A title card still from the April 4, 1968 edition of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, the evening of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
TITLE: D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath SUMMARY: Photograph showing a soldier standing guard on the corner of 7th & N Street NW in Washington D.C. with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. FORMAT: Film negatives 1960-1970. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA CARD #: 2003688168 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)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, 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, all these
are tactics of weak armies and weak nations... 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 »
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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”*
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Will Wentworth Miller's coming out embarrass Russia's rampaging official homophones 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.”*
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*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
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"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
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I'm Sick Of The Jewish Owned & Run U.S. Mainstream Media Talking About Arabs All The Time
(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
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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
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**Listen now*
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**Listen to the sounds of life*
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**Feel the vibrations*
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**Feel the tones*
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**Feel the notes*
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**That caress*
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**And *
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**Bring comfort*
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**To your human bodies *
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**And minds*
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**Remember again*
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**These beautiful notes*
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**That make up this song of life*
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**This song sung*
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**By the most beautiful of voices *
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**These voices that lie dormant in you*
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**Waiting to be heard again*
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**These voices *
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**Waiting to sing again*
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**Waiting to sing*
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**Their songs of creation*
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**Their songs of love*
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**Their songs that awaken*
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**Again*
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**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?
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*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
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 11 hours ago
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
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* 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*
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by Staff Writers*
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2013*
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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..."*
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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”
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*“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”
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*“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 example... 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 neccessarily 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 »
The world according to Derp
Damn Dimmocrats:
[I]n Lincoln, Ill., GOP Rep. Aaron Schock told an audience at a coffee shop
that the Democratic-controlled Senate had "sat on their hands" while the
House sought to repeal Obama's health care law. "The president right now is
doing a very good job of trying to make it look like the House is
dysfunctional," Schock said. "Really what we're trying to do is carry out
the wishes of the people."
Because surely, the American dream has always been overpaying insurance
corporations for crappy health care.
Dueling charts - Updated
Well, this is an editorial so clearly it "was not intended to be a factual
statement." For one thing this is not "Obama's Recovery," this is your
future under Republican economics.
You might think the editors of the Investors Business Daily would have some
interest in telling the whole story because rising tide lifts all ships or
something like that. Oh wait, no they don't. The recovery has sucked for
almost everyone except the very wealthy investor class, who want corporate
friendly Republicans in power. So they won't mention the GOP's obsession
with austerity and draconian cuts i... more »
The first toolbox as right action
[image: Young man volunteering at Grassroots Garden kitchen]
The Young Man volunteering at Grassroots Garden kitchen
*Primum non nocere, *which which we ended the preceding note, means,
"First, do no harm."*
It's rough out there.*
That it's rough out there can be taken as a given. Some of us are insulated
from the consequences of inappropriate *action *through the inequitable
accumulation of resources, but the effect is temporary and I think a kind
of self-harm accrues, to ourselves and our loved ones. Certainly harm comes
to others.
Hence: *"**it's rough because we (whether ourselv... more »
Don’t Stress About Networking
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Professor Peter M. Haas of the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Finding myself on the grey haired
side of the academic divide and having experienced both sides of the
process, let me reiterate David Lake’s points about networking with senior
faculty. While networking to make friends is
Continue reading
Syria: Australia at UN & planning war with US- Activists smuggling samples etc.,
*2 new updates below- ominous stuff*
*Just some quick news stories I found interesting:*
*Australia will lead the international debate on Syria as of Sept 1/201,
when they take the helm at the UN *
*AS president of the UN Security Council* from September 1, Australia will
lead the international debate on the worsening Syrian crisis amid growing
pressure on Moscow and Beijing to bring the Assad regime into line.
Australia takes the chair of the Security Council during the federal
election "caretaker period", which means Kevin Rudd and Senator Carr would
have to consult closely with... more »
Gold and Silver Report - August 23 , 2013 --- JP Morgan still in dire need for actual physical gold ( I thought they cornered the COMEX market - oh yeah , that's paper.. ) ......Meanwhile , where is COMEX physical gold - higher prices but the gold is not building , still near record low levels ? Key to gold is looking at what' going on in China and India these days.......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-23/hello-scotia-mocatta-its-jpmorgan-yes-again-we-need-more-gold
"Hello Scotia Mocatta, It's JPMorgan... Yes, Again... We Need More Gold"
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2013 16:39 -0400
It happened again.
And like the last time JPM plundered 20K ounces of Scotia gold on August
8...
