It Is Better To Hear The Rebuke of The Wise Than For A Man To Hear The Song Of Foo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sunday Prayers (Photo credit: Steven Leith)
Mark Slackmeyer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Growing Inequality Reflected in Health Outcomes
Within the US: “The gaps continue to widen between the communities with
the
highest life expectancy and the lowest,” said Christopher Murray, the
director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle,
which produces the county-level life-expectancy figures. “There is
nothing
in sight that suggests that the 25-year trend is going to stop.”
A. Lowrey (2014, March 15) Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap. The New
York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap.html?emc=edit_th_20140316&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=32962000
Our own Doonesbury flashback: When Joanie Caucus joined Elizabeth Warren's Senate staff
*DOONESBURY -- Monday, Februay 4, 2013*
[*Click on any of today's strips to enlarge significantly!*]
*by Ken*
A couple of weeks ago, in presenting that Sunday's *Doonesbury* comparison
of "Banskter Life in the U.S. vs. Iceland," I got sidetracked into
reflecting on the shock of radio guy Mark Slackmeyer's white hair, and
pointed out:
*Simpsons* creator Matt Groening, you'll recall, made the conscious
decision at the outset that his characters wouldn't age, that they would
remain pretty much locked in time. Garry Trudeau has taken the opposite
tack. I don't know of any comic strip ... more »
Sunday Night w/ the Wise Old Man
Welcome to *Sunday Night w/ the Wise Old Man*! Zan Overall, also known as
the Wise Old Man, is an activist, musican and actor. Tonight, we will once
again hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, along with a review
of his recent activism and a commentary on some articles recently appearing
in *American Free Press* and *The Barnes Review*.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in and supported the *Spring
2014 fundraiser... more »
My Vegan Life - Eating Out
[image: My Vegan Life - Eating Out]*Dietary restrictions make *
*eating "out" a challenge*.For the most part, going vegan has been easy. We
cook at home using fresh, whole ingredients and create delicious meals. But
every once in awhile, we enjoy a meal out ... and that presents a problem.
Not everyone understands the meaning of "vegan" or even "vegetarian".
[image: Eating out presents a challenge to vegans.]*Restaurants aren't
always vegan friendly.*Many people assume that "meatless" simply means
"without beef". In restaurants, a server may tell you that a vegetable soup
is vegetar... more »
Ann Frank
Now, that's what I call an October Surprise....
Hang on... Wait, what..?!
Let me guess - The fourth volume of the four, implicitly, would be the one
covering the Auschwitz narrative...
Gates and Duncan and Their Common Core “Freedom” Charade
In his purchased keynote at the National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards (NBPTS) (I know, huh?), billionaire-with-zero-teaching-experience
Bill Gates insisted that the feds are getting the bum rap when it comes to
the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). As Huffington Post’s Joy
Resmovits notes, Gates went on to address critiques that the Common Core
represents a national curriculum, […]
Ukraine: Bulgarian observer declares electoral process democratic and free; Obama rejects Crimea vote
An excerpt from, *"US rejects Crimea vote, cites Russian intimidation"* by
Matthew Lew, AP, March 16:
President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that
Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia "would never be
recognized" by the United States, as he and other top U.S. officials warned
Moscow against making further military moves toward southern and eastern
Ukraine.
The two leaders spoke after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the split in a referendum that the United States, European Union
and others say violates the Ukrainia... more »
East v West in 18 simple infographics
A picture is worth a thousand words"
href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html"
target=_blank>Confucius never said “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
But Chinese graphic artist Yang Liu ingeniously saves many thousand in
illustrating cultural differences between Chinese and westerners. These are
my faves.
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And for anyone who’s ever eaten Yum Char…
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Head here for all 18.
[Hat tip Stephen Hicks]
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Call Your State Senator Tomorrow in Tennessee
Local TV news in Knoxville has typical coverage below of the move by the TN
House last week, which voted overwhelmingly to delay implementation of
Common Core testing.
Note that Mike Edwards, who leads off the "fair and balanced coverage," is
the President of Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, a Board of Director member
of the Teneessee Business Roundtable, member of the U. S. Chamber of
Horrors, and member of the State Board of Education. Note, too, that no
students, parents, or teachers were interviewed.
Call your state Senator tomorrow and simply tell her this:
Please vote with t... more »
YOU are @thechalkface!
DON’T BE CONFUSED @the chalkface is still the punk rock thrill ride that
delivers readers, viewers, and listeners the unfiltered truth about
education reform. We don’t take corporate contributions from Gates and
Walton. But what about this new Chalkbeat? Sadly they do take funds from
Gates and Walton. This is your brain on Chalkbeat. This […]
Ukraine: "We are going home, Crimea is in Russia!" - PM Aksyonov; Mother Russia Wins Crimea Referendum Vote
Ukraine: "We are going home, Crimea is in Russia!" - PM Aksyonov. Source:
RuptlyTV. Date Published: March 16, 2014.
Watch Guy Cecil And Michael Bennet Hand Mitch McConnell The Senate Leader Post
Rick and Rounds
The *Rapid City Journal* is arguably the most conservative newspaper in
South Dakota. And they are certainly more conservative than the Beltway
operative who seems hellbent on handing control of the Senate over to the
Republicans, DSCC executive director Guy Cecil. Cecil, still pouting that
he was unable to deliver the South Dakota Democratic nomination to former
Blue Dog chairwoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, has blackballed South Dakota
Democratic nominee Rick Weiland. Weiland has been endorsed by Tom Daschle
and Tim Johnson and by most of the Democrats in the Senate... more »
#WhatCouldGoWrong
Originally posted on Math Minds:
On Tuesday, I received a book entitled “Accelerating Learning for All
Students” in which all of the teachers in the district will receive
professional development in the upcoming week. I cannot speak to the ELA
piece of the material, however the math examples made me cringe. I quickly
got out…
On the Education of a PM as a Crony [updated]
The place in which PM John Key learned about business was a business
dedicated to sucking the marrow out of special privilege, says Charles
Morris from Reuters (linked to this morning by David Chaston at
Interest.Co.NZ).
Merrill Lynch were the crony’s crony, and they died of it.
Between 2001 and 2008, [says Chaston] …. they paid out US$50 billion in
salaries and bonuses, and sold out to Bank of America.
A “sell-out” made at the point their modern business model had collapsed,
at the height of the 2008 Crash. Indeed,
after a proper accounting it seems even after the terrific pr... more »
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*EPA Bureaucrats Paint the Town Red with Federal Charge Cards*
There appears to be a flourishing culture of financial misconduct at the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This culture has been perpetuated by
a lack of administrative oversight leading to millions of taxpayer dollars
being wasted. At a time when D.C.’s fiscal climate is characterized by a
national debt that is spiraling out of control, there is no excuse for any
government organization to be lacking financial accountability.
A report released this month by the EPA Inspector General (IG) found EPA
employees impr... more »
AMERICA AND THE NEOCONS LIED THEN - AND STILL LIE TODAY
In an article today at *Commentary* online, senior neoconservative writer
Michael Rubin attempts to perpetuate the lie that the US was given false
intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s WMDs. Rubin writes:
*The narrative of “Bush lied, people died,” is nonsense of course. The
problem was that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bluffed his own generals
and aides. When Americans tapped into their phone calls, they heard
Saddam’s lieutenants discussing such weapons as if they had them, and when
American spies debriefed their Iraqi counterparts, there was no sign of
deception because many of t... more »
Gee, Obama Not A Progressive? We're Shocked! Shocked! That Gambling's Been Going On! (They Tell US the Stories (And We Gasp and Believe Them?))
