English: Nelson Mandela Statue Nelson Mandela Statue and the Houses of Parliament (Photo credit: Wikipedia)If Steve Israel Had Had My Job, Depeche Mode Would Have Never Broken In The U.S.
Tomorrow, Monday, is the last day of Blue America's fundraiser for Keith
Ellison and Mike Obermueller, two Minnesota progressive champions. You
still have time to click this link, watch a little "Policy of Truth," see a
photo of the prize-- a rare and collectible RIAA-certified double platinum
award for the Mode's *Violator*-- and help us make sure Keith and Mike win
next year. Let me take a minute to say thanks to the staffers from both
campaigns who helped make the fundraiser a success and to Alan Grayson, Rob
Zerban and Raul Grijalva for their pure-hearted generosity in helping ... more »
Updates On P5+1-Iran Deal: Obama Pours Cold Water On His Own Deal To Placate Israel, Saudi Arabia Wants In On Diplomatic Poker Game, Western Diplomats Are Confident That Tentative Deal Will Stick
*1. An excerpt from, "Obama: Chances for Final Iran Deal 50-50 or Worse" by
Bradley Klapper and Darlene Superville, ABC News, December 7:*
President Barack Obama said Saturday he believed the chances for a
comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran are 50-50 or worse, yet defended
diplomacy as the best way to prevent Tehran from acquiring atomic weapons.
*During a question-and-answer session with a pro-Israel audience, Obama
said he wasn't naive about the odds for a successful final agreement
between world powers and Iran next year, building on the recent six-month
interim deal.*
*"... more »
Nelson Mandela: Communist, Terrorist, Rabble-Rouser!
I have truly been surprised over the last few days about how much all the
reports on the Electric Jew and in the Jewish controlled newspapers have
concentrated on the death of the former South African communist and
terrorist leader, Nelson Mandela. It has been sickening to see all of the
reports calling this person one of the "greatest men" in all history,
without telling the truth about how this man sought a violent revolution to
take over South Africa and cared little about how many people, either black
or white, that died in the process... Few know that he was imprisoned for
so... more »
Last Days
Over the last few week five important events have transpired:
*1. Japan passed a state secrets law *that is so repressive that Japan's
ordinarily complacent media have launched a major offensive, as illustrated
by this Japan Times editorial:
Government without oversight Dec 6, 2013
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/editorials/government-without-oversight/#.UqN_vuLlfzM
[Excerpted] People have the right to know what their government is doing.
Ensuring this right is the foundation of democracy. The state secrets bill,
which the Abe administration Thursday rammed through ... more »
Michael James : Back to Uptown, 1965-1966
Two
men, Uptown Chicago, 1966. Photos by Michael James from his forthcoming
book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Back to Uptown: Bye-bye California,
Chicago here I come, 1965-1966
I proceeded to quote Tom Paine: “Let them call me rebel and welcome, I
feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I
to make a whore of
Rand Paul-- This Year's Avatar Of Compassionate Conservatism And Tough Love
While congressional Republicans-- with their 9% job approval rating-- boasted
about obstructing President Obama at every turn, the Administration was imploring
Congress to extend unemployment benefits to the longterm unemployed.
Rand Paul on *Fox News Sunday* today said he opposes extending benefits--
but it's because, he says, he loves unemployed workers and just wants to do
what's right for them. Extending benefits, he insists, would be doing them
a "disservice… When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99
weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpet... more »
Mandela was no saint [updated]
Nelson Mandela was no saint.
Not even Bishop Desmond Tutu thought of him that way, “guffawing at the
idea that Mandela was anything so dry, hollow and uninteresting.”
He took up “armed struggle” against the South African state that denied him
rights based on his race—becoming the leader of the armed faction of the
ANC that emerged after the Sharpville massacre to carry out indiscriminate
bombings against innocent South Africans. The Church Street bombing alone,
carried out under his successor in the role Oliver Tambo, killed 19 people,
and injured many more.
Mandela himself was... more »
Deficiencies in translation
Li v. Jean, 2013 NSCA 135:
[8] A failure of, or gross deficiency in translation has
the potential to deprive a litigant of the right to a trial of issues on
the merits but as pointed out in *Fu v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration) *2011 FC 155 (CanLII), 2011 FC 155 at para. 10*,*if the errors
are not material to the ultimate findings the court should not intervene.
In *R v Tran *[1994]2 SCR 951, the Supreme Court referenced the fact that
interpretations may not be perfect. At para. 60 of the decision the court
noted that interpretation is an inherentl... more »
TRICKLE DOWN HUMAN CARING
*The Daily Show*
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Pope Francis denounces trickle-down economics as unfair to the poor, but
Fox's Stuart Varney respectfully disagrees with the infallible Holy See.
Ijiraat
The Ijiraat are the shape-shifters. These land spirits are elusive and can
transform into any arctic animal to disguise themselves. Most often they
take the shape of a raven, bear, wolf or even a human. The only part of the
Ijiraat that it cannot disguise is its red eyes. In all of it forms, both
human and animal, its eyes always remain red.
These hidden creatures are portrayed as evil and malicious in many stories.
These stories warn that the Ijiraat lie in wait for lone travelers,
changing shape to fool and get close to the travelers.
Some elders argue that these land spirits an... more »
Why is NYS Railroading Students with Disabilities?
