NATO Summit in Riga, November 2006 (Photo credit: www.guigo.eu)
English: Chicago River is the south border of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (viewed from Lake Shore Drive with Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Worldwide Tropical cyclones from 1985 to 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Journal of Climate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Luboš Motl in the pub (cropped) Česky: Luboš Motl v hospodě (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dr. Pielke (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls 2013
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
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
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
*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
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
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
*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
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
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
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
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
Lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center. [More photos here]
Madiba
"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
"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
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
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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
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!
*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
*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
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!
*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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!!!!
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 »
Untitled
*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*
*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*
Stunning Chart: Today’s Stock Market is Eerily Reminiscent of 1929…
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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
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
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
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
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 »
PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy + How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD (Videos)
*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
*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
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
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 »
Fun with Ison: The moment to BE
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
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
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Stand for Children Louisiana: Teachers “Like” Common Core
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
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 »
Leonard Peltier on the passing of Nelson Mandela
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
Nelson Mandela, Time For Canada To Pick Up His Torch, Again
I invite all of you to join me in celebration of Nelson Mandela`s life,
there are no words to describe his accomplishments, and remember what the
man lived for, remember what Canada once was..
I am not sad, today we celebrate.
We are hopeful the transference of his spirit and soul into the light of
twinkling stars will once again remind the world of what the man actually
stood for..
Equality, acceptance, inclusion of others and of course....An end to
violence..
Seems to me that over the last decade corporations and advanced western
democracies, to me politicos have engaged in a... more »
Nelson Mandela, the AIDS Crisis and the Ethnic Weapons Program
*Dr. Larry Ford worked for Project Coast—an apartheid-era South African
assassination program using chemical and biological weapons.*
(It is important to remember that Ford had worked with, among other
elements, the CIA. This makes his association with ultra-right
antigovernment and terrorist groups all the more ominous. The possibility
of a “national security coverup” is not one to be too readily discarded.
His links to elements of the US intelligence community may be used to
obscure some of his other activities from public view. It is also worth
noting that other countries ap... more »
Israel Assassinates Hezbollah Commander, Seeks To Provoke A Sunni-Shiite War In Lebanon
Just days after meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, presenting him
with his father's book about the Church's crimes in medieval Europe,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government assassinated Hassan
al-Laqqis, a commander in the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
So far, the world's reaction has been silence. Luckily for Israel, everyone
is talking about Nelson Mandela's death, and will continue to do so in the
coming days. Could this be a small sign that the gods are on its side? Who
knows.
Even without news of Mandela's death, this assassination of a high-l... more »
The Sandy Hook HOAX: The Release Of The Sandy Hook 9-11 Tapes Leaves More Questions Than Answers!
With everything going on over the last few days, I finally had the time
last night to sit down and take a close listen to the "officially" released
Sandy Hook emergency 9-11 tapes..... I do have the question to ask: What
the hell took them so long? The Boston Marathon, Aurora, and other false
flag attack police/emergency 9-11 tapes were released almost immediately
after these events.. But for some strange reason, it has taken almost one
full year before the Sandy Hook 9-11 tapes were released.... I have to
wonder why? And of course I do wonder if that delay was for either having
t... more »
Fukushima Updates December 1 , 2013 - Surveying the ongoing Fukushima remediation clusterfark , radiation contamination from the Fukushima debacle - focus on Japan wastelands and disaster to be called the Pacific Ocean...
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Energy news......
04:22 PM EST on December 3rd, 2013 | 27 comments
AP: Experts warn about ground sinking at Fukushima plant — Tepco Adviser:
Reactor building structures likely degraded; “Containment degradation”
concerns back in 2011
11:59 AM EST on December 3rd, 2013 | 51 comments
TV: All-time high radiation level in well at Fukushima plant 40 meters from
Pacific — 1.1 billion Bq/m³ of strontium-90, other beta emitters — “Feared
highly contaminated water leaking into ground” and being allowed to flow
into sea (VIDEO)
10:34 AM EST on December 3rd, 2013 | 39 comments
Tepco Adviser: F... more »
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
*Nelson and Winnie Mandela as he left prison in 1990*
*by Ken*
It's not as if we haven't had time to prepare for this day. The poor man
has been so sick for so long. But there are people we can't afford to lose,
people whose moral example -- and I don't throw around phrases like "moral
example" casually -- is irreplaceable.
