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As I noted last week, for the final project in my linked seminar this year,
my students have to design and launch a website to promote their fictitious
human rights NGO. In prepping for the course and in developing the grading
rubrics, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading the literature on what makes
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Jindal to Dump PARCC?
An April 14, 2014, nola.com article has Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
publicly saying he is “willing” to leave the Partnership for Assessment of
College and Careers (PARCC)– and even the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS): Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he is willing to withdraw
Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the assessment associated
with the Common Core academic standards if the […]
Alise Mills works for British Columbians for Prosperity
Pipelines booster *British Columbians for International **Prosperity* or
BC4P, whose website DeSmogBlog noted 4 days ago "bears remarkable
similarity to the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity", is "*an
independent group* *of concerned citizens *looking to promote practical
resource development" yadda yadda. They dropped the "International" from
their brand name back in February :
They are not for "International Prosperity" any longer apparently. This is
possibly due to their new campaign *moneytrail.ca*, which in turn bears a
remarkable similarity to Ethical Oil's "Foreign Speci... more »
Why the Growing Opt Out Movement Puts Fear into the Antiquated Losers of Corporate Education Reform
I was chatting today with someone I had not seen in a while, and told them
about my work in support of United Opt Out and how it could 6 percent of
parents keeping their children home on test days could make the tests
unusable for the sorting and punishing they are intended.
Brilliant, she said.
Brilliant, indeed. That is why the creaky dean of CorpEd, Chester Finn,
has offered his own "love it or leave it" message to all parents who insist
that public schools should be about learning, rather than testing and
corporate profits.
The responses at Finn's own website should tell hi... more »
About yesterday's terrorist events in Overland Park: We're all in Kansas, Toto
*The Overland Park alleged perp is, alas, only too well-known to
hate-terrorist trackers like the Southern Poverty Law Center.*
*by Ken*
When Howie e-mailed this morning asking if I had any interest in "doing
anything on the KKK guy who murdered the 3 in Kansas," my first thought was:
I had some flash of a thought about it this morning while I was reading
about it. I forget what the thought was, but maybe it'll come back to me.
(More interesting, I hope, than "Oh God, not this again.") I know that
before I knew what had happened, I'd read an e-mail from the 92nd Street Y
referring... more »
How the West was Lost: Ranchers and Empire in the American West
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“*20 Cowboys Break Fed Blockade in Nevada, Retrieve Cattle*”
*The recent victory of the Bundy family over invading federal agents – with
a posse of armed cowboys riding herd on the agents -- has been
characterised as **How the West Was Was Won*
*. Author of this Guest Post Ryan McMaken is not so sure.*
The militarised siege of a cattle ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn
national attention as dozens of federal agents, armed with machine guns,
sniper rifles, helicopters, and more, have descended on the ranch to seize
catt... more »
Libya Updates - April 14 , 2014 -- Trial of Saif, Saadi and Qaddafi-era officials adjourned By Ashraf Abdul Wahab. Tripoli, 14 April 2014: The hearing of cases against Saif and Saadi Qaddafi, along with 35 senior former regime officials, was today adjourned after less than half an hour of proceedings......Tunisia will hand over 10 Qaddafi officials only after “due legal process” ........ BREAKING NEWS: Al-Thinni resigns after attack on family home - says " No Thanks " to a thankless job ! Petrol supply in west resumes as Zawia blockade ends
Trial of Saif, Saadi and Qaddafi-era officials
adjourned
*By Ashraf Abdul Wahab*.
*Tripoli, 14 April 2014*:
The hearing of cases against Saif and Saadi Qaddafi, along with 35 senior
former regime officials, was today adjourned after less than half an hour
of proceedings.
The trial was suspended until 27 April on the grounds that only 23 of the
37 defendants were present.
The scene in court today was one of disorganisation and confusion, despite
assurances from authorities beforehand that proceedings would go ahead
unimpeded and with full transparency.
Saif, along with seven individu... more »
drugs make money
every day in every way
there are millions
of citizens working
away to make life better
some of those are on the dime
but no matter what the motivation
they are doing things right.
In this life I have seen
there is so much to criitze
and mostly it has come from
the wrong end of a realiztion]
the only reason
they wanted contact
with me
was to decive.
So cancer patient warriors
and drug people with PHD
that are working on low
pay for you and me
well I salute you
because you are the finest
taking your brains
that are rare and working
them for humanity
well that is so rare
As a unworthy hum... more »
Jungle Cat facts
Some people want to see you
live not ugly
others just do not care
they say to justify
let you make your own world
of not worry
like a jungle cat
knowing it can not
be knocked off
as a matter of a fact
Sweeping
time wisks of history
move the dust so slowly
but in the end
they get the job done
if you are smart enough
or so disenfranchised that you care to notice
do not be bedeviled by historical
dustbunnies
gathered at your windows
they all subside
most never hit home
and the worst of them
die in flames
in a battle
which they entered
rich and infallable
and were to stupid
to leave/
METRO | Proposed system for court-appointed attorneys must have accountability
By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 TRAVIS COUNTY — The
proposal, reported in the Austin American-Statesman on April 12, to create
a new system for the appointment of attorneys who represent poor criminal
defendants … finish reading *METRO* | Proposed system for court-appointed
attorneys must have accountability
Psychology: "Positive Self-Deception"
*"Positive Self-Deception"*
by Damninteresting.com
"Most people think of the "mentally disordered" as a delusional lot,
holding bizarre and irrational ideas about themselves and the world around
them. Isn’t a mental disorder, after all, an impairment or a distortion in
thought or perception? This is what we tend to think, and for most of
modern psychology's history, the experts have agreed; realistic perceptions
have been considered essential to good mental health. More recently,
however, research has arisen that challenges this common-sense notion.
In 1988, psychologists Shelly Ta... more »
"Who Are You? How Do You Know?"
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep
your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see
what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go
without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what
you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your
character."
- Henry Rollins
continuum so fantastic
Wow lets get hot
lets take the signal
and jump it up
up to a place
where even the
most jaded
can recogize
some granite
if geology
is not were you mix
ok politics
just get it started
just ket it real
just recognize
that like a doctor
what you do
every day
means people
will be here
or politics rule
Bullshit Bullshit
Bullshit
hard and heavy
predomitates thouhg
only in your world
If you can find a majority
living in shit
you can rule the world
but mother earth
will give you ELboa
for abusing the rules
of which we are
making
everyday and with every birth
Dunedin hotel project death a symbol of the RMA
This is one we know about: a project stopped dead in its very expensive
tracks by council intransigence – a council exercising their absolute
powers under the Resource Management Act and Local Government Act, finally
frustrating a property owner beyond reason.
*Dunedin $100m waterfront hotel plans scrapped*
Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been scrapped and
the developers' partnership with the Dunedin City Council has descended
into acrimony.
Hotel developer Jing Song yesterday confirmed she had torn up a
memorandum of understanding with the council,... more »
Chet Raymo, “L'amor Che Move il Sole e L'altre Stelle”
*“L'amor Che Move il Sole e L'altre Stelle”*
by Chet Raymo
“Like many of us, I faithfully check APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day).
When this image popped open the other day it took my breath away. I sat
there gaping for five minutes.
