Monday, December 02, 2013

2 Dec- Blogs I'm Following

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More on the Common Core: Achieve, Inc., and Then Some

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 minutes ago
I hesitate to publicly confess that I find reading tax forms interesting, but it is true– especially as concerns the many nonprofits that are imposing their wills upon the American classroom. The IRS 990 offers much information on a nonprofit in a concise format, not the least of which are a nonprofit’s salaried individuals, board […]

5 Reasons Why The P5+1-Iran Deal May Fall Apart

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 30 minutes ago
* "Let us talk now, so that we do not become mad animals!" - Joost A. M. Meerloo.* *1. Lack of Unity Among World Powers.* Before the historical deal between the P5+1 (America, Russia, China, England, France, and Germany) and Iran was finalized in Geneva last month, France *tried its best to disrupt the process*, exposing discord and confusion among the world powers. Look for this trend to continue despite the success of this deal. Time will reveal that the P5+1 is not a serious diplomatic partner. The divisions will continue to rise to the surface, especially in nations that are... more »

Content copied? How to make Blogger DMCA complaint.

Peter at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 52 minutes ago
You found someone copied your content? Here is how to make a Blogger DMCA complaint. Either follow the steps below or go direct to the Report alleged copyright infringement form Step 1: Go to Removing content from Google Step 2: In the "What Google product does your request relate to?" section, tick ( ) Blogger/blogspot Step 3: In the "What can we help you with?" section, tick ( ) I have a legal issue that is not mentioned above Step 4: In the "What can we help you with?" section, tick ( )I have found content that may violate my copyright Step 5: In the "Are you the copyrigh... more »

Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I speak to plenty of Democrats who want Clinton as their party's presidential nominee for one reason: she's seen as the Democrats' best chance to hold the White House. A policy agenda almost never comes into play in their thinking. Democrats look at the ideological civil war wracking the Republican Party now and they don't want any of that in their own party. So careerist hacks and Wall Street shills like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Steve Israel babble incessantly about a "big tent" that is big enough to encompass mortal enemies of working families and of progressive ideals. It's... more »

URGENT - Thailand: Regime & Western Backers Claim "Insurrection" - Penalty, Death

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
*December 3, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters, outnumbering police at two locations in Bangkok, Police Head Quarters and Government House, are poised to take over and occupy both locations peacefully as they have other government sites throughout the city. However, the regime has dropped leaflets over the protesters claiming that the anti-regime protests constitute "insurrection" (which carries a maximum penalty of death), that the leaders are to be arrested, and protesters are to return home. In support of the regime, dishonest reporting by news agencies such as th... more »

(Medicare for ALL?) Has the Flawed Rollout Put the Rest of His Policy Agenda at Risk and, With It, Progressive Ideas about What Government Can Attempt and What a President Can Achieve at a Moment When an Unprecedented Expansion of Health-Care Coverage Could Validate Them? (Corporate Spooks (HB Gary/Themis/Palantir/Berico/Endgame) Employed by Banksters - BofA - to DeepSix Activists)

It's all true about the rollout of Obamacare going much better - and it will work eventually (although for whom it still remains to be seen) - but first, friends, a comment from my favorite candidate for President (or any office for which he might decide to run): Dear Cirze (Dear America), I hate to say "I told you so." But I told you so. I said, waaaaaaay back in 2010, that anyone who

Spain and Japan criminalize dissent......Japan attempting to stifle legitimate Fukushima concerns .....Spain attempting to hold itself together as economic troubles prompt protests - the receation from Spain , outrageous fines geared toward shutting off said protests ! ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
War On Democracy: Spain And Japan Move To Criminalize Protests [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/02/2013 20:03 -0500 - European Union - Greece - Japan - Liberal Democratic Party - Reuters - Unemployment inShare *Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,* As might be expected as political and economic policy failures pile up and citizens become increasingly mad, the status quo is becoming increasingly authoritarian (recall blogger “Mish” was just fined 8,000 euros for a blog post). In the latest disturbing n... more »

Continuity of NSA surveillance after martial law declaration ? Wonder why National Intelligence Director James Clapper thought running this through recently ( quite quietly with the fuss over the Obamacare disaster website providing cover ) was paramount ? As this was just signed November 12 , 2013 , is a national emergency looming ? NSA Employees receive talking points for Thanksgiving ?? And NSA surveillance of porn sites - and not just so called terrorists targeted of course....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
http://www.infowars.com/directive-provides-government-with-intelligence-after-declaration-of-martial-law/ Directive Provides Government With Intelligence After Declaration of Martial Law - [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] James Clapper’s directive fires up NSPD 51 providing Department of Homeland Security with ominous police state authority. *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com November 2, 2013 [image: A constellation of federal government intellige... more »

China Launches Moon Mission

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours ago
(Beiing, AFP) As Chinese rovers roamed its surface, China claimed the moon today. A foreign ministry spokesman said: "Everyone knows that ancient Chinese texts from the Later Han mention the moon. Indeed, the moon is a staple of Tang poetry. Since Chinese were the first to see the moon, it belongs to China." Chinese netizens cheered as the historical wrong of China not owning the moon was finally righted. "Everyone knows the One China policy includes the moon," affirmed one netizen. Another netizen noted that the moon could be seen from Taiwan prior to industrialization there, an... more »

What? WaPo editorial-page dunce Fred Hiatt writing about "unjust economics"? (Short answer: Whadderyou, nuts?)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken* The working theory tonight is that a picture is worth, well, a whole lotta words, and above you have a picture, not just of how washingtonpost.com's opinion e-updates usually look when they arrive in my e-mailbox, with this weird line breakage that pushes authors' names up into cahoots with the (actual) previous author's column blurb, but an actual reproduction of the way this morning's opinion roundup looked, making it appear to the uncareful glancer as if *Washington Post *editorial-page editor Fred Hiatt (aka the Dumbest Lunk on the Planet) had written about "unjust ec... more »

Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 in Paiute Country

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson as Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz arrived in Fallon, Nevada today, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. Wesley Dick, Kwassuh, said, "It was good to join in the walk representing the Numu Nations, renamed Northern Paiutes." Wesley shared traditional food and craft making with long walkers on Long Walk 2 northern route

@slekar dabbles with #edreform memes: Take 2.

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
I thought of the meme above while driving from Madison, WI to Dover, OH for Thanksgiving break. This image has always represented (for me) the pinnacle of the racist belief that education should “sanitize.” “Kill the Indian. Save the Man.” There were no thoughts that equated the image above and the modern education reform reference […]

Merry Critmass

Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 4 hours ago
It was 71 years ago today, December 2 1942, when the very first controlled nuclear chain reaction on earth was started in the "atomic pile" built in the squash court at the University of Chicago.  Rod Adams has more details. Exactly 15 years later, the first commercial nuclear power station at Shippingport went critical for the first time.  Thus swords were beaten into plowshares, and 56 years

NYU Professor pens editorial published by the Washington Post to repeal 22 ND Amendment - which would allow Barack Obama and any other President ( Bill Clinton , George W bush et al ) to seek third terms ..... Looking at the current President's domestic and foreign policy record , what could go wrong ?

