Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann visiting occupied Maribor in April 1941, officially launching the Nazi anti-Slovene policies. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Obersalzberg- Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with dogs (German_Shepherd_Dog "Blondi"?) at the Berghof (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880–1946, left) visits Adolf Hitler. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Adolf Hitler as a soldier during the First World War (1914 - 1918) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mussolini (left) and Hitler sent their armies to North Africa and into Egypt against the British (Photo credit: Wikipedia)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 - 36 minutes 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 - 2 hours ago
http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemicals-seized-207/
Turkish patrol seizes over a ton of chemicals from smugglers at Syria border
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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..."
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*How America Was Lost — Paul Craig Roberts*
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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 »
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*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 »
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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
hy... 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 »
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*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
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 comoser'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 pr... 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
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
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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
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*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?
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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 »
What's This Thing Called Online Automated Bibliometrics and Citation, Anyway - Scam, Fraud or just Plain Hustling?
It's been a while since the last substantial post, blaming deadlines,
deadlines, deadlines for that. Having submitted a major delivery this
Friday, here's a sort of inhale before I jump right into the next leg of
the fall semester triathlon – a major research bid that I'll be heading.
So, this week, the distinguished science journal *Nature's* online news
section published an entertaining piece on what the outcome may be when all
researchers, regardless of field, are ranked according to citation – how
much their work is referred to by other researchers – using open online
automated ... more »
Fukushima: "Beyond Tragic, It's A Crime"
RT, "Fukushima: Beyond Tragic, It's A Crime"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJdrvbt-MYk
RT, “Fukushima's Radioactive Fuel Rods To Be Extracted”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmnyNA2si4
Gender, Civilian Security and the Paradox of War Norms
I am traveling this week for the 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Center
for the Study of Women in Society at University of Oregon, where I
completed my doctoral work ten years ago next month. CSWS was kind enough
to fund field travel for my dissertation back then, which became my first
book, and it’s
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KOSOVO ELECTIONS
*Kosovo's Prime Minister HashimThaci and Madeleine Albright *
On 3 November 2013, there were elections in Kosovo.
In the Serb-dominated North of Kosovo, there was a 22 % turnout, and masked
attackers stormed three polling stations, releasing tear gas, smashing
ballot boxes and stealing the votes.
Kosovo is divided.
There are Serbs in the North of Kosovo who would like to be part of Serbia
rather than Kosovo.
*James Ker-Lindsay*
*According to Dr. James Ker-Lindsay*, a senior research fellow at the
London School of Economics:
"The violence and intimidation represents a very seri... more »
Poppy Conformity
Seldom do I read a piece I agree with wholeheartedly, but Harry Leslie
Smith's article about the warmongering uses of the poppy is spot-on.
Therefore I'm sure it will come as no surprise to readers that I never wear
a poppy. But, despite agreeing with Harry, I fail to pin one of those
famous facsimiles to my coat for two reasons.
Like many readers of a certain age I know, or sadly, knew people who fought
in the Second World War. Both of my granddads did. One of them was a sapper
in the Eighth Army stationed near Cairo and told me, when I was very
little, that he could see the smoke... more »
"The question was, do you get through a lot of eggs?"
One of the funniest bits of A League Of Their Own as Richard Ayode grills
Jamie Rednapp about eggs.
The Gays Won
Someone's got to have the best voting record in Congress, might as well be
Mark!
Wednesday I got an e-mail from the Gay And Lesbian Victory Fund with the
subject line "What a Night!" And what a night it was for them! They had
helped 56 candidates from the LGBT community win their races, including 2
crucial women in Texas, Annise Parker, who won a third term as mayor of
Houston, America's fourth largest city, and Celia Israel, who advanced to a
run-off in North Austin to replace our old pal Mark Strama, giving voters
the chance to elect a second LGBT voice in the state House.
They ce... more »
As Artificial Borders Dissolve, Will Governments Build Walls Or Face Demographic And Cultural Realities?
*The Turkish government is building a wall to physically separate the
Kurdish minority in northern Syria from the Kurds in southern Turkey.*
In the last year and a half the cities and towns close to the
Turkish-Syrian border have witnessed deadly car bombs, random helicopter
shoot-downs, and spontaneous citizen protests against the interventionist
policies of the Turkish government. On the Syrian side, al-Qaeda and other
like-minded Sunni forces are battling the Kurdish minority for territory
and power.
The Turkish government has responded to Kurdish battlefield victories by
con... more »
For no raisin
This week, unusual things listed on eBay (before we proceed we'd like to
stress we do not endorse eBay, there are other ways to sell your valuable
worthless crap if you so choose). Ok...
Bridgeville, California - the first town to be sold online, in 2002.
The Indiana Firebirds
The original Hollywood sign
Bridgeville, Californian... again, this time in 2006.
New Zealand; a man from Australia put New Zealand up for auction in 2006.
The bidding got to $3,000 before it was nixed.
A MiG-21, sold to a Chinese businessman for $24,000, though the seller
never shipped it out.
