Edmon Low Library at Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, the focal point of the campus. Photo taken April 22, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
Sunday again, and again time for my weekly rant.... I do feel that I have been neglecting this blog recently, due to my concentration on finishing this course material for my job.... With changes in technology, it was a decision between myself and my company that some enhancement was necessary to keep my job valid. I am right now about to finish the material and write the examination this coming week... It has been very grueling and very hard, and has taken me away from other business... Once this course is completed, I should be back to my normal blogging... In my absence these ... more »
Schools Matter Welcomes Doug Martin!
Doug Martin’s *Hoosier School Heist* will be published by Brooks Publications in December. Martin’s exposures of the corporate takeover of public education have appeared or been referenced in the *Washington Post Answer Sheet*, the Associated Press, *Diane Ravitch's Blog*, and other places. Martin holds a PhD in literary prosody and nineteenth-century American literature from Oklahoma State University. His first book, *A Study of Walt Whitman’s Mimetic Prosody: Free-Bound and Full-Circle*, was published by Edwin Mellon Press in 2004.
Two Authors that Medical Schools Avoid
And whose works should be part of the foundation for a rational and evidence-based medicine... By Denis G. Rancourt The two researchers and authors to which I refer are: the late Petr Skrabanek, and Richard G. Wilkinson In particular, I have in mind their remarkable books: Follies and Fallacies in Medicine (Skrabanek, with co-author McCormick) [1], and Unhealthy Societies - The Afflictions
Czech president talks about rodents in EU politics
Czech president Miloš Zeman gave an interview to the Financial Times, Czech president takes swipe at Europe’s ‘great mice’ and it's an example of the funny events that improve my mood (which was already pretty good to start with) – a part of the reasons why I voted for him in the presidential elections. The nominally center-left politician who is sometimes nicknamed "the badger"mentioned that there is a difference between personalities and persons. In the EU politics, there are lots of persons but almost no personalities. The persons are great mice, party apparatchiks. Zeman, a pro... more »
The public has spoken
It happened again. * * *Sunday Morning Live *put a question to its audience - "Do Muslim veils deepen divisions?" - and the audience gave 'the wrong answer'. Samira Ahmed said they'd had "a huge response". The result? 95% said 'yes, they do' and just 5% said 'no, they don't'. After the result was given, Samira read out four e-mails on the subject (which she'd presumably had handed to her, as she was too busy presenting the programme to have chosen them herself). They didn't reflect the result of the public vote. Two said 'yes' and two said 'no'.
Clinton
*Statement by Independent Counsel on Conclusions in Whitewater Investigation * Published: September 21, 2000 The independent counsel Robert W. Ray issued the following statement today on his office's six-year investigation of the Arkansas business dealings of President and Mrs. Clinton, including the Whitewater land deal. The headings were not in the original. This office has now concluded, with certain limited exceptions, its investigation of the matters commonly referred to as ''Madison Guaranty-Whitewater.'' At this time, it is appropriate, in the public interest and consis... more »
Working Out the Ethics of "Defence" at the London Arms Fair
"This is an industry that is concerned solely with profiting from death, and there's little time to scrutinise how many lives a bomb might end up destroying when there's payment to discuss." *September 23, 2013* - Vice Magazine (Uzi Gold) - Last week, Britain hosted a four-day get-together for the planet's preeminent weapons dealers. The DSEi arms fair, held in London's ExCel Centre, touts itself as a "world leading defence and security event" and sells just about anything you could ever need if you're in the business of launching expensive military interventions in collapsing s... more »
Kenya's " Mumbai " style attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi sees death toll rise to 68 ....Sunday updates - 68 deaths reported to date ....Kenyan and Israeli troops launch assault on alleged Somali rebels Robert A. @RobertAlai MILITARY SOURCE: Operation is ongoing and we hope that this will end tonight. #WestgateAttack 12:23 после полудня - 22 сентября 2013
Last Update: Sunday, 22 September 2013 KSA 21:09 - GMT 18:09 Death toll in Kenya mall siege rises to 68, says Red Cross Saturday, 21 September 2013 An injured Kenyan man arrives at Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi after the attack on Nairobi mall, September 21, 2013. (AFP) - - - - - - - Al Arabiya Kenya’s Red Cross said on Sunday that the death toll in siege in an upscale Nairobi shopping center has risen to 68. The gunmen remain inside with hostages nearly 24 hours after the attack was launched with grenades and assault rifles. Lenku said that there are 10 to... more »
Something about men in Dover
[image: New Scotland Yard sign] Following on from PJ Media's analysis of the BBC's coverage of the (still ongoing) siege in Nairobi (discussed earlier today), I see that something similar is happening with the latest breaking news story concerning Islamic terrorism... I spotted a Sky News headline a little while ago, which they are ranking as their third-most important-story. The headline couldn't be clearer: Terrorism Charges After Two Stopped At Dover And nor could the lede and nut graf: Two men have been charged with terrorism and firearms offences after being stopped in Dov... more »
Four Four Jew
That other feature on *Sunday* deserves a post to itself, as it was quite interesting. Using David Cameron and Ed Miliband's statement that the use of the word 'Yid' by Spurs supporters isn't anti-Semitic as a peg, the BBC's Bob Walker went to *Four Four Jew*, a new exhibition at London's Jewish Museum charting the historical links between football and the UK's Jewish community. He talked to Jo Rosenthal, the exhibition's curator. She said the story ...began with the establishment of youth clubs by the settled, wealthy British Jewish elites in Britain who saw all of these work... more »
Apple's New Operating System iOS 7 Doesn't Give Jerusalem A Country
'Why I will not be upgrading to iOS 7 and why my next phone will not be an iPhone-I have no desire to support an anti-Israel enterprise. Do you?' Full story here http://yidwithlid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/anti-israel-apples-new-operating-system.html
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Just got home from the hospital. Had a mini stroke, but am doing fine. Will be moving downstairs next weekend, so no blog post until October 5. Hope to see you all, then.
Sunday Sunday
It's a bit late today, and I know you've all been waiting with baited breath, so... This morning's *Sunday *began with the massacre in Kenya, concentrating on al-Shabab - who are they and what they want - with the BBC's guy there [and rather him than me], Mark Doyle. Guest presenter Shelagh Fogarty then talked to Labour's Stephen Timms about the Labour Party and faith. He thinks there's something of a left-wing tendency among believers in the UK - unlike in the USA - which could work to Labour's advantage. This follows last week's interview with Lib Dem minister Steve Webb about ... more »
Made in the USA : Tim Hudak
Teahadist Tim Hudak, former Walmart manager and leader of the Ontario PC Con Party since 2009, doesn't much care for the term "right-to-work" laws, preferring instead "worker's choice reforms". Well, OK then - Workers' choice of the right to work for less money, reducing wages for union and non-union workers alike and pitting worker against worker. On Friday, LauraK went to hear Chris Hedges in Toronto and provides an excellent overview of his talk on Syria, Chelsea Manning, the surveillance state, corporate and media ownership, the liberal class, and organized labour. Laura's p...more »
Stephen Harper: Parliament Pro-rogued
I did the following picture in January 2010. He won 2011 elections and pro-rogueing has become the norm. I thought I will post this picture again as it conveys Stephen Harper's modus operandi quite well.
