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Open Thread: High School Ends but Douchebaggery is Forever edition
Consider this an open thread with one focus: I need links to reputable
news or blog sites for candidates for the upcoming Asslowns of the Week
#95. It's not as if I lack the wits or the wherewithall to do this. After
nearly nine years of doing this shit, you *know *me better than that. It's
just that I cannot keep up with the seventy story tsunami of wingnuttery
that we've been seeing from the right wing in the exactly 60 hours since
the government shutdown started. In fact, with everything I've casually
seen on my own, from Mrs.JP, my tweeps on Twitter and elsewhere, it looks ... more »
Economy, Profit, Religion, Jobs - Your World Doesn't Work.
*world is mine - LOL*if you're looking at the screen going, "What dafuk you
talkin' about, Philbin?" then you're exactly where you need to be, you
cretin.
If you're looking at the screen going, "Mike, those
Corporate/Capitalist/Communist/Deist/Lie Mongering scum-fucks wouldn't know
a TRUTH if it ran them down, screamed to a halt, reversed, and ran them
over again, until their fucking brains ran out like bloody porridge," then
I agree with you.
What a spastic War World we live in where only a few enjoy the hard work of
the many - you're literally being shat on or bukkake'd on every ... more »
MESSAGE FROM MR. BLACK
When A Solution Comes*Written by: *Ray Davies
*Lyrics:*
Sung by Mr. Black in an attic somewhere in suburbia
When a solution comes,
It's gonna breathe right down on everyone.
When a solution comes
It's gonna cover up the clouds
And eclipse the sun
And black out a pale blue sky,
And everybody's gonna be terrified,
Because they're all going to feel the bite
And there's going to be a revolution
When a solution comes.
It won't take sides with anyone
Regardless of race or creed,
The whole wide world is gonna feel the squeeze.
The red, black, yellow and white
And even the Arabs and the Israeli... more »
Kristof gets the shutdown right!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013*
*But also, four ludicrous letters:* A lot of confusion surrounds the
discussion of the so-called government shutdown. Example:
As Gail Collins jokes her way through the topic today, do you understand
the highlighted point? Warning! Butch Otter joke:
COLLINS (10/3/13): So here we are. The Senate has passed a bill to keep the
government running until Nov. 15. A majority in the House would probably go
along, but the House leadership won’t let the bill come up for a vote. *The
fate of the nation now appears to be hinged on a couple dozen unhinged
House Repub... more »
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Peltier Tribunal Day 2 photos: Bill Means, Lakota, moderating the
Peltier Tribunal, with Tribunal Judge Shannon Rivers, Akimel O'odham
from Gila River, Arizona. Photo 2: Arizona State
Bill Clinton and the Unspeakable
*"As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast
Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway...
but it has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows..."*
*June 20, 1999 - President Clinton, Secretary Albright and National
Security Advisor Sandy Berger meet with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and
members of his delegation at Cologne’s Renaissance Hotel*
Suddenly, Yeltsin reached below his desk and produced a yellowing loose
leaf file of papers.
*"A gift, for my old friend, Bill...!"*
Clinton's eyes widened like saucers - *"Oh, I ca... more »
Still Shut Down and Out
Well,
wonder of wonders. The *New York Times* finally got around to
noticingthat the majority of poor people will be barred from getting
health
insurance under Obamacare. The exclusion, of course, is due to those
nasty,
red, mainly southern states opting out of Medicaid expansion, which the
Supreme Court obligingly allowed them to do at the same time it gave the
thumbs-up to taxpayer subsidization of the private insurance predators.
But
still, the numbers are downright shocking, worse than I imagined:
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of
Americans *will... more »
INVISIBLE CHILDREN: Ignoring the gap!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013*
*Part 3—“A gulf of more than ninety points:”* In her interesting book, The
Smartest Kids in the World, Amanda Ripley proposes two reforms for American
schools.
