English: City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Oak trees in City Park, New Orleans a month before Katrina (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lagoon with bridge and ducks, City Park, New Orleans. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Clintons certainly aren't above criticism, but aren't they entitled to fair treatment?
*Joe Conason says that the NYT's reporters "dished out unflattering, largely irrelevant anecdotes about Band and Ira Magaziner [above], whose work at the Clinton Health Access Initiative has provided vital drugs, tests and medical services to millions of patients across Africa and around the world."* *"if Dowd and her Times colleagues were honestly interested in what the Clinton Foundation does with its funds, including the millions raised annually by President Clinton himself, all they would have to do is get off their asses and go look at its projects, which can be found all over... more »
You've Woken Up.... Now What?
When I was young, I was fully indoctrinated into the false and very deceptive so called "education system"... I was a firm believer in such things as; What we have been taught in our history books is real and factual...Governments are honest, and actually work for the good of their citizens...And that the pursuit of happiness stems through the pursuit of monetary gain..... But sometime in my early 20's, I was beset by the real reality of how society really works, and about the evil tribe that is out for our destruction and/or enslavement. My wake up came with a price... I was dis... more »
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*Bush, Blanco tell different stories on ‘federalization’ ~Bruce Nolan, The Advocate* *Good fishing in New Orleans City Park ~Sun Herald* Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/23/4897516/good-fishing-in-new-orleans-city.html#storylink=cpy
Learning from returning to the classroom: Setup week
College professor back to teaching. Steep curve ahead. What have I learned so far? I can easily spend roughly $800 getting ready for Kindergarten, but saved a good amount building some things like sand and water tables. The Common Core Standards, for Kindergarten at least, offers me absolutely no guidance whatsoever. It is thin soup. […]
Newest Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Attack: Why The Claims About Syria And Chemical Weapons Are Bullshit!
I am continuing my efforts to have this race to war against the innocent nation of Syria stopped in its tracks before it is too late.... But it may already be too late, because the newest news coming out of Syria shows a massive United States forces buildup around Syria itself.... And we find continuing reports about American forces already in Syria, via Jordan, that entered a full 4 days BEFORE this fraudulent chemical weapons attack. I am hoping that people can truly see this newest chemical weapons attack for what it truly is... A provocation by the criminals running the Americ... more »
"Canine Researcher: Dogs' Intelligence On Par With Two-Year-Old Human”
*"Canine Researcher: * *Dogs' Intelligence On Par With Two-Year-Old Human”* by ScienceDaily "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Will Rogers "Although you wouldn't want one to balance your checkbook, dogs can count. They can also understand more than 150 words and intentionally deceive other dogs and people to get treats, according to psychologist and leading canine researcher Stanley Coren, PhD, of the University of British Columbia. Coren, author of more than a half-dozen popular books on dogs and dog behavior, has review... more »
Obama: I Have A Dream About Bombing Syria
*One gave us a dream, the other gave us a nightmare.* *Below: World Exclusive Speech by President Obama On Syria.* Some score years ago, a great American invented lies to convince world public opinion to embrace America's vision of destroying a sovereign nation in the Middle East. That nation was Iraq, that great American was George W. Bush. Today, I walk in his shadow in calling for the world to once again get behind America as it prepares to destroy yet another sovereign nation in the Middle East based on lies, by the name of Syria. Some are afraid of this war. Some see no mora... more »
Greg Palast discovers the "end game" by which Larry Summers and his flunky Timothy Geithner arranged for a few criminal banksters to take posession of virtually the whole world. If you don't believe in conspiracy theories, don't read this or it will spoil your day.
------------------------------ *GREG PALAST'S COLUMN* Original Here *THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS* By Greg Palast When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial... more »
Defeated NATO Dangerously Desperate in Syria
Did the West Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War? *August 25, 2013* - (Tony Cartalucci) As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in an attempt to overthrow the governments of Iran and Syria. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article, "The Redirection," stated (emphasis added): "To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, ... more »
News from the Jews
*Jewish involvement in Civil Rights movement, ridiculous "Holocaust" promoting stunt, & rappers praise their Jewish lawyers* It may surprise some to learn that *the Civil Rights movement was largely led and organized by Jewish activists and intellectuals with direct ties to the international Communist movement*, whose primary aim is the overthrow of White Western Christian civilization. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and many other leading Civil Rights "heroes" were actually *trained Communist activists*. Simply put, the Civil Rights movement and the ideas it championed (*raci... more »
TV Watch: "Girls" update -- Creator Lena Dunham seems to want us to know about the time when she was a 19-year-old virgin
*Can't wait for Season 3 of Girls? Here's a tease. This post pretty much wraps up TV Watch's coverage of the show.* *by Ken* As I believe I reported at the time, I checked out of HBO's *Girls* -- created by, largely written and directed by, and starring Lena Dunham -- at the outset of the last season. Much as I admire Dunham's obvious talents, my feelings from the outset were decidedly mixed, but I tried to reserve judgment until the thought of watching any more of it became unbearably oppressive. Lena's on-screen alter-ego, Hannah, seems to mirror Lena in wanting desperately, wi... more »
Eggplants, Vampires and Us
It’s not writers block. It’s identity crisis. “Who are you?” has been the perpetual question this week. It is sort of like being a vampire. I am surrounded by mirrors that offer no reflection. People and problems used to keep popping up like springing targets in an arcade game, needing removal. They were handy excuses, blames and faults for what was wrong. With me. Each health crisis, relationship breakdown or financial hardship had different *non-me* pop up culprits. They’ve vanished. There is only me. This comes as a surprise. We are sort of like eggplants. These... more »
Fat Free Econ 46: On Pork Barrel Aboition
* This is my article today in interaksyoncom. ---------- MANILA - From Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) to Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and now a reformed pork that has yet to be named. The legislators' pork barrel is not truly abolished but only reformed. The pork barrel system can truly be eliminated, but that would mean a significant shrinking of the Executive branch -- in budget, subsidies, size of the bureaucracy and regulatory powers. Because an activist and really independent legislature will disallow unnecessary spending. Are the people ready for this scena... more »
SYRIA: TALK OF ACTION IS LIKELY ALL TALK – AT LEAST FOR NOW
In an interview with CNN yesterday President Obama, using non-explicit language, hinted that the US, while being ‘gravely concerned’ about the gassing incident in Syria late last week, would unlikely be taking any action until the facts on the ground had been established. He further indicated that he would await the outcome of the UN mission to the affected area though did not expect the Syrian government to be co-operative in allowing UN inspectors into the area. However, the Syrian government has since indicated that it would be facilitating the UN into the area. If UN inspectors... more »
Progressives And Liberals Who Spread Anti-Assad, Pro-War Propaganda Are Morally Worse Than Neocons And Zionists
Progressive and liberal news websites and talking heads who spread anti-Assad, pro-war propaganda, which is written by neocons and their Zionist allies, are morally inferior to neocons and Zionists. At least Israhell is up front about its strategy towards Arabs and Muslims: kill them all. Progressives and liberals take this immoral and cruel strategy and put it in a moral context for the American people, saying the war against Assad is to save Syria's people from chemical attacks, and that President Obama must intervene to protect Syria's children. These are lies, and it does not ma... more »
Syria Is The Gateway To World War III: What Will President Obama Do?
