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Keith Ellison Bringing A Progressive Vision To… Oklahoma
Keith Ellison (D-MN) is widely viewed as an up-and-coming progressive leader able to articulate progressive ideas and values to ordinary voters. He may not be invited to many events sponsored by lobbyists on K Street or Wall Street, but Democrats all over the country have been inviting him to speak to local grassroots activists. Friday he was in Oklahoma City, explaining a progressive vision in a state where President Obama only received 33% of the vote last year and lost every single county. Obama did best in Oklahoma City and that's where Ellison rallied local activists at the P... more »
Time to take God out of the Interrogation Room
*R. v. Oickle*, 2000 SCC 38 holds that police may properly offer spiritual inducements to suspects as part of interrogation. As a result it is common for police to tell prisoners "the wages of sin is death" and to remind them of the saving "blood of out Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus". In *Oickle* the Supreme Court seems to have been motivated by the supposition that a police officer cannot themselves offer an inducement of a spiritual nature. But underlying that is the unspoken thesis that religious exhortations are of limited meaning - something perhaps true for a hardened crimina... more »
Update On Syria: Syrian National Coalition Admits It Is Powerless
An excerpt from, *"Syrian opposition split over peace conference"* by Fehim Taştekin, Al Monitor, November 9: Another SNC member, Kamal Lebvani, dismissed concerns of losing international support should the SNC not go to Geneva, saying: "There is no international support anyway; otherwise, we wouldn’t be in this situation. It is meaningless to talk of losing international support.” *He then said something that made all other debates irrelevant: "No matter what decision comes out this meeting, it won’t be implemented because the real actors are those fighters in Syria, not us. We hav... more »
Warfare Through Assassinations: Israel And The Islamic Republic Have Gotten Away With Murder
** *Left: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Right: Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Ghassemlou was assassinated by the Islamic Republic.* *People who are convinced they are holy and are driven by a divine mission commit the biggest crimes and tell the biggest lies. History has proven that over and over again. * An excerpt from, *"Arafat’s Death – There’s Really No Mystery"* by Alan Hart, November 8: *For once Israel is telling a part of the truth. It was impossible for any of its own (Israeli-Jewish) agents to get into the rubble of Arafa... more »
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
The trailer for the feature length documentary Our Blue Canoe. The Voyagers continue their Journey across the Pacific, highlighting the the plight of the Pacific Ocean and spreading the message of hope
The Sandy Hook HOAX: Very Important New Video - Sofia Smallstorm Unraveling Sandy Hook!
The first year anniversary of the Sandy Hook operation and hoax that happened on December 14th, 2012. is rapidly approaching… I am still very much perturbed that there are many in this fight for the truth that still stick doggedly to the false idea that Sandy Hook was real and that some 26 people died in that "massacre"…. I, and others that are seeking the real truth, on the other hand have long known that Sandy Hook was indeed a massive fraud, and a horrible hoax where NOBODY had died, perpetrated on the American people. I came across this very important video just today, thanks ... more »
Educational Bedrock: The Teacher-Student Relationship
In 2003, the (then) Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) supported teachers in creating a set of standards and corresponding curriculum for a new program designed to both promote the teaching profession and provide high school students with a solid idea of what classroom teaching entails. The resulting program, STAR (“Students Teaching and Reaching”) was instituted […]
SOAS Events and Facebook pages
*Betel nut farms in eastern Taichung.* Just to let my readers know, SOAS has some great Taiwan events planned for this month. Don't miss 'em if you are in the UK. http://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/events/ They also have been assimilated to the Facebook Borg a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SOASCentreofTaiwanStudies _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
United Opt Out’s Spring Event: Re-Education through #optout!
It’s official. United Opt Out’s Spring event planning board (after meeting in a closed door session) has targeted one of the epicenters of Reformer attacks on public education and community schools—Colorado—for an intervention! Douglas County Education Reformers Beware! Denver Education Reformers Beware! Jefferson County Education Reformers Beware! Here’s what we know so far. We are […]
Why does JP Morgan still have a banking license and why isn't Jamie Dimon nicknamed " Tuco " ?
