Gaston Hoffmann (1883 - ?), "Sirene" (Photo credit: sofi01)What Won't Poor Old Miss McConnell Do To Keep His Job?
How humiliating it must be for Miss McConnell to be prostrating himself
before Rand Paul like his job depended on it. It wasn't that long ago that
McConnell recruited Trey Grayson to run as the Kentucky Establishment
candidate against Paul, who McConnell helped paint as a whacky Tea Party
extremist. Now he's writing love paeans in *Time* to the greatness and
majesty of Kentucky's popular junior senator, or at least signing his name
to one. "[T]he real secret to Rand’s rapid rise from a Bowling Green
operating room to the center of American politics is his authenticity."
Better tha... more »
Illusions
*Written by Mark Taliano*
Canadians are forever being informed, explicitly or implicitly, that the
solution to the crisis of the day, or decade, is a freedom-sounding word
called “privatization”. This, the free-marketeers tell us, will solve our
problems.
The reality is invariably the opposite. “Privatization” -- also known as
bailed-out, highly subsidized corporatism – is in fact the problem, not the
solution.
Furthermore, the crises being addressed are often manufactured for the
express purpose of rolling out a parasitical regime of corporatization that
profits fr... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Hoffmann and Hoffmann'
HOFFMANN
& HOFFMANN
Posted on April 25, 2014
Please post & distribute.
MNN. APR. 24, 2014. Our representation is based on the law of the land,
the constitution of the Rotino’shonni:onwe, known as the Great Law of
Peace. On May 18, 1997 over 100 of us were peacefully having a
traditional tobacco burning ceremony in Onondaga, the capital of the
Iroquois Confederacy. At 3.00 pm almost
Arrg, there be gold in that island
The first claims of treasure buried on the island came from a woman named
Mary Welsh, who claimed 350 tons of gold raided from Spanish galleons had
been buried on the island. She had been a member of a pirate crew led by
Captain Bennett Graham, and was transported to an Australian penal colony
for her crimes. She possessed a chart showing where Graham's treasure was
supposed to be hidden. On her release she returned to the island with an
expedition, which had no success in finding anything, with the points of
reference in the chart having disappeared.[24]
Another pirate supposed ... more »
Corporate CEOs Demand They Be Tipped Off When Whistleblower Reports Their Crimes (Chief Justice Roberts Smiles As He Misleads US), Court Has Made Disastrous Wrong Turn In Campaign Finance Rulings Says Justice Stevens (Citizens United: Five Justices Unhappy With Limited Case So They Changed It To Give Themselves Opportunity To Change the Law)
Enough said? If only. Change of the current campaign finance (or
nation-stealing) laws must be priority #1 if the U.S. is to progress as a
democracy responsive to citizens who don't have thousands (or millions) of
extra dollars with which to gift candidates. Although turning workers into
informants by realigning their loyalties seemed fundamentally wrong to me,
both then and now, Congress
Duncan Signals a More Activist Role in Destroying Teaching Profession
Since Team Obama came to Washington, ED has doubled down on support for
alternative certification programs by handing out hundreds of millions of
dollars to stock urban schools with unprepared beginning teachers who don't
know John Dewey from Thomas Dewey, or an IEP from IED. In fact, the less
knowledge in the art and science of teaching that one of these Teach for
America knock-offs emphasizes, the more likely they are to attract
multi-million dollar teacher improvement grants. TFA, alone, has received
over $100 million in federal grants.
Obviously, this path has not led quickly ... more »
"Have you lost your mind?" -- contemplating "the tsunami of dementia that is about to swamp us," Michael Kinsley take us on a tour
Illustration by Nishant Choksi
*"After some reflection, I concluded that as long as I still felt
infallible Parkinson's would not stop me from continuing to pursue my dream
of becoming Pope."*
*-- Michael Kinsley, on his two-decades-past diagnosis of Parkinson's*
*by Ken*
I guess there are people who think about the way their mind works (or
doesnt) and people who don't so much. Still, I had to pause when I read
this statement in Michael Kinsley's "personal history" piece in the April
28 *New Yorker*, "Have You Lost Your Mind?: More bad news for boomers" in
the April 28 *New Yorker... more »
REMEMBERING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR
I returned home to Maine this morning on the train from New York City.
Fellow Maine Veterans for Peace (VFP) member Doug Rawlings and I were up
early at our respective home stays to get to Penn Station for the 7:00 am
train to Boston. We had loads of time on the four-hour ride back to Boston
and then another two-hour bus ride to Portland to review the remarkable
trip.
We got to the Judson Memorial Church yesterday at 1:00 pm to help set
things up for the national VFP event called* Full Disclosure: An Honest
Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam *that would run from 5:00... more »
“Deadly MERS Virus Spreading Out Of Control In Saudi Arabia, Leaps To Egypt As Global Pandemic Begins”
*“Deadly MERS Virus Spreading Out Of Control In Saudi Arabia,*
* Leaps To Egypt As Global Pandemic Begins”*
by Mike Adams
“It has long been recognized by intelligent observers that a global
superbug pandemic is inevitable. Humanity has created the perfect
conditions for it: global nutritional deficiencies, weakened immune
systems, high population density, high-speed international travel and
systemic abuse of antibiotics by medical professionals. Drug-resistant
superbugs like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) are 100% immune to
every conventional medical treatment in existence.... more »
Deep tweets
We need more visionaries.
well played, 1930s futurist - well played. pic.twitter.com/kQT4JjIAls
— Darren Wershler (@alienated) April 27, 2014
AIM Song Moccasins On the Ground at Red Shirt Community
.
By Native Impact
Published on Apr 27, 2014
April 2014 - Community leaders from across the United States and Canada
join together on the Oglala Lakota Nation to become one mind, one spirit
to protect the land, children and water - We welcome all to step up and
protect sacred water. YOU CAN'T DRINK OIL.
