Rich's Downtown Flagship Store. Part of Sam Nunn Federal Center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kira Nerusskaya by David Shankbone (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Thailand: Military Move is Not a Coup
*Image: AK47s seized in back from regime politician's car. **May 20, 2014 *(Tony
Cartalucci - ATN) - The Royal Thai Army (RTA) has announced that it is
taking over responsibility for national security from the current regime's
so-called "Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order" (CAPO). The
move came after nearly six months of terrorism carried out by pro-regime
militants the regime itself has failed categorically to either condemn or
counter with its sweeping, self-granted security powers. As recently as
last Thursday, an M79 grenade attack on anti-regime protesters left 3 d... more »
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “Adagio for Sleep”
Liquid Mind, “Adagio for Sleep”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quFgHlfQAuo&feature=related
Bob Feldman : People’s History of Egypt, Conclusion, Section 1, February 12, 2011-2013
The Egyptian military exercised special influence and after Mubarek’s
removal became the sole authority, responsible for extensive human rights
abuses. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | May 19, 2014 [With all the dramatic
activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's … finish reading Bob Feldman :
People’s History of Egypt, Conclusion, Section 1, February 12, 2011-2013
Crucial Primaries Mañana In Georgia, Kentucky And Pennsylvania
Let me save Pennsylvania for the end, since that's the one with Democrats.
Georgia and Kentucky are Republican affairs, although who the GOP voters
pick in each state may influence the outcome of the November elections--
and the control of the U.S. Senate. We'll start with Georgia's 7 dwarves
running for the open red Senate seat that conservative Democrat, Sam Nunn's
daughter, thinks she has a chance to win. She doesn't really have a
chance-- although flawed and irrelevant polling consistently predicts she
does. Greg Bluestein in the *Atlanta Journal-Constitution*: "Michelle Nunn,... more »
Review - Plastic Purge
Are you concerned about plastic?
We've all heard some of the dangers: plastic grocery bags find their way
into our oceans and kill marine life. BPA, a chemical used to make hard,
clear plastic, is bad for our health. And toxins leach into our food from
the chemical used to make plastic pliable (think cling wrap).
The solution seems easy, right? Simply give up plastic!
Here's the problem ... plastic is everywhere!! It's pretty difficult, if
not impossible, to get through a day without encountering this pervasive
material.
I recently had the pleasure of reading *Plastic Purge* ... more »
Reagan Began National Slide in Education/Public Services (Who Said He Got A C In Economics?) , TV Go(o)d (Disengaged Or Nonexistent Organized Left), Golden Age of Television Was When?
I love Randy Newman. I always have. So, shoot me. I'm a short person. An
irony-deflated, short person. An educated, short person. Like Randy Newman.
Whenever I hear someone (usually a man-child or a "man!") intone something
about "Uncle Sugar" being a soft touch for corruption from the lower
classes, I know that he's making his future plans based on it. Like Barbara
Bush said during the
PA Primaries Must Say No! to ALEC
I'd like to say something witty about tomorrows primary in Pennsylvania but
I can't.
Because eprobably the nastiest ALEC member in the US (known to date) serves
in Pennsylvania.
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, the founder of the Tanton Network’s State Legislators
for Legal Immigration
State Legislators for Legal Immigration is a coalition of anti-immigrant
state-elected officials.
SLLI works hand-in-hand with the John Tanton Network to distort the issue
of immigration and undermine America’s values of equality and liberty. .
And at last count (before they took it off their webpage) 67% of... more »
“Marine Mammals Mysteriously Dying In Record Numbers Along West Coast”
*“Marine Mammals Mysteriously Dying In Record Numbers Along West Coast”*
by Jonathan Benson
“More sick and dying animals are washing up on the coast of California,
with new reports indicating record numbers of young sea lions, seals, and
other marine mammals being admitted to care shelters for rehabilitation.
The Orange County Register reports that the only facility in the county
licensed to care for marine mammals is now at capacity, and that other
facilities all along the coastline are being similarly inundated.
The normally pudgy and active creatures are increasingly turning up
... more »
East Coast Adventures
I went off to the east coast this weekend, which is why I haven't been
blogging. Did a loop: Saturday from Hualien to Chenggong (~120 kms), Sunday
Chenggong back to Hualien (~140 kms) via the 30 over to the Rift Valley and
the 193 back to Hualien city. Monday we tried to do Mugumuyu but the rain
defeated us. For more pics click on READ MORE:
Leaving Hualien on saturday morning it was obvious that it was going to be
a really nice day.
Good weather or bad, the garbage must be raked over for recyclables that
can be sold.
Traveling alone, I got up early and saw the fishing boats comi... more »
FBI and Department of Justice's Eric Holder's busy day May 19 , 2014 -- FBI arrests 100 hackers over Blackshades malware After a dozen raids around the world, police are detaining the hackers behind 'RAT' software, which lets attackers take over Facebook accounts and infect computers ............ Credit Suisse Admits Guilt In Aiding US Citizens Evade Taxes - Live Eric Holder Press Conference ........... DOJ Accuses Chinese Hackers Of "Penetrating" US Companies - Live Press Conference Feed
FBI arrests 100 hackers over Blackshades malware
After a dozen raids around the world, police are detaining the hackers
behind 'RAT' software, which lets attackers take over Facebook accounts and
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allowed attackers to access victims' computers to access files, copy
keystrokes or operate the webcam - but also facilitated large=scale denial
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Fired NYT Exec Ed Jill Abramson's voice is heard in the land, plus another fired woman editor is heard from
*You can watch Jill Abramson's Wake Forest commencement speech today here.*
*by Ken*
With all due respect to Wake Forest University, no doubt a fine
institution, it seems to safe to say that as of a couple of weeks ago its
commencement today would have been of little interest to anyone outside the
university community. But the scheduled commencement speaker was then-NYT
Executive Editor Jill Abramson, and in light of recent events, the world at
large descended on Winston-Salem, NC.
As the *Washington Post*'s Manuel Roig-Franzia reports ("Jill Abramson
tells Wake Forest graduates t... more »
“How Your License Plate is Being Used Against You”
*“How Your License Plate is Being Used Against You”*
by Mike Leahy
“You’re a liar!” the police officer yells. “You’re lying to me. Your family
says you have it. Where is the gun?” Your hands are behind your head, your
legs spread apart. The officer radios in for backup, and three more police
cruisers arrive on the scene. They separate you from the rest of your
family before they start searching your car. Out come your suitcases as
well as some presents you bought for your family. This goes on for hours…
right on the side of a major highway. There’s no gun in your car, but that
does... more »
Hayek on Handling Recession
Sam’s comment this morning was so good, I need to comment on it twice.
He’s right that there’s no need for vitriol at half the population. But
he’s wrong in arguing that governments should be piling up debt during a
recession:
However, it seems pretty clear that the human suffering mitigated by
maintaining transfers through a recession *drastically* outweighs the
suffering created by the govt taking on debt to be mostly paid by rich
taxpayers of the future.
Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Hayek would disagree with him twice over.
First, it’s certainly true that young people have bee... more »
To those who would argue for flat funding for all schools
While so-called “priority” schools languish in Washington, DC, all from
low-income black and brown neighborhoods, I am to understand that
PTA/PTO/HSA organizations in more affluent areas of our nation’s capital
are able to raise upwards of $500K additional funds to, for instance, hire
full-time paraprofessionals in every class. A half-a-million dollars. Are
you kidding me? […]
“The lottery of birth”
Sam’s comment this morning was too good to ignore.
