A Miwok house Reproduction (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
John Ensign Ethics Report (Photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 in Miwok Country California
. Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz is walking through Placerville, Calif., on Wednesday at noon, after walking through Miwok country and being hosted by Miwok at Shingle
Springs. The walkers will arrive on Alcatraz on Dec. 21, with a Sovereignty Gathering on Dec. 22, 2013. The walk began on July 15 in Washington DC in affirmation of Indigenous sovereignty. Photos by Western
Springs. The walkers will arrive on Alcatraz on Dec. 21, with a Sovereignty Gathering on Dec. 22, 2013. The walk began on July 15 in Washington DC in affirmation of Indigenous sovereignty. Photos by Western"Black shroud of secrecy" Walk of Shame
Yesterday, led by Harper's Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra, all seven Con MPs on the Ethics Committee voted to go in camera so the Canadian public wouldn't see them vote against conducting an investigation into what happened to those disappearing/reappearing emails of former PMO legal advisor Ben Perrin in the Senate scandal. This is the Ethics Committee, *the* *Ethics Committee, *and the Con members didn't want to be seen publicly covering up for the PMO. With a majority on committee, their motion to hide out in what committee chair Pat Martin called "the black shr... more »
Labour's top team?
That's Ed 'Fatty' Balls and Ed 'bucktoothed fool' Miliband - Our next Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister? That is a seriously scary prospect.
Mohwk John Kane: Stop trying to 'solve' the Great Mystery!
Stop Trying to 'Solve' the Great Mystery! By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News When you pull up my blog online (http://letstalknativepride.blogspot.com), this is my intro: "People are free to be consumed with contemplating their existence, their origins, the origins of the universe, supreme beings, controllers of destiny or anything else. But solving "The Great Mystery" is neither
, the origins of the universe, supreme beings, controllers of destiny or anything else. But solving "The Great Mystery" is neither
The Dark Enlightenment
This post at vocative.com (which Southern Man cannot recommend because they require you to log in through Facebook or Twitter to leave comments) provides a dire warning about the Dark Enlightenment, who are supposedly neo-anarchists eagerly awaiting for the fall of Western Civilization. Or a bunch of bloggers with whom they disagree. Whatever. At any rate they provide a convenient graphic of the bloggers who exemplify this extremest viewpoint. Southern Man is eclectic but put him somewhere between "Christian Traditionalist" and "Masculinity" and not too far from "HBD." Yeah, betwe... more »
BBC: "uni students in bin blaze rampage"
BBC Journalist Tom Symonds went looking for sensastional violence at today's Cops off Campus and boy did he find it: One police van was attacked with protesters hitting the vehicle's windshield and opening its doors while officers inside tried to close them. But worse than that: Both Senate House and the adjacent Stewart House were briefly closed. I wouldn't want to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight!
its doors while officers inside tried to close them. But worse than that: Both Senate House and the adjacent Stewart House were briefly closed. I wouldn't want to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight!In our view, Walsh clowns Mandela a tad!
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013* *In our view, Walsh clowns the world:* Last week, Ted Cruz said some nice things about Nelson Mandela. Needless to say, Joan Walsh was offended. As usual, Walsh cast herself in the role of brave outspoken defender of all things good and decent, as opposed to the conduct of Those People. This is the way that piece began. As it turned out, Joan had been offended since at least July: WALSH (12/6/13): *I tried to honor Nelson Mandela on the day of his death, and love my political enemies. But the whitewashing of Mandela’s legacy*, as well as the role o... more »
Christy Clark And Keith Baldrey, Birds Of A Feather, Both Covered In Chicken Poop
Sometimes it`s the littlest things that make me go hmm... I wrote the real story on the BC Ferry cuts last month, I wrote how Christy Clark and the BC Liberals were exacting revenge on NDP held ridings, I also highlighted the fraud and financial trickery surrounding the quazi private corporation.. http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2013/11/bc-ferries-and-bc-liberal-revenge.html We also slammed Keith Baldrey, Billy Good and Vaughn Palmer for being BC Government cheerleading pom pom girls on CKNW where the three stooges fought with every caller.. Anywho, I am no fan of Keit... more »
Frontera NorteSur 'Dones over Tijuana'
3D Robotics drone December 11, 2013Drones over Tijuana Former Wired magazine editor now owns spy drones over Tijuana Frontera NorteSur Tijuana News Posted at Censored News If Tijuana’s new municipal government has its way, drones will fly over the northern Mexican border city in 2014. In an interview with the Mexican press, Mayor Jorge Astiazaran Orci, a member of President Pena Nieto’s
Santa Clarita Hypocrite Buck McKeon Wants To Take An Axe To Military Pensions
Although he hasn't announced it yet-- maybe because his spokesperson has other issues to deal with-- it's an open secret in Santa Clarita that Buck McKeon is retiring from congress to become a lobbyist for arms manufacturers. The biggest GOP recipient of legalistic bribes from war contractors and arms maker in Congress-- $1,515,700 and counting-- McKeon has always been an advocate for the military. Military men and women, though… not so much. But it wasn't until he had made up his mind to try to make a fortune as a lobbyist that he started speaking out publicly against veterans an... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Pole Dancers'
PoPOLE DANCERS POLE DANCERS MNN. Dec. 11, 2013. Canada has announced they are heading North to try to make an illegal corporate grab of 1.2 million square kilometers of Indigenous sovereign territory from the Arctic to the North Pole. International law provides that the owners, the natural Indigenous people, animals and other inhabitants, must be consulted about this invasion of their
Mohawk Nation News 'Canada's Apartheid Policy'
CANADA’S APARTHEID POLICY Posted on December 10, 2013 MNN. Dec. 10, 2013. Canada created the apartheid model in South Africa. Ambiguous Champion explains, “South African officials regularly came to Canada to examine reserves set aside for First Nations, following colleagues who had studied residential schools in earlier parts of the century.” The “pass system” criminalizing the movement