My Book Is Published!
To all who have been asking and waiting: I am pleased to report that my
book, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public
Education, is now available on Amazon.com! At the moment, Amazon.com has
the paperback version, listed at $23.35. I hear that the Amazon e-book
takes about 30 days until it is […]
Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital
*Thomas Piketty has written a popular economics book. In 1936, a
difficult-to-read academic book appeared that seemed to tell politicians
they could do what they wanted. This was Keynes’s General Theory. In
today's Guest Post, Hunter Lewis argues **Piketty’s book does the same in
2014, and serves the same short-sighted, destructive policies*.
*Thomas Piketty’s Sensational New Book*By Hunter Lewis
Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old economist from French academe has written a
hot new book: *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*. If you haven't already
heard of it, you will. Indeed, your '... more »
"7 Absurd Right-Wing Follies This Week: Bundy/Hannity Breakup Edition"
*"7 Absurd Right-Wing Follies This Week: Bundy/Hannity Breakup Edition"*
By Janet Allon
*"1. Cliven Bundy: Black people were better off as slaves. Now, they put
themselves in jail. *That Cliven Bundy turned out to be a colossal racist
is not a hugely surprising twist ending to the ridiculous Hannity/Bundy
love affair, media circus and saga that was such a marvel to behold this
week. If there is a more perfect example of Fox and the right being exposed
as the utterly backward haters they are, we cannot imagine it. The greatest
fiction writer in the world would be hard-pressed to com... more »
Who's Getting Walmart School Privatization Cash?
From the NYTimes:
Last year, the Walton Family Foundation gave $478,380 to a fund affiliated
with the Chicago public schools to help officials conduct community
meetings to discuss their plan to close more than 50 schools at a time when
charters were expanding in the city. . . . .
In 2013, the Walton foundation spent more than $164 million across the
country. According to Marc Sternberg, who was appointed director of K-12
education reform at the Walton Family Foundation last September, Walton has
given grants to one in every four charter start-ups in the country, for a
total of $335... more »
The Church of Rome is Dead
[image: netanyahu_lectures_the_pope_on_racial_animus]The Roman Catholic
Church is a festering corpse which is only being kept animate in order that
it may be used as a battering ram for the total destruction of
Christendom. If anyone has any serious doubts that the Church of Rome has
been captured by the ancient Jewish enemy, the double canonisation of the
anti-Popes John Paul II and John XXIII by the current imposters, Francis
and Benedict XVI, should awaken people from their slumber.
John XXIII was the driving force behind Vatican II, which formalised the
Jewish take-over of the ... more »
In my mother's house
My mother throws dinner parties four times a week. Add in three weekly
lunch parties, afternoon teas with various friends, and crib at odd hours
with the little collection of men my mother has organized to play with her,
and it has been a bit like living in a community centre since we moved in
to her apartment at the beginning of the month.
While Mom’s love for social engagements and constant preparation of
meals is foreign to me, it’s been quite interesting to see all of it in
action since we moved in with her after coming back from Honduras. A lot
of the guests are serio... more »
THe Man is never at rest!
Who would be against clean air and energy independence at the personal
level?
Corrupt US Establishment Sells “Yats” to Pitch their War
While Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry frantically work to push
for the war over Ukraine that the neocon ideologues, global finance mafia,
big corporations and the military machine so badly desire an emerging
strategy is becoming obvious. The establishment is going to sell the
illegitimately installed puppet Prime Minster in Kiev, Arseniy "Yats"
Yatsenyuk as a credible pitchman for their lies.
"Yats", a former central banker is of course the chosen man for the US
backed coup government annexation of Ukraine into the western domain of
looter capitalism and ultimately into ... more »
Untitled
NIN TONANTZIN NON CENTEOTL "OUR SACRED MAIZ IS OUR MOTHER." Today I turned
in my final edited version of my forthcoming book: Our Sacred Maiz is our
Mother" at 11:11 a.m. There is something magical about : 11:11. I won my
first police brutality trial at exactly 11:11 a.m on Nov 7, 1979. Since
then, they've been my lucky numbers. In Jan 2,008, I was awarded my PhD in
Wisconsin, also, at exactly 11:11 a.m. (11:11 also has a special
significance to the Zapatistas). Wish my book was out already but it
doesn't get officially published til Nov., however, I will have copies
sometime in... more »
Barbara Lee, Lee Rogers Beatles Contest Ends Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the last day of our Beatles contest celebrating Barbara Lee's
endorsement of Lee Rogers. The winner is going to get that very
collectible, 32" x 24" iconic Beatles image up top. The portrait was shot
by Robert Freeman, the band's favorite photographer, for the cover of *With
The Beatles*. Freeman, who did 5 album covers for them starting in 1963,
signed this one. Anyone who contributes-- any amount-- to Lee's campaign on
this page will have an equal opportunity to "win" the thank you gift-- i.e,
the Beatles photograph-- from Blue America. Tomorrow we'll randomly select... more »
Greece Updates April 27 , 2014 -- Concerning Greece fiscal condition whether the so called primary budget surplus is allegedly 3.4 billion ( or is it 1.5 billion as per Troika calculations ) , just note the Greek debt sinkhole is now at 175 percent of GDP ! Other items of note , present FM Stournaras scurrrying away from the frontlines to run the bank of Greece after May Election for European Parliament and Local Authority Elections - smart move ...... Pasok finances a tad shady ( shocking , now let's look at New Democracy ) ....... Hmm , thought there would absolutely be no further needs for austerity measures , thought Greece was doing so well as per the EU ----- Takeaway - The European Commission may hail the “Greek progress” in its April 2014 review of the second Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece. The EC may hail the primary surplus and the structural reforms. However at the same time it stresses the need for additional austerity measures totaling 7.7 billion euro for the years 2-15-2017....... Greece 2021 ( why not 2031 ?? ) ---- Greece got a plan. A growth and development plan with the futuristic title “Greece 2021″, that is seven years from now. The plan was submitted by Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras to Euro Working Group on Thursday in Brussels in the context with the Greek debt relief request. Here is to note that the development plan is the first after Greece sought the aid of the International Monetary Fund in 2010.