*Click image for much larger size.*
Go to APOD. Drag the image to your desk-top. Open it and make it large
enough to fill your screen. Or at least click on the image here. You are
looking into the heart of the Great Orion Nebula, a gassy star-forming
region of the Milky Way Galaxy that appears to the unaided eye as a blurry
star in the scabbard of Or... more »
I want to be subersive
I want to be subersive
I really want to
do those things
that will change the world
to make you the one
that wants to cling
to some kind of love
based upon chemistry
but that is long dead
based upon a silicon society
that might as well in the real
world be dead
bits and bytes
and bandwidth
romance
we used to call it masturbation
but now its a romantic truth
I love your page so much
I want to expire
if you got a virus
and we could not connect
in the usual texting
of unbelievable wire
did you know that betty Sue
was only Sue
and her father
was Dick Cheney
and that how she got into Princeton
an... more »
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery Updates Day 37 April 113 , 2014 - PERTH : Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airline, meaning the batteries on the all-important black boxes may have finally died. ......MH370 searchers may stop listening for black boxes after 2 days without a ping & settle in for LONG seabed search ......... With no resolution of the missing plane on hand for the immediate future , banks / insurers / employers step up and give help during period of uncertainty ........ Diego Garcia a black site ? Alternative view to consider regarding ongoing Flight 370 Mystery !
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
New Straits Times .....
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The "news" and Southern Poverty Law Center pushing ANTI-SEMITE Story Down Our Throats Today
Everywhere I turn, I hear on the "news" about this ANTI-SEMITE who shot
some people in Kansas at two Jewish Centers. He killed two CHRISTIANS, but
that's another story.
How many people got killed today or in the last few days? Why is THIS story
being shoved down our throats? Be wary of any story that mentions: SOUTHERN
POVERTY LAW CENTER, ANTI-SEMITE, NEO-NAZI, SKINHEAD, HITLER, WHITE
SUPREMACIST. And this story has ALL those buzzwords!
The Southern Poverty Law Center, or AIPAC-SOUTH, is all about fomenting
anti-semitism and using sensationalizing stories like this to "suggest" ... more »
A People’s History of Egypt, Part 21, Section 2, 1992-2000
A 2001 Human Rights Watch report outlined the severe human rights
violations of the Mubarak regime between 1992 and 2000. By Bob Feldman |
The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob
Feldman's … finish reading
A People’s History of Egypt, Part 21, Section 2, 1992-2000
OMG, But They’re Breaking the Law!
They’re breaking the law! OMG! Society will break down!!
Ah, maybe not. Just look at these dangerous, anti-social rule-breakers…
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More dangerous rule-breakers here. [Hat tip Jim Matzger]
PS: I always figured there’s a great opportunity for rule-breaking holidays
around the US, heading around the country to break every state’s wei... more »
NSA Reporting Wins Pulitzer Prize to Dismay of Fascists
Fanatical Long Island Congressman Peter King, a supporter of the terrorist
wing of the Irish Republican Army erupted on Monday in yet another of his
trademark mouth-foaming tirades. Congressman King, the pride of New York's Second
Congressional District - whose residents insist on screwing America by
returning this lunatic piece of crap to office - threw a temper tantrum
directed at that hated concept of freedom of the press in denouncing the
Pulitzer Prize being awarded for reporting on the unconstitutional rampage
of the NSA Stasi. Launching into a Twitter frenzy, King called the... more »
He did not die to soon
Game of Thrones is a well told story. Has there ever been a character you
wanted dead more than the little prince? And this is a story just in the
middle.
Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk--Russia 1710 Treaty Belt'
MOHAWK-RUSSIA
1710 TREATY BELT
Posted on April 13, 2014
MNN. Apr. 13, 2014. In 1710 the four chiefs from the [Iroquois
Confederacy] Rotino’shonni:onwe went to the Court of Queen Anne in
London to make peace treaties with the 13 European monarchical families.
It was the first International Conference on World Peace called by our
people to make the same kind of peace treaties we had
Solitary Confinement Exhibition Plants Seed for Advocacy Among SULC Student Body
*Solitary Confinement Exhibition Plants Seed for Advocacy Among SULC
Student Body*
*Written for Angola 3 News by Arisa A. Banks *
*(3L Class Representative; Symposium Editor, Journal of Race, Gender, &
Poverty)*
The seed for advocacy was planted among the student body stirred by the
Solitary Confinement Exhibition, during 2014 Law Week activities at the Southern
University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Oliver B. Spellman Law Library’s Civil Rights Room was the site for the
exhibit throughout Law Week, March 17-21. Inspired by the remarkable story
of the Angola 3, thi... more »
Untitled
*Jeanie Riess on the lack of bus stop infrastructure at the Canal Street
transfer hub ~Gambit*
*Public Demo Aims to Improve CBD Transit Hub ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Owen Courreges: Freret bus line sacrificed to prop up new Loyola Avenue
streetcar numbers ~Uptown Messenger*
Women no longer Nwords of the world
I am out for a walk
a long way from nowhere
if that place exists
in this sandbox
I gotta take a pee
I got no choice
when you gotta go
you gotta go
is my phyisiand remorse
Someone doing the same
captures my event
they tweet it out
and its bytes ill spent
but if I were a women
it would be a different story
so lets just close down
this debate
if you are born a wonmen
on this planet you face
a different fate
and we can be lords of the jungle
or just be civilized
when it comes to women
lets always make the law on their
side
after all they have a magical ability
they can reproduce.
Business 360 17: Electricity and GDP Growth
* This is my article for Business 360, a monthly magazine published in
Kathmandu, Nepal, April 2014 issue.
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Electricity powers many economic activities in any society, from small
shops that give jobs to micro entrepreneurs to cranes that build huge and
tall buildings. Economies that rely more on human and animal power and
energy tend to be very poor because of low productivity while those that
use more machines that run on extensive electricity tend to be rich because
of higher productivity.
Below is an illustration of how selected Asian economies have expanded
their el... more »
US WANTS TO CREATE CHAOS ALONG RUSSIAN BORDERS
A top Obama admin official says Washington is considering arming Ukrainian
govt forces. RT's Gayane Chichakyan has the details. To find out more about
this development, Nebojsa Malic a foreign affairs expert and historian
joins us live.
Can't ask it often enough - what if Russia was arming people on our
Canadian or Mexican borders?
Labor Econ 13: The Term 'Jobless Growth' is Wrong
* This is my article in thelobbyist.biz last Friday.
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The term "jobless growth" is wrong. Growth means more or additional output
from (a) more workers and entrepreneurs employed, or (b) the same number of
workers and entrepreneurs producing more from the same input (ie, higher
productivity).
If (b) happens, then higher productivity people will create new jobs
elsewhere -- additional nanny for the kids, eating outside more often, jobs
for those in restos/bars/hotels.
Assuming that the same number of employed people, say 37 million, was
recorded this year as last year, it ... more »
Ukraine: A Thought Experiment
1. You run an authoritarian regime in a vast country beset with economic
problems, corruption, and ethnically-based insurgencies.
2. The nation on your doorstep - which formerly used to be an integral part
of the multinational state ran from your capital for 70 years - has been
intriguing with your long-term opponents in the international arena. Former
client states and allies are now under the umbrella of their transnational
military alliance and supra-national political project. There is ample
evidence they were materially supporting opposition social movements in
said neighbouri... more »
Why Democrats Won't Win Back The House In 2014-- Don't Blame Hillary
This morning, everyone was talking about Maggie Haberman's new piece for
*Politico*, Struggling Dems waiting for Hillary in 2014. While many
progressives grappled with the idea that the Democratic Party seems wedded
to a candidate who is another servant of Wall Street corporate interests,
there are other unpleasant implications to be considered. Short version:
the pathetic Beltway Democrats have turned off their base so badly that
they can't get them to come out and vote without luring them with a
celebrity. So… forget the midterms-- chances to take back the House
nonexistant/Sena... more »
Do A Lot of Evil? (Google Plays With the Corpse of the USA)
Yep. Believe it. That is how the free market works. Today. And, heckfire,
it may always work that way if we don't organize to defeat this money-force
now. Andrew Leonard speaks: Here’s how the free market works. Libertarian
think tanks get paid by private corporations to host conferences designed
to push industry-friendly regulation. It’s a beautiful thing to watch. The
emergence of
One Skull one Ear Redux
Do not know you at all. But I like you. Thats a rare skill.
