Tuesday, February 11, 2014

11 Feb - Blogs I'm Following II

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“The Horrible Truth About Fukushima”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 minutes ago
*“The Horrible Truth About Fukushima” * Interview With Helen Caldicott, MD “Author and Pediatrician Helen Caldicott takes time out of her busy schedule to join me to discuss the unfolding events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan. Fukushima was devastated by a massive earthquake on March 11, 2011 which led directly to a massive failure causing hydrogen explosions which blew the roof off of at least two of the reactor buildings. Tepco and the Japanese government have understated the radiation dangers and the dire reality of the situation from day one. Helen say... more »

Clean Debt Ceiling Passes-- Zippity Do Dah

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 38 minutes ago
This afternoon, Paul Ryan voted NO on the paying for the bills he's run up as a Member of Congress. Most of the rest of the Republican House leadership team-- Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, even radicals like Darrell Issa and Gary Miller-- voted YES, to make sure the government didn't go into default. The clean debt ceiling passed yesterday 221-201. With the exception of two reactionary Blue Dogs-- Barrow (GA) and Matheson (UT)-- every Democrat voted yes. The White House issued a very straight forward, commonsense message: Tonight’s vote is a positive step in moving away from the pol... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Just do it!

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 39 minutes ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet. Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »

Dalai Lama to honor Peggy Wellknown Buffalo, Crow

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- The Dalai Lama will honor Peggy Wellknown Buffalo, Crow, for her work with youths on the Crow Nation in Montana, when the Dalai Lama presents the honors for Unsung Heroes of Compassion this month in San Francisco. Actor Peter Coyote will emcee the event. Peggy started The Center Pole in 1999, which now includes a summer youth recreation program,

Guest Post: Considering the BDS Movement from a Human Rights Perspective

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 2 hours ago
The following is a guest post by Joel R. Pruce, a post-doctoral fellow in human rights studies at the University of Dayton. The transnational movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel continues to capture headlines and prompt crucial debate on the status of Palestinian claims to national self-determination and individual human rights protection, Continue reading

Steve Russell : Pete Seeger: ‘To Everything, There Is a Season’

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours ago
Asked by HUAC if he had sung for Communists, Pete replied: “I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.” By Steve Russell … finish reading Steve Russell : Pete Seeger: ‘To Everything, There Is a Season’

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Riverton, Wyoming, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Police State updates - February 11 , 2014 ....Biggest Internet Attack Yet As Cyber Security Bill Introduced in House ......... CAN AMERICAN STATES REIN IN AN OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL SPY AGENCY ? Will Congress ever stand up to a runaway Executive Branch ? Sniper Ammunition: Homeland Security Revives The Purchases

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.infowars.com/biggest-internet-attack-yet-as-cybersecurity-bill-introduced-in-house/ Biggest Internet Attack Yet As Cybersecurity Bill Introduced in House - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] Expert declares “someone’s got a big, new cannon” and attack is start of “ugly things to come” *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com February 11, 2014 A huge denial of service attack occurred earlier today. It exploited a key vulnerability in the infrast... more »

Why Sochi? There actually are reasons why President Putin wanted the Olympics there so badly

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Why Sochi? Because the North Caucasus [click on the map to enlarge it] matters a lot to President Putin.* *by Ken* When I shared with you, dear, readers, "Everything you need to know about the Sochi Olympics," I kind of fudged one question that probably occurred to you, as it has occurred to everyone on first hearing the words "Sochi" and "Olympics" butted together: "Why Sochi?" I sort of answered the question with the clear understanding that it's 'cause President Putin wanted it. In most matters Russian these days, that should be sufficient answer. But of course it still doesn'... more »

Puff the Magic Dragon

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 4 hours ago
This song always bothered me. This lovely song seemed just plain wrong, and far, far too sad. I always instinctively felt there was something *missing*. And apparently, there was. The original poem had a verse that did not make it into the song. In it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning. Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remember the verse in any detail, and the paper that was left in Yarrow's typewriter in 1958 has since been lost. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1276 Before I found this out, here's the verse I composed myself, a long time ago, as a child. ... more »

Iran updates - February 9 , 2014 -Iran, U.N. agency resume nuclear talks in Tehran: IRNA ...... Khamenei says US 'wouldn't hesitate' to topple Iranian regime if it could - mistrust abounds on both sides ( US and Iran ) ........Juan Cole opines a war with Iran could far surpass the costs of our Iraq and Afghanistan Wars - might such a misadventure cost 9 Trillion ?

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Iran, IAEA agree on 7 concrete steps Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed one seven more concrete measures regarding the country’s nuclear program which will be taken by May 15, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reports. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the nuclear watchdog, said that inspection of Parchin nuclear site is not among the seven measures agreed by Iran and the IAEA. Iran’s envoy to the IAEA Reza Najafi said details of the measures will be released soon. The agreement comes one day after the IAEA arrived in Tehran to build on a fra... more »

Chet Raymo, “In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*“In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World?”* by Chet Raymo “In earlier times, when I was still teaching, it was my habit to occasionally take a wildflower, or piece of rotten bark, or pinch of oil into a biology lab where I had access to a high-quality dissecting microscope. I'd put my sample on the stage of the scope and go exploring. A hawkweed blossom, say, became the concise equivalent of a tropical jungle, teeming with wildlife. We bemoan the loss of wilderness, and rightly so I suppose. But there are vast tracks of wilderness that we do not despoil, on a scale too small ... more »

Ted McLaughlin : There is no correlation between taxes and employment

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
Just allowing the rich to keep more of the money they make doesn’t mean they will spend any of that money they get to keep to create any new jobs. By Ted McLaughlin | The Rag Blog | February 12, … finish reading Ted McLaughlin : There is no correlation between taxes and employment

Bank of Japan floats trial balloon ? Japan Machine Orders Crumble At Fastest Pace In 22 Years As BOJ Board Member Warns More QE May Not Be Coming

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Japan Machine Orders Crumble At Fastest Pace In 22 Years As BOJ Board Member Warns More QE May Not Be Coming [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/11/2014 19:13 -0500 - Bank of Japan inShare If you needed another reason to buy stocks, trust in the growth meme, and have your faith in Abenomics confirmed... look away. *Japanese Machine orders for December just printed -15.7% in December - the biggest MoM plunge since 1992*. This is the biggest miss to expectations since 2006 and what is considerably more problematic for Abe et al. is that YoY expect... more »

Why Mt. Gox, the World’s First Bitcoin Exchange, is Dying - the travails of Mt Gox after suspending withdrawals on Friday February 7 , 2014 and promising customers an update Monday February 10, 2014 , bitcoin customers of Mt Gox and the bitcoin world wait to see whether the withdrawal problem was just a technical issue or whether insolvency is the true situation ? Coin Searcher three day protest at Mt Gox and varied points of view regarding Mt Gox set forth......Another Major Bitcoin Exchange ( Local Bitcoins.com ) May Be In Deep Trouble After A Bust In Florida ........ Additional news include examining bitcoin business growth globally ........ Second Market buying bitcoin from the public - just as Mt Gox issue erupted ....... Coinbase stepping up security features with new API Key....