A newly discovered... more »
Catch of the Day
Gotta go with one for Jonathan Chait, who spots a Republican Member of the
House claiming that "Congress should do everything in its power to tackle
deficits" and then a few sentences later saying that "he rejects any talk
of offsetting the cuts with new tax revenue."
Of course, this is familiar as the Republican war on budgeting, in which
deficits are basically "unwarranted spending or taxes." As opposed to, you
know, the difference between government revenues and government spending.
I'm willing to be that isn't not just taxes; I'm willing to bet the
Republican here, Doug Collins,... more »
Free Planet - the hardest thing is - just letting go
this might very well be my final FREE PLANET post.
Why?
Don't worry, I'm not dead (or suicided (or assassinated)) yet nor do I have
plans to 'eat polonium' or 'go walkabout and never come back'. It's just a
simple statement of fact, brought on by my self-promotionally marketing
actions over the last few months aka *the free planet conspiracy theory*.
I've been STRONGLY GOING AGAINST all that I'd hoped 'my free planet' would
be, and all that I'd preached in self-righteous terms. I've been hammering
You The People over the head with my anti-PROFIT slave-freed message of
Creativity,... more »
Define Expulsion
First off, I'm not going to cite specifics such as names of
individuals or schools because of the possibility of future Civil Rights
litigation.
Secondly, having said that, let me start by saying that my youngest
son got expelled from his high school yesterday. If you know anything at
all about my two younger sons, you'll know they're both biracial. And they
both look it.
It started when my son called me late this morning in a state of high
excitement, announcing he'd been expelled. After an anxious serious of
phone calls, I finally got his side of the story and, acco... more »
"How It Really Is"
This cartoon is far more horrifyingly true than you may wish to believe...
- CP
I am in agreement with Alistair McGowan
I've just watched Room 101 on BBC One and find myself in agreement with Alistair
McGowan. He wanted to put children into Room 101 because they are taking
over and beer drinking because eating ice cream is better and more
civilised.
Update: He also wants to ban headphones that force you to listen to
someone else's choice of 'music'.
Untitled
*Ryan a 'changed man' since joining Saints ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
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Tea Party School Bus Hijack, Muncie, Indiana
*by **Doug Martin*
While Douglas Storm and I were exposing the corporate assault on our
schools on WFHB radio on Eugene V. Debs’ birthday during the Zinn Read-In
at Purdue, Tea Party front men were spreading misinformation in Muncie,
Indiana, which stopped a property tax referendum vote from passing, leaving
public school children after this year without bus transportation to
schools.
One Tea Party tactic included lying in a flier to residents of Muncie’s
southside, claiming that, if property taxes were not raised, Southside High
School, set to close down, would remain open. In ... more »
Something's happening to local news
*
*
Will Farrell as the fictional news San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy *
* *Something's happening to local news*
Submitted: November 7, 2013 - 6:04pm
Originally published: November 7, 2013
Last updated: November 8, 2013 - 2:08pm
Source: Baltimore Sun
Authors: Jenn Topper S Derek Turner
http://benton.org/node/166742
Free Press (DC), 501 Third Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
*[Commentary] So far this year, 223 local TV stations have changed hands.
This is the biggest wave of media consolidation ever -- and it's all
happening in small and mid-level markets, involving co... more »
John Cole hmmm
The BBC's John Cole has died but there was a really odd comment that struck
me in one of the BBC tributes. I paraphrase: 'Before John Cole, political
journalists said "on the one hand this, on the other hand...". John Cole
changed that and said what he thought'.
Hmm I do like it when the BBC admit they don't try and see both sides of a
debate.
So, My Boss Likes Rob Ford
Tells me that after he buys me lunch and news about the drunken buffoon
comes on the radio. He likes the job he's doing so far. Mistakes the St.
Clair streetcar line for LRTs. Thinks the cost overruns during construction
were caused by ... ? (They were actually caused by lawsuits brought about
by people opposed to public transit in the first place.)
Ford got the Toronto unions to sign a four-year deal that was tough on them
because, at the start of his term he seemed incredibly popular while they
weren't, and they knew he was a maniac who would gladly provoke a strike.
We should hav... more »
At CBS, we’ll always have Benghazi!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013*
*Our public discourse is gone:* We’ve been buried in test scores in recent
weeks. But we recommend Kevin Drum’s post about CBS News and Benghazi.
Our add-on would be this:
CBS has been hot to trot on Benghazi dating back to last fall, when Sharyl
Attkisson was the star correspondent in charge of running down rabbit holes
and pimping her bullroar to Fox.
We did quite a few posts about Attkisson’s work last year. Logan seems to
be her successor.
Drum is discussing a thoroughly broken post-journalistic culture. That
culture is almost ubiquitous now.
Paul... more »
Does VA Gov Explain the 1992 Perot Vote?
One more time into the question about the VA-Gov polls and the election
results.