Obviously you exploit it, but what makes you strange
is you have the intellectual heft
as proven by the way the worm turns
to back up your stuff
A subversive with a pedigree
we have no seen that in Canada
since Darcy McGee.
The problem as you as well are sure to analyze
what is the target
we got a lot of sheep
and sheep dogs
working the fields
making some kind of economic
activity beyond the comprehension
of a border collie
Someone sometime
has to against the stream row
when then know
we are on course to go over the falls
I inve... more »
Alan Waldman : ‘Dirty, Pretty Things’ with Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor is a movie you should see
Drama, exposé, thriller, and more, this is a powerful film that grabs and
holds you from beginning to surprise ending. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog
| April 14, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of …
finish reading Alan Waldman :
‘Dirty, Pretty Things’ with Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor is a movie you
should see
Towton: Englisc Culture Awakening
Living in the colonised part of the West Riding, it is easy to forget that
England is still alive. Within easy driving distance from the colonised
and ruined Pennines, is the beautiful village of Towton; a place which is a
part of the West Riding, no matter that it has been classified as North
Yorkshire by idiots who like to draw lines on maps with no respect for the
people who live in the places they defile.
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the Battle of Towton. The Battle
itself occurred on Palm Sunday 1461, which in that year was on the 29th
March, hence the anniversary bein... more »
One Skull one ear
Van Gogh left a legacy of one skull ear missing. Plus the colours in his
painting all bled into each other. You have to believe I want to monetize
my body parts.
The winners I despise have made their fortune keeping people down.
I have not a single upstream swirl of progressive air about me like Dyson
If Tesla charge their batteries from me they might have a one time world
record but I could not sustain that output.
Show me the money. All politics is local. You win a ground game by
dominating the space you work in. We have a surplus of very smart people
doing very dumb things. I wou... more »
Snowden revelations lead to Pulitzer Prizes for courageous media
A
Vindication for the Public: The Guardian and Washington Post Win the
Pulitzer Prize
April 14, 2014
By Edward Snowden
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/vindication-public-guardian-and-washington-post-win-pulitzer-prize
I
am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of
those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around
Maybe the Royals have some value after all?
I’m beginning to think the Royal Family may have some value after all.
Two recent incidents, relating to two damned big issues, have changed my
mind.
It was reported yesterday by Radio NZ1 that Prince William expressed
surprise when visiting Christchurch that the rebuilding in Christchurch is
taking so long.
Translated from diplomatic Royal-speak, which never ever even implies fault
or wrongdoing, you might read that as asking, “What the fuck have you been
doing all this time, and how come it’s taking so freaking long.” Which is
a fair question, Your Eminence – the correct ans... more »
Paul Craig Roberts,“Washington is Humanity’s Worst Enemy”
*“Washington is Humanity’s Worst Enemy”*
by Paul Craig Roberts
"How does Washington get away with the claim that the country it rules is a
democracy and has freedom? This absurd assertion ranks as one of the most
unsubstantiated claims in history.
There is no democracy whatsoever. Voting is a mask for rule by a few
powerful interest groups. In two 21st century rulings (Citizens United and
McCutcheon), the US Supreme Court has ruled that the purchase of the US
government by private interest groups is merely the exercise of free
speech. These rulings allow powerful corporate and fina... more »
Game of Thrones and the great illiteracy
Special interests no matter what their stripe despise knowledge. The pen
remains mightier than the sword but in the 21st century the movement to
fuse them together defies history. History is a broken record of science
replacing the siren song of lobbyist. While we move forward on many fronts
its remarkable how the lobbyists have reason if not in retreat under some
kind of he said she said control.
Vaccines are proven to wipe out disease that previously killed millions of
people and left millions more weakened for life. Yet today we have millions
of idiot parents refusing to vaccine... more »
Mexico: Strange Lights Over the Yucatan Peninsula
*Source: Planeta UFO and SIPSEDate: April 11, 2014*
*Mexico: Strange Lights Over the Yucatan Peninsula*
*By Jorge Moreno, SIPSE*
*Jose Peña of Valladolid reports an alleged UFO sighting that was
apparently confirmed by residents from nearby towns.*
MERIDA, Yucatan – Jose Peña Sosa of the city of Valladolid sent us a report
on a UFO sighting from “la Sultana de Oriented.” What is interesting about
the case is that subsequently, others in nearby communities (Ebtún and
Cuncunul) also reported similar events, leading one to think that it is the
same object.
Pena Sosa notes: “We saw so... more »
Ebenezer Scrooge loved his money so much that he slept with it. Now American corporations are doing the same thing. Instead of reinvesting their enormous riches (acrued with the help of insanely low taxes and large tax loopholes) and thus boosting the stagnant economy, these kleptocrats are letting their loot pile up just like Scrooge.
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A flood of cash is filling the coffers of Corporate America and nobody
else. (Photo by lightboxx/ Shutterstock)
*FEATURES » MARCH 24, 2014*
*Money, Money, Everywhere*
*In an age of disparity, corporate wealth is far from an indicator of
economic health.*
*BY REP. ALAN GRAYSON*
I read a number of finance-industry newsletters. I want to share with you a
recent excerpt from one of them. Here it is:
$1,265,836,000,000.
This is the amount of cash that S&P 500 companies (excluding banks and
other financial institutions) are currently sitting on. As of the b... more »
More from the NHS, the 'envy of the world'
'A pregnant woman with appendicitis died after a bungling trainee
surgeon
mistakenly removed one of her healthy ovaries, a tribunal heard today.'
Those poor people who live in countries that don't have socialised
medicine....
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2604464/Surgeons-face-misconduct-charges-death-pregnant-woman-unborn-baby-bungling-trainee-removed-ovary-instead-appendix.html
Argentina: Researching a UFO Crash in General Campos
*Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014Source: AIM Digital
(http://www.aimdigital.com.ar)*
*Argentina: Researching a UFO Crash in General Campos*
The VISION OVNI team is looking into an event that occurred in the late
1980s known as the “Campo Grande Crash” which caused great commotion in the
province of Entre Rios. The Director of the Comisión de Estudios del
Fenómeno Ovni de la República Argentina (CEFORA), Andrea Pérez Simondini,
added: “it was a resonant case, very near the town where governor Sergio
Uribarri served as intendant in 1985."
”
In a dialogue with this news agency, the rese... more »
Promise and Peril of Investing In Iraq, Interview with MENA Capitals’ Ali Albazzaz
Ali Albazzaz is a finance specialist focused on doing business in Iraq. He
is a consultant working with MENA Capital, an investment company that
focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, including Iraq. That country
has huge potential with its vast energy wealth along with huge needs after
decades of wars and sanctions. This has attracted a wide variety of
companies interested in developing its oil and gas sector along with
rebuilding the nation in general. Unfortunately the rebirth of the
insurgency might scare off foreign money. To discuss the promise and peril
of Iraq is A... more »
Pulitzer Prizes announced at 3!
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014*
*Waiting for Rosenthal:* The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today
at 3 PM Eastern.
Around here, that amounts to a case of “Waiting for Rosenthal”—waiting for
*Elisabeth* Rosenthal, who produced the most unusual journalistic work of
the past year.
Full disclosure—we don’t even know if Rosenthal has been nominated for a
Pulitzer. Nominations aren’t announced until the awards are given.
But last year, Rosenthal penned the voluminous PAYING TILL IT HURTS series
for the New York Times. Back in August, we posted a run-down of her first
three front-page r... more »
An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Self-Promotion
This week’s installment of An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week concerns
self-promotion and self-citation differences between men and women. The
idea for this installment came to me while I was having a celebratory drink
with K. Chad Clay and Jim Piazza at ISA. We were celebrating our recent
Political Research Quarterly article (also coauthored
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“US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study”
*“US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study”*
by Eric Zuesse
“A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal
Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead
an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study’s
opening question, "Who governs? Who really rules?" in this country, is:
"Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for
theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of
the American public actually have little influence over the policies our
... more »
RISE UP Video! This is perfect considering everything going on and the Celestial Events this month. Taking Our Power Back!