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-29/wapos-modest-proposal-dictator-obama WaPo's Modest Proposal: Dictator Obama [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/29/2013 12:09 -0500 - Barack Obama - Charles Schumer - Free Money - Iran - John McCain - President Obama - ratings - Wall Street Journal inShare *"It’s time to put that power back where it belongs,"* explains Jonathan Zimmerman in today's Washington Post, "*Barack Obama should be allowed to stand for re election *just as citizens should be allowed to vote for — or... more »

Commerce or Community

hygiecrat at hygiecracy - 5 hours ago
Originally published on CounterPunch Because the history of the United States is comprised of contradictions (proclamations of liberty, for instance, are coupled with the practice of slavery), it should come as little surprise to find that the holiday of Thanksgiving – so steeped in hyper-consumerism – itself derives from the rejection of a compelled commercialism. This history is especially relevant today, as we consider how to reconcile another crucial contradiction – the conflict between commerce (the mercenary) and community (the common – that which is shared). Before the R... more »

Thanksgiving Holiday Day 4

Southern Man at Southern Man - 5 hours ago
*In which Southern Man goes to church and then spends the remainder of his Day of Rest...resting.* And that's really all there was to it: some early-morning geocaching, the gym for a light workout and shower, Bible study, and then home where he made taco soup and piddled around and generally relaxed. *Lord, thank you for granting us this day of rest. Amen.*

Thanksgiving Holiday Day 3

Southern Man at Southern Man - 5 hours ago
*In which Southern Man continues the weekend of feasting with friends and hams it up for lots of photos...* Southern Man was up early and headed into town in The Titan to run errands - the bank, the post office, the grocery store, the home store (for about half a ton of concrete mix)- and then to a friend's home for another feast. Would you just look at those birds. There would be little left by the end of the day. These boys sure know how to party! Party On! Well at least Paul's not on his phone! Happy Birthday Paul! Southern Man with the lovely Jeri. Southern Man with t... more »

The price of privatizing the public commons

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
The 73 year old grandmother denied cancer medication and being clapped into solitary confinement for an entire month in a private prison for complaining about it, is just one story in the long and sorry annals of private prison abuse. We're unlikely to close this book any time soon. The Prison Industrial Complex has no incentive to change. Though a court has not yet heard Lester’s case, the two prison companies in question already face a string of allegations that they abuse or neglect inmates. Because private prison companies must turn a profit, health care and quality of life a... more »

Cop says “no” to War on Drugs

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
Retired cop Peter Christ comprehensively demolishes the arguments for the War on Drugs. A commenter counts down the highlights, including… … a very honest answer to a commonly asked drug question at 0:54 , the easiest question to answer about the War on Drugs at 4:48 , the complete destruction of the biggest argument anti-drug advocates use at 7:23 , using the *Bible* to prove the ineffectiveness of prohibition at 13:55 [yes, true], and a rapid-fire debunking of several myths all in one breath at 14:20. If you have to leave right now, just skip to 5:58 for the thesis statement in ... more »

Myths, Myths, Myths

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago
I did an item today about today's calls for Obama to start firing people willy-nilly that was probably not nearly harsh enough. But the one thing I left out that I really want to get to is yet another myth about a previous president. No, not the one about second-term presidents never recovering if their approval sinks; I saw that again today, but I've already handled that one. It's this one (my emphasis): “I don’t know where the breakdown occurred on that, but it’s Obama’s ‘no new taxes’ moment,” the official said, referring to *the broken promise that is widely seen as having cost... more »

Grooving with Ewoks

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Jane Said by Janes Addiction

Prayers please... w/Update

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 6 hours ago
Our little Frankie decided to snack on a bunch of fake Styrofoam grapes covered in plastic last night. He's on his way to surgery in about one hour. Please say a little prayer for a successful operation and a speedy recovery. Thank you... *Update:* Frankie is out of surgery and doing great. They found a whole pistachio (shell and nut) and a fairly large hunk of the hard plastic wrapping from one of the fake grapes. The vet said if we had waited we would have been doing a resection on his little intestines. He can come home tomorrow. Thank you all for your prayers. *One of t... more »

What Turns A Normal Baby Into A Right Wing Sociopath?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Born in 1911, Ronald Reagan came from a normal working class Illinois home. He was a labor union activist in the 1940s and the president of his union from 1947 until 1952 and again in 1959 but at some point in there he sold out to management and started secretly ratting out other actors to the FBI as "communist sympathizers." He remained a Democrat and even helped California Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas defend herself against the deranged attacks from a sleazy, fascist-oriented political newcomer, Richard Nixon. By then, though, he was dating Republican Nancy Drew and he started... more »

Comment of the day

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
Russell Kenneth on December 2, 2013 at 11:39 am said: Look into the software PROMIS invented by Bill Hamilton and stolen by the NSA which merged it with AI (Artificial Intelligence). AI is also used to syphon peoples money out of their bank accounts, without their permission. This happened to Reza Palevi, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein,of Iraq; and to Marcus of the Philippines. AI is equipped with sensors that can detect minerals and crude-oil deposits for further exploitation, while it is being bet on in global stock markets. The curious thing is that the movie “Matrix mentions thi... more »

The Pope and Capitalism

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 7 hours ago
A friend from UPSE alumni association, Mike A. wrote me in our SEAA yahoogroups and asked my views on Pope Francis, as he has made a critique on the Free Market ideology, and the Social Darwinian "survival of the fittest" philosophy. Below is portion of a news report from theblaze.com. *Pope Francis Made Some Pretty Big Comments on the Global Economy: Here’s What You Need to Know* *Nov. 26, 2013 1:26pm By Becket Adams* *Pope Francis rebuked the culture of profit at any cost as he issued a 224-page mission statement for his papacy Tuesday, saying that mankind is called f... more »

Chechens drawn south to fight in Syria

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago
Last one for a couple of days- *Following up on- Meet the Rebel Commander in Syria That Assad, Russia and the U.S. All Fear* The BBC article mentions the feared Commander, ethnic Chechen, Georgian Army/Covert Operative- Tarkhan Batirashvili or U/Omar al-Shishani Omar Shishani (centre) has urged Muslims to support the "jihad" against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad *Chechens in Syria* On the flight from Istanbul to Tbilisi, I had a conversation with a former employee of the UN's refugee agency who had worked with Chechens living in the Pankisi Gorge. The remote area in north-eas... more »