You can't trick karma (Confidence - Ed Burns). Although you can try. The
real trick is keeping the downtrodden, despairing millions serenely
tricked. That takes real confidence. The last comment below mirrors that
confidence game. To our lasting grief. Or: There is a club. And you are not
invited. There Is No Meritocracy: It’s Just the 1 Percent, and the Game Is
Rigged
Stephen Harper and Senate scandal
Richard Nixon seemed to have spoken the same words when faced with the
Watergate scandal.
Can Economists Ever Get It Right? [updated]
What do economists do all day, and why should anyone care?
Working economists promote their “science” on the basis of their
forecasts. But are their forecasts any better than throwing a dart at a
board? Recent reports say “No.”
It's hard to find nice things to say about economists. Their detachment
from the real world of human activity is matched only by their enormous
influence over it, and by their unearned assumption that this arrangement
is well deserved.
Both unearned and undeserved, as a new OECD report on their own economists’
reports makes clear enough. Translate this f... more »
“World War 1All Over Again: The Same Fools Play the Same Game”
*“World War 1All Over Again: The Same Fools Play the Same Game”*
By Paul Craig Roberts
“If you reduce the lie to a scientific system, put it on thick and heavy,
and with great effort and sufficient finances scatter it all over the world
as the pure truth, you can deceive whole nations for a long time and drive
them to slaughter for causes in which they have not the slightest
interest.” - Chief French Editor, “Behind the Scenes in French Journalism”,
describing the organization of World War 1 propaganda in France.
Did US Secretary of State John Kerry ask you before he delivered an al... more »
Common Core As “Technologically Necessary”: A Looming Shift In Sales Pitch?
The term Common Core is so negatively charged that Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) proponents are trying their hardest to ditch the term– not
ditch CCSS– just the term. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee suggested
that states “rebrand” the CCSS product– give it a shiny new name in order
to fool the public into thinking its gone. In my […]
Fat Cats and Suck-Ups
The headline in the so-called Progressive Congressional Caucus's latest
budget proposal tells the whole sordid, regressive story:
8.8 MILLION JOBS BY 2017
$4 TRILLION IN DEFICIT REDUCTION
Austerity is dead, and income inequality has been proclaimed as the
defining challenge of our time. So long live.... *Deficit Reduction?*
Somebody hasn't been reading their Paul Krugman, who rightly observes that
it's stupid to worry about spending cuts and deficit reduction during
economic downturns. Somebody didn't get the message that the Fix the Debt
crowd of billionaire deficit hawks just t... more »
7 Things Anti-Interventionists Forgot to Tell Putin
It’s good advice, says Robert Tracinski, only the people who need it aren’t
listening.
‘This is the fundamental naiveté of the anti-interventionists. They offer
excellent advice, just not to the people who need it. You might call this
the paradox of pacifism: the reasonable counsels of peace find their most
eager audience among those who least need to hear them, while being ignored
by the fanatics and strongmen who actually drive most of the world’s
conflicts.
So all of this advice just ends up restraining the good guys and letting
the bad guys run wild—until we are forced into a... more »
Crimea: Massive turnout/votes overwhelmingly in favour of joining Russia
With a turnout the western governments could only dream of. The turn out
does indeed make legitimate the decision.
I believe the last election in Canada saw about 50 percent turn out?
Unsure of the US? Making the government, at least in Canada, quite
illegitimate in their claims of representing the people of Canada.
*Early Count Shows 95 Percent of Crimea Voters Want to Be Russian*
With fifty percent of the ballots counted, an overwhelming 95.5 percent of
voters in Crimea are in favor of joining Russia, a preliminary tally
indicated Sunday.
Only 3.5 percent voted to remain part of Uk... more »
Common Core = “College Ready” ?
From New York parent Loy Gross: Why do we need Common Core? Experts tell us
it will make kids “college and career ready.” And let me add, potatoes
don’t have wings because my bicycle is a 10-speed. Out of those two
statements, only one has a measure of truth. Potatoes don’t have wings. And
my […]
Ebstein's Anomaly
Marc--February, 2014
(Photo by John Carroll)
QUOTE OF THE DAY: On the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity [updated]
*“Baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and
don’t create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.”*
- Charles Bukowski, from his 1992 poem “Air and Light and Time and Space,”
which cartoonist Zen Pencils has creatively adapted for comic book.
Probably while working 16-hour days in a coal mine.
UPDATE: Scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov makes a similar
point less poetically:
“I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters in three segments, all at
once, though they were to be run on three separate days. In between... more »
Sunday Classics: Verdi's Queen Elisabeth demands justice from King Philip but gets something else
*Ferruccio Furlanetto (at the Met last year) as the sleepless King Philip
in his study -- with the fateful jewel box*
*The *KING*'s study in Madrid. The *KING*, plunged in deep meditation,
leaning on a table covered with papers, where candles are near burning out.
Day begins to illuminate the colored glass of the windows.*
*KING PHILIP* [*as if in a dream*]:
She never loved me.
No, that heart is closed to me.
She doesn't love me, she doesn't love me.
I still see her again, contemplating with a sad look
my white mane the day that she came here from France.
No, she doesn't love me, s... more »
While World Attention Stays Focused On Ukraine: Remembering Rachel Corrie, Murdered 11 Years Ago Today By The Criminal State Of Israel
Yes, the world is still indeed focused squarely on the nation of Ukraine
that of course saw a US led coup against its democratically elected
government earlier this year. And there is of course the very important
referendum today where the results of the vote have just come in and the
proud people of Crimea have voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and
join the Russian Federation. Things may go from bad to worse this coming
week as the US criminal regime has stated that they will not honor the
rights of the Crimean people and will reject this legal referendum
results... Th... more »
HC Unit Theory - first post of 2014 - 12 into 20 will it go?
so, for those, like me, who've been a) trying to keep up with HC Unit
ideas and b) make cogent sense of them, here's another enigmatic entry for
discussion.
We already know that HC3 i.e. three HC Units out of phase by 90 degrees,
are the building block of all atoms. HC1 is hydrogen, alternating through
0+0- cycles. HC4 is helium, no net (charge) output, all curves complimented.
HC12 is carbon. Now, remember how Carbon is made of four groups of HC3
(I've highlighted them within the 'grey mass'. The next Nobel gas up from
Carbon is Neon, that's HC20. So, by having to squeeze a ... more »
Chris Hedges,“Welcome to Satan’s Ball”
*“Welcome to Satan’s Ball”*
by Chris Hedges
“Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita,” a bitter satire of Soviet
life at the height of Stalin’s purges, captured the surrealist experience
of living in a brutal totalitarianism. In the novel’s world, lies are
considered true and truth is considered seditious. Existence is a dark
carnival of opportunism, unchecked state power, hedonism and terrorism. It
is peopled with omnipotent secret police, wholesale spying and
surveillance, show trials, censorship, mass arrests, summary executions and
disappearances, along with famines, gulag... more »
George Osborne's Political Vision
The Budget affords ambitious chancellors the chance to shine. Thus goes the
common sense of the observers of Westminster's murky intrigues. If true,
might one expect fiscal pyrotechnics at the despatch box this week as
George Osborne delivers his speech? After all, this is the long lead-in to
a contest the Tories are widely expected to lose. If this most likely
scenario comes to pass and the front bench assumes seats on the other side
of the house post-2015 (hopefully for a very long time), might we expect
some post-Dave positioning this Wednesday from the present Second Lord of
th... more »
NATO's killers in Syria: Will Trade Golan in exchange for no fly zone enforcement
Can it be anymore clear that the 'opposition' is not Syrian? Not that I
need to remind regular readers here.