A guest post from Bianca Tanis, Parent, Special Educator and Co-Founder NYS
Allies for Public Education The current education reforms being implemented
in NYS are an assault on the dignity and the rights of students with
disabilities, plain and simple. While educational leaders seem to be
suffering from an extreme case of magical thinking, parents […]
Pearl Harbour Day reboot
If you are not familiar with either Zero Hedge or William Banzi this is a
great introduction. Its hard to see where either Japan or the USA escape
without mass casualties from printing their way to prosperity. Japan will
most certainly flame out first and the economic tsunami will wash over
America.
No disrespect intended to the original Pearl Harbour and the profound
horror inflicted upon those people in paradise.
ANOTHER BIG STORY BY HERSCH
Whose sarin?London Review of Books By Seymour M. Hersh
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make
the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons
attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important
intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most
significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US
intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the
country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study
concluded – without assessing ... more »
Add Corruption to Arne Duncan's Shortcomings
Elizabeth Warren calls him a lapdog--I think that is very generous of her. From
HuffPo:
The U.S. Department of Education risks becoming a “lapdog” as a result of
recent actions toward financial companies such as Sallie Mae, Sen.
Elizabeth Warren charged Thursday.
The Massachusetts Democrat said she was “deeply concerned” by a Huffington
Post report that the Education Department had recently told Sallie Mae, the
nation’s largest handler of student loans, that it intended to renew its
federal contract to collect payments on federal student loans, despite
pending investigations by at ... more »
Depoliticise MP's Pay
MP's shouldn't get a huge pay rise. And you don't need a hotline to each
and every registered voter to know the overwhelming majority would agree.
It's quite simple. A £66k salary is a great deal more than the majority of
people will ever see in their pay packet. A tidy sum like this may well
have started out with the best intentions; of ensuring working people could
afford to become MP's and that the Commons wasn't the exclusive playground
of the rich. However, if a week is a long time in politics what is a
century? These days MP's remuneration connotes nothing of the sort. It
spe... more »
Updates On Syria [12.8]: Hersh Says al-Nusra May End Up As The Only Group With CW In Syria, PYD Leader Salih Muslim Says Kurds Must Be Represented As An Independent Delegation At Geneva II, Turkey Says Al-Qaeda Poses Threat To Its Security
*1. An excerpt from, "Whose sarin?" by Seymour M. Hersh, London Review of
Books, December 8: *
The administration’s distortion of the facts surrounding the sarin attack
raises an unavoidable question: do we have the whole story of Obama’s
willingness to walk away from his ‘red line’ threat to bomb Syria? He had
claimed to have an iron-clad case but suddenly agreed to take the issue to
Congress, and later to accept Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical
weapons. It appears possible that at some point he was directly confronted
with contradictory information: evidence strong enough ... more »
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money [updated]
Poverty campaigners have released a report this morning suggesting one in
four NZ children are living in poverty. The poverty measured today is not
poverty measured in *absolute* terms--that is, it is not the grinding
poverty someone from before the industrial age would recognise as having
existed for most of human history up to that point.
*Prior to the advent of industrial capitalism (in roughly the 1760s) the
lot of the English working class was generally miserable. Utter destitution
was rampant, literal starvation not uncommon and the country was overrun
with paupers. T... more »
Sunday Classics: Bruckner's Fourth Symphony -- four stories for four movements
[*This post appeared in somewhat different form on Jan. 10, 2010.*]
The Bruckner Monument in City Park, Vienna
*by Ken*
Back in January 2010, when the original versions of this series of posts
appeared, we had only recently adagio-ed our way from Beethoven's two great
symphonic Adagios, of the *Eroica *and Ninth Symphonies, to those of Anton
Bruckner (1824-1896) and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) -- which I used as a
pretty nervy way to tramp onto the turf of two of the trickier composers in
the pantheon. Having thus sneaked up on Bruckner, I reasoned at the time,
why not try to build ... more »
Nelson Mandela - Tool of the New World Order
*Trouble brewing - President Mandela is greeted by Rev. Jesse Jackson of
the Council on Foreign Relations.*
Best bit of Mandela hyperbole so far:* "Mandela midwifed a world- class
constitution that respected all, put in place programmes to reverse effects
of apartheid, retired honourably after one term, wasn't corrupt."*
I'm not a big supporter of the idea of heaping praise on people for sh*t
their expected to do anyway.
Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lamumba and Gabdul al-Nasser are three
anti-colonialist African leaders who were not corrupt, liberated their
nations from white colonial... more »
A tribute to poet and scholar Kathleen Raine 2003 (Video)
An excerpt from *her obituary* by Janet Watts, published in The Guardian on
July 8, 2003:
Kathleen Raine, who has died aged 95, was a poet who believed in the sacred
nature of all life, all true art and wisdom, and her own calling. She knew
as a small child that poetry was her vocation.
William Blake was her master, and she shared his belief that "one power
alone makes a poet - imagination, the divine vision". As WB Yeats, her
other great exemplar, put it, "poetry and religion are the same thing". To
this vision she committed not only her poetry and erudition, but her whole
life.... more »
Longest Walk 4 headed over Echo Pass, California
Sunday,
Dec. 8, 2013: Walk 4 die-hards are chaining up the support vehicle
tires, ready to walk over Echo Pass, Calif., will be in Shingle Springs
Miwok for stay place tonight! The walkers are on Hwy 50 headed toward
Shingle Springs, Sacramento and Alcatraz! Photos by Bad Bear.
