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make trouble
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty
when the State becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
April 30: We're a world leader...
....The CBC has the story. Most of the world has it, I suspect. But you
won't find it anywhere in the Irving press, not even in that bowl of
intellectual pabulum it calls a Business page.
Recent figures show the US leads the world in the income gap between 1% and
everybody else. 47% of all wealth generated in the last twenty years has
gone to the top 1%. Result? In addition to high unemployment, average
income in the US has slipped back to where it was 40 years ago.
But (sing a chorus of O Canada.) we're number two at 37%. So much for the
crapola we hear about how shale gas will mak... more »
THE LATEST FROM CHIEF BLOVIATOR
Washington is spinning the wheel of blame in regard to the Ukrainian
stand-off. This time it is pointing at the EU. The criticism came in
comments made by US Secretary of State, John Kerry. For more on this RT is
joined by Gayane Chichakyan.
"Changing everything"
A year ago, two bombs left near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
killed 3 people and injured 264. As a result, this year in Boston (and, I
expect, all future years) was completely different in many ways, all
designed ostensibly to ensure security.
But this wasn't the first time a large group of people watching an event
had been bombed. Back in 1916 (see p. 3 of the link), a "Preparedness Day"
parade in San Francisco was being held, the largest parade ever held in the
city, with more than 50,000 marchers (!) and who knows how many people
watching. A suitcase bomb, most likely ... more »
OPERATION STREAMLINE AND SALAZAR: MAN IN THE MIDDLE
OPERATION STREAMLINE AND SALAZAR: MAN IN THE MIDDLE: Last night's event at
the University of Arizona showcasing a student video "Exposing Operation
Streamline" and the showing of the Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle
documentary was very successful. Both included student research and
presentations. The Salazar presentation included a panel of former
journalists, professors and a student. Here are a few photos and the link
for the Streamline video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gabxf9ArwfU
Deep tweets
Really just too barbaric for words.
Details of OK's botched double execution are horrible. Lockett had "vein
failure." After 40 minutes, he sat up and said "something's wrong"
— allisonkilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) April 30, 2014
Bayley Elise McBride reporting from the scene.
Arthur Darvill is not just Rory from Doctor Who and he wants to sing about it
Arthur Darvill (Rory from Dr Who) performs 'The Ballad Of Arthur Darvill',
sung to the tune of Let It Go from Frozen for the Matt Edmondson Show on
BBC Radio 1.
Classroom Activity: Shared Threat and Delayed Elections
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a
lecture (slides) about domestic politics helps us understand variation in
the likelihood of international conflict. I focused particularly on whether
the spread of democracy explains Europe’s transformation from one of the
most violent parts of the world to one of the most peaceful and how the
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New Research on Issue Selection in Global Policy Networks
At long last, the journal article version* of the research my team
conducted on the human security network is published (complete with
color-coded tag clouds and network graphs)! International Organization has
very kindly agreed to temporary un-gate the article until May 30, so check
out the TUG.pdf here! My co-authors Sirin Duygulu, Alexander Montgomery,
Anna
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josh lueke is a rapist and why we should continue to say so
Stacey May Fowles has written a incisive, biting, and definitive piece
about shaming men who rape. I can scarcely quote from it (although I will),
because every word is not only necessary but perfect. Please join me in
reading this stellar essay, and in cheering for Fowles and every survivor
of sexual assault, and in calling out every Josh Lueke we can find.
May I add, too, that this essay explains exactly why I will *never* stop
saying *animal torturer* and *dog murderer* every time I hear or read the
name Michael Vick. A blog reader recently told me I should give it up
because Vic... more »
dark times in canada, part 2: marci mcdonald on jason kenney: "and you thought harper was right-wing?"
You won't catch me implying that Stephen Harper and his corrupt,
anti-democratic, anti-human government is moderate. But there's always room
to move even further to the right, and that space is called Jason Kenney.
Marci McDonald, author of *The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian
Nationalism in Canada*, has written a lengthy exposé of Kenney in *The
Walrus*. (I've had the print edition for a couple of weeks, and have been
waiting for it to post online so I could share it. The "and you thought
Harper was right-wing?" tagline is from the print edition.) It's very long,
but if yo... more »
dark times in canada, part 1: the lancet: the case against canada as a world citizen
I want to share two articles from well-respected venues reflecting on
what's happening to Canada now - where it is and where it may be going.
In *The Lancet Global Health*, one of the foremost medical journals in the
world, there's "A rising tide: the case against Canada as a world citizen",
Chris David Simms. It begins:
A generation ago, Canada was perceived to be an exemplary global citizen by
the rest of the world: it took the lead on a host of international issues,
including the Convention of Child Rights, freedom of information, acid
rain, world peacekeeping, sanctions against ... more »
200+ Reasons to be in KC to Protest ALEC
*ALEC Protest*
*Kansas City, MO*
*Friday, May 1*
*11:30 - 1pm*
*Kansas City Marriott Downtown (200 W 12th Street)*
*Barney Allis Plaza *
Any one who has followed me for awhile knows that ALEC identified me as a
"radical opponent" in a *March 2010* newsletter to their State Chairs.
Why?
Because I was the first person ever to compile and publish names of past
and present ALEC members.
Being that they have a meeting coming up - guess it's time to take a look
at part of the list again.
*How do people get on an ALEC list?*
That question comes up all the time. The most common are:
They... more »
If You Are Going to KIPP's Free Happy Hour Recruiting Sessions, Read This First
Excerpt of interview with former KIPP teacher:
*INT: Let me ask you this question: if I were a friend of yours
interested in teaching at a KIPP school and I asked you what was it like
there, what would you tell me?*
*R: I would say honestly, I’ve had that question before. I would never
ever – I told them I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy.
That’s exactly what I say every time--I wouldn’t wish it on my worst
enemy. And I have no enemies but I wouldn’t wish it if I had an enemy. I
wouldn’t put anyone through that. Anyone. It was probably – you give up
you... more »
The Republican Party Is Making Itself Over As The Party Of Anti-American Sedition
Many Republican Party leaders, always sensitive to their hate-fueled,
paranoid base, are still clinging to their racism and bigotry. Its
reflected in their policy agenda, the Ryan budget, their refusal to pass
the bipartisan Senate comprehensive immigration plan (which even Boehner
admits is being held back by the hate mongers in his caucus). Take this GOP
thought-leader and political boss:
*LIMBAUGH:* You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid
of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug
Basketball Association, and stop calling th... more »
Progressives now say the darnedest things!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014*
*48 minutes a slave:* We progressives! Amidst all the current excitement,
William Rhoden appeared on Hardball last night to discuss his new book.
Improbably enough, the book is called “Forty Million Dollar Slaves.” Chris
Matthews started like this:
MATTHEWS (4/29/14): In his book, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise,
Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete, William Rhoden, who’s right here,
argued that while African-Americans may have achieved wealth from the
[NBA], they haven’t necessarily gained or exercised real power within it.
And with us now is... more »
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*John Barry keeps sending me emails. Oil & Gas Industry wants to settle
with Louisiana!*
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Always watching, never wavering.
*Dear Editilla, *
*Two important pieces of news:First, last week Louisiana’s Attorney General
Buddy Caldwell made public something I've hinted at in my talks: there are
on-going conversations about a statewide settlement. On the Jim Engster
radio show last week (listen here), Caldwell announced that because of the
SLFPAE lawsuit, major oil companies have come to him seeking a statewide
settlement. We've al... more »
MARINA'S STORY
*Marina after meeting child in session four*
*Born in Ireland, 46 years old, catholic, breech birth who suffered
emotionally, sexual and physical abuse from father ~ Marina voluntarily
became my last private practice Skype client and in the process of reading
my Kindle book on Radical Therapy and doing its seven heart centered
self-healing sessions, Marina not only found the emotionally lost 5 year
old child within herself but also gave that child a voice. Marina's story
represents a universal lifelong quest for many to find that same precious
c... more »
National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition 2014
It’s almost that time again: National Day of Prayer is tomorrow. It’s a
day for us to come together and pray for those who need praying for.[1]
Like last year, I have some political science related prayer requests:
Fixed effects and people who ask for them to be included in revisions.[2]
Campus parking, any institution
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Poetry Month's Last Day Fragment
*Poetry Month’s Last Day Fragment*
Of days marked by verses sung
across clocks and rulers
songs to celebrate all our gold
variously graded, finely ground
against boot marked hardwood desks
for eons of crumpled yellow tablets
and shavings of graphite hissing
anti-insouciant intensities coded
and set loose on verbal metronomes
calibrated to cross one another
without ever touching, ticks
and tocks bending past to future,
out to in:
Per tons of crocus blossoms
dried by a million days of salty sun
wet sanding moonlit nights
held in dewdrops magnifying
dark and light within, withou... more »
May Your Life Be Narrated by Sarah Palin
There's a bumper sticker slogan that made the rounds a few years ago:
"I want my life to be narrated by Morgan Freeman." There's something that's
comforting about having one's mundane life functions chronicled by Mr.
Freeman's smooth Southern baritone.
"He wearily rises from his bed and begins the latest of countless
treks to the bathroom. And he's going to make water regardless of what the
Miss Daisys of the world say..."
To me, the most vicious imprecation one can bestow upon any gun
clutcher, homphobe, Teabagger and garden variety right wing nut job is to
have Sara... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Punish them all!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014Part 2—Roxane Gay and the soul of Salon:* This
site exists to critique our press corps, not our NBA owners.
That said, we’ll have to admit that we’re glad to see Donald Sterling
getting the boot.
How absurd a figure is Sterling? This 2009 profile from ESPN makes him
sound like he’s next in line to rule North Korea, so weird does his
long-time conduct and thinking seem to have been.
(Are you sure there are no organic brain problems? We *wouldn’t* feel real
sure of that.)
For ourselves, we always favor “pitying the poor immigrant.” Would *you*want to be t... more »
More on Two Americas
More on Two Americas. via More on Two Americas.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS:
Becoming Radical
Beruit
On September 26, 1983,* "the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted an
Iranian diplomatic communications message from the Iranian intelligence
agency, the Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS),"* to its
ambassador, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, in Damascus. The message directed the
ambassador to
*"take spectacular action against the American Marines."*
The intercepted message, dated September 26, would not be passed to the
Marines until October 26: *three days after the bombing.*
*The explosion of the Marine Corps building in Beirut, Lebanon on October
23, 1983 created a la... more »
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Canadian citizens with no criminal record surveilled on purpose. I go no
problem if you thought I was going to plant a bomb. The fact is that your
more likely to win the lottery than to find a Canadian Citizen that would
do a fellow citizen indiscriminate harm. The terrorist threat is an an
invention because we have some kind of peace between nations. Why do we
need so many cops when the crime rate is dropping? Same for the military.
Who you going to fight with $200 million dollars fighters that
aerodynamically would have been grounded in Vietnamm?
