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*“Fuked! West Coast Evacuation May Be Needed– *
*‘Most Terrifying Situation I Can Imagine’”*
by Before It's News
“The story below from ENENews is eye opening and tells the latest ‘worst
case scenario’ coming out of Fukushima Japan from an award-winning
scientist who warns us that the entire West Coast of America might have to
be evacuated due to Fukushima and the fuel rod crisis at reactor #4.
Calling what is happening now ‘the most terrifying situation I can
imagine’, environmental expert David Suzuki also talks about the unfolding
Fukushima disaster in the video below.
... more »
The Economy: “Gun-Toting Health Enforcers”
*“Gun-Toting Health Enforcers”*
by Bill Bonner
“When we left Baltimore on Friday, the Dow was still going up. Gold was
still going down. The Fed was still hinting it would begin tapering its
bond-buying program (QE) soon… or maybe not. The economy was still
recovering… or maybe it wasn’t. And the Red Sox were still favored to win
the World Series.
We woke up Sunday morning in New York with a copy of the New York Times at
our door. What caught our eye in the paper was the sad saga of “Obamacare.”
The Affordable Care Act, to give it its official name, seems to set off
emotional... more »
ANONYMOUS: Private Security, RCMP and military executed attack on Mi'kmaq
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#OpFrackOff Anonymous Source, Leaked Metadata Suggest Consortium of
Private Security, RCMP, and Canadian Military Plotted and Executed
Attack on Elsipogtog Mi'maq
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Rude and uninformed
Re: Chris Christie says story about teacher confrontation was
misrepresented, Nov 4.
American schools are not the "failure factories" Gov. Christie claims they
are: A look at the data shows that our educational system has been highly
successful.
When researchers control for poverty, American students' international test
scores rank near the top of the world.
The products of our educational system do very well: The U.S. economy is
ranked as the fifth most innovative in the world out of 142, according to
the 2013 Global Innovation Index, which is based in part on the
availability of ... more »
Scumbag insurance corporatinos scamming their policy holders
Building a bit on the last post, TPM investigates and finds insurance
companies lying about Obamacare to their policy holders.
Donna received the letter canceling her insurance plan on Sept. 16. Her
insurance company, LifeWise of Washington, told her that they'd identified
a new plan for her. If she did nothing, she'd be covered.
Of course she would be paying $300 a month more for the pleasure of staying
with a plan she "liked." But Donna is no fool. She shopped around on the
Obamacare exchanges.
If Donna had done nothing, she would have ended up spending about $1,000
more a mont... more »
To Bank or Not to Bank, that is the question.
First off, before I get started, I want to apologize- to you the readers
and to Heather for the mistaken titles that I picked for the articles that
I put out a few days ago with all of the Declarations in them. I will be
re-titling the articles as soon as I finish this article so that there is
no more confusion.
A few days ago I published the articles "New Banking Docs: Original PDFs",
and "Declaration of Deposit, Receipt, Conversion, & Account: Banking
Documents". I need to clarify this microscopically, in full transparency:
The titles stating "Banking Docs" were NOT Heather... more »
My Dismal Place
Ho Hum, a person on Facebook accused me of wanting to drag other people
down to my dismal place - Can you imagine! Moi!!?? He said:
"...we are currently in a lag - a moment in time after we were confronted
with the reality of CC and before we started to change course"
I answered:
That is not a fact. That is something you believe based on no evidence.
All evidence (aka history) points in the opposite direction. People have
never chosen to voluntarily decrease their living standard. They have
fought or emigrated, and now, there's no where left to go.
Why do I "insist on dragging... more »
Consultants and Kludgeocracy
One more on this topic and then I'll let it go. As I said in the Prospect
piece, I pretty much agree with Steven Teles in his description of
"Kludgeocracy" and the causes for it.
The one possible exception I have is something pretty important: the
outsourcing of government work to outside contractors, particularly in the
national security area. Here's Teles:
Finally, kludgeocracy is now self-generating, as its growth has created a
"kludge industry" that feeds off the system's appetite for complexity. In
the name of markets and innovation, and driven by increasingly strict (and
oft... more »
George Stephanopoulos fails to bark!
**MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013
*Pretends Rand Paul gave an answer:* The Rand Paul plagiarism flap became
even more faux this weekend.
First, Paul added to the foolishness. Then, George Stephanopoulos stoutly
refused to bark.
When we left this big pile of Dumb, some speech-writer had cut-and-pasted
summaries of two movies into two speeches by Paul. It was a very dumb thing
to do—but as a “plagiarism scandal,” it was also utterly pointless.
This didn’t stop Rachel Maddow from wasting her time, night after night,
with this nonsense last week. Yesterday, Paul pretended to discuss the
“is... more »
Navajo Pueblo Nuclear Holocaust Focus of International Uranium Film Festival Southwest
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By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
The International Uranium Film Festival will feature two films focused
on the Navajo and Pueblo areas where both Navajos and Pueblos were --
and are -- victims of Cold War uranium mining and radioactive tailings
left behind.
Navajos and Pueblos were sent to their deaths without protective
clothing, even though the US government and mining companies knew of
ENDA Showdown In The Senate
This hypocritical old queen isn't changing his mind on ENDA
This evening, the Senate will once again take up ENDA, the bill that would
prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. I
say "once again," because the Senate tried to pass this once before--
September 10, 1996. It failed, only 49 senators voting yes, 50 voting no
and one, Mark Pryor (D-AR) ducking the vote entirely. It's worth noting
that this year, Pryor and every other Democrat has already announced that
they are supporting the legislation. But back then the "no" votes included
5 Democrats who we... more »
Updates On Syria: KSA Goes It Alone, Kurds Gain New Ground In Northeast, Turkey Stops Transfer of CW Across Its Border
An excerpt from, *"Syria: The Saudis Can Not Lead"* Moon of Alabama,
November 4:
Bob Woodward propagandizes for the Saudi prince Bandar in the Washington
Post:
Persian Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, *are moving to strengthen
their military support for Syrian rebels* and develop policy options
independent from the United States in the wake of what they see as a
failure of U.S. leadership following President Obama’s decision not to
launch airstrikes against Syria, according to senior gulf officials.
In another attempt to unify the Syrian opposition the Saudis want to build
a ... more »
The New Puritanism of 0.05 [updated]
*“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a
good time.”
*- H.L. Mencken
Well, we knew this was coming, didn’t we—there have been enough trial
balloons around for long enough to let you know the fix was already in:
from bogus studies on the alleged “social costs” of alcohol, to
manufactured outrage about what goes on after dark in cities’ hotspots, to
reality-TV clips on both prime-time infotainment shows of celebrities
knocking back a few drinks and being even stupider than normal.
You know what I’m talking about: the new Brownlee Law, the government’... more »
Thoughts for the Brain
There is no such thing as the United Front today, no such thing compared to
the united front as it was first expounded in the 1920s. If this is the
case should we worry at all about what is or isn't a 'united front' or a
'popular front'? The liability of the popular front, as it was in the 1930s
and during the cold war, was not so much that it was a cross-class
alliance. If that was the case then the Paris Commune was a popular front,
as was the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies. The problem
with the popular front was it denied working class agency. This is the real
... more »
JFK50: An Open Letter to Vimeo
Dear Vimeo,
I'm regret that this circumstance has arisen - at the back of my mind, I
suspected that such a decision on your part might be imminent, but
considered it a calculated risk worth taking.
In the main, I post both original content short-form documentaries I
produce myself, and mirror news and current affairs extracts I feel are
important either for their illustrative and educative value to inform
current events, or likewise important reportage I feel is being ignored or
sidelined by mainstream corporate news source; likewise, I occasionally
mirror historically important... more »
Background information
We're within a year of the independence referendum in Scotland, and Radio 4
has begun a new five-part series by Professor Murray Pittock of Glasgow
University entitled *The Roots of Scottish Nationalism* (1.45pm, each day
this week).
Out of curiosity I thought it might be interesting to see where the
professor's own feelings lie on the issue of independence. Is he merely a
neutral, disinterested academic [as the BBC presented him], or does he
espouse a particular position?
