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A Tsunami of Science Fiction Shows
== A multitude of new shows ==Turning from the (almost always)
ridiculous to the (very often) sublime, CBS plans to release a new Star
Trek television series in 2017. The new television series is not
related to the upcoming feature film “Star Trek Beyond,” which is
scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016. Which
is fine. I don’t mind the reboot started by J.J. Abrams as m
Obama Declares Emergency in Michigan Over Lead-Contaminated Water
Via: CBC: U.S. President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration
Saturday that clears the way for federal aid for Flint, Michigan, which
is undergoing a drinking water crisis due to lead-contaminated water. …
The tap water in Flint, population 99,000, became contaminated after the
city switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River […]
I broke the world’s smallest 3D printing Pen
Things were going so smoothly. My LIX 3D Printing pen was sucking in
reeds of filament and spitting out hot, soft-ish material from the tip. I
was gamely trying to master 3D printing with the thin, metal device. So
far, I’d managed something approximating a shoe, a face and a pair of
triangles. None of it looked good, but I was improving.
Then it stopped working.
Let’s back this up a bit. It had b
Obama Proposes $4 Billion Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Projects
In other news, self driving trucks will wipe out millions of jobs: We
are facing the decimation of entire small town economies, a disruption
the likes of which we haven’t seen since the construction of the
interstate highway system itself bypassed entire towns. Via: Forbes:
Self-driving cars have a new supporter: President Obama. After talking
[…]
The Corbett Report
Interview 1124 – BFP Roundtable Introduces Newsbud
[audio
mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-01-15%20BFP%20Roundtable.mp3"][/audio]On
this edition of the BFP Roundtable James Corbett talks to Sibel
Edmonds, Peter B. Collins and Pepe Escobar about Newsbud, a new media
venture to take the alt media to the next level. In this conversation we
discuss who is involved with the project, what they hope to achieve
with it, and how it will
Interview 1123 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio
mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-01-14%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This
week on the New World Next Week: Apple buys up emotion-reading
software; a new police tool data-mines your life to determine your
threat score; and the CIA's favorite data mining company takes over
Silicon Valley.
The EnvironmentaList
The Path Ahead From Paris
We need to work together to create a “biosphere smart” economy
Living with Stifling Air Pollution in Beijing
Parents are deeply anxious about raising children in China’s smog-choked capital
View From the Edge
In Tanzania, researchers are using drones to develop a clearer picture chimpanzee behavior and human evolution
FDA’s Ban of 3 Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Comes Too Late, Say Critics
Chemicals industry has already replaced these compounds with new ones that have received little scientific scrutiny
Is the BBC biased?
Not worth the wait after all
So Woman's Hour finally got round to covering the attacks on women in
Germany and Sweden this morning, devoting the first 18 minutes of the
programme to the subject.It was, however, much as might have been
expected - a group of people with similar narrow (left-liberal/feminist)
outlooks agreeing with each other and being united in condemning
'right-wing' people who don't think like them.The guests
Jane Garvey defends Woman's Hour
Going back to the question of whether Woman's Hour has ignored the mass
assault of women in Cologne and other European cities...DB has put the
question to Jane Garvey via Twitter:Now, as the Woman's Hour website,
which supplies pretty detailed information about each of its segments
didn't include any mention of the subject, DB wondered if it had
been briefly mentioned during another discussion. So
Hugh Sykes again
For those who aren't allergic to Twitter conversations, here's DB's
encounter with Hugh Sykes in full (following on from yesterdays'
Broadcasting House)...(If you're not into Twitter you might like to
think of it as an epistolary short story!)And here's Part Two: DB
gatecrashing a love-in between Hugh and a fan:
Keep your distance
Did you see Ayesha Hazarika doing the papers this morning with Tim
Montgomerie on the Marr show? She reminds me of Lulu. She makes me
wanna shout. No, not that - it’s her round face. But did you notice her
casually referring to Pegida as ‘fascists’? Is that what she meant? I
wasn’t quite sure. If so, she slipped it in good and proper, no-one
batted an eyelid.Marr said something about ‘what’s bee
@ the chalk face
This was the way public sector unions had to go down, if they do go down #Friedrichs
To be honest, I’ve had to play catch up on the Friedrichs v. CTA case
that is currently before the Supreme Court. Please read the details of
the case if you’re at all about to comment on the issue.
