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Learning standards and real life.
Sent to the Baltimore Sun, Nov 6
Arnold Packer is right: "The Common Core won't help the common man," (Nov.
5). As Packer points out, the math standards are skewed to the college
path. So are the English Language Arts standards: Susan Ohanian has
remarked that they seem to be made for English majors.
John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, spoke to
this problem in 1961:"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a
humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philo... more »
The Official Story of 911 was written in the NY Times on 9 12 2001
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Steve Israel Leads The DCCC Into Another War Against Women-- This Time In Indiana
Steve Israel and his latest anti-Choice recruit-- looking for a knock out
Indiana's 2nd district-- the north-central part of the state from South
Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, and LaPorte down to Wabash and Peru-- used to be a
swing district with a PVI of R+4. In recent times it was represented by far
right extremist Chris Chocola, current head of Club for Growth, and Blue
Dog Joe Donnelly who used it for a springboard to an unlikely Senate win
last year. Donnelly decided too run for the Senate because he knew he'd
have no chance to win in the newly redistricted second. The Republican
state... more »
Enbridge Oil Spill, Breaking News
NTSB Press ReleaseNational Transportation Safety Board
*July 10, 2012** **WASHINGTON - Pervasive organizational failures by a
pipeline operator along with weak federal regulations led to a pipeline
rupture and subsequent oil spill in 2010, the National Transportation
Safety Board said today.*
* **On Sunday, July 25, 2010, at about 5:58 p.m., a 30 inch-diameter
pipeline (Line 6B) owned and operated by Enbridge Incorporated ruptured and
spilled crude oil into an ecologically sensitive area near the Kalamazoo
River in Marshall, Mich., for 17 hours until a local utility worker
d... more »
Going Commando
Lionel Beehner and Joseph Young write in The National Interest that while
targeted killing by drone strike is increasingly denounced (and
decreasingly used by states), cross-border incursions by counter-terror
ground troops are an increasingly accepted practice – despite the fact that
both violate state sovereignty. Citing the capture of Abu Anas Al-Libi by
US special ops
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Musical Interlide: Deuter, “Earth Shadow”
Deuter, “Earth Shadow”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COAvH95xojY
Where’s the tar and feathers?
*“The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers,
strips
off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the
crowd.”
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” *The Arena,* January 1900*
It’s fair to say that NZers like their issues small and provincial.
Rarely do NZers *en masse* display their emotions or grapple with big
issues. But give them a flawed person on whom they can unleash those
pent-up feelings and invite their moral outrage—a politician calling his
colleagues “front bums”; an employers’ representative talking about wome... more »
Consumerism and culture: immersive TV...
Here is another interesting article discussing the rise of immersive
television and novels. Put simply, TV and books are getting longer and
longer. Particularly notable is the rise of the story-arc.
Narrative is becoming more and more intricate. Audiences/readerships are
committing to long, drawn out stories, though whether this is delayed
gratification is another matter. A story arc can be arranged so there to
leave cliff-hangers at important points.
Does this defy the digital trend to reduced attention span? In one sense it
does. But what’s actually going on? Is this just an int... more »
Newly retired Denver Broncos' guard John Moffitt looks forward to not having to carry that 319-pound bulk around
*"Everybody, they just don't get it and they think it's crazy. But I think
what I was doing is crazy."*
-- *now-former NFL offensive lineman John Moffitt,
in* a phone interview with the Associated Press
*by Ken*
Two observations about the sudden retirement of Denver Broncos third-year
guard John Moffitt:
• It may be that the writings of the Dalai Lama and Noam Chomsky are not
conducive to an NFL player's gung-ho attitude.
• The head that the *Sporting News* at least put on the AP report, "John
Moffitt walks away from NFL, $1 million," is problematic.
As if the Denver Broncos didn'... more »
Kahlil Gibran, "The Seven Selves"; "How I Became A Madman"
* *
*"The Seven Selves"*
by Kahlil Gibran
"In the silent hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves
sat together and thus conversed in whispers:
*First Self:* Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with
naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow by night. I
can bear my fate no longer, and now I must rebel.
*Second Self:* Yours is a better lot than mine, brother, for it is given me
to be this madman's joyous self. I laugh his laughter and sing his happy
hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance his brighter thoughts. It is I
that ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Slavery'
SLAVERY
Mohawk
Nation News
MNN. NOV. 6, 2013. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Prime Minister Stephen
Harper grew up In West Toronto, lived and shopped at the same plaza!!
Canadians and world elites are supporting these degenerates! Ford is on a
video smoking crack. Harper bribed a senator. They both think, “We can
do anything we want.” The masses are slaves to tyrants? The elites
protect each
Greece updates November 6 , 2013 - Another 24 Hour General Strike as the Troikans visit their Greek serfs once again demanding more blood , sweat and tears.....Golden Dawn Shootings - the murders of two Golden Dawn members caught on CCTV.......
http://rt.com/business/greece-troika-creditors-austerity-298/
Cash-strapped Greece protests against further austerity
Published time: November 06, 2013 12:28
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Public and private services have shut down across Greece as unions hold a
24-hour general strike against additional austerity cuts in the
recession-plagued cou... more »
How Do I Get Out Of My Noncompete Agreement?
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has recently announced that he supports
efforts to make noncompete agreements unenforceable in Massachusetts.
Patrick's Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Gregory Bialecki,
said this about noncompete agreements:
Non-competes stifle movement and inhibit competition and we do not want
that. The evidence is clear-we are not seeing the kind of spin-offs and
start-ups at the same rate that previously made Massachusetts an enviable
model. Individual career growth is good for the Commonwealth: We encourage
our talent to be creative, to be innov... more »
Uranium mine threatening Supai sacred land Grand Canyon temporarily halted
Energy
Fuels Resources decided to place the Canyon Mine in non-operational
status. The halt is expected to last until a December 2014 court
decision. The Canyon Mine poses a critical threat to Red Butte, sacred
place of Havasupai Nation -- Indigenous Action Media
By Roger Clark, Grand Canyon TrustRobin Silver, Center for Biological
DiversitySandy Bahr, Sierra Club
Censored News“Zombie”
Žižek on Ideology
I have finally got round to reading Žižek's *The Sublime Object of
Ideology*and it is absolutely fascinating. I'd like to share this very
short extract
because a) I'm too lazy to blog properly tonight and, b) I'll never look
at
ideology the same way again. Some context is necessary.
The traditional Marxist understanding of ideology - and by traditional I
mean dominant - positions it as a sort of naive consciousness. That is
people under the spell of ideology misrecognise the true state of
affairs.
They cannot identify their real position in the order of things, nor
apprehend society... more »
The Diplomat: Constructing China's Claims to the Senkaku
*Tongluo train station*.
The Diplomat has a piece from me this week: Constructing China's Claims to
the Senkaku.
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Living in a Chinese bubble
No, you can’t see bubbles when you’re in them, said Bubble Master Alan
Greenspan.
No, there’s no way to tell if you’re a in bubble, said his apprentice Ben
Bernanke.
No, no one can see a bubble at the time, says Ben’s successor Janet Yellen,
echoed by every central banker in the world busy inflating their bubbles.
Which means there’s nothing at all to see in China.