Sunday Classics: Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and the woman who understood the birds' song
*Elizabeth Futral does her best at singing while she histrionicizes Nedda's recitative and Balatella. The chunk of recitative below, the first of three, occupies the first 57 seconds of the clip.* *(1) "Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!"* How his eyes did blaze! I turned mine away for fear he should read my secret thought! Oh, if he should catch me, brutal as he is! But enough, these are frightening nightmares and silly fancies! *Claudia Muzio (s). Edison, recorded Jan. 21, 1921* *Gabriella Tucci (s), Nedda; Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, cond.... more »
RIP: I remember the middle class
Once the people worked hard and prospered. Those days are gone. The middle class is disappearing like free snacks at happy hour now. So for your Sunday reading, a good review of how we got to our current dismal state of "everything is all fucked up and bullshit." When I was growing up, it was assumed that America’s shared prosperity was the natural endpoint of our economy’s development, that capitalism had produced the workers paradise to which Communism unsuccessfully aspired. Now, with the perspective of 40 years, it’s obvious that the nonstop economic expansion that lasted from ... more »
“Do You Have Any Idea What $50 TRILLION Looks Like?!”
*“Do You Have Any Idea What $50 TRILLION Looks Like?!”* By David DeGraw “Comedian Lee Camp was inspired enough by our latest commentary on the state of our economy to feature it in his new Moment of Clarity video. Apparently only comedians seem to understand the mind-blowing absurdity of US millionaires having $50 TRILLION in wealth, while we also have a record number of people living in poverty. Russell Brand has been riffing on that stunning fact on his Messiah Complex tour, and now Lee Camp throws some fuel on the fire and also rips on this “crime against humanity.” $50 TRI... more »
German Election preview - German lethargic about major issues of the day - such as NSA spying , War in Syria , true state of affairs with perpetual bailout union aka Eurozone ? While Merkel seems likely to win a third term but the wildcard remains what happens with FDP , what happens with AFD ? Will the SPD / Greens / Left Party outpoll Merkel's governing Coalition ? Opinion polls on Sunday show the race is on a knife's edge !
Germans seem totally living in La La land regarding the major issues of the day - sadly , this would augur well for Merkel.... http://rt.com/op-edge/germany-election-euro-party-181/ Ahead of the parliamentary vote, Germans seem to be totally uninterested in major issues, like the NSA scandal or war in Syria, and talk more about things like Angela Merkel’s necklace, says Christian Schmidt from the anti-euro party. “*That is baffling everybody around,*” none of important issues have surfaced during the pre-election campaign, Dr. Christian Schmidt, deputy head of the Berlin branch ... more »
Better Life Thru Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
Got out of the house and away from the computer for a bit, the last couple of weeks- and I was amazed at what I've repeatedly heard and thought I would expound on it a bit. Did you know that 70% of Americans take at least one pharmaceutical per day? This absolutely astounds me. When I was little I lived on a farm - we were dirt poor - farm dirt poor. We had an outhouse, brought our water to use in the house from a pump out by the barn - heated our water for use in a special container that was built onto the wood stove we used for cooking. People died every year when I was a kid - ... more »
Heavenletter #4684 Receiving God's LoveSeptember 21, 2013
*Heavenletter #4684 Receiving God's Love , September 21, 2013* God said: Love from Me is not accidental, nor is it occasional. It is a given. At every moment, I am sending you love. At every moment you receive it, whatever you are aware of or not. Close your beautiful eyes, and feel your receiving love from Me, God, the One and Only. Of course, I am within you, and that makes us One, One of Love, One of All. Oneness is Totality, Wholeness, All That Is. Oneness is All, All as One. Reach out to Me, and you are reaching out to yourself. What more is there to say? Why clutter up s... more »
EU demands Israel explain seizure of Palestinian aid - and they should demand answers for why concussive grenades were hurled at their Diplomats and why their Diplomats were literally manhandled !
Last Update: Sunday, 22 September 2013 KSA 15:41 - GMT 12:41 EU demands Israel explain seizure of Palestinian aid Sunday, 22 September 2013 French diplomat Marion Castaing lays on the ground after Israeli soldiers carried her out of her truck. (Reuters) - - - - - - - Al Arabiya Israel has been asked by top European Union officials on Saturday to explain why its soldiers seized a truckload of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians. On Friday, Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats and seized emergency aid that was intended to be delivered to Pal... more »
Fracking in New Brunswick: The scientist who recommended fracking in NB is a fake scientist
*Louis LaPierre of Dieppe, N.B., is invested as Member * *to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, * *November 2012. Louis LaPierre has admitted he falsely * *claimed to have a doctorate in environmental science. * *(CP/Fred Chartrand)* Fracking in New Brunswick is quite controversial. However, the scientist Louis LaPierre, who gave "go to" for fracking in NB, turned out to be a fake scientist. He is known now the "go to" scientist. *"Surprising revelations over the credentials of academic Louis LaPierre * ** *For decades, a prominent New Brunswick academic, was the ... more »
No Vision
What does the opposition stand for? Free pot (maybe)? The environment? (Elizabeth May will need more friends then.) We're supposed to vote without knowing anything.
Consumers face bill for power stations to be mothballed amid blackout fears - Telegraph
There's an odd line in this Telegraph report http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10325749/Consumers-face-bill-for-power-stations-to-be-mothballed-amid-blackout-fears.html 'Critics of wind power said turbines were flawed because they do not generate electricity when there is little wind,' Does that mean that supporters of wind power believe that wind turbines generate electricity when there's little wind?
Your moment of Zen
Happy autumnal equinox. The caterpillar prepares for metamorphosis in Maeve's magic garden.
Seismic Shift?