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Withdrawal problems across Exchanges other than Mt Gox ? FWIW ! Are we seeing some mass withdrawal problems across exchanges? (self.Bitcoin) submitted 1 hour ago by yomofos So, Gox is obvious. Then btc-e: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=459464.0[1] Then Bitstamp: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=459836.0[2] WTF is going on? (cross posted: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1xltdk/are_we_seeing_some_mass_withdrawal_problems/ ) AND..... Cross posting this from the /r/bitcoinmarkets thread Seems there are a lot of threads about this. In addition to the ... more »

Satire: “Rick Perry Lures Washington State Residents To Texas With Thriving Death Penalty”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
*“Rick Perry Lures Washington State Residents * *To Texas With Thriving Death Penalty”* by Andy Borowitz AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report)— “Responding to the news that Washington Governor Jay Inslee had suspended the death penalty in his state, Texas Governor Rick Perry seized on the opportunity to urge Washington residents to “vote with your feet and move to Texas, where the death penalty is thriving.” At a hastily called press conference this afternoon, the Texas Governor made an emotional appeal to Washingtonians who might be disappointed by the sudden suspension of executions in the... more »

Is the current rain in the UK caused by 'climate change'?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
' Truly, AGW is a magical theory that explains absolutely everything – including diametrically contradictory phenomena, lack of logic and absence of evidence – whenever people observe profoundly, ‘Something funny’s happening to the weather’. I have another theory to explain the current deluge. It is Galileo, Newton and Einstein weeping uncontrollably from above.' More here from Melanie Phillips https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/a-truly-magical-theory

A Conversation with Ralph Ring -- Calling All Inventors & Innovators to Step Forward!!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago
*After several technical issues and failing internet, Brian was finally able to upload our conversation from Saturday night with Ralph and Marsha Ring! Thank you so much to Brian and the crew in Morocco that were all working on getting this recording ready to go out!!http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-conversation-with-ralph-ring-calling.html?m=1* *A Conversation with Ralph Ring -- Calling All Inventors & Innovators to Step Forward!!*February 11, 2014 In this conversation with Ralph & Marsha Ring, we put a call out to all inventors and innovators through Ralph's... more »

Obama: Right Now No Military Solution in Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
Obama: Right Now No Military Solution in Syria. Source: Bloomberg News. Date Published: February 11, 2014. 'Both sides need to realize no military solution to Syria civil war.' Source: RT. Date Published: February 11, 2014. Description: 'As the Syrian conflict rages, the country's busy dismantling its chemical arsenal, in accordance with international agreements. A third batch of toxic material has been shipped out for decommissioning. Syria recently missed several deadlines to hand over its chemicals, saying rebel activity was to blame. Let's get reaction from Jonathan Steele - a... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago

"This Is Not How A Free Society Treats Its Citizens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*"This Is Not How A Free Society Treats Its Citizens"* by Simon Black “631 people renounced their US citizenship in the 4th quarter of 2013. This is an entire order of magnitude higher than the 45 people who renounced in 4Q/2012. And in total, 3,000 Americans renounced their citizenship in 2013– another record high. The previous record (1,777) was set in 2011, which shattered the previous record before that (1,534) which was set in 2010, which was more than twice the number (742) that renounced in 2009. You can see the trend here. And it’s not hard to figure out why it’s happening.... more »

More 911 Chatter

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Remember when Condi Rice said no one could imagine using an airplane as a missile. Guess she was out of the loop. Able Danger Able Danger See the whole post from the JPEG above.

Ron Jacobs : Betty Medsger’s ‘The Burglary’ is extraordinary tale of historic ‘B and E’

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours ago
In 1971, eight anti-war activists broke into the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, and removed confidential files about FBI surveillance against political organizations it considered anti-American. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2014 [The Burglary: … finish reading Ron Jacobs : Betty Medsger’s ‘The Burglary’ is extraordinary tale of historic ‘B and E’

Video Game Violence and Sociology

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
While we're on a moral panic tip, here's a recurring one for you: violent video games cause *x, y, z* social pathology. The latest story to plough the well-worn farrow is that killing digital representations of human beings leaves teenagers morally immature. Yup, blasting away at screens of bad 'uns, Russians and space Nazis stunts emotional growth and depresses developing empathy. Readers know I'm interested in the the narcissistic self, hence the claims made of this research are worth a look. After all, preoccupation with self demands a certain crowding out of others (though, par... more »

Factual basis need not be established for valid bylaw

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago
Seguin (Township) v. Hamer, 2014 ONCA 108: [7] We agree with the comments of Twaddle J.A. of the Manitoba Court of Appeal in *Mr. Pawn Ltd. v. Winnipeg (City)*, 2002 MBCA 2, 170 Man. R. (2d) 1, at para. 11: City Council is a legislative body, not a court. It must, of course, act within the authority conferred on it and, in doing so, enact its by-laws in good faith and not for an improper purpose. There is, however, no requirement that Council have evidence of anything before enacting a by-law. In particular, there is no requirement that Council have evidence of potential... more »

Mark, Man of Steel

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
Mark Steel Life can be really strange sometimes. Over the weekend I visited my 81-year old dad, and was asked by him if I ever listen to Mark Steel on Radio 4. Dad was talking about the Radio 4 comedian's *Mark Steel's in Town. *He thought it was very funny. I said, no, I haven't been listening to *Mark Steel's* *in Town. * I didn't add that listening to ex-Socialist Workers Party loony lefties like Mark Steel is something I try to avoid on medical grounds. (Got to look after my blood pressure after all.) He said I should listen to it, and that I'd like it. I'm a bit ashamed t... more »

Who Will Protect Social Security-- And Who Wants To Wreck It?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
In the new ad above, the DCCC-connected SuperPAC, House Majority PAC, quotes AARP about the dangers seniors face if conservatives ever get their way in regard to privatizing Social Security. And they point out that the Republican candidate in the FL-13 special election, for the remainder of Bill Young's term, David Jolly, was a lobbyist who worked to privatize Social Security and who still favors that approach. All true. What the DCCC will avoid at all costs, of course, is an discussion of how so many of its candidates (and incumbents-- primarily New Dems and Blue Dogs) also favor... more »

Stephen Harper`s 2014 budget is a sham, smoke n mirrors..and Previous Posts Vindicated As Fact

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 7 hours ago
*Stephen Harper`s 2014 budget is a sham, smoke n mirrors..* Shipbuilding money has been slashed and delayed, Stephen Haper dangled a shipbuilding carrot during the 2011 federal election and now the truth is out there, there is no funding and or ship being constructed until AFTER the 2015 election.. As for protecting consumers from cross-border price discrepancies as promised, there is no legislation framework, meaning Stephen Harper is doing nothing on that front.. There is scant infrastructure money, none for British Columbia, that needed bridge in Quebec crumbling is a $4 bill... more »

“The Stench of Political and Financial Corruption”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“The Stench of Political and Financial Corruption”* By Jesse “Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid. It was an experience for which the captains of industry were not entirely prepared; they had forgotten the public. It was like some great convulsion of nature, which made mockery of all the powers of men, and left the beholder dazed and terrified. In Wall Street men stood as if in a valley, and saw far above them the starting of an avalanche; they stood fascinated with hor... more »

