
our great nation unite behind our Democratic ticket this fall. The
reasoning be... more »
Your moment of Zen
A late afternoon egret at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. [Pam
Leavey photo]
Ron Jacobs : Remembering the Resignation of 'Nixon the Crook'
Front
page of The Baltimore Sun, August 9, 1974.
Let there be no question:
Richard Nixon was a crook!
He surrounded himself with men who did not believe in democracy but
understood what compromise might be required to maintain and consolidate
power.
By Ron Jacobs /
The Rag Blog / August 14, 2013
August 9, 1974, is one of my favorite days in history. On that day,
Richard Nixon resigned from
Another "New Normal" - Western Wildfires
NASA has announced another climate change-driven "new normal." This time
it's the sharp increase in the number, size and intensity of western
wildfires.
*NASA and U.S. Forest Service officials, who have been using satellites to
analyze weather patterns and better predict each wildfire season, said the
new pattern is likely here to stay.*
Paul Craig Roberts explains that "Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American people and those in [a host of other countries]." The only way out is impeachment of "the lawless executive branch." "The US faces no threat that justifies the lawlessness and abuse of police powers that characterize the executive branch in the 21st century."
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Paul Craig Roberts
Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US
Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to
sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the
Constitution, withhold in... more »
At Last, a Climate Change Winner
Climate change has a lot of losers but it also has a few winners. It's
good to learn that, among the winners, are the giant redwoods and sequoiasof coastal, northern California.
*Since the 1970s, some coast redwoods have grown at the fastest rate ever,
according to scientists who studied corings from trees more than 1,000
years old.*
***"That's a wonderful, happy surprise for us," said Emily Burns, science
director at the Save the Redwoods League, which is collaborating on a
long-term study with university researchers on the effect of climate change
on redwoods, the world's talle... more »
Insurgent Attacks And Technical Problems Beset Iraq’s Northern Pipeline To Turkey Cutting Into Exports
Iraq’s northern Kirkuk pipeline to Turkey has faced problems for a long
time now. Its old age means that it can only pump a fraction of its
capacity. Turkish and Iraqi insurgent groups have bombed it for years. Now
a series of leaks have shut it down for weeks during the summer. This has
undercut the Oil Ministry’s desire to boost output, and led to plans to
build a new pipeline to Turkey. It highlights the barriers that Iraq faces
to achieve its goals of becoming one of the largest oil producers in the
world.
2013 has been a bad year for the northern pipeline. In February, April,... more »
How The Jews Won The West!
I have always used this blog as an important source of information for
anyone to come in, read, and take the material for themselves and spread to
others.... The message is quite clear, and must be told to everyone about
the true evil that has now almost achieved total victory over the rest of
mankind, and as a result our enslavement for generations to come....
I came across an absolutely fabulous article just the other day that I
definitely want to share with all of my own readers here... It comes from
thewebsite: The End Of Zion, at www.theendofzion.com, and is entitled: "How
The ... more »
CIA SNIPERS IN CAIRO?
This photo allegedly shows "snipers above Cairo university buildings
killing peaceful protesters."
On 26 Jan 2011, aangirfan wrote: CIA TO TOPPLE MUBARAK AND SPLIT UP EGYPT?
The CIA and its friends reportedly want a civil war which will lead to
Cairo losing the Suez Canal and Upper Egypt.
Mysterious snipers are shooting at *both* the military and the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Morsi, who worked at NASA on the development of space shuttle engines. Only
American citizens can work at NASA. Morsi's children are American citizens.
*(*The US /Egyptian Chronicles!)*In the election in Egypt,... more »
CLOSING IN ON RUSSIA
The US, and a cancerous NATO, has their eyes on bringing Georgia into the
alliance next. Already more than a dozen former members of the Soviet-era
Warsaw Pact block have been brought over into NATO. Georgia, sitting along
the strategic Black Sea on Russia's southern border, would be the grand
prize.
In 2008 the US encouraged Georgia to attack the two break away provinces
Abkhazia and S. Ossetia (which have large Russian populations). The brief
war was a disaster for the US and Georgia as Russia counter-attacked and
pushed Georgian forces back. I blogged quite a bit about all ... more »
Michael James : Fading Away: JFK in Mexico City, July 1962
JFK
with Mexican President Lopez Mateos in Mexico City, July 29, 1962.
Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James'
Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Fading away:
JFK in Mexico City, July 1962
At the time I was a Kennedy fan... I was also, however, becoming aware
that many in the world didn’t see the USA as the land of the free and
the
How well does the Washington Post explain schools?
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013*
*Emma Brown explores passing rates:* Monday morning, the New York Times
displayed its vast incompetence concerning the public schools.
In “an analysis by the New York Times,” the great newspaper floundered and
failed in extremely basic ways. Click here, then avert your gaze.
This called to mind a similar type of report in Sunday’s Washington Post.
Education reporter Emma Brown focused on one DC school which has shown
large gains in passing rates, and on a second DC school whose passing rates
have collapsed.
As she started, Brown profiled the good news ... more »
Wednesday Addams Linkage: Special Andragogy Edition
Sorry for the lack of Wednesday linkage posts recently. Bizarrely, on a day
when I undertake an intercontinental move, I finally have time to catch up
on linking. To commemorate the end of summer teaching and the brief respite
between summer school and real school (hey, didn’t I join academia so I
could have summers
Continue reading
Jack Germond
Jack Germond, presidential politics reporter, RIP.
Germond was, at his peak in the Reagan/Bush years, mainly known for two
things: his quadrennial books (with Jules Witcover) about the presidential
elections of 1980 through 1992; and his appearances as a regular on The
McLaughlin Group. He and Witcover also had a syndicated column for years.