Funerals and funnymen
Well, off they go to South Africa, our Prime Minister and assorted
hang-arounds past and present from different parties. They all were,
are, or want to be in the driver's seat, so they are all hang-arounds.
Chief
among them but far from a chief is the current occupant of two-four
Sussex Drive. The gall of someone like him showing up at the hero's
funeral of Nelson Mandela, a man he would
SHATTERING THE CLASS MYTHOLOGY
Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on *Truthdig*, spent nearly
two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East,
Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has
worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas
Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign
correspondent for 15 years. He has written nine books, including "Empire of
Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2009), "I
Don't Believe in Atheists" (2008) and the best-selling "American Fascists... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
What lessons from the Barack Obama presidency -- positive or negative --
are you keeping in mind when choosing a presidential candidate for 2016?
Heroes of the ZSRDF
*Awarded in perpetuity: The Golden Clusterfuck*
I have to protect the identity of Pinko Cleanser, I can only say Rob Ford
is down with the cause. Pinko can not be arrested because CISIS is
protecting him. The ZSRDF has awarded him their highest honor. He has
selflessly reached out to the Pleiadians by extremely altering his
consciousness repeatedly, he rode the horse for you. Pinko never drove
drunk, his vehicles have always been guided by the ZSRDF.
For decades Zombies and Space Aliens have been a immutable white
people problem. Pinko has gone into many ethnic communities to bri... more »
Airport in Chesterfield Inlet
Remember the song "Take the long way" ... more »
Simultaneous translation inadequate for bilingual jury trials
R v Gagnon 2013 QCCA 1744. Serious implications especially in Quebec and
Nunavut.
Sunday Question for Conservatives
What lessons from the George W. Bush presidency -- positive or negative --
are you taking with you when it comes to selecting a presidential candidate
for 2016?
Babies, black holes, Bonnie Greer, Nelson Mandela (inevitably) and bloody Marcus Brigstocke
Slowing working through this morning's *Broadcasting House* and, with just
two items down, there's already been a Bushtucker Trial's worth of bias
from the programme, thanks to Hugh Sykes and Paddy O'Connell. So we've
already had the kangaroo's willy and the witchetty grubs. What's up next?
Well, here's Paddy bringing in the turkey testicles...
...namely the tale of an Italian woman visiting Britain who was forced by a
British council to give birth to her baby by *caesarian section* under the
provisions of the Mental Health Act. (The father was Senegalese, I read
elsewhere). The l... more »
(Minor Fines Are Cost of Doing Bankster Fraud) If You Thought Jason Bourne's Handlers Were Smart, You're Going To Love What the CIA Has Paid For (/SNARK) Good Reasons Why The US Can't Fund Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure or Anything Else?
Solar panels on a home in Los Angeles. Alec will promote legislation
planning to penalise individual homeowners who install solar panels.
(photo: Cultura/Rex) (Please consider making even a small contribution to
the Welcome to Pottersville2 Quarterly Fundraiser happening now ($5.00 is
suggested for those on a tight budget) or at least sending a link to your
friends if you think the
The Dark Side of Crime-fighting, Security, and Professional Intelligence
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*Youtube*
Very interesting speech by Richard Thieme at the 19th annual DEFCON hacker
conference about the good, bad, ugly, and simply "what is so" about the
security state.
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My Laptop Has Officially Gone Insane
Click on the image above to see what I see when I access Twitter using
Firefox.
Last night, something happened on Twitter that I've never seen in my
20 years on the internet. I was sitting there reading my feed when suddenly
all by itself the values of everything got bloated, then returned to
normal, then back to bloated then back to normal then to microfiche size.
What you see in the screengrab above is exactly what I see to this day when
I'm on Twitter using Firefox. It seems the only browser I've found thus far
that shows the page normally is the hated Microsoft Interne... more »
Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union to be the "evil empire." Now Reagan's Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy sees the United States as the evil empire of the 21st century.
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*Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China —
Paul Craig Roberts*
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Expect Devastating Global Economic Changes In 2014
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Brandon Smith
By any reasonable measure, I think it is safe to say that the last quarter
of 2013 has been an insane game of economic Russian Roulette. Even more
unsettling is the fact that most of the American population still has
little to no clue that the U.S. was on the verge of a catastrophic catalyst
event at least three times in the past three months alone, and that we face
an even greater acceleration next year.
The first near miss was the Federal Reserve's announcement of a possible
“taper” of QE stimulus in early f... more »
Doesn't Compton Have Enough Problems Without Criminals Infiltrating The Political System?
Right-wing political hit man-for-hire, Basil Kimbrew
I was saddened this week when a friend of mine, a smart and idealistic
young guy who has been working on the ground for candidates, told me he's
getting out of the field. "The consultants," he told me in disgust, "run
the whole show and its all about lining their own pockets." In the past we
talked about the consultants have taken over the DCCC and run the committee
not to elect candidates but to enrich themselves. It's exactly as bad-- and
dysfunctional-- on the other side of the aisle. Consultants are, more or
less, a special cla... more »
Are they all in it together?
It's a peculiar thing, but whilst listening to certain BBC programmes I
find it hard *not* to think that BBC employees are even more detached from
public opinion than MPs.
This morning's *Broadcasting House *discussed the vexed topic of MPs' pay,
following IPSA's recommendation of a whopping 11% pay rise for our elected
servants.