Opposing objections to compulsory government welfare, he argues we must be
forced *by law* to be our brother’s keeper. Why? Because, echoing Obama, “you
didn’t build that.”
Here's what you and other Libertarians need to understand [says Sam]: *it's
all luck!* Neither you nor I can take credit for our successes. Maybe you
are hard working, but you didn't choose the genes and upbringing that made
you hardworking. Maybe you had a crappy upbringing but nevertheless
overcame hardship to rise to the top, but you can't take credit for ha... more »
Ride in the bike lane, arsehole
Bike lanes are supposed to be there to protect bike riders, right?
Well, apparently not.
In Auckland, bike riders have to share their bike lanes with the biggest
behemoths on the road, i.e., buses, piloted all too often by drivers
disinterested in anything around them.
No wonder so many cyclists ride elsewhere.
But ride in anything *other *than a bus lane bike lane, in Manhattan at
least, and you get a ticket.
Casey Neistat was issued a ticket by NYPD for not riding in the bike lane
and tried to explain to the cop that sometimes the lanes are blocked. But
the officer didn’t ... more »
Thailand Army Declares Martial Law May 19 , 2014 -- Last minute meeting to defuse crisis must have fallen short -- Thailand’s acting prime minister has met with a group of senators to seek a solution to the country’s ongoing political crisis, as anti-government protesters continue to pressure the Cabinet to resign ......
Thailand Army Declares Martial Law
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gotta love the New Normal: full of non-coupy martial laws.
This is how in Thailand people are told to keep calm and keep BTFD:
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ticker message on screen reads "no need to worry"
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China, Russia, Brazil, Germany and all the other countries in the World should put Obama, NSA, CIA, Biden, Clinton and every official in D.C. on their own FBI list... as U.S. did to China
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Whenever I don't believe the
U.S. could be full of hypocrisy any more, I am astounded at the idiotic
U.S. government actions and absolute hypocrisy of this government. By the
U.S. putting Chinese military officials on the FBI most wanted list for
spying on America through hacking of computers, the U.S. put itself at risk
for countries doing the
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Recognized since antiquity and depicted on the shield of Achilles
according to Homer, stars of the Hyades cluster form the head of the
constellation Taurus the Bull. Their general V-shape is anchored by
Aldebaran, the eye of the Bull and by far the constellation's brightest
star.
*Click image for larger size.*
Yellowish in appearance, red giant Aldebaran is not a Hyades cluster
member, though. Modern astronomy puts the Hyades cluster 151 light-years
away making it the nearest established open star cluster, while Aldebaran
lies at less than half that distance, along the same line-of... more »
"The Object Of Life..."
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
- Marcus Aurelius
Chet Raymo, “Speak, Earth”
*“Speak, Earth”*
by Chet Raymo
“There is a passage toward the end of Vladimir Nabokov' memoir "Speak,
Memory" where he compares the writing of a novel to "the zest of a deity
building a live world from the most unlikely ingredients—rocks, and carbon,
and blind throbbings."
This is the season in New England when we watch the deity in action, when
the cold, rocky foundation suddenly seeps and oozes the fluids of life, the
blood and tears and intestinal juices and sticky protoplasm. The first rays
of summer filter to the woodland floor and wild lilies-of-the-valley, bell
flowers and... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Brookings, Oregon, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Life Is Hard?"
"Life is hard? True- but let's love it anyhow,
though it breaks every bone in our bodies."
- Edward Abbey
"The Desert"
*"The Desert"*
by Yasser Hareb
"The sandstorm was so severe that his footprint was erased before he could
lift his other foot. The sun had disappeared, and the place was engulfed in
a maze of eternal dust. The only thing that gave him a little peace in his
heart was the halter of his camel, which he held on to tightly, as if it
was his lifeline. Despite the sound of the wind howling like a pack of
wolves, the breathing of his camel gave him some comfort.
He thought of making his camel sit down so he could take cover behind her
body, as the Bedouins do during storms, but he remember... more »
The Poet: David Wagoner, "Getting There"
* "Getting There"*
"You take a final step and, look, suddenly
You're there. You've arrived
At the one place all your drudgery was aimed for:
This common ground
Where you stretch out, pressing your cheek to sandstone.
What did you want to be?
You'll remember soon.
You feel like tinder under a burning glass,
A luminous point of change.
The sky is pulsing against the cracked horizon,
Holding it firm till the arrival of stars
In time with your heartbeats.
Like wind etching rock, you've made a lasting impression
On the self you were,
By having come all this way through all this welter
Unde... more »
“Divergent Directions: Coping with People You Dislike”
*“Divergent Directions: Coping with People You Dislike”*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
“When we are forced to deal with people we dislike, a great learning
opportunity is being put forth to us. As much as most of us wish we could
exist in harmony with the people we encounter throughout our lives, there
will always be individuals we dislike. Some simply rub us the wrong way
while others strike us as deliberately unaware. We may judge others as too
mean or abrasive for us to interact with them comfortably. Yet no person
should be deemed a villain because their beliefs, opinions, mann... more »
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Harry Targ : Angela Davis featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of Chicago
Police repression and ideological mystification are the glues that maintain
structural violence. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | May 19, 2014 Stop
Police Crimes! End Mass Incarceration! Free All Political Prisoners! (Rally
with Angela Davis, Trinity United Church … finish reading Harry Targ :
Angela Davis featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of
Chicago
"It'll Do..."
Deputy Wendell: “It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?”
Sheriff Bell: “If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.”
- “No Country For Old Men”
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And you'd better believe the mess is coming...
- CP
An Open Apology to Heather
I was invited to Morocco in October by Caleb, as he had rented a large
villa in Cabo Negro and asked if I wanted to rent a room. Since my wife
and I were splitting up I accepted the offer so I could start a new life in
a new place. Heather and her husband were together and as far as I knew on
good terms. My coming to Morocco had nothing to do with her. Caleb invited
me and we knew nothing of Aouchtam.
In November I made a blog post about Heather getting a divorce and moving
in with Caleb in me. My intent was not to harm Heather but I shouldn't
have done it. Just to explain the s... more »
The Mogambo Guru, “A Comforting Solution to an Economic Nightmare”
*“A Comforting Solution to an Economic Nightmare”*
by The Mogambo Guru
“As I gather from the family’s incessant whining for me to give them more
of my dollars, which is growing louder and more rudely hostile by the day,
inflation in the prices of things is hitting them pretty hard. You know:
The same old story.
I pride myself that I am always a loving husband and father, thoughtful
enough to kindly address their financial concerns with my usual careful
consideration and advice, like explaining to them “Shut up!”, whereupon —
get this! — they go all hysterical on me!
Okay, I admit ... more »
“Credit Expansion, Economic Inequality, and Stagnant Wages”
My favourite living economist George Reisman responded briefly last week to
Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed tract on inequality, and substantively
(back in 2008) to the primary cause of unearned inequality that Monsieur
Piketty overlooks.
Capital, he points out, is not the source of poverty but instead is both
the source of all production, and the very means by which labour is paid.
The wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but
rather of making the poor less poor, indeed, rich. The wealth of the rich
is invested in means of production, which are the fou... more »
Spanish Inquisition Day 2
Today was (mostly) consumed by a lengthy walking tour of central Madrid
(with a wonderful pair of guides) followed by free time (spent geocaching
and walking home in the rain) and a late-night *tapas* feast.
Naturally Southern Man rose at first light for some pre-breakfast
geocaching...