KPFK: US cover-up of nuclear testing of Indigenous in Marshall Islands

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
U.S. Government Cover-up of Nuclear Testing on Indigenous Peoples Tuesday, 02/11/2014, on American Indian Airwaves 8pm to 9pm --- KPFK American Indian Airwaves Tuesdays 8pm to 9pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, FM 99.5 China Lake, FM 93.7 North San Diego, WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet @ www.kpfk.org    Part 1 Irradiation of

Chris Matthews on Hillary, then versus now!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014* *Biggest con man on the planet:* Last night, MSNBC’s liberal viewers got majorly conned once again. Hillary Clinton had gotten bashed by all the usual suspects, including GOP chairman Reince Preibus. For many years, Matthews was one of those suspects, of course. He got very rich in the process. By now, Matthews has been reinvented. So he spent an entire segment last night venting his fury about the way the GOP is battering Clinton about everything from her past comments about Monica Lewinsky to her past comments about single-payer to her support for Ba... more »

The Realist Report - Reinhard: Renegade Tribune

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 8 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Jim, who uses the pen name *Reinhard* when publishing at The Renegade Tribune. Jim and I will be discussing a variety of subjects relating to the pro-White movement, including the upcoming White Man March. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are links relevant to this program: - *Renegade Tribune - Honest, uncensored, and hard-hitting articles* - *What is the White Man March?* - *One Struggle, One Vic... more »

Modern Maths is crap

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Those roundings used to check reasonableness are just wrong. 354 should round up to 400 not down to 300,and as for 291 how does that roughly equal 200 not 300? Insanity More here http://www.momdot.com/common-core-is-making-me-stupider/

Love Quest : Day 4 - Afraid?

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
This journey is half over. We are “just as far in as we’ll ever be out” (Anna Nalick – Breathe) So, despite all opposing forces, if you are still reading this, there’s been at least a nod towards self love. That’s fantastic and life altering. Let’s keep going. What stops you? For each of us, regardless of what it looks like or sounds like, it’ll boil down to FEAR. Look closely and you’ll see. A fearless being stops only when the goal has been reached. There are so many reasons to be afraid. But loving yourself? That’s easy. It isn’t happening because of three letter... more »

Stephen Harper would not approve

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
THIS is what Canadians do. When someone needs help, real Canadians go out of their way to provide it. Then we have the Harper party approach to helping others: First up, James Moore. Your neighbour's kid can starve for all he cares. Next, the man who prostituted the Progressive Conservative party, Peter "Airshow" MacKay. If you have nothing, he'll take that away from you too. Can you imagine

Do I Have To Disclose My Medical Condition To A Potential Employer?

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 10 hours ago
An AOL Jobs reader asked me: Your columns are extremely educational and full of information. Thank you from an appreciative reader. I may have missed this, but when applying for a job, is it necessary to disclose any medical conditions? I am a Diabetic Type 1, and use a pump, which could bulge through my clothes, though I take care to avoid that. I was hired by a high-end jewelry store one month ago, and after working for 10 days, was told by HR, that I was "not a good fit." No other explanation. Needless to say, I was devastated. I am a University graduate with a B.A. and have al... more »

If Obamacare reduces labor supply, will it raise wages?

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 10 hours ago
In a couple of recent articles written by smart economists, I have read the following claim: CBO says the incentives in the Affordable Care Act will reduce labor supply. If it does, then real wages will increase. That sounds like reasonable, textbook economics. But I don't think it is true. The problem is that the logic is entirely partial equilibrium. It is holding everything else constant. But that is surely not right in the long run. Lower labor supply means lower income, which means lower saving, which means lower investment, which means a lower capital stock, which means lower ... more »

Yitzakh Rabin

Paul Coker at News Spike - 10 hours ago
*"Today I stand before you, members of Knesset, and before the citizens of the State of Israel -- and in front of the entire world -- and as a Jew, as an Israeli, as a man and as a human being, I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer. . . .* *This murderer came out of a small and marginal political context. * *He grew in a swamp whose murderous sources are found here, and across the sea; they are foreign to Judaism. . . .* *To him and to those like him we say: You are not part of the community of Israel. * *You are not part of the national democrati... more »

Owl Be Your Valentine

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours ago
[image: Housewife Eclectic: Owl Be Your Valentine with Free Printable] I can't believe it is almost Valentine's Day already. Does February always seem to fly by for anybody else? Today I am sharing my last Valentine for 2014. This is actually the Valentine I created to give to my little girl from my husband and I. My mom always had a Valentine, usually a little box of chocolates, for each of us when we woke up on Valentine's Day. It was never something big and fancy, just a little something to celebrate the day. It is a tradition I loved and decided I wanted to carry one with our ... more »

The Role of Richard Mellon-Scaife and The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB)

Paul Coker at News Spike - 10 hours ago
The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is an advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self-description, it "...provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy of intelligence collection, of analysis and estimates, of counterintelligence, and of other intelligence activities." The PIAB, through its Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), also advises the President on the legality of foreign intelligence activities. Or, as Bro. Steve Cokely describes it: *"That's the outside intelligence community on the insi... more »

Britons 'too ignorant' for EU referendum says Viviane Reding, VP of European Commission via Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
'Britons 'too ignorant' for EU referendum: Top official says debate on Europe is so distorted that people could not make an 'informed decision' Viviane Reding, vice-president of European Commission, made commentsSpeaking in London, she said British people must know 'the facts' on EUShe boasted about how 70 per cent of UK's laws are now made in Brussels Her comments were attacked by critics for 'dangerous' assumptions Britons are too ignorant about Europe to vote in a referendum on the subject, a top Brussels official claimed last night.Viviane Reding, vice-president of the Europe... more »

Hoover : Undercover Brother

Paul Coker at News Spike - 11 hours ago
The Mysterious Origins of J. Edgar Hoover ------------------------------ *by Edward Spannaus*Printed in the *American Almanac*, August, 2000. ------------------------------ One of the most virulent racists to hold a top government position in this country in the 20th Century was J. Edgar Hoover, the long-time director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hoover was notorious for his targetting of blacks: civil rights leaders, elected officials, newspaper publishers, or even artists such as the great singer Paul Robeson. But yet, during Hoover's tenure as head of the FBI, which... more »

Tuesday Noon-ish Linkage

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
As it is my turn again for Tuesday links, heaps of NATO and security stuff dwell below. I am most NATO-obsessed these promoting my new book with Dave Auerswald so I was interested in seeing that NATO is the preferred organization for peace-keeping a potential Israeli-Palestianian agreement. Speaking of NATO, the Balkans continue to be Continue reading

New Jersey: "A System Where Back Room Deals, Fueled By Greed And Self Interest, Are Just The Order Of Business"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Symbols of New Jersey's transpartisan and all-pervasive corruption: Norcross (D) and Christie (R) One of my personal favorite candidates last year was Barbara Buono. It wasn't just because of her sparkling personality and her warmth and her courage, it was also for her forward-thinking ideas and her amazing platform. Digby, John and I all spoke with her in person and all of us couldn't have been more proud for Blue America to have endorsed her and raised some campaign money for her. In yesterday's *NY Times* story by Jason Horowitz on Democrats' buyer's remorse, there was a line that... more »

NEIL KEENAN UPDATE – THE KEENAN TEAM REPORTS: IRS – Private, Lying, Globalist-Controlled Thugs – We Want Our Money Back!