On the surface, each reform makes perfect sense. In many parts of our
complex society, her reforms likely *would* make good sense.
What are Ripley’s proposed reforms? First, Ripley thinks we’d have better
schools if we had better teachers—if our teachers had stronger academic
backgrounds and more extensive university training.
Also this: Ripley thinks our schools should display more academic “rig... more »
Gender and Inclusion in the Profession
The Monkey Cage has launched a symposium on the gender gap in academia.
Jane Mansbridge, Barbara Walter, Sara Mitchell, Lisa Martin, Ryan Powers,
Daniel Maliniak, Rick Wilson, Ashley Leeds, Beth Simmons, and David Lake
will explore a range of issues over the course of this week. I know that
this symposium will lead to a
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Secretary Duncan Answers Critics (An Alternate Universe Edition)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan—who has no experience in education
except through political appointments (and being a student himself)—has in
the last several months chastised newspaper editors and what Duncan has
labeled “armchair pundits” (who, for the record, tend to be k-12 public
school teachers, teacher educators, education historians, scholars, and
researchers; in other words, […]
Why We Need To Challenge Today's eBooks
Offered below are just three arguments that force us to question what we
publish today and what we should publish tomorrow. Individually, the
arguments may not pass the ‘so what?’ test, but taken together they should
ring alarm bells in every publishing building.
*Firstly*, we often assume we will see and understand change and
importantly be prepared for it. The reality is very different and change
today is not linear, nor is it predictable and in many cases it is
disruptive. The industrial giants of yesterday have been overtaken by
technology and networking companies who connect ... more »
Government Shutdown - Day Three ... CME hikes S%P 500 , Dow Jones and NASDAQ E- Mini Margins by 9 percent ( crash warning ) ...House Republicans plan to link debt limit and shutdown into one fiscal battle royal ....Overnite news and data from around the globe as the US Government shows no signs of quick resolution !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-03/cme-hikes-sp-500-dow-jones-nasdaq-e-mini-futures-9
( Setting up a market crash... )
CME Hikes S&P 500, Dow Jones, Nasdaq E-Mini Margins By 9%
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- NASDAQ
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Remember when the CME and the administration punished speculative gold
longs in 2011, and crude longs in 2012 by hiking or warning to hike margins
beyond the breaking point for levered holders of futures contracts? It
works for stocks as well. Last night, the CME may have taken Obam... more »
“Bankster Baseball”
*“Bankster Baseball”*
by John Titus
“The $700 billion TARP bailout passed on 10/3/08 despite the overwhelming
opposition of Americans. Since then, the cancer of moral hazard has
metastasized into U.S. law enforcement, which no longer applies to the
bankrupt frauds who got bailed out.
Using Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as a narrative
template, this video annihilates the outrageously and provably false claims
made by JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon before the U.S. Senate last year
that his bank didn't need the massive bailouts it got. It rather easily
shows that ch... more »
Will No One Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Reporter?
The man who has prorogued Parliament three times and skipped the UN General
Assembly the same number of times is offended by questions. The Canadian
Press reports that, when Harper was in New York last week -- thumbing his
nose at the UN -- a reporter for CTV crossed an invisible line:
During an event last week in New York, [Dave] Ellis asked Harper about the
charges laid against then-Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, even though
reporters and photographers had been told questions were not allowed.
The Prime Minister's Office then decreed that Mr. Ellis could not accompany
Mr. Ha... more »
ICC Victory over Immunity in Recent Clash with al-Bashir
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Andrew G. Reiter, Assistant
Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College] In 2009, the International
Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir on
charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur and
expanded those charges to include genocide in 2010. Yet
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More on LAUSD: Bond Money, Aquino, Broad, and (Again with) Pearson
Yesterday, I wrote a post on some of the conflicts of interest and obvious
profiteering posed by the involvement of Deasy, Apple, Pearson, and Gates
in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) iPad fiasco. In this
post, I examine more of the situation as I reflect upon issues raised
by the June 2013 Los Angeles Daily News article cited […]
Dell's Newest Spot tablets shun Windows RT system
*Dell has opted not to release a Windows RT device with its latest line-up
of tablets and laptops.* The US Company had been the last to support the
operating system other than its maker, Microsoft. Dell supposed the
software had failed to resonate with its clientele because it did not
support legacy software available to the full Windows 8 OS.