[Hat tip Hugh Pavletich]
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Long Live Russia, an example to us all
George Orwell wrote in his work, 1984, that in the future there would be a
perpetual state of war, with the official enemies and allies changing place
with barely anyone noticing the manipulation of what we perceive as
reality. Well, that future is now, and the media manipulation of what we
refer to as news, has certainly created the bizarre reality of our old
allies becoming enemies, and vice versa.
Russia was always a staunch ally of the UK, fighting on the same side in
the Napoleonic Wars, and both World Wars. Then, through the media lie that
State Communism and Finance Capital... more »
Wall St. Recovery floats only big boats
The Wall Street Recovery has been very good for the casino capitalists and
the mega-corporations they call people. The investor class is swimming in
cash and it keeps pouring in. Dow closed at an all time high just this very
afternoon. Meanwhile, the majority of America is trying to stay afloat from
month to month. So how did this titanic economic disaster happen?
How are companies managing to earn so much money in a sluggish economy? And
why aren't their profits goosing the economy?
For starters, weak job growth has held down pay. And since the recession
struck six years ago, bus... more »
Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, “Days of Future Passed”
Full Album: The Moody Blues, “Days of Future Passed”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_9hwW1eV0
Turkey Serves As A Gateway For Traveling Jihadist Terrorists; US And KSA Continue To Support Al-Qaeda In Syria
*Photo Source: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. *
Turkey is half-European and half-Eastern. So it is no surprise that it is
the perfect gateway for traveling Jihadist terrorists from the European
continent and Middle Eastern countries.
Turkey is serving as a three star hotel for rootless, alienated,
head-chopping, flesh-eating religious fanatics from all around the world.
The call to Jihad is heard loud and clear in Turkey.
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad recently *said* that, "Turkey
has adopted a destructive approach regarding Syria. They have let
terrorists from 83 co... more »
Those annoying third-party libertarians
Republicans in Virginian are spitting tacks that their candidate for
governor, Ken Cuccinelli, was narrowly beaten by Democrat Terry
McAuliffe—beaten by a margin less than the votes received by the
Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis.
“Thanks, Libertarians, for giving us Terry McAuliffe as governor.” That was
a fairly standard response from Virginia Republicans—assuming without
question that Libertarian votes somehow “belong” to Republicans.
Libertarian-voting Scott Shackford at *Reason* tells them to get a life:
In the spirit of reconciliation, here are some tips from a typical
... more »
Reading the tea leaves
Well we had a bunch of elections yesterday. In the little corners of the
world that I follow, outside of NJ's folly, it was a pretty good day for
Democrats. Whole lot of progressives in small towns were elected. The tea
party guy in Alamaba was trounced by the establishment GOPer in a primary.
Minimum wage was raised to $8.25 in New Jersey and to $15 in a suburb of
Seattle which apparently is good news for workers at Sea Tac. Portland,
Maine legalized marijuana. Of course, there's always something weird. Six
counties in Colorada voted to secede from something. Not clear on what the ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting
cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most
recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the above
stunning mosaic.
*Click image for larger size.*
The familiar Horsehead nebula appears as a dark cloud, a small silhouette
notched against the long red glow at the lower left. Alnitak is the
easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star to the
left of the Horsehead. Below Alnitak is the Flame Nebula, with clouds of
bright emission and dra... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Ultimate Citadel of Humanism”
* “The Ultimate Citadel of Humanism”*
by Chet Raymo
“Here I go again. It seems lately that these posts drift more and more
toward memoir, toward summing up, toward drawing together the raveled
treads of a life. What started almost ten years ago as a continuation of my
20 years of science essays in the Boston Globe -- essays that aspired
toward a spritely objectivity -- has become willy-nilly an exercise in
self-indulgence. That so many of you have stayed for the ride suggests, I
hope, that we share certain life-experiences, and that together we
articulate a Tao, a way, a common a... more »
"A Little Parenthesis In Eternity...”
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in
the eddies and whirlpools of Infinity. Life is Eternal. We have stopped for
a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a
precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in Eternity."
- Paulo Coelho
The Daily "Near You?"
Walnut Creek, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"
* "The Summer Day"*
by Mary Oliver
"Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel dow... more »
"What Will Your Verse Be?"
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write
poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is
filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are
noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance,
love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O
life! of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the
faithless- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O
life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the
po... more »
3 D Printers: Houses, Cars and even human tissue!
My buddy JJ sent this to me and it immediately said "POST ME"
.... who am I to argue with a 3 D printer?
This is only just the beginning. The tip of the iceberg. Barely scratching
the surface of all that will be seen very soon. A quick search on the
topic of 3D printers brings you literally days worth of reading material,
with new articles, even in the main stream, coming out almost daily. This
is the beginning of change.
Being able to produce a 2500 square foot house in 20 hours? There have
been companies out there for years that have been creating this type of
quickly assem... more »
Rachel unloads on “the Beltway press!”
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013*
*We think of Jack Coen’s old joke:* We haven’t seen Jack Coen in years.
He’s one of our all-time favorites.
Today, he’s Leno’s head writer (or some such thing). Thirty years ago, he
was a young, very strong comedian we worked with in various places, from
Atlantic City and Baltimore all the way down to Fort Myers, where we
jointly chickened on getting towed behind a boat, high up in the air.
We’re sure there’s a name for that.
For two main reasons, plus several more, he’s one of our all-time
favorites, a guy we admire. Moving right along:
Way back th... more »
Ten Basic Points: Israel’s Rights to Judea and Samaria - Op-Eds - Israel National News
A must read for the anti-Semites who seem to have very little grasp of
history or law.
'The territories of Judea and Samaria remain in dispute between Israel and
the Palestinians, subject only to the outcome of permanent status
negotiations between them.'
More here
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14068#.Unq3wTpFAuq
300 Spartan Hoplites Saved Greek Democracy But Will 400 American Billionaires Destroy Ours?
Whether Huntsman was the one who revealed that multimillionaire GOP tax
cheat Mitt Romney paid no taxes at all for years, what we do know for sure
is that for the years he did pay something his rate was 13.9%, considerably
less than the 35% the very rich are supposed to pay. And that doesn't count
his non-taxable income-- nor the money he had stashed away in foreign
accounts of dubious legality-- which probably accounted for more than half
his wealth.
When Eisenhower, the last mainstream Republican president, was in office,
the marginal tax rate on incomes over $400,000 was 92% a... more »
Fischer Explains How To Exorcise Your New Home To Rid It Of Demonic Spirits
on the subject of superstitious irrationality... some people who are
terrified of shadows.
The cause of their terror.
"Jane Doe" and her G/Fs
Len’s “living wage” has a ripple the size of a tsunami
*Alan:* Hey, great news.
*Bruce:* What’s that?
*Alan:* Larry’s getting a raise—up from $600 to $730 a week!
*Bruce:* Larry? You mean *Larry *Larry? For what *he *does?
*Alan:* Yeah. Living wage mate.
*Bruce:* But … but … that means he’s pulling down more than *I am*! And I’m
supposed to be above his pay grade.
*Alan:* Yeah, shitty news, eh.
*Bruce:* I’m off to see HR.
If Len Brown is successful in his proposal to pay low-paid council workers
a “living wage” of $18.40 per hour, that conversation above will he
happening around every water cooler in all the many council buildings ... more »
PostElection: The Polling Place Bake Sale Zone
Yes, I'm still fascinated by this. And thanks to commenters here and on
twitter, I have some preliminary results. Obviously not something that
would hold up to rigorous scrutiny, but enough that I figured I should make
a record of it before moving on.