The books were...well, they carried on the tradition of White's "The Making
of...", which these days is "Game Change." As I remember them (and I think
I read at least the 1984 and 1988 editions, maybe more), they had the
strengths and weaknesses... more »
EYES WIDE SHUT: Nothing to look at, the author said!
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013*
*Part 2—Where’s the outrage:* Like you, we can see the announcement already.
Next April, the judges will issue their happy statement, conferring a joy
on the world:
PULITZER COMMITTEE (4/15/14): For a distinguished example of explanatory
reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating
mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation, using any
available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
OR:
For a distinguished example of investigative reporting, using any available
journalistic tool, Ten thousand... more »
Litvinenko
Marina Litvinenko Launches Appeal to Fund Inquest into her Husband's Deathfrom
Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*
**"As seen in the poisoning of Russian ex-FSB and KGB agent Alexander
Litvinenko in London, there are solid links between Berezovsky, the
Russian-Israeli Mafia, and Islamist guerrillas in Chechnya and abroad.
"However, British intelligence... has been unable to crack down on the
Russian-Israeli Mafia infiltration of Britain since the billions of pounds
in dirty money has made its way into the coffers of top Labor and
Conservative politicians."*
* Boris Berezovsky*, defeated by *Ro... more »
Modern Science Has Gone Wrong
I have posted the following response to a comment on my November 2010 Venus:
No Greenhouse Effect article:
*Good Morning, Astrobiology,*
*The proper statement, of fact not theory, is that the Venus/Earth
temperature ratio, at points of equal pressure in the two atmospheres and
over the range of Earth tropospheric pressures, is determined only by the
ratio of their distances from the Sun (in accordance with the fundamental
physics that relates mean absorbed radiation intensity with attained
temperature, at equilibrium), and nothing else. That fact has implications
for the temperature... more »
Xenon-reduction and the global Fukushima disaster. Why the CTBTO is right and so useful.
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 14 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/TVmR3PZuZ1g
*At a first glance* this subject may surprise you... But is the fast
growing spread of nuclear agents across the globe as 'safe' as pretended?
In *nuclear medicines* for example, where a.o. Xenon noble gas is used in
'scanners' for the benefit of patients. How safe are nurses and
specialists, working with it on a day to day basis? What about *Fukushima*,
where -as is mentioned in several sources (1, 2, 3)- underground processes
caused by some 'disappeared' reactor cores seem to get out of control ever
more since the infamous Tsunami accident of 11 M... more »
Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
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Anthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts
Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US
Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to
sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the
Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false
information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American
people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria,
Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere. Congress needs to use the impea... more »
Snowden Tells NYT That Media Sold Out After 9/11
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*Activist Post*
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden had some harsh words for the *New York
Times* and the rest of the corporate media.
In an interview with Snowden, put together by filmmaker Laura Poitras who
worked with Glenn Greenwald on the original disclosure, the *New York Times* got
an earful indictment of their complicity to government policies.
Snowden told the *New York Times* that the media "abdicated" its role as a
watchdog of government after 9/11:
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdi... more »
DC's Revolving Door is Fascism, Pure and Simple
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Eric Blair
The revolving door of useful idiots swapping positions from the U.S.
government to private industry is pandemic. It permeates every single
industry; but especially banking, energy, war, food, medicine, prisons, and
now surveillance. It's fascism, pure and simple, and it's time we start
admitting it.
*"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.*
We're already well aware of the revolving door at the Pentagon to keep the
war mach... more »
WotW: Complete Those Everyday Tasks Again and Again
Hi, my name is Seth, and I am a taskaholic. Really, I am. I thrive on
making task lists just so I can mark them complete. There's something
deeply therapeutic about getting something off my task list.
I didn't use to be this way. Until about a couple years ago, I kept
everything in my head. Consequently, I was always stressed out and on edge,
trying to balance too many things at once. So I started writing tasks down.
And I haven't stopped. I'm constantly looking for the next best thing when
it comes to task lists. They have freed up so much of my brain power to
focus on other, mo... more »
"They Kidnapped Our Child": Why CPS Needs Transparency Now
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A Messiah By Any Other Name
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*The banned name is actually one of the top growing baby names...*
*Messiah doesn't look too worried* Amanda Warren
Another example of a judge seeing an opening and running away with it. And
it's another real one.
A simple dispute between two parents over their child's last name somehow
magically turned into the judge bestowing a new *first* name and banishing
his actual name, *Messiah*.
Tennesee child support judge Lu Ann Ballew ordered Jaleesa Martin to change
7-month-old Messiah DeShawn Martin's name to Martin DeShawn Mc... more »
Reports of intel chief leading ‘independent’ NSA surveillance review denied by White House
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Robert Gates and James Clapper, 2011 Madison Ruppert
The Obama administration is now denying the reports stating that Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper will lead the “independent” review of
the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs.
This choice was heavily criticized, which is hardly surprising given that Clapper
lied under oath. Indeed, he himself admitted that he made “clearly
erroneous” statements before the Senate.
However, the Obama administration is now stating that Clapper won’t
actually ... more »
This Is The Biggest Cluster Of Hindenburg Omens Since The Last Stock Market Crash
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Michael Snyder
Are we heading for a major stock market decline? Warnings about a crash of
the financial markets are quite common these days, and usually they don't
materialize. But this time may be different.
A number of top analysts are pointing out the fact that the biggest cluster
of "Hindenburg Omens" has appeared since the last stock market crash. And
those that have studied this insist that the more "Hindenburg Omens" there
are in a cluster, the stronger the signal is.
