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Maintaining Remembrance
There's a very interesting piece for Remembrance Sunday on the *Sky News*website from Mark Stone in Burma. He visits the Taukkyan War Cemetery near the country's new capital. 6,426 Commonwealth soldiers are buried there, their headstones "lined up in perfect uniformity," many mere teenagers. I spot a Private Jones and a Corporal Johnson. Their names seem oddly incongruous so far from 'home'. It is a reminder of just how global the two world wars were. Mark notes there are 23,000 war cemeteries around the world, in 153 different countries, bearing the graves and names of 1.7 milli... more »
What Every New Cancer Patient Needs to Know
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MyCancellation.com: Remember When Obama Lied ‘You Can Keep Your Health Insurance’?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Melissa Melton The President has been caught in yet another lie (or the same lie hundreds of times) when he said (over and over and over again): If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. In case you aren’t sure when President Obama said that, watch him say it 36 times in the past few years here: (It almost needs a techno beat behind it. But anyway…) At this point, personal horror stories of premium price hikes and insurance cancellati... more »
DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW......
A US-led trade deal is currently being negotiated that could increase the price of prescription drugs, weaken financial regulations and even allow partner countries to challenge American laws. But few know its substance. The pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is deliberately shrouded in secrecy, a trade deal powerful people, including President Obama, don’t want you to know about. Over 130 Members of Congress have asked the White House for more transparency about the negotiations and were essentially told to go fly a kite. While most of us are in the dark about the contents... more »
More blogging
"So where does *Is the BBC Biased? *find itself, now, here in November 2013?", we ask ourselves, introspectively. Suddenly, the answer comes to us....and all hell breaks loose (if only): We find ourselves here, in November 2013, still breathing the refreshing air of the blogosphere. So, phew then! Being shy, retiring types (like nervous exiles), we rarely promote ourselves, thus finding ourselves under-promoted. We're, therefore, clearly the ultra-cool BBC bias-related blog equivalent of the Velvet Underground (minus the interest in drugs and sexual depravity), rather than being ... more »
Fukushima Updates November 8-10.....Overview of spent fuel problem facing Tepco , conundrum of where are the melted cores , pondering the unabated and uncontrollable releases of contamination in sea and ground water.... Tepco running out of trained workers and amateurs to be deployed for spent fuel pool work - would could go wrong ? Additional items of note touching on the Fukushima disaster presently underway since March 11 , 2011.....
Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
Energy News...... http://enenews.com/expert-there-may-be-an-accident-of-criticality-during-fuel-removal-at-fukushima-unit-4-tv-rods-could-crumble-frightening-that-tepco-is-in-charge-of-potential-catastrophe-videos ( Tepco in charge of the spent fuel removal is akin to Moe , Larry and Curly running the show... ) AFP, Nov. 7, 2013: Experts warn that any slip-ups could quickly cause the situation to deteriorate. Even minor mishaps will create considerable delays to the already long and complicated decommissioning. If the rods are exposed to the air they would release radiation and co... more »
Marketing adaptation . . .
While Dubya scares the bejeezus out of you, ponder Puma’s new plus size logo… from The Meta Picture. I guess pouncing porky puddies are a possibility.
Stephen Harper and scandals
Senate scandal and his friend Rob Ford keeps people entertained with his shenanigans.
Grass Fed Beef Hamburger - Stock Your Freezer
Our grass fed lean dry aged ground beef is made from the whole animal, not just the trimmings. This means it is not only lower in fat than traditional ground beef, but it also tastes better. Wallace Springs Farm beef is pasture raised as nature intended and never fed or otherwise given growth promotents, beta agonists, or antibiotics. SOLE (Sustainable, Organically principled, Local and Ethical) Food at it's finest. Our animals are processed locally at a Government inspected abattoir Available now. Paper wrapped, and frozen in approx. 1 lb packages at $4.99/lb We also have a goo... more »
BitCoin roller coaster ride Weekend of November 9-10 , 2013 ! Zooming to almost 400 and then back to less than 300 - in a span of about one half day ! Pros and Cons previously discussed , the questions for BitCoin investors may be how strong is your stomach as well as your tolerance for insane moves this this weekend ? Naturally , if BitCoin is attractive as a safe haven , one must consider manic moves in that equation . And like any other asset class , BitCoin is subject to manipulation - the current unknowns are if regulations comes in the US , what form or forms of regulation will be seen , by whom , what are the confiscation risks , what are the scammer risks ? To each their own , but don't put more in play than one could comfortably lose and still sleep well at night ( seems a prudent course. )
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-10/bitcoin-plunges-25-government-scrutiny-first-btc-fair-value-reco-has-stunning-price- As BitCoin Plunges 25% On Government Scrutiny, The First BTC "Fair Value" Reco Has A Stunning Price Target [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2013 12:39 -0500 - European Central Bank - Volatility inShare1 It took literally minutes following our report from yesterday that in addition to the ECB and Fed, it was the Senate's turn to finally shine the spotlight on the most notorious electronic currency with a hearing t... more »
Syria updates November 10 , 2013 .....Government officials and Syrian rebel forces reach truce allowing food to reach citizens in blockaded rebel held town ( Qudsaya ) ......Syrian Opposition meting to determine whether they will attend a proposed peace conference brokered by US and Russia ( and under what conditions they will seek to attend ) .... Fighting continues around Aleppo base protcting Government Aiport - reportedly changing control repeatedly in recently....