We already with first past the pos... more »
Evidence on a voir dire forms no part of trial proper
*Sadikov* [2014] OJ No. 376:
30 A voir dire is held to determine the admissibility of evidence
proposed for admission by a party to a criminal proceeding: R. v. Parsons (1977),
17 O.R. (2d) 465 (C.A.), at p. 469, aff'd [1980] 1 S.C.R. 785. On the voir
dire, it is for the trial judge to determine whether the conditions
precedent to the admissibility of the proposed evidence have been met. The
voir dire is a separate proceeding from the trial proper and the evidence
taken on a voir dire forms no part of the evidence at trial unless the
parties expressly agree to its incorpora... more »
Never Mind the Ethics - Get Children Reading
Today we are alarmed at the report in The Bookseller that Kobo and Fast
food chain McDonald’s are teaming with, Hodder Children’s Books and
National Literacy Trust (NLT) to give away ebooks to children when they buy
a Happy Meal Box at the fast food chain.
Every Happy Meal box will come with an e-book voucher, which will allow
customers to download a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton from Hodder
Children’s Books. This new promotion is in addition to the existing one,
where boxes contain one of six of Blyton’s Secret Seven stories and a £1
voucher that is redeemable to buy a Secret ... more »
Another Election Surprise For Iraq?
April 30, 2014 Iraqis head to the polls in the general election. Iraq’s
last few elections have all provided surprises, and this one looks to be no
different. In 2009, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s new State of Law (SOL)
party swept the south and Baghdad in the provincial elections building upon
his success against Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra, Maysan, and
Baghdad, his military campaign against insurgents in Mosul, and challenging
the Kurds over the disputed territories the year before. The Islamic
Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) was the big loser as the voters punished... more »
Bob Hoskins R.I.P.
I was shocked to learn that Bob Hoskins has died at the age of just 71. It
was only a few days ago that Mrs NotaSheep and I were watching him in
Mermaids, a much underrated performance of his.
I'm sure most of the reports will centre upon his role in the mediocre (in
my view) Who Framed Roger Rabbit but I prefer to remember him in that great
1980 London film The Long Good Friday.
Hopefully one of the TV channels will show this film in its entirety, and
if they do you MUST watch it, but in the meantime here's the ending of that
marvellous film with one of the great Londoner speeches... more »
Every breath you take
I wonder if anyone cares that the Federal Government of Canada asked the
telecoms 11 million times to see the activity of Canadians. I am not doing
anything wrong. Thats not the truth I have done a lot of things wrong. The
end point is the goverment sells the ruined lives of the people they
prosecute for profit. Watch now while that job he is ten times
overqualified is denied because the database said he was a liberal. Think
it will not happen, Jebus people in the last century saw this so clear and
made some money writing books about it.
Teachers at International HS at Prospect Heights Refuse to Give NYC ELA Test
From Monty Neill:
**Media Advisory**
26 Teachers and Staff of International High School at Prospect
Heights refuse to give NYC ELA Performance Assessment Test
WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 7:45-8:20am,
WHERE: International High School at Prospect Heights, 883 Classon
Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
WHAT: Teachers will hold a press conference to announce their
refusal to administer the NYC ELA Performance Assessment. 26
teachers and staff at Prospect Heights International High School are
refusing to administer a new assessment that is part of the new
teacher evaluation system ... more »
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*Still Parading: Second-line shooting survivor returns to the route ~Nancy
Parker, WVUE*
*Inmate advocates want Gusman held in contempt over fire safety shortfalls
at OPP ~Jim Mustian, New Orleans Advocate*
*Mayor Mitchmo seeks special riverfront tax district to pay for decrees and
pensions ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*French Quarter bar cited for having crime cameras, flood lights ~Paul
Murphy, WWLTV *
*Fair Grounds pledges upgrades for license renewal ~Ted Lewis*
*West Bank levee authority to get new director ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans
Advocate*
*May is American Wetlands Month!*... more »
Wild Bill: Invading Enemy Territory...
*we are winning. *
Someone Else Will Pick Up The Tab
The Harperites promised Canada's Afghan Veterans a National Day of Honour.
But they're not going to pay for it. Tim Harper writes:
Corporate Canada and True Patriot Love, the charitable foundation that is
raising the money to get families to the capital to be properly honoured,
deserve credit.
They have stepped in to allow the Harper government to do this on the cheap.
The highlight for families arriving in Ottawa will be a private breakfast
with Prime Minister Stephen
Harper and other VIPs, with corporate donations of $10,000 or more
guaranteeing your company prime signage and r... more »
Ukraine Updates April 28 , 2014 --Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes has suffered an attempt on his life on Monday ( shot in the back , in surgery fighting for his life ) ...... Anti - russian sanctions to hit German economy hard ........ Appointed governor of Donetsk region calls for holding all-Ukraine referendum May 25 ........ US to roll out additional sanctions against Russian individuals and companies Monday ( Putin not on list .) ........ Federalists have now taken approximately a dozen town in south - eastern ukraine .......... EU also set to unroll its additional sanctions today ( 15 individuals added to blacklist ) .......British Official william Hague say he' willing to accept economic damage to the British economy to hurt Russia , Austria leads skeptical EU nations regarding blowing up their economies in an attempt to harm Putin....
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/mayor-east-ukraine-city-kharkiv-shot-back
Pro-Russian Mayor Of East Ukraine City Of Kharkiv Shot In The Back
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On the day in which Barack Obama announced earlier he would unveil another
round of sanctions against Russia (most likely involving the heads of both
Gazprom and Rosneft), moments ago the already tense situation took another
turn for the worse when Interfax blaste... more »
People Want To Know Why We Endorsed Bonnie Watson Coleman In NJ-12 Instead of Linda Greenstein. OK, Here's Why
Bonnie knows what team she's playing for-- New Jersey's working families
When Blue America decided to endorse Bonnie Watson Coleman one thing that
weighed heavily on our decision was how-- when the climate was tough--
Bonnie stuck with Barbara Buono while the Linda Greenstein was running ads
touting her fealty to Christie. It drove many of us at Blue America up the
wall at the time and it made our endorsement of Bonnie pretty much
inevitable. There have been a lot of people telling us that either would be
a good replacement for Rush Holt and that both are "progressive Democrats."
Tha... more »
A guilty plea does not ALWAYS reflect an agreement to actually committing the offence
*{But note it is unethical for counsel to assist in the making of a guilty
plea where an accused does not accept actual guilt - RPC 5.1-8(c))*
*Kumar*, 2011 ONCA 120:
[34] As this court explained in *R. v. Hanemaayer*, (2008), 234
C.C.C. (3d) 3 and *R. v. T. (R.)* (1992), 10 O.R. (3d) 514, even though an
appellant’s plea of guilty appears to meet all the traditional tests for a
valid guilty plea, the court retains a discretion, to be exercised in the
interests of justice, to receive fresh evidence to explain the
circumstances that led to the guilty plea and that demonstrate... more »
US Economic Data April 30 , 2014 -- US GDP falls to 0.1 percent ( consensus number / estimate was 1.2 percent ! ) ...... ADP 220K Print Beats Expectations, Continues To Goal-Seek Historical Revisions To Ape BLS Data , we shall see what BLS numbers are on Friday !
GDP Shocker: US Economic Growth Crashes To Just 0.1% In Q1
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- Obamacare
- Steve Liesman
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Despite consensus at 1.2% growth QoQ, the "weather" destroyed the fragile
stimulus-led economy of the US which managed only a *de minimus +0.1% QoQ
growth (the lowest since Q1 2011)*. However, as Steve Liesman noted on the
heels of Mark Zandi's comments "basically ignore this number" - ok then. *Spending
on Services, however, surged by the most since 2000* - herald... more »
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*Want to Start a Private Postsecondary School in California? Good Luck*
Not everyone wants to attend a traditional four-year college. A lot of
people want to learn a trade and start a career immediately out of high
school. Vocational schools have served these people in the past and helped
them learn a trade in fields such as automotive repair, cosmetology, or
nursing.
Other people want more flexibility than a traditional college typically
provides and opt for small for-profit colleges, many with evening classes.
But government bureaucrats are stifling entrepreneurs who want to star... more »
China's view of Obama's Asian Trip: Failure, Possibly damaged U.S and China relationship. China, Russia taking over Commodities (metals) pricing.
So how much did the U.S. taxpayers spend to send Obama over to Asia? It
was a trip that was suppose to strengthen trade agreements and be a
friendly one. China does not see it as accomplishing any strength in trade
agreements and it was anything but friendly from China's eyes. The People's
Daily Chinese news site is the voice of the government there. They have an
article out about how
Ukraine Updates - April 30 , 2014 -- Eastern Regions out of control ( as per Ukraine's Acting President ) ....... Kiev's Maidan protesters brawl - shots fired , explosives and Far Right in the middle of things ......
Russia Today ......
Ukrainian army ‘on full alert’, president admits east is beyond control
Published time: April 30, 2014 09:01
Edited time: April 30, 2014 10:31
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[image: A Ukrainian soldier stands guard in front of an armoured personnel
carrier on a road at a check point near the village of Malinivka, southeast
of Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine April 29, 2014. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)]
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard in front of an armoured personnel carrier
on a road at a check point near the village of Malinivka, southeast of
Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine April 29, 2014.... more »
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery April 28 , 2014 - Day 50 ------ SYDNEY: The chance of finding floating debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has become highly unlikely, and a new phase of the search will focus on a far larger area of the Indian Ocean floor, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on today ( shift away from planes and ships , new focus to be led by underwater vehicles ) , PM Abbott suggests it is possible the airliner will never be found .......... Just one look at the new search region ( consider the term region rather than area for a minute ) reveals this is one gigantic fishing expedition and they have absolutely no idea where to search to find the plane if indeed it's in the indian Ocean !
Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
New Straits Times .....
28 April 2014| last updated at 02:59PM
MH370 Tragedy: Undersea search expanded, may take 6-8 months
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Wednesday Links
*Nothing like a trip to Little Burma to make your stomach happy. This is
all veg, the samosas were divine. Vendor is in the market off Huaxin
Street.*
Longtime activist and veteran of the democracy movement Lin I-hsiung ended
his hunger strike today, his statement is two posts below this post.....
- J Michael in Diplomat on five executions and the political crisis in
Taiwan
- Taiwan Thinktank (pro-pan-Green) says most want nuke plant halted
before referendum on plant
- Jack Healy in Huffington Post on the Sunflower Movement. Bonus: rips
TECO employee for commentin... more »
War Watch April 30 , 2014 -- Iraqis vote amid looming threat of violence . Voters head to polling stations amid tight security and reports of at least four attacks outside the capital, Baghdad ....... Major Rebel Car Bombings Kill 54, Wound Over 200 in Syria Bombings Targeted Crowded Neighborhoods ....... Afghan Panel: US, UK Still Running Illegal Detention Sites on Bases Discovers 23 Detainees Held at British Bases ....... DNA Test: US Ambush in Yemen Didn’t Kill al-Qaeda Bombmaker Unclear Who the Slain Actually Were , death dealing results from government assault that backfires when Al Qaeda ambushes forces......
Iraq......
Iraqis vote amid looming threat of violence
Voters head to polling stations amid tight security and reports of at least
four attacks outside the capital, Baghdad.
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*Baghdad, Iraq* - Iraqis have begun voting in parliamentary elections that
are expected to result in a period of difficult coalition-building, as violence
across the country soars close to its worst levels seen in several years... more »
The Oil of the Caspian Sea
*Iran cautions against extra-regional military presence in Caspian Sea *
On Line: 22 April 2014 15:34
In Print: Wednesday 23 April 2014
*(They mean NATO)*
*TEHRAN* – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has cautioned
against the military presence of any non-littoral states in the Caspian Sea.