Mohawk Nation News 'Twilight Zone'
TWILIGHT ZONE Posted on December 8, 2013 MNN. Dec. 8, 2013. Riots break out in Porgera, Papua New Guinea, after Toronto-based Barrick Gold’s security kills several local Indigenous people. Activist Jethro Tulin, of the Porgera Alliance and the Akali Tange Association, a local human rights organization, has visited Canada many times to advocate for the victims of mine-related
House Environment Subcommittee Testimony
My testimony delivered this morning before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is now available (here in PDF). I welcome your comments. The hearing itself was largely uneventful. One of the other witnesses John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, summarized several areas where his views depart from the IPCC consensus. His testimony did not overlap with mine. The other witness was David Titley, formerly a Rear Admiral in the Navy and currently a "professor of practice" at Penn State, and he did make several ... more »
MSNBC Leaning Forward into Teenage Prison Programming
This past weekend while channel surfing I found that Microsoft-NBC has reached new lows in its weekend prison programming. It has now moved beyond desensitizing and voyeuristic window-peeping into staged adult prison life to now focusing on a cleansed view of *incarcerated teenagers. * Below is the a post from almost five years ago, which seems as relevant now as it was then: *MSNBC, The Prison Channel, Will Never Show This* January 10, 2009 I was amazed over the holidays at the hours and hours of non-stop prison "documentary" footage on MSNBC, with the creepy John Seigenthaler a... more »
BAN ON GAY SEX
*India's openly gay Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil* *India's top court has reinstated a ban on gay sex* On 11 December 2013, it was reported that India's Supreme Court has reinstated a colonial-era ban on gay sex. Homosexuals can now be jailed for up to 10 years. *Rahul Gandhi, who hopes to be Prime Minister of India. * The ban on gay sex may be used by the CIA to manipulate the coming elections in India. *Rahul Gandhi is Gay, according to the CIA's WikiLeaks* It was when Britain made India its colony that the 'divide and rule' ban on 'gay sex' was introduced Back in 2009, a Delh... more »
The BBC v free schools
Leading free school advocate and *Telegraph* blogger Toby Young is not happy with the BBC: *The BBC's anti-free schools bias is becoming laughable* The National Audit Office's report on free schools is generally favourable, though you wouldn't know it if you relied on this article on the BBC's website. Toby notes all the positives in the NAO's report and then argues that the BBC has opted to spin them into negatives. He specifically accuses BBC online education correspondent Hannah Richardson (the article's author) of having written a "shockingly misleading article" and accuses... more »
American Indian Genocide Museum: Houston needs your help!
Racist Mascots -- Houston needs your help! From American Indian Genocide Museum Censored News HOUSTON -- This Thursday 12-12-2013 the Houston Independent School District will have a board meeting regards our racist school mascots and to retire them. One of the school mascots is called " the RedSkins " and the drill team are the squaws. The high school is named after the Republic of
Mark Naison Tells It Like It Should Be: Get Lost, Tisch
To Mark, thank you. From Mark: Bronx Common Core Forum where I call for the resignation of Regents Chair Merryl Tisch
How Fucked are we
Yes Pretty well fucked. The best case is like the great depression the worst case in not even under human discussion. How loud can I play music to convince myself' I am still relevant and not intellectually dead I read the morning paper and see all the same cracks its like groundhog day without the wise cracks two thosand and eight was nineteen twenty nine just we had smarter people hiding behind the blind and they are so creative keeping us in the pool when the frog knows its heating up and its going to cook you and you/ I will be safe in gold and silver because ii DON CARE ... more »
From Africa with love: IDF gets first female Nigerian officer
More from the apartheid state of Israel... http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13945
No. This Isn't the Game Changer.
Yawn. Babs Kay is on her ABC (abortion = breast cancer) bullshit soap box Again. (That's a Do Not Link link, which I am going to use for all sites I don't want to get hits.) This time she's citing a meta-study out of China -- where, you know, the health care system, abortion regime, environment, etc. etc. is exactly like North America. Problem with this study is, as usual, its methodology, not to mention the obvious flaws in trying to compare these societies. Short version: same old crap dressed up yet again as The Game Changer !!!!!!!! Um. No. Let's hear from an epidemiologis... more »
New York City Council Declares Opposition to the Majority of Murders
FromEd Week, followed by my comment: The New York City Council has passed a resolution asking state officials to replace high-stakes standardized tests with multiple measures that collectively gauge student achievement. The city council's education committee approved Resolution 1394 on Monday, and the full council approved it Tuesday by a vote of 49-0, according to a staff member in Councilmember Robert Jackson's office. The resolution was written by a group of national organizations last year and has been circulated since then as a model piece of legislation to revamp current testin... more »
America's Most Wanted: Boeing
Boeing is America's Most Wanted Corporation in two senses. First, now that the Machinists' union in Washington state has refused the company's contract demands, it is shopping production (h/t Pacific Northwest Inlander) of the 777x aircraft nationwide and lots of states are making offers for it. Second, it is emblematic of everything the 1% is doing to destroy the middle class: despite being highly profitable, it pays virtually no taxes; it accepts billions of dollars in government subsidies; it is trying to eliminate pensions and cut salaries for its highly skilled workforce; and i... more »
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Death of real opinion
If you live by the word you die by it as well. I would say if you want to say the emporium has no clothes you better be protected by anonymity or your going to find yourself naked and broken in some way. I am not an expert on China, but I love Singapore and the one rule is you do not critize the Empourer. Well that may be all well and good and maybe society moves forward better when we do not have an opinion except positive on our leaders. I have commented on teh Huffing ton Post for years, now they want me to have a Facebook account to continue. I say fuck you.