Some pundits claimed the 2011 election was a political earthquake. John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker asserted that it was a *Big Shift*. Peter C. Newman claimed that it marked the death of the Liberal Party. Andrew Cohen isn't so sure. Canada may, he writes, be reverting to its old three party system -- with the NDP as the third party: Looking at polls, you could think we have returned to the way things were in Canada before we elected a multi-party Parliament in 1993, when the Reform Party and the Bloc Québécois erupted as regional powers. Now we have become essentially a three-... more »
Our World and violence
Yesterday I was looking at the headlines from around the world. It looks there is violence and killings everywhere. What kind of world we live in? We are supposed to have progressed but it looks centuries ago lot fewer people could be killed when bow and arrow, and swords were the major weapons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Armed siege at Kenya shopping mall enters second day; 59 dead* Gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in a brazen midday attack . By Alastair Jamieson, Patrick Garrity and Simon Moya-Smith, NBC News An armed hostage siege at ... more »
The Grubby Politics Of The Vote To Shut Down The Government-- Fundraising And Hypocrisy
DCCC faves McIntyre & Matheson both voted to shut down the government I'm sure you already know that on Friday, Boehner surrendered to the Tea Party nihilists and the deranged Ted Cruz faction of his party and passed a bill that would shut down the government unless the Senate and Obama agree to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It passed 230-189. Despite teeth gnashing by Republicans in swing districts who need independent voters for reelection-- especially loud from Peter King (R-NY) and Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA)-- only one Republican crossed the aisle and voted with the Democrats, ... more »
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Women and the residential fellowship: a few thoughts
In my email inbox last week was a notification of a fellowship opportunity. Since I have a sabbatical coming up shortly—okay, in a couple of years, but time flies, right?—I eagerly skimmed the details. It’s a fellowship squarely in my field. The funding is pretty generous, probably enough to help me buy out some extra Continue reading
Time for a new Icon
I need to lose weight... but it's what I look like in 2013.
Jesse Jackson Jr. Knows Who His Daddy Is
JJJ on MLK - "I Stand Before You Here, The Inheritor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Spike1138 on Vimeo. "As regards the allegations [concerning] The Reverend.... ...he will have to defend himself." - Jesse Jackson Jr. on the 2000 Dept. of Justice report commissioned in the wake of the Guilty verdict in King Family vs. Jowers et al. (1999)., for the purpose of clearing "SCLC Minister" and "Memphis Minister" as accessories to Murder, April 4th, 1968
Just like that!
OK, a little light relief is needed, courtesy of Tommy Cooper. *A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says: "Pint please, and one for the road."* *A dyslexic man walks into a bra.* *A sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says "Sorry we don't serve food in here."* *A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."*
The Nairobi terrorist attack
CNN breaking news last night: 'Al-Shabaab tweets that all Muslims were escorted out of Nairobi mall before violence, says it won't negotiate.' Racist terrorist murderers? No, the BBC prefer to describe them thus 'The Somali militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.' The BBC just disgust me more each day. Latest figures for this latest Islamist terrorist atrocity is that Thirty-nine people are dead and 293 have been treated at area hospitals.
I see the BBC are desperately spinning on behalf of Ed Miliband this morning
The BBC happily report without any querying that '*Ed Miliband 'urged Brown to sack Damian McBride'* Ed Miliband says he urged Gordon Brown to sack Damian McBride over concerns the spin doctor was briefing against senior Labour colleagues. Mr McBride, who worked for Mr Brown, admits in a new book that he leaked stories to smear the ex-PM's opponents. Mr Miliband - who worked with Mr McBride at the Treasury - said he had been "worried" about his activities. And he had urged Mr Brown to get rid of the spin doctor, the Labour leader said in an interview with Andrew Marr.' Really... more »
Deliberately obscure BBC reporting about Kenya?
The conservative PJ Media website has posted a blistering hatchet-job on the BBC News website's reporting of the massacre in Kenya. The author admits he's frozen a moment in an ever-shifting news stream, analysing a single variant of repeatedly updated report - and you can see all the variations in this article at NewsSniffer - but he spells out his evidence that the version of the BBC article in question is, at best, badly-written and, at worst, deliberately obscure and misleading. The claim being made is that the BBC deliberately misreported these attacks by using an obscure a... more »
NSA / surveillance updates - Snowden leaks allow NSA critics to contest government surveillance lawsuits ...RSA warns of NSA link to encryption formula..... Brazil seeks to extricate the internet from US control ....FBI domestic spying - out of control ?
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/323793-snowden-leaks-help-nsa-critics-in-legal-fights Snowden leaks help NSA critics in government surveillance lawsuits For years, the government has successfully suppressed lawsuits by civil liberties groups challenging the constitutionality of its surveillance programs. But the leaks by Edward Snowden have eroded the government's key legal defense and could mean that questions over whether the National Security Agency is breaking the law will be decided in open court. "No matter what you think of the lawfulness of these progra... more »
EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scam
First published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 ------------------------------ *"If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform." — Professor Diane Ravitch* *"However, within this market, competition exists in several forms" — (Alliance CRPS Corporation's Business Plan, 2010 p.9)* [image: Alliance College]Over a decade ago Republican venture capitalist Richard "Dick" Riordan joined forces with other profit-hungry businessmen a... more »
A tale of two nations and two different maladjustments / economic perversions - first in the US , a look at how the food stamp program has devolved ( as discussed , perversion include excess food stamp selling at the end of the month , as well as JP Morgan handling / profiting from the food stamp program - profiting from the pain and misery of those less fortunate ) ... second , the economic maladjustment of China rapidly growing ghost cities......Both maladjustments reflect and expose deep maladies in both societies and the consequences for both nations are far reaching and profound !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-21/food-stamp-nation Food Stamp Nation [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2013 21:20 -0400 inShare2 From the art of selling excess food stamp dollars at the end of each month, to JP Morgan profiting from the program as a line of business, Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger introduces the following micro-documentary on the rise of our food stamp nation. Produced by Future Money Trends, this video covers it all , *exposing the dismal and far-reaching consequences to society.* Here are three recent popular pos... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver report - September 19 , 2013 - Data , News and Views touching on the precious metals ....
Catharsis Ours - 11 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/who-leaked-the-fomc-statement-to-gold-traders ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER The HFT sell off in gold in early Far East trading came to an end at 10 a.m. Hong Kong time. From there it rallied until shortly after the London open, before selling off gently until noon in New York. From that point it developed a positive bias that accelerated as the FOMC announcement approached. And then a minute or two before the actual announcement was made, the gold price blasted off, reaching an interim high about fifteen minutes later. From there it traded s... more »
EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation’s big scam
First published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 “If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.” — Professor Diane Ravitch “However, within this market, competition exists in several […]
CIA ATTACKS MALL SHOPPERS?