Can it be anymore clear that the so called opposition has been supported
by, cooperated with and continues to collude with Israel. Israel is not
afraid of Islamists for the simple reason they are on the same team.
That fact is abundantly clear!
*Haaretz- Syrian Opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli
Military support*
Top opposition official tells Al Arab newspaper militant groups want Israel
to enforce a no-fly zone. The Syrian opposition is willing to give up... more »
Manhunt leads to massive roadblock, warrantless car-to-car searches
*(many still seem to be asking whether we live in a Police State, or if
Martial Law is coming . . hate to tell you, we are already in it . . it
just depends on where it raises its demonic head to keep us "safe &
protected" from the "bad guys" . . . if the Constitution is disregarded by
thug cops, the military, judges and the courts, we are in Martial Law . .
what else can you call it, when there is no adherence to the US
Constitution? . . .) *
[image: Police State USA] The bank's money was ultimately safe and sound,
although the same could not be said of the rights of many innocent ... more »
Crimea Referendum Updates with Ukraine situation examined in detail March 15 , 2014 ...... With the expected failure of the last minute talks between US Secretary of state Kerry and Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov 's the next steps are the imminent Referendum with the expected vote in favor of Crimea joining the Russian Federation ...... What remains to been is what that entails for russian citizens in Eastern and Southeastern Ukraine who may inclined to join Crimea , what the next steps will be from the fledgling Ukraine Government , what manner of Western sanctions an reciprocal Russian sanctions are unrolled next week , whether any violent provocations occur which may " encourage those russian tanks to roll west into Ukraine ( and what happens in that event ? )
Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
White House on March 15 , 2014..... Where in the world is Ptus that he
can't make such an important meeting ? Wasn't he " invited " ?
"Obama Did Not Attend The Meeting", Or In A Moment Of Crisis The President
Stands Resolute
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Jake Clark's Story: How one warrior was saved from suicide
Video Title: Jake Clark's Story: How one warrior was saved from suicide.
Source: DavidLynchFoundation. Date Published: December 6, 2013. Description:
In 2012, Jake founded "Save A Warrior" a week-long retreat centered around
the experience of Transcendental Meditation.
"When you know the pain that these guys are in, you're compelled to stick
your hand out. They're the guys that get involved with their communities,
they are the coaches, they are the teachers, they are the police officers,
they are the fire fighters.
What we will do is we will change the way we prepare warriors in ... more »
R.E., Americans and the Pope, David Cameron's Jewish ancestry, Tony Benn, a Catholic prize winner, & Francis and Justin
This week's *Sunday*.
1. *R.E.*
*Religious education can reduce religious misunderstanding and conflict
according to a new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on RE.
Edward Stourton talks to Stephen Lloyd MP and former counter terrorism
minister Hazel Blears.*
This opening segment returned to a topic first discussed on *Sunday* a
couple of weeks ago, when the programme featured a very one-sided report
about the effect government bursary cuts might have on RE knowledge. That
report consisted of campaigners from *only* one side of the argument (the
side critical of Michae... more »
Lost in the supermarket
The clash identified the problem perfectly. But now that has become a kind
of wage slavery. Yes we will pay whatever it cost to monopolies to those
companies that own democracy.
While the Crimea referendum has become a controversy , why haven't referendums in the Venetian Republic , Kosovo , South Sudan , Scotland , Catalonia and the Falklands not only have not been fiercely opposed by the West including the US - in certain situations , they have been supported ?
‘Serene’ referendum: Italian region votes on restoration of Venetian
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As Crimeans make their way to the polls this Sunday, another region further
in the heart of Europe is also deciding its fate in a referendum: the
Italian region of Veneto, which is voting on whether to break with Rome.
The independence movement insists the industrial northern region’s wealth
is being draine... more »
Censored News March 2014
Here's some of our top articles, and original articles, during March 2014!
Indigenous Resistance
Lakota Allies Gather to Stand Sacred Ground
Bahe of Big Mountain: Gradual Resurgence of Land Based Resistance
Klee Benally on Democracy Now: Uranium mining and genocide
Border Militarization on Democracy Now: Alex Soto and Klee Benally
Leonard Peltier denied medication in prison
Robert Free:
We Are Complicit In Picking The Elites Who Fail Us So Miserably
Couched in a non-controversial endorsement of Illinois progressive, George
Gollin, Alan Grayson touched on a painful-- and dangerous-- trend regarding
the quality of American political candidates. "One of the dirty little
secrets of Congress," he wrote, "is that many of us legislate in areas in
which we are utterly bereft of knowledge. If ignorance is bliss, then some
of our Members must be deliriously happy."
[T]o the extent that Members of Congress know any stuff at all, it’s always
the same stuff. According to *Roll Call*, out of the 435 Members of the
House, we have 187 busin... more »
Provocateur McCain Returns to Kiev
Senator John McCain, the man whose adoration by the US state-corporate
media is second only to his proclivity to turn up as an agitator in
whichever country happens to be the next stop on the neocon PNAC world
domination tour has showed up in Kiev again this weekend. With the
massively over-hyped imminent Russian invasion only hours away according to
US and western propaganda organs - because Putin is just like Hitler you
know - the pathological media whore is hellbent on working the crowds after
the western backed coup d'etat that ousted democratically elected leader
Viktor Yanuk... more »
If the law don't get you, your regulatory body will
What fuckery is this?
From BC.
Women’s health clinics, health authorities and the Opposition NDP are
lining up to criticize new fees that could lead to service cuts at
community abortion clinics.
Two Metro Vancouver women’s centres and one Vancouver Island clinic are
facing 400 per cent increases to regulatory fees charged by the College of
Physicians and Surgeons this year, which equate to an almost $9,000 bill
this year.
The College had raised these fees to other clinics a few years ago but
granted the women's centres a reprieve.
Now suddenly and summarily ended.
The college i... more »
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*Living With Water *
*Why The Prison Capital Of The World Should Legalize Marijuana ~CenLamar*
*Marigny Murder: Shooting at Iggy's Bar ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Jackie Clarkson loses District C race, announces she will become honorary
consul general to Lithuania ~Kevin Allman, Gambit *
To our bosses and our bosses’ bosses, the #edreform hiearchy
First, a vocabulary lesson. To the left, the simple Google definition of
the word “priority.” It would seem as if thought and policy leaders in many
school systems, particularly those in tenuous political climates, try to
put schools in low-income communities of color in a position of “priority.”
That is, divert the most resources to […]
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 16th, 2014
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I am back... This sinus infection/cold combination definitely took longer
than I had anticipated to clear up. I decided that I was not going to push
myself the last few days and just do the right thing by getting plenty of
rest, liquids, etc. That also meant not spending much time on the
computer. I know that I missed a lot of things going on in the world and I
spent much of last night catching up.... Hopefully I can have much of that
covered in this rant, so bear with me...
I see things still running red hot in the Ukraine right now, with so much
talk in t... more »
Siberian Scientists playing God ? EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth ..... what could go wrong and wasn't there a movie along these lines called Jurassic Park ?