Another "travel bug" destined to visit caches and Spain and then return.
This one contains some of the ashes of a beloved family member and one of
her children has arranged for her to see the world, in a matter of
speaking. Norma will return to Southern State and rejoin her family at the
end of th... more »
Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson-- Fierce Advocates For Ordinary Working Families
This morning when I woke up the top story on Salon was Digby's Put Alan
Grayson On Benghazi Panel! Why He's Dems' Best Option To Expose This Clown
Show. "With the latest Benghazi! ™ extravaganza about to begin," she wrote,
"the Democrats are faced with a dilemma. Should they boycott the silly
hearings, thus leaving the Republicans to put on their pageant unimpeded,
or should they join in with a full panel and add legitimacy to the process?
The problem seems to be that whether they like it or not, these hearings
are going to be covered. And if the press reaction so far tells us
any... more »
SPACE WEEK POSTERS AVAILABLE
Space week posters now available for order. Can purchase them for $3 each
or five for $12. Artwork done by W. B. Park in Florida.
Send check to: Global Network, PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011 or pay
online *here*
Just indicate in the comments section that you are ordering posters.
NUCLEAR GAME IN UKRAINE
Political turmoil and violence in Ukraine's east are not the only
challenges facing the country right now. Energy supplies are a major
concern, and Kiev has decided to use US nuclear fuel at its atomic plants
which constitute a major part of the country's power grid. RT's Irina
Galushko explains why many fear Kiev is jeopardizing safety for politics.
Abu Hamza Guilty
Breaking (good) news, grabbed for posterity at 21.15 BST ...
From *The Wall Street Journal...*
*British Cleric Guilty in U.S. Terror Trial*
*Federal Jury Finds Abu Hamza al-Masri Guilty of All Charges in Terrorism
Case*
By CHARLES LEVINSON And CHRISTOPHER M. MATTHEWS CONNECT
May 19, 2014 3:02 p.m. ET
NEW YORK—Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Egyptian-born British cleric, was found
guilty of 11 terrorism charges on Monday by a federal jury in Manhattan.
The verdict follows less than two full days of deliberations.
The monthlong trial marks the second time this year that federal civilian
pr... more »
Pot Meets Kettle as US Accuses China of Spying
The farce continues. In a staged media event US Attorney General Eric
Holder announced that the Department of Justice had indicted five Chinese
military officers with stealing data. The dog and pony show – complete with
wanted posters – comes as the Obama regime stumbles from one foreign policy
debacle to another and that accusing the Chinese of stealing data and
spying on US interests is about as hypocritical as it comes in the
aftermath of the revelations of former government contractor turned NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden. Holder will go down as one of the worst
Attorney Ge... more »
Uffe Ravnskov, Zoe Harcombe and Aseem Malhotra on the New Censorship
This is just a bookmark for three responses to two recent incidents of
press censorship.
ABC withdrew the two episodes of "Heart of the Matter" Catalyst show,
despite nothing substantial in the complaints being upheld, and the BMJ
retracted some comments critical of statins, including those of Dr Aseem
Malhotra, which were opinion based on his clinical impression, and had been
presented as such.
This is from Uffe Ravnskov's newsletter:
*Why are the media afraid of revealing the greatest medical scandal in
modern time?*
In my October 2013 Newsletter I told you about the Australian ... more »
Calling UKIP Racist Won't Stop Them
It's become a daily thing. Every day a new UKIP candidate is exposed as a
racist, a homophobe, a Holocaust denialist. It's like we've been here
before. The establishment is all sixes and sevens as an upstart far right
party makes waves, but this is 2014, not 2009. The debates that have
rippled across countless Twitter feeds and clogged up party and
paper-branded blogging platforms are retreads of arguments had about the
BNP. Yet every screwball and screw up leaves UKIP spotless. Just how do you
deal with them? There are two broad schools of thought. There's one camp
devoted to pinn... more »
A Post in Five Rants
Famously, we don't do rants here at 'Is', but...
*Rant the First*
The past few weeks have been quite something, politically-speaking.
As many of you will have noticed, there's been an all-out assault on UKIP
from the media and the political class.
I've never seen anything quite like it before.
That the Tories seem to have been in cahoots with the *Guardian* says it
all.
Some of you will blame the BBC, but the assault has come from all angles
and the likes of the *Daily Telegraph, *the *Times, *the *Spectator,* the *Daily
Mail*, *Sky News *and *LBC *have at least as bad as the... more »
Men in Disarmament Push for Inclusion of Women’s Voices as CCW Process on Autonomous Weapons Moves Forward
The CCW Expert’s Conference on Autonomous Weapons ended yesterday with a
draft report from the Chair (France) that set the stage for further
discussions in November. For the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a
continued discussion had been the primary objective at this stage, so this
is good news for campaigners. NGOs were pleased with the
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Bow-Tie Pasta Salad with Julie from Confessions of a Cooking Diva
*I am so excited to have Julie here today to share a fantastic recipe with
us. Julie blogs at Confessions of a Cooking Diva, make sure to check out
her Crock-Pot Lemon Chicken! *
Hi. My name is Julie and I blog over at Confessions of a Cooking Diva. I
blog all about food. I love to cook and try new recipes all the time. I
like to make a mix of dishes some complicated and some super quick and
simple like this pasta salad. [image: bow-tie pasta supreme]
This salad can be done in 20 minutes or less and is packed with tons of
flavor. I've made this salad for many potlucks and it's always... more »
Untitled
*Retired Gen. Honore storms fracking battlefield in St. Tammany as recall
efforts begin for elected officials ~David Grunfeld *
*Use your influence to stop La Sen Bill 469 ~Louisiana Sportsman*
*B&B owners affected by illegal short-term rentals want city enforcemen
~WWLTV *
What happened to our weekend series?
*MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014*
*Incompleteness suspended:* What happened to our “Weekend Wonkster” series
this weekend?
Mainly, two things:
Don’t worry! We’ve continued to take delight in Professor Goldstein’s
wonderfully bad explanations! The analysts work with the book every
morning. Most days, they chuckle aloud!
(It’s hard not to chuckle at the famous phrase, “the set of all sets not
members of themselves.” The fact that people are *still* discussing that
muddled concept—we’ll admit it, it just makes us laugh!)
That said, the book is so full of bad explanation that we weren’t sure
wh... more »
It’s a myth that Brown ended segregation!
*MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014*
*Princeton teams up with the Post:* Every ten years, we discuss, and/or
pretend to discuss, the deeply important 1954 Brown decision.
This is one of those times! For that reason, yesterday’s Washington Post
published this brilliantly muddled report by Princeton professor Imani
Perry:
“Five myths about Brown v. Board of Education”
In our view, the professor’s piece leaves no muddle behind, though it isn’t
all Perry’s fault.
In this high-profile weekly feature, the Post insists that writers debunk
five myths about some topic—not *four* myths and not six. If t... more »
Introducing .... the International Phonetic Alphabet!
One of the things that makes English so distinct from most of the other
languages on the planet is its unusually inconsistent and unpredictable
spelling. Due to changes in the sounds of English over time, many letters
once pronounced are now silent -- particularly our old friend "silent e."
Add to that the fact that, as our vowel system changed, many words that use
the same vowel are pronounced completely differently, and you have a pretty
difficult spelling "system." The spelling reformer and playwright George
Bernard Shaw jested at this by claiming that "fish" should be spelled "g... more »
Ducking Out…
Am I the first to use the pun “ducking out”? I can’t be, someone has to
have used that to describe leaving the Duck of Minerva before. Regardless,
this brings up two key problems with blogging, the quick move towards the
cheap pun and to the tendency to do no actual background research on before
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WHERE WE ARE HEADING?