On 21 September 2013, an upscale mall (photo above) became a war zone in Kenya. This mall attack is partly about oil, oil pipelines, naval bases and the US struggle against China. *Samantha Lewthwaite is linked to the London Tube Bombings of 2005, and to a bombing campaign against tourist hotels in Kenya. Her father was a soldier in the UK military. **SAMANTHA OF MI6?* Mossad, the CIA and MI6 are heavily involved in Kenya. Kenya has become friendly with China. A few years ago, the Chinese defence minister agreed to modernise Kenya's armed forces. (The sound of silence) Chi... more »
IPCC AR5 WG1: preemptive indoctrination
*Alarmist journalists already know how everyone will react and should react to an unknown report* The almost final draft of the IPCC AR5 WG1 [physical basis] report will be handed to politicians tomorrow in Stockholm. It's my understanding that minor details may still change in the text, under the political pressure. Their summary for policymakers will be out on Friday and the whole report will be out on the immediately following Monday. These documents have leaked – I don't have the final copies! – so many journalists already know what's inside. Despite claims that the document wi... more »
Trinational protest at Mexican Consulate in solidarity with CNTE
Protesting education neoliberalism across borders. En solidaridad con Los maestros de Mexico! #lausd pic.twitter.com/t8sunJeLP6 — Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) September 21, 2013 On Friday, September 20, 2013 the Trinational Coalition To Defend Public Education organized a demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Mexico to protest the repression of the Mexican teachers and attempts to privatize public education in Mexico. *My tumblr photoset of the protest* Trinational posted some photos on their facebook page ... more »
2010 nine years after 9/11 - 900 First Responders are dead - CANCER CANCER CANCER
This news report from RT in 2010 puts former Soviet nuclear intelligence officer Dmitri Khalezov's deep-underground-nuked *World Trade Center* story CENTRE PAGE, "Cancers among first responders, after ten years," is how he put it. *Nine hundred 9/11 heroes have died since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Thousands of others are suffering from various cancers believed to have been caused by toxins at Ground Zero. The US federal government has failed, thus far, to pass 9/11 health legislation that would assist 9/11 responders with medical care.* [source RT 2010]
Terrorism returns to Kenya
The latest, sickening atrocity by Islamic terrorists looks as if it's comparable to the depraved attacks in Mumbai in 2008. A hostage situation is still going on, following the targeted murder of dozens of innocent people in a busy shopping centre in Nairobi - the victims (including children and elderly people) selected simply for being non-Muslim. The confusion in some of the reporting as events unfolded yesterday is entirely understandable. It hardly needs saying that it takes time for journalists to get a handle on a massacre as it's happening, and that fresh details keep emer... more »
British Columbia Media, Blinded By Science, Or Stupidity Pills?
*Written by Grant G* I really didn`t think it was possible but since the election of Christy Clark our media has become even more stoogier.. Perhaps Smyth, Palmer and Sean Leslie believe it`s trendy and neato to be a ditxy dummo like like Christy Clark, I mean really, how many Adrian Dix articles must one endure, let us be clear, very clear, Adrian Dix has been a dead duck since the election, it wasn`t a matter of if but when, Vaughn Palmer threw a hail Mary pass to save Adrian, ...Michael Smyth has been blathering about the election loss since that fateful day.. I wonder why the... more »
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*The Wisner hearing - LSU weighs in ~American Zombie * The Wisner hearing - LSU weighs in The Wisner hearing - LSU weighs in
Towing 2: Confiscating Motorcycles
Towing "illegally parked" cars, motorcycles and other vehicles, impound them to a certain area and release them after payment of penalty -- I think P500 or P1,000 for motorcycles and P1,500 for cars -- is among the revenue sources of certain local government units (LGUs) as being done by almost all cities in Metro Manila. Last Friday afternoon, around 3:25pm at the back of Skyland Tower, in front of Tiara Oriental Hotel, Malugay St., Makati, a man briefly left his motorcycle here to buy fishball or what. I don't think it was "illegally parked" as there were two other vehicles on tha... more »
America Aims To Prop Up Fictitious Syrian Army (FSA), While Still Backing Al-Qaeda Terrorists
*Fact: Obama never assassinated Osama.* America's Syria policy is in shambles, and for good reason. Washington has done nothing constructive or positive. America is not fighting for anything in Syria, it is simply exporting terror and chaos. Since the start of its media war against Assad, Washington has financed and armed culturally and socially backward terrorist groups like al-Qaeda who harbor racist and religious hatred for Christians, Kurds, Shiites, Jews, and other minorities. The shameless Western mass media has tried in vain to black out America's covert support for al-Q... more »
Road to Disarmament: Syria hands over toxic arsenal info to intl agency
Syria just committed the biggest error of the war. Assad should have never listened to the Russians. Israel won't listen to America, as Syria listened to Russia. Just watch. When international pressure is put on Israel and America to hand over Israel's WMDs to international regulators, Israel will tell the world to go to hell. Israel knows what survival means. Syria and Iran should follow Israel's path and tell the IAEA to go to hell. If these regimes want to survive, telling the IAEA to go to hell is the first and most important step. Road to Disarmament: Syria hands over toxic ... more »
Skydiving Experience
Watching the video, pre-jumpOur office was at lunch a few weeks back and someone brought up skydiving. Several at the table expressed an interest in going, so I called and set up a date and time for two weeks later. I figured, if we did not set it up, it would never happen, and if it was too far off, people would chicken out and not go. So, it was scheduled at Skydive Tecumseh for a Sunday in September. It ended up being myself, Lauren from the office and Jennifer (Kory's girlfriend). We were scheduled to show up at 1145 to start our journey. Got a call that morning from the... more »
A few quick notes
Today I have just a few quick notes to make... *First*, some of you may have already seen *this story*, but I'd like to highlight it here. What an absolute disgrace - "freedom" and "equality" in America means being free to be a pervert and sexual deviant, and have your behavior and "lifestyle" elevated and glorified by the Jewish-controlled mass media. I hope parents are paying attention. Is this acceptable to you? *Yahoo News* reports: In what is being described as the first known event of its kind, *a transgendered teen was named as her high school’s homecoming queen* on Friday.... more »
American Indians: Protect Treaty Territory from White Supremacists in Leith, North Dakota
Commander of National Socialist Movement arrives in Leith Lakotas ready to face off with white supremacists in Leith North Dakota By Brenda Norrell Censored News Updated all day Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 LIVESTREAM http://unitynd.com/unitynd-leith-rally-protest-live/ LEITH, North Dakota -- Lakotas from Standing Rock and the Dakotas arrived in Leith on a caravan to defend the town
Big Banks Ready for Next Bang-Up (Bail Out)? The Design for Being Poor in the Land of Plenty and What the Crazies Have In Mind for US
It's the weekend! Time for visiting all the lit venues for the latest on what's being written that's elucidating and fun (intellectually stimulating, anyway). I'm currently reading Bob Shacochis' latest world-shaker, with Pyncheon's and Leibovich's in the queue. I saw the one below earlier today and thought it deserved some serious comment as I've been wondering for years when someone would
America is a scoundrel. America is a deadbeat nation.
America has never been a friend of liberty. America is a scoundrel. America is a deadbeat nation. America backs al-Qaeda and Jihadist terrorism in Syria and around the world. May God's vengeance strike down this tyrannical and criminal nation and leave it exposed to disease, economic collapse, mass shootings, civil war, urban riots, infrastructure meltdown, and a thousand other evils under the sky.