The firm is in the procedure of being taken over by a group led by its
originator, Michael Dell. He plans to stop its shares being widely traded
and refocus Dell's operations on business-targeted software and services
rather than consumer-fo... more »
Enbridge, A Gang Of Thugs, Liars And Environmental Criminals
(Kalamazoo river full of Enbridge`s spilled oil)
Enbridge are thugs, bullies, belligerent, and they don`t learn their
lesson...
As you know Enbridge is starting a new ad campaign, a campaign that goes
out of the way to NOT mention the name Enbridge, instead the ad campaign
features one-time Prince George resident, now executive vice president of
Enbridge Janet Holder, ..Janet Holder talks of the ocean as a playground,
the Orca whale is prominent too in the ad...
This morning on CKNW Janet Holder talked with Michael Smyth, Janet was
asked about the Enbridge name being omitted... more »
A Vehicle that runs on Water?
Last night Brian asked me to post this.... he pulled my hair any
everything. Very mean :>) lol!
The so called "New" technologies are appearing everywhere at the moment.
Heather, Nick and I have discussed many many of them and been watching the
articles coming out left right and centre. My research team and Nick'
Energy Work Room group have been putting together a huge amount of
information that is being brought forward, not just about supposed "New"
technologies, but also new science that is showing the basis of our own
internal eternal technologies.
Here is the big secret to la... more »
The BBC are at it again, trying to hid the fact that Gaza has a border with Egypt as well as Israel
I have previously blogged about the BBC's persistent attempts to hide the
fact that Gaza has a border with Egypt, indeed on 5 November 2012 I reportedthat the BBC had actually apologised:
NewsOnline Complaints to me
Dear Sir,
Sorry not to reply sooner to your complaint.
One of the maps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14035536 is
plain shoddy work, for which we apologise. It should mark Egypt.'
Well almost a year on and the BBC have done it again
I have complained and we'll see if the BBC respond...
Richard Millet is facing the same reality that I do
It is now 7.15pm and we enter Susya. Shouts of “Free Palestine!” greet us
and upset the festive atmosphere. I have heard something similar many times
on clips on this excellent blog, but never live. They seem to be out of
tune chanting “Free Pales-tine!” rather than the usual and much more
melodious “Free Free Pal-es-tine!”
.
Every fibre of my being wants to stop the car, get out and ask them why in
this sea of madness that we call the Middle East the focus of their
protests were always against this one tiny island of sanity, democracy and
human rights.
“So, what would you say to ... more »
The Coming Tax Hike
Click on graphic to enlarge.
From Casey Mulligan.
America Being Driven Into a Ditch: Thursday Morning Linkage
We continue to degrade the U.S. brand, weakening America’s ability to serve
as a force for attraction around the world. Why would anyone want to
emulate this particular crappy model of democracy? In terms of security,
70% of our intelligence community at the NSA and CIA have been furloughed
(James Clapper and the WaPo raised the specter
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Ackman books Herbalife losses - forced to cover 40 percent of short to avoid forced cover of his big short ! Which follows Ackman's tommy hammering absorbed with JC Penney ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-02/ackman-books-herbalife-losses-forced-cover-40-short-avoid-being-forced-cover-short
Ackman Books Herbalife Losses, Forced To Cover 40% Of Short To Avoid Being
"Forced To Cover" Short
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- Activist Shareholder
- Bond
- Carl Icahn
- CDS
- Consumer protection
- CRAP
- Creditors
- Investment Grade
- JC Penney
- Market Manipulation
- Pershing Square
- ratings
- Short Interest
- Whitney Tilson
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PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR CORPORATE/MILITARY TAKEOVER
One could speculate that the corporate backed forces creating the havoc in
Washington DC have a larger goal in mind.