http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/2008/12/the_many_crimes_of_tuco/ ( Jamie Dimon has been a busy man as well... ) The many crimes of TucoDecember 9th, 2008 [image: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez] Tuco “the Rat” Ramirez was a busy guy. Property Crimes - armed robbery of citizens, state banks, and post offices - arson in a state prison - cattle rustling - counterfeiting and passing counterfeit money - crimes against places of high authority include burning down the courthouse and sheriff’s office in Sonora - extortion - highway robbery - horse th... more »
Nuclear Hotseat #124: Pandora/Schmandora; We've Got the Uranium Film Festival! | Nuclear Hotseat
*INTERVIEW: Norbert Suchanek is the **founder and General Director of t**he Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of the nuclear issue. A native of Germany, Suchanek is a journalist, author, filmmaker and activist living in Rio de Janeiro. He shares with Nuclear Hotseat listeners how the festival got started, his vision for an international nuclear film archive, and how you – yes you! – can get your film into the 2014 festival. The Uranium Film Festival comes to the United States this month (November, 2013) for showings in New Mexico and Albuquerque, with stops in ear... more »
TV Watch: Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) makes a charming, wistful, and droll return to "The Big Bang Theory"
*In this week's Big Band Theory, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) was stung by rejection from his hero Professor Proton (Bob Newhart), who chose to work with Leonard (Johnny Galicki). Sheldon countered with Bill "The Science Guy" Nye, and as Newhart recalls: "There's bad feeling between the two of them, and I actually, physically make a move toward him. He says, 'My show was really patterned after yours.' And I say, 'That's what I told my lawyers.'"* *by Ken* There are pluses and minuses to keeping one's distance from the mindless flow of TV news. I had no idea that Bob Newhart had won an Em... more »
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
*WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION* By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to anarchism. There are a great number of them, and to my mind they should live up to certain criteria. One is that they should be neither too short, "leafletly", nor so long and encyclopedic that they risk boring the casual reader. They should also present a wide enough vision of the many facets of the ideology without becoming bogs down in trivia. They should have a number of "hooks" to catch the inter... more »
trivialities
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus ! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." Bukowski
Co-location is more frustration than cooperation
This is a picture of the DC Mayor Vincent Grey and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visiting my school for a brief 60 minute press conference on the recent NAEP results. I haven’t even looked through the report yet, so I have no comment on that. [Let me say how much this visit screwed […]
Russell Brand and the Necessary Planetary Adjustment
Russell Brand's recent political essay, viral BBC interview, and ongoing comedy tour - The Messiah Complex - raise important political and philosophical questions concerning, among other issues, the nature of justice, the importance of voting, and the need for radical, revolutionary change. These deserve serious consideration. Since at least the time of the Athenian statesman Solon (c. 638 BC - 558 BC), whose reforms are credited with setting the historical stage for the emergence of democracy in ancient Athens, the concept of law has contained a crucial ambiguity. While the law is ... more »
Nissian Revolutionary Car Design
Something for nothing, form follows function. It looks like Nissan has hit a cliche design jackpot. If your next car is electric, it would be better trapezoid shaped, Be sure to read the whole story at Gizmag.
Musical Interlude: Dire Straits, “Private Investigations”
Dire Straits, “Private Investigations” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS-ICzjO6I
JFK50: The Trust Factor
*To date, Jack Kennedy is the only real-life person depicted as knowing Superman's secret identity.*
Kids lose, hurts kids, child abuse, and such.
Just throwing this out there. All over the education reform debate, participants argue that certain things “hurt kids,” “kids lose,” “child abuse.” I find them grating. But why? I get it, trust me. Teachers work with and for young persons. We do things that are good for children in our care, and some things are, […]
Updates On Syria: Blanket of Silence Over Turkish Role In Al-Qaeda's Growth Is Lifted, Washington Demands Syrian Kurds Subordinate Themselves To Fictitious Syrian Army, Degenerate Saudi Royals Fund More Jihadist Terrorists
*1. An excerpt from, "Turkey ‘stopped helping’ al-Qaeda near Syria border: Report" Hürriyet Daily News, November 8:* Turkey has recently ceased aiding al-Qaeda-linked groups near the Syrian border, Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Saleh Muslim has said, according to daily Taraf. The PYD, which is known as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) wing in Syria, is fighting in northern Syrian towns against al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist groups, in particular the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). “The gangs don’t attack us from Turkey anymore... more »
“Middle School Football Team's Life-changing Play”
*“Middle School Football Team's Life-changing Play”* by Steve Hartman "Meet the Olivet Eagles, a middle-school football team from Olivet, Mich., who with the help of a learning disabled teammate, executed what may be one of the most successful plays of all time." - http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157962n Hat tip to Julie Mitchell for this material.
"The Most Dangerous Man, Or Woman..."
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." - H.L. Mencken ◆ Few things leave me speech... more »
Austerity politics proving fatal to recovery
If you missed it this week, Dr. Krugman consulted with the experts and their diagnosis for our future is grim. Good news is they've identifited the cause. Austerity is killing our economy. What’s more, the authors — one of whom is the Federal Reserve Board’s director of research and statistics, so we’re not talking about obscure academics — put a number to these effects, and it’s terrifying. They suggest that economic weakness has already reduced America’s economic potential by around 7 percent, which means that it makes us poorer to the tune of more than $1 trillion a year. And we... more »
MADELEINE McCANN AND THE KRAY TWINS
*Judy Garland and the Kray Twins, all three of whom may have been mind-controlled. **KRAY TWINS BRAINWASHED?.* The missing Madeleine McCann has links to the Kray Twins, who ran a pedophile ring. Lucian Freud "had a well-documented relationship with the Kray twins Reggie and Ronnie." Lucian Freud 'forced' to pay £500,000 gambling debt to gangland Kray Twins ... *Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud.* In July 2007, Lucian Freud's brother Clement Freud helped the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann by cooking them dinners in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, and offeri... more »
Yanis Varoukis discusses Ponzi Austerity ( Greece in focus ) .... While the EU and Greece Coalition Government play Troikan games over and over again , the Greek people suffer the realities of actual austerity - families kiss their children good bye as they cannot feed them.....Businesses continue to flee Greece ...... Deflation hits levels no seen in fifty years - how much will the Greek people take before revolting is the question unknown at present !
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/yanis-varoufakis-ponzi-austerity-a-definition-and-an-example.html SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013 Yanis Varoufakis: Ponzi Austerity – A Definition and an Example *By Yanis Varoufakis, a professor of economics at the University of Athens. Cross posted from his blog* For a while now I have been arguing that Europe’s policies for reducing the public debts of fiscally stressed member-states can be described as a Ponzi austerity scheme. In this post I attempt precisely to define ‘Ponzi austerity’. *Ponzi Growth* Standard Ponzi schemes are based on a sleigh... more »
Do The Ruling Elites Just Assume Laws Are For The Little People Only?