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*Race for New Orleans City Council heats up ~Meg Gatto, WVUE* *Neighbors protest potential re-routing of freight traffic to Mid-City, Hollygrove ~Monica Hernandez, WWLTV* *James Carville: America’s best success ~The Hill* *Bob Marley’s estate sues Raising Cane’s over ‘One Love' ~Ted Griggs, Advocate* *A Moveable Fest: Sasha Masakowski, Alexey Marti to Play Latin Jazz Fest at Casa Borrega ~M.D. Dupuy, NOLA DEFENDER *
Nelson Mandela scholarships
So the Harper crowd, never ones to miss an opportunity to cash in on the deaths of better human beings, are launching a series of Masters and PhD scholarships for African students. Candidates will study in Canada in French or English at the master’s degree level or equivalent in the areas of public policy and public administration. They will be required to present their cases for their
Memories of Paul
Paul was like a puppy that given time could cure cancer. He was a force of nature. He never backed down. Paul was my cousin and he came from the city and he was toned and judo trained to not give in. This was not important as we grew up Paul was always exploring and I was at his side just telling him that being with him was a great way to abide Yes I loved this guy he was so full of life and curiosity Now in my hick town in the near north Paul was as welcome as a second divorce but in this northern town people hopped beds with more frequency than bunnies left on the road considered dead Pau... more »
Pope person of the Year
Pope Francis strikes me as a very good guy. He has seen the Pope on the wrong side of history for a lifetime. We all love Pope John Paul because he fought communism, but he did not step into the ring when the capitalist took hope away. So it will be interesting to see how revolution Catholicism plays in the mainstream. Nevertheless I salute the Pope for being so Christian.
VISIONS OF PISA: Ravitch buys into the cult!
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013* *Part 3—A deeply flawed trumpeter:* Routinely, reading Diane Ravitch is an extremely large challenge. Yesterday afternoon, then again this morning, we disappeared to favorite nooks to reread parts of her new book, Reign of Error. Along with Amanda Ripley’s much more ballyhooed groaner, Reign of Error is one of our two current “big education books.” But as a writer, Ravitch tends to be extremely jumbled. For a world-class example, see below. That said, Ravitch also tends to be excessively partisan, whichever side of whatever fight she happens to be o... more »
Project Coast and The South African Ethnic Weapons Program: F.W. DeKlerk Interview
*When and how did you learn about South Africa's chemical and biological warfare program? I was briefed shortly after I became president, by the surgeon general, who was then heading the program ... a man in whose integrity I still have the highest faith. The briefing essentially said that the program was aimed at developing our defensive capability against chemical warfare ... I was told that we had reached the stage where we could start to wind down the program, to privatize the front companies that were involved ... and I authorized that. I said that's the direction we should... more »
The Pain Consensus
Prosperity for the ruling class, austerity for the rest of you. So declared the two right wings of the Money Party yesterday as they rolled out a budget agreement that made a mockery of President Obama's recent vow to make alleviating the scourge of record wealth inequality the overriding issue of his second term. A deal which passive-aggressively condemns more than a million chronically unemployed Americans to lives of destitution while it restores most of the Pentagon sequester cuts actually won praise from the fiscally conservative commander in chief -- by virtue of the fact tha... more »
Attempted Reconciliation Between Iraq’s Anbar And Central Government Take One Step Forward Two Steps Back
Since October 2013, the Mutahidun party that runs Anbar has tried to negotiate with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to put an end to the protests in the province. There have been several meetings between officials in Baghdad and Anbar over the last several weeks to try to work out some concessions between the two that might appease the demonstrators. Both sides are worried about the increasing terrorist threat in Anbar, and Mutahidun would also like to focus upon governance that would require the cooperation of Baghdad. As those steps were being taken however, the protesters said ... more »
The Attack on Steve Cokely: May 1st 1988
*"They said 'You're going to have a riot in Chicago if you don't fire him in "the right way".'..."* Cokely`s Fuse Finally Went Off Aide Was Controversial Long Before Ethnic Statements May 08, 1988|By R. Bruce Dold. Steve Cokely was a crisis waiting to happen. It happened last week with the publication of excerpts of four cassette tapes in which the former mayoral aide made a series of anti-white and anti-Semitic remarks. After a week of meetings and maneuvers, of charges and countercharges, and of denunciations that criss-crossed racial and religious lines, Cokely finally ... more »
it's human rights day: write for rights
I just now remembered that today is December 10, Human Rights Day, which celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each year on this day, I try to participate in Amnesty's annual Write For Rights. On December 10, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe write letters to, and for, individuals at risk. And these letters make a difference. Amnesty's letter writing campaigns have helped political prisoners get released, and have pressured governments into lessening repression. And one thing your letter is guaranteed to do: give someone hope. You can let a person in a... more »
THIS WAS NOT IN KOREA
The fascist South Korean puppet government, fully under the control of the US corporate empire, is now paying operatives living in the US to disrupt protests done by progressive Koreans inside the US. Below is an account of a recent protest at Yale University (New Haven, CT) that was against the South Korean (ROK) government and was disrupted by former ROK military men now living in the US. On Dec. 7 (Sat.), a candle protest in demand of ‘Out, Park Geun-Hye,’ carried out by the Korean residents from the parts of Connecticut and New York, turned into a hell by the groups of right w... more »