*Primary budget surplus is no panacea It cannot compensate for the need to
revive the economy, and priority must be reviving investmentsBy Dimitris
KontogiannisThe primary surplus of the general government a year before
schedule is important in many respects but it is not a panacea for the
country’s economic problems. If the economy does not recover and grow at
satisfactory rates in the years ahead as official creditors forecast and
market participants bet with their money, the primary surplus may turn out
to be a short-lived memory. Even if it is ... more »
Malaysia Airline Flight 370 Mystery Day 48 April 26 , 2014 Updates -- Indian Ocean underwater to be extended from present search area -The submarine drone Bluefin 21 has so far searched about 95 percent of a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) area of the Indian Ocean seabed, pinpointed after the detection of acoustic pings believed to be from the plane's black box flight recorders....... Flight 370 families irate -- KUALA LUMPUR - Ten Malaysia Airlines staff were held against their will for hours by Chinese relatives of flight MH370 passengers, the airline said on Friday, at a Beijing hotel that has seen increasingly tense confrontations over the missing plane ..... The Malaysian government was forced to perform an abrupt u-turn yesterday after earlier insisting it would not release its report into missing flight MH370. Families of the 239 missing people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight reacted with fury after officials said the contents of the preliminary report into the mystery would not be released. But Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said last night that the report could in fact be made public as early as next week.
Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
New Straits Times.....
26 April 2014| last updated at 02:04PM
MH370 Tragedy: Indian Ocean undersea hunt to be extended
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PERTH: The undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is to
be extended beyond the small area identified as its most likely resting
place as the quest for any sign of the missing plane enters its 50th day
today.
The submarine drone Bluefin 21 has so far searched about 95 percent of a 10
square km (6.2 square mile) area of the Indian Ocean seabed, pinpointed
after the detection of acoustic pings believed to be from the p... more »
ALEC Legislators - Protecting Profits of Dirty-Fuel Energy
There are some major problems with the arguments being used by ALEC
legislators to implement ALEC dirty-fuel corporate written legislation that
punishes residences that have gone solar.
I'm not an energy expert - so the fact that I can see these flaws and bring
them to others attention
- does not speak kindly of the solar industry experts
- who have intentionally chosen to keep their mouths shut
- and chose not to properly inform the public on theses bills.
and not debunk the ALEC arguments.
Solar energy experts have reported on the bills
- bitching, whining and moaning about the bill... more »
Fisking and Pilgering
In the *...and other matters* section of this blog, please let me steer you
towards a fine fisking of the *Independent*'s Middle East correspondent
Robert Fisk from *CiF Watch*'s Adam Levick. It outlines Mr Fisk's latest
"distortions, half-truths and fabrications".
No one is more deserving of a fisking than Robert Fisk (even Jeremy Bowen).
According to the *Collins English Dictionary *'to fisk' means 'to refute or
criticize (a journalistic article or blog) point by point'. Many of us have
fisked things over the years.
The verb 'to fisk' and the noun 'fisking' have caught on to s... more »
Re the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom
This week's *The Unbelievable Truth *featured some of the sillier common
names scientists have given to recently-discovered species.
I thought I'd share.
There's an African millipede called the wandering leg sausage...
the Burmese sneezing monkey...
the ninja slug...
the yeti crab...
...and the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom...
Niggle Farridge
It's hard trying to be impartial, and slips are inevitable. We aren't
machines after all and what we really think will sometimes get blurted out,
however hard we try to keep our opinions to ourselves.
Poor Andrew Marr evidently doesn't have a high opinion of UKIP and UKIP
supporters. He slipped up twice this morning and evidently couldn't help
himself from outblurting his real thoughts about them. ("Outblurting"? Very
Thomas Hardy that.)
First, as spotted by Biased BBC readers, Andrew Marr referred to a
"cracking picture" of an odd looking chap in a blazer on the front page of *Th... more »
The EU is in a hurry to sign the long-awaited association treaty with Ukraine, while the new leaders in Kiev are turning to Washington for support. Whose interests were at stake during the Ukrainian revolution? Should the promises of the West be trusted by the new authorities? A highly informed interlocutor talks with former U.S. intelligence officer Scott Rickard to find out the answers to these questions. It's a long video but well worth hearing his knowledge.
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http://youtu.be/de9DcWM2X74
Former U.S. Intelligence Officer Says U.S. Orchestrated Coup In Ukraine
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Cherchez la Verite
Acknowledgement of the optout movement from @John_Merrow
This from John Merrow at Learning Matters. The opt-out movement may become
a force to be reckoned with, if and when it organizes effectively. What has
to happen, it seems to me, is that the movement must also be FOR something.
I suggest a straight trade: two weeks of project-based learning for every
day of testing […]
John Manley's Ode to Corporate Loveliness
John Manley, chief of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, was quite
breathless in his Sunday Edition ode to corporate loveliness. Sure,
according to Canadians for Tax Fairness :
"analysis of the top 60 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
found only four companies paid the full corporate rate. More than half paid
less than 10 per cent, and 13 firms paid less than five per cent."
but they contribute in "lots of other ways" Manley insisted ... like
property taxes which you and I also pay so wtf, John?
Your Ode to Corps? Here you go - I fixed it for ya.