A great deal is going to be said and written about him. I like this from
Madeleine Albright:
*"Nelson Mandela taught us all that forgiveness is stronger than hate. The
best way to honor his passing is to follow his example."*
On washingtonpost.com, Steven Muf... more »
Hunger, Health, and Access to Books: Just an excuse
Three days ago I was interviewed on our local news channel. I was
contacted by a journalist because he wanted some comment on a report that
claimed the Common Core would save American 15 year olds by increasing
their scores on the PISA exams. According to the report, • Students in the
United States have […]
Updates On Syria [12.5]: Washington Courts Army of Islam, Obaaama's Jihadist Terrorists Kidnap 50 Kurds, European States Are Radicalizing Their Muslims To Fight In Syria
*1. An excerpt from, "U.S., Allies Reach Out to Syria's Islamist Rebels" by
Stacy Meichtry, Ellen Knickmeyer, and Adam Entous, The Wall Street Journal,
December 3:*
"The U.S. and its allies have held direct talks with key Islamist militias
in Syria, Western officials say, aiming to undercut al Qaeda while
acknowledging that religious fighters long shunned by Washington have
gained on the battlefield. *At the same time, Saudi Arabia is taking its
own outreach further, moving to directly arm and fund one of the Islamist
groups, the Army of Islam, despite U.S. qualms....* Some official... more »
Is @alexanderrusso crushing just a little bit?
It’s rare to see sympathetic voices on any of the mainstream networks. One
usually sees reform hacks and carpetbaggers”. “Some guy” Alexander Russo,
who comments hither and thither on education, seems obsessed with an
education activist’s recent appearance on MSNBC. And I say “some guy”
because, to me at least, Mr. Russo could be classified […]
R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): Remembering When Reagan Embraced Apartheid South Africa
*By MARC McDONALD*
After many years of struggle, the evil system of apartheid in South Africa
came to an end in the early 1990s, thanks to the brave efforts of Nelson
Mandela, who passed away on Thursday.
But apartheid's end arrived with absolutely no thanks to Ronald Reagan, a
man who embraced the racist apartheid regime.
In 1986, during the growing struggle against apartheid, Reagan used the
words *"immoral"* and *"utterly repugnant."*
Unfortunately, Reagan wasn't talking about apartheid. Instead, he was using
those words to describe his views on the *Anti-Apartheid Act*, a propo... more »
Innovative Common Core teaching?
EngageNY, the propaganda website of the New York State Education
Department, has a series of videos promoting “innovative” teaching to the
Common Core standards. The video library is an innovative and
differentiated resource that brings the Common Core instructional shifts,
teacher and leadership evaluation, and data driven instruction to life. I
was recently sent the […]
The Mortal Sea
Until the twentieth century, it was commonly believed that the oceans,
filled with vast quantities of fish, were immortal. It was impossible for
mere humans to ever make a dent in the sea’s enormous bounty. Similarly,
iron miners once believed that the Lake Superior lodes could be mined for
eternity. The white pines of the region were so numerous that it would be
impossible to cut them all down. Incredible fantasies are common among
folks who are blissfully ignorant of eco-history, and don’t understand the
reality of fish mining, mineral mining, forest mining, soil mining.
A so... more »
THE GREAT MAN
Nelson Mandela's first interview in 1961 for ITN when he was 43 years old.
A young Mandela flushes out his strategy for reclaiming fundamental rights
for black South Africans from his hideout before his arrest.
Peaceful resting Nelson Mandela.
Mandela the Revolutionary
"Mandela may or may not be forgotten, but he will certainly be distorted,
starting now." As I write, the obituary portraits are being updated and
given the requisite spin. For official politics it will be Saint Mandela,
the liberal hero. For the hard right it will be Mandela the terrorist, the
man who waged a brutal war against the authorities. And for the far left,
it's Mandela the sell-out - the leader who oversaw neoliberalism in South
Africa and the supplying of arms to anyone who could pay. The figure of
Mandela is contested because he is, perhaps, all these things. And more.
... more »
Into the High Sierras, Long Walk 4 photos
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Wednesday's walk into Carson City, Nevada (below)
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Top photos: Late Thursday, Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz arrived at
sacred Cave Rock. Thursday afternoon, walkers walk/ran into the High
Sierra Nevadas, near the Nevada and California border. Second set of
photos: The walk into Carson City, Nevada, on Wednesday. Photos by Carl
'Bad
Thoughts on the 9/11 "debate" and its aftermath
The day after the 9/11 "debate" with Mike Delaney and Scott Roberts this
past weekend, I had to take my computer to the Apple store for a minor
repair. The repair took longer than I expected. A lot has happened since
the "debate", and I'd like to take this opportunity to address the "debate"
itself and Andrew Anglin's commentary on it. Carolyn Yeager's *radio
program this past Monday* will be addressed in a future blog post.
I would like to thank both Delaney and Roberts, and subsequently both
Andrew Anglin and Carolyn Yeager, for providing much needed clarity on
their moral standar... more »
Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline By Making Schools More Like KIPP (Kids in Prison Program)
Following Columbine and 9-11 came No Child Left Behind, which together
created a perfect storm of oppressive school practices that would play out
most harshly among the poor. With NCLB’s impossible testing targets, urban
schools in particular were actually incentivized to identify and root out
any testing recalcitrants, low scorers, or other threats to making the
testing targets.