Thabo Mbeki and the AIDS Crisis
*"Convinced that we are but natural-born, promiscuous carriers of germs, unique in the world, they proclaim that our continent is doomed to an inevitable mortal end because of our unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust."* *"...the notion that immune deficiency is only acquired from a single virus cannot be sustained. Once you say immune deficiency is acquired from that virus, your response will be anti-retroviral drugs. But if you accept that there can be a variety of reasons ... then you can have a more comprehensive treatment response."* *"All HIV/AIDS programmes of this g... more »
Real Democrats Stand Strong For Social Security-- The Others Are Little More Than Republicans In Disguise
I asked one of the sharpest minds I know on Capitol Hill if there's a single issue facing Congress right now-- just one-- that separates conservatives from progressives. He didn't miss a beat: the Social Security Enhancement and Protection Act and the Strengthening Social Security. Act. Yesterday we had a guest post from the progressive candidate for the Maine Senate seat, Shenna Bellows, on the topic. Today I caught up with a few of the Blue America-endorsed House candidates and asked them about the bill, which is quietly being buried in the House Ways and Means Committee by anti... more »
Read Stuff. You Should
Happy Birthday to McCoy Tyner, 75. Tons of news yesterday, but you'll still want the good stuff: 1. Mann and Ornstein want to save Congress. 2. Lynn Vavreck reviews *Double Down*. 3. John Sides on the Steve Stockman challenge. 4. Scott Lemieux is a little obsessed with liberal health care reform fantasies...but he's also totally correct. 5. And Sarah Kliff provides a user guide to the ACA and Healthcare.gov.
Crippling of Czechia by the emergent left-wing government begins
While I emotionally prefer self-confident and readable right-wing Klaus-like governments, I actually do enjoy the life under technocratic and nominally "apolitical" governments, too. They feel that they are lacking some of the political support which is why they don't dare to interven into people's lives too much. Sometimes they allow the citizens to enjoy more freedom they were used to. Technocratic governments may also adopt responsible attitudes like the reduction of the welfare and other things that are needed, right, but unpopular among many voters – because their goal isn't t... more »
Mandela Memorial post - mortem - President Obama may have delivered another " Teachable Moment " lecture to the world ( Emperor not noting the absence of clothes once again ) , he may have shook hands with the Cuban leader and flirted / took a selfie during the Memorial with a hot Dane pol ..... but at least he didn't take a selfie with Mugabe ( we think . ....)
Dear Pres. Obama: Dissent isn’t Possible in a Surveillance State By Juan Cole | Dec. 11, 2013 | 2 Responses By Juan Cole In his stirring eulogy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first president to be legitimately elected, by the entire South Africa people, President Barack Obama said, “There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba’s legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality. There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba’s struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissen... more »
Financial Calamity Watch December 7 , 2013 - Europe clouds forming as Spain's Bad Bank FROB admits more taxpayer bailouts are likely , the ECB considers " Extreme Crisis Measures " ( thought that problem was solved ) once again and Greece Ex FM warns Europe North - South divide has become a time bomb..... Marc Faber discusses Financial crisis not happening accidentally , they are inevitable .... Alasdair McLeod discusses lack of gold in the West to meet demand ( and obligations to supply gold as per contracts )
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/12/spains-bad-bank-frob-admits-more.html Friday, December 06, 2013 6:44 PM Spain's Bad Bank "FROB" Admits More Taxpayer Bailouts Likely Via translation from Huky Guru's Blog in Spain please consider statements by the president of the "FROB" regarding taxpayer support of the "bad bank". The president of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB), Fernando Restoy, said "resolution does not guarantee recovery of all public support". Restoy advocates "steps to minimize costs to the taxpayer". Restoy calculates pubic aid (so far) at... more »
HILARION: Lifting the Veil, Pt.13 - December 8, 2013
*Lifting the Veil, Pt.13* December 8-15, 2013 Beloved Ones, Change continues to take place in every corner of your world. That which has been hidden continues to be exposed to the light of humanity’s awareness and discernment. All that was once kept from the masses can no longer be controlled and the dissemination of enlightening information flies through the airwaves across the planet in mere seconds. All manner of secret activities are coming up to be looked at with awareness and acknowledgment and this will continue to be so until all is transparent in all interactions bet... more »
So Many Serious Health Problems & Death After The Gardasil Shot - Not A Coincidence?
*November 14, 2013* As of November 2013 there have been 31,741 reported adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine, and the position of the Pharmaceutical companies which make the vaccine, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services which holds patents and profits on the vaccine, is that they are all a coincidence. Call your Congressman and tell them you want an investigation into the HPV vaccine and the damage it is causing to young men and women. "Not a Coincidence" is a campaign started by The Canary Party to address the medical community's repeated excuse that the sym... more »
Master codes have been enabled for Global Gaia Ascension process…
*Master codes have been enabled for Global Gaia Ascension process…* by ÉirePort Master codes have been enabled for Global Gaia Ascension process. Expect initiation of events in short order. Inner application of Higher Intention and Higher Principled morphologies has occurred to a sufficient degree to provide this opportunity for Gaia and all inhabitants, Hue-Being and hu-being. In-Lightenment is at hand. Gaia Freedom follows. ÉirePort | December 11, 2013 at 05:37 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qM
Who Is Destroying America?
