Interior of MIT's non-denominational chapel. Designed by Eero Saarinen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aerial view of Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. The Bell Labs building in Holmdel is an architectural heirloom, designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen, with a proud and distinguished history. For 44 years it was the home of an advanced research lab owned successively by Bell Telephone, AT&T, Lucent, and Alcatel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: JFK International Airport Español: Vista del Aeropuerto Internacional John F. Kennedy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)“Fahrenheit 451″ 60 Years Later: “Why do we need the things in books?”
\”Fahrenheit 451\” 60 Years Later: \”Why do we need the things in books?\”.
via “Fahrenheit 451″ 60 Years Later: “Why do we need the things in books?”.
Hey Twitter, where's my $595?
Twitter's floatation has provided a handy basis for measuring the value
that each Twitter user has contributed to that company's valuation. Time
has produced a simple calculator that tells you how much Twitter 'owes' you
based on the value you created for it.
So where's my $595?
TWA Terminal, by Eero Saarinen, gets a makeover
[image: TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New
York, NY]
When it was built, Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Terminal at New York’s JFK
Airport was a dramatic celebration of the New Age of Modern Flight—which in
1962 virtually meant the modern age.
Having just been renovated for the new New Age of Mass Modern Flight, one
lucky blogger got a chance to look around. As they say, “This was the
cathedral to aviation, if there ever was one, and you [still] feel through
the design the pride and optimism [of] the aviation industry.”
[Pics by Untapped Cities, Ezra Stolle... more »
North Korea 'Publicly Executes 80 People' - Yahoo News UK
' North Korea has reportedly publicly executed 80 people for watching South
Korean television shows.The unconfirmed killings, said to be the first
known large-scale executions by the Kim Jong-Un regime, took place across
seven cities earlier this month, a source told South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo
Daily .Eight people had their heads covered with white sacks and were tied
to stakes at Shinpong Stadium in Wonsan, in Kangwon Province, as they were
shot dead by North Korean forces, the newspaper reported.Witnesses
apparently told the source that authorities forced some 10,000 people,
in... more »
Report: Jordan vetoes Israeli request to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount | JPost | Israel News
Jews denied the right to worship at the holiest site for Judaism by a state
that banned almost all Jewish access to The Temple Mount when they occupied
Jerusalem 1948-1967.
More here
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Report-Jordan-vetoes-Israeli-request-to-allow-Jewish-prayer-on-Temple-Mount-331443
Influx of Roma migrants could spark city riots, warns Blunkett | Mail Online
'The Mail yesterday quoted the mayor of two Romanian villages as saying
half of their residents will move to the UK when restrictions are lifted in
January.Koller Gabriel-Adrian said he believed '50 per cent' of the 1,100
people in poverty-stricken Berini and Uliuc could travel to Britain in
search of higher salaries – and the generous welfare system – in the New
Year. He added: 'In January, the only thing left in the village will be the
goat.'
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2502072/Influx-Roma-migrants-spark-city-riots-warns-Blunkett.html
Sensible creature the... more »
The Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test received quite a lot of coverage on the BBC, Women's Hour
were especially excited by the idea of rating films according to how female
friendly they were - if only all films could be like Fried Green Tomatoes!
Here's a cartoon that explains a problem with the Bechdel Test...
Well I did really enjoy Alien, mostly for the action and suspense but not
at all for the female to female conversation between Ripley and Lambert.
However these images may also partly explain my fondness for Alien and the
soft spot that I still have for Sigourney Weaver...
Disney on Ice, Our Favorite Outing of the Year
The first time we took my daughter to Disneyland, she was two weeks old.
Yup, two weeks. She even went on It's a Small World, The Haunted Mansion
and Pirates. Quite the adventure for a little tiny baby. Unfortunately, we
haven't been back since. It is part of the reason we are always sure to hit
Disney on Ice when it rolls into town. We can share the Disney Magic with
our little one without making the trek to California or Florida.
This fall's show Passport to Adventure, is phenomenal, it is a trek
through Africa with The Lion King, Under the Sea with The Little Mermaid,
Hawaii ... more »
Typhoon Haiyan: similar unspectacular cyclones arrive every 2-3 years
Today in the morning, I was stunned by the dishonesty of the professional
climate alarmists again. Their moral defects are just shocking. It seems
completely obvious to me that they must know that they are lying 24 hours a
day.
This controversy is about the claim that the typhoon Haiyan was the
strongest tropical cyclone that ever made a landfall, and so on. You can
see this preposterous misinformation almost everywhere. For example, start
with the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Typhoon Haiyan.
All the mistakes are completely obvious and demonstrable, as I will argue
... more »
IPCC: Fixing the Facts | Climate Audit
http://climateaudit.org/2013/09/30/ipcc-disappears-the-discrepancy/
Don’t Divest, Educate—An Open Letter to American Universities | Center for Industrial Progress
http://industrialprogress.com/signatures/
11.11: lest we forget, let's not forget: there is no glory in war.
For Canadians who fear and distrust the steadily growing militarism
suffusing the culture of our country, two recent books are indispensable: *What
We Talk About When We Talk About War*, by Noah Richler, and *Warrior
Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety* by Ian McKay and Jamie
Swift.
Richler's book focuses on the re-writing and re-framing the distant past.
And as the title (with its homage to Raymond Carver) suggests, Richler
focuses on language. He analyzes how Canada's image of itself, in relation
to war-making and the military, has been radically altered, bit by
increm... more »
Postscript on Typhoon Haiyan: Hazard Vulnerability, Disasters, and Security
I found two pieces that asked similar questions to my earlier post on why
this typhoon appeared to be so destructive and why similar storms in Asia
are especially deadly. Both raise interesting questions for scholars of
security studies and environmental politics. Max Fisher raises a similar
set of concerns in the Washington Post asking why the
Continue reading
a bear in duck’s clothing: reflections on the end of my blogging career
Blogging is an exercise of academic freedom, like writing journal articles
or books. Blogging is something that has evolving norms and rules, like
writing journal articles or books. However, given its nature, the evolution
of the field, and the evolution of technology, the norms of blogging are,
for better or worse, unique. It is the
Continue reading
The Data Quality Campaign: Encouraging States to Ramp Up Data Collection
In April 2013, I wrote a post about the inBloom database and Louisiana
Superintendent John White’s secret arrangement with inBloom. White’s
inBloom arrangement is not the only student data sharing agreement into
which White has entered. It is one of many arrangements White has made and
about which the public has been kept in the dark. So […]
Rich Coleman, British Columbia`s Minister of Giving Away Public Assets To BC Liberal Friends(An LNG Story)
* **Written and assembled by Grant G**
*
*B.C.'s Auditor General John Doyle has condemned former forests minister
Rich Coleman for allowing a forestry company to remove land from three tree
farm licences for residential development, citing the possibilities of
conflicts of interest and insider trading by government staff.*
* *
*The report, released Wednesday in Victoria, said Coleman's decision to
remove private forest lands from three tree farm licences (TFLs) on
southern Vancouver Island was made without sufficient regard for the public
interest.*
* **The auditor general also... more »
Common Core’s nonsensical, corporate questions confuse even Shinonome Nano!
Common Core’s nonsensical, corporate questions confuse even Shinonome Nano!
#CCSS #LAUSD http://t.co/L1qOH2gQqi — Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene)
November 12, 2013 Tagged: ccss, common core, common core state standards,
corporate education reform, david coleman
Common Core’s nonsensical, corporate questions confuse even Shinonome Nano!
Common Core’s nonsensical, corporate questions confuse even Shinonome Nano!
#CCSS #LAUSD http://t.co/L1qOH2gQqi
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) November 12, 2013
Leonard Peltier 'Inside Looking Out' Nov. 11, 2013
Inside
Looking Out
By Leonard Peltier
Nov. 11, 2013
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
Greetings my relatives, friends and supporters,I am communicating to you
today to address some of the concerns about the changes that have taken
place within the organization that leads the efforts to bring about my
freedom. I am referencing the LPDOC as you well know, those of you who
are
"Big Chris" Christie is all but elected president; can someone explain how he's going to get nominated?