I first heard Thomas Barnett (then an instructor at the Naval War College)
do a version of this talk called Pentagon's New Map around 2002. I watched
the three hour version on CSPAN one evening. He was on that occasion
introduced as the "strategy guy" for Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld.
Barnett's arrogant presentation was ultimately about how the US's job under
corporate globalization would be "security export". We won't have jobs in
the USA anymore because corporations have gone looking for cheaper labor.
So we will build weapons and wage war for declining resources on behal... more »
Steve Israel Had The Worst Week In Washington. 2014 Will Also Be His Worst Year So Far
This post isn't meant to gloat over DCCC Chairman Steve Israel's epic
failures last week, nor even to bash a Beltway media incapable of covering
it. Chris Cillizza at least tried a few days ago in the *Washington Post*: Who
Had The Worst Week In Washington? DCCC Chairman Steve Israel.
Cillizza tried. If he was up at McGill and I was teaching a journalism
class this semester I'd give him a passing grade… for trying. I'm generous
with the grades; I might even give him a B-minus. He tried to tell *Post*readers the
story of Ed Jany, or at least an easily digestible, Beltway-centric ver... more »
KY - Kick ALECers Out at Your Primaries
Kentucky - primaries are coming up.
People need to know the real politics of candidates at the state, local and
county level.
The race is on by the GOP to put extremists in office and this list has a
few of them.
*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
They have paid ALEC dues through their campaign finances
They self identified themselves somewhere , anywhere as an ALEC member.
They have been shown as a signatory on an ALEC letter.
They have been listed by ALEC as a member, in ALEC document... more »
May 19: Missed the A2 cartoon a couple of days ago? Worry not.
You'll find it today, repeated in the usual spot on A2, TheTandT
undoubtedly has the sloppiest editing I have ever seen in a newspaper.
I was driving past Moncton City Hall recently, and I saw a large
demonstration of women to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria. And
I most certainly support that cause. But.....
Why have never seen such demonstrations for the hundreds of thousands of
school girls in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan - among others, raped,
bombed, shot, orphaned. burned alive by our side? Where are the campaigns
to help Iraq's uncounted orphan and crippled c... more »
"How It Really Is"
"Had"... past tense... too late.
- http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/
Satire: "G.O.P.: Evil Mastermind Behind Benghazi Is Frail Old Woman With Brain Damage"
*"G.O.P.: Evil Mastermind Behind Benghazi Is Frail Old Woman With Brain
Damage"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton is an evil genius capable of masterminding the most elaborate
cover-up in U.S. history and is also a frail old woman with brain damage,
leading Republicans charged on Sunday. Republican National Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus led the attack while appearing on NBC’s “Meet the
Press,” where he said that the American people should be wary of electing a
woman who is capable of orchestrating the complex conspira... more »
Alan Waldman : ‘Crossing Lines’ is an exciting global crime series
Donald Sutherland and William Fichtner lead a fine ensemble in dramatic
American-written, Franco-German series, shot mostly in the Czech Republic.
By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | May 19, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan
Waldman reviews some of … finish reading Alan Waldman :
‘Crossing Lines’ is an exciting global crime series
There are no 't Hooft's ontological bases
Fred Singer informed me about a huge, 202-page-long quant-ph paper by
Gerard 't Hooft (via Physics arXiv Blog)
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. A View on the
Quantum Nature of our Universe, Compulsory or Impossible?
which reviews the author's more than 15-year-long struggle to show that the
foundations of quantum phenomena are classical (these are not just my
words, he explicitly says so; at least, I appreciate that he is not trying
to mask this basic goal by thick layers of fog like other "interpreters"
do). I also appreciate that 't Hooft doesn't cite an... more »
Venezuela: Strange Lights During Caracas Blackout (2013)
*Source: PLANETA UFO & OVNIVENEZUELADate: 05.19.14*
*Venezuela: Strange Lights Seen During Caracas Blackout*
By Hector Escalante (02 December 2013)
*http://ovnivenezuelagrupo.blogspot.com.ar/*
Many people were able to witness the manifestations of strange lights over
various parts of Venezuela on Monday, December 2nd, during a power outage
that took place in a number of states between 08:00 and 09:00 in the
evening, and which lasted several hours in some cities.
Reports on this unusual incident, accompanied by photos, began circulating
almost immediately in social media, where young... more »
From Arrogance To Hubris, Interview With Brad Swanson Former CPA Official On What Went Wrong In The Early Years Of The US Occupation Of Iraq
Brad Swanson was a former State Department official and international
investment banker from Virginia when he got a call in early 2004 to work
for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). His friend, Michael
Fleischer was in charge of private sector development, and needed help
because his office was understaffed. Swanson eventually arrived in Baghdad
in March and spent the next four months working on trying to get Iraqi
businesses up and running after the invasion. During those few months in
Iraq he became disillusioned with the U.S. effort believing that the CPA
was trying to... more »
TWO WOMEN: And their respective plights!
*MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014*
*Part 1—In which the scene is set:* Two women, and their respective
plights, have been described in the press in recent weeks.
One of the women is quite well off; she holds extremely high professional
status. When she isn’t at her Connecticut country home, she lives in
Tribeca.
Her plight: She had an extremely good job, but her boss decided to replace
her. She will soon have another extremely good job with some other employer.
The other woman is much younger. She’s senior class president at her public
high school, where she was also homecoming queen and a th... more »
“Moving Through Darkness: The Places We Go”
*“Moving Through Darkness: The Places We Go”*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
“Often it takes something major to wake us up as we struggle to maintain an
illusion of control. In life, most of us want things to go to the places we
have envisioned ourselves going. We have plans and visions, some of them
divinely inspired, that we want to see through to completion. We want to be
happy, successful, and healthy, all of which are perfectly natural and
perfectly human. So when life takes us to places we didn’t consciously want
to go, we often feel as if something has gone wrong, or we must ... more »
Dianne Feinstein Lashes Out While Corrupt Congress Guts NSA Reforms
Apparently having now put her little snit with the CIA behind her, Senate
Intelligence Committee boss Dianne Feinstein, the woman who has long served
as an impenetrable firewall of cellulite between accountability and the run
amok NSA Stasi is back with a vengeance. DiFi, while appearing on the
Sunday morning bloviation circuit with CNN's Candy Crowley snapped while
discussing the new Glenn Greenwald book "No Place to Hide" that - “It’s not
a surveillance program, it’s a data-collection program”. The testy
California Senator may have inadvertently let the the cat out of the bag on ... more »
Unlike Jimi Hendrix, Alan Grayson Can't Play Guitar With His Teeth
We never asked Alan Grayson how he feels about a Hillary Clinton
presidency-- although he's getting a lot of pressure to run in the primary
against her. But we do know how the *Republican Party* feels about her
perspective run: they are terrified. They know she can beat any of their
horribly flawed candidates-- think Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and
Mike Huckabee-- in a landslide the scope of which is likely to jeopardize
the political careers of dozens of senators, congressmembers and local
Republican officials. For that reason-- and for that reason alone-- they
stopped th... more »
The Perils Of An Inflated Ego
Next month, the Harper government will announce its decision on the
Northern Gateway Pipeline. Murray Dobbin writes:
The momentum of opposition to the pipeline -- and perhaps more importantly,
to the hundreds of supertankers that would move tar sands bitumen to Asia
-- is clearly growing in both B.C. and the rest of Canada. This makes
Harper's absolute dedication to the oil industry and his dogged commitment
to the pipeline in particular, tantamount to a suicide pact. This is a
pipeline that will never be built. It is already dead. But don't assume
Harper sees that. His decision,... more »
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*How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Improving school standards in the
South*
*Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away
from racially and economically diverse school districts.*
A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another
reminder that “separate” still means “unequal” when it comes to the racial
dynamics of the nation’s public schools.
