Thursday, May 15, 2014

15 May - Blogs I'm Following II

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Georgia ALECers Are on My Mind

2old2care at Because I Can - 14 minutes ago
Georgia - Georgia I said Georgia, Ooh Georgia, no peace I find Unless Georgia gets rid of it's ALEC legislators - they will see more extremist legislation similar to the recently passed License to Kill - anytime, anywhere, for any reason. The voters of Georgia didn't want this bill - they don't like this bill - but the legislators of Georgia did this against the will of the people. You can't stay in a state of oblivion - you need to *#VoteNo2ALEC* *How do people get on an ALEC list?* That question comes up all the time. The most common are: They serve on ALEC task forces The... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “The Dreaming Tree”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 minutes ago
2002, “The Dreaming Tree” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hOphl_fsg

The Nigerian "Abducted Schoolgirl" Crisis Is A FRAUD: Nigerian Kidnapped Schoolgirl Caught Texting On Cell Phone!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 28 minutes ago
I really do hate sometimes being proven right, but again I want to present evidence for everyone to see for themselves that this Nigerian "Abducted Schoolgirl" crisis is indeed a massive fraud... The so called "Boko Haram" terrorist group ( I still have to laugh about the name selection) is a hoax, with its members fully funded by the United States government itself. This "crisis" is nothing of the sort, and is nothing more than a propaganda push to try to convince the suckers in America that an invasion of Nigeria is needed to "free" these non-existent captives! I came across thi... more »

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Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 32 minutes ago
METRO | Roger Baker vs. Mayor Leffingwell at CAMPO! They sparred over Roger’s take on the proposed light rail plan.

What Kind Of Democrat Calls Himself A "Reagan Fiscal Conservative" In A Primary?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 36 minutes ago
The other day, we mentioned that the two conservative Dems in the Inland Empire congressional race (CA-31), Joe Baca and Pete Aguilar, are slugging it out over which one is worse on the environment. They're both really awful. Aguilar, a former bank lobbyist for the failed Arrowhead Savings and Loan, is the picture of sleazy insider corruption and his entire career has been predicated on his eagerness to cozy up with the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who control the Redlands area. He hasn't earned anything; it was all given to him by the conservative establishment looking for som... more »

Vegan Recipe - Squash Bread

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 37 minutes ago
*Spinach and Artichoke Dip ... S'mores Cheesecake ... Stromboli* Are you drooling yet? These are just a few of the delicious, vegan recipes one will find at My Naturally Frugal Family. Rachel, the head chef and author of *My Naturally Frugal Family*, is a wife and mother. In 2011, she and her family began a journey towards better health via better food. To that end, they planted 10 raised gardens, a ton of fruit trees (like cherry, plum, and peach), several pecan trees, and an assortment of berry bushes. They also gave up meat. Rachel even went a step further and adopted a vegan diet... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 46 minutes ago
“NGC 660 lies near the center of this intriguing field of galaxies swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces. Over 20 million light-years away, its peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy. *Click image for larger size.* A rare galaxy type, polar ring galaxies have a substantial population of stars, gas, and dust orbiting in rings nearly perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. The bizarre configuration could have been caused by the chance capture of material from a passing galaxy by the disk galaxy, with the captured debris strung out in a rot... more »

“The Wisdom of Hushpuppy”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 47 minutes ago
*“The Wisdom of Hushpuppy”* by Missy Beattie "In the powerful film “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, Hushpuppy says: “The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece… the whole universe will get busted.” *The actress Quvenzhane Wallis as **"Hushpuppy"* *․* I think about these words as I lie in bed, laptop open, watching episode after episode of "Breaking Bad", a TV series in which nearly every action is a catalyst for depravity. The main character, Walter White, is a high school chemistry teacher, diagnosed with advanced... more »

"What Life Requires..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 49 minutes ago
“Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.” - Richard Bach, "Running From Safety"

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 50 minutes ago
Port Washington, Wisconsin, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Paulo Coelho, "The Mouse And The Books"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 50 minutes ago
*"The Mouse And The Books"* by Paulo Coelho "When I was interned in Dr. Eiras Hospital, I began to have panic crises. One day, I decided to consult the psychiatrist in charge of my case: “Doctor, I am overcome by fear; it takes from me the joy of living”. “Here in my office there is a mouse that eats my books”, said the doctor. “If I get desperate about this mouse, he will hide from me and I will do nothing else in life but hunt him. Therefore, I put the most important books in a safe place and let him gnaw some others. In this way, he is still a mouse and does not become a monster... more »

Chet Raymo, “The Journey”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 50 minutes ago
*“The Journey”* by Chet Raymo "Here's a deep-deep sky map of the universe from the March 9, 2006 issue of Nature. The horizontal scale is a 360 view right around the sky; the vertical gaps at 6 hours and 24 hours are the parts of the universe that are blocked to our view by the disk of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The vertical scale - distance from Earth - is logarithmic (10, 100, 1000, etc.) measured in megaparsecs (a parsec equals 3.26 light-years). Across the top is the Big Bang, and the oldest and most distant thing we can see, the cosmic microwave background, the radiation of the... more »

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "What I Have Learned So Far"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 56 minutes ago
*"What I Have Learned So Far"* "Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit to no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness begins with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of- indolence, or action. Be ignited, or be gone." ... more »

More on the USDOE Principal Ambassador Fellowship Program

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
On May 14, 2014, I wrote this post on the US Department of Education’s (USDOE) Principal Ambassador Fellowship Program (PAF). I note that via PAF, it is possible for US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to monitor and control local districts of education. My concern is that districts employing Duncan’s PAFs unwittingly open the door to site-level […]

(100s of Trillions of Dollars of Speculative Financial Transactions=Massive Financial Accident Waiting to Happen (Again) We Pay a 10% Sales Tax On Clothes for Kids But Not a Penny of Sales Tax Is Paid On U.S. Financial Transactions Valued As High As 3 Quadrillion Dollars Yearly-Over 3K Times the Deficit: Flash Trading Can Lose All Pension Funds in Seconds) Entitlements Are for the Rich (No Tax on Rich Equals All Tax on the Poor(er)) Retired Gen. Says Obama=Bush in Foreign Policy and Gov't Leakers Are Murderers (Demise of Democracy - Don't Call the Cops)

BREAKING! How would Jewish boy's (Scalia panter) poorly written, humdrum essay go viral so quickly? Creon Critic . . . I’m shocked, shocked to find some unexamined class privilege at Princeton. Not for nothing that their light bulb joke goes . . . How many Princeton students does it take to change a light bulb? Two, one to call the electrician, and the other to call the butler for some

Prob'ly the NYT's Pinch Sulzberger thinks it's none of our goddam beeswax why he shitcanned Exec Ed Jill Abramson