[*Click to enlarge.*]
*by Ken*
Now that the nomination of Chris Christie as the 2016 Republican candidate
for president is all but official, even as the sure-to-be-virulent "hell
no" of the party's farthest-right wing is acknowledged, a spell of
craziness. So, for example, we have the normally cool-headed Froma Harrop
imagining arguing the Large One coming to ground in the White House and
arguing, "A President Christie Would Spell Tea Party's Doom."
Can you hear the smashing of tea party china? Christie is everything the
right-wingers can't stand. If he becomes the face of the Re... more »
Montessori's Genius: Independence
*Guest post by Jennifer Rogers*
Any genius possesses rare talents of the mind and heart. They are
usually awkward introverts, strange, muttering fellows who boil vast
quantities of complex information down to a useful truth. Stephen Hawking
fit the universe in a nutshell. Charles Darwin explained the evolution of
all life through the wizened smile of a tortoise. Jonas Salk pondered
millions of polio cells and created the tiny vaccination that rescued
humanity.
Genius and talent are not commonly attributed to parents. Parenting is not
a competitive field of inquiry, tho... more »
Measuring ghosts
*MEASURING GHOSTS*
A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question
"Can We Measure Autism ?" To my mind this begs the question, "is there
really something called "autism" that we should be trying to measure ?".
The authors Isaac S. Kohane and Alai Eran inadvertently make the case in
the negative. They first of all note the controversy that recent changes in
the "psychiatric Bible", the DSM, have provoked. To their credit they
mention the "changes in funding" behind some of the debate, though they
stop short of a robust criticism of the "mental illness compl... more »
Libtards Seven Deadly Sins
Seven deadly sins of being a libtard
1) not believing in a Skygod. Every text we have says the world is 6000
years old, only a libtard could not believe the Flintstones was not a
documentary.
2) Not believing in natural law. Both Mormons and Muslims at one time
justified polygamist relationships as Gods will. If you look at nature
that's a very solid position. Look at all the advanced mammals that have a
harem. Hmm that would lead to a defence of evolution so lets stop there.
3) Practicing best practices. Like a blood transfusion will save your life,
but sorry I gotta die cause its m... more »
Scranton , Pa facing another fiscal crisis ? Moody's issues warning on Scranton - bankruptcy or default at risk if Scranton fails to close 20 million budget deficit by November 15 , 2013 deadline to introduce spending plan for the fiscal year commencing January 1 , 2014 ! Apart from the 20 million budget gap , Scranton needs to borrow somehow another 28 million owed to its police and fire unions to pay a court ordered settlement . And in sum , Scranton has 100 million in unfunded pension debt , to accompany another 195 million in other debt owed .
http://watchdog.org/115443/moodys-warns-bankruptcy-scranton-city-faces-20-million-budget-gap/
Moody’s warns of bankruptcy in Scranton as city faces $20 million budget gap
By Eric Boehm / November 11, 2013 / No Comments
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By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
*Scranton* could be headed towards another fiscal crisis like the one that
resulted in city workers having their pay cut to minimum wage in 2012,
according to a major credit ratings agency.
[image: GOING BUST: Scranton could default or face bankruptcy before the
end of the year, if the city doe... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by long-time JFK
assassination researcher and author *Pat Shannan*. Pat and I will be
discussing his new book, *The JFK Assassination and the Uncensored Story of
the Two Oswalds*.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Be sure to visit Pat's website *www.PatShannan.us* where you can find more
information about the books he has authored. Also, if you purchase two
books, you will receive a third book of your choice for fr... more »
The Day After Remembrance
I can remember sitting on my Grandfather's knee, fascinated by the
different anatomy he had on his right arm. The missing fingers, the muscles
that weren't there. Souvenirs of Passchendaele.
The story he told about taking shots from a very long distance to knock out
the Berlin-Istanbul telegraph line, miles behind the lines at Gallipoli.
Every morning, at first light, a group of snipers would be tasked with
infiltrating behind the Turkish lines, to take out the milk-bottle sized
insulators from about a mile - as close as they could get. It took many
shots, but they'd do it. And tha... more »
In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan , survivors try to pick up the pieces .......State of National Calamity ( nice way of saying martial law ) declared and is needed as incredible structural damages not just to homes and building but the national grid , transportation and communications - coupled with rampant looting ( survival tactics by the devastated , opportunism by others naturally ) has crushed the nation.....Total devastation which wiped out television , radio and naturally internet communication hampering relief efforts as food , potable water , medicines in short supply if supplied at all presently..... .... with half of the country 80 provinces impacted , no way at this time to accurately account for dead, displaced or missing.... rebuilding costs - economic damages could hit 14 billion ( USD ) , Monies the government has to fund reconstruction - 429 million.......
http://rt.com/news/philippines-state-national-calamity-544/
Death, hunger and looting: Typhoon-ravaged Philippines declares state of
national calamity
Published time: November 11, 2013 16:21
Edited time: November 11, 2013 21:41
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[image: A surivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by Super
Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban in the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on
November 11, 2013.(AFP Photo / Noel Celis)]
A surivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by Super Typhoon
Haiyan in Tacloban in the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on November
11, 2013.(AFP Phot... more »
Who Will Protect Us From The NSA If Not Congress?
The new letter to Blue America members earlier today is all about electing
a progressive U.S. Senator in Maine, Shenna Bellows. If you contribute to
Shenna, or any Blue America candidate-- any amount-- you'll be a member
too… and you'll get the e-mail blasts long before they're up on our blogs.
Overall, we see Shenna as a fearless and proven fighter, someone of the
calibre of Elizabeth Warren. Her big issues can be summarized into 5 easy
categories that she has consistently brought up to us as we've gotten to
know her:
*•* Restoration of our constitutional freedoms, particularly ... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : October Interviews with Poppy Northcutt, Maneesha James, Seth Holmes, and Thomas Zigal
Frances
"Poppy" Northcutt with Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer in the studios of
KPFT-FM in Houston, Friday, October 25, 2013. Photo by Guy Schwartz /
The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio podcasts:
Thorne Dreyer interviews Poppy Northcutt,
Maneesha James, Seth Holmes, and Tom Zigal
Our October guests address Texas feminist history, issues involved with
death and dying, the plight of migrant farmworkers, and the
France Is Now Officially Israel's Bitch: French Obey Their Jewish Masters, Derail Iranian Nuclear Talks, And Get Rewarded For Obeying Their Masters' Wishes!
I really do not like being proven right again… I have said time and time
again that these "talks" between the innocent and peaceful nation of Iran,
and the so called "P5+1" states over Iran's non-existent "nuclear weapons"
program were doomed from their onset…. Israel and the Jews would never
allow their minion states to sign off on any agreement with Iran, simply
because these psychotic criminals have always wanted Iran destroyed, and to
have their minions do all the fighting and dying in a war for that nation's
destruction. That is why I have looked at these "talks" as nothing mo... more »
Remembrance Day/Veterans Day: Poppycock - Why Remembrance Rituals Make Me See Red
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, and Veterans Day in the United States….
This day marks the 95th anniversary of November 11th, 1918, when at 11am
European time, the guns on the Western front went silent and the fighting
of World War I officially came to a bitter end….
It is not my place to vilify those brave individuals that gallantly fought
for their nations in these conflicts…. Many believed in the cause and they
had faith in their leadership and at the time went off to fight and die
under the assumption that they were fighting for liberty, freedom, and
justice….. But now that ... more »
Libya updates November 11 , 2013 - PM Ali Zeidan has his hands more than full trying to hold things together in forgotten Libya ! Libyan separatists take over oil exports as PM Ali Zeidan predictably warns of foreign intervention - and with whom's Army will this foreign intervention be launched ?
Libya = Chaosistan ?
Libya Herald......
