Albert Einstein's residence in Caputh, near Potsdam, Germany. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Albert Einstein's summer house in Caputh near Potsdam, backside view (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Albert Einstein's summer house in Caputh near Potsdam, view from the terrace (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Let It Snow!
Winter Storm Cleon (just when did they start naming winter storms?) swept
in Thursday with enough vigor to shut the school down at 3:00 PM (with an
additional message that we wouldn't re-open until Monday morning) so
Southern Man headed back to The Land to face a cold weekend in The Trailer.
The problem with bitter cold weather at The Land is that it's *boring*. He
can get the trailer warm enough with a pair of electric heaters and there's
an electric blanket on the bed but there is little or no Internet service
and no broadcast television. Southern Man's PS2 and gaming computers ar... more »
A critique of Common Core math standards
A critique of Common Core math standards Guest post in Val Strauss’ WaPo
column, in response to “The future of high school math education”
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
At a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity apparently
clashes with quantum physics, but that conflict could be solved
if the Universe were a holographic projection.
ARTIST'S IMPRESSION BY MARKUS GANN/SHUTTERSTOCK
*Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram*
*A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard
quantum physics in fewer dimensions. **A team of physicists has provided
some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big
projection.*
http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-h... more »
SNOWDEN - TRIPLE AGENT
It would seem that Edward Snowden is a triple agent.
*1.* Edward Snowden was led to Moscow by Sarah Harrison, who attended a
school linked to the head of MI6 and to a former head of MI5.
*2.* Snowden has failed to tell us, for example, that 9 11 was an inside
job.
He has failed to tell us anything we did not already know.
*3.* Snowden has been given a lot of publicity by the mainstream media,
including the Guardian.
The Guardian is alleged to be run by MI6.
What links Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and the former head of Britain's
spy service MI5?
Jonathan Evans, the former ... more »
Israel's best friend: Stephen Harper
Doesn't it give you the warm fuzzies? *To bad Stephen Harper doesn't
concern himself with all the other Canadians.* You know the ones that are
not followers of a specific religion who may reside in Canada, but, by all
appearances have loyalties lie elsewhere.
Canada's Prime Minister? Really?
To speak more plainly, if the Canadians resident here have more concern for
a foreign nation they should pack up and go. And take Stephen , John and
all the other sycophants with you.
It is time to put the Canadian people and their interests in their own
nation first, second and third. To paraphra... more »
Cyber Shrinkage: Loss and Cyber Security
The cyber discourse concerns me, and this is a point I have written about
extensively with Ryan Maness (Valeriano and Maness 2012a, Valeriano and
Maness 2012b, Valeriano and Maness 2014). The idea is that threats we see
materialize from cyberspace seem to vastly outweigh any other threats we
have faced, ever. Some argue this cyber
Continue reading
Good for the goose
Charismatic figures notoriously neglect personal relationships and
benevolent, child-focused professional persons have a habit of ignoring
their own children and carpenters‘ houses never have any decent woodwork.
So Nelson Mandela was a bad dad, and before being imprisoned, a violent
political activist.
After his lengthy incarceration he did indeed show an astonishing lack of
bitterness or resentment, considerable wisdom and apparently a great deal
of charisma. However, the way he has been elevated to a level of
other-worldly sanctity is regrettable. It’s probably counter-productiv... more »
World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft
Clockwise from top left, eight of the people who have signed
the petition: Hanif Kureishi, Björk, Arundhati Roy, Don DeLillo,
Ian McEwan, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis
*World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft*
• 500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners
• Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses
Matthew Taylor and Nick Hopkins
The Guardian, Tuesday 10 December 2013
More than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel prize
winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the
whistlebl... more »
Segregations in English Universities?
"This is University, it's not a Mosque or a Temple." Ysamin Alibhai Brown
telling off Omar Ali of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies on
Channel 4 News.
What's this all about?
Segregation of males and females because of religious buffoonery; it goes
back to a post Free Planet made last month asking Why Do We Legislate For
Belief Systems - you know, 'hate crime' legislation and 'right to
segregate' legislation, legally sucking up to 'religious dogma' etc.
Universities'll always try to allow money into their coffers even if it's
sourced via 'religious agenda'.
There's liter... more »
Can they please change the record!!
I do love big, sweeping historical series. *The Story of the Jews *with
Simon Schama, for instance, was fabulous.
It was most unusual, however, in *not* being focused on Muslim history.
This year alone has seen BBC Two's glossy, controversial *The Ottomans:
Europe's Muslim Emperors*, plus (ongoing now) a major celebration of the *The
Islamic Golden Age *on Radio 3's *The Essay *(twenty programmes) and,
starting today, a "landmark" four-part series on Radio 4 entitled *The
Making of the Modern Arab World*.
Wouldn't it be great if the BBC were to look beyond that part of the world... more »
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*Domestic violence: the DA's side ~Alex Woodward, Gambit*
Lamar W. Hankins : Right-Wing Rants and the Abominable Straw Man
The
abominable Straw Man argument. Image from Linda's Bees.
Frosty the Straw Man:
How right-wing rants
poison political discussion
If we could have civil discourse about our disagreements and try to
understand why we have differences of opinion, perhaps we would have
fewer rants from all sides of the political divide.
By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2013
The Internet is a
Search results
Does it seem to you that there's been much more BBC coverage of Nelson
Mandela in the last five days than there was of Margaret Thatcher in the
first five days after her death?
Well, a search of the BBC News website for 'Nelson Mandela' between
5/12/2013 and 10/12/2013 brings up *303* 'News' results (and the 10/12/2013
isn't yet over!). An almost comparable search for 'Margaret Thatcher' between
8/4/2013 and 13/4/2013 brings up *195 *'News' results.
A Blast from the Past
Today I am at a workshop on climate adaptation. The organizers passed
around a copy of the long essay in *The Atlantic Monthly* that Dan Sarewitz
and I wrote back in 2000. I hadn't looked at it in a while. The opening, as
someone just remarked, could be re-written today simply changing out Haiyan
for Mitch.
Here is that opening:
In the last week of October, 1998, Hurricane Mitch stalled over Central
America, dumping between three and six feet of rain within forty-eight
hours, killing more than 10,000 people in landslides and floods, triggering
a cholera epidemic, and virtually wip... more »
Christmas Luncheon
And to follow our own little IT luncheon the entire college gathered for a
nice Christmas meal...
Two colleagues.
Mike invades an otherwise adorable picture.
The girl on the right is the Dean's administrative assistant; Southern Man
feeds her *white* chocolate on a regular basis, as you can't keep the
Dean's admin assistant too happy. Also, she has some sort of genetic defect
that prevents her from enjoying the real thing.
Most of the gang.