Canada to file claim to dramatically extend Arctic boundaries

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago
*This article is interesting for a number of reasons, but, I will focus on three of them-* Feel free to comment on what ever it is you think about this move. *1st:* Looking at the map, I would almost wonder why the US didn't make this claim? Or is Canada making this claim as an expansion of the NAU? *2nd:* I will highlight the fact that all this Arctic ice had to be dealt with to undertake this mapping.* In direct contrast to all the AGW spin informing us that the Arctic is devoid of ice. *Yet, whenever one reads an article that is not pushing the AGW perception management, *lo and b... more »

Smothered Baked Potato Soup

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours ago
I never knew I was a warm weather beach kind of girl until we moved to Texas. We lived by the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico and it was warm all year round. I missed skiing a little bit, but not enough to move back to the cold. Some how we ended up back in the cold anyway, it is supposed to snow tonight and I am mourning the loss of the my summer sunshine. I like to hibernate with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm blanket until spring time, with soup on the menu almost every night. This particular soup is a family favorite. It is easy to make and so yummy. It tastes like a smothered bake... more »

The good drone

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
I confess, when I first saw this I thought it was some sort of online spoof. Apparently not. Wow! The technology is almost there. But what’s the big holdup? Amazon said: "from a technology point of view, we'll be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place." Ah. Of course. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Monday Evening Linkage: moustaches and Michelle Obama

Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Well it is officially December- and you know what that means…all the hipsters and single dudes can finally shave off their Movember moustaches (those are the only men who participate, right?). Movember is a fundraiser for testicular cancer that has gained traction (in 2012 the campaign raised 29 million in Australia, where the idea originated) Continue reading

Making glee compulsory

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Clive James's delightful TV reviews at the *Telegraph *are too little read, so here's an extract from his his latest essay - an essay which begins: The BBC spent a whole week celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Programmes without number were devoted to his continuing fame. Here, however, is the essay's closing section - dealing with the celebration's closing extravaganza. Enjoy!: To rub the triumph in, there was a follow-up show on BBC Three called Doctor Who: The Afterparty. There is a long history of fizzling disaster to suggest that parties held in a TV studio neve... more »

This Is An INSULT To Canadians: Canadian Shill Prime Minister Stephen Harper "Rocks Out" For The Jews: "Israel Will Always Have Canada"!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours ago
Today, I am truly sick to be a Canadian... The more and more I have read the last few days about this so called "Federal Government" that occupies Parliament hill in Ottawa, and how it is nothing more than absolute butt kissers for the Jews that control this once great country, and the psychotic nation of Israel, the more I honestly want to puke! And the Canadian public blindly or unknowingly put up with this garbage? But I came across an article today that had me racing to the washroom wanting to hurl.... According to this article, from the Daily Stormer website, at www.dailysto... more »

Feinstein knows who should go for the gold!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013* *Script never sleeps, college football edition:* John Feinstein knows who should play Florida State for the college football title. He has memorized a sacred script, college football edition: FEINSTEIN (12/12/13): It also is true that Florida State hasn’t exactly beaten Murderer’s Row. But the Seminoles’ 51-14 rout at Clemson is head and shoulders above anything Ohio State has accomplished. *Neither one can come close to matching the résumé of either Auburn or Missouri*—which also is 11-1 with the loss to South Carolina in double overtime. Auburn’s loss ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*State Seeking Lawsuit Against Corps Over MRGO ~Jeremy Alford, LaPolitics* ~Editilla Brotellas~ Jesus fuck me and throw away the spoom. Mark my words, this is a feign by Koch Sucker Governorcist Jindal to give the O&G industry time to consolidate their political/legislature opposition to the SLFPA-E Lawsuit. Hard fucking ball. They have no intention of prevailing on their suit against the Corps. No. That would take DECADES. Another go at MRGO will take decades. No, they only want time, and taxpayer money to finish off South Louisiana. Because, without land upon which to stand we have ... more »

Mr. Myxpikellix

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 9 hours ago

Look of ‘pure evil’ in bulging eyes of Lee Rigby’s ‘killer’

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
*The Times* (online) is leading tonight with the latest news from the second day of the trial of Adebolajo and Adebowale: Look of ‘pure evil’ in bulging eyes of Lee Rigby’s ‘killer’: One of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby had a look of “pure evil” in his bulging eyes as he threatened a couple who tried to help the fallen soldier, a witness told the Old Bailey today . Cheralee Armstrong said that she and her partner, James Henegan, drove past the scene of what appeared to be a road accident in Woolwich, South London, on May 22 this year. Only when they stopped and stared at what wa... more »

Moral hazard at Australia’s Top End

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
*We welcome our irregular roving Asian correspondent, Suzuki Samurai, who files this report from in hiding somewhere near Darwin, Australia…* [image: image]Drive 1200km from Darwin along the northern right-hand coastal tip of the Northern Territory of Australia,1 and you will end up in the purpose-built mining town of Gove. The general area (and sometimes the town) is also known as Nhulunbuy. It is still called that by the Aboriginals and the more historically minded—and Null-And-Void by cunning linguists. It is a surprisingly nice place to look at, blessed with a blue sea the co... more »

Diva Plavalaguna

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

Causality and Policy Outcomes: The Case of Presidents and Economic Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours ago
The WSJ reports today (and also the Washington Post) on a new paper by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson (here in PDF, hereafter BW13) which tackles what would seem to be a straightforward question: Why is it that since World War II the US economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents? This post looks at this question from the broader standpoint of policy research methods. I conclude that BW13 have asked the wrong question, one that lends itself to many answers or none at all, and perhaps it tells us more about policy research methods than... more »

Hey, Pollsters!

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Three topics I'd love to know more about: 1. How many people know that Healthcare.gov is Obamacare? Especially the people who actually use it. Also, the associated questions: how many know that it's the Affordable Care Act, and how many know that there's more to the ACA than the exchanges? I'm assuming that the number of people who associate Healthcare.gov with Obamacare is higher than it would have been if it had worked smoothly from the start...I'd expect the number to be relatively high now, and start to shrink as time goes on. But either way, I'd love to know about it. 2. How m... more »

Umatilla and activists block Tar Sands megaload shipment in Oregon

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
By Trip Jennings Portland Rising Tide Censored News  UMATILLA, Oregon – Sunday: Two arrested as Tribal Members and Climate Justice Activists blocked a megaload bound for the Alberta Tar Sands. The action Sunday night prevented the megaload from leaving the Port of Umatilla. Organizers from Portland Rising Tide urge supporters to join a planned protest Monday night to continue blocking the

Free Online Showing Of "Food Matters" Documentary - December 1st to the 10th, 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago
From December 1st until December 10th. FOOD MATTERS, will be screening free online. Uncovering the sickness industry. *"One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive...If you want to know what's wrong look down at the table, it's staring back at you."* *T* *o watch the free screening, pleease clicklm on the link provided below:* *Link To Free Viewing*

Arnon Milchan: A U.S filmmaker and billionaire also spy for Israel

LeDaro at LeDaro - 11 hours ago
Arnon Milchan was the first one who provided the necessary material to Israel to makes its first atomic bomb. Why U.S, Canada and other Europeon nations not go after Arnon Milchan. When it comes to Iran they are all gung ho. Hypocrisy and double-standards.