The Friday morning tweet from Alan Grayson (above) was anything but gratuitous. Grayson worked his way through Harvard as a janitor. He graduated, summa cum laude, with a degree in economics. Before going back too Harvard Law, he worked as an economist. He graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude. So, you don't have to take my word for it when I tell you that his is one of the most brilliant and rigorous minds to be serving in a House of Representatives that includes so very many men and women of no talents beyond rabble-rousing. Think of losers-at-life like Steve Stockman (R-TX... more »
Amazing video: Tennessee student rips CCLS, data and teacher eval by test scores.
All I can say is “wow” after watching this video. This young man tells the true origin of the Common Core, rips apart “data” and hammers teacher evaluation by test scores. Could a student who becomes part of the Common Core generation make this type of argument in 5 years? Or will our children’s only […]
9th November - A Day to Remember
Today is the 75th anniversary of the anti-Capitalist uprising in Germany, known better by the name given it by apologists for International Jewry; Kristallnacht. Today, coincidentally, is also the 90th anniversary of the attempted anti-Internationalist revolution in Bavaria. The Talmudists who control the governments, media and economies of the majority of the world are using today's anniversaries as an excuse to repeat the lies of years gone by, and to reinforce their brain-washing propaganda known as the 'Holocaust'. According to the hysterical drivel of the Shoah Industry, the 1... more »
Veterans Day
November 9, 2013 Monday, Veterans Day, we pay honor to the veterans of our various wars. Whatever you think about the validity of those wars and despite our penchant for seeing our veterans as either super heroes or super villains, … Continue reading →
"But its liberal values can be suffocating"
A very striking tweet from *Newsnight*'s Mark Urban, captured by DB at *Biased BBC*: *Mark Urban* @MarkUrban018 Nov@rogermosey excellent piece in the Times. I share your view #BBC no longer dominated by left. But its liberal values can be suffocating. Retweeted by Roger Mosey
Simple fixes: Raise the minimum wage
One bright spot in our blithering national debate is this new push to raise the minimum wage. The right people are finally talking about it. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Business owners applauded President Obama in backing a federal minimum wage increase to at least $10 an hour. "The American Dream needs a minimum wage increase," said Lew Prince, CEO and co-owner of Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis, the Midwest's largest independent music store. "The current minimum wage is too low for workers to live on and too low to sustain the consumer demand that businesses ne... more »
"GridEx II, Solar Max, And the Carrington Effect"; A Comment
* * *Fact: "The Carrington Event"* by The History Channel "On the morning of September 1, 1859, amateur astrologer Richard Carrington ascended into the private observatory attached to his country estate outside of London. After cranking open the dome's shutter to reveal the clear blue sky, he pointed his brass telescope toward the sun and began to sketch a cluster of enormous dark spots that freckled its surface. Suddenly, Carrington spotted what he described as "two patches of intensely bright and white light" erupting from the sunspots. Five minutes later the fireballs vanis... more »
Don Phillips - Technology from Extraterrestrials
*Don Phillips was in the Air Force at Las Vegas Air Force Base during an event when UFOs were seen moving at enormous speeds near Mt. Charleston, northwest of Las Vegas. In addition, he worked with Kelly Johnson at the Lockheed Skunkworks -- on design and construction of the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. He testifies that we not only have these extraterrestrial devices, but have also achieved tremendous technological advances from their study. He states that in the 1950's and 1960's, NATO did research into the origin of ET races, and disseminated reports to the leaders of various count... more »
What Mattered This Week?
A few obvious ones, but I'll go with the Iran story. We don't have the outcome yet, but surely it matters either way. "Doesn't matter" is too strong, but VA-AG is certainly a combination of elements that give something far more attention than it deserves. I think it was Dave Hopkins who made the more general point on Tuesday that we tend to pay disproportionate attention to these off-year elections, and he's of course exactly right. Add to that an exciting, close election, and there you go. What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Miscellany for another November weekend
Although the BBC’s commemoration of the anniversary of Kristallnacht that Craig mentioned last week in his R4 Sunday review was all fine and good, as Craig noted, its attitude to present day antisemitism is not so sensitive. I think they tend to do something quite unhelpful when they do ‘dead and/or humiliated Jews’. It’s not just that the Holocaust can easily be trivialised -- especially when so many people get away with equating Israel’s current treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis' treatment of the Jews; nor is it that there is a distinct likelihood of stirring up a back... more »
ObamaCare updates November 6 , 2013 - In the short term , one basic question is whether HHS and the Tech surge can get the healthcare.gov website functioning by the end of November , so that total chaos doesn't kick in when the December 15 , 2013 enrollment deadline for Jan 1 , 2014 coverage is hit..... A second key question is who is enrolling and who isn't enrolling ? For ObamaCare to work as centrally planned , you need young customers aka suckers to sign up - and so far , that hasn't happened ..... Meanwhile whether it Big Unions seeking work arounds or politicians and Regulators ( Federal and State ) gently forcing insurers to " reconsider " cancellations , our Orwellian " Affordable Healthcare Act " zombie continue to lurch and twitch around.....
Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/07/uh-oh-hhs-still-discovering-new-bugs-in-obamacare-website-as-known-ones-are-fixed/ Uh oh: HHS still discovering new bugs in ObamaCare website as known ones are fixed POSTED AT 5:21 PM ON NOVEMBER 7, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT A “tech surge” update via Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog. Spoiler: Sebelius’s “important announcement” tomorrow isn’t going to be “we fixed it.” Today’s “Operational Update on the Health Insurance Marketplace” was not especially good news: As capacity problems at the start of HealthCare.gov get fixed, tech workers are finding new capacit... more »
Burning Bush: a dark movie about post-1968 events
Scott Armstrong is a climate skeptic and a forecasting expert – who wrote some sensible comments about the journalistic impartiality for Fox and LA Times – is challenging you to disprove his claim that there only exists one published paper that claims to provide s scientific forecast of long-term global mean temperatures. Well, I don't know which papers are exactly counted and for some interpretations, the proposition above seems to be untrue, but you may disagree so I copied the challenge for you. Scott recently watched Hřebejk's 2013 film "Honeymoon" [Líbánky] as well as the 3-pa... more »
NEA, AFT, Common Core, and VAM
I have been wondering about “the unions”– the two major national teachers unions– the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). I have been told that ”the unions” are the major forces on the side of classroom teachers in this fight against the corporate takeover of American public education. I want that to […]
New Article From John Kaminski: The Hitler Test
As a true student of history, I have become truly appalled by what I have discovered as being the real truth about the Second World War, and especially about Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler.... In spite of the constant Jewish run propaganda that has vilified Hitler constantly to this day, and continues to ram down peoples' throats the notion that he was "the most evil man" in all of our history, I have been pouring over thousands of documents, articles, and so called "history" books for decades, and I have found no evidence that supports the Jewish claim what so ever... In fact, it h...more »
6 Tips for Pain Relief Without Using Medication
I was given the opportunity to try some of the services at Brick Canvas so I could review them. All opinions are 100% my own. When I was in a bad car accident almost two years ago, I walked away, but I walked away with chronic pain that would plague me for a long time after. The pain for me manifested itself in my neck and through migraines. It was honestly excruciating and the only thing the doctors had to offer me were heavy pain killers. I didn't like the way they made me feel. The medication seemed almost as bad as the pain. The both made me feel like I wasn't myself. I knew I... more »
The Politics Behind Raising The Minimum Wage
As you probably noticed, progressives have been up in arms because Steve Israel and the DCCC have recruited Jennifer Garrison, "the Sarah Palin of Ohio," to run for Congress… as a Democrat. Most of the complaints have come from women's groups over Garrison's fanatic anti-Choice history and from LGBT groups because of her similarly fanatic history as an anti-gay crusader. Having been in the state legislature she has a long and sordid record on these, as well as environmental and ethical issues. None of that-- including an open letter to the DCCC-- prevented Steve Israel from recru... more »
The gallant BBC
Isn't David Dimbleby the perfect gentleman? Introducing (Chris Huhne's ex) Vicky Price on this week's *Question Time*, Mr Impartiality teed her up as "the economist Vicky Price, briefly detained at Her Majesty's pleasure earlier this year for taking her husband's speeding points, which she's written a book about". That's a plug for her book *and* no mention of the fact that she was actually convicted of perverting the course of justice (*not* for taking her husband's speeding points). Gallantry clearly still survives at the BBC. So does Christian forgiveness. Both Vicky and Chr... more »
Iraq War Watch November 9 , 2013 - mayhem continues as the direct result of the US intervention with state terror apparatus put in place by the US - War crimes continue and no one held accountable to date !
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-iraq-state-terrorism-473/ Iraq is still suffering from the US invasion because the apparatus of state oppression and terror is still in place, killing people every day. But few in the US seem to realize the scale of the war crimes committed in Iraq, an expert author told RT. In an exclusive interview with RT, Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of *“Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq,”* said that the world should learn the lessons from US invasions, such as respect for international law and the futility of military force. For more on ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Valley of Flowers National Park, West Himalaya. [photo via]
War watch November 6 , 2013 - Turkey patrols stops a ton of chemicals from being smuggled into Syria - another attempt by Syrian rebels to bring chemical weapons into the Syrian War theater ? Fighting against peace - does the US want endless war and if so , why ? News items of note for Pakistan , Syria and Iran...
Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemicals-seized-207/ Turkish patrol seizes over a ton of chemicals from smugglers at Syria border Published time: November 04, 2013 20:29 Edited time: November 06, 2013 07:48 Get short URL [image: Turkish soldiers stand guard.(AFP Photo / Mira)] Turkish soldiers stand guard.(AFP Photo / Mira) Share on tumblr Trends Syria unrest, Syria-Turkey Tags Crime, Syria, Turkey, War Turkish border guards seized three vehicles loaded with over 1,000 kg of chemicals as they tried to illegally cross the border into Syria. One of the smugglers was arrested, while other... more »
Extracts: "With the atmosphere of threat created by 9/11, the final destruction of the protective features of law was quickly achieved in the name of making us safe from terrorists. The fact that we are no longer safe from our own government did not register. This is how liberty was lost, and America with it." "Remember, the FBI has stated publicly that it has no evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11..." "Still today insouciant Americans sport [yellow ribbons] on their cars unaware that what they are supporting are the murder of foreign women, children and village elders, the death and physical and mental maiming of American soldiers, and the worldwide destruction of the reputation of the United States..."