Zarif made the remarks during a meeting of the foreign ministers of Caspian
Sea littoral states -- Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and
Turkmenistan -- in Moscow on Tuesday.
“Maintaining the Caspian Sea as a body of water of peace, friendship, and
stability; refraining from... more »
The Black Water Ditch and the Chinese Claim to the Senkakus
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*Another great trip out to Little Burma in Taipei, on Huaxin Street near
the Nanshijiao MRT station (Exit 4, head past the KFC and McDonald's).*
Work! What's that? I'm blogging! I've long wanted to take a moment and
review a very specific and bogus claim that Chinese expansionist scholars
typically use to argue that the Senkakus are Chinese: that a black
ditch/trough formed the boundary between China and the Rykyus (Okinawa)
which would put the boundary north of the Senkakus, which would thus have
been Chinese in the 17th century.
Han-yi Shaw's thesis on how China ... more »
Lord of the Drones
Perhaps one of the more insidious developments of the Barack Obama
presidency has been the normalization as well as public acceptance of the
murder by drone policy of the Empire. The man who gets his daily kill list
delivered to him along with his orange juice in the morning has not only
refined the Bush-Cheney "war on terror" by expanding the use of the killer
drones, juicing the surveillance state and further presiding over the
looting of the average American in order to finance Wall Street and their
foreign wars of profit but institutionalized it. With the mounting toll of
civ... more »
U.S. nuclear missile silos still use floppy disks, but have Battlestar Galactica-style cyber security
[image: Minuteman III ICBM]You’d probably expect to encounter all sorts of
crazy technology in a U.S. Air Force nuclear silo. One you might not
expect: floppy disks.
Leslie Stahl of CBS’s 60 Minutes reported from a Wyoming nuclear control
center for a segment that aired on Sunday, and the Cold War-era tech she
found is pretty amazing. But it also makes sense.
The government built facilities for the Minuteman missiles in the 1960s and
1970s, and though the missiles have been upgraded numerous times to make
them safer and more reliable, the bases themselves haven’t changed much.
Re... more »
My Whittier Blvd. Connection: Salazar: Man in the Middle
4th entry (5th coming up... actual review of the documentary)
April 29, 2014
http://rubensalazarpbs.org/blog/
My Whittier Blvd. Connection
By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
In my first entry, I mentioned that I have always felt a connection with
Ruben Salazar because I was nearly killed by Sheriff’s deputies on Whittier
Blvd., a few streets down from where he was killed.
To me, I always considered the Silver Dollar Café a place of pilgrimage. It
was located across the street from Sounds of Music record store, which
itself had its own fame among the lowrider scene. For years, the Silver... more »
Don't Forget How the harpercons Treated Veterans
The anti-democratic harpercon base had one day to bray like jackasses about
how Elections Canada threw in the towel on the 2011 election fraud scandal
before they had to regroup and spew the talking points defending Jason
Kenney's Cheap Foreign Worker Program scandal.
I'm sure it's not easy being so loathsome and revolting.
But keep up the pressure. When the next election comes, don't forget to
make the harpercons' abysmal, appalling and screechingly hypocritical abuse
of veterans a major issue.
America: A Pacific power?
*April 30, 2014* (Nile Bowie - RT) - As Washington pursues its rebalancing
strategy, Obama’s historic four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific has subtly
altered the region’s security dynamics.
*"The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,"* declared President
Obama during his speech to the Australian parliament in 2011, following his
announcement to deploy 2,500 marines to northern Australia to help protect
American interests across Asia.
[image: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Ministerial meeting in Singapore
February (Reuters / Edgar Su)]
Trans-Pacific Partnership (... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Hymn”
Vangelis, “Hymn”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7fnZ-AQNE
Why Farage Bottled Newark
Patrick Mercer resigning from Parliament because he's *ashamed* of his
wrongdoing? Now there's a welcome change. Perhaps a few more MPs should
take note. In the normal course of things Mercer's career might have had a
footnote on the news, but as it passes into the night it was immediately
overshadowed by one question. Will Nigel Farage stand in the resulting
by-election?
Well, now we know the answer. While dithering has become a thing on the
right of late, what with Dave paralysed in the face of winter flooding,
getting pulled from pillar to post by competing pressures and now dra... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. Their young, blue
star clusters and pink star forming regions along sweeping spiral arms are
guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars
too, like NGC 4449, about 12 million light-years distant. Less than 20,000
light-years across, the small island universe is similar in size, and often
compared to our Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud
(LMC).
*Click image for larger size.*
This remarkable Hubble Space Telescope close-up of the well-studied galaxy
was reprocessed to highlight ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Langston Hughes,"Dreams"
*"Dreams"*
"Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow."
- Langston Hughes
Carl Friedrich Gauss: a birthday
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß – one of the history's best mathematicians – was
born on April 30th, 1777 (thanks, Moinak), to a poor working-class family
in Northwestern Germany. If you are intrigued by the high number of
"sevens" in his birthday, let me mention that he died when he was 77, too.
*Gauß on the ten-deutsche-mark banknote became an early victim of the euro
(the banknote was worth 5.113 euros).*
His contributions are huge: you may spend an hour just by enumerating
things named after him – including things used by physicists every hour.
The Gaussian distribution, Gauss-Bonn... more »
"When You Were Born..."
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee Expression
Paulo Coelho, “Dreams and Obsessions”
“Dreams and Obsessions”
by Paulo Coelho
“Your theory about every person could reach everything in life is really
optimistic. But if the person tried once and was despaired and disappointed
what is he going to do?” - Antoine Rigal, Lyon, France
“There is sometimes a bit of confusion in regards to a passage in my book
"The Alchemist": “When you want something, all the universe conspires in
helping you to achieve it.” Some people sometimes want things that in the
end won’t truly help them. Life is strange: the happier people can be, the
unhappier they are. I have some friends that thi... more »
"Life..."
"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning."
- Joseph Campbell
Chet Raymo, “Seeking Order In The Natural Order”
*“Seeking Order In The Natural Order”*
by Chet Raymo
“It is a popular misconception that evolution is “just a theory.” On the
contrary, the evidence for the development of life over billions of years
by common descent from simple ancestors is overwhelming. So overwhelming
that most biologists and geologists would call evolution a “fact.”
The influential geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky said “Nothing makes sense
except in the light of evolution.” Nobel prize-winning biologist Peter
Medewar said, “The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to
think at all.” What these t... more »
Sign The Petition To Stop The Outrageous Power Grab To Destroy Organics
Stop Obama's Corporate Coup of Organics!
Right now one of the biggest assaults on the integrity of organic foods is
taking place at the USDA that has ever been conceived, with *high-level
Obama political appointees working behind the scenes with giant corporate
organic to gut 20 years of precedent *in the congressionally-mandated
National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
Even worse, USDA representative Miles McEvoy has illegally taken over the
meeting by appointing himself as meeting “co-chair” in an effort to erode
the authority of, and control the decisions made by allegedly ... more »
The Gates Foundation's Teach Plus once again trying to undermine United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
*"Bill Gates's foundation pays educators to pose alternatives to union
orthodoxies regarding seniority and test scores." "Two other Gates-financed
groups, Educators for Excellence and Teach Plus, have helped amplify the
voices of newer teachers as an alternative to the official views of the
unions. Last summer, members of several such groups had a meeting at the
foundation’s offices in Washington." — New York Times*
Although it's being debated vigorously in United Teachers Los Angeles
(UTLA), let's leave the discussion about UTLA online voting aside
momentarily. Let's even ignore... more »
Russia vs. NATO: Containment 2.0
*April 30, 2014* (Cross Talk - RT) What does Washington's "containment"
policy mean? What threats does it pose? Will it work against today's
Russia? And does this mean Washington has declared a new Cold War?
CrossTalking with Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer.
Wednesday Linkage
Editor’s note: this post originally appeared on my personal blog. It
contains some links to posts that appeared here at the Duck. 1. An
interview with Jim Fearon about Ukraine. Lots of good stuff here, both
about Ukraine and in general. As you’d expect. 2b. Some thoughts from
Branislav Slantchev about Russia’s Cold War Syndrome. c. Anna Pechenkina
reacts.
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Did Nigel Farage 'bottle it' or was his decision a sensible one?
The accusation that Nigel Farage 'bottled it' by deciding not to stand in
the Newark by-election is a meme that is gaining ground but I'm not sure
(to mix my metaphors) if this meme holds water.
First, the EU elections are UKIP's priority, they are a party founded to
oppose the UK's continued membership of the European Union and as such the
EU elections provide the best platform for gathering votes from those
sympathetic to that view. To stand in the Newark by-election would mean a
dilution of the, comparatively, meagre UKIP resources.
Second, whilst standing in the Newark by-electi... more »
Seoul to upgrade missile defense
[image: Patriot PAC-3]South Korea on Monday approved a plan to purchase
scores of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles from the U.S. for
deployment from 2016-2020, the state defense acquisition agency said.
During a top defense decision-making meeting presided over by Defense
Minister Kim Kwan-jin, Seoul endorsed the plan that also includes upgrading
the current missile interception system from 2014 through 2020.
The upgrading work includes enhancing radars, launchers and control
programs.
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Raytheon developing the world's most advanced digital radar
[image: Office of Naval Research (ONR)]The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
has awarded Raytheon Company an $8.5 million base contract to design the
Flexible Distributed Array Radar (FlexDAR), enabling dynamic multi-mission
radars capable of executing a variety of functions including surveillance,
communications and electronic warfare.
"Raytheon is a pioneer in radar development, pushing the limits of
technology to achieve the best possible solutions for our customers," said
Paul Ferraro, vice president of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
Advanced Technology Programs.
"Migrating ... more »
Saudis parade nuclear missiles for the first time in defiance of US-Iranian nuclear accord
Saudi Arabia became the first Middle East nation to publicly exhibit its
nuclear-capable missiles.
The long-range, liquid propellant DF-3 ballistic missile (NATO designated
CSS-2), purchased from China 27 years ago, was displayed for the first time
at a Saudi military parade Tuesday, April 29, in the eastern military town
of Hafar Al-Batin, at the junction of the Saudi-Kuwaiti-Iraqi borders.
The DF-3 has a range of 2,650 km and carries a payload of 2,150 kg. It is
equipped with a single nuclear warhead with a 1-3 MT yield.
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The F-35 JSF: what is a fifth-generation fighter aircraft?
[image: F-35 Lightning II]Any conversation about Australia’s commitment to
the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter refers to it as a fifth-generation fighter
aircraft. But what exactly is a fifth-generation aircraft, and why is it
important?
Both the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Defence Minister David Johnston
spoke of the JSF’s “fifth-generation” capability as Australia now plans to
buy a further 58 aircraft.
The political mantra of the importance of a fifth-generation aircraft begs
the question: What does it mean?
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Star Wars news
The main cast of the new Star Wars film Episode VII has been leaked,
apparently it will include original series stars Harrison Ford, Carrie
Fisher, Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels, as well as Peter Mayhew, Domhnall
Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley. I believe
Andy Serkis will also be involved so expect some motion capture acting as
is all but compulsory in today's blockbusters.
Lin I-hsiung ends hunger strike
Longtime
activist and pro-democracy stalwart Lin I-hsiung has ended his
hunger strike to stop the fourth nuclear plant. His statement in Chinese
is
below (click READ MORE):
感謝你！台灣人！──為停止禁食敬告親友
敬愛的親友....
