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The New York Times covers race on page one!
*MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014* *Or does it? We aren’t really sure:* Alas! Right from the start, race was one of the central organizing principles of American life. Saturday morning, on the front page, the New York Times discussed one part of the giant backwash bequeathed to us by our benighted ancestors. Or did it? We aren’t entirely sure. We refer to this front-page report by Tanzina Vega. Here’s what the headline said: “Students See Many Slights as Racial ‘Microaggressions’ ” If the term “microagressions” is new to you, you shouldn’t feel bad. According to the Nexis archives, the wor... more »
AERA Folks and Philadelphia Citizens--Please Attend This Important Meeting
*Pennsylvania Education Crisis Highlights - March 24, 2014* You Are Invited to A Philadelphia Education Town Hall Thursday April 3, 5:30 to 8:30 PM Arch Street United Methodist Church Broad and Arch Streets Called by delegates to the American Educational Research Association Convention & the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools *Click here for details.*
And what about love.
For three years there’s been Quests for Agape. Searching, losing and finding deeper and still deeper levels of what we call love. Still now, surrounded in answers, the question remains. How do I love? How do I wake up, go to bed, day after day love? I can talk about what it means to love. It does not mean the things you imagine. It does not mean always getting your way or having someone cooperate and do things for you; even do things with you. *It means honor the ground they walk on. Be a positive force for them. It means gently absorb them as if they were your final breath... more »
What are we to do?...
*since the world is in such chaos.* The constant barrage of ugliness we are faced with everyday can become almost paralyzing. (How was that for a brilliant sentence straight out of an 8th 6th grade essay? No, really - I can't recall the last time I wrote something that bad. Oh, wait - yesterday??) We worry about the Ukraine, Crimea, and Putin. (Some of us do, anyway. don't.) So-called experts in the false science of global warming are telling us we're about to be fried to a crisp while we shovel more snow. (We didn't have a lot of snow this year, but I commiserate with thos... more »
"How It Really Is"
You better believe it! - CP
CONVERSION MESSAGE AT A12 BIW RALLY
During the past year a group of artists in Maine have been making banners for various protest movements. Artists' Rapid Response Team (ARRT!) is a fluid group of dedicated Maine artists who are members of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. Yesterday ARRT! met in nearby Brunswick for a day of banner making and delivered this one above to our house just before supper time. They made the banner for us to use on Saturday, April 12 at the planned protest at the 'christening' of the Navy's new stealth destroyer here at Bath Iron Works. On April 12 Veterans for Peace, and the other c... more »
Classroom Activity: Issuing Ultimata
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a lecture (slides) introducing the second big puzzle of the course: why states sometimes burn what they want in order to get more of it—that is, why wars occur despite the inefficiency their costly nature implies. Over the course of the next few lectures, I’ll be taking Continue reading
Stephen Harper got swift response from Vladimir Putin
*OTTAWA - Russia on Monday slapped an entry ban on 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials, including Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer and government House leader Peter Van Loan, in retaliation for Canadian sanctions over Ukraine.* Read more here.
The Economy: "How This Central Bank Bubble Ends"
*"How This Central Bank Bubble Ends" * by Bill Bonner “I sometimes get the feeling that somewhere across that huge puddle, in America, people sit in a lab and conduct experiments, as if with rats, without actually understanding the consequences of what they are doing." – Vladimir Putin, 4 March 2014 “We promised to explain how it ends. The world, that is. The world we live in now. The one in the middle of a rapidly inflating central bank bubble. First, we need to understand that this is a very different world from the world of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a world wher... more »
Inflation on the back of an envelope
*Guest blog by John Preskill of Caltech, a trained particle physicist, cosmologist, a top quantum computing expert, and a teacher of nations* Last Monday was an exciting day! After following the BICEP2 announcement via Twitter, I had to board a transcontinental flight, so I had 5 uninterrupted hours to think about what it all meant. Without Internet access or references, and having not thought seriously about inflation for decades, I wanted to reconstruct a few scraps of knowledge needed to interpret the implications of \(r\sim 0.2\). I did what any physicist would have done … I der... more »
The Realist Report - Gilad Atzmon: Jewish identity politics
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by the internationally renowned author, philosopher and musician *Gilad Atzmon*. Gilad and I will be discussing his book *The Wandering Who* and Jewish identity politics. 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 relevant links for this program: - *Gilad Atzmon* - YouTube - *HOLOCAUST DAY – THE TIME IS RIPE FOR A JEWISH APOLOGY* - Gilad Atzmon - *Once PC Is Gone and Truth Prevails, Shoa Panic Is Detected*
CNN praised for obsessive plane coverage!
*MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 * *Wemple Blog gone wild:* Let’s start with a good word for the Washington Post’s Eric Wemple. Yesterday, on The Wemple Blog, Wemple was willing to poke fun at himself for his earlier performance on CNN’s Reliable Sources. That said, we think Wemple’s presentations on CNN made amazingly little sense. To watch the entire segment, click here. But people, here’s what happened: Needless to say or perhaps to his credit, CNN’s Brian Stelter was discussing his network’s wraparound coverage of Malaysian flight 370. To his credit, Stelter was willing to consider th... more »
The Fatal Flaw of the Common Core Standards
Originally posted on The Indignant Teacher: The following as a copy of an article posted tonight by Diane Ravitch…it speaks volumes, and should be shared far and wide. The Fatal Flaw of the Common Core StandardsPosted: 03/24/2014 9:16 am EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 9:59 am EDT Print ArticleShare157Tweet192Email31Comment20 MORE: Éducation Common Core Standards Bill Gates Common…
Gay and Muslim
When the BBC censored the debate about gays and Islam on the BBC3 programme entitled ‘Free Speech’ so as not to embarrass their hosts for the night, a Birmingham mosque, it sparked off considerable outrage. “Oh, the irony,” said everyone. “A programme entitled Free Speech ! Silenced by the BBC at the behest of the Muslims!” The next day the issue was discussed on the Today programme. Dr. Naseem b.1924 *A censorship row has broken out over the BBC Three programme Free Speech, after the Birmingham Central Mosque – where the show was being filmed – requested that the topic of being ga... more »
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The G.E. Loophole-- Bankrupting America To Make G.E. Executives Richer, Part II
Please go back one post and read Part I, where we began our look at the tax extenders (i.e., corporate loopholes) bill the Senate Finance Committee is getting ready to sneak through and present as a *fait acompli*, an incredible transpartisan exercise in Beltway corruption. The one sentence summary: corrupted senators from both parties are about to help General Electric continue to avoid paying taxes-- so that G.E. continues to help finance their own political careers-- by secreting away profits offshore to avoid paying federal taxes. The *NY Times* report in that post, by the way,... more »
“Profoundly exploitative and intrusive"
I don’t know whether Mishal Husain was trying to replicate the plaudits she received for the famous “Malala’ interview, aired on her debut appearance on Today. It seemed so to me. Interestingly, a quick look at Twitter shows that many people agree that this time she got it wrong. “Profoundly exploitative and intrusive” said Tim Walker. “Unpleasant and exploitative” “Bring back Brian Redhead” said Eddie Arthur. “Interviewer sounded cold and indifferent, was hard to listen to” said Soweto Kinch. Apart from the fact that Mishal has a harsh voice, which sounds cold and indifferent m... more »
Kid do not play the lottery
Sad that the kids are so aloof they don not play the lottery. Snowpiercer makes a statement that maybe the masses can understand. Personally we all live life in a balance and thank God there is no rule book we can understand. When it come to the planet, we got Tony Robbins as chief of plan. This kind of thinking will all end horribly. Maybe thats the collective wisdom of the youth. How sad our future thinks we can not change society. I do not believe that. Look kids look over there at Sweden. But the message is not received, Its a race between science and reason. I just got to thin... more »
Canada Is Jewish Occupied Territory: Idiot Canadian Prime Minister States That He Will Support Israel Even If It Hurts Canada Politically (!)