Boehner's Unpopular Agenda Includes Blocking Any Congressional Curbs On Domestic Spying

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
As we mentioned yesterday, Boehner has made time for Congress to debate how many fewer meals per week underprivileged children should be allowed to eat per week, but has no time to debate the Senate's bi-artisan comprehensive immigration reform bill or the legislation to prevent employment discrimination against the LGBT community. There is also growing pressure on him to get off his fat ass and allow Congress to vote on curbing NSA domestic spying against American citizens. He refuses, although the bill now has 102 cosponsors-- 51 Republicans and 51 Democrats. As Maine Democrat S... more »

It's Monday...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*what's going on.* Always On Watch: *ObamaFail* Liberty's Torch: *Pre-Funeral Eulogies* Asylum Watch: *Leftwaaard..Maaaarch! Left….Left…Left…* The Political Commentator: *Video: Obamacare explained using a simple cup of coffee!* Freedom's Lighthouse: *Stuart Varney: ObamaCare is “One Giant Redistribution Scheme” – Video 12/2/13 * American Thinker: *The Schizophrenia of Barack Obama*

Fat Free Econ 49: Growth Amid Storms

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com, TV5's news portal. ----------- MANILA - By storms, we refer not only to natural typhoons and widespread flooding, but also to political storms that hounded both the Legislative and Executive branches due to the prolonged pork barrel scandal in the third quarter this year. It remains surprising therefore that the Philippine economy was able to grow by seven percent in the third quarter. In the first three quarters of this year, the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) has grown so far by 7.4 percent. Gross national income (GNI) ... more »

Reader Highlights Logick of New York Times Editorial Board

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
Brent Staples and the other pampered fools on the New York Times editorial board are at it again, this time advising the new mayor on how to do to teachers what they would never dream of doing to themselves. Below is an excerpt on the seniority issue, followed by one of the 175 comments that lays bare the bankruptcy of thought that characterizes every utterance on education by the billionaires' boys at America's newspaper of record: . . . . Seniority trumps everything and is treated as a proxy for excellence. Under current rules, a school that has an enrollment shortfall or budget... more »

Tom Daley

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
Tom Daley, at 13, became a celebrity supporter of ChildLine Tom Daley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [image: Tom Daley] http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/watch-tom-daley-twerk-strip-2876209#ixzz2mL4Usv2Y

Livestream Navajo Window Rock Uranium Film Fest Grassroots Gathering

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
, Live streaming video by UstreamLive from Navajo Nation: International Uranium Film Festival, with grassroots talks and workshops Dec 2 -- 4, 2013. By Brenda Norrell Censored News NAVAJO NATION -- The grassroots gathering at the International Uranium Film Festival on the Navajo Nation began this morning, with talks by Native Americans battling uranium mining in their homelands.

Powley test for Aboriginal Rights

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
*R. v. Powley*, [2003] 2 S.C.R. 207, 2003 SCC 43: The test is set out in ten parts: 1. *Characterization of the right *– for a harvesting right, the term "characterization" refers to the ultimate use of the harvest. Is it for food, exchange or commercial purposes? The Court said that the Métis right to hunt is not limited to moose just because that is what the Powleys were hunting. Métis don't have to separately prove a right to hunt every species of wildlife or fish they depend on. The right to hunt is not species-specific. It is a general right to hunt for food in the tradit... more »

Snow Day!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago

IAP Announces New Price for TMoE

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
For those trying to order The Mismeasure of Education from Amazon, I apologize for their being out of stock, AGAIN. My advice: forget Amazon. Information Age now has both hardback and paperback with a new promotional price. Another best reason this season not to buy from the exploitative worker warehouse at Amazon!

LATEST THIS ISSUE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago
Guests are Lorry Fleming and Howard Waxman from the local group called Bath Citizens for Responsible TIF Action which campaigned against the recent corporate tax subsidy for Bath Iron Works here in Maine.

TERESA MAÑE MIRAVENT

mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 12 hours ago
*Teresa Mañe Miravent - Mother of Federica Montseny* The following is a translation from Spanish. The Spanish original is available at the *Biografias anarquistas *section of the website of the CNT Puerto Real. Any errors of translation are entirely my responsibility. Born on November 29 1865 in Cubelles (Garraf, Catalonia) - until recently believed to be in Vilanova i la Geltrú- the educator, activist and anarchist propagandist Teresa Mañe Miravent, better known under her pseudonym Soledad Gustavo. Her wealthy family ran the Garden Hotel in Vilanova i la Geltrú, known... more »

The out of control British state - The Commentator

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
' In an exclusive to the Telegraph, it is being reported that social services in the county of Essex obtained a court order forcibly to sedate a pregnant woman, surgically remove her child from her womb by caesarean section, take the baby into care and put it up for adoption. The woman, an Italian citizen who was in the UK on a training course, wasn't even told that the procedure was going to happen to her. She was whisked off to hospital one day, drugged up, and awoke to find that the baby that had been growing inside her for 9 months had simply disappeared.' What a country we li... more »

Einstein and Eddington: a film

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
Joseph Sykora sent me a link to a 94-minute-long 2008 BBC Two film about Eddington and Einstein: It's no documentary. Expect a drama movie that may be watched by those not too interested in physics as well. I liked it a lot (despite the artistic license to modify the history) and you should watch it, too. Beware: the text below may contain spoilers. All of them. The movie begins in 1919 when poetic Arthur Eddington and his assistant try to measure the bending of light during the solar eclipse at Principe, an island off West Africa (it was shot near the Adriatic beaches of Croat... more »

Do you believe these things really happened?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013* *On balance, we do not:* The piece was featured on page one of the New York Times Sunday Review. It was the only piece on page one. That’s a *very* high-profile placement. Shown below are the opening paragraphs of the piece, headline included. Do you believe this actually happened? SMITH AND AAKER (12/1/13): *Millennial Searchers* For Viktor Frankl, the Holocaust survivor who wrote the best-selling book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” the call to answer life’s ultimate question came early. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers decla... more »

This country is in serious, serious trouble...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*seriously!* Capitalist Preservation: *Dan Joseph: College Students Describe 'Twerking.' Don't know who Vladimir Putin or John Kerry are.* Reaganite Republican: *Products of California Public Schools React to Martin Luther King's Fatal Car Accident...*

Repeal is Still Dead

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
A few bullet points on health care reform at the start of December... *The brutal truth of "repeal" is that whatever the politics, every day a flat-out repeal of the ACA becomes more and more nonsensical. The status quo ante no longer exists; changing the law back to how it was in 2009 wouldn't bring back the health care situation that existed then. *Hey, health care wonks! I've been using this line about how repeal no longer makes policy sense for some time now, but while I'm confident that's correct, I'm certainly not enough of a health care wonk to write up all the details that m... more »