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*NYT caption: "Dean Baquet addressing the Times staff in the newsroom Wednesday afternoon after he was named as the new executive editor."* *by Ken* Are you wondering why Jill Abramson was summarily fired after three years as the top editor of the *New York Times*? *The New Yorker*'s Ken Auletta has gathered together everything he could find out ("Why Jill Abramson Was Fired"), and while it's all extremely interesting, it sure doesn't seem to me to add up to a convulsive move like this very public, very unapologetic, and yet totally unexplained shitcanning. I'm relieved to find tha... more »

Bond market mayhem on the way - May 15 , 2014 --'Melt Up' In Bond Market Possible, Gundlach Says ( key level for the ten year US bond - 2.47 ) ..... Meanwhile , note that PIIGS debt got sold hard today ( paging Super Mario )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Something to watch..... http://www.fa-mag.com/news/-melt-up--in-bond-market-possible--gundlach-says-17973.html 'Melt Up' In Bond Market Possible, Gundlach Says MAY 15, 2014 • DAN JAMIESON Long-term bond rates may have peaked already, and if rates continue to fall, a “melt up” in the bond market could be in the offing, according to Jeffrey Gundlach, founder of Doubleline Capital. “If we go down [more] on Treasury yields, we will see one of the biggest short-covering scrambles of all time,” Gundlach said Wednesday at the Altegris strategic investment conference in San Diego. Funds t... more »

Why Foreign Intervention in Nigeria is a Bad Idea

Adrienne LeBas at Duck of Minerva - 4 hours ago
This is the first of two posts about Boko Haram & possible US involvement in Nigerian counterterrorism operations. For the second, “What should we do in Nigeria?”, tune in tomorrow. Note: two sentences added shortly after publication to clarify that my concerns encompass the full range of foreign intervention, from direct intervention to operational support to limited strikes Continue reading

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
God help you if you wind up at the VA...

“The Department of Agriculture Launches Proposal To Purchase Submachine Guns”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*“The Department of Agriculture Launches Proposal To Purchase Submachine Guns”* by Tyler Durden Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog “The following solicitation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture almost defies belief. We’ve seen this type of bizarre behavior before, but it has mostly originated from the American Gestapo, aka the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). I highlighted this trend early last year in my post: Department of Homeland Security to Purchase 7,000 “Assault Weapons”. Here’s a screenshot of the solicitation from the Department of Agriculture.... more »

Nuclear War Games Update May 12 , 2014 -- US Holds Massive Nuclear Weapons Exercise "To Deter And Detect Strategic Attacks" Days After Russian Drill ........ Dry tinder seeking a spark ?

Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-12/us-holds-massive-nuclear-weapons-drill-deter-and-detect-strategic-attacks-days-after US Holds Massive Nuclear Weapons Exercise "To Deter And Detect Strategic Attacks" Days After Russian Drill [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/12/2014 19:45 -0400 - Don't Panic - European Union - Reuters - Romania - Ukraine inShare Late last week, in what should not have been a surprise to anyone (because supposedly it was announced "far in advance") but was a major shock due to its intensity and expansive... more »

Friday Morning Ramble: Budget Week Edition

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
*“[From the State's perspective], There is always good and sufficient reason for more and more taxes. Solomon's temple, the roads of Rome, the rearing of 'infant industries,' military preparedness, the regulation of morals, the improvement of the 'general welfare'--all call for drafts on the marketplace, and the end-product of each draft is an increase in the power of the State. Some of the appropriations seep through to some members of Society, thus satisfying the something-for-nothing urge, at least temporarily, and so stimulate a disposition to tolerate the institution ... more »

More NSA Mischief: Purchased Products Intercepted and Tampered With

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 5 hours ago
In another revelation on still more NSA malfeasance that was published in the just released Glenn Greenwald book "No Place to Hide" the American Stasi has been intercepting computer hardware purchases and implanting spying tools before repackaging the product in the original wrapping. Not this should be a surprise to anyone who has been following the wanton criminality of Obama's out of control surveillance state and an earlier piece that was published in Germany's Der Spiegel back in December already had revealed the hijacking of laptop deliveries but the book adds it to the pile... more »

Goodbye, Michelle - you'll be missed

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 5 hours ago
Sad news today about the death of Michelle Stewart, the long-time B.C. government communications person who came out so bravely a year ago with a blog on life with end-stage kidney failure due to a lifelong eating disorder. A communicator to the end, Michelle kept on blogging right up until a month ago, when her deteriorating health got to be too much for her to continue. I highly recommend a read of her blog for anyone who has had or wondered about what it's like to have a persistent eating disorder, because Michelle did some of the most insightful and painfully honest writ... more »

A REAL MAINER

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 6 hours ago
I've had Richard Rhames on my show more than anyone else in the 10 years of This Issue. He's a character study and it is always fun to talk with him. Richard was recently defeated in his city council reelection race in Biddeford, Maine. He grows vegetables for a living and has been a public access TV advocate for more than 20 years. We talk local, state, national and Ukraine politics. He's worth a listen. A real Mainer.

Trying To Redefine What It Means To Be A Democrat… In A Bad Way

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
Beltway pundits tend to get their opinions from their friends in the political parties and, for the most part, those opinions tend to be worthless. In the video above from her show on Tuesday, Rachel Maddow amuses herself at the expense of all the conventional wisdom that showed Southern Democrats having virtually no chance against an onslaught of top Republican recruits. It isn't working out that way. Rachel forgot to mention-- while discussing how the only Democrat in bad shape in Arkansas is gubernatorial hopeful Mike Ross-- that Ross, before being forced to retire from Congre... more »

Stoke Central Labour Party Arrives

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 7 hours ago
On that there Twitter? Want all the latest Labour info from Stoke-on-Trent, the axis around which world politics pivots? Then this might turn out to be the best news you've seen all year: This is Stoke Central Labour Party calling. — Stoke Central Labour (@StokeCentralCLP) May 15, 2014 You know what to do. Press follow. Get your friends to press follow.

Mike's Story - Part 22 - Adios, Venezuela

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 7 hours ago
*By **Jenna** Orkin* From Mike 11-1-2006 11:18: *...X h**as indicated that there is a trust settlement offer. Ray had begun the process of confirming this. Soon he´ll be able to start executing on my behalf. I´m already personally trashed, my company is destroyed, so I don´t give a rat´s ass what people will say. I am ¨radioactive¨ as they say, but I am not dead.* [Responding to the rumor that he'd smashed the FTW computers and taken the insurance money before fleeing the country and sending the fake email to subscribers.] * I can still move and that makes me dangerous. * * M... more »

METRO | Roger Baker : The proposed Austin light rail plan as I see it…

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours ago
…which clearly isn’t the way Mayor Leffingwell sees it, since he cut me off during the CAMPO meeting. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | May 15, 2014 AUSTIN — I make it my regular habit, as a hobby … finish reading *METRO* | Roger Baker : The proposed Austin light rail plan as I see it…

May 15: I'm starting this blog on the evening of May 14 because....