The small middle-class town of Gardendale, Alabama, outside Birmingham,
voted on November 12 to secede from the Jefferson County school district
and then to raise taxes on themselves to f... more »
Justice Department to announce Cyber Hacking charges against China -- May 19 , 2014 --- The Justice Department plans to announce charges against individuals in the Chinese military, accusing them of hacking U.S. companies for trade secrets, the first time the U.S. government has publicly accused employees of a foreign power with cybercrimes against American firms, according to people familiar with the matter.
Justice Department to announce indictments in international cyber-espionage
case
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
May 19, 2014 - 7:55 am EDT
AAA
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WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing to announce criminal charges
Monday in an international cyber-espionage case, an official said.
Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal law enforcement officials
were expected to reveal the new indictments later Monday, said the
official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not
authorized to discuss the case by name in advance of the ann... more »
Its Not OK to Vote for ALEC in OK
Its Not OK to Vote for ALEC in OK
That pretty much says it all!
And right now there are way too many ALECers in that stat of OK wanting to
get elected or re-elected.
*#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
They have paid ALEC dues through their campaign finances
They self identified themselves somewhere , anywhere as an ALEC member.
They have been shown as a signatory on an ALEC letter.
They have been listed by ALEC as a member, in ALEC documents.
They have been “outed” by... more »
“Original Sin”
*“Original Sin”*
By Cognitive Dissonance
“They are everywhere and mostly unrecognized, paths we have taken and
routes we have abandoned. Some are emotional and physical, some moral, some
mental. Most are of little consequence to us, or to the world at large, and
pass unnoticed from our perceived reality, almost as if they were not there
to begin with. But every now and then there is a fork in the road that is
of such earth shaking magnitude that the very world is changed. Yet few of
us recognize the event for what it really is… or was. In the vast history
book of time, even the mag... more »
Bitcoin Updates May 16 , 2014 - Brook Pierce controversy underlines how messy The Bitcoin foundation has become .....Bitcoin Foundation Members Resigning Over Brock Pierce Controversy – Is TBF Necessary ? Good question.......... Overstock CEO Delivers Historically Charged Keynote at Bitcoin2014
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
China
blocking ?
China May Be Disrupting Access to
Major Bitcoin Websites
Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) | Published on May 16, 2014 at 16:24 BST |
Asia,
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War Watch May 19 , 2014 -- Libya focus -- Is US Behind ‘Rogue’ General’s Libya Coup - ? Gen. Hifter Lived in Metro DC for Decades and his attempted Coup has involved not just restive Benghazi but has spread to Tripoli and the GNC ( Congress ) has been indefinitely suspended to boot ........ Iraq focus -- If the Iraqi authorities are to be believed, at least 142 militants were killed in security operations and clashes today. The military is conducting extensive operations in Anbar province, neighboring Babil province, and even north towards Mosul in Nineveh province, which also borders Anbar province. Independent confirmation cannot be obtained from the battle zones. Over 40 civilians and security personnel were also killed. At least 180 people were killed and 59 more were wounded in these attacks and security operations........ Syria Rebel in-fighting continues between ISIL and al Nusra in Syria oil rich region of Deir al - Zor ( follow the money always ) , General in Charge of Syria air defense killed in fighting near Damascus......
Suspension of Libyan parliament sought
Government demands parliament be suspended until next polls, day after
building was attacked by forces of ex-general.
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Libya's government has demanded the suspension of parliament until the next
general election, as the security situation in the country goes on a
downward spiral, fuelled by growing tensions between two armed groups.
In a statement issued on Monday, the cabinet... more »
Religious Freedom is important
The 2014 USCIRF Religious Freedom report is out now and just as last year
there seems to be some common threads that unite the worse offenders.
Tier 1 CPC Countries
Designated by State Department & Recommended by USCIRF
Burma - Military government of a particularly nasty type
China - Single party Communist state
Eritrea - Single party state split 62.5% Christian, 36.5% Muslim
Iran - Islamic republic under Shariah Law
North Korea - One party authoritarian regime, based on Communism
Saudi Arabia - Islamic republic under Shariah Law
Sudan - Single party Islamic state
Uzbekistan - Former p... more »
The Guardian's Comment Is Free section asks 'Should women get paid menstrual leave?'
The Guardian's Comment Is Free section asks if women should get paid
menstrual leave - it's a fair question, after all there is a magic money
tree to pay for all extensions to workers benefits.
However this is a highly discriminatory measure and I demand equality. I
don't see why I, as a man, should be discriminated against by not receiving
this extra benefit. Just because I can't menstruate, I should still have
the right to be able to menstruate and so have these extra days leave...
The Monty Python team once had similar views... In Life Of Brian.
France Is Leading The Way Toward Vaccine Safety: Aluminum Adjuvants and HPV Vaccines Up for Debate
[image: hpv-vaccine-controversy]In France The Government Is At Least
Willing To Listen
France: Aluminum Adjuvants and HPV Vaccines Up for Debate
By Norma Erickson, President
Sane Vax, Inc., 19 May 2014
*France is leading the way toward vaccine safety.*
*Paris, France*: The use of aluminum adjuvants and HPV vaccines’ benefit
versus risk profile will be under intense scrutiny and open scientific
debate on May 22, 2014. Stakeholders from both sides of the vaccine debate
will have an opportunity to present their case to members of the French
Parliament, French Senate, health aut... more »
Organic Sales Continue To Grow - Up 11.5 % in 2013
[image: Foto: Organic sales reached a new high in 2013. "Consumers are
making the correlation between what we eat and our health, and that
knowledge is spurring heightened consumer interest in organic products."
says Laura Batcha, Executive Director and CEO of OTA. As more people become
aware of genetically modified foods that produce their own pesticides and
are engineered to be doused with toxic herbicides... more of us are
choosing organic. A paradigm shift is underway. The future is GMO Free!
READ:
http://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-national.php?Id=1091&yr=2014
#Organic... more »
Grorcery Manufacturers Association vs Vermont - Stop Buying GMA Products & Support Vermont
[image: Foto: IN VERMONT, the GMO battle between the people and corporate
greed rages on. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed GMO Labeling Bill
H.112 into law. But the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), made up of
companies like Kellogg's, Nestlé and Monsanto, seems to be allergic to the
democratic process - and fearing that consumers will reject genetically
engineered foods - has announced that it will sue Vermont to overturn the
law. This suit is in addition to their attempts at the federal level to
outlaw states' rights to pass laws mandating GMO labeling. Vermont vows to... more »
Free Planet cannot help you people.
there's nothing that will bring HUMANITY (as a cretinous race of
profit-earners for a faceless hierarchic system) back from the brink.
You've proven, time and time again, that a FREE PLANET of Creativity,
Passion and Kinship just doesn't interest you. At all. Long live the power
pyramid that crushes you because of your own ignorance. You won't be
remembered when you're ERASED IN THE NAME OF PROFIT.
