Friday, December 06, 2013

6 Dec - Blogs I'm Following II

English: BMW R1200, National Motor Museum in B...English: BMW R1200, National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. Used in the 1997 James Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: 1999 BMW Z8 from the James Bond film ...English: 1999 BMW Z8 from the James Bond film "The World is not Enough" in BMW Welt museum,Munich (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: 1995 BMW Z3 from the James Bond film ...English: 1995 BMW Z3 from the James Bond film "GoldenEye" in BMW Welt museum,Munich (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The interior of 1999 BMW Z8 from the ...English: The interior of 1999 BMW Z8 from the James bond film "The Wolrld is not Enough" in BMW Welt museum,Munich (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Regarding Carolyn Yeager

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 39 minutes ago
This past Monday, Carolyn Yeager, one of the leading voices in the pro-White and WWII revisionist community, dedicated the entire second hour of her radio program *The Heretics' Hour* to criticize and attack me following *the "debate" I participated in with Mike Delaney and Scott Roberts*, and Andrew Anglin's subsequent commentary on it at the *Daily Stormer*. I'd like to respond to what she had to say, and what it reveals about her character. Yeager begins by saying that she has always had a problem with me, viewing my *"agreeableness"* and behavior as extremely suspect. She also s... more »

Israel's Assassination Policy: Hit or Miss?

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 51 minutes ago
An excerpt from, *"Israel's Kill List"* by Ronen Bergman, Foreign Policy, December 4: "Hezbollah was quick to point the finger at Israel; Israel was quick to deny the attack. If indeed the assassins belong to some elite intelligence organization, by now they are most likely to be out of Lebanon, away from Hezbollah's grasp. *But this tactical success -- if you can call it that -- is not necessarily a strategic one in the Middle Eastern political arena. * To play assassin is to challenge history outright. Some hit jobs proved effective in changing reality, but not all changed it i... more »

Knoxville Teachers Call for Jim McIntyre's Ouster

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 hours ago
Many thanks to Mike Donila from Screams from the Porch for this fact sheet on McIntyre and TN superintendents (that's McIntryre below with his gold-stamped Broad Center plaque just behind him--ah, symbolism): Superintendent Jim McIntyre *FACT:* McIntyre is in charge of the county’s more than $400 million educational budget, its 89 schools and a 7,500-person workforce that includes 4,800 teachers. *FACT:* Of the state’s 15 largest school districts, 13 superintendents spent between seven and 33 years as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal. *FACT:* Only two superintendent... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Poppy Tooker, food journalist and radio host, recovering from illness*

"A special committee that will have the right Senators on board"

Alison at Creekside - 2 hours ago
Yesterday in the House, Stephen Harper publicly backed the Senate's decision not to hear testimony from Michael Runia, the Deloitte auditor who allegedly intervened in the audit into Mike Duffy’s expenses at the behest of ConFund Senator Irving Gerstein and the Prime Minister’s Office. I doubt there's anyone left who imagines the Senate's decision on Wedneday was achieved independently of Steve's input and there's two excellent columns from Tim Harper and Murray Dobbin on that below. But there's one email from Nigel Wright to PMO *Manager of Parliamentary Affairs* Patrick Rogers I h... more »

Postales hermosas de Navidad con mensajes llenos de amor

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 3 hours ago

Blu-ray Watch: Pick a James Bond film, any James Bond film

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Luscious Luciana Paluzzi, seen here as the evil Fiona with Sean Connery as James Bond, was honored that Thunderball director Terence Young schlepped from Rome to give her away at her second wedding.* *by Ken* And the answer is: *Thunderball* (1965). Okay, there are 22 other Bond films you could have picked. I'm just telling you that the answer is *Thunderball*. You probably saw that Amazon Gold Box offer last week: all 23 Bond films on Blu-ray for $100. Once I pressed the "order" button on that, I had to man up to the fact that now I had to buy a Blu-ray player. The Bond box arri... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Jindal appointees trash SLFPA-E Levee Authority with divisive tea-bagger tactics*

CECI Email Reveals Charter School Chains: Or What Mike Pence and the Jonas Brothers Have in Common

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
by Doug Martin Besides seeking to dethrone Indiana supt. of public education Glenda Ritz from the state board of education, Mike Pence and his Center for Education and Career Innovation (CECI)–in the recently leaked emailfrom James Betley to Claire Fiddian-Green—reveal the government/theocratic/corporate school complex's plan to allow Carpe Diem, Rocketship, and Christel House to “pool or share funds” and set up a public-private entity to quickly hand empty school buildings to charter schools. By lending a helping hand to networks of Walmart-type for-profit charter schools in In... more »

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - December 3 , 2013 - Pertinent data for gold and silver , an overview of Monday precious metals raid , pertinent news focusing on the Financial Sphere and Central Bankers , Bubble Insights From The Roaring Twenties - Doug Noland missive , key points of view touching on the precious metals , key articles relating to World gold and Ed's Wrap for the day !