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syria-activists-truce-made-blockaded-town-20842062 Syria Activists: Truce Reached in Blockaded Town BEIRUT November 10, 2013 (AP) By DIAA HADID Associated Press [image: Associated Press] Government officials and rebels reached a deal to ease a weeks-long blockade on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital on Sunday, allowing food to reach civilians there for the first time in weeks, activists said. The truce is the latest to be observed in recent months between President Bashar Assad's government and disparate rebel groups throughout the... more »
Sunday Classics: Thinking of the "snorting and grunting" Brahms's "inwardly restless and propulsive" piano playing
*Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) and husband Daniel Barenboim play the third-movement Allegro passionato of the Brahms F major Cello Sonata, the movement we heard in this week's preview.* *by Ken* For this week's preview I seized on a quote included by the program notes for the performance of Brahms's Second Cello Sonata I heard recently, with the fine young cellist Dmitry Kouzov, in British pianist-conductor-professor Ian Hobson's 14-concert New York series of "The Complete Solo Piano and Chamber Music with Piano of Johannes Brahms," under the general title *Brahms: Classical Incli... more »
GORE VIDAL EXOSED THE ELITE
*Gore Vidal, who once said: "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." Asked whether his first romantic encounter was homosexual or heterosexual, Vidal replied that he had been "too polite to ask".* *Gore Vidal claimed that the 'Bush junta' was complicit in 9/11* Gore Vidal claimed that *"We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the USA."* Interview - The Times September 30, 2009. *Gore Vidal with JFK* Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, had been a friend of the J F Kennedy family and of the Clintons. Gore Vidal reportedly slept with Anaïs Nin and enjoyed close friendships w... more »
MyCancellation.com: Remember When Obama Lied ‘You Can Keep Your Health Insurance’?
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Melissa Melton The President has been caught in yet another lie (or the same lie hundreds of times) when he said (over and over and over again): If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. In case you aren’t sure when President Obama said that, watch him say it 36 times in the past few years here: (It almost needs a techno beat behind it. But anyway…) At this point, personal horror stories of premium price hikes and insurance cancella... more »
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Teachers and Parents Organize Against High Stakes Corporate Control in Knoxville
For those unfamiliar with the all-in corporate takeover of Tennessee public schools, here is a short list of readings to catch up: 1. *Schools Matter*: *Tennessee's* Milken Plan for *Teacher Evaluation* * ...* www.*schoolsmatter*.info/2011/.../*tennessee*s-milken-plan-for-*teacher* .htm... - - - Nov 2, 2011 - Someone asking questions about *Tennessee's* off-the-Milken-shelf*teacher evaluation* plan? Teachers occupying their *schools* and threatening *...* Robert D. Skeels +1'd this 2. *Schools Matter*: *Tennessee Teachers* Will *... more »
Your moment of Zen
Lovely downtown Noho. [Bill Dwight photo]
The 1991 World Championship 4 x 400 final - When the Brits beat the Americans - Black, Redmonds, Regis and Akabusi
I remember this well, Bambi on the opening leg, Derek Redmond soon to be famous for needing his father's help to finish the Olympic 400 metre final, Jon Regis doing a typically great 400 metre run (why did he not run it as an individual) and Kris Akabusi showing that on his day a 400 metre hurdles bronze medallist can beat a 400 metre flat gold medallist. This post should please Jack Whitehall.
The Impact of DCPS IMPACT: An Actual DC Teacher’s Perspective
Introduction This piece is a response to a recent report titled, “Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT” by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff (2013). This response attempts to offer a ground-level perspective from a teacher working within a high poverty neighborhood public school; It’s not trying to undermine the report’s findings. In fact, […]
How London-Centric is Political Blogging?
We know politics is. We know the news media is. But what about blogging? This has been something I've turned over since attending a bloggers' breakfast at Labour conference 2012 to launch UnionHome. The five-strong panel featured a clutch of Labour tweeters originally hailing from the four corners of the land. But all, bar one, had something in common. They were based in London. I asked about this and the comrades were pretty forthcoming. They recognised most were there because of the offline social networks living in the capital provides, *and* that it reflects the London bias in ... more »
You've always wondered ...
How could George W. Bush reconcile the financial destruction of his country over the invasion of Iraq? The "weapons of mass destruction" myth has long been buried under mountains of proof of manipulated and invented "intelligence". The conquest of an oil-state was pretty obvious. Think though. Is George W. Bush really smart enough to get his head around that concept? We have always held in the
A Self Unmade Man
In his review of Paul Wells' book, *The Longer I'm Prime Minister*, Crawford Killian writes that Stephen Harper has a history of political misjudgement: One of Wells' key points is that Harper is the author of most of his own misfortunes. He's the guy who ignored China until the Keystone XL pause taught him to seek foreign markets for oil; that made energy exports to China his priority #1. And that led to a declaration of war against "environmentalists and other radicals" who might stall the Northern Gateway pipeline to the Pacific. Perhaps his worst failings might be called huma... more »
The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement
The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement. via The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement.
Popular Sovereignty ends in the US if the TPP is passed ? Why would a bipartisan thrust by the political class here in the US ( Including but not limited to - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch, a bipartisan caucus, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Editorial Board of The New York Times ) , think that pursuing an Agreement that places transnational investors above citizens ( and popular sovereignty ) is a good deal for Citizens of the US ? While the elites and business interests are negotiating note much of Congress and State politicians are completely in the dark ! If nothing is afoot , why ultra secret treatment given to TPP , why are only business interests at the table , is this backdoor NWO Order - with global investors in charge ? ? Again the question to ask is why do certain political class leaders want this deal so badly ?
*SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013 The TPP, if Passed, Spells the End of Popular Sovereignty for The United States By Lambert Strether of Corrente. You’ve heard of popular sovereignty, right? It’s embodied in the Preamble of the United States Constitution.[1] I’ll quote it for the sheer majesty of the language, archaic though it may seem in these “innovative” days: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to oursel... more »
Steny Hoyer Raising Money For The Democrats' Most Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice Candidate
It's not fair to just blame DCCC Chairman Steve Israel for Jennifer Garrison. The "Sarah Palin of Ohio" is also being heavily backed by Israel's patron, Steny Hoyer. Hoyer was in Columbus yesterday, headlining a fundraiser for the anti-Choice, anti-gay, anti-labor conserva-Dem. Hoyer is eager to ingratiate himself with perspective freshmen-- but not enough to travel all the way to the low-end 6th district. The 126 miles, two-and-a-half hour schlepp across Ohio on Route 70 and then all the way down Route 77 nearly to Parkersburg, West Virginia isn't worthwhile for someone like Hoye... more »
235
I'm confused, and this might possibly be one of the stupidest posts ever posted on the internet (which is saying something), but... According to the *Independent*, Typhoon Haiyan produced "gusts of up to 235 mph (378 kph)". Channel 4 News says "the storm sustained winds of 195 miles per hour with gusts of up to 235 mph". BBC News talks of "gusts that reached 379km/h (235 mph)". Reuters says "sustained winds reached 195 miles per hour (313 km per hour) with gusts of up to 235 mph (378 kph)". The * Guardian* talks of "speeds at landfall of 195mph and gusts of up to 235mph". The *Tele... more »
Beware the hagiography in #edreform
As of late, it has been observed by me the profligate use of the first person when referencing reform crusades on either side of the debate. Beware of excessive uses of “I.” Beware of the innumerable anecdotes about how much of a fighter you are, but then see very little in terms of actual, you […]
UK spied on Iceland ( Iceland tipped of in 2010 ) officials' emails during UK efforts to recover cash from insolvent Iceland Banks during Icesave debacle ! This spying should remind folks of UK's use of anti-terrorism laws to seize Landsbanki's Icesave assets as the UK scrambled to protect UK depositors ....... UK spying on Iceland apparently coincided with concerns of Iceland that the US was spying on Iceland citizens in 2010 - of course , that was before the NSa revelations from Edward Snowden hit ! !
http://rt.com/news/britain-spied-iceland-banks-497/ Britain ‘snooped’ on Icelandic officials’ emails to recover cash from broken banks Published time: November 10, 2013 12:06 Get short URL [image: AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm] AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm Share on tumblr Tags Europe, Intelligence, Politics, Scandal,Security, Snowden, UK An Icelandic MP says Britain spied on Iceland while wrestling to rescue its citizens' cash from collapsed Icelandic banks after the financial crisis. Birgitta Jónsdóttir claims she received a tip-off from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Jónsdóttir, who rep... more »
Iran talks with P5 + 1 hit late snag - France belatedly halts proposal on the table at Geneva based on Saudi and Israeli objections ! Did a reported Offer of weapon purchases by the Saudis cause the French change of heart ? France cutting its own deal with Saudis and Israel as their new partner in Europe ?
Iran nuclear talks hit snag..... Iran Talks End Without Deal, More Talks Nov. 20France Spurns Deal, Citing Israeli Objections by Jason Ditz, November 09, 2013 Print This | Share This An expected Friday deal gave way to more Saturday talks, and reports that the conference might continue into next week. It ended Saturday, however, without a deal and with only a promise to meet again November 20 to try again. While many saw a hostile US Congress as the biggest obstacle to reaching a deal, it was France that ultimately stepped up and killed the proposal, with Foreign Minister Laurent Fa... more »
Political Loyalty
Ford Nation continues to love their boy. Of course, the same thing holds true for the party faithful and stephen harper. But it ain't just a conservative thing. Look at the supposedly progressive types who still praise the record of the disgusting Dalton McGuinty! Or the pathetic rationalizations of Obama supporters! (If you google "obamabots" you'll get too many links from even more pathetic repugnicans who wanted to be part of a human centipede with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to be able to find a sane critique of Obama.) I think the reasons for this loyalty above sanity or dece... more »
Crystal Night: 75th anniversary
About seven weeks ago, I wrote about the 75th anniversary of the Munich Pact. Britain and France thought that it was a wonderful idea to appease the Third Reich by throwing a third of their ally's territory to Hitler's throat. An event that occurred seven weeks later, the Night of Broken Glass (November 9th-10th, 1938), adds some clarification concerning the character of the new friend of Mr Chamberlain and M. Daladier. Comrade Goebbels "overinterpreted" a murder of a young German diplomat (Ernst von Rath) – allegedly by a Jewish teenager (German-born Polish Jew in Paris, Hersche... more »
War on Whistleblowers - Thomas Drake - former Senior Executive at NSA and a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran
*This is a very important speech by Thomas Drake, a former Senior Executive at NSA and a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, who was charged under the Espionage Act after he blew the whistle on waste and fraud and illegal activity at the intelligence agency, spoke at a March 15, 2013 National Press Club luncheon. He faced a 35-year jail sentence until the government's case fell apart, with the judge saying, "It didn't pass the smell test." He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates f... more »
Anti-Monsanto Protests Spark in Argentina by Pesticide Illness and Death by Elizabeth Renter
Anti-Monsanto Protests Spark in Argentina by Pesticide Illness and Death by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 9 November 2013 *A new report reveals how Monsanto’s pesticides are causing birth defects and cancer in Argentina. What’s more, anti-Monsanto protests have sparked near farming communities due to massive pesticide-induced illness.* *“Children were being born with deformities,” says Sofia Gatica, a mother in the community whose own children became ill. “Little babies were being born with six fingers, without a jawbone, missing a skull bone, with kidney deformities, withou... more »
Mike Philbin's surrealist CUSTODIAN and TANDEM novels - book trailers - exclusive excerpts
here are the two book trailers for the 2013 anti-corporate-war adult-content-surrealist Mike Philbin paperback novels CUSTODIAN and TANDEM, together with exclusive excerpts from each. Ready? But first some anatomical facts: *A flayed adult human being will only give you about two square meters of usable surface area, but if you extrapolate that sorry total to the volumetric potential of a dozen human beings, you're talking about a six-sided cylindrical volume that could occupy an entire family, or two. You could accommodate the non-uniform scaling of bones like rafters across ... more »
Yeah, but what about Andrew Neil, Nick Robinson and Jeremy Clarkson?