Zeidan floats idea to buy up illegally-held arms with outside help
*By Ahmed Elumami.*
*Tripoli, 11 November 2013:*
The government may need international help to organise the purchase and
collection of weapons not held by the police, army and affiliated units,
prime minister Ali Zeidan has said.
Zeidan proposed yesterday at his press conference that Libya needed to take
advantage of international experience, to set up a programme to buy up all
illegally-held arms in the country.
Zeidan said that if the GNC approved his plan, the government woul... more »
Keynes’s Ghost Continues To Haunt Economics
*Guest post by William Anderson** *
According to Keynesian economics, recession is not supposed to accompany
inflation. So when the U.S. economy dipped into an inflationary recession
in 1969, Murray Rothbard noted (in his introduction to the Second Edition
of *America’s Great Depression*) that while the Keynesian paradigm could *
not* explain that phenomenon, Austrian economics *could*.
If Rothbard was correct — and he was — then one might think Keynesian
“economics” should have been deep-sixed permanently, given it could not
explain what everyone saw happening.
Likewise, during ... more »
Quote of the Day: On nonconformity
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would
gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of
goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself,
and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from *Self-Reliance and Other Essays*
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Weekend ObamaCare items of note November 8-10 , 2013 .... Website Czar paving the way for delays as more software and capacity issues come to the surface ? Most uninsureds ignoring healthcare exchanges anyway - the point of this exercise called ObamaCare was what again ? Vulnerable Dems squealing like stuck pigs to the White House to fix this clusterfark pronto - or else Congress will go take matters in their own hands ......Additional items of note and some well earned mockery..........
Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
Saturday
items.....
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/11/09/implementing-health-reform-the-individual-market-mental-health-and-substance-abuse-parity/
Implementing
Health Reform: The Individual Market; Mental Health And
Substance Abuse Parity
------------------------------
November 9th, 2013
*by* *Timothy Jost*
The first week of November, 2013, was a very bad week for the health
care
reform project. Healthcare.gov continues to stumble. Although the
Department of Health and Human Services continues to insist in daily
briefings that the performance of the website is improving, an... more »
COST OF OCCUPATION / BETRAYAL AND MISERY
**
**
*In five years, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama, the agent of hope
and change, has become the prince of darkness and his presidency has become
a farce ~ an absurdly futile exercise in pretense and broken promises from
a president who cloaks himself with drones and armor and who answers only
to the corporate global elite.*
*The cost of occupation in both Iraq and Afghanistan is the silence of
moral disillusion and betrayal by a dying Empire ~ for our military has
bought into a War on Terror farce which will not go away and continues
through this Veterans day in 201... more »
Disaster help
A Filipino friend tells me the best way to help those devastated by Super
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) is through the Philippines Embassy.
You can find the necessary details halfway down the Embassy website’s front
page, i.e.,
the Federation of Filipino Associations, Societies and Clubs in New
Zealand Inc. (FFASCNZ Inc.) is now making the necessary arrangements.
Donations may be made at the following bank account:
• FFASCNZ Inc Westpac Bank Account:* 03-1702-0149293-00*
• Particulars: *Individual’s Name or Name of Organization*
• Analysis/Reference: *YOLANDA*... more »
St. Paul Teachers in Historic Battle
Sign the petition and support the St. Paul teachers.
A message from Jesse Hagopian:
I have been in close contact with the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers
union president Mary Catherine Ricker who is leading one of the most
important struggles for public education in the nation.
Mary is very inspired by the Seattle MAP boycott and has asked for my
support in their struggle against standardized testing. *When I met Mary
in L.A. a few weeks back, she told me the full story of how she got major
community and parent support to attempt to get rid of a state mandated
standardized ... more »
Veterans' Day Links
Here's a sampling of some great writing to mark Armistice Day (which,
connoting peace the way it does, has been changed in the Land of
Forever-War to Veterans' Day):
The sanctimony of phony politicians paying lip service to vets once or
twice a year is pissing Harry Leslie Smith off. He explains why he'll stop
wearing the traditional red poppy in remembrance of the fallen war dead:
(h/t Pearl.)
However, I am afraid it will be the last time that I will bear witness to
those soldiers, airmen and sailors who are no more, at my local cenotaph.
From now on, I will lament their passing i... more »
E.1027, by Eileen Gray
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The unromantic sounding name of this concrete and steel house in the South
of France disguises a romantic past, and a controversial present.
[image: E-1027 house by Eileen Gray]
Designed with her lover Jean Badovici; painted with murals by Le Corbusier
(without Gray’s permission); home to a murder in 1996; and now subject to a
restoration that has been called a “massacre” of the original.
A house is *not *a machine to live in," wrote the pioneering modernist
Eileen Gray in response to Le Corbusier's oft-quoted line about a house
being a *machine á habiter*. "It is t... more »
Is Mainstream Media Hiring from Write for America?
Bob Somerby at the daily howler seems to be onto something with this
analysis of an article on NAEP by Julia Ryan* at The Atlantic: Ryan is
typical of the people who are being hired to write about low-income
schools. At Time, at the Nation, at the Atlantic, even at the New York
Times, the […]
Politicians Seek To Stab Veterans In The Back On-- What Else?-- Veterans Day
John Mica (R-FL), no friend of veterans
Today, every candidate and every congressmember who ever managed to get
their grubby paws on my e-mail address-- both parties-- sent out Veterans
Day greetings. They were all pretty much the same pious ass-kissing, many
from conservatives who expect the most from the military and who had
actually voted against veterans over and over again. A Daily Kos diarist,
War on Error, delineated 7 bills to benefit veterans that conservatives
killed in Congress:
*H.R. 466*-- Wounded Veteran Job Security Act-- This bill would actually
provide job security... more »
Monday Evening Linkage
Transgender Veterans are fighting to get their military paperwork to match
their preferred gender identity. This raises SO many interesting and
important issues for the US military- ones that it will have to face. For
example, discharge papers -which may include an individuals former gender
identifier- are used for future employment, benefits, funeral instructions
etc.
Continue reading
The John Lewis Christmas Advert
Bah humbug! There's uneaten pumpkin pie sitting in the fridge, *and* at
least another evening of fireworks to look forward to as bonfire month
draws to a close. And yet, there it was. Like a nativity star fizzing in
the sky John Lewis have unveiled the two minutes, ten seconds of their
festive advert. Yeah, so choosing November 10th to launch your advent
advertising campaign jumps the shark a little bit, but we live in a world
where Tesco and Sainsbury's start flogging Christmas gear *at the end of
August*. John Lewis is Johnny-come-lately. I also gather the advert has
become somet... more »
Typhoon Haiyan and Asia’s Special Vulnerability to Climate-Related Hazards
You probably saw the horrific photos and video of Typhoon Haiyan (also
known as Yolanda) that made landfall over the weekend in the Philippines,
with winds nearing 200 miles an hour and an immense 13 foot storm surge
that decimated infrastructure, leading to wide-scale loss of life due to
drowning and collapsed buildings. According to
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Weekend Update
Another busy weekend with Teen Daughter in town, a family birthday dinner,
movie night with the church men's group, and lunch with the area
geocachers.
After work on Friday Southern Man dashed up to get Teen Daughter and raced
back into town for the fall birthday dinner...
Three Southern Cousins, all fine young men even if some of them go to the
wrong state university...
...and their father, Southern Brother.
Southern Father and Teen Daughter at the dominoes table.
...after which Southern Man zipped across town to meet up with some men
from church at a local grill and then a... more »
Top Jewish leaders in America slam Obama administration
*The Algemeiner*, a popular online Jewish news source, reported yesterday
that many top Jewish leaders in America are not happy with the Obama
administration, especially in light of Secretary of State John Kerry's
remarks regarding the ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran centering
around Iran's nuclear proliferation program, in addition to statements he
made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Top American Jewish leaders had harsh words Sunday for U.S. Secretary of
State, John Kerry, and the Obama administration. Their comments came after
recent remarks made by Kerry on Isra... more »
Test and Punish Moratorium: “I Won’t be Ignored!”