The answer comes via *The Scotsman*:
*Murray Pittock: Yes vote vital to realise potential*
I am voting Ye... more »
Blame the damn insurance corporations
If you needed further proof of the total failure of our Fourth Estate you
need look no further than the media's frenzied search for alleged Obamacare
victims. Today the (once proud and now useless bird cage liner) Wall St.
Journal delivers up cancer victim Edie Sundby whose losing one of her
insurers. What the op-ed doesn't tell you is she would lost that coverage
anyway because United Healthcare long planned to drop all individual
policies. It seems they can't compete in the individual market in
California because of selective tax breaks being given to only some
insurers, of which ... more »
FASHANU, CABINET MINISTERS, WHISTLEBLOWERS
*Justin Fashanu*
On the morning of 3 May 1998, Justin Fashanu was found hanged.
"He gave us the names of two cabinet ministers he claimed he had sex with,"
said Phil Taylor, a journalist with the People newspaper.
Justin Fashanu, dribbling round ...
*Sandusky. Reportedly, the world of sport is used to supply children for
sex with top people.*
POLICE chiefs are turning a blind eye to top people abusing children in
care, says a former child protection officer.
*'Cover-up' over VIPs who abuse children in care*
*The anonymous whistleblower says he was warned by top policemen not to ... more »
Brand modern 3D planetarium consecrated in Pilsen
The Techmania Science Center in Pilsen – a science museum where I sometimes
give a talk – has opened its arguably most attractive facility, the 3D
planetarium today.
*This building of a dining hall at Škoda looked really ugly and the ruins
were collapsing. It was renewed and became yummy.*
The visitors may sit to 90 seats inside a ball of inner radius 14 meters
and observe not only 140,000 celestial objects but tons of movies about
everything in 3D (tsunamis, volcanos, insects, whatever you like). The
state-of-the-art system Sky-Skan only exists in 3 European science centers
– in... more »
EU will ban vacuum cleaners...
*...above 1,600 W since Sept 2014*
Joseph S. sent me a warning about some plans by the European Commission –
it's a continental Big-Brother government of a sort – to ban vacuum
cleaners at or above 1,600 watts of power consumption since September 2014.
The Czech press is full of it, people are upset, but TRF readers may prefer
the U.K. press: The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph.
A few months ago, I bought a new vacuum cleaner, a cheaper model above with
consumption 1,800 watts of input power (300 W of output power). Before
that, I was using a gadget with a substantiall... more »
RSS AMSU: tiny cooling trend in last 17.0 years
In 2011, Ben Santer et al. beat the crap out of... no, I don't mean Pat
Michaels, I mean the temperature data. The paper with 17 co-authors
concluded (see the last sentence of the abstract) that
Our results show that temperature records of at least 17 years in length
are required for identifying human effects on global-mean tropospheric
temperature.
Seventeen years were needed to see the global warming. So did we see a
warming in the last 17 years? I repeatedly pointed out that the interval
with an insignificant cooling trend was approach 17 years.
Now, when RSS AMSU has publishe... more »
Hamas Is Brainwashing The Palestinian Youth With New School Textbooks
An excerpt from, *"To Shape Young Palestinians, Hamas Creates Its Own
Textbooks"* by Fares Akram and Jodi Rudoren, New York Times, November 3:
Textbooks have long been a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, in which dueling historical narratives and cultural clashes
underpin a territorial fight. And they are central examples of what Israeli
leaders call Palestinian “incitement” against Jews, held up as an obstacle
to peace talks newly resumed under American pressure.
Beyond their take on Israel, the new texts are also a salvo in the war for
influence between ... more »
Turkey's Leader Backs Al-Qaeda Terror Groups, Then Warns Syria Could Become The "Mediterranean Afghanistan"
*American President Barack Hussein Obama stands with Turkish President
Abdullah Gul.*
An excerpt from, *"Syria becoming 'Mediterranean Afghanistan': Turkey
president,"* AFP, November 3:
Syria could become a "Mediterranean Afghanistan" if the international
community does not act to end its civil war, Turkish president Abdullah Gul
warned in an interview published by the Guardian on Sunday.
Gul, who was speaking to the British newspaper during a visit to the
Scottish capital Edinburgh, called the world's response "very
disappointing" and said the UN Security Council's reaction ha... more »
8 Tips for Helping your Child Through Seasonal Allergies
This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with
Pollinate Media Group® and Kleenex but all my opinions are my own.
#KleenexAllergy #pmediahttp://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO
I am one of the lucky ones. My parents and siblings suffer from all sorts
of environmental allergies, but I was lucky enough to escape without any.
Pet dander that can swells my siblings eye shut has never seem to bother
me. I have never really had to think much about allergies until my daughter
was born and I realized she had every allergy I had escaped. Her poor
little red nose has undergone much tr... more »
A sign of remembrance . . .
FOUND ON GOOGLE MAPS: a satellite photograph you see here. Do click on the link to find out more.
Immediate capitulation
Rod Liddle, at the *Spectator*, quotes in full a letter sent by Inayat
Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain to Stephen Whittle, Director of
Editorial Policy at the BBC.
In this letter Inayat Bunglawala complains about the "distress" caused to
"many" British Muslims by the use of the phrase "Islamic terrorists" in
recent BBC News report about Kashmir. He goes on to argue the case for
Kashmiri independence from India, and blames India for all the problems of
Kashmir, as well as calling for a referendum in Kashmir to settle the
issue.
Rod describes the reply from from Stephe... more »
Running around the ME and North Africa- Keeping up with Kerry!
Bot tak left a link to this news of Israeli outrage from another source.
Thanks bot tak.
It's a bit different then the one I had bookmarked.
I continue to fence sit on this alleged attack in Latakia. For reasons I
have stated in the previous post.
The claims of an alleged Israeli attack knocked *two very important news
stories off the radar.*
*TKO'ing those two stories is beneficial to Israel. *
First, Syria's compliance with the chemicals weapons inspections and
secondly, Israel's absolute refusal to be accountable for their chemical
weapons stockpile.
Both of these news stories whi... more »
So Why Did No One Ever Out Mike Michaud The Way Aaron Schock, Lindsey Graham And Patrick McHenry Always Get Outed?
Maine Blue Dog Mike Michaud was never like the other Blue Dogs. He was
always the one Blue Dog that didn't seem to belong in the hate-filled,
bigoted pack of mostly Confederate reactionaries. He voted with
progressives on healthcare, trade, social issues and his lifetime
ProgressivePunch crucial score is a truly moderate 76.96-- not the 94.63 of
a progressive like Maine's other Member of Congress, Chellie Pingree, but
not the kinds of scores other Blue Dogs have racked up, like John Barrow
(35.88), Henry Cuellar (40.44), Collin Peterson (40.52), Jim Matheson
(42.05), Jim Costa (43... more »
The UFO Phenomenon in Argentina: Believe or Bust
*Source: DiarioHoy.net
Date: 11.03.2013*
*The UFO Phenomenon in Argentina: Believe or Bust*
The first sighting of a strange flying object recorded in the country was
in La Plata. An intriguing episode took place in Tolosa. A story enshrouded
in mystery and fascination.
On June 29, 1947, a U.S. pilot claimed having run into nine saucer-shaped
shiny objects in the air. Ever since then, the term UFO (Unidentified
Flying Object) became official and it was recorded in the various similar,
inexplicable episodes that took place all over the world.
Nearly 1500 cases have been recorded in... more »
Kludgeocracy and Representation
My column today over at TAP is an argument with Steven Teles, who has been
writing important things about the US policy-making process as a
"Kludgeocracy." Generally, I think his diagnosis is correct, including the
causes of kludges, but I think it's mostly a good thing, not a bad one. I'm
somewhat skeptical about how much of a net bad thing it is in terms of
policy efficiency, but I'm confident that it's a good thing in terms of
democracy.
I want to highlight my argument about democratic accountability, which
Teles argues would be enhanced if "constitutional norms forced government... more »
Where the Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult meets the Military Industrial Complex
I feel the hard sell coming on. Fear. Fear. Fear. Then more fear.
Four top environmental scientists raised the stakes Sunday in their fight
to reverse climate change and save the planet. ( More like push business
for the nuclear industry) Climate and energy scientists James Hansen, Ken
Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley have released an open letter calling
on world leaders to support development of safer nuclear power systems.