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/exclusive-siberian-scientists-announce-they-now-have-a-high-chance-to-clone-the-extinct-woolly-mammoth/
EXCLUSIVE:
Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to
clone the woolly mammoth
By Anna Liesowska
13 March 2014
Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major
breakthrough by international team.
'We must have a reason to clone, as it is one thing to do it for
scientific
purpose, and another - to clone for the sake of curiosity'. Picture:
Nikolay Pschennikov, North-Eastern Federal Universtity
... more »
The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer
The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer.
via The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and
Cancer.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Bias in Newsnight's recruitment policy
There's an interesting exchange at *Biased BBC*, in the light of *Newsnight*'s
appointment of the TUC's chief economist to be its new Economics Editor,
which has got me thinking.
Here's that exchange in a nutshell:
*Guest Who*: Most people prefer to be totally unaware of what the politics
of their bringers of information and education are because their
professional efforts are objective. The BBC does however rather seem to
fish from one, very limited, noisy pond, and seems content to reap what it
flaunts.
*Dunc*: The point surely is not to employ someone who is objective, but
t... more »
Riding the Hills of Miaoli
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*Drew rests on the climb on the 52-3.*
Helluva a ride this Saturday as Drew and I banged around the hills of
Miaoli, and came home banged up but happy. This ride took us on one of my
favorite local roads, Pinglin Road out of Jhuolan in Miaoli. From Pinglin
Road, we took the Miaoli 54 back to the 3. Once we reached the 3, we turned
south and took the 52-3 along the northwest side of the Liyu Reservoir.
Brutal hills, but lovely views. Only about 85 kms round trip from Taichung,
but well over 1000 meters of climbing.... click that READ MORE link
below....
*Route ma... more »
Sabotaging Environment Canada
Minister of the Environment Leona Aglukkaq recently released a report
setting forth her ministry's priorities. They are: "conservation and
restoration of landscapes, water and wildlife; information on changing
weather patterns and minimizing threats from pollution." These priorities
are supposedly part of an overall plan to provide "a clean, safe and
sustainable environment while supporting economic prosperity."
But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, funding for the ministry is being slashed. As
usual, the Harper government's rhetoric doesn't match its deeds:
For priority one, Environment... more »
Will The Republican War On Science Lead To A Paul Broun Victory In Georgia?
Friday, Alan Grayson endorsed particle physicist George Gollin for Congress
from Illinois' 13th congressional district. He began his endorsement with a
simple statement you can hear all too often from the more educated members
of Congress-- Grayson has three graduate degrees from Harvard: "I’m really
getting tired of listening to people who don’t know what they’re talking
about. One of the dirty little secrets of Congress is that many of us
legislate in areas in which we are utterly bereft of knowledge. If
ignorance is bliss, then some of our Members must be deliriously happy." He... more »
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*Growing evidence that autism is linked to pollution*
*The journal article is: *Environmental and State-Level Regulatory Factors
Affect the Incidence of Autism and Intellectual Disability"
*. What they in fact found was a correlation between the rate of
congenital malformations of the reproductive system and autism. They
claimed that the rate of congenital malformations of the reproductive
system is a surrogate for environmental exposure to pollution. That is
drawing a long bow indeed. Pollution may be one cause of malformations but
it is not even clear that it is the main ca... more »
Capitalist domination of politics breeds contempt
We've lost sight of who we're supposed to be. The majority of us never
really knew. We cling to comfortable, incoherent generalities. Who cares
that Canada's government tortures? Who cares that we allow ourselves to be
ruled by a government with contempt for Parliament and steals re-election
via election fraud? A bunch of young men who were born here won a series of
hockey games as a team representing us! (And some women did the same sort
of thing.) We rock.
Just typing those words makes me cringe inside.
War Watch March 15 , 2014 -- Syria -- We now see that an Al-Qaeda Faction ( Al Qaeda in Iraq aka A Q I ) Attacks Israel at Border with Lebanon Israel Shells Hezbollah Targets 'in Retaliation' , Al-Qaeda Faction Leaves Northwest Syrian Provinces Forces Are Shoring Up Defenses Amid Threats From Rival Rebels , Fresh From Syria, Saudi Militants Head to Yemen to Fight for al-Qaeda AQAP Sees Influx of Seasoned Fighters ........ Pakistan -- Drone strikes down in Pakistan but spike in Afghanistan , 19 Killed in Bombings as Pakistani Taliban Splinter Group Threatens Talks TTP Blasts Faction for 'Conspiracy' to Derail Talks ...... Turkey -- Corruption scandals , media intimidation efforts update and additional PM Erdogan antic updates !
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Syria.........
Al-Qaeda Faction Attacks Israel at Border with LebanonIsrael Shells
Hezbollah Targets 'in Retaliation'
by Jason Ditz, March 14, 2014
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Israeli troops shelled several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon today,
nominally in retaliation for a bombing attack against troops along the
border. It was soon apparent, however, that Hezbollah was not to blame.
Rather, it was al-Qaeda in Iraq(AQI), the splinter faction which controls
territory across northern Syria and Iraq, which claimed credit for the
strike. The bomb hit an Israeli military convoy, thoug... more »
Council of Islamic Ideology declares women's existence anti-Islamic | Pakistan Today
I had to read this article twice in case it was a parody. Maybe it is
because otherwise it's truly horrific.
'Islamabad - Sharia Correspondent: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII)
concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are
un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will
of Allah. As the meeting concluded CII Chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan
Shirani noted that women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to
protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as
soon as possible. The announcement comes a cou... more »
West to Punish Crimea for Fleeing Regime in Kiev
[image: band-eu-ctj71081-600x338]*March 16, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) -
Indicative of the West’s true stance on democracy, Reuters reported in its
article, “Kerry warns U.S., Europe ready to act if Crimea referendum held,”
that:
*The United States and the European Union will take serious steps against
Russia if a referendum on Ukraine’s Crimea region goes ahead as planned on
Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday.*
Bloomberg News would add that the US and EU planned to “exact an economic
toll” if the referendum went ahead – in other words the emplacement of... more »
Ukraine’s Crimea goes to independence poll on March 16 , 2014 -- A crucial referendum on either becoming an integral part of Russia or staying within Ukraine on conditions of wide autonomy has kicked off in the Republic of Crimea despite international condemnation and pressure from Kiev...... And then we shall see what happens after the Referendum !
http://rt.com/news/crimea-independence-referendum-poll-110/
A crucial referendum on either becoming an integral part of Russia or
staying within Ukraine on conditions of wide autonomy has kicked off in the
Republic of Crimea despite international condemnation and pressure from
Kiev.
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Cold and raining in #*Simferopol* but voting going smoothly and people
turning up at polling booths #*Crimea* #*Crimeareferendum*
4:30 AM - 16 Mar 2014
The polling stations of 27 regional Crimea election commissions are going
to be open all day long, starting from 8a... more »
War watch March 14 , 2014 --- Turkey has more than 2 millions citizens march in protest upon the death of 15 year Berkin Elvan - 417 arrested and claims of disproportionate force raised , First indictment in Turkey's graft probe sent to deputy chief prosecutor , Economy Minister insists Turkey’s ‘economic success’ target of graft allegations , Funeral of young man killed in sidelines of Berkin Elvan protests cause tension in sensitive area ........ Syria -- Syrian Islamists: 94 Hostages Held Since August Available for ‘Swap’ Will Trade Them for 2,000 Detainees ....... Iraq death dealing and sectarian fighting continues unabated ....... Afghanistan news items of note
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Turkey......