It's Sunday, so there must be an article attacking the BBC in the *Sunday Telegraph. *And so there is - though the paper's website isn't making too much of it. It's by former BBC reporter and ex-MP Sir Martin Bell. Sir Martin believes it's the BBC's wastefulness with public money that's at the root of the problem -most damagingly demonstrated by those excessive payouts to top executives, but also revealed (he says) by such things as the corporation's heavy spending on expensive buildings. His answer? A dose of mild austerity at the BBC. That's it really. No wonder the *Teleg... more »
How can anyone LOVE this modern world we've made?
How can anyone LOVE... i) an Economic structure that PENALISES success with interest rates and rising house prices, extra taxation and license fees? ii) an Economic structure that ENCOURAGES the selling of arms meant to protect our country and our people to foreign despotic maniacs intent on murder rape pillage and political assassination? iii) an Economic structure that PROMOTES mindless 'belief' systems like Catholicism, Islam, Sihkism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism! so that people will look elsewhere for their solace and comfort? Is ECONOMY all about wiping the humanity fr... more »
I do not count the time
The clock in my car is always wrong. By always, I mean every single car I've ever owned. By wrong, I mean inconsistently. It's not always by the same amount of minutes in any single car in any given week. I don't find it a problem. It's all relative.
Hellfire . . .
DEATH FROM ABOVE. GQ has an article by MatthewPower, “Confessions of a Drone Warrior” that is worth reading. “Drones” have been effective, but there's a human cost paid by the young folks who do the killing. They're good at that, and it gives them nightmares, and no wonder the Taliban have been freaking and using their political influence to get this curtailed. By the spring of 2011, almost
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, November 10th, 2013
Another Sunday… Another rant…..As I will be busy most of this Sunday tending to family and personal business, I have done this rant a bit earlier than usual…. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day here in Canada, and Veterans' Day in the United States… It is a day to remember all those who have died for "freedom"… It is not my want to harm the memories of those who fought gallantly and for what they believed was right in wars.. But the facts are now crystal clear that all wars in the last century have been fought for all the wrong reasons, and for very criminal Jewish interests…. Only now wit... more »
Keith Ellison Bringing A Progressive Vision To… Oklahoma
Keith Ellison (D-MN) is widely viewed as an up-and-coming progressive leader able to articulate progressive ideas and values to ordinary voters. He may not be invited to many events sponsored by lobbyists on K Street or Wall Street, but Democrats all over the country have been inviting him to speak to local grassroots activists. Friday he was in Oklahoma City, explaining a progressive vision in a state where President Obama only received 33% of the vote last year and lost every single county. Obama did best in Oklahoma City and that's where Ellison rallied local activists at the P... more »
Time to take God out of the Interrogation Room
*R. v. Oickle*, 2000 SCC 38 holds that police may properly offer spiritual inducements to suspects as part of interrogation. As a result it is common for police to tell prisoners "the wages of sin is death" and to remind them of the saving "blood of out Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus". In *Oickle* the Supreme Court seems to have been motivated by the supposition that a police officer cannot themselves offer an inducement of a spiritual nature. But underlying that is the unspoken thesis that religious exhortations are of limited meaning - something perhaps true for a hardened crimina... more »
Update On Syria: Syrian National Coalition Admits It Is Powerless
An excerpt from, *"Syrian opposition split over peace conference"* by Fehim Taştekin, Al Monitor, November 9: Another SNC member, Kamal Lebvani, dismissed concerns of losing international support should the SNC not go to Geneva, saying: "There is no international support anyway; otherwise, we wouldn’t be in this situation. It is meaningless to talk of losing international support.” *He then said something that made all other debates irrelevant: "No matter what decision comes out this meeting, it won’t be implemented because the real actors are those fighters in Syria, not us. We hav... more »
Warfare Through Assassinations: Israel And The Islamic Republic Have Gotten Away With Murder
** *Left: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Right: Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Ghassemlou was assassinated by the Islamic Republic.* *People who are convinced they are holy and are driven by a divine mission commit the biggest crimes and tell the biggest lies. History has proven that over and over again. * An excerpt from, *"Arafat’s Death – There’s Really No Mystery"* by Alan Hart, November 8: *For once Israel is telling a part of the truth. It was impossible for any of its own (Israeli-Jewish) agents to get into the rubble of Arafa... more »
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
The trailer for the feature length documentary Our Blue Canoe. The Voyagers continue their Journey across the Pacific, highlighting the the plight of the Pacific Ocean and spreading the message of hope
The Sandy Hook HOAX: Very Important New Video - Sofia Smallstorm Unraveling Sandy Hook!
The first year anniversary of the Sandy Hook operation and hoax that happened on December 14th, 2012. is rapidly approaching… I am still very much perturbed that there are many in this fight for the truth that still stick doggedly to the false idea that Sandy Hook was real and that some 26 people died in that "massacre"…. I, and others that are seeking the real truth, on the other hand have long known that Sandy Hook was indeed a massive fraud, and a horrible hoax where NOBODY had died, perpetrated on the American people. I came across this very important video just today, thanks ... more »
Educational Bedrock: The Teacher-Student Relationship
In 2003, the (then) Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) supported teachers in creating a set of standards and corresponding curriculum for a new program designed to both promote the teaching profession and provide high school students with a solid idea of what classroom teaching entails. The resulting program, STAR (“Students Teaching and Reaching”) was instituted […]
SOAS Events and Facebook pages
*Betel nut farms in eastern Taichung.* Just to let my readers know, SOAS has some great Taiwan events planned for this month. Don't miss 'em if you are in the UK. http://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/events/ They also have been assimilated to the Facebook Borg a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SOASCentreofTaiwanStudies _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
United Opt Out’s Spring Event: Re-Education through #optout!