Wait -- pro-nuclear environmentalists? Isn't that an oxymoron? Apparently,
not so much anymore.
That's an oxymoron in my book. But, anyway......
James... more »
The Talented Mr. Obama
Patricia Highsmith wrote the book(s) on charming homicidal sociopathy when
she invented a character named Tom Ripley. "Suave, agreeable, and utterly
amoral" he was the consummate con artist, able to fool most of the people
all of the time. He lied, he cheated, and he stole. And on the
unpalatable occasions when he had to kill for security reasons, he cried
crocodile tears in public and profited in private. Paradoxically,
he absolutely detested having to murder people, Highsmith explained, unless
it was absolutely necessary. When he did confess his crimes to sympathetic
friends, they... more »
Realtors - the Hell of the Haves and the Have Nots
I'm currently getting ready to retire.
And related to that - I am downsizing - dramatically.
During this past year I have learned a lot of crap I never wanted to know
about realtors.
With realtors, its all about money and whether you are a Have and a Have Not
I have no problem with people making money - that's what life is all about
its about how you go about making that money.
This past year has shown me what motivates realtors.
You have to realize that to work with a realtor
- you have to sign a contract with them.
Which confines you to all levels of hell.
When it came to selling ... more »
MILEY CYRUS FROM NASHVILLE
Miley Cyrus, the 20-year-old former Disney star, comes from the small
bible-belt town of Franklin in Tennessee.
Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin, is a suburb of Nashville.
Mark Phillips, who has been involved with CIA mind control, comes from
Nashville.
In 2005, Miley Cyrus, aged 13, was baptised in the evangelical Southern
Baptist People's Church.
www.dailymail
Miley attended children's camps at the church.
Southern Baptist Pastors are famous for being involved in child sex abuse
Miley says that she's still a Christian.
*Billy Ray Cyrus's property.*
Miley's father... more »
Your moment of Zen
Autumn leaves. [photo via Old Moss Woman]
Sex and intellect at the Times!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013*
*How unintelligent are they:* Yesterday, Maureen Dowd opened her piece with
the world’s dullest question.
It was followed by a type of answer from an intellectual giant:
DOWD (11/3/13): *I asked Mike Nichols, the director of Harold Pinter’s
“Betrayal” on Broadway, why love triangles have such a mythic hold on the
imagination.*
“We’re born in a triangle,” he said about parents and a newborn. “That’s
the most important one, the triangle that determines who we are, the one
that affects the other triangles that you get into in your life. *It’s all
about tha... more »
Jal Mehta Nails the Reasons Why School Reform Has Failed
The *Allure of Order *provides one of the best single explanations of how
and why top-down school reform failed. Elites chose to “colonize” the
disrespected teaching profession. Part of the solution, Mehta indicated,
was transforming teaching into a real and respected profession.
Mehta’s “From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector
for the Twenty-First Century” provides an equally brilliant diagnosis of
why outcomes-driven accountability has repeatedly failed to improve
schools. It is a fascinating piece of political science. As I reveled in
Mehta’s historical an... more »
SEEING MY LIFE AS A QUEST VS. A STRUGGLE
*Allen L Roland, PhD *
*My life has been a quest, not a struggle, to fully surrender to love and
eventually re-embrace a young child within myself who felt, knew and longed
to share a great truth ~ before he closed his heart at six years old ~ that
a profound love and joy deepest within myself indelibly connected me to a **Unified
Field* *of love and soul consciousness that exists not only beyond time and
space but also deepest within all living beings: Allen L Roland***
I'm almost 80 years old, yet I remember surrendering to my birth
experience, pushing against s... more »
Evidence? Randi Weingarten Ignores the Evidence
In Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can’t Handle the Evidence, I note that
Duncan simply refuses to acknowledge the abundant evidence that Common Core
is a failed standards/testing paradigm. Now Randi Weingarten appears to be
traveling down the same misleading path with Will States Fail the Common
Core?: Without standards aligned to what kids need to succeed in college,
career […]
Reverse Engineering the Illuminati Mind Set
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Julian Rose*
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*Pt.1 'On the Inside of Darkness'*
When a US army drone got on the wrong side of the Iranian border a year or
two ago, some clever hackers found a way into its coded electronics and
guided it down to earth. From there it was "taken into custody" by Iranian
forces and subsequently taken apart – and a cloned version was reverse
engineered into existence. At least, that is what we are led to believe.
This salutary tale provides us with an excellent template for the
deconstruction of the Illuminati mind set and th... more »
Police State Britain
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image source Stephen Lendman
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) operates like NSA.
They work cooperatively. They're out-of-control rogue agencies.
They spy on their own populations. They do it globally. They conduct
espionage. They collect enormous amounts of personal information. They do
it illegally.
Obama wages war on freedom. He targets whistleblowers and investigative
journalists exposing government wrongdoing. So does Britain. It equates
doing so with terrorism.
London's Guardian is threatened.... more »
Hi, I’m New Here, An Arab Zionist and Former Muslim speaks
' Moving forward to 1999, I was in Jordan and one day the neighborhood
erupted in joy. I thought it was a wedding at first, but it turned out that
there was a suicide attack in Israel. They started handing out sweets to
us, and I went inside to see the tv and the carnage that was going on,
while around me everyone was joyful. At this point I thought to myself
"Aren't we dehumanizing ourselves if we are dehumanizing other people?"'
More here
http://www.israellycool.com/2013/11/02/hi-im-new-here-an-arab-zionist-and-former-muslim/
Argentina: Strange Light Formation in the Atlantic Ocean
*Andrea Pérez Simondini* at VISION OVNI has posted a photograph of a
strange light formation (captured during the month of April, 2012) that has
been explained away as "maneuvers by fishing boats trying to attract fish
with lights". What makes it truly intriguing is that the light formation
appears to exist in the "vile vortex" area described in Luis Burgos' The
Punta Indio Aquatic Connection (*
http://www.inexplicata.blogspot.com/2013_10_01_archive.html*) but this is
what our friends at VISION OVNI have written on the matter:
"A NASA satellite detected a large and strange concentr... more »
Us behaving like Them: We liberals keep playing our Ku Klux Klan card!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013*
*A great figure jumps a large shark:* Harry Belafonte has played a great
and important role in modern American history.
We’re not talking about his film and music careers. We’re talking about the
deeply admirable, important role he played in the civil rights movement.
Belafonte was there in real time, in very major ways. Being part of that
movement was a dangerous thing. Like the others, he accepted the danger.
God bless Harry Belafonte for the wide range of things he did!
That doesn’t mean he can’t be wrong. And jeez! In this morning’s New York
Times, h... more »
Something evil this way comes . . .
THERE
ARE NASTY CRITTERS OUT THERE. BadBIOS is one of ‘em, according to Dan
Goodwin at ArsTechnica, who has an article you should read, “Meet
“badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps”. Jumps
airgaps? This is truly dangerous.
"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS
reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed
from a
LETTERS FROM JEJU PRISON
Sung-Hee Choi writes from Jeju Island:
Manseuk (nickname), a young female activist in her early 20s made this
video for Kim Eun-Hye (23) who was directly arrested from the court on Oct.
8, this year, for the unverified charge of violence to a police woman last
year. In the video, Manseuk narrates the letters between Eun-Hye and Jaein,
her best friend and with whom she has lived in a container in the village
for near two years.
Before the day of her arrest , Eun-Hye cried suffering from unfairness,
saying, “Please trust me, I have never hit the policewoman.” As she was
arrested th... more »
Paying to cuddle and stroke a pussy
BBC News Magazine (@BBCNewsMagazine) tweeted at 2:23 PM on Mon, Nov 04,
2013:
The cafe where you pay to cuddle cats by the minute http://t.co/E3a6WXgg4Y#NewsfromElsewhere
http://t.co/lM4e5DtyKG
(https://twitter.com/BBCNewsMagazine/status/397368404631650304)
In His Own Words
James Carville says that the president's words could have been more
nuanced. The New York Times said that he "misspoke." According to Senator
Diane Feinstein, what he *really* meant was that you could keep your plan
until ObamaCare became law.