America Is Betting Against The Kurds In Syria, Backs Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorist Groups
Related: *America And Her Allies Stand Opposed To Kurdish Aspirations For Statehood*. "It is clear in the civil war in Syria that the US backs the FSA. *Washington hopes that the fall of the Assad regime will allow the Syrian forces in the FSA to defeat the Gulf Arab militias who, by then, they hope, will have defeated the armed forces of the DUP. But this seems unlikely because the PKK is not just a strong national liberation movement and it is now firmly embedded in Kurdish society in the east and southeast of Turkey. *Indeed, it is possible that the PKK and DUP together may ... more »
TV Watch: Lessons from "the" phone call on last week's "Breaking Bad"
*by Ken* I hadn't planned to write about *Breaking Bad* again until the whole series was under our collective belts, but in a post prompted by last week's episode *The New Yorker*'s Emily Nussbaum, "That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night's *Breaking Bad*," has raised two large issues about the relationship between TV programs and TV audiences which I think deserve to be shared. *[Needless to say, a spoiler alert applies for anyone who hasn't seen last week's episode, "Ozymandias."]* Actually, the issue that interests me more isn't really raised as such in the piece. Emily N ... more »
Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown
*Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown* September 21, 2013 http://nationalreport.net/meltdown-washington-president-obama-reported-sedated-following-emotional-breakdown/ As is the case with many stories these days, I cannot prove the legitimacy of this story. However, I will say, if it were true I would not be in the least bit surprised. I personally believe Obama is a puppet (as all Presidents are) being controlled by many levels of power above the presidency. This assumption has yet to be proven, yet I feel the stage is now be... more »
Longest Walk 4 Photos: Ioway Powwow Kansas
. Longest Walk 4 near Topeka, Kansas, at powwow, late today, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Photos by long walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, thank you for sharing with Censored News! More of today's photos: Potawatomie honor Longest Walk 4 at Veteran's Powwow: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/photos-potawatomie-honor-long-walk-4-in.html
AUSTRALIA: THE NEW RIGHT AND THE END OF TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
For all the foibles and weaknesses of the previous Labor government, what with its leadership issues and struggles to govern with the help of the Greens and independents, at least the Australian people knew what was going on as the two sides of the media, Murdoch’s right-wing hard copy and online news resources on one side, and the centrist and left-of-centre Fairfax hard copy and online news resources and ABC media on the other side, gave a running commentary which the Labor government under both recent leaders were always willing to respond to. But it was the overwhelming ability... more »
Lesson Plans? I don’t need no stinkin’ lesson plans!
It’s Saturday, and I sit down to plan my lessons for the upcoming week. Fortunately, I don’t have a template to use, a place to upload them, or an administrator who even looks at my lesson plans. There is a modicum of dignity left for me as a teacher in that. Sadly, too many teachers […]
America And Her Allies Stand Opposed To Kurdish Aspirations For Statehood
Related: *America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Cease And Desist Your Unlawful Attacks Against The Kurds In Syria*. *"The role of the Obama administration in suppressing the long-running Kurdish uprising in Turkey is largely unknown.* But a few weeks ago a U.S. diplomat dropped an intriguing clue. *Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., Obama's ambassador to Turkey, revealed that the U.S. had secretly offered Turkey what was, in effect, a bin Laden-style assassination of the top leadership of the PKK* (Kurdistan Workers Party), the rebels who have been fighting the U.S.-equipped Turkish army ...more »
Extreme and Fringe... And Don't Forget Crazy
On Thursday Justin Amash (R-MI) told a crowd of libertarians at the Liberty Political Action Conference that Senators John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "are on the extreme fringes of American society in terms of their views on war.” Amash is correct about McCain and Graham but this week he voted to slash $40 billion from food stamps and also voted to hold hostage keeping the government open to ending Obamacare. That would be just as extreme and fringe as McCain and Graham. Yesterday Paul Krugman dubbed the whole lot of them, The Crazy Party. "In recent months, he wrote... more »
What Bernanke revealed by failing to follow through with the Federal Reserve's telegraphed taper messaging was put on display that five years after the financial calamity that began in 2008 and hit its most visible moments of turmoil in 2009 with Lehman Bros collapse and AIG last minute rescue - is the financial sphere is still on life support , still unable to handle even a modest withdrawal of the Fed's liquidity " heroin " ...... Like with any ponzi scheme , flow of cash into the scheme must continue or things fall apart ! Manipulation like we saw last week - not just the Fed's abrupt about face , but the PMs rapid rise post - Fed meeting announcement on Wed / TH and then the brutal beat down on Friday where 65 - 70 percent of the price gains were taken away ! And if JP Morgan ( or a Goldman ) recommends that their customers should buy gold - smart money ( or those with the blueprint from the PTBs ) are probably selling ...
What Bernanke Did [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2013 17:44 -0400 - Ben Bernanke - Ben Bernanke - Government Stimulus - Unemployment inShare1 What Ben Bernanke did by not Tapering was *expose the fragility of the US economy for all to see*. His actions, Mises Institute's Peter Klein explains in this brief clip, based on the premise that the US economy was not capable of sustaining any reduction in the $85 billion per month stimulus free-money, means once again "the economy is so dependent on artificial stimulation from the ce... more »
Achievement School District Responds
Jeremy Jones, one of the bristly, high-T clones of the Ahievement School District administration (see pics above and tell me which one is Jeremy), sent the following comment to my post yesterday on the ASD corporate corruptionism going on in Nashville and Memphis, as the poorest public schools are labeled "Priority" before being auctioned off to charter chain gang operators: It is incredibly misleading to say "corporate," "corporation" and "corporatize" when characterizing the changes happening in Memphis in the effort to move the bottom 5% of schools to the top 25% within five ye... more »
After lulling traders into a Taper assumption , Ben Bernanke pulls a fast one with NO Taper ( well , as you will see below , not quite a surprise to all as some gold trader (s) made a surprisingly good call just before the Fed announcement today ( or got a heads up ) ! Bottom line - carnage for gold and silver shorts , carnage for treasury shorts , carnage for USD longs , risk on for US equities ! There are no markets , just manipulations......
