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War watch January 9 -11, 2014.... Iran nuclear talks with P5 + 1 hit snag over Tehran's nuclear centrifuge research ....... Syria rebel infighting continues as Rebel forces attack two chemical weapon sites..... Iraq's chaotic situation in Anbar continues as tribes want neither Iraq's military nor Al Qaeda in their midst .....
Catharsis Ours - 23 minutes ago
Iran.......
Obama WH: Pro-Sanctions Senators Should Admit They Want War With Iran
John Glaser, January 10, 2014
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As Jason Ditz highlights in the news section today, congressional
support for heaping additional sanctions on Iran, even as the interim deal
plays out ahead of further negotiations on a final deal, is picking up in
the Senate. Up to 58 senators have committed to voting yes on new
sanctions, an action the Obama administration and Iranian negotiators have
said would kill good faith negotiations.
But the Obama White House seems to be steppin... more »
Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia Resigns
Americans don't know much about the Central African Republic. Until the
last couple of weeks it hadn't been in the American news cycles since 1979
when French paratroopers ousted self-proclaimed Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa,
who had been eating school children. He was found guilty of related charges
but they never proved the cannibalism charges-- nor did they try very hard
since it was seen as a national embarrassment-- and he served 7 years of
his life-in-prison sentence. He was posthumously pardoned in 2010.
One of Africa's most brutal dictators, accused of cannibalism and feedin... more »
Video - What is the White Man March?
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A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement, Despite Three Overturned Convictions --An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates
*(PHOTO: Rev. Dr. Bates speaks in support of Albert Woodfox at LA State
Capitol, Oct. 21, 2013)*
*A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement,
Despite Three Overturned Convictions *
*--An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates*
*By Angola 3 News*
This past Fall, Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 made news headlines around
the world when his conviction was overturned and he was dramatically
released from prison after 41 years in solitary confinement. At the time of
his release on October 1, 2013 he had been fighting terminal liver cancer
for several months. T... more »
How to fix Toronto for good
Toronto needs better hard power or infrastructure and better soft power or
cultural efficiency. Both powers are best practiced on a generational
timeline.
Children continually hear they are the future, but its always admonished in
a glib nebulous way, " you can be anything you want" sorry no you cant, you
have opportunities, but in fact everyone can not be anything they want.
This is the foundation of the lie politicians use to win short sighted
victories.
The TDSB should have a *How to be the Future curriculum*. In the early
years its mostly stories of heroes and villains. Rob Fo... more »
Neiman Marcus also has sustained a cyber attack customer data breach ( back in mid- December ) involving credit and debit cards used at Neiman Marcus ! Only after Brian Krebs made inquiries , did Neiman Marcus acknowledge the mid - December breach and that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. ! Neiman Marcus spokesperson Ginger Reeder said the company does not yet know the cause, size or duration of the breach, noting that these are details being sought by a third-party forensics firm which has yet to complete its investigation. But she said there is no evidence that shoppers who purchased from the company’s online stores were affected by this breach. In that regard , the breach at Neiman Marcus is similar to the Target breach ( online stores were not affected in the Target breach. ) And as of today , the Target breach remains an unsolved crime. next question - how many other stores might have suffered breached between black Friday and Xmas ?
As to the additional breaches - several more yet to be revealed.....
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-more-well-known-u-retailers-victims-cyberattacks-024345910--sector.html
Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources
By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the
only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping
season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other
merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed.
Smaller breaches on at least three ot... more »
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BREAKING: Pioneer, Syngenta & DOW Chemical file suit against Kaua'i to
invalidate Bill 2491, which requires them to disclose the pesticides they
spray and to maintain buffer zones for safety. Looks like they've just shot
themselves in the f...oot. More publicity to show the world how evil they
are.
READ THE NEWS:
http://news.yahoo.com/agrichemical-companies-sue-block-anti-gmo-law-hawaii-171141482--sector.html
READ about the link between this birth defect and the herbicide atrazine:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/05/link.between.birth.defect.gastroschisis.and.agricul... more »
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I find it amazing how low our mainstream media has stooped, lazy, bought
off and complicit in propping up both a corrupt and inept BC Liberal
Government, Gordon Campbell was corrupt as the day is long and nothing has
changed under the guidance of Christy Clark, if anything it has gotten
worse, when will the media remember their job is to hold Government to
account and not just cheerlead and read press releases..