Well, judge for yourself.
And it turns out that according to this article in the Washington Post that
the President's advisors knew - *knew* - that this statement wasn't true
and advised significant revision or deletion. And the President chose to
ignore their advice. That's not "nuanced" or "misspeaking." *The President
of the United Sta... more »
Untitled
*Lifelong Who Dat remembered in special way ~Carolyn Scofield, WVUE*
*In Louisiana, a former Army commander goes to war against Big Oil ~Sue
Sturgis, Facing South*
*Audit: DHH pays dead people $1.9 million under state's privatized Medicaid
programs ~Melinda Deslatte, Advocate*
*Bywater residents complain about parking around Bacchanal ~WWLTV*
*The Louisiana Coast: Last Call — Diversions? ~Bob Marshall, WWNO*
*Accordions, Beer And God: Zydeco In Gran Texas ~David Brown, NPR Music*
THE PROGRESS, THE GAPS AND THE SCANDAL: The first rule of Journalist Club!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013*
*Part 1—Hiding the progress:* It’s the first rule of Journalist Club: You
do not talk about the progress.
Here’s the second rule of Journalist Club: You do NOT talk about the
progress!
(For the eight rules of Fight Club, click here.)
Whatever! For whatever reason, Amanda Ripley doesn’t discuss the apparent
national progress in math in her widely ballyhooed book, The Smartest Kids
in the World.
In Ripley’s full-length, widely-praised book, the national progress has
disappeared! With apologies, we’ll post her basic portrait of Minnesota,
just this one ... more »
ObamaCare updates November 4, 2013..... Having failed to learn from prior mistakes , White House and Supporters in Congress doubles down by repeating past mistakes in the hope that things will turn out different......
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/04/cbs-white-house-warned-three-years-ago-that-obamacare-was-running-off-the-rails/
CBS: White House warned three years ago that ObamaCare was running off the
rails
POSTED AT 8:41 AM ON NOVEMBER 4, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY
Remember when you’re watching this that it pertains to the same people who
now argue that they know better than you about what kind of insurance
coverage you need. CBS News reports that an internal memo warned the White
House *three years ago* that the Healthcare.gov project was turning into a
disaster, and that no one with any exp... more »
Chris Christie demolished in Double down - If anyone thought 2012 was forgotten by Romney and his team , this should clear that up !
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/review-double-down-on-the-2012-election-by-mark-halperin-and-john-heilemann/2013/11/01/8bf4f050-3fdd-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_story.html
Review:
‘Double Down,’ on the 2012 election, by Mark Halperin and John
Heilemann
For Romney’s aides, dealing with Christie’s overbearing team was about
as
pleasurable as a traffic jam on the New Jersey Turnpike. For Christie’s
staff in Trenton, the feeling toward the Romney machine was pretty much
mutual.
Many months after Romney’s loss, that toxic relationship is revealed in
page-turning detail in “Double Down... more »
Blackberry sale off , stock craters , CEO replaced , big convert in the offing......
Blackberry Craters After Report Company Abandons Sale, To Replace CEO
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/04/2013 08:21 -0500
- Institutional Investors
- LBO
- Nomination
- Risk Management
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Just over a month ago, when we shared our cynical view on the "hopium"
inspired LBO of Blackberry, we commented as follows: "In other words an
LBO, one which however has not only one but many outs: "There can be no
assurance that due diligence will be satisfactory, that financing will be
obtained, that a definitive agreement will be entere... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Erick Threets, 32. Still trying, or at least he was in
2013...originally selected in the 2000 draft. It's a brutal game.
Good stuff, all about health care today:
1. Andrew Sprung on sabotage and the ACA rollout.
2. Kevin Drum's reaction: sabotage works. I may write more about this
today. It's an important topic -- not to make excuses for the
administration (neither Sprung nor Drum is doing that), but because it's
important to know what happened, and what it means for the future. If
anything.
3. And Garance Franke-Ruta on ACA and squeeky wheels.
Worst DCCC Chairman In The History Of Forever
Last week DCCC staffers were eager to push out a story by Shira Center and
Emily Cahn in *Roll Call*, House Democrats Pull Pages From The Rahm Playbook.
By "House Democrats" they meant Steve Israel, the DCCC's incompetent and
clueless chairman, and by "the Rahm Playbook," they meant steamrolling over
progressives and grassroots candidates in favor of conservative
candidates-- including a few Republicans willing to switch parties.
The Chicago mayor served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee in 2006, when his party beat long odds to win the
majority for t... more »
Mohawk John Kane 'I am ready this year!'
John
Kane
By John Kane, Mohawk
I Am Ready This Year!
Censored News
Okay, I admit it. Last year when our special month of November rolled
around, National Native American Heritage Month, I purposely kept quiet
about it until December. I sat silently all month long and sure enough —
nothing. So on December 2 I wrote, “November was what? Our month?
Really? Who knew?” for my blog (http://
War watch November 4 , 2013......Ed Snowden's Manifesto for the truth - Global solution needed for Global Problem of surveillance ....Pakistan in uproar of broken US pledge to halt drone killings during Pakistan peace talks with Taliban......Syri Opposition tules out peace talks while continuing to lose ground to Assad;s forces.....Iran talk subject to de facto Israel veto ? East Libya declares autonomy from Tripoli as partition of Libya appears to proceed.....
NSA and Edward Snowden news items....
A Manifesto for the Truth
by Edward Snowden, November 04, 2013
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*This article by Edward Snowden was published Sunday in* Der Spiegel*.*
In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable secret
agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance programs. Sometimes the
agencies even deliberately try to hide their surveillance of high officials
or the public. While the NSA and GCHQ seem to be the worst offenders – this
is what the currently available documents suggest – we must not forget that
mass surveill... more »
Fukushima open thread for November 1 - 3 , 2013 ....As Tepco gets the approval to start removing fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for Uni4 , questions exist as to ; why the rush ; what else isn't Tepco sharing apart from the name of the Company doing this work ; what is the condition of the fuel rod : if something goes wrong , will Tepco fess up swiftly - anyone believe a dropped fuel rod assembly would have any impact outside of the plant area ? How can Tepco equitably be racking up records profits under the present circumstances ? Oh , the profits came from taxpayer bailout monies Tepco booked as income ?????
Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Russia Today ......
Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo
Published time: November 03, 2013 10:40
Edited time: November 03, 2013 12:45
Get short URL
[image: (FILE) Tokyo Electric Power Co workers look up the unit 4 reactor
building during a media tour at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in
the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture in Japan (AFP Photo / Noboru
Hashimoto)]
(FILE) Tokyo Electric Power Co workers look up the unit 4 reactor building
during a media tour at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the town
of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture ... more »
Behold The Conservative Base
On Friday, Gerry Caplan wondered whether the Conservative faithful, meeting
in Calgary, would experience a dark night of the soul. They faced at least
two significant questions:
Which is true: when Mr. Harper said that no one in his office except Nigel
Wright knew about the deal with Senator Mike Duffy, or when he now says “a
few people” knew? (The number 13 is used by many.) Do you find it credible
that his chief of staff, senior aides in his office, the party’s chief
fundraiser, the party’s top lawyer, and several close allies in the Senate
may have all hid from the Boss Man the... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - All Natural Katie
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to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
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CHURCHES, MALLS, CIA
*Kenyan church.*
The CIA's Nairobi CHURCHES are like night clubs?
The CIA has infiltrated most things, including churches.
The attack on the mall in Kenya was an inside-job, involving the security
services of more than one nation.
At Mail Online, daviddave, comments:
"Look at how staged those photos are; soldier near her yet she ducks? ... I
have asked where the real bodies are..it seems to be one massive staged
false flag terrorist attack."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.
*Father XXXX Molesting a Young Kenyan lad*
"An ex-SAS man and a former Irish Ranger kept their cool to... more »
Free Online Viewing Of The Documentary Film, "Genetic Roulette" - November 2nd to November 8th, 2013
Your private screening of the 1 Hour version of “*Genetic Roulette – The
Gamble of Our Lives*” movie is here for you to enjoy. You have unlimited
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Genetic Roulette is inspiring people and changing lives all around the world
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What you’re about to get from this film…[image: whatyoulearn.fw]To view
the full length documentary, please click on the link provided below. You
must give your... more »
Release the Ford video?