This is a Great Video and is perfect considering everything going on this
month, including the 'Grand Cross' and Eclipses too. This is about Truth
of us being enslaved by those in Control. We are the Ones who need to Save
ourselves! It is through a change of our own consciousness and
understanding that we have the Power! We are the Power! Through our
changing the way we think and stop
Giveaway: Tickets to BYU Women's Conference
Today I am teaming up with some wonderful bloggers to bring you a chance to
win tickets to BYU Women's Conference.
[image: giveaway]
BYU Women's Conference is a two day event held in Provo, Utah where tens
of thousands of women come to be uplifted and inspired. The two days are
filled with classes that each touch on a different subject that may be
something that you are going through in your life or need some help with.
There are classes ranging from depression, to tips to make your marriage
more successful to learning how to share your religion through social
media. There really is... more »
“Historic! Feds Forced to Surrender to American Citizens”
*“Historic! Feds Forced to Surrender to American Citizens”*
by Infowars.com
“In an epic standoff that Infowars reporter David Knight described as being
like “something out of a movie,” supporters of Nevada cattle rancher Cliven
Bundy advanced on a position held by BLM agents despite threats that they
would be shot at, eventually forcing BLM feds to release 100 cattle that
had been stolen from Bundy as part of a land grab dispute that threatened
to escalate into a Waco-style confrontation.”
- http://
www.infowars.com/historic-feds-forced-to-surrender-to-american-citizens/
- https://ww... more »
Thorium free at last?
It seems so much better than Uranium. Is this the greatest resource to be
held back ever? Watch for the 100 MPG carburetor to be revealed next week!
Full speed ahead with this tech. BTW Bill Gates for one is all in!
Reading The Signs
Over the weekend, voters -- in Calgary and Kitimat -- made two important
decisions. Tim Harper writes:
In one, Conservatives in Calgary’s Signal Hill riding finally rid
themselves of a six-term embarrassment named Rob Anders, handing the
nomination to a former provincial cabinet minister, Ron Liepert, in a
family feud for the ages.
In the other, the voters of Kitimat, B.C., who have been promised untold
economic riches for their support of the $6.5-billion Northern Gateway
pipeline project took a look at the gifts offered by energy giant Enbridge
and thumbed their nose at the pro... more »
Have Mainers Finally Had It With Koch-Addicted Republicans?
More than a few people have been asserting that Republican Governor Paul
LePage, knowing he's already lost his reelection fight, is now only working
for an audience of two: Texas neo-fascists David and Charles Koch. The
clownish LePage doesn't want to go back to working at a Marden's Surplus
and Salvage and he's counting on the Koch brothers to set him up with some
kind of situation inside their Empire. That would certainly explain his
vetoes Friday evening of two bills very popular with Mainers-- and very
unpopular with Kochs.
Terry Morrison's LD 1252, *An Act to Improve Maine’s ... more »
METRO | Robust UT-Austin campus coalition fights corporatized ‘shared services’ plan
Event: Stop Shared Services Rally Sponsor: UT Save Our Community Coalition
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Time: Noon Place: South Mall, University of
Texas at Austin By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 AUSTIN —
A … finish reading *METRO* | Robust UT-Austin campus coalition fights
corporatized ‘shared services’ plan
Hey, Skippy, this is how it's done.
A picture of voters lining up for 6 hours to vote in the 2012 election in
Democrat-heavy Miami-Dade Florida is accompanied by the caption :
"New rule prohibits voters in Miami-Dade from using the restroom, no matter
how long the line." h/t Kev
Apparently the decision to close *all* restrooms was a direct response to a
request from a disability rights lawyer regarding the accessibility of
polling place bathrooms to those with disabilities.
So now people with disabilities are not being especially singled out for
discrimination and everyone is free to choose between voting and pe... more »
Ukraine in Crisis- The disappearing country
Interesting title from the Economist- came across this one last night,
saved it for today
The journalist even includes this SLOVIANSK, UKRAINE (for now)
Before we get to the economist a brief digression
I actually watched some of the UN session last night. Live. Unfortunately I
missed Churkin's statement and absolutely would not watch Samantha Power-
not wanting to take in her evil energy
France, UK & Australia were absolutely on the same message. Some language
used was almost identical.
Same talking points. Same blather. I expect Ms Power would have talked
along the same line and l... more »
Ping Ping MH370?
Is this just another red herring in this mystery. The pings give cover to
the official story, as weird as that is.
YOUR $$$ PAYS FOR ENDLESS WAR
Today is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Events are being
held all over the planet to call for an end to militarism and for global
disarmament.
Money for human and environmental needs not war.
You can find much more about this *here*
Yes We Have No Banana's
Monocultures are dangerous to human existence. Politically, ethnically,
religiously and most important food. ThinkAboot that when considering GMO
foods.
View From Princess's Front Door
Photo by John Carroll--Delmas, Port-au-Prince (April 13, 2014)
ThinkingAboot oily bits -Climate Change
*Climate Change, Tar Sands and non binding referendums* - Kitamat BC is
ground zero in the Climate Change cost benefit experiment. Despite the
overwhelming corporate and political forces thrown at a local group
organized by a postman, the Tar Sands lost 40% to 60%. This is the end of
the Gateway Pipeline, maybe Keystone as well.
All I have read about the North American Energy Sector is how fracking has
changed the equation. Yet despite this flood of new supply, consumer prices
for natural gas and oil continue to soar. Ironically for the tar sands its
a snake eating its tail. Can'... more »
Thinkingaboot tidbit - Managed Democracy
*Canadian Free Elections Act * - an Orwellian three act play. In USA its
the real deal Republicans think they can suppress the vote with a slickness
that will bear fruit. Surely Harper knew this was not on in Canada. So he
set up a straw man called vouching. In the end he will coincide vouching
and try and slip in the true anti democratic vote management measures.
Qualified privilege
Merit Consultants International Ltd. v. Chandler, 2014 BCCA 121:
[29] Qualified privilege, however, is not limited to the contents of
documents filed in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. As Brown writes (
*supra*, at §13.1), the privilege protects a communication made by a person
"in the discharge of some public or private duty, or for the purpose of
pursuing or protecting some private interest, provided it is made to a
person who has some corresponding interest in receiving it." As Brown also
observes, the privilege does not extend to statements that go beyond the
"e... more »
NASA Plans: A Warp Drive, Visit to Alpha Centauri
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
A triple star system associated with Alpha Centauri is now targeted for a
visit by NASA! The triple-star system is composed of a binary system - two
stars akin to the Sun --and another, larger and hotter star, c
alled Alpha Centauri A. Two other stars are smaller, cooler. Alpha Centauri
B is itself orbited by a red dwarf and is more distant. A third star may or
may not be a part of the "systems". Called Proxima Centauri, it is just
4.22 light-years from Earth --the closest star outside our Solar System.
Recall that our own sun is a star.
Thi... more »
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*They want me silenced. Brandeis complies*
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has just released (as of 4:30 p.m. E.T. Wednesday, April 9)
this statement in response to Brandeis University’s decision to rescind her
invitation to receive an honorary degree:
“Yesterday Brandeis University decided to withdraw an honorary degree they
were to confer upon me next month during their Commencement exercises. I
wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies
that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I was
completely shocked when President Frederick Lawrence c... more »
The Paradox of Race in the U.S.
The Paradox of Race in the U.S.. via The Paradox of Race in the U.S..Filed
under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Thinking aboot tidbits -Ukraine
*Ukraine* - Looks like a soft Russian takeover of the East. As I have said
before you do not tug on Supermans cape, you don't piss into the wind, and
you do not start a land war in central Asia. Neocons never learn.