Here is a clip from the NYTimes story on Tuesday on the beginning of the
end to zero tolerance school policies that have been flooding the
school-to-prison pipeline for over a decade now:
. . . . Rather ... more »
Rob Ford, heroin, blackmail, extortion, etc...
Is Rob Ford's new defence going to be that he can't remember doing heroin
because he was in one of his crack stupors?
Because that might explain why *allegedly*
1) after Dixon Blood gang members tried to blackmail him with the crack
video and he tried to buy it back for $5-grand and a car
(wiretap March 27),
and
2) after he had his *driver* Lisi buy back the phone they stole from him
for 1.5kg in weed
(wiretap April 20),
Rob Ford decided to party with the same gang members who tried to blackmail
him - possibly resulting in even more incriminating vid and photos with
which to bla... more »
Top 10 Tips for GOP Congressmen Running Against Women
Today in *Politico*, it was reported that Speaker of the House John
Boehner (R-Ohio) and the National Republican Campaign Committee had sent
Republican subordinates to an ad hoc charm school in order to teach them
and their aides on how to address women, especially those running for their
seats. This is part of the GOP's new outreach program designed to show they
can be just as sensitive as their colleagues on the left side of the aisle.
In the words of *Politico*, this means the NRCC "wants to make sure there
are no Todd Akin-style gaffes next year." What were some of the top ... more »
Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘Demeaning Power of PISA’ edition [updated]
*UPDATE:* “When it comes to national leadership at a time of fragility and
transition, so much seems to depend on the luck of the draw. Will a country
find itself with a Milošević or a Mugabe; an Atatürk or an Arafat; a Rabin
who can see and seize the moment, and change course, or someone who never
will?
“South Africa was lucky – almost miraculously so – to have had Nelson
Mandela. His memory will be cherished for as long as history continues to
be written…”
*Mandela for the Ages* – former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans,
PROJECT SYNDICATE
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This wee... more »
On Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela has died. I remember him being released from prison. It was
a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, around the same time as the
peak of the anti-Poll Tax moment. It was a brief time when the world seemed
to be changing for the better. I remember watching this on TV and
complaining to my Mum why couldn't we have rebellions (and rebels) like
that in Britain - it wasn't fair. For all that he was, Nelson Mandela was
one of the few great men you shared the Earth with. He left the world in a
better state than it was before.
First Fake Trial of Latest American Crime Syndicate/Mafia (Not Just Italians) Forget Double Down Here’s the Real Story of the 2012 Election
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The CEA Fact Checkers Miss One
In his speech yesterday, President Obama said,
Now, we all know the arguments that have been used against a higher minimum
wage. Some say it actually hurts low-wage workers -- businesses will be
less likely to hire them. But there’s no solid evidence that a higher
minimum wage costs jobs.
From my perspective, the last sentence is just incorrect. There is a lot
of work by reputable economists that finds adverse employment effects of a
higher minimum wage. In a poll of top economists, as many say they believe
that the adverse employment effect is noticeable as those that say the
op... more »
Guest Post From John Bohlinger, Montana's Progressive Candidate For The Senate-- And An Ex-Republican
This week I visited with John Bohlinger, the progressive in Montana's U.S.
Senate race. A former Republican state legislator, John switched parties
from the GOP to the Democrats and I asked him to explain why. I'm always
curious about what make someone switch. Sometimes-- like Charlie Crist or
Patrick Murphy in Florida-- it's just opportunism. But it wasn't
opportunism for Elizabeth Warren or for Jason Thigpen when they became
Democrats. Sometimes, it's about values and a vision for the country, not
about careerism. So I asked John, whose race we've already been coveringhere to wri... more »
When and where does Capitalist Realism end?
Capitalist Realism is an apt phrase. Living under Capitalism Realism is
very much like living under Socialist Realism, the cultural dogma of the
Soviet Bloc. While we do not have the same fusion of state and civil
society that means a builders strike can rapidly escalate into a national
emergency, never before has parliament, the senior civil service, the top
levels of the banks and corporations, police and armed forces and the mass
media seemed so like a single enveloping institution. Each justifies and
helps the other.
If you use the accepted channels of express and effect ch... more »
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*Live blog: Levee board to vote to reaffirm lawsuit against oil and gas
companies ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
577,The Unluckiest Number,Ten years out. Enbridge pipeline disaster
577,The Unluckiest Number,Ten years out. Enbridge pipeline disaster
Written by Grant G
*Number 577, The Unluckiest Number*
The 10 year anniversary next month of the Bengal Lion Star tragedy and I
had to come to ground zero to see for myself, perhaps it was a mistake to
come here, from what I have seen i`m way too angry to cry and too sad for
fury, in fact I almost have that peaceful easy feeling.
How I miss my dad`s analytical explanation and mom`s hope springs eternal
talks, yet I fear that neither parent could explain away this tragedy, 10
ye... more »
two not-so-youth novels: another great one by john green, and part two of the hunger games
*Looking for Alaska*, John Green (2005)
Some months back I blogged about *The Fault in Our Stars*, by John Green. I
absolutely loved this book. I went in search of everything else the author
has written, and with another title down, I have not been disappointed.