From what I can gather, much of the British public seems to be against such
an outlandish (tax payer-funded) pay rise. Would *BH *reflect that public
concern?
Tellingly, not a single MP responded to the programme's call for them to
come onto *BH *and d... more »
Off World Update - "Don't be chicken - time is tickin"
*This latest update from our off world contact urges us to quietly get
creative. Check out the links included, grab some other like minded folks,
and build some solutions! *
*~Sophia*
*December 8, 2013*
*Sophia, as I shared with You magnetic rotation technology and encourage
You to make them and use in Your cars and homes I was told to share with
You also a much cheaper and easier way how to avoid using combustion fuels.
You can easily use water as a fuel, all You need to do is retrofit Your old
gasoline/diesel engine system to run on it, and tweaks n... more »
China City of America - part of a grand plan to convert US dollars into US Assets ? 1000 residences - the present population of Thompson , New York is 15,000 - will this be allowed to go forward ? In case you might think this is a one off special development - think again !
Catharsis Ours - 11 hours ago
http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/mysterious-plans-to-build-upstate-ny-china-city-of-america/
Mysterious plans to build upstate NY ‘China City of America’
By Geoff Earle
December 4, 2013 | 7:16pm
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[image: Mysterious plans to build upstate NY ‘China City of America’]
Long Island businesswoman Sherry Li (inset) is the mastermind behind the
plan to build a China City of America in upstate New York.
Photo: Photo Courtesy Midhudsonnews.com
A Long Island businesswoman wants to build a massive “Chinese Disneyland”
in the Catskills — which would include an amusement park, huge mansions... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 8th, 2013
It is indeed Sunday again, and I am just sitting down to do my usual
rant... Also trying to stay warm on this extremely cold morning in central
Canada..
Gosh, darn this Global Warming... What we are experiencing right now in
both the Canadian and the American west with these unusual extremely cold
conditions should put that scam completely out of its misery once and for
all time... Right here we are seeing the COLDEST beginning to December
since they actually started recording temperatures and conditions here back
in the late 19th century. Temperatures here have dipped overnight t... more »
“Obviously this don’t go anywhere fellas, I’ve just broken the Geneva Convention..."
Regards Sgt Alexander Blackman, who killed a wounded member of the Taliban:
the United Kingdom is a signatory of the Geneva Convention. The convention
states:
"Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of
armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat
by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all
circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded
on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other
similar criteria.
"To this end, the following acts are and shall remai... more »
The school of schools also hates creativity via @slate #highered #teacherprep
On inside the box thinking. This resonates perfectly with my experiences in
higher education and teacher preparation, specifically. Creative thinking,
in a politically charged environment, is dangerous. Allow me to explain,
and this is my experience only. You may have experienced something
different, and that’s fine. The crux of this very short Slate piece is […]
Canadian Failure Makes You Sick?
Are you sickened by your fellow Canadians' failure to do anything about
stephen harper? What did you do to bring him down? What did you do to try
to get others to do something about him?
There needs to be something big, something huge, to change the present
arrangement of power between corporate capitalism and the earth. That's
what we should be focused on. But we're incapable.
Criss Angel: Demonstrating 'reality' as it isn't...
Dr. John's World - Dr. John's Hiding Place - 12 hours ago
Criss Angel (real name: Christopher Sarantakos) probably is one [...]
Hugh Can Call Me Nelson
Naturally, this morning's *Broadcasting House *began with Nelson Mandela.
If it *hadn't* started with Nelson I'd have died of shock. This is the BBC,
and* BH *after all. Some things are simply inevitable (like Kian from
Westlife winning *I'm a Celebrity *tonight).
The BBC's highly opinionated Hugh Sykes had been dispatched (at license fee
payers' expense) to join the other 15,000 BBC reporters down in South
Africa at the moment.
Hugh did what Hugh does, expressing his impeccably left-of-centre personal
feelings with some panache.
Apartheid v Nelson Mandela - ironically, a total... more »
Maybe Santa Clarita Republicans Need To Take A Good Look At What's Happening With Their Money In Washington-- A Ho Is A Ho Is A Ho
People in Santa Clarita are breathing a sigh of relief that after more than
2 corruption-marred decades Buck McKeon is finally retiring from Congress
to further disgrace himself as a lobbyist for the arms manufacturers and
military contractors who have funded his congressional career. Good
riddance! But if it were only that simple! McKeon was clearly afraid to run
against Lee Rogers again, in a district that is becoming demographically
foreign to him.
And in a district that polls have made clear was ready to see him disappear:
But McKeon isn't just walking away. He wants to ... more »
An investigative documentary into the Common Core State Standards Initiative
BUILDING THE MACHINE (2014) – Official Trailer [HQ] I want to use the same
disclaimer here that I did the last time I posted Common Core State
Standards (CSSS) related materials from sources that I disavow any
connection with. The video is produced by, and also features, individuals
that are from fringe-right-wing groups. The last […]
Join us at 6PM EST as we chat for the first time with @angelcintronjr
Link to the show. Check it at 6PM EST. Tagged: angel cintron, at the chalk
face, DCPS, teacher, Washington dc
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: Hawai'i '78
Never a sweeter voice born than Bruddah IZ...
"Always Interesting What The BBC Chooses to Highlight". Ain't it just!
This is why it's good to have a small (but growing) cottage industry of
BBC-biased related blogs out there...