*"History is full of places where hundreds of thousands of people like you and I have died, and I go back to World War I as the stellar example, because every major capital had idiots in charge. That's what we have in Tehran and Washington. We have idiots in charge in both places. And we could be looking at the beginning of a true tragedy because of these idiots."* - Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, U.S. Army (ret.), Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-2005). The quote appears in the documentary "A Future Scenario for Israel," made by VPRO Backlight, and directed b... more »
It's Not "Military Intervention" - It Is Called Aggressive War, Fucking Morons
Anyone who stands behind "military intervention" in Syria or anywhere else stands behind "aggressive war." This won't end pretty, especially not for America and Israel. It will get to the point where the Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Afghans, etc, will HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE and they will burn Israel down to the ground along with any American invader stupid enough to tag along in this Zionist-led mass murder journey. Spreading lies about Syria, causing sectarian and ethnic division across the Middle East, killing innocent people, supporting fanatical terrorist groups, all t... more »
Hope Springs Infernal
On the 29th of last October I walked up to the village to survey the damage from the Sandy storm. Massive trees had fallen, exposing their centers, rotted from pollution. This maple was by no means the largest but its condition was typical. The interior was a festering black, and the leaves were speckled with the classic spots from stomata absorbing ozone. Given the millions of trees that fell it's very impressive how quickly they were cleared out. The owner of this house replaced the dead tree in the spring, a younger version which began turning fall colors even before August. No do... more »
HOLD A LOCAL EVENT DURING SPACE WEEK
*No Missile Defense*** ** *No to NATO Expansion* ** *End Afghanistan Occupation* *Stop the Drones Surveillance & Killing* *No Nuclear Power in Space or on Earth* *End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy* *Convert the Military Industrial Complex* *Resources* - Download our full-size *space week poster* at: http://www.space4peace.org/actions/Keep%20Space%20for%20Peacer%20Poster%202013.pdf * * - ***The award winning documentary Pax Americana & the Weaponization of Space** is now available online at: * http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&... more »
I Have a Dream
Evidence of Revision: The Assassination Of Martin Luther King Jr from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Billy Kyles from Spike1138 on Vimeo. "Thirty year later at a Press Conference, he slipped... Because God do baffle your mind, sometimes...." The Other Hole in Martin King's Face.... from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Bill Pepper's a great lawyer - but in all the 18 years he worked non-stop on James Earl Ray's post-Conviction Defence, he was NEVER given access to the "Ray" Rifle or the bullet fragments - a ballistics analysis never became a realistic topic for discussion and was in any case irreleva... more »
“The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History”
*“The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History”* Strong Language Alert * * - http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
Will Wentworth Miller's coming out embarrass Russia's rampaging official homophobes just a little? One can hope
*by Ken* To be honest, I never heard of Wentworth Miller before now. He is, I gather, the star of *Prison Break*, and lots of people have heard of him. And now he has picked what seems to me an excellent moment and method for coming out. This letter he wrote to the St. Petersburg (Russia) International Film Festival is posted on the GLAAD website. August 21, 2013 Re: St. Petersburg International Film Festival / "Guest of Honor" Invitation Dear Ms. Averbakh: Thank you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of R... more »
Internet Activism, Politics and Protest
I just want to make some points about this article by Joe Rivers that appeared on the *New Statesman* website today. 1. Despite its title, 'Let's stop pretending internet activism is a real thing', it's not really about that at all. I can only assume it was subbed with that heading to pick up a few Facebook likes and retweets on what is traditionally a slow day for all bloggers. But the idea the internet and social media particularly offers a facsimile of activism is absolutely nothing new. Remember 2009's battle for the Christmas Number One? An internet-based grassroots movement m... more »
Spacey Questions 'Yeterday's' Media Practices
When someone of the status of Kevin Spacey does a keynote speak at the Edinburgh International Television Festival about media and content we have to listen. The speech centred on the lessons he had learned from his successful remake of the ‘House of Cards’ series. His first point was that in making the series they refused to be drawn into the US TV pilot route forced on the market by the networks. He cites that some 113 pilots were made last year of which only 35 made it to full adoption and that of these only 13 were renewed. This year there are some 146 pilots and 35 take ups.... more »
Sourcebook: The Straw Man Attack
The Brennake Gambit: Guarding Against Straw Man Disinformation Stings from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Old School Journalism - get two sources who will confirm on the record, plus deep background. Only fight for what you KNOW to be provebly true. Or they with Dan Rather you.... Also referred to as "memogate," Rathergate is the scandal surrounding the 60 Minutes II story aired on CBS in 2004 about George W. Bush's National Guard service. Memos providing the basis for many of the claims in the report were supposedly created in 1973 and found in the files of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jer... more »
The Glass Half Empty: Gendered Problems in Academic Networking
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Iowa. It is Part 1 of a 2-part discussion. Many recent posts (e.g., posts here by David Lake, Dan Nexon, and Laura Sjoberg, and elsewhere by Christian Davenport and Steve Saideman) have discussed professional networking Continue reading
Why I Am No Longer a Light Worker -- Part I
Cameron..... I cannot thank you enough for this AMAZING article! and a HUGE thanx to Brian for screaming at me to read it "RIGHT NOW". This article sums up so many things that I have been talking about, thoughts that I have been trying to convey for months now. Please repost this article as it needs to go viral. THIS may actually be the message that shatters the illusion of us vs them and light vs dark and good vs evil. Please read this with an open heart and an unfettered mind. This isn't about separation. it's about oneness. love D Original article: http://www.ascensi... more »
killing me softly fukushima
Oil spills in the gulf of mexico wasn't good enough... now you have to irradiate the pacific ocean with radioactive cesium 137 from fukushima... what's next, atomic bombs ?