I have never ever pictured myself as being "racist".... I abhor that term, and fully understand that the term was invented on purpose to denigrate White Caucasian people exclusively.... Every time we hear of the term "racist" in the Jewish controlled media, it always seems to be pointed directly at a white person and always that white person "offending" a person who is not white.... I am sick and tired of everyone calling those who speak the truth as being "racist" while not understanding the true criminals and "racists" responsible for this planets's misery. I recently received a ... more »
Global Warming? Antarctica records coldest temperature ever !!!!
*A reading of 135.8 degrees below zero was measured in Antarctica, using remote sensing from satellites.* [image: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/12/10/1386637110525/New-data-from-Antarctica--008.jpg]Dam frosty weather! The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth!!! There's cold, and then there's Antarctica cold. ..*. How does a frosty reading of 135.8 degrees below zero sound?* Based on remote satellite measurements, scientists recently recorded that temperature at a desolate ice plateau in East Antarctica.* It was the lowest temperature ever reco... more »
War watch December 11 , 2013 - Syria government continues military advances as US ends aid to North Syria..... Iran talks likely to trump sanctions push in Congress - for now...........Afghanistan - Karzai calling US bluffs and threats on the push for his signature on the Bilateral Security Agreement
Syria ..... US Halts Aid Into Northern Syria, Citing Islamist GainsAl-Qaeda's Warehouse Seizure Underscores Insecurity of Supply Line by Jason Ditz, December 10, 2013 Print This | Share This US officials have confirmed they are suspending all direct aid to Syrian rebels in the nation’s north, including both weapons and non-lethal aid, citing the growing Islamist control over the area. The move to suspend the shipments has been expected for some time, after a late November shipment to a Free Syrian Army (FSA) warehouse ended with al-Qaeda seizing the entire shipment, the warehouse, an... more »
US pension woes - December 11 , 2013 ... Illinois and Chicago in focus - pension "fix " or accounting games sham ? Will Illinois follow Detroit into bankruptcy at some point if he really decides to attack pensions and retiree benefits over Union objections ?
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:30 PM About That Illinois Pension "Fix" The highly touted Illinois plan to fix its pension system is largely hot air. I was waiting for details to prove just that and they came out today. Let's flashback to the initial claim. A headline from six days ago reads Illinois lawmakers approve fix for $100b pension crisis The Illinois Legislature approved a historic plan Tuesday to eliminate the state’s $100 billion pension shortfall, a vote that proponents described as critical to repairing the state’s deeply troubled finances but that faces the immedi... more »
The United Nations, bringing the world together.
The United Nations does indeed bring the world together because however divided the world may be, there's one thing that they can agree on - it's the fault of Israel - for many this really means 'the Jews'. UN Watch reveal that: 'According to diplomatic sources and information compiled exclusively by UN Watch, the UNGA is expected to adopt, by the close of its annual session next month, a total of 21 resolutions singling out for criticism — and 4 resolutions on the rest of the world combined. See the draft texts below. The four that do not concern Israel are: one on Syria, a regime ... more »
Fair coment on this govenment?
I tried to access a documenton the gov.uk website and got this screen... Rather apt!
Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”
Fiction offers avenues to Truth, often *hard* Truths, that remain closed or less often traveled otherwise. While many people associate *Middlesex*, by Jeffrey Eugenides, with themes addressing sexuality and gender, this novel also confronts readers with a vivid and insightful consideration of class, race, and cultural heritage.* Toward the middle of the novel, the life of the main character, Calliope/Cal Stephanides, intersects with the 1967 race riots in Detroit, a moment in history reframed by the narrator: [I]n Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was nothing less than a guer... more »
Baking Soda Cancer Study by Dr. Sircus
Baking Soda Cancer Studies and pH Medicine by Dr. Sircus Dr. Sircus.com 2 May 2012 University of Arizona Cancer Center member Dr. Mark Pagel will receive a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of personalized baking soda cancer treatment for breast cancer. In other words, clinical trials on the use of oral baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) for breast cancer treatments are about to start![1] Obviously there are people in the know who have understood that sodium bicarbonate, that same stuff that can save a person’s life in the emergen... more »
LTO Bureaucracy 4: Renewing a Driver's License, circa 2013
I noticed only recently that my driver's license has already expired, in October this year. So this afternoon, I went to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) satellite office at the Ayala MRT station in Makati. I entered around 2:25pm, got my license and left at 3:58pm or total of 1:33 waiting time. This is longer than my previous experiences in the same office six years and three years ago. A driver's license expires every three years. Six procedures, not four as the diagram at the LTO office would depict. 1. Show your soon expiring or expired license at Window 1, they will give ... more »
Fresh Nobelist Schekman boycotts glossy journals
Various media have discussed the decision of the 2013 Medicine Nobel Prizewinner Randy Scheckman of Berkeley (prize for the vesicles: public transportation within cells) Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals (Guardian) His lab will no longer send articles to Nature, Science, and Cell. Schekman is the editor-in-chief of eLife and PNAS, "competing" journals. He says that these glossy journals are artificially restricting the access in order to increase the competition and that forces the researchers to cut the corners, follow the trends, and focus on work that is in... more »
Chris Patten - tick tock, tick tock - Is his time as Chairman of the BBC Trust running out?