Canada is now nothing more that one of Israel's whores... That is a sad statement to make about this nation that I was once proud of, but now I see how Jews have come to dominate this nation much like they have done to the once great United States of America. Our government here in Ottawa is now nothing more than Yes men for criminal Jewish and Israeli interests,and every single one of the so called "elected" officials sitting in Parliament will do everything to please their Jewish masters, even at the expense of the Canadian people who were stupid enough to elect them to public off... more »
Conditions v. Outcomes: More on What’s Wrong with Teacher Education (and Accountability)? pt. 2
Conditions v. Outcomes: More on What’s Wrong with Teacher Education (and Accountability)? pt. 2. via Conditions v. Outcomes: More on What’s Wrong with Teacher Education (and Accountability)? pt. 2.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Not Class Warfare, Optimal Taxation
Today's column by Paul Krugman is classic Paul: It takes a policy favored by the right, attributes the most vile motives to those who advance the policy, and ignores all the reasonable arguments in favor of it. In this case, the issue is the reduction in capital taxes during the George W. Bush administration. Paul says that the goal here was "defending the oligarchy's interests." Really? As Paul well knows, there is a large literature in economicssuggesting that an optimal tax system imposes much lower taxes on capital income than on wage income (or consumption). I can personally a... more »
“Grit”: Demanding Superhuman from African Americans, Impoverished
“Grit”: Demanding Superhuman from African Americans, Impoverished. via “Grit”: Demanding Superhuman from African Americans, Impoverished.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Japan's Plutonium Stockpiles
Interesting news from yesterday about Japan's plutonium stockpiles: M. D. Shear & D. E. Sanger (2014, March 23). Japan to Let U.S. Assume Control of Nuclear Cache. The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/japan-to-let-us-assume-control-of-nuclear-cache.html?emc=edit_th_20140324&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=32962000&_r=0 THE HAGUE — Japan will announce Monday that it will turn over to Washington more than 700 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and a large quantity of highly enriched uranium, a decades-old research stockpile that is large enough to build dozens of n... more »
TEACH THE JOURNALISTS WELL: You might say he’s a dreamer!
*MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 * *Part 1—De Blasio misreads the press:* If the New York Times is reporting correctly, you might say the mayor’s a dreamer! On the front page of today’s “New York Edition,” Javier Hernandez reports that Mayor de Blasio “struck a conciliatory tone” toward “advocates of charter schools” in a speech yesterday morning. In our own hard-copy Times, a mind-reading headline says this: “With Eye Toward Polls, de Blasio Softens Tone on Charter Schools.” (According to the Times web site, Hernandez’s report does *not* appear on the front page of the “National Edition... more »
Maryland Has Some of the Best Public School Protection Laws in the Nation
AP has a piece in WaPo that pretend that two most voracious advocacy groups for corporate welfare charters represent research groups: Center for Education Reform and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. In pointing out that CER's charter welfare queen, Jeanne Allen, has labeled Maryland among the worst states, then you can be sure that Maryland is one of the best in advancing public education: FREDERICK, Md. — Maryland’s charter school laws are among the worst in the nation, according to two studies released this year. The Washington-based Center for Education Reform... more »
A Vingette
Around 1993, when I was in my late-twenties, I lived in Toronto for a summer. Unemployed. One day, I'm walking on Bloor, somewhere west of Bathurst Street, when a woman approached me. She was a tiny thing. Kind of cute. Early-thirties I'd say. She mumbled something to me. I asked: "Excuse me?" She said a little louder: "Do you have a cigarette?" I don't smoke, so of course I said "No. Sorry." She mumbled something else. I said "Excuse me?" She said a little louder "Do you want a blow-job?" It's testimony to what a kill-joy I am that in my mind's eye all I could see were cold sores e... more »
Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals - the NHS truly is 'the envy of the world'
'The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found. Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning foetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants which generate power for heat.”' The NHS truly is 'the envy of the world' More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10717566/Aborted-babies-incinerated-to-heat-UK-hospitals.htmlbut not very likely on the BBC.
United Nations Releases New Official Unemployment Numbers For Iraq
The United Nations recently released a new set of official unemployment statistics for Iraq. The national rate was at 11.3%. Just over half the country’s eighteen provinces had a lower jobless rate than that. A bigger problem was that less than half the population was involved in the work force. This was especially true for women who are still handicapped by cultural and religious mores that have kept the vast majority of them at home. Another issue is that services are the largest job type meaning that Iraq is not producing much. With such a large and young population Iraq needs... more »
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*Louisiana plantation tours skittish on slavery history ~Terry L. Jones, The Advocate* *'12 Years A Slave' author's death still a mystery ~AP, via WWLTV* *Online monitoring to replace meter readers, among major system upgrades planned by Sewerage and Water Board ~Della Hassell, Mid-City Messenger* *Alaska company awarded a $7,954,440 federal levee-rebuilding contract in Plaquemines Parish* *Misinformation Spreads in War of Words Over Gulf Red Snapper Allocation ~Gulf Seafood Institute* *Trombone Shorty inspires students at Battle of the Bands ~Meg Gatto, WVUE*
Libya Updates March 23 , 2014 -- Three Years After Gaddafi, Libya Is Imploding Into Chaos and Violence Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat ......
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Three Years After Gaddafi, Libya Is Imploding Into Chaos and Violence Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat BY PATRICK COCKBURN • MARCH 16, 2014 • 1,200 WORDS • 4 COMMENTS The Libyan former prime minister Ali Zeidan fled last week after parliament voted him out of office. A North Korean-flagged oil tanker, the Morning Glory, illegally picked up a cargo of crude from rebels in the east of the country and sailed safely away, despite a government minister’s threat that the vessel would be “turned into a pile of meta... more »
Giveaway: $100 Deseret Book Giftcard, Scentsy Warmer and More!