感謝你！台灣人！──為停止禁食敬告親友
敬愛的親友，
義雄自四月十五日宣布禁食、懇請台灣人民「採取各種積極有力的方法，共同來敦促權責機關『停建核四』」以來，半個月中，全國各地成千上萬、識與不識的親
友，都熱烈地給予關懷和聲援，甚至為我的健康而憂心。廢核團體、公民社團更竭盡全力舉辦各種活動，也獲得許許多多新一代公民積極參與，甚至堅毅地承受國家
暴力的兇殘對待，只為了展示強烈的停建核四意願。政治團體也不落人後，民進黨蘇主席四處奔波，尋求停建核四方案的共識；國民黨內的良知之士，也以言詞或行
動呼應反核四的訴求。這一切愛護鄉土的熱忱以及對我的關愛，使義雄深深感動和感激。
面對這廣大、前所未見的「停建核四」的呼聲，當今的掌權者首度在民意壓力下宣佈「核四全面停工」作為回應，這可以說是反核運動的一個階段性成果。但掌權者
卻又心不甘、情不願地大玩「停工」不是「停建」的文字遊戲，企圖迴避... more »
Boeing continues efforts to keep Chinook, V-22 production humming
[image: V-22 Osprey]Boeing continues to search for new buyers of its CH-47
Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter as it seeks to keep production at its
factory near Philadelphia active beyond the end of this decade.
The company is also seeking overseas customers for the Bell Boeing V-22
Osprey, and is pursuing a plan under which the US Navy would use the type
as resupply aircraft for its carrier battle groups.
“With the way the US defence budget is, international sales [will] help
stabilise the production line and suppliers,” Mark Ballew, Boeing’s
director of vertical lift business develop... more »
China to bring 4 ships to RIMPAC naval exercise
[image: Peace Ark]China plans to bring four ships to Hawaii this summer as
its vessels participate in the world’s largest naval exercises for the
first time.
China is expected to bring the Peace Ark, a navy hospital ship, as well as
an oiler, a frigate and a destroyer, said Lt. Lenaya Rotklein, a
spokeswoman for the U.S. Third Fleet, which is organizing the Rim of the
Pacific exercises.
The drills are scheduled to begin on June 26 and last through Aug. 1.
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F-35 is Liaoning's worst nightmare, says Global Times
[image: Joint Strike Missile]The US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is capable of
combating China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, reports Huanqiu,
the website of China's nationalistic Global Times tabloid.
In a hypothetical aircraft carrier battle between China and the United
States, the main fighter jets would include the United States' F-35C
fifth-generation multirole fighter developed by Lockheed Martin and China's
J-15 carrier-based jet developed by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.
The F-35 is equipped with extremely powerful offensive capabilities for
both land and sea combat, ... more »
EU Firms Help Power China's Military Rise
[image: Z-9EC Maritime Helicopter]As China boosts its military spending,
rattling neighbors over territorial disputes at sea, an Agence France
Presse investigation shows that European countries have approved billions
in transfers of weapons and military-ready technology to the Asian giant.
China's air force relies on French-designed helicopters, while submarines
and frigates involved in Beijing's physical assertion of its claim to vast
swathes of the South China Sea are powered by German and French engines --
part of a separate trade in "dual use" technology to Beijing's armed forces... more »
House markup cuts one LCS, supports 11 carriers
[image: USS Freedom]The House Seapower subcommittee markup that was
revealed on Tuesday offered at least one surprise — cutting the Navy’s
request for three littoral combat ships to only two — but the bill supports
the other new ship requests, including two destroyers and two submarines.
As expected, the mark supports a full 11-carrier fleet and opposes the
Navy’s desire to decommission the aircraft carrier George Washington if
there is no change in the mandated sequestration budget cuts.
The Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee would provide full funding
for the carrier’s r... more »
Untitled
*Comment from tornado-hit Arkansas*
by Doug L. Hoffman
The state of Arkansas, in the south central portion of the United States,
was struck last night by a number of storms that spawned deadly and
destructive tornadoes. One of these tornadoes was a half mile wide at its
base and reportedly stayed on the ground for eighty miles. The towns of
Mayflower and Vilonia were particularly hard hit and the death toll
currently stands at 16. Emergency officials and rescue crews are still
searching for survivors. In the face of such a natural calamity people ask
questions such as “could we h... more »
How To Set Up A GMO Free Zone In Your Community
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Lecture on Liberalism, German Politics and the FNF
This coming Tuesday, May 06, our club and the RC of Makati Pio del Pilar
will have a joint meeting with a distinguished speaker, the Country
Director of the FNF, and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP),
Jules Maaten.
There is good feedback about this "interesting topic" and hence, we hope
many people, rotarians and non-rotarians, will come and listen to Jules.
A short background. All political foundations (Friedrich Naumann
Foundation/FNF, Friedrich Ebert Foundation/FEF, Konrad Adenauer
Foundation/KAF, Hans Seidel Foundation/HSF,...) are affiliated with German
politic... more »
Neoliberalism's War On Democracy (By Both Parties) Revealed As Attack On Future USA Way of Life (Not To Mention the World's Response)
"How about a Zombie kit?" "We're way beyond that, kid. Don't know what good
a Zombie kit will do now." - Fargo . . . the Republican Party’s social
Darwinist budget plans that reward the rich and cut aid for those who need
it the most. For instance, the 2012 Romney/Ryan budget plan “proposed to
cut the taxes of households earning over $1 million by an average of
$295,874 a year,”8 at a
Marilyn Katz : Sipping lattes on the edge of a Volcano
What do Palestinians, human rights workers, progressive Israelis, and
Israeli settlers have to say about daily life in an occupied land? By
Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | April 29, 2014 Part two of two. The
international news coverage … finish reading Marilyn Katz :
Sipping lattes on the edge of a Volcano
Hinduism for physicists
*Or why non-Abrahamic Eastern religions do not have any conflict with
science*
*Guest blog by Kashyap Vasavada, professor emeritus of physics,
Purdue/Indianapolis universities*
First of all, I thank Luboš for giving me an opportunity to express my
views on this guest blog. I think, most of you, like me, read his blog to
understand recent developments in physics. Luboš does an outstanding job in
explaining these matters from a technical point of view and fills the gap
between popular articles and original papers admirably. Social and
political issues are also discussed here often, b... more »
Change The World Wednesday - No Circling
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
Will Aaron Schock Be Collateral Damage As The Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm Scandal Unfolds?
Aaron has always been a sucker for psychotic blue eyes on tough guys
Yesterday, just as the news was breaking that Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm,
the Mafia-connected (Gambino Crime Family) Staten Island Republican was in
federal custody and had been indicted on *twenty* counts, one of his
colleagues in the House of Representatives, a prominent attorney who knows
how to read indictments, e-mailed me:
*Tax fraud-- just like Al Capone*
The New York papers are, predictably, having a field day. But the *Times*,
which has been on the Grimm case for as many years as the FBI, is reporting
cal... more »
Anti-Choice: Voice in the Wilderness
Further to my most recent post, there are more indications that the fetus
fetishists are increasingly nervous, especially over renewed resolve and
activism in New Brunswick.
From the recent NB Liberal policy meeting:
The most significant shift from the weekend came on abortion rights as two
resolutions were overwhelmingly approved by grassroots members. The
resolutions broke from the policy first established by former Liberal
premier Frank McKenna.
The two policies refer to family planning services and reproductive health
but the meaning was clear: with the pending closure of the M... more »
In Fear of Vaccines?
*Since there’s been much debate and misunderstanding about an alleged link
between vaccines and autism, I asked Linda from the fabulously rational **Autism
and Oughtisms** blog to write this Guest Post* *for any parents worried
about making a vaccination decision in the face of so many anti-vaccine
stories.*
[image: Girl and doctor with injection]Fear of the unknown drives people to
do crazy things. They’ll cling desperately to proposed answers -- however
poorly supported those answers are -- merely because they *are* answers;
any explanation is considered better than no explanati... more »
So, @theNation questions the “whiteness” of the Left, and…
… and brings up the recent Network for Public Education conference in
Austin, TX, many of whom in attendance I know and I consider friends. The
lede: At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public
Education conference in Austin in March, an audience member asked the
all-white panel for its definition of […]
The Table of Contents to My Book
On April 27, 2014, I announced publication of my book, A Chronicle of
Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. I realize
that the Amazon.com listing of my book currently lacks the interactive
component allowing shoppers the opportunity to “look inside” the book. So,
I have decided to offer some “peeks.” In my post entitled, Bush […]
Food Watch: Aren't you just dying to know what the World's Best Dumpling is?
*And the World's Best Dumpling is . . .* *Oh wait, we probably shouldn't
spoil the suspense. Hey, just keep yer pants on. (For the record, these
[REDACTED]s are made with crab paste, which apparently is okay but isn't
necessarily part of the [REDACTED].) *
*by Ken*
You'd be hard put to find someone who loves dumplings more than I do. I
always say that I've never met a dumpling I didn't like, though every time
I say it, I realize this is not -- as I often say -- the sort of thing you
really want to put in the form of a challenge. It doesn't take any time at
all to start thinking of... more »
Bilateral Climate Cooperation between China and the United States: What Should We Expect?
One of this weeks big news items in international relations was the
progress that China and the United States had made in their bilateral
climate talks (gated but free registration available). While it is too
early to say if the talks result in concrete action, this is the first time
since forever that the two
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Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress TruthThe Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney
*25 Rules of Disinformation: How to Fight Back*
*8 Traits of The Disinformationalist: *
*What to Look For*
*The Short Version: 25 Rules and 8 Traits*
------------------------------
*Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: *
*The Rules of Disinformation*
(Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)
by H. Michael Sweeney
copyright (c) 1997, 2000, 2001 All rights reserved (Edited June 2001)
Permission to reprint/distribute hereby granted for any non commercial use
provided information reproduced in its entirety and with author information
in tact. For more ... more »
This is What Political Science Looks Like
[image: image]
Students of Political Science might care to look at how science is done in
the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose recently released
“scientific report” is filled with predictions of gloom and doom put there
by … whom? Read on to see how, and by whom, those all important “summaries
of the scientific consensus” are written. It might surprise you:
*Understanding The 97% Consensus*
It turns out that 97% of IPCC scientists are actually government officials.
* Prof Stavins, Harvard’s Professor of Business and Government, was
one of two ‘coordi... more »
NYSED, @EngageNY, and the Module Money Pit.
As part of its rushed implementation of the Common Core, the New York
State Education department contracted with three entities to create
scripted module lessons for schools across the Empire State at a cost of
$12.9 million. Some schools trusted their educators to create their own
lessons that would best suit their classrooms. Other schools, possibly out
of […]
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 2: On Redistribution
[image: -- "The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the
richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from
the individual to the State" -- Bertrand de Jouvenel, economist,
philosopher and co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947.]
*"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the
richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from
the individual to t... more »
Here We Go Again: Another Syria Chemical Weapons Tale
MORE WAR PORN TO PUSH FOR US ATTACK ON SYRIA
It is hard not to be completely distracted by the endless torrent of war
propaganda over Ukraine and getting Americans whipped up into a bloody
frenzy of hatred towards Russia and Vladimir Putin but there is another
lurid tale of Syrian gas attacks on civilians making the rounds this week.