Shall I comp... more »
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
http://youtu.be/Go9aks4aujM
I heard part of this this on a TV advertisement just now and it reminded me
how beautiful this song was.
Awwwww! Let's just hope the Bronx Zoo doesn't name either of the new baby gorillas "Cliven"
Photos by Julie Larsen Maher for the Wildlife Conservation Society
*Do gorillas have Mother's Day?* *I don't know, but I don't think Mom needs
words to clue us in to how enthusiastic she would be about anyone or
anything presuming to mess with Junior. Speaking of whom, judging by those
big gorilla-eyes, he or she (we'll explain below) certainly seems to have
this "camera" thing pretty well figured out.*
*by Ken*
I'm playing catch-up on this story; we always like to stay on top of
stories that are bound to make readers go, "Awwwww." However, thanks to The
Frisky's Jessica Wakeman, ... more »
China and Russia continue to push forward to non UDS hegemony goals .... April 25 , 2014 Updates --- PBOC Pressures USD Hegemony; Starts Yuan-Denominated Gold & Oil Trading ....... Forming Of Eurasian Economic Union And Joint Currency Accelerates - Several Russian media outlets have reported that Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, that currently form theEurasian customs union, will sign an agreement in May to accelerate the formation of an economic union and a joint currency: Altyn........ Jim Willie says petrodollar day of reckoning comes this year - 2014 !
Catharsis Ours - 11 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-25/pboc-pressures-usd-hegemony-starts-yuan-denominated-gold-oil-trading
PBOC Pressures USD Hegemony; Starts Yuan-Denominated Gold & Oil Trading
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the PBOC actively aiding numerous major financial hubs around the world
with bilateral currency swap agreement... more »
On the value of teacher preparation, from a former teacher educator
Allow me to make some very direct assertions at the outset. The President
plans to roll out this summer new criteria for evaluating teacher
preparation programs, all with which I thoroughly disagree. No other major
course of study at the university must put up with such scrutiny. The
National Council of Teacher Quality, as indicated in […]
Odd and / or disturbing news of the day April 27 , 2014 -- The Minority Report ( movie ) comes to life ? Twitter allegedly now can predict crime and quick , obvious questions spring to the mind - The big question is, does it work? For Greber, the answer is a firm “sometimes.” “It helps for some, and it hurts for others,” he says .............. JP Morgan decides in 2014 to suddenly decide to close hundreds of porn performers bank accounts by May 11 , 2014 - based on this 2012 FDIC warning ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that included adult entertainment on a list of businesses that might have a higher risk of consumer fraud. The warning, however, does not require banks to refuse services to those in the porn industry. ) And is Bank of America following suit ? ? And what is special about May 11 , 2014 ( Eastern Regions of Ukraine Referendums set for May 11 , 2014 come to mind , surely just a coincidence . ) .......... MEET AISIGHT – THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE BEING INSTALLED ON CCTV NETWORKS GLOBALLY .......... PHONE COMPANY BID TO KEEP DATA FROM N.S.A. IS REJECTED
TWITTER CAN NOW PREDICT CRIME, AND THIS RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS
April 27, 2014
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Police departments in New York City may soon be using geo-tagged tweets to
predict crime. It sounds like a far-fetched sci-fi scenario a la *Minority
Report*, but when I contacted Dr. Matthew Greber, the University of
Virginia researcher behind the technology, he explained that the system is
far more mathematical than metaphysical.
The system Greber has devised is an amalgam of both old and new techniques.
Currently,many police departments target hot spots f... more »
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Day 47 April 25 , 2014 -- Fruitless underwater search to expand ( Authorities just fishing now , no clue where to search in the Indian Ocean ) , US throw out reality the search will go on fruitlessly for years ( or until folks get bored and tune out ... ) .......... TENSIONS REIGNITE! Desperate MH370 families protest at M'sian embassy after chaotic meeting with MAS , MAJOR U-TURN: M'sian PM swerves from previous MH370 'NO SURVIVORS' 'ENDED IN OCEAN' claims, to release report next week
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MH370 Tragedy: Seabed search to widen
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April 27: Another step back....
This will probably be just a short note. It bothers me I was not more
critical of Gwynne Dyer, yesterday.
He was commenting on the Ukrainian crisis - and rather dismissive of it.
They were just, he said, replaying the old strategic game, probably to
later include China. But nothing much with relation to China is likely to
happen for thirty years. So why worry?
Russia cannot invade the US; it can't match the US for military spending;
any damage it could do to the US is bearable; So why worry?
The trouble with all that reasoning is that thirty years is not a long
time; Russia has l... more »
Can Israeli "tourists" be trusted?
Abe Foxman, the obnoxious director of the Anti-Defamation League, is upset
that Israel has not been admitted to the Visa Waiver Program, a program
administered by the U.S. State Department that "allows citizens of
participating countries to travel to the United States without a visa for
stays of 90 days or less," according to *the official website* of the
Program. The U.S. intelligence community has been unenthusiastic about
admitting Israel into the program and granting Israeli "tourists" - who in
many cases turn out to be spies - essentially unfettered access to the
United States.... more »
Poland linked to destabilization of Ukraine ? Poland's NIE media outlet says yes ! Proof of Poland’s Participation in the Ukrainian Pandemonium -- Polish media outlet Nie has published a bombshell account about direct Polish involvement in Ukraine’s destabilization. Its source alleges that the Polish Foreign Ministry had invited Ukrainian militants into the country and trained them outside of Warsaw in September 2013 ....... US FINANCIAL SHOWDOWN WITH RUSSIA IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN IT LOOKS, FOR BOTH SIDES .........US Nuclear Fuel in Ukraine Risks Second Chernobyl – Scientists
http://orientalreview.org/2014/04/17/proof-of-polands-participation-in-the-ukrainian-pandemonium/
Proof of Poland’s Participation in the Ukrainian Pandemonium
Thu, Apr 17, 2014
Europe, Phenomenon of Terrorism, Ukraine
*By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)*
[image: Proof of Poland’s Participation in the Ukrainian Pandemonium]
Polish media outlet Nie has published a bombshell account about direct
Polish involvement in Ukraine’s destabilization. Its source alleges that
the Polish Foreign Ministry had invited Ukrainian militants into the
country and trained them outside of Warsaw in September 2013. Co... more »
New Jackass City
After the Hank Aaron backlash, Cliven Bundy and now Donald Sterling,
it makes me realize that maybe Dr. King's legacy was ultimately a failure
and we're just one Act of Congress away from nationwide racial apartheid
that the Koch brothers, ALEC and the state Senate had already seriously considered
implementing in one North Carolina school district.