It appears that there is a polling place bake sale zone and a zone in which
there are no bake sales, with the former including the northeast, the
middle west, and spreading south as some of the border states. And then
there's a zone without bake sales on election day which is made up of the
deep south including Texas, the southwest and... more »
"A Writer, And A Story..."
“The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has
often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the
thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material,
laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought;
he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself,
discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic
often, yet none the less sublime.”
- Felix Adler
Thinking Big ...
I was recently told that my hopes n' dreams failed because my plans were
too grandiose. I should think about smaller-scale things and do what's
within my own personal capacity.
1. I see "smaller-scale things" as either being useless protests about some
sort of recent elite atrocities, or as an attempt to mitigate the symptoms
of a disease for which I have the cure.
2. I never, ever thought that I could accomplish anything on my own. My
delusion was that many people (especially the left-wing big-wigs who are,
evidently, bereft of ideas) would hear what I had to say, and either show
... more »
Derelection of duty
The BBC's latest report on Obamacare introduces us to Marilyn Tavenner, head
of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Much later in the report
we learn that 'Ms Tavenner said she could not take a position on the bill
because she had not read it'
So Barack Obama's head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
hasn't read The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
Am I alone in thinking that she should have read it and not to do so is a
dereliction of duty?
You mean Barack Obama was lying? I am shocked...
President Barack Obama publicly promised at least 36 times since 2008 that
his health care reform plan, Obamacare, would not cause anyone who liked
their present health insurance to lose it. Sometimes he emphasised his
remarks with an emphatic “Period.”, no room for any doubt there. Barack
Obama made this pledge in some of his weekly video addresses, many of his
campaign rallies and in town hall meetings
However, news broke last week that his administration knew in 2010 that millions
of Americans would lose their coverage. Not that you'd know from the BBC's
coverage of the story... more »
Opt Out of Testing Is Now a National Movement
A clip from The Nation:
". . . .As standardized testing has grown, so too has its shadow. In 2011,
the United Opt Outmovement was established to counter the pro-testing mania
sweeping the country. Its website provides opt-out guides for forty-nine
states and the District of Columbia, and connects a burgeoning community of
grumbling and disaffected parents.
“I didn’t ask for high-stakes testing,” says Tim Slekar, United Opt Out’s
founder. Slekar sees participating in a large-scale opt-out movement as a
way for him and his children to “reclaim public education.”
United Opt Out curre... more »
“It’s time for this farcical nonsense to stop.”
*It was bad enough that the mayor inaugurated last week in the Auckland
Town Hall had the names Len and Brown. Worse still, says guest poster Fiona
Mackenzie, that the whole palaver was slathered with irrelevant and
demeaning Maori protocol.*
[image: Auckland Mayor Len Brown is sworn in as Auckand Mayor at Town Hall
on October 29, 2013, Auckland New Zealand. Len Brown was today sworn in for
his second term as Mayor of Auckland just two weeks after news broke of a
two-year affair with a member of the council advisory board.]Powhiris and
strict Maori protocol were imposed last Tues... more »
TERROR USED TO CUT WAGES; USA AND NORWAY
www.washingtonpost.com
The elite use terrorism to keep workers under control.
A country's profits go partly to the 'workers' and partly to the 'owners'.
In America, worker's wages used to make up almost 70% of GDP.
Now the figure is 58%.
Labor share of GDP: It's on the decline.
"Some of the biggest declines have been egalitarian societies such as
Norway, where labour's share has fallen from 64% in 1980 to 55% now."
Pay and economic growth: A shrinking slice | The Economist
*Anders Breivik*
You might expect workers in Norway to vote for 'Left Wing' parties which
would prote... more »
Artritis Reumatica; Posible cura
Original
Mice that are reared in sterile conditions produce very few of these
cells, and his group had previously found that mice bought from one
supplier had far more Th17 cells than those that came from a different
supplier.
*Conoce a alguien con manos y coyunturas asi?*
*Si ustedes leen y entienden que 3 typos de colonias amigables en el
estomago de la humanidad, (1) Bacteriode Enterotypo,*
* (2) Ruminococus, (3) Prevotella... Cada grupo de estas bacterias nos
ayuda con la alimentacion, Pero a cada grupo le gusta alimentos
particulares...Y algunas personas no... more »
PostElection: Winners
Even putting aside the bizarre idea that Republicans "won" Virginia because
they didn't lose by as much as the polls predicted...it was about as mixed
an election day as possible, wasn't it?
* Democrats win! After all the two biggest pickups on the day were VA-Gov
and NYC Mayor, both to the Democrats.
* Republicans win! Context matters. Yes, Republicans lost VA-Gov, but
winning a landslide in New Jersey Governor is a big deal in a solidly
Democratic state, more so than losing by a bit in a swing state.
* Mainstream conservatives win! Chris Christie massively outperforms GOP
par in ... more »
Senate Shocker
Well, all I can say is that it's about time. A few Senate Democrats appear
to be struggling to break loose from the gilded gridlock of
Washington groupthink, boldly suggesting (in so many words) that the
talented Mr. Obama's plan to cut Social Security benefits is a plan hatched
in sociopathic hell.
It seems it was only a month ago that the debate was not over *whether* to
inflict more misery on the old, the disabled, widows, orphans and veterans,
but over *how much* pain to dish out. A Senate bill turning the whole
fraudulent deficit scold argument inside out had been moldering in ... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Simon Shack,
producer of the must-watch 9/11 documentary *September Clues*. Simon and I
will be discussing his research into 9/11, media fakery, and psychological
warfare.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *PSYOP aspects of 9/11* by John Friend
- *Book Review: The 911 Fear-Based Mind Control Program* by John Friend
- *9/11 Propaganda, Sandy Hook propaganda* by... more »
Turkey Hand Print canvas
Every year, my daughter and I love to make Hand Print Turkeys to display
around our house. This year I decided I wanted to make one that was a
little more permanent. The little ones grow up so fast, I want to be able
to look back on her precious little hand prints, so this year we made ours
on canvas.
You will need:
An 8x10 canvas (this size was barely big enough for my 4-year-old)
Red Acrylic Paint
Yellow Acrylic Paint
Orange Acrylic Paint
Brown Acrylic Paint
a Foam Brush
Google Eyes
Orange Foam
Red Foam
Hot Glue
Use the brush to paint the red paint onto your little one's hand. I ... more »
DOOR-TO-DOOR IN BATH
Each day this week I've been taking flyers door-to-door in Bath about a
public forum a group of us are organizing on November 13. Bath Iron Works
(BIW), which is owned by the $31 billion aerospace and military
conglomerate General Dynamics Corporation, is requesting a $250,000 a year
tax break for the next 25 years from the City of Bath.
I've been trying to do four hours each day dropping flyers and I know of at
least eight others (Bath Citizens for Responsible TIF Action) who have been
helping do so as well. Two volunteers went to the voting polls in Bath
yesterday for a couple... more »
Leave to appeal from summary conviction appeal
R. v. Wylie, 2013 ONCA 673:
[2] In *R. v. R.R.*, 2008 ONCA 497, 238 O.A.C. 242, this court
stated that leave to appeal in these circumstances depends on two factors:
the merits of the proposed grounds of appeal, and the significance of the
legal issues to the general administration of justice. In our view, both
factors indicate that leave to appeal ought to be granted in this case.