The end of the semester draws nigh! Everyone needs to reset every now and
again; we teachers get to do so twice a year. It's one of South... more »
‘You are a woman, you can’t sit here’: UK Universities condones gender segregation
Gender segregation in British Universities is on the way. Would you like to
guess who's behind it? Harry's Place has the grim details as the attempted
Islamisation of the UK continues apace. More here
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/11/23/you-are-a-woman-you-cant-sit-here-uk-universities-condones-gender-segregation/
The values lodged in Mandela’s first home!
*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013*
*Versus the values of our upper-end press corps:* We were struck by a pair
of front-page reports in Sunday’s Washington Post.
More specifically, we were struck by the values lodged within these
reports, which sat side-by-side on page one of the hard-copy Post.
This first report concerned Nelson Mandela’s first home in Johannesburg. As
he started, Sudarsan Raghavan compared this less than modest dwelling to
the home where Mandela lived in his (much) later years:
RAGHAVAN (12/8/13): Less than 10 miles from Nelson Mandela's opulent home,
where thousands a... more »
Nelson Mandela's battle against socialism, unionism and interventionism
* Guest post by Thomas DiLorenzo*
*“Workers of the world unite, keep South Africa white.”*
–Slogan of early twentieth-century South African Labor Unions
*“South Africa’s apartheid is not the corollary of free-market or
capitalist forces. Apartheid is the result of anti-capitalistic or
socialistic efforts to subvert the operation of market (capitalistic)
forces.”*
–Walter E. Williams, *South Africa’s War Against Capitalism*
The international socialist movement has long attempted to associate
another kind of socialist movement – the former South African Apartheid
laws – as some kin... more »
Is Andy Shallal the next Bill de Blasio?
If yesterday’s WTU-sponsored town hall event is any sign of things to come,
then the 2014 D.C. mayoral race will turn out a “game changer” in the
education reform landscape within the nation’s capital. Although education
reform in D.C. is often a one-sided debate, one candidate is separating
himself from the pack by challenging the core […]
NATO's War on Syria Just Got Dirtier
West scrambles to cover up Syria false flag revelations as Pulitzer
Prize-winner & Syria's Electronic Army expose all.
*December 10, 2013* - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who
had warned as early as 2007 of US-Israeli-Saudi plans to use Al Qaeda as
proxies to overthrow the Syrian government, has published another
groundbreaking report titled, "Whose Sarin?" In it, Hersh states (emphasis
added):
*Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to
make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons
attack near Damascus ... more »
Watch "Now Anal Jihad Begins" on YouTube
Almost unbelievable...
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d7Nr3K5K_4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Costco, food stamps, and yukking it up at Mandela's memorial...
So..............................I'm standing in line at Costco yesterday.
In front of me are two men checking out - one older, one younger. The
older man checks out and pays. The younger one checks out (using the
membership card of the older man) and pulls out his EBT card. The cashier
told him he couldn't use it to pay since he wasn't a member and that he
could only accept cash. I used to work for Costco and this is standard
policy.
The older man becomes a bit upset. A front end supe (Costco speak for
supervisor) comes over and explains that only the member can use an EBT... more »
Christmas Finger Painting
My 5-year-old has become obsessed with crafting. She asks me every morning
if we are going to make something today. I am always looking for fun new
crafts, so when I saw the masking tape finger paintings, I knew we could
put a fun Christmas spin on them.
You will need:
A canvas (mine is 8x10)
Masking Tape
Red and Green Paint
Tape off a Christmas word on the canvas. We went with Joy, but you could go
with Hope or Peace or any other word. Make sure the tape is firmly down. I
like to run a ruler over all the edges.
Give your child red and green paint and let them go for it. My only
... more »
Contrast Real Democratic Candidates With Steve Israel's DCCC Mystery Meat Shills
Several months ago, when the DCCC endorsed Pete Aguilar for the D+5 Inland
Empire congressional seat he lost last year to *two* Republicans because of
his obvious inability to connect with Democratic voters, I tried calling
him to ask him where he stands on issues. Like virtually all
DCCC-manufactured candidates, his website is devoid of issue positions. I
reached what I thought was a naive volunteer, a pleasant kid with a Chechen
accent, named Boris. Boris was verity friendly and forthcoming but
admitted-- shockingly to me, but very routinely to him-- that Aguilar
didn't have an... more »
PROLES UNITE / PROTECTIVE STUPIDITY IS ORWELL'S CRIMESTOP
*We have already gone down the Rabbit Hole of Orwell's predicted fully
digital world of 1984 ~ where the global elite or New World Order rules;
the Inner Party is the 2% Oligarchical political class which obediently
obeys its unseen master; the Outer Party are the 13% bureaucrats of Oceania
who carry out the actual work and man the Ministries of Truth (Deception),
Peace (War), Love (Torture) and Plenty (Control) and the remaining 85%
Proles (Public) are openly exploited but dangerously human ~ and must be
distracted at all costs from the truth: Allen L Roland *
... more »
How You Can Disprove Sarah Palin by Just Looking at the Sky
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
Sarah Palin is a "young Earther" who believes in a Biblical young universe,
created by God some 6,000 years ago. Much longer ago than just 6,000 years
was the beginning of a vast migration of an African tribe out of Africa,
into Asia and eventually across the Bering Straits into Alaska enroute to
what is now called the United States. (No ---Sarah Palin did not see them
coming from her front porch.) It is hard to imagine how they managed to
begin or complete this journey if the universe had not yet been created!
As they passed through Sarah P... more »
Archangeloi on the New Earth frequencies
*Archangeloi on the New Earth frequencies*
http://truthcodes.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/archangeloi-on-the-new-earth-frequencies/
Posted: December 10, 2013
Author: Karen Doonan
Greetings beloved ones, we are the Archangeloi of the ELOHIM and we come to
guide and to support at this time of VAST upgrades and expansion to the
frequencies of Mother Earth and your human vehicle. The human vehicle so
aligned with Mother Earth that you are experiencing that which your MOTHER
is experiencing albeit filtered through the very “human” experience that
you came here to interact with and within. ... more »
HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 12, Section 1, 1947-1948
Police crack down on strikers in Mahalla, 1947, killing three workers. Image from Hossam el-Hamalawy / Flickr.
A people's history:
The movement to democratize Egypt
Part 12: 1947-1948 period/Section 1 -- Anti-imperialist left grows; Muslim Brotherhood collaborates with Egyptian regime.
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2013
[With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's
Per @dianeravitch, I re-evaluate my participation (or lack thereof) with @AERA_EdResearch
We At the Chalk Face are always appreciative of when Diane Ravitch follows
our work, and we are happy to stand with her in this struggle. Today,
Ravitch referenced a piece I wrote about the American Educational Research
Association (AERA). Here’re my original thoughts. I completely understand
that it may be effective to represent from […]
Nelson Mandela the highly evolved soul
If you're wondering why I write so much about Nelson Mandela then it is
because of my interest and involvement in human rights issues. A fellow
prisoner and friend of Mandela was invited here in the Maritimes to speak
at a human rights conference. My job was to pick him up from the hotel and
bring him to the conference. He was a very humble man. Unfortunately I
forgot his name. I asked him all kinds of questions and he told me about
Nelson Mandela and how he was an inspiration for fellow prisoners.