Wild Bill: Curing Liberals...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*is it even possible?*

Why I Won't Be Buying a New Subaru to Benefit TFA

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
A letter I sent to a very nice salesman at the Memphis Subaru dealership this morning: To: davidellison@jimkerassubarusoa.dealer.com Dear David, I saw a friend the other night who bought a new Subaru from you earlier this Fall, and I was admiring his car. With one of my cars on the verge of needing a new timing belt, I was planning to visit your place just after the Christmas rush to take advantage, perhaps, of any kind of year-end deals. All that changed, however, when I saw the Subaru ad yesterday that listed the miseducative outfit, Teach for America, as a recipient of your ... more »

Mi'kmaqs never surrender! Fight fracking!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago
Mi'kmaqs never surrender, fight fracking! Photo above: Late Monday, row of tires burn for fracking blockade. Round dance as more RCMP arrive. Arrests today, including one brutal arrest of a woman. Twitter photo. Native Voices United online radio 3 WOMEN HIT BY SWN, INJUNCTION EXTENDED, AND HIGHWAY 11 BURNS https://www.facebook.com/NVURadio DEC 2- Today along highway 11 things got rough.

'Tis the Season for Noblesse-Obliging

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 14 hours ago
That most blessed season of heartwarming rags-to-riches Hallmark and Lifetime specials is upon us once again. The same moralizing plots are foisted upon us year after year. One favorite is the debunked conservative prosperity gospel, in which the poor mom working three jobs is rewarded for her toil with a millionaire hubby from Santa. The other is the Scrooge legend, in which the millionaire boss fires everybody, they suffer, he notices in the nick of time, and he hires them back with a one-time bonus and a one-time-only party in the mansion. Looking at this year's line-up, I think ... more »

THE REAL PIRATE STORY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
MB and I went to see the new movie called Captain Phillips last night. It's about the American commercial ship captain who was taken hostage for ransom by Somali pirates. The movie was well done and the acting quite superb, especially the Somali actors, but the film was rather slim on telling the real story why the people of Somalia have been reduced to acts of piracy in order to survive. When I got home I watched several videos to find out more about the situation. I've previously posted some videos about this but it is a good time to do it again. Because there has been virt... more »

DELIVERY DRONES

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
Drones to deliver for Amazon and for take-out pizza. Who knows what comes next. Maybe drones to deliver groceries too? Bottom line is that before long hardly anyone will have a job anymore....who will have any money to order anything from Amazon or any other business? The Guardian (UK) takes this story apart. Here are a few excerpts: Here's the problem: it's all hot air and baloney. As Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, acknowledged in the 60 Minutes segment, his plan to begin delivery by drone won't be enacted until around 2018 – and that's a hugely optimistic timeline. Bezos' neat t... more »

Explaining Iraqi Kurdistan’s Policy Towards Syria, Interview With Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
The conflict in neighboring Syria has provided both opportunities and problems for Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Kurdish President Massoud Barzani and to a lesser extent the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have attempted to forge ties with Syrian Kurds and shape events there to their benefit. These have only met with limited success as the Syrians have their own agendas. To help explain this policy is Wladimir van Wilgenburg who until recently was based in Irbil, and is an analyst for the Jamestown Foundation out of Washington DC, and writes for Al Monitor. Pres.... more »

OUTSCORING FINLAND: Script never sleeps!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013* *Interlude—A second-grader asks:* “Is it true that Patrick had an operation that made him not ticklish?” In all our years of truth-squadding, it may have been the best question we’d ever heard anyone ask. We liked the formal presentation. (“Is it true that...” rather than “Did...”) And we liked one youngster’s instinctive search for the truth. In this instance, a 7-year-old was fact-checking her older brother, a junior in high school. Out in the living room, he had made an implausible claim to protect himself against group attack from four marauding gir... more »

Britain leapfrogs Japan as world’s 4th most valuable nation brand

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 14 hours ago
*If you had any doubt as to the corporate nature of countries... -Bill* 2 DECEMBER 2013 - 9:49AM POSTED BY JOHN GLENDAY *Britain leapfrogs Japan as world’s 4th most valuable nation brand* http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/12/02/britain-leapfrogs-japan-world-s-4th-most-valuable-nation-brand? Britain has risen to fourth spot in a table of nations holding the most valuable brands thanks in large part to the success of hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 and a positive reception to the ‘Great’ Britain promotional work, according to consultancy firm Brand Finance. A double whammy from 2012,... more »

Definition of a Rebuttal, and conversations with Heather

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago
*Definition of a Rebuttal, and conversations with Heather* Posted by D. reblogged from Removing the Shackles I am posting a few pieces of conversation that have happened over the past couple of days. Not only for Transparency's sake, but to help answer a few lingering questions. First off, I wasn't going to respond to this conversation last week- I mean, I was, then I decided I wouldn't.... and now I've decided to make just one last comment on the topic, followed by Heather's last comment on the topic as well. Here is the statement that ran all over the internet on skype and i... more »

Ukraine's EU Snub? It's the Economy, Stupid!

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago
If Viktor Yanukovych were to sign the EU agreements as they stand, the economy would suffer and he would probably lose to whichever rival candidate arch-foe Yulia Tymoshenko gives her backing in 2015. Seems so strange that a small number of Ukrainian citizens would go out and protest for something that is going to further harm them? Before we talk economy just an observation on the protests- Strange that the western msm media is giving this all so much coverage? Well over 1,000 articles at Google news today? Even though the protests really do not appear that vast.*Keeping in min... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*James Gill: Sheriff Gusman running for re-election remains clueless on workings of parish jail* *Legislative Auditor: State may be losing out on millions in oil and gas severance taxes ~LaPolitics* *Tulane center: From Mardi Gras to coastal research ~Amy Wold, Advocate* *Zombie planet: a Vodou vision of the environmental apocalypse ahead ~Sally Ann Glassman, The Lens*

Getting History Right

Paul Coker at News Spike - 15 hours ago

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Lucy Liu, 45. The hardest thing about getting Holmes right has to be the precise gradation of just how smart he is. Too smart and there's no drama (or else you need to keep coming up with cheats, and what's the point of that?). Not smart enough, and why are we watching? I think Sherlock set it a bit too high, and Elementary just a tad too low. Two first-rate Watsons, though, although I'm a die-hard Nigel Bruce fan. Hey, it's Monday, isn't it? How about some good stuff: 1. Scott Porch with suggestions about how campaign coverage could improveif the media took finding... more »

Last Blue America Contest Of 2013-- And It's All About Minnesota… And Depeche Mode

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Keith Ellison stood out as a principled, values-driven progressive when he was a member of the Minnesota legislature. Blue America backed him back then, hoping for more of the same in Washington. And we haven't been disappointed. Co-chair of the Progressive Caucus and Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, Keith is one of the only Democrats on a leadership track who speaks to the interests of ordinary working families. As Raúl Grijalva told us, "Keith, above all, isn't posturing. He deeply believes in and relentlessly fights for progressive values and equality for all… He is a real person ... more »