[3] A preliminary review of the Crown's arguments on the proposed
grounds of appeal satisfies us that these arguments have considerable merit.
[4] Moreover, when, as in this c... more »
BOOKS / Nina Herencia : Are We Hearing You Well, Mariann?
Are
we hearing you well, Mariann?
New poetry and drawings from the Wizard
By Nina Herencia /
The Rag Blog / November 6, 2013
Mariann Wizard has published two books this month; the second one,
Hempseed Food: The REAL Secret Ingredient for Health &
Happiness, will be reviewed soon in The Rag Blog. Mariann will launch
Hempseed officially on Saturday, November 9, 7-9 p.m., at
Austin's Brave
A Near Death Experience
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* *Lisa's NDE*
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* *[not Lisa Harrison's experience btw... in case you wonder... my friend
Wendell forwarded this to me in an email... keep in mind there is no
"correct" way to have an NDE, they do vary from person to person. In the
one I had in 2009 I had no life review. For a time I thought maybe
something was wrong with me because I didn't. I also did not see
relatives, or many of the things Dannion Brinkley reports in his 3 NDE
experiences. One thing that is common though is how deeply they affect your
physical life afterwards. Dolores Cannon says many people in th... more »
Updates On Syria: Date of Peace Conference Pushed Back, Turkey Ramps Up Border Control, Assad's Advisor Is Hopeful About A Political Settlement
An excerpt from, *"Damascus blasts kill 8 as Syria peace talks languish"*CBS News, November 6:
Meanwhile, the international effort to get both sides of the conflict to
the negotiating table to find a political solution to the crisis hit yet
another stumbling block Tuesday, as diplomats failed to agree on a date for
a long-anticipated peace summit in Geneva.
The world powers strongly disagreed over what diplomatic steps to take to
resolve the fighting and what any future Syrian leadership beyond President
Assad's government should look like.
An excerpt from, *"Turkey mostly mum on c... more »
San Fermin - Sonsick - Audiotree Live
San Fermin - Sonsick - Audiotree Live. Source: Audiotreetv. Date Published:
October 10.
Piers Morgan, the BBC and phone-hacking
As news breaks that the four civil cases against The Mirror Group have been
given leave to proceed, I note two things:
1. the news has yet to make the BBC news website where a search for 'Piers
Morgan' returns just this:
which is odd because every twist and turn in the cases against News
International were headline news on the BBC
2. that a court will now be able to test the veracity of Piers Morgan's
statement that:
"I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any
stories based on the hacking of a phone."
The BBC's obsession with destroying News Internat... more »
“Fukushima Equals 3 TRILLION Lethal Doses”
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*“Fukushima Equals 3 TRILLION Lethal Doses”*
by Bob Nichols
"The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No.
4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what
the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile
Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of one
192-ton, three-month old reactor core. That’s 57.6 radioactive tons thrown
into the air by fire and explosions.
The tiny radioactive and burning smoke particles have traveled around the
world many times since 1979, killing ... more »
We Are All Slaves To The Multinationals-- No Less Under Obama Than Under The Bushs And Clinton
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, a government entity charged with helping boost
exports from domestic businesses, met last week to discuss giving hundreds
of millions of dollars in loans to a foreign airline so that it can buy
Boeing airplanes. The airline-- Biman Bangladesh-- is known for its poor
safety record and unreliable service.
While this proposed deal is disconcerting, it points to a broader problem:
The Ex-Im Bank’s priorities are backwards. Instead of helping domestic
small businesses that actually need assistance when it comes to exporting
their goods abroad, the Ex-Im B... more »
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*To the Corps of Engineers, Bermuda grass is a cheap way to resist erosion
— but it may not be enough ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Fallout. The result of Tony Clement's nuking of the federal public service.
I've
watched in awe at the decade-long performance of Tony Clement. He's
lied, he's laughed at the fatal results of a tainted food supply, he's
misappropriated millions of taxpayer dollars to feather his own
electoral riding with pagodas and pools, he's created the most inept
"red-tape' elimination formula known in the developed world and then he
was let loose to destroy the federal public
Jason Erb- Exposing Faux Capitalism
I did find this interview extremely enlightening. So much so I listened
thrice! ;-)
And thanks to Henrik at Red Ice Creations for providing this interview for
us all to enjoy
Jason Erb joins us from Ontario, Canada where he started the website*Exposing Faux Capitalism
*during the global financial collapse in 2008. We'll hear about a number of
topics such as the history of the monetary system, credit default swaps,
debt based currency and compound interest. Jason explains how the currency
system is run by belief, confidence and control of information but nothing
is there to back it u... more »
D. has an urgent need...
*Update: 11/06/2013 4:13 PM PDT Raised about US$200 on my Paypal account
so far. I don't know how much has gone straight to Muxi's Paypal
account.... Thank you so much for helping D. out... -Bill*
Our friend D. from the Removing the Shackles blog has a very urgent need.
She has a tooth that is infected in the jaw and needs to get it removed.
These kind of infections can get serious and painful.
D. has a family of great kids and really doesn't have the funds to get this
done so I thought we all could help her out. She's done such great
research over the past months... more »
Assclowns of the Week #97: SNAPping Your Fingers at the Poor edition
As the caption in the lead picture attests, we'd rather murder poor
people overseas than feed our own. As the World Champion Boston Red Sox
were taking a boat ride through the Charles, we were treated to the sight
of carefully guarded and isolated multibillionaires and multimillionaires
slapping each other on the backs for getting even richer the very day after
Congress and the White House quietly let the 2009 Recovery Act lapse,
resulting in $5,000,000,000 in SNAP spending cuts. The juxtaposition and
timing couldn't've been more awful. Because of that "oversight" that
conveni... more »
A pattern is forming...
*based on what I've read this morning.*
Is it the right direction to take?
You tell me.
The Market Ticker: It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down
American Thinker: I Am Now a Dissident (and You Should Be, Too!)
Sultan Knish: The American Iron Curtain:
In the meantime, I have five more trees to plant and 120 tulip bulbs to
plunk in the ground before the rain starts up again.
PostElection: Virginia Governor
I'm a bit late to this, and despite that I haven't come close to reading
everything that people have written so I'm not sure whether people have
covered this or not, but that disclaimer aside:
The interpretation of the Virginia governor's race, with Terry McAuliffe
defeating Ken Cuccinelli by (based on results so far) 2.5 percentage
points, appears to be dominated by questions about why it's so close --
rather than questions about why McAuliffe won.
That's because of two things. One is because polls had McAuliffe with a
bigger lead; it was estimated at 7.2% by HuffPollster, which is... more »
“Repeat After Me: Economics Is NOT a Science”
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* “Repeat After Me: Economics Is NOT a Science”*
by Bill Bonner
“Dow off 20 points yesterday. Gold down $6 an ounce. No biggie. On Monday
and Tuesday, we visited our youngest son, Edward, a sophomore at the
University of Vermont. His roommate joined us for dinner.
“Okay, let me explain it to you,” we said. The roommate was wondering if he
should switch his major to economics. “Economics is a phony science. The
more you study it, the more you think you know… and the less you really
know about how an economy actually functions. I’ll explain why in just a
few sentences.