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-18/fomc-shocker-no-taper ( There are no markets , just manipulations... ) FOMC Shocker: No Taper - Full FOMC Statement Redline Comparison [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2013 14:01 -0400 inShare13 <iframe data-gapiattached="true" frameborder="0" hspace="0" id="I0_1379542376000" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I0_1379542376000" scrolling="no" src="https://apis.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=o&usegapi=1&size=medium&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnew...more »
West Attempts Syria Cover Up - Claims "Twitter Donations" Behind Rise of Al Qaeda
US "officials" claim combined treasuries of US, UK, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and others no match for "Twitter donations" in latest and most absurd attempt yet to cover up direct support for Al Qaeda in Syria. *September 22, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - In the latest, and perhaps most absurd attempt yet by the West to cover up direct aid, arms, and funding it has been sending to Al Qaeda throughout the duration of the Syrian conflict, the Washington Post now claims "Twitter donations" have somehow managed to outpace the collective resources of a 7 nation-plus axis w... more »
hedges: "when harper passes right-to-work, you must go on a massive general strike, or you're finished"
Last night, I heard author, journalist, and activist Chris Hedges speak at the Bloor Street United Church in Toronto, sponsored by the excellent *Canadian Dimension*. Hedges is a radical intellectual, in the Chomsky vein, also compassionate and fearless, in the mode of Howard Zinn. He touched on many subjects - and credited the work and thoughts of *many* others. I can only hope to impart a few snippets of the many threads Hedges wove. *"A seismic moment"* Hedges called the recent US debate on Syria a "seismic moment". The Obama administration pulled out all the familiar mechanisms... more »
This time he really means it
Or at least I hope Obama does: President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker’s office. Boehner told the president he was “disappointed” to hear his position, an aide said. “Given the long history of using debt limit increases to achieve bipartisan deficit reduction and economic reforms, the Speaker was disappointed but told the president that the two chambers of Congress will chart the path ahead. It was a brief call,” the aide said. Long histo...more »
America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Cease And Desist Your Unlawful Attacks Against The Kurds In Syria
*America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Hell awaits you if you do not cease and desist your support for al-Qaeda and your unlawful attacks against the Kurds in Syria. * Related: 1. *Kurds In Syria To U.S Ally Turkey: Stop Attacking Us And Stop Supporting Al-Qaeda*. 2. *Reports: U.S Ally Turkey Is Intervening Militarily In Syria On The Side of Al-Qaeda*. 3. *America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia Are Waging War On Kurds In Syria Via Al-Qaeda.* * * * *4. *America's Main Middle East Client Regimes, Turkey And Saudi Arabia, Are Using Al-Qaeda To Suppress Kurdish Rights In Syria.... more »
Concealed Handguns and Road Rage. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Two motorists, each with a concealed weapon permit. Add one portion of road rage. Stir.
Benghazi: The Scandal That Never Was
Yesterday we looked at an astonishing Rachel Maddow exposé on how money-grubbing right-wing operatives are using the "spectre" of ObamaCare to fleece the flock. Go back and look at that and image she was talking about how these scurrilous people are using "Benghazi" instead of "ObamaCare" to line their pockets with the cash of angry, frustrated dummies who spend too much time glued to Fox and Hate Talk Radio propaganda networks. The political brethren of those hucksters-- your Darrell Issas and Michele Bachmenn, Louie Gohmerts, John Micas and Steve Stockmen-- think they can conj... more »
The Rise of the Gullibillies
Today's hard Right draws an astonishing amount of electoral support from people who are simply too damned dumb to realize they're voting against their self-interest. This is especially true of the United States where the Red States, the heartland of Republican support, tend to have the poorest social outcomes - lifespan, health issues/obesity, education/illiteracy, poverty, violence and imprisonment, teen/unwed pregnancy, divorce, domestic abuse - the whole gamut. It's the Republican Red States that also garner the most from the federal government while contributing the least to ... more »
A Thousand Years of Blagging Politicians
Talking of Nick Clegg, the Lib Dems and plastic bags... The plastic bag was first invented in 1957, as a sandwich bag. By the 1970's it had already replaced the paper bag as our favourite way of carrying shopping. Radio 4's* More or Less *quoted Mr Clegg saying, "We all use plastic bags. I do. Everyone does. I think everybody feels that maybe we use *too many* plastic bags. You might use them for twenty minutes walking back from the shops, but they take a thousand years to degrade." Do they really? And what's the source of this 'thousand years' claim? To find out, Tim Harford tal... more »
No One Will Shed A Tear When The U.S. Dollar Collapses
"This is the United States of America, we’re not some banana republic. This is not a deadbeat nation. We don’t run out on our tab. We're the world's bedrock investment, the entire world looks to us to make sure the world economy is stable. We can’t just not pay our bills." - Con Artist Barack H. Obama. If America is the "world's bedrock investment" then the world is screwed. The world can do without this so-called "bedrock" called America. America can go to hell. The world does not need this collapsing bedrock. Humanity will be better without America as a bedrock. Humanity will pros... more »
Today With Pope Francis - Money Is the Root of All Evil.
Somebody, on the inside, is going to knock this guy off. He's telling way, way too much truth. But if the Pope is just too hard to take, you can always go back to this guy - he's not a pope, he's a Prophet. Like all these quacks, money is never the root of evil - provided you're sending it their way.
"Getcha Damn Hand Outta My Pocket!!"
The Navy Yard Raid - White House Down from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Here, we have a Jarhead in civvies letting off firecrackers practically on the Rose Garden lawn, for no good reason, around the exact time the FBI declared * "Case Close, the dead N*gger acted alone - just sprinkle some crack on him and lets get out of here." * And the manhunt was abruptly called off. There is historical precedent for this: * "Right after Malcolm greeted his audience with "As-salaam alaikum" (earning the return: "Wa-alaikum-salaam") someone in the 8th row shouted "Get your hand out of my pocket!". ... more »
Party Conference Watch 2013: The Liberal Democrats
I promised to monitor the *Today *programme's coverage of the party conferences this year to see if any evidence of bias emerges. The Greens came first. Next came the Liberal Democrats. Their conference began last *Saturday*, but that day's *Today* (14/9) didn't spend much time on it. The programme spent some two and a half minutes previewing the conference (from 7.12-7.14), though that discussion with chief political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue spent a good portion on that talking about a new government policy - the announcement of a five pence charge on plastic bags. Gary me...more »
Higher Dimensional Cosmics Permeate All Gaia Upgrade Grids
* * * * *Higher Dimensional Cosmics Permeate All Gaia Upgrade Grids* by ÉirePort Sentience of all Gaia Hue-manity increases dramatically during the 9-20 to 9-22 window, as Higher Dimensional Cosmics permeate all Gaia upgrade grids. Fore-movement of these Cosmics portends major consciousness upgrades in all Gaia participants, Hue-manity as well as humanity. Separation protocols, in place for centuries, have been dissolved and transcended as a result of these Higher Dimensional Cosmics. "Fear aligneds" are unable to maintain such, and fade from all dimensional viewpoints. Resistanc... more »
IAEA: Go To Hell.
The IAEA is dead. Let it go to hell. The world should reject this institution and the hypocrites who run it. "The members of the UN's nuclear agency have narrowly rejected an Arab-backed resolution calling on Israel to join a global treaty limiting nuclear arms." (*Source*).