This morning I clicked on an article on the BBC News website's homepage
headlined *Most people in poverty are 'in work'*.
The first five paragraphs (which are about all most readers - including me
- will have actually bothered reading) run as follows:
More working households were living in poverty in the UK last year than
non-working ones - for the first time, a charity has reported.
Just over half of the 13 million people in poverty - surviving on less than
60% of the na... more »
Insanely bizarre #commoncore teaching video for #kindergarten
This is primarily in response to a recent post here by Chris Cerrone on an
“innovative teaching” video library. I finally had a moment to watch. Now
that I’m back in the classroom, I think I can offer my insights on this.
One simple question I have first: this is a grown ass woman, probably […]
Specific degree of culpability not shown by post offence conduct
R. v. Jaw 2009 SCC 42:
[39] In sum, Vertes J.'s reference to the appellant's
post-offence conduct in his charge to the jury is not an error capable of
affecting the legality of the verdict. In fact, both the Crown and the
trial judge could be said to have underestimated, to the appellant's
advantage, the significance of the appellant's actions following the
shooting. Vertes J. failed to give full effect in his charge to the
Crown's argument that the appellant's actions — all revolving around the
theatrics of a suicide attempt — revealed a lack of sincerity and
credib... more »
Faith schools, Pope Francis, U.S. conservatives, the Central African Republic and the Buddha
Back to this week's *Sunday *on Radio 4, hosted by Edward Stourton.
What else was there besides happy memories from all concerned of Nelson
Mandela? Well, there was time for some of the usual sorts of thing as well.
There's usually some left-wing campaign that needs plugging, and this
week's chosen left-wing campaign group was the* Fair Admissions Campaign*.
They claim that faith schools discriminate against poor pupils. (It's part
of their more general campaign to abolish faith-based selection completely
in all state-funded schools). They are supported by various secularist
orga... more »
Beginning to Understand How CorpEd Came to Dominate the National Leadership of AFT and NEA
A couple of piece from the vault, one video featuring Randi and Bill at the
AFT Conference in Seattle, and just below that a piece of text that
provides some background on the corporate takeover of leadership in AFT and
NEA.
Originally posted 7/13/13:
Coming to understand that NEA and AFT have been hijacked by corporate money
and the insider machinations of corporate stooges is the first step in
reclaiming teacher unions at the national level. As Susan Ohanian notes in
comments at the end of the original piece from Schools Matters that is
re-posted below,
I hold union activists in ... more »
Protests for December 8 , 2013 - Ukraine pro - EU Rally and Thailand opposition to the present Prime Minister in focus......
Ukraine.....
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-protest-biggest-kiev-897/
Huge crowds gather for pro-EU rally in Ukrainian capital
Ukraine’s protesters are out on what could become the biggest rally since
2004 and the Orange Revolution. Organizers have dubbed the anti-government,
pro-EU event “The March of Millions” in the hope it can attract as many as
1 million participants.
Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES on protests in Kiev.
Nearly 50,000 protesters have gathered on Kiev’s Independence Square
(Maidan) and in nearby streets, according to police estimates. However, the
opposition has cla... more »
Mandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical Myth
Mandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical Myth. via Mandela: Dishonored by
Passive Radical Myth.
Anticipatory breach of contract - when does the limitation period commence to run?
*Ali v. O-Two Medical Technologies Inc., *2013 ONCA 733 raises an
interesting limitations issue. When an anticipatory breach of contract
occurs and the innocent party affirms the contract when does the limitation
period commence running? Is it at anticipatory breach or when there is a
subsequent failure to perform?
*Ali* is clear the period commences at the date of subsequent failure to
perform:
[22] An anticipatory breach of contract occurs when one party to the
contract, “by express language or conduct, or as a matter of implication
from what he has said or done, repudi... more »
Negros Occidental, Part 3
Bacolod City -- Arrived here yesterday in the provincial to attend the
wedding of my beautiful niece, Nessa Oplas-Sy. This morning, I went to my
hometown, Cadiz City to see again my parents, took some photos.
Out of the 84(?) provinces of the Philippines, I think Negros Occidental
has the most optimal land use. One will hardly see even half-hectare of
idle land. Cities, housing villages, coconut, banana, tree farms and
sugarcane farms. Lots of it, Hundreds of thousands of hectares of sugarcane
farms.
A transloading station of sugarcane trucks in Manapla, about 45 kms. north
of Ba... more »
Untitled
*What does it mean to be a New Orleanian? ~Richard Campanella*
*'Hero of New Orleans' Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré sets his sights on the
environment ~Evan Moore, The Advertiser*
SaLuSa 6.12.2013
SaLuSa 6.12.2013
There are so many questions within your mind right now, and we know you
wish them to be answered. The answers are already in your heart Dear Ones,
all of them, and the moment when you will clearly hear them is quickly
approaching with your finishing change. Remember no one can provide answers
for you, we all can only show you the way that leads to this knowing,
because it is always you who decide when is the perfect moment for
receiving the answer and with acceptance of that experience of knowing you
gain the most from the understanding that is there, hidden with... more »
Rendition of Cosmic Energies into Gaia Usable Form Currently at Maximum…
*Rendition of Cosmic Energies into Gaia Usable Form Currently at Maximum…*
by ÉirePort
Rendition of Cosmic Energies into Gaia usable form is currently at maximum
allowable levels.
Streams of blue crystalline needle configureds are continuing dissolution
of all unusable old paradigm concepts.