Can`t they figure out why no one wants to buy newspapers anymore, or listen
to talk radio, the public needs critical thought, actually the public would
appreciate even a lit... more »
Alex Rodriguez suspension decision released - 162 games ( full regular season ) and post season ban for the upcoming season set by Independent Arbitrator Frederic Horowitz ..... 60 Minutes will interview Anthony Bosch ( formerly of Biogenesis ) and MLB COO Rob Manfred - discussion of the case against A- Rod...... meanwhile A- Rod plans to head to Federal Court to seek an injunction !
http://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-news/2014/1/11/5299642/alex-rodriguez-suspended-steroids-evidence-anthony-bosch-60-minutes/in/5062745
Alex
Rodriguez suspension: MLB's evidence to be presented on 60 Minutes
Sunday night
By Tanya Bondurant @TanyaBondurant on Jan 11 2014, 8:00p 5
Patrick McDermott
Biogenesis clinic owner Anthony Bosch and MLB COO Rob Manfred will
appear
during primetime to hash out details of the case against A-Rod.
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The world will get a look at the details of MLB's case against Alex
Rodriguezthat led to his 162-game suspe... more »
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In re. Smartypants Researchers v. James Bond, I'm inclined to side with 007
*Caption from the medical journal BMJ:* "*James Bond’s weekly alcohol
consumption by year of book publication*"
*by Ken*
When it comes to awe for doctors, my friend Peter had his pretty well
derailed by going to school with a sizable number of schlubs who were fated
to go on to become same. As a result, in his mind, medical degrees and
licenses notwithstanding, they remained pretty much the same schlubs he had
known in high school and college.
And so in approaching this research into the drinking habits of Commander
James Bond, aka 007, I'm inclined to bear in mind that the resear... more »
TV Watch: Searching for bright spots in this cataclysmically awful TV season
*Even though, or perhsps because, the comic-book store has descended into
ghostly solitude, Stuart (Kevin Sussman) has amply rewarded the increased
attention of The Big Bang Theory's producers -- and the other "supporting"
characters are coming up aces too.*
*by Ken*
I haven't been doing much "TV Watch"-ing lately, which might be because I
haven't been doing much TV watching, but anyone who knows me knows that
that's a laugh. Especially with two shiny new TVs, I've probably never
watched more TV in my life. It's just that less and less of it is, you
know, *TV*. At least not curren... more »
JFK50: "Lyndon Did It".
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Defaming The Dead:
A Legal Remedy for Absurd Charges That LBJ Murdered JFKBy JOHN W. DEANFriday,
Mar. 12, 2004
In October 2003, Barr McClellan published *Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J.
Killed J.F.K.*. As its title suggests, the book makes an astounding claim
that former President Lyndon Johnson, and other deceased officials and
persons, were involved in a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. This
claim is patently absurd. Yet according to the *New York Times*, over
75,000 copies of the book have been sold.
McClellan is a retired Texas attorney who says h... more »
Musical Interlude: Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”
Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF3kxNYTmsk
A scheduled Harperectomy . . .
SOCIAL
MEDICINE:People like the Koch brothers, Stevie and Rob Ford are
actually mentally-ill from the POV of rational humanist social norms.
By their lights, though, their greed is 100% rational and desirable,
regardless of cost to others. The sad truth of history is that other
people who think like that have managed to do a lot of damage before
they were stopped.THE POLITICAL SCALPEL:
Many rivers to cross for Christie
While I continue to think Christie's bridge scandal will ultimately lead
nowhere, the story has a lot longer legs than I first anticipated. The
hundreds of pages of documents will keep the media busy for at least a
couple of weeks and if it turns out the lane closures were illegal somebody
could get indicted. It could become a enduring scandal of his
administration. But hell, we're talking about Jersey. Politicians and their
operatives are always getting caught in scandals. It's part of the fabric
of life in The Garden State.
Everybody who's not a gullible, hardcore conservative kn... more »
Guided Reading in Kindergarten is one of the many dramatic outrages of #commoncore
As the regular reader knows, I am now teaching Kindergarten in SE
Washington, DC this year. Enjoying it so much more than teaching at the
university level. This entire school year for DCPS, for whom I worked
previously over a decade ago, there has been an obsession with the use of
Guided Reading. My expertise […]
Think you better slow your Mustang down
I'm still moving slow this week. So have some funky music.
We're One and we're done.
With the completion of this experiment on humanity, a wide diversity of
emotions surface. Anger, disbelief, fear, exhaustion and skepticism are
among them. What can be trusted? Who has our best interests at heart? How
do we discern assistance from manipulation? What are the motives of anyone
in power; of anyone period?