Last night I was watching NBC news and it was reported that it was the
largest number... more »
Nuclear Fallout Update
While waiting for the budget deal, Senate Democrats are attempting to get
through a bunch of nominations before the end of the session.
Republicans this morning are forcing extra votes, with Mitch McConnell just
now forcing a re-vote on the nuclear option -- that is, the new precedent
that cloture on nominations only takes a simple majority.
The tell that it's all for show? Republicans did agree to the standard
motion to allow committees to meet. If they really were going all-out to
"shut down the Senate," that's one they could have objected to.
We'll see. Democrats have filed clotu... more »
Phil Space
More Curiosity news: the Mars rover has discovered that the former lake in
the Gale Crater very likely had fresh water that *could *have teemed with
microbial life. Probes like Curiosity keep finding evidence for benign
conditions on early Mars. The only missing ingredients seem to have been
time and an atmosphere. The difficulty is discovering just how long you
need for the right conditions to produce life. That said it is something to
send a spacecraft to Mars specifically to look for direct evidence of water
and find them right away.
Vampires of the Gilded Age
Financial gurus advise never spending more than a quarter of your income on
housing, so as to have plenty of cash left over for food, heat,
transportation and other niceties. But if you live in certain parts of the
country (D.C., New York, San Francisco) that little bromide has always been
a joke. Not for nothing does NYC actually have a political party called
"The Rent is Too Damned High."
Since the financial meltdown and collapse of the housing market and record
foreclosures, we have become a nation of renters. And Wall Street has
become a cabal of landlords, buying up all those d... more »
Seneca Hawk Elder Grandma Gordon passes to Spirit World
By
Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Our dear friend Grandma Edna Gordon, Seneca Hawk Elder, 93, has passed
to the Spirit World. In recent years, Grandma Gordon shared her loving
words with our readers at Censored News, and supported the Longest Walk
and Native American rights with her good words. She mailed Censored News
her hand-written words on long yellow sheets of paper to share here.
Her
Shaking the hand
Wow just imagine how all those people killed by drones must feel, how could
Castro grib hands with such an indiscriminate killer Obama is one of those
no matter how much he rolls out the terrorist prose. People are people and
we do not lean to sociopaths. Yes we have had our fair share advance to
power but I do not think they started that way. The pressure of power
pushed them over the edge just as most want to believe if you go into
politicize you will be polluted to the point of dissolution. Just walk away
do not go to the supermarket and say the my goverment will kill anyone in a ... more »
At Salon, they like the look of Zooey Deschanel in the morning!
*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013*
*Low-IQ news org targets millenials, 76 million strong:* In this morning’s
New York Times, Ravi Somiya reports on a recent spate of bogus reports
which went viral in on-line “news orgs.”
Why do “news orgs” rush to print these brainless, bogus reports?
At several points in Somiya’s report, horrible chasers of mammon pretend to
explain. We *don’t* mean Ryan Grim:
SOMIYA (12/10/13): [E]ditors at these sites acknowledge frankly that there
are trade-offs in balancing authenticity with the need to act quickly in a
hyperconnected age. *“We are dealing with a ... more »
THE SINGULARITY Is Near - Will You DIE??
*(Some may decide that this blog is going off the deep-end . . maybe it
is! I hope it is, actually :-) . . *
*while the title of this vid can be said to be fear-mongering, I think that
this guy is onto a big chuck of reality . . I watch his vids a lot,
although it disappoints me that he is a "Jesus-Basher" . . .time will tell
. . things under the surface (literally, lol) ) seem to be moving quicker
and quicker . . we just have to be aware of the traps and avoid them . .
and have faith. . . .)*
* Dec 5, 2013*
In this episode of "From The Mind Of johnellizz", we examine the gr... more »
Insurgents Undermine Another Institution In Ninewa Province
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Iraq’s Ninewa, and specifically the provincial capital Mosul has once again
become a hotbed for insurgent activity. Many different militant groups
operate there including Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Baathist Jaish Rijal
al-Tariqa al-Naqshibandi, and Ansar al-Sunna. One major target of these
groups has been public employees. Recently 200 guards from the Badush
prison quit after a concerted campaign to threaten and intimidate them.
That followed the assassination of several district mayors in Mosul that
shut down their local councils. This was just the latest attempt to
undermine the ... more »
CYBER COUP CALLED OUT BY SOUTH KOREAN LAWMAKER
DP lawmaker says Pres. Park should step down after ‘cyber coup’Opposition
party distancing itself from lawmaker’s remarks, which they say are her
personal position the hankyoreh (South Korea)By Song Ho-jin, staff reporter
Jang Ha-na, a young first-term proportional representative Democratic Party
lawmaker, caused a stir on Dec. 8 when she declared that last December’s
presidential election was rigged as a result of the interference of the
National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Cyber Warfare Command and
called on President Park Geun-hye to step down and make way for a special
p... more »
Winning by losing
The USA is ruled by a great collection of great and bad, fantastic and
fanatical.
So what is a President to do, if he wants to rule for me and you?
I listen to a lot of talk radio. The conservative voices are true
believers, let the lizard brain rule. The left is muted, they have to pick
their points.
Into this swamp wades Obama. Consider even now Dick Cheney is not a
believer in Mandela. When Cheney Bush ruled the world there was no
compromise, everything was extravagant American exceptionalism. I really
wonder if it was all smokescreen for the greatest heist in human history,
but... more »
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*Jeff Parish attorney, citing attorney/client privilege, cuts off IG's
access to e-mails, for now ~Paul Murphy, WWLTV *
*Misleading letters scare Road Home recipients*
*Businessmen claim extortion in St. Bernard Parish Katrina cleanup ~Rachel
Wulff, WDSU*
*Massive mission to clean up Mississippi River comes to N.O. ~Scott
Satchfield, WVUE*
Thailand-- Eroding The Legitimacy Of Democracy… Corruption vs Social Media
Last week, I mentioned the incipient revolution going on in Thailand, but here
on my travel blog. That's because I often travel to Thailand on Christmas
vacations. Thanksfully, not this year. Increasingly vehement demonstrations
against the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra-- which has
led to several deaths and hundreds of injuries and is tearing Bangkok
apart-- has resulted in the opposition Members of Parliament resigning en
masse followed by the Prime Minister dissolving Parliament and calling for
new elections. So why is this happening?
Many Thais, feel that cr... more »
VISIONS OF THE PISA: From both sides now!
*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013*
*Part 2—Ravitch reacts:* Reading Diane Ravitch can be a frustrating task.
Consider the start of her new book, Reign of Error. At the start of her
Introduction, Ravitch lays out the book’s purpose.
Quite literally, these are the very first words of the book. This quickly,
we meet contradiction:
RAVITCH (*page xi*): The purpose of this book is to answer four questions.