Syria: Crunch Time
*Obama still says "No."* To Quote Depp on Polanski: "Why Now....?" "Signed, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Emperor of Persia, King of Kings". This is an enormous deal. Forget Syria. Someone is trying to derail something truly historic. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/ *Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013* – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States' role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement i... more »
"Getting it about right"
So, as might be expected, left-wingers on Twitter are reacting with glee to the report from Cardiff University 'proving' BBC bias in favour of right-wing perspectives. (For my take on it, please see below and for DB's take on it at *Biased BBC* please click here). This report, part-funded by the BBC Trust and part-written by the BBC's former head of news Richard Sambrook, will doubtless be used by the BBC to say that they are criticised from the Right and the the Left - and, thus, they must be getting it about right. That's as inevitable as the punchline of a Marcus Brigstocke jo... more »
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*The Film That Will Get Goodell Fired ~Jason Calbos*
O brave new 'PM' that has such people in't
My first encounter with the David Miranda story came when I drove home from work listening to *PM* on Monday night. The programme led with the story and how it reported it is worth describing in some detail. What struck me at the time of hearing was the initial sketching-in of the background to the story from Eddie Mair, which came across (to me) as presenting Glenn Greenwald (star *Guardian *journalist, David Miranda's especial friend) in a flattering light, recounting all his recent scoops and their earth-shaking impact without even so much as a hint that their accuracy has been... more »
Countdown
August 24, 2013 The NSA keeps spying, spying; The leaders keep on lying, lying While drones just keep on flying, flying And people below keep dying, dying, Leaving children to do the crying. And rich old men are farting, farting … Continue reading →
What Mattered This Week?
The events in Syria this week, and the emerging world reaction, mattered. Not sure what I have for "didn't matter," although someone did report a poll in some state matching Hillary Clinton against one of the Republicans for 2016. Obviously, Ignore those polls! What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Is Harper Suppressing Climate Change Information?
Canadians are supposed to receive an annual accounting of our federal government's efforts and progress on fighting climate change. It's overdue and Environment Canada won't say why or when it will be released. *“Environment Canada is currently preparing the 2013 Canada’s Emissions Trends report,” said spokesman Joshua Kirkey, in an email sent on Friday. “Therefore, they are best positioned to comment on this report.”* ** *The last report, released on Aug 8, 2012, revealed that Canada’s climate performance was improving slightly with annual greenhouse gas emissions projected to be 1... more »
The Mysterious Bookshop Finds A Survival Answer?
Sometimes we miss news, or items, which at the time didn't make our radar. Today we come across one such story, which at a time when many bookshops are struggling to see the way ahead, may well offer some food for thought. Driven by the realism of the book market for independent bookshops, Otto Penzler woke in the middle of the night and had an idea. Otto thought that if he asked some of his author friends to write a profile of their series characters, he could then print them and give them away with a book purchase as a special souvenir. Otto is the owner of the Mysterious Booksh... more »
Banking on Neptune
Researchers hope they'll be able to give Victoria and Vancouver a 30- to 50-second warning in advance of the megaquake when it occurs off Vancouver Island. That doesn't sound like much but it might be enough to shut down gas lines and activate emergency systems that will be needed to cope with the quake and aftershocks. The Neptune monitoring network deployed off the western coast of Vancouver Island comprises a number of seabed nodules or monitoring stations. It's hoped these sensitive instrument clusters will detect and report the primary wave of the mega-thrust earthquake, ess... more »
How do we transmit values (GOOD values, that is)? E. J. Dionne Jr. provides a case in point
*"If you stand for something, you will always make enemies. That is part of the price of being principled. What you should avoid are entirely unnecessary fights that advance no cause but create bitter feelings."* -- Washington Post *columnist E. J. Dionne Jr., in a tribute this week to his "second father,"* "Unearned blessings" by Ken Probably it's too facile to say that right-wingers don't acknowledge their roots, the human sources that nourished them into the people they became. After all, Paul Ryan acknowledges the inspiration he drew from that great thinker Ayn Rand, or at least... more »
Egyptians Are Right Not To Trust The Muslim Brotherhood And The Obama Administration
Watch the video below by journalist and author Max Blumenthal called, *"What pro-military Egyptians think of Obama, the Brotherhood."* In an article published at Mondoweiss on Friday, August 23, called, *"Egyptians rally in DC for General Sisi, rattling off conspiracy theories recycled from Islamophobes"* Blumenthal wrote: On August 22, several hundred Egyptians and Egyptian-Americans hit the streets of Washington DC to show their support for General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi and the regime that overthrew the elected President Mohamed Morsi in a military coup on July 3. After surrounding... more »
Creating Education: Work Room
Over the course of the past year and a half I have spoken about Education several times- mostly about the lack of true education and the design of the current educations system to train children into little automatons with no ability to think. As I said in June: I think that most parents who are even marginally awake can see that the main stream education system is so FUBARed that it's beyond redemption. I'm not even talking about their ulterior motive of brainwashing kids into being good little automatons that will listen to Big Brother and go through their lives unquestioning "a... more »
MOTUS nails Obama's bus tour...