It’s official. United Opt Out’s Spring event planning board (after meeting in a closed door session) has targeted one of the epicenters of Reformer attacks on public education and community schools—Colorado—for an intervention! Douglas County Education Reformers Beware! Denver Education Reformers Beware! Jefferson County Education Reformers Beware! Here’s what we know so far. We are […]
Why does JP Morgan still have a banking license and why isn't Jamie Dimon nicknamed " Tuco " ?
http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/2008/12/the_many_crimes_of_tuco/ ( Jamie Dimon has been a busy man as well... ) The many crimes of TucoDecember 9th, 2008 [image: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez] Tuco “the Rat” Ramirez was a busy guy. Property Crimes - armed robbery of citizens, state banks, and post offices - arson in a state prison - cattle rustling - counterfeiting and passing counterfeit money - crimes against places of high authority include burning down the courthouse and sheriff’s office in Sonora - extortion - highway robbery - horse th... more »
Nuclear Hotseat #124: Pandora/Schmandora; We've Got the Uranium Film Festival! | Nuclear Hotseat
*INTERVIEW: Norbert Suchanek is the **founder and General Director of t**he Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of the nuclear issue. A native of Germany, Suchanek is a journalist, author, filmmaker and activist living in Rio de Janeiro. He shares with Nuclear Hotseat listeners how the festival got started, his vision for an international nuclear film archive, and how you – yes you! – can get your film into the 2014 festival. The Uranium Film Festival comes to the United States this month (November, 2013) for showings in New Mexico and Albuquerque, with stops in ear... more »
TV Watch: Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) makes a charming, wistful, and droll return to "The Big Bang Theory"
*In this week's Big Band Theory, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) was stung by rejection from his hero Professor Proton (Bob Newhart), who chose to work with Leonard (Johnny Galicki). Sheldon countered with Bill "The Science Guy" Nye, and as Newhart recalls: "There's bad feeling between the two of them, and I actually, physically make a move toward him. He says, 'My show was really patterned after yours.' And I say, 'That's what I told my lawyers.'"* *by Ken* There are pluses and minuses to keeping one's distance from the mindless flow of TV news. I had no idea that Bob Newhart had won an Em... more »
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
*WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION* By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to anarchism. There are a great number of them, and to my mind they should live up to certain criteria. One is that they should be neither too short, "leafletly", nor so long and encyclopedic that they risk boring the casual reader. They should also present a wide enough vision of the many facets of the ideology without becoming bogs down in trivia. They should have a number of "hooks" to catch the inter... more »
trivialities
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus ! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." Bukowski
Co-location is more frustration than cooperation
This is a picture of the DC Mayor Vincent Grey and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visiting my school for a brief 60 minute press conference on the recent NAEP results. I haven’t even looked through the report yet, so I have no comment on that. [Let me say how much this visit screwed […]
Russell Brand and the Necessary Planetary Adjustment
Russell Brand's recent political essay, viral BBC interview, and ongoing comedy tour - The Messiah Complex - raise important political and philosophical questions concerning, among other issues, the nature of justice, the importance of voting, and the need for radical, revolutionary change. These deserve serious consideration. Since at least the time of the Athenian statesman Solon (c. 638 BC - 558 BC), whose reforms are credited with setting the historical stage for the emergence of democracy in ancient Athens, the concept of law has contained a crucial ambiguity. While the law is ... more »
Nissian Revolutionary Car Design
Something for nothing, form follows function. It looks like Nissan has hit a cliche design jackpot. If your next car is electric, it would be better trapezoid shaped, Be sure to read the whole story at Gizmag.
Musical Interlude: Dire Straits, “Private Investigations”
Dire Straits, “Private Investigations” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS-ICzjO6I
JFK50: The Trust Factor
*To date, Jack Kennedy is the only real-life person depicted as knowing Superman's secret identity.*
Kids lose, hurts kids, child abuse, and such.
Just throwing this out there. All over the education reform debate, participants argue that certain things “hurt kids,” “kids lose,” “child abuse.” I find them grating. But why? I get it, trust me. Teachers work with and for young persons. We do things that are good for children in our care, and some things are, […]
Updates On Syria: Blanket of Silence Over Turkish Role In Al-Qaeda's Growth Is Lifted, Washington Demands Syrian Kurds Subordinate Themselves To Fictitious Syrian Army, Degenerate Saudi Royals Fund More Jihadist Terrorists
*1. An excerpt from, "Turkey ‘stopped helping’ al-Qaeda near Syria border: Report" Hürriyet Daily News, November 8:* Turkey has recently ceased aiding al-Qaeda-linked groups near the Syrian border, Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Saleh Muslim has said, according to daily Taraf. The PYD, which is known as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) wing in Syria, is fighting in northern Syrian towns against al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist groups, in particular the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). “The gangs don’t attack us from Turkey anymore... more »
“Middle School Football Team's Life-changing Play”
*“Middle School Football Team's Life-changing Play”* by Steve Hartman "Meet the Olivet Eagles, a middle-school football team from Olivet, Mich., who with the help of a learning disabled teammate, executed what may be one of the most successful plays of all time." - http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157962n Hat tip to Julie Mitchell for this material.