Unfortunately when they mis play the Great Game everybody else suffers.
Follow the money, who wins from High Energy Prices? Who wins from arm
sales? Who wins from Global divisions?
The Word
The speed with which decisions are made by you is an indication of which
part of yourself you are listening to. So many times the thoughts used to
direct your life and monitor your activities are thoughtless regurgitations
of things you were taught by your elders in a very different time.
Habit is the reason so many of us end up unhappy. It sort of takes over
and replaces conscious choice with behavior that does not serve you or help
to attain any of your goals.
Habits are a form of addiction and we continue them not because they bring
us any pleasure but because we ca... more »
Stalinist-leaners reject Chait speech!
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014*
*We’ve seen this gong-show before:* Last week, Jonathan Chait wrote a piece
for New York magazine about some aspect of race.
We found it quite underwhelming. We didn’t really get his point. We didn’t
think his work was especially sharp.
We thought Chait made one important new point. On the down side, we thought
he buried that one naughty point under a mountain of feathers.
What was Chait’s new point? Midway through his lengthy piece, he discussed
an obvious problem in our political discourse—the lazy, low-IQ use of the
R-bomb which has come to typify low-IQ... more »
God, Guns and Hitler
I have certain misgivings about hate crime laws, but we're reminded this
morning -- the eve of *Pesach *or The Passover, and a week before Hitler's
birthday, that people who belong to hate-based organizations and creeds,
who post virulent hate messages and calls for extermination on-line, need
their constitutional right to keep and bear arms infringed.
I feel quite protective of our guaranteed right to free speech and our
right to think what we think, but speech that incites to violence, that
creates a mortal danger to the public, is something else and that's been
established for a ... more »
Getting To Know You Questions with Tony's Pizza
“This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate
Media Group™ and Tony’s Pizza, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia
#tonyspizzeria http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV.”
My absolute favorite weekend activity is to have a pizza and game night
with friends. There are few things better than good friends, fun and good
food. We especially love this kind of date night when we are just getting
to know another couple. It is low pressure and with Tony's Pizza from
Walmart, it is easy to throw together.
My only complaint is that sometimes when you are playing inte... more »
THE 77 PERCENT CONFUSION: A famous statistic!
*MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014*
*Part 1—Three unflattering lessons:* Over the weekend, a famous statistic
got lots of play in America’s leading newspapers.
On Saturday morning, the Washington Post ran a mordant cartoon by the
mordant cartoonist Margulies:
In the cartoon, a TV screen announces the fact that Stephen Colbert will
replace David Letterman. A TV viewer is shown saying this:
“CBS could have gotten Tina Fey for 77 percent of what he’s getting!”
In this way, a famous statistic was reinforced again. The cartoon’s message
was obvious and quite familiar: Women get paid 77 percent ... more »
Clark's answers on RCI role don't add up
Christy Clark needs to provide better answers about her previously
undisclosed role with RCI Capital Group.
In 2007, Clark signed a contract to become founding chair and director of
an RCI subsidiary that hoped to win multimillion-dollar contracts to bring
international students to Canadian universities. The universities would get
high-paying students; RCI would get money for recruiting the students in
Asia; and Clark would get finder’s fees and four per cent of revenues.
Since becoming premier, Clark has promoted RCI, which collects fees for
arranging foreign investments in Canada, o... more »
The Little-Known Obamacare COBRA Catch-22
When I'm negotiating severance packages for employees, many times employers
will offer to pay a month or more of COBRA payments. COBRA is the law that
says employers have to let employees who lose their jobs stay on the
company's insurance for up to 18 months as long as the employee pays 100%
of the premium. Those premiums can be huge: $1,000 or more sometimes.
Getting the employer to pick up some of the premiums can be a huge benefit.
Until now, that is.
Find out about the problem I found that occurs if you lose your job after
open enrollment by reading my article at AOL Jobs.You h... more »
April 14: Z-Z-Z-Z-...
It must take very special minds to produce, year after year, a newspaper
that says nothing at all. Today, I read the paper through breakfast, with
nothing to do on most pages but look at the pictures. We had our second or
third story with pictures of the Speed Car Show, all three stories and the
pictures pretty much the same.
We must be at - oh - our thirtieth or fortieth story on the Malaysian
flight, all of them saying the same thing - nothing.
I'm sure that Jim Flaherty was a nice guy, and everybody liked him. But do
we really need all those obituaries disguised as news and colum... more »
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*Who Will Pay To Restore Land Damaged By Oil and Gas? You or Oil and Gas?
~LEAN *
*“Pancake” Could be on Saints’ Menu in Draft’s Early Rounds ~HarahanWhoDat,
Saints Tailgate*
*Landrieu looking for three tax increases to pay for consent decrees,
pensions ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*State employee or Jindal campaign worker? ~C.B.Forgotston*
*Local teens team up to organize peace rally against violence ~WWLTV *
*Mid-City residents & businesses raising money to install crime cameras
~WVUE*
*TUCP Direction Presents: A lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson*
*N.O., BR make list of nation's to... more »
Frank Sinatra Contest-- The Best Is Yet To Come… For South Dakota
Today Blue America is launching an effort on behalf of prairie populist
Rick Weiland who's running for the open blue Senate seat in South Dakota.
With two Republicans running against the GOP Establishment pick *in the
general election*, this should be a great opportunity to elect a dedicated
tribune of working families in what the DC pundits see as a tough race. One
Republican is an ex-U.S. Seantor, Larry Pressler, and the other is a Tea
Party extremist, Gordon Howie (no relation) who switched his registration
so he could run as an independent.
This week, Rick released his first ... more »
Corruption in a Vacuum Tube
In today's disappointing New York Times column, Paul Krugman correctly
blames the predatory financial industry for "undermining our economy and
our society."
But he refrains from blaming the political system in general and the Obama
administration in particular, even though "there is a clear correlation
between the rise of modern finance and America’s return to Gilded Age
levels of inequality." Instead, he writes that "we" are giving vast amounts
of public money to the same people who screw the little guy every single
minute of every single day (the words after "we" are mine, not K... more »
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*Green tea CAN make you clever: Drink improves memory and could help treat
dementia (?)*
*A very small study (N=12!) using an odd measure of cognitive functioning.
Journal article "Green tea extract enhances parieto-frontal connectivity
during working memory processing" here*
Green tea has always been hailed as the healthiest hot drink of choice, but
new research has found it can also be good for your mind. Scientists claim
green tea enhances several cognitive functions, in particular our working
memory.
The new findings suggest that green tea could be used to treat dementia an... more »
Bundy Ranch Updates - April 14 , 2014 --Sen. Harry Reid: Bundy Dispute ‘Not Over’ ....... BLM Flip Flops: “No Deal” on Dropping Actions Against Bundy .....
Sen. Harry Reid: Bundy Dispute ‘Not Over’
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“We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk
away from it. So it’s not over”
*Mikael Thalen*Infowars.com
April 14, 2014
After remaining silent for days, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid made comments
regarding the ongoing dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and
rancher Cliven Bundy today, accusing the Bundy family of violating the law... more »
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “You and Me”
Moody Blues, “You and Me”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UZ5oVYmb8
Musical Interlude: Michael Bolton, “When I'm Back On My Feet Again”
Michael Bolton, “When I'm Back On My Feet Again”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=114QK3SVqyk
Giveaway: KitchenAid Mixer
There are few things more essential to a cook who loves to bake than a
great stand mixer. Kitchen Aids are so incredible that my sister who
decorates cakes actually has two! Today I’ve teamed up with a few of my
favorite blog buddies to bring one of these amazing mixers to you one of
you!
This giveaway is brought to you by the 10 amazing bloggers pictued above.
You can check out all of their blogs by clicking on their photos. Then
enter for you chance to win a KitchenAid 5qt mixer of your very own!