[image: LDS General Conference & Easter Giveaway]*Design by AshLee Winterrose of Mama Bear Designery* General Conference and Easter will both be here before we know it and I couldn’t think of a better time to team up with thirteen of my favorite bloggers to host a fantastic multiple gift giveaway! Who is excited about $100 to Deseret Book and over $250 worth of amazing products? For this giveaway, we each chose some of our favorite General Conference and Easter-themed items to give back to our readers, just to say thanks for all of the encouragement, comments, and time that you take ... more »
Whither The NDP?
Murray Dobbin writes that our political system is ill equipped to deal with crises: Our political system's greatest flaw is not the first-past-the-post voting system. It is the fact that it is gravely ill-equipped to deal with crises with which it has no experience. We have muddled through for decades tinkering with the perversity of capitalism. But capitalism has long since entered the cancer stage, as Canadian philosopher John McMurtry so prophetically described in his 1999 book (now updated), *The Cancer Stage of Capitalism*. It is no longer capable of recognizing the crisis i... more »
The G.E. Loophole-- Bankrupting America To Make G.E. Executives Richer, Part I
On April 2, the Senate Finance Committee is planning to renew 55 major tax breaks worth $700 billion over 10 years, which is mostly to the benefit of the corporations like General Electic, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, which underwrite the political careers of our political elite in general and the members of the Senate Finance Committee in particular. They will move the tax extender package, which guarantees that some of these mega-corporations and crooked Wall Street banks will continue to rake in billions of dollars in profits every year while paying a far lower tax rate than fa... more »
More LY links + MOFA Letter
Busy today, but my friend Sean Su is live in the LY in English ADDED -- Chiayi, Kaohsiung, and Tainan, all DPP-ruled, are withdrawing their police officers from the protest in Taipei. Dafydd Fell compares the student occupation of the legislature with the totally bogus red ant protests against Chen Shui-bian. It's hard for me to resist snark here. The last paragraph contains an interesting observation. List of links to good stuff in Chinese I'll add more as they flow into my inbox.... *FOR DISCUSSION*: Was the big winner from yesterday's police attack on the protesters the LY occu... more »
Labour manifesto 'should include thing about killing all the rich people'
'As polls showed the Conservatives closing the gap, left-leaning think tanks told Miliband to be ‘more straightforward’ about threatening Britain’s wealthiest with firing squads. In an open letter published in the Guardian, they said: “Go on, just do it. Everybody hates rich people, so it’ll be really popular.“Also, promise to make all the nice things cheaper. Dead millionaires and cheap nice things. That’s how you win elections.”' I think this is satire but with the Labour party who can tell... More her http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/labour-manifesto... more »
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*Children born to older fathers 'are more likely to be ugly'... but may also live longer* *This is just the impressions of two very small groups of people* Older fathers have uglier children, researchers have claimed after linking age to genetic mutations. The finding comes weeks after leading scientists reported children born to men over the age of 45 run a higher risk of having autism and psychiatric disorders. With age, sperm-producing cells do not copy a man's DNA as effectively, leading to genetic mutations. Martin Fielder, an anthropologist at Vienna University, told the S... more »
That Wayne Rooney goal against West Ham this weekend
Yes it was a great long-range volley, up there with David Beckham's of a few years back, but was it any better than this volleyed goal scored against Manchester United with Peter Schmeichel in goal? That was Matt LeTissier scoring of course. If the goals are comparable, could you imaging Wayne Rooney or David Beckham managing anything like this in the 'numbers round' on TV's Countdown? Le God rules on the pitch and in the Countdown studio!
War watch March 24 , 2014 --- Afghanistan - Election Monitors Flee Afghanistan After Hotel Attack NDI, OSCE Withdraw Just Two Weeks Ahead of Vote ..... Iraq - Clashes Spread to Eastern Iraq ; 98 Killed, 34 Wounded ....... Syria - Fighting in Beirut: Syria Rivals Square Off One Killed, 10 Wounded
Taliban winning their game of pre- election intimidation..... Election Monitors Flee Afghanistan After Hotel AttackNDI, OSCE Withdraw Just Two Weeks Ahead of Vote by Jason Ditz, March 23, 2014 Print This | Share This Last week’s attack on a Kabul luxury hotel, which left nine people killed, have also led two of the three international election monitor groups to withdraw their delegations from Afghanistan, just two weeks ahead of the election. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have both withdrawn their teams aft... more »
Ukraine situation updates March 24 , 2014 -- US sanctions on Russian Bank fallout and hype over state of play in Ukraine and Russia threat beyond Crimea in focus --- Russian Bank Impacted By US Sanctions Hit By Mini Bank Run Over The Weekend -- SMP Bank said on Monday around 9 billion roubles ($248 million) had been withdrawn by depositors since U.S. sanctions were announced last week.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/russian-bank-impacted-us-sanctions-hit-mini-bank-run-over-weekend Russian Bank Impacted By US Sanctions Hit By Mini Bank Run Over The Weekend [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2014 08:08 -0400 - Bank Run - Borrowing Costs - China - Recession - Reuters - Ukraine - Vladimir Putin inShare Last week, after western sanctions against Russia expanded to include not only the first financial institution, Bank Rosiya, but also SMP bank whose main shareholders were on the sanctions list... more »
As Simple As Possible, But No Simpler
*[This is from an article in the December 2013 issue of CowManagement]* Albert Einstein is frequently credited with saying that “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” While the composer Roger Sessions appears to be the actual author of this quote, it accurately captures the sentiment of a statement that Einstein did make describing the role of true scientists as they state hypotheses for testing. “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surre... more »
What Proof Do You Require?
*I was out in the hills alone praying and a being appeared as if by magic and said,* *“I am God.”* *I said, “Prove it.”* *“I just appeared to you out of nowhere. Is that not proof?”* *“It’s true that you appeared out of nowhere, but how is that proof of anything except that you appeared out of nowhere?”* *“How about if I turn into a flame, or levitate or change form, or make those rocks talk, or some other miracle, would that convince you?”* *“It would convince me that you can do those things, but not that you are anything but a knowledgeable and powerful being.” *“What defin... more »
US Forsakes Gay Saudi Diplomat: A Story of Western Hypocrisy
*March 24, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - While human right crusades are dominated by headlines involving the “homophobic” Russian government and tales of homosexuals being strung up across Iran, there is a larger, more sinister violator of human rights operating right within an intentional, self-imposed media blackhole created by the West. That violator is Saudi Arabia, who not only has outlawed homosexuality, but reserves execution as punishment if caught. The Guardian’s Brian Whitaker, when not coddling and covering up for terrorists in Syria, is apologizing for Saudi Arabia’s ... more »
John Hagee Denies Jesus as the Messiah
*(poor little Israel . . they can do no wrong, right?. . . as a whole, they rejected Jesus then, and for the most part, now . . and they have used people like John Hagee to form the Christian Zionist movement, which is very, very prevalent in the US . . Hagee probably defends even the Jews who said "His blood be on us, and on our children." in Matthew 27:25 . . . )* Hagee says that "the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as the Messiah," that, "Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah," and that, "Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah." These... more »
But why is England the only place to 'escape' to?