"The Most Dangerous Man, Or Woman..."
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." - H.L. Mencken ◆ Few things leave me speech... more »
Austerity politics proving fatal to recovery
If you missed it this week, Dr. Krugman consulted with the experts and their diagnosis for our future is grim. Good news is they've identifited the cause. Austerity is killing our economy. What’s more, the authors — one of whom is the Federal Reserve Board’s director of research and statistics, so we’re not talking about obscure academics — put a number to these effects, and it’s terrifying. They suggest that economic weakness has already reduced America’s economic potential by around 7 percent, which means that it makes us poorer to the tune of more than $1 trillion a year. And we... more »
MADELEINE McCANN AND THE KRAY TWINS
*Judy Garland and the Kray Twins, all three of whom may have been mind-controlled. **KRAY TWINS BRAINWASHED?.* The missing Madeleine McCann has links to the Kray Twins, who ran a pedophile ring. Lucian Freud "had a well-documented relationship with the Kray twins Reggie and Ronnie." Lucian Freud 'forced' to pay £500,000 gambling debt to gangland Kray Twins ... *Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud.* In July 2007, Lucian Freud's brother Clement Freud helped the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann by cooking them dinners in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, and offeri... more »
Yanis Varoukis discusses Ponzi Austerity ( Greece in focus ) .... While the EU and Greece Coalition Government play Troikan games over and over again , the Greek people suffer the realities of actual austerity - families kiss their children good bye as they cannot feed them.....Businesses continue to flee Greece ...... Deflation hits levels no seen in fifty years - how much will the Greek people take before revolting is the question unknown at present !
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/yanis-varoufakis-ponzi-austerity-a-definition-and-an-example.html SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013 Yanis Varoufakis: Ponzi Austerity – A Definition and an Example *By Yanis Varoufakis, a professor of economics at the University of Athens. Cross posted from his blog* For a while now I have been arguing that Europe’s policies for reducing the public debts of fiscally stressed member-states can be described as a Ponzi austerity scheme. In this post I attempt precisely to define ‘Ponzi austerity’. *Ponzi Growth* Standard Ponzi schemes are based on a sleigh... more »
Do The Ruling Elites Just Assume Laws Are For The Little People Only?
The Friday morning tweet from Alan Grayson (above) was anything but gratuitous. Grayson worked his way through Harvard as a janitor. He graduated, summa cum laude, with a degree in economics. Before going back to Harvard Law, he worked as an economist. He graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude. So, you don't have to take my word for it when I tell you that his is one of the most brilliant and rigorous minds to be serving in a House of Representatives that includes so very many men and women of no talents beyond rabble-rousing. Think of losers-at-life like Steve Stockman (R-TX)... more »
Amazing video: Tennessee student rips CCLS, data and teacher eval by test scores.
All I can say is “wow” after watching this video. This young man tells the true origin of the Common Core, rips apart “data” and hammers teacher evaluation by test scores. Could a student who becomes part of the Common Core generation make this type of argument in 5 years? Or will our children’s only […]
9th November - A Day to Remember
Today is the 75th anniversary of the anti-Capitalist uprising in Germany, known better by the name given it by apologists for International Jewry; Kristallnacht. Today, coincidentally, is also the 90th anniversary of the attempted anti-Internationalist revolution in Bavaria. The Talmudists who control the governments, media and economies of the majority of the world are using today's anniversaries as an excuse to repeat the lies of years gone by, and to reinforce their brain-washing propaganda known as the 'Holocaust'. According to the hysterical drivel of the Shoah Industry, the 1... more »
Veterans Day
November 9, 2013 Monday, Veterans Day, we pay honor to the veterans of our various wars. Whatever you think about the validity of those wars and despite our penchant for seeing our veterans as either super heroes or super villains, … Continue reading →
"But its liberal values can be suffocating"
A very striking tweet from *Newsnight*'s Mark Urban, captured by DB at *Biased BBC*: *Mark Urban* @MarkUrban018 Nov@rogermosey excellent piece in the Times. I share your view #BBC no longer dominated by left. But its liberal values can be suffocating. Retweeted by Roger Mosey
Simple fixes: Raise the minimum wage
One bright spot in our blithering national debate is this new push to raise the minimum wage. The right people are finally talking about it. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Business owners applauded President Obama in backing a federal minimum wage increase to at least $10 an hour. "The American Dream needs a minimum wage increase," said Lew Prince, CEO and co-owner of Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis, the Midwest's largest independent music store. "The current minimum wage is too low for workers to live on and too low to sustain the consumer demand that businesses ne... more »
"GridEx II, Solar Max, And the Carrington Effect"; A Comment
* * *Fact: "The Carrington Event"* by The History Channel "On the morning of September 1, 1859, amateur astrologer Richard Carrington ascended into the private observatory attached to his country estate outside of London. After cranking open the dome's shutter to reveal the clear blue sky, he pointed his brass telescope toward the sun and began to sketch a cluster of enormous dark spots that freckled its surface. Suddenly, Carrington spotted what he described as "two patches of intensely bright and white light" erupting from the sunspots. Five minutes later the fireballs vanis... more »
Don Phillips - Technology from Extraterrestrials
*Don Phillips was in the Air Force at Las Vegas Air Force Base during an event when UFOs were seen moving at enormous speeds near Mt. Charleston, northwest of Las Vegas. In addition, he worked with Kelly Johnson at the Lockheed Skunkworks -- on design and construction of the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. He testifies that we not only have these extraterrestrial devices, but have also achieved tremendous technological advances from their study. He states that in the 1950's and 1960's, NATO did research into the origin of ET races, and disseminated reports to the leaders of various count... more »
What Mattered This Week?