Meanwhile, another very disturbing sign is the ... more »
From Dream To Obsession To Delusion
Having nixed the Northern Gateway Pipeline with their over the top rhetoric
-- and with the future of the Keystone Pipeline in doubt -- you would think
that the Harper Conservatives would re-examine their sales pitch. Instead,
Tim Harper writes in today's *Toronto Star*, they are using the same
strategy to sell the Energy East TransCanada pipeline. Harper asks:
How can we believe in the integrity of a “science-based” environmental
study of the pipeline when Harper is not only cheerleading for the project,
but has left final approval in the hands of his cabinet?
It is just this typ... more »
The Wisdom of Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt within the heart.
*Helen Keller*
*Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In
1882, she fell ill and was struck blind, deaf and mute. Beginning in 1887,
Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with
her ability to communicate, and Keller went on to college, graduating in
1904. In 1920, Keller helped found the ACLU. During her lifetime, she
received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments.*
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Bruce Thomas, 65.
Good stuff:
1. Good summary by Ramesh Ponnuro of the case against Newt's revisionismabout the 1995-1996 shutdown.
2. An argument for the fact-checkers from Lucas Graves.
3. Byron York on the rodeo clown that's been in the news.
4. Seth Masket on Colorado recalls. One question for him: if successful
recalls have an additional benefit of intimidating everyone else, what
about unsuccessful recalls? Do they intimidate because it's a pain to go
through even an unsuccessful recall -- or do they backfire because they
reveal the weakness of the recall... more »
The U.S. Has Been Overthrown
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Gun Sales DOUBLE In Newtown Connecticut After Sandy Hook Massacre
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In the two horse race between Janet Yellen and Larry summers to replace Ben Bernanke as Head of the Federal Reserve Bank - has it come down to President Obama appointing Larry Summers just out of spite ? Does he do it just because of the pushback to Summers' candidacy ?
Anyone else wondering why " Zero " is hung up on putting Larry Summers in
the Fed Catbird seat ?
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013
Why is Obama So Keen to Appoint Larry Summers to the Fed?
Felix Salmon pointed out today that Larry Summers is now being touted as
the odds-on favorite (65%, to be precise) to be Obama’s nominee as the next
Fed chief. Felix stresses that Obama’s reason for favoring Summers is based
on the sole criterion on which Summers could conceivably be depicted as
preferable to the other widely-touted contender, Janet Yellen: he is
believed to be better than Yellen would b... more »
Being and Becoming Human: A Maiz-based Ethos and Philosophy of Life
In Lak Ech
Panche Be
Hunab Ku
Men
K’ochil
Et p’iz
Yaxche–baalche
To Give and to Receive
—
—As taught in MAS, highlighting the responsibility one assumes in learning
these ethos or concepts.
Not a counterstory
—They are gleaned from the works of Maya scholar, Domingo Martinez Paredez.
They include: Un Continente y Una Cultura, El Popul Vuh tiene Razon, HunabKu,
ParapsicologiaMaya, El Hombre y el Cosmos
NSA Spying Keeps Fear Fresh
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Terrorist Group Seeks Military Tank In New Hampshire
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A "terrorist" is a one who terrorizes others; the Concord City Council and
police force in New Hampshire are attempting to terrorize peaceful
residents with military weaponry.
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*Live blog Wednesday: Flood Protection Authority appears before legislators ~Bob
Marshall, The Lens*
*Who or what is Response Systems? Wisconsin firm has $900K contract to help
with LA. hurricane evacuations ~Louisiana Voice*
UA CLASS THIS FALL: The Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
*Special Topics: Fall 2013 Class MAS 496A*
*The Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery*
*Professor Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, PhD*
*DATES 8/26/2013 – 12/11/2013*
*Tues 3:30-6pm*
*Cesar Chavez Bldg, Rm 104***
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* *Rodrigu7@email.arizona.edu** 520-626-0824*
*Office Hours: TUES 1-3pm or by apt*
*COURSE DESCRIPTION*: This class will examine the dark ages philosophy of
the Doctrine of Discovery, that which created the colonial model of the
world. It will examine how this doctrine continues to be alive and have
reverberations in Arizona today. It will examine the papal bulls of the
c... more »
Bitcoin Comes Under Full Scale Attack by Regulators
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*Activist Post*
Digital cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, still have a long way to go before
mainstream use, but they seem to pose a huge threat to the existing
financial paradigm as evidence by the recent frantic reaction by regulators.
To be clear, cryptocurrencies are threatening because no central entity can
fully control them and they also represent a nearly free and anonymous
payment application. It's an algorithm that has the potential to make
central banks, commercial banks, private banks, and the tax collectors
obso... more »
Tyrel Ventura Gives EPIC Smack Down to Rachel Maddow Over Conspiracy Theories
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Tyrel Ventura drops an epic beat down on Rachel Maddow and the whole of the
news media in this rant defending conspiracy theorists.
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Tommy Freedom's New World Ordure
Thomas Friedman, favorite columnist of President Barack Obama, dutifully
took up the White House megaphone today and blared out even more bombastic
bloviation than is customary for him.
Here is just one portion of the crime against journalism that the *New York*
*Times* saw fit to print:
*Considering the breadth of reforms that President Obama is now proposing
to prevent privacy abuses in intelligence gathering, in the wake of
Snowden’s disclosures, Snowden deserves a chance to make a second
impression — that he truly is a whistle-blower, not a traitor. The fact is,
he dumped hi... more »
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*Green groups keeping mum on flood authority lawsuit opposed by Jindal ~Bob
Marshall*
*Coal exporter, state detail pact on river diversion ~Amy Wold*
*Exquisite Corps take over Lake Vista green space*
*Cochran pushing for measures aimed at protecting shrimpers ~MS Business
Journal*
Egypt launches a very lethal crackdown - some accounts indicate 300 protesters dead and hundred more injured !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-14/video-clip-egypt-likely-not-produced
This Video Clip From Egypt Is Likely Not Produced
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/14/2013 12:34 -0400
Unlike the previously 'staged' Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations, we
suspect this 'real' clip of the escalating and deadly situation in Egypt
will open a few eyes to how close the nation is to civil war.