This BBC piece shows the desperate lengths that people will go to in order to get to the UK. Whilst the article tells us that: 'Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said there had been an "increase" in people trying to get into the UK through the channel ports. This was mainly due to conflict in the Middle East and North Africa, he explained.' It does seem odd that these people are desperately trying to get to the UK (for which you can read England or most likely London) not from Syria or Egypt or 'Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Eritrea' but from France. They've already escaped fr... more »
Ascension Blue Chronicles - part #6 of 7 from Mission Ignition
*Ascension Blue Chronicles - part #6 of 7* *2014.03.21 --- * We stand upon the shores where time does not exist But within three blinks of an eye in 2017 Upon the wings of the morning we shall arrive And our presence shall be felt Upon our entry we shall light the night sky Brighter than a million suns For the dark night shall tremble And the mighty wind shall rush up to greet us In that moment our daughter the Earth Shall break her waters and give Bearth For we are here to be her handmaidens To deliver her in her hour of need You are to be born angels of destiny The bridge between mat... more »
Alan Guth and inflation
Alan Guth of MIT is one of the nine well-deserved inaugural winners of the Milner Prize. He has received $2,999,988 because Milner failed to pay the banking fees (Alan Guth was generous enough not to have sued Yuri Milner for that so far). As far as I know, Alan Guth is the only winner of a prize greater than the Nobel prize who has ever regularly attended a course of mine. ;-) *I have taken many pictures of Alan Guth, this is the fuzziest one but I think it's funny to see a young Italian physicist showing a finger to Alan Guth in the New York Subway during our trip to a May 2005... more »
20 Calming or Invigorating Mini Meditations You Can Practice Every Day by Margarita Tartakovsky
20 Calming or Invigorating Mini Meditations You Can Practice Every Day by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. No matter how hectic or stressful our days are, whether we’re sitting at our desks or waiting in line, we have the opportunity to pause and adjust our perspective. We have the opportunity to be kinder — both to ourselves and others. We have the opportunity to relax and slow down. And we have the opportunity to refocus. Even if it’s for a minute or two. In her book *Self-Meditation: 3,299 Mantras, Tips, Quotes and Koans for Peace and Serenity *, bestselling author Barb... more »
100% RELIANT ON RUSSIAN GAS
Search Results The UK's biggest gas company Centrica will start importing Russian gas from October 2014, Reuters reports. *UK to start directly buying Russian gas* (Thanks to dognamedblue for the link) Europe needs Russia's gas! Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rely 100% on Russian gas. Gas reliance on Russia is 93% in Slovakia, 83% in Poland, 81% in Hungary, 66% in the Czech Republic and 61% in Austria. Ukraine's prime monster, Arse Yatsenyuk, says Russia could use energy as a 'new nuclear weapon'. *Europe - gas dependence on Russia*, Who gains if European countries sw... more »
California Call To Action: Meet In Sacramento On March 26, 2014
[image: Foto] CALIFORNIA Action Alert from Label GMOs: California's Grassroots GE Food Labeling Bill SB1381 Introduced by Senator Noreen Evans *RALLY & HEARING on NORTH CAPITOL STEPS BE HERE, BE HEARD!! WEDNESDAY MARCH 26, 2014* *RALLY – North Capitol Steps (L St & 11th St) 11:30am - 1:00pm just before Hearing. *HEARING – 1:30pm - 4:30pm in HEALTH COMMITTEE HEARING ROOM 4203 Michael Hansen of Consumers Union, Rebecca Specter of Center For Food Safety and Susan Lang of Moms Across America, will be speakers at press conference and hearing. We need to pack the rally and pack the ... more »
“10 Lunacies From the Right-Wing Fringe This Week"
*“10 Lunacies From the Right-Wing Fringe This Week:* *Women Want Malls, Not Equal Pay Edition”* By Janet Allon “While Neil deGrasse Tyson has the creationists all in a tizzy, the right has quietly amped up its war on women, and this week, it seemed Republicans have trotted out some of their women as cover. Michelle, Sarah, watch out. You’ve got some competition. *1. Minnesota Rep. Andrea Kieffer: Equal pay equals women whining. *The word "equality" is a lightning rod for Republicans. They don’t like it. They don’t believe in it. People are not equal, and equal pay for equal work j... more »
Do All Republicans Eat Goat Penis? No, Just The Rich Ones
Republicans want to elect a delusional convicted sex offender governor You may have missed the charming story out of England last week by Bobby Viteri, Eating Goat Penis With America's One Percent (at the Waldorf Astoria in New York). Among those in attendance: His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck of Bhutan, stratosphere jumper Felix Baumgartner and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Prepared by Gene Rurka, the chairman of the club’s exotics committee, on the basis of availability and market price, the food was impressive and revolting. The reception rooms, poorly lit by reddish heat ... more »
Do you need aspirin for that headache?
Have you ever seen one of those commercials which advertise drugs "guaranteed" to cure whatever ails you? They sympathize with our pain and tell us that the use of their product will help us lead a pain-free, productive life. Taking the medicine is always easy ... just pop a pill and, like magic, we are smiling. [image: A headache can be cured without aspirin.]*A headache is trying to* *tell you something.*The problem is, popping a pill for instant relief often prevents us from looking at the cause of our discomfort. It can cover up, rather than cure, a problem. Am I saying that we ... more »
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*Unsettling “Settled Science”* I was making a Costco run with my friend George on Friday, and the subject of the weather came up. It was a nice day, relatively speaking, but Saturday was going to be nicer – nearly 70 degrees. This was a nice change of pace from the polar vortexes and dump trucks full of snow we’ve been hit with here in Maryland for the past three months. Then I looked at my iPhone and noted the forecast calls for another possible large snowstorm Tuesday. George said that seemed a little far away to predict such things with any certainty, and he’s right. Considering... more »
Erdogan Shuts Down Twitter, Then Shoots Down Syrian Plane In Syrian Airspace
*No bird is safe from Erdogan's deadly grasp.* An excerpt from, *"Turkish fighter jets shoot down Syrian warplane in border zone"* by Glen Johnson and Nabih Bulos, LA Times, March 23: Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane Sunday in an embattled border zone, and Turkey and Syria each insisted the plane was in their airspace when it was downed. The downing was the latest border clash between onetime allies who have turned on one another because of Syria's 3-year-old civil war. Turkey has sided with the opposition in that conflict, angering the government of Syrian Presid... more »
CSOs and State 19: UP Maroons and UP Alumni
As a University of the Philippines (UP) alumni myself, I find this story disturbing, but also inspiring. This should spur other alumni and sympathetic individuals to act on their own -- the spirit of civil society -- to help the UP Fighting Maroons. Written and posted by a friend in his facebook wall last Saturday, reposted by interaksyon yesterday and so far was shared 1,500+, reposting here too. ------------ *Nowhere to go but UP: musings of a hopeful Maroon fan* …Our Maroons took the championship in '86 in the same year our countrymen won back their freedom. I don't know if it w... more »
TFA Truth Tour Starts Tomorrow
Teach for America regularly spends more on recruiting than it does on educating the young neophytes who are dumped into the most challenging classrooms after 5 weeks of basic indoctrination. USAS begins a 15 campus tour tomorrow to get the truth and stop TFA's corporate predators on campus. *By Robert Ascherman and Karen Li* Starting tomorrow, USAS is launching the next stage in our campaignto fight back against corporate robber barons of education reform on our campuses: the Teach for America Truth Tour. The tour will visit 15 campuses to expose the truth about TFA: not only does... more »
Is Something Huge About To Happen? For The First Time In History, The Criminal State Of Israel Closes ALL Of Its Embassies And Consulates Worldwide!