A few obvious ones, but I'll go with the Iran story. We don't have the outcome yet, but surely it matters either way. "Doesn't matter" is too strong, but VA-AG is certainly a combination of elements that give something far more attention than it deserves. I think it was Dave Hopkins who made the more general point on Tuesday that we tend to pay disproportionate attention to these off-year elections, and he's of course exactly right. Add to that an exciting, close election, and there you go. What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Miscellany for another November weekend
Although the BBC’s commemoration of the anniversary of Kristallnacht that Craig mentioned last week in his R4 Sunday review was all fine and good, as Craig noted, its attitude to present day antisemitism is not so sensitive. I think they tend to do something quite unhelpful when they do ‘dead and/or humiliated Jews’. It’s not just that the Holocaust can easily be trivialised -- especially when so many people get away with equating Israel’s current treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis' treatment of the Jews; nor is it that there is a distinct likelihood of stirring up a back... more »
ObamaCare updates November 6 , 2013 - In the short term , one basic question is whether HHS and the Tech surge can get the healthcare.gov website functioning by the end of November , so that total chaos doesn't kick in when the December 15 , 2013 enrollment deadline for Jan 1 , 2014 coverage is hit..... A second key question is who is enrolling and who isn't enrolling ? For ObamaCare to work as centrally planned , you need young customers aka suckers to sign up - and so far , that hasn't happened ..... Meanwhile whether it Big Unions seeking work arounds or politicians and Regulators ( Federal and State ) gently forcing insurers to " reconsider " cancellations , our Orwellian " Affordable Healthcare Act " zombie continue to lurch and twitch around.....
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/07/uh-oh-hhs-still-discovering-new-bugs-in-obamacare-website-as-known-ones-are-fixed/ Uh oh: HHS still discovering new bugs in ObamaCare website as known ones are fixed POSTED AT 5:21 PM ON NOVEMBER 7, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT A “tech surge” update via Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog. Spoiler: Sebelius’s “important announcement” tomorrow isn’t going to be “we fixed it.” Today’s “Operational Update on the Health Insurance Marketplace” was not especially good news: As capacity problems at the start of HealthCare.gov get fixed, tech workers are finding new capacit... more »
Burning Bush: a dark movie about post-1968 events
Scott Armstrong is a climate skeptic and a forecasting expert – who wrote some sensible comments about the journalistic impartiality for Fox and LA Times – is challenging you to disprove his claim that there only exists one published paper that claims to provide s scientific forecast of long-term global mean temperatures. Well, I don't know which papers are exactly counted and for some interpretations, the proposition above seems to be untrue, but you may disagree so I copied the challenge for you. Scott recently watched Hřebejk's 2013 film "Honeymoon" [Líbánky] as well as the 3-pa... more »
NEA, AFT, Common Core, and VAM
I have been wondering about “the unions”– the two major national teachers unions– the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). I have been told that ”the unions” are the major forces on the side of classroom teachers in this fight against the corporate takeover of American public education. I want that to […]
New Article From John Kaminski: The Hitler Test
As a true student of history, I have become truly appalled by what I have discovered as being the real truth about the Second World War, and especially about Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler.... In spite of the constant Jewish run propaganda that has vilified Hitler constantly to this day, and continues to ram down peoples' throats the notion that he was "the most evil man" in all of our history, I have been pouring over thousands of documents, articles, and so called "history" books for decades, and I have found no evidence that supports the Jewish claim what so ever... In fact, it h...more »
6 Tips for Pain Relief Without Using Medication
I was given the opportunity to try some of the services at Brick Canvas so I could review them. All opinions are 100% my own. When I was in a bad car accident almost two years ago, I walked away, but I walked away with chronic pain that would plague me for a long time after. The pain for me manifested itself in my neck and through migraines. It was honestly excruciating and the only thing the doctors had to offer me were heavy pain killers. I didn't like the way they made me feel. The medication seemed almost as bad as the pain. The both made me feel like I wasn't myself. I knew I... more »
The Politics Behind Raising The Minimum Wage
As you probably noticed, progressives have been up in arms because Steve Israel and the DCCC have recruited Jennifer Garrison, "the Sarah Palin of Ohio," to run for Congress… as a Democrat. Most of the complaints have come from women's groups over Garrison's fanatic anti-Choice history and from LGBT groups because of her similarly fanatic history as an anti-gay crusader. Having been in the state legislature she has a long and sordid record on these, as well as environmental and ethical issues. None of that-- including an open letter to the DCCC-- prevented Steve Israel from recru... more »
The gallant BBC
Isn't David Dimbleby the perfect gentleman? Introducing (Chris Huhne's ex) Vicky Price on this week's *Question Time*, Mr Impartiality teed her up as "the economist Vicky Price, briefly detained at Her Majesty's pleasure earlier this year for taking her husband's speeding points, which she's written a book about". That's a plug for her book *and* no mention of the fact that she was actually convicted of perverting the course of justice (*not* for taking her husband's speeding points). Gallantry clearly still survives at the BBC. So does Christian forgiveness. Both Vicky and Chr... more »
Iraq War Watch November 9 , 2013 - mayhem continues as the direct result of the US intervention with state terror apparatus put in place by the US - War crimes continue and no one held accountable to date !
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-iraq-state-terrorism-473/ Iraq is still suffering from the US invasion because the apparatus of state oppression and terror is still in place, killing people every day. But few in the US seem to realize the scale of the war crimes committed in Iraq, an expert author told RT. In an exclusive interview with RT, Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of *“Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq,”* said that the world should learn the lessons from US invasions, such as respect for international law and the futility of military force. For more on ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Valley of Flowers National Park, West Himalaya. [photo via]
War watch November 6 , 2013 - Turkey patrols stops a ton of chemicals from being smuggled into Syria - another attempt by Syrian rebels to bring chemical weapons into the Syrian War theater ? Fighting against peace - does the US want endless war and if so , why ? News items of note for Pakistan , Syria and Iran...