Green's 2005 debut novel *Looking for Alaska* was about as good a youth
novel as I've ever read.
It's almost impossible to write about this book without spoiling a major
plot reveal. I loved the way the author managed this - it damn near took my
breath away - and I don't want to deprive anyone else of that experience.
So i... more »
former walmart executive leads covert smear campaign against activist workers: watch their hilariously awful video
From *The Nation*:
Last night, Worker Center Watch - a new website dedicated to attacking
labor-affiliated activist groups like OUR Walmart, Restaurant Opportunities
Center, and Fast Food Forward - began sponsoring advertisements on Twitter
to promote smears against the protests planned for Black Friday. In one
video sponsored by the group, activists demanding a living wage and better
working conditions for workers are portrayed as lazy “professional
protesters” who “haven’t bothered to get jobs themselves.”
“This Black Friday, just buy your gifts, not their lies,” instructs the
Wo... more »
A (Sun)Day in the Life (of the BBC) - 3.
Onwards and Jedwards, trudging through last Sunday morning on BBC Radio
4....
08:10 *Sunday Worship*
Radio 4 continued to mark the start of Advent with a live service
from Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church in Glasgow, led by a Gay vicar - the
Rev. Doug Gay.
It was a rather beautiful service, and I even enjoyed the sermon. (Aren't
they supposed to be boring?). It reflected on the relevance of the seasons
of the church year.
It was the music though that really brightened up my day. The opening hymn
- *O come, O come Emmanuel* - has long been a favourite of mine. There was
also a ... more »
Pope Francis to students: Respond to the challenges of the present moment
"It is through the idea of God that the rational metaphysics of the
philosophers accomplishes its principal task of clarifying the human mind.
For the human mind needs logic in order to form clear and distinct ideas
which may reach the heart and cleanse it with morality. In just this way,
the poetic metaphysics of the first giants, based on their idea of Jupiter
and their sensory logic, created a poetic morality. In their atheism, these
giants had warred with heaven. But when they beheld Jupiter's lightning
bolts, terror subdued them, laying low not only their bodies, but also
their... more »
Elsewhere: Zombie Rubio, Budget Showdown, more
My TAP column this week was a caution flag to the press to stop burying
presidential candidates too soon; my editor over there took a fairly dry
piece and added zombies to the headline...and an awesome URL.
Today at PP I reminded everyone, again, that the bottom line in government
funding negotiations is that eventually there will be a deal. I've made
this point repeatedly, but I have a new formulation of it today: the choice
isn't deal or shutdown; it's deal or shutdown *and* deal.
Let's see...earlier, I said that if there's a White House problem that
needs to be fixed by personnel... more »
Rush Limbaugh draws ire of lefty "Catholic" groups...
*for respectfully questioning statements made by Pope Francis.*
I don't usually speak about Catholic issues, but this attack on Rush
Limbaugh from groups supported by George Soros, has me ticked off really
annoyed.
Let's start at the beginning. Since Pope Francis was elected, every time
he opens his mouth there is an uproar over what he "really said." The only
reason for this is the vagueness of his statements and the bad reporting by
people who tend to misinterpret what's he's saying, or worse, interpret
what he says to match their preconceived agendas.
John Hayward of Breitbar... more »
The US extends a diplomatic hand to Islamists in Syria. But, not the bad ones.
Seriously. The US and company would never hook up with terrorists.
That is the tripe the talking heads and state mouthpieces want you to
believe.
If you do...???
*You are being fooled again!* *Don't allow yourself to be a fool.*
This is such blatant propaganda, obfuscation and bullshit I can't call it
anything else.
*U.S. extends diplomatic hand to Syria's Islamist rebels*
The image provided with this article is an Islamist carrying the Al Queda
flag.The choice of image and the spin in the article leaves me with the
impression that the reader is being ridiculed. Like its some inside jo... more »
Some fun time with ISON
Posted by American Kabuki
December 5, 2013
There's been a lot of effort by the main stream media to manage the
perception of the comet ISON, including saying it plunged into the Sun,
disintegrated into snowballs, yet we know it rounded the Sun and still
exists, and is perhaps even teleporting short distances, which causes
critics to think NASA is withholding footage of its flight path. Could it
be they just don't have footage of the intermediate points on the flight
path?
Several of us have been intuitively looking at this marvelous object, and
thought it might be fun if everyo... more »
The larger meaning of Martin Bashir!
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2013*
*The Crazy and The Dumb—and the Big Propaganda:* We can’t say we actively
root for people to lose their jobs.
Aside from that, it’s hard to disagree with most of what David Zurawik said
about the demise of Martin Bashir. Zurawik sounded off in the hometown
Baltimore Sun about Bashir’s departure from MSNBC.