Entering is super simple. Just follow the instructions on the rafflecopter
below! The... more »
Musical Interlude: Brule', “Stomp Dance”
Brule', “Stomp Dance”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_l2Zt_um6M
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Spirit Moves”
2002, “Spirit Moves”
“This is a video from the DVD/CD set by 2002 "A Word in the Wind", with
performance clips of the band layered into the composition. The song is
called "Spirit Moves". It features Randy Copus on guitar (Stratocaster) and
Pamela on her transverse flute. It has a hypnotic, sultry, jazz feel.”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwGjLx5bOo&feature=related
Bitcoin Updates April 14 , 2014 -- BTC-e Back Online Following DDoS Attack .... Facebook targets financial services...... CCN Week in Review: Heartbleed, Sidechains, Bitcoin Investments, and More !
BTC-e Back Online Following DDoS
Attack
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*BTC-e, Exchanges, News*
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BTC-e was down briefly on Sunday, following a powerful distributed denial
of service (DDoS) attack against its servers.
DDoS attacks against bitcoin exchanges have gained notoriety since the ‘massive
and concerted’ attack which targeted multiple organisations earlier this
year.
However, in the current climate of uncertainty even a harmless attack can
be misinterpreted, with speculation spreading like wildfire on s... more »
Syria Update April 12 , 2014 - Losing badly against Assad's forces and with in-fighting threatening to derail the whole Rebel scheme - we see another attempt to foist a chemical weapon attack in Syria ( allegedly by Assad forces ) ...... With the US stock market going sideways , Ukraine going sideways , Iran slowing winning the nuclear quest negotiation chess game , Afghanistan and Iraq already sideways - can the sense the need for a distraction ? Heck , the Bundy Ranch family just chumped the Feds in Nevada - not even Charlie Sheen had times as bad as these ! Recall we have seen this movie before , not even a year ago regarding Syria !
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/syrian-jets-hit-rebel-bastions-near-damascus-2014413162921799697.html
Syrian jets hit rebel bastions near Damascus
Fierce air assault reported near the capital even as President Assad
declares war has turned in government's favour.
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Online footage showed highly destructive barrel bomb attacks on Daraya,
southwest of Damascus [YouTube]
Syrian jet fighters are reported... more »
Musical Interlude: Runrig, “Abhainn An T-Sluaigh” (“The Crowded River”)
Runrig, “Abhainn An T-Sluaigh” (“The Crowded River”)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFid6nXZpg
Gardasil Reality Check Denmark: Two Shots Were Too Many For My Daughter by Lone Frederiksen
Karina
Gardasil: Two shots were too many for my daughter
By Lone Frederiksen
Copenhagen, Denmark
*Karina is now at the stage that she does not want to go and see any more
doctors, attend hospital appointments, have blood tests taken as she feels
no good will come of it, they simply have no idea how to treat her.*
Let me begin my story by saying that my 24 year old daughter Karina was a
very active girl prior to receiving the HPV vaccine Gardasil. She loved to
swim and would do this at least 5 to 7 times per week and her sessions
would last for around two hours. She had to give... more »
Andrei Linde: universe or multiverse?
Some time ago, before the BICEP2 discovery (in July 2012, weeks after the
Higgs discovery), Andrei Linde gave an 82-minute talk at SETI, a center to
search for ETs.
Because Linde and his theories – even some more specific theories – seem to
be greatly vindicated by the BICEP2 announcement, it may be interesting to
listen to his more general ideas about the subject. Linde is a pretty
entertaining speaker – the audience is laughing often, too.
He starts with jokes about the word "principle" and comments about the
cosmological principle, the uniformity principle, the big bang theo... more »
Press Release - KUMIKO by Mike Philbin - third G3 Whistleblower novel
*not finished cover art*
Tandem (G3 whistleblower novel #1, out now)
Watcher (G3 whistleblower novel #2, being written)
Kumiko (G3 whistleblower novel #3, hm... there's no reason why not)
*SELFIETERVIEW:*
What's this book about, Mike?
*Kumiko's a third G3-whistleblower novel that'll be all sorts of exciting
and flavourful, and weird too. It'll tie all the G3-nonsense together, with
any luck.*
Any chance of a sneak peek?
*I'm still working on Watcher (G3 #2) and Reaper (Free Planet #3), through
2014, but Kumiko (2015) will expand upon the spooky G3-group's octopus-like
g... more »
Corporatocracy and the illusion of Democracy
Corporatocracy and the illusion of Democracy
*Written By Mark Taliano*
“Freedom” and “democracy” are useful words, but very bankrupt: useful
because they serve to advance imperial/corporate agendas, bankrupt because
they are empty vessels perennially co-opted.
When illegal coups are orchestrated to overthrow democratically elected
governments in Venezuela, Honduras, Ukraine, or elsewhere, the lies of
freedom and democracy are seamlessly attached to the criminal acts.
*“Freedom” and “democracy” are still cloaking, tacitly or overtly, mass
murder and genocide in Iraq, a... more »
Join The Stop The TPP Twitter Storm on Tuesday April 15, 2014
[image: Foto: Join us every TUESDAY for the TPP Twitter Storm & FB Blitz to
create awareness! Tuesdays at 6pm PDT/8pm CDT/9pm EDT. Who opposes the TPP?
Everyone except giant corporations, like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and the
politicians they own. The TPP is a TOXIC TRANS-PACIFIC "trade" agreement
that puts corporate wealth over human health. Save the date and join us
Tuesday night! Tweets will be available on Tuesday. Follow:
http://Twitter.com/TPPMediaMarch SIGN THE PETITION:
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-the-media-it-s-time-to-expose-the-tpp
Learn more and print out... more »
Fukushima Plant Conditions
Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
Today the cam views appear relatively ordinary, although heat can be
seen
streaming up from the remains of unit 2.
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A Prematurely Old Man
Stephen Harper likes to boast that seniors are his most loyal supporters.
You'll notice that he has very little to say about the young. That's
because he really isn't concerned about them. Take job creation --
something for which the prime minister claims a special talent. Carol Goar
writes:
A government bent on lowering the living standard of Canada’s next
generation couldn’t do a much better job than Stephen Harper and his
colleagues have done.
The Prime Minister and his high-octane employment minister, Jason Kenney ,
have thrown one barrier after the next in front of young j... more »
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*Astrophysics and climate*
*For some time I have been aware that there are substantial challenges to
the conventional picture of the sun as a gas ball. I am also aware that
the "electric universe" theory has been gaining ground. As I already track
social science, medical science and climate science, however, I have
refused to add issues in astrophysics to my plate. Just this once however
I am putting up below something from the "Thunderbolt" project -- which is
the organization principally promoting the electric universe theory*
Is Kirchhoff’s Law Valid?
Kirchhoff’s law of the... more »
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH --DOWN WITH COPS!
*Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
My comments are inspired by a story that Jay Diamond had posted on
Facebook:
Federal investigators have opened an inquiry into the tragic case of a high
school student in Bastrop County, Tex., who suffered severe brain damage
and nearly died last fall after a deputy sheriff shocked him with a Taser,
a high voltage electronic weapon.
In North Carolina, civil rights lawyers have filed a complaint with the
Justice Department, charging the Wake County school system with violating
the constitutional rights of minority children by subjecting them to... more »
Ukraine: The Anti-Maidan Begins
*April 14, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - It was predicted that the
regime in Kiev would not last long, and that almost immediately there would
be a backlash. First, opposition would come from eastern Ukraine where
Ukrainians stand by their nation’s long historical, linguistic, cultural,
economic, and strategic ties to Russia. Then opposition would come from
western Ukraine, where people, despite their perceived anti-Russian
sentiments and initial support for the “Euromaidan” protests, would find
the corrupt client regime in Kiev intolerable as it integrated the nation
into the EU... more »
BREAKING: Su, Hsieh, drop out of DPP Chairmanship race + stuff
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*Me at the historic Ta-an train station outside Houli on Fumei Road. The
station and area are being developed as tourism area.*
Today both Su Tseng-cheng and Frank Hsieh announced that they would not run
for the DPP Chairmanship position. This leaves it open for Tsai Ing-wen. I
hope, against hope, that the DPP has had an attack of sense and will
appoint one person to run the party while another runs as its Presidential
candidate.