While it is nowhere near as intense an effort to promote lies upon which to
base the long-desired apple of the neocon's eye that is regime change in
Damascus as we saw back last summer when Obama and his incredible shrinking
Secretary of State John Ker... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 1: Still the most serious symptom of our times…
"Straightforwardness is a foolish old-fashioned habit, a custom we have
outgrown. 'We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we
hid ourselves.' We repeat, this is the most serious symptom of our
times. The newspapers which have been speculating as to the disasters
which are to flow, after a thousand years, from England's future want
of coal, would do better to inquire into the far greater disasters which
threaten
at our door through England's present lack of supreme reverence for truth."
- John Ruskin, from
*Fors clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Gre... more »
Satire: “Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”
*“Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”*
by Andy Borowitz
LOS ANGELES (The Borowitz Report) — “After being banned by the N.B.A.
Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told
reporters that he would miss being around people he hates. “Sure, I’m
saddened by this,” Sterling said. “Sitting in the stands night after night,
a boiling cauldron of hatred bubbling inside me—it doesn’t get better than
that. Those were good times.Knowing that I’ll never be able to sit in that
arena again and look down on the people I despise—that hurts the most,” he
s... more »
"The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by Thomas Merton"
Video Title: "The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by
Thomas Merton." Source: Gethsemani3. Date Published: October 16, 2011.
Description:
"The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology On the Environment and
Society As Seen by Thomas Merton"... A talk by Father Ezekiel Lotz OSB...
Recorded at Gethsemani 3 a Buddhist / Catholic conference on the
environment.
Fr. Ezekiel Is a member of Mount Angel Abbey, Saint Benedict, Oregon. He
earned a D.Phil. degree from the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University
in 2005 and teaches at Mount Angel Seminary.
Saturated fat IS good for you, but how much polyunsaturated fat do you need?
Working on the "Real Food" AUT dietary guidelines submission it became
clear that neither the epidemiology of the lipid hypothesis nor the RCT
experiments testing it were designed to separate the supposed
artery-clogging effect of saturated fat from the purported heart-healthy
effect of polyunsaturated fat.
What we had was a series of comparisons of higher SFA and lower PUFA vs.
lower SFA and higher PUFA. There were no investigations of either higher
SFA in a diet with optimal PUFA, or of deficient PUFA in a diet also low in
SFA.
The former of these, higher SFA in a diet with optimal... more »
Has Steve Israel Found The Next Alex Sink?
Courtesy of Joel Cantor
*Joel Cantor’s mansion, built in 2010, was rented for four days in August
during the Republican National Convention for $25,000*
The DCCC and EMILY's List having massively screwed up her campaign, Alex
Sink will not subject herself to a rematch with now-Congressman David Jolly
in November. That leaves Rev. Manuel Sykes as the official Democrat
candidate. But if Steve Israel is going to lose again in Pinellas County,
Manuel Sykes is not the candidate he plans to waste millions on. The DCCC
has been beating the bushes looking for another deep-pocketed self-fund... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The Roger in Rogernomics
*Your chance this week at Auckland Uni Econ Group to question a former
politician whose economic programme of thirty years ago still casts a long
shadow over the political landscape today.*
Hi everyone,
Welcome back from the study break. We have some great speakers lined up for
the Economics Group starting this week.
This Thursday we are delighted to have join us a very significant figure
from New Zealand's economic history - Roger Douglas.
As Minister of Finance in the Labour government from 1984 to 1988 Roger
Douglas implemented a series of economic reforms often referred to as... more »
CITO
This is International CITO weekend for us geocachers. CITO stands for
"Cache In, Trash Out" (the idea being that while we're geocaching in public
areas we also pick up trash) and today Southern Man will join some fellow
'cachers from a semi-nearby city (as it turns out, the same semi-nearby
city in which Southern Daughter lives with her mother, which will become
relevant later in this post) to clean up an area park. It was a three-hour
drive (well, with one hour in reserve for geocaching) so Southern Man was
on the road before dawn...
Did we mention that there would be geocaching a... more »
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday this year was fairly laid back; church in the morning, and
much of the family gathered at the Ancestral Manor for lunch.
Southern Son and Southern Daughter. Unfortunately Southern Daughter chucked
her lovely Easter dress and revereted to t-shirt and shorts as soon as we
pulled up.
Southern Daughter and Adopted Southern Nephew.
My, what a big...gun you have there, Nephew!
And let us remember the reason we celebrate today...
As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe
sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," h... more »
“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad”
*“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow;*
*There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad” *
by Bob Nichols, “Veterans Today”
“My opinion only, as requested by Alfred Webre, Dec 28, 2013, 1,024 Days
from Mar 11, 2011.
*First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction
Level Event. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. *
We can extend our lives somewhat, though. These steps are personal. People
can do them or not. You will die quicker, or later, your choice.
1. Take off your shoes and outer ware (coats) when you enter your ... more »
"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"
*"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, *
*It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"*
The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found…Scattered All Over Japan
by WashingtonsBlog
"We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks –
that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered
up that fact for months.
The next month, we reported that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered
something much worse: nuclear melt-*throughs*, where the nuclear fuel
melted through the containment vessels and into the ground. At the time,
this was described as... more »
John Kerry has "proof" that Russia is behind rebellion in Luhansk
Or so John Kerry claims? Or so the Telegraph is reporting John Kerry
claiming this?
And let's read the claim of proof.. Ukraine separatists push east as UN
intercepts Moscow orders
Please take note that this oh so explosive proof warrants just a few
sentences in this entire article.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, revealed that American eavesdroppers
have overheard intelligence operatives being directed by Moscow.
"We know exactly who's giving those orders, we know where they are coming
from," he said, in remarks to a private meeting that were leaked on
Tuesday.
"Intel i... more »
Welcome to Tuscaloosa’s schools!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*Nobody cares about this:* Last week, we recommended the lengthy report in
The Atlantic about the Tuscaloosa City schools—more specifically, about the
“return of segregation” to those schools over the past fifteen years.
The lengthy report, “Segregation Now...,” was written by Nikole
Hannah-Jones of ProPublica. In our view, the report is fascinating in
various ways, though we don’t always mean that as a compliment.
As noted, Hannah-Jones’ report is quite lengthy. In our view, it seems to
cover some parts of this story well.
We’d say it covers other parts ... more »
#breaking BBC News
*Thanks to breaking news from the Gruadian, Twitter is ablaze tonight with
news about the latest changes at the BBC.*
*As Sue and myself have our ultra-trendy fingertips ever poised upon on the
racing pulse of modern social media, here are our latest twitterings on
who's in and who's out at the Beeeeeb...*
Oh good, Mark Mardell has been dropped as the BBC's North America editor, *#greatnews
*and *#ohdavidpreiser(usa)will be pleased. *
Oh no though, Mark Mardell is going to become the presenter of Radio 4's *The
World This Weekend *instead, *#morebiasontheway *and #
*thatstheworldth... more »
An Interview with Piketty
On NPR...and I chime in as well.
April 29: The TandT is a disgrace.....
...particularly on this day.
We are in the midst of the severest crisis most of us have ever faced. And
there's not a word of it in the paper. The banner headline is that the
Shediac campground is taking its next step. Well, yeah. There are lots of
steps to starting a major campground. So are we going to get that nothing
headline for the next month or more?
On A3, a Riverview business committee recommends that business be involved
in ALL decisions of city council. The council went wildly enthusiastic,
and had puppies on the spot.. Obviously, nobody on that council knows the
meani... more »
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
The US airborne division, which is to take part in NATO exercise 'Spring
Storm' in May arrived in Estonia. Around 150 personnel arrived in the
military transport aircraft to the Amari airbase, according to the
country's defense ministry.
Estonia is on Russia's border.
These working class kids, with little other job prospects, sent into
another potential meat grinder...when will we ever learn. We don't seem to
care unless it is our kid. They are all our children - on all sides.
Enough of this war mongering!
A genius idea for a new angle on porn (pun intended) - Slightly NSFW
GoPro: Girl Running with a gopro (head mount).
That's cleavagetastic!
*Thanks to Theo Spark *
Paul van Dyk - Crush
Exams and testing, I thought I was done with them a long time ago. And when
I got the new job, well, chances are I'd be setting them. But no.
All new academic staff at our place have to participate in the Post
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education programme. HE is a market and the
emboldened student/consumer demands fully trained teaching staff. I can see
the logic, as it happens. Anyway, no proper blogging tonight as I'm near
the end of my teaching portfolio. 7,200 words done so far, 10 out of 12
competencies covered. Therefore the pearls I leave you this evening are of
the mus... more »
Free Gaza Propaganda
*[Did I hear a certain someone talk about "the BBC’s habit of allowing a
litany of embellished falsehoods to be repeated on air, unchallenged",
recently? Hmm, yes I did, and talking of which....]*
Radio 4's *The Listening Project* is an attempt by the BBC and the British
Library "to build a unique picture of our lives today" by "asking people up
and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend
or relative".
*Biased BBC*'s Alan had the misfortune to hear one of last Friday's
editions of the ongoing series, *Adie and Ruth - Adventure in the Blood*,
in wh... more »
CorpEd Profiteers and Privatizers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Over Test Refusal
NEWS
Washington Post
Malloy: CT could lose money if many students *opt out* of standardized
*tests*
The CT Mirror
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday that federal law restricts students from
opting out of taking standardized *tests*, and if the state were to give
students ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs ... Tribune highlighted a
burgeoning *opt-out*movement that is exempting students from standar... more »
I will be documenting my trip to Mexico to go to the Dentist... from start to finish. $12,000 (U.S. prices) of dental work for $1500 in Mexico.
I am going to be going to Mexico for a dentist trip. I had written a
little about it the other day, wanting to get donations for another to go
with me to do a complete documentary it all. I took that post down after a
few hours, as I did not feel comfortable asking for donations. I am going
to the dentist and will be leaving May 11th. and will be in Merida Mexico
until the 18th. Merida
Do more lectures improve student performance?
Yes, finds a new experimental study, but the authors interpret the effects
as modest in size. One group of students in introductory
microeconomics got a lecture twice a week (what the authors call the
"traditional" format), and the other group of students got a lecture only
once a week. All the students had the same access to online resources and
the same wonderful textbook. (You can guess which one.) The results:
We find that students in the traditional format scored 2.3 percentage
points more on a 100-point scale on the combined midterm and final. There
were no differences betw... more »
Incrementalism: Admission of Futility?
Some time ago, I discovered the Wingnut Wedgie that divides fetus
fetishists into abolitionists and incrementalists.
It has never gone away as an issue among them, with some demanding nothing
less than absolute forced pregnancy for all and others, perhaps recognizing
the futility of their cause, willing to settle for any kind of law at all.
As a first step, note, to a complete ban.
Here we go again with our pal, astroturfer and dominionist Mike Schouten,
raising the question and seeming to invite discussion.