"You know, you're dead for a lot longer than you're alive."
Oddly the BBC have not reported this NHS story
The 2014 CHKS awards included at the top of patient care award shortlist
an NHS hospital by the name of Hinchingbrooke. Nothing unusual there, there
are a lot of NHS hospitals on the various shortlists, but what is odd is
that just two years ago Hinchingbrooke Hospital was a failing NHS hospital
with debts of £40 million. The Cambridgeshire hospital was described by The
Royal College of Surgeons as ‘dysfunctional’. A private firm, Circle, was
tasked with the running of this failing hospital and just over two years
later, the hospital has won an award. Over that period, the Hospital ... more »
U.S. wants Tokyo, Seoul to aid missile defense against N. Korea
[image: AN/TPY-2]The U.S. government has offered Japan a proposal to
establish an information-sharing system that would complement a missile
defense system, which could be jointly operated by Tokyo, Washington and
Seoul to combat a North Korean missile threat, according to government
sources.
The specifics of the proposal include a plan to immediately share
information among the three nations regarding a missile launch that would
be detected by South Korean radar. The U.S. initiative is aimed at creating
an even more effective missile defense shield among the three countries.
Accor... more »
Why The F-35 Is Essential For Canada – Part 1
[image: F-35 Lightning II]The F-35 was designed primarily to replace the
mainstay of the USAF and USN tactical aviation fleet; namely, the F-16 and
F/A-18 Hornet.
A number of criticisms take issue with the F-35’s supposed lack of speed.
It should be noted that the F-35’s top speed of Mach 1.6 is achievable
while carrying a militarily useful load; meaning that a F-35A that’s
configured with a pair of 2000lb bombs, two air to air missiles, and enough
fuel to fly to a target 300nm out and back will be able to achieve its top
speed.
Read more
memo to porter airlines passenger who needs lessons in new york city
Dear suburban GTA resident flying on Porter Airlines from Newark to Toronto:
Since you were not talking to me, I was unable to respond to your erroneous
statements. But since you were speaking loud enough for the entire plane to
hear, I was easily able to determine that you have no idea what you are
talking about.
Here are some facts of which you clearly are not aware.
1. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay near the airport in Elizabeth, New
Jersey. However, since you did not venture into New York City, you have no
idea how the area near your hotel compares to any part of New York City. ... more »
Commander: Iran-Made Anti-Stealth Aircraft Radar to Go on Stream in Coming Months
[image: General Farzad Esmayeeli]“A radar system special to detecting
stealth aircraft, which has been developed by young and specialist
(Iranian) forces despite conditions caused by (US-engineered) sanctions,
will be used to counter stealth aircraft,” Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air
Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said on Saturday.
The commander added that the radar system will be unveiled on September 1,
which marks the establishment anniversary of the defense base.
Iran in February unveiled 21 radar and electronic defense projects in a
ceremony participated by De... more »
New Iran WMD threat: UN report IDs 2 new missile sites
[image: Fateh 110 missile]The United Nations has determined that Iran was
nearly ready to open a ballistic missile site.
A UN panel has concluded that Iran was expanding its ballistic missile
program and building facilities for space launches. The UN Panel of Experts
drafted a report that identified two major missile sites in Iran.
“A new missile launch site 40 kilometers from the city of Shahrud was
identified in August 2013,” the 49-page report said. “A larger launch
complex is assessed to be close to completion at the Imam Khomeini Space
Center at Semnan for ballistic missiles an... more »
IDF, US Rehearse for Iran Missile Attack
[image: Iron Dome]The IDF and the US military cooperated Sunday in a large
drill simulating a multi-front missile attack on Israel by Gaza, Lebanon,
Syria and Iran, Channel 2 reported Sunday.
During the exercise, about 1,000 American soldiers stationed in Israel
joined more than 4,000 Israelis, to practice the protection of the State of
Israel in a series of scenarios that simulate the firing of rockets and
missiles from several arenas simultaneously: Gaza , Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
The exercise reportedly tested various scenarios, including one in which
the U.S. sent Patriot missil... more »
American missile cruiser to enter Black Sea on May 23
[image: USS Vella Gulf]American Ticonderoga class Aegis guided missile
cruiser USS Vella Gulf is expected to enter the Black Sea May 23, a
military-diplomatic source told ITAR-TASS on Monday.
"It is expected that Vella Gulf will pass through the Black Sea straits on
May 23. According to available data, the ship will be performing the tasks
of US Navy command in the eastern part of the Black Sea," the source
specified.
Earlier it was reported that Vella Gulf missile cruiser would visit the
Black Sea on May 9, however, the visit was postponed.
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Swiss shoot down Swedish fighter jet deal
[image: JAS-39 Gripen]The Swiss allowed a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy
fighter jets from Sweden to crash and burn Sunday, when a majority turned
out to nix funding for the purchase.
In all, 53.4 percent of voters balked at releasing the 3.1 billion francs
($3.5 billion) needed to purchase the 22 planes from Sweden's Saab,
according to official referendum results.
Polls ahead of the referendum predicted that voters would turn down the
government plan, which called for the new fighter jets to replace the Swiss
Air Force's ageing fleet of 54 F-5 Tiger aircraft to defend Switzerland... more »
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*David Suzuki is a confused man*
*He says skeptics are playing the man and not the ball and then does
exactly that himself! He says that skeptics attack Warmists on the basis of
personalities rather than attending to the facts -- but he then attacks
skeptics on the basis of personalities rather than the facts! He is a
rather stark case of pychological projection, I think*
In the second part of his conversation with Bill Moyers, Dr. David Suzuki
says climate deniers are engaging in a good ol’ game of “kill the
messenger.”
“This is a very effective thing that we know has been done b... more »
NZ Navy departs for world's largest naval exercise
[image: HMNZS Canterbury]HMNZS Canterbury, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s
amphibious sealift ship, will sail from Devonport Naval Base on Tuesday 3
June for a three-month deployment around the Pacific Ocean starting with
the world’s largest naval exercise, the month-long Exercise RIMPAC.
The ship and her crew of 124, which includes seven Army and eight Air Force
personnel, will join other units from the NZ Defence Force for Exercise Rim
of the Pacific (RIMPAC 2014), conducted near Hawaii from 25 June to 1
August.
Exercise RIMPAC, held every two years, is a multinational exercise that ... more »
China, Russia to conduct Navy drill in East China Sea
China and Russia are set to conduct a Navy drill the "Joint Sea-2014" from
May 20th to 26th in the northern part of the East China Sea.
A Russian Pacific Fleet squadron, led by the guided-missile cruiser Varyag,
sailed from Vladivostok on Wednesday.
The squadron, also including the large anti-submarine ship Admiral
Panteleyev, and the large amphibious ship Admiral Nevelskoy, passed through
Tsushima Strait Friday, where they carried out an anti-piracy exercise.
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Greek Defence Corruption
[image: HS Papanikolis]In 1996, Greece was involved in a skirmish with
Turkey over a set of islets. With their Defence Ministry awoken to the
‘potential need’ for better resources when faced with a foe, Greece
commenced a wide-ranging purchasing spree for its defence and security
efforts.
Manufacturers and service providers from the sector across the world all
wanted a slice of the potential sales, often made to the Greek officials
who were rapidly grabbing at purchases, without fully rationalizing them.
What began as a natural human reaction to what was a more recent security
th... more »
Former UN Envoy To Syria Brahimi Speaks Bluntly About Syria In An Interview With Al-Monitor
Below are excerpts from *Lakhdar Brahimi's interview with Al-Monitor*.