Yesterday this very frustrating interview of Taiwan expert Shelley Rigger
by Jeffery Wasserstrom appeared in Dissent Quarterly. Her heart... more »
MMP = More Marriages of Convenience?
I can’t think of a fancy-arsed acronym to describe it, but MMP obviously
stands for More Marriages of Convenience. The InterMana Party sort-of
agreement, should one ever be made and either party (or agreement) stay
around long enough to make a difference, is exactly the sort of marriage of
convenience the MMP laws, rules and environment not only makes possible,
but positively encourages.
Why that should surprise media commentators says more about media
commentators than it does about either Mr and Mrs Harawira or Mr DotCon.
Regardless of what the media commentators think, the rule... more »
Is South Carolina Ready For A Democratic Party Take-Over?
We've been talking about convicted cocaine dealer/ex-Treasurer of South
Carolina Tom Ravenel ® and how he is hoping to pivot from ex-con and BRAVO
sit com/reality show star to anti-Lindsey Graham general election Senate
candidate in November. If he does, he's likely to throw the election to the
Democratic candidate. You don't think so? Progressive outsider Jay Stamper
has hard the Democratic nomination all to himself until Ravenel made it
public he was going to run. At that point, the Democratic state Party
Establishment got behind hopeless conservative state Senator Brad Hutto wh... more »
LGNZ’s Alternative Funding Mechanisms Can Get Stuffed
I note councils around the country are at it again to get someone,anyone,
to pay through the nose for their borrowing and over-spending. They call
this “looking for alternative funding mechanisms.”
Basing rates on property values alone may soon no longer be sustainable as
the sole taxation form for many councils, says Local Government New Zealand
(LGNZ).
Why will basing rates on property values alone no longer be sustainable as
the sole taxation form for many councils? The answer is as simple as its
corollary conclusion is obvious: because they’re spending too damned much
and do... more »
Meet & Greet (#MtaGt) - April - Jen & Joey Go Green
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The evidence is in, and it confirms what a lot of us (on the left) were
saying throughout this bloody massacre. Because as hard as it is for some
to admit it, the US is an empire in search of control of resources in order
to continue running it. And, therefore: Assad did not do it, we did it. And
everyone who is anyone knew it all along. And the constant pose as the
self-proclaimed,
Equality versus Liberty
Googling around to set up that Piketty post, below, I came up with good old Tibor
Machan talking to John Stossel about
NB: Tibor comes on about 8 minutes in, after Bob Beckel argues against
“ripping off” the poor by allowing a “large gap.”
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Taiwan wants Modi in the election, according to the Economic Times, from
whence this came.
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Weekend in the hills: the Miaoli 54-1 and Dongchi Road
*On the 54-1 above the tombs.*
Two days of excellent sunny weather. I decided to see what the Miaoli 54-1
is like and have a long-anticipated meet up with Scott E. Click on READ
MORE as always...
*ROUTE NOTES*: To find the Miaoli 54-1, follow Zhongzheng Road north out of
Jhuolan town. Soon it will become the 54-1. The road rises ever more
steeply through the cemetery just over a kilometer to the top of the ridge.
After resting at the temple there, and taking in the great views over the
Jhuolan basin, you spend the remaining 7 kilometers of this road rolling
through farms and past ... more »
Meanwhile in Egypt . . .
*Field Marshall Abdel al-Sisi*: *Things are just working out for him!*
*by Ken*
Since just at this second the right-wing mental defectives who specialize
in hysterically bellicose mentally defective foreign-policy crackpottery
aren't getting much traction from the "Who lost Egypt?" motif (not while
the "Who lost Syria?" and "Who wussed out on Iran?" and "Who's losing
Ukraine?" motives make for eye-catchinger loony tunes), Egypt has sort off
dropped over the side of the flat earth.
So things must be going pretty well there, right? Yeah, right.
Ian Welsh wrote about Egypt the other ... more »
Untitled
*Broken system produces 11-day season for recreational anglers ~Coastal
Conservation Association*
Piketty: Egalité, Fraternité–but Let’s Have No More of that Liberté
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You may have heard of a French fellow called Thomas Piketty, called “the
most important economist today,” whose book *Capital (in the Twenty-First
Century) *has been launched across the intellectual firmament with the sort
of impetus not seen since the days of *Silent Spring, The Population Bomb*– or *The
Spirit Level*. The book is
[image: Handout]695-pages of rollicking neo-Marxist agitprop against
inequality and in favour of massive new taxes on the rich. The book is a
sensation on the left, a nuclear target for the right, and an endless
battlefield for economic... more »
US is looking into new Syria chemical weapons claim
Is all this going on because today is the 13th?
The ‘chemical weapons’ as manipulative tactic? I had hoped would go away,
is not.
Today there are claims of a chlorine attack. Why would the Syrian
government bother with this, when the Syrian Army has the upper hand almost
everywhere- If chlorine was used, again, only the NATO mercs have anything
at all to gain from doing this *Washington Post is running with the news*
The United States said Sunday that it was looking into claims of a new
chemical weapons attack in Syria, after rebels and the government traded
accusations over the us... more »
Easter Week: Its beginnings
It’s Easter Week – a time, since human cultural life began up in the
northern hemisphere, when men and women came together to celebrate.
To celebrate what?
Why, to celebrate spring, of course. The end of winter; the onset of new
life; of fertility and rebirth; the end of winter’s cold and darkness and
the start of longer days, more sun, summer harvests and a time when living
is easy. Or, at least, easi*er. *
Imagine this week thousands of years ago, long before lighting and heating
and modern refrigeration and all the first world delights and problems of
today, back when the owne... more »
Musical Interlude: Native American, “Ghost Dance- Power Drums, Spirit Pride”
Native American, “Ghost Dance- Power Drums, Spirit Pride”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYorIKf5L0c
Turn it *UP*!
Satire: “Nation Stunned To Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago”
*“Nation Stunned To Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Millions of Americans were in a state of
shock this past week after learning that Congress had accomplished
something fifty years ago. Although the incident was widely reported
throughout the week, the revelation that Congress had achieved something
positive and substantial for the country a half century ago left many
incredulous and baffled.
Adding to their disbelief were reports that the accomplishment came as the
result of collaboration between a Democr... more »
UOO to CEA: How Can We Help?
Read more at PegwithPen!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the
Chalk Face
The People vs. BLM: Liberty defeats govt. tyranny as feds release all cattle at Bundy Ranch
( there has been tons of stories breaking in the last few days about the
Bundy Ranch / BLM situation . . the one below kind of sums things up at
this point . . I am also posting a playlist below that sort of shows
recent developments, although there has been Live Feeds being streamed from
there by Pete Santilli (imo a potential FBI CoIntelPro provocateur) and
Infowars . . anyway, the main reason that there was a fed stand-down may
well be that it has been exposed that the scum Harry Reid is having the
area cleared due to a huge land gift of the area in question to the Chinese ... more »
Russia requests UNSC Meeting Tonight.Ukraine Military Op- Criminal
*Following on Ukraine ordering a military operation against the
pro-federation protestors-*
*Update 2 in the post **Ukraine- Conflict, casualties, building seizures,1
MIA Oligarch & Updates*
*Additional info here- Ukraine to deploy troops "in anti-terror" Operation*
The article linked above was initially headlined -*Ukraine special forces
sent to eastern city.*
Then changed to "anti-terror"
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-04-13/ukraine-special-forces-sent-to-eastern-city
Perhaps a bit too much was given away with that headline?