1. Last week The Mail revealed that: 'John Bercow has criticised BBC chairman Lord Patten for refusing to be grilled by MPs about the broadcaster’s coverage of Europe. The Commons Speaker insisted no one should consider themselves above parliamentary inspection, as he attacked Lord Patten’s refusal to answer questions from the European Scrutiny Committee. MPs are furious that the Tory peer – and former European Commissioner – has three times turned down their request to discuss the subject of bias in the BBC’s coverage of the EU. Because he is a peer, Lord Patten cannot be forced t... more »
MANDELA THE MASON
*Cecil Williams* The gay icon Nelson Mandela chose the gay Cecil George Williams as his driver. Cecil Williams was from Cornwall in the UK. Nelson Mandela and other gay icons on show in London. Nelson Mandela was frequently photographed with iconic figures. *Gay actor Sir Ian McKellen, **Phumi Mtetwa**, Mandela and **Simon Nkoli* *Zoleka Mandela (left)* *www.chrisspivey.co.uk* . *Nelson Mandela had six legitimate children:* 1. Makaziwe Mandela, the first born, died at the age of nine months. 2. Madiba Mandela died in a car crash. 3. Makgatho Mandela died of aids. 4. The o... more »
Who's Lying About the Jobs? How It Is Possible for the Economy To Have Been In Recovery Since June 2009 and There Are 1,277,000 Fewer Jobs Today Than Six Years Ago Prior to the Recession? (The Punishment Cure) The 1% Are The Very Best Destroyers Of Wealth The World Has Ever Seen
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SOAS Thursday screening of The Right Thing about the Wild Strawberries
On Thursday SOAS is.... Screening of Film: “The Right Thing” with Q and A with Director Chiang Wei-hua Date: 12 December 2013 Time: 7:00 PM Finishes: 12 December 2013 Time: 10:00 PM Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: Khalili Lecture Theatre Type of Event: Film Here's the link _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!
Will There Be Other Transformational Figures Like Mandela?
Mandela’s memorial service was yesterday, and the speeches and coverage were laudatory, as they should be, and the crowd was raucous, celebratory, despite the rain. Obama in his speech challenged the audience to use Mandela’s example in their own lives, to “take risks on behalf of ideals” but in a studied, disciplined manner. I was Continue reading
Weak, Confused Democrats Are Useless-- Meet Ann Kuster
Before she was elected last year, Ann Kuster presented herself as a fighter for working families and for a progressive vision of America. When she got to Congress, she joined the Progressive Caucus and there was no reason to believe she would behave any differently than she promised New Hampshire voters. She fell in with the DCCC crowd and started voting more and more conservatively. As my friend Zaid pointed out yesterday, "A Democrat can call themselves conservative a million times but if someone wants to vote for one they'll vote Republican." (if you want a more thorough explan... more »
Rob Ford and the Murder of Anthony Smith
For the record: The alcoholic, hypocrite, incompetent, infamous shameless buffoon has insinuated that a* Toronto Star* reporter is a pedophile. The *Star* is talking with its lawyers. Because unlike Rob Ford, who knew there was a video of him smoking crack, the Star might actually sue when someone defames one of their own. Just wanted to point out that, as far as a Rosie DiManno (Rosie DiMoron around here usually!) column says, the assertion that police transcripts attribute his murder to non-related gang violence is unaccompanied by the actual transcripts that would establish the t... more »
Updates On Syria [12.10]: Jihadist Terrorist Groups Have CW Capability Due To US-Saudi-Turkish Support, China And Russia Look To Expand Roles, CW Experts Express Doubts About Pentagon Plan To Destroy Syria's CW Stockpile At Sea
*1. An excerpt from, "NATO's War on Syria Just Got Dirtier" by Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer Report, December 10:* Whitaker hails Higgins’ Foreign Policy piece arrogantly titled, “Sy Hersh’s Chemical Misfire,” but in reality, all Higgins does is point out specifics of the attack, some of which are confirmed, some of which are implied – all of which could either have been the work of the government or militants. *The question Higgins fails to answer is what motivation would the government have had to carry out the attacks with the UN based just miles away and with government forces... more »
Terry Gross Interview on New ALEC Revelations
From NPR, which includes interview link: A batch of internal documents recently leaked to T*he Guardian* has revealed new insights into the goals and finances of the secretive group called ALEC. The American Legislative Exchange Council is a group that brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations. Together, they develop model bills that lawmakers introduce and try to pass in their state legislatures. Through these model bills, ALEC has worked to privatize public education, cut taxes, reduce public employee compensation, oppose Obamacare and resist state regu... more »
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Must See Video - High Radiation Levels In Snow Collected At Minamisoma Japan!
I have been keeping posts here for the last 2.5 years about the continuing disaster at the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear power station at Fukushima Japan. In spite of all the lack of information from the Jewish controlled media, this disaster is absolutely far from over... In fact, for the last 2.5 years there has been very little done to stop, or even slow down, the radiation that continues to spew out from the 3 failed reactor cores! The fact is, readers, this disaster will continue for the foreseeable future with severe dire consequences for the entire northern hemisphere of this ... more »
Does Chris Cillizza have any idea what makes a good campaign a good one or a bad campaign a bad one?