Yesterday Rob Ford demanded the police release the video.
They can't. The video is evidence before the Courts and cannot be released
(indeed, arguably the video should not even have been described but that's
another issue).
Mayor Ford must know the video cannot be released by the police (it may
come out as an exhibit in court later). His demand is mere show.
The Prescient David Cutler
Via the *Washington Post*, here is a 2010 memo that my Harvard colleague
David Cutler wrote to Larry Summers about the implementation of the
Affordable Care Act. Its subject line is "Urgent Need for Changes in Health
Reform Implementation."
David concludes: "All in all, the administration has immense decisions to
make about transforming health care delivery and coverage. But no one I
interact with has confidence that your current personnel and configuration
is up to the task."
An Open Exchange with AFT President Randi Weingarten
On October 26 and 27, 2013, I exchanged a number of emails with American
Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten. I had planned to
write a post about Weingarten, which I did on October 27. My post took the
form of an open letter to her. I sent it to her for her response […]
Imagine If Canadians Controlled the Canadian Economy
COMPANY PRESIDENT
"So, let's have a vote! Should we protest the government's confiscatory
taxation policies by shutting down and re-opening as another entity in
Mexico?"
MAJORITY IN THE WORKPLACE
"No."
COMPANY PRESIDENT
"The absentee shareholders would like us to cut costs and dump our
untreated wastes in the community drinking water. What say you?"
MAJORITY IN THE WORKPLACE
"No."
And on and on it would go. The centralized power of corporations, cut into
and dispersed.
Just when you thought the Muslim Brotherhood couldn't stoop any lower - Muslim Brotherhood caught using puppies as fire bombs
The Washington Post reports that:
'A pet rescue operation has saved three puppies from Muslim Brotherhood
clutches, after discovering the militant members were dousing the animals
with gasoline, setting them on fire and throwing them into the chaos of a
Tahrir Square demonstration, as makeshift bombs.
Robyn Urman, a rescuer with the New Jersey group, Pet ResQ Inc, said this
isn't the first time Muslim Brotherhood members had been busted trying to
use animals as gasoline-fired bombs, Breitbart reported. And this
particular discovery didn't end well for all the dogs.SEE RELATED: Egyp... more »
Ezekiel Emanuel: " We all share in the cost so that everyone will get it"...(must watch video)
*it's the Socialist way, dontcha know?*
Chris Wallace hosts a highly spirited debate between James Capretta (Ethics
& Public Policy Center) and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Former Adviser to
President Obama on Obamacare).
Witness the rational behavior of Capretta vs the raging insane circular
"logic" of a sleaze ball libtarb who's equally sleaze-ball brother, Tiny
Dancer, is wreaking havoc on Chicago.
The arrogance spilling forth from Emmanuel, who obviously considers himself
one of the elite, is stunning.
What the hell kind of family produces two such mendacious creatures?
First we see ... more »
The Uses of Scandal: Edible oils
*Model airplane fliers in southern Taichung city.*
*“Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had
spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems
and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined
histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached
to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just
beneath the surface.” *
Wouldn't ya know it? Just as (1) the President's pet prosecutor is facing
indictment for leaking secrets in a prosecution case to the Pre... more »
Falkirk Labour party update - news you won't hear about on the pro-Labour BBC
As if the revelations in the Sunday Times about the Falkirk selection
process were not enough, apparently
Investigators saw evidence of:
Forgery
Coercion
Trickery
Manipulation'
The Mail now reports:
'The whistleblower at the centre of Labour’s vote-rigging scandal last
night sensationally rejected claims by Unite that she had withdrawn her
story.
Lorraine Kane triggered a major probe into alleged electoral corruption
when she revealed her family had been signed up to the Labour Party without
their consent. It happened as Unite activists were waging a bitter battle
to seize control... more »
Marcos 'Malas y No Tan Malas Noticias' (Bad and Not so Bad News)
(Subcomandante Marcos 'Bad and Not so Bad News' English coming)
MALAS Y NO TAN MALAS NOTICIAS.
Photo Brenda Norrell
A l@s estudiant@s que tomaron o quieren tomar el primer nivel de la Escuelita Zapatista:Noviembre del 2013.
A quien corresponda:
Compañeros, compañeras y compañeroas
Pues como ya es costumbre, me han designado a mí para darles las malas noticias. Así que ahí
Dairy Milk Alternative Recipes - 2 Simple Recipes You Can Do At Home
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561
Andrew Coyne's (must read) Analysis Of The Conservative Party Convention: 'More Cult Than Political Party'???
*Columnist Andrew Coyne nails it with his analysis of this past weekend's
Conservative Party of Canada National Convention in Calgary. Is this a
political party or a cult?*
*
**"Thus the Conservative tragedy grinds on. When your only principle is
paranoia — when your central organizing proposition is that “everyone is
out to get us” — when every criticism is merely confirmation of the
essential rightness of that proposition, and every deviation is evidence of
disloyalty, then you are less a party than a cult.*
*I don’t say that is what the party has become. But it is an early warnin... more »
Monday Linkage: gender x
The world is buzzing with news that Germany has introduced a ‘third sex‘-
or, the option to leave a child’s gender as indeterminate. This raises a
slough of questions and long-overdue discussion. Speaking of gender,
Californians are debating a new law in California (AB 1266) that would
allow trans-gender students to choose their preferred gender
Continue reading
Mi'kmaq Sacred Fire Blockade: SWN resistance Nov. 4, 2013
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Emergency Advisory
Mi'kmaq say, “We are still here, and SWN will not be allowed to frack”
What: Sacred Fire blockade in response to SWN development
Where: Highway 11, outside of Laketon, New Brunswick, CanadaWhen: Monday, Nov. 4 at 12 pm
Media Contact: Amanda Lickers, 705-957-7468
Shared by Halifax Media Co-op
http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/19570
ELSIPOGTOG, New Brunswick
Meet North Carolina's Newest Democrat: Jason Thigpen
There are no moderates left in the Republican House Caucus. The "best"
you'll get is a mainstream conservative willing to stand up to Tea Party
extremism from time to time-- or a libertarian who may be good on an
important issue or two but is still, essentially, a raving lunatic on
everything else. Walter Jones (R-NC) is kind of a mix of the two. He is a
basic mainstream conservative with some libertarian tendencies. He also has
voted for progressive bills in the House more frequently than any other
Republican this year-- and more frequently than 9 right-wing Democrats--
John Barr... more »
Wendy Sherman: Bitch Demon From Hell
*Despicable, wretched whore: be gone!*
An excerpt from, *"America’s Lead Iran Negotiator Misrepresents U.S. Policy
(and International Law) to Congress"* by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann
Leverett, November 3:
Last month, while testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Wendy Sherman—Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and the senior
U.S. representative in the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran—said, with
reference to Iranians, “We know that deception is part of the DNA.” This
statement goes beyond orientalist stereotyping; it is, in the most literal
sense, racis... more »
Updates On Syria: FSA Leader Steps Down, Pakistani Jihadists Bring Long-Dead Disease To Syria
An excerpt from, *"Rebels lose ground to Assad forces in Syria war; Free
Syrian Army official Akaidi resigns"* by Liz Sly, The Washington Post,
November 3:
The resignation Sunday of a top leader in the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army
further underscored the extent to which rebel infighting is undermining the
effort not only to topple President Bashar al-Assad but also to hold on to
territories won by the opposition in more than two years of conflict.
A representative of the Fictitious Syrian Army is quitting the battlefield.
And we're supposed to be sad about this? This is the best new... more »
A War On the Poor (Armageddon Most Likely) When US Budget Deficit Fell 37% So Far in 2013
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Quarterly Fundraiser happening now or sending a link to your friends if you
think the subjects discussed here are worth publicizing. Thank you for your
support. We really appreciate it. Anything you can do will make a huge
difference in this blog's ability to operate.) When you hear Republicans
like neoCon Ohio Governor
Athabaska River, Headwaters And Cancer, An Alberta Legacy Story
*Breaking*..1 billion litres of coal mine tailing water spilled into the
Athabaska river....