*no, really - and we thank her* *A Recap of This Week’s College-Bound and Down Tour*
Newest Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Attack: Experts Doubt Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims
I have been busy the last few days taking care of other business... But I have been keeping tabs via watching the garbage so called "Mainstream Media" news, about the lies perpetrated by the Jews running the US Government, as well as the shills in the media continuing to pipe the false claims, that this latest chemical weapons attack in Syria was conducted by Assad's government forces. Common sense would indeed dictate to everyone that since Assad has the full support and the love of his people, he would indeed be insane to conduct such a ghastly operation against his own people..... more »
The Geopolitical Anchor Around the World's Neck.
For all our wealth and sophistication, our nations still interact in ways remarkably akin to those that drove great power politics in centuries past. In *OurWorld2.0*, Manu Mathai warns that, unless we change and soon, the political models to which we are so tightly lashed may take us down. *...great (and aspiring) power politics is also a driver of environmental degradation. The possession of power in international relations, whether “hard”, “soft” or “smart”, is sustained in great measure by the size of a country’s GDP. And despite claims of dematerialization, GDP remains correlat... more »
Is Nuclear Green Progressive?
I have to credit Meredith Angwin for including Nuclear Green Revolution with other progressive pro nuclear bogs. My impression, at one point, a few years ago was that most pro nuclear bloggers were progressives. Even Kirk Sorensen who has identified himself as being conservative has many ideas that are strictly progressive in their nature. Among current bloggers, I have fewer opinions because my reading handicapped prevents me from reading extensively. My reading handicapped is due to damage to my vision caused by glaucoma. My actual views are complex and I do share a few attitudes ... more »
"One Quadrillion Pennies"
"One Quadrillion Pennies" by Quadrillion.com ․ "One quadrillion, sixty-seven billion, eighty-eight million, three hundred and eighty-four thousand pennies. One cube measuring 2,730 x 2,730 x 2,730 feet. What a stack of 1 Quadrillion (U.S.), 1,000,067,088,384,000 pennies might look like: 1,000,067,088,384,000 One quadrillion, sixty-seven billion, eighty-eight million, three hundred and eighty-four thousand pennies. Here we have the buildings we used for scale back at a trillion, but they're now a bit dwarfed by our new cube of pennies. This is a quadrillion, or a thousand time... more »
"The Horrific $1.5 QUADRILLION Derivatives Bubble"
*"The Horrific $1.5 QUADRILLION Derivatives Bubble"* That's $1,500,000,000,000,000,000 by Michael Snyder "Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it. When you say the word "derivatives" to most Americans, they have no idea what you are talking about. In fact, even most members of the U.S. Congress don't really seem to understand them. But you don't have to get into all the technicalities to understand the bigger pi... more »
Your moment of Zen
A peace garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rob Ford makes international news - Reported by MSNBC
Rob Ford and Hulk Hogan arm-wrestle. Rob Ford wins? It looks fix to me. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
"Billionaire Sprott: World To Witness A Frightening Collapse"
* * *"Billionaire Sprott: World To Witness A Frightening Collapse"* by King World News "Today billionaire Eric Sprott warned that the world is in for a massive and frightening collapse. He also startled KWN when he revealed what his biggest fear is when the mega-collapse takes place. Below is what Sprott, who is Chairman of Sprott Asset Management, had to say: *Eric King:* “Ron Rosen has been watching these markets for almost 60 years now, but he told KWN in an interview very recently that the stock market was going to have a massive collapse- he was talking (about a) 66% (declin... more »
The ALEC Revolution: Extremism of the 1990's
"Alec was founded in 1973 by the LOSERS" "They (the American Legislative Exchange Council) have never forgotten that they were founded by people who couldn't win elections. So they put a lot of their energy on gaming the electoral process." That's kinda been my attitude - that they were a bunch of conservative losers until the mid 90's and that is when they became the *extremist*pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council. And they WERE extremists in the mid 90's. I have to share with you what Lyndon LaRouche (I know - I know - he was fringe - but so is ALEC, so who better to... more »
Over a thousand people gathered at the Spokane Eagles Club to honor Delbert "Shorty" Belton...
*did you know that the reason he was sitting in his car was so he could safely escort his lady friend into the club when she arrived?*
Linda Ronstadt unable to sing...
*a great loss to the world.* Guest post by Harold Streeter: Having just learned that Linda Ronstadt, age 67, was diagnosed 8 months ago with Parkinson’s disease, resulting in her not being able to sing anymore, let alone physically navigate without the aid of a walker or wheel chair, this revelation is a huge loss to me. As a professional musician, aside from her leftist political leanings, and aside from her misguided early excursions or experiments in romance, i.e. Jerry Brown (once again current governor of California), to me, Ms. Ronstadt has always been a musical inspiratio... more »
SYRIA-DEADLY GAS-US READY TO BOMB
Syrian army soldiers have found chemical agents when they entered rebel tunnels in Damascus suburb of Jobar, Syrian TV reports, adding that some of them started suffocating. The US Navy's expanding its presence in the Mediterranean with a 4th cruise-missile armed destroyer. The move is a response to the escalating conflict in Syria. For more on this RT is joined by Paula Slier. A lifetime of watching the US war machine in action leads me to believe that the US-NATO are behind the chemical gas story in Syria. They always fabricate the pretext for war - the phony Gulf of Tonkin inci... more »
Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? by Julian Assange
this is a story attributed to Wikileaks' Julian Assange - real or what? *Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?* *by Julian Assange* * * *Jared Cohen was the co-writer of Eric Schmidt’s book, and his role as the bridge between Google and the State Department speaks volumes about how the US securitocracy works. Cohen used to work directly for the State Department and was a close advisor to both Condolezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. But since 2010 he has been Director of Google Ideas, its in-house ‘think/do’ tank.* * **Documents published last year by WikiLeaks obtained f... more »
THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Desperate for any kind of job, low-paid workers in the UK are being caught in the trap of what's become known as zero hour contracts. RT's Polly Boiko looks at a world where employment doesn't mean there's any work ... or any money.
His Highness Stephen Harper did not want to take a question from a Chinese reporter
A Chinese reporter travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Northern tour was hauled away by RCMP after grabbing a microphone to ask a question.