If yo... more »
An Overarching Accountability System Requires an Overarching Accountability System-Maker
Like his *The Allure of Order*, Jal Mehta’s“From Bureaucracy to Profession:
Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century” provides an
awesome and eclectic explanation of how to break out of the blame game and
create a 21st century educational sector. “The political science concept of
“path dependence” explains why the well-meaning efforts of
accountability-driven reformers have failed. The educational history that
they do not know has doomed top-down reform. But, history is not destiny,
Mehta proclaims. He argues that, “by creating a professional rather than
bureaucr... more »
Pipeline Around The Bend-A Spoof by Stars and Climate Change
The War Room from True Climate Stories on Vimeo.
Exploiting Fear to Steer Education Policy: It's Not Just for K-12 Anymore
*Posted at Alternet October 31, 2013 as "*Public Threat, Private Gain: How
Scare Tactics Steer Education Policy to Benefit Corporate Interests."
*
*
*For more than 100 years, K-12 education policy has been driven by fears of
foreign domination. Now that ideology is taking over higher ed, and lining
corporate coffers in the process.*
In the fall of 2006, a special commission appointed by the U. S. Secretary
of Education Margaret Spellings issued its report on proposed changes for
colleges and universities in the United States. In language clearly
intended to portray the university in... more »
Brother Kessler’s historic quote!
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013*
*Truly, a world-class keeper:* We’ve changed one part of yesterday’s
headline. But truly, Brother Kessler’s recent quotation is a wonderfully
comical keeper:
“We’re not trying to pick on Jindal, but Gore did not actually say this.”
Kessler’s statement belongs to the ages! For the pitiful details, click
here.
For today, let’s review:
*Fourteen years later,* Bobby Jindal is *still* repeating an embellished
statement, something Al Gore “did not actually say.” In fact, the situation
is even worse:
In his recent appearance on Fox, Jindal put the statement... more »
THE PROGRESS, THE GAPS AND THE SCANDAL: Amanda Ripley, Lost in America!
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013*
*Part 3— The shape and the size of our gaps:* Unless he’s an education
reporter, a reader of Amanda Ripley’s new book may be struck, at various
junctures, by her apparent cluelessness about our large, sprawling nation.
Her cluelessness *and* her apparent disinterest! Reading Ripley’s attempt
to describe the challenges facing our children and schools, we often think
of the famous scene from Annie Hall.
Standing in line at a movie theater, Alvy Singer tears his hair as a
pompous fellow discusses Marshall McLuhan. He then asks a special guest to
rebuke t... more »
Rob Ford is an "International Celebrity" now
He made a major headline on NBC Evening News for his crack-cocaine smoking
and his admission for doing so.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Mohawk Nation News 'Death of Anti-Indian'ism!'
DEATH
OF ANTI-INDIAN’ISM!
Posted on November 6, 2013
MNN. NOV. 3, 2013. We true Indigenous are the caretakers of Onowaregeh,
Great Turtle Island. The great natural power inspires us to stand up for
our inherent values, mainly to protect the environment. Our land was
stolen by the self-serving bankers to establish one of the most vicious
capitalistic war machines in the history of
Vallas and CorpEd Lose in Bridgeport Election
The school board election in Bridgeport represents a clear referendum on
the antiquarian loser reforms that have increasingly crippled public
education over the past 30 years. Will state governments and the Feds take
note?
How sweet it is! From CTPost.com:
BRIDGEPORT -- The city Board of Education slipped out of the hands of Mayor
Bill Finch and Schools Superintendent Paul Vallason Tuesday, despite the
surprise win of a Republican school board candidate.
In the election, the majority of the nine-member school board tipped in
favor of the Connecticut Working Families Party. The wi... more »
The Diminished Mental Capacity Associated With Serious Drug And Alcohol Abuse Should Require Him To Step Down As Mayor ...
*The decision by a prominent Canadian mayor to stay on the job in spite of
an admission of cocaine use and "drunken stupors", is likely a good
demonstration of his diminished capacity to make sound judgements. For his
own physical well-being, and the interests of the City of Toronto, he
should step down. He continues to hurt himself and the Office in which he
serves. There is no other option. He must resign his office and attend to
his serious health concerns.*
*"Alcohol combines the elements of both mental illness and physical
disease. Alcoholism is classified as a substance abuse ... more »
When crackheads Rule
When crackheads rule
the idea of democracy
is touted like blue meth
but underneath the veneer
the powers that be
the powers that have
superhuman powers
and connected networks
that see
will always make fools
out of you and me
I am an elitist
yes I am
that's due to the fact
I appreciate decisions
that move forward
this planet ruled by man
Look there is a history
some kind of record
even though it was
written by repressible wretches
We now defy our bible
and do not keep slaves
beat our children
or eat food according to the dictates
of pre refrigerated ways.
If I were a pol
I would pull o... more »
"The Truth Is..."
“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are
worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against
all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy
Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of
treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It
will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation,
enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by
violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of
f... more »
"It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down"
* *
* "It Is Time To Stand Up, Or Stand Down"*
by Karl Denninger
"Delusion is a funny thing. It's very easy and "satisfying" to engage in
it, when the object is yourself and your beliefs or expectations. You can
always find an excuse as to why you should be optimistic about this or
that, why movement in the wrong direction is seen as a "temporary" setback
and "all will be overcome in good time" and similar platitudes. But such
rationalization is not how you actually make progress, nor become fulfilled.
See, we all have only one life to spend. We can choose to spend that life
in... more »
The anti-regulation crowd should visit Ciudad de Angel
Governments of a certain stripe are always complaining about red tape,
those darn regulations that stop people and businesses from getting on with
things.
Their supporters should come down to Honduras.
I pass Ciudad de Ang, a big new housing development, on my way out of
Teguicgalpa. It looks pretty nice, although perched precariously on a
hillside.
Too precariously, as it turns out. The new 200-home development is falling
down around the devastated homeowners, who had hoped to stake their claim
to middle-class status. (Prices ranged from $60,000 to $120,000, upmarket
for these kin... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Greg Graffin, 49.
Everyone wants a little good stuff:
1. Jaime Fuller on voting for Mickey Mouse.
2. Dave Weigel on *Double Down* vs. *The Gamble*.
3. Caitlin Dewey: it's not just Northern Colorado; everyone wants to secede!
4. Lynda Powell on campaign finance and state legislators.
5. And Seth Masket looks at a new paper by Ray LaRaja on campaign finance
and parties. I haven't read Ray's paper yet (I will!); what Seth says
sounds right to me. I'm pretty much for making it easier to use formal
party organizations for electioneering, but I don't think it will solve... more »
What Kind Of Republican Candidates Is Steve Israel Recruiting To Run As Democrats Now? Not The Ones Who Have Seen The LIght
Sunday we looked at North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Jason
Thigpen's switch from the GOP to the Democratic Party. Monday evening Jason
went on air with Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about his oddessey (above).
When I spoke with him over the weekend, Jason seemed to me to be a very
independent-minded, thoughtful, progressive-oriented citizen with a keen
understanding of a Constitution he takes very seriously. What he did not
come across as is a careerist or someone likely to take walking orders from
any two-bit political hack like DCCC chairman Steve Israel. Israel is... more »
The Great War of…1990
The year 2014 is nearly on us, and reflections on World War One are already
weighing down bookshop shelves. In my own research, I’ve stumbled across an
odd tendency: that whereas in Britain the cause of World War One, if not
its conduct, attracts strong supporters as well as critics, the first Gulf
War is
Continue reading
BBC News - Concentrations of warming gases breaks record
The BBC report with all seriousness that:
'According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2
grew more rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decade.'