And, as if that wasn't enough to sour you on this country of ours,
check out this ABC video from four years ago and then tell me if charges of
racial profiling are exaggerated (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to constant reader
CC).
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, April 27th, 2014
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It is indeed Sunday, and I am of course presenting here my usual "Rant"
where I take a look at what is happening around the world. I take what we
are being told by the liars in the mainstream media and rip that to
shreds...
I have been under attack again for my statement that the media is
controlled by the Jews... I honestly do not know what planet these morons
are from or if they have been living under a rock for the longest time
because of course almost ALL of our media and ALL of so called "Hollywood"
(which I rightfully call Jewlywood) is completely cont... more »
MASSIVE BREAKING Ma announces halt to Fourth Nuclear Plant Construction
It ain't over til the fat lady sings, but for now, the Ma gov't has taken
another one on the chin. Yesterday thousands rallied in Taipei against the
backdrop of longtime democracy activist Lin I-hsiung's hunger strike to end
construction of this plant. The fifth day in, the Ma Administration threw
in the towel and announced that it was halting construction of the plant.
Lin I-hsiung could not be permitted to die.
We went through this a couple of years ago when the Ma Administration
terminated that horror that was the naptha cracker down in Changhua,
blaming the environmentalists. T... more »
Reply to an Idiot
I've been too busy to be able to write a post about Elections Canada's
recent admission of its utter uselessness. (I've also wanted to say
something about how mindless it is to refer to the Ukraine Crisis as the
return of the Cold War. It is a crisis and all the posturing and troop
movements make it terrifyingly possible that there will be shooting.
Reflexively calling it a "Cold War" lulls people into thinking that it will
never get hot.)
It turns out that Saskboy was getting one of those occasional infestations
of harpercon trolls, in this post. I decided to help push back with s... more »
UKIP, Politics and Populism
What a week for UKIP. By any standard political measure, the blowback from
their British Jobs for British Workers campaign, the Faragey-bargy over
expenses and employment of his German wife as secretary, and the tendency
of candidates who can't help but say stupid, racist things would have been
severely bruising. And yet as we survey the damage wrought by a hurricane
of hypocrisy, bigotry and lies we find UKIP with nary a scratch. Today's
YouGov poll for the *Sunday Times* finds them leading the pack for the
European elections on 31% (Labour are second with 28%, the Tories on a
pit... more »
Bitcoin Updates April 27 , 2014 -- Chinese bitcoin exchange BTC China has stopped accepting RMB deposits to user accounts from a major bank ( China Merchants Bank ) , revealing the move in a post on its Weibo page - action came as China Merchants Bank announced it would no longer allow its customers to engage in bitcoin related transactions and essentially would require all such businesss to close their accounts !
http://www.coindesk.com/btc-china-halts-rmb-withdrawals/
BTC China Halts RMB Account
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*UPDATE (27th April, 4:55 BST):* Chinese bitcoin exchange BTC China has
stopped accepting RMB deposits to user accounts from a major bank,
revealing the move in a post on its Weibo page.
Management decided to proactively halt deposits from one of the country’s
largest banks, China Merchants Bank, after the bank posted on its public... more »
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*‘Ladies in red’ back in Capitol to fight for independent levee boards
~Jeff Adwlson, New Orleans Advocate*
*Signs of healing left at New Orleans St. Roch cemetery ~WDSU*
*Brian Blade Finds A 'Landmark' In His Shreveport Roots ~NPR*
*Tipitina’s “Instruments A-Comin’” benefit Monday keeps the music playing
for children in N.O. ~Jessica Taylor, Uptown Messenger*
*JazzFest Food: The Classics ~NOLA DEFENDER*
Humans Fighting Back Against Climate Change
At some point it will be too late. Earth may become uninhabitable. I can
imagine Koch grandchildren firing up their spaceships and taking off for
the next planet they'll destroy. Maybe they'll take along the conservative
legislators and political entrepreneurs who aided and abetted them along
for the ride. I mean, even when they get to Planet X, someone has to wash
the dishes and dig the ditches. The rest of us? We'll curse our
grandparents for not having saved us when they could of. I keep a list of
Koch products handy and go out of my way to avoid them when I shop. It's
not eno... more »
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*School Choice Lifts Wisconsin Mother and Daughters*
You don’t have to invite 15-year-old Donnica Coleman to share her thoughts
about school choice. She bubbles over about how her destiny has changed
like the flip of a switch since she left her public middle school and
entered Wisconsin’s voucher program.
“I wasn’t even an OK student,” she says unabashedly. “I was skipping class
and had something like 100 truancies. I was an ‘F’ and ‘D’ student. I was
always fighting.”
Lorice Wren, Donnica’s mother, nods in agreement. “I never got called,”
the 34-year-old says. “At the time, I wa... more »
Perhaps It's Just Stupidity
In at least one way, Stephen Harper is absolutely consistent: He is the
author of his own misery. That was apparent in 2008, when he almost brought
his government down by removing public funding for political parties. It
was apparent again last week when the Supreme Court reminded Harper that,
if he wanted to reform the Senate, he would have to play by constitutional
rules.