Martin Luther King: "I have a dream"
This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King when he gave the speech, "I have a dream". It is considered one of the best speeches ever given. This is a shorter version of his speech.
Imagining 10 dimensions
Peter F. sent me a link to this video, *Imagining 10 dimensions*. It has 104 minutes but based on various hints and a quick selection, I believe it must be a pretty good one for an apparent amateur creator! Correct me if I am wrong but I hope you won't! ;-) I hope that at least one more reader will find the required spare time to watch it. Note that Imagining 10 dimensions is also a blog. For others who are more busy, a homework problem: Where have you seen the background color under the Calabi-Yau manifold from the video at 1:39:06? ;-) It's actually an originally Mathemat... more »
Sunnanæfen Commentary and Linkage
I still believe that some of Snowden’s disclosures, and his actions, have forfeited his whistleblower status. But if he’d been a bit more circumspect about what he’d leaked and how he had done it–e.g., not brought US government secrets into the range of Russians and Chinese intelligence agents–that would emphatically not be the case. His disclosures Continue reading
I'm Sick Of The Jewish Owned & Run U.S. Mainstream Media Talking About Arabs All The Time
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(Above: where are all the MUSLIMS running the news or being lead news characters? THERE ARE NONE! They're only the targets OF the "news". We need some AFFIRMATIVE ACTION in the "news" to get more diversified news, instead of one group controlling the "news" and making it pro-Israel/pro-Jewish & anti-Muslim all the time.) Is there anything going on in the world, let alone the United States, besides stories to do with Arabs? Pick up any local paper lately, I'll just randomly pick up today's Citizens Voice, and here are the top stories: - Suicide bombing in Park, attacks kill 36... more »
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*Corps announces proposed route for St. John levee ~Richard Thompson, New Orleans Advocate* *Leaders weigh in on Army Corps flood protection plan ~WDSU* *ExxonMobil Baton Rouge fined by Louisiana environmental officials ~Lauren McGaughy* *Families call for city to save deteriorating historic Holt Cemetery ~WWLTV* *St. Bernard gets $3.75M to replace water intake *
David McReynolds : Reflections on the '63 March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin on the cover of Life Magazine, September 6, 1963. A socialist remembers: Reflections on the March on Washington The climate in Washington, D.C. that day was timorous. White Washingtonians feared some riotous upheaval. By David McReynolds / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2013 August 28th will be the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and
Lamar W. Hankins : The March for Jobs and Freedom After 50 Years
50 years later: The March for Jobs and Freedom While King's 'I Have a Dream' speech is clearly worthy of distinction, our memories of the event have shunted aside one of the primary purposes of the March: to push for a $2-per-hour minimum wage. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2013 [A series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and
DOD Documents Label Freedom-Seeking Colonists as Extremists
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Paul Lawrance Department of Defense educational documents imply that US colonists who fought for freedom against British kingship are extremists. Judicial Watch was able to obtain the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request asking for “any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.” The Documents were provided by the Air Force but originated in a DOD office. The 133 pages given ... more »
New Encryption Company May Go Offshore - "Privacy rights don't exist in US anymore"
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US Arms Sales vs China's Military Build Up
*A delicate damselfly.* Two counterpoints in the Taipei Times today. First, longtime Taiwan supporter Randy Shriver, speaking at a conference this week, urged the continuance of US arms sales.... However, despite the economic, diplomatic and political improvements, the PLA has not “removed a single missile, a single military unit,” he said. “They have done nothing to reduce the posture opposite Taiwan in a way that reduces their military capability and presence,” he added. In fact, the Chinese military buildup opposite Taiwan has “continued apace” while Taiwan’s own military budg... more »
Listen Now - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
* **Listen now* * **Listen to the sounds of life* * **Feel the vibrations* * **Feel the tones* * **Feel the notes* * **That caress* * **And * * **Bring comfort* * **To your human bodies * * **And minds* * **Remember again* * **These beautiful notes* * **That make up this song of life* * **This song sung* * **By the most beautiful of voices * * **These voices that lie dormant in you* * **Waiting to be heard again* * **These voices * * **Waiting to sing again* * **Waiting to sing* * **Their songs of creation* * **Their songs of love* * **Their songs that awaken* * **Again* * **That which is... more »
Pentagon Preps for Cruise Missile Attack on Syria
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SOPA Has Returned, Time to Kill it Again
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The Canadian Candidate
*Or is it the Cuban Candidate?* By Capt. Fogg Birthers, or at least the ones I've heard from, like to disassociate their theory about Obama's African origins from racism and pretend instead a real concern for constitutional propriety, but the lack of enthusiasm for pursuing the same line of 'thinking' as it applies to Ted Cruz's eligibility for Canadian citizenship and perhaps even Cuban citizenship is a bit like a porthole in a septic tank. All the shit is on display. But a cynic has to be grateful for having the Tea Party to quote, its members being far, far too stupid to conc... more »
Obama to Fill Prisons with File Sharers Instead of Pot Smokers?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *The most ridiculous provisions of the defeated SOPA are put back on the table. Obama Administration wants online streaming to be a felony.* Eric Blair As a pro-marijuana activist, it's a joy to watch the Berlin Weed Wall come tumbling down. I even found some pleasure this week in Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement for reduced sentencing for non-violent drug offenders. It's not everyday some liberty is yielded back to the people, however small. Yet my joy is tempered by cynicism. The private prison-industrial com... more »
Saturday Linkies
*Building facades in Shiluo, Yunlin. I actually spent three days in Yunlin this week. It's so wonderful that some kind soul invented hard liquor....* Some links for you to survive the rain in: - Commonwealth, always an excellent read, explains Why Hong Kong is Smitten with Taiwan. - J Michael says writes that China is buying Taiwan. Cole says that China wants to increase Chinese in positions of authority in Taiwan. Hey, we already have that, it's call the KMT. China's strategy is many pronged. More important than a few hundred executives is the coming financial ... more »
Don't Everybody Comment at Once ...