Things escalate around the 40 second mark...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-14/things-egypt-are-deteriorating-rapidly-and-now-vice-president-resigns
Live Webcast... more »
War watch - August 14 , 2013 .... Terror-Rama advocates try " Dumb Blonde " defense ....... Obama's foreign policy regarding Syria - such that it is , dissected..... US informed that it should try a more forthcoming approach to Iran... Egypt Coup still not a coup - Egypt Junta ousts last of Civilian Government and appoints Generals as Governors ...
Terror-Rama....
US al-Qaeda Panic Focused on Intercepted ‘Code Words’Words Led US Spies to
Believe Attack Was Imminent
by Jason Ditz, August 13, 2013
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The scrambling around a potential al-Qaeda plot that led to the closure of
dozens of US embassies worldwide came from the use of certain “code words” in
intercepted al-Qaeda communication, according to officials familiar with
the situation.
The code words convinced US spies that the attack was likely imminent, but
gave no information about where the attack was liable to actually take
place, leading to the global... more »
War watch - Focus on Egypt ( Government plant to slow walk protest break up rather than take a sudden and decisive step - embarrassment of potential high death counts serve to hold the hand of the Military for now ) Yemen - commentary from a Yemeni youth activist ( life under the fear of sudden drone death ) and an analysis by a leading Yemeni Al Qaeda expert - doubt cast on terror threat claims ( recent drone attacks hit only low level foot soldiers and civilians , none of AQAP leadership - also note the reason for the worldwide terror alert in the first place hotly in dispute ) .... Iraq death dealing continues - 93 deaths just on Saturday as Iraq Kurds contemplate intervening to assist Syrian Kurds.... ......Lahore , Pakistan withdrawal of US Consulate personnel - another phantom menace not unlike Yemen ?
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Seems like we finally are getting some commentary as to the Terror - Rama
Scam.....
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/09/there_is_no_terrorist_threat_the_feds_want_you_to_think_there_is_compliant_media_goes_along/
FRIDAY, AUG 9, 2013 10:08 AM EDT
There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is,
compliant media goes along"Chatter" from "affiliates" causes a "crisis,"
while media reports nonsense generated to justify NSA surveillanceBY PATRICK
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Not A Coup, Just A Little Innocent Bloodletting-- Today's Massacre In Egypt
U.S. law states that if a democratically-elected government is overthrown
in a military coup, U.S. aid stops until democracy is restored. After the
Egyptian military coup against Morsi, Congress and Obama were complicit in
breaking the law, while U.S. corporate media cheered. So who will arrest
them all?
Californians were bedding down when the killing started. In DC everyone was
fast asleep. In Europe people were just having their morning coffee. A
speaker on stage in Raba'a pleaded with the army: "Don't kill us, we are
not Israelis, we're not terrorists, we are Muslims, we... more »
Argentina: UFO Sightings in FortÃn Tiburcio
*Source: Diario Democracia (Argentina)
Date: August 4, 2013*
*Argentina: UFOs Over FortÃn Tiburcio*
*The astonishing experiences of local residents.*
It took place in a town some 38 kilometers from JunÃn: a place called
FortÃn Tiburcio, where local residents reportedly saw an Unidentified
Flying Object (UFO). Similar eyewitness reports have been received for many
years, but only a few days ago, several people saw lights that flared up
and objects that they were unable to identify.
Ariel Cherchetti, 51, a former municipal delegate, is among the witnesses
consulted by this newspaper... more »
MEXICO: Another UFO Photographed Over the Popocatepetl Volcano
*Source: Panorama Diario
Date: July 22, 2013*
*MEXICO: Another UFO Photographed Over the Popocatepetl Volcano*
Majestic and imposing Popocatepetl, the Mexican volcano, has returned to
the world's headlines as a result of a strange unidentified flying object
having been photographed in its vicinity. The mountain, which has acquired
notoriety since last year as a result of the multiple and enigmatic photo
sequences of UFOs taken over its crater, is once more a mute witness to
these anomalous phenomena. This time, a fixed camera from the
"Webcamsdemexico" site, which monitors activi... more »
More Ketchup With Books On The Side
Earlier this year we wrote an article, ‘Does Publishing Have Ketchup On Its
Hands?’, which was about the promotion of free books with fast food from
McDonalds. Some said ‘so what?’, one commented that ‘McDonalds are engaging
in a wholly legal promotion, one which also encourages literacy among
children and supports the waning fortunes of a primarily bricks-and-mortar
bookseller'. Some of the personal emails we received also suppored of a
position of, ‘books at any cost’.
Today we read in eBookPortugal that a promotion is being launched in
Portugal that is offering digital books ... more »
LG event as promotional stunt-Twenty hurt
*The company has supposed that twenty people were injured, with seven sent
to hospital, when a promotional stunt in Seoul for LG's G2 Smartphone went
wrong. *LG has cancelled a series of events promoting the handset as a
result of the event in Seoul on Friday. People arrived with BB guns and
knives on sticks for a race to grab smart phone vouchers hanging from
helium balloons.