And, Robert Asselin writes, it was apparent when Barack Obama decided to
delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline. Harper has only himself to blame:
Back in November 2008, President-elect Obama issued a stateme... more »
War Watch April 25 , 2014 -- Afghanistan will most likely see a run off to elect its new President in June as none of the candidates have more than fifty percent of the vote , shockingly , we now see Afghans turning on US doctors - Afghan Hospital Guard Kills Three US Doctors in Kabul US Nurse Also wounded in Incident ..... Syria nears completion of chemical weapon handover ( 92.5 percent of chemical material removed and destroyed despite an ongoing war and having to move the chemical material through Rebel controlled areas ) , ongoing battles between Government and Rebels - Northern Syria , Homs , Aleppo and areas around Damascus seem to be in focus presently ....... Iraq - daily carnage across the country and somehow a free and impartial Election is supposed to occur in less than a week ....
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Afghanistan.....
Afghan Hospital Guard Kills Three US Doctors in KabulUS Nurse Also wounded
in Incident
by Jason Ditz, April 24, 2014
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An Afghan security guard working for the Interior Ministry opened fire on
American doctors in a Kabul hospital today, killing three and wounding an
American nurse.
The hospital, affiliated with Christian charity Cure International, was
established in 2005, and specializes in pediatrics. Dr. Jerry Umanos, a
pediatrician from Chicago, had been working there since many years. The two
other doctors,identified as a father and son, ... more »
As the US State Department launches its third annual " Free the Press Campaign " , the continuing attempts by the US Department of Justice to jail New Times Reporter James Risen places the campaign in a bizarrely ironic posture ! As does an examination of Sharyl Attikson " smothering at CBS - follow the bread crumbs leading to brothers David Rhodes ( President oc CBS News ) and Ben Rhodes ( Deputy Security Adviser to President Obama ) and the stories shutdown that Ms Attkinson attempted to report on - Benghazi / Fast & Furious / Swine Flu sham with CDC complicity !
Media member is the cross hairs .....
Sharyl Attkinson.....
http://www.infowars.com/explosive-what-really-happened-to-sharyl-attkisson-at-cbs/
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Sharyl Attkisson, CBS’s top investigative reporter: gone, resigned,
floating free, unchained, now viewed by the news ... more »
Was 'BH' B.S.?
Were I being curmudgeonly I would complain that *Broadcasting House *on
Radio 4 this morning engaged in yet more banker-banking (complete with cash
register ka-chings as details of pay amounts were read out) and featured a
satirical piece mocking UKIP's famous immigration poster. Other curmudgeons
might take these as signs of left-wing bias.
I'd also moan, where I in that kind of mood, about 'typical BBC
navel-gazing' given that there was a self-congratulatory report about a
previous *BH *report as well as a plug for another Radio 4 show (*Just a
Minute*).
I'd also grumble that P... more »
Cliven Bundy: The Real Welfare Leech
*By MARC McDONALD*
I don't know much about the cattle business. But I'd suspect that if one
owns a cattle ranch, your biggest expense by far is buying food for your
cattle.
Wingnut hero Cliven Bundy owns a prosperous cattle business. His cattle get
to graze for free on publicly owned land. (That's right: all taxpayers,
including you and me, are subsidizing Bundy's business). He refuses to pay
the $1 million he owes the government for supplying his cattle with free
food over the decades.
In short, Bundy is a government welfare leech. He can't be bothered to pay
the same grazing fee... more »
Ukraine Updates and related Russia news April 25 , 2014 -- S&P downgrades Russia to just one small step above junk status to BBB- and a furious Russia declares BS to that and further sanctions -- Putin Presidential Advisor proposes 15 measures to attack NATO countries IF additional sanctions are brought forward against Russia due to the Ukraine situation .... Scorched Earth policy being recommended ! In Eastern Ukraine , a helicopter exploded at Kramatorsk Airport , meanwhile Ukraine complains Russia is trying to start WW3 ! Additional sanctions aren't one way ( Visa admits Russia sanctions hitting business ) , Gazprom sends Ukraine 11.4 billion bill for unshipped gas ( where are those billions from the IMF / EU and US going to go - to Russia and to service Ukraine's debt ) ..... Russia reporters kidnapped in Donetsk - the fact that they were abducted while heading for an interview with an Opposition leader could indicate the Ukraine Security forces or perhaps Right Sector could be the culprits ( John Kerry to denounce this action in any minute ) .....
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Late afternoon / Evening news items ....... Russia shifting to War footing ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-25/russian-warplanes-repeatedly-enter-ukraine-airspace-helicopter-buildup-latvia-surges
Russian Warplanes Repeatedly Enter Ukraine Airspace; Helicopter Buildup By
Latvia Surges
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If the following news had been "sourced" by Ukraine news agencies, we would
caveat it by saying it is almost certainly propaganda. However, since the
source f... more »
Voles
Alan has posted some interesting material at *Biased BBC *this morning,
including a piece on how Al-Jazeera praised the restraint of the Israeli
military (not something you're ever likely to hear from Jeremy Bowen) and
an extract from an essay by left-wing former BBC reporter Nick Jones on the
problems facing the corporation. (He reckons its problems ultimately stem
from "the free-for-all of the Thatcher era and then the bonus culture of
the Blair years").
Here at *Is the BBC biased? *though, we've got something about voles for
you. Yes, voles.