First, is American education in crisis?
Second, is American education failing and declining?
Third, what is the evidence for the reforms now being promoted by the
federal government and a... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Catherine Parks, 57. Why? Because she was in Bernie's,
that's why. If that's not enough for you, she was on the Boat once...we
really need someone to revive the Boat or something like it. On her
episode? Bob Denver, Markie Post, Forrest Tucker, Lyle Waggoner...Eleanor
Parker, who just died, who played the Baroness in Sound of Music, too. Back
to Parks: if that's not enough, she was also in "Looker." Why should anyone
care about that stinker? Because it's also Susan Dey's birthday. But she
wasn't in Bernie's, so I'm less interested.
Sorry for getting lost there, bu... more »
EITC is better than the Minimum Wage
From David Neumark:
Suggesting that federal policy addressing low-wage work and low-income
families has somehow failed because the minimum wage has not kept pace with
inflation ignores the fact that we have moved away from a focus on the
minimum wage — a policy with many flaws — and toward the earned-income tax
credit. We shouldn’t be asking simply how much the real minimum wage has
changed, but rather how much the combined income floor generated by the two
policies has changed.
To provide an example, the blue line in the figure below shows the wages
received by a single adult wor... more »
Not A Banner Year
This has not been a good year for Stephen Harper. It began with Harper
unleashing the Deloitte audit dogs on Chief Theresa Spence. And it ended
with his attempt to call them off Mike Duffy. Between the Deloitte
bookends, it was one debacle after another. Michael Harris writes:
The PM had come across for First Nations all right. He apologized and
promised “change”, but he delivered the paternalistic status quo — and
budget cuts to bands from coast to coast. He did his best to destroy Chief
Spence in a very public humiliation. He left the reputation of National
Chief Sean Atleo in ... more »
The Aurelian Alternatives
The attribution is probably apocryphal. Nonetheless, the words speak for
themselves.
VAM Fails Test, Again: The Bizarro World of Education Reform
VAM Fails Test, Again: The Bizarro World of Education Reform. via VAM Fails
Test, Again: The Bizarro World of Education Reform.
Argentina: The 1973 Dionisio Llanca Abduction Revisited (2013 Interview)
*Argentina: The 1973 Dionisio Llanca Abduction Revisited (2013 Interview)*
We received the following note from contributing editor *Guillermo Giménez*this morning: *“In
the Sunday, 8 December 2013 issue of Bahia Blanca’s La Nueva Provincia
newspaper appeared a brief but most interesting interview with the
protagonist of the incident known as the “Dionisio Llanca Case” which
occurred on 28 October 1973 in the vicinity of Bahia Blanca in the province
of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A highly interesting incident with worldwide
repercussions, one in which the witness claimed having been take... more »
Whose Sarin? Ghouta and Obama's big lie
This should have been up yesterday, but, better late then not at all
Seymour Hersh questions the official narrative surrounding the Ghouta
chemical weapon use in this article- *Whose Sarin?* It’s long, covers a
lot of ground and is worth reading entirely. Even if you have been a long
term reader here. There are still some interesting bits contained within.
Particularly enlightening is the reporting on the sensor system. So, I
will post excerpts and hope you read the rest.
*I have a bone to pick with the opening paragraph-*
*“Barack Obama did not tell the whole story *this autumn whe... more »
Google lets users make own Street View
*Google has unveiled a new tool that allows users to make a Street View - a
360 degree virtual tour - of any place and share it using Google Maps. *These
can be formed by using photos taken by an Android phone or DSLR camera. The
tool lets users connect different photos and, once published, people can
steer between them on Google Maps.
Google supposed the move will allow it to expand the reach as well as the
uses of its maps service. The firm said in a blog post they are excited to
see the different types of Street View experiences that everyone will
contribute. *This quality ca... more »
GOP Guide: How to Talk to Women-- Go Out There And Get Those Dame Votes
Looks to me like Paul Ryan comes off even worse in this video than even
Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock-- and he has no problem with rape exceptions
either. On top of that, he says Lilly Ledbetter was not an equal pay law."
He was talking about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 which states
that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit
regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that
discriminatory action. The law directly addressed the 2007 Supreme Court
decision in *Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.*, that the statu... more »
Iran nuclear talks with P 5 + 1 - will the US Congress kill the nuclear deal by imposing even more sanctions ? If th talks fail , who would be happier - hawks in the US , Israel .... or Iranian hardliners ?
Iran FM: New US Sanctions Would Kill Nuclear DealSenate Hawks Prepare New
Sanctions Bills
by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2013
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In an interview today, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif reiterated that
the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, which limits Iran’s civilian program in
return for sanctions relief, would be effectively dead if the US imposes
new sanctions on them.
Senate hawks certainly hope so and, after weeks of condemning diplomacy
with Iran, Sens. Robert Menendez (D – NJ) and Mark Kirk (R – IL) are drawing
up those new sanctions with that warning, and si... more »
ALERT: Tare-able Silent Invasion In Progress
[image: Revelation Now]
December 9, 2013
[image: reptile_head]
There is a growing body of awareness sweeping the Earth, with people with
eyes to SEE and ears to HEAR, regarding the true reality of our slave
masters. Yes, we are all enslaved and it started with our minds. We were
born into a system where we were taught *what* and *how *to think. To
question our programming, is to be whipped with sarcasm and devalued as a
thinker. The macro brainwashing begins with television programming as child
and graduates to prime-time television. The educational system plants the
seeds of his... more »
Spysplaining
*Leaks on Five Eyes spy network are fuelling ‘misinformation,’ CSEC chief
says* reads the G&M headline.
Actually it was the CSEC *watchdog* and not the CSEC *chief* who fretted to
a senate committee today about CSEC info being made public, but you can see
how the G&M headline writer could have confused the two. Lone CSEC watchdog
commissioner Jean-Pierre Plouffe, appointed two months ago to ensure CSEC
stays within the law, talked a lot more like a chief defending his outfit
than an independent watchdog holding it to account.
Plouffe is worried about "sensational" docs leaked to th... more »
Another piece of the puzzle
Yet more evidence that MtoF and FtoM are not mirror-images, and that while
saying "Trans women have female brains" captures the essence, and is useful
as an initial step towards understanding, the reality is more complex than
that. For that matter, cis women don't have female brains as such, yet men
and women have statistical differences in neuro anatomy that correlate well
with statistical differences in behaviour - such as sense of smell.
Cortical activation during mental rotation in male-to-female and
female-to-male transsexuals under hormonal treatment. Carillo et al,
Psychoneur... more »
The Lesson of Wheat
*by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy*
Creationists are wrong on EVERY count. They believe that the ant-eater has
a long snout and tongue SO THAT it can reach the ants underground. That's
backward. The only verifiable fact is stated thus: the ant-eater can reach
ants underground BECAUSE it has a long snout.
Easy to understand that over eons, those potential ant-eaters who had
longer snouts could, in fact, reach ants and thus survive, passing on their
DNA in the process. Those who could not --died! End of the line!