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/the-silence-of-the-blockheads-maybe-soon-to-be-dead-silence ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER JPMorgan *et al* started off the December Christmas season with another bear raid in all four precious metal starting right at the New York open on Sunday evening EST. In gold, half the day's losses were in by the 10 a.m. EST London p.m. gold fix. Then the HFT boyz hit the bid stack again, and the sell of continued, with the low tick coming a hair before 3 p.m. in electronic trading. After that gold traded flat into the close. The CME recorded the high a... more »

Iran updates December 6 , 2013.......Iran nuclear talks hitting snags in US Congress ! Democrats threatening to blow up either the Interim or any Final Deal with Iran ? Saudis and Israel plotting their own way to stop Iran ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Uh oh: House Democrats ready to blow up Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran? POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON DECEMBER 6, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT The problem with O asking them to eat one crap sandwich after another on ObamaCare is that eventually there’s no room for dessert. They abandoned him when he asked for congressional approval to bomb Assad. They’re not going to abandon him on this too. *Are they?* The worry is that Dem Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two House Dem, may join with GOP Rep. Eric Cantor on a resolution or bill that will either criticize the current temporary deal with Iran, or call f... more »

Updates On Syria [12.6]: Turkey's Policy of Aiding Al-Qaeda Is Under Review (Or So It Says), OPCW Confirms It Has Destroyed Syria's Chemical Weapons Munitions, Pope Francis Calls For Release of Nuns Taken Hostage By Jihadist Terrorists

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*1. An excerpt from, "Turkey recasts approach to armed groups in Syria" by Fehim Taştekin, Al Monitor, December 5: * Will Turkey’s cutting off logistical support to al-Qaeda in Syria, and discriminating between al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations and moderate groups under the Free Syrian Army banner, be enough to extricate the country from the Syrian morass? Reports leaked from the Turkish National Intelligence Service and other security agencies are instilling fears of a boomerang effect in Turkey, which is trying to give the impression that it has intensified border security. *Illeg... more »

Wall Street watchdog, Greg Hunter, interviews attorney, journalist, and banking expert Ellen Brown on the subject of what will happen the next time the big banks crash, as they inevitably must in a year or so. Answer: When this day comes they will legally confiscate all our bank deposits. Ellen's solution, which will be long in coming, is public banking.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 4 hours ago
------------------------------ On USAWatchdog with Greg Hunter Posted on December 3, 2013 by Ellen Brown Original Here http://youtu.be/Vtv6RBo3Pzo Greg Hunter Ellen Brown on Bail-ins (the Big Disaster Coming), GMO Foods, Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Published on YouTube on Dec 1, 2013 http://usawatchdog.com/gmo-food-laced-with-weed-killer-and-bail-ins-ellen-brown/ Ellen Brown, founder of WebofDebt.com, thinks so-called 'bail-ins' are coming. Depositors' money will be legally taken. Brown says, "That's the big disast... more »

Canada And Alberta Put An End To Journalism And The Media(Breaking)

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 4 hours ago
*Canada: Legislation limits free speech for journalists * *Canadian journalists will face fines for commenting on the striking action of trade unionists under new legislation passed in the state of Alberta.* *By Alice Kirkland / 6 December, 2013..* http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/12/canada-legislation-limits-free-speech-journalists/ *Canadian journalists will face fines for commenting on the striking action of trade unionists under new legislation passed in the state of Alberta. As reported by Index on Censorship earlier this week Bill 45 and Bill 46 will see heavy sancti... more »

Warm Fuzzies Department

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 4 hours ago
The logo of the NRO's Launch 39. A recon sat. This does not give me warm fuzzies about the corporate culture there now. In times not so long ago, something more like this was used by similar organisations. I know, I have the coffee mugs.