There was an interesting *The* *Li... more »
Guest Post By 'Sage: TO BE in the LIE - "BELIEVE"
A very good friend of mine wrote this: TO BE IN THE LIE "BELIEVE" - It is
excellent! Thank you, Sage for writing this and allowing me to put it on
the blog. From 'Sage": According to the few survivors of the ferry
incident where so many died, they were told by those in authority to don
life vests and patiently wait for help. The majority did just that. The
only survivors were
Iran equips S-200 air defense system with new missiles
[image: Sayyad-II]Iran’s S-200 air defense system has been equipped with
domestically manufactured Sayyad-3 missiles, the deputy commander of the
Khatam-ol-Anbiya Air Defense Base announced on Saturday.
Brigadier General Shahrokh Shahram said that Sayyad-3 missiles are able to
hit targets at medium altitudes.
Iranian experts had previously upgraded the Russian-made long-range
medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air S-200 air defense system by
installing Sayyad-2 missiles on it and designed a mobile launcher for the
system.
Read more
NPR releases its own anti-SUSY rant
The
recent Lykken-Spiropulu anti-SUSY diatribe in Scientific American has
sparked some echoes. One of them was published on the NPR website. The
piece titled
Are Physicists Ready To Give Up The Chase For SUSY? (NPR)
was written by Marcelo Gleiser. I had the feeling that I have already
seen
the name somewhere. Well, a TRF search shows that this name has already
appeared 4 times. In pretty much every single case, the story implied
that
Marcelo Gleiser is an aggressive idiot. And believe me, I didn't
*impose*this coherence. Unfortunately, this story is no different.
First, the title is... more »
Denmark Gardasil Injuries: No More Excuses, We Need Answers by Tine Albek
Tine
Gardasil Injuries: No more excuses, we need answers
*By Tine Albek*
*Copenhagen, Denmark *
*Sane Vax, Inc. 26 April 2014*
I am 28 years old. Before Gardasil, I worked as a full time painter and
decorator, a career I had enjoyed since 2004. In my spare time I was
involved with Crossfit training, walking, roller tours and actively
socializing with friends and family. I have travelled a lot. Generally I
was very physically active whether at work, or leisure activities!
I had my first injection of Gardasil on the 15th of September 2012. Back
then, I felt like I had done so... more »
Five dead in British military helicopter crash in Afghanistan
[image: Lynx AH Mk.9A]Five service members were killed when a British
helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO-led
coalition forces and the British Ministry of Defence said.
An Afghan official said the helicopter carrying soldiers from the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had crashed due to technical
problems.
"ISAF is still in the process of reviewing the circumstances to determine
more facts," ISAF said. It did not provide details of their nationalities.
Read more
Afghan militant group shoots down US spy aircraft
[image: RQ-4 Global Hawk]An insurgent militant group Hizb-e-Isami
Afghanistan said on Saturday that its fighters had shot down an American
spy aircraft in Kunar province.
The militant group’s spokesperson, Haroon Zarghoon told sources by
phone.The drone aircraft was flying over Kunar’s Shegal district when hit
by the Hizb’s fighters,
He said the US drones are routinely fly over the border regions and also
carry out strikes on the positions of the armed resistance groups. There
was no comment from the ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
Read more
Original sub designer has high hopes for Truong Sa submarine
[image: Truong Sa submarine]Nguyen Huu Bao, now an old engineer, is
remembered by many as the person who successfully built the unmanned
torpedo disarming vessel called T5. At the time, Bao worked for the Ship
Design Sub-institute, now called the Ship Technology Institute.
As a young engineer, Bao was assigned to design the engine for a mock-up of
a ship which could “swim under the water to serve combatant purposes”.
In 1960s, the engineers of the sub-institute undertook the design and
manufacture of implements of war. An idea was raised at that time that
Vietnam needed a ship which... more »
Power in numbers: China surpasses Japan with surface combat ships
[image: Type 052D Destroyer]China has surpassed Japan in the construction
and purchasing of new surface combat vessels, according to an Apr. 25
article on the Canada-based Kanwa Defense Review operated by military
analyst Andrei Chang, also known as Pinkov.
China's surface combat vessels may not be as good as their Japanese
counterparts in terms of quality, the article said, but the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has a greater number of destroyers and frigates
equipped with active electronically scanned array radar.
The PLA Navy currently has six Type 052C guided-missile destr... more »
The shortest commercial airport runway in the world - Saba airport aka Yrausquin airport
Saba airport aka Yrausquin airport
'The airport's risky reputation arises from the airport's physical
position: it is flanked on one side by high hills; and on the runway's
other side and both ends, cliffs drop into the sea. Additionally, the
runway at the airport is extremely short (400m) this creates the
possibility that an airplane could under/overshoot the runway during
landing or takeoff and end up in the sea or dashed on the rocky cliffs.
Although the airport is officially marked as closed to traffic (X),
regional airline propeller aircraft are able to land there under waiver... more »
the gluten-free hoax: nutritionism run amok
Today I saw a bag of high-end cheese puffs, made with organic corn and real
cheese. WHEAT FREE and GLUTEN FREE, the package boasted, which made me
chuckle. Yup, just like all cheese puffs for all time. Like most snack
food, cheese puffs are made of corn, and corn does not contain gluten.
Marketing old products with a new twist to take advantage of a nutrition
craze is nothing new, of course. I remember when *fat-free* and *low-fat* labels
were slapped on everything. (This craze happened to coincide with some of
my worst dieting addiction.) In those days, supermarket shelves were lade... more »
Stop The GMO Crops - Video Presentation
*18 March 2013 *
This film present some of the dangers of GM-crops, and calls for people
across Europe and beyond to take action to stop them. We need a future of
food and farming that benefits people and planet, and not the pockets of
big business. We need to stop GM-crops from spreading across Europe.
This film has been produced by Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the
Earth Europe and Sourced TV.