Shot-gun Buy-Sell Agreements

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
*Western Larch Limited v. Di Poce Management Limited,* 2013 ONCA 722: [40] Unanimous shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, and joint venture agreements often contain what is commonly known as a "shotgun buy-sell provision". This is a mechanism for involuntarily expelling one or more of the parties from a business venture, which will continue without the exiting party's participation. Expulsion is a remedy available where, for example, the participants no longer get along, as in this case. [41] Shotgun buy-sell provisions generally share the following feat... more »

Too Late?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Michael Warren writes that Stephen Harper is rapidly approaching the moment where he will have to choose between himself and his party: The events that unfold in front of him in the months ahead hold little hope of vindication. His unlikely version of the Senate scandal will either completely collapse or remain in haunting limbo. Harper’s defence is that he didn’t know about the political scheming that’s swirled around him for a year. If he had, he would have stopped it. But for many Canadians that’s not an acceptable ethical standard. Even if he didn’t know, he should have. ... more »

Perrin Emails Found Behind Couch!

Alison at Creekside - 16 hours ago
. "We are good to go from the PM once Ben [Perrin] has confirmation from [Mr. Duffy’s lawyer]" would seem to be a good place to start. PMO recovers ex-legal adviser’s e-mails on Duffy affair Senate scandal: Benjamin Perrin's PMO emails not deleted .

Diefenbaker worst PM ever?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 16 hours ago
Worst one in modern history for sure. His unforgivable major blunder of shutting down the Avro Arrow alone should seal the deal. But there is more great conservative thinking at work. Charles Monsarrat who built the Jacques Cartier Bridge, the Thousand Island Bridge and a handful of similar bridges still trucking today submitted a quote for 10 million dollars for the Champlain bridge. The winning quote for nearly 9 million was chosen by Diefenbaker protecting taxpayer dollars. Another great example of penny wise and pound foolish conservatives. Today the Champlain Bridge is litera... more »

Little Did I Know...

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 17 hours ago
Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, at http://web.archive.org/web/20010719173326/http://www2.dynamite.com.au/aebrain/alan.htm *Birthplace and All That* To quote Hoffnung, "I was born, through no fault of my own, at a very early age.". Or in my case, in 1958 in Earley, a small suburb of Reading, Berkshire, England. Or at least it was a suburb. Now its been swallowed up in Reading proper. Last time I was there (1986), the fields I used to watch the Foxhunters go through are now a high-density housing development ("Lower Earley", and you can't get much lower, I'm telling you...), and t... more »

Definition of a Rebuttal, and conversations with Heather

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 17 hours ago
I am posting a few pieces of conversation that have happened over the past couple of days. Not only for Transparency's sake, but to help answer a few lingering questions. First off, I wasn't going to respond to this conversation last week- I mean, I was, then I decided I wouldn't.... and now I've decided to make just one last comment on the topic, followed by Heather's last comment on the topic as well. Here is the statement that ran all over the internet on skype and in various forums: [2:39:49 PM] Henry O'Leary: UCC FILINGS Have Now been REBUTTED: http://tinyurl.com/UCCrebutta... more »

American Bar Association Names Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home A Top Legal Blog For Third Year

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 17 hours ago
Thank you so much to those who nominated this blog to the ABA's Blawg 100! The American Bar Association has announced their winners, and *Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home* was named one of the top labor and employment blogs in the country for the third year in a row. I couldn't have gotten there without your help. I'm honored to be included as the only employee-side blog in the labor and employment category, along with such terrific management-side blogs as Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog, Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog, Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook... more »

Unconstrained MSSM: LSP is pure Higgsino or pure wino

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago
There are several interesting hep-ph papers today, especially those about supersymmetry, but I chose to highlight LHC and dark matter phenomenology of the NUGHM by Maria Eugenia Cabrera, Alberto Casas, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Gianfranco Bertone (Amsterdam, Madrid, Valencia). They calculate a probability distribution for various masses of electroweak superpartners given the current accelerator and dark-matter constraints (and numerical observables). They work within NUGHM which is a rather generic MSSM with "non-universal gaugino and Higgs masses". This subset of the MSSM parameter s... more »

URGENT: Thai Police Threaten to "Shoot-to-Kill" Anyone Using Vehicles to Remove Barriers

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours ago
*December 2, 2013 - 1820 local time* (Tony Cartalucci) - Taking their cue from US-backed pro-EU protesters in Ukraine, anti-regime protesters in Thailand have mobilized their own bulldozers to remove barriers. Unlike in Ukraine, where despite the West calling the police crackdown "violent," they did not shoot protesters operating bulldozers near their lines. *Image: Protesters in Ukraine, backed by the US, UK, and EU, have used earthmovers against police barriers in the capital city of Kiev. Ukrainian police did not use live fire on the protesters, and protesters have been allowed t... more »

Argentina: Anomalous Humanoid Figure in Necochea

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 18 hours ago
Contributing editor *Guillermo D. Giménez* submits these intriguing photographs with the following message: *"Magnification of the photograph taken on November 19 [2013] along the coast of Necochea (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) where a towering humanoid figure can be seen over the coast. What do you think? Photograph is being analyzed by FAO - Argentinean Ufology Foundation - directed by Luis Burgos from La Plata."* *INEXPLICATA* will post any updates and the results of the analysis. Thanks, Guillermo! Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spa... more »

Gulf of Mexico Natives Fighting for their Lives by Trisha Springstead, RN

*“When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money.”* I have been fighting Big Oil, Gas and Nuclear since my years at University of California Santa Barbara. I marched with Jackson Browne and the Indigenous Elders in Santa Barbara. I went back to that region in 2009 and as far as the eye could see there they were oil rigs spaced evenly up and down the coast of Southern California. The San Onofre nuclear power plant stood like a decaying corpse against the skyline of the waters protecting Camp Pendleton. W... more »

GLASGOW COPTER CRASH

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
In Glasgow, on 29 November 2013, a police helicopter fell out of the sky 'like a stone'. It landed on a crowded place of entertainment called the Clutha pub. *"Investigators have refused to rule out foul play as they examined possible causes of the crash, including whether the pilot was shot...* "Witnesses reported hearing the helicopter engine 'misfiring' at 10.25pm, and air accident investigators are examining whether there was a mechanical fault." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ The pilot who died in the crash is thought to have been one of Prince William's flight inst... more »

Consolidation of Gaia Portals Comes, as Cosmic Light Alignments are Completed

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 20 hours ago
*Consolidation of Gaia Portals Comes, as Cosmic Light Alignments are Completed* by ÉirePort Consolidation of Gaia Portals comes, as Cosmic Light alignments are completed. There becomes as one aligned Being, the combined efforts of all. Portals have essentialized necessary requirements for humanity uprising. Flash point of hu-manity non-aligneds approaches, and will be moderated as necessary by Light aligneds. Fires of compassion for under hu-beings comes forth with near explosive force, as Cosmics impress upon Gaia whole. Flowers of Light blossom into fullness of expression an... more »