Amin Fasei at Our Manmade Disasters - 11 hours ago
Posted on February 8, 2014by Jean A Personal Introduction by Neil Keenan We have been had. Nothing we have grown up believing to be real is in fact real.[image: Keenan 1]Connecting all the dots, it dawned on me that there was so much more behind the curtain of everything than I was led to believe. I came to believe the only thing that I could trust was real was the love of my family. My government has turned out to be one big phony corporation — a massive worldwide scam perpetrated by Zionists, Nazis, and Khazars. It has to be stopped! My original mission was supposed to be about the ... more »

Thaksin's War on the 99% Continues - This Time Against the Handicapped

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
*February 11, 2014* (ATN) - What may have seemed like an isolated incident perpetrated by one of the more unsavory supporters of the current regime of accused mass murder, convicted criminal and fugitive, Thaksin Shinawatra, now appears to be more systemic - the abuse, mockery, and neglect of Thailand's handicapped. It was reported in "Senior Reuters Journalist Mocks Disabled Man," that pro-regime propagandist Andrew Marshall formally of Reuters, shamelessly mocked a double amputee. The tasteless hate speech went uncondemned by the many Western media outlets that defer to him as an ... more »

Navajoland Billboard reveals Dine' cheated by BHP coal

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Navajoland billboard reveals Dine' cheated by BHP coal and Navajo Nation government By Dine' CARE Censored News Purpose: Members of Diné C.A.R.E., Honor the Treaties, and Diné community advocates collaborated on a Billboard project to provide a powerful message to the people. The Billboard states the monies used for the Navajo Mine purchase and Johnny Naize’s misuse of discretionary

The Bermuda Triangle and ABC Evening News

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 11 hours ago
In the category of “What Isn’t News,” we have the ABC Evening News on Sunday night (February 9) telling us that scientists have come up with a solution for the Bermuda Triangle. Really? I thought it had been explained more than thirty-five years ago, and in fact, on this very blog several years ago I offered an explanation that I thought was reasonable. Here’s the deal. Back in the mid-1970s, when I was much younger and believed that those writing books and magazine articles actually engaged in original research and first-hand reporting, I thought there was something mysterious abo... more »

Lambs to the Slaughter

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours ago
Humanity to Barack Obama: Don't pee down our backs and tell us it's raining. The president last week signed a nearly trillion-dollar Farm Bill that, besides rewarding the ultra-rich, immediately cuts an average $100 a month from the food stamp stipends of nearly a million more people. Yet there he goes, traveling the country, claiming to be a champion of the oppressed. Look at the graphic put out by the White House. The most cherished aspect of the Farm Bill is that it "strengthens the economy" by reducing the deficit in the usual way: enriching the rich while immiserating the poor. ... more »

Free Trade 32: Hong Kong's Unilateral Trade Liberalization and John Cowperthwaite

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
Nice article about Hong Kong below, written by a friend, Larry Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in the US. Slightly shortened, see the original article here. The territory's unilateral trade liberalization policy -- no trade negotiations, no hiring of trade negotiators and bureaucrats with frequent travels, no finger-pointing of who caused the collapse of trade negotiations -- is a major factor for its fast growth and stable development. In addition, its low taxes, or absence of tax on certain transactions, attracted more businesses, which created more ... more »

ANYTHING GOES: For information, see page D3!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014* *Part 1—The two percent misperception:* In this morning’s New York Times, the truth appears on page D3. On that page, Justin Gillis does a Science Times report about climate change. As he starts, he describes how easy it is to get mis- and disinformed about this particular topic: GILLIS (2/11/14): *At the exact moment President Obama was declaring last month that “climate change is a fact,” thousands of drivers in Atlanta were trapped in a grueling winter ordeal,* trying to get home on roads that had turned into ribbons of ice. As the president address... more »

'Economists Against Austerity' - Statement by 70 Canadian Economists

leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago
*Statement by 70 Canadian Economists Against Austerity* *We, the undersigned, strongly urge the federal government to stop implementing fiscal austerity measures just to achieve its political goal of budgetary balance by 2015.* *Since the mid-1990s, we have witnessed an era during which, under the influence of the same economists who had also advised the deregulation of the financial sector in the US, Canada, and other G20 countries, government policies brought the international economy to the edge of economic meltdown in 2008. After initially implementing a series of necessary fisc... more »

FLOODS AND STORMS EXPLAINED

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago
Hollywood has prepared us for floods. The Day After Tomorrow, 2004 The UK in 2014 *Weather Modification in the UK?* *Stuart Syvret (child abuse whistleblower) Blog Removed by Google.*

Celebrification, commodification!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014* *Reintroducing the Beatles:* We were never Beatle fans, although we’ll acknowledge we knew some. When the mop tops arrived in the U.S., we were high school juniors in the San Francisco suburbs. For us, Bob Dylan had already hit. One month before the now-famous Sullivan program, Dylan’s third album had been released. At the time, it was hard to get from The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll back to I Want to Hold Your Hand. Even as the lads evolved, we never really found our way to their work. Fifty years later, we watched the bulk of Sunday’s tribute ... more »

Will KC ALEC Protest - Be A Closed Shop Event?

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
I can't help wondering if the folks in Missouri are going to have an open house party for the Kansas City ALEC meeting in May - or a closed shop party for the ALEC meeting in May. Why would I wonder that? Well for the ALEC meeting in December - the notice for the protest went out two days in advance of the protest. Coming from out of state - I couldn't drop everything and be in Washington DC in two days. Coming from out of state - I couldn't justify flying into Washington DC and hoping someone had planned to do a protest. It was a closed shop protest. I can't help thinking that th... more »

So, Are All Jewish Leaders Criminally Insane? (Is This A Trick Question?)

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours ago
With all the problems that we face right now in the world, I am still truly surprised that most people have not awakened to the scoundrels and misfits that are responsible for every single crisis that is right now putting us on the brink of world wide economic collapse.... It is surprising that everyone goes about their daily business unaware that everything around them is about to change dramatically... Only then will people suddenly ask the questions: What the hell just happened?.. And of course: Who the hell is responsible for this mess? I am especially troubled that these crimi... more »

Cardinality of bases doesn't matter for Hilbert spaces

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
*Set theory, cardinals, ordinals, unmeasurable sets, and other pathological mathematical structures have no legitimate power in physics* Laymen (e.g. postmodern philosophers) interested in spirituality and physics (...) often talk about things like the "influence of Gödel's theorems about incompleteness on physics" and similar things. They usually want to believe that this theorem must imply that mathematics and science must be limited, leaving the bulk of the human knowledge to witches, alternative doctors, ESP experts, dragons, priests, and global warming alarmists, among related ... more »

ALEC is an IT - ALEC Legislators Are the Problem

2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago
Saw this on Twitter. *ALEC is an IT * *ALEC spokeswoman Molly Fuhs explained ... . “We do not advocate for anything.” * *ALEC legislators R the real problem.* ALEC legislators R the real problem. ALEC legislators R the real problem. Until people really, truly understand that the meetings of the American Legislative Exchange Council are nothing more than a flea market where lobbyists can buy a malleable, ignorant, hicktown state legislator - nothing meaningful can happen in fixing our political system. . *#VoteNo2ALEC* *and ALEC implodes *

“What These Children Are Like”: Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
“What These Children Are Like”: Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language. via “What These Children Are Like”: Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