LG has taken liability for the condition and said it would cover related
medical costs. A statement from the firm supposed that LG Electronics
deeply regrets that a number of Korean participants were injur... more »
ROTHSCHILD WEALTH
*Chateau Rothschild in Paris.*
Are the Rothschilds worth trillions?
"Theirs remained the biggest bank in the world up *until the First World War
*."
*(Historian Niall Ferguson, in "The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker
1849-1999")*
*James de Rothschild (centre right). *
During World War II, the Luftwaffe seized the Rothschild family home in
Paris.
In 1981, President Mitterrand nationalised the Rothschild's French
financial empire, Banque Rothschild.
*The chances are that the Rothschild fortune has declined since the middle
of the 19th century.*
*We suspect that the CIA l... more »
British Cabinet Member “lied” over UN Palestinian death figures
Trending Central report:
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Senior Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness
Sayeeda Warsi stands accused of misleading the House of Lords and the
public following the incorrect citation of the number of Palestinians
killed by Israelis since January 2012.
The question, posited by the contentious former Liberal Democrat Baroness
Jenny Tonge, asks, “what assessment [the government] have made of the
number of non-violent protestors killed and injured by (1) live fire, (2)
rubber bullets, and (3) other weapons, in Palestine since 2002.” The
answer, given by Baron... more »
LNG, Close To The Edge Down By A River, We Get Up, We Get Down
Michael Smyth wrote a rather strange article today on LNG, as per usual
with Michael Smyth his article was thin on facts, no research and to be
quite honest, his blather was hardly worth reading...
Before we get into the REAL details let`s have a look at some of the odd
statements and observations made by the lazy one..
____________
*The government says it will use revenue from proposed liquefied natural
gas exports to create a $100-billion "Prosperity Fund" that would wipe out
the debt forever.....*
*But how can that happen without taxing the nascent LNG sector to the hilt?
And... more »
Canadian Lemmings
From the *New Yorker, *August 5th ed.
Some physics links
*Carroll's QM, NYT's firewalls, Jester's whining on scales*
Sean Carroll has unlocked the quantum chapter from his "Eternity" book,
Quantum Mechanics Made Easy,
which I found better than expected despite its misleading comments about
the "collapse", "its" relationships with the "arrow of time", the meaning
of the "Copenhagen Interpretation", the "many worlds" as the "leading
alternative contender", and many other things (he omits Bohm etc.).
Carroll's text is flawed in different ways than e.g. Brian Greene's musings
about the interpretation of quantum mechanics but I wouldn't say it... more »
The Howard League kindly requests...
Free Fletch and Godber!
The second-most important story in the world this morning is, according to
the BBC News website,
Do not jail thieves, says law expert
Thieves and fraudsters should not be jailed, a legal expert says in a
pamphlet released by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The anti-prison Howard League, according to the BBC, "plans to distribute
the pamphlet, entitled 'What if imprisonment were abolished for property
offences?' to every magistrates' court in England and Wales in an attempt
to spark a debate on sentencing issues."
The BBC is clearly doing its bit to help t... more »
How much is a quadrillion?
The question is, how much is a quadrillion?
Answer number one: it’s twice Japan’s GDP.
Answer number two: that’s how much the Japanese government now owes, after
trying to lift up its economy by overspending on the back of rapidly
expanding government debt.
One quadrillion dollars. More than seven-million yen per taxpayer.
One-thousand trillion yen in total, owed to Japanese’s aging savers.
Here it is in zeroes:
1,000,000,000,000,000.
And here’s the really sad thing: After twenty-three years of their
government trying to fix their 1990 depression by borrowing and
overspendi... more »
In Kinmen with FTV
Another trip with Michella and FTV, this time a brief night in Taipei
followed by a trip to Kinmen. I really enjoyed Kinmen's completely
different atmosphere and its interesting and well-preserved old buildings.
Hoping to get back there soon for a few days of cycling around the island.
Click on READ MORE for photos and commentary on the visit.
In Shulin we stopped at a night market to shoot some shots of a BBQ scallop
place.
I grabbed a pic of this innovative pot drying technology.
Michella does some stills.
The next day it was off to Kinmen. Here is a shot of the bed and brea... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Preserving Local Produce
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 »
Social Media-- More Profoundly Impactful Than You Think
The worst thing I can think of in terms of the impact of social media on
society is portrayed in the short film (above) by Werner Herzog, "From One
Second To The Next."
A study by Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen and Fabio Rojas
at the University of Indiana illustrates how Twitter conversations can be
used to predict election outcomes, whether they are determiniative or not.
Rojas, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana State, explained what
they found in an OpEd for the *Washington Post* on Sunday.
Digital democracy is here. We no longer passively watch o... more »
This Is What FULL EMPLOYMENT Looks Like
... in case you're wondering:
... Yes! I noticed the sub-texts of racism and misogyny too! This is a
great historical artifact!
Your moment of Zen
The Perseid meteor shower at Stonehenge. [via The Guardian photo gallery]
Favela Ninjas and Apartheid Samurai
Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium” packs a punch for an action sci-fi film even if
its punches don’t land. So yeah … Jodie Foster doesn’t give her best
performance and the other roles for women in the film are completely lame.