Brahimi will step down from his position as UN envoy to Syria at the end of
the month after serving for twenty months.
*The Russian analysis about the longevity and durability of the Assad
regime was right:*
“I think the Russian analysis was right at the beginning, but everybody
thought that it was an opinion and not an analysis. The Russians were
saying that Syria is not Egypt and it is not Tunisia, and the president of
Syria is not going to fall in a matter of two or three weeks. People
thought that this was... more »
Peaches & Heroin: Truth and Lies in Celebrity Death Reporting
Peaches & Heroin: Truth and Lies in Celebrity Death Reporting from Spike EPon
Vimeo.
or, Truth, Lies and News International.
"When a death is reported to a coroner:
A doctor may report the death to a coroner if the:
cause of death is unknown
death was violent or unnatural
death was sudden and unexplained
person who died was not visited by a medical practitioner during their
final illness
medical certificate isn’t available
person who died wasn’t seen by the doctor who signed the medical
certificate within 14 days before death or after they died
death occurred during an operation or... more »
Richard Nixon, "What Has Happened to America?", 1967
*Richard Nixon, "What Has Happened to America?", 1967*
From *The Reader's Digest*. October 1967. 49-54. Reprinted with permission
from from the October 1967*Reader's Digest*. Copyright ©1967 by The
Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.
*What has happened to America?*
Just three years ago this nation seemed to be completing its greatest
decade of racial progress and entering one of the most hopeful periods in
American History. Twenty million Negroes were at last being admitted to
full membership in the society, and this social miracle was being performed
with a minimum friction and without... more »
9/11 Museum run by "Holocaust" industry
Following my recent trip to New York City, I wrote *a critical review of
the National September 11 Memorial and Museum*, arguing that the official
memorialization of 9/11 reminds me of the official memorialization of the
fake Jewish "Holocaust" during WWII. I wrote in part:
The more I saw at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site and heard from the
employee who I spoke with, the more I realized that the official
commemoration and memorialization of 9/11 is shaping up to be yet another
crass commercial enterprise, playing on the average American's naivety,
gullibility, and emotions (just lik... more »
Daniel Webster-- Now A Florida Congressman Without A Cult
Last night I took old friend, Wisconsin Democratic Senate Leader Chris
Larson, for dinner at the best vegan restaurant in the area, Crossroads.
Unfortunately, all the desserts are made with sugar so afterwards, we went
down the road to Cafe Gratitude for some sugar-free, gluten-free desserts.
As we were parking and walking over to the restaurant, I explained to Chris
that the place was run by a cult. He seemed stunned. "Oh, they're harmless
enough," I assured him. He seemed skeptical and I explained that I thought
they were affiliated with Landmark, a group that grew out of the wr... more »
The Last Supper - Who said that my party was all over..?
*"Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it
has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...*
*Everything is cellularized. No one has said, 'He must die.' *
*There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. *
*There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion."*
Silverado Neil
*Judge: *"Neil Bush was part of a huge scandal that involved the whole
family and dirty dealings with Silverado Savings and Loans and was part of
the collapse of the Savings and Loans. The Savings and Loans had been
corrupted entirely by mob and Intelligence.
Mae thought that besides drugs, the major way that covert operations were
being financed during the 70s and 80s was by draining the paper resources
and the credit off of these S&Ls. She used to talk about what she called
the "missing millions" of all this money that went up in smoke from these
financial institutions that were... more »
Billions Stolen and Millions Paid In Penalties By Wage Thieves, The Screwed (So Screwed!) Class of 2014 Smiles Through the Pain, and Justice for Adjuncts, Education (In General) or Cecily McMillan? (It's Not Yet Part of the Plan)
Don't pay your employees (or for their benefits) properly? Love having the
power to steal from your minimum-wage employees? Also, do you really enjoy
the blessed side effects of not paying the owed Federal, state and local
taxes and thereby impoverishing your hated government? Tea Partyers of the
Right Owners arise! Just don't be surprised when no one buys what you
produce or shops at your
Madeloni Ends TURNcoat Paul Toner Era for MTA
Amazing and wonderful! From CPS:
Congratulations to Barbara Madeloni, president-elect, and Janet Anderson,
vice president-elect of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Madeloni,
the former director of the Secondary Teacher Education Program at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, was elected at the MTA's annual
meeting of delegates by a vote of 681 to 584. She pledged to work with
educators, parents and students to defend public education and combat
high-stakes standardized testing.
On her campaign's Facebook page, Madeloni wrote, "What an amazing few days!
The annual m... more »
Housing: Crisis, What Crisis?
The OECD has released a new report suggesting the most unaffordable housing
market in the developed world, measured as a proportion of both wages and
rents, is our own. Little old New Zealand. See:
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In an election year this news there is a clearly evident housing crisis is
about as welcome to the Prime Minister as a fart in an astronaut suit. His
response: Crisis, what crisis?
"Well, it’s not a crisis. A crisis would be one to indicate that you
couldn’t buy a home, well that’s not true – there are houses in quite a
wide range of prices – ... more »
War Watch May 18 , 2014 --Libya descending into further confusion - Families evacuate Benghazi as renegade Libyan general vows more attacks , Fighting spreads in Tripoli as brigades move against GNC attackers; five dead , Omar Al-Mukhtar Brigade has withdrawn from Kufra and may head to Benghazi ......... Iraq in focus -- 78 Killed, 37 Wounded As Iraq Security Ops Continue
Libya .....
http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-clashes-libyas-benghazi-43-more-100-121424750.html
Families evacuate Benghazi as renegade Libyan general vows more attacks
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By Ayman al-Warfalli and Ulf Laessing
ABYAR/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - The self-declared Libyan National Army led
by a ... more »
Mike's Story Part 26: Pills
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
From Mike 11-27-2006:
* Ray --*
* I left with [a lawyer], [the] employee file [of the female employee who
was suing Mike for sexual harassment] with the information that it
contained large amounts of exculpatory evidence. X has reported that she
has filed a sexual harrassment complaint with the Dept. of Labor but we do
not have the information yet. [The lawyer]'s information is above and
below. *
* We need to find out where that file is and respond quickly. I am clean
on this. The web site has the full story which will be my testimony.*
* She is banki... more »
Maybe the strangest part about this drunk-man-steals-occupied-limo story is that W. 4th St. and W. 10th St. really do intersect
*Note W. 4th St. bending upward in Manhattan's West Village, at the left
side of our map, to intersect with W. 10th St., W. 11th St., and -- yes,
eventually -- W. 12th St!*
*by Ken*
It seems like a pretty straightforward story of some drunk taking off in a
limo that (oops!) had passengers sitting in the back and a few blocks later
crashing (kerplunk!) into a car, bringing an end to the brief joyride. But
look more closely at where our lad came to rest.
*Drunk Man Steals Limo With Passengers Inside, Police Say*
By Danielle Tcholakian on May 16, 2014 6:57am
*DNAinfo NY caption: "... more »
Air Force: "We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,” . . . " that work has been completed.”