I thought my capacity for being shocked had reached its limits...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*I was wrong.* Nice Deb has put it all together for us - and we thank her. On Monday night’s Kelly File, Megyn Kelly covered the ObamaCare Employer Mandate delay, focusing “on one little nugget” that was “found under a mountain of new regulations” which stipulates that in order to be eligible for this *gift* from the White House, “the employer may not reduce the size of its workforce or its overall hours of service of its employees.” “Basically”, she continued, “what the government is telling employers is that you will not fire a single person. You will not lay off a single pers... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Power grid attack in California raises concerns locally ~Sabrina Wilson, WVUE* *Violet Canal to be closed for Bayou Dupre sector gate maintenance ~Jed Lipinski* *Scientific studies funded by BP start to yield results ~Susan Buchanan, Louisiana Weekly* *Artists suffer for art, and a City Hall permit to display it ~Jaquetta White, N.O. Advocate* *Krewe du Vieux builders working hard on floats ~Mary Rickard*

TODAY IS THE DAY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
- Today is the NSA action day. All you have to do is make a call or send an email - and share the action with others. This is the kind of action day that helps decide whether we have any rights at all or we become a full-blown police state. Just go *here*to help the cause. - We had a meeting at the house yesterday of a group of Bath residents, and one from Arrowsic, to plan a public forum on the diversification/conversion of the local shipyard at Bath Iron Works (BIW). They make nothing but warships there now. We'll hold the event in June and ha... more »

Musings On Iraq’s January 2014 Security Report Breakdown

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
There were a reported 1,031 security incidents in Iraq in January 2014. That averaged out to 33.2 attacks per day. In comparison, in January 2013 there were 564 attacks for an average of 18.1 per day. That was an 83% increase in one year’s time showing that the insurgency was reborn last year. The chart shows that there was a slight dip in attacks in the second half of the month, 461, compared to the first, 570. January 14 had the most attacks with 59 while January 29 only had 18. Those 1,031 attacks led to 1,495 deaths and 2,876 wounded, which averaged out to 48.2 deaths and 92... more »

Most Americans Agree-- Time To End The Cuban Trade Embargo

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Over the weekend, Charlie Crist told Bill Maher's HBO audience that he favors ending the Cuban trade embargo, a complete reversal from his position as the state’s former Republican governor and as an independent Senate candidate in 2010. "The embargo," he said, "has done nothing in more than fifty years to change the regime in Cuba." Crist couldn't have been surprised by the predictable screaming fit from the far right in his own state. Right on cue, anti-Castro relics Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, had public meltdowns. Marco Rubio, currently taking heat from the GOP'... more »

Syria: Russia & China skip UN talks- West pushing for 'humanitarian' war

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours ago
2nd post for today-* Is it just me or does it seem the war agenda is advancing?* *1st post Ukraine *- The EU urges the creation of a new Ukrainian government- Surprise! *Now, over to Syria- * UNITED NATIONS: Russia (China too) is blocking Western efforts to push through a security council resolution that would raise the prospect of sanctions against Syria unless the government gives unrestricted access to deliver humanitarian aid. Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin vowed to veto the proposed measure if necessary. Both he and China's UN ambassador were no-shows at a meeting o... more »

Mistrust Breeds Contempt

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Mitchell Anderson writes that Canada has become The Great Weird North, where the government doesn't trust its own citizens. Consider the evidence: Revelations last week that Communications Security Establishment Canada(CSEC) was spying on Canadians cell phones through airport Wi-Fi networks only came to light due to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ontario's privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian said she was "blown away" by the news, adding that CSEC's methods seemed those of a "totalitarian state, not a free and open society." If the "Harper Government" is suspiciou... more »

Barclays Fires 12,000; Reports Horrible Earnings, Awards Itself Bigger Bonuses - the hubris of the bankers is profound !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Barclays Fires 12,000; Reports Horrible Earnings, Awards Itself Bigger Bonuses [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/11/2014 07:58 -0500 - Barclays - E-Trade - fixed - HFT - Market Manipulation - Reuters - United Kingdom inShare It is not easy for one bank to anger more people with one announcement than what Barclays did in the past 24 hours. In one fell swoop, the British bank infuriated shareholders after announcing dismal earnings (an adjusted Q4 profit of about 200 million pounds and a statutory profit of less than 10... more »

Massive UK Flooding That Could Wreak Havoc For Months .... But is the EU to blame ? The Slog posits - Yes , they are !!!!

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
11 Surreal Photos From The Massive UK Flooding That Could Wreak Havoc For Months MICHAEL KELLEY FEB. 11, 2014, 7:24 AM 663 1 - - inShare1 - - - EMAIL MORE [image: flood] REUTERS/Eddie Keogh Resident Holly Phillips stands on a box outside her house after the river Thames flooded the village of Wraysbury, southern England February 10, 2014. [image: Screen Shot 2014 02 11 at 6.52.59 AM] Reuters Southern and western Britain have been drenched by the wettest winter in 250 years, and nature isn't letting up quite yet. The River Thames burst its banks after r... more »

Bill to Block Federal Funding to Universities that Boycott Israel

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 16 hours ago
* (I'm sure that THIS will be all over the news [NOT!} . . I catch myself wishing this was all just a bad dream more and more . . . )* *By Eugene Volokh * February 10, 2014 "Information Clearing House - "Washington Post" - The bill was introduced yesterday, HR4009, and provides, in relevant part, Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an institution of higher education shall not be eligible to receive funds or any other form of financial assistance under this Act [not including student aid funds] if the Secretary determines that such institution is participating in a b... more »

The EU urges the creation of a new Ukrainian government- Surprise!

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours ago
Not. I am not surprised to read of the EU making this call. Why, it was just yesterday we saw Victoria Nuland's anointed one call for the creation of a parallel government*...... And then today the EU urges the creation of a new Ukrainian government* *First: Recall Victoria Nuland wanted 'Yats' in?* *Video here*- *Victoria Nuland "F the EU on the Ukraine"? Political elite or something else? * *Transcript here* *Quote**- Nuland:* [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. *Then just yesterday-Ukraine- A parallel government & Be... more »

Honduras seizes 'crime zoo,' animals go hungry

paul at Paying attention - 16 hours ago
Back in September the Honduran government started seizing the assets of Los Cachiros, an alleged drug and crime organization. The $500 million in seizures included a zoo and resort business the organization had established between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. We had meant to go; the TripAdvisor reviews were pretty good. Uh-oh, I thought, when news of the seizure broke. Those animals were a lot better off in a zoo owned by narcos than one run by the Honduran government, which has demonstrated a consistent lack of competence in almost everything it touches. Sadly, that seems to be t... more »

Where's The Outrage???