... JPM took *directly from Scotia's registered gold inventory*. We wonder
how regular, non-TBTF customers of Scotia would feel if they learned that
their registered gold was now in the "possession" of JPMorgan.
Finally, as a remind... more »
LNG And The Blender, Pass The Salt Please
Christy Clark blathered about a $trillion dollar industry, how LNG would
eliminate our debt, pay off crown corporation debt, pay for new hospitals
and new schools, plus $100 billion in a separate prosperity fund for future
generations, Christy Clark and the BC Liberal MLAs went even further and
said LNG revenues would eliminate tolls on bridges and our provincial sales
tax, ...
We were also told by Christy Clark that we were in a race with
Australia....If we are in a race against Australia, East Africa,
Mozambique, Russia, Qatar and so many more countries shouldn`t we at least
st... more »
Stephen Harper's Micromanaged Unwillingness To Answer Media Questions Now Having International Implications ....
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
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*News Bureaus and media organizations pay a huge sum to have reporters
accompany the Prime Minister of Canada on junkets and official visits.
Imagine paying the fee, attending every event day after day and NOT being
able to ask even 1 question of Stephen Harper - virtually nothing to file
back home from the trip - Mr. **Li Xue Jiang deserves an apology from the
PMO.*
*A Chinese reporter was hauled away by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s RCMP
security detail Friday after he grabbed a microphone and tried to ask
Harper a question during a news con... more »
The BBC: Conservative, Eurosceptic and pro-business. Apparently.
Oh, I do like statistically-based reports about BBC bias.
There's a new report out from Cardiff University that's making a few waves,
claiming as it does that the BBC is indeed biased - albeit not in the way
right-wingers think.
The study comes bearing the intriguing statement that
"The funding for some of the research discussed in this article was
provided directly by the BBC Trust."
Just as intriguing is the fact that one of its listed authors is none other
than Richard Sambrook, former director of BBC News, the BBC World Service
and BBC Global News. (Wonder which bits *he* wr... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Marine Corps
veteran *Angelo John Gage*. Angelo recently made a video about White
genocide that has gone viral. We will be discussing a number of different
subjects relating to the White race and brainstorming effective strategies
for pro-White advocates.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Elsewhere: Gerrymanders, Obamacare/ACA, more
A new column at the Prospect today defending odd-shaped House districts,
and arguing that gerrymandering in general isn't that big a deal. Note that
you don't have to believe the latter in order to believe the former. One
important point I didn't make in the column: compact, "pretty," districts
have a predictable bias in any jurisdiction, and the people who fight over
how the lines will be drawn (or at least the smart and informed ones) know
what they bias is and who it helps.
Also...there's news on the ACA/Obamacare front, with a bit more reporting
confirming my view that people wo... more »
Republicans' "Market-Oriented" Health Care Reforms Won't Work, Part 1
This has been a week of Republicans saying they have actual ideas for
replacing Obamacare, rather than just repealing it. The centerpiece has
been an article by Karl Rove in the *Wall Street Journal* (paywalled)
detailing all the swell ideas Republicans have. In addition, a non-blogger
friend points me to an earlier analysis based ultimately on a group called
Docs 4 Patient Care that sounds essentially identical to Rove's article.
Before I get back to Rove, let's talk first about the earlier analysis,
which highlights two supposed alternatives: selling alternatives across
state lin... more »
Is This The Most Pathetic Sting Operation the U.S. Government Ever Concocted?
Ali
Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909)
It is well-known that the law enforcement and national security arms of
the United States government routinely hatch and orchestrate elaborate
sting operations, and then claim victory over thwarting nefarious plots
that they themselves manufactured, planned, coordinated, funded and
sometimes even led.
An extensive 2011 Mother Jones investigation by
"Another 'Patriotic' Step on the Road to Tyranny"
*"Another 'Patriotic' Step on the Road to Tyranny"*
by Bill Bonner
"First, a quick look at the markets. The Dow rose 66 points yesterday. Gold
stayed flat. Will we be proved right? Has the US stock market turned? Have
Treasurys finally entered a bear market? And gold – has it resumed its
upward march? Maybe! Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, here’s the latest from Bloomberg: "As many as 50,000 stray dogs
roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents,
menacing humans who remain and overwhelming the city’s ability to find them
homes or peaceful deaths. They are a... more »
Mohawk John Kane: Radio and TV Sun, Aug 26, 2013
Native
American commentator John Kane will dominate mainstream radio and TV in
two U.S. media markets on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2013
By Liz Hill
Censored News
WASHINGTON – On Sunday, Aug. 26, Native American radio and television
commentator John Kane will be featured on mainstream commercial radio
and TV throughout the day in two U.S. media markets: Minneapolis/Saint
Paul, Minn. and Buffalo,
The First Openly Gay Baseball Player?