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 8 hours ago
...tomorrow looks like another day of more activity than I like. So I thought I'd write something general about news for the opener. Japan is building up its armed forces. No reaction? It is building, in particular, around offensive weapons. Still no reaction? Well, you're not likely to see the story in the Irving press because nobody there would understand the significance of the story. And even if somebody did, all you would get is the two statements I wrote above which tell you nothing. In 1945, Japan was forbidden to build armed forces with any offensive capabilities. It had,... more »

Trojan Horse; hobbled

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
While I agree with Craig that Mishal Husain did a fairly robust job of interviewing Tahir Alam recently on the Today programme, (nice illustration by the way) I’d argue that we’re allowing ourselves to be distracted by relatively superficial, even peripheral issues. By spending too much time on these, the fundamental problems are suffocated and never confronted head-on. We’re continually diverted by the media’s preoccupation with the symptoms rather than the illness. So with regard to the Trojan Horse fandango the problems Mishal Husain was trying to tackle, such as gender segregat... more »

Transformers - Age of Extinction - new trailer with firebreathing Dinobots!!!

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 8 hours ago
oh, yes, the first DECENT LENGTH trailer for the new Transformers (Age of Extinction) film has just surfaced (with loads of new stuff) and I'm itchin' to see this:

Dynamics of Debate at the Experts Meeting on Autonomous Weapons

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
This will be nothing like a comprehensive overview on the topic (for one thing I have been in and out of plenary, for another I am filtering this event through the lens of my specific research agenda on framing and norm development). That said, here are a few notes and observations about the nature of Continue reading

Dear Kansas Board of Regents, Part Deux

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Dear Kansas Board of Regents, Greetings. I don’t know if you received my first open-letter to you in December. My parents have pretty slow Internet in central Kansas so maybe the page is still loading. Hopefully, you’ll read the letter once you get it. In December, I wrote about your proposed social media policy and Continue reading

A Tale of Three Cyber Security Articles

Brandon Valeriano at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Cyber security has been on the general security agenda for some time now, but it is only recently that Political Scientists have really engaged the topic in a serious manner befitting of the theoretical and empirical advances in the field. In general, we have ceded this ground to those who either have a vested interest Continue reading

FAIRY TALES

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler got permission from Congress to give the Internet to the corporations. He is more than happy to do the job. He's the bag man.* *Fire Sale* It's all about looting. The corporations Mr. Big are lined up and ready to feast it's a fire sale and the people's airspace the Internet is on the block to be chopped and handed out to the already rich and greedy it's a fire sale there is an emergency in the House Mr. Big owns it and now Congress has decided to hand him the keys to the door and the city and the national treasury and the Internet it's a fire sale ... more »

The common core: Don't forget what the real problem is.

skrashen at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
Sent to the Seattle Times, May 15, 2014 I think the common core math standards are lousy on purpose, made lousy so that parents will complain ("2+2=What? Parents rail against Common Core math," May 15). The common core architects will then make some adjustments, enough to stop the most vigorous complaints. Many complainers will then be satisfied and the public will be impressed with how open-minded the common core directors are. But the common core itself will remain unchallenged. The common core was designed by non-educators, has no research supporting it, and will be enforced by ... more »

Schools on Closure List Outperforming Local KIPP Schools

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
A recent Diane Rehms segment dealt with the continued segregation and resegregation of American schools. One of the guests and charter school supporter argued that segregation is not so bad: after all, look at the KIPP schools for examples of how poor urban children can have soaring scores in segregated environments. Predictably, the guest said nothing about the fact the KIPPs enroll fewer special education, English learners, and lowest performing students. Nor did he mention that KIPPs lose 40-60 percent of their students between grades 5 and 8, and the majority of them are lowe... more »

Solving Tuscaloosa: A columnist’s kid!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014* *Where do differences come from:* We thought of D’Leisha Dent this morning when we read Nicholas Kristof. Kristof wrote a highly worthwhile column about economic inequality. When we read the following passage, we thought about *educational* inequality and a superlative kid who lives in Tuscaloosa: KRISTOF (5/15/14): Inequality has become a hot topic, propelling Bill de Blasio to become mayor of New York City, turning Senator Elizabeth Warren into a star, and *elevating the economist Thomas Piketty into such a demigod that my teenage daughter asked me the o... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*NOLA Pipeline Panel to Discuss Levee Board Lawsuit ~NOLA DEFENDER*

Schools on Closure List Outperforming Local KIPP Schools

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
A recent Diane Rehms segment dealt with the continued segregation and resegregation of American schools. One of the guests and charter school supporter argued that segregation is not so bad: after all, look at the KIPP schools for examples of how poor urban children can have soaring scores in segregated environments. Predictably, the guest said nothing about the fact the KIPPs enroll fewer special education, English learners, and lowest performing students. Nor did he mention that KIPPs lose 40-60 percent of their students between grades 5 and 8, and the majority of them are lowe... more »

My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers. via My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago
*North shore group sends cease & desist letters over fracking proposal ~Meg Gatto, WVUE* *New Orleans’ flood protection system: Stronger than ever, weaker than it was supposed to be ~Bob Marshall, The Lens* *DA's office refuses to accept case against Merritt Landry ~WWLTV * *The New Orleans Saints Take 2014 Pole Position in NFC South ~Saints Tailgate* *LaSPCA: reward in pregnant rabbit cruelty case* Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/05/15/3112219/laspca-reward-in-pregnant-rabbit.html#storylink=cpy *Chiquita bringing banana imports back to New Orleans ~Andrew Vanacore... more »

A New Era of New Jersey Politics… Not as Glamorous as it Sounds

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Ras Baraka beat the bosses to become the new mayor of Newark. Here he is flanked by his parents, Amina and Amiri -by David Keith When Barack Obama ran for President the first time, I was in High School. Being that age, I was able to be witness the effect his candidacy had on a new generation of voters and political observers. His candidacy inspired everyone around me. Adolescents and young adults who grew up watching coverage of George W. Bush’s corrupt, corporate tyrannical reign were convinced that “change, [they could] believe in” was achieved by first defeating Hillary Clinton-... more »

WE ARE NOT AMERICAN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
A provocative look at the 1893 treasonous coup d'etat against the Hawaiian Kingdom, described by President Grover Cleveland as "an act of war." Mainer Jon Olsen, who lived in Hawaii for many years, will present his new book entitled "Liberate Hawai'i: Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent US Claim to the Sovereignty of Hawai'i" at the Addams-Melman House (212 Centre St) in Bath on Sunday, May 18 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. There will be a pot luck supper and talk by Jon. All are welcome.