The world has been teetering on the verge of total economic collapse and possible world war for quite sometime now, and we know that the present economic system is headed to ruination thanks to the Jews and their criminal Usury financial system. Throughout history, any nation that has ever adopted such a horrific system of crushing debt has always collapsed. We are about to watch history repeat itself again. But just before the collapse happens, we can be sure that the criminals responsible for the world's demise would make sure that their minions and followers are protected and t... more »
Food for thought (almost literally) in the funnies
*I like to think my grasp of the technology has advanced to the point where if you click on this lovely strip by Ruben Bolling to enlarge it, you'll actually be able to read it.* *by Ken* If I groped hard enough I could find a connection between the offerings above and below. But the truth is that I've had the one above for a few days, since I received it as a pass-along, and knew I wanted to pass it along in turn. So far there doesn't seem to be any action on my proposal that if Paul Ryan insists on continuing to speak in public, he be required to wear a dunce cap, or at least a ... more »
Turkey always partnering with Israel- Shoots down Syrian plane.
*Hot on the heels of Israel’s incursion into Syria. Hope that is not a surprise to anyone? * *Turkey and Israel in cahoots. Shouldn't be a surprise. Not if you have been paying attention.* *Recall? It was just a few days ago the vile Israeli attack on Syria took placeIsrael launched airstrikes into Syria- supporting their Islamists, of course* Turkey is doing the same job. Supporting NATO's Islamist mercenaries. Same as Israel I queried at that time of the Israeli attack on Syria- Where are the western hypocrites? The ones who condemned the referendum in Crimea? Despite the obvio... more »
Running With Our Hummingbird Named Consuelo
There’s nobody that I know that doesn’t like a hummingbird. That is especially true in Tucson. For many of us, the hummingbird signifies Consuelo Aguilar. For some, she is but a memory. For others, not even that. And yet, in Tucson, we run for her. We run with her. And on April 5th, we will run and walk for and with her again. She represents all of what was right with Tucson several years ago. All that was good. And yet, something went wrong… She was our soaring eagle… who prematurely transformed into our hummingbird… at least she remains wit us… always, especially when we run. ... more »
=UPDATED X4= Police Clear Executive Yuan Protesters using water cannon, violence
UPDATE 4: Frozen Garlic moves towards the position many of us are now reaching, that the students should declare victory and leave the LY. Ma's speech from yesterday in English UPDATE 3: Video of police clearing protesters Once again, English feeds and links UPDATE 2: A-gu rips the Ma government on his awesome blog UPDATE 1 Student response: In response to the continuing developments at the Executive Yuan, we release the following joint statement between the student occupiers of the Legislative Yuan and the Executive Yuan: “Under orders from President Ma Ying-jeou, thousands of ri... more »
DuPont heir avoids jail time, but faces lawsuit after pleading guilty to raping his own toddler aged children
*(I'm convinced that these pedophile elite obtain or maintain some sort of evil power by these type of actions, maybe even more so when it is their OWN CHILDREN . . it is absolutely no excuse . . ) * [image: DuPont heir avoids jail time after raping two of his children | Intellihub News] March 19, 2014 [image: DuPont heir avoids jail time after raping two of his children] DuPont heir avoids jail time, but faces lawsuit after pleading guilty to raping his own toddler aged childrenBy John VibesWILMINGTON, DELAWARE ( INTELLIHUB) — A DuPont family heir who avoided jail time after plea... more »
(Do We Need A HOPE Diet?) Like So Many Aphorists-On-the-Make Before Them, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Entered the Marketplace of Ideas Selling Tidy Homilies On the Very Same Concept: Hope
Had it with"hope" yet? Had about enough? I know I've been suspicious of those empty calories since the early 90's. (Not to mention the RRaygun team's "Morning in America" 80's con game that birthed it in his Presidential Campaign PR as a U.S. slaying Frankenstein.) But is there any nutritious substitute available? Tom Frank speaks: It is a peculiar coincidence that the last two Democratic
Most living thing share a lot of genetic structure
So humans share 60% of their genes with banana trees.
What If: The Tattered Ball of Twine
I originally released this article in February 2013. A wonderful friend brought it to my attention a few days ago and after re-reading it a year later, I felt the need to repost it. Today this article has far more meaning as a year later our own understanding of "what's happening" has been greatly expanded. All over the world there are so many frustrated and angry people and groups. They've been waiting for "something", been promised "something", and yet those "somethings" haven't happened. Whether they are groups of "Dinarians" waiting for the ever elusive "RV", or "Nesarians"... more »
Newly Found Megalithic Ruins In Russia Contain The Largest Blocks Of Stone Ever Discovered
* InvestmentWatch* by Michael Snyder March 10, 2014 [image: Mount-Shoria-450x298] An incredible discovery that was recently made in Russia threatens to shatter conventional theories about the history of the planet. On Mount Shoria in southern Siberia, researchers have found an absolutely massive wall of granite stones. Some of these gigantic granite stones are estimated to weigh *more than 3,000 tons*, and as you will see below, many of them were cut “with flat surfaces, right angles, and sharp corners”. Nothing of this magnitude has ever been discovered before. The largest st... more »
Daytime Radio 4
I don't normally do this but I'd like to comment on a comment at *Biased-BBC* as - unusually - I've heard a lot of Radio 4 today. Plus it will serve as a reflection on what I've heard. My comments will be in blue. Thoughtful says: March 23, 2014 at 6:12 pm What a disgraceful display of bias on Radio 4 throughout the day! 07:10 John Laurenson reports from Riace where immigrants are welcome and encouraged to stay. Maslaha is a new project about Islam and feminism. How does Islam work within the Western ideas of feminism where traditionally religion has been left at the door? Latifa Ak... more »
All referendums to secede are definitely not treated similarly by the EU and US -- 89% Of Venetians Vote For Independence From Italy, Will Withhold Taxes To Rome .... And as Zero Hedge wryly notes " Wonder why the US, Europe, and Japan have not announced the referendum "illegal" and announced sanctions yet ? "
89% Of Venetians Vote For Independence From Italy, Will Withhold Taxes To Rome [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/23/2014 16:59 -0400 - Italy - Japan - Withholding taxes inShare1 Inspired by Scotland's hopes for independence and hot on the heels of Crime'a 95% preference for accession to Russia, *89% of the citizens of Venice voted for their own sovereign state in a ‘referendum’ on independence from Italy*. As The Daily Mail reports, the proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ includes the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and has be... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - Data from not just Friday March 21 , 2014 but also data from the week that just ended ..... Important news , data and views touching on the precious metals ! Key highlights come from Koos Jansen ( China demand ) , Doug Noland ( Friday missive -- April / May / June Dynamic ) , Features on Asia demand - not just China but also India and South Korea , Ted Butler discusses efforts to sue both JP Morgan and Comex regarding gold price manipulations ..... Additional items to consider including the full Ted Butler Report in the " additional items " section ......
Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
How much gold does the US Government have actually ? First the fables .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository The *United States Bullion Depository*, often known as *Fort Knox*, is a fortified vault building located adjacent to Fort Knox, Kentucky, used to store a large portion of United States official gold reserves and occasionally other precious items belonging or entrusted to the federal government. The United States Bullion Depository holds 4,578 metric tons (5,046.3 short tons) of gold bullion (147.2 million oz. troy). This is roughly 3 percent of... more »
Jan Schakowsky Wins-- Illinois Democrat Draws The Craziest Extremist So Far This Cycle
Despite the hairdo, Susanne Atanus is not from EMILY's List Every good progressive deserves their own opponent like Susanne Atanus. Recall that last January we had a chuckle over the crackpots running against Jan Schakowsky in her Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka, Des Plaines, Arlington Heights district (IL-09). Safely Democratic (D+15), the NRCC ignores it but it attracts fringe candidates like Susanne Atanus. Atanus is certifiably insane-- like seriously deranged and unable to get in touch with reality-- so, of course, last week, Republican primary voters picked her over a more mainstr... more »
An Urgent Call to Action for Massachusetts BATs and Their Colleagues
As the PARCC is about to be piloted in school districts across Massachusetts, news reports have been swirling. The major issue at hand? Whether parents have the right to “opt-out” their children from taking this assessment. A small number of districts have made headlines for “allowing” parents this choice, but could they really have said otherwise? […]
Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit - Part Two
There is another alleged MJ-12 document that suffers from many of the same problems as the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary and this is the Majestic Twelve Project, Annual Report which is believed to have been created during the summer of 1952. This is another of the documents provided by Timothy Cooper through his source of Thomas Cantwheel, that unidentified man who claimed to have been on the inside of UFO crashes investigations and with the Majestic Twelve or some such. These are the conclusions from a larger document which rehashes some of the information from other docu... more »
How to Access Twitter in Turkey Despite the Ban, Block and Censorship
As I'm sure all of you know that, the other day, Turkey's PM Erdogan went public with the not only ill-considered and unjustified, but plain stupid, call to "block" access to twitter from Turkey as a first step in a campaign to "wipe out" social media from the country - and immediately a tame court stepped up and did its duty in this country of (obviously not) rule of law. Stupid, that is, unless his objective is to hurry the country back to the dark ages, shut down international trade, tourism and so on. But perhaps this really is Mr. Erdogan finally showing off the Taliban willy o... more »
Non-Indian attorneys bedrock of corruption within Indian Nations
Non-Indian attorneys and lobbyists in Indian country benefit private corporations, states and US government, while media is complicit in crimes By Brenda Norrell Censored News One of the secrets is the extent that non-Indian attorneys, and non-Indian lobbyists, are making decisions for Indian Nations -- by way of their advice to tribal councils -- especially in the areas of water and land
Oceania Has Always Been at War with Eastasia
*“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”* *-Charles Bukowski* The neocon anti-Putin propaganda campaign made landfall in the editorial section of my local ‘liberal’ newspaper today. In addition to a reprinting of that Washington Post Gary Kasparov diatribe from the other day (this is Florida for Christ’s sake – NASCAR country not chess) there were various and sundry other screeds, all pushing the same centralized talking points for open hostilities towards Russia. It may only be a coincidence but the frenzied escalation in Cold War er... more »
Enbridge And Stephen Harper Can Go To Hell
*[image: PHOTO: A barge loaded with marine fuel oil sits partially submerged in the Houston Ship Channel, March 22, 2014. The bulk carrier Summer Wind, reported a collision between the Summer Wind and the barge, containing 924,000 gallons of fuel oil.]* The below article is cut n pasted from ABC and the AP......Houston Texas oil spill, in Galveston bay, a collision between ship and barge, in a Texas harbour where oil has been shipped out of for many many years, thick heavy goop, ....Today is also the anniversary of the infamous Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill, oil and tar balls stil... more »
Obama's Inferno
Good old gaffe-prone Joe Biden thinks his Boss should be canonized for his truly saintly patience with all of us dimwits, so confused by the techno-kludge that is Obamacare. Coincidentally, the president will be meeting up with the Pope in the Vatican this week. Is Biden hinting that the Boss could set a precedent for pre-mortem sainthood? Even the *New York Times*, reliable administration mouthpiece that it is, is coincidentally running a largely positive pieceabout "the Catholic roots of Obama's activism." Apparently, the young Barack started reading St. Augustine back in his colle... more »
Me and amazon.de: Have you ever wondered how to say "Final Sale" in German?
*I know because I had to order Vol. 2 ofthe "Rockford Files Movies" from Germany* [*Click to enlarge, if you care*] *by Ken* To tell the truth, I didn't care that much about getting any of the *Rockford Files* movies on DVD. I think I only wound up ordering them because I discovered: (a) that I apparently couldn't get Vol. 2 (of what's supposed to be a two-volume series) any way on earth except by ordering it from Germany, and -- (b) if I ordered it from Germany, I *could* get it. And somehow that made me want it -- no, *need* it. And made me willing to pay a price . . . well,... more »
Joyce Braun 'The Black Hills are not for sale and never shall be, a read op/ed'
The Black Hills are NOT for Sale and Never Shall Be… A REAL Op/Ed by Joye Braun Lakota Voice In a recent Op/Ed article in the Native Sun News, which reads more like a letter to the editor than a true Op/Ed article, I and others were attacked for our position that the Black Hills are not for sale and will never be. It was an account of Oglala Attorney General Mario Gonzales’ attempts to reach
Breaking News: Connecticut Leads The Way In Protecting Their Childrens Health
Connecticut leads the way! Now how about the rest of the country? *SIGN OUR PETITION to Stop Scotts ROUNDUP Ready GMO Grass in its tracks: * *http://www.thepetitionsite.com/354/661/966/stop-scotts-gmo-grass-in-its-tracks-now/* Sharing the news ...& action from GMO Free CT! ***BREAKING NEWS*** You all did it again! Your phone calls and e-mails worked. Today the Environment Committee passed SB 443 with a vote of 17 to 11. It now moves on to the Senate. One of the legislators even said he has received 100's of calls on this bill. Those are YOUR phone calls. Thank you so much for t... more »
AVOID DRAFTS
*The Draft and the Vietnam Generation* will be a 60-minute video documentary that features men from diverse backgrounds who opposed the Vietnam War and defied the draft. The draft forced young men to ask themselves if they were willing to kil and die in a war half way around the world. If you were unwilling to fight in what you felt was an unjust war, you had to decide what to do. Should you fake a medical illness, go to college, flee the country for Canada, or challenge the draft by going to prison?