Who was the first active professional male athlete in a major American
sport to come out? Conventional wisdom would point to NBA player Jason
Collins, who has played for the Celtics, the Hawks, Timberwolves,
Grizzlies, NJ Nets and, most recently, the Wizards and apparently not to
soon be on the Detroit Pistons. The 7 foot tall center, a 34 year old
Stanford grad, penned a cover story for *Sports Illustrated* in April
talking about being gay. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm
gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major
American team ... more »
Rachel Maddow may have gotten it right!
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013*
*A fascinatingly naked challenge in the Tarheel State:* In the past few
years, the analysts have had quite a few complaints about Rachel Maddow’s
work.
We can’t really say they’re wrong, especially when they complain about the
mugging, the clowning, the all too frequent thumb on the scale and the
constant pretense, widely swallowed by viewers, that Maddow loves to
correct her mistakes, which she plainly doesn’t.
We often fight back against the analysts, noting that Maddow covers some
important topics, like voting rights out in the states and state
restri... more »
Don't Place The Military's "Massacres" In Egypt At America's Feet
*Source: Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons. (August 23).*
This cartoon is intellectually idiotic because it goes against reality and
truth. This is anti-Americanism taken to an absurd and nonsensical level,
based on a groundless belief that the Egyptian military is controllable by
Washington.
The reality is that the Egyptian military took it upon itself to remove
Morsi, who was an ally of Washington and was planning to join in USrael's
war against Syria and expand the sectarian war in the region by bringing
Egypt into the mix.
That's the first and most important thing that needs t... more »
Lists, for no raisin
*Non-exhaustive list of Californian Amphibians*
Sonoran desert toad
Arroyo toad
Southern Pacific chorus frog
Great Basin Spadefoot
Lowland leopard frog
California giant salamander
Fairview slender salamander
Wandering salamander
Kern Plateau slender salamander
Rough-skinned newt
*List of Active Bulgarian Military Aircraft*
SU-25 Frogfoot
MiG-21 Fishbed
MiG-29 Fulcrum
*Non-exhaustive list of Crayola Crayon Colours*
Apricot
Beaver
Caribbean Green
Desert Sand
Electric Lime
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Golden Rod
Hot Magenta
Inchworm
Jazzberry Ram
Lemon yellow
Macaroni and Cheese
Neon Carrot
Outer Space
Pe... more »
Give the people a living wage
Alec MacGillis asks a good question:
Liberals have spent years now agonizing over why it is that many
working-class white Americans vote for the party whose policies on taxes,
organized labor and much more work against their own economic interests—the
"What's the matter with Kansas" problem. Well, here is an issue where
lower-income people who vote Republican are quite clear about what's in
their own interest—that is, they state a preference at direct odds with
their party's line. Maybe it would be a good idea for Democrats to try to
peel them away by actually talking up that issue... more »
film - ryan gosling - the place beyond the pines
I'm not going to give ANYTHING away, I'm just simply gonna say, "This film
is something *really fucking special*."
And while it was a looooong-ish film, at two hours fifteen running time, I
still wouldn't have minded some of the missing scenes in the Extras to have
been included. They fleshed out what was (at times) a sometimes-sporadic
character-stalking narrative.
Big bonus on the disc, the Victorian TWIX advert with its 'sharing an *
ill-designed* driveway' was there in all its full-length splendour. Yay!
Second suspect identified in beating death of WWII vet Delbert Belton...
*he'll be in custody before the end of day (IMO)*
*Good job, Spokane police. *
SPOKANE, Wash. -
Spokane Police have identified the second suspect in the beating death of
WWII veteran Delbert Belton as Kenan Adams-Kinard.
Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, is identified as a black male, 5'10", 174 pounds
with black hair and brown eyes.
The other suspect in Belton's murder, 16-year-old Demetrius Glenn, was
arrested Thursday night. He is being held in juvenile detention and will be
charged as an adult on counts of First Degree Murder and First Degree
Robbery.
Dear Ban Ki-moon: Go Fuck Yourself!