------------------------------ *How America Was Lost — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ November 7, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter How America Was Lost Paul Craig Roberts *“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law.* Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and ... more »
Grinding Rogues Honest
This is not about our public school system. But, as I see it, this is what I want to find in our public school system. When I was in high school I got a speech once from the basketball coach intended to teach me a life lesson. I imagine I was goofing around rather than applying myself with absolute discipline and determination to the task at hand of jumping in place or over a bench or something of that sort. He pulled me aside and said, "Storm, who do you think you are? This game, this team, this school, this town was here before you and it will be here after you. What do you th... more »
IN THE CROSSHAIRS
I was back out on the streets of Bath yesterday after taking a day off from my door-to-door efforts around the Bath Iron Works (BIW) tax break issue. My legs were tired and it rained on Thursday so it worked nicely for me. I will finish the last of our flyers today by hitting the remaining part of town we'd not yet visited. By this evening we should have done the vast majority of houses in the city. Nine of us have been doing this door-to-door work. From reports I am hearing many local business people are now asking the question: "Can we ask the city of Bath for a tax break as ... more »
You may need to sit down
As Cilla used to say, 'Surprise, surprise!'... The ITV News website's top two stories at the moment are *'At least 1200 dead' in typhoon* and *PM backs marines after murder*. The same two stories top the Sky News website:* At least '1,200 dead' by Typhoon Haiyan* and *Cameron backs marines after 'appalling' murder*. The BBC News website, however, adding somewhat to the corporation's image for being utterly obsessed with its main rivals - especially the Murdoch Empire - is leading with *BT wins £897m Champions League deal *(i.e. one in the eye for Sky). Even the *Guardian *relegat... more »
The Office Of The Prime Minister Of Canada Encouraged Senator Duffy To Lie About The Source Of The $90,000 And Coached Him On What To Say To The Media
** *"An e-mail has surfaced that shows the Prime Minister’s Office offered Senator Mike Duffy communications advice just days before he told Canadians he’d repaid questionable expense claims out of his own pocket.* *It will fuel the controversy over recent allegations by Mr. Duffy – now suspended from the Senate – that the PMO told him to lie to Canadians about the source of the $90,000 used to reimburse taxpayers for controversial expenses.* *The money had in fact come secretly from former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright, a fact that was kept hidden from Canadians until mid-May ... more »
The Washington Post gets its pom-poms out!
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013* *Editorial board cheerleads/misleads about those test score gains:* The Washington, D.C. public schools recorded good score gains on the 2013 NAEP. In yesterday’s featured editorial, the paper’s editorial board got its pom-poms out. They did some of their familiar cheerleading for “education reform.” They also offered a misleading picture of score gains in D.C. This is the way the editorial began, headline included. Much of this is technically accurate. Much of this is misleading WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL (11/8/13): *High marks for D.C. schools* *Scho... more »
Traditions
Ah, it’s that time of the year when one of the UK’s tabloid newspapers (probably the ‘Daily Mail’) publishes an article about an Anglican vicar who doesn’t like the patriotic hymn ‘I Vow To Thee My Country' (Thaxted). Everyone’s a winner here: The vicar gets off his chest all his angst about this particular patriotic hymn and wins some kudos from right-on types; the newspaper gets a story it knows will excite (i.e. wind up) its traditional readership; the newspaper’s readers (duly wound up) get to enjoy giving the lefty, right-on, neer-do-well vicar a good slagging off; a Conservati... more »
Living in Ford Nation
Mitchell Anderson writes that we're all living in Ford Nation now: Mayor Ford’s puzzling popularity in the face of one salacious scandal after another seems to be propelled by his cheapening effect on values — and how that appeals to a morally lazy electorate. Like a pair of drunks egging each other on, Ford and his die-hard supporters are enabling each other’s bad behaviour, something that’s gone far beyond mere substance abuse. Ford’s everyman appeal stems in part from how he makes it respectable to indulge our ugliest instincts. Don’t care about the poor? Neither does he. Are ... more »
Untitled
*Jefferson, Plaquemines consider filing lawsuits ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* ~Even as Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration launched an all-out assault this year against a state agency’s lawsuit accusing energy companies of destroying coastal wetlands, officials in the Republican strongholds of Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes were quietly preparing their own cases aimed at forcing the oil and gas industry to repair the damage it allegedly has done in those areas. In coming weeks, both parishes’ councils could file their own suits centered around allegations that t... more »
McConnell Accuses DeMint's Right Wing Super PAC Of Illegal Coordination With The Democrats
That's the ad the Senate Conservatives Fund is spending tens of thousands of dollars running all over Kentucky television a year out from the Republican primary pitting Mitch McConnell against Tea Party activist Matt Bevin. And McConnell is furious-- and flipping out. In yesterday's *Wall Street Journal*, Peggy Noonan caught his anger at the Tea Party idiotspretty well. McConnell told her beating a teabagger in a congressional primary in southwest Alabama with a Chamber of Commerce shill was more important than Chris Christie's win in New Jersey or Ken Cuccinelli's loss in Virgini... more »
Kaluza and Weyl: adding \(U(1)\) to GR
Exactly 10,000,000 years ago, on November 9th, 1885, two mathematical physicists were born, Hermann Weyl and Theodor Kaluza. Click the hyperlink for some 2007 TRF biographies. Yes, "ten million" is the translation of 128 from decimal to binary. ;-) It may seem remarkable for two mathematical physicists to be born on the same day and the same year. It may look even more remarkable if you realize that both of them were German-speaking although the surprise decreases once you acknowledge that in the late 19th and early 20th century, most of the mathematical elite was German-speaking... more »
noah richler on the language of war propaganda, and the dishonesty of present ideology
From Noah Richler's *What We Talk About When We Talk About War*: We have a duty to be honest and rigorous, with ourselves and with others, and to be able to brook contradiction and argument in our discussions of past wars and the present one in Afghanistan. But instead, in today's Canada, we have arrived at a point where the use of any language that is not euphemistic is greeted as an assault on the work of soldiers, on a singular view of our past, and therefore on the character of the nation itself. Ideology thrives. History hardly comes into it. . . . . Among the traditional wor... more »
noah richler: canada was shaped by discussion and compromise, not through war
[The over-emphasis on Canadian military history] distorts and downplays the significant roles that Canadian politicians, diplomats, jurists and a variety of other civilians (such as artists) have had in shaping not just the domestic Canadian polity but abstract, universal ideas about statehood that have served as examples internationally - in Scottish constitutional development, for instance, and of course in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in 1948. The nature of this contribution is significant specifically because the truth of Canadian... more »
Truth and Gardasil: Interview with Dr Deirdre Little of Australia
*24 April 2013* * * At the beginning of 2013, the Australian Government began to roll-out the Gardasil vaccination program for all boys aged 13-15. In this interview, BMJ-published Australian GP Dr Deirdre Little tells the story of how a 16-year-old female patient who received the Gardasil vaccine suffered premature menopause. She subsequently discovered that according to the TGA, the Gardasil manufacturer did not conduct studies on ovarian effects of the vaccine or any studies regarding ongoing fertility effects. Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sens... more »
Weep For Me Jimbo ...