What the folks constantly hear on Fox!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014* *Still uncorrected after all these years:* How inept are we in the pseudo-liberal world? Just consider something the folks constantly hear on Fox. Last night, they heard it from Sean Hannity, during a discussion about alleged lies concerning Benghazi. Did the White House lie about the Benghazi attacks? In particular, did the White House create a phony story about a demonstration at the consulate that night? Liberal guest Lanny Davis noted that the initial “narrative of a spontaneous demonstration” was created by the CIA, not by the White House. “The CIA ... more »

Atrocity Exhibition in the Gilded Age

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours ago
It could always be worse, I suppose. At least they're not selling the "Twisted Metal" series of X-rated video games in the September 11 Memorial Museum gift shop. Not yet, anyway. Yes, Virginia, there really is a 9/11 souvenir shop. It will open its doors next week, to coincide with the grand opening of our Great National Shrine to Terror, appropriately located just blocks away from that other terror enclave known as Wall Street in lower Manhattan. A dedication gala reserved for a class-spanning cavalcade of potentates, politicians, CEOs, corporate sponsors, emergency personnel and ... more »

Chocolate Banana Smoothies and Baked Onion Rings - You're Invited Linkup

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
Can you believe it’s already time to link up? The projects and recipes everyone shared last week were amazing! We all loved going through the list. Today Jesseca from One Sweet Appetite is taking over to share what she’s been working on and a few of her favorite link ups! [image: You're-Invited] This last month has been a busy one for me! I joined forces with the super talented Tried and Tasty to bring you all one full week of burger recipes and have dived right into summer favorites. Just to give you a quick idea of what you can find over on my site I’m sharing three of my favorite... more »

"Oligarchs Join Forces..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
*"Oligarchs Join Forces..."* by Bill Bonner "The Dow fell 101 points yesterday. Gold managed to climb back over $1,300 an ounce. But the important news was barely noticed. Of those who bothered to read it, few realized its significance. For the first time, oligarchs from North America and the steppes of Eurasia have teamed up to lie, cheat and steal together. The Wall Street Journal reports: "Vice President Joe Biden's son and a close friend of Secretary of State John Kerry's stepson have joined the board of a Ukrainian gas producer controlled by a former top security and energy of... more »

ADL: the truth is "anti-Semitic"

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
According to the results of a recently released global survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, over 25% of the world's population is "anti-Semitic". *"A lot of people around the world hate the Jews,"* the *Jewish Telegraph Agency* ominously reported. *"That's the main finding of the Anti-Defamation League's largest-ever worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes."* The *article* continues: The *survey*, released Tuesday, found that 26 percent of those polled — representing approximately 1.1 billion adults worldwide — *harbor deeply anti-Semitic views*. More than 53,000 peo... more »

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
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WHERE DID PRIVILEGE COME FROM: Revolutionary cadres!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014* *Part 4—Can maintain a strong sense of privilege:* As we’ve been noting, the concept of “privilege” is suddenly very hot. How hot is it? *This* hot: Last night, Bill O’Reilly and two guests conducted a very fuzzy segment about the very hot concept. The segment was geared to the report that the Kennedy School would be teaching a course on privilege. When Mr. O does a segment, that’s hot! And not only that: One hour earlier, the very hot topic had turned up in Salon’s headlines again—and Tal Fortgang’s name wasn’t mentioned! The concept of privilege is so ... more »

Bill Whittle: You're not crazy. The Obama Administration will just keep GASLIGHTING you until you think you are...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*I have family members who are masters of gaslighting. They are also sociopaths.* I don't buy into it anymore and am also quite certain I'm sane. How about you?

Human Cost Of Government Shelling And Air Strikes On Iraq’s Fallujah

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
When speaking of the human cost of the fighting in Fallujah most of the attention has been upon the displaced. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration there were 72,325 displaced families in May 2014, two-thirds of which were still in Anbar. After that there has been some talk of the flooding that has occurred due to insurgents taking over the Fallujah dam. Little detailed attention has been given to the almost daily casualties that have been caused by government artillery, mortar and air strikes upon the city of Fallujah. Other than the daily casualty counts... more »

Biden & Kerry nepotism. Profiteering from the US backed coup in Ukraine

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours ago
According to the NATO media the whole problem in Ukraine is Russia- Yup, it's all bash Russia, all the time. And yet... it was 5 billion US dollars that fomented the coup. It was F the EU Nuland that handpicked Yats. It NATO affilliated/US/banking interests that groomed Yats. Blame Russia? Absurd Crony Capitalism- In a nutshell collusion/favouritism between business and state. - Check! Nepotism- favoritism granted in politics or business on the basis of family relationships. - Check! *Vice President Joe Biden's son and a close friend of Secretary of State John Kerry's stepson ha... more »

Children of the 1980s

Paul Coker at News Spike - 14 hours ago
*“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. * *What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? * *If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. * *Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.” * *― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradatio... more »

The Blame Game

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
Well, well, well (as Nick Robinson would say). Another day, another verbal assault on the Nigerian government on *Today *[at 2:36:59]. Justin Webb talked to Sharon Ikeazor of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) about the abducted girls, and she severely criticised the Nigerian government for its handling of the affair. That's understandable. That's what opposition politicians do (for good or for ill). He Justin turned to Kashim Shettima, governor of Nigeria's Borno state, and I expected to hear the other side of the argument - the government's side but - but, instead... more »

"New" New Democrats: Ambition over Principles

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours ago
You gotta wonder: WTF is up with the NDP? There's this recent genius move from Niki Ashton, a motion for the House to "formally affirm" a woman's right to choose abortion. Unlike the Woodworth gambit — which was ultimately defeated despite garnering the support of just over half the government caucus, including a half-dozen senior cabinet ministers — Ashton's motion could easily be interpreted as a criticism of current government policy, which would make even the most stridently pro-choice Conservative MP pause before giving a thumbs-up. Such an outcome would almost certainly provi... more »

Fifty shades of Islam

Nauman Sadiq at Incredible credulity - 14 hours ago
Did anyone noticed the new Burger-Islamism phenomena? I recently stumbled upon a few FB profiles and it appears that this new breed of Islamists lives in posh areas of Pakistan like Defence, Bahria or they could be found in the Muslim diaspora in the Western countries. The females wear hijab so they are easily recognizable, but the males don’t always sport beards so it’s difficult to judge from their appearance; but once they express their views it becomes obvious which sub-culture do they belong to. Now this group is completely Westernized culturally, but thanks to the efforts of T... more »

The Western media is unable to acknowledge the fact that Washington’s coup in Ukraine has given rise to a strong neo-nazi political movement with which Washington is cooperating. Don't think so? Well, don't be duped. Read this article and/or play the two videos embedded at the bottom.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 15 hours ago
------------------------------ *Guest column by Professor Michel Chossudovsky — The Western Media Finds Nazis In Numbers On Procter and Gamble Soap Packages, But Not In The Ukraine* ------------------------------ May 13, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Guest column by Professor Michel Chossudovsky — The Western Media Finds Nazis In Numbers On Procter and Gamble Soap Packages, But Not In The Ukraine Professor Chossudovsky shows that the Western media is unable to acknowledge the fact tha... more »