Here's a stunning admission. He acknowledges that defunding abortion -- t... more »
TRIM THEIR SAILS/SALES
*The Navy's new Zumwalt stealth destroyer being built at Bath Iron Works in
Maine*
*Trim Their Sails/Sales*
Word is getting around
Zumwalt running over
cost projections
was supposed to be $4 billion
some say will run up to
5-6-7 bill each
going to build three of them
The Navy didn't want
Zumwalt
Obama forced it down
their throat
his benefactors,
Crown family in Chicago,
largest stockholders
in General Dynamics
GD owns
Bath Iron Works
Obama owes Crown family
they helped make him prez
the palms are greased
just like on
The House of Cards
The Pentagon worried now
about sequestration
b... more »
Stitching your finger with your sewing machine not recommended, the myth of "catching up", and digital detoxing...
*I'll try to keep this brief (exactly when was an Italian woman ever
brief?)*
I endeavor to maintain a schedule of sorts. My weekly planner is home made
and based loosely on David Allen's Getting Things Done.
The top 1/3 of the page is for my weekly goals. The middle is for my
actual schedule based on what's in the top 1/3, and the bottom 1/3 is for
notes (green ink for garden stuff ), along with my few appointments (in red
ink.)
I decided a few weeks ago that putting everything, or what seemed like
everything, in the top 1/3 wasn't working very well. I did an Excel
spreadsheet... more »
The Economy: “Is Capitalism Doomed?”
*“Is Capitalism Doomed?”*
by Bill Bonner
Gualfin, Argentina. “The Dow went up 87 points yesterday. Gold went
nowhere. Our guess: Neither stocks nor gold knows where to go from here.
The economy is still weak, with mortgage lending at its lowest point in 14
years. But the Fed is still holding interest rates down... and feeding
plenty of QE money into the market. The Fed is expected to continue
tapering its QE program next month, taking another $10 billion off its
monthly allowance for buying bonds from the private sector. But for the
moment, economist Richard Duncan tells us that th... more »
CA-33: Dual Endorsement-- Ted Lieu And Marianne Williamson
Ted Lieu and Marianne Williamson-- every district should get this lucky!
Rarely does a district get even *one* candidate running for Congress as
stellar as either state Senator Ted Lieu or inspirational author Marianne
Williamson, let alone *two*. Why can't my district-- right next door-- have
someone good running for Congress? In fact, the very first time I spoke
with Marianne was to beg her to run against Blue Dog warmonger Adam Schiff.
At the time, her home was right on the boundary between the two districts.
It was almost as though she was a Waxman constituent in the living room a... more »
Civil Forfeiture
*Ontario (Attorney General) v. $10,000.00 in Canadian Currency (In Rem),*
2014 ONSC 944:
[7] “Unlawful activity” is defined in the Act as an act or
omission that is an offence under an act of Canada, Ontario or another
province or territory of Canada or even outside of Canada, if a similar act
or omission would be an offence in Ontario if committed here. The Attorney
General does not have to prove that the property in question is related to
any particular offence: Chatterjee v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2009 SCC
19 (CanLII), [2009] 1 S.C.R. 624, at para. 21. Howev... more »
The way our greatest newspaper “reasons!”
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*In the end, this can lead to no good: *In this morning’s New York Times,
the editors beat on Donald Sterling.
That isn’t especially hard to do, especially if you’re willing to reason
like this:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL (4/29/14): *It has been widely noted that Mr.
Sterling has a history of bigotry. In 2009, Elgin Baylor, the all-star and
former Clippers’ general manager, accused Mr. Sterling of racial
discrimination in an unsuccessful lawsuit.* That same year, Mr. Sterling,
who made much of his fortune in real estate, paid $2.725 million to settle
a hous... more »
Mike's Story Part 9 - Limbo
*By Jenna Orkin*
* Despite his growing recognition of what he'd lost by *burning his
bridges*, Mike's spirits must have risen when a reporter from an
influential US newspaper flew down with the idea of doing a feature on
him. But emotionally, the conversation itself seems to have been a
precursor of the movie, Collapse:*
*" [S]even hours with the [newspaper] reporter yesterday. I´m writing a
seperate [sic] email which you´ll get. It was in detail and he was serious.
[Mike had been burned by mainstream features before, as a colleague was
reminding him] but it went back through ... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Willie Geist knows script!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*Part 1—Bungling Magic Johnson:* It would be hard to find a more obvious
pseudo-discussion than the current pseudo-discussion, the enthralling
pseudo-discussion about the weird, incoherent and pitiful things Donald
Sterling apparently said.
All the pundits know what to say as they stage this pseudo-discussion. For
starters, all our national pundits admit to being brighter and more
upstanding than Sterling is!
To appearances, it isn’t hard to be brighter and more upstanding than
Sterling in the arena of race. Sterling seems to be almost as clueless as
Cli... more »
Defending the Indefensible in the Late Days of the Testing Orgy
The testing madness is underway this week in Tennessee, where a week of
TCAP counts 15-25 percent of a student's grade and 35-50 percent of a
teacher's evaluation for the other 195 days of the school year. Is that
reason enough for 3rd graders to be vomiting and having nosebleeds on their
test booklets this week?
But the insanity does not stop there. The State of Tennessee is funding
the use of SAT-10 in K-2 again this year, so that benchmarks can be set and
teachers evaluated based on standardized tests that some children cannot
read yet.
But wait, what is that deep rumbling I ... more »
A Very Shocking Video: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Reveals A Bitter Truth - There Are NO Gold Bullion Reserves In America!
For the last few years, I have been stating a very shocking truth here at
this blog again and again... America has absolutely NO Gold Bullion
reserves at all, period.... Few people have ever believed it, and many have
still been promoting the lie that there is plenty of Gold "reserves" in
both Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in the New York Mercantile Bank in New York
City..... I have put up previous articles that state the fact on the
contrary that all of the Gold in the United States was taken away from that
nation decades ago.
But now comes a very interesting and very important video, t... more »
transmission
"So much of who I am is because of Dr. Seuss."
[courtesy of humansofnewyork]
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?. via Where Is Outrage for Systemic
Racism?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
New Article From Whitewraithe: A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish Quotes Throughout The 20th Century
Whitewraithe is back... For those who have been unaware, my closest ally
was laid up over the last while suffering from a very bad case of sinus
infections as well as having some much needed dental surgery done... But
now she is back and putting up articles over at her Pragmatic Witness
website (www.whitewraithe.wordpress.com)....
I want to present for everyone here her latest work that I found to be
fabulous and yet very shocking... It is entitled: "A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish
Quotes Throughout The 20th Century", and indeed shows exactly how these
psychotic criminals truly think, and ho... more »
Iraq Holds Special Voting Despite Terrorist Attacks
Iraq held its special voting on April 28, 2014. The early balloting is
mostly for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). The Iraqi Election Commission
said there was over 90% participation. That was despite a wave of attacks
by the insurgency. That showed that the militants were not able to disrupt
the voting despite their best efforts.
The ISF, prisoners, and those in hospitals came out in high numbers on
April 28 to cast their ballots. The Iraqi Election Commission claimed there
was a 91% turnout in the special voting. In Anbar only 40% participated.
The on going fighting there and ... more »
Back To My Roots: Exposing The Fraud Of NASA's Project Apollo And The Moon Landing Hoax - Why Are Astronauts (Still) Lying?
I started my pursuit of the truth about our very sick world some 35 years
ago ( I still cannot believe it has been that long) when I was exposed to
the truth about NASA and its fraudulent "Project Apollo".... It was a shock
to me, being a man of science, at that time to realize that we have been
lied to and that man has never ever walked on the moon....
As time has gone by, more and more people are finally realizing as part of
their exposure to the truths about our history that NASA has indeed lied to
everyone about its "great achievements" in space travel, especially when it
comes ... more »
In Three Days I Bring the Hammer Down
Did that get your attention?
Did it?
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION MOTHER-FUCKERS????
Okay. Great.
Actually, nothing's happening in three days that I know of. I should just
be out from under a pretty big pile of work and then I'll blog something
big.
Until then, please enjoy this example of high-culture:
President Zeman criticizes "solar madmen" and "green loons"
*Including the EU officials who want to increase the share of "renewable"
sources of energy*
Well, this excerpt from a speech that the current Czech president Miloš
Zeman gave on the today's Forum of Žofín (an island on the Moldau River in
Prague) is one of the clearest reasons explaining why your humble
correspondent didn't hesitate much before he endorsed the self-described
left-winger Zeman as the successor to Václav Klaus.
He would criticize the "solar madmen" and the "green loons".
Let me translate the 2-minute excerpt linked to at the top of this short
blog post:
Zeman... more »
36 Countries where the US has supported Fascists, Drug lords & Terrorists
And bankers... Salon fails to mention the enrichment of banksters, the
banking cartels and the benefit of big business. Whether it be big
agriculture, big oil or the weapons makers? This list is, of course,
grossly inadequate- It only mentions 35 countries, I added Ukraine. Each
nation listed below has more information at this link From Argentina to
Zaire
I am only excerpting from the Salon article:
*1. Afghanistan-* In the 1980s, the U.S. worked with Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia to overthrow Afghanistan’s socialist government. It funded, trained
and armed forces led by conservativ... more »
Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake
*Source: Nuevo Diario Web (Santiago del Estero, Argentina)Date: 04.29.14*
*Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake*
**** Video is making the rounds of social media, creating a heated debate
among Internet users ****
MEXICO - The alleged presence of a UFO moments before an earthquake has
given rise to suspicion and debates online. The video, recorded on April
18, has created two antagonistic lines of thought.
On one hand there are those who believe in the authenticity of the images
and who seek explanations that cause a relationship between both facts; on
the other, the... more »
Joanne Barkan’s Three Types of Criticism of Edu-Philanthropy
Diane Ravitch recently praised Joanne Barkan’s “How to Criticize ‘Big
Philanthropy’ Effectively.” Barkan’s excellent analysis was first presented
at the March 2014 Network for Public Education (NEP) Conference in Austin,
Texas. It is now published in Dissent Magazine. Barkan began with the
oft-repeated question, “You’re going after Bill Gates?” She frequently
hears the argument, “Leave […]
The Big Dog
It really is time to bury the notion that Stephen Harper is a brilliant
strategist. Andrew Coyne writes:
We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of Harper as
master strategist, able to see around corners and think seven moves ahead
and what not, that we tend not to notice how many times he has been
screwing up of late. The sudden and more or less complete rewriting, on the
same day as the Supreme Court decision, of the colossally misjudged Fair
Elections Act, after weeks of waving off any and all criticism as
self-interested or partisan or both? Merely a prudent ... more »
Many New York Democrats Plan To Hold Their Noses When They Vote For Cuomo In November-- Or Will They?
On Sunday, Steve Kornacki took a little look at the expanding rift between
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic base. It's worth
looking at the video above. Salon's Joan Walsh did a particularly excellent
job straightening out Beltway political entrepreneur Ann Lewis, who
actually defended Cuomo by quoting Ronald Reagan. I'm not going to get into
speculating about what the Working Families Party may or may not do, beyond
saying that with the union leadership telling them they;re on their own,
they probably won't do much. Still, good segment from Kornacki.
Wha... more »
Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone
Remember around this time last year when President Obama gave his big
ballyhooed Drone Speech, promising more transparency to the
citizen-consumers of America about who, when, where and why he obliterates
and maims with his flying missiles?
How time does fly, just like a Predator. Five years of Obama drone strikes,
at least 2,500 people in their graves. That's assuming they could find any
body parts to inter.