Syria War Watch December 6 , 2013 - updates on chemical weapon destruction and state of military play on the ground

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Syria....... Al-Qaeda Kidnaps 51 Kurds in Northern SyriaCivilians Were Captured During Fighting Over Aleppo Towns by Jason Ditz, December 05, 2013 Print This | Share This According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) fighters have kidnapped 51 Kurdish civilians in Aleppo Province, including nine children. The Kurds were taken during three days of AQI fighting against the Kurdish towns of Minbej and Jarablus, and it is unclear where the abductees have been taken. Though Kurdish militias have ousted AQI and other Islamist factions from more or less all ... more »

Deep Tweets

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Posted without comment. ok, i better go put on my face. see you in 14 minutes on @OutFrontCNN i hope -- got an engaging and fun show planned — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 6, 2013

Bad Bear's Photos Long Walk 4 Lake Tahoe California Border

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
Longest Walk 4 walking from sacred Cave Rock to Lake Tahoe and Nevada/California border today, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker. www.returntoalcatraz.com

Off World Update

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
In the last 3 days we've received the following Off World Update: Here is the first video he wants us to see: Here is the conversation: *December 4, 2013, December 5, 2013 and December 6, 2013* *Hi. I saw this today: Click here Do you know anything about this? Much love, Sophia* *Good Day Sophia! Yes Sophia, NASA and US government's infrastructure agencies are occasionally editing sky images and space images, starting from beginning of space age and continuing on. As they officially declared comet ISON dead, they went quiet for 2 Earth cycles (days) and then retur... more »

What Nelson Mandela Couldn't Teach Us

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 6 hours ago
So, Nelson Mandela is a rotting corpse and Dick Cheney isn't. God, apparently, has kicked the bucket, too. The world is now mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday at 95. In our grief as a species, we mourn someone who was indisputably a more effective spiritual and human rights leader than he was South Africa's first black president. Mandela, through his tiny prison cell, and his countless millions of supporters, had shed a harsh, pitiless light on the apartheid South African government, surely one of the most brutal, repressive and fascist in the late 20t... more »

For no raisin

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
Some Oblique Strategies for you: Decorate. The consistency principle. Look at the order in which you do things. Do the last thing first. Do the words need changing? Cascades. Voice nagging suspicions. Change ambiguities to specifics. Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame. Mute and continue. Magnify the most difficult details. What would your best friend do? You are an engineer. Reverse. Once a search is in progress something will be found. Faced with a choice do both. Use your own ideas. Retrace your steps. Emphasise differences. Destroy nothing/the most important thing... more »

Who Were The Craziest Republicans In 2013-- Lots Of Texans, Of Course, Thought None In The Top 10

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Garden variety GOP racist Ted Cruz couldn't even make it into the Top 10 December-- time for *Rolling Stone* to make lists of the 50 greatest albums, 50 coolest videos and 50 greatest drummers, right. Sure… and the 50 dumbest things right-wingers said in 2013. Tim Dickinson put the list together, although there are weeks left for some of these crackpots to say even dumber stuff. Some of the *DWT* faves on his list: At number 50, the Republican who conspired with the domestic terrorists who blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Steve Stockman (R-TX), a supposedly-recovered drug ... more »

Dream of the Big Black Bipedal War Horse

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 7 hours ago
It's a dream that came to me the night after watching the Joshua Patrick dual-video interview from Miles Johnston and I'm not sure if it has ANYTHING to do with the concepts in that amazing interview, and I don't care. *In the latter part of the dream, the bit I remember vivdily, I was carrying an orange plastic bowl of 'material' (don't remember what it was) but it attracted the attention of all the animals along a tight hedge-lined passageway I was on, with other people, walking, as if from a war; refugees. * *It was all muddy, thorny; the landscape ravaged. A huge pig tried to... more »

A Little Observation About This Rob Ford Nonsense

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 7 hours ago
So, the radio's going at work. Talk radio. Some guy, John Oakley, who, it seems, has his tongue so far up Rob Ford's ass-crack that he can almost reach the hole, is conducting yet another attempt at a defense of his hero. He has Ford's lawyer on, letting the guy talk about how his client is being tried in the media. Time for the callers. And this one right-wing, whining baby, starts going on about how Ford's predicament is the intended product of a deliberate campaign of left-wing intimidation and smears. You just better believe that all those leftist politicians are just as dirty... more »

The Philadelphia Story, or The Revolution that Tom Corbett Made

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago
Our Schools Are Not For Sale from Media Mobilizing Project TV on Vimeo.