It should be remembered that the infamous Koch brothers, who today fund
many of the extreme right-wing organizations in this country, come from
John Birch Society stock. Their father, Fred Koch, helped found the John
Birch Society in the late 1950s and his rabid anti-communism helped fuel
the Cold War. His sons continue to galvanize hundreds of thousands of
people into supporting the Kochs’ narrow agenda of cutting corporate taxes
and avoiding regulations to the ru... more »
“Fukushima: A Demand for Global Takeover”
* *
*“Fukushima: A Demand for Global Takeover”*
by Harvey Wasserman
"More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at
www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take
charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Another 35,000 have signed
at www.rootsaction.org. An independent advisory group of scientists and
engineers is also in formation. The signatures are pouring in from all over
the world. By November, they will be delivered to the United Nations.
The corporate media has blacked out meaningful coverage of the most
critical threat to... more »
JILL STEIN ON THE SHUTDOWN
The American public, not President Obama, is the force that can have the
most impact on how Washington pulls out of its current acrimony, former
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein told RT on Wednesday.
"I think it's really the American people who need to kick in here... we
need to kick in to say, 'Let's stop this government-by-extortion,'" Stein,
the most successful female presidential candidate in US history, said.
It's Time For Stephen Harper To Stop Acting Like A 'Freakin' Dictator - UPDATED!!
Journalist under fire for asking question of prime ministerBy The Canadian
Press — CP — Oct 2 2013
*By Terry Pedwell - OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's office appears poised to
prevent a veteran TV cameraman from travelling with the prime minister this
week because he asked an impromptu question at a media event.*
*The TV networks are fighting back, insisting that they, not the Prime
Minister's Office, should decide who to assign to cover Harper when he
travels abroad.*
*CTV journalist Dave Ellis asked Harper for a comment last week about
charges laid against then-Conservative MP Dean Del M... more »
US MILITARY ANGERS SICILIAN PEOPLE
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*Idyllic Italian town protests US high-tech base
*
*Palermo, Italy * - Hundreds of letters have been sent to US President
Barack Obama from a tiny school in the Sicilian town of Niscemi, asking
him
to halt the construction of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a
next generation military satellite communication facility.
"I couldn’t believe that the US has installed all these antennas," said
Giuseppe Maida, a teacher at the local institute. And now the US is at
war,
and the war was declared by a group of mothers, who today are marching
in
the streets of Palermo.
The... more »
Thoughts for the brain - morality and amorality
Morality is in many ways identical with ideology. We’ve discussed ideology
before. An ideology is a collection of ideas. A coherent ideology is one
that conforms to an objective point of view. The same is true for morality.
Morality is the practice of judgement and judgement takes place from a
point of view. The limit of an ideology or moral code is the material basis
it evolved from, and the material basis is always changing.
There’s an interesting point made in Mike Davis’s essay Sunshine or Noir
assessing the significance of crime writer James Ellroy’s work. Amorality
in culture... more »
US Orwelian Police State Update - October 2 , 2013 - I-Phone fingerprint scanner linked to US Government ....US Cyber Commands has launched covert cyber attacks - US a rogue cyber warfare state ..... California nullifies NDAA indefinite detention..... Everyone is a domestic terrorist watch - tailgaters at football games recorded by police under DHS sponsored " Urban Areas Security Initiative " now ! Welcome to Gulag USA !