*No, it wasn't campaigning with beloved Project Runway presence Tim Gunn that made Christine Quinn's "the worst campaign of 2013." It was . . . well, you'll see.* *by Ken* One of the things that made Tim McCarver such a great baseball announcer in his glory years as part of the New York Mets' TV broadcast crew was his informed and informative discussion of strategic decisions, by both managers and players, before pitches or while plays were developing -- you know, like having hitters take or swing away, or bunt, or hit and run, sending runners, issuing intentional walks, matching ... more »
The Global Warming Fraud: THIS Is Pathetic - Greenpeace Shows How It Is In Bed With Global Warming Scam Artists By Releasign This Video
I have long been posting up articles at this blog showing definitive proof that all this fear of "Global Warming" is a massive fraud and hoax... All that anyone with any common sense has to do is just step outside these days... It is getting much much colder and absolutely not warmer, and this trend has been going on for the last decade at least.... Even the hucksters behind the fraud cannot explain this planetary cooling trend, and just prefer to ignore it, or hope that people are too ignorant to notice! I came across a video today that absolutely made me sick... It comes from the ... more »
Yankees Baseball hot stove - December 7 , 2013 - Yankees in trouble for 2014 - 2015 after Robinson Cano bolts for Seattle ? Does the Yankees fan rue the Ellsbury signing to the extent that it played a role in Robinson Cano , the Yanks best player , signing elsewhere ? With Soriano , Ellsbury , Beltran , Suzuki and Wells under contract for next year ( outfield slots clogged like rush hour traffic ) , where does Gardner fit in the Yanks plans and can they get value in a trade to fill remaining obvious pitching and infield holes ? And we haven't even gotten to the 5 days of Winter Meetings fun yet !
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
As a Red Sox fan , naturally I'm curious as to what the thoughts are from Yankees fans after the frantic Friday dealings involving Granderson signing with the Mets , Cano signing with the Mariners , Beltran signing with the Yankees ( at three years and 45 million ) , Kuroda re-signing for one year at 16 million ...... An of course , how does the blockbuster Ellsbury signing ( 7 years at 153 million ) sit with Yankees fan at this time ? McCann and Ellsbury deals worthwhile at the cost of Cano to Yanks fans ? Some views on the subjects from the best blogs around..... BTW , Red Sox ... more »
Deep Tweets
This one has no explanation because it would either take a million words or none to do so. But trust me, it's deep. I was in the presence of @EliLake last night. He was rapping. He rhymed Ashkenazi and Benghazi in his flow. Surreal. — jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) May 31, 2013
Christy Clark Dazzles The Crowd And Mystifies Our Media
Christy Clark made an appearance at the China Canada business council today.... After her "showing" at the event Christy Clark was asked about her recent trip to Asia.. Christy Clark claimed the trip was a roaring success, but, when pursued by media for details and what deals were signed, Christy Clark had no details or specifics, in fact Christy Clark responded thusly.. *"Teresa Wat and I were together for part of the trade mission, we split up so we could cover more ground, she signed some, I signed some independently and we signed some together, let me get you that number so ... more »
" Powers That Be " losing control over Police ? Not in the US - perhaps in Italy and Thailand though .....
Italian Riot Police Remove Helmets, Join Anti-EU Protesters - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] Remarkable video shows cops in display of solidarity with fellow countrymen *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com December 10, 2013 A remarkable video shows Italian riot police removing their helmets in solidarity with anti-EU demonstrators in Turin who are protesting against the state of the economy, the single currency and fuel prices. The demonstr... more »
THOU SHALL NOT KILL......
Love thy neighbor as thy self.......
Bipartisan Budget Deal reached in the House ! Short summary --The mini-bargain — the "Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013" — sets discretionary spending levels a little above $1 trillion for the next two years, while repealing and replacing some cuts of sequestration. In fiscal year 2014, spending is set at $1.012 trillion, which sits about halfway between the proposed levels of the House and Senate budgets. The legislation provides $63 billion in sequester relief over two years, which is split evenly between defense and non-defense programs. This is offset by other cuts in the budget. Ryan and Murray said that the deal reduces the deficit between $20 million and $23 million. No extension of unemployment benefits for workers unemployed more than 26 weeks means 1.3 million Americans lose benefits come December 28 , 2013 ( Merry Christmas sheeple ! ) ....Perversely , this will rsult in alleged unemployment falling ( Hello taper - if not shortly , what will be the next excuse ? )
BUDGET DEAL REACHED BRETT LOGIURATO DEC. 10, 2013, 5:45 PM 3,787 7 - - inShare9 - - - EMAIL - MORE [image: Paul Ryan Patty Murray] AP Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have reached an agreement on a budget deal that would avert a repeat of October's government shutdown. Murray and Ryan chair the Senate and House budget committees and are the lead negotiators for their parties on the agreement. The mini-bargain — the "Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013" — sets discretionary spending levels a little above $1 trillion for the next two yea... more »
Updated: Thai and Italian Police Lay Down Riot Gear.... and Ukraine Police back down....
Thai Police Lay Down Riot Gear Italian Police Lay Down Riot Gear And now Ukrainian Police back down...
Did AFT Offset Costs of Anti-Corporate Crusade with Corporate Cash?