A beefy Matt Damon, bless his heart, is poorly cast. The core plot line
doesn’t make
Continue reading
Bandar Bush, 'Liberator' of Syria
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Talk about The Comeback Spy. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush (for
Dubya he was like family), spectacularly resurfaced after one year in
speculation-drenched limbo (was he or was he not dead, following an assassination
attempt in July 2012). And he was back in the limelight no less than in a
face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Saudi King Abdullah, to quote Bob Dylan, "is not busy being born, he's busy
dying". At least he was able to pick up a pen and recently appoint Bandar
as head of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorat... more »
The Asia-Pacific Perspective #6: Shadow Drills, Invisible Armies, Deadly Leaks
*Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James
Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down
all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. This month:
the South Korean and US armies prepare to stage the largest drills in the
world to stoke tensions with North Korea; Japan's invisible army starts to
uncloak; and the Fukushima leak is now (finally) an admitted emergency.*
*
*
*Story 1:*
South Korea, US military drill to fuel tensions
http://ur1.ca/exnb6
South Korea approves S$7.6 million in aid for North Korea
... more »
@DianeRavitch speaks the language of #optout
In case you missed @the chalkface radio (special Monday episode with Dr.
Diane Ravitch) here’s your chance to listen to radio brilliance. We spent
the entire day getting ready for our interview with Dr. Ravitch. However,
five minutes before the show started Shaun and I realized we had no ability
to contact our guest. Guess […]
August 14 , 2013 Bahrain Protests - Independence Day from Britain..... Tamarod faces off against draconian new Bahrainian measures to stamp down protests....
Bahraini forces arrest opposition activists
Local group says birdshot and tear gas used by security forces to disrupt
attempt via social media to stage protest.
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The protesters say they want the Sunni ruling family to allow more
democracy in the Shia-majority state [AP]
At least 13 people have been arrested by Bahrain's government forces, who
have used birdshot and tear gas in areas where anti... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Evolution of the Soul: Life Lessons Through Reincarnation"
* *
*"Evolution of the Soul: Life Lessons Through Reincarnation"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Often we reincarnate on earth with our soul family and often our most
intense relationships are with our soul family. You meet someone for the
first time and feel as if you know them already. You’re in a town that
you’ve never been to before, yet you recognize streets and buildings. You
start playing a new sport and amaze everyone, including yourself, at your
natural abilities and intuitive knowing of the rules. We often describe
such experiences as déjà vu: the experience or feeling... more »
Michael Hastings working on Expose of CIA Director John Brennan before his sudden death ........ Who are the Terrorists ? Just maybe we need to reconsider the answer to the question..... How many folks even know who Michel Hastings was , that he is dead because he was doing his job as a real journalist , where is the outrage ? Is Washington's culture of criminality a scourge on humanity ? Paul Craig Roberts with a thoughtful Essay ....
Clarification on the cremation conspiracy theory......
Exclusive— Hastings ‘Unauthorized Cremation’ Mega-Rumor False, Family Says
By Russ Baker on Aug 13, 2013
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According to a member of Michael Hastings’s family, a widely circulated
story that the investigative journalist’s body was cremated by authorities
without the family’s permission is flat-out untrue.
The story that the cremation was unauthorized—further stoking credible
suspicions aroused by Hastings’s strange death in a fiery one-car crash,
complete with a dramatic explosion– has raged across the Inter... more »
“People Come To The Rescue”
Alexandr Mish, “People Come To The Rescue”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EJpr2GPoWU
Chet Raymo, “Natural and Artificial”
* “Natural and Artificial”*
by Chet Raymo
"(You probably read the story last week about the European researchers who
produced a lab-grown beef burger from stem cells from a living cow. Which
raises again the distinction between natural and artificial. I started to
write about this, then remembered that I had already done so back in 2007.
I'm repeating that series of posts this week, to remind myself what I
thought then, and to learn what you think now.)
Nothing more exacerbates my nature writing colleagues than the mechanical
metaphor for life. Think of life as a machine, they say... more »
NEXT STEP IN DRONE ORGANIZING - TALKING ABOUT THE SATELLITES & GROUND STATIONS
Someone has subscribed me to the magazine called *The Atlantic*. I don't
know who it was. I used to read *The Atlantic* back in the 1970's while in
the military, before I knew much about alternative media sources. I'd say
it's a centrist publication - Clinton and Obama Democratic Party with
Cadillac car ads.
The cover story in the edition that arrived in my mailbox today is called *Drone
Warrior: Has it Become Too Easy for a President to Kill?* The article
raises many good questions but then gives Obama a pass at the end by
concluding, "Obama's efforts to mitigate the use of d... more »
Philadelphia School District financial travails - gridlock still rules - While Philly politicians want 45 million now , The State Budget Secretary Zogby says NO ! What is the biggest impediment - Zogby wants a new CBA with the Teachers Union before any new funding is released ..... PFT holding tight for now , School district and PFT far apart......
Philadelphia School Drama lingers....
Countdown, Day 27: Philly's elected officials want $45 million now; Zogby
says noSubmitted by Dale Mezzacappa on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 14:34 Posted in Latest
news | Permalink
***UPDATED with further reaction, 6:50 p.m.*
The city's legislative delegation, Mayor Nutter, and City Council leaders
joined Tuesday in urging the state to immediately release $45 million in
state-authorized dollars to the District so that schools can open on time.
They sent to Gov. Corbett a list of reform accomplishments that they say
fulfills the state's requirements for rel... more »
Proxy war in Iran ongoing ? Yeah , that would be ever growing sanctions on not just Iran's finacial capabilities but it's oil industry ... India and China facing the US down ?
India, China Defy US Congress’ War on Iranian Oil
Posted on 08/13/2013 by Juan Cole
The US House of Representatives approved a bill at the beginning of this
month aimed at completely closing off Iranian petroleum exports. Not since
President Roosevelt told Japan in July 1941 that he was going to cut it off
from American petroleum has the United States threatened to use oil to
strangle a country so completely. And FDR’s threat caused the Japanese to
decide to take Indonesia away from the Dutch, which required crippling the
US Pacific Fleet at . . . Pearl Harbor.