A tailing pond failed, details are sketchy as to why it failed, and the
below article claims the "sludge" is harmless to humans and fish, but if
this sludge is so harmless why was it contained in a tailing pond?...
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Billion+litres+coal+mine+muck+leaks+into+Athabasca+River/9119759/story.html
Oh, did I mention that Aberta has had another train derailment...
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/11/03/another_cn_train_derails_in_rural_alberta.html
We huma... more »
David, with hernia
A hernia doctor improves upon a Michaelangelo.
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Obama Is Not Good At Killing People, He Didn't Even Kill Bin Laden
An excerpt from, *"Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That
He's 'Really Good At Killing People'"* by Michael Kelley, Business Insider,
November 2:
This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
According to the new book “Double Down,” in which journalists Mark Halperinand John
Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election, *President Barack Obama
told his aides that he’s “really good at killing people” while discussing
drone strikes.*
Peter Hamby of The Washington Post noted the moment in his review of the
book.
The reported claim by th... more »
Egyptian Military Shuts Down Show of Egypt's Jon Stewart
Is the Egyptian military run by idiots? Do these generals even understand
where their society is heading? I was all for the coup. Morsi was raising
up a storm, calling Jews descendents of pigs and spouting aggressive
rhetoric against Ethiopia for the construction of its Renaissance Dam. The
generals quieted things down, especially with Ethiopia, so that was a good
thing. But you have to rule intelligently. And shutting down the show of a
popular talk show host who is watched by millions of young Egyptians isn't
the smart way to go forward.
Source: CNN.
Annals of Technological Progress: When did it become assumed that everyone has a laptop computer?
*by Ken*
Since this is going to rad like another diatribe against Technological
Progress, I'd like to start by stressing that this truly isn't what's
meant, and the best way I can do that is by quoting part of a *New
Yorker*"Briefly Noted" review (in the Nov. 4 issue) of a book called
*Smarter Than You Think* by Clive Thompson:
"Thompson is not a tech acolyte, and is skeptical of "the giddy
boosterism
of Silicon Valley," but he makes a sharp and sustained argument against
"apocalyptic warnings" that social media and constant connectedness are
degrading private consciousness or pub... more »
Taxpayer-sponsored poverty entrapment
*Guest post by Dominic Costello*
The New Zealand Welfare solution was envisioned and eventually introduced
at a time when *real* poverty and actual starvation was a day to day
reality for some Kiwis. However, as *real* poverty and actual starvation
have diminished, the Welfare Solution has done the reverse, evolving to a
level its designers would not have imagined possible.
Over time, the umbrella of of welfare coverage has expanded significantly
faster than the growth in population. And little wonder.
Once the need for taxpayer support is agreed to, of itself it becomes
neces... more »
The Best Wings and The Best Wireless Plan for Football Season
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We bleed green and yellow in this house. I had never sat through a full
game before I met my husband, but football has been turned into a full
family affair. I have a love hate relationship with football season. I love
going to games together, I love making wings and other football food and I
love having friends over to watch games. I did not love losing my husband
for several hours every day to the ... more »
JFK50: Executive Action (1973) by Dalton Trumbo
Executive Action (1973) - The JFK Assassination as Viewed in Context from
the Year of Watergate
from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*'Executive Action'** *opened to a storm of controversy over the depiction
of the assassination: in some places in the U.S., the film ran only 1 to 2
weeks in movie theaters or got pulled from them altogether.
The movie was part fiction, but it would contest other reports of the
assassination, including the controversial Warren Commission report of
1964, which led to attacks against the film.
The trailers for the film never ran on certain television stations, ... more »
Thirty-five More LDOE Files: A Number of 2012 Test Score Reports
Once again, I have spent time on the LDOE website, seeking information that
was once publicly available in pre-Serling Louisiana. My first excursion
yielded 95 files, c. 2011-13; my second, 88 files, c. 2007. Here are
today’s finds: 35 files, c. 2012. Lots of test results in this set: BESE
Meeting Minutes April 18, 2012 Comparison Between Current […]
The Nuclear Power Web of Deceit
*The Nuclear Power Web Of Deceit:*
*John Friend Interviews Dr. Richard Wilcox*
*JF*: Richard, you live in Tokyo, Japan and have a background in
environmental studies. Could you tell us more about it?
*RW*: My university degrees are in the arts and social sciences and not the
natural sciences. I have always been interested in both aspects of science
though, but like many students my math and science skills were poor so I
had to go into humanities. I realized that without an understanding of
scientific logic it is too easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes by
experts who advise, ... more »
Now, this is scary . . .
ACCORDING
TO Bruce Wilson at AlterNet, “Almost Two-Thirds of 18-29 Year Olds
Believe in "Demon Possession" What Is Happening to America?”. Just like
in medieval times, superstition is probably eternal.
Over one half (63 percent, to be exact) of young Americans 18-29 years
old now believe in the notion that invisible, non-corporeal entities
called "demons" can take partial or total control of
New, improved Jim Crow law tested in Texas
Well I suppose we could call it progress. If by that you mean the test run
of JimCrow 2.7 in Texas will discriminate against women, old white people
and anyone else in danger of voting Democratic of any race or religious
background. No one can accuse the GOP of racism for denying Mr. Jim Wright
a voter ID card.
Former House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a
Texas Department of Public Safety office.
“Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn’t give me an
ID,” Wright said.
The legendary Texas political figure says that he has worked things ... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Inequality in New Zealand is rising…”
“Inequality in New Zealand is rising. This is a fact. What
is not clear is why some people think it is a problem.”
- Damien Grant, “Poverty isn't fault of rich",” NZ HERALD
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Class Conference 2013
What is it about train journeys to and from London that are so tiring?
No
matter. Your humble scribe made the trek down the track for the first
annual conference of the Centre for Labour And Social Studies. That's
Classto you and me. And, as you might expect, there was a smorgasbord of
left,
trade union and Labour speakers on offer. Allow me a quick aside. Long
time
readers will recall a time when I dutifully reported on left gatherings.
But more recently, I've stopped. There's only so many times you can go
to
meetings, come away with the impression that times are hard, and make it
... more »
Karlsruhe Court impotence - with the fate of Europe dangling on their decision , it's hard to conceive of the German Constitution Court putting a halt to Draghi and the ECB's OMT program....
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-03/impotence-karlsruhe
( Karlsruhe Court Trapped with their where to go ..... with Europe riding
on their decision , you know how this turns out... )
On the Impotence of Karlsruhe
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- 10 Year Bond
- Bond
- Central Banks
- default
- European Central Bank
- European Union
- Germany
- Monetary Policy
- Primary Market
- Yield Curve
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When did “Kiwi” become the pejorative for big government?
David Cunliffe was pleased to announce at his party’s conference two big
policies he wants to take into election year. One was giving preference in
Labour’s candidate selection to folk with particular genitals. The other
was a policy pinched from Winston Peters.
This was a policy calling for the state, which has enough problems running
itself, to run an insurance company. It will, he says, be “a local
insurance company called KiwiAssure, which will work for all New
Zealanders.”
Or so he says.
He says we wants folk to have the option of patronising a New Zealand
insurance compa... more »
Creepy Chris Christie shouts down constituent - updated
Photo of the day. Chris Christie closes out a rally at Rutgers rally by
spit-shouting at a female teacher. Clearly he's channeling his inner Ralph
Kramden but without the barest shred of humanity. Meanwhile, I've seen that
blank look and frozen smile on another GOP presidential hopeful wife's
face.
Jersey Jazzman has the teacher's side of the story. Apparently it takes
very little to trigger a tirade from New Jersey's biggest bully. Can't
understand how any decent person could vote for this creep. His shameless
abuse of his constituents (and his power) should have ended his caree... more »
Ben Fulford Interviews Karen Hudes
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The Muslim Brotherhood Student Destructive Behavior
Since the beginning of the academic year at Egyptian universities, the
Muslim Brotherhood protest movements on various campuses nationwide left a
very clear picture of their destructive behavior. This destruction,
especially at Al-Azhar University, confirms the public view that the Muslim
Brotherhood’s political fascist ideology is based on violence as a means to
achieve their political goal—total control of society under the Muslim
Brotherhood’s interpretation of Islam.