The difference between evolutionists and fundies is LOGIC. For exa... more »
Star-Gate Alignments & Current False-Flag Massacres ╰☆╮ Michael Erevna & Steve Quayle w/ Hagmann
. . . the common ancient "Silver Gate" star-gate known as the back door of
Heaven was overhead during the massacre. If you have been following this
site you would know either the Golden or Silver gates have been over many
of the massacres. Out of 88 constellations we have 2 which our commonly
over the massacres. The "Golden" is the way in and the "Silver" is the way
out. These are the openings to the transport systems into the spiritual
world.
These possessions coincide with these gate systems to hijack energy and
souls into the spirit realm. This is part of the spiritual war we ... more »
herbert: mandela and king were not warm and fuzzy, they were hard-core revolutionaries
Bob Herbert in *Jacobin*:
I knew that the tributes would be pouring in immediately from around the
world, and I also knew that most of them would try to do to Mandela what
has been done to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: turn him into a
lovable, platitudinous cardboard character whose commitment to peace and
willingness to embrace enemies could make everybody feel good. This
practice is a deliberate misreading of history guaranteed to miss the point
of the man.
The primary significance of Mandela and King was not their willingness to
lock arms or hold hands with their enemies.... more »
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #11
Customer: "Hi, can I print from a USB here? My printer at home isn't
working."
Me: [I explain how our printing works: you buy a card, it costs such and
such, etc.]
Customer: "I just want to print from my USB."
Me: [I explain how our printing works: you buy a card, it costs such and
such, etc.]
Customer: "Someone said I could just come here and print."
Me: [I explain how our printing works: you buy a card, it costs such and
such, etc.]
Customer: "Can't you just take my USB and print my stuff from your
computer?"
Me: [I explain how our printing works: you buy a card, it costs such... more »
The first Amplituhedron paper is out
We've been using the word "Amplituhedron" since September 2013 but only
now, the first preprint with this word in the title was released:
The Amplituhedron
The authors, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka ["Yuh-raw-sluff Turn-kuh"
if you allow me to bastardize a Czech name), are preparing two more papers,
"Into the Amplituhedron" and "Scattering Amplitudes from Positive
Geometry", as well as a third paper along with Andrew Hodges, "Three Views
of the Amplituhedron".
The today's paper has 36 pages of JHEP \(\rm\LaTeX\).
These pages are divided to 14 short sections and it seem... more »
IPCC models: Tolkien's Middle Earth threatened by global warming
Did you ever believe that the IPCC climate models have something to do with
the reality? Were you ever tempted to think that the contemporary
climatologists are able to write and publish anything if it helps their
funding?
Researchers from the University of Bristol decided to settle the questions,
once and for all. They used the climate models based on the same maths as
used in the latest IPCC report and analyzed something that everyone knows
to be damn real – the Middle Earth, a continent discovered by the explorer
J.R. Tolkien.
The results of this important research led by D... more »
UHC 21: The PGH, Manila City Government and Civil Society
An official of the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila, where the
College of Medicine and the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is based, Dr.
Tony Leachon who is also a friend, posted in his facebook wall about the
need to raise the budget of the PGH.
This year, the UP System (UPS) total budget is P9.53 billion of which P2
billion goes to PGH alone. Next year, UPS total budget will be P8.1
billion, and again, P2 billion of which will go to PGH alone. This year
too, UPS’ capital outlay (CO) is P1.45 billion but zero for next year.
(See http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp.../uploads/NEP2014... more »
Thailand: Historic Turnout Shakes Regime
*Editor's Note: As better footage becomes available, the videos below may
be changed, along with the captions accordingly.*
*December 9, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Monday December 9, 2013 at 9:39am was
set to be the largest anti-regime rally yet in Thailand's latest bid to
oust the Wall Street-backed dictatorship of Thaksin Shinawatra. Even the
night before, massive numbers of people flooded into several protesting
sites, and by morning a torrent of tens of thousands poured through the
streets of Bangkok to join them.
For miles in every direction, protesters could be seen streaming ... more »
Starchild Skull researcher - Lloyd Pye - rest in peace.
According to Lloyd Pye's nephew via Lloyd's Official Facebook page, Lloyd
Pye passed away last night.
I've created this special Lloyd Pye label to show the number of times Free
Planet has featured Lloyd's research into the Starchild (an adult, not a
child) Skull over the years and to announce the passing of Lloyd Pye.
LLOYD PYE, REST IN PEACE
The last Free Planet heard from Lloyd Pye was an email dated the 17th of
May 2013 in response to a request for the latest on his Starchild Skull
research, *"I'm in Tampa right now having important meetings about it. Will
report next week when... more »
Will China meet its energy-related targets under its 12th five year plan?
Did you see the photos like the one above out of Shanghai? For the first
time ever, Shanghai’s air pollution, like Beijing’s before it, exceeded the
scale for particulate matter. For the past seven days, the air quality has
been so bad that schools and flights were cancelled, cars were forced off
the roads, industries
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Co - dependency ..... Control frauds not just exist but dominate due to the co-dependent relationship between the Regulators of Wall Street and Wall Street itself !
Three examples of co - dependency from today !
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/12/reich-jp-morgan-and-corruption-of.html
Reich: JP Morgan, the Corruption of America, and the Age of Cynicism
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing."
Oscar Wilde, *Lady Windermere's Fan*
I thought this article below was a striking, insightful and important set
of observations from Robert Reich.
Rather than merely link to it, I thought an extended excerpt was
appropriate, since it strikes to the heart of a key theme of this Café, the*cred... more »
I Bet The New York Times Article Made Rocket Tube Crash Yesterday
Sunday's *NY Times* posed an impossible question: How Man American Men Are
Gay? First of all, what does that even mean? I've been straight, bisexual,
gay and celibate. So how do you count me? (Until reading the *Times* story
I had never been on any gay internet sites either. Porno never did much for
me. And I never even *knew* Match.com is for gay people too.)
Using, among other indicators, Facebook, "pornographic searches and dating
sites," Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who recently received a Ph.D. in
economics at Harvard, estimates that "[a]t least 5 percent of American men
are pre... more »
NSA, what we know so far...NSA/Snowden update
As
courtesy of Edward Snowden, this is the extent of what we now know, as of
this writing, about what the US government's secret war against America
consists of:
1). records every cell phone conversation ever made (e.g., every word you
say) --
2). records all e-mails ever sent (e.g., to one day be used against you) --
3). takes pictures of all letters mailed, in the US (e.g., your mail is
being opened, read by the government, and photocopied to archive, to one
day be used against you) --
4). uses drones for domestic surveillance and eavesd... more »
Harry Targ : My Nelson Mandela
Nelson
Mandela, 1918-2013.
My Nelson Mandela
Real historic figures get lionized, sanitized, and most importantly
redefined as defenders of the ongoing order rather than activists who
committed their lives to revolutionary changes...