Higher movements of Gaia protectives continues unabated.
Incoming Cosmics are soon to assume primary function in the Gaia collective
dimensional scheme.
ÉirePort | December 8, 2013 at 01:21
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qK
Bring Back Greg
Do you remember when Greg Dyke resigned as Director General of the BBC and
huge throngs of BBC staff lined his way, cheering and clapping, such was
the affection they held him in and their sense of injustice that he'd been
forced out after the Hutton Inquiry...
Well, their former boss has got into a spot of bother in recent days,
having made a cut-throat gesture as the World Cup group draw was being
made. That draw saw England being drawn against the (scary) likes of Italy,
Uruguay and Costa Rica. Greg's gesture appeared to write off England's
chances.
The UK newspapers have ha... more »
Paying The Piper
On Thursday, Andrew Mitrovica summarized what we know about Rob Ford:
We now know this about Ford. He is a habitual liar. He is said to have
uttered racist and homophobic slurs. He pisses behind elementary schools in
broad daylight. He has repeatedly exchanged suspicious packages at
suspicious times with an alleged drug trafficker who was once his
occasional driver.
He threatens to kill people. He refuses to be interviewed by police who
have — *ever* so politely — asked him to answer a few questions. He’s
purchased and consumed hard drugs. His friends and acquaintances include an... more »
Nelson and Margaret
This morning's *Sunday *on Radio 4 did seem like a Nelson Mandela special,
but first impressions (and, perhaps, my own biases) misled me into thinking
there was more of it than there actually was.
Counting up all the time devoted to Nelson Mandela revealed that *Sunday *devoted
just over 38% of the programme this morning to his memory.
I wondered how that compared to their coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death
back in April.
Well, doing the sums on that edition of the programme revealed that they
devoted 34.5% of that edition to her memory.
Which isn't radically different.
The... more »
The Dragon in Space : 10 years on
The Space Review: As China goes to the Moon, prize teams stay in the race
While several private American companies are planning robotic missions to
the moon, China launched a man-sized robotic scout to the moon on Monday.
The country’s recent manned missions and efforts to build a new space base
suggest a future manned mission to the moon, though why is an open
question. Speculation has run from the desire to build a military missile
base -- a Death Star of sorts -- to national pride to simple economics.
The answer may be far simpler: The moon is “easy” to get to.
“If you’re still try... more »
A hijab-wearing conqueror
You may recall when the BBC went mad for 'The Burka Avenger' - a
burka-wearing Pakistani cartoon super-heroine and 'role model' - a few
months ago.
She was everywhere (on the BBC).
She appeared in a BBC News website article, a TV news report, a CBBC*
Newsround *report, on BBC local radio, on the BBC World Service and even on Radio
4's *Sunday*.
Well, sufferin' succotash!, if the BBC hasn't gone and found another one
and, wonder of wonders, they've even found space for her (amid all the
Nelson Mandela stuff) on their news website homepage:
Egypt's new breed of hijab-clad superh... more »
SPY SCHOOL?
What links Edward Snowdon, Julian Assange and the former head of Britain's
spy service MI5?
Jonathan Evans, the former boss of MI5, was a pupil at the expensive
Sevenoaks School in the UK.
*Sir Jonathan Evans*
Sarah Harrison, who led Edward Snowden to Moscow, was a pupil at Sevenoaks
School.
*Snowden and Harrison*
Sarah Harrison, of the spooky Wikileaks, is said to be a former lover
Julian Assange.
Sarah Harrison is currently living in spooky Berlin.
*Assange and Harrison*
The late Gerd Sommerhoff, who sexually abused boys, was a teacher at
Sevenoaks school.
Sommerhoff work... more »
Thor News - Alien Planet questions Star formation theory
Man, I love Thor News's no nonsense approach to Science, even when he's
raking up old dirt like news of this massive planet found wandering in
space.
"Tell it like you see it," and he does, even when he's taking cheap shots
at the political Left-Right paradigm.
Also, isn't it obvious that the 'sun' is formed when the fabric of space
LOCALLY FRACTURES on a microscopic (atoms) or macroscopic (stars) scale?
This 'local fracture' is where the Universe does its Electric Universe
thaaang, allowing a star to form, that in itself allows the planets to
form. As large as they are, planet... more »
Working For The Public Interest A Utah Health Official Bans Gardasil Vaccine
Utah Health Official Bans Gardasil Vaccine
Health Impact News Daily, 7 December 2013
by Health Impact News Editor
The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting today that the physician who directs
Utah’s Southwest Public Department of Health has decided to exclude the
Gardasil HPV vaccine in public health clinics.
Given the fact that national talk show host, Katie Couric, just aired a
program this week calling the Gardasil vaccine “controversial,” for which she
was widely criticized and attacked by mainstream media who were claiming
there was “no controversy” regarding Gardasil, this story b... more »
Would it make sense for the current Academia to fire Peter Higgs?
*He's a nice chap but my answer is Yes*
Watch the live broadcast of the physics Nobel ceremony now.
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I turned it off once a woman talked about "darkness" and mentioned
energy-saving light bulbs, sorry, this was just over the edge. What does
this junk have to do with the Higgs boson?