Friday Nerd Blogging: Solving 21st Century Defense Procurement Challenges

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 7 hours ago
The effort to develop a single 5th generation fighter plane has been a challenge for the US and its allies. The F-35 is very expensive and may underperform. The quality of debate about this plane has varied. So, we turn to the experts for a reasoned discussion of the F-35 and an alternative: Does that Continue reading

Star Trek medicine a reality – bioresonance

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 7 hours ago
All is Energy. Every. Single. Thing. All energy has a frequency. Bacteria has a Frequency, Viruses have a Frequency, Cancer has a Frequency..... Have you ever seen an opera singer shatter a crystal glass with their voice? They are hitting the exact note, sounding the frequency of that glass, and therefore it breaks..... Using frequencies isn't just for destroying something- it can also heal. Please go to the link below to watch several amazing videos. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/12/06/deta-elis-groundbreaking-star-trek-medicine-a-reality-bioresonance/ Deta Elis, grou... more »

The last true freedom fighter of his generation

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours ago
Nelson Mandella is dead. He was among us for longer than most of our present day heroes. His body wasn't even cold before his former critics and enemies leapt to co-opt Mandela's legend to score cheap political points. I'm not reading any of cheap potshots and vile conservative commentary. For myself, I choose to reflect on my good fortune to have lived to witness so much of his life and work. Many have already spoken of his legacy so I'll spare you my inadequate thoughts and simply outsource to Charlie Pierce's eulogy. Nelson Mandela died yesterday, and he was the last of them, t... more »

NATO/Canada's hired killers trying to take back Canadian Hospital in Aleppo, Syria

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours ago
Yup! A Canadian hospital in Aleppo, Syria. A hospital for the hired killers. A brief rant and then we will get to that news. While the Canadian Government steals money from hardworking Canadians..... *Via taxes extracted.* *And the public servants all lie*. To us, the citizen. The humans resident in Canada. The taxpayer supported public servants say -* these taxes are going to support the services you depend on everyday.....*........... Even though these services are being reduced. Or gotten rid of entirely. The talking heads and lying public servants call some of our services* ‘enti... more »

Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 8 hours ago
Last year Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue and I published a paper in the *Journal of Climate* on trends in global landfalling hurricanes (the paper and data can be found here). At the global level, our paper concludes that the data is good from 1970. Our analysis went through 2010. Weinkle, J, R Maue and R Pielke (2012), Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls. *J. Clim.* *25:*4729-4735 With 2013 almost in the books I asked Ryan if he could provide a preliminary tabulation of the 2013 data (note that the data could be revised from these initial estimates, and 2013 is still not quit... more »

Oven Baked Kale Chips and Giveaway

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours ago
I was given a product to review in conjunction with this post. All opinions are my own. We love to eat junk. Who doesn't? Cupcakes, brownies, they are all delicious, but we know we shouldn't be eating them. My biggest weakness, since finding out that I am pregnant is chips. Crispy, yummy potato chips. On more than one occasion I have finished an entire bag in one sitting. Considering all the health problems I have faced with this pregnancy, I knew I needed to take steps to get myself back to where I was before I was pregnant. No more midnight snacks and no more bags of potato chips.... more »

FIRST NATO GLOBAL HAWK DRONE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago
Chicago-based activist Rick Rozoff is a gold mine of information about NATO. He sends out daily reports sharing how the military industrial complex, working through a cancerous NATO, is pushing their military madness up to the doorway of Russia and China. You can see his Stop NATO site *here* I would venture a guess that most people who work in the military industrial complex, and their associated sticky web of weapons production facilities, have no real clue how the systems they build fit into this high-tech space directed first-strike attack program now under development. The... more »

Reply to RealClimate's attack against the IPCC

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
*Rasmus Benestad and similar hardcore green Marxists are dreaming about the past that will never return again* Since its initial fabrication in 2004, RealClimate.ORG was one of the most notorious websites of the climate propaganda, at least among those that attempted to look like an official arm of the scientists. Because I wrote an essay about the IPCC report for the Václav Klaus Institute two months ago and the title was Fifth IPCC report: a blow of glasnost into the climate panic (where I compared the ongoing sizzling of the climate panic to the reforms in USSR under Gorbachev), ... more »

Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel Juan Rangel steps down from UNO! He was a darling of the AEI

Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 9 hours ago
Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel @JuanRangel steps down from #UNO! He was a darling of @AEIeducation http://t.co/svdm81drB5 — Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) December 6, 2013 Via Professor Diane Ravitch: Powerful Chicago Charter Leader Resigns in Wake of Financial Scandal My commentary: Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel Juan Rangel was a darling of the fringe-right American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In addition to their loving his stuffing of public money into his private pockets, AEI gushed about Rangel and UNO's systematic program of right-wing indoctrination.