By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2013
One of the ironies of 21st century historical discourse is that despite
significantly increased access to
Pope Francis: Peace for the Middle East, no to hatred
Video Title: Pope Francis: Peace for the Middle East, no to hatred. Source:
Vatican. Date Published: December 9. Description:
"We have to grow closer to the Lord, because God is our hope," Pope Francis
said in his homily at morning Mass. Present at the Liturgy was the Coptic
Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak. "Christ overcomes
the paralysis of humanity," the Pope said. "The paralysis of consciences is
contagious. With the complicity of the poverties of history and of our sin,
it can expand and enter into social structures and into communities to
block entire peo... more »
A new hat for the pope? (And maybe a new ring to toss it in?)
*by Ken*
December 9, 2013
*Pope Thinking of Losing Hat*
Posted by ANDY BOROWITZ
VATICAN CITY (The Borowitz Report)—In his latest break with Catholic
orthodoxy, Pope Francis said today that he was “seriously considering
losing the hat,” the tall ceremonial mitre that has long been a signature
of papal dress.
“I know I’m going to catch hell for saying this, but it looks kind of
dumb,” he said. “Besides, you expect me to believe God really cares if I
wear a big pointy hat or not? Come on.”
The Pontiff said that he would probably “try out some different looks, like
a baseball cap o... more »
Kill the Landlord, Save the Man
originally published on CounterPunch
Some expressions are so familiar, so deeply entwined in our history that,
although they are thoroughly racist, even homicidal, they fail to elicit
much surprise or shock. Familiar with their presence, we become inured to
their depravity. And, because they fail to surprise us, they oftentimes
fail to offend us as well. While the degree to which they influence us is
subject to dispute, few will doubt that our culture is stitched together by
just such threads. Maintaining an infamous position among these is the
phrase "the only good Indian is a ... more »
As Detroit's Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr mulls taking over Detroit's Pension funds , note the Detroit bankruptcy is reverberating elsewhere ...... Scranton watches Detroit Bankruptcy case as it seeks solutions for its own fiscal woes !
Might this send the Unions over the edge ?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/detroits-emergency-manager-weighs-pension-000200112.html?l=1
Detroit's Emergency Manager Weighs Pension-Fund Takeover
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DETROIT—This city's emergency manager, in the midst of reorganizing the
finances of America's most troubled large city, is threatening to take over
one of Detroit's pension funds after a report found that retirees received
extra payments while the funds lost value.
Kevyn Orr sai... more »
OECD Pimping for Common Core Testing Delivery System
PISA chief, Andrew Schleicher was on the PBS News Hour last week to talk
about what might be learned from high scorers on the world's most watched
international testing derby. He pointed to some interventions that seem to
have proved successful that focused on improving teacher quality and more
equitable educational opportunities as having particular promise. When
Jeffrey Brown asked about the U. S., Schleicher departed from his empirical
riff, however, and focused on the untried and unproven Common Core testing
delivery system as the way to American success in the international
t... more »
Singapore sees riots ? ? If a rich and stable country such as Singapore is at knife's edge ( hidden tensions and divisions between their 1 percent tand the 99 percent brought to the surface by an accident ? ) ....... What country will next see riots such as Singapores has seen next - conditions that caused the riots in Singapore are present throughout the GCC nations and West ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-09/riots-break-out-singapore-think-your-country-immune
Riots Break Out In Singapore; Think Your Country Is Immune?
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/09/2013 12:36 -0500
- Corruption
- Greece
- India
- Middle East
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*Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,*
Mohamed Bouazizi. It’s not a name that means much to most people. But
you’ll recall his story.
Frustrated with the absurd amount of regulation and corruption that
prevented him from being able to put food on the table for his f... more »
Domestic and Global Police State updates December 9 , 2013....Cyber insecurity - Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2014 .... WikiLeaks releases new documents exposing secret Trans-Pacific Partnership talks ...... More cyber insecurity - NSA and GCHQ spies ‘operated in games including World of Warcraft and Second Life’ ....... Underhanded techniques by Law enforcement - Unbelievable: ATF Using Mentally Disabled Teens to Run Drug-and-Gun Stings ....... Who said Spectre was fiction - New US spy satellite features world-devouring octopus
Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) 2014
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December 9, 2013
Call your senator and tell them to vote no to the Cyber Security Amendment
attached to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Bill. COPY
AND PASTE THIS INFORMATION below into BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS EMAILS! They
must know we KNOW WHAT THEY ARE UP TO AND ARE EXPOSING T... more »
...but I do Believe in this:-
I don't believe in magick
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John.
Brzezinski: America Must Avoid Another Prolonged War In The Middle East + Obama: There Is A Dignified Resolution To Nuclear Issue With Iran + Nasrallah: War in the Region Should Worry Our Opponents More than Us
*1. Video Title: The U.S. must avoid another prolonged war: Zbigniew
Brzezinski - Fast Forward. Source: Reuters TV. July 18, 2012. Description: *
Officials can rarely predict the long-term impact of a war says Zbigniew
Brzezinski, former national security advisor to President Carter. In an
interview with Editor-at-Large Harry Evans, Brzezinski adds that the U.S.
should guarantee every Persian Gulf country that any threat from Iran will
be viewed a direct threat to the United States. (July 18, 2012).
"*I know from experience, and also from history, you can start a war, and
you can k... more »
Sounds Like the Start of a Bar Joke, Doesn't It?
The Bushes, Clintons and Obama get on AF One on a 19 hour trip to
South Africa...
(No, Hillary didn't really tweet this. I made this.)
ObamaCare updates - December 9 , 2013 - top items of note......"No Way To Tell How Many People Who Have Signed Up For Obamacare Actually Have" ....... NYT: My, many of these ObamaCare premiums aren’t really as low as they seem, are they ? ......... Mutliple State Exchanges Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Attack ....... If you want to keep your Doctor , pay more ( say Zeke Emanuel ) ...... Apart from not keeping your Doctor unless you pay more - seems that you will lose top hospitals also ( unless you will pay more or all of the costs ) ...... Additional collateral damages !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-09/no-way-tell-how-many-people-who-have-signed-obamacare-actually-have
"No Way To Tell How Many People Who Have Signed Up For Obamacare Actually
Have"
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/09/2013 11:46 -0500
- fixed
- Florida
- Insurance Companies
- Medicare
- Obama Administration
- Obamacare
- Ohio
- White House
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The Obamacare enrollment portal is the gift that keeps on giving endless
examples of government incompetence. The latest comes from Bloomberg which
informs u... more »
Follow up on Pope Francis...
*by Judge Andrew Napolitano.*
*Pope Francis should be saving souls, not pocketbooks*
What is the worst problem in the world today? Might it be war, starvation,
genocide, sectarian violence, murder, slaughter of babies in the womb? Any
of these would be a rational answer. When Pope Francis was asked this
question recently, he replied, “Youth unemployment.”