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Wikipedia top: today, the main page of Wikipedia features the article on the
AdS/CFT correspondence. I founded this article in May 2004 from my
feynman.harvard.edu workstation at Harvard. See the original stub;
"Lumidek" is also myself. Lots of ... more »
MANDELA IN LONDON IN 1962 MEETING SPOOKY PEOPLE
*Nelson Mandela in London with Freda Levson and Mary Benson.
dailymail.co.uk/*
Nelson Mandela spent ten days in London in 1962.
At this time he was the most wanted man in South Africa, as he was the boss
of the armed (terrorist) wing of the* African National Congress.*
In London, Mandela met with Denis Healey a member of Bilderberg who was at
one time the cabinet minister in charge of Defence.
*Mandela in London*
Nelson Mandela reportedly worked for MI6
MANDELA THE SPOOK
*There is a suspicion that Mandela's London trip was being organised by
MI6.*
Nelson Mandela was taken arou... 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 »
Read more
You really should check out this morning's BBC News and Sky News website
home pages. They are strikingly different, and have to be seen to be
believed.
The BBC is still leading with Nelson Mandela, and its home page is heavy
with Mandela stories. I count 31 separate articles (of one kind or another)
on the home page alone.
Sky News is leading with match-fixing claims instead and has just one
Nelson Mandela story (in third place in its running order). Only when you
get to the bottom of their home page do you find three comment pieces (none
of them new today).
The BBC's home page... more »
Lakota Bill Means: AIM West 2013 Part 1
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Bill Means
(Click arrow to watch video) Bill Means, Lakota founder of the
International Indian Treaty Council and longtime member of the American
Indian Movement, speaking at the AIM West sixth annual conference in San
Francisco 2013. Recorded by Censored News. Part I of IV.
From KILI Radio on Pine Ridge, to Indigenous Town in Minneapolis, the
American Indian Movement made its mark
Updates On Syria [12.8]: Ayatollah Obama Defends Armed Jihad In Syria, Independent Syrian MP Defends Christian Town Maalula, Syrian Refugees In Lebanon Grows To One Million
*1. An excerpt from, "FULL TRANSCRIPT: Obama at Saban Forum" Haaretz,
December 7: *
As President of the United States, I don't go around advertising the
circumstances in which I order pilots to launch attacks. That I think
would be bad practice. (Laughter.) I also would say, though, that when
the President of the United States says that he doesn't take any options
off the table, that should be taken seriously. And I think I have a track
record over the last five years that indicates that that should be taken
seriously.
It’s interesting -- in the region, there was this interesti... more »
Robert Free's dramatic moments with Nelson Mandela
Robert
Free's tepee Occupation of Alcatraz
Freedom Fighters
Robert Free, who was at the Occupation of Alcatraz and the Stronghold of
Wounded Knee 1973, shares his dramatic time with Nelson Mandela
By Robert Free
Censored News
At a breakfast with Nelson Mandela in the 90s at Seattle University,
with 600 community activists, I held up a sign to 'Free Peltier' as
Mandela
How Many Republicans In Congress Does Oily Joe Barton Speak For When He Says He Wants To Abolish The Minimum Wage?
Monday candidate registration for the 2014 congressional elections close in
Texas. So far "Oily" Joe Barton doesn't have a Democratic opponent, just a
teabagger, Frank Kuchar, in the primary and then a Libertarian, Hugh
Chauvin, in the general. Another dismal DCCC failure presided over by Steve
Israel! Since Barton has no Democratic opponent to worry about, he strayed
on Thursday from his usual diatribe on the fabulousness of Big Oil and
ventured into one of the most unpopular positions in America-- abolishing
the minimum wage. Yes, you read that correctly. Barton feels so secure
... more »
这是所有时代最伟大的间谍剧之一
https://showyou.com/v/y-RbGJStYA6WU/in-like-flint?u=terryadams
支付6:21-8:00分帧之间的具体注意。爱它！
What if Common Core Had Followed the Democratic Process?
On December 2, 2013, I posted a piece that focused on the governor-business
hybrid nonprofit, Achieve, Inc. The post also included information on one
of the “lead writers” of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Sue
Pimentel. I followed the post on December 3 with CCSS Validation Committee
member Sandra Stotsky’s response to my post. […]
Live Blogging: Beer O'Clock Pilsener Taste-Off
Beer O'Clock has arrived, the Auckland sun has come out momentarily to
greet it and (despite appearances) I have before me two bottles of Pilsner
to try. So I'm going to try an experiment: I'll live-blog a taste test
comparing the two, one from eatablished award-winning Tutara brewery from
Paraparaumu, the other from Auckland's newest craft brewers, the Black
Sands Brewing Co from Kelston--who boats about being the only Westie craft
brewers.
You aren't allowed to mention oxymorons.
First up, the Tuatara Bohemian Pilsner...
Looks great in the glass. Light coloured with a substant... more »
Second Seminole War
In 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty. The Seminole leader
Osceola led the vastly outnumbered resistance during the Second Seminole
War. Drawing on a population of about 4,000 Seminole Natives and 800 allied
Black Seminoles, he mustered at most 1,400 warriors (Andrew Jackson
estimated they had only 900). They countered combined U.S. Army and militia
forces that ranged from 6,000 troops at the outset to 9,000 at the peak of
deployment in 1837. To survive, the Seminole allies employed guerrilla
tactics with devastating effect against U.S. forces, as they knew how to
mov... more »
CON control . . .
SETTLER
TREATY CARD: a fine concept from the folks at Briarpatch. Click on the
link to see a giant-size version, 'cause the fine-print ‘some conditions
apply’ is worth reading.