Bashir left in the wake of his ridiculous comments about Sarah Palin. In
our view, his smutty, inane attack on Palin wasn’t his greatest offense:
ZURAWIK (12/4/13): I believe Bashir had to go, and I weep not for his
dismissal. *What he did and said i... more »
MYSTERIOUS MICHAEL
*Michael Adebolajo*
Michael Adebolajo is one of the alleged Woolwich attackers of soldier Lee
Rigby.
Michael Adebolajo comes from "a devout and loving Christian family."
A former school friends said that Adebolajo liked James Bond and video
games.
He said: "Michael was as British as they come."
Michael Adebolajo profile
*Michael Adebolajo in red cap.*
Another ex-schoolfriend said she knew Adebolajo from Marshalls Park school
in Romford.
She said: "He was funny, hilarious.
"He was a down to earth, nice guy."
Michael Adebolajo profile
*Justine - one of Adebolajo's girlfriend... more »
Pleiadian Council, Archangel Michael, and Source Creator via Goldenlight:Comet ISON is an Intergalactic Mothership and A Gift from Source Creator
*Thought this was interesting, many of us are getting on an intuitive
level
that ISON is a bit like the Weasley's tent in Harry Potter, bigger on
the
inside than it is on the outside in 3D. Whatever it is December is
going
to be most interesting when this things swings by... -Bill*
*Re-posted from *
http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/pleiadian-council-archangel-michael-and-source-creator-via-goldenlight-comet-ison-is-an-intergalactic-mothership-and-a-gift-from-source-creator/
*Pleiadian
Council, Archangel Michael, and Source Creator via Goldenlight:
Comet ISON is an Intergalactic... more »
the scream !
what is the most important thing ?
...the most important thing
is the family of man.
Trey Gowdy (really smart R/SC): What are the limits of the President's prosecutorial discretion?...
*Rep. Gowdy Questions about the President's use of prosecutorial discretion
at the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the President's constitutional
duty to faithfully execute the laws.*
The Eternal Hypocrisy of the Obamian Mind
Just as the Occupy movement spurred a nervous Barack Obama to deliver his phony
populist speech in Kansas in 2011, so too does the papal exhortation
against capitalist greed and its continuing role in global human suffering
now nudge the president to issue yet another Major Speech on income
inequality.
Obama has always prided himself on his nonexistent transparency, but this
time around, his usual well-cloaked hypocrisy couldn't be more glaringly
transparent. After five long Wall Street-groveling years in office, the
luster is definitely off the Obama Brand, probably for good. The ... more »
Supreme Court acknowledges judges are not always the best to interpret legislation
*McLean v. British Columbia (Securities Commission),* 2013 SCC 67 contains
a somewhat surprising acknowledgement by the Supreme Court of Canada that
Courts are not always the best bodies to interpret legislation. While this
deference may be sensible in a purely administrative law context, some
might argue the refusal to determine the meaning of legislation is an
abdication of responsibility. The Court notes:
[32] In plain terms, because legislatures do not
always speak clearly and because the tools of statutory interpretation do
not always guarantee a sing... more »
Giveaway: Affordable and Comfortable Dress Ups with LittleDressUpShop.com
I am pretty sure my daughter spends more time in costume than in regular
clothes. One minute she is a princess, the next a pirate and then back to
being a princess again. She wears dress ups so much, that I am pretty sure
she would sleep in them if I would let her. The problem we run into over
and over again is the costumes aren't durable and they aren't comfortable.
They are made with itchy seams and fragile fabrics, neither of which is
conducive to playing for long periods of time.
When LittleDressUpShop.com contacted me and asked me to review a dress up,
it was my first questi... more »
Data Dilemmas & Converging Logics
One of the recurring subjects among folks using data is: why does person x
not share their data with me? Mostly because they are fearful and
ignorant. Fearful? That their work will get scooped and/or their data
might be found to be problematic. Ignorant? That they don’t know that
they are obligated to share their
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Duncan Hunter's Alcoholic Kid Says He Wants To Nuke Iran-- And He's A Congressman From Near San Diego!
Yesterday there was a House Intelligence Committee briefing about the
situation in Iran. The Administration would like to get the AIPAC shills in
both parties to calm the hell down while they're defusing a difficult and
persistent problem with Iran's nuclear ambitions. The last time the far
right got involved with this kind of thing, we wound up with a
nuclear-armed North Korea that can get away with almost anything now. Obama
is trying to prevent that from happening in Iran. Hardliners-- in America
and in Iran-- are working against the success of the negotiations. Michele
Bachman... more »
Potential prejudicial effect of photographs
R. v. Araya, 2013 ONCA 734:
[30] To the extent that the appellant submits that the photos had no
probative value, I cannot agree.