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemicals-seized-207/ Turkish patrol seizes over a ton of chemicals from smugglers at Syria border Published time: November 04, 2013 20:29 Edited time: November 06, 2013 07:48 Get short URL [image: Turkish soldiers stand guard.(AFP Photo / Mira)] Turkish soldiers stand guard.(AFP Photo / Mira) Share on tumblr Trends Syria unrest, Syria-Turkey Tags Crime, Syria, Turkey, War Turkish border guards seized three vehicles loaded with over 1,000 kg of chemicals as they tried to illegally cross the border into Syria. One of the smugglers was arrested, while other... more »
Extracts: "With the atmosphere of threat created by 9/11, the final destruction of the protective features of law was quickly achieved in the name of making us safe from terrorists. The fact that we are no longer safe from our own government did not register. This is how liberty was lost, and America with it." "Remember, the FBI has stated publicly that it has no evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11..." "Still today insouciant Americans sport [yellow ribbons] on their cars unaware that what they are supporting are the murder of foreign women, children and village elders, the death and physical and mental maiming of American soldiers, and the worldwide destruction of the reputation of the United States..."
------------------------------ *How America Was Lost — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ November 7, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter How America Was Lost Paul Craig Roberts *“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law.* Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and ... more »
Grinding Rogues Honest
This is not about our public school system. But, as I see it, this is what I want to find in our public school system. When I was in high school I got a speech once from the basketball coach intended to teach me a life lesson. I imagine I was goofing around rather than applying myself with absolute discipline and determination to the task at hand of jumping in place or over a bench or something of that sort. He pulled me aside and said, "Storm, who do you think you are? This game, this team, this school, this town was here before you and it will be here after you. What do you th... more »
IN THE CROSSHAIRS
I was back out on the streets of Bath yesterday after taking a day off from my door-to-door efforts around the Bath Iron Works (BIW) tax break issue. My legs were tired and it rained on Thursday so it worked nicely for me. I will finish the last of our flyers today by hitting the remaining part of town we'd not yet visited. By this evening we should have done the vast majority of houses in the city. Nine of us have been doing this door-to-door work. From reports I am hearing many local business people are now asking the question: "Can we ask the city of Bath for a tax break as ... more »
You may need to sit down
As Cilla used to say, 'Surprise, surprise!'... The ITV News website's top two stories at the moment are *'At least 1200 dead' in typhoon* and *PM backs marines after murder*. The same two stories top the Sky News website:* At least '1,200 dead' by Typhoon Haiyan* and *Cameron backs marines after 'appalling' murder*. The BBC News website, however, adding somewhat to the corporation's image for being utterly obsessed with its main rivals - especially the Murdoch Empire - is leading with *BT wins £897m Champions League deal *(i.e. one in the eye for Sky). Even the *Guardian *relegat... more »
The Office Of The Prime Minister Of Canada Encouraged Senator Duffy To Lie About The Source Of The $90,000 And Coached Him On What To Say To The Media
** *"An e-mail has surfaced that shows the Prime Minister’s Office offered Senator Mike Duffy communications advice just days before he told Canadians he’d repaid questionable expense claims out of his own pocket.* *It will fuel the controversy over recent allegations by Mr. Duffy – now suspended from the Senate – that the PMO told him to lie to Canadians about the source of the $90,000 used to reimburse taxpayers for controversial expenses.* *The money had in fact come secretly from former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright, a fact that was kept hidden from Canadians until mid-May ... more »
The Washington Post gets its pom-poms out!
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013* *Editorial board cheerleads/misleads about those test score gains:* The Washington, D.C. public schools recorded good score gains on the 2013 NAEP. In yesterday’s featured editorial, the paper’s editorial board got its pom-poms out. They did some of their familiar cheerleading for “education reform.” They also offered a misleading picture of score gains in D.C. This is the way the editorial began, headline included. Much of this is technically accurate. Much of this is misleading WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL (11/8/13): *High marks for D.C. schools* *Scho... more »
Traditions
Ah, it’s that time of the year when one of the UK’s tabloid newspapers (probably the ‘Daily Mail’) publishes an article about an Anglican vicar who doesn’t like the patriotic hymn ‘I Vow To Thee My Country' (Thaxted). Everyone’s a winner here: The vicar gets off his chest all his angst about this particular patriotic hymn and wins some kudos from right-on types; the newspaper gets a story it knows will excite (i.e. wind up) its traditional readership; the newspaper’s readers (duly wound up) get to enjoy giving the lefty, right-on, neer-do-well vicar a good slagging off; a Conservati... more »
Living in Ford Nation
Mitchell Anderson writes that we're all living in Ford Nation now: Mayor Ford’s puzzling popularity in the face of one salacious scandal after another seems to be propelled by his cheapening effect on values — and how that appeals to a morally lazy electorate. Like a pair of drunks egging each other on, Ford and his die-hard supporters are enabling each other’s bad behaviour, something that’s gone far beyond mere substance abuse. Ford’s everyman appeal stems in part from how he makes it respectable to indulge our ugliest instincts. Don’t care about the poor? Neither does he. Are ... more »
Untitled
*Jefferson, Plaquemines consider filing lawsuits ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* ~Even as Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration launched an all-out assault this year against a state agency’s lawsuit accusing energy companies of destroying coastal wetlands, officials in the Republican strongholds of Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes were quietly preparing their own cases aimed at forcing the oil and gas industry to repair the damage it allegedly has done in those areas. In coming weeks, both parishes’ councils could file their own suits centered around allegations that t... more »
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