I came up with a possible (and speculative) explanation based on the
condition of two candidates who were not especially popular among their own
parties, along with a sufficiently well-publicized third candidate. Perhaps
Democrats trusted the polls, believing that the seven-point lead Terry
McAuliffe held was real, and therefore believed it was safe to vote for the
Libertarian; meanwhile, Republicans didn't trust the polls, believed it was
close, and thus switched at the last minute back to the Republic... more »
The New York Times avoids talking race!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013*
*This is lousy reporting:* Yesterday, the 2013 NAEP scores were released.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is widely described as the
gold standard of domestic educational testing. It’s hard to argue with that.
In the past decade, the various statewide testing programs have been deeply
corrupted. The federally-managed NAEP, more than forty years old, is the
only real game in town.
For our money, the score gains achieved since 2011 are quite underwhelming.
In this morning’s New York Times, Motoko Rich was able to perform some
basic reportin... more »
Dangers of eye witness testimony
R. v. Hay, 2013 SCC 61:
[40] The credibility and weight that should be
given to eyewitness testimony is an issue committed to the ultimate trier
of fact ― here, the jury; *R. v. Mezzo*, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 802, at pp.
844-45. It is well established that where the Crown relies on an
eyewitness identification, the trial judge has a duty to caution the jury
regarding the well-recognized frailties of identification evidence; see *
Mezzo*, at p. 845, citing *R. v. Turnbull*, [1976] 3 All E.R. 549 (C.A.); *R.
v. Hibbert*, 2002 SCC 39, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 445, at paras. 78... more »
Setting aside dismissal of appeal for delay
Bennett Law Chambers Professional Corporation v. Zareh, 2013 ONCA 686
[2] It is common ground that the following factors are to be
considered:
1) whether the appellant formed an intention to appeal within the
relevant period;
2) the length of and explanation for the delay;
3) any prejudice to the respondent;
4) the merits of the appeal; and
5) whether the justice of the case requires it.
[3] See *Kefeli v. Centennial College of Applied Arts and
Technology *(2002), 23 C.P.C. (5th) 35 (Ont. C.A.); *Kirby v. Hope P... more »
Flagstaff: Anti-Colonial and Anarchist Bookfair
http://www.taalahooghan.org/fire/
“Logical Consequences and Conclusions”
*“Logical Consequences and Conclusions”*
Compiled by CP
“Logical consequence (also entailment) is one of the most fundamental
concepts in logic. It is the relationship between statements that holds
true when one logically "follows from" one or more others. Valid logical
arguments are ones in which the conclusions follow from its premises, and
its conclusions are consequences of its premises. The philosophical
analysis of logical consequence involves asking, 'in what sense does a
conclusion follow from its premises?' and 'what does it mean for a
conclusion to be a consequence of ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Down by the river in the Happy Valley. [Bill Dwight photo]
Argentina: Possible Boomerang-Shaped UFO and Explosion?
*Source: PLANETA UFO
Date: 11.08.13*
*An Intruder in the Night*
*By Luis Burgos*
On the evening of Monday, November 3 of this year, five members of the
Villamea family, members of the FAO in Quilmes, observed from different
positions the transit of a boomerang-shaped object from north to south,
making no noise whatsoever and with three lights arranged in its lower
section. The time was 22:15 hours.
Forty-five minutes later, a bizarre explosion made itself heard over
various districts of the city of La Plata, covering a broad area with
hundreds of witnesses. The local newspaper EL... more »
Progressive Champions Like Eloise Reyes Stand Up To Bigots
The new 31st congressional district, which runs south of L.A. from Upland
and Rancho Cucamonga out to San Bernardino, Colton, Loma Linda and
Redlands, was carved out of Democratic-leaning areas that were once
represented by Jerry Lewis, David Dreier and Joe Baca, 3 conservatives who
are no longer in Congress. It's the bluest district anywhere in America
with a Republican congressman. And that congressman, Gary Miller, isn't
just a standard, garden variety Republican; he's a far right ideologue and
has been for his entire sordid career. The people of CA-31 deserve better,
a lot be... more »
Canning Lid Ornaments (A Great Christmas Craft for Older Kids)
I am getting a little giddy planning my Christmas tree this year. I
think it is going to take everything my husband has to make me keep the
tree in the closet until after Thanksgiving. I am just so ready for a
little holiday magic. These canning lid ornaments are easy to make and are
really beautiful with the lights shinning behind them. They are the perfect
craft for older kids, think boy scout age.
You will need:
Canning Lids
Ribbon
Hammer
A Nail
A simple pattern that you want to duplicate printed on paper
First cut your pattern out. Make sure it fits on the top of ... more »
Thats Fasinating
I found a great new (to me) blog. I hate curtains blinds and window
coverings in general. Consumer ready home windows with
adjustable opacity are on the verge of being mainstream. If you buy a
2012
and newer Mercedes SLK the retractable roof can also go from clear to
dark
according to the drivers preference at the moment. Now an Austrian
designerhas invented a device that turns windows into sound filters.
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