US Data for May 15 , 2014 ( CPI rises 2.0 percent ( year over year ) , but check rising food and in particular meat prices ....Initial Claims for to lowest since May 2007 - but then Empire Manufacturing Data reveals spending / job outlook tumbling ........ Apart from Germany Q1 GDP is very bad .......Walmart claims everything but coronal canyons caused earning disappointment !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Market Ticker... CPI: Wow Uh.... *No problem trying to eat things that won't give you die-a-beetyou, right? Possible exception? Chicken. Hope you like it (a lot) -- but don't count eggs, as they're up 9.3% over the last year.* Citrus? Up 21% annuallized, with most of it in oranges. *Welcome to Scurvyville.* There are some other big ones in here too. Natural gas up 11.8% annualized, which is a kick in the balls to anyone who uses it for heat. *But fracking was going to save the world!* Deflation continues (big) in TVs. *But deflation is bad, right? *[image: smiley] And do... more »

Can Eric Cantor Really Be Defeated In His Reelection Bid?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Last year Steve Israel and his band of incompetent and corrupt DCCC staffers treated Wayne Powell, the courageous Democrat who ran against Eric Cantor, shabbily that this year-- predictably-- Israel got the result he wanted: no credible Democratic candidate bothering to challenge Cantor. A well-connected Powell backer told me earlier this year that the consensus among Democrats in the district was that it was senseless to run while Pelosi still had Israel as the DCCC chair and he was undercutting Cantor opponents. VA-07 (R+10) would be a tough slog for any Democrat. To have the h... more »

Congratulations Mayor Baraka and Newark!

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago
Congratulations Mayor Ras Baraka! Thank you Newark! Congratulations to all of you who help assume mayoral responsibilities! Ras Baraka and the students, teachers, and families of Newark have risen up and handed a pivotal defeat to corporate reformers. Your grassroots efforts repelled the last minute infusion of cash from the Billionaires’ Boys Club. You took […]

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 15 hours ago
*DC Schools: $29,349 Per Pupil, 83 Percent Not Proficient in Reading* The public schools in Washington, D.C., spent $29,349 per pupil in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the latest data from National Center for Education Statistics, but in 2013 fully 83 percent of the eighth graders in these schools were not "proficient" in reading and 81 percent were not "proficient" in math. These are the government schools in our nation's capital city -- where for decades politicians of both parties have obstreperously pushed for more federal involvement in education and more federal spen... more »

Guest Post – Dave Kang: ‘Military Spending in East Asia is Lower than You Think’

Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
The following is a guest-post by my good friend Dave Kang of USC. Below he complements his recent TNI essay with the full flow of charts and graphics they screened out. This post is an important rejoinder to the constant assertion (think Robert Kaplan) that East Asia is on the brink of war and that Continue reading

The Decline and Fall of the Charlatan in Eyeliner

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
Oh dear, *The Big Questions, Sunday Morning Live, *etc, are going to have to put a new Muslim on Speed Dial 1 for any discussion involving Islam 'n' stuff. Apparently, Nicky Campbell has already dropped Mo Ansar, that 'charlatan in eyeliner', from his radio show and the rest of BBC Radio 5 will no longer have him on either. His media career looks to be over. Why? Well, following Sheikh Ya Bhatti's heavy pounding of him back in January (see *Harry's Place*), Iain Dale won a comprehensive legal victory over him a couple of weeks ago and then exposed what Mo Ansar had done to him.... more »

Snow Day!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago

Hudak's Hallucinations

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Tim Hudak has been traveling around Ontario, pledging to create a million jobs by cutting taxes. Linda McQuaig writes that the problem is that Hudak's plan is an hallucination: But what makes Hudak’s plan veer beyond nutty to insidious is the fact that it’s coupled with a plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs. (That’s how he plans to pay for the tax cuts that, allegedly, would create the jobs.) Unlike the imaginary ones, these public sector jobs — mostly in education, health care and social services — are real jobs held by real workers providing real services to real people. This... more »

A clear mediation agreement can displace common law settlement privilege

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
*Union Carbide Canada Inc. v. Bombardier Inc*., 2014 SCC 35: [45] The common law settlement privilege and confidentiality in the mediation context are often conflated. They do have a common purpose: facilitating out-of-court settlements. But as we saw above, confidentiality clauses in mediation agreements can also have different purposes. In most cases involving such clauses, the status of the common law settlement privilege will not arise, because the two protections generally serve the same purpose, namely to foster negotiations by encouraging parties to... more »

rouen and home

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
We slept wonderfully in our beautiful little cabin, and the following morning we waited to see the other Canadians emerge from breakfast before we ventured out. I was amazed that my mother also didn't like them: she is so much friendlier and less curmudgeonly than me. We ran into them briefly, and we both had the distinct impression that they had been waiting to see us before they left. And there's Elisabeth, wearing a Maple Leaf pin! These people must travel with a bag of Maple Leaf pins to distribute! Yikes. Breakfast was the usual deliciousness of mini baguettes, croissants, hom... more »

War Watch May 15 , 2014 -- Al Qaeda dominates so called moderate forces in southern Syria ( looks like southern Syria resembling rest of Syria as far as moderate rebel influences goes ) .... Iran and Saudi Arabia publicly signaling a desire to resolve differences ...... Defense Secretary Hagel visits Middle East ( Israel , Jordan and Saudi Arabia ) as efforts to open a southern front against Assad's forces are underway ( will Hagel supply heavy arms to Al Qaeda as ultimately that's who's going to take any weapons given to the weak moderate forces ) ...... In Turkey , the Ä°zmir police intervene as thousands protest Turkish mine blast .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Syria...... [image: Alleged Jabhat Al Nusra members pose in eastern Syria. Al Nusra’s surge has alarmed many citizens in southern Deraa province, and the western and Arab states backing moderate fighting groups. Courtesy Balint Szlanko / November 2012] Al-Qaeda Car Bombing Kills 43 at Syria Border CrossingAl-Qaeda in Iraq Blamed for Car Bombing Along Turkish Crossing by Jason Ditz, May 15, 2014 Print This | Share This A car packed full of explosives blew up in a garage at the border crossing between Syria’s Aleppo Province and neighboring Turkish town of Kilis, killing ... more »

Romanians, Bulgarians, the BBC...and a discreetly-placed mea culpa

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
A funny thing happened yesterday ('funny' in the Marcus Brigstocke sense of the word that is). I kept glancing at various news sources to see how a particular story was being reported - namely those ONS's figures showing a very slight 4,000 drop in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians in employment here in the UK in Q1 of 2014 but an increase of some 29,000 Romanians and Bulgarians in employment compared to the same period last year. What I noticed was that the 4,000 figure was leaped upon with some gusto by the left-liberal wing of the media (e.g. the *Guardian *and the *Inde... more »

Kerry’s Heroes: The Looming Massacre in Ukraine

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 17 hours ago
The latest US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression trick in Ukraine is the western puppet of the coup regime, Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk temporarily quelling the violence to conduct talks on what are being described as Moscow backed peace proposals as have been arranged by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This is however just another sham in that the results of Sunday's referendum conducted Sunday in the eastern region by anti-fascist, anti-austerity freedom fighters to establish the Donetsk People's Republic apart from the Kiev junta will not be invited to the ... more »

Operation American Spring on May 16, 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago

Stage set for test of nuclear-capable cruise missile Nirbhay

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 18 hours ago
India is gearing up to test its first long-range cruise missile 'Nirbhay' (the fearless), which can carry nuclear warheads with a strike range of over 1,000 km, within a month or so. A stealth missile long in the making, Nirbhay is meant to fulfill the armed forces' demand for nuclear-tipped land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs) versatile enough to be fired from land, air and sea. Flaunted as India's answer to the famed American Tomahawk missiles as well as an effective counter to Pakistan's Babur LACM, Nirbhay was experimentally fired for the first time in March last year. Read ... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 18 hours ago
*"Climate change" has lost its punch. People now know it is just global warming with lipstick on* *A summary from the Left below* There are few things more symbolic of our climate dysfunction than the strange idea that if only we gave the problem a different name, we'd be able to deal with it. Nonetheless, for years there have been intimations that we should cease saying "global warming" and instead say "climate change"—albeit for wildly different reasons. The case for this phrase change dates at least back to an infamous 2002 memo by conservative strategist Frank Luntz, who arg... more »

Thursday Linkage – Heading to Brazil Edition

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
I’m so glad the semester is over so I can leave Friday to head to Brazil for a three week short course with my colleague Eugene Gholz. The topic is the World Cup “Rising Powers and Global Governance.” We have reprised our 2010 edition of our South Africa short course (notice the pattern). I’m hopeful Continue reading

The BBC, UKIP and the SDP

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Nick Robinson Does the *Telegraph*'s Peter Oborne have a multiple-personality complex? Or is there a 'with drink' PO and a 'without drink' PO? How can someone who writes so much obnoxious rubbish about Israel and the 'Israel Lobby', or who can gushingly compare Mandela to Jesus Christ, also succeed in writing so acutely about British politics? Here he is today, observing BBC bias in action over the long term and making sense: For many years, the Ukip leader was ignored by the mainstream media. In the 2004 European elections, Ukip marked its first major breakthrough, winning 16 pe... more »

Thailand: Collapsing Regime Turns to Terrorism

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours ago
*Image: Regime militants have been caught on multipleoccasions with M79s, M16s, AK47s, and hand grenadeswith lot numbers matching those used in attacks that haveleft over 20 dead including women and children andhundreds of others wounded.**May 15, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - ATN) - In the early hours of Thursday morning, M79 grenades and small arms fire were directed at anti-regime protesters camped out at Bangkok's Democracy Monument. The attack resulted in 3 deaths and over 20 injured - some of them critically. It was the latest in a string of terrorist attacks carried out by reg... more »

Kazakhstan Ratifies Joint Air Defense Shield Deal with Russia

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: S-300 missile defence system]Kazakhstan’s upper house of parliament ratified Thursday an agreement with Russia on establishing a joint regional air defense shield, a Novosti-Kazakhstan correspondent has reported. The shield will become part of the unified air defense system of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose alliance of former Soviet states, comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. “The forces of the unified regional air defense system of Kazakhstan and Russia are led by a commander app... more »

2nd Bomb Wing to get first female commander

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: Col. Kristin E. Goodwin]History will take place again at Barksdale Air Force Base in coming weeks when the first woman commander of a combat bomber wing takes the helm of 2nd Bomb Wing. Col. Kristin E. Goodwin, a 1993 graduate of the Air Force Academy, has been tapped to lead the nation’s premier bomber wing, home to most of the Air Force’s B-52s, The Times has learned. Goodwin was here for the 2014 Defenders of Liberty Open House and Air Show and also qualified on the B-52 in recent weeks, though she is not on station at this time, according to Air Force sources. Read more

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago
*Sen. Landrieu pushing to limit coastal fund use to stop Governor Jindal from stealing it to cover budget ~AP via New Orleans Advocate*

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago
*Corps of Engineers Hands Over Control to Local Levee Authorities – First Time Since They Flooded New Orleans 8-29-05 ~WGNO*

British Engineers test new configuration of fighter jets in high speed wind tunnel

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: Scale model of a Typhoon fighter jet]Our engineers, are using high speed wind tunnels to assess the aerodynamic characteristics of Typhoon Tranche 3 aircraft when equipped with two fuselage-mounted conformal fuel tanks. The Tranche 3 is the third and latest version of the jet. The testing uses a geometrically perfect 1/12th scale model of the aircraft, made from light alloy and hardwood, with the new fuel tanks created to scale using 3D printing – or Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) – techniques. Conformal fuel tanks could increase the future operational range and flexibi... more »

Russian navy to resume testing in Bulava missile program

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: Bulava test launch]The Russian navy recently announced its plans to resume test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as early as summer as part of its sea-based Bulava program. “First, after last year’s failure start, Bulava will be made tentatively in September,” a Russian defense industry source said, according to Ekburg.ru. “It is unclear to what will be done missile ICBM.” The Bulava program was started in 2004 and has launched 19 rockets to date. Read more

Exclusive: Israel's David's Sling will not win Polish missile tender - official

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: David's Sling Weapons System Stunner Missile]Israel is poised to lose out on a deal valued at up to $13 billion to build a missile defense shield for Poland, an Israeli defense official said on Wednesday, citing lobbying by Washington on behalf of rival U.S. systems. As compensation, the manufacturer of the Israeli David's Sling missile defense system may get a role in a future U.S.-led arms sale to Warsaw, the official, who has been briefed on the competition, told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "The Americans will be happy, the Poles will be happy, and there'll be som... more »

Australia requests purchase of Sidewinder missiles

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: AIM-9 Sidewinder]As many as 350 Sidewinder tactical missiles may be sold to Australia under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in its required notification to Congress, said the proposed sale carries a value of $534 million and that the U.S. State Department has given its approval for the deal. "This proposed sale will improve the Royal Australian Air Force's air-to-air capability and ability to defend its nation and cooperate with allied air forces," the agency said. Read more

The F-15 Silent Eagle as Canada’s Next Fighter – Part 1

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 20 hours ago
[image: The F-15 Silent Eagle]The Canadian F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program has maturated into the most controversial and widely investigated defense department procurement processes in Canadian history. This is said with the consideration of many more months, if not years of development work ahead for the newly formed NFPS (National Fighter Procurement Secretariat). Setting -aside the criticism fuelled by political gamesmanship or analysis provided by technophobes who are entering the public procurement debate for the first time, we have been provided with excellent investigative... more »

Free Trade 35: EU-FNF Forum on 'FDI Engine for Job Growth'

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 20 hours ago
Last Tuesday, May 13, I attended the EU-FNF forum on "Foreign Direct Investment: Engine for Job Growth" held at the Mind Museum, Fort Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. It was a powerhouse forum. Welcome messages given by Jules Maaten, Country Director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) in the Philippines, and Guy Ledoux, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) Delegation to the Philippines. Amb. Ledoux expressed further optimism about the Philippines and its business environment, saying that European investors are the biggest bloc of foreign direct investment (FDI) in... more »

motor yamaha SR400 Modifikasi Rombakan Terbaru 2014

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 21 hours ago
motor yamaha SR400 Modifikasi Rombakan Terbaru 2014 - Yamaha merupakan salah satu produsen otomotif yang terus memberikan sebuah inovasi baru dalam bidang otomotif, paling penting dari barang ciptaan sepeda motornya. Motor – motor yang diproduksi oleh yamaha juga terkenal dengan tenaganya yang begitu luar biasa, dan juga desain dari body yang begitu sporty. Sehingga motor yamaha itu sama dengan