Each question leads ultimately back to you. It depends always on your
point of view. We are sharing a pivotal moment. Each of us decided to
join this party for our own reasons. As of late, those reasons are coming
into sharper focus as our paths diverge. I... more »
Coming out of the Cold
January 11, 2014 We went from zero for a high (with a low of -10) on
Monday or Tuesday of last week to thirty-four for a low tonight and sixty
degrees for a high tomorrow. Like much of the country, … Continue reading →
Canada Stupid, Norwary Smart
Every citizen of Norway is now a millionaire. The same would be true in
Canada if PET had not lost to Brian Mulroney.
“Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”
*“Rich People on Spending Sprees May Find One Day*
* That Income Inequality Bites Them in the Wallet”*
By Lynn Stuart Parramore
“For the past five years, the market for luxury goods has been on a roll,
even as the rest of the economy sputtered. Fancy cars are flying off the
production lines. Tiffany and Prada are in the pink. Even Big Tobacco is in
on the action, doing brisk business in high-end cigars. Consumer spending
is up! the latest headlines shout. Rejoice! But wait — if a big chunk of
this is driven by sales of luxury goods, is that ultimately a good thing
for the economy?
... more »
We On The Grind In... Georgia
In Georgia, they want Medicare expansion and they want to keep their crazy
anti-healthcare Governor. Maybe they listen to too much Hate Talk Radio and
watch too much Fox News and have wound up with addled brains, but an
Atlanta *Journal-Constitution* poll released today yields a portrait of one
very confused electorate. Let's start with this interesting finding among
Peach State respondents: 57% of them favor Medicaid expansion. OK, that
makes sense and is pretty much in line with what voters in other red states
without Medicare expansion want. But the guy who's preventing Medicare... more »
Are the Greens Progressive?
Are the Greens a progressive party? Are they enemies of the labour movement
that need combatting alongside the Tories, UKIP, LibDems and the rest? I
ask because, as *Graun* readers may have seen, Ian Sinclair posed the
question last week; "why does the left ignore the Green Party?" It's a fair
enough question to ask. Ian provided a list of policies most Labour types
wish we would take on board. Wild ultra-leftist promises like
renationalising rail and public utilities, which also happen to be backed
by the public at large. All progressive, all would go some way to making
Britain a ... more »
BEN ALI, THEY FOOLED US!
It is now three years since the CIA, NATO and Mossad overthrew Zine
Ben-Ali, the man who ensured Tunisia was peaceful, easy-going and
increasingly prosperous.
As a result of the CIA-NATO-Mossad coup, crime and poverty have soared.
On 7 January 2014, protesters were out in force.
The cry one could hear in streets across Tunisia is: *"Ben Ali, they fooled
us! Come back soon!"*
*'There has been a surge of nostalgia' for Ben Ali in Tunisia *- FRANCE 24
- Jan 10, 2014
In Tunis, the words* 'Vive Ben Ali'* have been written on the walls of
buildings.
A Facebook page entitled *'Forg... more »
Assorted observations
In the wake of all those uplifting pro-immigration stories and items
featuring irreproachable Bulgarian and Romanian professional individuals
who intend coming here, or who are here already, I was stunned when a
little upcoming item on local BBC TV was trailed....... “How easy it is for
immigrants to claim welfare.” The link has disappeared from the BBC iPlayer
(it was there earlier) so you'll have to take my word for it.
*“They call this country 'a field of wonders!' ”* At least I'm pretty sure
that’s what this Russian interpreter who helped them apply for their
benefits said. Howev... more »
“Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”
*“Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam”*
by Eric Margolis
“How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no
more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat?
How can al-Qaida be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of
black Africa? This after the US spent over $1 trillion trying to stamp out
al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely
exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s
handy universal term for armed groups fighting western in... more »
Solar Update: ...... Something stinks.
Well after the events of past 4 days it is, in my opinion, absolutely
conclusive that NASA, NOAA and there sister agencies are lying through
their teeth, or completely incompetent.
On Wed I published a Solar Update HERE, mostly focused on the X class flare
from spot 1944 and the predicted upcoming geomagnetic storm caused by the
CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) generated by the X Flare.
"NOAA is giving a risk 80% of M Class and 50% of X Class flares for
today.... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I give it 100% chance
of an MClass flare today from 1944/6, and I expect we'll see ... more »
Will Obama Raid Your Pension To Bailout Bankers? ...
*you betcha.*
It *will* happen.
And you better keep your eyes on your 401K and savings accounts, too
From: The Western Center for Journalism
Will Fukushima Daiichi Kill Vast Swathes of Life in the Pacific Ocean?