First of all, let me begin by saying that I despise Jim Flaherty. He's a cretin whose economic understanding is stuck in the 19th Century. What he does that isn't based on two hundred year old cliches is based on crude, deliberate fraud. He's a thug, who has made more people homeless, condemned more children to poverty, caused more suicides, caused more suffering overall, than perhaps any other finance minister in Canadian history. He's an enemy of democracy, what with his serial mega-omnibus bills that have entire sections in them with nothing to do with his balliwick. He's a hyp... more »
Anonymous takes on Telegraph over mask rumor
An open letter to the media, by Anonymous: http://pastebin.com/sK6Zi3EM Following the Million Mask March organized by Anonymous, the U.K. based news website The Telegraph published an article titled, “Anonymous have been exposed as hypocrites. Watch them try to wiggle their way out of it.” This smear refers to the well-known fact that Warner Bros. owns the rights to our mask, profits from
Open Letter to My Local Teacher’s Union
Dear President Elizabeth Davis, First and foremost, I wish to extend warm felt congratulations to you, and Ms. Candi Peterson. I wish both of you a successful term as President and General Vice President of the Washington Teacher’s Union. My name is Angel L. Cintron Jr., and I’m a third year DCPS teacher at Charles […]
ECFA Double Strike is Total Success
*Guinea pigs at a miniature recreational farm in Taichung near Shihgang.* A friend of mine remarks on the email on the latest Taiwan trade figures, putting numbers on what all of us said would happen with ECFA: You have to combine that info with the latest figures for China trade to have the full picture: China's October exports rose 5.6% and its imports rose 7.6%. In Taiwan, all exports were down 1.5% and exports to China decreased 5.5%. So Chinese imports increase strongly when Taiwan exports to China decrease... What's going on? Of course many factors here, but it also means t... more »
Desert Chang, ROC flag, Chinese...
*Gorgeous cool, breezy, sunny day on the Taichung 95 and small farm roads in the hills above Hsinshe. 60 kms in total, but over 1300 meters of climbing. Brutal, but rewarding.* Lately a number of observers have been commenting on how the ROC flag has been hollowed out by Taiwanese identification and has now become a symbol, not of ROC-ness, but of Taiwanese-ness. There is hardly a better example of this than the Affair of the Flag involving alternative singer Desert Chang and Chinese in the audience at a concert she gave in the UK. WSJ reports: According to Ms. Chang’s account of t... more »
Untitled
*Judge: Chief coastal adviser Garret Graves' emails with energy sector are public records ~Joe Gyan Jr., The Advocate*
THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE SPIES
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The CIA controls famous writers and intellectuals, controls spies in foreign agencies, and works closely with big corporations. According to British journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, an agent in the *Indian* intelligence services helped carry out the terrorist attack in Mumbai in 2008. *'Indian government spy helped in 26/11 attacks'* The agent named "Honey Bee" is referred to in Levy and Scott-Clark's book "The Seige". For the first 28 hours of the siege, the 4 Taj gunmen were almost completely unhindered. It took 58 hours to end the siege - evidence that this ... more »
Comment of the week
From Biased BBC - uncle bup says: November 7, 2013 at 8:29 pm Anyway I went to uni with the great grandson of John Venn. Not at quite the same time – but we overlapped. Wonderful!
Held for the purposes of 'journalism, art or literature’
Regular readers of this blog may recall the occasional grumble about James Naughtie's accumulation of air miles, courtesy of the BBC licence payer: Air stewards and stewardesses probably get to see less of the world than * Today*'s globe-trotting James Naughtie. Recently back from Egypt - from where he filed a few award-seeking reports for a few days before returning to Blighty again - *Today* has now seen fit to dispatch its favourite frequent flyer to the United States, from where he can pontificate (for a few days) about Washington's response to the Syrian crisis, and then win ... more »
Two Admirals face probe in navy bribery scheme - in a shocking development , Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, the service’s top intelligence officer, and Rear Adm. Bruce F. Loveless, the Navy’s director of intelligence operations, were placed on leave Friday, and their access to classified material was suspended.......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/two-admirals-face-probe-in-navy-bribery-scheme/2013/11/08/d2dc063a-48d8-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html Two admirals face probe in Navy bribery scheme Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images - Ted Branch, then a rear admiral, speaks to the press in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this 2010 photo. Now a vice admiral and the service’s top intelligence officer, he and and Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, the Navy’s director of intelligence operations, were placed on leave Friday and their access to classified material was suspended, the Navy said i... more »
Musical Interlude: Phil Collins, “Another Day In Paradise”
Phil Collins, “Another Day In Paradise” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI
Climate Tricks 22: Typhoon Haiyan due to Man-Made CC?