[31] As the trial judge stated in his ruling, the appellant's
appearance had changed materially between the time of the shooting and
trial. At the time of the shooting, the appellant was 18 years of age. He
had a small bit of facial hair on his chin, an afro hairstyle and did not
wear glasses. By the time of trial – some three years later – he had
gained a substantial amount of weight, his features had matured, he was
shorthaired, clean... more »
George Osborne puts Ed Balls in his place during the Autumn Statement today
"They can’t talk about their record because they had the biggest recession
ever.
They can’t talk about the deficit because they’ve got no plan to deal with
it.
He can’t talk about infrastructure and his much vaunted plan for a
cross-party consensus because he was the person who tried to break the
consensus on the biggest project of all.
He can’t talk about housing because there were 420,000 fewer affordable
homes at the end of the Labour government.
He can’t talk about business rates because they went up 71 per cent under
Labour.
He can’t talk about support for business because he w... more »
GUEST POST: Let’s Nurture Inner-Directed Students and Ignore the “No Excuses” Crowd, John Thompson
GUEST POST: Let\’s Nurture Inner-Directed Students and Ignore the \”No
Excuses\” Crowd, John Thompson. via GUEST POST: Let’s Nurture
Inner-Directed Students and Ignore the “No Excuses” Crowd, John Thompson.
Dark matter \(0.11\meV\) axion discovered in 2004 via Josephson junctions
*Or at least some deviation may be interpreted in this remarkable way!*
Two days ago, Nude Socialist's Katia Moskvitch (yes, it was a Soviet car)
wrote an unusually useful article promoting a September 2013 hep-ph
preprint by Christian Beck (Cambridge and London; a twin brother of Glenn
Beck who is also a Christian, after all, both Mormon and Roman Catholic
one) that we apparently missed:
Hints of cold dark matter pop up in 10-year-old circuit (NS)
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Possible resonance effect of axionic dark matter in Josephson junctions(arXiv, free)
The probable reason w... more »
Setting Free the Books: On Stepping Aside as Teaching
Setting Free the Books: On Stepping Aside as Teaching. via Setting Free the
Books: On Stepping Aside as Teaching.
Sarah Palin Responds to Martin Bashir Resignation on Fox & Friends...
*a very classy woman.*
Correction: Rhee appears on Chris Hayes show!
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2013*
*Therein lies a tale:* Last night, Michelle Rhee appeared on the Chris
Hayes show. (We were a bit surprised.)
This morning, we wanted to review the transcript. When we entered “Rhee” in
the Nexis search engine, we got no hit. There was no sign that she had
appeared on any Chris Hayes program.
Puzzled, we looked at the Hayes transcript for the December 4 program. We
saw a discussion of the new PISA results—a discussion which *wasn’t*conducted on last night’s program.
Looking more closely, we saw that this was actually the transcript for the
December 3 H... more »
Going Nuclear Was About Republicans, Not Democrats
I'll join those who are impressed that Chris Cillizza went back to assess
why he was wrong when he asserted during the summer that the Senate would
never go nuclear. Acknowledging past errors is absolutely admirable.*
So I hope I'm not being too crass by saying that, alas, Cillizza still
doesn't really get it right. The problem is that he sets it all up as a
story about the Democrats and about Harry Reid in particular. Back in July,
he argued that Senate Majority Leaders by their nature were always going to
seek to preserve, not blow up, the institution; now, he thinks that the key
... more »
The New Bob George Website: Schmaltz Stirred with Obfuscation
*"About Us"*
For those who did not get enough of Bob George and Betsy Angert at those
marathon online meetings during that interim when Bob George was turning a
dynamic activist group (SOS) into a navel-gazing society to block
resistance and civil disobedience against CorpEd, well, Bob and Angie are
back with, yet, a milder and mushier version of activism on Prozac.
Their new website, empathyeducates.org, looks and reads like the latest
edition of "New Age Education for Dummies." There's loads of feel-good
photos, pages and pages of links to news articles, blogs, books, videos, ... more »
MUST SEE: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent
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*Who pays? ~Library Chronicles *
*Poll Shows Residents Favor Oil Companies Paying for Damages to Louisiana
Wetlands ~Glynn Wilson, Locust Fork News-Journal*
*Early Aerial Photography of New Orleans ~Richard Campanella*
*GEAUXgeous 'n Green in New Orleans benefiting Global Green USA*
*Words and Music Festival has something for everyone ~Katie Walenter, New
Orleans Advocate*
Iraq’s Oil Exports Up In November 2013 But Still At Plateau That Might Continue For Near Future
November saw Iraq’s oil exports recover after two months of work to
facilities in Basra. Both the southern and Kirkuk pipelines witnessed nice
increases. Despite that the country’s exports are at a 21-month plateau
overall, which many analysts and industry sources believe will continue
into 2014.
Last month saw a return for Iraq’s two export pipelines. November’s average
was 2.381 million barrels a day. That was up from 2.253 million in October.