To be sure, youth unemployment is a serious problem. In some parts of the
United States, the richest country in the world, it has reached 25 percent.
These are people who are no longer in school full time and are not yet 30
year... more »
Elsewhere: SCOTUS, ALEC, ACA, more
I did a radio spot on KPCC today on the question of whether Justices should
retire strategically or not, and also on term limits for SCOTUS. I'm still
ambivalent on the latter; I think the last time I wrote about it I bailed
by saying that since staggered 18 year terms aren't going to happen, I
don't need a position on it. On balance, I think I'm perhaps a bit more for
than against, but I'm really undecided. On the main point, however, I think
it's pretty clear that if older justices want to preserve the principles
they believe in during a time of strong partisan polarization, then t... more »
IT Luncheon
The last IT division meeting of the semester is not so much "meeting" as it
is "Christmas Luncheon."
There was plenty of food.
Why, yes, Southern Man is somewhat obsessed with food.
The CS Department Chair and Southern Man's officially appointed mentor.
They're both really very nice.
Our Fearless Leader, the Dean of IT. Southern Man's actually known him for
about twenty years.
Mike in his natural habitat. He brought the most delicious cinnamon rolls
*ever*.
Another one of the CS professors. We're about half boys, half girls - a
little unusual for computer science.
Yet ano... more »
"Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve”
The Federal Reserve, not the free market, caused the Global Monetary Crisis
says Money for Nothing filmmaker Jim Bruce.
“I view one of the big myths of the [2007-08 financial] crisis as that it
was purely the effect of free markets, that this is what happens when you
have free markets," says Jim Bruce, filmmaker behind the new documentary
"Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve."
Bruce predicted the meltdown, invested accordingly, and used the money
he made from the collapse to fund his movie, which features interviews with
economists who predicted the crisis, as well a... more »
PICK YOUR PLATE OF POISON
This video gives a taste of what the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP would
bring. Created by Geoffrey Leighton based on a banner designed by Natasha
Meyers and painted by ARRT! (Artists Rapid Response Team in Maine).
Is that really why the Labour Party raised the upper rate of tax to 50%?
The BBC confidently assert that:
'The last Labour government raised the upper tax band from 40% to 50% in
2010 in response to the recession but the coalition has since cut it to
45%.'
'in response to the recession', really? Not as a naked political gambit
then?
The BBC, as always, are happy to do the Labour Party's work for them, in
this brown-nosed report on a Neil Kinnock interview. That's the same Neil
Kinnock whose enormous EU pension will be taxed at a lower rate than his
fellow British citizens, I wonder why he's so pro-EU.
12 couples that should know better
It’s bad enough for offspring of double-barrelled parents who meet and
marry—do you offend one set of parents, or become quadruple-barrelled?—but
some double-barrelled cognomens would be worse than others…
More hilarity here. [Hat tip Paul L.]
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Can do Should Do
In the end there is no difference. We all go bad when temptation is painted
in a perfect way. So what do we need to keep the bad guys away. Could not
be a law, they write these all the time, and when you look to the shier f
you will see he has their logo on his milk jug full time. So like Robin
Hood its time, to find a new Sherwood forest and a new swinging vine.
These vinittes these hardly formed thoughts are all remisicant of a
classical plot to keep me distracted
while the forces that be
extincted all the life force
that otherwise
would be available\
if not protracted
when the he... more »
GOP Governor Brian Sandoval's Big Gamble Is Paying Off-- For Nevada's Working Families
Out of place among the crackpots, Brian Sandoval, bottom row, #3
I doubt many Republicans are worried that Colin Powell has been talking up
universal, single-payer health care-- something considerably more
progressive than the Obamacare compromise conservatives forced on a naive
Obama.
Powell told the audience that countries in Europe, Canada and South Korea
offer universal, single-payer health care and said he often asks why the
United States has not implemented the same system.
"Whether it's Obamacare, or son of Obamacare, I don't care," Powell said.
"As long as we get it done."
... more »
Niagara Falls as you've never seen it...
*watch this full screen. Really...*
Filmed by a very, very small remote-controlled drone called DJI Phantom.
#SurveillanceState: Big Tech says no!
Good news this morning that big online technology companies, including
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL and LinkedIn, are
joining together in opposition to the worldwide government surveillance
revealed by Edward Snowden.
The political push by the technology companies opens a third front in their
battle against government surveillance, which has escalated with recent
revelations about government spying without the companies’ knowledge. The
companies have also been making technical changes to try to thwart spying
and have been waging a public-relations campai... more »
Monday Evening Linkage: have yourself a gender-neutral Christmas?
Have yourself a gender-neutral Christmas, let your toys be yellow. From now
on our princess costumes and toy guns will be out of sight…. Well, you try
to rhyme with this material. The Daily Mail asked yesterday “how to shop
for gender neutral toys” noting the sea of blue and pink dividing stores
like Toys
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Double edged sword
There have been some odd reactions to the announcement that the world
renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin has adopted Israeli citizenship, even though
he resides elsewhere.
I wrote here about a letter he sent to the BBC criticising their “slander
and bias” against Israel, which is “Painfully reminiscent of the old
Soviet propaganda”
On 28th November on Norman Lebrecht’s blog ‘Slipped Disc’ some strange
comments appeared below an announcement about Kissin’s Israeli citizenship.
*“**What’s the point?*”, asked pianist Sanda Schuldmann. Later, in a
subsequent Slipped Disc piece on Decembe... more »
Untitled
The people will not be pawned
Oh yes they have given
so much blood
so much frustration'
and energy
its a nuclear reactor l
like a flood
of human mistakes
overrunning the rivers
of mankind
we got to take no
more prinsioner
of the corporate kind
Just dealing with a syndicate
brings the Sopranos to mind
and if you think Tony
was so cute
you are fucking blind
These people these fuckers
are taking a taste
out of humankind
cause the do not believe
that getting persecute in Sicily
will ever escape their minds
So when did the goverment
start to exist,and when did the goverment
give the path to peop... more »
Pastor Rick Warren to Piers Morgan on Homosexuality...
*“I fear the disapproval of God more than I fear your disapproval or the
disapproval of society.”*
Is a New Day Dawning for Education?
Common Dreams and Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post blog are covering
today's protests.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make
a sound?
In: Physics, Philosophy and Philosophers, Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles
Answer:
*Most basic answer:*
No, because the definition of *sound* is "something that you hear." No
one's there to hear the tree fall, so the tree doesn't make a sound. This
answer is valid as long as no details are observed technically.
Published on Monday, December 9, 2013 by Common Dreams
Movement Rises to Kick 'Corporate Reform' Out o... more »
What American tennis failure can teach all of us
Driven out of New Zealand tennis by a “high performance” strategy adopted
by tennis bureaucrats that was anything but, former Wimbledon finalist
Chris Lewis is now appalled that the strategy of encouraging mediocrity is
not only still in place, but being doubled down.