Progressive-minded folks, which includes the bulk of anti-reform
educators, see this as the final undoing of public […]
Again, the unintended consequences of reducing suspensions
This from NYC. An admirable goal: reduce suspensions as the go to
strategy for discipline. Reduced numbers will also look good,
politically. It’s an easy metric to reference. But again, I’ve observed
this same phenomenon. Many schools are tasked with reducing suspensions,
yet are not given the budget or resources to provide alternatives. Keep
numbers […]
Maybe someone can explain this connection for me between a DC councilmember and a charter school
Chilling out on winter break. Can’t sleep. Examining, for some strange
reason, DC Public Charter School Board meeting minutes. I find this
stuff so interesting. I’m looking at contracts. I see one attributed to
some strange 7L Group. They received $150K from a charter school in SE
DC. That’s a lot of money. Well, 7L […]
Excellent analysis of the “money doesn’t matter”myth
From School Finance 101, which I need to read up on. And here’s my
take. Wonks, policymakers, and well-meaning white liberals alike will
tell you that you can’t throw money at the problem of struggling
schools. Well, why would you simply throw money? You have to properly
invest and allocate it. Allow me to cite a […]
The Rules of Exposition
Dealing with holes in a Swiss cheese brain
I sometimes have a thought pop into my head, a one-liner that suddenly
makes sense to me. It seems to be a direct quote but it must be a
distillation of something I read. Reading Keynes, for example. He
doesn't usually write one-liners. So I wake up one morning and say "Oh,
Keynes said you can only either spend money or save it." And in my mind,
the you can only either spend money or sav
No, those are the same word
It started out as a joke. I said I'm retired now and I might be going
senile. But then I googled senile because it's not a word I use often
and, you know, because maybe I'm senile. I googled it. The first three
results were good. Here is number four:First, they "explain English by
way of Greek" (I wish I knew where that phrase came from) ... or in this
case, maybe by way of Latin. And th
The better word
I may have mentioned this already: My method of proofreading is to
start at the beginning and read until I have to change something, then
change it, then start at the beginning again.It's a good method and I
rely on it. But sometimes it gets to be days and days of proofreading
and I'm still on page two.(Yeah, this is one of those times.
Counterfactuals and the Common Trend on my Econ blog, if it e
A Closer Look: Jody Paterso
A random list of gratitudes, in no particular order
Having never been one for goal-setting, the end of the year
appeals to me more as a time for reflecting on where my life is at than
as a start point for setting goals that may or may not be achievable in
the next 12 months. As John Lennon so eloquently noted, life is what
happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. (In the spirit of
goal-setting, perhaps I should pick 2016 as the yea
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Oak Island and the Roman Sword
After most of a season of just screwing around and doing nothing more
than digging up more areas on Oak Island that yielded bits of wood,
stumps and a hunk of cable, they finally moved back to Borehole Number
Ten and set up a dive. This was to get them to the bottom of the hole
where it is alleged that there is a box of some kind, the remnants of a
hammer or ax and the possibility of human remains
Jesse Marcel Conundrum
I knew the “This and That” post would draw some interesting responses,
but I didn’t see it moving into the arena it has. Some of the questions
being asked are quite insightful and I have some of the answers. For
those answers I don’t have, David Rudiak will probably provide some
additional commentary to help us understand the situation.According to
Stan Friedman, he was in Baton Rouge on February
The Roswell Nuns - Again
It has come up again, that is, the case of the Roswell nuns seeing
something in the sky late on July 4, 1947, and recording it in their
diaries. I have reported on this several times on this blog as I
attempted to clarify the problem. This all came about in a footnote I
had provided in The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell. Lance Moody
has suggested that if you “googled” Roswell nuns you would
Anne Robbins and Roswell
In the course of investigating many UFO cases, there are witnesses who
come forward to tell their stories. Depending on the nature of the story
or the investigator who hears it, that story might be added to the case
file or might be rejected. Anne Robbins, widow of T/SGT Ernest Robbins,
told her story, or rather her husband’s story after he died in January
2000. It related to Roswell and had all t
A Very Public Sociologist
At the Labour First Conference
Like Fight Club, the first rule of Labour First is to not talk about
Labour First. Or at least it used to be. Pulling up outside the
Brandhall Labour Club in Oldbury this morning, conference goers were
treated to banners festooned with the Labour First logo and reminders
everywhere about its hashtag. If that wasn't enough, these days even
Corbyn-critical lefts like me get invited. Assembled comrad
David Bowie and Mass Mourning
Apart from waking up to a river flowing through your bedroom, starts to
the week don't get much shittier than this. I was up five minutes after
Bowie's social media announced his passing to the world, and all day
I've carried around this ball of melancholy and loss. David Bowie was
part of my life for all of my life, and now he has gone away. Yet by any
standards, you couldn't call me a fan. His t
Previewing the Beckett Report
It's unusual for a dull, internal party report to become a cause
celebre, but these are unusual times. For the last week comrades who
follow Progress and Labour First folk may have found them talking an
awful lot about the Beckett Report. There's even a petition about it.