*Anti-terror means oppression and the only att... more »
Republicans Are Still Obstructing Judicial Nominations
Just before adjourning for another vacation on Friday, the Senate finally
voted to end the obstructionist right-wing filibuster against Michelle
Friedland, who had been nominated for a seat on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on August 1, 2013. She was rated unanimously
"well qualified" by the American Bar Association. In January the Senate
Judiciary Committee voted, by a wide bipartisan margin, 14-3, to forward
the nomination on to the full Senate. But Miss McConnell and the other
poutraged extremists have been doing everything they could to clock her and
... more »
vox.com: PARCC Tests Are “Working”!
On April 11, 2014, vox.com, a supposedly a “data-driven news site” started
this month (April 2014) by Ezra Klein, posted this propagandastic
wonder regarding Partnership for Assessment for College and Careers (PARCC)
field testing. Note that field testing does not begin to touch the
magnitude of actual PARCC testing designed for grades K-12 (see
here and here and here), quite the […]
The Dome of the Rock aka The third holiest site in Islam in disrepair in 1954
http://youtu.be/NS3jQ4YlQy0
Odd how when under Muslim control the Dome of the Rock was in such
disrepair, could it be the case that it only became important to Muslims
when it came under Jewish control?
military propaganda at sports events reaches new extremes: continuous recruitment ads at baseball games
I've recently returned from a lovely trip to Boston, filled with so many of
my favourite things: friends, family, books, and baseball.
I love Fenway Park, and I'm always happy to be there. On this trip, we saw
three great games, two of them wins, so I was thrilled. The games were
marred by only one thing: nearly constant propaganda for the US military.
This is not an exaggeration.
Throughout Fenway Park, as in many sports venues, monitors show a TV feed
of the action on the field. Right now, between innings, the Fenway Park
monitors show a continuous feed of advertising for the Un... more »
The Mounting Costs of the Ongoing Neocon Infestation
Like the cockroach the American neoconservative ideologue is the ultimate
survivor. Despite having been what appeared to be thoroughly routed and
exposed as dangerous cranks and crazies in charge of big things for their
disastrous Iraq fiasco – the likes of Perle, Feith, Libby, Wolfowitz and
other luminaries were sent backing after the first Bush term – they are now
resurgent and ready to seize power to complete the work of the Project For
the New American Century (PNAC). Having retrenched and now integrated into
the US power structure, in particular at the State Department, embedd... more »
The Experiment: Doomed to Fail
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There is a tendency as human to reach first and ask later. By reach, what
is referred to here is any and all action that pushes the known standards.
We like to go further than man has gone before and so we do – *in every
possible way.*
This habit of pushing the edge of the envelope is one of the
characteristics that was not bred into man by anyone else; it is who man
is. Yet it has become his most dominant and desirable trait.
Without much assistance man has accomplished a great deal. This is because
of your tenacity and refusal to succumb to limits. All ... more »
Making Ukraine Safe for Corporate Vultures
Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland Promises Ukraine Loot to Corporate Vultures
The corrupt US state-corporate media has been making hay out of the ongoing
vilification of Russian president Vladimir Putin, particularly to firmly
affix the devil horns to his head in presenting a false narrative on events
in Ukraine. While there is no reference or actual history of events
presented to offer perspective the selling of the looming Russian invasion
as well as Putin’s restoration of the old Soviet Empire is as much a con
job as that restoration of the Islamic Caliphate in pushing the phony war... more »
Nexus - Ground Zero – Nuclear Demolition of the World Trade Center.
Ground Zero – Nuclear Demolition of the World Trade Center.
An improved English version of the scandalous article from the NEXUS German
magazine.
*The third truth about September 11 (2001)*
*The official story of September 11th (2001) is a bag of lies and this
seems to be a proven fact within communities outside the mainstream. What
really did happen? A new series of revelations by a former member of Soviet
nuclear intelligence has shocked even those who believed they had a clear
view behind the curtain.* [read the rest of the accusation @ Khalezov 2014]
Yup, Dmitri Khalezov h... more »
Lead Now's Petition
So, not too long ago, "Lead Now" delivered copies of a petition with 80,000
signatures protesting the "Fair Elections Act" to Conservative MPs. 80,000
signatures! In a country with millions of voters. Pathetic.
And, obviously, delivering those petitions to those cowardly harpercon scum
hasn't dramatically realigned the balance-of-power in this country. This
was a token demonstration. It wasn't really intended to change things was
it? It was a pathetic way for what is essentially an NDP-backed group
inform the ruling party that some people disagree with them. Well, guess
what LeadNow... more »
“7 Right-Wing Absurdities This Week: Colbert Causes Conservative Meltdown Edition”
*“7 Right-Wing Absurdities This Week: *
*Colbert Causes Conservative Meltdown Edition”*
By Janet Allon
*1. Various conservative clowns: Stephen Colbert will single-handedly
destroy America. *The hysteria on the right about Stephen Colbert’s
elevation to CBS’s "Late Night" post has been nothing short of hilarious.
Even before news hit that Colbert would replace David Letterman when he
retires, Bill O’Reilly frantically declared that Colbert is responsible for
the “destruction of America.” That’s quite a distinction, when there are so
many other things vying for the title of “America’... more »
A Million Reasons Why Enbridge Will Never Be Given Permission for Northern Gateway, Here is Reason Number 30
NTSB Press Release
National Transportation Safety Board
*Office of Public Affairs*
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Pipeline Rupture and Oil Spill Accident Caused by Organizational Failures
and Weak Regulations
July 10, 2012
WASHINGTON - Pervasive organizational failures by a pipeline operator along
with weak federal regulations led to a pipeline rupture and subsequent oil
spill in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board said today.
On Sunday, July 25, 2010, at about 5:58 p.m., a 30 inch-diameter pipeline
(Line 6B) owned and operated by Enbridge Incorporated ruptured... more »
Gold and Silver Report April 12 , 2014 -- Data , News and views focusing on the precious metals !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Harvey Organ snippets....
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-112014gld-loses-another-18-tonnes.html
Friday, April 11, 2014
April 11.2014/Gld loses another 1.8 tonnes as this gold heads to
Shanghai/no change in silver SLV/gold and silver hold in price/Blythe
Masters under investigation/Poor earnings from JPMorgan/Putin may win again
as the west looks to pay the Ukrainian bill/Bourses around the globe spill
red ink!!
Gold closed down $1.40 at $1318.70 (comex to comex closing time ). Silver
was down 15 cents to $19.93
In the access market tonight at 5:15 pm
gold: $131... more »
Friday Beaver - Late again. Better late than never
Republicans hate beavers
Republicans must think beavers are stupid. They blocked a bill in the House
to make pay more equitable. In some states a beaver must undergo a
medically unnecessary ultrasound before they can get an abortion. Add to
this the recent cuts to food stamps most of which go to baby beaver kits as
well as cuts to head start and it sure looks like a war on beavers. Then of
course there's the voter ID laws enacted to to make it more difficult for
beavers to vote. And where is a beaver supposed to carry that ID? Don't
answer that.
There's the push for more gas and... more »
The Economy: "How About Some Truth?"
*"How About Some Truth?"*
by Karl Denninger
"All you have to do to ensure failure is refuse to tell the truth. *"*April
is cruel for other reasons. It’s Financial Literacy Month, when
well-meaning experts bear the bad news: many of us are financial fools. The
30-day marketing blitz sweeps up Congress, banks, state capitols, pollsters
and personal finance columnists in an annual lamentation- and scolding-
that Americans, the kids especially, don’t know much about money. To help,
Bank of America, for example, is sponsoring a workshop series to educate
low-income people. Moreover, a ... more »
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