ER-EPR and distortions in the media

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
Lots of news outlets wrote stories about the link between the entanglement and wormholes, an insight that I find important, fascinating, and almost certainly true: TRF June 2013. But my excitement about the insight doesn't imply a satisfaction with the newspaper articles because they're just way too misleading. The first question you should ask is: Why now? Why didn't they write a lot about the ER-EPR correspondence when it was first published? The answer is that the Maldacena-Susskind preprint from June 2013 hasn't appeared in any classical journal. The journalists aren't able to f... more »

MANDELA THE SPOOK

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Above, we see the CIA's Charles Taylor and MI6's Nelson Mandela.* Mandela, or his double, was an agent of MI6, according to "MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations", by the 'acclaimed' intelligence expert Stephen Dorril. MI6 used Mandela to spy on its enemies in Libya, in South Africa and in the United Kingdom. Nelson Mandela persuaded Gaddafi to hand over the two Libyans to the Scottish Court in the Netherlands, where they faced trial in 1999. Mandela allowed MI6 to operate in South Africa. *Is this the original Nelson Mandela?* According to Dorril's book: "Another MI6 catch ... more »

British Columbia`s LNG Nightmare, The Devil Is In The Details

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 10 hours ago
I receive daily LNG stories and analysis from around the world... Here is a little something.. ____________ *Several LNG projects are currently under development in British Columbia, a western province of Canada. Canada is one of Japan’s most important partner countries in terms of advancing diversification of energy supply sources in order to secure a competitive and stable supply of LNG.* *To import LNG from Canada, some issues, including the development of infrastructure, such as LNG terminals and pipelines, expeditious processing of permits and licensing, and LNG tax needs to... more »

Nelson Mandela, Rest In Peace

LeDaro at LeDaro - 11 hours ago
He was 95 and in ill-health, but it is still hard to come to grips with the reality that he is gone. He was a leading figure of our times, a historical figure, a living legend who played a leading role in the fight against the injustice of Apartheid in South Africa. It has been written a lot on already, but it is worth noting that his emphasis on forgiveness, forgiving those who jailed him for 27 years, is remarkable. He may not have been a saint - by his own admission - but Mandela was a remarkable person, a remarkable leader in the fight against Apartheid whose suffering made hi... more »

Is Equality Of Opportunity A Salient Campaign Issue? You Bet It Is… At Least In California's Inland Empire

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Last night I was at a fundraiser for Eloise Reyes thrown by the Mexican American Bar Association PAC. It was wonderful watching the candidate speak from her heart to a roomful of successful attorneys about preserving Social Security by raising the cap and preventing any president-- be it a Republican or a Democrat-- from imposing Chained CPI. This wasn't a union crowd; this was a crowd of wealthy lawyers and her proposal for raising or eliminating the cap, would take money right out of their own pockets. The applause was thunderous and this was a smart, sophisticated crowd that kne... more »

I think I've found what I want for Christmas (NSFW) - A Rule 5 Friday video post

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
Glasses that see through outer clothing revealing the lingerie beneath... It's another top drawer (pun intended) Agent Provocateur video, this one for Autumn/Winter 2013and directed by Penelope Cruz.

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
Lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center. [More photos here]

Madiba

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
"In a way I had never quite comprehended before, I realized the role I could play in court and the possibilities before me as a defendant. I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues. I realized then and there that I could carry on the fight even in the fortress of the enemy." Mandela, 1994

nelson mandela, 1918-2013

laura k at wmtc - 12 hours ago
"The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom. Firstly, we believed that as a result of Government policy, violence by the African people had become inevitable, and that unless responsible leadership was given to canalise and control the feelings of our people, there would be outbreaks of terrorism which would produce an intensity of bitterness and hosti... more »

Cyber Arms Proliferation and Arms Races

Brandon Valeriano at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
With the assumption of an ongoing global cyber arms race, Western governments signed an agreement to limit the sharing and selling of dangerous cyber technologies. David Livingstone notes, “[Cyber security technology] is a lot like the arms race. What you want to do is slow down how fast your foe develops equivalent technologies.” This is Continue reading

The 2014 World Cup Draw - First with the news (well second or third!) - England in with Uruguay, Costa Rica & Italy, opening match against Italy at 2am in the humid jungle of Manaus

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
Group A 1. Brazil 2. Croatia 3. Mexico 4. Cameroon Group B 1. Spain 2. Netherlands 3. Chile 4. Australia Group C 1. Colombia 2. Greece 3. Ivory Coast 4. Japan Group D 1. Uruguay 2. Costa Rica 3. England 4. Italy Group E 1. Switzerland 2. Ecuador 3. France 4. Honduras Group F 1. Argentina 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina 3. Iran 4. Nigeria Group G 1. Germany 2. Portugal 3. Ghana 4. USA Group H 1. Belgium 2. Algeria 3. Russia 4. South Korea