Two million marched, 417 arrested during Berkin Elvan protests as
‘disproportionate force’ probed
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Thousands of people attend the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy
who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government
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Does the British 'Justice' system want the Islamist terrorists to win?
Read
the whole of this Mail article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581477/Terrorist-freed-jail-early-plotting-blow-transatlantic-planes-caught-trying-Syria.htmland
despair at the stupidity of the British justice system.
' A terrorist freed early from jail after plotting to blow up
transatlantic
planes has admitted trying to sneak out of Britain on a fake passport.
Nabeel Hussain, 30, who was convicted in 2009 for his part in a suicide
mission to blow up seven passenger jets with liquid explosives disguised
as
soft drinks, was arrested at Stansted on September 23 as he trie... more »
Day 9 of the Malaysia Airline Flight 370 Mystery - Open questions remain . 1) How could a passenger jet, 74 metres long and with a 61-metre wingspan, apparently disappear for six hours before anyone raised the alarm ? 2) how could it cross the airspace of multiple countries in a region sensitive about security without anyone noticing ? 3) When the inspector general of Malaysian police announced that his officers were looking at several possible causes of the disappearance: hijacking, sabotage, or the crew and passengers' personal or psychological problems , were all crew and passengers cleared ? 4) whether the communication systems systems were shut off before or after air traffic control last spoke to the pilots. The calm "Goodnight" from the cockpit clearly raises questions if the systems had already been disabled. 5) Significant navigational experience as well as flight knowledge ( the timing of the diversion is also striking: just as the responsibility of Malaysia's air traffic control officials gave way to Vietnam's. The perfect opportunity for the plane to go missing with minimal attention ) , so if the pilot and co-pilot were not involved , who one the plane had such knowledge ? 6) Which leads to the basic question - what is the motive for this hi-jack ? 7) If this was a kidnapping , who is / are the target(s) and why not attempt to contact anyone to date , no ransom demand to date ? 8) If this was piracy - what was the booty - perhaps Malaysia Airlines will clarify what cargo ( from an one individual worth more than 500 , 000 or any one company worth more than a million dollars was carried in freight ? 9) If an act of terror , why no explosion evidence a week later , despite using the sophisticated techniques available today - and no debris found after a week or jet fuel observed ? Moreover , no one has claimed this event creditably to date 10 ) Have all military and civilian airbases within the flight range ( see visual aids section ) confirmed no observations of Flight 370 on either military or civilian radar or other communication systems and does that include Diego Garcia ? Will they make their communication data available to investigators ? Would such bases allow investigators access to clear each base as being a harbor / hiding place for the missing plane ?
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-16/malaysian-airlines-flight-370-complete-timeline-and-infographic
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: The Complete Timeline And Infographic
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/16/2014 11:14 -0400
- Australia
- Boeing
- China
- Fail
- France
- Hong Kong
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Yuan
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With Malaysian authorities frustrated (and seemingly confused), and US and
Chinese government offering "help" to solve this increasingly mysterious
disa... more »
A Fascinating article I found online about what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
I'm not saying it's true, just fascinating...
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/20dopw/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/cg2uht6
Free Planet - first ever LIVE remote viewing session.
this term 'remote viewing' it's been applied to all sorts of military WAR
WORLD Covert Operative abilities and assets. Personally, it sounds like the
equivalent of Day Dreaming, to me; just letting one's mind wander and
writing down shit.
So, I was doing something else. Reading some blog/website/forum, and I got
this 'message' come through. Not a words and pictures message, just a
'feeling'. The back-right of my head started to tingle, like I was being
asked to do this experiment right now. So, *anything for a laugh*, based on
this 'feeling' and the insistent back-right head-buzz,... more »
Untitled
*No warmer now than it was in 2003*
*And other differences are microscopic when expressed as percentages of
degrees Kelvin*
No warming. That is what can be deduced from data compiled by NASA as it
relates to temperature over the past decade.
The average temperature in 2003 was 14.61 degrees Celsius. And the average
temperature in 2013 was 14.61 degrees Celsius, at a growth rate of 0
percent.
Yet, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by more than 5.5 percent,
from 375.77 parts per million (ppm) to 396.48 ppm, according to National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA... more »
Rubber Duck II: Attack of the Pandas
A friend snapped this photo of that idiotic collection of pandas that
someone placed in the Hall With Two Names. This is just that rubber duck,
with Chinese characteristics.
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US 'disturbed' by death of Chinese activist Cao Shunli
Human rights in China?
'The United States has said it is "deeply disturbed" by reports of the
death of activist Cao Shunli at a hospital in Beijing.Cao's lawyers said
she had died in detention after being denied medical treatment for several
months.The human rights activist was arrested at Beijing airport in
September, when she attempted to board a flight to Geneva to attend a UN
training course.She had previously served at least two terms in prison
camps for her activism.'
But still we pretend that China and Russia are civilised members of the
world.
More here http://www.bbc.c... more »
Kobayashi is back...
Kobayashi is back in Formula 1 and in the first race of the season he's
admitted fault for the first-lap crash which ended his and Felipe Massa's
race.
Abel Danger - Malaysian flight MH 370 - PATENT PROFIT WARS
it's been a while since I blog'd about *forensic economist* duo *Abel
Danger* aka ex-Delta pilot Field McConnell and David Hawkins, it's good to
see they're onto another subject now besides the ritualistic murder of Jean
Benet Ramsey which obsessively dominated most of their weekly analyses back
when I would listen to them on RMN Radio.
So, Malaysian flight MH 370, lets begin with a brief preamble.
When we talk about a Free Planet we talk about:
- a world without profit
- a world without slavery
- a world without patents
How can a 'world without patents' make any dif... more »
Untitled
As reported in the UK Telegraph, evidence has emerged of a possible 9/11
CIA style plot involving MH370.
British-born *Saajid Muhammad Badat (above)*, a 'CIA-MI6-al Qaeda
operative', recently told a court that four to five Malaysian men had been
planning to take control of a plane, using a bomb hidden in a shoe to blow
open the cockpit door.
Saajid Muhammad Badat said that he had met the Malaysian CIA-MI6-al Qaeda
operatives - one of whom was a pilot - in Afghanistan and given them a shoe
bomb to use to take control of an aircraft.
The possibility of such a plot, hatched by the C... more »
FRED DE BROUWER AND DEMMINK; CHILD MURDER
The Dutch journalist Fred de Brouwer (above) helped 'expose' the 'child
abuser' Joris Demmink.
On 15 March 2014, it was reported that Fred de Brouwer had been killed in a
'suspicious' traffic accident in Chonburi in Thailand.
*www.telegraaf.nl*
The 'untouchable' Joris Demmink is linked to the 'satanic murder' of a
young boy (above).
* A BOY CALLED MANUEL*.
Demmink (above) was the Director General of the Dutch Ministry of Justice.
He is believed to be part of a major pedophile ring, used by the security
services to control the top people.
In 2003, Fred de Brouwer was the aut... more »
UK “Independent” Scientists Promoting GM Crops Have Conflicts of Interest - GM Watch Press Release
[image: Foto: "By no stretch of the imagination can these people be
described as independent scientists. On the contrary, all have vested
interests in the acceptance of GM crops by the public and policymakers.