The bill is intended a... more »
ISRAEL AND THE ROLE OF THE NEOCONSERVATIVES
Without America’s support, Israel in all likelihood would not by now exist
and, without the neoconservatives, there would in all likelihood be no
American support for Israel.
The interests of Israel have always been neoconservatism’s primary concern
and it has been American neoconservatives that have lobbied the hardest to
ensure American support for Israel. They have done this by integrating
themselves into all levels of American society where they can be of
influence including in government, public service, academia, political and
social commentary, journalism, and think-tank org... more »
HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 6, 1890-1917
Cairo
street scene, early 1900's. Image from mfish.
A people's history:
The movement to democratize Egypt
Part 6: 1890-1917 period -- Early union-building and calls for economic
reform.
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 13, 2013
[With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog
"people's history" series, "The Movement to Democratize Egypt," could
not be more timely. Also
Joe DiGenova - a lawyer for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers - declares 400 surface to air missiles were stolen in Libya and given to some very bad people , like Al Qaeda....Intel community fear is they may be used to shoot down a airliner ....So , despite the tap dancing , we've being supplying deadly weapons to syrian rebels which include islamic fanatics - such as Al Qaeda and Al Nusra type rebels groups ? And despite widely dispersed accounting of CIA gunrunning - where is the outrage ? Liberal Dems not outraged , conservatives republicans not outraged - does a US or Western airliner have to be shot down and then would the blame for that fall on the Syrian Government ( like the so called chemical weapon usage - totally unproven to date and ironically grave concerns that the rebels actually have used chemical weapons ! ).
Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer: “Stolen” Libyan Missiles Will Be Used to
Shoot Down Aircraft
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*Kurt Nimmo*
Infowars.com
August 13, 2013
A former U.S. attorney, Joe DiGenova, who is representing a Benghazi
whistleblower, told a Washington, D.C., radio station on Monday that 400
surface-to-air missiles were “stolen” in Libya and given to some “very ugly
people,” aka al-Qaeda.
“We had troops ready to deploy... more »
Gold and Silver Data for August 13 , 2013 , news and views touching on the precious metals !
http://www.smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2013/08/the-incredible-shrinking-comex-gold-warehouse-inventories/
The Incredible Shrinking COMEX Gold Warehouse Inventories
During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill
Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels
of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $1000 an ounce prices, we
were busy informing our readers about the *“Lies of Nouriel Roubini” *(whose
sole purpose in life, by the way, seems to be to scare uneducated people
into selling off their physical gold and silver into t... more »
It Doesn't Help to Call Oprah a "Cannibal"
The Swiss shopgirl at the centre of controversy for allegedly refusing to
show Oprah Winfrey a purse, claiming she couldn't afford it, is defending
herself - clumsily.
The woman denies Winfrey's claim, says that never happened and there was
definitely no racism involved in their encounter.
*The clerk, who spoke anonymously, [said] she feels "powerless" in the face
of the prominent media mogul's accusations. "I don't know why she is
making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl."*
*"I don't know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV." *
"Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality"
* "Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality"*
By Paul Craig Roberts
“Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US
Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to
sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the
Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false
information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American
people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria,
Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere. Congress needs to use the impeachment
power th... more »
It's Santorum Again. He's Back.
Rick Santorum is not a classy guy. In fact, he denounces the term "middle
class" as Marxist. Here's what he told an audience in Iowa:
*"Don't use the term the other side uses. Who does Barack Obama talk about
all the time? The middle class. Since when in America do we have classes?
Since when in America are people stuck in areas or defined places called a
class? That’s Marxism talk."*
*The Daily Kos' *Laura Clawson answers Santorum's question.
* *
*Since when in America do we have classes? Aside from "since always"?
(After all, when this country was founded, in most places only
... more »
Obama's hissy fit with Vladimir Putin over the Snowden asylum affair is analyzed by Asia Time's roving reporter, Pepe Escobar, concluding that POTUS "acted like a diplomatic dilettante at best." Don't let Pepe's humoristic writing style deceive you. Having followed him for years, I've concluded that he is the most knowledgeable correspondent on the economies and politics of the countries of the Asian continent, including many with names that end in "stan."
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*OpEdNews Op Eds 8/11/2013 at 00:26:29*
*Vlad the Hammer vs Obama the Wimp*
*By Pepe Escobar (about the author)* *Permalink*
opednews.com
Source: Asia Times
This is getting ridiculous. The President of the United States (POTUS)
screamed and shouted because he wanted his spy (Edward Snowden) back.
Snowden, following Russian laws, was granted temporary asylum. The White
House was "disappointed."
Then POTUS snubbed the bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Moscow coinciding with the Group of 20 in St Petersburg in earl... more »
Fukushima updates for August 13 and 14th , 2013 ......ALPS ( this is a multiple nuclide removal system ) an epic fail as parts have deteriorated swiftly after just two months of test operations....Another counter measure ( in ground water storage ponds ) becoming an epic fail as ground water pressure causing the ponds to float ! Predictably the ist well to draw off groundwater ( recall target was 100 tons a day , actual groundwater flow per day - estimated at 600 tons per day ) working at a 52 ton per day pace - Tepco needs to pick up the pace.....Summing up the news for the day - Nuclide WATER WORLD.... ......