The truth about the Nakba

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
The Palestinian population is no more than a human shield for cynical money and power-seekers. There never was an established Palestinian Arab society in Palestine. The majority of the Arabs living in Palestine in May of 1948 were Syrians, Egyptians, Iraqis and North Africans who arrived there in response to Jewish investment in rehabilitating their own ancient homeland, beginning in 1882. The movement accelerated in response the Mufti-induced riots and murders of Jews in the 1920's and the artificial blockage of Jewish immigration in the 1930's. In 1948 the Jews owned 6% of the l... more »

Navy to test electromagnetic catapult on carrier

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
The Navy is preparing to launch the first ship-board tests of a new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System designed to replace steam catapults and propel fighter jets and other aircraft off the deck of an aircraft carrier and into the sky over the ocean, service officials said. The EMALS system, which uses an electromagnetic field to propel aircraft instead of the currently used steam catapult, is slated for the new Ford-class aircraft carriers. The first EMALS system has been under construction for several years aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the first in class of the ne... more »

Russia to refit 2 Sierra-class nuclear subs

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Sierrea class SSN]The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract to refit two Soviet-era Sierra-class multipurpose nuclear submarines, the Zvezdochka shipyard said Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti. "A contract was signed with the Defense Ministry to extensively refit two Project 945 [NATO reporting name Sierra]. One of the submarines has remained at the shipyard for over 10 years, the other will arrive this year," spokesman Yevgeny Gladyshev said. The refit will extend the submarines' service for about 10 years. Read more

Scorpene subs to join fleet without torpedoes

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Scorpene class SSK]Alongside a three-year delay in adding six new Scorpene submarines to its depleting ranks, the Indian Navy faces an even more disquieting prospect - the Scorpenes will start joining the fleet in 2016 without their main weapon, the heavyweight torpedo. Submarines carry two major weapons - missiles against ships and land targets, and torpedoes to sink enemy ships and submarines. Missiles can be intercepted by anti-missile systems; and they inflict less damage. Torpedoes are harder to intercept and they blast holes below the waterline that quickly flood their... more »

China's Anti-Submarine Warfare Challenge

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 21 hours ago
[image: Y-8FQ Cub]Is China beginning to take anti-submarine warfare seriously? As much as anything else, this would confirm that the PLAN is shifting its focus to developing an overseas expeditionary capability. Anti-submarine warfare in the twentieth century involved two related but distinct efforts: fleet defense and commerce defense. Fleet defense concentrates on the protection of capital ships from subs, and commerce defense on the protection of merchant shipping. The United States and the United Kingdom invented and perfected the commerce defense aspect anti-submarine warfare ... more »

May 15: Nakba or defeat? | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
An interesting article about the creation of Israel and the 'Nakba'. 'The Palestinian-Israeli conflict could have been resolved on May 15, 1948 by either accepting the United Nations mandate or by absorbing the thousands of Palestinian refugees into the Arab world.' http://www.arabnews.com/news/570476

Mishal of Troy

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
Mishal Husain, reporting from Birmingham At the other end of yesterday, I was driving to work whilst listening to *Today, *and happened to catch Mishal Husain just after 7 o'clock talking to Muslim parents and schoolchildren in Birmingham. Her report, in anticipation of the imminent findings of an investigation into the alleged Islamification of certain schools in the city, contained nothing but praise for the schools in the eye of the storm and expressions of disbelief, distress and outrage at the claims of Islamification being made against them. I was left wondering whether this w... more »

Lennart Bengtsson will probably remain a renegade, anyway

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
Lennart Bengtsson (*1935) is a Swedish meteorologist and modeler. You may check that he has written lots of papers and collected lots of citations. Two weeks ago, he decided to join a dozen of other researchers in the Academic Advisory Council of The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a skeptical climate change think tank led by Lord Nigel Lawson (chairman) and by Benny Peiser (director). After a violent reaction to his decision – see e.g. GWPF, The Times, WUWT, Hans von Storch's blog, Climate Audit, Jo Nova, Judith Curry, Spiegel, Climate Depot, CATO, National Review, Marcel Crok, ... more »

The 'PM' Weather Forecast

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
The sun hopefully seems to have his hat on vis-à-vis the British economy at the moment, as per the Office for National Statistics' latest batch of stats. My first encounter with this news though came via Eddie Mair's *PM*, and Eddie was rather niggardly with the sunshine. These were the main bullet points from the ONS: - Unemployment rate down from 6.9% to 6.8% - Unemployment January-March down 133,000 to 2.2 million - Employment up 283,000 in quarter, biggest increase since records began in 1971 - Claimant count at lowest since November 2008 - Pay including bonuse... more »

Satire: “Conservatives Praise Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt as Beautiful Expression of Free Market”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*“Conservatives Praise Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt as Beautiful Expression of Free Market”* by Andy Borowitz ANTARCTICA (The Borowitz Report)— “A delegation of conservative members of Congress paid a visit to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt today to witness firsthand what one of them called “the most beautiful expression of the free market I’ve ever seen.” The author of that remark, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), said that he was awestruck after watching gigantic chunks of glacier disintegrate and crash to the sea. “Every schoolchild in America needs to see this,” he said. “This is ... more »

Arne Duncan’s “Principal Ambassadors”: Federally Monitored “Local Control”??

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
A notable corporate reform ploy is to starve school districts of funding and then turn around and offer some “assistance”– which amounts to little more than a district’s selling its autonomy to the corporate reform machine. Corporate reform is flush with cash, and it wants to leverage its cash in order to trap school systems […]

Stephen Harper Presents Mock Legislation, A Slap In The Face To All British Columbians

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 23 hours ago
*Written by Grant G* Earlier this year I believed that Stephen Harper wouldn`t risk giving Enbridge`s northern Gateway pipeline proposal the green light for political reasons, thinking about the next federal election, it appears that I was wrong... So bought, so controlled by big oil that Stephen Harper is prepared to play the fool, act the court jester, don`t let his plastic crown fool you in to believing he has any power, he doesn`t, Stephen Treason Harper, the sad face of big oil and CAPP, an oil man, a religious zealot obsessed with nothing but enriching multi-national energ... more »

rouen

laura k at wmtc - 23 hours ago
My plan for Rouen was a bit more complicated than it had to be. I was reasonably certain it would prove well worth it. There are many hotel options in Rouen, but they all left me unimpressed, mostly chain hotels or what sounded like dumps. I thought for the final night of our trip, we should do something special. I booked a room and dinner at a French country home about 25 minutes out of Rouen. My experience staying at French country homes has been very special, and I knew my mother would love it. I prepared her for the transportation issues, and hoped for the best. Our plan upon a... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Snow Job!'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Post navigation SNOW JOB! Posted on May 14, 2014  Mohawk Nation News Please post and distribute. MNN. May 14, 2014. Seventeen winters have passed since over 100 Iroquois women, children and men were viciously attacked by the New York State Troopers while we were conducting a thanksgiving ceremony. The issue is now before the Admiralty Court. The whole natural world awaits a return to