They seem less keen to report that despite this rise in 'global warming
gases' temperatures have not risen for 15 years.
BBC article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24833148
Nov 19 Tlakatl: What it means to be human symposium
Due to overwhelming response, looks like we will have a full house for our
Nov 19 Tlakatl: What it means to be human symposium Most of the costs have
been met, but there are a lot of additional costs involved. The event will
include presentations from K-12 students who we are busing to the event. So
we need a little bit more, particularly to cover costs for additional
speakers. If you can donate, please do so. Donation will go to the
University of Arizona Foundation and it is tax-deductible. For those that
can, thanks in advance. (This link should take you to a site (UA
Foundation... more »
Fukushima debris field the size of Texas and approximately a million tons in mass nears US West Coast ( California hopefully getting ready ) ! While the US media for the most part looks the other way , studies on the food chain impacts need to be urgently commenced ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-06/fukushima-debris-island-size-texas-near-us-west-coast
Fukushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2013 07:59 -0500
- Archipelago
- Fox News
- Guam
- Japan
- Meltdown
- NOAA
- Nuclear Power
inShare1
While it took Japan over two years to admit the Fukushima situation on the
ground is "out of control", a development many had predicted for years, a
just as important topic is what are the implications of this uncontrolled
radio... more »
remember remember the 5th of november
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government
governments should be afraid of their people."
(the revolutionary speech)
(obey)
False Populists
Stephen Harper posed as a populist last weekend, claiming that he and
Laureen didn't go to Ottawa to join an elite. That line, Lawrence Martin
writes, doesn't ring true:
The populist schtick isn’t an easy sell when your government has given far
more tax cuts to the corporations than to the little guy; when it’s been
manifestly on the side of big oil; when it takes on unions at every turn;
when its penchant for muzzling and censorship is legend; when it favours
judges ill-disposed to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; when the Prime
Minister’s version of grassroots democracy has ... more »
The Dark Side Of Gardasil - Five Years Later: Ashley's Story
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEgeCw-EAw
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*Five Years After Gardasil*
by Ashey Adair
Hormones Matter, 14 October 2013
My name is Ashley Adair and I am suffering the side effects of something I
thought would help me. I received the Gardasil vaccine because the people
and doctors all around me kept telling me “OH! This vaccine is the best
thing to happen to the medical industry!” Of course my mom and I fell for
it like many girls have. I want to let people know about the dark side of
the Gardasil vaccine.
My Life Before Gardasil
Before the HPV Vaccine, I was th... more »
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2012 - 2013 From Project Censored
*To read further, please click on the link provided below:*
*The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2012 - 2013*
Toxic Detergents vs Soap Nuts A Laundry Soap You Can Eat by Ken McGowen
Toxic Detergents vs Soap Nuts A Laundry Soap You Can Eat
by Ken McGowen
Green Med Info, 29 October 2013
How we do our laundry, clean our homes and bathe ourselves has changed more
in the last 70 years than it has in the previous 7,000 years. None of these
changes have been kind to your skin, or good for your health.
The name brand chemical based laundry detergents, household cleaners,
soaps, and shampoos that you use in your day to day life contain
carcinogens, neurotoxins and envirotoxins.
Everyday, all day long, you are surrounded by and in close contact with
chemicals that ... more »
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*Insurer claims Texas Brine ignored warnings ~David J. Mitchell, The
Advocate*
*River Parishes residents anxiously await Corps of Engineers' levee
decision ~Lattice Bacon-Blood*
*Judge Julian Parker orders financial bonds for all defendants in his court ~Charles
Maldonado, The Lens*
*Lee Zurik Investigation: Meet the gatekeepers of state politics** ~How we
found Louisiana's top 400 political contributors *
*Disgraced former Federal Prosecutor Sal Perricone appeals to Internet for
help writing New Orleans crime novel ~WDSU*
*Tax assessment for building bought for $0 slashed dramati... more »
The Two Sides of Education Reform in Washington, D.C.
Education reform is failing traditional D.C. public middle schools located
east of the Anacostia River. Although certain popular education debates,
i.e. discussions centered on the merits of school choice, common core,
teacher evaluations, etc., may dominate the education policy world; The
failures, or shortcomings, of education reform throughout D.C.’s high
poverty neighborhood public middle schools, […]
Now Posted Online: Doug Martin on Douglas Storm's WFHB Radio Show: Muckraking Education Politics
In case you missed it last night, here is the link to listen to Doug Martin
and Douglas Storm discussing the corporate takeover of public schools last
night on WFHB radio in Bloomington, Indiana:
http://wfhb.org/news/interchange/interchange-doug-martin-muckraking-education-politcs/
This is from Storm's write-up on last night's show:
*Martin is a native Hoosier who has been investigating Indiana’s “for
profit” Education Politics for several years and will soon publish a book
detailing these investigations called “Hoosier School Heist.”*
**
*Martin’s articles at Schools Matter get o... more »
the harper government's vision of canada, in our passports and in our wallets
Some years ago, I analyzed the "Discover Canada", the most recent guide for
immigrants studying for the Canadian citizenship exam. I compared the
booklet to the previous citizenship guide, "A Look At Canada", and found
within its pages the Harper Government's vision of Canada.
Later, we learned that the citizenship exam itself uses a significantly
higher reading level than past exams, and functions as a barrier for many
newcomers who wish to become citizens: "jason kenney gets his wish: the
anglicising of canadian citizenship".
More recently, columnist Heather Mallick analyzed the ... more »
THE SUPER-RICH ARE THE ENEMY
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*Dickens' London brought to life*
The super-rich are often people who grab control of national resources, use
high levels of government influence, pay extremely low wages, and squash
competition.
The USA's wealth increased from *$47 trillion*, in 2008, to* $72 trillion*,
in mid-2013.
This is according to the 2013 Global Wealth Databook.
Between 2008 and 2013, the top 5 percent of Americans have each gained, on
average, nearly a million dollars.
*How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America* via retank
* Dickens' London brought to life*
But according to U.S. Government Revenue... more »
The Court of Free Planet ... woah, where is this law-shit going, Mike?
*CRIMES AGAINST FREE PLANET*
and you can commit them. You can:
i) attempt to crashland a floating home for personal gain.
ii) attempt to take control of an automated peanut taxi for shits 'n'
giggles.
iii) attempt to cage/display/own re-wilded animals for personal
entertainment.
iv) attempt to rob, rape, pillage, massacre the species of the Earth for
your own amusement.
v) attempt to EARN PROFIT from any activity.
"Wait a minute, Mike, who the fuck gets to 'judge' what's legal and illegal
on a Free Planet?"
BIG SMILE here...