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_iPhone%27s_Fingerprint_Scanner_Has_Shady_Government_Ties%2C_Anonymous_Says/29311/0/38/38/Y/M.html
The
iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner Has Shady Government Ties, Anonymous
SaysOctober
2, 2013
Print Version
*Source:* Motherboard
Photo via AppleYesterday, just as the US government shut itself down and
put 800,000 people temporarily out of work, the hacktivist group
Anonymous—who the FBI wrongly declared to be dead in August—released a
video
statement with an accompanying Pastebin document claiming that there are
definitive links between AuthenTec, the c... more »
Iran cyber warfare commander assassinated ! Are Saudis and Israel moving forward against Iran and Syria without US approval and / or cooperation ?
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/10/02/israel-forming-new-gulf-alliance-to-attack-iran/
Israel Forming New Gulf Alliance to Attack IranMP: Israel No Longer
Confident US Will Start War
by Jason Ditz, October 02, 2013
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Threatening to attack Iran has been such a popular pastime for Israeli
governments that they created an entire government ministry called the Strategic
Affairs Ministrywhose sole purpose is to spend all day planning
“initiatives” aimed at an eventual war with Iran.
The election of a reformist president in Iran and a push for diplomacy that
is gaining w... more »
Syria: Turkey drills for oil, Salafi butchers garner Western applause, Ghouta and more!
I haven't forgotten about Syria. Not for one minute.
*Turkish firm drilling wells on Syria border.... and further into Syria? *
*It seems possible. It seems likely. *
Arp Petrol has begun seismic research and feasibility works in the area
that showed that there were rich oil fields. The company is expected to
start drilling in the region where it plans to make 15 million Turkish
Liras of investment. The company’s license includes Şırnak, and Mardin’s
Nusaybin and Midyat districts.
“There are many active wells across the [Syrian] border. Why shouldn’t we
be here?* We think that the... more »
BitCoin plunges after Silk Road website seized by the US Government as Dread Pirate Robers arrested ! BitCoin has another body blow , following the late August seizure at Mt. Gox for a second time ( 5 million total seized from Mt.Gox - 2.1 seized in the second seizure )
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-02/bitcoin-plunges-following-us-government-seizure-silk-road-website
BitCoin Plunges Following US Government Seizure Of Silk Road Website, Dread
Pirate Roberts In Custody
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- FBI
- Google
- New York State
- None
- Reuters
- Ron Paul
- SWIFT
- The Onion
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Earlier today, one of the most popular websites that use and promote the
use of BitCoin, Silk Road, was shut down by the US government. As... more »
Billboards That Matter
From Don Perl:
Dear Colleagues:
I have randomly gone through the names of those who have been strong
activists in the past for our billboard campaign to inform parents of their
rights to exempt their children from the fraud of high stakes standardized
testing. As most of you know, we have advertised on Colorado highways
since 2005 to raise awareness of the boondoggle of CSAP (now TCAP) and each
year more and more parents have opted their children out of the tests.
This is a critical year for voices raised against the corporate takeover.
They are more forceful than ever. Consi... more »
The F-22 Raptor is dead..., waiting for the JSF F-35 to follow...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 18 hours ago
link: http://youtu.be/KaoYz90giTk Link: http://youtu.be/pteMgYPm1xM
Amidst the euro-crisis *The Netherlands* decided to invest over 4.5 billion
€uro in the seemingly bottomless pit for the development of the
Lockheed-Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Being a Dutchman I am concerned
about such "blank cheques" for the delivery of a "phantom-airplane" that
obviously and clearly only flies according to specifications on drawing
boards and in computer simulations... The JSF ought to replace the F-16
jets that The Netherlands still owns. I am a proponent of an effective and economical
de... more »
The Economy: “Why the Government Shutdown Is a Good Thing”
* “Why the Government Shutdown Is a Good Thing”*
by Bill Bonner
“Obama says he won’t give an inch,” said a French friend last night. He had
just watched the evening news. “What’s going on over there? Are they
crazy?” We checked the headlines. The Financial Times in London took an
apocalyptic approach... with seductive psychological undertones: “America
flirts with self-destruction.” Will the flirtation go anywhere? Will this
dance de l’amour lead to a full carnal embrace? Wait a minute…
Why would not funding the federal government cause self-destruction? Every
expert warns abou... more »
Tory Conference Quickie
Tonight I was going to write about Conservative Party conference using the
same Tory Twitter sample as last week. But now the foam and palpitations
have calmed right down, they're all a boring lot really. One waxes about
"learning or earning" as if the secret of the Philosopher's Stone stood
revealed to him. And another says Dave's speech was "electric". If this
flat, uninspiring and, gasp, *weak* read of the auto cue was sparking off
energy, you can understand why Ed's ever-so-slightly-left keynote tipped
their ilk into meltdown.