*Related: Ban Ki-moon: Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself.*
*Ban Ki-moon: Fuck you and your false accusations against Syria. They won't
stick, you piece of shit.*
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*State officials, flood authority continue their very public spat over oil,
gas lawsuit ~Bob MArshall, The Lens*
*"Proposed" St. John the Baptist levee would lower risk from surge in
100-year storms ~Mark Schleifstein*
*River Interests Want Deeper Dredging To Accommodate More Vessels ~WWNO*
Justice and Justices of the Peace
From the current edition of the Law Times, an Ontario newspaper for the
legal profession:
Judges and justices of the peace have their remuneration determined in a
peculiar way. Contract negotiations are forbidden and the government is
not permitted merely to establish a pay scale by fiat. Instead, a
commission is established to consider what is fair and reasonable and,
after hearing from witnesses and reading submissions, that commission
recommends a compensation package. The idea is that an independent body is
responsible for what judicial officers get paid.
The next commis... more »
Do appeals need transcripts? Courts say yes!
Most appeals do not really need the transcripts; the appeal is argued and
the dusty red books of transcripts remain unopened. This is especially
true in civil cases. The appeal is based on what the court of first
instance said and not much more.
All that said, appeals are generally not heard unless the transcripts have
been provided. *Ocean v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company*, 2013 NSCA
90 is a good source for the view that an appeal (absent remarkable
circumstances) cannot go ahead without transcripts:
[11] The compelling reasons for the need of t... more »
You Say Let's Talk Severance/Your Employer Hears I Quit (Or, Employees Are From Pluto, Employers Are From Uranus)
As sometimes happens when you've been practicing as long as I have (hint -
I may have had a pet with a name ending in -saurus), you find yourself
chatting with an opposing counsel with whom you've had many encounters over
the years. These conversations can sometimes lead to some frank exchanges.
I had one of these conversations a few days ago.
The topic was what it means when an employee says they want to talk about a
severance package. He insisted it meant the employee had resigned. I hear
this all the time from management-side lawyers, and I understand where
they're coming from.
... more »
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*Scott Fujita added to 'Saints On 6' primetime team ~WDSU*
Nazis and Communists an alliance of the like-minded
Lest we forget, today is the 74th anniversary of the signing of the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Russian communist state and the German
Nazi state. There are some who claim that this was just a non-aggression
pact, it was much more than that. The treaty also included a protocol that
divided the various territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia and Finland into Nazi and Soviet "spheres of influence",
anticipating the potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of
these countries.
The Russian Communists were happy to have a pact with Nazi Germany, to d... more »
Miles de imágenes gratis para ver, disfrutar y compartir.
[image: Imagenes, Fotos y Postales gratis el día del Amor y la Amistad -
San Valentín - 14 de Febrero][image: Colección especial de fotos de gatos,
mininos y gatitos - Cats and Kittens] [image: Colección especial de fotos
de perros, cachorros y perritos - Dogs and Puppies] [image: Colección
especial de fotos de caballos, yeguas y potros - Horses][image: Amaneceres
y Puestas de Sol - Sunset] [image: Tigres de bengala y tigres siberianos -
Tigers] [image: Fotografías de ríos cruzando por los bosques, selvas,
montañas y planicies. - Rivers][image: Portaretratos, marcos y frames psd y
p... more »
Still thinking
The following can be regarded as a pair of ethics toolboxes for designing a
life. I'm still not clear on how to merge them into one, so this is
practically a repost. If you've seen it all before, think of me as my own
target audience, thinking out loud.
The first is derived from Buddhism. I find its core survives Occam's razor.
Its basics are: four truths. And: eight ways for those truths to be
manifested in your life.
Truth one: it's rough out there.
Truth two: it's rough because we (whether ourselves or others) want things
to be different than they are.
Truth three: Not much w... more »
Conservative Bias at the BBC
The BBC is beholden to an agenda that is anti-British, pro-union, and
left-wing. Or so the argument goes. Thing is, there's no evidence for it.
Back in November, I had a bit of fun asking if the BBC's *Question Time*was biased.
This little study, based on the political allegiances of guests appearing
on the programme between December 2008 and November 2012 found there was
bias - the number of rightwing panelists outweighed guests from the left.
Now a group of academics at Cardiff University have performed a wider
content analysis. Funded by the BBC itself, it wanted to know how impar... more »
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That's it George, Israel is always to blame
Thanks to Guido Fawkes I learn that George Galloway has been blaming Israel
again
At least George Galloway is consistent in his hatred of Israel and
adoration of Arab tyrants.