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago
Oh, it's there all right. Every time you type "I can't believe there hasn't been an uprising yet" there are many more Canadians thinking the same thing. It's still a small minority of Canadians, but they're there. It's just that the "progressive" or "leftist" brain-trust has no idea how to harness this energy. Nobody appears capable of large-scale, strategic thinking. (I'm making myself an exception here. My problem is getting access to the resources that the plodders are in control of.) Now, the vast majority of Canadians aren't even thinking about this shit. They're busy going ab... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 16 hours ago
*The proposed British ban on smoking in cars where children are present* *The data on passive smoking indicate that it is not generally harmful but smoking in cars with children may be a special case. There appears to be no relevant research* The Commons will vote on whether to give the health secretary the power to impose a ban on smoking in cars, despite the opposition of some MPs including members of the Cabinet. Steven Wibberley from the British Lung Foundation explained the health implications of smoking in cars. "Because it's an enclosed environment, it concentrates the smo... more »

Parent’s unconscious of risks faced by children on smart phones

Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago
According to a study many parents are out of touch with the dangers faced by their kids on tablets and smart phones. Almost one in five children supposed they had seen something on their devices that had upset them, twice the number parents had thought. A separate study found that just over 20% of parents do not monitor what their children are doing online. The study was commissioned as part of Safer Internet Day. While 90% of the parents surveyed said they had spoken to their children about staying safe online when using a tablet or a *Smartphone,* most said they allowed their c... more »

Turn It Off: Fight the NSA Stasi at State Level

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 17 hours ago
What has become painfully apparent is that any effort to restrain the rogue NSA and the ongoing illegal surveillance and mass data-mining programs conducted against law-abiding Americans is doomed to fail at the federal level. With each new report based on the data procured by former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden the outrage grows even as Leviathan on the Potomac digs in to resist calls for accountability. With the stories that came out yesterday on how the Obama administration is furiously working on their next extrajudicial murder of an American ci... more »

message to all TRANSDIMENSIONALS, "I'm waiting,"

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 18 hours ago
TRANSDIMENSIONALISM, what a joke. "Come on," if you've got access to the trans-dimensional hardware or wetware, "Arrive. You can see me on your 'scope'. Visit me now." I dare you. ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE: I'll add a report to this blogpost that you were here. "Clock's ticking, pussies." *EVENING UPDATE:* well, of course, nothing happened. Nobody came through. Nobody manifested. Nobody broke into my reality, walked into my living room and said something like, "Hi, Mike, here's proof that TRANSDIMENSIONALS EXIST and isn't it about time you apologised for the 'pussies' comment?" ... more »

The Parasitical Elite – Defining The Shifting Enemy Of The Common Man

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 18 hours ago
*"Being of non-physical substance, they do not eat food as we define food. They do not get drunk on what we call alcohol. These entities feed upon fear and negative emotion. The tools they use to grow their food are found in the machinations of central banks, the CFR, warmongering corporations and a host of earthly minions, all dedicated to sowing fear and creating negative emotion within us. This is their food."* Michael T. Winter *Activist Post* Who are these people? Some will immediately chime in, “They aren't people at all!” Perhaps so...perhaps not. They go by many names; T... more »

The Pro-China team gets the attention of the locals

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours ago
*The 145A in Yunlin.* The pro-China forces were sprinkling the land this week with little reminders of just how life will be when China annexes Taiwan. First, the ongoing controversy over the changes to the high school textbooks showed the full colonial thrust of the Deep Blue pro-China academics who drafted them: aborigines in Taiwan are referred to as China's 56th minority, the "high mountain people" (高山族). Hey, way to go! And this an election year too. This controversy couldn't have happened at a better time. Meanwhile this week China refused visas to journalists from Apple Dai... more »

English lecturer Job at Kinmen University

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours ago
Got this in the email: Lecturer or Assistant Professor (Contract-based full-time position), Dept. of Applied English, National Quemoy University. Click READ MORE to read more..... Qualification and experience *Education **Earned Master or doctorate in English Education or related field *Experience ** University/College level ESL/EFL teaching experience ** Experience in ESL/EFL teaching students English ** Excellent oral and written communication skills ** Ability to work collaboratively in university setting * Preferred ** Experience in planning English learning activities (Preferred... more »

Signed in right Blogger account but no blogs? Solution

Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 19 hours ago
Ever have that frustrating experience of being logged into the right Blogger account but have zero blogs in the Dashboard? [image: Blogger: signed into correct Blogger account but no blogs in Dashboard] I have experienced this myself too and I have 2 possible solution. First to confirm that you are actually signed into the right Blogger account. Surf to the blog which you want to do some editing or to make a new post. If you are signed into the right account, then you should be able to see the quick edit orange pencil icon and the wrench and screwdriver icon [image: Blogger wrench... more »

headline Door from the Future - artist Klemens Torggler - item Drehplattentür

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 19 hours ago
Austrian artist, Klemens Torggler, has created a 4-part "flip panel door" and it's like 'something from the future'. If you want to Whine & Complain about the Health & Safety aspect of this design, you're not getting it.

Jordan’s Journey from Gardasil into the Unknown by Kami Wightman Fulton

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
JordenJordan’s Journey from Gardasil into the Unknown By Kami Wightman Fulton Bitley Michigan Sane Vax Inc., 11 February 2014 *What Gardasil did for Jordan* My daughter was an amazing athlete! Volleyball and wakeboarding were her life. Now, we are lucky if she can complete a full day at school let alone play sports. This all started a week after my daughter had the first shot of Gardasil and began to have lots of pain and swelling in her joints. Her knee in particular was really bad. It was terribly swollen as were her neck and ankles. The doctors thought she had J... more »

QEG- Quantum Energy Generator: Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 19 hours ago
Exciting doesn't even come close to describing adequately the feeling of a breakthrough being within reach. Hope Girl's updates on the QEG- Quantum Energy Generator - have left a lot of people holding their breath in anticipation of it's release. I chatted briefly last night with Hope and the excitement is almost palpable as it's release is imminent. I am hoping to get into a much more in depth conversation with Hope very soon as both Nick and I are very very keenly interested in the QEG and bringing it out to the people through mass production. As I wrote last night, this is th... more »

Take a Stand For Steve Marsh & Organic Farmers Around The World! - Sign This Petition

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago
Take a stand for Organic Farmers around the World!*A threat to an organic farmer anywhere, is a threat to all organic farmers everywhere!* This week, an important case is being heard *halfway around the world* in Western Australia about organic farmer Steve Marsh, whose organic field was contaminated by his neighbor’s genetically engineered canola. As a result, *Steve lost his organic certification and as much as 70% of his Steve’s farm has been contaminated* with Monsanto’s patented genes. With clever fine print in their seed contracts, *Monsanto is not legally liable* for their p... more »

Zeilinger's Newton Lecture on foundations of QM

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
On Sunday, Peter F. would send me a link to an obnoxious anti-quantum tirade by Adrian Kent. Except for some random uncontroversial spam about the discovery of nuclei and other things, it's nothing else than another salvo saying that quantum mechanics has to collapse because it is not classical physics – it is refusing to fulfill the obligation to say what is happening during the experiment. Well, quantum mechanics answers this question completely clearly and unambiguously when it says that it is physically invalid to ask about the measurable quantities before they're measured – the... more »

LORD McALPINE; SATANISM

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Lord Alistair McAlpine*, who was accused of sexually abusing boys from a UK children's home, died in PUGLIA in Italy in January 2014. "And as with Savile - no real cause of death?" Police say that Satanists are particularly active in Puglia. Italian priests join the war on Satanic crime - Telegraph *Puglia is famous for? McALPINE, PUGLIA.* In 2012 we wrote: *WARWICK SPINKS AND VIOLENT PEDOPHILE RINGS* On this post, *Anonymous* comments on the relationship between Lord McAlpine and whistleblower Steve Messham who made accusations of child abuse against Lord McAlpine. There i... more »