What Is Only PISA Stat that Matters?
On December 15, 2010, Mel Riddile posted PISA: It’s Poverty Not Stupid,
detailing that when PISA scores were adjusted by poverty the U.S. actually
excelled: With the release of 2013 PISA scores, however, PISA scores
adjusted by poverty is not the only PISA stat that matters—although, as
Daniel Wydo shows again: This is not a new […]
Sunday Classics preview 2: In which we hear more of tomorrow's featured work
*by Ken *
Last night we heard a historic performance of a movement from a great
symphony. Let's hear with a more up-to-date recording.
Now let's hear another movement from the same piece, from the newer
recording:
*IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY CLASSICS POST*
We identify last night's and tonight's performances, and hear four stories
about the whole piece.
#
Dear Little Thomas - Death by Vaccine?
Dear Little Thomas
The information on the package inserts doesn't even begin to describe what
is in a vaccination. I've learned the hard way. My son, Thomas was born
September 28, 2012 and on November 29, 2012, I took him for his 1st set of
immunizations and on December 1, 2012, he was gone. I was stupid and will
forever be heartbroken. This is a picture of my Thomas in the doctor's
office the day he received his shots, of course before they gave them to
him. Perfectly healthy and happy.
Suzanne Fuhri
Source of the picture and text:
*My Child's Vaccine Reaction Facebook*
Pearl Harbor Day Of Infamy - December 7th, 1941 - Remembrance, And The Real Circumstances Behind That Fateful Day
It is hard to believe that it is now 72 years since that fateful day in
1941 when the Japanese strike force, known as "Kido Butai" comprising 6
fleet carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Soryu, Hiryu) approached the
north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, and launched two strikes of some 351 aircraft
against the US naval facility at Pearl Harbor and airfields on Oahu
itself…. It has always been claimed that this was a "surprise attack" but
true history and the findings of modern researchers shows definitely
otherwise…
There is so much that still is not known to the general public at large ... more »
NM’s Skandera: Let’s Be Tennessee
The latest feel-good email from New Mexico Education Secretary-Designate
Hanna Skandera to teachers included this little gem:
https://vimeo.com/80764983 Teachers and parents have a couple of problems
with this video, and the “rhetoric” within. Let’s explore some of the
points Skandera makes, and the realities behind them. 1. New Mexico is
ranked 51st in the nation […]
A (Sun)Day in the Life (of the BBC) - 4.
Time is a thief, according to the old saying. He seems to particularly
enjoy stealing from bloggers.
So, with just one day left before many of last Sunday's Radio 4 programmes
are melted into air, into thin air, here we are, still stuck in the middle
of (last) Sunday morning with barely enough spare blogging time to reach *The
Archers *before programmes start disappearing off the i-Player, and with
this Sunday just about to ring the doorbell.
So this series looks likely to go the way of the England cricket team then.
Still, what's next? Ah yes...
09:00 *Broadcasting House*
The ... more »
Bruce Banman, Mayor Of Abbotsford, British Columbia`s Bible Belt
*They’re Afraid Of You Bruce … Can’t You Get It?*
From the *Abbotsford Today *
* By The Editor on December 5, 2013 * *Mayor Banman told CTV news that
Abbotsford had some empty emergency shelter spaces during the extreme cold
weather Thursday night.**He couldn’t resist trying to score a few political
points in his battle of wits with the homeless telling CTV that, if the
homeless protesters in Jubilee Park won’t come in out of the cold there’s
not much the City can do for them.*
*What an ill-informed, callous and inflammatory thing to say.*
*They are trying to survive in the middle o... more »
Video Games and Social Critique
When you play a video game, you're playing fast and loose with communism.
Who knew? Well, Paul Mason did, for one. His piece, 'How computer games can
help us overthrow capitalism' demonstrates how critiquing games can, as
much as any other media product, help illuminate certain cultural logics;
sets of ingrained, commonsensical social practices; and the continuous
structuring and restructuring of political economy. Quite why this kind of
writing in relation to one of capitalism's cultural mainstays continues to
be underdeveloped is baffling, both in and out of the academy and radica... more »
Brazilian Firm Goes To Market With Free Energy Generator Capable of Powering Two Average Size Houses
Project.Nsearch
Posted by Glenn Canady on December 7, 2013
http://energiauniversal.eco.br/
There goes the neighborhood.
Two Brazilian inventors, Nilson Barbosa and Cleriston Leal, claim to have
invented a free energy device and are now selling this device to the
public. The device is called the Earth Electron Captor Generator, or
“GERADOR CAPTOR DE ELÉTRONS DA TERRA” in Portuguese.
There is one catch, they are *presently* only offering the device to people
who live in the city of Imperatriz. However, they are working to license
production with several manufacturing firms that wi... more »
Matt Moore Isn't Running Against Don Young In Alaska Just For The Sake Of Running
Interesting House race shaping up in Alaska this cycle
Matt Moore is a Democrat running for Alaska's gigantic at-large House seat,
presently occupied by ethically-challenged Don Young. I spoke with him on
the phone earlier this week and I;m happy to report that he has a
refreshingly progressive world view. Matt has a BS degree in Geology and
worked in the oil and gas business for several years prior to moving to
Alaska. He's a small business owner and has been managing medical practices
for the past 23 years. He and his wife live in Anchorage and have 2
children. We got into a discus... more »
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