The following is from AFT in 2009, when the future for corporate ed reform seemed ascendant, and Randi was on a wave. AFT has scrubbed the video from their site, but I plugged it in to where it had been previously deleted from the Press Release. Do have a look, and note the venue for this big announcement. Were no dark alleys available? With AFT now spending a million bucks on their new Pretender Crusade to End Corporate Ed Reform, not to worry. They have collected many times that amount from Gates, Broad, and Ford. From AFT: The AFT on April 28 [2009] launched the first union-led,... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013 - COMET ISON
Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? *This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind.* Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean it could even be you! For instance ... ei... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013
Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind. Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean it could even be you! For instance ... either ... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013
Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind. Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean it could even be you! For instance ... either ... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013 - COMET ISON
Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? *This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind.* Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean it could even be you! For instance ... ei... more »
Killzone: Shadow Fall for the Playstation 4
Back in the olden days when hair was long and loading times were even longer, you could more or less divide video games into two broad and not entirely discrete types. In one corner were the fast-paced action-oriented games. They looked nothing like the arcade games of the early-mid 80s, but their ethic of playability owed more than a passing acquaintance to them. Glaring at them from the other end of the market were the more cerebral games. The proper chin-strokers. These were your adventure/role-playing games, and given their sedentary pace I'd say you can place early strategy ti... more »
Protecting Social Security Does Not Mean Defending The Status Quo-- Guest Post From Shenna Bellows (D-ME)
That brand new video above is a bit of a biography of the candidate Blue America endorsed for the Maine Senate seat, Shenna Bellows. She's running against Susan Collins, a DC-oriented career-politician who is often mischaracterized by the media as a "moderate." And while she may be moderate compared to crackpots like Ted Cruz of Texas and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions of Alabama, she's pretty far right for a Maine politician. And she consistently votes with Cruz and Sessions over 90% of the time. As Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Collins is in a unique p... more »
Pipelines And Tankers, Economic Cost And Environmental Risks
Thanks to all of you for tuning in and caring....Below is a link to a video and presentation by one of our Environmental Rock Stars, that being Robyn Allan... Please take the time to watch and do pass on through Facebook, Twitter, your friends and relatives.. Clearly Stephen Harper is a madman out of control, he`s a puppet of the oil industry, Stephen Harper has brought not only shame to Canada`s international reputation he and his party have assaulted science, fisheries, Stephen Harper`s Conservative party are engaged in a ruthless campaign hellbent on dividing Canadians, pitti... more »
GOP hypocrites hate handshakes
President Obama had the audacity to shake the hand of a world leader at Mandela's funeral. Before the internet was invented, we used to call this good manners. Some might even have called it responsible statesmanship. But the world leader in question was Raul Castro standing in for his brother Fidel. So of course GOPers immediately launched themselves onto the fainting couches, demanding smelling salts. Maybe somebody gave them bath salts instead, because this reaction from Senator Grumpy Gramps was batshit crazy. When asked if Obama should have extended his hand, McCain was quick... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013 - Comet ISON
*Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013* Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? *This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind.* Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean... more »
Ukraine overnight rates flashing red .....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-10/ukrainian-overnight-rates-spike-20-bank-liquidity-fears-soar Ukrainian Overnight Rates Spike To 20% As Bank Liquidity Fears Soar [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2013 08:22 -0500 - Bond inShare As opposition party offices are raided and streets continue to fill with protesters, the"precarious" funding sitaution in the nation is beginning to flash red as *interbank lending rates spike to 20%*. Banks, clearly concerned about their own and each other's liquidity in the face of potential deposit runs (an... more »
BitCoin weekend thread December 7-8 , 2013 - BitCoin crashed dow to 576 today December 7 , 2013 ! Wild volatility since the PBOC and Baidu clamped down on BitCon starting on Wednesday and Friday respectively . How far behind can other Central Banks be at this point in following the moves of China to protect their Banks , businesses and individuals from potential hazards associated with BitCoin ?
Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
New and views - first my prior thread....... *BitCoin news and views* highlights for *December 4* , *2013*........Hugh Items for Sunday http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-08/bitcoin-derivatives-market-has-arrived The Bitcoin Derivatives Market Has Arrived [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/08/2013 13:25 -0500 - Bitcoin - fixed - Volatility inShare<span style="display: inline-block !important; font-size: 1px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !impor... more »
Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013 - Comet ISON
*Blossom Goodchild - 10 December, 2013* Good morning! Are you well? Quite a lot of things going round in my head so we will get going straight away if we may? *This is perfectly in order and we are happy to oblige you in answering matters that may be quizzically in the forefront of your mind.* Okedokey. It came to me that many people are attuned to different things and dare I say different Truths regarding the Ascension and The Event. Yet each one is of good intent I am sure ... and therefore coming from 'their Truth'. Yet surely someone / some channels have to be wrong? I mean... more »
Catch of the Day
Jonathan Chait: The problem here is that their definition of who would “benefit” is exceedingly narrow. You “benefit,” by his way of thinking, only if your actuarial costs exceed your financial contributions. But that isn’t how most people think about insurance. Insurance isn’t a kind of gamble where you bet you can beat the house by consuming more in medical care than you pay in premiums and deductibles. It’s protection from risk. People like that protection. They will pay to acquire it. Yeah. I really do think that one thing that's happened in the continuing reaction to the ACA i... more »
IOKIYAR
Republican heads are detonating like Jiffy Pop over Obama shaking Raul Castro's hand during Nelson Mandela's memorial service. I can see why.
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 residing in Canada but having loyalties that 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 paraphrase Mike Rivero... more »
Cyber Shrinkage: Loss and Cyber Security
The nature of 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 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 whistleblo... more »
Religious Segregation in British Universities?
"This is University, it's not a Mosque or a Temple." Ysamin Alibhai Brown live on air in the studio telling off Omar Ali of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies on Channel 4 News after the video (below) on religious segregation in British Universities was shown. 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... 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
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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 o 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 Aparthei 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 be 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
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