On Friday a colleague and I attended a meeting at a community center. We
were there to talk about how our college was going to help the community
center continue a program that helps low income children develop cultural
capital. Why? Because like any program funded through a grant the money
was just about gone. […]
Deeply Conflicted About Weather Extremes
Last week I gave a talk on how the IPCC has treated the issue of extreme
weather events over the years. I concluded that despite some very positive
signs that the community is reclaiming scientific integrity on this issue
(see IPCC SREX and AR5), some part of the community -- especially visible
leaders -- remain deeply conflicted. Following my talk a few colleagues
asked me for evidence of that deep conflict. Here is a good one.
Have a look at the picture above (courtesy @JPvanYpersele on Twitter) of
IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri presenting the findings of AR5 and SREX to
COP19 ... more »
Compare and contrast.
North Korea a “prison camp”? “Nothing could be further from the truth,” said
Gareth Morgan back in September.
Now, it’s reported that North Korea has publicly executed 80 people for
watching banned television programmes, including
in the eastern port of Wonsan, [where] the authorities gathered 10,000
people in a sports stadium to watch the execution of eight people by firing
squad…
Public executions on trumped-up charges are so common in the slave state,
it’s clear North Korea has little interest in concealing what it is.
Unlike Gareth.
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Iran's Nuclear Rights vs. the West's "Bombastic Diplomacy"
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry and Undersecretary Wendy Sherman meet
with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton and
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva, November 9,
2013.
(AP)
Reports following the end of the most recent round of talks between six
world powers and Iran in Geneva early Sunday morning revealed that,
while a preliminary deal was
Word salad, dummy, dummy
Breaking my personal embargo on 2016 speculation and any mention whatsoever
of Klondike Blarbie because this is too delicious not to share. It's clear
our Griftzilla of the Frozen North is testing the waters for her next big
grift. She's in Iowa. She's at the fundie confabs. She's dishing up her
special brand of bizarre word salad on the Today Show. When asked to
explain her alternative proposal for Obamacare, she spewed this out:
"The plan is to allow those things that had been proposed over many years
to reform a health-care system in America that certainly does need more
help s... more »
World's Best London Broil
When I say we eat this London Broil in our house almost every other week, I
am not lying. My husband and I both love this so much, that it seems like
every time we pass a London Broil in the grocery store is just ends up in
our cart. We have tried lots of other recipes, but nothing compares to this
one. The blend of spices is just perfect and when cooked right, the meat is
absolutely divine. We have never had leftovers on a night when we have made
this recipe. It is just that good.
Marinating is absolutely essential for this recipe. You need to let meat
sit in the marinade in your... more »
Kristof discusses low-income kids!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013*
*Fails to pursue basic questions:* Yesterday was a very rare day at the New
York Times’ Sunday Review.
Don’t misunderstand! The section featured its usual frippery from Maureen
Dowd. In her column, Dowd was concerned about the insults the dumbasses
dish at each other on Comedy Central’s roasts.
(Can we talk? They do this to garner minimal ratings from the rest of
nation’s dumbasses.)
We’ll put Dowd alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is concerned about the
insulting things NFL players say to each other, in a situation where it’s
very hard to know what’s go... more »
Will John Boehner Be Able To Defeat Independent-Minded Republican Justin Amash In A Primary?
Last year, when Justin Amash first ran for reelection to Congress in a west
Michigan district centered on Grand Rapids and Battle Creek (MI-03) the
Democratic Party put up a corrupt conservative hack, Steve Pestka, who
could never heart him. It was the first time ever, *DWT* suggested voters
consider voting for a Republican over a Democrat. Obama had narrowly beaten
McCain in 2008, but fell short against homeboy Mitt Romney, 177,772 (53%)
to 153,053 (46%). Almost 10,000 of those Obama voters didn't bother casting
ballots for Pestka-- an anti-Choice fanatic-- that day. Three months ... more »
FALLING LEAVES
We've got a yard full of leaves with still more to fall in the many trees
surrounding our house. I did some raking and cleaning up of the flower
gardens this morning but much more yet needs to be done. Bit by bit.
Still have several of the vegetable garden beds to clean out. My
door-to-door work last week has set me back but hopefully will get caught
up in the coming days.
The last two nights were fun for MB and I as we took a couple neighborhood
girls to a play at Bowdoin College. One of our Bowdoin student friends was
in the play and we all were excited to see her in action... more »
PHILIPPINES TYPHOON CAUSED BY US MILITARY WEAPON - REPORT
Dr Michio Kaku, the Weather Channel and CNN have discussed tropical storms
caused by microwave beams (pulses).
Reports have emerged that the typhoon which hit the Philippines was caused
by a microwave beam.
The microwave beam was observed in the West Pacific and it appears to have
created the typhoon.
Reportedly, a U.S. Airforce base is located near the source of the
microwave beam.
The U.S. base is reportedly a satellite communications hub.
After the microwave beam emission, satellite images showed a "heavy
rotation" begin to develop, eventually becoming a large tropical stor... more »
Another useless climate conference: Warsaw
Today, COP19/MOP9 began in the Polish capital. It will continue through
November 22nd. Yes, it's already the 19th COP (Conference of the [UNFCCC]
Parties).
The previous United Nations climate hysteria conferences took place in
Berlin, Geneva, *Kyoto*, Buenos Aires, Bonn, The Hague, Bonn, Marrakech,
New Delhi, Milan, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Nairobi, *Bali*, Poznań, *
Copenhagen*, Cancún, Durban, and Doha. Next year, they will travel
somewhere to Peru. I tried to use the bold face for some of the conferences
that were more memorable than others – Kyoto because it gave the world the
su... more »
What an Al-Monitor Analyst Gets Wrong about Arak
The
Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor in Iran
In a new piece over at Al-Monitor, Iranian-born Israeli analyst Meir
Javedanfar commends the blocking of a preliminary nuclear deal between
the P5+1 and Iran by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius over the
issue of Iran's continuing construction of the Qatran Complex, a heavy
water facility near Arak, a city southwest of Tehran.
But it is
More Steps Towards Reconciliation Between Iraq’s Central Government And Anbar Province
Ten months since the protests started in Anbar in December 2012 it now
appears that a political deal might be cut to end them. Speaker Osama
Nujafi’s Mutahidun Party has gone from one of their biggest supporters to
now wanting to end them, while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is under
pressure to make some concessions given the deteriorating security
situation in the country. The change in mood has been seen over the last
two months as the premier has met with various Anbar notables including
Governor Ahmed Diab and Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha the head of the Awakening.
It’s far from ... more »
Chile: An Invisible Being Photographed in Angol
*Source: Noticiero Ufológico Autónomo (Chile)
Date: 11 November 2013*
*Chile: An Invisible Being Photographed in Angol*
*By Raul Gajardo Lepold
** Curious photo submitted to the NOUFA Newsroom ***
Mrs. Janette Villa Torres, married, with a high school degree and
considered a trustworthy person at her place of employment, since she works
as a municipal official in downtown Angol (9th Region), never imagined she
would manage to photograph what we are showing to our readers.
Her intention was to take a photo of the Moon and the planet Venus, which
shone in the heavens on 7 November a... more »
CBS: Cronkite's Bastard Sons
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
What we ought to be talking about is not what a bad two weeks
President Obama and the ACA just endured but what a bad fortnight CBS had
had.
Within a week, CBS issued two reports that, in a sane universe,
should've completely erased any middling credibility they'd earned by
finally getting rid of eye candy Katie Couric and installing Scott Pelley
in the *Evening News* chair. Let's start with the recently-revived Benghazi
"scandal" on *60 Minutes*.
David Rhodes, a former Fox "News" operative, was made President of... more »
Heroes
While every Remembrance Day is important to me, this year's holds a special
importance as my Grandfather passed away October 29.
Requiescat in pace.