Join The Twitter Storm Against The TPP On Tuesday, 3 December, 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago
*SAVE THE DATE: TPP TWITTER STORM: Tuesday at 6pm PST, 9pm EST. Help us get * *the word out!Email your Representative and tell them NO TO TPP FAST TRACK:http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12285LEARN MORE about how TPP will affect your food. Print out this PDF and hand it out!: http://wetlands-preserve.org/phpUpload/uploads/Monsanto_Flier_Oct_2012.pdf#TPP #StopTheTPP #StopFastTrack #NOFASTTRACK#NOTPPFASTTRACK #gmo #StopMonsanto#labelgmos #freedom2chooz #gmofreecanada#gmofreeusa*

Ukraine's place in Europe is a subtle issue

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
Thousands of people rallying in the Ukrainian capital demand the resignation of the pro-Moscow president Yanukovitch after he refused to sign a pro-EU trade deal, apparently favoring a closer economic integration with Russia (Putin uses the carrot-and-stick approach to make sure that such an attitude may be rational). The protests turned violent and some of the opposition groups claim that the violence was added to the mix by Yanukovitch's provocateurs. I am aware of no protocol to find out who is right. *One of 15 results of the quiz "name the countries of Europe" given to the A... more »

Cafe Zupas- Wholesome Food and Catering

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours ago
It is no secret that I love Cafe Zupas. I really respect their commitment to fresh ingredients and I love the energetic teamwork atmosphere that exists among their employees. I used to work in a restaurant and the atmosphere I experienced is nothing like the energy at Cafe Zupas. It is one of our favorite places to eat because of the good atmosphere and great food. Cafe Zupas is doing it right. Their commitment to delicious, fresh food is different from almost every other restaurant in their same price range. Great quality food- They serve food that I feel good about eating and fe... more »

For Normal People It Was A Holiday But For The DCCC It Was Another Opportunity To Prey On Suckers With Phony "Deadlines"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Pelosi raising cash for Ohio anti-gay/anti-Choice crusader Jennifer Garrison Saturday, we mentioned that Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, a Boehner crony and the Republican congressman from the Lansing area of central Michigan, is leading the efforts to allow the Cheney-initiated domestic spying agenda of the N.S.A. to stay in place. Boehner made Rogers, a relatively junior member, chairman of the powerful Intelligence Committee. It's worth noting that Rogers' district, MI-08, has a PVI of R+2 and that Obama beat McCain there 52-46% and narrowly lost out to local boy Mitt Romney 51-4... more »

World AIDS Day and the Global Fund Replenishment

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Sunday, December 1st was World AIDS Day, the annual reminder of the state of the epidemic, a way to focus attention on a problem that is perhaps less visible than it was two or three years but not defeated, not by a long shot. To that end, this week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Continue reading

BitCoin mania spawns copycat cyber currencies which mimic the parabolic moves of Bitcoin - And these latter successes , which will spawn more cyber currencies , which might imitiate the parabolic movements of the BitCoin imitators .......You are on notice once again folks !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-29/e-gold-founder-launches-new-gold-backed-currency ( So , whom and where is the gold backing this scheme going to be stored ? ) E-Gold Founder Launches New Gold Backed Currency [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/29/2013 21:17 -0500 - Bitcoin - Department of Justice - Fail inShare2 *Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,* *It was only a matter of time before thesuccess of Bitcoin led to a new attempt to create a digital currency backed by gold. It seems as if that day has now arrived.... more »

BitCoin price movement turbulence ( BitCoin crossing price of an ounce of gold got someone's attention ) - whether one sees this as blatant manipulation or not , probably agreement could be found that such huge daily swings hit usage as a currency substitute for USD / Euro or Yen , present challenges for merchants accepting BotCoin and buyers using BitCoin and increase the likelihood of regulatory controls being imposed ....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
[image: Creative Commons License] This chart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-01/uk-royal-mint-working-plans-issue-gold-backed-physical-bitcoins ( Ah - and so it begins ! An attempt to co-opt BitCoin and / or squeeze out all cyber currencies being floated ? Of course a gold backed , government blessed BitCoin might be more attractive at first blush than the cyber variety , but of course as this is blessed by the UK Central Bank , you know who's holding and controlling the gold ! And by ho... more »

We still get some of our most on-the-mark news coverage from our official fake-news media

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*DOONESBURY* [*Click to enlarge*] *by Ken* Back in the dark years of the "Chimpy the Prez" Bush regime, the arrival of Jon Stewart on *The Daily Show* not only provided relief from the mindless clatter of most of the infotainment noozemedia but in fact gave many of us our best actual *source* for news. Tonight I just throw out a couple of reminders that it's often still the fake-news media that get the story righter than the "serious" newsers. DECEMBER 1, 2013 *G.O.P.: Healthcare.gov Too Fast Now* POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republican critics of O... more »

International Uranium Film Fest begins in Navajo Sacrifice Zone

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
COMMUNITY GROUPS CONCERNED ABOUT URANIUM CONVENE AT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN NAVAJO NATION’S CAPITAL Date: December 2 -- 4, 2013, starting from 8:30 am daily Location: Navajo Nation Museum on Arizona Hwy 264, 0.5 mi east of I.R. 12 By Leona Morgan Censored News WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- On December 2 through 4, 2013, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) -- the world’s

How to tell when things are stuffed…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Pic from **the Objectivist Observer* Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

A Tale of Two Protests: Ukraine & Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Western hypocrisy on full display as it backs pro-EU protesters in Ukraine, condemn Thai protests against US-backed regime in Thailand. *December 2, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - When is a protest good, just, progressive, and defensible? One might think there was a single answer to this question based on an objective set of metrics. But in reality, according to the West, protests are only good so long as they serve their interests. Ongoing protests in Ukraine and Thailand have both featured protesters attempting to storm and hold government buildings. Both appear to be preparing length... more »

A Tale of Two Protests: Ukraine & Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Western hypocrisy on full display as it backs pro-EU protesters in Ukraine, condemn Thai protests against US-backed regime in Thailand. *UPDATE December 2, 2013 - 1555 Local Time* - Taking a cue perhaps from the Western-backed pro-EU mobs, Thailand's anti-regime protesters have been seen preparing bulldozers of their own to breach barricades. The West has already hypocritically condemned protesters in Thailand - since it is a Western backed regime they seek to oust. Will they compound their hypocrisy and condemn the use of the bulldozer as well, while applauding mobs in Kiev for doi... more »

Long Walk 4 at Stillwater Paiute Shoshone Indian Nation

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Photos by Ellen Johnson By Ellen Johnson Censored News This morning we were blessed to have Long Walkers visit the Stillwater Indian Church. Emilio gave a brief explanation of journey's purpose. The mood was warm and cheerful with Emilio and Carl Sampson offering prayer and honor in song. Thank you Long Walkers for what you do.