Mike Duffy: Minimum punishment
He should walk in front of the Parliament with a sign: *"I am a thief I stole money from the taxpayers."*
With love from Mars
Mars Rover found an interesting shape on the Mars' surface. It is a heart shape.
Photos Potawatomie honor Long Walk 4 in Kansas
Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone. The Longest Walk 4 was honored at the Potawatomie's Veteran's Powwow in Mayetta, Kansas today, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Thanks for sharing photos with Censored News Photos of Long Walkers at Ioway Powwow in White Cloud, Kansas, the same day: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/longest-walk-4-
SHOOTERS: NAVAL YARD, SANDY HOOK, BATMAN CINEMA
"Operation Gladio never ended. It's still happening, right here in America." *Who really killed the Connecticut children?* The AR-15 gun was built for the US armed forces. The AR-15 gun was used by the Washington Naval Yard shooters, the Sandy Hook shooters and the Batman Cinema shooters. *http://www.mirror.co.uk/* *"Witnesses have been documented stating that evacuation drills were known to have been taking place at the Navy Yard in the lead-up to the September 16 2013 shooting event." * *Artifacts From the DC Navy Yard Shooting « Memory Hole / Navy Yard Shooting: Psyop, Loose ... more »
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*WhoDatDivas: The Girls in Black & Gold ~Steph Smith, Saints Revelution*
Navy gunMAN 13-for-13; Chicago gunMEN 0-13
Anything odd going on here? In the space of a few days, we had a "gunMAN" shoot and kill 13 people, and then a few days later in Chicago, home of Raum Emanual & Barack Obama, we had "gunMEN" shoot exactly the same amount of people? The odd thing isn't only the exact same number of 13, it's that the naval shooting was HARDER to kill people at because...ummm...it's a NAVAL base! But yet the naval gunMAN was 13-for-13 killing people. What a great shot! BUT...in the Chicago shooting with MULTIPLE gunMEN who, naturally, weren't caught, THEY WERE 0-13 killing people with their shots! So... more »
Argentina: Disappearing Paranormal UFOs
*Argentina: Disappearing Paranormal UFOs* *By Roberto Enrique Banchs UFO Press October 1977* [*Another gem from the October 1977 issue of UFO PRESS, courtesy ofAlejandro Agostinelli. Mr. Banchs needs no introduction – he is one of Argentina’s leading and most respected researchers, director of the Centro de Estudio de Fenómenos Aéreos Inusuales (CEFAI) and the author of Las Evidencias del Fenómeno OVNI (Buenos Aires, RAE, 1976) among other works. We are pleased to present Mr. Banch’s opinions on the subject – Scott Corrales*] It is well known that the extraterrestrial hypothesis (E... more »
Damian McBride and Westminster Bubblegum
Deary me. In the words of no lesser figure than Nigel Farage, "Godfrey Bloom has destroyed UKIP conference". Everyone in the media's talking about the self-styled "maverick" MEP after he called a roomful of women "sluts". And amateurish attempts by UKIP spinners to argue that it has a different meaning to "slag" which, in 21st century Britain, it clearly doesn't, is pitiful. While NF is smarting from "the Bloomster", the owner of Biteback Publishing must have been hoping the oh-so-coincidental publishing of Damian McBride's Downing Street memoir, *Power Trip*, would similarly dera... more »
Honest Reporting
*TrueToo, in the comments *at *CIF Watch,* recalled a truly remarkable piece of BBC reporting from 2006 by Frances Harrison. Frances was the BBC's Iran correspondent at the time and had a particularly unpleasant news story to report. The piece, entitled Where Holocaust denial is welcomed, was a powerful denunciation of the Ahmedinejad-fronted theocratic regime's courting of all manner of white supremacists and convicted Holocaust deniers at a notorious conference held in that year. Frances Harrison placed the Gordian knot of BBC 'impartiality' firmly at the forefront of her *Fr... more »
Kurds In Syria To U.S Ally Turkey: Stop Attacking Us And Stop Supporting Al-Qaeda
Related: *Reports: U.S Ally Turkey Is Intervening Militarily In Syria On The Side of Al-Qaeda*. Read *"YPG Warns Turkey Against Further Provocations"* by The Rojava Report, September 21, 2013: According to two separate reports in – found here and here - the General Command of the YPG has released an official warning to the Turkish State in which it calls on Turkey to cease hostilities against the YPG. Turkey has long been known to be backing al-Qaeda affiliated groups in Rojava such as the al-Nusra Front, which has been involved in heavy fighting with the YPG this summer. Howe... more »
Tandem novel - second draft - finished
my two-month writing project *TANDEM* *(a G3 whistleblower novel)* is finally complete. Second draft was treated to A LOT of restructuring, rewriting and reappraisal of the whole War World dynamic and came in at 68,500 words. It's a much better book than I thought it was going to be. Nice and nasty. And I got used to the cover design I put together early on in the book's journey to disc. Anyway, for those who don't know, or who missed the September 1st Prognosis II update when it was in the first-draft stage at 20,000 words, the Tandem-novel blog has been charting the progress of t... more »
'a possible terrorist attack'
The BBC report on the latest Islamist terrorist attrocity, this time in Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, includes these lines: 'A senior police officer originally said it was an attempted robbery but later called it a possible terrorist attack. The Somali militant group al-Shabab had threatened to strike the centre.' '...the Kenyan Secretary for the Interior Joseph ole Lenku said the security situation was "under control". He urged the public "not to speculate" about the nature of the attack, and said most people had been evacuated.' and further down the report this: 'Some of... more »
Killing Mother
Today while 350.org is sponsoring a day of protest in pursuit of their tepidly insipid policy to target the Keystone pipeline, it is worth reflecting on just how pointless their approach is. Many words have been written about the urgent need for far more drastic action than anything the big Green organizations propose (perhaps most notably by the ferocious author, Cory Morningstar), since after all most of them have corporate masters to appease. Below is embedded a film of less than an hour called *Climate Crimes*, which explores the hypocrisy and futility of pursuing so-called cl... more »
Big Energy Has All The Money It Needs To Buy Any Politician It Needs To-- In America And In California
Manchin According to Pulitzer Prize winner Barton Gellman, author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Cheney grabbed the Energy portfolio even before the Supreme Court halted the recount and handed the presidency to him and Bush. Since 1990, Big Energy has poured $445,583,154 directly into the campaign coffers of congressmen and congressional candidates-- $303,699,712 of it to Republicans. Last cycle alone, they spent over $60,000,000 on congressional campaigns and their top dozen bribees (just last year) were: *•* House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)- $1,326,916 *•* defeated Senate... more »
Diaperhedron can't match amplituhedron
*Has the amplituhedron sparked a revolution in physics?* Scott Aaronson wrote a satirical, condescending parody of the news stories about the amplituhedron called The Unitarihedron: The Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Computing I had to laugh because I found it somewhat funny – and because the "revolutionary tone" Nima chooses when he talks about his and Jaroslav Trnka's wonderful new insight is detectably stronger than the tone I would choose. At the end of this essay, I will explain why. But that's where my agreement with Scott Aaronson ends. He wrote about the unitarihedron, dia... more »
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What Mattered This Week?