Still, I'm sure some found inspiration in Osborne's... more »
Keys to Secure areas of the DC Metro System including tunnels recently stolen ? Aerial mapping of DC by a US Navy blimp recently launched and ongoing through October 5 th ? a sudden bank glitch on September 26th in the UK , followed by the very sudden and unexpected 5 day bank holiday imposed by Banco National - commencing on September 27 and in effect through October 1 , 2013 ? Are these coincidental and unrelate oddities , were they foreshadowing events - in light of Greece , Italy and US political dramas that have unfolded this weekend ? And what about the cyber attack drills coming during October ?
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://intellihub.com/2013/09/29/keys-secure-areas-d-c-metro-system-stolen-front-pentagon/
( Incident on September 19 , 2013 ....Why would ordinary thieves want to
steal keys which give them access to secure DC Metro System areas -
including tunnels ? Keep in mind the robbery of the fire truck occurred
around 4:30 am while the fire truck crew were taking part in a rescue , the
thieves took not just the keys but also a forcible entry device called a
hydra ram , they were dressed in black and had ski masks on - sounds like
the were expecting the fire truck as compared with a spur of... more »
GROWING POLICE BRUTALITY
Almost daily I see reports, photos, and videos of growing police brutality
across the US. The video is one of the worst yet.
This kind of thing happens(ed) regularly in the war zones of Iraq and
Afghanistan where the US military has free reign over the public. Then
these soldiers come home and many of them get jobs working for local police
departments or jails/prisons. They bring the brutality of the war zone
with them.
This video is disgusting but a true sign of the times. This is how people
of color, and increasingly low-income whites too, are being treated by a
highly mili... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Tom
in Connecticut. Tom and I will be discussing the psychological aspects of
the fake Jewish "Holocaust" narrative of WWII, and other aspects of PSYOPS
and information warfare.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Below are relevant links and video for this program:
- *The "Holocaust" as a PSYOP* by John Friend
- *Book Review: The Holocaust Hoax Exposed: Debunking the 20th Century's
Biggest Lie*
- *The Last Days of The Big Lie* (documentary exposing Jew... more »
Kenya: Frank Lowry - Owner of the Westgate Mall
*"All Our Heroes are Watching in Heaven While Larry Silverstein Pulls
Building 7"*
Larry Silverstein from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
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*"So, we took the decision to pull... and we watched the Building [WTC 7]
collapse...."*
Mirrored from from:
http://www.truthology.org.au/index.php/posts/413-the-real-frank-lowy
Fifty days before 9/11, Larry Silverstein's Silverstein Properties and
Frank Lowy's Westfield Americas ecured a 99-year lease on World Trade
Center Buildings One, Two, Four and Five. Silverstein already owned
Building Seven. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey h... more »
Gray Lady Gothic
That's
the name of a whole new literary genre bursting forth from the Style
pages of the *New York Times*. One feature, called "Vows", takes the
real
love stories of real rich people and makes them available for the
delectation of the ravening masses in the hinterland. One such
entrycelebrated the spiritual journey and sexual awakening of a woman
after
she serendipitously and fatally struck a child with her car.
In her most recent blog post, Public Editor Margaret Sullivan addressed
the
torrent of reader outrage over the piece. It was in supremely bad taste,
complained the complaine... more »
A dog's life in Copan: Would they have it any other way?