03:14 PM EST on August 14th, 2013 | 6 comments
Tepco: “Significant density” of Alpha radiation leaking from Unit 3 at
Fukushima — Steam seen at reactor building “likely to be leaked” from
containment vessel
01:40 PM EST on August 14th, 2013 | 3 comments
Ex-Fukushima Worker: High risk they’ll break fuel rods in Unit 4 pool —
Gundersen: Moving fuel risks nuclear chain reaction; You can’t stop it, no
control rods to control it — Consultants: World’s most serious radiological
disaster by far is possible
12:41 PM EST on August 14th, 2013 | 23 comments
Reuters: Corrosion is weakening Unit N... more »
The Most 90s Video Ever?
Amber may only be remembered by a few hardcore eurodisco geeks, but she
might have inadvertently distilled the 1990s in her 1996 release, *This Is
Your Night.*
I'm not just talking about the video but the song as well. Okay, by the
time it came out its sound was about three years off trend. Small wonder it
didn't bother the UK charts. But it has a charm redolent of Culture Beat,
Maxx, 2 Unlimited and La Bouche. All that's missing is the "techno, techno,
techno".
“America’s Descent Into Madness”
* *
*“America’s Descent Into Madness”*
by Henry Giroux
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is
the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of
Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam
War.” – John le Carré
“America is descending into madness. The stories it now tells are filled
with cruelty, deceit, lies, and legitimate all manner of corruption and
mayhem. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist,
violent, and irresponsible- stories that celebrate power and demonize
victi... more »
Remember the Line About Horses and Barn Doors? Hey, Merv, Why The Rush?
The Harper government has pulled the operating licence from the now
bankrupt Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railroad. Apparently the Canadian
Transportation Agency concluded that MM&A doesn't have adequate third-party
liability insurance.
"*It would not be prudent, given the risks associated with rail operations,
to permit MMA and MMAC to continue to operate without adequate insurance
coverage*."
The company has said it has less than $25-million in coverage. The
clean-up costs alone for the Lac Megantic catastrophe are expected to
exceed $200-million.
It's time we had a rubber-glo... more »
"America’s Disappeared"
* *
*"America’s Disappeared"*
by Chris Hedges
"Big Frankie, Little Frankie and Al, three black men who spent a lot of
time in prison and have put their lives back together in the face of
joblessness, crushing poverty and the violence of city streets, abruptly
stopped appearing at the prison support group I help run at the Second
Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, N.J. This happens in poor neighborhoods.
You see people. You make plans to see them again. And then without
explanation they vanish. They get arrested for something, often trivial,
after the police randomly stop them,... more »
Henry Geiger - Plato's Intent And Method (1976)
*Related: *
* Henry Geiger - Symbol And Myth (1974).*
*Henry Geiger - The Present And The Long View (1979)*.
*Henry Geiger - Moonshine And Sunlight (1984).*
* * * Henry Geiger - The Uses of Make Believe (1983).*
*Henry Geiger - Signs of A New Civilization (1980).*
* * *Henry Geiger - We See What We Are (1980).* * *
* ** Henry Geiger - An Ancient Question (1986).*
* Henry Geiger - The Chains Of Prometheus (1959).*
* Henry Geiger - Men and Gods (1973). *
* *
*Wikipedia:*
Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief
writer of MANAS Journal which pub... more »
Arms Race Update - Japan Launches First Aircraft Carrier Since WWII
The Japanese navy has a new warship, the largest warship and first aircraft
carrier it has built since WWII. The Japanese, sensitive to their past
and current tensions in Asia-Pacific, are calling it a destroyer or
helicopter carrier. Observers expect it's only a matter of time before it
sails with F-35C warplanes aboard.
Not to be outdone, India launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier
this week. It's the INS Vikrant and it will carry the naval variant of the
Mig-29.
China is also working up its own carrier air arm. Like India, it began
with a refurbished Soviet shi... more »
Immigration and the Statue of Bigotry
*A friend speaking this afternoon at a public debate on the question “Should
New Zealand be Going for Population Growth?” asked me to send him some
articles on immigration I’d posted here a few years back. Since they’re
still topical, I figured I’d repost them here, so everyone who didn’t see
them then can see them now.
But first…*
At the foot of the Statue of Liberty, a gift from nineteenth-century France
to nineteenth-century America, Emma Lazarus's poem The New Colossus sums up
what the statue symbolised for the immigrants who helped build America . .
.
*From her beacon-han... more »
The Smart But Mistaken Case Against A Healthy Party
This may be a little unfair, but I'm going to react in advance to a
three-part series by Sean Trende about party makeovers. Despite that he's
only published part one.
Trende proposes to answer seven questions about elections:
1) What if elections are simply random?
2) What if it really is just the economy, stupid?
3) What if Republicans actually aren’t that out of step ideologically?
4) What if party makeovers don’t work?
5) What if the American people just automatically self-correct?
6) What if this period of introspection is just what out-of-power parties
do?
7) What if it makes no s... more »
Georgia And U.K. Conservatives Have Something In Common- Demographic Shifts They Can't Adjust To
According to *The Hill*, Georgia Republicans are starting to panic that
their party's demented and ill-informed base will saddle the party with "a
flawed candidate" (meaning almost any of the crazy contenders) and allow
Democrat Michelle Nunn to win the open seat.
Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious
about-- Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.)-- leading the
pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and
counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where
shifting demographics benefit th... more »
Apple ring season
Apples are harder to come by this year than last, though not as badly as we
had thought. Even though they could stand to stay on the tree longer,
flavor-wise, worms are taking interest early (what's their hurry?) and so
we have begun making apple rings. It's nice that we're still having hot
days to run the solar dryers, too.
The peeler-corer slicer makes quick compost (or vinegar if you prefer) of
the peelings and cores.
A single slice through half the spiral separates all the rings.
Three days in the sun will suffice to dry the rings enough to put away in
storage jars or bucket... more »
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