Bonus Sunday Question (on Veterans Day) for Everyone
What do you think the chances are that football becomes a real political
issue at some point in the next five years? Given the problems going on for
both the NFL and college football, could happen at either a national or a
state level (don't forget that in many states the local state college
football coach has the highest state government salary of anyone). Or
maybe, whether football's troubles remain or not, it never becomes a
political issue. What do you think?
DIVIDE AND RULE
You can criticise most things when you appear in the the media.
You can call left wingers 'scroungers' or 'elitist'.
You can call right wingers 'callous' and 'too fond of guns'.
The 'Divide and Rule' strategy is used by the top people to keep themselves
in power.
*Divide and Conquer, the Sacking of America *
The elite want us to argue about the *20% of details that keep us divided*,
thus preventing us from acting on the 80% on which we agree.
*Divide and Conquer, the Sacking of America*
*
*
The elite want us to get worked up about liberals, gays, conservatives,
blacks, Jews, M... more »
Kurt Vonnegut’s Children’s Crusade: Kindness
Kurt Vonnegut\’s Children\’s Crusade: Kindness. via Kurt Vonnegut’s
Children’s Crusade: Kindness.
Sarah Palin schools Matt Laurer on Obamacare...
*and does it quite well.*
Peace and poison
I thought the accent on pacifism sat rather uncomfortably in the
remembrance edition of the Andrew Marr show yesterday. Shirley Williams was
doing the paper review, and to end the programme tenor Ian Bostridge
performed a Benjamin Britten arrangement of O Waly Waly.
Shirley’s mother, Vera Brittain, was a well-known feminist and pacifist
who was friendly with Benjamin Britten, (a pacifist) which provided two
excuses to mention pacifism towards the end of the show, somewhat
reverentially I thought.
I suppose that was in the interest of balance? Pacifism is one of those
issues, lik... more »
@TheDailyShow: @thechalkface radio is looking for Jon Stewart.
Dear The Daily Show Producers, My name is Tim Slekar and I am one of the
co-hosts of @ the chalkface radio. @the chalkface is an internet radio
show dedicated to exposing corporate education reform through a sacracstic,
edgy, yet pointed critique. We have interviewed many guests over the last
two years including Diane Ravitch (4 times), […]
Your moment of Zen
The village of Bibury, England. [photo via Earth Pix]
Remembrance Day
On Remembrance Day let's not celebrate wars but think of those who lost
their lives. Let's not think of producing more deadly weapons of mass
destruction but let's think of how we can bring about peaceful world. Wars
are horror and destructions for all involved.
Before...
...and after...
By now, I'm sure you all have heard about the horrific devastation
that had struck the Philippines when Hurricane Haiyan, or Typhoon Yolanda
as it was known to the natives, made landfall. Haiyan packed winds of 200
mph and gusts up to 235 mph, with Tacloban City, shown above, in the
epicenter. On top of high winds and tsunami-like waves reaching 20 feet
high, those in Tacloban City couldn't have possibly have prepared
themselves for what's been called the most powerful storm on record. I've
read heartbreaking accounts of 30 members of one family gone missin... more »
Part 3: Has Corporate Education "Reform" Earned Another 25 Years to Complete the Resegregation and Privatization Agendas?
Part 1 here and Part 2 here:
The continued hydroplaning of NAEP scores nationally allows the world to
see what the corporate education losers will not admit: the 3rd generation
of test based accountability is not working.
Rather than moving beyond corporate ed reform's status quo (oxymoron
alert), however, Duncan and the shrinking elements of the corporate media
that still print the CorpEd news releases point, instead, to the RTTT grant
winners where scores rose in math and reading for both 4th and 8th graders:
DC and TN. Ignored are the 17 RTTT grant-winning states where they di... more »
Teacher Evaluations: Moving From a Flawed System to a Fair System
As a teacher in a low socio-economic status (SES) public middle school, I
can agree that the greatest in-school factor in promoting student growth is
teacher quality. That being said, the main concern I have centers
on how education reformers are holding teachers accountable for their
students’ test scores. More specifically, I’m concerned with the DCPS
IMPACT […]
Veterans Day Message from President George W. Bush...
*and we thank him.*
Local currencies - as BitCoin adoption particularly outside of the US grows , local currencies not only exist here in the US but have thrived for quite some time worldwide ! For those interested , info for local currencies available in your neck of the woods !
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
On the subject of BitCoin.....
As BitCoin Touches $400 The Senate Starts Seeking Answers... As Does The Fed
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/09/2013 12:38 -0500
- Central Banks
- European Central Bank
inShare2
Moments ago BitCoin hit $395, and will likely cross $400 in the immediate
future (the chart looks a little less scary in log scale).
So as more and more pile into the electronic currency, some due to
ideological reasons, some simply to chase momentum, some out of
disappointment with the manipulated gold price looking to park their
... more »
The US War on Peacemakers includes Censoring Native Women's Voices
Buffy
Sainte Marie
US threatened by peacemakers, spies on and imprisons them
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
If one reads through the Freedom of Information Act and whistleblower
documents, it becomes clear that the US government considers the true
peacemakers the biggest threat.
Peace groups are the most spied on and targeted group by the US -- those
who work for peace and work
Is the BBC stacking its audiences against UKIP?
'... the BBC could be spicing up its debates by placing people in the
audience "who can be relied on to take a rehearsed and provocative line"
after producers identify them through BBC-run phone-ins where their names
and opinions have been logged for future consideration as audience members.
'
More here
http://www.ukip.org/newsroom/news/1000-is-the-bbc-stacking-its-audiences-against-ukip
To be fair it's not just UKIP that the BBC rig their audiences against,
it's the Conservatives as well.
Storm of the Century
Let's just say that Typhoon Haiyan makes Katrina look like a gentle rain
and Sandy a mud puddle in the backyard. The destruction is simply too huge
to comprehend. Estimates of 10,000 people dead are probably, tragically,
way too low.
This was a poor country to begin with, with a long history of rotting
infrastructure and political corruption rooted in American imperialism. The
Filipinos are going to need all the assistance they can get. Starvation is
already happening.
You can find ways to help here.
Meanwhile be on the lookout for the tycoons to cash in on the
typhoon. They'll fi... more »
Veterans Day 2013
Southern Man salutes those who served, and those who currently place their
lives in harm's way that we might be free.
Are The Others like us? Or are they different?
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013*
*Salon catches up with Chris Mooney:* It may be the oldest question in the
history of warfare.
Are The Others basically *like* us? Or are “those people” in The Other
Tribe basically different? Perhaps even less than human?
Throughout history, the Great Souls have tended to go with the first
reaction. The war-makers have tended to pimp that second point of view.
It’s tempting to think that The Other Tribe is unlike us, perhaps less than
human. Our brains are wired to think that way. In prehistory, thinking that
way may have been a survival skill.
Today... more »
Poetry Defined by Dylan Thomas
**
**
*Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes
your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes
you know that you are not alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and
suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.*
**
*Dylan Thomas*
The Empire Lovers Strike Back - by Gore Vidal
The Empire Lovers Strike Back
*by Gore Vidal*
Recently, Norman Mailer and I chatted together at the Royale Theatre in New
York, under the auspices of PEN American Center. Part of what I said was
reprinted in these pages on January 11, under the title, not mine, “Requiem
for the American Empire.” I gave a bit of a history lesson about our
empire’s genesis, and I brooded on its terminus last fall, when Tokyo took
over from New York as the world’s economic center.
My conclusion: for America to survive economically in the coming
Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Unio... more »
Elsewhere: Tea Party, Boehner Rule
It's a holiday, so no good stuff today. Just my latest columns (yeah, wise
guys, very funny, you know what I mean).
My TAP column today returns to what I was talking about back in the winter
and spring: the Boehner Rule. It's actually Sarah Binder's observation,
first; what Boehner devised to deal with his dysfunctional party was to let
the Senate go first. Then if most of his conference wants things to pass --
even if they want to publicly oppose them -- they get a vote. One effect,
which we see now, is a logjam of popular items passed by the Senate and
waiting for House action.