So, I typed a plan ... competing (perhaps) with all the other plans to do something about harper's desecration of our democracy and our human rights ... and I'd like some feedback please. It's the previous four posts. Maybe it's the most asinine plan in the world. Maybe it's realistic, when all is said and done. I won't know unless you tell me.
Congress' Most Corrupt Member Thinks Chelsea Manning Got Off Too Lightly
Just over a year ago, we reported how House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon had a serious conflict of interest stemming form the 6-figure gambling debts he had racked up in Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas casino. This is especially dangerous in light of Adelson's status as a billionaire being completely in the hands of the Chinese government. I was assured by a Republican Member of the House Armed Services Committee that McKeon was being investigated on several levels and that he had personally spoken with Boehner and asked him to fire McKeon as committee chair. But, as ... more »
Government's repressive tactics against protesters
Over at Far Eastern Sweet Potato J Michael scribes on the government's ugly campaign of intimidation: It gets worse. On Aug. 20, the Bureau of Energy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Presidential Human Rights Advisory Committee held a meeting in Taipei to discuss the matter of adequate distance for wind turbines and, we are told, to “maximize public participation.” However, there were so many procedural problems with the meeting, which was termed an “experimental hearing,” that it is difficult not to regard it as a joke — if only public money were not wasted on it. * For one ... more »
Refusing to See Them
Stephen Harper's Northern Tour was supposed to be a political triumph. He delivered red meat speeches about the "vacuous" and "dangerous" opposition. And he announced that he was running in the 2015 election. But, yesterday, the tour ended with a vivid picture of how the prime minister defines power. Michael den Tandt, who has been following the prime minister on his northern trek, writes: The final public event on Stephen Harper’s annual summer tour was very nearly derailed Friday after a journalist from China’s state-owned newspaper got into a shoving match with a female staffer... more »
Guardian London
Oh lovely! *Dateline London *is talking Syria, Egypt and the arrest of David Miranda. Gavin Esler's guests are the inevitable Abdel Bari Atwan, Thomas Kielinger of *Die Welt *and, in an absolutely classic *Dateline* move, Michael White...of the *Guardian *and Rachel Shabi [above]... of the *Guardian*. I can hardly wait for their discussion of the arrest of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald and the *Guardian*. (Please imagine music playing while you're on hold on the phone) Well, how did that particular discussion go? The opening couple of minutes went surprisingly well, with Micha... more »
CODZ: Opposing the US Zionist state's intimidation of academics
COMMITTEE FOR OPEN DISCUSSION OF ZIONISM Oh boy, can you hear the loud voices of protest from the ranks of tenured professors against the imposition of Zionism doctrine in US academia..., not! There are small seeds, which are reminders that sanity is still barely rooted on the sterile ground of the continent's intellectual farms. One such seed is CODZ.
Vital migrant I.D checks scrapped: Stowaways no longer fingerprinted at Calais | Mail Online
'"It seems odd that ordinary travellers are subject to 100 per cent checks when those travelling illegally are not subject to this regime. People attempting to enter the UK concealed in freight vehicles, who are discovered by Border Force, are no longer fingerprinted at Calais."' Read more here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401168/Vital-migrant-I-D-checks-scrapped-Stowaways-longer-fingerprinted-Calais.html Pathetic, absolutely pathetic. Sometimes I think this country deserves all it gets, pathetic.
5 notorious myths for this weekend
Link: http://youtu.be/CultO7cPnJA I like this guy. He always has nice items to see or discuss. *Marques Brownlee* calls himself "YouTube personality", but is an independent video producer from New York, who you can find on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. A myth he missed is "92% of computer users use Windows". The percentage may in reality be about 75% or less. That producers put Windows on computers to be sold doesn't imply Windows is used. Only some 60 million users use Windows 8 according to the link before. Good for Microsoft still, stupid for producers seeing their sales dwindl... more »
The Fall of the House of Bo
Pepe Escobar Asia Times Online * * * I have no spur* *To prick the sides of my intent, but only* *Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself* *And falls on the other.* - *Macbeth* by *William Shakespeare* China does Macbeth. With a slight Hollywood tweak. Disgraced princeling Bo Xilai's day in court may not be the "trial of the century" - although it's the biggest legal show since the Gang of Four's in 1980/1981. The script is meticulously pre-ordained. But no one lost money betting on Bo, The Man Who Would be President, to inject extra drama in this... more »
Farms in China With Tom Philpott
This gives us a current snapshot of the condition of China’s agriculture and it is suffering a serious degradation that is impacting a good third of the available resource. This is never good news. Yet after saying that, we are likely looking at the low point as policy is now attending to the reversal of these trends. They have shown that they are able to actually do this rather well. In the meantime, their products must be monitored closely for two reasons. The first is that the risk is real and the second is that circumvention of testing is the national sport. Th... more »
Solar Tower to Split Out Hydrogen
This is a solid way to produce hydrogen at what appears to be maximum efficiency and free of waste- materials. The system itself already exists to produce hot salt, so taking it up a notch to produce hydrogen is a far better idea and provides a convenient supply of shippable hydrogen. That certainly is what the market demands. We have suffered years of hydrogen economy press releases with little sign of any hydrogen. Now that can end with a solid supply. And yes, why not the gulf of California for all this? All solar systems suffer from serious thermodynamic losses... more »
Watching Catalysts at Work - at the Atomic Scale
We are actually getting better at understanding catalytic processes as this shows. This is good news for process chemistry and presages future improvements. Breakthroughs in process chemistry rarely make headlines but they are hugely important. We are now beginning to approach the resolutions we really need. Thus we can expect a flowering in process chemistry. *Watching catalysts at work - at the atomic scale* * by Staff Writers* * Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2013* * Fundamental processes: Charge donation/backdonation in the [Fe(CO)5] model catalyst in solution ... more »
Detroit Bail in of Pensioners
The USA has created serious problems for itself in terms of the various laws put in place to protect the super banks who have simply taken everyone to the wall and said ‘or else’. It really cannot stand. The market will respond by shunning the super banks and creating local institutions able to do all of it. In the process this will also curb union power which is bent on the same behavior as our super banks. What everyone has learned the hard way is that when the government is actually the lender and equity source of last resort, it is really stupid to allow overc... more »
Syria