(Hat tip: The argument outlined here was suggested in a careful assemblage
of Enenews headlines, particularly this one:
Radiation jumps around Fukushima plant — Now ~1,000% previous levels —
Tepco kept strontium-90 data secret for months — Officials knew of increase
but ‘too busy’ to do anything — Gov’t holds Friday meeting about what can
be done. I've made the argument explicit using additional data.)
The nuclear village is prepped for the propaganda war.
Nuclear scientists are lined up ready with their research to minimize the
impact. Even non-biased scientists may grossly undere... more »
A Week's Worth of 'Newsnight'
As promised earlier this week, here's a review of this week's *Newsnight.*
OK, before I begin I've got to say that I almost immediately regretted
promising to make 2014 *Is the BBC biased?*'s year of *Newsnight*. I'd
nearly forgotten that I don't actually enjoy watching *Newsnight. *It's
fair to say that I've now experienced 'total memory recall' though - and,
no, I still don't like watching *Newsnight*.
And now that ex-*Guardian* assistant editor Ian Katz is in charge it's
becoming more *Guardian-*like than ever - full of *Guardian*-geared topics
and hip-'n-happening features abo... more »
Satire: Andy Borowitz, “Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”
*“Christie Unaware He Was the Governor”*
by Andy Borowitz
TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)— “At a hastily called press conference today,
Chris Christie revealed that he only became aware that he was the governor
of New Jersey in the past seventy-two hours. “Unbeknownst to me, some
people I thought I could trust were secretly working to elect me governor
of this state,” a visibly stunned Christie told reporters. “I have acted
swiftly and fired them all.” While asserting that he had terminated all of
the people who were involved in the scheme to elect him, he said that, if
he finds add... more »
Nationalism
*"For Mazzini, a nationality means a race, a fixed array of behavior like a
breed of dog or a species of animal. *
*He is not thinking of a national community united by a literate language
and a classical culture to which any person can become assimilated through
a political choice. *
*For Mazzini, race is unchangeable, and race is destiny. *
*It is a matter of blood and soil. *
*Cats fight dogs, French fight Germans, Germans fight Poles, and so on
through all eternity. These hatreds are the main datum of sensory
perception.*
*Each of Mazzini’s organizations demands immediate nationa... more »
New cover for iron buddhas
Iron Buddhas
By Risa Bear
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Iron Buddhas is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a woman's experiences
tree planting and fire fighting in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.
Stephanie Smith sets out from Georgia to Oregon in the winter of '75
seeking work in the woods. She finds that and more. By the author of
Starvation Ridge.
*PDF $1.99Epub $2.99*
The price of the paper edition, alas, had to go up, but the epubs have not
changed in price, and there is a blov... more »
USDOE's Guiding Principles: School Climate and Discipline
Reblogged from Ward 8 DC Teacher: Guiding Principle #1, creating a safe and
supportive school environment, is a great first step. However, we must move
beyond expressing idealistic principles, and more towards implementing
pragmatic best practices. Schools consisting of low-income, high-trauma,
and at-risk student populations need targeted approaches. My school, a DCPS
traditional public middle […]
THIS ISSUE ON CORPORATE WELFARE
My latest public access TV show with guest Orlando Delogu who is a retired
law professor at the University of Southern Maine. He specializes on
corporate welfare issues and helped us tremendously in our recent campaign
here in Bath to try to block the requested tax break by General Dynamics
that owns Bath Iron Works. We were able to trim about one million dollars
from this proposed corporate tax break. A bit more money for the local
people and less for those at the top of the war machine.
Shelley Moore Capito Says She "Stands With West Virginia Against Obama’s War On Coal"-- As Her Constituents Line Up For Bottled Water
Most West Virginians never seem to learn any lessons about the natural
resource exploitation companies that hold absolute power in their state.
Their bottom lines-- the only priority they care about-- trump the
well-being of the rest of society. That simple. It's why healthy societies
protect themselves from predators with regulations and effective
government. Now people in Charleston and 9 surrounding counties are praying
the trucks of bottled water arrive and keep arriving, courtesy of the
National Guard-- 9 counties where they can't use their regular water
sources for drinking... more »
Speaking of Long, Strange Trips
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I'll just get it out of the way right now. As this New Year has
already been strange and thick for us here at Pottersville, rarely if ever
in a good way, I can tell you that by the 29th, I will have already
forgotten that my 9th anniversary as a blogger is coming up. Coming up 13
days before that, or in the next five days, is my 55th birthday.
As I've stated recently, everything is hitting me all at once, namely
annual auto inspection, the renewal of my license and regist... more »
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