At $103 per barrel that rate brought in $7.3 billion for the month. The
backbone of the industry Basra saw an average of 2.281 million ... more »
Floating On Hot Air
The Warrior-in-Chief has been cowed. Tom Walkom notes that Stephen Harper's
bellicose rhetoric has cooled:
The prime minister’s references to Afghanistan now are usually brief and
elliptical, as they were on Remembrance Day when he listed Kandahar as one
of the many places in which Canadian troops have fought and served since
1914.
Canada still has 620 troops in Afghanistan tasked with training local
forces. But Harper no longer travels there to pose for the cameras with
them.
He used to regularly show up at military bases to praise soldiers and their
families. That practice, ... more »
Raw Deal: Oregon Organic Milk Farmers Fight Censorship
*19 November 2013*
In Oregon, it is perfectly legal for farmers to sell raw—or
unpasteurized—milk...so long as they don't talk about it. If they do, they
face huge fines and jail time. But a major federal lawsuit filed this
morning by the Institute for Justice (IJ), the national law firm for
liberty, and Christine Anderson, owner of Cast Iron Farm in McMinnville,
Ore., seeks to change that.
Oregon flatly bans the advertisement of raw milk, a perfectly legal product
for farmers like Christine to sell. That means Christine and other farmers
are prohibited from posting flyers at lo... more »
Consolidation of Energetics Upgrade Process leads to Formation of the next Gaia Energetic Protocol
*Consolidation of Energetics Upgrade Process leads to Formation of the next
Gaia Energetic Protocol*
by ÉirePort
Consolidation of Energetics Upgrade process leads to formation of the next
Gaia Energetic Protocol for expansion of hu-manity and Hue-Manity
consciousness.
Such Protocol establishes prime "responsibility" with each Hue-Being for
Ascension steps.
All restraints have been removed.
All obstructions are now eliminated.
All complexities of the New Protocol are handled.
Gaia Ascension is assured.
ÉirePort | December 5, 2013 at 06:04
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Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jessica Pare, 31.
And very quickly, some good stuff:
1. Barack Obama's speech on the economy -- which Ezra Klein calls his best
on that subject.
2. Jamelle Bouie on the president's speech.
3. John Sides has a preliminary forecast for 2014 House elections.
4. Adrianna McIntyre on Medicaid.
5. And Brendan Nyhan on polarization.
Argentina: The Anomalous Humanoid Figure of November 2010
While we are still on the lookout for the results of the photo analysis on
the towering Necochea "humanoid", *Guillermo Giménez* has sent us another
photograph - taken on November 10, 2010 - that shows a humanoid silhouette
standing in the water (or advancing through the water) also in Necochea.
The image forms part of the collection of *Luis Burgos* of FAO but there is
no mention of any analysis. So we share it with our readers in the same way
it was given to us: "As Is". Clever computer trickery? An interdimensional
being? A water elemental? It's anyone's guess.
Inexplicata Podca... more »
Ma Gov't and ADIZ
*Lovely day on Dongchi Road on the way to Dongshih*.
FocusTaiwan has some good news on the Ma Government's reaction to the new
Chinese ADIZ:
*Taiwan has told Beijing that its declaration of an air defense
identification zone (ADIZ) over an area of the East China Sea that covers
the disputed Diaoyutai Islands is unacceptable*, Taiwan's intelligence
chief said Wednesday.
Tsai De-sheng, director-general of the National Security Bureau (NSB) said
Taiwan is also communicating with China through an encrypted dialogue
channel over Beijing's plan to demarcate another ADIZ over the South... more »
OUTSCORING FINLAND: Disaggregation hurts!
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2013*
*Part 3—Disaggregation reveals:* Fairly or otherwise, Finland has begun
getting bumped from the press corps’ list of “educational powerhouses.”
Don’t get us wrong! At the Atlantic, Julia Ryan still described the Finns
that way when she reported the new PISA scores this week. She failed to
note that Massachusetts, whose performance she ridiculed, *matched* the
powerhouse Finns in reading and math on the most recent PISA.
(By a fairly modest margin, Finland outscored Massachusetts in science.)
At the Atlantic, Finland is still a “powerhouse.” But in the Ne... more »
Flying a MIG
H/T http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/04/mig-31-go-pro/
We Need More Women In Congress-- But Good Ones, Not Women Who Are Even Worse Than Men
According to Pelosi, when women succeed, America succeeds
Yesterday I got an e-mail from an awful candidate running for an open House
seat in northeast Iowa, Swati Dandekar. Blue America is backing the
progressive running for that seat, Pat Murphy. The only previous mention of
Swati here at *DWT* was in October when we warned readers that there's
another horrible Democrat is the race, Swati Dandekar, who you may recall,
sold out Iowa Democrats when she was a state senator by accepting an
appointment from Republican Gov. Branstad to the Iowa Utility Board. Since
Republicans held the I... more »
ObamaCare Ground Hog Day - December 2 , 2013 ....." New and improved " ObamaCare website works like " old and dysfunctional " ObamaCare website ( long delays / endless circle of tasks / ultimately leading to an error message ) - Imagine that ? Cover Oregon Executive Director taking leave of absence - not shocking as that State failed to sign anyone up through their website to date ! Healthcare.gov signs up 100,000 folks in November ( of course since the backend isn't built , none of these folks have made a payment yet ) .... and of course since the November target was 800 ,000 - you can see how far off things are ! Front end still glitchey - well , here's worse news -- the backend still isn't working as per Insurers.....