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

You are a creator

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“Report: Food Prices Skyrocket: “We’re Going to Have a Major Problem Coming Into the Fall”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Report: Food Prices Skyrocket: * *“We’re Going to Have a Major Problem Coming Into the Fall”* by Mac Slavo "While government statisticians claim robust growth, recent data points suggest otherwise. Consumers are quickly running out of money, home sales have collapsed and hit their biggest drop in three years, there are more Americans out of the labor force than ever before, and one third of adults under the age of 35 are living with their parents because they can no longer afford to pay their own mortgage. By all accounts, the reality is that we are now factually in a recession, a ... more »

Guest Interview - Water Quality In America

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
*With an estimated 240,000 water main breaks each year in the US, the aging water infrastructure is posing a health risk for the consumers who are drinking water that is contaminated with lead, pathogens, arsenic, and other carcinogens, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Blue Ocean Sciences, a bioremediation technology company, is preparing for the launch of Hope2o this summer. Hope2o is an affordable and accurate water analysis kit that allows the individual homeowner to test their tap and filter water for any heavy metal and organic chemical contaminants, and to ... more »

Pelosi Should Appoint Only One Democrat To Trey Gowdy's Witch Hunt Committee: Alan Grayson

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
When a tiny handful of slime ball conservaDems like Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Patrick Murphy (FL) and John Barrow (GA) conspired with the House Republicans to ramp up the politically and financially-motivated Benghazi witch hunt last week, I floated the idea of Pelosi doing the one thing better than boycotting it: just appointing a single Democrat to call out the GOP on their ugly partisan attacks. And who better than Oralndo truth teller Alan Grayson? Answer: no one. Yesterday, Ari Rabin-Havt made two cases, one for full Democratic participation in the GOP charade-- which I think is a... more »

“Climate Change Is A Growing National Security Concern, Say Retired Military Leaders”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Climate Change Is A Growing National Security Concern, * *Say Retired Military Leaders”* by James Gerken “A report released Tuesday from an advisory group of retired U.S. military leadership echoes the findings of other recent reports on climate change: It is real, it is already happening and it poses major threats to the U.S. and the rest of the world. The federally funded Center for Naval Analysesand its Military Advisory Board, a group of 16 retired three- and four-star generals and admirals, affirm in the report that climate events like flooding, prolonged drought and rising se... more »

UN Issues A Tame Statement In Response To Kiev's Deceitful Use of Its Logo In A Military Assault Against East Ukraine

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
An excerpt from, *"Ukraine Crisis: UN-Marked Combat Helicopters Used in Government Offensive against Separatists"* by Jack Moore, International Business Times, May 14: Footage has emerged of a white UN-marked Mil Mi-24 helicopter allegedly being used in Ukraine's anti-terror operation against pro-Russian separatists near the Donestsk Oblast city of Kramatorsk. Three further combat Mi-24 helicopters and one transport Mi-8 helicopter bearing the UN logo were spotted in the region by the Russian news outlet Life News. The UN has distanced itself from the footage below, stating that, a... more »

Budget Day Ramble

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
If you really must have Budget information… - Follow the Dismal Science team from SciBloggers reaction to the Budget at Twitter, hashtag: *#NZ14*. (Make sure you click on “All”) - NBR’s summary here. - Keith Ng has produced a nice interactive graphic showing the whole budget at a glance here. (A good place to start.) - And, yes, it looks like it’s a real surplus that is promised, if not yet delivered. On this, see graph below from Donal Curtin, who points out however that the promised surplus has more to do with very cyclically-high export prices than a... more »

Turkey back in focus ........Anger in Turkey over deadly mine disaster Protests erupt in several parts of the country a day after an explosion in a coal mine killed at least 274 people........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Anger in Turkey over deadly mine disaster Protests erupt in several parts of the country a day after an explosion in a coal mine killed at least 274 people. Last updated: 14 May 2014 20:38 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Police fired tear gas on at protesters demonstrating near Istanbul's iconic Taksim Square [Al Jazeera] Anger and grief have boiled over into violent protests in several parts of Turkey a day after a mine disaster killed at least 274 people. Turkish police on ... more »

The Tenth Man, the Tax System, and Beer!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
You’ve read this before in endless emails, but it is Budget Day. Oh, and Beer! [image: image] Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this… The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing The fifth would pay $1 The sixth would pay $3 The seventh would pay $7 The eighth would pay $12 The ninth would pay $18 The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59 So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the ... more »

ALEC Corporate Members Hide Their Involvement Too.

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
As I have often said in the past - ALEC members hide their association with the American Legislative Exchange Council - cause they ashamed - they know what they are doing is wrong - wrong for their state - wrong for the UNITED States of America. Finding ALEC members is a time consuming job - attempted by many, and the rewards are few. It's hard to find and report on something that is intentionally hidden from the public view. Finding ALEC Corporate sector / private sector members is a challenge also - cause they don't advertise that they go out and buy legislators - sounds too un-... more »

Food Watch: Quoi d'neuf, Docteur?* What are the chances that that Frenchy Buttwipe™ can top his damned Cronut™?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The thing is, you can stand in the damned line without any assurance from the Frenchy Buttwipe™ of being able to buy one of the damned things. As we often say here in NYC, forget about it!* *by Ken* I know we sometimes get a bit light-hearted here, possibly even frivolous, and it may be held against me that I'm coming to this post directly from watching a pair of Bugs Bunny cartoons, but that's only because this evening I brought home my latest Amazon purchase, the weekly special of the 24-DVD Looney Tunes set, so naturally I had to, you know, check it out a little. (*For a while... more »

BUDGET: There Are Some Words Missing

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Praise this morning from all quarters for the government achieving a surplus in its first “post-global-financial-crisis budget.” There are a few things to say about that. Be aware this is not a surplus produced in *this* financial year, but one he will promise for *next* year. (And that they already have form about breaking firm promises on tax cuts, let alone hints about them.) And there is still a god-awful debt this government has accrued in its five years of government. But, it’s argued, we have a big debt now because of the global financial crisis. No, there are a few word... more »

American Oligarchy: Biden's Son Hired by Ukraine Gas Company

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
*“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”* *George Orwell – Animal Farm* What may be the ugliest secret of all in 21st Century America there no longer is such a thing as democracy, stick a fork in it's ass because it is done. The truth is that this place was long ago sold out to the highest bidder, not that it was ever noticed by millions of sheep who went down not only without a fight, not only without a whimper but without even noticing that they have been had by a corrupt, entrenched elite. The insane drive to capture Ukraine for western imperialists h... more »
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