The violent acts, including the assassination of heads of state and
attempts of assassination during the past 8... more »
Epochal, Generational Challenge: Climate Change vs Willful Government Dysfunction
Nostradamus I'm not but I have a strong suspicion that decades from now,
historians will look back on our generation with contempt for not dealing
with Climate Change. How does anyone ever make sense out of two obscenely
wealthy brothers, sons of a vicious anti-American fascist-- keeping the
world from saving itself so they could increase their wealth? Even Republicans
have started to hate what their own party has come to stand for and when it
comes to Climate Change, the civil war inside the Republican Party becomes
very apparent and very tangible. A new poll from Pew uncovers ba... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
The Obama Administration now says that Healthcare.gov will be working by
the end of November. Do you believe them?
How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
*How the NSA is infiltrating private networks*
By Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani, Published: Oct. 30,
2013
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-nsa-is-hacking-private-networks/542/
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal
networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by overall
data traffic. The operation intercepts information flowing between the
enormous data centers that those companies maintain around the world. In
general, Google and Yahoo u... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
It's going to be a big week for Chris Christie, so, conservatives: What do
you think of Chris Christie?
Nothing to say
At the risk of becoming fixated on this theme, the *Sky News *homepage
features another disgusting story of human brutality:
Deadly Gun Attack On Nigeria Wedding Convoy
*Sky *informs us that "Islamic militants were blamed" for the attack,
which killed over thirty people, including the groom:
One driver, who did not wish to be named, said he saw dead bodies lying on
the road.
"It was a gory scene," he told the AFP news agency. "All the victims were
brutally murdered by the attackers."
The *Guardian* is reporting the story too.
What of the BBC's account?
Well, the story isn't on... more »
The Turkish Government Is Sheltering Al-Qaeda, Following Obaaama's Orders
*Photo Source: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais*.
An excerpt from, *"Al Qaeda Terrorists Pass US Special Forces, CIA Agents
on Way to Syria"* by Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer Report, November 1,
2013:
*Yet despite all of this, Turkey, a NATO member since the early 1950's,
appears to be guilty of the very crime Afghanistan was allegedly invaded
and to this day still occupied for, harboring Al Qaeda terrorists.* An army
of Al Qaeda is (and has been for nearly 3 years) using southern Turkey as a
safe-haven and staging ground for the invasion of Syria - disingenuously
portrayed by th... more »
Paul CIAmossadFBIcia Shoots Up LAX Airport
Now, really: does this look like a shot TSA agent, or a DUMMY in a
wheelchair to you:
Here's the whole video, look at the 0:28 second mark, it's a MANNEQUIN and
the "news" guy says: "THEY HAVE A TSA EMPLOYEE SHOT IN THE CHEST":
It's FAKE. It's a HOAX. And every story connected to it is. All you have
to do is watch that video above. Here's the "OFFICIAL STORY": A guy named *Paul
CIAnCIA* dressed in CAMO or dressed as a TSA agent went into LAX airport
with a HUGE gun and did a bunch of shooting. The NSA spies on everyone in
the whole world, including other world leaders and the P... more »
My Local Teachers Union President and Superintendent Stand Against Common Core and PARCC
On Friday, November 1, 2013, I had the following letter in my school
mailbox from St. Tammany Federation of Teachers President Elsie Burkhalter.
In it, both Burkhalter and St. Tammany Schools Superintendent Trey Folse
publicly support the St. Tammany School Board resolution to opt out of both
the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the associated PARCC
(Partnership […]
SUNDAY TIMES: CIA'S DAVID HEADLEY PLOTTED MUMBAI MASSACRE
*David Headley*
AN AMERICAN agent, David Headley, while he was being used by the
CIA, masterminded the terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people in
2008.
*"David Headley, a former drug smuggler, was acting as a 'highly prized
counterterrorism asset' for America, according to former officers in the
Joint Terrorism Task Force, who said his covert career had run for 11
years."*
*This is according to the UK's Sunday Times.*
*CIA's bin Laden hunter plotted India massacre - *The Sunday Times
According to the UK's Sunday Times, Headley was being used by the CIA to
hunt for O... more »
Raising Questions: Ideas for Empowering Educators to Advocate for Students
Am I teaching content to students, or am I teaching students how to access
and learn content? This is the fundamental question that guides my
teaching practice on a daily basis. If I decide that I am teaching
content to students, it means that the material I am teaching is more […]
Something Unknown Is Doing We Don't Know What - video
This was posted at:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=291136
Paxogate
Alan at *Biased BBC* has written an interesting dissection of Jeremy
Paxman's forthright criticism of David Cameron over the prime minister's
plans to commemorate Britain's involvement in the First World War.
Paxo's criticism has appeared in print, and - to a wider public - on the *Graham
Norton *show.
Alan argues - with supporting evidence - that Paxo got it dead wrong,
mistakenly thinking that the PM was preparing a 'knees-up' akin to the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Prompted by that misreading of Mr Cameron's words, the newly-bearded *Newsnight
*presenter mounted a high horse a... more »
Police not giving Rob Ford "Special Treatment"
Rosie DiManno’s most recent column suggests there may be one law for
ordinary people and another for the Mayor of Toronto. She asks why, if
apparent drug deals were going on, the police didn’t arrest everyone.
First, perhaps the suspicious transactions were not drug deals. I grant you
meeting at night in parking lots seems sketchy but not everything is as it
appears at first blush.
Second, and more important, police do not bust every drug buy they see. The
purpose of a major surveillance project is not to nail a few street buyers
for a possession charge but rather to trace a street ... more »
Pleading may be admitted as exhibit at trial in Judge's discretion
*Vanderbeke v. O'Connor*, 2013 ONCA 665 deals with the admission of a
pleading as an exhibit during trial. It is not uncommon to cross-examine a
party on their pleading at trial (whether that is an effective technique is
another issue) but few cases have considered whether it is proper to admit
the pleading as an exhibit. Here the Court held such admission was proper;
it should be noted here that the pleading was in a related matter and was
drafted by the party without counsel. In other cases it might be argued
that the plading was drafted by counsel and ought not to bind the p... more »
Sunday Classics: Guess who's coming to dinner at Don Giovanni's place
*Ildar Abdrazakov as Don Giovanni and Andrew Foster-Williams as Leporello,
in Washington last October*
*THE STATUE*: Don Giovanni, you invited me
to dine with you, and I have come!
*Matti Salminen (bs), the Commendatore; Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel
Barenboim, cond. Erato, recorded April 1991*
*Kurt Moll (bs), the Commendatore; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg
Solti, cond. Decca, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1978*
*Giorgio Tozzi (bs), the Commendatore; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl
Böhm, cond. Live performance, Dec. 14, 1957*
*by Ken*
In Friday night's special Sunday Classics ... more »
New Left Blogs October/November 2013
A little later than normal, but whatevs. Touch small this month too.
1. #teacherROAR (Unaligned/Education) (Twitter)
2. A Free Left Blog (Labour) (Twitter)
3. Clifford Fleming (Greens) (Twitter)
4. It's Not the Despair (Unaligned) (Twitter)
5. Kate Gilson (Labour) (Twitter)
6. Left Unity Leamington Spa (Left Unity) (Twitter)
7. Matry-sloshed-ka (Unaligned/Feminist) (Twitter)
8. Normfest (Unaligned)
9. Sanchia Alasia (Labour) (Twitter)
10. Socialism First (Labour)
That's your lot for October/November. If you know of any new blogs that
haven't featured before then drop me a line via the co... more »
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the latest and potentially the most crushing reverse-Robin-Hood plot of the giant corporations that own the U.S. government and those of most of the rest of the western world. This is required watching if you want to stay abreast of this secret conspiracy against America's poor and middle class.