Brzezinski vs. Bernstein on Syria and Russia from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Brezynski does damage to Russia for recreation. And HE says this is a bad idea. You are risking a nuclear war over Black Sea access and the Dardanelles. It's sheer folly and madness. The Horrors of Romney - Webster Tarpley from Spike1138 on Vimeo. *"Too many Allowites in the Government..."* * * * * George Galloway Lambasts Gulf Arab Yuppie-Larvae and Wannabe Jihadis for Killing Sons of Syria from Spike1138 on Vimeo. "There are Arab countries where thre is no freedom, or liberty, at all; which have one-famil...more »
'USA ORGANISED GAS PLOT IN SYRIA'
*John Hart, head of a Chemical and Biological Security Project in Stockholm, says none of the images of victims shows pinpoint pupils. Pinpont pupils would indicate a nerve gas attack. **Evidence* It looks as if the USA organised 'the gas attack' in Syria. Having allegedly organised 'the gas attack' in Syria, "the Pentagon is moving forces closer to Syria... "Media reports say the US Navy is strengthening its presence in the eastern Mediterranean..." *Syria crisis: US weighs military options* Reportedly, the USA put its forces into Syria *before* 'the gas attack'. It would seem t... more »
Twitter Tweets- home built ticker tape machine
A web developer from Cumbria has built a modern version of a 19th Century ticker-tape engine which prints out tweets. The creator Adam Vaughan supposed the 'twitter tapes' device was built from scratch using second-hand parts from clocks and other sources. The wooden foot hides a thermal printer and a micro-controller. Share prices were conventionally disseminated via telegraph lines and printed out on ticker-tape machines. They were invented in 1867 and some unique machines are now considered to be high value antiques. According to Adam Vaughan, One day I thought it would be n... more »
"The Trouble With The World..."
“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.” - Mark Twain
"A Look to the Heavens"
“In the 1920s, examining photographic plates from the Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100 inch telescope, Edwin Hubble determined the distance to the Andromeda Nebula, decisively demonstrating the existence of other galaxies far beyond the Milky Way. His notations are evident on the historic plate image inset at the lower right, shown in context with ground based and Hubble Space Telescope images of the region made nearly 90 years later. By intercomparing different plates, Hubble searched for novae, stars which underwent a sudden increase in brightness. He found several on this plate and...more »
"Dreamers"
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
“High Flight”
*“High Flight”* “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew - And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The hi... more »
"Cognitive Dissonance And the Human Mind"
"Cognitive Dissonance And the Human Mind" by Dan Eden "When “Robbie” the robot was told to shoot a weapon at a man in the movie Forbidden Planet, his electronic brain sparked and short-circuited. His creator had programmed him to never harm a human and so the conflicting ideas paralyzed him. Human beings often are presented with opposing thoughts also, but our brains have developed a way of resolving these conflicts through a process call cognitive dissonance. We are taught, like “Robbie,” that killing is prohibited — but what about war? And many anti-abortionists support the d... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Umm Al Fahm, Haifa, Israel. Thanks for stopping by.
"Fate"
“Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.” - Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
When?"
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?" - Chuck Palahniuk
Psychology: “The Backfire Effect”
* * *“The Backfire Effect”* by David McRaney “*The Misconception:* When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking. *The Truth:* When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger. “’Wired,’ ‘The New York Times,’ ‘Backyard Poultry Magazine’ - they all do it. Sometimes, they screw up and get the facts wrong. In ink or in electrons, a reputable news source takes the time to say "my bad." If you are in the news business and want to maintain your reputation for ... more »
“Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other”
* * *“Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other”* by The DailyOm “People you feel drawn to reflect your inner self back at you, and you act as a mirror for them as well. When we look at other people, we see many of their qualities in innumerable and seemingly random combinations. However, the qualities that we see in the people around us are directly related to the traits that exist in us. “Like attracts like” is one of the spiritual laws of the universe. We attract individuals into our lives that mirror who we are. Those you feel drawn to reflect your inner self bac... more »
"The Answer Why..."
"At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom." - Richard Bach, “Nothing by Chance”
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Time Stands Still”
2002, “Time Stands Still” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoETb06INI&html5=1
Miranda rights - and wrongs
The nine-hour detention at a British airport of the *Guardian *journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda under police anti-terrorism powers certainly sharply divided opinion - at least among the people who were interested in the story. (I've not personally heard anyone talk about it or show the slightest interest in it though, at work or outside of work - though that *may* say more about more about me, who I know and where I live than it does about the matter at hand!). There are those who support the *Guardian*'s position, such as Nick Cohenwho thinks Glenn Greenwald an... more »
Why Forcillo's Five-Second Pause Matters
From the outset it's been apparent to me that Sammy Yatim's death resulted from two, distinct shooting events. The first was the initial, 3-round salvo that took two seconds. After that there was a pause of nearly 5-seconds. Only after that pause did Forcillo resume firing the remaining six rounds in his sidearm. He fired 4-rounds, paused, the eighth round, paused, and then the final, ninth round. That the pause is of critical significance is explained by Toronto defence counsel, Reid Rusonik, in the *Toronto Star:* * ...there may also be grounds in the second volley of shots fire... more »
Friday Baseball Post
I was going to argue with Jonathan Chait over the question of why college football is popular when minor league sports are not, but Scott Lemieux beat me to it and basically nailed it. Chait: [I]f college sports would work just as well if it’s turned into a minor league, why aren’t minor-league sports popular? I can’t think of a single example anywhere in the world of a minor-league sport that even approaches the popularity of the major-league version. The reason college athletics is the sole exception is that it’s college athletics, and not a minor-league sport. The top 500 colleg... more »
Sunday Classics postscript: Poor Arthur Sullivan never knew how well he had succeeded as a "serious" composer
*GILBERT and SULLIVAN: The Mikado: Act II: Song, Yum-Yum, "The sun whose rays are all ablaze"* *In the film Topsy-Turvy (of which I might say I'm not a big fan), Shirley Henderson fake-rehearses, then fake-sings, Yum-Yum's Act II spoken dialogue and song, "The sun whose rays."* *YUM-YUM* [*looking at herself in her mirror*]: Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No. Nature is lovel, and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature... more »
Masters in the Making?