Commissioned to find out to explain why Labour lost the general
election, it's become something of a totem because, against the
Neoliberal Education and Laziness
Far be it for me to cast aspersions on someone's research, but the
following paper unearthed by Amir Sariaslan was like getting passed the
pissy biscuit. Published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (Vol 47
(5), 2015, pp 488-501), one Riyad A. Shahjahan contributed 'Being ‘Lazy’
and Slowing Down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy'.
Its abstract is ... interesting:In recent years,
A Way to Live
On bumps in the road
Ready for the open road -- we thought.Back when our family was living a
nomadic lifestyle that revolved around tree-planting contracts on
mostly federal lands, we pulled a small travel trailer behind an
International Travelall with most of our worldly goods in the one or the
other. And one day we left home to go to a contract five hundred miles
away, and in ten miles came to a brand-new sign that
A light dusting
I have begun work on my rakusu. This is a miniature monk's or nun's
robe which is worn at certain times like a bib, symbolically connecting
me, through the generations, with Gautama Buddha himself, and a sign of
my acceptance of the precepts to guide me through life. Each of these
tiny panels will be hand stitched to the others, and is a symbolic rice
paddy. One is "nourished" by the pre
Dark of the year
At my age, I'm finding I don't get out for chores much when the
thermometer drops below fifty Fahrenheit, or it's dark and I'd have to
wear a headlamp, or rain gear would be called for, or rime coats the
fence posts. One or other of these conditions obtains pretty much all
the time now, what with its being an el Nino year and all.It's teatime
all the time, and sit-by-the-fire time, and visit time
A.E.Brain
A new Camel for Snoopy
Because I gave the other one away to someone whose need was greater
than mine. This one's lighter, and made of stiff card reinforced with
matchsticks and an internal PVA coat.His opponent is not the Red Baron
Manfred Von Richthofen, (despite the colouring) but Austrian ace Godwin
von Brumowski.
Limits on Neuroplasticity - and the infamous BSTc layer
I found a wonderfully informative site I wasn't aware of, by an author
whose talents at conveying complex concepts to a lay audience exceed my
own. Even though I'm the one who's supposed to have a Grad Cert in
Science Communication from the ANU.It's Liz - Day by Day, a blog that
apparently started as a record of Transition, but has since become an
excellent resource on the science of Sex and Gende
Activist Teacher
The lie in Canada's Syrian refugee show
REGARDING CANADA'S SYRIAN REFUGEE POLICY, an aspect which is
egregiously
avoided and covered up is the geopolitical dimension and motives for
receiving refugees preferentially from Syria (and other specific
conflict areas).
The government is not doing this primarily to satisfy its international
humanitarian obligations.
Syria under Assad is a target of vicious US-Canada-NATO-Israel
Adrienne's Corner
Project Veritas: Undercover Common Core Vid: Exec Says "I hate kids...it's all about the money"...
and millions of people get up every morning and send their children to
be propagandized by these horrible people.By the time their "education"
is complete, their children will be raging entitled libtards, who demand
"safe spaces" in college, and will face a future of staggering debt
while serving coffee at Starbucks. Don't miss what she has to say about
home schoolers, which i
Baltimore: Row Houses Gone Rogue...
to be torn down.Compliments of the taxpayers. Let's not forget that in
2009 the city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President
Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in
education and $26.5 million for crime prevention. sourceBy 2014 the
feds were demanding a bunch of that money back since no one seemed to
know where it went. From Baltimore Sun Jan 5, 2016 (
Bill Whittle: 2016: Into the Fog -- Obama, Hillary, Trump, & Space Exploration...
"trying to make sense of what is surely coming in 2016 is like staring
out into the fog."Barack Obama is feckless, Hillary Clinton is corrupt,
Donald Trump gives us whiplash, and ISIS continues to attack us, but at
least SpaceX had a marvelous landing.
Welcoming the New Year with a Foot High Coil of Fresh Italian Sausage...
ready to be twisted off into links, frozen, and vacuum sealed.I'm
hoping this will last the year.Is it lots of work?Kind of, but worth it
to know exactly what's in your sausage and being able to use your very
own spice blend.This was two pork butts from Costco.Including the casing
and spices the total cost is still less than $2.00 per pound.
Adventures with Kurt and Lori
Four Months
Wow. Four months since my last post. I really need to update this
more often. Too much to even remember to write about!Since my last
post, we have, yet again, adopted another animal. So, Kurt and I were
in the parking lot of a local grocery store in downtown Jaco. We had
just walked out from grocery shopping and it was dusk. We see this
adorable white and black kitten peeking out at us from
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
Imam arrested after 'blasphemer' teen cuts off hand
Parents of 15-year-old boy in a Pakistan village proud of his actions after hearing error in the mosque.