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DID THE US AIR FORCE JUST ADMIT IT WAS USING HAARP FOR WEATHER CONTROL? May
17, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell
Two regulars of this community, Ms. P.H. and Mr. V.T. both sent this
article to me, so, for that, a big thank you. I have to admit when I first
started reading, I couldn’t figure out why they had. After all, the closure
of HAARP was not big news, and I had already blogged about it before, and
even suggested that the reason HAARP was being closed was because they had
moved on to better and more efficient methods for accomplishing the same
thing, i.e., we... more »
An Open Letter to TFAers Tempted to Diagnose ADHD, Among Other Issues
Dear Teach for America (TFA) Corps Member: In 1985, I graduated from high
school. So did TFA founder, Wendy Kopp. She and I happen to be only five
weeks apart in age. In April 2014, I published a book. Kopp has her own
chapter. She attended college at Princeton from 1985-89. I also attended
college, at […]
Protectingcanadianjobs-hahaha.com
So if I understand the argument correctly, *Restaurants Canada* members
employ 1.1 million workers of which TFWs only comprise 2% - a tiny fraction
and certainly not enough to impact Canadian unemployment - but if
restaurants can't have them they'll be forced to "scale back their business
and even close their doors".
Ergo, TFWs are protecting Canadians' jobs! Got it.
Protectingcanadianjobs.com, sponsor of the flyer at left which is also a
petition to MPs, is brought to you courtesy of Smithcom, "a boutique
communications firm dedicated to reputation management."
h/t NTFW
Smith... more »
COMMENTING ON THE UKRAINE MESS
*The comments below are some that are following an impressive article
called *The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit by Michael Hudson. Hudson is
research professor of economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
*EoinW* I find it hard to believe China will sit by and watch Russia fall.
They have to be aware how isolated and vulnerable that would make them. The
Chinese have gone along with the American game because it benefited them.
The more reckless US leadership becomes the more that threat outweighs the
benefits. Going after Russia has got to be as reckless as one can get.
... more »
Godzilla's Love Letter to the US Military
Godzilla and I go back. When I were but a nipper in the early 80s, one of
my favourite cartoons was this. I used to crouch by the family Betamax and
flick the record switch before we left for the Satday morning shopping
trip. However, in a confession what may strike a telling blow to my geek
creds, I never bothered with the rubber-suited Japanese originals. They
just didn't appeal. I did go and see the 1998 Hollywood reboot but it was
all very meh. When you can remember the *Godzilla* toy egg merchandise
better than the movie, you know you're dealing with something eminently
forget... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: It Was Morality Wot Caused It
*“On the premise that a free banking system inadequately served the poor,
the Federal Reserve was formed. On the premise that welfare spending is too
important to be tied down to an objective system of money, the gold
standard was abolished. On the premise that taxpayers have a moral duty to
bail out needy banks and careless depositors, the FDIC was established. On
the premise that we all have a moral duty to help needy, low-income
families 'achieve the American dream,' the **GSEs*
* like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were established. On the premise that
Americans have a moral dut... more »
Spanish Inquisition Day 1
Day 0 was mostly spent flying across the East Coast and Newfoundland and
the North Atlantic...
The Great Circle Route from DFW to MAD.
...and since we were flying east by the time we were boots on the ground in
Madrid it was lunchtime there but three in the morning back in Southern
State. Southern Man just cannot sleep on an airplane so Day 0 kind of just
kind of segued into Day 1.
At Madrid-Barajas Airport. Which is freaking *huge*.
After an hour of riding the city light rail and walking and walking and
more walking (Southern Man may have overpacked) we finally arrived at the ... more »
Life Goes On Parkour/Freerunning In Iraq
With violence increasing in Iraq it is always important to remember that
people there are still trying to live their daily lives and go about their
business. In some parts of Iraq this is easier than others. Najaf is one
such area, which has not seen a single attack there in 2014. Here are some
pictures of young people in the city on May 14 practicing
Parkour/Freerunning a sport that involves a mix of running, jumping, and
acrobatics.
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Human Dead Enders
Some many experts and so little TV
now we have increased bandwidth
and we can hear them all scream
but which one is correct
which one will steer our ciliazation in a different way
I you look at geologic records correctly
we may be the fourth or fifth or even the sixth
human community that thought the world was mind
Yeah we know how to blow it big time
When it come down to pull the trigger
there in no committee
just one man or women
who thinks pulling building seven
is a good plan
History is what the people live
but to the planet its
not even part of the record
all your preening a posture... more »
“The Crash of 2008 has been used to engineer a historic redistribution of wealth in favour of the financial aristocracy”
French leftist Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book *Capital in the
Twenty-First Century *continues to make waves with his argument that rising
inequality is inevitable in mature capitalism, that the rich gets richer as
their capital inexorably snowballs, and his conclusion that “a global
wealth tax” is the only solution.
His conclusions have been enthusiastically embraced by high-taxers and the
envy-ridden, even if few of them have bothered to read his arguments.
Piketty’s book “is meant to be a return to the kind of economic history, of
political economy, written by predecessor... more »
Colleen Hanabusa Can't Tell The Difference Between Bipartisanship And Selling Out
The 2 wings of the Hawaiian Democratic Party
The worst of the corporately-owned conservative Democrats-- shills like Ro
Khanna (CA), Marjorie Margolies (PA), Don Beyer (VA), Wendy Greuel (CA),
Kevin Strouse (PA), Pete Aguilar (CA) and the two from the Republican wing
of the Hawaiian Democratic Party, Donna Mercado Kim and Colleen Hanabusa--
love to bray incessantly about their efforts to work across the aisle in a
"bipartisan" manner. The Hanabusa story is typical of the breed and she's
basing her whole mean-spirited, failing race against progressive leader
Brian Schatz on it.
Democ... more »
China and Vietnam scrums heating up -- May 18 -19 , 2014 --- China stockpiling oil ( chinese fears over further russia sanctions , sanction fears over China's own actions in South China Sea ) ..........Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat & Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10839701/China-steps-up-speed-of-oil-stockpiling-as-tensions-mount-in-Asia.html
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
8:37PM BST 18 May 2014
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China is stockpiling oil for its strategic petroleum reserve at a record
pace, intervening on a scale large enough to send a powerful pulse
through
the world crude market.
The move comes as tensions mount in the South China Sea, and the West
prepares possible oil sanctions against Russia over the crisis in
Eastern
Ukraine. Analysts believe C... more »
BBC: another non-scandal, another overreaction
It's a strange thing that *Spiked* - which rose from the ashes of *Living
Marxism - *is now one of my favourite magazines, publishing some of the
most unexpected, intelligent articles around on all manner of subjects.
(That I happen to agree with most of their articles probably helps.)
As the following - by Charlie Pearson - is a short article, I'll take the
very rare liberty of quoting it in full as its sums up the BBC's 'The Sun
Has Got Its Hat On' fiasco to a tee:
*Charlie Pearson - BBC: another non-scandal, another overreaction*
There can be no doubting that the sacking of BBC... more »
Conference Finals
We are there, this team has passed and lept over many hurtles. Some
internal for sure, but externally they have move forward over some rough
seas. Humans are quick to criticize and find fault. Its called gossip and
its all part of the Silver apes fault to provide some more than bananas for
the masses. Now we got this team, some elements there but hardly a dream
machine compared to the Rangers who have every desirable free agent from
forever because they want to be famous on the golden mile.
Game one and we are human in fact we were reptilian going into a shell
while directed charges... more »
Solidarity in France with Censored News
With special thanks for solidarity with Censored News in France from Vinz Haymarket, and Chris and Theo! Watch Klee Benally in France with Slim Paddy and Vinz (Haymarket) "Brighter Than Stars" by Klee Benally, Slim Paddy and Vinz (Haymarket) from Christine Prat on Vimeo. March 1st 2014 http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2228 January 8th 2013 http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblogRelated articles
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