There's a ton of stuff to choose from, isn't there? And the big ones, or at least the potential big ones, seem to be from the secondary headlines. I'll go with the Pope -- but I'll mention, too, carbon regulation and Iran. What didn't matter? I don't know about not mattering, but I'm certainly on the side of those who believe the House CR was a maneuver to avoid a government shutdown, not a step on the way to one. I guess we'll see. But as I said, there sure is a lot to talk about here. What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
HEADING HOME
- I'm on the Amtrak regional train heading back north to Boston. This train makes more stops but the seats are much roomier and more comfortable than on the more expensive express train. When I get to Boston I'll then hop on a bus back to Portland where MB will pick me up for the ride home. I hear that eggplant parmesan is on the menu for supper tonight at the Addams-Melman House. Perfect! - My talk last night at the Catholic Worker Mary House in NYC was quite stimulating. Lots of interaction with those in the audience. It was a mix o... more »
I applied to be on the DCPS Chancellor’s teacher cabinet. Should I hold my breath?
I whipped up and out some answers to a few essay questions to apply for a seat on Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s teacher cabinet. I’m copying my answers below. There are three answers pasted together, which is why it might read strangely. Will this get me on? I don’t know. I just wrote how I felt. […]
Chicago murders and cuts in food aid!
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013* *What bad reporting looks like:* Thirteen people were shot in a single incident in Chicago on Thursday night. Reading Monica Davey’s report in today’s New York Times, it occurred to us that this is what bad reporting looks like: DAVEY (9/21/13): The attack, which took place during a pickup basketball game, was the latest flare-up of street violence that has confounded city leaders. *Chicago had more than 500 homicides in 2012—more than any other city in the nation and about 80 more than New York, which has three times as many people. * Most of the vio... more »
Whistleblower: HSBC Still Laundering Money for Terrorists, Drug Cartels
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Big banks are apparently too big to jail, even when they bankroll terrorists and drug cartels, while regular people fill the prisons in the world’s largest drug population for mostly non-violent drug offenses.* Aaron Dykes As a former Anti-Money Laundering Officer at HSBC, Everett Stern was arguably never actually supposed to catch money laundering activity. Instead, with little training but an inclination to make a difference, Stern caught massive levels of fraud, and contacted CIA and FBI officials in the summer of 2010 t...more »
Republican Priorities
Last Wednesday, the *National Review*, the infamous right wing publication founded by the late William F. Buckley, quoted Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey as saying that Capitol aides “may be 33 years old now and not making a lot of money. But in a few years they can just go to K Street and make $500,000 a year. Meanwhile I’m stuck here making $172,000 a year.” This statement, which apparently was just tossed out by the NR's Jonathan Strong as a matter of fact, shows what a fundamental disconnect there is in the typical Republican mind. You may or may not remember Gingrey ... more »
Hysteria: Virginia Student Sent Home for Wearing Duck Dynasty T-shirt That “Implies Violence”
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Kimberly Paxton You know that the priorities are really messed up when we are being led off a cliff by the insane warmongers in Washington, when half the residents of the country can’t feed themselves without government assistance, where the middle class is dying a slow and painful death at the hands of deliberate saboteurs in our own government, and when kids need armed escorts to get to school safely in our inner cities, but the big line in the sand that gets a kid sent home from school is wearing a Duck Dynasty t-shirt. T... more »
Bashar Al-Assad, Russia and Chemical Weapons
Aid to Putin said that if Assad does not co-operate to handover chemical weapons then Russia may kick Assad's butts. *"Russia could abandon support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if it learnt that he was not committed to handing over control of his chemical weapons arsenal, the chief of staff for President Vladimir Putin suggested on Saturday."* Sergei Ivanov, chief of staff of the Presidential Administration. Read more here.
Man produces beer in his guts
It is an interesting story. An unusual illness. Drunk without drinking. *Having a beer gut took on a new meaning * *for a Texas man studied by U.S. researchers, * *who found that his overgrowth of yeast in his body * *was making him drunk because he was brewing * *beer from within. (Rick Rycroft/Associated Press* *"The man was found to have a blood alcohol level of .37, five times the legal limit in Texas. Medical staff assumed he was inebriated, but the man insisted he hadn’t had one drop of alcohol all day. They were also told he had spent the past five years with bouts of intoxicat... more »
Argentina: Humanoids in Santiago del Estero (1979)
*Argentina: Humanoids in Santiago del Estero (1979)* By Francisco Checchi UFO Press #11, April 1979 *[We have been fortunate to secure issues of Argentina’s UFO PRESS journal from the 1970s courtesy of journalist Alejandro Agostinelli, whose book Contactados we reviewed two years ago. I regret not having been able to include some of these amazing cases in “The Humanoid Conspiracy”, but I will nonetheless make them available to readers through Inexplicata. Our thanks to Mr. Agostinelli for sharing this information with us! – Scott Corrales]* During the first month of this year, t... more »
Audio: Canadian spy tries to entrap Kanesatake man
By Tom Fennario and Jorge Barrera APTN National News MONTREAL--An agent with Canada’s spy agency tried to entice a Kanesatake man to meet over “coffee” and discuss his recent trip to Greece before turning the conversation personal by bringing up the 1990 Oka Crisis, according to a recording of the phone conversation posted online. The recording offers a revealing snapshot of the tactics
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*Lawsuit seeks Garret Graves' correspondence with oil and gas industry ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *Jindal Administration says Hurricane Katrina may be culprit in brain-eating amoeba death of Louisiana boy ~NY Daily News* *Feds: Nagin Trial Delay Should Be No-Go ~Stephan Babcock, NOLA DEFENDER* *FEMA ordered to pay New Orleans $10 million for Katrina wages ~Amanda Becker, Reuters* *Shrimp import duty refused ~Jordan Blum* *A house moved to make way for the hospital complex finds new life in Mid City ~Karen Gadbois, The Lens* *Custom guitar tribute to Saints is rocker's wa... more »
Yet more evidence that #highered is as gutless as it comes
Can an animal survive without a gut? I mean, perhaps a zombie, leaching off its own filth to survive, part of a nameless, nearly faceless horde hunting for their next hunk of gray matter. Did I spoil your breakfast? In my hometown of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, a private and religious institution, is getting some attention […]
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