Hunger-striking Palestinian reporter's appeal rejected
Rights groups criticise Israel's detention of Muhammad al-Qeq, in critical condition after refusing food for 54 days.
Afghanistan War must end but not at any cost
December saw a 57 percent rise in civilian casualties.
Deadly suicide blast strikes Afghan compound
At least 13 people killed after tribal elder targeted in eastern Jalalabad during a family celebration.
Allen L Roland's Weblog
Much To Spiritually Do At 82
The secret to living a spiritual human life is seeing through heart
centered eyes and realizing we are all part of a loving plan in action
wherein each of us has a part to play ~ if we will but listen and
respond to the call of our soul. It was Teilhard de Chardin who knew we
were all spiritual beings and that the portal to the soul was love ~ and
that love alone was capable of uniting living bein
My Lunch With Stanley Krippner
Stanley Krippner ~ Internationally known parapsychologist, and an
executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Say brook
University in Oakland, California. Having lunch with Stanley Krippner
is really once again seeing a former mentor, friend and fellow traveler
in a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness that exists not only
beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fea
The Shape Of Things To Come In 2016
Click on image to enlarge It will be more of the same
lies and deceptions in 2016 with the Plutocracy in full control and the
truth a scarce commodity. Of course, the ultimate truth is that God is
love, or a loving plan in action, and our ultimate destiny is being in
sync with that loving plan from a place of gratitude and service. Maira
Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz, NY Times, sketc
The Big Lie Versus The Great Truth That Shall Set Everything Ablaze
This coming New Year brings us face to face with the consequences of
the 9/11 Official Story Big lie and resultant fears, with which we are
all complicit, and the great truth of a Unified Field of love which
exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest within each one
of us. Nothing can keep this great truth from eventually spreading
universally and setting everything ablaze: Allen L R
AMERICAN KABUKI
Andrea Bocelli - Macchine da Guerra (Machine of War)
One of the Italians noticed a variation of the phrase "pre-authorized,
pre-paid, pre-deposited" turn up in the Andrea Bocelli song Macchine da
Guerra (Machine of War) from 1997, and war has always been because
people didn't understand where value came from...ItalianMacchine Da
Guerra1997Se fosse una cosa sempliceio te la direi,ma c’è una confusione
dentroe quì, attorno a me.Tu preferisc
SPHERE ALLIANCE MESSAGE #125A Conversation with Ashtar SherrAn about a
recent Trutwin Channeling,Telepathy exercises,Pleiadian and Andromedan
Refugees, and General Banter
The views expressed here are those of Ashtar Sherran as they came thru
Denice. Text that is indented is text out of linear sequence but
pertinent to the question being asked. This is done simple for reading
clarity. The perceptions of the telepathic images are mine. -AK[1/10/16,
3:21:23 AM] AK/Terran: Denice, can you ask Sherran, who is the imposter
that poses as him? http://cosmicascension.com
RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears
RBS warned clients of trouble just before the 2008 crisis. It has done
so again Photo: Getty Images Ambrose
Evans-Pritchardhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12093807/RBS-cries-sell-everything-as-deflationary-crisis-nears.htmlRBS
cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nearsClients told to
seek safety of Bunds and Treasuries. 'This is about return of capital,
not return on capital
In Memory of Bowie, "Everyone Says Hi!"
Everyone Says Hi, Cover by Fife Monroe....
ArmsControlWonk
Video Analysis of DPRK SLBM Footage
The DPRK released footage on 8 January from a purportedly successful
KN-11 SLBM test. There have been press reports that the US intelligence
community detected a failed ejection test in November, followed by a
successful ejection test in December. “No additional details of the
test could be learned,” Bill Gertz wrote, “including whether the
missile’s …
Developments at the Korla Missile Test Base
Now for a brief interlude from our North Korea programming…I’ve written
a few posts here and here on the Korla Missile Test Base. A colleague
sent me a note last week asking if I’ve looked at any recent satellite
imagery of the facility. Well, I admit I hadn’t. But I have now! The
last satellite …
North Korea’s KN-11 Goes Kablooie
North Korea tested a submarine launched ballistic missile called the
KN-11. The North Koreans released footage of the test that showed the
missile soaring into the heavens. A close analysis of the footage by the
Middlebury Institute team, however, determined that is exploded
catastrophically shortly after launch. Jeffrey and Aaron discuss North
Korea’s missile programs, …
So Far, So Good on the Subcontinent
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind surprise visit to Lahore
on Christmas Day, there was little doubt that spoilers in Pakistan
would try to derail improved relations. The operative questions were
where, when, and whether the attackers would succeed in shutting down
yet another attempt at reconciliation. The suicide mission at the Air
Force Station at Pathankot followed …
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