Well, do you not agree that IFF all your personal needs a... more »
Two short papers on the black hole interior
This blog post is here just to promote two new hep-th papers on the black
hole interior. Both papers have 4.0-4.5 pages in total and use the same
two-column revtex macro of \(\rm\TeX\). The Verlinde brothers wrote
Behind the Horizon in AdS/CFT
which calls the recent Papadodimas-Raju (PR) construction "elegant" and
debunks a potential paradox that could follow from the state dependence of
the internal operators by generalizing the PR construction to mixed states
with a low enough von Neumann entropy. They seem to say that the detailed
mathematical ideas were already contained in thei... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Green With A Friend
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Magic Lantern slide, 1860. View from the Moon. [Graphic from Georges Melies
exhibition at the Caixa Forum in Madrid, via Matthew Sweet]
New Mexico Man Stopped by Police for Traffic Violation Subjected to Forced Anal Exams, Enemas, Colonoscopy and Other Medical Procedures
Downtown Deming New Mexico *
* Posted at: http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=37853
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* *New Mexico Man Stopped by Police for Traffic Violation Subjected to
Forced Anal Exams, Enemas, Colonoscopy and Other Medical Procedures*
November 5th, 2013
Via: KOB4:
This 4 On Your Side investigation looks into the actions of police officers
and doctors in Southern New Mexico.
A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show
deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, police officers with the
City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical
Center mad... more »
Harper's fishing partner. As grand as his senate appointees.
Always remember ...
Now head on over to Creekside. Once you've had a bit of Alison's humour you might not want to swallow that litre of bleach.
A3 Newsletter: Winning in the Court of Public Opinion (w/ info on Nov. 8, SF Robert King event, Albert Woodfox's Nov 13 hearing and more)
(Outside the Supreme Court in New Orleans)
As the week of Herman's release, reindictment and death clearly
illustrated, the most important battle IS in the court of public opinion.
We resonated with the words of Michelle Alexander, author of the New Jim
Crow in response to the Federal Courts reversal of a positive ruling on
Stop and Frisk. As with Stop and Frisk, public consensus is key in the
struggle to abolish solitary confinement and like Stop and Frisk, public
consensus on solitary confinement is shifting in a major way.
The movement is growing and we can't let minor setbacks ... more »
Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system
Jeremy Paxman interviews Russell Brand on Newsnight. Photograph: BBC *
*
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-democratic-system-newsnight
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* *Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system*
*Following his appearance on Newsnight, the comedian explains why he
believes there are alternatives to our current regime*
The Guardian, Tuesday 5 November 2013 12.57 EST
I've had an incredible week since I spoke from the heart, some would say
via my arse, on Paxman. I've had slaps on the back, fist bumps, cheers and
hugs while out and about, cock-eyed o... more »
Cucinelli Concession Speech ...
Virginia? - you deserve everything you get...
Good luck.
The LAX Shooting: Is This Another Fraud?
I am finally feeling much better and over my recent horrendous bout of
Sinusitis.... It is time to get back to doing articles at this blog, and to
do some catching up on what has been happening around the world...
Just the other day, I took the time to look over all of the facts and
evidence concerning the recent "shooting" of a TSA agent by a "lone gunman"
at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and what I saw just did not
make any sense at all... In fact, as usual I had my suspicions from the
very beginning that this was another set up and a false flag attack.... But
for once,... more »
Tonight's Election Results
The race most people were most interested in today was the lesser-of-two
evils gubernatorial election in Virginia. As expected, the lesser of two
evils, Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, won. The exit polls looked bad for
conservatives in Virginia even before voting was finished. Democrats were
voting in greater numbers than expected and Republicans were voting in
smaller numbers. Pro-Choice voters vastly outnumbered anti-Choice voters, a
sure death knell for Cuccinelli and his crackpot War on Women team. The
good news: far right extremist Ken Cuccinelli has been thoroughly rejected... more »
Give the people what they want
The maths are not my strong suit but this not hard arithmetic. Our national
economy is 70% dependent on consumer spending. You know who spends all
their money in Murika? Poor people. They don't go anywhere. They don't have
offshore accounts to hide their obscene corporate and casino capitalist
profits. They spend their money in the local stores. You know -- small
businesses. So my dear befuddled Democrats. Listen to Sherrod Brown. When
GOPers say cut Social Security, you say screw that. Increase Social
Security payments.
Brown argues that if Republicans push for Social Security ben... more »
“Carpe Diem”
*“Carpe Diem”*
by poets.rog
"We are food for worms, lads," announces John Keating, the unorthodox
English teacher played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film "Dead Poets
Society." "Believe it or not," he tells his students, "each and every one
of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
The rallying cry of their classroom is "carpe diem," popularized as "seize
the day," although more literally translated as "pluck the day," referring
to the gathering of moments like flowers, suggesting the ephemeral quality
of life, as in Robert Herrick's "To the V... more »
"Time..."
"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our
lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on
the journey, that reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never
come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we live it.
After all, Number One, we're only mortal."
- "Jean-Luc Picard"
"Time is the fire in which we burn..."
- "Dr. Soren"
STONE ON JEJU NAVY BASE PROTEST
Democracy Now interview with three-time Academy Award-winning director,
producer and screenwriter Oliver Stone. He discusses recent NSA protests,
his visit to Jeju Island in South Korea to join protests against a planned
naval base to house a U.S. missile defense system close to China, the
militarization of space and more about the assassination of JFK and his
series, *The Untold History of the United States*.
A new author in our midst, @angelclintonjr
I’ve come to know this rather insightful fellow via social media since
coming back to DC Public Schools. Mr. Angel Clinton, Jr. is a colleague, a
middle school teacher, in the great Ward 8 in our nation’s capital. Here’s
a link to his author page and bio. As you might be able to tell, his […]
My pick for Election Night is Brahms, but I guess we ought to at least try to focus a little
*Vice President Biden appears to be arguing forcefully that the pathetic
homeless guy next to him shouldn't lose his food stamps. Oh wait, on closer
examination the guy turns out to be Virginia Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Terry McAuliffe. Well, if he's entitled to food stamps, he
shouldn't lose them either, should he?*
*by Ken*
I usually try to keep myself occupied on Election Night, since the
likelihood is usually pretty strong that most of what happens is going to
be upsetting. Tonight I've got the first couple of hours covered with a
concert of the Brahms Second and Thir... more »
Duncan's Expensive Haiti Trip to Prop Up Paul Vallas's National Corporate Welfare Scheme
Some are wondering why Arne Duncan is taking eight members of his staff,
along with translators and a security detachment to Haiti. Simple: Since
2010, long-time mentor and education reform loser, Paul Vallas, has been
providing "expertise" in creating a national system of publicly funded
schools in Haiti that will be privately run. And yes, to stay certified,
schools must lock in to the new national curriculum and annual testing.
This is the way that the Inter-American Development Bank described the new
Vallas approach in 2010:
Along with financial support from the IDB and other... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Message”
Vangelis, “Message”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpTTokiCrE
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Even though Kepler-78b is only slightly larger than the Earth, it should
not exist. Its size is extraordinary only in the sense that it is the most
similar in size to the Earth of any exoplanet yet directly discovered. Its
orbit, however, is extraordinary in the sense that it circles a Sun-like
star 40 times closer than planet Mercury. At such a scathing distance, even
rock is liquid.
* Click image for larger size.*
Models of planet formation predict that no planet can form in such a close
orbit, and models of planet evolution predict that Kepler-78b's orbit
should decay- do... more »
"The Dream..."
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate
sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was
soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a
conscious ego could ever reach."
"This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the
theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager,
author, audience, and critic.”
- Carl Jung
Chet Raymo, "Tenderness and Silence"
* *
*"Tenderness and Silence"*
by Chet Raymo
“It's been a long, long time since I read “Justine”, the first volume in
Lawrence Durrell's “Alexandrian Quartet”, but one phrase sticks in my mind.