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
[image: rant-jpeg-b] Sunday and time again for my usual rant…. It has been a very long and brutal winter up here in central Canada, and still at this point, Spring is absolutely no where in sight…. There is still about 120cm (4+ feet) of snow on the ground here, and I do wonder wh in the hell anyone can still be suckered into believing in the Global Warming fraud at all once they see what I see here…. I have always said that Al Gore and his cronies are in the Global Warming scam to make a quick buck, and I have yet to see anything that has shown me otherwise… The "crisis" in the U... more »
All Your Life You Have Lived by Their Rules, and You Don't Have to Anymore--OPT OUT!
Be Divergent! Register for UOO’s annual spring event in Denver, CO, March 28th to 30th
Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"
Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA *"Anthem"* "The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. We asked for signs the signs were sent: the birth betrayed the marriage spent Yeah the widowhood of ev... more »
Paulo Coelho,"Killing Our Dreams"
"Killing Our Dreams" by Paulo Coelho "The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the Good Fight. The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wi... more »
"Tell Me Yourself, I Challenge You..."
"Tell me yourself, I challenge you—answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature... and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.” - Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
The Social Construction of Sex
The Social Construction of Sex - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society - Alice Dreger This, then, brings us to the issue of gender identity. Gender identity can be described as the internal feeling of being a boy, girl, man, woman, or something else. Is gender identity socially constructed—that is, are people taught to feel like one or the other? When I started doing intersex work,I thought so. I thought we were taught to feel, act, and behave like girls and boys. But I don’t think that anymore. That is to say, sure we’re taught these things, but many of us probably get our core... more »
Common Core Will Take 24 Years to Show Improvement That Will Fall Way Short of NAEP Results from 1992 to Now
In a research report issued last week by Brookings, researchers found that states with CCSS-like standards have not scored as well as other states on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Brookings found “states with standards most different from the CCSS . . . gained the most on NAEP (p. 29). Offering this dismal assessment of prospects for states adopting Common Core, the Brookings research estimates it will take 24 years for a noticeable improvement to unfold. And that improvement would add up to 7.62 NAEP scale score points, a gain in 24 years that falls fa... more »
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*James Gill: A nostalgia act attempts a revival* *New Orleans charter schools scramble to teach non-English speakers ~Katy Reckdahl, New Orleans* *Fuel Oil Barge Partially Sinks After Collision in Houston Ship Channel, Spilling Oil ~Mike Schuler, gCaptain* *Music Review: Irma Thomas – ‘Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album’ ~David Bowling, Blog Critics*
Harper Meets With Ukrainian PM
Great photo-op for Harper. He seems to give the impression that he is the leader to solve the world problems. First G7 leader to visit Ukraine.
Of the thousands of slacktivists, we only have 1,756 signatures?
I know what you’re going to say: petitions don’t matter. I get it. But I’ve seen one of the most respected authors and activists around, Susan Ohanian, publish a new White House petition to “Direct the Department of Education and Congress to Remove Annual Standardized Testing Mandates of NCLB and RtTT.” Just this morning, I […]
The Young Could Be Game Changers
The Canadian Press reports that pollster Nick Nanos and former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page are working on a project to increase youth turnout in the next election. Nanos has gone back and looked at the data he gathered during the last election. He's reached some startling conclusions: Just over 60 per cent of eligible voters actually cast ballots in 2011. Among those under 30, fewer than 40 per cent bothered to vote. Working with Kevin Page, the former parliamentary budget officer, on a project aimed at engaging youth in the political process, Nanos has mined data fr... more »
Be in Worcester, MA Wednesday Morning to Greet Duncan
*From MassLive:* *WORCESTER* — Hoping to bring more attention to the federal changes in academic standards, protesters will greet U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan with picket signs along Skyline Drive and Belmont Street Wednesday morning. *Duncan is scheduled to visit Worcester Technical High School on Wednesday*at 9 a.m. as part of a two-day tour of Massachusetts schools. The secretary is expected to participate in town hall-style discussion on career and technical education with educators, community college officials and business leaders, according to his public schedule. W... more »
Ukraine updates - March 22 , 2014 -- Truce Ends, Ukraine Troops Withdraw From Crimea Belbek Airbase Holds Out, Claiming no Orders from Kiev .... While Putin claims no additional sanctions are in process , the fact remains that Russia has plenty of tools to punish Europe and Ukraine -- German Companies Face ‘Catastrophe’ Over Russia Sanctions EU Talks Replacing Russian Energy, But Where , Russia's Medvedev says Ukraine owes Russia $16 billion: agencies .......
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Gazprom = Russia's trump card...... The Most Important Company In Europe [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/22/2014 14:14 -0400 inShare6 There is a reason why in the past we have referred to Russia simply as Gazprom
Things that go better with Koch
We don't hear much about the Koch brothers' tarsands dealings in Canada so when a headline in the Washington Post reads : *The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers *, it's still notable even after follow-up spats as to whether Koch was only the biggest lease holder in *northern* Alberta or the biggest *US *leas holder or perhaps only the second or third biggest overall and whether they actually stand to gain on the Keystone XL pipeline given they haven't reserved any space on it. For their part, Koch Industries has repea... more »
This Moment - I AM!
On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:11 PM, mayo wrote: Hello My Friend.. got the final mix of song last nite.. I AM putting it on youtube and ProjectXIII sometime in the next 24hours, creating little video with lyrics on it for easy view.... But i would love to hear your Opinion of it. And be honest, i know different music for different folk. I love you my brother and thanks for checking it out. I AM mayo ------------------------------ On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:47 PM, mayo wrote: Hello my Brother :) I Look at your site everyday. So i appreciate your Love for us as I (Absolute). I wanted to sha... more »
Russia, Ukraine, and a New Era of International Relations
The U.S. and Russia are not engaged in a new Cold War, but Russia is clearly playing the geopolitical menace du jour. The U.S. and Europe are going to need to up their game to keep Vladimir Putin’s hands off the rest of Ukraine. Beyond this crisis the West needs a new defense posture, as Continue reading
Final “old paradigm grid point” removal occurs with agreement of Gaia and inhabitants.