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
December
3, 2013....
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/03/obama-on-obamacare-theres-no-way-were-repealing-this-boondoggle-while-im-president-america/
Obama
on ObamaCare: There’s no way we’re repealing this boondoggle while
I’m president, America
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OPAL Tour Norway -- Absent Limits Conference -- Main Talk
*OPAL Tour Norway -- Absent Limits Conference -- Mail Talk*
December 5, 2013
Posted by BRIAN KELLY
http://vjindigomusic.wordpress.com/
What a privilege it was to be a part of this talk. Lots of amazing
participation from the audience and a wealth of ground covered in a short
period of time. The message continuing to be taking action and unifying our
collective mission/vision. A highlight of the day for me was reading a
Facebook post written by a man some of you will know from his associations
with Adnan Sakli and previous conversations between he and Heather I have
posted on this ... more »
How Israel treats Palestinian Prisoners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzODE-81pc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Tyres are important, especially in the winter
Well worth watching, no? Another odd Japanese video.
Jenny Tonge at it again
Trending Central report that:
'She (Jenny Tonge) asks in a written parliamnetary question today:
*Baroness Tonge: to ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent discussions
they have held with other European countries about opening dialogue with
Hamas; and what steps they will take to promote dialogue between Hamas and
the Palestinian Authority.*
Jenny Tonge is the Liberal Democrat who in March 2009 met Hamas leader
Khaled Meshal in Syria and described him as “shrewd, plausible and actually
very likeable”. During that visit she also had a meeting with Ramadan
Shalah, the head of Islam... more »
WTO to India: Starve your poor as we demand
*WTO: Just another elite organization that should be kicked to the curb.*
*Globalization is a fail. It serves the powers that shouldn’t be. It does
not serve the people. In any nation. Anywhere on the globe.*
India on Thursday shrugged off mounting pressure to compromise in a global
impasse over food security that has cast the future of the World Trade
Organization into doubt.
*New Delhi's insistence that it be allowed to stockpile and subsidise grain
for its millions of hungry poor has emerged as a major stumbling block at a
WTO conference* of trade ministers in Bali.
The WTO has ... more »
Saskatchewan's Auditor General BLASTS Brad Wall For Government Financial Records That Are 'Wrong"
REGINA — *The provincial auditor is waving a red flag over the government’s
main operating account, saying that the general revenue fund (GRF)
financial statements are “full of errors” and masking a massive deficit of
nearly $600 million, rather than a surplus of about $60 million as reported
at the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year.*
*In fact, the auditor’s office has gone so far as to issue an “adverse’’
opinion of the GRF, the first time in the province’s history that the
provincial auditor has refused to endorse the GRF financial statements.
“Adverse audit opinions are very rare, ... more »
"Slave-Speak"
What is becoming gradually obvious now is “slave-speak”. This particular
dialect holds an emphasis on waiting, hoping, needing, depending, asking,
obeying and fear. The sooner we drop this lingo, the faster we shed these
shackles.
If you are waiting to see your freedom announced in a newscast or blog,
you’ve missed the point. Sovereignty does not come from outside of you. It
is a deep understanding and agreement with each moment of your life. A
sovereign being lives in concert with every action taken and each word
spoken. A sovereign being is the absolute truth of you. All... more »
Václav Klaus: French criticism of the global warming champions' fanaticism
*Translation from Czech (by LM)*
*Review of Pascal Bruckner's book "The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse" by the
Czech ex-president*
Pascal Bruckner, a significant personality belonging to the contemporary
generation of French writers, a member of the left-wing "nouveaux
philosophie", wrote an important book for the French people but comparably
important for us as well – us who were mostly suckled on the Anglo-Saxon
reasoning and who tend to underestimate the French in the social-scientific
fields or, to put it more precisely, who tend to associate the French with
a very illiberal thin... more »
The Autumn Statement, Ed Balls' response
Could Ed Balls get any redder in the face? Maybe he'll explode with fake
indignation, we can but hope.
Is Humanity Declaring Checkmate On The New World Order?
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
*Is Humanity Declaring Checkmate On The New World Order?*
Bernie Suarez
Reblogged from: Activist Post
What is the line between confidence and acknowledgement of victory? Early
celebration versus clear vision of how nature will handle a conflict within
itself? Is victory and hope truly all imaginary or is there something more
to it?
As humanity exponentially wakes up to the plans of the global elite (those
in power, the ruling class, the “Illuminati” or whatever you want to call
them), when will it officially become common knowledge that, yes, we are in ... more »
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