Krugman dreams of a better day!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013* *McDonough makes progress unlikely:* In today’s column, Paul Krugman dreams of a better day. Let’s examine three key passages. Even as he starts his column, Krugman starts breaking the rules: KRUGMAN (12/6/13): Much of the media commentary on President Obama’s big inequality speech was cynical. You know the drill: it’s yet another “reboot” that will go nowhere; none of it will have any effect on policy, and so on. But *before we talk about the speech’s possible political impact or lack thereof, shouldn’t we look at the substance?* Was what the president ... more »

Nelson Mandela, David Cameron and the Unarmed Struggle

Spike EP at News Spike - 12 hours ago
*Thursday 11 August 2011Public Disorder 11.35 am - The Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron):* "What we have seen on the streets of London and in other cities across our country is completely unacceptable, and I am sure that the whole House will join me in condemning it. Keeping people safe is the first duty of Government. The whole country has been shocked by the most appalling scenes of people looting, violence, vandalising and thieving. It is criminality, pure and simple—and there is absolutely no excuse for it. We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a c... more »

Winnie Mandela - Hero of the Revolutionary Struggle

Paul Coker at News Spike - 12 hours ago
Sculpting the Public Myth of the historical figure of Nelson Mandela in real time - As crafted courtesy of PBS Fontline *"Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country. "* Winnie Mandela (b. 1934), South African political leader. Speech in black townships. Quoted in Guardian (London, April 15, 1986). *"The years of imprisonment hardened me.... * *Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. * *When it happens every day ... more »

OUTSCORING FINLAND: Ignore the gaps!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013* *Part 4—The skill of averting one’s gaze:* It has been a clownish display, carried on for the past twelve years. Again and again, our intellectual leaders have flown off to Finland. They hoped to define the miraculous practices in that nation’s schools. Upon their return, these teams of “blind men” described different parts of the miraculous Finnish pachyderm. Some pointed to the fact that Finland *does* have teachers unions. Others note the relative lack of standardized tests. Others read the *most* standard script: Finland’s miraculous teachers are d... more »

Ignore Those Polls!

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
The "Millenials" poll out earlier this week showing (among other things) younger people unenthusiastic about the ACA has sparked a fair amount of discussion, but there's one particular point I haven't seen made. I'm highly suspicious of the reported finding that only a third of the uninsured from ages 18 through 29 intend to enroll through the exchanges. There are just too many things out there for me to believe that there's any kind of predictable relationship between what they tell a pollster and what they'll actually do. Let's see...first of all, I'm pretty skeptical about asking... more »

Nelson Mandela, 1918 - 2013

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 13 hours ago
As countless obituaries, eulogies, elegies, panegyrics, and encomia pour in following the death of Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday December 5, 2013 at the age of 95, the sanitization and mythologizing of his principles and legacy is already in full swing across the political spectrum. We will hear little of the fact that in his courageous and unfaltering stand for freedom and justice, he

The Destructive Engagement & Youthful Indiscretion of ABC News' Jon Karl

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 13 hours ago
Jonathan Karl So, y'know ABC News White House Chief Correspondent Jonathan Karl? The guy who lied about seeing that oh-so-revealing (not actually revealing) White House email that allegedly authorized (but didn't actually) a cover-up of Benghazi and was taken to task for his bad journalism by Stephen Colbert? Well, he's apparently had some questionable ethics for quite some time. In November

Homemade Natural Spicy Cider Decongestant and Expectorant

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
Homemade Natural Spicy Cider Decongestant and Expectorant When we’re sick, our body ramps things up to protect us. An increase in mucus brings an increase in antiseptic enzymes and antibodies. Our noses run to wash out some of the germs, and make it harder for others to enter. This increase in mucous, coupled with narrowed inflamed nasal passages that accompany some colds and general bugs; can make for some truly uncomfortable days and nights. If you are suffering from an illness such as a cold or sinusitis and not just allergies, chances are your chest is congested with extra muco... more »

Memphis Politicians Wring Hands About Reading Scores as They Create More Corporate Charter Schools Without Libraries

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
Having handed over 29 public schools to charter reform schools without libraries or librarians, and with 8 more on the way by 2015, Superintendent Dorsey Hopson and the Shelby County School Board all of sudden have noticed that these children are far behind in reading. Since poor children get their books more often from libraries, and since the research has demonstrated over the past 25 years that schools with library programs and librarians have more proficient readers than school that don't (go figure!), it should not come as a surprise to anyone that Shelby County's plan to cut ... more »