As I recall, Justine, the woman with whom the narrator is having an affair,
is questioning him as to why he doesn't take seriously their friends'
philosophical conversations. You always sit there smiling, she chides, or
something to that effect. He tells her that anyone who takes really
seriously the inextricable tangle of human thought can only respond with
"ironic tenderness and silen... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Brawley, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Less Tima And Inclination..."
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems
of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we
have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the
universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great
realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different
perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down
these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our
own destruction.”
- Rachel Carson
Climate Change: “Eyes on the Ice”
* *
*“Eyes on the Ice”*
by Miyase Christensen, Annika Nilsson and Nina Wormbs
“There is no longer any doubt that the Earth is warming and that human
activities are responsible. The “Fifth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC), released on 27 September
in Stockholm, confirmed that scientific message. The IPCC stressed that
only with drastic cuts in emissions can we avert the worst climate change
impacts. Yet, from the media coverage, there seems little hope that the
IPCC report will build a new political will actually to address this dire
situa... more »
Bogus traffic stops amounts to arbitrary detention
R. v. Becker, 2013 BCPC 287:
I am satisfied that this explanation was indeed a ruse generated in an
effort to provide a reason for a traffic stop, knowing that there were no
reasonable grounds to enter into any other sort of investigation. Simply
put, I accept the argument of counsel for Mr. Becker that the stop was not
a traffic stop and was not authorized in law. As such, it was an arbitrary
detention clearly in violation of Mr. Becker's Section 9 rights.
Music Video: Innu chant by Annie Hervieux with Klee Benally
Annie Hervieux, chant Innu, accompagnée par Klee Benally et Pascal Grégis
Watch music video: http://vimeo.com/78620940
Thank you Christine Prat for sharing, from Klee Benally's European Tour.
Federal Reserve meddlings by way of the various QEs with markets have distorted credit markets and now the Fed heroin drip has the Fed in the position of being the Hunter captured by the Game !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-05/because-fed-mortgage-market-liquidity-bad-when-bear-stearns-failed
Because Of The Fed "Mortgage Market Liquidity Is As Bad As When Bear
Stearns Failed"
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2013 18:22 -0500
- Bear Stearns
- Bond
- Moral Hazard
- REITs
- Russell 2000
inShare
Remember the main reason why the Fed *should *have tapered, namely the
illiquidity in the bond market it is creating with its feverish pace of
collateral extraction, and conversion of quality collateral into 500x fwd... more »
“The End of Doom”
Paul Erlich and the rest of the apocalyptic doom-mongers were and are
wrong. Asking the question implicit in the doom-mongers predictions, "Are
human beings smart enough to overcome scarcities through their intellectual
powers?" In his forthcoming book, *The End of Doom*, and in this
twenty-minute video (perfect for watching over lunchtime) Ronald Bailey
unequivocally answers “Yes!”
His answer is confirmed by the Cato Institute’s new website
HumanProgress.Org, which aims to quantify the good news.
The project, directed by Marian Tupy, pulls together in one location data
sets orga... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Andrew
Carrington Hitchcock*. Andrew and I will be discussing a number of
subjects, including his book *The Synagogue of Satan *and *In The Name of
Yahweh*.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Don't blame Obamacare
I never expected to find myself in agreement with Juan Williams today but
he's absolutely right. Quit yer bitching about Obamacare and blame the damn
insurance corporations.
It baffles me that people are directing their anger at the ACA which rights
these terrible wrongs. [...]
The Hartford Courant newspaper reports that the CEO of Aetna insurance made
$36 million last year plus several millions more in stock options.
They also report that the CEO of Cigna cleared a cool $12.5 Million plus
stock options.
The American health insurance industry is one of the most profitable in th... more »
Reverse Engineering The Illuminati Mind Set (pt.2)
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*'Remember, you came here with a purpose'*
Julian Rose
In the first essay under this title, we took a voyage into the heart of a
microcosmic 'black hole' in order to explore the inner workings of the
Illuminati mind set. Once there, we entered into a process of observation –
while ensuring that our own state of being remained charged by photon
energy from the divine source. We saw that at the heart of this black hole
was a darkly festering void made up of imploded and subsequently reversed
energies – behind which 'light' was... more »
It's Time for Plan "B"
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Snowden's "Vow Was To The Constitution! NOT The Government!" Ray McGovern Schools CNN
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Obama: "What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed"
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Talk about trying to put lipstick on a pig. Hilarious.
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New Pre-Crime Computer Model Deployed in California
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The pace of technological advancement is quickening to the point where the
gap between science fiction and reality is being greatly reduced. Philip K.
Dick explored the concept of pre-crime in his short story "The Minority
Report" in 1956, but it wasn't until Steven Spielberg offered it on the big
screen as *Minority Report* in 2002 that the audience got a true look at a
potential day-to-day existence under corporate and government data
management and control.
Our Orwellian world is beginning to lo... more »
Campaign for a Permanent Labour Majority
Social engineering. A phrase that is to politicians what garlic is to
vampires. The conjunction of these two words reminds one of
totalitarianism, of the gulag and the death camp. It speaks of the perils
of good intentions, of grand schemes getting broken on the rock of social
complexity. Hence it's a term confined to politics' rusty armoury, only to
be dusted off for a readymade insult to fling across the chamber. But for
all that, every single one of our parties of government are social
engineers. By this I don't mean that they blindly implement policies with
social consequences,... more »
We Got Lucky
*Hope*~ George Frederic Watts, 1886*
*I have always admired Dave Cohen’s blog, Decline of the Empire. His
writing is unremittingly bitter, but given his completely unsentimental
view of the antics of our miserable species, it’s only to be expected. His
scorching wrath can be particularly hilarious when he mercilessly
juxtaposes human aspirations and delusions with our feckless behavior. His
scathing fury is as immense as the compassion and grief that lies beneath
it.
Now, he has written a tour de force. It’s rare and refreshing to find
someone who resoundingly rejects any form o... more »
Talkin' Bad Journalism and Propaganda with Scott Horton
This
weekend, I again had the pleasure of speaking with Scott Horton of
AntiWar Radio and the aptly-named Scott Horton Show about disinformation
often found in mainstream journalism on the Iranian nuclear program.
Focusing mainly on my recent article, "Propaganda &
Ignorance in Reporting on Iran," published originally by
Muftah.org (where I am actually co-editor of the Iran, Iraq, and Turkey
What if Obamacare was repealed
For all the carping about the flaws in Obamacare, and granted there are
some big ones, the bigger question is would we better off without it? The answer
is no. For the naysayers, Ericka does the maths at the link and this is a
conservative estimate. :
The GOP has gleefully jumped on media reports about Americans having their
health insurance plans nixed because of Obamacare. "Obama lied. My health
plan died," conservative blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in September,
referring to President Barack Obama's promise that people who liked their
health insurance plans could keep them. But ... more »
Right-Wing Mayor Rob Ford Isn't Just A Hopeless And Delusional Drug Addict Of The Steve Stockman Variety
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It's a shame that most media covers Toronto Mayor as a clownish
crackhead
instead of what he actually is-- Canada's most prominent right-wing
politician… and a clownish crackhead. Chris Christie is basically one
crackpipe incident from being America's Rob Ford.
The rest of Canada's right-wing politicians are afraid of being
tarnishedby Ford's outrageous behavior, though not by his vehemently
anti-family
agenda. Today, when he finally admitted he had used crack-- after
denying
it for months and months--... more »
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