Beagley, probably my favourite (but don't tell the others)I grow fonder
of free-range dog culture with each passing day. Dogs are so much more
civilized and resourceful than I would have expected when left to their own
devices, and I love seeing how they organize their world when it's all up
to them.
Whether stray or owned, the majority of Copan Ruinas dogs roam the
streets as free agents. Unlike the highly regulated dog environment of
Victoria, these dogs live largely without human interference. There is no
dog catcher, no local SPCA, no enforcement of things like leash use,... more »
Jurisdiction over several causes of action established if one cause is established
Central Sun Mining Inc. v. Vector Engineering Inc., 2013 ONCA 601:
[25] *Van Breda* also says, at para. 99, that where an action
involves several claims, it is enough that one of those claims is
presumptively connected with Ontario. This gives the Ontario court
jurisdiction over all the claims in the action, subject to a rebuttal of
the presumption. Anything else, the Supreme Court says, would be
incompatible with fairness and efficiency.
'The Mail supported the Blackshirts so we can ignore anything they say and they're hypocrites'
That or similar have been the views I've seen expressed on Twitter over the
past few days. Oddly when I ask them if they feel the same about The Daily
Mirror that also voiced support for the Blackshirts, they first of all deny
this was the case and then disappear with a flounce.
For all of those idiots, here's the proof
More context here.
Remember A Pattern Language?
Remember *A Pattern Language*? 1977! It's still out there.
I remember the review in *Coevolution Quarterly*. I instinctively felt
that, while the author was limiting himself to articulating home,
neighborhood and city construction onto observable natural patterns and
cycles, the underlying principle (observe, then imitate) would be
applicable to any human endeavor. I immediately became interested in
Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and other scientists who were investigating
positive feedbacks in loop systems (Cybernetics, Systems Theory).
Take the illustration above. Remembering ... more »
Why Is the Secretary of Education Doing a Rush/Beck Routine?
“Why did you listen to that man, that man’s a balloon” “Friend of Mine” —
The National A sure sign someone doesn’t have a valid point is
demonstrated nearly every day in right-wing media—notably by Rush Limbaugh
and Glenn Beck. Here is how it works: (1) Identify the person or event you
want to […]
I suppose that many of you who visit my blog are, like me, retired with a pension or adequate savings to live out the rest of our lives in comfort. In the meantime, even Americans with degrees in engineering, physics, or other professions requiring higher education cannot find jobs anywhere except for the likes of Walmart, Home Depot, McDonalds, etc., which at their pleasure may employ them for no more than 30 hours a week, thus making them ineligible for either a pension or Obama care, which as explained here by PCR is a bad deal for most.
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Paul Craig Roberts
The government of the “world’s only superpower,” the “exceptional,” the
“indispensable” country, claims to know what is best for Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia... more »
Pavlov's Degeneration X
* **None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free. *
*Think of your smart phone as being equal to or the same as, an ankle monitoring
bracelet forced on an alleged criminal. *
* "An ankle monitor (also known as a tether, or ankle bracelet) is a device
that individuals under house arrest or parole are often required to wear.
At timed intervals, the ankle monitor sends a radio frequency signal
containing location and other information to a receiver."*
*That sounds exactly like your smart phone?*
* **The one thing that makes it different is that** a ... more »
Shoah vs. The Holocaust (1978 TV-Mini) - The Power of Public Myth
Shoah vs. The Holocaust (1978 TV-Mini) - Ahmadinejad on The Power of Public
Myth from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
“Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance
of, in his words, ‘public myths’ or ‘public presumptions’ which he defines
as ‘beliefs
(1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known with certainty) and
(2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’
In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what
he has called ‘searing’ or ‘molding’ events (that) take on 'transcendent’
importance and therefore r... more »
Options PCS Featured in Today's Charter School Crime Log
A clip from WaPo:
In the court complaint, D.C. officials allege that the managers’ salaries
were far out of line with what public officials make, especially given the
size of the school.