*Once again spot on... these people amaze me! I've been away for a few days arranging housing, found a nice place in close proximity to everyone, which is why this is late posting... -AK* *Final “old paradigm grid point” removal occurs with agreement of Gaia and inhabitants.* by ÉirePort Entractions are fully removed via energetic collaboration at all levels, in this moment Final "old paradigm grid point" removal occurs with agreement of Gaia and inhabitants. Cosmic Humanity completes the process and aligns Gaia with the Cosmic Energies. Precision Blue Light accomplishes the... more »
Random thought to start the day, on #grit and instructional time
Katie Osgood once again waxes defiantly against the most ridiculous concept of “grit.” I suggest reading that. I want to support this with my own experience. It is one thing to ensure that all students are reading, or what have you, on the monolithic concept of “grade level,” which is in and of itself an […]
Bill Maher-- Closer To Flipping A District?
Farenthold & Grimm In January, Bill Maher promised to try to flip a district. I was hoping he would work his magic on the North Shore of Long Island-- the Gold Coast, home to Princesses Long Island-- and go after Steve Israel. Alternatively, we picked 6 very vulnerable Republican-held districts that Steve Israel and his pathetic DCCC protect: *•* Fred Upton (MI-06)- R+1 *•* Peter King (NY-02)- R+1 *•* Dave Reichert (WA-08)- R+1 *•* Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27)- R+2 *•* Mike Rogers (MI-08)- R+2 *•* Paul Ryan (WI-01)- R+3 Friday, Maher announced the first of 16 picks, supposedly by view... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The most distant object easily visible to the eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy - spanning over 200,000 light years - appears as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. In contrast, details of a bright yellow nucleus and dark winding dust lanes, are revealed in this digital telescopic image. Narrow band image data recording emission from hydrogen atoms, shows off the reddish star-forming regions dotting gorgeous blue spiral arms and young star clusters. *Cli... more »
Chet Raymo, "What Does It All Mean?"
*"What Does It All Mean?"* by Chet Raymo "A good friend tells me via e-mail that she is reading Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." I read the book for a second time two years ago, in the new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It's one of those novels I had to read twice - once in middle age (I would not have had the patience in youth) and once in settled maturity. In middle age, it was all about Anna, and passion, and doubt. In old age - for me at least - it's about Levin, settled, happily married, enjoying as much intellectual peace as might be possible in this bi... more »
Something Understood
As I'm an early riser on Sunday mornings, I sometimes catch Radio 4's *Something Understood*. As I've written before, it's a great concept (derived from a poem by George Herbert) - placing all manner of pieces of poetry and prose side-by-side, piling them up into a suggestive miscellany of ideas which, somehow, manages to hang together and which, in some way, has the effect of amplifying the chosen subject - whether it be 'Gifts' or 'Boredom' or 'Temptation'. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't. Today's edition, presented by Canadian broadcaster Chris Brookes, was r... more »
"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"
*"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"* by Laura Knight-Jadczyk "Never ascribe to malice those things which may be explained by stupidity." That is an important phrase, and a necessary one; it keeps people from being paranoid. However, it has a corollary most people don't know: "One MAY ascribe to malice those things which stupidity cannot explain." - Robert Canup "Richard Dolan has pointed out that those at the top will ALWAYS take whatever measures necessary to stay at the top, and when knowledge is power, that means that they will make sure that they are in control of what people kno... more »
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*Vitamin D May Lower Cholesterol* *Trivial results* Many observational studies have suggested that vitamin D may have benefits for heart health. Now a randomized trial has found that vitamin D appears to reduce levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol Researchers randomly assigned 576 postmenopausal women to either a daily dose of 400 units of vitamin D and 1,000 milligrams of calcium, or a placebo. They followed them for three years. By the end of the study, published in Menopause, the vitamin D group had significantly higher serum levels of vitamin D, and a small but notable drop i... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Declaration of Principles”
*“Declaration of Principles”* Statutes For The Present Moment by Paulo Coelho "*1]* All human beings are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so. *2]* Each human being has been granted two courses of action: that of deed and that of contemplation. Both lead to the same place. *3]* Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift. Power drives a person to meet his/her destiny, his gift obliges that person to share with others which is good in him/her. A human being must know when to use power, and when to use compassion. *4] *Each human bein... more »
The Poet: Langston Hughes,"Mother To Son"
*"Mother To Son"* by Langston Hughes "Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now— For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
The Daily "Near You?"
Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. Thanks for stopping by.
Free Download: Mark Twain,"The Mysterious Stranger"
*"The Mysterious Stranger"* by Mark Twain "An unfinished novella that Mark Twain worked on periodically from roughly 1890 until his death in 1910. The body of the work is a serious social commentary addressing Twain's ideas of the Moral Sense and the ''damned human race.'' Published posthumously in 1916 by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. “…I must go now, and we shall not see each other any more." “In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?” Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, “There is no other.” A subtle influence blew... more »
"We Can't Pretend..."
"The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wonder... more »
"How To Respond To The Awful Truth"
*"How To Respond To The Awful Truth"* by Zen Gardner "It's a volatile, challenging time to be alive, no doubt. The world is landscape thoroughly scattered with catastrophic nightmares like flaming lava pits on a giant festering orb. And this huge array of drastic, life-threatening problems we're facing that are burning in the world's collective subconscious are apparently careening towards some mad, apocalyptic finale. The big question we're all faced with is this. Once we're aware of what's going on, what do we do? And more importantly, for those not willing to face the truth, w... more »
In Paris: Muslims screaming "Death to the Jews" break Jewish teacher's nose, draw swastika on his chest
You can read the whole story here http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/paris-muslims-screaming-death-to-the-jews-break-jewish-teachers-nose-draw-swastika-on-his-chest The rise of virulent & violent anti Semitism in France is real and not surprising when you see the huge increase in Islamism in parts of France. What I found interesting in that report were the comments of the French Interior Minister, Manuel Valley, who called anti-Zionism “an invitation to anti-Semitism.” He was speaking at a rally in Paris commemorating the four Jews murdered in Toulouse. This comment is something th... more »
The one hundred and eighty eighth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award - Gordon Brown
The Mail seemed shocked to discover that Gordon Brown is a little inconsistent in his views. He once described Gazza’s wonder goal against the Scots at Wembley as one of his favourite footballing memories. But Gordon Brown, who no longer courts the English vote, has now spoken of his heartbreak at watching Gary McAllister’s botched penalty for Scotland in that famous Euro ’96 match. In a plea to Scots to vote against independence in September’s referendum, the former Prime Minister said he ‘yields to no-one’ in his love of Scotland. He spoke fondly of his trips with the Tartan A... more »
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