The strongest typhoon this year in the planet, storm "Haiyan" (renamed as "Yolanda" by PAGASA) has left the country after it rammed through central Philippines, affecting many provinces like Leyte, Samar, Cebu, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Palawan. As of this morning, casualties have topped 100 dead people, mostly in Taclocan, Leyte. Some groups naturally seize on this story to say that "man-made climate change" is to blame. When there are less rain and less storms, it's due to "man-made global warming" or "man-made CC". When there are lots of rains, more storms, it's also due to "man... more »
CAN YOU SPOT A GAY FACE?
*James Dean.* A new study "reveals that homosexuals tend to have more 'masculine' features than straight men." The research was carried out by the Center for Theoretical Study at Charles University in Prague and The Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. *Could This Physical Trait Reveal If Someone Is Gay Or Straight?* The study found that 'gay' men "had shorter noses and bigger jaws." *Zac Efron in His First Gay Interview | Advocate.com* It could be argued that: (1) The 'gay' men in this study may be the 'out' type of gay and may not necessarily be typical. (2) The 'straig... more »
Roger and out
Roger Mosey has just left the BBC after 35 years. Over that time he'd been head of BBC Television News, controller of Radio 5 Live, editor of Radio 4's *Today *programme, director of the corporation's 2012 Olympics coverage and head of BBC Vision. He's now written an article for *The Times *reflecting on the state of the BBC, which you can access - if you pay for it - here. For those of us too stingy to pay for the privilege, many quotes from the article can be found strewn around the rest of the media (though not on the BBC News website). Here are a selection, culled from the ... more »
7 Claims Jonathan Martin May Have Regarding Dolphins Bullying Under Florida Law
Now that America finally woke up and realized that workplace bullying is a serious issue, thanks to the Miami Dolphins situation with Jonathan Martin, who quit after the team refused to do anything after he complained about workplace bullying, I thought I'd share my thoughts on the situation from the perspective of a Florida employee-side lawyer. As I've written before, there is no state in the nation that has passed any law against workplace bullying. We have zero tolerance for bullying in schools, but nothing to protect employees? What a giant waste of corporate resources and time... more »
Barack Obama and health care
There's an image that I've never seen on the BBC, I wonder why! *Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*
Syria- A Short History
*SYRIA - A SHORT HISTORY* By Phillip K. Hitti, Colier Books, New York 1961 This book is an abridgement of the author's previous work 'History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine' (1951). Before the present 'Arab Spring' and the subsequent civil war in Syria this country wasn't of great interest to the average person. This had not, however, always been the case. In the past Syria and its Lebanese gatew...more »
Sunday Classics preview: Brahms in snorting-and-grunting mode
*[A]* *[B]* *[C]* *"I'd like to hear you yourself play the scherzo, with its driving power and energy (I can hear you snorting and grunting in it!). No one else would succeed in playing it as I imagine it: agitated without rushing, legato, yet inwardly restless and propulsive."* *-- from a letter to Brahms by pianist Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, who had been playing the composer's new piano-and-cello sonata* *by Ken* The music is the third movement of Brahms's Second Cello Sonata in F, Op. 99, and the quote from Elisabeth von Herzogenberg's letter to the composer comes from the p... more »
Freedom Run 2013, I will Run the 10K
Tomorrow, I will join the Freedom Run 2013 to be held in Quezon City. Like the Freedom Run 2012, I will run the 10K, even if did not join any other run this year. So my legs, be ready to be hammered tomorrow. That means terrible pain in the legs 2-3 days after November 10 :-) At the Freedom Run facebook page, there was one discussion last Sunday, November 02, if this "freedom from corruption" run is pro-abolition of pork barrel, or simply keep but reform pork barrel. I joined that thread. I said that the organizer of the Freedom Run is the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (... more »
Reason Escapes Netanyahu, Says Possible US-Iran Deal Is "Bad"
*Source of cartoon: Carlos Latuff.* An excerpt from, *"Why Netanyahu Is So Enraged by a Deal with Iran"* by John Glaser, AntiWar.com, November 8: Details of the first-phase deal are limited and speculative, but the broad contours are that Iran would halt its enrichment program (whatever that means) for 6 months in exchange for “very limited” and “reversible” sanctions relief. During that 6 months, a more comprehensive grand bargain would be hashed out, which would probably include Iran making the following concessions in return for greater sanctions relief: halting all production...more »
Sofia Smallstorm: Unraveling Sandy Hook
Below is Sofia Smallstorm's presentation entitled *Unraveling Sandy Hook in 2, 3, 4 and 5 Dimensions*. I was fortunate enough to physically attend this presentation, which was made into this excellent YouTube video. Please take the time to watch this all. *Sofia Smallstorm on The Realist Report discussing Sandy Hook*
Lloyd Vivola Photos: Longest Walk 4 arrives in Utah
The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz is in Richfield, Utah, today, Nov. 8, 2013. Walkers are headed for Nevada, and will arrive in Alcatraz on Dec. 21, with a ceremony on Dec. 22, 2013. Long Walker Lloyd Vivola shares these photos from the road, the walk across Colorado, with Censored News. By Lloyd Vivola Censored News Scroll down for photos Aho Mitakuy!The Longest Walk 4 has reached the
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Would you be comfortable telling your boss that you're uncomfortable fetching his lunch?