Their views should be treated with the same skepticism we would apply to
any sales pitch. CST (The Council for Science & Technology, advisor to the
British Prime Minister) apparently cannot find any scientists independent
of the industry to support its case for GM crops. This is not surprising,
since GM crops have failed to live up to the hype and are mainly delivering
herbici... more »
Should be BBC be funded by advertising?
*The Sunday Times *has published details of a YouGov poll it commissioned
on the question of BBC funding.
So what do people really think of the £145.50 annual licence fee?
The poll finds that 40% of people think the BBC offers value for money,
while 48% think it doesn't.
As for how the BBC should be funded, 36% say they would like to see it
funded by advertising, 35% by the licence fee, 10% by subscription and 8%
from general taxation.
And if the BBC became a subscription service, how many would be prepared to
pay more than the present licence fee? A mere 7%.
RIP BartCop
I'm a little late on this, but I would be remiss if I did not mention the
recent death of Terry Coppage, aka BartCop. Bart died March 5th at the age
of 60, from complications of the flu, pneumonia, and leukemia.
Bart was one of the pioneers of the liberal blogosphere, starting out in
February 1996 with an email newsletter that was converted to web pages by Marc
Perkel. He gave much support to new bloggers, including luminaries like Digby
and Atrios. Though I never knew him, I am in his debt as well. The
affiliated site, Marty Pflugrath's BartCop Entertainment, was the first to
perma... more »
Japan: Nobel prize winner leads protest on Fukushima 3rd anniversary + Full interview Ryan Dawson James Corbett on Fukushima
An excerpt from, *"US Sailors, Assisting With Fukushima Clean Up, Crippled
By Cancer"* Zero Hedge, December 21, 2013:
Back in December 2012, we wrote that it was only a matter of time before
Japan's criminal lying about the radioactive exposure in the aftermath of
the Fukushima catastrophe caught up with it, as well as with countless
numbers of people who would soon succumb to radiation induced cancers and
other diseases. *What we found surprising back then, before the full scale
of the Fukushima catastrophe become clear and before even Tepco admitted
that the situation is comple... more »
march break for teens at our library
I've just finished my first March Break (the Canadian equivalent of Spring
Break in the US) in my new position as a youth librarian. It was
exhilarating and a lot of work, but not nearly as exhausting as I imagined.
March Break was great for many reasons. One, I have great support from a
senior librarian and manager who appreciate my efforts. Two, I am part of
an amazing team of people who pitched in so I could devote myself more
fully to programming, and who encouraged me daily. Three, so many amazing
people lent their time and energy and expertise to the library, presenting
progr... more »
Al Jazeera's Propaganda War Against Crimea
Once again, the laughable "news" network Al Jazeera is carrying water for
the criminal U.S. government. Their programming on Crimea is awful. The
people of Crimea should do what the people of Syria did three years ago,
and the people of Egypt are doing today, which is to kick these liars who
pose as journalists out of their country.
Journalists should not abuse the right of free speech to invent lies,
distort historic events, create social discord in countries, encourage
violence and strife, and promote wars. Those who do such things are not
professional journalists but media crim... more »
Polls That Leave Out Cell Phone Users Significantly Favor Conservatives
Tuesday is primary day in Illinois and the contest we're concentrating on
is the swing district stretching from Champaign to the St. Louis suburbs,
IL-13, currently held by weak Republican backbencher Rodney Davis. The Dick
Durbin Machine and hapless DCCC chairman Steve Israel picked some mystery
meat "moderate," Ann Callis, who refuses to tell anyone where she stands on
any issues if, indeed, she stands *anywhere* on any issues. The grassroots
progressive in the race is particle physicist George Gollin, who has been endorsed
by Blue America, by every major newspaper and by Alan G... more »
BC Liberals Offer Free Electrical Power From Site C Dam As Carrot To LNG Projects?
*Written by Grant G*
As desperation sets in BC Liberals are offering more and more goodies,
freebies and taxpayer subsidies to natural gas energy companies, this game
of propaganda and illusion has morphed into a wholesale provincial sellout,
making money from exporting LNG is now a secondary position taken by our BC
Liberal Government, their original gambit of a big election lie and hail
mary pass was rewarded with another 4 year mandate to govern, never
expecting to win meant not having to fulfill outlandish election promises,
particularly promised riches beyond our wildest dr... more »
the context of ecstasy
Frenzy of Exultations 1893
the context of ecstasy
John Friend on Inside the Eye - Live! w/ the Fetch
I was a guest on *Inside the Eye - Live!* with Dennis Fetcho this morning.
We discussed a variety of subjects, including the *White Man March* and my
recent article entitled *Why I don't care for the Jews*. You can download
the entire program *here*.
Sunday Classics preview: Poor King Philip receives yet another unwelcome early-morning visitor
*by Ken*
I've thought of another loose end I'd really hate not to tie up: our
gradual traversal of the great scene in King Philip's study in Act IV (Act
III of the four-act version) of Verdi's *Don Carlos*.
We've already covered the Spanish king's bleak pre-dawn monologue ("Verdi's
King Philip -- a man in crisis," January 2013), where he makes clear that
he knows his young wife, the French princess Elisabeth, doesn't love him
and never loved him, the proceeds to pretend that his only problem is that
even royalty doesn't give people to see into human hearts, where only God
can see... more »
How will things change in Crimea if it joins Russia
T*he answer, judging by this WP- Europe article is, thing will change for
the better. *
*For the heck of a lot better!*
Definitely better then choking down the IMF reforms- already requiring
pensions to be halved
Let's read on
Voters in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula make a choice Sunday: Stay with
Ukraine or join with Russia. The pro-Russian faction promises that a vote
for “the motherland” is a vote for a better life. Many on the pro-Ukraine
side fear a return to Russian rule.
How will life really change in Crimea if the referendum is approved? My
colleagues Carol Morello and Pamela C... more »
Criminalizing Protest In A Democracy Is The Beginning Of A Police State .... Montreal police hold 150 protesters
Police march up the street as they clear out demonstrators during the
annual anti-police brutality march in Montreal. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
*MONTREAL — Montreal cops have declared a march against police brutality
illegal and kettled more than 100 protesters. More than 250 people took to
Montreal's streets Saturday afternoon to take part in the 18th annual
march.The protest, which was scheduled to start at 3 p.m., was declared
illegal at 3:03 p.m. by the Montreal Police Service*
*CTV News*
A 1994 interview with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia's and Ukraine's situations in that moment, which seem to have not greatly changed today, i.e., quite different from what the mainstream media have been telling you. A map shows the likely breakup.
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*The New Russia*
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Dear readers: I recalled correctly from my Russian studies a half century
ago that Soviet leaders had stuck Russian territories into Ukraine, but I
mistakenly attributed all of the transfers to Khrushchev. The first gifts
of Russian territory to Ukraine were made by Lenin.
- PCR
*The New Russia**An Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,” by Paul
Klebnikov, in the May... more »
Voices on the Ukraine/Crimea referendum
Video Title: Voices on the Ukraine/Crimea referendum. Source: HOTNEWS©.
Date Published: March 15, 2014. Description:
Residents of Crimea voice their opinions on the upcoming secession
referendum.
By the Bonnie, Bonnie banks of the BBC
It speaks volumes, I think, that Bonnie Greer was invited to give the first
of this year's *Lent Talks *on Radio 4.
That the BBC would choose someone like Bonnie Greer - a left-leaning,
arts-orientated writer - to open this year's series is hardly surprising.
(Even *Feedback*'s Roger Bolton would have to admit that.)