If my blog has been rather silent this summer I do have a good reason for it as I've been spending many an evening looking into applying to graduate school. A Masters degree is something I always figured I'd eventually end up doing and lately I've found myself taking a serious look at it. I began giving it some serious thought back in the spring, checking out various school and programs and I'm pleased with how things have gone so far. Initially I felt I might be at a disadvantage since its been some time since I've done any sort of academic work and would be a bit rusty. On seco... more »
help fund "let them stay", the book
Some of you may remember when wmtc was obsessed with the War Resisters Support Campaign, a fact that was noticed in some very interesting places. * (Hi CIC! Are you still reading?)* I joined the Campaign in 2007, then in 2009, I began school for my Master of Information degree. I managed to stay active in the Campaign during my first two years of school, but by fall of 2011, night classes plus my library page job on top of my regular paid employment forced me to take a back seat. I thought I'd reactivate immediately after graduation... then over the summer... and now I'm aiming for ... more »
how you can support chelsea manning
Here are two important things you can do to help support Chelsea Manning. 1. Do whatever you can to work for her pardon. You can sign the petition to President Obama here. You have to create an account, but that only takes a few moments, and the form accepts Canadian postal codes. Please sign and share widely. 2. Write her. According to her support team, she's looking forward to being able to correspond with her supporters for the first time. The mailing address will say Bradley Manning, as that's the only name the military will recognize. But you can and should use her chosen name ... more »
Ayatollah Khamenei's Positive Words For Western Culture
*"In my opinion, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is the best novel that has been written in history." - Ayatollah Khamenei.* Reading the statements by Ayatollah Khamenei in the article below brings joy. This means several things. One is that there is middle ground and room for reconciliation between America and Iran. And second, Iran's leader is intellectually and spiritually sensitive to the glorious scientific, artistic, cultural, and political achievements of America and Western civilization. The regime in Tehran is not a Taliban regime. It is not led by small-minded fundamental... more »
Update
Bad at blogging these days, so I am going to try to do a quick update, with bullet points! :) - Learning Spanish. I know that it will take living in Costa Rica to get really good, but I at least want to have a good base before I go, knowing a lot of phrases and words. So, I bought Rosetta Stone for Kurt and I, and have been trying to do the program at least once a day, even if only for 10 minutes. I am learning a lot and really like the program thus far. I also got a great deal on the set. - Went to the Tigers game twice in the past week, which was super fu... more »
Right action and the second toolbox
Grassroots Garden, Food for Lane County, Eugene, Oregon, USA A continued discussion of Permaculture ethics, realms and principles in the light of Buddism. "Earth care" is right action. Preventing soil loss, water pollution, excess atmospheric carbon, and radiological contamination are examples. "People care" is right action. Active listening, feeding with good food, offering clean water, assisting with shelter and teaching right action are examples. "Fair share" is right action. Living within one's means and finding small means sufficient opens up possibilities for others are exampl... more »
We Were Doing Just Fine, Thanks (Book Excerpt)
The following is an excerpt from my latest book, Uncommon: The Grassroots Movement to Save Our Children and Their Schools. Before NCLB (and even during those years, for some), public education was moving along quite well in many places under locally controlled entities, such as districts. With local determination of how children learn, taking into […]
How happy for the NFL that ESPN has decided -- entirely of its own free will -- not to pile onto the league's violence problem
*HuffPost reproduced this series of tweets from Sports Business Journal's John Ourand in which both the NFL and ESPN proclaim their innocence of collusion in ESPN's sudden withdrawal from collaboration with PBS's Frontline investigation into the NFL head-injury mess.* *by Ken* I suppose it's possible to believe it's possible that ESPN suddenly withdrew yesterday from its collaboration with PBS's *Frontline* on an investigation into the concussion-and-head-injury mess confronting the NFL without any consideration of its business relationship with that same NFL. Which is to say it's... more »
President Obama: Don't Attack Syria For Israel's Sake. Please Be Smarter Than That.
"What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. *That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.*"* - *President Obama, *from his famous speech he made on October 2, 2002*, in opposition to the Iraq war. President Obama, please do not deceive your peop... more »
A glowing future . . .
THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE with DNA, and Martin Lukacs, who posts on the TRUE NORTH blog created by The Guardian, is rightly concerned, with a post, “Kickstarter must not fund biohackers' glow-in-the-dark plants” about what is called biohacking, in this case, a Kickstarter effort to get fluorescent plants created. But the US Department of Agriculture says it's OK, so fasten your seatbelts.
Musical Interlude: Dire Straits, “Private IInvestigations”
Dire Straits, “Private IInvestigations” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DPrPgm_n2w&html5=1
The West Coast needs to get ready for Fukushima radiation contamination ! What folks aren't being told : 1) The Pacific Ocean won't necessarily dilute Fukushima radiation - thus pockets and streams of highly contaminated radioactive materials may impact the West Coast ; 2) West Coast radiation could be ten times higher than in Japan ; 3) nuclear pollution may be becoming MORE concentrated as it approaches the West Coast , with little dispersion ; 4) time scale for nuclear pollutants reaching the West Coast vary from 3.2 and 3.9 years ( Zero Hour May 2014 - December 2014 roughly )
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/the-saturday-essay-fukushima-disasters-owners-tepco-admit-three-leaking-tanks-were-second-hand/ THE SATURDAY ESSAY: Fukushima disaster’s owners Tepco admit three leaking tanks were second hand Why the wages of Fukushima spin is Death *In today’s (Saturday) press conference of 24th August 2013, Tepco announced that the three leaking tanks have been reused – ie, recycled. It stated that the three tanks were initially installed in a different area, which then had 20cm of land subsidence in July of 2011. The base concrete sank underground. Inst... more »
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