Meanwhile, buried deep in the cyberspace of Tuesday's online *New York
Times* (so as not to inordinately clash with another, bigger front page
bullshit story about Obama the ... more »
Untitled
*Tornadoes tear through South, add to US death toll ~WWLTV *
*Advertising in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race: A look at the (very big)
numbers ~Stephanie Grace*
*Mayor Mitchmo Landrieu nominates new slate of water board members ~Andrew
Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate*
*Energy company with fracking plans eyes 60,000 acres in St. Tammany Parish
as St. Tammany residents, officials resist fracking ~Faimon A. Roberts III,
B.R. Advocate*
*St. Bernard Project Receives $3 Million for Disaster Recovery Lab
~Philanthropy News Digest*
*Bill to protect Louisiana’s Coastal Fund moves to House floo... more »
Untitled
*Summer School Is For Suckers*
*Take online classes instead*
Students looking for ways to get a cheaper, faster college degree will
inevitably run up against the suggestion that they enroll in summer school.
And until recently that wasn't terrible advice. Taking advantage of lower
off-season tuition offered by many schools or cheap classes at your
hometown community college was a perfectly good way to clear out some less
glamorous requirements and account for your summer without having to work
too hard.
With desperately low on-time graduation rates—only about 38 percent of
studen... more »
Chinese Cashew Chicken with Tayler from Our Fairy Tale
*Today
I am thrilled to have Tayler from Our Fairy Tale here to share her
Chinese Cashew Chicken. I love all of Tayler's recipes and my absolute
favorite part of her blog is her "Kids Write the Darndest Things" from
her
Junior High English class. Make sure to leave her some comment love and
check out her blog! *
Hi, Housewife Eclectic readers! My name is Tayler Morrell and I blog
over
at Our Fairy Tale.
I've been married for a year and half and we are expecting our first
childin July! My husband is finishing his last semester at Brigham Young
University and I teach Junior High Engli... more »
A Book Recommendation For Those Who Have Experienced Trauma
*Life is stressful, anxiety provoking, and frequently traumatic. The result
is that many of us are hurting, and often we are unaware of how deep our
pain runs. *
*These experiences aren't simply over and done with once they have passed.
They each leave their mark, etched deep into both the psyche and the body.
This affects how well we function from this point onwards. *
*The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process shows what stress, anxiety, and
trauma do to our mental wellbeing and physical health. Despite the uffering
we experience in life, Dr. Berceli argues that even the most da... more »
Iveta Bartošová (1966-2014): murdered by tabloid hyenas
*Once best Czech female singer a victim of greedy tabloid journalists*
I admit that this sad event fills me with much stronger emotions than the
death of Gerald Guralnik – who had an appropriate age to die.
*Buttons of Love, 1983*
Iveta Bartošová (CZ, YouTube search) – who was voted the best Czechoslovak
female singer (The Golden Nightingale) three times, in 1986, 1990, 1991 –
committed suicide after a decade in which it was hunted by scum journalists
from the tabloid media. She jumped under the train in Uhříněves (a village
on the Southeastern border of Prague) today.
She was bo... more »
Vegan Recipe - Minestrone Soup
*I love Minestrone Soup ... it's warm and comforting on a cool evening and
reminds me of my Italian Grandmother, who usually had a pot on the stove
when we arrived for a visit. Unfortunately, most recipes for this rustic
dish include ingredients like Pancetta, chicken broth, and Parmesan ...
items which don't fit into a vegan lifestyle.I recently tried a vegetarian
version at a restaurant. Sadly, it was very bland. So I turned to the
Internet for inspiration. I found recipes but, again, they lacked flavor.
So, I headed into the kitchen and, thinking about the bold flavors in my... more »
We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual, so stay on guard.
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The Open Scroll Blog
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Signs of the Season
Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:58 AM PDT
We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual,
so stay on guard. The season of preparation has just past, where the
victims chosen for sacrifice have been abducted and prepared. The Grand
Climax extends from 4/26 to 5/1, and the rituals actually continue through
5/3. 4/30 is Walpurgisnacht, Roodmas Day or Beltane Eve, the greatest
Witches Sabbat. May 1 is May Day, Beltane or Walpurgis Day.
Tuesday the 29th, there will be an annul... more »
HELLO! Books Are Digitally Different
So what will be the next technology must have and what will drive its
adoption? Will media come second and merely follow new technology?
In the last decade we have seen the transition from fixed location desktop
PCs, through luggable laptops, the life and death of the notepad, the ‘air’
laptops and the explosion of the tablet. We have seen single functional
devices such as the eink ereaders come and almost go, the transition from
games only consoles to games anywhere, the death of the music only iPod and
Zune and those video movie players. Home entertainment devices and
interoper... more »
Flip Flopper John Kerry Strikes Again
John "Skull and Bones" Kerry's tour de force as Obama's Secretary of State
continues. Taking a break from his tirades against Russian leader Vladimir
Putin and the refusal of Eastern Ukraine to fall into line to support the
US installed, neo-Nazi infested puppet government in Kiev the esteemed Mr.
Kerry stumbled into dangerous territory for a US establishment figure. In a
speech at what has been described as a closed door meeting of The
Trilateral Commission in a Daily Beast exclusive, Kerry bemoaned the demise
of the latest round of Israel-Palestine peace talks and commented that ... more »
Ukraine Updates April 27 , 2014 --US failing to push economic sanctions against Russia through EU allies ...... Three members of Ukraine’s special anti-terrorist unit Aplha have been detained during a covert mission in Donetsk region, amid the buildup of Kiev’s military near the cities controlled by pro-federalization forces .......... (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said the United States and Europe must join forces to impose sanctions onRussia to stop it destabilizing Ukraine, where armed pro-Russian separatists were for a third day holding eight international observers prisoner. Washington and Brussels are expected, possibly as early as Monday, to name new people and firms close to Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be hit by punitive measures, but there is no consensus yet on wider economic sanctions ........ The combination of the polices of the government in Kiev and Washington blaming Russia for events is pushing the situation in Ukraine to a critical mass which threaten peace in Europe - Willie Wimmer, former Vice President of the OSCE explains his point of view in an interview.......... DONETSK, April 27, /ITAR-TASS/. The Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant (NKMZ) has provided to the people’s militia of Kramatorsk military equipment “for clearance of minefields set by Ukrainian troops near the city during the so-called “antiterrorist operation,” a representative of the press service of the Donetsk People’s Republic told Itar-Tass with reference to NKMZ chairman of the board, deputy of the People’s Council of Kramatorsk Maksim Vlasov.
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-27/quest-find-putins-billions
The Quest To Find "Putin's Billions"
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/27/2014 19:49 -0400
- Germany
- Google
- Layering
- Nationalism
- Natural Gas
- Private Jet
- Reality
- SPY
- The Economist
- Treasury Department
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vladimir Putin
inShare1
Just over a month ago, in the latest round of sanctions against Russia, and
specifically Putin's inner circle of advisors and lieutenants, one person
was sing... more »
Untitled
*A radical idea*
Whether or not man has caused global warming isn’t really the question.
The question that we’re asking now is to what extent the so-called climate
change models have predictive value, when in fact, 114 out of 117
predictions made in regards to global warming have proven wrong.
Warming forecasts have consistently overstated the amount of warming that’s
happening. They also missed the decade and a half long pause in global
warming that we’re currently experiencing.
Dr. Roy Spencer has estimated that as many as 95% of the global warming
models have just been flat out... more »
MiG21-LanceR military pilots haven't flown in long time how much they flew this period
[image: MiG-21 Lancer]National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced on
Friday, in Targu Mures (central Romania) that MiG 21 Lancer fighter jets
fly sorties every day and that Romanian military pilots haven't flown in a
long time how much they've flown in this period.
'Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, measures have been taken by
NATO for the supervision of the airspace of NATO border countries and these
AWACS planes that are used for electronic surveillance, together with the
MApN aviation execute supervisory missions everyday and air-space policing
missions.
(...) S... more »
Russian shipyard lays keel of new class Replenishment Oiler "Academician Pashin” (project 23130)
[image: Project 23130 tanker]On April 26th, 2014, a keel-laying ceremony in
presence of Admiral Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov (Russian Navy's
Commander-in-Chief) took place at Nevsky Shipyard for a new generation of
Replenishment Oiler for the Russian Navy.
Described by the shipyard as "Medium-sized sea tanker Academician Pashin”
(Project 23130) the vessel is the first tanker to be built for the Russian
Navy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The new class of vessel will bring much needed logistical and replenishment
at sea support to the Russian Navy fleet.
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Inspirational E-Book: Seven Lessons Before I Was Able to Become Love by Roxana Jones
A new inspirational e-book with positive words that will open doors to new
outcomes in your life.
Roxana Jones shares once again what she has learned and introduces some of
the turning points she has experienced in the past few years, through this
new collection of *inspirational books *where she describes life lessons
that have been essential on her path of healing and personal
transformation. Use these words of *wisdom* as tools that can help you open
your heart. It is your heart that will understand these short books better
than your mind. Try it and experience it.
*Click o... more »
April 28, 2014 - About 48…
*About 48…*
First of all, I’m going to try to do better with getting articles up here
at Project Camelot. When Kerry offered the opportunity to write a column
and express my views and information I was both flattered and inspired.
Personal issues and a very nasty winter have conspired to dampen my
enthusiasm in addition to my inherent nature of being very mindful of
providing information before vetting it thoroughly. Yeah, I’m a nuts and
bolts kind of guy. Blame it on my background and life experience of
performing all kinds of investigations for over 30 years. In my field of
... more »
Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)
Gerald
Guralnik, a senior physicist at Brown University, died on Saturday:
PBS. Along with Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble, he wrote one of the 1964
papersthat introduced the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble
mechanism, or the Higgs mechanism for short, into particle physics.
I was giving a talk at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in
March
2002 (on the bus, it's 50 minutes from Boston, if I am not mistaken) and
I
believe that he came to the talk but it's a long time ago and I don't
remember for certain.
Guralnik wrote some other other well-known papers about QCD, hadro... more »
E-Book Inspiracional: Siete lecciones antes de poder convertirme en Amor por Roxana Jones
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Un nuevo e-book lleno de inspiración y palabras positivas que abrirá
puertas a nuevos resultados en tu vida.
Roxana Jones, comparte una vez más lo que ha aprendido, e introduce parte
del trabajo individual que ha realizado en los últimos años, a través de
esta nueva colección de *libros de inspiración*, donde describe lecciones
de vida que han sido esenciales en su camino de sanación y transformación
personal. Usa estas palabras de *sabi... more »
Obama in Manila and Air Force One
US President Barack Obama has already left Manila. He stayed for 24 hours
here, arrived yesterday 1:30pm, departed today around 1:30pm too.
Some of my friends in fb posted funny comments, others were angry at the
heavy traffic caused by road closures where Mr. Obama and his tight
security will pass by.
The photos, I got from fb too, which are generally funny. Like this one
below, Pres. Obama telling Pres. Aquino that the former does not want to
see the latter's showbiz sister.
Below are from *JB Baylon*. He gave me permission to post these fb status,
from yesterday until today. ... more »
Thales finalises delivery of maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey
[image: CN235]Thales announces the delivery of the final standard for the
maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey as part of the MELTEM II programme, for
which Thales is the prime contractor.
To this day, five of the six aircraft have been delivered to this standard,
with the sixth set for delivery before the summer.