More brazen, shameless "Holocaust" chutzpah

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 22 hours ago
The organized Jewish community residing in Hungary, in yet another display of brazen chutzpah and arrogance, has decided to *"boycott the state-sponsored Holocaust memorial program unless the government makes changes to redress distortions of history,"* the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*reports. The Jews living in Hungary are upset that the Hungarian government is not perpetuating the false narrative of WWII, particularly as it relates to the fake Jewish "Holocaust" story we constantly hear about, in a manner that adequately suits the Jewish community and advances the primacy of alleged ... more »

NYT: Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds

Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 22 hours ago
One of the great problems of nuclear power has always been what to do with the radioactive waste. Most of it presently is stored at the reactor sites, and most of the spent rods are kept in specially designed pools, called wet storage. The rest of the waste, also usually kept on site, is in dry storage. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, dry storage began in 1986: "In this method, spent fuel is surrounded by inert gas inside a container called a cask. The casks can be made of metal or concrete, and some can be used for both storage and transportation. They are either ... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Exit Plan'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
EXIT PLAN Posted on February 10, 2014  Mohawk Nation News  MNN. FEB. 10, 2014. The hierarchal charade is ending. Looks like Canada is joining the US and UN control grid [Agenda 21]. Lawyers for the Corporation of Canada are fleeing and saying in effect, “Let’s get out now while the going is good. We’ll join Piper, the international law firm, run out of the UN. We can help make laws for

MeTA 16: Day 1 of Conference 2014

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours ago
The 2014 Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines forum 2014 started today, here at the Bayanihan Center of Unilab Complex, Pasig City, Metro Manila. Attendance is big, 100+ people attending. I see many new faces here compared to past MeTA PH fora. Below, they key speakers, from left: Former Bulacan Gov. Roberto "Obet" Pagdanganan, MeTA Philippines Chairman, gave the Opening Remarks. Dr. Tim Reed, Health Action International (HAI, Amsterdam, the International MeTA Secretariat). Dr. Deirdre Dimancesco of WHO in Geneva, and Dr. Francisco Tranquilino of the UP College of Med... more »

today: call your m.p.! stop the (un)fair elections act!

laura k at wmtc - 23 hours ago
I trust by now you've all heard about Stephen Harper's latest plan to undermine democracy in Canada, his electoral reform bill that the chief electoral officer of the country has called an affront to democracy. Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand told CBC: "My reading of the act is that I can no longer speak about democracy in this country." Now, as per usual, the Harpercrats want to pass the bill before it can be properly debated. It was just introduced a few days ago, but could be adopted by the House of Commons as early as today or tomorrow. The so-called Fair Elections Act wou... more »

US Attorney Eric Holder to step down this year ? But note the pushback - DOJ Disputes Report That Holder Will Resign Or not in 2014 - who knows what this Administration will do from day to day anyway ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/10/eric-holder-step-down-year-report/ U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will step down this year, he said in an interview with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin in the magazine’s Feb. 17 edition. In a feature article, Mr. Holder said he plans on staying in his position “well into” the year. Last November, Mr. Holder, the first black attorney general, told CBS News he didn’t have “any plans” to step down. Mr. Holder has made voting rights the test case of his tenure, the New Yorker reported. He has been a vocal critic of the Supreme Court c... more »

Anne Lewis : Bridging the chasm between environmental and economic justice

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours ago
A conversation with activists Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Bill Gallegos. By Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2014 Steelworkers President Leo Gerard said about the choice between a clean environment and good jobs, “You can have both, … finish reading Anne Lewis : Bridging the chasm between environmental and economic justice

Listen: Gary Foley's advice to young Aboriginal people

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Listen to Aboriginal Gary Foley, recently featured in articles on how the Australian intelligence agency spied on Aboriginals in the '70s and earlier. Foley tells young people to think for themselves, analyze for themselves, stay away from government jobs, and don't consider a person an elder just because they turned 45 years old.

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 23 hours ago
*Doubts about the hiding ocean heat* The latest episode in the claim that heat is "hiding" in the ocean is here, reporting a study led by a Prof. England. Just a few preliminary notes: The study offers an explanation for the pesky fact (for Warmists) that there has been a "standstill" in the earth's temperature for about 17 years. Prof. England calculates that stronger winds in the Pacific in recent years would have pushed hot surface water to below 700 meters and that the heat is just lurking there to come up again some time and warm us. So the heat is not absent, just hidin... more »

Love Quest : Day 3 - The Square Peg

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
So, stuff may be coming up, lots of stuff. This is stuff that has been swept under the rug and remained there for years. You are re-decorating now and someone has moved the rug. There is nothing nearby to cover it with. You’ll have to deal with it in a new way. When my children were very young and in the midst of a creative project, inevitably something would go wrong. Some would call this a mistake – but after a few tears were shed, we’d consider it an opportunity, a chance to do things differently, to try something unexpected. Nothing was ever “ruined”. Yet many picture... more »

Republican Civil War Isn't Just About Money… Bigotry And Racism Are Big On The Right As Well

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Matt Bevin, the radical right's McConnell slayer? Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation, is probably the most prodigious Democratic bundler in California. It was huge news when he backed Obama instead of Hillary in 2008. Today's news was that he's back on board with the Clintons. In the last 2 cycles, plus this year, he's personally donated over $3.5 million to Democratic organizations and candidates, particularly Priorities USA Action. Between 1990 and 2008, he wrote checks for $1.3 million. Jeffrey Katzenberg doesn't contribute to outfits like Blue America; he gives to ... more »

Does your food do more than fill you up?

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
[image: Elderly couple enjoying vitality because of healthy eating.]*Spices improved their health*I was standing in the spice isle, admiring all the varieties and colors, when, out of nowhere, an elderly woman began speaking to me about her husband's past health issues. Evidently, he suffered for years with arthritis, circulation problems, and heart disease. She recalled someone telling her, when she was a young woman, that spices were very healing. So, she began to add them to every meal. She claimed that, after years of spicing up their meals, her husband's health issues went away ... more »

The NY Times (Formerly Known as a Newspaper) Outed As First-Rank Disinformant

Bill Fucking Keller, editor extraordinaire. Or undercover agent extraordinaire. Cancer survivor libeler. Keeper of Bush secrets. Misinformer/liar to millions. Ready to perform more public services. And write off taxes to public. As usual. A hit! Providing even more evidence that the Karl Rove Apparatus maintains tight control. NY Times Editor Who Held Bush Wiretapping Story For a Year

My comment to Congress on the Keystone Pipeline. Where's yours?

Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 1 day ago
Here's what I submitted. You can submit your own comment at http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=DOS-2014-0003-0001. How many spills will it take before we realized this was a horrible idea? How many lives will have been ruined, farms swamped with tar sands that are harder to clean up than oil? Is that a worthy trade-off for the relatively few American jobs this will create? Would not

Enbridge and Stephen Harper Can Expect The Same Protest and Worse In British Columbia, Northern Gateway Is Dead

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day ago
*A March In North Carolina For The Soul Of America* *The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands of people from 43 states who converged on the North Carolina state capital on Saturday is just the beginning.* *The people who came to North Carolina to join Moral March on Raleigh saw it as the next phase of the push-back against tea-party Republicans and their assault in North Carolina and elsewhere a... more »

You can’t drive a Toyota with a cloth cap

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
If you had a dollar for every time a local unionist or union supporter was heard to say that higher Australian wages are due to greater union militancy (as if all that extra capital Australian workers have to work with were irrelevant), you’d have enough money to pay all of Matt McCarten’s outstanding debts. Sure, unions can push wages high. But *sustainable* wage levels are generally a function of capital and its productivity – push them higher, and they soon become unsustainable. Latest example: Toyota Australia, joining Ford Australia and General Motors Australia on the scrap... more »

Thorne Dreyer : Workers Defense Project’s Cristina Tzintzún joins us on Rag Radio

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Tzintzún, who has been heralded as a ‘Hero of the New South,’ is featured on the Rag Radio podcast. By Rag Radio | The Rag Blog | February 10, 2014 Cristina Tzintzún, executive director of the Workers Defense Project, was … finish reading Thorne Dreyer : Workers Defense Project’s Cristina Tzintzún joins us on Rag Radio

Alan Waldman : Clever British series about four 50-year-old men who struggle with the challenges of aging

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
The cast is outstanding, and the quartet’s vain attempts to recapture their youth are amusingly presented. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | February 10, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and … finish reading Alan Waldman : Clever British series about four 50-year-old men who struggle with the challenges of aging

Cold cold cold

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
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“Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: * *V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones”* By John W. Whitehead “It’s a future where you don’t forget anything…In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time…Your car will drive itself, it’s a bug that cars were invented before computers…you’re never lonely…you’re never bored…you’re never out of ideas… We can suggest where you go next, who to meet, what to read...What’s interesting about this future is that it’s for the average person, not just the elites.”—Google CEO Eric S... more »

STANDING UP FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald join Democracy Now for their first interview upon launching The Intercept, their new digital magazine published by First Look Media, the newly formed media venture started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Greenwald is the journalist who first broke the story about Edward Snowden’s disclosures on the National Security Agency. He was previously a columnist at The Guardian newspaper. Scahill is producer and writer of the documentary film "Dirty Wars," which is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. "We ... more »

George W. Bush is honored by the ADL for his support of the two-state solution -- are you laughing or crying?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*by Ken* I think this story pretty much speaks for itself, except to note that if you line up your angles right, it's possible for the giving of an honor to dishonor both the giver and the recipient. Once upon a time, it was at least my impression that the Anti-Defamation League and its longtime director, Abraham Foxman, did serious work. But somewhere along the line (and again, this is my impression of the history) the ADL and its director went, well, nuts, and transformed themselves into shrill propagandists, shills for the lower lowlifes of the Israeli government and the offic... more »

Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part 16, 1953-1954

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
The movement to democratize Egypt: Nasser forces resignation of General Naguib; no mass Jewish emigration during this period. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | February 10, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog … finish reading Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part 16, 1953-1954

Gold news of the day February 10 , 2014 ..... Morgan Warns of Possible Physical Gold Shortage ....... GATA missives discussing China gold demand , gold manipulation and conrasting Venezuela's recovery of its gold in contrast to the flailing efforts of Germany !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
GATA..... Sprott praises GATA consultant Speck's 'The Gold Cartel' Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 21:22. Section: Daily Dispatches 4:22p ET Monday, February 10, 2014 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: On the weekly market review by Sprott Money News, Sprott Asset Management's CEO Eric Sprott explains his optimism about gold and silver prices and praises GATA consultant Dimitri Speck's new book, "The Gold Cartel," for detailing the largely surreptitious manipulation of the gold market by central banks. Information about Speck's book is available at the Internet site of his publish... more »

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report ( Market manipulations become more extreme , more desperate ) - February 8 , 2014 - Data , News and Views touching upon the precious metals -- additional items from GATA ( key article discussing German gold repatriation attempts and German BS regarding same ) and Koos Jansen ( China's need to buy gold ) ..... JP Morgan selects Mercuria for the sale of its physical commodities unit - Blythe Masters not part of the package ? Blythe Masters Withdraws From CFTC : Furious Twitter Backlash Blamed

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/market-manipulations-become-more-extreme-more-desperate ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER By the time the jobs report came out at 8:30 a.m. EST in New York yesterday, gold was up about five bucks or so from it's closing price on Thursday. The jobs number precipitated a down/up price spike---and the 'up' spike got hammered flat by JPMorgan *et al *within 15 minutes. Once the London p.m. gold fix was out of the way, the gold price rallied a few dollars going into the London close---and then the gold price traded sideways into the 1:30 p.m Comex clo... more »

Want to Raise Achievement? End Socioeconomic Segregation.

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
*Richard Kahlenberg in the NYTimes:* Parental involvement in education is both critical for students and unequally distributed, with upper-middle class parents much more likely to be engaged. There are, however, important steps that policy makers can take to ensure that students in all schools have champions for higher standards and strong teaching. *Lower-income parents can't get involved as easily. An economic mix gets active parents lobbying for excellence in every school.* Parents are the key to improving education in two senses. First, parents are the primary educators of stude... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Oil industry, 'Green Army' at odds ~Lynda Edwards, Daily Advertiser*

The warmist “consensus” concedes the pause [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Struggling to explain why global atmospheric temperatures have refused to rise over the last 16 years in accord with their scary models and frightening predictions – even as carbon dioxide emissions have continued – the warmist story now concedes that, yes, there has been a pause in the onset of catastrophe. And, yes, it is rather inconvenient. And, well, we now have an excuse. It’s been caused by strong winds. Yes, true story: - *The reason for ‘the pause’ in global warming, excuse #37 in a series: ‘trade winds’* – WATTS UP WITH THAT - *Do winds control the climate or ... more »

Follow the leader

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

Obama Administration Plots Next Extrajudicial Murder

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
Having already acted as judge, jury and executioner and gotten away with it scot-free President Barack Obama, our constitutional law professor in chief is preparing to target yet another American citizen for termination with extreme prejudice. In a flurry of stories on Monday it has been stated that the Obama administration is about to launch another operation to carry out an extrajudicial murder of a so-called threat to America, reported to be a member of the now umbrella term that is applied to ALL Islamic militants - Al Qaeda. The yet unnamed target of the coming murder without... more »

Defeat Deception! Alan Grayson and Dr. Lee Rogers For Congress! (Win Joni Mitchell Art Print Never Offered For Sale Before - Random Drawing) Who's Paying Obamatrons? (Revolt Outside The Media Spotlight)

I think I've mentioned several times before how much respect and admiration I have for Joni Mitchell's artistry (and good works). Senator Alan Grayson, another one of my favorite people/artists (if you believe that political actors can also be artists) has an imaginative offer for us that will benefit everyone politically. Except for the bad guys, of course. From our friend at Down With

Obituary: Stuart Hall

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
I was very sorry to hear about Stuart Hall this afternoon. A figure who tends not to get much coverage in academe or the left these days, his impact on the social sciences and socialist politics in Britain was deep and influential. When I started studying sociology in the early-mid 1990s, Hall's work cast a benign shadow over the British intellectual scene. His was an attempt to come to grips with how politics and culture worked together for the benefit of prevailing configurations of class and power. In 1978's *Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and the Law* Hall and his coll... more »
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