The Economy: “CRASH ALERT!”
* *
*“CRASH ALERT!”*
by Bill Bonner
“Our operating hunch is that US stocks, Treasurys and gold have all turned
over recent months. After 33 years of falling, Treasury yields are now
climbing higher... After two years of correcting, gold prices are rising
again.... And after 4 years… or 12 years… or 31 years of rising prices,
depending on how you count it, US stocks are starting to look vulnerable to
a real setback. It’s still summertime. We don’t expect much action in the
next few days. But already, kids are going back to school and parents are
getting back to work. And pretty so... more »
And... They're Off! Congressional Candidates Are Vacuuming Up Contributions And Corporate Bribes For The 2014 Elections
Electing rich Republicans and New Dems won't help-- quite the contrary
Recently I asked a very plausible candidate running for Congress why the
DCCC wasn't helping him raise money. He told me that they wanted him to
raise $500,000 by himself first and that then they'd revisit the
discussion. Do you know enough people in raise $500,000 to run for
Congress? It seems like a barrier for ordinary citizens, especially working
and middle class ones, don't you think? Earlier this week, *The Hill* broke
a story, widely reported everywhere, about the richest Members of Congress.
Some of them a... more »
A politician at work - Wiesbaden, western Germany
*Volker Bouffier, state premier of the western federal state of Hesse and
top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for regional elections,
fixes an election poster with his own image in Wiesbaden, western Germany.*
Looks like he is combing his hair.
The Big Lies of History
In this video I explain the Big Lies of History: the official narrative of
9/11 and WWII. I also explain why I think most people simply cannot
objectively investigate what we have been told about these events.
*John Friend's TruTube.TV Channel*
Greenpeace: A very interesting picture - Warsaw Poland
*A Greenpeace activist dressed as an oil company worker pours oil on other
activists during a protest in Warsaw, Poland, against oil search drilling
in the Arctic Sea.*
The picture says it all. There is a need to raise awareness about the
fossil fuels and its impact on the environment.
What the heck is a misquotation?
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013*
*Disputatious minds don’t want to know:* Maureen Dowd has generated quite a
few fake quotations down through the years.
Usually, she can at least explain where she was when the fake quotation
didn’t occur. In Wednesday’s column, she wasn’t even sure about that.
Did she talk to Bill de Blasio’s wife at the Good Times coffee shop, the
Good Stuff Diner or perhaps at the Good Vibrations tanning salon? Given
Dowd’s postmodernist lean, it’s very hard to be sure.
Still, we were surprised by commenters at several sites who disputed the
claim that Dowd had actuall... more »
Come walk with me
The ever-changing field near the river.
I have a 15-minute walk to work every morning. Today's was particularly
interesting, what with me stepping out the door and immediately getting
into a discussion with a neighbour about the swollen vulva of the wandering
young dog sleeping on our patio, which he told me meant she was in heat and
thus in need of one of the mystery injections they give dogs down here to
stop pregnancy. But every day's walk is interesting in its own way.
I make a point to say good morning to everyone I pass, having come to
see that gringos are in general not... more »
Catch of the Day
You probably read about that PPP poll result in which Louisiana Republicans
blamed Barack Obama for Katrina. Great fun for liberals! But do read Mark
Blumenthal and Ariel Edwards-Levy for a round up of coverage and their
analysis of the question, especially this:
The problem with this question should be obvious: It was asked only of
Republicans and offered just two choices: Bush, who was president at the
time and Obama, who was still a junior senator from Illinois. "If you ask
the vast majority of Louisiana Republicans to identify the leader most
responsible for the Katrina response... more »
Justin's Splif Slip
Time will tell but it was probably a bone-headed thing to do. Why did
Justin Trudeau volunteer that he had smoked pot recently? Did he think it
would make him look cool? Was he hoping to attract the youth vote?
I don't think it's going to work. A good many of us won't be bothered that
he apparently smoked a bit of pot as much as we will be put off by him
seeming to boast about it, to place himself in a spotlight of controversy.
"*I not only own the company, I'm a customer*." Okay for the Hair Club for
Men, not so good when you're vying to become prime minister.
This certainly... more »
Spokane's finest arrest 16 year old Demetrius Glenn for beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton...