In fact, *I'd* go so far as to describe her as an entirely 'predictable
choice' for the left-leaning, arts-orientated BBC.
BTW, "left-leaning" and "arts-orientated" is certainly how I tend to think
of Bonnie Greer. She, however, seems to think of herself, first and... more »
Zohydro, a new drug ready to hit the streets. You’ll know it when you see more zombies walking
Saturday, March 15, 2014New zombie medical drug to hit the streets
Jon Rappoport
*Activist Post*
It’s called Zohydro.
Clinical Psychiatry News (3/13) has the story. West Virginia Senator Joe
Manchin is protesting FDA approval of the drug. He’s written a stunning
letter to US Health and Human Services head, Kathleen Sebelius.
“…Sen. Manchin noted that the FDA approved the drug ‘despite strong
opposition from its own Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory
Committee.’”
This is highly significant. The FDA turned its back on its own panel of
new-drug reviewers.
Senator Man... more »
Ohio Progressive Greg Howard Takes On The Deranged GOP Response To President Obama's Weekly Address on Overtime Pay
This morning, President Obama gave the above weekly address about
strengthening overtime pay protections. It isn't complicated and shouldn't
be controversial. "What every American wants," he summed up, "is a paycheck
that lets them support their families, know a little economic security, and
pass down some hope and optimism to their kids." It's less than 3 minutes
long-- and even a Republican congressman should be able to understand it.
John Boehner tasked one of his dullest backbenchers, Ohio Republican Bill
Johnson, to respond to the president. Johnson, who has voted to repeal o... more »
Dragnet Nation
A lengthy excerpt from *Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and
Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance* by Julia Angwin, Pulitzer
Prize winner, WSJ biz and tech writer, and now an investigative reporter
for Pro Publica :
*Here’s How You May Already Be Getting Hacked*
It's one thing to take for granted that we are all now being tracked via
our cel phones, online banking and forums, voter lists, health file
records, Google searches, Whole Foods digital signs that are actually
facial recognition scanners, etc.
Verizon even sells a product that allows businesses to t... more »
Time to Get Busy, Doomers
March 15, 2014 From what I’ve read in the news, this week, it looks like
we may go to war with Russia next week. Not a shooting war, (not yet,
anyway,) but an economic war that in some ways is … Continue reading →
Mission I'M Possible: DESTINATION PERU
I completely forgot. I was suppose to post this article last night, so
that people could listen to the show live, and with the insanity of this
past few days, well...... I forgot.
The show last night was awesome- please listen to the archive of last
nights show with India and Dave HERE.
PERU Darlins!!!! And so it spreads out across the planet!!
-around the 20 minute mark, discussing the VALUE of the people and the
value of "gold and the fact that gold actually has NO value other than it's
value as being a shiny pretty metal. Excellent conversation!
[image: Tarampoto water... more »
ALEC - We Hate Local Control
I hate red-light cameras.
Don't get me wrong I've been nabbed by them and I hate them.
But - - -
for the life of me I could never figure out why ALEC had a piece of
legislation to eliminate redlight cameras.
I don't agree with anything ALEC does - so why would they have an innocuous
piece of legislation - that didn't seem to help out the profit of ALEC
corporations
an innocuous piece of legislation- that I agreed with - until now.
Well - - -
Today, five years into my research on ALEC I found out why they wrote it
- in a clip about the bill being passed in MO.
And all the sudden the red... more »
A quick question that I have not seen raised before re aircraft communication systems
In all the coverage of the 'missing' Malaysian Air 777 - Flight MH370 -
people are accepting that the aircraft's communication systems were turned
off in the plane, whether by one of the pilots or by a third party (or
parties). What I'd like to have answered is why can theses systems be
turned off from within the plane? Under what normal flying circumstances
would that be necessary?
The Deep State Rises: Part One
*These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying,
social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.*
*-Edward Snowden*
When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia briefly let the mask slip during recent
comments to University of Hawaii law students it was a rare moment of
openness as to reveal the pathology of the leadership class here in *The
Homeland*. During an exchange over a World War II era case involving
Japanese Americans who were rounded up and placed in internment camps such
as the infamous Manzanar Scalia stated that *“…you are ki... more »
Gorgeous George
I know it's a bad, bad thing to bust the *Times*'s paywall, but I feel the
need to share part of Danny Finkelstein's latest article with you (as it's
excellent), even though it's got absolutely nothing to do with BBC bias.
I just want to say how much there is to admire about George Galloway. It is
true that we haven’t always seen eye to eye. However, it is impossible to
avoid the many things about him that are genuinely impressive.
He takes a keen interest in the Jewish people. He is well travelled, making
his presence felt in some of the most dangerous places in the world ruled
... more »
Kosovo and Crimea: common themes and differences
There will be a referendum about the independence of Crimea from Ukraine
tomorrow. The turnout will be above 80 percent and around 95 percent will
endorse the annexation by Russia.
*On March 16th, we are choosing: [this] or [that].*
As the billboard shows, the people will be choosing between a membership in
the burning land composed of fences and represented by fascist national
colors of Ukraine (black and red: the Right Sector uses the same colors on
their flag) with a swastika on one hand, and a future in a shiny Russia
represented by the Slavic tricolor flag on the other hand. ... more »
I feel dirty...
Sitting here cheering on France against Ireland in the Six Nations. I
missed most of the first half, in fact whilst until I started watching
France were ahead, now with 5 minutes to go Ireland are ahead... England
will long rue their unnecessary late substitutions in the match against
France that lost them that match and indeed cost them points today as well.
French try!!!! No, forward pass? Aagh but right call.
So tense...
Ireland win, and Ireland win the 6 Nations. If only England had not blown
it against the French and also not brought Tuilagi on for Burrell rather
than May. ... more »
Live from Tucson Book Festival 2014
Veronica Boone, Dine' from Kayenta, displays books with
youth works from Native children in the Tucson area.
Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo poet, author and professor, edited the
current volume, "Dancing with the Wind"
Tucson Indian Center at the Native American Pavilion.
Jose Morillo, Pascua Yaqui, displays his art work
at the Native American Pavilion.
Cassi Antone Jr., Tohono O'odham,
Afganistian Over
No matter how noble the intentions and how much tribute we could get from
the Americans which we can never mention, it was a bust. How half a world
away could we make a difference when the local people hate us so.
What the Sam Hill is the Common Core?
*SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014*
*Explanation is hard:* For decades, it has been an accurate piece of
conventional wisdom:
Public education is driven by fads.
In our experience, whatever the latest fad may be, it will almost always be
implemented quite poorly. It will then be replaced by the next of the
latest new fads.
In truth, educational innovations may not even be *described* with clarity.
This brings us to the latest innovation, the so-called Common Core.
What is (or are) the Common Core (standards)? We’re often puzzled by the
descriptions we read in major publications. In this ... more »
A Democracy Dependent Upon The Funders
The video above comes from a TED Talk Lawrence Lessig did last year. He
contends, correctly, that we have lost our representative democracy and
that we have to act to get it back. Choosing between garbage candidates
like David Jolly and Alex Sink won't help anyone get anything back. All it
will do is perpetuate the deterioration of American democracy.
This short news story from the Associated Press this week shouldn't
surprise anyone by it's specifics. But it is instructional nonetheless.
This is what's left of our transpartisan faux-democracy:
Democrat Rahm Emanuel and Republic... more »
Musings On Iraq In The News
I was interviewed by Karl Morand about the current security and political
situation in Iraq for Middle East Week Podcast along with Phillip Smyth.