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.*Original Here*
Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
***Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade*
from BillMoyers.com
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. O... more »
4 Ways to Protect the Liver from Prescription Drugs Damage by Christina Sarich
4 Ways to Protect the Liver from Prescription Drugs Damage
by Christina Sarich
Natural Society, 3 November 2013
There are hundreds of pharmaceuticals which can cause acute liver damage,
and others which are definitely not kind to this extremely important organ
of the body (which is in charge of over 500 bodily functions). Many people
eschew prescription drugs altogether due to bodily damage like this, but if
you are still weaning yourself from the traditional medicinal paradigm or
you must take a prescription drug for some other reason,*here are 4 ways to
protect your liver ... more »
Million Mask March - 5 November 2013
By Andrew Pontbraind | October 8, 2013
(INTELLIHUB) – November 5th is a symbolic date, more recently remembered
due to the Movie “V For Vendetta”, but is attributed to Guy Fawkes, who
unsuccessfully tried to “blow up” the House of Lords in London on November
5th, 1605, in his attempt to bring Catholicism back to England. The
relation to Guy Fawkes however, is in the symbolism of the mask worn in the* V
for Vendetta* movie, and of course a date which to most, represents a
revolution.
The mainstream media is already pushing the idea that a “loose collective”
known as “anonymous”, ar... more »
WILL USA LOSE CONTROL OF INTERNET?
bambooinnovator.com
The USA dominates the internet, through corporations such as Google.
The Internet is a collection of linked networks.
Now, people in countries such as Germany and Brazil are talking of having
their* local* internet traffic avoid being routed through the USA.
In India, it has been reported that government employees are being advised
not to use Gmail.
NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts / Will NSA
revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? -The Guardian
*www.prisonplanet.com*
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*The main problem is the USA's National Securit... more »
EFN Asia 31. Friends in the Asian Free Market Movement
During the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia 2013 conference in Bangkok
last October 21-22, two friends from the Japanese for Tax Reforms (JTR)
came, Marc Abela and Hiroshi Yoshida. A third and young participant from
JTR joined them.
Hiroshi is a long time friend since 2005, during the Atlas-FNF round table
discussion on Hayek's “The Constitution of Liberty”. Hiroshi came with Mr.
You then, the President of JTR. After that one-day event, the EFN Asia 2005
conference started, same hotel in Phuket, Thailand.
It was my first time to meet Marc, who has been a friend since several
y... more »
Join us At the Chalk Face at 6PM EST while we chat with the NJ teacher subjected to yet another Christie tirade
Listen here, at 6PM EST. I doubt any reasonable person would disagree with
this educator from NJ on her perspective. Tagged: angry, christie, new
jersey, NJ, teacher, tirade
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Sunday again, and of course time for my weekly rant... And for all of you
Hasbara/JIDF agents, something more to take shots at your sick nation of
Israel and your twisted pyschotic tribe...
First, I really do HATE having to go through what seems to be an annual
ritual with me.... I am of course talking about my usual bout of Sinusitis
that usually hits hard, and really takes a lot out of me. This year, I am
continuing my foregoing of any prescribed "Antibiotics" or other medicines
given out by the quacks in our medical and pharmaceutical industries, and
instead have concentrated o... more »
"Only a small percentage"
I keep hearing that I shouldn't tar all Muslims with the same brush of
intolerance, as "only a small percentage" hold extremist views...
A small percentage?
Untitled
*Sean Payton quotes from final press conference before New York Jets*
*Happy 47th Birthday Saints Fans O'Da Whodat Nation!*
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*~Special thanks to Chef Mary Sonnier for this Beautimous Birthday Cake!*
*James Gill: Environmental abyss still growing ~New Orleans Advocate*
*Mississippi River corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home for
much of state’s industrial boom ~Richard Thompson, Advocate*
*Louisiana consultants ease Seaside Heights' Sandy recovery ~Kristi
Funderburk, APP.com*
*President... more »
Libya news November 3 , 2013 - Was Al - Libi seized by Libyans rather than US Special Forces - SSC Head Hashim Bishr says " Yes , he was " ... UAE National Airline suspends air service between Abu Dhabi and Tripoli effective immediately - passenger and cargo flights halted due to operational and safety concerns ... A look at jailbreaks in Pakistan , Iraq and Libya , Al Qaeda plot say Americans , wonder what Libyans surmise ?
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/11/01/ssc-head-maintains-al-ruqaii-seized-by-libyans-not-americans/#axzz2javEuXB7
SSC head maintains Al-Ruqaii seized by Libyans not Americans
*By Ashraf Abdul Wahab and Tom Westcott*.
[image: Ruqaii was seized on]
Al-Ruqaii now faces terrorism-related charges in the US
*Tripoli, 1 November 2013*:
The head of the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) Hashim Bishr maintains
that the kidnapping of Nazih Al-Ruqaii, alias Abu Anas Al-Libi, was
executed by Libyans, not US Special Forces.
“The American story is saying that the operation was done by American units
... more »
Iraq seeks intel help ( drones over Iraq again ) , Apache helicopters , missiles and other weaponry from the US ( While house not ready to send soldiers to Iraq - not yet at least ) .... So after leaving Iraq , US slinking back in country on the sly ?
http://rt.com/op-edge/iraq-us-weapons-zangana-140/
US weapons won’t solve Iraq’s security issue, will only increase civilian
deaths
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Published time: November 02, 2013 23:35
[image: Iraqi men inspect the damage to shops the morning after a car bomb
attack in the Zafaraniyah area south of Baghdad, on October 8, 2013 (AFP
Photo)]
Iraqi men inspect the damage to shops the morning after a car bomb attack
in the Zafaraniyah area south of Baghdad, on October 8, 2013 (AFP Photo)
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Can I bubble? Yes, I can!
This real *kindergarten* poster was sent fromTexas and posted by Shaun
Johnson @thechalkface on Oct. 27:
Teacher Latest Victim of Nation's Largest Governor
1. See a pattern here?
Governor Christie Responds To Teacher During Town Hall - YouTube
► 9:13► 9:13
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuTm-ON904
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Sep 8, 2010 - Uploaded by GovChristie
Governor Chris Christie responds to a teacher's question during a town
hall meeting at Raritan Township *...*
2. Chris Christie Gets into Shouting Match at the Jersey Shore | TIME *
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newsfeed.time.com/.../chris-*christie*
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Jul 8, 2012 - Christie yelled at the off-camera person mu... more »
Judge Jeanine to Barack Obama: "No One Believes You Anymore!"...
*and they haven't for a long, long time.*
So glad Obama got in a round of golf yesterday. /sarc
And, via Drudge, exactly what I predicted years ago: *Virginia Democrat
Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients.*
via Freedom's Lighthouse:
"Stop telling us what's good for us!" says Judge Jeanine Pirro in her
opening statement on 'Justice' this week as she focuses primarily on the
horrific rollout of Obamacare issues, coupled with the continued denial by
Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius as to who needs to take the blame for it.
Truthiness and popular consciousness
This is a small example but, according to this poll, people are typically
more likely to think the BBC is left-wing than right-wing; 27% of people
think it is left-leaning, 14% think it is right leaning, 37% think it's
neutral and 23% don't know.
I'm not sure which is the most disturbing figure. I suppose it must be that
almost quarter of people can't tell the difference between left and right.
This is truthiness in action. The fact is popular consciousness is a wreck.
People will not rise up/resist/whatever until they have the remotest grasp
on what is actually being done to them.... more »
November watch list - Food Stamp Hunger Games begins November 1 with the impact not to be fully realized until the latter part of the month ..... Fukushima fuel rod removal at the spent fuel pool for Unit 4 commences November 8 - is Tepco up to the task ? Iran and P 5 + ! talks resume November 7-8 - will the talks succeed or be sabotaged ? Grid Ex 2 coming November 13-14 - False Flag looming ? Why is a President who never shys from making speeches or finding the great photo opportunity NOT participating in the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address - what is on his schedule so important , why the snub if there isn't something truly compelling , why was no legitimate reason given by the White House Press Secretary for why Obama will be missing in action there ? ? Is the decision not to participate akin to the dog that didn't bark ?
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Things to watch for November......
Hunger Games American style.....Nov 1
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/today-americas-foodstamps-program-gets-6-haircut-what-happens-next
Today, America's Foodstamps Program Gets A 6% Haircut: What Happens Next?
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2013 11:03 -0400
- Capital Markets
- Federal Reserve
- Florida
- Gross Domestic Product
- Illinois
- Main Street
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Recession
- recovery
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Today, one of America's best-known welfare programs wit... more »
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