A... more »
STALKING THE FAUX EDUCATION REPORTERS! Admittedly, they’re from the best schools!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013*
*Part 1—Who is Julia Ryan:* Who the heck is Julia Ryan?
This weekend, we decided to check. Reason? We read Ryan’s latest news
report on the web site of the Atlantic.
Ryan’s report appeared last Thursday. It attempted to inform Atlantic
readers about the nation’s new NAEP scores.
We’d call Ryan’s news report/analysis piece an utterly clueless disaster.
The work is so clueless, so under-informed, that a question crystallized
for us:
Who in the world is Julia Ryan? More specifically, why is she writing about
public schools for a famous old publication lik... more »
Fisheries Act amendments November 25
Fisheries and Ocean Canada has published a new Fisheries Protection Policy,
an accompanying Operational Approach for implementing the *Fisheries Act *changes,
and transitional guidance for existing and new authorizations. These are
available at www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/habitat/changes-changements/index-eng.htm.
Breaking Faith
Today we honour the dead. And that's as it should be. "If ye break faith
with us who die," John McCrae wrote, "we shall not sleep." It's easy to
keep faith with the dead. It doesn't cost much.
But we have broken faith with the living, the veterans who have come home
and who will carry the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Guy
Parent, who replaced military ombudsman Pat Strogan, is doing the same
thing for which Strogan was fired. Parent reports that the government has
abandoned returning veterans. According to the Canadian Press,
Guy Parent's long-awaited assessment of ... more »
Leadership: Speaker John Boehner, Alas, Will Never Be A Speaker Pat Murphy
It takes more to earn a Blue America endorsement than just the likelihood
of voting right. We like to get to know the candidates and try too get
behind the rhetoric. We look at past behavior of course but we also try to
figure out two intangibles: character and leadership. We don't just look
for someone to vote on the key issues that motivate progressives; we look
for people with the inclination and ability to *lead* on those issues,
which helps explain why we have been so enthusiastic about Senator
Elizabeth Warren, Congressman Alan Grayson and Pennsylvania state Senator
Daylin L... more »
ObamaCare updates - November 11 , 2013 - A nice overview fro Lambert Strether on the Rollout , why things went wronf due to organization dysfunction in the Administration and his observation of thw White house believe that any problem can be solved by better communication and more explaining ! Mish offers a reader's perspective on how ACA hits home for the newly non fulltime employees ! Identity theft raising its head as a woman in St Louis alleges she has had personal info stolen - from the ObamaCare website !
Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
Later day news slices....
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/11/cant-the-white-house-rewrite-obamacares-regs-to-reinstate-canceled-plans-before-the-end-of-the-year/
(White
House hung by their collective petards ? Part 1....)
Can’t the White House rewrite ObamaCare’s regs to reinstate canceled
plans
before the end of the year?
POSTED AT 6:31 PM ON NOVEMBER 11, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
The House is set to vote this week on Fred Upton’s “Keep Your Plan Act,”
which
would “re-grandfather” the insurance plans that were canceled because of
O-Care’s new regulations. I myself floated the ide... more »
Twenty Five Greatest Books of all Time
They are all sci fi because sci fi is the greatest form of literature ever.
Books I have not read are highlighted in blue.
Rank
Book Reddit Rating
Book Steve Rating
Reasons
1
To your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
1984 - George Orwell
1984 is the most influential Sci Fi book. Surely the most widely read.
2
The Shadow of the Torture by Gene Wolf
Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
A companion piece for 1984. These two books define the future.
3
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Most of the best are the first book in a series. Hyperion is the best
series in Sci... more »
Untitled
*Typhoon deaths climb into thousands*
*~Aerial view of Philippines disaster*
Untitled
*Ground games sputter for Saints, Cowboys ~Ramon Antonio Vargas, New
Orleans Advocate*
*UNO will develop map systems for the Navy *
Poppycock- Why rememberance rituals make me see red
Excerpts from Robert Fisk :
On the briefest of visits to London, I was appalled to notice that our
television presenters and politicians and dignitaries have almost all
resorted to stereotype by wearing those bloody poppies again – even though
I suspect most of them would not know the difference between the
Dardanelles and the Somme. How come this obscene fashion appendage –
inspired by a pro-war poem, for God’s sake, which demands yet further human
sacrifice – still adorns the jackets and blouses of the Great and the Good?
*Even Tony Blair dares to wear a poppy – he who lied us int... more »
Chris Turner - comedian
Three decent jokes and several fair ones in 5 minutes,well worth a watch.
The Christ/Dogma joke was a peach as was the Posh Spice one.
Is community rating fair?
A large part of the motivation of the Affordable Care Act is to provide
insurance to those with pre-existing conditions. Under the law, insurance
is offered to everyone at a price based on overall community risk, not the
risk estimated by the insurance company based on a person's particular
characteristics. That has been deemed "fair" by advocates of the law.
I wonder whether advocates of this view are concerned with other insurance
markets. Teenage drivers pay a lot more for auto insurance. The old pay a
lot more for life insurance. Life insurance companies require health
screeni... more »
How Is It Supposed To Work?
I won't ask the Liberals. They're clueless. "Compassionate Capitalism" or
some sort of nonsense. In their language, that means slashing services for
the poor in order to afford their tax-cuts for the rich "come hell or high
water." Of course, the rich are supposed to "create jobs" with their tax
savings, but that's just a religious mantra, never explained.
I won't ask the social democrats because they're too busy turning
themselves into stupid liberals.
So, I ask the radicals: How are your protests supposed to change anything?
Some of you even believe we live in a total sham democ... more »
'The Day of the Doctor' is coming #SaveTheDay
Roll on Saturday 23rd November
Meanwhile this clip has been leaked, 'Elizabeth's Credentials' - whatever
that means
Is the female scientist wearing the Fourth Doctor's scarf?
For completeness, here's the earlier released trailer
And here's Emergency Awesome analysing the 50th anniversary episode
poster...
So until the new Doctor Who 50th Anniversary trailer airs on 15th November
at 19:30 on BBC1...
7 Super Spices To Have In Your Home
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/61080138668528268/
The last great illusion
It is what holds you apart from your power. It perceives weakness. It
imagines need. It sees the source of your essence outside of yourself. This
final illusion is the greatest of them all.
This last and greatest illusion is that you are less.
This keeps us at bay; relentlessly asking, constantly searching, always
doubting, never sure, forever waiting. It tells us fulfillment comes from
someone, something, or someplace else.
It is never here, not now and most certainly not you. The specifics
matter not. What defines this illusion is that it depletes you.
T... more »
The Mutilated Economy and Newt’s Revenge: Why Destitute US Labor Market Needs BIG Child Labor Law Revision (Liars Still Figuring/Figures Still Lying)
Firstly, for this week's BLS numbers from our friend R.J. Sigmund (pay
close attention to the mysterious graph!): . . . the seasonally adjusted
extrapolation from this October survey of households indicated
that 143,568,000 of us were employed, 735,000 less than were employed in
September, while 11,272,000 of us were unemployed, an increase of 17,000
over September; as the working age
Michael James : Going Off Campus, 1965
Sam
and Theophilius at sunset in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Photos by Michael
James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from
the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Going off campus,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Connecticut, 1965
I proceeded to quote Tom Paine: “Let them call me rebel and welcome, I
feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I
to
Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth [Source: Poetry Foundation]:
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goo... more »
Bobblehead Trifecta
The Toronto mayor's office is selling a Rob Ford bobblehead as a fundraiser
for United Way. The Robbie Bobbie looks a whole lot more like Doug Ford
actually and certainly the old Steve bobblehead could do with an update too
so here's the whole teacon trifecta.
h/t Willy Loman
.
Deborah Tavares - Nasa Future Warfare - well, of course robotics is the way forward!
of course USA inc. would move away from having soft squishy human bodies on
the battlefield or in the next-generation of flying, floating, driving
vehicles. It makes sense that remote control of these next-gen combat
models has a much higher g-tolerance than the warplanes and vehicles of
today. I mean, look at reports of SUPER FAST g-defying 'ufo's from Area 51
- it's FAR MORE LIKELY that these 'ufo's are just highly advanced DRONES
that can be submitted to massively more extreme g-forces during next-gen
dog fights.