The National body presents its blueprint to associations this week, with a
targeted junior athlete programme focusing on elite players aged between 12
to 18 the focus.
The new strategy is based on similar programmes run by Tennis Canada,
Australia the British LTA and the US college system.
But 1983 Wimbledon... more »
OBAMA KNEW HE HAD NO CASE
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins Democracy Now to discuss his
new article casting doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration’s
claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical
attacks in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta earlier this year. Writing in the
London Review of Books, Hersh argues that the Obama administration
"cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad." The
administration failed to disclose it knew Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra
Front had the ability to produce chemical weapons. Evidence obtained in the
days after th... more »
Four Alarm Fire on the building of Civilization
Singapore I sleep so sound in your arms. Singapore it seems Harry Lee
understands how to make a society with far more love than harms. Now it
does not make no no mind if you cant chew gum, or if you vandalize a car
even if your an American you
will still get more than one
strokes from a bamboo
cane to remind you
that stepping of line
is just not the way
to make a society
with a admirable bottom line,
Say what you will about Lee Quan Yew
to me he is a hero
a man just like me an you
So he did one thing
and it turned out grand
and he did another thing
and it was successful
and he went for t... more »
American Dream: a Danish Reality?
*High social mobility isn't a clear net positive*
The American Dream is a national ethos of the U.S. Perhaps every third
Hollywood movie describes the life story of a person born to poor
conditions who makes it. The Americans themselves believe that this social
mobility is one of the virtues in which the Americans beat other nations.
The only problem is that the data suggest otherwise:
The myth of the American Dream (CNN Money)
Someone evaluated the "probability that you will be stuck in the same class
as your parents", i.e. the social immobility of a sort. Denmark only has
0.15 so... more »
The new Salon and the rise of a new generation!
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013*
*Loom and womb! The tale of the vaginal knitter:* We don’t expect to keep
writing about the new Salon. But three new pieces at the site represent a
type of problem.
This morning, we were puzzled by a piece by Koa Beck. It appears under this
designation:
*Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity*
I'm neither straight nor white, but I'm frequently mistaken for both—and
it's taught me a lot about privilege
KOA BECK
SUNDAY, DEC 8, 2013 07:59 PM EST
Quick summary: Beck—full name Koalani Beck—is a youngish, Hawaiian-born
woman whose father... more »
WHAT ADEBOLAJO MISSED OUT
*Michael Adebolajo, describes as being intelligent, popular and possessing
a sense of humour.*
On 9 December 2013, in the trial of Michael Adebolajo, who is accused of
killing soldier Lee Rigby, *Michael Adebolajo (or his body double) gave
evidence in court*.
*What is significant is what he did not say*
*1** A.* 'Adebolajo' said that he officially became a Muslim in his first
year at Greenwich University.
He said: "When I came to Islam, I realised that real success is if you make
it to Paradise. Then you can relax and have as much property as you want...
*Michael Adebolajo*
As... more »
The ‘Socialist Hordes”
Fascism and Contemporary Canada. Part VIIII.
*The ‘Socialist Hordes” *
*Written by Robin Mathews *
*Led By The Fiscally Conservative Social Credit W.A.C. Bennett Government.
The ‘Fascist Transformation’ By The ‘Liberal’ Gordon Campbell/Christy Clark
Governments.*
In those ‘Wacky’ Bennett days (1952-1972), a person could step into a
Vancouver Hotel elevator on one day with W.A.C. Bennett and Robert Bonner
(wearing, as I remember it, black homburg hats and long black overcoats).
The next day a person could share the elevator with Glenn Gould,
pale-faced, wearing the gray knit... more »
Sarah Palin at her best... (video)
*unfortunately, you have to also listen to that windbag O'Reilly.*
Gun Control Didn't Ruin Obama's Second Term
Alex Seitz-Wald test-drives what could easily become a new liberal fantasy:
The Connecticut massacre set in motion a cascade of events that led the
White House to burn through its only real window to accomplish its goals.
The month before the shooting, Obama had won a convincing reelection and a
modest popular mandate. One major liberal wish-list entry, immigration
reform, seemed not only within reach but almost inevitable.
Instead, not only in this story did Obama's gun control initiative sink
immigration reform, but it derailed, at least so far, his entire second
term.
C'mon. Let... more »
December 10 is Human Rights Day
Tomorrow is Human Rights Day, probably the most neglected day on the school
calendar. All teachers should use this opportunity to make children aware
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was adopted unanimously
by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. I hope you will share
this document with all teachers.
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of
freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbar... more »
JEJU: NOW & BEFORE
The Navy base project in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea now
scars the coast. It is important to remember that prior to the US deciding
it would "pivot" 60% of its military forces into the Asia-Pacific, this
village was declared a "special environmental preservation area" by the
federal government, and that was in addition to the designating of Jeju the
"Island of Peace" by the national government.
The US need for more bases, ports-of-call, airfields and barracks due to
Obama's military pivot to surround China clearly trumped South Korean
national preservation decl... more »
Deep tweets
War on Christmas edition.
This would be funny, if not so sad & true! True meaning of GOP Christmas
(hypocrisy): pic.twitter.com/Sw2Mn2RmIa
— Jack Berlin (@jackaberlin) December 9, 2013
Stanley Chang: "I Would Be Honored To Join The Congressional Progressive Caucus"-- A Guest Post
*GUEST POSTby Stanley Chang*
I am a lifelong Democrat and a proud progressive, and in my time in public
service, I’ve built a strongly progressive record. If elected to Congress,
I would be honored to join the Congressional Progressive Caucus to continue
fighting for the values I’ve built my public service record around.
From the beginning of my time in public service, I was one of the first
elected officials in Hawaii who publicly and consistently supported
marriage equality. I will continue to fight for equal rights for the LGBT
community, because while marriage equality is n... more »
A statutory body may be liable for a common law duty of care
Rausch v. The Corporation of the City of Pickering, 2013 ONCA 740:
[45] Although I would reject Mr. Rausch's claim that there is an
explicit statutory duty of care, I do not agree with the City that this is
the end of the matter. In my view, when negligence is alleged against a
government actor, the reach of the duty of care divining rod is not
restricted to the legislative scheme and whether it imposes a statutory
duty of care. In *R. v. Imperial Tobacco*, 2011 SCC 42, [2011] 3 S.C.R.
45, at paras. 43-45, the Supreme Court recognized that in addition to a
statutory duty o... more »
The Shamelessness & Stupidity of Rob Ford
A while back, somewhere, I mentioned a book about stephen harper's grievous
damage to Canada's parliamentary institutions. The political-scientist
authors wrote that our institutions were designed with an implicit trust in
the good faith of those who would be working within them, and that harper
has no good faith and abused that trust and thereby weakened those
institutions.
The same thing applies with Rob Ford. Our political tools weren't designed
to deal with an obnoxious cretin who, after months of lying, has finally
admitted to having smoked crack with gangsters in a drunken stu... more »
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