Popes, Sharia Watch UK and Wonga
The canonisations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II inevitably dominated this
morning's edition of *Sunday. *
Two former popes have never been canonised on the same day before - and, to
make it even more historic and unprecedented, they'll be canonised by two
living popes - Francis and Benedict XVI. (That's a lot of popes!)
Even though the BBC already has two experienced Rome correspondents - the
veteran David Willey and former Middle East correspondent Alan Johnson - *Sunday
*followed hallowed BBC tradition and dispatched William Crawley to the
Eternal City as well, which must... more »
Video: Bill Gates “Explains” Common Core
In the following six-minute video at the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI) in March 2014, Bill Gates demonstrates his privileged view of the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Gates has contributed over $4.3
million to AEI, with over $1 million in 2012 for “exploring the challenges
of Common Core,” among other issues, so it is only fitting that AEI should
[…]
Arizona Republican Plays Footsie With The Gays… Or At Least The Wealthy Gays
Ron Barber is both a New Dem and a Blue Dog-- very much a member in good
standing of the Republican Wing of the Democratic Party. According to
ProgressivePunch, Barber's crucial vote score for 2013-'14 is a horrific
25.0, a record that is far more in tune with the GOP, particularly on
economic matters, than with the Democrats. In fact there are only 2
Democrats who vote more reliably with Boehner and Cantor than Barber-- John
Barrow (GA) and Jim Matheson (UT), each of whom represents a much more
conservative district. Barrow's district has a PVI of R+9 and Matheson's is
R+16. Barb... more »
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*To hell with Archimedes! Melting iceberg to cause sea-level rise*
*The sheer scientific illiteracy of the story below is hard to beat. Ever
since Archimedes we have known that melting ice does NOT raise the water
level. And note that the breakoff is part of an Antarctic ice EXPANSION*
NASA has reported an iceberg bigger than Chicago breaking into the ocean
off Antarctica. Known as B31, it is one of the biggest on the planet at 255
square miles (660 sq km) and up to 500 metres thick.
NASA has been monitoring Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier by satellite
since a crack was spotted ... more »
Dismembered Russia [1918]
Article from the The New York Times published at the end of World War I
showing the provisional boundaries of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
emerged from the collapsed Russian Empire, later incorporated into the
Soviet Union in 1922.
From the 1851-1980 NYT Archives.
Zbig
Zbig - The Ukraine Crisis and the Brezezinki's Plan for a Greater Polandfrom Spike
EP on Vimeo.
"The Young Poland of Lelewel and Worcell demands the re-creation of the
Polish state and rollback of the 1772-95 partitions of Poland. But they go
much further, laying claim to Poland in its old Jagiellonian borders,
stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea.
This includes an explicit denial that any Ukrainian nation exists. In the
orbit of Young Poland is the poet Adam Mickiewicz, a close friend of
Mazzini’s who was with him last year during the Roman Repu... more »
California LOVES Common Core!
I’ve heard the title of this article proclaimed no fewer than five times in
the past two weeks. I hear it in response to those questions I ask about
the validity, efficacy, and usefulness of the Common Core State Standards.
“Where’s the evidence?” I ask. You want evidence? CALIFORNIA LOVES COMMON
CORE! There’s your evidence! […]
South Korea's PM resigns over Sewol ferry disaster Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announces resignation amid criticism of government handling of the Sewol ferry disaster.
South Korea's PM resigns over ferry disaster
Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announces resignation amid criticism of
government handling of the Sewol ferry disaster.
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South Korea's prime minister has announced his resignation over the
widespread criticism over the government's response to the April 16 ferry
disaster.
Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation early on Sunday
at an emergency press confe... more »
No, I DON'T "have a chance to win" -- and by the way no, I'm NOT signing your online petition
*I hope the president won't be too disappointed when he finds out that I'm
not going to meet him in San Francisco. If he's coming to New York anytime
soon and wants to, you know, maybe have lunch, he can have someone call
ahead and I'll check my schedule. I'm not paying for his lunch, though.*
*by Ken*
I'm not going to tell you who sent me this e-mail message, with the subject
heading "We'll fly you to meet President Obama in San Francisco," because I
don't want to embarrass the person or persons. (I'll give you a hint,
though: It rhymes with "Duh Shmemocrats.") I feel obliged to p... more »
"The crisis in Ukraine originated with Washington’s overthrow of the elected democratic government and its replacement with Washington’s hand-chosen stooges. The stooges proceeded to act in word and deed against the populations in the former Russian territories that Soviet Communist Party leaders had attached to Ukraine. The consequence of this foolish policy is agitation on the part of the Russian speaking populations to return to Russia." "Instead of realizing its mistake, the Obama regime has encouraged the stooges Washington installed in Kiev to use violence against those in the Russian-speaking areas who are agitating for referendums so that they can vote their return to Russia." "Washington’s arrogance is unprecedented and is capable of driving the world to destruction." - Paul Craig Roberts
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*Moving Closer To War — Paul Craig Roberts*
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Moving Closer To War
Paul Craig Roberts
The Obama regime, wallowing in hubris and arrogance, has recklessly
escalated the Ukrainian crisis into a crisis with Russia. Whether
intentionally or stupidly, Washington’s propagandistic lies are driving the
crisis to war. Unwilling to listen to any more of Washington’s senseless
threats, Moscow no l... more »
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*To hell with Archimedes! Melting iceberg to cause sea-level rise*
*The sheer scientific illiteracy of the story below is hard to beat. Ever
since Archimedes we have known that melting ice does NOT raise the water
level. And note that the breakoff is part of an Antarctic ice EXPANSION*
NASA has reported an iceberg bigger than Chicago breaking into the ocean
off Antarctica. Known as B31, it is one of the biggest on the planet at 255
square miles (660 sq km) and up to 500 metres thick.
NASA has been monitoring Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier by satellite
since a crack was spotted ... more »
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