In fact, for the last few years, Free Planet has been stating that ... more »
The White House Tribal Nations Conference that isn't at the White House
It's that time of year again
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
President Obama speaking at Tribal Nations Conference.
It's that time of year again, time for the White House Tribal Nations Conference -- the one that isn't at the White House.
Once again, it will be held at the Interior Building.
When President Obama initially announced this annual conference, Obama said he was welcoming
Megaloads head for Nez Perce Nov. 10, 2013
.
By Wild Idaho Rising Tide
Censored News
Dates: Sunday, Nov. 10, through Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 6 a.m.
Second and Washington streets, near Moscow City Hall, and Highway 95 and
Interstate 90, Idaho
Please join the committed environmental warriors of Wild Idaho Rising
Tide and Spokane Rising Tide, and urge family, friends, and co-workers
to attend the Stand Up! Fight Back! Against
Censorship and Dispossession in Japan
Developments in Japan are concerning:
First, according to The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority
(NRA) is trying to accelerate returning people to Fukushima prefecture by
measuring citizen exposure levels using individual dosimeters instead of
official air sampling. The Asahi notes dosimeters have much lower readings
than official air sampling and that the NRA’s draft policy has no
discussion of health impacts.
The proposed exposure level for returning evacuees is 20 millisieverts
based on dosimeter readings alone (no inclusion of estimates of exposure
from conta... more »
Defense Contractor Fat Leonard Lures Naval Officers Into Selling Out America With Hookers, Cash And Tickets To A Lady Gaga Concert
Fat Leonard (in the middle) is in jail in San Diego awaiting trial
Yesterday we lamented at the lack of accountability in high places for high
crimes. Grayson talked about how Wall Street is still ignoring the law
today because no one was punched for their criminal behavior leading up to
the 2008 crash and Recession. And we pointed out how the Cheney gang had
gotten away with all their depraved activities in violation of the U.S.
Constitution. Does that impact society on lower levels than the White
House? You bet it does!
Although it hasn't gotten much attention, there's been a huge ... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Dalara Soap Co
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
[image: A link-up for green blogs on Reduce Footprints Blog]
Banner by Art Ist
Grab our banner for your site:
*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
collection
of environment... more »
*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
collection
of environment... more » France, Once A Great Nation, Is Now Acting A Fool And Punching Outside Its Weight Class
*France: Can you remove yourself from the international scene for like, 5
or 10 years, until you get your head straightened out? Good? Thanks.
Sincerely, the human species. *
An excerpt from, *"Why France Is to Blame for Blocking the Iran Nuclear
Agreement"* by Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast, November 10:
France blocked the first stage of a nuclear deal with Iran that had support
from the United States, Britain, Germany, most of the rest of Europe,
Russia, and China. The simple—too simple—explanation for the French
obstruction? They just want to call attention to themselves.... more »
Alan Waldman: 'Keeping Up Appearances' Tops Second Tier of My Favorite Britcoms
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Patricia Routledge stars as a middle class woman who puts on
aristocratic airs in this very popular Britcom.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England
What's the proper response to an extremist mayor who demonstrates that he's both a bigoted hatemonger and an imbecile?
*Wasn't the genius really saying, "I'm too stupid to be mayor"?*
*by Ken*
Consider these responses to the genius mayor of Beit Shemesh's brilliant
statement three weeks ago on the occasion of his (apparent) reelection (as
reported below by *Haaretz*): "We have none of those things [gays] here.
Thank God, this city is holy and pure."
• "These statements by an incumbent mayor in the State of Israel comparing
the LGBT community to lawbreakers who must be dealt with by the police or
dangers to public health constitute incitement according to Statutes 144(b)
and 144(f) of the penal cod... more »
Why is it shocking that the Public is revolting against the Political Elites Immigration schemes ? Consider all of lies that were used to sell the Affordable Healthcare Act ? This Immigration reform is being pushed by the Political Elites in both parties - and we have seen they will lie now , apologize later when forced to finally acknowledge the truth !
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/10/Public-revolts-against-political-Obama-s-and-establishment-s-amnesty-efforts
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According to new national polling data from Pew Research, the American
people have revolted against President Barack Obama’s and the GOP
establishment’s efforts to grant amnesty to America’s at least 11 million
illegal immigrants through com... more »
Police State updates November 9 , 2013 - Las Vegas installs Light fixture listening posts ..... NY cop pleads guilty to cyber snooping on his fellow cops......FAA sees widespread domestic drone use by 2015 .......Public officials admit to scamming by way of red light cameras..... Cannibal nation - gummy bears and pharmaceuticals made from human dna coming to a store near you ......America beng pushed to civil war - welcome to Syria / Egypt / Libya folks........ While more folks are in jail in the US than we have high school teachers or engineers , the criminals are becoming more randomly violent and vile !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.infowars.com/las-vegas-installs-intellistreets-light-fixtures-capable-of-recording-conversations/
( If this is being installed , it will be used... )
Las Vegas Installs “Intellistreets” Light Fixtures Capable Of Recording
Conversations
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November 9, 2013
The Las Vegas Public Works Department has begun testing a newly installed
street light system around City Hall w... more »
Update on Syria: Pakistan Is Exporting The Taliban To Syria, Under Saudi Tutelage
*Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Stop exporting Jihadist terrorists to Syria.*
An excerpt from, *"Washington’s World: November 11th – November 17th, 2013"*Swoop:
Although the drone killing of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was widely
welcomed inside US intelligence circles, other Administration officials see
the implications for relations with Islamabad as more disquieting. As the
2014 date for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan approaches,
President Obama remains determined not to be drawn into what he sees as an
unlimited residual commitment to guarantee Afghan governmen... more »
4 Corporate Education Reform Talking Points That Are Flat-Out Lies
If you listen to the buzz coming from the airwaves about education reform
these days, you may notice that many things are starting to sound much too
familiar–some even vomit-inducingly so. It’s almost as if someone gave the
spokespeople from state education departments, private curriculum and
testing firms, and astroturf groups the same script and […]
A Canadian on Horseback....(A Mary Mackie Remembrance Day Special)
*A Canadian on Horseback*
*9 July 1944 Memorialized in Bronze*
*Written By Mary Mackie*
Canadian and British troops liberated Caen after 33 days of the bloodiest
battles of the Normandy campaign.
A small but dramatic ceremony in the main square marked the historic first
raising of the French flag, but a Canadian artillery officer on horseback
made the moment symbolically Canadian too..
Although Caen was one of the D-Day objectives the Germans also recognized
it as pivotal to their defence against the Allie... more »
DARPA's Flu Fighters Ramp Up Veggie-Based Vaccines
WIREDBy Robert Beckhusen
07.26.12 5:31 PM
The military wants to boost vaccine production for the deadly flu, and do
so with tobacco plants like these, pictured at a Medicago greenhouse in
North Carolina in May 2012. Photo: Darpa In the event of a global and
highly lethal flu pandemic, we’ll need to churn out millions of vaccines as
soon as humanly possible. Not easy to do considering a true vaccine can’t
be developed until the pandemic has already arrived. So it’s not surprising
the military wants better vaccines that can be produced at blazing speed.
Preferably ones it can grow.... more »
Disturbing on so many levels
How many kids have been given the key to the kingdom and then crashed it
royally? Without a doubt the most spectacular crash was observed when GWB
bottomed out the World Economy in 2008. But don't worry it appears he is trying
hard to make up for it. Really who cant wait for the apocalypse anyway?
Least we Forget
My Grandfather enlisted at age 17 to fight the Hun for King and Country.