*no doubt his POS buddy will be in custody by the end of the day.*
Exactly what I predicted this morning at the breakfast table. The Gang
Squad in Spokane knew exactly who these two vile animals were and where to
find them. * *
From *KHQ *in Spokane:
*BREAKING NEWS:* The 16-year-old arrested in the Delbert Belton case is
identified as Demetrius Glenn, he's facing 1st degree murder and robbery.
*BREAKING NEWS:* Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one
teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert
Belton. One suspect remains on the loose. Cha... more »
Friday Morning Linkage
Update on the international community’s reaction to events in Syria: Russia
calls on Assad to cooperate with the weapons inspectors. Says it has
evidence the attack was propagated by the opposition. Pressure building in
Washington and Europe to do something. Obama announces that the time frame
for U.S. action may have shortened. Kerry’s diplomatic efforts.
Congressional doves
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*Louisiana Attorney General's Office Rebukes John Barry in Levee Board
Lawsuit*
~What the AG's office says: *"Absolutely no representation was ever made by
Mr.Kanner that Mr. Barry’s suit was not detrimental to the state’s B.P.
litigation. It never happened." *
*What John Barry said*: *We have been told our suit may interfere with the
BP trial. Our attorney checked with the attorney representing the state and
was told our suit would not interfere. How could it? The BP trial will be
over long before our trial starts. And at Garret’s request we waited until
the first phase of the t... more »
CSEC spies on Canadians : watchdog report
While whistleblower Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have published
reports about the USA's NSA and UK's GCHQ joint electronic surveillance of
Brits and Americans, we've been pretty much in the dark in Canada about our
own government's surveillance of us.
An annual report tabled two days ago from the independent watchdog
commissioner for Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency* Communications
Security Establishment Canada* elicited the following timid headlines
repeated throughout yesterday's press coverage.
Post Media : Canadians may be victims of illicit spying
NaPo : Canada’... more »
ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY
- Housemate Karen told me this morning that my blog today ca only be
filled with good news. So here I go.
- Our friend Phui Yi from Malaysia arrived back here late last night
after a 25-hour trip from home for her summer vacation. She is a student
at nearby Bowdoin College and is a wonderful peace and justice activist.
Mary Beth helped her learn to drive during the last semester. This morning
we were joking about places with the craziest driving conditions and I
said my #1 in that category was Nagpur, India when at one intersection I
saw cars,... more »
Smoke, Shills and Shrillionaires
(Say three times fast.)
Well, knock me over with a Lucky Strike. Michael Bloomberg, lord mayor of
the fiefdom of New York, 10th richest American plutocrat, 20th wealthiest
man in the universe, is taking on the Transpacific Partnership (TPP). More
specifically, he is taking on President Obama's "cave" to Big Tobacco,
which is demanding the right to spread cancer and sell ciggies to kiddies
the wide world over. Under the new agreement, the tobacco cartel will be
granted the power to actually supersede local laws governing the sale of
its products.
In an op-ed published in today's *Ne... more »
Haslam, Bush, WGU, and McGraw-Hill
In 2002 Stephen Metcalf documented the financially incestuous relationship
between the Bush family and McGraw-Hill that resulted from a
long-established familial system of mutual back-scratching and
“cross-pollination and mutual admiration” between the the two fiefdoms.
Today that system of good ole boy corruption, cronyism, and corporate
welfare continues in State Houses and governors’ mansions around […]
RODEO CLOWNS: From Rush to Crump!
*FRIDAY,
AUGUST 23, 2013*
*Part 5—Good decent person gets hurt:* Rodeo clowns have been driving
the
right for at least thirty years now.
Let’s be clear on what we mean by that statement.
We don’t mean that the right has been driven by *actual* rodeo clowns—by
people like Tuffy Gessling, whose clown act two weeks ago led
*metaphorical*rodeo clowns to compare him to the Klan and the Westboro
Baptist Church.
We mean that the right has been driven by people who are *like* rodeo
clowns, although most actual rodeo clowns are probably much better
people.
For one example, consider what Rus... more »
It's Only a Matter of Time
When reports come out about computer hacking they tend to be either
espionage or a "denial of service" campaign by activists/radicals to take
down some corporate miscreant.
So far no one has been causing our chemical plants to explode or taking
down our electrical grid, not yet anyway. Perhaps hackers know they would
be hunted down like dogs or hostile nations know it would be an act of war
triggering uncontrollable consequences. But that doesn't mean it can't be
done. A recent article in the I.T. section of the *Brisbane Times* warns
that "Hacking is Way Too Easy."
*Hacking p... more »
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