Why is this young couple subsidising the ‘Politicians Bankers Welfare Fund’?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Guest post by Hugh Pavletich from **Performance Urban Planning* [image: image]In yesterday’s* New Zealand Herald* article “Buyers Turning To The “Bank Of Mum and Dad ,” reporter Russell Blackstock illustrates how young Kiwis are unnecessarily taking on excessive mortgages and pressuring their parents for financial support, eroding parents’ retirement savings and encumbering their own home—and all entirely unnecessarily. The problem is housing supply. Young Jamie Clark and Jenna Close have just purchased their first home for $450,000, with a mortgage load of $360,000—and a deposi... more »

Bob Dylan Was Right About The Croats-- Most Are Still Fascists To The Core

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelić with enthusiastic Franciscan monks Today Croat voters overwhelmingly-- and true to form-- chose to institutionalize the idea that their own LGBT community is less equal than other Croats. With four-fifths of the votes counted, a solid majority appears to have backed the move to amend the Constitution so that gays and lesbians can never get married. I drove through Croatia in 1969. The scenery was beautiful and I remember thinking how awesome Dubrovnik looked, even though it was kind of like Disneyland, the original city having been destroyed in 12... more »

The Greatest thing ever to happen to the internet

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
illustration by Minh Uong/The New York Times Imagine broadband was free and unlimited, imagine unless you went to a big server site your communications were free from unwarranted snooping. Well you do not have to imagine anymore. There are unsung heroes amogst us. People toiling away for low pay just for the satisfaction of making life better for everyone. Their only reward putting it to the MAN and advancing the human condition. One of these men speaks below. “In an age of pervasive government surveillance and corporate data mining, the Commotion project is an essential resource ... more »

Interest in Politics

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

TICKING MASS EXTINCTION TIME BOMB IS NOT FUKUSHIMA ~ IT'S METHANE

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 1 day ago
*Permafrost in Siberia.*Methane emissions from the Arctic permafrost increased by 31% from 2003-07, figures show. Photograph: Francis Latreille/Corbis *Our planet Earth has experienced five major species extinctions over the past billion years and the common denominator has always been a sudden acceleration in Global Warming with the rapid release of Methane being the most likely culprit: Allen L Roland* Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five years, and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame ~ *but very few p... more »

Bunkering Down

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
December 1, 2013 Forbes had a fascinating article on their forbes.com page this past week, titled, “Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi”. http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2013/11/27/billionaire-bunkers-beyond-the-panic-room-home-security-goes-sci-fi/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=bufferc37c9&utm_medium=twitter The caption under the picture at the top of the page … Continue reading →

Empowering Native Youth Media: Vote on new videos

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
By Klee Benally Outta Your Backpack Media Censored News Here are the videos from OYBM’s recent 48 Hour Film Making Challenge. Four films were produced with the theme “Hunger” and the requirements of including:- The line: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”- Drawing of a spiral.- Close-up of a hand clap.- Either a flashback or split screen. Please vote by either thumbs up or commenting (

The Mind is the Ultimate Resource: Thank Inventors and Innovators for a Better Life

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Guest Post by Doug Bandow* Hans Riegel recently died at age 90. He changed the world for the better. He brought us the treat known as gummi bears. Politicians routinely crusade against wealth and inequality, but that occurs naturally when people create products and offer services benefiting the rest of us. Today people live on their cell phones. Once we didn’t even have telephones. Thank Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The internal combustion engine auto came from Karl Benz. He was a design engineer who in 1886 won a patent for a “motor car.” In 1903, ... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Same one that I used for conservatives. What are you hoping for on Afghanistan? Is the agreement to keep the US there (in a non-combat role) after 2014 a good idea? Bad idea?

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Peter McLaren's Review of The Mismeasure of Education

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
We posted a piece of Peter's remarks in the advance reviews, but his inimitable style and rhetorical sweep here is classic McLaren. Both humbling and gratifying: It is no exaggeration to say that public education is under threat of extinction. The uneven but inexorable progress of neoliberal economic policies clearly provided the incubus for transferring the magisterium of education in its entirety to the business community. The world-producing power of the corporate media has not only helped to create a privatized, discount store version of democracy that is allied with the arroga... more »

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
What are you hoping for on Afghanistan? Is the agreement to keep the US there (in a non-combat role) after 2014 a good idea? Bad idea?

We’ll discuss the #teaparty element to the #commoncore debate tonight. For now… #tcot #p2

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The Tea Party or right wing element of the common core debate frames the standards and its affiliations as an Obama-centric initiative. Perhaps calling it “Obamacore.” I see references to the United Nations, socialism, and everything RW conservatives hate about Obama, even referencing his birth certificate. Neoliberal education reformers, or those enamored by CCSS, use […]

JFK50: “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ” - Abraham Lincoln

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
JFK50: Dicks With Time Machines from Spike EP on Vimeo. *“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ” * ― Abraham Lincoln

A Truer Path Into the Past of Mankind

Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 1 day ago
Steven Goddard mentions, in this post, Viking travellers across a quieter past Atlantic ocean to a warmer past Greenland. I submitted the following comment, with a wider view: *If you are prepared to have your mind broadened by a wider understanding of the ancient past--not limited to climate records, for example, but who travelled where, and spread their civilizations to a greater or lesser extent--read "America B.C" (1976), by anthropologist Barry Fell. The book details evidence for settlers from many lands (Celts, Libyans, Egyptians, etc.) in North America, between roughly the 10... more »

Sunday Classics: In Gilbert and Sullivan's hands, a madrigal can be buoyant, or sad, or sad and funny

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The end of the Sextet in the Off-Monroe Players' 2010 production of Patience* *GILBERT and SULLIVAN: Patience: from the Act I finale, Lady Saphir, "Are you resolved to wed this shameless one? . . . Sextet with Chorus, "I hear the soft note"* *Recitative* *LADY SAPHIR* [*coming left of *BUNTHORNE]: Are you resolved to wed this shameless one? *LADY ANGELA* [*coming right of* BUNTHORNE]: Is there no chance for any other? *BUNTHORNE* [*decisively*]: None! [*Embraces* PATIENCE. *Exit* PATIENCE *and* BUNTHORNE.] *Sextet -- the Ladies Ella, Saphir, and Angela; the Duke, Major, and Colo... more »

Banks confess to massive mortgage fraud. Government declines to prosecute either the CEOs or the companies. Too big to jail?

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ Original Here *Documents in JPMorgan settlement reveal how every large bank in U.S. has committed mortgage fraud* Bill Black: Justice Dept.'s failure to understand pervasive schemes of fraud in financial industry obstructs meaningful prosecution of banks - November 29, 13 More at The Real News *Bio .* William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City ... more »
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