Ypres, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge and too many other bloody muddy field to
mention he fought in them all. He lost a lung to mustard gas, but still
soldiered on right until the end. I knew him for over 30 years and if you
asked him about the war he would smile and tell one of two stories. Either
drinking and celebrating Christmas one year with the Germans in an informal
grass roots truce, or the time he was walking across an open field, some
would have said and then the red baron came down on him on a strafing ... more »
Lest we forget
And on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in the
year 1918 the guns of the Western Front finally went silent and the human
carnage of the First World War came to a close – in the West, anyway, if
not in the Bolshevised East. Yet while the guns went silent, the results
of the war would stay with us, like a bacillus, for decades to come.
They are with us still.
The world that emerged from World War I was vastly different to the
benevolent, cultural milieu that entered it so optimistically
four-and-a-half years before. The war into which American President ... more »
Breaking: Space junk falling to Earth
We've come to the point of space exploitation where these things are rarely
mentioned. I don't recall any big buzz when this launched but now that this
satellite is about to sort of crash to Earth within the hour it's slightly
bigger news. Also too, it's an exceptional unit.
[video at CNN]
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer -- a European
Space Agency satellite known shorthand as GOCE -- was barely a dozen miles
above the scientifically recognized edge of space as its orbit decayed, the
ESA announced shortly before midnight Sunday (6 p.m. ET). GOCE is ex... more »
Gun thuggery in Texas
[photo via Moms Demand Action]
Because nothing says responsible gun owner like terrifying unarmed mall
shoppers, open carry crackpots choose to intimidate mothers and innocent
bystanders.
On Saturday, nearly 40 armed men, women, and children waited outside a
Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state
chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun safety
advocacy group formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting.
According to a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action (MDA), the moms were
inside the Blue Mesa Gr... more »
Virginia GOP rigs the recount
The result of the Virgina AG race is still outstanding pending a recount.
Apparently not at concerned about winning votes honestly, the Republicans
intend to rig the recount to get their man into office.
The Daily Press of Newport News, Va. reported Friday that Republican
candidate Mark Obenshain had an unofficial lead of just under 1,300 votes
over Democratic challenger Mark Herring. That tally did not include full
provisional ballot totals, and as of Saturday, a fresh rule change was
complicating matters.
The beauty of this scam is they only changed the rule for one county, that ... more »
Lakota action outside White House Tribal Nations Conference: For the children
'Our
children are not yours to take'
Wednesday, Nov. 13, outside Interior Building,
where the White House Tribal Leaders Conference is being held
By Lakota Peoples Law Project
Censored News
Tribal Chairmen of the Great Sioux Nation, Lakota women leaders, and the
Lakota Peoples Law Project will hold a press conference next Tuesday,
November 12, at the Washington Plaza Hotel at 10 Thomas
Failed science is not bad science
This neat cartoon hints at the helpful point that knowledge of scientific
failure is still scientific knowledge.
If the foundation of knowledge is causality, as Aristotle affirmed,1 then
knowledge that A *doesn’t* cause C is as important as knowledge that B *does
*.
1. “…we have knowledge of a thing only when we have grasped its cause” (*Posterior
Analytics,* 71 b 9–11. & 94 a 20) and
“…we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that
is to say, its cause." (*Physics* 194 b 17–20)
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Steven Seagal - Worlds Apart - Acting Tough
one of the truly great American practitioners of the Japanese martial art
of AIKIDO,
*lawman and vigilante, fighter and peacemaker, (Steven Seagal) has played
many roles in his career, but few seem as likely as an ambassador between
the US and Russia. From disarming a nuclear weapon to helping with the War
on Terror, can an actor become a true action hero, succeeding where
countless politicians have stumbled? Steven Seagal joins Oksana to thrash
out these issues.* [source RT]
Steven Seagal, Actor.
As a blogger with an interest in the Intelligence Patter, I LOL'd a little
at thi... more »
I'm A Believer
I was always a kind of spiritual person, but one who was repulsed by
religion. All my acid trips were spiritual. I talk to God every day. I
admire some of the incredible Gothic churches of Europe and the Vatican art
collection is spectacular but I've always tended to stay away from
organized religion and tend to see all of them as Satan's paws on earth.
Lately I've had Pope Francis on my mind. I liked him as soon as I heard he
had taken the name Francis. I've been wondering about embracing
Catholicism. The Church has way too much baggage for me and God only knows
what kind of garb... more »
Last post - moving elsewhere
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
As you have read, MyOpera is shutting down in March. That's a while away.
Yet, I decided to move on now.
Thank you all very much for your interest!
Should you look for me then go to http://drjohnsworld.weebly.com/
That is where you find me as of now.
Wishing you all the best!
John
Our episode with TX Superintendent John Kuhn
Here’s the link. Good guy. New book out for him, Test and Punish. Check it.
Tagged: john kuhn, superintendent, test and punish
A disaster
The disaster in the Philippines seems impossible to put into perspective.
Thomas Lumley at Stats Chat tries:
There are reports that as many as 10,000 people may have died on the
Philippine island of Leyte on Friday, drowned in the storm surge or killed
by collapsing buildings.
Leyte is roughly comparable in size and population to the Auckland
Region (about 40% larger). Fewer than 8000 people died in Auckland in all
of 2012.
A disaster.
That is a telling understatement.
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The sickening first response of government to disaster
*THE SICKENING FIRST RESPONSE OF GOVERNMENT TO DISASTER*
Typhoon Haiyan is perhaps the most devastating weather event to ever
hit land. More than 10,000 people have been killed, and the full details
are still very much uncertain. The Philippines has had more than its share
of natural disasters - and man-made ones as well. What I find particularly
disturbing and unfortunately quite typical is the *first* priority of the
Philippine government to the events. As quoted in today's report in Al
Jazeera the President of the country used a photo-op visit to one of the
areas affected ... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Simple one: Who do you want to run for president? Not who are you
supporting, but who do you hope runs?
Pol. Ideology 53: Zero Government, Zero Taxes, Then What?
Zero government, zero taxes, then what?
This is a question posed by a physician friend, DiVa, in one facebook
group, the “University of the Philippines Libertarians”. There was no
direct reply from the person being asked. I responded with the following.
Hi Divs, I'm a minarchist and never a fan of anarchy or zero government.
Your questions are straightforward -- zero govt, zero tax, now what will
you do if you are the person that the community looks up to?
Coercion and taxation is inevitable. You abolish any form of government
today, you create one tomorrow. Why?
I support the c... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
I don't remember asking this one, at least not recently. George W. Bush:
looking better in retrospect? Worse?
Does Shame Cause Cancer?
I vote yes. (Please consider making a contribution to the Welcome to
Pottersville2 Quarterly Fundraiser happening now or sending a link to your
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Paiute Chairman walks with Longest Walk 4 Salinas, Utah Nov. 10, 2013
...
.
Photos
by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Longest Walk 4
Return to Alcatraz, Nov. 10, 2013. Thanks for sharing with Censored
News!
By Brenda Norrell
Photos by Bad Bear Sampson
Censored News
RICHFIELD, Utah -- Koosharem Paiute Chairmen Elliott Yazzie walked with
the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz today, as the walkers
A new milestone in debt [updated]
The spin today is that the New Zealand government accounts are said to be
“in slightly better shape than forecast.”
And Bill English still promises a surplus in government accounts “next
year.” (There’s always jam tomorrow.)
But today, we see that his deficit for the last quarter was still a
whopping $1.3 billion. (In 2008 it was $31 million.)
And the money the govt owes, its total debt, has just hit $60 billion. (In
2008, when they took over, it was $10,2 billion.)
Which is about $60,000 for every tax-paying New Zealander. (Of which there
is barely a million.)
Or about 28% of... more »
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 »
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MyCancellation.com: Remember When Obama Lied ‘You Can Keep Your Health Insurance’?
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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 day 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
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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 ti... 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
Syrian opposition agrees to attend Geneva talks with preconditions – SNC
statement
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The Western-backed Syrian opposition group has agreed to participate
international peace talks, outlining conditions that must be met before
they attend in Geneva, the group said in a statement.
The Syrian National Council is demanding a guarantee that relief agencies
will get unhindered access to rebel-held... 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 »
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