This follows the three maritime surveillance aircraft which were sent to
the Turkish coastguards last year.
Read more
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Hide From Russian Radar
[image: F-35C Lightning II]The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—the jet that the
Pentagon is counting on to be the stealthy future of its tactical
aircraft—is having all sorts of shortcomings.
But the most serious may be that the JSF is not, in fact, stealthy in the
eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars. Nor is it
particularly good at jamming enemy radar.
Which means the Defense Department is committing hundreds of billions of
dollars to a fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming
aircraft that protect non-stealthy—“radar-shiny,” as some insiders call
them—... more »
Lockheed Martin Receives $611 Million Contract for Production of First PAC-3 MSE Missiles
[image: PAC-3 MSE]Lockheed Martin received a $611 million contract from the
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for the first production order of
the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) following the Army’s successful
Milestone C decision earlier this year.
The contract includes the production of both PAC-3 MSE missiles and
Launcher Modifications Kits (LMKs).
The PAC-3 MSE’s revolutionary two-pulse solid rocket motor provides
increased performance in both altitude and range – while employing the same
proven hit-to-kill technology that the PAC-3 Missile uniquely brings to the ... more »
Iraqi helicopters strike Al Qaida ISIL convoy in Syrian territory
[image: AH-64D Apache]For the first time in decades, Iraq has attacked
neighboring Syria.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said the Iraq Army
attacked a convoy in eastern Syria.
Officials said Iraqi helicopters fired missiles toward vehicles sent by Al
Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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Putin gives green light to sale of S-400 missile system to China
[image: S-400 triumph]Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has given a green
light to sell the country's newest S-400 air defense guided missile system
to China, which Russian media claim will give Beijing an edge in the
airspace of the Taiwan Strait and over islands in the East China Sea at the
center of a dispute with Japan, reports the military news website of
Huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language website of China's Global Times.
Beijing has been interested in acquiring the guided missile system since
2011.
Two years ago, Russia talked with several countries interested in buying
the... more »
Conservatives vow to speed release of report on CF-18 replacement
[image: CF-18 Hornet]Ottawa is relenting to external pressure and now
promising to speed up the release of a “public report” on the fighter jets
pegged to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18s.
The document, which has been put together for widespread release, lists the
risks and benefits of the four fighter jets that were involved in an
“options analysis” overseen by the Canadian Forces.
Last week, officials at Public Works and Government Services Canada told
The Globe and Mail that the report would only be released “once the
government has made a decision on a path forward.”
Read more
UK Deploys Four RAF Jets to Patrol Baltics
[image: Eurofighter Typhoon]Britain is deploying four Typhoon fighter-jets
to the Baltics as part of a Nato show of support against the backdrop of
the Ukraine crisis.
The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, said: "In the wake of recent events
in Ukraine, it is right that Nato takes steps to reaffirm very publicly its
commitment to the collective security of its members."
The events in the Ukraine have increased nervousness in the Baltic states,
formerly part of the Soviet Union. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are,
unlike Ukraine, members of Nato, and Russian action against any of the... more »
In Wake of Zumwalt Launch, Higher Costs Seen in DDG-1000 Program
[image: Zumwalt (DDG1000) class DDG]A couple of weeks ago, the world's most
advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt, formally hit the water at a christening
ceremony at Bath Iron Works.
The midcoast shipyard is due to build two more of the DDG-1000 destroyers
for the U.S. Navy over the next several years.
The program, however, has ended up being much more costly than originally
intended, in part because it was drastically cut back a few years ago from
32 ships to just three.
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BAE Systems to Maintain and Modernize U.S. Navy Ships in Hawaii
[image: USS Michael Murphy]BAE Systems has received a multi-ship,
multi-option (MSMO) contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain, and
modernize nine destroyers and cruisers, either homeported in or visiting
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, includes
modernization, maintenance, and repair work for the USS Chafee, USS John
Paul Jones, USS Chung-Hoon, USS Hopper, USS Michael Murphy, USS O’Kane, USS
Halsey, USS Milius, and USS Preble.
This award marks a continuation of work BAE Systems has been performing on
the same type of s... more »
NZ Govt announces $100m boost for Defence
[image: HMNZS Te Kaha]The government plans to invest more than $500 million
in the Defence Force over the next four years, Defence Minister Jonathan
Coleman says.
The investment followed several years of budget cuts which were outlined in
a Defence white paper in 2010.
In the Budget next month, government would commit to $100.9m in operation
funding for 2014/15 and a total of $535.5m over the next four years.
Read more
Raytheon tests new guidance system for Tomahawk cruise missile
[image: BGM-109 Tomahawk]Raytheon Company successfully completed a passive
seeker test designed for a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile using
company-funded independent research and development investment.
The captive flight test, using a modified Tomahawk Block IV missile nose
cone, demonstrated that Raytheon's advanced, next-generation;
multi-function processor can enable the cruise missile to navigate to and
track moving targets emitting radio frequency signals.
For the test, the nosecone of a Tomahawk Block IV missile was equipped with
passive antennas integrated with Raytheon'... more »
Mazagon Dock looks at next sub project
[image: Scorpene class SSK]Project 75 is one of India's most closely
guarded military projects, almost as inaccessible to outsiders as the
nuclear ballistic missile submarine, INS Arihant, nearing completion in
Visakhapatnam.
In a giant shed in the East Yard of Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai (MDL), a
200-feet-long, cigar-shaped, metal cylinder is the first of six
conventionally powered Scorpene submarines that the Indian Navy contracted
to build with Franco-Spanish company, Armaris (since taken over by French
shipbuilding major, DCNS).
The boat (as submariners call their vessels) is obvi... more »
EB signs deal with Navy for 10 Virginia-class submarines
[image: Virginia class SSN]Navy officials have signed a $17.6 billion
contract with Electric Boat, committing the service to buy the next 10
Virginia-class submarines.
For the Groton shipyard, which has faced a cycle of layoffs and recalls in
recent years, the contract represents nearly a decade’s worth of work.
“This award has great significance for the U.S. Navy, our company and the
entire submarine industrial base,” Jeffrey S. Geiger, president of Electric
Boat, said in a statement. “By continuing to produce two ships per year,
the Navy and industry team retains the stability req... more »
Devon-built Samuel Beckett ship handed to Irish Naval Service
[image: Samuel Beckett]A 50m euros (£41m) vessel has been handed over to
the Irish Naval Service at a Devon shipyard.
The 295ft (90m) craft, called the Samuel Beckett, is the first completed
ship to be built at Appledore Shipyard, near Bideford, since 2002.
The Irish Navy ordered two vessels from the shipyard in October 2010 for
99m euros (£81m). The second, called the James Joyce is still being built.
Read more
The Daily "Near You?"
High Shoals, N. Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million
light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble
Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of
the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans
over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of
the galaxy's dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms.
*Click image for larger size.*
In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral
itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000
l... more »
West Hangs Syrian-Style War Over Egypt’s Future
*April 29, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Al-Akhbar English in an article
titled, “Egypt: Free Egyptian Army being formed in Libya,” reported that:
*Egyptian security forces continue to chase armed groups active in the
country. The confrontation does not seem it will come to end soon, with the
information unfolding daily to security agencies about plans by those group
to destabilize Egypt.*
*Security sources revealed to Al-Akhbar that “intelligence and security
agencies succeeded in monitoring the movements of terrorist groups and
arrested some of them inside the towns and village... more »
No Quixote!
Have I posted this before? Never mind. If I did, I just laughed like a
drain all over again.
[Hat tip The Reduced Shakespeare Company]
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Rollo May, "The Courage To Create"
*"The Courage To Create"*
by Rollo May
"We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet
born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes
in sexual mores, in marriage styles, in family structures, in education, in
religion, technology, and almost every other aspect of modern life. And
behind it all is the threat of the atom bomb, which recedes into the
distance but never disappears. To live with sensitivity in this age of
limbo indeed requires courage.
A choice confronts us. Shall we, as we feel our foundations shaking,
withdraw in ... more »
Chet Raymo“Trying To Be Good”
*“Trying To Be Good”*
by Chet Raymo
“A few lines from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese":
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."
I've quoted these lines before, if not here, then elsewhere. When I first
read them back in the late 80s, they resonated with what I felt at the
time. I had spent part of my earliest adulthood walking on my knees, both
literally and metaphorically, seeking to tame what I took to be the animal
within. Saint Augus... more »
The Constitution, Treaties with First Nations, and the Media
Just a quick question here: How many people in the mainstream media,
praising the Supreme Court decision which defends the procedures of the
Constitution Act, 1982, have dismissed the sanctity of our treaties with
the First Nations Peoples?
VIDEO Moccasins on the Ground Red Shirt, Lakota homelands April 2014
.
'Water is sacred.'
By Unedited Media Published on Apr 28, 2014
Lakota and their allies gather to build solidarity, unity, and skills to
protect Sacred Water against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline.
Watch this wonderful video of voices from all across the nation gathered
at Red Shirt, on Lakota lands at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, protecting
the Ogallala aquifer and water and land
Most Are, But Not Every Congressional Whore The Kochs Use To Sabotage Green Energy Is A Republican
It's very hard to trace the Koch cash sloshing around American politics;
it's meant to be hard. They funnel so much money into so many right-wing
groups that it would be a full time job to sort it all out. Perhaps it's
safe to assume, though, that the recipients of legalistic bribes from Koch
Industries directly are among those most devoted to the Koch war against
democracy. In the last cycle, Koch Industries alone doled out almost
$2,000,000 to candidates for Congress, all but $40,737 of it to
Republicans. Koch Industries knew exactly which corrupt Democrats from the
Republican w... more »
(Oh! Those Poor Poor Rich!!!) Bank of America Doesn't Check Its Math (To Its Decided Advantage) The Gilded Age Has Only Just Begun: Piketty’s Wealth Gap Wake Up Call Goes Out To the Masses
. . . the disparity in wealth is much greater than the disparity of income,
and that’s because of tax avoidance by the rich. BREAKING! Bank Of
America's Stock Plunges By 6% After $4B Capital Plan Blunder Bank of
America CEO Brian Moynihan runs a financial firm that has 263,000 employees
and $2.2 trillion of assets and investors on Monday appeared to wonder once
again whether anyone can manage
“What is a Photocopier?”
Come on, you’ve been in arguments like this, haven’t you.
Yes, it’s a true story. Indeed, it’s from a *transcript* of an Ohio Supreme
Court trial …
Sort of reminds you of another famous trial…
[Hat tip Diana Hsieh]
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Kate Braun : Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
It is a fire festival and marks the return of vitality and passion to
Mother Earth. By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | April 28, 2014 “Have you
walked around your parks and towns so knife-edged orderly? While the …
finish reading Kate Braun :
Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
Conspiracy rumors become conspiracy fact ---- Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade Secrets" By Federal Regulator ........ Takeaway as ghoulish as it comes -- " It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.” "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/guest-post-suspicious-deaths-bankers-are-now-classified-trade-secrets-federal-regula
Guest Post: Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade
Secrets" By Federal Regulator
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2014 21:46 -0400
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bloomberg News
- Citibank
- Citigroup
- Comptroller of the Currency
- Falcon
- fixed
- Freedom of Information Act
- Guest Post
- Hong Kong
- JPMorgan Chase
- Office of the Comptroller... more »
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