*"I would hope if they felt uncomfortable doing it, they would tell me. And if they did feel uncomfortable, then that would be okay. You know, they wouldn't have to do that."* -- *Steven Calvery, director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)* *by Ken* You've worked for bosses, right? So let's look at a hypothetical case. Let's say that your boss has asked you to perform a chore that's clearly unrelated to your work -- like, say, picking up his/her lunch -- and you're uncomfortable about it. Do you: (a) Do it happily, glad to be of service.? Who knows? Maybe it'll lead to... more »
China - Russia juggernaut overwhelming US claims on being extraordinary - China leading on relentless push to dethrone the dollar reserve currency status , Russia working hard to dethrone US as supreme foreign policy force...... Both countries succeeding without a shot fired by them to date !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-08/guest-post-how-china-can-cause-death-dollar-and-entire-us-financial-system ( China focuses on throwing financial levers , russia handles geopolitical matters such as Iran and Syria........) Guest Post: How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2013 19:59 -0500 - Australia - Bank of America - Bank of America - Brazil - Capital Markets - China - Citibank - Debt Ceiling - default - Deutsche Bank ... more »
Nuke the filibuster already
I've long resisted the calls to kill the filibuster but I no longer have any doubt if the Republicans ever manage to bamboozle the electorate into giving them back a majority in the Senate, the very first thing they'll do is abolish it. So if Democrats could nuke the filibuster please. It's not that I don't appreciate this sort of chatter: From young newbies to the old guards, Democratic senators are clamoring for filibuster reform, and insist that a mass Republican blockade of three judges to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals may be the final straw before going nuclear. "It woul... more »
Hmmm...... Egyptian Lawyers Charge Obama With Crimes Against Humanity; Accessory to Muslim Brotherhood Violence ......... How long before we see similar complaints filed with the ICC or even the UN citing War crimes by the supporters of Jihadist Rebels of Syria who have repeated committed war crimes - the massacre of Christians one glaring example especially considering silence of Congress and religious fundamentalists here in the US ....
http://www.infowars.com/egyptian-lawyers-charge-obama-with-crimes-against-humanity-accessory-to-muslim-brotherhood-violence/ Egyptian Lawyers Charge Obama With Crimes Against Humanity; Accessory to Muslim Brotherhood Violence - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Jim Hoft* The Gateway Pundit November 8, 2013 [image: 3484828956_2381aa325a_b] *Don’t expect this to make many headlines.* Egyptian lawyers charged Barack Obama with crimes against ... more »
The Fetishization of Voting
Walking past a polling site election night, I spotted one of my neighbors standing by the entrance. Dressed in a traditional outfit, he was easily recognizable as a member of a particularly conservative religious sect. Most noticeable, though, was the sign he held admonishing people not to vote. As far as I could tell, the gist of his argument was that the laws, because of their secular nature, are immoral; and since they are immoral, one should abstain from voting. It constituted a breach of the moral law to participate in an immoral system. Needless to say, it struck me as partic... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “A Year And A Day”
2002, “A Year And A Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7b_avTk38
EFN Asia 32: Day 2 of Conference 2013 in Bangkok
* This is my article yesterday at the EFN website. Karthik Chandra of the Foundation for Democratic Reforms and Lok Satta (People Power), India, helped in filling up some gaps in my original article. Thanks Karthik. -------------- Day 2 of the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia 2013 Conference started with a presentation by Fred McMahon of Fraser Institute in Canada, of the results of the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) 2013 Report. Before presenting the numbers, he reiterated the definition of “economic freedom” as fundamental rights. Without these basic rights, no political or... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation Pegasus and you can find this expanse of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies. Centered on NGC 7814, the pretty field of view would almost be covered by a full moon. NGC 7814 is sometimes called the Little Sombrero for its resemblance to the brighter more famous M104, the Sombrero Galaxy. *Click image for larger size.* Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies seen edge-on, and both have extensive central bulges cut by a thinner disk with dust lanes in silhouette. In fact, NGC 7814 is some 40 million light... more »
Chet Raymo, “November Bloomer”
* * * “November Bloomer”* by Chet Raymo “A spray of gold against a grey November sky! It's the witch hazel, that most untypical tree, bursting riotously into bloom when everything else is closing down, thumbing its nose at impending winter. None of my botanical handbooks explain why the witch hazel blooms in October and November, even as its leaves are falling to the ground. Where are the insects that will pollinate the blossoms? Donald Stokes, who has written a wonderful book on wild shrubs and vines, tells of watching witch hazel in bloom and seeing no visitors but ants. Thorea... more »
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Getting Rid of Blue Dogs/Fake Democrats/Rethug-Lites - An Upward Redistribution of Income, Not an Improving Economy Explains the Spectacular Drop in the Deficit
As a further source of illumination to those who wonder why so many Blue Dog/Fake Democratic candidates were run out of office in 2010 by fellow Democrats either voting against them or staying home, our bestest buddy at Down With Tyranny enlightens us: (Steve) Israel says he's following Rahm Emanuel's playbook to win lots of seats with conservative candidates divorced from the Democratic
Deja Vu ? Training Mujahadeen in Pakistan?
[image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Uncrossed_gladius.jpg/300px-Uncrossed_gladius.jpg] Gladius *Saudi Arabia’s Shadow War *(Not Saudi Arabia’s alone. Same as Afghanistan wasn't just a Saudi shadow war)US/Saudi Arabia train Mujahadeen in Pakistan: History Repeats! Of course Foreign Policy is touting "blowback" regarding 9/11. In line with the officially sanctioned cover story/ conspiracy theory to obfuscate the reality of an actual state sponsored act of terrorism. *Think,Operation Gladio style terror. * A book that, if you haven't, you should read The... more »
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