Grasping at Straws and the Impending Value-Added Trainwreck

John Thompson at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
We are just beginning to implement value-added evaluations, but it is already becoming clear that a trainwreck is coming. Already, we are reading stories about good teachers being fired for failing to meet their test score growth targets. We are also reading about surrealistic cases, such as the New York Teacher of the Year who earned 60 of 60 points on the observation component of her evaluation, but only 6 of twenty points on its made-up quantitative component. Tom Kane’s “Presumed Averageness” makes it seem like he is already grasping at straws defending his contribution to the f... more »

Irony: NRCC Backing Gay Candidates While Steve Israel's DCCC Gives A Big Push To A Virulent Homophobe

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
LGBT activists in Ohio were shocked when they heard Steve Israel was recruiting virulent homophobe Jennifer Garrison to run for Congress. Israel is now pressuring pro-equality Democrats in Congress-- including gay members-- to contribute money to Garrison's campaign. She isn't a garden variety anti-gay politician. She built her entire political career on intense homophobia. It's how she was first elected to the state legislature (where she was able to kill a workplace anti-discrimination law and where she stopped an anti-bullying law). This is literally the most contemptible huma... more »

Nelson Mandela

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
For Nelson Mandela, greatness was not the province of a few. For him, every man and woman who walked the earth had the potential to be great. "We ask ourselves," he said, "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconscio... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to David Lovering, 52. I'm more of a Kim Deal fan than I am a Pixies fan, I suppose. Still, good band. Good drummer. Right to the good stuff: Henry Farrell on Iran sanctions and negotiations. Steve Kornacki goes back to 1992 to talk Cuomo/Clinton -- a five part series. And a fine rant from Alyssa Rosenberg.

Attack of the giant Octopii!!!!

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 15 hours ago
You just gotta love this transparency, ROFLMFAO!!!!! *"You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This logo isn't helping."......* ...... No, not helping, but definitely transparent!!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/nro-satellite-logo_n_4394577.html America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space *The Huffington Post* | By Matt Sledge Posted: 12/05/2013 7:05 pm EST [image: Share on Google+] [image: nro satellite logo] One of the National Security Agency's partners is launching a spy satellite with a classified pay... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Levee authority reaffirms support for lawsuit against oil, gas companies ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *Saints morning report: The 50,000 club ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *Gulf gets more restoration projects from BP fund ~Janet McConnaughey, AP* *Shell Backs Off Natural Gas Plant Plans ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Stacey Pickering in Defcon 5 Damage Control Mode ~Phillip Thomas * *N.O. Office of Inspector General: Review of the NOPD Early Warning Program * *Air sex championship? It's in New Orleans* *Louisiana Music Factory Moves To Frenchmen Street ~Jan Ramsey, offBeat*

Stunning Chart: Today’s Stock Market is Eerily Reminiscent of 1929…

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Mac Slavo With the holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all time highs, one can’t help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn’t really doing as well as we’ve been told by the experts. The evidence suggests that we can expect devastating global economic changes in 2014 as a result of our national debt, further impoverishment of the working class, and massive new tax burdens resulting from President Obama’s ... more »

Nelson Mandela - Rot In Perpetuity

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours ago
When is a racist murdering terrorist not a racist murdering terrorist? When that killer of children, motivated by hatred of them solely for the colour of their skin, is a non-European, and his victims are White. Nelson Mandela was a foul murderer. He preached racist hatred against Europeans, and bombed an entire nation into submission to his Marxist tyranny. To be fair to those who would proclaim Mandela to not be racist, it is true that he murdered Africans as well as Europeans, although the former were murdered for political or financial reasons, whilst the latter were murdere... more »

SaLuSa 8. 11. 2013

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 16 hours ago
SaLuSa 8. 11. 2013 Your Sun is sending you very intense energy patterns that are about to finish your basic transformational process into the beings of Light. Once you have absorbed these energies within, your bodies will be ready to receive and accept all that your consciousness will experience. Sun is the gateway to other dimensions of reality and that what you see as sun flares are powerful energy transfers from higher frequencies sent to your planet and to all of her inhabitants. You can feel this pure energy of the Sun when you stand quietly without movement on the sunshine... more »

Two Random Things That Made Me Smile

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 16 hours ago
On New England frugality: Bostonians still tell the story of the respectable society matron who was crossing the Common one day and ran into an old college chum she hadn’t seen for years. The matron was dismayed to see that her friend was obviously engaged in the world’s oldest profession. “My dear,” she said, “whatever has happened to you?” “Well,” said her friend, “it was either this or dip into capital.” On a child's view of marriage: How can a stranger tell if two people are married? You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. - Derric... more »