Montgomery’s “salary and bonuses from Options PCS during a one-year period
— at least $425,000 combined — totaled more than the salary of the
President of the United States and more than twice the salary of the Mayor
of the District of Columbia, even though Options PCS is a small school
whose revenue comes mostly from public school funding,” the complaint says.
Despite the fact that this Options PC... more »
Dear Secretary Mister Duncan, Sir
My name is Jill O’Malley Conroy, and five months ago today I became one of
those “arm chair pundits” you described to our fellow Americans yesterday.
My alternate name in this “alternate universe”, or “blogosphere”, as you
also dubbed it, is The Indignant Teacher. My goal as such right now is to
make sure our […]
Declare Martial Law for Jesus
By Capt. Fogg
I don't know if you're getting your TV using an antenna, but if you are,
it's a different world than the TVland you see on satellite or cable.
Docked at a marina, looking for something to watch on the tube with no
access to cable, one thing you'll notice is that there are a lot of
Christian stations and a lot of boisterous preachers pounding away on the
Bible. 6 to 1 on a Sunday afternoon in places like Vero Beach, Florida.
So if your idiot box is fed by an antenna, perhaps you know about Rick
Joyner. Perhaps you have watched his internet program. Perhaps you've
ide... more »
INVISIBLE CHILDREN: Forced to retool!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013*
*Interlude—Andreas the Giant:* Doggone it! The government shutdown has shut
down the data we planned to use today as we discussed an important part of
Amanda Ripley’s new book, The Smartest Kids in the World.
For more, see yesterday's post.
Ripley’s book is well written and very interesting. We also think it’s an
amazing example of a type of new journalism, in which “Nordic robots”
repeat preferred narratives which come from ranking elites.
Tomorrow, we’ll discuss a group of invisible children—a bunch of kids who
get disappeared in Ripley’s book. But t... more »
Arne Duncan, Extortionist
extortion |ikˈstôrSHən|nounthe practice of obtaining something, esp. money,
through force or threats.
In California, where corporate legislators have decided to suspend NCLB
testing for one year while they implement a new generation of racist tests
using the new testing delivery system, the Common Core, Arne Duncan is on
the scene, threatening to withhold Title I money if California moves forward
:
The lack of test scores attracted Duncan's criticism.
"Letting an entire school year pass for millions of students without
sharing information on their schools’ performance with them and th... more »
WotW: Keep Your (Digital) Life Organized with Simplenote
If there's one thing I truly despise, it's paper clutter. I hate Post-It
Notes, scraps of paper, anything left on my door and pretty much most mail
in general. Why such a bizarre disdain for paper? It clutters up my house
and when I need info from that paper, I can never find it.
Sure, I could develop more elaborate schemes to keep the clutter at bay,
but I find the simplest solution the best: eliminate paper from my life,
where I can. One of the greatest tools for helping me simplify the paper
clutter is an app called Simplenote. Available for iOS, Android, Mac and
the web, Simplen... more »
What Terrorist Attacks Don’t Tell Us
This past week, terrorists struck Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Al Shabaab, a
Somali Islamist organization, claimed responsibility. Frustratingly, we
still know very little about the attackers, their origins, or the Kenyan
security forces’ response. And the news about the last just keeps getting
worse. But there has been some analysis of the attacks – by both
Continue reading
He'll Huff And He'll Puff
Lawrence Martin wondered yesterday what could have possessed Stephen Harper
to tell Barack Obama that Canada would not accept a "no" on the Keystone
Pipeline:
One possibility is that it was just Stephen Harper – who’s rarely prepared
to take no for an answer from anyone – being Stephen Harper.
Another possibility is that Mr. Harper knew that his long-time
parliamentary secretary Dean Del Mastro was about to be hit with charges on
alleged campaign spending violations. The ever-political PM may have wanted
to make big splashy news on the same day in order to overshadow the
negativ... more »
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