Afghan President Karzai says US tropps can leave Afghanistan , Afghan forces capable of defending the country on its own - Final going away shot ! The April 5 , 2014 Election should be a tell as to whether Karzai is correct.......
Karzai says US troops can leave Afghanistan
In final address to parliament, outgoing president says Afghan forces are
capable of defending country on their own.
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Hamid Karzai is resisting pressure to sign a post-2014 security agreement
with the US [AP]
The outgoing president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has told the United
States in his final address to parliament that US soldiers can leave the
country at the e... more »
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The fate of Israel and all those Jews. I love how both sides throw out that
thought like Jews are some extotic breed of puppy dog. No Jews are humans
and the according to the Bible have confounded mankind for an extended
time. The problem with Jews extends far back when men ruled like Gods but
reality said they were so far from that ideal that they got there heads cut
off.
Christianity has many flaws and I believe they are fatal. You can talk so
much nonsense about nothing and some day the majority will say that belief
is totaled
I am not Jewish and though I love the brand, I have ... more »
Roger Bolton v John Humphrys
When former BBC director general Mark Thompson admitted that the BBC had
once had a "massive left-wing bias", *Feedback *presenter Roger Bolton declared
himself "baffled and rather irritated" by Mr Thompson's comments, and
sounded off in a letter to the BBC's in-house magazine *Ariel, *dismissing
the idea of left-wing bias at the BBC out of hand.
Whenever that sniffy tone enters his voice on *Feedback* when the subject
of political bias crops up, I always remember that Roger Bolton thinks I'm
wrong about the BBC's political bias - its left-liberal mindset - and that
he doesn't be... more »
Native Americans:'NO!' to Tiger Lily casting and stereotype
Tiger
Lily in Peter Pan
Native Americans Demand Warner Brothers to Reconsider Casting of Rooney
Mara for Role Of Tiger Lily in Peter Pan remake
By Jacqueline Keeler
Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry
Censored News
PORTLAND, Oregon – Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a group of
Native parents and their allies from across the country are asking
Warner Brothers Pictures and
Asia watch March 13 , 2014 --- Chinese Authorities Halt Virtual Credit Card Payments; Tencent, Yahoo Crashing , Here's Why The Market Is Shrugging At TBE's "Promise" Not To Default In July , a check on iron ore and the panic centered on same , asian equities getting hit hard before the weekend of great uncertainty ( Ukraine , Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 shape shifting mysteries , MENA clusterfarks such as Iraq , Syria , Libya , Af-Pak clusterfarks and just when does some country in the EU join the clustefark parade ? )
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.forexlive.com/blog/2014/03/14/haixin-steel-shanxi-mill-has-defaulted-on-bank-loans-14-march-2014/
Chinese bank stocks hit by debt default jitters
1 hour ago | March 14th, 2014 03:10:10 GMT by Eamonn Sheridan | 0 comments
Fast FT: Chinese bank stocks hit by debt default jitters
- Another mainland Chinese company defaulted on debt payments, raising
fears that indebted businesses are running out of refinancing options
- Haixin Steel, a Shanxi steel mill, has defaulted on bank loans
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/03/daily-iron-ore-price-update-the-panic-reve... more »
Why Webster Tarpley Left the LaRouche Movement
*Webster Tarpley to "N," December 2, 2009*
"My association with organizations in which LaRouche was prominent ended in
1997. Since then I have been attacked in public by him and his remaining
supporters several times. Since 1997, I have had no relation whatsoever to
LaRouche.
Before 1997, I was President of the US Schiller Institute USA, and served
on the EIR editorial board, and the US and European Executive Committees of
the Labor Committee movement.
LaRouche was jailed in 1989 for tax evasion and related infractions, but
more basically for political reasons. In order to get ou... more »
China Financial news March 15 , 2014 -- China Widens Dollar Trading Band From 1% To 2%, Yuan Volatility Set To Spike ! Zero Hedge takeaway -- " One thing is certain: as the world digests the latest out of the country that creates credit at a pace that is five times greater than the US, the volatility in the CNY will soar, at the worst possible time. Because as we explained before, all global specs, especially those out of Hong Kong need, is for the USDCNY to surge above 6.20 for the margin calls to start coming in fast and furious. " ...... Renminbi deposits in Taiwan reach record RMB247bn ....... Banks in China dent online funds by setting payment limits -- China's leading banks such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China and China Construction Bank have recently imposed a daily limit of 5,000 yuan (US$815) on instant bank card payments and transfers which were previously unlimited, the Chinese-language Beijing News reports......... Taiwan banks advised to conduct risk control amid RMB devaluation
China Widens Dollar Trading Band From 1% To 2%, Yuan Volatility Set To Spike
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2014 10:09 -0400
- Australia
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- China
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hong Kong
- Merrill
- Merrill Lynch
- Monetary Policy
- Morgan Stanley
- People's Bank Of China
- Renminbi
- Risk Management
- Trade Deficit
- Volatility
- Yuan
inShare
In the aftermath in the recent surge in China's renminbi volatility which
saw it plunge at the faste... more »
Commonwealth: Good news on taxes
Commonwealth notes that taxes in Taiwan are being truly reformed....
Subsequently, Chang announced the details of tax reform. The corporate
income tax on financial industry companies will be raised back to 5 percent
from the present tax rate of 2 percent. The amount of corporate income tax
that shareholders can claim as tax credits to be deducted from their
personal income tax, under Taiwan's integrated tax system, will be halved.
A tax rate of 45 percent will be applied to the portion of rich people's
net income that exceeds NT$10 million per year. If all these changes are
implem... more »
Is the Malaysian Airline Flight 370 " disappearance " the opening act for a colossal false flag event ? Let's connect some dots and examine some of the peculiar facts ...... As amazing as the facts are , if we consider this could be a hijack rather than a tragic accident , the next question is to what ultimate purpose ? Examination of potential targets , motivations of different potential actors , FWIW speculation extrapolated from information and official commentary through March 13 , 2014 !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Let's
connect some dots......
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Mike Nudelman/Business Insider
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-satellite-spots-floating-objects/2014/03/13/72688034-aa68-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
Missing
Malaysian plane may have flown up to five hours, U.S. officials say
By Ashley Halsey III, Scott Wilson and Chico Harlan, Updated: Thursday,
March 13, 8:06 PME-mail the writers
The search for a missing Malaysian jetliner with 239 people on board
could
expand west into the Indian Ocean based on information that the plane
may
have flown for four more hours a... more »
Anthony Wedgewood Benn and the Death of the Left
"I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at
a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't
do anything about it."
*Tony Benn*
"Making mistakes is part of life.
The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I
hadn't believed in order to get on.
Some politicians do do that."
Benn.
"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's
Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain."
Tony Benn
Rae On Péladeau
In this morning's *Globe and Mail*, Bob Rae writes that -- as a general
rule -- good businessmen don't make good politicians:
With the notable exception of Silvio Berlusconi, corporate divas don’t do
well in politics. There is a reason for this. To be an effective politician
is not as easy as it seems. It requires a sense of humour, a thick skin,
patience and more than a touch of guile. To do it well – and democratically
– needs great discipline, an ability to listen, and a willingness to accept
a harness of public scrutiny and irreverence that is all-encompassing.
Whatever one ... more »
Will Steve Israel Manage To Doom Democratic Hopes In IL-13 With Another Of His Mystery Meat Candidates?
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