Thieves of cobalt-60 in Mexico likely to die

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago
Thanks for all the wishes, everyone! Yes, a celebration is a part of it but yes, I do think it's a day just like any other day – perhaps a better one than the average. ;-) Today, 1/3 of the TRF visitors are Hungarians who came from this Hungarian server, index.hu, to my 2011 page about the radioactive source found in Prague's playground which was medically related. The reason for the new Hungarian report – and many others in the whole world(e.g. Time) – is that some thieves stole a truck in Mexico. Stealing is wrong and these thieves are likely to learn it in the hard way becaus... more »

The Number 9 and Vortex Math

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago

PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy + How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD (Videos)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago
*Related: Treating PTSD With Service Dogs*. Video Title: PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy. Source: This Able Veteran. Date Published: February 2, 2013. Description: This Able Veteran PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy. To apply or for more information: servicedog@thisableveteran.org or www.thisableveteran.org How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD. Source: SuperAnimalComedy. Date Published: May 25, 2013.

Updated: America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago
*America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space* The Huffington Post | By Matt Sledge Posted: 12/05/2013 7:05 pm EST *14:14 GMT: D.'s comments: Attack of the giant Octopii!!!!* *You just gotta love this transparency, ROFLMFAO!!!!!* *"You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This logo isn't helping."......* *...... No, not helping, but definitely transparent!!!!* One of the National Security Agency's partners is launching a spy satellite with a classified payload into space on Thursday night -- and its logo is an angry, globe-gripping ... more »

Thailand's Regime & The Cambodian Connection

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours ago
Trail of slime from regime's thugs leads back to ally and dictator-for-life, Hun Sen of Cambodia. *December 6, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Late last night, after Thais across the nation celebrated Father's Day, armed thugs attacked several anti-regime protesters near the currently occupied Ministry of Finance. They rode motorcycles, fired guns, and threw explosives. There were several injuries, including one protester losing his arm. Protest leaders demanded the regime investigate the incident, and have only been met by silent complicity. *Image: Cambodian dictator-for-life Hun Sen... more »

Doubly protected Higgs is naturally natural

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
Nathaniel Craig (now Rutgers) and Kiel Howe (Stanford) released an interesting preprint Doubling down on naturalness with a supersymmetric twin Higgs which provides a very nice explicit example why one should never be too ambitious when deducing consequences of naturalness – why "small unnaturalness" is never a problem or a problem that may be solved by a better model. They consider an extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model which protects the Higgs boson by two protection mechanisms. One of them is the supersymmetry, in the usual sense, and the other protection mech... more »

A Posse of Bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours ago

Fun with Ison: The moment to BE

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 21 hours ago
When is a "comet" not a comet? When is it apparent that the "Powers that Were" know something that they don't want us to know? When is it glaringly in your face that NASA et al are desperately scrambling to hide what their own cameras and satellites show? When it is TIME to look up with our own eyes and SEE that when the moon is radically altering it's position, and "STARS" move in opposite directions from the rest of the pin points of light, and the SUN dances in strange harmony, that maybe, just maybe.... all is NOT what we have been TOLD it IS. When is it the moment to just B... more »

Remembering Mandela and the Movement Against Apartheid

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 22 hours ago
In 1987, I was a high school sophomore and somehow, no doubt through rock music, became aware of the anti-apartheid struggle. As it was for President Obama, the movement to end apartheid was my political baptism. It’s what got me engaged and interested in global politics. I remember going to the Texas A&M campus and Continue reading

Stand for Children Louisiana: Teachers “Like” Common Core

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
It is very important to privatizing interests to promote the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). After all, there is a lot of money to be made in attendant curriculum development, and assessments, and data collection. Of course, those pushing CCSS cannot state as much directly. So, they offer lies, such as CCSS’s preparing students for future employment […]

Putting Together A Progressive Election Team

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
There are a lot of reasons I've grown to admire Alan Grayson over the years. He's an intrepid world traveler (and gave me the exact right tips for where to stay in Bandiagara and Sangha in Mali); he's a Joni Mitchell fanatic; he's as compassionate as he is brilliant; he never finches from a tough fight; and, most of all, of course, because of what he stands for in terms of the ordinary working families who can't go out and hire lobbyists to get their needs met in Washington. He's also the most astute political strategist I've ever met. Blue America is trying to help Keith Ellison ... more »

Two Mandela Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day ago

Leonard Peltier on the passing of Nelson Mandela

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
On the Passing of Nelson Mandela from Leonard Peltier  December 5, 2013 6:30 PM Greeting my relatives, friends, and supporters: It saddens me to hear that a great man like Nelson Mandela has departed from this lifetime.  He was a man who was truly inspirational and showed us the possibilities of how a continued struggle by indigenous people could manifest itself in levels of freedom that
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